The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 962 - Dragging Kids Into The LGBT Cult

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, one day out from the premiere of What is a Woman, we'll talk about a few stories that highlight why this film is necessary.

00:00:06.300 Speaking of which, Leah Thomas was interviewed by Good Morning America, where he defended his decision to steal opportunities from female swimmers.

00:00:12.480 But in an exclusive clip from What is a Woman, which we'll play today, a female swimmer on Thomas' team reveals to me what it was really like behind the scenes.

00:00:19.620 Also, the mask comes off as the left pushes for a ban on handguns. They just instated one in Canada, in fact.

00:00:25.160 Meanwhile, new revelations about the Texas shooter show just how many red flags were ignored before he committed his massacres,

00:00:31.420 how many different ways this could have been prevented without even talking about gun laws.

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00:03:21.600 But we begin today with yet more evidence that our film is needed.

00:03:25.280 On Friday, we talked about two high schools,

00:03:27.020 which in the span of just a couple of weeks hosted drag shows for their students. 0.95

00:03:32.640 And there have been in recent years an increasing effort to combine children and drag,

00:03:38.580 either by bringing kids in as spectators or even worse, as performers.

00:03:43.600 The introduction of drag into the schools themselves seems to be an escalation.

00:03:47.400 And last night, our friend Libs of TikTok put together a Twitter thread showing just how far this escalation has gone.

00:03:54.380 So here are just a few of the examples that she uncovered.

00:03:57.260 We'll review just a few of them.

00:03:58.940 Quoting now from her thread.

00:04:00.100 She says,

00:04:00.300 A gay nightclub in Minnesota held a drag show for children earlier this month.

00:04:05.000 One of the performers said in an interview,

00:04:06.920 I want to give kids the opportunity to see what drag queen slash king life is like on a day-to-day basis.

00:04:13.860 And a preschool in Massachusetts is hosting a pride event, including drag queen story time and a pride parade.

00:04:19.040 A bar in Dallas, Texas is advertising a drag show for children,

00:04:22.480 including the opportunity for some kids to perform with the drag queens on stage.

00:04:26.540 And you can see a picture of what the drag queen host looks like.

00:04:30.980 Then Bristol Library advertised a drag queen story hour tour,

00:04:35.040 where drag queens will be going around to libraries across the UK to read to children.

00:04:40.020 Alameda County Library is advertising drag queen story hours specifically for preschoolers.

00:04:44.920 The library is funded primarily by local property taxes.

00:04:48.140 Children and drag queens danced for adults,

00:04:50.980 with some kids even collecting money on stage at a drag convention this month.

00:04:55.300 And then in Arizona, a teacher arranged a drag show for students

00:04:59.160 and was later arrested after allegedly having sex with a student.

00:05:03.000 Big surprise there.

00:05:04.400 Then libraries in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Chicago, and Davenport and other places

00:05:09.620 are all holding drag queen events for kids.

00:05:12.060 These libraries are all publicly funded, of course.

00:05:14.600 And also elementary, middle, and high schools across New York City

00:05:17.800 have teamed up with a drag organization to bring drag queens to schools to read to kids.

00:05:22.500 Now, this is just a partial list of, like, recent things.

00:05:27.000 Doesn't cover everything.

00:05:28.600 Journalist Christopher Ruffo reveals a Disney Plus drag queen special for kids starring Nina West.

00:05:35.440 And that's the same drag queen who appeared in Blue's Clues and other kids' content. 1.00

00:05:40.920 So Nina West, real name Andrew Levitt,

00:05:43.600 seems to have a particular fondness for cross-dressing in front of kids.

00:05:47.200 A lot of these drag queens obviously do. 1.00

00:05:49.700 But especially with this guy, I mean, there's something about putting on women's clothing 1.00

00:05:53.500 in front of small children that seems to really get Andrew excited.

00:05:56.660 And so he's all over.

00:05:57.520 He's Disney, Nickelodeon, doing all this stuff.

00:05:59.360 Here he is for Disney Plus.

00:06:01.000 Watch.

00:06:07.080 Hello, and welcome to the Disney Plus This Is Me Pride Celebration Spectacular.

00:06:12.840 I'm Nina West, and I'm here to guide you through a magical, musical, and meaningful celebration

00:06:19.980 of the LGBTQ plus community.

00:06:22.400 GLSEN's mission is to create safe and inclusive schools for LGBTQ plus students in grades K through 12.

00:06:29.760 And Disney Plus is so proud to support this wonderful organization.

00:06:33.780 For more information, visit www.glisten.org forward slash pride.

00:06:40.400 Now, I'd like to shine a spotlight on a fellow queen who knows a thing or two about creating 0.99

00:06:45.300 an epic Disney Plus-inspired look that set the internet ablazes last year.

00:06:50.740 Esteemed guests and friends, I give you my friend, Jackie Cox.

00:06:55.680 Oh, you didn't think you were the only magical girl in town, did you?

00:07:02.640 I don't know.

00:07:03.200 The name's...

00:07:03.940 I think we've seen enough of that.

00:07:05.380 So you get the idea.

00:07:06.940 For kids there, and you see Andrew Leavitt all dressed up.

00:07:10.800 That's what he thinks.

00:07:11.840 That's like what he thinks women look like. 1.00

00:07:15.300 You know, with these drag queens, like, have they ever actually seen a woman? 1.00

00:07:19.640 I'm not sure that they have.

00:07:21.840 It's important to take note of what's happening here.

00:07:24.740 The left started with drag queen story hours in libraries a few years ago.

00:07:28.720 The first one was held in 2015.

00:07:31.520 Okay, so it went from 2015 to now.

00:07:34.960 Not a long span of time.

00:07:38.340 And when it first started, you know, the normal non-pedophile community reacted with appropriate

00:07:44.120 horror and disgust at the whole spectacle.

00:07:47.500 Did not react with as much horror and disgust as it ought to have.

00:07:52.380 But still, there was horror and disgust.

00:07:55.100 And so what did the left do?

00:07:56.860 I mean, did they tamp things down?

00:07:58.300 Did they pull their foot off the gas pedal?

00:08:00.340 Did they hang their heads in shame and apologize?

00:08:03.200 Did they say, oh, geez, you didn't want us cross-dressing in front of kids?

00:08:06.220 I didn't realize.

00:08:07.300 Sorry about that.

00:08:08.260 Our mistake.

00:08:10.240 No, instead they doubled down and then tripled down.

00:08:13.260 Sent drag queens out everywhere. 1.00

00:08:14.640 Like these perverse, hellish missionaries to find kids wherever they could be found to perform burlesque for them. 1.00

00:08:24.920 They took drag queens out of the libraries. 1.00

00:08:27.360 Well, they're still in the libraries.

00:08:28.300 But they took some of them out of the libraries and put them on Nickelodeon and Disney instead.

00:08:33.520 Brought them to schools. 0.60

00:08:34.800 Opened up the gay bars.

00:08:35.860 Invited children to come watch.

00:08:38.260 Now, there is no defending this, but they don't bother defending. 0.97

00:08:41.540 It's just a simple fact that drag is burlesque for gay men. 0.96

00:08:46.220 It's hypersexual. 0.93

00:08:47.380 There's usually lots of drugs and alcohol involved.

00:08:49.480 That's why until recently, drag was the almost exclusive province of gay nightclubs. 0.89

00:08:55.000 There's no morally decent or rational defense of involving children in this in any capacity.

00:09:01.320 And that fact can be easily demonstrated by simply noting one thing.

00:09:04.660 If everything else was the same with these drag shows, everything's the same, except that the men pretending to be women were actually women.

00:09:16.520 If this was female burlesque rather than female mimicking burlesque, nearly everyone would agree that it shouldn't be anywhere near children. 0.99

00:09:25.760 I mean, imagine if a middle school hired Las Vegas burlesque performers to come dance for 12-year-old boys.

00:09:31.220 Nobody would defend that.

00:09:32.320 And yet, swap the women for men, and suddenly Disney shows up to sponsor it. 0.99

00:09:39.560 They can't defend this.

00:09:41.900 And that's not because they have no reason behind it.

00:09:43.720 They do.

00:09:44.280 The reason is simple.

00:09:45.880 This is, again, all but one big LGBT recruitment drive.

00:09:50.380 It's a brainwashing campaign being waged against our kids. 1.00

00:09:53.400 But the left won't say that out loud.

00:09:54.980 So instead, they offer no real defense and just continue doing whatever they want, as long as we will allow it.

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00:11:31.440 All right.

00:11:32.480 By the way, happy white boy summer.

00:11:34.500 I got things kicked off myself this weekend.

00:11:37.840 I don't know if it comes through on camera.

00:11:39.000 Hopefully it doesn't.

00:11:39.700 But I am right now the hue of a very ripe tomato.

00:11:43.340 Totally sunburned, sun scorched.

00:11:45.420 I went fishing, came home looking like a steamed crab.

00:11:49.620 This is just one.

00:11:50.500 This is more white privilege, I guess. 0.79

00:11:52.100 I can't walk outside my house in the summer without burning like a piece of toast.

00:11:56.140 That's my privilege.

00:11:58.900 My privilege is that the shower will feel like acid for the next seven days.

00:12:05.120 My privilege is that everywhere I go for the entire summer, people will go,

00:12:07.960 wow, looks like you got some sun.

00:12:09.620 Yeah, you think so?

00:12:10.740 I'm aware of that.

00:12:12.280 And if you're like my wife, then you're probably thinking to yourself, well, why don't you just wear sunscreen? 0.78

00:12:16.000 And the answer is that putting on sunscreen takes like three minutes.

00:12:18.440 And I don't have that kind of time.

00:12:20.740 And I should be able to go outside without burning.

00:12:25.400 Like, I'm demanding that of the universe.

00:12:28.360 I should be able to do that.

00:12:30.200 I am making that demand.

00:12:32.200 And it's being ignored, as demands against the universe almost always are.

00:12:36.100 Speaking of which, there are lots of people these days making demands against the universe.

00:12:39.900 People like Leah Thomas, for example, demanding to be seen as a woman and, in fact, to be a woman, but he's not.

00:12:46.460 Now, this is just some fortuitous timing, I think, because Leah Thomas, of course, as you know,

00:12:50.760 the UPenn swimmer who's a male competing against the females, stealing all of their medals and accolades and everything else.

00:12:59.220 Good Morning America has a little bit of a puff piece that they're airing.

00:13:05.000 This is the first time we've seen, I think, Leah Thomas.

00:13:08.000 He had the puff piece interview profile with Sports Illustrated.

00:13:12.780 This is the first time we've seen him interviewed on camera.

00:13:16.000 And he's being interviewed by Good Morning America.

00:13:18.040 So first, I want to play this.

00:13:19.920 And I have a little bit of a rebuttal to play as well.

00:13:22.380 But first, let's listen to Good Morning America and Leah Thomas talk about, well, in fact, what it says on the screen is Leah Thomas breaks her, quote, unquote, silence.

00:13:31.420 Listen.

00:13:31.560 Thomas began HRT, hormone replacement therapy, in May of her sophomore year, 2019.

00:13:39.400 The mental and emotional changes actually happened very quickly.

00:13:43.540 I was feeling a lot better mentally.

00:13:45.520 I was less depressed.

00:13:46.940 And then I lost muscle mass.

00:13:48.940 And I became a lot weaker and a lot slower in the water.

00:13:52.560 After following NCAA guidelines of a year of hormone therapy to change gender categories, Thomas started her senior year on the women's team. 0.98

00:14:02.520 But her success in the water was met with outrage leading up to the NCAA championships. 0.99

00:14:07.580 Her critics say she jumped in the rankings between the men's and the women's team.

00:14:11.140 There are some who look at the data and suggest that you're enjoying a competitive advantage.

00:14:19.000 What do you say to that?

00:14:20.160 There's a lot of factors that go into a race and how well you do.

00:14:26.860 And the biggest change for me is that I'm happy.

00:14:31.020 And sophomore year, where I had my best times competing with the men, I was miserable.

00:14:38.980 And so having that be lifted is incredibly relieving and allows me to put my all into training, into racing.

00:14:50.640 Trans people don't transition for athletics. 0.99

00:14:54.900 We transition to be happy and authentic and our true selves.

00:14:59.460 Transitioning to get an advantage is not something that ever factors in to our decisions.

00:15:05.040 You didn't transition to win more medals?

00:15:08.420 No.

00:15:10.520 That was actually my first time watching that just now.

00:15:12.780 And I mean, it's exactly what you expect.

00:15:15.320 Speaking of offering no defense, having no defense, this is always the theme with the left.

00:15:20.140 There's no defense of anything they say, especially when it comes to gender.

00:15:23.880 And so he's given the opportunity there to respond.

00:15:27.140 Critics say that males have competitive advantages.

00:15:30.080 No, critics don't say that.

00:15:31.160 You know who says that?

00:15:33.020 Science says that.

00:15:35.820 The left's usually very fond of saying that science has declared certain things.

00:15:40.860 Well, this is one thing that science is 100%.

00:15:44.680 This is a universal, immutable truth.

00:15:49.480 Right.

00:15:50.060 That there are biological differences between males and females.

00:15:52.760 Because we're also told by the reporter there that, well, critics say that Leah Thomas jumped in the rankings from male to female.

00:16:05.340 Well, no, that's not, again, that's not what critics are saying.

00:16:07.800 Critics might be saying that, but that's just a fact.

00:16:11.220 You can look at the rankings.

00:16:12.540 You could look at Leah Thomas against the males, and he's down here, and then against the females, and he's up there.

00:16:21.580 That's just a fact.

00:16:24.000 But given the opportunity, in a very friendly environment here, as we could clearly see, given the opportunity to respond to this,

00:16:33.640 well, critics say that you have an advantage.

00:16:36.180 What's his response?

00:16:37.640 Does he give any scientific answer?

00:16:39.480 Does he, no, he just, he pivots away from that immediately and says, well, I'm happier.

00:16:47.040 So? 0.87

00:16:48.180 Who gives a damn?

00:16:49.680 That's not, number one, that's not the question.

00:16:52.320 The question is, do you have a biological advantage?

00:16:56.400 I'm happy.

00:16:58.560 Okay, you might as well respond by telling me what you had for lunch this afternoon.

00:17:02.460 Makes no difference.

00:17:03.380 That's not the question.

00:17:04.340 Well, because they're, the answer, obviously, is yes.

00:17:09.380 Of course, I have a biological advantage.

00:17:12.860 But, that makes me happy.

00:17:16.580 And so, you should just have to deal with it.

00:17:20.540 Now, the other thing you notice, and I haven't watched the full interview with Leah Thomas.

00:17:26.040 Can't say that I really plan on it, but I have read other interviews, including that Sports Illustrated one.

00:17:30.040 Um, and, um, the one thing you notice is that Leah Thomas never says anything about his teammates.

00:17:39.340 It's always me, me, my, I, me, me, mine.

00:17:44.740 I'm happy.

00:17:45.600 This makes me feel good.

00:17:48.340 That's all he ever says.

00:17:49.520 Because the, the, the women, the actual women involved, don't factor in. 1.00

00:17:55.940 They don't matter.

00:17:56.840 He doesn't care. 0.98

00:17:57.620 He's a raging narcissist. 0.99

00:18:01.940 Simply doesn't care. 0.96

00:18:03.440 Now, does he have, does he actually have gender dysphoria?

00:18:05.840 Is he actually confused about, um, about his, uh, about his biological sex?

00:18:11.320 Maybe.

00:18:12.660 You know, or, or maybe not.

00:18:14.160 I mean, it's, we, we can't really, we can't know.

00:18:16.800 We can't see inside someone's mind.

00:18:19.520 Um, is this something he's doing just for, for an advantage purely and for attention and all that?

00:18:25.740 Seems quite possible to me, but I don't know.

00:18:27.780 It also doesn't really matter, um, when it comes to this question of whether it's fair and right

00:18:36.100 and it makes sense to have males competing against women. 0.76

00:18:40.060 But whether he actually has this confusion or not, one thing we know for sure is that this, 0.92

00:18:44.480 that he is a, again, a raging narcissist.

00:18:47.840 Doesn't care about anybody else.

00:18:49.520 Um, but even if the other people involved don't rank as far as he's concerned, um, in reality,

00:18:59.760 they do exist and they do matter.

00:19:01.440 And it just so happens that in my film, What is a Woman?

00:19:04.080 I don't know if you heard mention it, it comes out tomorrow.

00:19:06.060 We actually spoke to, uh, one of the teammates of Leah Thomas.

00:19:12.120 And she, you know, for, uh, understandable reasons,

00:19:17.760 didn't want her name and face out there, wanted, wanted some anonymity, but was willing to speak to us.

00:19:21.400 And so I want to play, we're going to play.

00:19:23.100 This is an exclusive clip from What is a Woman?

00:19:24.820 Very, very short clip.

00:19:26.220 Uh, again, you can see the full film when it comes out tomorrow.

00:19:28.380 Go to whatiswoman.com and subscribe.

00:19:30.060 But let's listen to, to what she has to say about her experiences with Leah Thomas on the team.

00:19:35.840 And, and, and in particular, um, did anyone, did any of the women on the team raise any concerns?

00:19:41.960 Did they object?

00:19:42.500 And if they did, what, what response did they get from the school?

00:19:47.740 Let's listen.

00:19:49.300 Leah obviously helps us do better, right?

00:19:52.400 Leah's swimming really fast.

00:19:53.960 Leah's performance helps the University of Pennsylvania swim team.

00:19:57.740 The feeling of winning doesn't feel as good anymore because it feels tainted.

00:20:01.200 There was a lot of things you couldn't talk about that were very concerning, like a locker room situation.

00:20:07.100 If you even brought up concerns about it, you were transphobic.

00:20:10.480 If you even bring up the fact that Leah's swimming might not be fair, you were immediately shut down with being called a hateful person or transphobic.

00:20:18.760 But there's never any conversation.

00:20:21.240 The coaches don't sit everyone down and acknowledge what everyone's really upset about.

00:20:25.800 So Penn actually brought in people high up in the athletic department to talk to us.

00:20:29.840 They brought in someone from, like, the LGBTQ center.

00:20:32.340 They brought in someone from the psychological services.

00:20:35.160 So you, you're upset about what's happening, and so you need psychological help.

00:20:39.440 Yeah, and they told us in this meeting, they said, look, we understand there's an array of emotions, but Leah's swimming is a non-negotiable.

00:20:46.080 However, we can help you make that okay, that's what we're here for.

00:20:50.080 Now, on the left, they're very fond of the term gaslighting, and we hear it all the time.

00:20:56.800 They're always accusing people, oh, you're gaslighting me.

00:20:59.420 And usually, you get accused of gaslighting if you just say something that's plainly correct and obvious, and then you're accused of gaslighting.

00:21:08.980 Well, this, that, what you just heard there, that's gaslighting. 0.98

00:21:11.500 What the girls experienced on their team is gaslighting, where if you have a problem, if you're uncomfortable being around a man in your locker room, if you don't want to see a penis in a locker room, 1.00

00:21:26.180 or if you've done all this work to this point in your swimming career, and you don't like the idea that now you're being overshadowed and having this opportunity stolen from you,

00:21:36.440 then you are the one with the problem.

00:21:39.040 You need to go get psychological counseling.

00:21:41.100 That's what she reveals there. 1.00

00:21:45.780 They sat the women down, the actual women, brought in LGBT activists to shame them for not wanting to see a naked penis in a locker room. 1.00

00:21:57.960 And then they were told that, hey, if you don't like this, then we'll send you, then you're the crazy one. 1.00

00:22:02.700 You could go talk to a counselor. 0.99

00:22:04.040 No, the man who's dressing like a woman, he doesn't have a psychological problem.

00:22:13.500 You do.

00:22:17.120 So if there's one man saying that he's a woman, and then, you know, 10 women, 20 women who disagree, who's the one with the problem?

00:22:30.980 It's all the women. 1.00

00:22:32.620 It doesn't matter how many it is.

00:22:34.040 It could be a million to one, and they're the ones with the problem.

00:22:38.580 So she had more to say.

00:22:39.660 Again, you can go to whatiswoman.com, get subscribed, and that's just one small piece of what we have in that film.

00:22:46.620 But giving voice to, that's one of the things we were able to do in this movie that I'm proud of,

00:22:50.900 is that we were able to give voice to people who've been actually silenced and ignored,

00:22:58.460 but whose voices, in fact, do matter.

00:23:01.140 All right.

00:23:04.180 You know, we know that Democrats want to ban the scary guns, right?

00:23:08.920 They want to ban assault weapons.

00:23:10.500 But the great thing about a term like assault weapon is that, like everything else, the left says it doesn't really mean anything.

00:23:18.120 So it can mean anything.

00:23:20.760 It doesn't mean anything, so it can mean anything.

00:23:22.200 What's an assault weapon?

00:23:23.040 Well, it's, I mean, any weapon at all that we think is scary.

00:23:27.680 I don't know.

00:23:28.540 I guess an assault weapon is a weapon that could be used in an assault, which would be any weapon at all.

00:23:35.900 That means, like, a hammer or a knife is also an assault weapon, potentially.

00:23:44.040 And just to show what we mean here, that anything can be an assault weapon.

00:23:47.420 Well, now, apparently, according to Joe Biden, an assault weapon also includes a 9mm handgun.

00:23:53.860 Listen to this from Biden.

00:23:54.660 And they showed me an x-ray.

00:24:00.980 He said a .22 caliber bullet will lodge in the lung, and we can probably get it out.

00:24:07.180 We may be able to get it and save the life.

00:24:09.600 A 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body.

00:24:13.240 So the idea of this high-caliber weapon is that there is simply no rational basis for it in terms of what we see about self-protection, hunting.

00:24:28.460 I mean, I just, I remember, the Constitution of the Second Amendment was never absolute.

00:24:35.560 Oh, the Second Amendment was never absolute.

00:24:37.500 It's kind of hard to hear what he's saying there with the helicopter in the background.

00:24:39.840 But the good news is it doesn't really matter because it's all nonsense.

00:24:43.240 And he says that there's no rational basis for using a 9mm in self-defense.

00:24:51.580 It'll blow your lung out of your body.

00:24:54.200 Now, the defense of this statement from Joe Biden is that he didn't know what he was talking about and that he was confused.

00:25:01.500 Which, anytime somebody offers that as a defense of Biden, I'm willing to believe that.

00:25:07.580 I'm willing to believe that anything he says, he was really confused because he's confused about everything.

00:25:11.180 But that's not much of a defense.

00:25:13.720 Because it only goes to show that the people who want to ban guns most of the time don't know anything about them.

00:25:22.580 And so if you want to ban something, you should at least begin step one by learning something about it.

00:25:28.180 But as we see time and time again, the people that are pushing the hardest for banning guns don't know anything.

00:25:34.940 They have no idea what they're talking about.

00:25:36.240 And you don't need to be an expert.

00:25:40.400 I don't claim to be some kind of firearms expert.

00:25:43.060 But even I can hear that and say, what the hell are you talking about?

00:25:45.560 But it's not just confusion.

00:25:49.740 It's not just a mistake.

00:25:51.840 I mean, there is certainly a push on the left to actually ban handguns as well.

00:25:56.320 And in fact, in Canada, they are now doing exactly that.

00:26:01.040 Here's Justin Trudeau announcing a freeze, as he's calling it, a freeze on handgun purchases.

00:26:06.620 Listen.

00:26:08.000 We're introducing legislation to implement a national freeze on handgun ownership.

00:26:15.860 What this means is that it will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer or import handguns anywhere in Canada.

00:26:28.440 In other words, we're capping the market for handguns.

00:26:32.220 As a further part of this new legislation, we're also fighting gun smuggling and trafficking

00:26:52.020 by increasing maximum criminal penalties and providing more tools for law enforcement to investigate firearm crimes.

00:27:00.280 And we'll require the permanent alteration of long gun magazines so they can never hold more than five rounds.

00:27:09.760 These are actions that doctors, experts and chiefs of police have been calling for for years.

00:27:16.580 And we're acting on their advice.

00:27:19.000 I also want to thank the advocates, many of whom are here today for your tireless efforts.

00:27:27.760 I know that for too many of you, grief and loss are at the root of the work that you do.

00:27:34.480 I want to recognize that.

00:27:36.040 And on behalf of all Canadians, I want to thank you for your strength.

00:27:40.260 What a smarmy, speaking, he said grease there, he meant to say grief, but what a greasy, smarmy little punk that guy is.

00:27:52.440 Every time I see him, I'm thinking, really, Canada?

00:27:55.560 You voted for this guy multiple times?

00:27:59.560 Well, of course you did.

00:28:00.420 Canada is done, I'm afraid to say.

00:28:02.560 And it's been that way for a while.

00:28:03.960 But Canada has fallen, it's done, it's finished.

00:28:06.260 And if you live in Canada and you cherish your liberties and you're a rational person and you cherish freedom and moral decency and you're not a degenerate, then you need to leave.

00:28:22.320 And granted, the situation in the United States of America, especially with our government, is not much better.

00:28:28.960 But you need to get out of Canada.

00:28:30.560 And I would like to say, it would be nice if I could say, well, no, stay in Canada and fight, fight for your country, fight for freedom, you know, try to push back against all this stuff.

00:28:40.980 And if that's what you do, then that's very noble anyway, if you're one of the few fighting back against it.

00:28:46.840 But the problem, though, the reason I say that Canada is just finished is that most of the people appear to be fully on board with this stuff.

00:28:58.400 And we saw that with COVID, too.

00:29:00.000 Now, obviously, after a while, there was pushback, some of it quite severe against the COVID lockdowns.

00:29:07.100 But the fact is that most people just tolerated it and were perfectly okay with it, it would seem.

00:29:13.660 And when you get to the point where the people are okay with the tyranny, then where do you go from there?

00:29:19.200 And so now they're just going to ban handguns, too.

00:29:26.160 There is, of course, no reason.

00:29:28.340 It's almost a losing game in a certain way to engage with this to begin with, because it's all built on a false premise.

00:29:35.160 There's no reason to be, why are you doing this right now?

00:29:38.640 I mean, I know why, but why are you doing, why right now are you banning handguns?

00:29:43.320 Well, we know the reason is that they're capitalizing on the tragedy in Texas.

00:29:51.460 But why should that, like, what happened in Texas?

00:29:54.780 Why should that have any bearing at all on gun laws or on your, whatever your opinion was of guns before, and gun laws before, why would it change?

00:30:08.220 Because we, of course, always have known that these sorts of things can happen and do happen.

00:30:17.040 And unfortunately, in this fallen, terrible world that we live in, they have happened since the dawn of civilization.

00:30:22.780 Not with guns before guns were invented, but that's the point.

00:30:27.520 Even before guns existed, the world was a horrifically violent place.

00:30:32.440 In fact, probably, you could argue, much more violent than it is now.

00:30:35.020 So we've always known that, and it's a terrible thing.

00:30:41.460 But to see one example, one terrible example of violence, one outburst like this, and then why would that change it?

00:30:50.840 Because this, if you're a rational person, this should have already been built into your calculus and that you know that this is, that this happens in the world.

00:30:58.420 Doesn't mean you accept it.

00:31:00.540 No, it means you put actual things in place that will actually stop this from happening.

00:31:05.020 As I've been saying since this happened, how about we start with just some security in the school, we can start with that.

00:31:14.000 Okay, so you don't accept it.

00:31:16.440 We should be taking actual, real, direct actions to stop this sort of thing from happening.

00:31:21.760 And there were direct things that could have happened in Texas that would have stopped this,

00:31:26.600 that have nothing to do with legislation, and they should have happened and they didn't.

00:31:29.460 But what I'm trying to figure out is why, because of this, how that would affect your opinion of guns in general or gun law.

00:31:42.220 So they're doing this just to take advantage.

00:31:45.380 This is something they've always wanted to do, kind of pretending that it's in response to what happened in Texas.

00:31:49.720 But really, this is just something they've always wanted to do.

00:31:51.460 And they're taking advantage of the tragedy, of course, to do it.

00:31:55.660 And the other thing that we see, as always, one other note about that, too.

00:31:58.320 And I know this point is often made, but it cannot be made enough, which is that there is this real irony here where the people who advocate the most for banning guns also tend to be the most skeptical of law enforcement.

00:32:20.620 Okay?

00:32:22.600 And so how does that work exactly?

00:32:25.600 So you're very, very skeptical of law enforcement. 0.99

00:32:28.760 And if you're on the left, then you're prone to say that law enforcement are a bunch of murderous psychopaths out on the prowl, hunting and killing innocent black men all the time. 0.99

00:32:39.320 Like, that's what you think. 0.99

00:32:40.200 That's what you say.

00:32:41.820 Right?

00:32:42.840 Now, you're not right about that, but that's what you think.

00:32:45.380 And so your response to that is to disarm?

00:32:48.360 So you want the only armed people to be law enforcement who you don't trust at all?

00:32:55.340 And, of course, in reality, it's going to be worse than that because if you have your way, then the only armed people are law enforcement and the bad guys because they don't care about the laws and they're going to do what they want anyway.

00:33:07.140 So the only people you have actually effectively disarmed, of course, are the good guys, are the people who care about the law and are going to follow it.

00:33:18.220 And the other thing we always see after mass shootings, of course, is you have the kind of virtue signalers, and this is a common trend now, who will destroy their guns for some reason.

00:33:32.180 So there was this video that went viral yesterday of a guy listening to the names of the children who were killed in Texas while taking a sledgehammer to his AR-15.

00:33:45.880 Let's watch a little bit of this.

00:33:46.800 Eliana Garcia, Eva Mireles, Irma Garcia, Jackie Cazares, 10 years old, Hila Silguero, 10 years old, Jace Luovanos, Jose Flores.

00:34:06.700 My question is, what is he going to do with the sledgehammer after this?

00:34:10.940 You've sledgehammered the rifle, but how are you going to destroy the sledgehammer?

00:34:16.100 The sledgehammer is a weapon also.

00:34:18.540 All right, we can take this off.

00:34:20.100 This is just so, it's actually, you know, you want to laugh at a spectacle like that, but at the same time, he's playing the names of the actual victims.

00:34:30.860 So it's not, it goes from being stupid and unintentionally hilarious to really quite grotesque, given that he's, you know, he's got the victims' names that he's using to show off his fake virtue here, which I will never understand this.

00:34:49.120 And I say that rhetorically because I do understand it because this is all about virtue signaling. 0.95

00:34:52.180 But if you know, like if you have a gun and you know that you're never going to go on a mass shooting spree, then how have you made the world a safer place by getting rid of or destroying your gun?

00:35:08.200 So if I'm going to take you seriously, let's just, you know what, fine, it's not a virtue signal, actually.

00:35:12.820 This guy, I'll take him at his word, I'll take him seriously, I'll pay him that respect.

00:35:17.680 Not a virtue signal, he's being completely serious, which means that he thinks he's, that he has the potential within himself to commit a mass shooting.

00:35:27.860 That's, I can only assume.

00:35:30.560 If he's doing this seriously and sincerely to make the world a safer place, then that would mean that he has judged about himself that he is a danger to society.

00:35:40.900 I can only assume that because otherwise, you know, I have guns, I'm not going to destroy them because of a mass shooting because I'm not ever going to use them for a mass shooting.

00:35:50.520 I know that about myself.

00:35:52.120 There's a 0.0% chance of that happening.

00:35:56.680 No, I have them and if I ever use them outside of the gun range, I'm going to be using it to make sure that I or my family don't become victims of a crime like that.

00:36:10.900 So, I guess if you feel, if you see something like this happen and you feel like you need to destroy your guns because you don't trust yourself, then good.

00:36:24.800 I mean, I suppose go ahead and do it.

00:36:26.040 I don't think you need to film it.

00:36:27.720 I wouldn't film it.

00:36:28.380 I wouldn't advertise that fact about yourself.

00:36:32.480 Or better yet, don't destroy them.

00:36:33.920 Just give them to me.

00:36:35.080 You know, find a responsible gun or give them to them instead.

00:36:37.680 It's just a waste of money to destroy them.

00:36:39.200 Meanwhile, one other note related to this.

00:36:43.080 This is from the New York Post.

00:36:45.160 It says, disturbing new video obtained by the Post shows demented Rob Elementary School shooter Salvador Ramos grinning as he holds up a bag of blood-soaked dead cats.

00:36:54.460 The deranged 18-year-old gunman is seen smiling in the undated footage while sitting in the passenger seat of a pal's car, holding up a clear plastic bag with at least two bloodied cats visible inside.

00:37:06.120 This is, and then there's some interviews with people that knew him.

00:37:11.760 David Chervino Jr., related to the shooter's grandmother, said,

00:37:16.280 The shooter was known for herding cats.

00:37:19.140 He liked herding animals.

00:37:20.500 I'm told he killed the cats and carried around the bag of dead bodies just for fun.

00:37:26.360 He added,

00:37:27.060 The video shows he's not right in the head.

00:37:28.480 He's not all there.

00:37:29.180 The video raises all sorts of red flags.

00:37:31.760 One classmate said that Ramos had a tendency to be violent towards women, and he was described by an ex-girlfriend as scary.

00:37:39.440 Okay, so, no surprise here, because this is what we always see, of course.

00:37:49.960 Something like this happens, and then at first we're told, oh, well, no one saw this coming.

00:37:56.680 It's just a quiet, nice kid.

00:37:58.240 Nobody knew.

00:37:59.540 And then very quickly after that, we're told, oh, no, well, actually, he murdered cats, and he was known for doing that.

00:38:07.740 And he did it on film, and people knew about it.

00:38:12.560 Okay, so remember how I said that what happened, the tragedy in Texas, could have been easily avoided by taking some direct, simple steps that have nothing to do with legislation?

00:38:22.960 Well, here's one of them.

00:38:25.200 He's known for killing cats.

00:38:26.860 That's illegal to do that.

00:38:28.300 So you charge him with a crime for doing that, and then he's not going to be able to legally own guns.

00:38:36.520 And if you think that the law is going to stop him, well, then there you go.

00:38:39.540 Well, or better yet, if he's known for doing this and known to be a dangerous person who has not just, it's not just that he's given off weird vibes.

00:38:51.540 It's that he's actually acted out in violent ways and made threats and everything else.

00:38:58.660 Well, then how about you take him and you put him in an institution?

00:39:00.820 That's the best thing.

00:39:03.380 Then you don't have to worry about the law at all. 1.00

00:39:06.640 He's not going to get his hands on a gun inside a mental institution, which is where this scumbag belonged. 0.99

00:39:12.760 So every step of the way, these very simple things, he's on video killing cats, charging with a crime. 0.99

00:39:21.920 You could have done that.

00:39:22.620 Didn't put him in a mental institution.

00:39:24.560 Could have done that.

00:39:25.120 You didn't.

00:39:28.140 Or how about just, and then without any of that, some basic, he was living with adults.

00:39:35.100 He wasn't living on his own.

00:39:37.120 Some basic supervision.

00:39:38.420 He was living at his grandmother at grandfather's house.

00:39:42.740 And they say, they now, his grandfather's being interviewed today and said, well, he had no idea that he owned any of these guns.

00:39:49.080 I find that hard to believe. 0.72

00:39:54.100 You know, I know from experience when I was a kid, as a teenager, you know, because my parents were involved and were not stupid and were not oblivious, I couldn't hide like anything from them.

00:40:04.040 I couldn't sneak something into the house without it being discovered by them.

00:40:11.040 Much less, I mean, how do you have a whole arsenal of guns and you're, you know, the people who are supposed to be supervising you don't know about it?

00:40:22.180 Some basic supervision could have been done or just enforcing the laws that exist.

00:40:27.620 And absent of any of that, lock the door and have security in the school.

00:40:35.640 So many, right?

00:40:38.220 There are so many potential barriers that should have been in place.

00:40:44.180 Okay, really, metaphorically, there are a lot of doors that should have been locked and yet they were all one by one left open.

00:40:51.500 And we go and look for all these complicated answers and solutions when instead it's just shut the door and lock it.

00:41:00.460 All right, one other quick thing, if I can find it.

00:41:04.540 The Daily Wire reports, the arrest of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, followed a late night car crash, according to police.

00:41:11.760 It was a DUI arrest.

00:41:13.740 Nancy Pelosi's husband got arrested for DUI.

00:41:15.820 Paul Pelosi, 82, was charged with driving under the influence on Sunday morning.

00:41:20.240 At the time, the Speaker's husband was driving a 2021 Porsche into an intersection near the town of Younfield, was hit by a 2014 Jeep.

00:41:28.200 No injuries were reported, but he was arrested for DUI.

00:41:31.780 I just, like, I have two things that I think when I see that.

00:41:34.840 And the first is that this guy is worth millions and millions and millions of dollars.

00:41:40.380 And I saw someone make this point on Twitter.

00:41:42.640 I can't remember who, but how does this happen to rich people?

00:41:45.200 Don't you have a driver that can pick you up?

00:41:46.780 But even more importantly, this is very disturbing to me.

00:41:53.120 And not even because he was driving under the influence, but because he's 82 years old.

00:41:58.620 Why exactly are we allowing 82, sober or not, 82 years old behind the wheel of a car?

00:42:06.840 That's crazy.

00:42:07.700 But then again, we allow 82-year-olds to run the country and be president.

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00:44:35.720 Frank says, the fact that mothers wanted to run into the line of fire and not the cops highlights your point that our kids don't belong to the village.

00:44:43.020 And that, in fact, is a really good point, although kids don't belong to the village, they don't belong to the government.

00:44:51.560 And yet the village and the government do have certain responsibilities.

00:44:57.200 Just like the police had a responsibility in Texas to go into that building and save those kids, and they didn't do it.

00:45:03.200 That just yet again goes to show exactly as you say.

00:45:05.760 You know, there are a lot of things that people these days expect the government to do for their kids that really that's not the government's role.

00:45:17.540 But even where it is the government's role, and they are supposed to do it, still so often they fail.

00:45:24.380 Kevin says,

00:45:25.220 Well, your wife is a hero, I have to say.

00:45:46.140 And as I was reading this comment, I was hoping that's the direction this was going, and it did.

00:45:50.320 So, great job by your wife there. 1.00

00:45:53.220 But Nick says,

00:45:55.260 Matt, do you think Elon Musk will actually reinstate free speech on Twitter?

00:45:59.060 Some of his recent comments have me wondering.

00:46:00.660 I'm not sure what recent comments specifically you're talking about.

00:46:03.540 But as far as the free speech thing, I guess it depends on what you mean by free speech.

00:46:07.420 And this is one thing.

00:46:08.100 I think this is something that the right kind of gets wrong.

00:46:12.340 You know, the issue on the social media platforms, and with Twitter in particular,

00:46:15.660 it's, I think when we make it a free speech issue, we kind of, we confuse the issue more than we need to.

00:46:23.300 So, I think what we should expect, what we should want from social media platforms is consistency in the ways the rules are enforced.

00:46:36.400 So, the problem on Twitter, it's not, it's not exactly that they're infringing on free speech or whatever.

00:46:43.640 It's that the rules are inconsistent.

00:46:46.480 And ideologically biased.

00:46:48.000 Okay, so it's one thing.

00:46:51.000 If you want to have one rule for everybody, and you say that on your platform, you're not allowed to say X, Y, Z.

00:46:58.060 Or, you know, there's a certain language we don't want you to use.

00:47:00.820 Because we want to make this a more family-friendly platform or whatever.

00:47:03.700 As far as I'm concerned, fine.

00:47:07.380 You know, I mean, Twitter could put a rule in place where they say,

00:47:09.800 no more cursing, no more swear words on our platform.

00:47:13.640 They could do that.

00:47:14.460 I think it'd be kind of lame, but they could do that if they wanted to.

00:47:18.380 And that would actually probably be a pretty positive change, all told.

00:47:23.820 But if you're going to have that rule, the problem is with, if they did have a rule like that,

00:47:27.140 we know that they would only enforce it in certain circumstances.

00:47:30.740 They'd be very politically targeted in the way that they enforced it.

00:47:34.300 So, I think what I'm looking, if Elon Musk actually completes his purchase of Twitter,

00:47:38.980 which is by no means a foregone conclusion, but if he does,

00:47:42.200 it's not, despite what the left is saying, it's not that he's going to throw open the doors and say,

00:47:46.720 well, you can say whatever you want on the platform.

00:47:48.000 No, you can make death threats against people and that'll be fine.

00:47:50.000 He's not going to do that.

00:47:52.080 I think hopefully what he will do and what he said he will do

00:47:54.940 is just come up with basic, understandable rules that are the same for everybody.

00:48:00.980 And that's it.

00:48:01.700 Let's see. 0.99

00:48:08.440 Johnny the Walrus says, love that Matt called that one fan an idiot, calling him how he sees him, 1.00

00:48:13.480 SPG for life. 1.00

00:48:14.280 Well, if you're a true fan, then you won't be offended by me calling you an idiot, 1.00

00:48:16.760 because you know that's what, that's just, I say that, that's my, 0.99

00:48:19.700 it's a term of endearment really coming from me.

00:48:24.640 Let's see.

00:48:25.360 Another comment says, I understand when I became a Marine that my life was expendable

00:48:29.180 for the sake of saving or helping others, if you're a police officer and you don't

00:48:32.100 comprehend that concept, as difficult as it may be, you're in the wrong profession.

00:48:36.440 If I had died saving the life of another, especially as a child, my life would have been

00:48:41.460 well spent, as the left likes to say, full stop, SPG for life.

00:48:46.400 And it does take, it certainly takes a lot of heroism, even though it's your job, right?

00:48:52.620 It still takes a lot of heroism and courage.

00:48:55.120 But unfortunately, we live in a society where, you know, we don't, and this is a,

00:48:58.880 this is a general problem that goes, that extends far beyond law enforcement,

00:49:01.940 but we don't, we don't really encourage or welcome heroism or courage.

00:49:09.640 And this is what we get.

00:49:11.940 Kenny says, if your film is so important for the culture, why don't you release it to the

00:49:15.500 public instead of behind a paywall?

00:49:17.120 Well, I'll tell you why.

00:49:17.620 Because this film is, is good and it's important.

00:49:21.960 As I said at the top, we spent a year of our lives making it.

00:49:25.320 It takes time.

00:49:26.420 It costs money.

00:49:28.240 And we cannot make content like this.

00:49:31.040 Otherwise, we can't make it without our subscribers.

00:49:35.340 The money just wouldn't be there for it.

00:49:37.000 So that's the reality.

00:49:37.960 So if you support this content and you want to see more like it, you have to just subscribe.

00:49:43.020 Not because we're a charity case, but because we're doing stuff that you support and we're

00:49:47.000 making content that you want.

00:49:47.980 And that's, and that's why you subscribe.

00:49:51.200 But there's this attitude from some conservatives that, you know, I think we all fall into this.

00:49:59.320 Even I can fall into it sometimes where, well, okay, I want great content and I want content

00:50:03.980 that I can support, but I don't want to pay for it.

00:50:07.560 And I think we all kind of have to knock that off.

00:50:11.180 If you want great content and if you're, if you're upset about the fact that what you get 0.95

00:50:15.600 from the media, what you get from Hollywood and everything is a bunch of garbage and filth,

00:50:18.980 then when someone comes along and they're giving you the kind of content you want, 0.84

00:50:22.500 you have to support it.

00:50:23.720 And if you don't, then it's just going to go away.

00:50:26.320 That's the way that it works.

00:50:27.760 All right.

00:50:28.220 So go to whatiswoman.com right now and subscribe.

00:50:30.760 You may have heard me mention it at a time or two, but tomorrow is June 1st.

00:50:34.400 And in case you don't keep up with cultural calendars, June is the beginning of a very

00:50:38.460 special time, a time of pride, of celebration.

00:50:42.160 And I'm talking, of course, about the premiere of my new documentary, What Is A Woman?

00:50:46.580 On backstage at 8 p.m. Eastern time, if you're not a Daily Wire member, then you got to head

00:50:50.640 to whatiswoman.com and subscribe today because you're not going to want to miss this night.

00:50:54.520 I'll be there to share helpful and insightful commentary.

00:50:56.960 And so will Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, and our God King, Jeremy Boring.

00:51:00.380 You've never seen a backstage quite like this.

00:51:02.220 I, for one, am immensely proud of this film.

00:51:04.200 In fact, I'm feeling so much pride right now.

00:51:06.720 I want to play the trailer again for you guys.

00:51:09.620 Here it is.

00:51:10.240 Watch.

00:51:10.420 What is a woman? 1.00

00:51:13.200 Can you tell me that?

00:51:17.320 Well, you're at the Women's March.

00:51:18.360 You must have some idea.

00:51:20.760 I'm a husband.

00:51:21.700 I'm a father for, I host a talk show.

00:51:24.000 I give speeches.

00:51:25.000 I write books.

00:51:26.080 I like to make sense of things.

00:51:27.580 A woman is not anything in particular. 0.90

00:51:29.360 There is not one particular thing.

00:51:31.040 It could be many things to many people. 0.99

00:51:32.940 Some women have penises, right? 1.00

00:51:34.580 Some men have vaginas. 1.00

00:51:35.540 And so they go on the internet and they're told that all their problems will be solved if they become a man. 1.00

00:51:43.660 There are masculine girls. 0.77

00:51:45.340 There are feminine boys. 0.89

00:51:46.820 What are we going to do about that?

00:51:48.120 Carve them up?

00:51:48.820 I care about the truth.

00:51:50.840 I care about children.

00:51:52.180 I care about the women who are having their opportunities stolen from them. 1.00

00:51:55.420 Based on what I'm saying, would you ever want to move to America?

00:51:58.120 They say no.

00:51:59.980 Never.

00:52:00.380 Now, many people have asked me, including people in the film, why do I care what a woman is so much?

00:52:16.000 Or rather, why should anyone care?

00:52:17.340 Well, my answer is as simple as theirs is distorted because truth matters.

00:52:20.840 And because the destructive consequences being put upon women and children for abandoning truth are not an imaginary construct, but a painful reality.

00:52:29.620 So help us expose the madness.

00:52:31.460 Become a Daily Wire member by going to whatisawoman.com to get exclusive access to my film.

00:52:35.980 And join us for its premiere tomorrow at 8 p.m. Eastern on Backstage.

00:52:39.060 You're not going to want to miss it.

00:52:40.460 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:52:45.740 Several months ago, we discussed one of the hottest new trends among young people, especially on TikTok.

00:52:50.160 It's the coolest new thing, multiple personality disorder, or as they call it now, dissociative identity disorder.

00:52:55.860 And just on TikTok alone, there are thousands of DID influencers raking in millions of views as they talk about their alleged experiences with this condition.

00:53:04.920 And they even demonstrate what it looks like when they switch from one personality to another.

00:53:09.240 You know, they put that on camera, too, because that's how the illness works, they claim.

00:53:13.120 Mental illness is now a party trick. 0.81

00:53:15.660 Like, hey, look, everyone, I just switched into a new personality.

00:53:18.560 Coincidentally, this new one is just as insufferable as all my other ones.

00:53:21.180 Like, I don't have any good ones, but, yeah, it's a whole new one.

00:53:25.560 Dissociative identity disorder, in which a patient supposedly has multiple distinct personalities, multiple consciences, basically, inside one head, has seen various waves of popularity, was frequently diagnosed in the 80s and 90s, and then fell out of favor for a couple of decades, only to have seen a massive resurgence in the last few years.

00:53:42.420 This has also been the trajectory of, by the way, baggy jeans.

00:53:46.540 And I'm not sure if there's any connection there, but I will say that it's never a good sign when a mental illness follows the same course as a fashion trend.

00:53:53.700 Although it's to be expected, as mental illnesses are themselves fashionable and trendy. 1.00

00:53:58.020 And that's helped along not only by social media, but by the news media as well.

00:54:01.580 So, this weekend, there were multiple headlines floating around about a guy named Leonard Stockel, who claims to have 10 unique personalities, all with their own names and ages.

00:54:12.180 The New York Post reports, quote,

00:54:14.080 A man has revealed he suffers from a rare disorder where his identity is split into 10 different personalities, all with different names, ages, and opinions.

00:54:22.780 Leonard Stockel has been diagnosed with dissociate identity disorder, a rare psychiatric condition that develops in early childhood and is a result of severe trauma.

00:54:29.820 Stockel says the 10 personalities are Kovu, age 4, Hector, 8, Anna, age 16, Cosmo, 17, Ash, 18, Jesse, 19, Leo, 21, Billy, 23, Liv, 24, and Red, 26.

00:54:46.020 The 22-year-old calls his collective personalities his system, with a group of identities sharing one body in each distinct form of consciousness, is the person or alter.

00:54:55.580 Leo calls himself the host of the system, meaning that they are the person who has control over the body most often.

00:55:03.180 Now, Leo explains that he had something of a psychotic break from the stress of taking his exams last year, and that's what led to him getting diagnosed with DID.

00:55:12.980 He also says that he's in a romantic relationship with a guy named Massimo, who I think is a real guy, like a physical real guy.

00:55:19.200 But if this split personality story is legitimate, it raises some troubling questions about Massimo.

00:55:24.880 I mean, given that four of Leo's personalities are underage, and one is a toddler.

00:55:29.920 Now, speaking of those other personalities, he does tell us a little bit more about them.

00:55:32.660 He says,

00:55:32.900 Cosmo is a rowdy, slightly flirty teenager that easily gets in trouble.

00:55:58.740 Ash is a little sunshine who loves to go on vacation and just explore the world.

00:56:03.060 Jessie is quiet, but very kind, girly, and respectful.

00:56:06.140 She often takes care of the body. 0.99

00:56:07.720 Billy is one of our protectors.

00:56:08.880 He always takes care of safety while we're outside.

00:56:11.220 He doesn't talk a lot and can be verbally aggressive sometimes, but he would never harm anyone.

00:56:15.460 Liv is our sexual protector.

00:56:16.880 She knows when someone gets too close to us, and she can handle every situation.

00:56:20.600 Red is the oldest and the system's mom.

00:56:22.520 She takes care of a lot of things, showers, chores, cleaning, paperwork, and managing all of our money. 1.00

00:56:28.860 Oh, okay then.

00:56:30.900 Now, the first thing we should establish about dissociative identity disorder is that it's, like, totally fake.

00:56:36.300 Okay?

00:56:36.600 It's almost certainly completely fake.

00:56:37.960 In fact, there was a survey conducted of board-certified U.S. psychiatrists back in 1999,

00:56:42.500 and out of 300, only 21% thought that DID was scientifically valid,

00:56:47.940 and the rest thought that there was not enough evidence to support it.

00:56:50.700 An article in Psychology Today argues that DID is a bogus diagnosis and cites the fact that

00:56:55.420 the famous cases which popularize this condition, the cases which are the only reason why any of us

00:57:00.520 have heard about it, have turned out to be hoaxes.

00:57:03.060 There's a paper by Joel Paris published on the National Library of Medicine website

00:57:06.620 calling DID a medical fad, and then there's an article in the Harvard Gazette

00:57:10.400 which points to research showing that the central basis for this diagnosis

00:57:14.180 doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

00:57:16.980 The article starts by pointing out that multiple personality disorder

00:57:20.020 was coined in the early 20th century by a neurologist who was working with a woman

00:57:23.800 who he thought might appear to have two personalities,

00:57:28.440 and this is the first that anyone had coined this term or talked about it.

00:57:31.400 And of course, now we're talking about people like, I have 20 personalities.

00:57:34.880 In the beginning, it was one person who maybe there's two.

00:57:39.160 And for most of the rest of that century, the diagnosis was extremely rare,

00:57:43.280 and most people in the world had never heard about it.

00:57:45.180 But then the book Sybil was published in 1973,

00:57:48.580 followed by two film adaptations telling the allegedly true story of a woman with multiple personalities.

00:57:54.940 And coincidentally, since that movie and the book came out,

00:57:59.280 the diagnoses skyrocketed from there.

00:58:01.660 The only problem is that Sybil was a fraud. 1.00

00:58:04.260 The woman invented the whole thing, and that's been proven now. 1.00

00:58:07.180 But the real problem, as the article explains,

00:58:09.200 is the alleged source of this alleged mental illness.

00:58:12.800 The psychiatrists who advocate for it say that people who suffer from DID,

00:58:17.500 they generate these other personalities as a way to wall off memories of traumatic childhood experiences.

00:58:22.900 So they create a sort of amnesia barrier, they call it,

00:58:26.940 protecting the patient from trauma. 0.90

00:58:30.280 The issue here is that, first of all, it's just ridiculous. 0.86

00:58:34.160 It's a ridiculous cinematic theory and sort of a way of looking at the human person. 0.91

00:58:41.420 That you have trauma, and so your mind, like,

00:58:43.460 as all this subconscious does all these things and creates all these personalities

00:58:46.540 to get around the trauma, it just doesn't even make any sense

00:58:48.700 when you think about it for two seconds.

00:58:50.620 There's also no evidence that any sort of amnesia barrier actually exists.

00:58:55.220 In fact, all of the evidence shows that people with this condition do retain their memories

00:59:00.800 even as they switch personalities.

00:59:02.940 And that's enough right there to bring down the house of cards.

00:59:05.620 You can see this in our friend Leo.

00:59:07.180 He claims not to have memories shared between personalities,

00:59:10.040 and that's why he can't hold down a job, he says.

00:59:12.660 So more than likely, he's getting help from the government.

00:59:14.840 What a coincidence, right?

00:59:16.480 Except here he is describing and introducing all of his personalities.

00:59:20.420 He talks about them like they're friends sitting in the room with him.

00:59:23.800 If he can do that, then he obviously remembers them

00:59:26.120 and remembers inhabiting each personality.

00:59:28.980 The whole DID theory collapses based on that fact alone.

00:59:31.860 If you can remember each personality, that means that there is a central consciousness,

00:59:35.860 otherwise known as you, present the whole time.

00:59:40.080 These are not distinct, separate consciences, then.

00:59:42.620 They are just roles that you are playing.

00:59:45.920 Does this mean that nobody in history has ever had something resembling a split personality?

00:59:49.420 I mean, no, I can't say that.

00:59:51.600 The article in Psychology Today mentions at the very end that, you know,

00:59:53.940 there may be very, very rare neurological, not psychological conditions

00:59:58.100 that in extremely rare circumstances maybe have led to something that might look something like DID.

01:00:04.580 And these would be people who have actual physical brain damage.

01:00:08.580 But if there are exceptional cases like that,

01:00:10.720 it has almost nothing to do with the DID diagnosis as we know it.

01:00:14.960 And we could be quite certain that nobody suffering from such a thing,

01:00:18.240 if such a person exists at all or ever has existed,

01:00:20.760 is making viral videos about it on TikTok.

01:00:23.140 They couldn't anyway, because if they really have amnesia between identities,

01:00:26.220 they wouldn't know that they had the condition,

01:00:28.020 and thus they wouldn't be able to say anything about it.

01:00:31.040 So what explains the TikTok videos then?

01:00:32.840 Well, we return to the same issue that I've talked about many times,

01:00:36.700 and I wish more people would start talking about,

01:00:38.740 because it's a big problem in our society.

01:00:40.720 And that is that mental illness is fashionable. 0.99

01:00:44.980 We have worked so hard to end the stigma around mental illness

01:00:48.780 that now the pendulum has swung all the way to the other side.

01:00:51.380 Far from stigmatized, mental illness is now desirable, exciting, popular, in vogue.

01:00:56.480 It's a fad and a hobby, basically.

01:00:59.900 Like, nobody has hobbies anymore.

01:01:01.160 Where do all the hobbies go?

01:01:02.160 People have mental illnesses as a hobby now.

01:01:04.820 When I was a kid, we collected baseball cards.

01:01:07.860 The nerdier kids would collect Pokemon cards.

01:01:10.580 And for a very brief glimmer of time, we collected something called Pogs, okay?

01:01:14.640 And kids, if you talk to your parents about that, they'll tell you about Pogs. 0.92

01:01:16.880 And there were other little things that came up, and little fads like that,

01:01:19.260 things that you collected.

01:01:20.220 We had other hobbies, too.

01:01:21.100 We played sports.

01:01:21.840 We built Legos.

01:01:22.660 We explored the woods.

01:01:23.780 We climbed trees.

01:01:24.660 We went fishing.

01:01:25.380 You know, we did all kinds of stuff like that.

01:01:27.500 Kids don't do that anymore. 1.00

01:01:28.580 Now they just sit and stare at their screens, and they collect mental illnesses.

01:01:32.760 And just like Pokemon, they think they've got to catch them all.

01:01:35.400 And that'll make up for the authentic personality and identity that they lack, or so they think.

01:01:41.280 Many fake or highly exaggerated mental illnesses have come along because of this process.

01:01:48.740 But none more than multiple personality disorder, a condition invented by people 1.00

01:01:52.060 who pretend to have 10 personalities to make up for the fact that they don't actually even have

01:01:56.540 just one.

01:01:57.460 And that is why, I guess today, it's multiple personality disorder that we are going to cancel

01:02:03.700 on the show.

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