The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 995 - The Eco Friendly City Of The Future Is A Dystopian Hellscape

00:00:00.000 Today on the mat, we'll show a vision for an eco-friendly city of the future that resembles

00:00:04.340 a human termite colony. The powers that be want us all crammed together, eating bugs and hopped

00:00:09.060 up on drugs. We'll talk about that today. Also, Joe Biden prepares to declare monkeypox a public

00:00:13.300 health emergency, but is it or is it an emergency only for people who engage in certain specific

00:00:18.560 types of behavior? Plus, a shocking poll from 1997 reveals just how far we've fallen with race

00:00:24.420 relations in recent times. And in our daily cancellation, a reality show is under fire for

00:00:28.480 not featuring enough ugly people. Are ugly people the new marginalized minority and favored victim 0.99

00:00:33.540 group? I certainly hope so. All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:46.000 You've heard me talk a lot on this show about how important it is to get your kids away from the

00:00:50.460 garbage that they're teaching in our public school systems, Marxism, socialism, critical race theory,

00:00:54.780 and the trans agenda. Now, there are a lot of ways you can protect your kids from these not-so-secret 0.99

00:00:59.680 leftist attacks. You can homeschool. You can get them involved in a religious community. You can give

00:01:03.700 them the right books to read, like my best-selling children's book, Johnny the Walrus. These things are

00:01:07.780 all great, and you should do them, but what if you couldn't? No one likes to talk about it, but we all

00:01:13.680 will eventually die. It's just how life works, and the end result is always the same. Some of us,

00:01:19.260 however, may die sooner than others, and we need to be prepared for that possibility because if we're not

00:01:23.060 prepared, if we haven't taken the necessary steps to shield our kids from aggressive attacks and

00:01:27.220 indoctrination attempts coming from the left, then we've left them completely unarmed and unprotected.

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00:01:55.040 Walsh. Again, go to epicwill.com and use my code Walsh today. The architects of the new world order are

00:02:02.800 always searching for ever more efficient ways of containing and controlling and dehumanizing us,

00:02:08.340 stripping our lives of beauty, destroying our freedom, and treating us like cattle to be herded and

00:02:13.980 used. As we know, the goal is to have us all living in pods, stacked up on top of each other,

00:02:18.820 eating bugs, owning nothing, and having no privacy. They seek even to lay claim to our inner lives,

00:02:23.960 our consciences. The complete human existence, they believe, is one spent sitting in your rented

00:02:30.380 prison bunk, eating your ration of grasshoppers for the day, numbed by psychotropic drugs, while wearing

00:02:36.080 your virtual reality headset to attend an endless string of corporate diversity seminars. And millions

00:02:41.700 of people are already living a life that comes very close to this utopian ideal, but our overlords

00:02:47.340 know that there are still advances yet to be made. New and innovative ways of eating our souls and

00:02:53.320 making our lives even drearier and uglier. Enter the crown prince of Saudi Arabia with a concept

00:02:59.820 that has been ominously dubbed the land scraper. The Guardian reports,

00:03:05.240 the promotional material is striking. Two mirror-encased skyscrapers stretching more than 100 miles across a

00:03:11.480 swath of desert and mountain terrain, providing a future home for 9 million people. Is it the ultimate

00:03:17.440 in high-density living or a grandiose science fiction fantasy? In short, economists, architects,

00:03:24.060 and analysts are not quite sure. So, so extravagant to Saudi Arabia's plan to create an urban utopia

00:03:29.400 that even those working on the project known as The Line do not yet know if its scale and scope can

00:03:35.340 ever be realized. Skeptics and supporters alike were this week given more insight into the extraordinary

00:03:40.420 ambition of the development, the centerpiece of the futuristic Neom site near the Gulf of Acaba,

00:03:47.500 when the kingdom's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, outlined central aspects of what he intends to be

00:03:52.720 one of the most ambitious urban developments built in modern times. Now, the concept will cost about

00:03:59.380 a trillion dollars to build, and the hope is that this idea can be exported to many other countries,

00:04:05.740 including our own, to make cities more efficient and eco-friendly, you know, to save the planet,

00:04:11.320 and to finally bring into being a real-life sci-fi dystopia. There have been a lot of different

00:04:17.480 visions for how this can be done. Many different people in different countries have had ideas of,

00:04:21.960 like, what the cities of the future will look like in order to save the planet, and this is what this

00:04:28.000 one's all about. Here's a promotional video explaining it a little bit more. Watch.

00:04:32.300 For too long, humanity has existed within dysfunctional and polluted cities that ignore

00:04:38.620 nature. Now, a revolution in civilization is taking place. Imagine a traditional city and

00:04:47.500 consolidating its footprint, designing to protect and enhance nature. The line will be home to nine

00:04:54.880 million residents and will be built with a footprint of just 34 square kilometers, and we are designing

00:05:01.480 it to provide a healthier, more sustainable quality of life. The line's communities are organized in

00:05:08.320 three dimensions. Residents have access to all their daily needs within five-minute walk neighborhoods,

00:05:15.180 and the line's infrastructure makes it possible to travel end-to-end in 20 minutes with no need

00:05:22.200 for cars, resulting in zero carbon emissions. By leveraging AI technology, services are autonomous,

00:05:30.420 saving you time and effort. Designed by world-leading architects, the line is 500 meters tall,

00:05:38.180 200 meters wide, 170 kilometers long, and housed within an elegant mirror glass facade. Intelligent solutions

00:05:50.360 create efficiency and year-round temperate microclimate with natural ventilation. Energy and water supplies are

00:05:58.560 100 percent renewable. The line is designed as a series of unique communities offering a wealth of

00:06:06.240 amenities, providing equitable views and immediate access to the surrounding nature.

00:06:12.220 Oh, well, I mean, as long as you'll have equitable views, because that's the kind of view we all want,

00:06:16.660 isn't it? You hike up to the top of a mountain, look out at God's creation, and say, wow, the view up here

00:06:22.320 is so equitable. That's a very normal and human reaction, right? Anyway, the plan, as you see,

00:06:28.860 is to build a narrow, 100-mile-long mirrored prison in which you can live and work and never leave and

00:06:34.660 then die. As others have pointed out, it looks very much like a sleek and modern border wall of sorts,

00:06:41.680 actually. So how quickly we went from, no, don't build the wall, to build the wall and live inside it.

00:06:48.000 And speaking of living inside walls, this plan appears to have been inspired partly from

00:06:51.840 sci-fi dystopian films that the architects have mistakenly taken as how-to guides, but then also

00:06:57.740 partly from the living quarters of household pests. What they've come up with is an exciting

00:07:03.060 opportunity for anyone who's ever dreamed of living in a termite colony. It may seem like, you know,

00:07:09.680 you'd have a rather dismal existence inside this thing, surrounded on all sides all the time by glass

00:07:15.220 and steel, totally cut off from nature, but at least you'll have the entertainment of watching birds

00:07:20.480 constantly smash into the enormous mirrored exterior walls. Same for any other species

00:07:25.440 of animals whose migration pattern happens to intersect with the human filing cabinet that

00:07:30.800 they're building. Now, it may seem pointless to complain about this. It's in Saudi Arabia. It's 1.00

00:07:36.540 not here. Actually, it's not even in Saudi Arabia. It's nowhere. This is a concept, a plan. We don't know

00:07:41.700 if they'll actually be able to build it. And if they do build the thing, it seems highly likely that

00:07:45.600 the experiment will fail in spectacular fashion, mitigating the risk that something similar would

00:07:51.060 be attempted in this country. There are many ways that it could fail, you know, starting with the

00:07:55.220 enormous damage that a few well-placed suicide bombers could do in a place like that. This is the

00:08:00.620 Middle East after all. Not to mention the fact that you'd be living in a literal transmission tube 0.79

00:08:06.180 for disease. In fact, the whole thing seems like it was designed by a virus,

00:08:12.140 but both the biological and computer variety, because the entire structure is supposed to run

00:08:16.660 on computers and artificial intelligence, leaving its inhabitants totally vulnerable to cyber attack.

00:08:22.140 By the way, what happens when someone takes out the generators in the giant glass rectangular prison

00:08:27.080 in the middle of the desert? What then? Of course, the worst thing that could happen, though,

00:08:30.980 is that the monstrosity is built, and it works, and no disasters befall it, and all of its inhabitants

00:08:38.860 are kept satiated and numbed enough that there are no uprisings where the peasant class violently

00:08:43.600 overthrows the elites of the rectangle, eventually setting fire to the whole thing and dancing around

00:08:48.260 it as it burns. If nothing like that were to happen, tragically, then perhaps eventually we would

00:08:54.480 end up with something similar here. Either way, whether they try to force us into this particular

00:09:00.800 hellscape, or they construct a slightly different sort of futuristic livestock stable for us,

00:09:05.720 the fact is that this is the direction that the powers that be wish to take us, and are taking us.

00:09:11.400 So it's worth pointing out the problems with this plan, and any plan similar to it.

00:09:16.080 And by plan similar to it, I'm including modern-day cities as they currently exist,

00:09:21.580 which in their construction are only slightly less horrifying than the total recall-esque

00:09:26.080 concepts that people like the crown prince of Saudi Arabia are coming up with.

00:09:30.580 And all of the problems, including the ones I've already outlined, can be summarized this way.

00:09:37.200 This actually is just a problem with leftism in general.

00:09:40.400 It does not take into account human nature. This is one of the defining features of the elites in

00:09:47.180 society, the globalists, the utopianists. They do not account for or understand human nature,

00:09:53.680 both the good and the bad of human nature. So let's start with the bad. Human beings in our fallen

00:10:00.400 state are naturally disposed to antagonism, tribalism, hostility, violence. That doesn't

00:10:09.180 mean that every human being is a violent savage. It just means that humans have that natural capacity,

00:10:15.100 and the more that you cram humans together into tight living quarters, the more that you're going to

00:10:20.760 bring this side out. And since everybody is living in such a densely populated environment,

00:10:25.640 when the violence does emerge, as it so inevitably will, the harm it inflicts will be exponentially

00:10:31.980 magnified. One violent psychopath by himself out in the woods makes a good villain in a horror film,

00:10:39.700 but the violent psychopath living in the city, right on top of hundreds of other people,

00:10:44.900 is by far the greater danger. Especially because he can now form tribes, gangs, with other violent

00:10:52.200 psychopaths, and pretty soon your beautiful, harmonious, sardine can existence has turned into a dirty, 0.67

00:10:58.820 grimy, bloody, awful nightmare. For an example of this phenomenon, see any city, anywhere. Now that's not

00:11:06.800 to say that the violence and crime in the city, and the violence and crime that would turn the giant

00:11:10.920 rectangle into a glass prison of despair is all due to people living too close to each other. That's

00:11:16.220 part of it. The bigger part is, of course, the breakdown of the family, the destabilization of

00:11:21.600 necessary social structures, the deliberate institutional effort to undermine law and order,

00:11:25.560 etc. But these are all the work of the very same people who are planning the utopian cities of the

00:11:31.420 future, so those problems are all sure to follow. But human nature is not all bad, thankfully.

00:11:36.840 One of our nobler characteristics is that we hunger for adventure, creativity, independence.

00:11:45.180 Now there may be people who, for whatever reason, for whatever perverse reason, enjoy cities, but

00:11:51.060 everybody feels at peace in nature. Everybody can appreciate a beautiful lake or a stream or a

00:11:58.760 mountain. People go to cities for convenience, for job opportunities, for bars and restaurants and

00:12:04.040 nightlife and so on. They don't go there for beauty. They certainly don't go there for peace.

00:12:10.460 They don't go there to fulfill any of the deeper longings of the soul. The ideal, most whole and

00:12:17.060 complete way to live is on land you own, in a house that is yours, where you can breathe fresh air

00:12:24.820 and enjoy at least a little bit of quiet and solitude and have, along with your family,

00:12:29.960 at least a semblance of independence and self-reliance. But the issue is that we're harder to control and

00:12:39.500 manipulate when we live like that, which is why the powers that be wish to usher us back closer

00:12:46.700 together on property we don't own, living lives we don't control, packed into our stalls like so many 0.78

00:12:54.820 horses in a massive modernized barn that smells only slightly better, if we're lucky. That's just no way

00:13:02.920 to live. Yet it's how they want us to live, which is why we should live anyway, but that way. Now let's

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00:14:28.260 Okay, I wanted to tell you about one thing. This is not a paid promotion. It's not an ad that Daily

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00:14:36.780 Sidewalk Advocates. They've been doing great work for many years, and my wife and I have been

00:14:42.740 supporting them for a long time. They reach out to women outside of abortion clinics,

00:14:46.500 letting them know about their options and the resources that are available. Because as we know,

00:14:53.200 what drives the women into the abortion clinics is even, you know, in spite of all this talk about

00:15:01.860 pro-choice and choices and all that, what drives the women in is the feeling that they have no choice, 1.00

00:15:06.400 that there's no choice at all. Their lives are hopeless unless they go and get an abortion. So

00:15:11.840 the Sidewalk Advocates reach out and let them know that there are other choices, there are other

00:15:15.980 options. And they've saved many lives in the process. And now after Roe, you know, the work

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00:15:28.260 to do what they do, which means money. And right now they're running a fundraising drive,

00:15:32.740 and all donations will be tripled up to $250,000. That's for like the next week or so. My wife and

00:15:40.080 I will be sending them a check. I'd ask you to consider it too, if you have it in the budget.

00:15:44.280 Like I said, this is not a paid ad. I just, I believe in what these guys do. We've supported

00:15:47.480 them personally for a while. And if you want to do the same, go to sidewalkadvocates.org,

00:15:53.720 check it out, donate. And I think we all need to be pitching in to the extent that we can

00:16:00.080 for the battles ahead. All right. So following in the footsteps of the World Health Organization,

00:16:07.320 it's expected that Joe Biden will officially declare monkeypox a public health emergency.

00:16:13.880 This is from Politico. It says, the Biden administration is expected to declare monkeypox

00:16:18.100 a public health emergency in the coming days, according to two people with knowledge of the

00:16:21.440 matter. The declaration, which is made by the Department of Health and Human Services,

00:16:24.740 would follow a similar decision made last week by the World Health Organization by designating the

00:16:29.040 outbreak, an emergency. HHS could then take a slew of actions, including accessing new money and

00:16:34.780 appointing new personnel, according to the law that dictates how and when the federal government can

00:16:40.320 declare such an emergency. The HHS secretary is scheduled to hold a press briefing on monkeypox

00:16:48.280 on Thursday morning, and they're going to tell us more about it. Now, I can tell you that,

00:16:54.640 I guess, as we've learned, a public health crisis is in the eye of the beholder.

00:17:00.380 Monkeypox is not a public health crisis for me. I'm not worried about it at all because I'm a

00:17:06.540 married straight man, which means it's almost certain that I'm not going to get monkeypox.

00:17:13.220 And in fact, someone made this point on Fox yesterday as they were talking about monkeypox.

00:17:18.740 And it was very upsetting for some other people, especially including other people on the panel.

00:17:24.500 So there was this debate about monkeypox, and one of the guests, Ned Ryan, dared to point out

00:17:31.260 that this is a disease that almost exclusively affects gay men. It's almost exclusively gay men 1.00

00:17:38.640 contracting and spreading it. Another guest, Brad Palumbo, was offended by this. And so they got into

00:17:45.080 back and forth. And Brad thought he did so well in this exchange that he actually posted the video

00:17:50.320 himself to Twitter to show everybody. Look at this. Look at this debate that I won.

00:17:54.500 Well, you watch for yourself and tell me what you think. Here it is.

00:17:57.980 As for monkeypox, I think there's a pretty good rule in life. Don't attend gay orgies. When you look 1.00

00:18:04.780 at the New England Journal's report of the 520 orgies they reviewed.

00:18:08.720 Ned, come on, man.

00:18:09.720 It's not about gay. How about not any orgies? 1.00

00:18:12.160 Go look at the New England Journal's report that NBC News reported on on Friday, in which of the

00:18:19.100 528 cases they reviewed, 95 percent were between sex between men. I think we actually have to have 1.00

00:18:26.340 a serious conversation about where this is coming from. When I'm done, Brad, you can talk. Instead of

00:18:31.260 going crazy and declaring a national pandemic when 3,000 people have it right now, it's insane.

00:18:36.020 I don't know, man. You don't have to be gay to get monkeypox. And you don't have to be bigoted

00:18:42.460 when you talk about treating something that is that easily spread, Marie.

00:18:47.340 It's not bigoted.

00:18:48.000 Yeah, it is.

00:18:48.380 This is science, Kennedy. 95 percent of the cases from the New England Journal have been reported.

00:18:52.840 You know what? I'm going to let Brad respond. Okay, I'm going to let Brad respond. Because,

00:18:55.960 Brad, we have 372 doses. The United States, in Denmark, where the smallpox,

00:19:02.620 monkeypox vaccine is manufactured. They're ready to go. But because this has been an issue for more

00:19:10.860 men in the gay community, it seems like it has been lower on the priority list. Brad?

00:19:16.540 Yeah, look, Ned is right. He says that monkeypox right now is mostly affecting gay men. The problem

00:19:21.600 is that public health-wise, not going to orgies in general is a good policy to not get sexually

00:19:27.640 transmitted diseases. 100 percent. And so we have to be really careful. We saw with the AIDS crisis,

00:19:32.040 with the HIV crisis, about how certain communities or certain gay people will be stigmatized over

00:19:37.280 something that lots of people do. And we've got to be careful about that. And that kind of, I will use

00:19:42.500 the term, bigoted language, that makes it seem like the only people that get this are from one group of

00:19:47.860 Americans. Hey, guess what? Gay men also have friends and family members and colleagues. And this is

00:19:53.060 not just transmitted through sexual activity. It's transmitted through close contact. So you don't

00:19:58.180 fight diseases. I'm glad Brad brought up HIV AIDS. You don't fight diseases by caricaturing the people

00:20:04.740 who get them or who get them at one point in time. Fox News, ladies and gentlemen. So you have one

00:20:12.260 guest, Ned, who makes the absolutely correct point that this is a disease circulating almost exclusively

00:20:19.000 among gay men. Yes. Well, it's not just gay men. Yeah, it's like only 97 percent or something. Okay.

00:20:24.680 That's almost exclusively. And then everyone else in the panel, okay, come on, man. That's bigoted.

00:20:29.880 They had the chance to explain why it's bigoted and they couldn't explain it. And I just love it when

00:20:34.280 these people bring AIDS up as if it helps support their point, right? So they bring up HIV as a way of

00:20:43.400 supporting this idea that we shouldn't, like, highlight the fact that this is circulating mostly

00:20:50.360 among gay men. Well, no. The AIDS crisis and the way that it was treated, especially early on,

00:20:57.200 and is still treated, in fact, is a perfect example of why the messaging should be very specific about

00:21:05.500 who this primarily impacts. Because with AIDS, I mean, I can remember being in elementary school.

00:21:14.620 I remember this vividly, actually, learning about AIDS in elementary school and being terrified,

00:21:21.800 like, traumatized by it. Because what we were told is that anyone can get AIDS. It can affect anyone.

00:21:28.540 It doesn't matter. This is not a gay thing. It affects anybody. And that's what they claimed.

00:21:34.220 They made it seem like you'd just be walking on the street and, oh, I got AIDS. But that was never

00:21:40.940 the case. Yes, it's theoretically possible to contract HIV other ways. There may be a small,

00:21:50.200 small portion of people that have contracted heterosexual non-drug users who've contracted AIDS.

00:21:55.600 Very, very small. Vast majority of HIV transmission was at the time, has always been, and still is,

00:22:03.960 among gay men in particular, and then second place would be intravenous drug users.

00:22:09.880 And what the messaging on HIV should have always been is that if you're not participating in gay

00:22:16.640 sex and if you're not an intravenous drug user, you really don't need to worry about this. I mean,

00:22:20.860 the list of things you should worry, there's going to be about 5,000 other things that make the list

00:22:27.320 before you get to AIDS. Because that's just the truth. And the people who are participating in the 0.97

00:22:33.460 high-risk activity ought to know that it's a high-risk activity. And if you're going around

00:22:40.040 having random gay sex with a bunch of different men, the fact that this activity puts you uniquely, 0.71

00:22:49.080 makes you uniquely vulnerable to things like HIV and now monkeypox, that's a fact you should know.

00:22:54.500 And then maybe it'll make you stop and think like, oh, wait a second. This is,

00:22:59.800 maybe this is risky. Maybe this is dangerous. Maybe I shouldn't be doing this.

00:23:04.160 Chad Felix Green, writer for The Federalist, has screenshots that he posted to Twitter a couple

00:23:09.020 days ago of just, this is one guy talking about how he contracted monkeypox. And the user goes by the

00:23:19.080 username, BabeThePigBoy. So we kind of know what we're about to get into here. He's a pig. I mean,

00:23:24.880 by his own, by his own labeling. And the story is disgusting and graphic, but I think it's worth

00:23:31.120 reading. So he says, hi, so I have monkeypox. Not fishing for any sort of sympathy, but since I'm

00:23:36.580 already known for being pretty unabashed on the internet, I figured I'd give it an honest account

00:23:40.160 of how I got it and how my symptoms manifested to hopefully educate anyone curious. So strap in.

00:23:48.860 I finally got back into the swing of things and attended a friend's birthday orgy.

00:23:55.180 That's just, let's go. Hopping right into it. So I attended a friend's birthday orgy.

00:24:00.000 The fact that he says that with no explanation, like that's a normal thing that we would all,

00:24:05.540 oh, well, birthday orgy, of course. But you know, like people do on their birthdays, they have orgies.

00:24:11.540 Then when you get back into the swing of that, you know, I'm getting warmed up a little bit,

00:24:14.480 attend a couple of orgies here and there. So I finally got back into the swing of things and

00:24:19.460 attended a friend's birthday orgy, Saturday the 9th. I'd been watching the news on monkeypox,

00:24:24.460 but the general feelings on it really were and still are developing by the day. So I nor anyone else

00:24:29.300 was especially worried, especially since there have only been two confirmed cases in the entire

00:24:34.100 county. And the host of that group was a good friend and a nurse. So I trusted their judgment

00:24:38.760 in still having the event happen. Oh, that's good. That's good news, right? This is a medical

00:24:44.480 professional who's having a birthday orgy. It was a great time. I think I came into sexual contact

00:24:51.480 with somewhere in the ballpark of 15 to 20 different men. So I attend the orgy, have a great time.

00:24:58.520 Um, I don't even know if I can read this next part, but let's just say that he

00:25:02.440 is saying that he consumed a large amount of human waste product. Um, and then he continues and he

00:25:11.640 went home drunk and, uh, et cetera, et cetera. And then the next day he had sex with some more guys.

00:25:18.520 Um, and then he got monkeypox. Wow. Who could have guessed who could have guessed after all that,

00:25:25.020 that you'd come down with a disease. I mean, this is at least he, at least he gave us permission not

00:25:28.900 to have sympathy for him because, uh, don't worry, babe, the pig boy, I have zero sympathy for you

00:25:34.180 whatsoever, but we're on the same page there. So that's good. And then he ends up by saying my two

00:25:40.620 cents. It's reductive to tell gay people to not have sex. It didn't work in the early days of AIDS.

00:25:45.400 And clearly it's not working now, but do your best to make educated choices. Check your county's

00:25:50.140 case numbers frequently. And if you can avoid groups and anonymous encounters, check the case

00:25:54.700 numbers before heading out to that orgy or you drink human waste product. Um, yeah, just, you know,

00:25:59.820 before you go out and drink the urine of, uh, 15 different men, just check the case numbers,

00:26:04.700 be, be responsible about it. He says this whole idea that it doesn't work. It doesn't work to tell

00:26:11.760 people. What do you mean it doesn't work? No, no, no, no, uh, uh, whatever you got, whatever your

00:26:18.700 name is, babe, the pig boy. In fact, it does work like to refrain from that activity. It does work.

00:26:26.980 Actually, if you refrain from all the activities that you just described, um, it is, it will very

00:26:32.440 effectively shield you from any number of diseases, including monkeypox and a bunch of other diseases

00:26:38.120 that I'm sure you probably have. So it definitely works. What you're saying is that it doesn't work

00:26:45.620 when someone tells you to control yourself, but no, no, that's, that's not something not working.

00:26:52.520 It's not like the plan. There's no problem with the plan. It's a good plan. Um, the plan is like,

00:26:59.300 don't behave like an animal. Okay. And going out and having sex with 20 random people and then more

00:27:04.240 people the next day, you're behaving like an animal. That's not, it's not even human behavior.

00:27:09.580 So that's the plan. And if you are, if you have an issue with the plan, that that's,

00:27:15.380 that's a problem with you. That's a character problem and a really severe one actually.

00:27:22.360 So there are a lot of stories like this. And we know actually that, um, the, this monkeypox,

00:27:28.700 this current outbreak can be traced back to gay bath houses and orgies in Europe. 0.97

00:27:35.580 And the fact that this all took hold, especially during pride month is not a coincidence either. 0.97

00:27:43.420 Um, now it's true that anyone who attends orgies or has sex with a bunch of random strangers is

00:27:52.920 vulnerable. But the other fact that even fewer people want to say is that this kind of behavior

00:28:01.120 is more common in the gay community than it is among straight people. It just is. Okay. 0.98

00:28:08.120 Straight people aren't going to orgies. They're, they're not like, I've never known. I've never,

00:28:15.760 I've never encountered a heterosexual person who's been to an orgy.

00:28:19.720 And you know why it's, it's almost by definition. If you're straight, then you don't want to be 1.00

00:28:26.380 sexually involved with a group of people that will inevitably include other men. So just like

00:28:32.160 by definition, if you're a straight person, you're not going to orgies. And that's same for straight

00:28:37.160 women. But here's the thing. If you, if you want to pretend that gay and straight people are equally 0.94

00:28:45.860 as likely to attend orgies and equally as likely to have random sex with multiple strangers in the

00:28:51.640 same day. Okay. If you want to pretend and you are pretending, but let's pretend for a moment.

00:28:57.360 Um, fine, actually. Then can we just agree to condemn all such behavior by all people? I'm fine

00:29:04.920 with that compromise. Babe, the pig boy here is a, is a gay man who was at a gay orgy. But if, 0.85

00:29:11.680 if he had been a straight man or straight woman at an orgy doing all the things he said there,

00:29:18.420 then I would condemn it just as much. Absolutely. And I would also say this is animalistic, like

00:29:23.820 barbaric, savage behavior. You're, it's, it's, you're not acting, acting like a, like a decent

00:29:32.380 civilized human being. So gay or straight, I would absolutely say this. If, if that's the compromise 0.79

00:29:37.040 we can arrive at which we can arrive, then I am, uh, then I'm fine with that. Is that what we're

00:29:43.240 doing now? Can we just condemn across the board, all reckless sexual activity, any form of having

00:29:51.700 sex with strangers, especially in groups, but, but even individually one at a time, like whether

00:29:56.760 you're having your orgy all at once or in succession with, with a bunch of different random strangers,

00:30:02.560 you know, at different points in the same weekend or same month or whatever, however, you're doing it,

00:30:06.140 you shouldn't be. I'm fine with that message. And I'm fine with going even farther than that,

00:30:13.240 which I think we should in shaming this kind of behavior, this reckless sexual behavior,

00:30:19.060 shaming it, um, and putting the same kind of shame on it that we put on like murderers, honestly,

00:30:27.200 because it is, it's, it is nearly murderous behavior. You know, you're doing this and you

00:30:34.440 could be spreading diseases. You could be killing people. And it's like, you just don't care because

00:30:38.780 you want to get your, you know, you want to have your fun. It is hyper, uh, selfish, narcissistic,

00:30:51.500 nihilistic, destructive behavior. And if we can heap shame and scorn on it, on anyone who engages in

00:31:00.400 this kind of stuff, good, good with me. Absolutely. All right. Um, the, uh, University of Kentucky

00:31:09.100 swimmer, Riley Gaines has been speaking out about, this is according to Daily Wire, by the way,

00:31:16.300 speaking out about University of Pennsylvania swimmer, Leah Thomas, a biological male,

00:31:19.920 and stated that, uh, when the college women competed against Thomas at the NCAA, uh, championships,

00:31:26.420 they were not forewarned that Thomas will be sharing the locker room with them and undressing

00:31:31.400 in front of them. So Gaines spoke with Tucker Carlson, um, and was talking about at first,

00:31:36.920 just the atmosphere at the championships, which happened at Georgia tech a couple of months ago.

00:31:42.560 She said, um, she said people just weren't talking about it. And so we get to the NCAAs and it was at

00:31:48.940 Georgia tech. And so we get there and the environment is nothing like I've ever seen before. It was so

00:31:52.680 almost edgy. Like people didn't really know what to say, who to say, what to, or how to feel.

00:31:58.380 And from here, we'll go to the clip where she tells the rest of the story and what happened

00:32:01.800 at the event and especially in the locker rooms. Let's listen to that.

00:32:05.600 And then that night we watched Leah Thomas win a national title and blow all the other females 1.00

00:32:10.440 completely out of the water. And that next day we came back and the mood had shifted to where

00:32:15.920 people were mad. Um, the girls, you know, there were tears, um, these poor ninth and 17th place

00:32:22.440 finishers who missed out on being named an all American. Um, there's extreme discomfort in the

00:32:27.260 locker room. There's, you know, kind of these grumbles. Is he wandering around the women's locker

00:32:32.420 room? Yeah. When, and that's not something, you know, we were forewarned about, which I don't think

00:32:38.340 is right in any means. Um, changing in a locker room with someone who has different parts.

00:32:44.180 Um, they just set a dude loose in your locker room and didn't tell you exactly. And so I feel

00:32:49.780 like to have that kind of forced upon us. So not only were we, you know, forced to race against a

00:32:56.360 male, we were forced to, to change in the locker room with one. And so it's just this feeling of

00:33:03.060 like, what is happening? Like, honestly, like, is this really happening? Like, this is crazy.

00:33:09.680 Uh, so there's a story that she tells there. And again, that's a Riley Gaines who should be

00:33:18.340 commended first of all, for her courage and speaking out about this and the story she tells

00:33:22.620 about the locker room, that to me is by far the, the bigger scandal. Um, the, the, the more

00:33:29.300 important aspect of this whole story of, of, of Leah Thomas and men in general invading women's 0.51

00:33:34.860 sports, um, the fact that they're forced into the pool with, with a man and, and the man is stealing

00:33:41.060 medals and opportunities and all that, that of course is terrible and insane. But even worse is

00:33:47.720 that they're made to share the locker room with the guy, just having their privacy and their dignity

00:33:54.540 really taken from them. And yet that very often is treated like, um, you know, like not,

00:34:03.780 not as much of a concern as what's happening in the pool, what's happening with, with sports.

00:34:08.840 And that was one thing that stuck with me. I thought was interesting when in, uh, my film,

00:34:13.900 what is a woman, when we talked to one of Leah Thomas's teammates and, uh, I asked her about 1.00

00:34:20.120 the locker room situation. It was the same kind of thing. Yeah. Thomas is in the locker room. He's

00:34:25.820 getting changed. And same thing. She said, there's like no conversation about it. No discussion

00:34:30.240 about that. Even when they brought in, when, uh, when University of Pennsylvania brought in the LGBT 0.99

00:34:36.580 activists and counselors to lecture the women and tell them that, Hey, if you've got a problem with 1.00

00:34:42.080 this, you need to go seek counseling. No, the guy who's claiming to be a woman and, you know, wearing

00:34:49.260 the one piece bathing suit, he doesn't need to see a counselor. You do, if you have an issue with it.

00:34:53.420 But even then the, the locker room part of it wasn't even talked about. She said, in fact, that,

00:35:01.540 um, you know, the other women on the team, most of them didn't want to say anything at all because 0.99

00:35:06.560 they were afraid of the backlash. But even the women who did speak out, uh, they, they were focused

00:35:13.340 on the sport part of it and not the locker rooms, which I just thought was, was interesting.

00:35:19.380 There's another point I want to make too, which is when you hear a story like this,

00:35:24.800 these men going to women's locker rooms, we talk about it so much,

00:35:28.840 but you very often hear from people on the right that, Hey, you know, the women who are, 1.00

00:35:37.000 who are subjected to this, it's up to them to speak out. And if they're not going to speak out,

00:35:42.060 then I'm washing my hands of it. There's nothing I can do. You know, sort of putting the onus on the

00:35:46.720 women, on the girls who are in these situations to say something about it. And I agree that we do

00:35:53.140 need to call on everyone to have courage. And the closer you are to a situation like this,

00:35:58.400 um, the more of a responsibility you have to speak out. But it just seems really cowardly to me on the

00:36:04.400 part of some conservatives to say, I'm not going to say anything about it. The women aren't pro that 1.00

00:36:07.260 this is on them, especially as a man, right? If you're a man, you should be, you should have a

00:36:14.380 drive to protect women, like to, to put it on a bunch of college girls to stand up against the 0.99

00:36:20.640 guys that are going into the locker rooms. What kind of man are you? Is that, would that be your

00:36:26.920 attitude? If you were actually in a place and, uh, you saw a man about to walk into a, there was a man

00:36:33.460 about to walk into a woman's locker room. Would you say, well, that's up to the women in there to 1.00

00:36:37.260 figure it out. Not me. But if your daughter or your wife is in there, would you say, well, they're

00:36:41.560 going to have to, they got to stand up for themselves. I certainly hope not. I hope you

00:36:46.360 would realize that it's your responsibility as a man to step up. Yes, men should protect women. I

00:36:53.680 understand that that is, um, considered an outmoded way of thinking, but I don't care.

00:37:00.460 That's the reality. It's the truth.

00:37:05.020 So no, I'm not just going to, I'm not just going to leave it to girls in college and in high school

00:37:09.800 to be the ones to fight this thing out.

00:37:14.900 Well, they don't do it. Then, uh, nothing I can do. That to me is a lame excuse.

00:37:21.780 All right. Here's a fascinating poll, um, highlighted by Michael Moynihan of Vice News.

00:37:27.920 And, but this is a poll from 1997.

00:37:32.640 And so this is when I was in like fifth or sixth grade. Um, and this is what the polling data on

00:37:38.140 race relations said back in 1997. The article says nearly nine out of 10 black teenagers said racism

00:37:45.960 has little impact on their day-to-day lives. According to a time CNN poll released on Sunday,

00:37:51.420 the survey also found more than half of all teenagers, 62% of blacks, 58 whites believe

00:37:56.400 racism is a big problem. Asked about racism in their own lives, 89% of black teenagers said racism

00:38:02.460 was a small problem or not a problem at all. Now you see that. And at first it's kind of shocking

00:38:10.680 because it's unthinkable that a poll like that would have similar results today. You just, you can't

00:38:18.240 imagine a poll of black teenagers, 2022, and it comes back that 90% are saying that racism is not a

00:38:26.240 problem. We're only a small problem in their day-to-day life. Yet for those of us who lived through the

00:38:31.560 nineties, it's actually not surprising at all because race was not an issue in the nineties

00:38:36.760 like it is now. I'm not saying it was perfect. Okay. And I made this point on Twitter and there

00:38:42.480 are a lot of people that responded and said, Whoa, what are you talking about? What about the Rodney

00:38:45.140 King riots? And what about OJ and all this? Yes, all that happened. We're not saying that it was

00:38:50.880 perfect, that there was perfect harmony, that we were living in a, in a post-racial utopia. No one is 0.76

00:38:55.440 saying that that's never going to happen. It's impossible. Um, what I'm saying is that in the

00:39:01.220 nineties, that's when we got the closest to racial harmony that we've ever been. And we've been going

00:39:10.400 backwards ever since, which isn't to say that it was perfect, but we got as close as we're going to

00:39:15.260 get. Nine out of 10 black teenagers in the nineties saying that racism does not affect their daily

00:39:20.120 lives. That proves the point. And again, doesn't surprise me because I was a kid in the nineties and

00:39:26.920 I can remember that it just was just was not, it's not that race never came up, but it wasn't this

00:39:31.940 overriding concern. It wasn't suffocating everyone. And you could tell jokes and there were, you know,

00:39:40.100 and you could just kind of live your life and you didn't have racial issues constantly shoved down

00:39:47.560 your throat. And there was not this focus even in the school systems on convincing kids. You know,

00:39:59.480 if you're a black kid, well, convincing them that you're oppressed, you're a victim. There was a little

00:40:04.340 bit of that, not nearly like there is today. There wasn't nearly as much white guilt foisted on the white

00:40:11.320 kids. If you're a white person, then you're a automatically a racist. You have to beg forgiveness

00:40:17.440 for what your ancestors allegedly did. So compare that to today. I couldn't find this exact question

00:40:24.620 asked in the last year or two, but you could piece it together from other questions. There was a Gallup

00:40:28.680 poll in 2021 showing how many black versus white Americans say that race relations are good,

00:40:35.500 either somewhat or very, you know, only 33% of black said that we have good race relations in

00:40:42.060 America in 2021, 43% of whites. In 2001, that number was 70% for blacks, 62% for white.

00:40:52.180 So 20 years ago, black people in this country, according to the polling, had a better view of

00:40:57.680 race relations than even white people did. But a majority of everyone agreed that race relations are

00:41:02.340 pretty good. And there was another question, is racism widespread? This is now 2021.

00:41:10.420 84% of black adults said, yes, it is. 59% of white. So 90% of black teens in the 90s said racism had

00:41:19.120 little or to no impact on their daily lives, which means we can assume that they didn't think that it

00:41:25.180 was widespread. If it doesn't have any impact on your day-to-day life, then it's not as widespread.

00:41:28.960 But now nearly as many black Americans say that it's a widespread problem. What this means is that

00:41:34.440 those, you know, we're talking about black teenagers versus black adults.

00:41:38.620 So those teenagers growing up in the 90s said, well, you know, it's not that big of a deal.

00:41:41.940 It doesn't affect my everyday life. Since then, they've been convinced otherwise.

00:41:48.660 And that's because there has been a concerted effort on the left to destroy all of the progress that had

00:41:59.780 been made and to take us backwards. They realize that racial strife and disharmony is better for them, 1.00

00:42:10.400 easier to exploit. All right. What else we got here? Here's one quick thing before we

00:42:18.640 get to the comment section from the Daily Wire. It says, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones issued an

00:42:23.300 apology on Tuesday after using what has been dubbed the M word. That's M. M as in Mary or as in midget, 0.98

00:42:31.980 but you can't, that's what you can't say anymore, to refer to little people during a tribute to a

00:42:35.400 team executive who recently died. The remark drew the criticism of many, including a call for a public

00:42:40.160 apology from the little people of America. Jones did apologize. He said, earlier today, I made a 0.83

00:42:45.620 reference, which I understand may have been viewed as offensive. I apologize. Jones made the

00:42:49.560 controversial references while sharing memories about former Cowboys scouting director Larry

00:42:53.900 Lacewell, who served during the team's three Super Bowl wins in the 90s. And Jones said, quote,

00:43:00.620 I'm going to get me somebody, a midget, to stand up there with me and dress him up like Lace and think 1.00

00:43:05.720 Lace is still out there helping at practice with us. Okay. So I don't know. So was Lace a midget then? 1.00

00:43:12.100 I don't know. I don't quite understand. But he, but he said, he said midget and that's, and he has to

00:43:15.980 apologize for that. What is, what term are you supposed to use? That's the other thing I'm wondering

00:43:20.100 as I look at this. I guess little people, little people, is that, I'm being told in my ear? I, see, I

00:43:28.000 don't, first of all, I don't understand. How is that less, little person? How is that less offensive than

00:43:35.180 midget? Doesn't little person sounds kind of like, doesn't little person sound patronizing?

00:43:42.640 You're saying to the midget, oh, look at that little person. To me, that seems more offensive.

00:43:49.800 That makes me uncomfortable saying that. And so I'm going to say midget. 1.00

00:43:54.860 And you know, because it's me speaking, I get to decide what I say. I get, see, when I speak,

00:44:00.220 I speak based in, and I use the words that make sense to me and that I'm comfortable using.

00:44:06.980 And I know the response is, well, but these other people aren't comfortable with it. Okay,

00:44:09.600 but they're not the ones talking. I am. You can use whatever words you want. I'm not going to use

00:44:15.720 that word because it just seems weird to me. And no one has explained like what exactly is wrong

00:44:20.620 with midget. What is, what, what, what is, what's the inherent quality of the word midget that makes

00:44:26.020 it offensive? Can you explain, anyone explain it to me? It's just been decided randomly because

00:44:31.980 this is what, this is what they do. This is part of, this is what the PC police do. This is one of

00:44:35.120 their, this is one of their, um, this is their MO. It's just to go along and kind of like just randomly

00:44:40.320 change the labels for things. Oh, that label doesn't work anymore. That's expired. It's past

00:44:45.240 its expiration date. We got a new label now that we use, but why? What makes it expire? Well, it just

00:44:49.700 is, that's it. Sorry, not going to do it. Can't do it. Uh, let's get to the comment section.

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00:46:22.000 you. Tie My Shoes says, Matt claims to defend the family while in the past criticizing Olive Garden.

00:46:28.220 Does he not know that when you're here, you're family? Well, you're family in the same way that

00:46:33.600 Cinderella, I guess, was family to her stepmom because that's how they treat you at Olive Garden.

00:46:38.560 They treat you terribly. The service is bad. Everyone's surly in a bad mood. They send you

00:46:45.780 off to some table that's not even clean. Last time I went to Olive Garden, I sat down at the

00:46:50.500 table. It was filthy. I said, could someone clean the table? Why don't you clean it? They tossed me a

00:46:55.540 mop and a bucket. Somebody said, while you're at it, go back in the kitchen. We need some help back

00:47:00.120 there too. Let's see. Yoda says, Matt, what do you think of men cross-dressing for Halloween?

00:47:10.900 Looking forward to seeing you with blush cheeks and nine-inch heels this October 31st.

00:47:15.920 Cheers and sweet baby gang for life. Well, obviously you're banned from the show for that,

00:47:19.900 even asking the question. I take issue with the premise of the question. Men shouldn't be doing 1.00

00:47:25.380 anything on Halloween at all. Men should not be dressing up. You shouldn't be going to Halloween

00:47:29.840 parties. You stay home. Kids knock on the door and ask for candy. Then you open the door and you

00:47:37.080 give out candy. That's all you do. That's what grown men should be doing on Halloween.

00:47:42.240 Another comment says, Matt, after your response to Carlson's marriage and life advice yesterday,

00:47:46.240 the comment section seemed overwhelmed with comments from young men who feel marriage is not worth it due

00:47:50.980 to a combination of terrible family court laws. The majority of divorce is being initiated by the

00:47:55.780 woman and the quality of women generally. This seems to be a common sentiment among young men on

00:48:00.160 the right, and I've rarely heard it addressed. I'm concerned that we will not get very far without

00:48:03.880 strong families. Could you please give us your thoughts on their concerns? Thank you.

00:48:08.700 Well, I'd say a couple of things. First, the concern is not baseless, right? It's not unreasonable.

00:48:13.240 It's true that the family courts are stacked against men. It's true that there are a lot of low-quality 0.77

00:48:16.700 women out there. There are also a lot of low-quality men. I would say that it's about equal, 0.89

00:48:20.720 as far as that goes. And that brings me to the point, which is, what's your other option if not

00:48:28.300 marriage? So I may agree with you that these concerns are valid, but then what? You stay away

00:48:40.740 from marriage because you don't want to get hurt, and then what do you do? Are you going to run off to

00:48:45.320 the woods and become a hermit fishing and hunting and writing the next great American novel?

00:48:49.520 If so, more power to you. That sounds like a great plan. I wouldn't just try to dissuade you at all.

00:48:54.300 Go do that. Are you going to live a life of celibacy, become a monk or something, enter the

00:49:00.740 religious life? Again, more power to you. But that is not what most men are doing. Most of the men who

00:49:07.380 lodge this complaint are not going off to the woods to be hermits. They're not entering religious life

00:49:13.380 and becoming celibate. So what do they do? They are not availing themselves of either option.

00:49:21.400 And they're still normal men who desire the companionship of a woman. That's a normal

00:49:25.760 male desire. It's a good thing. And so if they're not going to get work towards marriage, they end up 0.63

00:49:33.500 watching a lot of porn, maybe having random hookups where they can get them. But mainly it's the porn.

00:49:42.300 You see the problem? Now you've become exactly the kind of low-quality person that you're worried

00:49:48.840 about. You're exactly the kind of low-quality person that you're accusing the women of being 1.00

00:49:53.820 and saying, this is the whole reason I can't. So you're part of the problem. And though you've

00:49:59.380 avoided the potential heartache of divorce, instead you've guaranteed a life of loneliness,

00:50:05.520 rejection, isolation, and all the rest of it. So yeah, if you go out and you get married,

00:50:12.420 or you even, first you have to, it's not like you just walk outside and say, okay, I'm married.

00:50:17.460 You got to find someone. You got to go through the whole process. And there are many ways it could go

00:50:20.660 wrong. And there are many ways you can get your heart broken. And if things go really, really badly,

00:50:25.860 it could destroy your whole life. That's true. That's the possibility. That's the potential.

00:50:32.660 That's the risk. There is risk involved. And because you're worried about that risk,

00:50:38.080 you're worried about that possibility, you embrace what is guaranteed to be a miserable,

00:50:45.140 lonely life. It doesn't make any sense to me.

00:50:50.660 And why are you embracing it? You're embracing it out of fear, out of anxiety,

00:50:54.960 you know, because of the possibility that things could go wrong. That's no way to live.

00:51:00.880 You can't live that way. You can't make your decisions that way.

00:51:06.140 Especially such fundamental decisions, such fundamental life decisions cannot be made

00:51:11.500 based on fear, which is what you're talking about, right?

00:51:14.240 It's not like there are no good women out there.

00:51:20.120 I can tell you they exist. I'm married to one. And she's not the only one. I didn't take the only

00:51:27.300 one. And now they're all off the market. There are plenty of good women out there, 1.00

00:51:31.120 just like there are plenty of good men. The fact that there are a lot of low quality people in

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00:51:41.340 that problem or be part of the solution? And are you going to take the risk and shoot for a

00:51:49.640 happy, fulfilled life? Or are you going to give up on it before you've even tried?

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00:52:55.180 We end today with something rather exciting. It's not often that I'm out ahead of the progressive

00:53:05.640 curve. I rarely get somewhere before the woke bandwagon arrives. But that seems to be the case

00:53:11.240 this time. There is this week controversy and outrage over the Netflix reality show Love is Blind.

00:53:17.480 Now for those with IQs above 75 that have prevented you from watching a show like this,

00:53:21.400 the basic premise as I understand it is that contestants are locked in isolation pods where

00:53:26.560 they meet other contestants by talking to them through a wall. And they then, I guess, select

00:53:31.080 which disembodied voice they like the most. They talk some more to that person. Then they get engaged

00:53:36.140 before the big reveal where they actually meet in person. At which point they're instructed to fight

00:53:41.000 to the death with their bare hands. Now that would actually be a much better show. In this one,

00:53:45.860 they instead get married. And then as soon as the cameras turn off, they get divorced. A true 0.99

00:53:50.640 fairy tale romance. Now there have actually been multiple controversies around this show recently.

00:53:56.560 The first is a lawsuit from a contestant on an earlier season because they've done multiple

00:54:01.140 seasons of this show because that's the sort of interest there is in this content because we're

00:54:05.100 surrounded by morons. And the contestant alleges that producers starved him, deprived him of sleep,

00:54:10.900 and forced him to get drunk. All of which makes the show sound way more entertaining than it actually

00:54:15.660 is. But that's not the controversy that matters here. The bigger outrage is over the fact that the

00:54:19.960 show only features physically attractive people. I'm proud to say that I spearheaded this woke

00:54:24.840 backlash in a YouTube video we put out at the beginning of the month where I reacted to reality

00:54:28.840 show trailers, including one for Love is Blind. That was the first I'd ever heard of Love is Blind.

00:54:32.840 And upon seeing the commercial, I immediately pointed out this glaring flaw in the plot. Everyone on the

00:54:38.060 show appears to be like a solid seven or eight. And this means there is nothing at stake,

00:54:42.760 nothing on the line. All the contestants end up with attractive people. To give the show some

00:54:47.060 suspense, some comedy, some tragedy, you need to throw a few Michael Moores into the mix.

00:54:53.440 There should be a scene where a highly attractive woman falls in love with a man behind the wall, 1.00

00:54:58.040 gets engaged, and the big reveal happens, and she recoils in horror when a character from the

00:55:04.020 Star Wars bar scene walks out. Now that would be great television, matching supermodels with 1.00

00:55:10.320 Ripley's believe it or not displays. I would sit down and watch a show like that. I would take the

00:55:15.560 hit to my IQ to watch that show. Admittedly, the woke criticism of Love is Blind is not quite the

00:55:21.440 same. Both me and the left are upset that there are not ugly people on the show, but they're upset for

00:55:26.020 a slightly different reason. For them, the problem is the lack of body diversity and inclusion on the

00:55:31.860 show. The backlash became severe enough that one of the show's hosts, Vanessa Lachey, who I assume is 0.95

00:55:38.080 married to the guy from whatever, Backstreet Boys, addressed it in an interview with Insider, claiming

00:55:42.760 that there are no fat or ugly people on the show because they're simply too insecure to appear.

00:55:48.760 It was like self-selection, she said. But the mob isn't buying that excuse. BuzzFeed took her to task

00:55:55.060 saying, and this is what they wrote in their article, if you've watched Love is Blind, you've probably

00:55:59.040 definitely noticed that the group of contestants who make it to air don't reflect body diversity

00:56:03.620 like at all. In a recent interview with Insider, Vanessa tried to explain why the show doesn't

00:56:08.540 embrace body diversity in any real way. Her answer was, not great. In response to being asked about

00:56:14.800 the show's lack of body diversity, Vanessa says she sometimes thinks certain contestants don't make

00:56:20.220 it past the pods portion of the show because they can't fit inside of it. That's actually not what

00:56:26.160 she said. Because they're insecure. So if I'm reading this right, Vanessa's reason why the show

00:56:33.040 doesn't include diverse bodies in its cast is because some contestants are simply too insecure

00:56:37.740 about their bodies to appear on the show. Something tells me we might be getting a clarification for

00:56:42.100 Vanessa in the future regarding her comments. Or maybe not. Either way, we'll see if Love is Blind

00:56:46.620 goes in more diverse directions casting-wise when it returns for its third season. Time will tell.

00:56:51.700 Well, if nothing else, we can agree that BuzzFeed continues to feature great writing and important

00:56:57.040 journalism. Huffington Post isn't buying Vanessa's excuse either. They write, 1.00

00:57:01.640 Love is Blind has yet to prominently feature a contestant who is plus size, visibly disabled,

00:57:05.540 or older than 40, which seems odd since the concept of the show is to fall in love with someone's

00:57:10.820 personality rather than their physical appearance. Now, of course, the real reason that the show only has

00:57:18.420 attractive people, the reason that most shows only feature attractive people, this current show that

00:57:23.780 you're watching is an exception, the reason is that viewers prefer to watch attractive people. Hence

00:57:30.040 the term attractive. This is doubly the case if the show revolves around love and romance. People may

00:57:36.160 watch a show like My 600-lb Life, but they probably wouldn't watch My 600-lb Wedding. Well, they might watch

00:57:43.420 that, but for very different reasons than they watch the typical reality dating show. And that's about all that

00:57:47.900 needs to be said about this. But I'll say more anyway, because there's one more point I think

00:57:52.380 that needs to be made. Huffington Post says that the point of the show is for people to fall in love

00:57:58.000 with personality rather than physical appearance. But the idea that you can love somebody for their

00:58:03.260 personality totally apart from their appearance is a myth, okay? It's a popular myth. It's one that my

00:58:08.620 generation in particular was fed early and often, but it's a myth. Of course, you shouldn't and really

00:58:14.920 can't love somebody entirely for their looks, but their looks are an important part of the package.

00:58:20.080 It's part of who they are. It's what draws you to someone, especially early in the relationship.

00:58:24.760 But even as you grow together and you get to know each other on a deeper level, still their appearance,

00:58:29.860 their body, their physical look and presence will remain extremely important. Your body is not just

00:58:35.480 some sort of meaningless shell which contains your personality and your truer essence. Your body is who you

00:58:42.400 are. You're more than your physical body, okay? You're not merely your physical body, but you are

00:58:47.920 also your body. It really is not possible, therefore, to love someone and not love their body because their

00:58:56.400 body is them. This distinction between looks and personality doesn't even make sense. Your personality

00:59:02.160 is what makes you as a person different from other people. That includes your body, your face,

00:59:10.060 your physical appearance and mannerisms. All of that is part of your personality because it's part

00:59:14.420 of your person. It's what makes you, you and not somebody else. This is actually an important point

00:59:21.300 for two reasons, neither of which have anything to do with reality shows. The first is that people who

00:59:25.060 really buy into this appearance doesn't matter idea are more likely to get married and then completely 1.00

00:59:30.300 let themselves go, transforming very quickly into a physical specimen quite different from the one that

00:59:36.060 their spouse married. Now, obviously, we all change over time gradually as we get older, but we still

00:59:41.440 have a responsibility in a marriage to take care of ourselves. We should want to be physically

00:59:46.860 attractive to our spouses. It's quite selfish to throw that all to the wind and gorge ourselves with

00:59:52.900 abandon. The second and deeper point is that our culture is constantly trying to separate the body

00:59:59.640 from the person as if these are two distinct things. In its most extreme iteration, of course,

01:00:06.620 we're told that a person with a man's body can still be a woman, and we're told straight men can

01:00:12.460 and should date these trans women because though they have the physical appearance of men, they're 1.00

01:00:17.620 really women deep inside. But this is incoherent. As straight men, we're attracted to women, not just for

01:00:24.920 their bodies, but their bodies are certainly a significant appeal. It wouldn't make any sense at all.

01:00:28.960 It would be totally unintelligible to say that you're attracted to women, but you're neutral about

01:00:33.480 their bodies. Their bodies are what make them women. For all of us, our bodies are what make us

01:00:40.660 who we are. I think this conversation has certainly gotten more esoteric than was necessary for discussion

01:00:47.460 about a Netflix dating show, but I just go wherever the path takes me. And now it takes me to a place

01:00:53.220 where I must say that Love is Blind is not canceled. It's the critics of Love is Blind that are

01:00:58.940 canceled. And that'll do it for us today. I'll talk to you actually on Monday. There will be no

01:01:04.620 show tomorrow, but this time it's not my fault. The whole company is closing down tomorrow, so

01:01:08.960 everybody's off tomorrow. It's not just me, just so you know. And I'll talk to you on Monday. Have a

01:01:14.180 great day. Godspeed.

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