The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 998 - 'Gender Identity' Is Narcissism By Another Name

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a gender specialist is caught on tape admitting that girls as young

00:00:04.900 as 12 are having their breasts chopped off. And one seemingly absurd and unimportant headline

00:00:09.560 in the news today only further reveals the brutality and insanity of this practice. I'll

00:00:13.600 explain. Also, voters in Kansas vote to protect the so-called constitutional right to abortion.

00:00:18.940 How could this have happened in Kansas, of all places? We'll discuss. Whoopi Goldberg laments

00:00:23.060 that college graduates are starving to death because of their student loans. If that's true,

00:00:27.060 doesn't it only further prove that college is a terrible investment? Plus, the LA Times promotes

00:00:31.320 Death with Dignity, also known as Suicide. The latest superhero film is so bad that the studio

00:00:36.160 refuses to even release it. And in our daily cancellation, I respond to continued attacks

00:00:40.220 from a conservative gun rights activist who claims that I'm hurting the conservative movement more

00:00:44.660 than helping. Is he right? We'll talk about that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:57.060 Roe v. Wade has been overturned and this battle is now finally leaving D.C. and going to the

00:01:03.360 grassroots. No group in America is better positioned than 40 Days for Life to fight this battle with

00:01:08.280 about one million volunteers in a thousand cities. They hold peaceful vigils outside abortion facilities

00:01:12.460 and they have a larger presence in blue states where they're most needed, California being their

00:01:16.440 largest state of all. Some former abortion facility directors say that these vigils can cause the

00:01:20.720 abortion no-show rate to go as high as 75 percent, which of course is detrimental to their abortion

00:01:26.500 business. These law-abiding vigils have closed many abortion businesses in America and nearly half of

00:01:31.580 them were in liberal cities like San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle, which are hardly pro-life areas.

00:01:37.300 40 Days for Life is effectively changing hearts and minds in the grassroots to end abortion.

00:01:41.660 You can check out their locations, podcasts, and free magazine at 40daysforlife.com.

00:01:46.900 What we have to always keep in mind is that the fight for life is not over. It continues. And in

00:01:51.920 fact, in many ways, it certainly enters a new phase now after Roe and in many ways an even more

00:01:56.920 important phase as we have this ability to so directly impact the laws governing abortion and to

00:02:03.180 save lives in the process. So for more information on 40 Days for Life, go to 40daysforlife.com.

00:02:09.040 The news hit like an avalanche yesterday. Explosive, shocking, the most significant event of the

00:02:16.280 year, of the decade, of the century. The headlines were published on CNN, NBC News, ABC News, Fox,

00:02:22.000 all over the media. It was trending on every social media platform. People all across this land were

00:02:26.360 shouting about it from the rooftops. Town criers were announcing it in village squares.

00:02:31.800 The earth-shattering news reverberated around the country and down through history and across space

00:02:37.660 and time. Demi Lovato is changing her pronouns again. As People Magazine reports, Demi Lovato is opening up

00:02:45.720 about her recent pronoun change about two months after updating her pronouns on Instagram, adding

00:02:50.440 she, her alongside the pronouns she'd been using since last year, which are they, them. Lovato recently

00:02:55.580 spoke to host Tamara Dia on the Spout podcast about what led to the decision. In response to Dia asking

00:03:02.340 Lovato to explain the concept of chosen pronouns like they, them, the 29-year-old singer-songwriter said,

00:03:08.060 yeah, so they, them is, I've actually adopted the pronouns of she, her again. Now, if that sentence

00:03:15.420 seemed to not make any sense, get ready for a bunch more sentences that also make no sense. Here is Lovato

00:03:21.120 explaining her decision in more detail. She, of course, updates her pronouns like Apple updates the

00:03:26.280 iPhone. And I mean both in terms of the frequency of the updates and the meaninglessness and redundancy

00:03:31.080 of the updates. But here she explains why, I think. I've actually adopted the pronouns of she,

00:03:38.280 her again. So for me, I'm such a fluid person that I don't really, I don't find that I am,

00:03:48.920 I felt like, especially last year, my energy was balanced and my masculine and feminine energy.

00:03:54.980 So that when I was faced with the choice of walking into a bathroom and it said women and men,

00:04:00.860 I didn't feel like there was a bathroom for me because I didn't feel necessarily like a woman.

00:04:05.520 I didn't feel like a man. I just felt like a human. And that's what they, them is about for me. It's

00:04:12.460 just about like feeling human at your core. Recently, I've been feeling more feminine.

00:04:18.120 Hmm. Well, there you have it. Yesterday, we, you know, yesterday you would have been banned on every

00:04:25.520 social media platform for calling Demi she, and now you'll be banned if you don't. That's how this

00:04:31.660 works. And she's simply getting in touch with her energy. Sometimes her energy is balanced.

00:04:36.420 Sometimes her energy tips towards the feminine. Sometimes it's masculine. Sometimes her energy is

00:04:41.980 low and she needs to plug into an outlet in the garage for a while. Now, obviously, none of this

00:04:46.800 makes any sense at all. This is about as credible as the four humors theory of medicine popular back

00:04:52.140 in like the middle ages. And back then they believed that a person's physical health, their mental

00:04:56.780 well-being, their personality were all determined by the balance of blood, bile, melancholy, and phlegm.

00:05:04.220 And those are the four humors. And that theory fell out of favor once the human body and the brain

00:05:08.960 were better understood and the existence of germs, you know, was discovered. Though they may have

00:05:14.800 actually been on to something on Second Thought as there are lots of people in our society today who

00:05:18.440 seem to be predominantly composed of bile and phlegm. And yet humorism was far more defensible

00:05:25.140 and credible at the time because it was the best available theory to explain these aspects of the

00:05:30.820 human person based on the information they had at the time. This gender identity nonsense, by contrast,

00:05:37.640 is a superstition invented and propagated contrary to all of the ample amounts of evidence that we have on

00:05:43.480 hand. We know that it's nonsense and yet it has taken over our culture all the same. Now, I call it

00:05:50.280 nonsense and it is, but that doesn't mean that I can't make sense of it. I do, in fact, understand

00:05:56.400 what Demi's trying to say. I think I understand what she's trying to say better than she does

00:06:02.120 because this is all simply narcissism. Lovato has a cornucopia of mental illnesses and various

00:06:09.300 addictions and that certainly plays a role. But mostly, this is the end result of spending nearly

00:06:15.220 every waking moment of your life thinking about yourself, obsessing over yourself, analyzing yourself,

00:06:20.260 and then analyzing your analysis of yourself. A person who adopts this, I guess, lifestyle choice

00:06:26.420 of narcissism will quickly conclude that though she can't make up her mind about anything and though

00:06:32.360 she, by her own admission, doesn't understand herself in the slightest, she is certainly,

00:06:36.320 she knows, more interesting, more nuanced, more complex, more richly and beautifully sketched

00:06:43.120 than most other people in the world. This is the fundamental narcissistic assumption that serves

00:06:48.300 as the basis for everything else when it comes to gender identity. The narcissist feels, you know,

00:06:54.020 feels a certain way, right, as we all feel different ways and, but they can't actually know whether

00:07:00.080 other people who share the same sex feel the same way, whether this is just how people feel,

00:07:07.660 but she assumes that they don't feel as she does because she is her, you know, she's not like anyone

00:07:13.860 else. Her feelings are different and meaningful and profound in ways that nobody else's are.

00:07:20.760 And so she can't make do with these sex categories that have proved sufficient for billions of humans

00:07:25.980 before her. She needs a whole new category because she is that transcendent, she tells herself,

00:07:32.080 in her deluded, ego-crazed mind. And this would all perhaps be something about which we could simply

00:07:39.740 shake our heads and laugh and then move on if it was a madness consigned to drug-addled Hollywood

00:07:46.620 weirdos. But it's not. You know, worst of all, of course, children are being recruited into sharing

00:07:53.040 in the same confusion and self-obsessed misery as Demi Lovato. And here is where the Lovato story

00:07:58.980 does in fact have some resonance and relevance. This is why it's actually not something that we can

00:08:04.340 simply dismiss. There's something important that can be learned from it. And that important thing is

00:08:08.780 this. Demi Lovato is a grown woman, technically. She is an adult, at least in the chronological sense of

00:08:15.660 the term. And yet she changes her gender identity, quote-unquote, every 45 seconds. She can't make

00:08:22.660 up her mind. What she said yesterday may not have any bearing on today. One minute her deepest truth

00:08:29.120 is that she's a non-binary pansexual shapeshifter. And the next minute her truth is something else

00:08:35.120 entirely. Now consider that kids are being drugged and mutilated, their bodies permanently altered

00:08:41.540 based on their own gender identity declarations, which are somehow even more fickle and transmutable

00:08:48.940 and fundamentally meaningless. Everything is fluid. Everything can be changed, except the bodies that

00:08:56.620 are butchered and poisoned based on whatever form of identity or expression a child has assumed at that

00:09:02.240 moment. There was a video recently that went viral which shows someone named Kellen Lackhard,

00:09:08.120 a so-called gender specialist, whatever that is, at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, admitting that in

00:09:15.660 that program, Kaiser Permanente, children as young as 12 years old have had their breasts removed.

00:09:22.260 12 years old. Listen.

00:09:23.940 Yeah, I think folks have kind of covered the blockers and hormones, but I'll talk about surgical care a

00:09:28.120 little bit. In terms of masculinizing top surgery, I think 12 is the youngest who's had surgery through

00:09:34.580 our program. And in terms of general reconstructive surgeries, we haven't had anyone under the age

00:09:41.180 of 18 have phalloplasty or londrodiplasty, but we have had a few patients starting 15, I don't think

00:09:50.460 surgery actually happened, until 16 that have had bacheloplasty. Again, girls at the age of 12,

00:09:57.080 not even in high school yet, and they're having body parts removed. We also hear that boys as young

00:10:05.540 as 16, at an age when boys in particular are renowned for being impetuous and impulsive

00:10:12.080 and unintentionally self-destructive, and yet at age 16 they're being castrated.

00:10:18.220 Demi Lovato is almost 30 years old, and she can't decide what her gender energy is telling her at any

00:10:24.320 given moment. How in God's name can we take an adolescent still over a decade away from their brain

00:10:31.280 being fully formed, how can we take them seriously when they make their own declarations?

00:10:37.380 A few days ago, the radical LGBT group Stonewall tweeted that according to quote-unquote research,

00:10:44.720 and they never do specify what the research is, of course, but just research, research shows, they say,

00:10:49.400 that children as young as two can recognize their trans identity. Two. Adults in their 20s and 30s

00:10:59.200 struggle to understand their identities, apparently, but actual babies still in diapers, sleeping in

00:11:07.160 cribs, can come to realizations that escape those approaching middle age or older.

00:11:12.580 That's the point we should take away here. And it's why we actually shouldn't simply ignore

00:11:20.300 the adult celebrities and other adults who parade around, you know, with their different identity

00:11:25.540 every other month. Far from ignoring it, we should be pointing to them. We should be putting them up

00:11:32.220 on banners saying, here, look at this. With the message, leave our kids out of this.

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00:13:08.260 another set of twins on the way, as we announced yesterday. One of the big ones is transportation.

00:13:13.560 And I mentioned that it was like a day before, a couple of days before we found out about the

00:13:21.400 pregnancy. We had just bought a new family vehicle that fits exactly six people. And then, you know,

00:13:28.160 now we're expanding to a family of eight. My wife has been, she's one of these people,

00:13:33.360 and honestly, I don't understand it, but she's not alone in this. She's just been dead set on not

00:13:37.880 getting a minivan. And she still maintains, we talked about it again last night, she still maintains

00:13:42.500 the delusion that we can avoid getting any kind of van. Look, I've never bought into the anti-van

00:13:49.200 propaganda. I don't understand it. They're incredibly convenient. They may not be, you know,

00:13:53.620 as stylish, but they are practical. And I think that they're quite handsome in their own way.

00:13:58.660 My wife is so desperate that she's wondering, she's actually suggested this, can we go to like a

00:14:03.960 chauffeur service and see if we can buy one of their old limousines? Maybe we can convert an airport

00:14:10.160 shuttle or something. Anything but an actual, you know, passenger van or minivan.

00:14:16.800 It's absurd. Look, the time has come. That's another thing that you learn. And it's a big part

00:14:22.220 of parenting too, is just acceptance, you know, and being realistic. And the time has come for the

00:14:29.440 minivan. Be still. Be not afraid. We are destined for the minivan. Now the forces of nature have spoken,

00:14:36.740 and it will be fine. It will be okay. I believe that. This is not so okay though. NBC News is

00:14:42.800 reporting this. Well, actually, this is being reported all across the media because they're

00:14:47.980 very excited about it. Primary elections in several states last night. And also some ballot initiatives.

00:14:56.720 And one in particular is getting a lot of attention. Attention is probably understating it.

00:15:01.000 The Huffington Post had, you know, if you went to their website last night, in huge block letters

00:15:06.160 across the front page, it said, earthquake, deep red Kansas protects abortion. It's an earthquake.

00:15:14.440 And then they tell us in the article, Kansans decided to keep abortion protections in their state

00:15:19.400 constitution after a Tuesday vote. A huge win for pro-choice advocates that will likely set the tone

00:15:24.600 for what's to come on abortion rights nationally. Voters in the Midwest state voted against the value

00:15:30.780 them both amendment, which was created by anti-abortion Christian groups to strip protections

00:15:35.300 for abortion care from the state's constitution. The vote, which was held during a primary election,

00:15:40.060 had a historic turnout as high as the 2008 presidential election. The amendment was created

00:15:44.780 in response to a 2019 Kansas Supreme Court decision that ruled the state's constitution fundamentally

00:15:49.680 protects abortion rights. If the value them both amendment had passed, it would have opened the door

00:15:53.860 for anti-abortion rights lawmakers to pursue a total abortion ban. Now, obviously, I'm reading for

00:15:58.100 Huffington Post, and so they're framing this a certain way. Of course, it's anti-abortion rights

00:16:04.320 on one hand, and then pro-choice on the other. We can't be pro-lifers. It's not pro-life and pro-choice.

00:16:09.460 We're anti-abortion rights, so-called. Now, I think the final vote was something like,

00:16:17.340 it was like a 60-40 split or something. It might have even been, I'm not even sure if the pro-life vote

00:16:22.360 got up to 40%. I think it was in the 30s. Now, there's no doubt, in Kansas, choosing not to,

00:16:34.680 I mean, choosing to, as the headline says, protect the so-called right to abortion in Kansas, it's a

00:16:43.900 surprise. It's also a disappointment, and it's pretty depressing. There's no way around that.

00:16:47.700 But it's not that surprising when you think about it. And you remember that the Democrats,

00:16:55.140 first of all, have certain built-in advantages, no matter how red the state is.

00:16:59.980 This isn't a rationalization. This isn't a cope. It's just true. Okay, the Democrats,

00:17:06.400 first of all, have the entire media on their side, sometimes with the exception of Fox News and

00:17:13.820 sometimes not. So there's the relentless media propagandizing that's been going on and has

00:17:21.120 always gone on on every issue, especially abortion, and in particularly, you know, since the decision

00:17:26.840 from the Supreme Court. Abortion is also a billion-dollar, a multi-billion-dollar industry.

00:17:33.120 And so there's a lot more money there when it comes to an effort like this.

00:17:40.360 And then they also have the advantage, really, of being on the side where they're exploiting fear,

00:17:51.320 right? So you've got the pro-abortion side, and when it comes to this fight in Kansas and also

00:17:56.620 nationwide, the pro-abortion side, they are, of course, lying constantly. Everything they say is a lie.

00:18:03.860 But they also, what they're doing fundamentally is exploiting people's fears.

00:18:10.380 They're saying that we're going to end up in a handmaid's tale, that women are going to be

00:18:14.920 enslaved and subjugated, and somehow, because of the Supreme Court decision, next thing you know,

00:18:23.240 interracial marriage is going to be illegal. I mean, all kinds of fears. And it doesn't make any

00:18:28.040 sense. They're just throwing everything they can against the wall to see what sticks.

00:18:33.120 And then especially on an individual level, if a woman is pregnant, then all they have for the

00:18:38.820 woman is fear, fear, fear. Here's all the horrible things that will happen. You have no choice. You

00:18:46.380 have to go get an abortion. Your life will be over if you don't. That's what the pro-abortion side is

00:18:51.800 doing. Exploiting fear. On the pro-life side, on the other hand, we're calling people to something

00:19:01.600 greater, right? Calling them to respect the dignity of human life. Calling people to virtue,

00:19:10.140 to moral rightness. That's what we have. And just, it's a reality of human nature that exploiting fear

00:19:20.980 is a lot easier to do, and it can often be much more potent, and it can often be much more effective.

00:19:27.980 It's one of the sad realities of human nature. I mean, we have goodness on our side. We have the light

00:19:38.420 of truth on our side. We have love, and dignity, and joy. We have all of that on the pro-life side.

00:19:46.840 And that is all, of course, better than what they have on the pro-abortion side. But when it comes to

00:19:54.200 motivating people, especially in mass, exploiting fear can be a lot more powerful. And so that's what

00:20:02.060 the left has found. And then there's also this, too. Keep in mind. The wording of this initiative

00:20:09.660 is pretty confusing. I mean, they really couldn't have worded it any worse, truly. So here's what the

00:20:16.660 ballot said. So when the people in Kansas went to vote, here's what the ballot said. Okay.

00:20:23.100 Because Kansans value both women and children, the Constitution of the state of Kansas does not

00:20:28.180 require government funding of abortion and does not create or secure a right to abortion.

00:20:33.000 To the extent permitted by the Constitution of the United States, the people, through their elected

00:20:37.160 state representatives and state senators, may pass laws regarding abortion, including, but not limited

00:20:41.940 to, laws that account for circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest,

00:20:46.140 or circumstances of necessity to save the life of the mother. Okay. So that was the initiative that

00:20:52.240 the Kansans were faced with yesterday. A yes vote is the pro-life vote on that. So a yes vote would say

00:21:01.240 that there is no constitutionally protected right to abortion. So in a way, a yes is a no. You're saying,

00:21:07.920 yes, there is no constitutional right to abortion.

00:21:13.460 And then if you vote no, there is a constitutionally protected right to abortion.

00:21:18.220 Now it's not too difficult to figure out how to interpret this, but it's still too difficult for

00:21:24.080 a ballot initiative. Especially when you consider that on the left, this is whether we're talking about

00:21:31.500 abortion or any other issue, along with exploiting fear, they also exploit confusion and fear and

00:21:39.020 confusion are very much related. They are, they are, you know, two sides of the same coin. They're

00:21:43.600 cousins, at least first cousins. People fear what they, what they're confused about, what they don't

00:21:49.020 understand. And this is what the left always does. They obfuscate, they confuse, they want you kind

00:21:56.900 of lost in the hazy mist where you don't know exactly which way is up and what's going on.

00:22:03.280 So I have a ballot initiative that's confusingly worded is always going to help the, the left more

00:22:10.080 than it's going to help the right. All those things together is how you end up with what happened in

00:22:14.280 Kansas. Although again, it's still a quite sad state of affairs. All right, next we'll go to the view.

00:22:23.900 Speaking of a sad state of affairs, Whoopi Goldberg has been on a roll lately with incredibly bad takes

00:22:30.460 and here's her latest on student loan forgiveness. Listen. If you have worked your behind off, you've

00:22:36.680 tried to move yourself up the ladder. You talk about people can't get gas, they can't buy food,

00:22:42.960 they can't put their children through, through any kind of college. That's because they're paying

00:22:47.680 off these freaking student debts. So here's my point about this because we hear this a lot

00:22:56.260 about why we need student loan forgiveness is because you've got all these college graduates

00:23:01.280 and they've got student loan debt and they can't afford gas, they can't afford food, they can't

00:23:07.020 afford to live. Not because of inflation. It's got nothing to do with inflation. Don't blame inflation.

00:23:11.800 Don't blame the Biden administration. Nothing to do with them. It's because of these student loan

00:23:16.540 debts. And if it wasn't for that, then they'd be able to afford all these things.

00:23:20.560 And yet, the people who make these claims that college graduates don't have, they don't have

00:23:28.520 jobs good enough to afford them the basic necessities of life, the people who make that claim will still

00:23:35.140 insist that college is a necessary and worthwhile investment. I mean, you just, if that's true,

00:23:42.280 what you just said, we've got college graduates who can't even afford food. Apparently, we're not

00:23:49.900 able to get a job with their degree that was good enough to ensure that they can survive.

00:23:58.440 Then wouldn't that, putting student loan, the student loan debt problem aside for a moment,

00:24:03.840 doesn't that show that the college degree is a really bad investment?

00:24:11.740 If you can't even, if you can't even survive, you can't get a, you can't get a survival level job

00:24:16.920 after getting the degree. But they never take it that far. They never connect those dots.

00:24:26.200 Everything, when we talk about student loans, everything they say about it would seem to indicate,

00:24:31.100 and much of what they're saying is, has at least some truth to it.

00:24:38.580 Except that there's the disconnect. Because what they're saying would really seem to indicate

00:24:44.300 that, among other things, the college degree is oftentimes a bad investment. And it's just not

00:24:51.140 working out for many people. They were sold a bill of goods. They were, that's the primary reason

00:24:59.700 people, they went to college in the first place because they were told that they go to college,

00:25:02.860 they're going to get a good job afterwards. And it hasn't played out that way.

00:25:07.560 And it hasn't been playing out that way for years for a huge number of college graduates.

00:25:13.180 So maybe that means we should reassess our, you know, habit, our strategy of funneling everybody

00:25:24.760 into college directly out of high school. Especially that part of it, the directly after high school

00:25:32.020 part. It's crazy to me that we can't at least agree on this. I know I'm never going to be able

00:25:38.840 to get most people to agree with and understand that college in general is unnecessary for a large

00:25:47.240 number of people. Like that's, at least right now, I'm not going to be able to convince most people

00:25:51.580 of that. But can we, can we not at least agree that there is no reason to go into college directly

00:25:59.420 out of high school? I've been saying this forever. I could say it till I'm blue in the face. It's just,

00:26:04.160 there's no reason to do it. I, there might be a few exceptions to every rule. The exception here

00:26:09.880 might be, I don't know if you have a, if you have an athletic, if you have a full ride athletic

00:26:13.340 scholarship. Um, even if you don't have a full ride athletic scholarship for, if you, for athletics,

00:26:22.380 if one of the main reasons you want to go to college is because you're an athlete and you want

00:26:26.820 to play sports at the college level, then that could be a, you know, that's, that's a pretty good

00:26:32.040 reason maybe to go right into college out of high school. But that's the only possible exception that

00:26:39.800 I can conceive of. For everybody else, nothing bad can happen if you leave high school and then just

00:26:47.260 get a job, uh, just live for a couple of years, do whatever, live in the world for a couple of years.

00:26:55.320 There's nothing bad that can happen. You're not in a, in a race. You want to play athletics and that

00:26:59.420 does put you at a little bit of a, of a, it does put you in a race, right? But outside of that,

00:27:04.920 you're not in a race. Even if you want to become a, even if you know that you probably want to be

00:27:09.540 a doctor or a lawyer or something like that, well, you're going to be in school for years anyway.

00:27:15.280 A couple of years isn't going to make or break you. So you spend a couple of years, you, you leave

00:27:20.820 high school, spend a couple of years in the real world, you get a job, you make some money. Um,

00:27:25.840 and worst case scenario, worst case scenario is that you're behind by a couple of years,

00:27:30.800 but you have money in the bank now, but behind who, who are you racing?

00:27:34.920 Now, this is just, this is just, uh, life now. There's the, you're not, you're not racing anybody.

00:27:42.580 Well, I know why the university system doesn't encourage this approach, right? They don't

00:27:49.440 encourage kids to take a couple of years off. And I don't even like the way that's phrased.

00:27:53.460 Take a couple of years off. You're not, you're not taking off. I'm not saying that you should leave

00:28:00.880 high school and then just sit at home and do absolutely nothing for two or three years. I

00:28:04.700 wouldn't encourage that. No, you're going to do something. You're not off at all. And in fact,

00:28:09.320 you were off before. Now you're on, you're in, you're on, you're in, you're in the real world.

00:28:14.020 And the reason the university system does not encourage this is because they realize

00:28:18.360 that if these kids come out of high school and then go out into the real world for a few years,

00:28:24.200 that a large portion of them are never going to go to college because they're going to discover

00:28:29.740 that they don't need college to do what they want to do with their lives.

00:28:36.460 For, for, for many kids during that time, they're going to figure out what they want to do with

00:28:40.540 their lives. And most kids out of high school have no idea. And then you give them a couple of years,

00:28:45.100 they're going to start to figure it out. And many of them are going to discover that their career

00:28:48.200 path, their vocation doesn't require a college degree. So they're not going to go. And the university

00:28:52.540 system is going to lose out on all that money. And that's why they want the kids, they want them

00:28:58.020 in college right away before they know what hit them, before they have time to think about it.

00:29:05.220 And they want you to realize that you don't need the degree after you've already paid for it

00:29:10.600 because there are no refunds. They don't want you to realize that before you pay for it.

00:29:16.040 So that's the university system. I can understand from a pure profit-driven,

00:29:23.820 profit-motivated perspective, why they don't want you to leave high school and go out into the

00:29:29.140 real world. But everybody else, I mean, I, I, that's where I don't get it.

00:29:35.360 Especially parents who pressure their kids to go right from high school to college. It's crazy to me.

00:29:41.300 You are actively working against your child's own best interests. Doesn't make any sense.

00:29:50.020 All right. So this is quite a morbid and sad story about, um, what the LA Times calls and what all

00:29:55.620 pro-euthanasia people call euphemistically death with dignity. And I saw this circulating

00:30:01.240 yesterday online. This is, uh, the headline is one last trip, Gabriella Walsh's decision to die

00:30:07.440 and celebrate life on her own terms. And, uh, it continues with the story. It says,

00:30:14.040 Gabriella Walsh knew she wanted to die on a Saturday. If she'd settled on July 16th,

00:30:18.680 dressing that morning in a flower crown and a t-shirt with a picture of a dragonfly,

00:30:22.600 an image that had comforted her in recent weeks, she took a deep inhale from a bottle of lavender

00:30:27.340 oil and listened to a playlist of sea sounds earlier in the morning, friends and family

00:30:32.180 nuzzled up against her in bed. Rest easy. They told her and keep wandering.

00:30:35.760 I just feel like I'm going on a trip. She said calmly. Within two hours, she would drink a fatal

00:30:41.420 dose of medications prescribed under California's death with dignity law, which allows some terminally

00:30:47.460 ill patients to request drugs to end their lives. The option had given her profound comfort in her

00:30:52.440 final weeks as had knowing that in the end, she'd have, uh, Jack Bar-Sagyan, the registered nurse who

00:30:59.480 managed her hospice care and Jill Shock, a death doula at either side of her bed, a death doula.

00:31:05.740 My God. Now, we should be, uh, very wary about this idea that dignified death is suicide. We

00:31:18.880 shouldn't just be wary of it. We should reject it. Uh, we should passionately reject this idea

00:31:24.160 that the, the, the most dignified way to die is through suicide.

00:31:28.920 And of course the implication here is because she's, this was a woman who's terminally ill

00:31:34.660 with cancer and she chose death with dignity, which was suicide. Implication is that if she

00:31:41.360 had not committed suicide and, and allowed the cancer to kill her, then that is, that's an

00:31:46.140 undignified death. Yes, we should absolutely reject that. Drinking poison given to you by a

00:31:55.240 doctor is dignified. And even if you can't grasp like the moral argument against an individual

00:32:04.400 committing suicide as a means of escaping suffering, if you can't grasp the more, the

00:32:08.700 moral argument, then you should at least be able to understand the other great objection to

00:32:13.320 euthanasia, which is that it further subverts and perverts the medical profession. Um, and because

00:32:22.700 doctors should not be in the position of killing people. And I know that we kind of take it for

00:32:28.740 granted these days that doctors kill and harm people because that's what so many doctors do.

00:32:34.240 And there are billion dollar industries erected around this with abortion, with the, the gender

00:32:39.400 industry, killing, harming, mutilating, drugging, poisoning. Like doctors do that quite a bit these

00:32:46.540 days, but, but they shouldn't, that's not what medicine is. That's why traditionally the Hippocratic

00:32:53.460 oath is do no harm. I mean, the idea that poison, just the simple, the simple concept of calling poison

00:33:02.080 medicine. Well, no medicine treats, medicine is supposed to treat and heal. You have something

00:33:09.820 wrong with you and you take medicine to treat it, to heal it. Uh, so poison, if medicine is poison,

00:33:18.740 what is the disease that it's treating? Life? I guess so. Euthanasia tells us that life itself is a

00:33:28.440 disease and it can be treated with the medicine of a poison that kills somebody. One other point about

00:33:36.960 this, youth, euthanasia, especially under the euphemism of death with dignity is, um, what you

00:33:43.940 get from a death phobic culture. This is our fear of death, our refusal to acknowledge and grapple with

00:33:51.900 the reality of death that produces this. And I know it seems kind of paradoxical. It seems

00:33:55.740 counterintuitive because, um, why would you advocate for death? Why would you advocate for suicide if

00:34:01.980 you're afraid of death? Why would you be pro-death and yet afraid of it? How can you be pro-death and

00:34:09.900 rejecting it at the same time? Well, because this is an attempt to hide from the reality of death. You

00:34:18.240 know, you hear even in the story there that the suicidal person is saying, oh, I'm just going on a trip and

00:34:24.980 you have a death doula and you're taking medicine. This is actually, again, it's a paradox because you

00:34:34.380 are directly killing yourself, but it is actually the fear of death, the rejection of death, the

00:34:39.200 unwillingness to accept the reality of death and of our own mortality. What we want, and the reason why

00:34:45.400 people support euthanasia, really, is because they want to see death as something that we can

00:34:52.240 contain, that we can take control over, that we can have mastery over. You'll often hear of the, uh, of the

00:35:01.920 euthanasia victim that they were dying on their own terms. These are my terms. I'm going to do it my way.

00:35:11.320 As if they have taken, as if they've taken control over life and death. Oh yeah, the grim, grim reaper has no

00:35:18.620 purchase here. I'm going to do it my way. But that's just not how it works. Death is not something

00:35:26.240 that we can control. It is an ever-present reality. It's something that we should accept,

00:35:33.880 a reality that we should accept. Rather than, in effect, you know, using death as a means of escaping

00:35:43.240 it. All right, um, here's a story. You may, you may have heard something about this. This is the

00:35:50.300 latest from the New York Post. It says, a transgender cheerleader kicked out of a Texas

00:35:54.140 college for allegedly choking a teammate denies that there was any physical artication and intends

00:36:00.080 to sue, actually. Avery Chanel Medlock insisted, okay, we've got the pronoun issue here as it's

00:36:07.620 written, so I'm going to try to correct it as we go along. Um, Avery Chanel Medlock, 25, insisted his

00:36:12.300 side of the story wasn't heard before he was slapped with a $500 criminal citation and kicked

00:36:18.160 off of the cheer team for allegedly assaulting another cheerleader on July 24th at, um, Ranger

00:36:22.920 College. Medlock told the Post, there was no physical contact at all. I was just trying to talk it out

00:36:27.800 as an adult. Medlock, whose legal name is Avery Chanel Satchel, claims that teammate Carly Jones got upset

00:36:34.620 when she refused to buy her a vape. With the way it's pronounced, or switched around, I'm, this gets

00:36:42.160 even more confusing. So, who was, who refused to buy who a vape? I don't even know now. Medlock later

00:36:49.180 went to Carly's room to apologize, but an argument ensued rather than an assault as alleged. Medlock's

00:36:56.580 teammate then called her father who called the police. The athlete said that she was then escorted

00:37:01.400 off of university grounds and booted from Ranger College cheer team. She as in he, the guy. Okay,

00:37:06.860 it's just, it makes it impossible to understand anything, of course, uh, when we're doing this

00:37:11.480 pronoun thing. Uh, messages seeking comment from Ranger College cheerleading coach Nicholas Turner

00:37:16.480 and university officials were not immediately returned. Medlock says, if I would have assaulted

00:37:20.900 her, I'd be in jail. Um, and yet the police say that there was an assault. Okay, so that's the story

00:37:27.840 is that that was originally a story that this cheerleader who is, who is a male, but identifies as a

00:37:34.140 female as on the cheerleading squad, uh, physically assaulted. In fact, choked a, an actual female on

00:37:40.840 the team. And the original story was that he reacted that way because the female said, you know,

00:37:46.940 remarked about the fact that he has a penis and therefore isn't a woman. And he responded violently.

00:37:52.080 The father was called, the police were called, the police say that there was an assault that occurred.

00:37:56.180 And, um, even though they're just slapping the assailant with a minor fine about, you know,

00:38:01.600 about on par with what you get for a parking violation, but the assault did happen.

00:38:05.960 Now he's coming out and saying, Oh no, it never happened at all.

00:38:09.700 A couple of points here. First of all, we're going to put some of the, the, uh, pictures up on the

00:38:13.520 screen that are in the New York post article. And we've seen, and anytime the story comes up on social

00:38:18.540 media, these are the pictures attached to it. And you can see, this is the, uh, the trans cheerleader

00:38:23.340 and you can see, okay, there's another one there just filtered and Photoshop to death.

00:38:32.820 It look, look at this one right here is come on. It looks like he, it looks like he peeled off

00:38:38.340 somebody else's face and put it on. Um, when you, when you have to do that, okay, then maybe that

00:38:49.400 should tell you something like the pictures that are being circulated of this guy are, these are

00:38:55.400 not pictures. These are cartoon drawings. That's not what he looks like at all. But also maybe more

00:39:02.480 importantly, the violence is not a surprise at all as the existence of men in these spaces, in women's

00:39:09.840 sports and women's bathrooms, men claiming the label of womanhood for themselves in any context at

00:39:14.680 all. You know, this is a form of violence already. I'm going to use the left's framing against it here

00:39:20.480 because they like to say that everything is violence. Speech is violence. Silence is violence.

00:39:25.220 Uh, sometimes violence though, isn't violence, but everything else is violence. Well, I would say

00:39:31.120 that this is violence. Even before you get to the physical assault, before the physical assault

00:39:34.820 happens, it is violence because when men intrude into these spaces and they appropriate female

00:39:41.300 identities, it is an invasion, it's an intrusion. It is a, a robbery, stealing privacy, stealing a woman's

00:39:49.100 identity, stealing opportunities, all of that. And it comes with an implicit and often explicit threat

00:39:55.240 of social shaming, of loss of job, loss of status. You know, if you, if a woman protests it.

00:40:05.860 So when the man shows up, whether he says it out loud or not, and oftentimes he does say it out loud,

00:40:10.280 but even if he doesn't, the, the implied threat to all of the women is that you better go along with

00:40:16.480 this. You better let them into your spaces. You better, you better sacrifice privacy on the altar

00:40:23.060 of, uh, of this man's ego. And if you don't, bad things are going to happen to you.

00:40:30.540 So that is violence in and of itself. And then it shouldn't be a surprise when you have this sort of

00:40:38.600 implied threat that always accompanies the man as he enters into these female spaces.

00:40:47.000 It's going to be a surprise when he actually lashes out violently.

00:40:50.400 And in particular, because of the, uh, because of the sense of entitlement that's, that's encouraged.

00:40:58.780 I mean, these guys have already been told by society, you can do whatever you want.

00:41:02.960 The only thing that matters is your comfort level. The only thing that matters is how you feel.

00:41:09.880 That's all that matters. That should be your number one, number two, one through 10 list of priorities.

00:41:16.000 It's all about you. And so you put all those things together and you have a recipe for actual

00:41:22.840 physical violence against women. So this is not a surprise at all. Uh, one other thing to note,

00:41:27.240 sad news today. I'm afraid from the New York post, it says the DC comics film Batgirl will be

00:41:33.180 completely shelved by Warner brothers. A top Hollywood source told the post that means it won't hit

00:41:37.960 theaters or the streaming service, uh, HBO max fans will not see this movie at all. Uh, the reportedly

00:41:44.460 $70 million movie, which actually had a budget closer to a hundred million was doing test screenings

00:41:49.760 for audiences in anticipation of a late 2022 debut. And it would rank among the most expensive

00:41:55.300 cinematic casts off ever. So this is what, what's happening here is that they made this film

00:42:00.860 Batgirl and they spent a hundred million dollars on it. And now they're just, it's so bad that

00:42:05.840 they're simply not going to release it at all. Nobody will ever see it. That's how bad it is,

00:42:09.580 which I find quite hilarious. Uh, and also of course it's a bad movie. It's Batgirl.

00:42:18.920 There is no version of that film that can be good. It is guaranteed to be terrible.

00:42:27.600 No big surprise that your investment was wasted. And like I've said before with these female

00:42:32.980 superheroes, it doesn't even begin to work when you have a female superhero.

00:42:38.580 If the character doesn't have actual superpowers, it's absurd enough already when you give the

00:42:44.600 superhero, uh, godlike powers and everything. And, but when it's, when it's in the Batman universe

00:42:51.220 and there are no actual superpowers, and now I'm supposed to take it seriously that this,

00:42:57.920 that this girl with no superpowers is going around beating up bad guys

00:43:02.380 in her, uh, leather bat outfit. So you can't do the, the only way that these superhero films

00:43:11.080 can claim any kind of artistic credibility, um, the only way that they can be elevated,

00:43:16.720 right, is if they go with the gritty, you know, we're going to go gritty, realistic,

00:43:20.940 and that's what they do with the Batman films. Well, you can't do that when it's a,

00:43:24.600 when you've got some 23-year-old woman, you know, 112 pounds going around beating up a bunch of,

00:43:32.120 uh, a bunch of bad guys. Just doesn't work. So a hundred million dollars wasted. Pretty great

00:43:37.240 stuff. Let's get to the comment section. Congrats on the twins, Matt, says Dizzy Unknown. Will the DW

00:43:56.600 give us a last man standing type sitcom based on your life should you have twin girls? Maybe get

00:44:02.480 Tim Allen to play a grandpa. It would be a hit, just saying. Uh, you know, we really should do

00:44:07.720 something with Tim Allen. He's, it seems to be right up our alley and he's been canceled, of course,

00:44:12.400 and he was kicked off of the Buzz Lightyear, the Woka Buzz Lightyear film that just came out. So

00:44:16.240 maybe this is it. I don't know. It's not a bad idea. Candace says, okay, Matt, from where do the

00:44:22.220 stats come that you're using to assert that black people are more likely to commit violent crimes than

00:44:27.380 white people? How do crimes get counted? By crimes committed, criminal activity reported,

00:44:32.020 criminal charges filed, or convictions minus successful appeals slash overturned convictions.

00:44:37.000 Because if the stats rely on police reporting and or court convictions, and the claim is

00:44:41.300 afro-featured people are more targeted, arrested, charged, and convicted by law than folk with light

00:44:48.980 skin due to aesthetic appearance and false assumptions rather than behavioral observations,

00:44:54.140 well, then obviously the stats will reinforce the false assumptions, right? For me personally,

00:44:58.560 I tend to get uneasy when a strange unkept 25 to 50 year old white male is near me, especially if

00:45:04.440 wide-eyed because I think mass shooter, but I don't call them out or anything like that.

00:45:10.340 Okay. Well, uh, where do the stats come from? I find fair question. They come from the FBI. These

00:45:16.520 are FBI crime statistics, which consistently show year over year over year that black offenders account

00:45:21.960 for over 50% of homicides, which is a vastly disproportionate share. Okay. I mean, vastly

00:45:28.580 disproportionate. Now, um, and that's not just, I mean, the FBI crime, you go to the FBI website and

00:45:36.300 find those crime statistics, but, but any crime, any, anywhere you go, like go anywhere else, wherever

00:45:41.140 your preferred source of information is on crime statistics, they're all going to tell you that.

00:45:46.280 Now, if you're suggesting that there are hundreds of thousands of white murderers running around out

00:45:53.220 there who are let off scot-free and never pursued because of their race. And, um, if only they would

00:45:59.060 be arrested too, then it would even out the statistics. Well, if that's what you're suggesting

00:46:03.100 or, or, uh, theorizing, I'm going to need even like one single little shred of the smallest bit of

00:46:10.580 evidence to support that, but you don't have that. Do you? Because it's absurd. Okay. So we,

00:46:19.880 we can talk about why this disparity in violent crime exists. That's a good conversation to have.

00:46:26.080 And we're going to get into the collapse of the family and many other things, but, um, it's an

00:46:29.940 interesting and worthy conversation, but it does exist. It just simply does. That's a fact.

00:46:36.340 Okay. And your fears that just some, that, that any random 25 to 50 year old white male you come

00:46:44.580 across as a mass shooter, that actually is statistically unreasonable because the, uh,

00:46:53.000 proportion of mass shooters among the white population, white male population is so vanishingly

00:46:59.420 small that you may as well walk around worried that, um, you know, a meteor is going to fall on your

00:47:05.400 head. And also I should note that white males do not account for a disproportionate amount of mass

00:47:12.820 shootings either. So look, these are all the facts. These are all the statistics and they say what they

00:47:16.980 say. That's it. So you, that's my point. You, when it comes to interpreting, when it comes to

00:47:23.200 explaining all these things, that that's where we can have a more in-depth conversation and people can

00:47:29.840 have different points of view and it becomes a bit more nuanced and it's a larger conversation.

00:47:33.440 But the starting point of the statistical facts, well, those are, there's just simply are what

00:47:38.200 they are and that's it. Um, G Hibiscus says, uh, Hey Matt, just heard you were having another set of

00:47:48.960 twins. Congrats on that sweet daddy. And this really is what y'all get for saying one kid is easy.

00:47:55.440 Fair analysis. That is a fair point. Scott says, Matt, what do I win? If I can correctly guess the

00:48:01.600 names of your new set of twins, well, there's nothing to guess right now because we have no

00:48:05.120 idea what the names are. You could suggest some names. I mean, I'm open to that. I'm open to

00:48:08.440 suggestion. We take the name question all the way down to the wire. This is what we've done with

00:48:12.280 every kid. We'll be like five hours from birth and, uh, we're going through the alphabet. This is

00:48:17.160 what we end up doing is just going through the alphabet, A, B, C, and listing every name that starts

00:48:22.300 with that letter as we go down and land on something. Um, so we don't know, but again, open to

00:48:28.540 suggestions. Jenna, and I know I'm going to regret saying that I'm open to suggestions on that, but I

00:48:32.660 just said it. Jennifer says, Matt, are you rooting for one gender or another? Well, uh, they're looking

00:48:39.620 identical. So either our family is going to be four boys and two girls or four girls and two boys.

00:48:45.600 So there is very high stakes here. One team or the other is going to be vastly outnumbered here. Um,

00:48:52.040 as for which I prefer, I'll take whatever God blesses us with. There's pros and cons.

00:48:58.540 Cons either way. That's the truth. Um, boys are, they're, uh, less emotional. They're a little

00:49:04.340 bit easier to understand. They're less prone to random emotional outbursts. Uh, they're,

00:49:10.960 you know, rough and tumble. They're a lot of fun. You can pick them up and toss them around.

00:49:16.160 Girls though, on the other hand are now they, they are more prone to random confusing emotional

00:49:22.200 outbursts and all those kinds of things, but they're also much, much more helpful around the

00:49:26.160 house than boys are. Boys are basically useless around the house. That's the truth.

00:49:31.200 Like my nine-year-old daughter can, she can, you know, she can, she, she likes to, with our two-year-old,

00:49:37.580 she likes to put the two-year-old to bed. She's like, Oh, can I put her to bed? Sure. Go ahead.

00:49:43.080 So, um, girls are also less likely to break things, including, uh, their own bones and limbs and

00:49:49.040 objects around the house. So there's, you know, there are unique challenges and joys with either one.

00:49:54.000 And so it's hard to really root for one or the other. Um, and finally, Liam says, why do you get

00:50:01.680 so mad or ban someone every time people question how the sweet baby gang started? Well, you are

00:50:07.880 tempting fate by even asking that question, Liam. And today it was the wrong gamble because you're

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00:51:07.460 our daily cancellation. For our daily cancellation, we head back to history class, a subject that kids learn

00:51:17.060 every year in public school, which means that they never really learned the subject at all, of course.

00:51:21.600 It falls then to others. Sometimes it even falls to podcasters without a college degree to pick up

00:51:27.360 the slack. That's what I tried to do over the weekend and then on my show on Monday as we discussed the

00:51:31.660 issue of slavery. No need to rehash all of my points. My primary goal was to communicate the fact

00:51:36.200 that the story of slavery is much larger, much deeper, much wider ranging than the version they tell in

00:51:41.540 schools and the media and Hollywood. As I observed, white people were slaves also. Millions of them

00:51:47.260 were in fact. The trade in white slaves, especially in North Africa, but even in North America, was big

00:51:52.840 business. It's a fact, an important one. But not everybody agreed, which isn't to say that they

00:51:58.460 disagreed with the facts that I was sharing. You can't disagree with facts. You can either choose to

00:52:02.560 acknowledge them or not. But facts don't care about your feelings or your acknowledgement, it turns out.

00:52:07.380 No, the critics disagreed not with the indisputable facts about slavery that I discussed,

00:52:12.420 but rather with the fact that I was discussing them. They felt that it was horrible, Nazi-esque,

00:52:19.500 it was racist, white supremacist, to even hint that there might be more to the slavery issue

00:52:24.820 than the white enslavement of black Africans in the West from the 17th to 19th centuries.

00:52:29.640 As mentioned on the show on Monday, the critics were mostly on the left, but not solely.

00:52:33.640 Maj Touré, who's a well-known gun rights activist, was quite vigorous and relentless in his criticism.

00:52:39.720 He said that my statements about slavery were dumb, reductive, counterproductive, horrible,

00:52:44.660 retarded, his word, and many other things. He said that I was damaging the inroads that

00:52:50.540 conservatives had made with the black community. And he continued in this vein in many tweets and

00:52:55.680 videos railing against me for mentioning that white people were slaves. So finally on Monday,

00:52:59.880 he appeared on my friend Jason Whitlock's show on The Blaze to further explain his point of view.

00:53:04.620 I watched the segment, and I have to tell you that after listening to him, if anything,

00:53:08.400 I understand his criticisms less than I did before. So let's go through this together. Listen.

00:53:14.160 First, I did like what is a woman. I think Matt is usually spot on on certain things. It's similar to

00:53:22.320 a lot of conservatives. I'm very critical. It's almost like if we're going into the tactic room,

00:53:29.360 right? What does this actually prove? I just did an interview. And, you know, we discussed a guy

00:53:35.440 said, well, you know, what would be wrong with all lives matter? And I'm like, well, there's nothing

00:53:39.060 technically wrong with it. If you thought that you should have said it before BLM said black lives

00:53:43.720 matter. It's just what it is. And everybody knows. I don't really bang with BLM as an organization,

00:53:48.140 but the phrase and the reductive component. Well, this is perhaps beside the point, but for the

00:53:56.720 record, lots of us were saying all lives matter before BLM came along. That was and still is the

00:54:03.660 central motto of the pro-life movement. We didn't steal it from them. They stole it from us. We didn't

00:54:09.320 start saying all lives matter when BLM came along. We kept saying it. We were told, though,

00:54:16.100 that we had to stop saying it because somehow left-wing black activists were the only ones

00:54:20.700 allowed to decide and declare which lives mattered. But even if we had started saying it only after BLM

00:54:26.600 was formed, so what? It's still true. And besides, this is meant to be a response and corrective to

00:54:33.020 BLM militants who, in fact, as is obvious, do not believe that all lives matter. The BLM movement is a

00:54:39.520 black supremacist movement, and that's why all lives matter was and still is a necessary rejoinder to it.

00:54:44.600 By the way, Maj is the founder of an organization called Black Guns Matter. He sells t-shirts with

00:54:51.540 the phrase on it. So, Maj, were you saying Black Guns Matter before Black Lives Matter came along?

00:54:57.780 Something tells me that you weren't. Yet you can use the BLM slogan to sell shirts and advocate for

00:55:02.180 gun rights, but we can't use it to advocate for the fundamental worth and value of human life in

00:55:06.260 general? It's reductive for us to say all lives matter, but not for you to say Black Guns Matter?

00:55:11.880 Interesting. Let's continue.

00:55:16.580 And let me be clear. If we're trying to make inroads into Black communities, these types of

00:55:23.660 takes that have nothing to do with anything.

00:55:26.920 I got to stop you there again very briefly. We'll back up and play the whole clip. But

00:55:30.520 he says, my take had nothing to do with anything. Well, that's not true. I mean,

00:55:35.980 it had something to do with history, with truth, with the facts of the world that shaped human

00:55:40.080 civilization. It had something to do with the racial grievance industry, which trades on the idea

00:55:44.240 that slavery in America was a unique and unprecedented evil, when in fact it was not. It

00:55:48.560 was an evil, but not unique or unprecedented. It had something to do with lots of different things.

00:55:53.040 It had something to do with a book that I read and I wanted to talk about. It had something to do with

00:55:56.360 what happened to be on my mind at that moment. All of these are perfectly fine rationales for sharing my

00:56:02.560 thoughts. The criticism that Maj is offering here is by far the most useless, boring, and exhausting

00:56:08.120 form of criticism, and also perhaps the most common on the internet. That's why I find it so

00:56:12.280 irritating. This is the, you know, why are you talking about this? Why talk about this and not

00:56:16.420 something else? I don't care about this. Why are you discussing it? It's that whole routine.

00:56:21.480 It's a totally worthless critique. It really is. Just because you don't find a subject important or

00:56:26.900 relevant or worthy of consideration doesn't mean that nobody should ever talk about it. I don't have

00:56:31.980 to explain to you why I want to discuss something. I don't have to seek your permission ahead of time.

00:56:38.920 If you don't care about the subject or find it important, then keep moving. Keep scrolling.

00:56:42.960 No one's forcing you to participate in a conversation that you apparently find so

00:56:46.680 unworthy of your attention. It just would never, I'd never do this to people. I never go into,

00:56:52.640 go to someone else's page or listen to their podcast or whatever, and then say, why are you

00:56:56.580 talking about this? Why this? And not, not this other thing over here. It's just, the criticism makes

00:57:02.940 no sense. So we're not off to a good start, but let's continue.

00:57:07.000 These types of takes that have nothing to do with anything,

00:57:13.760 kind of like just gives extreme leftists more of a tool to utilize against us. And what I mean by that

00:57:20.760 is, if I'm a person in the middle, let's say I'm a Democrat and I'm not the extreme lefty. I think a

00:57:28.340 lot of these guys are making moves that are like reactionary to what extreme lefties do.

00:57:34.820 That doesn't advance conservative movements to people that may be in the middle in a democratic

00:57:40.500 city. So we say a thing and then an extreme leftist packages and says, see, they're minimizing

00:57:45.840 your ability or the history of the transatlantic slave trade. Now, Matt may have not been trying

00:57:52.880 to do that. I'm talking about from a tactical and strategic standpoint, the left dominates urban

00:57:59.040 and black America because they understand PR and messaging way better than the right does.

00:58:04.460 Simple and plain. They have to because they don't have many facts. Sorry, they just don't. So they have

00:58:09.340 to be very good at smoking mirrors and lying and PR because that's what a lot of public relations or

00:58:14.720 perception and reality is. This and I think maybe Matt's following maybe took it a little too,

00:58:20.940 they got a little sensitive about it, but it's always one step in the right direction with a lot

00:58:26.480 of conservatives. And then we say something that makes the job of my job a lot more difficult

00:58:32.440 because it's like, damn, that sounds like you're trying to downplay the role. And that's what every

00:58:37.860 extreme leftist is going to do. And so from a strategic and tactical standpoint,

00:58:42.480 this does not spread conservative values or make the job better. We keep going with this

00:58:47.820 facts don't care about your feelings concept. And how has that been working out for us by not

00:58:53.000 expressing any type of empathy first? Well, it's worked out pretty well, actually. Thank you for

00:58:58.280 asking. Refusing to be emotionally blackmailed by dishonest, manipulative cry bullies has been a

00:59:03.340 tremendously successful approach. It's one of the reasons why the guy who coined that phrase is one

00:59:08.040 of the most influential thinkers in the country. And the company he co-founded is making inroads

00:59:11.960 into the culture in ways that nobody else on the right ever has, certainly including our friend

00:59:16.460 Maj. But let's back it up a bit. Maj accuses me of being reactionary, right? Reacting to the left.

00:59:23.740 And yet his entire critique centers around the left and how he thinks we should react to it.

00:59:30.900 Well, we can't say that. The radical left will use it against us.

00:59:34.780 He suggests that the black community will be easily duped by the dishonest talking points of the left

00:59:39.760 and so that we should calibrate our approach accordingly. He does allow generously that

00:59:45.060 perhaps I wasn't trying to minimize the transatlantic slave trade. Maybe I wasn't. But he says that the

00:59:50.560 left will accuse me of doing that. So let me see if I have this right. You're worried that the left

00:59:55.620 will accuse me of something dishonestly? And so your strategy is to head them off at the pass and

01:00:00.400 accuse me of it first? Now, Maj, you're a smart guy. I know that you're not dumb enough to believe

01:00:06.180 that I was minimizing the slave trade or indeed that any rational person would ever do that.

01:00:13.520 Suggesting that I even might have tried to minimize the slave trade by talking about other forms of

01:00:17.780 slavery, it's like suggesting that I might be minimizing kidney cancer by talking about lung cancer.

01:00:22.780 It's an incoherent, ridiculous, fundamentally dishonest accusation, and you know it.

01:00:31.160 Everybody understands that slavery in America was a terrible evil. Nobody suggests otherwise.

01:00:40.300 Everybody agrees that it was bad, which is all the more reason why perhaps at this point,

01:00:45.400 it might be time to expand the conversation to talk about the forms of slavery that lots of people

01:00:50.880 don't even know existed. We talk about slavery all the time in America, the American form of slavery.

01:00:58.860 Kids learn about it. They make movies about it. Activists scream about it. It is a constant,

01:01:04.100 ever-present historical reality. Nobody has forgotten it. Nobody could ever forget it.

01:01:09.760 Everyone knows that it happened and everyone agrees that it was unspeakably evil and it should

01:01:14.060 not have happened. Everybody, everybody. Okay. Which is good, right? It's good that everybody

01:01:23.400 knows it happened and everyone thinks it's bad. Success on that subject. Should that be the end

01:01:30.340 of the slavery conversation or might we at this juncture widen the lens a little bit to try to get a

01:01:38.600 look at the fuller picture? Now, it seems that you would prefer that we keep the lens narrow and

01:01:47.140 rather than admitting that your preference is your preference, you try to farm it off to the radical

01:01:52.160 left, claiming that you're only telling me what they will say. And sure, yeah, the left does say that

01:01:58.540 any discussion of historical atrocities not centered around the plight of black Africans in America is

01:02:03.460 inherently racist. They do say that and they're wrong. You're saying it too and you are also wrong.

01:02:10.960 Now, you talk about tactics and strategy. You use the word interchangeably like they mean the same

01:02:16.560 thing. They don't. Strategy is your overall approach to the war. Tactics are the maneuvers,

01:02:22.720 the individual steps, specific actions that you take in service to that strategy. I'm not splitting hairs

01:02:27.260 here. I mean, the difference is actually important because you say that we should avoid certain

01:02:31.020 uncomfortable truths strategically and also tactically. But which is it? Is this our strategy? Is our

01:02:36.940 strategy to abandon the truth, cede the entire historical and racial narrative to the left in

01:02:41.700 hopes of outflanking them to their left? If so, then sure. I mean, only talking about slavery or racial

01:02:47.980 injustices in terms that the left demands is a good tactic. But it's a tactic and a strategy that loses

01:02:54.760 the war. It is a surrender. See, my goal, my strategy and my tactic are actually all the same for me

01:03:02.180 because I'm a simple man. So for me, it's the truth. I just say what is true. If I say something

01:03:10.380 and it's not true, you know, if I inadvertently say something, I'm incorrect about what I'm saying

01:03:15.260 and you have a counter argument that proves that it's incorrect, then I will listen.

01:03:19.760 And if you can convince me that it was incorrect, then I'll change my point of view. But if you admit

01:03:25.840 that I'm saying the truth and you still criticize me for saying it, well, I'm just not interested in

01:03:33.260 that critique. I'm really not. If one person is saying the truth and the other person doesn't want

01:03:39.560 to hear the truth, whatever their reason, the problem lies entirely 100% with the latter. So you say,

01:03:47.080 well, what about all the people who don't want to hear about this? That's their problem. That's not

01:03:51.340 my problem. There is something wrong with them that they don't want to hear a truth. And in this case,

01:03:59.600 they don't want to hear a truth about the way the entire world worked for thousands of years.

01:04:05.800 That's their problem, not mine. As for me, you know, I think what our culture lacks most of all is not

01:04:12.920 empathy. It's not feeling. It's not pity or patronizing pats on the head, but truth. And anyone

01:04:20.400 who stands against truth or insists that the truth be muffled or silenced or withheld is today, I'm afraid

01:04:28.780 to say, Maj, canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

01:04:34.540 Have a great day. Godspeed.

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