The Matt Walsh Show - LIVE! America’s #1 Best-Selling Children’s Author Answers YOUR Questions

00:00:00.000 Welcome, everyone, to the live signing of Johnny the Walrus with the one and only Matt Walsh.

00:00:06.160 Hello, and good evening to you all.

00:00:08.540 We welcome our friends, be they big or small, human or even aquatic mammal.

00:00:16.160 Okay, that was a terrible rhyme.

00:00:18.680 But to be fair, I am not a best-selling children's author.

00:00:22.300 However, I do happen to know someone who is.

00:00:25.140 He is the cardigan-wearing author of the number one best-selling book, Johnny the Walrus,

00:00:31.180 and host of the Matt Walsh Show on the Daily Wire.

00:00:34.020 Ladies and gentlemen, the one and only Matt Walsh.

00:00:38.460 I can't believe they made you do that, first of all.

00:00:40.560 So thank you for being involved in this.

00:00:42.700 This feels like I'm in Dr. Seuss' fever dream or something.

00:00:47.040 This is very strange, but it's a huge honor as well.

00:00:50.420 Well, Matt is live tonight against the wishes of Amazon employees.

00:00:54.420 It seems, working on signing all the copies of the books everyone has been ordering.

00:01:00.000 And as Matt's here for the next hour or so signing and unable to go anywhere,

00:01:04.420 we will be hanging out doing his favorite thing, chit-chatting and asking him questions.

00:01:10.140 So submit your questions in the chat box on dailywire.com.

00:01:14.480 Any Daily Wire member can chime in.

00:01:16.840 Now, if you want to get your hands.

00:01:19.500 Oh, my gosh.

00:01:20.380 Oh, it's happening.

00:01:22.140 That's a great start.

00:01:24.420 If you want to get your hands.

00:01:27.420 On one of these limited edition autographed Johnny the Walrus books,

00:01:31.280 there is only one way to get one, and that is with a Daily Wire all-access membership.

00:01:36.300 Sign up right now at dailywire.com slash Johnny,

00:01:39.720 and you will get an autographed book plus your very own Leftist Tears Tumblr,

00:01:44.820 which will come in handy since there are lots of Leftist Tears flowing right now,

00:01:50.720 many of which were caused by our Man of the Hour.

00:01:54.580 All righty, here we go.

00:01:55.560 I'm going to, or you already have one to get started.

00:01:57.520 So then I just start signing the books, I guess.

00:01:59.160 That's the idea?

00:01:59.820 Okay, good.

00:02:00.160 This is actually embarrassing because I have the handwriting of an actual four-year-old,

00:02:08.520 so I'm not the whole world's going to see it.

00:02:10.780 I'm going to try to clean this up.

00:02:12.300 Okay.

00:02:13.180 Now, Matt, this book has been causing quite a stir recently.

00:02:15.960 It's been number one on Amazon for four days now?

00:02:18.920 Four days.

00:02:19.800 It was number one for five days, actually.

00:02:22.560 Okay.

00:02:22.820 And now it's gone down the charts a little bit, but it's still, I think, in the top ten, we'll call it.

00:02:28.100 Nice.

00:02:28.520 And it was, it is still by rights the number one children's book in America.

00:02:35.640 Yes.

00:02:36.040 But it was kicked off the children's book category by Amazon.

00:02:42.680 By the triggered Amazon.

00:02:43.820 Right.

00:02:44.120 Boys.

00:02:45.040 Which is, you know, one of my great dreams in life was obviously to be a children's book author,

00:02:50.120 which we've been able to achieve, and I feel great about that.

00:02:52.480 Which camera, look at that one, okay.

00:02:54.560 So I feel great about that, but, and then my other great dream is to traumatize, you know,

00:03:00.060 employees of big tech companies, so.

00:03:01.620 Obviously.

00:03:02.300 We've been able to achieve both of my dreams.

00:03:04.260 I can basically just retire now and call it a day.

00:03:08.820 We've done both.

00:03:09.520 Those videos, the leaked videos of the Amazon employees, that was fantastic.

00:03:13.500 Was that a, was that a man or a woman on the right side?

00:03:18.300 Yeah, I, I, I have no idea.

00:03:20.700 It was, it was quite uncomfortable, honestly.

00:03:22.480 It was peak comedy, and they've never seen anybody more triggered by, like, just such

00:03:28.600 a sweet, you know, children's book author.

00:03:31.100 Yeah, that's, that's the thing.

00:03:32.320 I, you know, one of my disappointments is that I wrote this children's book, and I thought

00:03:37.580 that now that I'm wearing the cardigan, and I'm a children's book author, that it would

00:03:41.600 kind of soften my image, and people would like me more.

00:03:44.740 And what I've discovered is that people are actually angry, which I, which I never expected.

00:03:49.600 I thought that this would, that this book would just.

00:03:52.140 This was your rebranding.

00:03:53.360 I thought this would be critically acclaimed.

00:03:55.180 That's what I thought.

00:03:56.060 So.

00:03:56.600 Well.

00:03:57.160 You know, that's been a disappointment.

00:03:57.940 But other than that, it's been, it's been a great experience.

00:03:59.340 And, you know, the other thing about the Amazon thing I want to say is that, you know, if

00:04:04.620 you saw those videos, they featured in their little cry session a complaint from a customer,

00:04:14.180 and they said, the Amazon.

00:04:15.260 It's a Karen.

00:04:15.720 Right.

00:04:15.940 And the Amazon employee said that, oh, well, this person summarizes the book really well.

00:04:21.500 And then the woman comes on and claims that my book commands children to go out and murder

00:04:29.780 people.

00:04:30.180 I saw that.

00:04:31.380 Yes.

00:04:32.300 That is, that's a sort of a gritty, dark reimagining of the Johnny the Walrus story.

00:04:36.980 Well, that's like if it was turned into, like, a horror film.

00:04:39.620 Yeah.

00:04:39.780 Well, that's, you know, that's if, like, Christopher Nolan did the, did the gritty reboot of Johnny

00:04:45.400 the Walrus.

00:04:45.920 But that's not what I have.

00:04:46.860 My book doesn't tell you to kill anybody.

00:04:48.400 No, obviously.

00:04:49.740 Now, Matt, we have our first question.

00:04:52.420 This is from Johnny.

00:04:54.080 Hi, Matt.

00:04:55.020 Johnny, the Walrus here.

00:04:56.720 Do you plan on writing any more children's books in the future?

00:05:01.900 Certainly.

00:05:02.460 Of course I do. 0.98

00:05:03.000 I mean, I am a, I am a capitalist pig after all. 0.90

00:05:07.100 So, of course, I'm going to keep writing them. 0.81

00:05:09.340 And, but, you know, at the same time, also, there's obviously what we've discovered from

00:05:14.700 this book is that there is a real hunger out there in the marketplace for books that

00:05:21.020 are, for children's books that are not woke.

00:05:23.900 Because I know as a, look at my, look at my signature.

00:05:26.440 Do we say, look how terrible that is.

00:05:27.780 Can you show it to people?

00:05:28.960 Yeah.

00:05:29.200 I don't know if you can see that.

00:05:30.560 This is what you're getting.

00:05:32.240 Anyway.

00:05:33.840 No, there is.

00:05:34.360 If you look at the Amazon reviews of the book, there's a lot of people that are saying,

00:05:39.220 like, oh, like, I'm a grandparent.

00:05:40.660 This is so exciting.

00:05:41.540 Like, I've been looking for things and the library is just full.

00:05:44.480 There was this, Liz of TikTok posted a video and it was a librarian who was, there were

00:05:50.120 two librarians.

00:05:51.080 One was putting banned books back in the New York Public Library and handing them out for

00:05:55.860 free.

00:05:56.160 And then there was the gal or they, them, I don't know.

00:05:59.960 She kind of looks like a furry, to be quite honest, my friends, was saying that she was

00:06:04.080 putting little, like, pride flags on all the books and that kind of thing to show which

00:06:08.180 one was, like, LGBT and all that.

00:06:09.880 But, so, there is a need.

00:06:11.500 We know as, and that's the thing, as parents, we know that there's really nowhere you can

00:06:14.740 go in the culture anymore except to Daily Wire, if you're going to Daily Wire.

00:06:18.700 Remember, where you're not going to be exposed to this kind of woke stuff.

00:06:22.100 And even in libraries, especially in libraries.

00:06:24.400 I mean, libraries, for the last several years, that's where you can go for the drag queen story

00:06:29.420 hours and all that kind of stuff.

00:06:32.240 And I knew from experience as a parent, you go to the bookstore, go to, you know, any major

00:06:36.160 bookstore, go to the children's section, and it just, it looks like, you know, the signs

00:06:40.740 at an Antifa rally or something with all the, all of the anti-racist, gender ideology and

00:06:45.920 stuff.

00:06:46.740 People are tired of that.

00:06:47.600 So, I mean, this book was the number one book in the entire country of all books that

00:06:53.740 were sold for a week, okay?

00:06:55.600 Clearly.

00:06:56.240 A board book for preschoolers that satirizes gender ideology was the number one book in

00:07:01.940 the entire country.

00:07:02.460 Well, it's quite brilliant.

00:07:03.720 We have another question for you.

00:07:05.020 This is from Lillian.

00:07:06.800 She's saying, out of all of the prestigious titles you've won between your release of

00:07:11.060 Johnny the Walrus and What is a Woman, which one is your favorite?

00:07:15.780 I mean, there are so many that even go before that.

00:07:18.060 I, you know, of course, became a philanthropist with our charitable endeavors for AOC's Abuela.

00:07:24.980 Yes.

00:07:25.260 And that, as a philanthropist, that is a title that is very important to me.

00:07:30.620 Theocratic Fascist is another title that I find very important.

00:07:33.980 But especially with What is a Woman, I would say now that my What is a Woman book is charting

00:07:40.540 still as the number one biology text on Amazon.

00:07:44.140 Fantastic.

00:07:45.220 I would say that I really appreciate being a biologist.

00:07:49.040 And that means that I'm a scientist.

00:07:50.540 Trust the science, folks.

00:07:51.840 Yep.

00:07:52.280 Your science trademark.

00:07:53.620 Like, that's just the science.

00:07:54.720 All right, now, Ashley Phillips is saying, I just found a Catholic group that describes

00:08:00.680 themselves as pro-life Democrats.

00:08:02.960 They believe the Democrats are right on most things, but wrong on abortion.

00:08:07.220 Thoughts?

00:08:10.840 A pro-life Democrat was what she said, right?

00:08:14.160 Yeah, Catholic pro-life Democrat. 0.99

00:08:15.480 Sorry, they told me I have to sign this and answer questions, but I'm too stupid to do 0.99

00:08:18.520 things at once. 0.80

00:08:19.940 You're doing great.

00:08:20.440 Yeah, it's not possible to be a pro-life Democrat.

00:08:23.220 I mean, the Democrat Party, down to its very core, is it's not just abortion.

00:08:28.800 I mean, their entire platform is structured around their hatred for human life and the

00:08:35.360 dignity of life.

00:08:36.140 So that's just an incompatible position, I think.

00:08:38.880 You just, you have to choose.

00:08:39.840 You're either pro-life or Democrat.

00:08:41.420 And be pro-life.

00:08:42.740 Straight from the number one biologist and children's book author in the world.

00:08:49.200 Let's see.

00:08:50.460 Conservative gal asked, hi, Matt.

00:08:52.440 Do fans ever approach you and your family in public?

00:08:55.060 If so, how do you react?

00:08:57.060 I know you prefer to never talk and never have to make small talk.

00:09:00.780 They do, and I scream at them, and I throw whatever is closest at hand at them.

00:09:06.500 I'm just kidding.

00:09:07.320 They do, and I appreciate it, as long as they're nice.

00:09:09.600 And that's the thing.

00:09:10.080 Like, everybody, look at this, what is that?

00:09:13.280 That's not a signature.

00:09:14.360 That's just, that's Chinese or something. 0.99

00:09:16.320 I don't know what that is.

00:09:18.820 I do appreciate people.

00:09:20.420 The thing is, of all the angry messages I get, and hate mail, and death threats, and

00:09:25.180 all that kind of stuff, nobody has ever actually come up to me in public, except on a college

00:09:29.560 campus when there's a whole group of them.

00:09:30.840 Yeah.

00:09:31.240 Nobody's ever come up to me individually in public, and who hates me, and confronted me

00:09:35.900 person to person, because most people are just...

00:09:37.400 Yeah.

00:09:38.040 Well, you've been doing this a lot longer than I have.

00:09:40.080 But all of my interactions thus far have been the same.

00:09:42.820 It's all very, very positive, and it's...

00:09:44.720 People are usually nice, but I do.

00:09:46.900 I'm waiting for the day that somebody hates me enough.

00:09:48.580 On a few occasions, I've had somebody message me and say, hey, I just saw you at some place, 0.98

00:09:53.980 and I want to let you know that you're a terrible person. 0.89

00:09:56.600 Like, oh, tough guy.

00:09:57.700 Well, if you haven't seen Matt in public, you can become a Daily Wire all-access member,

00:10:05.980 and you can go over, you can subscribe, and if you are an all-access member, you can have

00:10:09.640 the opportunity to ask him questions just like this when he does all-access lives.

00:10:14.120 It's the only way to have access to us hosts if you are not running into us at farmer's

00:10:20.360 markets or something like that.

00:10:21.840 And if you want Matt to answer any of your questions tonight, be sure to go over to our

00:10:25.840 live stream at dailywire.com.

00:10:28.060 Click the live banner at the top of the page, and you can flood him with your questions.

00:10:33.300 What do you think of that?

00:10:33.940 I'm doing a thing here with the signature where the M turns into the W.

00:10:37.960 That's artistic.

00:10:38.900 Are you going to start doing art now?

00:10:40.340 Well, I just decided just now on the spot to make that my new signature, so that's exciting.

00:10:45.200 This is actually just a creative project for you.

00:10:48.280 You just saw the origin story of my new signature live on the air.

00:10:52.320 All right, let's see.

00:10:53.620 How can I be more like Matt Walsh?

00:10:56.240 This question is, let's see.

00:10:58.040 The greatest man to ever walk the earth and grace us with such wonderful works of literature.

00:11:03.940 I had to throw at least one in there that I wrote myself, and that obviously is the one.

00:11:12.640 Don't.

00:11:13.760 Set higher goals for yourself than to be like me.

00:11:16.500 There's just, you know, you've got to aim higher.

00:11:20.500 Look at your setup that you have here.

00:11:22.020 True.

00:11:22.420 Are you kidding me?

00:11:23.560 True.

00:11:24.160 It's impressive.

00:11:25.220 Let's see.

00:11:25.760 This is from Very Stable Genius is the username.

00:11:30.140 My daughters want to know how Johnny's whiskers go away.

00:11:33.340 I told them he stopped eating worms.

00:11:35.480 Can I get Sweet Daddy Walsh's confirmation from this, or on this?

00:11:40.360 Yes, and that is a debate, you know, within the Johnny the Walrus extended universe.

00:11:46.280 There's a lot of debate about kind of the mythology of Johnny the Walrus.

00:11:48.420 And, yeah, because he goes to the doctor and he gets the wormone pills because we're being very subtle with our allegory here.

00:12:00.740 And then, but he stops taking the pills and then he kind of goes back.

00:12:05.580 Although, if the allegory was completely correct, then he'd stop taking the pills and he would not go back to normal because...

00:12:12.420 Irreversible damage.

00:12:13.880 Right, exactly.

00:12:15.200 All right, now Brandon is asking, out of all of the animals there are, why did you choose a walrus as the metaphor?

00:12:21.420 We're getting deep.

00:12:21.900 And that question was almost certainly submitted by my wife because she wants to make sure that I make very clear that it was actually her idea.

00:12:30.860 The walrus thing was her idea.

00:12:32.960 This was a collaborative effort in a lot of ways.

00:12:34.680 So my wife, she, the genesis of Johnny the Walrus is my wife suggested to me like a year ago that I should write a children's book.

00:12:42.560 And, and she said, you know, because she pointed out that if I wrote a children's book, it would make a lot of people very upset just by the simple fact that I wrote it.

00:12:50.480 And I said, well, I love that idea.

00:12:52.060 And so we went back and forth about the idea.

00:12:54.600 And I kind of had the general concept of Johnny the Walrus.

00:12:57.260 And I said to her, but I need an animal that the kid pretends to be and I need a name.

00:13:01.400 And just right there on the spot, she says Johnny the Walrus.

00:13:04.440 And it was just a moment of, it was collaborative genius.

00:13:08.380 It was a moment where we both knew that that was...

00:13:11.060 It's the perfect marriage.

00:13:12.420 Yeah.

00:13:12.700 Honestly.

00:13:13.500 All right.

00:13:13.880 Now we have six new members that have joined while we've been doing this live.

00:13:18.080 This is impressive.

00:13:19.480 Let's say hello to Jacqueline from Mangum.

00:13:22.680 Am I saying that?

00:13:23.280 Mangum, Oklahoma.

00:13:24.640 Dory from Bozeman, Montana.

00:13:26.940 And Richard from Port Allen, Louisiana.

00:13:30.720 And Matt, do you have anything you want to say to them?

00:13:34.320 No.

00:13:35.000 Oh, wait.

00:13:35.280 I do.

00:13:36.000 I just want to take a moment to say thank you, my sweet, sweet babies.

00:13:40.880 And that you're special.

00:13:42.640 I'm so happy to have you members of my cult.

00:13:47.780 Your soul is mine.

00:13:51.040 I wore a sweet baby gang shirt the other day in a video.

00:13:54.540 And I had a lot of your cult members come in.

00:13:56.440 And they were like, oh my gosh, it's a crossover.

00:13:58.880 It's very intense.

00:14:00.080 The cult is growing.

00:14:01.820 Lightning speed.

00:14:02.700 I told a story on my show yesterday.

00:14:06.360 I was at my kid's first communion over the weekend.

00:14:10.060 And somebody shouted the sweet baby gang at my kid's first communion.

00:14:13.080 So I thought it was great.

00:14:14.920 My wife was a little bit more iffy on the whole thing. 0.98

00:14:19.680 Really making waves.

00:14:22.100 Yeah.

00:14:23.240 And look, here's my thing of the sweet baby gang.

00:14:25.140 I don't think that there is an inappropriate time to shout out sweet baby gang.

00:14:29.520 You know?

00:14:29.620 Yep.

00:14:30.360 I could be at a funeral.

00:14:31.680 And I think that's perfectly appropriate.

00:14:33.540 Well, it's a very malleable phrase.

00:14:36.480 You can use it anywhere.

00:14:37.460 Now, Amanda, the real deal, says, dear sweet daddy, will you be collaborating with the director

00:14:43.240 of Tusk for the live action movie adaptation of Johnny the Walrus?

00:14:47.220 Tusk.

00:14:49.640 First of all, I found out about Tusk after I wrote this book.

00:14:52.400 And everyone said, oh, you were inspired by Tusk.

00:14:54.140 And I said, what are you talking about Tusk?

00:14:55.520 And then I looked up what this movie is.

00:14:56.960 And it's like, okay.

00:14:58.240 Then I was horribly disturbed because I saw the images online.

00:15:00.560 I would not recommend looking it up.

00:15:02.040 Apparently, if you actually try to literally become a walrus, it gets pretty grim pretty fast.

00:15:07.760 So who is the director of that?

00:15:09.340 Do we know?

00:15:09.780 No, I don't know.

00:15:10.640 Somebody here know?

00:15:11.700 Kevin Smith is the director. 0.99

00:15:13.460 So no, because he's like a far left lunatic. 0.97

00:15:17.500 Maybe I'll start saying I wasn't. 0.90

00:15:19.060 I'm going to start saying I was inspired by Tusk just because it would probably annoy him.

00:15:22.020 She started tweeting at him.

00:15:22.980 Yeah.

00:15:24.100 He didn't say, why aren't we going to collaborate?

00:15:25.580 I'm sure that would trigger him.

00:15:26.360 Kevin Smith, thank you so much for inspiring this book.

00:15:29.440 I couldn't have done it without you.

00:15:30.900 You're going to give him nightmares.

00:15:32.100 Okay.

00:15:32.480 Now, Kelly says, hey, Matt, just wondering, are there going to be differences in the book

00:15:37.420 and the documentary of what is a woman?

00:15:38.960 Are there going to be differences or more in-depth discussions in one or the other?

00:15:42.680 Sweet baby gang for life.

00:15:44.060 Um, I think there, yeah, there are differences.

00:15:48.380 You get a, you get a certainly different experience from both.

00:15:51.320 Um, I can't, there's still so much to be said about the, about the film in particular

00:15:56.280 that I still can't say, but I'll, I'll have much more to say about it soon.

00:15:58.940 Um, but I will say there are aspects of the story that we can't really get into depth

00:16:06.700 on until we get to the book, but then there are also aspects that you can't fully appreciate.

00:16:11.260 There are a lot of aspects of the story that you can't fully appreciate unless you see the

00:16:14.400 movie and you see the visuals.

00:16:15.960 There are a lot of visuals here that, um, you just have to see some of which I wish you

00:16:20.600 had not seen, but you're going to see them.

00:16:22.720 Let's see.

00:16:23.280 Well, everyone who is watching, you can get yourself one of Matt's autographed Johnny

00:16:27.420 the Walrus books and a Leftist Tears Tumblr by becoming a Daily Wire all-access member.

00:16:33.320 Sign up for a Daily Wire all-access membership at dailywire.com slash Johnny.

00:16:39.100 And if you are already an all-access member, one, thank you.

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00:16:48.100 Just head over to the Daily Wire store at dailywire.com and click shop at the top of the page.

00:16:54.640 Again, all-access members are the only ones who can get the signed limited edition copy

00:17:00.820 of Johnny the Walrus.

00:17:01.860 So if you are already a member, head on over and, uh, place your order now.

00:17:07.240 Because these are, you're flying through these like hotcakes.

00:17:10.280 I mean, look at that signature.

00:17:11.640 You want one of these.

00:17:13.700 Look at that.

00:17:14.400 Wow.

00:17:15.080 You know what I'm going to do?

00:17:16.000 That's good.

00:17:16.440 I'm going to add a little smiley face to that one.

00:17:18.260 Oh.

00:17:18.880 I've never done that before.

00:17:20.300 That's another first.

00:17:21.360 That one's going to be honored.

00:17:22.320 So it'll never happen again.

00:17:23.560 We won't speak of it.

00:17:24.360 Okay.

00:17:24.760 All righty.

00:17:25.060 Now we have a nice message from someone here.

00:17:28.280 Hey, Matt.

00:17:29.300 As a world-renowned children's author, biologist, and the foremost theocratic fascist in American history, 0.58

00:17:36.640 when are you throwing your hat in the race?

00:17:38.920 2024?

00:17:39.360 2024? 0.96

00:17:40.660 Um, I would rather be set on fire and then drowned. 0.76

00:17:49.880 That's what I always say.

00:17:50.920 Instead of running for office.

00:17:52.300 Like, I'd rather, I'd literally rather be dead than run for office.

00:17:54.660 So, uh, that will just simply never happen at all, ever.

00:17:59.340 Yep.

00:18:00.320 And how dare you even ask me?

00:18:02.560 You're banned from this book signing.

00:18:03.800 Get out.

00:18:04.800 You're banned from the sweet baby gang?

00:18:06.680 Yeah.

00:18:07.340 Yeah.

00:18:07.980 All righty.

00:18:08.560 Stephen has a question.

00:18:11.260 Why do we not see or hear about Johnny's dad in the book?

00:18:15.440 I assume it is because Johnny's dad was at work to provide for his family.

00:18:19.020 Thanks, Matt.

00:18:19.980 Um, no.

00:18:21.020 Not at all.

00:18:21.420 That's not the reason.

00:18:21.940 In fact, there was a, there's a very pointed, it's a very, it's a very pointed absence not

00:18:27.320 having Johnny the walrus's dad in the picture because you're going to find so often with kids

00:18:31.980 who, um, are led into these delusions that the father is either physically absent or he

00:18:42.500 might be physically present, but he's, you know, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually

00:18:46.780 absent.

00:18:47.300 So, um, the fact that the father is an absence in this tale is quite intentional.

00:18:54.100 And also the fact that so much of the story really, we call Johnny the walrus, but so much

00:18:58.900 of the story is really about the mom, um, because, you know, again, when you have a child in this

00:19:06.340 situation in real life, it's really the parents very often who are leading the charge there.

00:19:11.580 Uh, I was watching, I saw a TikTok earlier of this woman who is yelling about her child's 0.95

00:19:18.860 pediatric, or pediatrician, it was her nine-year-old, um, and the pediatrician said this nine-year-old

00:19:23.540 is not old enough to know herself and know that she wants to transition, so no, I'm not

00:19:28.040 going to prescribe her any hormone therapy or even sign a letter to get her, like, her 0.78

00:19:32.840 name changed.

00:19:33.960 And the mother was basically, like, having a meltdown saying, like, my child wants this.

00:19:38.960 It was just, you see that, and it's, like, these mental delusions.

00:19:42.180 It's criminal.

00:19:42.880 I saw that clip, and that's, that's, that mother managed to find, and she was upset about

00:19:47.640 finding it, but she managed to find one of the only good pediatricians left in America.

00:19:50.780 Shocking.

00:19:51.120 She was upset about it, um, but that's, of course, exactly what any doctor should say,

00:19:55.040 because kids, you know, my oldest kids are, uh, eight years old, almost nine.

00:19:59.100 Mm-hmm.

00:19:59.320 And, um, even at that age, they just have no clue about the world, about themselves.

00:20:05.900 Mm-hmm.

00:20:06.500 They can't make any decisions at all, so the idea that they could be able to choose their 0.99

00:20:10.780 own gender is totally ridiculous. 1.00

00:20:12.860 Yep. 0.99

00:20:13.660 Um, an example I give all the time, just a simple example, is, you know, if you take your

00:20:19.340 kid to the restaurant, and the waiter comes out, and then you say to your kid this, and I

00:20:26.180 feel, I always feel bad for waiters when parents do this, because the waiter's standing there,

00:20:29.340 and then you say to the kid, well, what would you like to have?

00:20:31.420 Mm-hmm.

00:20:31.940 And then they're going to sit there for 45 minutes, going through everything on the menu,

00:20:35.660 mm-hmm.

00:20:35.940 Before they settle on something, and then you get that for them, and then you bring it

00:20:38.960 out, and they don't want to eat it, because they actually want something else.

00:20:41.200 So it's just, kids can't decide anything.

00:20:42.700 They can't make any choices.

00:20:44.320 Well, at nine years old, I said this on my show earlier, I think I was running around wearing

00:20:48.280 Harry Potter cloaks, and I thought that I was a wizard.

00:20:52.340 I am one, actually.

00:20:53.080 At nine, or recently?

00:20:54.040 At nine.

00:20:54.660 Oh, no, this was last week, actually.

00:20:56.180 You know, I was out in Franklin, and I was, you know, running around casting spells.

00:21:00.740 No.

00:21:02.200 All right, we have a, this is not a question.

00:21:04.380 This is just a nice message from Laura.

00:21:07.060 She says, hi, Matt.

00:21:08.040 I keep thinking I'm going to send you an email about all of the things I agree with

00:21:11.440 you on, but you'd be reading a 10-plus page email.

00:21:14.540 No one has time for that.

00:21:15.820 I did want to tell you, though, that today is my birthday.

00:21:18.320 I got the best gift of all, a copy of Johnny the Walrus.

00:21:20.980 My husband bought me a copy because I kept talking about it, and he surprised me with it

00:21:25.060 this morning.

00:21:25.520 He also bought me the cleaning supplies that you talked about for Valentine's Day.

00:21:29.940 Thank you.

00:21:30.540 They work really well, and I use them all the time.

00:21:33.060 Thanks so much for your podcast.

00:21:34.540 It's awesome, and I really enjoy listening to it every day.

00:21:37.120 It's really nice.

00:21:38.160 Well, ma'am, you are married to a great man, is all I could say.

00:21:41.560 And I don't usually do this because I'm against birthdays, but I will.

00:21:45.520 I'll make an exception because I'm in the children's author uniform, and I'm feeling

00:21:50.040 more generous, and I will say, happy birthday.

00:21:53.040 I thought you were about to sing, and I was going to be really uncomfortable.

00:21:54.820 No, no, that's not going to be.

00:21:55.580 I was going to be like, this is an odd character development here.

00:21:59.140 I've been told that my singing voice sounds a little bit like a dying moose, and I've

00:22:04.340 never heard a moose die, but I assume that's not a compliment, so.

00:22:06.940 That could be your next children's book, The Moose?

00:22:09.500 The Dying Moose?

00:22:10.580 Yeah.

00:22:10.960 It'll go a little bit of a darker direction.

00:22:12.900 Well, they're already saying you have a dark children's book.

00:22:14.880 You can just lean into it.

00:22:15.600 That's true.

00:22:16.880 Let's see.

00:22:17.800 Andrea says, how long did it take you to write Johnny the Walrus?

00:22:21.940 What was the writing process like?

00:22:25.840 It took many, many, many seconds of effort to write.

00:22:33.520 It's a very thick book.

00:22:35.220 I mean, yeah.

00:22:35.860 It's, you know, look at the thickness of that book.

00:22:37.900 Of course, there's only like two words per page, but still.

00:22:43.220 Let's see.

00:22:44.080 Okay.

00:22:44.300 Okay, we have, this is another question from NRA Certified Loverboy.

00:22:49.920 I'm sorry, what now?

00:22:51.360 Who's it from?

00:22:52.520 His username is NRA Certified Loverboy.

00:22:56.620 NRA Certified Loverboy.

00:22:58.760 So that username takes all kinds of weird turns.

00:23:01.820 I kind of like it.

00:23:03.000 Ends with me being confused.

00:23:04.200 I like the chaos.

00:23:05.080 Well, it's good.

00:23:05.540 You're using Matt Walsh.

00:23:06.460 All right.

00:23:06.880 If you had to come up with an alias like Dr. Seuss, what would it be?

00:23:10.760 That's a good one.

00:23:11.240 Well, I wouldn't because I want all the credit for the book that I wrote.

00:23:18.620 I don't know why people would do that.

00:23:19.740 I thought, you know, Mark Twain, Dr. Seuss.

00:23:22.440 I mean, I want the credit personally.

00:23:23.700 So why would I ever do something like that?

00:23:26.680 Okay.

00:23:27.140 All right.

00:23:27.460 So we have, oh, we have three new members.

00:23:30.460 This is from that group earlier.

00:23:32.000 So we have Victoria from Grand Prairie, Texas.

00:23:36.420 Ooh.

00:23:37.220 Christopher from Westerfield, Ohio.

00:23:40.220 And Christian from Michigan.

00:23:42.580 Love it.

00:23:44.060 Are those the same ones?

00:23:45.140 No, these are new ones.

00:23:46.120 Okay.

00:23:46.520 So do you want to welcome them to the Sweet Baby Gang and to the Daily Wire all-access world?

00:23:50.160 We're doing the same.

00:23:50.740 Okay.

00:23:51.380 Well, look.

00:23:53.800 If I could say one thing to you and one thing only, I would say you're one of a kind.

00:24:01.640 And I'm so happy and I'm so proud of you.

00:24:05.440 And I'm so glad that you're all a part of my Sweet Baby Gang.

00:24:08.920 I kind of, like, I feel like that should be, like, a ringtone or something.

00:24:16.700 Like, people can call into that.

00:24:18.140 People do ringtones anymore?

00:24:19.340 Not a ringtone, but a voicemail.

00:24:21.900 Like, if we set up, like, a hotline where people could call and just hear that message

00:24:25.820 from the soothing voice of a number one best-selling children's author.

00:24:30.660 Let's just move on with our lives and pretend none of this is happening.

00:24:34.620 All right.

00:24:37.140 This one is from Kent Pittsburgh.

00:24:39.800 He says, are you planning a Johnny Trilogy and creating a Johnny Universe and a Johnny Multiverse?

00:24:46.020 This guy has big dreams for you.

00:24:48.440 Yeah, well, that's kind of the big question right now in the creative development department

00:24:53.380 where we're sitting down with the creative team for hours a day, and we're talking about this.

00:24:57.820 So you and your wife.

00:24:59.060 Yeah, exactly.

00:25:00.160 And so the question is, do you, you know, do you continue the story of Johnny, or has

00:25:05.500 the Johnny story been told?

00:25:06.960 Is there more to say about Johnny?

00:25:09.880 Or do you extend it into the Johnny the Walrus universe, but you let Johnny be, you know,

00:25:16.020 with this happily ever after sort of ending?

00:25:19.100 And I don't know.

00:25:20.360 We're still working that out.

00:25:22.200 Big dreams.

00:25:23.000 It's an intense creative process.

00:25:25.700 Are you like Johnny the Walrus?

00:25:27.460 Like, do you have a big imagination and lots of questions?

00:25:32.200 I didn't even realize that this was, I thought I was asking you a question.

00:25:36.460 Well, are you like, are you like?

00:25:37.900 Who's asking this question?

00:25:38.880 You're asking or something else?

00:25:39.440 I'm about to ask it, but I wanted to ask you.

00:25:41.020 I was going to ask them, but I wanted to ask you.

00:25:42.740 Are you, do you find yourself like Johnny?

00:25:45.580 Yeah, this was basically an autobiography, this book.

00:25:48.840 But you are.

00:25:49.620 This is a true story.

00:25:50.640 But isn't the illustration.

00:25:52.460 My parents tried to abandon me at a zoo.

00:25:55.000 That's actually, that's actually.

00:25:56.300 Is that a true story?

00:25:56.880 That's the only true part.

00:25:58.640 And.

00:25:59.480 Well, I think that this is you, right?

00:26:02.700 That's your life.

00:26:03.140 That's me.

00:26:03.640 Yes.

00:26:03.880 So that's, that's how we've kind of done it.

00:26:05.860 I'm just kidding, by the way.

00:26:06.800 My parents did not abandon me at a zoo.

00:26:08.880 My mom is watching this.

00:26:10.080 I'm going to get a fall later.

00:26:12.600 All righty.

00:26:13.340 Now, if you are like Johnny and you have a big imagination and lots of questions for Matt,

00:26:19.460 we want to hear them.

00:26:20.560 So type your questions into the Daily Wire chat box at dailywire.com and we will hit Matt

00:26:26.200 with them.

00:26:26.660 He is still sitting here.

00:26:27.880 He is not allowed to leave.

00:26:30.040 He has to continue chit-chatting with me.

00:26:32.700 Brianna has a question for you.

00:26:34.320 How much longer is it?

00:26:35.580 Okay.

00:26:36.600 Matt loves me.

00:26:37.160 He loves hanging out with me all the time.

00:26:39.160 Hi, Matt.

00:26:39.880 My husband and I are pregnant with our first baby.

00:26:41.840 We are starting prep work and thinking about homeschooling.

00:26:44.720 I know you are a big advocate, but we really don't know how it works and would love to

00:26:48.320 know what you and your wife do to homeschool your children.

00:26:52.820 You know, the thing that I do for homeschooling is just that I, my wife does it and I, I'm

00:27:02.320 really like moral support.

00:27:04.040 So I'm there to say, hey, atta girl, doing a great job.

00:27:07.400 No, I mean, she does do most of the homeschooling because I'm, because I'm at work most of the

00:27:09.720 day.

00:27:09.900 So, but it's, what I'll say is that homeschooling is a, it's a, it's a,

00:27:14.720 I think that sometimes people in the homeschooling community can, uh, underemphasize the difficulties

00:27:21.440 of it.

00:27:21.660 Like it is, it is really hard to do, but that's just the case with parenting in general.

00:27:25.740 I mean, parenting is a difficult thing, but it's incredibly rewarding.

00:27:28.300 And I think that, uh, once you'll hear from most homeschooling parents that, uh, once they

00:27:34.080 started kind of homeschooling, they realized that although it's hard, it's not as hard as

00:27:38.380 they thought it would be.

00:27:39.480 And it's also really rewarding.

00:27:40.880 And you know what?

00:27:41.320 It's actually nice to have your kids around for, for the day.

00:27:44.160 Um, if you can believe it, you might actually start enjoying your kid's company.

00:27:49.780 You know, I was homeschooled for my entire life.

00:27:53.260 And look how you turned out.

00:27:54.260 Here you go.

00:27:54.820 I know.

00:27:55.220 Did you turn out well or what?

00:27:56.520 I think I did.

00:27:57.320 I'm sitting here with you.

00:27:58.540 True.

00:27:58.860 Good point.

00:27:59.620 So this is the dream.

00:28:01.340 Um, but no, that's true about people underestimating, underestimating how hard it is.

00:28:05.380 I think a lot of people also forget that that's where kind of like the stigma about like

00:28:09.860 the social interactions and that kind of thing, but you are taking on their social development

00:28:14.200 as well as academic, which is a whole other, uh, ball game.

00:28:18.260 Well, what you're doing is you're taking on the job of being a parent for the time, um,

00:28:21.520 rather than pawning it off to the school system, uh, which, you know, it is, it is easier in

00:28:26.680 the, in the short term to pawn that off to the school system.

00:28:28.920 But I don't think it works best for your kids, especially these days.

00:28:33.600 All right.

00:28:33.780 Now, Lindsay is asking, how did you propose to your wife?

00:28:37.340 How long did it take for you to know that you wanted to marry her?

00:28:39.840 That's a sweet one.

00:28:42.540 Um, I knew that I wanted to marry her.

00:28:44.500 I mean, honestly, it was, I would say like about six minutes probably, um, maybe a little

00:28:51.040 bit longer than that, but I proposed after six months and I think kind of like what it,

00:28:57.380 it, it, people have this idea these days that first of all, I'm, I'm so hot in this

00:29:01.180 sweater.

00:29:01.620 I don't know if it's, it's obvious.

00:29:02.540 Look at me, how much I'm sweating.

00:29:04.100 It's disgusting.

00:29:04.520 Feeling it.

00:29:05.200 Um, people think these days that, you know, you have to be with someone for like five years

00:29:12.840 before, you know, if they're marriage material.

00:29:14.820 But I think once you realize that you have the deepest things in common, you have the same

00:29:21.280 basic values and priorities in life, you want the same thing out of life, you're both taking

00:29:24.460 the relationship seriously, um, and all of that, then, um, I think it's, you know, you

00:29:30.080 know, you can move on to the next stage, which is engagement.

00:29:32.360 And how did you propose to her?

00:29:34.560 I did propose, it's pretty cliche, but I did propose on a beach.

00:29:37.600 So that was my romantic.

00:29:40.660 That was my one attempt.

00:29:42.940 Alrighty.

00:29:43.380 Now we have another question.

00:29:45.060 Um, they say, we love the book question.

00:29:47.480 I skipped the word bigot because I don't want my three-year-old running around saying bigot

00:29:51.280 all the time, thoughts, did you have hesitance before putting that, uh, in the book?

00:29:55.780 P.S.

00:29:56.180 My son loves the book and so do we.

00:29:59.080 Yeah.

00:29:59.440 I mean, we didn't want to put anything, we didn't want to put any words or concepts in

00:30:02.480 the book that we wouldn't want, um, a kid to be introduced to, uh, which is why in spite

00:30:10.240 of what Amazon, the Amazonians claim, it actually does not say the word transgender in the book

00:30:16.060 at all, um, but, you know, I think it's, it's just a judgment call.

00:30:20.620 I mean, a word like bigot, it's not a, it's not a curse word.

00:30:22.660 It's a word that unfortunately people encounter that you're, even your kids are going to encounter

00:30:26.020 pretty young ages.

00:30:27.420 And, um, I actually think it's a good thing for kids to, they hear the word bigots, you

00:30:32.060 know, and to them, they hear it first in this book.

00:30:35.200 And so to them, it's, so they see it in this sort of like silly context. 0.93

00:30:38.040 It's a silly word. 0.68

00:30:38.900 It doesn't really mean anything. 0.88

00:30:39.720 And that's the truth because that's, that's actually the way the word bigot is used these days as

00:30:43.860 emotional blackmail.

00:30:45.100 Uh, it basically doesn't mean anything anymore.

00:30:46.860 So I think it's not a bad thing for them to have that kind of framework for the word.

00:30:52.660 Let's see.

00:30:54.080 Uh, let's see.

00:30:54.680 Oh, we have another question.

00:30:56.360 What is your favorite children's book besides Johnny the Walrus?

00:30:59.480 Of course.

00:31:00.380 Um, I am a Dr. Seuss guy from way back in the day, even before he was canceled.

00:31:05.620 You know, I liked Dr. Seuss before it was cool.

00:31:07.420 So I'm a big cat in the hat, you know, Fox and Socks is my jam.

00:31:11.680 Um, hop on pop, even though it promotes elder abuse, arguably all those books.

00:31:18.260 Did you ever, uh, read the giving tree?

00:31:22.900 Um, I kind of, I always hated that book.

00:31:25.640 That was probably the children's book that I despised the most.

00:31:28.560 I did read it and I found it to be incredibly weird and sad and disturbing.

00:31:31.820 Yeah.

00:31:32.320 Kind of like Johnny the Walrus.

00:31:33.360 Just kidding.

00:31:33.920 There you go.

00:31:34.360 No, it's not.

00:31:35.620 Uh, I think that was the one that my mom didn't even let me like keep in the house after a while,

00:31:41.220 just because I think it disturbed her as well.

00:31:43.340 All right.

00:31:43.460 We have another question.

00:31:44.580 Would there be a Johnny the Walrus animated show on Daily Wire Kids?

00:31:48.780 That's a good question.

00:31:50.440 Um, I would love it, but you got to talk to, uh, you got to talk to the God King.

00:31:54.720 You got to talk, I mean, that's, this is not my call.

00:31:56.580 So put the pressure on him to make it happen.

00:31:59.060 You start tweeting at Jeremy Boring.

00:32:00.180 Yeah.

00:32:00.280 Uh, so if you are just joining us, we are here live with best-selling LGBT children's

00:32:06.280 author, Matt Walsh, as he autographs copies of his number one book, Johnny the Walrus,

00:32:10.940 which is only available to Daily Wire all-access members.

00:32:13.960 So if you are not already a member and you want to be one, uh, go to dailywire.com slash

00:32:19.380 Johnny and you will get a signed Johnny the Walrus book plus a Leftist Tears Tumblr for free

00:32:24.940 when you join.

00:32:26.000 It's a great deal.

00:32:27.080 You are missing out.

00:32:27.960 You are not an all-access member.

00:32:32.100 See, this is getting hard.

00:32:33.780 I feel like I need to, like, sit on the floor and hand me these now.

00:32:36.000 Yeah, I'm obviously working up a sweat by signing these books and also by having, I said before

00:32:40.120 we went on the air that it's, like, really hot in here and I'm dressed for 40 degree

00:32:42.680 temperatures and then, oh my gosh, this is just terrible.

00:32:46.380 Well, I feel like as, like, a children's author and you're kind of having that whole character,

00:32:52.160 I feel like, like, men, you know, I see, I see, like, an old children's, like, author

00:32:56.980 and he's, like, a sweet little old man who always kind of, like, runs cold and has a

00:33:00.560 chill.

00:33:01.600 So you see an old sweaty man when you're looking at me.

00:33:03.760 It's what I want to think.

00:33:04.380 Okay.

00:33:04.780 No, no, no, no, no.

00:33:05.340 You need to be pretending like you have a chill.

00:33:08.500 Like, you're just always kind of cold.

00:33:09.480 Oh, I don't have a chill at all.

00:33:11.020 I'm, like, dying if you exhaust me right now.

00:33:13.720 Okay.

00:33:14.440 We're going to distract you from that because Justin has a question for you.

00:33:18.200 What do you think the most important subjects are that should be taught to students in K

00:33:23.520 through 12?

00:33:27.020 Hydration is really important, so don't pass out when you're wearing a cardigan when

00:33:31.660 it's 80 degrees inside.

00:33:32.660 Drink out of your...

00:33:33.580 Oh, yeah, I do have water, don't I?

00:33:34.760 Good point.

00:33:37.380 Most important subjects in school.

00:33:38.560 So I think the subjects that they allegedly actually teach, the core subjects, are all

00:33:43.700 really important.

00:33:44.620 The problem is you actually have to teach them.

00:33:47.120 Like, teach...

00:33:47.840 Oh, there's...

00:33:48.260 Oh, look at that.

00:33:49.440 You know what?

00:33:49.800 I know it distracts from the audio a little bit, but then visually you're saved from what

00:33:54.340 you're seeing right now, which is the good part by having the air on.

00:33:57.780 So teach history.

00:33:59.940 You know, I think that's one of the most important and most neglected subjects in school

00:34:04.240 right now.

00:34:04.640 Kids have no understanding of their own history, you know, where they, where they, where their

00:34:13.660 country came from, or anything like that.

00:34:16.300 So I think that's probably the most important subject.

00:34:18.140 That was a good one.

00:34:18.700 You did a little twist in there.

00:34:20.360 Look at that.

00:34:22.040 Yeah.

00:34:22.680 That was pretty good.

00:34:23.560 Yeah, I like that.

00:34:24.340 Add a little one in there. 0.89

00:34:26.300 Let's see.

00:34:26.840 We have, what advice do you have for my wife, who is a preschool teacher and terrified of 1.00

00:34:31.460 reading this book in her class?

00:34:32.760 Um, I would say just do it and deal with the consequences when it comes.

00:34:42.580 That's my, that's my thing.

00:34:43.760 I think, uh, look, they, in every school in America, they've got the opposite of this book.

00:34:50.360 And so there's no reason, like you have a pretty good argument.

00:34:53.220 If you read the book and you get in trouble and the administration is coming after you,

00:34:57.620 um, you have a pretty rock solid argument.

00:34:59.380 And also what it really is, the book, it's actually a book, what I'm trying to tell people,

00:35:03.560 what I've been saying is it's actually a book about self-acceptance.

00:35:05.940 It's about teaching kids to accept who they actually are, who they really are authentically.

00:35:10.800 Um, and when I was a kid, um, every book, the, the core message of every children's book

00:35:18.440 was self-acceptance.

00:35:19.760 And, uh, you know, way back in the dark old days of the nineties, and that's what this

00:35:23.860 book is.

00:35:24.180 Like, accept who you really are.

00:35:26.060 Don't try to reach for some delusional version of yourself.

00:35:30.700 I think that, uh, brings us to our next question.

00:35:35.840 This person has a deep question.

00:35:38.440 Uh, what is a walrus?

00:35:41.580 A walrus is an adult human, oh no, that's the other one.

00:35:44.260 Um, the definition of, well, you know, a walrus is really, a walrus is anyone who identifies

00:35:51.480 as a walrus.

00:35:52.280 I go, anyone who identifies as a walrus is a walrus.

00:35:55.780 What would walrus pronouns be?

00:35:57.820 Wal, wal.

00:35:59.200 We have that in the book, actually, I think.

00:36:01.340 I think, that's somewhere in there.

00:36:02.540 That's an Easter egg, you can find it.

00:36:03.860 Walrux is one of the pronouns.

00:36:04.440 It's in one of the, it's on one of the posters, isn't it?

00:36:06.640 We do have the official walrus pronouns in here.

00:36:08.600 Oh, I'm missing it.

00:36:09.720 He, him, walrux.

00:36:11.220 Walrux.

00:36:11.640 Yeah, those are the pronouns.

00:36:13.620 I should put that in my bio.

00:36:15.240 Walrux.

00:36:16.380 Yeah, I'll become one.

00:36:17.960 Uh, oh, we have new members, more new members.

00:36:20.260 Thank you all for signing up during this.

00:36:21.720 It means we're doing a good job, I think.

00:36:23.640 Uh, let's see.

00:36:24.420 Luke from San Diego, uh, Crystal from Washington, and Melissa from New River, Arizona.

00:36:33.180 Are you going to welcome them?

00:36:34.340 Oh.

00:36:35.580 You know, in these stressful times, the best thing you could do is take a breath and listen.

00:36:44.620 Specifically, listen to me.

00:36:45.620 And rest assured, once you open your heart and your ears to me, you will find answers.

00:36:50.380 What the hell am I reading?

00:36:51.680 Who wrote that? 0.63

00:36:52.800 What?

00:36:53.200 What?

00:36:55.160 I guess, because I'm a cult leader?

00:36:56.920 Is that what that's supposed to be?

00:36:58.180 Well, it's for your podcast, you know?

00:36:59.900 All right.

00:37:01.420 They listen to you every morning, and you become enlightened.

00:37:03.600 Uh, yeah, I guess it is, you know, I do advertise myself as a cult leader, so I've got to start

00:37:09.460 leaning into that.

00:37:10.980 You know where the robes, too?

00:37:13.480 Um, that's the next stage.

00:37:15.340 Got it.

00:37:15.880 Moving on from cardio.

00:37:16.660 This is too hot.

00:37:17.400 You've got to move into something a little more.

00:37:18.460 That would certainly be a lot more appropriate for the temperature.

00:37:22.160 Let's see.

00:37:22.780 Okay.

00:37:23.080 We have another one.

00:37:23.940 Uh, what would you rather be forced to do?

00:37:26.760 Use a microwave or leave your shopping cart in the middle of a parking lot?

00:37:31.940 Um, rather be forced to do?

00:37:34.680 Well, I mean, I would use the microwave.

00:37:36.780 I mean, for me, the shopping cart issue is at the core of my moral identity.

00:37:42.700 Um, my anti-microwave stance is not quite that deep-seated, so I don't know.

00:37:50.220 It's just microwaves, I think, are unnecessary.

00:37:52.220 You don't really need them.

00:37:54.320 Uh, whatever your microwave does, you have other appliances in your kitchen that do the

00:37:57.540 same thing and probably do it better.

00:37:59.700 How do you feel about...

00:38:00.440 And it probably causes cancer.

00:38:01.540 I have no information for that whatsoever, but I just assume that it does.

00:38:04.340 How do you feel about the microwave that we have in the break room?

00:38:07.060 It does, like, multiple functions.

00:38:09.080 It's not just a microwave, which shocked me.

00:38:11.440 It's weird.

00:38:11.820 See, I don't use it.

00:38:12.660 That's the thing.

00:38:13.120 I think microwaves make the food always taste worse, and that's the other thing, so...

00:38:16.940 And that's the other point about microwaves that's really important, is that, since this

00:38:20.580 is what we're talking about now, if you're using a microwave to heat up, like, leftovers,

00:38:27.100 you're almost always better off just eating them cold to begin with, so...

00:38:30.700 Which is how most leftovers should be consumed.

00:38:34.820 That's my stance on that.

00:38:35.940 That's a hot take.

00:38:37.140 Shoot a TED Talk on that.

00:38:38.840 It's true.

00:38:39.420 In your next book.

00:38:39.920 Let's see.

00:38:43.320 This one is from Totally Not An Alien.

00:38:46.800 Have you been in touch with aliens?

00:38:48.940 If not, would you like to?

00:38:50.720 Do you think the government is cooperating with me, I mean them, already?

00:38:55.620 Totally not an alien.

00:38:56.860 I have not, I very much would like to be in touch with aliens.

00:39:00.420 I have made clear to the aliens that, you know, I'm on their side, and I fully welcome

00:39:07.260 them to take over, enslave us, incinerate us, whatever they feel like they need to do.

00:39:11.980 Although I did just read, and I only read the headline, like a good Americans, because

00:39:16.520 that's all I do, but I read the New York Post article that NASA scientists are sending nude

00:39:23.520 images of people into space to try to entice aliens.

00:39:29.980 I'm not making that up.

00:39:31.360 That was the headline, anyway.

00:39:33.620 Did you see...

00:39:34.920 I don't know.

00:39:36.180 I don't know anything else.

00:39:37.160 All I know is that they're sending nude images.

00:39:39.020 We are sending unsolicited nudes to alien civilizations. 0.95

00:39:44.520 We are sexually harassing E.T.

00:39:47.780 We're talking about this as you're signing your children's book.

00:39:51.340 Well, that's what we're doing.

00:39:51.900 I didn't decide to do that.

00:39:53.000 NASA's doing that. 0.99

00:39:53.720 This is why we need to... 0.99

00:39:55.040 Elon Musk needs to buy NASA, because we're going to become, you know, sex slaves of aliens 0.99

00:40:01.820 or something. 0.98

00:40:02.760 This is horrifying.

00:40:03.680 Did you watch Demi Lovato's show?

00:40:05.440 It's a true story.

00:40:06.420 Where she, they, what alien self goes and sings to the...

00:40:11.100 Oh, yeah.

00:40:11.460 She said that she made contact with her.

00:40:12.740 I actually believe that.

00:40:13.600 I mean, she...

00:40:14.900 I believe that there's been some extraterrestrial influence over Demi Lovato.

00:40:20.460 She did an interview, I think it was with Drew Barrymore.

00:40:23.720 Or no, actually, it was some, like, Entertainment Tonight person.

00:40:25.920 And the Entertainment Tonight person was like, would you ever date an E.T.?

00:40:29.420 And she so confidently was like, yes, I hate humans. 0.51

00:40:31.980 Like, I need to date an E.T.

00:40:34.520 It might be the only people that she can get along with at this point.

00:40:38.180 Yeah, I don't know.

00:40:38.640 Demi Lovato, I don't know if she was ever normal, but I feel like her transition from

00:40:44.820 normal to lunatic has been quite dramatic and quite sudden.

00:40:49.480 Although, I don't know.

00:40:50.180 Maybe she's the one putting together this little cooperation with NASA.

00:40:57.640 Oh, sending the nudes to the aliens?

00:40:58.820 Yeah, yeah, it could be her.

00:40:59.460 That's a good theory.

00:41:00.920 Let's see.

00:41:01.700 As you can see yourself, Matt is doing a masterful job.

00:41:05.860 I mean, look at you.

00:41:06.280 Wow, that one was good.

00:41:07.620 You didn't connect it there.

00:41:08.340 I kind of screwed that one up.

00:41:09.500 Okay, well, he was doing a masterful job autographing these copies of Johnny the Walrus, and if

00:41:14.100 you want one, all you've got to do is become an all-access member, so you can go to dailywire.com

00:41:19.880 slash Johnny, and one of these signed books could be yours.

00:41:23.620 Can you guys see right there?

00:41:24.920 It says it's going to the mailbox.

00:41:26.800 We are literally, when we're finished, these are going to go straight in the mail.

00:41:30.560 We're going to have to repack this box a little bit, but...

00:41:33.500 You're going to take them to UPS right after this, right?

00:41:36.400 I'm such a mess, yeah, I guess.

00:41:37.940 Right?

00:41:38.440 It's going to be great.

00:41:39.180 I'm going to have to do this over here.

00:41:40.580 So, if you are already an all-access member, do not worry.

00:41:43.960 You also have exclusive access to a signed copy of Johnny the Walrus at dailywire.com.

00:41:49.820 Click shop at the top of the page.

00:41:51.540 You can find this book, get your signed copy.

00:41:53.820 So, if you're already a member, do not worry.

00:41:56.440 You are still included.

00:41:58.200 Let's see.

00:41:58.760 All right, Nick Baker has another question.

00:42:00.760 Will the Daily Wire be producing an official Johnny the Walrus Halloween costume?

00:42:06.480 That's fun.

00:42:07.360 I hope so.

00:42:08.540 I will demand it now.

00:42:10.520 I have no idea about what the Daily Wire is going to do, because I'm not in on any of

00:42:13.940 those conversations at all, but I'll push for that, because I love that idea.

00:42:20.520 I'll be Johnny the Walrus for Halloween.

00:42:22.600 The entire office can be.

00:42:24.280 Yeah.

00:42:24.960 It's like a fever dream for you.

00:42:26.500 Yeah.

00:42:27.560 This whole thing's a fever dream.

00:42:28.660 This right here is.

00:42:29.440 It all is.

00:42:30.760 Let's see.

00:42:31.320 All right.

00:42:31.620 If everyone in the Daily Wire turned into an animal, which animal do you think they would

00:42:36.240 be and why?

00:42:37.260 You can just do the most.

00:42:37.900 Oh, my gosh.

00:42:40.120 All right.

00:42:40.380 What do you think?

00:42:40.780 I'll let you answer that.

00:42:41.620 Oh.

00:42:41.880 I'm going to pawn that off to you.

00:42:44.080 Would you be a walrus?

00:42:49.140 That's a difficult question.

00:42:51.780 I have no opinion about what animal I would be.

00:42:54.560 I've been told.

00:42:55.100 A bird?

00:42:55.400 I don't know.

00:42:55.700 I could fly.

00:42:56.020 I hate birds.

00:42:58.720 You hate birds.

00:42:59.740 They scare me.

00:43:01.640 I have, like, a genuine fear of birds.

00:43:04.340 I've been attacked by a seagull one too many times.

00:43:06.860 One too many times?

00:43:07.840 Yes.

00:43:08.080 How many times have you been attacked by a seagull?

00:43:08.820 Like four.

00:43:09.620 I lived in L.A.

00:43:11.320 The hard part.

00:43:11.760 Is that what happens in L.A.?

00:43:12.720 Yeah.

00:43:13.140 I don't think you have to worry about seagulls when you're walking down the road.

00:43:15.620 No, like in Santa Monica.

00:43:17.260 They're terrifying.

00:43:17.880 And then we had a flock of ducks when I was growing up.

00:43:19.540 Is seagull a euphemism for, like, crackhead or something?

00:43:22.160 Okay, well, I'm also afraid of those, but then you can go to the beach and you have seagulls.

00:43:28.060 So I would not be a bird.

00:43:29.580 I've been told before that I have the essence of, like, a prairie dog or something like that.

00:43:34.160 Or, you know, like, when you go to the zoo and it's, like, little dogs that, like, pop out of the holes or whatever?

00:43:39.460 Maybe that would be my...

00:43:40.100 You'd be a prairie dog.

00:43:40.700 I don't know.

00:43:41.180 That's what I've been told.

00:43:41.860 You want to be a small rodent who lives in the dirt.

00:43:44.740 It's better than a bird.

00:43:47.180 Well, you can fly in there when you're a bird.

00:43:48.880 That's the whole point.

00:43:49.480 Hey, you know what?

00:43:50.720 It's fine.

00:43:51.340 I would, okay.

00:43:52.100 You could be any animal, animal can you, but you'd be a prairie dog.

00:43:54.360 I've just been told that.

00:43:55.400 I wouldn't choose it for myself.

00:43:56.640 Where you, if you come out of your hole, you get eaten by an owl.

00:43:58.720 You're afraid of birds, you want to be a prairie dog.

00:44:00.020 I would be a koala.

00:44:01.560 I would be a koala. 0.78

00:44:02.380 I'm choosing that.

00:44:03.640 A what?

00:44:04.160 A koala.

00:44:05.240 Oh, okay. 1.00

00:44:05.820 So pick the most useless animal on the face of the earth. 0.99

00:44:08.660 Listen, everybody likes koalas. 0.98

00:44:11.700 Only slightly less useless than the panda, but people know my feelings about pandas.

00:44:16.540 Yeah, well, I won't be a panda.

00:44:17.820 Did we sign them all?

00:44:18.700 Yeah, we did.

00:44:19.420 Oh, wow.

00:44:19.880 We have to keep chitchatting, though.

00:44:20.780 You're not allowed to leave yet.

00:44:21.920 So we're going to actually go through this.

00:44:23.680 All right, so you would be some kind of bird.

00:44:25.340 You know what?

00:44:25.580 Hold on a second, because I've already signed all the books, and I'm feeling very generous.

00:44:30.620 So we've got these two things here.

00:44:32.400 Am I still on camera, or am I just, I am on camera.

00:44:34.540 Okay.

00:44:34.840 Okay.

00:44:34.980 So my thought is, why don't I sign Johnny and the walrus, and then, here we go.

00:44:46.760 Nice.

00:44:47.320 And then I'll give these two away to one of our new members.

00:44:53.560 One of our new all-access members will get this.

00:44:59.240 Get this giant walrus signed by me in the mail.

00:45:02.960 And you can flip that on Amazon, sell it for...

00:45:05.660 eBay.

00:45:06.240 ...$5 at least.

00:45:07.600 eBay.

00:45:08.060 Yeah.

00:45:08.900 How are you going to mail that?

00:45:10.720 How are we going to mail it?

00:45:11.360 I have no idea.

00:45:11.720 How are you going to?

00:45:12.040 That's a problem someone else is going to have to solve.

00:45:15.820 Handle it?

00:45:16.260 Yeah.

00:45:16.560 Maybe that's it.

00:45:17.080 That's good.

00:45:17.720 I will personally bring this to your house.

00:45:21.420 That part's not true.

00:45:21.920 That's not weird at all.

00:45:23.020 At all.

00:45:25.000 I was going to make us continue the animal question, but I think that we got down a bad rabbit hole.

00:45:30.220 I don't know.

00:45:30.600 A fairy dog hole is what we went down, and it was very strange.

00:45:34.020 Listen, the fairy dog holes.

00:45:35.920 Okay.

00:45:36.800 I just don't understand.

00:45:37.640 Okay, we can move on.

00:45:38.360 But you're afraid of birds, and so you want to be afraid of a bird.

00:45:45.380 I don't want to be one.

00:45:46.440 I've just been told before.

00:45:47.420 We're going to move on, because now I'm feeling...

00:45:49.860 Attack?

00:45:50.240 I'm triggered.

00:45:51.540 Just like the Amazon.

00:45:52.380 Now you know how the Amazon employees felt.

00:45:53.900 I know.

00:45:54.280 I'm going to tweet about this later.

00:45:57.000 How many cardigans do you have now?

00:46:00.740 I have a growing collection, but I have to keep them all here.

00:46:06.860 Because my wife has promised to burn them if she ever gets a hold of them.

00:46:11.380 Because she does not like this whole children's author.

00:46:13.340 She likes the children's author thing, but not the look.

00:46:15.120 She's not into the look.

00:46:16.780 Which just makes me like it even more, because it annoys her, and I find that very funny.

00:46:20.180 See, you should just buy a lot of them.

00:46:21.360 You get a bundle.

00:46:22.860 Maybe we should start selling Matt Walsh sweaters.

00:46:26.860 Make that a new merch item.

00:46:28.940 I think I should sell them and not wear them, so that I'm not a... 0.99

00:46:31.940 Well, it looks a little better.

00:46:32.900 See, once you put the air on, it's not quite so bad.

00:46:34.680 It's great.

00:46:35.700 All right, since we finished signing all of the books, we just wanted to give you guys

00:46:40.080 an update.

00:46:40.640 We are here with Matt Walsh, who is the best-selling LGBT children's author, and the man that Daily

00:46:46.840 Wire co-CEO and God King, lowercase g, lowercase k, Jeremy Boring, called a national treasure.

00:46:52.800 If you have a question you'd like him to answer, join us on our live stream at dailywire.com.

00:46:58.060 You can click the banner at the top of the homepage and type your question into the Daily Wire chat.

00:47:02.140 Matt, we already finished handing him all the books.

00:47:04.700 He has signed all of them.

00:47:05.660 They are in the box, ready to be mailed to you literally right after we finish this stream.

00:47:10.940 So since we're finished with that, we are just going to answer your question, so make

00:47:13.560 sure that you submit them ASAP.

00:47:15.640 So moving on, Matt, did you finally burn that horrid polka dot shirt, or is the dog sleeping

00:47:21.580 on it now?

00:47:22.220 I can only assume that you ask that because you want me to wear the shirt again, because

00:47:27.780 you know that I only started wearing the shirt because I wore it once, and then my own audience

00:47:34.700 made fun of me for it, and so then I started wearing it more just to spite them, because

00:47:39.060 that's the level of maturity that I have.

00:47:41.080 And so now I feel like I've got to start wearing it again, just because of that comment.

00:47:43.680 I still have it, and I can pull it out any time.

00:47:46.560 It's like a threat.

00:47:47.160 So watch your mouth.

00:47:50.580 All right, this is from Truth Seeker.

00:47:52.680 Why should I buy Johnny the Walrus?

00:47:57.900 Because it would make me very happy if you did.

00:48:01.700 That's my whole pitch.

00:48:02.880 That's nice.

00:48:03.980 And it's, look, it is literally the literary sensation of 2022 so far, which might say a

00:48:11.300 lot more about the other books that have come out in 2022, but that's what it is.

00:48:14.900 So don't you want to see what all the buzz is about?

00:48:17.680 Yeah, that's a real reason.

00:48:19.120 Like, why don't you have it already?

00:48:21.520 All right, so Paul the Walrus, oh, this is good.

00:48:23.840 You're starting a whole thing.

00:48:24.880 Paul the Walrus says, what is your alias on the Sweet Baby Gang Facebook group?

00:48:30.860 I do not have, I am not part of this.

00:48:33.060 I've been accused of this many times.

00:48:34.460 There is a Sweet Baby Gang Facebook group, apparently multiple ones, and that is, even

00:48:40.340 though I'm the cult leader, I believe in giving the Sweet Babies a little bit of privacy,

00:48:44.560 you know, to have their own conversations, as long as it's only nice things about me.

00:48:49.800 Of course.

00:48:50.820 So, I'm not on the group, as far as you know.

00:48:54.560 That's disappointing to all of your fans.

00:48:56.580 Let's see.

00:48:56.780 Were your kids a test audience for Johnny the Walrus?

00:49:00.480 That's a good one.

00:49:01.900 They were, and the honest truth is that my kids actually love the book, and my two-year-old

00:49:06.100 especially loves this book, and she has it basically memorized, and she's constantly telling

00:49:11.980 me about the book.

00:49:12.900 She doesn't quite understand that I wrote it, but she does know that I'm, like, she knows

00:49:16.420 that I'm in it.

00:49:17.120 She doesn't understand how Daddy became the zookeeper.

00:49:19.920 But, yeah, she loves the book.

00:49:21.100 So, and that's all that matters, right?

00:49:24.260 Yeah, it does.

00:49:25.840 Let's see.

00:49:26.600 Grace Elizabeth Hanna, she says, just bought the book for my mom, who is a biologist as

00:49:31.500 well, for Mother's Day.

00:49:32.840 Any advice on how we can get her to read it in her high school science class?

00:49:39.880 To read Johnny the Walrus in the high school science class?

00:49:43.320 Yes.

00:49:43.460 I mean, I just, you've got to present the argument to her, which is that this is better

00:49:51.740 scientific information than most high school science students are getting.

00:49:57.180 So, you know, in a perfect world, this would not be appropriate for high school students

00:50:01.340 because it's for preschoolers, but we're not in a perfect world.

00:50:04.220 Well, in this day and age.

00:50:05.240 Yeah.

00:50:06.000 Yeah.

00:50:06.620 Basic preschool biology might be all that high schoolers can handle.

00:50:10.240 All right.

00:50:10.460 I mean, I go to college campuses and I give speeches explaining the basic anatomy of men

00:50:17.560 and women on college campuses. 0.74

00:50:20.100 And, of course, I get protested for it.

00:50:21.780 So that's where we are right now.

00:50:23.280 So you've got to start with the basics, with preschool level.

00:50:26.380 Understandable.

00:50:26.840 That's just too much scientific depth for anybody to really understand other than you,

00:50:30.740 who is a world-renowned biologist.

00:50:32.340 All right.

00:50:32.580 Now, Shanna has a question from her husband, who claims that he is the captain of Sweet Baby

00:50:38.100 Gang. 0.66

00:50:38.380 He says, 0.97

00:50:39.600 I'm a troll husband, much like you, Mr. Walsh. 0.97

00:50:42.660 Trolling my wife gives me joy, as it does to you. 0.93

00:50:46.020 However, my wife always responds by saying, 0.99

00:50:48.540 I'm the girl.

00:50:49.200 You're not allowed to troll me. 0.95

00:50:50.260 Only I can troll you.

00:50:51.460 I have no response to this. 0.81

00:50:52.940 She wins every time. 0.99

00:50:54.660 What is your guidance, oh, sweet daddy?

00:50:56.660 Well, who says the girl, where is this rule written in the book of life, that girls are 1.00

00:51:02.800 not allowed to be trolled?

00:51:03.760 This is, I believe that trolling is one of the deepest and most important things that

00:51:09.220 keeps a marriage together.

00:51:09.980 You know, it's, you don't really put it in your marriage vows, but you have to, I think

00:51:15.160 it keeps your marriage fresh when you're constantly trying to annoy each other.

00:51:19.460 I mean, maybe don't take this marriage advice all the way to the bank, but that's at least

00:51:23.380 the way that we operate in my marriage.

00:51:25.880 And we're happily married 11 years now, so it's worked out.

00:51:29.000 Maybe you could write a, like a marriage advice book next.

00:51:32.940 Yeah.

00:51:33.480 How to annoy the hell out of your spouse, Connie.

00:51:35.020 That'd be good.

00:51:36.460 Let's see.

00:51:37.480 Oh, we have new members.

00:51:38.760 Okay.

00:51:40.600 Margaret from, how do I pronounce this?

00:51:43.360 Bolivar?

00:51:44.420 Bolivar.

00:51:45.080 Bolivar.

00:51:46.040 Bolivar.

00:51:46.720 Bolivar.

00:51:47.400 Oh, we're getting spicy.

00:51:48.580 Oh, well, okay.

00:51:49.180 Well, Margaret from Bolivar, Ohio, Sean from Wisconsin, and Cody from Arkansas, Matt Walsh

00:51:55.120 has a special message for you.

00:51:59.000 I just want you to know that I'm so proud of you.

00:52:04.480 You may not have been the first new member, or the second, or the third for that matter,

00:52:08.840 but you're here.

00:52:10.240 You made it.

00:52:11.820 And for that, I couldn't be prouder of you.

00:52:18.200 From the heart.

00:52:19.280 Totally sincere.

00:52:20.200 I can't keep a straight face from this.

00:52:23.040 Let's see.

00:52:23.740 Okay.

00:52:24.260 Back to our questions.

00:52:25.160 This member is asking you, are the bans from the show for life?

00:52:31.300 Can they be appealed?

00:52:33.020 There's no appeal process.

00:52:34.260 Got it.

00:52:34.440 And they're totally for life.

00:52:35.880 And if you come back, they'll just be banned again in perpetuity until it sticks.

00:52:41.660 That's a good rule.

00:52:43.020 Consistency is key.

00:52:43.780 Nanny M says, Matt, my 12-year-old boy is a huge fan and often asks to listen to you.

00:52:51.180 I screened some of your commentary and share it with him on occasion.

00:52:54.220 He loves the fact that your family also homeschools like we do.

00:52:57.340 He said the other day how awesome it would be to meet you someday.

00:52:59.940 And I told him that the best thing to do, I said the best thing to do then would be to

00:53:05.380 not talk to you, that you'd prefer to be ignored than put in the spotlight.

00:53:08.480 So if we ever run into you, what would you like us to do so that I can be prepared?

00:53:12.840 That's nice.

00:53:15.320 You may approach eyes down to the floor and you can have one compliment, which you say

00:53:28.440 to me, and then you turn around and leave.

00:53:30.120 And that's the process.

00:53:32.420 Actually, every single person that comes up to me, the first thing they do is apologize

00:53:35.880 for coming up to me.

00:53:38.980 And so I'm starting to think, do I give off vibes as like, I think I'm a really approachable,

00:53:45.120 nice guy, but every person that comes up is like, I'm so sorry.

00:53:47.540 I know you hate talking to people.

00:53:49.560 Sometimes it's, I'm so sorry.

00:53:50.520 I know you hate people, but I just, I think that's unfair.

00:53:54.600 I mean, look at me.

00:53:55.120 I'm in a cardigan.

00:53:56.460 He's the sweetest man you've ever met.

00:53:58.600 He's so approachable.

00:53:59.260 I should start doing that with you when I see you in the office.

00:54:02.460 I'm just going to keep my eyes to the ground.

00:54:03.740 Eyes down.

00:54:04.360 Only compliment.

00:54:05.180 Move off.

00:54:05.780 Yep.

00:54:06.080 Yep.

00:54:06.460 Move out of your way.

00:54:07.620 All right.

00:54:07.940 Oh, this is Cody.

00:54:09.200 Are you, I think Cody was from Wisconsin, maybe.

00:54:11.240 All right.

00:54:11.420 But he is saying signed up for an all access and purchased a second signed copy.

00:54:16.640 Can I get a shout out for my son who loves you, Abel?

00:54:19.540 He said he loves you and your book.

00:54:23.880 Shout out to Abel.

00:54:25.360 Is that, is that how you do a shout out, right?

00:54:30.100 I mean.

00:54:30.480 Do you want to give him like a message of affirmation when we were classic?

00:54:35.000 You are so affirmed.

00:54:37.640 So.

00:54:39.260 That's good.

00:54:39.880 I'm proud of you.

00:54:41.200 All right.

00:54:42.600 We have more new members.

00:54:43.860 Kevin from Texas, Joseph from Indiana, and Danielle from California.

00:54:49.140 So now you need to affirm them as well.

00:54:50.540 You know, it's a beautiful day at the Daily Wire.

00:54:59.640 And I'm so glad you could join me today on this beautiful day.

00:55:06.160 This is getting, it's getting lazier as we go on.

00:55:10.680 Oh, my goodness.

00:55:11.640 What is happening here?

00:55:12.380 I like that you keep saying beautiful days.

00:55:17.300 You're sweating profusely.

00:55:19.840 Oh, all right.

00:55:20.560 Here we go.

00:55:20.920 Here we go.

00:55:21.400 Get your water now.

00:55:22.320 Hydration.

00:55:22.840 Stay hydrated.

00:55:23.860 Oh, we have more.

00:55:24.980 Adam from Tennessee.

00:55:26.300 Carl from California.

00:55:27.600 These are new members?

00:55:28.340 Yes.

00:55:28.740 So why don't you go ahead?

00:55:32.200 I'm so glad you're with us today.

00:55:35.300 I just want to take a moment to sort of take it all in and enjoy this time I have with you.

00:55:44.940 Couple second beat with closed eyes and a smile.

00:55:47.840 Open eyes and exhale.

00:55:49.300 Oh, I'm not supposed to say that.

00:55:51.860 Wait, what am I supposed to do?

00:55:52.980 Scroll down a little bit.

00:55:56.000 Closed eyes and a smile.

00:55:57.620 Take a deep breath.

00:55:59.020 We need to enjoy their presence.

00:56:00.680 Like a moment of silence.

00:56:01.380 This is getting, this is too far.

00:56:02.420 That's, you want to get the smile, you can get that.

00:56:05.840 Closed eyes and a smile.

00:56:06.780 I can't do that.

00:56:07.240 That's a step too far.

00:56:08.260 Anyway, thank you for enjoying this moment with me.

00:56:13.760 That's good.

00:56:14.440 Okay.

00:56:15.900 Moving out of that wonderful, peaceful moment.

00:56:18.860 Matt, what is a woman? 1.00

00:56:20.780 And can they become a walrus?

00:56:22.900 Also, shout out to Brett Cooper because we have the same name.

00:56:26.580 Love that.

00:56:27.540 Amazing.

00:56:28.820 All right, there you go.

00:56:29.480 A woman is an adult human female. 1.00

00:56:31.840 That's what a woman is. 1.00

00:56:33.180 That's the whole answer for what is a woman. 1.00

00:56:37.060 That is very difficult for lots of people.

00:56:39.660 But now, you know, because sometimes when we talk about this, and even people who are

00:56:44.240 the sane and rational ones, and they know that these things are defined biologically,

00:56:49.100 they'll, they have, some people have a problem with that definition because they say, well,

00:56:51.860 a woman, you know, a woman isn't merely that. 1.00

00:56:54.640 And true, a woman's not merely that, but that is like the fundamental definition of what 0.97

00:56:59.300 a woman, and then each woman individually, of course, has their own identity and personality 0.83

00:57:03.340 and everything, but that is the fundamental definition of a woman. 1.00

00:57:08.440 Simple and straight to the point.

00:57:10.620 Where did you buy your cardigan?

00:57:12.140 That's what somebody wants to know.

00:57:13.000 Obviously from the clearance bin at the, at Goodwill, as you can tell.

00:57:20.540 Like any humble children's book author would say.

00:57:23.540 I'm a man of the people.

00:57:24.960 Why did Johnny want to be a walrus and not a panda?

00:57:28.240 I know you just went on your panda rant a minute ago, but it's important. 0.53

00:57:31.220 Uh, yeah.

00:57:31.800 I mean, look, walruses are, they are impressive animals at the end of the day, you know, and

00:57:36.320 they, they can fend for themselves.

00:57:38.400 They don't need us to sort of like keep them around.

00:57:43.820 Um, and they're also, it's like, you know that walruses have been able to fend for themselves

00:57:48.940 and hold their own in the world because they're such hideous animals that like we would never

00:57:52.860 as, as human beings, like we're not trying to keep them.

00:57:56.740 For pandas, on the other hand, the only reason they still exist is just that we think they're

00:58:00.060 cute and so we keep them around.

00:58:02.800 Walruses, these hideous beasts have had to, have had to make their own path in life and 1.00

00:58:08.560 I really respect that.

00:58:10.080 Sure.

00:58:10.440 I had never thought about it that way.

00:58:12.740 Neither had I until this, this exact moment.

00:58:14.420 Right there.

00:58:14.680 Wow.

00:58:15.520 Improvisation.

00:58:16.020 Right out of that.

00:58:16.980 Uh, where would you put your Sweet Baby Gang tattoo? 1.00

00:58:21.020 Uh, I would, if I were to get one right across the forehead.

00:58:23.440 That's what I would recommend.

00:58:24.620 Someone get it right across the forehead. 1.00

00:58:26.820 That's good.

00:58:27.480 You should do that.

00:58:28.040 Just, when your whole life is destroyed after you do that, don't blame me.

00:58:32.000 Let's see, uh, will you cancel Brett for making her own cult, the Cooper Troopers?

00:58:36.620 You try to make your own cult.

00:58:37.760 I haven't, I haven't made a cult.

00:58:39.300 But on my most recent All Access Live, people were saying we're going to be the Cooper Troopers.

00:58:42.840 I mean, look, I knew this day would come that someone else at Daily Wire tries to start

00:58:47.020 a cult.

00:58:47.380 I knew it was going to happen.

00:58:48.260 Uh-huh.

00:58:48.500 And if that's what it comes down to, then fine.

00:58:52.320 We're going to go to war. 0.90

00:58:53.120 We could do a crossover.

00:58:54.240 No, there's no crossover.

00:58:55.020 Yes.

00:58:55.540 Cults don't do crossovers.

00:58:56.580 No.

00:58:56.760 No, it's a collab.

00:58:57.020 Cults are quite famously very insular sorts of things.

00:59:00.420 You don't have collaborations.

00:59:01.940 What if we had our cults next to each other and there were like tunnels?

00:59:04.600 No.

00:59:04.960 It's going to be like, uh, no.

00:59:06.500 This is, it's gang warfare at that point.

00:59:08.520 But it's fine.

00:59:09.020 I welcome the challenge.

00:59:10.480 Let's...

00:59:11.000 I'm very competitive.

00:59:11.760 You got some time.

00:59:15.240 You have some, uh, you got to make up some time.

00:59:17.700 Yeah, exactly.

00:59:18.700 I don't even have a Facebook group yet.

00:59:20.260 I need to work on that.

00:59:21.000 You're already leagues ahead of me.

00:59:23.040 Let's see.

00:59:23.640 Should I, should I buy the book for my nieces and nephews even though their liberal parents

00:59:28.200 will go bonkers?

00:59:29.780 Even though?

00:59:31.180 The more reason to.

00:59:32.160 That's, that's the whole reason to buy it, right?

00:59:34.360 No, it's should I buy the book especially because my, the liberal parents will go bonkers?

00:59:38.360 Yeah, absolutely.

00:59:39.600 Buy, buy 10 of them.

00:59:40.560 But leave them like little, uh, eggs around their house to find.

00:59:45.160 Yeah, exactly.

00:59:45.760 Hide them in, in different places.

00:59:47.200 That's something people are doing, by the way.

00:59:48.600 Um, speaking of buying whole boxes of them is that, uh, there are some people that are

00:59:52.560 buying them, donating them to libraries.

00:59:54.880 Um, a lot of, especially in liberal communities, they have those, uh, not just liberal communities,

00:59:59.180 but it's, it's even better in the liberal ones where they've got those boxes on the street,

01:00:03.320 you know, like the, uh, take a book, leave a book, kind of community library things.

01:00:07.680 And, um, people are buying the books, putting them in those.

01:00:10.560 That's a great idea.

01:00:11.300 Those are, yeah.

01:00:12.100 I like that.

01:00:12.820 So other than triggering, uh, libs, what are your hobbies?

01:00:17.740 Well, um, fishing is, is my, currently my, my number one hobby.

01:00:24.260 I was, uh, into beekeeping, you know, which is why for a long time my title was theocratic

01:00:29.140 fascist and beekeeper. 0.71

01:00:30.520 I'm getting back into the beekeeping thing.

01:00:32.140 And now my next hobby that I, that I want to start for reasons that I can't really explain

01:00:35.880 and my wife keeps asking me to explain it, but I can't, is, um, I want to get a big expensive

01:00:39.840 aquarium with lots of like expensive fish.

01:00:42.140 I don't know why, but, uh.

01:00:44.480 You're just feeling called to it?

01:00:45.680 I do feel called to it, so.

01:00:47.300 Oh, that's a good question.

01:00:48.100 That was interesting.

01:00:48.540 I learned something about you.

01:00:50.060 Uh, would you ever do reptiles?

01:00:52.400 Like, uh.

01:00:53.480 Too much, I, that's one of the reasons why I like the fish idea is like reptiles require

01:00:57.280 too much upkeep, I think.

01:00:58.720 So, I want to have an animal that can just sort of be there when I want it to be there.

01:01:02.640 Okay.

01:01:03.020 So, it's really all about me.

01:01:04.140 Got it.

01:01:04.720 Well.

01:01:05.020 Not an animal that requires like constant maintenance, you know.

01:01:07.920 Okay, love it.

01:01:09.100 Uh, another member is asking, what is your favorite whiskey and or tequila?

01:01:15.280 Uh, favorites, uh, whiskey probably, you know, I'm going to go for a Blanton's, uh, bourbon.

01:01:22.180 Mm-hmm.

01:01:23.100 Just, um, your everyday sipper, I like a Four Roses, single barrel.

01:01:28.700 Mm-hmm.

01:01:29.460 Good answer.

01:01:30.120 Good answer.

01:01:30.740 All righty.

01:01:31.780 Uh, let's see.

01:01:34.240 All righty.

01:01:35.900 Okay, no problem.

01:01:37.460 Oh, love it.

01:01:38.360 We made it.

01:01:39.080 All right, guys.

01:01:39.740 It looks like.

01:01:39.840 What is happening right now?

01:01:40.440 Okay.

01:01:40.880 We did it.

01:01:41.280 We, we, you successfully answered all the questions without melting to death.

01:01:44.820 So, all right.

01:01:45.520 That looks like it will do it for us tonight.

01:01:47.800 Well done, Matt.

01:01:48.480 I'm very proud of you for having to sit here and sign all those books.

01:01:51.580 That was very complicated for you.

01:01:53.460 Uh, it is about that time.

01:01:55.060 All of the books are signed and I am out of rhymes.

01:01:59.200 Do you like that?

01:02:00.300 They made you go back to that well again.

01:02:01.820 Mm-hmm.

01:02:02.060 I thought it was really good.

01:02:03.000 I didn't have to do as many of those as, uh, your little, uh, affirmation moments.

01:02:06.700 But I think I did pretty well.

01:02:07.520 So, thank you, everyone, for tuning in for our live Johnny the Walrus book signing and

01:02:12.020 Q&A.

01:02:12.680 And thank you to Matt Walsh.

01:02:14.280 If this isn't live anymore or you are just catching up with this or listening to the podcast,

01:02:18.820 Johnny the Walrus is still available to the end of the week when you buy a Daily Wire

01:02:22.880 all-access membership.

01:02:24.200 So, fear not.

01:02:25.340 Check it out at dailywire.com slash Johnny before the end of the weekend.

01:02:30.000 Good night to everyone and special shout out to all of our new members.

01:02:32.840 Your support helps us impact culture by creating new alternatives and helps us keep delivering

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The Matt Walsh Show - May 05, 2022

LIVE! America’s #1 Best-Selling Children’s Author Answers YOUR Questions

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