The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1631 - Gay Sex Offender Buys a Baby Through Surrogacy. How Is This Legal?

Episode Date: July 29, 2025

Today on the Matt Walsh Show, two gay men obtained a baby through surrogacy. The Left condemned anyone who criticized them. A day later it’s revealed that one of the men is a convicted child sex pre...dator. Why is surrogacy legal for someone like that? Why is it legal at all? We’ll discuss. Also, the controversy over the Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ad proves that wokeness isn’t quite dead yet. White people are hunted down and assaulted in Cincinnati, but the police chief is more worried about the mean things people are saying on social media. And a WNBA player has her wig fall off during a game. We’ll talk about that because why not.Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/4bEQDy6Ep.1631- - -DailyWire+:Watch Journey to the UFC: Joe Pyfer now—streaming exclusively on DailyWire+.Ben Shapiro’s new book, “Lions and Scavengers,” drops September 2nd—pre-order today at https://dailywire.com/benshapiroGet your Matt Walsh flannel here: https://bit.ly/3EbNwyj- - -Today's Sponsors:Select Quote - Life insurance is never cheaper than it is today. Get the right life insurance for YOU, for LESS, and save more than 50% at https://selectquote.com/walshAmmo Squared - Take the work out of buying ammo. Visit https://ammosquared.com today for a special offer.Boll & Branch - Get 20% off, plus free shipping on your first set of sheets at https://BollAndBranch.com/walshVandy Crisps - Go to https://vandycrisps.com/walsh and use code WALSH for 25% off your first order.- - -Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3Rv1VeF Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3KZC3oA Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3eBKjiA Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RQp4rs- - -Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:39 Why is it legal at all? We'll discuss. Also, the controversy over the Sydney-Sweeney American Eagle ad proved that wokenness isn't quite dead yet. White people are hunted down and assaulted in Cincinnati, but the police chief is more worried about the mean things people are saying on social media. And a WMBA player has her wig fall off during a game. We'll talk about that because why not?
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Starting point is 00:04:00 ended any discussion about how effective Chernobyl's emergency shutdown mechanism was. An iceberg convinced everyone that despite all the marketing hype, the Titanic, could in fact sink. I mean, there are limits to the ability of liars and charlatans to deceive the population, in other words. Even the most convincing fraudsters face the risk of exposure if they their deception is simply too absurd to be compatible with reality. The more absurd the deception is, the faster it generally falls apart. By that standard, there are a few lies that are more flagrant and obviously, obviously flagrant than the fiction that gay men should be allowed to adopt children or to acquire them by paying for a woman to serve as a quote-unquote surrogate. As we saw recently,
Starting point is 00:04:45 a journalist named Glenn Greenwald personally attacked me for holding the position that children should be raised by a mother and a father, a position that everybody in the world has agreed with, you know, up until 10 seconds ago. He maintained in a very public and vitriolic fashion that I was a terrible person for suggesting that gay adoption is not an ideal outcome for a child. He presented himself as infinitely more virtuous than I am because of his decision to acquire young children. And then within a matter of weeks, Greenwald himself demonstrated through his own conduct on camera why my position was correct. Now, I was back. I was back. I was back. I was June. And now, just a month later, it has happened again. Reality has caused yet another
Starting point is 00:05:27 major problem for the left's narrative about homosexuals who adopt children. Only this time, reality reared its head even faster, as in within 24 hours. And implications here are somehow even more disturbing and grotesque than they were with Glenn Greenwald's debauchery. This is a story that makes it very clear that laws need to change, and they need to change immediately. And people need to go to prison. Now, it all began on Sunday when an Irish political activist named Derek Bly discovered some videos that had been posted on a gay couple's social media feeds. The videos show the two gay men, both of whom are overweight, marking monthly anniversaries with a child that they've obtained. In every video, they blow out a candle on the cupcake, and the videos
Starting point is 00:06:12 keep going, and the men seem to somehow get fatter each time. I don't know how. But in response to these videos on Sunday, Derek Bly, posted simply, unless a miracle happens, this child has almost no chance at a normal life. And he was right, of course. At a visceral level, the footage is repulsive. Everyone understands that, whether they admit it or not, when a child is deprived of his mother and father, deliberately, it is not something to celebrate. It's a very bad thing. It's a tragedy that's inflicted on someone who cannot possibly deserve it and who may never recover from it. And that's especially true when, in lieu of a mother and a father, a child is obtained by two men who belong to a demographic whose behavior in a very disproportionate number of cases,
Starting point is 00:07:03 statistically, is completely incompatible with raising children, to put things as mildly as possible. It's also a demographic that's disproportionately interested in adopting male children. And again, everyone understand what's going on there, though nobody will say it. And yet, when Bly made this simple and straightforward observation, hundreds of thousands of left-wing activists pretended to be shocked and horrified by what he had written. They also claim that, in fact, it's better for the child to be raised by two gay men than by his own mother and father. Here's one representative post, which has more than six million views and 220,000 likes on X, quote, makes me happy.
Starting point is 00:07:42 The baby is going to be raised not to have. hate people and will be loved. Here's another post from someone named Bev Jackson of a group called Alliance LGBT. This came in response to Derek's post expressing disgust of the footage, quote, that is homophobic. If the child has two loving male parents, there's no evidence whatsoever that he or she will not prosper. But Bev Jackson's response didn't last very long. Just a few hours later, Bev deleted it.
Starting point is 00:08:10 And a lot of other people like Bev deleted their reactions. And that's because in record-breaking time, the narrative took an extremely dark, though certainly not surprising, turn. The journalist at Redux decided to take a closer look at the two gay men in the video with that toddler. And here's what they found. Quote, a widely circulated video showcasing a gay couple's surrogacy journey has revealed that a baby boy is currently in the custody of a registered child sex offender. Brandon Keith Mitchell is a tier one sex offender of the state of Pennsylvania and was arrested in 2016 after attempted to solicit a 16-year-old boy for sexual abuse. The victim in the case was a student at Downington West High School, where Mitchell had worked as a chemistry teacher. He was 30 years old
Starting point is 00:08:53 at the time. Now, here's an image of Brandon Mitchell when he was teaching. And you can see it there. Now, according to local news reports, Mitchell was, quote, charged with texting obscene images and text to a student and asking for nude images of the underage student. Mitchell taught at the school from 2010 to 2015. And during this period, he reportedly sent more than 12,000 text messages to this student. He ended up pleading guilty to felony child pornography possession and one count of corruption of minors because police found sexually explicit videos of the child on his personal computer. And he was sentenced to nearly two years of incarceration, which is not nearly enough. But he didn't serve anywhere near even that light sentence.
Starting point is 00:09:33 Just two months after his conviction, Redux reports, he was granted parole. For a crime that should have resulted in life imprisonment at a minimum, he barely spent. any time in prison at all. The Redux article continues, quote, part of his conditions included that he have no unsupervised contact with minors and that he surrender his teaching license. He quickly moved on to obtain a job as a chemist at Eurofin's Biopharma Product Testing in Lancaster, where he's worked for the past nine years. In 2021, Mitchell married Logan Riley, a second grade teacher from Maryland, and moved to Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania. In 2023, the two launched a goat fund me to raise money for a surrogate.
Starting point is 00:10:15 So that's a second grade teacher who is married to a quote, quote unquote married, big air quotes around that, to a male child sex offender. And that guy is teaching kids. Now, so they had this go fund me. Of course, the gofummy didn't mention the whole convicted sex offender thing. In any event, the fundraiser has since been taken down, but it reportedly had a goal of $50,000. It raised just over $2,000. So it wasn't exactly a huge success. Nevertheless, Riley, the husband of the convicted sex offender, reported that in November 2023 they had found a surrogate. Quote,
Starting point is 00:10:54 our surrogate went through extensive medical and social worker evaluations in order to be approved for surrogacy. Once approved, the lengthy legal and financial process began. We're so excited that our amazing surrogate will carry one of our embryos for us, helping to expand our family. close quote our embryos there's no there's no hour here because two men can't create can't conceive so just to be clear about that now it's it's hard to miss the irony here according to these two gay men there was an extensive screening process for their surrogate meaning the woman
Starting point is 00:11:31 whose body they were going to rent so that they that she would bury a child for them so that they could pretend to be parents. Social workers, doctors, lawyers, all were involved. All were involved with screening the woman whose body is being rented. And yet evidently, there was no screening process whatsoever for these two men, these two gay men. No one in the federal government or the state of Pennsylvania saw any problem with creating a new human life for the sole purpose of handing that child off to a convicted sexual predator. And not just any convicted sexual predator. We're talking about a convicted sexual predator
Starting point is 00:12:07 who specifically prayed on a child. At first you might think, well, there must have been some massive, very unfortunate, tragic mistake. Surely you'd assume there must be a thorough vetting process for the parents of children who are born through surrogacy. And somehow in this particular case, someone must have fallen asleep on the job. Maybe they ran a criminal background check
Starting point is 00:12:29 under the wrong name or something like that. That's not remotely what happened. Turns out there is no legal bar in the state of Pennsylvania or many other states for convicted sexual predators to obtain children through surrogacy. It is completely legal in many states. There are no roadblocks whatsoever. So you can have someone who is legally barred from being around minors who can yet still obtain a child through surrogacy. Again, this is from Redux. Quote, Redux reached out to the division, Pennsylvania State Police responsible for maintaining.
Starting point is 00:13:06 Mitchell's registration and was informed that the state does not automatically forbid individuals convicted of sex crimes from having children gaining custody or exercising parental rights, while Pennsylvania's adoption law does prohibit sex offenders from adopting or fostering children, gestational surrogacy circumvents any such laws through pre-birth parentage orders. So you heard that correctly. Individuals who are convicted of sex crimes involving, including sex crimes involving children, crimes so severe that the guilty party had to agree to have no unsupervised contact with minors, are allowed to obtain children in Pennsylvania. The only restriction is that instead of adopting a child,
Starting point is 00:13:43 they have to pay a woman to give birth to the child and then hand the child over to them. I mean, this is a policy that is so incomprehensible, so evil, that it's hard to even talk about. And it's also a policy that evidently a lot of officials in Pennsylvania aren't even aware of. What of Redux's writers posted this on social media as she was working on the story, quote,
Starting point is 00:14:04 while I was talking to the state police sex offender division, agent actually stopped for a moment when I mentioned it was a surrogate baby and said, but surely there's a vetting process for this kind of thing? Well, actually, no. There's no vetting process for this kind of thing, as it turns out. If someone is a pedophile in the state of Pennsylvania and they've been convicted for corrupting minors and possessing child pornography, they're still completely free to obtain a child through surrogacy. And not just any child, a newborn with no known relatives, no next of kin to check on him.
Starting point is 00:14:38 And then once they have this defenseless child in their home, he is entirely at their mercy and helpless. And no one can see what they're doing. And there's no one who actually knows the child or cares for him. Even his mother isn't allowed to speak to him or know where he is or know anything about him. It's almost as if the state went out of his way to create a loophole for pedophiles. And there are no words for how dark this is. And by the way, This is one of the many fundamental fatal problems with relying on statistics and experts who tell you that gay adoption is completely fine and appropriate. Every single mainstream expert will tell you that gay men are just as capable as straight couples to raise children, if not more so. They'll tell you to suspend all of your intuitions and common sense.
Starting point is 00:15:23 They call you a bigot if you disagree. The truth is none of these experts actually know what's going on inside these households where men are raising children that aren't theirs. None of the statistics can capture the reality of what's happening because only the parents who are caught abusing, actually caught abusing their children, will be reflected in the statistics. That's why we have intuition and basic morality. And it's why we should always pay close attention whenever activists on the other side in a demonic kind of rage attempt to claim the moral high ground only for it to crumble immediately in a matter of days or hours in this case. I mean, there are some lies that are simply too evil and unsustainable to survive contact with reality. The fiction that gay men are appropriate foster parents for other people's children is one of them. In recent months, we've repeatedly seen glimpses into the horrors that many of those children are enduring behind closed doors.
Starting point is 00:16:18 There was also the recent case of William and Zachary Zilluk in Georgia, for example, who were sexually abusing their two adopted children. And they probably never would have been caught if they hadn't bragged about their behavior to others. It's only because of that that we know about this and that that can be counted in the statistics. Now, especially in light of stories like this, it shouldn't be remotely controversial to say that the safety of children is infinitely, the safety and well-being and proper care for children, infinitely more important than any gay man's desire to become a parent. nature has already decided that gay couples will be childless by definition. There's no law that decided that. That's how the natural world works. You're in a gay, quote, unquote, marriage and you want to have kids.
Starting point is 00:17:15 Well, you can't. It's impossible. It is literally impossible. And the law should reflect that. Reality has made it impossible for two gay men to be parents. and the law should follow suit. The law should follow and reflect reality. Starting with the state of Pennsylvania,
Starting point is 00:17:39 which should immediately change its law and remove this particular child from this household, this very straightforward principle needs to become law. Any society that doesn't protect its own children does not deserve to exist. Under the guise of helping children, a system has been created that allows for children to be abused in the most horrific ways imaginable.
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Starting point is 00:20:09 They were sucker punch, beaten, thrown to the ground, stomped while on the ground. Very sickening stuff. There are some updates to this story. A couple of positive updates as positive as something can be in a situation like this. And then one that's not so great. Vice President Vance spoke out about the incident in very strong and clear terms yesterday when he was asked about it while addressing a crowd. Listen to that.
Starting point is 00:20:34 Here it is. There was a group of people who attacked a couple folks on the street in Cincinnati. Senator Bernie Marino, some others have spoken out about it, have been critical of it. Okay, okay, yes, yes. So what I saw, and I haven't seen the full context, but what I saw is a mob of lawless thugs beating up on an innocent person, and it's disgusting. And I hope every single one of those people who engage in violence,
Starting point is 00:21:00 is prosecuted to the full extent of law. And they will be. They will be so long as law enforcement in the state of Ohio takes their job seriously. I know Dave Yos cares a lot about these things. But yeah, I actually, you're right, Bernie did send me a clip of this, and we talked a little
Starting point is 00:21:16 bit about it. I don't know the full context. I don't know how the fight started. But the one part that I saw that was really gruesome is you had a grown man who sucker punched a middle-aged woman, and where I come from at least, when you have a grown man, who sucker punches a middle-aged woman,
Starting point is 00:21:32 that person ought to go to jail for a very long time, and frankly, he's lucky. There weren't some better people around because they would have handled it themselves. But if they're not going to handle it, the cops in Cincinnati, the law enforcement, you've got to prosecute people. We've had way too much lawlessness
Starting point is 00:21:47 on the streets of great American cities. Well, that's what well said. Lawless thugs, that's a correct characterization. Meanwhile, we got word yesterday that the FBI and DOJ are getting involved. At least they're going to investigate, which is good. Hopefully something comes to it.
Starting point is 00:22:06 That's, of course, something that never would have happened under the Biden administration or any Democrat administration or honestly, any Republican administration, including the previous Trump administration. So this is good. And hopefully something, again, actually comes from it, prosecute these people for hate crimes. I don't like hate crime laws personally.
Starting point is 00:22:23 I think they should all be abolished. I don't think they make sense. I've made that case a million times on the show. But if you're going to have them, you have to apply them equally. It's bad to have hate crime laws. It's much worse to have them and not apply them equally. And so that has to happen here. And hopefully it does.
Starting point is 00:22:41 On the other side of the equation, however, we have the performance of the Cincinnati police chief, a woman named Teresa Thetig, T-H-E-T-E-T-G-E. People make fun of me for mispronouncing names, but, you know, on the fly you're given that spelling T-H-E-T-E-T-E T-G-E? How am I supposed to pronounce that? I don't know. I speak English. I speak
Starting point is 00:23:07 American, damn it. Tegi? Anyway, we'll just call her Teresa. She gave a press conference yesterday where she delivered a lecture about the dangers of social media because that's what she's worried about. There's mob violence in the streets of the city that she's supposed to be protecting.
Starting point is 00:23:26 And what she's worried about are all the people on social media who are saying mean things. And only listening or paying attention to one side of the story is what police chief Teresa is very concerned about. Watch. Social media and journalism and the role it plays in this incident. And yes, guys, that's you. That is you. Social media, the post that we've seen does not depict. the entire incident.
Starting point is 00:23:59 That is one version of what occurred. At times, social media and mainstream media and their commentaries are misrepresentation of the circumstances surrounding any given
Starting point is 00:24:17 event. What that does, that causes us some difficulties in thoroughly investigating the activity and enforcing the law. Because what happens, that social media post and your coverage of it distorts the content of what actually happened. And it makes our job more difficult. Go ahead right here.
Starting point is 00:24:45 Thank you. Two questions. We're with the nearest officers. In the central business section. They were working. They were both in vehicles. And like I said, they had to maneuver through the traffic. Second question is, do you exist social media, news media distorted the content of what action?
Starting point is 00:25:02 There was multiple views of the video, but, I mean, what was distorted? Yeah, so I think by the irresponsibility with social media is it just shows one side of the equation quite frequently, without context, without factual context. And then people run with that. So we get that schoolmarm lecture from a woman who looks like the librarian who yelled at me in fifth grade because I didn't return my copies of my animorph books. She's very concerned that social media isn't giving the full story and showing both sides. Now, you'll notice that we never got any of those sorts of lectures during, say, the George Floyd riots. Nobody was worried about both sides back then. in that case we got a very out of context video
Starting point is 00:25:58 I mean we've gotten this every BLM martyr all the so-called police brutality videos always very out of context videos videos that pick up like in the middle of something you're in the middle of it it's clear that there's something really relevant
Starting point is 00:26:15 that precipitated what's happening we never see that and you never hear the officials saying oh we want both sides of the story but here they do The problem is that there's no other side of the story that could possibly justify a sucker punching a woman or beating a man while he's lying on the ground. There's nothing that could have happened that would justify that.
Starting point is 00:26:37 There's no indication at all that the victims here initiated any kind of violent incident. There's no indication of that. There's no evidence of that that I'm aware of. But even if they did, which I don't think they did, the response from the mob is obviously still not self-defense. coming up behind someone and punching them in the head means by definition that it's not self-defense. When someone's on the ground in the fetal position, that is very good indication that they are not a threat to you. They have given up completely. So when you start stomping on them while they're on the ground, it cannot possibly be self-defense no matter what happened before. So there's no context here that could really change the story.
Starting point is 00:27:19 besides, we all know what these people really mean when they start talking about context and the other side of the story. They know that this was not, you know, that nothing violent happened. This was these, the white people that are being assaulted here almost certainly did not. They didn't go up and like smack anyone. That's almost certainly not what happened. But what they're hoping and implying is that maybe these white people said something. racially insensitive. Because that's ultimately the context that supposedly justifies most of these kinds of incidents.
Starting point is 00:27:58 And no indication that anything racially insensitive was said, but even if it was, who cares? Makes no difference. It would not begin to justify what happened. Wouldn't come close in the slides. It wouldn't get you one inch towards a justification. So no, in this case, we don't really need to wait for the other side of the story. especially when it's a story, especially when it's a movie we've all seen a million times.
Starting point is 00:28:28 And so we know. We know what this is about. We know what's happening here. And also, since we're talking about this police chief, can I just ask, are there any male police chiefs left in this country? I mean, we've covered several stories this year where we play a clip of a law enforcement press conference. Unfortunately, there are things happening frequently that necessitate police press conferences, law enforcement press conferences. And maybe you've noticed this pattern too.
Starting point is 00:29:00 It's like it's a female police chief in all of them. You know, we've had stories down in New Orleans, female police chief. Washington, D.C., female police chief. Even right now, right now there are two major stories happening. And a female police chief or commissioner is in both. There's a situation in Cincinnati, and there's also the mass shooting in New York City last night. Female police commissioner there. Austin, Texas has a female police chief.
Starting point is 00:29:26 So does Memphis. So does Chattanooga. In fact, did you know this? And I looked this up. There are three, well, this part I already knew. There are three major cities in Ohio, Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland. They're like smaller cities too. But there's the three biggest cities in Ohio.
Starting point is 00:29:44 All of them. all three of them have a female police chief. And how does that happen? Does it really happen because it just so happens that in every major city in the state, the most qualified leader of a police force happened to be an old woman. Really? Old out of shape women are just so happens. Every major city in this state just so happens.
Starting point is 00:30:12 This is the most qualified person. Does anyone believe that? Does anyone believe that? It's not a coincidence that many of these cities have police departments that have been gutted and destroyed by DEI. In Cincinnati, this woman who we just played is in the middle of a lawsuit brought by four veterans of her police force, men alleging that they were discriminated against and passed over for the sake of promoting females and minorities. And that's not a surprise at all. Same thing down in New Orleans. Remember we talked about this during the prison break story, we saw that,
Starting point is 00:30:48 Like every major city official involved was female. They were doing press conferences and it was nothing but female officials. The whole leadership structure, police department, everything. And it's all been decimated by DEI policies. And now in New Orleans it's like the keystone cops down there and they can't figure out how to keep their inmates inside their prisons. It's ridiculous. And, you know, very few people want to be honest about this and just say the truth out loud, which is that law enforcement is a man's job.
Starting point is 00:31:24 Men should be in charge. Men should be leading. Men should be the ones out on patrol. The feminization of law enforcement has been an absolute disaster for this country, a disaster for every city where it's happened, without exception. And again, we all know that. You can have people that are crying about it and pretending to be offended,
Starting point is 00:31:50 including so-called conservatives. there was this guy who was it this guy Zeke it's one of these Zeke I forget his last name but you know he's got he's got a little bit of a following on social media he's one of these conservatives one of these so-called conservatives that you know calls themselves conservatarian or whatever got a conservative libertarian and these guys who uh they'll they'll sort of meekly criticize leftism and DEI and all this sort of stuff they'll repeat all of the kind of boomer talking points about it, they'll say all that. But the moment that you actually fundamentally disagree with the left-wing worldview and assert something that is contrary to it, that's when guys like
Starting point is 00:32:38 Zeeke come in and say, oh, shut up, this is ridiculous. You're going too far. And that's what he did. So he left this comment, gave all these anecdotal examples of men. I know a bunch of women who are really good cops. This is what they do, you know. Really just useless. Like these are not the kind of, these are useless conservatives have no impact on the culture,
Starting point is 00:33:02 have not changed anything at all, period. Because they're too afraid. They're too afraid to actually, like, it's one thing to say, leftism is bad, D-E-I. Okay, well, great. It's great that you can say all that. But what's actually happening
Starting point is 00:33:17 is that there is a, a campaign that's been waged now for decades to feminize police forces and put women in charge of them. That is what's happening. And if you're not willing to say that is bad, it shouldn't be happening, then you're no better than the left. You're like, you're on their spectrum, okay? If you can't come out and say, this is bad, we shouldn't feminize the police work. Men are better suited for it. Men and women are different.
Starting point is 00:33:51 And so they have different aptitudes. They have different skills. They have different things that they're good at. And police work, law enforcement is a man's job. If you're not willing to say that, something that would have been totally uncontroversial to everybody in the world up until five minutes ago, if you're not willing to say that, then you're not, you're certainly not conservative. And if you are, you're a rather useless one. So here's my challenge. challenge anyone listening.
Starting point is 00:34:18 Challenge any leftist or any so-called conservative who inevitably post this clip somewhere, starts crying about it. Here it is. Give me an example. One example, anywhere, of a police department that was dominated by and led by males,
Starting point is 00:34:40 historically, that's every police department, and then started adding females and things improved. Improved in what way, you ask? Well, anyway. Any way at all. Any measurable improvement to any police department anywhere spurred on by the feminization of the department, by the addition of female officers and female leadership. Give me one objective, provable way, thing that you can point to that shows how adding female cops and female leadership has improved.
Starting point is 00:35:14 police departments. One example. Just give me one. And if you can't give me one, then I think it's you who should shut up. How about this? You have an emergency, any kind of emergency. You get on the phone 911. You need to send the cops out. Let's imagine a scenario where they give you a choice. They don't give you any other information, just generically. You can have a female cop or a male cop come. You get no other information about them. Who are you choosing? A hundred times out of 100, you're saying, yes, send the male cop. Unless you want to step up and say, no, no, I'd ask for the female cop.
Starting point is 00:35:59 Because if you say that, then you're either lying or you're insane. So these are things that we all know. And yet you've got people who still insist on denying it. But fortunately, I think there's an increasing number of people who are just done with that. Just done with it. just done with playing pretend, pretending that we don't know what we all know. Pretending like every person in the country knows you have an emergency, you prefer for male cops to show up.
Starting point is 00:36:33 You see the press conference after, you know, something bad is happening. You see the press conference. You feel a lot better when you see the male police chief over the female. You see that woman, this out of shape, old woman looks like a librarian standing up there. That does not inspire confidence in anyone. And we all know that. The only difference is that there are some of us who are willing to say, there are those, there's everybody else who's still playing pretend,
Starting point is 00:36:59 still playing the game. And if you're still playing the game, I just got no use for you. I got no use. Okay. I think I'm the only podcaster in America who hasn't said anything about the Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ad at this point. Not avoiding the topic or anything. It's just that other topics seem more interesting and important to me.
Starting point is 00:37:22 And then by the time I got around to this one, it's like everyone has, everything that can be said about it has already been said. I'm not sure what I can add that hasn't already been said a million times. But there's a headline segment and this is one of the big headlines. So we'll cover it briefly. So as you know, the actress Sidney Sweeney has appeared in some very viral American Eagle ads. And the biggest news for me is that American Eagle still exists. Because I honestly didn't know that. When I was a kid, now when I was a kid, you had the triumbrance of preppy clothing stores in the mall, which was average.
Starting point is 00:37:52 Cromby and Fitch. It was the other one, Hollister, and American Eagle. And usually they'd be all near each other. And then you had Aero Postal, which was kind of the poor man's preppy option. And then anyway, I assume that all those stores had died when the malls died, but I guess not. So these ads have gotten a lot of attention. Probably seeing them, but let's check out a few of them here. Sidney's Twini Hasbert Keynes.
Starting point is 00:38:47 Sidney's Twinnys Tweedysh Now there wouldn't be anything especially notable here if not for the reaction from the left. Woke leftists have spent the last several days screaming hysterically about these ads. In some cases, actually breaking down in tears, actually crying because of the American Eagle ads that I just played. They're very upset.
Starting point is 00:39:12 They claim these ads are somehow Nazi propaganda. So here's a sampling of their unhinged reactions. Did American Eagle just run an ad for eugenics? Jeans are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color. My jeans are blue. Sidney Swinney Hasbert Keynes.
Starting point is 00:39:35 Totally just talking about denim, right? Just a blonde-haired blue-eyed woman explaining how her good genes gave her personality and purity. I mean, are we really going to pretend that this isn't a little fashy-coated? Look, I'm not saying that Sidney-Sweeney personally wrote this ad to revive the Third Reich, but American Eagle absolutely knew what they were doing here. Should we be surprised that a company whose name is literally American Eagle is making fascist propaganda like this? Probably not. But it's still really shocking. Like a blonde-haired, blue-eyed white
Starting point is 00:40:07 woman is talking about her good jeans. Like, that is Nazi propaganda. You guys are complaining about that Sydney-Sweeney jeans ad. So I went and saw it. But that's Nazi propaganda. Wow. I thought it was going to be like kind of bad. If you haven't fully comprehended how bad it is, I need you to open your eyeballs and listen. This is Nazi.
Starting point is 00:40:36 Pure Nazi. Saying that a blonde hair, blue-eyed girl has good jeans is nuts. Sydney Swedish jeans ad is giving ethnic stake propaganda. It is giving dystopian. It is giving 1940s. Germany. And they could have had her said anything. She could have just said, I'm hot, drink my bath water, here are my jeans. But instead they had her say, jeans are passed down from parents to children.
Starting point is 00:40:58 I have good jeans. My jeans are blue. Why? Yeah, no. That was like the most thinly veiled propaganda, I think that I've ever seen. That's on TikTok, but by the way, it's not just crazies on TikTok that are saying this. Good Morning America ran a segment this morning on this topic. And here's what they said about it. Time to check the pulse. We begin with the backlash over a new ad campaign featuring actress Sydney Sweeney. Yeah, the ads are for American Eagle, and the tagline is, Sidney Sweeney has great jeans. Now, in one ad, the blonde-haired, blue-eyed actress talks about genes as in DNA being passed down from her parents. The play on words is being compared to Nazi propaganda with racial undertones.
Starting point is 00:41:42 The pun, good genes, activates a troubling historical. associations for this country. The American Eugenics movement in its prime between like 1900 and 1940 weaponized the idea of good genes just to justify white supremacism. Despite that backlash, American Eagle stock has been sore. So anyone who tells you that wokeness is dead, show them that, show them that in American, that, rather that Good Morning America segment. This is 2020-era hyper-radical, insane wokenness that is alive and well. Maybe not well. Maybe it's not doing well, but it is alive, at least.
Starting point is 00:42:25 So yes, American Eagle is making Nazi propaganda, we're told. By the way, just one note about that. The CEO of American Eagle has a very Nazi-sounding name. I will admit, I was a little skeptical that American Eagle was making Nazi propaganda, but then I saw the guy's name and I went, okay, yeah, it all makes sense. because his name is Jay Schottenstein. He's a member of very wealthy and influential Schottenstein family based in Ohio.
Starting point is 00:42:53 So, very Nazi-like. It's giving Nazi. It's giving Nazi, as the kids would say. You know, all those Nazis named Schottenstein. I mean, if I had a dime for every Nazi name Schottenstein that I've ever met, I'd be a very rich man. I'd be so rich that you might confuse me
Starting point is 00:43:14 for a Schadenstein myself. No, the CEO is Jewish, obviously, and American Eagle was not attempting to usher in the Fourth Reich. They were actually just trying to sell jeans. So that's all that was about. And I'm guessing that these ads were very successful in that regard. Why are these leftists freaking out then? Well, I do think the number one reason is that, and I'm not the first person to say this again,
Starting point is 00:43:41 that's kind of all been said. But I do think that it's not that hard to decipher what's really going on here, especially when you look at the people who are the most upset about the ads. And so I think that almost all the women panicking over the ads are unattractive. And so this is standard factory grade kind of female envy. They're jealous because she's more attractive than them. And they're worried, even more so, they're worried that, and this is what they're actually crying about, is they're worried that the culture is moving away from this body positivity nonsense where we celebrate ugliness, we celebrate obesity, we celebrate mediocrity, and they're worried about that because they're looking in the mirror and they're going,
Starting point is 00:44:33 okay, well, if we're not celebrating ugly mediocrity anymore, I'm in trouble. And so that's what they're worried about. And they should be worried because we are moving away from that. at long last. And that's the real significance of these ads, I think. Because, like, in a way, it's, it's always kind of weird to have a bunch of Christian conservatives celebrating advertisements that revolve around sexual innuendo. That's historically, that's not the way that it normally went. Now, obviously, there's nothing graphic in the ads. It's not gratuitous. I don't think. It's not, it's not pornographic or anything. But it is sexual innuendo. And historically, it has not been Christian conservatives
Starting point is 00:45:09 championing that kind of content. The reason why conservatives are doing that now are celebrating it, and I think it's a valid reason, is that this represents a move back to normalcy. People are tired of having freakish nonsense pushed in their faces every day. Ads featuring morbidly obese people who are told that we're supposed to see as beautiful or whatever are nonsense. It's bizarre. It's not, it's nonsensical. It's not normal. It's abnormal. It's abnormal. and it's disordered, and people are sick of it. This ad uses an attractive woman to appeal to people, especially men. And that's normal.
Starting point is 00:45:49 I mean, say what you want about using sex to sell merchandise. It is normal, at least. And it does represent a rejection of wokenness, a rejection of the leftist project. It is a rejection of the left's rejection of beauty and normalcy. So I think that's what's going on here. And I don't know that a Sydney-Sweeney jeans ad really warranted a five-day conversation, but there is a certain cultural significance to it, and I think that's what it is. All right, I got to play this.
Starting point is 00:46:20 And I mean, I really have no choice to play it. I don't even want to necessarily, but I'm compelled by forces outside of my control to do this. It is my obligation. I'm duty-bound. I'm called. So something happened during a WMBA game yesterday. Perhaps the first entertaining thing to have ever occurred during one of these games. There's a player on the court lost her wig.
Starting point is 00:46:48 Her wig got knocked off. And that was just, that was the beginning of the hilarity. It was the beginning of the kind of comedy of errors that happened as a result of this event. And so just watch this and see how it all unfolds. And it bounced around. lot, but at the end, I went through the rim. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. She's going to go ahead to the back. Oh, no. Time out call for copper to deal with the malfunction. Okay, so this actually goes on for several more minutes, and we won't, we won't bore you with all of it. But just to summarize what happened here,
Starting point is 00:47:35 one of the WMBA players had her wig knocked off. Why was she wearing a wig while playing basketball? Who knows? I mean, if all the places to wear a wig, a basketball court seems like the worst place, or top five, at least. Just a very poor choice. So then she picks up her wig and she sprints off the court. So we've got two very funny events.
Starting point is 00:47:56 First, the wig comes off, that's hilarious. And then the reaction of picking up the wig and sprinting. Because apparently in the world of female basketball, if your wig falls off, you are. automatically excused for participation. You can just run off the court, go to a locker room, and cry, presumably. I mean, I think they saw that the medical staff was rushing in with a pint of ice cream to make her feel better. And then back on the court, the announcers don't acknowledge what happened. They practice this kind of solemn, reverent silence. You can tell one of the
Starting point is 00:48:29 announcers almost started laughing and she caught herself. But a wig just fell off. I mean, how do you not mention that? They're trying to talk around it. They won't say anything about the wig. They won't give us a replay. Now, over in men's sports, okay, a guy, a player in men's sports can shatter his leg. His Achilles tendon is like shooting out of the top of his skull. and we would get 50 slow motion replays of it. We would get up close slow motion so we can see the moment that the tendon rips off and is shot up through his skull. And that's what you see with men's sports. But in women's sports, if a woman loses her wig, they won't show you the replay.
Starting point is 00:49:20 It's too upsetting. It's too tragic. We can't. We don't want this to be memorialized on camera. We can't allow it to be seen. And all of that's hilarious enough. But then they actually stop play on the court. They shut everything down.
Starting point is 00:49:35 And there's an emergency meeting with the refs and coaches and officials because some fans, somewhere in the stands, made fun of the player for losing a wig. And we could get from the reaction. It was only one fan, apparently. Now, again, this happens in men's sports. If someone's wearing a wig and it falls off, the whole stadium would be erupting in laughter. And it would be, it would be, it would be. There'd be no way.
Starting point is 00:50:00 If you tried to kick everybody out, you'd be kicking out the entire stadium of people. In this case, one fan makes a joke about it and gets kicked out. How do they even know that there was one? Well, it's because there's only five people in the stands. So, you know, they really did. They kicked out 20% of the audience because there was one person. And then it's just, but again, you go back to the world of men's sports. if you've ever been to a game, a basketball game, football game, hockey, whatever,
Starting point is 00:50:35 you know that in men's sports fans shout the absolute most vile and vulgar things all game long. I mean, I went to a Raven Steelers game a few years back in Baltimore. And it was a great game. We won. But the fans were screaming. Like, it, they, there was death wishes, profanity, ancient curses, like these almost guttural noises that the fans are making, these summoning the ghosts of their ancestors to murder the Steelers in their sleep.
Starting point is 00:51:14 Brutal. And yet, in the WMBA, if you crack a smile when a woman's wig falls off, they stop the game and remove you from the stadium. So that's all that to say, women and men, kind of the theme that's emerged today in the show, women and men are very different. Very different. And this is also why men's sports is just a much, much, much, much better product. It is just simply a better product. And that's why I'm a little troubled by all this WMBA conversation, which I know I'm guilty of it. I know I'm guilty of it. Like, I think we should all stop talking about the WMBA. I can't not talk about it.
Starting point is 00:51:55 I mean, it's Herbwick fell off at the end. I have to talk about. Why do I have this show if I'm not going to talk about that? And yet at the same time, it's a little bit of an internal crisis for me because I do think that we all should stop talking about the WNBA. And there's this effort among some people to make the WMBA relevant or to pretend that it's a good product is that's also troubling to me. So that's what happened there. Hopefully by now her wig is back on, and she'll use some better glue next time, and everything will be fine in the world again.
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Starting point is 00:56:32 Visit Amiracistgame.com and get yours today so we can all be canceled together. Every so often you hear a story about an extremely rich person who's decided to disinherit his own children. Now, there are various articles about how Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Simon Cal, George Lucas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jackie Chan, etc. have all decided that their children won't receive any kind of significant inheritance. Of course, it's easy for rich people to set up various trusts and LLCs that funnel large something of money to their children, even if their children technically don't get any direct inheritance. And there's obviously no way to verify any of these pledges and whether they're carried out
Starting point is 00:57:09 or not, since all these rich people are still alive. That said, there's a clear trend here that's impossible to ignore. At a minimum, it's now highly fashionable for prominent people to say that they are disinheriting their own children. The latest example comes from someone named Tony Hawks, who is apparently not the skateboarding legend Tony Hawk. Instead, Tony Hawks is described as a British comedian. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't. It's unverifiable because any time you search for this guy's name online, Google assumes you're using the possessive form of Tony Hawk.
Starting point is 00:57:40 So search for Tony Hawk's stand-up will return videos of Tony Hawk doing skateboarding tricks while standing up. But in any event, Tony Hawks evidently still has a large amount of money. And he recently gave an interview with the BBC where he talked about his estate planning. And here's what he said. My interest in this may have come from the fact that for some reason, my father had one brother, he said to both of us, I'm not going to leave you anything. And I thought that was rather interesting. It didn't seem to bother me at all.
Starting point is 00:58:08 My brother, he wasn't so keen on the idea. But he told us and we knew. And so we had to go out in the world knowing that's what was going to happen. A lot of people say, well, look, it's so hard. it's so hard you've got to help your children. I can't get it out of my head. What about all the children that won't get anything at all? It just seems very unfair on them that through an accident of birth,
Starting point is 00:58:33 that some people get a leg up, some people get a massive leg up, some people get a little leg up, but they're not going to get anything. And I don't know why I think that way. I just think it isn't fair, because my son hasn't done anything to, other than be born to me to to to to to to earn that money so I think we need to think again myself I know I'm pretty much on my own on this but I you know I I I'm not sure where just an automatic leaving things to family is relevant anymore used to be but I'm not so sure anymore what are you going to do with this money if you don't leave it to you son are you going to spend spend
Starting point is 00:59:12 yeah like Viv Nicholson now what I'm actually doing is I'm setting up a charitable trust leaving Arlo a job if he wants to take it, working for that charity, helping to give money away to good causes. As you could tell, he's a really funny guy. Tony Hawks oozes charisma and brings mirth wherever he goes. But in this instance, Tony Hawks wasn't just bringing down the house with some high-quality British humor. He also declared with a straight face that, quote, it seems very unfair for children to gain access to a large amount of money by an accident of birth. Now, put aside the godless, nihilistic line of thinking here, and just assume that his premise is accurate.
Starting point is 00:59:50 Let's assume that every human birth is some kind of cosmic accident, whatever that means, and therefore people don't deserve money from their parents because their whole life and their circumstances of their birth are accidental. If that's the case, why do these random unnamed charities deserve the money? Aren't those charities composed of people who are also born by accident? And isn't a gigantic accident that they're getting a bunch of money just because Tony Hawks happen to look them up and send them confused? some cash before he died? There's really no way to make sense of anything he just said, but it's a
Starting point is 01:00:22 common line of argument you see all the time on the left. Same kind of thinking that yields brilliant insights like billionaires don't deserve their money, so therefore we should steal their money and give it to barely sentient government bureaucrats instead. Except in this case, the argument's even worse, because he's depriving his own bloodline in the process. I mean, let's assume for a second that Tony Hawks means every word he says and that his planned charitable organization isn't some kind of tax avoidance scheme, which it could very well be. The truth is, increasingly a lot of people are doing the same thing that he's doing. I mean, it's why you hear this kind of, we talked about on the show before, I think, but this is becoming a very popular thing for parents.
Starting point is 01:00:56 Parents are increasingly cutting children out of their wills or reducing the amount of money that some of their children receive if they're leaving a will at all. Recently, the business school at Washington University in St. Louis posted a summary of research into inheritances and wills that was conducted by researchers in the European Economic Review. And they looked at U.S. data from the health and retirement study from 1995 to 2014, and here's what they found, quote, more than one-third of parents with wills plan to divide their estates unequally among their children. The research also discovered that a staggering number of older Americans don't have a will. 30% of people, 70 and older, don't.
Starting point is 01:01:29 Plans for unequal inheritances are concentrated in weak relationships. Those are defined as families with stepchildren and families with genetic children with little or no contact with their parents. Robert Pollock, an economics professor who worked on this research, said this is a trend that's becoming much more common. quote, we've shown that bequests are much more unequal now than in the recent past and much more unequal than generally recognized. According to the paper, quote, the proportion of parents ages 50 and over with more than one child who report having wills in which they treat their children unequally increased steadily between 1995 and 2014. It's now nearly 40% up double digits from just a couple of decades ago. In other words, relationships between parents and their children,
Starting point is 01:02:06 or at least some of their children, are on the decline, and parents are leaving less money to their children as a result. And in many cases, they aren't leaving wills at all, leaving children to fight over the money in court, which is just an extremely irresponsible thing. I just don't understand, especially older parents who you haven't bothered to make a will. You're just leaving your family to deal with this. Incredibly selfish. They're finding other uses for the money that they've saved from spending it on themselves or donating it to charity, as Tony Hawks claims he's doing. What this means is that we're living in the first generation in American history and world history.
Starting point is 01:02:42 but that is just disregarding the concepts of legacy and birthright on a large scale. This is not the only evidence of that. We see many other cases, but this is one symptom of this problem. For millions of Americans, it's becoming an appealing prospect to make their children's lives more difficult, all for the benefit of complete strangers. That's the fair outcome, says Tony Hawks. Better to give random non-profits a leg up or help other people's children than your own children.
Starting point is 01:03:12 because your child didn't earn it, even though, again, the people that you're giving the charity to and the people that the charities giving the money to, they didn't earn it either. And this is the kind of madness that you hear almost exclusively among boomers. I mean, these are people who grew up in a very different economy, one where young Americans weren't competing
Starting point is 01:03:31 against millions of foreign nationals for entry-level jobs and where the government wasn't constantly printing money and devaluing every dollar they earned. To use Tony Hawks' term, boomers benefited from an actual, an actual accident of birth, which is that they spent their working years in a country that's now unrecognizable. And now, as we've seen so often, they're pulling up the ladder, which is indefensible. And to be clear, it would be indefensible even if the economy hadn't changed in the ways that I just outlined. Leaving your fortune for other people's kids, but not your own,
Starting point is 01:04:04 it's the weirdest kind of selfishness. It amounts to spite and resentment towards your own bloodline. And I will just never understand this kind of thing. I'm not even 40 yet, and despite appearances, and already one of the main things that drives me in life is the desire to leave a legacy for my children. And that desire seems to be less and less common. I made this point on X the other day, and one of the top replies, a comment with over 200 likes is from a boomer woman who said, no, Boomer here, I plan to spend every dime, exclamation point. This is a popular attitude these days. It's like insanely gratuitously selfish, but it's a very popular attitude.
Starting point is 01:04:56 It would have been totally alien to your grandparents, this attitude. I'm going to spend every dime so you don't get it. Your grandparents did not have, and you as a, as a, boomer, you benefited from the fact that your parents or grandparents didn't have that attitude, but you do. And their grandparents didn't have that attitude, and their grandparents didn't. On down through the ages. Leaving a legacy, making sure that your children are wealthier and more prosperous than you. This should be one of your main focuses in life, and especially as you get towards the end of your life. It should be one of the only things that matters to you is making sure that
Starting point is 01:05:34 your children. So this ridiculous attitude that you hear from some parents and older parents when they say, well, I didn't have this. I didn't have it. So you shouldn't have it. You should want your children to have the things that you didn't have. What the hell is wrong with you? You know, protecting your child's birthright. These are the things that motivated our ancestors drove them to achieve incredible things and build the civilization that we all now live in. If our ancestors had the that you had, you don't get this because you didn't work for it. I want you to have to work. If our ancestors had that attitude, we would not have the civilization. We would not have any civilization. And now you have people like Tony Hawks and the boomer woman in my comments just tossing all that to the side. It's insane.
Starting point is 01:06:26 Totally insane. So I will make right now the opposite pledge. Okay. And I don't have, I'll make the opposite pledge from the one that I hear from Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates and all the rest of them. I don't have anywhere close to the of money they do. But I will say, when I die, not one penny of my wealth will go to some charitable organization, not a dime. I don't make sure that's very clear in the will. Do not give a penny of this to charity. I don't want to get, not a penny. Because it will all go to my family. Not your family, not your kids, my family. Only then. Every dime, only my blood. I will leave it all to them and no one else. Now, I donate to charity while I'm alive, but when I die, all that is mine belongs to my children. It is their birthright. I'm doing all of this for them. I want, I want, I'm willing to say, I want my children to be rich and privileged.
Starting point is 01:07:30 It's crazy that that's now some sort of mind-blowing statement for someone to make. I want my children to be rich and privileged. That's what I want for them. Privilege is not a bad thing. I want my kids to have privilege. I want them to have a lot more privileges than I did. I want them have a lot more privileges than I did. I want them to reap the benefits of my work. I want to plant a tree so that they enjoy its fruits and sit in its shade. I want that for them much more than I want it for myself. And I can't understand any parent who lives any other way. And that is why anyone who is pledging to disinherit his own children in a depraved act of narcissism masked as altruism, which is often how narcissism is repackaged, is today canceled.
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