The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 916 - Why We Are In The Midst Of A Civilization-Wide Identity Crisis

Episode Date: March 25, 2022

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Yesterday we announced my upcoming documentary, What Is a Woman? We didn't expect, as we were making the film, that a Supreme Court nominee would do so much to help promote it right before the release. In fact, there were many things that happened around this film, and while making it that we didn't quite expect, the short teaser that we released yesterday shows a little bit of what we did expect,

which is that lots of people are unable to answer the titular question, and that also that politicians, in this case, Congressman Mark Takano of California would be very upset when we asked it. But there's much more to the film, much, much more, some of which you'll see when we drop the full trailer soon. And then, of course, nothing will be able to beat the experience of watching the actual film itself when it comes out in May. If you've been hesitating on getting a DW membership up until this point, I think I would tell you that now is the time, because you're going to want to see this film. People will be talking about it. We did some things in this movie that nobody's ever done before.

And that's not an exaggeration. And I can't say a lot, but I also say that we deployed some methods in order to secure some of these interviews that have been used by other films plenty of times, but never by anybody on the right. So you have to see it for yourself. You can go to what is a woman.com for more information. When I got home from work last night, speaking of the film, I found out that my wife had showed the teaser to my kids. You know, they aren't going to be able to watch the movie when it comes out. going to be appropriate for them. And the full trailer and most other clips that come out of this thing will also probably not be appropriate for them. So this is a one piece that they could watch. And in fairness,

they've wanted to know why I've been traveling and have been gone so much over the past year. I went to Africa. Like, they don't really know why any of this is happening. And now they know, sort of, but are even more confounded than they were before probably. My daughter especially thought it was absolutely hysterical that a bunch of grown-ups couldn't explain what a woman is. You know, she asked me what was wrong with all those people, and I said that lots of people in the world today are very confused, and it's very sad. And she said, so they really don't even know what a woman is? And I said, no, they don't, or at least they say they don't. Do you know? And she quickly answered that a woman has girl parts, and she makes babies.

It's about the shortest, simplest, and most correct answer I've heard. I literally traveled the globe for a year, talked to doctors and scientists and psychiatrists and so many other. credentialed so-called experts, and then finally got the right answer when I came home and asked my eight-year-old daughter. Something quite profound about that, yet also extremely sad and terrifying. But as to the what is a woman question, as it goes mainstream finally, as it becomes inescapable, even for those who want nothing more than to escape it, I think there are a few crucial points to be made, which have so far perhaps gotten lost in the shuffle. And these all revolve around a different question, and that is why are we going through this?

this civilization-wide identity crisis? Why have we tried to turn physical identity into a complicated subject? Why do we treat it as ambiguous, as abstract, ephemeral? I think there are two, there are lots of reasons, but there are two big reasons that we should think about, focus on. One, you know, I've said many times that there is a vast chasm, a canyon, separating the two ideological sides in this country, an expanse that cannot be bridged. because people on either side of it have diametrically opposed views about the most basic elements of reality, such as, you know, is there such a thing as a woman? What is a woman? Like, you can't, there's no compromised position between those two sides. And that's all true. But that picture of a society that is kind of

cut in half with this huge dark pit between them that nobody can bridge, that picture is pretty bleak. It's actually, though, a bit too neat, too tidy. It's actually more optimistic than what is the truth. It's a fine way of thinking about our cultural situation generally, kind of from a bird's eye view.

But when you look closer, you see that while there is a chasm separating the two sides, there are also a bunch of smaller chasms separating each individual. Or at least each individual on one of those sides. This is the relativist project. The relativist tries

to lay claim to his own reality, his own universe. There's no shared universe. There's no common reality at all. Each individual's identity is determined by the individual. Nothing external has any say. There are no determinative factors on the outside. Each person is a self-creating being, which of course is a paradox. You can't create yourself because in order to create anything, you first have to be a self.

just as you can't determine your own identity because in order to determine anything, you first must have an identity. Your identity comes from, your identity comes first. You can determine quite a lot in life. You can make many choices. But you're doing all of those things. You're acting in the world as a self whose basic biological identity was decided by someone or something other than yourself. Your self cannot determine who yourself is at such a basic level

because there has to be a self-first that can do any determining at all. That's the reality, but the left-wing gender ideologues rejected. And so the left-wing gender ideologue is stuck in this kind of paradoxical, self-perpetuating train of circular logic where statements like a woman is anybody who identifies as a woman seem to make sense, but they only seem to make sense to the gender ideologue, because he is, you know, he is a stuck in a sort of circular world where everything is running in a circle. And so statements of circular logic, he just doesn't see it for the nonsense that it is. Second thing, part of the reason that people in our culture seek to reject their natural identity,

and this is really important, and it's not talked about nearly enough, part of why they want to see identity as fluid and arbitrary, superficial, is because they seek to escape the duties and responsibilities that attend your natural identity. So this is how you bridge the gap between the left-wing war on gender roles and their current obsession with gender fluidity. At first glance, it seems contradictory. And it is because for years they said that there are no gender roles and there's no, So there's nothing wrong with a boy dressing in pink and wearing a skirt.

Like a boy can do whatever he wants. There's nothing about his boyiness that should compel him to act in any kind of way. That's what they said for years. And now they say that a boy who dresses in pink and wears a skirt actually is a girl. So that would seem to be a complete reversal, wouldn't it? And it is in a way. But the one thing that ties all of this together is the rejection of natural roles, natural responsibilities. We cannot say that a man has any particular duty as a man if the word man doesn't mean anything.

Same for woman. You know, one thing I found during my travels, and there's much more to be said about this, a whole separate documentary on just this alone could be made and should be made. And maybe I will be the one to make it if no one else does. But one thing I found is that whenever I encountered somebody with a strong sense of responsibility, I was also encountering somebody with a strong sense of identity. Every single person I talked to who knew exactly who they were, and there weren't a lot of those people, but the ones that I did find,

they also knew exactly what they were supposed to be doing. People who know and accept what they are and who they are and what they're supposed to do, they're never confused about who they are. The problem is that there are so few people in that category in the West. anymore, which is partly why we went all the way into Africa, to the African wilderness. And when we got down there, we found a small society, tribal society, totally organized around the concept of responsibility. It's responsibility, your duties, your roles, bleeds into every aspect of your life, everything that you do. Everybody has a role, and they know what it is,

and so they don't question who they are. In fact, if you ask them who they are, as I did, the first thing they'll tell you is what they do, what their duties are. That's how closely the two things are intertwined. They don't even see any distinction between it. A man is what a man does. Now, they also understand the biological parts of it. A man has a penis and all that. But if you ask someone in one of those societies, what a man is, I can tell you this now from experience, the first First thing they're going to tell you about is what the man is supposed to do. They're not going to tell you that he's a male and he has a penis.

The reason they won't tell you that is because they think, well, that's just so obvious. Why would I say that? Of course, everybody knows that. They assume I meant, like, on a sort of deeper level. A man is what a man does. Now, in the West, we forgot what a man is supposed to do. And then it didn't take long before we also forgot who he is. And that is no coincidence.

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insane. I'll take that as a compliment that my voice scares away wild animals. Um, all right. let's let's start with this. Joe Biden yesterday, he's just a guy full of good news. You can remember before, you know, we had the first day of spring this week. And so winter's officially over. And we remember, we go back to whatever, whatever was November or December, Joe Biden promised us a winter of death and sickness and despair. And it didn't seem to be that for me. I mean, you know, it seems like, um, the winter wasn't too bad, but he promised it would be a winter of death. And winter of death didn't exactly work out. But now, maybe we'll have a spring of death because he says that food shortages are on the horizon.

Listen. With regard to food shortages, yes, we did talk about food shortages. And it's going to be real. The price of these sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia. It's imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well. And because both Russia and Ukraine have been the breadbasket of Europe in terms of wheat, for example, just give you one example. But we had a long discussion in the G7 with both the United States, which has a significant the third largest producer of wheat. in the world, as well as Canada, which is also a major, major producer.

And we both talked about how we could increase and disseminate more rapidly food shortages. In addition to that, we talked about urging all the European countries and everyone else to end trade restrictions on sending limitations on sending food abroad. And so we are in the process of working out with our European friends what it would be, what it would take to help alleviate the concerns relative to food shortages. We also talked about a significant major U.S. investment among others in terms of providing for the need for humanitarian assistance, including food, as we move forward. So what exactly happened to build back better? I think we've moved on from that, I guess. no more building back better. Now we have winters of death,

winter of death going into a spring of despair, food shortages. Now he says food shortages are coming. Last I checked, they've already kind of been here. And so that's part of what is happening here, why Joe Biden's going around talking about food shortages, promising that things are going to get so much worse. And we've heard a lot. I've never heard.

I can't remember ever hearing this much, pessimism from a politician who's in charge of things. Now it's one thing when you're running against an incumbent and then you're pessimistic about the way things are going right now and then you say, well, elect me and things will be better. But for the guy who's actually in charge, who's this pessimistic about the way things are heading? Part of the reason for that, of course, is now he's trying to pin everything on Putin. And so he's saying, oh, food short, are coming because of, you know, the war in Russia and Putin, and he's doing all this. Well, as I said, last I checked, that was already a problem.

I mean, Joe Biden, I think, fairly was getting labeled Bare Shelds Biden before the war in Ukraine. You know, you could go on social media and find the pictures of Bear Shelds and grocery stores, going back months before any of this happened. So this has been a great opportunity for Biden to take all of these. things that were already happening, gas prices, inflation, food shortages, supply chain issues, all that stuff, all that was already happening, was already trending in this direction, and take it all and just put it in the lap of Putin. That's why the Biden administration, very grateful, in fact, for what's happening in Ukraine right now, because it gives them an

opportunity to blame all of their own failures on Putin, all these things that were already happening. Now, is Putin's invasion of Ukraine, is that helping any of these issues? Is it helping gas prices? No. Is it contributing to some of the problems? Sure. But none of these things began a few weeks ago when Putin invaded Ukraine. We were already heading in that direction. And now he wants to, of course, pin it all on Putin. You also get the sense, here's the most disturbing thing for me. Every time I see Joe Biden and I listen to him and he's talking about these problems, you get the sense, well, first of all, of course, that he's just confused and he doesn't know exactly what's going on because he does have dementia and we have a president with dementia.

That's what happens when you decide that an 80-year-old needs to be president. But you also get the sense that he doesn't seem to care that much about any of these people. He doesn't seem to care that much about any of his problems. There's no real sense of urgency at all from this guy. That's why when all hell's breaking loose, he'll just go off to Delaware and, you know, take a five-day weekend. That's why he's still, he's still going to bed at 7.30, even in the midst of crisis after crisis. Some of that is, again, the fact that he is physically, mentally collapsing. But it's also, I think, a lack of urgency, a lack of concern. And that goes back to his own moral failings, but also, that also can be traced back to his age. You know, that I hate to always have to tie everything back to this and harp on

this point, but it's an important point. And I think we need to keep it front of mind here. That, yeah, even if Joe, even if this was, if Joe Biden was 20 years younger, we'd still be having a lot of the same problems because he still, he still would be incompetent. But, this is only making all those problems even worse. The fact that he's so old. And I think it contributes to a lack of urgency and a lack of concern because, well, frankly, he's not going to be around for very long because he's old. So I don't think he's sitting around really worried about long-term solutions.

This is not going to be his problem for very long. yet another reason why we need younger people in office, and not just in the White House, I mean in office, running the country. We need younger people so that they're more physically and mentally equipped, but also so that they have a stake in the future. So they're going to be around to deal with the consequences of whatever decisions they make. And their kids are going to be around, and they're going to be around also to see their kids dealing with those consequences.

It always makes me nervous, even more nervous, when I consider the fact that so many of the people at the highest levels of government making the most important decisions are not going to be around to see the consequences of any of these decisions. I think that should make us all very nervous. You know, you have a president who's in his, you know, 40s, 50s, even 60s. Like, he's got several decades left probably on earth. You never know for sure. when they're leaving, but these are people who have decades left and they're going to be around. And it's all inevitable, the consequence of going into a nursing home and finding the most geriatric people and saying, hey, you want to run the country? All right, moving from the United States,

over to North Korea, I just got to play this for you because it's, on one hand, you can't help but laugh because how else can you respond to something like this? But then also you consider this guy's a ruthless dictator and he runs concentration camps and kills thousands of his own people. So that takes away from some of the humor, some of the comedic effect

of this kind of thing. But either way, so this is apparently from this is a North Korean state media. They put out this propaganda piece. And this is Kim Jong-un unveiling a new missile that they just launched. And they kind of put together a little hype video.

And let's check this out. Let's see. We say Kim coming out of the... He's got his generals there. Oh, he's pointing. Those are the people he wants executed. He's pointing to them. Execute that person. Execute him too. He's gone. Now those generals... This is the fifth take and the first four

generals in the video were all executed. And there's the missile. Now he's checking his watch. I don't know why. They're getting... And all these generals, they know, that's the most intense I've ever seen. Most intense scene of people checking watches I've ever seen. Oh, is that it? They don't even launch the missile? Missile? So that was just them bringing the missile out of the garage.

I guess there's probably a sequel where they actually launched the thing, but we won't bother watching that. You know, they're trying. I mean, they're doing what they can over there. I guess to at least keep their dictator entertained. All right, let's go to this from the Daily Wire. It says actress Gabriel Union is known for her stance on trans issues involving children. She or husband, former freshman basketball player Dwayne Wade, have a teenager who identifies as trans. This has inspired Union to become an outspoken advocate for LGBT issues, especially as they relate to kids.

The actress recently expressed her thoughts during an interview with BuzzFeed. And she said, it's important for us to live and love out loud. We didn't exactly understand why supporting Zaya's trans identity. So that's Zaya is what they're calling their kid. We don't understand exactly why supporting Zaya's trans identity was a thing because it's like we love all our kids out loud. Their 14-year-old child came out as trans in 2019. Well, no, he, and I'm not even sure, Zaya, is this a male? I'm not even sure.

So I'd like to use the appropriate pronouns here, but I'm not even sure what they are. Oh, it's a boy. Okay. All right. So this is actually a boy. their 14-year-old child Zia came out as trans in 2019. So he would have been, you know, he would have been 11, 10, 11 around there when he came out. So he didn't actually come out.

That's not what happened. I mean, you can't come out and identify something that you don't understand. You don't understand what you're saying. This is an identity that was imposed on him. I'm not saying entirely by his parents. It's probably not entirely by the parents. it's by friends, society, the school system, all of these various institutions. But the parents were quite eager and anxious to go along with it.

So they could then take little Zaya and parade him all around and media and everything and show him off. Because here's the thing. Zaya, quote, unquote, came out as trans in 2019. And 2019 is when we first heard about Zaya. becoming a girl, quote unquote. So it sounded like they waited. Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union, they didn't wait. Like as soon as that happened, they had them in front of cameras, boom.

So if there was ever any doubt about the motivations here, that should put those doubts to rest. If your child is supposedly coming out as trans and the very next thing you do is alert the media and get them out on the red carpet, in dresses and so on and do interviews and everything, then it's very clear. This is not about the kid. It's about you. Your kid is a trophy that you are showing off to display how woke you are. Union continues, as our children show up,

it's our job to believe them when they tell us who they are and not impose our dreams, hopes, fears, and desires on them. It's our job to be loving, compassionate, protective guides for our children, but their lives are their lives, and we have to respect them. that. We do not believe in any kind of shaming for existing. That is bizarre, cruel, and harmful. So yeah, we're going to post our family. We're going to live out loud. We're going to love out loud, and we're going to speak out loud and lead in however each situation calls for us to be leaders when things are not where they should be. All right. A couple of things here.

first of all, even putting aside the issue of trans and the fact that you're imposing this what sadly and tragically will probably be a lifelong identity crisis on your child, putting that to the side for a second. It is certainly not your 11-year-old child's job to be a leader on anything, on any issue whatsoever. I don't care what the issue is. I don't care if it's even a worthwhile. issue. Your 11-year-old child's job is right now just to be a child and to learn and be educated,

to have some moral formation, which is supposed to be your job as a parent. You're obviously doing a terrible job of that. You've gone more of the direction of moral deformation than moral formation. But no, your job, your child's not supposed to be living out loud, as you say, which what you mean is, when you say live out loud, what you mean is on, on. display for the world to see. Love out loud, that again is on display. So, oh, we're loving our children out loud. Translation, we are, our supposed love for our children is a performance. And we're doing this on a stage for the world to see. And as to the rest of it, she says that it's our children tell us who they are and it's our job to listen. I mean, this is, in fact,

I know someone who wrote a whole book. about that concept called Johnny the Walrus, which you can also get at Johnny the Walrus.com. Because that is the, that's the consequence. That's how absurd it is. Your job is to listen to your child when he tells you who he is? No, not at all, because your child has no idea who he is. Children are not born into the world with knowledge about almost anything. You have to teach them. okay you're just as your child it's not your child's job to lead in society it's not your child's job to be a an activist it's especially not your child's job to lead your family now you don't you don't follow his lead and say well he'll tell us who he is and what he wants

to do and well we're just going to follow behind him applauding him all the way well then you're going to be following and applauding as your child goes right off of a cliff. Only the thing is, you're not going to jump off the cliff with him. You're going to stand at the edge and watch him fall and just applaud. There you go. It looks fun. No, you're supposed to say to the kid, and sometimes they won't like this because kids can be obstinate and stubborn and they want to get their way.

So sometimes you have to be forceful about it, but you stop your kid and say, no, no, no, let me get in front. You come in behind me. I'll show you where we're going because you don't know, and that's what you need me to do for you. Because that over there is a cliff and you're a kid and you're stupid, and you're going to think that you're just going to walk right over and be fine. But I know better because I'm an adult, so I'm going to guide you on this path over here. That's what you're supposed to be doing. I also wanted to mention this.

This is kind of interesting. Terrell Germain Star is a, I guess, a journalist. He's got a blue check on Twitter, so we know he's an important person. And he tweeted this. He says, I've just started identifying as queer, over the last four months, does that make me the new queer, but an old black? And then he continues, because you're wondering, well, he just, he just started identifying as queer. This is not the same thing as I'm coming out as gay. I've been gay my whole life and I haven't told anybody

and now I'm, I'm living out loud, as Gabriel Union would say. No, I just started identifying as queer. Okay, what does that mean? He continues. I think most men, especially black men, like me, who come out later in life, it's because we don't really know it ourselves. Also, I'm attracted to a wide range of women, but not men at all. So I didn't know how to ID myself, even though I haven't felt straight in years. L.O.L. For me, embracing being queer was as much as intellectual journey as it was other areas. Just the way I think of structural oppression comes from not feeling heteronormative in my thinking about things.

Okay, so he's only attracted to women. He makes very clear about that. But he's attracted to a wide range of women. I don't know exactly what that means. A wide range of maybe he's attracted to larger women. Okay. That's fine. Some guys are. There's still women, though. But in spite of that, he hasn't. So you're attracted to women and only women. You're a man, but you don't feel straight. what does that mean? Does it mean that you also attracted to men? No, no, you're only attracted to women. I just don't feel straight. I, you know, I have feelings. I'm a straight person, and I have feelings, and I'm assuming that the feelings I'm having right now are not the feelings that other straight people have, even though I only like women. Of course, none of this makes any sense whatsoever. But it does show a couple of things. One is how, you know, this LGBT indoctrination that's going on, we focus a lot, I mean, I focus a lot on how this affects children, how children are being kind of groomed and indoctrinated. And that's true, and that's a big problem, but it's not just children. This

is happening to. It's happening to adults also. Adults also are being, in effect, groomed by this stuff and indoctrinated into it. Now, with them, it's a little bit different because they are more willful participants in their own indoctrination. And the reason why he's going along with it is because, you know, it's also trendy. There is a, there's a, there are many social benefits of being able to say, I'm queer. And the great thing is, if you're interested in those social benefits, the word queer that like doesn't mean anything anymore. And so you could claim that label for yourself and no one's allowed to question it because it's your label.

And now if you're a man, you know, you could still date women, but you can have all the social credibility of being LGBT. As far as Terrell's concerned, it's the best of both worlds. All right, here's another tweet. This one is from Representative Casey Weinstein, who's a state representative in Ohio. And I thought this was good. He says, in Ohio, you need a license to,

fish but not to concealed carry a gun. Think about that. You need a license to fish, but not to have concealed carry for a gun. Think about it. Well, I am thinking about it, and I actually totally agree with him that this is completely insane. You should not need a license to fish. That's the conclusion I think we could draw from there. Now, I say that as someone, avid fisherman myself, I've fished in many, you know, five, six different states. I've never actually bothered to get a license. But there shouldn't be the regulation that I have to ignore. I shouldn't be forced to ignore this regulation.

It shouldn't be there to begin with. And since he brought up the subject, I mean, just think about that for a second. That if you want to grab a fishing pole and go to a lake or a pond and, you know, throw some bait in there, you got to get a license from the government. it's it's you know one of the many absurdities that you know that we tolerate in terms of the government just it's it's blatantly nothing but fundraising not not much different from the red light cameras that they put up or anything like that all it is is fundraising because the other thing about the fishing license is that if you do go get one you go to you can go to any sporting goods store or

whatever if you feel like getting one even though again there's no reason to actually do it because while i've never gotten a license i've also never ever ever ever been asked to produce one, and I've never seen anyone be asked to produce one. Maybe there are some lakes in the country where this actually happens. I've never encountered it. I've never seen it. But if you do go get the license, I know there's nothing to it. They just, you pay them 50 bucks or whatever it is, depending on what kind of license you're trying to get. You don't have to, there's no training. They don't make sure that you know how to cast or anything like that. There's no training that goes into it. It's not like a, it's not like a driver's license where they want to

make sure that you're not going to kill somebody when you're out there driving. Nothing like that. You just got to pay them, and then they'll let you go fish. Nothing but fundraising. So, inadvertently, Casey Weinstein has brought up a good point here. Get rid of the license to fish. Also, you shouldn't need a license to carry a gun around either. Okay, one of the quick thing I want to mention, this from a few days ago,

the DWS, Nicole Hannah-Jones, a New York Times reporter, and creative the 1619 project riled up social media on Monday when she tweeted that tipping is a legacy of slavery. What reason does she have? I haven't read this until now, so I'm not sure what her argument is. Maybe it's a good argument. Not holding my breath. She's never made a good argument for anything, but tipping is a legacy of slavery, and if it's not optional, then it shouldn't be a tip but simply included in the bill, she wrote. Do you ever stop to think why we tip, like why tipping is a practice in the U.S. and almost nowhere else? okay well what's the how do you connect it to slavery that's what i'm trying to see

hannah jones 45 created the 1619 project we know about that um and i'm just skimming through to see if she actually gives a reason how do you click i want to know how do you connect these dots and then she's okay then she's getting criticized on twitter she responds to it she says are you all reading what i'm writing or no i said i tip i tip well i tip almost always but i object the idea that I'm obligated to tip no matter how I'm treated. Nope. And you can't get more offended at me than employers that pay less than minimum wage. So here's my question. Who is the slave in this analogy? Is it the person working for tips is the slave? I figure that's what she meant. But then reading more, it sounds like she's saying that we are turned into slaves because we're

forced, you know, by social pressure to give tips to someone who's already getting paid. I don't know. I'm not sure how if you dissect that exactly. I'm not sure if I would say that tipping is a holdover from slavery. In fact, I would say that it definitely isn't. I mean, quite famously, slaves didn't earn tips. They didn't earn anything at all. It's what makes you a slave. So I'm not going to agree with that.

But I do think, and I think we've talked about before, that although I, you know, I consider myself to be a pretty good tipper, I still tip in most situations Tipping is however gotten way out of control Everywhere you go now they expect a tip And whether it's a tip jar

Or now they get more aggressive about it And they actually will ask you Or now that everywhere you go that you have to pay On the iPad thing and then they flip it around And there's always a Oh do you want to leave a 15% tip A 25% tip So I think it's got

way out of hand. I think we need to stop for a second and have a conversation about tipping, not about whether it has any connection to slavery, but just what is the point of the tip and which industry should have this and not? I can understand in the food industry. You know, a waiter, first of all, is not getting paid a lot, but also, you know, your experience at the restaurant is going to be so much determined by how good your waiter is. And so I understand the tip, and it's also a way of rewarding really good service, penalizing bad service, so I understand it that way. But if all you're doing is just pouring a cup of coffee for me and handing it to me,

like I could cut you out of that completely. Just give me the cup and I'll pour it myself. So I don't understand tipping for that. That's a conversation. Maybe we'll have another time. Let's get now to the comment section. All right, we'll take a look at one video comment, which is clip eight. Hey Matt, I'll know if I'm allowed to be featured in the video comments twice.

That weird guy that made those videos that annoyed you did, but I think it might only be allowed if McKenna wants to annoy you. Anyways, I just watched Candace. I watched the water test. And she took a sip from what said Aquafina before. before the signs were flipped down and said, oh, this is Desani. And then when she picked up the sign, it said Desani. But that's where Aquafino

was. Candice is a cheater. Sweet baby game for life. Yeah. Many nefarious things went on surrounding that water test. I think we will never know the full truth. We'll never know everything that happened.

historians will be debating this for decades and centuries to come. And you're right. I mean, what you pointed out. There are, it's, if you watch, it's quite disturbing. I've had many people reach out to me. Because first of all, they want to know, am I okay? How am I doing? And I appreciate that.

And the answer is I'm doing all right, but I'm still recovering in a lot of ways from what happened. But you can notice some interesting things with the way the water test was edited. and some cups are mysteriously moving around and signs are moving around. No one knows what's happening. It would take too long to sort all out. But all you need to know is that, of course, I did win. Let's see. Frankie Price says, if your entire ideology can be destroyed by one question,

it was never strong to begin with. Well, that's an understatement. That's exactly the point. That's why we made the film. What is a woman dot com? Mark says it was very good of K-Bay, G. KBJ, KBJ, there we go, to coordinate with your movie release. Yeah, it is.

It really did. I mean, you can't plan it any better than this. And it is, and I do appreciate that, at least, from her. Lena says, I can't wait for the film to come out. I hope you have a good contingency plan in case some social media platforms kick you out. Well, there's no real contingency plan. I mean, that's just right now anyway. That's the unfortunate reality is that the most powerful social media platforms are the ones

that are run by the left. If they kick you off, which I think there's a pretty good chance that will happen to me. I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet to me. It's inevitable that eventually that will happen to me, just like it will happen to any conservative who's outspoken and has a platform. I think with this movie coming out, like I said yesterday, I don't see how all of my social media platforms survive the release of the movie. Not that they have any good reason to kick me off because of the movie, but it doesn't mean they won't do it. But in terms of a contingency plan, what are you doing instead? I mean, just the reality is they kick you off and it doesn't mean that you're erased from existence,

but that will succeed in cutting you off from a certain portion of an audience. And there really isn't any replacement right now. I think we should work on building some, you know, building some social media platforms where you can actually say things like men have penises without being kicked off. That should exist and we should work on that. And I know that there are some platforms that are out there where you can say these sorts of forbidden things without being canceled. But none of them have anywhere close to the power of Twitter or Facebook or any of that. We're far away from anything that could be considered a real alternative.

a real, whatever you want to call it, free speech alternative, conservative alternative to Twitter and Facebook, that doesn't really exist yet. And part of the reason for that is that most of the wannabe alternatives that have come along, you know, they are focused too much on just being the conservative version of Twitter rather than innovating something new and giving people a real reason to leave and use their platform. Now, we heard a lot about truth social, which is Trump. platform. And as far as I know, he hasn't even posted on it himself. I think he posted on himself when they first launched it a month ago and hasn't posted on it since. And at a minimum,

he needs to be posting on that thing all the time if he wants any chance of it surviving. But the problem is, you know, I took a look at it and it's just, it's just Twitter. It's like exactly the same as Twitter. There's no innovation going into it. And so there's just not going to be the incentive for people to go and try that product instead. trust me says now canis owens has to apologize to matt how can she be so slanders to him in his cult when he is doing such amazing work and to think that the slander came from bottled water that's almost as ridiculous as not being able to say what a woman is maybe we need a new documentary what is desani because you know she obviously can't tell but as you've heard you know i've been working on a secret project for over a year and it is called what is a woman there's a lot more to be said about this and that will be revealed over the coming weeks. But what I can tell you is that this is the most important question of 2022. And I think, and though I'm biased, I think that this really is the most important film of 2022 as well.

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That's one promise I can make and always keep. It's my undying pledge. But I mean, you know, have sort of an easy subject. There's a headline from the New York Post, which cries out for cancellation, I think. And I need to do very little except just sort of point in its direction. The headline, How I Hacked Tinder and dated 15 men in 21 days. Now, reading along, it says, with the Tinder Swindler, a blockbuster success on Netflix, many women are wary of matching with a man online, but one Australian woman says Tinder is the perfect place to meet Mr. Wright and is revealing the simple hacks she uses to maximize chances of success

on the app. I'm going to stop right here. There's almost no reason to read anymore. We have all we need, I guess, but let me just say at the outset, first of all, that I'm already canceling this woman and whoever wrote this article, simply for the way they're using the word hack, because somewhere along the line, this concept of life hacks came into existence, and now the internet is pockmarked with 14 billion different articles, guides, videos, different things, giving advice on how to hack various aspects of life. We used to just call this advice or tips. Now it's a hack, because hack sounds more secretive and clever and edgy, like it's some sort of forbidden knowledge. But then the advice, the hack, is often something incredibly basic that everybody already knew. Like, here's a life hack. If you don't

want to trip while you're walking down the steps, tie your shoes or else it goes the other way and the hack actually offers a more complicated and inefficient way of performing some routine task. So it'll be something like life hack. Make sure you don't lose your car keys by having them surgically attached to your hand. So the whole life hacking trend is stupid, and is what I'm saying. And we could cancel just that, but that's not the primary point today. In this particular case, the life hack is a method discovered by an Australian woman for how to quote unquote, date, I think we know what she means, what she says, date 15 men in less than a month. Now, I can already tell you how to achieve this goal if for some reason you want to.

I'll give you this step-by-step process for dating 15 men in 21 days. One, be a woman. Two, have no moral standards. That's it. Those are all the steps. In fact, you could probably hack this hack and remove the first step entirely, which you really have to, seeing as how women don't exist. But really, if you're you're any sort of person looking to date any other sort of person, you can find an essentially unlimited supply if you have no sorts of standards whatsoever. If you're a warm body looking for other warm bodies and you are unburdened by any moral sensibilities and have no aesthetic requirements either, the internet will provide you with all the fodder you need. And you don't even

need to be a warm body, actually. Pete Davidson is basically dead and look how well he's done on the dating scene. This is the world we live in now. But then again, you know, I'm a married man. I've never used Tinder. What do I know? So let's go back to the article and see what tips and tricks this woman offers. I'm guessing she offers a lot of tricks. Offers them, turns them, etc. Here's what it says. Helen Chick, who hails from Sydney, says dating is simply a numbers game and boasts that she had Tinder dates with 15 different men during a recent work trip, a three-week trip to New York City. The serial dater, who has penned the book, sex, swipes, and other stories divulged how she managed to meet so many men in such a short period of time. Chick declared,

that everything comes down to time and urge Tinder users not to procrastinate while on the app. She said it's important to get small talk out of the way quickly so that you can meet up in person as soon as possible. Quote, change your location prior to arriving in the city, so you're basically matching people in a city. You're not actually physically in, but you can do all the tedious small talk banter, vibe checks, et cetera, before you arrive, she advised. For those who are hoping to date locally, Chick further divulged her hack for cutting down on small talk,

the savvy swiper said she divides conversations into two categories, need to know and not. nice to know. The latter consists of lighthearted trivial topics while the former is focused on determining a person's morals, goals, and values. Chick claims conversations should be focused on the need-to-know category so as to quickly figure out whether two people are compatible prior to putting energy into a date. By the way, she wants to know about your morals and values specifically to ensure that you, like her, don't have any. And that's really her life hack. She dedicated a whole book to it. her advice don't bother talking or getting to know someone just cut right to the chase get in bed with them and move to the next one so in other words it's exactly the two-step process i mentioned at

the start be a woman have no soul in a pinch the first step can even be skipped now there's one other bit at the very end that you'll find totally shocking it says chick is twice divorced and she says that that fact is a part of the need-to-know category she always shares that personal information before an in-person meetup. Twice divorced. Who could have possibly predicted? Twice divorced and writing a relationship handbook. That's like me writing a book on fashion tips. And that would be a short book also. Chapter 1, Ware, Plaid, the end. Now, if I may be so bold as to disagree with the multiply divorced relationship guru who collects venereal diseases like their souvenirs, I would say that the correct approach to dating is precisely the opposite.

of what she recommends. Now, sure, this does somewhat depend on your goals. If you're an empty, miserable, lonely nihilist who has despaired of love and trust and meaning and now wishes only to use other human bodies like glorified masterpartatory devices, screwing the days away until you die alone and cold with no one to mourn you and no legacy to leave behind,

then Helen's method is the way to go, no doubt. But if you actually want some kind of joy and you care about things like human dignity, your own and other peoples, And if you want to have actual love and happiness in your life and you want to leave this world knowing that your time was spent in a meaningful way and that your progeny will live on even as you move to the hereafter, if that sounds more appealing, then your best bet is to consider the hellens of this world and the way they approach these things and do exactly the opposite of what they do. You're not looking for raw numbers here. The people you're dating aren't bowling pins that you want to simply lie down so that you can collect the point and win whatever game it is you think you're playing. The goal of dating is to find one person, a person who shares your basic values and priorities, someone who you find physically attractive, that's important also,

someone you feel a connection with. And then once you found that person, the game's over, you won, move on with them and build a life together in marriage. This means you're not looking to get talking out of the way when you first meet them so you can jump in bed together. Jumping in bed with them doesn't tell you anything about them other than the fact. that they're the kind of person who does that. It actually tells you a lot, which means they probably not the kind of person you want to marry. But then again, you also would be the kind of person who does that

and means you're the kind of person people shouldn't want to marry. So best to skip that step or rather to hold off on it until the proper time, which comes within the bonds of marriage, and instead focus on getting to know this individual and who they actually are and what they believe, what sort of person they are. You don't need to know everything. You don't need a list of every quirk, every habit,

at every last detail. You don't need to know things like, do they have any annoying habits? They do, I can tell you that for sure. You just need to know about their moral character. Can you relate to them? Can you trust them? If everything lines up,

you can both, you know, both of you can free yourself from the clutches of the modern dating scene, which is infested with people like Helen, and move to the altar, which is supposed to be the end point of the dating process. And you can live then,

maybe not happily ever after. There will still be ups and downs, bumps and potholes. But certainly, you'll be living much happier than Helen. Who is today? Of course, canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed. Well, if you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe. And if you want to help spread the word, please give us a five-star review. Also, tell your friends to subscribe as well. We're available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you listen to podcasts, we're there. Also, be sure to check out the other Daily Wire podcasts, including the Ben Shapiro show.

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