The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 965 - It's Time To Confront And Shame The Groomers

Episode Date: June 6, 2022

Today on the Matt Walsh Show, horrifying footage of a drag show for children at a gay bar in Texas over the weekend. How is this happening? And how is it happening in Texas? We’ll talk about that, and the one bright spot in this story: the protesters outside confronting and shaming the groomers. Also, a criminal steals a car, runs over a mother and her child, tries to flee the scene, and will now spend all of five months in juvenile detention for it. And a mother who rushed into Robb Elementary to save her children while police stood outside is speaking out. Plus, another sneak peak of a scene from my film What Is A Woman, and in our Daily Cancellation, we sent screeners of the film to mainstream film critics. They responded and were not happy.  Watch my new Daily Wire original documentary “What Is A Woman?” at whatisawoman.com.  I am a beloved LGBTQ+ and children’s author. Reserve your copy of Johnny The Walrus here: https://utm.io/uevUc. Join Matt and the Daily Wire crew for Backstage Live At The Ryman on June 29th. Get your tickets now: https://utm.io/uezFr  — Today’s Sponsors:  American-owned and independent, Famous Smoke Shop is your neighborhood cigar shop. Visit Famous-Smoke.com and purchase yours today. 40 Days for Life is one of the largest pro-life grassroots organizations in the world. Get their book "What to Say When: The Complete New Guide to Discussing Abortion":  https://40daysforlifegear.com/collections/books/products/what-to-say-when Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today on the Matt Wall Show, horrifying footage of a drag show for children at a gay bar in Texas over the weekend. How is this happening and how is it happening in Texas? We'll talk about that. And one bright spot in this story is the protesters outside confronting and shaming the groomers. We need a lot more of that. Also, a criminal steals a car, runs over a mother and her child, tries to flee the scene, and will now spend all of five months in juvenile detention for it. And a mother who rushed into Rob Elementary to save her children while police stood outside is speaking out. We'll listen to her story.

Plus, another sneak peek of a scene for my film What is a Woman? And in our daily cancellation, we'd send screeners of the film to mainstream film critics. They responded to our email, and we're not happy. We'll talk about that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show. You know, abortion has been, of course, in the news with the impending Roevi-Wade decision, and it's going to be even more so once eventually this decision comes out. And if they decide to get rid of Rovi-Way, which I think they will, you may think it means that the fight is coming to an end.

But abortion legislation returning to the states means that the real battle is really just beginning. And there's no group in America better positioned than 40 Days for Life to help fight this battle. 40 Days for Life has one million volunteers throughout the country holding peaceful vigils outside abortion facilities. May be surprised to hear that their largest presence is actually in the country's bluest states. With California being their biggest state, actually, their vigils have closed many abortion facilities in America. And nearly half of those facilities were in liberal states where abortion will continue to remain legal after the fall of Roe. from San Francisco to Chicago to Seattle, hardly pro-life areas. As I'm sure you know, volunteers have guided abortion workers to have a change of heart and quit their job.

So as this issue gets out of D.C. finally, 40 Days for Life is effectively changing hearts and minds in the grassroots of the pro-abortion movement. You can check out their locations, podcasts, and their new book, What to Say When, the Complete New Guide to Discussing Abortion at 40 Days for Life.com. One reason that I've always been kind of skeptical about any predictions of a coming civil war is that most Americans don't have the end. energy or attention span to fight a civil war, but it required too much time away from the couch and Netflix. But the other reason for my skepticism is that boundaries between the sides are not nearly as geographically defined and delineated as they were in, say, 1861 for the first round. We speak broadly of red states and blue states, and we think of the left as living in coastal metropolises while the right lives down south and across the heartland. But this, of course,

is a massive oversimplification. And even more pressingly, however, Apart from any civil war discussion, the idea that there are these wide swaths of conservative geographic dominance can lead to, I think, a kind of false sense of contentment and security among conservatives. They say, well, leave the cities, leave California, leave New York, and move down south, and you'll be free of the moral filth and insanity infecting those places. That's what we seem to think. But the reality is a lot more complicated, and also, unfortunately, more depressing. After all, Texas is one of the places that's supposed to be a kind of promised land for conservatives. And yet Texas is where this happened over the weekend. From the Daily Wire, it says,

A Dallas Gay Bar is under fire for hosting an afternoon drag show for children Saturday, where kids were invited on stage and tipped performers in front of a neon sign bearing an obscene message. The Drag the Kids to Pride show at the Mr. Mr. Bar was billed as a family-friendly version, of the bar's regular champagne drag brunch. During Saturday's event, drag performers danced with and took dollar bills from some of the children, according to ABC affiliate WFAA. Do you want to hit the stage with the queens? Reads a promotion for the event.

We have five limited spots for young performers to take the stage solo or with a queen of their choosing. Now, the obscene message on that neon sign, by the way, said, it's not going to lick itself. So the sign said. And we can fairly assume that this was not a. reference to an ice cream cone. In fact, we know that the environment, the event, and everything associated with it, was highly sexualized in nature because, first, it's a drag show, and second, it's at a gay club. This means that the event was not only morally abominable, but also, by the

way, illegal, like explicitly illegal. In fact, it's illegal on several levels, including by the clear language of a bill passed just last year in Texas. SB 315 forbids, quote, sexually oriented businesses from allowing any patrons under the age of 21 onto the premises. And this was a bill that was actually written to rate, because before it was, you had to be 18 or over. And so they made it, they raised the age, says you've got to be 21 or over.

The kids that were in that drag at this drag event, weren't even close to 18, let alone 21. The same bill also explicitly forbids any business from engaging in activities, quote, harmful to a child. So this would seem to be legislation written to stop events like the one in Dallas. There's no question that a gay club is a sexually oriented business. And if you did have a question about that, the bright, glowing, enormous neon sign with a sexual reference posted right on the wall by the door for everyone to see should answer the question. So, was the bar shut down, license revoked? That's what the bill says is supposed to happen. That's the consequence. Were the employees and

parents and all the other adults involved, arrested, shackled, and frog marched to jail? No, in fact, following the recent trend, Texas cops stood outside and did nothing. Well, not nothing. They did harass protesters who'd shown up to voice their displeasure at the blatant sexual exploitation of children that was going on inside the establishment. We'll have more on that in just a moment. First, let's just take a look at what actually happened in this drag your child to pride event. There's plenty of footage of this atrocity, and it's clear that much of the event consisted of cross-dressing men in their burlesque outfits, dancing for children while the children were encouraged to hand the dancer's dollar bills, you know,

like they do at strip clubs. Here, take a look. Now, it gets worse. somehow, the children were also included in the performance, as the Daily Wire article alluded to, compelled to be active participants. At a certain point, the drag queens brought the kids up on stage and coached them on how to walk the runway. I mean, this is like literal grooming happening in front of the crowd. The kids, of course, appeared confused and bewildered by the whole thing.

Watch. Runway with the girl. Walk for me. You're gonna know you walk with. You pick who you want to walk the runway with. You pick who you want to walk the runway with. Okay, go with her. You guys go with her.

How about, okay, if one person can go with me. Who wants to go first? You want to go with me? Alright, this is my partner in Prime today. You ready to do this? On the camera three, here we go. One, two, three, let's go. Alright, we can kind of out of that.

Okay, so, and the reason it's all blurry and looks smoky in there is that we wanted to blur it so you couldn't see the kids, but you could still see what was happening to them, what was being done. You'll notice how the adults, the parents, are way more excited about this than the children. In fact, the first little boy up on up there was brought up there to participate. He obviously doesn't want to be there. I mean, he's got, he's kind of like hunched over and he's doing the thing that kids always do and they don't want to do something. He's just kind of walking sort of that kind of hunched over thing. Doesn't want to be there. Of course he doesn't want to be there. He's a boy. It looks like he's six or seven-year-old boy. He wants to be outside playing. He wants to, you know, he wants to be playing with his superhero action figures, doing whatever, doing whatever. He

doesn't want to be there doing that. But that's why they call it drag the kids to pride, right? That's the name of the event. It's a name so on the nose that at first, when I saw that name and the images with the flyer and everything to promote the event, I thought, honestly, it was a meme invented by the right. Drag the kids to pride? No, it turns out that's actually the name they used. And indeed, the kids were dragged into this by parents who, if it's possible to rank the villains in this situation, would certainly take the title as the biggest scumbags. Now, the degenerate bar owner who hosted this event, the crossdressers who strutted around for a bunch of elementary schoolers are all double. demonic filth as well, of course, but parents have a special responsibility to love and protect their children. Sitting back, sipping booze, and cheering as your child is sexually exploited is a level of evil that's just, it's hard to comprehend for anybody, especially if you're a parent. In fact, we got some insight into the parent-child dynamic from a journalist named Taylor Hansen

who made his way into the event so that he could film it and expose what was going on. And after enduring what had to be a traumatic experience, even for an adult who has to watch, this, I mean, imagine what the kids are feeling. He shared one exchange that he witnessed between a mother child and a bartender. Want you to listen to this. They have a kid sitting there at the bar as well, and he's sitting there with his face, you know, plugged into his Nintendo 3DS. He doesn't care about the drag stars, doesn't care about anything going on there.

His mom's trying to give him to pay attention. He doesn't care, still playing his games. And I overheard a conversation that was really startling. It was, he was talking to the bartender, and he said, no, I'm not gay. And his mom butted in, interrupted this child and said, no, he is gay. Don't let him lie to you. He is. And the kid, you could just tell he was super uncomfortable.

He obviously wasn't gay, but his mom's telling everyone he's gay. And he just sat there and played Nintendo the entire time. And, I mean, he worked on a Rubik's Cube as well. I watched this kid solve the same Rubik's Cube three times. I mean, he didn't care to be there, didn't care about anything going on. And meanwhile, you have the parents on the other side of the aisle giving their kids money. They're wearing trans Lives Matter shirts. They're wearing all of these shirts that they don't even know what it means,

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Save up to 40% your first year at LifeLock.com slash special offer. Terms apply. Now, normally, I hate it when kids are immersed in their phones and screens and they won't look up from the screen. In this case, though, it was the child's saving grace. In fact, sadly, the only hope that this young boy has is that he will just ignore his horrible Manchalzan mother remained totally disinterested in whatever

she's trying to force him into, and then perhaps later in life rebel against her, as many teens do rebel. Except in this case, he'd be rebelling against moral insanity by choosing to be sane, rational, and decent. And that would break his mother's heart more than anything. I mean, if he his mother, if he ends up being a sane, rational,

morally decent, well-adjusted person, that would break her heart. And I pray to God that her heart is broken in that way. This mother deserves to be in solitary, confined for the rest of her life, as do all the adults involved. But if we can't get that, then hopefully at least they'll be punished when their children realize what monstrous ghouls they are and cut them out of their lives forever. We can pray for such a result, but we also know from a pure statistical standpoint that many of these children are statistically, a certain percentage of them are

doomed. I mean, are going to be sucked into this. There's a chance that a child who grows up in this environment will still grow to be good and happy people, but it's not a very great chance. And that's the tragedy. Of course, the left has come up with different ways of excusing all this, but the excuses always eventually filter back down to the simple truth of the matter. At first, because it is the thing with the left, any time they're making an argument or they're defending something, the first thing they say, the first defense they offer, It's always like, well, here's how I'll defend this.

But even if what I'm saying right now isn't true, then whatever I'm defending is still okay. That's kind of how it works. So at first, they've tried to claim that there's nothing sexual about any of this. It's all totally innocent and family friendly. Yet this rationale doesn't stand up to scrutiny because drag is hypersexual by its nature. That's the point of the thing. Also, they're at a gay bar and there's the dollar bills that the dancers are being handed. and then there's the neon sign with the sexually explicit message right there in front of the kids.

All of this precludes any attempt to pretend that this is anything but sexual. And that's when the apologists pivot from it's not sexual to it's sexual, but that's good. They say it's healthy for children to be exposed to this sort of thing. They'll make them more tolerant and open-minded and progressive. But the point is not really to make them open-minded, of course, even if that was the point, that would not even begin to excuse what's happening. But as G.K. Chesterton said, the object of opening the mind is to close it again around something. And hopefully what you're doing is you're opening the mind to close it around truth.

In this case, they're closing the mind around perversion and depravity. Now, do they want to sexualize these children just for the sake of it to fulfill their pedophilic fantasies? Well, certainly there's a lot of that going on, yes. But also the goal is to, you know, quote unquote, liberate the child's, from any semblance of traditional morality. It's to wall him off from moral truth, from reality itself, really. The adults want these children to grow up and become the same sorts of feckless, confused deviance that they are.

And that's why I take some solace in the one bright spot of everything that happened around that bar in Dallas. And that would be the protesters out front, confronting and shaming the groomers. One of them is Alex Stein, who confronted a drag queen. in the parking lot as he was leaving. Let's watch that. Do you like dancing for little children? You don't think that's disgusting?

Dancing around for little... Don't you think that's disgusting? Hey, get the fucking away. You don't think that... You can't do it with me? Your mom's a bitch. Go on. You don't think that's disgusting.

Dancing for little children. You should be ashamed of yourself dancing for little children. You should be ashamed. You guys dance in little children. You should be ashamed of yourselves. You're disgusting. Think about what you just did. Okay, that's fine, but you dance naked in front of little children. You did, you did, you did, you did, you did, you did, stop. Stop. Stop. You dance in front of little children. You dance in front of little children.

Very well done by Alex there. not everyone may be comfortable with that sort of thing, you know, the confrontational approach. There are still conservatives who aren't comfortable with it who say, I don't know about that. That makes me, well, if you're not comfortable with it, you need to get comfortable. These people have been operating in a world free of shame, right? That's the world they've kind of, that's the bubble that they've constructed for themselves. Which is why they were not only put this event. on and not only in Texas, but were shocked that protesters were outside, shocked and scandalized

and offended. They didn't think anybody would come and have a problem with it. And only in this kind of shameless bubble could child drag shows exist in the first place. That's why we have to bring shame back and direct it in the places where it belongs. It was always a lie that it's wrong you know, shame is wrong. It's wrong to shame things, shame people. No, shame is a good tool. As long as you're shaming the things that need to be shamed. Shaming the things that are shameful. Expose, confront, shame. Now, it'd be better if the people in charge would just enforce the law and protect our children. But they won't. So, it's up to us. Now let's get to our five headlines. All right, hope you got a good weekend. I had as, you know, mine was out.

I started the weekend, actually on Friday in Denver to speak at the Western Conservative Summit out there. Then I flew down that night for the TPA USA Women's Leadership Conference, where I had a conversation with Charlie Kirk on stage about the film, and that was great. And then I flew up to Virginia to see family for a day, then back to Nashville. And I got back to my house, and while I was gone that whole time, I had some bees delivered to my house because I'm getting back into the beekeeping game. and so someone dropped off a couple of hives and, you know, like left them in the yard. And, but I had to put them. They weren't where they needed to be because they're like right next to the house. I had to put them, like, bring them up a hill to what we call the bee yard where I want my beehives to be. And, you know, usually when you buy a package of bees that comes in like a kind of a small box and there's like 3,000 bees and you could really lift it with one arm.

You probably shouldn't, but you could. In this case, I had full hives that were delivered. and I had to move them up a hill by myself. And I'd never really moved a full hive before. And I thought to myself before I did it that I should probably look up online, maybe a YouTube video, on how exactly this process is supposed to work. But then I thought that will take time and I'd be bored. So instead I'll just go out there and do it.

And so I went out and I picked up these giant boxes full of like 10,000 bees and I like carry them up a hill. At one point, I kind of partially tripped. this divot, this little ditch in the grass, and I almost dropped the bees. And the thing is, if I had done that, I would have dropped them and then fallen into them. And I didn't, but I almost did. And all I could think about after that happened was that, man, if I was killed from falling into a beehive right now of all times, that would be so many people would be so happy. I can't allow that to happen. And the other thing that would be unfortunate is that I have to think about this kind of thing now that like even my supporters, because I know that if I die, of course the left's going to be happy,

they'll be making fun of me. But I have to think about the fact that my supporters, if I die like in an embarrassing way by falling into a beehive and getting stung to death, my supporters would have even have to admit that I died in a way that was a little bit goofy. So this is the pressure that I have on me now. I know that when I die, people will celebrate. So I have to make sure, that I don't die in an embarrassing way. Like for your sake in The Sweet Baby Gang. I have to give you a noble or at least tragic death. So something about it. But it all worked out. Okay, the bees are where they need to be. I want to start with this. Bill Mulligan at Fox News has a story here. First, I want to show you the video. It's a quick video. Yet another disturbing video,

unfortunately, but I'll just tell you the good news here is that what you're about to see, both of the victims did survive. But this was a woman in California who was hit by a car while she was walking her child in a stroller. And let's just, let's go ahead and play that so we see that footage here. Okay, so she's walking on. She tries to get over to the side, and then this car looks like it's swerving at her. Now I want you to watch what happens next. car drives away, hit and run, and then look at this guy in the pickup truck. Now, this is actually heroic.

So the guy in the pickup truck sacrifices his car, like gets into a head-on collision intentionally to stop the person in the car that just did the hit and run. So, you know, that's, the person in the pickup truck deserves lots of credit for that. Also, the mom, you know, you watch that video there, and it's very upsetting. Obviously, you see a mom and her baby,

baby getting hit by a car. We also see how the mom, as the car is coming and she realizes she can't get out of the way, she pivots around and puts herself in front of her child so that she takes the brunt of the impact. And then she gets hit by a car and rolls off the, you know, rolls off the hood of the car and then immediately pops up and goes to check on her child. And again, fortunately, thank God, both the mother and child were okay. Now here's the full story. All right. And this is, we go to Bill Mulligan, who's got the full story. He reports, a 16-year-old hit and run driver in a stolen car who ran over a mom and child in Venice, was sentenced on Friday to five to seven months in juvie camp.

DA George Gascon office tells me that this was an appropriate resolution, but I've learned he has a prior criminal history. Per multiple law enforcement sources, the juvie was on probation and violated. it at the time of this hit and run, and he has been previously convicted of felony poisoning after he spiked a teen girl's drink at Palmdale High School in 2019. She was hospitalized. Despite the Juvies' criminal history, sources in the L.A.'s DA's office tell me that in accordance with his policies, Gascon's admin didn't charge the Juvie with assault with a deadly weapon or attempted murder for the hit and run, which led to this light sentence. So that is not

assault with a deadly weapon. Running a mother and her child in a stroller over with a hitting them with a car is not assault with a deadly weapon. Now actually as it turns out, I mean, for all the talk we hear about a so-called assault rifles, whatever those supposed to be, cars are statistically much deadlier weapons than are quote-unquote assault rifles. So this DA, this is what he does. I mean, this is the same DA, I believe, who, you know, there was that trans pedophile who, I mean, there's so many cases like this. It's hard to even pinpoint one, but it just, this is what he does. Takes dangerous, terrible people and make sure to keep putting them back on the street. He wants to keep as many of them out on the street as possible.

And it would be bad enough, a five to seven month sentence, but then you look at this, this, I hesitate to even call him a kid, but he is 16. You look at his criminal history. Now let's ask ourselves. You've got a 16-year-old who already has a history of criminal violence. He poisoned somebody. And now he's stealing a car running a woman over and her baby and trying to run. So you give him another seven months just kind of like hanging out with other juvenile delinquents. Is he going to come out and be magically better? Is he going to come out and be reformed? Is he going to come out and be reformed? Is that all? going to take? No, obviously not. Because as they filter these people through the system, they're just getting worse and worse. Okay, so it's not even, it's not even neutral, where you just take an offender and then you throw them back out on the street and they're just as dangerous as they were before. No, this is being done in a way to make them more dangerous. Number one, because they're being emboldened, not being held accountable,

and the message that's being sent, especially to this kid, over and over again, is you can do whatever you want. and there will be almost no consequence. So you're emboldening them, and also you're just kind of like hooking them up with other delinquents and criminals and violent people. So it becomes nothing more. It's like setting them off for a social gathering

for a few months with other delinquents, and then you toss them back out on the street. And you keep doing this until this kid kills somebody, and he will. It's a miracle he hasn't already, not for lack of trying. It's going to kill somebody eventually. And it's like, we know that. Everyone knows that. This DA Gascon, this Marxist DA, he knows that, too. He doesn't care.

And his message to the community and all the innocent people and the women that this kid's going to victimize and already has victimized is, well, look, too bad. We care more about this criminal than we do about you. And why is it? I mean, what really? I mean, why are we doing this? why not just take him and put him in prison for a long period of time protect the innocent people that he's victimizing this would seem to be an easy win for especially a DA you've got a mother and her child and a stroller hit by a car throw the book at this scumbag everybody would celebrate that

so it's not only the right thing to do morally and logically and legally but it would also be the most politically popular thing to do. So why wouldn't you do it? Well, one answer is that these are Marxists. This is a Marxist DA. This is another, you know, hand-picked George Soros puppet. And they simply hate civilization. They really do.

They want to destabilize civilization. And also on top of that, not that I want to let them off the hook by letting them claim ignorance, but it is also true that because of their ideological commitments, they do not understand human nature at all. They just don't understand it. They think of people as like blank slates that you can just, you know, you can just kind of slap them on the wrist and say, don't do that anymore, and then they'll just stop doing it. Kind of like flipping a switch or something, reprogramming. It doesn't work that way. I mean, human nature tells us that when someone starts to descend into evil, that dissent is going to continue unless something has done, something drastic

has done to stop it. And the other part of human nature is that we know that although it's, it is possible for people to be redeemed, it's possible for them to repent, it's possible for them to reform and change their lives. One thing we know is that it's never going to happen unless there's no chance of it unless they're forced to confront the horrible things that they've done. Like you cannot actually repent of a sin that you haven't confronted. If you don't understand the severity of it, if you're not forced into this confrontation with your own sin and the own and your own evil that you've committed, there's not going to be any repentance. There's no chance of it. And that's one aspect. And the other aspect is that although it is possible for someone to reform, most people don't.

the chances of it are very low. If you've got a kid who's not even 18 yet, he's already poisoning people and running people over with cars, 99% chance, unfortunately, is that he's going to be a dangerous scumbag for the rest of his life. You hope for some reformation, but probably not going to happen statistically,

which means that for the sake of society, you need to segregate him from everybody else. I want to move to this. I don't know if this is so much a headline, but it's a headline for me. I want to show you another quick, sneak peek. This is something that I posted on Twitter a couple days ago. Quick sneak peek from the film. And this relates to everything we talked about really in the opening. It's sort of the logical

conclusion of the leftist sexual agenda. What happens when we become unmoored from truth, unmoored from reality, from our moral tradition. And we took the rabbit hole all the way down in the film. So I want to play this clip from what is a woman, which is a woman, which is a is available now at what iswoman.com. Become a subscriber and watch, but here it is. Watch. So now we are seeing kids that are identifying as animals going to school, and they are purring instead of answering questions, and they meow, and the teachers are not allowed to question

it because it's considered a queer identity. So you have kids that are going to school, and they're saying, I'm a cat, and the teachers have to affirm them as a cat. So the schools are like literal zoos now, basically. They are. I am a 27-year-old transgender woman. I am a wolf-therian and a member of the furry fandom. When and how did you discover this inner wolfness?

Probably around age 10 or 11. I was watching an anime about wolves and see the wolf running across the screen and I'm somehow just intrinsically like, oh, that's me. Have you spent any time around biological wolves? Yes. That sounds dangerous also. What context are you? So I was a volunteer with a preserve,

and I've also visited many wolf preserves. Are you able to communicate with the wolves? Am I going to have a conversation with a wolf in the way that I'm communicating you and I? Obviously not. Am I going to read their body language, respond appropriately to their behaviors and their nonverbal cues?

Yes. Would you be able to give us an example of this wolf communication? No. I'm not comfortable doing so. Okay. All right. I mean, I thought I asked anyway. I would be interested to know. I mean, I still would like to know what, really what the interpersonal communication between a wolf is like. And you see that and you think, well, that's absurd and you can kind of laugh about it. And sure, but, you know, I'm telling you right now, This is not any kind of extreme slippery slope possibility. I think that a few years from now, someone, I don't know if it's going to be me,

but someone's going to have to make a film called What is a Human? Because this trans-species stuff, this is not just a fringe fad, you know, outlier type of thing. This, as we heard from Sarah Stockton, who's the therapist in the first place, part of that clip. This is a very common thing. And she's not the only one saying that. You know, we hear from people that work in the schools, therapists that feel like they can speak out without having their careers destroyed. That this is a thing now. This is what kids are doing. And it's like, well, and of course kids are doing that. When you tell kids that, hey, you can be whatever you want to be. Your identity is up to you. Of course, a lot of them are going to

say, oh, well, I'm a wolf or I'm a whatever, I'm a monkey. And usually, like in a sane society, kids pretending to be animals, as long as they're kids, now the person we were talking to there, the, was it wolf therian, not a kid, that's an adult. But for kids pretending to be animals, usually it's my own kids do that sometimes. My two-year-old runs around pretending to be an animal. And that's perfectly fine. That's using your imagination, except that we don't live in a sane society. we latch on to that and say, okay, well, that's who you are now. That's your identity. That's not just a game. That's who you are. So look out for the sequel. What is a human dropping sometime in the next few years? I'm going to move to this. Daily Mail says

at least 50 people are feared dead after gunmen opened fire on worshippers and detonated explosives at a Catholic Church in southwestern Nigeria on Sunday. The violence at St. Francis Catholic Church in Owatown happened during the morning service on Pentecost Sunday in a rare attack in the southwest of the African country. And I'm pretty sure that the body count has gone up from 50, but they're talking about at least 50 people were killed in this attack. Obviously a terrible tragedy, horrible massacre. And it comes just a week or so after we heard over and over again, And we addressed this on the show. We heard this, they made this claim on The View and plenty of other places in media

that this kind of thing only happens in America. This is a uniquely American problem. And you'll remember I said, well, that's ridiculous. It happens everywhere. And here is tragic evidence of that. Not but a few days later. What we find, and the reason why this is important to point out, is that violence and death, that's a universal human condition. It goes down to human nature, which is why it's so

important. If you're a DA or if you're anybody else, it's important to understand human nature. Now, there's a poll that was done by CBS, and it's viral right now. The results are viral on Twitter right now because it's being seen by the left as an opportunity to dunk on Republicans, because here's the headline from Yahoo News. Four in ten Republicans, think mass shootings are unfortunately something we have to accept as part of a free society. Then it continues in the article says more than four and ten republics think mass shootings are inevitable in a free society. The survey results came on the heels of a string of mass shootings. One of the questions in the poll asked residents if they feel that mass shootings are unfortunately

something we have to accept or something we can prevent and stop if we really tried. In response, 44% of Republicans said mass shootings are inevitable as part of a free society. Now, of course, the left is, oh, how can they possibly say that they're okay with mass shootings? It doesn't mean you're okay with it, obviously. Nobody, no one outside of the actual mass shooters are okay with mass shootings. Everyone agrees that's a horrible thing. My only disagreement with the Republicans, the four and ten Republicans that responded this way, although they're just responding to the poll in the way that it's worded,

my only disagreement is that it says, you know, mass shootings are inevitable in a free society. this is inevitable in any society, free or not. And if it's not mass shootings, then it's mass slaughter and mass attacks of other kinds. It's inevitable. There's never going to be a time, never when we will have rid the world of murder. It is never going to happen. Now, does that mean that you're okay with people being murdered? Obviously not. It just means that you're confronted. You want to. to live in reality. You want to have your starting point in reality. Because if you're going to protect yourself, notice that these respondents, they didn't say, well, there's nothing we can do to

protect ourselves. There's nothing we can do to punish the people to do it. There's nothing that we can do to defend our children. They didn't say any of that. But if you want to protect yourself and defend your family and yourself and your children, then you have to have a starting point of reality, which is to recognize that there's always the potential of this kind of thing happening. You recognize that so that you can have a chance of preventing some of it. And that's why you want to be able to have the ability to protect yourself rather than relying on, you know, rather than sitting back and say, well, I'll wait for the government to come up with some kind of plan, some legislation, some policy that will protect me and my family and just make all this go away. that's the leftist approach and that's how they answer these surveys

so they can somehow feel that they're on a kind of they can purse themselves on a higher moral vantage point they think you see I'm more opposed to mass shootings than you are no you're not you can't be opposed to anything in reality if you're not living there first understanding the inevitability of these kinds of things

is how you can actually work to prevent some of it you know, death in general is an inevitability. I don't like it. No one likes that fact, but that is also a fact of reality. And you have to, again, if you want to be able to protect yourself, you have to start from that reality. Now, speaking of this, this is from The Blaze. I wanted to play this for you. It says a Texas mother who defied Yuvaldi police officers and ran into the school during the mass shooting to save her children has come forward to tell her story, alleged threats by law enforcement for her not to speak to the media. On the morning of May 24th, Angelo-Gomez went to Rob Elementary School to see her kids' graduation ceremonies.

And then she found out what was happening there. She rushes to the school. And we have the local media. They did an interview with this mother. And I think this clips about two minutes. But she talks about everything that happened. And it's worth listening to. Here. Right away as I parked U.S. Marshall started coming toward my car saying that I wasn't allowed to be parked there. And he said, well, we're going to have to arrest you because you're being very uncooperative. I said, well, you're going to have to arrest me because I'm going in there. And I'm telling you right now, I don't see none of y'all in there. Y'all are standing with snipers and y'all are far away.

If y'all don't go in there, I'm going in there. He immediately put me in cuffs. She says after Evaldi police officers told marshals to uncuff Gomez, she ran towards a school. As soon as they uncuffed me, I jumped that first gate fence. And once I jumped it, I went to my son's class. And I knocked on the door and I remember the teacher saying, I'm like, hey, they're already, they're already boach cutting the fence to get me. She's like, you think we have time to get out? I said, y'all have time.

I'm going to run for my other son. Once she was assured her son was okay, Gomez ran to get her other child, encountering more officers who tried to stop her. So I start yelling and I'm being a cooperative and I'm like, well, y'all aren't doing. What are y'all aren't doing? Y'all need a BIN. You're giving me your best. Somebody give me a bed, something. I started paying attention to how far the shots were being

so that I knew the shooter was all the way still by my first son's class. So when I went to my second son's door, the teacher didn't want to open the door for me. So that's when they started escorting me out. And as I see that they're opening my son's door, I go run for my son and I get him. With both of her kids out safe, Gomez still can't shake the thought of those who didn't make it. While you were inside the school, did you see officers inside the school? There was not one officer inside the school when I ran to my second son class. There was not one officer.

And you were hearing gunshots, so you knew that it was an active shooter. It was still active. The gunshots were still active. They were not in there. There was no one in there. If anything, when I pulled up, my car was closer to the school than where the snipers and everybody that was laying on the ground were. And somehow people on the left will see this.

That clip. As many of them have been sharing it on social media, good reason to share it. It's a powerful harrowing, also infuriating story at the same time, but they'll see it and not draw the connection between this and the gun issue. You can't rely on the government to protect you, as is clearly the case here. Get rid of the guns and that's what you're left with. You're left hoping that the government will, the government employees will step up and protect you. And maybe sometimes they will, but it's pretty clear you can't depend on it. So she ran in to save her child and both of her children, rather, and in a significant detail that we heard there is that as she is running from class to class to say, you know, running into what as far she knew, gunfire,

unarmed to save both of her children. But as she's doing that, she hears the gunshot, the gunfire the gunfire continue. And that's a really important point because one of the defenses or excuses that has been offered by and for the sake of the police officers is that, well, by the time they got there, the shooting had stopped. And even if that was true, that still would not even begin to excuse the fact that they let the shooter stay in there for an hour. But that's not true. this scumbag, this demon was in that classroom with the kids and just slowly executing them one by one over the course of an hour while the police were outside. That's what happened. Cannot rely on anyone to defend us or our families. That's just the truth of the matter. Let's get to the comment section. Let's see, Abby says the real star of the movie is,

Mrs. Walsh, sorry, Matt. First of all, spoiler warning. Second, no need to apologize. Very happy we could include her in the film, and I thought it was, well, I don't want to give it away. All these spoilers, people are not respecting that. Mike says, Matt, loved your film, but the one really big omission is that the film

never mentions God or grounds itself in the truth of scripture, massive missed opportunity. Yeah, I've heard this critique of a couple of different places. I just really disagree with it quite a bit. The objective of the film is, first of all, to expose the absurdity and the hollowness of gender ideology and to kind of re and to show how this is being, you know, how kids are being indoctrinated, how this is harming people, harming women, harming everybody, to expose all of that. and then to reassert basic common sense reality.

The answer to what, okay, I just said I want to give spoilers away, but the answer to what is a woman is adult female. So I'm not sure what, by the end of it, we finally get to the answer, and you would have liked it to be a Bible quote or a woman is someone who's created by God or something like that. The thing is, of course, that's true. but if we had done that, the left would have been very happy. I could tell you that.

If we had framed this in a religious context, the left would love that. That's what they were hoping this movie would be. And it's not. That's one of the reasons why they're so afraid of it. I think we needed to start with the basic reality. It's like if somebody says, if someone's going around,

if there's a movement of people going around claiming that 2 plus 2 equals 5. Okay, we're going to destroy mathematics. 2 plus 2 equals 5. What's your response to that going to be? Your response is going to be, no, no, no, it's 4. You're not going to say, well, no, God says that 2 plus 2 equals 4. He does, but that's, no one would, you wouldn't, that wouldn't be your response. Nobody would say that.

That would not be the most effective response, because then you're making it seem like your belief in mathematics is rooted in religious faith. It's like a religious doctrine. No, it's just math. Yes, everything comes from God, including mathematics. And that's a conversation we can have once you've reasserted the basic reality. Okay, someone says 2 plus 2 equals 5. You don't immediately pull out the Bible and start flipping through scripture.

No, no, no, no, it equals 4. Let's start there. And then we can go deeper into a lot of different issues. The other thing you keep in mind with what is woman is that it's one film, it's 90 minutes. So I have heard from people, you know, and I appreciate everyone's feedback, but I have heard from people say, well, why didn't you talk more about this or why didn't you go that direction? All those things are important. Like there are, you know, there are 50 different movies that could be made based on the various different avenues that we went down. And we should do all those things. Other people can make movies about those things. And we can talk about all those subjects. But you got to, you have to have a starting point. All right, let's see. Leave it B says gender being a feeling is ridiculous. Every single person is going to feel different from what society deems womanly or feminine, manly or masculine. By their standards, everyone on earth would have a unique gender identity. This documentary was amazing. Yeah, what you're also getting at is, and this is kind of what we heard from Jordan Peterson in the film, that there's this conflation of gender and personality or gender and temperament. And a lot of the time when people are talking about gender, that's actually what they're trying to describe. We've kind of thrown, you notice that too.

People don't talk about personality and temperament that much anymore. Because the word gender has subsumed all of that. Let's see. What else we have? Terseo says, Matt's poker-faced reaction to the insanity threw them off. That's probably how I got them to admit such horrible things on camera. They don't expect you to listen. They want you either to applaud without really questions.

questioning anything or to disagree with them up front so they can dismiss you as a bigot, but they don't know how to handle a person actually paying attention to what they have to say. They didn't know what to do, so they just kept talking and revealing their horrifying secrets. Yeah, there's that. Of course, they, yes, they want to be, as we've talked about, they want to be immediately affirmed. They want to be, you know, they want you to just submit to whatever they're saying and not along. But the other thing is they don't want to have to say very much, right? So on any of these subjects, they have a couple of sentences.

they have like their talking point, their party line, and they're happy to give you that and to say a couple of sentences, but that's all they got. They don't want to have to continue talking. And what I found in doing the film is that, yeah, you got to ask the right questions,

although it's not hard to figure out which questions I ask because of the most basic questions in the world. But sometimes even more important than the question is just the silence. which is why there's a lot of awkward silence and pauses in these interviews. And some of that is just like, it just is kind of hilarious. But also, if you ask the question, they give you their kind of one-off talking point answer.

And they just leave more, keep, say nothing. Let them keep talking. Don't bail them out by saying something else, you know, offering your own perspective, asking a different question. You're like, no, just, yes, continue. Let's hear more about that. And then when you do that, you find that there isn't much more to say, as it turns out. All right, let's get now to our daily cancellation. The movie review aggregation site, Rotten Tomatoes, doesn't always give the most accurate impression of a film's, you know, quality.

For anybody unfamiliar with the site, if you are, the idea is that all the reviews of a film are compiled and categorized as generally positive or generally negative. and then we're given a percentage score. So a movie with a positive percentage above 60 is fresh. Ostensibly, if the positive percentage is higher, 70, 80, 90, it's supposed to be pretty good assurance that the film is, you know, very high quality. The problem is that a film which most critics found just mildly amusing might end up with a 95% fresh score simply because 95% of critics were mildly amused by it. So the 95% is a bit misleading in that case, as we tend to associate 95% with an A-plus grade,

but the Rotten Tomatoes grading system, in effect, makes it so that a whole bunch of C-minuses can add up to an A-plus. This is how every Marvel movie passes as critically acclaimed, for example. The other problem is that film critics are some of the most shameless shills in media, which is really saying something. So a very good film that fails to pass the woke litmus test may end up with a 30 or 40 percent. In those cases, it can be enlightening, as people know,

to look at the audience score and compare it. Because Rotten Tomatoes also allows regular Joe's to leave their reviews and their rating on a one to five star scale. Frequently, movies that are panned for political reasons will have a very lopsided review ratio. Maybe it's a 30% from critics, but a 90% from audiences. And if you see something like that, you know almost every time that the film is probably pretty decent. Sometimes it'll go the other way, and a film will have a 90% from critics and a 30% from audiences. This usually means that the movie is this kind of like meandering, pointless art house tripe that critics pretended to like so that they would seem smart. All in all,

A lot can be gleaned from a comparison of the two percentages. So, what can we learn from this? As of last night, my new film, What Is a Woman, had earned a 97% score from the audience with well over a thousand reviews counted. Which is a lot of reviews, by the way, from audiences. So there are a lot of big box office films that don't get a thousand reviews in the first week, as we did. 97%. What score did it get from the critics? Well, N.A. Not applicable.

there's no score. They just haven't reviewed it. None of them. There's one critic review, and it's from Christian Toto, was a great contributor for The Daily Wire. Outside of that, though, the movie has been completely and totally ignored by the media. Why haven't they watched it? It's not that they're panning it. They're just not, they're refusing to watch it. And why is it? Is it because they don't know about it or they don't have time to watch it or just they don't think it's very important or whatever? Well, they might be able to make that claim if not for the fact that we sent the screener to media critics and many of them responded to the email that we sent them

telling us in so many words to go F ourselves. Actually, in those words, exactly, in some cases. So let me read through a few of the responses that we got from film critics. One says, unsubscribe, unsubscribe, unsubscribe, unsubscribe, unsubscribe, unsubscribe, continuing infinity. Another one says, unsubscribe, lose my email, forget my name. Another one says hard effing pass.

I won't give that transphobic bigot a platform on my site. Never email me again. Another hard pass. Another one says, absolutely effing not. He's a bigot. You should be ashamed for associating with him. Another one, please remove me from your mailing list. I am not interested in anything having to do with Matt Walsh.

Another one says big no thanks. Let's see. Yeah, I'm not reviewing a film by a bigot. And if that's who you work with, you can take. me off your list. I won't be reviewing anything from you. Another one says, please don't send me anything else from the Daily Wire. I'm not interested. And then we got a bunch of this one was good. Okay, here's one says, hi, transwoman here, just got your email inquiring if I wanted to review your Nazi transphobic movie. In the future, please send requests like this

to Dees Nuts at gmail.com. Now, I don't think this person realizes that the last part of their email in the first part. Hi, I'm a woman. Send the request to D's nuts. All right. And then another one says, take me off your list. I'm not interested in covering content from fear-mongering people whose inquiries into gender and identity are predicated on the basis of taking rights away from people in at-risk communities and spreading misinformation for the sake of grabbing power and wielding it against people. And then a bunch of others. I have no interest in covering this film or anything to do with Matt Walsh, please never email me again. Okay, so you get the idea.

Now, you may hear all that and think, well, of course they responded that way. And in one sense, you're right. I mean, of course they did. But let's not allow them to hide behind the inevitability of their own cowardice and intellectual dishonesty, as if they're drawn up by the forces of fate and have no choice but to act like a bunch of spineless little blobfish. The fact is that film critics in mass are declaring at the outset that they simply will not even watch. One of the most talked about films of the year so far, one audiences are raving about,

and which is indeed a legitimate and well-made piece of work. Well-made, thanks to our director and producer, not so much to me, but it is well-made. It's not unprecedented for a film to be blackballed to this extent, but it is unusual. Because again, usually what they'll do if they don't like the movie, for political reasons, is they'll just pan it. And this reveals, once again, that our cultural gatekeepers are totally beholden to a certain ideological agenda. this doesn't just extend to the people who create the culture, the people who make the film, shows, music, etc. It also, and especially extends to the people who decide which pieces of content in each of those categories we ought to be consuming and engaging with. The left's cultural and institutional domination works through multiple layers.

They decide what's made, and if someone manages to make something that they don't approve of, then the gatekeepers in media can step in to make sure that nobody hears about it. The good news is that these gatekeepers have become increasingly impotent as we develop ways of getting around them. And one very effective way of getting around them is to do exactly what we're doing here at the Daily Wire. Build our own institutions slowly but surely and sustain it with the support from the audience, rather than making ourselves entirely beholden to advertisers, investors, shareholders, and so on. And that's just another good reason to go to what is a woman.com and subscribe today if you have it. One other point about the critical reaction to the film, or lack thereof. is that it perfectly illustrates the point of the film itself.

The left is terrified of the movie, of the question, of the approach we took, the truth that we brought to bear. See, if they thought that our film could be easily debunked, then they'd watch it, and they'd debunk it. They loved doing that. If they really thought it was a bunch of transphobic nonsense as they claim, then they would watch it and they would just point out all of the nonsense in the movie. If they really thought it was nothing but a bunch of ignorant and bigotry,

they would delight in pointing out all the ways that such is the case. They'd go through it with a fine-tooth comb. John Oliver would do a whole show dissecting it, playing clips, making snarky comments. But he can't do that. None of them can. Because there's no rescuing the people who made fools of themselves in the film. There's no defending gender ideology in general. There's no way for them to answer the question without destroying their own worldview in the process. Now, at some level, they know that the film is successful in debunking gender ideology

because at some level, they know that gender ideology is a flimsyly constructed tower of jenga blocks wobbling in the breeze and ready to fall over if just one block is removed. And with our film, we're going for the block away at the base of the tower. The blocks, the other blocks are sitting on, which means that the tower is certain to topple. The left doesn't want to be there to watch it happen for fear that it will fall directly on their heads. So they look the other way, they run the other direction, they cover their eyes, they close their ears. Hope that eventually we all get bored and stop talking about the fact that their worldview is incoherent, absurd, and poisonous to civilization. But we're not going to stop, unfortunately, for them.

And I have to say, I also enjoy the filmmaking process so much that I don't plan to stop doing that either. It's pretty fun. I'll give the critics many more movies, which I'm sure that they will pretend don't exist. They can do that all they want. They're still, I must say, today, 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,

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