The Matt Walsh Show - Matt Walsh Reacts to Public School Insanity

Episode Date: March 29, 2025

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Here's a report from Fox 25 in Oklahoma that I hope you're not eating right now. But if you are, fair warning. Here it is. The event at Deer Creek High School. Fox 25's David Chazanov has reaction from the district and its parents tonight. David, what are you hearing? Adam, Wendy, a parent whose child attended the event calls it deeply disturbing. And we do want to warn you the video you're about to see maybe graphic to some viewers.

This video shows Deer Creek High School students licking toes at a fundraising event Thursday. We have blurred their faces to hide their identity. It was surprising. they were going to do all that. I was just shocked. I didn't really have, like, I was going to discuss student building, like, kind of glad I wasn't over there.

He is devouring them! Whatever she told me yesterday that was happening, I had to ask her like, wait, what? They're looking peanut butter off the toes. What? The Deer Creek School District confirmed the video with Fox 25, saying the students volunteered in challenges to help raise money during their philanthropy week.

I am all four fundraising and all four really fun and silly things, but that right there just seemed a little excessive. Oh, my! Deer Creek Schools says every student who participated signed up for the games they played ahead of time, and that no faculty or staff were involved during the assembly. They note that the fundraising week helped raise more than $152,000. It's really great that they raise a lot of money. I feel like maybe they could have done a little bit more stupid, but not statement,

before we think this thing through here. So just to review here, this school, Deer Creek High School, decided to have a fundraising event. And so far, so far so good, fundraising event. Nothing wrong with that.

When I was a kid, we did fundraisers all the time in school. You know, we sold candy bars. We did walk-a-thons. We had bake-sakesakes. We did car washes, that sort of thing. Where it all goes off the rails is that they decided for their fundraising activity that they were going to have students lick, apparently lick peanut butter off of each other's feet in front of an entire gymnasium.

And it's one of those things, it's hard. It's really, if you're a normal person, you can't wrap your mind around it exactly because this was an idea. that someone at the school had and proposed, right? And then it was organized. It was like multiple people are involved here. I don't know how many, but the multiple, the involvement, it goes beyond just one person. And they're organizing this. And at no point before or during, did anybody stop and say,

um, you know, I don't know if we should do the toe-licking thing. I don't know if that, maybe we shouldn't. That might be a horror. That might make us look like sicko pedophiles with foot fetishes if we do that. So maybe we shouldn't. Nobody said that apparently. And they just charged right ahead. And then when the video of this event goes viral, as it was destined to,

the school district doesn't apologize. They don't accept any responsibility at all. Don't hold themselves accountable. They don't even admit that it was probably a bad idea. So that's what you have to understand. The school district is standing behind this. They're standing behind the toe-sucking video. They will not acknowledge, even in hindsight, they won't acknowledge that there was anything wrong with it.

This is from, so they read a little bit of the statement, but it's just, it's so incredible that. Let me read the statement to you. This afternoon, Deer Creek High School announced a grand total of $152,830 raised for not-your-average Joe Coffee, an organization created to inspire our community by including students and adults with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities, according to their website. This total was raised through a week of events and activities

at both Deer Creek High School and Deer Creek Middle School, all designed to bring our community together for an extremely impactful organization. On Thursday, January, February 29th, Deer Creek High School hosted an assembly called the clash of classes for students who paid to attend. During this assembly, 9th through 12th grade students volunteered to participate in various student-organized class

competitions in the spirit of raising money for NYAJ. All participants in the assembly were students who signed up for the game that they played ahead of time. No Deer Creek faculty or staff participated in any of the games during this clash of classes assembly. Many dedicated students gave generously of their personal time to achieve this momentous accomplishment, which will serve communities beyond the boundaries of Deer Creek. That's it.

There's no apology there. Nothing. they are not convinced yet that the foot fetish festival was a miscalculation. In fact, they defended on the basis that it raised a lot of money. This momentous accomplishment of licking peanut butter off of toes was a great achievement. And they also defended by saying that the students weren't, they volunteered for it, so they were not held at gunpoint. Okay, well, that's good news, I guess.

And they have to stipulate that there were no teachers involved. So it was not teachers having their toes sucked by students. This was a student. These were all students. And if that makes this any better, it makes it better by about an inch. However, we're still approximately 95 billion miles away from anything that could be considered appropriate or worthwhile for a school activity. Are you looking to deepen your faith this Lenton season? Well, now's the time to join Hallows Lent.

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in protest of all the furries that administrators have allowed to infest the school. It began with a petition which gained over 500 signatures in a few days, calling for the school to start enforcing its dress codes and stop allowing students to come to class, dressed in their furry costumes. And then came the walkout. Adam Bartholomew, as a local commentator in Utah, captured footage of the event and of the kids outside the school, talked to them and asked them what their complaints were.

And let's watch a little bit of that. So are they wearing a mask every day? Yes. He's just wearing a mask, but the principal finally stood up and banned those folks. But they still wear them every day. And they don't get in trouble. The principal doesn't make them get in trouble. Yeah.

All the principal says is just be kind. Be nice. Be nice. And then... What's the point of dressing up like a furry? I don't know. It's attention. They think they're so cool that they want to be in a lot of attention.

So people can come at them and just look at them to think that they're so cool. Okay. Are you guys going to be in trouble for walking out of school today? No, maybe. If we go back on school ground, we will get in trouble. If we go and school down, hopefully not. We're standing for our right. We're okay if we stand here.

We're standing for what? Furies are wrong. This is wrong. We should have been doing it. Do your parents know you guys are out here? Yes! They attack us! If we just kick them, we get in trouble.

They attack us. They get in trouble. How else do they attack you guys? They either bite us, they scratch us, they barked us, they barked on people. So, um, the furries have gone feral, it seems. They're biting and scratching and pouncing on people. Some of the students have had enough of this, behavior. They want to go to school at a school, not at a petting zoo, and that's why they walked out.

Here's a video from a guy named Eric Mautzis with more insight from people who work at the school. Listen to what he says. Problem is a substitute teacher from Mount Nebo Middle School. Contact me and said, this has been happening for over a year. And this one is actually really sad, and this person needs to be reprimanded. Rebecca Huntsaker Barney said, this is the school I work at. I'm embarrassed for the parents that just believed everything their kids told them, then staged a protest without even contacting the school to find out what is really happening. The truth is that a few kids dress as pets stay to themselves. They do not do any of these things these kids are reporting. However, they are

constantly picked on and bullied. So the kids stayed to themselves. So what about the video I just got from a concerned parent where this girl acting like a dog is going after these students? This gets even better. Honestly, we had the most wonderful, peaceful day yesterday because most of the troublemakers were out protesting a lie. Really? Because that doesn't look like a lie. The halls were quiet and actually cleaner without them there. This is a teacher at the school. This teacher is supposed to look at these kids in the eye unbiased and give them grades. Okay, well, that confirms it then. You know, the furries being in school is not a rumor. It's not misinformation. And the left has been denying that this sort of thing is happening for years.

They've claimed that this is all the claims of furries at school and kids come into school dress as animals. They've been saying for years, that it's a total right-wing myth completely made up. But here you have a teacher who is on the side of the furries, a teacher who doesn't like the kids who were protesting, admitting publicly that, quote, a few kids dress as pets. And she says that like it's completely normal, like she sees no problem with it, as if it's normal, child's normal child's. behavior. I don't know about you, but when I had to school, we had precisely zero kids dressing as pets at school. What? Well, she acts like she doesn't have a problem with it, and she doesn't, and that is the problem. Now, look, we can have debates over dress codes and how strict they could be or should be, but any halfway sane person should agree that the dress

code should at least require that every student dress like a human at a minimum. Dressing as a pet is not something that a child of any age should be doing on a regular basis. Okay, if my four-year-old at home was dressing like an animal every day, I'd be a little concerned even about that. It's like, well, this is, this is, that's an unhealthy fixation for a child of any age. But a middle school age child during school hours? By the way, the same guy, Eric Mautzes, has also obtained these photos of kids at this school dressed in their animal costumes, which you can see here. So we've got some kind of Velociraptor lion hybrid thing. And then a bunch of variations of cats, I guess. And I think I see another lizard or maybe there's a dinosaur back there.

Kids are dressing like this at school. Coming to school in a school and a full. And a a full-on mask and just walking around the school? Their parents are letting them leave the house in animal masks? Well, this is happening. It has not been debunked. It is real. It's a real thing. But we have not yet gotten to the weirdest part of this story somehow.

The local ABC affiliate decided to provide context by interviewing a furry in costume and referring to the woman as her fictional character's name during this interview. Watch. This is Strudel, a member of the furry fandom. Though they've been a furry for over a decade, they have their own opinions. It's crazy that it's escalated to this point where these kids are being so distracting to their peers that their peers want to stage a walkout. To have, you know, the next generation kind of muddy our name and not represent it very well,

Well, it is kind of disappointing. Strudel believes there should be some limits. Continue doing things you like. Continue dressing up. Continue making art. But maybe let's keep it outside of school hours. Yeah, she doesn't want these kids to muddy the name of furries. They must not sully the reputation of the furries.

They shouldn't do anything that gives the public the impression that people who walk around in animal costumes are, I don't know, weird. bizarre, deranged, mentally unbalanced.