Ep. 939 - Amazon Employees Are Traumatized By My Children’s Book
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, leaked internal videos show that my children’s book, Johnny the Walrus, has traumatized and triggered Amazon’s employees. They are literally in tears over it. It is the greatest moment of my career. We’ll talk about it today. Also, conservative accounts on Twitter see huge spikes in followers right as it’s announced that Elon Musk is buying the company. What’s going on there? And more disturbing information about the “children’s book” from the American Academy of Pediatrics that pushes chemical castration on nine year olds. Plus, a NASCAR driver is sent to sensitivity training for posting a “racist” meme. But was the meme actually racist? And in our Daily Cancellation, more leaked videos. This time it’s administrators and leftist activists meeting to game plan protests against my speech tonight at Wisconsin Superior. But why are school administrators helping to plan protests?
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, leaked internal videos show that my children's book, Johnny the Walrus, has traumatized and triggered Amazon's employees.
They are literally in tears over it, and it's the greatest moment of my career.
We'll talk about it today.
Also, conservative accounts on Twitter see huge spikes in followers right as it's announced that Elon Musk is buying the company.
What's going on there?
And more disturbing information about the children's book, quote-unquote, from the American Academy of Pediatrics that pushes chemical castration on nine-year-olds.
Plus, a NASCAR driver is sent to sensitivity training for posting a racist meme.
But was the meme actually racist?
And in our daily cancellation, more leaked videos.
This time it's administrators and leftist activists meeting to game plan protests against my speech tonight at Wisconsin-Superior.
But why are school administrators helping to plan protests?
We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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My friends, my sweet babies, I've had some proud moments in my career so far, even back when I was screaming at the dashboard in my car while parked in a Walmart parking lot, which is where I did a lot of my shows back then for some reason.
But even then, on occasion, there would be a milestone, which to me was significant.
Since then, there have been other personal achievements, which meant a lot to me.
But nothing in my career can come close to this, to the knowledge that my best-selling children's book, Johnny the Walrus, traumatized, terrified, and triggered their own words.
Amazon's employees.
This is the pinnacle of Summit.
It's all downhill from here, I'm afraid.
So yesterday, my friend lives of TikTok released the video from an Amazon internal meeting where employees discussed, complained about, and consoled each other over my books.
Actually, my books plural, not just John to the Walrus.
The whole thing is so perfect, so on the nose, that you might suspect I scripted it and staged it all myself.
It begins with one of the leaders of the meeting talking about the trauma that my book about walruses has caused.
Let's listen.
It's been a very traumatic experience for transgender Amazonians and our transgender customers.
What I don't want to come out of this is slamming the books team with a bunch of tickets.
They're already aware of this.
There are things in this space that are happening.
I take it back.
I could not have scripted this because if I had I never would have included the line transgender Amazonians.
That would have seemed too absurd, too contrived.
It's the kind of lunacy that only an authentic leftist in his natural environment could come up with.
Transgender Amazonian sounds like some kind of mythical character.
And, well, if the shoe fits.
Also, note how he says that the books team is, quote, aware and, quote, there are things in this space that are happening.
In other words, they are actively trying to suppress the book.
That's what he's saying.
Unsuccessfully.
Very unsuccessfully, as it turns out.
Because right now, the book is just surging on the charts.
It's in the top 5.
It's been in the top 5 for a day.
But they're trying.
And it's the fact that they've been so unsuccessful, and that I was able to figure out a way to navigate the system, a system designed to make sure that people like me fail, that makes them all the more enraged.
As we'll see a little bit later on.
For now, though, let's keep on listening to this clip.
Johnny the walrus is a bit of a problematic book.
Not a bit.
It is.
It is not a bit of a problem.
It's one hell of a problem.
And I would preface this about what the book's about, but the customer we're going to listen to.
Does a great job.
Need to keep a running list here of superlatives to add to the book cover when we do a second printing, or actually a third printing, because the first printing sold out in a day if you hadn't heard.
So he's already given me some good ones.
Problematic, traumatic, and one hell of a problem.
That last one's especially great.
I want that on my tombstone when I die.
One hell of a problem.
The customer who called in to complain, one of many complaints we're told, so we're told this is kind of like a representative sample, But this customer certainly agrees with all those assessments about me and about the book and has a whole lot more to say about it.
Let's listen.
I just checked your website and the book is still up on there.
I hate to tell you, but it says that the book that it is shipped and sold from you, it is by Matt Walsh.
It is teaching kids to kill, well, to bully transgenders, yeah, to bully them into committing suicide, the LGBTQIA, especially transgenders.
The story is about a kid who likes to pretend he's different things, and one day he pretends he's a walrus, and the community tells him He either has to be a human or he has to be a walrus or they're going to kill him.
He can't be both.
He can't pretend anymore.
Now, the author Matt Walsh just tweeted this yesterday morning at 8.04 a.m.
I now have the number one anti-LGBT book in the country.
Any further criticism of me or my book is homophobic.
Checkmate.
You are selling a manual how to teach kids to bully other kids
to commit suicide.
You know what, honestly, I'm really mad because I have a sibling that is a member of the LGBTQ,
so I'm really mad as well right now.
Now, if I was inclined to call people Karens, I'd certainly say that this person fits the bill.
I don't call people that because it's an anti-white racial slur, so instead we'll just stick with calling her a shrill, hectoring wench.
Maybe The View should give her a call.
She'd be perfect, I think, as a co-host.
She might actually be someone from The View.
She also lies about the content of the book, claiming that I instruct kids to kill, or at least bully, transgenders.
In this rather dark and gritty reimagining of my original story, she says that in my book, Johnny the Walrus, Johnny is told by the community that they'll kill him if he doesn't stop pretending to be a walrus.
None of that actually happens in the book.
I mean, it's been a little while since I wrote it, I admit.
I'll go back and check, but I don't think, I don't remember including any lines in there about killing transgenders or the community telling Johnny that, stop pretending to be a walrus or we'll kill you!
That's not in there.
In fact, nothing like that happens.
And it makes me concerned for the woman's health.
You know, I know that You can actually get, and this is true, this is a medical fact, I think, that you can get brain worms from exposure to too much cat litter.
And so I'm concerned that this cat lady may be suffering from that condition.
I mean, jokes on the worms, though, in that case, because they made it up to her head and looked around and found out the place was empty.
She then says that I called my own book the number one anti-LGBT book in the country.
In fact, I didn't say that I called it because it was and will always be, in my heart, the number one LGBT book in the country.
Not anti-LGBT book.
So she lied about that too, or hallucinated it.
Meanwhile, the Amazon employee on the phone listens to all this and nods along in agreement.
You know, he's angry too, he says.
By this book that the lady just made up.
And keep in mind that Amazon itself, they are playing this complaint for the other employees and endorsing it.
I mean, they said up front that they agree with this, that this is a good description of the book, while she just makes up a version of the book that doesn't exist.
But we somehow have yet to make it to the best parts.
Things get more emotional in a second video as the employees continue to lament the many ways in which I abused, committed violence against, their algorithms.
Listen.
It's bad faith.
It's basically abuse of Amazon's systems and their When I say they, I mean Matt Walsh and his publishing company and other people like him are taking advantage of Amazon and how the Amazon algorithms work to promote their particular brand of hate and harm on the community.
I have taken advantage of Amazon.
Without Amazon's clear and affirmative consent, I have used and abused and manhandled its algorithms.
This is the worst case of algorithmic abuse the world has ever seen.
And we aren't done.
I mean, if you're worried that so far they've cried over one of my trolling schemes but have neglected to mention my other ones, don't worry because they do get around to that also.
The other part of this that is equally disturbing is Matt Walsh is getting ready to release, I believe, a book called What is a Woman?
and there's also a documentary that comes with it.
Jamie Lee shared some information with me about the movie, the documentary that's going along with it,
but people are already talking about it.
He tricked, it was very much boycott style, tricking transgender people into participating, not understanding what they were participating in.
And it's called What is a Woman?
One man's journey to answer the question?
I mean, let's just back up for a second and say, does a man even belong in this conversation?
No, he doesn't.
But guess what?
It's not even on sale yet, and it's number one in women's studies.
And number one in the other categories that it's available in as well.
This is chief mansplaining.
Chief Mansplainer, another superlative.
First of all, how do you know that I'm not a woman?
I mean, what is a woman?
In order to make that kind of criticism against what is a woman, you first need to be able to tell me what is a woman, but you can't, and that's exactly why the Feldman book exists, which you can find out more about when you go to whatisawoman.com.
Second, this is no way to speak.
Or about a best-selling women's studies scholar, can I just say.
Finally, we get to the grand finale and we got to play this.
This is the emotional crescendo of the story.
When ultimately breaking under the psychological stress, the guy leading the meeting begins to weep.
Watch this and don't laugh.
Okay, this is serious stuff.
So don't laugh, you heartless bullies.
Watch.
Exploiting our systems, right?
Our systems aren't, like, they're not set up to catch, you know, they can, you know, the self-publishing authors, they can categorize their books however they want.
And so, yeah, I want to, I just I'm sorry.
I want to preface this with, I also saw someone mention that this is really tough content and If you're transgender, if you're gender non-binary, take, you know, and this is super triggering, and this is super, like, it would, like, I would understand if you needed to leave.
This is for education for people who don't get it, who don't understand.
And I would understand if, if this was a lot, but equally, I want folks to know, um, that we're doing this because this really matters.
[Clears throat]
I understand.
I also understand.
I understand if my book, written on cardboard for preschoolers, about a boy who pretends to be a walrus, is too distressing and disturbing for you.
I understand.
I understand, in other words, if you're mentally ill.
I understand and I sympathize.
Well, actually, I don't really sympathize, and come to think of it, I don't really understand either, but I acknowledge it anyway.
And I hope you get the counseling you need.
Or I hope you banish yourself to an island in the Pacific somewhere.
I'll take either option, really, though I prefer the latter because your cry-bully narcissism is a scourge, a plague, a cancer on this country.
Now, I want to speak now, finally, directly to these employees at Amazon.
You're obviously paying close attention to what I say and do, so I know you'll see this and hear it.
And I want you to hear me when I say what needs to be said here.
This will be perhaps the most important message that you ever hear in your life.
It's something you should have been told years ago, but never were.
And I'll tell you now.
And here it is.
It's not my job to cater to your feelings.
I in fact do not care about your feelings, because your feelings are wrong.
Did you know that feelings can be wrong?
Because they can.
Now you might have been told different when you were little, but they lied to you.
So feelings can be wrong.
And when you feel sad, angry, upset, traumatized, triggered, scandalized, whatever, about a children's book that teaches little kids to accept themselves for who they truly are, like who they really are, who they biologically are, rather than following a delusion, when that makes you feel bad and icky inside, your feelings are wrong.
You should not feel that way.
You are wrong for feeling that way.
You're the problem, not me.
You should apologize to me for being so damned weird and annoying and unreasonable.
I mean, you think that women have penises.
You think that kids should be chemically castrated and sterilized.
You think that the books that we should be selling to kids and that you should be selling to kids on Amazon are the ones that encourage them to sterilize and castrate themselves.
That's what you think.
That's how you feel.
And that's why your feelings are not valid.
Your opinions are irrelevant.
You should feel ashamed.
But you don't, and that's the whole problem.
I'm not the problem.
You are.
You freaks.
Glad we could have this talk.
And thank you for driving my book all the way to the top five overall on Amazon again.
You've inspired me to write more children's books.
So stay tuned.
And we'll get now to our five headlines.
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One other note about this that I think it's important to point out, and we played most of the clips from that Amazon meeting, but there were some other pieces that we didn't play, and the one theme that you keep hearing over and over again, and that you hear in those clips and some of the other parts of it, is just how, yeah, they're upset about the book, they're upset about what's in it, they're upset about the message, they're upset about everything, but What really gets them is how, according to them, I gamed the system, I manipulated the system, I abused it.
All of these things.
They're talking about the system and the algorithm like it's a person.
Like I've committed assault against an actual human being.
But how did I game the system?
All I did was write the book on cardboard and then put it on Amazon.
That's all that we did.
I wish I could say there was something more clever and devious going on, but there isn't.
And so when they say, I think this is another mask-off moment, it's very revealing, because when they say, game the system or manipulate the system, what they're admitting is that the system is designed to make sure that people like me don't succeed in it.
That's what they're admitting.
And so when they see that someone like myself has a best-selling book, especially a best-selling children's book, and especially a best-selling children's book that is meant to be an antidote to the leftist indoctrination that goes on in a lot of other kids' books, when they see that, it's like, no, Amazon's not supposed to do that.
Because Amazon isn't for you.
That's what they're saying to me.
And to anyone like me.
So, quite revealing, in fact.
All right, let's go here.
From the Daily Wire, it says...
The same day Elon Musk announced he had reached an agreement with Twitter to purchase the company for $44 billion, conservative users reported they began seeing large increases in their follower counts and engagement.
One of the most significant factors motivating Musk's purchase of Twitter was his concern over censorship and speech suppression on the platform.
Throughout the last two weeks, as he's pressed his bid to purchase the company, he's indicated that one of his top priorities will be reversing heavy-handed content moderation policies and lifting algorithms that may be unfairly targeting some tweets and accounts based on their political views.
And now there are this, and this is something a lot of conservatives have noticed, not just a few, you know, and I've noticed it also, and it's quite interesting, that literally on the day when they announced that this deal was going to happen, and it hasn't been finalized, I think they have until October, I think, or November to finalize it, but on the day that it was officially announced, Conservative accounts, including my own, saw massive spikes in followers.
But on the other side of it, a lot of leftist accounts, if you could track that, like MSNBC hosts and CNN hosts, they saw their follower counts dip.
And I'm not exactly sure why.
It's not clear to me why that's happening.
It could be a good thing.
I mean, one possible reason to explain this is that there were things that they were doing to suppress conservative accounts, talking about systems that are designed to make sure that we don't succeed in them.
And so there are things that they were doing to suppress that and to stop people from, you know, if you're a conservative account, to stop people from finding you, from following you.
They had certain systems in place to suppress those accounts.
And then as soon as this deal was announced, Now they're trying to cover their tracks.
Because that's the thing, it's not as though Elon Musk has taken over Twitter today.
That's not going to officially happen for several more months.
So you would think you shouldn't start seeing these changes yet.
And if we are seeing the changes, then maybe they're getting rid of all these things and trying to cover their tracks.
So that's one possibility.
It's also possible there's something a little bit more sinister going on here, and I'm not sure what exactly that would be.
But it does just, it actually makes me a little bit nervous when I see this.
Given that Elon Musk has not taken over the company yet, it's still in the hands of the people who were running it two days ago.
And yet we're seeing this wild spike in followers for conservative accounts.
I don't know what exactly it is.
Is it bots?
Are they kind of behind the scenes flooding the place with bots to try to sabotage the platform before Elon Musk takes over?
Could it be something like that?
I don't know what it is.
But things are afoot, that's for sure.
Also from the Daily Wire, it says, leftist tears were literally flowing at Twitter headquarters on Monday after Elon Musk's offer to buy the social media platform was accepted, as one high-ranking employee reportedly broke down and cried during a staff meeting about the purchase.
So there is a theme that we're seeing right now in the show of people at big tech companies crying because things aren't going the way that they want.
I mean, these are grown adults weeping at their jobs because of this.
On Tuesday, Politico reported that Twitter's top lawyer, Vijaya Agad, called a virtual meeting among policy and legal teams that she oversees to discuss how Musk would impact the company.
It's Politico reported, quote, Gad cried during the meeting as she expressed concerns about how the company could change, according to three people familiar with the meeting.
She acknowledged that there are significant uncertainties about what the company will look like under Musk's leadership.
Politico also reported that Gad, who has worked with Twitter since 2011, is the key executive charged with overseeing Twitter's trust and safety, legal and public policy functions.
The attorney is apparently so well respected within the company that she is seen internally as Twitter's moral authority.
She was the one who was primarily behind, reportedly, primarily behind suspending the New York Post for the Hunter Biden story.
And if she's running the trust and safety, whatever, council commission over at Twitter, then that means that she's ultimately the one behind making these decisions about who gets banned, who gets suspended.
Babylon B gets suspended for saying that males are men.
That's her.
And come to think of it actually, maybe she has reason to cry because the thing ultimately that I'm sure she's crying about is that she thinks she's going to lose her job.
Which I hope to God she does.
I mean, Elon Musk, far be it for me to tell him how to do his job once he's running Twitter, but I think this is the first thing he needs to do is go in there, you find people like this, and you get rid of them.
Because these are, you know, even though there are algorithms and systems and everything that are put in place, there are actual human beings behind all of this.
And there are human beings at Twitter who decided to turn it into, you know, decided to weaponize it for left-wing ideology and punish people on ideological grounds.
And she's one of them.
You just gotta get rid of her.
And that's probably why she's crying, because she knows her days are numbered at Twitter, as well they should be.
The women over at The View are also not quite crying, but nearly on the verge of tears.
And The View chimed in on all this, and they have a take on all of this that is about as tedious as you have come to expect from these ladies.
Let's listen.
On Twitter, it is predominantly straight white men.
So when Elon Musk says, wow, this is about free speech, it seems to me that it's about free speech of straight white men.
And so let them have it.
Let them just go at it.
I enjoy the block button on Twitter.
I think it has a real outsized influence in our world because politicians and celebrities are on it.
I mean, tedious is really the word that just comes to mind for that.
They are themselves, and I think many leftists, especially media, have gotten to this point where they are themselves, basically.
They are algorithms.
They're walking algorithms.
Barely even humans anymore capable of critical thought.
You know, they're programmed a certain way.
And so the minute something happens that they don't like, well, this is all about straight white men, and there's no, of course, it should go without saying, there's no evidence of that whatsoever.
I mean, Elon Musk has never said anything that would lead you to believe that he wants to favor straight white men and that this is what this is really all about.
She says that, oh, no, he only believes in free speech for straight white men.
So what?
He's going to take over Twitter, and the new rule at Twitter is going to be if you're a straight white man, you can say whatever you want.
But if you're not, then here are the moderation policies.
I highly doubt that he's going to put a rule like that in place.
And he's never said anything that could lead anyone to actually believe that.
But this is how she's programmed, and she's not capable of actually analyzing events and arriving at conclusions that way.
All right, I want to move to this.
I mentioned this on the show yesterday, but now we have more information courtesy of a Daily Wire report.
And I'll just read from it.
It says, uh, can girls get erections?
A co-author of the American Academy of Pediatrics newest guide to puberty not only says yes, they can, but that such occurrences are completely normal.
In response to these claims, some pro-family groups are slamming the quote gender diverse book as insanity.
On April 19th, the AAP issued a new guide titled, and we told you about this yesterday, Uology, a puberty guide for everybody targeted towards children ages 9 through 13 years old.
And this is a book, as we mentioned yesterday, supposedly a children's book, 9 through 13, and it is one of the top-selling children's books on Amazon right now.
I mean, mine's above it right now, but as well it should be.
But it's one of the top-selling children's books.
One pediatrician who helped write the book explained in a radio interview that the group of professional doctors wanted to purposefully include chapters explaining radical gender ideology to children.
Dr. Katherine Lowe told NPR, with this book, we're trying to change that language to be more inclusive.
She claimed, with traditional puberty education, whether it's in schools or in books, we talk about how girls get their periods and boys get erections.
But some girls, for example transgender girls, might not get their periods.
They need to understand about erections and those changes in their bodies.
So we wanted to fill this void in puberty education so that kids, regardless of their gender, can see themselves in a book and learn about their bodies.
And we, as we discussed yesterday, they not only talk about girls getting erections, but they also, especially in one of the chapters, I haven't read the entire book, but all we need to know is about the one chapter about what happens if puberty doesn't feel right.
And in that book, they promote hormones, puberty blockers, chemical castration, sterilization, because that's what those drugs do, by the way.
That's what those drugs are.
These are chemical castration drugs and they sterilize kids.
And this is, we have to keep emphasizing it, the American Academy of Pediatrics putting a book out like that.
And of course they say that this is all about, well this is about representing.
We want kids to feel represented.
We want them to feel seen.
You know, we want a kid who's already transgender.
We want them to read this book and feel seen and represented by it.
But that's not the point of the book at all, of course.
And even if that was the point and the purpose of the book, that would be bad enough because there's actually no such thing as a transgender kid.
But no, in fact, it's not about representing or making them feel seen.
It's about Recruiting more kids into that world.
It's about promoting transgenderism.
It's not like, let's take the kids who are already transgender, quote-unquote, and give them this book they can read.
It's, let's make a book that creates.
This is about creating more transgender kids.
Which, as we have seen over the last several years, is very easy to do.
Because kids, and especially if you're targeting them right on the cusp of puberty, and hormones are raging, and their bodies are changing, and their minds going haywire, and all these things are happening.
We all went through it when we were kids.
And they're confused, and they don't know exactly what's happening, and they feel very uncomfortable in their body.
They feel very awkward, and then you come in, and you say, well, I'll help you understand what's happening here.
And in fact, I'll give you an escape valve.
Here's a little, there's no side effects, nothing bad can happen.
Here's a little button you can push that'll put all this on pause so you can escape it and you don't have to deal with it.
That's the message to kids now, just think about that.
You're going to kids and you're saying, well, puberty is very difficult and your body as you know it is going to change drastically and oftentimes in ways that you don't really like at first.
But we're going to give you a choice.
You can have all that icky stuff happen with your body, or you can have it not happen at all.
And so many kids, because they don't understand and they don't know what they're doing, are going to say, well, I'll take the option to not have that happen to my body.
And then the propagandists over at the American Academy of Pediatrics will say, well, see, there's proof right there that there are so many transgender kids.
This is why we need more books like this.
It is so insidious what they're doing.
This is from Sports Illustrated.
It says, NASCAR announced Tuesday that Denny Hamlin will be required to complete a sensitivity training course that must begin by the end of the week, according to a league's spokesperson.
The Cup Series driver made a social media post on Monday using an anti-Asian meme from the television show Family Guy toward Kyle Larson regarding his final lap move in Sunday's Talladega Super Speedway.
And this is, he's being accused of racism.
We're being told, and this is what Sports Illustrated said in their headlines, a racist joke that Hamlin made a racist joke about this other NASCAR driver.
Hamlin tweeted, I took down a post I made earlier today after reading some of the comments.
It was a poor choice of memes, and I saw how it was offensive.
It came across totally wrong.
I apologize.
Larsson, who's half Japanese and the reigning Cup Series champion, made a move in his final turn that helped him finish fourth overall in the race.
However, this move was an aggressive one that caused a crash.
And, okay, so you have... Larsson...
Half Japanese, does something during the race, causes a crash, and then Denny Hamlin, another NASCAR driver, tweets out this meme, kind of like making a joke about it, from Family Guy, and in fact we have the meme, before it was deleted, and he was sent off to sensitivity training camp.
Before that, here's what he posted, let's watch it here.
How much signal I need to cut across 8 lane?
None?
I turn now!
Good luck everybody else!
[tires screeching]
[tires screeching]
[laughing]
I think it's funny.
You know, there was a time when you could... I mean, that's Family Guy.
That's not a show from 70 years ago.
So, like, not all that long ago you could make jokes like that.
So here's a couple of things.
So this is a racist joke, and of course, Hamlin's apologized for it, and he's calling this sensitivity training and all the rest of it.
But, maybe we should ask, like, is that actually a racist joke?
And the answer is no.
It in fact is not.
Okay?
And I know this may be very shocking for lots of people to hear.
But a joke, a racial joke, is not automatically racist.
It's not, okay?
Because racism, racist, this is a word that means something.
And what it means is that if you're a racist person, if you're making a racist statement, then it's a statement that another race or ethnicity is inferior to you.
You don't like them, they're inferior, And you're better than them.
That's what racism is.
There's nothing in that little meme there that even implies anything like that.
It doesn't imply that he hates Asian people.
It doesn't imply that he thinks Asian people are inferior to him.
But yeah, it's a stereotype.
So you're just having a little bit of fun with the stereotype.
And it's slightly edgy, and yeah, it might be a little bit of- it could be offensive.
That's the other thing that might be shocking for people to hear.
A joke can be racial, and even offensive.
I mean, I don't think it's offensive, but it could be- it could be racial and offensive, but not racist.
If you can believe it.
So if you want to call that offensive, eh, it's a little bit offensive.
Maybe.
It's not racist.
And here's the other thing.
It is a sign of progress when you can make jokes like that, okay?
When you can make racial jokes and ethnic jokes, that's a sign of progress in society.
So, kind of like where we were in, say, the 90s?
Which right now has to, I guess, be the pinnacle of interracial relations in America.
Because you can make jokes like that.
And no one really got offended.
And different people making jokes about other people.
And that's it.
It was just a joke.
You'd laugh about it.
That's a sign of progress.
It's just like if you're friends with someone, you can make jokes about them.
That people who are not their friends can't make.
So it's actually a sign of affection and familiarity when you can kind of joke around with your friends.
It's especially the case with guys.
Maybe a little bit less so with women, but that's a general principle.
When you could joke around with someone, make jokes that maybe in another context from somebody else would be offensive, but this is a sign of you're familiar, you're friends.
It's actually a show of affection.
And so when you're in a society where people of different ethnicities and races can make jokes about each other and it's all in good fun and you just kind of laugh about it, that's progress.
And so the fact that we have now reached a point where we cannot make any jokes at all on racial grounds, that means that we've regressed.
Because we used to be able to do that and now we can't.
That's regression.
That's not a sign that race relations have improved.
It's a sign of the opposite happening.
All right, what else do we got here?
Okay, I want to show you this because before we get to the comment section, I think this tweet right here sums up the state of journalism in the year 2022.
Put this up on the screen.
this is a BBC journalist who's visiting America I guess and encountered something at Walmart
that they found to be just quite scandalous.
Here it is.
So this is Padraig Belton, and he tweeted this, hi from America, where Walmart doesn't have a plug adapter for my UK laptop, but on the other hand, I can buy a rifle and ammunition.
And then he's got a picture of what he calls a rifle and ammunition, which is just sitting there behind glass, Add Walmart.
Now, not only can you just buy the rifle, but it even, this just
makes it all the worse.
It's, the rifle is, it's just like you buy it in a box and you could buy it for 28 bucks.
Actually, I had to get over to Walmart.
They're selling rifles for $28.
And if you zoom in, you can even see on the box, it says ages 10 and up.
So they're just selling rifles to 10-year-old... You're telling me a 10-year-old kid can walk into Walmart and buy a rifle for $28?
Oh, but then... Oh, no.
Well, that's actually... See, that's a BB gun.
That's why it says Red Rider.
So not only can this journalist not identify a BB gun when he sees it, even though it says it on the box, but also somehow he's never seen a Christmas story.
I mean, anyone who's seen a Christmas... How have you not... Not only should you have seen a Christmas story, but how... I thought everybody in the English-speaking world has seen that movie at least 75 times.
So that should have been your first clue.
And even if you haven't seen that movie, and so you didn't know that the Red Rider, B.B.
Gunn, plays very prominently in that story, you should still be able to look at that and tell.
There are context clues, like the fact that it's $28, and then you could just read the box.
And this is a journalist.
This is how inquisitive this journalist is.
This is how good he is at investigating things, that he couldn't even read a box.
And it shows not only that this is a, you know, journalist who don't even do five seconds of additional research before posting something and making a claim like this, but this also shows, like, why did he tweet this in the first place?
Why did he see that and actually think that these are real rifles that are being sold to kids for 28 bucks?
It's because this is how he sees America.
Like for him, he saw that and it confirmed his priors.
He saw that and he thought, oh yeah, well this is exactly what I've heard about America.
They just hand out rifles to 10-year-olds.
You walk into Walmart, they just give you one.
Walk into Walmart, they're giving machine guns to toddlers.
That's exactly what I've heard.
So this is the impression that he had.
This is the world that he lives in.
And yet he's a journalist and it's his job to tell people about the world.
Except he's telling them about a fictional world, a world that exists inside his head.
My only regret is that this guy had not gone to, like, Dollar Tree and gone to the toy section where they sell, if you can believe this, I mean, at Dollar Tree, and I've seen this recently, they're selling grenades at Dollar Tree for a dollar.
I mean, they're plastic and they're in the kids' toy section, but Live grenades.
I guess they also, what, they don't sell toy... I guess they don't.
In the UK, they don't sell toy weapons.
I guess I'm not surprised by that.
But that's journalism for you in the year 2022.
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Jim says, "I laughed out loud in my office when his daughter addressed him as Matt."
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Referring to the story that I told about my pangender child who was very upset to find out that Elon Musk was taking over Twitter.
But I did say they're pangender, you bigot.
I didn't say anything about daughter.
Evan says, nothing screams stuck in the 90s quite like talking about ending hunger when the big problem is obesity.
Yeah, I mean, that's the big problem in, you know, so to speak, the big problem in the United States and much of the Western world.
It's quite the opposite problem from hunger, as you point out.
There still is plenty of actual hunger and starvation across the world and third world countries and so on.
That's still a very real problem.
There are people who are starving or famished.
The issue, though, is that, as we discussed yesterday, Elon Musk, even if he said, I'm going to take all of my money, and I'm worth $200 billion, I'm going to put it all towards ending world hunger, he wouldn't even make a dent in world hunger.
Because so much of that, in so many cases, when you have hunger, It's not a simple lack of resources.
It's not just like, let's go buy a bunch of food and give it to these people.
It's that in many cases, these are people who are living under corrupt, incompetent regimes, governments, that are causing this problem.
I mean, let's just take North Korea, for example.
There are lots of starving people in North Korea.
How's Elon Musk gonna solve that problem with money?
They're starving because the North Korean government is choosing to starve them.
It's not that they don't have the resources, they're just making sure that their people don't get those resources.
And this is what happens when the UN starts handing out relief and money and everything.
Oftentimes it goes right into the hands of corrupt regimes and government officials who are causing the problem to begin with.
Um, Leroy says, puberty makes everyone feel weird, lol.
I remember my best friend felt weird because he grew like a foot in a year.
Yeah, that feels weird.
He was gawky for years.
His bones hurt as well.
Um, and Crystal agrees, says, I can almost say with 100% certainty that every 12 year old girl that started her period doesn't feel right.
It's effing normal.
Yeah, and that's exactly the point.
I mean, for boys, I could say from experience, you know, for boys, puberty, it's difficult for any kid because your body's changing so much.
And for boys, that's one thing where you just, you grow, you know, you have to buy new shoes every two weeks and you're growing really fast.
For girls, it's even more difficult, which is why you could talk to Almost any grown woman, and they will tell you that they went through something like this, you know, when they were kids, going through puberty, where they felt very alien in their own body.
And it's just very fortunate for women who are grown women today that none of this stuff existed back then.
So they didn't have anyone coming around and saying, oh, I'll explain your feelings to you.
It means you're in the wrong body.
And here's the good news, you can have the right body, the quote-unquote right body.
Here are some pills.
It's as simple as that.
Maximilian says, Matt, the most heavily discriminated against demographic in public schools are by far left-handed people.
Think about scissors, discs, and handshakes.
Yeah, but you deserve it.
Left-handed people, I will say, that's one group of people who are inferior.
You freaks.
You deserve everything that's coming to you.
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As you know, I am but a shy and unassuming podcaster, and I don't like to be the center of attention.
That's why it was so difficult for me yesterday when I was the subject of a second round of leaked videos.
This time it was a meeting between administrators and students at the University of Wisconsin-Superior about my event on campus, which will be held there tonight, in fact.
Leftist students met with school administrators to try to get the speech canceled.
They were unable to get the speech cancelled so far.
So they then start to strategize their protest against my speech.
School administrators are more than happy to help facilitate and plan these demonstrations against me.
But there's no systemic discrimination against conservatives on campus, remember.
That doesn't exist.
Administrators are just conspiring with leftist activists to protest conservative speakers.
But that doesn't prove anything, of course.
So we'll watch some of these clips.
The audio quality isn't great, but it's clear enough to get the gist.
You don't need to hear it clearly, given that leftist activists only know about five words in the first place.
So it's not very hard to fill in the blanks, but let's listen.
And you come back to this, but getting towards the actual protesting of the international folks choose to do that.
What questions are we actually protesting?
How would you approach, or how would the protesters address counter-protesters?
Like, if we're sitting here peacefully or whatever, but there are other people who want to engage violence, how should we as the civil protesters interact with that?
Yeah, I think the best interaction you can have is not teaming up with them.
I think the other piece of it is informing campus police what's happening, obviously,
with the monitoring of the situation.
But another group of individuals, to your point, has the ability to do that as well.
So I think keeping to the root cause of why you're protesting and what you're doing
and the purpose behind it, sticking with the core values that you've established,
is going to be key.
So the activist here is worried that conservative counter-protesters might get violent.
Never mind that all of the political violence on college campuses, and I mean literally all of it, is committed by leftists.
The administrators, of course, don't point that out.
They don't say, oh, well, as long as you aren't violent, then there won't be any violence because you people are the only ones who ever commit violence.
Instead, they cater to the absurdity.
They tacitly affirm these totally baseless concerns.
Later in the discussion, another university official has an inspiring message to share with the protesters.
I think the power that you all have is in yourselves.
One of the people that I respect a lot said, the only power that people have who don't have power is power in numbers.
So as a protesting group, if there begins to be any threats towards you, I would suggest all of you sit down.
That will cause a scene.
That will help Joe and his officers know that something is happening.
You will be in unit together.
So if somebody is getting threatened, sit down and call it out.
Power was within, she says, as university administrators continue their pep talk to leftist activists.
But unfortunately, she's wrong.
I mean, these people have no power, no strength within, as evidenced by the next and final clip.
Listen to this.
It's like the most exhausting experience of my entire life.
To the point where I have decided that I would rather pay thousands of dollars to go to a psychiatrist.
It is exhausting.
It is exhausting.
With racism, homophobia, transphobia.
And nobody cares.
And you guys can say that s*** here.
I know that genuinely you want a lot of hatred towards the students here.
But these actions reflect that you want hatred.
And we will continue to deal with marginalized on this campus.
It doesn't matter how much support that you give if the culture doesn't change.
This is one of the most exhausting experiences of his life, he says.
My speech is one of the most exhausting experiences of his life.
I'm the one who actually has to give the speech, and I certainly wouldn't call it one of my most exhausting experiences.
I have four kids.
I have like 50 experiences every day that are more exhausting.
But for him, simply being in the vicinity of my speech is exhausting.
The most exhausting thing he's ever been through.
Which only goes to show just how coddled and comfortable and spoiled his life has been.
And that's why, just as I spoke directly to the traumatized Amazon employees earlier in the show, now I'm going to speak directly to the leftist activists who will be protesting my speech tonight.
And here's what I want you guys to understand.
That you rail against privilege, but you are the epitome of privilege.
Truly, you are the most privileged generation to ever live on planet Earth.
You've been shielded from discomfort such that now you feel personally attacked if somebody expresses a contrary opinion anywhere within a 50-mile radius of yourself.
You've existed within a protective bubble that's only grown over time, and you wish that it will continue expanding forever.
You have, to this point, lived lives of such extraordinary luxury that now you feel entitled to remain ensconced in this intellectual cocoon, insulated from viewpoints contrary to your own.
But no such entitlement actually exists.
At least it doesn't exist as a principle of nature.
It's not a natural right.
Your entitlement to psychological comfort is a human construction, a harmful one.
Harmful to the world, but harmful to yourselves most of all.
You know, when you work with your hands or you lift heavy objects, Something that I'm sure you've probably not experienced.
Your hands become calloused.
And the same thing happens with your feet if you spend a lot of time walking or running.
Something that, again, I'm sure is foreign to you.
But the callouses are good because they help you grip the heavy objects and they protect your feet as you move around.
Your hands and feet are battle-tested, hardened, literally.
Callouses are also good because it's shameful and embarrassing for a man to have soft, uncalloused baby hands.
Well, a similar thing happens intellectually if you allow yourselves to be challenged, if you embrace and welcome encounters with differing viewpoints.
Then your ideas, your worldview, becomes battle-tested, calloused, firmer, tougher.
The more it's challenged, the more it's able to withstand challenges.
But your worldview crumbles into a million pieces if it even smells a whiff of a challenge.
A slight breeze can blow it over and smash it into bits.
That's why you're so afraid of me and of anybody else who threatens to do anything but coddle you and whisper sweet nothings in your ear.
So, if my presence, if my viewpoints cause you discomfort, exhaustion, pain, I'm glad.
That's a good thing.
It will do you some good also.
It will help you if you let it.
And if you discover, ultimately, that allowing your viewpoints to be challenged will destroy them, blow them to smithereens, and leave you just kind of standing there, exposed, with your entire intellectual framework having been torn down around you, well then, that tells you something about that intellectual framework.
It tells you something about that worldview.
If it cannot withstand the challenge, Then it needs to be abandoned.
And you have to rethink everything that you believe.
And you could start doing that right now.
Otherwise, I'm afraid to say that you are cancelled.
And we'll leave it there for today.
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