Matt Walsh reacts to some of the most viral and idiotic TikTok's of the month so far. - - - Today’s Sponsor: ExpressVPN - Get 3 Months of ExpressVPN FREE! https://www.expressvpn.com/walshyt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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| So here's something from Jimmy Fallon's show, from "The Tonight Show." | |
| He is, I guess, trying to do a comedy skit about the new COVID variant. | |
| That's actually hilarious. | |
| In fairness, I suppose, it's maybe not easy to think of funny jokes about a COVID variant. | |
| But you're a comedian, so that's what you're supposed to be able to do. | |
| I don't have to think of the jokes. | |
| I'm not the comedian. | |
| You are. | |
| Instead of thinking of jokes, this is what Jimmy Fallon did. | |
| Let's play this. | |
| There was Alpha, then Delta, then Omicron next. | |
| But this latest variant might be the best. | |
| It's XBB.1.5. | |
| Another brand of COVID-19 has arrived. | |
| It's a new strain, but it isn't the same. | |
| Sounds more like Elon Musk, his name. | |
| It's XBB.1.5, not UB40 who sings Red Red Wine. | |
| Put on your mask when you're inside a facility. | |
| It could be a robot from a Star Wars trilogy. | |
| It's XBB.1.5, not OMG or MP3 or TCBY. | |
| Or an old car made by a really hot guy. | |
| Sounds like the password of your parents' Wi-Fi. | |
| It's XBB.1.5. | |
| XBB.1.5. | |
| You gotta feel bad for the band there. | |
| They're not into it. | |
| They realize it's not even a good like... | |
| There have to be laws. | |
| There's no other way around this. | |
| There have to be laws against being this unfunny. | |
| Criminal penalties are the only way that I can see to really solve this problem. | |
| It shouldn't be legal to be this aggressively unfunny, and yet you have a comedy show. | |
| My God. | |
| And it's not even a good song. | |
| I don't watch any of the late night shows, but this is basically Jimmy Fallon. | |
| This is his shtick. | |
| This has always been his shtick. | |
| But he does a lot of musical stuff. | |
| And what's the other guy that's leaving his show? | |
| I can't even remember their names anymore. | |
| Same thing for him. | |
| That's what all the late night shows are now. | |
| It's a musical act. | |
| And usually that's a way around trying to be funny. | |
| Well, we'll just do a musical act instead. | |
| Okay, if you're going to go that route, I'd rather you just tell jokes that are funny. | |
| But if you're going to go the musical, at least make it a good song. | |
| A song that sounds passable as an actual song. | |
| That wasn't even that. | |
| That was like high school talent show level. | |
| Really bad stuff. | |
| But it's all part and parcel of the problem of, you know, a whole profession of comedians and very few of them actually know how to do comedy. | |
| Now, moving on. | |
| I also had this. | |
| This is a new gender. | |
| This is kind of a breaking news, I suppose. | |
| There's a new gender that has been added to the list now. | |
| I think this is new. | |
| Here's the problem. | |
| You hear it described and it sounds very familiar because this is how all of the fake made-up genders are described. | |
| But this is, even so, a new innovation. | |
| Listen. | |
| Hello, yes, I thought I should probably address this comment. | |
| I identify as greygender, which means I feel ties to certain genders, but it's really hard to describe, it's really hard to define. | |
| For me, it's really close to being genderfluid. | |
| I just don't personally feel like I have strong enough, consistent enough, repeated enough dysphoria to call myself genderfluid. | |
| And in the end, I don't really care how people perceive me. | |
| Hence, grey gender, that's its definition. | |
| The thing is, sometimes I do feel dysphoria. | |
| And sometimes it's intense. | |
| So, essentially, I will never care what gender of pronouns, what gendered complements, what gendered questions you have for me. | |
| Occasionally, I will be feeling a certain set of pronouns more. | |
| Pronouns do not equal gender, but for me, personally, they do. | |
| Thank you for asking. | |
| Oh, yeah, she doesn't... I don't care how you perceive me. | |
| I'm making this video to tell you all about my self-perceptions and to tell you how you should perceive me. | |
| But I don't care how you perceive me. | |
| Stop ignoring me! | |
| Ignoring you! | |
| Sometimes I feel this pronoun. | |
| What the hell does it mean to feel a pronoun? | |
| How can you feel... I'm feeling a certain... I'm feeling very... | |
| We right now. | |
| What does that mean? | |
| Okay, tell me what that means. | |
| Describe a pronoun feeling. | |
| Of course, it's all nonsense. | |
| And it's not only nonsense, but it's the worst kind of nonsense in that it is redundant nonsense. | |
| It just repeats itself over and over again. | |
| And all of the alternative genders and the neo-pronouns, they are all described this way. | |
| It's always the same video of some person, usually a woman, kind of holding her chin like she's being thoughtful. | |
| You know, this is how I would describe it. | |
| Sometimes I feel this way, sometimes I don't. | |
| Oh, you're moody, in other words. | |
| Okay, join the club with every other woman on the planet. | |
| What you're describing is just you're moody. | |
| You have moods. | |
| Actually, it's not just women that have moods. | |
| I tell you, men have moods too. | |
| Guess what? | |
| You don't need your own pronoun for every mood you happen to have. | |
| Which doesn't make sense to begin with. | |
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| Speaking of nonsense, I guess that's the theme. | |
| That's always the theme. | |
| I don't know exactly where this is from. | |
| I don't think we need a lot of background for this. | |
| Some kind of podcast where we've got someone here Talking about twerking. | |
| And she says that twerking, look, it's not just some person shaking their butt. | |
| There's something deeper going on with the twerking. | |
| And she explains here. | |
| Shaking is such a primal practice of releasing trauma and somatic blockages and emotions through our body, especially our hips. | |
| Our hips now we know is where we store emotions. | |
| Yep. | |
| So when you are twerking, when you're shimmying, you are literally releasing trauma, releasing stored emotions from your hips. | |
| When you're bending your knees, you're crouching on the floor, you're connecting to earth, you're connecting to the womb, you're restoring your energy. | |
| And that's why it's not even just an African dance, but in Middle Eastern dance, in Latin American dance, salsa dance, bachata, every single dance form has some form of hip movement to it. | |
| This is also why zebras, when they're running away from a lion and they're about to get eaten, and they make it into the nick of time, they shake their bodies off, release the trauma, and they come back to homeostasis. | |
| So I started to realize that as I was doing this, I was healing myself through Oh, that's what you're doing. | |
| That's what strippers are doing. | |
| trauma that now we know with epigenetics is actually stored within our systems. | |
| And I realized that twerking, shimmying, undulating, shaking truly is a spiritual practice. | |
| And now I share it as much as I can. | |
| Oh, that's what you're doing. That's what strippers are doing. | |
| I'm sharing my spiritual practices. That's all. | |
| I guess strippers are, like, expressing their trauma in a certain way. | |
| That's how they end up in a stripper's pull. | |
| This is all. | |
| No, actually, what you're doing is you're just shaking your ass. | |
| That's all. | |
| That's all you're doing. | |
| You're whorishly shaking your ass. | |
| And you are... It is animalistic in a certain way. | |
| You know, you're like... It's a very primitive, animalistic mating ritual, if anything. | |
| Lots of, you know, I thought we would get some psychobabble. | |
| I didn't think that we would get the zoological part of that, where now we're told that zebras twerk as a coping mechanism after being chased by the lions. | |
| Don't let the lions know about this. | |
| You know, let's make sure lions don't find out that that's what happens. | |
| They're chasing the zebra. | |
| Zebra gets away. | |
| Lion says, oh man, I gotta go find a different meal. | |
| Little does the lion know that the zebra's just over there in the bushes, twerking, having a twerk fest. | |
| So just sneak up, take them while they're twerking. | |
| My God. | |
| This is where you store your emotions in your hip. | |
| And if you get close to the ground, you release those emotions. | |
| When I watch a video like this, or I see someone spouting absolute gibberish, my frustration is not as much with the person who's spouting the gibberish. | |
| Because I'm familiar with that. | |
| There are people out there that just have nothing to say, and so they spout gibberish. | |
| I get it. | |
| I mean, I don't get it. | |
| I can't understand the gibberish, but I understand that those people exist. | |
| My primary issue is always with the person listening and taking it seriously. | |
| So the other person in the conversation, I blame them most of all. | |
| When you're sitting there and someone is telling you that you store your emotions in your hips and that twerking allows you to release those emotions into the ground, to what? | |
| So it seeps into the ground and your emotions poison the water supply? | |
| Like, how does that work exactly? | |
| But the person's sitting there and saying, yeah, that makes sense. | |
| I could totally see that. | |
| Yeah. | |
| This is a nice excuse, though. | |
| The idea that you store your emotions somewhere else in your body. | |
| So if you don't, you know, so I don't have a beer gut. | |
| I just, that's where I store my emotions. | |
| That's where I store my ancestral trauma. | |
| It's all right there in the gut. | |
| All right. | |
| I can't even, I actually had one more thing to play and I'm not even gonna do it. | |
| I can't do it. |