Ep. 1705 - Netflix Joins the Sick Movement To Turn Villains into Heroes
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Hollywood has been on a mission over the past several years to convince our children that evil doesn't exist and bad people and criminals are all really just misunderstood. Today we'll look at the lates example of this kind of slop, and I'll explain why it really matters. Also, horrendous hag Jennifer Welch launches yet another attack on Erika Kirk. I am really fed up with the way Erika has been treated. We'll discuss. Plus the the guy who owns ChatGPT says that he doesn't know how parents could raise their own children without it. Well, I think I can answer that question for him.
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Today, the Matt Wall Show, Hollywood has been on a mission over the past several years to convince our children that evil doesn't exist and bad people and criminals are all really just misunderstood.
Today, we'll look at the latest example of this kind of slop and I'll explain why it really matters.
Also, horrendous hag Jennifer Welsh launches yet another attack on Erica Kirk.
I'm really fed up with the way Erica has been treated.
We'll talk about that.
Plus, the guy who owns ChatGPT says that he doesn't know how parents manage to raise their own children without ChatGPT.
Well, I think I can answer that question for him.
of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
It's been hard to miss the ongoing effort to rewrite America's history, to cast the United States as a kind of international supervillain.
Just a couple of weeks ago, we spent the better part of an hour dissecting the 25,000-hour documentary from Ken Burns about the Revolutionary War, which told a flagrant lie, either explicitly or by implication, every 10 minutes or so throughout the course of the very long documentary.
And the point of the documentary, of course, was to convince young people, many of whom will be forced to watch the film in public school, that America is a terrible country founded by racist misogynists who stole all their ideas from the Indians.
As it turns out, according to Ken Burns, the Indians were philosophers on the level of Plato or Aristotle.
You see, when they weren't busy converting human beings into stew or arranging beads into flamboyant patterns because they were too primitive to come up with a written language, the Indians were basically giving Ben Franklin all of his ideas under the table.
A correcting historical record with our own projects on the scale of Ken Burns' work could not be any more urgent, which is why very soon I intend to do that.
But in order to understand the extent of the propaganda we're up against, it's important to recognize that leftists are not simply rewriting history, they're also attempting to rewrite some of the most classic expressions of American culture, including films and books that are widely read by children.
In particular, there's been a very well-coordinated, well-funded effort to propagandize children into believing that evil does not exist and that any individual who seems to be evil is in fact a very misunderstood victim of circumstance.
And to illustrate what I'm talking about, I want you to listen to this musical number from the 1961 Disney film, 101 Dalmatians.
And it's sung by Roger, the character about the villain of the story, who, of course, is Cruella Devil, sung much to the delight of a family's pet Dalmatian Pongo.
See what you notice about the lyrics.
It's not very subtle.
Listen.
That's it.
Cruella de Ville.
Cruella de Ville.
If she doesn't scare you, no evil thing will.
Oh, to see her is to take a sudden chill.
Cruella, Cruella.
She's like a spider waiting for the kill.
Roger, she hear you.
Cruella de Ville.
At first you think Cruella is a devil.
But after time has worn away the shock, you come to realize you've seen her kind of eyes watching you from underneath a rock.
You're no help.
Vampire bat, this inhuman beast.
She ought to be locked up and never released.
The world was such a wholesome place until Cruella, Cruella Devil.
If you're watching the video podcast, the first thing that probably jumped out at you is the quality of the animation.
This was clearly put together, drawn by artists who cared about what they were creating.
That's why it holds up more than 60 years later.
And it's very clearly superior to the CGI slop and now the AI slop that we've all grown accustomed to.
And it certainly looks a lot better than the modern remake of this same story, which we'll get to in a second.
But the more important part for now, the point that I want to make is about the lyrics.
And he says, quote, if she doesn't scare you, no evil thing will.
To see her is to take a sudden chill.
Then he compares Cruella Deville to Vermin, says she's an inhuman beast who, quote, ought to be locked up and never released.
Now, nothing in the film ever contradicts these statements.
They're obviously true.
Cruella Deville is a genuinely horrible person in the story.
Her goal is to steal puppies and murder them.
It's hard to get, doesn't get much worse than that.
It can get worse, but not much worse.
And in her first appearance in Roger's home, she puts out a cigarette in his wife's muffins, which, to be clear, is not a euphemism.
It's like actual muffins.
She flicks her cigarette over the coffee.
She openly mocks Roger and his home.
Watch.
Sweet, simple Anita.
I know.
I know.
This horrid little house is your dream castle.
And poor Roger is your bold and fearless galahead.
Oh, Cruella.
And then, of course, you have your little spotted friends.
Yes.
Yes, I must say, such perfectly beautiful coats.
Won't you have some tea, Cruella?
Now, I've got to run, darling.
Now let me know when the puppies arrive.
You will, won't you, dear?
Yes, Cruella.
Now, don't forget it to promise.
See you in three weeks.
Tideo, Tillio, darling.
Now, at no point in this scene or in the entire film, does Cruella Deville display a hint of humanity.
So for any child watching this, the lesson is unmistakable.
Disney is telling its young audience that evil exists and that some people are so evil that they belong in prison for the rest of their lives.
You should not interact with them.
You should avoid them.
And if you do come in contact with them, they'll try to take advantage of you.
They'll hurt you.
They'll destroy everything you care about.
They'll defile your baked goods.
They'll walk around your house like Hillary Clinton from that meme that we've all seen.
It's the one where she's in the house in East Harlem, visibly shocked that it's not up to her standards.
They will make their contempt for you as clear as they possibly can.
These evil people have no redeeming qualities.
They're just a negative for you and for society at large.
Disney didn't dilute this message in any way because in 1961, nobody was worried about being called a racist for teaching basic fundamental life lessons to children.
And religion was much more important to most Americans than it is today.
A Christian nation is capable of recognizing that some people will receive eternal damnation because they're evil.
They don't deserve any of our sympathy.
But the modern remake of this film called Cruella delivered a very different message.
It was released back in 2021.
It completely rewrites the character of Cruella Deville to make her the hero.
And it begins with this origin story, which Cruella's mother is killed by Dalmatians right in front of her while she looks on in horror.
This is one of the worst scenes I've ever had to look at in terms of just like the quality.
And now I'm going to make you endure it as well.
This is completely real.
This is like the actual movie.
Watch.
Before we even get into how dumb this scene is, I mean, just look at it.
The quality isn't in the same universe as the animated film that was released six decades earlier.
The sky in the background is clearly fake.
The weather is clearly fake.
The Dalmatians are clearly fake.
Everything is fake.
Even the things they didn't need to fake, right?
Like the basic physical surroundings.
You don't need to fake that, but they faked it.
Unlike with the animated film, you know, they're not fake in a way that's visually appealing or interesting or artistic.
That's one thing.
But these look like graphics that you might see in a mall arcade in 2002 or a game on the original PlayStation.
There's no sense that any artist cared about how it looked or spent any amount of time on it really at all.
And appropriately enough, along with the aesthetic decay, the messaging of the film has fallen apart as well.
In Cruella, we're told that Cruella isn't actually a bad person.
Instead, she's suffered a horrible personal tragedy as a child.
Her mother died right in front of her because CGI dogs ran after her, as you just saw.
And we later learned that those dogs were secretly ordered to attack via dog whistle by another character called the Baroness.
So Cruella spends the rest of the movie getting vengeance on this person who killed her mother.
But the big twist, spoiler alert, is that the Baroness is Cruella's actual mother.
And the woman who was pushed off the cliff by the Dalmatians was a maid who was told to raise Cruella from a young age.
That's what I learned on Wikipedia anyway.
So to recap, in the original film, Cruella is evil and belongs in prison.
Pretty simple.
But in the remake, Cruella's mother killed Cruella's stepmother using Dalmatians, who could be ordered to commit murder via dog whistle, and Cruella was horribly scarred by this.
So Cruella plots revenge against her own mother, has the police arrest her, and then gives some Dalmatians away as a gift to her friends since now she's conquered her Dalmatian phobia.
In other words, moral clarity, not to mention narrative clarity, is completely absent from the remake.
The message for children in the remake is what exactly?
Is the message that your mother may not actually be your mother?
Maybe she's a secret murderer, or maybe the message is that evil characters who are literally named cruel devil are actually misunderstood.
Like the people who every indication is that they're evil.
Everything you see, right down to the name, is that they're evil.
They might still just be misunderstood.
Maybe they've simply internalized a lot of emotional trauma from freak accidents that occurred in their past.
Now, when this film came out, it was tempting to dismiss it as a terrible film, which it is, and move on with your life.
And that's what most people did.
And justifiably so, but it's actually part of a much larger trend.
And it's a trend that does matter because culture matters and this stuff matters.
And for the past decade or so, Hollywood has continued to follow this exact template.
They've taken an obviously unequivocally evil classic character, and then they come out with a new film or show, which makes the case that actually that character was the good guy all along.
I mean, this stuff is all over the place, especially with kids' shows and movies.
All over the place.
The most recent example of this tactic is the upcoming animated film Steps, which is due out next year from Netflix, apparently.
It was just announced.
And here's how Netflix's official promotional blog describes the idea behind this film.
This is a pitch that feels like it was produced by ChatGPT, almost certainly was.
And then Netflix just hit the green light without making any revisions whatsoever.
So here it is.
Quote, think you know Cinderella's evil stepsisters?
Think again.
When misunderstood Lilith is blamed for hijacking the royal ball with a stolen magic wand, she accidentally turns her sister Margot into a frog and allows the kingdom to fall into the hands of a prince-obsessed mean girl.
Now Lilith must team up with Cinderella and a surprisingly dreamy troll to save the kingdom, repair the fractured fairy tale, and prove that even so-called villains deserve a shot at happily ever after.
So the villains are actually good.
They don't deserve to spend the rest of their lives in prison.
They're not vermin.
They're not bad people.
They deserve a shot at happily ever after, no matter what they've done.
And the new villain to take the place of the stepsisters is a prince-obsessed mean girl, because that's the other thing, of course, we see now in these shows, especially ones for girls, is that, you know, it used to be that the princess wanted to meet a prince.
And now the princess either doesn't care about meeting a prince, or if anyone wants to meet a prince in the movie now, it's going to be the bad guy.
And for her part, Cinderella has teamed up with a surprisingly dreamy troll.
So they're really sticking it to the patriarchy, in other words.
It's a bit like that Snow White remake that nobody watched where Rachel Zegler describes Snow White as a strong, independent woman who doesn't need a prince and all that kind of stuff.
This is the kind of assembly line script writing that for the past decade has defined pretty much every major Hollywood remake of a classic.
And every time they do it, these filmmakers convince themselves that they're doing something brave and transgressive.
Here's a quote from the director of this new Netflix Cinderella movie.
Quote, this story is at its core about two very different sisters, one who fits perfectly into this fairy tale kingdom and one who doesn't, realizing they're more alike than different.
It's such a personal story for me because growing up as an awkward, artsy Taiwanese kid in suburban New Jersey, I often felt like an outsider.
Like happily ever after wasn't meant for me.
I wanted to create a film for everyone who has ever felt like they didn't belong and show how a single act of kindness can change everything.
Now, the most obvious response to this, of course, is that this particular Netflix director, a woman who, according to her website, specializes in classical piano, ballet, fine art, classical violin, graphic design, and more, is a pathological narcissist.
She's convinced herself that she's a victim because she was awkward and artsy, whatever that means.
Apparently, we're supposed to believe that rich Taiwanese kids in suburban New Jersey are an oppressed demographic.
And now, as a result of that oppression, she's going to force Netflix subscribers to watch her personal story, even though she's not working on a documentary or biography about her own life.
She's making a Cinderella movie, allegedly.
But really, this director's job is not to create anything.
Her job is to erase the Cinderella story that everybody's familiar with.
The one with the stepsisters are really bad people.
And at one point, lest we forget, the stepsisters destroyed Cinderella's dress and assaulted her to the delight of Lady Tremaine, the stepmother, Bludge.
Are very clever.
These beads, they give it just the right touch.
Don't you think so, Dr. No, I don't.
I think she's...
Why, you little thief!
They're murder me!
Give them here!
Oh, no!
Oh, and look, that's my sash wearing my sash.
Oh, the beast was my name, you ripple!
Speaking!
Girls, girls!
That's quite enough.
Are we alarmed now, both of you?
I won't have you upsetting yourselves.
Now, as a kid in the 1950s, if you saw this, you'd recognize that the stepmother and the stepsisters are not good people, and- And the film doesn't suggest otherwise at any point.
There are no excuses for their behavior.
There's no sob story about how Dalmatians murdered her mother or something.
They're just bad people.
In the end, they lose.
And that's a moment to celebrate because it's good when bad people lose.
When you make Cinderella a story about how the evil stepsisters really aren't so bad, and in fact, how they're really the heroes of the story, then you aren't simply producing another generic DEI slop fest, although you're doing that.
You're also trying to confuse children about good and evil, and you're trying to erase the Christian themes of the Cinderella story, which were especially evident in the Grim Brothers version of the story in the 1800s.
In that version, the stepsister suffered a biblical Old Testament style punishment in the end.
Quote, in the end, during the wedding, as she walks down the aisle with her stepsisters as her bridesmaid, the doves fly down and strike the two stepsisters' eyes, one in the left and the other in the right.
When the wedding comes to an end and they march out of the church, the doves fly again, striking the remaining eyes of the two evil sisters blind, a punishment they had to endure for the rest of their lives.
This is the way that it worked in old fairy tales, by the way.
The villains were very evil.
And in the end, very terribly bad things happened to the very terribly evil people.
Now, in the Disney version, the ending wasn't quite so graphic, at least from what it's been a while since I've seen it.
I don't think that anybody was blinded by a dove pecking their eyeballs out.
So they dialed down the Old Testament references a little bit.
But even so, the stepsisters did not win in the end.
But now, less than a century later, Netflix has decided that the stepsisters are indeed the heroes.
They deserve a shot at happily ever after, we're told.
Now, imagine being a child raised in a culture where everything, including basic biology, fundamental tenets of morality and Christianity, everything is subjective.
You know, that really is the point here.
The idea is to convince the youth that evil is not a legitimate concept so that they can indoctrinate them into supporting and committing acts of evil.
If you convince people evil doesn't exist, then generally they start doing evil things.
Works that have overt Christian and right-coded themes are particularly under attack.
Take the Rings of Power series by Amazon.
I haven't seen it.
But from what I can tell, the show has decided to portray the orcs as sympathetic figures, even though Tolkien did the exact opposite for a reason.
Like these were embodiments of evil.
This is from a website called Bounding Into Comics, quote, in the opinion of the Lord of the Rings, the Rings of Power showrunners, their season two decision to humanize the Dark Lord's orc armies is far from controversial because not only does the change provide better opportunities for storytelling, but it also falls directly in line with Tolkien's writings.
The orcs in the Rings of Power are shown as brutal but oppressed foot soldiers, their lives concerned not just with war and pillaging, but also achieving a future where their families can exist as more than tools for Lord Sauron to use in service of his ambitions.
So they're claiming that Tolkien would have humanized the orcs, but he just never got around to doing it.
I don't know.
He wrote like 10 million words about this story when you take all the books and all the other works related to it into account.
And he just never, he meant to do that.
He just did.
But fortunately, we have the Amazon showrunners to swoop in decades later to tell us what Tolkien meant to say in a very heavy-handed fashion.
There's this line of dialogue in the Amazon show, for example, from an orc named Glug, quote, the preparations are nearly complete, Lord Father, but we are safe here.
We have a home.
Must we go to war again?
You told me Sauron was dead.
Let us leave him that way.
It's enough to make you shed a tear for the orc hordes.
And then there's this scene where we get to see an orc family lamenting the prospect of more war.
I tell you that we will never truly be safe until we've made certain Sauron is no more.
As you will it, Lord Father.
So the orcs are anti-war.
They're hippies, basically.
They're anti-war hippies.
At this point, they might as well throw in a scene where an orc goes postal because his health insurance claim is denied.
I mean, they're committed to taking you out of the world the author created and shoehorning all of the most cliched scenes imaginable into the plot.
And they don't seem to care about the fact that they're completely undermining everything the author was intending to do.
They're making this story entirely indistinguishable from every other show on television because in the original story, good and evil are very, very clear.
Because unmistakable.
The good guys and the bad guys.
But in modern stories, all of that is always blurred because the stories are being told by people who don't believe that evil exists.
And in some cases, this approach has been very commercially successful.
And we can't deny that Wicked, a story that's billed as a kind of prequel to The Wizard of Oz, was one of the biggest box office hits of the decade.
And it was successful because it took the same edgy and subversive angle where the villain is actually a misunderstood hero.
And for good measure, they've thrown in some transparent political messaging also.
Watch.
Are people born wicked?
Or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?
You're green!
Something bad is happening in Oz.
The best way to bring folks together is to give out the real good enemy.
You have no real power.
That's why I need you.
Don't let her get away.
This wicked witch.
So wickedness is thrust upon, some people were told.
And in particular, in this case, wickedness is thrust on a black woman by the white guy, Jeff Goldblum, and the Asian woman.
The non-black characters use their institutional power to demonize an innocent person of color, as they so often do.
And the message, once again, is that contrary to what you learned in The Wizard of Oz, wickedness isn't actually a legitimate concept.
Nobody is wicked.
No one's evil.
Instead, it's just a way to scapegoat minorities.
The south side of Chicago isn't more dangerous than Iraq because wicked people live there.
It's more dangerous than Iraq because the government is scapegoating poor people.
That's the takeaway.
And if you're 10 years old, which describes much of the audience for this film, you'll fall for it.
I mean, you're not going to be very discerning when you're watching and consuming these messages.
That's the point.
And there are too many more examples of this phenomenon to mention, some of them for adults also from the new Joker movies, the show Lucifer, many, many examples.
But we'll finish with how the 1959 film Sleeping Beauty has been defiled by Hollywood.
This is a scene from the film Maleficent, which came out around a decade ago.
And this is where the evil fairy appears and puts a curse on the newborn child.
And to show I bear no ill will, I too shall bestow a gift on the child.
Listen well, all of you.
The princess shall indeed grow in grace and beauty.
Beloved by all who know her.
But before the sun sets on her 16th birthday, she shall prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die.
Oh no.
Seize that creature.
Thank you, fool.
As you can tell, the fairy isn't messing around.
She wants the kid dead.
And she's upset because she wasn't invited to the party.
That's it.
She's an evil fairy.
Nothing more to it.
But in the live-action film, there's a lengthy backstory.
The fairy has been betrayed in some horrible way by the king.
And so the fairy shows up to place the curse on the child, but it's not the same curse.
Watch.
all right the princess can be woken from her death sleep but only by true love's kiss This curse will lost to the end of time.
No power on earth can change it.
Now, again, the CGI and the acting are horrible to the point that it's distracting.
It's much harder to watch than the cartoon from the 1950s, but they also added a completely new part of the curse.
Now the fairy offers an out to the child.
She needs to find true love to lift the curse.
And what do you know?
In the end, the evil fairy Maleficent comes to love the child and save the child's life.
Now, it's impossible to overstate how universal this trope has become, especially in children's entertainment.
Like I said, it's all over the place.
It's everywhere.
The term psyop is overused, but it's hard to think of another way to describe this.
It's a full court press that's intended to convince children that objective morality does not exist and that Christian ethics is a simplistic, outdated approach in this very diverse and complicated and nuanced world we live in.
Now, in response, you might be tempted to say, well, Hollywood is really just out of ideas.
So they're going through all the classics and inverting the villains as a way of just generating some new content.
And I mean, there's some truth to that, but if that's all that's going on, then where are the right-wing retcons of old stories?
Why aren't we getting a follow-up to Beauty and the Beast where Gaston is vindicated as the hero that he actually was?
All he did was work out, eat eggs every day, defend the town, and a vulnerable woman from a rampaging beast that came out of nowhere.
And he did it all in style.
Watch.
Nobody fights like Gaston.
For there's nobody spurly and rawly.
As you see, I've got biceps to spare.
Not a bit of him scraggly or scrawny.
That's right.
And every last inch of me's covered with hair.
What gifts like Gaston?
In the spinning match, nobody spits like Gaston.
I'm especially good at extractorating for Gaston.
When I was a lad, I ate four dozen eggs every morning to help me get large.
And now that I'm grown, I eat five dozen eggs.
So I'm roughly the size of a bunch.
Now, I've made the case before that Gaston is really the hero of the story.
In fact, I argued that a number of Disney villains were really the heroes.
It was a joke.
I meant it as a joke at the time.
But Disney is doing all this unironically.
Now, admittedly, even though you can make an argument for Gaston, even jokingly, it's not the easiest argument to make if you watch the original Beauty and the Beast.
So it's ripe for a full-on right-wing follow-up that flips the script.
Where's our big-budget Netflix animated film called Gaston with a consulting credit to that guy Raw Egg Nationalist where Gaston bravely defends his village from a marauding foreign beast?
As Netflix said, every villain deserves a happy ending or whatever.
So where's his happy ending?
When's that coming out?
Well, we all know the answer to that question.
Gaston's not getting a redemption arc because he's not an insufferable shrew or a jealous stepsister or a demented terrorist who paints his face or, you know, a literal witch or an old hag who's jealous that she didn't get invited to a party to the point that she'll murder her child.
In short, he's not getting a redemption arc because in that modern remake that humanizes him, he'd be a normal white guy who takes pride in himself and his community.
And those are the values that Hollywood abhors.
And those are the values that Hollywood doesn't want your children to learn.
This is a relatively new phenomenon.
It's important to distinguish it from the general trend towards anti-heroes, although this is all sort of part of the same overall trend.
I'm aware that the whole anti-hero thing became really popular back with Breaking Bad, Sopranos, et cetera, still going strong.
But there are some key differences here.
For one thing, those shows aren't aimed at children.
That's important.
For another, they're actually good shows artistically.
They're not unimaginative and boring, complete with generic and unwatchable CGI.
They also have stakes and tension, which these remakes lose entirely by making the villains seem sympathetic at heart.
But most importantly, those shows are original.
They're not transparent attempts to rewrite our culture and reprogram the morality of an entire generation.
It's now very evident that above all else, that is Hollywood's goal.
They want your children to believe they live in a world without villains, you know, where no individual can truly be described as evil, unless he's a straight white man.
Those are the only villains.
Those can stay, but all the rest cannot be villains if they're part of a, quote, marginalized group.
So ask yourself this question.
What kind of person or institution benefits when an entire generation is raised to believe that morality is entirely subjective?
And what does it mean when those people or institutions have billions of dollars and control of the entertainment industry?
Every day we hear another story about some violent, vagrant criminal released from jail or never jailed at all by some judge, almost always a female, who wants to, you know, see the good in this evil scumbag and give him a second or third or fourth or 10th or 30th chance.
Now, I'm not saying that those judges were influenced by a bad 101 Dalmatians remake.
I'm saying they're part of the same cultural trend.
They are reflecting it and driving it at the same time.
And this means that as a parent, you're up against some very powerful and very sinister forces.
It also means that before they're taken offline, you should pull up some of those old films from the 1950s and 60s that I mentioned.
Screen them for your kids.
It's an entire era that everyone in the entertainment industry would rather you forget about.
But good and evil do exist.
And it's never been more important that your children understand that.
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Going to do an interview, but I do want to hit two or three headlines if we can.
So we've talked about Jennifer Welsh on the show before.
She's the repugnant hobgoblin who the left has apparently selected for their, to have the title of the new Joe Rogan.
We heard about after the last election, the left really needs their own Joe Rogan, and they've been looking, trying people out to be the new Joe Rogan.
And they went out and found one.
And apparently this is her.
She's Joe Rogan minus any of his appeal or any of his talents or communication skills.
Joe Rogan minus all of the things that makes him Joe Rogan.
And here she is this week attacking Erica Kirk.
Listen.
Her attack on having substituting a relationship for a man with a substitution for the government is overtly an attack on poor people and the racist connotations in that, considering she's abundantly aware of the, when you talk about women and poverty, that black and brown women stick off the charts more so than white women.
This is an intentional attack on poor women.
And this is a dehumanization, all done in the name of her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, which is the exact opposite of what the central character of the faith of Christianity preached against.
So this is intentional weaponization of her gender and her faith.
And this, she is a grifter.
And just look at the costume changes.
Look at the costume changes.
Look at the affect in how she does that.
It's wild.
This woman should be kicked to the curb.
She is an absolute grifter, just like Donald Trump and just like her unrepentant, racist, homophobic husband was.
Okay, Jennifer, are you sure that that is why you're so upset at Erica?
Is it because of her wardrobe changes?
Because God forbid Erica, what, change her wardrobe?
She wears different clothing every day and that's the problem.
These soulless trolls, like every day, they make up a new rule that apparently widows are supposed to follow.
Every day with these idiots, it's another thing.
Well, if she's a grieving widow, why is she doing that?
Why is she wearing different clothing today?
Why is she eating a sandwich for lunch?
Have you ever seen a grieving widow eat a sandwich?
What is this?
And so they make up these rules and the rules grow.
But every day, I mean, the list now is five pages long of things that apparently grieving widows are supposed to do or not do.
Just arbitrarily invented.
And if they don't follow these rules, if Erica doesn't follow the rules, then she's a fake and a fraud and not actually sad that her husband died.
Right?
You find the same thing with, I was just responding to somebody today.
This was someone I think on the right who posted something as a picture of Erica smiling.
And the person, I forget what the caption was, but the person was attacking Erica for smiling.
Oh, she really looks like she's grieving.
Yes, because when you're grieving, it means that you'll never smile.
But keep in mind, right?
If Erica smiles, then her critics on both sides will say, why are you smiling?
If she frowns, then they'll say, oh, well, she's faking it.
If she cries, they'll say, oh, it's performance.
If she doesn't cry, they say, why isn't she crying?
So it's this ridiculous lose-lose scenario that's been invented by people on both sides for this woman who did, what did she do wrong again?
Like, what is her crime?
Why is everyone attacking her?
Why is it every day I go on Twitter and it's like someone, what is it?
What did she do?
What did she do to you people?
Her husband died?
Is that the sin that she committed?
Losing her husband?
I'm so sick of it.
I'm so tired of it.
It's just disgusting.
And if you're, if you're one of the people doing this, you should be ashamed of yourself if you're capable of it.
And I can't stand these people that say, and I was talking about this today on X and there are people responding and saying, yeah, well, yeah, but there's just something a little off.
I don't know.
There's something a little off with her.
It feels a little off.
It's a little off.
I'm not sure.
I'm not saying there's anything wrong.
It's a little off.
I don't know.
Well, maybe what's off with her is that her husband was just murdered.
Maybe her husband was just shot in the throat on TV in front of the entire world.
Maybe that's a little, maybe, maybe she's a little off because of that.
You know, maybe her, maybe her emotional responses all the time are not exactly what you would expect.
Like, maybe, maybe that's it.
Here's another idea.
If you don't, if you think that, well, I don't know, there's something a little off.
But you have no evidence that she did anything wrong, and yet you just have these vague, whatever, feelings, vibes.
Well, maybe rather than make, maybe rather than vaguely defaming a widow for reasons that you're not even clear about, admittedly, you even admit that like she might not be doing anything wrong at all.
She might not be doing anything wrong at all, but I'll just kind of like wildly speculate that maybe there's something wrong with her.
Maybe rather than doing that, maybe you should just shut the up.
Okay.
How about that?
Maybe just keep it to yourself.
It's like a basic rule of human decency that we all used to understand is when you've got someone who's grieving, like even rather than nitpicking, oh, I wouldn't do it that way.
That's not how I, that's not the facial expression I would have.
Maybe you just shut the f ⁇ up.
And I try not to, I try not to cuss like that, but it's, but I'm so sick of it.
I'm so tired of it.
And Jennifer Welsh, this is what this is, you know, and here's the thing.
It gives it gives even more permission to people like this.
Now, someone like Jennifer Welsh, you expect it out of her.
You expect her to act this way.
Right.
But the more that everybody else does it, especially when you're on the right, people on the right, it's like everybody on the right now, everyone claims that they loved and admired and respected Charlie Kirk.
Even though we all know that's not true.
Even though we all know that a lot of them when Charlie was alive very clearly did not have respect for him and did not treat him that way.
But now everybody, now everyone respected and loved and admired him.
Okay.
Fine.
I'll take you at your word on that.
So you love and admire and respect Charlie.
Great.
So do I.
And so this is how you love, admire, and respect him is by criticizing and critiquing and nitpicking his wife after he's killed.
That's what you do for someone you admire and respect is by going after his wife now that he's dead.
You think that's what Charlie wants?
You think that's what he wants?
You think Charlie's looking on from the afterlife, nodding in approval as you critique and nitpick his wife?
Is that what you think?
By the way, just so you know, because one thing I've discovered is that a lot of people, well, a lot of people are just soulless trolls.
I think we already knew that.
But also a lot of people apparently have just never been around grief or mourning at all.
They've never been around it, I guess.
And if that's the case for you, good for you.
Like you've been very sheltered that you have not even been around this.
But that's all the more reason why you should shut up.
Okay, Erica Kirk is dealing with something that you've never even come within the vicinity of, apparently.
You've never even sniffed the kind of tragedy that she's enduring, which would tell me that maybe you have no clue how a person would really respond.
You have no basis to be making judgments about whether her response is appropriate or not.
Anyone who has been around this knows that people who are grieving loved ones, they'll smile and laugh at the funeral.
That's not unusual at all.
In fact, that's common.
You go to the funeral of someone who died three days ago.
And the people that love this person most, you're going to see them, you're going to see them crying, of course, but you also be smiling and laughing at certain points.
Why?
Why do they smile or laugh?
Well, maybe because they're warmly recalling something about their loved one that they loved.
Maybe it's a fond recollection.
Maybe someone else has said to them, hey, remember that time, that funny thing, and they're laughing.
Maybe they're smiling in response to the kindness of the people around them.
Maybe they're smiling because they're doing their best.
You know, maybe they're just doing their, they're just doing their best to come off as friendly and warm.
There's a whole lot of reasons.
Or maybe they're experiencing any, maybe for a thousand other reasons, okay?
Humans experience a range of emotions.
And when you're grieving, it doesn't mean that you're only going to frown and cry every second of the day for the next year.
That's not how it works.
No, actually, when you're grieving every single day, you'll experience intense swings of emotion back and forth all over the place.
That is what is normal.
And so to see someone who's grieving and one second they're smiling or even laughing and the next second they're crying, that's not unusual.
That is normal.
And the last point is anyone who says, well, why is she out in public?
You know, that's not normal.
Yeah, well, it's not normal.
That's true.
But also a political assassination of a very famous and important figure is also not normal.
So this is not a normal situation.
So if you see things happening that aren't normal when a not normal thing happens, then that shouldn't confuse you very much.
So why is she out in public?
Well, I don't know.
Maybe it's because her husband was a very famous and very important political and cultural figure who became the victim of the most high-profile political assassination of the century and one of the most high-profile and consequential political assassinations in the history of this country.
And her husband also ran a very important organization.
And so Erica Kirk feels duty bound to get out there and keep his legacy alive and preserve the work that her husband has done.
And maybe she looks at it and sees that there are very hostile forces arrayed against her who want to tear down his legacy and destroy everything that he built.
And so maybe she recognizes that she can't afford to just go home and kick her feet up for a year and then come back.
Because maybe she knows that when she re-emerges, there might not be anything left when all these people that are trying to trying to destroy everything Charlie has done when they're finished.
So maybe that's why she's out there.
Just a thought, you know, maybe it's that anyway uh, Jennifer Welsh yeah, that's who we were talking about.
Well look uh, and someone like that.
I have to wonder, in your case Jennifer, uh are, are you upset because Erica is still in her 30s?
Like are you?
Are you upset at what you claim to be upset about?
Or is it because Erica's still in her 30s and you're a 55 year old hag trying to look 32, but instead you just look like like the cripkeeper?
Are you actually upset like?
Is the real problem that Erica Kurt can form different facial expressions, but you've injected so much botulism into your face that you now have the facial dexterity of Stephen Hawking?
Is that, is that really maybe, what you're upset about, I wonder?
Or are you upset because uh, maybe you're upset because Erica loves her husband and her children and meanwhile you're divorced and your children hate you.
Are you sure?
Maybe that's not the real issue?
I'm just wondering, is your real issue that Erica knows what it's like to be loved by someone and and and to and to love someone, and you've never loved anyone or been loved by anyone in your pitiful lonely, desperately pathetic life.
I'm wondering if maybe that's your problem.
Maybe your problem is that Erica loves her husband and children and the only thing you've ever loved or has ever loved you back is a bottle of $12 white wine.
Maybe your problem is the only person who wants to see or is excited to see you is the cashier at the liquor store when you stop by 10 times a week.
Maybe that, maybe that's your problem.
And i'll say all this and I want to be clear, even though I find you to be a miserable, horrific person, I would never celebrate and gloat over your death, the way that you've celebrated and gloated over Charlie's death.
You gloat over his death, you insult him, you attack his widow and his family, because you're an evil despicable, horrible person truly.
But I would never do that to you and I don't think anyone should do it.
But the good news for you, I guess Jennifer, is that you'll never be assassinated because you're not important enough for that.
And when you do die uh, which will be, you know, relatively soon, the next few decades, because you're old and getting older um, but nobody will celebrate, will hardly notice, we're not even going to know what happened because we'll, we'll just forget you ever existed because, unlike Charlie, you've had no impact on the world and you've never done anything that matters.
So uh, I just want to be clear about that.
You're responding with glee to someone's death and the response to your death is going to be your death is going to be someone's going to hear about.
Oh, who died the jet?
Oh okay, which one was that?
Again, what did she do that?
Oh okay, that's how people are going to respond to you when you die, just so you know, including probably your own family, just to be just to be perfectly frank.
Um, and if it sounds like i'm going a little overboard or being a little harsh, maybe I am, but I am uh, i'm just sick of people attacking and demeaning uh Erica, I am because the thing is uh, even though everybody now is claiming Charlie was my friend, I admired him.
Uh, he actually was a friend of mine and I did admire him.
And attacking his wife I take personally, I just do.
And if you do that, then you're the lowest of low.
You're just the lowest scumbag.
And you, and there is no insult that could be too extreme for you, in my opinion.
We do have one more Jennifer Welsh clip, unfortunately.
But I do, I want to play this too.
This is on a different topic, but there's an important point to be made here.
Watch this.
It's wild how rural America, like they believe that land, you know, votes and they don't understand that they're being taxed at a higher rate than somebody like Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk, who I want to remind everybody that's against immigration, is a immigrant.
I just think it's really important that we remind everybody all the time that Elon Musk is a immigrant that doesn't pay taxes, who is a parasite off the American taxpayer.
Okay, first of all, the idea that Elon doesn't pay taxes is total nonsense.
Elon pays more in taxes in two days than Jennifer Welsh has ever paid in her life.
Elon has paid billions in taxes.
Okay, so this thing about the rich people don't pay taxes.
What are you talking?
What are you talking about?
You don't understand.
Like rich people pay, not only do they pay taxes, they pay almost all of the taxes.
So when you say they don't pay taxes, what you mean is, except for the fact they pay almost all of them, yeah, they don't pay taxes.
And second, you really see the mind of the modern leftists put on display here.
This kind of shows you everything you need to see.
Because think about this.
To somebody like Jennifer, Elon Musk, a white billionaire immigrant who comes to this country to build rocket ships and make electric cars and run a business that employs thousands, he's a parasite.
Meanwhile, a black Somali immigrant who's unemployed and has no skills and a remedial IQ and who comes here to run Medicare scams and sends the money back to Somalia is not a parasite.
No, he's an integral contributor to American culture.
That kind of sums it up.
Right there.
That's all that needs to be said, really.
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Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, appeared on The Tonight Show for some reason to, I don't know, hawk ChatGPT.
And there was one moment that was interesting and kind of said, watch this.
And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?
I do.
I mean, I feel kind of bad about it because we have this like genius level at everything, intelligence, sitting there, like waiting to unravel the mysteries of humanity.
And I'm like, why does my kid stop dropping his pizza on the floor and laughing?
Yeah.
And so I feel like I'm not asking a good enough question, but it is, I don't, I cannot imagine having gone through like figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT.
Clearly people did it for a long time, no problem.
Yes.
Yeah.
So I know like it's.
Yeah.
How did people raise children before ChatGPT?
I don't know, Sam.
Maybe you could ask literally anyone who's ever raised kids.
You know, ChatGPT has existed for 10 seconds.
So maybe you could ask anyone at all in the world who's ever raised children.
They could tell you.
They could tell you how they did it without ChatGPT because every single parent in history has done that.
Now, what you should know about Sam, if you don't, is that he's in a gay, quote-unquote marriage, and he has his quote unquote husband.
He and his husband had a quote unquote husband.
They have a child who they purchased through surrogacy, a son.
Always surrogacy.
If you've noticed that, there was this big fight over gay adoption.
Gays demanded the right to adopt and then they won that right and against the objections of many people, including me.
But then a funny thing happened that none of them actually adopted.
They all decided that they'd rather purchase a child and rent out a woman's body and have a child that way.
So, you know, that's interesting.
So now he's trying to figure out how to raise this child.
He's using ChatGPT.
And think about the hopeless situation this poor kid is in.
He's being raised by two men.
He has no access to his own mother.
And the men are consulting an algorithm to figure out the basics of childcare.
Two men in an algorithm, right?
It's horrific.
And in a just society, the child would be removed from the home.
That's what should happen.
He's better off in an orphanage, okay?
That kid is better off being raised by wolves in the forest than the situation that he's currently in.
And I'm not kidding.
Like, Sam, do you know how people have been able to raise kids without ChatGPT?
Well, for one thing, it helps to have the mom around.
Okay.
Like, women have an instinct for childcare, especially the care of very young children that men don't totally have.
So the neat little trick that most men have, most fathers, is they have their wives.
Most moms know how to care for their babies.
It's hardwired.
It's biological.
It's spiritual.
It's ingrained.
It's embedded.
Think of it like a biological algorithm.
Okay.
Think of it like a human chat GPT inside the minds of every mom.
So that's one way.
But the sad reality is that Sam is not alone.
You know, I have no doubt that lots of parents, including heterosexual parents, including mothers, are now using ChatGPT for even the most minor parenting tasks.
I think that probably is happening.
And so in a few years, you're going to have a lot of parents who wouldn't know how to parent without ChatGPT.
This is one of the great concerns about AI.
I mean, it's one thing for AI to enable us to do stuff that we couldn't do before.
That's one thing.
But the problem with this kind of modern technology, one of the problems is that people use it to do stuff they do know how to do.
And then as a consequence, they forget how to do it.
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And then you rely on it and you forget how to do it so that you become helpless.
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Then it becomes a thing you need, right?
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It's not that a lot of this technology fills a need.
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And now we need it because we're too incompetent to do the thing that we could do on our own before.
Okay.
And you see this all over the place.
I mean, I mean, I'm sure, you know, depending on what you do for a living, you probably see a lot more of this than I do.
But even I, you know, emails.
It's like 80% of the emails I get now are clearly AI.
Clearly people use ChatGPT or AI or whatever or Google's Gmail's built-in AI thing.
It's like 80% of the emails.
I don't know, maybe 60%, but a majority of the emails I get, clearly the person used AI to write it.
And it's like, well, but you know how to write an email.
And it's not even like these are really complicated emails or somebody had to write five paragraphs, explain.
It's just basic emails.
One paragraph, three sentences, whatever.
People are using AI to do that.
You know how to do that.
You have a basic thought you want to share or a request or something.
You know how to write that.
Just write it.
You don't need AI to do that for you.
Well, people use AI for that.
And before long, they really are not going to, now we have a whole bunch of people who can't even write an email.
If they want to send an email to like set up a meeting, right?
The dreaded email about a meeting.
We're pretty soon going to be in a situation where a lot of people don't even know how to write that because they need without AI.
We've all seen this happen with, we've all seen this happen with GPS.
You know, it's a classic example, which is not AI, but it's, as I said, a lot of modern technology is like this where it's happened to me.
I mean, I think it's happened to everyone to some extent.
Try to resist it.
But, you know, you got GPS and it starts as this thing that like it's a tool and it's more efficient than using a map or after before GPS, it was MapQuest used to be a thing for like six years.
And it's more efficient.
You know, it tells you how to get like GPS.
Okay, it tells you how to get the places you don't know how to get to.
Okay.
Well, then people start using it all the time.
You know, people start using GPS whenever they go anywhere.
And you can kind of justify that because GPS now tells you about the traffic patterns.
It can give you different options for routes.
It tells you how long, you know, how long it's going to take to get there.
Is there traffic?
It routes you around.
And so a lot of people, I do this too.
Like I turn on the GPS, even if I know 100% I know how to get to the place, but I put it on anyway, especially if I got to go on the highway to get there because, you know, it tells me about traffic and stuff like that.
And also it's just kind of a force of habit.
And then before long, you don't know how to get anywhere anymore because you use GPS for everything.
Before long, you turn around, you're like, I don't even know how to, you don't actually, if you, if your GPS didn't work, you wouldn't be able to get down to the pharmacy down the street.
You wouldn't be able to drive to work 17 minutes away because you've come to rely on this thing to do things that actually you do know how to do, or at least you used to.
And so that is my, yeah, that's my concern is that pretty soon, you know, that's what's going to happen here as well.
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All right, finally, one other thing, you know, we have to play this.
Tim Walz has a message for all the pranksters who are showing up to his house at all hours of the night.
And this is a very important PSA.
Watch this.
This creates danger.
And I'll tell you what, in my time on this, I'd never seen this before.
People driving my house by my house and using the R word in front of people.
This is shameful.
And I have yet to see an elected official, a Republican elected official, say, you're right.
That's shameful.
He should not say it.
So look, I'm worried.
We know how these things go.
They start with taunts, they turn to violence.
So deeply concerned.
So apparently people are driving by Tim Walz' house and calling him a retard.
I mean, that is that's shameful.
There are people driving by Tim Walz' house and just shouting retard out the window, drive by, drive by retard attacks.
That is, you know, if you're in Minnesota, please don't do that.
Please don't go to the governor's mansion in St. Paul and scream retard out the window.
Don't do that.
It's not funny.
Don't do it.
I'll tell you what really concerns me.
Here's what worries me.
I hear this and I think, wow, that's terrible.
And I can't believe anybody would do that.
And I'll tell you what worries me is that I worry that this is just the beginning.
And I worry that people will start screaming other insults too.
I worry that people are going to drive by and start screaming stuff like, hey, Tim Walz, you creepy old fat weirdo.
You know, I'm worried about that.
I hope they don't do that.
I'm worried that they'll, I'm worried that they'll drive by and they'll, you know, scream at Tim Walz and tell him he looks like a toad.
Like he looks like the toad from the frog and the toad children's stories, right?
But creepier.
I'm worried they'll say that.
Hey, Mr. Toad, like, don't, I really hope that doesn't happen, but I'm concerned about it now.
And I'm worried that they'll yell at Tim Walz.
They'll tell him, hey, you look like Steve Martin's gay, unemployed, fatter, older brother.
Like, and that concerns me, that anyone would say that.
I think because one thing, you know, one minute they're saying retard, the next minute they're saying all this other stuff.
And man, maybe they'll start screaming questions out the window.
They'll say stuff like, hey, Tim Walz, why did you start a gay club for children when you worked at a high school?
Why did you, as an allegedly heterosexual man, as a grown man, start a gay club for gay children at your high school?
I'm worried people will shout that question at him at his house.
Then they're going to start saying things like, oh, you're a groomer, you're a freak.
I'm concerned.
I'm so concerned, and I don't want any of that to happen.
Again, just to be clear, I don't want that to happen.
And there are so many other insults that you could, and that's, see, that's what worries me is that there's so many insults you could use against this guy.
He's so ripe for insults that, man, this who knows how bad this is going to get with all the insults.
So, anyway, that's why I just want to clear that up.
I want to say that.
And that's the PSA for today.
Don't call Tim Walz retarded, even if he is, which he is.
And that will do it for the show today.
There won't be a show tomorrow, but we will have one on Friday this week.
We're kind of shifting the Friday show to the Thursday show to Friday.
So I'll talk to you then.
Have a great day.
Godspeed.
All of this is an illusion.
An echo of a voice that has died.
And soon that echo will cease.
They say that Merlin is mad.
They say he was a king in David.
The son of a princess of lost Atlantis.
They say the future and the past are known to him.
The fire and the wind tell him their secrets.
Let the magic of the hill folk and druids come forth at his easy command.
They say he slew hundreds.
Hundreds, do you hear?
That the world burned and trembled at his wrath.
The Merlin died long before you and I were born.
Merlin Emirus has returned to the land of the living.
Vortigan is gone.
Room is gone.
The Saxon is here.
Saxon Hengist has assembled the greatest war host ever seen in the island of the mighty.
And before the summer is through, he means to take the throne.
And he will have it.
If we are too busy squabbling amongst ourselves to take up arms against him, here is your hope.
A king will arise to hold all Britain in his hand.
A high king who will be the wonder of the world.
You to a future of peace.
There'll be no peace in these lands till we are all dust.
Men of the island of the mighty!
You stand together!
You stand as Britons!
You stand as one.
Great darkness is falling upon this land.
These brothers are our only hope to stand against it.
