Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1895 - Matt Walsh
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1895 - Matt Walsh' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-11-07. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1895 - Matt Walsh

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The Joe Rogan Experience.
Showing by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
Hello, Matt Walsh.
Joe Rogan, nice to meet you.
Yeah, you too.
Officially.
Your documentaries, it's...
I can't tell you how many people have asked me if I've seen it.
It's, I think it's one of the most eye-opening things that's ever been done on
this whole gender confusion thing that we're going through right now in our
culture.
And it was just like one of those things where I had to watch.
So many people were like, you have to see this.
You have to see this.
And I expected it to be like, I mean, I thought it would be like arguments with
people or it would be very, you know, very confrontational.
But instead, I think you did it masterfully.
What you did is you just let these people explain themselves the way they would
talk if you weren't there.
The way they would talk to people who agree with what they're saying.
And by not pushing back, I think you allowed them to let all the crazy out.
And it's like, it's hard to describe to people that aren't aware of what's
going on, of how wild this stuff has gotten.
But first of all, tell me, what was the process of making this?
Like, how long did it take?
What was the motivation behind it?
Yeah.
Thanks for talking about it so much on your podcast, by the way.
It's been a huge boost for us.
And we, you know, I had this idea, you'd really have to go back several years
because it occurred to me maybe back in, I don't know, 2017,
that when this transgender stuff was starting to really gain mainstream
traction, which I think happened really, that was like maybe when Bruce Jenner
became Caitlyn Jenner.
That was the moment that I think it exploded onto the mainstream.
Not when it began, but it exploded into mainstream.
Right around that time, it sort of occurred to me that the people promoting
this stuff have a problem, which is that we're supposed to accept someone like
Bruce as a woman.
But then what exactly does that mean?
What are we accepting him as?
He says, I identify as a woman.
Well, what are you identifying as?
What are we, if you're a woman, well, I know what a woman was before, but if
now we're including a guy like Bruce,
then what is a woman now?
And so I started asking this question.
It was really basic.
Just like, what is a woman?
What are you trying to say about womanhood now?
And I couldn't get anyone to answer it.
I mean, and mostly it's just on Twitter, you know, and challenging someone on
the left.
Just give me a definition.
What's your definition of the word?
And none of them would do it.
So at a certain point, I thought, well, we have to find a way to go out and put
this question in front of them.
And that's sort of where the idea for the documentary came from.
And we knew going in that we wanted two things.
Well, three things.
One is we have the mission behind it, the message that we want to get across.
But we also want it to be a piece of entertainment, you know, because a lot of
conservative documentaries, not all of them, but many of them are just, you
feel like you're watching an extended version of a podcast or something.
It's not a piece of entertainment.
So we wanted it to be that.
And then we also knew that the way this is going to work, if it works at all,
is if I'm just asking questions.
Because if it's me going on a tour around the country yelling at people, that
would be satisfying for me emotionally.
But it just wouldn't prove anything other than what people already know, which
is that two sides yell at each other.
So we wanted to give sort of gender ideology a chance to hang itself by its own
incoherences, which I think is what happened.
I think you definitely accomplished that.
And it's so funny that that question, what is a woman, is so difficult to
answer.
And then they'll say, well, someone who identifies as a woman.
And you say, well, what does that mean, though?
Right.
And then they want to just stop talking.
Like, what was the politician that actually had you leave his office when you...
Yeah, we had a couple that stormed out, but only one made it on camera.
That was Mark Takano, a congressman in California.
And he's one of the advocates.
There's a reason why...
There's a reason we chose all these people.
It wasn't just random.
He's an advocate.
He's not just a Democrat politician.
He's an advocate for the Equality Act, which is this push by Democrats to kind
of federalize all this stuff on a national level.
So that all across the country, for example, men have the right to use a women's
restroom and opens up all the sports teams and all that.
It just settles it, takes it away from the states.
So he's an advocate of that, and he's a good guy to talk to.
And he sat there for about 30 minutes, especially when I'm asking him the easy
questions, and he would give his, like, filibustering answer.
But then once I started asking real questions, that's when he got really
uncomfortable.
You could even see in the film, he keeps looking over my shoulder, and that's
because his aide is standing right behind my back the entire time.
But she never – I kept expecting her to cut it off and shut it down, but she
never did.
And eventually he just had enough of it, and he got up and left.
But the thing that made him leave was I didn't even get to ask him the what is
a woman question.
I asked him – I asked him, you know, there are males who want to use the
women's restroom or the women's locker room, but then there are females who don't
want to see an individual with a penis in the locker room.
So you've got two competing claims here, two people who have feelings, the
women who feel like they don't want to see this.
It makes them feel bad to see it.
And then the men who – it makes them feel bad if they can't use the restroom.
So who wins out?
How do you balance that?
I think it's a fair question.
It's a very good question.
And that's when he just got up and said the interview's over and walked out.
In those scenarios where – this is where women, particularly feminists who
have always been like hardcore lefties, they're finding themselves in this
ideological quagmire.
They're like – they're feminists, they're pro-women's rights, they're on the
left, and they're not anti-trans, but then all of a sudden this is getting
imposed into their world, and they're told they have to accept it, or they're
transphobic, regardless of this person's sexual history.
Like if this person is a sexual abuser, if this person is like a literally
registered sex offender, they can go into certain places, dress like a woman,
and use women's spaces.
It's a wee spa case in Los Angeles.
Yes, that's exactly what it is.
It's like – I mean, there's so many instances of people gaming the system,
right?
There's the prisoner who went to jail and immediately decided they were trans
and impregnated two prisoners while they're in there.
Yeah, that's happening all over the country, by the way.
Yes.
And these women have no – you want to talk about giving a voice to the voiceless?
These women have no voice.
They're in prison.
Who are they supposed to talk to?
And they're getting locked in.
Can you imagine that?
You're a woman.
And many women who are in jail are in jail for nonviolent offenses.
And now they're in – locked in a cage 24 hours a day with men – many of
them are sex offenders.
Well, that guy was a murderer.
Yeah.
When that guy had murdered his foster care father and the cops who went to the
crime scene said it was the worst murder they'd ever seen.
He'd been stabbed from his face down to his ankles.
Like, he'd just been stabbed an insane amount of times.
Just a bloodbath.
This is the person that just decided right after getting arrested that they
identify as a woman.
And you know, the other thing to keep in mind, too, is that, yeah, there are
men who are just gaming the system, as you point out.
I think in prison that happens a lot because they'd rather be in a women's
prison than a men's prison.
But also, in general, like, there are different categories of people who
transition.
And we kind of talk about them like they're all the same, but they're not.
And you can kind of break it down by age.
Like, there's the very young children, a five-year-old, and we hear that, oh,
my five-year-old is trans.
That's 1,000% the parent just deciding they're going to do that to the child
because no child is going to – no child even knows what that is.
So you have to suggest that to them.
Then you have the adolescent girls, and, you know, Abigail Schreier has written
about this in her great book.
And that's the social contagion.
They pick it up from society.
But then there's the older men who are adults and decide one day that they're
women.
And for so many of them, this is a fetish.
I mean, this is, like, the thing we're not allowed to say or acknowledge, but
it's totally true, that for most of these older men who decide that I'm a woman,
it's a fetish.
It's autogynephilia.
They're enchanted by the idea of themselves as women.
And so now we have to participate in your fetish.
Like, you get off on the idea of being seen as a woman, and I have to be a
participant in that.
It's really degrading to all of us, you know, that we're all being forced into
this.
Well, it's always been a psychological condition.
It's always been known as being, like, a psychiatric condition.
Like, it's a mental health issue.
Right.
And now it's being accepted as a gender identity issue, where it was always
just, like, a weird kink that people had.
And now you're, again, regardless of whether or not this person's a sex offender,
registered sex offender, repeated sex offender, you have to accept this.
Otherwise, you're a bigot.
It's just this rigid adherence to ideology is so cult-like.
It's so fucking hands-made tale.
It's so wild that people are just wholesale adopting this.
And this is not to deny that there's people that are trans.
I've met people that are trans.
It exists in nature.
I mean, you occasionally, guys will shoot a buck, and they'll find out that it's
actually a female with antlers.
Nature's weird, right?
I think nature does put people, make humans, for whatever reason, that really
feel like they should have been born a female or should have been born a male.
But that's not all of what's happening.
And in our desire to be compassionate and to have care for these people and to
love these people and respect these people, we're opening the door to all this
chaos.
And I think that's what you highlight so well in this film.
And it's just so strange to me how so many people on the left, people that I,
you know, before this, I generally respected their opinion, just buy into it
wholesale and will spout out things as if they're facts about how much this
helps people and keeps people from killing themselves and helps kids.
But it's not true.
Yeah, it's not true.
And the suicide stuff is so, it's just so sinister because this is the
emotional blackmail that they tell parents that, you know, your daughter
identifies as your son now.
And then the classic line, the now classic line is would you rather have a dead
daughter or a living son?
Like you have to affirm this or your daughter's going to kill themselves.
And so many parents, especially, you know, you go back a couple of years when
this conversation wasn't being had on a very visible level, they just they don't
know what to do.
They're panicked.
And they've just been told by a mental health provider who they trust that if
they don't go along with their child's delusion, that their child's going to
commit suicide.
So I can understand when you're told that, that you're going to kind of panic,
but it's just it's not true.
The evidence, in fact, tells us the opposite, that suicidality, we cover this
in the film, Scott Nugent mentions it, that the only reliable long term study
we have on this shows that suicidality is the highest after years after
transition.
That's the highest point for suicidality among trans people.
Bu