Matt shares his thoughts on sex vs gender, objective truth, and why it’s so hard for so many people to answer the simple question, “what is a woman?”
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Here we go
two weeks in the new year and chuck is firmly
way down the road on his ongoing quest
to get me cancelled. I suppose I would
say that? That's not what I'm going for here. I just this is a really into
thing topic and a really interesting guy and a really interesting movie. It is a very controversial topic, my guest as Matt Walsh, he's a conservative writer and blogger he's also
a film maker and I've never met him before, but I've known of,
for a while. You know on social I've seen his stuff he's seen my stuff and I never really
What we would sit down to have the conversation were about to have, but he made a movie called. What is a woman and child
has been recommending that I watch this movie for months. While I watched it and damn it, it's really good will
This is why this podcast is called matt, walsh, meda
movie
what I have to give you credit. Do he does
couple of things in this film. That way more,
experienced document arians, don't do he's, got a point of view and its controversial
but he manages to stay weirdly in the middle
The film, as I said, is called what is a woman. It's a question matt poses to clinic.
psychologists and teachers and parents profess
professors and men on the street and friends the answers that you will hear to this question, including from a supreme court justice by the way who you might remember,
from the headlines not so long ago? Struggled to answer them
exact same question. This is
an amazing time that we're living in and again this
conversation while it sort of revolves around the business of transitioning from male to female, or vice versa is really more about
the changing language and reality and truth- and all of this is enough- yeah yeah right, it is truth. Isn't it that's the thing? Is there a truth rather than your truth or might
is there a truth, yeah and when you sprinkle, on top of that, this relatively new mantra that we ve all been
hearing incessantly for years now follow the science.
Well where in the world has the science taken us with regard to by all? I don't know, I don't know either man I dont know tough.
say I don't know, but here's the thing to do, and this is why your bad producer, if you say
you don't know where the site
it has taken, is that's gonna upset people and if you say
you do know where the science has taken us, that's going to upset,
there are so many landmines in this conversation, but
want to have it anyway, so I did
Now I want to share with you, so I'm gonna
but as you listen just try and understand that, where
me, and my soon to be fired producer coming from is the mat walsh is made. A really good film in this
same way that Michael more made a really good movie called roger in me and then a really great movie called bowling for columbine. So I think what I mean to say chuck is that I don't really care if you liked any of Michael moors films, and I dont really care if you like. Matt washes film, but you have to admit when you watch them, whether you agree or not, they're pretty well done, yeah, yeah, yeah! That's the point is that Michael more made some good movies, Matt Walsh made a great movie. This movie is good. You may not agree with the premise and it is very controversial, but from a film perspective it's a very well made movie. I would argue,
what about bowling for columbine there were parts of that that I thought were more propaganda. Wish Michael Moore, could learn a lesson I think from Matt Walsh. I was just trying to be equitable. I was choking. I appreciate that enlisted. Let me tell you there are way more reasons to fire me as a producer. Besides the fact that I just don't have an answer to that one question, so you make an excellent point. Matt walsh makes some good points
as well, but as you listen bear in mind, that
thing is going on in this country with regard to children, this isn't about bruce jenner, becoming caitlin jenner. It's really not that this is about our institutions and their relations.
With our kids and the decisions that are being made and the consequences that are unravelling an evolving as a result, no lectures here, no sermons, no scolding and no polemic, just a really good movie.
I was happy to talk about here in an episode called met. Walsh made a great movie right after this
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Well, I guess we start on a disappointing note. I wore my favorite sweater, so mad could look at it and
let me on it
say nice things, but I've just learned that Matt, wherever you are, it looks beautiful, but you can't see me is that correct
I can see or but you can always described this letter to me and I can enjoy the mental images anyway. Thank you for that opportune.
I am actually pretty good at this. What I'm wearing as a rag and bone sweater,
is a raw high collar and a somewhat plunging neckline. I dont think its crossed into the bounds of tasteless news, but it is open a little
further. The normal on
shoulders, you would see that same rawhide
Centralisation going down like apple connecting to another,
a bit of rawhide that holds the sleeve to the basic structure,
like it, was cobbled together on a loom by a blind
mistress, but I thought you would appreciate it adds quite a bit
that's the most description, I've ever heard of a sweater. So that's that's impressive! Well,
knowing that you can't see me and falling back as I do from time to time on through,
miss spent years on the queue vc cable shopping channel,
Let me just say it all fell right into place for me that it certainly did
So when did we get
on each other's radar? Do you remember the first time
I actually think I do because I was writing years ago. I was writing a blog which
creatively called the mat, walsh bog and
and written something about? Why,
don't necessarily need to send your kids to college and I think you posted on facebook. I've been a fan for a long time, so I was thrilled by that and I think that was the first time that our paths sort of crossed digitally at least well. I thought you
we're a terrific writer and based on that thing you posted you know. Not only did I agree with it, but I took a deep dive into your.
Log and I thought okay, this guy
actually string some sentences together and he is a great communicator and he has.
Deeply held positions, and then I went back to my facebook page to see if anybody else knew who you were and lo and behold, matt, even at that tender age. Even at that nascent point in your career you and managed to piss some people off and vague,
to my page to make sure I understood that
that's been the case for as long as I've been doing this. Whenever I did a shoutout,
from a prominent person unhappy about it. But then my next thought is
how do they know they ve gotten themselves into? I always abrasion. Appreciating the time too,
well. Obviously, I want to take a deep dive into your movie. I watched it last night from start to finish. I started it a couple of times over the last couple months and
for reasons that had nothing to do with its excellence and driving narrative. I had to put it down and tend to something else, but I find
at ninety minutes. Last night I watches from start to finish
I tell you honestly this'll sound grand, but I I set it to chalk earlier today. I think it might be,
the best dogs I've ever seen. But aside from that, I think it might be one of the most important documentaries
of the twenty first century and before I go,
too much more. Let me tell you it's not simple,
because you are taking on a topic that really needs to be talked about. Specific,
the the the
gender movement and the unintended consequences. I think that accompany it, but to me mad,
The movie is about truth,
or maybe reality
or maybe some combination of the two and people
listen to this podcast know that one
the things the torments me more than
anything else. Is the
changing language right.
Our faces
and words don't mean what I thought
used to mean, and so when I
all the title of your doc. What is a woman? I laughed because I
I knew you were going to go in that basic direction, but I didn't know how deep you we're gonna go and matt Walsh. You went deep
yeah, we did, and we sort of didn't know exactly how did the rabbit all we go either till we started film industry,
and now he knew we first. The concept of the documentary renewal was
It was something a little bit
different. I wasn't sure of any real
presidents, machine, the sort of on the right. I don't like to label the documentary, a goro, goro railway.
Documentary because it is, it does just that
objective truth. You need to be on the right or the left or anything to oppression,
that, but I am a conservative, so we ve got.
It's some kind of news. We know exactly where this would go and who we would be able to get to talk to us and for how long they would talk to us by
we quickly discovered. The other thing I didn't know either is myself is just how pervasive and widespread is the kind of fundamental confusion about basic biological reality. I knew that
This confusion, I knew where it was coming from news coming from these institutions: academia,
petitions dollar S and we have them in the film by power
Well, the films also going out onto the street in every city, where we went to interview someone we will go out on the street and talk to people, man on the street style, and I was-
acting naively going into this that out on the street,
We stop blue hair twenty year old woman that
we would get a lot of that kind of awoke non
it's about gender, I was expecting mad, but I thought that if, when we stopped now just
average looking normal people who are about the age of forty or fifty that's when we will get
a straight talk and that's, I would have
What we found is that the vast majority of the people we encountered
there seem to be confused about a question
as simple as one is a woman or were terrified to talk about.
they knew the truth but felt like they could not talk about it, especially on camera. That was a kind of eye opening for me
did it occurred to you that that basic, simple fundamental question could not only be the title of the documentary, but it would
more or less propel every conversation that you had over the course of it
it's so simple matt. I give you credit for that, but the big thing
Want you to talk about. Two is what we
Read me when I knew you were doing this was. I know where you're coming from politically- and I have friend
on both sides of the isle, who make the same basic mistake in my view again.
And again, and that is they lecture. They scold
They sermon eyes. They get an opportune
did you get in front of the camera and they use that opportunity to tell the viewer what they say
and why is logical right, we default to that kind of apologetic, but you don't do that in this movie.
You actually displayed an incredible amount of self control by asking that question, and just letting people answer
and in some cases twist self is happy.
Just an folk who directed it, encourage you to do that.
we're going with your instincts or what
it's really a combination of the two we knew going into that that's the approach towards egg was too not lecture and because I have a pod gas, I give up our guest and I
I do that everyday eyes. I sit here but difficult to give my opinions about things and we wanted this film to not be an extended podcast. Yes, we want
it to actually be first of all, a film that will be a real movie, but then we also wanted it to go. It's not me presenting things, and so allowing the other side.
to present its own.
And we also knew that if gender ideology, which is what we're talking about to put a label on it, if gender ideology is going to be dismantled, I would rather that it be decent
and under its own, whether rather collapse under its own weight, expose itself rather
then. Maybe,
ding, really great arguments when you ve gotta, someone is debunking
one presenting a great argument: that's away, I've kind like showing off intellectually and people my what
That means be very impressed by and autonomy impressed with
I want them to get the point and
the best way to do that. We found it. Just let people talk now, I will say, bring johnson falcon to this. We shall
this film over the course of
about a year and when you're actually are
they're doing a day in and day out and getting all this footage and I'm sitting across the table from people and people. I disagree with cell fundamentally on such an important issue. Listening to them say things to me that I see to be as totally insane that there is a god
temptation on my part to just at a certain point, drop it and start
yelling them and just change the focus on the documentary entirely. I was complete.
to me when I got about seventy five percent away through the documented in the last twenty five percent will be just me screaming at the camera, then that's why
Fourthly, just following to producers on this film were able to step in
pull me back and say: men are now. This is the point here.
Is to ask questions and that's all we're gonna do and too
Regional point about this
simplicity of one is a woman. You know that
to me this was years ago when all this, for
began to really achieve mainstream acceptance on such a large scale, which seem to have an almost overnight. I mean that the roots of it go much deeper, but
You like eight or nine years ago, it seems like we went from not talking about this to everyone's talking about those and was right around that point. Then it occurred to me that this basic question
one is a woman kind of so
is the dominoes falling you do want to keep it simple, because I think, in my view
the people who are promoting this stuff. Their number
One tactic is too obvious gate and to make things seem a lot more complicated than they are at all times is very intelligent people. They had academic backers.
And their very good at making simple things seem complicated,
just think of things. In simple terms, I've benefit from the fact that I didn't go to college, and so I'm just a simple thinker: that's not a parlor trade and just how I am ends,
I think on this issue. That's a benefit because
is actually very simple. You gotta keep it simple. I think you're right but
I think you have to answer some pretty complicated questions along the way, not just around the debate.
around the business of making a film
where do you start right? Where do you see
start the conversation, whether your writing, a peace or whether you're making a movie like you guys.
Went back to kinsey and
What's his name money, alfred money, right drama to people
was it alfred. John, was john money
cancer, John money right, kinsey money. Why
You choose to start it there and explain to people.
who they were and to what extent they informed the debate today,
you're starting to there was in some ways part of this team of keeping things simple.
because, of course you could you take any social phenomenon you can trace back as far as you want to
and this is something you could take all the way back to take back hundreds of years. If you want- and there have been-
I'll Truman's and arthur, we want a book called the rise in triumph of the modern self he's in the film, and in that,
which I would highly recommend ever wonder. If he traced
is the philosophical roots of this phenomenon. Back hundreds of years
but in the film we decided to start in the mid twentyth century with these two guys, because that is where
Obviously they were influenced by people who were inflows what you want, but this is where gender ideology, in its current form, that we recognise started to take shape with,
right around that time, especially with these two guys, and they were both
kind of sex allergies, sex researchers in the psychotherapy.
But germany psychotherapy realm
had slightly different focuses for john money.
He was very focused,
the issue of gender and in fact the whole idea of people
having a gender which is distinct from their sex
we mind
up until around them and twentieth century. Nobody talked about god, somebody in eighteen
fifty and said: what's your gender, they would have looked confused
because they don't understand themselves what because
people having genders is. People who write a sex engender was a grammatical concept. Words had gender, not people, so
was john money who,
was one of the guys who thought of this idea that actually people have a gender anderson eggs
coined the term gender identity and other related terms we use so often today, and it was his
notion that while we do have a biological sex out
gender. Is you know this? The way that we.
express our sex and it's an entirely different category that is determined by society.
We created it. You glossed over something there than I thought was important words. Words have gender
that was the limitation of our understanding. The word, the french language, for instance, seems very heavy on it and so forth, but to some
We draw a bright line between sex engender, yeah right that must
It happened at a fixed moment in time and that must have been drawn by a specific individual.
Yeah. That's all part of the theme of making simple things seem complicated,
What you find, we, I think slices out a little bit in the film is that later,
can we talk to Jordan petersen, and he really makes this case. I think compellingly that
concept of gender is pointless. You don't needed what people
actually most time trying to talk about when we talk about their gender is simply too
personality, there are male.
Females, but then there are many.
different ways of being a may all there are many different ways of being a female, so it's not
putting people and these really restricted boxes. When we say that your male or female man or woman, it's a bite
choice, those other categories, but within those categories there are many differences. Expressing yourself with that's all could fall
under the personnel the under the umbrella of personality, which is what Pierre
They are trying to say when they say gender, so this was
I think that the very beginning and effort to complicate matters it never made a lot of sense, even john money, if you go back and read what he wrote
entirely clear on what exactly the distinction is between gender insects and why you need it.
We tried to as we flesh out in the film you, he tried to confirm
his findings and actually conducted experiments. Human experiments on people
and the most infamous case are the case or the reimer twins that we talk about in the film area, two twin brother said one did Adam circumcision, one of which the circumcision was botched, and essentially
aren't his penis off and the parents bring.
Childs John monies are what do we do about this and he says well just
raising as a girl, because gender is social construct and sell, construct an environment,
he's a girl and raise him that way and everything
be fine and that's what they tried to do? But it was not fine because, even though there are raising him as a girl called on, while he was still
many recognise that didn't and wealth was up
they did not end. Well. All right in part of the story is its along complicated story, part of stories that these
or test subjects of john money. So the boys were brought in throughout their childhood to john money for follow up
and the parents apparently didn't know that those follows included.
Actually the use of experimentation. All
I in adulthood both boys
is that it came and ended up killing themselves their lives or just utterly ruined by this
The point is it was an attempt at an experiment to confirm this social construct theory and the experiment failed and catastrophic fashion so from
very beginning. This thing is literally a failed experiment, and yet
his ideas, even though they work also catastrophic, and he
discredited himself. His ideas remain
then they eventually took hold of society, forgive the
hopscotch nature of maya, interrogatories butter
I don't know assume the listener knows too much so talk
four minute. If you would about
the underlying stakes,
and the reason that this topic and will come back to the language later. But the reason this specific topic is so important to you,
what is happening
Now, as we speak,
is a hormone blockers and
transitioning and with kids
and with suicide and all
these things. I know the stakes are high, but how high and to what degree did that
inform your decision to spend a year on this topic.
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I think the ultimate stake is reality itself. That's really. What is at stake is. Are we going to be a society with a basic grasp of fundamental reality or not, and
If the answer is not, then you couldn't
and count the number of bad consequences that follow from that in Austria
we would be doing something totally unprecedented. There has never been a human civilization that has
to reject a reality is fundamental. As this young man and woman. How can you
function. That way. The answer is that you can't buy this.
Also not theoretical? On my part, we can already see the consequences. As you mentioned, we could
bearing out with kids, so
the first thing you mind is that trans identification, as these ideas have gain a foothold in the culture,
totally dominated now they ve taken over the academic,
situations the school system all that time,
the delegation among kid
has absolutely skyrocketing. We'll talk about exponential increases,
and transit invitation among jens
and the younger generations generation below that as well and
It is not a natural. This is not the course of natural evolution. This is because kids are being indeed
Alternated into these ideas
part of that indoctrination- and not just an idea party, that indoctrination is actual physic
changes that are being carried out that are being inflicted,
on his kids
Kids that are starting before puberty
put roma on what they call puberty blockers and purity.
By the way, are chemicals.
astrogation drugs. Leubronn is one of the two, not the only ones, one the drugs that they give to kids.
And this is a drug that has actually been given to sex offenders for the purpose of chemical castration.
It really is a cancer drug for older men with prostate cancer, but has this off
people use and on
they say what you give it to the kid at a young age so that you can stop puberty from happening. This is the claim but puberty on
pause, so that the child can decide for himself
for herself what gender he wants to be, and I mean
I he wants to go forward with the transition. That's when they move over to arm to the
or hormone replacement drugs
now. This is when permanent life-
altering physical changes are happening to the child.
Still a child, including you know,
arguments sterilizing kids way before they can ever hope to have kids of their own in adulthood
This again is happening to children. This is
chemical castration sterilization drugs being given to kids, who can not
when all of our laws around consent tell us that kid
age cannot consent to these procedures, and yet what we're
hold in the case of these drugs. Is that somehow they can, but they can't will,
where's it coming from, I get kinsey
get money. I get the laying the groundwork for all of it, but is it big farmer
is it money? Is it?
good day? Is it our
with care system
feels like an alliance?
of sorts, but you're right. I can't
Think of anything over the course of a generation that has evolved or devolved. If you prefer so quickly as this and so yeah you talk about the age of consent. You know you can't vote you
and order to drink a bar like the list of things you're not equipped to do is long.
The ep somehow you're talking about nine year olds, declaring the
this is who they are their truth.
And a long line of adults are
Standing there, handing out leubronn
right, what makes it so insidious is that all
also are pushing this stuff. They were all kids ones and we
our kids, and we know what it's like to be an adolescent to be a teenager. You know that you're
impulsive, that you're not thinking about the future, even something like
and this is not even the worst of it in terms of their physical damage being done, but the valuable
sterilizing kids. Well, so, let's say of fourteen
taking a drug going on urge hormone replacement therapy being sterilised. Bogota
fourteen, possibly know what it means,
quote: choose to never have biological children
you ask me when I was like twenty three:
whether I'm ever going to have kids whether ever want to. I have told you when I was twenty three:
I'm not gonna get fast forward. Three
years? And I have two kids now I have six so that I could be happier away to a baseball team. Exactly I'm almost there brings me deep.
indescribable joy to be a father, but the point is that even in my early twenties,
I couldn't have seen that so to be
teenage or how could you possibly know and so
We all know that we know that. That's what it means to be a teenager and yet
is being exploited
to is that another
part of being an adolescent, a teenager is not feeling wholly com.
Double or at home,
in your own body. That thing is especially the case for girls when you consider
the even more dramatic changes that happened to their bodies as they go through puberty thing. Is this part of the
and why the
a majority of the adolescents and teenagers who are getting
transitional procedures are girls.
This is most common when it comes to the adolescent teenager demographic, its most common by far among girls. How does this slippery slope of this workmanlike? Where does it normally start and at what point are you you know
a sixteen year old, a fifteen year old, getting a double mastectomy, I mean: is it
ro won't run, isn't a frog in boiling water. What's the typical path that you found
What part of makes so difficult is that there are so many different ways that a child can end up in this position. One
Is that what they call even a term for radical, rapid onset gender does for you and I
El schreyer talks about those in her book, irreversible damage, which is another great, but that you should read on the subject by these
adolescent girls, who now thirteen fourteen fifteen round there who are
perfectly normal and fine and never talk about anything with gender. Never never have any inclination
towards declaring themselves trans,
and then one day it seems like out of the blue. They come home to their parents, and this actually, my boy now and I
sometimes that the idea of this kind
on rapidly, maybe a sort of an allusion to the parents, bark they realize what's happening behind the scenes, but other times it is kind of rapid
a girl just start again, these kids are balls. They just find them.
I was tumbling down into this world
really rather suddenly and oftentimes.
could be entire friend groups, all at once, so now they're kind of feeding off of each other. They just out of nowhere. It happens, something that can happen,
that's federal out by peer pressure by what they encounter on social media appear culture
at school. In all these, things can conspired together to pull out
held into this very quickly
But then there's also especially these days when you've got young kids
were growing up in a culture where these ideas are mainstream, I think you
have kids who fall victim to a.
Much earlier
here all the time about five and six year olds, who quote
use their gender and they begin what they call a social transition. Now the people that are proposed,
of this are very quick to point out that, while no one's giving drugs are performing surgeries on five year olds, which of course they are yet but
they are putting kids on that conveyor belt where that,
eventually be the case by beginning this so called so.
Transition, which means that,
telling a boy. Oh you're, really a girl dressing, the boy up like a girl and then what
that leads almost inevitably for a lot of these kids is drugs and surgery down the line because the kids are going to oftentimes, they feel like they can't jump off the conveyor belt
already a committed themselves. To this end, we imagine being an eight year old and feeling
like your committee,
into a lifestyle. Did you
your bill mars tag on this,
we'll see I'm on a lot
but every now and then he says some stuff that just slays me and I think he was talking about when he was twelve years old. He was pretty sure he was gonna- be a pirate. In fact, he was certain right.
like you know. Thank god I didn't talk.
My parents and I ve no solid off a leg. Given me
wooden crutch taken, and I bob give me a hand
and put the parrot on my shoulder not to make that light of it. But it's
not a small thing: the capacity for an eight year old or a twelve year
old. To feel certainty is no different than our capacity
like what? Maybe I'm saying that wrong? We know more. Obviously, we live longer, so our repository is larger, but if your reply,
The tories filled with a liquid call it certainty. Then it does it matter.
how big your repository is, it's either filled or it's not, and so
feeling of being certain when you're eight is not much difference.
for me anyway, at sixty of feeling certain about anything else that you see
like an obvious thing to say out loud, but I know people will be upset to hear that
There's the certainty but then also- and I agree with your boy:
the differences with the child was a young child. Is that
what world are they certain of a young child lives? A five year old, ok
in a world where
It wouldn't seem unusual to them if they walked outside and saw an actual fairy flying around in the garden or they saw a dragon fly overhead on their heads.
It was like they wouldn't react all that surprised them, because that's the world they live. They live in a world of like half, make believe and because,
have only a varied, sorted tenuous grasp on reality, which, in a healthy
society is a wonderful thing about child were
so delightful thing that children live in this world wide web
I believe in reality, sort of blend together we try to foster there.
in healthy ways we sort of play along with this ideas. As the child comes in and says, I saw a fairy as you play along with it, because it's a fun and wonderful thing
well now. It seems like this kind of there being
ability to fully grasp. Reality is being exploited in the most sinister possible way
telling them these things about what you can really be a girl, of course, to a five year old boy, if you tell them that hey, if you like the color
paying you prefer playing with barbies, rather than gee I chose than you are actually a girl to a five year old
tell him that ensure ok. That makes sense, because,
he lives in a fantasy. Landmines are even if you could tell em anything
telling a story about a magic
batman flying through the sky with reindeer. He believes that too and makes perfect sense to him, so they don't have.
Grasp on reality, which is why
when they say something like
actually a girl, though it's a boy. Let that statement
doesn't even mean anything. It can't mean anything given who it's coming from a really
following question: when the girl was the
a boy say. I'm actually girl here is a follow up question for the boy. What is a girl? What do you think a girl is
and the response, you're gonna get oftentimes. As he's gonna tell you about he's to give you two
christians are the kinds of things girls like to do. They liked the color pink they like to play with barbies. That's all he's trying to tell you
like telling you some deep inner truth about his inner being he's just telling you that he likes
color pink, and he also wants to play with barton
not saying give me leubronn remove my genitals right. Ok, yeah
it's a bit of a tangent. When you talk
fairies! When you talk about the one,
of imagination and
our desire to foster that in our kids I won
if there is something to the fact that
game of thrones was a pretty big deal,
and lord of the rings, was a pretty big deal. I dont know
you, but I'm guessing that you ve read those books. I did, and I didn't
them as a kid. I I read them as a grown up and
people today are riveted
flying dragons is spent
fire
and harry potter and
Well, my boss, over at discovery, warner brothers, and I got the bag of schwag. You always get for christmas and it's filled with all kinds of things, including magic wands from harry potter, right and so
I just wonder I mean: do you have any thoughts on? Do we ever really
get over the wonder of fantasy and possibility and have we, the royal.
like we have. We taken our own adult fascination with fantasy and all that could be possible
kind of hit it back over the net onto the site of
court where there's a nine year old,
are we reinforcing the fact that anything is possible through our entertainment preferences? I think
that's interesting thought. I think, there's probably something to that. I think it's. A good thing
certainly to hang onto a sense of wonderment
the world in interest in fantasy and all those sorts of things I mean. I know I read
lord. There is also a thousand adult, that's a good thing, but I thought
The problem these days is that there's a future
it is this kind of a tangent. I shall go off on one too, because I think are the problem is
have taken this sense of wonderment
we kind of corporate eyes did and we ve turned it into franchises, and so it's like
franchises incorporate brands own all of that now, and so
why, when you hear about adults that are like
hanging on to their childhood, I talk about it.
Show today. Theirs
if we get the word they use for now kid alt is the word they're using our kindled.
And that's the word that toy companies are using to describe people on my generation who are still buying children's toys for themselves for themselves? Yes, a mother,
rules are now and john actors are keeping the
we companies afloat, because we not meet up going, I'm buying,
these toys for ourselves and
on one hand, if you wanna take it like a signal
positive way, you would say, while people are there
style Jake, and there are hanging onto childlike wonder- and I would like to
that way, but when I see more is that people,
Their nostalgia is entirely based on brand low.
two, and so the only thing on a strategy for are the consumer products that they
used when they were a kid.
there. Then, like the experiences, you know
there's, a lot going on, but its sort of been perverted
I suppose, in a certain way, I just
I mean the more I think about it, the more fascinating it gets a healthy
machination is a good thing. A healthy
and to see life is probably a good thing
I don't need the fight I'm about to pick. I work for the people who own them.
For universal, but I think you may
Jane and like the twenties or thirties I mean I get.
Superman I get awkward
and I get all that, but now there's a universe and to your point, it's not being marketed to kids, it's being marketed to grown ups, it's hard not to
wonder when you think about the amount of time the average grown up spends immersed in entertainment, that's firmly rooted in fantasy and
or immersed
some kind of interaction, that's firmly rooted in a screen in some kind of
virtual identity. You come back
in all that together and what you're really talking about is something answer
the call to reality and that's a fun place to visit? You know
Disney was real good at that, when I was growing up, it's a little
to see land, but now it's not little
Its enormous and
our new rules. Anything is
possible that guy's a wolf man that guy can fly, I mean
Is it any wonder that anybody can be
anything they want to be if they just think about it, hard enough and prayed whatever god, they worship.
I think, on the universe, think this is a fresh worries me to know and when I hear people say well,
the other so anymore, more movies that they can make in the star wars, universe or in the marble. Universes
I hear that what you think about all the movies you can make in the universe like the actual universe,
is endlessly large there. So many
stories you can tell you, don't need a tie it to this particular brand. This is like limited
in a way. I know why they do it because as money remaining, but
actually limits our imagination and a lot of ways outside by the way. To that does nothing.
With wanting to relieve your childhood, which I think is a lot of. What's going on with a special people, my generation millennials
obsessed with the nineties like anything ninety, so we will have to talk about the nineties and you have also millennials into a room within about five minutes:
guarantee they're gonna be reminiscing about the commercials they liked in the nineties. It's quite pathetic
there's nothing wrong with that in internet itself, but there's a proportion for everything and proper proportion for everything. There is also a way that things are ideal
the dawn and so you're supposed to relieve your childhood as an adult
through your own children, so like you, have kids and I would just playing with
man, toys myself the other day, but I wasn't sitting by myself on the ground,
room when my wife and the kids in the roof of the playing with bad men, like I was playing with baby in toys,
my son, and so I was experiencing that with him. I was kind of introducing him was bringing
him into this thing that I love you. I was a kid and,
or you know, you go with your kids to a theme park and you experience it alongside then you're bringing them with with you, rather than these, like adults, who are you to go to disneyworld, and if you want your kid to meet mickey mouse, you gotta
in a line three hours long, because there's a bunch of adults by themselves. We also want to eat mickey mouse, there's a proper way
experiencing these things. But part of the problem is that with no one else
I have decided not to kids and also have to just relive it themselves
think, there's something relevant to your movie, and I think there is something wrong
and to the whole
controversial part of our conversation.
and it starts with a question- is anything possible and
It feels like a lot of adults today, really want to believe that anything is possible and that
reflected in our entertainment is reflected in our virtual lives and-
if you say wait. A second, that's actually not possible, then europe.
formatively on the wrong side, your squelching, something that's precious and I think Matt
it even goes into science. I've been lucky,
as ten years have been narrating, the show called how the universe works. I really
enjoy reading the copy.
and I'm fascinated by all the possibilities, but with
guard to the multi verse with regard to the idea that
there are an infinite number of conceivable
universes out there
we're all living in some sort of mirrored dimension in some kind of you know, multiplicity, world
That gets real, serious conversations like real physicists sit down, and they talk about this really really seriously, and I don't mean
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I think that is the fundamental question, but I would maybe phrase it
differently, and so I think that the question it lies in the bottom of this is
Is there such a thing as truth,
an objective reality out. There just exists and whatever,
in their reality is there and if it's not, it's not, and I think that the lot
was talking to in the film they want
We live in a world where there is no objective reality. There is no true that we all get our own truths that people talk about these days on. This is my truth. I'm living my truth as if we each have our own kind of true,
that we can possess like it's ours, but we don't. You know. Truth is something that you are a part.
You live within you don't get to take possession of it. That's the world.
want to live, and which is why I must
every conversation I had in the film with somebody.
proponent of these ideas. Almost every conversation quickly devolved into exactly this is. Why is there a true thought? You know, there's a truth, who's to say what is true and what is it
There are some moments in the film there are some moments that didn't make it into the film because we had to cut it for time, but there are, even in the film a few moments
quickly see just the absurd?
links that they will go to
maintain this delusion
that they get their own truth. I think there's one conversation in the film I ask a woman is used
That's a lie. A major issue of yours and I say: well,
If it's my truth, that you'd
exist, fancy
said to me. Well then I don't exist. That's pretty amazing
yeah she's, going to raise her own existence. For the sake of
her our wording to win. The argument should feel my god use
Think seriously. I bet you already have about just populating social with quick exchanges. There's a guy who utah
or two at a university who was extraordinary he
was one of several people who said: ok like your thirty seconds from,
Ending this interview. I don't like the way you're going that to me,
he was the most one of the most.
interesting moments in the film, it told me that he,
didn't know who you were map, he didn't quite know what he had agreed to
and when he figured it out, he didn't like it and to your credit.
Wasn't I gotcha you were still
asking the same basic questions, but,
when he realized that his
on answers warrant quite lining up. He got angry. What's the thing,
oh, the twitter was so upset about lives have tiktok
the reason that site is so interesting- and the reason is I think relevant to
sure that content is because its unfiltered, it just speaks for itself.
And there are so many moments in your film that, where the,
people. You are interviewing, speak for themselves and we
I hear what they're saying that guy he could not put the poop back in the goose
and it was not a good look for him. Yeah
I all the time. Well, how did you get these people and even talk to you? An answer is that they live in a bubble way
their ideas have just never been challenged, certainly not to their phase, and they are
a comfortable night bubble, and they simply assume like. I think that when we sat
to talk about these issues, people that I'm talking to they couldn't either,
imagine
Anyone would actually challenge them on this because
to them. This is like basic got you
have to accept this to be a good person,
yeah and science,
it's settled science and in particular, I think. If you're, he was a professor
women in general studies, wherever in the world
like no one is going to university and taken a gender studies class
and then going to be sceptical about these ideas. If you're sceptical about em, you would never sent off that damn class in the first wave result. I think
He's just never simply has never been actually challenge facing us because for a lot of these people and
if they started to realize that oh, I am going to be challenged and challenged only in the sense of being asked. Actually, skeptical questions, in other words,
He asked a real question other than aside from a fake question: that's really just put their as us
for you to launch into your meal.
once these aren't. I realized that that's when I got oftentimes got really angry
although you know they were threat
the storm out and almost every person we did threatened to only one point
actually did the which was interesting. The rest would threaten the congressmen, the congress,
and he's torn out. That was really in
time is about a thirty minute. Conversation
and he was very uncomfortable for about twenty eight
In other words, it took
twenty, eight minutes to work up the courage,
get up and walk out, but it was
it's too late. That was one of the funniest moments in the movie too. It's like, I just want to know what a woman is and you're not gonna, find out
yeah. You too soon a family wants interesting. When you watch go back a watch,
I clip you, can see him as I'm
talking to me his eyes, keep darting off to the sides that kind of looking behind me and that's because his aid is adrian in the room with us standing right over my shoulder the whole time, and I think he was looking for her
a bail out, and you never did
it also german up, but you know that
thing that struck me with a lot of,
interviews that you did was, I dont know if it's paternalistic, they talk to you
as if you were a child, and it just made.
We think is that how they talk to their patience. Is that how they talk to their students? There is just a oh. I dunno
a mix of paternalism in
condescension. That would have been difficult to sit quietly through from me. I imagine it was difficult for you too,
best ever to be condescended to especially by people that you don't. You know special,
given what they were saying. While there were condescending to me. I think that partners,
their style. I think it was probably wrapped up results of defence
mechanism being condescending. So the moment they realise that they were being ass well
questions than they really wrapped up the condescension
it's, probably just my overall aura that they, you know, as I'm just some bumpkin in a flannel with a beard, and it's like the way that I
fuck. They associate that with a guy walmart, which I do share the walmart, so they got that right. It's a good!
weird by the way. Thank you. Thank you. It's like a reflex to talk you in our
it's actually interest, in contrast, because here the eternal is to come,
pension from these people, but only once
africa. We talk to you a tribe,
I'll drive in africa, the besides the messiah right in
from them. It certainly was not condescension, but they also like they felt sorry for me, but in a really sincere ways for them it was kind of a pity, but it wasn't insulting
is actually kind of, is sort of sad and
I sad for american culture
because I started talking to them the way that they looked at me and talk to me like they really were. Very
sad to find out that this
confusion exists in the world and they fell
bad for me, because they thought that I actually was confused myself. We never like clarified that to them, because we wanted to get their authentic reaction, so that was interesting too. There's a great word. We don't hear a lot. It wasn't
amused, and it wasn't confused. They were bemused, they were bemused and
made. The amusement even more interesting was the fact that it was all going through an interpreter. So,
you know the messiah languages endlessly complicated kudos to that guy for learning.
wish as well and here
he's, trying to explain to a tribal elder what your basic questions are, and it was kind of
The other thing that made that scene met so interesting, and I love you take on this because I got all kinds of stories the flies you are covered,
everyone is covered with flies. It's so hot
Obviously, there had been a rain, so the flies had come forth and I know how difficult it is to come.
In our view, when you're covered with flies, but an interview with an interpreter, honest
Jack like this with flies.
Everywhere that had to be a hell of a journal entry formulated at night
Yeah, that was not an expert in that field. Like yours, I was what we
what I was expecting was mosquitos and, as with everyone, tells you to watch out for the interest
enough at an encounter building one mosquito, but the flies where there was a play
applies everywhere and one day
I didn't want people to take from that part of the film.
Is that, where sort of idealising that life,
like I'm saying I wouldn't be greater, live this way to get back to similar things. I wouldn't want to live in that
village surrounded by flies and all that? No, that's not the point. The point is
either as a few points. I think, but one of the points
is that these people live
then a culture that is fully we talk about.
Balls I mean they are fully outside of the west,
turn culture bubble ends.
Don't have any of the same basic assumptions that we have and they haven't
have absorbed by us Moses, these culture, ideas of gender ideology, everything and so
if these ideas makes sense,
then you should be able to go to someone who has never been introduced to any of this annex
in a way that makes sense. But once you
talk to someone about it is totally outside the bubble. You see how
utterly nonsensical. This is because it goes back to my point, which is that
primary question is: is it possible is applied?
simple for a man to be woman is apposite,
for a woman to be a man. If you are open to the possibility
then you're gonna, have a very different kind of conversation if you're not open to the possibility, as I think for I, don't.
The last eighty thousand years, most people weren't. I mean it's really only in the last fifteen or twenty seconds right that this thing has become like
we're number four on: let's make a deal, there's a new door right, there's a new car
There's a whole new thing, that's possible, but to your earlier point
back in eighteen, fifty know this: wasn't it
conversation and here in twenty two,
twenty to in that part of africa with
tried. No, that's not a possibility; they haven't yet accepted it as possible, so the question becomes: are they backward
they unenlightened or are they sophisticated and wise and you'll probably get a different answer depending on
who you ask, it doesn't have to be either one of their certainly not backwards and on a line,
you? Don't need to be sophisticated to understand these basic realities?
I think the answer is more simple and I don't mean simple. We know we say this like it's people. Take that as derogatory. I consider myself,
simple man proudly and
people who live a simple life and so
They haven't lived in this culture where these ideas have, because everything has become unnecessarily complicated, evacuated
started talking about this. I think that
first time, when I even ask them what is a woman, they didn't understand,
question and not because there
a woman as well, because it's such a simple reality? They could understand why
even ask it, and so they assume that was asking something else, and I just something was lost in translation. So originally, when I first asked the question is started talking about other
of tangential related things and then eventually they realise that, although I really am asking this is like the thing that they ve always known intuitively, because it so simple
now someone is actually asking them about it, and so they have to explain this basic research
funny, but I even asked them in the film like. Do you guys spend any time thinking about gender,
identity and the answers like now. There's are there live in their lives and they know what there
supposed to do. I think that's part of it all the messiah very duty oriented do
you too I went before
and in society? Thank you and I,
like if you're a man. This is what you are supposed to do for your family in your community. If you're a woman. This is what you do, though
responsibilities, don't utterly, and
we define what a man or woman is, but you don't know what you're supposed to do.
And so they don't have as much time. I guess for like sitting around navel gazing about what does it mean to be a manner when what is there just gonna live in their lives and doing with their supposed to do. I do it
back to the language in general overall, but before that, maybe a little bit
on the emotional blackmail that I think
is in forming a lot of this. I feel so badly for parents there's no real playbook for it
seems- and so, if you ve, gotta niner
ten eleven year old or younger and older whatever it is and they're coming to you with this belief then
man. It's a very serious thing because
obviously there's so much suicide attached to this. I just wonder
how did you address that in the movie and what advice do you have if any for people who are just scared
to do anything other than
under the wishes of their nine year old.
the first thing to realises that the emotional
male is emotional blackmail. That is, in fact, what's happening to you as a parent and
there is a terrifying thing when you girls, but you're going to an authority,
You trust like a councillor therapist or you know, school accounts or something like that, and they
Look you in the eye- and they tell you point blank,
if you do not go along with this year,
you're being a boy for example, that she will kill herself. Like four apparent.
Child committing suicide is the ultimate
is literally nothing worse than ever happen to you in the world and that answer
We are taking the absolute worst possible thing and
bludgeoning you into submission with it, but
what parents need to realise is that there is
enormously high suicide rate and suicide attempt rate among trans identifying people. But what that tells us is that, when
people get lost in this lifestyle. The
that's what causes the suicide rate. That's where
comes from when someone is
war with themselves, when they are rejecting the fund,
until reality of them. Selves that call
as is an immense amount of despair, and so the waiter
scan. Your child from that is
bring them into is to help them, except
cells for who they actually are in or not
except some phantom version of themselves that they've concocted in their head
when your daughter says I think, I'm a boy. Your message should be: no, you are a girl, and that is a wonderful, wonderful thing. Let's talk about
why you don't wanna, be a what is
being a girl that scares you, let's talk about that. Let's talk through that! That's what counts!
in therapy for a child should be, but it's not because now they called the affirmative model of care and what they're.
We affirming or not affirming the child affirm the channel
the firm reality. That's what they're doing
farming, the confusion
and therein
consigning all these kids to self destruction and by the one of the key point about that, because
the other side will say there were bundled everything I just said is gonna. Be that
well know the reason why you have the sky high suicide rates and one transferable is because they're not
affirmed as trans, like their trans identity, is not without being bullied there being ostracised marginalized
that's why they're committing suicide we know
That is utter nonsense, not just because of common sense, but also because
we live now, even they would admit in a much
or trans affirming and trans inclusive society never before in history, but the sewers.
I rate, hasn't gone down so
was the case that we should see suicide rates plummeting right now and they're. Not not only that, but you know, let's go back to
in fifty again in eighteen, fifty or in nineteen. Fifty there were no kids.
openly identifying as trans and being accepted as such and yet according to
that side, they will tell
Well, there are tons of trans people just that they were unable to come out and declare themselves as such one
We will look back and nineteen fifty nineteen, twenty nineteen other shouldn't. We see an epidemic of like a catastrophic.
dammit of kids killing themselves en masse because they were trans
kids in the closet and they lived in the least affirming culture possible for that lifestyle. But no you don't find it
child. Suicide was basically not
thing and essentially didn't exist at all- is a rare exception until recently
So what we find is that a society becomes more affirming
Suicide alley goes up, that's the actual correlation, and could it be because in eighteen fifty not everything was possible in nineteen. Fifty not everything was,
possible, but in a world where everything is possible, where
it's not only ok to transition, but
where the path is made clear that be
the door number before that becomes
affirmative possibility and then, if you don't have the thing, that's possible.
I would imagine that creates a different level of axed, then not being able to have the thing that isn't possible.
it's hard to find a corollary, but if you like
spread your arms right now and levitating and flew off through that window. Behind you, I would be gob smacked obvious,
lee, but right on the heels of that would be something like envy ride like why can't I fly like mad can fly. I didn't know that was possible
but some deeds can fly, they have beards and their thoughtful and they fly boldly
I should grow beard. Maybe I could fly to gravity. You know
poverty is a rule. It still one of the few remaining realities. I think we can all agree on lean back too far on that chair you're going down, but to your earlier point, there
people in your film who say no, if you don't believe in gravity than gravities, not real for you, and if you believe you can
I who am I to tell you that you can't we're still in this place, where how dare you tell me that the third
I want the thing I feel and the thing I believe and my gut with all that certainty isn't possible. How dare you tell me that
back. That's like a little bit of semantics, but pushed back slightly, because I do think that
so much that everything is impossible, that everything is in truth like they want believe that anything is true. That's there.
That anything is true or everything is true, but that's not the case that technical eggs. I think that
we want to get really philosophical about. It would say that
technically. It is possible for there to be a world where men can become the women re like or where there are
more than two sexes that is like possible, you could I mean for all, I know
there's, maybe a planet in the universe somewhere, where that kind of crazy stuff goes on
maybe there's a plant in the universe somewhere where people can fly like. There's flying elephants are like dumbo, I mean that's possible
there's a universe you could create where that exists. But that's not us, though, that is
this reality less than this universe? That's not this planet, it's not true
that's it the realities. Just it just is what it is. Then we happen to live in a reality where there are.
We too sexes mail.
Female and you cannot cross the barrier between the two. You might be
for that its other than that, but it just is this
We have to start there. You can talk about. Why is it this way with it? But it is this, and
the first step towards living.
The kind of well adjusted thriving prospers life.
to be able to understand and accept what is and then operate within those confines, because that's your only
did you find anybody in your film to be persuasive,
who was on the other side of this. Did anyone get close
to giving you an answer to the titular question and
was there any one who you kind of left thinking? Ok,
their misguided, but I admire them or their nice enough, or I mean
was there anything redemptive, in other words, about the exchanges that you had
no no one came close to persuading me. No one could even answer on outside could even answer the basic question, so they can. Actually
questions that we're not anywhere near the level of persuasion. Now there,
some people that I encountered, who were nice, and I was impressed with her.
stay used that was also rare, but that in fact, the first person we talk too in the film the therapist. We talk to
we do want, is gender affirming therapist.
and she was very very night. She was a very nice person, very sincere and
I was impressed with her now she was me too. She was also totally wrong. You know, and
that still remains in spite of how my she was? You realize
What is a woman part? Two is going to be a whole different deal for you right, yeah, that's one of the advantages of doing these interviews, the one a woman is that,
what what is woman didn't exist yet, and so that's one of the ways we can get away with doing those interviews. I have a question about the popularity of the film because
You know a film like this. I went to
and tomatoes, and I was expecting, like you know, a ninety per
us audience, but probably a twenty two from the critics- and I was surprised, you know- are
ninety six percent, but the critics. The tomato meter was eighty three percent and
I found that kind of amazing- and I wonder why do you think that is? That is
some of the big I've, unchecked around tomatoes, page in a wild. By last I checked its eighty
two percent, but it's like five. There are only about
mrs kinnock Selina,
most of them were. You know there were no mainstream critics at all who
when reviewing and we sent review
copies out all the mainstream critics and all the big publications
and we got back in many cases, we are backing male saying, like worsen.
Fact of f off. We don't know, but not the
not editing it like that they refused to lodge, they wouldn't watch
anything that I was in. They wouldn't want anything that deals with a subject from that angle, so
the critics and what they were hoping to do was just
to ignore it
if has ignored it, wouldn't give it oxygen and woods fizzle away, but that's not what happened. I think it took on a life of its own
and it man
storage bonds,
a much wider audience than I ever thought it would I mean it had. We knew we had something that was special and that would that had the potential to make an impact. I was worried
how much impact would actually make, because I knew that you know-
people who usually call your attention to films would just ignore it
It was able to break through that anyone is there any
to see it besides the daily wire. Do you have any other distribution deal? That's part of fascinating
fingers and it's on the delaware platform you gonna ones. Women are common, subscribe and watch it there, and even in spite of that, it was still able
Achieve a wine audiences are also, of course, tons of clips that are circulating all over the place is well. My last question was really
An extension of my first comment, which is I'm
sure why it's
successful as
It is, I do believe, it's going to continue to grow in a huge way, but I really wonder: is it because the topic of womanhood
and the whole conversation around transitioning is what it is.
Is it because the
country realises on some fundamental level that our land,
which is evaporating around us
are we losing
rationality in our vernacular, linguistically and justice
last point, chuckle. Remember one of the first conversations we had on this podcast that touched on this was around the house
Let's go brandon thing and my argument was look. I think the reason that caught on
wasn't, because it was a clever way to say ass Joe Biden, I think,
caught on because people finally saw and heard the opposite of what they were,
being told when that rapporteur said: oh
fair, yelling, let's go Brandon and we could clearly here the other thing he right. That's when a critical mass
of viewers. Just said now
No, no! No! No! No! That's not what I'm saying
it's, the emperor has no clothes and at base. I feel like
hans christian andersen somehow was watching what is a woman and nodding.
I think you're right about all that one of the interesting comments that I hear relatively frequently for people
The film is worse than the effect.
I ve been
for someone to make this movie, I dont know if they had. This exists.
concept darting in their head, or, I think
more what they mean just like they were
good. How crazy
all this is and that they are living in a culture that losing its grip on reality and there
not okay with it, but yet
most of what they see in media and so forth is just promote
so, they're looking for
something or someone who will stand in opposition to it. I think that's part of the
ass. I also think that people down, even as I said when I went into making the movie, I didn't- realize- obey
it was. I didn't, realize, pervasive and ubiquitous all this stuff was. I didn't realize
extreme and really gets ends
the people who didn't have experience of making it our brain now are not watching it. Maybe
having the same kind of eye open.
Experience and I did and then their passing along to someone else like you gotta see this, you can understand what really happening out there. What a brilliant
roll, though I mean to really
with the cherry on this to see a supreme court justice
least someone nominated unable to
answer the question
It's not a small thing. It's not just clinical psychologist
arguing or men on the street putting up stupid debates. It goes right to the very top, it seems and
the level of confusion. What is the answer by the way? Man? That's probably the last question. I should ask you: what is a woman? Spoiler alert
the spoiler say that like come on, of course, the
Actual answer is just adult human female
and by the way, there's a lot more. You could say about women are not just with volume of the amazon. Each individual woman, there's much
it's about her, but that is the simple and basic answer to the question
sugar and spice in everything nice is in bad either. You know what we should do
parents, because I've met some women that don't come forth
hey man. I really appreciate your time. I know you don't have a ton of it. I know you're busy over there, the daily wire chuck already plugged it pretty well, but
as a woman, dot com we'll get people to where they need to go up.
It's a fascinating look at a topic that dumb
is fascinating alot of people confusing a few I daresay, but give it a look. It's a great dark, chuck, final thoughts.
Well, I just want to say that it's not only a fascinating subject, but it's a real,
He really well made documentary. You know we had just in focus this podcast last year and when you guys were doing it and he couldn't talk about
At the time, but as soon as I saw It- and I didn't realize it- I saw his name in the credit. I immediately called him and said man. You have managed to do it. You ve made the best talk him her tree accede in like ten years, and it truly is
I recommend it to everyone and he had just come off the heels of no say
spaces and really, if you'll,
from a directory standpoint. These two movies rhyme really well.
Save spaces was really about conversations and words and being hurt by ideas,
This is more a rumination on being heard by a question, a simple question that turn
to be really hard for a lot of people to answer and good
you're mad walsh, proposing the question. Yeah final thoughts from you, we gotta go, take care that beard.
Here. While it takes hours of care everyday,
progenitor. I really liked here in particular that it was a
Oh well made film, because that is the one coming
We had over and over again while we're making. It is that this has to actually work as a movie. You cannot just be a bridging without all the
there goes to just falk who were you can have all the great footage in the world by
actually assembling it into some sort of.
Film is an entirely different matter, which was all the aims so now he did it right, but
some credit for yourself dude. I know how difficult it is not to shake your finger, not to scold,
not to lecture. I get it and that level of restraint is action
leave, the most persuasive thing you could have done, and I think anybody who watches the movie with both eyes open and an open mind is going to have to give credit where its due and there's a lot of credit. Do congrats.
Thanks mike pressure, when you leave a review, which we tells you and before you go
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