Transcript
Alex (0:00)
Foreign.
Ben (0:04)
You guys, we need to figure out what is going on with MAGA men and why they are so obsessed with drag queens, with women's gynecological appointments, with trans people. They seem so consumed with pointing out and worshiping other men for their masculinity. And sometimes the answer is an art. And for those of you that watch White Lotus, I think White Lotus had a scene this past weekend that explains exactly what's going on in the repressed minds of all maga. Quote, unquote, alpha male. Listen to this.
Chris (0:44)
One night I took home some girl, turned out to be a lady boy, which I'd done before, but this time, instead of the lady boy, the lady boy me. And it was kind of magical. And I got in my head, what I really wanted was to be one of these Asian girls getting by me and to feel that.
Ben (1:14)
So I really genuinely think when I saw this, I thought, this is kind of what we've been saying about these MAGA men. If you listen to right wing podcasters and right wing media, all they talk about are trans people. And then you have dipshits like Bill Maher who's like, the left has got to quit talking about trans people. I'm like the left. The people who talk about this all the time and have devoted their lives to it are right wing podcasters. And now, bizarrely, Bill Maher, you. And the Freudian question in all of this is, why? Why are you so consumed with this? And I think these MAGA men, this scene from the White Lotus, although fiction, I think it is a real window into the repressed mind of a MAGA male. The obsession with drag queens, the obsession with talking about masculinity. Jesse Watters spends every night talking about how studly or manly or not studly or not, mainly some man is that in and of itself is bizarrely not manly at all.
Dana (2:25)
Right.
Ben (2:26)
And so what is your take on that?
Dana (2:28)
Well, the first thing I thought of when I started seeing this is you have, what is it? Over 90%, maybe 95% of fundamentalist, evangelical super Christians are MAGA. And why is that? They're sexually repressed. Being gay is bad. And they talk about it all the time and they're trying to convince themselves it's bad. Bad because it feels good to them or they like it or there's some kind of turn on that they get because you never, ever, ever hear anyone but these mag men talk about being gay or trans. And when I found out there are actually 10 athletes that are trans in the whole NCAA, I just thought, are you kidding me? You'd think there was an army.
