B (5:37)

I was just explaining to the folks about the next Tolkien movie after Hunt for Gollum, and. And the fact that we've partnered up with you to. To develop the script.

C (5:46)

So, yeah, I'm pretty happy about it. Should I tell people what the story is?

B (5:52)

As much as you want. Yep, yep, I will.

C (5:54)

As much as I can. You know what the books mean to me and what your films mean to me. But the thing I found myself reading over and over again were the six chapters early on in the Fellowship that y' all never developed into the first movie back in the day, that it's basically the chapter is three is Company through fog on the Barrow Downs. And I thought, oh, wait, maybe that could be its own story that could fit into the larger story. Could we make something that was completely faithful to the books while also being completely faithful to the movies that you guys had already made? And I started talking it over with my son Peter, who's also a screenwriter. And we worked out what we thought would work especially as a framing device for that story. And it took me a few years to scrape my courage into a pile to give you a call, but. But about two years ago, I did. You liked it enough to talk to me about it. And ever since then, the two of us have been working with the brilliant Philippa Boyens on how to Develop the story.

A (6:57)

So we're supposed to trust this whole project Because Colbert is allegedly a super fan of the books, he's really keen on all the little details of the canon. One of the problems here, aside from the fact that Colbert can't even write one liners on late night, much less a whole screenplay, is that Colbert claims to be a Catholic, but he doesn't take any of those canonical teachings seriously at all. He's pro abortion, pro gender insanity, openly mocks Catholics all the time. So you probably shouldn't hold your breath if you think Stephen Colbert of all people is going to take any text seriously, even if he claims to be a fan of it. But even if you trust Stephen Colbert for some reason, and even if you don't know anything about the Lord of the Rings at all, think about what he just said for a second. He's saying that there are six chapters in the Fellowship of the Ring which quote, could be its own story, which could fit into the larger story. That's exactly what these chapters already are. There are six chapters in the larger story. They aren't a story all by themselves. And those six chapters are so unimportant relative to the rest of the book that they were mostly, but not entirely dropped from the Peter Jackson films. There was no Tom Bombadil in the films, for example. But now we're supposed to believe that these six chapters are actually a self contained story that justify an entirely new film. So how will that work exactly? What's the framing device that Stephen Colbert is talking about? Well, if you pull up the log line for this doomed project, here's what you'll find. Quote, 14 years after the passing of Frodo, Sam Marion Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam's daughter Eleanor has discovered a long buried secret and is determined to uncover why the War of the Rings was very nearly lost before it even began. So translating that, we can assume that just like the anime, just like the Amazon Ring of Power series that nobody likes, this is going to be yet another piece of feminist propaganda designed to destroy one of the most unapologetically male dominated stories in Western literature. That's really what's going on here. They're going to have Sam's daughter go off and do some sort of investigation to find out why, to find out why the war was lost before. Like, who even cares? Why does that matter? I mean, we already know how the war is going to end. So her doing some sort of investigation into its origins. It's Like, I can't think of a. I can't think of a less compelling framing for a story than that. But the whole point is to take this female character and put her at the center of it, have her go save the world or something. Telling a story through flashbacks. These people know that Lord of the Rings had almost no female characters at all. And in fact it's something of a meme that there's like there are so few female characters that there's only, and I think in all the trilogies there's only one scene where two female characters interact with each other and it lasts about two seconds. Now, modern Hollywood sees that as a sin that must be rectified. Their intent on feminine feminizing the franchise and injecting female characters into it. They've decided that Tolkien's almost exclusively male story about male heroism must be retold through a feminist lens. So effectively, this is like feminist reparations. And if it bombs, they don't care. Win or lose, as long as they put something in theaters, they get to hold on to the rights for a little while longer. I've been with Pure Talk for a long time now, and it's always been important that the companies I work with share my values. Thankfully, Pure Talk is one of them. They're veteran led, which means helping veterans is one of their main interests, main missions. 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That's EQ I P foods.com Matt Walsh and use code Matt Walsh at checkout now at this point, you might think, well, so what? Hollywood's been terrible for a long time. No one cares about mainstream movies anymore, especially young people. Well, first of all, to the extent that that's true, it's still a major victory for the left. They exist to demoralize as many Americans as possible. But more importantly, this is not simply a Hollywood project. What's happening to the Lord of the Rings is emblematic of a much broader trend, which amounts to the deliberate, coordinated, mass feminization of American culture. Everything has to be feminized now. Men cannot have their own spaces. To use the lingo. Men are denigrated and discriminated against as a matter of policy. At the same time, women, as well as emasculated men who claim to be women are elevated and promoted at every opportunity. You know, there's no better illustration of this phenomenon than what's happened to the Boy Scouts. Of course, there's been a lot of commentary about this, but it just perfectly illustrates what we're talking about. And, you know, as we know, the Boy Scouts are are gone now. As of 2025, the Boy Scouts have rebranded as Scouting America after several years of accepting girls and homosexuals. Yes, they were accepting girls into the Boy Scouts, supposedly as a way to boost membership. Meanwhile, the Girl Scouts still exist, and according to their website, as of today, they don't allow boys to join. So girls have a gender specific scouting organization to join and boys don't. That's the way it works everywhere. Now. Watch.

D (13:57)

After more than a century of the Boy Scouts of America, the organization is changing its name to Scouting America. Officials say the new name will reflect all the changes they've made over the last few years to be more inclusive for girls and the LGBTQ community. They started allowing gay youth in 2013 and girls in 2016. Today, the organization has over 1 million scouts. More than 176,000 of those scouts are female.

E (14:23)

When we changed our program five years ago to allow girls, we've now had thousands of women earn the rank of Eagle Scout. So I think there's a pride point. We're happy to continue preparing young people for a lifetime of character and citizenship in our great country.

D (14:46)

The name change will not go into effect until February, marking 115 years of the organization.

F (14:52)

I got my Eagle Scout in 2021, so I've been an Eagle Scout for three years now. I've had a lot of trouble in the past explaining to people that I'm not exactly part of the Girl Scouts program. Scouting America sounds a lot more inclusive of all of the other people that are in Scouting.

G (15:09)

The argument that I make with the people that say, well, I always like Boy Scouts of America or bsa, why do we have to change? Membership is at historic lows. Part. Part of my job is to reduce all the barriers I possibly can for people to accept us as an organization and to join.

F (15:26)

Having it nationally recognized that girls are being welcomed and included in Scouting allows it to be a more safe space just in general. But I think it's also important that Scouts everywhere feel like the national Scouting community is accepting them.

A (15:43)

So he says the reason they accept girls into the Boy Scouts is that membership was too low, which is really a remarkable statement. You know, it's like a. A goat farmer who says, I don't have enough goats on my property. Time to bring in some wolves so that I get my numbers up. Actually, if membership is. Is low, the solution is not to destroy the organization, nor is the solution to promote gay Scouts and hold LGBTQ struggle sessions or whatever. The solution is to build an organization in which parents, not random pedophiles, organize outdoor activities that are actually interesting to young men. If you're having trouble attracting young men to your organization, then work on making the organization more appealing to young men and feminizing it and bringing girls in will have the opposite effect. So, you know, you follow the. The. The. The trajectory here. You know, first there was Boy Scouts, and then we were told, well, girls need to have a thing too. So then they made Girl Scouts. And then. And then the women said, well, yeah, but that's not fair. We also want to do the Boy Scouts also. And then men said, okay, well, can we go to Girl Scouts? Nope. We want to have our own thing, and we want to have your thing, but you can't have Your own thing. That's the way it goes. Now, it's quite possible that Democrats, if they, you know, if, if Boy Scouts did decide to only be for boys, it's possible that Democrats would sue over that, since every good idea is a civil rights violation, but know it would have been worth a try. Instead, they simply eliminated the Boy Scouts entirely, while the Girl Scouts continue to exist without any problems. Now, one of the reasons this is happening is that even with the rise of gender insanity, most people outside of states like Washington and California can agree that it's important for girls to have their own private spaces. When males invade a female space, it's clearly makes girls less safe. It robs them of opportunities. That's just a matter of basic biological reality. A male in a female's locker room poses a much greater threat than a female in a male's locker room. So you don't need to affirm any unpopular ideas or commit any transgressions against feminism to make that point. And at this point, most people are willing to make that point. They're willing to say that no, we shouldn't have these men in these female spaces. But the argument for keeping women out of male spaces is more dangerous because the point there isn't that men are made less safe or that the women will out compete them. That won't happen. The point is first that men are more suited for many of these roles. Many of these roles in these, in these institutions that are typically male dominated. The reason they're male dominated is that men are typically more suited for those roles, generally better at them. You know, if you did an honest survey of the 10, 000 people in the world most suited to be astronauts or military generals, all 10,000 would be men. And we all know that. And second, when you wedge women into an institution, you destroy the male fraternal camaraderie in that institution. Women are inevitably scandalized by how men relate to one another. And so their inclusion means that everybody now has to start acting like chicks, basically. You know, we saw this play out with the various female defectors from the MAGA movement. People like Ashley Sinclair getting a lot of attention in the media right now. A lot of think pieces and profiles about the women who are part of the MAGA movement and are now, now swearing it off. And you know, these women, what happened is a very similar situation. They showed up to a heavily male space, immediately got their feelings hurt because men are acting and speaking like men and then went crying about it and demanding that changes are made to better accommodate them. So that's why people are less eager to make the case for male only spaces, because it requires you to be more honest than most people are prepared to be. In fact, even in the Girls Scout, the Girl Scouts, they're not being entirely honest about their position. They have an obvious problem to confront. The left now defines a girl as anyone who claims to be a girl. So how exactly do the Girl Scouts prevent a male pervert from saying that he's a girl from, you know, and so that he could take advantage of the situation? Well, it turns out that dilemma came up a few years ago, and here's how they handled it.

B (20:03)

The Girl Scouts criticized on social media for offering gender inclusive options for their sleepaway camps, meaning girls can opt out from having a trans in their tent. I think I've got that right. But they're walking it back on.

H (20:16)

I would say the national Girl SC Scouts is. They're different from the local Girl Scout organizations. And a local council sent parents a camp camp forum asking, what is your child? What is your girl's preferred pronoun? And how do you feel about sleeping arrangements? And this is what Girl Scouts USA answered. We're committed to creating a safe, welcoming, supportive environment where all members are empowered to be themselves as they discover their strength, et cetera, et cetera. But they ended it with this. Accommodations for transgender youth are made with the local Girl Scout Council to best support each troop and member. So Girl Scouts are from kindergarten through 12th grade. Some of these girls might have identity issues. Girl Scouts USA not taking a stand, in my opinion, and saying it's up

B (21:02)

to the local chapter walking away from the issue, in fact, making no decision.

A (21:05)

Yeah, it's up to the locals.

H (21:07)

It's up to the locals passing the book. And quite honestly, up to the locals parents, because the parents are signing those forms.

A (21:14)

So notice what's happening here. The Girl Scouts know that they can't have boys inside the girl spaces. But they also know that if they say that out loud, they'll get bankrupted by lawsuits from trans activists. So instead, they make you read between the lines. They leave the decision up to individual chapters and parents, which is to say, they don't make a decision at all. They're hoping that fathers will be enough of a deterrent, which may or may not be the case. The point is, this is how convoluted and backwards our institutions have become. They're more feminized than ever. Even as the words boy and girl have lost all meaning to the left. The more powerful the gender industry becomes the more universally feminine our culture becomes. And unequivocally, that's a bad thing. So we'll start with the data on some of the institutions that have been feminized in this country, because this is a universal problem in Western society. 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The same is true of pharmacy, dentistry, optometry, veterinary medicine, psychology, all of which, all of which were male dominated in the 1960s and 70s and all of which are now overwhelmingly controlled by women. And in all of these cases, this did not happen naturally. It was an engineered change. It was a top down change. It was people saying these institutions must be, must have more women. And so we are going to force them in whether, whether they are suited for it or not. Something like 75% of psychologists are women now, when in the 1970s it was closer to 20 to 30%. And, and so then people also wonder why men don't go to therapy or don't go see psychologists. Well, I think there's a lot of reasons why they don't, but one of them is a man's not going to sit down and tell his feelings to a woman. He's not gonna, he's not gonna sit down and consult a woman for, you know, for, because a woman can't relate to what, to what he's going through. Now, outside of these fields, which are mostly medical in nature, the trend continues. 62% of the writers on streaming shows are women, according to a study from San Diego State University. And when it comes to casting, women typically play the characters who are highly moral and competent, while the white men are dysfunctional terrorists. This is just, this is just one of about a million examples from a recent BBC show. Like I said, there's a million examples, but it's just one of them. Watch.

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Go ahead, mom. It looks like Blitlock got hold of those Home Office documents via Freedom of Information requests. He made a total of nine requests during his time in prison. Nine freedom of information requests. It sounds like Whitlock had it in for the Home Office. He accused the government of covering up the true stats on undocumented migrants.

A (26:19)

Fair to say something of an obsession for the land.

I (26:22)

Whitlock's 4chan account MARM deactivated last month because sending you the post that got him kicked off the platform.

J (26:30)

Like history books say, the last land invasion of England was 1066. In actual fact, the last land invasion of England was Yesterday morning at 9:45 when a boat carrying 40 undocumented male migrants landed in Dungeness, Kent. That is 440 fighting age illegal male migrants. Land invasion is an act of war. In war, civilians are allowed to fight back. We're supposed to fight back. And the next time a boatload of fighting air cage males lands on our shores, we'll be ready.

I (27:07)

Turn the car around.

A (27:12)

Nine Freedom of Information requests. My God. And then there's the part where he gets banned on 4chan for posting a selfie video, which makes no sense for at least three reasons. One, no one posts selfie videos on 4chan. Two, no one has an account on 4chan that can get banned in the first place. And three, even if 4chan did ban accounts for posting selfie videos, they definitely wouldn't ban someone for criticizing foreign migration to Europe. I mean, that's about as tame as it gets. But for the women who write this show and produce it and star in it, none of these issues matter now. What's what's important is that the white guy is a terrorist because he wants access to government data on the number of murderers that foreign invaders are committing. Let's continue, because streaming is just one example of this phenomenon. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 66% of PR specialists are women. So we've come a very long way from the Mad Men era, to put it mildly. Union management gigs transformed into so called human resources department, which as we all know are controlled almost entirely by women. Even a profession like accounting and auditing, which you'd expect to be male dominated because it involves numbers and men are in general better at dealing with numbers, is now 59% female, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Actually, if you have the time, I'd encourage you to pull up the labor statistics website yourself to see how stark this transformation really is. You know, women are the majority in so many of these fields. The majority of management professionals. They're the majority of business and financial operations specialists, judges, librarians, paralegals, medical scientists, arts, design, entertainment, sports and media occupations, health care practitioners, insurance sales, school bus drivers, mental health counselors, claims adjusters, quality assurance specialists in computer software, advertising and promotions managers, budget analysts, insurance underwriters, social workers, post secondary teachers, and every other kind of teacher, interior designers, event planners, credit counselors, loan officers, business managers, so on and so on. Half A century ago, most of these fields looked very, very different. And in response, you might say, well, that's what progress looks like. Now that women are in charge, you know, everything's better. But that would be a lie, because everything is not better. Quite the contrary. I would challenge you to name one institution anywhere in existence that has gotten better, more effective, more efficient, more productive, as it has become more forcibly feminized. Out of all those professions I just listed, have any of them improved in the past few decades? To your knowledge, do you think advertising is better now? For example, do you think Don Draper could learn some lessons from the women who permanently demolish the image of Cracker Barrel and Bud Lights? What about the insurance industry or therapy? Have there been any breakthroughs there? Aside from the coordinated effort to diagnose every child with some form of mental illness so they could be given drugs for the rest of their lives? How about judges? Are they doing a better job now? Unless you're a fan of criminals who repeatedly get out of jail, including criminals who literally murder children while they sleep, which we saw in the Ronald Exantis case, for example, you'd be hard pressed to praise the changes in the judicial branch in this country. So what has gotten better, exactly? Space travel certainly hasn't. Astronauts were 100% male in 1969 when they were doing stuff like landing on the moon. And today, every graduating class at NASA is roughly 50% female. And NASA basically hasn't done anything in 20 years. Supposedly they're going to start doing things again. They're going to supposedly launch a mission to the moon next week. I hope they do. But things have slowed down considerably as the institution has gotten more forcibly feminized. So, you know, if you can think of anything I'm missing, let me know. And I'm not being sarcastic, but the more that we see women being forced into positions in order to fit these feminine, you know, feminization quotas, the more important this question becomes, has it made anything better? Anything? Consider what's just happened over at the so called Church of England. This is a Protestant church that long ago decided to promote LGBT clergy, female clergy, gay marriage, and all the rest of it. So it's not really a real church, but for nearly two years, the role of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the highest ranking cleric of the Church of England, has been vacant. And, you know, no one's really cared. The Protestants in England managed to make themselves totally irrelevant by disregarding scripture, embracing every trendy tenet of leftism to the point that they just left the role of archbishop Vacant. And it wasn't a big deal. The tens of millions of baptized members of the church really weren't bothered by it. But the other day, at long last, a new archbishop was named. And for the first time ever, appropriately enough, and predictably enough, the archbishop is a woman. The Church of England is now officially led on a day to day basis by a pro abortion, pro open borders, leftist, feminist woman with absolutely zero regard for scripture. Watch.

I (32:31)

I solemnly commit myself before you to the service of the Church of England, the Anglican communion and the whole church of Christ throughout the world that together we may proclaim the gospel of Christ who reconciles us to God and breaks down the walls that divide us.

A (32:58)

Let us greet our newly installed archbishop. Well, she's happy, so, you know, that's good. It's one of the great tricks of the modern left that they demand and receive thunderous applause as they degrade everything they touch. These are people who insist on inclusivity that goes in only one direction. Inclusivity that disenfranchises men and elevates incompetence on the basis of, on the basis of gender or race. Now it's no great mystery how this happens. Put simply, there's no one standing in their way. There's no resistance at all. Conservatives in the United States will rush to protect female only spaces spaces, which is appropriate and necessary in most cases. They'll condemn the Wii spa incident where a man tries to force his way into a woman's locker room. But at the same time, for all of their bravery in protecting women's spaces, very few conservatives have done anything to protect male only spaces. They've done nothing. They don't even talk about it. They haven't announced plans or funding for a new boy scout program. They haven't brought massive lawsuits against schools and employers that discriminate against men in the same way that they've sued schools and employers that discriminate whites and Asians. I mean, they're not even talking about this problem. It starts with that, talking about the forced feminization of every single institution in the western world. Not talking about it. You know, it's maybe the single most overlooked and neglected issue in all of American culture and politics. And that's hard to believe that, you know, it's an accident. Men, including young men, need more opportunities to participate in their shared interest beyond social media and video games and politics. And this country used to offer plenty of those opportunities. And although you aren't supposed to say it, we were a much more cohesive, efficient and competent country. As a result. I'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you on Monday. Have a great day. Godspeed. I do believe that if people have committed treason against the United States of America, their statues should not be in the Capitol. History is written by the victors, and since the 1960s, we've been told mostly by people whose ancestors didn't even live here. During the war, the south committed treason. But if the Confederates were traitors, then why was Jefferson Davis never put on trial for treason? What were Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson afraid of? Do they know something they're not allowed to say? Today, it's time for the truth. So here it is. Robert E. Lee was a military genius and a man of immense honor. He was beloved by Americans from the north and south for a century after the war. This is the real history of the Civil War,

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