1 00:00:17,679 --> 00:00:21,320 Hello, and welcome to the Federalist Radio Hour. My name's Tristanjustice and I'm 2 00:00:21,359 --> 00:00:24,920 the Western correspondent for the Federalist. And joining me today is a Montana radio 3 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,640 host, Aaron Flynn. Aaron, how are you doing? Hey, I'm 4 00:00:27,679 --> 00:00:30,120 doing great. Great to chat with you, Tristan, big fan of your 5 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,840 work at the Federalist. Thank you. Now, are you based in Helena 6 00:00:34,039 --> 00:00:38,200 or Billings or Yeah, I'm based I'm based in Billings, But when we 7 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:41,759 go stayed wide with our radio show from nine to ten Mountain time, we're 8 00:00:41,759 --> 00:00:45,920 on the air in Helena and yeah, about twenty plus radio signals all across 9 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:50,359 Montana, so we take callers everything. Wow. So I want to talk 10 00:00:50,359 --> 00:00:55,280 about the stuff that's been going on in Helena. There seems to be quite 11 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:59,520 a few disruptions going national. But what you have at you know, the 12 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:03,120 Lettuce Chair of course pass this built to protect minors with genera dysphoria from undergoing 13 00:01:03,159 --> 00:01:07,480 these permanent procedures with hormone treatments and surgeries and all the kinds of stuff that's 14 00:01:07,519 --> 00:01:12,400 going on. But there's a transgender lawmaker up there who's making a fuss about 15 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:18,159 this and has been encouraging demonstrators to take over the capitol, and we've been 16 00:01:18,159 --> 00:01:22,439 seeing this play out across the country. What have you been seeing happening in 17 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:26,840 Montana. Well, I think what's really interesting, So the legislature just wrapped 18 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:34,159 up and the transgender lawmaker drama kind of consumed the final few days of the 19 00:01:34,239 --> 00:01:36,920 legislative session, but nonetheless they still had a lot of work done. But 20 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:40,000 what I find very interesting, so here in Montana, we have a ninety 21 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:44,840 day legislative session started back in January, wraps up by the end of April, 22 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:48,159 first part of May. So and they only meet every other year. 23 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,239 We do not. Our lawmakers do not meet every year, so they have 24 00:01:51,319 --> 00:01:55,959 a biennial session, right, And I think it was very clear since day 25 00:01:55,959 --> 00:02:00,680 one that this representative from Missoula, Montana and Zula, Montana for your listeners, 26 00:02:01,079 --> 00:02:05,680 is like the Berkeley, California of Montana. It's the Boulder, Colorado 27 00:02:05,719 --> 00:02:08,000 of Montana. Rights. It's the liberal hotbed. I went to college there 28 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:13,759 at a great town, but it's changed a lot because of the college campus 29 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:17,199 environment. All the radical environmental groups and other left wing activists that have kind 30 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:22,000 of found a home in Missoula, Montana. So that's where this transgender lawmaker 31 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,199 comes from. And I think it was very clear that very early on that 32 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:30,240 the Democrats and this Representative Zephyr from Assoula, We're going to try to figure 33 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:31,960 out a way to become a victim, try to figure out a way to 34 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,840 say, oh, those mean Republicans are being mean to me, right, 35 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:40,719 you know, the latest the latest victimhood Olympics. And really, I think 36 00:02:40,719 --> 00:02:46,199 the Republicans did an incredible job. They have a supermajority in the Montana Legislature 37 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:51,360 now because the Democrats have gone so far off the deep end, and so 38 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,560 obviously the Republicans have this supermajority. They're in charge. But I thought they 39 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:59,520 did a really good job throughout the entirety of the session really being kind and 40 00:02:59,719 --> 00:03:06,719 risk respectful to this representative and the rest of the Democrats, and and and 41 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:09,039 I think I think they did a very good job because I think from from 42 00:03:09,159 --> 00:03:13,400 day one, you know, we knew that this Representative Zephyr was going to 43 00:03:13,479 --> 00:03:17,439 be demanding access to the women's restrooms and they were going to be playing the 44 00:03:17,479 --> 00:03:23,000 pronoun game. But it's quite remarkable when you think about it that really it 45 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:27,759 wasn't until the final few days of the legislative session, that it took this 46 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:35,520 Representative Zephyr breaking House rules, breaking decorum, attacking fellow lawmakers with a bigoted 47 00:03:35,639 --> 00:03:42,000 attack on lawmakers of faith, then refusing to apologize for breaking those rules, 48 00:03:42,159 --> 00:03:47,680 then cheering on this trans insurrection, this transurrection, when these transgender activists ended 49 00:03:47,759 --> 00:03:53,960 up getting arrested for tussling with law enforcement and disrupting the democratic process on the 50 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:59,680 Montana House floor. So it's quite remarkable that that it took. It took 51 00:04:00,039 --> 00:04:06,960 Presentative Zephyr breaking the rules and then cheering on this mob in order to finally 52 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:13,919 get the national attention that representatives of Zephyr so desperately wanted from day one. 53 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:16,639 So I definitely I really want to talk about, you know, the media 54 00:04:16,639 --> 00:04:20,000 treatment of everything going on there, how they've covered this, how they've covered 55 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:24,480 Representative Zephyr, But I want to first go through some of the legislation that's 56 00:04:24,519 --> 00:04:27,680 been passed up there, because it's my understanding that there's not just one bill 57 00:04:27,759 --> 00:04:30,920 that the legislature passed on on these issues. They passed the bill protecting minors 58 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:36,560 with genera dysphoria from these permanent life altering interventions, but I understand they've passed 59 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:42,480 several pieces of legislation addressing this issue. Yeah. The other big one is 60 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:45,800 what's known as medical rights of conscience, which I'm sure you've been tracking in 61 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,079 other states. Which okay, So, not only did we pass Senate Bill 62 00:04:48,199 --> 00:04:51,199 ninety nine, and a great Vietnam veteran by the name of John Fuller, 63 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:55,759 a state senator out of Callus Bell, Montana, he was the author of 64 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:59,720 Senate Bill ninety nine. And so that's the legislation that would protect kids from 65 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:04,560 these radical transgender surgeries chopping off healthy body parts or giving them life altering drugs 66 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:10,759 that can lead to lifelong health complications and things like that. But in addition 67 00:05:10,759 --> 00:05:13,920 to that, there was a bill that Montana Governor Gregg and Forte sign into 68 00:05:13,959 --> 00:05:17,319 law that's known as medical Rights of Conscience. I believe it was the bill 69 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:23,720 carried by Representative Amy Rigear, also at a Callous Spell. And what this 70 00:05:23,759 --> 00:05:27,360 does is this says, hey, so not only has Montana now said, 71 00:05:27,439 --> 00:05:30,199 hey, we're going to protect kids from these radical procedures, but not only 72 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:35,040 that, but we want to protect nurses and doctors and other healthcare professionals from 73 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:41,680 being forced into having to take part in these horrific types of procedures as well. 74 00:05:41,759 --> 00:05:45,959 So so if you know, like much like we saw from Matt Walsh's 75 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,639 great reporting out of Tennessee where they where you know, they were busted on 76 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:55,240 camera saying hey, hey, hospitals, you're going to have to force your 77 00:05:55,319 --> 00:05:58,879 nurses and doctors to perform these procedures because you're going to make a lot of 78 00:05:58,879 --> 00:06:02,079 money doing these procedures on these kids. So you're gonna but you're gonna have 79 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:05,759 to force nurses and doctors to partake in these procedures because they're not going to 80 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:10,560 want to do this to kids. So I think the Montana legislature and the 81 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:15,199 governor knew they've got to protect healthcare professionals from being forced into this as well. 82 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:18,199 So just like we don't want nurses and doctors being forced into having to 83 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:23,560 perform abortion, uh, we don't also don't want to protect our nurses and 84 00:06:23,639 --> 00:06:27,360 doctors from not being forced into having to take part in some procedure that might 85 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:31,439 remove healthy body parts off of kids. There's also a you know, a 86 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,399 drag queen story our targeting kids. There's a there's a bill that pass the 87 00:06:36,519 --> 00:06:45,199 legislative session on that front as well. Really these issues really became the I 88 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:48,360 think, the most in the spotlight types of issues for this legislative session. 89 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:53,879 Because if we're to look back on this ninety day legislative session here in Montana, 90 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,199 I think it can best be summed up by basically pointing out the fact 91 00:06:57,199 --> 00:07:02,360 that, Okay, here's the Republicans upermajority in Montana that just delivered over a 92 00:07:02,439 --> 00:07:08,480 billion dollars in tax relief, tax reduction in the rates, tax rebate checks 93 00:07:08,519 --> 00:07:11,839 that come out later this summer. So the Republicans delivered over a billion dollars 94 00:07:11,839 --> 00:07:17,319 in tax relief. And what defined the Democrats this legislative session wanting to do 95 00:07:17,399 --> 00:07:24,560 these radical transgender surgeries on kids and dragging drag queens to the capital so that 96 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:30,120 they can read to kids. What in the world and this is happening nationwide? 97 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:31,759 I mean, I made a list of all the states suit that where 98 00:07:31,839 --> 00:07:39,079 capitals of legislatures have been passing similar legislation as Montana and where these capitals have 99 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:46,000 come under attacked by transgender demonstrations Tennessee, Kansas, Kentucky, Florida, Oklahoma, 100 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:51,360 Missouri, Texas. I mean, I remember, for the last two 101 00:07:51,399 --> 00:07:58,240 and a half years, we had every single major media outlet of condemning this 102 00:07:58,319 --> 00:08:03,160 quote insurrection at the capital after January sixth, And I'm reading the Associated Press 103 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:07,519 last week over what's been going on in Montana that the conservatives are redefining what 104 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:13,079 an insurrection is to go after transgender people. And so of course there's some 105 00:08:13,399 --> 00:08:18,480 media culpability in all this, but you know, speak about trans transgender issues 106 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:20,759 at large. Um, you know, they said for years that this wasn't 107 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:24,839 happening, that these that there was no surgeries for you know, children under 108 00:08:24,879 --> 00:08:31,639 eighteen to permanently alter their bodies. But now we know, we have major 109 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:37,200 institutions bragging about how profitable these procedures have been for their bottom line. Vanderbilt 110 00:08:37,279 --> 00:08:41,039 University is a great example of this. The news came out last year by 111 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:46,240 Matt Walsh at the Daily Wire and I was just reading about Snapchat today that 112 00:08:46,279 --> 00:08:52,519 there is this reporter from the Babylon Well I wouldn't say reporter, but pundit 113 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:58,080 posts on Twitter how they were speaking to snapchats artificial intelligence robot, which is 114 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:05,200 on every single child's cell phone today. Who's got the Snapchat app? Which 115 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:09,799 seems like everyone quote, I feel like a boy. She wrote that three 116 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:15,360 times since napchats artificial intelligence, and just after three times she was being led 117 00:09:15,399 --> 00:09:18,799 to doctors who offered quote, gender firming care, which of course is a 118 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:24,080 misleading term in and of itself. But so, I mean, this legislation 119 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:28,879 is warranted, even especially after Democrats were trying to say this wasn't happening, 120 00:09:28,879 --> 00:09:31,919 this wasn't happening. Well, it wasn't happening. A this legislation wouldn't can 121 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:33,519 be necessary be if it wasn't happening. Why do you care so much that 122 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:39,360 the legislation is being passed? And see now you're you know, descending hundreds 123 00:09:39,399 --> 00:09:46,080 and hundreds of Approachans demonstrators on capitals across the country, which, according to 124 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:50,159 their terms, is an insurrection. Yeah, no, exactly, And it's 125 00:09:50,279 --> 00:09:54,720 it's so similar to the twenty twenty BLM riots that we saw on attacks on 126 00:09:54,799 --> 00:09:58,919 law enforcement, burning down police precincts, targeting US marshals at a federal court 127 00:10:00,039 --> 00:10:05,519 house, targeting law enforcement, burning down black owned businesses. And yeah, 128 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:09,000 they were so dismissive of hundreds of BLM riots. But yet then when it 129 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:13,320 comes to January sixth, that's all they can talk about. And yeah, 130 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:18,080 in a similar regard all of a sudden, they don't care about disrupting the 131 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:22,559 democratic process at a capitol. They don't care about tussling with law enforcement. 132 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:26,080 Don't call it it's like LLL COOLJ. Don't call it a comeback, but 133 00:10:26,159 --> 00:10:31,039 this is. Don't call it an insurrection. The media lectures us on and 134 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:35,919 and yet we see these attacks now taking place in state house after state house 135 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:43,279 after state house. It just once again exposes the hypocrisy of the liberal media 136 00:10:43,399 --> 00:10:46,639 mob. I mean the Associated Press for example. This is going to sound 137 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:50,919 like Inside Baseball, but you know here in Montana, let's say twenty years 138 00:10:50,919 --> 00:10:54,759 ago, if you were a local radio station in say, you know, 139 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:58,799 wolf Point, Montana, you'd rip out the AP headlines for the day. 140 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:01,759 You might have six or seven Associated Press news headlines for the day of Montana 141 00:11:01,879 --> 00:11:07,480 stories that the broadcast editor trimmed down for broadcast form and put it into broadcast 142 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:11,960 format. Today, you're lucky if there's one thirty second story sitting there waiting 143 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,519 for you, if you were to rip and read off the AP wire. 144 00:11:15,919 --> 00:11:20,000 Last week, they had three stories almost every single day, all on this 145 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:24,120 radical transgender lawmaker from Massoula. And they were and each story was biased, 146 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:28,919 and each story was calling him her and shoving the pronouns down people's throats. 147 00:11:30,279 --> 00:11:33,000 And I think you know what I've heard from so many women across Montana is 148 00:11:33,039 --> 00:11:37,120 that you know they're so desperate not to offend a man from Missoula, that 149 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:43,759 they're offending women from all across Montana. Right. You spoke about drag shows 150 00:11:43,759 --> 00:11:46,879 for kids your earlier Look, I don't have an issue with drag and of 151 00:11:46,919 --> 00:11:50,240 itself. I don't understand the fascination with it. I'm not particularly a fan. 152 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:54,720 I don't watch True Paul's Drag Race, even though I'm I'm gay, 153 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:58,000 and all my friends do. I just I don't understand the fascination with it. 154 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:03,399 But drag shows have absolutely no place for children. And but they all 155 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:07,039 hate this groom terminology. Okay, if you don't want to be called a 156 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:11,399 groomer, maybe don't groom children. Why are you? This was the question 157 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:15,919 that people here in Montana kept asking, why are they? Because they brought 158 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:20,120 drag queens to the capital and did a drag queen story hour inside our Montana 159 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:24,159 capital. And it's like, hey, hey, Zoe Zephyr, you got 160 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:28,279 your surgery as a thirty something year old male to now identify as a female. 161 00:12:28,519 --> 00:12:33,799 Nobody's barring anybody else like you from doing that. Nobody's telling you you 162 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:35,840 can't do that. Nobody's telling you you can't live your life that way. 163 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,559 Yeah. In a similar regard, I had a guy call in to the 164 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:43,360 radio show early on in the Drag Queen Story Hour debate when they were when 165 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:46,159 they did want it a zoo here in the state, and he said, 166 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:48,480 look, yeah, there there's a drag queen event that goes on at a 167 00:12:48,519 --> 00:12:52,879 bar in Bozeman. He says, I'm a straight white male. I go 168 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:54,559 to the event. I find it entertaining. He's like, but that's at 169 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:58,440 a bar. He said, that's not appropriate for kids. So why are 170 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:01,480 they so desperate to read kids and to talk to our kids? Like it's 171 00:13:01,519 --> 00:13:05,080 just crazy? And then with the surgeris why are they so desperate on targeting 172 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:13,639 the kids The Watchdoltor on Wall Street podcast with Chris Markowski. 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And now you have apps like 181 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:52,639 Snapchat or an artificial intelligence leading kids to doctors to provide this quote Jennior Firm 182 00:13:52,639 --> 00:13:58,639 and Carey. Now you have legislation and states like like Oregon, I believe 183 00:13:58,639 --> 00:14:03,039 it's Oregon, if that California, Colorado allowing minors to pursue these treatments without 184 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:09,600 parental consent. And so yeah, there's a real problem here. But back 185 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:13,159 to to See's effort. So the legislature has been working on this, uh, 186 00:14:13,519 --> 00:14:16,480 this package of transgender legislation for the past few months, and it was 187 00:14:16,519 --> 00:14:20,480 in mid April that the storyline really took off when you had this lawmaker from 188 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:24,000 Missoula. He's a he's a freshman representative, first term in the House, 189 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:31,799 first transgender representative in the House start taking this grand stand against this package of 190 00:14:31,879 --> 00:14:37,919 legislation, and mocked Republican prayers, claiming that if this legislation passed, then 191 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:43,399 Republicans could next time they pray, we'll see put blood on your hands. 192 00:14:43,799 --> 00:14:50,440 And so that demonstrably violated the quorum. House Republicans acted appropriately censured the representative 193 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:54,720 until he issued an apology. The speaker refused to recognize him, and he, 194 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:58,799 uh, you know, encouraged this mob of pro chance demonstrators to take 195 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:03,679 a the capitol. The legislature had to cancel the rest of the session, 196 00:15:03,159 --> 00:15:09,000 canceled an entire session the next day, and then ultimately ban the representative from 197 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,720 the rest of this year's legislative session. And like you said, the legislature 198 00:15:11,759 --> 00:15:16,799 only meets every other year, so he's not allowed back in the chamber for 199 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:20,559 the rest for the rest of the session. But now it's it's been going 200 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:24,960 even even further than that, I mean, the entire time, no one 201 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:30,039 took away the representatives right to vote in the legislature, maintains voting privileges, 202 00:15:30,159 --> 00:15:35,399 just can't participate in floor debate. After builing decorum and encouraging this transurrection, 203 00:15:37,039 --> 00:15:39,960 what else am I missing here. Yeah, no, you're you're hitting the 204 00:15:41,039 --> 00:15:43,879 nail on the head here, and and you shared the full story there. 205 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,840 Most of the left wing media, the legacy media, whatever, however you 206 00:15:48,879 --> 00:15:50,200 want to refer to them, they only give half the story. They say, 207 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:54,399 well, Zephyr was censured for saying blood on their hands. No, 208 00:15:54,559 --> 00:16:00,559 it's the attack on people of faith. If you attack a specific group of 209 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:04,600 people, you can't even say another lawmaker's name on the floor of the Montana 210 00:16:04,639 --> 00:16:07,960 House. I had a former representative, John Synrood's his name, and he 211 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,679 said, hey, you know, everybody gets fired up, everybody gets passionate. 212 00:16:11,879 --> 00:16:15,720 He said, one time I used another lawmaker's name during my floor remarks. 213 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:19,799 Well, that was against the rules. So I apologized and we moved 214 00:16:19,879 --> 00:16:26,120 on. And isn't it interesting that that there's representative Zephyr was so desperate to 215 00:16:26,159 --> 00:16:30,519 pretend to be the victim, so desperate to pretend to be discriminated against, 216 00:16:30,679 --> 00:16:36,879 to look like this fake civil rights hero, that representative Zephyr didn't want to 217 00:16:36,879 --> 00:16:40,440 be treated like everybody else, because everybody else would have followed the rules, 218 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:42,679 apologized and moved on, But but no, no, no, Zephyr wanted 219 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:48,200 different treatment. Wanted to be discriminated against, and they didn't discriminate against Zephyr. 220 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:49,600 They held Zephyr to the same rules that they held everybody else. To 221 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,399 another former lawmaker, his name is Roger Coopman. He was on our Public 222 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:59,480 Service Commission here in Montana as well, and he told a story there was, 223 00:16:59,679 --> 00:17:03,759 you know, the teachers Union activists showed up in the House gallery one 224 00:17:03,839 --> 00:17:07,599 session and they started getting a little raucous, They started getting a little routy, 225 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:11,519 they were starting to get out of hand, and the Democrat lawmakers on 226 00:17:11,559 --> 00:17:15,279 the floor at the time saw what was happening in the gallery above, and 227 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:18,039 they started calming the mob down. They said, hey, you know, 228 00:17:18,079 --> 00:17:22,480 because they knew, like, if this crowd didn't calm down, in violation 229 00:17:22,519 --> 00:17:26,559 of the rules, law enforcement was going to have them removed. The Sergeant 230 00:17:26,559 --> 00:17:29,160 at of Arms was going to remove these people from the gallery and it was 231 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:32,880 going to make the Democrats look very bad. And so the Democrats on the 232 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:37,400 floor quieted down the mob. Zephyr, on the other hand, stood there 233 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:40,519 on the floor. Well, everybody else was ordered to clear the flour because 234 00:17:40,519 --> 00:17:45,960 remember these transgender activists were throwing things at the lawmakers and the young pages that 235 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,480 are there helping with the legislature as well. So the sergeant at arms for 236 00:17:48,559 --> 00:17:53,279 People's Safety cleared the floor of the house, Zephyr stayed on the floor and 237 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:59,559 raised up the microphone like some rage against the machine, want to be right 238 00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:03,960 from some throwback nineteen nineties concert, raised the microphone in the air, raised 239 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:07,720 the fist in the air, and urged the mob on. Could you imagine 240 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:11,200 if on January sixth, the Republican had stayed back and was hanging next to 241 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:17,960 mister Buffalo head guy and was raising a microphone and cheering on the crowd at 242 00:18:18,039 --> 00:18:22,640 January six Oh man, they'd be in shackles right now. Who had also 243 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:26,359 remind listeners went to the Senate chambers and asked to pray for the officers. 244 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:32,559 So pretty remarkable contrast. But you know one thing about this whole thing. 245 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:38,880 This is not Selma nineteen sixty five. This isn't I feel like these demonstrators 246 00:18:40,039 --> 00:18:45,519 are treating this as this is morally righteous crusade for transgender rights to do these 247 00:18:45,519 --> 00:18:48,839 procedures on track, And even if it was, they were on the wrong 248 00:18:48,839 --> 00:18:53,319 side of the bridge. They're they're fighting to take away women's rights they're fighting 249 00:18:53,359 --> 00:19:00,400 to take away hard fought for women's and girls opportunities in sports Title nine. 250 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:03,160 They're on the wrong side of the bridge, even if they think they're in 251 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:07,480 Selma. You're absolutely right. And you especially saw that play out in Tennessee 252 00:19:07,519 --> 00:19:12,039 when you had these representatives begin to claim Republicans were being racist because to the 253 00:19:12,039 --> 00:19:18,240 three lawmakers centured who are expelled from the legislature are black. And so they 254 00:19:18,279 --> 00:19:22,599 did this massive march parade through Nashville with this massive crowd behind them as if 255 00:19:22,599 --> 00:19:29,119 this is Selma nineteen sixty five. Well, and and oh Man one of 256 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:32,759 us. So you went to George Washington University right in Washington, DC, 257 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:34,279 is at right, Tristan, That's where you went to college, right. 258 00:19:34,799 --> 00:19:38,839 So I started college at Howard University in Washington, DC, you know, 259 00:19:40,279 --> 00:19:44,880 and I was one of like six white guys there my freshman year, I 260 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:48,079 think. And I lived in the all male dorm, the all guys dorm, 261 00:19:48,599 --> 00:19:52,400 Carver Hall. And you know, when I would get done waiting tables 262 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:56,799 at night because I had to wait tables on Pennsylvania Avenue to pay for college. 263 00:19:56,799 --> 00:19:57,960 So when i'd get back late at night, I'd end up bs and 264 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:02,000 then having a good time, oh you know, you know, chatting it 265 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:06,480 up with the guys in the dorm. I'll guarantee you that that lawmaker in 266 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:10,240 Tennessee, the guy you know with the afro that pretended to be Hillary Clinton 267 00:20:10,279 --> 00:20:14,160 at a black Southern church. But I'll guarantee if I was back at that 268 00:20:14,319 --> 00:20:18,799 dorm, those guys would be laughing hysterically mocking that guy because he's such a 269 00:20:18,799 --> 00:20:22,240 phony. I mean, he goes from being Carlton on the Fresh Prince of 270 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:25,960 bel Air, you know, when he was at that that very ritsty college 271 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:29,480 in New Hampshire running for student body president, to all of a sudden, 272 00:20:29,519 --> 00:20:33,279 now he's like some some fake wanna be Al Sharpton. I mean, it's 273 00:20:33,319 --> 00:20:38,559 just like, what a phony. I love that transformation because I think it 274 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:44,480 says so much about how they approach these issues. I mean, it's it's 275 00:20:44,519 --> 00:20:48,960 it's like they're it's like they're LARPing the civil rights movement from and that's actually 276 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,400 pretty offensive when you get down to it, uh, treating these issues as 277 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:56,640 this you know, worthy righteous crusade for civil rights. Um. And it's 278 00:20:56,680 --> 00:21:00,839 not just I don't know if it's Justin Jenes, Justin Pearson who that massive 279 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:07,039 transformation, but you're seeing it across Democratic politicians, across the entire party. 280 00:21:07,279 --> 00:21:14,799 I love watching anytime Alexandrocazio Cortez talks about identity politics. She talks like she's 281 00:21:14,839 --> 00:21:18,039 a preacher at a Baptist church. I don't know if you've seen this. 282 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:22,119 When I remember when she did that town hall meeting and all of a sudden, 283 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:26,920 she's like, it's like, whoa what all of a sudden am I 284 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:30,279 watching Scarface here? Where did that accent come from? I mean, are 285 00:21:30,319 --> 00:21:33,480 you stealing money from a boiler down in Puerto Rico? Again? What the 286 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:40,160 hecks going on here? It's absolutely LARPing the movement from the sixties. But 287 00:21:40,599 --> 00:21:42,839 I want to get into how the media has been been treating all of this. 288 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:48,720 They pretended there was some big backlash against Republicans in Tennessee, as if 289 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:52,440 they're an electoral jeopardy for maintained a quorum and the legislature down there. They're 290 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:56,640 doing a similar thing in Montana. There's one wallmaker in particular, who's uh, 291 00:21:57,119 --> 00:22:00,759 you know, born the brunt of this attack from the media's I think 292 00:22:00,799 --> 00:22:07,440 she's from Billings Representive Carrie Sekum's wrote a column about her this week, NBC 293 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:11,039 News went back and found a clip of her speaking on the flour from several 294 00:22:11,039 --> 00:22:17,000 months ago about the mental health issues at her family has phased and claimed right 295 00:22:17,039 --> 00:22:22,279 in the headline something long lines of Montana lawmaker would rather have a dead daughter 296 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:27,160 than a transgender daughter. Which is this ridiculous talking point in the left about 297 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:33,319 transgenderism, even though there's multiple studies now showing that easier access to these actually 298 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:38,119 raises the risk of suicide. But this lawmaker, she wasn't even her her 299 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:44,440 daughter wasn't even transgender. She said nothing about her daughter struggling with transgenderism. 300 00:22:44,839 --> 00:22:48,480 Her daughter, she bravely shared this out in the house for her daughter had 301 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,279 a three year period where she was struggling mentally and had some suicidal ideation. 302 00:22:52,759 --> 00:22:57,319 And that was that speech was manipulated by NBC News, which was then, 303 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:00,799 you know, rippled across the media. Salon picked it up. Game media 304 00:23:00,839 --> 00:23:03,400 such as The Advocate picked it up to clean that you would rather have a 305 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:08,759 dead daughter than transgender daughter. Yeah, it was so outrageous, and you 306 00:23:08,759 --> 00:23:12,440 know, and it's crazy too because just like you pointed out here, we 307 00:23:12,559 --> 00:23:18,000 know that that when it comes to these these radical transgender surgeries where they're going 308 00:23:18,079 --> 00:23:22,880 to chop healthy body parts off of kids or given these puberty blockers, you 309 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:26,799 know, you start hindering bone development. What's that going to do to somebody 310 00:23:26,839 --> 00:23:30,960 down the road. And so you think about it, even if somebody did 311 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,920 have a kid that was struggling with gender dysphoria. Here you've got these folks 312 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,680 on the left and these greedy folks from some of these associations that want to 313 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:42,079 profit off of off of these challenges that these kids are facing. And they 314 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,839 say, oh, that's it, you just need you need to chop off 315 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,599 their body parts or they're going to commit suicide. When what we've seen in 316 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:52,000 Sweden, even Elon Musk pointed this out. What we've seen in Sweden is 317 00:23:52,039 --> 00:23:57,960 that is that actual suicides, not just suicidal ideation, actual suicides went up 318 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:03,000 in a big way after the surgery, after the surgeries took place. And 319 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,640 now, now if they want to counter that and say, well, that's 320 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:10,799 because they still faced a lot of societal blowback and pressure. No, this 321 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:15,440 was in Europe where they fully embrace this, where the society embraced this type 322 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:19,039 of this type of culture, and yet it still happened, So maybe there's 323 00:24:19,079 --> 00:24:23,599 something else at play there and so so yeah, they and so. But 324 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,880 here's the other big picture thing I think that we can take away from that. 325 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:30,480 So, so are these activists in as NBC News and these others are 326 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,440 they are they telling, you know, parents all across America, now, 327 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:37,799 well, if your kid, if your kid says they want something, you 328 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,119 just have to give it to them. I mean, you, you as 329 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:42,839 the parent, you don't know what's best for your kid. That's six year 330 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,680 old knows what's best for that six year old. If that six year old 331 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:52,119 wants a smartphone and and a TikTok account and a tender account or what are 332 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,880 you just got to give that kid a smartphone? Because if you don't give 333 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:57,640 that kids smartphone, I mean, you don't know what it's going to do 334 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:00,920 to them. If that little kid likes playing cops and robbers and wants to 335 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,799 walk around the neighborhood with a loaded gun, you have to let them do 336 00:25:03,839 --> 00:25:07,799 it. Otherwise you're a bad parent. Is that what they're really suggesting here? 337 00:25:08,079 --> 00:25:12,240 The other thing, Jeremy carl is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, 338 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:18,880 and he made a really fascinating point this bully campaign that Zephyr has engaged 339 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:22,079 with from the floor of the Montana House. You lawmakers, you'll have blood 340 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:27,519 on your hands because he's suggesting that, well, if you pass this bill, 341 00:25:29,079 --> 00:25:33,640 there's gender dysphoric kids out there that are going to kill themselves. Almost 342 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:38,359 every single LGBTQ organization out there, there were several that Carl named in this 343 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:42,559 piece that we had on our Montana Talks website, have specifically said, do 344 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:48,000 not say that, do not do that, because you are promoting suicide. 345 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:53,119 You are encouraging suicide. And when you look at what these left wing activists 346 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:57,440 are doing, think about it. What is the message they are sending to 347 00:25:57,599 --> 00:26:03,640 these kids that are struggling at these issues out there? All these people hate 348 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:07,519 you, they dislike you, they're trying to erase you off the face of 349 00:26:07,559 --> 00:26:11,079 the earth. No, we're just saying you better wait till you're eighteen because 350 00:26:11,079 --> 00:26:15,400 you might decide to identify in a different way ten years from now. So 351 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,640 maybe you don't want to chop that body part off yet, right, But 352 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:26,680 they are literally promoting suicide. They are promoting suicidal ideation amongst all these kids. 353 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:30,279 They want these kids to be angry. They want these kids to hate 354 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:34,279 these Republicans or these parents who are simply trying to protect them. That has 355 00:26:34,319 --> 00:26:38,839 got to be one of the most sinister, disgusting and evil things. So 356 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:45,519 they claim to be LGBTQ, yet at the same time they're promoting talking points 357 00:26:45,799 --> 00:26:51,119 and legs and policies that would actually be very harmful and lead to more suicide 358 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:56,400 amongst the very groups they claim to be protecting. I mean, there's it's 359 00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:00,559 just a crazy story all around, right This ll near about about, you 360 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:06,160 know, kids being denied access to purity blockers being more suicidal is such a 361 00:27:06,279 --> 00:27:11,319 deeply dishonest a talking point to exploit that, you know, this pain that 362 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:17,519 families are struggling with these issues. I don't think it's any it's any secret 363 00:27:17,559 --> 00:27:22,359 that kids today are facing an unprecedented amount of stress. I think technology has 364 00:27:22,599 --> 00:27:26,359 really become a poison in the classroom more than it's helping us at this point. 365 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:30,319 In a lot of ways. It's like, I can't imagine going through 366 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,160 elementary, middle and high school with the level of access to social media that 367 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:38,920 kids have now today, and you have on across these platforms, these elite 368 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:45,920 institutions telling kids that they can change their sex and gender willy nilly without fear 369 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,839 of consequence and so and I also think, you know, especially with the 370 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,559 delay of puberty as testosteron levels front, you know, there's there's one, 371 00:27:52,599 --> 00:27:56,519 there's there's one, there's one data point I would love to find out there. 372 00:27:56,519 --> 00:28:02,039 I would love to see the Tystosteran levels in men today who claim to 373 00:28:02,079 --> 00:28:06,880 identify as women as as Tasha, and levels drop off a cliff, which 374 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,160 is an issue that nobody's talking about. I think you have, you know, 375 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:15,759 this generation of people who are going through puberty later and it's confusing them. 376 00:28:15,799 --> 00:28:18,759 And when you have all these institutions saying, well, maybe it's it's 377 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,039 maybe you're not depressed, maybe you're just transgender, and you plant that seat 378 00:28:22,079 --> 00:28:26,160 in their mind and then they convince themselves that they're transgender, and then it 379 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:33,200 creates this saga into an ray or of confusion, and then they become lifelong 380 00:28:33,279 --> 00:28:37,440 medical patients. And so I think, you know, this whole narrative of 381 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:41,440 well as person might kill themselves if you don't let them do what they want 382 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:48,039 to do here is so deeply dishonest. And the fact that they regurgitated that 383 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:52,519 to go after this Republican lawmaker just because she supported legislation to protect kids from 384 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:59,480 these life changing procedures. Is it really speaks so much to how our media 385 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:03,400 operates in this country and relieve what their motives are. And so when we 386 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:07,480 talked about NBC, you talked about an associated press trying to redefine insurrection, 387 00:29:07,519 --> 00:29:11,799 to go after Republicans and protect these these approachans demonstrations. I want to know, 388 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,160 you know, as a as a as a local radio host up there, 389 00:29:14,599 --> 00:29:18,119 you're really you have such a better pulse than I do on how the 390 00:29:18,119 --> 00:29:21,599 local media has been covering the saga. How has the local media been treating 391 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:25,680 this all? The local media is an absolute train wreck. And even the 392 00:29:25,759 --> 00:29:29,880 good local journalists that want to do journalism and want to be fair and want 393 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:33,559 to be unbiased, that their outlets won't allow them to be to be real 394 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,920 journalists anymore. You better use the pronouns, You better use the pronot. 395 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,559 You know, I can do a full radio show talking about Representative Zoe Zephyr 396 00:29:42,759 --> 00:29:51,160 from Missoula without using any pronouns whatsoever. Ud David Dewhurst is his name. 397 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:55,599 He was Montana's solicitor general. He spoke at a Montana Family Foundation banquet once 398 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,000 and he made a really great point. I think, by the way, 399 00:29:59,039 --> 00:30:02,640 I think he's Wow. I bet better not say where he's at now because 400 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:04,720 I can't remember which state he's in now. But anyway, incredible guy, 401 00:30:04,799 --> 00:30:08,279 very entertaining guy. But he gave a speech at the Montana Family Foundation banquet 402 00:30:08,279 --> 00:30:11,960 a few years ago and he said, he said, you know, as 403 00:30:11,039 --> 00:30:15,039 lawyers, and I think this could could, or at least should apply to 404 00:30:15,079 --> 00:30:19,920 journalists as well. He says, we swear an oath to tell the truth. 405 00:30:21,559 --> 00:30:23,680 When we get admitted to the bar, we take an oath to tell 406 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:27,440 the truth, and you could you could also say this as journalists. I 407 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,039 mean, I don't think any journalists are you know, putting their hand on 408 00:30:30,079 --> 00:30:33,759 the Bible or even the Quran for that matter, to swear to tell the 409 00:30:33,799 --> 00:30:37,279 truth, right, but they should be committed to telling the truth. And 410 00:30:37,359 --> 00:30:41,319 he raised this question, well, how does that work when it comes to 411 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:45,680 gender pronouns. I mean, if somebody's a key but identifies as as she, 412 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,400 Well, if I'm you know, sworn oath to tell the truth, 413 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:49,839 what am I supposed to do? What am I supposed to say? So 414 00:30:51,279 --> 00:30:55,519 I don't go out of my way, you know, to poke a transgender 415 00:30:55,599 --> 00:30:59,440 lawmaker in the eye, I just treat it more, you know. But 416 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,200 but but I'm also not gonna lie and call a he a she for example, 417 00:31:03,279 --> 00:31:07,640 right, so instead I why do I need to use pronouns at all? 418 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,319 And he talked about doing that in legal documents, where you just refer 419 00:31:10,359 --> 00:31:14,440 to the lawmaker by name or whatever. Right, And that's kind of a 420 00:31:14,519 --> 00:31:21,079 roundabout way of coming back to the liberal media and how you're not even allowed 421 00:31:21,079 --> 00:31:25,799 to be a journalist anymore in most places other than places like the Federalist or 422 00:31:25,799 --> 00:31:30,240 talk radio. But they've been biased for years there. They're constantly in the 423 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:36,799 back pocket of the Montana Democrat Party. What's been kind of funny to watch 424 00:31:37,079 --> 00:31:41,680 is because of all the national attention with this Zoe Zephyr story, you can 425 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:47,200 tell all of these pr firms are descending on the Capitol and Helena. They're 426 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:51,759 invading the Montana Politics hashtag on Twitter, and so a lot of tweets are 427 00:31:51,759 --> 00:31:55,440 getting a lot more eyeballs than they used to get, and you're seeing a 428 00:31:55,480 --> 00:32:00,559 lot more nasty rhetoric from the bots from the left and the liberal media descended 429 00:32:00,599 --> 00:32:04,960 on this story and it's just like the era and it's just like the era 430 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:08,960 of COVID nineteen when we had a Democrat governor who was issuing statewide mandates and 431 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:15,039 there were lockdowns taken place. We the people of Montana very quickly pushed back 432 00:32:15,079 --> 00:32:19,000 against that nonsense, and that governor got basically got his butt kicked in the 433 00:32:19,079 --> 00:32:22,720 United States Senate race in twenty twenty as a result of it. But if 434 00:32:22,759 --> 00:32:27,039 you were to just read Twitter, or if you were to just see what 435 00:32:27,119 --> 00:32:30,720 the TV stations are reporting or what the newspapers are reporting, you would think, 436 00:32:30,799 --> 00:32:35,599 oh, yeah, these mandates and these mask mandates and these lockdowns. 437 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,079 Yeah, I mean, it's it's the right thing to do. It's backed 438 00:32:38,079 --> 00:32:42,400 by the public. But if you actually saw reality and got out there and 439 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,119 talk to real people or listen to talk radio, you would quickly realize, 440 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:51,480 oh, man, no, this is very unpopular and so in much the 441 00:32:51,559 --> 00:32:53,160 same way, if you were to just look at Twitter and look at local 442 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:57,240 media and national media, you would think, oh, yeah, the public 443 00:32:57,319 --> 00:33:00,920 is a gas at the fact that this that the rules were being enforced on 444 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:07,160 this lawmaker from Assoula, when in reality people think that it is nuts what 445 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:12,640 the Democrat party is pushing here and and and they think real women should get 446 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,359 should get a microphone, and should get the attention. And they're sick and 447 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:22,640 tired of this man from Missoula hog and all this attention, right, And 448 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,279 I want to get that to that point about pronouns. You know, I 449 00:33:24,319 --> 00:33:30,039 mean, I love compassion. I have the most compassion for people who are 450 00:33:30,039 --> 00:33:34,759 who are struggling with these issues. I will call to their you know, 451 00:33:34,799 --> 00:33:37,759 in person, when I've seen them face to face. I will call someone 452 00:33:37,839 --> 00:33:39,359 whatever they want to be called. It's like someone whose name is Robert, 453 00:33:39,519 --> 00:33:44,880 but they go by Bob whatever. But any paper of record, UM, 454 00:33:45,119 --> 00:33:50,240 when you are you know, paid to tell a story truthfully, UM, 455 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:54,000 you're supposed to use the accurate pronouns in align with one's biology. But instead 456 00:33:54,039 --> 00:34:00,559 we've kind of created this culture where people are just making stuff up and so 457 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:04,480 and to get to same zephyr. It's my understanding that, you know, 458 00:34:04,559 --> 00:34:09,360 none of the lawmakers were rude to this person. Um, I think they 459 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:14,199 were very kind. I think there, especially the Republican women, were just 460 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,599 you know, when you'd have you know, just off air conversations with them. 461 00:34:17,639 --> 00:34:22,679 I think they have such a heart for this lawmaker from a zola where 462 00:34:22,679 --> 00:34:25,519 they just you know, they feel bad for the struggles that that lawmaker has 463 00:34:25,599 --> 00:34:30,519 faced, and you know why they're in this position that they're in. And 464 00:34:30,559 --> 00:34:34,119 so these are compassionate people who, yeah, they bent over backwards. They 465 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:38,119 they installed bathroom locks so that the women can still feel safe that are using 466 00:34:38,119 --> 00:34:43,800 the women's room. And you know, they men on the floor of the 467 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,960 house. They're supposed to wear suits, but they didn't force this biological male 468 00:34:47,039 --> 00:34:50,840 to wear a suit. They gave an exception there. So you know, 469 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,320 they were bending over backwards to be kind. But this this lawmaker was was 470 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:59,320 determined to be a martyr, was determined to become a national celebrity and get 471 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,840 rewarded by NBC and MSNBC and CNN. Well, one thing I wanted to 472 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:07,360 mention, like what you were saying, Tristan, which is, hey, 473 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,440 look, however you live your life, you do you this is America, 474 00:35:09,599 --> 00:35:15,000 right right. I interviewed Rob O'Neill. He's the Navy seal who killed Osama 475 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:20,239 bin Laden. He's from Butte, Montana, and I interviewed him because he 476 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,079 basically, you know, he was talking about the Navy having this drag Queen 477 00:35:22,119 --> 00:35:28,199 in their recruiting video and how it's a bunch of bs and and and he 478 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,559 made the point like he's like, look, whatever you do in your off 479 00:35:30,639 --> 00:35:32,559 duty hours, hey, that'sk you. You do your thing. I got 480 00:35:32,599 --> 00:35:35,880 nothing against you. If you want to go be a drag queen, you 481 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:37,719 go, do you, he said. But you know, but when it 482 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,440 comes to the military, the first thing you do when when you join, 483 00:35:42,079 --> 00:35:45,519 they shave your head and they put you in a uniform because it's about the 484 00:35:45,559 --> 00:35:49,760 team. And I thought that was such a great point. And and you 485 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,199 know, because i served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I've served with people 486 00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:58,559 of all all sorts of backgrounds and you know, different lifestyles, and I 487 00:35:58,639 --> 00:36:01,440 love every single one of them in credible people. So but but this is 488 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:07,440 about protecting kids, and this is about and this is also about protecting our 489 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,840 freedoms and not being forced into compelled speech and a violation of our constitutional rights. 490 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:15,880 And it's also about basic basic truth here at some point, right and 491 00:36:16,119 --> 00:36:21,199 I can say for a listeners as Western correspond you know, I've I've traveled 492 00:36:21,519 --> 00:36:25,920 the entire region talking to voters and and you know, people out there and 493 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:30,960 the press. This this what I've learned is that there's this kind of small 494 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:36,039 el libertarianism that is so present out in the Mountain West. Um, they 495 00:36:36,039 --> 00:36:39,440 don't care what other people do, just as long as you don't beat them 496 00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:44,400 alone, let them do whatever they want. Yeah, And it's kind of 497 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:50,320 like the marijuana thing. You know. Even Montana legalized uh recreational marijuana, 498 00:36:50,679 --> 00:36:52,320 right, And I think that's because, you know, a lot of us 499 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:57,840 are kind of like, hey, gol, I I'm not happy necessarily about 500 00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,000 the drug culture. I'm not happy about the marijuana stuff that's going on. 501 00:37:01,079 --> 00:37:05,639 I think it's fueling the fentel and the merril and the meth increase that we're 502 00:37:05,639 --> 00:37:07,559 seeing once again, just like it did in Denver, Colorado. But I 503 00:37:07,599 --> 00:37:09,119 think at the end of the day, we're kind of like, hey, 504 00:37:09,119 --> 00:37:13,559 man, you know, we've also got friends that that do marijuana, that 505 00:37:13,599 --> 00:37:15,599 do the gummy thing, and you know what, again, you do you 506 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:23,480 But with the transgender the angry transgender activists worse in here saying hey, yeah, 507 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:27,159 you guys, go do your thing. You go do the marijuana gummies, 508 00:37:27,199 --> 00:37:29,559 you go smoke marijuana. That's you. Hey, I don't want to 509 00:37:29,559 --> 00:37:31,280 smoke it, but but you got you guys, do your thing, these 510 00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:37,679 radical transgender activists like you will eat the gummy, you will use the pronouns, 511 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:39,840 you will smoke the joint. And it's like, guys, what happened 512 00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:45,639 to live and let live? Or I guess I shouldn't say guys, right, 513 00:37:45,679 --> 00:37:52,840 And you have this lawmaker who is capitalizing on this um, this, 514 00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:59,280 this caricature that legacy media has painted of any any dissident to this kind of 515 00:37:59,679 --> 00:38:02,960 trans gender ideology. Who is there? Is us? You know? It 516 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,280 comes to mind when I think about all these state lawmakers grant standing on the 517 00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,960 trans issue, is that that woman in Texas and I can't I'm blanking on 518 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:14,440 her name, but she made this, uh she did this filibuster in the 519 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,760 Texas Senate over abortion a number of years ago. And I think a number 520 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:24,119 of state lawmakers are starting to realize that they can capitalize on this depiction of 521 00:38:24,119 --> 00:38:29,320 of conservatives the media is painted to build their own profiles. And so I 522 00:38:29,199 --> 00:38:32,159 imagine that's that's a big part of the agenda here. Even though no one's 523 00:38:32,159 --> 00:38:37,800 denying, uh, this lawmaker to pursue whatever treatment they won. No one's 524 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:43,840 design denying in the Mountaina adults to pursue due treatments and yet their grandstanding as 525 00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:47,239 if this is uh, you know, the modern civil rights movement. And 526 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,440 you know, I was reading the New York Times this morning, Like you 527 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,440 said, the lawmakers in the Chamber have been extremely courteous, have gone out 528 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:58,360 of their way to be courteous to this, to this representative um in not 529 00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,679 spreading the New York Times that the House Speaker Matt right, I'm not sure 530 00:39:00,679 --> 00:39:04,159 if I'm gonna say this correctly. We're here, yeah, we're here. 531 00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:10,880 Yeah. One of the first things he did was ensure adequate and safe in 532 00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:16,679 private bathroom axis um right away. And somehow the New York Times made that 533 00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:22,199 out to sound like a bad thing. And yeah, you know, yeah, 534 00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:24,760 the New York Times article, we love the headline. Here in Montana, 535 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:28,519 I know the New York Times meant it to be a hit piece on 536 00:39:28,559 --> 00:39:34,840 the Rigear family because Speaker Matt Rigear is the son the father State Senator Keith 537 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:39,119 Rigear, Chair of Senate Judiciary. Speaker Matt Rigear's sister, Amy is the 538 00:39:39,559 --> 00:39:44,599 Representative Rigear. She is the Chair of House Judiciary. And they're just a 539 00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:47,760 rock solid family. And so the New York Times headline was something to the 540 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:53,480 effect of this family is why Montana is unflinchingly conservative, and Matt was like, 541 00:39:53,519 --> 00:39:57,440 man, I love that headline, but but then you read the article 542 00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,320 and you can tell all typical New York Times they're trying to make get a 543 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:04,880 hit piece here, and you know what's fascinating about this. So just like 544 00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:08,199 the legacy media, the liberal mob media, the Twitter verse is trying to 545 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:14,519 attack Speaker the House Matt rigear as some sort of anti trans or oh he 546 00:40:14,599 --> 00:40:20,079 was so awful the way he treated Zoe's effort. The closing remarks when they 547 00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:24,039 right before they did signy dye or Senada, however you want to pronounce it. 548 00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:30,920 The House Minority leader Kim Abbott took to the floor and in her closing 549 00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:35,960 remarks, she said, mister Speaker, you have been the biggest surprise of 550 00:40:36,039 --> 00:40:42,320 this session. I have enjoyed working with you. Whenever I needed to talk, 551 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:45,079 you were available. It's like, Wow, how come that didn't make 552 00:40:45,079 --> 00:40:49,480 the New York Times piece. I guess that didn't fit the narrative for the 553 00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,360 New York Times. I guess that didn't fit the Zoe zeph For narrative either. 554 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:58,079 Absolutely, so I just want to wrap up with this question. You 555 00:40:58,159 --> 00:41:00,800 know, the saga has been going on Montana for number weeks now. It 556 00:41:00,039 --> 00:41:06,559 seems to have died down this week after Zephyr sued to regain four access but 557 00:41:06,599 --> 00:41:10,159 a judge denied, spelling out how the Constitution explicitly states that the House can 558 00:41:10,199 --> 00:41:14,840 do stuff like that, so the separation of powers. What do you think 559 00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:20,719 this entire three weeks saga has exposed about how media, and more broadly, 560 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:25,199 the left operates. Yeah, I think mob tactics, and I forget who 561 00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:30,320 first started using this media mob and o'hannity uses it a lot, but mob 562 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:35,880 tactics, bullies, drive by media is how the Great Rush Limball always referred 563 00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:39,360 to it. So so the media just did their drive by attack on representative 564 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:43,679 carry Seekins Crow. They did their drive by attack on Speaker of the House 565 00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:50,079 Matt Riggear. Thankfully the Federalist you did a great piece exposing NBC and telling 566 00:41:50,119 --> 00:41:53,639 the real story. There another drive by attack. I think it just once 567 00:41:53,679 --> 00:42:00,320 again shows that journalism is dead with these legacy media outlets, that not only 568 00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:05,039 will they not tell the truth, but but they're being forced to tell a 569 00:42:05,199 --> 00:42:08,400 lie and do cheerlead that lie. But you know, like you said, 570 00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:13,000 yeah, they've packed up their camera bags and moved on to the next state 571 00:42:13,039 --> 00:42:16,000 house facing a transurrection. The other the other thing that I just wanted to 572 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:21,559 share that I find really interesting about all of this on the radio. And 573 00:42:22,119 --> 00:42:24,920 uh and I think in the Federalist piece that I wrote earlier this week, 574 00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:30,159 I tried not to use specific body parts, but I think since we're on 575 00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,079 this is a podcast, so can I use specific body parts? Is that 576 00:42:32,119 --> 00:42:35,400 okay? Would offend some of your listeners, do you think, Tristan? 577 00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:40,360 I don't know. I haven't asked that question. Matter is okay always you 578 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:45,599 can edit it out or I'll give you a second version. But basically this 579 00:42:45,679 --> 00:42:49,840 is not me saying this. So this whole Zoey Zephyr story comes out. 580 00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:54,519 Then we share a background piece on Zoey Zephyr. Who is Zoey Zephyr And 581 00:42:54,559 --> 00:43:01,400 it turns out as Zoey Zephyr didn't really even transition until twenty nineteen, went 582 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:09,559 through the surgery last year. So basically in twenty twenty two, Zoey Zeffer, 583 00:43:09,639 --> 00:43:15,000 who had the birth name Zachary Rash, who was a high school wrestler 584 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:21,000 apparently anyway, so this, So think about it this way. So Zoey 585 00:43:21,079 --> 00:43:25,599 Zephyr in twenty twenty one had a penis, and then in twenty twenty two, 586 00:43:25,679 --> 00:43:34,800 zoe Zephyr has the vaginal plasti and this female body part created. Right. 587 00:43:35,599 --> 00:43:40,679 So this ranch woman, a ranch mom in northeastern Montana, she read 588 00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:44,960 this story that we had on our Montana Talks website and her response was this, 589 00:43:45,039 --> 00:43:47,760 she says, She says, Wait a minute, this guy just got 590 00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:53,679 his vagina last year. I have bottles of ketchup and my refrigerator that are 591 00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:58,519 older than his vagina. But now he's the expert on women and what it 592 00:43:58,559 --> 00:44:01,280 means to be a woman. I mean. And that's the type of reaction. 593 00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:05,280 And I was shocked that, you know, ranch women are pretty tough 594 00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:10,039 anyway, but I was shocked that this specific ranch mom outright said it the 595 00:44:10,079 --> 00:44:15,199 way she said it, but it really puts it in perspective. Well, 596 00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,079 on that note, Aaron, thank you for joining me as a pleasure. 597 00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:22,679 All right, Tristan hey great reporting. Has always enjoyed reading your coverage in 598 00:44:22,679 --> 00:44:22,960 The Federalist. Thank you