July 4th Special: Best of 'The Vince Show'

0:04Dan Bongino:Hey everybody, welcome to Vince, the Independence Day edition. Yes, we have Independence Day content for you. What do you think? I was going to leave you with nothing? Of course I've got something good for you. In fact, all of the content you're about to see has never before been seen or heard on the podcast because yes, we did it, but we did it on the radio show and it's great, great stuff. And it comes with a special feature. It's not just audio. It's also video. It's wonderful. Before we dive into the big show, got to thank our great sponsors. We can thank Brickhouse Nutrition because they're wonderful.

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3:14Dan Bongino:Check it out. We had a big victory in the United States Supreme Court yesterday. It should have been a 9-0 decision. Instead, it was 6-3. Of course, the three lefties on the court sided with child abuse. But the other six justices said, no, we're going to get on the side of protecting children. And that's what they did is they considered a law in Tennessee that bans the mutilation and chemical distortion of children under the guise of so-called gender affirming care. care the court siding with decency and the law yesterday the reason it even got this far uh due in no small part to my next guest matt walsh of the daily wire joins us right now matt good to have you on the show today sir hey thanks for having me um what does this mean to you this supreme court decision well i think it's look it's a historic historic decision and uh in many ways i I think it's the death knell of the trans movement, of the trans agenda, which many of us have been fighting for years now.

4:14Dan Bongino:And the reason why I say it's the death knell is because the trans activists have been relying on the force of the courts to force this issue on the American public because they can't win the argument. And even as of the last few years, we've seen, of course, in Tennessee, we passed a law banning child mutilation, child castration, which is which is the law that ended up. In the Supreme Court, vindicated in the Supreme Court, many other states have also passed similar laws. But trans activists have said repeatedly that, hey, well, it's OK, because the courts are going to strike it down anyway, because they're just used to that.

4:47They're used to having the courts bail them out.

4:50Dan Bongino:Right. And they need that to happen. And now and now obviously the highest court in the land has has ruled on the subject and established binding precedent. And so that's that's it. That's their their their last gasp or last hope was that. And now what it means is that there's a level playing field and they're going to have to go out and make the case. They're going to have to actually go out and make the argument. They have to explain why they think it's a good thing to perform these procedures on kids. And they can't do that. It's an indefensible position and they know it. So I think that's where we're at.

5:24Dan Bongino:Yeah. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurring opinion yesterday and as usual was the opinion worth reading the most. And in it, he described that self-described experts have, quote, compromised their medical recommendations to achieve political ends. Really, as far as the Supreme Court justice goes, that's about as scathing as it gets to condemn the so-called medical practitioners for instead allowing their politics to hurt children. Yeah, exactly. And he's right that this is one of the problems with the argument we've heard so many times over the years that there's a medical consensus. There's a consensus in the medical field that it's a good idea to, you know, give chemical castration drugs to 13 year olds.

6:07Dan Bongino:And the problem is, number one, actually, is not this consensus. There are many so-called actual medical experts that have come out against this, especially in places like the UK, but even here, and increasingly so. But also, number two, we know that the experts can get it wrong. We saw this with COVID. We've seen this many times. The consensus can be wrong. I mean, it wasn't all that long ago when the consensus of medical experts got a letter saying that, you know, even though COVID was supposedly this deadly thing, we all just stay locked in. It's OK to go out as long as you're protesting for BLM.

6:40Dan Bongino:Then you'll be somehow somehow you'll be exempt from from the virus. There was a lot of medical experts who said that. So they just it's possible for people to get something wrong and just discredit themselves in the process, especially when they are calling when they're when they're advocating for something that is clearly ethically and morally deranged as they were here. Although, you know, I will say that, you know, as you really to emphasize the point you're making, the American Academy of Pediatrics yesterday came out and condemned the decision and were on the side of castration for these children.

7:16Dan Bongino:These we still have these major institutions that have for many years carried respect as some sort of like noble pediatric group of doctors. But instead, they're they're using their power to hurt these kids. It seems pretty clear that they're captured, Matt. they are captured they're captured ideologically they're also they're i think that they've painted themselves into a corner and that they feel like they can't get out of they're they're they're sort of beholden now to this because what's the other option you know you've got these so-called medical experts who came out five years ago six years ago out of nowhere and today it turns out that actually boys can be girls we never told you guys this before but now you can't that But, you know, it turns out that's the case.

7:57Dan Bongino:If they reverse course now and they say, oh, hey, actually got that wrong. Yeah. Well, then they have to admit that they have inflicted this horrific abuse and permanently damaged untold numbers of kids and adults, by the way. And that has all kinds of legal ramifications, financial ramifications for them that that so they can't allow that. It's the same reason why you're always going to have you're always going to have the extremists who will defend this to the hilt, will defend it to the death because they're invested in. You've got parents who, you know, went along with this and did this to their kids.

8:35Dan Bongino:And a lot of them are going to feel like, well, I can't back out now. I'll have to admit that I've done this horrible thing. Yes. And so that's why the fight will continue. Yeah. And and if people like Ketanji Brown Jackson are involved in the judgment of all of this, it's it'll get worse again. Because during the oral arguments for this case, she said out loud that castrating a child is the same as an interracial marriage. She made that comparison. She said getting in the way of child castration would be like getting in the way of an interracial marriage in the United States. So they're willing to take this to ludicrous levels to defend it.

9:10Dan Bongino:They are. And that, you know, that that was her desperate attempt to to make some sort of argument that this is a violation of the Equal Protection Clause. you know, the guarantee that we're all equal under the law. But the problem, there's a lot of problems with that argument. But the main one is that that has to do with immutable characteristics. Race is an immutable characteristic. Transgender status, and this is something that the majority opinion pointed out, and this was a key point in the arguments, is that transgender status is not an immutable characteristic. It changes by the second.

9:45Dan Bongino:I mean, if I say that I'm a woman now, that I'm a woman, if I wake up tomorrow and say I'm a man again, that I'm a man and you have to trust that you have to go along with that. And that's not according to me. That's according to the trans activists themselves. By their own testimony, transgenderism is not immutable. It can change. It's fluid. They use the word fluid, gender fluid, right? So how can you say that, you know, if I say I'm gender fluid, how can you say that being gender fluid is immutable? It makes no sense. It's a contradiction in terms. It's like saying you're a married bachelor.

10:13Dan Bongino:So the argument just falls apart immediately. Instantly. Instantly. The predicate to your involvement in this, or I know you were interested in this for a time, but you really went after Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee for what they were doing, the kids. Can you just get us back to that and what you were able to achieve? Yeah, it was almost years ago that we launched our investigation into Vanderbilt in Tennessee. And, of course, I'm in Nashville. And we had been on this topic for a long time. Of course, I've been in the fight against the trans madness for years before that. But we realized that, you know, if you want to wake people up to the realities of what's happening, it's you have to get specific.

10:54Dan Bongino:It's one thing to just speak in general terms that, oh, these terrible things are happening to kids. But now we have to start looking at it. Well, this this hospital is actual hospital, this supposedly esteemed medical institution is doing. Here's what they are doing right now. And we kind of revealed all of that. And we posted on X and Twitter at the time. And it kind of started a snowball effect in Tennessee. And next and after that, we did a big rally and some of our lawmakers in the state came and attended the rally. And then they responded to that with a law banning these procedures. And, you know, all of that, the whole time, and I think the real benefit even of our investigation into Vanderbilt, it was not really to like to convince people that it's wrong to do this or to convince people that men aren't women i think most people never needed to be convinced most people always knew that but there was a time when most people didn't realize that this was actually happening they didn't they didn't realize that they didn't want to accept that no kids are actually being castrated they're actually being mutilated they're chopping the breasts off of 15 year old girls and so it's like this so we need to raise awareness a lot of people know this is really happening yes once we did that once people knew that it was happening i think the rest kind of happened uh naturally from there i do think awareness is important but i think it goes a step further than that matt also remember it was just a couple years ago that people were scared to talk about this at all they were they were intimidated they thought that their lives would be somehow upended by acknowledging the truth so people were cowed into silence and it was seeing people like you be vocal and factual that i think gave a lot of people hope and heart to be like wait a second i I totally agree with that guy.

12:31Dan Bongino:Let me add my voice to this conversation. So I do I do think part of this was just the courage to speak up. Yeah, I think that's I think and that goes back to it's still not being a matter of persuading people necessarily because they already knew. But, yeah, that's the thing when you have and we've seen this happen, especially over the last five years and many other contexts. We saw it happen with COVID. We saw it happen with BLM and George Floyd, where there's this like mass hysteria that takes hold of people where they're not necessarily convinced of something, but they're afraid to say what they know to be true and they just sort of go along with it.

13:02Dan Bongino:But the one thing about mass hysteria is that it comes on very quickly and it will often, the fever can break very quickly also and usually just takes a few people standing up and saying, this is crazy, not going along with it. And then shortly after that, a few more people join in and next thing you know, you know, we've restored balance. You can topple the insanity. So one One thing I've noticed being in this space, being in media, is that sometimes when I talk about this topic, I'll get an email, for instance, from, say, a pediatrician who starts yelling at me that I don't know what I'm talking about and that this is good, this is good for children, and on and on, making some sort of kind of ridiculous defense of why it's okay to abuse kids.

13:43Dan Bongino:Have you encountered that? I imagine your incoming on this must be crazy, including from people who purport to be medical professionals. Yeah, I've certainly encountered that a lot over the years. a little bit less now, actually. I think that the, and like we talked about, there are still the trans activists that are never going to go away. They're never going to shut up. But I think that the energy has been zapped out of the movement in a lot of ways. And in particular, the kind of mainstream figures, the elected Democrats on the national stage, most of them don't want to talk about this. They'd rather just, they'd rather pretend it never happened.

14:22Dan Bongino:They know it's an indefensible position. They don't want to be in a position of having to defend it, which is why the response, you know, in certain in the in the fever swamps on the left. Yeah, they were going nuclear over this decision, but it was a little bit more muted in the mainstream, at least from my vantage point. And I think that's because they just don't they want to have this conversation. They know they're on the side of chemically castrating kids, and they know that that's indefensible. Yes. And they don't want to talk about it, which is all the more reason to press the issue even more.

14:55Dan Bongino:Because, you know, your opponents don't want to talk about it, force them to talk about it. We have the advantage, and let's press it. Yeah, there's a lot of doomers out there, people who think that everything always heads in the wrong direction. But when we get wins like this, we should acknowledge them. And it's happened from time to time. Like this, stopping castration of children, great. Stopping men and women's sports, wonderful. Everyone's on our side on that issue. Saying that police are good for actually bringing security to communities, the right clearly won that debate. I mean, there are clear signs of progress here, Matt, and you are so often at the center of so many of them.

15:26Dan Bongino:I just want to thank you and congratulate you again for all your work on this, sir. Well, I really appreciate that, man. It means a lot. Thank you. All right, Matt. Thank you very much. That's Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire in a well-deserved victory lap here for him and his efforts. And of course, I didn't even mention his movie. What is a woman? Which which I think I think a lot of people were able to wake up to what the hell was going on just by seeing that. It's a fantastic movie, an incredible movie. And in a world where you look, I mean, you know, I've been in conservative media forever. Not everything's a hit.

15:59Dan Bongino:There's a couple of misses. You know, some things are poorly produced. They don't they don't really get the message out the way you want to. Or they're they just on the budget to achieve what they set out to do in the first place. But with that movie and with Matt's talent, they were able to do something really big and important. And so all the cultural effects that he's talking about here, there's no question that the guy deserves to take some meaningful credit for that. I hope you're loving this show. I love making it, so I just love being a part of it. We've got to thank our sponsors. You know, I don't just slap my name on anything.

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19:30Dan Bongino:Maybe he purchased it. I don't know. Maybe insider trading finally resulted in a nice electric guitar. He didn't bother tuning it. No one tuned it for him. And it resulted in this remake, a parody version of Hey Joe, becomes Hey Trump, as sung by Hank Johnson, a man who believes too many people standing on one side of an island will result in its capsizing. Listen to this. I'm compelled with a new guitar and with some thoughts about that old song, Hey Joe, you know, to give some commentary on where we are now. Oh no. Oh no. Hey Trump.

20:20Where you going with that gun in your hand?

20:26Dan Bongino:I think we finally answered the question, Jim. He's not good at anything. There's nothing. You always hold out hope. You figure, well, maybe there's something else they could do. We're just going down the list with Hank Johnson.

20:47Hey, drop.

20:52Where you going with that gun in your hand?

21:00Dan Bongino:Ever been to a bar and then all of a sudden live music begins and you didn't expect it? You know, you're sitting there with a buddy, two of you just having a drink. And then right at the corner of the bar, somebody starts strumming a guitar. You know, I don't know. They knew a guy or something and they end up there sitting on a barstool playing, and they set up a little cup for the money. Is there any chance you're reaching for your wallet here, Jim? You're going to pull a dollar out for this guy? Like, maybe a pity dollar. Zero chance. No chance. No chance.

21:34I'm going down the street and shoot down democracy. Shoot down democracy? You know I want to be a king someday.

21:49Dan Bongino:Really, honestly, you could have tuned this thing. What kind of guitar is that, Jim? Did we get an answer? That is an abuse of a Fender Stratocaster. Okay. All right. So this is a beautiful guitar, more than capable of delivering a sweet sound. And he didn't bother to tune it, and he has no idea what he's doing with it. This is a weapon placed in the wrong hands.

22:13i'm going down and shoot democracy down