Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
[00:00:07] Speaker B: Titled Pride Month is Dying or why Pride Month is Dying.
My view on it is you might have noticed a lot of the corporations did not change their social media logos to the Rainbow.
There's been reports of Target stores, which were notorious for how in your face they were, are really not promoting those displays quite the same.
One of the other things I think is significant, it's anecdotal, but it matters, is in the comments sections under when sports teams or whatever announced their Pride Night, it used to be 50 to 1 in favor of, oh, this is great, we got to support these people, too. Now it's the opposite direction. It is few and far between for support and just a lot of people saying, we're sick of it. This, we don't need to do this. Stop it.
But then there were statistics that the GOP in the last three years has seen its gay marriage support drop by 14%.
And a Guardian report last year said that US just across the nation, support for LGBT rights and gay marriage and things like that dropped for the first time since 2015.
So I feel like a vibe shift is happening. Some people say it didn't. And what I was going to bring you guys into this conversation to talk about was the objections that I got. And I'll start with the first one.
This is only a result of the election. Some people pointed out that, you know, government funding was pulled from certain things. Maybe companies and others aren't getting money kind of filtered through back channels for promoting these things. That's a possibility, but that is the only reason. And with the change of president, it will be completely back to where it was in 2021, 2022. What do you guys say to that?
[00:01:48] Speaker C: I disagree. I disagree. I think the reason we have the president. We have is because the vibe shift was already taking place before the president.
I think people are tired of it. The dilemma of anything. You reference this in the article, that's immediately where my mind went on this. I think the though obviously we do not support alcohol on this podcast, we don't support Bud Light, anything like that. That was a turning point that Bud Light really overstepped and everybody said, hey, this is a beer company. What are you doing with a transgender person that doesn't represent, quote, unquote, American values?
That seemed to be a huge overstep on their part. A huge misstep, I should say. And so, yeah, that was already taking place. This vibe shift, you were feeling it. And I think Covid was kind of the wake up moment for a lot of people concerning government concerning blm, concerning lgbtq. All of those things I think kind of came into the public consciousness of. Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute. I don't think this is right. So I don't think this is a political shift just because of Trump being in.
I certainly think that helps, like, shut some of these things down. I don't think it's. Yeah, I don't think the. The vibe shift is just from that, though. Will, what are your thoughts?
[00:03:00] Speaker A: Yeah, I agree with you completely. I think about two things. One, and both of these have to do with kind of transgenderism being wrapped up in the LGBTQ agenda. I. I think. And, Jack, I think you made it at the excellent point in the article. Like, this is where that inevitably leads. Like, there is no just stopping with gay marriage and, you know, just let them do what they want to do. And. And that's. That's. That's the end of it. That's all they're asking for. At the end of the day, it's not because it devolves into a lot of these other things that we're seeing, but I think about how much the transgenderism movement, I do think has harmed. And I think obviously that's positive for us because we don't believe in it, has harmed this agenda for two reasons. One, and Joe, you're right about the Dylan Mulvaney thing. I think that was a huge, huge aspect of this. When you see the.
The. The. The boxer is the one that I think of. Of course, Leah Thomas is pretty well known of the man that dominated the women's competition, women's swimming competition.
Riley Gaines was now a. Is a prominent commentator, essentially like a political commentator, and she made the news for essentially kind of calling this out, brought a lot of attention to it. And everybody saw those pictures. Like, yeah. Huh. That's. That's kind of weird, considering he's this guy. William Thomas that changed into Leah Thomas is, like, over six feet and, like, very broad shoulders. And then that boxer, I apologize, I don't remember the name, but that news just came out that it. Yeah, the news came out recently that it was confirmed, just like we all suspected, that he had male genetics. Male. Male DNA. And. And so I think that combined with.
So there's the one side, I think, also Elon buying Twitter to the point where a lot of the stuff that was going on that was just horrific stuff being done to kids, obviously, Drag Queen story hour. But, you know, basically, kind of some of the things that. What the. These people, the transgender individuals and of course, homosexuals what they're doing in the school systems and all that. It got revealed. It. It. It got kind of shown, and people started getting clued into, like, oh, this isn't just in the privacy of their own home type of thing. They are really trying to disciple kids and really trying to push this on young people and in some cases, do awful things to young people. And so I think that contributed to it as well, personally, is just the fact that a lot of people's eyes were opened. And while they were willing to cross of, okay, you know, maybe I don't believe in gay marriage, but if they want to do that, go for it.
A lot of people aren't willing to cross the line of Drag Queen Story Hour. And again, what. What a lot of these public school teachers in, you know, other states and things like that are trying to push to young kids, and they're. They're just out on it. I think a lot of. That's where a lot of the political and societal discussion went. So I think that harmed the LGBTQ movement personally, even, like you said, Joe, even before Trump got elected. So those are my thoughts, Jack. I'm sure, of course, you wrote the article. Sure. You got some thoughts as well.
[00:06:02] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, I agree that the transgenderism thing was like, whoa, whoa, this is way too far. But I think in the meantime, it caused people to look back at the. The gay marriage. Oh. You know, in the privacy of their own home. And it's not hurting anybody. And looking at, like. Well, actually it is, and not just because it goes to this extreme, but, like, I don't know if you guys saw the story about Glenn Greenwald. He's a international reporter guy.
He's a gay man, was married to another man. All that and video leaked out of him.
Not, you know, it's just very salacious look, like drugs look, you know, and this is a man that they. They adopted sons. And so he's got his sons in, presumably in the house where he's got a male prostitute there with him. And it was awful. I didn't watch the video of these descriptions because I have no interest in putting that in my mind. I don't endorse or think anybody needs to go look for that. But people see, hey, these are not people like me and you. It's just a man and not a woman. It's degeneracy from top to bottom of this entire movement. And, yeah, I think that's part of it.
[00:07:09] Speaker C: And as you said, it's not just the corporations, though. We do see Like Target is shifting and a few of these are shifting. It is the people in the comments. I looked at one.
Jack, I think you linked to this on your Twitter, but the. Or X, sorry, the Yankees came out and they did their rainbow color and everybody goes, see still around. You look at the comments. And I mean, I read like the first 30 comments. They were all negative to your point. So that's the vibe shift is even if the companies aren't there yet or the sports teams or the. The brands, people are there. People are real sick of it. I saw a few of those.
[00:07:42] Speaker A: This goes back to our Wokeism is dying episode on Think Deeper a couple months ago. Now.
It is no longer the, quote, unquote, cool thing to do to be woke up. Like, like, it's just not. And I think a lot of the corporations and. And you could say, and I. I think this is probably some legitimacy to the idea that, like, they know it's not in the zeitgeist right now. And so they're. They're just kind of waiting around until maybe it is again. Like, their personal agendas haven't gone away. They're just kind of playing to the crowd. I suppose that's probably a legitimate conclusion. However, you see, and this was a couple of days ago, so it might have changed, but I was reading up on, like, the NFL and their. Their Pride Month, which you. I don't know if y' all remember, like, three years, three, four years ago, you could not get away from seeing that stuff all over the place. Every team would change their logo to that on their profiles. They would. Stuff would be posted all the time. Of course, there's no NFL on in June, but still, like, it was. It was pretty inescapable as of two days ago. And I do apologize. This might have changed. I know this video comes out later. There were 10 teams that had not posted a thing about Pride Month.
That was on June 3rd, where, you know, 20, 22 of them had, but 10 of them had not. And so, you know, again, three, four years ago, man, June 1st, every team, bam. Like, we gotta. We gotta do our clockwork token, token virtue signaling here. And it's just, It's. I think businesses and corporations and sports teams or whatever are realizing this is not nearly as. As looked upon favorably. Just like a lot of the woke stuff, the MeToo movement kind of died pretty rapidly as we talked about with the Blake Lively situation kind of being a demonstration of that.
All kind of stuff like that. So I think that contributes to it as well.
[00:09:16] Speaker C: That is where Trump coming in has helped. Yeah, I think because the DAI shutting all those things down. So I agree with that.
[00:09:23] Speaker B: Yeah. The other one was Des Bryant, former player, tweeted the NFL is gay. Like, no, it's not. I'm going to teach my sons this is not what football is.
That kind of thing would have just ruined somebody's life to say that, you know, a few years ago. So it is changing. I do believe I fully agree with some people that these are cynical, money driven changes for like a Disney and a target. Like they didn't ideologically get on board, but it's a good sign that they feel like they do need to do this. And I don't, as you guys said, I don't think it has anything to do with, well, there's a new president and when another president comes in, it's going to change. No, it's, it's the people who don't want this anymore. And I think that's the, the tea leaves they're reading. Yeah.
[00:10:01] Speaker A: Awesome.
[00:10:01] Speaker B: It's a very positive shift. So that's our Think Fast for this week. Again, thanks for everyone who's tuned in and for the episode, the interview that we've had. We have the deep end coming up on Friday. So get your comments in. I think we should get some really good ones this week. And so we're looking forward to that. Join us there focuspress.org/ and we'll talk to you guys on the next one.
