My Ms. Rachel Comments Sparked a Firestorm. Let’s Read Them.

What this episode is about

The discussion centers around criticisms of Miss Rachel, a children's content creator, labeling her as a poor influence and political propagandist. Through engagement with various comments defending and opposing this viewpoint, the speaker emphasizes the importance of real-life parenting experience over academic credentials in evaluating educational content for children.

Key takeaways

• Two master's degrees don't give you a monopoly on parenting wisdom; experience trumps credentials every time.
• Overstimulating content may lead to distractible adults—evidence suggests that mindful media consumption matters from a young age.
• Calling kids 'littles' is the new 'doggo'—a cringe-worthy linguistic trend that reveals just how far we've strayed from straightforward communication.
• Critics of children's programming often miss the point: it's not just 'for kids'; it shapes their comprehension and attention span.
• The analogy of Barney turning kids into furries? A creative stretch; perhaps the real fear is becoming a dull adult instead.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Matt Walsh (Host) · 14 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Katie Mo
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Briana, Aaron Rogers
3. 6:00 – 9:00: Blippy, Briana
4. 9:00 – 12:00: Blippy

Notable quotes from "My Ms. Rachel Comments Sparked a Firestorm. Let’s Read Them."

• Katie Mo says tweets she has two master's degrees in education, but cry harder about it, Matt.

  about Katie Mo · at 0:38

• Briana says, All this hate against Miss Rachel is like saying Barney would make your kid into a furry. Also, most tired moms turn to a video of singing school on the bus while they prepare dinner.

  about Briana · at 4:08

• Rogers, yeah, you thought Mr. Rogers was boring because you were overstimulated and you needed constant bright colors and loud noises and quick movement on screen to keep your attention. And.

  about Aaron Rogers · at 5:36

• Them it looks like. I did about 3 minutes of research into this and it looks like there's a bunch of Blippies on the Blippy channel. There's an Asian one. There's a bunch of different ones.

  about Blippy · at 9:08

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Blippy — Person · Referenced comparison case (another kids creator) criticized by speaker · 3 mentions · first at 8:33
  Used as a parallel example of adult performers acting childlike in kids content; the speaker claims Blippy has a 'creepy past' and describes the channel’s multiple performers.
• Briana — Person · Referenced commenter / critic of the speaker · 3 mentions · first at 4:08
  A commenter whose message is read and rebutted at length; she defends Miss Rachel, mentions tired moms using videos, and criticizes Mr. Rogers.
• Aaron Rogers — Person · Referenced benchmark for children's TV (defended by speaker) · 2 mentions · first at 4:22
  Invoked as a contrast to modern overstimulating kids content; a commenter calls him boring and the speaker argues that reaction reflects overstimulation.
• Katie Mo — Person · Referenced commenter / defender of Miss Rachel · 1 mention · first at 0:38
  A commenter cited as defending Miss Rachel by pointing to her educational credentials; the speaker dismisses the argument about master’s degrees.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 A couple weeks ago, I w went on X and on this show, and I was offering some criticisms of Miss Rachel, the YouTuber who makes uh content for children, and I called her a slot peddler for toddlers, which she is, talks down to her audience, speaks to kids in a way that nobody in real life does. And uh the and on top of that, she's a political propagandist and which means that you should keep her as far away from your kids as you possibly can. But turns out that not everybody agrees. Shockingly, uh there are some Missra Rachel apologists out there. So, we'll go through some of the comments. Some that disagree, some that agree.

0:38 Katie Mo says tweets she has two master's degrees in education, but cry harder about it, Matt. Oh, a master's degree. Wow. Katie Ka KD, two of them. Two master's degree. Wow. I mean, the only thing more impressive than two master's degrees is three. Why not four? Why not 12? Yeah. I don't care. What does that have to do with anything? It's hilarious to me when people still try to use this. Like, you're going to try that on me? You think that's going to impress me? Oh, she has she has these pieces of paper. I'll have you know, she has a piece of paper in a frame hanging on her wall.

1:26 What do you say about so a master's degree in education? And guess what? I know more about raising kids and teaching them and communicating with them than she does. I know more than the vast majority of people with with uh degrees in education because she read books and took courses taught mostly by childless left-wing feminists. And I've actually raised six kids. So, guess who's more educated on the topic? Like I I have I have daily experience uh with teaching, educating, raising kids, and she has a uh she has a master's degree. Who cares?

2:17 Guess who has the credentials that actually matter? That doesn't mean that I'm right about everything that has to do with parenting. I can be wrong. We all get things wrong, obviously. It just means that I don't give the slightest about your little master's degree. Um, one of the comments says, "I find it offputting that she calls kids littles. Makes me think that she has an age regression fetish because that's how all those weirdos refer to themselves." But yeah, it's not a fetish thing. I mean, it might those weirdos do refer to each other that way, but that's not what it is. I I'll tell you what it is. Uh, calling kids littles or kiddos.

2:58 It's like calling your dog a doggo. Kiddos and doggos. All that that's that's cringe millennial female jargon. That's that's all that is. Every woman between the ages of 31 and 49 uses those terms. I know there going to be women in the comments are like, I I'm 35 and I don't use those ter. Yes, you do. Yes, you do. You might not even know that you say it, but you all do. Littles, kiddos, doggos. I I do I find it highly annoying, but that is uh I can't blame her much for that. She's 42 or something. It's just I don't know what it is. I don't know where you ladies picked this up, okay? Cuz our parents' generation, they didn't talk that way. My mom didn't go around saying, "Come on, look at all the doggos.

3:51 Let's go get a doggo, kiddo. Like our our parents didn't talk that way. Where did you get this? Where did you pick up where where did you pick this up? I really don't know, but every single woman between 31 and 49 talks this way. I don't get it. Briana says, "All this hate against Miss Rachel is like saying Barney would make your kid into a furry. Also, most tired moms turn to a video of singing school on the bus while they prepare dinner. Just say you hate women and men are perfect. Also, Mr. Rogers was incredibly boring.

4:24 Well, no. I'm not saying that Miss Rachel will turn your kid into Miss Rachel. So, your Barney analogy doesn't really work. I'm saying that putting the politics aside, Miss Rachel is slop. It's it's o overstimulating, patronizing slop childish. And I know someone like you, you're like, "Well, of course it's childish. It's four children." The fact that you think that way, the fact that you don't understand the difference between childish and four children, um, that's exactly the problem. And if you give your kids a steady diet of this slop, it will turn them into dumb, distractable adults who struggle with basic comprehension.

5:12 It'll turn them into basically you, Briana. I'm willing to bet that you as a kid watched earlier versions of Miss Rachel Slub. You probably watched uh Barney. And I don't know, maybe it didn't turn you into a furry. I don't know if you're that or not, but wouldn't surprise me, but it did turn you into kind of a dumb person. So, that's the problem. And as for Mr. Rogers, yeah, you thought Mr. Rogers was boring because you were overstimulated and you needed constant bright colors and loud noises and quick movement on screen to keep your attention. And that's exactly the issue again.

5:49 And look how you turned out. You can barely write coherently. You can't understand the arguments I'm making. You can't structure your own argument. Uh you can't you can't make you can't form an analogy. It's one one one of to me one of the one of the quintessential signs that someone is low IQ is when they can't use an when they can't understand an analogy or use one to illustrate a point. So, and you're overly emotional and ridiculous. You think all men are perfect. What do you think that that's a view that anyone have? Yeah, I think all men are What are you talking about, Briana?

6:30 You actually think that that even in your cartoon world where all men who are right-wing or sexist and misogynist, even in that world, we would at least think that every man who's a leftist is certainly not perfect. Who do you think who do you think walks around with that view? Just like every man is better than every woman. That is a view that literally does not exist on the planet. There's not a human on earth who has that view. Okay? You have the mentality of a child. And I don't think it's entirely because of the slop you watched and and consumed as a child as a child, but that certainly didn't help matters as we can see.

7:17 Uh let's see. Man, if you only knew the answer to who's putting YouTube on for babies, you need a stiff drink. It's everyone. You know how when you drive on the highway and literally every single human uh behind a steering wheel is watching their phone in their lap? It's like that. Everybody with babies is doing this. I envy the optimism born from being surrounded by conservatives who maybe don't do it, but I promise you that is extraordinarily rare these days. Absolutely. Everybody with babies is putting screens in front of them and pumping this horrendous crap into their eyes and ears around the clock. Yeah, I don't doubt it. It's not literally everyone. And I know you're slightly exaggerating, but it it it's um I don't doubt that it is shockingly uh horrifically, disturbingly common. Um I mean, obviously, we all know that people that parents rely on screens way too much but it is I I would like to think, if I were

8:09 naive, that okay, we're not starting that until at least like three. I don't know. G give the kid a couple of years, two, three years. uh before you turn them into a zoned out zombie staring at a screen. But yeah, there's parents and probably a lot of parents are doing this starting in infancy. Uh finally, Blippy is another creator who has similar vibes. He dresses and talks childish. I believe he had a creepy past before turning to children's television. Oh yeah, believe me, I've dealt with Blippy. I did a whole show about it. You can go back and watch an episode a couple years ago where I was tearing Blippy apart and you can go watch that.

8:48 And uh I had to go back and check cuz I haven't heard about Blippy and I and it appears that Blippy is still a thing, still churning out videos, but there's a bunch of new Blippy. So the original Blippy, the really weird creepy guy, I don't know if he's still involved uh behind the scenes. I'm sure he's profiting. But now there's a bunch of them it looks like. I mean, I did about 3 minutes of research into this and it looks like there's a bunch of Blippies on the Blippy channel. There's an Asian one. There's a bunch of different ones.

9:16 But the videos are still the same. I clicked on one video just to confirm that this is still happening and it's uh just as bad as it ever was. And yeah, it's the Asian Blippy, a grown ass man playing in some kind of playground, some kind of child's play area riding around on a like a Power Wheels holding a stuffed animal. And it's like a 12-minute video where it's just that. It's this grown man playing in this looks like a the play area, the children's area, maybe like a if you go to a a um science center or something like that. It looks like that.

9:55 And this is exactly what I'm talking about. And Miss Rachel is not as bad as that, but it's the same genre. You've got a grown adult man acting like a child, talking like a child, playing on a playground by himself with a stuffed animal. As a parent, if that doesn't set off a million alarm bells, I don't know what to tell you. If your creepy weird, if you're like creepy weirdo radar isn't picking that up, then you're totally dysfunctional as a parent and um especially for a man to be acting this way. Now, I think, as I said, Miss Rachel, she's very patronizing. She talks like a child to children. And I think that that is not the right way.

10:43 Again, I don't have a master's degree, but I know just from being a parent, that's not how you talk to kids. Um, your kids, your kids are around other kids who talk like kids. They need you to talk like an adult because the goal is for your child to eventually be able to communicate like an adult. And if you want your child to be able to communicate in a mature way, then you need to communicate in a mature way with them. and they're going to pick up on that. It's this is basic stuff, but at least for a, you know, for a for a woman to do this, it's a little bit more uh natural. I mean, Miss Rachel goes way overboard, but women it comes more naturally to sort of speak on the child's level, uh, to do a little bit more of the baby talk stuff and and, uh, you know, for so for and there's there's also a kind of an adult way of of speaking on the level of a child. Uh like my so one example is is my wife

11:49 if she if she if she wants to sit down and watch a movie with our kids she's going to usually want to pick like a kids movie you know like a children's movie for the kids and if I'm sitting down to watch a movie then I want to pick like an adult I want to pick a movie that's appropriate for kids but is but is you know like an a movie for adults a movie a movie that's like a real movie that kids can also enjoy. Now, the problem is that um those are few and far between these days. They don't Hollywood doesn't really make those kinds of movies anymore. Unfortunately, they should. But um but you know, that's what I'm looking for. A movie that is a little bit more uh for like an older audience, but but is but is appropriate for kids. Whereas my my wife, well, she's going to go for the kids. If we're playing a game like my my wife will sit down and play whatever like Candyland or something or

12:43 some some kids board game with the kids. If I'm gonna play with the kids, well, I want to play Monopoly. Like I want to like, yeah, let's play a game, but we're going to let's play hearts, right? Like I'm going to teach you how to play a a game for adults and I'm going to play it with you. And um that's and even the way that I speak to the kids from basically from infancy is I I speak to them in much the way that I'm talking right now. I just speak the way that I speak. And my wife because she's a woman, she does more of the so that it's more natural.

13:18 My my only point is that especially when you got these men YouTube YouTubers for kids and they're doing this whole routine, it's even weirder. And I think it should even send up it even sets off more alarm bells because it's not natural. It's not masculine. This is a strange way for a man to act. It's very weird for a man to relate to kids this way. and that there's certainly no benefit to the kids. It's not educational. It's not edifying. It's not helping them to grow or anything like that. If it's doing anything really, it's making the kid comfortable with the kinds of adults that they should be wary of.

14:07 Right? If you go to the playground and you see an adult man by himself playing on the playground, it's not like he has a 2-year-old with him and he's helping his 2-year-old climb the jungle gym. I'm saying you see an adult man by himself playing on a playground. Are you going to want your kid to go anywhere near that person? You're probably going to call the cops. You're going to say, "Get this person out of here. This is bizarre." And yet you would have your kid watching somebody like that on YouTube and becoming comfortable around these that kind of person. I think that is uh along with all the other problems, it's it's unsafe honestly for the kids.

14:50 So there you go. Uh what I take from these comments is that I'm still right. In fact, I'm even more right than I ever thought I was. That's the that's the lesson.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "My Ms. Rachel Comments Sparked a Firestorm. Let’s Read Them."?

Matt Walsh (Host).

What is "My Ms. Rachel Comments Sparked a Firestorm. Let’s Read Them." about?

The discussion centers around criticisms of Miss Rachel, a children's content creator, labeling her as a poor influence and political propagandist. Through engagement with various comments defending and opposing this viewpoint, the speaker emphasizes the importance of real-life parenting experience over academic credentials in evaluating educational content for children.

What is mentioned in this Matt Walsh episode?

4 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Blippy, Briana, Aaron Rogers, Katie Mo. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "My Ms. Rachel Comments Sparked a Firestorm. Let’s Read Them."?

The episode runs 15 min; the transcript is about 2,531 words in 21 timestamped sections.

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