Pearl - Privileged PODCASTER Matt Walsh SLAMS Sick Workers – Does He Even Get HARD WORK？

00:00:00.000 Now, I saw this video of Matt Walsh talking about sick days.

00:00:05.420 A side note on the sick day thing is, and this will be unpopular, especially with younger

00:00:10.460 people, but you shouldn't be using sick days, okay?

00:00:13.300 I've used sick days maybe twice in seven years, and in both of those cases, because I lost

00:00:17.580 my voice and I couldn't speak, you can't blame me for that.

00:00:20.260 It's impossible to do a podcast when you can't speak.

00:00:23.620 And even then, I still, and anyone who watches, who's been watching the show for a while,

00:00:26.820 you know this. I still came into the office and recorded a video with subtitles when I lost my

00:00:32.400 voice, if you recall. But generally speaking, again, I know this is unpopular, but sick days

00:00:37.280 are for children, okay? They're for kids in school who are trying to stay home so they don't have to

00:00:42.140 take a test that day. Like with rare exception, taking a sick day as an adult should be pretty

00:00:48.180 embarrassing for you. Calling your boss and saying, sorry, I can't come in today. My tummy hurts

00:00:52.760 is humiliating. You need to be at work, okay? Adults don't have time to be sick. You don't

00:00:58.580 have time for it. The reason he says this is because he has what we call an easy job. You

00:01:07.440 know what, guys? I worked in sales for two years before I did this. And I would say sales in the

00:01:13.840 grand scheme of things is on the easier side. Compare sales to a coal miner, deep sea fisher,

00:01:21.000 Even I would argue some fast food workers, all these different types of jobs. Every day I go

00:01:28.680 running, I see these guys building a building. That looks pretty hard. Sales in comparison,

00:01:34.940 easy. And I would pick podcasting every day of the week, every day of the week before sales.

00:01:42.900 Which one is easier? Podcast. Talk into a microphone for a couple hours. So, you know,

00:01:51.160 I do applaud him for coming to work without a voice, but that's not really that hard. Okay.

00:01:57.220 Talking about the news isn't really that hard. Do you want the people putting up a power line

00:02:04.080 next to your house coming into work sick? Does he want that? Do you want the guy operating a

00:02:11.760 nuclear reactor coming in to work sick? Do you want the police officer that's operating a gun 1.00

00:02:18.820 coming in to work sick? So I thought to myself when I saw this, and this is always what I say

00:02:25.080 about the Daily Wire, out of touch. Now I'm not saying I've lived a life that's incredibly in

00:02:30.760 touch, but I'm not blind guys. Like walk around society, okay? Go look at all of the men doing

00:02:38.820 these incredibly hard jobs just to keep this whole thing running. I don't know guys, if someone's

00:02:45.340 doing my electricity and they're feeling under the weather, I don't know if I want that you could

00:02:49.560 stay home. I don't want anything. I want the lights on. I want the plumbing to work. So what

00:02:55.600 did he do before this? I'm going to have to Google this. Walsh began working for the conservative

00:03:00.580 media outfit, outlet Blaze Media, October 2014. So that was, so he's been in media for at least

00:03:09.160 10 years. So at least from age 28, I mean, guys, media is the best. Look, I'm not saying media

00:03:15.780 doesn't come with challenges. I think the biggest challenge in media is staying sane. Yes. I think

00:03:22.980 that's what we struggle with as media hosts. And because we're dealing with the news every day,

00:03:28.160 you're dealing with drama channels you're dealing with people digging into

00:03:32.540 your life like I would say that's the biggest challenge we go through but I

00:03:38.120 would take that challenge over manual labor I don't know call me crazy have

00:03:44.660 you guys seen dirty jobs I mean a lot of those guys if they make a mistake people

00:03:51.320 will literally die I don't know I think they could take a sick day so what

00:03:57.400 happens is you get these guys and media is competitive, okay? I don't want to say it's not

00:04:03.760 competitive. You do have to work hard to succeed in media because there's a million people gunning

00:04:09.340 for your spot. But it's a completely different type of hard work. And it's certainly less hard

00:04:15.880 than the work, say, a guy on an oil rig's doing. I mean, that work, I would say, is harder than

00:04:23.420 this work. I don't know, guys. All right. Thumbs up if you would rather be here. Thumbs down if

00:04:33.040 you'd rather be on an oil rig. I don't know. Yeah. This is, I mean, we don't have air conditioning

00:04:39.960 here. So, you know, we do have tough work conditions. But if I had to pick, if I had a

00:04:47.380 gun to my head and they said, what would you rather do? Media, anything. I'll be in, I'll learn

00:04:54.380 editing, thumbnail, I'll do whatever. But, and we get that not only are we in media, you have the

00:05:00.020 best job in media. His job is to be a Karen. That's all it is. It's to like say, oh, society,

00:05:09.860 that's a great job. That's amazing. His stuff is funny. I won't even lie to you guys. Let me,

00:05:16.200 All right, dirty jobs, Mike Rowe.

00:05:20.180 Okay, let's pull up a video of a dirty job. 1.00

00:05:22.900 All right, so let's just get into it.

00:05:25.140 All right, we're going in.

00:05:26.600 Escalators are clean from the top down

00:05:28.360 because the worst dirt is in the bottom.

00:05:30.800 So these pads go?

00:05:32.960 Yep.

00:05:33.580 Oh, this is the dirt from people's shoes.

00:05:37.000 Help yourself to any gum, Mike.

00:05:38.600 We'll start vacuuming up any loose stuff.

00:05:40.760 All right.

00:05:41.100 Any loose debris will give you the important end, Mike.

00:05:43.820 Thank you.

00:05:44.440 Hey, we're rich.

00:05:46.200 what do you got penny there you go penny for your thoughts i'm thinking nobody told me just

00:05:50.600 how much this job would suck we're gonna need you to get deep in there now i'm gonna okay have you 0.87

00:05:56.280 ever thought about an attachment on this thing oh yeah i want to show like people with the hardest

00:06:01.640 jobs ever so i go to construction workers and see what they think about the they might agree

00:06:07.400 who knows some guys are like that but police officers you could show them and see what they

00:06:13.400 think about matt walsh's like opinion on the i don't know maybe i want to avoid drama this year

00:06:19.640 this is my this is my year of peace yeah it's not the tightest space i've ever been in or the

00:06:25.720 crappiest but it's definitely tight and crappy i don't know if you're an attachment type guy or

00:06:30.520 what you know i never say no to an attachment there you go i don't know i would pick this over

00:06:36.440 that you know i mean i would this will change everything hit me okay here we go a clean machine

00:06:42.040 is a happy machine the hardest job in my name is mike rowe today on dirty jobs i've come to the

00:06:47.560 middle of florida to attempt the impossible the completion of this bridge in just one day

00:06:54.760 they tell me it can be done strap in folks this one's going to be a doozy all across america

00:07:01.960 bridges just like this one are under construction we're outside of tampa this is going to be the

00:07:06.920 pinellas bridge as we introduce to you the world of rod busting and the men who bust their rods

00:07:13.720 right-handed right uh sure yes those are your cutters those are your tying pliers can i see

00:07:19.480 those for a minute what's that way one of those that's like 3.25 pounds a foot don't quote me on

00:07:25.800 that and it's 60 feet 60 foot that's 180 yes you carry basically all the weight beyond the math

00:07:32.600 and the artistry rod busting demands a measure of brute strength upper body strength is mandatory

00:07:38.600 so is lower body strength how many we taking whatever we can grab all right left shoulder 0.94

00:07:45.560 there you go what do you guys think our jobs are their jobs which one which one seems i don't know

00:07:52.280 guys i'm not saying that we don't work hard okay i'm not saying media doesn't

00:07:57.560 i'm not saying it's an easy industry i'm just saying i would rather do this than that and so

00:08:04.620 it's pretty easy to say when you work it let's be honest this is the best job this is the best

00:08:10.580 industry there is nothing more fun that we could do i love media i'm so happy to be here but

00:08:17.080 comparatively all right about 20 more trips to that rod busters aren't much for taking breaks

00:08:23.520 They're paid by the pound.

00:08:25.120 So, if they're not busting Rod, they're not making money.

00:08:28.520 I should probably be in here somewhere, right?

00:08:30.420 Or am I just in the way?

00:08:31.180 Sure, you can jump in with me and Craig.

00:08:32.440 Yeah, why not?

00:08:33.640 I was just thinking, you know, we never do anything together anymore.

00:08:36.240 And so it goes, one trip after another, under an unforgiving sun and a...

00:08:41.600 Yeah, this is in Florida.

00:08:43.560 They're in the long...

00:08:44.720 Oh, my goodness.

00:08:45.780 Can you imagine doing that in the summer?

00:08:47.100 ...load of steel.

00:08:48.820 The pace is relentless.

00:08:49.780 by the time this project is done this crew will have installed over 21 million pounds of rebar 0.97

00:08:56.260 i don't want to overstate it but these rod busters tough sons of bitches i don't know 1.00

00:09:00.220 i would pick this over that can you imagine being a crab fisher and like listening to matt walsh 0.97

00:09:07.120 tell you that if you take a sick day you're weak can you imagine like can you imagine

00:09:12.760 okay pod if he said podcasters that take sick days are weak i would say that i must be weak

00:09:20.680 because if i'm sick i'm gonna say no no i'm kidding i'm kidding but you know i'm just

00:09:25.260 imagining like these guys crab fishing and me showing them that video mike did you feel that

00:09:31.740 see we got something in the wheel the time bandit is dragging a thousand pounds of steel

00:09:36.320 across the ocean bottom uh-oh not good like when we sat there's no gear and i come back

00:09:42.460 four days later there's a load of gear everywhere. It's so crazy. Men do not complain. They really

00:09:49.040 don't. I have never heard of crab fishing before. I mean, you guys have heard about women's work 0.99

00:09:54.520 conditions. You guys have heard that, right? That's not, it's not just me. It's like a thing.

00:09:58.740 I hear about it all the time. How much does this pay? It has to be a good payout. Crab

00:10:06.680 fishing. Hey, what? That's it? $22? Why would it? Okay, wait. Crabbers often considered doing the

00:10:16.820 most dangerous job in America, earning a generous salary in a short period of time. Education,

00:10:22.420 industry. Okay, paying for crabbers hinges on the daily yields market prices. In 2017,

00:10:27.720 the median hourly wage of fishing workers was $13.72 per hour. Most crab fishing operators

00:10:35.200 offer crew a percentage of what is caught. Crab boat captains earn more than $200,000 and crew

00:10:41.300 mate. I get it. So it's $50,000 for three months. No expenses. All right. Would you guys think about

00:10:48.260 it if you were in a pinch? Thumbs up or thumbs down? Wait, really? Would you? You would? Wow.

00:10:55.180 You know what's so crazy is people will stop me and they treat me like a hero sometimes on the

00:11:02.420 street and it makes me feel a little uncomfortable because I just kind of I'm like a media personality

00:11:07.000 and they do this all the time to like media personalities but men like this do jobs way

00:11:14.740 harder for way less notoriety or like thank you I'm trying to think of the word but and for less

00:11:23.360 pay it doesn't really seem fair and Matt Walsh gets paid more than the crab fisherman who's like

00:11:28.820 you know but that's life anyways that was my thought about this was

00:11:34.280 that is the most out of touch thing I've ever heard so

Pearl - September 21, 2024

Privileged PODCASTER Matt Walsh SLAMS Sick Workers – Does He Even Get HARD WORK？

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