The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1006 - Criminals Should Go To Prison, And Other Controversial Opinions

00:00:00.120 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a man who'd already been arrested 41 times in New York City is

00:00:04.400 arrested again for violent assault. We know that leftist DAs are allergic to punishing

00:00:08.700 violent criminals, but why is the left so determined to enable and spread crime and

00:00:13.280 anarchy? I think I know why, and I'll explain. Also, the Biden administration mulls its options

00:00:17.420 as the student loan pause nears its expiration date. A Christian private school causes outrage 1.00

00:00:21.800 by instating Christian policies and rules, if you can imagine that. Brian Stelter has his final

00:00:26.920 emotional tragic show with CNN, and we're told that a new trend is taking the workforce by storm.

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00:00:37.680 and more today on the Matt Wall Show. Well, the consumer price index has reached yet another 40

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00:01:58.540 kit on how to protect your hard-earned savings with gold. Last week, a man named Alexander Wright

00:02:05.300 showed up at a subway station in New York City and began harassing other patrons. A subway worker

00:02:11.400 witnessed Wright accosting people and tried to intervene. Wright then walked up to him and

00:02:16.180 punched him in the head. Then the victim tried to run away but was grabbed and thrown to the ground.

00:02:21.160 The assailant was later then arrested. It was, for Alexander Wright, the 42nd arrest. He had already

00:02:29.520 been arrested 41 times before this. Many of those arrests were for acts of violence even more brutal

00:02:36.280 than his attack on the subway employee. Just last year, Wright was caught on camera randomly

00:02:40.840 punching an Asian woman in the head as she walked by, knocking her to the ground.

00:02:45.180 Now, it's not that difficult to kill somebody with one punch to the head, especially if they're not

00:02:48.760 expecting it, and especially when you're so much bigger and stronger than your victim.

00:02:53.320 Fortunately, though, the victim survived. Wright was hit with hate crime and also assault charges,

00:02:58.480 other charges too, and yet he was back on the street almost immediately. A month before that

00:03:03.660 assault on the Asian woman, he had been charged with assault for throwing a hot coffee on two traffic

00:03:08.320 cops. So to summarize, this man has been walking the streets of New York City for years, viciously

00:03:15.460 assaulting and brutalizing pedestrians. The system is aware of him. They know that he's out there. They

00:03:20.940 know what he will do to people. They know he'll never stop, and yet they allow him to remain on the

00:03:27.000 streets. His freedom is worth the cost, they've decided, even if the cost is the physical safety of

00:03:35.320 innocent people. Now, there are, of course, many such cases. Our cities are full of Alexander 1.00

00:03:41.720 rights, and they're not just terrorizing the poor areas anymore. As The Daily Wire reports today,

00:03:47.980 lawlessness abounds across New York City neighborhoods like the West Village and Greenwich

00:03:51.900 Village, which have seen the largest spike in crime this year out of the five boroughs,

00:03:55.880 according to the latest New York City Police Department report published last week.

00:03:59.140 Compared to the crime stats from the same time last year, Manhattan's sixth precinct

00:04:02.460 saw an 80% increase in overall significant crimes, with burglaries up 119% and grand larcenies up more

00:04:09.300 than 100%. Business owners and residents have spoken to media outlets airing their frustrations of the

00:04:14.840 lack of law and order in a neighborhood that draws celebrity sightings, historic brownstones, and

00:04:19.320 gentrified takirias on roofs amid the fashion and art scene. Jama Alsner, who owns Village Revival

00:04:27.240 Records in Greenwich Village, told CBS2, he rarely calls the police anymore because anything seems to go

00:04:32.140 these days. According to the latest data, other crime statistics show car thefts are up 39%,

00:04:36.960 robberies reach up to 45%, and rapes are up nearly 43%. Now, this trend holds up across the country

00:04:45.200 as the violence from the inner city bleeds further and further out into the areas that were once

00:04:50.920 considered safe. Now, you might think that this would be enough to finally spur some change and maybe

00:04:55.900 a little bit of a revival of law and order. Now that the urbanite liberals who support the policies

00:05:01.360 that have caused this anarchy are finally being made to reap what they've sown, perhaps things

00:05:06.200 will change. But that seems unlikely because they're still leftists, and leftism at this point

00:05:11.760 is hopelessly nihilistic, deluded, destructive, and utterly severed from reality. As long as the cities

00:05:18.940 are run by this suicidal ideology, things will just not get better. Crime is, among other things,

00:05:26.040 a practical problem and leftists floating as they are in an alternative universe are not capable of

00:05:33.680 solving any practical problems in this universe whatsoever. Least of all, a practical problem

00:05:40.100 like crime, because it has some not as practical dimensions to it, which we'll get to in a second.

00:05:47.180 Anna Kasparian over at the Young Turks is learning this lesson about the left the hard way. In a fascinating

00:05:54.620 career shift, Kasparian has recently tried her hand at something very new and novel for her. She's

00:06:01.020 tried making logical points, specifically on the issue of crime. She has, in recent days, ever so

00:06:08.400 gingerly dipped her toe into the waters of logic and reason. But she's discovering that she can't

00:06:14.560 wade into those depths without alienating herself from her leftist comrades. That's why she's been

00:06:20.080 getting into a lot of trouble on the left for saying things like this. Listen to this.

00:06:24.620 I don't know, maybe I'm crazy. I don't believe in the death penalty. But I would say that if you

00:06:32.460 murder someone and you have spent time in a facility, in a prison that does not rehabilitate,

00:06:41.160 because that's where our prisons are. It's very unlikely that you're rehabilitated and just

00:06:45.620 releasing you into the world with no rehabilitation. Bad idea, bad idea. More than 63,000 inmates convicted

00:06:54.060 of violent crimes will be eligible for good behavior credits that shorten their sentences by one-third

00:07:00.020 instead of one-fifth that had been in place since 2017. That includes nearly 20,000 inmates who are

00:07:06.320 serving life sentences with the possibility of parole. Keep in mind, by the way, we don't even know

00:07:11.980 how these good credits are determined. There's really no specificity there.

00:07:19.240 More than 10,000 inmates convicted of a second serious but nonviolent offense under the state's

00:07:24.420 three strikes law will be eligible for release after serving half their sentences.

00:07:28.840 That's an increase from the current time served credit of one-third of their sentence.

00:07:33.320 And if you think that, no, come on, Anna, they're just, they're not releasing violent criminals,

00:07:40.560 even though the reports indicate they are. They're just, this is all about nonviolent individuals.

00:07:45.100 No, actually, a much smaller portion of the individuals who have been released from California

00:07:49.840 state prisons are nonviolent offenders.

00:07:51.960 Well, so you mean that, you mean that if you release violent criminals out into society,

00:07:57.380 you're going to end up with more violent crime in society. Next, you're going to tell me that if

00:08:06.080 you pour water into a cup, you'll end up with water in a cup. You know, these sorts of claims may not

00:08:13.240 seem terribly shocking to you and I, but on the left, such talk is verboten. Kasparian has been

00:08:19.260 getting pilloried for even the most tepid suggestion that perhaps our laws against violent crime should

00:08:25.080 be enforced. A reporter for Rolling Stone was among the leftists taking her to task and Kasparian

00:08:31.960 responded referencing the Alexander Wright case saying, this is a man who was arrested 41 times.

00:08:37.100 After this incident, he was released and went on to send a subway worker to the hospital with a

00:08:40.820 broken collarbone. But according to this crime reporter, the man committing assault slash breaking

00:08:46.140 bones is the real victim. Well, yeah, Anna, welcome to the left. Been there for a while. 0.76

00:08:53.560 Should have noticed this by now. The responses under her tweets show you how far, how far gone

00:08:58.980 the left is on this topic and on any other topic, of course. Reading just a few, someone says,

00:09:03.560 you can debate whether or not a 49-year-old mentally ill homeless man is a victim, but there's not a lot

00:09:08.520 of evidence that sending him to Rikers, where most people are pre-trial and so legally innocent,

00:09:12.800 is a solution that improves public safety. Another person says, I think the issue is that

00:09:17.820 your position shouldn't just boil down to this guy sucks punishment. That doesn't help anyone.

00:09:22.960 It's not constructive and shouldn't be a conclusion made on a program that positions itself on the left.

00:09:27.860 Another person says, I don't know the details of this particular case, but what are you trying

00:09:31.980 to achieve with this narrative? The public hears enough dishonest fear-mongering about crime.

00:09:37.480 Left slash alt media should offer something different, such as exploring root causes of crime.

00:09:41.820 And another person more to the point says, you should feel a deep sense of shame, Anna.

00:09:47.600 Yes, Anna should feel ashamed. Well, she probably should feel ashamed of a lot of things, but should

00:09:53.240 she feel ashamed of suggesting that perhaps after 40 arrests, it might be time to put somebody in

00:09:58.440 jail for longer than 15 minutes? Perhaps we could adopt a 40 strikes and you're out rule. 0.99

00:10:04.060 Can we do that? 40 strikes? No, because even that would be offensive to the left.

00:10:09.180 They see no evidence that the public is made safer when violent criminals are kept in prison.

00:10:17.660 They see no evidence. There's no evidence to them that you are safer from a violent criminal

00:10:22.360 when he's behind bars, as opposed to if he was like right in front of you. There's no evidence

00:10:27.720 that one is safer than the other. They presumably also see no evidence that patrons at the zoo are made

00:10:32.560 safer when the door to the lion's cage is closed and locked as opposed to open. It's totally neutral

00:10:39.180 either way. If they were at the zoo and the zookeeper said, you guys want this open or closed? You

00:10:42.780 care? Whatever, it doesn't matter. What difference does it make? There's literally no difference between

00:10:47.980 looking at a lion when he's in a cage and confronting him out in the open with nothing between the two of

00:10:52.580 you. No difference. This is the delusion that permeates the left. So I thought I would try to

00:11:01.260 help our friend Anna understand why she's getting this reaction from her own compatriots and why

00:11:07.360 anybody on the left, any Democrat who, and very few of them ever do, but every once in a while,

00:11:14.760 one of them will say something like this. Hey, you know, maybe this violent crime thing is a little

00:11:18.720 bit of a problem, and they just get devoured by the piranhas. And let me try to help you understand

00:11:23.900 why that is. Now, part of it is the delusional nature of modern leftism, as we've already discussed.

00:11:29.480 This is what makes leftist political leaders totally incapable of providing actual leadership.

00:11:35.320 Their ideology requires them to live and think as though they've been transported through a portal

00:11:40.660 into an alternate dimension. And in this dimension, the usual rules of life and the laws of physics and

00:11:46.520 everything else don't apply. Here in this alternate dimension, men can have babies, babies aren't 0.97

00:11:51.840 people, and many other bizarre occurrences become commonplace. Even the laws of cause and effect no

00:11:57.300 longer apply. Releasing a violent criminal from prison has nothing to do with the fact that the

00:12:03.580 violent criminal was then enabled to violently victimize someone else. Even if he'd still been in

00:12:07.840 prison, the same event may have occurred, they say. Now, this makes no sense in reality when you

00:12:14.240 understand cause and effect, but these people are not living in reality. But there's a deeper point

00:12:21.300 here also. And this is the part that I want everyone to focus on, especially Anna. You know,

00:12:28.280 ironically, these people who we call social justice warriors, and I don't like that phrase, and this is

00:12:36.900 why, because they actually have no concept of justice at all. It's kind of like we talk about virtue

00:12:43.660 signaling, but the people that are signaling their virtue are signaling the opposite of virtue. It's

00:12:48.100 like most of what we call virtue signaling is actually vice signaling. So most of what we call

00:12:54.460 social justice, you know, is actually, it's anti-justice. It's the opposite of justice. It's the absence of

00:13:01.120 justice. After all, putting violent criminals in prison is not just a matter of keeping people safe.

00:13:09.100 It's also a demand of justice. And most normal and healthy people have an innate sense of justice.

00:13:16.940 Okay. They see a man randomly assaulting a woman as she walks down the street,

00:13:21.120 and they want him to be punished severely for his crimes. That's not vengeance. It's not bloodlust.

00:13:29.080 It is justice. Okay. They see that action as one that cries out for a response. The scales have been

00:13:38.620 tipped out of balance, and they must be righted. There must be justice. Even if it were possible

00:13:44.840 to keep society safe from this man without punishing him, a normal person would still want him punished.

00:13:53.400 You want him to experience some measure of suffering for his crime. Yes, that is just,

00:13:59.540 you actually want him to suffer. And if you care about justice, and also if you actually have love

00:14:06.580 and compassion for the victim, which is another thing that doesn't exist on the left, as much as

00:14:11.180 they talk about compassion and love, there's none of that. It's indifference. But if you actually have

00:14:15.640 compassion for the victim, you want that other guy to suffer, because that is justice.

00:14:22.880 Justice is a virtue. It's a cardinal virtue. It is, in fact, the most important virtue of all.

00:14:28.960 You can't have any other virtue without justice. And it is what ensures that an individual is given

00:14:37.000 what they are due. Okay. I think that would be the definition of what is justice. That's the

00:14:42.520 definition. It is giving an individual what they are due. To enact justice is to give to a person

00:14:50.360 what properly belongs to him. And what properly belongs to an innocent person walking down the

00:14:56.780 street is protection from violent scumbags like Alexander Wright. But what properly belongs to

00:15:03.300 Alexander Wright is a cage. He should be punished because that is what he is due. That is what he

00:15:12.520 is owed. That is the treatment which naturally and properly belongs to him because of his own actions

00:15:20.540 and because of the sort of person he has chosen to be.

00:15:26.280 This is something that, again, doesn't need to be explained to the average person. The average

00:15:29.700 person, you ask him, what is justice? Just like if you ask him, what is a woman? They may be stumped by

00:15:35.400 the question only because the answer is so obvious they haven't even had to think about it.

00:15:39.380 But that is what justice is. And unless you are fighting for that, then you're not fighting for

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00:17:03.000 on my latest marital battle. So I decided that I wanted to take my two boys away for a weekend

00:17:11.900 fishing trip. I'll come up here in a few weeks. And my wife is totally supportive of that. Actually,

00:17:17.200 she's maybe a little bit too supportive. Because I said to her, hey, I wanted to take the two boys

00:17:22.560 away. Yep, sounds good. Definitely. You guys should go. 100%. So she was pretty enthusiastic

00:17:27.080 about us being gone for whatever reason. But then I started thinking about the details of the trip and

00:17:33.420 what I wanted to do. And I decided that I'd really like to have a more sort of a rustic experience

00:17:38.540 with the kids. And I started looking for a very simple kind of cabin in the woods somewhere with

00:17:43.360 water nearby. Whether it's on water, we have to walk to it or drive to it or whatever. And I found

00:17:48.920 this. This is real. This is actually for rent. I found this thing. I put it up on the screen.

00:17:55.340 I asked for a rustic cabin, and this is what I found. And this is like, it's a cabin. It's

00:18:00.380 basically a shed. Someone's renting out their shed. But there's a lot of privacy. It's like they said

00:18:05.300 in the listing, there's a lot of privacy because it's in the woods somewhere. And it's about like 200

00:18:10.520 square feet. And there's a tarp for a roof. And there's no bed. There's no furniture of any kind.

00:18:16.620 There's no electricity, no water, nothing. And so I'm, I showed this to my wife. I was excited

00:18:22.700 about it. I said, this is the kids will, boys will love this. And I showed it to my wife and she was

00:18:25.940 horrified. She looked at me like I was an insane person. But then this just shows you, you know,

00:18:33.160 this shows you the inherent differences between men and women. Because my wife is horrified by it.

00:18:38.200 There's no way you can take my precious sweet baby boys and put them in that for a weekend. I'm not

00:18:43.940 going to allow it. But then just to get a second opinion, I called my boys in and showed them this

00:18:49.240 and they were stoked. I mean, they could not have been more excited to spend three days in that thing.

00:18:55.020 And I even told, I told my son, I said, you know, there's like definitely probably snakes in this

00:19:00.180 thing. And he said, well, that's okay, daddy. We can kill them and eat them. That's the spirit.

00:19:06.140 Okay. When life gives you snakes, make some dinner. That's the spirit you want to, I think,

00:19:12.860 imbue into your, into your boys. I don't know. I did find another place that's still a very small

00:19:18.040 cabin in the woods, but significantly nicer than that. And a little bit less serial killer-y.

00:19:24.300 But my heart keeps coming back to that. It's just, it's calling my name.

00:19:29.800 And if you stay in that cabin, you'll probably hear all kinds of things calling to you outside in the,

00:19:33.560 in the woods at night, but it's an adventure. All right. So we'll start with this. Daily Wire

00:19:40.160 reports. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Sunday that the Biden administration would

00:19:46.040 announce in the next 10 days, whether or not the nationwide pause on federal student loan

00:19:51.420 payments and interest accrual that went into effect two and a half years ago would extend or

00:19:55.860 expire. During an appearance in NBC's Meet the Press, Cardona told host Chuck Todd that the

00:20:02.020 administration knows many people are waiting to hear something about the August 31st deadline.

00:20:05.760 And he said in the next 10 days, they're going to announce something. Now,

00:20:08.560 let me take a guess here, just a wild, crazy guess, that the Democrats are not going to let the pause

00:20:15.140 expire a few months before the midterms. This, like I said, it's a shot in the dark,

00:20:20.620 but I'm going to guess that they're going to come back and announce something

00:20:24.220 because they're not going to let it pause right before the, right before the midterms.

00:20:27.300 And I don't think we need to spend much time talking about student loan forgiveness

00:20:31.900 as an issue. You know how I feel about the subject. We've talked about it many times.

00:20:35.940 We'll talk about it in the future. But I want to just add one thing because I was thinking about

00:20:42.060 this yesterday. Is that, is that actually it seems to me, and I'm not in favor of loan forgiveness

00:20:49.880 of any kind. Okay. I'm in favor of, because I'm an old, I'm old fashioned as you know. And what I

00:20:57.480 believe is that you pay your debts. You pay your debts. You agree to pay something, you pay it back.

00:21:04.360 That's how, that's how I look at it. Very simple. But it does occur to me that actually of all the

00:21:10.000 different types of debt that people deal with, in many ways, student loan debt makes the least

00:21:15.920 sense to forgive. It should be the last type of debt that we talk about forgiving rather than being

00:21:21.080 the first and only type of debt we talk about forgiving. I mean, mortgages, car loans, even

00:21:26.560 credit card debt. These are all things that working class people deal with. Student loan debt is largely

00:21:33.960 an upper class problem. Half of the debt, around half is held by graduate students. Okay. And it's,

00:21:41.580 it's exactly though that kind of debt that we're forgiving. And it's exactly the kind of debt that

00:21:47.060 poorer people have to deal with that we aren't talking about forgiving. Now, the reason often

00:21:53.100 given for this is that a student loan debt can't be discharged in bankruptcy. And it kind of makes

00:21:58.000 sense actually in a way why you can't discharge it in bankruptcy. I mean, for one thing, you know,

00:22:03.840 a loan or a degree cannot be repossessed. You can't take it back from you. So it can't be discharged

00:22:12.480 in bankruptcy. And so that's one of the reasons they say, well, you know, that's why we, that's

00:22:15.160 why we're treating this as a special thing. That to me seems a pretty weak justification

00:22:19.660 for the inordinate amount of attention given to it. Not to mention just the inordinate amount of

00:22:26.140 sympathy that we're supposed to have for people with student loan debt while having no sympathy at

00:22:32.340 all for all the other kinds of people. Many of them don't have college degrees. Many, many are,

00:22:38.540 have, have, you know, on average incomes much lower than the average college graduate. And they're,

00:22:43.500 they're, they're swimming in debt. A lot of them totally ignore the problem.

00:22:50.140 All right, we'll move to this. So the prime minister of Finland, Sanna Marin is her name,

00:22:56.340 has been taking heat after video of her partying went viral. And this is something that she does a

00:23:03.040 lot. Apparently she likes to go out clubbing. She heads out onto the town. I think if I'm remembering

00:23:08.080 correctly, I think it was this prime minister who like went missing for a day or two because she was

00:23:14.160 out partying and forgot her phone or something like that. And anyway, here's the video that was on

00:23:19.040 that I guess they posted on Instagram or something. We'll play this video. All right.

00:23:26.040 Okay. So there she is having a great time at the club partying. Um, there's been, she's gotten a

00:23:52.460 lot of, there's been a lot of criticism, a lot of discussion about this. And, uh, she finally

00:23:57.200 responded to some of the criticisms that we'll play this and I'll have to translate because, you

00:24:02.520 know, she's speaking a foreign language, but I actually know Finnish. So I'll translate this for

00:24:06.180 you, but we'll go ahead and play the clip. What do you think these party videos show? 0.81

00:24:14.860 These videos are private and filmed in a private space, she says. I resent that these became known

00:24:23.800 to the public. What? You posted them. I spent a night with my friends. We just partied also in a

00:24:31.040 boisterous way. I danced and sang. I represent a younger generation. Oh, she's speaking English now.

00:24:36.740 Okay. It comes to social media or Instagram. I think that I'm an individual, a person, a real person

00:24:43.640 also, even though I'm a prime minister, so I won't change the way I behave. Of course, I have to be

00:24:51.300 careful what I say because it can be represented as the whole government. Um, but I'm still a person

00:25:00.160 and I will be in your person. Okay. That's good. That is the laziest justification for

00:25:06.340 behavior in general. Someone's asking why you behave. Well, I'm a person. Well, yeah, I know,

00:25:12.680 but you're a person who did this particular thing. Lots of other people don't do that. So can you

00:25:17.220 explain a little bit more? Well, I'm just a person. She says she resents that it ended up on social

00:25:23.080 media. You're dancing in front of a video. It's like someone has their phone out and you're dancing

00:25:29.320 in front of it, looking right into the camera. I resent that this video I'm taking right now exists.

00:25:36.340 I resent this. Now this has led to a whole annoying discourse. There's nothing worse than

00:25:42.960 a discourse in our country. And this discourse in particular is pretty bad. It's a discourse about

00:25:48.200 whether, um, prime ministers have the right to party. And the AP actually asks this specifically

00:25:54.580 in an article headline, does a prime minister have a right to party? Now we know the beastie boys,

00:26:00.720 we know how they would answer. They would say, if you fight for it, you have the right to it.

00:26:03.700 But this is what the AP says in a leaked video, Finland's prime minister, Santa Marin is seen

00:26:07.760 dancing and singing with friends at a private party. That's the 36 year old leader poses for

00:26:12.140 the camera. She sits on her knees, hands behind her head. She's entangled in a group hug. She's

00:26:17.020 having a good time. Countless similar videos are shared daily on social media by young and not so

00:26:21.480 young people partying in Finland and all over the world. But the leak has triggered a debate among

00:26:25.820 Finns about what level of reveling is appropriate for a prime minister, especially considering

00:26:30.240 neighboring Russia's attack on Ukraine, which prompted long neutral Finland and Sweden to

00:26:33.900 apply for NATO membership. Marin, who leads the center left social democratic party has faced a

00:26:38.780 barrage of questions about the party. Were there drugs? Was there alcohol? Was she working or on 0.74

00:26:43.560 summer vacation? Was the prime minister sober enough to handle an emergency? Had one arisen?

00:26:48.140 The video clearly shot by someone at the party was leaked on social media and caught the attention of

00:26:52.220 Finnish media this week. Okay. So I just want to make a couple points about this very briefly.

00:26:57.640 First of all, prime minister or not, you're too old to be out at clubs and that sort of thing when

00:27:05.260 you're 36. Anyway, it doesn't matter if you're a prime minister. Even if she wasn't, even if she

00:27:10.640 just worked at Starbucks or something, she was like assistant manager at Starbucks. I was saying,

00:27:14.160 yeah, you're a little too old for that. I'm 36. Okay. So we're the same age. At 36, you should be home

00:27:20.660 with your family. Okay. You can go out for a date night with your spouse. You could also go out with

00:27:26.180 friends on occasion, but people are talking about this woman and excusing it like, oh, she's young,

00:27:32.780 just doing what young people. No, she's not that young. Actually, you're 36. It's not that young.

00:27:39.500 It's you're middle-aged. That's, that's what you are. You are officially, you don't really count as a

00:27:44.320 young adult anymore. You're, you're middle-aged. You're getting older. And so, especially at 36,

00:27:51.800 you should be, you should be at the age now where you walk into a place and not only are you not

00:27:59.200 dancing to that music, but you're complaining that it's too loud. I'm officially at the age where

00:28:03.860 everywhere I go, the music is too loud. And I have to make a comment about how loud the music is.

00:28:08.260 That is what makes sense for a 36-year-old to begin with. Second, she is the prime minister. 0.99

00:28:16.800 And I get that it's just Finland and there's like five people that live there. But, but even so,

00:28:21.560 this to me is part of a, of a larger problem with political leaders in general and this sort of lack

00:28:28.840 of, of seriousness. We're not being led by serious people. And there used to be this concept called

00:28:37.020 just dignity among our leaders. There used to be a concept called dignity that we tried to apply to

00:28:43.720 all adults and everybody in general, which again, is another reason why that would stop, you know,

00:28:48.600 even if you're not prime minister, it should stop you from being a 36-year-old woman making videos like 1.00

00:28:53.280 that. But even so, especially if you're a leader, we expect even more dignity. And, and what does dignity

00:29:00.600 mean? Okay. Dignity doesn't mean, sometimes I think dignity gets a bad rap these days and especially

00:29:06.500 because it's, it's often appropriated by political leaders, especially like, like Republicans will

00:29:11.040 use this. The squishiest Republicans will use dignity as their excuse for being squishy. So

00:29:17.200 dignity has become somehow a synonym for like cowardice or lack of conviction. These, they don't

00:29:23.560 want to fight hard for what they supposedly believe in and they use dignity. Oh, cause I'm dignified.

00:29:28.560 No, no, no. You can still be dignified and fight for what's right. That's part of dignity actually.

00:29:35.700 But what dignity means is it's, dignity is about a seriousness of purpose. That's what that is.

00:29:41.920 It's about maturity, growth, and a seriousness of purpose. And we used to expect that of elected

00:29:50.840 leaders in Finland and everywhere else across the Western world. And we don't anymore. I mean,

00:29:57.320 you've got, uh, what's his name in, in, uh, in Pennsylvania, the Senate race. So there's not

00:30:02.720 a lot of dignity on either side of the, of that race, but, uh, Fetterman, you know, have you seen

00:30:07.300 this guy walking around with like jean shorts and a, and a hoodie you're running for the Senate

00:30:14.840 and this is how you're dressing. This is how you're talking to people.

00:30:18.320 Oh, I'm just, uh, I'm just being a common, like being a regular person.

00:30:25.460 No, but no, you're not because regular people know that you're supposed to dress differently

00:30:29.740 for different occasions. So acting with a lack of dignity is, is that's how you, that's,

00:30:37.480 that's how you see regular people. No. So that's my problem with this. Okay. Let's go next to,

00:30:45.680 uh, this Brian Stelter had his last show and, um, signed off with a, a, uh, really powerful speech.

00:30:56.580 And let's just, let's just watch his, this is Brian Stelter's last words as a CNN host. Here it is.

00:31:03.160 Here's what I do know. I know it's not partisan to stand up for decency and democracy and dialogue.

00:31:08.020 It's not partisan to stand up to demagogues. It's required. It's patriotic. We must make sure we

00:31:12.980 don't give platforms to those who are lying to our faces, but we also must make sure we are

00:31:18.020 representing the full spectrum of debate and representing what's going on in this country

00:31:22.300 and in this world. That's why CNN needs to be strong. That's why I believe CNN will always be

00:31:28.860 strong. You, you viewers at home, it's on you. CNN must remain strong. I know the 4,500 staffers are

00:31:37.500 going to do their part to make it stronger than ever, but it's going to be on you to hold CNN

00:31:42.560 accountable and not just CNN. You got to hold your local paper accountable. You got to hold

00:31:46.340 your local digital outlet accountable. It's on all of us. We are all members of the media,

00:31:50.660 all helping to make it better. That's what I believe. I can't wait to be watching CNN,

00:31:57.200 seeing what happens in the future. I'm going to be rooting for it. I want CNN to be strong. I believe

00:32:01.960 America needs CNN to be strong. I believe the free world needs CNN to be strong and it will continue

00:32:08.000 to be because all of us are going to help make that happen. The free world needs a reliable source.

00:32:18.800 So for reliable sources, for the last time, I'm Brian Stelter. Thanks for being with us.

00:32:24.520 Oh man, that was rough. That was rough at the end there. That was rough with the, with the applause

00:32:32.720 at the end. It was, it was already sad. And then you get the, it's better off without the applause.

00:32:36.380 You got one person applauding. That's bro. I'm going to miss this guy, Brian Stelter. I will miss

00:32:40.440 him. I will miss him. May he rest in peace. His CNN is, CNN must be strong. CNN is necessary for

00:32:48.240 democracy. CNN will save the world. CNN is the future of the world. I don't know, for some reason,

00:32:52.980 watching this, and it's probably just me, but I was reminded of the scene from the office

00:32:58.300 where Michael Scott is giving a speech at a business school and all the students are telling

00:33:03.160 him how, you know, paper companies are obsolete. And he says, no, Dunder Mifflin is the future,

00:33:07.660 but you're too stupid to see that. And that's, that's, it just, it reminds, it's kind of what

00:33:11.560 Stelter is doing here. Like CNN is totally obsolete and irrelevant and, and nobody cares about it.

00:33:17.660 And he's clinging onto it as humanity's last great hope. And he's doing that even after they

00:33:22.840 just canned his ass. It's just sad. Like, first of all, you, you get fired and then they,

00:33:31.380 most of the time you work for a media company. If you get fired there, you're not going to be back

00:33:36.100 on the air. Okay. I can guarantee you if the Daily Wire ever fired me, they're not going to let me do

00:33:41.080 one last show. They would never let me do that. That would be a bad decision when you fire someone

00:33:46.480 and then let them, you give them access to your cameras one last time when they've got nothing

00:33:50.940 to lose. But they let Stelter do it because they know he's a eunuch. They know that he's just going

00:33:56.900 to, they could absolutely count on him to get up there and still talk about how great CNN is

00:34:03.620 after they got rid of him. I don't know. I feel bad for him. I really do.

00:34:07.460 I feel bad because he's 35, but he looks like a retired bus driver. And I feel bad for him in

00:34:15.180 general. I won't even make any more potato jokes about him. I won't because it's, you know,

00:34:22.160 it's not bad to look like a potato anyway. That's the other thing. I don't think it's fair.

00:34:26.720 There are worse root vegetables that you could look like. Imagine if it looked like a, like,

00:34:31.120 look like a radish or parsnips. That would be pretty weird. So, you know, go easy on Brian Stelter.

00:34:37.480 Okay. I want to mention this too. It says a, this is from Fox News, a private Christian school in

00:34:42.680 Florida told parents ahead of the coming school year that students will only be identified by

00:34:47.280 their biological sex and said that students who are found participating, quote unquote,

00:34:51.840 in gay or transgender lifestyles will be asked to leave the school immediately. 1.00

00:34:56.800 The email sent by Grace Christian School Administrator Barry McKean says,

00:35:00.140 we believe that God created mankind in his image, male, man, and female woman,

00:35:03.900 sexually different, but with equal dignity. Therefore, one's biological sex must be affirmed

00:35:09.080 and no attempt should be made to physically change, alter, or disagree with one's biological

00:35:13.000 gender, including, but not limited to, elective sex reassignment, transvestite, transgender,

00:35:17.620 or non-binary gender fluid acts or conduct. Students in school will be referred to by the

00:35:24.100 gender on their birth certificate and be referenced in name in the same fashion.

00:35:27.820 Private Christian school is located in Florida, which is less than 20 miles outside of Tampa.

00:35:33.960 And of course, this has sparked outrage among many people on the left, including some of the

00:35:42.040 people in the school and parents are pulling their, their, their kids out and all the rest of it.

00:35:47.720 Meanwhile, this is of course a wonderful thing. It's not gonna surprise you to hear me say that.

00:35:54.180 This is a wonderful thing. And in fact, if you, here's what, what you need to do. Okay. If you

00:36:00.560 send your kid to a private Christian school and they have not sent an email like that out,

00:36:06.360 I'd be marching into the office and print out a copy of this email and say, why haven't you sent this

00:36:11.880 out? Copy this email down, put it in your own words a little bit, send it out. Why haven't you?

00:36:17.100 You know, if, if, if, if you're paying money and in private Christian schools, most of them,

00:36:25.860 uh, I certainly know this are not cheap. And if you're paying all that money,

00:36:31.620 it should be a reason behind it. And the only reason I can think of to, to, to spend so much

00:36:37.420 money to send your kid to a private school instead of just sending the public school

00:36:40.220 is because not just the education, but the culture is going to be vastly different from

00:36:46.440 what they get in public school. And of course they're in Christian school. So you should expect

00:36:51.060 that they are being introduced to and, uh, and brought up in Christian values.

00:36:59.800 Although in this case, of course, what he just described in that email that, I mean,

00:37:03.640 those are Christian values, but they're also, that's also just reality. This is biblical values,

00:37:10.080 male and female. He created him, but that's also science and reality. All these things work together

00:37:14.840 as they so often do. So that would be my question. If I were sending my kid to a private Christian 1.00

00:37:21.580 school, have you sent an email like that out? And if you have, I want to know why, except I'll,

00:37:27.000 you know, you can already assume why they haven't said that out. It's because they have no intention

00:37:30.400 of, uh, enforcing Christian values in that way. And, uh, and they're perfectly happy to let the

00:37:36.560 insanity of modern culture, not only permeate into their Christian school environment, but, but define

00:37:44.140 it, right? And what about the people who are surprised by this? Parents, again, paying money to send

00:37:55.900 your kid to a Christian school. And then you're surprised when the Christian school says, Hey,

00:38:00.800 this is a Christian school and we're going to operate accordingly. How can they be shocked by

00:38:06.200 that? Well, it's only because we've gotten used to this idea that LGBT people have the right to just 0.99

00:38:14.020 do whatever they want and to do it anywhere in any situation that they're entitled to it,

00:38:21.520 that they're entitled to living this life where people are constantly making exceptions for them.

00:38:30.940 You know, talking about the, speaking of the Bible, they, they, they are entitled to be like Moses,

00:38:36.040 just parting the Red Sea everywhere they go, everywhere they go, just everything kind of

00:38:40.360 parts and accommodates them and make special exceptions. But that is simply not the reality.

00:38:48.040 All right. One, one clip I want to play. This is from the director of the gender development

00:38:54.700 program and adolescent medicine at Lori Children's hospital. Libs of TikTok of course found this and

00:38:59.640 posted it. Here it is. You work with trans kids and teens, and I would love for you to share with

00:39:06.360 people like a little window into what the process is like when a family comes to you. You know, when

00:39:12.740 kids realize they're trans, like what are they looking for when they meet with you? Is this a risky 0.99

00:39:18.020 process for a young person? Yeah. I mean, I mean, the, the answer to that is largely, um, no and yes,

00:39:26.960 you know, so there are things that we do not know about the process, but you know, these are medical

00:39:32.740 interventions that have been used for a long time. Now they've been done quite safely. The medical

00:39:38.860 interventions themselves are not rocket science. I mean, these are medications that we've used in other

00:39:43.060 conditions for many years that have a really strong evidence base. And so I really want to be clear

00:39:47.980 that I believe these medicines can, that can and are used safely. You know, I know for a fact that the

00:39:54.520 teams that are out there that are doing this work do it with a lot of care and thought and precision.

00:39:58.900 And so, yes, I mean, there is, there is not a full range of evidence to support the treatments that

00:40:06.740 we're using, but there is a lot of anecdotal evidence to support it. And, and the safety data

00:40:12.160 that's coming out really suggests that these treatments can be used, uh, both safe, safely and

00:40:17.460 appropriately. Now it's important that I play all these, uh, sorts of videos as they are found and, and, uh,

00:40:24.460 make their way into the public light and cause this information that you need, but also because

00:40:30.620 all of these videos are going away. Okay. Oh, but for, for the last several years, in fact,

00:40:37.180 as we have discovered recently, especially, um, the people who are transing the kids

00:40:43.260 have been at least amongst each other have been relatively open and honest about what they're doing

00:40:52.840 relatively. Now the, the face they present to the world is not honest at all. The things they say

00:40:57.920 to the world is not on or are not honest because what they'll say to the world is, Oh, all the

00:41:02.180 evidence, all the studies, all the evidence is there. So that's all a lie, but they have been

00:41:08.540 kind of circulating in their own little worlds, uh, and being pretty honest with each other and

00:41:14.600 saying things like that. That's not the only video we've seen just in the last couple of weeks.

00:41:17.460 So, oh yeah, there's, there's, there's, we, we, we don't have the evidence for it. It's anecdote.

00:41:25.340 We, we are going to surgically alter your child permanently based on anecdote.

00:41:35.880 They've been saying this to each other because up until now there's been no accountability and

00:41:41.220 they know that there's kind of this agreed upon this, this conspiracy of silence,

00:41:46.300 certainly on the part of the media. So they know that they can talk amongst each other.

00:41:51.920 They can have their like seminars and forums and they can talk kind of openly about it.

00:41:55.900 They can even have interviews that they post on YouTube and they know that the media is not

00:42:00.120 going to go dig these things up and tell anyone about them.

00:42:02.140 So they have the things they say to each other, even ostensibly in public because they posted online

00:42:09.040 and then they've got, but then they've got the things that they intend for the whole public to

00:42:12.100 see and they're very different. And they know that the media is part of the conspiracy. So the media is

00:42:18.440 going to take that stuff on the top level, the stuff that's intended for the public, and that's all

00:42:21.620 they're going to show us. But that agreement has broken down now because what these

00:42:27.480 butchers and quacks are discovering is that it's not up to the mainstream media to decide what people 0.76

00:42:34.740 see anymore. They used to be the only ones who decide, but not anymore. It doesn't work that way

00:42:40.460 anymore. And so all those kinds of things are going away, but it's still the truth. He said it.

00:42:49.360 It's the kind of thing you can't take back. We don't have a range of evidence to support these drastic

00:42:56.260 surgical interventions that we're doing to kids. Can't take that back. It's true. The evidence

00:43:02.240 isn't there. All right. One other quick note here, some science for you today before we get to the

00:43:08.300 comments section. The NASA exoplanet team tweeted out a video, which they say is the sound of a black

00:43:16.940 hole. So for the first time, they were able to capture what a black hole sounds like. This is real.

00:43:23.080 Okay. It's not like they were now it's real in a certain sense. It's not like they were putting

00:43:27.080 a tape recorder up to the black hole and recording what it sounds like. They use a computer data or

00:43:31.560 something to come up with this. I don't know exactly how they do it, but here is the actual

00:43:36.280 sound of what a black hole. It's like, if you're getting sucked into the black hole, like Matthew

00:43:40.440 McConaughey in Interstellar, he ended up behind a bookcase or something somehow. Is that what happened in

00:43:46.180 that film? But this is what it would. Yeah. He ended up behind a bookcase. He did.

00:43:50.900 Okay. Anyway, well, this is what it would actually happen. This is what it would sound like. Go ahead

00:43:54.580 and play it. So it sounds basically like your deepest nightmares come to life. It sounds like a

00:44:06.580 portal to hell. And the thing I love is that NASA tweeted this out like a cool little bit of

00:44:11.140 bit of trivia. They tweeted out like, hey, check it out, gang. And then the sound is it's the actual

00:44:17.580 sound of demons screaming from the pit of hell. This is the sound that a possessed person hears

00:44:24.200 as the evil spirit takes over. It's just the most viscerally disturbing sound. And NASA tweets it and

00:44:31.180 says, hey, folks, listen to this. Neato. You know what that actually sounds like? This is actually the

00:44:38.120 sound that I hear whenever someone tries to make small talk with me on an elevator. I don't hear

00:44:43.140 the words. I just hear sheer pain and agony and despair. That's what that is. Let's get to the

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00:46:27.840 So how did Matthew McConaughey end up behind the bookcase? I need to, I saw the movie one time,

00:46:32.660 and I could never remember if that's actually what happened in the movie or did I dream it or

00:46:35.780 something, but okay, so he got sucked into a black hole and he ends up behind a bookcase.

00:46:40.660 And it makes no sense. That movie Interstellar, can I just say, was such a, I'm still mad about it.

00:46:45.780 It was such a wasted opportunity. I've probably never been as excited for a film as I was for

00:46:51.300 that one, and I'm still traumatized by how disappointed I was by it. Because, you know,

00:46:55.980 being a space nerd like myself, I thought, well, this is great. I've been waiting for a movie like this,

00:47:01.720 kind of a science-based film. They're going to other solar systems and stuff, and they're exploring

00:47:06.700 different planets. But then the whole movie is spent just listening to Anne Hathaway give speeches

00:47:13.100 about the power of love and how it bonds people together. She's quoting like pop lyrics, the whole

00:47:19.800 movie. And then it ends with the big grand finale, and he ends up behind a, you know, an Ikea bookshelf.

00:47:25.100 It's just a total waste of opportunity.

00:47:28.240 That was a physical reality he could understand.

00:47:31.000 That was a physical reality he could understand?

00:47:33.620 We'll talk about it in the post-show.

00:47:35.260 What does that mean?

00:47:36.900 So how do you end up there because of a black hole?

00:47:39.680 We'll talk about it in the member segment.

00:47:41.680 Okay.

00:47:43.740 You give that explanation like it's supposed to make sense. Oh, okay. Oh, it's a physical reality.

00:47:47.120 So if you get sucked into a black hole, then it's going to present you with a physical. So

00:47:51.420 a black hole is like a genie or something. A black hole will rip you to shreds. That's what

00:47:57.120 never made sense. They never explained why didn't the black hole rip you to shreds. It rips everything

00:48:00.520 to shreds. It annihilates light itself. It annihilates everything, except Matthew McConaughey.

00:48:05.520 He's the exception. All right. Crazy Scandi says, Matt Walsh sang the name Hugh Jarsol without hearing

00:48:14.760 the joke is hilarious. I don't know what you mean. What joke? I read a comment from Mr. Jarsol and I

00:48:19.820 responded to it. I don't know why you'd find that funny. Make Reality Sane Again says,

00:48:25.800 you okay, Matt? You seem tired and a bit more fidgety than usual. I know all this stuff takes

00:48:29.800 a toll on me when I'm exposed to it day after day and you're under threat constantly from the crazies.

00:48:34.740 Great episode either way. Take care, brother. Praying for you. Well, I was okay until I read that

00:48:39.220 comment. Now you made me feel self-conscious. There's nothing worse than that when you feel perfectly

00:48:43.800 fine and someone comes up to you and says, hey, man, you okay? You look tired and haggard and unkempt

00:48:48.540 more than usual. Actually, you're pretty disgusting. You doing okay? Everything cool?

00:48:53.940 Well, not anymore. Thanks a lot. You Jarsol. RC Tech says, hey, Matt, perhaps you may,

00:49:02.520 you do not realize in your everyday duties how many people learn from you, agree, and support you in

00:49:06.880 Latin America. Keep up the good work, not only for the USA, but for the West. Well, I do appreciate

00:49:13.160 hearing that, but I'm always shocked to learn. So you're telling me down in Latin America.

00:49:19.400 So I take it from that. If you're listening to me, then I guess you don't go for the whole Latinx,

00:49:24.300 Latinx America. You're not shocking. So you don't appreciate it when white liberals in the United

00:49:30.300 States try to try to give you a new language you have to speak on the logic that you're the new

00:49:36.960 language they're assigning to you will make trans people feel better about themselves. So you don't 0.99

00:49:41.420 appreciate that. Really surprising. Per Simmons says, this is the downside of homeschooling. Matt

00:49:50.060 has to do the work of assigning his own children their gender rather than just waiting for the first

00:49:54.360 grade teacher to decide for them. Well, it's not just gender though, right? It's the public school

00:49:58.680 system is happy to decide everything for my child. So that's, I got to do, I got to do all,

00:50:02.700 you know, you homeschool, you got to do it all yourself because if what the public school would

00:50:06.060 love to do is just give them your child as a blank slate and they'll create whatever they want. 1.00

00:50:12.580 More than happy to do it.

00:50:18.480 And finally, Bethany says, Matt, congratulations on the new babies. Will you run the names by the

00:50:22.960 sweet baby gang so we can get a vote? It may just come to that. My wife and I have been going back and

00:50:28.240 forth about this already and we're already not seeing eye to eye. For one thing, she's advocating

00:50:34.220 that one of the kids be named Matthew, but I'm trying to explain to her that the ship has sailed

00:50:38.680 on junior. We can't do the junior thing. You can't do the junior thing with a younger son. I've got two

00:50:43.240 sons. I can't leapfrog two sons and then give junior to my third son or my fourth son. You're asking for

00:50:50.380 all kinds of resentment and weird dynamics down the line. Plus, I have made a number of very good,

00:50:56.960 very serious suggestions that she has shut down without even thinking about. I actually wrote

00:51:01.200 out on Friday night. I was with a couple of my kids and I was writing out, because all my kids

00:51:07.380 have written out lists of the names they want. And they said, oh, daddy, you should write. So I wrote

00:51:11.380 a list and we gave it to my wife. She wouldn't even look at it. There were some good suggestions on

00:51:19.040 there. Walter, Gollum, Sludge is one. I thought Sludge was pretty good. Very strong, unique name

00:51:28.000 for a boy. I looked up some Egyptian pharaohs and there was one called Khufu. Good name. 1.00

00:51:37.740 Honestly, I don't know why my wife wants to keep having kids because she knows it'll go this way. 1.00

00:51:41.720 All I will do for nine months is come up with joke names. And the gag isn't even funny anymore. It was

00:51:47.760 hardly funny when I did it with the first set of twins, but I'll just keep doing it. And every

00:51:52.060 conversation she'll try to have for the next nine months. It's like, seriously, can we talk about

00:51:55.580 names now? And all I'm going to do is throw out fake names. And I can't, I know it's not funny,

00:52:00.420 but I can't, I can't, I have to. It's like, I have this responsibility. I don't know why.

00:52:05.740 It's a medical compulsion, I think. All right, let's get to the daily cancellation.

00:52:10.320 You know, here at the Daily Wire, we're doing everything we can to loosen the left's grip on

00:52:18.820 culture. We're making movies that challenge woke Hollywood narratives, documentaries like What is

00:52:23.140 a Woman? that exposed gender ideology. We're creating kids content parents can trust. We even 0.99

00:52:27.560 sued the government over unconstitutional mandates. We're doing a lot of stuff and it's a lot of work

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00:52:35.420 These are the steps. One, stop shaving with your Wilk razor. Two, start shaving with Jeremy's razor.

00:52:42.480 Hold up razor. Oh, this is seamless. Don't cut any of this. Keep this all in. We need all this. We

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00:53:00.400 it's like over here. It's in a bag. It's in a box. So we're just going to, we're just going to,

00:53:07.800 oh, and the razor isn't even, it's not, it's not even assembled. So we're gonna have to assemble

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00:53:17.980 And the other thing is I don't even really use razors except for Jeremy's razors. So I'm just,

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00:53:55.260 Well, our culture's most popular pastime, as we know, is complaining, especially about stress.

00:54:01.660 You know, the idea of stress as we know it today wasn't invented in the English language until the

00:54:05.460 1930s. Before that, it's fair to say that nobody ever complained about their stress because the

00:54:09.840 concept didn't really exist. That's not to say that people didn't feel stress or didn't lead

00:54:13.580 stressful lives. It's just to say that they simply lived those lives and dealt with the strain

00:54:18.940 without feeling the need to put a label on it and talk about it incessantly.

00:54:23.360 These days, though, by most measures, we have easier lives, we love nothing more than to talk

00:54:28.100 about our difficulties. We're so burned out. We have so much anxiety, so much stress. Everything

00:54:33.260 is so hard. And we need to talk about this to our friends, our families, to strangers on the internet,

00:54:38.360 to counselors and therapists. I mean, we've got armies of people we've set up to just complain to

00:54:43.840 them about how hard our lives are. We have to vomit our feelings of being overburdened onto everyone,

00:54:50.140 everywhere, all the time. This is, without question, the modern world's favorite hobby.

00:54:55.320 Now, our second favorite hobby is to come up with trendy new labels for common human experiences.

00:55:01.020 So we like to take things that people have always done or always felt or always said and invent a term

00:55:06.740 to describe it so that we can pretend that this universal experience is somehow novel.

00:55:10.440 So, for example, recently I came across the term flexitarian to describe people who eat both

00:55:17.280 vegetables and meat. This is a diet strategy shared by 99% of the human civilization since the dawn of

00:55:24.520 civilization. But now the flexitarian can pretend that he's reinvented the wheel by giving this

00:55:30.300 exceedingly normal thing a brand new name. In fact, I'm surprised we haven't come up with a new name

00:55:35.540 four wheels so that we can pretend that we actually did reinvent them. Maybe we'll get around to that

00:55:41.020 eventually as we seem to specialize in the art of inventing things that were already invented.

00:55:45.400 But what happens when these two popular pastimes are combined? What if we could whine about our

00:55:52.020 stressful lives while also inventing a new label for something people have always done? What if we

00:55:57.460 could do both? That would be the modern dream. That's the holy grail. And that's what brings us to the hot

00:56:04.060 new trend called quiet quitting. Now, the media tells us that quiet quitting is a revolutionary

00:56:09.860 concept, quickly gaining traction in society and especially in the workplace. The headlines are full

00:56:15.060 of references to this practice. Here's some samples of the headlines. Quiet quitting is a trend taking

00:56:19.660 over TikTok and your workplace. Everyone is talking about quiet quitting, but is it a good idea?

00:56:25.980 Three millennials on their experience of quiet quitting. What is quiet quitting and why are employees

00:56:31.700 doing it? An explainer. The Washington Post provides more details. It says, quiet quitting is taking

00:56:36.920 social media by storm, but you might not have noticed. The term is a bit of a misnomer because

00:56:41.800 quiet quitters aren't walking away from their jobs. Instead, they're renouncing hustle culture,

00:56:46.820 quitting the idea of going above and beyond at work as TikTok user Zayd Lepin, oh, I see what he did

00:56:53.480 there, said in a July post that has amassed more than three million views and helped popularize the

00:56:59.240 phrase. The trend is resonating strongly with those Gen Z and millennial workers fighting to rewrite the

00:57:04.760 rules of the workplace. Signs of quiet quitting look like classic indicators of diminished motivation

00:57:09.900 and low engagement, according to Joe Grasso, senior director of workplace transformation at Lyra Health.

00:57:16.000 That might be decreased productivity or withdrawing from the team, limiting communication and interaction

00:57:20.580 to only what's required, Grasso said. It could manifest as employee cynicism or apathy about work

00:57:26.340 or staying silent rather than sharing input. Now, the article goes on to explain that quiet

00:57:31.600 quitting is the result of, quote, unprecedented employee burnout. People are feeling more burned

00:57:37.380 out and overworked than ever before, allegedly. This has led to the quiet quitting trend wherein

00:57:42.240 employees, in defiance of something called hustle culture, decide to go to work but put in less

00:57:47.460 effort. They'll do only the bare minimum and no more. They'll work, but they won't work hard.

00:57:53.060 As mentioned, this is a major topic of conversation on TikTok, especially where people are too burned

00:57:58.200 out to do their jobs, but not too burned out to record TikTok videos talking about how burned out

00:58:03.500 they are. So here's one viral TikTok video giving more details about this revolutionary new concept.

00:58:11.160 Everybody's talking about quiet quitting and how it's the new negative talent crisis. I think it's a good

00:58:17.860 thing. The youngest generations at work are rejecting the idea of hustle culture or framing your entire life

00:58:25.320 around some dream job. They're rejecting putting their mental health below their performance goals.

00:58:31.860 With quiet quitting, you're doing what you're paid for and not more. And it's about setting boundaries

00:58:39.060 around what you're willing to do. If the inflation rate is eight and a half percent and you get a one

00:58:45.220 percent raise, what do employers expect? I see this as a healthy evolution that can actually equalize

00:58:53.260 the employee-employer relationship more. Do you think quiet quitting is a good thing? Let me know.

00:59:00.960 Okay. So a few points here. First of all, doing the bare minimum at work is not some unique,

00:59:10.080 quirky, new approach to life. We don't need a label for it. We already had a label. It's called

00:59:16.100 lazy. And lazy people have always existed. In fact, they made a movie called Office Space over 20 years

00:59:22.820 ago about exactly this idea. I think this is my second Office Space reference to as many shows.

00:59:26.520 The protagonist feels drained by his soul-sucking office job and decides to stop trying. And hilarity

00:59:32.180 ensues. But Office Space didn't invent anything either. In fact, what makes the movie funny is that it's

00:59:37.880 relatable. Everybody knows what it's like to be fed up with your job and to be fed up with other

00:59:42.940 various mundane aspects of your life. Everybody has fantasized about adopting an I don't give a

00:59:47.340 damn attitude. Everyone has especially fantasized about smashing office appliances with a baseball

00:59:51.540 bat, as they do in that film. The point is that millennials and Gen Z aren't sparking a revolution here. 0.77

00:59:57.300 They're experiencing laziness. The only difference is that they're narcissistic enough to think they

01:00:02.540 invented it. Second, if you want to do the bare minimum, that's fine. That's mediocrity.

01:00:12.160 And if you want to live a mediocre life, you're welcome to it. Many people before you have chosen

01:00:17.820 that path and many people after you will do the same. That's why it's mediocrity.

01:00:22.940 Just don't pretend that you're putting in less of an effort at your job so that you can invest more

01:00:28.660 of your time into more enriching pursuits and passions. Now, that may be what a very small

01:00:33.720 fraction of the quiet quitters do, but it's not how it works for the vast majority. As we discussed

01:00:39.640 last week, most people who give themselves more free time end up spending all of that extra spare time

01:00:45.180 staring at their phones or watching Netflix. Now, if you're actually going to take all the free time,

01:00:52.340 take all the extra energy you have now because you are quiet quitting, and go climb Mount Everest

01:00:57.360 or start a side business or even take painting classes or something, then okay, you are reinvesting

01:01:05.900 your time and energy into another pursuit that to you is more worthwhile. But that is just simply

01:01:12.600 not what most people do or are going to do. And we should be honest about that. And you should be

01:01:18.680 honest with yourself. And if you're doing the bare minimum at work, refusing to go above and beyond

01:01:25.240 and not pursuing anything else notable with your life, then you will be unsuccessful and again,

01:01:31.220 mediocre. That's who you're going to be. That's what your life is going to be. You will not flourish

01:01:36.240 financially or in any other way. You're going to leave little mark on the world. You'll achieve

01:01:41.760 nothing of note. That is going to be your life. Now, the luxury of the modern world does provide

01:01:47.840 people with the unprecedented option of coasting by on the bare minimum if they want, expending very

01:01:53.200 little energy. This was not a lifestyle available to most people for most of history. Now it is

01:01:58.320 available. You can take advantage of that opportunity and you can if you want, but it does

01:02:03.960 come with a price. Nothing is free. Even laziness is not free. Especially laziness is not free.

01:02:10.200 Not in this life. Being lazy will extract a payment from you, whether you like it or not. And what you are

01:02:17.000 giving up in exchange for ease of life is any chance of doing anything notable, interesting,

01:02:22.580 or great with your life. Because the notable, interesting, and great things are done by people

01:02:28.340 who give more of themselves than is required. Great lives are led by those who look for ways to give

01:02:35.940 more, not less. This is also true just in the microcosm of the workplace. For the most part,

01:02:43.420 the people who succeed, okay, are the ones who are giving more. So you're just doing exactly what

01:02:48.700 you need to. The guy next to you is doing a lot more than he needs to. He's probably going to be

01:02:51.980 more successful than you. And then when he is, you're going to whine about it and say, oh, it's

01:02:56.060 not fair. This isn't fair. Actually, it's totally fair. That's possible there could be someone who's

01:03:02.420 awarded with success even though they didn't earn it and you did. That kind of unfairness really does

01:03:07.000 happen. But probably that's not the case. Probably that's a story you're telling yourself to make

01:03:12.640 yourself feel better. Probably that person earned it and you didn't. And in general, the great people

01:03:21.040 are the ones who do hard things, not the ones who avoid hard things. That's a fact of life. It'll never

01:03:25.500 change. So all I'm asking, you want to be a quiet quitter, fine. Don't come around later complaining

01:03:32.080 about your lack of success. Don't become envious of the people more successful than you. You wanted to

01:03:36.960 quiet quit. OK, you wanted to put in less effort. You aimed low and you got what you wanted. You have

01:03:42.960 no right to resent people who aimed higher than you. Third and final point related to the first two

01:03:48.160 points. I am not suggesting that you should stay forever in a job you hate, pouring yourself into

01:03:53.900 it year after miserable year. If you if you hate your job and you feel unfulfilled by it, if you feel

01:03:59.540 that it's not making use of your talents, if you think it's a dead end, etc., then go chase something

01:04:04.300 better. If you just don't want to work at all, then you're a lazy, overgrown child. And as long

01:04:11.800 as you maintain that attitude, you're destined, as previously discussed, to be a mediocre failure

01:04:15.820 and a disgrace and an embarrassment to your family and everyone who knows you. But if you're willing

01:04:19.920 to work and yet you feel that your work right now is wasted or futile or pointless, then go and pursue

01:04:25.600 a new opportunity. And yeah, you can make a scale. I can't do that. I can't do it for all these. You can

01:04:29.800 make excuses all you want. I can't do it. It's a risk. If I do that, if I do that, it won't work out. If I

01:04:33.240 got this, I have a family. Those are those are excuses. And I mean, they're they might even be

01:04:38.280 valid. But once again, the people who do great things are not focused on the excuses or they

01:04:43.780 act in spite of them. Staying at your job and trying to do the bare minimum is the coward's way

01:04:49.140 out. That's what the guy in office space discovered. By the end of the film, he had left

01:04:52.920 the office world completely, found happiness as a construction worker. He found work that was

01:04:57.240 meaningful to him. And that's what you should do, because that's professional success, right?

01:05:01.960 There isn't a certain salary you have to reach in order to be successful professionally.

01:05:05.900 What matters is whether you're doing work that is meaningful to you and which utilizes your talents,

01:05:11.900 skills and efforts. That's success. And it's a lot better than being a lazy bum, also known as a

01:05:19.800 quiet quitter. And that's why quiet quitting as a concept and especially also just as a label

01:05:26.660 is canceled today. And that'll do it for this portion of the show. As we move on to

01:05:32.260 the special members section of the show, we'll see you over there. And if not, Godspeed.

01:05:37.880 Be right until now.

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 22, 2022

Ep. 1006 - Criminals Should Go To Prison, And Other Controversial Opinions

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