Ep. 1006 - Criminals Should Go To Prison, And Other Controversial Opinions
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1 hour and 6 minutes
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Summary
A man who d already been arrested 41 times in New York City is arrested again for violent assault. We know that leftist DAs are allergic to punishing violent criminals. But why is the left so determined to enable and spread crime and anarchy? I think I know why, and I ll explain.
Transcript
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, a man who'd already been arrested 41 times in New York City is
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arrested again for violent assault. We know that leftist DAs are allergic to punishing
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violent criminals, but why is the left so determined to enable and spread crime and
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anarchy? I think I know why, and I'll explain. Also, the Biden administration mulls its options
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as the student loan pause nears its expiration date. A Christian private school causes outrage
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by instating Christian policies and rules, if you can imagine that. Brian Stelter has his final
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emotional tragic show with CNN, and we're told that a new trend is taking the workforce by storm.
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It's called quiet quitting. What is it, and is it as stupid as it sounds? We'll discuss all of that
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kit on how to protect your hard-earned savings with gold. Last week, a man named Alexander Wright
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showed up at a subway station in New York City and began harassing other patrons. A subway worker
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witnessed Wright accosting people and tried to intervene. Wright then walked up to him and
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punched him in the head. Then the victim tried to run away but was grabbed and thrown to the ground.
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The assailant was later then arrested. It was, for Alexander Wright, the 42nd arrest. He had already
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been arrested 41 times before this. Many of those arrests were for acts of violence even more brutal
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than his attack on the subway employee. Just last year, Wright was caught on camera randomly
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punching an Asian woman in the head as she walked by, knocking her to the ground.
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Now, it's not that difficult to kill somebody with one punch to the head, especially if they're not
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expecting it, and especially when you're so much bigger and stronger than your victim.
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Fortunately, though, the victim survived. Wright was hit with hate crime and also assault charges,
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other charges too, and yet he was back on the street almost immediately. A month before that
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assault on the Asian woman, he had been charged with assault for throwing a hot coffee on two traffic
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cops. So to summarize, this man has been walking the streets of New York City for years, viciously
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assaulting and brutalizing pedestrians. The system is aware of him. They know that he's out there. They
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know what he will do to people. They know he'll never stop, and yet they allow him to remain on the
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streets. His freedom is worth the cost, they've decided, even if the cost is the physical safety of
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innocent people. Now, there are, of course, many such cases. Our cities are full of Alexander
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rights, and they're not just terrorizing the poor areas anymore. As The Daily Wire reports today,
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lawlessness abounds across New York City neighborhoods like the West Village and Greenwich
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Village, which have seen the largest spike in crime this year out of the five boroughs,
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according to the latest New York City Police Department report published last week.
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Compared to the crime stats from the same time last year, Manhattan's sixth precinct
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saw an 80% increase in overall significant crimes, with burglaries up 119% and grand larcenies up more
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than 100%. Business owners and residents have spoken to media outlets airing their frustrations of the
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lack of law and order in a neighborhood that draws celebrity sightings, historic brownstones, and
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gentrified takirias on roofs amid the fashion and art scene. Jama Alsner, who owns Village Revival
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Records in Greenwich Village, told CBS2, he rarely calls the police anymore because anything seems to go
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these days. According to the latest data, other crime statistics show car thefts are up 39%,
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robberies reach up to 45%, and rapes are up nearly 43%. Now, this trend holds up across the country
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as the violence from the inner city bleeds further and further out into the areas that were once
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considered safe. Now, you might think that this would be enough to finally spur some change and maybe
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a little bit of a revival of law and order. Now that the urbanite liberals who support the policies
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that have caused this anarchy are finally being made to reap what they've sown, perhaps things
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will change. But that seems unlikely because they're still leftists, and leftism at this point
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is hopelessly nihilistic, deluded, destructive, and utterly severed from reality. As long as the cities
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are run by this suicidal ideology, things will just not get better. Crime is, among other things,
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a practical problem and leftists floating as they are in an alternative universe are not capable of
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solving any practical problems in this universe whatsoever. Least of all, a practical problem
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like crime, because it has some not as practical dimensions to it, which we'll get to in a second.
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Anna Kasparian over at the Young Turks is learning this lesson about the left the hard way. In a fascinating
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career shift, Kasparian has recently tried her hand at something very new and novel for her. She's
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tried making logical points, specifically on the issue of crime. She has, in recent days, ever so
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gingerly dipped her toe into the waters of logic and reason. But she's discovering that she can't
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wade into those depths without alienating herself from her leftist comrades. That's why she's been
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getting into a lot of trouble on the left for saying things like this. Listen to this.
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I don't know, maybe I'm crazy. I don't believe in the death penalty. But I would say that if you
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murder someone and you have spent time in a facility, in a prison that does not rehabilitate,
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because that's where our prisons are. It's very unlikely that you're rehabilitated and just
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releasing you into the world with no rehabilitation. Bad idea, bad idea. More than 63,000 inmates convicted
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of violent crimes will be eligible for good behavior credits that shorten their sentences by one-third
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instead of one-fifth that had been in place since 2017. That includes nearly 20,000 inmates who are
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serving life sentences with the possibility of parole. Keep in mind, by the way, we don't even know
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how these good credits are determined. There's really no specificity there.
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More than 10,000 inmates convicted of a second serious but nonviolent offense under the state's
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three strikes law will be eligible for release after serving half their sentences.
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That's an increase from the current time served credit of one-third of their sentence.
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And if you think that, no, come on, Anna, they're just, they're not releasing violent criminals,
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even though the reports indicate they are. They're just, this is all about nonviolent individuals.
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No, actually, a much smaller portion of the individuals who have been released from California
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Well, so you mean that, you mean that if you release violent criminals out into society,
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you're going to end up with more violent crime in society. Next, you're going to tell me that if
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you pour water into a cup, you'll end up with water in a cup. You know, these sorts of claims may not
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seem terribly shocking to you and I, but on the left, such talk is verboten. Kasparian has been
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getting pilloried for even the most tepid suggestion that perhaps our laws against violent crime should
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be enforced. A reporter for Rolling Stone was among the leftists taking her to task and Kasparian
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responded referencing the Alexander Wright case saying, this is a man who was arrested 41 times.
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After this incident, he was released and went on to send a subway worker to the hospital with a
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broken collarbone. But according to this crime reporter, the man committing assault slash breaking
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bones is the real victim. Well, yeah, Anna, welcome to the left. Been there for a while.
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Should have noticed this by now. The responses under her tweets show you how far, how far gone
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the left is on this topic and on any other topic, of course. Reading just a few, someone says,
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you can debate whether or not a 49-year-old mentally ill homeless man is a victim, but there's not a lot
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of evidence that sending him to Rikers, where most people are pre-trial and so legally innocent,
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is a solution that improves public safety. Another person says, I think the issue is that
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your position shouldn't just boil down to this guy sucks punishment. That doesn't help anyone.
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It's not constructive and shouldn't be a conclusion made on a program that positions itself on the left.
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Another person says, I don't know the details of this particular case, but what are you trying
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to achieve with this narrative? The public hears enough dishonest fear-mongering about crime.
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Left slash alt media should offer something different, such as exploring root causes of crime.
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And another person more to the point says, you should feel a deep sense of shame, Anna.
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Yes, Anna should feel ashamed. Well, she probably should feel ashamed of a lot of things, but should
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she feel ashamed of suggesting that perhaps after 40 arrests, it might be time to put somebody in
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jail for longer than 15 minutes? Perhaps we could adopt a 40 strikes and you're out rule.
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Can we do that? 40 strikes? No, because even that would be offensive to the left.
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They see no evidence that the public is made safer when violent criminals are kept in prison.
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They see no evidence. There's no evidence to them that you are safer from a violent criminal
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when he's behind bars, as opposed to if he was like right in front of you. There's no evidence
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that one is safer than the other. They presumably also see no evidence that patrons at the zoo are made
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safer when the door to the lion's cage is closed and locked as opposed to open. It's totally neutral
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either way. If they were at the zoo and the zookeeper said, you guys want this open or closed? You
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care? Whatever, it doesn't matter. What difference does it make? There's literally no difference between
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looking at a lion when he's in a cage and confronting him out in the open with nothing between the two of
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you. No difference. This is the delusion that permeates the left. So I thought I would try to
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help our friend Anna understand why she's getting this reaction from her own compatriots and why
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anybody on the left, any Democrat who, and very few of them ever do, but every once in a while,
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one of them will say something like this. Hey, you know, maybe this violent crime thing is a little
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bit of a problem, and they just get devoured by the piranhas. And let me try to help you understand
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why that is. Now, part of it is the delusional nature of modern leftism, as we've already discussed.
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This is what makes leftist political leaders totally incapable of providing actual leadership.
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Their ideology requires them to live and think as though they've been transported through a portal
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into an alternate dimension. And in this dimension, the usual rules of life and the laws of physics and
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everything else don't apply. Here in this alternate dimension, men can have babies, babies aren't
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people, and many other bizarre occurrences become commonplace. Even the laws of cause and effect no
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longer apply. Releasing a violent criminal from prison has nothing to do with the fact that the
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violent criminal was then enabled to violently victimize someone else. Even if he'd still been in
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prison, the same event may have occurred, they say. Now, this makes no sense in reality when you
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understand cause and effect, but these people are not living in reality. But there's a deeper point
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here also. And this is the part that I want everyone to focus on, especially Anna. You know,
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ironically, these people who we call social justice warriors, and I don't like that phrase, and this is
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why, because they actually have no concept of justice at all. It's kind of like we talk about virtue
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signaling, but the people that are signaling their virtue are signaling the opposite of virtue. It's
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like most of what we call virtue signaling is actually vice signaling. So most of what we call
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social justice, you know, is actually, it's anti-justice. It's the opposite of justice. It's the absence of
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justice. After all, putting violent criminals in prison is not just a matter of keeping people safe.
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It's also a demand of justice. And most normal and healthy people have an innate sense of justice.
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Okay. They see a man randomly assaulting a woman as she walks down the street,
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and they want him to be punished severely for his crimes. That's not vengeance. It's not bloodlust.
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It is justice. Okay. They see that action as one that cries out for a response. The scales have been
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tipped out of balance, and they must be righted. There must be justice. Even if it were possible
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to keep society safe from this man without punishing him, a normal person would still want him punished.
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You want him to experience some measure of suffering for his crime. Yes, that is just,
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you actually want him to suffer. And if you care about justice, and also if you actually have love
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and compassion for the victim, which is another thing that doesn't exist on the left, as much as
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they talk about compassion and love, there's none of that. It's indifference. But if you actually have
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compassion for the victim, you want that other guy to suffer, because that is justice.
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Justice is a virtue. It's a cardinal virtue. It is, in fact, the most important virtue of all.
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You can't have any other virtue without justice. And it is what ensures that an individual is given
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what they are due. Okay. I think that would be the definition of what is justice. That's the
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definition. It is giving an individual what they are due. To enact justice is to give to a person
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what properly belongs to him. And what properly belongs to an innocent person walking down the
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street is protection from violent scumbags like Alexander Wright. But what properly belongs to
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Alexander Wright is a cage. He should be punished because that is what he is due. That is what he
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is owed. That is the treatment which naturally and properly belongs to him because of his own actions
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and because of the sort of person he has chosen to be.
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This is something that, again, doesn't need to be explained to the average person. The average
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person, you ask him, what is justice? Just like if you ask him, what is a woman? They may be stumped by
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the question only because the answer is so obvious they haven't even had to think about it.
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But that is what justice is. And unless you are fighting for that, then you're not fighting for
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on my latest marital battle. So I decided that I wanted to take my two boys away for a weekend
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fishing trip. I'll come up here in a few weeks. And my wife is totally supportive of that. Actually,
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she's maybe a little bit too supportive. Because I said to her, hey, I wanted to take the two boys
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away. Yep, sounds good. Definitely. You guys should go. 100%. So she was pretty enthusiastic
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about us being gone for whatever reason. But then I started thinking about the details of the trip and
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what I wanted to do. And I decided that I'd really like to have a more sort of a rustic experience
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with the kids. And I started looking for a very simple kind of cabin in the woods somewhere with
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water nearby. Whether it's on water, we have to walk to it or drive to it or whatever. And I found
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this. This is real. This is actually for rent. I found this thing. I put it up on the screen.
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I asked for a rustic cabin, and this is what I found. And this is like, it's a cabin. It's
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basically a shed. Someone's renting out their shed. But there's a lot of privacy. It's like they said
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in the listing, there's a lot of privacy because it's in the woods somewhere. And it's about like 200
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square feet. And there's a tarp for a roof. And there's no bed. There's no furniture of any kind.
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There's no electricity, no water, nothing. And so I'm, I showed this to my wife. I was excited
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about it. I said, this is the kids will, boys will love this. And I showed it to my wife and she was
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horrified. She looked at me like I was an insane person. But then this just shows you, you know,
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this shows you the inherent differences between men and women. Because my wife is horrified by it.
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There's no way you can take my precious sweet baby boys and put them in that for a weekend. I'm not
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going to allow it. But then just to get a second opinion, I called my boys in and showed them this
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and they were stoked. I mean, they could not have been more excited to spend three days in that thing.
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And I even told, I told my son, I said, you know, there's like definitely probably snakes in this
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thing. And he said, well, that's okay, daddy. We can kill them and eat them. That's the spirit.
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Okay. When life gives you snakes, make some dinner. That's the spirit you want to, I think,
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imbue into your, into your boys. I don't know. I did find another place that's still a very small
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cabin in the woods, but significantly nicer than that. And a little bit less serial killer-y.
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But my heart keeps coming back to that. It's just, it's calling my name.
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And if you stay in that cabin, you'll probably hear all kinds of things calling to you outside in the,
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in the woods at night, but it's an adventure. All right. So we'll start with this. Daily Wire
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reports. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Sunday that the Biden administration would
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announce in the next 10 days, whether or not the nationwide pause on federal student loan
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payments and interest accrual that went into effect two and a half years ago would extend or
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expire. During an appearance in NBC's Meet the Press, Cardona told host Chuck Todd that the
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administration knows many people are waiting to hear something about the August 31st deadline.
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And he said in the next 10 days, they're going to announce something. Now,
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let me take a guess here, just a wild, crazy guess, that the Democrats are not going to let the pause
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expire a few months before the midterms. This, like I said, it's a shot in the dark,
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but I'm going to guess that they're going to come back and announce something
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because they're not going to let it pause right before the, right before the midterms.
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And I don't think we need to spend much time talking about student loan forgiveness
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as an issue. You know how I feel about the subject. We've talked about it many times.
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We'll talk about it in the future. But I want to just add one thing because I was thinking about
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this yesterday. Is that, is that actually it seems to me, and I'm not in favor of loan forgiveness
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of any kind. Okay. I'm in favor of, because I'm an old, I'm old fashioned as you know. And what I
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believe is that you pay your debts. You pay your debts. You agree to pay something, you pay it back.
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That's how, that's how I look at it. Very simple. But it does occur to me that actually of all the
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different types of debt that people deal with, in many ways, student loan debt makes the least
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sense to forgive. It should be the last type of debt that we talk about forgiving rather than being
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the first and only type of debt we talk about forgiving. I mean, mortgages, car loans, even
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credit card debt. These are all things that working class people deal with. Student loan debt is largely
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an upper class problem. Half of the debt, around half is held by graduate students. Okay. And it's,
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it's exactly though that kind of debt that we're forgiving. And it's exactly the kind of debt that
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poorer people have to deal with that we aren't talking about forgiving. Now, the reason often
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given for this is that a student loan debt can't be discharged in bankruptcy. And it kind of makes
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sense actually in a way why you can't discharge it in bankruptcy. I mean, for one thing, you know,
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a loan or a degree cannot be repossessed. You can't take it back from you. So it can't be discharged
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in bankruptcy. And so that's one of the reasons they say, well, you know, that's why we, that's
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why we're treating this as a special thing. That to me seems a pretty weak justification
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for the inordinate amount of attention given to it. Not to mention just the inordinate amount of
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sympathy that we're supposed to have for people with student loan debt while having no sympathy at
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all for all the other kinds of people. Many of them don't have college degrees. Many, many are,
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have, have, you know, on average incomes much lower than the average college graduate. And they're,
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they're, they're swimming in debt. A lot of them totally ignore the problem.
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All right, we'll move to this. So the prime minister of Finland, Sanna Marin is her name,
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has been taking heat after video of her partying went viral. And this is something that she does a
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lot. Apparently she likes to go out clubbing. She heads out onto the town. I think if I'm remembering
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correctly, I think it was this prime minister who like went missing for a day or two because she was
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out partying and forgot her phone or something like that. And anyway, here's the video that was on
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that I guess they posted on Instagram or something. We'll play this video. All right.
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Okay. So there she is having a great time at the club partying. Um, there's been, she's gotten a
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lot of, there's been a lot of criticism, a lot of discussion about this. And, uh, she finally
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responded to some of the criticisms that we'll play this and I'll have to translate because, you
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know, she's speaking a foreign language, but I actually know Finnish. So I'll translate this for
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you, but we'll go ahead and play the clip. What do you think these party videos show?
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These videos are private and filmed in a private space, she says. I resent that these became known
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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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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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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.
00:47:28.240
That was a physical reality he could understand.
00:47:31.000
That was a physical reality he could understand?
00:47:36.900
So how do you end up there because of a black hole?
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
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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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
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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
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new trend called quiet quitting. Now, the media tells us that quiet quitting is a revolutionary
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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
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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
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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
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they are. So here's one viral TikTok video giving more details about this revolutionary new concept.
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Everybody's talking about quiet quitting and how it's the new negative talent crisis. I think it's a good
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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
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around what you're willing to do. If the inflation rate is eight and a half percent and you get a one
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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
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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.
00:59:57.300
They're experiencing laziness. The only difference is that they're narcissistic enough to think they
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invented it. Second, if you want to do the bare minimum, that's fine. That's mediocrity.
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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
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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
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last week, most people who give themselves more free time end up spending all of that extra spare time
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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is canceled today. And that'll do it for this portion of the show. As we move on to
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the special members section of the show, we'll see you over there. And if not, Godspeed.