The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1009 - Biden Steals From The Working Class And Gives To Gender Studies Majors

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Joe Biden officially announces a $300 billion vote buying scheme with

00:00:05.560 his student loan forgiveness plan. And yet the administration has not been able to defend this

00:00:09.920 morally and financially catastrophic policy. We'll discuss. Also, Ron DeSantis provokes more outrage

00:00:15.380 with his comments about Dr. Fauci. A woman sues her psychiatrist for signing off on a gender

00:00:19.900 transition after just one meeting with him. George Foreman is accused of sexual assault 50 years ago.

00:00:24.940 Is there no statute of limitations on accusations like this? Should there be? In our daily

00:00:29.220 cancellation, we'll deal with social media influencers who use their children for clout.

00:00:33.640 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:44.020 NMLSConsumerAccess.org. Joe Biden's first and last term in office has been an unmitigated disaster

00:01:52.080 in every sense of the term across the entire board and in every area. Although Biden is likely not

00:01:58.200 aware of his failures because he's not aware of anything. He doesn't even know how he got into

00:02:02.340 whatever room he's standing in currently. Much less does he understand his own policies or their

00:02:07.620 impact on the public. Still, it has been a cavalcade of catastrophes. So what else is a Democrat

00:02:14.180 going to do? Heading into an election season with no achievements to highlight,

00:02:18.820 no successes to brag about. Well, he has only one desperation move, one Hail Mary play. And that

00:02:26.060 is to, of course, bribe the voters. Or rather, more specifically, bribe some of the voters,

00:02:32.660 a relatively small fraction actually, and to do so at the expense of all the other voters,

00:02:37.260 hoping that the group left holding the bag doesn't notice that they're holding it.

00:02:41.840 And so finally yesterday, after much buildup and anticipation, President Biden did officially

00:02:46.020 announce that he would forgive, quote unquote, $300 billion of student loan debt. The plan which

00:02:52.960 the White House unveiled on Wednesday would wipe out $10,000 worth of loans for borrowers earning less

00:02:59.300 than $125,000 in income as individuals or $250,000 as a household. He has taken out his magic wand and

00:03:08.380 poofed all of that debt away. Well, not really. I mean, the wand is more of a giant broom,

00:03:13.360 which will be used to sweep the debt from one part of the room over into another, even larger part.

00:03:20.320 The mess that had been mucking up one corner will now become a more widely distributed mess

00:03:24.700 across a larger portion of the house. And worst of all, the people that are now left to deal with

00:03:29.960 the mess are precisely the ones who did not create it and had nothing at all to do with it.

00:03:35.120 The plan translates into about $2,000 worth of additional financial burden

00:03:39.280 for every taxpayer. But that's only the beginning. The even greater cost will come in the form of

00:03:44.180 inflation. Of course, Biden says that there's no need to worry about inflation because of reasons.

00:03:50.280 By resuming student loan payments at the same time as we provide targeted relief,

00:03:56.640 we're taking an economically responsible course. As a consequence, about $50 billion a year will start

00:04:03.700 coming back into the Treasury because of resumption of debt. Independent experts agree that these

00:04:10.680 actions taken together will provide real benefits for families without meaningful effect on inflation.

00:04:17.760 Well, that is nonsense, obviously. As Jason Furman, a former economic advisor to Obama, wrote yesterday,

00:04:24.980 he said, pouring roughly half a trillion dollars of gasoline on the inflationary fire that's already

00:04:29.600 burning is reckless. Doing it while going well beyond one campaign promise, $10,000 of student

00:04:34.460 loan relief, and breaking another, all proposals paid for, is even worse. Now, that's especially

00:04:41.100 compelling coming from an economics guy who worked for a Democrat. But we don't need him or anyone else

00:04:46.320 to tell us this. Obviously, dumping $300 billion into an economy already ravaged by inflation will create

00:04:53.540 more inflation. Any rational person can see that. Even as the Democrats, as always, tell us not to

00:04:59.320 believe our lying eyes and also don't believe our lying ears, especially when our ears heard Nancy

00:05:04.820 Pelosi just recently declare that the president does not have the authority to do what he just did

00:05:10.380 yesterday. You may recall this. People think that the president of the United States, is this more on

00:05:18.560 the subject than you ever want to know? Well, you'll let me know. People think that the president of the

00:05:22.780 United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not. He can postpone. He can delay. But he does

00:05:32.080 not have that power. That has to be an act of Congress. Yet another moment to be shoved down the

00:05:40.340 memory hole. But if you really want to understand how indefensible this move from Biden is, all you have

00:05:46.000 to do is listen to the administration try to defend it. For example, here was Biden yesterday when asked

00:05:51.920 whether this policy is fair to the people who have already paid back their loans. And that's a very

00:05:57.700 good question. Here's what he says. Thank you. Mr. President, is this unfair to people who paid their

00:06:03.740 student loans or chose not to take out loans? Is it fair to people who, in fact, do not own

00:06:12.000 multi-billion dollar businesses? I see why these guys give them all attachments. Is that fair?

00:06:16.620 What do you think? What about people who paid their loans so struggled to pay their loans and now

00:06:23.100 others don't have to? What? That was a total non sequitur. Too incoherent and irrelevant to even

00:06:32.000 qualify as a straw man. Mr. President, why did you just kick that dog in the face? Why did I kick the 0.99

00:06:38.340 dog? Well, what about the orca in Free Willy? Remember him? He was treated poorly. Was that fair?

00:06:44.940 Was it? What? And before you blame his response on dementia, please note how the White House

00:06:53.660 spokesperson was also asked some questions about this and didn't perform much better when confronted

00:06:59.440 with a similar line of questioning. Let's watch that. Again, here's what we have done. Here's what

00:07:05.340 here's about how much it might cost. It might not cost. Who is paying for this? What we are saying is

00:07:11.000 that the work that this administration has done, the work that the Democrats in Congress has done

00:07:16.600 is actually there. And you see that the 1.7 trillion deficit and deficit deduction that you see

00:07:24.360 is going to benefit us in being able to do something for the middle class, to do something for the middle

00:07:32.100 class. This is about doing something for people who make less than $125,000, $1.7 trillion. That's

00:07:40.900 what we've been able to do. But when you forgive debt, you're not just disappearing debt. So who is

00:07:46.200 paying for this? And then I'll give you the second part. We lifted the pause, right? We're going to lift

00:07:51.620 the pause at the end of this year, which is going to matter, right? Which is going to offset a lot of

00:07:58.960 what we're doing as well. But doesn't answer the question at all. And it's nonsense. First of all,

00:08:05.080 think about what they're claiming here. The White House expects us to believe that they're offsetting

00:08:09.260 the $300 billion loan forgiveness by not forgiving the rest of it. What? If I lend you $20 and then I

00:08:17.860 forgive half of it, can I offset the cost of losing 10 of the dollars I'm owed by still recouping the other

00:08:24.460 10? Now, I'm not a math whiz, but that doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to me. But of course,

00:08:29.420 my analogy doesn't really work because in that scenario, I am eating the cost of my own forgiveness.

00:08:37.360 Because by the way, that's what forgiveness actually is. When you forgive someone, that's

00:08:41.960 something that you are choosing to do. Okay, you are, to use the favorite leftist phrase, you are doing

00:08:47.960 the work. But if you're just making someone else carry the burden, then that's not forgiveness.

00:08:59.620 And in this case, though, Karen Jean-Pair doesn't want to say it out loud, the people paying for this

00:09:04.780 forgiveness are the ordinary taxpayers. And as always, the burden will be felt heaviest most by

00:09:12.280 the working class. So think about this plan for a moment. College graduates earning six figures as an

00:09:19.560 individual will have part of their debts paid by people making a fraction of their salary, most of

00:09:26.580 whom didn't even go to college. And I know that because the majority of adults in this country do

00:09:31.420 not have bachelor degrees. The median individual income in the USA is less than $40,000. Biden is

00:09:38.040 offering forgiveness, quote unquote, to college graduates making three times the median. Half of

00:09:45.080 the student debt is held by graduate students. Graduate students are, in fact, a big part of the

00:09:50.740 reason why we're in this mess. Again, half of the debt is theirs. And these are people who kept taking

00:09:57.300 out loans. They didn't just take out loans when they were 18, but when they were well into adulthood,

00:10:01.380 kept taking out loans, staying in school for years and years. We all know people like this. It's just like

00:10:07.640 they don't want to get a job or live. So they just keep going back to school, racking up degree after

00:10:12.740 worthless degree, staying there for years, spending all this money. And now those who made more

00:10:18.040 responsible decisions and who earn far less money must carry the burden for the poor choices they had

00:10:24.200 nothing to do with that were made by people wealthier than them. It is obscene. We are, in fact,

00:10:32.240 bailing out PhDs by reaching into the pockets of plumbers and mechanics. We're taking money from

00:10:39.280 working families and handing it to gender studies majors. That's what we're doing. 1.00

00:10:44.460 Words can hardly express what a ludicrous injustice this actually is.

00:10:51.460 Meanwhile, adding insult to injury, nothing at all is being done to actually solve the underlying

00:10:58.640 problem or hold any of the guilty parties accountable. Let's start with the universities.

00:11:05.800 It is amazing that we can constantly have this conversation about student debt,

00:11:12.220 the student debt crisis, and yet the universities are let off the hook completely. It's like when we

00:11:19.720 talk about student debt, it's like the universities don't even exist. Where's this debt coming from?

00:11:23.360 What are the people paying for? Why are they taking out the loans? To go to the universities? 0.66

00:11:31.400 Why are the loans so much money? Because the universities are charging that much.

00:11:35.780 Why are they charging that much? No one even asks the question, especially on the left, they don't.

00:11:42.020 Why the hell should it cost $100,000 to go one of these stupid places? 1.00

00:11:47.300 They're not made to justify those prices. They never are. When's the last time you saw any 1.00

00:11:55.280 university official being asked by anyone, hey, why are you guys charging this much?

00:12:05.380 What about there? Let's look at the salaries. We hear so much about the dreaded millionaires and

00:12:11.460 billionaires in the corporate world. What about the salaries of these university officials,

00:12:17.200 administrative officials? The universities are still charging exorbitant fees for an education

00:12:25.440 that proves to be worthless most of the time. In fact, now they can charge even more and they

00:12:31.860 could be even more reckless knowing that the federal government will come in and transfer the

00:12:35.800 debt from the borrower to his neighbor across the street. So the corruption and greed in the

00:12:41.220 university system is not only not addressed, but actually encouraged. Also the school system,

00:12:46.880 before you get to the university system, you have the school system, grade schools,

00:12:50.340 funneling millions of kids into the universities. They're still doing this. They were doing this

00:12:56.300 when I went to grade school. It's not subtle. They're like telling you, you need to go to college.

00:13:02.300 You don't go to college, you're going to be a failure. You're not going to be able to make any money.

00:13:05.120 That's what they tell kids. Any accountability there? What about the employers who are still

00:13:15.040 doing their part to deepen the crisis by requiring college degrees for positions that don't necessitate

00:13:20.420 them and for jobs that must be learned by doing, whether you have a degree or not? Now there are

00:13:25.720 exceptions to this, but most jobs out there in the world, most of them, you learn them just by doing

00:13:31.860 them. You don't learn them by going to school for four years. You go to school for 20 years and

00:13:36.200 you're not going to be even a fraction of the way there in terms of like being ready for most jobs

00:13:42.820 that exist because you have to actually do it and get training. These are the culprits constantly

00:13:49.900 working every day to inflate the student debt bubble and not a single thing is being done to stop

00:13:55.380 them. Not a single thing. Instead, the problem is allowed to persist. The cancer is left untreated

00:14:01.640 and the people made to pay the price are precisely those people who have the least to do with any of

00:14:06.680 it. You know what the greatest insult to injury actually is? Is that, you know, go talk to people

00:14:16.040 that are in college about why they're there. Well, you know, most of the college kids, they have no idea

00:14:24.240 what they want to do with their lives. So it's not that they're, it's not that. No, what's one of

00:14:28.700 the main reasons that kids even go to college? It's for the, it's for the social experience, right?

00:14:35.420 I.e., in other words, they're going to college because they want to party for four years.

00:14:41.780 That is a huge part of the motivation for many of these kids. They're taking out these loans and

00:14:46.700 they're going to college because they want to party. That's what they do. They spend four years

00:14:49.460 party. It's like a, it's like a vacation. It's like four years vacation. It's like four years

00:14:52.720 divorce from reality. And now you got working people with real problems and real things they

00:15:01.120 got to deal with and families and everything, and they got to pay so that you could party for four

00:15:05.000 years. Now, look, you may support this approach. If you do, it's because you personally benefit

00:15:16.000 it and you don't really care about the effect it has on other people. That's it. I mean,

00:15:19.780 it's selfishness. You're allowed to be selfish. You know, it's, you can be, but that's what it is.

00:15:25.180 Don't claim it's anything else. But, but if you do support it, all I ask is that you please,

00:15:31.680 please never speak another word about equity or justice or fairness ever again. You have lost the

00:15:40.060 right to pretend to care about any of those things. So just be honest. It's the least you

00:15:47.860 could do. Now let's get to our five headlines. And I know I pointed this out yesterday, but I

00:15:59.760 really, I can't quite get over the other aspect of this, the claim being made here, especially given

00:16:05.920 the timing, you know, this is happening along with some of the other issues that we've been

00:16:10.840 discussing. So it just brings you back to this fact that like, according to the left, an 18 year

00:16:16.480 old cannot consent to a student loan. Student loans are predatory because the interest rates and

00:16:23.360 everything, but mainly because they are being offered to 18 year olds who don't understand what

00:16:29.520 they're signing up for. So an 18 year old cannot consent to a student loan, which that part I agree 0.99

00:16:34.320 with, by the way, it's crazy that we're allowing 18 year olds to take out loans like this, but that's

00:16:39.800 what the left, that part, we all agree. Left says can't consent to it, but a 15 year old can consent

00:16:45.880 to a double mastectomy. A 12 year old can consent to chemical castration. A four year old can consent

00:16:51.720 to socially transitioning to another gender. A four year old can consent to becoming another gender

00:16:58.340 socially, quote unquote. But an 18 year old cannot be expected to read the terms of a financial

00:17:05.760 agreement before he signs it. This is what we're expected to believe. These are the ideas we're

00:17:12.760 expected to take seriously. Again, it's just obscene is what it is. All right. Ron DeSantis has made some

00:17:23.500 people a little bit upset with some remarks that he made about Tony Fauci. Let's listen to those.

00:17:30.740 You have people like Fauci saying that his lockdowns didn't cause any permanent damage to any young

00:17:36.720 kids. I got news for you. It did. And we are going to reap those rewards across the whole country

00:17:42.900 for years and years and years because they treated kids so poorly. And I'm just sick of seeing him.

00:17:48.840 I know he says he's going to retire. Someone needs to grab that little elf and chuck him across the

00:17:54.080 Potomac.

00:18:00.220 That is really disappointing stuff, honestly.

00:18:04.460 And you know, you know how I can be and I am, I'm not a very sensitive person, but

00:18:10.720 I act as inappropriate and unfair. And again, I'm just disappointed.

00:18:16.680 I'm deeply unfair to elves to say that. The elves in the Lord of the Rings are good. They're also

00:18:28.480 tall. They're honest. They're wise. Fauci is none of those things. So this is just an unfair comparison

00:18:36.320 to elves. It's not fair to call. I would say Fauci is more of a, like a golem type of creature.

00:18:42.740 And so what he should have said is pick up that golem and chuck him across the Potomac. Now that 1.00

00:18:48.660 would have been much better. Just, you know, Fauci is like this old, shriveled, shifty, untrustworthy, 0.96

00:18:56.900 obsessed with power. Yeah, golem, I think is what we, so just in the future, let's stop with this. 0.99

00:19:02.980 Let's stop with the, um, the elf slander. Can we? All right. It's from the New York Post. It says,

00:19:09.760 an Australian woman who transitioned to male before realizing it was a mistake is suing a

00:19:15.340 psychiatrist after he approved her female to male hormone treatment following a single meeting and

00:19:21.380 later signed off on two surgeries to remove her breasts and uterus. Um, Jay, uh, Langadinos,

00:19:28.400 now 31, was just 19 when she first met Dr. Patrick Toohey, who's a veteran Sydney psychiatrist in May,

00:19:35.600 2010. The teen was referred to him by her, uh, endocrinologist to determine if she was suitable

00:19:40.220 for a gender transition. The specialist wrote that, uh, she was very young and, uh, needed a thorough

00:19:46.160 psychiatric workup before embarking on hormone treatment, according to a statement of claim

00:19:50.400 filed, um, in court. After his first meeting with the teen, Toohey concluded

00:19:56.060 that Langadinos suffered from gender dysphoria and was fit for testosterone therapy.

00:20:03.680 So this is one meeting. The psychiatrist took one meeting with this individual and said, yep,

00:20:09.320 good to go. Let's get them on the, on the hormone therapy. And keep in mind, when you hear this story,

00:20:14.060 all of this is 100% typical. This is the way that it goes. Um, because this is how psych,

00:20:22.180 psychiatrists are programmed now, is they're thinking about drugs. They're going to listen

00:20:27.920 to you talk. And then what drug can we give you? I mean, it's the same thing in many cases,

00:20:33.020 if you want, you know, if it was, you're looking for antidepressants, just take one meeting,

00:20:36.820 you'll get them looking for hormone, hormone drugs, just takes one meeting. 1.00

00:20:43.120 The next time Langadinos had an appointment with Toohey in February, 2012,

00:20:46.460 she told him she was eager to undergo top surgery to have her breasts surgically removed as part of 1.00

00:20:50.840 her transition. Toohey approved the double mastectomy first patient who underwent the

00:20:54.140 procedure in April of that year, according to the court filing. A month later, Langadinos met with

00:20:58.480 Toohey for the third and final time to discuss removing her uterus. And, uh, once again, the 0.90

00:21:03.860 psychiatrist said, yep, go ahead. So this is three meetings and we've gotten rid of two body parts

00:21:12.100 and, and we've got drugs. First meeting, put them on drugs. Next meeting, take off the breasts. 1.00

00:21:17.680 Next meeting, after that, uh, remove the uterus. And the psychiatrist was there signing off on all

00:21:23.400 this. Um, and then it goes on detailing how, uh, the Langadinos eventually came to, you know,

00:21:34.120 relatively quickly came to regret all of this. And now nearly a decade later, Langadinos, who no longer

00:21:39.140 identifies as male, is suing Toohey for professional negligence, claiming that he greenlit her hormone

00:21:44.160 therapy, even after she told him that she suffered from social phobia. She also alleges that he was

00:21:49.060 negligent and not recommending that she get a second opinion ahead of her hysterectomy. The court filing

00:21:53.960 states that Toohey strongly recommended that Langadinos, uh, seek social and family therapy,

00:21:58.340 but she did not heed that recommendation. Despite that, he went ahead and signed off on her two

00:22:02.920 surgeries. So that's, that's his, apparently that's his defense is that he said, well, you should,

00:22:08.080 you should go and seek other forms of therapy. She didn't do it though. And so he, but he said,

00:22:13.660 well, yeah, you should have the drugs anyway. Signed off on the drugs and the surgery.

00:22:18.860 This, as I said, is extraordinarily common. This is not an outlier. This is the way that it works.

00:22:25.760 And even if, uh, they extend it to two meetings or three meetings, I mean, there's, there's no number

00:22:32.940 of meetings with a psychiatrist that would justify a recommendation of removing healthy body parts.

00:22:39.020 But, um, the fact is that they don't, most of the time, it only takes a couple.

00:22:47.100 And what's happening here is what needs to happen all across the world.

00:22:53.200 I mean, that is, you know, we could talk about how to fight back against this madness

00:22:57.220 and there are many ways to do it. You know, there's activism, there's, there's a political

00:23:02.540 pressure, there's all kinds of things we could do, but, um, lawsuits. I mean, ultimately that's,

00:23:11.260 that's what's going to put a stop to this. And that's the indispensable element of this,

00:23:16.600 uh, of this fight is you got to start suing these people for negligence.

00:23:22.800 And we're going to see more of this. I mean, the class action lawsuits that are coming down the

00:23:26.760 pike here are just, it's hard to conceive of what we're going to be looking at. Class action 1.00

00:23:32.940 lawsuits against hospitals, psychiatrists, uh, pharmaceutical industry, all of it. And it all

00:23:39.580 needs to happen. All right. From the daily wire, it says Finland's prime minister, Sanna Marin,

00:23:45.080 who was already in deep water after video showing her partying hard with a man, not her husband 0.66

00:23:49.980 appeared on social media, apologized on Tuesday after a photo revealed two bare chested women kissing at

00:23:55.520 her official residence with one woman's breasts only covered by a sign reading Finland. Marin telling 0.99

00:24:01.220 reporters in, uh, Helsinki that she had invited some friends over to sauna, swim, and spend time

00:24:07.100 together after a music festival in July. So she's going to, so she's attending a music festival too.

00:24:13.800 This is the prime minister. All right. Um, so the incident occurred in the downstairs guest bathrooms

00:24:18.620 and said, in my opinion, this is what she said. In my opinion, that, that photo is not appropriate.

00:24:23.840 I apologize for that. That photo should not be taken. And then I believe she went on

00:24:30.200 to say once again, that she's human. So that's been, that's been her excuse all along is that,

00:24:37.240 well, I'm, I'm human. Yeah, we, we get that. Well, that part we understand, but you're also a grown

00:24:44.320 adult and you're prime minister. That's, that's the aspect of this that's causing some problems for

00:24:49.340 people. Now, the interesting thing is I've actually seen some people even on the right, um, defend

00:24:54.900 this woman and kind of characterize this as a, as cancel culture. Oh, just let her have fun, not 1.00

00:25:01.100 hurting anybody. Now we should be very clear about this, that this is not cancel culture. I mean, first

00:25:08.060 of all, as the leader of a country, it's not really possible to be a victim of cancel culture.

00:25:13.260 Being criticized is part of the deal and that's, that's supposed to happen. Um, you're supposed to

00:25:22.840 be criticized. So there's no amount of criticism or scrutiny, even if it's unfair, it's not, that's

00:25:28.100 not cancel culture. That just comes with the territory and it's necessary and healthy that

00:25:31.880 you be criticized and scrutinized all the time. Also, of course, the other thing about cancel culture 0.98

00:25:37.720 is that it is, as I'm always trying to explain, it's a, it's a function of, of the institution.

00:25:43.640 That's what cancel culture is. That's what's, that's what, that's what differentiates it from

00:25:47.840 other, you know, from just holding people accountable or average everyday sort of run

00:25:52.360 of the mill criticism. It's a function of the institutions. So when you have the institutions

00:25:56.360 working to punish someone for something that they've done or said, that's when you have cancel

00:26:02.380 culture. But when you're running the institutions because you're the prime minister, well, then you can't

00:26:07.300 be a victim of it. No. So this isn't cancel culture. This is, um, standards of behavior,

00:26:11.640 which is not cancel culture. And that's a good thing to have. And especially as conservatives,

00:26:18.340 we, we, that's, that's one of the things that we should be trying to conserve actually

00:26:23.280 is standards of behavior. We expect people to act in a certain way and our expectations for you

00:26:31.800 are going to depend on your station in life. Depends on who you are, what your role is,

00:26:36.780 what, what, you know, what your vocation is. If you're an adult in general, there are certain

00:26:44.420 standards of behavior, certain expectations. That's good. That's, that's one of the things,

00:26:49.220 again, as conservatives, we should be trying to conserve a society where there are no expectations

00:26:54.040 of anyone and you can just do what, anything you want and without any shame whatsoever.

00:27:01.020 However, that's what, that's what the left wants. That's, that's like moral anarchy. That's, that's

00:27:05.480 not us. That's, that's what they want. So there are standards, there are standards of behavior for

00:27:11.400 an adult, if you're an adult. And then if you're a political leader, even more so, we expect more of

00:27:16.780 you. You should be acting even better than the average person because of the responsibilities you've

00:27:23.440 been given. All right. So this is an interesting case that I just saw right before we went on air

00:27:33.620 here. The New York Times, it says two women filed lawsuits on Wednesday in California, alleging that

00:27:39.360 George Foreman, who's the former world heavyweight boxing champion, sexually abused them when they were

00:27:44.720 teenagers in California in the 1970s. According to the lawsuit, the women using their pseudonyms, 0.94

00:27:49.800 Gwen H. and Denise S. to protect their identities, initially met Foreman when they were under 10 years

00:27:55.560 old through their fathers. One man was a boxer, sparring partner of Foreman, while the other was

00:28:00.100 a boxing manager and longtime advisor to Foreman. Foreman then groomed the girls for several years,

00:28:05.100 according to the complaints, before forcing them to have sex with him in places ranging from

00:28:08.940 a San Francisco health hotel to an apartment in Beverly Hills. The two women, who are both in their

00:28:13.520 early 60s now, filed the complaints in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Superior Court.

00:28:19.800 Representatives for Foreman referred inquiries about the lawsuits to a statement that he

00:28:25.140 released last month. And he says that this, that they're trying to extort him. They've been

00:28:29.560 trying to extort him for years. This is a false claim and he denies it. Now you read this story and

00:28:36.960 you think, are there, of course, I don't know if this happened or not. These are claims dating back 50

00:28:45.700 years. And so you read that and you think, are there no statute of limitations here? How can you

00:28:50.880 come out 50 years later? Now, if something did happen to you when you were much younger, when you

00:28:58.140 were a kid, it's, it's understandable that kids who are victimized don't, don't oftentimes don't want

00:29:03.980 to come out right away because they're, they're, they're afraid of and intimidated. That's part of

00:29:07.500 the conditioning and the grooming. But like once you get to an adulthood at a certain point, you have

00:29:14.160 to say, if you, if you wait, not just waiting 50 years, you've waited like 40 years into adulthood

00:29:19.360 and now you're saying something at a time when they're, it's just impossible to prove one way

00:29:24.720 or another. It would be impossible to do. It's also impossible to, if you've been, you know, if you're,

00:29:29.740 if the claim is false and you're being falsely accused, it's impossible to vindicate yourself.

00:29:33.500 It's just, just a claim. So how can you wait 50 years? Should there not be some kind of statute

00:29:42.200 of limitations, putting some urgency on this saying, if you've been victimized, we absolutely

00:29:47.100 want you to come forward, but you can't wait half a century to come forward because there's nothing

00:29:53.420 we can do with the claim at that point. Well, you would think that, but actually California changed

00:30:00.560 their law relatively recently. They changed it in response to the Me Too hysteria. And according to

00:30:07.780 the law that went into effect back in 2020, they extended the statute of limitations. They extended

00:30:14.200 it broadly just across the board, but then they also basically extended it indefinitely because now,

00:30:20.560 according to their law, you have, you have to come forward within five years. If you're, if you're

00:30:28.120 claiming you're a victim, you have to come forward within five years of discovering an injury.

00:30:32.880 So that's the way they've phrased it in the law, which if you don't think much about it,

00:30:39.340 it's, it sounds like, okay, well, five years, that's okay. That's, that's not that long. That's,

00:30:43.360 that seems fair. Well, but they're including psychological industry, injury rather. So five

00:30:49.860 years of discovering a psychological injury, which is another way of saying that you have forever,

00:30:55.380 there is no statute of limitations because yeah, you could walk into a psychiatrist's office when

00:31:00.760 you're 65 and say, I'm traumatized by something that happened 50 years ago and that's it. That's

00:31:07.200 all you have to do. And now you've got five years from that first meeting with a psychiatrist to file

00:31:11.980 a claim. And it, it should come as no surprise by the way, that as soon as California put this law

00:31:20.720 on the books that rather it's amending what, you know, the currently existing law, as soon as they

00:31:25.280 amended the law, there was, there's just been a rush of claims like this from people alleging that

00:31:31.460 they were victimized decades prior. Um, it's just obviously total madness. Uh, you know, you can,

00:31:42.080 it's, it, there's not an exact science here as what, of what the statute of limitations should be,

00:31:46.500 but I think any thinking person, any rational person would agree that 50 years is just way too long.

00:31:55.280 Maybe, you know, maybe like five years into adulthood. I think that might make sense.

00:32:04.800 Just, you know, something between five and 50.

00:32:09.400 All right. So we have two stories here of, um, Hollywood, which, you know, we know Hollywood

00:32:15.760 loves nothing more than lecturing its own fans. And so we've got two examples of that.

00:32:21.640 One of which I actually find somewhat upsetting to me on a personal level. So first, this is from

00:32:28.480 Variety. It says, House of Dragon, um, star, House of Dragon, I guess that's the, that's the new Game

00:32:33.080 of Thrones show. So one of the stars, Steve, uh, Toussaint, who plays Lord Corlys Valorant,

00:32:40.460 I don't know, uh, AKA the Sea Snake on the series, slammed viewers of Game of Thrones prequel,

00:32:46.580 who took issue with his casting, um, saying that they're, you know, that they're racist.

00:32:52.280 He says, it seems to be very hard for people to swallow. He said this in an interview with Men's

00:32:55.940 Health. They're happy with a dragon flying. They're happy with white hair and violet colored

00:33:01.080 eyes, but a rich black guy, that's beyond the pale. Um, Toussaint added, what has been wonderful is for

00:33:09.640 every toxic person that has somehow found their way into my timeline, there have been so many others

00:33:14.620 who've been so supportive and been like, oh my God, I can't wait. This is going to be great.

00:33:19.180 All right. And then he goes on from there. So he's accusing viewers of being racist and he's

00:33:23.420 alleging that they're criticizing him, I guess, because he's portraying a character who in the

00:33:28.640 books is a, is a white guy. And, uh, and this is, they switched him over to a black guy.

00:33:34.120 And so he's calling them all racist for that criticism, um, which to begin with,

00:33:39.100 we can pretty much guarantee that because we, we know this, there's a lot of precedent here.

00:33:44.460 We've seen, we've seen many stories like this where actors are coming out now. It's very common

00:33:49.720 now. Like there used to be a time when, when actors would be hesitant to criticize their own

00:33:55.020 fan base, but now they just love doing it, scolding their own fans. And so we know from precedent that,

00:34:01.000 that oftentimes when we're told that our fans are racist because they're criticizing a black actor,

00:34:06.120 and then you look at most of the criticism, you say, well, no, they're just, they just don't

00:34:09.420 like the performance. It's got nothing to do with his skin color. But then of course there's 0.88

00:34:15.660 the inconsistency here because even if there were fans saying that, Hey, well, this, the character

00:34:22.520 here doesn't look like what he's supposed to look like based on the books. What we know is that if

00:34:26.960 you reverse that, that criticism would be seen as totally valid. Okay. We all understand what

00:34:34.620 would happen if, for example, a black Panther, who's a fictional character doesn't actually

00:34:40.800 exist. So you could make them look any way you want. But if, uh, if Chris Pratt, let's just imagine

00:34:46.740 Chris Pratt being, uh, cast as for the, you know, the next black Panther film, there would be,

00:34:55.700 I'm not kidding. When I say there would be riots in the street over that they would act,

00:34:59.720 there would be riots. There would be buildings burning if Chris Pratt was given the fictional

00:35:05.480 role of black Panther. And we all kind of understand that. So that criticism is totally

00:35:11.360 valid, but if you do it in the reverse, it's horrifically racist. It doesn't make a lot of

00:35:15.120 sense. And then there's this, this is the one that kind of hurts me a little bit because I'm such a big

00:35:18.860 fan of the show. And also of this, um, of, of this individual, Vince Gilligan, who is the writer

00:35:25.880 and creator of breaking bad has come out. And according to the reports anyway, has accused,

00:35:31.260 uh, breaking bad fans of sexism because of their treatment of one of the characters on that show,

00:35:39.780 Skylar, who of course is Walter White's, uh, wife. Uh, so here's what it says in breaking bad,

00:35:44.800 Walter White played by Bryan Cranston builds a multimillion dollar meth empire, all while lying to

00:35:50.120 his family and mercilessly killing those who stand in his way. But it was often his wife,

00:35:53.920 Skylar White played by Anna Gunn, who was viewed as the villain in the story in a lengthy interview

00:35:58.640 with the New Yorker breaking bad creator, Vince Gilligan opened up about the undeserved and often

00:36:04.040 sexist hatred towards Skylar saying that it troubled him and also the actress Anna Gunn. Now

00:36:09.540 I will say that reading his quotes, he doesn't actually use the word sexism. He doesn't, he doesn't

00:36:13.980 specifically say that, but it does seem to be what he's implying. He says back when the show first

00:36:19.060 aired, Skylar was roundly disliked. I think that always troubled Anna Gunn. And I could tell you

00:36:23.780 it always troubled me because Skylar, the character did nothing to deserve that. And Anna certainly

00:36:29.160 did nothing to deserve that. She played the part beautifully. I realized in hindsight that the

00:36:33.540 show was rigged in the sense that the storytelling was solely through Walt's eyes, even in scenes he

00:36:38.580 wasn't present for. Um, and so it was rigged and that's why, and then all the sexist fans came out

00:36:45.680 and he's, uh, he's upset about that and he kind of regrets it. And this makes no sense on a number

00:36:51.360 of levels. First of all, I'm just trying to understand you're accusing the show of being

00:36:56.320 rigged. Well, it was in a way it was written. It was scripted by you. You're one of the, you're the

00:37:03.620 creator of the show. So you wrote these characters and you wrote her to be unlikable. The fans are

00:37:11.620 responding emotionally to, to, to the characters, the way that you wrote them.

00:37:20.000 And yes, the show is, it's gotta be through someone's eyes. That's, it's pretty, when you

00:37:23.900 have the central character of the show for the show to be, for us to sort of see the world through

00:37:28.280 that character's eyes, that's, that's, that's storytelling. That's what makes it interesting.

00:37:34.440 That's why people like watching movies and shows. That's the kind of the point of storytelling

00:37:41.280 is to be able to, you know, see the world through this, this character's eyes.

00:37:47.820 And now that makes you a sexist.

00:37:51.360 And it's also interesting because we're always told by the left that, um, you know, art is subjective.

00:37:57.940 They're always emphasizing the subjective nature of art. And yet what we're constantly reminded now

00:38:05.140 is that actually, well, no, it's not subjective. There are incorrect ways of responding to works of

00:38:11.180 art. And so many of the Breaking Bad fans, according to Vince Gilligan, responded incorrectly. They were

00:38:17.660 not supposed to dislike this person. And if you don't like this actor's portrayal of a character on

00:38:23.440 the Game of Thrones prequel, that that's, that's an incorrect emotional response.

00:38:27.940 Oh, so it turns out that art is objective in the end. Who would have thought? Let's get to the

00:38:33.080 comment section.

00:38:45.140 We'll start with Anna says, Matt, we haven't heard much about Walrus Gate. Have you given up already?

00:38:49.380 Did you let the man win? Well, I don't, I don't give up on anything. I especially, I'm not going to

00:38:53.240 give up on my giant walrus, especially because it's when it's in the building somewhere. How can I give up

00:38:57.320 on it? Um, I have instead been, uh, running this down behind the scenes, investigating the situation.

00:39:06.080 And what I'm, what I'm starting to understand more and more over time is that this really is a scandal,

00:39:12.040 which I didn't realize this at first. You know, I thought, I honestly thought at first that this was

00:39:15.980 just, you know, a miscommunication. That's all, that's all. I thought it was like, no, no one is

00:39:20.540 really responsible for it. What I'm starting to understand is that there, that there is,

00:39:24.060 there's intention behind this. And not only that, worst of all, but the scandal goes all the way to

00:39:27.900 the top. So what I've, what, here's just an example. It's come to my attention that people

00:39:35.000 have been, viewers have been sending walruses, not giant stuffed walruses, but like smaller little

00:39:42.460 walruses to me, I guess to, you know, as kind of like a, uh, a consolation prize to make me feel 0.99

00:39:47.260 better. I appreciate it. It's not, it's not really enough. It's not, you know, it's not the,

00:39:51.760 it's not enough to make up for what, what I've been deprived of, but still I appreciate it.

00:39:57.860 And yet, um, I obtained this photograph from down in Florida. Apparently the walruses that are supposed

00:40:06.180 to be going to me have been intercepted and are now with Ben down in Florida. So he is

00:40:11.700 not only taking away my giant walruses, but is also now taking the smaller walruses away too.

00:40:19.020 It's just, these things are getting very strange, but I haven't given up. I'll tell you that.

00:40:24.340 Joe Blow says, I had a vasectomy at 19. I truly regret that decision to this day.

00:40:28.780 No one at that age has the proper capacity to make those decisions. Yeah, it's, it is insane to me,

00:40:35.600 actually, that even at 19, uh, they would, that you could go in at 19 and get a vasectomy.

00:40:42.960 But well, because of course, like at, at, you're a 19 year old guy and you at 19, you feel like

00:40:48.840 you're never going to want to have kids. Do you know how, do you, do you know what, what other 19

00:40:54.180 year old guys feel that way? Like almost all of them. It's very common at 19 to think, I don't know

00:40:58.980 if I'm right. When I was 19, I couldn't imagine, I hadn't, I hadn't signed off on the idea completely,

00:41:04.900 but I couldn't imagine myself at 19 being a father. It was like an unimaginable thing.

00:41:10.880 Six years later, I had two kids. And so going in, even at 19, yes, you're a legal adult,

00:41:18.120 but the doctors are performing a procedure on you and they must know that there's a

00:41:24.460 high likelihood that you're going to regret it.

00:41:29.140 And all the more so if it's a gender transition surgery. Good thing about a vasectomy, by the way, 1.00

00:41:33.380 is that it can be reversed, right? So you can't actually reverse that.

00:41:37.660 A lot of these gender affirmation surgeries, or in fact, all of them cannot actually be reversed,

00:41:42.760 not completely anyway.

00:41:46.480 Adam says, people are ignorant of the fact that Michael Jackson's, we're not going to keep doing

00:41:51.780 the Michael Jackson thing. All right, fine. Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories that

00:41:55.580 Macaulay Culkin is one of the biggest defenders of Michael and that Wade Dobson's mother is a

00:41:59.580 literal con artist. But I'm not shocked when you take a man with Michael's appearance and his

00:42:03.640 childish behavior and add in the media repetition, guys like Matt take the bait. It was designed and

00:42:07.920 sold to the conservative audience for that reason. Okay. I played the clip for you. He said that he

00:42:13.440 slept in bed with many children. He said that. That's what he said. Not that he was in a two-story

00:42:19.100 bedroom, slept in bed with many children. That's what he said. So if you want to continue to claim

00:42:23.960 that that's a totally normal thing and not suspicious at all, I know you don't believe

00:42:28.140 that. I know you don't. Nobody does. But if you feel like you need to tell yourself that for some

00:42:33.860 reason, then I really, I can't stop you. Old Timer says, and these activist pediatricians have the

00:42:43.740 power to report you to CPS, claiming that you are abusing your child by not allowing pediatricians

00:42:49.700 to transition your child. Thus, CPS will take your child away from you. That's exactly right. We've 1.00

00:42:55.620 already seen cases like that. We've seen cases like that in Canada, which tends to be even more

00:43:00.460 egregious there because of the way the laws are set up, especially now with their laws. The way the

00:43:06.180 laws against, what do they call it, conversion therapy are written in Canada. It means that if you

00:43:12.700 correctly gender your child, if you call your male child a boy or a he, but he wants to be a she, 0.98

00:43:19.340 then you are guilty of conversion therapy. That's abuse. Like we heard from a father in What is a

00:43:24.920 Woman, which you can go to whatisawoman.com and watch that film now. And then you can get your

00:43:29.680 child taken away. So that's in Canada, but it's also, it's happening increasingly in this country

00:43:33.740 as well. You're absolutely right about that. Let's see. Dan says, Matt, your wife getting a college

00:43:41.520 degree in sustaining student debt, did it pay off for her in a rewarding career? Genuinely curious,

00:43:47.780 considering your stance as I fully agree with you. Well, I think she would agree with me that it

00:43:55.280 didn't exactly pay off because she's not working in that field, right? She's raising the kids. 1.00

00:44:00.700 I'm paying off the debt. Many such cases. You know, here's the other thing. I think it's an

00:44:06.560 important point to make about the student debt conversation. That I often criticize, as many people

00:44:12.580 do, the university system for giving a worthless education. People get the degree. They go out,

00:44:22.660 they don't use it. But in an ideal scenario, we wouldn't be talking about using your education.

00:44:33.160 Like, in an ideal scenario, an education would be worthwhile for its own sake.

00:44:40.960 So that if somebody went to school and they got the degree, they spent four years in school or

00:44:45.760 however many years, they got the degree and they don't, you know, they end up staying at home,

00:44:50.860 they're a stay-at-home mom or whatever. Or they work in a field where a degree is necessary. 0.86

00:44:54.700 Ideally, we'd like to be able to say that, well, it wasn't a waste because even though they're not

00:44:59.140 using the degree, they still got the education. And so they're just like a more well-rounded,

00:45:04.400 more intelligent person. And it's worth it for its own sake. So they're not using education to

00:45:09.720 make money, but they are using it in a sense of it's part of them now, right? So we should be able

00:45:18.300 to say that, but we can't for a couple of reasons. Number one, it's so ridiculously expensive.

00:45:23.660 It's too expensive to justify doing for its own sake. If you're going to charge six figures for

00:45:30.200 something, then it needs to have some practical application. Unless you're a multimillionaire,

00:45:37.520 you can't afford it. You can't justify spending tens of thousands of dollars or hundreds of thousands

00:45:43.160 on an education just for its own sake, just for the experience. And that's compounded by the fact

00:45:48.820 that the education that many, that these universities provide in so many cases is worthless

00:45:55.780 in the sense that it's not going to help you get a job, but also in the sense that it doesn't help

00:46:00.240 you become a more well-rounded person. A lot of these kids come out of college and they're worse

00:46:06.620 and dumber than they were when they went in. So that's another part of the conversation we should 0.99

00:46:14.220 be having, which is another reason why we should be focusing our criticism and ire on the university

00:46:21.400 system itself and, and, and asking it to account for itself, but we're not. Or how about, as others

00:46:28.380 have suggested, here's a student loan forgiveness plan that, that I might actually be able to get

00:46:32.760 behind. Make the universities pay it, take it from their endowments, make them pay it.

00:46:38.920 Okay. You force Harvard to pay off the loans for, for all the Harvard graduates. Okay. I could be,

00:46:47.080 I could get on board with that, but we're not going to make Harvard do it. We're going to make

00:46:51.260 the plumber next door do it. Recessions aren't recessions. Inflation is good. Men are women. 1.00

00:46:56.780 If you're more confused than usual lately, it's by design. The left thinks they have a monopoly on

00:47:01.000 the definition of words and they can silence you, but they can't. And if you simply push back,

00:47:06.200 the house of cards starts to collapse. Just look at what, uh, my film, what is a woman? My film 0.58

00:47:10.380 caused a rift in the space time continuum. Just because I asked a question, uh, the month that

00:47:16.080 came out, the daily wire had more members sign up than at any other time in its history. More than

00:47:21.000 5,000 audience ratings on Rotten Tomatoes later. And the film still has people talking. People come

00:47:25.500 up to me all the time talking about it. And that's a good thing because the more we bring these

00:47:29.260 conversations out into the open and the more we confront the madness, the sooner it will hopefully end.

00:47:34.120 So if you haven't seen it yet, go to whatisawoman.com and watch it now. That's whatisawoman.com

00:47:39.440 today. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:47:46.620 Well, you got to feel sorry for this generation of kids for many reasons, really, but especially

00:47:51.040 because this is the first generation of children who will know what it's like to be raised by social

00:47:56.840 media influencers. They're the first to experience the trauma of having their childhood's mind for

00:48:03.100 TikTok content. So take for example, the four-year-old daughter of TikTok influencer,

00:48:07.420 Kat Calamani, whose social rejection by the neighborhood kids was immediately converted

00:48:11.760 into content by mommy. Kat has made somehow headlines this week after issuing a, to use the

00:48:18.600 New York Post phrase, heartfelt plea to other parents on the platform. The Post reports how

00:48:23.420 a tearful and devastated mother witnessed her child being bullied and responded how any loving 0.90

00:48:28.960 parent would by leveraging the incident for internet clout. So here is the emotional video,

00:48:34.340 which has garnered over 2 million views, by the way, which was totally not the point,

00:48:37.700 I'm sure. It was not the point of getting views, but here it is.

00:48:41.820 Parent and have kids. I need your help. Why is parenting so hard? My daughter's four and has these

00:48:48.980 little girls around her neighborhood who I thought she got along great with. Well, I looked out the

00:48:53.480 window and I saw a couple of the girls putting their hands out like they didn't want to play with 0.72

00:48:58.060 her. And so I walked over there and they were telling me she's not allowed to play with them

00:49:02.700 because they didn't want her to. She was devastating. She was crying and asking me why her friends don't

00:49:09.760 like her and why she can't play with them. I didn't even know how to respond. I just said,

00:49:15.280 everyone sometimes makes mistakes and sometimes people aren't feeling the best and then they treat

00:49:23.140 other people not so nicely and you can't control that. And when you are around people who are not

00:49:29.460 so nice, it's just best to walk away because you can't control them. How do you handle situations

00:49:36.440 like this with your children? Well, not like that. She didn't know how to respond. She didn't know how.

00:49:44.400 So instead she took out her phone, shot a selfie video, then edited it and put sad piano music in

00:49:52.100 the background and then posted it. And then started furiously responding to the supportive comments

00:49:56.100 all while her daughter presumably stood by sobbing, having now been ignored by both her friends and her

00:50:01.800 mom. But it's really, it's the music which does it for me. That's what does it. That's what destroys

00:50:09.800 any chance that this was like an authentic, I'm reaching out for help. You're taking the time to

00:50:16.460 pick out the emotional music to go along with it. No. Now, of course, even apart from the clout

00:50:23.480 chasing, the problem with the video is that it's histrionic and absurdly melodramatic. Look, it's

00:50:28.220 really not a big deal at all when little kids tell other little kids that they don't want to play with

00:50:32.840 them. That's how little kids are. They're quite fickle as a community. Okay. Four-year-olds in

00:50:38.300 particular are prone to just like casually stabbing each other in the back for no discernible reason.

00:50:43.980 It's extremely common for kids that age to play together nicely for a while, only for one to

00:50:48.200 suddenly run out of the room and snitch on the other, trying to get them in trouble based on real

00:50:53.660 or imagined crimes. And the amazing thing, though, is that they can go right back to being friends

00:50:58.620 after that. The betrayed child doesn't hold anything against his betrayer. He doesn't even

00:51:03.300 look at the other kid and say, what the hell, dude? I thought we were cool. What are you doing?

00:51:07.080 No, he knows the rules and he accepts them. They all accept tattletailing as inevitable. It's a

00:51:12.780 custom among their people. They all understand this. And the same goes for incidents like what

00:51:17.360 Kat witnessed. A child will want nothing to do with another child one minute, only to be pronouncing

00:51:23.040 her a best friend the next. And in fact, girls don't grow out of that habit until like in their 1.00

00:51:28.160 mid-70s. But the point is that kids experience hurt feelings, betrayals, rejections all the time.

00:51:34.920 They'll be utterly devastated for 45 seconds and they forget about it. And you can even shorten that

00:51:40.540 45-second period of sadness by giving them candy or a sticker or a Band-Aid. Kids love Band-Aids.

00:51:45.960 You can heal almost any wound, physical or emotional, with a Band-Aid. And if it's a physical wound,

00:51:51.120 the Band-Aid doesn't even have to be on the part of their body that has the wound. The other day,

00:51:54.360 my daughter had a small cut on her hand, but insisted that we put a Band-Aid on her elbow. 0.69

00:51:59.840 Again, these are the ways of childhood. We can never fully understand it, even though they were

00:52:03.820 once our ways too. Does this mean that we should never take our children's emotions seriously? No,

00:52:08.280 it just means that we shouldn't blow things out of proportion or create drama where it's not

00:52:12.600 necessary. There's no need to make mountains out of molehills, and we especially should not be making

00:52:16.500 TikTok videos out of them. Because that is really the problem here. You know, the world has always had

00:52:21.160 mothers who get far too emotional and upset about the most minor pains or difficulties their children

00:52:26.460 suffer. I mean, every good mother has a tendency in that direction to one degree or another. 0.99

00:52:31.500 That's why it's important to have both a mother and a father in the home. The mother has enough 1.00

00:52:35.680 empathy to compensate for the father's occasional deficiencies in that regard, and the father has

00:52:41.060 enough calmness and rationality to compensate in the other direction. That's the complementary nature of

00:52:46.740 the sexes, saving the day yet again. But Kat's problem is really not an overabundance of empathy

00:52:53.380 or emotion. Her problem, if anything, is the opposite. Her emotion is a performance for the

00:52:58.380 camera. You know, she saw her daughter's sadness as a thing to be exploited, a piece of content for

00:53:03.380 public consumption. She claims in the video that the incident just happened a moment ago, which means 0.63

00:53:07.740 that almost immediately the thought occurred to her that the whole thing would make a good TikTok video.

00:53:12.060 It's not natural to think that way. It shouldn't be anyway. It's not surprising, though, when this

00:53:18.660 generation of parents, my generation, views moments in life, or really all of life itself, through this

00:53:23.840 lens. Many of us have been conditioned to put all of ourselves out there for viewing, making spectacle of

00:53:29.280 even the most banal moments and experiences. But not everything needs to be presented to the public in

00:53:34.160 this manner. And I say that as somebody whose job necessitates talking into a camera for over an hour

00:53:39.180 every day. One of the reasons why we should retain some semblance of a private life for ourselves,

00:53:44.980 and especially for our children, is that the internet is not a good substitute for a trusted

00:53:49.680 confidant or counselor. If you really feel that you need to vent your frustrations, or you need a

00:53:55.020 shoulder to cry on, or you need some wisdom and guidance, the comment section of TikTok is by far and

00:54:00.660 away the absolute worst place to turn. Faceless strangers who are scrolling social media, looking for

00:54:06.300 content to distract them from their own personal lives, are not suited for any of the roles I just

00:54:11.180 listed. They also don't know you or care about you. And they will have forgotten about what you posted

00:54:16.760 five seconds after they see it. But the bigger problem is that when you get into the habit

00:54:21.980 of packaging your life into these bite-sized videos and social media posts, and offering them up as pieces

00:54:28.560 of entertainment for strangers, who will then in return give you a rating through likes and shares,

00:54:33.480 which you will obsessively track and count, when you do all that, and you do it every day for years,

00:54:39.800 as so many people do, after a while you begin to lose the ability to live your life as a normal human

00:54:46.380 being. You forfeit your humanity to a large extent. You begin to think about all of your experiences in

00:54:51.920 terms of how many likes they can get. You start engineering things in your life so that they'll be

00:54:56.600 better fodder for an influencer post. You live your life with your back turned to it, looking at it

00:55:02.700 through your phone, with your face in the foreground, and everything else blurred into the background.

00:55:08.080 We now have multiple generations of Americans who live this way, constantly sacrificing authenticity

00:55:13.820 for the sake of making content, until they no longer know how to live authentically.

00:55:21.060 So Kat Calamani is far from alone, but she is the one who is today, unfortunately, canceled.

00:55:28.020 And that will do it for this portion of the show, as we move over to the members block.

00:55:32.460 If you're not a member, once again, go to dailywire.com, become a member,

00:55:35.500 and you can watch the whole entire show. Otherwise, we'll talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 25, 2022

Ep. 1009 - Biden Steals From The Working Class And Gives To Gender Studies Majors

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