The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1030 - Media Touts Fraudulent 'Study' To Justify Child Mutilation

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, we talk about lies, damned lies, and studies. 0.98

00:00:04.680 The left tells us to follow the science, but often manipulates, quote, the science to fabricate the desired result. 0.98

00:00:10.540 That's certainly the case with a new study proving, quote unquote, that gender reassignment surgery is a wonderful thing for children.

00:00:16.200 We'll talk about that. Also, some students in Virginia walk out and protest against policies that make them safer and protect their privacy.

00:00:23.220 Don Lemon embarrasses himself gloriously yet again on camera.

00:00:26.300 And people seem to be very concerned about a sex scandal involving something called the Try Guys.

00:00:31.880 In our daily cancellation, Gen Z has found a new way to rebrand laziness. 1.00

00:00:36.440 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:05.640 Well, there are many ways to lie, to tell a lie in the modern world, but few methods are more effective than the lie told through an allegedly scientific study.

00:02:15.660 People these days are obsessed with studies.

00:02:18.620 Every argument online devolves into a food fight with each side flinging studies at each other.

00:02:24.020 And the great thing is that no matter the topic and no matter what opinion you hold about that topic, you can always find a study that supports what you already believed.

00:02:32.680 That's what's so fantastic about it.

00:02:34.500 This is what research usually entails.

00:02:36.900 When a person claims to have researched a topic and they start claiming that you should do your research.

00:02:42.320 I've done my research, but what they really mean is they went to Google, they typed in their opinion into the search bar, and then the word study, and then they accept it as a fact whatever results popped up first.

00:02:56.340 I mean, nobody actually reads the studies.

00:02:58.560 Nobody even reads the abstract or a few lines of the introduction.

00:03:01.760 They probably don't know that studies have abstracts or introductions.

00:03:04.620 They don't even know what a study is exactly.

00:03:06.440 All they need is a media headline about the study, and they will, of course, immediately discard any headlines about studies that came to the opposite conclusion from the one they wanted.

00:03:17.420 So they could sift through 10 different headlines, and nine of them are talking about studies that contradict them, and they'll zone in on that one study that confirms what they're saying, and then that's all the proof they need.

00:03:31.020 They just need that one headline about one study, and that's enough for them to consider their entire viewpoint vindicated.

00:03:38.180 And now they can accuse everyone who disagrees with them of not doing their research and not following the science.

00:03:44.760 What they don't realize, and probably wouldn't care if they did realize, is that a huge number of studies are, to put it scientifically, bullcrap.

00:03:53.000 Very often, studies that arrive at positive conclusions about a certain thing or a certain practice are funded by companies that produce the thing or engage in the practice.

00:04:04.320 And no matter who funds the study, there is no law or legal policy requiring that the supposed researchers conducting the study actually follow anything resembling the scientific process.

00:04:15.180 Anyone can call anything a study.

00:04:17.400 A few years ago, I've mentioned this before, there's a nine-year-old boy who conducted an informal survey of a few plastic straw manufacturers and arrived at the conclusion, based on his estimate from these conversations, that Americans use 500 million plastic straws a day.

00:04:33.060 And the media trumpeted it as a study proving that Americans use 500 million plastic straws a day.

00:04:40.260 And that study, which mostly consisted of a fourth grader making up statistics for a school project, was used to pass legislation across the country banning plastic straws.

00:04:50.540 Every time you go to a restaurant now and you use a paper straw that dissolves in your soda within 30 seconds, well, it's because of this study, which was not really a study at all.

00:05:01.180 But this is how studies work.

00:05:03.320 And the other thing you often notice about them, they tend to arrive at the most convenient times.

00:05:09.080 Which brings us to this headline from CBS News.

00:05:13.900 This was published last night.

00:05:16.560 Quote, top surgery drastically improves quality of life for young transgender people.

00:05:22.820 Study finds.

00:05:24.880 Wow.

00:05:26.000 Now, I mean, that is great timing for the left, isn't it?

00:05:29.740 The practice of performing double mastectomies on minors has come under intense scrutiny.

00:05:34.000 We're working on legislation to ban it in this state.

00:05:36.360 And what do you know? 0.66

00:05:38.360 Turns out that studies prove that a girl's physical well-being can be greatly improved by cutting her breasts off. 0.99

00:05:45.920 Just like that.

00:05:46.740 I mean, they needed a study.

00:05:47.960 They didn't have one.

00:05:48.560 They needed one.

00:05:49.380 And there you go.

00:05:50.220 They have it.

00:05:51.800 Wow.

00:05:53.180 CBS reports, quote,

00:05:54.580 The quality of life of young transmasculine people dramatically improves after receiving top surgery, a mastectomy procedure that removes breast tissue, according to a study by Northwestern Medicine.

00:06:06.180 The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA Pediatrics on Monday, is the first to show that top surgery is, quote,

00:06:12.820 associated with significant improvement in chest dysphoria, gender congruence, and body image in transmasculine and non-binary teens and young adults.

00:06:21.980 The study compared two groups of patients ranging in ages from 14 to 24.

00:06:26.920 Quote,

00:06:27.200 Wait a second, but I've been reliably informed that children aren't undergoing gender reassignment surgeries.

00:06:50.540 How could they have studied patients ranging in ages down to 14?

00:06:54.460 I thought that wasn't happening.

00:06:56.540 Oh, well, it's because the left has now made the official and inevitable transition from that thing isn't happening to,

00:07:04.340 okay, that thing is happening, but it's good.

00:07:06.900 It's certainly a suspicious move, but, I mean, if the science proves that removing the healthy breasts of 14-year-old girls is good, 1.00

00:07:14.280 who am I to disagree?

00:07:16.240 The science has spoken, hasn't it?

00:07:19.540 Well, no.

00:07:20.540 Not at all.

00:07:21.500 Not even a little.

00:07:22.940 So let's now dive into this, because this story offers, I think, kind of a clinic in how to deceive in the form of a study.

00:07:30.720 Now, if you look beyond the headline, you don't have to look that far beyond the headline,

00:07:35.220 but if you look just right beyond the headline, there are a few glaring issues which jump out right away.

00:07:41.100 First of all, once again, always look at who is funding the study.

00:07:46.080 In this case, the study was conducted by the Gender Pathways Program at Northwestern Medicine.

00:07:52.580 As it happens, funny enough, Northwestern Medicine performs top surgeries.

00:07:56.260 So they did a study to find out if the thing they're already doing and making millions of dollars from is good.

00:08:03.600 And what do you know?

00:08:04.620 They found out that it is, in fact, good.

00:08:06.560 That's a result so convenient for them that it's almost like they would specifically engineer the result in order to justify what they're already doing and profiting from.

00:08:16.880 And that's exactly what they did, as it turns out.

00:08:20.820 So the study tracks 36 surgical patients and then 34 control group patients, all from the same metropolitan region.

00:08:28.600 We'll have more on the control group in just a moment.

00:08:30.820 But once again, already we know that this is bunk, and we haven't even gotten to the worst part yet.

00:08:35.500 But we know that because you cannot arrive at any truly scientific and generally applicable conclusion based on a selection of 36 test subjects, all from the same area and the same general socioeconomic background.

00:08:50.540 Yet, as mentioned, that's not the worst of it.

00:08:54.120 The researchers here, and by researchers, I mean people in the business of engaging in the very practice they're studying, followed up with the surgical patients.

00:09:02.020 They followed up three months after surgery, three months.

00:09:08.300 So based on self-reported data from the patient, three months post-op, they've concluded that transition regret is basically not, that doesn't happen.

00:09:19.520 It's not a real concern.

00:09:21.560 But obviously regret doesn't generally set in after just three months.

00:09:28.660 Regret hits, usually hits its peak years after the fact.

00:09:32.720 Five, seven, ten years later.

00:09:35.260 For children especially, the question is not how they're going to feel about it several weeks later.

00:09:41.600 Okay, I don't need to know, a girl who gets top surgery, quote unquote, at 14, I'm not as curious about how she feels about it when she's 14 and a half.

00:09:51.760 Okay, I want to know how she's going to feel about it when she's 19 or when she's 24 or when she's 30.

00:10:01.160 Okay, how will the adult version of her feel about the decision made by the child version?

00:10:08.080 That's the question that I'm wondering.

00:10:10.680 You cannot accurately measure regret from any serious life decision three months after the decision was made.

00:10:17.520 That's the honeymoon period.

00:10:19.440 Okay, that's when the forces of self-delusion are at their strongest.

00:10:22.760 When you've done something, you've made a decision that's going to impact the rest of your life, three months later, you're still in the mode of convincing yourself that it was the right thing to do.

00:10:33.380 The regret comes after you've gotten past the self-delusion and you've gotten to the point, you know, you've conjured up the courage to actually confront what you did and to say this was the wrong thing.

00:10:46.860 It doesn't happen after three months.

00:10:49.900 That's exactly why they cut the study off precisely at that point.

00:10:54.400 They had to decide what point to cut it off and they chose three months.

00:10:58.100 Because they knew that if they chose even six months or a year, the results would be very different.

00:11:05.560 This is to say nothing of the fundamental problem with self-reported data in a study like this.

00:11:10.400 The people involved, they know why the question is being asked.

00:11:16.400 That's the other thing you have to ask in a study is, is this a blind study?

00:11:20.020 A blind study is the people involved in the study, the subjects, they don't know what they're doing or what the study is about or why they're there.

00:11:29.040 If it's not a blind study and the people know why you're asking the question, then that's going to skew the results.

00:11:35.820 They know that if they say they feel regret, it will be used to fuel what they perceive as, quote, transphobic talking points.

00:11:43.700 So they have no incentive to be honest and every incentive to paint a rosy picture.

00:11:50.400 What about the control group?

00:11:51.760 Well, that consisted of 36 dysphoric girls who did not get surgery but still received gender-affirming care, quote, unquote.

00:12:00.620 What that means is that every member of the control group was on the path and in the system that promotes surgery.

00:12:06.900 So if they're asked whether they'd be happier with surgery, it's no wonder they'd say yes.

00:12:12.360 A true control group would be gender-confused girls who received counseling to help them accept and love their female bodies. 0.99

00:12:20.560 Because that's the true alternative that they should be testing against.

00:12:25.980 But the faux researchers here ruled out that possibility from the beginning.

00:12:30.720 Now, I haven't even told you the best part.

00:12:32.180 You will find, if you read it, buried deep within the bowels of this fake study,

00:12:39.000 the begrudging admission that 11 participants were not counted in the final result because they were lost to attrition.

00:12:47.980 What does that mean?

00:12:49.340 Well, it means they dropped out and they stopped responding.

00:12:52.360 Now, why would participants drop out of a study like this midway through?

00:12:58.620 Why would they stop responding?

00:12:59.740 Especially if they felt great about what they did.

00:13:02.700 Why wouldn't they respond?

00:13:04.740 Could it be that they regretted the surgery and were too embarrassed to talk about it?

00:13:08.620 Or else, as mentioned, they didn't want to say anything that would give ammo to the other side?

00:13:13.380 Is that what happened here?

00:13:15.220 I mean, we can't say.

00:13:16.760 The researchers didn't seem very curious enough to find out.

00:13:19.840 So, we don't know.

00:13:21.760 But let's just make a very conservative estimate.

00:13:24.220 Let's say that just about half, let's say six of the participants who were lost to attrition would have, if they responded,

00:13:32.960 maybe had less than positive things to say about the procedure.

00:13:37.340 Well, if that's true, that would mean that even with the deck stacked absurdly in favor of surgery with the way the study was conducted,

00:13:43.580 still, 15% of these double mastectomy victims regretted it almost immediately.

00:13:52.160 How might that number change if you check back in a year, two years, or five, or ten?

00:13:56.720 Again, we can't know for sure, but we can use our common sense.

00:14:02.420 In fact, Northwestern Medicine has been doing top surgeries for more than three months, I'm pretty sure.

00:14:08.400 So, they themselves could have followed up with surgery patients a year out, two years out, three years.

00:14:13.720 I mean, they probably already have done that.

00:14:17.660 But they didn't do that for this study.

00:14:20.340 And we can make an educated guess as to why.

00:14:23.640 It's because they know what they're going to hear.

00:14:24.940 And it won't be what they want us to hear.

00:14:30.180 But there are lessons here that go beyond the gender transition racket.

00:14:33.320 This, as we said at the top, is how lies are told in the modern world.

00:14:37.100 So, when you hear about what the science has declared, it has often been declared this way,

00:14:42.720 through cheap tricks and cherry picking.

00:14:46.120 It can be very difficult to sort through all of this.

00:14:48.480 We are bombarded by information all the time. 0.90

00:14:50.900 Some of it good, much of it garbage.

00:14:52.920 But it comes constantly to us every day. 0.90

00:14:56.480 The propagandists are counting on us being too weary, too exhausted, too overwhelmed,

00:15:01.080 to apply our critical thinking capacities to what they say.

00:15:05.360 That is basically the bet they're making.

00:15:08.980 And it's up to us to make sure that it's a bad bet.

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00:16:33.840 Before I get to the first headline, this is, I think, something I want to read to you

00:16:40.380 because it's very relevant to what we just talked about.

00:16:42.300 You know, I said, well, we know what, allegedly, some of these top surgery,

00:16:48.200 the double mastectomy victims, and that is, by the way,

00:16:51.140 we should start calling them victims, not patients.

00:16:53.780 So we know what the victims say, some of them anyway, three months after the fact.

00:16:58.080 What do they say a couple years later?

00:17:01.280 Well, Billboard Chris on Twitter is an activist that has been traveling around the country

00:17:06.620 to expose gender ideology and doing fantastic work.

00:17:10.440 He posted a couple things to Twitter yesterday from the D-Trans Reddit forum

00:17:15.520 where you hear the testimony of girls who have been through this,

00:17:23.260 who have been subjected to this, who have been victimized by it,

00:17:25.420 and their stories are just, words escape you to describe it.

00:17:32.600 I mean, to call it tragic is to understate the case.

00:17:36.860 So let me read a couple of these to you.

00:17:38.260 Here's one.

00:17:40.980 This is someone who's 17.

00:17:42.940 Here's what she says.

00:17:43.940 I hate my voice. 0.98

00:17:45.880 Every time I open my effing mouth, I sound like a freak. 1.00

00:17:49.020 I've ruined my life with my stupid decisions I made as a kid. 1.00

00:17:52.500 The doctors ruined my life by allowing a barely functioning, mentally ill child 1.00

00:17:56.540 with severe OCD and then undiagnosed BPD to go on hormones that would completely change my body.

00:18:02.220 I can manage to get the pitch of my voice up relatively decently

00:18:05.100 to the point where it's always in the androgynous or low female range on a vocal pitch app,

00:18:10.000 but there's always something that seems off. 0.67

00:18:11.400 It never sounds female, always like a very high-pitched, stereotypical gay male voice 1.00

00:18:15.460 or a male trying to force a female voice and failing.

00:18:18.980 I'm tempted to just stop talking altogether.

00:18:21.000 In my worst moments, all I want to do is tear out my vocal cords and be done with it.

00:18:25.240 I've been on T for about two years.

00:18:26.920 It's testosterone.

00:18:28.300 Although it was relatively sporadic and it wasn't very consistent with either the gel

00:18:31.460 or the shots at all, I've only just managed to get off the hormones now

00:18:34.520 as the shots I was on were every three months.

00:18:38.500 Thankfully, not a lot else changed while on testosterone.

00:18:41.960 No facial hair, no facial changes, and I never went through with any surgeries.

00:18:45.280 I'm still only 17.

00:18:46.860 I've tried watching YouTube videos like trans voice lessons

00:18:49.620 and absolutely nothing in the videos makes any sense

00:18:51.880 and I don't find them helpful in the slightest.

00:18:54.100 I'm legitimately suicidal because of the decisions I made as a kid.

00:18:57.200 It's all my fault.

00:18:59.100 I don't know how long I can keep doing this.

00:19:02.460 Well, it's not her fault at all.

00:19:04.520 Of course, this is what the kids are left with.

00:19:07.460 They're left to feel like it is their fault

00:19:09.220 when it is entirely the fault of the doctors and the parents who allowed this to happen.

00:19:13.980 Entirely their fault, 100%.

00:19:15.480 And this, by the way, there's no surgery here.

00:19:19.680 This is just, quote, just from the testosterone,

00:19:22.820 which we're assured is reversible.

00:19:24.980 It's not irreversible.

00:19:26.100 So this is what a child goes through after changing her voice.

00:19:33.060 Now, what happens when they go further than that?

00:19:38.080 This is another one.

00:19:39.940 This is from another user on the D-Trans Reddit forum.

00:19:43.680 I'm a 17-year-old girl with a flat chest, a deep voice, a visible Adam's apple, and some facial hair.

00:19:49.920 There's no reason for me to continue to live. 0.98

00:19:52.080 I destroyed my life and I feel like all I have is stupid for me to have. 1.00

00:19:56.300 All the hope I have is stupid for me to have. 1.00

00:19:58.100 I don't think any person will ever want to date me. 0.98

00:20:00.540 Before all this, people were into me, but I destroyed that.

00:20:03.560 Now, no one is ever going to like me.

00:20:05.440 There's nothing I can really do without getting reminded of my past and how much I miss it.

00:20:09.160 I feel ashamed of what I did.

00:20:10.980 I'm scared that people will never let me do decisions on my own anymore.

00:20:14.360 I was just a kid and I would have needed someone to help me accept myself,

00:20:18.380 but my therapist didn't question my transness.

00:20:21.180 I can't stop thinking about the life I could have had.

00:20:24.260 I also think other people will now believe that there is something better than me.

00:20:28.540 I love my mom.

00:20:29.420 She's an amazing mom.

00:20:30.200 She stopped me the first time from transitioning,

00:20:31.840 but the second time she was also brainwashed and sadly thought that when all these professionals

00:20:35.960 say it's the right thing to let your kid transition,

00:20:37.840 then it must be the right thing.

00:20:39.160 She thinks it's all her fault, but it isn't. 0.99

00:20:40.940 I want to kill myself, but then she'll feel even more miserable. 1.00

00:20:44.180 How can I kill myself and let her know that I want her to be happy? 1.00

00:20:47.560 I'm 17. 0.92

00:20:49.200 Why do I have to think about ending my life?

00:20:51.180 It's too much for me to handle.

00:20:52.540 There's no joy in my life anymore.

00:20:56.500 So this child is 17 years old and got the surgery.

00:21:00.160 There's another post where she talks about how she got the surgery when she was 14.

00:21:03.600 So this is three years later.

00:21:07.140 And we don't know exactly based on this when the regret started to set in,

00:21:10.360 but three years later.

00:21:11.800 So you follow up three years later, still childhood, and this is what you find.

00:21:15.580 As I said, words cannot quite do justice to the enormity of the evil here, the depths of the evil.

00:21:31.180 The people who are pushing this and promoting it are, as I have said many times,

00:21:39.280 and I believe with every fiber of my being, these are among the worst human beings.

00:21:44.600 The ones who are pushing it and promoting it and doing it, two kids,

00:21:49.200 are among the worst human beings who have ever lived on the planet.

00:21:54.160 I mean, they belong in the same category. 0.85

00:21:56.260 The Nazi comparisons and all the rest of it are tired and overplayed,

00:21:59.100 but they belong right in that category.

00:22:03.100 In the category of the most monstrous demons to have ever walked the face of the earth.

00:22:12.240 And there are a lot of other things that we talk about, you know, in our society,

00:22:18.960 a lot of other issues we deal with, other issues I talk about all the time,

00:22:21.460 and that we'll talk about today on the show.

00:22:23.220 But I can tell you right now, and I'm not going to be around to say I told you so,

00:22:27.860 but history books in the future, like this is the only thing they're going to be worried about.

00:22:35.500 Our whole era of history in Western civilization will be defined by this.

00:22:42.240 They will be writing books and history books focused almost entirely on this.

00:22:47.900 Okay, it's like when history books talk about the 1860s in the United States.

00:22:53.340 There are other things that happen besides the Civil War,

00:22:55.680 but the Civil War is the only thing the history books are concerned about in the 1860s.

00:22:59.360 Well, when the history books tell of the 2010s and the 2020s,

00:23:06.020 this is what that chapter is going to be about.

00:23:12.780 And there are going to be debates raging among historians for centuries to come,

00:23:17.100 just trying to figure out how could this have happened.

00:23:20.600 They'll be baffled by it.

00:23:21.980 Like, how could this have happened?

00:23:22.880 And how did anyone allow it to happen?

00:23:27.320 And I'm living through it.

00:23:28.360 I'm asking the same question.

00:23:30.140 So this month, Governor Yunkin in Virginia instituted policies of Virginia schools.

00:23:34.680 These are very simple common sense policies.

00:23:37.220 Like, you know, the left talks about common sense gun reform.

00:23:40.040 That's not really common sense at all.

00:23:41.560 But in this case, these really are common sense reforms, if you will.

00:23:45.220 And the rules stipulate that everyone can use only bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their biological sex

00:23:50.920 and also that a child's gender identity, quote unquote, cannot be concealed from the parents.

00:23:56.180 So the rules don't even say that a child can't identify as whatever they want to identify in school.

00:24:01.900 The rules only say, the policy only says, that the parents have a right to know what's going on with their kid in school.

00:24:08.260 You can't conceal that from the parents.

00:24:10.360 So that's it.

00:24:10.860 That's the rule.

00:24:11.280 In other words, the rule puts Virginia schools in line with the rules that were in every school that's ever existed up until nine minutes ago.

00:24:20.520 But that led to this, as reported by NBC News.

00:24:23.120 Students across Virginia protested Tuesday in response to new guidelines putting restrictions on transgender students in the state's public schools.

00:24:31.060 It's actually not true at all.

00:24:32.040 There are no restrictions at all.

00:24:33.500 The policies are the same for everyone.

00:24:35.560 Use the bathroom that aligns with your sex. 0.95

00:24:37.400 Parents can know what's happening with their kids.

00:24:39.280 So there are no special restrictions being put on anyone.

00:24:42.200 It's the same restrictions for everyone.

00:24:45.820 Walkouts are set to take place throughout the day at more than 90 middle and high schools in the state, according to the student-run advocacy group Pride Liberation Project, which organized the statewide effort.

00:24:55.640 Yeah, I'm sure that's really student-run, organizing a statewide effort.

00:24:59.280 There's no adult influence there at all, is there?

00:25:01.600 As of noon on Tuesday, students in Woodbridge, Springfield, Manassas, and other Virginia cities were waving rainbow picket signs and shouting trans rights or human rights.

00:25:11.420 Now, the left, of course, is making a big deal out of the walkouts as if it proves something.

00:25:16.360 And it does prove something.

00:25:17.320 First of all, it proves that kids will take advantage of any opportunity to miss class, which is understandable from a kid's perspective.

00:25:24.300 And also that the peer pressure to go along with this is immense.

00:25:30.120 I mean, if kids are walking out and you're one of the kids who doesn't, then now you've just outed yourself as a quote-unquote transphobe.

00:25:36.260 So you have to be out there.

00:25:36.960 And also it shows that kids have been sufficiently brainwashed so that even some of these girls, many of them probably, who go to these schools, will protest against policies that grant them safety and respect.

00:25:50.800 Okay, so they are protesting against their own dignity and safety.

00:25:55.960 Because they're kids, they don't know any better.

00:25:58.260 One such student was interviewed on cable news.

00:26:00.600 This is on MSNBC.

00:26:01.540 And let's listen to a little bit of that.

00:26:04.200 Tell us about these walkouts today.

00:26:06.140 Do you think they delivered the message that you wanted them to send?

00:26:10.680 I think looking at social media, looking across the press that we've received today, I really think that we got the message across that we wanted to, which is Virginia students are not behind these proposed guidelines.

00:26:25.020 Governor Youngkin's team is telling NBC News in a statement, partly, that when parents are part of the process, schools will accommodate the requests of children and their families, adding parents should be a part of their children's lives.

00:26:36.140 I wonder how you'd respond to that.

00:26:39.220 Of course.

00:26:40.360 These proposed regulations are not about parental rights.

00:26:44.200 If they really were about parental rights, then Governor Youngkin would be looking at things like expanding access to democracy in Virginia.

00:26:51.020 This isn't about parental rights.

00:26:52.480 This is about attacking Virginia students.

00:26:54.880 We also hear that Governor Youngkin doesn't think that students understand how harmful these policies can be.

00:27:03.040 Countless students in Virginia have read these policies and understand that the real implications are not to protect the rights of parents, but instead to deny our identity, our humanity, and our very existence.

00:27:15.520 You know, I actually feel sorry for this girl. 0.86

00:27:18.980 Of course I do, because she's just a kid.

00:27:20.660 She's in high school, so she's, I don't know, maybe five or six years older than my own kids at most.

00:27:27.500 And unlike what you hear maybe from some older leftists, especially elected Democrats who are going on and on about trans rights and they don't believe anything they're saying, she believes it.

00:27:38.000 She totally believes it.

00:27:39.120 Now, she might be repeating lines that she's been given, that's for sure, but she still basically believes it.

00:27:44.380 To the extent that she understands what she's saying, she does believe it.

00:27:48.780 Denying the right to exist.

00:27:50.740 Denying our right to exist.

00:27:52.120 What?

00:27:52.800 What?

00:27:54.400 Your existence is negated by having to use a bathroom?

00:27:58.780 The same bathroom policy that every human on earth has followed?

00:28:04.020 Your existence is threatened by that?

00:28:06.220 How?

00:28:06.440 Well, she's a kid.

00:28:09.100 She's not thinking it through.

00:28:12.780 But it, you know, the fact it doesn't make any sense doesn't matter.

00:28:19.260 I mean, indoctrinate kids into this at a stage when they don't really have critical thinking faculties.

00:28:26.960 Certainly not fully developed ones.

00:28:29.800 So they're actually not capable of thinking through all this stuff.

00:28:32.500 And if the left has their way, they'll never be capable of it.

00:28:38.180 Speaking of someone who doesn't have critical thinking skills, this is another great moment on CNN.

00:28:42.060 It's almost as good as that lady giving Don Lemon a lesson about the history of slavery, which one of my favorite all-time cable news clips.

00:28:49.360 This is from a couple weeks ago, if you remember.

00:28:50.600 This is maybe not quite that good, but this is still great stuff.

00:28:56.120 So here is Don Lemon reporting on the hurricane and trying to get his guest to make it a lecture on climate change.

00:29:05.220 And the guest is just not having it.

00:29:07.820 Let's watch.

00:29:08.280 Can you tell us what this is and what effect the climate change has on this phenomenon?

00:29:16.000 Well, we can come back and talk about climate change at a later time.

00:29:19.560 I want to focus on the here and now.

00:29:21.680 We think the rapid intensification is probably almost done.

00:29:25.880 There could be a little bit more intensification as it's still over the warm waters of the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

00:29:31.640 But I don't think we're going to get any more rapid intensification.

00:29:34.360 If you look here, you can actually see, pretty interesting for your viewers, you can actually see a second eyewall forming around the inner eyewall.

00:29:43.460 And that's basically the second eyewall has overtaken the original eyewall.

00:29:47.900 And that should arrest development.

00:29:50.700 Listen, I'm just trying to get that you said you want to talk about climate change.

00:29:53.640 But what effect does climate change have on this phenomenon that is happening now?

00:29:58.280 Because it seems these storms are intensifying.

00:30:00.760 That's the question.

00:30:01.480 I don't think you can link climate change to any one event.

00:30:04.360 On the whole, on the cumulative, climate change may be making storms worse.

00:30:10.720 But to link it to any one event, I would caution against that.

00:30:15.600 OK, listen, I grew up there and these storms are intensifying.

00:30:19.580 Something is causing them to intensify.

00:30:24.000 I just can't.

00:30:25.020 I mean, his job is on the line and he just can't stop embarrassing himself.

00:30:29.060 And I love that.

00:30:30.300 Of course, what you just heard there is the case.

00:30:34.020 First of all, when a hurricane is bearing down on us or bearing down on Florida, conversations about climate change are abstract and academic and totally useless.

00:30:46.700 They're not going to do anything for us right now. 0.99

00:30:48.200 Even if it's true that climate change, like you driving your car to work, actually caused you yourself during your commute, you scumbag, you villain, you have caused this hurricane. 0.97

00:31:01.880 Even if that was true, that doesn't do anything for us now. 0.97

00:31:04.760 OK, now we've got to deal with just like the reality of this hurricane.

00:31:07.680 How do we respond to it?

00:31:09.060 And that's what he's trying to talk about.

00:31:11.180 But Don Lemon wants to take it in the other direction.

00:31:13.680 Of course, as he points out, that's not true.

00:31:15.300 You can't, at most, when it comes to climate change, you can talk in general, broad strokes.

00:31:20.580 You can't take one specific event and just declare that this is happening because of climate change.

00:31:28.080 So what you're saying is that if not for alleged man-made climate change, this hurricane wouldn't exist or it wouldn't be as serious?

00:31:35.280 Like this specific hurricane would not be happening or wouldn't be as serious if not for people driving their cars to work.

00:31:41.720 How could you possibly know that?

00:31:43.080 Even based on the left's own logic, you could accept everything they tell you about climate change.

00:31:50.640 Just accept it uncritically, which you shouldn't, by the way, as we've already gone over.

00:31:53.740 You shouldn't accept uncritically anything they say ever about anything.

00:31:57.080 But even if you did, you still can't draw the connection to one specific event.

00:32:05.200 And we know that because hurricanes, I keep saying it until I get blue in the face, but hurricanes have always happened.

00:32:12.400 And you can, now Don Lemon might say, oh, well, I grew up in Florida.

00:32:14.820 I remember, but hurricanes have gotten more serious.

00:32:17.820 That's an, yeah, there's some anecdotal data.

00:32:21.260 Okay, well, Don Lemon was, experienced some hurricanes and he knows that these are worse.

00:32:27.780 Well, if you're doing the anecdotal thing, I mean, I, I've never lived in a, in a hurricane prone area.

00:32:34.920 But I have been watching, unfortunately, cable news since I was a child.

00:32:40.860 And what I know is that the media, every single hurricane season has said that it's the worst season ever and that every hurricane is a monster.

00:32:50.180 It's the worst thing that's ever going to happen.

00:32:52.100 And then sometimes it actually pans out.

00:32:53.620 And the hurricane, like this, that might well be, looks like that's going to be the case with this one.

00:32:56.720 The hurricane actually is as bad as they say.

00:32:58.540 But, but, but I know the media says that about every hurricane and every hurricane season.

00:33:01.860 And that's been the case for as long as I can remember.

00:33:04.140 So there's my anecdote in competition with, with Don Lemons.

00:33:10.160 You can also go, it doesn't take long to go, you can, you can go online and look up deadliest hurricanes in history, worst hurricanes, most serious hurricanes.

00:33:20.240 And you're going to find dates going back to like the 1600s.

00:33:28.600 Of course, when you, when you start going farther and farther back, it's, there, there aren't as many records.

00:33:32.460 So how do we even know?

00:33:35.100 Like if, if, if the worst hurricane in history hit Florida in, let's say the year, I don't know, 1307, how would we know that?

00:33:48.500 There wasn't, there were people around, but there weren't people around keeping reliable historical records about these things, measuring wind gusts and everything.

00:33:56.580 They didn't have satellite data, certainly.

00:33:59.540 So how do we even know it?

00:34:02.900 It's one of the problems you run into when you start making declarations about, this is the worst weather event in history.

00:34:07.520 How could, how could you possibly know that?

00:34:12.080 When there have been serious weather events occurring on the face of the earth for billions of years, and we've only been keeping records of them for, I mean, comparatively, we've basically been keeping records, reliable records for, for five seconds.

00:34:26.460 In comparison to the whole history of humanity and certainly of the, of the earth itself.

00:34:33.280 That's the problem.

00:34:34.940 Not that it, Don Lemon really sees it as a problem.

00:34:37.260 Daily Wire has this report.

00:34:39.280 Oregon has spent more than $300 million on services for drug addicts, but experts are warning lawmakers that the state's efforts are not working.

00:34:48.380 Since Oregon effectively decriminalized drugs in 2020, the state has poured about $302 million into addiction and social services for addicts, but the overdose rate, death rate rather, has only risen, largely driven by the influx of fentanyl.

00:35:03.620 Last week, the Oregon Health Authority, OHA, announced that it had finally awarded the $302 million to nonprofits working to combat addiction.

00:35:12.860 The funding was the first round of grants awarded under Oregon's drug decriminalization law, Measure 110, which decriminalized possession of small amounts of most hard drugs, including cocaine, heroin, LSD, and methamphetamine.

00:35:25.320 The law's grant program uses tax dollars from marijuana sales for addiction services.

00:35:31.000 The grant money goes to pay for services not covered by Medicaid, such as outreach, peer mentors, housing, and clean needles for intravenous drug use.

00:35:39.120 So that's part of what's happening here is we're actually, in order to help with drug succession, help people get over their drug addiction, in Oregon anyway, and in other states as well, they're facilitating drug abuse.

00:35:52.980 They're making drug abuse easier, making it easier to access drug paraphernalia so that they can engage in drug use.

00:36:00.480 I will say this is one thing that I've been wrong about.

00:36:05.880 It's not often that I say that on this show, but I've never been a proponent of decriminalizing all drugs.

00:36:13.400 I've never said we should decriminalize heroin and methamphetamine.

00:36:16.480 I've always recognized that as insane.

00:36:18.580 But I did go through a period, I mean, up until recently, where I said that, you know, we probably should just make pot legal or at least decriminalize it.

00:36:26.040 And I had all the standard arguments for it, the cost of enforcement, the fact that pot arguably isn't much more physically dangerous than alcohol, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, all those arguments you're familiar with, many of which you've probably made yourself.

00:36:40.520 But I've since come to realize, and that for me was a change.

00:36:45.320 I used to be able to ban all drugs, and I said, oh, well, marijuana, okay, I can see the argument.

00:36:49.540 Now I'm going back to, I think you just got to ban all this stuff.

00:36:52.780 Ban it all.

00:36:56.700 We've seen what happens.

00:36:59.000 We were promised certain results from decriminalizing drugs, whether it's all drugs or just certain drugs, whatever it is.

00:37:06.160 We were promised certain results, and those results simply have not come about.

00:37:11.820 I mean, has the drug abuse problem gotten any better in any city or any state where they've decriminalized any of these drugs?

00:37:19.020 The only changes I can tell in a lot of cities anywhere is you can't walk down the street without smelling.

00:37:24.160 You smell marijuana everywhere.

00:37:25.560 Like, everybody is high all the time in public in a lot of these cities.

00:37:29.700 And then the drug abuse problem for many of the harder drugs has only gotten worse.

00:37:34.760 Is that because we decriminalized marijuana?

00:37:37.260 Well, there might not be a direct connection.

00:37:38.920 I think there's probably a connection, but it might not be one directly led to the other.

00:37:45.100 And you could point out that we were trending in this direction with the drug abuse, drug overdose epidemic before marijuana was decriminalized.

00:37:55.880 But even so, we were made certain promises.

00:37:58.360 And many of these issues were blamed, at least in part, on drug prohibition.

00:38:05.440 Well, you lift drug prohibition, and the problems only get worse.

00:38:10.920 Why is that?

00:38:11.760 Well, I think because what we're learning is that people who are addicted to drugs will remain addicted, whether it's legal or not.

00:38:20.960 All we can decide as a society is whether we will strongly stigmatize and punish this behavior or not.

00:38:31.840 And is it better to be in a society that stigmatizes drug use, or is it better to be in one that just opens up the door and says,

00:38:38.960 Eh, do whatever you want.

00:38:41.700 Well, you could stigmatize it and criminalize it.

00:38:43.580 You're not going to get rid of it.

00:38:44.340 We all understand that.

00:38:45.220 But is it better to live in a society where people are just literally laying on the sidewalk, using drugs, passing out, overdosing?

00:38:56.740 Walking through a city means you have to step over the bodies of people who have OD'd on God knows what? 0.83

00:39:05.980 Is that an improvement?

00:39:07.300 I mean, that is what it looks like we've discovered when you get rid of the stigma and you also get rid of the legal penalties on these drugs.

00:39:18.540 Seems like a massive mistake to me.

00:39:21.100 Here's a clip of Mayor Eric Adams in New York trying to, I guess, elevate his own city and state by putting down others.

00:39:29.860 Classic bully move, I guess.

00:39:32.160 Here he is.

00:39:33.560 We have a brand.

00:39:34.720 New York has a brand.

00:39:38.380 And when people see it, it means something.

00:39:43.060 You know, when we go there, it's not, Kansas doesn't have a brand.

00:39:50.540 When you go there, you're from Kansas.

00:39:53.940 No.

00:39:55.200 Well, you know what?

00:39:58.180 You know, I didn't think it was possible.

00:40:00.160 I really didn't think it was possible that, and I was wrong about this too. 0.88

00:40:05.960 I didn't think it would be possible for New York to elect a mayor who's a bigger douchebag than Bill de Blasio. 0.72

00:40:12.800 It just didn't seem possible. 0.99

00:40:14.440 I mean, he was the Uber douchebag. 0.93

00:40:17.120 He was like, you couldn't get more than him. 0.92

00:40:19.980 And now we have Eric Adams, who's given him a run for his money. 0.62

00:40:25.240 Now, Eric Adams, he's not as sort of lumbering and goofy.

00:40:29.620 He doesn't look like Gumby had a baby with Rex Ryan like Bill de Blasio does.

00:40:36.160 But he's really up there as far as being a tool.

00:40:41.060 New York has a brand.

00:40:42.740 I agree, by the way.

00:40:43.540 New York does have a brand.

00:40:45.300 The brand is, here's New York's brand.

00:40:47.420 Unlivable, overpriced.

00:40:49.000 Paul, that's New York's brand.

00:40:50.360 And part of the brand is everyone who lives there is super proud of how terrible it is.

00:40:58.200 And it feels that it's very special.

00:41:00.700 It's part of the culture.

00:41:04.240 What is your culture?

00:41:05.980 Dirt and rats and feces all over the sidewalk. 0.56

00:41:09.400 People overdosing on drugs, crime.

00:41:12.600 It's gray and grimy and it smells.

00:41:16.880 But we have restaurants and little, cute little stores we can go shop in.

00:41:24.720 Okay, yeah.

00:41:25.440 So you have convenience as a consumer is what you have.

00:41:29.380 That's your brand.

00:41:31.180 Your brand is that there are a lot of brands all around trying to sell you things.

00:41:34.480 Walk down Times Square.

00:41:35.900 Brands everywhere.

00:41:37.280 Now, New York doesn't have a brand.

00:41:38.440 It has a lot of different brands competing for your attention.

00:41:42.620 Who wants to even live in a place that has a brand, whatever that means?

00:41:47.200 That's actually the advantage of living in Kansas.

00:41:50.360 Now, so I'm not exactly sure what it means for a place to have a brand.

00:41:54.000 I do know what it means for a place to have kind of a personality, a culture.

00:42:00.020 I know you go out into Kansas and people are very nice, for one thing.

00:42:05.280 You can find great barbecue.

00:42:06.420 And there's also space.

00:42:11.700 There's actual space.

00:42:12.780 And that's part of the advantage of living somewhere that isn't in the city.

00:42:18.280 So you don't have a brand.

00:42:20.140 You can actually, you can be, you can like raise a family and have your own sort of identity as a family.

00:42:27.020 And you're not being constantly crowded by a million other people.

00:42:30.960 That's the advantage.

00:42:31.980 You're going to live your own life.

00:42:34.640 Which is what people in Kansas want to do.

00:42:37.820 All right.

00:42:38.280 One other thing here.

00:42:39.060 Let's see.

00:42:42.100 This is from page six.

00:42:43.320 It says, popular YouTube group, The Try Guys, fired its member, Ned Fulmer, as he admitted to cheating on his wife, Ariel Fulmer.

00:42:51.840 The group's Instagram page said, Ned Fulmer is no longer working with The Try Guys.

00:42:57.240 As a result of a thorough internal review, we do not see a path forward.

00:43:01.300 We thank you for your support as we navigate this change.

00:43:04.400 Less than an hour later, Ned, 35, addressed the news on his personal Instagram account.

00:43:09.000 He said, family should have always been my priority, but I lost focus and had a concern.

00:43:13.320 A sensual workplace relationship.

00:43:15.600 I'm sorry for any pain my actions have caused to the guys and the fans, but most of all to Ariel.

00:43:21.120 So there's the news on The Try Guys.

00:43:22.680 And this comes on the heels of news about Dude Perfect.

00:43:26.160 The YouTube page, Dude Perfect.

00:43:29.540 And they're going to be building, it's positive news, they're apparently building an actual stadium.

00:43:33.660 So the YouTube channel Dude Perfect is building a stadium for themselves, apparently.

00:43:37.120 And I read that headline a couple of days ago.

00:43:38.980 And these two stories together raise the question,

00:43:41.140 Who the hell are any of these people?

00:43:45.420 I've never heard of either of them until this week.

00:43:48.880 And they're trending all over social media.

00:43:50.420 Everyone's talking about them.

00:43:51.720 I still don't understand exactly who they are or why or why anyone cares or what they do.

00:43:56.980 But this kind of goes to show that, yes, I'm out of touch.

00:43:59.960 Horribly so, I admit that.

00:44:01.260 Also, though, it shows that there has been this, right, there's, like, every week, it's another YouTuber or TikTok person who's all over the headlines and is trending.

00:44:12.280 People are talking about them.

00:44:13.540 And then I, along with the other old fogies among us, I look at them and I say, who, I don't know, who are they and what even do they do?

00:44:20.040 At least when you hear about a pop star or something you've never heard of.

00:44:24.760 It's like you haven't heard of this person, but you understand the concept of pop music.

00:44:28.660 And so you know at least that's what they do and how they became famous.

00:44:31.680 A lot of these people now, I'm not sure what they do.

00:44:36.660 Part of that is this total fracturing and splintering of the culture.

00:44:40.340 And we do take for granted, you know, we take for granted that kids will have different celebrities, different pop culture figures that they're into.

00:44:47.360 And that is relatively normal from a modern perspective anyway.

00:44:51.300 You can go back to Elvis, you know, and back then the kids were into Elvis and the adults thought that he was a harbinger of evil.

00:44:59.900 And it kind of turns out that the adults were actually correct about that because when you take into account what pop music became over time, I think that they were basically right.

00:45:07.520 But anyway, at least back then, the adults knew who Elvis was, even if they thought he was terrible.

00:45:15.340 And when I was a kid in the 90s, the kids had their pop stars, like we had our pop stars.

00:45:20.340 And the adults didn't really follow it that closely, but they at least knew who the people were for the most part.

00:45:28.500 The adults in the 90s maybe were a little bit less clued in just because there were more pop culture figures to keep track of.

00:45:33.960 But now you go another 20 or 30 years in the future and kids sort of exist in their own universe.

00:45:42.460 They have their own landscape entirely, their own little bubble universe with their own celebrities and nobody even knows who these people are or what they do.

00:45:51.380 There's very little shared culture from generation to generation.

00:45:54.440 There's actually none at all, which is a problem.

00:45:57.100 One other thought related to this, this is another scandal of a famous person, apparently famous person, who is caught cheating, being unfaithful.

00:46:07.900 And this is something men are now getting in trouble for.

00:46:09.860 Adam Levine, who is someone, at least I do know who that is, he's another one who got in trouble for that, for cheating.

00:46:15.000 And that's fine with me because I think that if you cheat, you commit adultery, you should be shamed publicly for that.

00:46:20.860 Especially if you're a famous person, you've kind of agreed to live your life on the public stage, whether you like it or not.

00:46:26.460 Adultery is a terrible thing, and if people react to it accordingly, then that's good. 1.00

00:46:32.340 That's how we should react.

00:46:33.940 But we can only shame them publicly if we're admitting that there is more to sexual morality than mere consent.

00:46:41.420 Right, because as this guy, what's his name again, Ned, whatever, he says it was a consensual workplace relationship.

00:46:50.100 Which is kind of a weird and creepy way to put it when you're describing an affair, but that's what he said.

00:46:53.580 And it's true, it was a consensual relationship.

00:46:55.100 Now, usually what we hear from the left and from the culture is, hey, as long as it's consensual, it's fine.

00:47:00.400 This was consensual for the two people involved, and it's not fine.

00:47:04.360 And I agree that it's not fine because there's more to consent.

00:47:06.760 Like, consent is baseline.

00:47:09.040 Of course you need to have consent in a sexual relationship, otherwise it's not a relationship at all.

00:47:13.040 It's rape. 1.00

00:47:14.320 But that's not the end of it.

00:47:17.700 Things like fidelity and loyalty and love and dignity, all of these things are important as well.

00:47:24.320 And if you remove all of those but you still have consent, it is a disordered and bad thing.

00:47:31.320 So I guess what I'm saying is I have kind of the moral framework, and maybe you have the moral framework, to condemn guys who cheat on their wives.

00:47:41.720 But a lot of these leftists especially who are making a big deal out of this, they don't have the framework for it.

00:47:48.880 Unless they're going to admit that they were wrong about sexual morality this whole time.

00:47:52.700 In which case, I'm happy to have them on board.

00:47:57.920 Let's get now to the comment section.

00:47:59.640 Who makes a Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage?

00:48:05.960 Who's to blame?

00:48:08.820 It's a sweet baby gang.

00:48:13.480 Well, the left has proclaimed an all-out war on childhood.

00:48:16.760 Having a will in place is the least you could do to protect your kids.

00:48:20.140 A will gives you the power to decide who will raise your kids should something happen to you and your spouse.

00:48:25.260 Without one, you know, the state decides, and we don't want that to happen.

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00:49:14.660 First comment says, Matt, in response to the TikTok dating advice segment on Monday, I can vouch that hat-based relationships are strong.

00:49:22.960 23 years ago, my wife asked me about the ridiculous fisherman's hat I wore at the time.

00:49:27.860 And we've been through the ups and downs of 19 years of marriage and four kids and now are stronger than ever.

00:49:31.820 The hat, tattered and worn, now hangs on my 12-year-old son's bedpost.

00:49:36.180 I think he keeps it because he senses that it's the rock our family is built on.

00:49:39.620 And, hey, you know, the dating sites and, you know, Tinder and everything not working for a lot of people.

00:49:47.620 Hear the complaints all the time.

00:49:49.260 It wouldn't work for me if I was still in the dating scene.

00:49:51.240 Thank God I'm not.

00:49:52.360 So maybe it's time to try some different strategies.

00:49:56.160 Wear a weird hat out in public, and maybe someone will come up and ask you about it.

00:50:00.040 It's a conversation starter.

00:50:01.780 See, it worked for this guy.

00:50:03.960 23 years of marriage built on the foundation of a hat.

00:50:09.620 Doc says, Doc Bailey says,

00:50:11.660 When I was a medical student at Vanderbilt a long, long time ago,

00:50:13.920 if you saw residents postgraduate special training in the hospital parking lot,

00:50:17.660 you could immediately tell if he slash she was OB-GYN.

00:50:21.940 The OB-GYN drove Cadillacs and other expensive cars 0.92

00:50:25.120 as the other residents drove crap cars because that's all they could afford. 0.72

00:50:29.040 The OB-GYNs had very lucrative side jobs as abortionists. 0.98

00:50:32.920 So there's a long history of screw it, I'm here for the money at these institutions.

00:50:37.440 There's a long history of that.

00:50:38.700 There's also a long history, which starts, well, maybe it doesn't start with abortion,

00:50:43.400 but one of the worst manifestations is abortion,

00:50:45.600 where you've got people in the medical field who maybe through,

00:50:50.600 maybe often, you know, throughout their day,

00:50:53.540 they actually are treating and helping people,

00:50:55.700 which is what you're supposed to do in medicine.

00:50:57.620 You're supposed to treat, help, cure.

00:51:00.120 That's all you're supposed to do.

00:51:01.440 Do no harm.

00:51:02.000 And yet, through abortion, the objective is exactly the opposite.

00:51:07.620 You're not treating anything.

00:51:09.900 You are harming on purpose,

00:51:12.680 which is a total inversion of the medical profession.

00:51:18.180 Same thing with the, quote-unquote, gender affirmation procedures.

00:51:21.420 J.R. says,

00:51:22.900 Matt sounds like Cartman while trying to pronounce Latine

00:51:25.700 in all of its goofball examples.

00:51:28.320 There's a little bit of a Cartman there, I guess.

00:51:29.600 But that's gender, that's the new gender-neutral.

00:51:32.540 You don't want to see Latino or Latina. 1.00

00:51:34.360 It's Latina.

00:51:36.480 Latina.

00:51:39.100 The other thing I didn't even mention yesterday is just drop the last letter.

00:51:44.620 If it's really this important to you, you could just say Latin.

00:51:47.660 That actually works.

00:51:49.000 You don't, if it's so important to you to not have a,

00:51:52.320 to not signify a gender,

00:51:53.940 then you don't need to add some other letter to the end.

00:51:58.420 Just say Latin.

00:52:00.600 Or Hispanic. 0.99

00:52:02.980 Also gender-neutral.

00:52:04.180 There you go.

00:52:09.360 And Kotko5 says,

00:52:12.000 Matt, reading off the job description for web developers,

00:52:14.760 put a smile on my face.

00:52:17.320 You know what?

00:52:17.720 Reading a prompter is actually difficult.

00:52:20.940 People don't realize this. 1.00

00:52:21.960 Difficult for me anyway, as a moron. 0.99

00:52:23.680 But if I write the stuff in the prompter, then I can read it. 0.98

00:52:27.120 But if you're reading something that you didn't write,

00:52:28.980 and you don't really understand, it's more difficult than anything.

00:52:31.960 So that's why, you know, I don't make fun of other people when they stumble on the prompter.

00:52:37.960 Or Joe Biden.

00:52:40.000 Well, I guess I do all the time.

00:52:42.920 And I'm not going to stop.

00:52:43.800 Well, there are two ways to absolutely stop the left in its tracks.

00:52:48.980 The first is to point out their lunacy.

00:52:50.960 The second is to take as much money away from them as possible.

00:52:54.460 And if you're a regular listener to this show, you're already doing the former.

00:52:57.440 If you made the decision to stop supporting Harry's Razors and go with Jeremy's, 0.99

00:53:01.000 then you're doing both right now.

00:53:02.660 But if you haven't heard yet, we've got a brand new incentive for you.

00:53:05.440 It's the Jeremy's Razors Contest for the Car.

00:53:08.640 Here's how it works.

00:53:09.280 For every person you refer, whether they buy a Jeremy's Razors kit or a Daily Wire annual membership,

00:53:14.060 you both get points in the race to win the God King's McLaren.

00:53:18.540 If someone from the Sweet Baby Gang wins this thing, it would warm my heart.

00:53:21.620 I will never drive a car like this because I'm driving a 12-passenger lunker all around.

00:53:25.340 But if you win it, I would be very happy with that.

00:53:27.660 Most of the top players haven't hit the 20-referral mark yet,

00:53:30.140 so there's still plenty of time for you to jump in the race and also win it.

00:53:34.280 To sign up and start competing, go to jeremysrazors.com slash play.

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00:53:43.360 See terms and conditions for complete details at jeremysrazors.com slash referral terms.

00:53:47.420 The program is open only to legal U.S. residents residing in the U.S. slash D.C.,

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00:53:58.040 Remember, friends don't let friends shave with woke razors. 0.99

00:54:01.860 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:54:02.960 So you've heard about quiet quitting, which is the new modern trend where employees essentially stop trying,

00:54:12.420 but they remain on the job, attempting to sail by on minimal effort, doing the bare minimum.

00:54:17.420 This was a movement pioneered by Gen Z with a big assist from millennials who are always eager to join any trend,

00:54:23.520 especially one that involves being lazy.

00:54:25.120 Of course, I say the movement was pioneered by Gen Z, but they, in fact, did not invent laziness,

00:54:30.140 though they are the only generation maybe narcissistic enough to think that they did.

00:54:34.040 No, they invented the phrase and the hashtag and the TikTok videos promoting it.

00:54:38.900 And now the makers of quiet quitting are back with a new hit called hashtag act your wage.

00:54:45.460 This is another viral trend, which is essentially the same thing as quiet quitting,

00:54:48.900 sort of taking a Marvel approach where the sequel is a carbon copy of the original.

00:54:53.520 The act your wage trend, which has taken off on TikTok, is apparently best explained by this viral video,

00:54:59.900 which has millions of views from TikTok user Sarai Marie.

00:55:04.020 Let's take a look.

00:55:06.360 Do you even know how to do your job?

00:55:08.620 I don't understand what...

00:55:11.420 Hey, Veronica, I'm going to have you take this home and work on it tonight, okay?

00:55:15.440 Respectfully, Susan, I'd rather spend time with my family.

00:55:18.900 Veronica, did you just decline the Zoom meeting that's at 6.30 tonight?

00:55:26.240 Oh, yeah, I did. I did do that.

00:55:27.940 Yeah, because it's outside of my working hours, 9 to 5, so I won't be attending.

00:55:34.560 All right, Veronica, I do need you to be available during your vacation, okay?

00:55:39.580 Susan, you'll be blocked on my vacation because I won't be answering.

00:55:43.380 Okay, Veronica, I'm going to need you to complete all of this today.

00:55:52.180 Susan, do I look like two people to you?

00:55:54.600 No.

00:55:55.500 Oh, okay, just making sure, because that looks like the work of two people, right?

00:55:59.440 Right? And I'm one. I'm just one person, right?

00:56:01.680 It would appear that acting your wage means being so grating and annoying and shrill that you end up sitting alone in an empty corner of the office

00:56:21.000 because everybody else has jumped out the window.

00:56:24.140 Now, if you're still confused about what this movement is supposed to be, the New York Post has more details.

00:56:28.120 Quote,

00:56:28.180 Acting your wage might sound similar to quiet quitting, which became the biggest buzzword in the office as the summer came to an end,

00:56:49.220 but there's a fine line between the two movements.

00:56:51.140 Quote,

00:56:51.300 Motivation is the bridge between the two, but they're still two very different and separate constructs.

00:56:55.960 Misha Ann Martin, head of people analytics at the software company WorkHuman, told the Post,

00:57:01.520 In short, quiet quitters are doing the bare minimum and trying to get away with it,

00:57:04.960 while the act your wagers are doing exactly what they're paid to do, not more and not less. 1.00

00:57:10.640 So, I mean, they're all just a bunch of lazy bastards. 0.98

00:57:13.180 In other words, for a real-world example of this phenomenon, not that anyone needs a real-world example of laziness, 0.98

00:57:19.420 I think we all kind of get it, but Insider has an article about acting your wage,

00:57:23.200 and it tells the story of a 22-year-old cashier named Claire.

00:57:27.920 And this is kind of important for a point we're going to make here.

00:57:30.560 This is what it says.

00:57:31.600 Claire is adamant about acting your wage. 1.00

00:57:33.920 She has watched cycle after cycle of the store being fully staffed where workers feel they can have a life outside of the job,

00:57:39.520 and then something happens to upset the balance, whether it's management changing workers' hours

00:57:43.340 or a particularly demanding customer, and co-worker after co-worker walks out.

00:57:47.680 Quote,

00:57:48.220 If the job is something I can do and it's not taking from my life more than it gives, i.e. the money,

00:57:53.060 then I can withstand fussy customers and strange management.

00:57:56.300 I can brush all that off, she said.

00:57:57.840 I do understand there are times when a job is just not worth it, though.

00:58:02.160 For Claire, who makes about $13 an hour in Texas, the job is still worth it, 1.00

00:58:05.900 but that's because she acts her wage. 1.00

00:58:07.740 She does what she's expected to do, but doesn't take on more or stretch herself more than she needs to.

00:58:13.820 It's another side of quiet quitting, and it's a practice that she thinks is especially important for Gen Z. 1.00

00:58:18.720 Quote,

00:58:19.020 I have control over when I show up and when I leave, she said.

00:58:21.940 While I'm there, I'm going to try at least to do as I'm told, but I'm not going to do a 9 to 9.

00:58:27.540 For Claire, acting her wage is all about keeping her identity separate from work 1.00

00:58:30.960 and not feeling the need to go above and beyond.

00:58:34.380 Yes, don't go above and beyond. 0.98

00:58:35.900 That is indeed the timeless mantra of losers and mediocre nobodies everywhere.

00:58:41.660 Now, we should first note here, as we did with the quiet quitting trend,

00:58:45.260 that proponents of this approach do, in theory, make a couple of valid points.

00:58:51.060 So it's true that you should have a life outside of work.

00:58:54.600 It's also true that you need to know how to set boundaries,

00:58:57.720 not just at work, but in general, so you don't get taken advantage of.

00:59:00.280 But both of these potential positives are ultimately neutralized because, for one thing,

00:59:05.080 there is no real value in ensuring that you have extra time outside of work

00:59:08.640 if you aren't going to spend that extra time doing something enriching and worthwhile.

00:59:13.400 So most of these people will just go home and scroll through TikTok.

00:59:16.160 That's how they're spending their extra time.

00:59:17.520 We heard in the video that Veronica wanted to spend more time with her family. 0.99

00:59:21.700 But the problem is that these days, most people in their 20s don't have families.

00:59:26.680 So by family, they really mean their couch, their phone, and their HBO Max subscription.

00:59:32.200 And if you have to choose between putting some extra hours in at work

00:59:35.200 and staring like a zombie at a glowing screen for six hours

00:59:39.300 until you fall into a drooling stupor and eventually drift off to sleep,

00:59:42.960 I think the former is often the better choice.

00:59:44.900 Second, setting boundaries is important.

00:59:48.940 But in the adult world, you need to know how to do that

00:59:51.640 with a certain amount of tact and diplomacy.

00:59:54.420 So the real trick is to be firm and clear and yet not obnoxious.

00:59:58.820 But the problem in the video, what the video is recommending

01:00:02.560 is that employees act like a bunch of spoiled toddlers,

01:00:06.140 turning up the smarmy level to 100, screeching like overgrown bats,

01:00:11.280 and acting offended that their boss would even ask them to do a little bit extra.

01:00:14.900 See, you can't, this is what you have to understand, kids.

01:00:18.800 You cannot talk to your boss that way.

01:00:20.620 You might wish that you could, but you can't.

01:00:23.180 So in the real world, where your boss comes up to you,

01:00:25.180 no, I'm not doing that, Susan, get the hell out of here. 1.00

01:00:27.420 This is not a movie.

01:00:28.520 You can't talk to people that way.

01:00:31.080 This might be how, your parents may allow you to talk to them that way,

01:00:34.000 and that's why you never learned the lesson.

01:00:38.260 But in reality, you can't.

01:00:39.980 That's a good way to get yourself fired in the real world.

01:00:42.980 If you're only going to do the bare minimum, and on top of that,

01:00:46.040 you're also unpleasant, disrespectful, and irritating, 0.67

01:00:49.480 there's no reason for your employer to keep you around any longer than it takes 0.68

01:00:52.940 to find some other warm body to sit in your chair.

01:00:57.100 You have to always ask yourself that question.

01:00:58.780 I know we don't want to ask ourselves this question,

01:01:00.360 because it's a difficult question to ask,

01:01:01.600 but at your job or whatever you're doing,

01:01:03.400 it's like you have to ask yourself,

01:01:04.320 what role am I really serving?

01:01:07.800 Am I even needed?

01:01:10.520 And if you've made yourself expendable,

01:01:13.100 that's going to be a problem for you.

01:01:15.340 And making yourself expendable,

01:01:16.580 it's certainly one way to approach life.

01:01:18.140 The other way to approach it

01:01:19.340 is to strive to be indispensable,

01:01:22.600 invaluable,

01:01:24.140 undeniable.

01:01:25.840 But that takes effort,

01:01:27.420 and it takes talent.

01:01:29.140 And here's an important point.

01:01:30.120 It takes time.

01:01:32.140 So it's quite notable

01:01:33.140 that Gen Z, 0.99

01:01:34.560 they're pushing these trends,

01:01:36.960 apparently deciding that

01:01:38.480 working hard,

01:01:39.500 going above and beyond,

01:01:40.560 running the extra mile, etc.,

01:01:41.760 is not worth the strain.

01:01:43.700 The cost-benefit calculation

01:01:45.040 doesn't work out in their favor, they say.

01:01:47.600 Claire, the cashier,

01:01:48.780 she's arrived at this conclusion,

01:01:50.480 and yet Claire is 22 years old.

01:01:53.460 At the upper generational range,

01:01:55.240 the oldest members of Gen Z 0.71

01:01:56.520 would be like 25 or 26.

01:01:59.280 How could you possibly have determined

01:02:01.200 already in your mid-20s,

01:02:03.960 after having been in the working world

01:02:05.340 for a few years at most,

01:02:07.480 that there's no point

01:02:08.580 in putting in extra effort?

01:02:11.040 I mean, you've decided already

01:02:12.240 that the whole thing's a sucker's game?

01:02:15.080 What, did you work one overtime shift

01:02:16.880 and then decide that ambition is pointless?

01:02:19.380 What did you expect?

01:02:21.480 Did you think you'd put in

01:02:22.320 five extra hours

01:02:23.200 behind the cash register

01:02:24.160 at the grocery store

01:02:24.820 and the next day

01:02:26.060 they'd make you CEO of Kroger's?

01:02:28.800 Well, I spent one entire whole day

01:02:30.780 trying hard

01:02:31.480 and I haven't become a millionaire yet,

01:02:32.780 so I give up.

01:02:35.220 That's not the way the life works.

01:02:37.820 Not everything follows the rules

01:02:39.280 of instant gratification.

01:02:41.180 You can't always get results

01:02:42.640 in 60 seconds or less.

01:02:44.540 The whole world is not a microwave.

01:02:46.320 It doesn't work that way.

01:02:47.860 Success comes slowly and painfully

01:02:49.900 and with lots of peaks

01:02:51.600 and valleys and frustrations

01:02:53.700 and with stops and starts

01:02:55.060 and with hardship.

01:02:57.680 Now, speaking personally,

01:02:59.160 I am now at a point in my career

01:03:00.840 where I'm willing to say

01:03:01.880 that I am having some success.

01:03:03.740 I'm not done, not nearly,

01:03:04.800 I'm not satisfied, not even close,

01:03:05.940 but I've hit certain milestones

01:03:07.140 that are important to me

01:03:08.500 that I've been working towards

01:03:09.700 and so, you know,

01:03:11.740 and that's a good thing.

01:03:13.800 Do you know how long that took?

01:03:16.120 Like a decade and a half.

01:03:17.880 More than that, actually.

01:03:19.500 And you're giving up after, what,

01:03:20.920 three months?

01:03:22.420 You're ready to quiet quit

01:03:23.840 when you just quiet started last week?

01:03:26.640 How fast do you think success comes?

01:03:30.040 We said hard work pays off.

01:03:31.700 We never said it pays off in 30 seconds.

01:03:34.220 Life is not an ATM.

01:03:35.540 You can't just press a button

01:03:37.100 and the cash comes out.

01:03:38.400 It takes longer,

01:03:39.400 a lot longer,

01:03:40.300 to get the payout.

01:03:41.420 But here's the good news.

01:03:45.820 If you're a younger person

01:03:47.060 and you're just starting out

01:03:48.920 in your career,

01:03:50.380 the deck has been cleared.

01:03:52.540 Okay, many of your peers

01:03:53.580 are settling for mediocrity already.

01:03:56.640 They haven't even tried yet

01:03:58.040 and they've decided

01:03:59.400 there's no point in trying.

01:04:01.360 They totaled their cars

01:04:02.640 on the first speed bump

01:04:03.780 they came across.

01:04:04.580 They ran into a mild breeze 0.99

01:04:06.120 and were knocked on their asses 0.98

01:04:07.540 and have no interest in getting up. 0.97

01:04:09.160 This is an opportunity for you

01:04:11.920 if you're not one of those people.

01:04:14.520 As long as you have

01:04:15.560 slightly more fortitude

01:04:16.980 and a slightly better work ethic 0.98

01:04:18.900 than all those other losers, 0.99

01:04:21.200 you have an opportunity. 1.00

01:04:23.040 You only need to be

01:04:24.380 slightly more useful 0.76

01:04:25.660 than a slug

01:04:26.780 to set yourself apart.

01:04:29.200 And then imagine

01:04:29.860 if you went above and beyond

01:04:31.100 even that.

01:04:33.140 Imagine if you really tried.

01:04:35.940 The stage is set

01:04:37.060 for you to succeed.

01:04:37.800 while your competition

01:04:39.660 makes TikTok videos

01:04:40.720 explaining why

01:04:41.420 they aren't even trying.

01:04:44.160 Let them be satisfied

01:04:45.860 with a lackluster life

01:04:47.360 filled with indifference

01:04:48.440 and excuses.

01:04:49.960 You show up early.

01:04:51.500 You take the overtime.

01:04:53.140 You take on

01:04:53.840 the extra projects.

01:04:55.240 You look to make your job

01:04:56.800 more challenging,

01:04:57.840 not easier.

01:04:59.280 Let them be cynical about it

01:05:01.020 and scoff about it.

01:05:01.800 What are you even trying for?

01:05:03.860 Let them do it.

01:05:05.100 Because you're climbing the ladder

01:05:06.420 while they're all crowding

01:05:07.720 around the bottom rung

01:05:08.660 hoping someone pays off

01:05:10.520 the rest of their student loans.

01:05:13.340 One day you'll be the boss

01:05:14.920 and you can gather together

01:05:16.880 all of these low effort

01:05:18.120 lumps on a log

01:05:19.280 and tell them all at once

01:05:21.320 as I tell them now.

01:05:23.940 You're all canceled.

01:05:25.920 And that'll do it for today.

01:05:27.920 For this portion of the show.

01:05:29.180 Anyway, as we move over

01:05:30.060 to the members block.

01:05:31.420 Hope to see you there.

01:05:32.160 If not, Godspeed.

01:05:33.280 If not, Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - September 28, 2022

Ep. 1030 - Media Touts Fraudulent 'Study' To Justify Child Mutilation

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