The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1158 - The Left Anoints The New George Floyd

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media has found its new George Floyd, a mentally ill,

00:00:04.360 violent vagrant named Jordan Neely, died while being restrained by passengers on a New York

00:00:08.900 City subway, passengers who he was harassing and threatening. We'll get into the details of this

00:00:13.540 case and about the real motivations of the people who are exploiting it. Also, Nashville police have

00:00:17.840 reversed course and decided not to release the manifesto of the trans school shooter. Plus,

00:00:22.180 Barstool Sports abandons its alleged anti-cancel culture position by firing one of its employees

00:00:27.380 for quoting rap lyrics. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:31.400 Days for Life at 40daysforlife.com. Let's begin by talking about what happened, what actually happened

00:01:38.540 as far as we know at this point. On Monday afternoon, a 30-year-old mentally ill vagrant named Jordan

00:01:44.820 Neely, who also happens to be black, boarded a subway train in New York City and began harassing the

00:01:50.120 passengers. Witnesses described Neely as hostile and erratic. He was apparently yelling and carrying

00:01:56.340 on, screaming that he's, quote, ready to die and, quote, doesn't mind going to jail and, quote, will

00:02:03.040 hurt anyone on this train. This was not Neely's first foray into this territory. He was a man with

00:02:10.200 44 prior arrests with charges ranging from assault to drug-related offenses. He also had an open warrant

00:02:16.600 for a felony assault dating back to 2021. That was an open warrant at the time that this all happened.

00:02:22.240 Multiple people on social media have since reported that their own, you know, they've had their own

00:02:27.180 alleged run-ins with Neely, who, according to these reports, was known to harass and threaten

00:02:32.200 passengers. In other words, Neely was yet another violent repeat criminal who had been essentially

00:02:37.980 granted free reign over the subway system, where crime has skyrocketed over the last few years as

00:02:43.520 commuters are frequently accosted, mugged, assaulted, even raped and killed. This is not just the case

00:02:49.460 in the New York City subway system, but in the city as a whole and in major cities all across the

00:02:53.520 country, as we know. But on the F train on Monday afternoon, some of the passengers decided that they

00:02:58.600 had enough. Rather than sitting there and waiting for Neely to lash out violently, waiting for him to

00:03:05.340 make good on his explicit threats to hurt people, hoping that if he starts physically attacking

00:03:10.880 people that, you know, maybe they'll be able to intervene before anyone is seriously hurt or

00:03:15.180 killed. Instead of that, a few passengers stepped up to do what was necessary. At least three good

00:03:20.180 Samaritans restrained Neely. One man, who's a white man and a former Marine, had Neely in a chokehold.

00:03:27.180 Another, a black man, was holding down his arms. They held him down for several minutes because there

00:03:31.960 was no law enforcement immediately on the scene. And they were in this enclosed, claustrophobic environment.

00:03:38.060 And they weren't going to do that and then just let him go. So they held on to him. Eventually,

00:03:45.800 Neely lost consciousness and died. Police took at least one of the passengers who restrained him,

00:03:50.880 the white man, the Marine, into custody for questioning. They released him sometime later

00:03:54.500 without pressing charges. Now, what you should know is that there were over 10 people, I think it's 11

00:04:00.620 people in total, who were killed on the New York City subway just last year, along with many more

00:04:06.440 accosted and assaulted. You don't know any of their names, do you? Many more fell victim to

00:04:13.100 violent crime all over the city. Over 400 people were murdered just in 2022 alone, just in New York

00:04:19.280 City. You probably don't know any of their names either. The problem for those victims is that in a

00:04:25.700 great many of those cases, the perpetrators were black. But as we know, violence carried out by black 0.97

00:04:31.300 people, no matter the race of the victim, is not useful to the media or the Democrat Party, which

00:04:36.080 means that those victims must remain nameless and faceless. But in this case, the man who had

00:04:42.260 Jordan Neely in a headlock was white. And that is the only detail the left needs. That's it. They 0.89

00:04:48.880 don't need anything else because they can make up the rest or they can massage the facts a little bit

00:04:55.540 to get them to the point where they want them. The only absolute fact that they need and that they

00:05:01.880 usually can't lie about is the racial component. Hundreds of black people are killed every single 0.67

00:05:08.500 year, year after year, a trail of violence and death and misery that is only getting worse over

00:05:13.760 time, not better. Victim after victim, day after day after day. And the left says nothing,

00:05:19.760 does nothing, does nothing, does not care, does not make martyrs or heroes out of any of these

00:05:27.340 victims, does not demand that we say their names. They wait and they wait and they wait and they have

00:05:36.160 to wait a while until eventually they come across the extremely rare occurrence where a black man dies

00:05:44.780 allegedly at the hands of a white man. And that is when they leap into action, taking full advantage, 0.57

00:05:50.500 which is what has happened here. So protesters in response to Jordan Neely's death swarmed the New

00:05:58.000 York City subway system yesterday, demanding justice for Jordan Neely. The media went into full George

00:06:03.220 Floyd mode, blatantly racializing the incident while in real time, and we could see this happening in real

00:06:09.160 time. They started to reshape Jordan Neely himself into something other than the violent career

00:06:16.460 criminal that he actually was. We could actually, if you were on social media yesterday, you could see

00:06:21.760 this happening in real time as they began to sort of figure out who they want to make this guy into.

00:06:28.380 And in this case, it appears that Neely sometimes dressed like Michael Jackson when he was on the subway,

00:06:33.360 and he would perform unsolicited dance routines, you know, for hoping for tips from people. And

00:06:40.820 this is a fact that as far as I'm concerned, if anything, makes him even less sympathetic, but

00:06:46.400 which the media is using to paint him as some kind of struggling artist, a kind soul who wished only to

00:06:52.860 bring people joy and happiness. And he just wanted to dance for people. He lived to dance. That's all.

00:06:58.960 That's all it was. Many headlines have been published claiming that a white man killed a black

00:07:05.140 Michael Jackson impersonator. That's how they're referring to him in the headlines, as if this is

00:07:09.640 the most important detail about him. A Michael Jackson impersonator was killed. Not a career criminal,

00:07:17.040 not a homeless vagrant, not a mentally ill psychopath. No, not that. A Michael Jackson impersonator.

00:07:22.640 It's, you know, almost as if, right, they tackled him to the ground and choked him out

00:07:28.580 for being a Michael Jackson impersonator. Like, the impression they want to give you from the

00:07:33.180 headlines is that the passengers on the train got annoyed with him dancing around like Michael

00:07:39.220 Jackson and then tackled him, which is not what happened at all. Democrat politicians have also been

00:07:45.720 activated. AOC, Ayanna Pressley, the squad, you know, together have been leading the lynch mob as usual. 0.89

00:07:52.020 Well, AOC has been making frantic public statements demanding an arrest and criminal charges,

00:07:58.500 though, of course, she doesn't need to wait for any of those things, least of all a conviction

00:08:02.480 to pass down her own verdict, which she has already done. The mayor of New York City has been,

00:08:07.780 to this point, slightly more cautious in his public response. He hasn't come out

00:08:12.900 and actually said that this was a racist murder. Not yet, anyway.

00:08:16.600 And that's not good enough for AOC, who is now demanding that the mayor publicly accuse

00:08:24.180 this Marine of murder. So to be clear, this is an elected official demanding that a citizen 0.92

00:08:30.480 who hasn't been arrested or charged be pronounced guilty of murder without trial,

00:08:38.900 without conviction, or again, without even a criminal charge. She, along with many others

00:08:45.340 on the left, are openly calling for a public lynching of a man who has not been officially

00:08:49.620 accused of committing any crime. Now, it remains to be seen whether they'll be able to fully repeat

00:08:56.300 their George Floyd trick with Jordan Neely, which, you know, means riots, looting, another great racial 1.00

00:09:03.620 awakening, quote unquote, an unjust and politically motivated trial and conviction, etc. But that is

00:09:11.100 clearly their goal. And they are on their way towards it right now. But as these deeply evil forces

00:09:19.460 set to work to make full use of this incident, and to make another white man into a sacrificial victim 0.61

00:09:25.380 on the altar of racial justice, what is the actual truth? Right? What is the correct response? Who is 0.53

00:09:33.540 really at fault? Well, the answer to that last question, I think, will give us the answer to the

00:09:38.380 others. And to that, we can say that there are two parties responsible for the death of Jordan Neely.

00:09:46.200 And the first party, we cannot forget, is Jordan Neely himself. Okay, so who is first and foremost

00:09:55.320 to blame for the fact that Jordan Neely is dead today? Well, Jordan Neely is. He may have been

00:10:02.080 mentally ill, but he's also the only person on the planet who can directly decide how he behaves.

00:10:09.880 Okay, there's one person with direct control over that, and it's Jordan Neely. He's the one who

00:10:15.700 harassed a train full of passengers who were just trying to get to and from work. He's the one who

00:10:21.960 announced himself explicitly as a threat, threatened to hurt them. He's the one who's lived a life of

00:10:31.540 crime for at least the past decade. It's his actions that precipitated the events that led to

00:10:37.320 his death. If he had not chosen to announce himself as a threat to those around him, if he had not chosen

00:10:42.640 to carry on the way that he did, he would still be alive today. He put the other passengers in a

00:10:49.040 position of having to choose whether to gamble with their safety by allowing him to run around

00:10:54.940 screaming, waiting for him to do something violent, or whether they should step in and subdue him.

00:11:00.620 He put them in that position. But it wasn't just him who put them in that position. The other party

00:11:07.400 responsible is the Democrat Party, the political leadership of the city, the justice system, DAs like 1.00

00:11:13.540 Alvin Bragg in Manhattan, who have made the conscious decision to keep men like Jordan Neely

00:11:19.400 on the streets, to continually release these people back into the public, no matter how many

00:11:25.700 dozens of crimes they each commit, until the point that they are either killed or they kill someone else.

00:11:34.420 That's the way the justice system now operates. Commit crime, commit crime, crime after crime,

00:11:39.220 keep them on the street until a death occurs, either their death or somebody else's. And actually,

00:11:46.060 in the latter case where they kill somebody else, they might still stay on the streets even after

00:11:50.420 that. The only thing that will definitely get them on the street, off the street, is if they're killed.

00:11:59.420 But that's a decision that the system has made. Jordan Neely belonged in prison or a mental asylum.

00:12:07.740 He had long ago made it clear that he had no interest in being a, you know, a civilized member

00:12:14.100 of society. He was a danger to his community and to himself. And this had been demonstrated time and

00:12:20.500 time again. Jordan Neely could not have been clearer about this. If the system had done what it was

00:12:28.260 supposed to do, if it had gotten him off the street, you know, and locked him away somewhere,

00:12:33.180 he would be alive today. But the left does not want to prosecute crime because crime is committed

00:12:40.280 in a racially disproportionate way. It is committed in a racially disproportionate way.

00:12:47.620 Which means that prosecutions and convictions and incarcerations will naturally be disproportionate.

00:12:54.740 But the left can't have that, so they would rather let criminals terrorize you and your family.

00:13:00.100 In fact, it's kind of a win-win for them because if they refuse to prosecute criminals,

00:13:06.480 they can enact their perverse idea of racial justice by keeping these black criminals on the 1.00

00:13:11.520 street. And because it's only, when it comes to criminal justice reform, that's all they're

00:13:16.560 really concerned about, obviously. And at the same time, they can put honest citizens in a position of

00:13:23.600 having to make very difficult decisions with their lives potentially on the line. And then they can

00:13:28.500 exploit those situations. They can send the mob after, you know, yet another scapegoat

00:13:34.580 and use the chaos they've created to advance their racial narrative.

00:13:40.020 Which is why the one man that I will not blame for this is the man who is getting all of the blame

00:13:46.420 right now. Now, you can argue that it's not wise from a self-preservation standpoint for anyone,

00:13:54.140 especially any white man, to intervene in these kinds of situations anymore. While the left has

00:14:01.040 engineered a win-win for themselves, for you, it is a lose-lose. Now, if you decide to get involved,

00:14:09.000 either you get hurt in your attempt to protect yourself or potentially killed in your attempt

00:14:14.480 to protect yourself and others, or you prevail in the struggle and then you find yourself pursued

00:14:19.580 by a crazed leftist mob calling for your head. And then if you're arrested and charged, you'll

00:14:25.420 find yourself standing before a New York City jury or a big city jury somewhere else where your

00:14:30.520 conviction will have already been decided before the jury was even selected. That's what AOC is up to

00:14:36.740 right now. She wants to assume, she's assuming, probably rightly so, that this innocent man is going

00:14:42.560 to be arrested and charged. And so she right now wants, she doesn't want to take any chances. She

00:14:49.120 wants to decide the verdict right now. Pollute the jury pool, have this man labeled a murderer in every

00:14:56.820 headline so that when the trial eventually comes, he's doomed. This makes it extremely dicey, to say the

00:15:06.340 least, to play the good Samaritan role. But it also makes it all the more heroic.

00:15:14.060 The Marine, who at this point, but likely for not much longer, remains nameless, is not only not at

00:15:20.620 fault, not only in the right, but is in fact a hero. This was a heroic action he took. He did what the

00:15:29.420 leaders of his city would not do, what the system refuses to do, what the police are not allowed to do

00:15:33.940 anymore in a city like New York City. He was under no moral obligation, nor any legal obligation,

00:15:39.820 to sit silently, obediently, while a psychotic criminal vagrant runs wild, threatening and

00:15:47.820 harassing innocent people. He's not under that obligation. This is an obligation that the left

00:15:53.660 wants to impose on us. They want us to believe that it is our responsibility to helplessly submit

00:16:01.300 ourselves to the whims of every violent scumbag we come across. But it is not so. And so this man

00:16:09.840 took action. He deserves a medal for his actions. In a healthy society, that's what he would get.

00:16:17.180 Yet we don't live in a healthy society. We live in a depraved and confused one,

00:16:22.640 which means, tragically, I'm afraid that his reward is likely to be quite different.

00:16:27.920 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:17:25.880 You know, one other note about this, and you have to understand how insidious this agenda is

00:17:35.140 and what they're really up to. Because, you know, not only is the left creating this lose-lose

00:17:44.400 situation for everybody by continually releasing these violent criminals back into their communities,

00:17:51.920 giving them permission. You know, every time a violent person commits a crime and then they're

00:18:00.520 arrested and then the system just cycles them through and spits them back out, that is the

00:18:05.880 system giving permission, almost explicit permission to that person. Oh, no, go continue doing more of

00:18:12.040 that. Or worse. So it creates a lose-lose situation, but it also has a deeply demoralizing

00:18:22.600 effect. And that is so much of the left's cultural agenda is to demoralize you, to break your spirits.

00:18:31.780 Because think about, you know, the other option when you're in this position and let's say you're on,

00:18:36.820 if you make the mistake. Now, look, the first thing is, if you can, you got to get out of these

00:18:41.580 cities. You just have to get out of the cities. If you live in one of these cities, you got to get

00:18:45.900 out of it because it's like a matter of time before you encounter, you're in a situation like

00:18:52.660 this where you potentially fall victim to crime and then you're in that lose-lose situation. You

00:18:57.440 know, whatever you do, you know, if God forbid you defend yourself, the entire system is going to be

00:19:02.560 against you. So you got to get out. If you are there, I certainly wouldn't be riding the subway.

00:19:05.920 I would choose anything over that. But, you know, if you are in that position and

00:19:15.460 there's someone on the subway and they're harassing and they're threatening, or maybe

00:19:21.180 they're actually committing assault. So in many videos like that, we have somebody like Jordan

00:19:26.100 Neely, homeless, psychotic, vagrant type, committing physical assault against them.

00:19:31.540 And usually in those videos, you can see the other people that are sitting there and not

00:19:36.360 doing anything to intervene, which morally is the wrong choice. But they're also being pushed

00:19:44.040 to make that choice because of what we just talked about. In their heads, they're running through the

00:19:49.920 situation and they're saying, well, look, if I get involved here, then I can end up getting killed.

00:19:56.500 But even if I don't, let's say I have to do this person now, now, now my whole life could be over

00:20:01.800 and I've got my own family. And then I ended up going to prison. I mean, everyone's sitting there,

00:20:06.440 they're, they're cycling through that in their heads. And so then many of them choose not to do

00:20:11.200 anything, but then they have to live with that for the rest of their lives. You know, the experience

00:20:16.900 of seeing something like this and not acting because for the sake of self-preservation, because you're

00:20:24.700 afraid, um, and not acting, that becomes incredibly demoralizing. And as I said, spirit breaking.

00:20:35.720 Um, so it is, it's a lose, lose across the board. You're on a subway, somebody like Jordan Neely

00:20:42.780 boards it, you can't, there's, there's nothing good can come of it for you. That's exactly what they

00:20:50.240 want. All right. Um, and one of the points too, is that we, we keep hearing how, uh, like he was

00:20:56.940 homeless, you know, um, and we're going to hear a lot of emphasis on that. So the two things that

00:21:01.900 you're going to hear about Jordan Neely, that he was a Michael Jackson impersonator and that he was

00:21:06.700 homeless. Um, because those are the things that are supposed to make him, you know, the most

00:21:10.720 sympathetic to us. And I've already, there's already people, many people on the left say he was killed

00:21:14.900 for being homeless, which of course is, is not the case at all. They didn't say, Oh, he's, he's a

00:21:20.100 homeless guy. Let's get him. That's not what happened. But you also see here that, that, um,

00:21:26.360 in many cases, people who are homeless, like there's a, there's a reason why they're, they're homeless.

00:21:33.580 Um, that these are not, um, law abiding, sober people who've fallen on hard times. That can

00:21:44.480 happen. There are examples of that. It was rather extreme for the, for the most part though, these,

00:21:51.920 you know, it's, it's situations like this. All right. Speaking of criminals, we know about that,

00:22:00.760 uh, the trans terrorist here in Nashville and what happened, uh, last month. We've been waiting for 0.84

00:22:08.300 this manifesto that we were told about to come out. So we were told about this immediately that

00:22:14.080 there was a manifesto, uh, and there were indications by the police chief immediately in the, uh, in the

00:22:20.080 initial press conferences that the manifesto indicates that the, uh, the, the shooter's trans

00:22:25.980 identity played a role in the attack and somehow motivated it. It was all very vague and cryptic,

00:22:31.020 but he was clearly indicating that. So we've been waiting to actually see the manifesto.

00:22:35.120 Then last week we were told that the release of the manifesto is, um, is imminent. It's going to

00:22:39.820 come out soon, but now here's the latest from the daily wire. Nashville police have backtracked on

00:22:44.640 plans to release the so-called manifesto of the trans school shooter who last month killed six

00:22:48.500 people, including three children, citing a pending lawsuit. The decision announced Wednesday

00:22:53.160 comes amid substantial public pressure to release documents believed to lay out the motive of the

00:22:57.320 28 year old shooter who was killed by police inside the covenant school to end the March 27th attack.

00:23:03.400 Metro Nashville police department officials notify the public in a terse statement,

00:23:08.520 quote, due to pending litigation filed this week, the metropolitan Nashville police department has been

00:23:13.160 advised by counsel to hold the release of the, um, records related to the shooting at the covenant

00:23:18.440 school pending orders of direction of the court. Several media outlets, including the

00:23:23.100 Daily Wire, have filed freedom of information requests in an effort to win release, uh, of the

00:23:27.960 documents. The requests were denied with authority, citing a provision that allows them to withhold

00:23:31.800 records relating to an ongoing case. But late last month, police officials said they were preparing

00:23:35.880 to make the papers public. And now, um, and now that situation, that decision has been

00:23:40.760 for the time being reversed, which is not a, not a surprise at all. And now we're in a position where

00:23:49.100 when this manifesto is eventually released. And I think, I think eventually a version of it

00:23:56.600 will be released, but when it is, um, how can we even trust it? The fact that it was held for so long

00:24:04.660 and there's been so much political pressure to not release it. And the FBI is involved in all of this

00:24:10.960 and they were about to release it and that they decided not to. And eventually when they do, um,

00:24:16.600 how can we trust what's in it? It'd be very difficult to trust because if they release a

00:24:22.500 manifesto and, um, and we'll, would you look at that? There's nothing at all indicating anything

00:24:29.100 trans related. Yeah, it was a trans, a terrorist happened to be trans school shooter happened to 0.52

00:24:34.760 be trans. Yeah. The police chief did indicate rather explicitly early on that, uh, the motivation

00:24:41.560 had something to do with the trans identity, but it's, it's not in there. It turns out if that happens

00:24:47.840 and that's seeming increasingly likely to me, uh, how can we possibly trust that? There was, there was

00:24:54.580 never any real reasonable argument for not releasing the manifesto. Yeah. Yeah. There it's a, it's a

00:25:02.840 criminal case, but the, the culprit is dead first of all. So you're not going to be filing, you're not,

00:25:10.400 no, no one's going to court here. At least the, uh, the shooter is not. She's dead in the ground.

00:25:17.020 So that never made a lot of sense. And then we started hearing this, this narrative about how,

00:25:22.060 well, the manifesto lays out, um, her plans, you know, and she wanted to do a lot more than,

00:25:28.920 uh, the covenant shooting. She wanted to go beyond that. She had other targets. It was very,

00:25:32.940 all very detailed. And so we can't release that because then it becomes some sort of security

00:25:37.680 throw. Why, why is it a threat? And if, even if it is, well, that stuff you can, you could,

00:25:42.820 you could redact that part of it. Okay. The part where she is talk describing the exact

00:25:50.600 method she wanted to use. And if you want to argue, well, we don't want to put that in the

00:25:54.080 public to give somebody else, uh, uh, a blueprint for committing these crimes. If that's how detailed

00:25:59.000 it is, then you could redact that. The thing that, that people are interested to know and what we

00:26:06.120 deserve to know is, um, what exactly motivated this. And if the, uh, the rhetoric from trans activists

00:26:16.120 and from the media, but of course I repeat myself claiming trans genocide, you know, if you're, 0.82

00:26:22.200 if you're a misgendered quote unquote, then that's a threat to your very existence and all that. 0.91

00:26:28.420 Did, did this rhetoric, um, help to motivate the actions of the shooter?

00:26:37.500 The, the, the, that's the kind of information that we need and we have every right to know.

00:26:41.740 And there's no argument related to security for not showing us that, telling us that it's not going

00:26:48.960 to, I, I cannot see how it would impede any sort of criminal investigation into a criminal who again

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00:27:16.440 Barstool's parent company, Penn Entertainment, due to concerns that the incident could jeopardize

00:27:20.620 regulatory gambling licenses across the country. Mintz apologized for his actions, claiming that it

00:27:25.860 was an honest mistake and said that he meant no harm. The slur was uttered during his show,

00:27:30.420 Wake Up Mincy, where he was reading the lyrics to a first of the month by Bone Thugs in Harmony.

00:27:34.980 And he was, so he was reciting the lyrics or reading them. I don't know.

00:27:42.200 And that's a word that's in the lyrics, but, but you can't, you, you can't in no context,

00:27:48.660 of course, do we know you can, is it okay to utter that word depending on your skin pigmentation?

00:27:54.060 Because we know that this word, it's a, it's a magical incantation. It's like a curse that,

00:27:58.920 you know, you find in a, in an old dusty book in the attic and you, you, you dust off the book and

00:28:03.560 you open it and you, you recite, you say the words in the book and it has some kind of like,

00:28:07.640 just saying the words has some sort of magical effect. That's what this particular word is,

00:28:12.600 we're told. That's how it's presented. Where you cannot even utter the syllables

00:28:16.860 in any context, even while quoting someone, you can't say the act, you could say N-word,

00:28:24.200 which, which is still conveys the, it still communicates the word when you say N-word.

00:28:30.840 Well, everyone immediately knows what you mean. So what is the, the moral distinction between saying

00:28:37.280 N-word or actually uttering the symbols, syllables themselves while quoting someone? What's the

00:28:42.440 distinction? There isn't one. It's totally arbitrary. Um, but this is the arbitrary, completely

00:28:47.580 ridiculous rule that has been imposed. And, um, and so it was decided that this guy has to pay

00:28:54.140 the price for it. You got it. You got it. Well, Oh, you said the word technicality. You're out.

00:28:59.020 Yep. You lose your livelihood and your job, you know, and everything. No one, no one can morally

00:29:05.660 justify that, um, or justify it on any other grounds, but that's the way it's supposed to be.

00:29:14.020 Apparently, uh, going back to the Postmillennial says, despite apparent pushback from Portnoy,

00:29:18.480 uh, Barstool CEO, Erica Nardini and longtime talent, Dan Katz, Penn Entertainment made the call

00:29:23.760 to terminate Mince's employment. Penn Entertainment acquired 36% of Barstool Sports from the Churnin

00:29:29.660 Group for $163 million, $163 million in early 2020 and bought the remaining 64% for an additional

00:29:36.200 $388 million in February, 2021. Uh, Portnoy said that, uh, you know, this wasn't up to him. He doesn't

00:29:43.480 like it. He then posted a video later addressing fans who were calling him out as a sellout

00:29:49.400 and as someone who's participating in cancel culture. And he responded to that with another

00:29:53.860 video. I think we have that.

00:29:55.480 So I get every Tom, Dick and Harry since this Missy thing, be like, Prez, you're sellout, 1.00

00:30:00.080 you're sellout. Hey, Prez, you sold out. Well, as the kids say, no toy, no toy. I sold out. You're

00:30:07.720 just figuring that out. I started a company and I sold it the out, made hundreds of millions,

00:30:12.700 made millions for everybody who grinded a million. Yeah. We sold the out. And that's what

00:30:17.320 you do when you're an entrepreneur, you start this little company. You dream one day you sell

00:30:21.860 the out. So no toy still means this decision sucks. I hate it. Makes me want to puke. But guess

00:30:28.280 what? When I sold out a couple of words, a couple of things, it's very clear. You say these things,

00:30:34.200 those decisions are no longer mine. I can't protect you. You know why? Because I sold out.

00:30:38.720 No toy. Uh, okay. Well, he's, he's announcing that he sold out. Now it's, it's, I've never been

00:30:46.340 in the position where someone's offered me, uh, you know, what was it in total, almost 400,

00:30:52.400 over $400 million in total. Um, no one's ever offered me that kind of money for anything that

00:30:57.460 I've done. And so, uh, I can imagine it's, you know, quite an incentive to take the offer.

00:31:02.420 Um, and I don't blame him for taking it. You know, I don't, I, that in and of itself,

00:31:07.860 I wouldn't call selling on a sale, but it does mean that if you consider barstool sports to be

00:31:13.920 some sort of, uh, you know, some, some, some, some sort of organization that stands at stands

00:31:20.920 against the cancel culture stands for any kind of values at all. If that's, if that's the notion

00:31:26.560 you had in your head, well, then that notion should be a long time ago, but especially now,

00:31:31.340 I think you should see it better. It's an entertainment company and that's fine. It

00:31:36.400 does entertainment. I'm not particularly a big, I don't really follow what they do, but it's,

00:31:40.660 you know, it's entertainment. Um, apparently they even, they took down their anti-cancel culture

00:31:47.740 merchandise from their store, sort of admitting that, well, they can't really, you know, they can't

00:31:53.040 claim to be against cancel culture anymore. And they can't because that is, yes, from a financial

00:31:58.800 and profit driven perspective, I can understand why you would take the money. Someone offers you

00:32:04.680 400 plus million dollars, you'd take it. I get that. But the moment that you do that,

00:32:10.060 well, now you are subject to the whims of this giant corporation that owns you.

00:32:14.680 Um, and you, you can't, you can't stand against cancel culture anymore. Um, you can't be relied

00:32:23.080 on to uphold any kind of value system whatsoever because you are owned by them. And the only thing

00:32:31.400 they, the only thing that the corporation cares about is the money. So that's what we learned

00:32:36.560 about barstool, but really something we should have already known. Um, and it is again, a decision

00:32:45.540 that nobody, no one can logically or morally defend. You know, the idea that there's a, that there is a

00:32:55.400 word that cannot be uttered under any circumstance is completely insane. And it is not something that,

00:33:05.720 there is no other word in the English language or any other language in existence that we

00:33:14.400 have those kinds of rules for any, there's, there's other words that are slurs. There are words that

00:33:21.580 are, that we would consider vulgarity and profanity, um, and all kinds of words that I don't say on this

00:33:27.640 show, uh, because we try not to use profanity and vulgarity on the show. Um, words that I don't think

00:33:34.300 you should use, words that you shouldn't use around kids and so on and all kinds of words like

00:33:37.660 this. Um, but there's no other word that we would say, well, under no circumstance at all,

00:33:44.240 can it even be uttered even in, in, in the context of quoting somebody.

00:33:49.860 And certainly there's no other word where we would say, well, judging on your skin pigment,

00:33:55.180 if it's this shade, you can't say it at all under any circumstance, but if it's a little bit of a

00:34:00.800 darker shade, then say it all the time and it's totally fine. So there's no context where it can

00:34:06.060 be said over here. There is no context where it can't be said over here. And we are going to decide

00:34:11.860 that based on how dark your skin is. Makes no sense. And I think we all are aware of that. 0.98

00:34:19.520 Um, this is a report from the daily wire. It says eighth graders had the lowest U S history scores on

00:34:26.300 record in 2022. And among the lowest civic scores, according to the department of education revealed

00:34:30.780 which they revealed this week, the education department on Wednesday released the first

00:34:34.500 federal history and civics testing data since before the COVID pandemic. The data shows that

00:34:40.320 the last few years have erased the progress made since the 1990s on eighth grade students,

00:34:44.720 knowledge of history and civics. Only about 13% of eighth graders met proficiency standards for U S

00:34:50.580 history last year. Um, 13%, 13% of eighth graders by these standards are proficient in history.

00:35:02.460 Proficient means students can explain major themes, periods, events, people, ideas, and turning points

00:35:07.540 in the nation history, nation's history. Only 1% of students who took the test were rated as advanced

00:35:13.120 in U S history. Only about one fifth of students were proficient or better in civics.

00:35:18.180 In addition, last year, more students also performed below basic levels in both U S history

00:35:23.320 and civics. The data shows four and 10 eighth graders scored below basic in history. All about

00:35:28.400 31% scored below basic in civics. Eighth graders got an average history score of 250 out of 500,

00:35:35.940 five points lower than 2018. They scored an average civic score of 150 out of 300, three points lower

00:35:42.260 than 2018. So everything is headed in exactly, um, the wrong direction. And that's why I always say

00:35:53.160 that we see these kind of dumb guy on the street, um, interviews that everybody does. Now you find

00:35:58.380 them all over YouTube where someone goes out, goes out to the boardwalk somewhere down on, on the street,

00:36:05.320 goes to a college campus and starts asking people basic questions, especially about U S history,

00:36:12.500 geography, civics, um, you know, things like, you know, uh, what, what, in what century was Abraham

00:36:23.140 Lincoln president? Just give me the century, that sort of thing. And we find in these videos that people,

00:36:28.800 uh, it's really easy to find people who know absolutely nothing. Apparently they, they have,

00:36:35.400 they have almost 0% knowledge about civics, history, any of these, uh, geography. And we want

00:36:41.600 to tell ourselves when we see those videos that it's kind of cherry picking. And yeah, I mean,

00:36:45.480 you could go out and you could interview a hundred people and maybe a talk to 95 who are basically

00:36:51.080 intelligent, pick out five who are stupid, string that together in a montage and you can present

00:36:56.240 things a certain way. Um, but I, I actually think tragically and, uh, in a quite terrifying way

00:37:04.460 that those videos offer a pretty accurate picture of American culture at this, at this point, you know,

00:37:13.320 there's a reason why it's so easy to do. It shouldn't be. We, our, our society is, we have on paper

00:37:24.440 anyway. This is by far the most educated, modern Western society, American culture. This is the

00:37:31.700 most educated society that's ever existed. But almost go, almost any 20 year old that you come

00:37:40.300 across, um, had at least 13 years of formal education. And then millions more went on for

00:37:50.080 advanced, what's supposed to be advanced higher education. Uh, it's quite unprecedented in history

00:37:57.760 to have a, to have a, a, a culture that is so educated on paper.

00:38:05.340 And that's why it should actually be very difficult to go out in public and find grown adults who know

00:38:12.600 nothing at all, but it's not, which tells us that the education system is an abysmal failure.

00:38:20.620 And it's been, it's been trending this way for a long time. We could talk about why it's a failure.

00:38:26.240 We've talked about that many times, but it is a failure. And that is actually, that's the first

00:38:32.980 problem with the education system, the woke, um, indoctrination, all the rest of it. It's a big

00:38:39.060 problem. It's a major problem. That's reason enough to not send your kid to public school.

00:38:44.780 But the first problem is that it's not actually succeeding in educating kids.

00:38:51.260 Something to think about before you send your kids into that system.

00:38:53.980 All right, before we get to the comment section, this is an important video. Uh,

00:38:58.060 another viral TikTok of someone, uh, giving us a demonstration of the plight of overweight

00:39:05.680 travelers, especially as we go into the summer, people are traveling, they're going

00:39:08.980 on vacation. Well, if you're overweight, um, it's a, it's a real struggle. And here it is.

00:39:14.700 Things plus size travelers hate part four struggling to find plus size,

00:39:19.980 friendly accommodation, the fat tax of having to pay more for everything,

00:39:24.040 having to do hours of research before travel, struggling to find plus size,

00:39:28.980 friendly rental cars, the lack of plus size, friendly seating at restaurants,

00:39:33.420 struggling to find cute plus size travel clothing, not knowing if the locals are rude to fat

00:39:38.740 people, having to share in Uber and being physically uncomfortable, inaccessible bathrooms

00:39:43.620 that aren't plus size, friendly, uncomfortable seating everywhere.

00:39:48.060 Hmm. Well, yeah, obviously that means if, if that's what you're, uh, encountering,

00:39:52.860 then that means that society, it's society's fault. It's everyone else's fault. And you're oppressed,

00:39:56.640 right? If you're going out and you're finding that you, you can't fit into cars,

00:40:03.140 that you need, you need special accommodations for automobiles because you cannot fit inside an

00:40:09.580 average automobile. You can't fit inside a bathroom stall. Uh, you can't, you can't sit

00:40:18.400 on most chairs. Well, if that's what you're finding, then, then obviously, uh, the problem

00:40:23.900 is not you, it's everybody else. And so we have to, yet again, if we have so many different victim

00:40:29.960 groups that are demanding that we restructure society, we restructure everything, tear everything

00:40:36.180 down and rebuild it with them specifically in mind. And this is a, yet another group change

00:40:43.400 everything so that they don't, we have to change everything so that they don't have to change 0.98

00:40:48.740 anything. That's a kind of victimhood one-on-one these days. Let's get to the comment section.

00:40:54.960 Ronnie says there's a lot to agree with here. Most of it, in fact, but saying that all that

00:41:08.620 could possibly be seen as porn, such as things as pure nudity and more should be taken away from

00:41:14.700 view. Doesn't seem realistic, realistic or even healthy. Well, we were talking yesterday about,

00:41:20.300 um, age restrictions. So to take it away from the view of children and, uh, that that's an

00:41:31.020 undertaking. It's an undertaking given the fact that this stuff is all over the internet and to,

00:41:35.760 to control and contain it. It's not an easy thing to do, but it can be done. So it's realistic in

00:41:41.000 that sense. Um, and I, and I get it. There are, there are always people who, uh, anytime we have this

00:41:47.140 conversation, they, they'll ask, well, what, how do you define pornography? How do we know what,

00:41:53.140 what, what porn is exactly? Well, you know, quoting the Supreme court justice years ago, it's, it's,

00:41:59.540 we know it when we see it. It's, it's actually not that confusing. It's only in an academic kind of

00:42:06.180 theoretical way that we could act as though the definition of porn is ambiguous. We all know what

00:42:16.280 it is. So can you, Ronnie, I would ask you, is there an example of, give me an example of something

00:42:22.360 that somebody might reasonably be described as pornography. And yet you would say is not.

00:42:31.100 So what exactly are we talking about? I guess we can't have this conversation until you start

00:42:34.540 giving me examples of things that, that you would say, or like kind of on the borderline or the gray

00:42:40.780 area. Um, so what are some examples of things that, that somebody might say, well, that's pornographic

00:42:47.140 and children shouldn't see it. And yet you would say, well, no, I think kids should be able to see

00:42:51.060 that. I think reasonable people can agree on this much more than, uh, we may, we may think. Uh,

00:42:59.500 Joshua says, if the road is for cars, the bike lane for bikes and the sidewalk for walking,

00:43:04.200 where is the Matt Walsh approved path for my wheelchair? And I, your words hurt Matt,

00:43:09.780 right in the disability. Uh, well the sidewalk, um, the sidewalk is where you can have wheelchairs. 0.52

00:43:15.840 And I actually, no, you're misunderstanding me. I never said the bike lane is for bikes. I'm saying

00:43:20.340 the bike lane is for cars. Okay. I'm saying the bike lane shouldn't exist. So let's get rid of the

00:43:24.500 bike lane. And you know what? We get rid of the bike lane. Then we could, uh, I'd be in favor of

00:43:28.740 splitting the difference. So get, get rid of the stupid bike lane. And then you can expand the road out

00:43:33.620 about, you know, into about half of what the bike lane was, expand the sidewalk out a little bit.

00:43:38.480 And then even more room for a wheelchairs and that counts as pedestrian, more room for cars,

00:43:45.960 more room for pedestrians, let the cyclists find somewhere else. It's not up. It's not up to me

00:43:52.180 to find their, it's not up to me to solve that problem for them. Uh, Michael says how quickly we

00:43:59.420 forget the repressed memories scam and how therapists quote unquote led kids to recall false

00:44:04.780 memories of child sexual abuse in order to prosecute people. These days, they lead kids 0.96

00:44:09.360 into falsely realizing they're the opposite sex kids who probably need counseling for depression 1.00

00:44:13.980 or who will, who will after, uh, who will after being butchered. Well, how quickly we forget so many

00:44:21.020 examples of these, um, of the, the psych psychological industry, you know, inventing mental illnesses,

00:44:33.940 giving people ideas, false ideas. Um, many examples of this, you know, there was a time when the multiple

00:44:44.960 personality disorder was all the rage and people were being diagnosed all over the place with having

00:44:51.120 multiple personalities. And then it kind of went away and nobody was being diagnosed with it anymore.

00:44:57.760 So there was a period when it's happening all the time. It was all the rage and then it stopped

00:45:02.700 happening and nobody's being diagnosed. And now, and now it's kind of, it's, uh, it's, it's ebbing up

00:45:06.440 again. Thanks to TikTok and a bunch of kids convincing themselves. They have multiple personalities

00:45:11.940 and most more than likely they could find a therapist. They can go to those. Oh yeah, that's

00:45:15.780 true. So lots of, uh, lots of fads and trends like this that the psychological industry is susceptible

00:45:22.560 to not just susceptible to, but they, they, they drive these trends. Greg says, why do you hate

00:45:28.000 amusement parks so much? Did you have a traumatic experience as a child or something? Did Mickey

00:45:31.980 mouse refuse to give you a hug? Uh, yes. Well, not Mickey mouse. It was not, I never went to Disney

00:45:38.540 world. Um, but I did have a traumatic experience. It was with a carnival ride. So maybe it's not

00:45:44.520 exactly fair to pin that. I don't know. Maybe I need to go to therapy and, uh, someone would,

00:45:49.360 would dig into this and find that maybe this is, uh, underpinning some of my anti theme park stance,

00:45:57.600 but I did have a traumatic experience with it, with a carnival ride as a child, which I think

00:46:02.660 everybody has had at least one as a child. We've all had at least one traumatic carnival ride

00:46:07.100 experience. And, uh, and again, it's not exactly fair to compare the two because at least at a theme

00:46:11.840 park, not a big theme park guy, as you know, but the rides are sturdy. They're stationary, like they're

00:46:18.240 built and they stay in one place and, uh, there we would hope well maintained carnival rides. You are

00:46:25.340 folded up and put in trucks and driven all around and they're unfolded and set up. It's amazing

00:46:33.760 actually that carnivals are still legal. You know, in this nanny state environment where plastic straws

00:46:39.860 are illegal, it's still somehow okay to have these traveling death traps that go all around the

00:46:46.900 country. So I was at a carnival, I was eight or nine years old and I got on this ride. I think it was,

00:46:50.560 it was called the, uh, kamikaze murder machine or whatever. And I got on it, it spins around and all

00:46:56.680 that. And it's designed to be a very unpleasant experience, but as a kid, for some reason you,

00:47:00.640 you find that exciting. So I got on this ride and I was tall enough to ride, but then I sat down and

00:47:05.160 the guy pushed us, one of these shoulder harness things and he pushed the harness down, but it didn't

00:47:09.900 go all the way down. It didn't click. And I tried to wave him down and I say, this harness is not

00:47:14.460 working. And he didn't hear me or he pretended not to. And he hit the button and the thing started

00:47:18.940 twirling around and the harness was going up and I'm clinging onto the harness about to fall out of

00:47:23.520 the ride. And I kept, I was yelling to the guy to turn the ride off and he just smiled and laughed

00:47:28.620 and kept it going. I think because he thought that I was just another kid afraid of the ride. And so

00:47:33.000 the carnies, they'll, they'll make it go faster because of that, cause they find it funny.

00:47:36.380 Or maybe he thought I was going to die and he didn't care. I don't know. But, uh, the ride

00:47:40.980 eventually ended and I survived. That was my traumatic experience on a carnival ride. It's kind of a,

00:47:46.740 but it's a bit of a coming of age experience that all kids have to have. We all need to have one

00:47:50.500 experience where we're almost killed by a carnival ride, but maybe that's what, uh, maybe you're onto

00:47:55.060 something. Maybe that's what this is all about. When leftists tell you that America is systemically

00:47:59.320 racist, they're lying. All evidence points to the contrary. And, uh, every attempt to fix this

00:48:04.260 non-existent problem in the name of equity is making the country and the situation worse. Heather

00:48:08.720 McDonald is shutting down that malignant ideology of anti-racism in her brand new book,

00:48:13.260 When Race Trumps Merit, how pursuit of equity sacrifices excellence, destroys beauty and

00:48:17.920 threatens lives. McDonald is unafraid to break taboos about academic achievement and crime.

00:48:22.860 She provides the data and the life stories that show the damage being done to this country in real

00:48:27.140 time, all in the name of equity. The book is a must read for anyone who's concerned about the

00:48:31.180 present state of the country and also worried for our future. When Race Trumps Merit is available 0.97

00:48:35.340 on Amazon or wherever books are sold, go get it now. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:48:43.260 Today for our daily cancellation, we have a viral video from somebody on TikTok, which is being

00:48:47.960 shared primarily by people on the right who primarily find this person to be stupid and her

00:48:52.480 opinions worthless. And that's generally the way that it works with these TikTok videos, of course.

00:48:56.920 And very often the people are stupid and their opinions are effectively worthless. But in this case,

00:49:01.000 I think that there's, um, a little bit more to be said about it. So let's first watch the clip.

00:49:05.180 All I can ever think about is the fact that this is not the way that life is supposed to be.

00:49:10.340 The whole working your life away just to have a little bit of money, a little bit of free time

00:49:15.520 to do things that you actually enjoy. It's such a waste of life. And the older generation will be

00:49:21.300 the first to call my generation lazy for saying things like that, not realizing that they're just

00:49:25.920 a b**** to capitalism and they're f***ing brainwashed. I hate my stupid, racist, xenophobic

00:49:31.900 f***ing ancestors who set up this f***ing system that sucks for everyone, except for like the one 0.62

00:49:38.280 percent. This stupid capitalist society has made it to where no one can do things for themselves

00:49:45.880 anymore because we've been brought up to depend on everything. F***ing grocery stores, restaurants on

00:49:51.560 every corner, a f***ing convenience store on every f***ing corner because we can't do anything for 0.98

00:49:55.820 ourselves and we have no community. All we rely on is people who are getting paid f***ed and overworked

00:50:01.320 their whole lives to get things that we need. That's not community. It's all nothing but a

00:50:06.160 capitalist hellscape that sucks the life out of everyone. Okay, well, she gets a few things wrong

00:50:13.820 here, just a few, starting most importantly with the very common misconception that happiness means

00:50:19.680 having a lot of free time to do what you want, as she says. Now, if that was true, then virtually no

00:50:27.000 one who ever lived on earth up until the industrial age at least was happy because free time, as she

00:50:33.700 conceives it, is an extremely modern phenomenon. I doubt that our ancestors even had a word for it

00:50:39.960 because it didn't exist. People were not working nine to five jobs. They were not busy in the way

00:50:47.020 that we think of busyness because we think of busyness as something that's loud and fast.

00:50:53.380 Business, you know, it's busyness is work assigned to you by your job. It's text messages coming in and

00:50:59.900 phone calls and driving around to different places. You know, when we talk about being busy, that's what

00:51:04.060 we mean. And that kind of busy didn't exist for most people who've ever lived on the planet, but they

00:51:10.680 did have work. They had to work to survive. Their lives were built on and around work. There would not

00:51:17.060 have been a day that went by without work. We think of free time as time without any kind of work at all.

00:51:23.380 Time dedicated to total and complete leisure. That's free time to us. Free time is sitting on the couch

00:51:29.500 for hours, ordering food on DoorDash, relaxing in a very sedentary position. Some people will spend days

00:51:36.920 at a time like this. If you don't have any kids, then they'll say your whole weekend could be like

00:51:41.840 that. But historically, unless you were like a pharaoh or a Roman emperor or something, that kind of leisure,

00:51:48.800 that kind of free time was not on the menu. Indeed, this kind of free time is an invention

00:51:53.760 of our modern Western capitalist system. It's what has made it possible for people to spend hours and

00:52:01.200 days at a time doing nothing in a state of complete leisure, avoiding nearly all forms of work, even the

00:52:06.700 most menial kinds. She wants free time, but she hates the thing that gives her free time. And even 1.00

00:52:13.700 though she already certainly has lots of free time, she's not happy, which tells us that having free

00:52:20.500 time, that is the avoidance of work, is not in and of itself a recipe for happiness. If anything,

00:52:26.820 being, you know, having too much free time and avoiding work too much, I think our modern experience

00:52:32.200 would testify is a recipe for unhappiness. She's also wrong, of course, in her hatred of our ancestors.

00:52:37.840 To hate your own ancestors, it's to be a branch that curses the roots of the tree that you're

00:52:43.480 attached to. You would not have your existence at all without your ancestors. You would have neither

00:52:49.020 the positives nor the negatives. You would have nothing and be nothing. And as it happens, in the

00:52:54.060 case of this girl and all the rest of us, we can thank our ancestors for many more positives than

00:52:59.640 negatives. As we already established, all the things that she has and supposedly likes and wants more 0.90

00:53:05.540 of, free time, leisure, etc., she only has because of the work, innovation, and sacrifice of the

00:53:11.540 ancestors whose graves she now spits on. And most of the things that she doesn't want and complains

00:53:18.380 about, work, hardship, she would have that no matter what choices her ancestors made, given that these

00:53:24.800 are fundamental realities of human existence. You know, there is no economic system that can get you

00:53:32.800 off the hook on those things. But she's not wrong about everything. She makes the point, and it's a

00:53:40.020 profound one, that many people in modern society are effectively helpless. They cannot do anything

00:53:45.760 for themselves. They have no skills. They have no capacity to be self-sufficient. And even those who

00:53:50.700 are most skilled and most self-sufficient still rely heavily on giant institutions and corporations

00:53:55.620 to provide them with so many things. And while this is all happening, we've also become more

00:54:00.000 isolated, less community-focused. We don't even, many of us know our neighbors who live next door.

00:54:05.380 The social experience has migrated online into our phones behind the screen, where we can connect

00:54:11.040 with people, but that connection is always limited by the technology that facilitates it, and nothing

00:54:16.080 feels exactly real. She seems to have noticed all of this, and it's good that she's noticed it.

00:54:21.880 But the next step for anyone who notices this problem is to do something about it.

00:54:27.520 And doing something about it doesn't mean going on social media to rant about the evils of

00:54:34.140 capitalism. It means changing this dynamic in your own life. Here's the thing. Modern society

00:54:42.660 does not make it impossible to develop skills. It doesn't make it impossible to find community.

00:54:49.480 It doesn't make it impossible to find meaning and purpose in life. Instead, what it does is that

00:54:54.240 it makes it possible to not do those things, which is really what she's complaining about.

00:55:02.100 Modern society gives us the option of doing next to nothing, developing no skills, remaining

00:55:08.980 effectively isolated, coasting by, and yet still surviving. This was never an option historically,

00:55:14.860 because historically, if you had no skills, you would simply die. If you didn't find a community

00:55:20.360 in a support system, you'd probably just die. Life required certain things that it no longer

00:55:26.180 requires. The option to coast, to live a low-effort life has been opened to us. It is a door that we

00:55:34.300 can walk through, and many people do. I mean, think about this for a moment. We obviously don't need to

00:55:40.820 know how to kill, catch, or grow our own food. And that's work that most people on earth have had to do

00:55:47.360 through history. But most of us escape that burden completely. And it's been that way basically since

00:55:52.640 the industrial age kicked into full gear. But these days, we don't even need to know how to cook or

00:55:58.000 prepare our food. We can live without ever growing, killing, catching, or cooking our own food. And many

00:56:06.040 people do live this way. So you could live alone and survive for decades and decades to a ripe old age

00:56:12.600 without having the slightest clue how to do anything with the food that you have but chew it and swallow

00:56:20.660 it. That is the degree of removal, the depths of laziness that we can choose. But we don't have to.

00:56:30.740 There are other ways to live. But you have to choose those ways. And you have to essentially make your life

00:56:39.100 more difficult on purpose. So if you want to have a more direct relationship with the food that you

00:56:45.120 eat, and you decide, you know what, I'm going to learn how to cook. I'm going to learn how to cook

00:56:49.580 from scratch. I'm going to have a garden. I'm going to grow my own vegetables and all that. You can do

00:56:54.920 all that. It's a great thing to do. But it's more difficult. And you don't need to. So anyone who's

00:57:01.420 ever had a garden and gone through this and the hassle of it, you can have moments where you think,

00:57:06.120 why am I doing this? I could just go to Kroger down the street and get all this stuff.

00:57:11.540 But then if you do that and you live that way, then you end up like this girl talking about how,

00:57:15.860 well, it's like, no, I don't know how to do anything. And everything's being handed to me

00:57:18.960 and it feels like there's no point. So yeah, you can go the other way, but you are making your,

00:57:24.700 you are creating work for yourself and you're creating hardship. And you have to be willing to do

00:57:32.640 that. And you have to be, have to be willing to live intentionally while having the discipline

00:57:38.120 to stay on that path, even as easier ones, or at least ones with less resistance are available to

00:57:45.720 you. You can develop skills. You can learn to care for yourself to a great extent. You can even form

00:57:53.460 families and communities. All of this is possible. Modern society offers a certain way to live,

00:57:59.160 a way that's easy, but empty. And we can take it up on that offer or not. You don't have to be

00:58:05.940 miserable or alone or helpless. It's not a requirement. It's an item on the menu. It may

00:58:12.860 be the most popular item. It may be the one that the restaurant is always pushing on us,

00:58:17.280 but it's not the only one. The others just take discipline and effort, which is a price that many

00:58:24.740 people, including this girl at this point, don't want to pay. And that is why she is still ultimately,

00:58:31.920 unfortunately, today canceled. And that'll do it for this portion of shows. We move over to

00:58:36.380 members block. You can become a member today by using code Walsh at checkout for two months free

00:58:39.840 on all annual plans. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

00:58:43.060 Godspeed.

00:58:48.540 Godspeed.

00:58:50.540 Godspeed.

00:58:54.080 Good night.

00:58:54.740 Godspeed.

00:58:56.540 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - May 04, 2023

Ep. 1158 - The Left Anoints The New George Floyd

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