The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1163 - The Left Turns Mother's Day Into Anti-Father Campaign

00:00:00.000 Today, the Matt Wall Show, the left predictably celebrated Mother's Day by insisting that men

00:00:04.240 can also be mothers, which is to say that they celebrated Mother's Day by erasing the existence

00:00:08.280 of mothers. Meanwhile, CNN published an article extolling the advantages, advantages, they say,

00:00:13.040 of single motherhood. Also, thousands of people have lined up to contribute over a million dollars

00:00:18.320 to Daniel Penny, the good Samaritan who restrained Jordan Neely on the New York subway.

00:00:22.640 But Neely's family has come out now placing the blame on the subway commuters who physically

00:00:27.280 restrained Neely rather than, quote, offering to help him. Joe Biden says that white supremacy is

00:00:32.420 the greatest threat we face in America. In our Daily Cancellation, another tale of a hostile work

00:00:36.960 environment, this time at the Kelly Clarkson talk show. What do we make of all these hostile work

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00:02:01.500 Yesterday was, of course, Mother's Day, a holiday that was first celebrated in 1907

00:02:05.800 and declared a national holiday seven years later. The concept was pretty simple at the beginning.

00:02:11.320 Mothers play a very important role in human society. In fact, we can't have a society without 0.99

00:02:16.460 mothers. And it makes sense then to set aside a day celebrating and recognizing this reality,

00:02:21.860 even if it did become very quickly an overly commercialized hallmark kind of holiday.

00:02:26.940 That was always inevitable. And in spite of it, there was value to the tradition.

00:02:32.460 But these days, even our commercialized hallmark holidays, which are basically all of them at this

00:02:37.580 point, can't be allowed to remain simple and straightforward. Everything must be made

00:02:42.360 complicated. Everything gets sucked up into the funnel cloud of leftism and tossed back out five miles

00:02:48.680 away shattered and broken. Or perhaps it'd be better to make a Wizard of Oz reference here and

00:02:54.260 say that the leftism tornado picks everything up and drops it off in the land of Oz, where everything

00:03:00.040 is bizarre and uncanny and makes no sense at all. In the case of Mother's Day, as expected, many of the

00:03:06.520 attempts to complicate and confuse the matter came from the LGBT camp. Now, I probably only need to give 0.72

00:03:12.240 one representative example to make the point. So here's a trans activist on TikTok trying to make 0.77

00:03:17.840 the concept of Mother's Day seem somehow confusing and also quite upsetting to him. Listen.

00:03:24.820 Okay, so Mother's Day is tomorrow. And this is the second day that's rolled around. There's two

00:03:30.800 different days in the year that I question. There's Mother's Day and there's Father's Day.

00:03:34.000 As a trans person, as a trans woman, which one do I celebrate? Father's Day rolled around. I don't feel

00:03:43.180 like a father. Mother's Day is tomorrow. I feel like a mom, but who celebrates me? It's not a situation

00:03:53.520 of pity me or anything. I just genuinely want to know, is there other people out there that you don't

00:03:59.220 know which one you fall under? Are you a mom? Are you a dad? Where's Parents' Day? Why can't we just

00:04:07.160 have a Parents' Day? Like you're a parent, that's worth celebrating. Why does it have to be one or the

00:04:13.040 other? It actually bothers me a lot. I didn't think about that until today. I don't know.

00:04:22.220 Who celebrates me? That should be engraved on the tombstone of the trans movement when this is 1.00

00:04:30.460 all said. Who celebrates me? What about me? Well, the answer is everybody celebrates you all the

00:04:37.160 time, relentlessly. You have entire months set aside to celebrate you. So can you leave Mother's

00:04:43.920 Day alone? Can that just be its own thing? Of course not. No effort is being made here at all

00:04:50.980 either, by the way. Of course, even if he took the drugs and his voice changed and he got the

00:04:54.880 surgeries and all the rest of it, he would still be a man. But he represents the increasingly common

00:04:59.700 trend where there is just no effort, no attempt at all to actually transform into a woman. He's

00:05:06.960 just a dude who grew his hair out and dyed it green. But even if he had his hair up in a hat or

00:05:13.100 something so you couldn't see it, he would look and sound exactly like a middle-aged dad that you might

00:05:18.300 see in the stands at a Little League baseball game or something. And in some ways, the people

00:05:22.980 who transition just by throwing on a wig or dyeing their hair and doing nothing else are tacitly

00:05:28.380 admitting that they are stuck with the sex they were born with. It's like, what's the point of doing 0.87

00:05:32.960 all that other stuff? It's not going to change anything. They're also, I imagine, leaving themselves

00:05:37.120 an escape hatch for when they do change their minds. But even so, he's not sure which day between

00:05:42.280 Mother's Day and Father's Day he should celebrate. Well, here, let me help you out, sir.

00:05:45.540 Which one do you celebrate? Well, you celebrate Father's Day, assuming you have kids. God forbid.

00:05:51.620 Your kids have a mom and a dad. They don't have two moms. You say you feel like a mom,

00:05:57.780 but the only feelings you've ever had in your life are your own feelings. You can't say you feel like

00:06:03.420 a mom because you have no idea how moms feel since you're not one. You can only feel like yourself.

00:06:09.760 So whatever feelings you're having, those are the feelings

00:06:14.000 that you have. You can only have the feelings that you yourself

00:06:18.140 have, okay? You have only felt like you. You've never felt like

00:06:21.940 anybody else. Which means that your feelings cannot prove

00:06:25.720 that you're something other than what you physically actually are. It's more that

00:06:29.940 your physical body proves that your feelings are a man's feelings 0.98

00:06:33.820 because you're a man having those feelings. How do I know that you have a man's feelings?

00:06:39.400 Well, because you're a man and this is what you're feeling. The feelings that incline you

00:06:44.020 towards claiming that you're a woman and the feelings that would drive you to the point

00:06:48.200 where you would make your hair look like that, those may not be normal feelings.

00:06:52.860 They certainly aren't feelings that I can relate to, but they are your feelings.

00:06:57.180 And you are a man, so they are the feelings of a man.

00:07:00.080 I don't know how else I can, I don't know what else I need to say to make this clear.

00:07:04.660 The feelings of a man, the feelings

00:07:06.260 not of all men, thankfully, but yours.

00:07:08.840 And you are a man.

00:07:10.260 It wasn't just gender confused men, though, trying to

00:07:12.600 co-opt the holiday, however.

00:07:14.620 The media also took the opportunity to heap

00:07:16.480 special praise on their

00:07:18.540 second favorite kind of mother.

00:07:20.680 Their most favorite are

00:07:22.040 people like that, dads who pretend

00:07:24.480 to be mothers. That's their favorite kind of mom.

00:07:27.060 In other words, their favorite kind of mom is

00:07:28.420 someone who's not a mom.

00:07:30.080 But coming in at a close second are

00:07:32.740 single moms of either sex.

00:07:35.840 To commemorate today, CNN published an article which, according to their caption on Twitter,

00:07:39.760 purports to show that, quote,

00:07:41.380 advantages of being raised by a single mother

00:07:43.740 outweigh expectations

00:07:45.220 and outlast childhood embarrassment.

00:07:49.300 Advantages.

00:07:50.740 This is not simply an argument

00:07:52.060 that single mothers can make the most of their situation 0.95

00:07:54.860 and mitigate the harm

00:07:56.480 that broken homes do to children,

00:07:58.400 ensuring that they have a good chance

00:08:00.360 of living happy and successful lives.

00:08:02.940 If that was the argument,

00:08:04.660 who could disagree?

00:08:06.060 Nobody doubts that children can live good lives

00:08:08.640 in spite of being raised by single moms.

00:08:11.300 Sure they can.

00:08:13.240 But that's not the argument

00:08:14.340 the author here makes.

00:08:16.200 The argument is, again,

00:08:17.240 that single motherhood

00:08:18.120 is in some sense ideal.

00:08:20.440 There are advantages to it.

00:08:22.360 Let's go through some of this article.

00:08:25.800 Headline.

00:08:27.000 Let us now praise single moms.

00:08:30.100 As if we don't do that all the time already.

00:08:32.960 Because, like I said,

00:08:33.900 anytime a politician brings up moms, 1.00

00:08:37.040 as a politician going through the constituents

00:08:39.420 and all that,

00:08:42.280 the first kind of mom that will be mentioned,

00:08:45.360 and usually the only kind,

00:08:46.480 will be,

00:08:46.800 and single mothers 0.98

00:08:47.740 helping to make America great.

00:08:51.980 So it says, quote,

00:08:53.320 roughly 24 million

00:08:54.360 or one third of all American children

00:08:55.900 under age 18

00:08:56.700 are living with an unmarried parent,

00:08:58.320 according to a 2018 Pew Research Center analysis

00:09:01.520 of U.S. Census Bureau data.

00:09:04.600 And 81% of those single parent homes

00:09:06.660 are headed by a mom.

00:09:08.380 This has been a growing trend

00:09:09.640 since the late 1960s.

00:09:11.120 The number of kids being raised

00:09:12.400 by mostly single moms 0.96

00:09:13.900 has more than doubled

00:09:15.360 between 1968 and 2017.

00:09:18.960 So far,

00:09:20.140 this is all true.

00:09:21.600 And it's catastrophic.

00:09:23.300 We've been running this social experiment

00:09:25.580 for decades

00:09:26.360 to see if fathers are expendable

00:09:28.200 for children individually

00:09:29.780 and society generally.

00:09:31.640 And we've gotten an answer

00:09:33.220 to that question.

00:09:33.960 The answer is the one

00:09:35.200 that the moderately perceptive people

00:09:37.380 decades ago

00:09:38.300 already knew and warned about.

00:09:41.160 But few listened.

00:09:42.280 The answer is no.

00:09:45.000 Every child has a mother and a father,

00:09:47.740 which means that they need

00:09:49.580 a mother and a father.

00:09:52.400 They may get by

00:09:53.660 with only one parent,

00:09:54.800 just as plenty of people

00:09:55.620 who have been forced

00:09:56.820 to get by with only one leg.

00:09:59.160 But it's not ideal.

00:10:01.320 It's not the shortest path

00:10:03.060 to fulfillment and happiness.

00:10:05.440 The author seems to admit

00:10:06.740 this fact early on,

00:10:07.820 detailing his own trials

00:10:08.980 and tribulations

00:10:09.560 growing up in a single mom household.

00:10:10.860 So then he tells us this,

00:10:12.540 quote,

00:10:13.660 there's been a lot of research

00:10:14.680 over the decades

00:10:15.360 that has shown children

00:10:16.680 of single parent households

00:10:18.280 report more family distress

00:10:19.740 and conflict

00:10:20.640 and live at a lower

00:10:21.720 socioeconomic status

00:10:22.720 compared to those growing up

00:10:23.740 in two parent households.

00:10:25.180 Two parent families

00:10:25.800 usually have more income

00:10:26.980 and are generally able

00:10:28.120 to provide more emotional resources

00:10:29.940 to children.

00:10:30.920 That's also a reflection

00:10:31.800 of how little the United States

00:10:33.040 in general does

00:10:33.760 to support working mothers

00:10:34.700 with parental paid leave

00:10:36.100 and access to more health services

00:10:38.080 and quality education.

00:10:39.060 Well, the first part of that

00:10:41.060 is mostly right.

00:10:42.160 There's a ton of research

00:10:43.220 measuring the effect

00:10:44.100 of divorce

00:10:45.040 or unmarried parenthood

00:10:46.060 on kids

00:10:46.560 and the research

00:10:47.840 almost always turns up

00:10:49.460 the same results.

00:10:51.900 Kids without fathers 0.72

00:10:52.720 in the home

00:10:53.220 are worse off

00:10:54.440 in nearly every way.

00:10:56.980 They're far more likely

00:10:57.740 to be poor,

00:10:58.660 far more likely

00:10:59.260 to drop out of school,

00:11:00.220 more likely to do drugs,

00:11:01.460 to commit crime,

00:11:02.440 to go to prison, 1.00

00:11:03.040 to commit suicide, 0.99

00:11:04.600 to end up homeless, 0.95

00:11:06.140 and on and on.

00:11:07.200 The social experiment

00:11:09.600 has given us our answer

00:11:11.120 time and time and time again.

00:11:13.780 The answer is that

00:11:14.860 kids who are conceived

00:11:15.880 by one mom and one dad,

00:11:18.120 which is all kids

00:11:19.440 who have ever lived in history

00:11:20.760 or will ever live,

00:11:23.240 need a mom and a dad. 0.99

00:11:24.980 It's no different than saying

00:11:25.960 that kids need shelter

00:11:27.140 and clean water.

00:11:29.880 Yes, some can survive without it.

00:11:32.300 Many will not.

00:11:34.160 But many will.

00:11:35.540 That doesn't change the need.

00:11:38.900 You can deprive someone

00:11:40.640 of what they need

00:11:41.760 and they may press on

00:11:43.460 and thrive in spite

00:11:44.320 of that deprivation,

00:11:45.460 but the need is still there.

00:11:48.440 This, again,

00:11:49.140 is not the argument

00:11:49.660 that the author is making,

00:11:50.960 though.

00:11:51.100 Continuing,

00:11:52.060 a 2017 study, however,

00:11:53.440 looked at the long-term effects

00:11:55.080 of single parenthood

00:11:56.260 on kids

00:11:56.780 and found that it had

00:11:57.440 nearly no impact

00:11:58.680 on their general

00:11:59.760 life satisfaction.

00:12:01.380 The authors found

00:12:02.500 no evidence

00:12:03.220 supporting the widely held

00:12:04.380 notion from popular science

00:12:05.700 that both boys

00:12:06.700 are more affected

00:12:07.380 than girls 0.63

00:12:07.820 by the absence

00:12:08.400 of their fathers.

00:12:09.600 What mattered most

00:12:10.620 in terms of thriving,

00:12:11.740 they concluded,

00:12:12.640 was the quality

00:12:13.300 and strength

00:12:13.820 of the relationship

00:12:14.500 between children

00:12:15.240 and parents.

00:12:16.240 A separate 10-year study

00:12:17.760 on single parenting

00:12:18.520 that collected data

00:12:19.880 from 40,000 households

00:12:21.080 in the UK

00:12:21.520 came to a similar conclusion

00:12:22.780 last year.

00:12:23.300 There is no evidence

00:12:24.780 of a negative impact

00:12:26.060 of living in a single-parent

00:12:27.180 household on children's

00:12:28.060 well-being

00:12:28.480 with regard to

00:12:29.440 self-reported

00:12:30.280 life satisfaction,

00:12:31.260 quality of peer relationships,

00:12:32.560 or positivity

00:12:33.460 about family life,

00:12:34.400 the report states.

00:12:35.720 Children who are living 1.00

00:12:36.360 or have lived

00:12:37.080 in a single-parent

00:12:37.740 families score

00:12:38.860 as highly or higher

00:12:39.800 against each measure

00:12:40.880 of well-being

00:12:41.560 than those who have

00:12:42.620 always lived

00:12:43.220 in two-parent families.

00:12:46.100 Ah, okay.

00:12:46.860 So,

00:12:47.720 every objectively

00:12:49.040 measurable indicator,

00:12:51.340 things like crime rates,

00:12:52.520 dropout rates,

00:12:53.940 grades in schools,

00:12:55.180 you know,

00:12:55.500 prison,

00:12:56.360 the number of people

00:12:56.940 in prison,

00:12:57.780 suicides,

00:12:58.720 homelessness,

00:12:59.140 like,

00:12:59.560 we can objectively

00:13:00.600 measure all of that

00:13:01.860 without,

00:13:03.060 and it doesn't involve

00:13:03.740 a survey,

00:13:04.680 okay,

00:13:04.780 we don't have to

00:13:05.140 send a survey out

00:13:06.040 and ask,

00:13:06.580 are you homeless?

00:13:07.180 Are you in prison?

00:13:08.160 We can count that.

00:13:10.420 So,

00:13:10.700 by all of those

00:13:11.660 measures,

00:13:13.060 we clearly see

00:13:14.640 that fathers

00:13:15.320 are indispensable

00:13:16.420 and kids who grow up

00:13:17.520 without them

00:13:18.280 generally fare worse.

00:13:21.180 But this is all

00:13:22.120 a moot point somehow

00:13:23.200 because if you ask

00:13:24.900 people about

00:13:25.800 their general,

00:13:26.620 quote,

00:13:26.920 life satisfaction,

00:13:28.700 most people,

00:13:29.920 regardless of their

00:13:30.580 upbringing,

00:13:31.840 will say that

00:13:32.400 they are satisfied.

00:13:34.220 Well,

00:13:34.600 what is that supposed

00:13:35.260 to prove?

00:13:37.360 All it proves

00:13:38.020 is what people

00:13:38.720 are likely to say

00:13:39.580 when you ask them

00:13:40.700 about their satisfaction.

00:13:42.080 The other thing

00:13:42.420 is that people,

00:13:43.980 you,

00:13:44.440 just like the feelings

00:13:46.000 of a person,

00:13:47.120 and when someone says,

00:13:47.820 I feel like a woman,

00:13:48.620 well,

00:13:48.800 you've only ever had

00:13:49.500 your own feelings,

00:13:50.200 you don't have anything

00:13:50.520 to compare it to.

00:13:51.140 So,

00:13:52.920 you've only ever

00:13:53.540 lived your life.

00:13:54.760 You can't really

00:13:55.260 compare it

00:13:56.060 to some other

00:13:57.260 hypothetical life

00:13:58.220 you could have lived

00:13:59.120 and then say,

00:14:00.680 which one

00:14:01.160 are you more

00:14:01.900 satisfied with?

00:14:04.020 So,

00:14:04.560 all we learn

00:14:05.060 from these

00:14:05.500 satisfaction surveys

00:14:07.280 is that

00:14:08.140 Americans are

00:14:09.660 very likely

00:14:10.360 to say

00:14:10.640 that they're

00:14:10.880 satisfied

00:14:11.220 with the way

00:14:11.620 they're living,

00:14:12.800 which you could

00:14:14.540 interpret that

00:14:15.080 as complacency.

00:14:16.380 You know,

00:14:16.540 people are,

00:14:17.380 we're a complacent

00:14:18.380 culture,

00:14:18.800 or it's

00:14:22.620 just an

00:14:23.120 indication

00:14:23.600 that people,

00:14:24.460 you know,

00:14:24.680 on the positive

00:14:25.400 end of it,

00:14:25.860 people try to be

00:14:26.800 positive and optimistic

00:14:27.820 and, you know,

00:14:28.620 that's good.

00:14:31.320 Which is why

00:14:31.960 I'm willing to bet

00:14:32.620 that if you ask,

00:14:33.660 let's say,

00:14:34.140 child abuse survivors

00:14:35.240 about their life

00:14:36.180 satisfaction,

00:14:37.800 you know,

00:14:37.960 you go to an adult

00:14:38.680 who was abused

00:14:39.240 as a child

00:14:40.000 25 years ago,

00:14:42.300 many of them

00:14:43.540 will say that

00:14:44.020 they're satisfied

00:14:44.540 with their lives.

00:14:46.200 Does that prove

00:14:47.080 that child abuse

00:14:47.820 is the best way

00:14:48.820 to achieve life

00:14:49.620 satisfaction

00:14:50.160 or that it doesn't

00:14:50.980 matter whether

00:14:51.920 a child is abused

00:14:52.600 or not?

00:14:54.360 I recently watched

00:14:55.820 a pretty remarkable

00:14:56.620 video about a person

00:14:57.760 who had been

00:14:58.700 horrifically burned

00:14:59.640 over a third

00:15:00.200 of his body

00:15:00.740 and yet still

00:15:02.460 seems to be

00:15:03.220 happy and well

00:15:03.960 adjusted.

00:15:04.380 We see these

00:15:04.680 kind of stories

00:15:05.160 all the time

00:15:05.560 about people

00:15:05.880 that suffered

00:15:06.660 immensely

00:15:07.400 and still have

00:15:08.800 managed to keep

00:15:09.460 a positive outlook

00:15:10.240 on life,

00:15:10.800 which is great

00:15:11.380 and admirable.

00:15:12.980 Does that mean

00:15:15.180 that the best way

00:15:16.220 to make someone

00:15:16.780 happy is to

00:15:17.380 throw them 0.99

00:15:17.780 into a fire?

00:15:19.440 No,

00:15:20.100 obviously not.

00:15:21.960 The question

00:15:22.900 is what things

00:15:23.900 are likely

00:15:24.500 to directly

00:15:25.380 lead someone

00:15:26.520 to happiness

00:15:27.220 and what things

00:15:28.920 can a person

00:15:29.500 be happy

00:15:30.200 in spite of?

00:15:31.820 So it's a

00:15:32.360 because of,

00:15:33.460 in spite of

00:15:34.260 situation.

00:15:36.720 The answer

00:15:37.440 to that latter

00:15:37.960 question is

00:15:38.640 almost anything.

00:15:39.940 People can be

00:15:40.540 happy in spite

00:15:41.500 of almost anything.

00:15:42.980 But almost

00:15:45.280 anything is

00:15:45.920 certainly not

00:15:46.280 the answer

00:15:46.600 to the first

00:15:47.160 question.

00:15:48.620 What things

00:15:49.100 are most likely

00:15:50.480 to cause

00:15:51.140 happiness

00:15:51.500 or lead you

00:15:52.160 directly to

00:15:52.680 happiness?

00:15:53.280 The answer

00:15:53.760 to that

00:15:54.060 is not

00:15:54.660 almost anything.

00:15:57.600 Now,

00:15:58.060 you may be

00:15:58.340 thinking there

00:15:58.700 must be more

00:15:59.220 to this article,

00:15:59.940 there must be

00:16:00.340 more to the

00:16:00.980 argument the

00:16:01.520 article is

00:16:01.920 supposed to

00:16:02.300 present,

00:16:02.620 but there

00:16:02.840 isn't.

00:16:03.760 The author

00:16:04.180 leaps from

00:16:04.780 these statements

00:16:07.200 to the conclusion

00:16:08.060 that there are

00:16:09.400 actual advantages

00:16:10.660 to being raised

00:16:11.620 by a single mom

00:16:12.380 and we should

00:16:12.800 especially celebrate

00:16:14.400 single moms 0.86

00:16:15.540 because of it.

00:16:16.100 He ends

00:16:16.280 with this

00:16:16.600 note,

00:16:16.920 quote,

00:16:17.560 let us now

00:16:18.100 praise single

00:16:18.880 mothers,

00:16:19.380 all of them,

00:16:20.120 the weird ones,

00:16:20.920 the struggling

00:16:21.360 ones,

00:16:22.180 the driven

00:16:22.640 ones who

00:16:23.120 choose to

00:16:23.560 parent alone,

00:16:24.900 the widowed 0.99

00:16:25.480 who didn't,

00:16:26.920 the brave

00:16:27.320 ones who

00:16:27.660 divorced for

00:16:28.200 their well-being

00:16:28.740 of their kids

00:16:29.480 and or

00:16:30.100 themselves.

00:16:31.100 They're all

00:16:31.640 raising about

00:16:32.160 19 million

00:16:32.860 children right

00:16:33.480 now and they

00:16:34.560 need all the

00:16:35.220 support that

00:16:35.740 they can get.

00:16:37.780 Well,

00:16:38.180 the fact that

00:16:38.540 they need all

00:16:39.060 this support,

00:16:40.320 you know,

00:16:40.440 all the support

00:16:41.040 they can get

00:16:41.480 is actually

00:16:41.780 pretty good

00:16:42.220 evidence that

00:16:43.200 single mom

00:16:43.660 households are

00:16:44.260 far less than

00:16:45.020 ideal.

00:16:46.320 I can tell you

00:16:46.760 that in my

00:16:47.260 house,

00:16:48.020 two parent

00:16:48.360 households,

00:16:48.920 six children,

00:16:49.820 we need very

00:16:51.020 little help from

00:16:51.680 the outside world.

00:16:52.760 Okay,

00:16:53.020 we don't need all

00:16:53.860 the help we can

00:16:54.340 get.

00:16:56.020 All we really

00:16:56.880 need is for the

00:16:57.500 outside world,

00:16:58.220 the culture,

00:16:58.780 to stop trying to

00:16:59.500 actively sabotage

00:17:00.680 us.

00:17:01.420 That's all I'm

00:17:01.940 asking for.

00:17:03.020 Like,

00:17:03.240 leave us alone 0.96

00:17:04.000 and let us

00:17:04.640 parent our own

00:17:05.200 kids.

00:17:07.900 Single moms need 1.00

00:17:09.220 much more

00:17:09.680 support because

00:17:10.260 they aren't

00:17:10.740 getting it from

00:17:11.540 the fathers of

00:17:13.120 their children,

00:17:13.980 which is where

00:17:15.020 the support is

00:17:15.540 supposed to come

00:17:16.220 from.

00:17:16.440 Which isn't to

00:17:17.120 say,

00:17:17.620 by the way,

00:17:18.380 that single moms 1.00

00:17:19.160 are all,

00:17:19.840 you know,

00:17:20.040 the victims of

00:17:20.920 deadbeats who

00:17:21.520 ran out on

00:17:22.100 them.

00:17:22.940 Far from it.

00:17:23.700 In fact,

00:17:24.000 one of the

00:17:24.320 reasons why we

00:17:25.660 should not be

00:17:26.340 throwing parades

00:17:27.020 for single moms

00:17:27.740 is that many of

00:17:28.940 them choose to

00:17:30.540 be this way.

00:17:31.360 They choose to

00:17:32.340 be single moms.

00:17:33.460 The majority of

00:17:34.340 divorces are

00:17:34.900 initiated by

00:17:35.520 women and the 1.00

00:17:37.200 majority of

00:17:37.620 divorces cite

00:17:38.260 things like,

00:17:39.220 money and

00:17:40.400 irreconcilable

00:17:41.320 differences,

00:17:41.860 quote unquote,

00:17:42.240 as the reason

00:17:42.780 for the split.

00:17:43.480 So these are

00:17:44.320 not all or

00:17:45.020 even mostly

00:17:45.700 women who 0.99

00:17:46.180 had to flee

00:17:46.620 from horribly

00:17:47.180 abusive men.

00:17:47.940 In many cases,

00:17:48.940 these are women 1.00

00:17:49.560 who chose

00:17:50.600 single motherhood

00:17:51.440 as a lifestyle,

00:17:53.020 believing that

00:17:54.100 the father of

00:17:54.820 their children

00:17:55.300 is expendable.

00:17:57.860 It's like an

00:17:58.620 ego trip.

00:17:59.680 Well,

00:17:59.800 I can do both.

00:18:00.620 We don't need

00:18:01.240 you.

00:18:02.060 Our kids don't

00:18:02.620 need you.

00:18:05.400 And this is a

00:18:06.240 message that

00:18:06.840 society seeks to

00:18:07.780 reinforce.

00:18:09.780 That's why they

00:18:10.560 really want us to

00:18:11.260 celebrate single

00:18:11.820 motherhood.

00:18:13.160 The left sees

00:18:13.800 stable two-parent

00:18:14.980 households as an

00:18:15.880 existential threat to

00:18:17.040 their agenda,

00:18:18.000 which they are.

00:18:19.640 Children from those 1.00

00:18:20.440 kinds of households

00:18:21.100 are going to be

00:18:21.900 less vulnerable,

00:18:23.560 less susceptible to

00:18:24.600 the push and pull 0.95

00:18:25.340 of the greater

00:18:25.800 culture.

00:18:26.540 Not immune from

00:18:27.180 it, obviously,

00:18:27.680 but less susceptible.

00:18:29.200 And that's the

00:18:29.980 problem the left

00:18:30.600 has with two-parent

00:18:31.600 households.

00:18:32.200 They don't want us

00:18:33.260 raising and caring

00:18:34.380 for our own kids.

00:18:35.420 They don't want

00:18:37.260 the home to be a

00:18:38.020 fortress protecting

00:18:39.000 against insidious

00:18:39.940 societal influences.

00:18:41.080 They want our kids 1.00

00:18:42.260 vulnerable, exposed.

00:18:44.880 And that's why they

00:18:46.300 present single

00:18:46.980 motherhood as an

00:18:47.940 ideal.

00:18:48.800 It is ideal to

00:18:50.080 them and their

00:18:51.880 agenda.

00:18:53.500 I just forget to

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00:20:02.220 Beginning with this

00:20:03.020 report from the

00:20:03.600 Daily Wire, it says

00:20:04.540 a legal defense

00:20:05.620 fundraiser for Marine

00:20:06.520 veteran Daniel

00:20:07.220 Penny continues to

00:20:08.240 skyrocket, hitting the

00:20:09.680 million-dollar mark on

00:20:10.840 Saturday.

00:20:11.920 And now it's, of

00:20:12.940 course, over a million

00:20:14.480 dollars.

00:20:15.260 Penny, 24, was

00:20:16.000 charged on Friday with

00:20:16.820 manslaughter and the

00:20:17.560 death of the 30-year-old

00:20:18.860 Jordan Neely by

00:20:20.000 Manhattan District

00:20:20.980 Attorney Alvin Bragg.

00:20:22.580 Video footage showed the

00:20:23.780 Marine veteran putting

00:20:24.780 Jordan Neely in a

00:20:25.560 fatal chokehold after

00:20:26.820 witnesses say Neely was

00:20:27.700 threatening passengers on

00:20:28.780 a New York City subway.

00:20:30.260 Penny's attorney started a

00:20:31.960 Give, Send, Go fundraiser to

00:20:33.820 help him with his legal

00:20:34.380 defense and has nearly 25,000

00:20:36.460 donations totaling over a

00:20:37.880 million dollars as of

00:20:39.000 Saturday afternoon.

00:20:41.580 Many of the donations come

00:20:43.060 from anonymous donors giving

00:20:44.640 small amounts.

00:20:46.040 Comments praising the Marine for

00:20:47.080 his actions on the subway and

00:20:48.220 expressing disbelief that he was

00:20:49.440 charged with a crime flooded

00:20:50.700 the fundraising platform.

00:20:52.120 One of the comments says, I'm a

00:20:53.740 76-year-old male, a wounded

00:20:55.220 combat veteran of the Vietnam

00:20:56.240 War, also retired sergeant from

00:20:57.900 the NYPD.

00:20:58.640 I just can't believe how this

00:21:00.400 country has become.

00:21:02.660 Another one says, when somebody

00:21:04.040 steps in defense against a

00:21:05.980 terrifying, ranting bully, that

00:21:08.320 somebody should be applauded and 0.98

00:21:09.920 not persecuted.

00:21:11.200 We need more Daniel Pennies in 1.00

00:21:12.920 this world.

00:21:15.300 So, a million dollars they've

00:21:17.380 raised for Daniel Penny, and

00:21:20.200 he's going to need all that and

00:21:21.400 more to defend him against this

00:21:23.780 outrageous persecution.

00:21:26.940 I'm not going to call it a

00:21:28.120 prosecution because this is

00:21:29.720 persecution.

00:21:31.520 He's being singled out, made an

00:21:34.000 example of, for political reasons,

00:21:37.780 for ideological reasons, and

00:21:41.120 because the DA is kowtowing to

00:21:45.040 public pressure.

00:21:47.460 But keep in mind that when this

00:21:48.840 incident first happened, the police

00:21:51.440 did an investigation, they talked

00:21:53.220 to witnesses, they reviewed

00:21:55.440 footage and camera footage and all

00:21:57.520 the rest of it, they interrogated

00:21:59.900 Daniel Penny about it, and then

00:22:01.400 they let him go without pressing

00:22:03.000 charges.

00:22:05.200 And by all indications, that's what

00:22:06.860 it was going to be until this

00:22:08.760 became a viral thing and the

00:22:10.560 protests started and you had high

00:22:11.940 ranking Democrats, very prominent

00:22:13.160 people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 0.88

00:22:14.840 demanding his head on a platter.

00:22:18.220 And so that's what they're going 0.97

00:22:20.220 to get.

00:22:22.960 This is, and it's saying quite a lot

00:22:27.120 because we get examples of this.

00:22:28.660 We get new examples every year, but

00:22:31.080 this is one of the most outrageous

00:22:33.300 miscarriages of justice I've ever

00:22:36.360 seen.

00:22:36.620 To my mind, this is worse than the

00:22:41.100 Rittenhouse and him being

00:22:42.800 prosecuted, which he never should

00:22:43.880 have been.

00:22:45.860 This is worse than Chauvin, who also

00:22:49.020 never should have been prosecuted.

00:22:51.120 As bad as those are, this one is

00:22:53.080 even worse.

00:22:55.660 When you look at the basic facts of

00:22:57.440 the case, like there is, there is no

00:23:00.200 gray area here at all.

00:23:02.780 Okay, you can't even try to hang

00:23:06.880 your hat on something like with

00:23:08.300 Rittenhouse, well, you shouldn't

00:23:09.260 have been there to begin with.

00:23:10.900 You know, he drove in, he drove in

00:23:12.500 from another county or another

00:23:13.360 state.

00:23:14.260 He crossed state lines.

00:23:15.680 Not that that matters or that made

00:23:17.420 a difference.

00:23:19.200 Although we can say that, you know,

00:23:20.720 kids shouldn't have gone to a, if

00:23:23.400 it was my own kid, it was my own

00:23:24.560 son, I would say, you're not going

00:23:25.400 there.

00:23:27.160 That doesn't mean that he, that he

00:23:28.280 sacrificed and forfeited his right

00:23:29.800 to self-defense when he's being

00:23:31.220 pursued by a violent gun-toting mob

00:23:34.700 as he was.

00:23:36.160 But my point is that in this case,

00:23:37.800 you don't even have that.

00:23:40.680 Daniel Penny was just on the subway

00:23:42.220 with all the other riders.

00:23:43.260 He was going to work or doing it.

00:23:44.240 He's commuting.

00:23:49.080 It was Jordan Neely who decided to

00:23:52.280 get onto the subway train and

00:23:54.120 instigate this incident.

00:23:55.740 And we know from witness reports

00:23:59.560 that he absolutely was making

00:24:02.100 physical threats.

00:24:03.680 Like, we know two things about him.

00:24:05.560 We know that he was making physical

00:24:06.940 threats, saying that he was going to

00:24:08.500 hurt people on the train and that he's

00:24:10.200 willing to go to jail.

00:24:12.740 So without, although he did say

00:24:15.200 reportedly, I'm going to hurt, you

00:24:17.240 know, he did explicitly threaten

00:24:19.760 physical harm.

00:24:20.500 Even if he didn't, when you've got

00:24:24.840 someone ranting that they're ready

00:24:26.640 to go to jail, there's really only

00:24:29.220 one way to interpret that.

00:24:30.940 You interpret that as, oh, they're

00:24:32.080 about to do something that would get

00:24:33.840 a person sent to jail.

00:24:37.160 That alone is a physical threat.

00:24:43.220 It's just icing on the cake that he

00:24:45.320 also explicitly threatened physical

00:24:48.660 harm.

00:24:52.220 So we know that fact.

00:24:53.560 We know that he threatened physical

00:24:54.540 harm.

00:24:55.360 We also know from his history that he

00:24:57.840 followed through many times in the

00:25:00.960 past.

00:25:02.600 So when he threatens physical harm,

00:25:04.420 there is very good reason to believe

00:25:05.340 that he means it.

00:25:07.900 This is someone who assaulted old

00:25:09.300 ladies. 0.75

00:25:09.760 He tried to kidnap a seven, it was a 1.00

00:25:11.980 seven or eight year old child, along

00:25:16.040 with 40 plus other offenses that he

00:25:18.620 was arrested for, and then let back

00:25:19.940 out.

00:25:22.040 Oh, but Daniel Penny wouldn't have

00:25:23.460 known about those other cases.

00:25:24.620 Well, how do you know that, first of

00:25:26.000 all?

00:25:27.600 How do you know he didn't know about

00:25:28.700 anything?

00:25:29.080 This person was well known on the

00:25:31.300 subway system.

00:25:32.580 That's why there are Reddit posts

00:25:34.180 going back a decade about this guy.

00:25:39.120 So we know that he's a known entity

00:25:41.500 and has been on the subway system for

00:25:43.960 years.

00:25:44.740 And yet you hear people on the left

00:25:48.220 simply assuming, oh, he didn't know

00:25:49.960 any of that.

00:25:51.160 No, the safest assumption is that he

00:25:52.800 probably did know some of that, because

00:25:54.500 apparently most people, or rather many

00:25:58.940 people who take the New York City subway

00:26:01.460 system knew about this guy and the kinds

00:26:05.780 of things that he did in the past.

00:26:06.860 If Daniel Penny didn't know it, still

00:26:11.400 doesn't matter.

00:26:13.360 Because then all he would know is that

00:26:15.260 there's this crazy guy on the subway, and 0.55

00:26:17.580 he's ranting and raving, and he's 0.96

00:26:18.900 threatening people.

00:26:21.120 And it is not our legal responsibility or

00:26:24.880 our moral responsibility to just sit there

00:26:28.040 and wait for someone to make good on the

00:26:30.040 threat.

00:26:30.180 Like, if somebody comes up to you on the 1.00

00:26:33.420 street and says, I'm going to shoot you 0.99

00:26:35.740 in the head, you have every legal and 1.00

00:26:39.800 moral right to pull out your gun if you 1.00

00:26:41.940 have one and shoot him first. 0.99

00:26:44.160 Because he just said he was going to do 1.00

00:26:45.560 it.

00:26:46.340 He made a physical threat against your

00:26:47.760 life.

00:26:48.680 And to say that you wouldn't have the

00:26:49.940 right to react that way is to say that

00:26:53.440 your responsibility is to wait until

00:26:56.180 you're actually shot in the head before 0.99

00:26:58.520 you respond.

00:26:59.160 But by then, of course, it's too late.

00:27:02.020 So what you're really saying is that we

00:27:04.480 have a responsibility to lay down and

00:27:07.940 allow ourselves to be assaulted and 0.76

00:27:10.460 killed, which is actually the position 0.96

00:27:13.420 that many on the left are taking in

00:27:14.840 response.

00:27:15.280 In fact, I had someone tweet at me

00:27:16.760 yesterday.

00:27:18.180 I was talking about the explicit threats

00:27:20.380 that Neely was making.

00:27:22.400 And somebody said, well, they're just

00:27:24.420 words.

00:27:25.880 Just words.

00:27:26.840 And this is coming from the kind of

00:27:29.380 person that I guarantee you would

00:27:31.500 all would adjust words.

00:27:33.660 Yeah.

00:27:34.140 But if this was someone on subway train

00:27:35.700 mis misgendering someone saying things

00:27:39.640 that are considered transphobic, quote,

00:27:41.980 unquote.

00:27:42.360 Well, this, I guarantee you this guy, this guy on

00:27:48.240 Twitter or any leftist, they would not be

00:27:50.340 waving it away by saying it's just words.

00:27:54.300 These are the people who accuse us of being

00:27:56.580 terrorists because of the words that we say.

00:28:00.000 These are the people that accuse us of

00:28:02.800 committing genocide by saying words.

00:28:07.640 They tell us that simply by saying words, you

00:28:11.040 can actively kill people.

00:28:12.800 You can commit genocide with language.

00:28:15.460 And that very same crowd is now saying about

00:28:20.500 Jordan Neely, oh, they're just words.

00:28:23.280 To be expected, of course, these people have

00:28:24.900 no integrity.

00:28:26.700 And this has nothing to do with the facts of

00:28:30.340 the case.

00:28:30.620 They don't care about the facts of the case.

00:28:32.060 All they care about is that Jordan Neely was

00:28:34.340 black and Daniel Penny is white.

00:28:36.180 That's the only detail that matters to them.

00:28:38.220 That's it.

00:28:41.500 Nothing else matters.

00:28:42.600 And so they want, they want his head.

00:28:46.880 They want him as an example, another trophy

00:28:50.020 of racial justice.

00:28:53.840 This is a, this is, they want a trophy for

00:28:55.700 racial justice.

00:28:57.560 Another head they can mount on the wall.

00:29:01.200 And they've chosen Daniel Penny.

00:29:03.960 And at the same time, in the process, they have

00:29:06.980 only further demoralized the public and made

00:29:09.600 people all even more hesitant to step up and do

00:29:13.360 the right thing and defend themselves and defend

00:29:15.440 their community, defend innocent people.

00:29:19.380 This Daniel, already most people have gotten to

00:29:22.160 the point where they're not going to step in no

00:29:23.720 matter what, because it's not worth the risk.

00:29:25.560 And they know that if they have to, that if it

00:29:27.220 comes to violence, that they're going to get thrown

00:29:28.960 under the bus immediately.

00:29:29.980 So it was already the case.

00:29:31.120 And now you've got some of the stragglers who

00:29:35.180 remained, some of the holdouts, who still may have

00:29:40.120 been willing to step in and do the right thing in a

00:29:42.060 situation like this.

00:29:42.900 Many of those people are now going to throw up their

00:29:45.140 hands and say, never mind.

00:29:46.960 You know, I don't want to be the next Daniel Penny.

00:29:50.980 And that's part of the point as well, obviously.

00:29:53.600 It's about demoralizing people.

00:29:56.240 Jordan Ely's family, of course, they've been all over the

00:29:59.520 the news and cameras and they have lawyers and everything

00:30:02.200 else.

00:30:03.040 Here's the family lawyer of Jordan Ely's family.

00:30:08.340 Saying what he thinks and what the family thinks ought to

00:30:11.460 have happened that day.

00:30:13.380 No one on that train asked Jordan, what's wrong?

00:30:18.400 How can I help you?

00:30:20.720 He was choked to death instead.

00:30:23.820 So for everybody saying I've been on the train and I've been

00:30:26.900 afraid before and I can't tell you what I was going to do

00:30:29.520 and what I would have done in that situation, I'm going to tell

00:30:31.700 you, ask how you can help.

00:30:35.620 Please don't attack, don't choke, don't kill, don't take

00:30:43.400 someone's life, don't take someone's loved one from them

00:30:47.000 because they're in a bad place.

00:30:49.780 No one on that train said you started out by saying I'm hungry.

00:30:54.940 I need food.

00:30:57.040 I'm done with it.

00:30:58.000 I don't know where to get food.

00:30:59.280 I don't care if I die.

00:31:00.340 I don't care if I go to jail.

00:31:01.360 I'm just done.

00:31:02.680 No one said, here you are, sir.

00:31:06.240 Let me meet your need or help you in a situation or give a word of

00:31:10.220 encouragement.

00:31:11.540 That's not what happened on that train.

00:31:14.600 Oh yeah, he's just hungry.

00:31:15.620 He needed food.

00:31:16.060 That's all.

00:31:16.700 Is that, was that the idea when he was punching old ladies,

00:31:19.500 assaulting random people, trying to kidnap a child?

00:31:22.140 Was that, he was looking for food?

00:31:26.940 Is that it?

00:31:32.400 Another point about that, by the way, before we get to this, but just emphasize once more.

00:31:37.400 The reason to bring up this guy's rap sheet is because, as we covered, there's a very good

00:31:43.820 chance that the people that were on that subway and the multiple people that were involved,

00:31:49.000 it wasn't just Daniel Penny.

00:31:50.040 There's three men were involved in restraining him.

00:31:53.020 Very good chance that they knew something about that history because this guy was a known entity.

00:32:03.040 But the other point, too, is that the over-the-top mourning, like, even if his death was completely

00:32:10.780 unjustifiable, if it was an unjustified, if he was straight up murdered in an unjustified way,

00:32:17.360 which isn't what happened, but if it was, the over-the-top mourning and crying about it 1.00

00:32:24.220 still wouldn't make any sense because this guy is a scumbag. 1.00

00:32:27.800 He tried to kidnap a child. 1.00

00:32:30.380 I'll tell you right now, people who assault old ladies and try to kidnap children, 1.00

00:32:33.560 I don't care if you live or die. 0.97

00:32:35.540 I don't.

00:32:37.060 I'm not going to cry over that.

00:32:40.640 No.

00:32:41.260 Like, if video exists of him dragging a seven-year-old girl down the street,

00:32:46.520 trying to kidnap her, and then all you had was that video.

00:32:50.600 You had no other context.

00:32:51.640 And I told you, you saw that video.

00:32:53.320 And then I told you afterwards, oh, yeah, you know, that guy was killed on a subway train a few

00:32:57.280 years later.

00:32:57.840 How would you react? 1.00

00:32:58.740 You would say, okay, this guy's absolute scum. 1.00

00:33:02.180 What, you want me to fall down in tears over it? 1.00

00:33:05.440 If there was a video of him punching a 67-year-old woman in the head,

00:33:08.640 sending her to the hospital, you had no other context.

00:33:10.920 And then I told you that, you know, shortly after this video was taken, this guy died.

00:33:14.220 He went on a train, started threatening people, and he ended up dying.

00:33:18.020 Would anyone break down?

00:33:19.620 Oh, not him?

00:33:20.600 Not him.

00:33:23.520 Everyone would say, well, it's unfortunate he chose to live his life that way, 0.52

00:33:27.840 but this is a terrible person.

00:33:30.060 And the community's better off without him. 0.80

00:33:32.700 Like, everyone is safer without him.

00:33:35.140 Let me tell you something.

00:33:36.160 The community, this community pretending to mourn,

00:33:39.200 you are better off without this guy.

00:33:40.920 You're all safer now because he's gone.

00:33:44.140 That's a fact.

00:33:47.140 That alone, on its own, does not justify anything, any kind of violence somebody might have perpetrated

00:33:53.760 against him, which is why we don't need those facts in order to justify the way people responded

00:33:58.380 on the train.

00:33:59.460 They were just responding in the moment, and that's all we need to justify it.

00:34:03.220 So that's not my point.

00:34:04.720 My point is the over-the-top weeping and wailing, not Jordan Neely, no.

00:34:12.620 What are we going to do without this guy who kidnaps children and assaults old ladies?

00:34:19.440 Thousands of people die every single day.

00:34:23.720 And we don't talk about almost any of them.

00:34:25.760 You can see little blurbs, little news reports that come up here and there if someone dies, this or that.

00:34:32.400 And we all continue living our lives because it's sad.

00:34:35.760 I mean, it's always, death is sad, but it's just a part of life.

00:34:40.000 But then we choose,

00:34:41.640 then we choose specific people of all the death and suffering in the world.

00:34:47.740 So we single out certain people and we choose them.

00:34:51.980 And we say, these are the ones we are going to especially mourn.

00:34:57.220 How does Jordan Neely make the cut for that?

00:35:04.600 Now, to the lawyer's claim that we should,

00:35:10.500 someone should have gone up to him and offered to help him,

00:35:14.040 no, no.

00:35:15.220 Now, when you've got someone,

00:35:18.100 a man making threats of violence,

00:35:21.320 no, the last thing that you want to do is go up and,

00:35:23.340 let's talk through this together. 1.00

00:35:26.440 That'd be a very stupid thing to do. 0.99

00:35:27.780 You shouldn't do that. 1.00

00:35:28.360 And it's not your responsibility.

00:35:31.380 You know who had a responsibility to help Jordan Neely?

00:35:35.560 And I wish that he did get the help that he needed.

00:35:37.240 I wish he got it years ago before he became a serial criminal.

00:35:40.940 But do you know who should have helped him?

00:35:48.800 His family.

00:35:50.820 And I am really sick and tired of these families coming out after the fact.

00:35:57.400 Like, you left your loved one to live on the street. 0.99

00:36:02.280 This psychotic, violent criminal. 0.64

00:36:04.520 You just left him on the street for a decade. 0.93

00:36:07.360 And now you want to come back around and pretend that you're upset?

00:36:11.860 And tell the rest of us that we should have helped him?

00:36:15.780 He's your family member. 0.94

00:36:17.720 Where the hell were you?

00:36:19.360 That's what I'm asking the family of Jordan Neely now with your lawyer at the press conference.

00:36:22.700 Where were you for the last 10 years?

00:36:25.600 He's your loved one.

00:36:26.780 What the hell did you do for him?

00:36:28.360 You didn't do anything.

00:36:29.360 You did nothing.

00:36:32.220 That's the case for almost all these BLM martyrs that we get. 0.91

00:36:36.060 The families come out afterwards.

00:36:37.560 Oh, my dear Lord, my dear sweet boy.

00:36:40.160 Where were you?

00:36:41.040 You were nowhere.

00:36:42.300 You didn't care about him.

00:36:43.500 And now because you see the dollar signs, you want to cash in on his death?

00:36:51.020 That's all this is.

00:36:56.500 I know that we're supposed to speak in hushed and reverent tones about the families.

00:37:02.420 Oh, the poor families.

00:37:04.920 How about holding the families accountable?

00:37:06.400 Take care of your own.

00:37:08.920 It's your responsibility, family.

00:37:11.300 Your responsibility.

00:37:12.660 Take care of your own.

00:37:13.500 It's not up to the rest of us.

00:37:18.260 You put the rest of us in impossible situations.

00:37:21.080 By not taking care of your own, you put the rest of us.

00:37:24.020 You inflict this person on the rest of us.

00:37:26.920 And then you dare to question after the fact?

00:37:29.580 When we are forced to do things we don't want to do, Daniel Penney didn't go to work that day or get on the train that day, wanting to get into a physical altercation.

00:37:39.240 He's not the one who instigated it.

00:37:40.980 He's just sitting there.

00:37:41.880 He wants to get from point A to point B.

00:37:43.420 That's the only reason he's there.

00:37:44.340 Jordan Neely put him in a situation where he had to make a choice, and you, as the family, put Daniel Penney in the same situation by not taking care of your own.

00:37:57.040 Didn't take care of him.

00:38:00.600 Now you want to cash in and make tens of millions of dollars, and it will probably work, too, won't it?

00:38:05.860 Because that will heal.

00:38:07.640 That's the only way to heal now.

00:38:08.880 Now, completely abandon your own family members, and then, and then, well, I need money.

00:38:15.060 I need to heal. 0.98

00:38:17.120 It's disgusting. 0.84

00:38:18.760 It really disgusts me. 0.91

00:38:21.160 All right.

00:38:22.740 Anyway, here's one from Yahoo News.

00:38:27.480 Hold on a second.

00:38:28.100 Actually, I'm skipping ahead.

00:38:29.000 We didn't get to that one yet.

00:38:30.100 Starting with the Daily Wire report, President Joe Biden ginned up racial tensions at the graduate, because we need more of those, 0.91

00:38:35.460 at the graduation ceremony for Harvard University on Saturday, claiming that America's greatest threat comes in the form of white supremacy.

00:38:43.020 Biden gave the commencement address for the historically black college and university at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C.,

00:38:49.580 and we have a nice little clip of that.

00:38:51.220 Let's check it out.

00:38:52.880 Stand up against the poison of white supremacy, as I did my inaugural address to a single out, 0.98

00:38:59.660 as the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy. 0.98

00:39:05.460 And I'm not saying this because I'm at a black HBCU. 0.98

00:39:16.520 I say it wherever I go. 0.98

00:39:21.300 Greatest threat to the homeland is white supremacy, he says. 0.99

00:39:26.220 Greatest threat. 0.98

00:39:27.940 It's not guys like Jordan Neely that are walking around in our cities and randomly assaulting and killing people.

00:39:32.220 I mean, that's happening every single day.

00:39:36.420 Every single day in this country, there are people being randomly killed and assaulted and accosted as they're walking down the street or sitting on trains or doing anything else.

00:39:49.880 Every single day.

00:39:52.560 Every day, there are gas station clerks that end up trembling on their knees on the ground, begging for their lives when a gun-toting criminal comes in to rob them.

00:40:02.720 That happens every day also.

00:40:06.140 Every day, there are people sitting at stoplights.

00:40:08.020 They look over. 0.81

00:40:08.480 They've got a gun stuffed in their face.

00:40:10.040 They're getting dragged out of their own car and possibly killed in the process. 0.99

00:40:12.660 By some nihilistic, empty person, no regard for human life at all, and will happily kill you over a few dollars or a car or something.

00:40:25.940 That's happening every single day. 0.97

00:40:27.640 And in almost none of those cases are there, are they white supremacists who are perpetrating these crimes.

00:40:38.820 Almost none of them.

00:40:39.900 I mean, it's so rare that a white supremacist does something like this, that any time, every single day, if you hear a story about someone being randomly shot or killed, you can just immediately assume.

00:40:55.700 You can make some assumptions about the perpetrator, and none of them should be that he's a white supremacist.

00:41:03.760 But Biden says they're the greatest threat.

00:41:05.500 But DHS Secretary Mayorkas was interviewed shortly after the speech, and he concurred.

00:41:12.580 The president yesterday, at his commencement address for the Howard University graduates, called white supremacy the major domestic terror threat in this country.

00:41:24.120 Is that correct?

00:41:26.220 It tragically is.

00:41:27.540 You know, in the terrorism context, domestic violent extremism is our greatest threat right now.

00:41:36.500 Individuals are driven to violence because of ideologies of hate, anti-government sentiments, false narratives, personal grievances, and the like.

00:41:46.380 And regrettably, we have seen a rise in white supremacy.

00:41:51.120 Anti-government sentiments, yeah, those, because that's, that's, that's, that's the thing that they're really worried about.

00:41:59.540 That's the kind of quiet part out loud aspect of this, where they're really worried about are those anti-government sentiments.

00:42:08.880 And they want to tie anti-government, quote, unquote, anti-government sentiment to white supremacy.

00:42:14.180 So if you have anti-white, if you, if you have anti-government sentiments, then you're a white supremacist.

00:42:21.440 Which makes most of us white supremacists, because there are a lot of reasons to have anti-government sentiments about this particular government.

00:42:29.820 And when I say this government, I mean the one that we've had for a long time.

00:42:33.540 A lot of reasons to have negative sentiments about the powers that be, which makes you a white supremacist.

00:42:41.140 Unless, unless, of course, your anti-government sentiment is focused entirely on local police departments,

00:42:49.060 who you say should be defunded and wiped out so that you can carry on committing all the crimes you want.

00:42:54.980 They're not worried about that kind of anti-government sentiment.

00:42:57.420 So the anti-government sentiment that drives mobs of people to invade a police station in Minneapolis, for example, and burn it to the ground.

00:43:06.020 Okay.

00:43:06.620 Or drives people to set federal courthouses on fire.

00:43:11.140 They're not worried about those anti-government sentiments.

00:43:14.060 Those are okay.

00:43:15.040 Those are understandable.

00:43:16.100 Those are just people who are hungry and want some bread, and this is the only way they know how to do it.

00:43:20.900 If you're anti-government, it's really, if you're anti-government sentiments are more intelligent than that,

00:43:27.380 and more well considered and thought out than, than it's white supremacy, according to them.

00:43:32.660 There's no, you know, there's no factual basis to any of this, of course.

00:43:37.840 There's no way to justify any of it.

00:43:40.100 The claim that white supremacy is the thing that we're, like, it is, for anyone who is worried about this,

00:43:46.300 you're worried about the rise of white supremacy. 0.99

00:43:47.900 I can tell you right now, you are eventually going to die, and depending on where you live, 0.99

00:43:56.080 there's a not insignificant chance that you will be killed one of these days. 0.99

00:44:01.660 But, fear not, it is not going to be a white supremacist who does it. 0.98

00:44:06.440 And I can just say that to you right now.

00:44:08.620 Anyone who happens, everyone who happens to be listening to me, listening to me say these words right now,

00:44:12.800 it is nearly certain that you will never be physically attacked by a white supremacist.

00:44:21.460 It is not nearly certain that you'll never be physically attacked or killed at all.

00:44:26.820 But it won't be a white supremacist.

00:44:29.080 All right, one other, we're going to skip ahead a little bit.

00:44:32.400 Went slightly long on the first story, I think.

00:44:34.460 So, I did want to mention this, though.

00:44:36.600 It would behoove me to mention it.

00:44:38.040 I think that I should, because I give Pope Francis a hard time, rightly so.

00:44:43.300 But, this I did appreciate.

00:44:46.520 This is from the BBC.

00:44:47.860 Pope Francis has suggested that people who choose to have pets over children are acting selfishly.

00:44:53.120 The Pope's comments came as he was discussing parenthood during a general audience at the Vatican in Rome.

00:44:57.940 Today, we see a form of selfishness, he told the audience.

00:45:00.260 We see that some people do not want to have a child.

00:45:02.220 Sometimes they have one, and that's it.

00:45:03.620 But they have dogs and cats that take the place of children.

00:45:07.500 This may make people laugh, but it is the reality.

00:45:10.920 The practice is a denial of fatherhood and motherhood and diminishes us, takes away our humanity.

00:45:16.180 It is not often that I get to agree with Pope Francis when he is pontificating about this and that subject.

00:45:26.180 On this one thing, though, I certainly do agree.

00:45:30.080 And it's not, because, as you know, and I'm not claiming the Pope listens to my podcast.

00:45:34.920 Maybe he does.

00:45:35.520 But I've been on this theme for a long time, and it's not that there's anything wrong with getting a pet, having a cat or dog in the house.

00:45:44.260 It's that prioritizing being a pet owner over having children, that's the problem.

00:45:54.860 Or seeing pet ownership as a form of parenthood in and of itself, when it certainly is not, is the problem.

00:46:03.880 And that is selfishness.

00:46:06.880 So the drive to try to replace kind of the parental instinct, the desire to have kids, trying to replace that with pet ownership, trying to fill that void with pet ownership, is driven by selfishness.

00:46:21.520 And the reason is that having a pet, it's easier.

00:46:27.860 It doesn't demand nearly as much of you.

00:46:31.420 And pet ownership can become this very, like, self-centered relationship where you like having the pet around because of how the pet makes you feel, right?

00:46:40.220 Like you, it's a cute little pet, and you get to pet the dog when you come home from work, and the dog's always excited to see you.

00:46:47.880 And animals are, like, a lot more predictable in that way.

00:46:51.760 And it becomes, and their needs are much more simple.

00:46:55.620 And they're, especially if you have a dog, they're, like, obsessed with you, and they're always there to make you feel better all the time.

00:47:05.760 Human beings are not quite like that because human beings are much more complicated and require much more of us.

00:47:12.660 Having, raising a child requires much more of us.

00:47:17.160 Your child is not a little panting dog who's, you know, as long as you keep them fed, they're happy.

00:47:25.800 Now, there's much more, much greater joy to be found in parenthood.

00:47:30.360 But you do, you have to find it.

00:47:32.620 You know, you have to work for it, and you have to earn it in a lot of ways.

00:47:37.900 And that's why people don't like it.

00:47:39.560 So, put one in the win column for Pope Francis there.

00:47:42.680 That's pretty big news there.

00:47:45.200 Let's get to the comment section.

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00:48:55.820 By the way, a fun little tidbit from my own life, a big moment for me, actually.

00:48:59.960 I officially entered middle age over the weekend by throwing out my back, completely threw my back out.

00:49:08.620 First real experience with this.

00:49:10.560 So I could hardly breathe or walk over the weekend.

00:49:14.300 I can do those things a little bit better now because they put me on a bunch of drugs.

00:49:18.580 And I usually don't like taking medicine at all.

00:49:20.940 I won't even take Tylenol most of the time.

00:49:22.700 And it drives my wife crazy because any time, like, I, she just, she, I'm like a little kid.

00:49:27.800 She'll give me, I'll say I have a headache and she'll hand me some Tylenol.

00:49:30.680 I'll just, I'll, I'll hide it.

00:49:31.840 Like, I won't even put it in my pocket.

00:49:32.880 I won't take it.

00:49:33.420 But I've made two exceptions to the don't, don't take medicine rule in my own life.

00:49:39.380 One is when I blew up my Achilles and then the other one is right now. 0.98

00:49:42.520 And the worst thing is that is the way that it happened was a combination of both stupid on my part and also being lame on my part. 0.94

00:49:50.260 Like, I woke up early Saturday morning with my back feeling very sore. 0.97

00:49:54.400 And I guess I pulled something while I was sleeping because, you know, kids, this is one thing to look forward to, kids, as you get older, that you can, you can injure yourself while sleeping.

00:50:02.000 Like, sleeping becomes a dangerous time.

00:50:04.720 And it's not, it's not sleepwalking.

00:50:06.480 It's not like I got up and I was running a marathon in my sleep.

00:50:08.260 I was just laying there on, just laying there asleep.

00:50:12.420 And I managed to injure myself.

00:50:13.800 But then I wasn't, I wasn't completely crippled and I wasn't satisfied with that.

00:50:20.100 So I, that, that afternoon I took my kids out to the garden center, the nursery down the street.

00:50:25.260 So we're getting some Mother's Day gifts for my wife.

00:50:28.760 And one of the things we got her was the 70 pound statue of St. Francis of Assisi to put in the garden.

00:50:34.660 And she loves, my wife loves like these little statues.

00:50:36.840 And so we got her this thing, it's 70, you know, 60 or 70 pounds.

00:50:41.800 And I knew it was a bad idea, given the back issues, to lift it.

00:50:46.960 And I was about to lift it, you know, because I had to lift it, put it on the cart, bring it out to the car, lift it in the car, lift it out of the car when we got home.

00:50:54.240 My nine-year-old daughter is there and she's got, already has maternal instincts.

00:50:59.500 And so she's kind of, she's telling me, no, daddy, no, get one of the workers here.

00:51:04.460 Why don't you get one of them to lift the statue up for you and bring it to the car?

00:51:07.640 She's being the sensible one.

00:51:09.420 And I said, no, I'm fine.

00:51:11.100 You know, you think I can't lift a statue?

00:51:12.520 Come on.

00:51:13.420 You think your dad can't lift a statue?

00:51:14.820 It'll be fine.

00:51:16.000 And I did.

00:51:16.980 And then, and then shortly after that, I was almost entirely disabled.

00:51:20.980 And I required all the drugs just to function.

00:51:23.600 So that's, that's, that's the story.

00:51:27.100 I guess I'm in that difficult period of a man's life where your body is getting older, but your mind hasn't caught up to that reality yet.

00:51:34.560 And that's, that's kind of where I'm living right now.

00:51:37.400 All right.

00:51:40.200 Bubba says, I haven't seen the Lion King remake, but the technology they used is at least interesting because they created the virtual environments and were able to physically move virtual cameras within the space.

00:51:51.040 That tech led to the void used in the Mandalorian.

00:51:54.360 On the same topic, Josiah says, man, I never thought about how awkward and dull and uncanny, uncanny valley-ish that those Disney remakes might be with the lousy live action animation.

00:52:03.860 The clip of that, of the Little Mermaid remake looks just god awful and unwatchable.

00:52:10.620 Yeah, it is.

00:52:11.140 And, you know, I was thinking about this too, as well, talking about these live action remakes of, of Disney's cartoons and how terrible they are.

00:52:20.600 One of the things that makes them so awful, and this was especially the case with the live, with the Lion King, quote unquote, live action remake that was not live action because they were still talking lions and those don't exist in real life.

00:52:31.760 So it was still animation.

00:52:32.740 It was just a different kind of animation.

00:52:34.140 But you don't even, you can't really quite follow a lot of these live action Disney remakes unless you've seen the original.

00:52:45.500 Like, you don't, you don't actually know exactly what's going on unless you've seen the first one to give you context.

00:52:51.180 Because with the live action thing, you don't get, especially from the, the non-human characters, you don't get the, the emotion, the facial expressions or any of that.

00:53:00.880 So there are so many scenes where you wouldn't even, unless you had the context of the older film, you don't really know exactly what they're trying to do here.

00:53:07.520 You're not sure what emotion they're trying to capture because you can't see it with the, with the way they've done the animation.

00:53:12.660 So you need that.

00:53:14.000 And so all these adults that go and watch these films because it's a, it reminds them, oh, it's my childhood all over again.

00:53:20.740 Reminds me of my childhood. 0.99

00:53:23.080 And so many millennials are pathetic and that's all they want from their art. 0.99

00:53:26.120 All they want from their art is to be reminded of things that existed before. 0.99

00:53:31.640 Never mind the fact that you can just go back and watch those things if you really want to.

00:53:35.260 They still exist.

00:53:36.180 You can watch them.

00:53:38.520 But I think they don't even really, so they go into it with that framework in mind.

00:53:42.400 And then they watch these scenes and, uh, and they, they know what they're, what it's supposed to be trying to do because they've seen the original.

00:53:51.020 Kids who see the live action stuff without seeing the original, they might still enjoy it because kids enjoy watching anything.

00:53:56.300 But they're not getting anything close to like the full experience of what these stories really are.

00:54:02.580 Reez Kit Kat says, I had a team lead at Walmart come to the register to ring me out.

00:54:07.320 And he said, be sure to press the five star on your key, uh, keypad for me.

00:54:11.300 And just told me to give him five stars.

00:54:15.680 As an ex-Walmart employee, the store is awful and I was happy to quit.

00:54:20.880 So they want you to, I don't think I've ever had that at a Walmart register.

00:54:25.220 They're asking you to, uh, to, to give a rating like they do with Uber Eats.

00:54:28.840 I'm not even sure I remember that.

00:54:30.000 Um, and then, uh, Moose Vector says, it terrifies my wife and I with making a family. 1.00

00:54:36.000 Will our future kids be coerced and groomed outside our purview to mutilate themselves like this?

00:54:42.300 Yeah, I hear this so, so often from young, uh, parents or people that, young couples that are considering having kids.

00:54:47.440 And, um, so often I, I hear, well, I'm, I'm afraid to do it because of the, how we live in a fallen, broken world and all the rest of it.

00:54:55.780 Uh, and that is, it can be a scary thing when you have kids, but like the worst decision you could make in response to that is to decide not to have kids at all.

00:55:05.260 To give up on that experience, um, and to give up on your own legacy and bloodline because you're afraid of, of the, the effect the culture will have on your kids.

00:55:16.840 Um, and, and that, that's when the insidious powers that have made things this way in our culture, they win.

00:55:25.340 That's what they want.

00:55:25.920 I always talk all the time about demoralization.

00:55:27.940 They're trying to demoralize us.

00:55:29.940 And when you give up and you throw up your hands and say, nevermind, I'm just going to give up on my, on my bloodline.

00:55:34.820 And my legacy, I'm going to end it here because it's not worth it.

00:55:38.320 Um, that's when they really win.

00:55:41.080 So that's, that can't be our response.

00:55:43.840 The response is have kids, love your kids, be attentive, raise them.

00:55:51.580 And even in our awful satanic culture, they'll still have a very good chance of being good people and living good lives.

00:55:59.880 As long as you're, as long as you hold up your end of the bargain.

00:56:02.780 That's all.

00:56:03.060 A popular professor has been on the job for 30 plus years, was put on leave for the crime of passing out Jeremy's, he, him, and she, her chocolate bars.

00:56:12.260 Just giving people chocolate, you know, free chocolate somehow gets them suspended.

00:56:17.180 Well, Jeremy believes that every free American should have the right to hand out chocolate.

00:56:21.360 That is why Jeremy has taken his delicious, he, him, and she, her chocolate bars and reduced them down to a tasty little microaggression side size.

00:56:29.960 So you can head over to, uh, Jeremy's chocolate.com.

00:56:32.420 That's Jeremy's chocolate.com.

00:56:33.500 You can get your microaggression size.

00:56:35.160 Jeremy's chocolate bars conveniently available for, uh, Halloween, which is a ways away, but still you can stock up now.

00:56:41.560 Go to Jeremy's chocolate.com and pre-order today.

00:56:44.060 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:56:49.740 Well, I don't consider the American Psychological Association to be an authority on very many things,

00:56:54.620 but I do think that the organization's website provides a simple yet accurate definition of trauma.

00:57:00.460 It says that trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event and mentions as examples accidents, natural disasters, and rape.

00:57:06.780 So if your house was hit with a tornado while you were huddled in your basement with your children,

00:57:10.720 or if you were, uh, involved in a high-speed collision on the highway and you nearly died,

00:57:15.420 or if, God forbid, you were sexually abused in the past,

00:57:18.160 then there's, there's a good chance that the experience will have a psychological and emotional impact

00:57:21.720 that will stay with you for a very long time or possibly forever.

00:57:24.560 And the APA says that a traumatized person will typically experience shock and then denial in the short term and long term.

00:57:30.100 They may find that their relationships become strained.

00:57:32.560 They may have flashbacks, trouble sleeping, you know, migraines, insomnia.

00:57:38.180 All of these are symptoms of experiencing that trauma.

00:57:41.620 It's a very, it's very real, you know.

00:57:44.520 You can go through things in life that will have this kind of effect.

00:57:48.420 But the good news is that for most of us, these sorts of events will be rare.

00:57:53.460 Life is difficult because we are conscious agents living in a fallen world full of pain and suffering.

00:57:58.640 And there's a certain amount of existential anxiety that comes with that.

00:58:02.020 And it's always at least bubbling under the surface of our everyday life.

00:58:05.540 But everyday discomfort is not traumatic, or at least it shouldn't be.

00:58:10.520 Which means that if you find yourself frequently describing your everyday experiences as traumatic,

00:58:17.740 and if you can do an assessment and see that things other people cope with relatively easily

00:58:22.900 are somehow sources of trauma for you,

00:58:25.500 then that's a good indication that you are the problem.

00:58:28.160 If you're constantly talking about your trauma and finding new things to be traumatized by,

00:58:35.120 that means either that you're being whiny and hysterical because you want attention,

00:58:39.820 or you really do feel traumatized by everything,

00:58:42.760 which means that you are emotionally fragile to an extreme degree.

00:58:46.520 Either way, the problem is you.

00:58:49.620 And that sets us up for this story published on Friday by Rolling Stone.

00:58:52.560 Yes, we have yet another tale of a hostile work environment,

00:59:13.840 a story of trauma and emotional abuse and other things like that.

00:59:17.340 It was only a couple weeks ago that we heard about the alleged hostile work environment

00:59:20.780 over on the now-defunct Tucker Carlson show on Fox News.

00:59:24.440 In the past, we've heard tales of hostile work environments on shows like Ellen DeGeneres

00:59:29.100 and Dr. Phil and others.

00:59:32.200 Now, this could be a sign that people working in television are slaves suffering horrific abuses.

00:59:38.780 It could mean that being a 27-year-old PA for Kelly Clarkson is more grueling and taxing

00:59:44.140 than being a 14-year-old in the coal mines in 1873.

00:59:47.940 It could mean that.

00:59:49.580 Or it could mean that the media business is fast-paced and high-pressure and results-oriented,

00:59:55.200 and it attracts a lot of young adults.

00:59:57.340 And this is a bad combination because many young adults these days are too weak and too timid

01:00:02.540 and too incompetent to keep up in that kind of environment.

01:00:05.600 So it could go either way.

01:00:06.880 But let's investigate and find out.

01:00:08.640 Reading from Rolling Stone, it says,

01:00:10.000 When the Kelly Clarkson show debuted on NBC in the fall of 2019,

01:00:14.060 the talk show immediately became a beloved, fresh addition to the traditional daytime lineup.

01:00:18.720 With a built-in fan base from Kelly Clarkson's singing career,

01:00:21.500 who have been rooting for her since she first won the American Idol competition in 2002,

01:00:27.000 the show captivates audiences.

01:00:28.860 Over the past four seasons, the pop singer has interviewed guests like Hillary Clinton and Dolly Parton.

01:00:32.640 She's performed Kelly Oakey segments,

01:00:34.660 where she sings covers of other people's popular songs,

01:00:37.380 like Whitney Houston's Queen of the Night and Adele's Rolling in the Deep,

01:00:40.720 and has maintained a level of candor and relatability with viewers at home.

01:00:44.820 But behind the scenes, employees say,

01:00:46.540 they were overworked, underpaid,

01:00:48.720 and that working at the show was traumatizing to their mental health.

01:00:53.460 A former employee adds,

01:00:54.800 I remember going up to the roof of the stage to cry and being like,

01:00:59.020 oh my gosh, what am I doing?

01:01:01.000 Why am I putting myself through this?

01:01:04.700 Wow, I mean, what was she put through?

01:01:06.600 I say she because I'm assuming this is a woman,

01:01:08.360 though unfortunately that may not even be a safe assumption anymore.

01:01:12.000 But what happened?

01:01:13.400 What would cause a grown adult to take time out of her day,

01:01:16.480 while she's still on the clock,

01:01:18.560 to cry like a baby?

01:01:20.480 Do they keep her in chains in the basement 0.95

01:01:22.060 and force her to do her job while, you know,

01:01:23.960 against her will while her manager comes by

01:01:26.020 with a whip and beats anyone who isn't keeping up?

01:01:29.200 Is working in the Kelly Clarkson show

01:01:30.540 kind of like being a galley slave on a Roman ship

01:01:33.200 in the first century?

01:01:34.760 Is that how bad it is?

01:01:36.980 Well, we'll have to keep reading and find out.

01:01:38.900 Former employees say the toxic behavior behind the scenes

01:01:41.280 starts with executive producer Alex Duda,

01:01:43.780 who shields Clarkson from what staffers say they're enduring

01:01:46.760 because of the climate Duda created. 0.68

01:01:49.680 I think Alex Duda is a monster, 0.55

01:01:51.320 a former employee says. 0.98

01:01:52.500 I have a friend who's an executive producer

01:01:53.900 who warned me about taking this job

01:01:55.180 because apparently she has done this

01:01:56.800 on every show she's worked on.

01:01:58.520 As for Clarkson,

01:01:59.240 the current employees,

01:02:00.080 as well as 10 former employees,

01:02:01.660 are under the impression she isn't aware

01:02:03.360 of how bad things are for lower-level staffers,

01:02:06.280 some of whom say they've taken on other jobs

01:02:08.340 as babysitters, dog walkers,

01:02:09.980 and Uber Eats drivers to pay their bills.

01:02:13.040 Now, notice how we've made it several paragraphs

01:02:14.940 into this epic tale of woe,

01:02:16.780 and we've yet to hear any specific examples

01:02:19.540 of trauma being inflicted on the staff.

01:02:22.620 The only specific detail we get so far

01:02:25.800 is that low-level staffers have to take on second jobs.

01:02:30.180 My God, the humanity.

01:02:32.420 You mean to tell me that

01:02:33.120 when you're just starting out in an industry

01:02:35.260 and you're a low-level employee,

01:02:37.480 you might not make a lot of money

01:02:39.060 and so you have to do other things to pay the bills?

01:02:41.420 How terrible.

01:02:43.520 I mean, that's only been the experience

01:02:45.180 of literally millions of people

01:02:46.980 since jobs have existed.

01:02:49.420 I had to do the same thing

01:02:50.620 when I was in my early 20s.

01:02:52.040 I've worked two jobs at various points.

01:02:53.760 I've worked three jobs.

01:02:55.120 I've had times when I worked multiple jobs

01:02:57.140 and one of the jobs was an overnight shift.

01:03:00.400 So imagine getting off of work

01:03:01.980 at like 10.30 p.m.,

01:03:03.760 and instead of going home to go to bed,

01:03:05.580 you have to start a whole new job at midnight.

01:03:07.800 Well, many of you can't imagine something like that

01:03:11.180 because you've done something similar.

01:03:12.840 It's not unusual.

01:03:13.920 It's not harrowing.

01:03:15.320 It's certainly not traumatic.

01:03:16.940 It's just work, and you'll be fine.

01:03:20.600 So where is the real trauma here?

01:03:22.740 Well, let's keep reading.

01:03:24.480 One former employee says

01:03:25.560 that they recently quit working at the show

01:03:27.540 because a producer who reports to Duda

01:03:29.060 yelled and cursed at them multiple times on stage.

01:03:32.120 They say they developed so much anxiety

01:03:33.900 from the way they were treated at work

01:03:35.160 that they would regularly vomit

01:03:36.640 and exhibit physical signs of sickness.

01:03:40.620 This job deteriorated my mental health, they say.

01:03:43.400 The second former employee says

01:03:44.500 that they took a leave of absence

01:03:45.700 because their mental health was also suffering.

01:03:47.880 They say they were bullied and intimidated

01:03:49.360 by producers who went out of their way

01:03:50.840 to make staffers feel scared to ask questions

01:03:52.820 and get their work done.

01:03:54.580 According to the staffer,

01:03:55.360 this prompted them to take a month away from the job

01:03:57.980 and see a psychiatrist for the first time in their life

01:04:00.420 because they truly couldn't handle it mentally.

01:04:03.440 The former staffers say

01:04:04.280 they've worked in the entertainment industry

01:04:05.460 for years on different sets,

01:04:07.300 but The Kelly Clarkson Show

01:04:08.120 is by far the worst experience

01:04:09.700 I've ever had in my entire life.

01:04:11.820 It deterred me from wanting to work

01:04:13.220 in daytime ever again, they say.

01:04:15.060 When I say I was traumatized,

01:04:16.520 I was really traumatized.

01:04:19.720 Oh, you were really traumatized, were you?

01:04:22.360 Really, really traumatized.

01:04:24.260 When other people talk about traumas

01:04:25.840 they've suffered in life,

01:04:26.660 they're referring to things like

01:04:27.680 watching a parent die of cancer,

01:04:31.600 watching a friend get blown up on the battlefield.

01:04:34.980 And those are traumatic experiences.

01:04:37.740 You feel comfortable using that same language

01:04:40.480 to describe your experience

01:04:42.420 of getting yelled at by your boss.

01:04:46.280 There's no reason to keep reading, by the way.

01:04:47.940 This is it.

01:04:48.900 This is the one single scandalous detail we're given.

01:04:53.140 Some people yell sometimes.

01:04:55.460 Traumatic.

01:04:55.940 You know, I once had a boss years ago

01:04:58.640 in a meeting,

01:05:00.880 cuss me out at the top of his lungs

01:05:02.180 and throw a book across the room 0.68

01:05:04.240 in a fit of rage.

01:05:06.880 I wasn't traumatized.

01:05:08.240 I didn't lay awake that night

01:05:09.720 trembling with tears in my eyes.

01:05:11.860 I never sought therapy

01:05:13.100 to help me recover or cope.

01:05:15.320 I think later on I told one of my coworkers about it 0.99

01:05:17.220 and we laughed because the guy's a psycho. 0.96

01:05:18.700 And I think that's the last time 0.98

01:05:20.720 I ever brought it up to anyone

01:05:22.180 until this very moment.

01:05:24.700 Now, should your boss scream

01:05:26.360 and use foul language in the workplace?

01:05:28.180 No.

01:05:28.620 Is it inappropriate?

01:05:29.940 Yes.

01:05:30.680 Should it be a crisis in your life

01:05:32.580 and a source of deep emotional trauma?

01:05:34.560 Should you be crying and vomiting because of it?

01:05:37.300 No, absolutely not.

01:05:39.280 People lose their tempers sometimes.

01:05:40.920 It happens.

01:05:42.040 It'll happen at work.

01:05:43.440 If you're working with other human beings

01:05:45.240 like yourself,

01:05:45.900 if you're working in a high-pressure,

01:05:47.420 competitive business like media,

01:05:49.100 it's even more certain to happen.

01:05:50.820 Tempers, you know,

01:05:51.580 emotions run high sometimes.

01:05:53.720 You don't need to alert the media about it.

01:05:55.100 We already know and we don't care.

01:05:58.140 At the beginning,

01:05:58.900 I said that we can interpret

01:05:59.800 all this whining over insignificant things

01:06:01.740 as either disingenuous and performative

01:06:03.460 or a sincere expression

01:06:04.480 of extreme emotional fragility.

01:06:06.180 But I think the second option

01:06:07.160 is the more concerning one.

01:06:08.660 And unfortunately,

01:06:09.180 I think also the correct one.

01:06:11.040 We have bred a generation of Americans

01:06:12.940 to collapse under the slightest pressure

01:06:15.220 to recoil in horror

01:06:16.840 at any amount of discomfort and difficulty.

01:06:20.180 And at the root of this disease

01:06:21.240 is their belief

01:06:22.000 that they have the right to a life

01:06:23.920 free from discomfort and difficulty.

01:06:26.860 They haven't been raised to understand

01:06:28.400 that hardship is an absolutely inseparable part of life,

01:06:31.440 of the human experience.

01:06:33.680 They truly believe

01:06:34.540 that a life of total ease and luxury

01:06:36.680 is available, is possible,

01:06:38.980 and anything that interferes

01:06:40.220 with that pursuit of this fantasy

01:06:41.660 is therefore a violation

01:06:43.000 of their human rights.

01:06:45.540 People in the past

01:06:46.240 didn't complain nearly as much

01:06:47.740 about their toil and suffering,

01:06:48.980 even though they experience both

01:06:50.240 to an infinitely greater degree than we do,

01:06:52.880 because they recognized

01:06:54.600 that this is the price of admission

01:06:56.460 for conscious beings

01:06:58.320 in a physical world.

01:07:00.560 That's why even if you've suffered

01:07:02.020 actual trauma,

01:07:03.260 real trauma,

01:07:03.940 from a truly traumatic experience,

01:07:05.880 it's still not a good idea

01:07:07.480 to harp over it

01:07:08.440 the way these people harp

01:07:09.440 over every stubbed toe

01:07:10.960 and paper cut.

01:07:13.220 You know,

01:07:13.600 one of my favorite scenes

01:07:14.580 and one of my favorite stories

01:07:15.720 ever put to screen,

01:07:16.920 the Western miniseries

01:07:18.160 Lonesome Dove,

01:07:19.360 happens right after

01:07:20.520 Diane Lane's character 0.50

01:07:21.860 is a prostitute named Lori, 0.55

01:07:23.880 is kidnapped 0.98

01:07:24.480 and then terribly abused

01:07:26.080 by an outlaw named Blue Duck.

01:07:28.820 Robert Duvall's character,

01:07:30.360 Gus,

01:07:31.000 kind of this grizzled old Western guy,

01:07:33.200 rescues her,

01:07:34.060 and later that night

01:07:35.300 when they're sitting together,

01:07:36.900 Lori breaks down in tears

01:07:37.960 and says,

01:07:38.860 they shouldn't have done that

01:07:39.740 to me, Gus.

01:07:40.620 They shouldn't have taken me.

01:07:42.120 And Gus gives her a hug

01:07:43.280 and pats her shoulder

01:07:44.100 and says,

01:07:44.640 I know, honey,

01:07:45.360 but they did.

01:07:46.480 I know they shouldn't have,

01:07:47.760 but they did.

01:07:48.820 They did. 1.00

01:07:50.680 Dumb modern audiences 0.99

01:07:51.840 may watch that scene 1.00

01:07:53.720 and interpret it

01:07:54.620 as Gus being uncaring

01:07:56.140 or dismissive,

01:07:57.060 but it was the opposite.

01:07:58.140 His point was

01:07:58.900 that you won't gain anything

01:08:01.080 by dwelling on the fact

01:08:02.440 that your past sufferings

01:08:03.580 shouldn't have happened.

01:08:05.160 Yes, it shouldn't have happened,

01:08:06.460 but it did happen.

01:08:07.960 And the point Gus was making

01:08:09.120 is that you'll never be able

01:08:10.020 to function in the world

01:08:11.360 and truly heal

01:08:12.540 unless you accept reality

01:08:14.120 for what it is.

01:08:15.380 It shouldn't have happened,

01:08:16.780 but it did.

01:08:17.780 Now what?

01:08:20.380 If Gus would say that

01:08:21.940 to a woman

01:08:22.360 who'd just been kidnapped

01:08:23.580 by outlaws

01:08:24.340 in the Old West,

01:08:25.580 what would he say

01:08:26.280 to a grown woman

01:08:27.180 crying on the roof

01:08:28.120 at work

01:08:28.640 because her boss

01:08:29.360 was kind of mean to her?

01:08:30.620 She shouldn't have yelled at me

01:08:33.280 for being seven minutes late

01:08:35.640 to our production meeting, Gus.

01:08:37.200 She shouldn't have done that.

01:08:39.580 Maybe if he was in a kind mood,

01:08:41.560 he would pat her softly

01:08:42.560 on the shoulder

01:08:43.040 and deliver the same message.

01:08:44.360 I know, honey.

01:08:45.080 She shouldn't have,

01:08:45.900 but she did.

01:08:48.500 But if he did that,

01:08:49.280 he'd probably end up

01:08:49.900 getting fired

01:08:50.560 and then sued

01:08:51.000 for sexual harassment

01:08:51.820 because he touched her shoulder

01:08:53.120 and called her honey.

01:08:54.440 I think the better response

01:08:55.380 in the latter case

01:08:55.980 would be something like,

01:08:56.860 yes, honey,

01:08:57.680 she yelled at you. 1.00

01:08:58.760 People yell sometimes.

01:09:00.020 That's life.

01:09:00.980 What did you expect?

01:09:02.400 Did you expect

01:09:02.900 that nobody would ever

01:09:03.640 lose their temper at you

01:09:04.640 ever in your life?

01:09:06.420 Even when you're doing

01:09:07.340 annoying things

01:09:08.000 like showing up late

01:09:08.800 to a meeting

01:09:09.240 that everybody else

01:09:10.600 managed to get there

01:09:11.320 on time for?

01:09:12.440 So you want everyone else

01:09:13.480 to exercise total

01:09:14.400 and perfect emotional restraint,

01:09:15.860 but you're the one

01:09:16.840 up here on the roof

01:09:17.460 crying like a toddler

01:09:18.640 in the middle of the work day?

01:09:21.060 At least the mean people

01:09:22.140 are productive. 1.00

01:09:23.460 You're useless. 1.00

01:09:24.260 Look at you. 1.00

01:09:25.680 Now get back to work

01:09:26.440 or you're fired.

01:09:28.880 That's what I would say anyway,

01:09:30.620 which probably is why

01:09:31.440 I'm not in management.

01:09:33.180 But at least I can still say

01:09:34.520 to literally everyone

01:09:35.700 who has ever complained

01:09:36.700 about a hostile work environment,

01:09:39.300 you're canceled.

01:09:41.640 That'll do it for us today.

01:09:43.240 Have a great day, everyone.

01:09:44.200 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:09:45.320 Godspeed.

01:09:45.680 We'll see you tomorrow.

The Matt Walsh Show - May 15, 2023

Ep. 1163 - The Left Turns Mother's Day Into Anti-Father Campaign

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