The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1208 - Why The Media Is So Eager To Smear The 'Blind Side' Family

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the media has been very excited this week by the supposed

00:00:03.280 revelation that the family from the blind side are really villains who exploited a black kid

00:00:07.220 for their own gain. But this narrative is almost certainly false. We'll talk about

00:00:10.260 the latest in the Michael Orr saga and what the left's hatred of so-called white saviorism says

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00:00:19.640 declaring her faith in Christ, the same woman has now been fired from her position at Ohio

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00:01:41.940 at Hallow.com slash Matt Walsh. In the final seconds of the 2009 film, The Blind Side,

00:01:48.000 Leanne Toohey, played by Sandra Bullock, reflects on the murder of a 21-year-old black athlete in a

00:01:53.560 local housing project. The young man had dropped out of school, fallen in with the wrong crowd,

00:01:58.540 and had died in a gang-related shooting. That could have been my son Michael, Leanne says,

00:02:03.940 right before the credits roll. I suppose I have God to thank for that. A decade later,

00:02:08.760 it's hard to imagine a film from a major studio ending that way. The film began with Leanne Toohey

00:02:13.780 seeing a homeless teenager named Michael Orr walking down the street in the cold. She and her

00:02:18.880 husband, Sean, decided to take care of the kid. And finally, after years of sacrifice, Orr goes to

00:02:23.840 college and eventually goes on to become a successful NFL player. In 2009, when audiences

00:02:29.000 weren't lobotomized by procedurally generated Marvel slop, that plot line resonated. And The Blind

00:02:35.880 Side made over $300 million on a relatively small budget. Sandra Bullock won an Oscar, although she

00:02:41.160 herself admitted during filming that her acting wasn't even that good. Leanne Toohey used the film

00:02:45.720 success to help children find foster homes on social media. And outside of a few whiny articles

00:02:51.240 on NPR or The Daily Beast, people basically loved the movie. The media loved the movie for the most part.

00:02:58.180 In the years that followed the film's release, though, the tone changed. As Barack Obama set race

00:03:04.620 relations in this country backwards by 50 years, academics, who are the source of most bad ideas

00:03:10.960 and cynicism in the world, for some reason began obsessing over The Blind Side. They kept writing

00:03:15.420 about it years after everyone else had moved on. In 2015, for example, a Clemson professor wrote this

00:03:20.780 article in the journal Studies in Popular Culture. Here's the title, Racial Discourse in the Blind Side,

00:03:26.400 The Economics and Ideology Behind the White Savior Format. That same year, a University of New Mexico

00:03:32.720 professor authored a piece entitled The White Cinematic Lens, Decoding the Racial Messages in the Blind

00:03:38.140 Side. As the years progressed, so did the left's obsession with the blind side. Their fixation

00:03:43.440 continued after the Obama years. In 2019, a professor at Texas State University somehow attempted to

00:03:48.940 connect Donald Trump with the blind side, with a piece entitled Colorblind Racism, The Trump Effect,

00:03:54.680 and The Blind Side. And if you want to lose 50 IQ points, you can read the abstract online, but I'm not

00:03:59.820 going to bother reading it to you. That same year, 2019, the popular YouTube channel BeKindRewind

00:04:04.480 released this video explaining that the movie has a white savior problem. Watch.

00:04:10.240 This movie could have included the black families that united to support Michael before he lived with

00:04:14.980 the Tuys full-time. It could have been about organizing pickup football games as a kid with

00:04:19.280 his friends, fostering a love of the game that he honed in high school. But John Lee Hancock chose not

00:04:24.940 to do that. Instead, he canonizes a singular white family and de-platforms the supportive black

00:04:31.180 community that Orr did have. That decision empowered Sandra Bullock with ample opportunities to 1.00

00:04:36.620 demonstrate wit, vulnerability, self-confidence, and kindness in the process. To be the spitfire the

00:04:43.020 critics noticed. In other words, it gave her an Oscar bait role. That's what white savior films do. 1.00

00:04:49.280 They shift focus and blame. They implicitly tell audiences that white stories are more interesting 0.87

00:04:54.880 or worthy of your time than the stories of people of color. So you got it. The film should have been 0.61

00:05:01.080 about all the people who didn't house or educate or care for Michael Orr. It should have been about

00:05:05.820 the kids who played basketball with him. I mean, why? Like what kind of movie would that even be?

00:05:12.240 What's the story there? Well, just because they're black and the family that took care of Michael Orr

00:05:16.500 is white. That's the level of analysis. All of these articles and videos and plenty more examples

00:05:21.700 I could have used demonstrate that the blind side triggered a deep underlying pathology that tortures

00:05:27.820 the supposedly intellectual left. They simply can't tolerate the film's message. To this day,

00:05:34.140 they just can't get over it. And they definitely can't allow any other major studio to make a film

00:05:39.160 like it. I mean, that's never going to happen. In the past few days, predictably, this effort has

00:05:43.460 entered a new, somehow even more demented and tragic stage. Michael Orr filed a legal complaint

00:05:50.120 against the Tuohys, as we talked about a few days ago. The media is promoting it relentlessly.

00:05:56.080 They could not be more thrilled by this development. Watch.

00:05:59.660 We all remember the 2009 Sandra Bullock movie, The Blind Side, the true story of NFL star Michael Orr,

00:06:06.500 who was adopted out of poverty by a wealthy family. But new court docs filed by Orr paint a far

00:06:11.800 different picture. I was just enthralled by her. I didn't think I could play her. It was just such

00:06:17.620 a beautiful story. Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for portraying Michael Orr's adoptive mother,

00:06:22.320 Leanne Tuohy. The southern mother of two took in the six foot four, then homeless and traumatized 0.96

00:06:27.420 teenager when no one else would. Michael was portrayed by Quentin Aaron.

00:06:31.500 Do you want to stay here, Michael? I don't want to go anyplace else.

00:06:36.220 But now the former NFL star alleges Leanne and her husband Sean never officially adopted him,

00:06:41.800 but instead allegedly deceived him into making them his conservators just after his 18th birthday.

00:06:47.460 An illegal petition filed today in Tennessee, Michael claims the Tuohys used the conservatorship

00:06:52.860 to make themselves and their birth children millions of dollars in royalties from the blind side.

00:06:58.180 The Tuohys haven't responded to our request for comment. Back when the movie came out,

00:07:02.620 Leanne told us Michael was proud of the film.

00:07:05.040 I sent him a letter yesterday I'd gotten from someone in Atlanta,

00:07:08.000 and I forwarded it to him, and I got back the sweetest text, and he said,

00:07:11.120 I'm really proud this is making a difference. And so he knows it is.

00:07:16.080 Well, I'm glad we're past that. I'm glad we found a way to take this heartwarming tale and

00:07:20.620 turn it into a problem. Thank God. But you certainly can't have a story like that. You can't have a story,

00:07:26.260 especially of one race of people helping another race of people. We can't have that. We can't allow 0.89

00:07:31.340 it. Now, the crux of the legal complaint is that the Tuohys tricked Michael Orr into thinking that

00:07:36.360 he was adopted when, in fact, the Tuohys simply had a conservatorship over him, allowing them to

00:07:41.300 take most of his money. So they're not good-hearted white people helping out a black kid. They are 0.69

00:07:47.200 evil white supremacist thieves. That's the idea. But before we get into the actual complaint, 1.00

00:07:53.640 there's a couple of points. First of all, that report you just saw implies that the Tuohys

00:07:57.960 defrauded Orr because they wanted money. And what they don't mention is that the Tuohys are 1.00

00:08:02.740 extraordinarily wealthy, independently wealthy. In fact, they're far wealthier than Orr has ever

00:08:08.600 been, even after his NFL career. But we're expected to believe that this family, which is

00:08:12.620 worth well over $200 million, schemed to rip off Michael Orr. Is that plausible? I mean, right away,

00:08:19.960 it doesn't pass the smell test, as I said a few days ago. It sounds a lot like a washed-up athlete

00:08:24.660 who burned through the cash he made in the league, and now he's looking for a payday and some relevance.

00:08:30.200 And indeed, Orr's claim is especially suspicious since, according to the Tuohys, Orr has been

00:08:34.500 shaking them down for $15 million for a long time now. Allegedly, he filed this lawsuit only after

00:08:40.500 trying to get the quick cash from a family he knows is rich and which still loves him. But there are

00:08:46.560 more problems with this complaint beyond the ones that I just mentioned. For this accusation to make

00:08:50.140 sense, for one thing, the Tuohys would have had to see this homeless teenager walking on the side of

00:08:56.000 the road and say to themselves, this kid's going to make us rich. His grades are terrible. No college

00:09:02.900 program is interested in him. His father abandoned him. His mother's a drug addict. But he's going to

00:09:07.420 make us a lot of money someday. And then there's going to be a movie about him, and we'll get royalties

00:09:11.760 from that. And then through all this, as they raised him and sent him to college, Orr would

00:09:17.360 be blissfully unaware of this dastardly scheme for more than a decade. And then it hits him

00:09:24.240 somehow. Quoting from Orr's legal complaint, quote, the lie of Michael's adoption is one upon which

00:09:30.080 co-conservators Leanne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy have enriched themselves at the expense of their war to

00:09:35.560 the undersigned Michael Orr. Michael Orr discovered this lie to his chagrin and embarrassment in February of

00:09:39.500 2023, when he learned that the conservatorship to which he consented on the basis that doing so

00:09:43.800 would make him a member of the Tuohy family, in fact, provided him with no familiar relations with

00:09:48.660 the Tuohys. So the claim is that Michael Orr realized only in February of 2023 that he hadn't

00:09:55.000 been legally adopted. It took him until this year to figure that out. Is that possible? Well,

00:10:02.160 corporate media is certainly buying it with no skepticism whatsoever. NBC wrote up the allegations

00:10:07.220 without applying any form of scrutiny at all. MSNBC wants you to know that this is all your fault,

00:10:12.200 actually. Quote, Orr's lawsuit is an indictment of movie audiences that over and over again lap up

00:10:18.120 stories about white people saving some downtrodden black person. Now, you might listen to that quote

00:10:24.460 from the MSNBC article and wonder what universe MSNBC is living in. In fact, if you read any MSNBC article,

00:10:31.520 you're going to wonder that, but especially this, because in this universe, movies about white people

00:10:37.540 saving black people are extremely rare. And at this point, basically non-existent. I mean, can you name

00:10:44.900 the last one besides the blind side? Go ahead. What's the last major Hollywood film where the good guy,

00:10:52.880 the protagonist is a white person who is helping out a black person? That's really none come 0.77

00:11:00.280 immediately to mind. Now, for its part, the Guardian brought out the big guns. They report

00:11:06.240 that, quote, the blind side's white savior tale was always built on shaky ground. According to the

00:11:12.640 piece, quote, the movie version of the blind side has come to represent a low point for the white savior

00:11:17.560 trope, the unlikely story of the rich white lady who turns a downtrodden black teen Hulk into an 0.99

00:11:22.840 improbable Sunday pro. Jeffrey Montez de Oca, the founding director of the Center for Critical

00:11:28.760 Study of Sport at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, took aim at the film's framing

00:11:33.240 of adoption as a signifying act of whiteness that obscures the social relations of domination that

00:11:38.560 not only make charity possible, but also create an urban underclass in need of charity. In her

00:11:43.420 seminal tome, White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo excoriates the film as fundamentally and insidiously

00:11:49.540 anti-black. What all these stories have in common, though, is that they don't interrogate the claims

00:11:56.680 in Orr's lawsuit at all. They don't spend any time looking at it. The media is so giddy that the

00:12:01.920 blind side is under attack that they don't care to actually do any journalism. They just trot out the 0.86

00:12:06.480 usual fake experts to call it racist, as they've been doing for a decade now. Inside Edition even got

00:12:13.020 in touch with the actor who portrays Michael Orr in the film to ask him whether Sandra Bullock should 0.99

00:12:18.740 surrender her Oscar, which is a question so stupid that the actor should respond by just laughing 0.99

00:12:24.820 hysterically at it. But that's not exactly what happens. Watch. Michael Orr is now saying the 0.99

00:12:30.400 Tui family never adopted him as everyone thought. He claims in his lawsuit that the Tuis tricked him

00:12:36.860 into becoming his conservators, meaning they have control over his money. What is your reaction to

00:12:42.660 what he's alleging? I wasn't expecting that. I think a lot of people, myself included, had such high hopes

00:12:50.300 for the family and that union that we felt they had put together. Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for

00:12:58.200 playing Leanne Tui. But now some people on social media are actually calling for Bullock to return her

00:13:04.820 Oscar. Can you tell me what you think about this call by some for Sandra Bullock to return her Oscar?

00:13:12.320 She was an actress who did her part and was recognized for it. Michael Orr, who went on to

00:13:18.580 become an NFL star, also says he resented how the movie made him appear less intelligent.

00:13:25.500 I didn't know who Michael was before The Blind Side. It wasn't my intention to make him look that way,

00:13:32.060 and I'm sorry that he took it that way. Lawyers for the family say they are stunned by Orr's actions,

00:13:37.800 which they say are designed to drum up publicity for his new book. The Tui's treated him like a son. 0.98

00:13:45.300 They loved him. They don't need his money. They didn't, they've never needed his money.

00:13:53.000 Mr. Tui sold his company for $220 million. The Blind Side movie grossed $309 million.

00:13:59.320 Mm. Got him at the end there, right? Notice the snark at the end. The movie grossed over $300

00:14:07.020 million, the anchor notes, implying that the Tui somehow received all that money or even a

00:14:12.160 significant amount of it. Like if you, if you're, if someone writes a book about you and that's

00:14:16.980 turned into a movie, if you're the subject of the movie, you get 100% of the profits because that's

00:14:22.620 the way it works. No, in reality, they received less than 3% of the proceeds, which is nothing

00:14:28.760 compared to the $200 million they sold their company for. So this is the level of reporting

00:14:34.060 we're seeing on this, with one exception. Over at The Blaze, Jason Whitlock decided not to simply

00:14:38.360 rewrite Orr's complaint to push a narrative. He's written some fantastic articles on this topic you

00:14:42.460 should read, and he motivated me to personally go and read some of the many pieces of documented

00:14:46.920 evidence contradicting Michael Orr's claims. These are pieces of evidence that every major media outlet

00:14:52.740 is ignoring. For example, here's what Orr himself wrote in his own memoir in 2012. Quote,

00:14:59.320 since I was already over the age of 18 and considered an adult by the state of Tennessee,

00:15:02.920 Sean and Leanne would be named as my legal conservators. They explained to me that it

00:15:06.980 means pretty much the exact same thing as adoptive parents, but that the laws were just written in a

00:15:11.280 way that took my age into account. Honestly, I didn't care what it was called. My mother was going to be

00:15:15.840 at the hearing to agree that she supported the decision to have the two he's listed as my next

00:15:20.560 of kin and legal conservators. So that was more than a decade ago. Michael Orr, an adult in his

00:15:26.160 mid-20s at the time, when the memoir was published, clearly acknowledges the distinction between being

00:15:31.740 adopted and being a legal conservator. Clearly acknowledges that he was not adopted. He uses the

00:15:38.240 term conservators several times in the book, but we're told to believe that more than 10 years later,

00:15:43.480 he finally decided to look into it and realized he had been tricked. We're supposed to believe that

00:15:47.360 he just realized some truth that he himself had already publicly acknowledged in a book

00:15:53.520 he published over 10 years ago. So how was Michael Orr supposedly not aware of this? Did he not read

00:16:01.560 his own memoir? Did he not watch the movie The Blind Side? There's a scene in the film where Leanne

00:16:06.900 establishes legal guardianship over Michael Orr. There is no scene where she says that she's legally

00:16:11.420 adopting him. That claim was never made by anyone, ever. Now, to be clear, I can't say for sure who's

00:16:20.840 right or wrong in this case, though I have my very strong suspicions. I wouldn't be surprised if all

00:16:25.780 parties concerned, or at least partially in the wrong to some extent. That's usually how these kinds

00:16:28.920 of conflicts go. And if the media wants to tell us that the two he's aren't really saviors, I'd

00:16:34.420 certainly agree with that. There's only one savior. His name isn't two he. But then again, the two he's,

00:16:39.320 to my knowledge, have never claimed to be saviors. They also never claimed to be saints or martyrs.

00:16:44.140 They did a nice thing for a kid who needed help. That's a fact, and that's all.

00:16:49.540 Does this conflict stem from the fact that although the two he's became Orr's guardians and treated him

00:16:53.740 like a son, they didn't intend to actually pass their fortune down to him because they wanted to

00:16:59.300 go to their actual kids? Is Michael Orr upset that he's not now today as a 37-year-old man reaping the

00:17:05.320 financial benefits of being a blood relation to the two he's? I mean, these are purely speculations,

00:17:09.940 but I think reasonable ones. But I don't know. The key point is that the media's complete lack

00:17:16.020 of curiosity on all of these obvious red flags tells you everything you need to know about the

00:17:19.980 left's perspective on race. A decade ago, only a handful of insufferable outlets complained about 0.83

00:17:26.260 the blind side, and now all of academia and the major media outlets are doing it.

00:17:30.360 You know, they're united to smear a family that helped save a young black teenager's life without

00:17:35.060 any regard for facts or contrary evidence. They're just running in and running with the narrative.

00:17:42.060 After eight years of Barack Obama and all those BLM riots and George Floyd funerals,

00:17:47.100 we've arrived basically at this moral guidance. Let the black teenager on the side of the road 1.00

00:17:52.340 freeze to death. Don't help him, or you're a racist. Well, at least we now have some clarity from 1.00

00:17:59.360 the party of Black Lives Matter and from the corporate media. Somehow a sports movie from 2009

00:18:05.760 has led them all to admit what they really think, which is better to leave the black kid languishing 1.00

00:18:11.500 in the gutter than reach out and help him. Better to look the other way than be a white savior. 0.97

00:18:19.120 That's the message coming in loud and clear. And I suspect that a lot of white people who have

00:18:25.120 watched this Michael Orr saga play out and who have seen everything that's happened over the past

00:18:29.900 decade or so are going to take that message to heart and respond accordingly. The next Michael Orr,

00:18:37.040 the next disadvantaged black kid who needs a helping hand, might not get it. He might end up suffering

00:18:43.540 the fate that Orr likely would have suffered had the two he's not stepped in. That's apparently what

00:18:50.120 the left wants. And now, tragically, that's what they'll get. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:20:21.300 So we told you yesterday about the story of the GOP congressman who attacked a woman because she

00:20:25.840 posted about her Christian faith on Twitter. She said that there is no hope but in Jesus Christ,

00:20:29.840 which is a very standard Christian belief and sentiment statement. And this guy,

00:20:34.740 Representative Max Miller, told her it was bigoted and she needs to delete it. Miller is Jewish,

00:20:40.160 not Christian, so he found her statement of her Christian faith to be somehow offensive and

00:20:45.920 excluding to him. Now, he did apologize later, but as I said yesterday, the apology only goes so far

00:20:53.680 because he still expressed something he truly believes, which is that it's bigoted to profess

00:20:59.520 your Christian faith. He said that. And my suspicion was that the apology wasn't exactly sincere,

00:21:07.760 and that has now been lended some extra credence after this development. This is from the Post

00:21:13.700 Millennial. A woman who worked at Ohio Right to Life has been fired after posting the gospel on 0.70

00:21:19.560 social media. Lizzie Marbach was given the opportunity to resign or to receive a transition

00:21:23.840 period before her official dismissal, but reportedly declined both per the Sentinel.

00:21:28.780 There's no hope but for any of us outside having faith in Jesus Christ alone. Marbach wrote

00:21:32.660 on August 15th, stating that a tenet of Christianity, that Jesus Christ is a Savior,

00:21:38.780 Son of God, and one true God. In response, Ohio Republican Representative Max Miller quoted the Post

00:21:43.720 with the statement, this is one of the most bigoted tweets I've ever seen. Delete it, Lizzie. Religious 0.89

00:21:48.280 freedom in the United States applies to every religion. You've gone too far. So somehow that was also 0.87

00:21:55.060 putting aside how outrageous it is to have a congressman, especially a Republican congressman,

00:22:00.920 telling someone not to express their Christian faith, but to suggest that her tweet was somehow

00:22:06.980 an infringement on his religious freedom. So you hear someone else, not even here, you see them

00:22:13.280 expressing their religious faith on Twitter, and that infringes on your freedom somehow to practice

00:22:18.480 your own religion? That's what he said. Sorry, Congressman Marbach replied, but these are the words of

00:22:24.680 Jesus himself. Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father

00:22:28.660 but through me. No one has hope outside of Jesus Christ, and every knee will bow one day

00:22:32.820 declaring Jesus Christ as Lord. Miller's wife, who sits on the board of the organization from

00:22:37.340 which Marbach has now been terminated, also said that she should delete the Post. And now

00:22:44.180 she's been fired. So that's what happened. Ohio Right to Life, who she worked for, fired her 1.00

00:22:52.980 the day after all this, and it just so happens that Miller's wife is on the board of this

00:22:59.820 organization. Now the organization did put out a statement saying this, quote,

00:23:04.200 Ohio Right to Life can confirm that Elizabeth Lizzie Marbach is no longer employed at Ohio Right

00:23:08.100 to Life. This decision was not based on any single event, as some social media claim. We appreciate

00:23:14.300 Lizzie's service and wish her the best in future endeavors. Okay, well notice what they don't say.

00:23:19.000 They don't say that the Post had nothing to do with her termination. They just say that it's not

00:23:24.160 one single event. So I don't know what's going on here. I can tell you I am very familiar with the

00:23:32.160 Right to Life organization on the national level, not as much with the Ohio chapter, although I'm sure

00:23:37.240 I've worked with them in the past at some point, as I have with Right to Life across the country.

00:23:41.920 And the organization nationally has done great work for many years. I've been to many Right to Life

00:23:48.480 events. I've given speeches at many of them. And the Christian faith is central to what they do.

00:23:54.880 I mean, they've always been extremely open about it. In my experience, you go to one of their

00:23:57.900 events, there's going to be a prayer before, you know, a banquet. And I've spoken many of their

00:24:01.200 banquets. And you're open with a prayer. You know, in my speeches, I always talk very openly about my

00:24:06.480 faith. It's never been a problem. So the idea that they would fire someone for expressing their faith

00:24:13.440 is like, it's, I mean, it's shocking to me. It's not remotely consistent with the organization as I

00:24:19.180 have known it. Now, I have been told behind the scenes, their claim is that this parting of ways

00:24:26.800 was in works, in the works for months. So that's what I was told. And the timing of the tweet is just

00:24:33.120 really bad. But if it was in the works for months, and then this happens with the tweet,

00:24:38.300 you don't pull the trigger on the firing the very next day after this. You just don't do that.

00:24:45.640 So it's been in the works for months, then like, what's another month? You might as well wait another

00:24:49.420 month. You just don't fire a woman a day after she was publicly rebuked for her faith by a congressman

00:24:57.120 whose wife is on the board of your organization. You just don't do that. And at a minimum, if you do

00:25:05.540 fire her and it's all just bad timing, quote unquote, you would unequivocally state publicly

00:25:11.500 that it wasn't because of the tweet where she professed her faith. You would say that explicitly.

00:25:16.380 You would come out, your statement would be, it's had absolutely nothing to do with that tweet at all.

00:25:20.660 We are very, you know, we, many of our members are open Christians and we think it's a wonderful thing.

00:25:27.960 It had nothing to do with that. Like, you would just be very clear about it.

00:25:30.120 But they weren't. So, uh, it just doesn't make any sense.

00:25:37.580 And like I said, you know, I like these people. I like the organization.

00:25:40.500 I've heard their version behind the scenes from people who've reached out to me, but, uh,

00:25:44.620 I got to call balls and strikes as I see them. And I have to be honest about it.

00:25:48.400 And this story from Ohio right to life doesn't make sense to me. It just doesn't.

00:25:53.460 I'm sorry. Like, I mean, you call it bad timing. Yeah, that's a real bad timing.

00:25:57.580 Every, every part of this. Like if Max Miller's wife was not on the board,

00:26:05.380 uh, that would make it a little less suspicious, but she is apparently. So, 0.97

00:26:10.860 so this woman, uh, Lizzie Marbach is attacked by a Republican congressman 0.95

00:26:17.780 and by the wife who's on the board. And a day later she's gone.

00:26:22.360 I don't know what's really going on behind the scenes, but the story doesn't make sense to me

00:26:26.620 at all. And, um, and, but it also doesn't make sense that they would fire someone for expressing

00:26:32.440 their Christian faith. Because like I said, this is something that like everyone in, in right to,

00:26:36.520 pretty much, I mean, it'd be very hard to find someone who works in right to life who is not an 0.99

00:26:40.580 open Christian. I mean, there are some, but it's, uh, it's, they're not many. I mean,

00:26:45.440 the vast majority are open to professed Christians. Um, so the whole thing, it's just 1.00

00:26:51.320 doesn't make sense. And it's, it's very bad. And this, for me, it still goes back to Max Miller,

00:26:57.440 who is the public, who is the representative here is that he's a government official.

00:27:03.460 And he's the, the one first and foremost, who owes an explanation.

00:27:07.860 Like, what did you mean by the original tweet? I don't care about the apology.

00:27:13.640 I mean, you know how I feel about public apologies and all the rest of it. I don't care about that.

00:27:18.140 Uh, what, what did you mean by it? It's see, the other problem with public apologies,

00:27:24.160 aside from the fact, you know, you know all my issues with that genre, the public apology genre,

00:27:29.840 but, um, they could, they could also be sort of a dodge sometimes, a way of changing the subject.

00:27:37.860 And so to just come out and say, Oh, I'm sorry. I said that. Well, okay. You're sorry.

00:27:41.520 But what did you mean by it? What you said was that this expression of the standard expression

00:27:51.740 of Christian faith is bigoted. That's what you said. What do you mean? So you said it because you 1.00

00:28:00.880 believed it. I mean, did you not believe it? Was this like a personal grudge? Were you just trying

00:28:05.760 to attack this woman? That's not good either. But is that what you want to tell us?

00:28:11.400 So either you said something, either you attacked a woman personally by saying something you don't 0.99

00:28:18.000 even believe, which makes you a hypocrite and a pretty bad person, or you did believe it. And 0.99

00:28:26.600 that's why you said it, which means that you, that's how you feel about the Christian faith.

00:28:31.280 You, you, you feel that it's fundamentally bigoted, right? Max. I mean, it's one of those

00:28:37.860 two. I don't know. What's the third option here. And I think we need, uh, you, you need to flesh

00:28:45.260 that out a little bit more, uh, because you are a government, you, you are, you know, you represent

00:28:51.140 the voters in your district in Ohio. And I think that they probably want to know.

00:28:56.160 And I'm going to guess that the majority of them are Christian. So which is it? Are you, uh, saying

00:29:01.680 things you don't, don't believe because you have a problem with this particular woman and you just

00:29:05.560 wanted to send the, send the hounds after her by calling her a bigot? Or do you really believe this?

00:29:12.540 That anyone who believes that, you know, Christianity is the way that Christ is the way, the truth and the

00:29:16.980 life is, uh, is a bigot. So we're going to need a lot more. Uh, Jen Psaki is an MSNBC contributor now 0.68

00:29:26.160 or host. Uh, I don't know what she is, but she works for them. And here's the level of analysis 0.53

00:29:30.820 that we get from her. Watch this. So you take a step back from all of the developments of the

00:29:36.520 legal trials and tribulations of Donald Trump is that the Republican party has moved in a direction

00:29:42.620 that's out of touch with the American electorate. And you gave a number of examples there, but if

00:29:48.140 any party, a political party is trying to make it harder and more difficult to vote, which is

00:29:53.480 something we've seen the Republican party do in a number of States across the country over the last

00:29:57.920 couple of years, it's because they don't want more people to go out there and voice their view and

00:30:03.060 voice who they want to support. That means fundamentally you're scared of more people being out there voting

00:30:09.220 because they're going to vote for your opponent. And the Ohio example you gave is such a good one.

00:30:13.400 And unfortunately, there's a number of other cases in States across the country where there have been

00:30:17.840 efforts to make it harder for people in, in red States and purple States and lavender, whatever States

00:30:24.740 color States they are to express their support for abortion rights and the ability of women to make

00:30:30.700 choices about their own healthcare, because there's a fear that women will do exactly that, that men will do 0.99

00:30:36.840 exactly that because those positions are popular in the country. So even as we're working through

00:30:42.240 navigating, litigating, explaining every detail of Trump's legal issues, the challenge here is that

00:30:49.580 the positions that the core candidates and leaders of the Republican party have on issues people care

00:30:55.320 about, whether it's access to voting choices about your own healthcare, all of these crazy wackadoo

00:31:01.840 cultural debates about gay marriage. First of all, gay marriage is the lava land. It's out of touch with 1.00

00:31:07.660 the public. And that is a core problem for the party. So I, I think that that's, it's important to

00:31:15.780 see that because I mean, they're in the process of talking about Trump's indictment and his supposed

00:31:21.380 efforts to overturn the election and, you know, calling our elections into question and claiming that

00:31:26.340 they're rigged. But what she's describing here, what she's advocating for is in fact the primary way

00:31:34.060 that the Democrats go about rigging elections, which is by opposing any effort to ensure any kind

00:31:44.880 of election integrity whatsoever. And there's a reason why they don't want that. Because when she says,

00:31:51.840 well, they want to make it more difficult to vote, they can never explain that. They can never explain

00:31:55.500 what they mean by that. In, in what way, you know, I don't want to, we don't need generalities here.

00:32:03.120 Give me specific examples of people who, because of some Republican law or policy of this past,

00:32:10.220 are now having a difficult time voting. And in, and in what way is it difficult for them?

00:32:16.560 Um, because voting is, it is intentionally made to be idiot proof. Um, and it is that way all across 0.99

00:32:29.460 the country. And as you know, how I feel about it, I don't think it should be. Um, I don't think we

00:32:36.300 should idiot proof voting. I think it should go the other way. We should, we should put things in place 0.97

00:32:40.620 intentionally that would, that would make it difficult for idiots to vote. Uh, you, we should, 1.00

00:32:47.100 we should have filters in place to try to filter out the idiots because we don't want them voting. 1.00

00:32:53.440 I mean, that's how you really undermine our democracy and our way of life is by having a 1.00

00:32:56.720 bunch of oblivious idiots flooding, uh, the voting booth and basically negating the votes of all of the 0.99

00:33:05.680 people who are actually contributing members of society who, who know what's going on. And that, 1.00

00:33:10.200 and that is precisely the plan. That's what the Democrats want to do. That is their whole strategy.

00:33:15.280 And it's been incredibly effective on a political level. You know, they're worried about people like,

00:33:22.180 like you, people like us, just people who just, we don't have to be geniuses. Okay.

00:33:27.420 People who pay attention and know what's going on.

00:33:29.620 And you go to vote and you, you, you are, uh, a, a sentient conscious human being and you go to vote

00:33:37.700 and you have a basic idea of what's going on in the world. It, they don't want that. I mean,

00:33:42.340 they, they don't want us to vote, but they can't really stop us at this point. And so instead the

00:33:47.320 plan is to just send like for every vote made by a sentient aware human being, they want to have 1.00

00:33:58.280 a busload of morons to cancel it out. Literal busloads. Um, which means making voting as effortless 0.99

00:34:10.020 and easy as possible. And it's important to understand this. It's not all about, you know,

00:34:15.300 the, uh, the early voting and mail-in voting, you know, we'll give you, we'll give you, uh,

00:34:20.340 we'll give you seven and a half months to vote and we'll send ballots to your house and we'll have,

00:34:25.260 you know, we'll have someone come and fill it out for you. We'll have someone come in and pick you

00:34:29.940 up and carry you to your own mailbox so that you don't have to make any effort whatsoever. Right.

00:34:37.980 Um, and when conservatives criticize these kinds of policies, usually what we're worried about

00:34:43.540 is fraud, which is something that we should worry about because it does happen. Uh, it's a

00:34:51.000 considerable problem. But what I'm trying to say is the problem is bigger than that

00:34:54.740 because, you know, when, when they, when they go out of their way to get people to vote who have

00:35:05.220 no idea what's going on in the world and are not interested in, in, in exerting any effort towards

00:35:11.480 voting at all. Yeah. Those are actual votes. That's not fraud, but, uh, it is a way of rigging the

00:35:19.800 system. When, if we actually cared about our demo, our, our precious democratic system,

00:35:27.000 what we would do is we would have a system in place that tries to weed out that actually tries 0.59

00:35:31.020 to weed out fraud and make sure that you're, make sure that you're, you know, you're voting,

00:35:34.480 you're, you're a, a, a, of legal voting age or an American citizen. You've, this is,

00:35:38.880 you've only voted once. This is not your third time. Um, all of that, but then we would also have

00:35:46.060 a system to make sure that on top of like, that's just bare minimum, that's entry level.

00:35:51.180 And then as well, we would make sure that you are a contributing and, um, aware member of society.

00:36:03.500 So if you, if you really care about the democratic system, that's what you would do. If you really

00:36:09.280 want to protect it, if you actually cherish it as some sacred thing, then that is what you would

00:36:15.700 want, but that's not what they want very clearly. All right. Um, this is from Yahoo, uh, posting to

00:36:27.100 TikTok, a mother named Jana shared her reasons for allowing her 17 year old son, Cody to undergo top

00:36:33.760 surgery and she couldn't be more proud to be his mother. And of course, when Yahoo says son

00:36:40.300 and he, they mean daughter and she, you know, we understand that top surgery also known as chest

00:36:45.920 surgery and masculine, masculinizing chest surgery is a type of gender affirming medical procedure 0.81

00:36:50.720 that alters the chest area that requires the removal of breast tissue. And it's typically performed 0.98

00:36:54.980 for transgender men or non-binary people who are assigned female at birth. Um, so there are some,

00:37:01.400 this is what this woman does and she's got a big following on TikTok and she talks all about,

00:37:06.200 um, her daughter who she's abusing and who has been mutilated with her help and her funding.

00:37:13.500 And let's just watch one of these, let's just clip six. Let's watch one of these videos.

00:37:18.540 Why would I ever allow my 17 year old to have top surgery? Why would I do that? That's insane.

00:37:24.680 That's crazy. It's child abuse until you look at the really, really happy kid who walked out of the

00:37:30.360 doctor's office today, feeling really great about himself for the first time. And I don't even know

00:37:34.220 how long his chest looks great. It looks absolutely great. And, um, here's how my kid feels here. It

00:37:41.860 is from the horse's mouth. Enjoy. So how are you feeling? Really good. What did it feel like when

00:37:47.240 you saw your chest for the first time? No. I'm super excited for you. I'm happy. Wow. This is,

00:37:58.280 this is amazing. Isn't it? You look so amazing. You look so good.

00:38:06.940 Finally feels right for the first time. Right? And that's just it. It feels right for the first

00:38:11.900 time. You look so good. I'm so proud of you. I love you so much. Thank you.

00:38:17.940 There's one other clip that we were going to play, but I can't, I just can't watch clips like this.

00:38:21.520 I can't, I don't know. We've seen enough of this, uh, of, of Munchausen mommy here and you get the

00:38:28.640 idea. It's always the same, you know, and once again, and I don't know where the dad is in this,

00:38:32.640 in, in this, uh, I assume he's nowhere, but it's like, it's always the, almost always the mom with

00:38:38.440 the exception of Dwayne Wade. It's almost always the mom. And when you see these videos and we've seen

00:38:43.460 a million of them, it's always the same video. It's the same. It's like the moms even look the same.

00:38:47.840 It's like, it's just, they're interchangeable, everything about them. Um, telling her daughter,

00:38:54.880 oh, you look amazing. She doesn't though. I mean, she looks mutilated, butchered and confused.

00:39:02.600 It's not amazing at all. And you just have to, let me ask you this. Uh, this mom, what was her name

00:39:12.720 again? Janna. Okay. Janna, if you walked into your daughter's room and she was cutting herself,

00:39:24.240 you know, mutilating herself, cutting herself, cutting her wrists, let's say with a razor blade 1.00

00:39:28.420 and you said, oh my God, what are you doing? Don't, don't do that. And she said, well, 0.97

00:39:34.180 it makes me feel good to do this. Would you then say, oh, well, okay. If it makes you feel good.

00:39:39.820 And then would you pull out your phone and do a, uh, an inspirational TikTok video

00:39:45.060 with the inspirational piano music in the background? You know, many people say that my

00:39:50.740 daughter, uh, shouldn't cut her wrists with a razor blade, but you know, what they don't 1.00

00:39:55.500 understand is that she feels good when she does it. Would you do that? Now I might not be making

00:40:02.720 the point I'm trying to make here because when you hear that question, you, because you're a psychotic 0.89

00:40:06.860 barbarian, you, you might, yeah, for all I know that that it might be exactly how you respond 1.00

00:40:14.120 because you're a monster. But any parent who actually loves their child and you don't love 0.99

00:40:20.580 your child at all. Um, any parent who actually loves their child would not respond that way. You

00:40:26.080 walk in and see your child destroying, hurting herself. Uh, the fact that it makes her feel good,

00:40:32.180 that it's, it's some, it gives her some kind of release, um, in, because she's, uh, confused and

00:40:38.860 lashing out. And this is the way that she's looking for this, this release. Uh, you know,

00:40:45.460 you, you would not be okay with that. You wouldn't say, well, as long as it makes you feel good.

00:40:49.760 In fact, if you are a, even halfway decent and competent parent, and again, you love your child,

00:40:57.500 you're never going to think because it feels good is, you know, a, a, a good enough justification

00:41:08.400 for anything that your child does. Instead, as the parent, what you say to your child is, yeah,

00:41:13.660 that you might think that this makes you feel better in the moment, but, but this is not the

00:41:19.840 right way. You know, you're not making anything better. You're hurting yourself. You can't do this.

00:41:25.540 And you would try to get your child the help that she desperately needs.

00:41:29.200 And this is no different. You know, every, every, uh, video or image we see of a, of a girl who's had

00:41:35.260 quote unquote top surgery, it is no different in kind to a girl who cuts herself. And in fact,

00:41:43.200 it's not a, also, by the way, there's a lot of crossover here. Very often the girl who goes

00:41:49.640 on to get top surgery also has a history of, of cutting and self mutilation because it's the same

00:41:55.540 kind of thing. She's confused. She's in despair. She hates herself. She hates her body. Uh, what she 0.96

00:42:04.360 needs is someone to help her accept herself for who she is. And because she doesn't get that in your

00:42:11.460 case because she has a terrible mother who hates her, um, she just ends up looking for

00:42:17.240 even more ways to, to, to harm herself.

00:42:22.140 So it's a very similar kind of thing. The only difference, you know, top surgery and cutting,

00:42:27.460 very similar. Only difference is that top surgery is so much worse, obviously, because it's a permanent

00:42:32.520 damage. And, uh, this again is something that any, any decent parent understands. But what we've

00:42:41.240 learned time and time again, is that there are a lot of, uh, very not decent parents out there.

00:42:46.560 Let's get to the comment section.

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00:44:00.460 an interesting comment section today because I'm going to pull all these comments from the video we

00:44:06.180 posted from a segment, I guess it was two days ago now, um, where I was responding to a woman on

00:44:13.240 TikTok who was getting childless woman who was giving her rules for where you as a parent are

00:44:18.660 allowed to bring your kids in public. And she was taking a special exception to, uh, parents who

00:44:24.040 bring their kids to bars and breweries. But then she went on to explain that, um, you, you really

00:44:30.560 can't bring your kid to anywhere that has age risk, quote unquote, age restricted items. Said you're

00:44:34.640 an a-hole if you do. And she doesn't want to be around your kids because she wants to be able to be 1.00

00:44:38.760 vulgar and crass and talk about sex really loudly. And she can't do that when your kid is there. 1.00

00:44:44.760 So I disagreed. I obviously, well, I thought it was obvious that I would disagree with that

00:44:50.660 position. I explain why. Um, and, uh, I'm getting killed in the comments by it, by a bunch of people

00:44:59.160 that are completely wrong. You know, it happens sometimes with the SPG. It doesn't happen very

00:45:02.800 often. But every once in a while with the SPG, you guys are all just wrong. And, uh, and, uh, as the

00:45:08.320 cult leader, I need to be here to let you know that. That's one of my sacred, solemn responsibilities.

00:45:14.100 So let me just read a couple of these comments. Swifty says, as a father, I agree with her. Not

00:45:18.100 sure why you'd want to take your child to a place where drunk adults are likely to be. Porter Wake

00:45:22.000 says, eh, you made a mountain out of a molehill here, Matt. Don't take your kids to taverns drinking

00:45:25.720 or weed smoking places. Latch says, I don't think it's good for children to be surrounded by a bunch of

00:45:30.460 intoxicated adults. So I'm standing, I'm siding with her. Lara says, I'm sorry, but kids absolutely

00:45:35.540 do not belong in bars. And a restaurant is not a bar. Bars are for drinking. What parents bring a

00:45:40.240 child to a bar while on a night out of drinking in a place filled with drunks? Uh, Karfty says,

00:45:47.580 nah, she's right for this. Children shouldn't be in bars. Mary says, I'm shocked that people glare 0.99

00:45:51.660 at Matt's family in restaurants. It's just weird. But I'm also shocked at his response to this woman. 0.54

00:45:55.380 The bar is a place where, uh, there is bound to be raunchy talk. For instance, dirty jokes. It's also

00:45:59.480 a place where hostilities could break out. Bars are an adult venue, just like drag shows should be. 1.00

00:46:03.960 I don't know where you guys are going to bars or what, or where are you getting your,

00:46:07.200 where are you getting your perception of a bar from like, uh, Pirates of the Caribbean or something.

00:46:12.320 Um, but you're all missing the point by a country mile. First of all, the woman says in the video,

00:46:18.200 you should not bring your kid to any place that sells quote age restricted items. She includes

00:46:23.120 cigarettes on that list. Okay. So I have to assume y'all didn't hear that part of the video,

00:46:27.080 even though I specifically highlighted and center my entire argument around it, but somehow you didn't

00:46:30.640 hear, um, to exclude children from all places with quote age restricted items, which is what she was

00:46:35.780 talking about is to exclude them from all restaurants, all gas stations, basically all of

00:46:41.560 society. Okay. That's my point. Okay. It's the whole point of the video. I don't know how else to put it.

00:46:46.560 Also, obviously, you know, obviously you shouldn't bring your kid to a rowdy bar, uh, with a bunch of

00:46:52.800 drunken pirates. Um, you shouldn't bring them to like a college bar at 2 AM. Um, the reason you

00:47:00.240 don't bring them to places like that is that it's not appropriate for them. It's inappropriate for

00:47:04.320 them. And I also say at the beginning of my video that there are places you don't bring your kids

00:47:08.460 because of the effect it would have on them. Okay. Obviously, but there are like thousands of bars,

00:47:15.620 you know, bars and restaurants, sports bars, beach bars, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera,

00:47:19.580 that serve food that are perfectly family friendly. Uh, you can go at, you can go there

00:47:24.660 at lunchtime and nobody is drunk. You know, uh, where we used to live right down the street,

00:47:29.700 there was a sports bar. I'd take my kids there all the time. I would get them chicken tenders from

00:47:33.360 the, from the kids menu. It's a sports bar. Nobody was drunk. Everything was fine. It was a good,

00:47:38.080 there were lots of families there. I don't know. Is, are people not aware that this exists? Like

00:47:41.660 this is, it's not just that there are some bars that are this way. It's like most of them.

00:47:46.520 Okay. If I say to someone, eh, I got to meet you at the bar down the street,

00:47:48.880 it's like almost always a bar and restaurant. Now there are some bars that are just bars where

00:47:53.000 it's like, you literally just sit at the bar and all they have is, is the liquor and beer. And yeah,

00:47:57.060 obviously you're not gonna bring your kid to a place like that, but it's also clear. I would

00:47:59.600 think that I'm not talking about that. Um, and to drive the point home. And so, so that's what

00:48:06.900 she wants to exclude kids from those places, you know, like a bar and restaurant, Buffalo Wild Wings 0.78

00:48:12.800 is a bar. Okay. Um, and to drive the point home, her video starts by showing one of those places 0.88

00:48:21.180 that she wants the kids, keep kids away from the video starts, but it shows one of the places that 0.86

00:48:25.380 she thinks kids shouldn't be allowed at. And it's an outdoor spot with sand and picnic tables and

00:48:31.180 families. And it's the middle of the day, clearly a family friendly place, clearly a place where they

00:48:37.860 want families to come. And she is saying, I don't want kids there that place specifically.

00:48:46.220 And what's her reason? See, that's the third point. The third point is the reason her reason

00:48:50.720 for not wanting kids is not that it's bad for them to be at these places, but that she wants to be able

00:48:57.360 to curse loudly and talk about her sex life. That's her reason. And that's also why she, she doesn't 0.99

00:49:03.300 just want to exclude them from, from the kinds of places that, that everyone agrees kids should be

00:49:08.240 excluded from. She wants to exclude them from anywhere that she likes to hang out. That's what she 0.80

00:49:14.380 says. That's her whole reasoning. So I don't know how else to put this. Um, and, uh, you know,

00:49:26.260 there is no one or almost no one who thinks that you should actually bring a kid to, for example,

00:49:33.220 to a college bar at 1am or bring them to the kind of bar where there are a bunch of drunk, rowdy

00:49:38.280 adults and fights are breaking out. Like if you've ever been to a bar like that, you've probably never

00:49:43.740 seen a kid there. It's so that's not an issue. Everyone agrees. Of course you don't bring a kid

00:49:46.680 to a place like that. Um, so that, that's not a viewpoint that exists. Okay. So we all, that's one of the

00:49:52.840 reasons we know her video wasn't targeting those kinds of parents because those parents don't

00:49:56.320 exist. You ever been to a bar at 1am? I have. Have you ever seen a kid at one? Never, ever,

00:50:02.240 ever. It doesn't happen. So that's not something that exists. So she wasn't targeting this thing

00:50:07.400 that doesn't exist. What she was targeting is when you just bring your kids to any place that like she 1.00

00:50:13.920 wants to hang out and, and, and, but that mentality on her part does exist. That's a common thing. 1.00

00:50:20.840 And that's why I talked about in that segment that I know, you know, bringing my kids when I go out

00:50:26.780 as a family and we got six kids and we go to a place, we go to a restaurant. It's a perfectly

00:50:31.560 appropriate environment for kids. Um, and you know, we get the dirty looks and all that. 0.97

00:50:37.680 And the reason is people like her who just like, no, I just don't want your kid here. Cause to me,

00:50:43.120 it's, I consider it annoying just to have them in my presence. That's a, that's a very common

00:50:48.420 mentality that people have as evidenced by that. Now I talked about this on, on Twitter and, uh,

00:50:53.040 I talked about the dirty looks that big families get. And of course I heard from a lot of people,

00:50:57.020 none of them actually have big families, but a lot of people who just denied that is all you're

00:51:01.500 making that up. That never happens. Okay. Yeah, it doesn't, I don't know. It's just what I've,

00:51:06.720 I grew up in a big family. I have a big family. It's been, I've experienced it countless times in my

00:51:11.160 entire life. Um, and you talk to any parent who actually has a lot of kids and they will tell you

00:51:16.160 this is a very common thing. As I said, I don't care. It's not a big deal. It doesn't bother me.

00:51:21.340 Um, but one of the ways, you know, that that does happen is because of people like this one.

00:51:27.620 And in fact, I, I, I, even though there were, there were those denying, it's like,

00:51:31.520 oh, it's just never, no one has that attitude. No one can shoot dirty looks at the same time,

00:51:35.720 even under the comments on those tweets, you had a bunch of adults saying things like, well,

00:51:41.240 your kid shouldn't go to any restaurant where there's not a kid menu, like that kind of thing.

00:51:44.320 Okay. So, uh, which, which is crazy by the way, and I don't abide by that.

00:51:51.100 Yeah. One guy tell me, just bring your kid to Chili's. Okay. Yeah. So that's,

00:51:54.800 so if you have a family, you have to relegate yourself to bad restaurants with crappy food.

00:52:00.380 That's where the family should go as a second class citizen, stick with Applebee's and Chili's.

00:52:04.640 Don't go to the actual good restaurants because he doesn't want to be around your kids.

00:52:09.700 Again, this is a, this is an actual common attitude in society that people have.

00:52:13.140 And, uh, and it's, it's, uh, worth explaining why that attitude is wrong.

00:52:21.220 All right. Good. So you're all wrong. We'll do better next time.

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00:52:54.840 A few years ago, the author Ross Douthat wrote a book called the decadent society. And in the book,

00:52:59.940 he argues that, um, we're not headed for any kind of catastrophic civilizational collapse,

00:53:04.560 but rather we are on our way to, and in fact, already in a period of stasis of cultural paralysis,

00:53:11.720 what he calls decadence. A decadent society is one that treads water that goes nowhere in particular

00:53:16.160 and kind of drifts along to various dead ends. One of the hallmarks of the decadent society is that

00:53:21.040 it has no new ideas. Instead, it simply repeats itself or repeats itself and repeats old ideas

00:53:26.700 over and over again. Constantly recycled and remade movies and lifeless movie franchises that never end

00:53:33.580 are the perfect example of this kind of thing. Another is the endless invention of new sexualities 0.88

00:53:37.880 and genders, which are all just different versions of being gay. A slightly less noticeable, 0.99

00:53:43.220 but for me, even more annoying example is this insistence on taking normal things and making

00:53:49.020 them into trends. Every week, there's another trend to taking social media and Gen Z by storm. But

00:53:55.200 when you investigate, you discover that this is something people have always been doing. It's just

00:53:58.760 that they never felt the need to make it into a hashtag. I've just been made aware of a particularly

00:54:04.120 egregious variation on this theme. For example, this is a new trend that's been written about in

00:54:09.600 many media publications. It's called Girl Dinner. And here's the National Geographic report, because

00:54:15.520 this is the kind of thing that National Geographic now concerns itself with. Long gone are the days when

00:54:19.520 you go to National Geographic to learn about a lost tribe in South American jungle somewhere.

00:54:25.240 Now you learn about the eating habits of 23-year-old women on TikTok. So here's what they 1.00

00:54:30.680 say. Quote, picture this. You're home alone and it's nearing dinnertime. You grab a box of crackers

00:54:36.020 from the cabinet, some olives, baby carrots, and leftover falafel from the fridge. You can take your

00:54:40.400 masterpiece to the table, but why bother? There's something satisfyingly deviant about eating it right

00:54:44.700 off the kitchen counter with your fingers. All told, the meal takes five minutes, one plate, no utensils.

00:54:50.040 You, my friend, have just made yourself a girl dinner. What once may have been a sheepish, 1.00

00:54:54.500 solitary tradition has recently attained viral internet status thanks to Olivia Marr, a TV show

00:54:59.860 runner's assistant who first christened the phenomenon in a TikTok posted in May, a sort of

00:55:04.280 choose-your-own-adventure tasting platter. Girl Dinner can include anything and often includes

00:55:08.840 everything, from applesauce and salami to Cheetos and guacamole. The trend has since amassed nearly

00:55:13.460 one billion views on TikTok, where users have started sharing their own smorgasbord creations

00:55:17.520 and absurdist parodies. Social media hype aside, might the Girl Dinner girls and their fellow 0.94

00:55:23.420 partakers be on to something? Food experts weigh in on the potential merits and pitfalls of this

00:55:28.420 low-effort snack-forward meal and what it reveals about a relationship to food and each other.

00:55:34.220 Now, first of all, this is not an innovative trend. You haven't discovered anything new. You're just,

00:55:39.160 you're eating, okay? You're consuming food. That's what it's called. People have been doing that for as

00:55:43.580 long as people have existed. And second, to the extent that there is a particular method or approach

00:55:48.700 here, it's not fair to call it Girl Dinner. In fact, I would go so far as to label this a form

00:55:54.200 of cultural appropriation. Single men have been doing this forever. Maybe not with falafels and 0.98

00:55:59.920 olives, but the general strategy is very familiar. When I was a single man, I don't think I ate a dinner

00:56:05.300 on a plate with an entree and a side dish even one time. If I was hungry, I went to my kitchen,

00:56:11.500 opened up the fridge. I stood facing the fridge with the door still open, and I ate whatever random

00:56:18.820 items I happened to have in there, which wasn't much. Never heat anything up. You know, I didn't

00:56:24.700 put it on a plate and sit by myself at the dining room table, mostly because I didn't have a dining

00:56:30.040 room table or plates or a dining room or really any furniture at all except for a couch and a mattress

00:56:36.280 and box spring with no bed frame. The point is that the Girl Dinner trend directly steals from

00:56:41.620 ancient bachelor tradition. Our culture is not your TikTok trend, you damned plagiarists. 0.99

00:56:48.820 But when it comes to doing something that people have been doing forever, pretending that you 0.98

00:56:51.800 invented a hot new trend, nowhere is this more common than in the workplace. We've discussed several

00:56:56.500 times in the past these alleged new workplace trends that are not new at all and are almost always

00:57:02.000 just a version of being lazy. Quiet quitting is one we've discussed. There have been others in

00:57:07.140 that same vein. And now Business Insider has compiled, for whatever reason, the whole list.

00:57:11.540 So we now have all of the workplace trends, quote unquote, that Gen Z has invented this year in one 1.00

00:57:17.740 handy list. Headline, from lazy girl jobs to loud quitting, here are the biggest workplace buzzwords of

00:57:24.400 2023 and what they mean. The article begins, fed up employees are starting new workplace trends that push

00:57:30.620 back on exploitative employers. Enter lazy girl jobs, loud quitting, and bare minimum Mondays. 1.00

00:57:36.900 Check out these and other big workplace buzzwords of 2023 and what experts have to say about them.

00:57:42.600 Now, a few of these buzzwords actually have the effect of taking a healthy and productive thing

00:57:46.720 and making it sound worse than it really is. So here's one, rage applying. Business Insider says,

00:57:53.580 rage applying is the practice of mass applying to jobs fueled by feelings of unhappiness at work.

00:57:57.820 And it seems it has the potential to pay off. After being passed over for a promotion, Jordan

00:58:02.840 Smith, a 28-year-old working in the music industry in LA, rage applied for five jobs and landed a

00:58:08.660 better paying role within a week. However, rage applying might not be the best approach for

00:58:12.500 everyone. Career coach Kelsey Watt advises against conducting a job search from an emotional place of

00:58:17.320 fear, resentment, or burnout. Okay. Well, this is not rage applying. This is just applying. This is the

00:58:24.620 standard application process. If you're looking for a new job, especially if you're looking for

00:58:28.480 an entry-level job, it's a good idea to fill out multiple applications or send in multiple resumes.

00:58:36.340 Applying for five jobs is not anything excessive or impressive. It's what you do if you're serious

00:58:42.120 about finding a job. Now, you probably don't want to be in a state of rage while you're filling out the

00:58:46.620 application, but I don't think that's happening anyway. I'm not even sure what that would look like.

00:58:50.560 Like a guy sitting at his computer, faces red, frothing at the mouth, trembling with rage

00:58:56.580 while filling out his employment history and contact information. It just seems somewhat

00:59:00.620 incongruent. You can't maintain actual rage while filling out a form. It's more of a feeling of

00:59:06.920 numbness and quiet despair, if anything. But now we get to the fancy workplace buzzwords that all

00:59:12.680 describe the same kind of laziness and incompetence. Now, reading from the article, it says,

00:59:16.620 As major tech companies continue laying off significant numbers of workers,

00:59:20.940 another workplace trend has emerged. Resenteism. It describes the act of staying in an unsatisfying

00:59:27.020 job due to a perceived lack of options, even as resentment grows. After resenteism came the

00:59:33.140 synonymous loud quitters and grumpy stayers. Gallup's 2023 State of the Global Workplace report found that

00:59:40.460 roughly one in five workers are loud quitting at their jobs, which means just that they're actively

00:59:45.060 disengaged at work, as opposed to quiet quitters who are simply not engaged. Wait, what?

00:59:52.600 So on one hand, you are disengaged. On the other hand, you are not engaged. Wow, that's quite a

00:59:58.440 distinction. Now, just as a quick note, that goes without saying, if you have ever referred to

01:00:03.320 yourself as a grumpy stayer, you should not only be fired from your job, but you should also be

01:00:08.640 deported to Venus. But there's a lot more in this vein. There's also bare minimum Monday,

01:00:13.900 which we're told is a way to ease into work at the start of the week. TikToker Marissa Jo popularized

01:00:19.340 the term, which describes a way to resist the Sunday scaries and the pressure many people feel

01:00:24.040 to hit the ground running full speed when they return to work again on Monday. Quote,

01:00:27.920 the second I got rid of the pressure and allowed myself to have whatever kind of day unfolded,

01:00:31.580 I was able to do stuff, she said. In a video documenting one of her bare minimum Mondays,

01:00:36.660 Jo goes through activities like journaling, her skincare routine, making progress on a creative

01:00:41.220 project before beginning work, which she notes doesn't start until noon on bare minimum Mondays.

01:00:47.180 Yes, you know, it's important to ward off the Sunday scaries by having a bare minimum Monday so 0.97

01:00:52.380 you don't become a grumpy stayer who is quiet quitting. And if you've not already overdosed and

01:00:58.320 died of cringe just from hearing that sentence, don't forget about chaotic working. Business Insider

01:01:03.420 explains, chaotic working, aka malicious compliance, involves employees using their position at work to

01:01:09.420 help customers or clients at the employer's expense. Though it often entails breaking some

01:01:14.280 rules, workers may do it without fear of repercussion because they're simply fed up with

01:01:17.960 their job, their employer, or their general state of work. Anti-work sentiments have helped the trend

01:01:22.760 grow. Now that last sentence is really the key here. Putting aside how unfathomably cringy all of this

01:01:28.860 is and how it's all just trying to make trends out of simply being a garden variety loser with no work

01:01:33.280 ethic, the real point is that it grows from, as Business Insider says, anti-work sentiment.

01:01:39.440 Now, to a certain extent, everybody has experienced anti-work sentiment. Everyone who, you know,

01:01:43.820 everyone who among us has not had the alarm go off in the morning and thought to themselves, 0.96

01:01:48.780 damn, I don't feel like going to work today. We all have. And everyone has lapsed into laziness, 0.93

01:01:53.180 some more often than others. So that isn't new. But these days, thanks in part to the trend-defying

01:01:59.280 of everyday life, if I can coin my own dumb and clunky term, being lazy and anti-work is now presented as a 0.90

01:02:06.500 legitimate lifestyle choice. Okay? It's one thing to have lazy moments. Everyone does. It's another to 0.96

01:02:14.900 declare your laziness proudly, to participate in laziness like it's a valid life strategy.

01:02:22.080 And that's where we are now, especially with the younger generations. I mean, you can feel anti-work

01:02:26.980 sometimes. Everyone does. But to make that into your motto, to march under that banner, is to embrace

01:02:34.540 failure and misery and mediocrity. And this is the part that gets me. Because look, if you want to be

01:02:42.560 mediocre, unimpressive, unproductive, achieve nothing of value with your life, that's your choice.

01:02:48.540 It's a bad choice, but it's yours to make. The problem, though, is that the people who openly

01:02:54.360 admit that they do the bare minimum and that they walk around at work with open resentment and

01:02:58.700 hostility to their own employer, they put in no effort, et cetera, these people will still complain.

01:03:05.020 In fact, they will complain the loudest about their financial hardships and their lack of opportunities

01:03:10.800 and so on. You know, if you want to work little and you want to have little and you want to live a

01:03:18.420 humble life without much luxury or comfort, if you want to go live in a one-bedroom cottage in the

01:03:24.120 woods somewhere with no streaming services or designer clothes or anything else, if you want

01:03:28.620 to embrace a very modest life so that you can devote more of your time to your hobbies or your

01:03:34.800 art or simply to contemplating the mysteries of the universe, that I can more than respect. That's a

01:03:40.160 respectable choice. If you want to leave, quote, hustle culture behind and go full monastic or close 1.00

01:03:46.260 to it, great. That is an absolutely respectable approach to life and you can find plenty of joy and

01:03:51.820 fulfillment living that way. But that is not what most of the quiet quitters and bare minimum Monday

01:03:58.220 participants are doing, not even close, because they still want to live a fully modern life with all

01:04:04.220 the trappings, all the luxuries, all the streaming services, all the nice clothes and gadgets, but

01:04:10.200 without putting in any of the effort to obtain and maintain that kind of lifestyle. So they are the worst

01:04:15.940 of all worlds. That's the point. It's materialistic and lazy. Okay. It's one thing to choose one of

01:04:25.120 those. So if you've got, if you have to be like, at least choose one. Okay. If you want to be lazy,

01:04:32.220 but not materialistic, that's, that's what I'm saying. Then we can say, oh yeah, they're lazy,

01:04:36.620 but they're not materialistic at all. They don't care about, you know, they don't, they don't need to

01:04:39.180 own anything and they don't care about it. Or you could be materialistic, but ambitious.

01:04:43.920 And people could say about you, yeah, he's real materialistic, but man, he's, he's ambitious.

01:04:47.400 He's a real go getter. That's something. I mean, you could work with that and you could be a

01:04:52.100 successful person in your own way. That way you can be happy to that way. The problem is that,

01:04:58.080 that modern people, many modern people want both of those vices. You can't have both of them.

01:05:05.640 You got to choose one. You can't be materialistic and lazy because that's where it all breaks down.

01:05:11.200 That's a recipe for being eternally frustrated and unfulfilled.

01:05:16.940 And that is the fate of so many people in our culture today, which is why all the people

01:05:22.060 participating in these trends that are not really trends are today canceled. That'll do it for the

01:05:28.560 show today and this week. Have a great weekend. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.

01:05:32.760 good moment.

01:05:35.680 good moment.

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 18, 2023

Ep. 1208 - Why The Media Is So Eager To Smear The 'Blind Side' Family

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