The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1239 - These Are Serious Times And We Are Led By Unserious People

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, as we stand potentially on the brink of World War III, 0.99

00:00:03.440 it should worry us that we are led by unserious, incompetent clowns. 0.99

00:00:07.500 Talk about that. 0.99

00:00:08.060 Also, the Supreme Court may take up the issue of conversion therapy.

00:00:11.000 The left tells a lot of lies about this practice, but we'll get to the truth today.

00:00:14.640 And a porn star was fired by Playboy for her comments supporting Hamas.

00:00:18.740 How heinous do you have to be to get yourself fired by a porn company?

00:00:22.180 And the number of young adults living with their parents is nearing record highs.

00:00:25.480 What is causing this problem, and is it actually a problem at all?

00:00:28.180 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:30.080 Let's go.

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00:01:44.180 50 years ago, the United States Congress established the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

00:01:49.420 And at the time, the idea was to ensure that America would have a stable supply of energy in the event of a natural disaster,

00:01:55.260 or more likely, in the case of a war in the Middle East.

00:01:58.500 The reserve was like a fire extinguisher in a building that read, break glass in case of emergency.

00:02:03.820 It was a last resort to be used only if, somehow, the U.S. could neither generate its own energy nor find oil for reasonable prices overseas.

00:02:12.820 When the Biden administration took control of the federal government a few years ago, all of that changed.

00:02:17.840 For one thing, the Biden administration shut down existing drilling sites and prevented new oil leases from being signed.

00:02:24.580 And then, to add insult to injury, Joe Biden's handlers used the Strategic Reserve to temporarily lower the price of gas in the weeks before the midterm elections.

00:02:34.000 Nothing like that had ever happened in the history of this country.

00:02:37.100 It was a really big deal that not a lot of people paid attention to.

00:02:40.180 But the Biden administration insisted that, you know, this was necessary because war had broken out in Ukraine.

00:02:45.480 And as a result, we needed to ban Russian oil imports.

00:02:49.400 They told us again and again that this was a once-in-a-lifetime situation.

00:02:53.440 They said it was precisely the kind of emergency that justified the use of the Strategic Reserve.

00:02:58.260 Well, less than two years later, it's clear to everyone that the Biden administration was either lying or totally incompetent, or probably both.

00:03:08.760 That's because, once again, we're confronted with yet another war that no one saw coming, supposedly.

00:03:13.240 This time, it's a war in the Middle East, exactly the kind of conflict that Congress established the Strategic Reserve to deal with in the first place.

00:03:21.300 So, what's the plan?

00:03:23.560 What do we do now that we've tapped our emergency oil reserves to the point that they're at the lowest level in four decades?

00:03:30.500 Probably won't surprise you to hear that nobody in the Biden administration has an answer to that question.

00:03:36.040 No one on the right does either, actually.

00:03:38.200 Instead, both political parties are now calling for U.S. military intervention in the Middle East that would deplete our oil supply even further.

00:03:45.460 When I say military intervention, I mean that Republicans are calling for all-out war with a nuclear power.

00:03:52.920 So, here's Lindsey Graham the other day explaining that we need to start bombing Iran's oil refineries.

00:03:58.620 Watch.

00:03:59.840 Well, for every Israeli or American hostage executed by Hamas, we should take down an Iranian oil refinery. 1.00

00:04:09.600 The only way you're going to keep this war from escalating is to hold Iran accountable. 0.97

00:04:13.720 How much more death and destruction do we have to take from the Iranian regime? 0.99

00:04:19.700 I am confident this was planned and funded by the Iranians. 1.00

00:04:23.220 Hamas is a bunch of animals who deserve to be treated like animals. 1.00

00:04:28.280 So, if I was Israel, I would go in on the ground. 0.99

00:04:31.020 There is no truce to be had here.

00:04:33.040 I would dismantle Hamas. 0.73

00:04:35.080 This is the best opportunity Israel has to destroy Hamas. 0.96

00:04:39.000 Take it to the Iranians. 1.00

00:04:40.680 If you harm one American in Syria by using your Iranian militia against us in Syria, if you escalate the war by urging Hezbollah to attack Israel in the north, if Hamas kills one American and Israeli hostage, we're going to blow up your oil refineries and put you out of business. 0.60

00:04:58.100 It is now time to take the war to the Ayatollah's backyard. 0.99

00:05:01.320 Yes, let's keep this from escalating by bombing Iran's oil refineries.

00:05:08.600 That's how you de-escalate a situation.

00:05:11.460 Now, what would happen if the Pentagon did exactly what Lindsey Graham said and started bombing Iran?

00:05:16.220 Would the price of oil instantly increase by 500%?

00:05:20.340 Would Iran retaliate using the nuclear weapons that they probably have by now? 0.63

00:05:25.860 Who knows?

00:05:27.140 What we do know is that the end result for America would almost certainly be bad.

00:05:32.120 I mean, it's hard to imagine any scenario where any average American's life is improved by blowing up Iran's oil refineries. 1.00

00:05:41.100 But Lindsey Graham doesn't care. 1.00

00:05:43.500 He doesn't care about Americans at all.

00:05:45.140 That's the truth. 0.94

00:05:45.680 He's an unhinged, reckless neocon who should have been run out of political office years ago.

00:05:50.780 Yet, like so many other neocons in both the Republican and Democrat parties, he remains in place, constantly hatching new schemes to hurt this country and its people.

00:06:01.160 Schemes that, by the way, aren't going to affect him at all.

00:06:04.520 So here's the point where it becomes necessary to take 10 steps back and assess the situation from a distance.

00:06:10.340 Pretend you're, say, the leader of the Communist Party of China, and you've been looking for an opportunity to expand your borders for a very long time with a particular eye towards Hong Kong and Taiwan.

00:06:20.360 And then you see this.

00:06:21.300 The government of the United States, supposedly the world's preeminent superpower, is shutting down its own domestic energy production.

00:06:28.140 At the same time, it's destroying its own domestic supply of petroleum.

00:06:32.900 Put two and two together, and the message from the Biden administration is pretty clear.

00:06:36.240 That message is this.

00:06:37.000 Our leaders have no idea what they're doing.

00:06:39.900 And as if to emphasize that point, the Biden administration has stumbled over itself repeatedly since the invasion of Israel began over the weekend.

00:06:47.480 The State Department sent not one but two tweets out telling Israel to sign a ceasefire without retaliating in any way for the attack on their homeland.

00:06:55.620 And one of those tweets was from Tony Blinken's account, and both of those tweets were deleted within 24 hours, which really inspires confidence, you know.

00:07:02.560 Then on Monday, to add insult to injury, Joe Biden's account tweeted something about how he's going to ban junk fees charged by airlines and concert venues.

00:07:13.120 That's what he's thinking about right now.

00:07:14.780 He's thinking about junk fees.

00:07:16.900 Now, this is the laziest possible form of voter engagement, and it's one that Joe Biden's handlers keep coming back to.

00:07:22.760 Vote for us, and Ticketmaster will be more upfront with its fees.

00:07:26.360 What an inspiring platform.

00:07:29.120 And by the way, since we're on the subject briefly, you know, we all pay a significant amount of junk fees every day, courtesy of the IRS.

00:07:38.660 So Biden wants airlines to stop bilking us of every last cent.

00:07:43.260 And by the way, I want them to stop that, too.

00:07:45.920 Except that the government, his own government, is doing the same thing, and to a much greater extent.

00:07:50.380 So perhaps he should take the plank out of the government's own eye before worrying about the speck in Ticketmaster.

00:07:58.440 Now, again, our adversaries in China and elsewhere, they can see all this.

00:08:01.600 They can see a nation that's completely unprepared for a massive international crisis, up to and including the outbreak of World War III, potentially.

00:08:08.300 The signs are everywhere.

00:08:09.860 There's really no way that anyone can deny it at this point.

00:08:11.820 We are an unserious nation led by the most unserious people imaginable.

00:08:15.520 One of those unserious people happens to lead the Department of Interior.

00:08:20.020 And here she was just days before the Hamas terrorists invaded Israel.

00:08:24.700 Here's what she was thinking about.

00:08:26.140 Watch.

00:08:31.700 Patty, I am so excited to be here with you at Stonewall, the National Monument with these beautiful flags behind us.

00:08:38.900 Tell me, in your own words, why places like this, like Stonewall, are so important to telling America's story.

00:08:47.240 That's a great question.

00:08:49.080 I think it's because queer rights are more under attack than ever.

00:08:52.880 And I think if we don't acknowledge the past, we're bound to repeat it.

00:08:57.020 So, at a place like Stonewall, it's a beautiful place. 0.93

00:09:01.300 It's a place where so much discrimination and hatred occurred against the queer community.

00:09:05.760 But it's also a place where resistance and queer joy and queer liberation happened.

00:09:13.580 So that is the Secretary of the Department of the Interior of the United States.

00:09:17.160 She oversees all federal lands and natural resources in this country, including regulations concerning oil and gas leasing.

00:09:22.800 But that's what she's doing right now.

00:09:26.420 She can't be bothered with the prospect of war in the Middle East.

00:09:28.660 Instead, she's off having a conversation with a grown man dressed like some sort of cracked-out, weirdly fetishized female park ranger.

00:09:36.200 We are on the brink of potential global cataclysm.

00:09:39.960 And the Department of the Interior is chatting about queer joy.

00:09:44.940 Now, to be fair, the Department of the Interior is not alone in that respect.

00:09:47.420 Plenty of other U.S. government agencies and departments have been wasting their time with frivolous virtue signaling.

00:09:53.620 They don't care about keeping you safe or preparing for World War III or, better yet, working to actually avoid World War III, which would really be the best. 0.58

00:10:01.740 That would be what I would prefer.

00:10:03.360 Instead, they're fixated on diversity and equity and inclusion.

00:10:06.840 Just a few days ago, the Wall Street Journal, and this is some great timing on this,

00:10:10.300 they ran a truly extraordinary piece explaining how the U.S. military is overrun with so-called skinny fat recruits.

00:10:17.580 According to the piece, quote,

00:10:19.060 One problem the Army faces these days is a high number of skinny fat recruits.

00:10:23.540 These people don't look out of shape, but indeed are because of sedentary lifestyles that have left them with low muscle mass and frail bones and connective tissue.

00:10:32.000 At Fort Moore in Georgia, new soldiers are given calcium supplements to counter a recent uptick in broken feet and bones in the legs,

00:10:41.240 according to several senior soldiers in charge of training.

00:10:45.420 Well, nothing wrong with that, nothing to worry about.

00:10:47.260 We just have Army recruits that need calcium supplements so that their bones don't fracture when they're going for a jog or something.

00:10:55.000 This is the state of the U.S. military, and the reason why we're in this state is, well, there's a lot of reasons for it.

00:11:00.600 One of them is that we're looking at the situation after years of purges in which so-called vaccine skeptics were removed from the service.

00:11:07.780 You know, and you've got a bunch of overweight slobs who are, quote, skinny fats, 1.00

00:11:11.980 and these are the people standing between you and a potential foreign invasion force.

00:11:18.480 I mean, how many skinny fat soldiers do you think they have in, I don't know, the Chinese Army exactly? 0.76

00:11:24.740 Does anybody with a brain think the number is higher than zero? 0.98

00:11:27.240 Now, if we lived in a serious country, we'd expel all these skinny fat troops from our military. 0.97

00:11:33.520 We'd insist on some standards, and we'd do it fast. 0.96

00:11:37.860 And we would also be recruiting people because we're looking for, you know, tough men who want to kill the enemy and protect the country.

00:11:46.600 Like, that's the kind of recruiting we'd be doing.

00:11:49.960 Instead, for a very long time, the recruitment, you know, they've been putting out, as we've played on the show,

00:11:53.980 they've been putting out recruitment ads that look like Disney movies,

00:11:57.020 going either way to recruit women and, you know, non-binary and transgenders.

00:12:03.680 Because we don't live in a serious country.

00:12:05.420 So instead, our government is preoccupied with this sort of thing.

00:12:09.180 And with other things, too, like social media feuds, for example.

00:12:11.620 The other day, the White House went after the very popular account Libs of TikTok.

00:12:15.960 Why is that?

00:12:16.680 Well, because Libs of TikTok did what Libs of TikTok always does. 0.57

00:12:19.320 She revealed what leftists, particularly leftists in power, are doing.

00:12:23.540 She didn't distort anything.

00:12:24.700 She didn't lie.

00:12:25.380 She just held up a mirror.

00:12:26.780 And in this particular case, Libs of TikTok held a mirror up to Tyler Cherry.

00:12:30.800 He's a communications official at the Department of Interior,

00:12:34.320 which is the same agency that interviewed the fetishist at Stonewall, which we just showed you.

00:12:38.680 So a lot of interesting things happening over at the Department of Interior.

00:12:41.880 But Libs of TikTok posted Tyler Cherry's photo, along with his many deranged social media posts,

00:12:46.480 in which he rants about Russiagades and compares police officers to slave patrols.

00:12:50.880 So here's what he looks like, and here's the picture.

00:12:54.220 Now, of course, it's usually not polite to mock somebody's physical appearance,

00:12:58.460 but at some point, you're allowed to look at somebody and form some common-sense conclusions.

00:13:04.060 You know, you can tell what corrupt ideology they subscribe to just by looking at them.

00:13:09.760 This is certainly one of those cases.

00:13:12.120 The fact that this person moonlights as an activist on social media is just more evidence

00:13:15.520 that we're led by deeply unserious people.

00:13:18.680 And when a man runs around dressed like this,

00:13:21.760 it is a massive red flag pointing to all kinds of potential mental and emotional issues.

00:13:26.880 Healthy, normal men don't present themselves this way.

00:13:30.420 We're supposed to pretend that we don't realize that or don't understand it.

00:13:35.120 You see a man running around like that, like we all look at that,

00:13:37.600 and we all know that this is not a normal person.

00:13:40.240 This is not a healthy person.

00:13:42.900 This is not someone we should trust in a position of authority, period.

00:13:48.000 Now, you may recall that a bunch of us right-wing bigots,

00:13:51.680 we jumped to very similar conclusions about the energy official Sam Britton last year.

00:13:57.080 And when we did, we were condemned as homophobes.

00:14:00.940 And in that case, all we did was look at the guy and how he dressed,

00:14:03.560 and we said, eh, something's not right here.

00:14:05.200 I don't think this person should be working in government.

00:14:07.900 And we were told, oh, open your mind, be tolerant.

00:14:10.720 A few months later, Britton was fired and under arrest for stealing women's luggage from the airport.

00:14:16.080 So you can indeed judge a book by its cover, it turns out.

00:14:19.760 Now, admittedly, if you're approaching this from a distance,

00:14:25.800 all of this might seem like a social media drama.

00:14:28.540 It might seem inconsequential, but it's not.

00:14:31.560 This is what your government is spending its time doing.

00:14:34.100 As a second major war erupts under their watch in just two years.

00:14:39.040 They're worried about libs of TikTok.

00:14:40.880 They're concerned with backing up their fetishist in the Department of the Interior.

00:14:44.560 What this means is that if World War III does break out at some point in the near future,

00:14:51.020 God forbid, which unfortunately seems increasingly likely, 0.93

00:14:55.620 considering that we are led by a parade of morally corrupt circus clowns, 0.95

00:15:00.460 well, if that happens, then we are unprepared, to put it mildly. 0.78

00:15:03.660 We aren't simply incapable of handling the next global crisis,

00:15:07.080 whether it's an invasion of Taiwan or something even worse.

00:15:10.280 Our leaders can't even run their own Twitter accounts in a responsible and coherent fashion.

00:15:15.060 This is not just embarrassing.

00:15:18.080 The problem is that for the enemies of this country, it's an opportunity.

00:15:21.960 Let's pray they don't take advantage of it.

00:15:25.540 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:16:13.160 According to USA Today, the Supreme Court may take up the issue of so-called conversion therapy.

00:16:19.380 And I'll read some of the USA Today article on this.

00:16:22.120 And keep in mind that this article bills itself as a news article, not as an opinion piece.

00:16:28.700 But news articles and opinion pieces these days are basically indistinguishable.

00:16:32.980 And that's certainly the case here.

00:16:34.120 So here's what it says.

00:16:36.780 The Supreme Court is being asked to weigh a ban on conversion therapy,

00:16:40.100 the practice of trying to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity,

00:16:43.860 in an appeal that tests the court's appetite for engaging this term

00:16:47.480 in the legal battle between religion and LGBTQ plus rights.

00:16:52.000 Long discredited and already banned for minors in about half of U.S. states,

00:16:57.380 the practice of using treatment to make a gay or lesbian person straight

00:17:00.580 has reemerged as the Supreme Court has become more conservative and receptive to

00:17:04.420 appeals dealing with religious freedom.

00:17:06.760 Opponents say the practice can involve electrical shocks and nausea-inducing drugs,

00:17:11.180 as well as psychoanalysis and counseling.

00:17:13.620 Brian Tingley, a licensed family counselor in Washington State,

00:17:16.340 is challenging the state's ban on the practice for people under 18,

00:17:18.980 claiming it violates his free speech and religious rights.

00:17:21.440 The law, he told the Supreme Court this year,

00:17:23.500 forbids him from speaking, treating his professional license as a license for government censorship.

00:17:27.600 Opponents of the practice say that states have banned it for minors

00:17:30.860 because it increases the risk of depression and suicide for LGBTQ plus young people.

00:17:35.560 Washington's law doesn't apply to churches or religious groups,

00:17:37.920 only to therapists who are licensed and regulated by the state.

00:17:42.840 Okay, a couple, just a few points. 0.93

00:17:44.600 First of all, nobody is trying to give gay people electrical shocks to make them not gay anymore.

00:17:51.920 Anytime the conversation of a conversion therapy comes up, 0.87

00:17:54.520 this is what they talk about, you know, 0.60

00:17:57.180 this is what they want you to imagine is some gay person strapped to a gurney, 0.96

00:18:01.760 you know, being electrically shocked in the temples or something. 0.97

00:18:07.200 That isn't happening.

00:18:08.460 It's just not happening. 0.91

00:18:09.820 It's completely ridiculous. 0.68

00:18:12.100 If you look it up, you'll find alleged examples of this kind of thing 0.83

00:18:15.640 from like a century ago or half a century ago.

00:18:19.020 The first case that popped up for me when I was looking this up is from 50 years ago

00:18:23.600 where a gay man says that he was subjected to electrical shocks

00:18:27.040 as part of some kind of experiment by a university psychology department,

00:18:31.660 which has nothing to do with modern so-called conversion therapy anyway.

00:18:39.300 And if this is evidence of anything,

00:18:41.520 it's evidence that the psychology field has always been full of quacks 1.00

00:18:45.780 who like to try out their weird theories on patients who don't know any better.

00:18:51.020 Also, this is 50 years ago when they were giving people electric shocks for like everything.

00:18:55.640 Okay, this is, I mean, again, if you want to use this as a criticism of

00:18:59.600 the psychological industry, then go ahead.

00:19:03.160 But yeah, there was a time when they would give you a shot.

00:19:05.000 They thought that electrical shocks cured everything.

00:19:06.700 It was a dark time in the psychology field.

00:19:11.920 And in fact, it's still a dark time in the psychology field, but for different reasons.

00:19:15.380 The point is that nobody today is trying to give electric shocks or even drugs.

00:19:20.900 Okay, in almost every case, when we hear about so-called conversion therapy,

00:19:25.020 it is a case where somebody with a same-sex attraction

00:19:28.900 goes to a therapist or to a counselor to help them overcome that attraction.

00:19:34.220 Like they're looking for counseling, for therapy to help them overcome this attraction

00:19:40.260 that is troubling them and that they don't want.

00:19:43.840 They don't, you know, they don't want to have the same-sex attraction, but they do.

00:19:48.340 And they're looking for help.

00:19:49.600 And why shouldn't people have the right to seek that kind of help if they want it?

00:19:56.080 To use language that the left is familiar with, if somebody desires to be straight,

00:20:00.920 then why shouldn't we affirm that desire?

00:20:06.380 Why shouldn't they receive affirmative care in that context?

00:20:11.480 I mean, that's their lived experience, right?

00:20:13.100 That's their truth.

00:20:14.540 Their truth is that they want to be straight.

00:20:17.520 Who are you to, who the hell are you to tell someone else what they can or should want?

00:20:23.000 Who are you to come in between a patient and his medical provider?

00:20:28.880 You know, this therapist who's suing in Washington State, and he has clients,

00:20:35.980 who are you to, who's, how can Washington State come in between the client and the therapist?

00:20:41.260 Now, the argument from the other side, well, there is no argument, really. 1.00

00:20:46.880 I mean, these people are just shameless, soulless, hypocritical con artists 0.99

00:20:51.280 who will say whatever they need to say in any given situation. 0.99

00:20:54.860 So you can't really use their own arguments against them, as I've just done,

00:20:58.820 because their arguments are not real arguments.

00:21:01.760 Nothing they say means anything.

00:21:03.380 But to the extent that we can use a word like argument,

00:21:09.080 the argument from the other side is that sexual orientation is immutable and unchangeable.

00:21:14.400 We already talked about this yesterday.

00:21:16.960 And first of all, there was never any reason to believe that.

00:21:21.140 Okay, this idea that, you know, born gay or whatever.

00:21:25.680 We know that a person's sexual preferences and tastes

00:21:29.780 can absolutely be affected by all manner of things.

00:21:34.920 Trauma, abuse, exposure to pornography from a young age.

00:21:39.380 Many things can impact a person's sexual preferences.

00:21:42.120 I mean, this is not really disputed by any serious person.

00:21:45.540 There is no gay gene, no matter how hard they look for one. 1.00

00:21:50.100 And the idea that people are born gay has always been incoherent, 0.86

00:21:53.820 because, you know, if people are born gay, like born gay, you're gay from birth, right?

00:21:59.140 Maybe that's what that would mean. 0.88

00:22:01.360 And then that means that there are, what, homosexual infants out there? 0.96

00:22:06.800 Again, no sane person thinks that.

00:22:09.700 So there's no reason why a person can't seek and receive successful counseling

00:22:15.280 to overcome same-sex attraction.

00:22:18.240 But as we talked about yesterday, the real point is that by the left's own logic,

00:22:27.460 sexual orientation cannot be ingrained.

00:22:30.180 It cannot be immutable.

00:22:32.960 You know, if sex can change, then obviously sexual orientation can change.

00:22:39.720 Because how your sexual orientation is defined depends entirely on what your sex is.

00:22:46.740 So if I just say that someone is gay, someone, you don't know who, someone is gay,

00:22:57.360 you don't know based on that description, you know, whether that person is male or female.

00:23:06.440 So if someone is attracted to women and then changes his sex to be a woman and is still attracted to women 0.60

00:23:16.780 after that change, then he has gone from straight to gay by the left's own testimony.

00:23:22.980 Now, we know that he can't really change his sex and that once he becomes a woman, he's still a man. 0.96

00:23:27.680 But if it's true that he changed his sex, which they tell us that it is,

00:23:34.440 and if he's attracted to women both before and after making this change,

00:23:38.500 changing who, you know, what he identifies as, then he's gone from straight to gay.

00:23:42.300 He's gone from a straight man to a gay, to a lesbian woman, a gay woman. 0.92

00:23:45.520 And there's no way around that. 0.90

00:23:46.860 There's just no way at all.

00:23:48.060 In fact, the left tells us that even if we're attracted to women, you know,

00:23:55.460 if we, they will say that if we are, if you're a straight man attracted to women, 0.99

00:23:59.820 then you should still be open to dating women with penises, also known as men. 0.98

00:24:06.040 They will, they'll insist that sexual orientation is a sacred, unchangeable, unmoving thing set in stone. 0.99

00:24:11.940 And then they'll turn around and make a TikTok video demanding that straight men sleep with other men 1.00

00:24:18.220 to prove they aren't transphobes.

00:24:20.380 So they attempt conversion therapy all the time.

00:24:22.640 It's just that their, their method is lecturing and emotional blackmail.

00:24:28.860 But really, if, if the, if the term conversion therapy means anything at all,

00:24:33.800 then there is only, you know, there's only one real kind of quote unquote conversion therapy happening.

00:24:41.940 And it's very common and it absolutely should be banned.

00:24:46.560 And that is when medical professionals, be they surgeons or endocrinologists or, or, you know,

00:24:55.760 pediatricians or even therapists and counselors, if we can call them medical professionals,

00:25:00.860 when any of them try to convert a boy into a girl or a girl into a boy,

00:25:08.420 that is what we would, should really call conversion therapy.

00:25:12.900 And that should be banned.

00:25:15.480 Because that actually is impossible to do.

00:25:18.820 And any attempt, it's not just that when you try to convert a boy into a girl,

00:25:23.180 that it will result, you know, that, that, that it could have bad side effects or down the line,

00:25:27.920 it may result in harm.

00:25:29.100 It's the very act of doing it is harm.

00:25:32.800 By, by doing that, you are harming the boy psychologically, physically, emotionally, in every way.

00:25:41.280 So, you know, I made this point before that this is what, that when we, when we are calling for the ban on transing of kids, 1.00

00:25:51.280 we should be referring to it like this is a conversion therapy ban.

00:25:54.040 Because that's the actual conversion therapy happening.

00:25:59.520 Of course, the left, in their twisted view, you know, what, what they'll say is that if a boy,

00:26:05.380 if a boy supposedly is confused and thinks that he's a girl,

00:26:11.080 if you don't try to change him into a girl, then that is conversion therapy.

00:26:19.020 And also keep that in mind with all these conversion therapy bans.

00:26:21.600 They've already done this in Canada.

00:26:22.460 But when they, when they ban conversion therapy, they also include, you know, a, a, to them,

00:26:32.620 conversion therapy is, is also a refusal to affirm a child's gender confusion.

00:26:41.100 That counts as conversion therapy and should be banned as well in their minds.

00:26:46.040 All right, this is from The Blaze.

00:26:49.480 As a former Olympian delivered an eye-opening remark comparing professional sports contracts

00:26:53.740 to slavery during an appearance on ESPN's new series hosted by anti-racist Ibram X. Kendi,

00:26:59.720 ESPN gave Kendi his own series titled Skin in the Game,

00:27:03.080 which delves into and challenges racism in the sports world

00:27:05.960 and will reveal how pervasive racism is in sports

00:27:08.900 while challenging the thoughts and systems of various governing bodies.

00:27:13.100 The five-episode series features episodes subtitled

00:27:16.080 How Do Athletes Play a Role in Social Change?

00:27:18.760 Are Black Women Athletes Carrying the Weight of the World? 1.00

00:27:22.740 No, the answer, I can answer that question.

00:27:24.520 I haven't even watched the episode and I can already tell you,

00:27:28.620 no, Black Women Athletes are not carrying the weight of the world. 0.95

00:27:33.020 What is the cost of race norming?

00:27:36.480 And what is the impact of racist ideas in sports media?

00:27:39.860 The first episode aired on September 20th in which Kendi takes a look at black athletes

00:27:44.920 who use public platforms to protest injustice and what it costs to speak up.

00:27:51.280 And during this conversation there was, or during this episode there was a conversation

00:27:54.740 about sports contracts and why sports contracts are tantamount to slavery.

00:27:59.580 We've heard similar ideas already from Colin Kaepernick,

00:28:02.580 who infamously declared in a Netflix special that NFL owners are slave owners,

00:28:10.980 you know, and NFL players are basically slaves out in the cotton field.

00:28:16.980 And then he turned around and this season was trying desperately to get back on the plantation

00:28:22.420 out into the cotton field again, even though he just said it's like slavery.

00:28:27.000 He wanted to be in the NFL again.

00:28:28.920 Anyway, so similar idea.

00:28:30.920 Let's watch this.

00:28:32.580 The contracts, you know, are the new slave chains, right?

00:28:37.160 So, you know, you have to sign this contract and sign this document and sign this document.

00:28:41.320 It's like you're binded to this.

00:28:43.640 And then if you break that, that's your livelihood.

00:28:46.160 That's your life.

00:28:47.260 So we the new slaves.

00:28:49.080 Athletes are literally the new slaves because we need this. 1.00

00:28:52.100 Our families, our friends depend on this contract to eat.

00:28:56.300 Yeah, athletes are the new slaves, she says.

00:29:05.240 And I mean, first of all, not that it matters to anyone, but it's just amazing to see this.

00:29:13.040 Again, this is an ESPN special.

00:29:14.680 And the whole special, you know, they gave the Ibram X.

00:29:19.260 And the whole thing is just apparently all about athletes complaining about their persecuted lives and all the racism that they suffer.

00:29:28.460 However, this is appealing to nobody.

00:29:33.160 Like, who is actually going to sit down?

00:29:34.940 That's what I want.

00:29:35.460 I want to know what the actual, like, how many actual real world viewers is this series getting?

00:29:42.200 Because I find it hard to believe that if it's, if they tell us it's a number above zero, I'm not going to believe it.

00:29:51.580 What actual person is going to sit that, and it's one thing you watch the clip to make fun of it, sure.

00:29:57.420 But who's going to sit there and say, oh yeah, I got to, not only do I have to watch one episode, I got to watch all five, I got to watch five hours of this.

00:30:05.060 This appeals to nobody wants to see this.

00:30:08.000 Even the people who are ideologically aligned, they don't want to, they're not actually going to sit and watch that.

00:30:13.020 Because even most of them know on some level how absurd it is.

00:30:17.800 So this is ESPN.

00:30:19.260 They are just determined to destroy themselves.

00:30:24.780 You know, they get woker and woker by the year.

00:30:28.440 And they lose audience, and they lose ratings.

00:30:31.760 And they're, like, needlessly alienating whole swaths of their audience.

00:30:38.200 And they don't, they don't stop.

00:30:39.700 This just gets worse and worse.

00:30:42.200 They're determined to destroy themselves, which is fine.

00:30:46.940 You know, it's like, it's, we're not going to, the world won't be missing them at all.

00:30:51.160 But it is amazing to see.

00:30:53.560 And of course, what we're actually seeing here is, you know, it's, if you're on the left, as we've talked about so many times, this is that victimhood pathology.

00:31:07.060 And I think part of what it is, it's like, they associate to them, as we know, the victimhood hierarchy.

00:31:16.440 And all power comes from the kind of emotional blackmail that you can wield by cashing in your victimhood chips.

00:31:30.120 And so victimhood is empowering.

00:31:34.120 And so no matter what happens in their lives, they still are grasping for that victimhood.

00:31:43.160 They don't know how to be satisfied in life.

00:31:45.500 They don't know how to be happy.

00:31:48.780 You know, if they were, if you're a professional athlete, which, by the way, if you're a professional athlete, to your credit, it means that you've worked very, very hard to perfect your craft.

00:31:58.680 You're very, very good at what you do, no matter what, no matter what sport you're in.

00:32:01.840 And in most sports, especially if it's the major sports, you're making a lot of money doing it.

00:32:11.640 And so you would think, if you're a normal person, you would think just psychologically.

00:32:17.580 You would want to say to yourself, well, wow, you know, I worked really hard for this.

00:32:21.700 And I've made it to this point.

00:32:23.860 I've made it to the mountaintop.

00:32:25.060 This is great.

00:32:26.020 I'm so grateful for this.

00:32:28.840 I'm happy.

00:32:31.840 But they don't know how to be happy or to be satisfied.

00:32:36.300 No matter where they end up in life, they still are grasping at that victimhood.

00:32:42.720 So that even now, a multi-million dollar contract that they choose to sign is, it's not just, they're not just saying that it's like similar to slavery.

00:32:55.920 They're saying it is slavery.

00:32:57.440 Notice that.

00:32:57.960 They're saying that this is slavery.

00:33:01.840 All right, let's move to this from the New York Post.

00:33:04.940 Playboy has cut ties with porn star and content creator Mia Khalifa after she emphatically expressed support for Hamas following a surprise attack on Israel and urged the terrorists to film their attacks.

00:33:17.300 The adult magazine announced this decision to part ways with Khalifa, who joined its centerfold platform in February 2022.

00:33:23.600 In an email to subscribers late Monday, the Playboy team wrote, quote, we're writing today to let you know of our decision to terminate Playboy's relationship with Mia Khalifa, including deleting Mita's Playboy channel on our creator platform.

00:33:38.540 The email continued, Mia has made disgusting and reprehensible comments celebrating Hamas' attack on Israel and the murder of innocent men, women, and children.

00:33:46.340 And I think we talked about this yesterday or mentioned it, that she posted, she had several posts while all this was going on celebrating the attack.

00:33:58.080 And the one in particular where she recommended that the, quote, freedom fighters of Hamas turn their phones horizontally so they get, so she can see better footage of what they're doing.

00:34:09.220 And she said that at a time when the only footage, there was a lot of footage online of this attack, and it was all of innocent civilians being slaughtered, elderly women at bus stops, laying on the ground in pools of blood, women being dragged away and raped.

00:34:31.860 And Mia Khalifa responded to that by saying, oh, yeah, I love this, this is great, I want to see more of it.

00:34:39.220 And there's a few things about it.

00:34:40.180 First of all, there are some who have defended her as, well, this is cancel culture.

00:34:44.800 If you support her being fired, it's cancel culture.

00:34:50.880 The whole point of the pushback on cancel culture, it was just to be clear about this.

00:34:56.140 We never said that, like, nobody should ever be fired for anything, or that there's nothing a person can ever say about anything that should lead to consequences, including them losing their job.

00:35:06.400 Of course, that's not the case.

00:35:07.400 Of course, there are things that you can say that absolutely you should lose your job over.

00:35:14.660 And when you're celebrating videos of elderly women being shot and killed and saying you want to see more of it, yeah, you should lose your job for that. 0.97

00:35:25.880 Of course you should.

00:35:26.940 Any sane employer is not going to want to be associated with you. 1.00

00:35:30.040 And just imagine what kind of monumental scumbag you have to be to be too morally repugnant for Playboy. 0.99

00:35:43.240 You work for a pornography company, and even they are looking at you and saying, that's too far for us. 0.99

00:35:50.880 Now, granted, they don't actually have any moral standards.

00:35:52.960 They're just, this is a business decision. 1.00

00:35:55.760 But still, the message from Playboy is that you are too morally repugnant for them, which, again, you have to be quite a scumbag. 0.99

00:36:02.560 Which leads me to two other quick points about this, just broadly about what's going on in Israel. 0.98

00:36:11.660 So, one is that I see a lot of people online saying that this is, that the whole situation is very complicated.

00:36:25.020 And yeah, granted, in any geopolitical conflict, you know, there's a lot of history.

00:36:31.940 There's a lot of, there are many details that go into it.

00:36:34.660 But on a fundamental level, it's actually not complicated at all.

00:36:38.940 As you know, I'm a simple man.

00:36:40.420 I look at things in a simple way.

00:36:42.980 Guilty as charged.

00:36:45.380 And so, for this, I look at this and I say, well,

00:36:49.260 when you

00:36:50.860 attack a music festival

00:36:54.680 and intentionally massacre

00:36:58.000 civilians at a

00:37:00.480 music festival

00:37:01.760 and you kidnap the women 0.60

00:37:04.440 and you drag them away 1.00

00:37:05.420 and rape them and kill them 1.00

00:37:06.480 and when you drive by a bus stop 1.00

00:37:09.680 with elderly people waiting for the bus

00:37:12.540 and you gun them down 0.59

00:37:14.480 and leave them bleeding to death on the 1.00

00:37:16.220 sidewalk 0.86

00:37:17.080 then you're the bad guys.

00:37:20.920 It's actually very simple.

00:37:23.020 It's actually not complicated.

00:37:25.980 Like, there is

00:37:26.780 no world

00:37:28.320 in which

00:37:29.320 the good guy does that.

00:37:31.740 So, that's it.

00:37:35.480 You know, I could walk into this situation

00:37:37.580 knowing absolutely nothing

00:37:40.020 at all

00:37:41.180 about

00:37:41.740 any of it.

00:37:43.860 Okay, I just woke up,

00:37:45.200 maybe I just woke up from a coma

00:37:47.020 on Friday.

00:37:48.660 I have no idea.

00:37:50.080 I don't even know where these countries are.

00:37:51.660 And yet,

00:37:54.760 if I turn on the news

00:37:56.020 and I see that

00:37:56.840 you have one side

00:37:57.860 that just

00:37:58.280 parachuted into a music festival

00:38:01.340 and massacred everybody, 0.87

00:38:04.080 I immediately know,

00:38:05.680 well, those are the bad guys

00:38:06.900 right there.

00:38:07.600 Because that's it.

00:38:08.860 That's it.

00:38:10.040 It's really as simple as that.

00:38:11.780 Which is not to say

00:38:17.300 that any

00:38:19.800 country

00:38:21.980 or any

00:38:22.520 fighting force

00:38:23.520 that has ever

00:38:24.320 you know,

00:38:26.500 done something

00:38:28.200 that resulted

00:38:29.040 in the death of civilians

00:38:30.040 is automatically the bad guy.

00:38:31.420 Because if that's the case

00:38:32.240 then everyone's the bad guy.

00:38:34.060 Then everyone on every side

00:38:35.320 of every war

00:38:35.900 is the bad guy.

00:38:36.880 Because civilians 0.96

00:38:37.520 unfortunately,

00:38:38.280 tragically die

00:38:38.980 in every war.

00:38:39.820 We all know that.

00:38:40.520 but there's a

00:38:43.120 there's a distinction

00:38:44.160 between

00:38:46.240 say

00:38:47.580 attacking a military target

00:38:48.960 and civilians

00:38:49.660 die in the process.

00:38:50.980 Again,

00:38:51.540 very sad.

00:38:54.700 There's a distinction

00:38:55.600 between that

00:38:56.260 and just

00:38:57.760 going to a place

00:38:59.260 where there are a bunch

00:39:00.600 where there's only

00:39:01.540 civilians

00:39:02.040 and they're doing something like

00:39:03.320 listening to music

00:39:04.960 or waiting at a bus stop

00:39:07.060 and gunning them down.

00:39:08.320 there's obviously 0.90

00:39:11.340 a difference

00:39:11.760 between those two things.

00:39:13.680 Which I think

00:39:14.360 any

00:39:14.760 rational person

00:39:16.960 should be able to see.

00:39:19.480 So,

00:39:20.040 is that a simplified

00:39:20.760 perspective?

00:39:21.740 Sure it is.

00:39:23.080 But it's actually

00:39:23.780 pretty simple.

00:39:25.340 And also too,

00:39:26.000 the other thing is that

00:39:26.720 I look at the reaction

00:39:28.900 in this country

00:39:29.520 and I see that

00:39:30.940 all of my enemies

00:39:33.420 are cheering

00:39:35.000 for

00:39:35.860 either cheering

00:39:36.980 for Hamas

00:39:37.460 or they're trying

00:39:38.480 to

00:39:39.100 mitigate

00:39:40.700 the evil

00:39:41.820 make excuses

00:39:42.460 for it.

00:39:43.800 It's like

00:39:44.360 everyone

00:39:44.780 that I despise

00:39:46.260 okay

00:39:47.960 the radical left

00:39:49.700 the LGBT left

00:39:50.740 all them

00:39:51.740 they're all

00:39:54.160 on that side

00:39:55.020 and so

00:39:55.320 that's another thing

00:39:56.460 that leads me

00:39:57.160 it's like

00:39:57.380 I don't think

00:39:58.540 I've ever been

00:39:59.100 on the same side

00:39:59.680 as those people

00:40:01.080 on any issue

00:40:02.180 at all

00:40:02.900 and it's not

00:40:05.200 inconceivable

00:40:05.880 that we could end up

00:40:06.680 on the same side

00:40:07.360 of an issue

00:40:08.260 I don't know

00:40:08.680 it could happen

00:40:09.420 but I'll tell you

00:40:11.460 one thing

00:40:11.880 you know

00:40:13.260 if I look

00:40:13.780 and I see a whole bunch

00:40:14.560 of people out

00:40:14.960 on the street

00:40:15.340 chanting for a cause

00:40:16.380 and I see all

00:40:17.280 of the worst people

00:40:18.560 in the country

00:40:20.020 who are on one side

00:40:21.780 all of the absolute

00:40:22.980 worst people

00:40:24.020 the people who support 1.00

00:40:26.360 murdering babies 1.00

00:40:27.360 in the womb 0.99

00:40:27.860 people who support

00:40:28.660 sterilizing 1.00

00:40:29.940 and castrating children 0.99

00:40:31.040 I see all those 0.97

00:40:32.840 people on one side

00:40:33.760 of it

00:40:34.020 that's going to

00:40:36.100 make me stop

00:40:36.720 and go

00:40:37.000 it's extremely

00:40:41.020 unlikely

00:40:41.680 that they ended up

00:40:42.660 on the right side

00:40:43.280 of anything

00:40:44.040 and I think

00:40:46.160 they certainly

00:40:46.560 didn't on this case

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00:41:51.660 Okay so some

00:41:53.120 comments about

00:41:54.980 Christopher Columbus

00:41:55.680 and indigenous

00:41:56.320 people day

00:41:57.220 which we

00:41:57.780 talked about

00:41:58.500 yesterday

00:41:58.860 at the end

00:41:59.560 of the show

00:41:59.840 during the

00:42:00.080 daily cancellation

00:42:00.560 I'll just read

00:42:01.800 a few of these

00:42:02.100 comments and then

00:42:02.540 I'll respond

00:42:03.020 broadly to them

00:42:03.880 Stephen Nathan

00:42:05.080 says

00:42:05.620 Christopher Columbus

00:42:07.620 and his men

00:42:08.100 enslaved

00:42:08.520 mistreated

00:42:09.000 and killed

00:42:09.440 many indigenous

00:42:10.020 people in the

00:42:10.540 Americas

00:42:10.900 leading to

00:42:11.340 significant

00:42:11.700 population

00:42:12.220 declines

00:42:12.700 he also

00:42:13.380 initiated

00:42:13.780 the transatlantic

00:42:14.520 slave trade

00:42:15.120 and set a precedent

00:42:15.740 for the brutal

00:42:16.260 colonization of the

00:42:17.140 new world

00:42:17.460 by Europeans

00:42:18.160 Matt T says

00:42:20.520 what did

00:42:21.020 Columbus achieve

00:42:21.720 actually

00:42:22.260 Wendy says

00:42:23.340 Columbus was

00:42:23.920 a slave trader 0.53

00:42:24.680 Silo says

00:42:26.900 why celebrate him

00:42:27.600 he wasn't the

00:42:28.000 first European

00:42:28.420 to discover

00:42:28.860 America

00:42:29.280 he shouldn't

00:42:30.220 have a day

00:42:30.580 dedicated to

00:42:31.140 discovery of

00:42:31.600 America

00:42:32.540 if he didn't

00:42:33.180 do it

00:42:33.520 first

00:42:34.380 that's my

00:42:34.960 only thing

00:42:35.520 oh he's

00:42:37.600 only the second

00:42:38.320 only a second

00:42:39.660 now I guess

00:42:40.480 you're referring

00:42:40.940 to Leif Erickson

00:42:41.700 who

00:42:44.300 that would have

00:42:45.700 been what

00:42:46.220 500 years

00:42:47.300 or so

00:42:47.660 before

00:42:48.120 made it to

00:42:52.480 North America

00:42:53.900 except that

00:42:55.180 there were

00:42:55.420 never any

00:42:56.240 you know

00:42:57.860 there were

00:42:58.120 never any

00:42:58.700 settlements

00:42:59.120 set up

00:43:00.260 and

00:43:01.300 it didn't

00:43:02.340 lead to

00:43:03.200 the

00:43:04.840 civilizational

00:43:05.700 expansion

00:43:06.380 that it did

00:43:07.580 for Columbus

00:43:08.740 and so

00:43:12.000 that doesn't

00:43:12.680 negate

00:43:13.320 his

00:43:15.200 discovery at

00:43:16.120 all or what

00:43:16.460 he did at

00:43:16.860 all I just

00:43:17.200 don't see how

00:43:17.840 how that's

00:43:18.340 the case

00:43:18.740 just like

00:43:20.680 you know

00:43:21.580 there are

00:43:21.920 always these

00:43:22.680 pedantic

00:43:23.640 people

00:43:24.060 say well

00:43:24.360 he didn't

00:43:24.620 discover

00:43:24.980 anything

00:43:25.440 because there

00:43:26.280 are people

00:43:26.640 that were

00:43:26.940 already here

00:43:27.500 and they

00:43:27.800 knew that

00:43:28.100 it was

00:43:28.320 here

00:43:28.600 well first

00:43:30.220 of all

00:43:30.420 the people

00:43:30.800 that lived

00:43:31.500 in this

00:43:32.180 hemisphere

00:43:32.580 I mean

00:43:33.180 they obviously

00:43:33.820 knew that

00:43:34.320 the land

00:43:34.640 existed

00:43:34.980 they were

00:43:35.340 on it

00:43:35.820 but they

00:43:38.180 didn't

00:43:38.360 know

00:43:38.500 anything

00:43:38.760 about

00:43:39.040 the rest

00:43:39.360 of the

00:43:39.560 world

00:43:39.840 and they

00:43:42.000 knew

00:43:42.100 very little

00:43:42.480 about

00:43:42.660 their own

00:43:42.940 hemisphere

00:43:43.280 they knew

00:43:44.320 about the

00:43:44.620 plot of land

00:43:45.120 where they

00:43:45.360 lived

00:43:45.760 and not

00:43:46.700 much

00:43:46.900 else

00:43:47.240 but that

00:43:51.060 again

00:43:51.340 that doesn't

00:43:51.720 change

00:43:52.020 anything

00:43:52.260 doesn't

00:43:52.540 change

00:43:52.840 the fact

00:43:53.240 that

00:43:53.560 for the

00:43:54.640 rest

00:43:54.940 of human

00:43:55.720 civilization

00:43:56.140 and really

00:43:56.760 for

00:43:57.040 civilization

00:43:57.520 itself

00:43:58.300 this

00:43:59.960 whole

00:44:00.500 part of

00:44:00.820 the world

00:44:01.020 was unknown

00:44:01.860 all the

00:44:06.300 stuff about

00:44:06.680 Columbus

00:44:07.000 being a

00:44:07.440 slave

00:44:07.680 trader

00:44:08.040 Columbus

00:44:08.880 engaging

00:44:09.420 in slavery

00:44:10.420 yeah

00:44:11.440 yeah he

00:44:11.780 did

00:44:12.020 and slavery

00:44:14.020 is bad

00:44:14.480 we all

00:44:14.820 know that

00:44:15.260 it's not

00:44:15.820 any kind

00:44:16.140 of bold

00:44:16.640 assertion

00:44:17.460 it's also

00:44:19.600 true that

00:44:20.240 at that

00:44:21.400 time

00:44:21.980 in the

00:44:24.860 15th

00:44:25.440 century

00:44:25.680 into this

00:44:26.100 early 16th

00:44:26.760 century

00:44:27.020 slavery

00:44:28.280 was widely

00:44:29.820 practiced

00:44:30.520 everywhere

00:44:31.320 on the

00:44:32.480 planet

00:44:32.820 it was

00:44:34.080 it was an

00:44:34.620 institution

00:44:35.200 everywhere

00:44:35.960 on the

00:44:36.600 planet

00:44:36.920 in particular

00:44:39.080 especially

00:44:40.280 in the

00:44:41.040 Americas

00:44:41.480 among the

00:44:43.760 so-called

00:44:44.100 native tribes

00:44:44.920 they all

00:44:46.360 practiced

00:44:46.920 slavery

00:44:47.360 every single

00:44:48.380 one

00:44:48.820 from North

00:44:50.360 America

00:44:50.740 down to

00:44:51.120 South

00:44:51.340 America

00:44:51.800 everywhere

00:44:52.840 the nomadic

00:44:53.660 tribes

00:44:54.260 the you know

00:44:55.420 the bigger

00:44:56.280 civilizations

00:44:57.000 Aztecs

00:44:57.840 Incas

00:44:58.640 you know

00:44:58.900 all of

00:44:59.940 them

00:45:00.120 practiced

00:45:00.540 slavery

00:45:01.000 it was

00:45:01.680 par for

00:45:02.180 the course

00:45:02.560 it was

00:45:02.820 completely

00:45:03.300 normal

00:45:03.540 it was

00:45:03.740 expected

00:45:04.240 it was

00:45:04.880 just

00:45:05.140 no one

00:45:05.540 even

00:45:05.740 questioned

00:45:06.140 it

00:45:06.400 there's

00:45:07.280 no record

00:45:07.760 of any

00:45:08.120 kind of

00:45:08.700 abolition

00:45:09.220 movement

00:45:09.980 or sentiment

00:45:10.540 or thought

00:45:11.140 among native

00:45:11.960 tribes

00:45:12.220 they didn't

00:45:12.440 even think

00:45:12.840 about it

00:45:13.220 so

00:45:15.200 so

00:45:15.220 to hold

00:45:15.900 that

00:45:16.080 against

00:45:16.400 Columbus

00:45:16.840 in

00:45:17.220 particular

00:45:17.820 is

00:45:18.720 is 0.99

00:45:19.260 ridiculous 0.99

00:45:19.840 okay 0.99

00:45:22.000 the fact

00:45:22.660 that everyone

00:45:23.040 did it

00:45:23.420 doesn't make

00:45:23.860 it okay

00:45:24.340 but it does

00:45:25.360 mean that it

00:45:25.760 doesn't make

00:45:26.040 any sense

00:45:26.360 to single

00:45:26.980 him out

00:45:27.480 as some

00:45:27.860 sort of

00:45:28.340 unique

00:45:29.260 villainous

00:45:30.320 figure

00:45:30.880 and if you're

00:45:33.060 going to say

00:45:33.520 that the fact

00:45:33.940 that he

00:45:34.100 practiced

00:45:34.360 slavery

00:45:34.680 means that

00:45:35.040 he can't

00:45:35.300 be celebrated

00:45:35.720 then what

00:45:36.420 you're saying

00:45:36.840 is that

00:45:37.220 no historical

00:45:38.380 figure

00:45:38.880 at all

00:45:39.680 period

00:45:40.240 who existed

00:45:41.900 before say

00:45:43.240 the 18th

00:45:44.420 century

00:45:44.820 at the

00:45:46.840 most recent

00:45:47.680 what you're

00:45:48.580 saying is

00:45:48.900 no historical

00:45:49.700 figure

00:45:49.940 existed

00:45:50.240 before

00:45:51.120 around the

00:45:51.660 18th

00:45:51.860 century

00:45:52.040 should be

00:45:53.060 celebrated

00:45:53.800 remembered

00:45:54.380 honored

00:45:55.160 at all

00:45:55.860 period

00:45:56.680 that all

00:45:58.180 of them

00:45:58.540 should be

00:45:58.900 discarded

00:45:59.340 as

00:46:00.040 barbarians

00:46:01.080 because that's

00:46:03.460 the implication

00:46:03.880 because I got

00:46:04.760 news for you

00:46:05.280 again

00:46:05.900 every historical

00:46:07.000 figure

00:46:07.340 every person

00:46:08.160 on the planet

00:46:09.000 everywhere

00:46:09.640 accepted

00:46:11.280 slavery

00:46:11.980 as just

00:46:12.880 a

00:46:13.260 par for the

00:46:14.440 course

00:46:14.800 as a

00:46:16.100 rather

00:46:17.860 normal

00:46:18.320 institution

00:46:18.860 and that

00:46:19.500 was the

00:46:19.720 case

00:46:19.900 for

00:46:20.080 thousands

00:46:20.620 of

00:46:21.280 years

00:46:21.840 there's

00:46:23.900 also one

00:46:24.200 other comment

00:46:24.520 I wanted

00:46:24.720 to read

00:46:24.920 this is

00:46:25.240 from

00:46:25.540 this is

00:46:25.800 a longer

00:46:26.180 comment

00:46:26.620 from

00:46:27.000 Carl

00:46:27.400 Benjamin

00:46:27.860 who says

00:46:29.740 to my

00:46:31.260 argument

00:46:31.620 you seem

00:46:32.160 to be

00:46:32.360 conflating

00:46:32.760 worthiness

00:46:33.300 with

00:46:33.540 technological

00:46:34.060 progress

00:46:34.660 which strikes

00:46:35.140 me as

00:46:35.480 rather

00:46:35.760 materialistic

00:46:36.400 and seems

00:46:36.800 to rest

00:46:37.240 on a

00:46:37.520 whiggish

00:46:37.860 presupposition

00:46:38.600 of progress

00:46:39.700 as an

00:46:40.100 intrinsic

00:46:40.460 good

00:46:40.920 one thing

00:46:41.900 that history

00:46:42.280 tells us

00:46:42.720 about tribal

00:46:43.200 people

00:46:43.480 is that

00:46:43.880 they seem

00:46:44.280 to generally

00:46:44.820 be of good

00:46:45.300 character

00:46:45.760 Tacitus

00:46:46.540 speaks of

00:46:47.040 the good

00:46:47.360 morality

00:46:47.780 of ancient

00:46:48.220 Germans

00:46:48.600 as making

00:46:49.000 laws

00:46:49.380 superfluous

00:46:50.020 and there

00:46:50.800 are many

00:46:51.040 accounts

00:46:51.360 of the

00:46:51.620 virtue

00:46:51.840 of the

00:46:52.080 average

00:46:52.340 Native

00:46:52.560 American

00:46:52.900 and many

00:46:53.240 Europeans

00:46:53.560 and Africans

00:46:53.960 being welcomed

00:46:54.520 into their

00:46:54.900 tribes

00:46:55.160 moreover

00:46:55.600 these people

00:46:56.600 would have

00:46:56.860 led much

00:46:57.280 more rich

00:46:57.700 spiritual

00:46:58.180 lives

00:46:58.480 than the

00:46:58.700 average

00:46:58.980 modern

00:46:59.340 keeping

00:47:00.080 both their

00:47:00.500 religions

00:47:00.780 and traditions

00:47:01.260 alive

00:47:01.680 by living

00:47:02.120 them

00:47:02.340 rather than

00:47:02.960 reflecting

00:47:03.680 upon them

00:47:04.140 and making

00:47:04.420 an ideological

00:47:05.000 choice

00:47:05.520 they existed

00:47:06.520 in a living

00:47:07.020 and spiritual

00:47:07.520 world that

00:47:07.980 moderns can

00:47:08.520 never truly

00:47:08.900 understand

00:47:09.320 because our

00:47:09.820 experience

00:47:10.500 because of

00:47:12.380 our level

00:47:12.880 of knowledge

00:47:14.040 has deprived

00:47:14.640 us of a

00:47:15.120 kind of

00:47:15.420 innocence

00:47:15.820 and love

00:47:16.260 of the

00:47:16.460 world

00:47:16.640 which is

00:47:16.940 simply

00:47:17.160 not

00:47:17.340 possible

00:47:17.680 now

00:47:17.940 ancient

00:47:18.680 people

00:47:18.980 knew

00:47:19.280 they were

00:47:19.860 losing

00:47:20.120 something

00:47:20.460 through

00:47:20.660 technological

00:47:21.120 developments

00:47:21.660 in the

00:47:22.180 Iliad

00:47:22.460 for example

00:47:22.920 they knew

00:47:23.680 that Greeks

00:47:24.120 of

00:47:24.420 Agamemnon's

00:47:26.100 time

00:47:26.660 used bronze

00:47:28.980 mainly

00:47:29.320 while after

00:47:30.060 Homer

00:47:30.340 they mostly

00:47:30.860 used iron

00:47:31.380 and yet

00:47:31.680 considered

00:47:32.060 the bronze

00:47:32.560 age to be

00:47:33.060 more spiritually

00:47:33.880 worthy

00:47:34.280 than their

00:47:35.000 more developed

00:47:35.580 iron age

00:47:36.340 and such

00:47:36.980 going back

00:47:37.440 in time

00:47:37.860 the more

00:47:38.440 technologically

00:47:39.000 primitive

00:47:39.400 the world

00:47:39.880 was

00:47:40.180 the more

00:47:40.480 heroic

00:47:40.780 it was

00:47:41.300 also

00:47:41.700 to the

00:47:42.060 point

00:47:42.300 where the

00:47:42.840 golden age

00:47:43.320 was also

00:47:43.680 the most

00:47:43.980 technologically

00:47:44.520 and politically

00:47:44.980 primitive

00:47:45.340 age

00:47:45.660 in which

00:47:46.240 men

00:47:46.540 conquered

00:47:47.180 monsters

00:47:47.620 and lived

00:47:48.020 their

00:47:48.200 truest

00:47:48.480 and best

00:47:48.800 lives

00:47:49.000 okay

00:47:49.220 so

00:47:50.740 that is

00:47:51.740 a quite

00:47:52.600 eloquent

00:47:53.760 way

00:47:54.240 of

00:47:54.760 restating

00:47:55.780 really

00:47:56.280 the

00:47:57.220 noble

00:47:57.860 savage

00:47:58.460 myth

00:47:58.940 that's

00:47:59.440 basically

00:47:59.960 what you

00:48:00.260 got there

00:48:00.560 well these

00:48:00.880 were simple

00:48:01.340 people

00:48:01.720 with rich

00:48:02.180 spiritual

00:48:02.660 lives

00:48:03.180 and

00:48:04.200 also

00:48:05.680 was the

00:48:06.020 word he

00:48:06.260 used

00:48:06.500 virtuous

00:48:06.980 these

00:48:09.420 were

00:48:09.700 largely

00:48:10.960 virtuous

00:48:11.360 people

00:48:11.780 as well

00:48:12.200 and so

00:48:13.440 the only

00:48:13.940 thing

00:48:14.380 that made

00:48:14.780 western

00:48:15.140 civilization

00:48:15.720 superior

00:48:16.340 is our

00:48:17.100 technological

00:48:17.700 progress

00:48:18.220 that's the

00:48:18.680 argument

00:48:19.040 but that

00:48:20.880 is just

00:48:21.140 not true

00:48:21.560 what you're

00:48:22.000 getting

00:48:22.160 here

00:48:22.340 even

00:48:22.660 though

00:48:22.880 it's

00:48:23.800 obviously

00:48:24.940 from an

00:48:25.300 educated

00:48:25.700 intelligent

00:48:26.220 person

00:48:26.640 this is

00:48:28.740 still

00:48:29.200 a Disney

00:48:30.160 cartoon

00:48:31.020 version

00:48:32.460 of

00:48:33.900 native

00:48:34.540 history

00:48:35.280 and I

00:48:37.120 use the

00:48:37.420 term

00:48:37.600 native

00:48:37.860 and we

00:48:38.080 talked

00:48:38.260 about

00:48:38.400 yesterday

00:48:38.720 I don't

00:48:39.080 really

00:48:39.240 like

00:48:39.440 using

00:48:39.700 that

00:48:39.940 term

00:48:40.240 to

00:48:40.420 specifically

00:48:40.840 refer

00:48:41.280 to

00:48:41.620 so-called

00:48:45.340 indigenous

00:48:45.640 people

00:48:45.940 but just

00:48:46.320 using that

00:48:46.740 term

00:48:46.880 for the

00:48:47.080 sake

00:48:47.200 of

00:48:47.320 argument

00:48:47.620 this

00:48:49.000 is

00:48:49.140 Pocahontas 0.98

00:48:51.040 this is

00:48:52.420 Disney's

00:48:53.080 Pocahontas 0.98

00:48:53.600 is what

00:48:53.820 you're

00:48:53.940 getting

00:48:54.120 because

00:48:55.280 the reality

00:48:55.760 is that

00:48:56.320 sure

00:48:57.000 were there

00:48:57.340 virtuous

00:48:58.020 Indian

00:48:59.440 tribes

00:48:59.800 were there

00:49:00.060 virtuous

00:49:00.560 Indians

00:49:00.940 sure

00:49:01.280 there

00:49:01.420 were

00:49:01.600 but

00:49:02.840 broadly

00:49:03.480 speaking

00:49:04.060 these

00:49:05.800 were

00:49:06.100 brutal

00:49:07.240 and

00:49:08.280 savage

00:49:08.960 people

00:49:09.680 and I

00:49:11.040 don't

00:49:11.200 just

00:49:11.400 say

00:49:11.600 that

00:49:11.940 because

00:49:13.400 they

00:49:14.020 hadn't

00:49:14.700 invented

00:49:15.000 the wheel

00:49:15.480 and most

00:49:16.020 of them

00:49:16.180 didn't

00:49:16.320 have a

00:49:16.520 written

00:49:16.660 language

00:49:17.240 and

00:49:18.360 a lot

00:49:18.820 of them

00:49:18.960 were wearing

00:49:19.260 loincloths

00:49:19.820 and all

00:49:20.060 the rest

00:49:20.340 of it

00:49:20.580 it's

00:49:21.920 not

00:49:22.100 just

00:49:22.400 a lack

00:49:22.880 of

00:49:23.140 technological

00:49:23.920 development

00:49:24.800 and a

00:49:25.120 lack

00:49:25.260 of

00:49:25.380 infrastructure

00:49:25.720 that leads

00:49:26.800 me to

00:49:27.040 that

00:49:27.200 conclusion

00:49:27.680 I'm

00:49:29.440 talking

00:49:29.680 morally

00:49:30.880 as well

00:49:31.500 the

00:49:32.660 moral

00:49:33.060 code

00:49:33.500 of the

00:49:34.020 Indian

00:49:34.280 tribe

00:49:34.720 was

00:49:35.000 inferior

00:49:35.920 if we

00:49:37.480 can even

00:49:37.700 call it

00:49:38.020 a moral

00:49:38.280 code

00:49:38.540 it was

00:49:38.820 inferior

00:49:39.380 to the

00:49:40.980 moral

00:49:41.200 code

00:49:41.440 that

00:49:41.600 governed

00:49:41.940 western

00:49:42.460 civilization

00:49:42.820 at the

00:49:43.220 time

00:49:43.440 and that

00:49:45.380 was not

00:49:45.660 perfect

00:49:45.940 either

00:49:46.220 but it

00:49:46.820 was certainly

00:49:47.240 inferior

00:49:47.680 I mean

00:49:50.200 these are

00:49:50.520 people who

00:49:51.160 often times

00:49:51.980 as we've

00:49:52.660 discussed

00:49:53.020 practiced

00:49:53.480 human sacrifice

00:49:54.560 practiced

00:49:56.540 in some

00:49:57.460 cases

00:49:57.740 ritualistic

00:49:58.680 cannibalism

00:49:59.640 these are

00:50:01.900 people who

00:50:02.620 yeah they

00:50:03.140 practiced

00:50:03.400 slavery like

00:50:03.880 everybody else

00:50:04.260 in the world

00:50:04.600 but there was

00:50:05.260 no discussion

00:50:05.840 about it

00:50:06.120 there was

00:50:06.280 no thought

00:50:06.740 that it

00:50:06.980 might be

00:50:07.340 wrong

00:50:07.640 and it

00:50:09.440 was a

00:50:09.680 quite a

00:50:10.520 brutal

00:50:10.820 kind of

00:50:11.240 slavery

00:50:11.480 that also

00:50:12.060 might involve

00:50:12.660 cutting

00:50:13.340 your 0.98

00:50:13.540 slaves

00:50:13.780 heart

00:50:14.020 out

00:50:14.300 as a

00:50:14.700 sacrifice

00:50:15.060 to the

00:50:15.360 sun

00:50:15.540 gods

00:50:15.920 these were

00:50:18.080 people that

00:50:18.620 lived in a

00:50:19.200 constant state

00:50:20.140 of war

00:50:20.560 there was

00:50:20.880 no peace

00:50:21.460 constant state

00:50:22.680 of war

00:50:22.980 all the

00:50:23.300 time

00:50:23.580 and if

00:50:26.700 they invaded

00:50:27.240 a neighboring

00:50:27.680 tribe

00:50:28.120 an enemy

00:50:28.420 tribe

00:50:28.820 they would 0.99

00:50:29.460 just kill 1.00

00:50:29.960 everyone 1.00

00:50:30.360 as a matter

00:50:30.840 of course

00:50:31.280 they would 1.00

00:50:31.520 just kill 1.00

00:50:31.900 everyone 1.00

00:50:32.240 that wasn't

00:50:32.960 any

00:50:33.100 it wasn't

00:50:33.360 some kind

00:50:33.620 of like

00:50:33.780 unique

00:50:34.100 atrocity

00:50:34.640 when they

00:50:34.920 did that

00:50:35.360 which is

00:50:35.880 what they

00:50:36.060 always did

00:50:36.380 kill 0.56

00:50:36.680 everybody 1.00

00:50:37.120 take the

00:50:38.560 children

00:50:39.060 as slaves 1.00

00:50:40.400 rape the 1.00

00:50:41.520 women 1.00

00:50:41.760 kill the 1.00

00:50:42.220 women 1.00

00:50:42.400 or take

00:50:42.780 them as

00:50:43.040 slaves

00:50:43.280 as well

00:50:43.780 oftentimes

00:50:44.760 the males

00:50:46.820 would be

00:50:47.260 tortured

00:50:47.680 just for

00:50:48.160 fun

00:50:48.480 you know

00:50:48.860 not to

00:50:49.140 extract

00:50:49.820 information

00:50:50.340 from them

00:50:50.700 or something

00:50:50.920 but just

00:50:51.440 for fun

00:50:52.220 and it

00:50:54.360 was just

00:50:54.640 kind of

00:50:54.880 this casual

00:50:55.840 savagery

00:50:57.120 and barbarism

00:50:57.840 that the

00:51:00.680 early European

00:51:01.300 settlers 0.63

00:51:01.840 witnessed

00:51:02.320 and many

00:51:03.500 of them

00:51:03.800 commented

00:51:04.200 on

00:51:04.460 and even

00:51:06.560 though many

00:51:06.940 of these

00:51:07.360 were violent

00:51:08.340 and harsh

00:51:08.780 people

00:51:09.200 what they

00:51:10.160 witnessed

00:51:10.500 here

00:51:10.840 was just

00:51:11.400 shocking

00:51:11.940 to them

00:51:12.240 they couldn't

00:51:12.560 even

00:51:12.740 they couldn't

00:51:13.180 wrap their

00:51:13.500 minds around

00:51:14.000 it

00:51:14.240 and the way

00:51:16.540 that war

00:51:16.900 was conducted

00:51:17.480 there was no

00:51:18.160 dignity or honor

00:51:19.000 in it

00:51:19.460 okay

00:51:20.360 they weren't

00:51:20.680 they weren't

00:51:21.120 the Indian

00:51:21.700 tribes

00:51:21.980 they weren't

00:51:22.320 fighting pitched

00:51:22.980 battles

00:51:23.440 for the most

00:51:24.400 part

00:51:24.700 out on the

00:51:25.120 battlefield

00:51:25.480 the way

00:51:26.900 that the

00:51:27.400 Europeans

00:51:27.780 conducted

00:51:28.300 war

00:51:28.660 there was

00:51:30.000 very little

00:51:30.460 of that

00:51:30.840 instead

00:51:31.120 what they

00:51:31.420 would do

00:51:31.640 is they

00:51:31.820 would send

00:51:32.120 raiding

00:51:32.480 parties out

00:51:33.140 and they

00:51:34.800 would go

00:51:35.240 into your

00:51:35.820 village

00:51:36.540 while you're

00:51:37.200 sleeping

00:51:37.560 most of

00:51:38.480 the time

00:51:38.800 and they

00:51:39.420 would just 1.00

00:51:39.760 kill you 1.00

00:51:40.100 while you're 1.00

00:51:40.340 sleeping

00:51:40.560 and they

00:51:41.440 would carry

00:51:41.740 your children

00:51:42.140 away and

00:51:42.600 make them 0.98

00:51:42.880 slaves

00:51:43.200 and again

00:51:45.140 the point

00:51:45.520 is that

00:51:45.960 there was

00:51:46.580 no discussion

00:51:47.460 of it

00:51:47.960 there was

00:51:49.660 there was no

00:51:50.140 one even

00:51:50.440 questioning

00:51:51.000 whether it's

00:51:51.520 the right

00:51:51.800 thing to do

00:51:52.160 it's just

00:51:52.400 what they

00:51:52.800 did

00:51:53.160 I don't

00:51:55.920 call that

00:51:56.260 virtuous

00:51:56.600 and I

00:51:59.120 do call

00:51:59.780 that

00:52:00.080 you know

00:52:00.760 so that

00:52:02.000 there's a

00:52:02.320 there's a

00:52:02.760 moral

00:52:03.560 inferiority

00:52:05.680 there

00:52:06.320 I think

00:52:06.600 that's

00:52:06.820 that is

00:52:07.080 a morally

00:52:07.920 inferior

00:52:08.540 way of

00:52:09.340 conducting

00:52:09.720 yourself

00:52:10.200 in my

00:52:11.980 opinion

00:52:12.320 faith

00:52:13.800 more

00:52:14.040 Andrew

00:52:14.320 Clavin's

00:52:14.740 talented

00:52:15.020 daughter

00:52:15.320 has written

00:52:15.720 a new

00:52:16.160 rendition

00:52:16.540 of the

00:52:16.820 age-old

00:52:17.260 Christmas

00:52:17.580 classic

00:52:18.020 A Christmas

00:52:18.500 Carol

00:52:18.820 except this

00:52:19.540 time it's

00:52:20.020 with a K

00:52:20.740 it's a modern

00:52:21.440 twist on the

00:52:21.980 story of

00:52:22.440 Ebeneezer

00:52:22.840 Scrooge

00:52:23.200 except with

00:52:23.600 a female 0.98

00:52:23.980 protagonist

00:52:24.460 in a world

00:52:25.240 where boss

00:52:25.880 babes

00:52:26.400 so-called

00:52:26.880 are champion

00:52:27.400 at the

00:52:27.680 expense of

00:52:28.100 family

00:52:28.380 faith is

00:52:29.240 making the

00:52:29.580 case that

00:52:29.960 having what

00:52:30.400 matters is

00:52:30.980 far better

00:52:31.540 than having

00:52:32.060 it all

00:52:32.420 A Christmas

00:52:33.100 Carol is now

00:52:33.680 available for

00:52:34.200 pre-order

00:52:34.680 order yours

00:52:35.340 on Amazon

00:52:35.820 or wherever

00:52:36.420 you get your

00:52:37.100 books today

00:52:37.860 now let's get

00:52:38.380 to our

00:52:38.660 Daily

00:52:38.940 Cancellation

00:52:39.600 Today for

00:52:46.400 our Daily

00:52:46.600 Cancellation

00:52:47.040 we begin

00:52:47.560 with a new

00:52:48.160 poll that

00:52:48.600 reveals shifting

00:52:49.520 cultural

00:52:50.100 attitudes and

00:52:50.980 priorities as

00:52:51.580 we know from

00:52:51.920 experience cultural

00:52:52.720 attitudes and

00:52:53.240 priorities very

00:52:53.820 rarely shift in

00:52:54.720 the right

00:52:55.020 direction and

00:52:56.440 I would say

00:52:56.960 they have not

00:52:57.520 in this case

00:52:58.080 either as

00:52:58.580 New York

00:52:58.780 Post headline

00:52:59.260 reveals most

00:53:00.400 Americans don't 1.00

00:53:01.360 judge adults 0.61

00:53:02.220 who still live

00:53:02.960 with their

00:53:03.260 parents now I'm

00:53:03.900 not gonna get

00:53:04.800 hung up on this

00:53:05.480 point but to

00:53:06.040 be clear

00:53:06.440 Americans do

00:53:08.640 judge adults 0.61

00:53:09.400 who still live

00:53:10.020 with their

00:53:10.240 parents it's

00:53:10.800 just that they

00:53:11.280 make positive

00:53:11.980 as opposed to

00:53:12.720 negative judgments

00:53:13.520 it's actually

00:53:14.440 impossible for a

00:53:15.440 sentient conscious

00:53:16.260 conscious human

00:53:17.400 being to not

00:53:18.780 judge other

00:53:19.460 people we make

00:53:20.060 judgments all the

00:53:20.780 time about

00:53:21.620 everyone and

00:53:22.200 everything in

00:53:22.820 every situation

00:53:23.420 we encounter

00:53:23.980 the ability to

00:53:25.100 make judgments

00:53:25.760 to discern is

00:53:27.500 one of the most

00:53:27.900 crucial things

00:53:28.640 that separates us

00:53:29.460 from fish and

00:53:30.360 lizards and

00:53:31.000 mice now this is

00:53:33.200 not really relevant

00:53:33.780 to the topic at

00:53:34.320 hand but it's

00:53:35.260 worth stating for

00:53:35.880 the record that

00:53:36.760 there is nothing

00:53:37.280 wrong with

00:53:38.480 judging other

00:53:39.440 humans in fact

00:53:40.520 it is what makes

00:53:41.580 you human your

00:53:42.740 ability to do

00:53:43.320 that in any

00:53:43.860 case here's the

00:53:44.740 article living with

00:53:45.980 mom and dad well

00:53:46.680 past childhood has

00:53:47.540 become socially

00:53:48.200 acceptable according

00:53:48.920 to a new survey

00:53:49.640 the vast majority

00:53:50.460 of Americans believe

00:53:51.120 moving back in with

00:53:51.880 your parents as an

00:53:52.820 adult is an

00:53:53.420 understandable

00:53:53.940 decision not

00:53:55.040 meriting judgment

00:53:55.860 according to a

00:53:56.660 new survey by

00:53:57.400 Harris Poll for

00:53:58.520 Bloomberg News

00:53:59.260 well except that

00:54:00.480 understandable

00:54:01.060 decision is a

00:54:02.200 judgment but again

00:54:03.020 not the point

00:54:03.700 continuing

00:54:04.320 indeed almost 90%

00:54:06.480 of the 4,106

00:54:08.660 adults surveyed

00:54:09.560 felt that amid

00:54:10.180 so much student

00:54:10.820 debt such as such

00:54:12.020 an insecure job

00:54:12.880 market and record

00:54:13.620 breaking inflation

00:54:14.380 there shouldn't be

00:54:15.500 stigma around the

00:54:16.240 decision to live at

00:54:16.920 home and save

00:54:17.700 it's a good thing

00:54:18.440 because almost half

00:54:19.640 of young Americans

00:54:20.280 are currently doing

00:54:21.160 just that while no

00:54:22.000 longer quite at the

00:54:23.120 record highs reached

00:54:23.980 in the early days of

00:54:24.740 the coronavirus

00:54:25.100 lockdowns when nearly

00:54:26.920 50% of 18 to 29

00:54:28.180 year olds live with 0.94

00:54:28.820 their family about

00:54:30.020 23 million or 45%

00:54:31.680 are currently

00:54:32.220 cohabitating with

00:54:34.000 relatives that's the

00:54:35.020 same rate as the

00:54:35.880 one that followed

00:54:36.520 the Great Depression

00:54:37.600 while there used to

00:54:38.620 be a strong stigma

00:54:39.540 against grown children

00:54:40.520 not living on their

00:54:41.440 own and being seen

00:54:42.280 as them having

00:54:42.920 failed to launch

00:54:43.820 U.S. residents

00:54:44.760 empathize with the

00:54:45.960 larger financial

00:54:46.640 fallout impacting the

00:54:47.680 housing situations of

00:54:48.700 millennials and

00:54:49.440 Gen Zers 0.99

00:54:50.100 so in summary

00:54:52.200 lots of grown adults

00:54:53.980 are living at home

00:54:54.720 with their parents

00:54:55.380 and our culture now

00:54:56.220 generally finds that

00:54:57.420 arrangement acceptable

00:54:58.520 and it should be said

00:54:59.960 that our culture

00:55:01.000 in this case

00:55:01.860 shockingly

00:55:02.460 is not entirely

00:55:04.160 wrong

00:55:04.620 there are a few

00:55:06.760 important caveats

00:55:07.820 when we talk about

00:55:08.640 the adult living

00:55:10.460 with their parents

00:55:11.880 in fact

00:55:12.180 historically

00:55:13.220 in most societies

00:55:14.380 including our own

00:55:15.180 it used to be

00:55:15.820 standard practice

00:55:16.720 for grown children

00:55:17.660 to live with their

00:55:18.520 parents

00:55:18.900 families would remain 0.98

00:55:20.120 together in the

00:55:20.980 same home

00:55:21.500 or on the same

00:55:22.200 homestead

00:55:22.860 and that's how

00:55:25.680 they would live

00:55:26.060 the nuclear family

00:55:26.920 existed alongside of

00:55:28.580 and with

00:55:29.320 the extended

00:55:30.540 multi-generational

00:55:32.020 family

00:55:32.440 multiple generations

00:55:33.980 living together

00:55:34.840 helping each other

00:55:36.020 working together

00:55:37.060 to survive

00:55:37.540 there is not only

00:55:39.080 nothing wrong

00:55:39.960 with that sort of

00:55:40.560 arrangement

00:55:40.860 but it is to my

00:55:41.720 mind

00:55:42.020 clearly superior

00:55:43.740 to the modern

00:55:44.740 setup

00:55:45.120 you know

00:55:46.060 having families

00:55:46.800 break up into

00:55:47.540 smaller units

00:55:48.380 and fan out

00:55:49.040 across the country

00:55:49.780 losing touch

00:55:50.420 with each other

00:55:50.920 growing distant

00:55:51.820 not being around

00:55:54.500 to help and

00:55:55.060 support each other

00:55:55.780 this is all

00:55:56.600 very modern

00:55:57.300 and it's hard

00:55:58.660 to claim

00:55:59.000 that it's an

00:55:59.380 improvement

00:55:59.780 the idea that

00:56:01.600 kids should leave 0.59

00:56:02.220 the house at 18

00:56:02.980 and be gone

00:56:03.540 forever from the

00:56:04.180 family home

00:56:04.720 cut off from

00:56:05.600 parental support

00:56:06.860 that is a

00:56:07.700 recent innovation

00:56:08.680 the baby boomers 0.99

00:56:10.400 may not have

00:56:10.980 entirely come up

00:56:11.740 with this idea

00:56:12.420 but they are the

00:56:13.060 ones who helped

00:56:13.560 to make it the

00:56:14.120 default setting

00:56:14.940 for a while

00:56:15.560 parents were

00:56:16.900 determined to

00:56:17.860 get their own

00:56:18.300 kids out of the

00:56:18.840 house as quickly

00:56:19.380 as possible

00:56:19.940 in many cases

00:56:20.540 for no other

00:56:21.040 reason than the

00:56:21.860 simple fact that

00:56:22.760 they didn't like

00:56:23.320 having their kids

00:56:23.940 around and they

00:56:24.740 didn't much enjoy

00:56:25.540 being parents

00:56:26.200 and so they

00:56:26.600 were eager

00:56:27.400 to be done

00:56:27.960 with it

00:56:28.340 they emptied

00:56:29.700 the nest

00:56:30.120 which often

00:56:30.840 included getting

00:56:31.460 divorced either

00:56:32.200 before or after

00:56:32.920 the kids left

00:56:33.480 home

00:56:33.760 a house which

00:56:34.580 was once home

00:56:35.540 to mother and

00:56:36.240 father and

00:56:36.740 children now

00:56:37.740 was home to

00:56:38.320 only the mother

00:56:38.960 as the family

00:56:39.960 and the marriage

00:56:40.440 broke apart

00:56:41.000 and eventually

00:56:41.460 both parents

00:56:42.060 end up living

00:56:42.540 in separate

00:56:42.920 apartments on

00:56:43.460 different sides

00:56:43.900 of town

00:56:44.240 and the kids

00:56:45.100 take turns

00:56:46.360 begrudgingly hosting

00:56:47.320 one parent or

00:56:48.020 the other on

00:56:48.460 holidays

00:56:48.820 I mean this

00:56:49.300 is the modern

00:56:50.920 western approach

00:56:51.900 to family life

00:56:52.700 and it is

00:56:53.620 deeply sick

00:56:54.420 and totally

00:56:55.720 wrong in

00:56:56.560 pretty much

00:56:57.000 every conceivable

00:56:57.960 way

00:56:58.280 so if we are

00:56:59.880 seeing a shift

00:57:00.680 away from that

00:57:01.680 failed approach

00:57:02.640 and back to a

00:57:03.480 more traditional

00:57:04.180 more family

00:57:05.020 centric way of

00:57:05.860 life

00:57:06.120 that's a very

00:57:07.400 good thing

00:57:07.900 but unfortunately

00:57:09.700 that's not exactly

00:57:11.720 what's happening

00:57:12.800 in many cases

00:57:13.700 okay

00:57:14.420 it's true that

00:57:15.340 some of the adults

00:57:16.360 living with their

00:57:16.960 parents they do

00:57:17.760 fall into this

00:57:18.520 traditional category

00:57:19.500 these are functional

00:57:20.600 well adjusted

00:57:21.320 mature

00:57:21.900 contributing adults

00:57:23.340 who choose to

00:57:24.040 live with their

00:57:24.380 parents or have

00:57:24.920 their parents

00:57:25.340 live with them

00:57:25.920 either so that

00:57:26.540 they can take

00:57:26.980 care of their

00:57:27.340 parents or

00:57:28.120 because they

00:57:28.500 want to have

00:57:28.860 this multi-generational

00:57:30.080 family you know

00:57:31.160 living together

00:57:31.700 set up or they

00:57:33.140 want to you know

00:57:33.560 be close to each

00:57:34.260 other like the

00:57:35.060 old days

00:57:35.480 and the adults

00:57:37.340 in that category

00:57:38.000 they're doing

00:57:38.400 nothing wrong

00:57:38.860 in fact I would

00:57:39.800 like to adopt

00:57:40.380 their approach

00:57:40.920 with my own

00:57:41.380 kids

00:57:41.640 I am personally

00:57:44.320 not eager to

00:57:45.380 send all my

00:57:45.980 kids off in six

00:57:46.880 different directions

00:57:47.560 hundreds of miles

00:57:48.200 apart so that I

00:57:49.560 only see them and

00:57:50.360 my grandchildren you

00:57:51.340 know in the future

00:57:51.900 a few times a year

00:57:52.820 at best

00:57:53.280 I mean if that's

00:57:55.360 what ends up

00:57:55.800 happening I can't

00:57:56.480 stop them from

00:57:57.000 moving away

00:57:57.380 obviously but but

00:57:58.200 you know I I would

00:57:59.800 prefer if that didn't

00:58:00.560 happen I like the

00:58:01.780 idea of having my

00:58:02.380 family all together

00:58:03.200 and close to each

00:58:04.120 other but the

00:58:05.820 problem is that this

00:58:06.540 only describes a

00:58:07.740 certain fraction of

00:58:08.700 the adults who live

00:58:10.140 with their parents

00:58:10.700 and I suspect it is

00:58:11.760 not a majority of

00:58:14.080 that fraction on the

00:58:15.620 other end of the

00:58:16.180 spectrum are the

00:58:17.240 adult children who

00:58:18.440 live at home as

00:58:19.740 children they don't

00:58:21.260 work they don't

00:58:22.100 contribute they

00:58:23.160 watch TV they

00:58:23.940 play video games

00:58:24.640 they sit around on

00:58:25.340 their phones all

00:58:25.880 day they live in a

00:58:27.080 state of perpetual

00:58:28.000 adolescence and so

00:58:29.840 that is really the

00:58:30.720 crisis that's the

00:58:31.400 problem it's not

00:58:32.600 simply living with

00:58:33.400 your parents it is

00:58:34.040 being a perpetual

00:58:34.880 adolescent that is

00:58:36.920 the issue and there

00:58:38.960 are some people who

00:58:39.580 pull that off even

00:58:41.120 living on their own

00:58:41.900 they might live on

00:58:42.580 their own but their

00:58:43.480 parents pay for the

00:58:44.220 apartment their

00:58:44.660 parents pay the

00:58:45.240 phone bill their

00:58:45.720 parents pay everything

00:58:46.360 and so they're not

00:58:47.940 living in their

00:58:48.520 parents house but they

00:58:49.220 might as well be

00:58:49.900 they're still living

00:58:50.820 under their parents

00:58:51.960 and for people like

00:58:55.760 this if they're at

00:58:56.480 home and they're not

00:58:57.000 at home because they

00:58:57.580 want to be close to

00:58:58.240 their families but

00:58:59.700 rather because they

00:59:00.260 want to avoid

00:59:00.920 responsibility and

00:59:02.340 they want to avoid

00:59:02.940 work and sacrifice

00:59:04.300 adults like this for

00:59:06.500 example watch

00:59:07.200 welcome to the day in

00:59:09.000 the life of a 24 year

00:59:09.960 old that still lives

00:59:10.700 with her parents

00:59:11.460 they often get asked

00:59:12.440 why don't move out

00:59:13.140 if I can afford to

00:59:14.000 and the truth is I

00:59:15.060 am lazy and honestly

00:59:17.240 your Toronto prices is

00:59:18.300 just cheaper to be

00:59:19.120 nicer to my mom

00:59:19.860 so I made these

00:59:20.480 protein waffles for

00:59:21.380 breakfast for everyone

00:59:22.260 they're so good

00:59:23.100 they're 220 calories

00:59:24.060 for the whole thing

00:59:24.720 and then I got ready

00:59:25.680 to bully my parents

00:59:26.920 into buying things

00:59:28.240 that I want

00:59:28.760 then I noticed that

00:59:29.540 my mom decided to 1.00

00:59:30.320 copy my outfit

00:59:31.200 how rude

00:59:32.000 look how cute this

00:59:32.880 camera is

00:59:33.440 I'm obsessed

00:59:34.140 then I got some

00:59:34.620 pictures printed

00:59:35.280 then went to the

00:59:35.960 aquarium just kidding

00:59:36.820 leaving grocery

00:59:37.340 shopping because they

00:59:38.100 never know what to

00:59:38.680 feed their allergy

00:59:39.300 child then I got to

00:59:40.260 play with my new

00:59:40.820 toy made some dinner

00:59:41.980 and that was my day

00:59:42.740 okay bye

00:59:43.100 okay so that is a

00:59:46.060 24 year old living

00:59:47.040 like a four year old

00:59:47.960 and she is obviously

00:59:48.980 far from alone

00:59:49.800 here's just one more

00:59:50.960 example watch

00:59:52.320 a realistic day in my

00:59:54.360 life as an unemployed

00:59:55.440 26 year old who lives

00:59:56.840 with her parents

00:59:57.380 today I woke up at

00:59:58.280 3 p.m because these

00:59:59.660 days I'm just too

01:00:00.760 depressed to wake up

01:00:01.940 and I just go back to

01:00:03.460 bed because I feel

01:00:04.400 like it and then my

01:00:05.500 mom made me made us

01:00:07.340 dinner because I love

01:00:08.280 my parents this is all

01:00:09.340 the panchan we had

01:00:10.700 and we had my birthday

01:00:11.880 cake because it was my

01:00:12.720 birthday last week and

01:00:14.200 the little heads are on

01:00:15.140 fire which is so cute

01:00:16.500 and then I got myself

01:00:18.100 kind of together and

01:00:19.380 sat down on my desk and

01:00:21.480 got myself to do some

01:00:23.080 coloring which only

01:00:23.960 lasted about five

01:00:25.000 minutes and then I

01:00:26.620 decided to do my

01:00:27.420 skincare because I

01:00:28.260 thought it would make

01:00:28.760 me feel better and

01:00:29.820 first I flossed because

01:00:31.460 I love flossing because

01:00:32.820 I think it's really

01:00:33.380 important and I did my

01:00:34.980 double cleanse because I

01:00:36.000 had sunscreen on from

01:00:36.940 the morning even though

01:00:38.640 I went back to bed after

01:00:39.620 putting on sunscreen then

01:00:40.800 I did my skincare which

01:00:42.560 is like a toner pad an

01:00:43.700 ampoule and a lotion

01:00:44.820 because I was lazy today

01:00:46.060 and that's about it

01:00:46.860 oh okay so she woke up

01:00:49.820 at 3 p.m ate some food

01:00:51.100 did some coloring did

01:00:53.200 her skincare routine

01:00:53.920 and then went back to

01:00:54.680 bed I can't even say

01:00:56.380 she's living like a 0.69

01:00:57.100 four-year-old because

01:00:57.740 even my four-year-old

01:00:58.880 has more responsibility

01:01:00.520 around the house than

01:01:01.420 this 26-year-old woman 0.98

01:01:02.540 like my four-year-old

01:01:03.880 would not be allowed to

01:01:05.040 live that way this is a

01:01:07.440 26-year-old living a

01:01:08.720 life so sedentary that

01:01:10.040 she may as well be an 0.98

01:01:10.920 infant she is a 26-year-old

01:01:12.700 living like a 26 week

01:01:14.020 old when we think of

01:01:15.480 adults who live with

01:01:16.040 their parents you know

01:01:17.240 this is who we're

01:01:18.680 thinking of which

01:01:19.920 admittedly isn't fair to

01:01:21.160 those in the first

01:01:21.840 category we talked about

01:01:22.940 but the fact is that

01:01:23.660 this other category

01:01:24.420 exists and there are

01:01:25.820 probably millions who

01:01:26.700 fall into it and it is

01:01:28.400 a severe problem in our

01:01:30.060 society if the idea of

01:01:33.280 kids leaving the home

01:01:34.200 and moving far away and

01:01:35.140 effectively severing

01:01:36.460 themselves from their

01:01:37.120 extended family is a

01:01:38.540 modern and mostly

01:01:39.640 negative development then

01:01:41.380 kids staying at home and

01:01:42.500 doing nothing and

01:01:43.240 contributing nothing and

01:01:44.060 remaining in a state of

01:01:44.920 adolescent limbo is even

01:01:46.840 more modern and

01:01:47.680 significantly worse what

01:01:49.620 you just saw in those

01:01:50.160 TikTok videos was a kind

01:01:51.500 of decadence that could

01:01:53.300 have only been enjoyed by

01:01:54.900 the children of pharaohs 0.73

01:01:56.160 and emperors in earlier

01:01:57.280 times you know the idea

01:01:59.780 of living every day not

01:02:01.640 doing anything and just

01:02:03.720 lazing around the house and

01:02:05.560 yet you can still survive

01:02:06.740 and eat in earlier times

01:02:09.560 you would have had to have

01:02:10.240 been insanely wealthy to

01:02:14.420 live that way but now we

01:02:17.760 have a generation of people

01:02:19.080 who have the vices of the

01:02:21.100 uber wealthy but without the

01:02:23.260 wealth it's like the worst of 0.99

01:02:25.180 all worlds you're as lazy and 0.99

01:02:27.780 decadent as we imagine maybe 1.00

01:02:31.320 the child of an extremely

01:02:32.400 wealthy person might be except

01:02:34.160 you're not wealthy and this is

01:02:37.680 the case for lots of 20 and

01:02:38.900 even 30 somethings living with 0.54

01:02:39.980 their parents they say that

01:02:40.900 the economy is tough and job

01:02:42.360 opportunities are scarce and

01:02:43.500 all that and yet they're doing

01:02:44.660 almost nothing to improve

01:02:46.380 their situation they're putting

01:02:47.820 in no effort at all you know

01:02:50.300 when you don't have a job

01:02:52.060 finding a job is supposed to be

01:02:54.780 a full-time job you should be

01:02:57.520 putting in eight to nine hours a

01:02:58.880 day every single day finding a

01:03:01.240 job why wouldn't you you got

01:03:03.420 nothing else to do with your

01:03:04.360 time and if you're living with

01:03:05.600 your parents then you don't

01:03:06.340 even have to worry about

01:03:07.140 feeding yourself or anything

01:03:08.380 like that everything's taken

01:03:09.860 care of you got nothing but

01:03:10.880 time and so why are you not

01:03:13.780 spending eight nine ten hours a

01:03:16.940 day finding a job and guess

01:03:18.140 what if you put that kind of

01:03:18.920 effort into it you'd find a job

01:03:20.200 in like a week these are not

01:03:23.300 poor and desperate people

01:03:24.260 scrounging to get by they're

01:03:25.520 lazy and stagnant content to

01:03:27.120 remain attached to their parents

01:03:28.380 like barnacles indefinitely their

01:03:30.960 relationship with their parents

01:03:31.940 has become parasitic and worst of

01:03:34.900 all they don't even want anything

01:03:36.280 better for themselves the

01:03:37.960 struggling economy is a smoke

01:03:39.640 screen for them they use it as an

01:03:42.080 excuse but the truth is that they

01:03:43.720 lack even the desire to provide for

01:03:45.700 themselves they have no ambition

01:03:46.960 they have no drive again this does

01:03:50.160 not describe every adult living with

01:03:51.660 their parents but it is it does

01:03:52.700 describe a certain large

01:03:53.840 preponderance of them and for those

01:03:56.900 in that group the only remedy at this

01:03:58.720 point is for their parents to cut the

01:04:01.020 umbilical cord finally and completely

01:04:02.840 kick them out of the house let them 0.99

01:04:06.040 really struggle for the first time in

01:04:07.720 their lives give them the chance to

01:04:10.860 sink or swim because you know what

01:04:12.640 either option would be better than

01:04:14.440 floating like human driftwood through

01:04:16.240 life as I'm always preaching every

01:04:19.240 human life depends on work no human

01:04:21.520 being can remain alive without work but

01:04:25.300 if you will not do any of the work for

01:04:26.720 yourself then you are living off of

01:04:27.960 the work of others but nobody

01:04:30.460 especially no young adult should have

01:04:32.060 that luxury it is not even a luxury

01:04:34.880 it's a curse it dooms you to a

01:04:37.380 mediocre unimpressive uninteresting

01:04:39.660 pointless meandering life and that is

01:04:43.520 why ultimately the parents who let

01:04:46.100 these kinds of kids live at home with

01:04:48.460 them are the ones who are

01:04:50.320 deservedly canceled that'll do for the

01:04:53.700 show today thanks for watching thanks

01:04:55.140 for listening have a great day talk to

01:04:56.940 you tomorrow godspeed

The Matt Walsh Show - October 10, 2023

Ep. 1239 - These Are Serious Times And We Are Led By Unserious People

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