The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1250 - BLM Reincarnated

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, BLM never went away, it just rebranded.

00:00:03.380 Now it's back on the street marching under the Free Palestine banner.

00:00:06.520 Also, the thugs who mowed down a retired police chief have been in court this week laughing and having a grand old time.

00:00:12.300 What would be the most just way to handle these teenage killers?

00:00:15.380 We'll discuss, and the state of Oregon is getting rid of their academic requirements in public school.

00:00:19.680 Now you can graduate whether you learned anything or not.

00:00:21.860 Plus, fewer adults will be wearing Halloween costumes this year.

00:00:24.680 I'll talk about why that is a rare good sign for society.

00:00:27.920 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:49.580 Well, you know the presidential election season is officially underway in the United States

00:01:53.940 when mobs begin filling the streets of every major city, chanting genocidal slogans and attacking police officers.

00:02:00.280 This is the norm during an election year in places like Lagos, and now we've imported that wonderful tradition here.

00:02:07.440 You don't need to check your calendar or wait for the national political conventions.

00:02:11.280 When you see the mobs, you know the campaign has started in earnest.

00:02:16.000 Three years ago, the catalyst for these mobs, of course, was the overdose of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

00:02:20.880 This time around, the mobs have sprung into action in response to the war in Israel.

00:02:25.320 Now, at least on the surface, it's hard to think of two grievances that have less in common with one another.

00:02:31.320 You'd probably assume that they're completely unrelated.

00:02:33.760 And indeed, if you watch news coverage of these demonstrations, your assumption would only be reinforced.

00:02:39.820 So here, for example, was ABC's coverage of the recent protests in New York.

00:02:43.500 Watch.

00:02:43.740 Now, ahead of the expected ground invasion, there were widespread pro-Palestinian rallies around the world today.

00:02:51.760 From Chile to Indonesia, Ecuador and Brazil, hundreds of thousands sent a message to stop the bloodshed.

00:02:59.680 In the United States, no different.

00:03:02.600 Houston, Atlanta, even in our nation's capital, they all saw major demonstrations.

00:03:07.780 Here at home, a huge rally in Brooklyn lasted for hours, and we followed the demonstrators.

00:03:14.220 As the day gave way to night, as Eyewitness News reporter Anthony Carlos shows us, the mostly peaceful scenes ended with clashes and several arrests.

00:03:23.720 Chaos and clashing at nightfall on the streets of Brooklyn.

00:03:30.740 Police say more than a dozen people arrested during a pro-Palestinian demonstration.

00:03:35.600 Move back! Move back! 0.99

00:03:37.820 NYPD cops pushing protesters back and ordering them out of the roadway.

00:03:43.820 The rally continuing into the night, with tensions eventually flaring between cops and demonstrators.

00:03:50.860 We are on the sidewalk! Keep pushing us on!

00:03:53.260 And that was not all that flared.

00:03:55.440 We will be Palestine!

00:03:57.800 The protests starting hours earlier Saturday and much more peaceful, with thousands taking to the streets of Bay Ridge, many marching for a ceasefire in the Middle East.

00:04:07.760 So many of the demonstrators are marching for a ceasefire, says the reporter, as the footage shows signs calling for Israel to be wiped off the face of the map.

00:04:16.380 And that's a little confusing.

00:04:18.140 That's your first clue that you're not getting the most honest assessment of what's happening at these protests and where they're likely to lead.

00:04:25.700 In any event, the gist of the ABC report is that New Yorkers are mainly concerned about the Middle East.

00:04:30.000 They're not using the conflict over there as a proxy for anything that they want to inflict on Americans in this country.

00:04:36.660 Fortunately, we don't have to rely on ABC News and their version of events.

00:04:40.780 Independent journalists have been documenting the demonstrations in New York especially as well.

00:04:46.020 Brennan Stultz is one of those journalists.

00:04:49.020 And what his reporting makes clear is that if you look closer at these protests, they're hitting pretty much the same notes that we saw three years ago with BLM.

00:04:57.800 They also bear a striking resemblance in some ways to protests over the end of Roe v. Wade, protests against parental rights laws.

00:05:06.060 The other night, for example, Stultz shot this footage of a protest organized by Gays for Gaza and Queers for Palestine.

00:05:14.140 And this was in various locations in New York, particularly in Manhattan.

00:05:17.740 Watch.

00:05:18.640 On the count of three.

00:05:20.600 One, two, three. 1.00

00:05:23.200 The f***ing Israel! 1.00

00:05:24.660 The f***ing Israel! 1.00

00:05:26.740 The f***ing Israel! 1.00

00:05:27.800 And we understand that Palestinian liberation is black liberation! 0.99

00:05:35.160 I know that a lot of these people have good hearts, but they're, like, riding this wave that is not based on the facts of the history of this region, and it breaks my heart.

00:05:51.000 The occupation has got to go, hey, hey!

00:05:54.160 Ho, ho! 1.00

00:05:55.160 The occupation has got to go, hey, hey!

00:05:58.060 Take the street! 0.99

00:05:59.360 The Israeli government funds the laws!

00:06:06.360 The Israeli government funds the laws!

00:06:09.000 Queer rights, trans rights! 1.00

00:06:10.920 We say no to genocide!

00:06:12.840 Queer rights, trans rights! 1.00

00:06:14.760 We say no to genocide!

00:06:16.280 So, Palestinian liberation is black liberation, says the guy with the megaphone. 0.94

00:06:21.540 Queer rights, trans rights, they chant in front of a banner reading, queers for liberated Palestine.

00:06:27.200 Another man held a sign reading, reproductive justice means free Palestine.

00:06:31.640 It's worth emphasizing that slogan for just a second.

00:06:34.760 So, here it is in all its glory.

00:06:37.580 And you could just look at it there, and it's, what we see is it's not just one guy in Brooklyn who came up with that sign and decided to run with it.

00:06:45.120 Several people are holding that banner.

00:06:47.500 Many people are marching behind it.

00:06:49.380 And behind them is a sign reading, Lesbians for Liberation.

00:06:53.780 This was a massive event.

00:06:55.600 You know, we're not cherry-picking here.

00:06:56.840 Leftists in New York really came out with a mishmash of every slogan we've heard from the left over the past few years, only with Palestine tacked on at the end.

00:07:04.800 They're just kind of changing the order of the words around a little bit and finding a new way to tie them all together.

00:07:09.640 Never mind that reproductive justice makes no sense conceptually, and then makes even less sense when you realize that, to them, reproductive justice means the execution of infants.

00:07:19.900 The most confusing of all, on the surface, is what the hell abortion has to do with anything happening in the Middle East right now.

00:07:27.040 Of course, a lot of conservatives have pointed out the obvious contradictions in using these slogans.

00:07:31.380 In Gaza, homosexuality is illegal.

00:07:35.720 Showing up in Gaza with any of these banners means that you can probably look forward to being thrown off a rooftop or, if you're lucky, getting jailed for a decade. 0.93

00:07:43.580 There's also no tolerance in Gaza for what these people are calling reproductive justice, which, again, is just killing your own child.

00:07:48.840 So, there is no ideological alignment between Hamas and gays for Gaza, to put it mildly.

00:07:56.120 Hamas is not a left-wing organization.

00:07:58.260 They also would not qualify as a right-wing organization.

00:08:00.760 They largely exist outside of the Western left-right paradigm.

00:08:05.860 Yet the left has found it useful to filter this conflict between Hamas and Israel through that paradigm,

00:08:12.040 and they've done it in a way that is inevitably totally incoherent.

00:08:17.500 But pointing out these contradictions accomplishes nothing on its own because these protesters are aware of them for the most part. 0.99

00:08:23.480 I mean, they're ignorant, but they're not that ignorant. 0.84

00:08:25.820 They know that they wouldn't survive a day in Gaza, and that's why none of them are in Gaza right now. 0.99

00:08:30.220 So, why are they demonstrating for Hamas, especially after they just committed a series of brutal murders?

00:08:35.920 What are these left-wing activists getting out of it?

00:08:40.820 It begins to make sense when you realize that this phenomenon, as strange as it might seem, isn't exactly new.

00:08:47.500 Some of the most vocal proponents of BLM, like George Soros, Barack Obama, Kamala Harris,

00:08:52.720 who literally organized a bail fund for the rioters,

00:08:55.180 they understood that they needed to live far, far away from where all the BLM foot soldiers exist

00:09:02.720 and where they're causing all the damage.

00:09:04.840 There's a reason Barack Obama lives on Martha's Vineyard and not in Larry Krasner's Philadelphia or downtown Kenosha.

00:09:12.000 It's the same reason why the vast majority of liberal women with BLM lawn signs live in the suburbs instead of the inner cities. 1.00

00:09:19.560 So, the point is that this desire to promote a murderous ideology,

00:09:25.260 one that, if unleashed worldwide, would kill a lot of people, including leftists,

00:09:29.980 is not unique to the current war in the Middle East.

00:09:33.280 It tells us something fundamental about how leftists think.

00:09:37.460 Specifically, it exposes how heavily they rely on abstraction

00:09:41.300 rather than practical thinking informed by real-life consequences.

00:09:45.400 As Chris Ruffo pointed out the other day,

00:09:47.000 leftists have long been enamored with the idea of the noble savage,

00:09:51.780 especially the noble savage who resists the tyranny of the white oppressor.

00:09:56.800 And they see Hamas fighters, like BLM rioters, 0.85

00:10:00.040 as a physical manifestation of the many anti-American concepts that they've been taught in school.

00:10:05.000 These barbarians are the decolonizers, the anti-oppressors. 1.00

00:10:09.640 They are the answer to whiteness in all of its forms. 1.00

00:10:12.680 The left will humanize its allies, like George Floyd, and rioters, and Hamas terrorists.

00:10:20.700 But they will abstract their enemies as oppressors and agents of white supremacy, 0.79

00:10:25.420 and then celebrate their destruction and murder. 0.78

00:10:29.040 The precise vehicle for this destruction isn't what matters.

00:10:32.180 I mean, that's why many of the same organizations and politicians

00:10:34.480 who fervently supported the BLM riots a few years ago

00:10:37.300 are backing Hamas now, using pretty much the same lingo.

00:10:40.260 Take the Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA, for example.

00:10:44.000 After Hamas launched its attack on Israel,

00:10:46.200 the DSA held a rally in New York City to show, quote,

00:10:49.180 solidarity with the Palestinian people and their right to resist. 0.82

00:10:53.080 Attendees at the rally chanted,

00:10:54.580 resistance is justified when people are occupied.

00:10:58.280 The DSA also said that Hamas, the Hamas attack was not unprovoked.

00:11:02.640 And here's what their rally looked like.

00:11:05.260 Free, free Palestine!

00:11:08.220 Free, free Palestine!

00:11:10.100 Free, free Palestine!

00:11:13.280 Free, free Palestine!

00:11:15.040 Free, free Palestine!

00:11:16.460 Free, free Palestine!

00:11:28.360 The river to the sea, Palestine will be free! 0.93

00:11:30.080 From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!

00:11:32.740 From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

00:11:36.320 From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

00:11:43.820 Right to resist. Right to resist. Right to resist.

00:11:50.360 Now, we've seen all this before.

00:11:52.680 Coincidentally enough, the DSA used similar language three years ago.

00:11:56.280 They claimed that corporations, landlords and billionaires were looting and repressing black neighborhoods.

00:12:01.400 They said that they would fight for a, quote, liberated future.

00:12:05.560 Several of the politicians backed by the DSA have made public statements along these lines.

00:12:09.460 Rashida Tlaib, for example, called for resistance against law enforcement, including immigration officers and local police.

00:12:15.760 She wrote at the time, we will resist and win. We must resist police brutality.

00:12:20.280 Saying a lot of similar things now about what's happening in Israel, Rashida Tlaib is.

00:12:24.920 Many other left-wing organizations follow this pattern.

00:12:27.080 They supported BLM. Now they support Hamas for the same reason. 0.96

00:12:30.880 Take the Palestine Solidarity Committee, or PSC, for example.

00:12:34.940 That's the Harvard student group that wrote the letter saying that Israel was entirely responsible for the attack on its own civilians.

00:12:41.300 Now, if you go to the PSC's website now, you'll find that they've basically shut the whole thing down.

00:12:45.480 They've prevented the public from viewing it.

00:12:47.160 But archived versions of the PSC's website show, predictably enough, that they saw direct parallels between BLM and the Middle East.

00:12:55.480 One blog post on the PSC's website from 2020 was entitled, quote,

00:12:59.720 Moral Consistency from Minneapolis to Jerusalem. 0.71

00:13:03.080 Here's how it begins, quote,

00:13:04.040 We must abolish these racist regimes.

00:13:06.440 In the U.S., as in Israel, attempts to reform these systems have proven futile.

00:13:10.440 Again and again, left-wing groups have drawn this parallel.

00:13:15.400 At the height of the BLM riots, a representative for the Labor for Palestine Party in New York put it this way, quote,

00:13:21.060 So there's the Intifada in Palestine and what is essentially a domestic Intifada in this country now,

00:13:25.900 though it's usually not called by that name.

00:13:28.080 There's a growing understanding that these resistances are connected and that the right to resist is connected.

00:13:33.020 So whether you listen to politicians or socialist groups or student organizations or protesters in New York,

00:13:39.860 the message is pretty clear.

00:13:41.680 The pro-Hamas movement in America that's taking over major cities as we speak is effectively BLM reincarnate. 0.86

00:13:49.500 Hamas itself is not BLM reincarnate.

00:13:52.140 As established, Hamas would very much object to many of the stated goals of the BLM organization,

00:13:58.180 such as, for example, dismantling, quote, unquote, heteronormativity.

00:14:01.700 I don't think that Hamas is interested in dismantling that, whatever that is exactly.

00:14:07.340 But in this country, it's a different story.

00:14:10.160 And the activists have admitted that the two things to them are sides of the same coin.

00:14:16.580 They are an extension of the same idea.

00:14:18.480 It's a connected resistance movement.

00:14:21.520 The same people are supporting both movements because they perceive the enemy to be the same in both cases.

00:14:27.240 For leftists in America, for all their talk about moral ambiguity and various forms of fluidity and, you know, everything is ambiguous, everything is fluid.

00:14:38.060 Really, although they say that, for them, everything is actually black and white in a very literal sense.

00:14:43.700 Because they see every social conflict in terms of white people oppressing non-white people.

00:14:50.840 In the Middle East, they simply side with the group that is less white for no other reason than the fact that they are less white. 0.69

00:14:57.940 As a get-out-the-vote effort for Joe Biden's party, this latest resistance movement, we must say, probably will not work as well as BLM did.

00:15:09.200 And that's because, in part, in recent days, a lot of liberals have been, you know, getting cold feet about some of this and have been shocked to discover that their so-called allies actually want them dead.

00:15:20.040 Wealthy donors have pulled funding from universities like UPenn and Harvard, where students are embracing Hamas. 0.97

00:15:25.460 Democrats are issuing statements denouncing members of their own party, which almost never happens.

00:15:29.900 But what they haven't done, and what they probably will never do, is recognize that we all saw something very similar unfold three years ago.

00:15:39.100 Political leaders and corporate media outlets, they don't want you to see that connection.

00:15:42.940 But it's impossible to deny.

00:15:45.180 And if this free Palestine stuff doesn't play in America the way BLM did initially, and so far it certainly isn't playing that way,

00:15:51.660 then you should expect to see a pivot in the not-too-distant future.

00:15:54.440 We're primed, we are definitely primed for, and we can see it now, we're primed for another round of mass looting and rioting.

00:16:02.520 They may have to search for a different catalyst, though.

00:16:06.520 Ultimately, they'll probably circle back to police brutality as the pretense, like they always do.

00:16:12.040 But either way, sad to say, from the look of things, we're in for a very violent and deadly election year ahead.

00:16:20.740 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:17:08.900 So you probably remember those two scumbag thugs who went for a joyride and intentionally ran into a guy on a bicycle 0.98

00:17:15.520 who happened to be a retired police chief, and they killed him in the process. 0.99

00:17:19.260 Well, now they're appearing in court, and their behavior is exactly what you would expect from scumbag thugs. 0.99

00:17:28.440 Here's a report about that. 0.99

00:17:30.420 Trying to mad dog us and intimidate us, which didn't work.

00:17:33.600 Jesus Ayala and Jameer Keyes smiling at the widow and daughter of Andy Probst as they leave the courtroom Tuesday.

00:17:40.120 The teens are accused of intentionally hitting the 64-year-old retired California police chief.

00:17:47.160 They're charged with murder and additional felonies in connection with an August 14th crime spree.

00:17:53.680 Police say they also hit this 72-year-old cyclist that morning.

00:17:58.500 He survived.

00:18:00.200 A trial now scheduled for September of next year.

00:18:03.380 These guys, they did not respect the court whatsoever.

00:18:06.620 The teens appear to communicate with each other, at times covering their faces and also laughing.

00:18:12.760 I'm not scared.

00:18:13.760 You are.

00:18:14.480 I'm scared.

00:18:15.020 A hundred percent.

00:18:16.420 On Monday, we obtained police body camera video showing the moment after Ayala was taken into custody. 0.91

00:18:22.840 You think this juvenile s*** going to do something?

00:18:25.120 I'll be out in like 30 days. 0.98

00:18:26.240 It's just a game to them.

00:18:28.340 Like, they really don't care if anyone else lives or dies.

00:18:32.520 They don't care about themselves if they live or die.

00:18:35.480 And that can just be shown through their own actions.

00:18:37.920 Who do you think failed here leading up to this?

00:18:41.180 A multitude of different people failed, but I think ultimately the parents on all ends.

00:18:46.180 They're the ones who failed.

00:18:47.480 Taylor and Crystal Probst say they'll continue to come to court for the teen's appearances,

00:18:52.340 to seek justice, and to put a face on the victim of the teen's alleged crime.

00:18:58.500 Crystal wears this Apple watch her husband was wearing when he was killed.

00:19:03.280 Taylor and her brother received an alert on that fateful day.

00:19:06.580 It reminds me he's here with me in the courthouse.

00:19:11.060 Okay.

00:19:13.120 You know, the media keeps calling these guys teens, and they are teens.

00:19:18.140 One is 18, I believe.

00:19:19.100 The other is 16.

00:19:20.080 But I'm telling you right now, that should not matter in this case.

00:19:25.580 Both of these people need the death penalty, and I don't care how old they are. 0.94

00:19:32.960 They have nothing to offer society. 0.89

00:19:36.240 You know, it is, there should be a one strike and you're out policy for certain things. 0.96

00:19:43.620 And running over somebody intentionally and killing them, and then laughing about it,

00:19:46.940 that's got to be a one strike, you're out. 1.00

00:19:48.720 You're just done.

00:19:49.380 We don't need you in the human species anymore.

00:19:52.260 You don't serve any purpose.

00:19:54.360 And we can't do anything with you.

00:19:56.220 Like, we can never release these people back into society ever again.

00:20:02.080 Spending years in prison is not going to make them less dangerous, right?

00:20:06.600 For the same reason that you don't make, I don't know, a piece of chicken less salty by marinating it in soy sauce.

00:20:11.860 Like, when you take a violent thug and marinate him in an environment with other violent thugs,

00:20:18.180 chances are he will only become more violent and thuggish at the end of it.

00:20:22.440 So, you can't release them.

00:20:24.160 Does that mean society now has a duty to feed and clothe and house these two monsters for the next 60, 70 years?

00:20:33.900 No, that's absurd. 0.99

00:20:36.280 The most just and sensible thing here is to put them in front of a firing squad, put them down like dogs, and bury them in unmarked graves and forget that they ever existed. 0.98

00:20:47.560 Like, you don't even get, well, the victims' families don't have the privilege of forgetting these people exist. 0.98

00:20:52.720 But society, like, you don't get to be remembered.

00:20:55.940 You don't even get to have a name when you die.

00:20:58.480 You're just, you failed at everything.

00:20:59.780 You failed at life.

00:21:00.440 You failed at everything.

00:21:01.200 You're done. 1.00

00:21:02.260 Have fun in hell. 0.99

00:21:03.280 That's, that's, that really is how it should be handled.

00:21:06.160 And not only that, but it should be live streamed too.

00:21:09.260 You know, make it public.

00:21:11.760 And I know there are people who will hear what I'm saying right now.

00:21:16.180 And they'll kind of shake their head and they'll say, oh, that's so cruel.

00:21:19.740 They're just kids.

00:21:20.800 But I don't think it is cruelty.

00:21:23.500 You know, I think it's justice.

00:21:26.580 Cruelty would be the death penalty for a crime that does not warrant it.

00:21:31.000 That would be cruelty.

00:21:33.200 Okay, if they had only been speeding and then we put them to death for that, that would be cruelty. 0.97

00:21:40.480 But this does warrant it.

00:21:43.080 And so it's justice.

00:21:44.240 And I actually think that cruelty, like what is really cruel, is being lenient.

00:21:50.800 On monsters like this.

00:21:53.820 Okay, that is what is cruel.

00:21:56.580 And I think those of us who advocate real justice in the form of the death penalty need to start, you know, we tend to concede sort of the compassion argument to the other side.

00:22:07.220 Almost like we're saying, well, yeah, you want to be compassionate, but we want justice.

00:22:11.700 I'm saying it's the one in the same.

00:22:13.980 It's one in the same.

00:22:16.140 It's actually not compassionate at all to advocate for a system where people do not get what they deserve for the crimes they've committed.

00:22:24.000 And for me, like ultimately it's as simple as that.

00:22:28.460 If you get in a car and you run somebody over, run two people over actually, kill them, one of them you kill, the other one you tried to but didn't, and then you laugh about it, do you deserve to be put in front of a firing squad or not? 0.96

00:22:46.220 Are you going to tell me they don't deserve it? 0.99

00:22:48.480 Of course they deserve it.

00:22:51.840 And giving people what they deserve is literally the definition of justice.

00:22:56.080 That is justice.

00:22:58.200 Giving someone what they deserve is justice.

00:23:01.720 And to me, it is cruel when you are too afraid to administer justice, when you allow this kind of mockery to continue, a failure or refusal to make violent criminals suffer for their crimes.

00:23:16.180 That is cruelty.

00:23:16.900 It's cruelty to the victims' families.

00:23:20.860 It's cruelty to the victims themselves.

00:23:22.960 It's cruelty to the future victims who will become victims in the future at the hands of other violent criminals who are emboldened by the kid glove treatment.

00:23:33.480 I mean, you heard from one of those guys bragging in the cop car, wait, I'm going to be out in 30 days.

00:23:39.480 Okay, so it is a fact that our lenient system is encouraging more crime. 0.98

00:23:47.420 Because the criminals themselves aren't stupid. 1.00

00:23:51.680 Well, they may be stupid. 1.00

00:23:52.440 But they're not so stupid that they aren't, like, aware of the world, the society they live in. 1.00

00:23:59.500 They see what's going on. 1.00

00:24:01.400 They see how people commit heinous violent crimes and end up back on the street.

00:24:04.940 And so they say to themselves, well, I'll do the same thing.

00:24:06.820 There's no consequence for my actions.

00:24:08.540 So it's cruelty to allow this to continue.

00:24:12.000 It is cruelty to society in general to allow this.

00:24:15.400 Because society craves and needs justice.

00:24:18.040 And when you've got two people who commit a heinous crime like that, the most morally correct way to respond is, first of all, to wipe that grin off of their faces.

00:24:34.700 Like, as a society, we should not allow that.

00:24:37.920 You're going to sit in the courtroom and laugh at the victims' families, and we allow that?

00:24:44.900 No, what we should be saying to them is, oh, you think this is funny?

00:24:47.280 Is it funny to you?

00:24:48.040 Well, let's see if you're still laughing with a noose around your neck.

00:24:51.480 Okay?

00:24:51.880 You put the noose around their neck, and you say, is it still funny to you?

00:24:54.440 You're still having a good time with this, huh?

00:24:57.240 But to simply allow this spectacle, to allow criminals to make a mockery of the whole system and of their own crimes, and to make light of it, it's just untenable.

00:25:06.880 Like, it is untenable.

00:25:08.020 And it is untenable cruelty. 0.99

00:25:11.800 So you're so worried about not being cruel to these, to this gutter trash. 0.98

00:25:16.460 You're so worried about, well, don't be cruel to them. 0.99

00:25:19.440 And so we're cruel to everybody else who has to live in a world where these kinds of beasts are emboldened.

00:25:31.620 I'll tell you what, we could solve so many problems in our society.

00:25:35.680 We could make many of our cities livable, like, overnight.

00:25:38.200 Public executions, hard labor.

00:25:41.920 Put those two things in place, and things start getting better in a hurry.

00:25:46.200 Okay?

00:25:47.680 Because I'll tell you something.

00:25:49.180 I heard from the daughter there, and she correctly points out that this is a failure of parenting.

00:25:57.460 That those kids' parents, I hesitate to call them kids, but the teen's parents obviously have totally failed.

00:26:06.260 The parents are like, they should go to jail too. 0.99

00:26:09.120 Parents are totally worthless. 0.79

00:26:10.200 But I think she was wrong about one thing, because she said that, she said, well, they don't care. 0.97

00:26:15.380 They don't value anyone else's life.

00:26:16.820 She's right about that.

00:26:18.320 But she said they don't care if they live or die.

00:26:20.840 And I think they do, because I think they do care if they live or die, because everyone does.

00:26:26.900 That's hardwired, right?

00:26:28.560 That's biologically hardwired.

00:26:30.080 That's ingrained.

00:26:30.760 You care if you live or die.

00:26:31.660 You know, and you can't really get past that.

00:26:35.760 So they do care.

00:26:37.360 It's just that it doesn't even occur to them that their own lives are at all in jeopardy here.

00:26:44.740 But I tell you something.

00:26:45.820 You pass down a death penalty sentence on them, and you're going to say, they're not going to be smiling.

00:26:49.740 They will not smile in face of that.

00:26:51.280 They will not.

00:26:53.400 But, of course, I'm sitting here talking about what should happen.

00:26:55.400 Like, none of this, it's just, it makes it all seem more and more futile,

00:26:59.420 because you realize everything I'm saying, it's just, none of it's actually going to happen,

00:27:03.160 because we don't live in a world with justice.

00:27:05.900 And so the sad reality is that that 16-year-old,

00:27:10.700 now he thinks he's going to be out in 30 days.

00:27:12.280 That's not going to happen.

00:27:14.400 It is extremely plausible that he could be out by the time he's 25 or 30 or earlier than that.

00:27:24.720 All right.

00:27:25.980 Fox News has this report.

00:27:27.080 High schoolers in Oregon won't need to demonstrate basic competency in writing, reading, or math

00:27:32.620 in order to graduate for at least five more years, because according to education officials,

00:27:37.740 such requirements are unnecessary and disproportionately harm students of color.

00:27:42.760 Oregon gubernatorial candidate Christine Drazen said,

00:27:45.920 at some point our diploma is going to end up looking a lot more like a participation prize

00:27:49.340 than an actual certificate that shows that someone actually is prepared to go pursue their best future.

00:27:53.920 The essential skills requirement has been on pause since the coronavirus pandemic.

00:27:59.020 And last week,

00:27:59.520 the Oregon State Board of Education voted unanimously to continue suspending the graduation requirement.

00:28:04.620 Under the requirement,

00:28:05.360 11th graders had to demonstrate competence in essential subjects through a standardized test or work sample.

00:28:10.520 Students who failed to meet expectations were required to take extra math and writing classes in their senior year

00:28:14.800 in order to graduate.

00:28:17.020 Board members said the standards were unnecessary and harmed marginalized students since higher rates of students of color,

00:28:22.880 students with disabilities,

00:28:23.720 and students learning English as a second language ended up having to take the extra step to prove they deserved a diploma.

00:28:29.680 Here's a local news report about this.

00:28:31.980 For the next five years,

00:28:34.560 high school students in Oregon will not need to perform proficiency tests,

00:28:38.080 show a mastery of reading,

00:28:39.600 writing,

00:28:39.900 or math in order to graduate.

00:28:41.700 And this comes as the Oregon Board of Education unanimously voted to extend a pause on the graduation requirement yesterday until 2028.

00:28:49.800 They're citing inefficiency and inequity.

00:28:52.220 Joelle Jones going beyond the headlines tonight to find out what this pause will mean for students.

00:28:56.940 This is a controversial decision and one that's facing a lot of pushback.

00:29:03.200 While some say the decision will lower state standards and cheapen an Oregon diploma,

00:29:08.820 the Oregon Department of Education tells me this policy simply didn't work and disproportionately harmed students of color.

00:29:16.380 Yes,

00:29:17.060 students of color are having a hard time learning,

00:29:19.360 and so the solution is to give up on requiring them to learn.

00:29:23.780 It's exactly the same as saying that,

00:29:27.920 like,

00:29:28.100 I don't know, 0.98

00:29:28.400 a disproportionate number of black people are failing to wear their seatbelts,

00:29:32.660 and so we're going to remove seatbelts completely from vehicles as a solution to that.

00:29:38.280 It's a solution that doesn't make sense if you try to understand it as a solution.

00:29:42.480 But once you realize that it's not meant to be a solution,

00:29:45.960 you could start to make a bit more sense of it.

00:29:49.180 They aren't trying to solve anything.

00:29:51.120 They don't care if the kids learn or not.

00:29:52.780 And many kids are not learning.

00:29:55.240 And they don't care.

00:29:56.660 They just don't care.

00:29:58.420 And here's the thing.

00:30:00.760 To me,

00:30:01.420 there's a little bit of a nuance in this conversation because,

00:30:05.580 you know,

00:30:07.060 when you hear about,

00:30:07.960 and this is not the first time we've heard about standardized tests and so on being,

00:30:12.980 they get rid of the standardized tests or put it on pause,

00:30:16.300 put it on hold.

00:30:16.900 There's been kind of a movement in that direction in many school districts across the country.

00:30:21.540 But I think we should acknowledge that standardized tests are already a really poor way of judging a student's aptitude and grasp on the subject matter.

00:30:34.260 Standardized tests have their own problems, which are really quite significant.

00:30:37.620 When you have standardized tests, you end up with teachers that are teaching to the test,

00:30:43.420 which means that you're trying to get kids to memorize certain bits of information because that's all that these tests really can measure.

00:30:50.760 All they measure is whether a student has memorized stuff.

00:30:57.080 Memorization and regurgitation are what these tests are for.

00:31:00.640 That's what the tests test for, right?

00:31:02.980 But memorization is not the same thing as learning.

00:31:06.320 Memorization is not absorption.

00:31:08.560 When you want kids to absorb the information,

00:31:11.800 comprehend it.

00:31:13.140 Memorization is not comprehension.

00:31:15.440 Not necessarily.

00:31:16.200 And there can be plenty of kids that really do grasp the fundamental subject matter,

00:31:24.180 may more than grasp it.

00:31:25.740 They may really excel in the subject.

00:31:27.980 And yet when it comes to memorizing certain data points and just repeating them,

00:31:35.200 they may not be very good at that.

00:31:37.200 Because that is a skill unto itself.

00:31:41.420 Being able to memorize stuff is a skill.

00:31:43.620 And it's a nice skill to have.

00:31:46.860 But the way that our school system has been structured, 0.71

00:31:49.400 it's like if you don't have that skill, then you're screwed.

00:31:56.040 When it shouldn't really be about that particular.

00:31:58.220 That's one particular skill set that shouldn't be what it's all about.

00:32:02.360 Really, the best way to measure a student's actual understanding of the material is,

00:32:07.820 it's not the same for every class, but for the most part, perhaps with the exception of math,

00:32:17.820 and especially in the younger ages.

00:32:19.660 One of the best ways to measure a student's actual understanding of the material in many classes

00:32:24.500 is to have a conversation with them.

00:32:27.200 If you just talk to someone about any subject,

00:32:33.580 especially if you yourself are versed in the subject, as teachers should be,

00:32:37.660 then you can quickly tell whether they get it or not.

00:32:42.080 I can do this with my own kids.

00:32:43.900 My son really struggles with math, just like I did as a kid.

00:32:48.700 But just like me, he's great with subjects like history.

00:32:51.900 He loves history. He loves that stuff.

00:32:53.120 I was talking to him yesterday about the Oregon Trail.

00:32:56.360 And they haven't even spent really much time on it.

00:32:59.060 They haven't gotten really to that lesson yet.

00:33:03.320 But I was talking about it.

00:33:05.880 He gave a pretty good summary of what the Oregon Trail is,

00:33:08.580 just based on the little that he heard about it.

00:33:11.000 And so I can tell by talking to him that history is a subject that he grasps.

00:33:14.440 But the problem is that this kind of personalized assessment isn't really possible in the school system.

00:33:23.940 The school system always runs on factory settings.

00:33:27.660 It is a factory, industrialized kind of way of educating.

00:33:32.680 It's a mass, you know, it's like mass assembly sort of assembly line approach to educating.

00:33:41.200 Always on factory settings.

00:33:42.980 Nothing personalized can happen.

00:33:45.440 And that's not the teacher's fault because they've got 30 kids in a class.

00:33:49.300 And then they bring in another class and there's 30 kids in that class.

00:33:51.760 So what are they supposed to do?

00:33:52.980 So my point is that many of these measuring sticks that are used in public school are bad measuring sticks.

00:33:59.660 They're not good.

00:34:00.440 But what they're doing in Oregon and in other places is they are throwing out the measuring sticks entirely.

00:34:09.100 Which to me is obviously not the solution.

00:34:11.860 So I'm saying that we should find better and more effective ways to measure a student's comprehension.

00:34:20.340 But what they're saying is that they're not going to measure it at all. 0.97

00:34:23.240 And the reason for not measuring it, it's the worst possible reason, which is this racial disproportionate impact bull crap. 0.87

00:34:33.080 So if you had a place like Oregon where they said, look, standardized tests, they're not racist, obviously, but they're just not the best way to figure out if students are absorbing the information. 0.90

00:34:50.500 And so we're going to do something else, we're going to come up with a new system, then I'd be all for that, depending on what the new system is, I suppose.

00:34:58.940 But they're just discarding the system completely and just going to graduate everybody, regardless of whether or not they grasp the material.

00:35:09.080 Which is, again, it's the worst possible way to deal with this problem.

00:35:13.400 All right, here's a fascinating story from Yahoo before we get into the next segment.

00:35:22.560 Here's the headline.

00:35:24.100 Are adults over Halloween costumes?

00:35:26.580 Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they aren't dressing up, according to a new Yahoo YouGov poll.

00:35:32.640 Experts explain why.

00:35:35.300 Now, you've got to love the experts, so they brought the experts in to explain why adults are not wearing Halloween costumes this year.

00:35:41.960 I don't know what kind of, what field are these experts in?

00:35:47.480 They're experts in Halloween, so it's basically like the experts party city employees, is that, are they the experts?

00:35:53.600 I don't know, maybe we'll find out.

00:35:55.200 The article says Halloween is around the corner, but data from the latest Yahoo YouGov poll suggests that most U.S. adults won't be donning costumes for the celebration this year.

00:36:02.920 According to the poll, while 22% are opting to dress up for the spooky holiday, 63% have chosen to skip out this season, while 14% haven't decided one way or another, many of us might find all the hoopla surrounding Halloween a bit debilitating for one reason or another.

00:36:21.140 Dr. Shaina Ali, a mental health counselor and educator who's written about Halloween, okay, now we know who the experts are, a mental health counselor and educator who's written about Halloween anxiety, which is a thing, says that whether someone loves it or hates it can often be a sign of something deeper.

00:36:38.580 Ali tells Yahoo Entertainment, a big divider is if the person values Halloween.

00:36:44.200 Some of those factors may be related to their upbringing, such as not being from a family who takes part, being part of a religion with strong beliefs against Halloween, or financial costs for those who don't have disposable income to spend on the holiday.

00:36:55.680 Let's see, childhood triggers aside, they also say that this year can be especially tough for adults who find it hard to have fun while tragedies are actively occurring across the globe, such as the devastating Israeli Hamas war.

00:37:08.580 Okay, sorry, there's nothing funny about what's happening in the Middle East, but I can't help but laugh at the image of like a 32-year-old woman staring at her sexy Frankenstein costume and saying, no, I just can't this year. 0.99

00:37:23.380 I just can't do it.

00:37:24.640 Not while there's conflict abroad.

00:37:26.840 Not with the conflict.

00:37:28.460 Abroad.

00:37:29.380 This is not the year to be sexy Frankenstein.

00:37:31.380 Maybe regular Frankenstein. 0.88

00:37:32.400 It's also funny that the article is painting the lack of adult participation in a child's holiday as some kind of sad thing.

00:37:41.460 It's like they're seeing it as some sort of bad sign about our culture.

00:37:45.600 This is actually one of the only good signs that we've seen in a long time.

00:37:50.100 This is one of the only positive social developments that we have seen in our culture in decades.

00:37:56.860 If adults aren't wearing costumes on Halloween, maybe it's because they're adults.

00:38:03.660 Maybe that's the reason.

00:38:04.680 Maybe it's because they're grownups.

00:38:07.240 Maybe it's because we don't need to bring experts in, okay?

00:38:10.340 I don't need Halloween experts.

00:38:12.320 If you tell me that more and more adults aren't wearing costumes, then that would make me think, maybe I'm being optimistic,

00:38:17.300 but that these adults have looked at a mirror and said, oh, I'm an adult.

00:38:22.640 Oh, I'm 46 years old.

00:38:26.060 And I've been wearing a Halloween costume this entire time.

00:38:29.080 Man, that's embarrassing.

00:38:31.700 Now, I don't wear a costume.

00:38:33.000 It's not because I have Halloween anxiety or because I'm depressed about what's happening in Ukraine or something.

00:38:38.640 It's because I'm a grown man.

00:38:40.500 And it's because costumes are for children.

00:38:44.340 Halloween is a child's holiday. 0.97

00:38:47.300 And if it goes back to being a child's holiday again, that's a good thing. 1.00

00:38:51.180 It means that some semblance of sanity and order are being restored in our society in a small way, but every bit counts.

00:39:00.660 We still have a long way to go.

00:39:01.820 I mean, if two-thirds of adults aren't dressing up, that means that one-third of adults are dressing up, and that's still way too high.

00:39:08.080 And the numbers are still pretty.

00:39:09.360 I mean, I went the other day to the store to get a costume for my son, and he had a costume already,

00:39:15.940 but he doesn't like the one he has, so he wanted to get another one.

00:39:18.940 And this is how kids are on Halloween.

00:39:20.340 I mean, you hear about Halloween anxiety.

00:39:21.900 If you're an adult with Halloween anxiety, then you need to grow the hell up.

00:39:26.080 Kids do have Halloween anxiety, though, because the decision about what costume to wear for a kid is, like, very, very important.

00:39:34.820 And they go, it's a torturous process of deciding, and they change their mind 46 times before the actual night.

00:39:42.380 And I guess we spoil our kids a little bit because we actually buy them costumes.

00:39:47.180 When I was a kid, the costumes were usually homemade.

00:39:51.380 I've told my kids this many times.

00:39:53.440 It's like my version of the, I walk to school uphill both ways kind of thing.

00:39:59.400 My version is, I had homemade costumes.

00:40:01.980 They've all heard my speech about the time when I was a kid, and I wanted to be a knight in shining armor.

00:40:08.140 And so my mom made me a helmet out of a cereal box wrapped in tinfoil,

00:40:15.420 and put that on my head and said, you're a knight in shining armor.

00:40:18.280 And then I go trick-or-treating, and all night, people are like, oh, that's a cute astronaut.

00:40:24.380 And I say, oh, I'm an astronaut.

00:40:26.440 I'm holding a sword, okay?

00:40:28.240 I get that the helmet's not exactly, it's not exactly historically accurate, but I'm an astronaut with a sword.

00:40:35.440 And then later I realized I should have just been an astronaut with a sword,

00:40:38.200 because that'd be a way cooler costume to begin with. 0.93

00:40:40.920 Anyway, so I took my kid to get a costume, and like 90% of the costumes were for adults.

00:40:47.260 I actually had to search, okay?

00:40:49.320 I had to search to find a costume that is for a kid.

00:40:54.360 And most of those are just superheroes.

00:40:56.420 So like, if you're a kid who doesn't want to be a superhero on Halloween,

00:41:00.960 you're going to end up just with a cereal box on your head wrapped in tinfoil, because there's nothing else.

00:41:07.380 I mean, imagine going to the playground, okay?

00:41:10.720 And the excuse I always hear is, oh, well, it's fun.

00:41:15.840 And adults are having fun.

00:41:17.300 I don't care if adults are having fun.

00:41:18.620 You're an adult.

00:41:20.220 What kind of excuse is that?

00:41:21.520 It's like if I go to the playground, and imagine I have to go to the playground.

00:41:25.860 My kid has to wait in line for the plastic slide,

00:41:29.640 because there's a whole line of middle-aged men on the slide that are using it.

00:41:35.460 You know, I think I would be within my rights to be annoyed by that,

00:41:38.620 and to say, get the hell off the playground equipment, that's for kids. 0.95

00:41:44.060 And I don't want to, you know, if they turn around and say, whoa, we're just, we're young at heart.

00:41:50.880 No, you're not.

00:41:51.660 You're 40.

00:41:52.720 Go away.

00:41:54.060 The adults are crowding the kids out of their own spaces, their own holidays,

00:41:59.080 because the adults refuse to grow up.

00:42:01.040 And my generation is the worst with this, okay?

00:42:03.640 We, like, refuse to relinquish anything.

00:42:07.160 Comic books, superheroes, cartoons, Halloween.

00:42:10.460 Halloween, we won't give any of it up, right?

00:42:13.140 We're going to bring all of that to the nursing home with us.

00:42:15.480 We refuse to grow up.

00:42:16.540 We just absolutely refuse, because we don't understand that what the process here is that

00:42:23.140 you enjoy things as a kid, you have your toys and all of your childlike fun,

00:42:26.980 and then you have kids, and you pass that on to them.

00:42:30.560 You don't just cling on to it yourself your whole life.

00:42:36.600 And then you get to relive it, okay?

00:42:38.260 I get to relive Halloween.

00:42:40.180 Like, Halloween's kind of fun now as a parent.

00:42:42.760 Not because I'm going trick-or-treating, but because now I am experiencing,

00:42:46.540 through my kids, okay?

00:42:48.820 That is how it's supposed to work.

00:42:52.060 Anyway, so let the kids dress up and have their fun.

00:42:55.900 That's the end of my, that's my official Halloween speech for that.

00:42:58.840 Well, we've got still a week, so I've got more.

00:43:00.900 There's more time for more speeches than we might get to.

00:43:03.400 Let's get to Was Walsh Wrong?

00:43:09.300 Satho Mestern says, 0.86

00:43:11.340 Aren't people getting tired of this silly, they're abusing your kid's narrative? 0.55

00:43:14.380 It's not that hard to go read any state CPS fact sheet. 0.72

00:43:17.660 Kids are abused and neglected all the time,

00:43:19.420 and there's no correlation whatsoever to LGBT people.

00:43:23.440 When has Walsh talked about child homelessness?

00:43:27.580 First of all, I would never say that LGBT activists are abusing my kids,

00:43:33.080 because I won't let LGBT activists anywhere near my kids. 0.95

00:43:35.680 So it's not that they're not abusing everyone's kids.

00:43:39.040 They're not abusing my kids, thank God.

00:43:42.240 But they are abusing kids. 0.73

00:43:43.860 They are abusing kids who don't have the protection of a competent adult around them.

00:43:49.580 And unfortunately, that describes a lot of kids.

00:43:51.620 And then, of course, there are many kids who have parents

00:43:54.120 who are LGBT activists and proponents of trans ideology.

00:44:00.060 And so they're being abused by their own parents.

00:44:01.480 Now, you are absolutely correct that none of this will register on the CPS fact sheet.

00:44:09.740 And that's because it's a form of abuse that the state approves of.

00:44:14.080 And it may shock you to learn that the state,

00:44:16.600 and I know for someone like you, it probably is, this will blow your mind.

00:44:20.200 You will not be able to believe this.

00:44:22.580 Right?

00:44:23.060 But actually, the state can be wrong about things.

00:44:26.720 Did you know that?

00:44:27.800 They can be wrong.

00:44:28.560 In fact, often they are.

00:44:30.880 And when you go back even historically,

00:44:33.180 you'll find all throughout history, all around the world,

00:44:36.180 you'll find many forms of evil and brutality

00:44:38.860 that were either approved by the state

00:44:41.840 or even administered by the state, facilitated, funded by the state.

00:44:45.120 This is a very common phenomenon, unfortunately.

00:44:47.620 And in our country,

00:44:50.060 abusing kids in the name of trans ideology is approved by the state 0.61

00:44:53.560 and facilitated and funded and enacted, in fact.

00:44:58.560 The state participates in this kind of abuse.

00:45:02.840 So, right.

00:45:03.780 But since the state approves of it,

00:45:05.980 they're not going to count that.

00:45:08.840 It doesn't change the fact that when you've got a five-year-old boy

00:45:12.120 and you tell him he's a girl and you dress him up like a girl,

00:45:15.360 and then a few years later,

00:45:16.600 you sterilize him with permanent life-altering drugs, 0.77

00:45:21.120 that is abuse.

00:45:22.080 I don't care what CPS says about it.

00:45:25.360 It's abuse.

00:45:29.100 Mr. Reality says,

00:45:31.240 Matt, I don't think you're necessarily wrong about the

00:45:33.080 whoever is less white wins standard on the left,

00:45:35.760 but can you explain why, if that's true,

00:45:38.460 a white trans person wins over a straight black person?

00:45:41.700 Yeah, well, this is all, this always goes back,

00:45:46.220 I'm sure you heard me talk about the victimhood pyramid,

00:45:49.800 the victim hierarchy,

00:45:51.160 and it all goes back to that.

00:45:52.420 And so, you know,

00:45:54.580 I guess we should stipulate that in any conflict,

00:45:58.440 the less white side

00:46:00.040 is the bad guy

00:46:03.340 absent any intersectional LGBT dynamics, okay?

00:46:09.840 Once you add that in,

00:46:11.060 it changes everything.

00:46:11.940 And this is the mathematical equation of intersectionality,

00:46:16.240 which is really itself,

00:46:17.940 I mean, it's convoluted,

00:46:19.440 but it's actually not that confusing to understand

00:46:21.580 that, you know,

00:46:23.200 white people are at the very bottom of the victimhood pyramid. 0.92

00:46:27.180 You know, when it comes to victimhood claims, 0.98

00:46:29.420 everyone else comes before them.

00:46:31.560 And then you've got so-called people of color. 0.99

00:46:34.560 But then above that,

00:46:36.640 you have,

00:46:37.480 that's when you get into LGBT.

00:46:39.240 So it's like whites all the way down here. 0.93

00:46:41.440 And then you've got pretty much all other races 0.99

00:46:44.400 are sort of lumped together.

00:46:46.440 And then you've got LGBT. 0.99

00:46:48.640 And at the very top of that pyramid,

00:46:50.440 at the very top of LGBT,

00:46:51.500 you have the T, okay?

00:46:53.820 And they are the uber victims.

00:46:55.240 And their victimhood claims come before anybody else.

00:46:57.380 And they always win in the victimhood Olympics every time.

00:47:01.260 But even in the T,

00:47:02.920 then you could break it down even further

00:47:04.260 because, well, then what about,

00:47:05.600 then you go back

00:47:06.320 and you look at these other victimhood categories.

00:47:07.960 Anyone who's in the T

00:47:09.020 but can claim membership

00:47:10.460 in some of those other victimhood categories too,

00:47:13.040 that is going to elevate them even more.

00:47:15.640 Okay?

00:47:16.420 So if you're,

00:47:17.780 that's why,

00:47:19.240 correct, 0.98

00:47:19.760 that LGBT is going to win over black. 0.90

00:47:22.500 But black LGBT, 0.98

00:47:24.300 that beats everything. 0.93

00:47:25.800 All right?

00:47:26.760 That's the way,

00:47:27.360 that's the way that it works.

00:47:28.520 I didn't make these rules.

00:47:31.160 I'm just telling you what the rules are.

00:47:35.640 Will says,

00:47:36.400 as someone on the fence about UBI,

00:47:37.900 wouldn't it also help enable

00:47:39.240 poorer traditional families?

00:47:40.940 More kids equals more benefit

00:47:42.340 and more parents could homeschool

00:47:43.900 since they don't need to work

00:47:45.520 in a regular job to survive.

00:47:48.900 That's nice in theory.

00:47:50.720 I wish that it worked that way,

00:47:52.320 but it just doesn't.

00:47:53.200 I don't think that there's any evidence,

00:47:54.800 Will,

00:47:54.860 that welfare and UBI

00:47:57.380 is just a form of welfare.

00:48:00.680 I don't think there's any evidence

00:48:02.320 that the welfare state,

00:48:03.740 the entitlement state,

00:48:05.280 enables or encourages traditional families.

00:48:08.260 In fact,

00:48:08.540 I think we see the exact opposite.

00:48:10.360 I think if you look at communities

00:48:11.580 and you see,

00:48:12.580 you know,

00:48:13.180 you look at any community

00:48:14.760 and you see

00:48:17.300 the more that you have

00:48:19.940 members of that community

00:48:20.960 dependent on welfare,

00:48:22.140 the less intact

00:48:24.940 the nuclear family is

00:48:27.240 in that community.

00:48:29.440 Of course,

00:48:29.940 in this country,

00:48:30.920 the prime example of that 0.78

00:48:32.040 would be the black community 0.90

00:48:32.900 where the fatherlessness rate 0.95

00:48:34.320 is sky high

00:48:35.560 and also are rates

00:48:38.260 of depending on welfare

00:48:39.320 and entitlements.

00:48:40.460 And so it just,

00:48:41.460 it doesn't actually work that way.

00:48:43.460 In fact,

00:48:43.880 it works,

00:48:44.360 it very much appears to work

00:48:45.500 the opposite way.

00:48:46.960 That the more you have people

00:48:48.000 hooked on entitlements,

00:48:48.920 the less you have

00:48:51.880 stable households

00:48:53.180 and marriages,

00:48:54.540 you certainly don't end up

00:48:55.920 with homeschooling.

00:48:56.920 You know,

00:48:57.020 you don't end up

00:48:57.920 putting everybody on welfare,

00:48:59.640 I don't think,

00:49:00.940 results in having a bunch of

00:49:02.920 stable,

00:49:04.260 intact,

00:49:05.460 homeschooling families.

00:49:08.240 If it,

00:49:09.200 if there was any evidence

00:49:10.700 that it would have that result,

00:49:12.560 then personally,

00:49:13.720 I think there'd be something

00:49:14.480 to talk about,

00:49:15.220 but it doesn't have the result.

00:49:16.320 In fact,

00:49:16.460 it has the opposite result.

00:49:17.160 And now it's time

00:49:18.680 to bring an end

00:49:19.320 to the 18-year-long nightmare

00:49:20.860 of the case of Stephen Avery

00:49:22.600 and the murder

00:49:23.240 of Teresa Halbach.

00:49:24.380 Don't miss the season finale

00:49:25.580 of Convicting a Murderer

00:49:26.620 tomorrow.

00:49:27.220 You know the story

00:49:27.760 and now we're exposing the truth.

00:49:28.940 Candace is finally bringing you

00:49:30.280 answers to all the questions

00:49:31.480 Making a Murderer created.

00:49:32.660 Make sure you're caught up

00:49:33.240 on episodes one through nine

00:49:34.140 for the finale tomorrow

00:49:34.780 because you're not going to

00:49:35.920 want to wait to see

00:49:36.900 what we've uncovered

00:49:37.620 in the final episode.

00:49:38.940 Here's a sneak peek

00:49:39.760 at the season finale.

00:49:41.180 Coming up on the finale

00:49:42.620 of Convicting a Murderer.

00:49:44.040 How were these filmmakers

00:49:45.020 able to convince

00:49:45.980 so many people

00:49:47.780 and a man like Stephen Avery

00:49:49.420 is innocent?

00:49:50.380 The only story

00:49:51.280 they wanted to tell

00:49:52.480 was one of police corruption.

00:49:54.280 They were committed

00:49:55.060 to a story.

00:49:57.180 He's doing a good job.

00:49:58.240 He's doing a lot of investigations.

00:49:59.620 They were looking

00:50:00.680 into things for him.

00:50:01.900 He's doing more

00:50:02.680 than the public defender

00:50:03.860 and my investigator.

00:50:05.580 They were Stephen Avery's

00:50:06.820 PR team.

00:50:07.580 They convinced millions

00:50:08.740 of people

00:50:09.700 that they were innocent.

00:50:11.380 Emails show that they were

00:50:12.500 providing plenty of direction,

00:50:13.900 that the Avery's

00:50:14.940 were to look like

00:50:15.540 a close-knit family.

00:50:17.020 Manitowoc County officers

00:50:18.120 were to look suspicious.

00:50:19.360 I think I will forever

00:50:20.180 be obsessed

00:50:21.020 with the media's ability

00:50:22.700 to turn a villain

00:50:24.100 into a hero

00:50:24.900 or a hero

00:50:25.520 into a villain.

00:50:26.820 If they could do it to me,

00:50:28.260 they can do it

00:50:29.040 to anybody else.

00:50:30.260 Make sure you tune in.

00:50:38.160 It's the last episode

00:50:39.240 in this truth saga.

00:50:40.420 Bravo to Candace

00:50:41.140 for doing amazing work

00:50:42.200 and exposing media lies.

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00:50:55.100 Now let's get to our

00:50:55.920 daily cancellation.

00:51:00.260 For our daily cancellation today,

00:51:04.760 we consult Fortune magazine,

00:51:06.460 which reports that Gen Z,

00:51:07.800 according to research,

00:51:09.100 may be psychologically scarred

00:51:10.860 by high inflation.

00:51:12.200 Even worse,

00:51:12.860 says this research,

00:51:14.160 the damage may be permanent.

00:51:15.680 Reading on,

00:51:16.580 Gen Z's early careers 0.88

00:51:17.680 have been stifled

00:51:18.960 by a number of challenges

00:51:20.000 from a once-in-a-generation

00:51:20.960 pandemic

00:51:21.500 and a war on European soil

00:51:23.060 to spiraling living costs

00:51:24.900 and recession fears

00:51:25.660 that have led

00:51:26.140 to widespread layoffs.

00:51:27.240 But according to new research,

00:51:28.320 the economic backdrop

00:51:28.980 in which young people

00:51:29.660 are entering

00:51:30.100 the workforce

00:51:30.920 could have a much deeper impact

00:51:32.400 on Gen Z

00:51:32.980 than a squeeze

00:51:33.560 on their lifestyles.

00:51:34.940 Dayo Ebeneusawa,

00:51:37.340 founder of London's

00:51:38.260 Awa Business School

00:51:39.160 and a former lecturer

00:51:40.000 at Cambridge University's

00:51:41.300 Judge Business School,

00:51:42.140 told Fortune on Monday

00:51:42.920 that the ongoing battle

00:51:44.260 with inflation

00:51:45.320 would have had a serious impact

00:51:47.300 on the mindset

00:51:47.940 of Gen Z workers

00:51:48.820 those under age,

00:51:50.300 those aged 26 and under.

00:51:52.120 Gen Z will be left 1.00

00:51:52.920 with psychological scars

00:51:54.260 from persistent inflation

00:51:55.400 due to increased uncertainty

00:51:56.640 and anxiety,

00:51:57.500 he cautioned.

00:51:58.620 A society where the young

00:51:59.820 have little to no hope

00:52:00.720 for the future

00:52:01.200 is not a sustainable one.

00:52:02.740 Not only will Gen Z 1.00

00:52:04.000 be left with psychological scars,

00:52:05.860 society at large

00:52:06.680 will also feel the impact

00:52:08.060 of those scars.

00:52:09.880 So young people 1.00

00:52:10.700 are not just dealing

00:52:11.300 with a rocky economy,

00:52:12.260 they are experiencing

00:52:12.940 permanent psychological damage,

00:52:15.800 a terminal loss of hope,

00:52:17.500 and a profound sense

00:52:18.500 of unease and anxiety.

00:52:20.960 Now, of course,

00:52:21.320 we hear a lot about

00:52:21.980 the anxiety of Gen Z 0.99

00:52:23.140 these days.

00:52:23.560 In fact,

00:52:24.700 The Hill just reported

00:52:25.540 this month

00:52:26.020 that Gen Z 1.00

00:52:27.100 is the most anxious

00:52:28.260 generation in history.

00:52:30.500 And before Gen Z 0.84

00:52:31.180 we were told that millennials

00:52:32.060 were the most anxious

00:52:32.760 in history.

00:52:33.600 Now, apparently,

00:52:34.360 we have been unseated,

00:52:36.140 we have been dethroned

00:52:37.180 by Gen Z.

00:52:38.100 Reading now from that report,

00:52:39.520 a new report

00:52:40.000 from data management firm

00:52:41.140 Harmony Healthcare IT

00:52:42.240 shows that 61% of Gen Z

00:52:43.960 have a medically diagnosed

00:52:45.160 anxiety condition.

00:52:46.680 The report includes

00:52:47.360 a survey of about

00:52:48.020 1,000 Gen Zers

00:52:48.940 or adults aged 18 to 26

00:52:50.920 who struggle with anxiety

00:52:52.560 about their anxious thoughts.

00:52:54.320 And while experiencing anxiety

00:52:55.700 is nothing new for Gen Z,

00:52:58.020 more than half

00:52:59.020 of survey respondents,

00:53:00.340 54%,

00:53:00.880 said their anxiety

00:53:01.580 has been worse this year.

00:53:03.040 And out of those

00:53:03.640 with anxiety,

00:53:04.300 43% said they experience

00:53:05.640 a panic attack

00:53:06.520 at least once a month,

00:53:08.060 if not more frequently.

00:53:10.140 The most common cause

00:53:11.060 of their anxiety,

00:53:11.980 the future.

00:53:13.580 Almost,

00:53:14.140 most of those surveyed

00:53:15.840 have said the future

00:53:16.460 was the biggest worry,

00:53:18.300 while 45% said

00:53:19.620 it was finances.

00:53:20.880 Almost one in three Gen Zers

00:53:22.440 surveyed with anxiety

00:53:23.360 said they used medication

00:53:24.740 to help them

00:53:25.540 manage the symptoms.

00:53:27.520 Okay,

00:53:27.820 61% have been

00:53:29.140 medically diagnosed

00:53:30.500 with anxiety disorders.

00:53:32.000 So think about that

00:53:32.560 for a second.

00:53:33.200 That's a staggering number,

00:53:34.700 61%.

00:53:35.640 That is how anxious

00:53:37.200 these young people are.

00:53:38.680 And many of them

00:53:39.660 are having panic attacks

00:53:40.900 once a month.

00:53:43.320 I don't even know

00:53:44.060 what a panic attack is.

00:53:46.200 But they're having them

00:53:48.620 all the time.

00:53:51.000 That's how anxious they are.

00:53:52.200 It's how difficult

00:53:52.740 their lives are.

00:53:53.520 How terrible the situation

00:53:54.760 that they find themselves

00:53:55.740 in is.

00:53:57.580 At least that's what

00:53:58.100 we're supposed to believe

00:53:58.760 anyway.

00:53:59.800 And listen,

00:54:00.160 there is no denying

00:54:00.920 that the economy

00:54:01.680 is in rough shape, right?

00:54:03.000 Inflation is a major problem.

00:54:04.800 The American dream

00:54:05.660 is harder to attain

00:54:06.840 for young people today

00:54:07.800 than it was for boomers 0.91

00:54:09.020 when they were this age.

00:54:10.360 My parents' generation,

00:54:11.440 they were able to trade

00:54:12.260 like two pineapples

00:54:13.840 and a bag of flour

00:54:14.720 for a single family home

00:54:15.940 with a half acre of land.

00:54:17.380 And I may be slightly exaggerating,

00:54:18.780 but the point is

00:54:19.180 that a certain lifestyle

00:54:20.000 was much easier

00:54:21.500 to establish and maintain

00:54:22.820 only a few decades ago.

00:54:23.960 There's no denying that.

00:54:25.500 And beyond the economy,

00:54:26.480 it's also true

00:54:27.060 that our culture

00:54:27.660 is in bad shape.

00:54:28.900 The situation abroad

00:54:29.760 is even more volatile

00:54:31.180 and so on.

00:54:32.200 So there are challenges.

00:54:33.720 There are difficult challenges.

00:54:35.600 Nobody can pretend otherwise.

00:54:37.560 That said,

00:54:38.200 there is a real tendency

00:54:39.340 to grossly exaggerate

00:54:41.320 the difficulties

00:54:42.140 that we face today.

00:54:43.200 And it's not just Gen Z.

00:54:44.140 In fact,

00:54:44.860 I recently saw a viral meme

00:54:46.400 that was doing the rounds

00:54:48.520 on Twitter

00:54:49.000 and it has this whole

00:54:49.900 woe is me shtick 1.00

00:54:50.920 except for millennials.

00:54:52.000 And the meme

00:54:52.460 shows Matthew McConaughey

00:54:54.080 puffing on a cigarette

00:54:55.300 with a shell-shocked

00:54:56.720 look on his face

00:54:57.540 along with the caption,

00:54:59.020 millennials living through

00:55:00.040 Y2K, 9-11,

00:55:01.360 a plague,

00:55:01.960 two economic recessions,

00:55:03.320 and a possible World War III

00:55:04.760 before they turn 40.

00:55:06.740 Now it's true

00:55:07.480 that some of those things

00:55:08.920 were hard.

00:55:10.680 On the other hand,

00:55:11.860 if you're including Y2K 0.94

00:55:13.540 on your list

00:55:14.220 of generational traumas,

00:55:16.020 then it's clear

00:55:16.860 that you're really

00:55:17.380 trying to pad the stats

00:55:18.580 because Y2K is famous

00:55:20.120 for being an occasion

00:55:21.640 where literally

00:55:22.360 nothing happened at all.

00:55:24.560 As for the rest of it,

00:55:25.880 you know,

00:55:26.180 some of it,

00:55:27.560 9-11 especially,

00:55:28.760 also the government

00:55:29.380 response to COVID,

00:55:30.940 qualify as

00:55:31.860 legitimately catastrophic.

00:55:33.340 But if you take

00:55:34.960 a couple of steps back,

00:55:36.500 you can see that

00:55:37.340 we have had it

00:55:38.140 relatively easy

00:55:39.540 by comparison.

00:55:41.760 So consider,

00:55:42.900 for example,

00:55:44.100 that somebody born

00:55:45.280 in 1910

00:55:46.340 would have,

00:55:47.380 before retirement,

00:55:48.940 lived through

00:55:49.640 World War I,

00:55:50.980 World War II,

00:55:51.780 the Great Depression,

00:55:52.580 the Spanish Flu,

00:55:53.220 the Cold War,

00:55:53.820 the Korean War,

00:55:54.380 the Vietnam War,

00:55:55.420 and a presidential assassination.

00:55:57.340 That's only a partial list.

00:55:59.600 Somebody born a century

00:56:00.400 before that

00:56:01.020 would have experienced

00:56:01.760 two wars,

00:56:02.540 or more like 20 wars

00:56:04.400 if you count all the

00:56:05.240 Indian wars individually,

00:56:06.920 before the Civil War

00:56:08.000 in which 2.5%

00:56:09.200 of the country's population

00:56:10.240 died.

00:56:11.100 Two and a half percent,

00:56:12.640 which is the equivalent

00:56:13.440 of around 8 million

00:56:14.680 American casualties today.

00:56:17.080 So imagine like

00:56:17.940 the entire population

00:56:19.740 of Virginia

00:56:20.820 dying a horrible death

00:56:22.560 in the span

00:56:22.980 of four years,

00:56:23.800 and you get an idea

00:56:24.520 of the devastation.

00:56:27.120 So,

00:56:27.820 my point is

00:56:29.940 not to downplay

00:56:31.160 our struggles today,

00:56:32.120 it's to put them

00:56:32.740 into perspective.

00:56:34.120 And to make the point

00:56:34.940 that every generation

00:56:36.040 of human beings

00:56:36.680 who've ever lived

00:56:37.580 have faced turmoil

00:56:39.060 and tragedy.

00:56:40.440 This is the price

00:56:41.420 of admission

00:56:41.940 into the human species.

00:56:43.440 It's a condition

00:56:44.080 of existing

00:56:44.800 on the planet.

00:56:46.480 And in fact,

00:56:46.980 it remains the case

00:56:47.820 that most generations

00:56:48.960 of humans,

00:56:49.660 perhaps only with the exception

00:56:50.900 of the baby boomers,

00:56:52.040 who had it really easy,

00:56:53.960 but everybody else,

00:56:54.860 you know,

00:56:55.180 they have had,

00:56:56.280 by any objective measure,

00:56:57.900 a significantly more

00:56:59.320 difficult time than us.

00:57:01.500 Certainly,

00:57:01.820 they have us beat

00:57:02.440 when it comes to

00:57:03.020 economic hardship,

00:57:04.220 war,

00:57:04.800 disease.

00:57:06.680 I mean,

00:57:06.920 you should thank God

00:57:07.640 every day

00:57:08.160 that you didn't happen

00:57:09.160 to be born in France

00:57:10.540 in the year 1340,

00:57:12.400 a few years before

00:57:13.240 the Black Death

00:57:14.000 would proceed

00:57:14.460 to wipe 200 million people

00:57:16.300 off the face of the planet.

00:57:17.900 I mean,

00:57:18.120 imagine watching

00:57:19.520 as everyone around you

00:57:21.020 breaks out

00:57:21.520 in festering,

00:57:22.360 oozing boils

00:57:23.100 before they eventually die

00:57:24.420 in puddles of their own 0.95

00:57:25.360 vomit and blood,

00:57:26.760 only to soon suffer 0.99

00:57:27.660 the same fate yourself.

00:57:29.560 And then you'll get

00:57:30.320 a pretty good idea

00:57:31.260 of why you are,

00:57:32.580 in many,

00:57:33.140 many ways,

00:57:34.120 incredibly blessed

00:57:35.100 to have been born

00:57:35.900 at a time

00:57:36.420 when a bad cold

00:57:37.680 is the only,

00:57:38.980 quote,

00:57:39.100 plague you've ever experienced.

00:57:42.260 Now, again,

00:57:43.020 the fact that

00:57:43.680 hundreds of generations

00:57:44.860 of humans

00:57:45.280 have had lives

00:57:46.000 that were something

00:57:46.760 like a thousand times

00:57:47.700 more difficult

00:57:48.280 and arduous

00:57:48.880 and brutal than ours,

00:57:49.800 that doesn't make

00:57:50.720 our own sufferings

00:57:51.620 illegitimate.

00:57:53.000 It just means

00:57:53.600 that we should have

00:57:54.380 perspective.

00:57:55.740 And part of having

00:57:56.360 perspective is realizing

00:57:57.420 that no matter

00:57:58.100 how hard you think

00:57:58.920 you have it,

00:57:59.680 you essentially live

00:58:00.780 like a Roman emperor

00:58:01.900 compared to almost

00:58:02.860 everyone who's ever

00:58:03.840 existed on the planet,

00:58:04.740 and even compared

00:58:05.680 to most of the people

00:58:06.380 who currently exist

00:58:07.700 on the planet.

00:58:09.340 So then we have

00:58:10.280 to ask,

00:58:11.160 why is Gen Z 1.00

00:58:12.960 so especially traumatized

00:58:15.160 and psychologically scarred

00:58:16.780 and anxiety ridden?

00:58:18.860 Sure,

00:58:19.360 rent is too high,

00:58:20.360 mortgages are too high,

00:58:21.580 groceries are too expensive,

00:58:22.600 but does that justify

00:58:24.060 over half of an entire

00:58:25.340 generation

00:58:25.900 being diagnosed

00:58:27.460 with an anxiety condition?

00:58:28.900 Does that justify

00:58:29.980 monthly panic attacks?

00:58:32.420 Does that justify

00:58:34.760 being dependent

00:58:36.280 on psychiatric medicine

00:58:37.860 to function?

00:58:40.220 Like,

00:58:40.820 it's not that bad,

00:58:42.520 okay?

00:58:42.880 It's just not.

00:58:45.020 Now,

00:58:45.560 those people in the past

00:58:46.540 who endured hardship

00:58:47.400 that Gen Z 1.00

00:58:48.080 can't even begin

00:58:48.980 to fathom,

00:58:50.620 they didn't need

00:58:51.160 anxiety medication.

00:58:53.060 They had never heard

00:58:54.000 of panic attacks either.

00:58:55.200 Like,

00:58:55.420 that didn't exist.

00:58:56.440 Panic attacks are new.

00:58:57.760 That didn't happen

00:58:58.680 in the 1800s.

00:58:59.460 Nobody was talking

00:59:00.040 about panic attacks.

00:59:01.780 So,

00:59:02.420 so what's the problem?

00:59:04.580 Is it that people today

00:59:05.380 are just simply weak?

00:59:07.000 Is it as simple as that?

00:59:09.760 Well,

00:59:10.200 yeah,

00:59:10.420 pretty much.

00:59:10.960 I mean,

00:59:11.140 it's as simple as that.

00:59:11.820 That's actually what's happening.

00:59:12.740 As a group collectively,

00:59:13.700 we certainly do not experience

00:59:15.680 more suffering

00:59:16.600 or more hardship

00:59:17.380 than humans of the past,

00:59:18.440 but we are less able

00:59:19.720 to deal with suffering

00:59:21.160 and hardship.

00:59:22.200 The cross that we carry

00:59:23.480 is smaller,

00:59:24.720 it's lighter,

00:59:25.320 but our shoulders

00:59:25.940 are not as broad

00:59:26.900 and our backs

00:59:28.040 are not as strong.

00:59:29.460 And there are many reasons

00:59:30.380 for this.

00:59:30.840 We live in relative

00:59:31.520 comfort and luxury,

00:59:32.260 which has made us soft.

00:59:33.820 We also,

00:59:34.500 again,

00:59:34.680 as a culture,

00:59:35.380 are more secular,

00:59:36.400 more nihilistic,

00:59:37.280 more materialistic.

00:59:39.020 And this has caused

00:59:39.700 a kind of spiritual atrophy

00:59:41.220 that has made us

00:59:42.400 psychologically brittle.

00:59:44.700 But,

00:59:45.620 and things like dealing

00:59:46.960 with the reality of death

00:59:48.000 is,

00:59:48.340 I think,

00:59:48.480 much more difficult

00:59:48.980 for us

00:59:49.740 because we are secular,

00:59:51.080 materialistic,

00:59:51.640 nihilistic.

00:59:53.280 You know,

00:59:53.960 we believe that we're

00:59:55.440 going to die

00:59:56.000 and fade into 0.99

00:59:58.040 non-existence,

00:59:59.060 which I think makes

00:59:59.960 death far more terrifying.

01:00:02.460 Anyway,

01:00:03.000 so there's a lot going on,

01:00:03.980 but underlying all of that

01:00:05.320 is the uniquely

01:00:06.140 modern assumption

01:00:07.060 that life

01:00:08.500 is supposed to be

01:00:10.560 essentially pain-free.

01:00:12.380 So,

01:00:13.060 we think that we are

01:00:14.060 entitled to comfort,

01:00:15.880 that we have the right

01:00:16.860 to avoid suffering

01:00:17.860 and hardship,

01:00:18.540 and those are assumptions

01:00:19.520 that our ancestors

01:00:20.540 would have never made.

01:00:22.260 Our ancestors encountered

01:00:23.680 death and pain

01:00:24.460 and suffering,

01:00:25.040 and they said,

01:00:26.140 well,

01:00:27.100 this is what life is.

01:00:28.700 It's not that they

01:00:29.140 weren't sad about it,

01:00:30.320 okay,

01:00:30.500 they were sad,

01:00:31.140 they were distraught,

01:00:32.120 the family member dies,

01:00:33.280 something terrible happens,

01:00:34.480 but they said,

01:00:36.300 this is what life is.

01:00:37.760 Life is suffering.

01:00:39.560 We encounter that sort of thing,

01:00:41.180 much less of it,

01:00:42.320 and we say,

01:00:43.060 no,

01:00:43.240 it's not supposed to be this way.

01:00:44.420 It's not fair.

01:00:45.480 It's not fair.

01:00:46.300 This is not how life

01:00:47.000 is supposed to be.

01:00:48.660 You see all these videos

01:00:49.520 of Gen Z people

01:00:50.380 that are like in tears

01:00:51.840 because they have to work

01:00:52.580 nine to five now.

01:00:53.880 In tears about it.

01:00:55.240 It's not supposed to be this way.

01:00:56.680 This is not how life

01:00:57.460 is supposed to be.

01:00:59.920 No one in history

01:01:00.800 thought that way.

01:01:01.420 Everyone in history

01:01:01.880 would say,

01:01:02.100 well,

01:01:02.200 of course you have to work.

01:01:02.980 What else are you going

01:01:03.820 to do in life?

01:01:04.760 It's life.

01:01:05.360 What do you mean?

01:01:05.920 It's not fair.

01:01:07.540 Not fair compared to what?

01:01:10.120 Most of the anxiety

01:01:11.160 and trauma

01:01:11.700 and psychological scarring

01:01:12.980 comes not from the suffering,

01:01:14.600 but really from this refusal

01:01:16.000 to suffer.

01:01:17.320 This insistence

01:01:18.360 that life owes us

01:01:19.500 something else,

01:01:20.400 something better.

01:01:20.980 which in fact,

01:01:22.540 when in fact

01:01:22.920 it owes us nothing.

01:01:25.120 Now,

01:01:25.540 I'm not offering

01:01:26.020 any kind of great insight here,

01:01:27.620 but it's somehow

01:01:28.600 an insight

01:01:29.120 that has never occurred

01:01:30.680 to a shockingly

01:01:31.540 large number of people

01:01:32.760 in modern culture.

01:01:34.080 They have lived

01:01:34.680 their whole lives

01:01:35.340 without anyone responding

01:01:36.500 to one of their complaints

01:01:37.500 by saying,

01:01:38.080 yeah,

01:01:38.180 that's life.

01:01:38.700 Get over it.

01:01:39.600 Stop crying, 0.99

01:01:40.340 you sissy. 0.99

01:01:41.920 I mean, 0.98

01:01:42.160 that is a message

01:01:42.900 we should all probably hear

01:01:44.420 once a day.

01:01:45.400 And if you're having

01:01:45.940 a panic attack

01:01:46.840 because,

01:01:47.680 you know,

01:01:48.020 of inflation,

01:01:49.780 like,

01:01:50.140 the best thing

01:01:51.220 you can hear from someone

01:01:51.900 is get it together. 0.98

01:01:52.800 What the hell 0.99

01:01:53.340 is wrong with you? 1.00

01:01:55.360 Like,

01:01:55.600 you need to be able

01:01:56.100 to function.

01:01:56.860 This is embarrassing.

01:01:59.020 Once a day,

01:01:59.680 we should probably all hear

01:02:00.380 something like that.

01:02:01.700 And if not once a day,

01:02:02.520 then at least once

01:02:03.280 in our lives.

01:02:05.080 But plenty of young people

01:02:06.140 have never heard

01:02:07.200 that response

01:02:08.040 from anyone.

01:02:09.360 Every time they whine

01:02:10.400 about something,

01:02:11.400 it's so hard.

01:02:12.300 All they ever hear

01:02:13.000 is,

01:02:13.200 yeah,

01:02:13.300 it is so hard.

01:02:14.040 It's so difficult.

01:02:14.700 Yeah,

01:02:15.260 tell me more

01:02:15.840 about how you feel.

01:02:18.040 What they really need,

01:02:18.940 they need their feelings

01:02:19.540 to be dismissed.

01:02:20.900 At least every once

01:02:21.880 in a while.

01:02:22.940 Keeps you humble.

01:02:24.460 And now they're crippled

01:02:25.580 by paper cuts

01:02:26.280 and they're psychologically

01:02:27.300 scarred by minor

01:02:28.320 inconveniences.

01:02:29.800 And this all means

01:02:30.800 that eventually

01:02:31.340 and likely soon,

01:02:33.160 we will actually

01:02:34.120 experience

01:02:34.840 the agonies

01:02:35.720 of our ancestors.

01:02:36.740 As the saying goes,

01:02:38.280 weak men

01:02:38.720 create hard times.

01:02:40.320 And that is the point

01:02:41.280 in the historical cycle

01:02:42.460 that we have

01:02:43.500 reached.

01:02:45.460 And it is for that reason

01:02:46.420 that these

01:02:47.180 weak men

01:02:48.680 are today

01:02:49.800 canceled.

01:02:51.500 That'll do it for the show

01:02:52.480 today.

01:02:52.920 Thanks for watching.

01:02:53.440 Thanks for listening.

01:02:54.100 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:02:54.660 Have a great day.

01:02:55.640 Godspeed.

01:02:55.960 I'm thankful.

01:03:06.480 Bye-bye.

01:03:07.200 Bye-bye.

01:03:07.800 Bye-bye.

01:03:08.360 Bye-bye.

01:03:08.720 Bye-bye.

01:03:09.760 Bye-bye.

01:03:12.060 Bye-bye.

01:03:12.840 Bye-bye.

01:03:13.440 Bye-bye.

01:03:13.760 Bye-bye.

01:03:14.620 Bye-bye.

The Matt Walsh Show - October 25, 2023

Ep. 1250 - BLM Reincarnated

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