The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1252 - The Unexplored Connection Between Psychoactive Drugs And Mass Shootings

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, there's a question that very few people are asking about all the

00:00:03.480 mass shootings that have happened all over the country. What psychiatric drugs are these killers

00:00:07.680 on? And are the drugs actually helping to cause these violent episodes? Very good reason to think

00:00:13.040 the answer to that question is yes. Also, Jamal Bowman gets a slap on the wrist for pulling a

00:00:16.700 fire alarm on Capitol Hill. But now that we have a full video of the incident, we can see for sure

00:00:20.680 that his story is a lie. And the American Academy of Pediatrics has been hit with a major lawsuit by

00:00:25.000 a detransitioner. Is the floodgate finally opening? Talk about all that and more today 0.99

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00:01:42.900 Shore by calling 800-SKIN-211. When an off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot tried to sabotage a passenger

00:01:50.240 plane's engines in flight this week, it took less than 24 hours for us to learn that the pilot

00:01:54.840 had recently taken shrooms. He was allegedly high out of his mind when he attempted to activate the

00:02:00.440 fire suppression system on the engines, according to officials. Authorities released that information

00:02:04.400 for obvious reasons. For one thing, you know, they wanted to assure the public that this incident was

00:02:08.320 not part of some broader terrorist plot given the events in the Middle East. And more importantly,

00:02:13.100 the authorities understood that they needed to provide some kind of explanation for why an Alaska

00:02:18.420 Airlines pilot would decide out of the blue to try to kill 83 passengers on one of his company's

00:02:23.660 planes. After all, when a senseless act of attempted mass murder happens, the news media and the American

00:02:29.740 public are usually very interested in the details. They want to know, for example, what drugs were in

00:02:36.100 the system of the would-be killer. And in the case of the Alaska pilot, those details were provided

00:02:41.180 right away. Even in an incident, in this case, where nobody died, we got some transparency and we got it

00:02:47.100 immediately, as should be the case. And all that makes sense. What doesn't make sense, by contrast, is how the

00:02:54.600 media has reported on Robert Card, the 40-year-old petroleum specialist in the U.S. Army Reserve, who,

00:02:59.580 according to authorities, just went on a shooting rampage in Maine. Card allegedly killed 18 people at a

00:03:05.240 bowling alley and a bar. He wounded many others. And here's how various news organizations described Card's

00:03:11.700 potential motivations. Watch. We have more breaking news regarding the mental health history of the man

00:03:18.120 suspected of killing 18 people in Maine. I want to bring in Ken Delaney and NBC News Justice and Intelligence

00:03:24.020 correspondent. Ken, what have you just learned? Chris, it's become increasingly clear that there were major

00:03:29.640 concerns about this suspect, Robert Card's mental health, over the summer and as recently as a few weeks ago, both from

00:03:35.960 his military commanders and members of his family. I've got two pieces of information to share with you. Two senior law

00:03:41.940 enforcement officials tell me that Card's Army Reserve commanders referred him to inpatient psychiatric treatment

00:03:49.140 over the summer after they became concerned about his comments that he had been hearing voices and about threats that he had

00:03:56.180 made to the base. And we're told that he spent about two weeks inside a psychiatric facility, was treated there, was

00:04:02.660 released. It's unclear what happened after that. He's a firearms instructor and is known to have

00:04:08.360 mental health issues, particularly had reported hearing voices in his head, had previously threatened

00:04:15.680 to shoot up a military base before. And as recently as this summer, spent two weeks in a mental health

00:04:23.000 facility, then was released. Now, those details there are going to raise all sorts of questions and red flags as

00:04:29.640 to how he's got that rifle that he's holding in these photos right now. With those kind of mental health

00:04:35.780 issues going into a mental health facility this summer, there are going to be all sorts of questions

00:04:40.880 asked as to how this guy was able to possess a firearm like that. If we look at the suspect, Robert Card,

00:04:47.700 certified firearms instructor, member of the U.S. Army Reserve, made threats to carry out a shooting at

00:04:52.720 National Guard facility earlier on, according to authorities, and reporting mental health issues,

00:04:57.560 including hearing voices. If you look at all of that, you combine it with that information you just

00:05:02.620 reported there, the idea that this is somebody who may know the outdoors very well, who may be very

00:05:07.840 skilled at this, you understand how this shooting, this really changes the approach that law enforcement

00:05:14.000 has to take to him. So Robert Card, all these news outlets tell us, suffered from serious mental health

00:05:20.160 problems. There were major concerns. He was inpatient at a psychiatric facility just the summer for

00:05:25.420 at least two weeks. Everyone from his military commanders to his family knew about this, and

00:05:30.700 therefore these outlets, all of them including Fox, CNN, MSNBC, have the same questions, such as

00:05:36.160 how was he able to access firearms? The laws in place are already supposed to prevent somebody like

00:05:42.620 Card from having guns, so why weren't those laws followed or enforced? And those are very good

00:05:48.720 questions. They need to be answered. We also need to know why Robert Card was ever released from that

00:05:53.660 inpatient psychiatric facility, especially when the U.S. military apparently knew that he wanted to shoot

00:05:58.440 up the base. Several commentators have raised that question as well. But there's another question that

00:06:04.120 is important to ask, which none of these media outlets have been talking about. It's the same question that

00:06:10.020 the media answered very quickly in the case of the Alaska Airlines pilot, which is, what drugs exactly

00:06:16.180 were in the shooter's system? And along those same lines, what drugs has he been taking recently?

00:06:23.320 So if he was hearing voices in his head and talking about suicide, there's a good chance that he was on

00:06:28.440 antipsychotic medication. He might have been on SSRIs as well. Could those drugs have made him even more

00:06:34.740 violent than he already was? These are questions that most of the national news media actively discourage you

00:06:41.300 from asking. You're called a conspiracy theorist if you try to bring up this topic. In fact, you'll

00:06:47.320 probably be censored on major social media platforms. Earlier this year, for example, USA Today ran a

00:06:51.840 fact check claiming that antidepressants are not linked to school shootings. And if you try to claim

00:06:56.680 otherwise on Facebook, there's a good chance that USA Today's fact check will appear alongside your post.

00:07:01.900 So what's the evidence that antidepressants are not, in fact, linked to school shootings? Well,

00:07:07.400 as part of this fact check, USA Today linked to a study from Columbia University

00:07:11.080 on mass shootings. And here's what the study found. Quote,

00:07:14.520 we identified 1,315 mass murders, 65% of which involve firearms. Lifetime psychotic symptoms were

00:07:20.960 noted among 11% of perpetrators. These results suggest that policies aimed at preventing mass

00:07:26.120 shootings by focusing on serious mental illness characterized by psychotic symptoms may have

00:07:31.220 limited impact. Now, if you just read those statistics and accept the framing of USA Today and

00:07:36.580 Columbia University, they're pretty convincing. You might come away with the idea that

00:07:40.620 psychoactive drugs can't possibly be causing mass shootings since only 11% of the perpetrators

00:07:45.860 have lifetime psychotic symptoms. Therefore, you know, there's a good chance that many of them are

00:07:50.420 not taking SSRIs and other medications. But if you read the fine print, you might notice something that

00:07:56.080 explains these figures. Here's how Columbia defines a mass shooting. Quote,

00:08:00.860 the unlawful killing of four or more individuals excluding the perpetrators within one event

00:08:06.100 in one location. In other words, gang violence counts. Drive-by shootings targeting rival drug

00:08:13.200 dealers count, etc. So what we're seeing here is a statistical sleight of hand. You know, of course,

00:08:20.600 we should be doing everything we possibly can to stop mass shootings as Columbia University defines them.

00:08:24.660 We should enforce laws that are already on the books. We should stop releasing criminals as soon as

00:08:28.880 they're arrested. At the same time, the fact that all these mass shootings are occurring in the

00:08:34.420 absence of SSRIs doesn't tell us anything whatsoever about the role of psychoactive drugs in causing

00:08:40.400 violent behavior. Columbia's researchers don't address the core question. How many people who aren't

00:08:46.220 gangbangers, who aren't career criminals, are taking SSRIs and then going on to commit mass shootings

00:08:52.860 that they would not have committed otherwise? Now, not too long ago, some media outlets were willing to

00:08:58.600 broach that question. Here's the BBC, for example, in a report that aired seven years ago. Watch.

00:09:04.900 I was an absolute mess, wanting to take my life, like, continually. I got, I read the leaflet and I was

00:09:14.500 getting exactly what it said. You know, I was getting kind of seizure-like symptoms where my muscles were kind of

00:09:22.680 jolting around of their own accord. And I felt disorientated and sick and had digestive problems and infections.

00:09:31.480 And, I mean, it's really, really extreme. One in four people become more anxious rather than less. And they can become extraordinarily

00:09:41.280 anxious so that some people become very agitated and some go on from that to become suicidal.

00:09:47.580 Okay, so roughly a quarter of people taking these drugs, according to that report, are actually

00:09:52.880 experiencing increased agitation. It's not just that the drug failed to solve their problem. The drug

00:09:58.180 actively made their problem worse. Now, none of this is really a revelation. If you look at the labels

00:10:03.480 on these drugs, you'll often find that drug companies come right out and admit it. So here's the label of

00:10:08.500 Prozac, word for word. Quote, all patients being treated with antidepressants, for any indication,

00:10:13.380 should be monitored appropriately and observed closely for clinical worsening, suicidality, and

00:10:19.140 unusual changes in behavior. The following symptoms, anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, insomnia, irritability,

00:10:25.360 hostility, aggressiveness, impulsivity, and mania have been reported in adult and pediatric patients

00:10:31.180 being treated with antidepressants for major depressive disorder, as well as for other indications.

00:10:36.380 The label goes on to say that no causal link has been established between these symptoms and the drug,

00:10:40.660 but it obviously doesn't rule it out. That's why they put it on the label, okay? And if you look at

00:10:46.300 recent mass shootings going back for the past few decades, you begin to see why they put it on the

00:10:52.060 label. Antidepressants, as well as other psychoactive drugs, have been a common denominator in many of

00:10:58.120 these killings. Too many to even recount, but we'll recount a few of them. Eric Harris, one of the

00:11:05.540 Columbine shooters, was taking two separate SSRIs, Zoloft and Luvox. Kip Kinkle, who murdered his

00:11:11.860 parents before shooting 25 of his classmates, killing two of them, was taking Prozac, which is

00:11:16.480 another SSRI. Jeff Weiss, the 16-year-old, had murdered nine people in Minnesota, including his

00:11:22.280 grandfather, before killing himself, was on Prozac. One of his family members told the New York Times,

00:11:26.660 quote, they kept upping the dose for him, and by the end, he was taking three of the 20 milligram

00:11:30.940 pills a day. I can't help but think it was too much, that it must have set him off. Another

00:11:35.800 relative said, quote, I do wonder whether on top of everything else he had going on in his life,

00:11:40.000 on top of all the other problems, whether the drugs could have been the final straw.

00:11:44.420 A 27-year-old who killed six people at Northern Illinois University in 2008 was reportedly on Prozac

00:11:49.320 as well. So was Joseph Westbecker. In 1989, he killed eight co-workers at a printing plant in

00:11:55.420 Kentucky while taking the antidepressant. In 2001, Christopher Pittman was taking Zoloft when he

00:12:00.720 killed his grandparents. And at trial, his lawyers blamed the drug. Kenneth Seguin's lawyers made a

00:12:06.960 similar argument. He brutally murdered his wife and two children after his doctor prescribed him

00:12:11.180 Prozac. Now, I could go on and on and list dozens of other examples. The Navy Yard shooter in 2013,

00:12:18.720 Aaron Alex. Alexis was on antidepressants. James Holmes, who shot 82 people in that movie theater in

00:12:24.740 Aurora, Colorado, was on Zoloft. Dylan Roof, the white supremacist church shooter, was on SSRIs as

00:12:30.300 well. The trans-identified shooter who killed men, women, and children at the Christian school in

00:12:35.400 Tennessee this year was under care for a, quote, emotional disorder. But you're not allowed to know

00:12:40.080 any details about that. You're also not allowed to read the killer's manifesto in that case.

00:12:44.100 A couple of months ago, a mental health watchdog called the Citizens Commission on Human Rights

00:12:48.200 pointed out that the mass shooter at a Kentucky bank who killed five people and wounded many others

00:12:53.040 was taking medication for depression. The group called for an investigation into possible links

00:12:58.300 between psychoactive drugs and, quote, senseless violence. But no investigation would be forthcoming,

00:13:05.000 of course. Corporate media organizations have no incentive to undertake any kind of investigation

00:13:09.040 like that because they make hundreds of millions of dollars a year from Big Pharma.

00:13:14.120 And honestly, they may not be the only ones who are being paid off. Nobody ever talks about this,

00:13:19.500 but a couple of years ago, it emerged that Eli Lilly, which makes Prozac, was accused of paying

00:13:25.640 money to the victims of a mass shooting in order to protect their brand. Quoting from the USA Today,

00:13:31.880 quote, the drug maker that produces Prozac, the antidepressant that Joseph Westbecker's victims

00:13:36.360 blamed for his deadly shooting rampage 30 years ago, secretly paid the victims $20 million to help

00:13:41.720 ensure a verdict exonerating the drug company. Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly vigorously shielded

00:13:46.800 the payments for more than two decades, defying a Louisville judge who fought to reveal it because

00:13:51.440 he said it swayed the jury's verdict. Now, was there a link between Prozac and that deadly rampage?

00:13:57.780 We can't say. Seems like the company was worried that there might be. We do know two things for sure.

00:14:04.040 First, the most powerful forces in media and big pharma do not want you to ask these kinds of

00:14:11.820 questions. And second, we know that a lot of people who are taking these drugs are killing people in

00:14:17.020 ways that are utterly horrifying. These are not just mass shooters either. The Daily Wire just reported

00:14:23.080 on the case of a Massachusetts mother who methodically strangled her three children, including a five-year-old,

00:14:28.440 a three-year-old, and an eight-month-old to death before trying to kill herself. She took four 0.76

00:14:34.360 minutes to complete each murder. She strangled each of them with an exercise band. Then she cut her own 0.99

00:14:39.480 throat and jumped out the window. Now, according to the woman's lawyers, she, quote, suffered from 0.97

00:14:45.240 postpartum depression and was over-prescribed medicine. Now, this is the kind of crime that demands

00:14:52.260 an explanation. Why in God's name would a mother seemingly normal and law-abiding until that moment 1.00

00:14:58.820 suddenly decide to methodically murder all of her children? Postpartum depression is not an

00:15:05.480 explanation. That's what the media has been telling. Oh, she has postpartum depression. Okay, lots of 0.91

00:15:10.760 women get postpartum depression. Almost none of them have ever done or would ever do something like

00:15:16.740 that. This mother did. Why? We need to know why. At this point, inevitably, some people will point

00:15:26.540 out that correlation is not causation. That's true. You know, the fact that a bunch of people on SSRIs

00:15:31.960 and other drugs like Ritalin are committing mass killings does not necessarily prove that these drugs

00:15:36.680 are causing those killings, but it certainly suggests that it's a possibility. The drug makers

00:15:42.100 themselves acknowledge that it's a possibility. And every effort to debunk this hypothesis has been

00:15:47.700 misleading at best and fraudulent at worst. Drug makers are being accused of paying off victims.

00:15:54.080 Corporate media outlets are burying the statistics by citing gang killings. Meanwhile, the bodies are

00:15:59.680 piling up. You know, as much as leftists dream of solving this problem by seizing all the guns and

00:16:05.980 jailing everybody who believes in the Second Amendment, that's not going to happen. I mean,

00:16:10.380 there would be bloodshed on a scale never seen before in human history if the government attempted

00:16:14.220 anything like that. So there's really only one option that could potentially save lives instead

00:16:19.040 of bringing down the entirety of our constitutional republic. And that option is to determine conclusively

00:16:24.860 why mass shootings and suicides are becoming more common over the past few decades during which

00:16:31.080 SSRI use has soared by roughly 3,000 percent. It was just a couple of years ago that the

00:16:38.820 pharmaceutical industry admitted that it has no idea how these SSRIs are even supposed to work.

00:16:45.220 Their basis for prescribing them, the chemical imbalance in the brain bit, that was a myth.

00:16:51.700 And that has been admitted. So what that means is that the people giving these drugs to people,

00:16:58.240 they don't even know exactly how they work or why they work or if they do.

00:17:01.820 So you would think that everybody would welcome an investigation into this.

00:17:07.720 If you have these drugs that more and more people are taking, and at the same time, more and more

00:17:13.520 violent, heinous crimes like these are being committed, you would think that lots of people

00:17:19.600 would be asking questions. But right now, no one seemingly is asking the question.

00:17:25.720 They're just talking about new laws to take away people's guns, even though Maine already had a so-called

00:17:30.280 yellow flag law that should have ensured Robert Card didn't have access to firearms, but he did.

00:17:35.880 They're offering non-solutions that will expand their power while limiting your rights.

00:17:40.840 They're confident about their ideas, even though none of them has done anything to stop mass

00:17:44.660 shootings since Columbine. They've only become more common. So maybe it's time for a new approach.

00:17:51.020 Maybe it's time for the one solution they don't want you to talk about, which is investigating what role

00:17:55.500 psychoactive drugs are playing in these killings. Now, I don't know what that investigation might

00:18:03.140 find. All I know is that as more and more people are put on the psychotropic drugs, we seem to end

00:18:09.440 up with more and more psychotic mass killers. At a minimum, this would indicate, it would seem,

00:18:16.900 that the drugs are not effective in stopping these tragedies from occurring.

00:18:21.240 Best case for the drug makers is that they're pushing an ineffective product. Worst case,

00:18:27.920 and a very plausible case, is that they're pushing something that is actively contributing

00:18:32.100 to the very thing it's supposed to prevent. We don't know for sure, because very few people

00:18:37.080 are interested in finding out. What I do know is that if any real investigation ever took place,

00:18:43.200 then Big Pharma and its media clients would stand to lose a lot of money.

00:18:46.900 And for that reason, there will be no investigation. Instead, there will be a lot more Robert Cards

00:18:54.540 and Dylan Roofs and Kip Kinkles. And when you tune in to the NFL or Fox News or CNN,

00:19:02.240 you'll continue to be bombarded with advertisements from the companies that were prescribing those

00:19:06.640 killers their medications. The media will continue to make money on both ends. They get the ratings from

00:19:13.520 their breaking coverage of mass shootings, and they get the ad dollars from Big Pharma.

00:19:19.360 And unfortunately for people in bowling alleys and bars and schools all over the country,

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00:20:32.720 today. ABC News has this report. Representative Jamal Bowman pleaded guilty on Thursday

00:20:38.360 after being charged with falsely pulling the fire alarm at a congressional office building,

00:20:41.820 a misdemeanor before the House voted on a stopgap spending bill to fund the government last month.

00:20:46.840 In a statement, Bowman said, I'm thankful for the quick resolution from the District of Columbia

00:20:51.400 Attorney General's Office on this issue. Grateful to the Capitol Police, which agreed I did not

00:20:57.040 obstruct nor intend to obstruct any House vote or proceedings. I'm responsible for activating a

00:21:02.580 fire alarm. I'll be paying the fine issued. I look forward to these charges being ultimately dropped.

00:21:06.840 So that's what he's going to get, a $1,000 fine. He has to write a letter of apology to the Capitol

00:21:13.760 Police Chief, Tom Manger. And then he's going to have three months of probation, which is basically

00:21:19.360 nothing. And then, according to Bowman himself, part of the whole deal is that after that point,

00:21:26.020 his record is expunged and it's like this never happened. Here he is explaining that.

00:21:30.580 You know, pay the fine three months from now, it'll be dismissed and I'll be able to just

00:21:35.460 continue to serve my district. You mean it'll be dismissed, like it'll be expunged from your

00:21:38.980 record? I believe so, yes. That's the deal? Yes, yeah. With Capitol Police? ACD, the DCAG. Okay. Yeah.

00:21:48.100 Very nice for him. Nice, nice deal. Very, very good for him. He also explained to reporters that he was

00:21:54.180 in a rush that day and there was, quote, a lot going on. And that's why it all happened the way

00:22:00.760 that it did. Let's watch that. A lot of folks want to know why you didn't tell anybody when you

00:22:06.460 pulled it. Yeah. I mean, you remember that day, right? It was like, it was a lot going on. It was

00:22:11.200 the vote to keep the government open. There was a motion to adjourn. So I was just in a rush, man,

00:22:16.040 you know, trying to get down the street. I was actually running to the Capitol at one point.

00:22:19.260 So I was just in a hurry and didn't get a chance to do it. And, you know, yeah, so that was all my

00:22:24.640 bad. That was all my bad. My bad. He was in a rush. I mean, that doesn't, of course, explain

00:22:33.820 anything. You pull the fire alarm and someone asks you, why did you do that? Well, there's a lot

00:22:38.920 going on. I don't know. Yeah, there's a lot going on now because you just pulled a fire alarm. The

00:22:42.420 fire department's showing up. But why did you do that? Well, we know what his excuse was all along.

00:22:49.060 His excuse was it was not intentional. He wasn't trying to set out the fire alarm. He was not

00:22:53.320 trying to obstruct the proceedings on Capitol Hill. He did it because he was trying to open the door.

00:23:00.140 And for some reason, he thought this was the way to open the door. Well, along with this nice

00:23:04.200 sweetheart deal, we also now finally have the full video of Bowman pulling the fire alarm. Keep in mind,

00:23:09.620 that video was not released initially. Instead, we got a screenshot of him pulling the fire alarm.

00:23:16.940 We didn't get the full video because they didn't want to show us the video until the deal was made.

00:23:22.520 And once you see the video, you see why that's the case. So let's put that video up.

00:23:28.980 Here's here's Bowman walking up to the. You see him grab both signs, pull the alarm and walk off. OK.

00:23:36.740 So you clearly see Bowman walking up to the doors, making no attempt to open them.

00:23:45.280 Pulling down the signs. Pulling the fire alarm and then walking briskly away. Remember that his

00:23:52.640 asinine excuse was that he was trying to open the door. His excuse was that he never in his life 0.94

00:23:57.480 ever encountered emergency exit before. He didn't know how it worked. So he pulled the fire alarm

00:24:01.820 because he thought that that it would make the door open. And then he went and hit the smoke

00:24:07.000 detectors because he thought it would make gumdrops fall from the ceiling or something. He has no

00:24:10.440 idea how anything works. But that's what we're supposed to believe, except that, you know, first

00:24:15.220 of all, that was never even close to believable to begin with. It was obviously a nonsense claim

00:24:19.640 from the start. Anybody who pretended to believe it should be embarrassed. Anyone who actually did believe

00:24:25.700 it should be, I don't know, lobotomized and deported to Jupiter. But either way, we now

00:24:31.920 have the video, which which 100 percent absolutely conclusively proves that he lied about this

00:24:39.300 incident. OK, he never tried to open the door. He took down the signs. So why is that part

00:24:44.460 of the if you're trying to open the door, why would taking down the signs be a part of that

00:24:48.180 process? And then most importantly, he pulled the fire alarm lever and walked away. He didn't

00:24:54.540 even turn around to see if it opened. Allegedly, he did that to open the door, but he never he

00:25:00.720 never turned around to see if the door opened. So this was an intentional act, 100 percent.

00:25:07.400 Absolutely. I mean, there's no way around it. You can see it in the video. There's like no

00:25:12.380 other. It's really it's 100 percent. And why did he do it? Well, there's no other reason

00:25:17.700 that he would have done it other than to delay the vote. He was trying to obstruct the proceedings

00:25:22.780 on Capitol Hill. Now, how could he have been so unbelievably stupid as to think that he could 1.00

00:25:30.680 do this and nobody would find out? Was he not aware that they have security cameras in those 1.00

00:25:37.600 buildings? Who knows? Like there is no scenario here that doesn't end with Jamal Bowman having the

00:25:47.240 IQ of a hermit crab. That's so. So we know that's the case no matter what. But that was always

00:25:53.560 guaranteed. But he's also a liar. We could see. And he should have been charged with a felony and he 1.00

00:25:59.140 should be expelled. And you know what? Even though he's a moron, this is the worst part about it.

00:26:05.880 He's a moron. But in the end, he was basically right because he figured that he could do this 1.00

00:26:14.320 and face no consequence. The only thing he was wrong about is that I think he figured that they

00:26:20.520 would not that even if they had security camera footage, they wouldn't release it because he's a 0.99

00:26:25.220 Democrat. And so they wouldn't want to embarrass him. So he was wrong about that. But everything else,

00:26:30.640 he was right. He figured there'd be no consequence beyond that. There'd be no legal consequence.

00:26:34.860 And in effect, there isn't. He's got to pay a thousand dollar fine. That's it.

00:26:39.520 And after three months, it'll be like this never happened because we live in a two-tier justice

00:26:45.640 system. And it is a two-tier justice system that he benefits from. And he is fully aware of that.

00:26:53.260 All right. Daily Mail has this report. A woman from Florida who claims she was rushed into taking

00:26:56.900 hormone warping drugs is suing the doctors who gave her testosterone as a child.

00:27:01.640 Isabel Ayala, now 20, claims that doctors ignored the fact that she has autism, ADHD,

00:27:07.440 and suffers from PTSD, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, and depression when she was prescribed

00:27:12.460 the drugs, which used to transition her to a boy, not really to a boy, but to transition at the age

00:27:20.460 of 14. She was given the hormone injections after just two appointments, after discovering the concept

00:27:26.400 of being trans on Instagram, which led her to believe that she was born in the wrong body.

00:27:32.500 Very familiar story here. 14 years old. Is not even aware of the concept of being trans until she

00:27:39.580 sees it on Instagram and Tumblr and sees it and says, well, that must be me. Goes into the doctor

00:27:45.740 and apparently two appointments is all it takes before she was given hormone injections. 0.97

00:27:51.380 She's now left in daily pain, including vaginal dryness, burning, and itching, which usually

00:27:55.220 occurs after menopause, and is unsure about her ability to have children in the future.

00:27:59.800 Ms. Ayala is suing the doctors who treated her and the American Academy of Pediatrics and

00:28:03.320 Association of Children's Doctors that she claims knowingly misled the public in publishing and

00:28:08.860 disseminating a fraudulent policy statement on affirmative care that has been perceived by many

00:28:13.020 as an authoritative guide for the treatment of gender-confused children in the U.S.

00:28:18.340 Michelle Forcier says, over six months into taking testosterone, Isabel saw Dr. Michelle Forcier

00:28:23.380 at the Hasbro Children's Clinic and told her that she had been increasingly depressed and anxious over

00:28:28.320 the past several months, but Dr. Forcier did nothing to slow the transition process. Dr. Forcier is among

00:28:33.140 the country's most prominent figures on gender-affirming hormones and care plans. Now, if this all sounds

00:28:37.760 familiar, it's because this is the second lawsuit we've talked about over the past week.

00:28:42.040 The last one was from a woman in similar circumstances who's also suing over her

00:28:48.060 quote-unquote transition, and the chicken lady, Michelle Forcier, is named in both of those

00:28:53.300 lawsuits. So, similar cases, but two different cases. The big detail here and the big difference

00:28:59.520 is that the AAP, the American Academy of Pediatrics, is being sued in this case, which is great news

00:29:06.520 that they're being sued. These medical organizations adopted this radical gender ideology wholesale, 1.00

00:29:15.540 and they made this change practically overnight. And they knew, they absolutely knew,

00:29:23.540 that what they were doing was harmful, is harmful to kids. They knew that. And they deserve to be sued

00:29:31.760 into bankruptcy for it. They deserve to go to prison. A lot of AAP officials and these individual

00:29:37.720 pediatricians should be hauled away in handcuffs because they sterilized and castrated thousands 1.00

00:29:44.000 of kids for no valid medical reason. And again, they know it. They all know it. They all know what 0.96

00:29:51.520 they've done and why they've done it. And the why is money, politics, ideology, definitely not medicine.

00:30:00.860 You know, as I said about the last lawsuit, this is the next necessary step. It's a necessary thing

00:30:06.540 for these people to be held accountable in court where they will not be able to defend themselves.

00:30:15.340 I mean, they'll have the opportunity to defend themselves, but they're not going to be able to

00:30:17.860 because what they've done is indefensible. And I know you might say, well, activists, judges,

00:30:23.140 nothing's going to happen, et cetera. You know, and you might be right in some cases, but

00:30:27.780 you know, you have to sue anyway. And besides, I think, here's my prediction.

00:30:34.860 And maybe I'll end up being wrong about this. I hope I'm not. But

00:30:37.340 I think that you're going to be surprised by how these detransitioners do in court, 1.00

00:30:44.380 how well they do in court. I think you're going to be surprised by that. I think that very soon

00:30:49.720 we're going to see a massive judgment in favor of one of these detrans victims, like millions and 1.00

00:30:56.320 millions of dollars. I don't know if it'll be this case, but I think that will happen soon.

00:31:00.660 And I'll tell you why. Because to begin with, they have an airtight case. The doctors have no case.

00:31:07.020 They have no justification. They have no defense. And they know it. Everybody knows it.

00:31:11.540 And what's going to happen is that the case for child mutilation will fall apart quickly. I mean,

00:31:20.640 it's already falling apart. The whole house of cards has long since tumbled. And so I think you'll

00:31:26.620 be surprised by the number of judges who want to get on the right side of this thing now. So that's

00:31:35.180 what I would predict. That gender ideology as an ideology is not going to go away anytime soon. 1.00

00:31:44.140 The fight continues. But I believe that the transing of kids in particular, that particular 0.99

00:31:51.740 form of barbaric evil, I think its days are numbered. It's just unsustainable. It is unsustainable to do

00:31:59.640 this to kids on such a massive scale with no coherent justification for it. It's just simply,

00:32:08.740 it cannot continue. And I think you're going to find, and again, we already are seeing more and

00:32:16.580 more people who are not conservative who are trying to get on the right side of this thing now because

00:32:21.780 they see, they see what's happening and they don't want to be left as the last person like holding the

00:32:27.280 bag, still defending the castration sterilization of kids. So that's my, if we can call it optimistic 0.88

00:32:33.840 take, I suppose, as optimistic as you can be given the circumstances. All right. So this is interesting.

00:32:40.720 I've given Gen Z a bit of a hard time on the show this week. So it's only fair to end the week with a 1.00

00:32:45.320 positive note about the generation. And for some reason, researchers at UCLA have conducted a study

00:32:52.460 to find out how Gen Z feels about sex scenes in movies. And it turns out, perhaps surprisingly to

00:33:00.000 some, that they actually seem to prefer a bit of modesty in their cinematic entertainment. The Daily Wire

00:33:05.500 reports, a new poll found that Gen Z isn't very interested in steamy sex scenes in their entertainment.

00:33:10.280 The survey of 1,500 respondents was conducted by researchers at UCLA. It found that almost half of

00:33:15.320 Gen Zers aged 13 to 24 said sex isn't needed for most TV shows and movies. Now we should step to 1.00

00:33:22.180 the side here to note that it is to say the least creepy that they're asking 13 year olds this

00:33:27.060 question. I don't know why this couldn't just be a question for the adults in Gen Z. But continuing on,

00:33:34.840 a significant amount, 44% also said romance is overused as a plot device. So what do they want

00:33:40.400 instead? A majority of respondents, 51%, said they would like to see more stories about platonic

00:33:44.720 friendship. While it's true that adolescents want less sex on TV and in movies, what the survey is

00:33:50.000 really saying is that they want more and different kinds of relationships reflected in the media they

00:33:55.440 watch. Now, of course, romance and sex scenes are two different things. You know, you can have the

00:34:01.900 former without the latter, as the early years of Hollywood can attest. But the desire for more

00:34:09.240 platonic relationships displayed on screen is interesting. You know, it's pretty widely understood

00:34:14.180 that people who've grown up in the Internet age struggle to connect with other human beings. They

00:34:19.760 struggle to make actual real friendships in real life. So it's no surprise that they would like to

00:34:26.760 see those kinds of relationships modeled by the media they consume. Now, whether those relationships

00:34:33.700 are modeled correctly or in a healthy way is a different question, but that's what they want

00:34:37.800 to see. And Gen Z also revealed surprisingly good taste in other areas as well. It also says this,

00:34:45.260 a study also asked about other facets of entertainment material. Researchers found that most participants,

00:34:50.780 56%, preferred original content to franchise projects or remakes of pre-existing content.

00:34:56.100 So Gen Z gets this absolutely right, you know, across the board really. And they're certainly right 0.65

00:35:05.440 about we need more original content. And this is, you know, it's unfortunate for the movie studios

00:35:11.780 because they, you know, I don't think that they have, there isn't the artistic talent right now

00:35:20.440 in Hollywood to create compelling original stories. I mean, there's a little bit, but

00:35:25.840 part of the reason why they just churn out the same thing over and over again is because there's

00:35:30.200 a real talent drain that went on. But people are sick and tired and young people especially are sick

00:35:35.440 and tired of the, of the, just the same stories being recycled. And when it comes to sex scenes and

00:35:41.220 movies, like sex scenes and movies are always gratuitous and unnecessary. And I think that almost

00:35:49.080 everyone hates them at some point over the last few decades, they started putting sex scenes in

00:35:53.760 movies. And I think that pretty much the entire audience has always agreed that we don't really

00:36:00.320 want this. They're incredibly uncomfortable to watch, especially with company. I mean, like we've

00:36:05.540 all been in situations where you're watching a movie with your parents or something. And then,

00:36:09.460 and then suddenly a sex scene starts and it's, there's no way to respond in a way that isn't like,

00:36:15.300 you don't want to sit there and watch it with, with, uh, with family members. But at the same time,

00:36:20.260 if you fast forward it, then you're sort of acknowledging what's on the screen. Plus now

00:36:24.960 you're watching it faster. Uh, so no matter what you do, it's, it's awkward and either way it's

00:36:30.120 uncomfortable. And even if you're watching the movie by yourself, like the scene may be less

00:36:35.540 embarrassing if there's no company, but it's still unnecessary. Like if we see the characters

00:36:41.480 go into a bedroom and shut the door, we get it. We, we don't, we, we, we, we get the picture.

00:36:48.160 We understand. We don't need to see it happen. Uh, and, um, I don't know. Is there anyone,

00:36:56.600 and you can have, look, as I said, you can have full, you can have a full romance story

00:37:01.300 and not show a single sex scene. That's what they did in the forties and it, and it worked just fine.

00:37:06.660 Um, I'm not sure who in the audience wants to see this kind of thing. Like who is the person

00:37:14.660 who really loves sex scenes in movies? What, what weird loser really just needs to see that stuff? 0.99

00:37:21.840 Is there anyone who is less likely to watch a movie if it doesn't have a sex scene? 0.98

00:37:28.220 Cause I know there's a lot of people who are less likely to watch it if they hear,

00:37:31.040 and I'm one of them, you hear it's a good movie. Oh, but there's, you know,

00:37:35.140 there's a bunch of gratuitous sex scenes. It's like, okay, now I don't, I'm not as interested

00:37:38.540 in watching it anymore. Is there anyone who, who hears that? Oh, there's a bunch of sex. Oh,

00:37:41.880 now I have to watch that. Maybe there are, but, um, that's not the audience that you need to appease

00:37:47.480 anyway, or should want to appease. So again, Gen Z is right now with that said, most likely the reason

00:37:56.580 why Gen Z or part of the reason why at least they don't want the sex scenes in movies is, um,

00:38:04.560 unfortunately that they are saturated with graphic sexual content all the time already. I mean,

00:38:09.700 many of them have been tragically exposed to hardcore pornography since they were young kids,

00:38:15.440 right? The average age of first exposure to pornography is now, I mean, it was 10 years old

00:38:21.620 a few years ago. So I don't know what age it is now. Um, and they're just totally jaded by it.

00:38:27.380 They're way overexposed to it. Uh, it's way oversaturated. And that's a big part of the reason

00:38:31.440 why, uh, they don't need or want to see it in a film. It's the same reason why Gen Z as a generation 0.72

00:38:37.080 is actually less sexually active than previous generations were at their age, early twenties.

00:38:42.120 You know, that's a pretty well-known phenomenon. And, um, it's, it's, as much as I would like to say

00:38:48.360 that it's a sign of traditional values being restored in that generation. And there might

00:38:54.820 be some of that, but, but I think more than that, it's that many of them are isolated, uh,

00:39:01.620 staring at screens, surrounded by pornography all the time. So the reason for this change and

00:39:07.880 this shift in preferences is a far from ideal reasons, actually terrible, terrible for that

00:39:13.180 generation. And it speaks to how society truly has failed these, uh, young people completely,

00:39:19.120 but ultimately they're right about the sex scenes in, uh, movies anyway. And I think, again, this is

00:39:25.480 just almost, almost everyone feels this way. I think we'd all be fine if it's just, we don't need

00:39:31.720 that in movies anymore. Let's all move on with our lives. All right, let's get to the comment section.

00:39:37.840 If you're a man, it's required that you grow a bid. Hey, we're the sweet baby gang.

00:39:47.940 Colleen Hoffman says, I think working at the DW has skewed your perception of financial reality,

00:39:52.340 LOL. What Gen Z women, what Gen Z woman is going to find a man close to her age who makes enough 1.00

00:39:57.160 money to support a family? SBG for life, but really Matt, the solution isn't always become a

00:40:02.260 stay-at-home mom just because your wife is able to do it. It's so unrealistic to think in this economy

00:40:06.740 that a woman could just find a man who can pay her bills. Can we get some stats on this at least? 1.00

00:40:11.640 It seems like these rich guys are out here hiding and Matt knows where they are. What makes you think

00:40:16.440 she's in a relationship? She said she doesn't have time to date. So how would she have the option to

00:40:21.560 become a stay-at-home mom? She doesn't. Okay. First of all, referencing the, uh, that video from

00:40:27.540 yesterday, the viral video of the young lady, uh, lamenting her nine to five job. Like I said,

00:40:32.880 you know, she talks about, she gets home at six 30. Um, well that's a ton of free time,

00:40:38.720 especially if you don't work on weekends, you know, and you go to bed around 10, 10 30,

00:40:42.880 let's say that's, as I said, it's four hours of free time a day, a night, uh, it's 20 hours a week.

00:40:48.000 Just start just during the week. And then you got your whole weekends to yourself. That's like a lot

00:40:51.460 of free time. And, and that is, that it's, it's just, that's almost as much free time. That's all,

00:40:58.720 that's on like the upper, very much on the upper end of the spectrum of free time in terms of like

00:41:04.400 what you can expect as an adult. Um, how much free time do you expect to have as an adult?

00:41:12.300 Uh, I, I, I think a lot of young people as they become adults and they get acquainted with adulthood

00:41:17.760 and they're, they're very, uh, you know, sad to find out that they're losing free time. It's like,

00:41:22.180 they expect to have 10 hours a day of free time. That's just not, that's not a, that's not how

00:41:27.580 adulthood works. It doesn't work that way. It can't. So the idea that you don't have time to

00:41:34.600 date or whatever, when you've got, you know, you got your evenings and weekends to yourself,

00:41:37.740 what else can you expect? That's what else would, that's it. That's the best you can hope for really.

00:41:43.900 Um, now in terms of everything else you said, uh, I went through a number of options that a young

00:41:51.780 woman could choose if she doesn't want to do the nine to five stay at home. Mom was one of those 1.00

00:41:56.940 options, not the only one. So I don't know. Are you suggesting that no young woman can do this?

00:42:01.520 I mean, why are you upset that I mentioned it as an option at least? Also, you do not need to be rich

00:42:07.740 to have a single income household. Okay. And I don't care what anyone says. There's this idea. Now

00:42:13.540 you hear this all the time, but you need to be rich to do that. You need to be rich. No, you don't.

00:42:17.700 That is false. Okay. I can give you billions of examples, literally billions of examples of people

00:42:27.000 who have lived this way and not been rich all through history, including today. Okay. You don't

00:42:34.020 need to be married to a rich guy to be a stay at home mom. We were not anywhere close to rich when 1.00

00:42:38.780 we became a single income household, when we first got married and don't tell me, Oh, this was a long

00:42:42.680 time ago. We only been married for 12 years. Okay. We didn't get married in the 1940s.

00:42:48.080 And I know very many examples of families today that are single family, single family households

00:42:53.920 and are not rich, but it's just, you have, yes, it does require sacrifices and it requires a

00:43:00.800 sacrifice of lifestyle. You probably have to live in a smaller house. You're going to have fewer

00:43:03.740 things. You're not going to have, you know, you're going to have a one TV rather than five. You're

00:43:07.400 going to, you know, that kind of, you're not going to drive as nice of a car. You got to get used

00:43:10.300 cars. You're going to be, you know, like things like that, but you can still live a perfectly

00:43:13.900 comfortable life. Um, and you're not going to be out on the street living in a box. Like,

00:43:19.240 so it is possible. I just, I, people make their own decisions, but stop telling me that these basic

00:43:25.740 family arrangements that billions of people have managed to pull off, including poor people, 0.59

00:43:33.760 people who are much more impoverished than any of us. Stop telling us that it's impossible now.

00:43:39.260 It's not impossible. Stop, stop telling me that things that I have done are impossible.

00:43:46.580 I know that it's not impossible. I'm not that amazing of a person. I'm not amazing at all. So

00:43:50.800 it's just, uh, it's, it's, you know, it's not require sacrifice, but you don't have to be rich. Okay.

00:43:58.860 Um, Sonia Marks says, I thought that's what they wanted. Freedom from the traditional woman's 1.00

00:44:04.440 role, abandoned family life, be equal to men, equal pay for equal work. Well, that's it with nine to

00:44:09.460 five, an hour of commuting. She's one of the lucky ones. Isn't it quite, it's not as quite as great

00:44:14.280 as the feminists imagine. Yeah. Well, this is an example of the feminist ideal failing to live, 1.00

00:44:18.960 live up to its billing. And, uh, and, and, but it's also why, you know, we talk about young people

00:44:26.120 who are unsatisfied with the nine to five grind. You know, we, we cannot have a productive

00:44:33.740 conversation about that until we begin by acknowledging, first of all, that men and

00:44:39.680 women are different. And so that is a lot of what we're seeing now. Um, it's this delusional claim 1.00

00:44:48.040 that many women are the same and they want the same things out of life. And so women should have 1.00

00:44:54.620 just as much of a capacity to be fulfilled and satisfied by going out and working. And that's

00:45:00.780 just not the case. Many women are not, that's just not what they want. It's not how they're wired 1.00

00:45:06.480 because we're wired differently. Um, Beachcomber says no way being a stay-at-home mom is harder than

00:45:14.140 working outside the home. It's taxing in the early years, granted, but when they're school

00:45:18.400 age, come on, Matt, women at home have it very easy compared to working women. I've done both. I 0.81

00:45:22.980 know. Look, I'm not interested in getting into a contest about who has it harder. Okay. I'm not

00:45:27.540 interested in that. Some jobs outside the home are harder than others. So there's no way to really

00:45:32.160 working outside the home is harder. What do you mean? There doesn't really depend on what you're

00:45:36.160 doing outside the home. Um, it depends on the job. What I will say is that, and even with

00:45:41.960 parenting, it depends, right? I mean, in a lot of ways, in a lot of ways, parenting is as hard as

00:45:47.900 you want to make it. Um, and what I mean is that there's a relatively low effort option for parenting,

00:45:56.320 especially in the modern age. And that's when you plop your kids in front of, uh, in front of screens

00:46:01.780 all day, basically from birth. And, um, you give them phones and iPads, like as soon as they have,

00:46:08.320 they're able to move their fingers and you just have them looking at screens all day.

00:46:12.640 And then as soon as they're three years old, you ship them off to the government education

00:46:15.920 facilities, you know, starting in pre, pre K or pre, pre, pre K, whatever it is. And, um, and so,

00:46:22.140 so basically you're, you're keeping them occupied and distracted and out of your hair when you have

00:46:25.720 them and you're, you're, you're sending them away as often as you can to other people. Now,

00:46:31.160 now you can do that. And, uh, and if you do that, that is, yeah, that's going to be the

00:46:36.700 easiest option for parenting. Um, it's also going to be the worst for the kid, but it's going to be

00:46:43.900 easy for you. And yes, I will say that. Sure. There are some stay at home moms who have like 0.98

00:46:49.160 two kids or whatever, and they're both in school from seven to four. And, uh, and when they're home,

00:46:54.940 they're just on their iPads and on their playing video games all the time. And, uh, and the moms, 1.00

00:46:59.900 you know, and there's even some stay at home moms, they do all that. They have all this free time. 1.00

00:47:03.060 They don't do much around the house. They don't even make dinner for their families

00:47:06.280 very often. Like sure that those kinds of stay at home moms exist in the world. I don't think 0.99

00:47:11.760 anyone would deny that they exist. Um, but again, if you actually, uh, want to do what's best for

00:47:21.600 your kids and for your family, then you're not going to take that easy option. And you're not just

00:47:25.940 going to shuffle the kids away to spend all day on screens. You're going to try to interact with them

00:47:30.480 and actually raise them and, and do things with them and teach them and do all this.

00:47:35.000 And if you do that, um, and that's how you decide to raise your kids, then it's, it is a much more,

00:47:40.780 much more difficult, you know, that is parenting. And that is being a mother on a much higher

00:47:46.240 difficulty setting. It's also a lot more fulfilling and it's certainly much better for the kids.

00:47:53.120 And so that's why you just can't, you can't say, well, working woman versus stay at home mom. I mean,

00:47:57.460 we can't judge that. I need a lot more information about each person and what it is they're doing

00:48:03.920 exactly. Um, and this low difficulty setting sort of arrangement, you know, that's not,

00:48:11.740 that's not my wife, for example, like just one example. I left for work yesterday as I'm leaving

00:48:16.800 for work. My wife is sitting around our, uh, massive dining room table, which needs to be massive 0.99

00:48:22.520 because we have eight people and she's sitting around and she's home. She's got all the kids in

00:48:26.540 homeschool and she's holding, uh, one of the babies. And that's, that's, you know, that's what

00:48:32.660 was happening when I left for work. I came home from work and there's, uh, there's ribs cooking in

00:48:37.240 the slow cooker. Right. So, and a lot happening in between with all those kids and homeschooling

00:48:43.320 and everything else. Uh, that's a much higher difficulty setting and, uh, and doing things like

00:48:49.560 that every day. Um, I would say, in fact, much more difficult than a lot of jobs you can get

00:48:56.560 outside the home for sure. And beyond the difficulty, it's also, you know, with, with parenting in

00:49:05.260 general, whether you're the mother or the father, it, there's the, the, the pressure, you know,

00:49:11.340 there's, there's, there's what's at stake. And there are a lot of jobs that you can get where

00:49:16.120 there's not a lot at stake. Like it doesn't even really matter what you're doing. And those jobs

00:49:20.220 are kind of draining in their own way. That's the video yesterday we played of the, of the,

00:49:24.060 of the young woman who's just felt like soul crushed by the nine to five corporate job.

00:49:29.320 And a lot of that, you know, the reason why it's so soul crushing is it feels like it's pointless.

00:49:32.980 There's just, you're not doing anything that matters. And you're very aware of the fact that you

00:49:37.140 could easily be replaced by anybody and it wouldn't matter. And so there's, there's a certain kind

00:49:42.080 of like psychological difficulty that comes with that. But when it comes to parenting,

00:49:47.520 you're doing something, um, where you cannot be replaced and there's immense, um, there's a lot

00:49:55.720 at stake and the implications are immense. You know, you are shaping the lot, you are shaping human

00:50:01.580 beings who are going to go out into the world and have their own lives. And I mean, the impact you're

00:50:05.980 having on them is, is, cannot even be quantified. Um, and sure, you could be a parent and not care

00:50:14.720 about that and not think about it. And again, yeah, that's going to make it easier for you.

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00:51:50.540 So we've discussed a lot of serious topics on the show this week. And here we are at the last segment

00:52:01.480 on a Friday. And this would be a good time to lighten the mood and talk about something a bit

00:52:05.340 more fun and humorous. But unfortunately, we can't do that today. Not after our intern Holly informed me

00:52:10.680 of a recent trend on TikTok. And it may be the worst one of all. It's a trend called girl math. 0.96

00:52:16.660 There are a bunch of videos explaining this concept. Here's one that I think lays it out.

00:52:20.240 Pretty clearly watch.

00:52:22.680 So for example, if you spend $100 and you get a $10 reward, you just made $10.

00:52:29.880 That's not accurate. That's not how that works.

00:52:34.780 Yeah, because now in a future purchase, you just saved yourself $10.

00:52:38.580 If you return an item at the store, you just earn money. So if you return something and buy

00:52:44.360 something at the same time, it was free.

00:52:47.740 No, no, no. Because you had to spend the money the first time.

00:52:51.680 No, but then the second time it's free because it's no extra money.

00:52:54.580 Or like if you pay for cash with something, it's free because it's not coming out of your

00:52:59.420 bank account.

00:53:00.740 Oh my God.

00:53:01.940 I just, I feel like.

00:53:04.160 Or this one's so good. Like if you go to Starbucks or Dunkin and you use your app, you scan and

00:53:11.380 pay. It's free.

00:53:13.680 I'm never going to have.

00:53:14.280 Because that money was already there.

00:53:15.640 I'm never going to have money.

00:53:17.540 Never.

00:53:18.260 What do you mean?

00:53:19.860 It's just, this is your mindset when you go to a store.

00:53:23.780 Honestly, is this how you.

00:53:24.560 This is just how girl math works. 1.00

00:53:27.360 Girl math isn't a thing. 1.00

00:53:29.780 All right. So that's girl math. And as you can see, as you already expected, girl math is just 0.91

00:53:33.320 bad math. It's not math. It's anti-math. And now in this age of egalitarianism, it won't

00:53:39.200 surprise you to learn that apparently there's also a boy math trend, but we don't need to

00:53:42.500 watch any of those videos. We already know what boy math is. Boy math is also known as math.

00:53:46.520 It's just regular math rooted in the basic principles of arithmetic and other fundamental

00:53:51.160 mathematical concepts. Whereas girl math is rooted in wishes and dreams and magic fairy 1.00

00:53:56.000 dust. And I'm very familiar with girl math myself. My wife uses this form of calculation 1.00

00:54:00.640 all the time. And I can't tell you how many times I've had a conversation quite similar

00:54:04.500 to what you just heard in that clip. Very often I'll come home from work and there'll

00:54:08.420 be a new piece of decor in the living room that my wife decided we desperately needed. 1.00

00:54:12.580 And of course, I won't notice the item. She could remodel the entire living room and

00:54:16.240 I would not notice. This is one of the great many stereotypes that is nearly 100% accurate. 0.98

00:54:21.160 As a man, I will fail to notice major physical changes made inside the house. But I will notice

00:54:26.820 if somebody changes the setting on the thermostat by one degree in either direction. And these

00:54:31.400 are cliches for a reason. Anyway, invariably, my wife will call attention to the new item 0.97

00:54:36.480 and she'll say something like, didn't you notice the new lamp? I got a new lamp. It really ties

00:54:41.620 the room together. Now I thought the room was already tied together. It certainly didn't seem

00:54:45.940 in any way untied before this. So I'll look at the lamp and I will say, tell me how much you spent

00:54:51.220 on it. And then I'll tell you how great it is. Because the lamp's beauty entirely depends on how

00:54:55.940 expensive it was. There's an inverse relationship between how expensive it is and how beautiful I

00:55:01.920 think it is. Tell me the lamp was $3 at a garage sale and I will admire it as the most beautiful lamp

00:55:07.480 ever crafted by human hands. That'll be my response or words to that effect. But then my

00:55:12.940 wife will tell me that the lamp was not $3. It was like $85. And I'll inform her that I could have

00:55:19.100 bought her five lamps at Walmart for that price. Okay, on that budget, I could get a lamp for every

00:55:24.120 room in the house. You want lamps? I'll get lamps. I'll get you all the lamps you want for less than

00:55:29.080 that. I have nothing against lamps. But why do you need to spend $85 on one? That's when the girl math 1.00

00:55:34.700 kicks in. And she'll inform me that the lamp was originally $185. So she saved $100. In fact,

00:55:41.940 she'll tell me she actually made us $100. She came away with $100 in profit by finding this sweet deal

00:55:48.560 on this lamp, which would kind of be true in a certain way if somebody had put a gun to her head

00:55:55.840 and demanded that she buy a lamp worth $185. In that scenario, and you're forced to buy a lamp and you

00:56:03.700 found a lamp marked down from $185 to $85, then we might be able to say, in essence, that you saved

00:56:10.960 $100. But fortunately, there's no lamp-obsessed gunman forcing us to make a lamp purchase. So

00:56:16.720 the other option, instead of the $85 lamp, was no lamp at all, which means that we didn't save $100,

00:56:23.080 we lost $85. The fact that in some theoretical universe, this lamp would have cost more than it

00:56:28.420 does, doesn't help us. It doesn't put money back in our bank account. Besides, I'm not convinced that

00:56:33.460 we need any lamps at all in the first place. Nobody had lamps for thousands of years and they

00:56:37.320 survived. They may seem extreme, but I believe in being frugal. Unless we're talking about fishing

00:56:42.400 tackle, which I need a lot of, and the highest quality spare no expense. That's different though,

00:56:47.440 because if society ever collapses and we're back in the stone age and we need to survive off of fish

00:56:52.640 and wild forage, that lamp will do us no good. The fishing tackle will save our lives. Think about

00:56:58.760 it. Anyway, this isn't about me. It's about complaining about women. So back to girl math. 0.99

00:57:03.460 Think about it this way. Here's a helpful illustration. Imagine if somebody burned down

00:57:09.960 half of our house. Imagine that we came home and found that some guy was standing there with matches

00:57:15.800 and a can of gasoline and half of our house was reduced to smoldering ash. Now imagine that we

00:57:22.260 ran up to that guy and we shouted, you burned down half of our house. We're very upset about this.

00:57:27.340 The dialogue isn't realistic, but that's not the point. The point is, imagine if the guy responded

00:57:30.940 by saying, no, no, no. You see, I was going to burn down your whole house, but instead it only burned

00:57:35.700 down half. So really I just gave you half a house. You're welcome. Now I think we would find that logic

00:57:43.060 quite unpersuasive given the circumstances. And that's basically girl math, which also, by the way,

00:57:48.760 applies not just to money, but to time. Girl math for time, it's a bit more simple. You know, 0.91

00:57:54.220 this one, everyone knows. Anytime a woman gives you a time estimate for something, multiply it by at 1.00

00:57:59.120 least two, sometimes three. It varies a little bit by woman. Classic example, of course, if she says 0.94

00:58:04.240 it's going to take her half an hour to get ready, budget for an hour. If she tells you that it'll take

00:58:07.460 20 minutes to drive somewhere, assume that it'll be 45 minutes. But this at least is slightly more

00:58:11.840 justified because time is relative. So on planets where the force of gravity is stronger, time passes

00:58:16.800 more slowly. Do women experience gravity more than men somehow? Could that explain it? Further

00:58:22.120 research is needed. I don't know. But while your wife's time estimates may not be accurate on this

00:58:28.040 planet, there are planets in the universe where they would be accurate theoretically. The lamp, on the

00:58:33.720 other hand, the lamp is too expensive on every planet. And that is why girl math is today 1.00

00:58:40.760 canceled. That'll do it for the show today and this week. Thanks for watching.

00:58:45.460 Have a great weekend. Talk to you next week. Godspeed.

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