The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1258 - Now We Know Why They Hide The Nashville Shooter's Manifesto

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, portions of the Nashville Shooters Manifesto have finally been

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00:01:49.420 way. That's puretalk.com slash Walsh today. A few minutes before a trans-identified woman named 1.00

00:01:55.880 Audrey Hale murdered three nine-year-old children and three adults in a Christian school in Nashville, 0.92

00:02:00.980 Tennessee, Hale sent a private message to one of her friends on social media. Hale said, quote,

00:02:06.060 one day this will make more sense. I've left more than enough evidence behind. Now, obviously that

00:02:11.420 message was an admission that Hale's motivations were written down in a place where investigators

00:02:16.080 could easily find them. And yet, as of early yesterday morning, more than seven months after

00:02:21.160 Hale committed this mass murder, the public was not allowed to see any of that evidence that Audrey

00:02:27.360 Hale said she left behind. Law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, the Tennessee Bureau of

00:02:32.140 Investigation, concealed it. These agencies admitted that they were in possession of a manifesto and other

00:02:38.460 documents. They occasionally summarized portions of the material for reporters. And at various points,

00:02:43.760 they suggested that they might release them for public consumption, but they never did. It wasn't

00:02:49.020 hard to guess why authorities might want to suppress this information. Clearly, the manifesto contained

00:02:53.440 writings that the people in charge saw as a threat to their own legitimacy. Otherwise, why wouldn't they

00:02:59.560 release it? Almost certainly, the manifesto demonstrated that the left's sustained attacks on their own

00:03:05.920 chosen enemies were having their intended effect. But without the documents themselves, we had no way of

00:03:11.340 knowing the extent of the deception that's been taking place for the better part of a year, and what

00:03:16.460 exactly the government was hiding, and why exactly they were hiding it. Well, all of that changed

00:03:21.620 abruptly and without warning a little over 24 hours ago when Stephen Crowder posted several pages from

00:03:26.320 what he said was a notebook that belonged to Audrey Hill. And in those 24 hours, neither the FBI nor Tennessee

00:03:32.540 officials have contested the validity of Crowder's documents. So they had all but confirmed

00:03:38.140 indirectly that they are authentic. And that's worth restating. It was Stephen Crowder, not the law

00:03:46.600 enforcement agencies that we fund with our tax dollars, and that are sworn to serve and protect us,

00:03:51.920 who finally provided some transparency into one of the worst mass shootings in recent history.

00:03:56.620 Already, that seems like it's a rather damning indictment of the DOJ and of the Tennessee Bureau

00:04:02.420 of Investigation. And it's bad enough already, but it gets worse. And first, a quick point of

00:04:11.960 clarification. The manifesto that Crowder published is not the entirety of Hale's writings. It's just a

00:04:18.780 short excerpt. Included in the journal are lines like this, quote, kill those kids, those crackers, 0.99

00:04:25.160 going to private fancy schools with those fancy khakis, F you, want to kill all you little crackers, 1.00

00:04:30.680 bunch of little gay slur that begins with F, with your white privileges. I wish to shoot you weak 1.00

00:04:37.740 expletives with your mop yellowed hair. Now, there's more to it than that, but just take some 0.99

00:04:44.980 of those lines in isolation for a second. Want to kill all you little crackers, says the mass shooter, 1.00

00:04:49.360 who clearly is upset about, quote, white privileges. With those quotes in mind, let's take a look back at 0.99

00:04:55.900 what the director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, a man named David Rausch,

00:05:00.620 was saying about the manifesto back in April. Watch.

00:05:05.300 It's been characterized as a manifesto. I think that's a mischaracterization, personally.

00:05:11.060 The documents that we have, and I have viewed those, you know, one is specifically a plan,

00:05:18.320 uh, and the other is, is some, uh, journal type rantings, uh, but nothing, you know, when you talk

00:05:26.480 about manifesto, you talk about something similar, like the Unabomber left behind it, ideological

00:05:31.780 expressions, uh, that, that none of that has, has, has surfaced in these writings. It's really, um,

00:05:39.780 unfortunate, uh, mental health issues that are, that, that, that you can see, uh, as you read

00:05:46.980 through, uh, the, the, the journals. So there's, uh, two sets of documents, says David Rausch. There's

00:05:54.640 a plan plus journal type rantings. He clarifies that nothing Audrey Hale wrote approaches the, uh,

00:06:01.360 the depth of the Unabomber manifesto, for example, which seems fair enough, not surprising. But then

00:06:08.140 he goes on. He says that Hale's manifesto doesn't contain, quote, ideological expressions. Instead,

00:06:12.420 he says that only unfortunate mental health issues are evident. Now this is among other things,

00:06:18.740 a scandal because now that portions of this manifesto have been published, we can reasonably

00:06:23.280 conclude that the head of Tennessee's top investigative agency has been misleading the

00:06:27.880 public for months. He was suggesting that somehow it's not an ideological expression to say that

00:06:33.100 white children should die because they have white privilege. That can't possibly be a reflection of 0.96

00:06:40.400 some deeply held ideological belief, says David Rausch. It has to be a sign of mental illness and 0.68

00:06:45.840 nothing more. Now to be as fair as possible to Rausch, it's possible that, you know, if we see every

00:06:52.060 other page of the manifesto or of the journal type writings, whatever you want to call it, doesn't

00:06:56.560 matter, and we see all of that and all the other documents, then when we look at all of it in its

00:07:02.740 totality, maybe we come conceivably to different conclusions. How different? What conclusions? Well, we don't

00:07:11.480 know. Without seeing all the documents, there is some uncertainty, admittedly, but it's not our fault that

00:07:17.400 that uncertainty is there. And indeed, that has been the defense that we've seen pop up in the media, that

00:07:24.560 there's more to it, that all this is being selectively leaked. All yesterday, a self-described

00:07:30.600 investigative reporter at News Channel 5 named Phil Williams was essentially running cover for the

00:07:35.180 FBI on this story. He lashed out at MAGA keyboard warriors, as he called them. He also insisted that

00:07:40.820 Steven Crowder was misleading the public by only releasing a few pages of the killer's journal.

00:07:45.960 Quote, multiple sources have told me that selective leak of the three pages of the Covenant school

00:07:50.860 shooting manifesto is extremely misleading. People who have read the whole thing say there's something

00:07:55.180 in there for everybody. Another says she hated everybody. And he went on and on, posting arguments

00:08:00.340 like that all day. But there's an obvious response to this whole line of argument, which is this.

00:08:04.380 If it's true that Crowder released, as they say, misleading portions of the manifesto,

00:08:10.360 then there's a very easy solution. Give us the full story. Release the whole thing.

00:08:15.320 When the government refuses to be honest, when they don't tell the whole truth, we are left to

00:08:21.520 speculate and fill in the gaps. That's especially true given that for the past several months,

00:08:27.520 Roush and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation repeated their misleading claims about the manifesto

00:08:31.340 over and over again, all the while refusing to produce the manifesto itself so that the public

00:08:35.800 could actually make their own determination about what it says and everything else. For example,

00:08:40.020 back in April, News Channel 5 reported on Roush's meetings with Tennessee sheriffs. And according

00:08:45.620 to News Channel 5, quote, Roush said that what police found isn't so much a manifesto spelling

00:08:51.140 out a target, but a series of rambling writings indicating no clear motive. Roush told sheriffs

00:08:56.540 that the review so far of the material finds that the killer did not write about specific political,

00:09:01.260 religious, or social issues. In fact, a primary focus in the journals is on idolizing those who

00:09:06.080 committed prior school shootings. To the extent authorities offered any motive whatsoever,

00:09:11.140 it was that Hale had some personal problem with the school that she once attended. As NBC News

00:09:16.360 reported more than two weeks after the shooting, quote, authorities initially believed the shooter

00:09:20.560 might hold resentment toward her former school, but they have not provided any details.

00:09:25.700 So the authorities in Tennessee had no problem implying that Audrey Hale's school might bear

00:09:29.740 some responsibility for the shooting. There was a lot of speculation online, if you remember at the time,

00:09:34.560 that Audrey Hale had been mistreated somehow by somebody at the Covenant School. And that was

00:09:41.240 a speculation. It's because of leaks like this one. The police had no issue with spreading those

00:09:46.320 rumors, but they somehow forgot to mention the fact that Hale wrote about killing white people 0.97

00:09:51.380 because of the color of their skin. That went completely unmentioned. So again, remember, 0.98

00:09:58.500 from the authorities, there were details about these writings that were leaked out to the public

00:10:03.660 or just stated outright. But this detail, they never mentioned. Why is that?

00:10:10.400 A few other important details went unmentioned. Also, in the documents published by Crowder,

00:10:15.120 Audrey Hale mentions that she filmed a 10-minute final video before the massacre. Hill also mentions,

00:10:21.160 quote, there were several times I could have been caught, especially back in the summer of 2021.

00:10:25.140 Now, what does any of that refer to? Does the FBI have a 10-minute video of Audrey Hale

00:10:30.580 elaborating on her motives? Did law enforcement investigate her back in 2021 and conclude that

00:10:35.220 she wasn't a threat? I don't know, but these are important questions. But the FBI and Tennessee

00:10:41.060 officials are refusing to answer any of them. Is this a big part of the reason why they didn't want

00:10:46.240 to release Hale's writings? Along with being ideologically inconvenient, do they implicate law

00:10:51.460 enforcement for failing to prevent this attack? Did law enforcement have a chance to prevent it and

00:10:57.120 then failed? Again, we can only speculate. That's the theme here, speculation. In fact, yesterday,

00:11:05.640 the FBI told my producers that they're refusing to comment on Audrey Hale's entire case. They have

00:11:10.860 nothing to say whatsoever. They won't say a single thing. Why? Well, because there's pending litigation

00:11:17.020 against them. That's the answer they gave. Now, to understand what a laughable justification that

00:11:23.280 is, consider that the litigation they're talking about is a lawsuit that was filed because the FBI

00:11:28.560 was stonewalling journalists and their initial request for information. The lawsuit was filed by

00:11:33.520 the Tennessee Star and other entities in federal district court. The litigation stands to unearth

00:11:39.360 the entire Audrey Hale manifesto, in addition to any other communications or directives that state

00:11:45.040 officials at Tennessee might have received from the Biden administration. Merrick Garland's DOJ is

00:11:50.160 fighting that lawsuit, claiming there's a pending enforcement proceeding that prevents them from

00:11:55.640 releasing the manifesto. But that's nonsense, of course, because the government can't point to any

00:12:01.120 enforcement proceeding in this matter whatsoever. And that's because Audrey Hale is dead. So who is the

00:12:07.800 enforcement proceeding targeting exactly? She was killed by the police officers who ran into the school

00:12:13.440 and shot her at great risk to their own lives. No accomplices have been identified in the past

00:12:18.220 seven months, much less brought up before enforcement proceedings. But this is the excuse we're hearing,

00:12:24.840 not just from the FBI, but from local police also and local officials in Nashville. They're all saying

00:12:31.120 that they can't release the writings because the writings are the subject of litigation, except that the

00:12:35.960 litigation is over the fact that they won't release the writings. So they could release the writings and

00:12:41.020 end the litigation. Their excuse is not only absurd, but insulting to our intelligence.

00:12:48.660 So what's going on here exactly? Think of it this way. If the Biden administration, for whatever reason,

00:12:55.140 wanted to mock the deaths of Christians and make it very clearly that only left-wing activists are

00:13:00.400 entitled to the protection of the rule of law, what exactly would they be doing differently?

00:13:04.380 Recall that it was just three days after the men, women, and children were executed

00:13:07.740 in the Covenant School when the White House issued a proclamation about a transgender day of visibility.

00:13:14.060 The proclamation lamented the, quote, epidemic of violence against transgender women and girls,

00:13:18.780 in particular women and girls of color. The White House went on to talk about a shooting at a nightclub

00:13:24.140 called Club Q that happened a year earlier that was supposedly an instance of anti-LGBTQ,

00:13:30.660 MAGA, Republican violence, even though the shooter in that case, if you might remember,

00:13:34.120 identified as non-binary. Classic MAGA, Republican voting bloc, I guess. 0.75

00:13:41.080 The point is, Club Q was on the mind of the White House in late March of this year.

00:13:46.120 They were thinking about that shooting in November of 2022. As for the Christian children who 1.00

00:13:50.940 were massacred a few days earlier in March of 2023, well, they were barely mentioned.

00:13:57.360 And certainly they didn't get a whole proclamation from the White House.

00:14:00.320 The Biden administration was not openly mourning them. Instead, Karen Jean Pair took to the podium

00:14:06.080 to explain that the real victims of all this are so-called trans children. Watch. 0.89

00:14:13.040 And we've been very clear about these anti-LGBTQ bills that we're seeing in state legislatures

00:14:18.260 across the country, in particular these anti-trans bills, as they attack trans kids,

00:14:23.960 as they attack trans parents. It is shameful. And it is unacceptable. As you mentioned, 0.94

00:14:30.120 tomorrow's Trans Visibility Day, on a day that we should be lifting up our trans kids, 1.00

00:14:34.940 our trans youth, and making sure that they feel seen, we're seeing more and more of these 0.77

00:14:40.840 hateful, hateful bills.

00:14:43.500 That's an incredible clip, and there are many more like it. You probably remember this footage

00:14:47.380 of the left-wing activists who stormed the Tennessee State House shortly after the killings

00:14:51.560 of the Covenant School, and they were holding up seven fingers in remembrance of seven victims

00:14:57.020 at the Covenant School, including Audrey Hale as a victim. Watch.

00:15:02.360 Every death is a tragedy, y'all. It's seven lives.

00:15:05.120 I'd say there were seven victims, right?

00:15:14.840 Yep.

00:15:28.680 Yes, seven victims, because the woman who murdered all those people is a victim, 0.99

00:15:34.540 according to these protesters. As insurrections like that were taking place in state houses all

00:15:39.480 over the country, as dead Christian children were being mocked, while trans activists once

00:15:43.880 again played the victim, Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray were deliberately concealing

00:15:48.100 the shooter's motivations. And that's clear now. There's no denying it. They were conspiring to lie

00:15:52.980 about one of the most heinous mass shootings in modern history. And they did it, apparently,

00:15:57.800 to protect the narrative that the Biden administration began telling years ago,

00:16:00.920 which is that white supremacy is the single greatest domestic threat this country faces.

00:16:06.180 Anything that does not fit into that narrative is not allowed to see the light of day. This has

00:16:11.720 been the marching orders followed at every level from the DOJ down to local officials here in Nashville.

00:16:17.320 So, what do we make of all this? I think there are two points to keep especially in mind. First of all,

00:16:24.620 we don't know what else Hale said in her writings. Were they mostly rambling and incoherent? That seems

00:16:30.480 likely. In fact, that's true even of the small portion of the writings that were leaked.

00:16:37.660 They're rambling and, you know, the ramblings of a crazy person. 0.90

00:16:40.580 Was she motivated primarily by an animus towards white people despite being white herself? Again, 0.98

00:16:46.940 we don't know for sure. But it also seems likely that anti-whiteism was not the sole driver of this

00:16:53.180 massacre or even the main driver. But what we can very safely assume is that her anti-white rhetoric

00:16:58.020 is certainly a major factor in why they chose to keep this material a secret.

00:17:03.340 The powers that be do not want us to have any conversation about the catastrophic results

00:17:08.860 of the rampant, ubiquitous, anti-white rhetoric coming from every corner of society.

00:17:14.940 The fact is that you can go to any major institution, any university, any major media outlet,

00:17:21.240 any corporate HR seminar, any left-wing protest, etc., and you will hear whiteness talked about like 0.97

00:17:27.600 it's a disease, a scourge, a cancer to be eradicated. And this idea is entirely mainstream. 0.55

00:17:34.280 Open, rabid, genocidal hatred of whites has been judged completely acceptable by the system.

00:17:42.480 No matter how much that all did or didn't play into the attack at Covenant, the fact is that they

00:17:47.840 don't want us to talk about this problem or have any conversation about race that doesn't involve

00:17:53.260 casting white people as the cartoon villains in the story. And second, this is very important to

00:18:00.440 restate and emphasize. When a mass shooting or terrorist attack is carried out, the public has a right

00:18:08.000 to know everything about it. How did it happen? Why? What motivated the killer? What intelligence or

00:18:16.680 law enforcement failures led up to it? All of these questions should be answered as quickly as possible.

00:18:22.480 And if the shooter dies or commits suicide in the process of the crime, then there's no conceivable

00:18:27.220 reason to not release all of this immediately. Because there's no criminal case. You're not putting

00:18:33.200 anybody on trial. That person is dead. So tell us everything and tell us right away. The government

00:18:40.060 has no right to keep this a secret. Government officials have no right to decide what bits of information

00:18:47.640 are relevant to us. They should release all of it and let us decide what parts matter and what parts

00:18:55.060 don't. That is our determination to make. We should not be in a position where we have to trust these

00:19:00.440 people to use their judgment to decide what we need to hear. It's not good enough for them to say,

00:19:07.840 well, you guys don't need to know about that. Why should we trust you about what we need to know?

00:19:14.860 The other option is secrecy and lies and cover-ups. And that's the option that our leaders choose

00:19:21.580 nearly every time and especially in this case. And when they choose that option, we are left to

00:19:26.780 speculate, left to theorize, left to wonder and fill in the blanks. They leave us to speculate and then

00:19:34.700 they blame us for speculating. That's the way they've rigged the game. There's not a lot we can

00:19:42.300 do about it, but we can't ignore their moral lectures and their manipulations. And we can rest

00:19:49.860 assured in the fact that we deserve to know the truth. It is really that simple. And now in this

00:19:58.180 case, we know at least some of it. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:20:59.040 taxnetworkusa.com slash Walsh today. Actually, I want to start with this from the AP. It says two

00:21:04.920 climate change protesters were arrested Monday after they smashed a protective glass panel covering a

00:21:10.120 famous Diego Velasquez oil painting at London's National Gallery, according to police. The two

00:21:15.280 activists from the group Just Stop Oil targeted Velasquez's The Toilet of Venus, also known as the

00:21:21.480 Rokabi Venus, with small hammers. Photos showed the protective glass panel punctured with several holes.

00:21:29.040 Just Stop Oil, which has previously led similar protests targeting famous artworks in public

00:21:32.960 buildings, said Monday's action was to demand Britain's government immediately halt all licensing

00:21:38.000 for the exploration, development, and production of fossil fuels in the UK. Just Stop Oil said

00:21:44.220 protesters hammered the glass panel, then told people at the gallery, women did not get the vote by 0.99

00:21:49.700 voting. It's time for deeds, not words. Yes, we want deeds, not words. And in order to bring about

00:21:58.240 change. And so the deed of destroying a painting will result in global temperatures cooling down,

00:22:09.200 I guess, is the logic. I don't quite understand it, but that's their logic.

00:22:14.100 I think we have the clip of them carrying out this vandalism.

00:22:17.540 Women did not get the vote by voting. It is time for deeds and not words. It is time to just stop 1.00

00:22:30.440 oil. Politics is failing us. Politics failed women in 1914. If millions will die due to new oil and gas 1.00

00:22:43.720 licensing. Millions. If we love history, if we love art, and if we love our families, we must just stop oil.

00:23:04.680 Millions will die because of oil licensing. I don't know how that could possibly be the case.

00:23:10.300 It seems absurd, but he was yelling it. He yelled it very loudly, and they emphasized millions.

00:23:17.340 So when he said millions will die because of oil licensing, I was skeptical. But then when he

00:23:22.280 shouted millions, that's when I knew he was serious. That was the argument that won me over.

00:23:29.060 I didn't believe it the first time, but when he shouted it, well, that's how you know.

00:23:34.580 Now, we talked about a similar thing yesterday. In that case, it was the protesters vandalizing

00:23:38.140 statues. But when it comes to cultural vandalism, this is even worse than the statues because they

00:23:44.640 are destroying, or at least attempting to destroy, priceless historic works of art that have been

00:23:50.480 loved and admired for centuries. And the fact that this is allowed to happen is the greatest outrage of

00:23:58.380 all. And it really is allowed. Like these climate alarmist dweebs, they just waltz into these museums

00:24:05.800 with their dumb little t-shirts on. And everyone knows what they're going to do. And they just 1.00

00:24:11.020 start casually defacing art worth millions of dollars. And again, everyone knows what they're

00:24:16.620 going to do. And they simply do it. This could easily be stopped. That's a theme in Western

00:24:23.200 civilization right now. Bad behavior that could easily be stopped. But the people in charge of

00:24:28.220 stopping it either lack the will or the competence or both. And usually it's both.

00:24:32.720 That's why these museums should not be trusted with this artwork at all anymore. They are not stewards

00:24:40.360 of the work like they should be. They sit back and just watch as the work that they've been entrusted

00:24:48.000 with is defiled. And that's totally outrageous. I mean, I firmly believe, I said yesterday that the

00:24:55.640 protesters who vandalize statues should go to jail for 10 years. And I certainly believe that.

00:25:01.300 I think lethal force would be justified to protect these paintings. It would be totally morally

00:25:08.340 justified. Especially if everybody knows that going in. If that's the policy, like

00:25:13.060 you go in and you start vandalizing a priceless work of art, they're going to use lethal force to

00:25:20.880 stop you. And so if you decide to do it, then you brought that. No one feels sorry for you.

00:25:25.340 Totally, that's on you. The only downside to using lethal force is just that it might damage the

00:25:31.340 painting even more. That's the only reason that I could see to not do that. But the point is that

00:25:37.440 that kind of measure morally would be more than justified to protect these things from these 0.99

00:25:45.360 scumbags, these despicable, slimy little worms who've never contributed a single thing of value to 0.99

00:25:51.840 human society and never will. And these are the people destroying what has value. This is another 1.00

00:25:57.420 theme in Western civilization right now as it falls, okay, that you have non-contributing parasites 0.90

00:26:03.660 whose only function is to destroy what is good and worthwhile and valuable. That's all they want to 0.91

00:26:12.540 do. That's all they're interested in doing. Think about the looters going into a local business and

00:26:17.700 cleaning it out. People who contribute absolutely nothing to society, taking from the people who do

00:26:24.180 and taking just for the sake of taking, but destroying for the sake of destroying.

00:26:29.980 It's just not sustainable. It's not a sustainable arrangement. The contributors need to clamp down on

00:26:38.980 and punish the destructive non-contributors while there is still something left to protect.

00:26:44.880 You know, it's like, imagine playing a football game. Imagine two teams on the field, 22 guys on

00:26:52.300 the field playing the game. And these are the guys that are actually in the game, contributing to

00:26:57.240 the team. But then imagine a bunch of people on the sidelines who are standing there, allowed to,

00:27:02.860 you know, stand there and throw rocks and stones at the players and trip them as they run down the

00:27:07.800 field, interfere in the game that they aren't even playing in or contributing to. They're not even on the

00:27:12.800 team. But you couldn't play the game that way. It just, it'd be impossible to play. You can't allow

00:27:17.940 that. It destroys the game. When people who have no stake in it are allowed to interfere just to amuse

00:27:27.320 themselves, it ruins everything. That's why you can't allow it. You just can't. I mean,

00:27:34.460 that's why if someone during a game, someone runs onto the field disrupting, they get tackled and

00:27:42.180 dragged out because we can't play when you're here doing this just for your own amusement.

00:27:48.680 And yet we have people in our society who essentially for their own amusement are wreaking destruction

00:27:56.460 and trying to destroy what is of great value. And they are allowed to continue doing it.

00:28:09.400 The other thing about these climate people especially is that, I mean, they really hate

00:28:15.180 humanity. I've said this before, but they want to save Earth supposedly. But for what? What do you

00:28:23.460 want to say? To what end? Supposedly, you're out to save. Putting aside the fact that even if Earth

00:28:31.880 is hanging in the balance, which it isn't, this would not result in saving it. This is not

00:28:39.700 a rational strategy for saving Earth from whatever catastrophe you think is about to happen.

00:28:47.280 But putting all that to the side, whether Earth is in danger or not,

00:28:53.460 what makes Earth valuable, what makes it worth saving is that it's our home. It is what the human

00:29:07.600 species calls home. And so they are actively trying to make human life worse. And that's why things like

00:29:15.540 destroying a painting, I don't know, if you take a very materialistic kind of mechanistic view of life,

00:29:23.240 you might look at a painting and say, oh, who cares? It's just images on a canvas. But

00:29:28.260 it's much more than that. Art is part of what makes life worth living. It's part of what gives

00:29:34.080 meaning to life. It's beauty. Our capacity to create and appreciate beauty is part of what makes

00:29:41.920 human life worth living. And it's part of what makes human life special and distinct from any other

00:29:47.120 known species in the universe. We're the only known species that can do anything like create art.

00:29:54.340 Which is why it's just, of all the things that these people could go out to destroy, it's very

00:29:59.460 telling that they choose that. They go for the things that set the human species apart. They go for the

00:30:04.440 things that make human life worthwhile. And that's what they hate. Because in the end, these are just

00:30:12.860 nihilists. And if the earth does need to be saved, I'll tell you one thing for sure, nihilists are not

00:30:20.500 the ones that we want out there trying to save it. All right. National Review has this story. A female 1.00

00:30:29.100 field hockey player in Massachusetts suffered significant injuries after a ball struck by a male

00:30:35.940 opponent, hit her in the face. The player whose identity has not been revealed, sustained significant

00:30:42.400 facial and dental injuries, according to Bill Rooney, the superintendent of Dighton Rehoboth Regional

00:30:49.060 High School, in a statement obtained by the Sun Chronicle on Friday. The shot was taken by a male member

00:30:54.040 of the Swampscot field hockey team. A senior Swampscot male player, believed to be named Sawyer

00:31:01.520 Gruthuis, struck the ball, sending it hurtling into the face of the unnamed female athlete, 1.00

00:31:07.980 a senior Dighton Rehoboth player, the Chronicle reported. After the play, coaches ran out into

00:31:12.600 the field to give medical attention to the girl, who could be heard screaming in pain in video

00:31:16.460 of the incident posted to social media. We have a clip of that. Let's watch that.

00:31:31.520 Okay, so there's the male male player hitting the girl in the face. Going back to the National

00:31:43.960 Review article says under Massachusetts Interschelastic Athletic Association rules,

00:31:47.460 the Massachusetts Equal Rights Amendment can be applied to allow male participation on female teams. 0.98

00:31:53.560 The handbook in Section 43 says, according to the Chronicle, that the association seeks to ensure

00:31:57.840 that underrepresented sexes are given an equal opportunity to participate in athletic programs.

00:32:02.340 Title IX does not require schools to offer identical sports for boys and girls, but an equal

00:32:06.560 opportunity to play. Thus, schools are well advised to offer sufficient program options

00:32:10.220 to boys and girls with sufficient number of roster spots across the various athletic seasons.

00:32:14.480 So this is just the latest. There was another case that I can't remember if we talked about on the

00:32:18.700 show or not, but there was another case somewhat recently. I think it was in volleyball

00:32:22.380 of a woman suffering injuries after having been spiked in the face with a ball by a male player.

00:32:30.300 We're starting to see this. We're not starting to see. I mean, you can go back several years before

00:32:36.580 this, when they first started introducing men to some MMA leagues. And you had men like

00:32:43.720 foul, quote unquote, Fallon Fox out there just brutalizing women. Um, and obviously when you 0.99

00:32:51.060 introduce men into female combat sports, you're going, injury is like the whole point. You're 1.00

00:32:56.720 going to have injury right away. Um, what we're seeing here is even in something like field hockey

00:33:02.360 or volleyball, which, you know, what makes this significant is that you might think that, yes,

00:33:10.040 it's crazy to introduce males into any female sport, but it's especially dangerous in certain

00:33:16.640 sports. But maybe you would think, well, something like field hockey or volleyball of all the sports,

00:33:20.320 that's going to be the least dangerous place to have males, even though it's still crazy to have

00:33:24.100 them there. But you find that even in those kinds of sports, it is still dangerous. It is always going

00:33:30.280 to be dangerous because the, the, uh, the, the difference between males and females is so vast.

00:33:38.580 Men and women are so different. Men are so much bigger and stronger and faster that you put them 0.64

00:33:45.100 into an athletic competition of any kind against women and you're going to have, uh, serious injuries.

00:33:51.700 And it's only going to get worse until people start to wake up to this madness and have had enough of

00:34:00.020 it, which I think more and more people are. So that that's kind of the silver lining, uh, hate to

00:34:07.840 talk about silver linings when someone's been injured, but it's a terrible thing that she was

00:34:11.160 injured. Silver lining, however, is that this is just yet another case that people, you know, average

00:34:18.420 people who maybe are still not very plugged in, they see something like this and any normal person

00:34:25.060 doesn't matter if they identify as left or right, doesn't matter. Maybe they don't identify either

00:34:29.220 way. They're not political people. They hear about a case like this, a men playing, a male playing

00:34:35.660 against females, female sports, female gets injured. Any normal person hears that and says, this is nuts. 1.00

00:34:42.260 We can't allow this. This is crazy. Um, this, this has always been kind of the baked in catch 22

00:34:51.980 for, um, for the trans activists is that they've been, they've been pushing for certain things,

00:35:00.540 working towards a goal, but the moment they achieve the goal, uh, it, now it becomes real and, and

00:35:13.500 everyone can see how crazy it is. If they couldn't see it before now, they really see it.

00:35:20.020 So it's, it's the kind of game that the moment, if the moment you win, you start to lose

00:35:24.860 because there might've been before any of this really started catching on. I think there were a

00:35:31.280 lot of people when, even when it came to the men and women's sports thing, there were a lot of

00:35:34.640 people. I know that many people took the view that, Hey, you know, you know, uh, I don't love it,

00:35:40.140 but Hey, it's, uh, it's not a big deal. Uh, you know, if, if, if a man, if you've got a man

00:35:46.060 identifies as trans wants to compete against women, it wouldn't be my choice, but it just, 0.98

00:35:51.700 it's not hurting anybody. That was the view. A lot of people took.

00:35:54.860 Um, and because of that, you know, that, that kind of milquetoast trying to find the middle 0.99

00:36:03.560 ground view, trans activists were able to just run roughshod over the culture and achieve 0.93

00:36:10.520 all of these victories. But now that they have it now, many of those people who were in the middle,

00:36:16.820 now they're seeing it in actuality. They're saying now it's not theoretical anymore. It's not just like,

00:36:21.440 well, what would it be like if a few men were, but now it's okay. It's actually,

00:36:24.740 actually happening. And now we have the visuals of it. And unfortunately, I wish it wasn't this way,

00:36:29.660 but there are many people that they need the visuals. They need thinking about things

00:36:33.380 theoretically. They're not as quite, they, they, they, they struggle to do that. Thinking about

00:36:37.960 things in the abstract, they struggle. But when you see it in reality, they see how utterly ridiculous 0.99

00:36:42.720 it is. And, uh, that's why one of the big reasons trans activists are losing a lot of ground, 0.96

00:36:48.580 thankfully. All right, before we get to the next segment, here's an important story from New York

00:36:55.120 Post. Says, sorry, lovebirds, failing this exam could mean your relationship is flocked up.

00:37:01.000 It's in New York Post. Uh, hopeful honeys are putting perspective partners to a viral test,

00:37:08.640 praying that their sweeties pass. I can't even read this article. Why? I can't read it. And I want

00:37:14.560 it because it's such an important story. Praying their sweeties pass with flying colors. And if they

00:37:20.400 don't, that means it's time to fly the coop. Gen Z wing woman, I can't read it. I can't read it. I 1.00

00:37:29.140 can't read the story. I just can't. I can't like why this is not journalism. I look, I understand it's

00:37:34.440 an article about a TikTok trend. And so you might think if this is not a time for serious journalism,

00:37:38.280 but I, how do you put, this is supposed to be a news article and they put like seven bird puns

00:37:45.260 into the first two sentences. I can't get past it. Anyway, the point is that there's this new,

00:37:52.080 uh, trend that apparently is very popular. It's called the bird test. I think we have a video of

00:37:56.840 someone. Yeah, we have a video of someone on TikTok explaining what the, it's a relationship. This is

00:38:01.660 relationship advice. We always get good relationship advice from TikTok. So here's the, the trend.

00:38:06.120 Here's the, what's called the bird test. Let's listen. Apparently a lot of people don't know what

00:38:11.420 the bird test is, which I'm sure there's like a better name for it, but that's wild to me because

00:38:15.180 I live and die by the bird test. Research has shown the single biggest determining factor in

00:38:25.920 whether a happy relationship will last. When one partner says, oh, that's a beautiful bird outside.

00:38:29.980 Does the other partner respond with something like, wow, that is beautiful. Or do they blow

00:38:33.220 their partner off and ignore the bird?

00:38:41.960 Is that a woodpecker?

00:38:46.960 You pass. You pass.

00:38:50.020 Hey, y'all.

00:38:51.720 That means we're going to be in love forever. Forever.

00:38:54.220 All right.

00:39:04.480 So that's the bird test. The bird test basically for what I gather is if you tell, if you're in a

00:39:12.960 relationship and you tell, um, um, you're, you know, this is mostly, mostly women who are doing 0.75

00:39:19.840 this, obviously, if you tell your boyfriend or husband that there's a bird outside and, uh, they

00:39:25.900 go and they want to go look at the bird, then that means that they are taking, uh, then they pass

00:39:32.420 the test because they're, they aren't taking an interest in the thing that you are interested in.

00:39:37.480 And, um, if they don't, then they fail the test. That's the bird test. So you go to your significant

00:39:44.700 other and you say, oh, there's a bird. And if they, if they jump out of their seat and run,

00:39:49.200 let me go see the bird. Where's the bird? Then they pass the test. And that means you should stay

00:39:52.500 in the relationship. A few problems with this. First of all, I would fail the bird test in a second

00:39:59.420 and I've been married for 12 years. So very, you know, very successfully married. I would fail the bird

00:40:05.220 test. Um, if I'm, if I'm like in the other room and my wife yells, Hey, come here and look at this

00:40:10.340 bird. I'm going to say, can you take a picture or something and send it to me? Why am I getting

00:40:15.480 out of my chair to go look at a bird? Like, why am I, why would I even look over it better? If I am

00:40:21.740 making any physical effort to go look at a bird, it damn well better be an impressive freaking bird. 0.93

00:40:27.040 I mean, this better be, there better be an ostrich in the front yard. If you're, if you're bringing

00:40:31.080 attention to a bird, it better be like a, uh, I don't know, a penguin fighting a bald eagle.

00:40:37.740 If, if you're making that big of a deal about it, um, a woodpecker who cares about woodpeckers,

00:40:44.080 but you know, the main problem with the bird test is that it is a test. Okay. And this is,

00:40:53.180 and this is so much of the relationship advice you get out there. It's like stuff like, even if it's

00:40:57.460 not the bird test, it's a little test. Well, if you do this and your partner quote unquote

00:41:02.840 responds this way, then that means they pass the test. Now it's bad enough to bother your

00:41:09.280 boyfriend or husband about a bird, but to do it as a test. So it's not even sincere. This is not a

00:41:16.160 sincere bid for connection. It is manipulation. It's that's what it is. It's a test. And I can tell

00:41:23.020 you this, if I get the sense that I'm being tested, I'm not playing along. I'm not, I'm not

00:41:30.480 doing that. Now, fortunately, my wife doesn't play those games, which is good because I would never play 1.00

00:41:35.580 them. And so this is a lot of the advice you get. There's all about, no, don't test this. This is not

00:41:41.780 how to, this is not how you form or maintain a meaningful relationship. You don't do it by testing.

00:41:47.920 Okay. This is, you're in a relationship with them. They're not, they're not your student. You're not,

00:41:51.020 you're not giving them pop quizzes all the time. Uh, so the bird test, the bird test fails the moment

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00:42:52.120 Walsh40 at cozyearth.com. Jen says, have you no respect, no common decency? The police, church,

00:42:57.960 school, and parents of victims fought to keep the manifesto private because it's so detailed,

00:43:01.740 they feared a copycat. But sure, release it all just so some grifters can make a paycheck.

00:43:07.900 J2CP says, the victim's families have the right to determine whether the manifesto should be released

00:43:11.760 or not. They have to relive the events upon its release. Just because people want to play

00:43:16.980 MAGA gotcha is useless. The victim's families make the call. Craig says, sorry, but that's totally

00:43:24.800 wrong. The police and government have to make these decisions as it's their job to do so.

00:43:29.680 That's why we elect them in the first place. Okay, a few things. First of all, not to get into

00:43:36.240 semantics. We do not elect the police. In fact, many of the government officials making decisions

00:43:41.600 like this, like FBI officials, for example, we don't elect them. They're not elected. And second,

00:43:48.920 even if we did elect them, it is not the government's job to decide what information

00:43:53.360 we should know. Now, I realize the government has been doing that job for so long that we assume it

00:44:00.200 is their job, but it isn't. Okay, that is certainly not a duty or responsibility or power

00:44:09.880 that you can find outlined in the Constitution, for example, deciding what information the public

00:44:16.720 knows. Now, sure, if we're talking about the nuclear codes or something, or if we're talking about actual

00:44:22.800 classified state secrets, then in some of those cases, sure, they're not going to publicize it.

00:44:29.020 But outside of that, I mean, pretty much everything outside of that, the government has no right to

00:44:32.880 withhold that information. If they're only withholding it because they think, well, because

00:44:36.940 they're speculating about the way people would react or how upset they would get, right? That is not

00:44:43.660 a valid reason. I just reject the idea that the government has that role. And to reiterate, I realize

00:44:51.000 this sounds radical because we're so accustomed to the government assuming the responsibility of deciding

00:44:57.700 what information we should know. But what I'm trying to tell you is that that is actually not,

00:45:01.500 that you need to rethink the way you think of the government if you think that's one of its

00:45:05.780 fundamental duties. It's not. So that's the first thing. And second, as to the families,

00:45:13.580 I understand that many of them don't want the manifesto released. And I understand why they don't want it

00:45:21.000 released. Because as one of the comments says, they don't want to relive that horrible day.

00:45:30.220 God forbid if my own child was a victim. No, I wouldn't want anything to happen that puts it back

00:45:40.040 in the news or remind, not that I would be able to forget it, but I wouldn't want anything to happen

00:45:45.360 that brings up that subject again. So I totally understand that. And I'm as sympathetic to that

00:45:52.040 as anyone could possibly be. Can't imagine being in their situation. It's just, it's unthinkable.

00:45:57.440 It's unthinkable to be in the situation of losing a child. It's an unfathomable thing.

00:46:02.640 Um, however, uh, I'd say two things that number one, this is all the more reason to have released

00:46:15.260 it to begin with. Okay. So if, if, if this information coming out now means that the families

00:46:22.360 tragically are being made to relive this, I blame the officials who hit it to begin with.

00:46:28.640 Um, it should have just all come out in the beginning when it was already in the news and it

00:46:33.220 was, everyone was talking about, tell us then just tell us what happened. That's it. That's what,

00:46:38.420 what happened and why did it happen? These are simple questions. This is not people demanding

00:46:42.740 information they don't have a right to or demanding private information. What happened and why did it

00:46:46.900 happen? Say it then in the beginning. And then, and then there is no, and then it's not reliving a year

00:46:52.020 later. Um, and also second to that is, is, uh, the, I state again, the public, the community,

00:47:04.880 the public also just has a right to know it. A horrendous crime has occurred. People have a right

00:47:10.760 to know what happened. Um, and the demand for it to be released is obviously not any kind of

00:47:22.080 criticism of the families or any statement about the families at all. It is a statement number one

00:47:28.780 about what the public has a right to know. Number two, it's a statement of not, we don't, it's not

00:47:32.320 about the family. We don't trust government officials because whatever the families think

00:47:37.020 about it, ultimately it's the government officials, right? Who make the decision to not release it.

00:47:42.520 And I don't trust them. So you're asking me to trust them. Government officials are telling us

00:47:48.540 that, oh, we're not releasing it. The reason we're not releasing it is because respect for the families,

00:47:52.060 this and that. Uh, I have all sympathy in the world for the families. I don't have any sympathy for

00:47:59.020 the FBI or government officials, and I don't trust them. That I have no reason to trust them.

00:48:07.020 And the public cannot be, it's not fair to expect the public to trust them.

00:48:14.300 Where we have to say, well, that if there was a reason we need to know, they would tell us.

00:48:21.340 I can think of many examples, recent examples, where there's information the public needed to know

00:48:28.080 or had a right to know and wasn't told. Many examples going back to COVID and before that and

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00:50:53.280 Well, if you've been listening to this show over the past year, you have heard me on a few

00:50:56.800 occasions lament the tipping epidemic in our culture, the tipping scurs, the out-of-control

00:51:01.540 proliferation of tipping. Everybody wants a tip now, everywhere you go, no matter how mediocre their

00:51:06.320 performance. You've heard me talk about this problem enough that you certainly don't need to

00:51:09.740 hear me talk about it again right now. Uh, I have made my case. Everyone understands that when it

00:51:14.380 comes to tipping, I am at the tipping point. But I need to broach the subject one more time for what

00:51:21.480 I promise will be the last time, at least for this month, for two reasons. First, so that I could make

00:51:25.800 that tipping point joke. That objective is complete. Second, because of this story, which I find so

00:51:32.200 annoying that I am compelled by forces, forces of nature outside of my control to talk about in the

00:51:38.260 daily cancellation. The story is from CNN. Quote, uh, thinking of skipping on a DoorDash tip, do so at

00:51:44.840 your own risk, warns a message being tested by the food delivery provider. If you try to place an order

00:51:49.720 through the DoorDash app without leaving a tip, you may get this pop-up. Orders with no tip might take

00:51:55.140 longer to get delivered. Are you sure you want to continue? The note goes on. Dashers can pick and 0.99

00:52:00.200 choose which orders they want to do. Uh, orders that take longer to be accepted by Dashers tend to 1.00

00:52:04.700 result in slow delivery. In other words, tip your drivers or be prepared to wait a long time for a

00:52:11.240 cold meal. Customers are then given the option to add a tip or continue without one. So this is how bad

00:52:18.160 the tipping plague has gotten. Every time I think it couldn't get worse, it gets worse. Now companies are

00:52:22.840 using blackmail to bully you into tipping. And they're demanding the tip before the service is

00:52:30.060 rendered. And we'll get back to that in a second. NBC had a report on this new system from DoorDash,

00:52:35.060 which is, which it's rolling out as a trial balloon to see just how much customers hate it.

00:52:39.500 And customers will hate it and they'll do it anyway. NBC spoke to a DoorDash driver who made

00:52:44.020 his case for why we should tip him. Here's what he said. It hurts your feelings. It hurts your feelings

00:52:52.200 more when they tip you a penny. The food delivery service added this pop-up disclaimer as part of a

00:52:57.160 pilot program. It's five miles. And maybe there's a dollar tip. Maybe. But it's just like, I don't know.

00:53:09.180 Are you going to take that order? No, I'm not going to take that. Definitely not going to take that.

00:53:15.220 It hurts his feelings when you don't tip. So make sure you tip or the man on the bicycle might start

00:53:20.080 crying, which is maybe the best case against tipping that I could possibly make. I'd want to give that guy

00:53:25.420 an anti-tip if that's positive. I want him to pay me money. That's what should happen there. I don't

00:53:31.900 know if it's, I wish there was a negative tip option for somebody like that. By the way, business is

00:53:36.980 booming for DoorDash. They had 540 million orders last quarter, which is a 24% jump year over year,

00:53:42.880 according to CNN. Revenue is up 27%. And yet DoorDash, like so many other multi-billion dollar companies,

00:53:48.460 expect us to pay their employees for them. Something that you would think we're already

00:53:54.840 doing by paying for the service in the first place. But no, DoorDash demands that we pay for

00:54:00.260 the service and then also pay extra for the worker who is performing the service. This is why it

00:54:07.220 ultimately costs you $87 to have a hamburger and fries delivered to your house from a restaurant three

00:54:11.360 miles away. Because you're paying for the food and you're paying for the service and you're paying for

00:54:15.860 the worker rendering the service. And these are all three separate charges. And then you're also paying

00:54:20.200 the government. So just to get the hamburger, you got to pay for, you pay the restaurant, you pay the

00:54:25.260 company, you're paying the worker, you're paying the government. It starts to feel excessive to a lot of

00:54:31.820 people, which is why they may choose not to tip. But now DoorDash is actively threatening you with

00:54:37.020 deliberately poor service if you attempt to order a pizza without having to mortgage your house to pay

00:54:41.980 for it. This is how insane this situation has become. And DoorDash and Uber Eats, they're perfect

00:54:48.320 little microcosms of the tipping problem as a whole. The incentive structure has been thrown wildly out

00:54:54.080 of balance. Now, it used to be that you would tip in certain limited circumstances as a reward for

00:54:59.200 exemplary service. Now, you're not only expected to tip everyone in every service job, but you're also

00:55:04.320 expected to tip before the service has been performed. So, you know, you may tip your DoorDash driver

00:55:11.020 20% only to get your order 30 minutes past expected delivery time anyway, and your food is cold,

00:55:18.540 and like someone took a bite out of your sandwich, all right, and you already tipped them. The tip has

00:55:23.820 become an act of coerced generosity, which it never was before, and it was never meant to be.

00:55:31.540 The same thing applies even to coffee shops and other places that now ask for tips. The first problem

00:55:35.780 is that they're asking for a tip in the first place. The second is that most of the time they're

00:55:39.920 asking for the tip before they have completed the service that they're supposed to perform.

00:55:44.460 They haven't even given you the coffee yet, and they're asking. So it's not even like it's bad

00:55:48.940 enough to ask for a tip when all they're doing is just handing you a coffee. They're asking for the

00:55:53.040 tip before they even do that so that they could figure out a way to screw that up, and you've

00:55:57.140 already tipped them for it. Just the other day, I went to a coffee shop, ordered a regular coffee for

00:56:02.420 myself, and then a fancy specialty coffee for my wife. And, you know, she always wants a fancy 0.99

00:56:07.340 coffee. I always tell her, look, your fancy coffee is going to take longer. Can I just get

00:56:11.000 you a regular coffee? It's all the same anyway. It's just caffeine. She wanted the fancy coffee.

00:56:14.860 Fine. The employee flips over the dreaded iPad with the tip amounts, and there was no friendly

00:56:20.280 request for a tip. No friendliness at all, actually. She barely said a word through the

00:56:23.840 whole transaction. She didn't say anything. Like, totally, and then just flipped it over and

00:56:29.200 walked away. Like, really? And then, you know, expecting me to reward her for doing as close to

00:56:37.280 nothing as she possibly could. Although, to be honest, I think I'd prefer that they just silently

00:56:42.280 flip the screen over than do the other thing that they usually do, which is, you know, they flip it

00:56:47.360 over and they say, it's going to ask you a couple questions. No, no, it's not going to ask me a couple

00:56:51.340 questions. It's going to ask me one question, and you and I both know what that question is. Stop trying

00:56:55.940 to disguise your panhandling like it's some kind of survey you're conducting. Imagine if a homeless guy

00:57:01.700 with a sign begging for money walked up to you, shoved the sign in your face, and said the same

00:57:06.180 thing. It's going to ask you a couple questions. Anyway, I wanted to go hit the no tip option, as I

00:57:11.960 always do these days, but because I'm dumb and clumsy, I accidentally hit the wrong button, and I

00:57:16.820 tipped a dollar, tragically. And this, again, was before the service had been completed. I did not

00:57:22.940 have the coffee in hand at this point. And 20 minutes later, after having already tipped

00:57:29.200 accidentally, but still, I'm still standing there waiting for my wife's fancy coffee, which was not

00:57:34.400 nearly so fancy that it had to take 20 minutes to make. I had tipped ahead of time for a service

00:57:39.740 that ended up being extremely poor. This is how it goes now. But when you think about it, the epidemic

00:57:46.100 of tipping is it's not happening in a vacuum. It didn't come out of nowhere. It's just the latest

00:57:51.280 iteration of forced charity in our culture. This is essentially the welfare state now making its way

00:57:56.960 into the service industry. We have lived in a culture of entitlement for a long time.

00:58:01.700 It's no surprise that it's manifesting itself in this way now. And the biggest problem with the

00:58:07.820 forced or coerced charity, whether it's a government entitlement program or a pop-up on DoorDash threatening

00:58:13.640 you with cold food if you don't tip your driver ahead of time, or a sullen, scowling cashier flipping an

00:58:19.760 iPad over, expecting a tip for doing literally nothing. In all of these cases, the coercion

00:58:25.640 tactics may prove profitable for those wielding them, but they don't do what willful, voluntary

00:58:32.060 charity and generosity does. When somebody chooses of their own free will to be generous, free of any

00:58:39.580 emotional blackmail or coercive tactics or force, their charitable act naturally breeds gratitude and

00:58:47.120 connection and appreciation. When somebody is generous to you because they chose to be generous,

00:58:54.000 it lifts both you and them up in ways that go beyond the financial. But that's not how it works

00:59:02.300 when somebody is forced or manipulated or pressured into charity. In that case, it makes the giver

00:59:07.840 understandably bitter and resentful, while the receiver only becomes more entitled and spoiled.

00:59:13.360 Everybody is worse off. The giver, most of all, because he's the one losing money, but both parties,

00:59:19.920 giver and receiver, both walk away from the exchange with a negative attitude about it.

00:59:26.460 That's why, as I have often remarked, we're seeing tipping go up while quality of service goes down.

00:59:32.380 The more that service workers are tipped, the more lazy and entitled they seem to become,

00:59:36.660 and the more annoyed and broke their customers become. Everybody loses in the end, even if the

00:59:44.380 service worker makes a few bucks out of the deal. Companies like DoorDash are driving this problem, 0.97

00:59:49.460 maybe more than anybody else. And that is ultimately why DoorDash is today canceled.

00:59:56.680 That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow.

00:59:59.660 Godspeed.

01:00:06.660 Today on the Ben Shapiro Show, the long hidden manifesto of the trans Nashville school shooter 0.93

01:00:10.860 is leaked. The 2024 election gets closer and closer as Democrats panic,

01:00:15.180 and the Biden administration begins its slow collapse to the pro-Hamas left.

01:00:18.500 That's today on the Ben Shapiro Show. Give it a listen.

The Matt Walsh Show - November 07, 2023

Ep. 1258 - Now We Know Why They Hide The Nashville Shooter's Manifesto

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