The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1301 - The ADL Pushes Law Enforcement To Investigate Me For The Crime Of Having Opinions

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a shocking new report reveals that the ADL, a left-wing activist group,

00:00:04.460 has been pressuring law enforcement to open terrorism investigations into me and several other conservative commentators.

00:00:10.120 Also, Greg Abbott holds the line against the Biden administration, refuses to allow them to tear down the border fencing.

00:00:15.140 Are we headed towards a Fort Sumter situation?

00:00:17.300 Plus, major media companies are experiencing mass layoffs and shutting down left and right.

00:00:21.800 And in our daily cancellation, I found myself in the middle of another social media controversy

00:00:25.180 for my unorthodox, unapproved opinions about therapy, mental illness, and depression.

00:00:29.500 I'll explain and double down today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:59.780 After 9-11, dozens of state-run, quote-unquote, fusion centers popped up all over the country.

00:02:05.700 Now there are roughly 79 of them in operation, and they exist in virtually every state.

00:02:10.020 The point of these centers is supposedly to facilitate cooperation between the federal government and the states in order to gather intelligence and prevent terrorist attacks and other serious threats to the homeland.

00:02:21.040 But here's the strange thing.

00:02:23.480 They don't appear to be doing that.

00:02:25.220 A couple years ago, investigative reporters at The Nation found that the fusion center in central Florida was investigating, quote, criminal and violent extremist use of emojis.

00:02:35.440 The Fort Worth fusion center, meanwhile, was preoccupied with a plot to break the Netflix star Joe Exotic out of prison, while the Capital Region fusion center was busy looking into viral TikTok challenges.

00:02:47.280 The Washington State fusion center, for its part, opened an investigation into a report, quote, concerning a homeowner working on cars in his driveway and letting oil run down the street into Mission Creek and Olympia.

00:02:58.760 Now, in any other context, this would be considered fraud.

00:03:02.120 These state governments are taking money to fight terrorism, but they're not remotely attempting to do that.

00:03:08.080 In fact, they don't appear to be doing anything of consequence whatsoever, which, in this context, is especially strange.

00:03:13.960 I mean, normally, when federal and state governments give themselves vast powers of surveillance and lofty new mandates, they don't waste their time chasing down homeowners who are being a little sloppy while they work on their cars.

00:03:25.400 They usually start using their expanded powers as quickly and as widely as possible.

00:03:30.260 So, one of two things is happening here.

00:03:32.580 Either these fusion centers are a massive and long-standing fraud, or there's something else going on here, or a little bit of both.

00:03:41.320 Now, for a while now, there have been signs that the latter explanation, something else is going on here, is the more plausible one.

00:03:48.200 In their investigation, the nation obtained documentation indicating that one area of focus for these fusion centers is, quote, First Amendment-protected events.

00:03:57.120 But the journalists weren't able to provide much more clarity on that, probably because the government redacted information on their investigations in this area.

00:04:04.600 So, we learned all about the TikTok investigations and the emoji investigations at these fusion centers, but not so much about their crackdown on the First Amendment.

00:04:12.880 And that's where things have stood for the past several years.

00:04:15.960 But yesterday, thanks to a report from Mary Margaret Olihan at the Daily Signal, we have indication of the actual mission of these fusion centers and what First Amendment-protected events they might be interested in.

00:04:29.980 The Daily Signal obtained an email sent in February of 2023 by the Anti-Defamation League, or the ADL, to the Washington State Fusion Center.

00:04:39.340 And that's the same fusion center that was looking into that homeowner who was working on his car in a sloppy way.

00:04:44.520 Here's the subject line. 0.84

00:04:46.680 White supremacist fight clubs anti-LGBTQ plus hate.

00:04:50.620 Now, in the body of the email, the ADL warns about, quote, online amplifiers of LGBTQ plus hate, promoting, quote, false narratives escalating harassment of LGBTQ plus individuals.

00:05:01.940 This alleged hate includes, quote, the vilification of drag shows and, quote, baseless claims of child grooming by LGBTQ plus people.

00:05:10.800 According to the ADL's email to this Washington State Counterterrorism Center, this vilification, quote, further endangered and isolated an already at-risk community.

00:05:19.620 According to the Daily Signal, the email then appears to link to an ADL blog post which identifies who the purveyors of this supposedly dangerous hate are.

00:05:31.280 And those people are Libs of TikTok, the account Gays Against Groomers, Blaze Media, Christopher Ruffo, and, of course, that international infamous terrorist who goes by the name Matt Walsh. 0.53

00:05:44.040 Now, the post states that, quote, the ADL is advocating for government partners to strengthen laws against perpetrators of online hate as well as consulting with law enforcement partners to act on online hate speech that incites violence and or credible threats.

00:05:59.460 The ADL says that it teamed up with a GLAAD as well, and they're apparently all working with law enforcement.

00:06:04.980 In other words, the ADL, just to get you up to speed here, the ADL told a counterterrorism agency to investigate journalists and political commentators because we are saying things they don't like.

00:06:19.280 They are trying explicitly to use the arm of the law to silence us at gunpoint.

00:06:26.820 Now, they don't even claim that we violated any law, right?

00:06:31.860 They're not claiming that because we haven't.

00:06:34.900 Instead, they're saying that because we oppose the chemical and physical castration of children and because we believe in biology and because we don't think that men should be cross-dressing in front of children, therefore, we are inciting violence.

00:06:46.080 So they call on law enforcement to act.

00:06:49.640 The Daily Signal reached out to the Washington State Patrol about this, and they're one of the state agencies that participated in this fusion center.

00:06:56.820 They indicated that they take emails from the ADL and various other interest groups under advisement, but they denied opening any investigation on the basis of the ADL's email.

00:07:06.540 So according to them, as far as we know, there is not a current criminal investigation against, say, me for tweeting things that they don't like.

00:07:15.400 Now, obviously, we have no idea whether that's true or not.

00:07:18.960 We also have no reason to believe that it's true.

00:07:21.400 You know, it would certainly be strange for the ADL to send an email like this to a counterterrorism center if they thought it would just be ignored, right?

00:07:30.740 The fact that they're sending it would seem to indicate that there's some kind of relationship here, that there's some sort of precedent.

00:07:36.180 We also have no idea how many similar emails the ADL has sent to this particular fusion center or any others.

00:07:43.680 What we do know is that the ADL has a very long history of not simply advising law enforcement agencies, which they shouldn't even be doing that, but participating directly in law enforcement functions.

00:07:54.480 This is a quote from a speech that James Comey, who was the FBI director at the time, delivered to the ADL's leadership summit back in 2014.

00:08:01.060 Quote, the FBI works at the ADL to host civil rights and hate crime training for our state and local counterparts through a number of programs.

00:08:07.860 And the ADL, of course, has even greater reach.

00:08:10.160 You trained more than 12,000 law enforcement personnel last year alone, and I want to thank you for that.

00:08:17.900 So this is not a typical political nonprofit we're talking about here.

00:08:20.640 The ADL is conducting training for law enforcement agencies, including the FBI.

00:08:27.120 And these partnerships have only accelerated in recent years, post-BLM.

00:08:31.620 As the ADL states on its website, quote,

00:08:33.220 In 2020 alone, ADL's Center for Extremism provided law enforcement with critical intelligence about extremism over 1,000 times and tracked over 5,000 new incidents of hate on our online interactive heat map.

00:08:45.520 In other words, the ADL, which supposedly was founded to combat anti-Semitism, is now a de facto intelligence agency for federal and state law enforcement.

00:08:56.800 This is the organization that's now advising the Washington Fusion Center to investigate me and several other commentators for having offensive opinions.

00:09:04.200 Now, if you know anything about the history of the ADL, this actually probably wouldn't surprise you.

00:09:10.940 The ADL has a long and well-documented history of working with law enforcement, even going so far as to actively participate in law enforcement investigations.

00:09:18.760 One of the more famous cases took place in the 1960s when an ADL director raised money for the FBI to pay some Klansmen $36,000 in an effort to set up other Klansmen.

00:09:29.300 Now, that incident led to a shootout and the death of one Klan member.

00:09:34.140 Whatever you make of that operation, journalists noted at the time that it was obviously a little strange for a private tax-exempt organization to be involved in this.

00:09:42.280 The ACLU at the time called for an investigation.

00:09:46.040 But in the end, no one seemed to mind.

00:09:48.200 The ADL adopted a pseudo-law enforcement assistant role, which they've retained ever since.

00:09:53.920 Now, I've focused on the ADL so far, mainly because they're the group that are trying to have me specifically investigated.

00:10:01.440 But there are many other organizations like the ADL doing the same thing.

00:10:05.540 Maybe the most notable is the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC.

00:10:08.700 You might remember that the FBI cited the SPLC in its infamous memo claiming that, quote,

00:10:14.080 radical traditionalist Catholic ideology is a significant terrorist threat in America.

00:10:19.140 The FBI tried to hide that memo, but a whistleblower came forward and released it.

00:10:22.480 But the SPLC is a completely discredited group.

00:10:26.580 They even had to pay out defamation settlements for some of their more egregious hack jobs.

00:10:31.880 And the Bureau knows that, according to the whistleblower.

00:10:34.060 But the FBI tried to cite them anyway in order to justify the targeted surveillance of Catholics on the basis of their religious beliefs.

00:10:42.740 We've seen many examples of similar misconduct in recent years in which the government partners with some supposedly independent private entity

00:10:50.360 in order to lend some legitimacy to its obviously illegitimate investigations.

00:10:54.460 During the Trump campaign, the FBI effectively teamed up with the Washington Post in order to obtain secret surveillance warrants against the Trump team.

00:11:02.360 The FBI even copy-pasted from a debunked Washington Post editorial in its FISA warrant application against Carter Page.

00:11:08.720 And more recently, the DOJ has been investigating Dr. Ethan Haim because he blew the whistle on Texas Children's Hospital,

00:11:15.180 which claimed that it had stopped butchering children but kept on doing it anyway in secret.

00:11:20.520 And that got the attention of trans activists and their various advocacy groups,

00:11:23.880 which in turn led to the DOJ knocking on Haim's door.

00:11:27.360 Now, they know they don't have a legal case against him.

00:11:30.460 They know it's not a violation of patient privacy to disclose the existence of unlawful and unethical procedures

00:11:36.440 without disclosing patient identities.

00:11:39.720 But they're harassing him anyway.

00:11:41.460 They want to send him to prison, take away his medical license.

00:11:45.700 Now, it's not hard to see where all this leads.

00:11:49.000 As I told the Daily Signal when they called me about this story to get my comment on it before they published it,

00:11:55.660 you know, I have no doubt that if Biden wins another term,

00:12:00.360 we will actually see prominent conservative commentators arrested on hate crime and terrorism charges.

00:12:07.440 That is going to happen.

00:12:08.800 This is not hyperbole or, you know, being dramatic, conspiracy theories.

00:12:13.480 This is what they want to do, and they're laying the groundwork for it right now.

00:12:18.120 First, they open investigations, then they start surveillance,

00:12:21.920 and then once that's normalized, they escalate things.

00:12:24.240 We talked about slippery slopes yesterday on the show in relation to trans ideology,

00:12:28.940 and this is yet another slippery slope that we are on.

00:12:32.040 The ADL is telling government counterterrorism centers to suppress political dissent.

00:12:37.080 And the fact is that unless they pay a price for this,

00:12:42.620 unless there is enormous backlash,

00:12:44.720 and unless the law enforcement agencies stop taking marching orders

00:12:48.480 from these compromised far left-wing activist groups,

00:12:52.860 then they'll continue to make these demands.

00:12:56.380 And eventually, they'll get what they want.

00:12:58.220 And at that point, if it gets that far,

00:13:01.620 the only real question will be,

00:13:04.100 which of us do they hit first

00:13:06.440 and try to make an example out of?

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00:14:39.920 Okay, we start with what is, without question,

00:14:43.080 one of the most significant political events of our lifetime,

00:14:45.460 and may prove to be quite a bit more significant

00:14:47.740 even than that.

00:14:49.460 But this is the Daily Wire report.

00:14:51.140 Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a defiant statement

00:14:53.600 on Wednesday pushing back against President Joe Biden's

00:14:56.400 attempts to stop Texas from securing its borders

00:14:58.720 against the millions of illegal aliens pouring into the state,

00:15:01.080 thanks to Biden's reckless border policies.

00:15:03.600 Abbott's statement comes after the U.S. Supreme Court,

00:15:05.300 sided with the Biden administration earlier this week,

00:15:07.540 ruling that it could remove or cut through razor wire

00:15:09.640 the state has deployed to stop illegal aliens 0.99

00:15:12.260 from crossing the Rio Grande into the state.

00:15:16.040 Abbott said in a statement,

00:15:17.020 President Biden has violated his oath to faithfully execute

00:15:19.720 immigration laws enacted by Congress.

00:15:21.540 Instead of prosecuting immigrants for the federal crime 0.93

00:15:24.040 of illegal entry,

00:15:25.440 President Biden has sent his lawyers into federal courts

00:15:27.460 to sue Texas for taking action to secure the borders.

00:15:30.660 President Biden has instructed his agencies

00:15:32.360 to ignore federal statutes that mandate the detention

00:15:34.540 of illegal immigrants.

00:15:35.660 The effect is to illegally allow their en masse parole

00:15:38.600 into the United States by wasting taxpayer dollars

00:15:41.120 to tear open Texas borders on security infrastructure.

00:15:43.760 President Biden has enticed illegal immigrants away 1.00

00:15:45.760 from the 28 legal entry points

00:15:47.620 along this state's southern border

00:15:50.280 and into the dangerous waters of the Rio Grande.

00:15:54.980 Abbott continued,

00:15:55.760 James Madison, Alexander Hamilton,

00:15:57.180 and other visionaries who wrote the U.S. Constitution

00:15:59.120 foresaw that states should not be left

00:16:01.520 to the mercy of a lawless president

00:16:03.260 who does nothing to stop external threats

00:16:05.500 like cartels smuggling millions of illegal immigrants

00:16:07.900 across the border.

00:16:08.600 The whole statement is actually really well,

00:16:15.680 I'm not going to read the entire thing,

00:16:16.700 but it's very much worth reading the whole statement

00:16:19.540 because it's got some real

00:16:22.660 declaration of independence type vibes to it

00:16:27.340 and for good reason.

00:16:30.440 It's extremely defiant, as it should be.

00:16:33.620 I should note that a bunch of other red state governors,

00:16:37.520 DeSantis first, several others,

00:16:39.860 including Kemp in Georgia,

00:16:42.100 Kristi Noem, a bunch of others,

00:16:45.340 have come out in support of Abbott,

00:16:47.800 as well they should.

00:16:50.340 Now, as I say this right now,

00:16:51.780 at this point,

00:16:53.120 the presumptive GOP nominee for president,

00:16:57.200 the guy whose primary issue

00:16:58.940 was supposed to be the border immigration,

00:17:00.580 at this point has said nothing about this at all.

00:17:03.620 He's posting a lot over last night,

00:17:06.340 quite a bit,

00:17:06.860 about other things that he's personally involved in,

00:17:10.500 but not about this.

00:17:12.420 But you do have at least the,

00:17:14.760 which, by the way, is inexcusable, okay?

00:17:17.160 This is,

00:17:18.120 anyone who's a leader in the Republican Party,

00:17:22.180 and if you're going to be the nominee,

00:17:24.440 then that certainly puts you at the top,

00:17:26.640 needs to take a stand on this.

00:17:29.020 It's not enough to say,

00:17:30.020 well, I've talked about immigration before.

00:17:31.300 No, no, like this particular thing that's happening,

00:17:33.620 you need to be there.

00:17:36.140 Trump should be down at the border right now,

00:17:39.240 getting 100% involved in this issue,

00:17:41.860 and being there up at the front,

00:17:44.300 taking the lead on everybody.

00:17:47.940 We could go through and look at the list

00:17:49.360 of red state governors that have spoken up.

00:17:52.300 Like I said, many of them have.

00:17:54.500 And hopefully by the time I finish the show,

00:17:56.740 they'll all have said something.

00:17:58.200 But any that have not,

00:17:59.340 I mean, even the Utah governor,

00:18:03.160 Spencer Cox, okay?

00:18:05.520 Like that spineless,

00:18:08.520 you know,

00:18:10.680 milquetoast guy,

00:18:11.820 even he

00:18:12.260 has come out in support of Greg Abbott.

00:18:14.800 So everyone needs to speak up.

00:18:18.240 And this is exactly what Greg Abbott

00:18:20.040 needs to be doing.

00:18:20.680 And if he holds the line here,

00:18:23.360 he may well go down

00:18:24.840 as one of the most significant

00:18:25.780 political figures in modern history.

00:18:28.660 And one of the great heroes

00:18:30.200 in the history of the Republican Party.

00:18:33.220 I mean, that's how significant this is.

00:18:35.540 And I say that as someone

00:18:36.820 who has been critical of Abbott

00:18:38.820 over the years,

00:18:39.720 but here he's doing something

00:18:41.800 incredibly important.

00:18:44.120 Now, and this is to take nothing

00:18:45.260 at all away from him,

00:18:46.440 but it's also true

00:18:48.380 that he is in the very

00:18:49.640 advantageous position where,

00:18:51.380 and this doesn't happen very often,

00:18:53.420 but he's in a position here

00:18:55.760 where the morally right thing to do

00:18:57.620 is also the most politically

00:19:00.100 advisable thing to do.

00:19:03.220 So he's right morally

00:19:04.520 and he's right on the politics

00:19:06.700 of this thing.

00:19:08.140 And as I said,

00:19:08.920 that doesn't always happen.

00:19:10.740 Those things don't always line up.

00:19:12.120 In fact, often they don't,

00:19:13.060 but in this case they do

00:19:14.020 because he's put Biden

00:19:15.820 in a no-win situation.

00:19:18.160 Biden is up against it here.

00:19:20.040 The far left,

00:19:21.300 to include the Democrats

00:19:22.920 in Congress who have spoken out,

00:19:25.120 Beto O'Rourke,

00:19:26.140 you know, has spoken out.

00:19:26.860 Others in Texas have come out

00:19:29.520 and the far left,

00:19:31.880 they want Biden to seize control

00:19:34.500 of the Texas National Guard

00:19:36.020 in order to forcibly open the border.

00:19:39.800 They want him to use force

00:19:41.680 to go in and open the Texas border.

00:19:45.240 That's what they want.

00:19:47.180 But that's a political disaster

00:19:49.540 for Biden if he does that.

00:19:51.020 I mean, that is a catastrophe.

00:19:52.780 That is poison.

00:19:54.260 If anything could guarantee

00:19:55.840 a landslide loss for him in November,

00:19:58.600 it's that.

00:20:00.260 Just the very idea

00:20:02.240 and the image as well

00:20:04.080 of the federal government

00:20:05.100 marching into Texas

00:20:06.440 by force

00:20:08.000 and tearing down

00:20:09.420 its border fencing

00:20:10.320 as hordes of illegals 0.97

00:20:12.440 come streaming

00:20:13.760 into the state,

00:20:15.060 nobody who is not 0.99

00:20:17.000 a far left radical lunatic 0.96

00:20:18.420 would look favorably on that. 0.99

00:20:20.740 Everybody else would be

00:20:22.460 utterly infuriated

00:20:24.380 and horrified by it.

00:20:26.500 And I think there's just

00:20:29.800 no denying that.

00:20:31.940 And you know that's true,

00:20:33.000 by the way.

00:20:34.220 You know this whole thing

00:20:34.940 is a political landmine

00:20:36.100 for Biden

00:20:36.660 just based solely

00:20:38.300 on the fact

00:20:38.940 that the corporate media

00:20:40.000 is trying to ignore

00:20:41.200 this whole story.

00:20:42.940 So here we have

00:20:43.480 the governor of Texas

00:20:44.820 openly defying

00:20:45.840 the federal government,

00:20:47.000 ignoring the Supreme Court

00:20:47.960 and the story isn't even,

00:20:49.920 it's not even mentioned.

00:20:51.300 I looked this morning,

00:20:52.740 CNN,

00:20:53.260 MSABC,

00:20:53.940 NBC News,

00:20:56.240 New York Times,

00:20:57.620 Washington,

00:20:58.100 but like,

00:20:58.820 not mentioned.

00:21:00.140 They're not even mentioning

00:21:01.580 that any of this is happening.

00:21:03.820 And that itself

00:21:05.000 is extremely significant

00:21:05.940 because it tells you a lot.

00:21:08.040 Because if you didn't

00:21:09.100 know any better,

00:21:10.680 right,

00:21:10.920 you would think

00:21:11.760 that these left-wing outlets

00:21:13.380 would go balls to the wall

00:21:14.720 on this one.

00:21:15.760 They'd be screaming

00:21:16.480 about how Greg Abbott 0.98

00:21:17.780 is a fascist tyrant, 0.96

00:21:20.020 he's persecuting 1.00

00:21:20.900 the poor Hispanics 1.00

00:21:22.240 or whatever. 0.63

00:21:22.960 You would think

00:21:23.680 that's what they would

00:21:24.300 be doing with this,

00:21:25.860 but they aren't even,

00:21:28.400 they're not even trying that

00:21:29.920 on this one.

00:21:31.500 They'd rather not talk about it.

00:21:32.960 They want to pretend

00:21:35.020 it isn't happening

00:21:35.720 because they know.

00:21:37.580 They know that this is

00:21:38.620 a disaster for them

00:21:40.220 and for Biden.

00:21:42.080 It's a disaster.

00:21:43.080 Either Biden has to back away 0.99

00:21:44.620 like an impotent clown, 1.00

00:21:46.700 scurry back under his bed, 0.99

00:21:49.740 you know,

00:21:49.920 like a scared puppy

00:21:50.940 with his tail

00:21:51.460 between his legs,

00:21:52.220 or he has to totally usurp

00:21:54.760 the will of the people

00:21:55.420 in Texas

00:21:55.980 and the Texas state government

00:21:58.200 to forcibly tear down

00:21:59.780 border fencing.

00:22:00.440 the fencing that's there

00:22:02.400 to protect communities

00:22:03.640 from cartels

00:22:06.100 and fentanyl traffickers

00:22:07.280 and everything else.

00:22:08.540 You have to go in

00:22:09.200 and just tear it down,

00:22:11.240 which again,

00:22:12.420 it would be perhaps

00:22:13.620 the least popular move

00:22:17.580 any president has made

00:22:19.060 in an election year

00:22:20.220 in like 150 years.

00:22:23.380 It's hard to think of anything,

00:22:26.140 especially in our lifetimes,

00:22:27.440 that has been,

00:22:28.340 that would be

00:22:28.840 more politically disastrous

00:22:30.920 than that

00:22:31.480 for a president

00:22:32.980 in an election year.

00:22:34.660 Oh, and by the way,

00:22:35.860 he could start a civil war.

00:22:37.120 So there's also that.

00:22:39.280 There are some real

00:22:40.880 Fort Sumter vibes

00:22:43.160 to this thing

00:22:43.780 and that's pretty obvious.

00:22:47.340 So this is what happens

00:22:48.260 when you hold the line.

00:22:49.180 When you refuse to back down

00:22:50.780 as a conservative,

00:22:52.540 this is what happens.

00:22:53.920 It's tremendous.

00:22:56.260 And by the way,

00:22:56.700 keep in mind,

00:22:57.620 this is not a case

00:22:59.280 where a state government

00:23:00.520 is trying to undermine

00:23:01.520 or overrule a federal law

00:23:04.400 or interfere

00:23:05.580 with the enforcement

00:23:06.640 of a federal law.

00:23:08.220 Okay, we've seen

00:23:09.180 that sort of thing

00:23:09.840 historically in America.

00:23:12.500 And in those sorts of cases,

00:23:14.600 the feds always win. 1.00

00:23:16.660 But this is different.

00:23:18.860 This is very different.

00:23:21.660 This is actually

00:23:22.460 kind of the opposite of that

00:23:23.480 because this is the state

00:23:25.760 enforcing a federal law

00:23:28.000 that the feds refuse to enforce.

00:23:31.740 And then the feds coming in 0.98

00:23:33.280 and saying,

00:23:33.800 no, you're not allowed

00:23:35.080 to enforce that either.

00:23:36.080 That's just not going to be enforced.

00:23:37.620 We've decided.

00:23:38.960 So it's the feds

00:23:40.660 not claiming the right

00:23:42.120 and the authority

00:23:42.800 to enforce a law,

00:23:44.000 but claiming the absolute authority

00:23:45.180 to decide

00:23:45.840 that they're not going to enforce

00:23:47.260 one of the most

00:23:48.660 crucial laws

00:23:51.000 that not even enforce a law.

00:23:53.040 But the feds have decided

00:23:54.920 that they are not going

00:23:55.680 to fulfill

00:23:56.520 one of their most critical

00:23:58.800 fundamental obligations

00:24:00.400 and then claiming

00:24:03.000 that no one else

00:24:03.540 has the right to do it either.

00:24:06.060 Abdicating their responsibility

00:24:07.200 to enforce its own laws,

00:24:09.040 creating a vacuum

00:24:10.000 that state governments

00:24:11.520 have no choice

00:24:12.140 but to step into,

00:24:13.200 and then coming back around

00:24:14.360 and saying,

00:24:14.740 no, you're not allowed.

00:24:15.500 That vacuum just needs to stay.

00:24:17.040 We want a vacuum there. 0.99

00:24:18.240 That's what we decided.

00:24:18.900 That's the dynamic here.

00:24:23.460 And it is,

00:24:24.080 so it is very different

00:24:26.720 from most of the kind

00:24:28.180 of historical parallels

00:24:29.100 that people might be reaching

00:24:30.120 for in a situation like this.

00:24:32.100 It's a very different situation.

00:24:34.260 And it puts,

00:24:35.060 it puts the Biden administration,

00:24:37.120 again, politically

00:24:38.140 in a totally unwinnable spot.

00:24:41.880 They put themselves in that spot.

00:24:44.300 Morally,

00:24:45.080 they're completely wrong,

00:24:46.600 obviously,

00:24:47.000 and legally too.

00:24:48.340 Now, I know that the Supreme Court,

00:24:50.740 you know,

00:24:52.320 in their last decision

00:24:54.180 came down essentially

00:24:55.380 on the side

00:24:55.780 of the Biden administration.

00:24:57.100 And you've got Amy Coney Barrett

00:24:58.460 in there.

00:24:58.740 You've got the women 1.00

00:24:59.200 of the Supreme Court

00:24:59.920 who are on this issue

00:25:01.280 are clearly motivated

00:25:02.960 either by far left politics

00:25:05.620 or by emotion or both.

00:25:09.760 But even with that in mind,

00:25:12.860 like ultimately,

00:25:13.740 Greg Abbott

00:25:18.060 is on very strong,

00:25:20.840 you know,

00:25:21.060 he's on very sturdy

00:25:22.360 legal ground as well.

00:25:25.560 Okay, I haven't watched this yet,

00:25:26.720 but Ron DeSantis

00:25:27.400 just put out a video

00:25:28.220 addressing this issue.

00:25:29.100 Let's watch a little bit of that.

00:25:31.120 Biden is going after Texas

00:25:32.880 saying that they must remove

00:25:34.760 fortifications from their border.

00:25:36.440 They put wire,

00:25:37.240 they put things

00:25:37.800 to keep people out.

00:25:39.940 Biden's saying

00:25:40.600 you've got to take that down

00:25:41.980 to let people come in illegally,

00:25:44.580 which is just crazy.

00:25:46.440 And I remarked that

00:25:47.740 if the Constitution

00:25:48.880 was originally understood

00:25:50.860 to mean that a state

00:25:51.900 could not protect itself

00:25:53.360 against an invasion,

00:25:55.100 that the federal government

00:25:56.060 could force a state

00:25:57.060 to allow an invasion,

00:25:58.440 the Constitution

00:25:59.060 would have never been ratified

00:26:00.600 in the first place.

00:26:01.820 Texas would have never

00:26:02.660 joined the union

00:26:03.400 when it did.

00:26:04.520 And if you look

00:26:05.220 at Federalist 46,

00:26:06.320 which Daniel Horowitz

00:26:08.400 pointed out,

00:26:09.560 James Madison

00:26:10.400 talks about situations

00:26:12.420 where federal encroachment

00:26:14.380 can be mitigated

00:26:15.700 by state action.

00:26:17.940 So you have Texas here

00:26:19.300 that's holding its ground.

00:26:21.260 They have every right

00:26:22.020 to fortify the border

00:26:23.800 vis-a-vis an invasion.

00:26:25.620 And that's Article I,

00:26:26.820 Section 10 of the Constitution.

00:26:28.900 So they're in the right.

00:26:30.300 You also have a situation

00:26:31.520 where liberal jurisdictions

00:26:33.400 over many, many years

00:26:34.740 have been sanctuary jurisdictions

00:26:36.700 against enforcing

00:26:38.100 federal immigration law.

00:26:39.840 So you'll have somebody

00:26:40.720 who's a criminal alien.

00:26:42.120 They will not be given

00:26:43.120 over to ICE.

00:26:44.640 And they will deliberately

00:26:45.580 act to frustrate

00:26:46.860 the laws on the books.

00:26:48.180 And somehow that's viewed

00:26:49.260 as OK.

00:26:50.480 You have Texas

00:26:51.140 who's acting

00:26:52.200 to enforce the laws

00:26:53.860 on the books

00:26:54.520 to ensure

00:26:55.580 that they have

00:26:56.560 a secure state

00:26:57.440 and that we have

00:26:58.060 a secure country.

00:26:59.460 So all of this

00:27:00.880 is just nonsense

00:27:01.900 what Biden's doing.

00:27:03.000 Texas has every right

00:27:04.620 to stand its ground.

00:27:05.420 We've in Florida

00:27:05.980 we've been sending people

00:27:06.940 to help for many years now

00:27:09.480 because we understand

00:27:10.440 it's not just a Texas issue.

00:27:12.100 It's ultimately an American.

00:27:14.200 So he's right about all that

00:27:15.660 and that's a thoughtful

00:27:17.500 response.

00:27:20.340 And it's just

00:27:21.380 when this first happened

00:27:24.060 when Greg Abbott

00:27:24.800 announced his decision

00:27:27.500 I knew we could count

00:27:30.220 on DeSantis

00:27:31.640 to speak up

00:27:32.580 and be on his side

00:27:33.720 and have his back on this.

00:27:35.180 So that was not a surprise.

00:27:37.200 A couple other governors

00:27:38.200 he felt pretty confident in.

00:27:40.200 But

00:27:40.280 we're at kind of

00:27:43.240 a critical mass now

00:27:44.260 especially once you've got

00:27:45.360 guys like Spencer Cox

00:27:46.440 and Kristi Noem

00:27:47.360 and Kemp

00:27:48.920 and George.

00:27:49.360 Once they start

00:27:50.500 coming out

00:27:51.200 it's like

00:27:51.900 if you're a Republican governor

00:27:53.260 you have no choice now.

00:27:54.280 You can't.

00:27:54.840 You cannot be seen.

00:27:56.600 You can't be left out

00:27:57.680 of the party.

00:27:59.160 So

00:27:59.400 I think

00:28:01.580 you know

00:28:02.520 there's no telling

00:28:03.300 where this goes.

00:28:04.000 It could go

00:28:04.280 a bunch of different places.

00:28:05.320 It could go to some

00:28:05.820 pretty ugly places.

00:28:08.080 But

00:28:08.480 I think it's

00:28:11.560 it's going to be

00:28:12.980 ugliest for

00:28:13.720 the current regime

00:28:15.060 the Biden regime.

00:28:16.140 Okay.

00:28:16.920 Speaking of the

00:28:17.940 well we weren't really

00:28:19.340 speaking of this

00:28:19.760 but going to the media now

00:28:20.840 there have been

00:28:21.800 there's been a whole slate

00:28:23.740 of layoffs

00:28:24.640 at major media companies

00:28:25.880 in recent weeks

00:28:26.740 and

00:28:27.980 rather than tell you about it

00:28:29.800 or read something about it

00:28:30.840 I will let

00:28:31.980 Taylor Lorenz

00:28:33.060 who's the Washington Post

00:28:34.420 propagandist

00:28:35.280 one of

00:28:35.680 one of their

00:28:36.160 several

00:28:37.060 one of their many propagandists

00:28:38.260 they have on the payroll

00:28:38.980 she recorded a video

00:28:41.100 very very distraught

00:28:42.540 and upset about

00:28:43.080 the state of the media now

00:28:44.100 and how they're all

00:28:44.540 losing their jobs

00:28:45.080 and let's listen to her.

00:28:47.480 Our journalism industry

00:28:48.900 is basically in a free fall.

00:28:50.620 Today the Los Angeles Times

00:28:51.840 laid off 115 employees.

00:28:53.540 They wiped out their entire

00:28:55.120 D.C. bureau

00:28:55.860 in an election year

00:28:57.060 they laid off

00:28:57.960 pretty much all of their

00:28:58.880 sports teams

00:28:59.600 they killed their entire

00:29:00.700 tech and business section

00:29:01.900 they laid off

00:29:02.580 breaking news writers

00:29:03.580 social media editors

00:29:04.700 the list goes on

00:29:05.980 but what's really dark

00:29:07.040 is this is just

00:29:07.780 the latest

00:29:08.360 in months

00:29:09.400 and months

00:29:09.920 and months

00:29:10.500 of layoffs

00:29:11.180 in the media industry

00:29:12.160 in fact

00:29:12.960 tens of thousands

00:29:14.380 of journalists

00:29:15.320 have been laid off

00:29:16.160 in the past year

00:29:16.920 major media companies

00:29:17.960 like BuzzFeed News

00:29:18.840 have completely shuttered

00:29:20.160 their news operations

00:29:21.100 Time Magazine

00:29:22.100 also just laid off

00:29:22.940 a ton of people

00:29:23.560 and oh Sports Illustrated

00:29:24.780 basically shut down

00:29:25.840 last week

00:29:26.440 pretty much the entire

00:29:27.400 digital media ecosystem

00:29:28.680 that myself

00:29:29.580 and a lot of other

00:29:30.400 millennial journalists

00:29:31.160 came up in

00:29:31.840 has been completely

00:29:32.860 hollowed out

00:29:33.500 and it's not just

00:29:34.240 digital media sites

00:29:35.240 local news has been

00:29:36.400 obliterated

00:29:37.200 the newspaper industry

00:29:38.480 is cratering

00:29:39.740 radio is essentially

00:29:40.720 dead aside from NPR

00:29:42.380 which has been gutted

00:29:43.600 meanwhile hundreds of

00:29:44.620 workers at Condé Nast

00:29:45.640 the parent company

00:29:46.460 of pretty much

00:29:47.220 every major magazine

00:29:48.160 from GQ

00:29:49.120 to Vogue

00:29:49.840 to The New Yorker

00:29:50.880 to Vanity Fair

00:29:51.840 are on strike

00:29:52.840 because they're also

00:29:54.120 facing impending layoffs

00:29:55.640 even mainstream

00:29:56.600 national media outlets

00:29:57.820 owned by billionaires

00:29:58.900 like The Washington Post

00:30:00.100 where I work

00:30:00.760 and The Atlantic

00:30:01.460 where I used to work

00:30:02.440 have done layoffs

00:30:03.480 if you're a young journalist

00:30:04.600 today there's almost

00:30:05.360 no on-ramp

00:30:06.120 to traditional journalism

00:30:07.360 even if you do get a job

00:30:08.760 journalists salaries

00:30:09.640 have been stagnant

00:30:10.600 and even declined

00:30:11.520 and by the way

00:30:12.280 we don't make that much

00:30:13.160 to begin with

00:30:13.780 I don't think people

00:30:14.420 understand how bad

00:30:15.300 the world would be

00:30:15.920 without journalists

00:30:16.840 the great thing

00:30:19.880 about this

00:30:20.240 is that she

00:30:20.940 she's saying all this

00:30:22.180 like it's a bad thing

00:30:22.920 and she wants us 0.71

00:30:23.340 to be upset

00:30:23.740 but everyone is receiving it

00:30:25.140 as glorious news

00:30:27.040 so this is like

00:30:27.600 she's basically

00:30:28.180 she's basically telling us

00:30:30.180 that it's Christmas morning

00:30:31.160 but she wants us 0.99

00:30:31.920 to be sad about it

00:30:32.860 and so there's

00:30:34.160 something's being lost

00:30:34.880 in translation there

00:30:36.120 because unfortunately

00:30:38.220 like pretty much

00:30:39.380 everybody else

00:30:39.800 I can't weep

00:30:40.600 for the poor journalists

00:30:42.020 I can't feel sorry

00:30:43.040 for them

00:30:43.400 feeling sorry

00:30:45.020 for a journalist

00:30:45.600 it's like

00:30:47.420 feeling sorry

00:30:48.340 for a tick

00:30:49.620 that you just pulled

00:30:50.500 off of your dog's ear

00:30:51.640 like it's not

00:30:53.180 I couldn't even

00:30:54.140 experience that emotion

00:30:55.540 if I wanted to

00:30:56.380 I just have no sympathy

00:30:58.340 to give here

00:30:59.020 so why is corporate media

00:31:02.140 falling apart

00:31:02.780 well there are two reasons

00:31:03.680 it's not just the reason

00:31:05.940 that conservatives

00:31:06.920 will immediately point to

00:31:07.940 although there is that too

00:31:09.000 that I mean

00:31:09.980 that is the first reason

00:31:10.860 that the fact

00:31:11.620 that the journalism profession

00:31:12.600 has completely discredited

00:31:14.640 itself

00:31:15.240 it has unabashedly

00:31:16.880 become a form

00:31:17.640 of left-wing advocacy

00:31:18.680 and on the right

00:31:21.200 we've been saying

00:31:22.040 this forever

00:31:22.700 to the point

00:31:23.520 that it just becomes

00:31:24.020 background noise

00:31:24.680 but this is

00:31:26.560 this is what we were

00:31:27.560 talking about

00:31:27.960 this is the

00:31:28.540 there are many

00:31:30.940 consequences of that

00:31:31.900 and the culture

00:31:33.500 has experienced

00:31:34.080 the consequences

00:31:34.760 of the journalism

00:31:35.520 profession becoming

00:31:36.340 nothing but

00:31:37.120 pretty much

00:31:37.660 left-wing

00:31:38.580 activism

00:31:39.540 a lot of consequences

00:31:41.300 and

00:31:42.600 and

00:31:42.960 and

00:31:43.400 but

00:31:43.740 downstream

00:31:44.720 far less severe

00:31:46.880 downstream of all that

00:31:48.600 is like eventually

00:31:49.520 those

00:31:49.900 eventually the journalism

00:31:50.740 profession itself

00:31:51.760 starts to reap

00:31:53.500 those consequences

00:31:54.160 and so for years

00:31:56.000 and years and years

00:31:56.560 when those of us

00:31:57.200 on the right

00:31:57.540 were saying

00:31:58.020 the media is

00:31:59.240 hopeless

00:31:59.760 like to call it biased

00:32:00.880 is

00:32:01.380 is

00:32:01.700 doesn't capture

00:32:03.520 the problem

00:32:03.980 at this point

00:32:04.660 so far beyond bias

00:32:06.460 this is just

00:32:07.460 straight up

00:32:08.500 left-wing advocacy

00:32:09.440 making no

00:32:11.360 with no pretension

00:32:12.780 of being anything else

00:32:13.900 and we've been saying

00:32:16.160 that we've been saying

00:32:16.820 that and the people

00:32:17.860 in the media

00:32:18.280 like Taylor Lorenz

00:32:19.400 have been ignoring us

00:32:20.600 and laughing at us

00:32:22.160 and all that

00:32:22.660 and they don't

00:32:22.920 well here you go

00:32:24.020 this is what happens

00:32:25.240 now you're all

00:32:25.980 losing your jobs

00:32:26.660 now you're all

00:32:28.700 broken

00:32:29.020 you're losing your jobs

00:32:29.840 and these entire

00:32:31.300 once

00:32:32.600 prestigious

00:32:33.880 storied

00:32:35.560 companies

00:32:37.760 and outlets

00:32:38.400 and publications

00:32:39.440 are going under

00:32:40.740 and this is

00:32:45.260 a big reason

00:32:45.960 why

00:32:46.220 why

00:32:46.740 and also

00:32:48.860 one of the reasons

00:32:49.400 why

00:32:49.820 we feel so okay

00:32:52.500 with gloating

00:32:53.780 about it

00:32:54.280 because usually

00:32:55.500 when people

00:32:55.800 lose their jobs

00:32:56.540 you know

00:32:57.540 generally speaking

00:32:58.580 people lose their jobs

00:32:59.380 I'm not going to gloat

00:33:00.680 about it

00:33:01.000 I'm not happy about it

00:33:02.200 I don't like to see

00:33:02.640 people lose their jobs

00:33:03.380 but there are some

00:33:04.520 exceptions

00:33:04.940 okay

00:33:05.760 like if I hear

00:33:06.900 that an abortion

00:33:07.420 clinic shut down

00:33:08.460 and everybody

00:33:10.140 lost their job

00:33:10.900 I'm very happy

00:33:11.660 and if you worked

00:33:13.700 at an abortion

00:33:13.980 clinic and you

00:33:14.400 lost your job

00:33:15.040 and now you are

00:33:16.140 personally bankrupt

00:33:16.820 I'm happy about that

00:33:17.860 you deserve it

00:33:18.500 that's justice

00:33:19.040 I'm very happy

00:33:19.860 about it

00:33:20.300 you worked at an

00:33:21.380 abortion clinic

00:33:21.820 you lost your job

00:33:22.560 and now you're out

00:33:23.380 on the street

00:33:23.800 homeless

00:33:24.160 I am happy

00:33:24.960 you deserve that

00:33:26.560 that's justice

00:33:27.440 the suffering

00:33:28.780 you are feeling

00:33:29.380 you deserve it

00:33:30.400 is justice

00:33:30.980 now the journalism

00:33:34.320 industry is not

00:33:35.000 quite as bad

00:33:37.060 as that

00:33:37.460 but

00:33:38.680 it is still

00:33:41.040 many of these

00:33:42.020 people are just

00:33:42.760 they have no

00:33:43.300 integrity 0.93

00:33:43.700 they're very bad

00:33:44.300 people 0.91

00:33:44.640 and on top

00:33:46.440 of that

00:33:46.840 you know

00:33:48.480 they have

00:33:49.580 in the media

00:33:50.260 destroyed the

00:33:53.280 lives

00:33:53.780 of anyone

00:33:55.120 they deem

00:33:55.600 an enemy

00:33:55.960 even just

00:33:57.140 normal people

00:33:58.100 like civilians 0.88

00:33:59.060 who for whatever

00:34:00.660 reason

00:34:01.060 find themselves

00:34:01.820 in the left's

00:34:02.260 crosshairs

00:34:02.760 and they get

00:34:03.520 destroyed

00:34:04.060 that's a lot

00:34:05.440 of when we talk

00:34:05.720 about cancel

00:34:06.180 culture

00:34:06.600 that's a lot

00:34:07.780 of what we're

00:34:08.060 talking about

00:34:08.720 usually the more

00:34:12.420 high profile

00:34:13.200 sort of victims

00:34:13.880 of cancel

00:34:14.340 culture are the

00:34:14.860 ones who get

00:34:15.220 the attention

00:34:15.680 there's a lot

00:34:17.380 of other people

00:34:17.800 we talk about

00:34:18.200 cancel culture

00:34:18.660 we're talking

00:34:19.000 about a lot

00:34:19.520 of times

00:34:19.740 just normal

00:34:20.340 people

00:34:20.780 who for

00:34:22.120 whatever reason

00:34:22.820 end up

00:34:24.260 trending on

00:34:24.960 social media

00:34:25.460 or whatever

00:34:25.800 it is

00:34:26.220 the media

00:34:27.180 jumps in

00:34:27.800 and tries

00:34:28.820 to ruin

00:34:29.600 them

00:34:29.880 and then

00:34:33.540 the very

00:34:34.380 people who

00:34:34.740 do that

00:34:35.280 they lose

00:34:36.520 their jobs

00:34:36.880 and what

00:34:37.080 we're supposed

00:34:37.480 to not

00:34:38.920 gloat about

00:34:39.440 it

00:34:39.660 you deserve

00:34:40.460 to lose 0.98

00:34:40.760 your job

00:34:41.140 you're a 0.84

00:34:43.180 very bad 1.00

00:34:43.580 person

00:34:43.900 you have

00:34:44.120 no integrity

00:34:44.680 you have

00:34:45.540 delighted

00:34:46.020 in your

00:34:47.420 cruelty

00:34:47.840 towards other

00:34:48.360 people

00:34:48.740 and now

00:34:49.760 you lost

00:34:50.060 your job

00:34:50.460 so why

00:34:53.760 are these

00:34:53.980 companies

00:34:54.300 dying

00:34:54.700 nobody

00:34:56.040 trusts them

00:34:56.640 nobody

00:34:57.300 likes

00:34:57.660 them

00:34:57.940 nobody

00:34:59.080 wants

00:34:59.340 to hear

00:34:59.660 from

00:34:59.860 them

00:35:00.120 and you

00:35:01.700 are a

00:35:02.020 business

00:35:02.280 that

00:35:02.540 runs

00:35:02.860 on

00:35:03.100 trust

00:35:03.540 trust

00:35:04.420 is your

00:35:04.760 product

00:35:05.300 really

00:35:05.660 it's

00:35:06.060 what

00:35:06.180 you're

00:35:06.340 selling

00:35:06.660 and if

00:35:08.100 you don't

00:35:08.320 have it

00:35:08.740 if nobody

00:35:09.160 trusts you

00:35:09.660 then it's

00:35:10.400 over

00:35:10.640 and you know

00:35:11.880 I guess you could

00:35:12.340 say that

00:35:12.700 that's basically

00:35:13.720 true of every

00:35:14.280 industry

00:35:14.720 every industry

00:35:16.380 fundamentally

00:35:17.760 is really

00:35:18.840 selling trust

00:35:19.560 you have to

00:35:20.460 trust

00:35:20.800 whatever it is

00:35:21.280 they're selling

00:35:21.580 whatever it is

00:35:22.200 they're actually

00:35:22.640 selling

00:35:22.980 it's like

00:35:23.760 they're all

00:35:24.280 based in trust

00:35:24.820 people have to

00:35:25.200 trust

00:35:25.420 if you're an

00:35:26.020 architect who

00:35:26.600 makes bridges

00:35:27.100 and next thing

00:35:28.420 you know

00:35:28.580 bridges are

00:35:29.080 falling apart

00:35:29.560 all over the

00:35:29.920 country

00:35:30.260 nobody trusts

00:35:32.760 the bridge

00:35:33.040 makers anymore

00:35:33.620 and then your

00:35:34.820 business is going

00:35:35.280 to die

00:35:35.560 the only difference 0.60

00:35:37.160 is that we

00:35:37.560 need bridges

00:35:38.340 whereas we

00:35:39.300 do not need

00:35:39.960 what Taylor

00:35:40.700 Lorenz

00:35:41.320 provides

00:35:41.780 and that

00:35:42.740 kind of goes

00:35:43.120 to the other

00:35:43.540 big problem

00:35:44.000 for the media

00:35:44.540 which is

00:35:45.100 oversaturation

00:35:46.080 extreme

00:35:47.760 oversaturation

00:35:48.720 this is a

00:35:49.700 problem we all

00:35:50.260 deal with

00:35:50.700 everybody in

00:35:51.460 media deals

00:35:51.980 with it

00:35:52.760 I'm in

00:35:55.100 media too

00:35:55.540 I do think

00:35:56.360 it's funny

00:35:56.740 when people

00:35:57.820 in conservative

00:35:58.300 media talk

00:35:58.960 about media

00:35:59.520 like they

00:35:59.900 aren't in

00:36:00.180 the media

00:36:00.440 themselves

00:36:00.800 there is a

00:36:01.880 distinction

00:36:02.200 here there's

00:36:03.820 the left wing

00:36:04.360 corporate press

00:36:04.940 which we are

00:36:05.380 not

00:36:05.600 but yeah

00:36:07.040 we are in

00:36:07.820 the media

00:36:09.260 business

00:36:09.760 and so

00:36:13.600 while we are

00:36:15.840 not left wing

00:36:16.320 propagandists

00:36:17.080 who delight

00:36:17.800 in destroying

00:36:18.960 normal people

00:36:20.800 who did

00:36:21.080 nothing wrong

00:36:21.500 we are still

00:36:22.740 in the media

00:36:23.080 so we do

00:36:23.500 deal with

00:36:24.120 the second

00:36:24.500 problem

00:36:24.880 which is

00:36:25.220 the oversaturation

00:36:27.020 problem

00:36:27.340 there is so

00:36:27.740 much media

00:36:28.220 all of our

00:36:28.760 lives are

00:36:29.740 dominated

00:36:30.780 by media

00:36:32.200 all the time

00:36:32.760 people are

00:36:33.160 ingesting

00:36:33.680 media

00:36:34.080 basically

00:36:34.540 every waking

00:36:35.500 second of

00:36:36.080 the day

00:36:36.440 which means

00:36:37.460 that the

00:36:37.720 media business

00:36:38.300 has never

00:36:38.800 been wider

00:36:39.420 right

00:36:40.580 but it's also

00:36:41.380 never been

00:36:41.720 more shallow

00:36:42.300 and what I

00:36:42.740 mean by that

00:36:43.220 is that there's

00:36:43.620 never been

00:36:44.060 more people

00:36:45.540 in the media

00:36:47.380 business

00:36:47.740 there have

00:36:48.060 probably never

00:36:48.520 been

00:36:48.680 more companies

00:36:50.520 media companies

00:36:51.740 but at the

00:36:53.200 same time

00:36:53.760 the value

00:36:54.360 of the

00:36:54.660 content

00:36:55.020 has also

00:36:55.800 never been

00:36:56.200 more diminished

00:36:56.900 so that

00:36:58.380 even if you

00:37:00.160 don't have

00:37:00.560 the massive

00:37:01.300 trust issue

00:37:01.960 that the

00:37:02.240 left wing

00:37:02.560 press has

00:37:03.180 the other

00:37:03.740 problem

00:37:04.040 is that

00:37:05.040 for so

00:37:07.800 many people

00:37:08.220 in media

00:37:08.560 whatever you're

00:37:09.080 doing can be

00:37:09.680 found a million

00:37:10.400 other places

00:37:11.140 like people

00:37:12.780 blame Sports

00:37:13.520 Illustrated's

00:37:14.120 collapse

00:37:14.480 on its

00:37:15.700 wokeness

00:37:16.260 and that's

00:37:17.300 fair

00:37:17.560 like that

00:37:18.440 definitely

00:37:18.700 had a lot

00:37:19.100 to do

00:37:19.360 with it

00:37:19.660 but also

00:37:21.200 who needs

00:37:21.760 Sports

00:37:22.040 Illustrated

00:37:22.500 anyway

00:37:22.900 like what

00:37:24.420 what do

00:37:25.100 they do

00:37:25.560 that isn't

00:37:25.940 being done

00:37:26.580 just as

00:37:28.380 well in so

00:37:28.920 many other

00:37:29.260 places

00:37:29.640 10 years ago

00:37:30.360 or so

00:37:30.680 I was a

00:37:31.160 pretty

00:37:31.420 avid reader

00:37:33.040 of the

00:37:33.540 Sports

00:37:33.820 Illustrated

00:37:34.200 website

00:37:34.560 I would

00:37:34.820 go there

00:37:35.080 all the

00:37:35.300 time

00:37:35.560 but I

00:37:36.520 bailed out

00:37:37.120 long before

00:37:37.840 they started

00:37:38.280 putting trans 1.00

00:37:39.100 and morbidly 0.99

00:37:40.020 obese people

00:37:40.560 in their

00:37:40.820 swimsuit edition

00:37:41.420 or whatever

00:37:41.780 I stopped

00:37:42.800 reading it

00:37:43.120 long before

00:37:43.440 that because

00:37:43.880 you know

00:37:44.280 if I want

00:37:44.820 to get

00:37:45.000 people's

00:37:45.460 sports

00:37:45.820 takes

00:37:46.220 I can

00:37:47.100 go to

00:37:47.320 Twitter

00:37:47.520 or I can

00:37:48.160 go to

00:37:48.320 YouTube

00:37:48.540 or any

00:37:49.480 of 100

00:37:49.860 sports

00:37:50.260 blogs

00:37:50.600 everything

00:37:51.800 gets

00:37:52.060 drowned

00:37:52.520 everything

00:37:53.420 is being

00:37:53.840 drowned

00:37:54.220 by everything

00:37:54.760 else

00:37:55.140 what's the

00:37:57.200 solution

00:37:57.600 well I

00:37:58.140 I think

00:38:00.220 I hope

00:38:00.580 the solution

00:38:01.020 is to

00:38:01.360 create

00:38:01.620 meaningful

00:38:02.120 high quality

00:38:02.800 content

00:38:03.220 and

00:38:04.600 offer

00:38:05.440 unique

00:38:05.900 interesting

00:38:06.600 analysis

00:38:07.100 and perspective

00:38:08.440 that you

00:38:08.900 can't get

00:38:09.580 a million

00:38:09.980 other places

00:38:10.660 the fact

00:38:12.260 is that

00:38:12.540 95%

00:38:13.380 of media

00:38:13.860 content

00:38:14.260 is

00:38:14.620 interchangeable

00:38:15.500 and

00:38:15.720 indistinguishable

00:38:16.560 most of it

00:38:17.660 can be replaced

00:38:18.140 by AI

00:38:18.680 and that's

00:38:19.220 already

00:38:19.400 happening

00:38:19.720 a lot

00:38:19.940 of it

00:38:20.080 already

00:38:20.240 has been

00:38:20.620 we just

00:38:20.900 don't

00:38:21.020 you just

00:38:21.240 don't

00:38:21.380 know it

00:38:21.640 when you

00:38:21.860 read

00:38:22.020 the articles

00:38:22.500 even

00:38:24.060 most

00:38:24.300 of the

00:38:24.500 commentary

00:38:24.920 that you

00:38:26.460 hear

00:38:26.720 from

00:38:28.000 corporate

00:38:29.400 media

00:38:29.640 outlets

00:38:29.940 or whatever

00:38:30.260 most of

00:38:31.080 the commentary

00:38:31.460 could be

00:38:31.780 replicated

00:38:32.160 by a

00:38:33.160 mildly

00:38:33.600 advanced

00:38:34.100 chatbot

00:38:34.800 which means

00:38:36.600 that if

00:38:36.860 you're in

00:38:37.260 the business

00:38:38.400 if you're in

00:38:38.740 my business

00:38:39.220 you need

00:38:39.560 to be

00:38:39.840 in that

00:38:40.240 5%

00:38:41.000 to have

00:38:43.660 any job

00:38:44.060 security

00:38:44.340 at all

00:38:44.700 I like

00:38:45.880 to think

00:38:46.080 we're in

00:38:46.260 the 5% 1.00

00:38:46.740 that's

00:38:47.200 my goal

00:38:47.540 anyway

00:38:47.780 finally

00:38:49.520 New York

00:38:51.620 Post

00:38:51.960 headline

00:38:52.800 amazing

00:38:54.680 headline

00:38:55.040 actually

00:38:55.980 this might

00:38:57.380 be the

00:38:57.580 biggest

00:38:57.720 story

00:38:58.120 really

00:38:59.080 of all

00:38:59.360 time

00:38:59.660 New York

00:39:00.380 Post

00:39:00.580 trans man

00:39:01.420 who had

00:39:01.700 mastectomy

00:39:02.240 discovered

00:39:02.660 to be

00:39:02.920 five months

00:39:03.600 pregnant 0.80

00:39:04.040 making

00:39:04.860 rare

00:39:05.340 seahorse

00:39:06.360 dad

00:39:06.900 it says

00:39:09.340 a transgender

00:39:09.820 man who

00:39:10.360 underwent a

00:39:10.840 mastectomy

00:39:11.220 while transitioning

00:39:11.840 in Italy

00:39:12.200 was found

00:39:12.580 to be

00:39:12.780 five months

00:39:13.280 pregnant 0.80

00:39:13.660 joining a

00:39:14.120 rare group

00:39:14.580 of so-called

00:39:15.200 seahorse dads

00:39:16.220 the parent

00:39:16.980 to be

00:39:17.200 referred to

00:39:17.640 only as

00:39:18.080 Marco

00:39:18.480 in Italian

00:39:18.960 media

00:39:19.280 already had

00:39:20.480 a breast 0.74

00:39:20.800 removal

00:39:21.180 operation

00:39:21.740 was preparing

00:39:22.160 to get

00:39:22.400 rid of

00:39:22.640 the uterus

00:39:23.140 when the

00:39:23.560 pregnancy

00:39:23.800 was discovered

00:39:24.300 at a

00:39:24.520 hospital

00:39:24.800 in Rome

00:39:25.240 having

00:39:26.280 discovered

00:39:26.600 the

00:39:26.740 pregnancy

00:39:26.980 the first

00:39:27.360 thing

00:39:27.520 to do

00:39:27.740 is to

00:39:28.020 suspend

00:39:28.400 hormone

00:39:28.740 therapy

00:39:29.060 immediately

00:39:29.480 and

00:39:31.720 and so

00:39:34.160 then

00:39:34.500 because

00:39:35.760 you know

00:39:36.080 you're

00:39:36.260 taking

00:39:36.560 like you're

00:39:37.300 poisoning

00:39:37.580 yourself 0.52

00:39:37.920 with these

00:39:38.280 chemicals

00:39:38.620 and

00:39:38.960 so

00:39:40.580 hopefully

00:39:41.020 it's not

00:39:41.440 too late

00:39:41.760 to save

00:39:42.100 the baby

00:39:42.460 but anyway

00:39:44.240 incredible news

00:39:45.540 I mean I

00:39:45.920 can't even

00:39:46.620 continue reading

00:39:47.080 the article

00:39:47.380 because I'm

00:39:47.680 so I'm

00:39:48.460 so stunned

00:39:48.980 by it

00:39:49.520 I can't

00:39:50.340 even wrap

00:39:50.600 my mind

00:39:51.060 around this

00:39:51.540 I am

00:39:51.820 blown away

00:39:52.600 that

00:39:53.680 apparently

00:39:54.160 a woman 0.57

00:39:55.000 is going

00:39:56.700 to give

00:39:57.220 birth to

00:39:57.620 a child

00:39:58.060 amazing

00:39:59.360 I mean

00:39:59.720 think about

00:40:01.300 this

00:40:01.520 this has

00:40:02.720 only happened

00:40:03.700 like

00:40:05.000 115

00:40:06.320 billion

00:40:07.060 other times

00:40:07.640 in history

00:40:08.060 that

00:40:08.420 that's

00:40:08.920 that's

00:40:09.640 it

00:40:09.800 it's

00:40:10.560 unprecedented

00:40:11.180 aside from

00:40:11.920 115

00:40:12.380 billion

00:40:12.760 times

00:40:13.020 it's

00:40:13.860 never

00:40:14.040 happened

00:40:14.320 it's

00:40:14.480 unprecedented

00:40:14.840 if it

00:40:17.200 wasn't

00:40:17.520 for the

00:40:17.760 fact

00:40:18.000 that this

00:40:18.340 was the

00:40:18.640 most

00:40:18.840 normal

00:40:19.260 thing

00:40:19.700 in the

00:40:20.840 world

00:40:21.180 it would

00:40:22.040 be

00:40:22.160 unheard

00:40:22.420 of

00:40:22.640 and you

00:40:24.500 know

00:40:24.640 of course

00:40:25.060 it's easy

00:40:25.460 to make

00:40:25.700 fun of

00:40:25.980 stories

00:40:26.180 like this

00:40:26.680 the media

00:40:27.640 trying to

00:40:28.500 get us

00:40:28.720 to treat

00:40:29.120 it as

00:40:29.440 a medical

00:40:29.920 marvel

00:40:30.380 that a

00:40:31.300 woman 0.99

00:40:31.440 has

00:40:31.620 become

00:40:31.860 pregnant 0.80

00:40:32.220 and we

00:40:33.540 should

00:40:33.740 make

00:40:33.920 fun of

00:40:34.240 it

00:40:34.440 really

00:40:35.380 that's

00:40:35.640 all

00:40:35.800 we

00:40:35.940 should

00:40:36.100 do

00:40:36.400 there

00:40:38.400 isn't

00:40:38.580 much

00:40:38.740 else

00:40:38.900 to be

00:40:39.120 said

00:40:39.340 in

00:40:40.120 response

00:40:40.540 I

00:40:40.720 suppose

00:40:41.040 except

00:40:41.880 I guess

00:40:42.180 just to

00:40:42.520 emphasize

00:40:42.840 how

00:40:43.080 desperate

00:40:43.620 of a

00:40:44.000 move

00:40:44.260 this

00:40:44.500 is

00:40:44.740 by

00:40:44.960 the

00:40:45.120 media

00:40:45.400 they

00:40:46.580 know

00:40:47.220 that

00:40:47.560 the

00:40:49.240 fact

00:40:49.860 that

00:40:50.120 the

00:40:50.500 woman 0.99

00:40:50.700 is

00:40:50.900 pregnant 0.80

00:40:51.240 that

00:40:52.600 fact

00:40:52.840 alone

00:40:53.080 is

00:40:53.260 a

00:40:53.440 definitive

00:40:53.940 absolute

00:40:55.460 repudiation

00:40:56.320 of the

00:40:56.980 whole

00:40:57.160 idea

00:40:57.500 that

00:40:57.680 she's

00:40:57.880 a

00:40:57.980 man

00:40:58.160 so

00:40:58.660 the

00:40:58.800 real

00:40:59.000 story

00:40:59.400 here

00:40:59.640 is

00:41:00.140 woman 0.99

00:41:01.480 claims

00:41:01.980 she's

00:41:02.240 a

00:41:02.340 man

00:41:02.620 is

00:41:03.680 debunked

00:41:04.220 by

00:41:04.420 own

00:41:04.700 pregnancy

00:41:05.160 that's

00:41:06.320 the

00:41:06.460 actual

00:41:07.000 headline

00:41:07.440 but

00:41:08.240 instead

00:41:08.740 so

00:41:09.040 rather

00:41:09.420 than

00:41:09.680 making

00:41:10.140 that

00:41:10.300 the

00:41:10.420 headline

00:41:10.660 which

00:41:10.980 really

00:41:11.300 wouldn't

00:41:11.500 be

00:41:11.940 shocking

00:41:13.560 news

00:41:13.780 either

00:41:14.040 but

00:41:14.980 instead

00:41:15.220 they're

00:41:15.460 massively

00:41:15.880 overcompensating

00:41:16.660 so this

00:41:17.420 becomes

00:41:17.720 the most

00:41:18.080 it's

00:41:18.240 kind of

00:41:18.400 like

00:41:18.520 the

00:41:18.640 most

00:41:18.840 bizarre

00:41:19.460 extreme

00:41:21.560 form

00:41:22.440 of a

00:41:23.160 figure

00:41:23.840 skater

00:41:24.400 planting

00:41:25.520 on her 1.00

00:41:26.280 face

00:41:26.640 in the

00:41:26.840 middle

00:41:26.960 of a

00:41:27.160 routine

00:41:27.440 and

00:41:27.580 trying

00:41:27.800 to play

00:41:28.180 it

00:41:28.300 off

00:41:28.560 like

00:41:29.280 her fall 0.88

00:41:29.800 was some

00:41:30.120 sort of

00:41:30.380 brilliant

00:41:30.700 move

00:41:31.100 that she

00:41:31.360 was trying

00:41:31.780 to do

00:41:32.180 so

00:41:32.940 instead

00:41:33.200 of saying

00:41:33.700 well

00:41:34.480 I guess

00:41:36.000 this person

00:41:36.440 isn't a

00:41:36.740 man

00:41:36.960 given the

00:41:37.280 whole

00:41:37.380 pregnancy

00:41:37.680 thing

00:41:37.940 never mind

00:41:38.460 instead of

00:41:39.640 that they

00:41:39.940 say oh

00:41:40.420 my god

00:41:41.080 look at

00:41:41.960 this

00:41:42.200 how could

00:41:42.640 this be

00:41:43.020 the laws

00:41:43.880 of science

00:41:44.440 have been

00:41:44.780 suspended

00:41:45.340 everything we

00:41:46.560 know about

00:41:47.300 the world

00:41:47.860 has been

00:41:48.240 turned on

00:41:48.620 its head

00:41:48.960 this man 0.91

00:41:50.580 is pregnant

00:41:51.200 it's a

00:41:52.740 seahorse

00:41:53.340 so they try

00:41:55.640 to go that

00:41:56.080 way and hope

00:41:56.780 that nobody

00:41:57.120 notices but

00:41:57.640 the good

00:41:57.860 thing is

00:41:58.200 that if

00:41:59.280 the comments

00:41:59.820 and the

00:42:00.080 reaction on

00:42:00.600 social media

00:42:01.060 to these

00:42:01.380 sorts of

00:42:01.660 stories is

00:42:02.060 any indication

00:42:02.700 they are not

00:42:04.300 fooling anyone

00:42:05.420 I mean it's

00:42:06.500 perhaps not

00:42:08.840 surprisingly

00:42:09.260 they are not

00:42:10.240 fooling anyone

00:42:10.900 that will not

00:42:12.760 stop them from

00:42:13.920 trying though

00:42:14.660 which is why

00:42:15.600 they're all losing

00:42:15.980 their jobs

00:42:16.340 let's get to

00:42:17.540 was Walsh

00:42:18.160 wrong

00:42:18.520 keeping your

00:42:23.040 windshields

00:42:23.480 clean is

00:42:23.940 always a

00:42:24.600 pain

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00:42:25.240 the winter

00:42:25.540 dirt and

00:42:26.120 salt pile up

00:42:26.900 and washer 0.99

00:42:27.620 fluid just

00:42:28.180 can't get the

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00:42:29.140 that's where

00:42:29.620 my friends

00:42:30.160 at

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00:42:30.820 Wow

00:42:31.160 come in

00:42:31.900 to save

00:42:32.300 the day

00:42:32.640 Windshield

00:42:33.320 Wow

00:42:33.540 is an

00:42:33.840 innovative

00:42:34.180 windshield

00:42:34.620 cleaning

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00:42:35.220 that uses

00:42:35.580 two magnetic

00:42:36.320 cleaning

00:42:36.740 paddles

00:42:37.180 one on

00:42:37.540 one side

00:42:38.020 and one

00:42:38.740 on the

00:42:38.960 inside of

00:42:39.700 your car

00:42:40.000 to clean

00:42:40.920 both sides

00:42:41.660 of your

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00:42:43.400 all you do

00:42:43.940 is push

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00:42:55.600 front and

00:42:56.100 the inside

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00:42:59.060 one of these

00:42:59.420 years ago

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00:43:01.500 cleaning

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00:43:05.920 are you

00:43:06.040 waiting

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00:43:13.100 Walsh

00:43:14.280 Matt

00:43:14.840 whether you

00:43:15.280 are

00:43:15.500 whether you

00:43:16.180 or other

00:43:16.680 Christians

00:43:17.180 like our

00:43:17.960 orientation

00:43:18.480 or not

00:43:19.060 we can still

00:43:19.580 celebrate our

00:43:20.180 unions

00:43:20.520 nobody I

00:43:21.000 know is

00:43:21.260 forcing

00:43:21.540 acceptance

00:43:21.960 on you

00:43:22.460 and your

00:43:22.740 associates

00:43:23.100 leave us

00:43:23.720 be

00:43:23.980 and there's

00:43:24.340 no problem

00:43:25.020 another comment

00:43:27.080 says why

00:43:27.440 should businesses

00:43:27.960 be allowed

00:43:28.420 to discriminate

00:43:28.980 and deny

00:43:29.540 business

00:43:30.000 Matt

00:43:30.360 do you

00:43:30.940 just really

00:43:31.420 want to

00:43:31.780 see the

00:43:32.140 Jim Crow 0.56

00:43:32.720 segregation

00:43:33.480 laws

00:43:33.980 come back

00:43:34.640 another one

00:43:36.500 says it's

00:43:36.900 still bigotry

00:43:37.620 the venue

00:43:38.080 went out of

00:43:38.580 their way

00:43:38.980 to tow

00:43:39.420 the legal

00:43:39.800 line

00:43:40.100 while effectively

00:43:40.660 telling the

00:43:41.140 couple that

00:43:41.500 they don't

00:43:41.820 like them

00:43:42.380 seems

00:43:43.220 unnecessary

00:43:43.660 and rude

00:43:44.200 I will

00:43:45.000 allow you

00:43:45.300 to rent

00:43:45.480 my property

00:43:45.920 but just

00:43:46.360 know that

00:43:46.700 I don't

00:43:47.060 like

00:43:47.420 pick one 0.99

00:43:48.260 gay 1.00

00:43:48.500 black 1.00

00:43:48.820 mormon 0.95

00:43:49.240 people

00:43:49.720 now the

00:43:52.720 comment

00:43:53.100 man who

00:43:53.580 makes a

00:43:53.900 living

00:43:54.080 complaining

00:43:54.480 about

00:43:54.680 perceived

00:43:55.020 slights

00:43:55.460 bestowed

00:43:55.760 upon him

00:43:56.300 makes

00:43:57.000 video

00:43:57.300 complaining

00:43:57.700 about

00:43:57.900 women 1.00

00:43:58.220 addressing

00:43:58.760 real

00:43:59.100 slights

00:43:59.880 bestowed

00:44:00.280 upon

00:44:00.540 them

00:44:00.760 okay

00:44:01.040 so a few

00:44:03.740 things

00:44:03.940 first of all

00:44:04.360 the wedding

00:44:04.740 venue we

00:44:05.280 talked about

00:44:05.600 yesterday

00:44:05.980 was willing

00:44:08.080 to host

00:44:08.600 the wedding

00:44:09.060 of this 0.89

00:44:09.640 lesbian

00:44:10.860 couple

00:44:11.300 so

00:44:12.820 they were

00:44:13.780 not

00:44:13.940 discriminating

00:44:14.540 quote

00:44:14.820 unquote

00:44:15.040 discriminating

00:44:15.720 that's the

00:44:18.120 first thing

00:44:18.440 second

00:44:18.720 why

00:44:19.640 why did

00:44:20.960 they decide

00:44:21.400 to be honest

00:44:21.860 about their

00:44:22.300 feelings about it

00:44:23.080 why did

00:44:23.420 I don't know

00:44:24.220 because honesty

00:44:25.420 is the best

00:44:25.860 policy

00:44:26.320 because they

00:44:27.720 they wanted

00:44:28.480 to be honest

00:44:29.100 because that's

00:44:30.340 their right

00:44:30.780 free speech

00:44:31.700 I don't know

00:44:33.360 and by the

00:44:34.940 way

00:44:35.080 if I was

00:44:35.600 in a

00:44:35.840 similar

00:44:36.180 situation

00:44:37.320 I would

00:44:38.780 want that

00:44:39.240 level of

00:44:39.640 honesty

00:44:39.960 so let's

00:44:40.960 say that

00:44:41.320 let's say

00:44:43.460 I was

00:44:43.740 I was

00:44:44.240 we'll take

00:44:45.760 something that's

00:44:46.140 not like

00:44:46.500 that far

00:44:46.900 fetched

00:44:47.880 let's say

00:44:48.160 I was

00:44:48.360 renting

00:44:48.660 an Airbnb

00:44:49.160 or something

00:44:50.360 and

00:44:50.740 with my

00:44:51.820 family

00:44:52.140 for

00:44:52.440 vacation

00:44:53.260 and the

00:44:54.320 person who

00:44:54.800 owns the

00:44:55.280 house

00:44:55.680 knows who

00:44:57.540 I am

00:44:58.040 and

00:44:59.180 hates me

00:45:00.600 like I said

00:45:01.220 this is not

00:45:01.640 farfetched

00:45:02.060 and then they

00:45:03.100 said

00:45:03.420 well listen

00:45:04.700 I'm going to

00:45:05.140 rent you

00:45:05.340 the house

00:45:05.680 you're welcome

00:45:06.780 to stay here

00:45:07.920 Airbnb policy

00:45:09.060 I can't deny

00:45:09.560 you

00:45:09.780 but I want

00:45:10.660 you to know

00:45:11.020 that I strongly

00:45:11.560 disagree

00:45:11.920 with you

00:45:13.160 and I think 1.00

00:45:14.180 you're terrible 0.97

00:45:14.580 I would 0.99

00:45:16.320 appreciate that

00:45:17.160 actually

00:45:17.640 I wouldn't

00:45:18.300 I wouldn't

00:45:18.660 I wouldn't

00:45:19.020 stay up all

00:45:19.500 night crying

00:45:20.000 about it

00:45:20.440 okay

00:45:20.780 I wouldn't

00:45:22.580 even go

00:45:23.060 on social

00:45:23.740 media

00:45:24.040 and

00:45:24.440 and

00:45:24.800 and attack 0.95

00:45:25.440 the person 0.96

00:45:25.880 I wouldn't

00:45:26.540 do it

00:45:26.800 because

00:45:27.120 I would

00:45:28.400 appreciate

00:45:28.840 the honesty

00:45:29.400 like I can't

00:45:30.120 blame

00:45:30.280 okay you don't

00:45:30.760 like me

00:45:31.080 that's

00:45:31.380 I mean

00:45:32.820 I don't

00:45:33.200 know why

00:45:33.500 anybody

00:45:33.760 wouldn't

00:45:33.960 like me

00:45:34.320 I think

00:45:34.820 I'm a

00:45:34.980 great guy

00:45:35.340 but there

00:45:35.780 are people

00:45:36.060 who don't

00:45:36.720 I can't

00:45:36.980 really blame

00:45:37.300 you for

00:45:37.500 that

00:45:37.760 and

00:45:38.620 and

00:45:39.400 you

00:45:39.880 were

00:45:40.020 honest

00:45:40.380 okay

00:45:41.120 now if

00:45:41.480 you come

00:45:41.780 at it

00:45:42.080 in a

00:45:42.320 really

00:45:42.820 over the

00:45:44.100 top

00:45:44.400 combative

00:45:45.100 insulting

00:45:46.440 kind of

00:45:46.840 way

00:45:47.100 then that

00:45:47.620 could be

00:45:47.820 a different

00:45:48.040 story

00:45:48.320 but

00:45:48.500 if you

00:45:49.540 approach

00:45:49.860 it

00:45:50.000 I'm

00:45:50.180 saying

00:45:50.360 you

00:45:50.480 approach

00:45:50.700 it

00:45:50.820 the

00:45:50.940 way

00:45:51.200 that

00:45:51.480 this

00:45:51.740 wedding

00:45:52.020 venue

00:45:52.400 did

00:45:52.800 with

00:45:53.080 the

00:45:53.220 lesbian

00:45:53.460 couple

00:45:53.820 and

00:45:55.880 if I

00:45:56.440 was in

00:45:56.740 that

00:45:56.880 situation

00:45:57.360 I would

00:46:01.380 because I

00:46:01.860 don't

00:46:02.000 really

00:46:02.220 want to

00:46:02.500 stay

00:46:02.700 at a

00:46:02.900 place

00:46:03.200 where

00:46:03.640 the

00:46:03.800 host

00:46:03.980 hates

00:46:04.180 my 0.95

00:46:04.380 guts 0.99

00:46:04.640 you

00:46:06.080 know

00:46:06.200 I

00:46:06.400 just

00:46:06.860 prefer

00:46:07.140 not

00:46:07.320 to

00:46:07.520 like

00:46:08.540 it's

00:46:08.900 one

00:46:09.100 thing

00:46:09.360 if

00:46:09.580 you're

00:46:09.720 going

00:46:09.900 to

00:46:10.020 Home

00:46:10.180 Depot

00:46:10.440 to buy

00:46:10.860 a

00:46:11.000 garden

00:46:11.240 hose

00:46:11.480 or

00:46:11.620 something

00:46:11.900 and

00:46:12.900 the

00:46:13.180 cashier

00:46:13.660 doesn't

00:46:13.940 like

00:46:14.180 you

00:46:14.400 well

00:46:15.480 you

00:46:15.620 don't

00:46:15.760 really

00:46:15.960 they

00:46:16.400 don't

00:46:16.500 need

00:46:16.640 to

00:46:16.720 tell

00:46:17.100 you

00:46:17.200 that

00:46:17.320 you

00:46:17.580 don't

00:46:17.700 need

00:46:17.860 that

00:46:17.980 information

00:46:18.420 because

00:46:18.760 that's

00:46:18.980 not

00:46:19.200 you're

00:46:19.440 we're

00:46:19.900 only

00:46:20.080 interacting

00:46:20.480 for

00:46:20.680 five

00:46:20.900 seconds

00:46:21.240 you're

00:46:21.800 just

00:46:23.000 ringing

00:46:23.340 me

00:46:23.500 up

00:46:23.620 for

00:46:23.720 the

00:46:23.820 garden

00:46:24.020 hose

00:46:24.160 I'll

00:46:24.280 be

00:46:24.360 on

00:46:24.480 my

00:46:24.580 way

00:46:24.740 but

00:46:25.600 if

00:46:25.700 you're

00:46:25.860 hosting

00:46:26.360 me

00:46:26.760 if

00:46:27.080 I'm

00:46:27.240 going

00:46:27.320 to

00:46:27.400 be

00:46:27.580 in

00:46:27.740 your

00:46:27.880 house

00:46:28.220 or

00:46:28.360 at

00:46:28.440 your

00:46:28.560 venue

00:46:28.940 and

00:46:29.160 you're

00:46:29.300 hosting

00:46:29.560 especially

00:46:29.860 you take

00:46:30.600 a

00:46:30.720 wedding

00:46:30.900 venue

00:46:31.100 it's

00:46:31.240 a

00:46:31.400 celebratory

00:46:31.940 occasion

00:46:32.280 that's

00:46:32.740 totally

00:46:33.040 different

00:46:33.420 and

00:46:34.200 if

00:46:34.320 the

00:46:34.480 people

00:46:34.880 who

00:46:35.440 own

00:46:35.620 the

00:46:35.740 venue

00:46:36.740 have

00:46:37.680 very

00:46:37.860 conflicted

00:46:38.400 feelings

00:46:38.700 about

00:46:39.000 it

00:46:39.220 negative

00:46:40.120 feelings

00:46:40.460 why

00:46:41.700 shouldn't

00:46:42.060 they

00:46:42.180 be

00:46:42.320 honest

00:46:42.640 and

00:46:42.940 why

00:46:43.440 wouldn't

00:46:51.240 prefer

00:46:51.540 the

00:46:51.720 honesty

00:46:52.060 but

00:46:53.080 we

00:46:53.200 know

00:46:53.340 the

00:46:53.480 LGBT

00:46:53.900 group

00:46:56.020 the

00:46:57.200 last

00:46:57.460 thing

00:46:57.620 they

00:46:57.800 want

00:46:58.000 is

00:46:58.120 honesty

00:46:58.440 they

00:46:58.660 don't

00:46:58.760 want

00:46:58.900 anyone

00:46:59.100 to

00:46:59.220 be

00:46:59.320 honest

00:46:59.540 with

00:46:59.680 them

00:46:59.840 or

00:46:59.980 with

00:47:00.180 themselves

00:47:00.500 or

00:47:00.660 with

00:47:00.760 the

00:47:00.840 world

00:47:01.100 and

00:47:02.060 so

00:47:02.260 they

00:47:02.440 just

00:47:02.640 what

00:47:02.880 they

00:47:03.200 want

00:47:03.420 is

00:47:03.540 compliance

00:47:04.080 they

00:47:04.300 don't

00:47:04.400 care

00:47:04.540 about

00:47:04.700 honesty

00:47:05.020 and

00:47:08.200 finally

00:47:08.560 why

00:47:08.900 should

00:47:09.500 the

00:47:09.980 venue

00:47:11.400 have

00:47:11.560 the

00:47:11.660 right

00:47:11.780 to

00:47:11.900 discriminate

00:47:12.240 well

00:47:12.480 again

00:47:12.660 they

00:47:12.820 didn't

00:47:13.040 discriminate

00:47:13.420 but

00:47:14.900 yeah

00:47:15.060 I

00:47:15.260 think

00:47:15.440 they

00:47:15.640 should

00:47:15.780 have

00:47:15.880 the

00:47:15.960 right

00:47:16.120 to

00:47:16.320 I

00:47:21.240 said

00:47:21.400 this

00:47:21.660 I

00:47:22.280 think

00:47:22.420 that's

00:47:22.820 the

00:47:22.940 easiest

00:47:23.240 way

00:47:23.600 to

00:47:23.880 deal

00:47:24.080 with

00:47:24.200 these

00:47:24.340 kinds

00:47:24.600 of

00:47:24.720 issues

00:47:25.020 that's

00:47:26.100 the

00:47:26.300 that's

00:47:27.100 that is

00:47:27.840 the

00:47:28.060 solution

00:47:28.460 to all

00:47:28.920 of

00:47:29.040 these

00:47:29.180 sorts

00:47:29.380 of

00:47:29.500 problems

00:47:29.900 is

00:47:31.240 that

00:47:31.380 everybody

00:47:31.620 has

00:47:31.840 the

00:47:31.960 right

00:47:32.100 to

00:47:32.220 discriminate

00:47:32.600 in

00:47:33.220 fact

00:47:33.440 I

00:47:33.680 would

00:47:33.860 say

00:47:34.160 that

00:47:34.800 the

00:47:34.940 right

00:47:35.120 to

00:47:35.260 discriminate

00:47:35.640 is

00:47:36.000 one

00:47:36.200 of

00:47:36.260 the

00:47:36.340 most

00:47:36.520 fundamental

00:47:37.140 human

00:47:37.500 rights

00:47:37.760 we

00:47:37.940 have

00:47:38.380 and

00:47:39.200 it

00:47:39.300 should

00:47:39.440 be

00:47:39.580 protected

00:47:39.980 and

00:47:40.220 preserved

00:47:40.560 by

00:47:40.760 the

00:47:40.900 government

00:47:41.140 yes

00:47:41.440 because

00:47:42.340 what

00:47:42.620 does

00:47:42.840 discriminate

00:47:43.300 mean

00:47:44.340 it

00:47:45.060 means

00:47:45.380 literally

00:47:45.880 definitionally

00:47:46.800 to

00:47:47.980 distinguish

00:47:48.500 between

00:47:48.960 one

00:47:49.260 thing

00:47:49.440 and

00:47:49.540 another

00:47:49.760 that's

00:47:50.020 what

00:47:50.100 discriminate

00:47:50.460 means

00:47:50.920 okay

00:47:52.160 and

00:47:52.520 that's

00:47:52.680 why

00:47:52.820 if

00:47:53.020 you

00:47:53.200 have

00:47:54.840 a

00:47:54.980 vocabulary

00:47:55.400 maybe

00:47:55.880 larger

00:47:56.220 than

00:47:56.420 the

00:47:56.520 average

00:47:56.720 person

00:47:57.140 these

00:47:57.480 days

00:47:57.760 you

00:47:58.720 might

00:47:59.100 refer

00:47:59.380 to

00:47:59.560 someone

00:47:59.780 and

00:47:59.900 say

00:48:00.040 someone

00:48:00.880 is

00:48:00.980 a

00:48:01.040 discriminating

00:48:01.960 person

00:48:02.520 they have

00:48:03.240 discriminating

00:48:03.960 tastes

00:48:04.360 and

00:48:05.200 again

00:48:05.340 if

00:48:05.440 your

00:48:06.140 vocabulary

00:48:06.520 is a

00:48:06.680 little

00:48:06.720 larger

00:48:06.980 than

00:48:07.140 average

00:48:07.420 you

00:48:07.580 know

00:48:07.760 that

00:48:07.960 you're

00:48:08.840 not

00:48:08.940 saying

00:48:09.360 the

00:48:09.480 person

00:48:09.720 is

00:48:09.880 a

00:48:10.420 bigot

00:48:10.740 what

00:48:11.380 you're

00:48:11.460 saying

00:48:11.700 is

00:48:11.800 they

00:48:12.020 have

00:48:13.180 discernment

00:48:14.700 like

00:48:15.120 this

00:48:15.280 is

00:48:15.380 a

00:48:15.500 very

00:48:15.760 thoughtful

00:48:16.260 discerning

00:48:16.880 person

00:48:17.300 and

00:48:18.400 so

00:48:18.620 that's

00:48:18.960 from

00:48:20.200 a

00:48:20.540 literal

00:48:20.920 sense

00:48:22.820 that's

00:48:23.020 what

00:48:23.120 discrimination

00:48:23.680 means

00:48:24.100 it means

00:48:24.760 discernment

00:48:25.280 it means

00:48:25.520 distinguishing

00:48:26.240 and

00:48:27.660 so

00:48:27.820 yes

00:48:28.040 that's

00:48:28.260 a

00:48:28.380 basic

00:48:28.760 that's

00:48:29.140 like

00:48:29.240 it's

00:48:29.460 human

00:48:29.660 nature

00:48:29.980 that's

00:48:30.320 part

00:48:30.520 of

00:48:30.660 being

00:48:30.980 conscious

00:48:32.160 sentient

00:48:33.160 beings

00:48:33.560 is that

00:48:33.920 we're

00:48:34.080 able

00:48:34.240 to

00:48:34.400 do

00:48:34.540 that

00:48:34.800 and

00:48:37.880 you

00:48:38.040 take

00:48:38.380 that

00:48:38.720 over

00:48:39.040 into

00:48:39.420 this

00:48:39.780 realm

00:48:40.300 that

00:48:40.440 we're

00:48:40.520 talking

00:48:40.860 about

00:48:41.220 yes

00:48:42.780 I

00:48:43.300 believe

00:48:43.660 you

00:48:44.220 have

00:48:44.400 a

00:48:44.540 right

00:48:44.820 to

00:48:45.120 distinguish

00:48:45.980 between

00:48:48.420 groups

00:48:48.760 of

00:48:48.920 people

00:48:49.220 to

00:48:50.360 distinguish

00:48:50.900 people

00:48:52.840 that you

00:48:53.140 want to

00:48:53.480 be

00:48:53.600 associated

00:48:54.020 with

00:48:54.340 and do

00:48:54.600 business

00:48:54.880 with

00:48:55.160 from

00:48:55.900 people

00:48:56.160 you

00:48:56.300 don't

00:48:56.640 I

00:48:58.200 think

00:48:58.320 you

00:48:58.420 have

00:48:58.540 that

00:48:58.660 right

00:48:58.940 it's

00:49:01.120 just

00:49:01.240 a

00:49:01.360 long

00:49:01.860 wordy

00:49:02.280 way

00:49:02.420 of

00:49:02.540 saying

00:49:02.720 freedom

00:49:03.000 of

00:49:03.140 association

00:49:03.520 really

00:49:04.020 I

00:49:06.360 actually

00:49:06.640 believe

00:49:06.980 in

00:49:07.140 freedom

00:49:07.380 of

00:49:07.560 association

00:49:08.080 and

00:49:09.920 nobody

00:49:10.260 should

00:49:10.500 be

00:49:10.660 forced

00:49:10.960 by

00:49:11.160 law

00:49:11.440 to

00:49:11.580 provide

00:49:11.820 a

00:49:11.960 service

00:49:12.200 to

00:49:12.360 anybody

00:49:12.700 except

00:49:14.580 in

00:49:14.940 there are

00:49:17.960 exceptions

00:49:18.220 to

00:49:18.380 every

00:49:18.540 rule

00:49:18.820 if

00:49:19.840 we're

00:49:19.940 talking

00:49:20.240 about

00:49:20.480 life

00:49:20.860 saving

00:49:21.540 service

00:49:23.740 if we're

00:49:24.060 talking

00:49:24.280 about

00:49:24.480 an

00:49:24.620 EMT

00:49:25.240 or

00:49:25.480 something

00:49:25.840 and

00:49:27.400 someone

00:49:27.660 needs

00:49:28.000 life

00:49:28.580 saving

00:49:28.980 measures

00:49:31.380 you can't

00:49:31.840 decide

00:49:32.120 you're not

00:49:32.340 going to

00:49:32.500 do it

00:49:32.680 because

00:49:32.760 you don't

00:49:32.900 like

00:49:33.080 them

00:49:33.220 outside

00:49:34.620 of

00:49:34.980 situations

00:49:35.500 like

00:49:35.780 that

00:49:36.060 and

00:49:37.640 then

00:49:37.760 over

00:49:37.980 into

00:49:38.280 the

00:49:38.600 private

00:49:38.900 sector

00:49:39.300 and

00:49:39.460 businesses

00:49:39.820 because

00:49:41.280 this

00:49:41.440 also

00:49:41.640 would

00:49:41.760 not

00:49:41.880 apply

00:49:42.080 to

00:49:42.220 government

00:49:42.540 but

00:49:43.920 private

00:49:44.220 sector

00:49:44.520 business

00:49:44.940 non

00:49:45.380 life

00:49:46.500 saving

00:49:46.880 situations

00:49:47.660 I

00:49:49.220 think

00:49:49.560 that

00:49:49.880 yes

00:49:50.240 you

00:49:50.380 should

00:49:50.760 have

00:49:50.900 the

00:49:51.020 right

00:49:51.180 to

00:49:51.360 discriminate

00:49:51.760 and

00:49:52.280 you

00:49:53.020 do

00:49:53.200 business

00:49:53.500 with

00:49:53.700 whoever

00:49:53.880 you

00:49:54.020 want

00:49:54.260 and

00:49:54.560 if

00:49:55.420 you

00:49:55.540 want

00:49:55.680 to

00:49:55.760 have

00:49:55.860 a

00:49:55.980 business

00:49:56.400 that

00:49:57.060 caters

00:49:57.380 only

00:49:57.600 to

00:49:57.740 a

00:49:57.840 certain

00:49:58.020 group

00:49:58.200 of

00:49:58.320 people

00:49:58.620 why

00:49:59.540 shouldn't

00:50:00.400 you

00:50:00.440 have

00:50:00.900 the

00:50:01.040 right

00:50:01.220 to

00:50:01.320 do

00:50:03.200 that

00:50:03.460 and

00:50:05.800 then

00:50:06.160 if

00:50:08.260 you

00:50:08.420 do

00:50:08.620 that

00:50:08.960 depending

00:50:10.380 on

00:50:10.560 who

00:50:10.660 you

00:50:10.740 are

00:50:11.560 what

00:50:12.400 your

00:50:12.840 favored

00:50:13.180 group

00:50:13.480 is

00:50:13.720 and

00:50:13.820 who

00:50:13.940 you're

00:50:14.120 excluding

00:50:14.520 there's

00:50:15.620 a pretty

00:50:15.780 good

00:50:15.920 chance

00:50:16.200 your

00:50:16.520 business

00:50:16.800 is

00:50:16.980 going

00:50:17.080 to

00:50:17.140 be 0.97

00:50:17.260 destroyed

00:50:17.720 just

00:50:19.680 because

00:50:20.180 if

00:50:21.460 this

00:50:22.740 was

00:50:22.900 the

00:50:23.060 policy

00:50:23.500 and

00:50:24.300 we

00:50:24.420 let

00:50:25.020 businesses

00:50:25.440 just

00:50:25.860 decide

00:50:26.480 if

00:50:27.320 we

00:50:27.440 actually

00:50:27.900 allowed

00:50:28.220 people

00:50:28.540 to

00:50:28.760 reserve

00:50:29.000 the

00:50:29.120 right

00:50:29.280 to

00:50:29.400 refuse

00:50:29.680 service

00:50:29.940 to

00:50:30.060 anyone

00:50:30.300 which

00:50:30.840 I

00:50:30.940 think

00:50:31.040 should

00:50:31.160 be

00:50:31.260 the

00:50:31.360 policy

00:50:31.680 and

00:50:32.740 then

00:50:32.860 you

00:50:32.940 had

00:50:33.180 some

00:50:33.700 diner

00:50:36.100 somewhere

00:50:36.580 in

00:50:37.300 Ohio

00:50:37.660 that

00:50:38.080 leapt

00:50:40.760 at

00:50:40.960 that

00:50:41.160 opportunity

00:50:41.700 and

00:50:42.540 said

00:50:42.780 we're

00:50:43.560 not

00:50:43.680 going

00:50:43.780 to

00:50:43.820 allow 0.98

00:50:43.960 black 0.99

00:50:44.200 people 0.56

00:50:44.460 in

00:50:44.620 the

00:50:44.680 store

00:50:44.840 anymore

00:50:45.080 then

00:50:45.300 thank

00:50:46.100 god

00:50:46.320 this is

00:50:46.480 what

00:50:46.560 we

00:50:46.660 always

00:50:46.880 wanted

00:50:47.060 to

00:50:47.200 do

00:50:47.420 well

00:50:50.000 if

00:50:50.240 they

00:50:50.380 did

00:50:50.580 that

00:50:50.900 their

00:50:51.820 business

00:50:52.140 is

00:50:52.320 going

00:50:52.400 to

00:50:52.440 be

00:50:52.580 bankrupt

00:50:52.960 by

00:50:53.560 tomorrow

00:50:54.320 you

00:50:55.100 wouldn't

00:50:57.000 be

00:50:57.120 able

00:50:57.240 to

00:50:57.400 maintain

00:50:57.800 a

00:50:57.980 business

00:50:58.220 with

00:50:58.420 a

00:50:58.520 policy

00:50:58.780 like

00:50:59.020 that

00:50:59.320 but

00:51:01.320 you

00:51:02.100 should

00:51:02.240 have

00:51:02.360 the

00:51:02.480 right

00:51:02.740 and

00:51:03.720 I

00:51:04.060 think

00:51:04.260 it's

00:51:04.620 again

00:51:06.100 that's

00:51:06.420 the

00:51:06.840 simplest

00:51:07.360 fairest

00:51:09.460 way

00:51:09.580 to

00:51:09.700 go

00:51:09.800 about

00:51:10.040 this

00:51:10.380 and

00:51:11.460 it

00:51:11.560 makes

00:51:11.720 the

00:51:11.840 most

00:51:12.000 sense

00:51:12.440 and

00:51:15.320 it's

00:51:15.420 what

00:51:15.500 the

00:51:15.580 policy

00:51:15.780 should

00:51:15.920 be

00:51:16.060 which

00:51:16.280 is

00:51:16.380 why

00:51:16.520 it's

00:51:16.640 not

00:51:16.760 the

00:51:16.880 policy

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00:52:08.140 Towards the end of last week, I found myself in the middle of a social media firestorm,

00:52:18.920 if you can believe it. Now, I'm not usually the sort of guy who makes people on the internet mad.

00:52:23.280 In fact, I think this might be the first time in my life that such a thing has ever happened,

00:52:27.500 but here we are. And on this occasion, I was trending on Twitter for a few days because of

00:52:31.560 some comments I made about therapy, mental health, and depression. Now to be clear,

00:52:34.880 I was trending because all the people talking about it were basically talking about how wrong

00:52:39.680 I was and what a terrible person I am. So I don't think I've ever trended because everybody's

00:52:43.880 agreeing that I'm a nice guy. I'm not sure that it's possible to trend for that reason.

00:52:48.540 It's pretty much guaranteed that if a lot of people are talking about you on the internet,

00:52:51.420 they are mostly saying horrible things, which tells you something about the internet and about

00:52:55.340 people in general. But that's beside the point. In this case, it all began when a guy named Matt

00:52:59.640 Van Swole tweeted what he called a super hot take on therapy, which is basically that

00:53:04.200 therapy is overrated, overused, and not nearly as effective as people seem to assume.

00:53:08.660 This does qualify as a hot take on social media, but that's only because it's obviously true. And

00:53:12.560 I agreed with it, as it is a point that I have made myself in great detail on this show several

00:53:17.940 times over the past many months. I'm not going to get hung up on the therapy point here because

00:53:22.380 I've made my case recently. And also, I should be talking about it again with Jordan Peterson very

00:53:27.360 soon. So looking forward to that.

00:53:28.380 I will just mention this one response from a child therapist on TikTok who was offended by my

00:53:35.220 therapy skepticism and decided to strike back by doing a little skit imagining what it would be like

00:53:41.400 if I was a therapist. So let's just watch that.

00:53:45.840 Hi, it's nice to meet me. I'm Matt Walsh. What's wrong with you?

00:53:51.180 Uh, yeah, I saw your Psychology Today profile. Is it true you can help me in only five minutes?

00:53:56.860 Yes. That's all the time I need to fix you.

00:54:01.040 Uh, okay. You take insurance, right?

00:54:04.520 Of course, but only if they're owned by private equity. The government can't take away my right

00:54:10.000 to choose your health care.

00:54:12.560 Great. Is it okay if I let you know what's going on?

00:54:15.700 Yeah. I've already started the meter, so you better make it quick.

00:54:19.140 Oh. Oh, okay. Um, I'm lonely. I don't know how to make friends. Everyone keeps making fun of me,

00:54:28.520 and I don't know how to talk to females. 1.00

00:54:30.460 Okay, okay. Stop whining. I know what you need to do. You're gonna want to write this down. 0.78

00:54:35.840 All right. Great. What is it?

00:54:37.880 Stop it! 0.99

00:54:39.880 Um, I think it's a little bit more complicated than that.

00:54:42.840 Just stop it. Stop looking like an idiot and make some friends. 1.00

00:54:46.660 Okay, so I should just stop it. 1.00

00:54:49.160 Stop being a weirdo.

00:54:50.620 I mean, I gotta say, the acting and writing could use a little bit of work, but other than that,

00:54:55.800 pretty spot on. I mean, that is unironically not far from how my therapy practice would work if I

00:55:01.540 had one. I don't know why he had his eyes closed the whole time as, like, as the idea that I was

00:55:06.880 falling asleep, which I probably would. I mean, honestly, if I was a therapist, I'd probably be

00:55:10.820 falling asleep. I'd be so bored listening to people come in and just whining. Oh, sorry, I broke up with

00:55:15.520 my girlfriend. Like, oh, my God. I would, you know, I wouldn't make it through a day. I would

00:55:19.760 not make it through a day as a therapist, but if I was a therapist, it'd be pretty similar to that,

00:55:23.160 although I'd probably model it more after this scene from an obscure HBO show nobody watched

00:55:28.620 10 years ago, but I like this one scene anyway, because, like, this is what therapy would be like

00:55:33.860 if I was doing it. Here it is.

00:55:35.060 So, I'm not the kind of therapist that pussyfoots around. They like to dig in fast and not give

00:55:39.800 feedback. Stop fidgeting. What are you doing with your arm? Nothing. I'm just nervous. Put your

00:55:44.080 hands in your lap. Focus. Sit up. Good posture sends positive messages to the brain. We're here to

00:55:49.200 work. So, what are your issues? Give them to me. Well, I am sad about this breakup I just went

00:55:55.700 through. She left you? Yes. And now you feel rejected and unlovable and you can't understand why she no

00:56:00.400 longer loves you. Yes. You do know that she's not the only source of love for you in the world.

00:56:04.920 But I want her love. We don't get everything we want in life. You don't get to ever love.

00:56:09.640 That's it. End of story. Next issue.

00:56:14.700 Yeah, pretty much that. I mean, you know, that's, like, again, unironically, that would be good

00:56:19.360 therapy. One of the big problems with therapy is that in its least effective forms, and the least

00:56:24.580 effective form seems to be the most common form, it gives people a forum to whine and talk about

00:56:29.220 themselves in a way that feeds the meter for the therapist and gives the client an excuse to be

00:56:33.440 narcissistic and self-indulgent, but does not lead to action or change. In fact, the therapist is

00:56:38.280 incentivized to not spark any lasting change because that would interrupt the cash flow.

00:56:43.180 The fact is that for most people in therapy, the source of their problems is not some complex,

00:56:48.720 deeply hidden trauma they need to, you know, have years of discussion to identify and unpack.

00:56:54.180 They don't need a licensed expert to help them find it. If you're like the average therapy

00:56:58.460 patient, any random dude on the street could listen to you complain for five minutes and

00:57:03.480 tell you exactly what your problem is. But if therapists give simple answers, again, they'd

00:57:08.720 be out of a job. They need to keep you there and talking. That's the whole business model.

00:57:13.120 But what a lot of people really need is to be told exactly what you heard in that clip,

00:57:16.920 which is, this is the way things are. This is life. You can't always get what you want.

00:57:20.400 Deal with it. Stop complaining. Move on. I mean, that is the answer to like 99% of the emotional

00:57:28.700 complaints that you have. If your life is all screwed up, it's probably because you're making

00:57:33.460 bad choices. Not definitely, but probably. The answer is to stop making those choices. And if 0.54

00:57:37.820 you don't stop making them, your problems will continue. And someone could tell you, like,

00:57:41.460 stop doing that. It's your, that's what's causing the problems. But I don't want to stop doing it.

00:57:46.100 Okay. Well, then your problems are going to continue. Like those are your, you could stop

00:57:49.940 doing it or you could keep doing it. It's up to you. No one can force you. And that's all that

00:57:55.660 there really is to be said about it most of the time. And if your life is screwed up for reasons

00:58:00.280 you truly can't control, then in most of those cases, all you could do is accept what has been

00:58:05.580 done, accept the reality of for what it is and keep moving. Now, I will admit there probably is a

00:58:12.100 gender difference here that often gets lost in the shuffle when we discuss this issue. What I'm

00:58:15.720 saying applies to people in general, but probably more to men in particular. The source, because

00:58:20.320 the reason is that a source of a woman's emotional struggle is often that she doesn't feel understood,

00:58:26.940 right? And talking to a therapist who understands you or is paid to pretend that they understand you

00:58:31.160 anyway, might have some utility in some circumstances. But the source of a man's struggle most of the time

00:58:38.020 is that he feels like he has no control. He feels like he's lost his power, his vigor, his vitality,

00:58:44.140 or like he never had any to begin with. And the last thing that he needs, if that's his issue,

00:58:48.240 and I think it is for most men, the last thing he needs is to sit around talking and complaining and

00:58:53.800 harping on the fact that his dad didn't come to his t-ball game when he was five or whatever. For him,

00:58:58.780 the best thing he can do is take action, do something, get moving. But as I said, we can continue that

00:59:07.280 conversation another day. This led, after a couple of the steps, into a discussion about depression.

00:59:11.940 And somebody insisted that I could only have this opinion about therapy because I've never

00:59:16.460 experienced depression. And I explained that, well, literally every human on earth has experienced

00:59:21.640 depression to one extent or another. I was then told that, well, there's a, quote, monumental difference

00:59:26.860 between being sad and depression. And I asked for someone to offer a definition of being sad that is

00:59:33.680 monumentally different from depression. And then from there, we were off to the races. This request on my

00:59:39.040 part was apparently deeply offensive. Some people did attempt to actually answer the question,

00:59:43.280 which I appreciate, but many others responded with rage and histrionics and various accusations

00:59:47.400 and insults and all the other things you might expect. I'm a terrible person. The Daily Wire should

00:59:51.320 fire me. I shouldn't be speaking about this subject unless I have a degree in the relevant field.

00:59:55.380 My opinions are dangerous. People are going to die because I tweeted about depression. I'm ignorant and

00:59:59.400 cruel and callous and et cetera and so forth. That was the general message from the outraged masses. 1.00

01:00:04.600 So let me make a few points that will hopefully tie all these things together. And first, to answer my own

01:00:13.980 question, there is a difference between sadness and depression, but it is one of degree, not of kind.

01:00:22.920 Depression is a deep, persistent sadness. It's like the difference between being hungry because you skipped

01:00:27.980 lunch and being hungry because you haven't eaten in two days. They're both forms of hunger, but one is more

01:00:33.680 severe and more debilitating than the other. But it would not be accurate to say that there's a

01:00:38.120 monumental difference between starving and being hungry. Starving is being hungry. If somebody dies

01:00:43.480 of starvation, it would not be inaccurate to say they died from hunger. In fact, people do say that.

01:00:49.440 So it's just a matter of degree. And the same is true of sadness and depression. Depression is sadness

01:00:54.480 to a much greater degree. Now, it seems like there's no reason why this point should make people so angry

01:01:02.560 that they call for me to be deplatformed and fired for my job. But that's what happened.

01:01:08.080 The reason that it gets this reaction is because most people are programmed to lash out at anyone

01:01:14.640 who says anything that appears to fall outside of the orthodoxies and teachings of the psychiatric

01:01:19.480 industry. Even people who otherwise pretend to be skeptical of the expert class, people who,

01:01:24.720 in any other context, would not throw around the trust the expert line, okay? People who, when it comes

01:01:30.000 to vaccines or anything else, they'd be the first to say, I don't care what the experts say,

01:01:34.160 okay? The experts are wrong. But when it comes to issues like mental illness and depression and ADHD

01:01:39.520 and anxiety and so on, many of those same people completely change their tune. The skepticism vanishes

01:01:47.440 and is replaced by a blind trust in the people who have declared themselves the sole authorities

01:01:53.280 on all issues having to do with human thought and emotion. So don't trust the experts except for the

01:02:01.540 experts who claim to be the expert on the human condition itself. I mean, those we can trust

01:02:07.380 absolutely and follow with total obedience. That appears to be the idea. I think the public also

01:02:14.660 wants to believe that depression is inherently fundamentally different from sadness as opposed to

01:02:18.700 being different by degree and severity. Because sadness is obviously not a disease. Yet those

01:02:25.260 experts say that depression is a disease and millions of people are very invested in seeing

01:02:29.760 it that way. They want depression to be a disease. It seems kind of odd to say that. Like it's odd that

01:02:36.400 people would want to have a disease, but they do. Most of the people that would say they're depressed,

01:02:41.960 if you tell them it's not a disease, they react. It's not just that they disagree. They react with

01:02:46.560 pure rage at the thought because they want to have a disease. They do. And if you suggest that it may

01:02:55.660 be something other than a disease, they become, again, very upset. They'll even say that if you

01:03:01.920 deny that depression is a disease, then you are denying that depression is real. In fact, if you

01:03:08.320 go to Twitter right now and you were to go search for this, you're going to find a whole bunch of

01:03:11.540 tweets from various people saying, Matt Walsh thinks depression isn't real. Sometimes I'll put it in

01:03:15.420 quotes. Matt Walsh, depression is fake. Like I never said that. This is just making up quotes,

01:03:19.740 but that's what people do. Because for some reason, this distinction is like really hard for people

01:03:26.300 to grasp. Okay. Depression is not a disease, but it is real. That's the little nuance here.

01:03:35.880 In my opinion, thanks to the psychiatric industry, what we're dealing with is a giant category error.

01:03:42.480 And at this point, they have taken nearly every negative emotion, experience, behavior,

01:03:51.360 and categorized it as a disease. And in many of these cases, the categorization makes no sense.

01:03:58.480 But that doesn't mean that the emotion or the experience or the behavior isn't real or doesn't

01:04:02.880 exist. So for example, one of the many clinical mental diseases that psychiatrists have come up with

01:04:08.520 to explain misbehaving children is something called oppositional defiant disorder, which is a disorder

01:04:16.680 characterized by a child acting oppositional and defiant. Now, it's definitely true that some

01:04:23.640 children, many children even, all children to some extent, do behave in oppositional and defiant ways.

01:04:29.860 That is very real. No one is denying the existence of opposition and defiance. And sometimes that kind of

01:04:36.100 behavior can be severe and have extremely bad consequences. But it's not a disease. Diabetes

01:04:43.520 is a disease. Liver cancer is a disease. Parkinson's is a disease. These are illnesses that can be detected

01:04:50.560 structurally in the human body. You can find them in the actual cells of the human body. You can find them

01:04:57.300 without even talking to the patient at all. Okay. So this is not, you know, doing a survey and they tell

01:05:02.700 you things and then you go looking for certain chemical things in the brain. No, they could not

01:05:07.240 even talk to you and run tests and find the disease without you saying a word to them. But a child's

01:05:14.460 defiant behavior is not a structural illness of the human body. Guess what? They could run a test on every

01:05:21.320 single child in the world and they will not find anything that they could call, oh, there it is.

01:05:27.760 There is oppositional defiant disorder. They've got it. Cannot happen. Why is that? Because it's not a

01:05:33.340 disease. They've made it up. They've invented this disease. That's why they don't do blood tests to

01:05:40.220 diagnose it. It's an unwanted behavior. Unwanted behavior is not a disease. Now, one of the newer

01:05:49.520 inventions of the psychiatric industry is something called prolonged grief disorder. This is a disease,

01:05:55.740 quote unquote, that can be diagnosed if a person is very sad after losing a loved one and those feelings

01:06:01.140 of sadness persist for more than a year. Now, I would say with great confidence that this is a fake

01:06:08.060 disease. Is grief fake? Is Matt Walsh denying that grief exists? Am I claiming that if you lost your spouse

01:06:16.000 that you're not really grieving them? No. What I'm saying is that you don't have a disease. Is grief very

01:06:21.980 serious? Is it something that deeply impacts a person's life? Can it lead even to self-destructive

01:06:26.700 behavior and suicide in extreme cases? Yes, on all counts. But it's not a disease. The psychiatric

01:06:32.460 industry has once again taken a normal human experience and medicalized it, turned it into a

01:06:37.960 thing that you can prescribe drugs for. And in order to do so, they have come up with completely arbitrary

01:06:43.300 guidelines and parameters. Who says that grief is only supposed to last 12 months? Who decided that?

01:06:48.420 Who the hell puts psychiatrists in charge of deciding how long you should be sad after your wife dies? 0.52

01:06:57.980 Who the hell is this person to sit there with their little notepad and say, 0.71

01:07:01.240 well, it's been 13 months. It's too long. You have a disease. What? 0.84

01:07:05.940 And most people just accept that. And not only do they accept it, but it's like they don't understand

01:07:10.580 why some of us criticize it. It blows my mind. The whole idea is absurd. I mean, it's outrageous.

01:07:19.060 It's insulting. But this is what these people have done. They've done it with, again, the entire human

01:07:26.460 condition. Every difficult human emotion or experience has been arbitrarily and entirely

01:07:32.640 subjectively recategorized as a clinical problem. And if you think I'm making that up, you can go,

01:07:37.880 oh, you can find the DSM. You can find it online. You can go through it. And I guarantee you what

01:07:43.980 literally every negative emotion has multiple diseases for it. Try me if you don't believe me.

01:07:53.040 And this is what has happened with depression in my view. Depression is real. It is serious.

01:07:59.500 I do not believe that it is a disease, however. Depression is despair, which itself is, again,

01:08:07.040 essentially a much more persistent, deeper, more encompassing sadness. I prefer the word despair.

01:08:12.320 So despair, I submit, is not a disease because it is a completely natural, even fundamental aspect

01:08:20.420 of the human experience. One of the parameters that is supposed to separate clinical despair from

01:08:26.140 non-clinical is that we are told clinical despair, depression, often has no discernible cause or

01:08:32.840 reason. And I heard this from a lot of the people that, you know, when I asked that question and

01:08:36.260 people were freaking out and were angry. Of the people who were not freaking out and were trying

01:08:40.660 to give a reasonable answer, which I appreciate, many of them said this. They said something like this,

01:08:44.180 that, you know, well, when you're sad, there's like a reason something happens. But when you're

01:08:48.360 depressed, there's no reason. You just, you just, you, you, you, you, it's just there. It's like this cloud

01:08:54.600 that follows you. If somebody is very sad because they lost their job or a family member died or

01:09:00.920 something, that's not clinical depression, I'm told. Though, though, as we've seen, the

01:09:04.760 psychiatrists still have a clinical disease and a bottle of pills, even for that. But it's not

01:09:10.140 depression. Depression has no immediate external cause. So if everything seems to be fine in your

01:09:15.540 life and yet you feel this deep, persistent despair, you are clinically depressed and you should

01:09:20.320 probably be on drugs. That's the idea. But here's my point. And this is like, this is after 50 minutes

01:09:27.340 of rambling, this is my point. This is what I'm trying to say on this subject. There, there, there is

01:09:33.740 no such thing as despair, depression felt for no reason. That is a misnomer. So if somebody says,

01:09:44.860 I feel depressed for no reason, no, they don't, there is a reason. And I would argue that simply

01:09:52.620 being a human, having a mind, living as a conscious being on this planet full of death and suffering,

01:10:00.100 the very fact of being sentient, of being aware of yourself and your place in the world is reason

01:10:06.040 enough to feel despair. There's nothing necessarily irrational or surprising, certainly nothing clinically

01:10:12.100 diseased about struggling to see meaning or purpose in life or having no motivation or feeling empty.

01:10:18.420 These are all rational and understandable responses to our condition as conscious, self-aware beings.

01:10:26.340 That doesn't mean people should feel that way or that we should abandon people to those feelings

01:10:32.020 and not try to help them. It doesn't mean that you shouldn't seek help. It doesn't mean that you

01:10:36.100 should be content with your despair. It doesn't mean any of that. My only point is that the despair is

01:10:41.380 rooted in something deep, the deepest thing of all. It is a product of being human, which means that

01:10:48.980 though it is real and though it is painful and though it is very serious and very hard, it is not

01:10:53.880 the same sort of thing as malaria or typhoid fever. It is not a disease. Yes, getting malaria and typhoid

01:11:01.520 fever are also things that can happen to people, but they are not a product of the human condition itself.

01:11:07.360 They are an aberration. That's what makes them a disease. They don't come from your very humanity

01:11:13.600 like despair does. Now, philosophers and theologians and thinkers through the ages have had a lot to say

01:11:21.520 about the problem of despair and how we should cope with it as human beings. Only in very recent time

01:11:27.760 did we decide that we should put it into the same category as physical illness and treat it the exact

01:11:34.260 same way. And I would argue that this strategy, along with being rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding

01:11:39.060 of depression and of the human condition itself, has been an abject failure. We have been treating

01:11:44.960 depression as a disease for decades. And you tell me, generally speaking, has it worked? Have people

01:11:52.880 become less depressed? Have people become more able to function? Has suicide rates gone down? No.

01:12:00.720 No and no are the answers to those questions. In fact, as we disease-ify and medicalize all of these

01:12:06.280 difficult human emotions, what we find is that year over year, the problems get worse. Suicide becomes

01:12:12.080 more common. People become less able to cope with the challenges of life. The strategy isn't working,

01:12:20.160 and it isn't working because it's based on a lie. And it's a lie that makes people feel powerless,

01:12:25.080 that it in fact trains people to take comfort and seek respite in their powerlessness. If your feelings

01:12:33.260 are a disease, then you can't do anything about them. You can't conquer them on your own. You are

01:12:37.420 helpless against them. That's been the message for decades. And for decades, we have paid an unimaginable

01:12:43.500 price because of it. So I am suggesting that it may be time to stop, just for a moment, analyze some of

01:12:51.120 these basic presuppositions of the modern psychiatric field, realize how totally at odds

01:12:58.800 they are with the insights of virtually everyone who lived on earth up until the existence of modern

01:13:06.400 psychiatry. It realized that this is a field that has been extremely disastrously wrong about a lot of

01:13:15.240 things. And I believe that this is one of those things. It's perhaps the main thing it is wrong

01:13:21.340 about. And that's all I'm trying to say. And I will keep saying it no matter how angry people are about

01:13:27.400 it. I believe you're directing your anger in the wrong place. I'm not the one who has been tasked

01:13:33.000 with solving a problem that I have only made progressively worse for the last 60 years. That's

01:13:38.920 the psychiatric industry. And it's why that industry is today, once again, finally, canceled.

01:13:47.720 That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 25, 2024

Ep. 1301 - The ADL Pushes Law Enforcement To Investigate Me For The Crime Of Having Opinions

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