The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1354 - Here's The Proof That The 'Free Palestine' Movement Is Just BLM Repackaged

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, as the campus protests continue to rage, one thing is becoming

00:00:04.020 very clear. The Free Palestine Movement is BLM repackaged and funded by the same people. I'll 0.80

00:00:09.320 show the proof today. Also, Tennessee Democrats staged a die-in to protest a bill that would

00:00:13.880 allow some teachers to carry guns in class. A bystander is condemned for refusing to intervene

00:00:18.480 as a woman was robbed right in front of him. But can we really expect men to intervene given the

00:00:22.900 consequences in our culture today? And the internet is horrified by a video of a normal

00:00:26.640 guy working a normal nine-to-five job. What's so horrifying about it and what does this reaction

00:00:31.260 say about our society? We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:06.660 That's ConstitutionWealth.com slash Matt. It wasn't too long ago that Columbia University,

00:02:12.320 like pretty much every school in the country, shut down in-person classes because of COVID. In fact,

00:02:16.980 when Columbia's current class of seniors began attending the school as freshmen four years ago,

00:02:21.280 they had to log into virtual classes for pretty much their entire freshman year. Supposedly,

00:02:26.980 this was a once-in-a-lifetime event. Extreme times require extreme measures, those students were told.

00:02:32.080 Never mind that those measures were pointless and did far more harm than good, of course,

00:02:35.840 but still, that's what they were told. Now, just a couple of years later, extreme times are back,

00:02:40.920 apparently, and once again, lockdown measures are required. Columbia has just shut down

00:02:46.340 in-person classes yet again in favor of mandatory virtual learning, quote-unquote,

00:02:51.100 for the last week of the semester. And those same Columbia seniors who had to attend online classes

00:02:56.440 as freshmen are now being told to do it again as seniors. But this time around, the reason that

00:03:02.020 on-campus classes are suspended is not COVID, but rather that Columbia has been overrun by a mob of

00:03:08.280 anti-Israel protesters who have occupied the lawn on campus and, in some cases, were captured on

00:03:14.240 camera harassing and even explicitly threatening Jewish students with violence. Now, the people

00:03:19.480 occupying the lawn, most of them students, say that they won't leave until Columbia divests from,

00:03:25.860 quote, anything related to Israel, whatever exactly that means. And for some reason,

00:03:30.140 Columbia didn't immediately have these students arrested and expelled, which would have been very

00:03:34.020 easy to do and should have been done. But it wasn't, so the debacle continues. Other schools like NYU,

00:03:40.540 the University of Mexico, and even Cal Poly Humboldt have seen similar protests. Now, at this rate,

00:03:47.680 it seems unlikely that Columbia University's campus will even exist in a few years. The university will

00:03:52.800 probably become an online program like the University of Phoenix or something like that.

00:03:57.220 The quad will transform into Chaz 2.0, run by some theater kid posing as a warlord. That's where this

00:04:04.340 is headed. When the people running Columbia, like the rest of the Ivy League, very clearly don't have any

00:04:09.480 strong interest in teaching students. They've made it extremely clear that they're easy to walk all

00:04:14.960 over. So, of course, this will keep happening. At the same time, regardless of whether these

00:04:21.040 administrators are cowards or simply incompetent or both, usually it's both, it's clear that these protests

00:04:27.880 serve a purpose that's much bigger than Columbia University. The disruption just so happens is dominating 0.93

00:04:33.700 the national news cycle right on schedule in the spring before presidential election. This is

00:04:39.340 usually when we see race riots. They usually happen around this time. And as I've discussed before, 0.93

00:04:44.460 there's been no shortage of attempts by the media this year to incite more race riots. But those

00:04:49.720 attempts have all failed so far. Maybe they'll have better luck in the near future, but so far it's

00:04:54.680 failed. And so now, instead of race riots right on cue, we have this insurgent movement to quote

00:05:00.260 unquote free Palestine, which is really just a race riot repackaged and draped in a green, 0.70

00:05:05.840 black, and white flag. Now, those students, for the most part, who are involved in this,

00:05:11.100 they don't necessarily see this as a BLM reboot, but that's what it is. And that's what political

00:05:17.340 forces, much more powerful than the students, are determined to turn it into. Those forces see an

00:05:22.580 opportunity that really has very little to do with Israel or Gaza. And if they succeed,

00:05:27.240 there will be a lot of violence and disruption this year that extends far beyond Columbia and

00:05:32.280 Morningside Heights. Now, if you look around, it's not hard to find hints that this is what's going on.

00:05:37.700 For example, take a look at what happened last night to pro-Hamas protesters who gathered outside

00:05:42.540 the home of Chuck Schumer, who of course is the Senate majority leader. These are protesters who,

00:05:47.700 for the most part, have had a free run to the campus of one of the top universities in the United

00:05:51.680 States for several days. But watch what happens the moment they get near Chuck Schumer's house.

00:05:57.000 Here it is.

00:05:58.140 There's pedestrian traffic. If you do not disperse, you will be arrested. You are creating a hazard. 0.99

00:06:04.580 There it is.

00:06:23.340 Free Palestine!

00:06:29.740 Free, free Palestine!

00:06:38.640 Free, free Palestine!

00:06:48.400 Free, free Palestine.

00:06:50.120 Free, free Palestine.

00:06:52.240 Free.

00:06:54.320 Well, it worked.

00:06:55.220 They did it.

00:06:55.640 They freed Palestine.

00:06:56.500 That's all it took.

00:06:57.640 Stand outside of Chuck Schumer's house, and it'll result in something happening in the

00:07:02.780 Middle East.

00:07:03.220 Not exactly clear.

00:07:05.060 What's amazing about this footage is that, as you might remember, left-wing activists

00:07:08.660 recently gathered outside the homes of Supreme Court justices, including Brett Kavanaugh

00:07:13.320 and Amy Coney Barrett, for weeks on end.

00:07:15.840 That was part of an overt effort to intimidate the justices ahead of the Dobbs decision.

00:07:20.720 But at no point were the demonstrators arrested for picketing in front of the justices' homes,

00:07:25.160 even though that was a violation of the federal law.

00:07:28.100 Biden administration refused to do anything about it.

00:07:30.660 It was like a scene out of a third world country. 0.84

00:07:32.880 The only guy they arrested literally called 911 and told them he wanted to murder Kavanaugh.

00:07:38.180 That's what it took to get some kind of police response in that case.

00:07:41.860 But with Schumer, the rules are different.

00:07:43.740 Hamas sympathizers and anti-Israel protesters can do what they want at NYU and Columbia and

00:07:49.940 the University of Mexico and Cal Poly.

00:07:51.700 But the one thing they can't do is disturb Chuck Schumer.

00:07:55.200 So there are still rules, even amid all the anarchy, they just benefit, you know, the rules

00:07:59.640 just happen to benefit members of one political party.

00:08:03.320 As it happens, that's not the only indication that what we're seeing here is a kind of political

00:08:07.060 operation.

00:08:08.560 The Washington Examiner recently published a deep dive into the groups that have played a major

00:08:12.200 role in promoting these Columbia protests.

00:08:14.020 And one of these groups is called Jewish Voice for Peace, or JVP, which is a pro-Palestinian

00:08:19.560 organization.

00:08:20.660 They've helped with pro-Palestinian protests that have occurred not only at Columbia, but

00:08:24.720 also at Harvard, UNC Chapel Hill, Ohio State, Boston University.

00:08:29.640 And as the examiner notes, JVP is supported by far-left George Soros' Open Society Network,

00:08:34.740 and since 2016 has hauled in at least $650,000 from Soros-connected groups.

00:08:40.920 Well, that's interesting, especially if you were told that the protests at Columbia were

00:08:47.000 spontaneous, that they were entirely student-run and student-funded and student-organized.

00:08:53.140 Now we're learning that Soros-linked money is somehow involved in what's happening at Columbia.

00:08:57.740 As you probably remember, Soros-affiliated entities famously poured millions of dollars

00:09:03.220 into so-called racial justice initiatives beginning four years ago, the last time we

00:09:07.360 had national riots, race riots in that case.

00:09:11.180 And these entities also helped elect quite a few DAs all over the country who promised

00:09:15.280 to further BLM's agenda by refusing to prosecute criminals.

00:09:18.640 And now, according to the examiner, Soros' Open Society Network is indirectly bankrolling

00:09:24.260 some of what's happening at Columbia, or at least the organizations involved in it.

00:09:29.980 Which, again, is interesting.

00:09:32.760 And it gets worse.

00:09:34.100 Democrats like Cori Bush and Ilhan Omar have blamed the physical violence and threatening

00:09:39.840 rhetoric at these protests on so-called outside agitators.

00:09:43.760 That's always the line with these left-wing protests.

00:09:47.640 And when anything bad happens, they always say, oh, these are the outside agitators.

00:09:52.680 In this case, we have sitting members of Congress, the Democrat Party, making that claim.

00:09:58.620 They're asserting that these agitators have nothing to do with the actual protest.

00:10:03.740 But as the journalist Park McDougald has pointed out, one of the other key organizers of the

00:10:09.620 Columbia protest, Students for Justice in Palestine, or SJP, is a subsidiary of the same

00:10:17.120 nonprofit as one of these alleged outside agitators, a group called Within Our Lifetimes, or WOL.

00:10:22.680 The nonprofit is called the WESPAC Foundation, W-E-S-P-A-C Foundation.

00:10:28.160 So in other words, there's no daylight here between the outside agitators and the protesters.

00:10:33.600 They are one and the same, using the same money.

00:10:37.720 And who funds the WESPAC Foundation, you ask?

00:10:40.680 Well, as McDougald points out, that organization takes a lot of money from the Tides Foundation,

00:10:47.740 which in turn has also received significant funding from the one and only George Soros.

00:10:53.060 So as always, all roads lead back to Soros.

00:10:57.420 So this is starting to look like more than an isolated protest.

00:11:00.380 It's looking more like a broader and more general astroturfed effort to destabilize the country

00:11:07.980 and stoke racial resentment right before an election with the full endorsement of the Democratic Party.

00:11:13.720 There are some pretty clear signs that some of these students understand that, too.

00:11:18.120 Take the group called Columbia University Apartheid Divest, or QUAD.

00:11:22.220 It's a large coalition of more than 116 groups, including JVP, that are organizing the occupation at Columbia right now.

00:11:31.440 Some of these groups include the Columbia University Black Pre-Professional Society and White Coats for Black Lives.

00:11:39.140 Now, you might be wondering why exactly a group of med students and other quote-unquote pre-professionals

00:11:44.060 who support BLM also happen to be in lockstep in opposition to Israel and in support of Hamas.

00:11:50.320 I mean, how exactly are these interests so perfectly aligned?

00:11:54.900 Well, if you ask these students, they'll probably tell you what Ilhan Omar's daughter will tell you.

00:11:59.720 She is, as we talked about yesterday, a student at Columbia who was just arrested for participating in this illegal encampment.

00:12:06.580 She's also an avowed BLM activist.

00:12:09.360 And they would all say that they're just really interested in defending allegedly marginalized people wherever they may be, here or in Gaza.

00:12:17.320 And that probably is what many of these students believe.

00:12:21.320 Because they see anyone who is not white as a marginalized person.

00:12:27.240 They see this as a conflict between whiteness and marginalized people of color.

00:12:33.240 For them, this is a struggle against white power structures and systemic racism and colonialism.

00:12:40.840 Right? 0.95

00:12:41.060 Whiteness is the real villain here. 0.64

00:12:43.280 Just ask them that and they'll tell you. 0.94

00:12:44.960 Now, in reality, does the war in Israel have anything to do with whiteness or systemic racism or anything like that?

00:12:53.820 Of course not.

00:12:54.980 But that's how they see it.

00:12:56.540 And if they didn't see it that way, they wouldn't care.

00:12:59.240 At least they certainly wouldn't care as much as they do.

00:13:02.600 You know, there was no occupation of university campuses over the Ukraine invasion.

00:13:06.140 And that's because, though leftists like to pretend they care about Ukraine, and they do care about it more than they should, but they don't care about it this much.

00:13:16.440 Because when it comes down to it, in Ukraine and Russia, both parties are equally white. 0.98

00:13:23.500 So there's only so much sympathy they can really have for white people, even the white ones in Ukraine.

00:13:29.320 But things start to get a little confusing when you look at other groups that have signed on to this collective at Columbia.

00:13:35.820 They include the Columbia Queer Alliance, the Queer Graduate Collective, and my personal favorite, the Students Organization of Lateens, or SOUL.

00:13:46.320 Those are groups that, if they step foot in Gaza, would immediately be stoned to death.

00:13:51.400 Hamas doesn't exactly take kindly to the sorts of people who call themselves queer.

00:13:54.840 So it's a little harder to explain their membership in this coalition.

00:13:59.600 But it becomes less difficult if you see these protests, as many Democratic leaders do see them.

00:14:04.720 Which is yet another opportunity for the Democratic Party and their various activist groups to terrorize millions of people and derail the national conversation in an election year.

00:14:14.520 It's not exactly surprising that colleges, once again, are ground zero for this effort.

00:14:20.460 Universities have been fomenting this kind of radicalism for decades, and now they're reaping exactly what they've sown.

00:14:26.280 None of these universities deserve our sympathy, obviously.

00:14:30.060 And for that matter, none of them deserve the benefit of student loan forgiveness programs either.

00:14:34.520 If anyone should pay for these students' loans, it's the endowments of these schools, which are now so dysfunctional that it borders on comical.

00:14:41.280 Here, for example, are protesters late last night at Columbia talking about dispersing into platoons so they'll be harder to arrest.

00:14:48.680 Watch.

00:14:50.560 But we will know because of that in advance of an imminent sleep.

00:14:56.360 We are entering a period of high alert for the next three days.

00:15:00.800 And that is why I urge all of you to talk to your friends as well and let them know that we may need people to turn up quickly, en masse, in front of the encampment to defend the encampment.

00:15:16.800 We are so close to the encampment.

00:15:18.800 We are so close to the encampment.

00:15:32.800 So they're comrades in arms ready to fight for whatever the cause of the day happens to be, and they're desperate.

00:15:45.020 A lot of this is also just the fact that these kids are desperate for a cause.

00:15:50.780 Some of this is the kind of revolutionary spirit that young people naturally have, and so they're desperate for some sort of cause.

00:16:01.280 They'll take anything.

00:16:02.020 Anything that comes along, they'll take because they need to feel like they're fighting for something.

00:16:08.100 Now, as Aaron Zabarian points out, these protesters want to make it as difficult as possible for the police to remove them so that when they are removed, they can claim to be victims.

00:16:18.180 That is their overriding motivation here. 0.99

00:16:20.140 What they may not know, although it's pretty obvious at this point, is that these kids on campus here are not simply idiots. 1.00

00:16:29.420 In an election year, they are useful idiots. 1.00

00:16:32.620 And in the next few months, the party that controls the government right now is going to take full advantage of them. 1.00

00:16:40.280 Let's get to our five headlines.

00:16:41.480 Let's get to our five headlines.

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00:17:54.020 We'll start with this from News Channel 5 here in Nashville.

00:17:57.800 A bill that would allow some Tennessee teachers to carry a gun at school is heading to Governor Bill Lee's desk.

00:18:03.340 HB 1202, SB 1325 has drawn heavy attention from parents, teachers, students, and law enforcement.

00:18:09.640 The bill would allow specially trained teachers to carry handguns in their classrooms.

00:18:12.800 Under the bill, parents would not know whether their child's teacher was armed or not.

00:18:17.840 This bill has been on hold for about a year.

00:18:19.860 Originally, it was introduced by Representative Ryan Williams and Senator Paul Bailey in January.

00:18:27.140 Movement on the bill stalled when the Senate Judiciary Committee abruptly closed after the Covenant school shooting that left six dead, including three nine-year-olds.

00:18:33.600 In the aftermath, lawmakers battled over whether to take up any gun-related bills.

00:18:37.540 Ultimately, Republicans said any gun bill following the Covenant shooting was too emotionally charged.

00:18:41.940 That stoked the fire for the Tennessee Three, where three Democratic lawmakers stood on the House floor in protest of gun violence, as you may remember.

00:18:49.860 But Democrats are very upset about this, about this bill.

00:18:53.800 Representative Justin Jones said,

00:18:55.460 This bill is insane.

00:18:56.480 For God's sake, you don't hear. 0.97

00:18:58.660 You should be ashamed.

00:19:00.320 You hold our state at gunpoint.

00:19:02.140 May democracy see you out of your seats.

00:19:06.160 Who talks like that?

00:19:07.440 No one talks like that.

00:19:08.920 No real human talks like that.

00:19:10.220 May democracy see you out of your seats, sir.

00:19:13.600 The hell does that even mean?

00:19:14.400 Other Democratic lawmakers were worried about liability and insurance costs for school districts if teachers were carrying weapons.

00:19:21.180 Others worried this plan would create more collateral damage, that this bill would give a, quote, pop gun to go up against a weapon of war.

00:19:28.600 Representative Bo Mitchell said,

00:19:30.320 This is what we're going to do in reaction to teachers and children being murdered in a school.

00:19:34.040 Our reaction is to throw more guns at it.

00:19:36.540 What's wrong with us?

00:19:37.420 And now we'll get into this issue, of course, in a moment.

00:19:43.780 But I also want to read through the requirements that must be fulfilled in order for a teacher to carry a gun.

00:19:49.520 Because they're not just going to hand guns out to any teacher that wants one.

00:19:54.700 So here it is.

00:19:55.360 For those teachers wanting to carry a gun in school, it is a multi-step process.

00:19:58.320 Teachers wanting to carry will have to have, one, written authorization from the principal, the superintendent, and the head of law enforcement in their city or county.

00:20:06.700 Two, complete 40 hours of basic training in school policing and 40 hours of post-commission-approved training that is specific to school policing each year to keep the authorization.

00:20:17.060 Three, must obtain a background check.

00:20:18.600 And four, undergo a psychological exam conducted by a Tennessee-licensed psychologist.

00:20:22.940 So those are the requirements.

00:20:24.040 I think those are good requirements.

00:20:25.880 They make sense.

00:20:27.860 But still, as we've heard, Democrats were very upset, very performatively upset, which is the only way that they're ever upset about anything is performatively.

00:20:35.380 So one of the ways of communicating their sadness over this bill, it was to stage a die-in, as they call it.

00:20:44.040 Which is really, which, you know, they call it a die-in, but it's a very convenient kind of protest because it really just, it allows you to take a nap during the workday and call it a political demonstration.

00:20:53.120 So let's, let's take a look at some of the footage of this die-in, uh, here.

00:20:57.000 Yeah, so they're looking, they're just napping is what they're doing.

00:21:19.760 They're just taking a nap.

00:21:20.780 It's like nap time in kindergarten.

00:21:25.260 We're just missing the alphabet rug.

00:21:30.520 All right.

00:21:33.160 And they're strewn all over the floor there.

00:21:35.300 Well, now, obviously, this is proof, yet again, that our politics is dominated by cringy theater kids and other nerds desperate for attention. 0.99

00:21:44.820 Like, I wish we could go a month without some politician somewhere staging some kind of elaborate performance that only succeeds in proving what kind of a useless dork that politician is. 0.97

00:21:57.920 I wish we could go a month, but we can't. 0.95

00:22:02.340 As to the issue itself, obviously, we should let teachers carry guns if they want to and if they're trained and if they're approved.

00:22:09.400 Um, this argument that somehow a school shooting is made worse by having other armed people there is insane.

00:22:17.840 I mean, you always hear this nonsense, you know, this, uh, oh, you can't help the situation by adding more guns.

00:22:24.840 We're going to add more guns?

00:22:26.340 We think that's going to solve something?

00:22:27.300 Like, as if we're just dumping a box of guns into the middle of the classroom?

00:22:32.300 Like, that's what, when you say add more guns, that's what it sounds like.

00:22:35.420 We're just throwing guns into the room.

00:22:38.100 Um, that's not what's happening.

00:22:40.300 We're, we're, what's happening.

00:22:41.440 We're adding a person who is armed.

00:22:45.240 That's what we're adding to the equation.

00:22:47.280 So, here's the question.

00:22:49.040 I think, I think this is really the only question that matters, or at least it is the first question and the most important question that we should ask.

00:22:55.600 And it's this, if a bad guy with a gun comes into the school and walks into your kid's classroom, is it better, is it better, is it preferable, um, that the bad guy, the psychopath mass murderer, is the only one armed in the room?

00:23:18.220 Is that better?

00:23:19.640 Is that a better situation?

00:23:21.480 Will you take solace in the knowledge that at least the mass killer is the only one with a gun?

00:23:29.680 Is that better than having someone else there who is also armed?

00:23:35.260 Do you want all of the potential victims to be helpless and defenseless?

00:23:40.060 Is helplessness and defenselessness a superior alternative?

00:23:43.520 Really? 1.00

00:23:47.700 Now, if you answer yes to any of those questions, then you're, you're just a maniac. 0.99

00:23:52.500 I don't know what to say. 1.00

00:23:53.360 You're insane. 1.00

00:23:54.560 It's an insane position to take. 0.99

00:23:56.280 Obviously, it's better if there's someone in the, if there's a bad person, if there's a crazy killer in the classroom with a gun, clearly it's better if at least someone else there also has a gun.

00:24:10.300 Like, it can make, how could it make the situation worse?

00:24:13.900 This is the worst case situation that you're facing.

00:24:17.040 It can't get worse than that.

00:24:18.760 And don't tell me, oh, well, well, because this is the other answer that I, that I hate, when you say, well, oh, oh, well, school shootings shouldn't happen in the first place.

00:24:29.600 You know, that, that's what, this is a false choice.

00:24:32.100 I, I, I, I, what I choose is that the school shootings won't happen.

00:24:35.720 I choose for there to be no school shootings in the first place.

00:24:38.540 You know, that's my brilliant plan.

00:24:40.680 Yes, well, I prefer that too.

00:24:43.640 Genius.

00:24:44.680 That would very much be my own preference.

00:24:46.320 If someone gave me a choice between there being school shootings and there not being school shootings, I would choose the latter very quickly.

00:24:55.400 Okay.

00:24:55.600 If there was a magical button that I could press to make school shootings just not happen in the first place, I would prefer that over the option of having armed teachers that are fighting the bad guys.

00:25:05.880 But, but that's not a choice that exists.

00:25:09.160 That magical button doesn't exist.

00:25:11.180 I don't have that choice.

00:25:12.180 You don't have that choice.

00:25:13.080 We prefer if school shootings don't happen, but they do.

00:25:17.720 And, and what then?

00:25:19.840 What do we do when the thing that shouldn't happen does happen?

00:25:24.260 And this is a question, even if we passed every gun law, every gun control law that the left wants, which we shouldn't, we shouldn't pass any of them.

00:25:35.600 But even if we did, every law they want, we pass.

00:25:38.760 Let's just say that we do.

00:25:41.000 School shootings can still happen.

00:25:42.460 Okay, unless you confiscate and destroy every gun on planet Earth and also somehow prevent any more from being produced in the future, which is impossible.

00:25:57.400 Anything short of that, school shootings can still happen.

00:25:59.820 And so we're still left with the same question, which is, what happens if it does?

00:26:06.300 What then?

00:26:08.500 The guy with the gun comes into the classroom.

00:26:10.780 Yeah, he shouldn't be there.

00:26:11.760 It should be, it is illegal.

00:26:13.300 It's already, he's already broken 50 laws just by walking him with a gun in the first place.

00:26:17.320 Because it shouldn't happen, it's a terrible thing that it is happening, but it's happening.

00:26:25.880 And so what then?

00:26:27.700 What do, what, what is the best way to respond in that situation?

00:26:33.280 Obviously, having someone there who is prepared to defend themselves and the lives of, of the children is, is preferable.

00:26:41.160 Even if it doesn't work.

00:26:43.480 Like, it's better than nothing.

00:26:45.400 Having some ability to fight back is better than having no ability, right?

00:26:52.960 I mean, do you apply this kind of logic to anything else in your life?

00:26:55.800 Do you refuse to wear a seatbelt out of principle because car accidents shouldn't happen?

00:27:02.900 You know, if someone told you to put your seatbelt on, would you say, no, I'm not going to put it on.

00:27:06.340 I'm just not going to have a car.

00:27:07.380 I don't plan on having a car accident.

00:27:08.940 I don't, I disagree.

00:27:10.340 I disagree with car accidents.

00:27:11.980 I don't think that should happen.

00:27:12.740 Like, if I tell you to put your seatbelt on, is that because I'm pro car accidents?

00:27:17.320 Am I, am I some sort of like part of the car accident lobby?

00:27:20.760 Is that, is that what this is?

00:27:21.820 Do you, do you, do you refuse to lock your front door at night on, on, on the basis that burglary shouldn't happen?

00:27:32.140 Well, it shouldn't happen, but they do.

00:27:36.000 And what happens when they happen?

00:27:37.900 Do you walk downstairs and see the burglar and say, oh, excuse me, burglar.

00:27:42.020 Um, you know, do you realize you're not supposed to be doing this?

00:27:45.760 Do you, do you, this is, you're not, this is not supposed to happen.

00:27:50.100 Sir, sir, sir.

00:27:51.200 I would like to inform you that I prefer it.

00:27:53.460 If you did not burglarize my property that sir, I, that's what I prefer.

00:27:58.580 How's that going to work out?

00:28:00.360 What's going to, you know, what, what maybe the burglar will say, oh, really?

00:28:03.900 You, you didn't want me to burglarize your, I didn't, oh, oh, oh, I'm not supposed to do this, you mean?

00:28:10.420 I don't, sneaking into your house in the middle of the night with a ski mask and all that, that's, you, you don't want that.

00:28:15.300 Oh, you don't, well, let me just put your TV back and I'll be on my way.

00:28:20.380 No, that, see, that's, that's, I mean, I guess that could happen, but it's probably not going to happen.

00:28:26.780 And that's why you need to be prepared to deal with the worst case situation.

00:28:29.780 And, uh, because the worst can happen and does happen and will happen to someone at least.

00:28:39.400 Maybe not you, but maybe you and maybe your children.

00:28:45.480 And, and, uh, in that scenario, you know, at, without another gun in the classroom, without someone else armed in the classroom,

00:28:54.900 when that guy walks in, a guy or girl, as was the case in Covenant, when he or she walks in,

00:29:04.620 the only thing that these kids can do, the teachers can do, is, like, huddle in a corner and hide under their desk.

00:29:12.100 I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's absurd, really, that, that, that, that anyone would, would want for that to be the only defense mechanism.

00:29:23.800 You want that to be the only defense mechanism that your children have? 0.98

00:29:26.660 What the hell is wrong with you?

00:29:28.520 Do you even love your kids? 0.99

00:29:30.800 Honestly. 0.99

00:29:33.180 Crazy guys in the classroom, you want the only defense mechanism to be a freaking desk? 0.99

00:29:37.920 It's crazy to me. 1.00

00:29:41.060 I, it's just insane.

00:29:42.160 I, I, I can't even, uh, it's, uh, it's not just crazy.

00:29:48.960 It's like repulsive.

00:29:50.740 Just get over your, your gun thing.

00:29:52.960 Whatever your problem is with guns, just get over it.

00:29:55.340 Grow up.

00:29:56.020 Okay.

00:29:56.440 Because, you know, there are scenarios that are solved with guns.

00:30:01.480 Yes, there are problems that can be solved with guns and with nothing else.

00:30:05.440 School shooter in the classroom.

00:30:06.960 Only thing that solves that is a gun.

00:30:08.620 Only thing.

00:30:09.840 Nothing else solves it.

00:30:10.720 Nothing.

00:30:12.280 All right.

00:30:12.520 Here's a report about a female college student who was nearly robbed on, on camera, um, uh,

00:30:17.300 on security camera on campus, was nearly robbed, but managed to fight back.

00:30:22.300 And I want you to watch this video and pay special attention to what's happening or what's not

00:30:28.380 happening, I suppose, in the foreground of this video.

00:30:31.540 Here it is.

00:30:31.880 It was just before three in the 5600 block of South University.

00:30:37.260 Maddie says a confrontation happened and the suspect demanded her phone before flashing

00:30:41.300 the gun.

00:30:41.900 The pair got into a tussle.

00:30:43.480 I was grabbing for maybe my phone, maybe the gun.

00:30:48.140 It's really like a blackout moment for me.

00:30:50.060 Um, and I realized that I was able to grab the magazine out of the gun.

00:30:54.280 The loaded magazine now in police custody, Maddie says, and she hopes it will help solve

00:30:58.540 the crime.

00:30:59.480 Just minutes after that, ordeal sent people in the area scrambling to safety.

00:31:03.060 Another armed robbery involving two suspects with handguns reported in the 1300 block of

00:31:08.420 East 56th Street.

00:31:10.020 That crime under investigation by the Chicago Police Department.

00:31:13.400 I want to feel safer on this campus.

00:31:15.000 That's the bottom line.

00:31:15.800 I think we can always ask for more from our campus and our city.

00:31:20.140 Maddie says she hopes fellow students and staff are vigilant and keep their guard up.

00:31:24.240 When all said and done, she says her reaction was a knee-jerk one, and she's thankful to be

00:31:28.440 okay.

00:31:29.140 I couldn't necessarily really register the threat ahead of me.

00:31:33.280 Um, so definitely wouldn't advocate for fighting back in, you know, losing a life over a phone

00:31:38.860 is definitely not worth it.

00:31:40.460 So she, uh, removed the magazine from the gun.

00:31:43.040 And I will say, uh, which, I mean, obviously all, uh, credit goes to her for fighting back

00:31:50.440 successfully.

00:31:51.660 I will say a word of warning to anyone in the future.

00:31:54.300 If you're in the situation and you managed to remove the magazine from, uh, your attacker's

00:31:58.800 gun, uh, one thing you should realize is that he might still have a bullet in the chamber.

00:32:03.420 So you're not necessarily home free.

00:32:06.200 Um, so just something to keep in mind, but the thing that many people have zeroed in on

00:32:11.420 the, the detail that stands out the most in that video is the other guy, the guy who was

00:32:16.300 not involved and remained not involved and who was sitting in the grass and watching this

00:32:22.780 unfold.

00:32:23.960 Uh, so if you're listening on the audio podcast, you didn't of course see that, but that that's

00:32:28.420 what you see in the video.

00:32:29.140 There's some other guy, uh, who's probably, I don't know, 15 feet away watching this.

00:32:36.940 Um, we don't know who that guy is, but he sat there and he watched while this woman was

00:32:42.540 struggled with her attacker and he did not appear to lift a finger to help.

00:32:46.600 Now, many people have condemned this guy. 0.97

00:32:49.400 Uh, they've called him a coward, selfish, weak, uh, so on and so forth.

00:32:53.820 They say that he had a duty to intervene, to protect the innocent, to be a man, uh, et cetera.

00:32:59.980 And listen, if that were me, of course, it's easy to say not being in the situation, but

00:33:06.560 if that were me, uh, I, I would step in, uh, because I wouldn't be able to live with myself

00:33:12.000 if I watched that happen.

00:33:13.800 And especially if it played out differently and the woman was killed, God forbid in the

00:33:18.000 struggle, I wouldn't be able to live with myself having witnessed that and not at least

00:33:22.300 attempted to do anything about it.

00:33:24.780 So I think that I would intervene, but can we blame this guy for not doing anything?

00:33:31.160 Uh, the answer is that we can't blame him really.

00:33:36.720 We have lost the right as a society to expect men to step up in those situations.

00:33:43.800 In fact, I say that I would, I think that I would intervene, um, again, acknowledging

00:33:51.040 that you can't really say for sure what you would do unless you're in that situation, but

00:33:54.260 I'm not even sure that I could say that that's morally the right thing in the current climate.

00:34:01.900 Especially, especially if you have a family and kids of your own who need you.

00:34:08.240 Because why is that?

00:34:09.420 Well, well, there are several reasons, but starting with the most obvious men who intervene

00:34:13.740 are frequently arrested and sent to prison.

00:34:16.860 Daniel Penny is facing years in prison right now for doing exactly what the Twitter mob

00:34:21.680 wants this other guy to have done.

00:34:24.720 Look, I mean, it's one thing to ask a man to risk his life and, um, you know, to protect

00:34:31.600 the innocent.

00:34:33.480 It's one thing to ask that.

00:34:34.820 And I, and I think that in an ideal situation, we should ask men to do that, but it's another 0.99

00:34:41.680 thing to tell him that he must risk his life.

00:34:44.280 And if he survives, he'll go to jail.

00:34:48.680 Like the idea that this guy, just because he happened to be there is now required to either

00:34:55.880 die or go to jail. 0.62

00:34:59.160 Um, he's required to put himself in a position where the two top most likely outcomes are

00:35:05.620 death and jail.

00:35:07.760 Like we just can't, that's an absurd idea.

00:35:09.860 We can't expect that.

00:35:10.880 Is that what it is?

00:35:12.900 Like he just happens to be there.

00:35:14.340 And now it's like, well, sorry, man, your life is over.

00:35:16.000 Uh, because this guy is, this other guy has chosen to do something because you happen to

00:35:20.800 witness it.

00:35:21.860 Your life has to be over.

00:35:23.320 You have to do something now where either you will die or probably go to prison.

00:35:27.300 Um, sorry, that just your luck.

00:35:29.700 Sorry, sorry about your luck.

00:35:31.400 Your life's over.

00:35:32.160 I know you had other plans maybe, and maybe you have a family.

00:35:34.640 I don't, that's why I say I can't even, I don't know.

00:35:36.220 Again, we don't know this guy's situation, but, um, you've got a family at home, let's

00:35:41.420 say, is it even morally right for you to do something knowing there's a high likelihood

00:35:47.860 that no matter how it turns out, your family will be deprived of you maybe forever.

00:35:55.720 Um, now you're sort of putting someone else above your family in a way that, that, that

00:36:00.720 I'm not sure can even be morally justified.

00:36:03.340 So it's just, it's not fair.

00:36:04.960 You, you, you can't, as a society say men should protect the innocent and also say men

00:36:12.780 who protect the innocent are murderers who deserve to rot in prison.

00:36:17.020 You can't do both.

00:36:18.980 It has to be one or the other.

00:36:20.500 You cannot have both.

00:36:22.520 If you want heroism from men, if you want men to protect the innocent, you have to encourage

00:36:28.140 that.

00:36:29.580 You have to do something to incentivize it.

00:36:32.080 You can't go out of your way to ruthlessly disincentivize that behavior and then still

00:36:37.360 expect the behavior that you're disincentivizing.

00:36:39.900 It's insane.

00:36:41.800 You know, these, uh, societies in the past where a woman would get attacked and, you know,

00:36:47.360 uh, five men would spring into action.

00:36:50.260 And, uh, you know, I think that some of that is, is, is overstated.

00:36:54.120 Uh, but still those societies praised and adored men for doing that.

00:37:01.640 They honored them.

00:37:03.500 Like in the past, a guy like Daniel Penny, never, there would be no thought to putting

00:37:08.060 him in jail.

00:37:08.620 He would get a medal.

00:37:10.120 He would be a hero.

00:37:11.120 They'd get him a medal.

00:37:12.420 He'd be getting free beer every, every bar he went to for the rest of his life in the

00:37:18.020 past.

00:37:19.940 And guess what?

00:37:20.660 When you treat Daniel Penny that way, you get a lot more Daniel Pennies.

00:37:25.200 You honor these men, you respect them.

00:37:27.700 Men respond to that.

00:37:28.640 Men will die for honor and respect.

00:37:31.660 They will.

00:37:32.500 That's the story of human civilization.

00:37:34.180 Men doing great heroic things for honor and respect and dying in the process.

00:37:39.100 Um, men are willing to die for that.

00:37:42.460 And, and, and that's a good kind of society to have, but you cannot remove the honor and

00:37:47.980 respect and still require the honorable, respectable behavior.

00:37:53.600 You can't do that.

00:37:56.300 You just can't.

00:37:58.640 Men, men will die for honor and respect, but what happens when they don't, but if it's

00:38:03.540 not there, if it's not on all, instead of honor and respect, they get condemnation and

00:38:09.240 prison time, then you're not going to get it.

00:38:12.240 You know, C.S.

00:38:12.700 Lewis, uh, said that you can't make men without chess and expect virtue and enterprise.

00:38:17.840 Well, in this case, we're, we're putting the men with chess in prison and then we're expecting

00:38:25.460 virtue and enterprise.

00:38:28.000 We're saying, hey men, be virtuous and courageous so that we can condemn you and defame you and

00:38:35.080 throw you in jail.

00:38:35.800 Like, not exactly a sales pitch.

00:38:41.120 Again, I, I think as a society, we can expect men to do things that put their lives at risk.

00:38:46.400 We can expect that.

00:38:47.420 Uh, as a man, I am saying that it's valid for me to be expected in certain circumstances

00:38:56.200 to put my very life at risk.

00:38:58.160 I, I accept that calling.

00:39:02.360 I do, but, or I would, but you cannot expect them to risk their lives when the reward for

00:39:09.480 surviving the risk is rather than honor, dishonor and shame and prison.

00:39:19.540 Because that, that's the other part too.

00:39:21.400 It's not just that men who do the right thing are put in prison.

00:39:26.380 It's that they are shamed.

00:39:28.160 They're doing the honorable thing.

00:39:30.920 They're doing it for honor and respect, but they're not, but then they're shamed.

00:39:34.680 They're, they're given shame for it.

00:39:38.060 Uh, so, so what are you supposed to do?

00:39:43.840 It's just like, you know, the classic, uh, uh, women and children first on the, on the, uh, 0.83

00:39:49.660 lifeboats on the Titanic.

00:39:51.580 Um, I, uh, in principle, I agree with that.

00:39:58.160 Uh, and I, and I, and I think that that's a good principle to have that men, certainly

00:40:04.040 children should go first. 0.78

00:40:05.180 I mean, every adult should want children to be rescued.

00:40:08.580 Um, but, but then, but then women too. 1.00

00:40:13.740 Yeah.

00:40:14.220 But, but once again, you can't do that.

00:40:17.280 And then also say that the men who are saying women and children go first are misogynistic, 0.97

00:40:24.420 sexist, backwards barbarians. 0.87

00:40:28.880 It can't be both. 0.99

00:40:29.900 You can't do both.

00:40:31.060 Cannot do both.

00:40:31.940 Um, so the, the, the onus goes back to, uh, uh, society.

00:40:37.380 It goes back to all of these people, you know, who are, who are shaming these men who don't

00:40:43.020 step up.

00:40:43.600 The onus goes back to you.

00:40:45.020 Well, like you better be there to, to praise and honor the men who do the right thing.

00:40:50.760 And if you don't, then you have no right.

00:40:53.240 If you do not praise and honor men who do the right thing, you have no right to expect

00:40:58.300 them to do the right thing.

00:41:00.620 And there, there, there are plenty of individuals in our society who do praise and honor men

00:41:04.600 who do the right thing.

00:41:05.400 But, uh, as a culture, culture wide, we don't.

00:41:10.160 And, um, and you create these, uh, lose, lose situations.

00:41:15.840 Although now it's really like, it's a lose, lose, lose situation, you know?

00:41:19.680 Uh, cause if you're a man and believe me, this is something that every man thinks about.

00:41:24.980 Every man has thought about this, has thought about these scenarios.

00:41:28.300 But given, given the, the, the, the circumstances we live in and cases like Daniel Penny, we've

00:41:35.300 all thought about like, what happens?

00:41:36.800 What happens if I happen to be just walking down the street, minding my own business?

00:41:39.580 And I, I happen to see some terrible thing happening to somebody else.

00:41:43.080 I got nothing to do with it.

00:41:45.460 What do I do?

00:41:47.260 Because it's a, it's actually, it's not a lose, it's a lose, lose, lose situation.

00:41:51.160 Because if you step in and you're not successful in your intervention, you'll die.

00:41:58.080 If you step in and you're successful, you might well go to prison. 0.98

00:42:02.320 And if you don't do anything, you'll be shamed as a coward.

00:42:04.620 So, this is a situation men are in.

00:42:07.580 It's like completely unfair.

00:42:09.340 If you're just, if you just happen to be in the vicinity of something bad happening,

00:42:13.140 automatically, uh, your, your life is ruined just because you happen to be there. 0.81

00:42:17.300 No matter what you do, you're either dead in jail or shamed as a coward for the rest of 1.00

00:42:22.540 your life. 0.99

00:42:23.600 Uh, just because you happen to be around.

00:42:27.240 That is the, that is the impossible situation that we've created for people.

00:42:35.800 And so, um, no, the problem is not that guy.

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00:43:44.120 As Russia continues to capture global headlines with its controversial actions, what we saw

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00:44:28.620 Now let's get to our Daily Cancellation.

00:44:36.360 We begin the Daily Cancellation today with what has become a classic TikTok genre.

00:44:41.040 This is the video of someone documenting an average day in their life.

00:44:45.640 You see them wake up in the morning, make breakfast, drive to work, eat lunch, etc.

00:44:49.620 Nothing extraordinary or even mildly interesting happens.

00:44:51.880 The only thing unusual about the day, as they document it, is that they are documenting it.

00:44:56.660 You know, I watch these videos fascinated only by the number of camera angles they use and

00:45:00.960 cuts they have to make.

00:45:02.340 As a content creator myself, as much as I despise that title, I can't help but marvel at the

00:45:07.700 effort that must go into creating this sort of content.

00:45:10.440 Not to mention the public embarrassment you must endure when other shoppers at the grocery

00:45:13.940 store see you setting up your tripod to capture footage of yourself picking up a bag

00:45:18.820 of green peppers or whatever.

00:45:20.640 It all seems very bizarre.

00:45:22.780 What is being filmed isn't bizarre, but rather the fact that it's being filmed.

00:45:27.140 It's what's bizarre.

00:45:28.320 Maybe the joke's on me, though.

00:45:29.420 These videos seem totally pointless from my perspective, and yet they tend to provoke a

00:45:32.940 strong reaction from many people on the Internet.

00:45:36.580 Then again, everything provokes a strong reaction on the Internet.

00:45:39.020 You know, the Internet has never shrugged its shoulders at anything and said,

00:45:42.580 oh, okay, that's fine, whatever.

00:45:47.160 Nothing is fine.

00:45:48.000 Everything is either really terrible or really amazing, and there is no room for anything else

00:45:51.580 to exist anywhere else on that continuum.

00:45:54.840 So these day-in-the-life videos must either be amazing or terrible, and usually they're

00:46:00.880 judged to be the latter.

00:46:02.240 That's been the consensus over the past several days as videos from some random guy on TikTok

00:46:06.380 have gone viral.

00:46:07.220 The videos, I've seen three of them circulating, all show this guy going about, I don't know

00:46:12.640 his name, but he's going about his daily routine.

00:46:15.060 Again, nothing remarkable happens, nothing strange, nothing interesting, nothing notable

00:46:19.040 about it, but the videos have elicited a strong and often negative reaction.

00:46:23.680 I'll play one of the videos now and then read a few of the comments.

00:46:25.980 Apologies in advance to listeners of the audio podcast.

00:46:28.860 You're not going to get a lot out of this, but as the viewers of the video version can attest,

00:46:34.300 you also aren't missing much.

00:46:36.960 Here it is.

00:46:42.780 Cheers.

00:46:44.420 Cheers.

00:47:14.400 Okay, so riveting stuff the guy wakes up has a smoothie for breakfast takes the trash out goes to work

00:47:44.140 at his office job comes home takes his dog out then gets changed into sweatpants and relaxes for the night very normal day

00:47:49.580 Normal dude doing normal things only a one-minute snapshot there are 17 or 18 waking hours in the average day

00:47:56.080 So most of it will be left out

00:47:57.900 This guy also has a wife who we don't see in the video and apparently his wife is pregnant as I understand it

00:48:02.740 And that fact is not featured in the clip, but the one minute snapshot we do see is

00:48:07.720 Totally fine and unobjectionable

00:48:09.960 Granted again, the fact that we're given this snapshot the fact that he's filming this in the first place is strange

00:48:15.160 There are criticisms you can levy against this kind of content

00:48:18.760 But there's nothing offensive about the thing that's being documented the nine-to-five routine itself

00:48:23.360 and yet

00:48:24.740 The peanut gallery on twitter has responded to this video like it's an image of pure despair and horror

00:48:32.260 Somebody named keith woods who advertises himself in the in his bio as one of the top 200 most influential twitter users

00:48:39.220 Um left this caption when he responded to that video. He uh when he reposted that video rather. This is the caption he left

00:48:46.080 Imagine living like this until you die horrifying

00:48:49.580 That had nearly 5 000 likes

00:48:52.140 Many other comments agreed with that sentiment reading a few quote

00:48:55.520 So I don't know if it's this guy's demeanor or just how empty his life seems

00:48:59.020 But this is literally the most depressing video i've ever seen

00:49:02.440 Someone else says this is slavery with a nicer kitchen and bed

00:49:06.780 Hell on earth someone else says

00:49:09.020 I agree. It's horrifying

00:49:10.840 Many other comments along these lines calling the guy a wage slave declaring that his nine-to-five lifestyle is a nightmare beyond all imagining

00:49:18.460 Um generally reacting to a video of a guy going to work as if it's a snuff film

00:49:23.760 Now I tweeted that I don't quite see the problem with the way this guy's living and

00:49:27.820 Many people responded with comments informing me that I only have that opinion because I am also a soulless robot

00:49:34.760 Here's one comment for reference quote

00:49:36.940 Chances are 10 out of 10 that matt is a super basic automaton conservatard in real life

00:49:42.300 Nothing remotely novel or interesting about him

00:49:45.220 Now I would obviously disagree with the automaton and conservatard labels, but the rest i'll accept

00:49:52.400 I'm, not sure what a super basic life is, but if that's my my life fine

00:49:57.160 I go to work. I take care of my family. Perhaps it's a basic life in that way. I'm okay with that

00:50:04.040 I'm, also not striving to live in a way that random social media accounts would find novel and interesting

00:50:09.820 In fact, if novelty is a guiding principle of your life 0.99

00:50:13.760 Then it's virtually guaranteed that you're a dysfunctional loser 0.81

00:50:17.440 Functional adults with responsibilities don't go around chasing novelty 0.93

00:50:22.380 And at any rate, I can guarantee that the people who pretend to recoil in horror at nine-to-five jobs

00:50:28.460 And who lambast the rest of us for living uninteresting lives by their standards

00:50:33.040 Are not themselves doing anything interesting at all

00:50:37.240 Okay, these people are not jungle explorers or or engineers working on building a rocket ship to take humans to mars or anything like that

00:50:44.920 I mean, these are losers who have lives far more monotonous and pointless than the average middle-class nine-to-five worker 0.99

00:50:51.680 These people sit around on their fat asses staring at screens all day 1.00

00:50:55.360 And then declare that office jobs are beneath them 1.00

00:50:58.400 I need something more fulfilling and worthwhile and fascinating to satisfy my wild and inquisitive nature

00:51:05.320 Declares the guy who's been scrolling through tiktok videos for the past seven and a half hours

00:51:09.720 So there's a there's a certain irony here

00:51:12.360 Yet it has become

00:51:14.240 You know very popular to hate on the nine-to-five routine

00:51:19.200 You hear it from people on the left who say that the normal workday is somehow oppressive to the human spirit

00:51:24.760 And now we hear it from those on the right

00:51:27.340 Some on the right who have adopted the same language to describe the lives of normal people

00:51:31.620 Who go to work every day to provide for themselves and their families

00:51:35.780 Now I think as conservatives we should be aggressively defending normalcy

00:51:41.380 We should stand for normalcy

00:51:43.040 There's nothing wrong with being normal

00:51:44.660 It is a leftist view that normal is automatically bad

00:51:48.780 So if you're doing something normal you have to change it do something different just for the sake of being different

00:51:53.300 Both sides or at least a vocal and often younger element on both sides

00:51:59.200 Have come to a consensus that your average nine-to-five job is a nightmare worse than death itself

00:52:04.300 It is slavery they say

00:52:05.620 Well, um, let me make a two points about this

00:52:09.680 First of all

00:52:10.200 I don't personally have a normal nine-to-five job myself

00:52:13.760 I earn a living in a way that is somewhat unusual

00:52:16.780 Uh, everybody on earth has a podcast these days

00:52:19.420 So there's nothing unique about that

00:52:20.620 But it is relatively unusual to make enough money to support a family

00:52:24.240 Uh this way

00:52:25.720 And yet

00:52:27.040 So i'm not defending the nine-to-five routine because i'm defending myself

00:52:31.380 But i would never look down on the average nine-to-five office worker

00:52:36.700 Most of them are doing jobs far more essential than what i do for a living first of all

00:52:40.520 And in fact office workers basically run the world

00:52:44.160 Nothing would work without those guys doing those jobs

00:52:47.680 But um like get rid of all the get rid of all the cubicle office jobs

00:52:53.100 Make them all evaporate you know so that we're free we're free

00:52:56.560 Okay, good job. Nothing works anymore. All of society collapses you idiots

00:53:01.660 What do you think? What do you think you could use your phone? 1.00

00:53:04.180 You think you could get like get electricity?

00:53:05.620 You think you'd turn your lights on?

00:53:07.180 You think you could do anything without people doing those jobs? 1.00

00:53:09.660 No, you moron 1.00

00:53:10.740 But no matter how essential or inessential any of those jobs may seem 1.00

00:53:15.620 Uh, I respect anyone who earns an honest living to care for themselves and their families

00:53:19.780 Calling average middle class workers automatons and drones and slaves

00:53:24.680 Is about the snobbiest most elitist position you can take and it's even worse because as we've established

00:53:30.540 Many of the people who've taken this elitist position are by no means and by no measure actually elite

00:53:36.720 In any sense of the word

00:53:38.380 Second adult life

00:53:41.380 Is one of work and routine there is no way around the work

00:53:45.840 Unless you're on welfare or you were born a billionaire in which case in either case

00:53:50.520 You have no right to judge anyone who actually works for a living no matter what kind of job they have

00:53:55.140 As for the second part, there is no way around routine

00:53:58.640 Even if you're a billionaire or a welfare queen

00:54:01.160 Everyone has a routine life is dominated by routine and establishing effective routines

00:54:07.260 Routines that help you to be productive and to fulfill your responsibilities

00:54:10.380 That is an essential part of growing up and maturing

00:54:14.300 That's why I say if you if you

00:54:17.060 Find the routine itself to be uh

00:54:21.060 Horrifying it's because you're a child you're an emotional and mental child if that's how you react to it

00:54:28.220 It's a routine. This is what life is

00:54:30.920 Nobody has an exciting daily routine. Okay, even people with interesting jobs don't have exciting daily routines

00:54:37.940 Batman doesn't have an exciting daily routine

00:54:40.620 The only people who have no routines at all are homeless schizophrenics 1.00

00:54:44.400 So if you want to have if you want to have no job and no routine

00:54:47.920 And every day is an adventure 0.79

00:54:49.660 Then you could be a homeless schizophrenic. That's what you can be. That's the old that's it 0.97

00:54:53.620 If you're not that then you have then your life is dominated by routines

00:54:57.560 The only question is whether those routines are productive or not whether they are effective or not

00:55:03.440 Uh work and routine that is what the lion's share of life consists of

00:55:08.680 So welcome to human existence

00:55:11.060 This is what it's like

00:55:13.260 This is how it goes

00:55:15.440 If you're horrified by a guy with a job and a routine

00:55:19.380 It's not the job or the routine that you loathe. It is existence itself

00:55:23.500 You apparently find human existence by its nature to be awful and oppressive

00:55:29.460 And you know, that's a problem because there is only one alternative to existence

00:55:35.620 And if you don't want to avail yourself of that option, and I hope you don't

00:55:39.880 Then you need to get used to life

00:55:42.380 And learn to find joy in it

00:55:46.400 Either way, the problem is with you

00:55:48.200 Not the guy working in a cubicle

00:55:50.580 And that is why the people pretending to be horrified by nine to five jobs

00:55:55.080 Whether they're on the right or the left are all today

00:55:57.940 Canceled

00:55:59.200 That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed

The Matt Walsh Show - April 24, 2024

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