The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1373 - Why The Modern Dating Scene Is A Nightmare

00:00:00.080 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the most popular genre of viral video recently has been videos

00:00:04.560 of women complaining that they can't find a good man, and many single men in turn have

00:00:08.540 the same complaint going the other direction.

00:00:10.300 The inability of young people to successfully match up and get married has become a full-on

00:00:13.300 crisis in our culture.

00:00:14.320 What's the cause of it, and how do we fix it?

00:00:16.400 We'll discuss.

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00:02:10.120 In what has become something of a monthly tradition on social media, two videos have gone viral

00:02:14.680 featuring young women distraught over their inability to find a man who they consider

00:02:19.140 worthy of their time.

00:02:20.660 A week ago, it was this woman expressing her deep frustrations over this issue.

00:02:25.760 Listen.

00:02:27.660 Quick question.

00:02:28.800 Are you kidding me?

00:02:31.720 Like, I am so sick and tired of just everything right now.

00:02:41.360 I, everyone is so quick to say, stop doing this.

00:02:48.080 Stop thinking like this.

00:02:49.820 Stop doing, like, stop telling me I'm wrong.

00:02:53.200 I have literally convinced myself at this point based on everything that everyone's telling me,

00:02:59.280 my therapist, my family, my friends, that I'm just doing everything wrong.

00:03:03.460 Like, I genuinely just want love in my life so badly.

00:03:09.840 It's literally not about anyone else.

00:03:11.840 It's just about me and what I want.

00:03:14.720 And, and being over the fact that I don't have it.

00:03:18.200 I feel like I have done so much work on myself.

00:03:24.420 I have built a beautiful life for myself.

00:03:27.980 I'm happy with my life where I'm at, my job.

00:03:32.160 I'm successful.

00:03:33.220 I'm independent.

00:03:34.820 I'm healthier than I've ever been.

00:03:36.540 And I take such good care of myself.

00:03:41.160 Truly the only thing I'm missing in my life is someone to enjoy it with.

00:03:46.760 And I'm so sick of waiting.

00:03:49.220 Like, when is it going to be my turn?

00:03:51.480 What more do I have to do to fix myself before I'm just allowed to be happy?

00:03:57.580 Am I just supposed to be alone?

00:03:59.160 Like, is that the message?

00:04:00.360 That this beautiful life I've built for myself, like, it's just supposed to be me in it alone?

00:04:04.340 Like, I know I have my dog and I love him so much, but, like, I need love.

00:04:15.260 Now, even though I may be infamously a Grinch whose heart is three times too small,

00:04:19.820 even I will say that I truly feel bad for this young lady and the loneliness she's experiencing.

00:04:23.900 You'd have to be a sociopath to not feel bad for her.

00:04:26.000 And despite popular misconceptions, I am not actually a sociopath.

00:04:30.320 So it is a sad story.

00:04:31.460 And as this woman discovers that it is hard to be happy, it's impossible, really,

00:04:35.600 if you do not have someone to share your happiness with.

00:04:39.260 She says that she's worked on herself.

00:04:40.880 She's done everything she can to make herself desirable.

00:04:44.800 Part of the problem, of course, is that some of the things she highlights will have no effect

00:04:48.420 either way on making her more desirable to men. 0.98

00:04:51.360 For instance, no man cares whether a woman is successful or independent.

00:04:56.980 Like, there has never been a man in the history of the world who has left a first date and said,

00:05:01.700 wow, she's great. 0.97

00:05:03.000 She's so successful and independent.

00:05:05.560 Those are just not characteristics that a man is looking for.

00:05:08.620 They certainly won't be at the top of his list.

00:05:11.120 And I don't point this out to pick on her.

00:05:12.920 There's a point here that we'll return to in a moment.

00:05:15.860 But first, let's watch a snippet of the next video with the same theme.

00:05:18.680 And this is a woman named Anya who is also lonely and looking for love.

00:05:22.880 And this video also very viral.

00:05:24.460 Lots of people sharing it and talking about it.

00:05:26.860 But she's been unsuccessful so far in her pursuits.

00:05:29.720 And here is her.

00:05:31.940 I'm not someone that posts or cries or anything on the internet.

00:05:35.980 So this is a new one for me.

00:05:40.240 I guess I need girls to rally with me and lift me up because I feel so defeated right now.

00:05:48.060 So, um, I've been trying to meet someone, just anybody worth my time for years.

00:05:58.440 And, like, and dating apps are so awful.

00:06:01.280 I don't need to explain to you how awful the dating apps are.

00:06:04.100 So I've been trying to meet people in public. 0.94

00:06:07.020 And they're still trash when I do randomly meet people in public. 0.95

00:06:10.200 But tonight takes the cake. 0.96

00:06:12.260 Like, I just can't help but feel like, like, I'm going to turn into this because I'm never going to meet someone.

00:06:19.280 And for everybody who's going to tell me,

00:06:22.320 It'll come along when you least expect it.

00:06:26.140 I want...

00:06:27.380 I've been hearing that for, like, seven years, okay?

00:06:32.640 I'm so sick of hearing that.

00:06:34.220 There's such a thing as people that just don't find their person and don't get married.

00:06:40.720 So, like, I'm a realist.

00:06:43.000 And the realist in me is starting to think, like, that's going to be me.

00:06:49.740 And I'm depressed now over it.

00:06:52.760 So that's the beginning and the end of the video.

00:06:54.320 In the middle, she tells a truly mortifying story about showing up to an event,

00:06:58.260 apparently that same night when she recorded this,

00:06:59.900 at a comedy club where there was supposed to be some sort of singles event.

00:07:03.740 Like, other singles were supposed to be there that she could meet. 0.73

00:07:06.480 And she sits all the way in the front row where the other singles are supposed to be. 1.00

00:07:09.680 But to her horror, nobody else shows up.

00:07:12.960 The rest of the crowd is made up of groups and couples all sitting several rows back.

00:07:16.540 So now she's alone in the front with every comic who comes on stage.

00:07:21.220 She says, pointing out that she's alone and in the front.

00:07:25.060 And the event ends with the emcee handing her a gift bag

00:07:28.120 to congratulate her for being brave.

00:07:30.620 And then the audience claps.

00:07:32.540 So really the worst case scenario when you show up to a place like that by yourself.

00:07:36.580 I mean, I can remember once when I was single many years ago,

00:07:39.360 going to see a movie by myself.

00:07:41.540 And part of me worried that the theater manager or someone

00:07:45.320 would come into the room, stop the film, point to me and say,

00:07:48.900 attention, everyone, this guy here's alone.

00:07:50.760 Look at this alone guy, please, and feel sorry for him.

00:07:54.140 Now, that didn't happen.

00:07:55.160 And it probably was not very likely to happen.

00:07:57.440 But something like that really did happen to this poor woman. 0.99

00:08:00.460 And for that, she has all of our sympathy.

00:08:02.380 Doubly so in this case, because she's actually trying to meet someone outside of the dating app.

00:08:05.440 She's attempting to form a connection out in the real physical world.

00:08:09.180 And this is how it worked out.

00:08:10.700 Now, it's not just women having these problems, obviously. 1.00

00:08:14.160 In fact, one guy replied to this last video with his own story.

00:08:17.180 He posted, quote,

00:08:17.660 So a financially stable man in good physical shape.

00:08:46.960 Yet, he's meeting on average, he says, one woman a year.

00:08:51.180 And none of those connections have led to anything.

00:08:53.060 On paper, there's no reason why he should struggle this much to find a woman.

00:08:56.660 Just as on paper, there's no reason that the women in those videos should struggle to find men.

00:09:01.520 But here they are.

00:09:03.140 And here are so many other young people and not so young people in similar situations.

00:09:09.200 Now, by now, we're all familiar with the statistics,

00:09:11.200 which we've talked about on the show many times.

00:09:13.340 Fewer young adults are in relationships.

00:09:15.100 Fewer are getting married.

00:09:15.900 Fewer are having kids.

00:09:17.300 More of them are remaining single than ever before.

00:09:20.500 While people of all ages report record levels of loneliness,

00:09:23.460 people of all ages are also struggling to meet romantic partners.

00:09:26.460 A Pew analysis published in 2021 found that nearly 40% of adults

00:09:29.740 between the ages of 25 and 54 are, quote, unquote, unpartnered.

00:09:34.380 And by that, they mean these are people that are living without a spouse

00:09:37.560 or a live-in boyfriend or girlfriend.

00:09:39.540 And that's a 10% increase just from 1990.

00:09:43.140 And the trend has only continued over the past three years.

00:09:45.580 We're at the point now where a quarter of Americans have never been married by the time

00:09:49.160 they reach the age of 40.

00:09:51.440 Many other statistics, which we've discussed many times in the show, bear all this out.

00:09:54.800 These are not just the anecdotal experiences of random people on TikTok.

00:09:58.140 This is a real culture-wide phenomenon that those people have found themselves caught up in.

00:10:03.040 So, what's going on?

00:10:07.340 There are several major factors.

00:10:09.440 Some of them I've discussed before.

00:10:11.180 But let's lay them out again in one list.

00:10:14.240 First, of course, many people are just waiting too long to get serious about getting married.

00:10:18.740 The lie that my generation was sold and that the next generation after mine was also sold

00:10:23.800 is that your 20s, the first decade of adulthood,

00:10:27.800 is a time to be aimless and lazy and selfish and focused primarily on recreation and pleasure.

00:10:35.320 And this is totally backwards because that stage of life,

00:10:39.080 the kind of aimless, do-what-you-want, have-fun stage,

00:10:42.920 if that comes at all, that's supposed to be on the back end of life, not the front.

00:10:48.360 That's what your 70s can be about, not your 20s.

00:10:52.040 Now, it's never good to live a selfish life at any age,

00:10:54.160 but if you work hard and you have success and you manage to retire comfortably,

00:10:59.300 what few people in my generation will pull that off,

00:11:02.480 then in your 70s and 80s, you can live a life of leisure

00:11:05.260 where every day is basically focused on recreation.

00:11:09.320 Young adulthood should not be that, though.

00:11:11.460 It should be a time where your youthful energy is directed towards building the foundations

00:11:16.060 of a happy and successful life.

00:11:17.640 And for most people, marriage should be a part of that foundation.

00:11:20.740 It should be the cornerstone, not the capstone of adulthood.

00:11:24.700 But most people waste that time and they reject, during that time,

00:11:29.440 anything that reeks of responsibility.

00:11:31.840 And then they get into their 30s and they start to look around

00:11:33.920 and they realize that they haven't even begun to build a life for themselves yet.

00:11:37.720 And meanwhile, the younger people who actually want to get married and start families

00:11:40.560 have trouble finding someone their age willing and suited for it

00:11:43.440 because most of their peers have bought into the idea

00:11:45.960 that young adulthood is not a time for that sort of thing.

00:11:49.340 Second, there are too many choices.

00:11:51.840 For the people struggling to find someone, it feels like the problem is the opposite of that.

00:11:55.960 They certainly don't feel like they have a surplus of options.

00:11:59.620 But the truth is that you can go on a dating app and potentially connect with thousands of different people.

00:12:05.320 Everyone is swimming in this pool where the options, in theory anyway, are basically infinite.

00:12:11.700 And this lowers the value of any one particular individual and creates a sort of paralysis by analysis.

00:12:19.220 Potential suitors are weeded out quickly without much thought and for often frivolous reasons.

00:12:24.540 On the dating app, you're just one face and name and profile in an endless stream of very similar profiles.

00:12:32.860 And third, at a much deeper level, people are very confused.

00:12:35.640 And we've lost the basic understanding of what dating is for in the first place.

00:12:41.660 Worse, we've lost any understanding of what men and women are for and what our roles are supposed to be.

00:12:46.920 If we even talk about roles as it relates to men and women, it's considered outrageous and offensive somehow.

00:12:55.180 A man and a woman then pair up and they go on a date.

00:12:59.500 But they don't have any idea of what the goal of dating is supposed to be or why they're doing it or how they're supposed to interact with each other or what the other is looking for.

00:13:07.940 I mean, think again about that woman in the first video highlighting her professional achievements. 0.99

00:13:11.500 If she understood what men wanted, she would instead highlight herself as a kind and caring and affectionate woman who knows how to cook and take care of her man. 1.00

00:13:21.000 Now, if that's what she was presenting, along with being an attractive woman, if she was presenting that, there would be men lining up for miles to present themselves as suitors to a woman who looks like how she looks and has that kind of attitude.

00:13:33.560 But many single people can't be expected to understand what the other is looking for because they barely understand what they themselves are looking for.

00:13:41.660 And this is all a very new problem for most of human history and in most cultures.

00:13:45.560 A young man and a young woman went through some sort of courtship process while knowing exactly what the goal of the courtship was and exactly what the rules and parameters were and exactly what role the man is supposed to play and what role the woman is supposed to play.

00:13:59.100 There was very little confusion about any of these basic concepts, and now there is nothing but confusion about all of it all the time.

00:14:08.840 Fourth, this may be the biggest factor, but the institutions that once facilitated matchmaking have completely broken down, have been mostly abandoned, or have simply stopped performing those functions.

00:14:21.340 How were people matched up in the past?

00:14:22.820 Well, for most of history, families would arrange the matches.

00:14:25.840 That's no longer the case, at least not in the West.

00:14:28.280 And so if the family's not doing it, well, churches used to play a major role in connecting young people with each other.

00:14:35.140 But most young people don't even go to church regularly, so that no longer happens.

00:14:39.160 And if you don't have the family or the church, you've cut out the two institutions that used to be primarily in charge of this kind of thing.

00:14:46.840 You've thrown them out.

00:14:49.020 Then who's helping single people find each other?

00:14:53.660 The workplace was sort of the third option and never the best place to facilitate romantic relationships.

00:15:01.220 But now it's even worse.

00:15:02.520 HR regulations make it a risky proposition for a man to try to initiate any kind of romantic relationship with a co-worker.

00:15:08.620 And with more and more people working at home, your co-workers may be thousands of miles away in any case.

00:15:13.080 So is it any wonder that single people are feeling stuck?

00:15:16.960 They have no help.

00:15:17.980 They have no direction.

00:15:19.560 They have no reliable guidance.

00:15:22.260 They don't know what the rules and boundaries are.

00:15:24.880 And they have nowhere to go to find any of this.

00:15:28.600 So how do we solve this problem?

00:15:30.720 Well, we can start by actually acknowledging that this is the problem.

00:15:35.280 It's going to take a massive societal and cultural shift to change this very grim picture.

00:15:41.340 But there's no hope of that shift happening until a critical mass of people admit that it should happen.

00:15:47.360 And in the meantime, on an individual level, I would recommend that single people simplify their standards.

00:15:55.180 Now, I don't say lower them necessarily.

00:16:00.220 But clarify and simplify them.

00:16:02.680 The woman in the second video says that she just wants to find a man who is worth her time. 1.00

00:16:09.380 Now, and that's fair.

00:16:12.680 You want someone who's worth your time.

00:16:15.020 However, a lot is contained in those three words, worth her time.

00:16:20.760 And I suspect, and I don't know this, I suspect that part of the problem is the way she judges what her time is worth and who is worth it.

00:16:30.460 I would also suspect that she has found men worth her time, but she didn't recognize them as such.

00:16:37.780 Or she did, but the relationship treaded water for too long and fell apart for basically frivolous reasons.

00:16:44.380 So, this is what your standard should be.

00:16:48.300 And it really is as simple as this.

00:16:50.500 In the early going anyway.

00:16:51.840 You want a person that you're physically attracted to, who you trust, and who shares your fundamental values.

00:17:00.100 Now, if you find that, then you've passed the first big test.

00:17:05.240 Or they have.

00:17:06.080 You have together.

00:17:07.580 And now you can move on to the next phase of your relationship, which is the phase that we used to call courtship.

00:17:11.960 And we don't really have a name for it anymore, which is a big part of the problem here.

00:17:15.180 We don't even know what to call any of these phases or what they are or anything, but that's the next phase.

00:17:22.280 And now you can start looking for more specific qualities, and the desirable qualities will be different at this point for men and women.

00:17:30.160 If you're a woman, you want to know if the man is a good provider and a good protector.

00:17:35.060 And if you're a man, you want to know if the woman is caring and kind and has maternal qualities.

00:17:38.940 Even if you're a woman and you think you want to work outside the home when you're married, you still want a man with the qualities of a provider and protector.

00:17:48.540 That is the kind of man that you want, no matter how much money you have.

00:17:54.060 And if you're a man and you don't think you want kids right away, you still want a woman with maternal qualities.

00:18:00.680 That's still the kind of woman you want. 1.00

00:18:02.420 As a man, if you look at a woman and say, well, I'm attracted to her and I like her, but she would make a terrible mother. 0.72

00:18:11.120 Then that speaks to deep defects in the woman that should disqualify her from consideration. 0.75

00:18:16.860 And if you're a woman and you look at a man and say, he's nice, he's attractive, but if we ever had to depend on this guy financially, we'd be screwed.

00:18:24.060 But again, there are profound defects that should cross him off the list.

00:18:27.480 If you don't notice those kinds of defects and you find that you're both attracted to each other and share the same basic fundamental values, then that's all you need to know.

00:18:37.620 You have all the raw material to build a life together.

00:18:40.920 The only logical next step is marriage and the rest of the details you figure out as you go.

00:18:47.780 Now, I don't mean to imply that finding someone who meets these basic qualifications is easy.

00:18:52.380 It isn't easy, especially these days, or often it's not easy, but it is simple, or at least much simpler than our culture makes it seem.

00:19:03.640 And if you know what you're looking for and what matters, then at least if you're still single, it won't be because of your own indecision and confusion.

00:19:14.160 Which will automatically put you far ahead of the competition.

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00:20:32.920 Daily Wire has this report.

00:20:33.920 Illegal immigrants are rushing to cross the U.S. southern border ahead of the November presidential election

00:20:39.400 to take advantage of President Joe Biden's policies while fearing another term of Donald Trump in the White House.

00:20:44.540 After illegally crossing the Arizona border last week, two migrants from Colombia told New York Post reporter Jennifer Tehr

00:20:49.640 that they were concerned about the outcome of the upcoming 2024 presidential election.

00:20:54.160 20-year-old Ricardo said, according to the Post, we think with the elections it will be harder.

00:20:59.260 Ricardo's brother Sebastian, 18, added, we don't want Trump.

00:21:02.900 The Colombian brothers claimed asylum after illegally crossing the border

00:21:07.460 and were sheltered at the Yuma Regional Center for Border Health.

00:21:11.040 Ricardo and Sebastian then reportedly were bused to the Phoenix airport

00:21:14.540 where they caught a flight to New Jersey to join their mother.

00:21:17.240 According to the Post, Customs and Border Protection agents gave the illegal immigrants a court date

00:21:21.220 for an asylum hearing in October.

00:21:25.860 Which I'm sure that they will diligently make sure they attend.

00:21:29.560 So you've got illegal immigrants, let them into the country, and then say, 1.00

00:21:35.300 several months from now, here's a court date, please show up.

00:21:39.400 Please pinky promise that you'll show up.

00:21:43.600 So this is all the campaign ad you need right there.

00:21:46.320 You have illegal immigrants saying, we don't want Trump.

00:21:49.640 I mean, that's all you really need to know.

00:21:52.100 And it also demonstrates one of the most important facets of the immigration issue

00:21:57.800 and one that probably isn't talked about enough.

00:22:01.040 And that's the issue of disincentives.

00:22:03.880 Yes, we should enforce the border.

00:22:05.180 Yes, we should deport the criminal aliens who come here illegally. 1.00

00:22:11.500 No, we aren't really doing any of that right now.

00:22:13.540 Certainly not on the scale and with the effectiveness that we should be.

00:22:17.040 But the most effective way to enforce the border and curb illegal immigration

00:22:19.640 is to make it so that they don't want to come here in the first place.

00:22:22.240 Because once you have millions of illegal immigrants flooding the border, 0.99

00:22:26.400 there is not a wall high enough or a deportation program aggressive enough

00:22:30.700 to catch them all.

00:22:32.540 You should still try, but you're not going to be able to do it perfectly,

00:22:38.680 which is why you need disincentives.

00:22:40.060 And right now, of course, we have the opposite.

00:22:42.040 The immigrants are incentivized to come. 0.79

00:22:44.720 They know they'll get free housing.

00:22:46.280 They know they get free food.

00:22:48.020 They know that this is the way that it's going to go.

00:22:50.480 They'll come through.

00:22:50.960 They'll claim asylum. 0.81

00:22:51.700 They'll be put on an airplane, of course, with a flight that they don't pay for.

00:22:56.540 So they'll be escorted by air to, you know, deeper into the country.

00:23:03.340 That's a tax paradigm.

00:23:05.020 They'll be set up with a house.

00:23:06.260 They'll be given food.

00:23:06.800 They'll be given everything.

00:23:08.000 And they know that.

00:23:11.060 You can shut off the valve or at least reduce it to a trickle

00:23:14.540 if you make it clear that illegal immigrants who come here will get nothing.

00:23:20.960 You will get absolutely nothing.

00:23:23.720 I mean, you should announce that.

00:23:26.800 If you come here, we will give you nothing.

00:23:28.580 You will get nothing.

00:23:29.360 You will not get a house.

00:23:30.460 You will not get food.

00:23:31.800 You will be hungry and you'll be on the street and you'll be cold and you'll be exposed to the elements.

00:23:35.960 And you might die because you're not going to be provided for because we can't.

00:23:44.020 You're not a citizen.

00:23:45.120 We cannot do that to our citizens.

00:23:47.600 We cannot steal from them to give to you.

00:23:49.380 We're not going to do that.

00:23:50.060 And so if you choose to come here, you're going to be out on the street.

00:23:53.560 Don't do it.

00:23:57.380 And you make that clear, then it disincentivizes.

00:24:03.420 And this is why it's not just a smart policy, but it's also a moral thing.

00:24:09.040 It is moral.

00:24:09.980 It is an act of mercy.

00:24:10.920 It is moral and an act of Christian mercy to refuse to provide any luxuries or necessities to illegal immigrants. 1.00

00:24:20.940 That is the merciful right moral thing.

00:24:23.300 That's how we should talk about it.

00:24:25.260 Rather than, as we so often do, or as the right so often does, sort of surrendering the moral argument of immigration to the left.

00:24:33.720 So they're making the moral argument, oh, we want to help everybody.

00:24:36.460 And we're making the practical argument, well, we can't.

00:24:40.920 We are making a practical argument, but we're also making the moral argument.

00:24:46.140 It is moral and good to enforce our laws.

00:24:49.060 It is moral and good to protect our sovereignty.

00:24:53.840 It is moral and good to not steal from American citizens to give to people who are not citizens.

00:25:00.320 And it's also moral and good for their own sake.

00:25:02.440 To do everything you can to dissuade them from making the very dangerous journey, coming here, coming all this way.

00:25:14.160 Many die along the way.

00:25:15.300 We're always told this.

00:25:16.200 Well, the moral and good thing for their own sake is to do everything you can and say everything you can say.

00:25:20.280 To dissuade them from risking their lives and their children's lives in the process.

00:25:30.440 All right, here is Julia Fox, who is apparently a model and actress. 0.74

00:25:35.720 I think she's an actress. 0.92

00:25:36.780 I don't know.

00:25:37.120 But she's talking about why she has chosen to remain celibate.

00:25:43.160 And there's more and more women and even celebrity women who are talking about this. 0.88

00:25:47.880 Let's listen to this clip.

00:25:48.720 Julia, Rachel A. texted, what's your reasoning behind being celibate? 0.91

00:25:54.300 And in what ways do you believe it has improved your life?

00:25:58.020 Well, I just think nothing good comes from having sex, including children. 0.98

00:26:04.280 No, I'm just kidding.

00:26:07.620 But, you know, I think with the overturning of Roe v. Wade and, you know, our rights being stripped away from us,

00:26:13.160 this is a way that I can take back the control.

00:26:16.120 And it just sucks that it has to be in that way.

00:26:18.020 But I just don't feel comfortable until things change.

00:26:21.040 Wow.

00:26:26.080 Do you have an end date to this?

00:26:29.160 Oh, I honestly, I it was like six months and it was a year.

00:26:33.060 And I'm like, oh, my God, it's almost two and a half years and it's still going.

00:26:36.140 And I don't know.

00:26:36.700 Do you miss it?

00:26:37.320 It's going to take a miracle.

00:26:37.740 Do you miss it?

00:26:38.520 In the beginning, yes.

00:26:39.400 But I think it's just like getting over anything, smoking, drugs, whatever it may be.

00:26:43.200 Now, she first of all, she appears to be wearing plastic wrap, but I'm not sure what exactly is going on there.

00:26:49.540 She couldn't find a dress she likes.

00:26:50.720 So she went to the kitchen cabinet and grabbed cling wrap.

00:26:54.960 Interesting aesthetic choice there.

00:26:57.260 Not sure if it really pays off.

00:26:59.060 In any case, she says that she's remaining celibate because Roe was overturned.

00:27:02.340 And I mean, never mind the fact that she, I'm assuming, almost certainly lives in a place where abortion is still completely legal. 0.67

00:27:11.620 I don't know if she understands how this works.

00:27:13.740 Apparently, she doesn't.

00:27:15.060 The overturning of Roe v. Wade did not make abortion illegal nationwide, unfortunately.

00:27:20.500 And so if she lives in California or New York, which presumably she does, then she still can get all the abortions that she wants. 1.00

00:27:28.360 Not that I'm trying to dissuade her from her celibate course of action.

00:27:33.120 She should definitely stay on that course.

00:27:35.480 That's great. 1.00

00:27:36.920 It is without a doubt much better for these women to remain sexless than to have a bunch of sex and kill a bunch of babies also. 1.00

00:27:44.820 But it is funny to me that women like this, and again, she's not the only one, far from the only one who's claimed to go celibate in response to the Roe decision. 0.98

00:27:54.520 It's funny that they seem to think they've discovered something that we have been saying all along.

00:28:01.360 And pro-lifers have been saying this all along.

00:28:04.400 This has been our point.

00:28:07.020 That sex is an inherently procreative act.

00:28:11.420 That doesn't mean that a baby is always conceived in the process.

00:28:14.260 But it does mean that sexual intercourse always carries the potential for producing new life.

00:28:21.360 That is its primary biological function, after all.

00:28:25.180 From a biological, purely scientific perspective, that is why the sexual act exists.

00:28:30.720 So if you don't want to create a child with a man who you're not prepared to start a family with, or if you're not at a point in your life where you feel that you're ready to have kids or whatever, there is another option instead of abortion.

00:28:45.220 In fact, you don't need abortion to avoid these possibilities at all.

00:28:51.320 You can instead exercise just the slightest modicum of self-control.

00:28:58.340 That is also an option. 0.65

00:28:59.780 It's like, you don't have to go have sex with some guy who you would never in a million years want to have a baby with.

00:29:07.840 You don't have to do that. 0.61

00:29:09.260 You could just not do that.

00:29:11.240 It's not only an option.

00:29:13.060 It's the best all around.

00:29:15.500 It's better for you.

00:29:16.700 It has so many other benefits.

00:29:19.040 It'll make you a happier person in the long run.

00:29:22.380 Like, just do that.

00:29:23.520 And it is possible.

00:29:26.820 It is possible to not have sex with everyone you meet.

00:29:30.360 It is possible to not have sex every time the mood strikes you.

00:29:33.380 It is possible to be physically attracted to someone and to want to do that with them, but then not.

00:29:41.100 Like, it's possible.

00:29:43.380 You can direct and channel your behavior.

00:29:46.300 You can exercise discernment.

00:29:47.720 It is possible.

00:29:48.240 It's not only possible, but it's actually not that hard to do.

00:29:51.860 It's really not that difficult.

00:29:54.460 It really isn't.

00:29:56.860 And now, that doesn't mean that you need to be celibate, though.

00:30:00.720 Like, she's gone all the way to the other end of this, saying, well, I'm not having sex with anybody.

00:30:06.960 Proving that even that is possible.

00:30:11.000 But celibacy is not necessary.

00:30:12.880 It just means that you should have sex with a person that you're prepared to start a family with. 0.72

00:30:17.660 So, you know, find someone and get married and then be intimate with each other without fear.

00:30:23.760 There doesn't need to be so much fear surrounding human sexuality.

00:30:30.660 Now, of course, the left would accuse someone like me.

00:30:33.100 They would accuse people on our side, on the pro-life side of the discussion.

00:30:37.400 They would accuse us.

00:30:38.560 They would and do accuse us of being the prudes.

00:30:41.220 You know, they say they were the ones afraid of sex or whatever.

00:30:43.480 But that couldn't be more backwards.

00:30:47.640 Because the people who make sex into a scary thing are the ones who claim, you know, the people making it scary are the ones who claim that you need to be able to murder your offspring in order to have sex in the first place.

00:31:03.980 They are the ones introducing death and murder and bloodshed into the equation.

00:31:12.240 They've done it.

00:31:14.360 There's no need for that.

00:31:16.760 You can put yourself in a position where there's nothing to be afraid of.

00:31:20.180 You don't have to worry about these things.

00:31:23.240 You know, it's very possible.

00:31:26.320 You can put yourself in a position where you can have sex and you don't have to worry about STDs.

00:31:37.340 You don't have to worry about pregnancy.

00:31:41.040 It might happen, but you don't have to worry about it.

00:31:43.180 It doesn't have to be something that, it doesn't have to be, you know, a source of deep anxiety.

00:31:49.100 It doesn't have to be something that feels like it destroys your life if it happens.

00:31:53.500 It is possible.

00:31:54.300 So, just get to a stable point in your life and get married and then, and you're fine.

00:32:02.940 There's nothing to worry about.

00:32:07.360 And I appreciate people like, what's her name again?

00:32:11.060 Julia Fox, proving that for us.

00:32:13.880 Okay, Daily Wire headline.

00:32:14.820 Federal court rules that Maryland parents can't opt kids out of classes with LGBT content.

00:32:21.780 Does the court say that you, you can't opt out of it?

00:32:25.620 The fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled two to one against Maryland parents who sued their local school board for not letting their children in grades K through five opt out of reading books supporting transgender ideology and gender transitioning.

00:32:38.340 The Montgomery County Public School Board denied the parents the request to be notified when their books would be read to their children and the opportunity to opt out.

00:32:45.560 Now, the board is violating the parents' inalienable and constitutionally protected right to control the religious upbringing of their children, especially on sensitive issues concerning family life and human sexuality, according to the Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty that litigated the lawsuit.

00:32:57.880 They explained, quote,

00:33:00.880 In fall 2022, the Montgomery County Board of Education announced over 20 new inclusivity books for its pre-K through eighth grade classrooms.

00:33:08.240 But rather than focusing on basic civility and kindness, these books champion pride, praise, gender transitioning, and pronoun preferences for children.

00:33:15.400 For example, one book tasks three and four-year-olds to search for images from a word list that includes intersex flag, drag queen, underwear, leather, and the name of a celebrated LGBTQ activist and sex worker.

00:33:28.440 Then other books talk about non-binary and gender transitioning and all the rest of it.

00:33:34.760 A district court ruled against the parents, prompting them to appeal to the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which denied the parents' request for a preliminary injunction, but allowed the possibility of changing its position once the classes have already been taught.

00:33:46.380 We take no view on whether the parents will be able to present evidence sufficient to support any of their various theories once they have the opportunity to develop a record as to the circumstances surrounding the board's decision and how the challenged texts are actually being used in schools.

00:33:58.040 At this early stage, however, given the parents' broad claims, the very high burden required to obtain a preliminary injunction and the scant record before us, we are constrained to affirm the district court's order denying a preliminary injunction.

00:34:10.840 Okay, so let me see if I understand this decision clearly.

00:34:13.940 They're saying that the parents can't opt out of the left-wing LGBT indoctrination sessions, but maybe they will be able to opt out once they can prove their legal case after the sessions have already happened.

00:34:34.140 So what they're saying is, what they appear to be saying is that they must allow their kids to be indoctrinated.

00:34:40.480 And then after they've been indoctrinated, then they have proof that the indoctrination happened, and so then they can opt out of it, which, of course, at that point, it's too late. 0.78

00:34:51.400 So this is an insane decision, obviously, completely bonkers.

00:34:54.740 It's clearly a violation of a child's basic human rights to expose him to this kind of content in the context of a public school class, and it's a violation of the parents' basic human rights.

00:35:03.660 And we know that's true, because all we have to do is imagine what the court would say, what it would do, and what the media would say and do, and what the left would say.

00:35:12.880 If the school was using in its curriculum, instead of these LGBT books, what if they were using books that teach the kids that Jesus Christ is their Lord and Savior?

00:35:20.600 Even if there was just one book, the purpose of which was to instruct the children that Jesus loved them and died for their sins, the court would put a stop to that without hesitation.

00:35:32.500 They'd make the decision in 30 seconds.

00:35:34.840 We all know that.

00:35:36.100 It would be considered religious indoctrination and a violation of the First Amendment.

00:35:39.240 And as soon as anyone caught wind of that book existing in the classroom and being given to kids, it's over.

00:35:51.600 Well, this is the same thing.

00:35:53.480 I mean, it's not the same thing.

00:35:55.620 It's actually not at all the same thing, because Jesus Christ really is our Lord and Savior, and Christianity is true, whereas gender ideology is not true.

00:36:02.880 So children are harmed by exposure to gender ideology, but they are certainly not harmed by exposure to Christianity. 0.52

00:36:10.900 So it's not the same on the merits, but it's the same sort of thing only in the sense that Christianity is a religion and gender ideology is also a religion.

00:36:24.800 And sometimes I hesitate to make this kind of argument because it sounds like we're using religion as a pejorative.

00:36:29.800 When that's not how I mean it, it's just a matter of classifying it.

00:36:38.480 It's putting it in the right, like, what is this thing that we're talking about?

00:36:43.060 This gender ideology that teaches all these things, what is this? 1.00

00:36:46.280 What is this, like, system of beliefs?

00:36:49.300 And to me, it is clearly a religion.

00:36:54.040 Not all religions are created equal. 0.91

00:36:56.180 Not all are good.

00:36:57.140 Not all are true.

00:36:58.000 But that is the category that this ideology belongs to.

00:37:01.480 It makes doctrinal and supernatural claims about the nature of the human person and about the nature of reality.

00:37:08.860 It has its own moral code.

00:37:10.320 It has its own sacraments, its own moral obligations, and so on.

00:37:14.460 So, yes, that's what it is.

00:37:17.940 And no, it should not be taught in schools.

00:37:20.060 Okay, I want to play this for you.

00:37:23.840 In the opening, we discussed a couple of videos featuring women crying on camera.

00:37:30.080 And this has become a whole genre on social media.

00:37:32.620 It's perhaps the most popular genre.

00:37:34.060 And while I did feel sympathy for the women in the videos that we opened with, there's one more that went viral this week that I kind of wanted to put in a separate category and talk about separately.

00:37:43.600 And this is one that does not cause me to feel very much sympathy or any sympathy at all, in the slightest, actually.

00:37:52.340 This is a woman who says in the caption that she's a single mom and she has to bake her own birthday cake for herself because it's her birthday and no one is there to celebrate. 0.95

00:38:02.960 And so she has to bake it herself and she decided to film herself making her cake while crying.

00:38:10.680 Let's watch.

00:38:40.680 Okay, there's just something funny about the sight of somebody crying while making cupcakes.

00:38:54.120 It's just there's something very, it's not very, it's not very congruous.

00:38:58.600 There's something odd about the sight.

00:39:00.520 Okay, first of all, and look, if you're gonna, if you're just gonna make cupcakes from a pre-packaged mix, then you might as well go out and buy already made cupcakes at the store.

00:39:13.680 Like if making cupcakes is a sorrowful activity for you, then just go buy them.

00:39:19.720 If you're, if you're so traumatized by throwing some mix into a bowl and an egg or whatever and stirring it, then go buy some cake for yourself or just don't have cake at all.

00:39:30.040 You know, I went through several birthdays when I lived alone and I didn't make myself a cake.

00:39:39.440 I didn't go out and buy one either.

00:39:42.080 No, you're an adult.

00:39:43.080 Like, what are you doing?

00:39:44.320 You don't need to have a cake on your birthday.

00:39:47.320 Making yourself a birthday cake.

00:39:48.560 And also, by the way, I got news for you.

00:39:50.080 I hate to tell you this, but even if you were married, lady, you're still making your own cake. 1.00

00:39:56.660 If you want a cake, if you want a homemade cake, you're gonna be making it yourself, even if you're married.

00:40:02.860 So anyway, yeah, just go buy, go buy your, go buy it if you want.

00:40:08.380 And don't tell me that you can't afford to buy a homemade or a store-bought cupcakes or a cake because we can all see your kitchen.

00:40:16.720 And if you're a single mom with that kitchen, you're obviously in pretty good financial state.

00:40:25.260 I don't know what you're, how you're in that state.

00:40:27.980 I don't know where you're getting your money, but you're getting it from somewhere and you're doing pretty well.

00:40:33.940 But more to the point, I want you to think about the process that goes into a video like this.

00:40:40.820 Think about the step-by-step process.

00:40:44.300 Okay?

00:40:44.740 If you're a fly on the wall, and there are no flies in that spotless, beautiful kitchen, but if you were, what would you see?

00:40:55.420 Well, first, she cleans her kitchen so that it will look nice on camera.

00:41:00.080 So it's all very premeditated.

00:41:02.400 This is a premeditated, well, I gotta back it up.

00:41:05.160 Because first, the idea sparks.

00:41:07.120 She has an idea where she wants a video of herself crying while making a cake.

00:41:12.620 This is a content idea that she came up with.

00:41:16.040 And she wants to do this on her birthday.

00:41:18.400 Maybe she's had this idea for months.

00:41:20.480 She had this, she really, this would be a great video on my birthday.

00:41:23.800 Me crying and making cupcakes.

00:41:26.160 This is good content.

00:41:27.180 So she comes up with the idea.

00:41:30.000 Then she goes and cleans her kitchen.

00:41:32.760 Sets up her phone on a tripod.

00:41:35.360 Sets up all the baking supplies.

00:41:37.480 Presses record.

00:41:39.600 Conjures up the tears to cry on camera.

00:41:42.940 Stops the video.

00:41:44.700 Watches it back.

00:41:47.360 Edits it.

00:41:47.920 Puts sad music in the background.

00:41:52.540 And then posts it.

00:41:54.440 And here I'm actually doing her a favor because I'm just gonna assume that she didn't do multiple takes.

00:42:00.020 I'm assuming that she didn't watch it back and like think that she wasn't crying visibly enough.

00:42:04.620 Or, you know, want another crack at it.

00:42:07.400 And then do it again.

00:42:09.020 And again and again.

00:42:12.000 I'm assuming that.

00:42:13.140 Probably not a safe assumption, by the way.

00:42:14.760 In either case, this kind of behavior, I mean, it is truly sick.

00:42:20.380 It really is.

00:42:23.320 And yet it is very common.

00:42:24.780 It is disturbingly common.

00:42:26.340 This level of totally performative sadness.

00:42:30.140 This kind of emotionally manipulative behavior.

00:42:33.680 It's all over social media.

00:42:36.500 And the content works.

00:42:38.200 They get what they want out of it.

00:42:39.440 They get thousands and thousands of comments telling them how brave and wonderful they are.

00:42:43.120 And the video I just played, okay, just guess.

00:42:46.820 Guess how many views that video.

00:42:49.200 It's a woman making cupcakes out of a mix and crying. 0.96

00:42:56.580 Guess how many views it has on TikTok.

00:42:59.540 26 million.

00:43:02.360 26 million views for a woman making cupcakes out of a mix and crying. 1.00

00:43:10.600 And what does that mean?

00:43:11.620 It means that she's going to post a whole lot more videos of herself crying.

00:43:15.160 We're going to get her.

00:43:15.760 This is a whole series now.

00:43:17.300 This is a franchise of content.

00:43:21.300 We're going to get her crying while doing the laundry. 1.00

00:43:23.860 We're going to get her crying while making breakfast. 1.00

00:43:25.380 We're going to get her crying while doing the dishes. 1.00

00:43:27.400 Crying while feeding her cat.

00:43:29.180 Crying while, you know, vacuuming the carpet.

00:43:31.560 Like, she probably doesn't have carpet. 0.99

00:43:33.820 Beautiful house.

00:43:34.340 She probably just has wood floors. 1.00

00:43:36.640 Crying while sweeping.

00:43:37.620 Like, everything.

00:43:38.820 She'll be crying while she's doing everything. 1.00

00:43:39.880 This is how the incentive structure on the internet works now. 0.85

00:43:44.980 People are incentivized to present themselves in the most pathetic, helpless, pitiable light possible.

00:43:51.220 Whatever benefit there could possibly be in putting a video out into the world of you in that kind of emotional state. 0.89

00:44:06.100 And there really is no benefit.

00:44:08.680 It's only downside.

00:44:09.800 But if there was anything, like, if there was any, like, redeeming quality to this kind of content, the sad woman genre of video, if there was any redeeming quality to it, that is negated by the fact that it's not real.

00:44:25.900 It's not authentic.

00:44:26.860 That you have these women performing their emotions for an audience.

00:44:31.320 They're doing it so much and so often that after a while, they lose the ability to actually have any authentic human emotions at all.

00:44:38.420 I mean, these are like robots.

00:44:41.520 It's like turning into artificial intelligence.

00:44:44.000 Because now, for this woman, anytime she actually does feel authentically sad or upset, she's going to think to herself, oh, this is great content.

00:44:55.800 I can get 10 million views on this.

00:44:59.420 And the moment that that thought pops into your head, the emotion isn't real anymore.

00:45:05.140 You know, it's not real.

00:45:07.540 Nothing is real.

00:45:09.860 Everything is performance.

00:45:11.060 And, you know, that's a real sort of danger for everybody on social media now that you no longer live any kind, like, you don't have a real existence anymore.

00:45:27.180 You barely exist as a real person.

00:45:29.140 Everything is just so fake.

00:45:30.640 Everything is harvested for content.

00:45:33.720 It's so unbelievably unhealthy.

00:45:36.200 Like, it's unhealthy in ways that we can't even understand right now.

00:45:40.540 It's like this is messing with people on a level that is truly unprecedented.

00:45:46.480 There's never been anything quite like this in the history of the world, so we don't really – what does this look like?

00:45:51.540 Like, what does this person – 50 years from now, what kind of person is this that has lived this way for half a century? 0.98

00:46:01.660 It's quite pathetic. 0.93

00:46:03.520 I mean, so then in the end, like, it actually is really sad. 0.95

00:46:06.720 It actually – you start by kind of laughing at how silly it is, but then you end up actually really sad yourself, but just not sad for the same reasons or for the reasons that are intended.

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00:47:48.420 Well, if you've listened to this show for a while, you probably know that I am not exactly the greatest fan of yoga.

00:48:01.320 My relationship with yoga over the years has been quite contentious.

00:48:04.240 And yet, today, in a plot twist that nobody saw coming, I'm going to be assuming the role of yoga defender because there is someone out there, a group of people, who are even more anti-yoga than me.

00:48:17.000 Apparently, someone high up in San Diego's government has a burning disdain for yoga that exceeds even my own.

00:48:22.840 And that's my assumption today, after San Diego decided, effective immediately, to outlaw yoga classes on the beach.

00:48:30.700 Practice yoga in defiance of this new mandate, and you can look forward to a ticket and a court date.

00:48:35.940 Even free yoga classes are prohibited.

00:48:38.200 No organized group is allowed to participate in any yoga on the beach anymore.

00:48:44.480 And there are rows of police cruisers enforcing the ban on beach yoga every day.

00:48:51.340 Which, of course, isn't going over very well with the locals.

00:48:54.040 They've killed the vibe on the beach.

00:48:56.540 Everyone's chakras are all messed up or whatever. 0.99

00:48:59.840 Anyway, this is martial law for people who like to bend their bodies in unnatural ways while looking at the waves and muttering namaste.

00:49:08.560 Here's the local ABC affiliate talking about it.

00:49:12.060 The city of San Diego is cracking down on beach yoga.

00:49:15.960 A group of instructors say park rangers shut down their classes earlier this week.

00:49:20.660 Thank you for joining us tonight.

00:49:21.900 I'm Nia Watson.

00:49:22.520 ABC 10 News reporter Spencer Shorcher explains why the city's recently updated code is getting pushback from the wellness community.

00:49:29.840 It's very peaceful.

00:49:33.440 They came here to unwind, do some yoga by the cliffs.

00:49:36.960 It's an incredible space.

00:49:38.720 I think it is one of the most unique spots in all of San Diego.

00:49:43.020 Instead, just as they got to Sunset Cliffs, these yogis are rolling up their mats and heading home.

00:49:49.300 We've all tried to spread the word that class has been canceled.

00:49:52.780 These four women teach yoga at Sunset Cliffs.

00:49:55.700 At least, they used to.

00:49:57.280 When I came here to teach my class at 6 o'clock, there were three park ranger trucks all positioned on the cliffs that prevented us from starting our class.

00:50:07.100 The city of San Diego is enforcing an ordinance it revised in March, the one that aimed to crack down on sidewalk bending.

00:50:13.300 In it, the city restricts where fitness classes can be held, like here at the cliffs, and requires a permit.

00:50:19.460 I keep saying I thought it was hot dog vendors, and all of a sudden, all of a sudden, it's yoga teachers, too.

00:50:26.060 My God, I'm agreeing with the wellness community.

00:50:28.580 What is happening to me?

00:50:32.640 So these women were under the impression that only hot dog vendors were banned, but to their horror, they quickly discovered that it's not just hot dogs, but downward-facing dogs that are prohibited as well.

00:50:43.080 In other words, the government has suddenly assumed a lot more power than anyone originally anticipated.

00:50:48.000 Cue the shock and indignation.

00:50:49.200 This is surely the first time anything like that has ever happened in California.

00:50:51.960 Now, you're probably thinking that this is something that I would be celebrating.

00:50:56.080 After all, a bunch of women who wanted to perform yoga aren't able to do so anymore, at least not in public. 1.00

00:51:01.940 And, you know, on the beach, like, I don't want to have to see that when I'm at the beach.

00:51:05.140 It's annoying.

00:51:06.240 They won't ruin those beautiful beach views anymore with their weird poses.

00:51:11.220 But I'm not celebrating this.

00:51:13.460 Quite the opposite.

00:51:14.200 The city of San Diego has actually done the impossible here, which is make me sympathize with people who practice yoga in public.

00:51:20.280 And if not sympathize, at least, like, agree with their argument.

00:51:23.760 I am fully on the side of the yoga practitioners, as much as it pains me to say so.

00:51:28.000 You know, when the government starts banning people from doing something and enforcing that ban, sending three trucks to the place to enforce something,

00:51:37.120 well, they should have a clear justification for doing so.

00:51:40.200 But in this case, they don't have one.

00:51:42.840 The city of San Diego isn't really implementing a new law here.

00:51:45.660 Instead, they say that they're simply clarifying an existing ordinance.

00:51:48.180 Quoting from the city, the city of San Diego's municipal code prohibits groups consisting of four or more people engaged in commercial or recreational activities like yoga,

00:51:55.960 fitness classes, and dog training from gathering in parts without a permit and can only operate in certain designated areas.

00:52:03.560 So you have to get a yoga permit.

00:52:06.100 You have to get your yoga license to show people.

00:52:09.100 So if you're doing a stretch on the beach and the cop shows up, says, excuse me, do you have a license to be doing that with your body?

00:52:14.960 Here it is. Here's my license.

00:52:17.380 The applicable municipal code has been in effect since 1993, and recent updates to the policy have clarified the activities for which necessary permitting replies.

00:52:25.240 These updates went into effect March 29th and are in effect to ensure that these public spaces remain safe and accessible to all users at all times.

00:52:31.940 This is one of those scenarios where safe and accessible to all users at all times means that if you want to do some yoga, you'll get a court date.

00:52:39.920 And this is the kind of contradiction that makes it completely impossible to defend what the government's doing here.

00:52:44.440 Their own logic is arbitrary and self-defeating.

00:52:46.360 And again, these aren't even commercial yoga classes.

00:52:48.860 They're free in many cases.

00:52:50.920 As I watch more and more footage of those yoga busts that the cops are pulling off, 1.00

00:52:56.840 I'm not sure how anyone could disagree with the position here.

00:52:59.800 Here, for example, is a report from the local Fox affiliate covering another yoga raid on Ocean Boulevard.

00:53:07.020 This is the reason that people live in this city, is spaces like this.

00:53:11.840 So for these spaces to be monitored in such a heavy, unnecessary manner, it just is very confusing to me.

00:53:19.320 Jackie Kowalik is a yoga instructor.

00:53:21.380 One of her donation-based classes was shut down last week at Sunset Cliff, so she wanted to stop by PB, where she knew another class was happening Saturday.

00:53:30.540 And when I got here, the street was lined with Park Ranger trucks.

00:53:34.300 There were three rangers standing in the grass overlooking a class full of people doing yoga.

00:53:39.360 After the class, the Park Rangers moved in to give the teacher a ticket.

00:53:43.220 She recorded the interaction.

00:53:45.300 Without emitting guilt, just need your signature, and she'll be recorded on that. 0.88

00:53:49.720 It's ridiculous.

00:53:50.740 We've been here for 17 years, and now they're like, no, we're shutting this down.

00:53:55.640 Kowalik says she asked Park Rangers for clarification on the do's and don'ts.

00:54:00.800 Can I ask a follow-up question?

00:54:02.640 What if it's a completely free class?

00:54:04.460 The answer was no.

00:54:05.580 Okay, well, what if a group of friends comes down here and wants to do a yoga class?

00:54:08.800 Are you going to stop and interrupt them?

00:54:10.220 The answer was yes.

00:54:10.940 We'll find out if it's an organized group.

00:54:12.380 She then asked about summer camps.

00:54:15.200 If I give a summer camp money and say, here, take care of my child,

00:54:18.380 and they take a group of kids down to the beach and don't have a permit,

00:54:21.960 can they get kicked off the beach?

00:54:23.820 And deer in headlights.

00:54:25.700 They couldn't answer me.

00:54:26.840 And to me, that tells me it's not just yoga that's at rest.

00:54:31.240 Now, watching this, it's all very reminiscent of the COVID lockdowns

00:54:34.660 when the police chased surfers down and threw them in jail.

00:54:37.260 That was the precedent.

00:54:38.160 Of course, at the time, we were told that there was some emergency justifying it,

00:54:40.940 but there's no emergency now, and police are still doing that kind of thing anyway.

00:54:44.960 Because once the government gains power like that, they don't surrender it under any circumstances.

00:54:49.440 We should all understand that by now.

00:54:51.660 Although that's probably news to a lot of these yoga people.

00:54:53.780 And a lot of these people, by the way, probably cheered on when the cops were, like,

00:54:58.460 throwing surfers in jail and kicking off the beach because of COVID.

00:55:01.340 They probably were on board with that.

00:55:03.360 But somehow the total arbitrariness of this crackdown isn't the worst part.

00:55:09.460 It would be one thing if police in San Diego had simply run out of crimes to investigate.

00:55:14.300 So they're going after yoga to sort of keep busy.

00:55:17.400 And they've solved all the other problems.

00:55:20.400 They're enforcing all the other laws.

00:55:21.800 Everything's fine.

00:55:22.500 Everything's great.

00:55:24.040 And now they've narrowed it down.

00:55:25.320 And they're like, well, what else can we do here?

00:55:27.360 Well, let's get the yoga people. 1.00

00:55:28.760 They're annoying. 0.88

00:55:29.200 Let's get rid of them.

00:55:30.620 That would be one thing.

00:55:31.740 I still probably wouldn't be on board with it.

00:55:34.100 But, like, I could hear you out on that.

00:55:37.360 It would at least be somewhat understandable from their perspective.

00:55:40.360 And it would mean that crime has been solved in San Diego,

00:55:42.380 which would obviously be a net positive.

00:55:43.800 But as you probably guessed, that's not the case.

00:55:45.500 The city of San Diego has much bigger problems on its hands.

00:55:48.880 That includes problems happening on the beaches off San Diego,

00:55:52.120 where these yoga classes are taking place.

00:55:54.120 Just a couple months ago, for example,

00:55:55.260 a journalist says he captured this footage of illegal immigrants arriving on a speedboat

00:55:59.260 and jumping on shore.

00:56:01.100 Watch.

00:56:15.500 So this journalist was, like, in the water.

00:56:26.720 Was he scuba diving or something?

00:56:28.120 I don't know.

00:56:28.800 But anyway, this is the kind of thing you'd hope that swarms of police officers assigned to the beach might prevent.

00:56:34.680 Like, if you're going to send trucks to the beach to, you know, stop anything from happening,

00:56:39.980 it might be this sort of thing.

00:56:42.180 Foreigners, people that no one knows anything about, are apparently just storming the beaches. 1.00

00:56:46.940 But as you can see from that clip, there were no rows of police officers and cruisers lined up waiting to greet these people.

00:56:52.540 There just wasn't much of a response at all.

00:56:54.420 And that footage is from January, but this keeps happening on San Diego area beaches.

00:56:57.560 Just last month, dozens of illegal migrants stormed past beachgoers at a Carlsbad beach after disembarking from a speedboat.

00:57:04.680 Watch.

00:57:06.140 Well, Phil, in the last week alone, there have been nearly 7,000 encounters at the San Diego sector of the border.

00:57:13.440 I mean, this is the highest in the country, and data all backed by CBP.

00:57:18.300 And now we've got video showcasing a maritime incident right here in Carlsbad.

00:57:22.860 And like you said, this is just one out of several incidents we've seen up and down the San Diego coast within the last year.

00:57:32.080 This viral video now surfacing nationwide shows a boat carrying over a dozen undocumented migrants racing ashore at a high speed just along the Carlsbad coast.

00:57:43.040 They're not afraid.

00:57:44.080 Blatantly coming in at noon on a Saturday to a crowded beach.

00:57:48.400 In the video, you could spot surfers looking to catch a wave, dodging its path just before the vessel reached the sand as more than 16 people soon hopped out one by one.

00:58:00.420 You can see the group piling into this black GMC.

00:58:03.880 Some even seen struggling aboard as the car begins to drive away just along this suburban neighborhood near Ocean Street.

00:58:10.780 Senate Bill 54, our state legislators decided that our local police may not, they're prohibited from interfering with any kind of immigration.

00:58:21.900 They must just call Border Patrol.

00:58:24.700 So more than a dozen illegal migrants arrive on a speedboat, storm the beach, pile into an SUV, and there are no cops in sight.

00:58:31.440 You hear from the mayor that the law prevents the cops from interfering with illegal migration, which is insane.

00:58:35.340 But it's also not true in this case.

00:58:38.300 As you just saw, they nearly killed a surfer by crashing their boat into him.

00:58:42.340 That's a crime that has nothing to do with immigration enforcement.

00:58:45.020 It's reckless endangerment at a minimum.

00:58:46.840 But San Diego's leaders don't care.

00:58:48.480 So instead of announcing a grand plan to prevent incursions like this, maybe by reversing that law,

00:58:53.760 the best the San Diego government can do apparently is round up the yoga ladies, 1.00

00:58:57.220 which means that if the illegals arrive on the beach and then do some yoga before leaving and fleeing away, then you can arrest them.

00:59:07.120 Meanwhile, the permanent encampments of homeless drug addicts that line the beaches of San Diego are completely fine also,

00:59:13.000 because they're not doing yoga.

00:59:14.340 Instead, they're injecting heroin and creating a mess so people don't bother them.

00:59:19.220 Watch.

00:59:19.480 Tonight, you're looking at the trash and debris from homeless encampments, creating safety issues for cyclists along the OB bike path.

00:59:27.960 Good evening.

00:59:28.500 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:59:29.680 I'm Marcella Lee.

00:59:30.800 Tonight, our Brian White is working for you and found out for himself what's being done about it.

00:59:35.320 Brian?

00:59:35.960 The bike path has been a mess for months, if not years.

00:59:40.600 Encampments, other people using it to do drugs.

00:59:44.320 It's become a public toilet.

00:59:45.840 I rode the Ocean Beach bike path with Wesley Hill today.

00:59:49.160 He's been living in OB for 25 years.

00:59:52.100 We dodged a number of encampments and people's belongings along the way.

00:59:55.720 You have to negotiate around people sleeping, dogs, and drug paraphernalia in the middle of the path.

01:00:03.500 Frequently, I often dismount my bike because I'm afraid I will run over somebody or something.

01:00:09.800 So just to review, you can set up a camp in the middle of a bike path and sleep there and do drugs there and defecate there and nobody will stop you.

01:00:23.080 But if you do yoga, then that's when the cops show up.

01:00:25.680 They turn the bike path into skid row and the police won't ticket any of them.

01:00:29.260 Why bother?

01:00:30.040 They wouldn't pay.

01:00:30.600 So the government targets people with a lot of disposable income instead.

01:00:33.660 And women taking daytime yoga classes obviously fit the bill, which is really why they're going after the yoga. 1.00

01:00:39.800 Now, I could go on and on about all the serious problems San Diego has right now.

01:00:42.820 These are actual security risks, major quality of life issues that no one's doing anything about.

01:00:47.400 Meanwhile, the government's going after the least threatening people on the entire planet, even if they are sort of weird and annoying.

01:00:53.640 It's hard to think of a better illustration of the wildly discombobulated priorities of our leaders.

01:00:59.340 This country is plagued by bureaucrats who are focusing on the exact opposite of what they should be focusing on.

01:01:05.460 And that is why, as much as it pains me to defend yoga and its practitioners, the city of San Diego and its completely unjustified yoga ban are today canceled.

01:01:17.700 That'll do it for the show today.

01:01:18.500 Thanks for watching.

01:01:19.020 Thanks for listening.

01:01:19.440 We'll talk to you tomorrow.

01:01:21.160 Godspeed.

01:01:23.640 Godspeed.

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