00:02:00.340You know you're living in a state of total lawlessness when criminals start pulling off heists that, under normal circumstances, they don't even attempt.
00:02:07.680Think of the train robberies in the Wild West with Butch Cassidy, where they detach the rail car and dynamite the safe and so on.
00:02:15.640Brazen crimes like this only happen when law enforcement isn't doing its job for one reason or another.
00:02:20.920Otherwise, the risk of getting caught is just too high, so the thieves don't even try.
00:02:25.900Now, post-BLM, there's been a lot of coverage of crime rates increasing as police retreat and criminals become emboldened.
00:02:32.840But there hasn't been much coverage of the dramatic increase in one specific kind of crime, which used to be relatively rare.
00:02:38.220I'm talking about the theft of catalytic converters.
00:02:40.700Stealing catalytic converters doesn't take very long, but it's highly conspicuous.
00:02:44.940Thieves typically slide under cars and then start sawing, or they lift cars for easier access.
00:02:49.420In either case, it's a loud and very noticeable process.
00:06:06.120And before I show you the rest of the footage, I want to make it very clear that my intention is not to mock a woman who's grieving, obviously.
00:06:12.420The point here is not to demean Tessa Farrell in any way.
00:06:15.080But the fact remains that the ideas she promotes in this video must be addressed because they are a cancer on society
00:06:22.340that has cost many people their lives and will continue to cost people their lives unless these ideas are rejected.
00:06:28.460So with that in mind, here's the rest of Tessa Farrell's video.
00:07:04.520Johnny's up above now looking down, and I'm so happy that I think he found happiness before he went because that was his dream in life, is to be happy.
00:07:17.360But I'm just so proud of the man he's become, and it's so sad that crime in L.A. had to do this.
00:07:24.920And I'm hoping that, um, change some legislation to prevent this from happening.
00:07:29.940These criminals can't keep being on the street, and they can't keep being sent back and have no repercussions for their actions.
00:07:37.300Because, you know, if you're the person who did this, if you're watching, I'm sorry, but you shot the wrong guy.
00:07:46.180Like, you know, you can get a real job.
00:07:51.120Like, I know the job market's hard, but we're all in it together.
00:16:59.960It's basically the value of a MacBook, right,
00:17:03.240that is put in a place that is incredibly easy to access in your car.
00:17:08.920And then the thefts related to this issue have essentially all of the costs of that
00:17:13.740are given to us to bear instead of them having to manufacture a car
00:17:18.420that actually is not so easy to be stolen.
00:17:21.940So the government requires car manufacturers to place catalytic converters on cars with the Clean Air Act.
00:17:28.980And now the government blames car manufacturers for making these converters too easy to steal.
00:17:33.060Now, to be fair, it's true that a lot of cars have their catalytic converters in the engine bay now where they're less accessible to thieves.
00:17:38.960But the reason these thefts have increased in the last six years has nothing to do with their placement on vehicles.
00:17:43.260If it did, the thefts will be declining, not increasing, as more manufacturers place the converters in the engine bay.
00:17:49.020Now, the reason these thefts are skyrocketing is that the police have stopped enforcing the law
00:17:53.380and DAs have stopped prosecuting crime.
00:17:56.400Rather than admit that, Los Angeles politicians are blaming car manufacturers.
00:18:01.200These are the lengths that leftists in Los Angeles will go in order to absolve criminals' responsibility for their own actions.
00:18:07.600They'd rather blame Toyota than hire more police to prevent these crimes,
00:18:11.580which are brazen in pretty much every case.
00:18:13.420And the family and friends of the victim, in turn, are hopelessly confused about why their loved one is dead.
00:18:19.120And by the way, whether you think these criminals are responsible for their actions or not,
00:29:17.800What's interesting to me here is the fact that a few days after another round of articles saying, again, that this is debunked, it's a hoax, it didn't happen, there's no evidence of it.
00:29:33.960A few days later, you got a media outlet putting out another story, like as if none of that happened.
00:29:40.860They chug right along with the lie as if it hasn't already been debunked ten times over.
00:29:49.240And this is what it means to live in a post-truth society.
00:29:54.040Which, when I say a post-truth society, I'm not saying that we live in a society, we live in a period after truth as if truth doesn't exist.
00:30:03.820Truth still exists, but rather we live in a society where the dominant ideology believes that truth is whatever they say it is.
00:30:15.400This is the consequence of living in a, you know, all the my truth stuff.
00:30:19.660This is a consequence of that point of view.
00:30:24.040So, really the only question is when you hear, when these media outlets continue, whether it's this false narrative or we talked last week about Michael Brown, George Floyd.
00:30:36.580We've had, in fact, May, the end of May is quite a time for anniversaries of left-wing hoaxes.
00:30:45.380And we've had quite a few of them recently.
00:30:49.680But when they continue to spread these falsehoods, the only interesting question, it's not interesting to ask whether or not it's true.
00:30:58.640The only interesting question is the people that's spreading it.
00:31:01.020To what extent do they believe what they're saying?
00:31:05.280Are they just fully consciously lying?
00:31:11.220I think certainly there's plenty of that going on as well.
00:31:15.060But we also have to remember that when you hear stuff like, this is my truth, that isn't just some corny, cliche slogan that you hear online all the time.
00:31:25.840We're dealing with a society where millions of people really believe that.
00:31:30.420They really do think that the truth is just, that's what the truth is.
00:31:33.540It's whatever you happen to want the truth to be, whatever you happen to feel, that is truth, because it's what you want.
00:31:42.160And so the point is that I think there are actually a lot of people who truly struggle to see the distinction between what is true and what I want to be true.
00:31:56.800To them, those two things are inextricable.
00:32:04.180If you try to separate those two concepts, what you want to be true from what is true, their brain breaks.
00:32:09.940They don't understand how those two things can be separate.
00:32:14.000And it is, to say the least, a very troubling thing to live in a society where you've got plenty of adults, you have millions of adults, really, who think this way.
00:32:26.800It's the kind of thinking that used to be relegated only to very young children.
00:32:37.260Okay, like my four-year-old daughter is, she's already at the age of four, at an age where, she's well into the age where she can start to understand the distinction between those two things.
00:32:54.520Like for a two- or three-year-old, they want something to be true, and so therefore it is.
00:32:58.540And they really don't, the idea that, well, okay, I can want this to be true, but it isn't, even though I really want it to be.
00:33:08.140They don't, two or three years old, they just don't, they can't grasp that.
00:33:12.660They don't have that level of discernment.
00:33:14.440They don't have that level, that very basic level of insight into just kind of like the nature of reality.
00:33:21.460And that's fine at two or three years old.
00:33:25.880Once you get to four years old, you're starting to understand that, okay, like there can be things about the world that I wish weren't true, but actually are, and that's really unfortunate.
00:33:34.200And then you get to five and six, and once a kid is five, six, seven years old, they should fully grasp this.
00:33:40.900They should be able to fully grasp it.
00:33:42.420They might have trouble dealing with it emotionally.
00:33:44.140That's why you might still get kids who have meltdowns and that sort of thing, because they can't deal with the, they have trouble dealing with the frustration of living in a world where they don't get to determine what the truth is.
00:33:54.760But they should at least understand it intellectually.
00:33:58.920The problem is that, I mean, at seven years old, you should understand that, but we have 37-year-olds walking, we have 57-year-olds walking around who don't get it, they don't understand this.
00:34:09.200And that's one of the ways that these false narratives continues to spread.
00:34:17.060All right, Chelsea Handler has some thoughts on the Harrison Butker situation.
00:34:23.280We can always turn to her for speaking of insight, for a great insight and great discernment.
00:34:30.980As you may have heard, there's a man by the name of Harrison Butker who's talking more than I typically like for a male.
00:34:37.360He's a kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, and I learned that kickers rarely get tackled.
00:34:41.880So based on his misogynistic rant during a recent commencement address, I'm guessing this Bible-thumper thumped himself a little too hard with his Bible and gave himself CTE.
00:34:52.000Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.
00:35:00.500And embrace one of the most important titles of all, Hallmaker.
00:35:03.220First of all, Harrison, you're a kicker, so you have one important part of your body, and it's not your f***ing brain.
00:35:08.820I can tell you that my beautiful wife, Isabel, would be the first to say that her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother.
00:35:14.000Isabel's dream of having a career might not have come true, but if you asked her today if she has any regrets on her decision, she would laugh out loud without hesitation and say, heck no.
00:35:20.720Isabel, please blink twice if you need us to call for help.
00:35:23.660But the real kicker is that Harrison Butker's mother is a renowned physicist who has a degree in chemistry and a master's in medical physics.
00:35:32.660So, who paid for all those youth athletic team fees and uniform fees and equipment fees when Harrison was a kid so he could grow up to have a career making millions of dollars for f***ing kicking things?
00:36:43.280And it doesn't present any kind of mutually exclusive choice.
00:36:46.340A woman could go out and get a job while also being most excited about becoming a wife and a mother.
00:36:52.320Both of those things can be true at once.
00:36:55.860And, you know, the funny thing about all this and what makes this never-ending controversy so especially absurd is that Harrison,
00:37:02.020while he gave a great speech, and it was a very good speech, he didn't go nearly as far or as trad, quote-unquote, as he could have.
00:37:14.220You know, that's maybe the saddest thing about this is that, like, it was a pretty, you know, again, good speech, pretty safe, pretty kind of, you know, down, like I say, down the middle.
00:37:28.220But it was conservative, but it's, you know, pretty mainstream, all things considered, especially on this particular topic.
00:37:37.300And yet, even that can get this kind of reaction.
00:37:44.160He's being accused of saying a lot of things that he could have said and would have been justified in saying, but he didn't actually happen to say those things.
00:37:53.040He could have said, for example, that society needs mothers much more than it needs female CEOs.
00:38:01.900He could have said that, and it would have been true.
00:38:31.060But, but, but he didn't, he didn't, that's just not what he said.
00:38:35.020He's, he's being, he's being condemned as though he had said that, but he didn't say that.
00:38:41.080He could have said that, in fact, he could have said that all women, all women are called to a maternal role, just as all men are called to a paternal role.
00:38:53.800And for most men and women, that will take a biological form.
00:38:58.760In some cases, there are some women and some men who will fulfill that vocation of motherhood or fatherhood in a different way.
00:39:05.660But any man or woman who just flat out rejects that vocation entirely and instead pursues a life of self-service, that that person will have failed at life and also will be destined and doomed to be miserable.
00:39:27.580He could have, he could have said that, but he, he didn't even say any of that.
00:39:32.420And, you know, I'm not criticizing his speech, by the way.
00:39:35.700I'm only pointing out that he really gave the most mainstream sort of moderate version of this message.
00:39:43.020And he tailored the message in such a way that it's, it's really impossible for any intelligent person to honestly disagree with, in particular, that part that Chelsea Handler played there.
00:39:57.720And that was a smart strategy, by the way, given the occasion, given the audience, given who he is, he is an NFL player.
00:40:05.700Like, given all of that, I think the way that he framed it and the way that he approached it, it's very smart.
00:40:11.460But people are still reacting to it as if he'd said all the stuff that, like, I would have said, for instance, you know, which, which just goes to show that there is, there's no way of approaching this message that will not end with you being condemned as an extremist by the left.
00:40:36.160And this is a situation that they have created.
00:40:41.460Where on the left, they're not willing to listen to any, like, you cannot venture outside of their framework, even a single inch.
00:40:51.260And if you do, it's not just that, like, if you go an inch outside of their framework, they'll be a little bit peeved.
00:40:59.020It's that anything that's an inch outside of their framework is automatically the most extreme right wing position in the world.
00:41:06.840And so they've created a situation where there's really no incentive at all to try to compromise with them.
00:41:13.940Not that I'm saying that Harrison was taking a compromised position, but my point is just more broadly now that it's like, well, why would I even try to appeal to you at all?
00:41:28.960Why would I, no matter what I say, unless I'm totally agreeing with you on everything, no matter what I say, I'm a right wing extremist by your, by your telling.
00:41:39.440So, like, why would I, so, okay, I'll just be a right wing extremist then.
00:41:42.560Like, I am no matter what, so I might as well take, there's, you've created no incentive to listen to anything that you say or to try to compromise or whatever.
00:41:59.660Now, even if they created incentives to compromise, I would still be against compromising with them.
00:42:03.400But my only point is that this is what they've, like, everything, there's a, there's a, there's a wide array of views on all of these topics that have now all been put in the box of right wing extremism.
00:42:21.160To the extent that even if you simply say that most women at a Catholic school are most excited about getting married, that's all you said.
00:42:31.380You didn't even say anything else outside of that.
00:42:33.400Everything else is a conclusion people are drawing.
00:42:40.920And as for Chelsea Handler, of course, she is, continues to be, I think, a cautionary tale for women everywhere.
00:42:50.520That this is what, you know, this is what bitterness turns you into.
00:42:55.240She's just such a bitter, unappealing person on, you know, across, in every way, that's what she is.
00:43:03.400And the funny thing is that, you know, Harrison Butker in his speech gave, you know, a vision of what he considers rightly to be the good life.
00:43:18.300And he says that, you know, most women, they become mothers and wives, and it's one of the most important roles that they'll fulfill, and you'll find purpose and meaning in family.
00:43:29.360Same for men, you know, men and women both.
00:43:32.200That will be, not that men will also become mothers and wives, but men also will find purpose and meaning in family life, playing their own role.
00:43:39.480And that is one basic vision for the human person.
00:43:47.260Chelsea Handler displays, like, the other vision, really.
00:43:52.360She's kind of, this is the diametric opposite.
00:43:55.700This is the other path you could take.
00:44:16.520And I think that's all, in a way, that's all that needs to be said, I suppose.
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00:44:55.680Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:45:03.580I still vividly remember when I got my driver's license.
00:45:06.560I jumped in the driver's seat of my parents' green Ford Escort, popped in a CD with a mix of songs I'd downloaded from Napster for this very occasion, sped off down the road feeling like the freest person on earth.
00:45:18.400Of course, I didn't really have anywhere to go, so I ended up driving around aimlessly for a little while, and then I eventually stopped at CVS and bought some Red Bull and gum and then headed back home.
00:45:27.920So it wasn't much of an adventure, but I pulled back into my driveway feeling like I'd returned from some sort of expedition.
00:45:34.000I'd only gone to the pharmacy and purchased $3.50 worth of items, but the important thing is that I went there.
00:45:40.260I went there myself, alone, independently.
00:45:43.200It was just me, the open road, and my illegally downloaded early 2000s alt-rock playlist.
00:45:48.440Every adult my age or older has a similar experience and remembers it well.
00:45:53.620It's one of the iconic moments of your teenage years, your first time driving on your own, the first time being or at least feeling fully independent.
00:46:04.040Of course, a lot of people also remember their high school proms and graduations and stuff like that.
00:46:08.160I remember those only vaguely and as overall sort of lame and overrated experiences.
00:46:13.000But this, driving, this lived up to all the hype.
00:46:17.800It is the real modern American rite of passage, or at least it was, because all of this seems to be changing.
00:46:24.740And like so many other changes these days, not for the better.
00:46:27.300According to a new study, Gen Z seems to be the first generation of young people to have little to no interest in driving.
00:46:35.860Zoomers are seemingly rewriting the teenage rite of passage script, opting for tech over tires as they steer a cultural shift away from the traditional rush to the open road.
00:46:45.380New research from MarketWatch Guides found that the youngest group of drivers, ages 19 and under, make up only 1 in 25, or approximately 3.6% of licensed drivers in the U.S.
00:46:55.320Taking all drivers under age 25 into account brings the combined percentage to 11% of the driving force.
00:47:01.440In the past, getting a license at 16 was an integral milestone in the journey toward adulthood.
00:47:05.880But 2021 data from the Federal Highway Administration indicated the percentage of 16-year-olds who had a license had dropped to 25% from 46% in the 80s.
00:47:14.540Now, I fully understand that you as an adult, an adult driver on the road, might be thinking to yourself, okay, fewer dumb kids driving.
00:48:53.440Social media access and texting have eliminated some of the need to meet up with friends to socialize as teens and young adults might have in the past.
00:49:00.700Even the workforce has changed, with a larger percentage going hybrid or completely virtual since the COVID pandemic.
00:49:05.180Mental health could also be to blame, with the anxious generation tag getting slapped onto Gen Z increasingly often.
00:49:09.960On some level, fear of car accidents could also be the blame for the driver drop-off.
00:49:13.860Quote, the reality is tens of thousands of people die every year in car accidents.
00:49:18.320David Straughan, a senior automotive journalist and researcher at MarketWatch Guides, said.
00:49:23.740That was much more an accepted risk, perhaps, for previous generations.
00:49:27.420And I think that it's very logical to be scared of driving a car.
00:49:30.760The most dangerous thing most people do is driving to work in the morning and driving home in the evening.
00:49:34.860Well, we all learn from that quote is that David Straughan probably should not be on the roads either.
00:49:42.280Because it is, in fact, not logical to be scared of driving.
00:49:46.920It's rather the result of crippling and unreasonable anxiety.
00:49:51.120The Today Show recently interviewed a 23-year-old woman who is representative of this unreasonable driving fear and anxiety.
00:50:00.520Nationwide, driving schools report teens are foregoing licenses not just in cities
00:50:04.360where public transport's easier, but in less populated areas, too.
00:50:08.50023-year-old Madison Morgan grew up in rural Washington state and still doesn't have a license.
00:50:14.140Driving is honestly just very anxiety-inducing.
00:50:19.160When I would practice with my parents, a lot of times it would end in tears.
00:50:24.400Now working in Seattle, she takes the bus to work, but says her parents still beg her to learn how to drive
00:50:29.820so she can have more options career-wise.
00:50:31.920They want me to get a license so that if I ever wanted to move, I wouldn't be as limited.
00:50:37.960But why would I want to have my own car when I can just, like, go on an app and someone else in their car can just drive me around?
00:50:45.160Yes, why would you want to have any semblance of independence or self-sufficiency when you can just be entirely dependent on other people to do everything for you?
00:50:55.420What exactly is the problem with young people not driving?
00:50:57.660Well, there are a lot of problems, but let's focus on the two big ones.
00:50:59.940First, this is another basic life skill that a huge number of adults will now lack.
00:51:06.300And this decline in life skills has been happening for decades now, of course, but it's now reached a troubling threshold.
00:51:10.800Many adults in my generation, for example, don't know how to change a tire.
00:51:16.100A survey back in 2016 measured this and found that even eight years ago, 60% of drivers were not confident in their ability to change a tire.
00:51:24.860And now we're entering a world where millions of adults don't know how to change a tire on the car and also don't know how to drive the car.
00:51:31.540Now, it's not as much of a problem for people to lose the ability to operate a piece of technology if that technology itself is antiquated.
00:51:40.000Almost everybody in Gen Z would be clueless about how to make a phone call with a rotary phone, but they'll never have to deal with a rotary phone, so that's all right.
00:51:47.680The problem is that Gen Z is just as dependent on cars as people have been for the past many decades.
00:51:53.500It's just that they don't know how to operate the cars.
00:51:55.720They need other people to do it for them, which means that people are increasingly becoming more dependent, more vulnerable, more helpless with each successive generation.
00:52:06.420There really is no silver lining to a trend like that, at least not one that overrides the downside.
00:52:12.760Second, older generations have always complained about the younger generation.
00:52:18.240This is a time-honored tradition going back to the time of Socrates and long before that, but the nature of the complaints has changed in a disturbing way.
00:52:29.260You know, old fogies like myself used to complain that the young whippersnappers are too wild, too reckless, too sure of themselves, too prone to taking unreasonable risks, too rebellious, and so on.
00:52:42.560Well, now that's been flipped entirely on its head.
00:52:44.580The younger generations now are too scared, too anxious, too risk-averse, too shy, too complacent.
00:52:52.960These are deeply troubling characteristics because they're so unnatural for young people.
00:52:58.260For millennia, since the dawn of human civilization, to be young was to be adventurous to a fault, taking unnecessary risks, being a bit foolhardy and arrogant, trying to conquer the world and thinking it could be done all in a day.
00:53:10.260Now that spirit of adventure has been almost completely extinguished.
00:53:14.080And the good news, I guess, is that many young people aren't taking foolish risks anymore.
00:53:21.700Like, you don't want to take foolish risks.
00:53:23.740But that's because they refuse to take any risks at all.
00:53:27.660Rather than lacking fear, which has historically been the folly of youth, they have far too much fear about everything.
00:53:34.960Driving is a microcosm of the larger problem.
00:53:37.260You know, when I was a teenager, my parents got very upset with me because I drove too fast and too far and I stayed out too late with the car.
00:53:47.000You know, I was very much, too much enjoying the independence of having a car.
00:53:51.580But now parents are upset for the opposite reason.
00:53:54.380They're upset because their kids won't drive at all or go anywhere or do anything.
00:53:58.200Now, yes, this means that they'll be physically safer in a certain sense for now, at least until obesity kills them down the line.
00:54:06.840The downside of youthful risk-taking and adventurousness is that, yeah, injuries, accidents, even death can occur.
00:54:13.920And all of that is very bad, obviously.
00:54:15.540A youth culture dominated by laziness and complacency and anxiety and fear will help you avoid those tragic outcomes.
00:54:25.900But it will also keep you from living a real human life, developing basic and necessary skills, achieving anything great or anything, period.
00:54:36.420The energy of youth is supposed to be the thing that propels you into adulthood and sets you on a path to success.
00:54:41.200What happens when the youth have no energy, when they're content to just sit around and remain dependent and powerless and feeble forever?
00:54:50.960Well, I guess we're going to find out the answer to that question.
00:54:53.560And my guess is that we won't like the answer very much.
00:54:56.740And that is why the driving-averse Zoomers are today canceled.