The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1386 - How We Became A Society Full Of ‘Traumatized’ Weaklings

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, trigger warnings are becoming more and more common as Hollywood

00:00:03.540 puts them in front of movies and television shows to help the audience avoid trauma.

00:00:07.260 But since when did trauma become such a common and frivolous thing?

00:00:10.180 We'll talk about that.

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00:02:06.600 Well, if you spend any amount of time watching shows on streaming services like Netflix or Hulu,

00:02:11.700 then you may have noticed that several big name productions are now putting trigger warnings

00:02:15.800 on the screen before some pivotal episodes.

00:02:18.980 The show Baby Reindeer, for example, warns its viewers in advance of an upcoming scene

00:02:24.120 depicting sexual violence.

00:02:25.620 Better Call Saul alerts its audience about an upcoming suicide.

00:02:29.560 Other popular shows like Severance, The Morning Show, Life and Beth, and several others

00:02:33.680 also include similar messages before the shows even begin.

00:02:37.620 And even classics like Goodfellas and old shows like All in the Family now come with warnings

00:02:42.220 about ethnic prejudices and that sort of thing.

00:02:45.560 Disney shows, old Disney movies also have these warnings.

00:02:49.000 Online, these trigger warnings have caused a lot of consternation because they often ruin

00:02:52.760 the episode that people are about to watch.

00:02:54.980 If you know that a suicide is coming, for instance, it's usually not too hard to guess which character

00:02:59.160 might be involved.

00:03:00.560 Probably the character that's been having serious mental problems all season.

00:03:04.080 And even if you're not sure what character might be involved, it still blunts the dramatic

00:03:07.640 impact of the scene to be told directly that something shocking is about to happen.

00:03:12.400 There's a reason that Shakespeare didn't have some guy go on stage before the fifth act

00:03:16.460 of Romeo and Juliet to explain that poisoning and self-harm would occur.

00:03:21.040 There was no stagehand to announce, you know, if you're not ready to see two lovers take their

00:03:24.940 own lives, then leave the theater immediately. 0.97

00:03:27.560 But we live in a much dumber time now, of course.

00:03:30.240 So trigger warnings like that are no longer unthinkable.

00:03:33.180 In fact, if you go see a play like Romeo and Juliet, there's a very real chance you might

00:03:37.200 run into one even in that context.

00:03:39.160 For several years now, theaters all over the world have been incorporating these kinds

00:03:43.620 of advisories.

00:03:45.000 Watch.

00:03:46.400 Western Canada Theater's recent staging of musical Children of God came with a warning about

00:03:51.500 mature and potentially triggering scenes involving residential schools and sexual abuse.

00:03:57.240 Armstrong's War, a play about an injured Afghanistan vet, was said to contain some potentially

00:04:02.720 triggering content about the horrors of war and mental illness.

00:04:06.160 In many ways, the point of the theater is to trigger emotions in an audience.

00:04:10.680 But it's incumbent on us as theaters to make sure that we provide an environment in which

00:04:16.120 the audience can feel that they can undergo those experiences in a safe environment with

00:04:20.580 other people.

00:04:22.320 McDonald's is part of an international theater trend.

00:04:25.440 Productions are getting more graphic, more violent, like this 2014 staging of Titus Andronicus

00:04:31.160 by Shakespeare's Globe that had people fainting in the aisles.

00:04:34.980 There's a demand by both the audience and theater establishment to be mindful of people's

00:04:39.640 emotional welfare.

00:04:41.300 Even England's famous Royal Court Theater now uses trigger warnings.

00:04:45.380 But not everyone thinks trigger warnings are a good idea.

00:04:47.960 Now, that report was from a few years ago, but the trend has only continued.

00:04:51.940 The Sir Thomas Allen Theater in Durham, UK, for example, posted this notification on its

00:04:57.460 website just a few months ago about the play I, Joan, which also premiered at Shakespeare's

00:05:01.740 Globe.

00:05:02.160 Quote, content warning, loud music, partial nudity, period accurate transphobia, depictions of war.

00:05:09.500 So, period accurate transphobia is now worthy of a trigger warning, which I guess means that

00:05:15.840 every single play and work of literature and film and television show that came out before

00:05:22.600 2015 needs at least that trigger warning, if not so many others.

00:05:26.660 And of course, I could go on and on about how absurd these warnings are and how counterproductive

00:05:30.240 they are, but there's really no point.

00:05:33.660 You've maybe heard about the research demonstrating that these trigger warnings are worse than useless.

00:05:38.680 I mean, they don't even do the thing that they're supposed to do.

00:05:41.840 If we agreed that it was worth trying to do that thing, which it isn't, but more than

00:05:46.040 a dozen studies have shown that these kinds of notifications are either ineffective or

00:05:50.720 actually they can be more distressing to the people whose fragile emotions you're so worried

00:05:56.240 about.

00:05:57.320 And this is becoming a mainstream position.

00:05:59.180 Bill Maher did a whole monologue about it a year ago.

00:06:01.040 Dr. Phil's talked about it with Joe Rogan and so on.

00:06:03.420 So instead of retreading that ground, I wanted to look more closely into why exactly these

00:06:10.520 warnings came about in the first place.

00:06:13.480 They seem like a symptom of a much larger problem that's gone mostly unnoticed.

00:06:20.560 I came to that realization after the outlet Variety ran a piece on this a few days ago on the problem

00:06:25.260 that these trigger warnings can cause.

00:06:27.540 And throughout their article, Variety kept using the term trauma again and again.

00:06:31.760 Quote, as content advisory has become popular, Hollywood tries to find a balance between

00:06:36.700 ruining plot twists and helping viewers avoid trauma.

00:06:40.360 That's the headline.

00:06:41.900 Then the article continues, a growing number of programs have opted to inform viewers before

00:06:46.020 showing potentially traumatizing content.

00:06:48.420 The goal is to help viewers enjoy TV without trauma.

00:06:52.580 They even speak to a medical expert about how trigger warnings relate to trauma.

00:06:57.300 Quote unquote.

00:06:57.780 And this caught my attention because up until relatively recently, when people heard the

00:07:03.000 word trauma, they thought of serious, violent injuries, very terrible things happening.

00:07:10.000 The kind that people might suffer in car accidents or on the battlefield, for example.

00:07:15.020 And if you heard that somebody was traumatized by something, then you would immediately assume

00:07:19.140 that they were in a war zone.

00:07:20.740 Something like that had happened to them.

00:07:21.920 And that's how the medical profession understood the word trauma as well.

00:07:25.700 But somewhere along the line, something obviously changed.

00:07:29.620 And trauma became a daily occurrence rather than something suffered by people in the most

00:07:33.860 extreme and harrowing circumstances.

00:07:36.520 Everyday discomfort and mild inconvenience has been medicalized and overblown into trauma.

00:07:44.860 And we've seen this a lot in the past couple of years.

00:07:47.100 You might remember the whole episode when the tennis player, Naomi Osaka, dropped out of

00:07:52.260 a tournament and melted down at a press conference back in 2021.

00:07:55.760 The idea was that talking to the press was traumatic for her for some reason.

00:07:59.840 PBS ran a sympathetic story at the time that included this paragraph.

00:08:03.480 Quote, Osaka, who is black, Asian, and female, may have contended with an even greater sense

00:08:08.700 of vulnerability this past year in light of the Black Lives Matter protests and the increased

00:08:11.920 violence against Asian Americans.

00:08:13.260 Studies have shown that individuals suffer from vicarious trauma when members of their

00:08:18.160 group are targeted and discriminated against.

00:08:21.720 Yes, the tennis star was suffering from vicarious trauma.

00:08:26.140 Those are two words we're apparently meant to take seriously when they're put together.

00:08:30.340 And so just to be clear, vicarious trauma means trauma that allegedly happens to someone else

00:08:37.820 far away who've never even met could still mean trauma for you.

00:08:42.900 As well.

00:08:44.720 So we're supposed to take that seriously.

00:08:47.440 Also things like intergenerational trauma that we hear about and so on.

00:08:51.640 Now, we've all seen dozens of stories like this.

00:08:53.560 So when I saw the variety piece, it occurred to me that the story here isn't really about

00:08:58.960 the rise of trigger warnings per se.

00:09:02.400 As plenty of people have complained about the trigger warnings and how silly they are.

00:09:06.040 And for good reason.

00:09:09.120 But really the story is about the fact that so many Americans now erroneously believe that

00:09:15.740 they are suffering from trauma.

00:09:18.200 And with that in mind, there's an obvious question to ask, which is, when did that happen?

00:09:24.280 And why?

00:09:24.880 How do we end up in a country where you've got millions of people walking around who have

00:09:31.140 never been on a battlefield, who have never had anything truly terrible happen to them?

00:09:35.960 And yet, if you talk to them, they will tell you that they are suffering from trauma.

00:09:40.200 That they are, in fact, traumatized on a daily basis in some cases.

00:09:45.840 The dramatic rise of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, might provide an important

00:09:51.560 clue.

00:09:52.540 This is not the whole story, but it's part of it.

00:09:55.280 In 2022, instances of alleged post-traumatic stress disorder in college students in America

00:10:00.280 rose by 7.5%, which is more than double the rate from just five years earlier.

00:10:07.000 That suggests that something artificial might be going on here that's making more college

00:10:11.640 kids suffer from trauma.

00:10:13.060 Now, at the same time, of course, 2022 was right in the middle of the COVID lockdowns,

00:10:17.400 which obviously destroyed many lives.

00:10:19.760 So you might think that maybe that's what this is related to.

00:10:23.240 But PTSD, as it's generally understood, involves witnessing an extreme and catastrophic injury

00:10:28.560 or something along those lines.

00:10:29.840 And that's why the diagnosis became mainstream following the Vietnam War.

00:10:33.860 And there were no wars directly involving American college students that occurred during

00:10:36.960 the COVID lockdowns.

00:10:37.740 Additionally, violent crime in many major cities was down by nearly a third during the early

00:10:42.300 phase of the lockdown.

00:10:43.200 So how exactly would COVID have been responsible for PTSD-related suffering?

00:10:47.760 Well, here's one mental health expert at Indiana's largest nonprofit health care provider

00:10:51.840 trying to explain.

00:10:53.640 Watch.

00:10:54.940 People that already had PTSD saw an emergence of symptoms, a return of symptoms, a worsening

00:11:01.000 of symptoms.

00:11:01.960 Their fears were verified.

00:11:03.520 The world is a dangerous place.

00:11:05.180 We all might be in trouble.

00:11:06.660 Maybe I might get sick.

00:11:08.180 Maybe I might get hurt.

00:11:09.380 What was also explained to me by a patient, that masks are more troublesome because people

00:11:15.320 that have trauma don't like looking at people in the eyes.

00:11:18.100 Oftentimes the aggressors used that, look at me in the eyes before they harmed them or don't

00:11:23.620 look at me in the eyes.

00:11:24.820 And now you have a mask on.

00:11:26.400 There's nothing left but to look in someone's eyes.

00:11:29.360 And so it's traumatizing.

00:11:31.640 Also, you cannot easily identify people with a mask on.

00:11:35.380 So worrying where your brain can quickly switch from, that's not someone that hurt me in

00:11:39.740 the past, to now, are we sure that's not someone that hurt me in the past?

00:11:43.840 Because half of their face is covered.

00:11:46.020 It's not so easy anymore.

00:11:49.040 So then masks, which the medical establishment told us to wear at all times during this period,

00:11:54.760 even though they didn't stop the transmission of COVID, were actually hell on earth for PTSD

00:11:58.720 sufferers, apparently.

00:11:59.680 This is the explanation they've come up with.

00:12:02.640 And if you're keeping track, we went from masks are bad, to masks are mandatory, to you

00:12:06.920 should triple mask, back down to if you wear a mask, you're torturing PTSD sufferers who

00:12:11.080 happen to look at you.

00:12:12.420 Not exactly a compelling argument, and it seems pretty strained, actually.

00:12:17.040 So maybe there's another explanation for surging rates of PTSD and trauma, quote unquote, in the

00:12:23.320 general population.

00:12:24.760 What might that reason be?

00:12:26.940 Well, you got to go farther back than COVID.

00:12:29.080 But it turns out that back in 2013, leading medical associations radically altered the

00:12:34.740 meaning of trauma.

00:12:36.380 This is a common theme with the medical organizations, where they take something, especially something

00:12:41.440 that's a mental health problem, and they expand and expand and expand the definition until

00:12:47.000 eventually everybody has it.

00:12:48.860 So we've seen this with many things, PTSD just being one of them.

00:12:52.880 As one Berkeley psychology professor recently told the New York Times, quote,

00:12:55.700 Some changes to the Diagnostic Manual of Psychological Disorders may have blurred the line between

00:13:01.260 PTSD and disorders like depression or anxiety.

00:13:04.560 In 2013, the committee overseeing revisions to the manual expanded the list of potential PTSD

00:13:10.260 symptoms to include dysphoria or a deep sense of unease and a negative worldview, which could

00:13:17.760 also be caused by depression.

00:13:19.020 The Times report added, PTSD was introduced as an official diagnosis in 1980 as it became

00:13:24.740 clear that combat experiences had imprinted on many Vietnam veterans, making it difficult

00:13:29.240 for them to work or participate in family life.

00:13:31.340 Over the decades that followed, the definition was revised to encompass a large range of injury,

00:13:36.180 violence, and abuse, as well as indirect exposure to traumatic events.

00:13:40.000 So in other words, with very little fanfare, the medical establishment completely redefined

00:13:47.720 the meaning of PTSD and the trauma necessary to qualify for a diagnosis.

00:13:54.300 Now, once again, this is the trajectory that we follow with almost every mental illness or

00:14:00.460 mental health challenge.

00:14:02.780 It starts, first they come up with the idea of it, they come up with the label, and it applies

00:14:09.360 to a small subset of the population, and as time goes on, it expands and expands and expands

00:14:14.720 and expands, so that eventually every single living human on Earth could qualify as having

00:14:22.300 PTSD, or depression, or anxiety, or ADHD.

00:14:28.420 So now it's no longer necessary to personally witness a violent death or injury to receive

00:14:33.440 a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder.

00:14:35.460 It's enough to indirectly experience such a violent death or injury.

00:14:39.980 That is trauma under the new standard.

00:14:42.460 This is what psychologists are telling their patients.

00:14:45.240 The only limitation, as far as I can tell from reading through the DSM-5, is that this

00:14:49.760 indirect exposure has to involve a loved one.

00:14:52.620 But even then, it's no longer necessary for your symptoms to involve vivid flashbacks and

00:14:57.300 extreme social dysfunction or anything like that.

00:15:00.780 Because now, if you have a deep sense of unease and a negative worldview, then you have PTSD.

00:15:10.800 Like, never mind the fact that probably the vast majority of people in the country have

00:15:16.960 at least sometimes a deep sense of unease and even a negative worldview.

00:15:21.480 In fact, every person who's ever lived on the planet struggles, at least at times, with a

00:15:27.640 deep sense of unease and has, if not all the time, often a worldview that could be described

00:15:34.620 as negative.

00:15:35.280 So, again, every single person could have PTSD.

00:15:41.160 That's all it takes to suffer trauma, according to every major medical institution at this point.

00:15:46.380 This is one way in which the concept of trauma has been expanded and overdiagnosed into oblivion.

00:15:51.340 They just changed the meaning of the word back in 2013, probably to enable more doctors to

00:15:56.880 diagnose more patients and prescribe them some more drugs.

00:16:00.680 And then that lingo filters down to the media and everywhere else.

00:16:04.240 And if that sounds far-fetched or conspiratorial, consider the fact that another convenient

00:16:09.640 rebranding took place that same year, in 2013.

00:16:13.260 It was also the year that the American Medical Association, or AMA, abruptly decided to reclassify

00:16:19.280 obesity as a disease, just like asthma or diabetes.

00:16:22.420 And this happened in the same year.

00:16:23.440 But the AMA privately acknowledged that obesity didn't actually meet the criteria to be classified

00:16:28.780 as a disease because there are no unique symptoms that only obese people suffer from.

00:16:34.240 It's also the only disease in the world that can be cured with a 100% success rate by expending

00:16:41.300 more calories than you're consuming.

00:16:43.720 Nevertheless, the AMA simply decided that reclassifying obesity as a disease would have a positive impact

00:16:49.080 on society, so they did it.

00:16:51.880 And this is how the psychiatric community decides, ultimately, whether something will be classified

00:16:57.720 as a mental illness or not.

00:16:59.820 It's not, the criteria is not, is it actually a mental illness?

00:17:04.260 The criteria is, would calling it a mental illness or a disease, would calling it that,

00:17:10.900 have a positive impact on society?

00:17:12.720 And again, notice that that question is different from, is it true?

00:17:18.520 Would it have a positive impact?

00:17:19.860 Is it true?

00:17:20.540 Those are actually two different questions.

00:17:23.920 The Lancet documented all of this, as I outlined a few months ago.

00:17:27.920 And now, just a few years later, Oprah's hosting an hour-long special in which she confidently

00:17:32.100 suggests that Ozempic is the miracle drug that can cure this disease.

00:17:36.360 Now, there's reason to believe that the same approach has now been applied to trauma, much

00:17:41.020 like the idea of, like, land acknowledgements.

00:17:43.360 This massively expanded definition of trauma has quickly made its way from a handful of

00:17:48.220 elite academics all the way to everyday life.

00:17:50.540 So now we get trigger warnings on Netflix and Hulu and the theater and everywhere else.

00:17:56.880 But much more importantly, now millions of Americans incorrectly believe that they've suffered

00:18:02.220 trauma when they haven't.

00:18:03.700 They are under the impression that their problems are far more serious and uncontrollable than

00:18:09.900 they really are.

00:18:11.940 Now, that's good for the people prescribing the medications and doing the talk therapy.

00:18:18.340 Keeps the money rolling in.

00:18:21.160 For everybody else, it's yet another sign that we're becoming a weaker and more broken society,

00:18:25.480 one that inevitably will become even easier to control and manipulate.

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00:19:43.900 Okay, post-millennial reports.

00:19:46.640 During a recent interview with CNN, Rachel Maddow revealed that she was worried that

00:19:51.480 if re-elected in November, Donald Trump would put her and other civilians in camps.

00:19:56.720 The former president was asked in May whether he would construct detention facilities to

00:20:00.540 hold illegal immigrants during his planned deportation effort.

00:20:03.840 He said he would not rule out anything.

00:20:06.620 Maddow, however, appeared to believe that Trump would go beyond simply using the camps to

00:20:10.100 hold illegal immigrants and instead fill them up with people that he's singled out for being

00:20:13.800 disloyal or simply disagreeable.

00:20:16.420 She claimed to be among those on his list.

00:20:20.180 According to New York Post, the MSNBC host said that she was worried about the country broadly

00:20:23.960 if we put somebody in power who is openly avowing that he plans to build camps to hold millions

00:20:28.680 of people and to root out what he's described in subhuman terms as his enemy from within.

00:20:35.060 When Trump used that language, he was referring to those who had entered the country illegally,

00:20:38.440 many of whom had criminal records.

00:20:41.000 Quote, for that matter, she continued,

00:20:43.320 what convinces you that these massive camps he's planning are only for migrants?

00:20:47.780 So yes, I'm worried about me, but only as much as I'm worried about all of us.

00:20:53.120 Well, that's very, you know, so it's very courageous.

00:20:56.080 She's very heroic.

00:20:57.660 She's worried that Trump is going to round up all the MSNBC anchors and throw them in camps. 1.00

00:21:02.880 Which is an idea that some people would find very attractive.

00:21:11.200 Like there are some people out there that if Trump ran on that, he said, I'm going to round up all the people at MSNBC and throw them in a camp.

00:21:19.200 There are some people who would be quite happy and thrilled with that idea.

00:21:23.580 I'm not saying I'm one of them.

00:21:25.120 I'm just saying that some people, there are people out there.

00:21:28.940 I find it quite disturbing that anybody would have that attitude.

00:21:31.760 But there are people out there that would hear that and go, oh, really?

00:21:35.120 Well, now I'm going to vote for him even harder.

00:21:36.640 Of course, that's not actually going to happen in a million years.

00:21:40.280 But if you listen to the media, they're very concerned about it.

00:21:43.320 You should know that Brian Stelter agrees with her, which obviously lends her view even more credibility because we all rely on Brian Stelter for these sorts of things.

00:21:52.100 Here he is on CNN.

00:21:53.360 He was fired by CNN, but he's, I don't know if he's being interviewed or he got his job back or I think he's just being interviewed.

00:21:59.120 So they fired him and brought him on for an interview for some reason to ask about this idea, is Trump going to round up all of the liberal cable news hosts and throw them in camps?

00:22:10.680 And here's what he had to say about that.

00:22:13.600 It's valuable to think ahead to what may happen in a second Trump term.

00:22:17.840 This is frankly speculative nonfiction because we use the words that Trump and his allies have said and we use them to talk about the future.

00:22:24.760 Jail, of course, is an extreme part of the spectrum.

00:22:27.580 Imprisonment is an extreme part.

00:22:29.120 But think about IRS audits.

00:22:30.880 Think about government pressure on media companies.

00:22:32.900 Think about other forms of government interference.

00:22:34.900 There are a lot of pressure points.

00:22:36.640 And frankly, Rachel Maddow is not the only member of the media thinking about this.

00:22:39.220 I've talked to the heads of news organizations, CEOs of media companies that are thinking through, not in dramatic fashion, not because they're afraid of going to jail, but because they want to know what could Trump do to use his power in a second term to punish the media?

00:22:52.720 You know, I like how Stelter is still pretending that important people in the media talk to him.

00:23:00.460 He's still like, why would they?

00:23:02.980 He's some unemployed guy with a Twitter account.

00:23:05.680 And he's acting like he'd call up the CEOs of major, the presidents of major media organizations and just hop on the line with them and they'll talk to him, which I tended out.

00:23:18.100 But anyway, he says that Maddow is right to be concerned about retribution from Trump.

00:23:22.140 And because, you know, this is the kind of guy that Trump is.

00:23:28.060 So these people just continue to do Trump the favor of pretending that he's like more, far more hardcore than he really is.

00:23:37.260 In reality, Trump is probably.

00:23:41.880 You can make the argument that he's the least vengeful person who has ever lived on Earth.

00:23:46.600 I don't I'm not sure I've ever witnessed a person that is less vengeful than Donald Trump.

00:23:55.480 Because the truth is that you can say all kinds of horrible things about Donald Trump.

00:24:01.660 You can conspire to destroy him.

00:24:04.420 You can heap contempt on him. 0.96

00:24:06.200 You can you can defame him.

00:24:10.580 You could try to put him in prison.

00:24:12.420 You can do all of that.

00:24:14.380 And you can do that for years.

00:24:16.600 But if you then say one nice thing about him after all of that, he will embrace you as a friend.

00:24:25.040 And we've seen this time and time again.

00:24:28.040 There are there are countless examples of people that have said the most horrific things about him and accused him of all manner of things publicly and for a long time.

00:24:37.540 And then they turn around and they say something nice about him and Trump, you know, he fights him on stage.

00:24:42.760 He's he's this person is great all of a sudden.

00:24:45.700 Fantastic person.

00:24:46.560 So I don't think I've ever heard of anyone who holds a grudge less than Trump.

00:24:53.340 Because the only thing he cares about is what you're saying about him and how you're treating him right now.

00:25:00.780 He's happy to forget about yesterday and every day before that.

00:25:03.680 In fact, he's he's he's that's that's a weakness. 0.75

00:25:10.140 He's he's far too happy to forgive and forget than he should be in in my mind.

00:25:17.280 Now, granted, these corporate media anchors and so on, they're not going to start saying nice things about him once he's in office.

00:25:24.580 But they're going to continue to treat him the same way they have this whole time.

00:25:29.920 But even then, he's not going to seek vengeance against them.

00:25:33.480 Whether he should or shouldn't, for better or worse, he will not seek vengeance.

00:25:38.760 There's really no we there's no evidence that Trump will do that.

00:25:45.020 And there's a lot of evidence to the contrary, especially considering, again, he was actually in office for four years.

00:25:54.480 And there was there was no campaign of retribution against anyone.

00:26:00.760 And in fact, you know, what will most likely happen is is when he gets in office, he will hold out hope that he can win these people over.

00:26:10.180 So that is his optimism and his willingness to forgive and forget.

00:26:15.500 Are his greatest weaknesses, actually.

00:26:19.360 He's far too optimistic and far too forgiving.

00:26:24.020 And the way the media talks about him, of course, they try to paint it as exactly the opposite of what it really is.

00:26:28.500 Which, as we've discussed, you know, that's why they're it's one of the reasons why he's doing well in the polls.

00:26:37.020 It's one of the reasons why their criticisms of him just don't land.

00:26:42.000 It's all background noise at this point.

00:26:43.700 It's all baked into the cake.

00:26:44.540 It's all those things. 0.95

00:26:45.400 But also they're just they they people are not stupid and they're critic they're critic criticisms of him.

00:26:53.740 It's it's one thing to have an exaggerated criticism. 0.81

00:26:56.160 Um, that can be effective if you're at least in the vicinity of of the truth.

00:27:04.120 You know, if you're identifying someone's actual weaknesses and then exaggerating them, that's one thing.

00:27:10.400 But their criticisms of Trump just don't ring true at all.

00:27:15.800 All right.

00:27:19.180 The Blaze has this report, a report citing WNBA sources, including an executive from one of the teams, revealed that despite the league's wall to wall coverage, it will still lose 50 million dollars for the 2024 season.

00:27:33.440 With the Basketball Association reportedly taking in between 180 million and 200 million dollars the previous season, still just a fraction of the 10 million dollars earned by the NBA.

00:27:42.720 Given that NBA commissioner Adam Silver said in 2018 that the WNBA loses about 10 million dollars per year, that would amount to at least 200 million dollars and upwards of 260 million dollars in losses since the league's inception in 1997. 0.74

00:27:59.040 Another anonymous WNBA team executive admitted in the report that WNBA likely would cease to exist without the financial backing of the NBA, an idea that has been the theory of sports fans for some time.

00:28:11.560 And now we have an actual WNBA executive admitting this.

00:28:15.600 Quote, this is a direct quote from this WNBA executive.

00:28:19.240 The truth is, this league would be hard pressed to exist without the NBA.

00:28:23.840 Even with all the apparent success, it doesn't seem likely, doesn't seem like the league could be pushed into the black simply by the existence of star Caitlin Clark, who has been a marketing sensation for the WNBA.

00:28:33.160 Of course, they're underselling it.

00:28:37.160 It's not just that the league would be hard pressed to exist without the NBA.

00:28:40.380 It could not exist at all.

00:28:42.820 The WNBA is held in existence by the NBA. 0.72

00:28:47.580 So, I just saw someone on Twitter call say the WNBA is basically just a charity for lesbians. 0.98

00:28:57.760 I think it was Jesse Kelly who said that.

00:28:59.420 That's a good, I wish it was my line, but it isn't.

00:29:02.140 It's essentially what it is.

00:29:03.440 I think it's a pretty good way of putting it.

00:29:05.700 But this is good.

00:29:06.540 You know, it brings us back down to earth a bit.

00:29:08.520 It re-centers us.

00:29:10.180 It grounds us, I think.

00:29:12.820 Like, let's not get carried away.

00:29:14.240 WNBA, there's been a lot of talk about the WNBA, a lot.

00:29:18.640 It's a very bizarre world that we have found ourselves in over the last couple of months.

00:29:24.820 Even on this show, I've talked about the WNBA.

00:29:26.980 I mean, right now I'm talking about it again.

00:29:30.740 I went through, how long have I been doing this?

00:29:33.720 I've been doing this for, how many episodes has it been?

00:29:36.820 Too many.

00:29:38.320 Thousands.

00:29:38.680 And, you know, you go through the first, like, six years and talk about the WNBA once.

00:29:46.300 And then, from then, just over the last couple of months, it's been a constant drumbeat of the WNBA.

00:29:54.060 So it's very bizarre.

00:29:56.480 And, yes, Caitlin Clark is the most popular female basketball player of all time.

00:30:01.020 But, and that's true, and that's an accomplishment for her.

00:30:07.480 But it is like, it's like, you know, it's like saying that Pete Weber is the most popular professional bowler of all time.

00:30:17.100 And to that, you're probably saying, well, who the hell is Pete Weber?

00:30:19.800 Well, exactly.

00:30:20.580 It's all relative.

00:30:24.400 I might know who the great professional bowlers are, but most people don't.

00:30:27.880 And I know because I Googled it five seconds ago.

00:30:31.240 Because professional bowling will always be professional bowling, no matter how many Pete Webbers they may have.

00:30:36.540 And the WNBA will always be the WNBA. 1.00

00:30:39.400 And when it comes down to it, you know, nobody really watches women's basketball.

00:30:43.740 Caitlin Clark is a viral sensation. 1.00

00:30:46.960 She's controversial. 1.00

00:30:48.760 For reasons that have nothing to do with her, she's never said anything remotely controversial.

00:30:52.760 Like, by her own merits, she's actually the least controversial person in the world.

00:30:59.740 I don't, as far as I know, she's never said anything even approach, she's never said anything that, that approaches the realm of being provocative.

00:31:08.440 Okay, she's not even, she's not in the ballpark of that.

00:31:11.100 And so she seems to be just a very friendly, nice, normal person who happens to be, by female standards, good at basketball. 0.73

00:31:23.560 So by no fault of her own, and not due to anything that she's done or said, she's, she's, still, she's controversial because of how she's being treated.

00:31:30.980 And, uh, uh, all of these things together make her kind of a, an anomaly, but even that isn't enough to make people actually care.

00:31:41.420 I mean, actually care about women's basketball.

00:31:46.300 Um, and so for all of this talk and everybody rallying around the WNBA, when it comes down to it, still, still, after all of this, nobody is actually watching.

00:31:59.720 Uh, now there are, there are some people that they hear about this Caitlin Clark person and they're, they're confused.

00:32:06.080 Like this is a female basketball player. 1.00

00:32:07.580 Why are we talking about a female?

00:32:08.640 We have never talked about female basketball players before.

00:32:11.340 The only other time is when one of them was, uh, imprisoned in Russia.

00:32:14.300 That was the only other time we ever, ever, ever even heard of one.

00:32:17.720 And, uh, now we're talking about a female basketball player based on what they're doing on the court. 1.00

00:32:22.820 What is this?

00:32:24.420 And so people are curious and they tune in and that's good for the WNBA. 1.00

00:32:27.680 But when you look at, uh, the, the ratings for every other team and everything else, it's all just the same.

00:32:36.520 And it's because, you know, if, if, if you're not interested in basketball, then you're not going to watch the WNBA.

00:32:44.700 You might tune in just because there's this anomaly because people are talking about it.

00:32:48.600 Out of curiosity, you might tune in once or twice, but you're not going to keep watching.

00:32:52.500 And then, so that's the, that's all the non-basketball fans.

00:32:56.800 They're not, the WNBA can't reach them because they don't care about basketball. 1.00

00:33:01.260 Uh, the only people they can reach are basketball fans, obviously.

00:33:04.960 But the thing is, if you're a basketball fan and you have a choice between watching men play or women play, you're going to watch the men.

00:33:13.380 Because they're just a lot better and that makes them much more entertaining.

00:33:18.160 All right.

00:33:19.500 I'm going to get some good news for a change here.

00:33:23.880 WUSA9.com has this report.

00:33:26.360 A new report from event management site Eventbrite found a rise in speed dating and singles events in the last year with over 1.5 million searches for such events on the platform.

00:33:46.540 Report comprised of event data from a one-year period found attendance to singles and dating events increased 42% from 2022 to 2023.

00:33:55.460 Eventbrite's CEO said, singles have voiced their frustrations with online dating and we've heard them loud and clear.

00:34:01.880 They want more in-person opportunities to connect and bond over mutual passions.

00:34:07.420 Be it paddleboard yoga, kombucha brewing, backyard beekeeping, or freehand glass blowing.

00:34:16.220 Could you have picked more obscure things for people to do on a date?

00:34:21.200 How do you go, how do you do beekeeping as a date?

00:34:25.460 And I say this as a retired beekeeper myself, and so there's no shade on beekeepers whatsoever, but it's not really a dating activity.

00:34:35.680 I mean, you're in the whole beekeeping outfit to begin with. 0.99

00:34:38.780 You look ridiculous. 0.99

00:34:40.100 Nobody looks cool in a beekeeping outfit. 1.00

00:34:41.960 It's impossible.

00:34:42.520 Like, what are you doing?

00:34:47.400 What is the date exactly?

00:34:52.740 Kombucha paddleboard yoga.

00:34:55.720 What the hell is that?

00:34:58.380 Yoga on a paddleboard, I suppose.

00:35:00.720 Okay.

00:35:01.580 I'll tell you one thing.

00:35:02.440 This is Eventbrite, and so you can do all those things.

00:35:05.200 You can do freehand glass blowing as a date, but if you want to use Eventbrite to organize the event, you certainly cannot have any kind of singles event where they're watching my film, What is a Woman? 1.00

00:35:17.400 Because I am a band from Eventbrite, which I think that would make a great date, first of all.

00:35:25.860 And it's actually a good way to weed out potential matches.

00:35:29.660 You know, if you suggest, hey, let's, as on our date, let's watch the Matt Walsh hit What is a Woman? 0.92

00:35:35.960 And if they react to that in a negative way, then you know that this is someone that is not worthy of going on a date with.

00:35:42.260 Eventbrite's report, which surveyed about 1,000 people, found that more than 50% of daters have a hard time starting or continuing meaningful conversations online.

00:35:50.160 Safety was also a top concern among daters.

00:35:53.220 Additionally, nearly half of Gen Z participants and more than a third of millennials noted one of the biggest challenges of online dating is finding potential partners who have shared interests.

00:36:01.580 As a result, Eventbrite found that young singles are increasingly moving away from bars and parties to hobby-based and interest-focused activities.

00:36:10.840 And also moving away from apps.

00:36:14.240 Many young daters are experiencing swipe fatigue from popular dating apps, according to the report.

00:36:20.040 Well, anyway, this is a very good trend, reason for hope, a white pill, perhaps. 0.94

00:36:26.160 I think a white pill is the good one, I believe.

00:36:28.040 And the move away from dating apps is a positive.

00:36:33.000 Any trend, any trend at all that involves people engaging in the real physical world, like actually engaging with people physically in the real world, any trend like that is good and should be encouraged.

00:36:48.320 And I say that not because there's anything in principle wrong with meeting people online.

00:36:55.340 As I've always said, dating sites, dating apps, in theory, they have their place.

00:37:03.280 10 to 15 years ago, when I was single, it was different.

00:37:07.820 Now they've, at that point, they had not completely taken over.

00:37:12.600 They were a tool that you could use, a useful tool.

00:37:15.380 But the dating scene, utterly dominated by apps, well, that's a different story entirely.

00:37:24.300 Because the dating apps are so depersonalized and they reduce you to a picture on a screen.

00:37:31.740 One picture among thousands of others.

00:37:34.080 And the other person is making a decision about you based on basically nothing.

00:37:43.460 There are just, there are some things in life that cannot, I think what we've discovered is that there are some things in life that cannot be effectively reduced down to an algorithm.

00:37:54.740 In fact, most things in life cannot be effectively reduced down to an algorithm.

00:38:04.420 Algorithms are not going to improve your life.

00:38:08.520 It's very hard to think of an example of where algorithms have improved anyone's life, made them happier, made them better people.

00:38:15.500 But that's especially true when it comes to dating.

00:38:21.780 And then there's also, with the dating apps, there's the, it's a very weird sort of dynamic because it feels like when you're on the dating app, just talking to younger people who are single and on the dating apps.

00:38:37.820 It's kind of, it's kind of, it feels like the worst of all worlds because on one hand, it feels like there's nobody out there and there are not enough choices.

00:38:46.860 But at the same time, there's this, there's this vast overabundance of choices.

00:38:52.860 There's just too many people.

00:38:55.440 And you're making decisions about them very quickly.

00:38:59.720 I mean, just, just that act of like swiping past somebody.

00:39:03.260 It's a very dehumanizing act, making a decision about someone just with that simple act of swiping.

00:39:12.780 I think ultimately does not have a good effect.

00:39:15.180 So if we're moving away from that, I would say that's a good thing.

00:39:20.180 All right.

00:39:20.420 One other story I wanted to, I have to mention because nobody else will, well, nobody else at the Daily Wire will tell you about this.

00:39:28.560 So I have to do it.

00:39:30.540 But I, I thought this was a very interesting report.

00:39:33.260 It doesn't require a lot of commentary.

00:39:34.720 There's not, there's not much additional to say about it.

00:39:36.880 I just want to let you know that this is, that this is going on.

00:39:41.400 So this is from The Hill.

00:39:43.280 Has this report.

00:39:45.260 An unidentified technologically advanced population could be living secretly on Earth.

00:39:53.440 The startling claim was made in a new paper by researchers at Harvard and Montana Technological University.

00:39:58.640 They speculate that unidentified anomalous phenomena, UAP, otherwise known as UFOs, of course, could be living underground on the moon or even walking among humans.

00:40:11.620 I don't think the, the UFOs are not walking among humans.

00:40:15.560 But I think they, I think what they're saying is that the aliens came in the UFOs and are now walking among humans.

00:40:20.400 This is a, this is a scientific paper.

00:40:22.360 This is a research paper.

00:40:23.540 And when have you ever known anything outlandish or false to be contained in a research paper?

00:40:29.800 It's never happened.

00:40:31.680 I mean, people have done research on this.

00:40:33.720 They put it in a paper.

00:40:35.200 What else do you need to know?

00:40:37.000 The researchers acknowledge in the paper that their hypotheses may be regarded skeptically by the general scientific community.

00:40:44.000 But they still deserve consideration in the spirit of epistemic, epistemic humility and openness.

00:40:52.520 And that's a good, that's a good phrase.

00:40:53.960 Epistemic humility.

00:40:55.400 I should probably start using that.

00:40:57.320 All of the, all the people out there that, that make fun of me every time I talk about UFOs.

00:41:01.980 What I should be telling them is you need to demonstrate more epistemic humility in your approach to this issue.

00:41:07.600 The paper posits the possibility of crypto-terrestrials as an explanation for unidentified and unexplainable observations made worldwide each year.

00:41:16.780 Here are the theories proposed in the paper.

00:41:18.720 So this paper gives a number of theories about how the aliens got here, what they're doing here, and all the rest of it.

00:41:27.380 And so here are their theories.

00:41:28.500 They put a lot of research into this.

00:41:32.260 They've, they've been studying this for a long time.

00:41:34.620 This is what they came up with.

00:41:36.300 Four theories.

00:41:38.580 A remnant form of ancient civilization remains on Earth.

00:41:42.780 An intelligent species evolved separately from humans and now stays hidden.

00:41:47.860 Maybe like a, maybe like a Bigfoot scenario.

00:41:49.920 Could be.

00:41:52.020 Crypto-terrestrials traveled from another time period or planets.

00:41:56.820 And then their final theory that they've included in the scientific paper, that's all just pure science.

00:42:03.120 The unidentified creatures are of supernatural origin, likened to Earth-bound angels.

00:42:09.080 The paper also suggests the idea of crypto-terrestrials living in or under, citing hotspots such as lakes and volcanoes.

00:42:17.020 Because that's a fifth, that's a fifth theory.

00:42:18.540 So we've got remnant ancient civilization, we've got like a Bigfoot, we could have Bigfoot, time travelers, angels.

00:42:29.500 And then also there's the possibility that there are some sort of beings living in volcanoes and lakes.

00:42:34.560 And, you know, that's it.

00:42:38.300 That's the scientific paper.

00:42:40.000 That's the theory.

00:42:40.820 I find it, based on what I know about these researchers, based on what I know about, what is it, Harvard and Montana Technological University.

00:42:51.000 Very esteemed university.

00:42:52.460 It's not like I just found out that thing, that that place exists right now.

00:42:56.000 Based on what I know about all that, I would, and based on my own research into this subject that, as you know, has been going on for years now,

00:43:03.020 I would rate this claim and these theories as highly, highly credible.

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00:44:50.540 Today, we're introduced to some new terminology on the daily cancellation.

00:44:53.720 It's always a bad sign when that happens.

00:44:56.020 But here's a young lady complaining about her struggles in landing a job. 1.00

00:45:00.600 She needs to find employment, but she also needs an employer who can provide accommodations for her condition.

00:45:07.100 What is her condition?

00:45:08.260 Well, of course, it's something totally fake and made up, of course.

00:45:11.280 But here it is. Watch.

00:45:14.080 So, I just got yelled at for asking a very reasonable question.

00:45:17.520 So, I'm applying to go somewhere, and I just wanted to know,

00:45:19.780 are there accommodations for people who struggle with time blindness and being on time, you know?

00:45:24.780 And then the person I was with interrupted and acted like I was asking something else.

00:45:29.440 And then when we were done, they actually started yelling at me and saying that accommodations for time blindness doesn't exist.

00:45:35.400 And if you struggle with being on time, you'll never be able to get a job.

00:45:37.900 You know, provided you're trying your absolute best to be there. 1.00

00:45:42.180 And then they're like, your stupid generation wants to destroy the workplace. 1.00

00:45:46.380 And yeah, I think that a culture where workers are just cut off because they struggle with being on time, 1.00

00:45:51.760 when there's other solutions that we can look to,

00:45:54.040 I think that just anybody who thinks it's okay to just treat people like that,

00:45:57.720 yeah, that culture needs to be dismantled.

00:46:00.120 And then I asked that person, how can you feel good about yourself upholding this kind of system?

00:46:05.920 And then to think, I'm entitled.

00:46:07.660 No, if people think it's okay to treat others like this, that's entitlement.

00:46:13.160 So, I'll never show up on time, and I want to dismantle your workplace.

00:46:17.460 Please hire me.

00:46:18.780 Apparently, that sales pitch didn't work.

00:46:21.120 Well, you heard that right.

00:46:21.960 Time blindness.

00:46:23.320 This young person suffers from an unfortunate malady that causes her to be blind to the time.

00:46:27.800 She needs accommodations for her disability. 1.00

00:46:30.800 What sort of accommodations?

00:46:31.640 Well, presumably, her prospective employer simply needs to accommodate her coming into work

00:46:35.460 whenever she feels like it or not at all.

00:46:37.940 She'll just randomly wander into work and wander out suddenly, and they'll have to work around her. 0.93

00:46:43.800 Maybe she'll come on time and leave on time.

00:46:45.580 Maybe she'll come 45 minutes late and leave an hour early. 1.00

00:46:47.940 Maybe she'll come three hours early, leave five hours after closing. 0.99

00:46:51.320 You never know.

00:46:51.840 She's blind to the time.

00:46:53.660 Somehow, this interviewer was not on board with this proposal.

00:46:55.860 It seems that the prospective employer in this case is a tyrant

00:46:58.860 who oppressively demands that workers, you know, show up for work.

00:47:04.200 Now, you might assume, or at least you might like to believe,

00:47:06.620 that this time blindness concept is an innovation of this random TikToker.

00:47:11.580 You might even like to give her credit for coming up with a creative

00:47:14.440 and unintentionally hilarious fake disability to justify her laziness and lack of punctuality. 1.00

00:47:19.340 Sadly, however, she did not come up with this concept.

00:47:23.140 I am very sad to report that this is a thing.

00:47:27.720 It's not a real thing, but it is a thing.

00:47:30.720 The website Healthline has this to say about time blindness.

00:47:35.080 Time blindness is a cognitive condition that causes difficulties in perceiving and managing time,

00:47:40.680 often leading to challenges in punctuality and planning.

00:47:43.060 Do you find yourself able to estimate the time without glancing at the clock,

00:47:47.920 even when it's been a while since you looked?

00:47:50.200 Most individuals with typical neurology possess an internal clock

00:47:53.280 that generally gauges how much time has passed.

00:47:56.380 But some individuals, such as individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD,

00:48:00.740 lack this natural timekeeping sense.

00:48:03.200 This is often referred to as time blindness.

00:48:05.960 Time blindness can significantly affect your daily life,

00:48:08.200 hindering your ability to meet deadlines, manage responsibilities, and plan effectively.

00:48:12.140 Ah, so people with time blindness have no internal sense of time.

00:48:19.220 They can't tell if five minutes have passed or five hours.

00:48:22.620 It could be 9 a.m. or 3 in the afternoon.

00:48:24.680 They have no idea.

00:48:25.700 They have no natural timekeeping sense.

00:48:28.120 This is time blindness.

00:48:30.040 Now, of course, in the old days, there was a different term for this condition.

00:48:33.860 They used to call it being a woman. 0.99

00:48:36.920 My wife, for instance, will tend to estimate that any task, 1.00

00:48:40.320 no matter what it is, will take 20 minutes.

00:48:43.060 In my wife's world, everything takes 20 minutes, regardless. 1.00

00:48:49.280 But I've realized over the course of our marriage that 20 minutes is shorthand

00:48:52.880 for really any amount of time longer than five minutes but shorter than seven years is 20 minutes.

00:48:59.980 This is especially true when it comes to estimating the amount of time it will take

00:49:02.840 to travel from one place to another.

00:49:05.640 Like, she'll tell me on a Saturday morning that she wants to, you know,

00:49:09.620 for us all to do some sort of activity as a family, go somewhere and do something,

00:49:13.840 and I'll ask how far away is the activity.

00:49:15.620 And she'll say, oh, it's, you know, it's like 20 minutes.

00:49:18.060 And then I'll look it up and I'll discover that the activity is 4,000 miles away.

00:49:21.740 It's somewhere down in South America.

00:49:23.040 And by 20 minutes, she meant that it would take 36 and a half hours to drive there.

00:49:28.180 But even this is not really time blindness.

00:49:30.740 I mean, my wife is still capable of getting to places on time. 1.00

00:49:34.400 There's no actual time blindness.

00:49:36.280 And besides, if such a thing did exist, there are these things called clocks.

00:49:41.940 We all carry clocks around in our pockets everywhere we go.

00:49:46.300 It's not like our only way to measure time is a sundial.

00:49:49.480 We have to hope it's not cloudy today so we can see what time it is.

00:49:53.640 And yet time blindness is still trotted out as an excuse.

00:49:56.160 Here's a psychologist with a large social media following

00:49:58.440 who presents a clip of another psychologist explaining this concept of time blindness.

00:50:05.180 Watch.

00:50:06.640 If you have ever questioned if ADHD and time blindness is real, listen to this.

00:50:11.240 ADHD, right, is at its heart a blindness to time.

00:50:15.800 Or technically, to be exact, it is a nearsightedness to the future.

00:50:20.180 Just as people who are nearsighted can only read things close at hand, people with ADHD

00:50:26.100 can only deal with things near in time.

00:50:29.600 The further out the event lies, the less they are capable of dealing with it.

00:50:35.160 And this is why everything is left to the last minute.

00:50:38.080 Because they only deal with last minutes.

00:50:41.040 That's all they perceive.

00:50:42.340 That's all they deal with.

00:50:43.040 That's all they organize to.

00:50:44.760 And so their life is a series of one crisis after another, all of which were avoidable because people prepared.

00:50:50.580 And they didn't.

00:50:51.600 Do you, do you, uh, you don't believe that time blindness and ADHD are real?

00:50:59.640 Oh, yeah?

00:51:00.300 Well, here's a guy saying they are.

00:51:03.980 Okay?

00:51:04.880 Like, how is that proof of anything?

00:51:06.840 Some people always think they can do this.

00:51:08.100 Just, oh, yeah?

00:51:08.840 You don't believe this is true?

00:51:10.620 Here's some guy who says that it is.

00:51:12.700 Well, why do I care what this guy says?

00:51:14.320 What, what, what, who, so?

00:51:15.740 So we see that, uh, unfortunately, whiny Gen Zers on TikTok aren't inventing these ideas. 1.00

00:51:22.820 They are taught these ideas.

00:51:23.920 Taught the ideas by what they perceive to be experts and authority thinkers.

00:51:27.520 This guy has an MD next to his name, but that doesn't make what you just heard any less nonsensical.

00:51:33.960 He says that people with ADHD have time blindness because they can only deal with things near in time.

00:51:40.200 They are not capable of planning for any event farther away.

00:51:44.000 He compares it to being nearsighted.

00:51:46.060 But these are not the same things.

00:51:48.520 Okay, I am nearsighted.

00:51:49.800 Without my glasses, I am quite literally incapable of reading things far away.

00:51:53.940 I can't physically do it.

00:51:55.460 There is no incentive, no reward, no punishment, no threat that could ever change that situation.

00:52:01.000 If you take away my glasses, hold a book 10 feet away, and demand that I read it, I will not be able to do it.

00:52:06.040 I just can't. 0.96

00:52:07.140 If you put a gun to my head and said, read the book or I'll blow your brains out, I still would not be able to do it. 0.98

00:52:13.080 If you offered me $100 million, I still would not be able to. 0.99

00:52:16.600 I can't.

00:52:17.340 I am incapable.

00:52:18.600 My eyes have physical limitations that I have no control over whatsoever.

00:52:22.380 That is not the case for people with ADHD, quote unquote, who are, quote unquote, blind to time or have time nearsightedness.

00:52:31.400 People like the doctor in that clip, you know, they use terms like can't and incapable because they want their patients to think that they are totally helpless.

00:52:43.460 But that is obviously not the case.

00:52:46.140 It is difficult for procrastinators to complete tasks on time.

00:52:50.040 I know that myself as a lifelong procrastinator.

00:52:52.680 But does that mean that they can't?

00:52:55.260 Are they incapable?

00:52:57.780 He said that they, he claims that people with ADHD can't even perceive of time existing in the future.

00:53:05.440 They can only perceive of this moment.

00:53:08.760 So apparently if you have ADHD, you, you, you, the idea of there being a future is, you don't even realize that.

00:53:16.020 You don't know.

00:53:16.540 You, you, I mean, what, what does that even mean?

00:53:19.120 Um, no, it, it may be difficult if you're wired a certain way to do things on time and to do them or even do them ahead of time.

00:53:31.820 That doesn't mean that it's impossible.

00:53:34.540 I have to continually emphasize this just because it is hard for you to do something does not mean that you can't do it.

00:53:43.300 It does not mean that you suffer from some disability that physically hinders your ability to do it at all.

00:53:50.740 As always, it's really about effort and incentives.

00:53:54.820 If you are not showing up on time, if you are not prepared for things in the future, it's because you do not care enough to put in the effort.

00:54:02.200 It's not your ADHD, quote unquote.

00:54:04.760 It's that you don't care enough.

00:54:06.900 You don't have enough desire to do it.

00:54:09.980 Here's how I know that.

00:54:10.880 Let me, let's, let's use this thought experiment once again, because I think it's a useful one.

00:54:18.300 Imagine that I came to you and I said that I have $10 million in cash that I would like to give you, but I will only give you the $10 million next Wednesday at seven in the morning at a location 90 minutes away.

00:54:32.620 Next Wednesday, seven in the morning.

00:54:34.000 Here's the location 90 minutes away.

00:54:36.220 Be there or be square.

00:54:37.900 If you want the $10 million, you need to be there at that location exactly on time or early.

00:54:43.780 Okay.

00:54:45.040 Something tells me that your time blindness is going to magically clear up for this occasion.

00:54:50.800 Even you, riddled with ADHD, totally blind to time, even someone with your condition will find a way to get there on time next Wednesday at seven in the morning to receive your $10 million prize.

00:55:03.640 You will be there.

00:55:04.840 The woman in that, in the TikTok, she will be there.

00:55:07.820 She will be there.

00:55:08.840 She will be there early and she will be ready for that money. 0.99

00:55:11.240 Why?

00:55:13.240 Because the incentive is so great and your desire is so great that it will magically overcome your fake disability.

00:55:22.460 Okay.

00:55:22.660 There's so many other examples.

00:55:24.360 It's just like people that claim, oh, I can't go on a diet.

00:55:26.900 I can't eat hell.

00:55:27.480 I can't.

00:55:27.800 I can't.

00:55:28.100 I can't.

00:55:28.420 I can't.

00:55:28.640 I can't have obesity.

00:55:29.840 Okay.

00:55:30.220 If I offered you $10 million and said, don't eat anything sugary for a week, you would do it easily, actually.

00:55:36.440 It wouldn't even be hard with that kind of money on the line.

00:55:40.460 What does that prove?

00:55:41.620 It proves that you can if you feel incentivized.

00:55:44.620 Now, on the other hand, if you offered me $10 million to take off my glasses and read size 12 font from 10 feet away,

00:55:57.660 I would be just as incapable of completing the task as I would be if there was no reward on the table.

00:56:03.620 That's because with a real and physical problem like nearsightedness, there is no amount of effort or desire that can ever change it.

00:56:12.320 And the incentives don't have to be that significant.

00:56:16.980 As I said, I am a procrastinator myself.

00:56:19.840 If time blindness is a thing, then I have it.

00:56:22.840 If ADHD is a thing, then I have that too.

00:56:28.000 You know, I had to go to the DMV recently to renew my car registration.

00:56:32.440 Not only did I not get there on time, but I was like five months late.

00:56:37.780 And I still didn't even go.

00:56:39.440 My wife went for me.

00:56:40.500 Okay.

00:56:41.120 Because like getting me to go to the DMV, it, I just want, it will take me years to go.

00:56:45.420 You could tell me you need to be at the DMV for this thing.

00:56:48.660 You know, next Wednesday is the cutoff date.

00:56:51.140 I will be there sometime in the year 2028 if I go at all.

00:56:54.380 I just, I can't, you cannot get me to go.

00:56:56.300 You can.

00:56:57.880 Well, you could.

00:56:58.560 That's what the point, but it takes a lot.

00:57:01.000 And that's because I just really don't want to go to the DMV.

00:57:04.240 I just, I just don't want to go.

00:57:05.620 I really, really don't want to go.

00:57:07.020 I feel very little incentive and the threat of not going, oh, you'll get a fine.

00:57:13.420 Okay.

00:57:14.020 Well, I'll take, I don't, I haven't gotten the fine yet.

00:57:16.600 I'm driving around with expired tags.

00:57:18.400 Then no one's pulled me over yet.

00:57:19.900 I figure, you know, let's, let's at least wait till I get pulled over one time.

00:57:23.060 And then I'll think about it.

00:57:25.720 So my time blindness tends to flare up wherever the DMV is concerned.

00:57:31.300 My time blindness flares up wherever any kind of like paperwork or waiting in lines or anything

00:57:38.080 like that.

00:57:39.180 That's when I become especially blind to time.

00:57:43.060 Now, on the other hand, I'm going fishing on Sunday at a lake on Father's Day.

00:57:48.520 And it's a lake I haven't fished yet.

00:57:50.080 Well, I've already downloaded topographical maps of the lake.

00:57:54.060 I've researched information on depth and water clarity, water temps.

00:57:57.500 I know where the feeder creeks are and the inlets and coves.

00:58:00.400 I've already gone out and bought a few new lures that match the bait fish that will be

00:58:03.860 most plentiful in this lake at the, in the places I'm going to be fishing at this time

00:58:07.440 of year.

00:58:07.960 Okay.

00:58:08.160 I procrastinate on things like the DMV, but when it comes to fishing a new lake, I am squared

00:58:11.780 away, fully prepared.

00:58:14.220 I'm ready to go.

00:58:16.100 Why?

00:58:16.880 Well, because I like to fish.

00:58:18.200 I enjoy it.

00:58:18.900 I put in the effort because it's fun.

00:58:21.480 I don't enjoy the DMV, so I put in less effort.

00:58:24.920 This is the great mystery of time blindness.

00:58:27.780 I have solved it.

00:58:29.300 You aren't blind to time.

00:58:30.760 You aren't incapable of showing up and being prepared.

00:58:33.360 You just don't want to.

00:58:35.440 You don't care enough.

00:58:38.000 Now, this should all be pretty obvious.

00:58:41.100 But it's not obvious in a culture where we've turned every human flaw, as we talked about

00:58:45.460 in the opening, into a medical diagnosis.

00:58:47.240 People take solace in the diagnosis.

00:58:51.040 They seek out the diagnosis.

00:58:53.020 They wear it like a badge of honor.

00:58:55.880 They are relieved to get it.

00:58:58.040 They go searching for it online.

00:59:00.340 They plug in all of their character flaws into Google, and they look for some sort of label,

00:59:06.420 and they go, oh, I have that.

00:59:07.660 Thank God.

00:59:08.540 Oh, that's my thing.

00:59:09.480 I have that thing there.

00:59:10.440 That's the reason.

00:59:12.360 And so I can never improve myself ever, because this is what I have.

00:59:15.480 And how dare you suggest that I have any control over my life whatsoever?

00:59:20.920 People are just looking for an excuse.

00:59:22.620 It is really that simple.

00:59:24.300 So much of this is just simply people wanting an excuse.

00:59:27.840 And it's an excuse that the medical establishment is happy to provide, because it means that

00:59:32.860 you will rely on them, on their treatments, their drugs, their therapies, rather than

00:59:38.360 taking charge of your own life and your own behavior.

00:59:43.180 That's what this is all about, as always.

00:59:46.160 And it's why time blindness is today canceled.

00:59:51.140 That'll do it for the show today.

00:59:52.040 Thanks for watching.

00:59:52.560 Thanks for listening.

00:59:53.140 Talk to you tomorrow.

00:59:54.060 Have a great day.

00:59:55.020 Godspeed.

00:59:55.360 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - June 13, 2024

Ep. 1386 - How We Became A Society Full Of ‘Traumatized’ Weaklings

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