The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1463 - The Party That Hates Men Is Wondering Why They’re Losing Male Voters

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the Kamala campaign is losing men by a wide margin,

00:00:04.120 and it may cost them the election, but why are male voters so repulsed by Kamala Harris

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00:02:12.120 two months since the Kamala Harris campaign unveiled their ace in the hole, their foolproof plan to win over

00:02:18.400 male voters and dominate the upcoming presidential election. This plan didn't take the form of a 0.58

00:02:23.760 campaign platform or a stump speech or anything like that. Instead, it took the form of an ingenious

00:02:28.960 little totem, one that you could even purchase for a mere $40 plus shipping that was located in the

00:02:34.980 online merch store of the Kamala Harris campaign. And I'm talking, of course, about the official

00:02:39.240 Harris Walls embroidered camo hat. Axios called the hat a status symbol for Democrats. This hat,

00:02:47.020 political, told us, is more important than you think. They wrote that it could even decide the

00:02:52.040 outcome of the election as a kind of tipping point. According to CNN, that hat signified that

00:02:57.380 the Harris campaign was serious about burnishing their credentials among young voters, especially

00:03:02.480 white men. Watch. I want to show our viewers something that our colleague Josh Campbell just

00:03:09.460 pointed out to me, and I believe we have it. It's new merch. All the campaigns get merch up

00:03:14.600 really quickly. But this in particular, as Josh is pointing out, is in orange, blaze orange. It's a

00:03:22.340 color used by hunters for safety purposes. And that's what Tim Walz is. He is a hunter. And the fact

00:03:31.620 that that is one of the first things that they are selling, that tells you a lot about the way that

00:03:37.920 they are trying to get the white men. I might get one. I mean, there's a way to style that hat

00:03:44.020 that could fit in with the culture, you know. So there was so much optimism. Tim Walz is a hunter,

00:03:51.660 CNN assured us. That's why he needs the blaze orange hat. And thanks to this hat, men are going

00:03:57.620 to recognize how authentic and masculine Tim Walz is. Men will sit around at the pub saying to each

00:04:04.440 other, gee whiz, that Tim Walz is a, he's a real man's man. Did you see his orange hat?

00:04:10.840 Trump campaign won't even stand a chance. After all, their hats are red. And men don't respond to 0.75

00:04:16.160 that. They only respond to blaze orange. Now, that was the consensus in the corporate press anyway. But

00:04:22.340 two months later, it's starting to look like the unthinkable has happened. The Harris-Walls camo hat

00:04:27.420 has not, in fact, exerted a kind of mind control over hundreds of thousands of men across the country.

00:04:32.860 It has not guaranteed a Kamala Harris landslide as expected. Instead, Kamala Harris's campaign is

00:04:38.500 in free fall among the men of every demographic group. A New York Times poll just found that

00:04:44.480 nationally, Trump has a significant lead among likely male voters. He's up by more than 10 points.

00:04:50.560 Meanwhile, USA Today poll found that in Arizona, a majority of Latino men between the ages of 18 to

00:04:56.160 34 support Donald Trump. Among Latino men age 45 to 49, Trump support is even higher at 57 percent.

00:05:01.720 And for their part, black men are also increasingly turned off by Kamala Harris's campaign.

00:05:07.100 New York Times reports that Kamala Harris, quote, still significantly trails Joe Biden's 2020 share

00:05:12.060 of likely black voters. And the numbers show that she's especially far behind among black men. And

00:05:17.780 you know what that means? Well, it means that Barack Obama is once again, very disappointed. Now,

00:05:24.560 it's no secret that a lot of things disappoint Barack Obama. He was disappointed when George

00:05:30.140 Zimmerman exercised his right of self-defense to save his life. He was disappointed when Americans

00:05:34.680 elected Donald Trump. He was disappointed when he had to cancel his 60th birthday party on Martha's

00:05:39.860 Vineyard because the plebes noticed that he was disregarding the COVID rules that he pretended to care 0.91

00:05:44.260 about. Pretty much everything that happens somehow ends up disappointing poor Barack Obama. But this time,

00:05:50.520 this time is different. His brow is really furrowed this time. He's more disappointed than he's ever been

00:05:56.600 before. And specifically, he's disappointed in black men for not supporting Kamala Harris enough. Watch.

00:06:04.320 Barack Obama is back on the campaign trail and he's making the case against Donald Trump. But before his guest

00:06:11.020 feature in Pennsylvania, Obama made a surprise visit to Kamala Harris's campaign headquarters in Pittsburgh.

00:06:17.840 It was there that he got candid, maybe a little too candid if you are in the vice president's inner circle

00:06:23.260 tonight. He warned that Harris is underperforming him with black voters. And he had a message

00:06:28.540 specifically for a black man. Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren't feeling the idea

00:06:35.820 of having a woman as president. And you're coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for it. 0.71

00:06:41.660 So now you're thinking about sitting out or even supporting somebody who has a history of denigrating you

00:06:56.040 because you think that's a sign of strength because that's what being a man is, putting women down.

00:07:11.660 That's not acceptable.

00:07:14.880 Not acceptable, he says. Just not acceptable. And you get the finger wag, too, the literal

00:07:21.360 finger wag. That's not acceptable. This is how you know the internal polls are just as bad as the

00:07:27.220 public polls, if not worse. The party of joy is now the party of scolding and finger wagging.

00:07:33.580 And it's been that party all along. He's not even hiding his contempt. According to Barack Obama,

00:07:38.360 black men can't possibly be upset with inflation or crime or anything like that. They must hate 1.00

00:07:45.000 women. That's the only possible explanation for why Kamala Harris hasn't already locked up 100% 1.00

00:07:50.200 of the black vote. Now, what's extraordinary about this is that Donald Trump isn't even polling

00:07:55.280 especially well among black voters. He's just polling a lot better than any other Republican has in recent

00:08:00.660 history. Trump has something like 20% support among black men, which is much higher than Democrats are used

00:08:06.020 to still a small minority. But Democrats recognize that this relatively small shift could very well

00:08:13.400 cost them the election. It could flip states like Pennsylvania, which is where Obama was when he

00:08:18.080 delivered that little dressing down. So Obama is furious. He needs black support for Kamala Harris to

00:08:24.760 exceed 90%. But men of all demographic groups aren't going along with the program. And that's why in

00:08:31.640 recent days, we've seen Kamala's campaign and her supporters go to increasingly desperate lengths

00:08:36.100 to appeal to men. That cringy ad that went viral last week is just the latest example. It was created

00:08:41.900 by a former director for Jimmy Kimmel named Jacob Reed. And in case you were fortunate enough to miss

00:08:47.140 this at the time when we played it last week, well, here it is again.

00:08:51.480 I'll tell you another thing. I'm not afraid of women. I'm not afraid of women. They want to control their 1.00

00:09:19.940 bodies. I say go for it. They want to use IVF to start a family. I'm not afraid of families. They

00:09:25.520 want to be childless cat ladies. Have all the cats you want. Woman wants to be president. Well, I hope 1.00

00:09:30.280 she has the guts to look me right in the eye and accept my full-throated endorsement. Because I'm 0.57

00:09:34.560 man enough to support women. Man enough to know what kind of donuts I like. Man enough to admit I'm lost

00:09:39.920 even when I refuse to ask for directions. Man enough to not ban young women from reading little women. Or one 1.00

00:09:45.700 of those pants books that the sisters like. I'm man enough to raw dog a flight. It sucked. Not worth

00:09:51.440 it. Now, it probably won't surprise you to learn that all of the men in this ad are actors and they're

00:09:58.020 mostly lying about their lives. One of them says that he braids his daughter's hair, but he doesn't

00:10:02.720 even have a daughter, apparently. He also claims that he deadlifts 500. We can only assume he meant 500

00:10:07.780 ounces from the look of it. But something that might surprise you is that in the days since this video

00:10:13.500 has been mocked extensively all over the internet, the creator of that ad, Jacob Reed,

00:10:18.320 has not gone into hiding. He hasn't changed his name and fled the country in shame, never to be

00:10:23.340 heard from again. Although that reaction would be reasonable and prudent at this point. Instead,

00:10:28.320 he just appeared on national television to double down on the concept and explain why everyone else

00:10:33.960 misunderstands his marketing genius. Watch.

00:10:38.780 Rorschach test and everyone wondering what they're seeing here. But what was your intention

00:10:42.300 in creating this parody and the substance of the message?

00:10:46.240 Yeah, great question. So, I mean, I think about masculinity a lot because I'm a dad now raising

00:10:51.240 kids. And I think in this country, it's something we don't talk about a lot. And so I had this idea

00:10:56.740 watching the back to back conventions where at the Democratic convention, there's men who are looking at the

00:11:01.920 women who they work with or who they're in relationships with, with admiration and respect

00:11:06.000 at the Republican National Convention. You have, you know, everything's about size, crowd size,

00:11:11.060 this size, that size. You're playing Macho Man. Literally Hulk Hogan is ripping his shirt off.

00:11:15.640 I mean, it was such a cartoon of masculinity that it really, the juxtaposition was hilarious to me.

00:11:21.580 Wow, you guys got that picture fast. Holy moly. So I, you know, I come from comedy and comedy comes

00:11:27.200 from juxtaposition. And so to me, I was just riffing with my friends thinking, wouldn't it be

00:11:32.780 funny if you took these ideas of like, so macho, you got to tell everyone how macho you are all

00:11:36.900 the time, masculinity. And what I feel is a, is a more real version of what it means to be a man

00:11:41.700 where, you know, yeah, you cry at a rom-com, you braid your daughter's hair, you go pick up tampons

00:11:46.280 from the store if someone needs tampons, like who cares? And so to me, putting those together,

00:11:50.200 but treating it like, as if it's a real, you know, rugged man political ad, uh, would be funny.

00:11:55.880 And, uh, I still think it was funny. Well, he thinks it was funny anyway. So he's, uh,

00:12:02.320 explaining the joke, which is always a great sign. Comedy is about juxtaposition, says Jacob Reed.

00:12:08.220 You get it? He's, he's juxtaposing the idea of a stereotypically rugged man with things that

00:12:13.240 aren't stereotypically masculine. And it's funny because those two things are being juxtaposed.

00:12:18.260 That's comedy as explained by the former director of Jimmy Kimmel, a comedian who himself has not

00:12:24.300 told a joke in 20 years. Um, in addition to not actually being funny, this guy's also not very

00:12:30.620 smart because without realizing it, he proved the point that, that I made that many of us made when,

00:12:36.780 when, um, uh, last week, you know, on the left to be a real man, according to them,

00:12:44.540 it means simply playing second fiddle to women. Any, any man who submits and assumes a subservient

00:12:50.860 role is automatically a role model for all men in their view. So go fetch the tampons and braid 0.93

00:12:57.400 some hair and, uh, and, and then you're a real man. That's the idea. This is a debased and matriarchal 1.00

00:13:04.960 view of men that fails to resonate with, with any man, aside from the most effeminate and

00:13:10.960 testosterone depleted, it is a vision of masculinity that appeals almost entirely to liberal feminist 0.83

00:13:17.100 women and no one else. But increasingly it's becoming apparent that nobody in the Kamala

00:13:23.300 Harris campaign has ever spoken to a man who is normal and well adjusted. That's the only explanation

00:13:29.040 for why the campaign voluntarily uploaded this footage of Tim Walls going pheasant hunting the

00:13:34.840 other day. Uh, they must've thought this was a, this, uh, you know, would be a slam dunk.

00:13:38.740 After all, Walls was bringing his own gun to go for the hunt. So presumably his handlers

00:13:44.020 assumed that he would know how to load it for the cameras, but that assumption turned out to be

00:13:49.040 very incorrect. Watch.

00:13:51.580 That's my theory. And it never fits quite right. Never fits quite right. Just not quite right.

00:13:56.460 How do you get it back?

00:13:58.800 Governor, what kind of gun is it?

00:14:00.200 This is a Beretta A400. I brought, I bought it when I was shooting a lot of, uh, trap because it has a

00:14:07.400 kind of their patented thing at kickoff. So when you get old, it doesn't hurt your shoulder as much.

00:14:15.720 So it kind of looks like it's his first time ever handling a firearm of any kind. It definitely does

00:14:19.900 not look like a guy who's familiar in any way with the firearms that he supposedly owns. As Larry

00:14:24.920 Taunton put it, it looks like Tim Walls stepped out of an LL Bean catalog. I eager to impress everybody

00:14:30.340 with his hunting prowess and, uh, everybody can see through it in about 10 seconds. Now, a lot of people

00:14:35.520 are comparing this to Michael Dukakis's decision to ride around in an Abrams tank decked out in a

00:14:41.280 helmet and all that. That stunt was supposed to make Dukakis look, uh, strong on national defense,

00:14:46.580 but it ended up making him look silly, you know, but really it's not a fair comparison because

00:14:50.860 Dukakis for all his faults never claimed to be a tank commander. He never said that he was an expert

00:14:56.700 on tanks or someone who drove tanks all the time. By contrast, as you heard from CNN at the top of

00:15:01.640 this segment, uh, Tim Walls has portrayed himself as a hunter. That's why they sell the Harris Walls

00:15:07.740 camo hats. And now we're learning that like every other biographical detail we've been told about Tim

00:15:12.500 Walls, it's apparently a lie. In reality, he didn't serve in Afghanistan, even though he repeatedly

00:15:17.520 suggested otherwise. He's not actually afraid of spicy food. As he told Kamala Harris, he wasn't in

00:15:23.240 Hong Kong during the massacre at Tiananmen square. And now we learned that he has no idea how to hold a

00:15:27.340 firearm. Now think about how desperate the campaign would have to be in order to send

00:15:32.320 Walls out there with that shotgun. It's not just the fact that they decided to stage a corny photo

00:15:38.340 op. It's the fact that they apparently didn't do any kind of preparation beforehand, even basic stuff

00:15:43.500 like making sure he wouldn't make a fool out of himself. And then no one stopped this video from

00:15:48.660 being released. In fact, the campaign began promoting it. It reminds you of all those staged photos

00:15:56.200 of politicians standing over a grill on July 4th, wearing a spotless apron with creases still in

00:16:02.060 it, holding a shiny spatula that an intern just bought from Lowe's 15 minutes ago. And you compare

00:16:08.000 this to Donald Trump's viral video with a professional golfer a few days ago. And that racked up more than

00:16:15.380 10 million views because it was authentic. Everybody watching the video could tell that Trump loves

00:16:21.640 golfing. He didn't struggle to hold his clubs. It obviously wasn't his first time on the golf course.

00:16:27.200 It was evident that he loved the sport and everything about it. And he was good too.

00:16:32.840 In fact, he started hitting a few drives that were better than the professional golfers.

00:16:37.580 And by the way, would Donald Trump do any better handling a firearm? Probably not.

00:16:43.500 But he's not pretending. That's the point. He's not pretending to be someone he's not.

00:16:47.920 And if you want to appeal to voters, especially male voters, then authenticity is very important.

00:16:58.160 Now, the Harris-Walls ticket can't match this authenticity because nothing about the candidates

00:17:02.900 is genuine. If you put a Glock in Kamala's hands, and she'll do exactly what Tim Walls did probably. 0.99

00:17:10.280 When candidates are this fake and lame and desperate, their surrogates don't have much to go on.

00:17:14.880 So they end up sounding inauthentic and desperate. Here, for example, are Jennifer Garner and Julia

00:17:20.420 Roberts making what could be the single most inauthentic acting performance in their

00:17:24.480 respective careers, which is saying something. Watch.

00:17:28.620 I just hope that all the women here tonight talk to all the men that aren't here tonight.

00:17:34.740 And all you brave men that are here tonight.

00:17:44.980 Talk to all the other men that aren't here tonight.

00:17:48.740 And let's just get it going. Enough with the fighting.

00:17:52.760 Let's get to the uniting. Let's get to the joy. Let's get to the repair.

00:17:57.340 Let's get to prices dropping, rents dropping.

00:18:01.060 Listen, I know you've knocked and knocked. And I know you've called and called. I know you've given

00:18:05.100 and given. And you're worn out. But the truth is, you are the front lines. This is it. I mean,

00:18:12.060 I'm looking at these beautiful faces, these women and these strong men. God, is there anything sexier

00:18:17.100 than a man who is like men for Kamala? You are the front line of this battle. For lack of a better word,

00:18:24.920 it really is. There are two ways forward. And you guys are going to have a huge voice in how that way

00:18:30.280 is chosen. So Julia Roberts wants women to go home and nag their husbands and boyfriends and 1.00

00:18:36.620 supporting Kamala Harris. And if they do that, then prices will come down and we'll have joy again in

00:18:41.320 the country or something. Never mind the fact that Kamala Harris is the sitting vice president and that 0.97

00:18:45.860 by Kamala Harris's own admission, she bears responsibility for the Biden administration's

00:18:49.620 policies. But don't think about that. Just berate as many men as you can can find until they relent and do

00:18:54.880 what you want. And then there's Jennifer Garner saying that men who support Kamala are sexy.

00:18:59.480 Perhaps that will convince men to rush out to the polls. If they aren't convinced by the camo hat or by a

00:19:04.380 lecture from Barack Obama, maybe they'll do it to impress Jennifer Garner. But, you know, I highly doubt it.

00:19:11.600 And if you're a left wing male and you're passionate about Kamala Harris, at this point, you need to be

00:19:16.780 somebody like Harry Sisson, the DNC shill who posts a lot on TikTok. Like him, you can't have any shame

00:19:22.840 or self-respect whatsoever. So here was his pitch to men that he just posted a couple of days ago.

00:19:29.900 And let's see if he does any better. Watch.

00:19:32.340 You know, there are a lot of cowardly men out there who are supporting Donald Trump and think 0.99

00:19:37.860 it's manly to do so. I don't know about you folks, but when I was growing up, all the men around me 0.96

00:19:43.020 told me to respect women, treat them with the dignity that they deserve. Don't bully women. Don't insult

00:19:47.900 women. Donald Trump has done every single one of those things. He's bullied women, insulted them 1.00

00:19:52.980 for their age, weight, appearance, things of that nature. He was found liable in court by a jury of

00:19:57.920 his peers for assaulting a woman. And of course, to this day, he brags about taking reproductive

00:20:03.240 rights away from women. So if you're a man and you're supporting this guy, what's wrong with you? 0.77

00:20:07.740 Get it together. If you are willing to overlook Donald Trump thinking that your wife, your daughter,

00:20:12.760 your sister, your mother are just pieces of meat and that he doesn't care about them, 0.91

00:20:17.220 then I'm sorry. You're a coward. Now take your monster energy drinks, your lifted truck and get 1.00

00:20:22.520 the hell out. When I was growing up, says a guy who looks like he's 12. And here we have the

00:20:29.080 Democrats going back to the same well, a well that's completely dry because there was never any

00:20:33.160 water in it to begin with. But this is all they have on the left. They don't know how to appeal to

00:20:37.640 men. So after the gimmicks fail, the hats and all that stuff, they resort to insufferable,

00:20:43.180 pretentious, irritating lectures delivered by the most annoying and inauthentic people on earth.

00:20:48.880 Now, it's true that men will sometimes respond to a little bit of harshness, a little bit of

00:20:53.160 tough talk, you know, the old coach's speech in the locker room at halftime type of thing. But

00:20:58.240 only when that tough talk is delivered by somebody who is serious and strong and credible, 0.97

00:21:03.980 a leader of men, not a mousy little dork who would cry and call his mom if he got a flat tire.

00:21:10.120 But this is the strategy the Kamala Harris campaign is now using in order to win over 0.94

00:21:14.080 male voters. It's a mixture of insults and condescension. But all this stuff fails because 0.52

00:21:20.960 the Democrats' message to men is fundamentally emasculating and debasing. They can't even pretend

00:21:28.080 to respect the voters they're trying ostensibly to appeal to here. They can't even pretend to respect

00:21:33.800 men even as they're trying to berate men into voting for them. But that's the point of it. It's

00:21:39.560 why they're promoting Doug Emhoff as a prototypical male, even after he had an affair with his nanny,

00:21:44.800 even after he was accused of hitting his ex-girlfriend. The position of the Harris-Walls

00:21:48.920 campaign is that none of that matters. In their eyes, you're masculine as long as you do one thing

00:21:53.120 and one thing only, which is to submit to whatever liberal women want you to do. Just do whatever they 1.00

00:21:58.260 tell you. Now, the problem for the Kamala Harris campaign, the reason they're flailing so publicly

00:22:04.640 is that despite Democrats' efforts to destroy it, actual masculinity still exists in this country.

00:22:10.640 Men still exist. And in just a couple of weeks, to the great horror of Julia Roberts and Barack Obama,

00:22:16.960 those men will vote. And they very well may be the ones who decide this election.

00:22:22.940 Now, let's get to our five headlines.

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00:24:57.940 talked about movies of the year, the number one documentary of the decade. And according to many

00:25:03.700 people who've seen it, the funniest comedy in a very long time, that was Joe Rogan's take on it.

00:25:10.820 And one of the piece of feedback we often get. Well, if you weren't able to get to a theater to

00:25:18.400 see it, which I understand that, you know, as when you're a parent, especially it's a monumental task

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00:26:03.200 everyone's been talking about. You can also see why nearly every race hustler who is featured in the

00:26:10.220 film has deactivated their social media accounts and denounced the film and gone into hiding,

00:26:15.480 essentially. And when you see it, the reason for that will become very obvious to you.

00:26:21.700 And you can see it on The Daily Wire on October 28th. Don't miss it. All right. J.D. Vance did the

00:26:30.480 interview circuit again this weekend. And this guy, this guy's really good. He's just really good at

00:26:37.480 this. So I want you to listen to this exchange. It's a little bit, it's a little long. It's about two and a half

00:26:43.640 minutes. But you got to hear the whole thing, because there's this exchange between Vance and

00:26:48.920 a New York Times reporter, Lulu Garcia Navarro is her name. And they start talking about immigration,

00:26:58.560 illegal immigration. And just listen to this.

00:27:02.600 The reason that there is a housing crisis is that not enough houses have been built.

00:27:07.820 And that we have 25 million people who shouldn't be here. 0.83

00:27:09.740 Well, I mean, this is the thing. I mean, I think it's both.

00:27:12.520 I know you do. I don't think that many people who look into this agree with you. But about a third of the

00:27:19.100 construction workforce in this country is Hispanic. Of those, a large portion are undocumented.

00:27:24.500 So how do you propose to build all the housing necessary that we need in this country by removing all the

00:27:30.220 people who are working in construction?

00:27:32.240 Well, I think it's a fair question, because we know that back in the 1960s, when we had very low levels of

00:27:37.600 illegal immigration, Americans didn't buy houses, didn't build houses. But of course, they did. 0.98

00:27:43.480 And I'm being sarcastic, of course, in service of a point, Lulu, the assumption that because

00:27:48.320 a large number of home builders now are using undocumented labor, that that's the only way to

00:27:54.620 build homes. I think, again, the country is much bigger.

00:27:57.620 The need is much bigger. I mean, I'm not arguing in favor of illegal immigration. I'm asking how you

00:28:02.720 would deal with the knock-on effect of your proposal to remove millions of people who work

00:28:07.140 in a critical part of the economy.

00:28:09.160 Well, I think that what you would do is you would take, let's say, for example, the 7 million prime

00:28:14.100 age men who have dropped out of the labor force. And you have a smaller number of women, but still

00:28:18.400 millions of women prime age who have dropped out of the labor force. You absolutely could re-engage 0.97

00:28:25.700 folks into the American labor market. This is, I think-

00:28:29.520 To work in construction?

00:28:30.360 Of course you could. I mean, the unemployment rate is 4.1%.

00:28:34.280 But the unemployment rate, Lulu, this is important.

00:28:36.620 But most people who don't work can't work in the regular economy. They're in the military. 0.97

00:28:40.440 They're parents. They're sick. They're old. They might not want to work in construction. 1.00

00:28:44.300 The unemployment rate does not count labor force participation dropouts. And again, this is one

00:28:50.660 of the really deranged things that I think illegal immigration does to our society is it gets us in 1.00

00:28:56.280 a mindset of saying, we can only build houses with illegal immigrants when we have 7 million, 0.99

00:29:00.900 just men, not even women, just men who have completely dropped out of the labor force.

00:29:05.800 People say, well, Americans won't do those jobs. Americans won't do those jobs for below the table 0.94

00:29:11.880 wages. They won't do those jobs for non-living wages. But people will do those jobs. They will just

00:29:18.100 do those jobs at certain wages. Think about the perspective of an American company, okay?

00:29:23.680 I want them to go searching in their own country for their own citizens. Sometimes people who may

00:29:29.720 be struggling with addiction or trauma, get them reengaged in American society. We cannot have an

00:29:35.700 entire American business community that is giving up on American workers and then importing millions

00:29:41.440 of illegal laborers. Well, he's brilliantly stated, as always from J.D. Vance. You see,

00:29:47.020 again, this kind of goes back to the point we made it to be in the opening monologue about the

00:29:50.940 campaign, the Kamala campaign, and its struggles with men, with male voters. And on the other side,

00:29:59.500 you see why men are supporting the Trump campaign, okay? Because what did you just hear there from

00:30:05.600 J.D. Vance? This was not pandering. This wasn't a gimmick. This wasn't scolding.

00:30:10.360 He was saying, listen, there's a lot of men who've dropped out of the labor force. We want to

00:30:15.180 bring them back in. We want to make sure they have jobs. So he's saying, we care about making

00:30:22.300 sure that men have jobs. So he's showing that here's a group of voters that he acknowledges that

00:30:29.200 they exist, and he wants good things for them. He wants to make sure their lives are better,

00:30:34.860 just like with any other group of voters. Politicians don't hesitate to, of either party,

00:30:42.700 politicians don't hesitate to send that message. We care about this group. We want to make sure

00:30:46.360 their lives are better. But you never hear Democrats, and up until recently, you rarely

00:30:53.700 heard Republicans, but you never hear Democrats talking that way about men. If they're talking

00:30:59.180 about men specifically, it is always, always, always in the context of lecturing them and

00:31:05.680 scolding them. It is always with the finger wag. It is never to say, well, men are really struggling

00:31:11.680 with, in this area, we want to help them. And they never say that. What you get from the other side is

00:31:19.620 what you just heard in that exchange. J.D. Vance says, yeah, there's men have dropped out of the labor

00:31:24.260 force. We want to get them jobs. And she says, in construction? Are you saying that men, that there

00:31:30.000 are men out there who want to work construction? Yes. How do you think, what do you, how do you think

00:31:40.860 the building that you're sitting in right now was built? How do you think anything's been built in

00:31:44.120 this country ever? How do you think anything has ever been built anywhere on earth in the whole

00:31:50.460 history of mankind? It's because men built it. So yeah, men are pretty good at building things. 0.63

00:31:56.520 They like building things. Even American men, as you, if you can imagine, especially American men, 0.75

00:32:02.620 American men have built a lot of great things.

00:32:08.680 And, you know, this is, this is also so obvious, it probably doesn't need to be said, but I'll say it

00:32:14.720 anyway, that this issue alone proves that the Democrat party is not pro worker. You know,

00:32:20.060 as it claims, you cannot be the pro worker, the pro working class party. If you support illegal 0.95

00:32:25.780 immigration, the attitude that she, that she has on display here is quintessentially elitist. She's

00:32:32.960 saying that, um, we need to bring in non-citizens to do blue collar jobs at slave wages because American 0.89

00:32:40.920 citizens won't do those kinds of jobs, she says. And every part of that idea is elitist and false.

00:32:50.700 It shows that she undervalues working class Americans. She undervalues blue collar jobs like 1.00

00:32:57.520 construction. She even undervalues the immigrants that she's ostensibly defending. She's saying that

00:33:03.780 we need to have, uh, illegal immigrants to function basically as slaves. And, but if you value those 1.00

00:33:09.900 people, you would tell them as Vance does in that exchange, you would tell them to stay in their own

00:33:15.380 countries and use their construction skills to build their own countries. But much more importantly,

00:33:23.120 uh, if you're an American citizen and you want to lead America, uh, you have to value your own people

00:33:32.340 and your own countrymen first and foremost. And if you value them, you would not force them to

00:33:38.720 compete in the marketplace with non-citizen slave labor. Um, and if you're opposed to, uh, if you're 0.54

00:33:49.120 so worried about big business and you know, the, the, the, uh, evil rich people and all that kind of

00:33:54.500 stuff, well, then it would seem that this would be an area you'd very much be focused on that these

00:34:01.120 businesses that want to use slave labor and you'd want to put an end to that. Um, all right,

00:34:08.240 let's move on to this. Uh, and every time I play one of these Kamala Harris word salad clips, I always

00:34:13.640 tell myself it's the last time I'll play a clip like this on the show because at this point we get

00:34:17.300 it. I mean, she's dumb. She can't speak. Uh, we don't need to go back to that point over and over 1.00

00:34:23.820 again. At a certain point, there isn't anything left to say about it, but each new clip is, is worse

00:34:30.420 than the last. And sometimes they're so jaw dropping and confusing that, you know, I mean, we have to

00:34:36.180 spend at least a few seconds on them. So here's the latest. I think she's speaking here to, uh,

00:34:41.740 some kind of church or something. And well, just see if you can decipher this.

00:34:49.880 Because what we see is so hard to see that we lose faith or a vision of those things we cannot see,

00:34:57.400 but must know. Okay. What we see is so hard to see that we lose faith or a vision of those things

00:35:15.200 we cannot see, but must know. I, I, I don't understand what she's even getting at here.

00:35:22.080 Uh, I mean, sometimes when she gets into the word salad, it's really dumb, but you can kind of tell 0.79

00:35:27.480 what she's getting at. In this case, I really, I, okay. So the first part, uh, what we see is so 0.72

00:35:35.260 hard to see that we lose faith. That part just by itself arguably makes sense. She's saying that,

00:35:41.400 or she could be saying that what we're seeing is hard to see, like in the sense that it's painful.

00:35:46.060 It's hard to look at. And, uh, I mean, I feel that way every time Kamala Harris is on,

00:35:52.380 is on the, on the screen. Uh, you know, it's, it's, I see it, but it's hard to see. It's hard to,

00:35:56.820 it's hard to look at it. Um, and then, and therefore we lose faith. She's saying so, so that

00:36:02.720 part could make sense, but then she, and she just ended there, like throw a period at the end of that 0.99

00:36:08.000 sentence and ended there called a day in and out, leave it at that. Um, but she can never leave it at

00:36:13.520 that. This is the tragedy of Kamala Harris. The first part of her sentence sometimes makes sense,

00:36:19.240 but then she keeps talking and everything falls apart. So then she continues, or a vision of those

00:36:24.320 things we cannot see, but must know. We lose faith or a vision of those things we cannot see,

00:36:31.640 but must know. I don't, I mean, that's just gibberish. I don't, if I really wanted to do her a favor,

00:36:41.080 I would say that maybe she's trying to somehow paraphrase Hebrews 11, one, now faith is a

00:36:47.320 substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. Uh, but I, I don't, I don't think,

00:36:53.440 I think that'd be giving her too much of the benefit of the doubt. Uh, that's just, um, that's

00:36:58.240 her brain malfunctioning. And now she's just spitting words out and she has no idea what she's saying.

00:37:04.180 All right. I'd be remiss, uh, also before we end the headlines, I'd be remiss if I did not, um,

00:37:11.940 wish you a happy Columbus day, uh, as I do every year. And, uh, it is Columbus day. Uh, it will always

00:37:19.620 be Columbus day on Columbus day. It will, it will never be indigenous people's day. Um, no matter how 1.00

00:37:27.260 much they insist on it. And they are insisting more and more each year. So here's a report from Axios

00:37:32.820 today. It says more cities will recognize indigenous people's day instead of Columbus

00:37:36.900 day on Monday, but some native advocates see it as a symbolic gesture that still falls short of the

00:37:42.700 progress needed. The holiday has a layered and complicated history. Some see indigenous people's 0.97

00:37:48.280 day as overdue recognition for native communities. Others view replacing Columbus day as disrespectful

00:37:53.520 to Italian American heritage and a loss of cultural celebration. More than half of us states

00:37:58.740 still refuse to recognize either day as an official state holiday. The divide is more

00:38:02.720 than symbolic. It excavates deeply rooted tensions over the nation's identity and history. Uh, for

00:38:07.740 years, native scholars and lawyers contested the idealized story of us, westward expansion,

00:38:11.840 saying that it masked displacement and violence. Gabriel Galanda, a member of the round Valley

00:38:17.420 Indian tribes and indigenous rights attorney in Seattle says indigenous people's day is a symbolic

00:38:22.320 gesture. She says, quote, it gives Americans a brief opportunity to reflect on our existence,

00:38:27.200 but it doesn't address the legal and civil rights issues plaguing our communities.

00:38:30.800 Because, you know, it's, it's for her, it's not you. Uh, yes, Americans can erase their cultural 0.96

00:38:37.280 celebrations, their own heritage and traditions, um, and celebrate indigenous peoples. But it's even

00:38:43.900 that is not enough. It's never enough. And on this point, a clip of Kamala from, I think this is,

00:38:49.440 uh, back from 2021 or 22. Uh, this is, is making the rounds now. And, um, here she is talking about

00:38:58.480 the horrors, the alleged horrors of European colonization. Let's watch that.

00:39:03.360 It is an honor, of course, to be with you this week as we celebrate indigenous people's day,

00:39:10.240 as we speak truth about our nation's history. Since 1934, every October, the United States has recognized

00:39:21.760 the voyage of the European explorers who first landed on the shores of the Americas. But that is not the

00:39:30.560 whole story. That has never been the whole story. Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation

00:39:40.560 for tribal nations, perpetrating violence, stealing land and spreading disease. We must not shy away 1.00

00:39:50.880 from this shameful past and we must shed light on it and do everything we can to address the impact of

00:40:00.080 the past on native communities today. Uh, you know, there are so many reasons why Kamala Harris should not 0.97

00:40:09.360 be president. Uh, so many things that disqualify her and literally nothing at all that qualifies her.

00:40:17.440 But, uh, even if everything else about her was great, that clip alone should be disqualifying in

00:40:27.520 and of itself. So if somebody is running for president and I, you know, I just emerged from a cave and I

00:40:34.480 don't know anything about them. That clip, that clip's all I need to see. I don't need to see

00:40:39.920 anything else. You should be disqualified from, uh, holding any political office in America,

00:40:45.040 much less being the president. If that's how much you loathe, uh, America and its traditions and its

00:40:53.600 heritage and its history, if you detest this country and, and like what it is, uh, and its history,

00:41:01.840 then no, you cannot, you can't lead. You're not fit. So I know you listen to me rant about this every

00:41:09.240 year and well, this year will be no different because it's important. So just weighing in on

00:41:19.160 this phony debate once again, um, to clarify a few, a few things, do you know why Columbus should

00:41:28.680 have a holiday and indigenous people should not? Well, because Columbus was a great man of history

00:41:35.320 whose achievements helped to shape the world that you live in today. And in fact, it's very likely

00:41:42.440 that if Columbus never lived, you would not be alive. That doesn't mean that no European would have

00:41:50.980 ever discovered the Americas if not for Columbus. Likely it would have happened eventually. But

00:41:56.640 the point is that Columbus was one of those rare men of history who would so significant that if

00:42:03.340 you remove him from the equation, it fundamentally reshapes everything that came after him. So much

00:42:09.760 so that, that you in your current form likely would not exist because the course of history would be

00:42:15.700 so different that the specific circumstances that led to your conception would not have occurred.

00:42:20.660 And people like that, the great people, the world shapers, uh, those are the ones that you remember

00:42:28.160 and celebrate and build statues to and dedicate holidays to. He helped to build the Western world.

00:42:36.440 You live in the Western world. You're glad you live here. You would not want to live anywhere else.

00:42:43.380 I know that because you're here and you're not living anywhere else, are you?

00:42:49.100 And you sure as hell would not want to live on this continent if, uh, if, if it was still dominated by the 1.00

00:42:54.740 Stone Age tribes that Columbus encountered.

00:43:00.140 You wouldn't want that.

00:43:03.120 Those Stone Age tribes that were 5,000 years behind most of the rest of the world, 0.69

00:43:08.020 which means that if the Europeans never came here, you know, this whole part of the world would,

00:43:13.380 would be now about 4,500 years behind.

00:43:18.320 Um, you would not want that.

00:43:20.860 And so you can pretend that you're mourning. Oh, it's, it's, it's, it's a tragedy. It's a tragedy.

00:43:26.900 No, it's not.

00:43:29.640 No, it's not.

00:43:31.280 It's a, it's a, it's a triumph.

00:43:33.440 It's a triumph.

00:43:35.300 The Europeans came here and took over this, uh, this, uh, hemisphere. 1.00

00:43:40.360 It's a triumph.

00:43:42.460 I celebrate it.

00:43:44.400 You should celebrate.

00:43:45.340 We should all celebrate it.

00:43:49.500 And, and life, uh, in this part of the world,

00:43:52.840 again, it's not one that you would want.

00:43:55.240 It would be, it would be a life that does not include any of the things that give you joy and meaning.

00:44:00.540 Any of the things that, that bring you comfort.

00:44:05.320 Indigenous culture was primitive and brutal and absolutely caked in violence and warfare all the time as a way of life. 1.00

00:44:15.040 Okay.

00:44:15.600 So you just, you living in indigenous tribe, those wonderful, peaceful Pocahontas indigenous.

00:44:20.360 It means that every night when you go to sleep for your whole life, which is probably going to be brutally short,

00:44:27.360 you're always worried all the time about the raiding party coming in the middle of the night and slaughtering you in your sleep.

00:44:32.940 Because by the way, that's usually how they did it.

00:44:34.900 They didn't fight pitched battles.

00:44:36.740 Uh, the idea of, of, you know, of having sort of dignity in the way that you fight, uh, a sense of kind of justice and fairness.

00:44:45.160 I mean, that, that was an approach to warfare that was distinctly European, uh, the, the so-called indigenous people, they didn't see it that way.

00:44:54.240 Going to war with someone just means killing as many of them as you can by any means necessary. 0.99

00:44:58.320 That usually meant sneaking in the middle of the night and killing them and their women and children or taking their women and children as sex slaves. 1.00

00:45:03.900 Um, so that's, that's what it would have meant. 0.99

00:45:06.900 It means that if you were a man that, uh, every time you lay your head on the pillow, well, you didn't have a pillow, but anytime you laid down, uh, in your teepee to go to sleep, you know, you, you, you may wake up to find a knife at your throat and your scalp being ripped off of your head.

00:45:21.660 And if you're a woman or a child, um, at any moment you could find yourself being carried away to a life of, uh, enslavement and sexual torture.

00:45:29.380 Um, that's what life was for these indigenous tribes.

00:45:34.240 Like that's what it was.

00:45:36.420 Uh, now the, uh, native cultures, I find it fascinating to study.

00:45:44.600 I think, uh, I'm very interested in studying Indian tribes.

00:45:47.700 I have nothing against the Indians.

00:45:50.320 I think that there was, um, although there was all this brutality and, uh, and, and, and all of this, um, there was also.

00:46:00.200 Bravery and strength, but it was an inferior society.

00:46:06.980 It was an inferior society, inferior.

00:46:10.460 You might say, well, how could you say inferior?

00:46:12.660 Um, I don't know, because it was inferior in every measurable way, technology, art, philosophy, science, uh, you know, development and morality.

00:46:23.280 Superior in all of those ways, which is to say, again, in every measurable way was the European, uh, society.

00:46:32.180 So why, why not celebrate indigenous people's day? 0.83

00:46:37.920 Well, you know, I, I flipped the question around.

00:46:40.480 Why should we celebrate it?

00:46:43.080 It's like taken for a grant.

00:46:44.580 That's like a given.

00:46:45.260 Oh yeah, we got to celebrate indigenous people.

00:46:46.780 Why?

00:46:47.500 Why should we celebrate them?

00:46:49.540 But what, like, what, what did you do?

00:46:51.080 Why do, why do we, why are we celebrating you?

00:46:53.920 That's a fair question. 0.97

00:46:56.380 I so often hear that, you know, we shouldn't have Confederate monuments because they were the losers. 0.95

00:47:01.660 That's the argument, right? 0.91

00:47:03.820 We hear this all the time.

00:47:06.020 They lost the war, so they don't get the monuments. 0.98

00:47:08.620 Okay, well, the Indian tribes were the losers too. 1.00

00:47:11.880 They fought a war.

00:47:14.000 The Indian wars went on for centuries.

00:47:16.560 They fought and they lost. 0.99

00:47:19.800 They're the losers. 0.98

00:47:23.700 What are we celebrating the losers for? 1.00

00:47:25.260 I thought you said we don't celebrate the losers. 0.83

00:47:27.280 What happened to that? 0.84

00:47:29.040 Oh, it's different because the Confederates, they were slave owners. 1.00

00:47:31.240 Oh, like the Indians weren't, you moron? 1.00

00:47:33.720 What do you think they were doing? 1.00

00:47:36.660 Like, literally any moral qualm you could possibly have with the Confederacy, you're going to find that with Indian tribes times a million.

00:47:43.780 Okay?

00:47:45.760 So, if you want to say we celebrate the winners, then, then, then, I'm on board.

00:47:53.780 Celebrate the winners.

00:47:54.660 Celebrate the great men.

00:47:55.580 And I get so tired of, and by the way, this is something, like, I wish it wasn't even necessary to point all this out.

00:48:07.880 I don't want to rub salt in the wound.

00:48:09.540 I don't want to add insult to injury.

00:48:10.800 The Indian tribes were totally conquered and vanquished.

00:48:16.160 And after spending hundreds and hundreds of years among themselves, slaughtering each other and fighting over land and every piece of land that any of those Indian tribes occupied, they occupied it because they killed the people who occupied it before them. 0.96

00:48:29.560 And then the Europeans came in and beat them at their own game, basically. 0.90

00:48:38.320 But, but, but, you know, I, I, I'd prefer to, we didn't have to sit here and talk about all these, all the reasons why the Indian cultures were, were in fact inferior.

00:48:50.780 But it's necessary when you've got these people saying, well, we got to, well, no, get rid of American holidays and celebrate Indigenous People Day.

00:49:00.500 And you've got these, you know, Native American activists going around trying to tell me that I should be ashamed, trying to lecture me, sitting on this high and mighty moral perch. 1.00

00:49:17.360 Well, when you do that, it's necessary for me to point out that, hey, buddy, do you know what your ancestors were doing?

00:49:25.180 You realize that? 0.99

00:49:26.220 Do you realize you're descended from child rapists and slavers? 1.00

00:49:29.560 People that slaughtered each other en masse, savagely? 0.97

00:49:34.360 Do you make it necessary to point that out?

00:49:38.680 You don't want to point it out?

00:49:39.780 Then get off your, your, your, your, your perch up there, your moral, moral high ground that you don't possess.

00:49:44.720 So I get so tired of a bunch of these, these mediocre nobodies, a bunch of, you know, these leftist, anti-American leftists, these, these feckless zeros sitting there all snide and, and, and just declaring that the men who created the world they live in and gave them everything they have were bad.

00:50:12.040 Actually, not that impressive, not that impressive, not that great, right? 0.57

00:50:19.580 That's what you say.

00:50:20.580 You've literally done nothing.

00:50:22.640 You've accomplished nothing at all in your life.

00:50:25.620 Zero.

00:50:26.060 That's what gets me the most, you know, the, the, um, when these people, they sit there, the, it's Columbus.

00:50:33.640 He wasn't even trying.

00:50:35.340 He wasn't even trying to discover America.

00:50:37.560 It was an accident.

00:50:38.640 No, there was no accident. 1.00

00:50:39.820 You dumb ass. 1.00

00:50:40.640 He set out across an unknown ocean looking for land and he found it, but he didn't even know what kind of, what land it was. 1.00

00:50:51.080 Of course he didn't.

00:50:51.940 How could he have known?

00:50:53.520 No one had sailed that direction yet.

00:50:58.160 He didn't have the map.

00:51:00.540 Okay.

00:51:01.120 These are the people who made the map.

00:51:03.540 They didn't have it.

00:51:04.880 So they didn't know.

00:51:06.920 You know what it was like 500 years ago.

00:51:09.260 You didn't know what was happening in other parts of the world.

00:51:11.740 If you wanted to find out, you had to go there.

00:51:14.720 He wasn't drifting aimlessly like driftwood.

00:51:17.900 He was looking for land and he found it.

00:51:20.140 And then he went home and he returned three more times.

00:51:23.980 You try it.

00:51:25.060 If you think it's so easy, you try it sometime.

00:51:26.780 Try sailing across 3,000 nautical miles without any modern navigation equipment at all.

00:51:34.140 Go ahead.

00:51:36.140 Give it a try.

00:51:36.720 Just try leaving from Spain and making it to the Caribbean with no modern navigation.

00:51:42.900 Not even a map.

00:51:46.200 You know what you have?

00:51:47.040 You have the stars.

00:51:49.320 And that's it.

00:51:52.460 See how you do.

00:51:53.560 You know, something tells me you're not going to do very well.

00:51:57.080 Something tells me that you, as someone who can't even make it to McDonald's down the street without a GPS,

00:52:00.880 something tells me that you are not going to be able to do that.

00:52:04.720 And yet you think you can sit there.

00:52:06.460 It's Columbus.

00:52:07.800 Not that impressive.

00:52:09.080 Sorry.

00:52:09.560 Not impressed.

00:52:12.220 Sorry.

00:52:12.640 Not impressed by people who built civilization.

00:52:17.300 While I can't even build like a couch from Ikea with instructions.

00:52:21.440 So these people, yeah, they really pissed me off.

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00:53:57.280 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:53:58.660 About 50 years ago, a psychologist named Julian Jaynes wrote what is, for my money, one of the most interesting books of all time.

00:54:13.220 Even if the central thesis is almost certainly completely wrong, the book was called The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.

00:54:20.740 And the central thesis, as Jaynes explains it over the course of 500 pages or so, is that human consciousness, as we understand it, our self-awareness, our ability to perceive ourselves as selves, is not inherent.

00:54:33.400 Consciousness, Jaynes proposes, is a developed trait and a relatively new one in the grand scheme of things.

00:54:38.720 He argues that human beings only became self-aware about 2,000 to 3,000 years ago.

00:54:44.040 And prior to that, we were essentially schizophrenic automatons.

00:54:48.480 The mind was split between the two hemispheres, like it is now, but the two together did not create a cohesive, conscious whole, as they do now.

00:54:59.200 Jaynes' theory was that the right side of the brain would speak to the left side of the brain in a literal, audible sense, so that ancient people were hearing voices in their head all the time.

00:55:13.500 And the left side of the brain considered the voice coming from the right side to be the voice of God or of the gods.

00:55:20.360 This is also the origin of all religions, on Jaynes' view.

00:55:24.220 And simply followed the commands given to it without reflection or consideration.

00:55:29.060 Now, like I said, I think he's fundamentally wrong, but he's wrong in a pretty fascinating way.

00:55:34.060 And there can be value in ideas that are wrong but interesting.

00:55:38.420 Now, these days we get a lot of ideas that are wrong and also boring.

00:55:41.620 There's no value to that.

00:55:43.340 But wrong but interesting can be value because it can call your attention to things that you may not have noticed before.

00:55:50.980 And here's one of them.

00:55:52.040 So, James points out that very ancient writing is often different in kind from anything that anybody would write today.

00:56:01.840 It's not just that these writings recount events from a long time ago and reflect values, attitudes, and customs that seem archaic to the modern reader.

00:56:09.340 However, the writing itself, what it focuses on, the way that it talks about its characters, is profoundly different.

00:56:16.800 Even by our standards, sort of bizarre.

00:56:19.760 That's the way we would look at it anyway today.

00:56:22.560 This is the sort of thing that you may not notice until somebody points it out.

00:56:27.020 But the earliest writing, the earliest stories, including some of the oldest books in the Bible that Jaynes cites in his book,

00:56:33.840 they don't tell you much of anything about what the characters are thinking and how they're feeling.

00:56:40.480 So the characters just do things.

00:56:42.380 They go here, they go there, they fight battles, they war with each other and with their gods.

00:56:46.540 But we're told almost nothing about their inner lives.

00:56:50.260 The story, an ancient story, has a protagonist on a journey, but the journey is external.

00:56:57.240 There's no internal journey at all, or at least not much of one.

00:57:00.080 Now, this is very different from modern stories.

00:57:04.460 For a modern storyteller, whether it's a novelist or a filmmaker or anybody else,

00:57:10.000 the inner life of the characters, especially the protagonist, is not only an important detail,

00:57:16.280 but it's the most important detail, very often.

00:57:20.000 The inner life is the story.

00:57:22.500 We would say today that a novel or a screenplay where the hero does a bunch of stuff,

00:57:26.600 but doesn't change as a person, doesn't experience any inner transformation,

00:57:31.940 is not just bad by our standards, but has fundamentally failed to do the thing

00:57:36.240 that a story is supposed to do.

00:57:38.960 Now, when Jaynes notices this dichotomy between modern storytelling and ancient storytelling,

00:57:43.980 he sees it as proof that ancient people weren't conscious.

00:57:47.580 The reason they don't tell us about the character's inner life is that there was nothing to tell.

00:57:51.520 The inner life didn't exist at the time.

00:57:52.980 But I don't think that's the reason.

00:57:56.100 I think ancient people had an inner life.

00:57:58.640 They had feelings.

00:58:00.340 They just didn't prioritize those things.

00:58:03.240 They didn't think that it was all that important.

00:58:05.620 They tell us what the characters did, not how they felt,

00:58:09.040 because to the ancient person, the feelings were essentially irrelevant.

00:58:13.140 This was a difference in priority, not in the way that their minds worked.

00:58:17.540 Consciousness has not fundamentally changed, but the contents of consciousness,

00:58:21.660 the things that we prioritize, the things that we think about,

00:58:25.140 those have changed drastically.

00:58:27.520 And in the modern world, we've arrived at a point that is, I would say,

00:58:31.360 a 180-degree opposite from ancient times.

00:58:34.900 Ancient man defined himself by action alone.

00:58:39.060 His inner thoughts and feelings didn't matter that much to him.

00:58:42.060 Modern man now defines himself by his inner thoughts and feelings alone.

00:58:46.460 Actions don't matter. 1.00

00:58:48.660 So Jaynes reads ancient writing and assumes that ancient people

00:58:51.700 were bodies without minds, essentially.

00:58:54.380 A future Julian Jaynes, 3,000 years from now, may read what we write today

00:58:57.900 and assume that we were minds without bodies,

00:59:00.260 like we were just a bunch of brains in jars sitting around on a shelf somewhere,

00:59:03.940 you know, feeling and thinking things, but not actually doing anything.

00:59:07.720 That brings me, finally, after a torturously long preamble,

00:59:10.980 to the actual point of today's Daily Cancellation.

00:59:13.600 A group called the Skeptic Research Center has just published a new study

00:59:17.600 which shows just how far we've come, you might say fallen in some ways,

00:59:22.900 since, say, the Iliad was written.

00:59:25.620 Quote, 72% of Gen Z women and 67% of Gen Z men

00:59:30.160 agreed that mental health challenges are an important part of my identity.

00:59:35.240 Across generations, women are more likely than men to believe mental health challenges

00:59:38.460 are an important part of their identity,

00:59:39.700 but rates are higher in younger generations regardless of sex.

00:59:43.880 Now, if you look at the graph, you can see that a majority of millennials

00:59:47.280 also view their mental health challenges as a crucial aspect of their self-identity.

00:59:52.860 67% of women in my generation respond in the affirmative, 56% of men.

00:59:57.260 For Gen X, it's 53% and 47% respectively.

01:00:00.240 But among boomers, only 34% of women define themselves by their mental illnesses

01:00:04.080 and an even smaller 27% of men.

01:00:07.800 So for all the grief we give boomers, deservedly so much of the time, 1.00

01:00:11.400 they are the last bastions of sanity in the West, it would seem.

01:00:16.200 I mean, after them, we'll be left only with generations

01:00:18.680 predominantly composed of people who romanticize and celebrate mental illness.

01:00:24.200 We went from ancient man who put no importance on his mental states at all

01:00:30.100 to modern man who put central importance on his mental state

01:00:33.760 to the most recent and most modern of modern men

01:00:37.320 who puts specific importance on negative mental states.

01:00:41.980 He finds his identity specifically in his mental hardships,

01:00:45.640 most of which are self-imposed, grossly exaggerated, and often totally imaginary.

01:00:50.500 Now, of course, I'm using he and man here in the universal sense.

01:00:53.320 In reality, women are the bigger culprits, as the survey data says. 1.00

01:00:57.740 But either way, what we're seeing now goes far beyond a mere victim mentality.

01:01:05.080 A victim mentality that we talk about all the time,

01:01:08.200 I think that that phrase doesn't quite capture what is happening.

01:01:12.840 Because a victim mentality means that you tend to lapse into narcissism and self-pity,

01:01:18.820 and that's bad enough.

01:01:20.620 But this is beyond that.

01:01:22.180 I mean, these days, there are millions of people whose very sense of identity,

01:01:26.600 their sense of selfhood, is wrapped inextricably around their perceived suffering.

01:01:32.980 Emphasis on perceived.

01:01:34.120 Because after all, a mental health challenge, quote-unquote,

01:01:36.980 does not have to mean, and usually does not mean,

01:01:39.520 that they are the victims of psychosis or some other legitimate mental illness.

01:01:43.200 A mental health challenge is simply any negative mental state 0.80

01:01:46.060 that causes some measure of discomfort.

01:01:48.620 It's only in recent times that we have not only medicalized all uncomfortable mental states,

01:01:54.500 but also tied our identity to them,

01:01:56.540 which means that you're really identifying as, most of all, a medical patient.

01:02:02.440 And that's worked out very well for the pharmaceutical industry,

01:02:04.960 but it has been a nightmare for the human race.

01:02:07.380 Now, I'm not saying that we should adopt a 2000 BC approach to mental health,

01:02:15.220 one where mental health doesn't exist as a concept,

01:02:17.560 and literally nobody cares how you feel, and you care how you feel, least of all.

01:02:23.360 The change doesn't have to be quite that drastic,

01:02:26.120 though that approach would be preferable to the current one, I think.

01:02:29.400 Instead, I think what you should do with most of your mental health challenges

01:02:33.760 is acknowledge them, acknowledge that you're having an uncomfortable mental experience,

01:02:39.880 and then move on with your day.

01:02:42.600 And you should also realize, and this is a very important point,

01:02:46.160 that there is nothing terribly interesting

01:02:49.720 about the fact that you're feeling anxious or depressed or whatever else.

01:02:54.040 These are universal human experiences.

01:02:58.520 They are not unique to you.

01:03:01.320 This is what it means to be a person.

01:03:05.140 And if you sit there and say,

01:03:06.200 yeah, but my feelings of anxiousness and sadness are different from most people,

01:03:11.880 probably not.

01:03:13.340 I mean, number one, how do you know?

01:03:14.580 You have no idea what's going on in other people's heads,

01:03:16.220 but probably not.

01:03:17.140 This is actually just, this is,

01:03:18.780 it is your narcissism telling you that your own mental hardships

01:03:23.460 must be different in kind from everybody else.

01:03:27.560 Probably not.

01:03:29.640 And it is unhealthy to find your identity in these experiences.

01:03:34.240 It's also incredibly boring.

01:03:36.240 It's like saying that the fact that you experience hunger

01:03:38.420 is an important part of your identity,

01:03:40.400 or that having one head instead of two is an important part of your identity.

01:03:43.440 That stuff may define you biologically as a human person,

01:03:46.640 but it shouldn't define your personality.

01:03:50.420 So, to review.

01:03:51.620 Your mental health challenges are not that interesting,

01:03:57.160 not that unique,

01:03:58.460 and they probably aren't nearly as challenging as you tell yourself.

01:04:02.600 But most of all, they should not be the source of your identity,

01:04:06.540 or even an important part of your identity.

01:04:10.120 So just stop obsessing over them,

01:04:12.460 and live your life.

01:04:13.840 Or else, you are, today,

01:04:17.180 canceled.

01:04:18.080 That'll do it for the show today.

01:04:18.960 Thanks for watching.

01:04:19.460 Thanks for listening.

01:04:20.020 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:04:21.500 Have a great day.

01:04:22.180 Godspeed.

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01:04:46.240 I've been told, because I'm a white male,

01:04:48.320 kind of at the top of the pile,

01:04:49.520 how do I get down from the top?

01:04:51.580 I don't think you necessarily can.

01:04:53.960 They're in it past all.

01:04:55.140 They talk about racism.

01:04:56.560 We have to love each other.

01:04:57.840 It can't be that simple.

01:04:59.020 How do we get to a point of racial harmony? 0.60

01:05:02.820 It's good to talk to you.

01:05:05.480 We're still on a journey, all of us together.

01:05:07.020 I think you've got some journeying to do.

01:05:08.500 Just talk to me about the statistics.

01:05:10.080 We have an epidemic.

01:05:10.620 20 million crimes a year,

01:05:13.100 6,000, 7,000 hate crimes.

01:05:14.800 No, there's no epidemic.

01:05:15.780 Why are we talking about statistics?

01:05:17.280 This is not a matter of statistics.

01:05:18.820 Well, you asked me about the statistics.

01:05:22.380 Am I racist?

01:05:24.000 Coming to Daily Wire Plus on October 28th.

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The Matt Walsh Show - October 14, 2024

Ep. 1463 - The Party That Hates Men Is Wondering Why They’re Losing Male Voters

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