The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1513 - Wokeness Is Dying

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Mark Zuckerberg's interview with Joe Rogan is yet more evidence

00:00:03.360 that wokeness is dying, if not already dead. Also, Gavin Newsom flails around desperately 1.00

00:00:07.580 looking for someone other than himself to blame for California's disastrous response to the

00:00:11.440 wildfires. Some college students stage a to-catch-a-predator-style sting operation to

00:00:15.860 expose a 22-year-old man who was trying to go on a date with an 18-year-old. It's to-catch-a-predator

00:00:21.180 minus, you know, the predator. And a woman on TikTok goes viral with a video claiming to reveal

00:00:25.480 one of the most important secrets of male psychology. And for once, the TikToker actually isn't 0.96

00:00:30.400 wrong. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:58.980 Last week, the news broke that Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and, you know,

00:02:03.440 half the internet would be, or claims that it will be, pulling back drastically from its censorship

00:02:08.160 policies. Free speech will reign again on Facebook, supposedly. The CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg,

00:02:13.460 appeared on Joe Rogan a couple of days ago to elaborate on this decision. Much of what he says in the

00:02:19.420 conversation, along with, you know, the entire conversation itself, the fact that he's talking

00:02:23.680 to Joe Rogan, would have been pretty unthinkable four or five years ago, but it's not anymore because

00:02:28.540 times are rapidly changing. Specifically in the interview, Zuckerberg affirmed that there's nothing

00:02:35.240 wrong with a masculine culture in a workplace, and that, in fact, a lot of companies would benefit 0.99

00:02:41.240 from it. Imagine that. Watch.

00:02:44.360 For me, it's just, I think a lot of the corporate world is, like, pretty culturally neutered. And,

00:02:54.540 and I just think, like, having, you know, I grew up, I have three sisters, no brothers.

00:03:01.260 I have three daughters, no sons. So I'm, like, surrounded by girls and women, like, my whole life.

00:03:07.280 And it's like, so I think, I don't know, there's something, the, the, the kind of masculine energy,

00:03:14.440 I think, is, is good. And obviously, you know, society has plenty of that, but, but I think

00:03:19.540 corporate culture was really, like, trying to get away from it. And I do think that there's just

00:03:25.640 something, it's like, I don't know, these, these, all these forms of energy are good. And I think having

00:03:31.180 a culture that, like, celebrates the aggression a bit more has its own merits that are really

00:03:37.380 positive. Both of these things are good, right? It's like, you want, like, feminine energy, 1.00

00:03:41.580 you want masculine energy. Like, I think that that's, like, you're going to have parts of society

00:03:46.980 that have more of one or the other. I think that that's all good.

00:03:50.520 Now, eight years ago, these are the kinds of ideas that would have, and if you recall the case

00:03:56.060 of James Damore at Google did get rank and file employees fired at places like Google,

00:04:02.260 and now the head of a major big tech company is saying it, even though there's nothing revolutionary

00:04:06.780 here or all that, nothing provocative either. But, but still, now, of course, the obvious response to

00:04:12.800 this interview and the changes that were made at Facebook is that, well, Zuckerberg doesn't actually

00:04:18.480 believe any of this. He's just saying it because Trump won the election and he wants to cozy up with

00:04:22.780 power. And there's almost certainly a lot of truth to that, but it doesn't fully capture what's going

00:04:28.580 on, which is that there's also been a major shift in American culture this time around. After all,

00:04:34.440 Trump won the election back in 2016, too, and Zuckerberg didn't say anything like this. Instead,

00:04:39.500 actually, his companies reacted by entrenching themselves even deeper on the left. And now the

00:04:44.980 exact opposite is happening. In the interview, Zuckerberg suggested that some of Facebook's censorship

00:04:49.860 was the result of pressure by the Biden administration, although he claims to have

00:04:55.040 resisted some of it. Watch. They pushed us super hard to take down things that were honestly, were true,

00:05:04.220 right? I mean, they basically pushed us and said, you know, anything that says that vaccines might have

00:05:11.840 side effects you basically need to take down. And I was just like, well, we're not going to do that.

00:05:19.340 Like, we're clearly not going to do that. I mean, that is kind of inarguably true.

00:05:24.100 Who is they? Who's telling you to take down things that have-

00:05:27.060 Yeah, it was people.

00:05:27.680 The talk about vaccine side effects.

00:05:29.140 It was people in the Biden administration.

00:05:33.100 Now, of course, it wasn't just vaccine side effects, although that's, I mean, that's bad enough.

00:05:38.700 This is important medical information that he's admitting he allowed to be suppressed.

00:05:45.120 But, you know, they also wanted Facebook to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story for obvious

00:05:49.520 reasons. It was a damning account of the Biden family's corruption, and no one could really

00:05:54.040 dispute its accuracy because it came directly from Hunter Biden's laptop. And Facebook went along

00:05:59.240 with that, too, on the ridiculous theory that the laptop was some secret scheme by Russian

00:06:04.420 intelligence. It goes without saying that Facebook and Zuckerberg could have gone public with these

00:06:11.520 concerns at any time in the last several years. They could have said something about it when it

00:06:15.620 was happening. They didn't need to wait until Trump won a second term. So, no, we shouldn't trust

00:06:22.140 Mark Zuckerberg now that he's made a calculation that telling the truth is in his best interest.

00:06:26.960 He had a chance to do the right thing when it would have required some measure of courage to do so,

00:06:31.220 although not that much considering he was a multi-billionaire at the time, which provides

00:06:35.320 you, you know, a lot of cover that most of us don't have. But, you know, Zuckerberg waited until

00:06:39.800 right now. And there's a lot of this kind of thing going around now. People who are seeing the

00:06:45.480 light and coming out against crazy wokeness now that wokeness is a punchline and has no political

00:06:53.160 power and very little cultural power. Now, I welcome these people to Team Sanity. I'm not going to

00:06:58.600 turn anyone away, but I don't trust them. And I certainly won't congratulate them. You don't get

00:07:04.580 congratulated for finally coming around when there's nothing at stake. When, in fact, not only are you

00:07:09.700 not sacrificing anything by stating the truth now, but actually now you finally stand to benefit from

00:07:16.040 it. At the same time, again, Zuckerberg's shift is a reflection of a broader change in the culture.

00:07:21.760 And it's a shift that is quite dramatic in some respects. Here's how the New York Times

00:07:26.620 is reporting on some of the changes at Meta, for example. Quote,

00:07:31.300 the company removed the transgender and non-binary themes on its Messenger chat app

00:07:35.740 that same day at Meta's offices in Silicon Valley, Texas, and New York. Facilities managers were

00:07:40.760 instructed to remove tampons from men's bathrooms, which the company had provided for non-binary and

00:07:46.340 transgender employees who use the men's room and who may have required sanitary pads. This is according

00:07:51.280 to two employees. So yes, tampons have been removed from the men's bathrooms at Meta. Presumably the

00:07:59.140 tampons have also been removed from the virtual bathrooms in the Metaverse too, although I don't

00:08:04.120 have a MetaQuest VR headset, so I can't verify that at the moment, but we can change. This is a

00:08:11.080 this is a sudden change that happened virtually overnight after years of having tampons in the

00:08:18.080 men's bathroom. And the CEO decides one day to end it, and it ends. Now, why did the men's bathrooms 0.93

00:08:25.200 ever have tampons to begin with? Why did he ever think that was a good idea? You know, the problem

00:08:31.640 with taking tampons out of the men's bathroom is that it means that you had tampons in the men's

00:08:36.440 bathroom to begin with? Did Zuckerberg believe that men could have periods? And then did he see

00:08:44.020 the lights after reading a, you know, elementary school biology textbook? I doubt it. I think he

00:08:50.260 probably knew it was absurd the whole time. But guess what? There have been no riots at Meta over

00:08:57.240 this change. There have been no massive protests or mass resignations as far as we know. The Metaverse

00:09:03.200 hasn't collapsed. That's because everyone at Meta, including the supposedly trans employees, 1.00

00:09:09.660 know that reality is actually not subjective. They know that men do not need tampons. And now that an

00:09:15.900 adult has told them the truth, they're, you know, they're, they have no choice but to basically accept

00:09:22.900 it or at least tolerate it. That's all it really takes for a return to sanity. And it's happening more

00:09:27.720 and more often. To give another example, and we talked about this briefly on the show, I think on

00:09:31.380 Friday. Recently, a federal court in Kentucky handed the Biden administration a major defeat

00:09:36.320 in a Title IX case. In case you're not familiar with Title IX, it's a law that prevents sex

00:09:40.700 discrimination in educational programs, including sports, that receive any kind of federal assistance.

00:09:45.220 At least that's what it's, you know, was supposedly meant to do. The Biden administration unilaterally

00:09:51.600 tried to reinterpret Title IX so that it prevents discrimination on the basis of so-called gender

00:09:56.740 identity. Their rule would have required teachers to use students' preferred pronouns, among many

00:10:04.180 other demands. From a legal perspective, the Biden administration and trans activists thought

00:10:09.320 they had a winning case. And that's because an earlier Supreme Court ruling had held by a six to

00:10:13.480 three vote that a different provision of civil rights law, Title VII, prohibited discrimination on

00:10:19.240 the basis of so-called gender identity, quote unquote, in the workplace. Gorsuch and Roberts sided with

00:10:24.060 the leftist judges to come up with that rather absurd ruling. But last week, a federal judge in

00:10:29.060 Kentucky held that the same logic does not apply to Title IX because Title IX is explicitly focused

00:10:33.200 on sex discrimination and no other form of discrimination. This is the judge's ruling, quote,

00:10:38.260 the entire point of Title IX is to prevent discrimination based on sex. Throwing gender identity

00:10:42.500 into the mix eviscerates the statute and renders it largely meaningless. This ruling will obviously be

00:10:47.700 appealed and it'll work its way up the courts. But as it stands, it could lay the groundwork for a new

00:10:53.100 Supreme Court ruling, one that rejects any attempt to conflate sex and gender within the meaning of

00:10:58.980 the law. A ruling like that would have seemed rather far-fetched not too long ago, but not anymore.

00:11:07.660 And that's because, you know, everywhere, even in places like California, some of the most left-wing

00:11:11.880 places in the country, there are clear signs that a critical mass of people are tired of this

00:11:18.740 insanity. Consider the eruption of anger over California's DEI policies and general incompetence

00:11:25.540 in the wake of these historic fires, which still are far from under control. The corporate press is

00:11:30.840 trying to run the same familiar narrative where they blame racism and climate change. They're

00:11:36.300 attempting to do it. They're covering the base. For example, here's the AP, quote,

00:11:42.260 the California wildfires could be leaving deeper inequality in their wake. The fires also burned

00:11:48.900 through a remarkable haven for generations of black families avoiding discriminatory housing practices

00:11:53.260 elsewhere. They've been communities of racial and economic diversity where many people own their

00:11:58.140 own homes. Yes, that's the real tragedy of the fires is not that they're causing billions of

00:12:03.020 dollars of damage, not to mention killing dozens of people. It's the effect on equality and equity.

00:12:11.580 That's what makes it a tragedy. Now, the reaction to this article online has been, as you would expect

00:12:19.140 now, universal mockery and derision. People are not persuaded by this kind of thing anymore. Well,

00:12:27.500 people never were persuaded by it. The difference is that now very few people pretend to be persuaded.

00:12:33.020 No one talks like this unless they're a journalist for an outlet like the AP.

00:12:38.460 The rest of us are sharing clips like this one featuring the chief of the Los Angeles Department

00:12:42.840 of Water and Power, a very important agency now, obviously, but this is what she was saying not too

00:12:49.780 long ago. Listen. You call it powered by equity, and I know that it's been really important for the

00:12:56.420 DWP to put an equity lens on everything. Yes. Yeah. And that's the number one thing that attracted

00:13:02.940 me to this role. Coming from the communities that I come, seeing what I've seen through my career

00:13:08.380 in utilities and through the military, I've been in the Coast Guard 19 and a half years now, so I got

00:13:13.680 six more months to qualify for my 20 years, which was my original goal.

00:13:18.160 Wow. Congratulations. And thank you for your service.

00:13:20.560 Thank you. Thank you. It's important to me that everything we do, it's with an equity lens and social

00:13:27.840 justice and making sure that we right the wrongs that we've done in the past from an infrastructure

00:13:33.440 perspective and that we involve the community in that process. And this utility is serious about it,

00:13:39.680 it is authentic about it. And so I'm just super excited to be part of that movement.

00:13:48.180 So again, that is the chief of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. And what she says

00:13:54.560 is, quote, the number one thing that attracted me to this role is that it's important for me that

00:13:59.320 everything we do is with an equity lens and social justice. Now, it's reminiscent of the aftermath of

00:14:05.640 the Maui fires when a top official talked about how access to water should involve conversations

00:14:10.420 about equity. These are the kinds of clips that have quickly surfaced in the wake of the California

00:14:14.880 fires, and they're surfacing because people are really sick of DEI hires running their cities into

00:14:20.480 the ground. People are realizing that lives are at stake now. That's especially obvious after the

00:14:27.020 discovery that a key reservoir was empty in the Pacific Palisades when the fires began. Quoting from

00:14:31.760 the Los Angeles Times official said the reservoir had been closed since about February for repairs

00:14:36.860 to its cover, leaving a 117 million gallon water storage complex empty in the heart of the Palisades

00:14:42.720 for nearly a year. Now, keep in mind, that's the LA Times with that exclusive reporting. That's, you know,

00:14:48.260 the same paper that called Larry Elder the black face of white supremacy not too long ago. And then, like

00:14:53.840 Jeff Bezos, the Times' owner withheld the paper's endorsement of Kamala Harris in this past

00:14:58.920 election, so they'd focus more on the news. Now they're exposing genuine misconduct and incompetence,

00:15:04.580 no matter how embarrassing and damaging it may be for California's Democrats. You're not going to find

00:15:10.000 a clearer sign that wokeness, as we've come to call it, which really just means the suspension of

00:15:17.700 reality to appease the preferred demographic groups of the Democratic Party, that is coming to an end.

00:15:24.640 Now, it may be coming to an end in part because of self-interested political actors like Mark

00:15:29.700 Zuckerberg, but it is ending one way or another. When Donald Trump won in 2016, that was not the

00:15:37.680 case. But if there's one overriding reason for optimism for Trump's second term, it's that this

00:15:42.560 time around, no one, not even Silicon Valley megacorporations like Meta, no one is pretending

00:15:49.700 to take this nonsense seriously anymore. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:17:09.900 Okay. Fires, as I mentioned, continue to rage in Los Angeles. The winds had died down over the last

00:17:15.420 few days, but they're picking up now and the forecast has them projected to continue until Wednesday or

00:17:21.860 maybe even longer than that. The death toll last I saw was at 24, certainly going to go higher. Rescue

00:17:26.700 workers haven't been able to go into a lot of these communities that were burned to the ground. So 24 is

00:17:31.900 just, you know, that's the number. Those are the victims that we know about so far.

00:17:37.680 Just an unfathomable catastrophe. I think it'll probably go down as the worst natural disaster

00:17:43.660 in the history of the United States when all is said and done. And one of the reasons why it may

00:17:50.520 end up being the worst in history is that California, particularly LA, have some of the worst

00:17:57.520 leadership we've ever seen in history. And that starts with the incompetent governor, Gavin Newsom,

00:18:03.040 who did an interview yesterday where he was asked point blank if the buck stops with him

00:18:09.800 in the wake of this catastrophe. And his answer, I'm not exactly sure what his answer was. It's hard

00:18:17.320 to interpret, but here it is. So I want to, all of us want to know those answers. And I just don't

00:18:22.440 want to wait because people are asking me, I want to know those facts. I want them objectively

00:18:27.440 determined and that the chips fall where they may. This is not about finger pointing.

00:18:31.860 You say what to people who insist that these independent investigations are calls for them.

00:18:36.540 Are you passing the blame on to other people?

00:18:38.820 How could it be when we're doing an independent investigation and we just want the adjudication

00:18:43.080 of the facts? As I say, it's not about finger pointing. It's about answering the questions you

00:18:46.880 and everybody wants answered. And I think there's a propensity to wait to answer those questions.

00:18:51.440 And people want immediacy. They want response and responsiveness. And so that's the idea.

00:18:57.000 Ultimately here, does the buck stop with you?

00:18:59.440 I mean, you're governor of California. You might as well be the mayor of California.

00:19:03.840 We're all in this together. We're all better off. We're all better off. We're all better off.

00:19:07.300 And we're working together to take care of people and to make sure people are supported.

00:19:10.920 We're empathetic. And we're here not just in the immediacy of the crisis, but we're here after

00:19:16.600 the crisis as opposed to creating a crisis in the middle of this by trying to divide people

00:19:21.720 and play political, take cheap political shots.

00:19:26.300 Um, what? Yeah, I'm honestly not sure what he, so he was asked, does the buck stop with you?

00:19:31.340 It sounded like his answer was, uh, you're the governor of California. You may as well be the

00:19:39.480 mayor of California. Isn't that what he said? What does that mean? I mean, he's right. I guess,

00:19:46.640 in a sense, the governor of California is like the mayor of California in the sense that the governor

00:19:53.900 holds the highest executive office in the state, like the mayor holds the highest executive office in

00:19:58.980 the city. So I, like, I'm not sure what that has to do with anything. Um, and then he follows that

00:20:04.460 up by remarking that we're all better off if we're all better off. So this was like, this was kind of

00:20:10.280 a combo of a Joe Biden and Kamala Harris answer. So you had the first part of it that was just

00:20:15.860 gobbledygook. You didn't even know what he was trying to say. And then the second part, you had to,

00:20:21.140 you know, a circular answer like that, which is very Kamala-esque. Look, we're all better off

00:20:27.120 if we're all better off, which again is undeniably true. We are indeed better off if we're better

00:20:34.540 off. We're certainly not better off if we're worse off, but these are not really answers to the

00:20:40.240 question because he can't answer the question because he isn't going to say, well, no, the buck

00:20:46.320 doesn't stop with me. It stops over there with that person because that would be very bad optics.

00:20:52.820 You know, a leader is supposed to take responsibility, but he also isn't going to say that the buck does

00:20:56.900 stop with him because he doesn't want to take any of the blame. And he wants to run for president in

00:21:01.880 2028. All he's thinking about is how he can navigate this in a way that won't destroy his presidential

00:21:09.360 ambitions. That's his only concern right now. That's the only thing he cares about.

00:21:15.040 The actual answer though, of course, is that yes, the buck stops with him. He's ultimately responsible.

00:21:21.440 So is the mayor of the city. And this is a disaster that should mean that those two,

00:21:27.820 along with dozens of other government officials, but at least those two lose their job. There should

00:21:32.460 also be criminal investigations. People should go to prison for this. But before we get to that,

00:21:38.280 yes, every high ranking political leader associated with this disaster should be gone. And you know what?

00:21:45.580 We could say that even if we didn't know, as we do, that California made massive cuts to its fire

00:21:53.300 prevention program, $100 million in cuts to that. Even if we didn't know that, you know, they didn't

00:22:00.040 have enough water to fight the fires because of mismanagement. Even if we didn't know that the

00:22:05.100 city of Los Angeles had deliberately made its fire department less competent and less capable because

00:22:10.640 through DEI programs and so on, even without knowing any of those details, we would still know

00:22:16.960 that at a minimum, Newsom and Bass in Los Angeles need to take the fall for this. And we know that

00:22:24.860 because that's leadership. Leadership means, yes, the buck stops with you, which means that when

00:22:29.700 something like this happens, you take the blame. That's the burden of leadership. That's how it goes.

00:22:36.720 That's why the captain used to go down with the ship. Your whole job as the captain is to make

00:22:42.420 sure the ship makes it across the ocean and doesn't end up at the bottom of the Atlantic.

00:22:47.340 I mean, that's not the whole job, actually. That's the starting point of the job. That's like

00:22:53.720 step one. And if that job is not done, that's on you. You could not have failed any more than you did.

00:23:02.080 And same here, your basic, basic job. Again, step one as mayor and as governor is to make sure that

00:23:11.600 your cities still, you know, exist. I would think that that's, there's more to the job.

00:23:21.640 Okay. If you've done your, your term as, as let's go with the mayor, you've done your term as, as mayor.

00:23:30.760 And we want to figure out whether your term was successful. There's a lot we want to look at.

00:23:35.660 But if this, if like half the city doesn't exist anymore after you were in office, well, okay,

00:23:41.140 we don't need to look any further. You, you failed, you failed.

00:23:44.460 And as I said, we would know that even without knowing any of the details, we would still know

00:23:51.140 that because that's what, that's how, that's what leadership means. And if you don't want to have

00:23:56.060 that kind of responsibility, then don't, don't apply for the job. No one forced you to be governor.

00:24:03.480 No one forced you to be mayor. But it turns out that we do know the details, of course,

00:24:09.500 we know a lot of them. And one of the big details, just going back to this is this issue of the

00:24:14.340 reservoirs. And Newsom was asked about that also during this interview. Let's listen.

00:24:20.900 I called for him to come out, take a look for himself. We want to do in the spirit of an open

00:24:25.260 hand, not a closed fist. He's the president elect. I respect the office. We have a president of the

00:24:29.500 United States that within 36 hours provided a major disaster declaration over a text. We had support

00:24:36.560 from the president of the United States, Joe Biden, with a hundred percent reimbursement,

00:24:40.920 all the resources you could hope for, imagine constant communication. I'd like to extend that

00:24:45.840 to the president elect. I don't know what he's referring to when he talks about the Delta smelt

00:24:51.000 and reservoirs. The reservoirs are completely full of the state reservoirs here in Southern

00:24:55.480 California. That missing disinformation, I don't think advantages or aids any of us responding to

00:25:01.000 Donald Trump's insults. We would spend another month. I'm very familiar with them. Every elected

00:25:07.520 official that he disagrees with, very familiar with them. We do know though, from reporting here

00:25:11.500 locally, that that one reservoir that serves the Palisades was not full. And that's exactly what

00:25:15.840 triggered my desire to get the investigation, to understand what was happening with that local

00:25:20.280 reservoir. That was not a state system reservoir, which the president elect was referring to as it

00:25:24.940 relates to the Delta and somehow connecting the Delta smelt to this fire, which is

00:25:29.360 inexcusable because it's inaccurate, also incomprehensible to anyone that understands water

00:25:37.300 policy. Okay. So he says the reservoirs were full. Then the interviewer says, well, what about the

00:25:43.080 other, what about the Palisades reservoir that wasn't full? And Newsom says, oh, well, yeah, except for

00:25:46.900 that one, except for that one. And we're investigating, we're investigating that one. Then he quickly

00:25:51.360 clarifies that the empty reservoirs are local reservoirs, not state reservoirs. So, which

00:25:58.960 means that, yes, the reservoirs were empty. They didn't have the fire, the water they needed to fight

00:26:04.040 the fire. But he says it's not his fault because that was local. And so I guess the buck doesn't

00:26:10.340 stop with him after all. It stops somewhere over there with those people. Don't blame him. He has

00:26:15.900 nothing to do with that, which, which again, you know, like if that's the case, it's sort of either

00:26:22.360 this is fundamentally your fault as the governor, or we don't even need a governor. Like if you had

00:26:30.020 nothing, if you're, if one of your cities can burn to the ground and there's nothing you could have

00:26:34.800 done differently, nothing you could have done differently to prevent or even mitigate this

00:26:41.140 disaster slightly. So why do we even need you? Apparently we don't need a governor in the state.

00:26:51.160 Which is it? Is my question. I want to talk about this. This is a pretty, pretty bonkers story for

00:26:58.400 you. This is from NBC News. It says six college students in Massachusetts were accused of luring

00:27:04.880 an active duty service member whom they falsely described as a sexual predator to their campus

00:27:09.220 where a group of more than two dozen people chased and assaulted him. Authority said one of the

00:27:14.280 students who was charged told police the plot was modeled on to catch a predator, which is NBC's

00:27:19.220 discontinued program that during the three seasons aimed to catch adults who were seeking to prey on

00:27:23.660 minors. Easton Randall 19 says, quote, catch a predator is a big thing on TikTok currently.

00:27:31.520 11 Illinois teens were charged last month in a similar incident. So it's become a TikTok trend.

00:27:37.260 In a statement at the time, the city's police department did not provide additional details

00:27:41.380 about the trend. At Assumption University, which is where this happened, the private Catholic

00:27:47.280 university where the six people charged in a plot are students. There was absolutely no evidence that

00:27:51.500 the man students accused of being a predator had been seeking sex with a minor, the statement says.

00:27:56.160 Still, he was chased by what the statement describes as a mob of 25 to 30 people, some of them recording

00:28:01.360 the pursuit, and ensnared on a conspiracy carried out by a group of six that includes allegations of

00:28:06.620 systemic mistreatment, false imprisonment, physical assault and battery, and potential character

00:28:11.760 assassination. The statement identifies one of the students as a juvenile whose charges are not

00:28:17.660 included in a criminal complaint. Kelsey Brainerd, 18, was charged with intimidation. Okay, so this was

00:28:23.300 some kind of To Catch a Predator style supposed sting operation that these college students were

00:28:27.420 conducting, where the guy was lured into the situation on false pretenses. The only difference

00:28:35.680 is that, if you recall from that show, in To Catch a Predator, the mark, you know, the person who's

00:28:43.980 being lured, first of all, isn't assaulted, as he was in this case. And also, this is the big one,

00:28:51.060 this is the more important one. In To Catch a Predator, the predator is a predator. You know,

00:28:56.320 that's a really important part of this. It's an important ingredient in this recipe, is that the

00:29:01.100 person that you're luring into the situation, because you're catching a predator, is actually

00:29:04.940 a predator. In this case, the guy wasn't at all. So going back to the article, it says, according to

00:29:14.040 the statement of facts, the incident on October 1st was initially reported to university officials the

00:29:18.540 next day when Brainerd said that a creepy Tinder app contact had come to campus looking to meet

00:29:24.520 a 17-year-old girl. That was the initial story. But turns out, a review of Tinder messages showed

00:29:30.660 the service member believed he was meeting an 18-year-old. The woman's profile indicated she

00:29:35.600 was 18. When officers followed up with Brainerd about where the information about an underage girl 0.57

00:29:40.220 came from, the statement adds, she could not answer. Okay, so this is a long story to get to

00:29:46.420 the point, which is that the To Catch a Predator style operation here, which was supposedly exposing

00:29:54.760 and punishing a pedophile, was actually targeting a, this turns out to be a 22-year-old man,

00:30:01.660 so the guy that was, you know, lured into the situation and then chased and assaulted and all that,

00:30:05.800 22 years old, and he was attempting to meet an 18-year-old. So if you're a math whiz,

00:30:14.720 you've already done the math on this, and you know, that's a four-year age gap between legal adults.

00:30:20.780 That's what the Justice League had assembled, you know, for. This is the person that they were

00:30:25.900 looking to expose and punish. Now, this story would be just a weird little blurb, if not for the

00:30:32.220 fact that it's part of a larger trend. This is a thing with Gen Z. Not so much the Chris Hansen

00:30:38.660 cosplaying, although that apparently is a thing too. That's a trend now. But more of this hypersensitivity

00:30:46.620 to age gaps. You see this all the time on social media. It's a constant topic of conversation.

00:30:52.840 Every other day, there's some Gen Z weirdo getting hysterical because, like, a 28-year-old man 1.00

00:30:59.260 is dating a 23-year-old or something like that. I mean, I'm not exaggerating. That's not a straw man.

00:31:04.100 That's the kind of thing that is now controversial in some corners of the internet, and in particular

00:31:10.540 with some people in Gen Z, that they would really call that predatory. Any age gap at all. I mean,

00:31:19.040 anything more than, like, a year, two years top. Tops. Even that, who knows? I mean, I'm 38 years old.

00:31:26.300 My wife is 37, so I'm not sure if that age gap would pass muster. Who knows? And I've seen this

00:31:35.240 kind of outrage even when both people in the relationship are over the age of 40. You know,

00:31:40.820 you'll hear some story about some celebrity, older males in his 60s, dating a woman who's 40 or

00:31:47.920 something. That gets construed as predatory somehow with a 40-plus-year-old woman. It's that crazy.

00:31:57.180 That's how absurd it gets. But you tend to see it even more in situations like the one in the article

00:32:01.980 where the woman is between, you know, like 18 and 21, and the man is early to mid-20s, sometimes late

00:32:09.120 20s. And that's when they really reach for the pitchforks. And I guess the claim is that there's

00:32:14.020 some kind of inherent power imbalance when someone in the relationship is older. That's how they would

00:32:21.080 justify saying that this is a predatory. You know, because there's nobody more powerful than a 22-year-old

00:32:29.340 dude who just graduated college. Like, that's the pinnacle of power right there, 22 years old.

00:32:34.460 So obviously the reasoning makes no sense. So what's really going on here? Like, why is it

00:32:40.960 suddenly controversial for adults with very modest age gaps to date? Why is that? Now an age gap of

00:32:51.000 four years is considered perverse. Historically, you know, 15 or 20 years was not uncommon. Now four

00:32:56.880 years is considered, you know, somehow depraved, even though, again, both parties are adults.

00:33:08.840 And so why is this happening? I think partly this is the infantilization of adulthood.

00:33:14.260 A lot of these people on social media who think that a 21-year-old in a consensual relationship is

00:33:18.580 being preyed upon are themselves in their early 20s, and they kind of see themselves as children.

00:33:23.940 And so a person their age in a relationship with somebody even slightly older is viewed as a child

00:33:31.320 because that's how they view themselves. That's how they want to view themselves.

00:33:35.060 They don't want to be adults. They'd rather stay in the cocoon of perpetual adolescence.

00:33:40.080 To them, your early 20s is really just a replay of your preteens and teens. So a 22-year-old might

00:33:46.040 as well be a 12-year-old. That's how they see it or how they want to see it. That's part of what's

00:33:51.100 going on. But that doesn't quite explain it all because there's another piece of this conversation.

00:33:55.740 Really, this is a conversation about consent. And the question is whether a young adult

00:34:00.660 can actually consent to being in a relationship with somebody a little bit older. Now the answer

00:34:08.580 to that question is obviously yes. In young adulthood, you are old enough to exercise your

00:34:15.040 free will and make decisions and understand the consequences of decisions. You may still have

00:34:19.600 some immaturity. You may still be prone to making dumb decisions. Doesn't mean you're not an adult. 1.00

00:34:25.360 Like I'm a much, much more mature and responsible person today than I was at 24. Does that mean that

00:34:29.880 I wasn't an adult when I was 24 years old? Does that mean that I was indistinguishable from like a 0.99

00:34:34.920 seventh grader when I was 24? Obviously not. But here's where things get weird or weirder, I mean.

00:34:41.980 Because the wrinkle is this, that there is, I'm going to guess, probably a 100% overlap between the

00:34:53.860 people who think an 18-year-old can't consent to dating a 22-year-old and the people who think a 13-year-old

00:35:02.820 girl can consent to a quote-unquote gender-affirming double mastectomy. Like 100% of the people who say 0.95

00:35:11.480 that a 21-year-old woman is being groomed if she's dating a man who's 27 also would say that a 5-year-old

00:35:21.780 child is old enough to choose and declare his own gender. There's, like I said, there's probably just 0.68

00:35:31.300 about a 100% overlap between these two groups. There might be a few exceptions, but for the most

00:35:37.180 part, if you're in the camp where you think, you know, a guy in his mid to late 20s is a predator

00:35:42.960 because he's dating someone who's old enough that they could have gone to school at the same time.

00:35:51.660 You know, if you're in that camp, you probably are also in the camp that thinks that at 15,

00:35:57.180 you know, a gender-affirming quote-unquote double mastectomy is fine. And what does that tell us? 0.99

00:36:05.720 It tells us that their notion of consent and their notions of human psychology and maturity

00:36:11.960 and development, all of that, is just hopelessly contradictory and confused. I mean, what it really

00:36:20.180 tells us, and I don't know when you look at these kinds of contradictions, you look for some kind of,

00:36:23.800 and you can't help but look for some kind of, like, philosophical through line. But there really isn't

00:36:32.320 one. It's just these people have no idea what they believe about anything. They just don't know. They

00:36:38.080 haven't thought through any of this. They probably haven't even stopped to consider how you rectify

00:36:44.020 those two things. They've never even, they hold in their minds two notions. One, that a 15-year-old

00:36:51.260 girl can consent to life-altering surgery and that a 21-year-old woman can't consent to, like, dating 0.98

00:36:58.720 someone a few years older than them. They hold those ideas in their head simultaneously and have

00:37:03.900 probably never even noticed that they hold them simultaneously. That's the only way that this kind of

00:37:12.220 logical disconnect can exist is if you have a, just a pathological lack of self-reflection.

00:37:23.280 And I think that's really what lies at the bottom of a lot of this stuff.

00:37:30.740 Finally, before we get to the comment section, here's a pretty rough video, but also kind of funny.

00:37:34.680 Mayor Brandon Johnson in Chicago was at some kind of event recently where he was asked,

00:37:38.360 quite simply, why his constituents hate him so much. It's a valid question. Good question. Not a

00:37:46.000 fun question to be asked, I imagine, but his answer was not so good. Let's listen.

00:37:51.440 To the front again. Hello. Thank you to the IOP for having this event. Thank you, Mayor Johnson,

00:37:55.820 for being here. My name is Tyler Shasteen. I'm a third year studying economics and law letters in

00:38:01.200 society. And in March, I was elected as the Republican Committeeman for the Fifth Ward of Chicago,

00:38:05.880 which is where we're at today. I wanted to ask, you know, it was brought up earlier in 2023,

00:38:11.880 you were elected a little over 52% of the vote in the mayorals race. But in the most recent poll of

00:38:19.000 Chicago voters that you had a 14% approval rating with a 70% disapproval rating. I know you mentioned

00:38:26.120 that there's a lot of numbers that you care about and that you were pointing to things that you are

00:38:30.920 talking about doing for the city. But in a democracy, what really matters is how the voters perceive

00:38:35.260 your administration's work. So why are you so unpopular?

00:38:41.440 Well, I mean, look, you know, fortunately for me,

00:38:46.840 that I'm not moved by polls. They're a snapshot at a point of time. Like, people have their expression

00:38:59.380 opinion of whether or not, you know, we should hire more young people. You know, people have an opinion

00:39:06.760 of whether or not we should open up mental health clinics. Clearly people have an opinion on whether

00:39:11.180 or not we should, you know, stay to international and national law. That people have those opinions. You

00:39:24.500 know, and, you know, I can say this emphatically. I was elected to build a better, stronger, safer Chicago.

00:39:32.960 And I will stop at nothing to ensure that that happens.

00:39:39.140 So he has no idea how to respond. His answer makes no sense. He starts babbling about how people have

00:39:45.140 different opinions about, you know, whether we should hire young people or stay to international

00:39:50.300 and national law. What does that mean? You know, what's he even getting at? I don't know. I guess he's

00:39:57.620 implying that his constituents who don't like him have a problem with the fact that he hires young

00:40:02.420 people and respects international law. What does being the mayor of Chicago have to do with

00:40:08.180 international law? None of it makes any sense. It's total gibberish. I'm always amazed, kind of,

00:40:15.420 kind of amazed by these moments. I shouldn't be, but I am, because you know that you're going to be

00:40:20.840 talking, you're going to be taking questions at this event. I assume that this was not a surprise to him.

00:40:25.660 And you know, you must know, you should know that you're extremely unpopular with the voters.

00:40:34.200 So how do you not know that there will be questions on that topic? How are you not expecting this stuff?

00:40:39.460 How do you not have a canned answer ready? Now, it used to be with politicians that they always had a

00:40:47.520 canned answer ready to anything, and that can be frustrating. But now, with this even lower tier of

00:40:55.020 politician, where politicians are getting dumber and dumber, now you're almost frustrated that you 0.98

00:41:01.540 don't have, that they don't have a canned answer ready. It's like, how do you, don't you just have 0.99

00:41:08.100 something prepared for that kind of question? How do you not? They seem genuinely, now they, these

00:41:18.100 politicians often seem genuinely caught off guard. I mean, we just saw it with Gavin Newsom, when he was

00:41:25.080 asked, does the buck stop with you? Like, do you, is this, and he stumbles, he gives an answer that

00:41:31.140 literally means nothing. He's fumbling around for anything to say. And again, it's, if you didn't know

00:41:37.120 any better, it would be sort of shocking, because you think, well, how, you must know that that question is

00:41:42.280 going to be asked. And so you must, how did you not go into this with something prepared, just 30 seconds

00:41:48.300 away of, you know, giving, deflecting away from it in a way that is not super obvious.

00:41:57.600 And yet, these politicians aren't, and that's because they really are just, it's a cliche to say

00:42:01.920 they're out of touch, but they really are. And the other thing is this, you know, the other reason

00:42:07.960 Democrats in particular get really flummoxed when you ask questions like this, is that they pretend

00:42:12.760 to idolize democracy. They talk incessantly about defending and preserving democracy. But then what

00:42:18.740 happens when the vast majority of people hate you? Your pro-democracy convictions oblige you to

00:42:24.240 take those people seriously and to defer to their judgment. But of course, Brandon Johnson doesn't want

00:42:29.780 to do that. He can't do that. He can't say, yeah, listen, I respect the will of the people. So if people

00:42:35.900 say that I'm awful, I must be. He can't say that. So instead, we get this nonsense. Let's get to the

00:42:42.160 comment section.

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00:43:58.000 the smartest way to hire. I'm a small female, and if I was in an emergency situation, I wouldn't want

00:44:04.240 to see anybody like me trying to help. Well, that's your internalized misogyny talking. If you're

00:44:10.220 trapped in a burning building, you should be praying for a female even smaller than you 1.00

00:44:14.720 to show up. If you were really committed to equality and equity, that's how you would see it.

00:44:19.980 Never have I ever felt the need to see someone who looks like me in any situation whatsoever.

00:44:30.860 Yeah, well, right. I mean, that's normal people don't look at it like that

00:44:34.180 because you're not looking to be represented. I mean, this is part of the wokeness and the left,

00:44:43.100 leftism is, in every situation, the most important thing is that people feel represented.

00:44:51.420 Even though in most areas of life, feeling represented is totally irrelevant,

00:45:00.140 especially in an emergency, but really in any situation where there's a task and it just needs

00:45:06.760 to get done. In any situation like that, feeling represented is completely irrelevant, and no

00:45:13.320 normal person is even thinking along those terms. If you, which isn't to say that you might not make,

00:45:22.760 you might still make cursory judgments, you know, based on appearance in certain situations,

00:45:32.740 but it's not because you want to feel represented. I mean, I've said many times

00:45:35.640 on a, when I'm getting on an airplane, and I think everyone does this, most people won't admit it,

00:45:42.340 but if you get a look at the captain, you know, if you get a look at who's sitting in the cockpit,

00:45:48.900 there's a certain look you prefer that makes you feel safer. But it's not because you feel

00:45:54.420 represented. I don't need to feel represented. In fact, I don't want to be represented because I'm 38,

00:45:59.620 38. And to me, that's still a little bit too young for a pilot. I want the pilot to be

00:46:03.720 between like 45 and 65. That's, that's the age. I'm looking, I'm looking for that, that age bracket.

00:46:14.480 And male, you know, needless to say. Let's see. The timing of I Am Racist could not have been

00:46:20.540 better. People are much better informed when events like this happen. The movie was called Am I

00:46:24.460 Racist, not I Am Racist. So you're banned from the show. I haven't done that in a while, but that's,

00:46:28.940 that's deserving. That was, that's, they're very different titles. I know you just flip one word,

00:46:36.840 but still. I failed the driver's test three times before passing. And ironically, here I am at 30

00:46:44.320 and have never had a speeding ticket and never been in a car accident. I mean, that, that, yeah,

00:46:50.160 that does, that doesn't surprise me because the driver's test has nothing to do with whether you're

00:46:53.860 a good driver. But three times that like the driver's test is really easy. That, that was my

00:47:00.380 whole point. The, the whole, uh, spiel I gave on the driver's test was way too easy. You fail,

00:47:05.760 how did you fail three times? Um, Matt, you say watching childhood movies or TV shows alone as an

00:47:13.680 adult is shameful, but how many times do you listen to music from your childhood slash teen years alone

00:47:18.880 in your car? Be honest. Isn't that the same thing? I didn't say shameful. I didn't say that. I say,

00:47:23.280 I said, it's weird. Uh, it's weird for an adult to spend his own leisure time watching children's

00:47:29.680 entertainment. Yeah. That doesn't mean that an adult can't appreciate and enjoy children's

00:47:35.040 entertainment, but you, you just, you enjoy it as children's entertainment. You enjoy it because

00:47:39.340 it's a great story for your kids. You enjoy it with your kids. Um, I don't know how many analogies

00:47:45.020 or examples I can give to, but like, here's another one. I like playing hide and seek with

00:47:51.120 my kids. I play hide and seek. I play hide and seek with my kids 10 million times. And, um, I enjoy

00:47:56.440 that with them. Now it would be weird as hell if I had some, some friends, some grown men over to the

00:48:03.240 house and I said, let's play hide and seek guys. Okay. That would be strange. All right. If my wife

00:48:11.200 walked into the living room and then one of the guys is like hiding behind the couch,

00:48:15.360 don't tell him I'm here, that it would be weird. That would be a very weird thing.

00:48:20.380 It's not weird for me to play with my kids. It is weird for me to play without them. Uh,

00:48:26.140 so that, that's it with it. But again, some children's movies are great. Great as children's

00:48:30.480 movies. Here's another positive review. I'll mention. I just, uh, just last night I watched

00:48:35.160 with my daughter, uh, my five-year-old, the movie Up, which I'd never seen before. I, you know,

00:48:41.400 of course, of course it came out like 20 years ago, but I hadn't seen it. And it was tremendous.

00:48:45.020 I mean, maybe like the, the best, the best, the best, the first 20 minutes of Ups, probably maybe

00:48:51.980 the best first 20 minutes of a children's film I've ever seen. Uh, it gets a little bit tedious

00:48:56.580 towards the end. Overall, great film, great children's film. I would not watch it alone. I would not

00:49:03.280 sit on my own and watch Up, uh, but with my kids, I enjoyed it. And as for music, you're really only

00:49:10.640 proving my point because there's a lot of music that I liked as a kid that I absolutely would not

00:49:16.840 listen to now. Um, my tastes have changed. They've matured. I've changed and matured. Now, don't get me

00:49:23.140 wrong. I can still listen to nineties music. It was a great era for music. Plenty of songs from that

00:49:28.900 era were just high quality songs for anyone of any age. I can still listen to that, but

00:49:33.620 there's plenty of stuff I listened to when I was 17 that now if I hear it again, I'm like, wow, 0.98

00:49:40.160 this is trash. This is awful. And if you never do that, if you never find yourself in a position 0.99

00:49:49.180 where you watch or listen to something that you liked when you were a teenager and thought to

00:49:54.300 yourself, man, this is terrible now. I can't, I don't know how I enjoyed it. If that never happens

00:49:59.080 with you, it means either that you had impeccably mature tastes from birth, which is very unlikely,

00:50:07.500 or it means that your tastes have not matured at all. Uh, it, which, but they should.

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00:51:02.700 Today we have a viral TikTok video from a woman who decided to share some marriage and relationship

00:51:08.040 advice. Now the twist in this case is that the advice actually isn't terrible. Uh, this is one of those

00:51:13.860 very rare occasions when somebody on TikTok had something not horrifically stupid to say about 0.99

00:51:19.180 romantic relationships. One of the few times where we don't have to lament that this video has been 0.92

00:51:23.860 viewed millions of times, which it has, uh, because the point she's making here is actually basically

00:51:30.880 true. Watch. This is a hot tip for the ladies. Men love quests. No, I don't. Not all men, but most men, okay?

00:51:40.540 And, and all the men I want in my life, they like quests. Most men hate puzzles, but they love quests.

00:51:47.320 Most men don't want you to be coy and confusing and elusive. They want you to have very clear quests

00:51:52.740 that you tell them, this is exactly what I want. I want you to do this and I will be happy when you do it.

00:51:56.720 A friend was telling me that her boyfriend offered to scrape off her car the other day and I was like,

00:52:00.680 oh, that's so nice. She's like, yeah, I told him not to, but I thought it was nice he offered.

00:52:04.440 And I was like, oh, you told him not to? She's like, yeah, I didn't want to be difficult and

00:52:07.860 inconvenience him. And I'm like, but didn't he happily offer to do it? And she's like, yeah,

00:52:11.840 but I told him I didn't want him to. I'm like, oh, you didn't want him to? Like you wanted to do it

00:52:14.840 yourself? And she's like, no, I would have loved if he did it for me, but I just, I didn't want to,

00:52:18.660 I didn't want to be difficult. And I'm like, honey, you have to remember men love quests. If you don't want

00:52:24.000 him to do something because you want to do it yourself, that's totally fine. But do not squash

00:52:27.420 yourself down and deny yourself for no reason. Instead, let them do the quest for you and then

00:52:32.340 be super appreciative and kind and happy about it. Nothing makes a man happier than completing

00:52:37.240 a quest for you and you being happy and appreciative about it. So when he offers to scrape your car off,

00:52:42.080 say, that would be amazing. Thank you so much. And then when he comes in, tell him, thank you.

00:52:46.080 That just made my day so much brighter. Maybe make him a warm cup of coffee so that it's ready right

00:52:50.280 when he comes in. It's like a video game. Okay. He did his quest and then you gave him a resource

00:52:54.340 in return. Leveled up in the game. He's winning now. You gave him the gift of winning. When a man

00:52:58.480 loves you, nothing will make him happier than knowing he made you a little happier via a quest.

00:53:03.780 Why do you think there's so many memes of boyfriends and husbands filling a girl's water cup? I'll tell 0.76

00:53:07.640 you why. It's a quick, easy quest. If the quest involves something that makes him feel kind of

00:53:11.560 rarely and powerful, that's a double points quest. My husband just put together a little vanity for me

00:53:16.220 and I came upstairs and I just started jumping up and down. And I was like, oh my God, it looks so good.

00:53:19.860 And he's just like beaming. Like I did it. Look how happy I made her.

00:53:24.340 Now I'll admit I was slightly distracted by that mysterious substance in her cup,

00:53:28.100 which came perilously close to spilling over the edge multiple times during the video.

00:53:31.940 Not sure what beverage has a yellowish green tint and is consumed out of a mug,

00:53:36.820 but that's a question for another day. I was also trying to listen to her point in spite of the

00:53:40.060 shaky cam cinematography technique she's using. I'm not sure why that's so popular on social media

00:53:45.280 these days. Every selfie video looks like the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan. It's

00:53:49.560 kind of bizarre. But aside from all that, her fundamental point is basically correct.

00:53:55.040 She says that men love quests. Now I think a better term here would probably be mission.

00:53:59.480 Men love going on missions. A quest technically is a long journey in search of something. So

00:54:06.140 you know, you go on a quest to find the buried treasure. You go on a mission to save the damsel

00:54:12.900 locked in the tower guarded by the evil dragon. So these terms are similar, but not exactly the same.

00:54:17.680 What she's describing in the video is more of a mission than a quest. Although men do also love

00:54:23.700 quests. You might even say that a quest is a mission with a puzzle attached, which is why

00:54:28.160 the only thing she got wrong is when she said men hate puzzles. We don't. What we hate are pointless

00:54:34.540 puzzles. We hate having to crack some complicated code when the answer could be easily obtained some

00:54:41.480 other way. This is one of the reasons like I know for me as a man, I actual puzzles in a box. I hate

00:54:47.320 those. I'm not going to do them because the picture of what the thing is, is on the box. It's it is the

00:54:53.360 box. So why do I need to do it? I'm going to spend six hours putting a puzzle together to just recreate

00:54:57.900 the picture. It's already right there. I don't see a point to it. So I don't want to do it in a

00:55:02.960 relationship. You know, a man gets frustrated when his wife wants something or is upset about

00:55:09.520 something and won't just come out and say what it is. That's the kind of puzzle we hate because

00:55:15.140 it's artificial. It's arbitrary. The woman is creating a puzzle and wasting our time and generating 1.00

00:55:20.060 frustration and friction needlessly. But if there if there is a puzzle that actually needs to be solved

00:55:27.400 in pursuit of some ultimate goal, some mission, well, then we love that. You know, that's that's

00:55:32.220 a thrill. And this begins at the earliest stages. Pretty much all of a boy's daydreaming and make

00:55:38.020 believe revolves around him going on grand adventures and fighting bad guys and saving the day,

00:55:44.980 which that alone tells you the tells you almost everything you need to know about the innate

00:55:52.660 differences between boys and girls and men and women, starting with the fact that there are innate

00:55:58.260 differences that go beyond the physical. There are also these innate psychological and I would say

00:56:03.040 spiritual differences. I've never maybe every once in a while, you'll have a girl that does this kind

00:56:09.460 of make believe thing where she's fighting bad guys. But it's I mean, I've never even seen that

00:56:14.140 for boys. This just comes naturally. It's all they ever do. And that continues even into adulthood,

00:56:19.540 by the way, in terms of the daydreaming and everything that even grown men do now. And you

00:56:24.360 see it in more everyday ways. Also, the other day, I had to run to Lowe's to get some bags of sand.

00:56:31.000 Not a very exciting trip. Just had to get some bags of sand. My two older boys were begging to go with

00:56:35.960 me. And anytime I run an errand, they want to come because they you know, I got a little mission I have

00:56:41.340 to go do. And they want to come with me. This is also something I've noticed with my youngest sons who

00:56:47.160 just turned two. And because they're two, if you if you kind of shout to them across the room and tell

00:56:53.100 them to come over to you, the response is quite mixed. They might come most of the time, they'll

00:56:58.120 just sort of stare at you uncomprehendingly and disinterested and then carry on with whatever

00:57:02.920 they're doing, playing with trains or whatever. But I found that if I asked them to bring me something,

00:57:08.900 well, then they'll grab the thing and run right to me. Because because, you know, coming over to dad

00:57:13.860 isn't a mission. But grabbing that random object over there and bringing it to dad, that is a

00:57:18.000 mission. So this has happened many times. I'll say, hey, buddy, come over here. Come here. And he's

00:57:22.400 just staring at me. Hey, go grab me that ball and bring it over. And he gets up and runs for the ball

00:57:27.220 and brings it up. This is how this is how boys are wired from birth. Now, the only risk in this idea

00:57:34.220 that men love quests, or as I would put it, men love missions, is that it can take on a patronizing

00:57:40.820 tone. Now, I don't think the woman in the video was being patronizing, but that's where this line 0.96

00:57:44.600 of thinking can lead. If you take it the wrong way, you might think that the way to keep a man

00:57:50.840 happy is just to constantly give him little tasks to complete and then clap and pat him on the head

00:57:55.740 like he's a two-year-old who just picked up the ball and brought it to you. That may work for toddlers,

00:58:00.300 but not for grown men. Because a man loves going on a mission for the reason that it has a purpose.

00:58:10.820 And men need to have a sense of purpose. There are two ways to break a man's spirit. One is to

00:58:16.880 give him nothing to do at all. A man with no mission in life is a man in despair. It's one

00:58:22.440 of the reasons why a lot of men retire and then die a year later, because they have no mission.

00:58:27.820 The other way is to give him something to do with no clear sense of why he's doing it.

00:58:33.380 Not having any task to complete can be soul-crushing for a man, but having a pointless task can be even

00:58:39.160 more soul-crushing. A mission is not a mission unless there's an objective. And a man needs to

00:58:43.720 have an objective. He needs to have little objectives throughout his day and then larger

00:58:47.760 ones that he pursues over the course of months and years. A man with no objectives, no missions,

00:58:54.180 is again a man in a state of total despair. Now, bringing this back to the context of marriage

00:59:01.680 and family, this is all really a long way of saying that men are providers. That's really

00:59:07.880 what we're talking about. When she's talking about a man on a quest, she's actually talking about a man

00:59:13.020 providing. And this is why men love quests, as she said, because men are providers. They love to

00:59:19.000 provide. This is the ultimate mission that gives a man, gives his life a sense of purpose.

00:59:25.660 It's the point that lies behind even the tasks that would otherwise seem pointless.

00:59:32.160 Okay, a man sitting in a cubicle and punching numbers into a computer all day 0.96

00:59:36.020 may feel like his job has no grand purpose, and maybe it doesn't. But if he has a family to provide

00:59:43.540 for, then that is the grand purpose. And that alone makes the job at least tolerable.

00:59:49.600 Men love quests and missions because we are born to be providers. It's what we need to do.

00:59:55.740 It's what society needs us to do. Now, of course, I'll be told, as we so often are, that women can 1.00

01:00:02.540 also provide. And that's true. I mean, a woman can certainly, in this day and age, get a job,

01:00:09.400 earn a paycheck, support her family. That can happen. It sometimes does happen. But women, 1.00

01:00:16.420 generally speaking, can also be happy, and I would say most of the time happier, without the pressure

01:00:22.700 of being the breadwinner and provider. And society, as history has clearly shown, can function very well

01:00:28.480 when men play the provider role nearly exclusively. The same is not true the other way around.

01:00:34.680 Most men cannot be happy when their wives are the ones carrying the burden of providing. 1.00

01:00:42.300 And the wives cannot be happy either. Not just unhappy. I mean, I would be in agony if I was at

01:00:50.460 home and relying on my wife to support our family. It would literally kill me. And that's the case for

01:00:58.220 most men. I mean, this is why the stay-at-home dad arrangement doesn't work. It can only work 0.61

01:01:05.200 if a man finds a way to stifle and suffocate that innate part of himself that calls him to go out

01:01:12.060 into the world and take on the mission of providing for his family. Which is to say, it works only if

01:01:17.040 the man spiritually and psychologically deforms himself. Which is to say, it doesn't actually work.

01:01:23.380 So unless a man is somehow incapacitated or severely disabled in some way, he should not be relying on

01:01:31.600 his wife to provide for him and their children. To choose such a life is shameful. A man can only

01:01:40.000 pretend that he's not ashamed, but the more he pretends, the more his shame comes through.

01:01:44.220 Now, on a societal level, there's no evidence that a society can function, much less thrive,

01:01:50.460 when the women are the primary providers. No such society has ever existed in the history of the 1.00

01:01:55.240 civilization, or could exist, for very long at least. And we know that from history. So this is

01:02:03.000 what the statement, men love quests, actually means. It's a basic truth of male psychology, and it's a

01:02:08.840 fundamental building block of human civilization. It's nice that something like that is being discussed

01:02:13.820 on TikTok for a change, which is why the woman who made that TikTok video is not, today, canceled.

01:02:19.240 So that'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you

01:02:21.800 tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

01:02:29.240 I have often said that gender affirming care is health care, it is mental health care, and it can

01:02:34.340 actually be suicide prevention care. I think I'm gonna take some medicine so I can kind of like

01:02:42.020 transform into a boy, get surgery. After the surgery, I didn't really feel any better.

01:02:48.400 When it stopped being a thing for adults, and it started to be a, let's teach this to kids.

01:02:53.900 Total lie. Manipulation. It's gaslighting. Please stop. He's a boy, not a girl. How could 0.99

01:02:59.380 she do this to my son? What they're talking about is hormonal therapy or sex reassignment surgery

01:03:05.280 on children. I thought fixing me externally would fix me internally, but of course I was wrong.

01:03:12.300 The fact that the state thinks that they're more important and have a better say in what happens to

01:03:16.720 your child over the actual parent's opinion is egregious. Puberty blockers, surgeries, big money makers

01:03:22.240 for hospitals, for physicians. All I want to do is hold my son.

01:03:26.000 Are you asking me to lie to parents? And he said, yes. This is an weaponized use of a parent's sympathy

01:03:36.880 and caring and concern by the left to destroy your child. Let's tell kids that maybe they can be the

01:03:43.380 opposite sex. Maybe they actually are the opposite sex. It is an evil thing to tell children that

01:03:50.080 happiness lies on the other side of puberty blockers or double mastectomies. The left so badly wants to

01:03:55.940 blur these lines. That's a five alarm fire. It's criminal.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 13, 2025

Ep. 1513 - Wokeness Is Dying

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