The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1564 - This Insane Hearing Is Evidence That State Media Should Be Immediately Eliminated

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Republicans in Congress interrogated the left-wing political

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00:02:05.460 It's always been the case that state media, no matter what country it's in, tells you an awful lot

00:02:10.180 about the state. Listen to North Korean state media for five minutes, and inevitably the strict-looking

00:02:15.500 anchorwoman will communicate a very clear message, which is that no criticism of dear leader is allowed,

00:02:20.500 and they might even pan to a crater or two just to demonstrate what happened to the last guy

00:02:24.320 who broke that rule. Tune in to Canada's state broadcaster, meanwhile, and before long, they'll

00:02:28.940 inform you that thousands of children are buried underneath Christian schools in Ontario, even

00:02:33.580 though none of that is true. They'll also complain about Donald Trump a lot and tell you how great

00:02:38.420 their new prime minister is, even though he's barely ever lived in Canada in the past decade.

00:02:43.180 And the message to reasonable people watching this, of course, is that Canada is a self-loathing,

00:02:47.120 post-national, globalist blob that despises anyone who believes that the government is

00:02:52.040 not God. Again, whether they realize it or not, state media tells you everything you need

00:02:56.380 to know about the state. So, with that in mind, what do NPR and PBS tell us about this country?

00:03:04.240 By any definition, these organizations are state media. They were created by the state, and for

00:03:09.180 more than half a century, these two outlets have relied on funding from the federal government

00:03:13.140 to survive. They couldn't peddle Washington's propaganda without taxpayer cash. The Corporation

00:03:19.060 for Public Broadcasting, which distributes funds to state media outlets like NPR and PBS,

00:03:24.060 now receives more than half a billion dollars from the American taxpayer every single year.

00:03:29.160 Yes, they take in half a billion dollars every year, which is not an overstatement. Now,

00:03:34.420 you often hear from outlets like NPR that federal funding isn't a big part of their budget,

00:03:38.520 but that is a lie. Now, it's true that they don't directly receive most of that money,

00:03:44.240 but the Corporation for Public Broadcasting does receive the money, and in turn, it distributes

00:03:49.980 the funds to member stations of organizations like NPR. So, in other words, if the federal funding is

00:03:54.660 gone, then so are these outlets, which is why they will defend the funding to the death. So, what have

00:04:01.280 they been doing with the money that they desperately fight for, even as they claim they don't really need

00:04:06.120 it? What I'm about to play is an actual segment that aired on NPR recently, and this is just an example

00:04:14.020 of what they're spending our money on. Listen to this.

00:04:17.380 Dinosaurs are back on the big screen. Jurassic World Dominion is now in theaters. Young kids always seem to

00:04:24.080 love dinosaurs, and maybe we all do, as we crowd into natural history museums to see them in all their

00:04:29.380 bony glory. But did you know that the dino emoji is beloved in LGBTQ plus online communities?

00:04:37.980 So, they're talking about transgender dinosaur emojis on a show called All Things Considered,

00:04:42.700 which is one of the premier programs at NPR, and this kind of content wasn't out of the ordinary.

00:04:48.360 NPR also posted this insight on social media, for example, quote,

00:04:51.480 Some white people may choose a yellow thumbs-up emoji because it feels neutral, but some academics

00:04:57.020 argue opting out of a whiter-looking thumbs-up emoji signals a lack of awareness about white privilege

00:05:03.180 akin to society associating whiteness with being raceless. Close quote.

00:05:09.500 This is, so they've done a lot of reporting on emojis, basically. They're really on the emoji beat

00:05:13.700 with all that federal funding. This is all very unserious race-baiting, obviously. No one who doesn't

00:05:19.860 suffer from 10 different serious psychological comorbidities would take any of this seriously,

00:05:24.280 but you could make the case that it's actually more clever than that. By acting like buffoons 0.97

00:05:29.760 who are transfixed with emojis, NPR might come off as harmless to most people. They certainly don't 0.57

00:05:36.300 seem like carefully calculating political operatives, but that's exactly what they are. And that's why

00:05:41.340 when the New York Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story, NPR posted this image, and you can see it

00:05:48.460 there if you forget. It's from a man named Terrence Samuels, who served as NPR's managing editor for

00:05:53.620 News at the time. And he said, quote, we don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really

00:05:58.480 stories, and we don't want to waste the listeners' and readers' time on stories that are just pure

00:06:02.440 distraction. Close quote. So in other words, NPR was explicitly participating in the Democrat Party's

00:06:08.460 efforts to bury a story about the fact that the Democrat candidate for president was taking money

00:06:12.840 from foreign adversaries. And what happened to Terrence Samuels after he made this call? Was he

00:06:17.700 terminated for gross incompetence on the job? Well, of course not. He did exactly what he was supposed

00:06:23.020 to do, so he was promoted. NPR made him their top editor before he went on to become the editor-in-chief

00:06:27.940 of USA Today. His career did not suffer at all. In fact, it helped his career. Terrence Samuels even

00:06:33.000 started doing lectures on disinformation at American University, if you can believe it. So the guy who buried

00:06:39.320 the biggest story of the 2020 election on the fraudulent grounds that it was disinformation when it really

00:06:44.200 wasn't is now teaching students how to spot disinformation. So you really can't script this kind of

00:06:49.260 stuff. For decades, state media outlets got away with this kind of thing. Republicans would, you know,

00:06:55.000 register their complaints, but they never actually hauled these executives before Congress and seriously

00:06:59.720 threatened to remove their funding. But that changed yesterday when the Doge Committee in Congress questioned

00:07:04.820 the chief executives of both NPR and PBS. And maybe the most remarkable moment in the hearing came

00:07:10.980 when Congressman Brandon Gill questioned the head of NPR, a woman named Catherine Maher.

00:07:16.720 Specifically, Gill went through Maher's tweets over the past few years, and in response to Gill's

00:07:20.780 questions, Maher repeatedly dodged and lied under oath to the point that it seemed almost like a comedy

00:07:26.860 routine. Watch. Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy?

00:07:31.800 I believe that I tweeted that. And as I've said earlier, I believe much of my thinking has evolved

00:07:38.000 over the last half decade. It has evolved. Why did you tweet that? I don't recall the exact context,

00:07:44.600 sir. So I wouldn't be able to say. Okay. Do you believe that America believes in black plunder and 0.98

00:07:49.960 white democracy? I don't believe that, sir. You tweeted that in reference to a book you were reading at the

00:07:57.640 time, apparently, the case for reparations. I don't think I've ever read that book, sir.

00:08:02.480 You tweeted about it. You said you took a day off to fully read the case for reparations. You put

00:08:08.900 that on Twitter in January of 2020. Apologies, I don't recall that I did. Do you think that white 1.00

00:08:14.500 people should pay reparations? I have never said that, sir. Yes, you did. You said it in January of

00:08:20.700 2020. You tweeted, yes, the North. Yes, all of us. Yes, America. Yes, our original collective sin and

00:08:26.920 unpaid debt. Yes, reparations. Yes, on this day. I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal

00:08:31.980 reparations, sir. What kind of reparations was it a reference to? I think it was just a reference to

00:08:36.720 the idea that we all owe much to the people who came before us. That's a bizarre way to frame what

00:08:43.080 you tweeted. Okay, how much reparations have you personally paid? Sir, I don't believe that I've

00:08:52.140 ever paid reparations. Okay, just for everybody else. I'm not asking anyone to pay reparations. Seems to be what

00:08:57.420 you're suggesting. Now, you could not distill the 2020-era affluent liberal woman stereotype any more

00:09:06.500 perfectly than this. She was asked about a tweet that she wrote concerning an article she claimed to

00:09:11.800 have read during the BLM hysteria. She said she took the whole day off to read it, but now she admits

00:09:17.460 that she didn't read any of it. So, you know, I had to go back and check that this is real, and it was.

00:09:22.640 Here's what Catherine Marr said at the time, quote, America begins in black plunder and white democracy. 0.96

00:09:29.820 I appreciate the day off today to finally fully read the case for reparations. I grew up feeling

00:09:34.940 superior. Ha, how white of me, because I was from New England and my part of our country didn't have 0.51

00:09:40.240 slaves, or so I've been taught, close quote. Now she has no idea about any of this.

00:09:47.960 She took the day off to read it. Now she says she didn't read it at all. So what were you doing

00:09:51.040 with your time off? And she also pretends not to understand that she previously called for

00:09:55.420 reparations, even though she clearly did in writing, like explicitly as possible. Yes, reparations.

00:10:01.500 That's what she said. But when she said yes, reparations, she actually meant no reparations.

00:10:06.120 As the questioning went on, Marr continued to deny things that she had posted publicly that we can

00:10:12.320 all see because she said it. She also defended some of NPR's most deranged programming at the

00:10:18.460 same time. Watch. Do you believe that looting is morally wrong? I believe that looting is illegal,

00:10:24.420 and I refer to it as counterproductive. I think it should be prosecuted. Do you believe it's morally

00:10:28.120 wrong, though? Of course. Of course. Then why did you refer to it as counterproductive?

00:10:32.800 It's a very different way to describe it. It is both morally wrong and counterproductive,

00:10:38.540 as well as being illegal. You tweeted, it's hard to be mad about protests in reference to the BLM

00:10:43.320 protests not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression. You didn't condemn the

00:10:50.300 looting. You said that it was counterproductive. NPR also promoted a book called In Defense of

00:10:57.240 Looting. Do you think that that's an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars? I'm unfamiliar with that book,

00:11:02.000 sir, and I don't believe that was at my time at NPR. You tweeted that you read that book, but...

00:11:06.280 I don't believe that I did read that book, sir. Your health advisor at NPR also stated in an

00:11:10.960 interview that, quote, fear of fatness is more harmful than actual fat. Would you like to explain

00:11:17.380 how fear of fatness is more harmful than actual fat? That's directly, that's an editorial at NPR.

00:11:23.020 I am not familiar with the editorial, and I don't believe that was published during my time here.

00:11:26.700 It's called Diet Culture is Everywhere. Here's How to Fight It. Do you think that that's an appropriate use of

00:11:31.260 taxpayer dollars? I think any reporting on health is an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars, yes.

00:11:36.540 Do you think that basic accommodations like doorways or seatbelts represent, quote, latent fatphobia?

00:11:43.460 I don't have an opinion. It's also from NPR. Do you think civility is racist?

00:11:48.040 No, sir. No. Your outlet ran an article entitled, quote, when civility is used as a cudgel against

00:11:54.440 people of color. That was on All Things Considered. Would you like to explain?

00:12:00.800 I, well, I'm not on the editorial side, sir. I'm not familiar with that story.

00:12:05.260 Now, there are about a million more posts from this woman that are obviously disqualifying. Every

00:12:09.440 single one of them is proof that NPR should not receive another dime of taxpayer money. For example,

00:12:14.040 here's some of Mars' posts from shortly after Joe Biden was declared the winner in the 2020 election.

00:12:18.060 She writes, quote, I can't stop crying with relief. It's so strange to be called a Biden supporter.

00:12:24.340 I'm a supporter of human rights, dignity, and justice. Oh, God, we have so much work to do. I

00:12:29.640 can't wait. So by her own admission, she's floored by the idea of Joe Biden winning the presidential

00:12:34.340 election to the point that she can't contain her emotions. And at the same time, she's claiming that

00:12:38.260 she's qualified to run a news organization that, you know, receives taxpayer money. There was one moment

00:12:44.080 during the hearing when Catherine Marr attempted to address some of these tweets, and it came when 0.99

00:12:48.340 Congressman Tim Burchett read Marr's post about how Donald Trump is a horrible, racist, fascist 0.99

00:12:53.680 dictator. And again, it'd be extremely depressing to watch if it didn't have any comedic value at all. 0.99

00:12:57.940 Fortunately, it does have some comedic value. Watch.

00:13:01.980 ...failed to do that. Let me ask you, why did you call President Trump a fascist and a deranged, 0.97

00:13:07.540 racist sociopath in 2020? 0.99

00:13:10.100 Congressman, I appreciate the opportunity to address this. I regret those tweets. 0.81

00:13:14.080 I would not tweet them again today. They represented a time where I was reflecting

00:13:18.280 on something that I believe that the president had said rather than who he is. I don't presume

00:13:23.140 that anyone is a racist. You don't believe anyone is a racist?

00:13:27.160 I don't start by presuming anyone is a racist.

00:13:29.660 Now, she begins by saying that she appreciates the opportunity to address her past tweets,

00:13:33.920 which, you know, is code for a PR company told me how to respond to this question. And they told me

00:13:37.680 that the first step is to claim that I'm not actually on the defensive. So it's, you know,

00:13:41.060 a very common tactic in PR intended to diffuse the accusation by demonstrating at the outset

00:13:45.540 that the person being questioned isn't fazed by the question, even though it's obviously damning

00:13:49.460 and extremely humiliating. But in this case, Catherine Marr botches it. She states that

00:13:53.160 she wasn't actually talking about who Donald Trump is. Instead, she claims that she was merely

00:13:57.740 talking about what he says. So let's pull that tweet up. Here's what Marr wrote at the time.

00:14:02.620 Quote, what is that deranged racist sociopath ranting about today? I truly don't understand. 0.98

00:14:09.780 Now, looking at that with my admittedly untrained eye, it doesn't seem like she's talking about

00:14:14.960 Donald Trump's words. Instead, it looks a lot like she's talking about how Donald Trump is a,

00:14:19.180 quote, deranged racist sociopath because that's what she said. In fact, it seems like Catherine 0.99

00:14:23.760 Marr is committing perjury if she's trying to say anything else under oath. In fact, it seems like

00:14:29.340 she's committed perjury multiple times during this hearing already from what we've seen.

00:14:33.480 So there are now two problems here. First, the head of NPR is clearly a low IQ,

00:14:37.260 highly emotional partisan hack. And two, she is lying under oath about what she has said in the

00:14:41.900 past. Each of these problems, independent of one another, is disqualifying. Either one of these

00:14:46.360 issues should result in the immediate termination of all funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

00:14:51.720 But as the hearing went on, things got somehow even worse for Catherine. Jim Jordan brought up the

00:14:56.600 allegations from an NPR whistleblower named Yuri Berliner, which were first published in the Free Press.

00:15:01.700 Berliner won some of the most prestigious awards in all of journalism, and he worked at NPR for more

00:15:06.740 than 25 years. Watch this.

00:15:09.080 Is NPR biased?

00:15:12.260 Congressman, I have never seen any instance of political bias determining editorial decisions.

00:15:18.400 Well, Mr. Berliner, in his story last year, wrote, in the D.C. area, editorial positions at NPR,

00:15:31.140 he said he found 87 registered Democrats, zero Republicans. Is that accurate?

00:15:38.040 We do not track the numbers or the voter registration, but I find that concerning.

00:15:41.640 Was award-winning journalist who worked 25 years at NPR, Mr. Berliner, was he lying when he wrote that?

00:15:47.520 I am not presuming such. I just don't have, we don't track that information about our journalists.

00:15:52.660 87 to zero? And you're not biased?

00:15:55.180 I think that is concerning if those numbers are accurate.

00:15:57.480 How about this story? October 2020, the New York Post had the Hunter Biden laptop story,

00:16:02.760 and one of those editors, I guess one of those 87 Democrat editors, said this,

00:16:09.380 we don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories,

00:16:12.620 we don't want to waste the listeners' and readers' time on stories that are just pure distractions.

00:16:17.340 Was that a pure distraction story?

00:16:19.180 Our current editorial leadership believes that that was a mistake, as do I.

00:16:23.220 Yeah, the whole country knows that was a mistake.

00:16:26.880 Now, if you're inclined to give Catherine Marr the benefit of the doubt for some reason,

00:16:30.480 if you thought that maybe she's just another inept bureaucrat who's in over her head, 0.96

00:16:34.440 it's important to revisit what she said publicly many times about the concept of the truth.

00:16:39.400 And we've talked about this before, but in the context of this hearing,

00:16:42.820 it helps explain some of her answers.

00:16:44.900 And we remember the video where she explains in two different speeches that

00:16:48.000 the truth is less important than getting things done.

00:16:51.820 And she also claims, bizarrely, that multiple people have different truths,

00:16:55.760 which we've heard, of course, from the left many times.

00:16:57.740 Now, the fact that Marr was named as the head of NPR even after those videos surfaced,

00:17:03.460 where she professed to basically not believe in the concept of truth,

00:17:07.860 is proof, again, that nobody at NPR is actually concerned about accurate reporting.

00:17:12.220 Like, they don't even think that it's possible to report accurately

00:17:14.960 because there's really no such thing as truth.

00:17:18.260 So NPR as an organization is focused entirely on achieving certain political outcomes.

00:17:23.480 And, you know, there's nothing wrong with that in principle.

00:17:26.920 Plenty of media organizations, including The Daily Wire,

00:17:28.960 seek to achieve certain political outcomes.

00:17:32.380 In fact, every media organization in the history of media has.

00:17:35.660 Like, everybody has a bias.

00:17:37.020 Everyone has a thing that they, has a point of view.

00:17:40.320 The problem is that NPR, together with other organizations like it,

00:17:45.800 rake in half a billion dollars per year from taxpayers.

00:17:48.540 The problem is that taxpayers are forced to support these organizations,

00:17:51.900 whether they agree with them or not.

00:17:53.860 That's the issue here.

00:17:55.540 At no point during yesterday's hearing did the executives from NPR or PBS

00:17:59.060 explain why we should continue to fund them.

00:18:03.360 Instead, they continued to plead ignorance.

00:18:05.760 Congressman Pat Fallon, for example, tried to question Marr,

00:18:08.120 as well as the head of PBS, about their coverage.

00:18:10.560 And in both cases, one after the other,

00:18:13.640 they claimed, again, ignorance.

00:18:15.220 Like, they had no idea what she was talking about.

00:18:17.040 Listen.

00:18:18.340 How many times did you all interview Adam Schiff about the Russia collusion?

00:18:22.720 I'm sorry, sir. I don't have that number.

00:18:24.120 It was 25 times.

00:18:25.580 You know how many times NPR interviewed chairman of this committee,

00:18:29.120 oversight committee, Jamie Comer, about the Biden impeachment inquiry

00:18:31.640 for the Hunter Biden tax evasion and illicit business dealings of the Biden family?

00:18:35.940 I'm sorry, sir. I don't know.

00:18:37.040 I believe that's zero, so it's 25 to zero.

00:18:39.260 Ms. Kerger, you're aware there's a political spectrum.

00:18:42.380 It goes all the way from the far right to the far left and everywhere in between.

00:18:47.040 Would it trouble you to hear that for six months there was an analysis done on PBS's NewsHour

00:18:52.280 from June to November of 2023 where they found that far right was,

00:18:57.240 that term was used 162 times and far left was only used six times.

00:19:02.560 Do you find that troubling?

00:19:03.280 I don't know the study that you're referring to, and I'd be very interested in seeing it

00:19:09.160 and understanding how they came up with those numbers.

00:19:12.540 Now, separately, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was chairing this hearing,

00:19:16.220 played footage of a male drag performer who PBS promoted as part of its children program,

00:19:22.840 children's programming.

00:19:23.580 And this appeared on the website for a show that targeted children between the ages of three

00:19:28.320 and eight years old before PBS took it down and took it down because of the public outrage

00:19:34.000 because they were forced to.

00:19:36.300 But let's see it again.

00:19:37.340 This, again, is for kids ages three to eight.

00:19:40.380 Watch.

00:19:40.740 So, get your singing voices ready.

00:19:46.620 And we're going to start with our hips.

00:19:49.160 The hips on the drag queen go swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish. 1.00

00:19:55.880 The shoulders on the drag queen go shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy. 0.99

00:20:03.820 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:20:10.080 The mouth of the drag queen goes blah, blah, blah, all through the town. 1.00

00:20:18.280 So, just a male cross-dresser singing to three-year-olds about his various body parts.

00:20:24.700 Who could possibly have a problem with that?

00:20:26.500 Well, Catherine Marr apparently didn't. 0.95

00:20:28.280 And when they're shown footage like this, along with the clear evidence of bias from both NPR and PBS,

00:20:32.960 it's clear that the vast majority of taxpayers are going to want their money back. 0.97

00:20:37.100 There's obviously no reason that we should be funding this garbage. 0.92

00:20:40.980 It's not just uninteresting. 0.98

00:20:42.640 It's actively harmful to the country, and in this case, to children.

00:20:46.660 But in the interest of fairness, as always, I will present the other side of the debate.

00:20:49.780 And that means, once again, you're going to have to see another clip of Representative Jasmine Crockett on this show.

00:20:55.940 Yes, that's the same Jasmine that we've canceled a dozen times this year.

00:20:59.720 Jasmine Crockett is now putting out demented, unintelligent soundbites at a rate that far exceeds even AOC. 1.00

00:21:08.260 Like, far exceeds it, which is a feat that was previously believed to be humanly impossible.

00:21:12.680 But here we are.

00:21:13.880 Behold Jasmine's highly lucid, grammatically correct, and totally convincing argument

00:21:17.620 for why you should continue to pay for NPR and PBS against your will.

00:21:23.060 Listen.

00:21:23.340 Americans in rural communities would lack access to life-saving information and public safety alerts.

00:21:30.140 That is correct.

00:21:30.880 So, in your opinion, would eliminating funding for stations in rural America like WNGH, Channel 18,

00:21:36.920 and the Chairwoman's District hurt Americans? 0.97

00:21:39.120 It would hurt Americans, yes.

00:21:40.900 In fact, Georgia Public Broadcasting serves as the official distributor of evacuation route information

00:21:46.040 during state-ordered evacuations, and the Chairwoman is here advocating to strip their funding.

00:21:50.380 In fact, I'm going to skip off real quick, because they have tried to come for you, Ms. Mayor,

00:21:54.460 and I just want to clarify, you did not work for NPR when those statements were made, did you?

00:21:59.900 That is correct, Madam Chair.

00:22:00.980 And to be clear, free speech is not about whatever it is that y'all want somebody to say.

00:22:06.480 And the idea that you want to shut down everybody that is not Fox News is...

00:22:12.040 We need to stop playing, because that's what y'all are doing in here.

00:22:15.560 You don't want to hear the opinions of anybody else, and the Constitution states Congress shall make no law

00:22:22.340 respecting or establishing of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the...

00:22:29.460 The gentlewoman's time has expired.

00:22:33.340 Of course, she had to read the First Amendment, because she doesn't know it, 1.00

00:22:38.780 and she apparently thinks that the First Amendment guarantees your right to not just say what you want,

00:22:43.680 but to be paid by the taxpayers to say it, because that's what we're talking about here.

00:22:48.260 But, you know, at least she announced that she was going to skip off real quick,

00:22:51.460 so that's a new one for Jasmine Crockett.

00:22:53.440 Normally, she doesn't provide any kind of warning before she starts vomiting random words 1.00

00:22:57.680 in the trashiest, fakest, ghetto accent she can come up with. 1.00

00:23:00.440 But in this case, she gave everybody a heads up. 0.97

00:23:03.840 It's like those disclaimers on the news when they say,

00:23:05.680 warning this footage could be disturbing to some viewers.

00:23:07.840 So that's appreciated.

00:23:10.340 And what's especially funny about this is that when she says Republicans want to shut down everyone who's not Fox News,

00:23:15.320 she's inadvertently acknowledging that Fox is pretty much the only mainstream conservative news outlet.

00:23:21.100 Everyone else, she's acknowledging, from CNN to ABC to CBS to MSNBC and so on and so on, all skew left.

00:23:27.900 And taken together, they all have a much larger market share than Fox.

00:23:31.180 And, of course, the bigger problem here is that, contrary to whatever Jasmine Crockett was barking about,

00:23:36.720 nobody wants to shut down everyone who's not Fox News.

00:23:39.500 Republicans are not calling for the elimination of MSNBC or CNN or ABC or CBS.

00:23:44.300 Instead, what we're calling for is the elimination of taxpayer funding

00:23:47.320 for rabidly partisan organizations that pose as news outlets.

00:23:52.000 That is what Republicans have sought in one capacity or another for the better part of a century

00:23:56.040 since NPR and PBS began seizing money from American citizens.

00:23:58.900 What's different now is that because of this Doge subcommittee,

00:24:02.420 Congress is maybe closer than it's ever been to achieving that goal.

00:24:06.120 And the more the Democrats like Jasmine Crockett skip off real quick, 0.97

00:24:10.940 the more they're helping to make the case.

00:24:13.740 America is a very different place than it was when NPR and PBS were founded.

00:24:17.460 Whether you think that founding NPR and PBS was a good idea or not,

00:24:20.860 the fact remains that they no longer perform the fundamental function of all state media,

00:24:26.240 which is to tell you something about the state.

00:24:28.060 Instead, they stand in opposition to the United States and its progress.

00:24:32.080 And for that reason, especially after this debacle of a hearing, they must be eliminated.

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00:25:44.700 Donald Trump gave a speech marking Women's History Month, which I guess is in March.

00:25:52.080 And I'm not a fan of Women's History Month, which probably doesn't surprise you. 0.89

00:25:56.880 I think it's pretty ridiculous to have a month set aside for celebrating the history of women, 1.00

00:26:01.580 unless we're also going to have a month for the history of men.

00:26:03.860 But of course, no such month exists.

00:26:05.780 And it would be considered sexist and misogynistic to have a month like that.

00:26:09.460 So this is a very obvious double standard here again.

00:26:11.380 And also, by the way, there are like two or three different months for women, 0.74

00:26:15.660 and also like 20 different individual days set aside on the calendar for celebrating women.

00:26:22.280 How many do we need?

00:26:23.420 How many is enough?

00:26:25.480 And meanwhile, again, there are precisely no days at all set aside to celebrate men specifically,

00:26:31.340 aside from Father's Day.

00:26:33.320 So that's the only one that we have, I guess.

00:26:35.260 But anyway, all that said, a speech commemorating Women's History Month

00:26:40.280 could be extremely cringe, because the concept is pretty cringe.

00:26:45.000 But Trump took it in a very non-cringe direction.

00:26:49.520 And this part in particular was pretty great.

00:26:52.080 Let's listen to it.

00:26:53.200 When day one, I made the official policy of the United States government

00:26:56.900 that there are only two genders, male and female.

00:27:00.580 Is there anybody, seriously, is there anybody that disagrees with that in this room?

00:27:12.220 I was thinking maybe somebody from the press might raise their hand.

00:27:15.780 I don't think so.

00:27:17.680 There aren't too many people.

00:27:19.680 You know, it's amazing.

00:27:20.500 It's got to be like a 98% issue, right?

00:27:24.100 So what are they doing, Marjorie?

00:27:25.900 What are they doing?

00:27:26.780 They're fighting for a 2% issue.

00:27:29.680 That's good.

00:27:30.280 Let them keep doing it.

00:27:31.400 No matter how many surgeries you have or chemicals you inject,

00:27:36.020 if you're born with male DNA in every cell of your body,

00:27:39.800 you can never become a woman. 0.99

00:27:41.520 You're not going to be a woman. 1.00

00:27:45.560 And that's why last month I proudly signed a historic executive order

00:27:50.140 to ban men from competing in women's sports.

00:27:53.180 And it was very popular and very, very popular.

00:27:58.900 This is true, obviously, what he just said.

00:28:01.220 It's the kind of truth that nobody should have to say.

00:28:03.440 The president of the United States in particular shouldn't have to say this,

00:28:06.680 but it is necessary to say it.

00:28:08.640 And I want us all to appreciate the significance of the fact

00:28:11.840 that Trump just said what he said.

00:28:16.280 And I don't mean the part about banning men from women's sports.

00:28:18.780 I mean, that's important too.

00:28:20.660 But that's one thing.

00:28:22.140 It's one thing to say that men shouldn't be women's sports. 0.88

00:28:24.460 It's one thing to say that children should not be, quote-unquote,

00:28:28.080 transitioned into another gender.

00:28:30.120 Those points are all important and all true,

00:28:32.480 and we should be saying that,

00:28:33.600 and we should be fighting against those forms of madness.

00:28:36.960 But both of those positions don't necessarily represent

00:28:40.620 a fundamental rejection of trans ideology.

00:28:44.260 It's possible to affirm trans ideology while also saying that we should wait 0.87

00:28:50.560 until somebody is 18 for medical transitions and that, quote-unquote,

00:28:55.080 quote-unquote, trans women shouldn't be in women's sports. 1.00

00:28:58.540 I mean, it's possible to stake out those two positions

00:29:02.440 while not necessarily repudiating trans ideology at its most fundamental level.

00:29:09.120 And for a while, Republicans were just ignoring this issue entirely,

00:29:17.840 and then when they started to not ignore it anymore,

00:29:20.120 they tried to do exactly this.

00:29:22.100 They tried to take a kind of moderate position

00:29:24.120 where they said, yeah, I'll affirm an adult who says he's a woman,

00:29:29.660 and I have no issue with that, but leave the kids alone,

00:29:32.860 and hey, it's unfair with women's sports. 1.00

00:29:35.020 So couching everything in kind of fairness and safety,

00:29:38.900 again, all that's true.

00:29:40.780 Fairness is important.

00:29:41.840 Safety is important.

00:29:43.900 But for a while, I think Republicans were trying not to repudiate

00:29:49.820 trans ideology at its core.

00:29:54.120 But the women's sports issue and the child transition issue,

00:29:57.980 these are branches.

00:29:59.080 These are limbs.

00:30:00.020 These are very big, important limbs, but they are limbs.

00:30:02.740 And you can chop off the limbs, but that doesn't mean that you kill the tree. 0.88

00:30:09.000 Just like if you're a trans-identified man, you can chop off your body parts. 1.00

00:30:12.640 It doesn't mean that you've changed who you are as a man. 0.99

00:30:15.920 No, you kill the tree by ripping out the roots.

00:30:19.360 And what Trump just said there, that's an attack on the roots.

00:30:24.520 And that's where our attacks should be directed.

00:30:27.760 You rip out the roots.

00:30:29.060 So he's not just saying that men shouldn't play in women's sports.

00:30:32.920 He is rejecting here the very concept of transgenderism itself.

00:30:38.440 If you have male DNA, you will never be a woman. 0.97

00:30:41.560 I mean, that is the argument.

00:30:42.840 That's our point.

00:30:44.620 Which is why I've always said all the stuff about safety and fairness and all of that is downstream.

00:30:50.860 I mean, we don't even need to really talk about that.

00:30:54.260 The fact that it's unfair to have or to talk about the competitive disadvantages that women suffer if they compete against men,

00:31:01.540 that's not even really the point.

00:31:04.920 Because even if it was somehow, even if there was some trans-identified male who is a very middling athlete,

00:31:16.180 even among women, and there are cases of this, even if it was a trans-identified male who wanted to, let's say,

00:31:25.620 race against women in track, and he's so slow that he's going to come in last against the women in every single race.

00:31:34.020 And then you could say, well, he's not taking any opportunities away from women.

00:31:38.260 He's not beating any of them.

00:31:40.660 He's not taking any medals away.

00:31:46.280 They're all winning, so it's not unfair in that sense.

00:31:52.860 Would that be okay?

00:31:54.960 Well, the answer is no, it still wouldn't be okay.

00:31:57.400 Because no matter where he's placing, no matter if he gets a gold medal or no medal, he's not a woman. 1.00

00:32:06.080 That's the problem.

00:32:07.140 It's untrue.

00:32:08.640 To have him on the women's team, it is an untruth.

00:32:12.580 We are saying something that is not true.

00:32:14.860 We are saying that he's a woman when he's not, and that is the problem. 0.99

00:32:19.560 And so this is what needs to happen.

00:32:21.020 This is how you win the war.

00:32:22.000 So when the other side says, well, are you denying the existence of trans people?

00:32:34.520 The answer needs to be unequivocally, yes.

00:32:38.840 Yes, we are.

00:32:40.500 Now, we're not denying the existence of people who say they're trans.

00:32:45.320 Those people exist.

00:32:46.540 Leah Thomas exists.

00:32:47.520 Dylan Mulvaney exists.

00:32:48.560 You know, Bruce Jenner exists.

00:32:54.040 Whatever other example you can think of.

00:32:55.600 These people exist.

00:32:58.940 We are denying the legitimacy of their claims.

00:33:02.040 We are denying the legitimacy of the claims that they're making about themselves.

00:33:05.540 We are saying that no one is actually trans.

00:33:08.140 They might say that they are.

00:33:09.400 They might identify as such, but you can't actually be that.

00:33:12.480 That is not a legitimate state of being that anyone can really claim for themselves.

00:33:18.560 And I think with this, with what Trump said there, you see this, obviously, at the highest levels now of the Republican Party, you have the top guy making precisely that argument.

00:33:33.740 On the same kind of topic, Lives with TikTok posted this video.

00:33:39.940 And according to Lives with TikTok, this person is named Zachary Sandry, a teacher at a school in Texas, a school in Red Oaks Independent School District, to be exact.

00:33:49.020 And here he is talking about his, quote-unquote, gender euphoria.

00:33:56.200 So needless to say, this is a trans-identified person, a male identifying as female, talking about, he's very happy in this case, how happy he is to be affirmed by his students.

00:34:07.960 Let's listen.

00:34:08.440 Hi, I'm Rosie, Texas English teacher and transgender goddess, here with just a couple of thoughts about some gender euphoria that I have been feeling today.

00:34:20.020 So for those of you that don't know, gender euphoria is the feeling you get when you finally feel comfortable in your gender, when you, something good happens and it just brings you a lot of joy and calm.

00:34:31.440 And it's been happening to me a lot today.

00:34:34.340 This morning, when I stopped at the gas station for my morning energy drink, I got manned, which is so funny because I know that there are a lot of women who really don't like being called manned, but I like it a lot.

00:34:45.720 It's so new to me and it's so wonderful.

00:34:48.060 And it was such a small thing to make me this happy.

00:34:51.340 And then at school today, I'm surrounded by kids.

00:34:55.080 I teach sophomores and I have these 15, 16 year olds who are completely on board, who, when I told them I had changed my pronouns, jumped right into it.

00:35:05.000 They call me ma'am.

00:35:06.700 They call me miss.

00:35:08.080 They use my correct pronouns and know my correct name.

00:35:12.020 And it is incredibly affirming.

00:35:14.740 So I guess my message here is if you have any trans people in your life, it is so easy to show them love.

00:35:25.380 So easy.

00:35:26.300 So we've talked about the progress that we've made on this issue.

00:35:29.260 We still have a long way to go, clearly.

00:35:31.600 And the next step, one of the next steps, should be laws that ban people like this from teaching.

00:35:42.280 This person should be legally barred from teaching children.

00:35:46.820 Now, if we're banning trans-identified people from the military, which is a policy I agree with, of course. 1.00

00:35:51.860 But if we're doing that and we say, well, they're not, right, it would be a threat to national security to have them in the military if they're struggling with these kinds of very serious mental health issues.

00:36:07.680 Okay, I totally buy that argument.

00:36:10.080 But then how in the hell are we allowing them to teach children?

00:36:15.700 If it's a national security threat to have a trans-identified person in the military, then what kind of threat are we talking about if they're teaching kids? 0.88

00:36:25.160 Because there are two ways of looking at this.

00:36:26.880 When you look at this video and you see this man, either he is confused about the basic facts of human biology, or he's not confused, but he enjoys acting out his fantasies in public.

00:36:45.040 In the first case, clearly he would not be qualified to teach children.

00:36:49.400 In order to teach, you need to have, at a minimum, a basic grasp of the laws of physical reality.

00:36:55.820 Whatever the subject is you're teaching.

00:36:57.220 You're teaching some subject that is based in reality, one would hope.

00:37:04.580 And so if you don't understand really, really fundamental things like the fact that men can't have babies, if you don't understand that, then there's no possible way that you could be qualified to teach.

00:37:15.040 But in the other case, if this guy actually is not confused, if he actually understands perfectly well that men are men and women are women, then that means that this is a kind of role-play fantasy game that he's engaging in.

00:37:28.480 And that makes him even less qualified to teach children.

00:37:31.900 Children in school should not be sucked into a teacher's role-play game.

00:37:37.580 Teachers should not be depending on children to give them a feeling of euphoria.

00:37:40.880 Like, I don't want teachers feeling euphoria in the classroom at all, for any reason.

00:37:51.260 That's just bizarre.

00:37:52.480 That's extremely weird.

00:37:54.800 What do you mean euphoria?

00:37:57.460 Who the hell feels euphoria?

00:38:00.400 And why are you feeling that in a classroom around a bunch of kids?

00:38:03.980 I don't want my children to ever be in the same room as a grown adult man who feels euphoric around children.

00:38:14.540 I mean, hell no.

00:38:16.880 Especially if that euphoria is tied to the fact that he's wearing women's clothes. 0.65

00:38:21.100 And he's depending again on these children to somehow, he's showing a kind of emotional codependency on these kids.

00:38:34.800 And that's the most mild way of putting it.

00:38:39.140 But that alone, that alone makes him unqualified to teach.

00:38:43.640 So this is the conversation we need to have next.

00:38:46.120 And I'd like to know which lawmakers are going to step up to the plate on this one.

00:38:51.900 Because I'm telling you right now, it would have wide support among the voters.

00:38:59.380 Show that video to the average voter.

00:39:02.140 Get 100 average voters in the room.

00:39:05.360 Representative sample.

00:39:06.440 Show them that video.

00:39:08.020 And ask them, do you think that this person should be allowed to teach kids?

00:39:13.180 Would you want your child to be in that person's classroom?

00:39:18.080 Yes or no?

00:39:20.240 100 average voters in the room.

00:39:21.940 How many do you think are going to say yes?

00:39:25.780 Oh yeah, I'd love to have...

00:39:28.360 Yeah, oh yeah.

00:39:29.840 Sign my kid up for that.

00:39:34.060 Would you get 10 out of 100?

00:39:36.600 You're not getting 20, I'll tell you that.

00:39:38.500 So, this would have wide support among the voters.

00:39:43.120 And I think this needs to be the next step.

00:39:46.540 I'll quickly mention this.

00:39:47.880 The son of Snow White producer Mark Platt, Jonah Platt is the son's name.

00:39:51.940 He is speaking out publicly against Rachel Zegler and blaming her for the film's catastrophic failure at the box office.

00:39:58.140 He wrote a comment on Instagram in response to someone who was upset that his dad reportedly reprimanded Zegler for her antics, you know, at some point before the movie came out.

00:40:12.880 And I just want to read this.

00:40:13.940 The comment says,

00:40:14.660 And then Jonah Platt, who's the son of the producer of the film, responded and said,

00:40:59.720 Well, I mean, he's totally right.

00:41:14.500 Now, of course, as we covered, the movie is terrible anyway, in its own right.

00:41:19.900 It was probably going to underperform regardless.

00:41:22.260 People are tired of the soulless cash grab remake thing.

00:41:26.600 They're tired of all that.

00:41:28.220 The movie has all kinds of problems that could be pinned partly on the producer.

00:41:32.380 Like, the producer did not do a good job.

00:41:35.820 Nobody who produced this movie did a good job.

00:41:40.040 And that's apart from all of the political controversy started by the actress.

00:41:46.760 So the movie had all kinds of problems creatively and conceptually.

00:41:50.060 But there's no doubt that she drove the final nail into this movie's coffin.

00:41:54.940 She probably drove the final two or three nails into the coffin. 1.00

00:41:59.140 And a lot of what you see with Zegler is really just this pretty common Gen Z mentality 1.00

00:42:07.060 and approach to work.

00:42:09.900 That she believes that she should be able to express herself

00:42:12.720 and speak her truth or whatever nonsense

00:42:16.560 regardless of the consequences to everybody else.

00:42:22.120 But in reality, you have a job.

00:42:25.420 You're getting paid to do this job.

00:42:26.800 You signed on the dotted line.

00:42:27.940 You took on the role.

00:42:30.260 You took the job.

00:42:32.060 And that job comes with certain basic responsibilities.

00:42:36.100 And one of the most basic is the responsibility to control yourself

00:42:39.640 and comport yourself a certain way publicly

00:42:42.440 so that you don't harm the project

00:42:45.660 and thereby harm all the hundreds of other people who are working on it.

00:42:49.540 So, you know, a lot has been said about the fact that Rachel Zegler is a leftist fruitcake. 0.98

00:42:57.920 And she is, but she's also just a spoiled, entitled, narcissistic brat 1.00

00:43:04.480 who was perfectly willing 1.00

00:43:07.660 because she's not stupid. 1.00

00:43:09.980 Well, she might be stupid, but she's not so dumb that she didn't realize that 1.00

00:43:14.420 by, for example, coming out and saying that all Trump supporters deserve to suffer for, 1.00

00:43:23.400 like, she's smart enough to know that, of course, that's going to upset a large portion

00:43:29.380 of the potential audience for this project that I'm on.

00:43:34.260 But she knew that, and she didn't care

00:43:36.000 because she has this mentality, and she's not the only one.

00:43:40.640 It's kind of a common mentality

00:43:41.980 that, hey, the only thing that matters is how I feel.

00:43:47.160 It's the only thing that matters in the world.

00:43:49.240 And there are no obligations or responsibilities that I could possibly have

00:43:52.920 that would outrank my own feelings.

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00:45:19.000 Well, the Matt Walsh Candle Collection is getting a new member.

00:45:23.560 I already spoiled the surprise off camera, but the new scent is called Waffles.

00:45:31.700 So it smells like a goat. Is that the idea?

00:45:33.780 We got a goat.

00:45:35.940 Waffles after our new goat, which, you know, we don't need to go through that story again.

00:45:40.160 So it's a goat-scented can.

00:45:42.480 I've been around goats enough now over the last few days to know that that's not a scent you want in your house.

00:45:45.820 I don't know what we're doing.

00:45:47.640 It doesn't even smell like a goat. That's not a goat at all.

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00:46:28.100 That's not the kind of message you want to send.

00:46:30.180 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:46:38.080 Our daily cancellation today begins with a post on X from the very insightful conservative writer Inez Stetman.

00:46:43.760 She inadvertently sparked a controversy, even, God forbid, a full-blown discourse on the platform this week, 0.52

00:46:50.000 with a post that was very simple and, you would think, quite unremarkable.

00:46:56.240 And this is the way it so often goes.

00:46:57.580 You know, you might post 10,000 interesting, incisive things on the Internet,

00:47:01.480 but it will be the simplest, most straightforward, most uncontroversial thing that creates all the controversy.

00:47:07.560 That's the way it goes.

00:47:08.260 And for Inez, it was a post thanking her husband.

00:47:12.460 And we all know that, in the mind of a feminist anyway, 1.00

00:47:15.320 there is nothing more divisive and provocative than—that a woman can do 1.00

00:47:19.400 than show a basic level of gratitude towards her husband.

00:47:23.080 So here's what Inez posted a couple of days ago.

00:47:24.980 Quote,

00:47:25.640 This is by no means universal, so don't yell at me,

00:47:27.480 but I'm starting to suspect that behind many of the complaints that dad doesn't help enough with the baby

00:47:31.640 are women who are extremely finicky and inflexible about what caring for the baby looks like. 1.00

00:47:36.540 Now, she's right about that, but it was the follow-up post that really attracted the ire of the feminist hordes, 1.00

00:47:43.860 because here's what she said next.

00:47:45.920 Get ready for this. Brace yourself.

00:47:49.160 Quote,

00:47:50.580 That's it.

00:47:57.420 Oh, no. A woman just thanked her husband for helping with the baby.

00:48:02.780 The feminists will not stand for that. 1.00

00:48:04.820 There won't be any thanking of men allowed on this platform or anywhere else.

00:48:09.100 So I'm going to read just a very quick sample of the replies.

00:48:11.920 There are hundreds of them that are all along the same lines.

00:48:15.060 They're very upset at that second tweet specifically.

00:48:17.920 And it's worth talking about them, because these women, who will read some of their comments,

00:48:24.660 they represent an increasingly common point of view,

00:48:26.820 and it's one that has destroyed many marriages and will destroy many more in the future.

00:48:31.400 In fact, I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that the replies I'm about to read represent

00:48:35.180 one of the greatest threats to marriage in modern society.

00:48:39.960 So here are just a few of those responses.

00:48:42.040 The first one says,

00:48:44.320 Another one says,

00:48:50.420 Another says,

00:48:54.500 Another says,

00:49:00.600 Another comment says,

00:49:02.420 Stop praising men for the bare minimum.

00:49:16.380 He's the father.

00:49:17.120 You don't need to thank him, since he shouldn't only take care of the baby when you're feeling bad.

00:49:21.900 Another says,

00:49:22.300 It's his kid, too.

00:49:23.440 It's his responsibility, too.

00:49:24.340 It's his job, too.

00:49:27.460 Finally get that through your thick heads.

00:49:30.980 Another says,

00:49:31.360 And then here's my favorite response.

00:49:50.520 We've been divorced for a while at this point, but still, every day I feel gratitude that the father of my children loves actually being a father,

00:49:58.560 and I never once have had to thank him for simply participating in parenthood.

00:50:03.540 Now, there are many more comments, some quite a bit more vulgar and angry, but all of them are along these lines.

00:50:09.540 And as I said, this is a very common attitude these days, which is why it's worth discussing.

00:50:13.100 All of these women agree that Inez's husband is doing, quote, the bare minimum, and that it's ridiculous to thank him for it.

00:50:22.100 So they all concur with each other that thanking your husband for being helpful is outrageous, and it's a sign that you're some sort of battered wife. 0.71

00:50:30.260 And then there's that last comment from a woman named Charlotte who recommends not thanking your husband for things, and, you know, you should take her advice on how to have a healthy marriage.

00:50:40.820 After all, she's been divorced for quite some time.

00:50:42.780 And it has not occurred to Charlotte, apparently, that perhaps the reason why she's divorced is that she never once felt the need to express any kind of gratitude to her husband at all by her own testimony.

00:50:55.600 So let me offer a few thoughts, a few things that these feminists might want to consider. 1.00

00:51:00.340 First of all, a father who helps with the baby at night or early in the morning is, in very many cases, doing a lot more than the, quote, bare minimum.

00:51:14.540 Often the father has to get up and go to work in the morning, and that means that helping with the baby at night or in the morning represents a very real sacrifice on his part.

00:51:22.760 And these kinds of women, the ones who left the comments, seem to think that if the dad is doing less than exactly 50% of the childcare, then he's automatically doing the bare minimum. 0.99

00:51:34.200 But none of the roles in a functional and happy household are going to be split down the middle 50-50 like that, which means their conception of what constitutes the bare minimum is completely off base.

00:51:46.940 If the man is earning 100% of the income that keeps a roof over everyone's head and food on the table, or even 80% or 70%, but then he's also doing, say, 20% to 25% of the childcare duties, is that still the bare minimum?

00:52:02.940 Like, couldn't he just as easily flip it around and accuse her of doing the bare minimum, seeing as how she's doing 70% or 80% of the childcare but contributing nothing or almost nothing to the family income?

00:52:12.600 Now, I have no idea if this actually applies to Inez's household or not, but my point still stands either way.

00:52:20.280 My point is that there's a lot of work that needs to be done constantly all the time to keep a household running and a family alive and fed and cared for and happy.

00:52:30.080 And for all of our talk about being a society that has moved beyond gender roles, the fact is that the man is still the primary breadwinner in a majority of American households.

00:52:42.720 And the woman is the primary breadwinner in only a small minority, 15% or 16%, last I checked.

00:52:49.200 So all the feminist complaints about men not contributing enough to childcare and to household duties just simply ignore this point entirely.

00:52:56.760 They treat the man's role of working every day and carrying the burden of supporting the family as if it's nothing, as if it doesn't matter at all.

00:53:05.420 It doesn't count.

00:53:07.760 A man can carry the financial needs of the family on his shoulders alone, but if he changes fewer than 50% of the diapers, then he's still effectively a deadbeat.

00:53:19.240 But this is the attitude they have, and it's why almost all of them are single or divorced or married yet soon to be divorced.

00:53:27.860 Now, in the real world, almost, again, none of the roles in a family are going to be split 50-50.

00:53:34.280 And any married couple that insists on portioning the responsibilities out that way will become very unhappy very quickly.

00:53:41.380 And almost certainly get divorced before long unless they grow up in a hurry, because marriages with scorecards fall apart.

00:53:50.000 And this is true in, like, 100% of all cases.

00:53:54.620 Lose the scorecard or lose your marriage.

00:53:57.600 And once you lose the scorecard, you realize that statements like, he's doing the bare minimum, are often incoherent.

00:54:07.560 Because he might be contributing minimally in one specific area, but he might be contributing maximally in plenty of other areas.

00:54:17.120 So how does it all average out?

00:54:19.460 Who is doing more when you factor everything together?

00:54:22.380 Well, if you're asking that question about your marriage, you're basically already halfway to divorce court. 1.00

00:54:29.000 And if you're asking that question about somebody else's marriage, you're simply a childish moron. 0.99

00:54:34.620 And second point, putting all that aside, no matter who is doing what, no matter who's earning the money, no matter who's feeding the baby at 7 a.m., no matter who's changing the diapers, no matter what, one thing will always be true. 0.99

00:54:48.500 It is good to show gratitude to your spouse.

00:54:53.280 It is, in fact, necessary to show gratitude to your spouse.

00:54:58.140 Whether this was the first time Inez's husband ever got up with a baby in the morning, or whether he gets up with a baby every morning, we don't know.

00:55:04.960 But in either case, it is good that she said thank you.

00:55:10.340 Wives should show gratitude to their husbands.

00:55:12.600 They should show gratitude every day.

00:55:15.120 Husbands should show gratitude to their wives.

00:55:16.840 They should show gratitude every day.

00:55:18.780 A marriage without gratitude will die.

00:55:21.200 It can only die.

00:55:23.860 Let's go back to our friend Charlotte's comment again, because I think it's instructive.

00:55:27.240 She said, we've been divorced for a while at this point, but still every day I feel gratitude that the father of my children loves being a father,

00:55:33.640 and I never once had to thank him for simply participating in parenthood.

00:55:39.860 I never once had to thank him.

00:55:42.560 She feels gratitude, she claims, but she never once thanked him.

00:55:48.180 Never once.

00:55:50.800 And now she's divorced, and her children are the victims of a broken home, and she still hasn't put the pieces of this puzzle together.

00:55:58.160 A lack of gratitude lies at the heart of almost every failed marriage.

00:56:02.920 I mean, you talk to any divorced person, talk to any unhappily married person, and they will almost always say some version of this.

00:56:14.020 I was never appreciated.

00:56:15.780 She didn't appreciate me.

00:56:17.120 He didn't appreciate me.

00:56:18.120 And in most cases, while they were busy feeling unappreciated, the other person in the marriage also felt exactly the same way.

00:56:26.420 And keep something else in mind, too.

00:56:27.840 You know, if you're trying to judge how much work your spouse does, and therefore how much gratitude you should have for them, which is entirely the wrong attitude,

00:56:37.040 but if you are, remember that you don't see all of it, or even most of it.

00:56:45.220 You don't see all or even most of what your spouse is actually doing.

00:56:51.060 You know, we hear a lot about the so-called emotional labor done by women. 1.00

00:56:56.180 You know, we hear this term emotional labor.

00:56:58.640 And I object to the term labor, by definition, cannot be done emotionally.

00:57:02.760 Labor is something that you physically do.

00:57:04.320 But the point of the term is that women carry a lot of stress and a lot of emotional weight, 0.98

00:57:10.300 especially if they're the primary caretakers of their children.

00:57:14.220 And that's the emotional labor, so-called.

00:57:16.460 And I don't doubt that's the case. 0.57

00:57:17.660 And it's yet another reason why men should be very grateful for their wives.

00:57:21.660 But you notice something?

00:57:25.120 We never, ever hear anyone talk about the emotional labor done by men.

00:57:31.380 This subject is never raised.

00:57:35.420 Ever.

00:57:36.980 When's the last time you heard the term emotional labor relating to men?

00:57:41.680 I've never heard it.

00:57:42.780 I've seriously never heard anyone even raise the point.

00:57:46.700 And that's because the people predisposed to use the term emotional labor,

00:57:50.300 that being women of a feminist persuasion, 1.00

00:57:52.680 they just assume that men have no emotional or mental burdens at all.

00:57:57.640 That's really what they think.

00:57:58.600 They think men are walking around like blank slates in their heads.

00:58:02.200 Just blissfully, you know, on cloud nine all the time.

00:58:07.400 Now, the fact that men are the majority of suicides should probably tell you otherwise.

00:58:12.320 But they ignore that point because they refuse to acknowledge that men have unseen emotional depths,

00:58:18.320 just as women do. 1.00

00:58:19.120 In fact, for men, the depths are even more unseen and more unheard and more unacknowledged.

00:58:27.240 Because they're not acknowledged at all.

00:58:29.820 And this is especially true of men who are the primary or sole breadwinners in their homes.

00:58:37.260 And again, there are still many more men in that position in our country than there are women by a wide margin.

00:58:45.840 So if you're a wife dealing with the stresses and burdens of being the primary caretaker,

00:58:51.320 keep in mind that there are also enormous stresses and a huge, boulder-sized burden

00:58:57.880 that your husband carries as the one who is mostly responsible for making sure that the family has a roof to sleep under

00:59:04.520 and food to eat and medical care when they get sick.

00:59:08.260 And if he fails, everyone he loves loses everything.

00:59:17.080 And this weighs on him every day, every single day all the time.

00:59:23.740 So if you're looking at your husband and thinking, oh, he's not worried about anything.

00:59:26.280 I have all the emotional labor.

00:59:28.000 What's happening in his head is he's thinking to himself that if he fails, if he loses his job,

00:59:35.140 if things don't work out for him, everyone he loves loses everything they have.

00:59:40.960 That's actually what's in his head.

00:59:43.240 And he never forgets it.

00:59:45.660 In fact, your husband might be dealing with an impending catastrophe right now.

00:59:53.600 He might be working hard to avert disaster at this very moment.

00:59:57.880 There might be a disaster coming that he sees and he's trying to avoid, and you don't even know it.

01:00:05.140 And he might successfully avoid the disaster and never tell you what almost happened.

01:00:11.960 You know, he might be a step away from losing his job, and he's fighting like hell to keep it.

01:00:18.020 And again, that might be happening, and you don't even know it.

01:00:21.660 He might be walking in that door at night carrying a stress that is shaving years off of his life.

01:00:27.040 There's a reason why men die younger than women. 1.00

01:00:29.560 Okay, he might have a stress on his mind right now that is killing him.

01:00:36.260 And yet, if you're one of these women in the comments, you look at him and think, he's doing the bare minimum.

01:00:45.740 He's giving everything to his family, and yet you are convinced that he hasn't even done enough to warrant a thank you.

01:00:53.360 I mean, that is what kills a marriage in both directions.

01:00:58.200 So yes, this may be scandalous for these feminists to hear, but yes, you should thank your husband.

01:01:07.940 It costs you nothing to show him gratitude.

01:01:10.860 It takes no effort.

01:01:14.120 Like, if you go up to him and give him a kiss and say thank you, just thank you.

01:01:17.980 Thank you for everything he does.

01:01:19.100 Thank you for supporting the family.

01:01:20.400 Thank you for...

01:01:21.200 It takes 10 seconds of your time.

01:01:23.380 And what you get in exchange for that bare minimum on your part is a husband who feels appreciated and loved and respected and a marriage that is immeasurably strengthened.

01:01:35.220 And as a bonus, he'll be even more inspired to do even more and help even more in the future.

01:01:39.940 And the same goes for husbands in the other direction. 1.00

01:01:42.560 Like, there's no downside here.

01:01:44.780 No marriage has ever suffered because of excess gratitude.

01:01:47.740 No husband ever regretted being too appreciative of his wife.

01:01:52.580 And no wife ever regretted being too appreciative of her husband.

01:01:56.920 No divorced person ever said, yeah, you know, it just didn't work out. 0.78

01:02:00.820 There was just too much gratitude.

01:02:02.600 We were constantly saying thank you to each other.

01:02:04.420 It destroyed the marriage.

01:02:06.680 That has never happened.

01:02:09.040 But people who follow the advice of the bitter, angry feminist screaming at Inez for thanking her husband, 0.85

01:02:14.580 those people, on the other hand, will end up lonely and miserable. 0.88

01:02:19.440 All of them.

01:02:21.220 Without exception.

01:02:23.660 Gratitude will definitely not hurt your marriage.

01:02:26.300 A lack of gratitude will definitely kill it.

01:02:29.920 100% guaranteed.

01:02:31.840 And that is why those bitter, angry feminists in Inez's replies are, 1.00

01:02:38.140 just like their hopes of ever being happily married, canceled.

01:02:42.220 That'll do it for the show today.

01:02:42.980 Thanks for watching.

01:02:43.500 Thanks for listening.

01:02:44.120 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:02:45.160 Have a great day.

01:02:46.220 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - March 27, 2025

Ep. 1564 - This Insane Hearing Is Evidence That State Media Should Be Immediately Eliminated

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