The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1637 - This One Shocking Stat Proves That The American Dream Is Dying

00:00:00.000 Today, The Matt Wall Show, a startling statistic that not nearly enough people are talking about

00:00:03.960 proves that the American dream is dying a rapid death. We'll discuss. Also, the woman who was

00:00:09.140 beaten in that brutal mob attack in Cincinnati speaks out publicly for the first time. More and

00:00:13.340 more people are turning to chat GPT for therapy. Is that really any worse, though, than going to

00:00:18.420 an actual therapist? And a right-wing female influencer posted a picture of her engagement 0.96

00:00:22.660 ring, which set off a week of outrage on social media for some reason. We'll talk about all that

00:00:27.160 and more today on The Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:29.340 Nathan Halbertstadt began working at the Boston Consulting Group. This is a familiar path for

00:02:34.500 students who attend schools that are highly ranked. Often they're hired by one of the big three

00:02:38.560 consulting companies, which on paper means they'll provide useful advice for large businesses and the

00:02:44.020 government, which is how it's supposed to work anyway. Very quickly though, Nathan realized what

00:02:48.000 the job actually entailed. In his words, working for a big consulting group meant that you had to

00:02:52.500 promote, quote, the bureaucratic optimization of opioid sales, mass migration, offshoring, and DEI.

00:02:58.640 You had to churn out bogus statistics to advance anti-American agenda items like that fake McKinsey

00:03:04.580 study a few years back we've talked about, which claimed that diversity somehow makes companies more

00:03:08.720 profitable. That's what consulting actually means in practice. New graduates from Vanderbilt aren't

00:03:15.040 really walking into companies like Boeing and Apple and blowing their minds with their unique

00:03:20.100 insights. Instead, in many cases, they're simply giving executives a pretext to do exactly what they

00:03:24.920 wanted to do all along. So seeing all this, Nathan decided to quit. And instead of manipulating data to

00:03:31.020 promote the destruction of the United States, he decided to spend his time actually identifying statistics

00:03:35.540 that really matter. He would look through government data and try to find important connections that

00:03:40.280 no one else has made before. And the other day, as you may have seen, Nathan accomplished that goal.

00:03:46.220 He published this remarkable chart, which has already been cited by several members of Congress,

00:03:51.000 seen by millions of people. And here it is. As you can see on the screen, it's a graph that shows the

00:03:57.480 estimated percentage of 30-year-olds who are both married and own a home. The data runs from 1950 all the

00:04:05.460 way through 2025. In the 1950s, the number was more than 50%. In other words, in 1950, well over half of

00:04:13.720 the 30-year-olds in the country were both married and living in a home that they owned by the age of 30.

00:04:21.080 But as you can see, the percentage has been steadily dropping since then until it fell off a cliff in the

00:04:25.120 1990s. And now in 2025, the percentage is well below 20%. In fact, according to this estimate, only around 15%,

00:04:32.200 15%, one five of 30-year-olds are married and own a home. Something that was once commonplace in this 0.94

00:04:38.380 country is now rare, from over 50% to 15%. Now, right off the bat, it's impossible to look at an

00:04:45.260 estimate like this without immediately asking, why haven't we heard these numbers before? For all the

00:04:51.720 very granular information we have about gross domestic product and unemployment numbers and

00:04:56.140 per capita manufacturing output. It took a random Vanderbilt grad to produce this particular chart.

00:05:04.560 Now, to be sure, we all knew that these numbers were probably bad. It was very evident that fewer

00:05:08.800 young people were getting married or owning homes, but the scale and the timing of the decline

00:05:13.880 were not very clear. I mean, frankly, this is a lot worse than I think anyone realized, which is why

00:05:19.300 the chart has attracted so much attention. But the numbers were always available to anyone who wanted to

00:05:25.300 look for them. All you have to do is look up the marriage data from the U.S. Census Bureau, which

00:05:29.280 tabulates the median age of first marriage, along with Pew surveys of the percentage of people who

00:05:33.820 are married at 30, and then factor in homeownership data from the census. You know, it's not a perfect

00:05:38.440 calculation. Some estimation is involved. We just talked yesterday about the problems with census data,

00:05:43.880 how unreliable it can be. But the overall story is pretty clear. It's corroborated by other sources,

00:05:49.960 so it seems reliable. In Ohio, for example, researchers at Bowling Green State University

00:05:56.340 have compiled similar estimates. So there's some cross-referencing here, and it seems pretty

00:06:02.680 reliable. Amazingly, though, very few of our political leaders are talking about this. It's not a topic of

00:06:09.340 mainstream conversation at all. I mean, making sure that Americans are getting married and acquiring 0.96

00:06:15.360 homes by the age of 30 should be an urgent priority of every politician in the country. It's hard to

00:06:23.220 think of many other things that could possibly be more important, but it's not getting anywhere near

00:06:30.980 the attention that it should. To the extent that some action is being taken in Washington, it raises

00:06:35.360 some unanswered questions. For example, this week, a very unusual alliance formed in Washington between

00:06:41.420 Elizabeth Warren, who's the socialist from Massachusetts, and John Kennedy, the Republican

00:06:46.400 from Louisiana. The two senators have introduced legislation called the Build Now Act, which would

00:06:51.020 withhold taxpayer funds from states that don't build enough housing while sending taxpayer money to

00:06:55.940 states that build more housing. Now, unlike most proposed legislation that you hear about, this particular

00:07:00.780 bill actually has a good chance of passing because it was just unanimously approved by a Senate

00:07:05.480 committee. And here is Kennedy's explanation of the plan. Listen. The most stunning statistic to me

00:07:13.320 is the fact that the median age of a new homeowner, first-time homeowner in America today, is 38.

00:07:22.360 That's almost 40 before you can afford a home. It hasn't been that many years ago that the median age was 29.

00:07:29.560 We've got a problem. We give $2.3 billion a year in HUD grants to local government for things like housing, sewer, infrastructure, water.

00:07:42.280 $2.3 billion a year. Under Senator Warren and I's proposal, if you increase your housing stock over a five-year period,

00:07:56.520 you will get extra money.

00:08:03.640 Here's the other side of that coin. If you don't increase your housing stock over a five-year period,

00:08:13.480 more specifically, if you fall below the median point compared to other states,

00:08:21.240 then you're going to lose 10% of your money.

00:08:23.400 Now, as a general rule, and I've talked about this many times, whenever Democrats and Republicans,

00:08:27.800 in this case a conservative like John Kennedy and a socialist like Elizabeth Warren, team up

00:08:32.040 on legislation, it's usually a good idea to be skeptical of it. I mean, the only ideas that have

00:08:38.440 bipartisan support in Washington, generally speaking, are bad ones. And as we all know, socialists are

00:08:45.580 well-known for making housing even less affordable by introducing high-minded plans to manipulate markets,

00:08:50.920 as New York City is about to discover the hard way. And that said, more housing is obviously a

00:08:56.200 good idea. Increasing the supply of housing usually means that prices will go down. That's basic

00:08:59.880 economics. And although it's reasonable to be concerned about the federal government throwing

00:09:04.600 taxpayer money around, this is one of the rare times when if it's done right, it makes sense.

00:09:11.320 Certainly, the federal government helped many homeowners in the 1950s with the GI Bill and so on.

00:09:15.720 Now, at the same time, it's reasonable to ask whether this kind of legislation will simply

00:09:19.080 provide incentives for the creation of, say, more dilapidated housing for the homeless to use as

00:09:24.840 drug dens or more rental units for neighborhoods that are already flooded with them. This is a problem

00:09:30.920 that's become increasingly apparent, as you may have noticed. Large institutions are buying up homes

00:09:36.440 and suburbs and renting them instead of putting them up for sale. Watch.

00:09:41.400 America's suburbs undergoing a transformation. We're priced out of the market right now,

00:09:46.680 and we're not the only ones. The dream of owning the house with the white picket fence

00:09:51.640 increasingly giving way to white picket renters. In Lake Villa, Illinois, outside of Chicago,

00:09:59.320 engineer Andrew Decker earns a six-figure salary and only wishes he and his fiancee could buy a home.

00:10:05.640 You could buy a house tomorrow if the price was right, if the interest rates were where they needed to be.

00:10:09.880 But mortgage rates are near seven percent and home prices at record highs. Since the pandemic,

00:10:15.960 the median single-family home price has soared almost $100,000, now topping 400 grand.

00:10:22.920 According to new analysis of census data, renting in the burbs is surging so much,

00:10:27.960 203 suburbs across the country are now majority home renter rather than homeowner. In 15 suburbs,

00:10:35.160 the number of renter households more than doubled between 2018 and 2023.

00:10:39.640 I don't see any end in sight. I really don't. And I and I foresee it getting worse and worse over the

00:10:45.160 next five years. So constructing new housing doesn't necessarily solve this particular problem if the

00:10:50.760 houses are being purchased by institutions and then rented out as apartments. A lot depends on why the

00:10:58.280 homes are being constructed, where they're located, who's buying them. Kennedy's bill does have a provision

00:11:04.520 that provides incentives for new construction in high demand areas. But again, you still might wind up with

00:11:09.800 apartment complexes where actually you want single-family homes, which is not to disparage

00:11:15.400 a particular bill or to declare that it can't possibly help matters. But it's safe to say that this legislation won't

00:11:20.040 come close to solving the underlying problem, which again is that young people aren't getting married

00:11:25.480 and they're not buying homes oftentimes because they can't afford them. Those are those are problems

00:11:31.000 with a lot of different causes, probably too many to list compared to the 1950s. We have, first of all,

00:11:36.360 tens of millions more illegal aliens living inside our borders. We've devalued the dollar to an almost 0.77

00:11:43.240 unprecedented degree. We've opened up our job market to the entire world, driving down employment,

00:11:49.800 on and on. There are also many cultural factors that have, in many cases deliberately by design,

00:11:54.280 made marriage and family life seem less appealing to younger generations. And we do have an older

00:12:00.200 generation, the boomers, who were a disaster. To the institution of marriage, the boomers were an 1.00

00:12:08.040 absolute disaster. Their divorce rates were sky high, so they just destroyed the institution.

00:12:13.480 And they did basically nothing at all to defend the border, protect our sovereignty. Not only did they

00:12:18.840 do nothing, but they intentionally imported all these third world migrants. And not to lay it all at the 1.00

00:12:26.040 feet of one generation, but those two factors alone make the boomer generation, by and large, just a

00:12:32.200 catastrophe. Just an absolute catastrophic generation. And there's just no getting around it. The numbers 1.00

00:12:39.480 speak for themselves. There is one aspect of this new data that's worth homing in on, because it does

00:12:44.760 suggest one practical way forward. In the 1950s, roughly 90% of 30-year-olds were married, and more than

00:12:51.560 50% were homeowners. By contrast, right now, only around 50% of 30-year-olds are married. Roughly 30% are

00:12:58.360 homeowners. So both numbers dropped by huge margins. But the marriage decline has been

00:13:03.480 drastically more significant than the drop in homeownership. More than any other time in this

00:13:08.280 country's history, men and women are choosing not to get married. And there's reason to believe that 1.00

00:13:12.840 this broader cultural trend is what's convincing a lot of young adults to forego homeownership as well.

00:13:18.600 After all, if you're single, the prospect of paying most of your savings to a bank in the form of

00:13:23.560 a down payment for a house isn't exactly appealing. You don't need all that space for yourself and your

00:13:28.200 dog. Before I was married, I never even considered trying to buy a home. It wasn't on the horizon.

00:13:33.560 Then as soon as I got married, I felt a sudden and very strong pull, as many people do, to buy a home,

00:13:40.440 have a piece of land that we could call our own. Within about three years of getting married,

00:13:45.480 we bought our first home. But for single people, the financial sacrifice seems irrational and

00:13:50.360 unnecessary. So if they have any extra money to throw around, they're more likely to put it into

00:13:54.280 a Bitcoin or whatever else. On the other hand, if you're intent on starting a family,

00:13:58.840 then the cost of a mortgage makes a lot more sense. People can make it work in many cases.

00:14:03.960 I've said before that homeownership is attainable for many more people than they think. It's more

00:14:12.040 doable than I think a lot of people think. If you have a full-time job and decent credit,

00:14:16.120 it's often a matter of priorities. And as we look at the plummeting numbers of homeowners who are young

00:14:21.080 and married, it's a fact that just needs to be restated. In this case, as in many other cases,

00:14:26.760 decline is a choice. It is a result of choices that have been made many times by our leaders.

00:14:36.440 It's a result of policies that have been put in place. And make no mistake, this is decline.

00:14:43.080 Millions of young adults who aren't even that young at 30 have now no skin in the game. I mean,

00:14:52.200 no, no real stake in the country or its future. You don't have any, you don't own anything.

00:15:00.360 You don't own anything. You don't have kids. You don't have a family. You're not married.

00:15:04.280 That when you're, when you're in that position, you don't have a stake in the country in this,

00:15:09.960 in the same way that, that people do when you own something, you have property and you have kids,

00:15:16.520 you have a family. Getting married, starting a family, owning property are the basic fundamental

00:15:23.160 pillars of the American dream. They're, they're the starting point in most cases for a fulfilling and

00:15:31.560 productive life and, and for a well-ordered society. As this new data reveals, most young

00:15:37.960 people were able to achieve those milestones in the 1950s, but they're not achieving them anymore.

00:15:42.920 And those numbers are only getting worse by the year. Things are trending in the wrong direction

00:15:49.720 and quickly. And if we want the kind of country that we had in the 1950s, which is to say a country

00:15:55.560 that has the potential to survive for another century, then one way or another, that needs to change.

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00:17:30.040 policygenius.com slash Walsh. Okay, the woman who was brutally attacked in Cincinnati spoke out publicly

00:17:36.920 yesterday for the first time. She spoke at a press conference. First, we've seen her publicly

00:17:41.320 talking about this incident. So let's watch some of that. First and foremost, I just want to say that

00:17:47.400 I don't want to relive what happened to me, you know, eight or nine days ago. I'm here to talk about

00:17:53.400 the future and how we can change it, how we can prevent this from happening to anybody else. These

00:18:00.280 heinous crimes have to stop. You know, I never want this to happen to anyone else, especially a mother,

00:18:06.840 a daughter, somebody who is loved. So I just know what it's done to my family, not just to me.

00:18:15.480 And I think that moving forward, we do need more accountability. And I definitely think that,

00:18:22.920 you know, we, we need more police officers. But like he said, you know, the judges who are just

00:18:29.400 letting people out with a slap, the man who attacked me and might have permanently damaged me forever,

00:18:36.520 should never have been on the streets ever. And the fact that he had just gotten out of jail

00:18:43.160 previously for something, he should have been in there for years. It's really sad to me because I

00:18:49.640 can't even fathom how many other people who have been attacked by the same type of man over and over and

00:18:56.920 over in Toledo, in Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, our streets are being taken over and nobody is doing

00:19:03.960 anything. I am so sad and I need to be the voice to help all of the victims that never got their

00:19:12.760 justice. You could see there the severe facial injuries that she has. And she said at another 0.99

00:19:18.920 point in the press conference that she's in excruciating pain all the time, which, which she

00:19:24.360 certainly looks at. She has brain injuries. Her doctors are surprised that she's even alive. 1.00

00:19:28.920 Uh, she easily could have died, which is very clear. Now there are two, two notes on this. One,

00:19:35.160 first of all, she's right. This, this incident could have easily been avoided. And that's not

00:19:40.600 just by having more police officers around, although that would help, but by the criminal

00:19:45.880 justice system, actually punishing criminals. I mean, it's no surprise that the people who attacked

00:19:50.200 her had criminal records. They could have, and should have already been taken off the street 1.00

00:19:55.880 and they weren't. And people are fed up with it. They're completely fed up with it because now the

00:20:03.260 average American is looking at this and asking, why are we choosing leniency and compassion for

00:20:09.240 violent criminals at the expense of law abiding citizens? I think people are asking why, why do we

00:20:18.900 have to suffer for the sake of the scum of the earth? Which is a very good question. That's the 0.96

00:20:25.700 question we should be asking. As I always say, compassion for criminals is cruelty to the innocent.

00:20:32.100 Why are we choosing cruelty to the innocent? Why? We should demand answers to that.

00:20:40.140 And second, on a more positive note, I think it is very significant that this case has gotten

00:20:46.740 all this attention. You know, corporate media is obviously not really paying attention. They're

00:20:52.740 paying attention begrudgingly because we forced them to, but it is still getting a lot of attention.

00:20:59.140 And that's a positive sign because up until very recently, it would have, it would have been

00:21:03.660 pretty inconceivable that a white victim of a violent crime, uh, committed by a non-white person 0.76

00:21:12.000 would end up giving a press conference that is widely covered. I mean, up until recently, this,

00:21:17.640 this case would have gotten no attention at all, right? We'd, we'd never hear about it and that

00:21:22.780 would be it. We just wouldn't hear, but Austin Metcalf is another one. And there have been a lot of

00:21:28.100 Austin Metcalfs, right? Over the years, a lot of victims like him. We don't know. We don't know any of

00:21:33.420 their names. Uh, but we do know Austin's name and we know Holly's name and that's because things are

00:21:43.180 changing. And that change is fueled again by the fact that people are fed up as they, as they should

00:21:51.300 be. And I think people are starting to ask the, the right questions, questions that for the people

00:22:01.480 in charge who've created this situation are, are basically unanswerable questions like, again,

00:22:08.800 you have a violent criminal and you have to choose between prioritizing

00:22:17.020 his compassion for him or prioritizing the safety of the community. It's, it's, it's one or the other.

00:22:27.380 And yet you choose not to prioritize the safety of the community. Why is that? Why would you do that?

00:22:37.800 These are unanswerable questions for them, but we should keep asking them.

00:22:41.320 All right. Here's a story from a few days ago and I'm not even going to read it, but it's a, it's a,

00:22:50.620 it's another story about, I'm not going to read an article about it, but it's another story about a girl

00:22:54.960 who I guess was famous or moderately famous on social media as a child who just turned 18 and

00:23:04.120 then started an only fans and immediately made like a million dollars or something in, in, in five

00:23:10.640 hours or whatever it was. The first 24 hours, she made a million dollars and I'm not going to read 0.93

00:23:15.600 the story or say the person's name because I don't want to advertise her porn business for her. Uh,

00:23:19.940 although you can easily find out the name or maybe you already know it, but I, in my own way,

00:23:25.100 I'd like to not participate in it. I did want to mention the story because it's yet more proof for

00:23:29.940 my point that, uh, that, which is that only fans should not be allowed to exist. I mean, here's,

00:23:37.380 here's another important question we should be asking. Why does that, why do we let this exist?

00:23:40.740 Why does this, why do we allow this to exist? We don't have to. Now, what's actually happening

00:23:50.220 here is that this girl immediately upon turning 18 excitedly went out and became a prostitute

00:23:55.880 and not because she was desperate and poor and, you know, being sex trafficked or whatever. It's 0.96

00:24:02.380 just because she wanted to. And this is what makes only fans so distinct. This is why you can't compare

00:24:09.760 it to, uh, anytime I talk about this and how you've got all these women on only fans, I always have 0.98

00:24:16.000 people that are trying to downplay the significance of it, downplay the problem by saying, oh, prostitution

00:24:20.720 has always existed. Do you know how many women were prostitutes in Victorian England?

00:24:27.400 Well, this is very different. Okay. This is a new era of whorishness in our culture because now we 0.95

00:24:33.960 have a whole generation of prostitutes who cannot be in any way considered victims. 0.91

00:24:39.760 Now, 30 years ago, 40 years ago, really any time until right now, if a woman was a prostitute, 0.98

00:24:48.020 that usually meant that she was poor, she was drug addicted, she was being exploited,

00:24:53.820 which doesn't mean that she bears, uh, no blame at all, no moral guilt at all, but it usually

00:25:00.580 meant like, this is someone in a desperate situation. Usually there was a pimp, you know,

00:25:07.480 who would backhand her across the face if she didn't come back with enough money. I mean, 0.67

00:25:10.860 that's the way that these things quote unquote, traditionally were done. But these days,

00:25:15.440 these women are their own pimps, right? There's no one, there's no one whoring them out. They're 1.00

00:25:20.880 doing it themselves. Now, I mean, only fans as an organization, as a company is, but only fans

00:25:26.100 isn't like coming into their home, forcing them into it. Only fans is the platform is providing

00:25:33.620 them a platform to be their own pimps. It's like a franchise, a franchise opportunity.

00:25:40.800 So now you have women, girls who just turned 18, women in their twenties, soccer moms in their thirties

00:25:46.360 and forties, uh, you know, women of all types, women who are not poor are not desperate, are not 0.95

00:25:54.000 necessarily drug addled or anything who choose to whore themselves out. They exploit themselves for, 0.87

00:26:01.480 for no reason other than making some extra spending money and getting attention from,

00:26:07.220 from strangers on the internet. It's very bleak. You know, I mean, the fact that women were given 1.00

00:26:15.100 the opportunity to become prostitutes in the comfort of their own home and so many millions 0.87

00:26:19.060 of them eagerly took advantage of it, that's bleak. That's the kind of thing that really gives 0.51

00:26:26.860 ammo to the, uh, the red pill guys. That's it gives them a lot of ammo. When you look at that and

00:26:34.020 say, okay, well, this opportunity was given to women and said, Hey, you can be a prostitute 1.00

00:26:39.300 and millions jumped at it. I mean, that's, you look at the numbers, there are like three and a 0.96

00:26:45.720 half, 4 million women selling their bodies and only fans. If you break it down, you find that

00:26:50.060 it equates to like 2% of all women in America between the ages of 18 and 45, 2%. Now maybe you'd 1.00

00:26:59.380 want to say, well, 2% is not that bad. You know, it's not, it's not, it's not a really high

00:27:02.520 number. No, that's bad. 2% of all women in that age. That's hard. That's a nightmare. 1.00

00:27:13.280 You kidding me? 2% of all women in the country in that age bracket. That is staggering. 0.99

00:27:21.320 Especially again, when you consider that these are elective prostitutes, these are all women who by no 0.97

00:27:25.700 means have been forced into it. They could all get real jobs or in a lot of cases, they don't even

00:27:31.760 need a job. Like we're not talking about 2% of women who are sex trafficked, which would be a 1.00

00:27:37.200 different kind of horror. We're talking about 2% of women who are sex trafficking themselves for fun.

00:27:44.540 And that goes back to my question, which is why do we allow this? Why is it legal?

00:27:51.900 There's so many things that we allow in this country and because we sit back and say, well,

00:27:55.700 there's nothing we can do about it. Well, we wouldn't want to pass a law, but we wouldn't want to do that.

00:28:01.760 We wouldn't want to like stop someone from doing something they want to do. That's the worst thing

00:28:06.680 in the world. So many people, including many conservatives have been brainwashed by this

00:28:14.340 garbage, by this, by this libertarian nonsense that as long as someone wants to do something, 0.99

00:28:20.200 we can't stop them. The greatest sin in the world is to stop someone from doing a thing they want to 0.98

00:28:26.820 do. This is the mindset that so many people have. And, um, I really, the ultimate, the ultimate red

00:28:35.500 pill is to get past that. Okay. I don't want to hear anyone's red pilled until you, until you realize

00:28:41.140 that, you know, we can act, it's like laws are good. It doesn't mean every, there's a lot of bad

00:28:45.140 laws, but in general laws are, it's a good, it's a good thing to have laws. And just because somebody

00:28:50.460 wants to do something, that's actually not a good enough reason why they should be allowed to do

00:28:55.540 it. There are a lot of things that people want to do that they shouldn't be allowed to do.

00:29:00.000 Why? Because we're, we're, we're civilized people. We want to be in a civilized society,

00:29:04.120 which means that your justification for doing something has to be more than I wanted to do it.

00:29:10.060 Um, and when your behavior is objectively, deeply detrimental to, to, uh, the country as a whole,

00:29:22.600 to the, to, to the, the, the wellbeing of, of, of the country, then you just shouldn't be allowed

00:29:28.340 to do it. And there's really no argument in response other than, but I want to.

00:29:35.980 What's the other argument? Oh, I have a right. I have a right.

00:29:40.060 Here's the other red pill realizing that like 90% of the rights people are constantly claiming

00:29:44.940 don't exist. It doesn't mean anything. I have a right to be a prostitute. What do you mean? 0.94

00:29:51.000 What do you mean you have that right? Like from where, where are you deriving that? What does it

00:29:54.680 mean? Right? What are you talking about? Yeah, but see, so you're, you're like born with this like

00:29:59.200 mystical entitlement to go, so to be a whore. Is that, is that what you're saying? 1.00

00:30:03.620 Where does that come from? If I go looking for the, you, you have a right to be a prostitute. 1.00

00:30:10.540 Okay. Well, where is that right? Well, where can I find it? Oh, it's invisible. It's like this 0.99

00:30:14.900 invisible thing that you, it's like your imaginary friend. It doesn't, it's not real. It doesn't

00:30:19.340 exist. Okay. The only, the only right that means anything are like the God given. And this is a,

00:30:26.400 this is a, a, obviously a doctrine that our country is founded on God given, God given rights that,

00:30:31.440 that, that are, that are specifically imbued by the creator God. Okay. And did God, did the creator

00:30:40.620 God imbue us, uh, imbue women to go with the right to go be prostitutes? Uh, no. 0.95

00:30:49.660 So this is clearly prostitution. The fact that it's being done through a screen is irrelevant.

00:30:56.500 You know, whatever it is that women are doing on OnlyFans now, imagine that they were doing that, 1.00

00:31:00.240 putting on that show in person in a motel room for some guy. In that case, nobody would have any

00:31:06.620 trouble, you know, accurately assessing it as prostitution. So then you put a screen in between

00:31:12.140 them and suddenly it's not prostitution. What if she was in the room with him, but she was doing 0.98

00:31:19.020 this on video and he was only watching the video. Is it now not prostitution? So just like the presence

00:31:25.800 of a video camera, all of a sudden means not prostitution, that makes no sense.

00:31:35.700 Uh, it's actually not hard to define people act like it's hard. Well, how do you define pornography?

00:31:39.800 How do you define prostitution? Uh, not that hard, not hard to define.

00:31:43.200 Uh, prostitution is performing a sex act for money. That's prostitution. Okay. And it's not, 1.00

00:31:54.620 it's not, well, anything you do for money is, no, performing a sex act for money is prostitution.

00:32:01.260 So in any form, it doesn't matter if you're in your own home, you're in someone else's home,

00:32:05.580 you're in a motel six, you're on a street corner, you're in a back alley. It doesn't matter.

00:32:10.040 No matter where you are, you're performing a sex act for money. Women and OnlyFans are performing 1.00

00:32:16.000 sex acts for money. So they are prostitutes. Prostitution is already illegal in 49 of 50 1.00

00:32:23.540 States. So why in the world would we not apply that to OnlyFans? Why do we have this weird carve

00:32:32.140 out where we say prostitution is illegal. You can't do it unless you're, unless it's a subscription

00:32:37.060 model, then it's okay. None of that makes any sense to me. None of it makes any sense.

00:32:46.280 A few days ago, we talked about the interview that, uh, washed up former CNN anchor Jim Acosta

00:32:51.260 did with a dead child. This is a, uh, interview in quotes. Of course, this is a kid who died in a

00:32:57.140 school shooting, but was quote unquote brought back to life by AI. Uh, and, uh, he, and Jim Acosta

00:33:03.580 interviewed the AI and speaking of bleak, I mean, it's one of the bleakest things you'll

00:33:07.280 ever see and creepiest. And, uh, now the father of the kid is speaking out and he's defending

00:33:13.300 their decision to reanimate, uh, the son with AI and saying that if you disagree with that

00:33:20.140 decision, then you're the problem. Listen.

00:33:21.800 Hello everyone. Um, this is Manuel Oliver. I am Joaquin Oliver's father today. He should

00:33:30.380 be turning 25 years old and my wife, Patricia and myself, we, we asked our friend Jim Acosta

00:33:39.220 to, to make an interview, have an interview with our son because now thanks to AI, we can bring

00:33:48.800 him back. It was our idea. It was our plan and it's still our plan. We, uh, feel that Joaquin

00:33:58.440 has a lot of things to say. And as long as we have an option that allows us to bring that

00:34:04.740 to you and to everyone, we will use it. So stop, uh, blaming people, um, about where is

00:34:13.020 he's coming from or blaming Jim about what he was able to do. Um, if the problem that

00:34:19.980 you have is with the AI, then you have the wrong problem. The real problem is that my

00:34:25.740 son was shot eight years ago. So if you believe that that is not the problem, you are part of

00:34:32.840 the problem.

00:34:33.660 Now, listen, I'm not going to go too hard on this father or their family. I don't, I

00:34:38.060 don't, I don't like how they're pushing gun confiscation laws. I hate this AI thing. I

00:34:43.300 think it's a horror show, but I'm not going to attack parents who lost a child. If that

00:34:46.900 happened to me, who knows what I would do? I mean, I think I'm strong enough to withstand

00:34:50.500 a lot of stuff, but that would, that would break me. That would just destroy me. I would

00:34:54.400 never be the same again. So there's no telling what I would, I mean, I can't pass judgment.

00:34:59.740 I can't look at that and say, I would never do that if I, because I have no clue what I'd be

00:35:02.840 a different person. I'm, I'm a totally different person at the other side of that experience.

00:35:07.900 And, um, so I just can't, I really can't judge. I can't pass judgment on the parents who lose

00:35:17.000 their children, you know, uh, unless they do, unless their behavior is so gratuitous and over

00:35:23.860 the line that it's the kind of thing that, uh, you have no choice, but to speak out against,

00:35:27.960 but, but, but generally speaking with something like this, um, it's, uh, hard to pass judgment.

00:35:35.420 So all that said, what I really want to say is that I understand the temptation to use this

00:35:40.480 technology to, to try to reconnect with a lost loved one. We talked about this a few days ago,

00:35:45.540 how the dad said that his wife, the child's mother spends hours a day talking to this AI.

00:35:52.380 And that is very sad. I mean, that's like one of the saddest things I've ever heard.

00:35:58.720 And again, I'm not going to judge the mom. I might do the same thing in her shoes. 0.90

00:36:02.500 I might be so totally desperate and broken that I would do that. I don't know.

00:36:07.140 And that's why I'm just very worried about this technology. I've expressed my worries about AI

00:36:10.780 many times. And here's another level of worry, another dystopian sort of awful application of it.

00:36:16.720 And, uh, and it makes me ask again, here's another area where are we going to even attempt to do

00:36:23.200 anything to prevent the nightmare that we're currently waltzing into? I like anything.

00:36:30.940 And I know you might tell me, well, we can't, we can't stop all of it. And this is an AI is an

00:36:35.240 unstoppable force. And in many ways that's true, but does that mean we're not going to do anything?

00:36:39.380 No guardrails, nothing, nothing at all. You're telling me that we can, we can, we can do zero

00:36:46.380 percent. I don't buy that. At the very least we can try. So are we going to pass any laws at all

00:36:54.380 to govern this technology and the companies that produce it? Or are we just going to sit here,

00:37:00.800 slack jawed, watching in horror as they do whatever they want. And they do these things that we all 1.00

00:37:07.380 recognize are terrible. Like you look at this, a grieving mother spending hours a day trying to

00:37:15.280 reconnect with her dead child to an AI. You look at that and you go, that is one of the worst things

00:37:20.600 I've ever heard of. I can easily see that the, uh, the, the slippery slope that this leads to,

00:37:28.780 it'll be really bad for everybody. Um, now that you'll have AI hucksters out there promising that

00:37:39.080 they can reanimate your, your dead child, your dead parent, your dead loved one. I mean,

00:37:44.340 we could all see that this is horrific. I mean, it is absolutely horrific. And, um,

00:37:51.980 and yet there are very few people saying, Hey, maybe we should think about some laws. Like maybe

00:37:56.300 there are some things we, maybe there's a few things we can do here rather than, than,

00:38:00.040 than sitting here impotent. Um, just assuming at the outset that there's nothing we can do to

00:38:06.980 prevent or mitigate the dystopian nightmare scenario that we are again, are just like

00:38:13.240 strolling into. Um, so I'd like to think about that. Finally, staying on AI, you know,

00:38:21.760 there've been some stories recently about a worrying, uh, but totally predictable trend

00:38:25.640 a rise in people using AI, specifically chat, chat GPT as a therapist. And now, uh, changes are

00:38:36.260 being made supposedly to curb this kind of usage USA today reports in a case of it's not you. It's

00:38:40.820 me. The creators of chat GPT no longer want the chat bot to play the role of therapist or trusted

00:38:45.400 confidant. Sure. They don't open AI, the company behind the popular bot announced that it had

00:38:50.620 incorporated some changes, particularly mental health focused guardrails designed to prevent

00:38:54.340 users from becoming too reliant on the technology with a focus on people who view chat GPT as a

00:38:59.220 therapist or a friend. The changes come months after reports detailed negative, particularly

00:39:04.060 worrisome user experiences, raised concerns about the model's tendency to validate doubts,

00:39:08.960 fuel anger, urge impulsive actions, or reinforce negative emotions and thoughts.

00:39:14.160 Uh, meanwhile, Sam Altman, the CEO of open AI has recently warned people that if they use chat

00:39:18.800 GPT as a therapist and they reveal private personal information, that none of that stuff is

00:39:22.940 confidential or protected. It is when you say it to your therapist, it is when you say it to your

00:39:27.120 doctor or your lawyer, but the chat GPT is none of those things. It's not a person. So none of that

00:39:31.360 stuff is protected, which means that it can be revealed. Uh, if there was a lawsuit or subpoena or

00:39:35.580 something, all that stuff is out there. It could be revealed at any time, which should be obvious,

00:39:40.240 but apparently this was a revelation to a lot of people. Um, but the funny thing is to me, aside from

00:39:45.380 the privacy problems is, you know, rather than, than spending another 10 minutes lamenting AI,

00:39:49.960 I will say that I don't think using chat GPT as a therapist is any worse in most cases than going

00:39:56.160 to an actual therapist. I mean, I'm not recommending it. I don't think you should use chat GPT as a

00:40:00.820 therapist. I'm just saying that human therapists oftentimes are not any better and can be worse.

00:40:08.720 It's funny because what, what, what the article said about, well, they'll validate, all they do is

00:40:12.960 validate and affirm. Well, yeah, that's welcome to therapy. I mean, that's 95% of all therapists.

00:40:20.080 Affirmative therapy has been the, the, uh, the way now for a long time. So when you

00:40:26.900 have something you're struggling with, really what you should do in most cases, not all, not all,

00:40:33.400 most what you should do is forget about therapy altogether. I mean, the urge to sit down and tell

00:40:40.160 your life story and run through your list of grievances and whine and complain and sulk and 0.61

00:40:44.420 wallow in your misery. That urge is an urge that should be rejected. It should be suppressed. 0.95

00:40:53.040 You know, you don't need therapy. You need to go for a run. You need to lift weights. You need to

00:40:56.500 go outside and get some fresh air. You need to, you need to start a, start a project, do something

00:41:01.740 with your time. Right. That I found that to be effective. I find all these things to be effective,

00:41:09.040 but I find that I'm, I'm always in a much better place mentally. My, my head, my head space.

00:41:19.380 I hate that phrase is, uh, is in a, is better when, when I, when I've got like a project that

00:41:24.920 I'm working on, you know, cause that that's, it's something to focus on. So it's like something

00:41:29.320 to focus on. It gives you clear, like, this is the thing that I'm doing. Uh, it gives you something

00:41:33.980 to look forward to, to, to the completion. So that can be helpful. I think all these things,

00:41:38.240 all this stuff is helpful, but most of all, but what all these things have in common,

00:41:43.820 you're working on a project, you're going, you're lifting weights, you're going for a run,

00:41:48.180 whatever it is, all these things are therapy and much better than talk therapy. Most of the time,

00:41:53.880 what do they have in common? Is that you stop thinking about yourself when you do them

00:42:01.120 going for a run can be cathartic because especially as you get into it and you're running,

00:42:07.680 uh, it, and, and it's, it's hard and you're out of breath and all of that. You're not, you can't,

00:42:13.780 you're not focused on yourself anymore, right? When you're saying, when you're lifting weights,

00:42:17.820 when you're, when you're doing, when you're working on some project, we're doing something

00:42:20.340 creative. You're not, you're not just obsessing about yourself. You're not like staring back at

00:42:26.120 yourself and your internal mirror, just gazing at your own reflection. Um,

00:42:31.120 and 95% of the time that is the solution, right? I mean, there is no solution to everything you're

00:42:39.380 going to struggle with mentally, but the best way to quote unquote treat it most of the time is just

00:42:44.120 to not, is to stop thinking about it, stop obsessing over it. And the problem is that talk therapy,

00:42:49.060 uh, it requires the opposite. It's all you're doing is sitting there talking about yourself the whole

00:42:54.680 time. That's why you're there. And it's this narcissistic urge, I think that drives people to

00:42:59.540 therapy. Most of the time, the desire to talk about themselves and vent every petty frustration

00:43:03.560 and anxiety they have in their heads. It's not healthy to actually do that. The more, the more

00:43:07.960 you do it, the more you want to keep doing it. It's kind of like a drug. It's a, it's like crack,

00:43:11.540 which is why you've got these people that go to therapy for decades and never stopped going and

00:43:16.000 never get better. But the reason they keep going back is that they're actually addicted to it.

00:43:19.260 You know, you have the psychological industry that pathologes everything, pathologia, patho,

00:43:25.520 whatever the word is tripping over it. Um, they make everything into a pathology and they talk

00:43:31.220 about everything as an addiction. You don't hear them talking about therapy addiction

00:43:35.200 with his, which is his own pathology. Now, does that mean that therapy is never effective? I'm not

00:43:43.420 saying that it could help you maybe in some limited circumstances, but the problem with therapy is

00:43:47.820 I've argued many times is that the effectiveness of the therapy depends entirely on whether the

00:43:53.520 therapist possesses deep personal wisdom and insight. Because a therapist is not a doctor

00:44:02.160 treating a medical disorder. A therapist is there to deal with problems of the mind and the spirit

00:44:07.960 problems of the soul. The therapist is basically a soul doctor. We don't call him that, but that's what

00:44:14.340 it is. Which can be fine in theory, but only those with great wisdom can do that. And by the way,

00:44:23.680 somebody with great wisdom, the first thing they're going to do is they're going to tell 90% of people

00:44:27.880 that come in their office that you shouldn't be here. Go lift weights, right? 90, 95% of people

00:44:34.640 come in. If they have wisdom, they're going to tell them to leave because you don't need, you actually

00:44:39.460 don't need this. This will hurt you. Sitting around talking about your problems and whining,

00:44:42.660 like you, you will hurt you. You'll be better off. Go, go paint a picture, go do, just do something, 0.92

00:44:46.560 anything, right? Get a hobby. Um, and for the five to 10% who are left, uh, it, it, it, you know,

00:44:56.160 what you, what you, uh, if you're going to therapy to actually receive therapy, to get something in

00:45:02.240 return, to get some insight into your problems that again, you need someone with deep wisdom.

00:45:06.260 If all you want is a sounding board to someone who just sit there and, and, and not move as you

00:45:14.900 pummel them with your problems, well, then why not? You might as well just use a chat GPT.

00:45:20.400 Um, but if you want to receive therapy, if you want actual, uh, insights, then you need somebody

00:45:26.360 with deep wisdom. And, um, many therapists do not have that. You know, they just don't. A degree is

00:45:32.340 no guarantee of wisdom. Um, and, and, you know, of course for millennia, people consulted when they

00:45:39.060 had these kinds of, you didn't have for, for, for thousands of years in human history, there was no

00:45:43.040 such thing as a therapist. Didn't exist. That didn't exist. That hasn't existed since the last

00:45:46.680 hundred, 200 years. You know, this is a relatively modern phenomenon. And, uh, what did people do before

00:45:53.640 that? Well, they would consult the elders in their families or their villages for wisdom. They talk to

00:45:59.620 their parents, their grandparents, their great grandparents. Well, now you've got like a 45

00:46:03.640 year old adult turning to some random 29 year old woman with a degree in social work who has far

00:46:09.860 less life experience and wisdom than most of the people she's advising. So it's totally absurd.

00:46:17.540 And not only that, but to make matters worse, a lot of therapists get into that line of work

00:46:21.280 because they themselves have psychological problems. The thing that drove them into the field

00:46:26.300 is their obsession with their own problems, which is why for a lot of therapists, if you get to know

00:46:32.260 them in their personal life, these are like dysfunctional people. I'm not saying again, I I'm

00:46:36.660 speaking in general terms. This is a common, this is common though. This is, this is a common

00:46:42.400 phenomenon that you'd get to know someone as a therapist and they're totally dysfunctional in

00:46:46.540 their personal life. Their personal life is a mess and they got all kinds and you know them

00:46:51.540 personally, like this person is worse than, I mean this, if anyone needs therapy, it's this person.

00:46:59.300 So how could they possibly be giving it? Um, so that's the, that's the problem.

00:47:08.840 And when I've talked about this, I've been, I've been told that, well, Hey,

00:47:11.640 what else are you supposed to do? If you have childhood trauma, if you were the, uh,

00:47:16.360 someone said to me the other day, they said, well, haven't you ever, you know, you're speaking like

00:47:20.840 someone who's never been the victim of something? Well, if you've been the victim of something,

00:47:24.900 then this is what you need therapy. Okay. Well, no, you know, you're speaking like someone who spent

00:47:29.900 way too much time in therapy. That's what you're speaking like. Because, uh, otherwise you would

00:47:35.540 know that everyone's been the victim of something. Not all, not, not, not to the same degree. I mean,

00:47:41.040 some things are worse than other things, but everyone's been the victim of, of, of many things.

00:47:46.720 Everyone has been the victim in situations like thousands of times in their lives. Everyone has

00:47:52.040 literally everybody. Um, and most of the time sitting around and, uh, thinking about that is

00:47:59.980 not going to help you. Your childhood, this is your childhood. It's, it was what it was. It's over.

00:48:09.920 It's over now. You're an adult now. Like sitting around and still thinking about, oh, my dad,

00:48:19.220 he, I was, I did saw, I did soccer for five years. My dad only came to one soccer match.

00:48:27.800 Yeah. Well, what ages, how old were you? 10? What are you now? 45? What are you still thinking

00:48:35.540 about that for? Okay. He should have been to more soccer matches. He should have done a better job.

00:48:41.280 Right. He should have, but he, but he didn't, but he didn't. So that happened. It's over. You

00:48:46.100 can't redo it. You want to join a soccer league now and like force your dad to come watch,

00:48:50.740 watch your old fat ass play soccer. Is that, is that the way you're going to rectify this? 0.99

00:48:55.140 Probably not. So it's over. It already happened.

00:48:59.880 This is what the therapist should most of the time be saying. Like, what do you want me to do about

00:49:02.740 that? Oh, that, oh, that happened for 35 years ago when you were seven. What do you want me to

00:49:07.640 do about it? It's over. It already happened. So are you going to move on with your life or not?

00:49:16.460 The, the answer to the bad things that happened to you when you were younger, the answer is nothing.

00:49:23.360 Like the, what the solution to those things is nothing at all. There is no solution. You cannot,

00:49:27.600 that already happened. You can't solve it. So it's already happened. So it's all baked in now.

00:49:32.740 And that just is what it is. So move on with your life or don't, or spend your whole life like

00:49:41.080 revolving around just like spiraling around these, this, this list of grievances. Many of them may be

00:49:49.160 legitimate, but you can spend your whole life in a spiral orbiting right now. Now you're like a moon.

00:49:55.320 You're not even the planet and you're all, you're a moon orbiting around this, this giant cluster of

00:50:03.480 complaints and grievances and past harms and hurts. And that's all you ever do. Uh, you could live that

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00:51:33.940 There has been a discourse raging on X over the past couple of days, not important or intelligent

00:51:40.280 or worth your time or mine. And that's exactly the kind of content this segment was made for. So

00:51:44.540 here we are. A few days ago, the right-wing commentator, Sarah Stock, who we've mentioned

00:51:48.040 before on this show, apparently got engaged. She posted a picture of her hand bearing the new

00:51:52.620 engagement ring with a caption that says, I won. Pretty standard thing for a woman to post 1.00

00:51:57.060 after getting engaged. Nothing provocative or particularly notable about it. I won is like

00:52:02.460 a slightly aggressive caption, but who cares? Not, not anything. No big deal.

00:52:08.600 If one feels inclined to respond at all, you'd think that something along the lines of congratulations

00:52:13.600 would be the only response worth making. But that is not how certain other female right-wing 1.00

00:52:19.180 influencers, quote unquote, decided to respond. Instead, a number of them chimed in by mocking

00:52:24.800 the size of the ring and laughing at it because it is, by their standards, too small. There are a

00:52:30.880 couple of male influencers, homosexual alleged conservatives for the most part, also joined in the mockery.

00:52:37.020 And I'm not going to say any of their names or put their comments up on the screen. You've

00:52:40.480 probably never heard of them, so their names won't mean anything to you. And also, I don't

00:52:43.340 want to reward this kind of engagement bait, pun sort of intended, by giving them free publicity

00:52:48.280 on my platform. Suffice it to say, these are some of the most shallow and useless conservative 0.98

00:52:52.740 influencers in a market crowded with a whole lot of shallow, useless ones. This sniping about the 0.99

00:52:59.540 size of the ring devolved quickly into a female right-wing influencer catfight. And very soon, 1.00

00:53:04.940 a whole bunch of them were taking shots at each other, spreading embarrassing gossip.

00:53:09.400 Again, I'm not going to repeat any of it. I don't know what's true and what isn't.

00:53:13.000 Basically, they're all accusing each other of being low-class sluts. And I have no idea who's 0.92

00:53:17.740 right, but when it comes to that, I suspect they all are. All in all, it has been a humiliating week

00:53:24.420 for the right-wing e-girl community, which is a change of pace from all the weeks up until now,

00:53:28.940 which have also been humiliating. As embarrassing and ridiculous as all this is, I do think there 0.96

00:53:33.680 are two mostly unrelated points worth making. Maybe they aren't worth making. I don't know,

00:53:37.920 but we will anyway. And first of all, you know, this is kind of like, I suppose, a pet peeve of

00:53:43.640 mine. But this thing about ring size, let's make this clear. Unless you're rich, you should not be

00:53:51.780 spending tens of thousands of dollars on an engagement ring. Putting yourself into five-figure

00:53:57.860 debt for the sake of buying jewelry is not a flex. It's not something to brag about. It makes you a

00:54:05.940 moron. Now, you've probably heard the rule, quote-unquote, that a man is supposed to spend three months 1.00

00:54:11.360 salary on an engagement ring. Well, that rule was invented by, you guessed it, a jewelry company.

00:54:17.020 And you can see why they like the rule. In fact, every company has a rule where you as the customer

00:54:22.620 are supposed to spend a lot of money on whatever they're selling. If you walk into a car dealership,

00:54:27.360 you discover that there's a, there's kind of a rule where you're supposed to buy the most expensive

00:54:31.380 type of car with all the features and upgrades. They're very insistent on it. Isn't that funny?

00:54:37.180 Isn't that weird? It's a funny thing about people who sell stuff. They want you to buy the stuff.

00:54:42.200 They want you to spend as much money as they're able to convince you to spend. That's their rule.

00:54:47.660 But your rule as a rational adult should be different. Your rule should be that you buy

00:54:51.920 only what you can afford. Your rule should be that you aren't going to begin your life as a married 0.91

00:54:57.340 couple by plunging yourself into staggering debt for the sake of buying a slightly bigger diamond.

00:55:03.060 Spending three months salary on jewelry is insane behavior. I mean, spending three months salary on

00:55:09.700 anything other than a down payment on a house is insane behavior. If you want an actual rule to

00:55:17.260 govern your ring shopping, or at least some kind of guide for it, uh, it's all totally arbitrary,

00:55:23.980 but I'll make us something at least as more reasonable. If it is still arbitrary, how about

00:55:27.460 this? Spend no more than a week's salary, no more than a week. And now if you're rich,

00:55:33.920 that's enough to buy a sizable ring. If you're not rich, it's enough to buy something extremely

00:55:39.420 modest. And if you're not rich, you shouldn't be pretending that you are rich when you're at

00:55:44.900 the jewelry store. In fact, of all the places to pretend to be rich, that's the worst place.

00:55:50.020 Now here's another arbitrary, but I think reasonable guideline. Don't spend five figures on a piece

00:55:56.360 of jewelry unless you have say half a million liquid in the bank. You know, even if you have

00:56:03.740 a hundred thousand in the bank, a $10,000 ring, which is the lowest level of five figures, obviously

00:56:08.000 is 10% of your liquid assets. That's foolish to spend that much. Now, when I proposed to my wife, 0.93

00:56:15.400 I was very broke. I bought her a discount ring for a few hundred bucks because it was all I could

00:56:23.700 afford. And years later, when I was in a significantly better financial position, I bought

00:56:30.740 her a much more expensive ring. And now I buy her jewelry all the time. I can afford it now. I couldn't

00:56:35.720 back then. I had to earn my way to that position. It took a long time. It took a long time. Most people,

00:56:42.060 if you'll ever get to a point where you can afford $15,000 on a ring or a necklace or something.

00:56:49.800 And a lot of people, you'll just, you'll never be in a spot where you can afford that, which is fine.

00:56:53.740 You know, that's also fine. But if you're going to be in that spot, it's going to take a long time

00:56:58.000 to get there. It takes a long time and a lot of hard work and you can't cut the line. You cut the

00:57:02.100 line, you're going to pay for it. There are very few like 20, 20 somethings out there who actually can 0.93

00:57:09.500 afford 15 grand for a thing that you're going to wear, right? Now, my wife never complained about 0.98

00:57:18.420 the modest ring or showed any disappointment at all. And for the first several years of our marriage,

00:57:23.660 when I never bought her any expensive gifts of any kind, she didn't whisper a word of complaint.

00:57:32.140 And, but here's a note for young men. If you're about to propose to a woman who actually expects an 0.58

00:57:36.520 expensive ring, who will be disappointed if you stay within your budget, well, here's the good

00:57:42.960 news. You could save your money. Don't propose to her, break it off right now and go find a woman who 0.96

00:57:49.320 is not a superficial materialistic bimbo. I mean, find a woman who, when you propose, will see you as 1.00

00:57:55.360 the prize, not the ring. If you don't have a lot of money, but you have to pretend you do for her

00:58:03.460 sake, she's not the one. Okay. That's a woman who will screw your life up, run away while you still 1.00

00:58:10.460 can. Now, for me, my wife knew that I was broke. There was no hiding it. And I never tried to. She

00:58:17.400 got in on the ground floor with me. We built a life together. And that's what you should be looking

00:58:20.740 for. You don't, you don't need a lot of money to get married, but you do need, if you're a man,

00:58:25.660 a woman who isn't materialistic and shallow. And if you have that, then marriage doesn't need to be 1.00

00:58:30.340 a great expense. You know, these days people have the idea that, and this is one of the reasons we

00:58:34.180 talked at the start of the show about the declining marriage rates. This is obviously not the whole

00:58:38.600 picture, but part of the picture, part of the reason I think that the rates are declining is that

00:58:42.060 people have this idea that, well, I can't afford to get married. I hear this all the time. I can't

00:58:47.280 afford to get married. What do you mean afford? There's no entry fee. What do you mean afford?

00:58:52.680 I mean, if anything, you can't afford not to get married. If anything, like teaming up with somebody

00:58:56.680 and working together to build a life that should be more affordable. You should find that life is

00:59:02.260 more affordable after you get married than it was before. But the problem is that these days people

00:59:08.340 have the idea that getting married is expensive because we choose to spend thousands of dollars on the

00:59:15.480 ring, tens of thousands on the wedding reception, thousands more on the honeymoon. We've decided

00:59:21.660 as a culture that, you know, we have to put a six-figure price tag on this milestone. It doesn't

00:59:29.240 have to be that way. You know, in fact, what we've done is we put a six-figure price tag on going to

00:59:35.000 college, another six-figure price tag to get married, so that if you are, you know, if you're taking the

00:59:43.060 culture as the queue, it seems like, well, you can't do anything. You can't even begin your life unless

00:59:49.860 you're already a millionaire. It's crazy. The whole thing is nuts. I mean, in reality, you can get the

00:59:57.100 ring, the wedding reception, the honeymoon without breaking five grand total all in. You could do it for

01:00:02.060 less if you wanted to. I mean, you could get married almost for free if you want to. I mean, that is, it's

01:00:09.180 legal to do that, did you know? You can actually do that. It's, you know, there might be a few bucks

01:00:15.620 you got to spend on the marriage license and that sort of thing, but you can get, I mean, you could

01:00:19.340 get married for like a hundred bucks. It's just a question of whether you're willing to be modest

01:00:24.140 and stay within your means, or do you insist on relegating all the wedding-related expenses into this

01:00:28.540 weird alternate reality where even though you make 55 grand a year, you pretend that you're a wealthy

01:00:33.860 oil baron. Um, and that's entirely up to you. Secondly, a brief note about these female 1.00

01:00:40.100 influencers who started all this trouble. Uh, there are at this point, a lot of right-wing

01:00:44.700 commentators, podcasters, influencers. I realize I'm one of them. We are legion. Our numbers grow by

01:00:50.000 the day. We are a giant parasitic blob expanding, threatening to consume the entire country. Pretty 0.95

01:00:56.180 soon half the world's population will be conservative influencers. Okay. It's a, it's a highly saturated

01:01:00.820 field. And it's hard to know which of these people you should pay attention to if any. So let me

01:01:06.840 suggest a few filters that you might use, um, filters that would at least sift out the kinds

01:01:11.800 of vain frivolous airheads that have spent the week, you know, gossiping about each other and

01:01:16.480 making fun of a woman's engagement ring. Okay. So number one, if you're considering listening to 0.74

01:01:22.780 any conservative commentator, podcaster, pundit, et cetera, ask yourself, does this person have

01:01:29.380 any relevant life experience at all? Are they married? Do they have kids? Do they have

01:01:36.340 responsibilities outside of generating content? Number two, has this person ever had an original

01:01:44.680 thought? Have you ever heard or read something from this person and thought to yourself,

01:01:48.080 that's an interesting idea. I hadn't thought of it that way. Or even like, wow, I really disagree

01:01:54.020 with that. That sounds insane, but you know, I hadn't actually thought about that. That's kind of

01:01:57.140 interesting. Have you ever thought that about this person, whoever it is? Has this person ever offered

01:02:02.080 any kind of unique insight into anything ever at all? Do they present you with new ideas? Do they

01:02:06.460 help you clarify your own ideas? Is there any evidence that this in any way is a thoughtful

01:02:10.120 person with unique or worthwhile insights at all? And finally, number three, has this person contributed

01:02:14.820 meaningfully to the conservative cause? Can you point to some kind of cultural or political victory

01:02:21.500 that this person played an integral part in? Does this person have any wins under their belt at all?

01:02:28.680 Is there any evidence that this person is an effective cultural or political warrior?

01:02:33.540 If this person didn't exist, if they had never posted a single thing to the internet,

01:02:38.920 if they had gone off and become a Walmart greeter instead of a conservative influencer,

01:02:42.020 would anything on the cultural or political landscape be different right now?

01:02:47.000 Now, if the answer is no to any of those questions, much less all of them, then this is not a person

01:02:56.480 worth listening to. I mean, they should not have an audience or a platform. And I'm not saying they

01:03:01.120 should be deplatformed. I'm saying that they should be shouting into the wind. They should be ranting in

01:03:05.380 an empty forest with nobody listening because they have absolutely nothing of value to say or contribute.

01:03:11.300 That's the first thing that came to mind with these women that are going on about the ring. 0.99

01:03:14.680 And it's like some of them I've never heard before, but I'm looking at them, apparently they're

01:03:17.580 influencers. And I'm running through these. I always do this with someone new pops up on the

01:03:21.660 scene or someone at least new to me, new on my radar. And I go, what is this? Do they do anything?

01:03:27.780 What have they ever said that's interesting? What are they contributing at all? Have they took

01:03:32.180 a part? Have they been involved in any of these wins? Have they done anything? And the answer is no.

01:03:39.260 And I think that describes a substantially high number of the people in this space, 0.69

01:03:42.120 not just the ridiculous women who've spent all week mocking an engagement ring, but certainly 1.00

01:03:46.900 describes them too, first and foremost. And that is why ultimately they are today canceled. 0.93

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 07, 2025

Ep. 1637 - This One Shocking Stat Proves That The American Dream Is Dying

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