The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1643 - Why Illiterate Foreign Truck Drivers Are A MUCH Bigger Issue Than You Think

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we'll do an even deeper dive into the problem of illiterate

00:00:03.380 foreign truck drivers on our roads. This is a much bigger issue than most people realize. 1.00

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00:02:19.340 In the last few days in particular, the national media has spent so much time talking about foreign

00:02:24.120 affairs that it's worth taking a step back and considering at some length the life or death

00:02:28.280 issues that Americans face every single day within our own borders. Outlets like CNN and MSNBC,

00:02:33.640 which has now been rebranded, by the way, to MS Right Now or MSNBC Right Away or MS No One's

00:02:39.660 Watching or something along those lines, I don't know, would prefer to talk about, say, Zelensky's

00:02:43.480 attire for five hours. But that kind of coverage doesn't address very basic questions such as

00:02:48.660 is it safe to drive on the freeways in this country? If I'm taking my family on a vacation

00:02:54.700 or if I'm just on my daily commute, can I have any degree of confidence that I won't be sharing

00:02:59.480 the road with incompetent criminals driving 18 wheelers who can't even read the road signs and

00:03:04.260 who could obliterate my entire family in an instant? That's a question that has a very discouraging

00:03:08.480 answer in lots of places in the world. So what's the answer in this country? In an effort to secure

00:03:15.020 the nation's roadways just a few months ago, the Trump administration made a significant change

00:03:18.140 to the way that truck drivers are regulated in this country. The Department of Transportation

00:03:21.540 announced that commercial motor vehicle drivers who cannot demonstrate proficiency in the English

00:03:26.540 language should be placed out of service. And the change the administration announced would,

00:03:31.180 quote, ensure consistent nationwide enforcement of this very important qualification. After all,

00:03:37.460 if you can't read the road signs, then you have no business operating any kind of vehicle,

00:03:40.920 much less an 18-wheeler. In practical terms, there are two phases to this test, which often

00:03:46.640 takes place on the roadside after drivers pulled over. In phase one, drivers are not allowed to cheat

00:03:52.980 by using any cue cards or smartphone apps. It might seem like a pretty obvious restriction,

00:03:57.780 but the Obama administration had allowed it. Instead, drivers are required to respond to official

00:04:02.580 inquiries and directions in English as they carry on a basic conversation about their trip,

00:04:07.460 their cargo, their qualifications. Then in phase two, officers are supposed to assess the driver's

00:04:12.800 ability to understand highway signs, including standard signs and electronic signs, which are

00:04:17.280 more dynamic. And by all accounts, these are not particularly difficult tests. For example,

00:04:23.600 here's a recent video from a trucker in Arkansas, which already had a similar English language test for

00:04:28.680 truckers watch. So personally, I also got stopped at the wait station in Arkansas two days ago. So they

00:04:36.840 asked me three questions. Were you born in United States? Do you speak English? How long you've been

00:04:43.000 trucking? That's it. And they made me write down only two lines of paragraph. That's it. So a lot of you

00:04:49.900 guys are scared to be like, oh, my English is not good. Oh, they're gonna revoke my driving license or blah,

00:04:56.020 blah, blah, blah. Nothing. Okay. I think if you're driving a truck, I'm pretty sure you can speak

00:05:01.980 these three, four words. Okay. You were born in the United States or not. It doesn't matter.

00:05:07.340 They don't give up. Okay. This test is not a big deal. You guys make a big deal out of it. It's not

00:05:13.100 a big deal. Okay. Well, that's reassuring. As long as you can answer a couple of very basic questions

00:05:18.280 and write only two lines, a paragraph, then you're good to go. And yet as simplistic as the test is,

00:05:24.120 it caused a lot of panic among truckers who can't speak a word of English. So in recent weeks, they've

00:05:29.660 made the argument that they're just doing their best and it's wrong for Donald Trump to be mean to

00:05:35.240 them. Watch. All the truckers know English. Going to be better for everyone. But not everyone agrees

00:05:43.540 with Hernandez or President Trump. The way we speak has nothing to do with our ability to handle a

00:05:50.140 tractor trailer. Kelvin is a truck driver who works in both Mexico and the U.S. Like other truckers,

00:05:57.900 Kelvin will soon have to show he can understand traffic signs, communicate with law enforcement,

00:06:04.780 and navigate agricultural checkpoints and weight limit stations.

00:06:10.680 The aggressive way they're doing it from one day to the next, the fines they're talking about in

00:06:15.260 social media. It's something too strict and worrisome. Kelvin and others would like President

00:06:20.740 Trump to change his mind. I'm asking him to be considerate. We're all part of the commerce along

00:06:29.140 the border and we're only trying to do the best job possible. Well, they're just trying to do the

00:06:33.780 best they can. Hey, if they wipe out an entire family, hey, they did the best they could.

00:06:38.220 It's very worrisome to hold them to any standards whatsoever. Let me ask you, what would you rather

00:06:42.580 worry about? Would you rather worry that maybe we're going to inconvenience some Mexican truck 1.00

00:06:47.160 drivers? Or would you rather worry that, you know, an entire family or an entire, you know,

00:06:53.500 hockey team is going to be wiped off the face of the earth by a truck driver who can't speak the 0.98

00:06:57.920 language? What's the more worrisome scenario to you? Well, anyway, this was a state of play as of

00:07:04.180 last week. The Trump administration, using its authority to regulate the highways and interstate

00:07:07.400 commerce, issued an order saying that truckers can either speak English or they can lose their

00:07:12.240 license. And the only truckers who had an issue with it, predictably, were the ones who can't

00:07:15.380 speak the language. And so shouldn't be driving trucks here. In the meantime, several Democrat

00:07:19.820 run states and law enforcement agencies have announced that they would not comply with the

00:07:23.800 new directive. As a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol put it, quote, CHP has not implemented

00:07:29.120 any enforcement changes in response to recent federal guidance requiring commercial drivers to speak

00:07:33.080 English as it is not part of California law. So let's break down exactly how this mandate is being

00:07:38.900 enforced or ignored by the states. According to research published on the website Overdrive,

00:07:43.560 so far this year, California inspectors have logged just one English language proficiency or ELP

00:07:47.960 violation away from the border zone, and inspectors did not place that driver out of service.

00:07:53.580 So put the rest of the data up on the screen right now. And as you can see, states like Texas,

00:07:58.980 Wyoming, Colorado, Iowa, Arkansas, Missouri, Arizona have been recording a relatively high number of truck

00:08:04.140 drivers who have been removed from service because they failed the English language proficiency test.

00:08:08.900 At the same time, the raw numbers themselves still aren't particularly large. This data runs from

00:08:13.840 June 25th to July 20th, so it includes a bit less than a month. And in that period, Arizona recorded

00:08:19.320 157 ELP violations, but only 43 of those drivers were removed from service. Texas recorded more than

00:08:24.320 1,800 violations. Only six drivers were removed from service, and all six of those drivers were caught

00:08:29.860 in the interior of the state away from border counties. In Colorado, all 41 ELP violations resulted in

00:08:35.320 the driver being removed. So there's a lot of variability here. Some states are taking the

00:08:40.020 Trump administration's order seriously. Some are making half-hearted attempts, and other states

00:08:43.620 like California are openly violating the order. They're refusing to implement the new requirement

00:08:48.080 at all. The consequences of this approach, as the Department of Transportation laid out yesterday,

00:08:53.200 led directly to the deaths of three people on the Florida Turnpike last week. We talked about this

00:08:58.480 case yesterday. The driver, an illegal alien from India, made an illegal U-turn with his 18-wheeler 0.93

00:09:04.220 across several lanes of traffic, blocking traffic and leaving a van going 80 miles an hour

00:09:08.820 with nowhere to go, except right into the trailer. Now, as it happens, the driver of the truck wasn't

00:09:14.860 simply an illegal alien who had no business in this country. He was also illiterate, and he was clearly 0.99

00:09:20.240 in violation of the Trump administration's new order on English proficiency. So quoting from the

00:09:25.780 Department of Transportation, quote, during the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration interview

00:09:29.900 with the driver, investigators administered an English language proficiency assessment. The driver

00:09:35.520 failed the assessment, providing correct responses to just two of 12 verbal questions and only accurately

00:09:41.800 identifying one of four highway traffic signs. And before we go any further, this needs to be

00:09:48.840 repeated. The driver who just wiped out an entire passenger van by executing a very illegal

00:09:55.480 U-turn could only answer 16% of the questions correctly on the English exam. He could only

00:10:01.940 identify 25% of the traffic signs that he was shown. Now, with that in mind, take a look at the U-turn

00:10:09.580 sign on the road where this crash happened in Florida. It clearly communicates that no U-turn is

00:10:16.720 allowed except for official use only. Now, any English-speaking person would understand exactly what

00:10:23.560 that means, but if you're a foreigner from India who can barely speak English, you might interpret

00:10:28.340 this sign very differently. You might not understand what official use means. You might not even

00:10:32.720 understand what the no U-turn sign means. These are very basic fundamental concepts, but if someone

00:10:37.280 can only identify one out of four traffic signs, the odds are pretty good that he doesn't grasp any of

00:10:42.800 this. But as we return to the report from the federal government, things only get worse. Quoting again

00:10:49.500 from the Department of Transportation, quote, additional preliminary findings include, on July 15th,

00:10:54.780 2023, Washington State issued the driver a regular full-term commercial driver's license.

00:10:59.820 Asylum seekers or individuals without legal status are not eligible for this type of license.

00:11:04.500 On July 23rd, 2024, California issued the driver a limited-term non-domiciled CDL. The Federal Motor

00:11:11.060 Carrier Safety Administration is investigating the issuance of this license to determine whether it was

00:11:15.620 issued in accordance with federal regulations. On July 3rd, 2025, the New Mexico State Police conducted

00:11:20.580 a roadside inspection of the driver and issued a speeding ticket, but there's no indication that an

00:11:24.920 ELP assessment was administered. New Mexico has not yet begun enforcing ELP as an out-of-service

00:11:29.240 condition, despite the requirement being in effect since June 25th, 2025. In other words, the state of

00:11:35.720 Washington unlawfully issued a standard commercial driver's license. No question this decision was

00:11:42.260 illegal. Then the state of California issued a non-domiciled CDL, which, as we discussed yesterday,

00:11:48.000 is somehow legal, even when the driver is an illegal alien. And then, to top it off, police in New

00:11:53.840 Mexico had a chance to take away the driver's license from this person when they pulled him over

00:11:58.000 for speeding. But they failed to perform the English language proficiency test, even though it would

00:12:02.980 have been obvious to them that he doesn't speak English, but they didn't perform it. So every single

00:12:08.160 state that had a role in this crash, which includes, but probably is not limited to, Washington,

00:12:14.500 California, and New Mexico, need to face serious consequences immediately. By refusing to enforce

00:12:23.140 the federal government's order, they clearly contributed to the deaths of three people on

00:12:27.980 the Florida turnpike last week. If they had done their jobs, there's a very good chance that those

00:12:33.320 people would be alive. Now, it's true that under our Constitution, states don't have to obey every

00:12:38.900 command from the federal government. So normally, as long as they're not actively obstructing federal

00:12:43.540 agents, it's difficult to compel states to enforce any particular federal rule. But there are some

00:12:48.180 rules the federal government can indeed pressure the states to obey. Article 1 of the Constitution

00:12:52.360 grants the federal government the power to regulate commerce among the states, which includes the

00:12:56.920 highway system. That's why back in the 1980s, Congress passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act,

00:13:02.180 which handed out a financial penalty to any state that allowed people under the age of 21

00:13:06.380 to purchase alcohol. Congress made the case that young drunk drivers were a major threat to

00:13:13.500 interstate commerce because they'd often kill people using the highways. And therefore,

00:13:18.440 Congress asserted that it had the authority under the Constitution to withhold 10% of federal highway

00:13:23.200 funding from any state that refused to enforce the new drinking limit. This was a significant amount of

00:13:28.960 money that states needed in order to maintain their roads, and the pressure worked. The states mostly

00:13:33.620 fell in line. In 1987, the Supreme Court heard a dispute over the law. Chief Justice William

00:13:38.240 Rehnquist wrote an opinion upholding the authority of Congress to apply some financial pressure on the

00:13:42.900 states as long as that pressure served a valid federal interest. Now, protecting our highways from

00:13:48.340 foreigners who can't speak English or identify highway signs is obviously a very compelling, 1.00

00:13:53.980 very valid federal interest. So the federal government needs to start punishing every

00:13:59.060 single one of the states that allowed this crash to take place. That's allowed by our Constitution.

00:14:03.760 It's obviously the right thing to do. And it needs to happen before more families are pancaked

00:14:08.440 under 18 wheelers. If there's one thing the Trump administration can do immediately to protect 0.83

00:14:13.480 Americans is to withhold federal funding from every state that's ignoring the federal rules

00:14:17.700 on English language proficiency. Now, this is not simply another 80-20 issue. This is a 99-1 issue.

00:14:29.380 Okay, people are unanimous on this. If you were to poll a thousand random Americans, do you think

00:14:36.720 that we should allow illegal aliens who can't speak English and read road signs to get CDLs in this country 1.00

00:14:42.880 and drive on the roads? Poll a thousand Americans on this, would even one of them say, yeah, I think

00:14:49.820 that we should allow that? I don't think so. After our show yesterday, we received so many comments

00:14:56.540 from truckers and people who are in the trucking industry who are echoing the sentiment that it's

00:15:00.400 just impossible to read them all. But here are a few, quote, I'm a freight broker. I have to speak to

00:15:07.400 and deal with these foreigners every day. It drives me absolutely nuts, as it does for all brokers. 1.00

00:15:12.780 So many of them don't understand a lick of English, forcing me to speak to their dispatchers to convey

00:15:17.260 messages back and forth. Quote, as a trucker in Virginia, I've seen translators take the test for

00:15:22.900 unqualified drivers all the time. Quote, I'm from Ohio. If you get hit by a foreigner, there's 100% 1.00

00:15:28.580 chance they do not have insurance and you'll be footing the bill. At least you're deductible.

00:15:32.660 It's way out of hand here. They never get in any legal trouble for it either. Quote, I travel the

00:15:37.700 globe in the military. There are very few places in the world that as a culture care about safety

00:15:41.480 of others like ours. Death in many of these places is so commonplace that unless they catch you with

00:15:46.440 the knife in your hand actually stuck in the body, it's pretty much, oh, well, sucks to be that guy.

00:15:52.560 Quote, I'm a Canadian. I have a trucker friend who's been driving for 20 years. He cannot get jobs

00:15:56.720 anymore because Indian drivers are undercutting all the established truckers. Quote, as an American truck driver

00:16:01.040 travels all over the lower 48. I'm reading a story from the Kenworth sleeper in my semi.

00:16:06.320 I second every point made and I'm glad to finally see what those of us in the industry have known for

00:16:11.380 a long time being brought to light on a national stage. Now, those are thousands of comments like

00:16:16.160 this. And the conclusion is pretty clear. Truckers have been trying to raise the alarm

00:16:21.540 on this issue for many, many years. And now that mainstream attention is finally focused on this

00:16:27.500 very obvious problem. They're demanding some sort of serious federal response for once

00:16:32.440 and they should receive it. That's what we voted for. For their part, Democrats have made it clear

00:16:38.340 that they're willing to fight violently to keep the status quo. You may have seen this video that's

00:16:44.180 been circulating. People calling themselves Marines who aren't speaking any English are threatening to

00:16:49.900 confront ICE agents. Watch.

00:16:51.740 They said, Listen, there are 25 Marines. We're dead, aren't you?

00:16:53.300 Okay.

00:16:54.240 Parrabo.

00:17:08.080 You're scared of violence in 따라's DV, aren't you?

00:17:12.600 Meanwhile, San Bernardino, officers who attempted to arrest an illegal alien were just attacked

00:17:34.580 by the local residents.

00:17:36.080 Here it is.

00:17:37.960 Hey, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:17:42.600 Hey, we, we, we, we, we, we.

00:17:46.700 Si es de mierda, así nos tratan.

00:17:49.800 Si es de mierda, así nos tratan.

00:17:53.180 Miren, miren, miren, no, no.

00:17:55.600 Hijos de su madre. 1.00

00:17:57.020 Hijos de su madre. 1.00

00:18:02.500 Son unos entendidos.

00:18:04.920 Son unos...

00:18:06.480 Son unos entendidos y que salgan su cara.

00:18:11.020 Que salgan su cara. 0.84

00:18:12.600 Sí, que salga su cara.

00:18:16.500 Son unos entendidos, no mames. 0.99

00:18:19.720 A nosotros son los que nos tienen que proteger.

00:18:21.640 Vieron que de la nada empezaron a tirarnos.

00:18:27.540 Vean, y ellos llevan a la muchacha.

00:18:29.140 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:18:36.120 Now, needless to say, the whole neighborhood should be placed under immediate surveillance and investigation.

00:18:40.440 They're all fighting with law enforcement officers.

00:18:42.760 We all know they're not Americans. 1.00

00:18:44.920 Investigate every single one of them. 1.00

00:18:46.260 And if they're illegals, round them up into buses and deport all their asses immediately. 1.00

00:18:51.280 That's what it takes at this point. 1.00

00:18:54.140 It could not be any more clear that we're dealing with two options here.

00:18:57.240 One option is to ruthlessly crack down on foreigners who have violated our sovereignty, who endanger the lives of American citizens. 1.00

00:19:03.480 The other option is to allow these people to ruthlessly attack law enforcement officials and terrorize American citizens on the highways every single day.

00:19:12.940 Those are the choices.

00:19:14.760 States like California, New Mexico and Washington have decided where they stand on the issue. 0.96

00:19:18.740 They decided to defy the federal government for the express purpose of replacing Americans with unqualified foreigners who don't belong in this country, have no right to be here, will happily kill them on the roadways with no remorse. 1.00

00:19:29.760 I mean, they're very clear on where they stand on that issue.

00:19:35.120 Now the federal government has to make it clear where it stands.

00:19:38.080 The Trump administration must use its authority under the Constitution to pressure every noncompliant state into compliance.

00:19:45.080 Before any more Americans are slaughtered by truck drivers who can't even read a stop sign, any state that's enabling this lunacy must face very real consequences.

00:19:56.020 That's how the federal government enforced the drinking age.

00:19:58.460 They can do it again.

00:20:00.660 We have the capability to save thousands of lives just by compelling states to enforce a regulation that's already on the books.

00:20:07.900 We can make the interstate ten times safer than it already is, virtually overnight.

00:20:12.460 And if there's one issue that every single trucker, except the illegal ones, can agree on, it's that we're long overdue for exactly that kind of transformation.

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00:22:48.140 President Donald Trump has said that his administration will root out wokeness from the Smithsonian as well as other Washington, D.C. museums,

00:22:53.420 and will do so in the same way the administration has dealt with colleges.

00:22:56.320 Trump posted to Truth Social.

00:22:58.620 Museums throughout Washington but all over the country are essentially the last remaining segment of woke.

00:23:02.640 The Smithsonian is out of control where everything discussed is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was,

00:23:08.620 how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been, nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future.

00:23:14.060 We're not going to allow this to happen.

00:23:15.600 I've instructed my attorneys to go through the museums and start the exact same process that has been done with colleges and universities where tremendous progress has been made.

00:23:22.440 This country cannot be woke because woke is broke.

00:23:24.480 We have the hottest country in the world, and we want people to talk about it, including in our museums.

00:23:32.580 After Trump took the White House in January, the administration took many colleges and universities to task over discrimination, equity, inclusion,

00:23:38.160 over DEI practices, and now the same thing is happening in the Smithsonian.

00:23:45.980 So the battle over the museums continues, and it's a battle very much worth having, you know, and I've even heard a few conservatives say,

00:23:53.640 well, why are we worried about the Smithsonian?

00:23:55.700 Why does this matter?

00:23:57.740 Well, it does matter.

00:23:58.980 I mean, it matters a lot.

00:24:00.420 Trump's point is that these museum exhibits represent the story of American history that we tell ourselves,

00:24:10.080 and more importantly, the story that we tell our children.

00:24:12.760 And that matters very much.

00:24:18.540 Every country, every culture has a story that it tells itself about itself, and until the modern left came along,

00:24:27.180 the point was always to tell a generous, positive, inspiring, heroic story about ourselves, about our country,

00:24:35.840 to highlight the good rather than the bad.

00:24:38.500 And this is what every country has done, every culture, everywhere on earth.

00:24:42.260 This is coming.

00:24:46.660 Many cultures, especially historically, have founding myths, right?

00:24:52.620 They're not even true stories.

00:24:53.560 They make up stories.

00:24:55.680 And there's a million examples.

00:24:58.400 The Polynesians, for example, created a story about a great navigator and chief named Hawaii Iloa, or however you pronounce it.

00:25:07.160 And this was their guy who discovered Hawaii centuries ago or thousands of years ago.

00:25:13.120 And now the guy never existed.

00:25:15.500 In reality, the Polynesians likely discovered Hawaii by accident, by getting lost at sea and sort of getting, drifting into it.

00:25:23.360 But they would prefer a story where they are skillful navigators who discovered the island on purpose.

00:25:32.560 And the Polynesians were skillful navigators.

00:25:36.740 But they would prefer a story where this island was discovered by them on purpose.

00:25:42.700 So that's the story they came up with.

00:25:44.420 And every culture has done this same sort of thing, where you have these legends, these founding myths.

00:25:50.180 Now, I'm not saying that we should do that.

00:25:55.800 I'm not saying the Smithsonian should contain made-up stories that we are pretending are real.

00:26:02.720 I'm not even saying that we should ignore or deny the reality of slavery or any of that stuff.

00:26:07.480 I'm not saying we should ignore the bad stuff.

00:26:09.060 What I'm saying is that we've gone, and this is the point that I think maybe not everyone quite, maybe that some people are missing, is that we've gone exactly the other way.

00:26:23.480 We have gone to the opposite extreme.

00:26:25.580 So, for leftists, for decades, thanks to leftists, thanks to the left, and the indoctrination efforts, the efforts to destroy our national identity, for decades, we have been telling ourselves essentially a founding myth designed to make us hate ourselves.

00:26:47.060 And as far as I'm aware, we're the first country in the world to do this.

00:26:54.580 Like, that's what you have to understand.

00:26:57.060 We're the first country to ever invent a story of its own founding that's designed to make us look bad to ourselves.

00:27:05.880 I mean, if you're going to have a founding myth, it's much, much, much better and healthier and more productive to make it something heroic and inspirational, rather than depressing and embarrassing.

00:27:20.780 We lie to ourselves to make ourselves sound worse.

00:27:25.460 Who does this?

00:27:26.500 No one does this.

00:27:27.000 You can't have a culture this way.

00:27:28.220 This is not, cultures don't work this way.

00:27:30.380 So, our new founding myth is that America was built on the backs of slaves, which isn't true.

00:27:42.120 That's not true.

00:27:43.620 Yeah, we had slavery.

00:27:44.780 Was America built on slavery?

00:27:46.940 No.

00:27:50.140 Could America still have existed without slavery?

00:27:52.680 Yes.

00:27:55.460 So, that's not true.

00:27:56.600 You know, the idea that we carry some kind of unique guilt for slavery, also not true.

00:28:03.820 The idea that America was built on stolen land, not true.

00:28:08.120 The idea that, you know, we have no right to exist as a nation, not true.

00:28:12.960 The idea that this country was founded by committing genocide against the Indians, not true.

00:28:21.080 So, what I'm saying is that that is our founding myth now.

00:28:24.560 That's all a myth.

00:28:25.440 None of that's true.

00:28:27.260 And so, it's like, we, we, it's for all people on the left saying, well, we got to tell the truth about our history.

00:28:32.880 It's not the truth, though.

00:28:34.980 That's the myth that you've created.

00:28:36.600 So, we're the first country in the world to have a founding myth that's designed to be depressing and humiliating.

00:28:46.420 And it's the myth that the Smithsonian and academia and the media have been spreading for decades.

00:28:52.580 And we have to bring it to an end.

00:28:53.860 I mean, it's good that we're bringing it to an end.

00:28:57.120 This is very important.

00:28:59.420 Now, of course, not everybody agrees.

00:29:00.680 Obviously, the left's very upset.

00:29:02.340 Here's one of the Krasenstein brothers on TikTok whining about all this. 0.98

00:29:09.060 Watch.

00:29:09.240 Donald Trump just basically said that museums in the United States are out of control and woke because there's exhibits within these museums about slavery.

00:29:19.060 Here, well, the Smithsonian is out of control where everything discusses how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was, dot, dot, dot, dot.

00:29:28.320 Either Donald Trump has never been to a museum in his life, which probably is true.

00:29:33.600 Or he's grossly exaggerating what he did see in these museums.

00:29:38.860 Teaching Americans, especially children, about where we screwed up, like with slavery, is actually a good thing because it prevents us from following in those footsteps again. 0.82

00:29:50.400 Trying to erase the history that makes us look bad is really something that dictators of the past have done time and time again.

00:30:01.040 So if you want to actually teach our children and not indoctrinate them, then I would say let's not touch these museums.

00:30:11.080 Do you agree?

00:30:11.680 Well, no, I don't.

00:30:14.600 Thanks for asking, Ed, or whichever one you are.

00:30:19.220 No to all that.

00:30:20.060 Actually, it turns out that focusing obsessively on slavery does not prevent us from following in those footsteps.

00:30:30.180 I mean, this is the nonsense that we hear about why we have to constantly rehash the sins of the past, that we have to constantly obsess over it,

00:30:38.580 because that's the only way to make sure we don't make the same mistake again.

00:30:43.820 But it hasn't worked out that way.

00:30:45.100 Slavery was the dehumanization and commodification of human life.

00:30:52.260 As we talked about, it was all across the globe engaged in this.

00:30:55.440 And non-Western, non-white cultures engaged in it oftentimes much more and to much longer and to a much more brutal extent. 0.97

00:31:03.580 But that's what slavery is. 0.99

00:31:05.560 It's the dehumanization and commodification of human life.

00:31:09.440 And okay, well, we are a culture obsessed with relitigating and apologizing for slavery.

00:31:13.820 And yet at the same time, we're also engaged in the dehumanization and commodification of human life right now.

00:31:20.660 Abortion, surrogacy.

00:31:24.460 I mean, even the arguments the left makes for illegal immigration are really just arguments for slavery, for slave labor.

00:31:32.560 Instead of, hey, who's going to pick the cotton? 0.99

00:31:34.280 It's who's going to pick the strawberries.

00:31:35.360 So apparently, obsessing over some dark aspect of your own past will not stop you from repeating it.

00:31:42.460 If anything, and this is true in your personal life as well.

00:31:44.600 I mean, this is just a general truth.

00:31:46.220 If anything, the more you obsess over the bad stuff in the past, the more likely it is that you'll stay in that cycle and keep repeating it.

00:31:54.200 You know, when you focus on, as Trump said in his truth social post, where's the lightning?

00:32:05.840 You know, we need things that are light and bright and inspiring.

00:32:08.700 And it's true because when you focus on the dark things all the time and your mind's always just on the dark things, that's where you live.

00:32:16.520 That's the road you're walking.

00:32:18.020 And the other thing, too, and I'll say this, and I've already talked quite a bit about the real history of slavery and how it's not a uniquely American sin.

00:32:27.780 We've talked about that.

00:32:28.420 I'm not going to rehash it right now, although I'm sure I will many more times.

00:32:36.220 But let me point out another problem, though, with this self-hating approach to American history.

00:32:39.720 And I think that this is like an underrated problem with it.

00:32:45.060 It's boring.

00:32:47.180 OK, it's really just dull and awful and boring.

00:32:52.700 It's one of the reasons why so many kids in this country grow up to have no interest in history. 1.00

00:32:59.240 You know, we live in a country now full of historically illiterate morons. 1.00

00:33:04.140 And this is one of the reasons. 1.00

00:33:07.060 It's because they've been relentlessly pummeled by this dreary, repetitive nonsense.

00:33:13.600 And they see the whole subject as sort of excruciating and tedious and depressing.

00:33:21.060 And that's really tragic because in reality, history is fascinating.

00:33:26.400 American history is especially fascinating.

00:33:30.520 I would argue that we have the most fascinating history of any nation on Earth.

00:33:37.060 Especially when you consider what America achieved and how quickly it achieved it.

00:33:42.860 No country on Earth has ever done this.

00:33:46.520 It's incredible.

00:33:48.440 There are so many incredible stories from our past.

00:33:50.320 So many other things we could be talking about.

00:33:53.640 So slavery in America is, among other things, just really not that interesting of a topic.

00:34:00.900 Not interesting enough to eat up as much of the historical conversation as it does.

00:34:06.400 2% of Americans own slaves.

00:34:08.280 It's like, OK.

00:34:10.140 We had slavery in this country.

00:34:12.000 You know, as a country, we had slavery for 90 years and 2% of Americans own slaves.

00:34:16.620 It's like, it's not that, it's actually not that, it's not that significant of a part of our history, actually.

00:34:26.040 It's not nearly as significant a part of our history as the left would have us believe.

00:34:32.220 And it's not, like, we get it.

00:34:34.340 OK, we get it.

00:34:36.120 We do get it.

00:34:37.140 Slavery happened.

00:34:37.960 It was bad.

00:34:38.520 OK, thank you.

00:34:42.000 We got it.

00:34:42.780 We really do.

00:34:44.920 So we have all these people on the left.

00:34:46.080 No, we have to remember.

00:34:47.240 Yeah, we all know that.

00:34:48.260 We know.

00:34:48.600 Yes, we know.

00:34:49.580 Yes, it's bad.

00:34:50.680 OK, yes.

00:34:52.500 Acknowledge.

00:34:53.140 Everyone in the country acknowledges.

00:34:54.800 Slavery is bad.

00:34:55.420 We shouldn't have done it.

00:34:56.000 It happened.

00:34:56.500 It shouldn't have happened.

00:34:57.060 It was bad.

00:34:59.500 OK, can we talk about something else now?

00:35:01.620 Are there other things that happened in history that might be interesting to talk about?

00:35:08.520 Can we talk about, I don't know, Lewis and Clark, Daniel Boone, the Apollo program, the

00:35:15.040 building of the Panama Canal?

00:35:16.320 I mean, a million fascinating subjects.

00:35:18.820 And I know you might claim that, well, a lot's already been said on all those subjects.

00:35:23.440 What are you saying, Matt?

00:35:24.580 Are you saying, well, are you really claiming that we don't, nobody talks about Lewis and

00:35:27.900 Clark, the Panama Canal or the Apollo program?

00:35:30.260 Yeah, actually, that is what I'm saying.

00:35:33.860 Test me on it.

00:35:34.720 OK, how many high school seniors in this country do you think could write even four sentences

00:35:40.200 explaining who Lewis and Clark were and what they achieved and when they achieved it?

00:35:46.120 How many could give you four sentences on the Apollo missions or on the building of the

00:35:49.380 Panama Canal?

00:35:51.100 How many high school seniors could tell you even within 50 years when the Panama Canal was

00:35:56.080 built?

00:35:56.340 You give them a 50-year on either side cushion, could they get within that range without consulting

00:36:08.560 chat GPT?

00:36:13.400 If you were to ask the average high school, American high schooler in the year 2025, who are

00:36:22.040 the, you know, just to you, who are the 10, the 10 greatest, um, American heroes, uh, up to 50

00:36:33.060 years ago, let's say from, from our nation's founding to about 50 years ago, a lot of great

00:36:39.660 American heroes in that time.

00:36:41.020 Give me your top 10, give me your top 10.

00:36:45.860 How many high school seniors could even think of 10 names?

00:36:48.480 Like just forget about heroes name, 10 Americans who lived between say, um, the year 1800 to,

00:37:00.660 um, 1940, so it's kind of an arbitrary 1800 to 1940, give me 10 Americans, any 10 who lived

00:37:09.240 in that 140 time year time period.

00:37:15.380 How many high school seniors could do that?

00:37:18.480 Like we all know the answer is, I don't know, 5%, 2%, 1%.

00:37:22.700 Um, because the, the, the, we are, and this is the education system.

00:37:32.760 This, this, this, this is all, you don't want to talk about indoctrination. 0.84

00:37:34.880 People are being indoctrinated to be historically illiterate buffoons who do not know anything 0.55

00:37:42.400 about the history of their own country. 0.91

00:37:47.300 And this is all deliberate.

00:37:51.620 Because if they knew something, if they knew anything, if they knew anything about any real

00:37:59.420 thing about our nation's history, they would, as a consequence, they would not be able to

00:38:06.040 help, but feel deeply proud of this country because our history is so incredible.

00:38:14.580 Um, you wouldn't be able to help, but feel pride.

00:38:19.900 And the left want to make, wants to make sure that no one feels pride in this country and no

00:38:22.720 one loves this country.

00:38:23.440 And, uh, and so the only way to do it is to make sure that no one knows anything about

00:38:28.700 it.

00:38:29.400 You got a bunch of, um, you know, the Americans walking around, um, as if they just sprang 1.00

00:38:37.640 out of the ground as, as, as if the world itself began at the moment of their birth, as if nothing

00:38:44.540 happened before, right?

00:38:48.120 Except slavery.

00:38:51.600 For a lot of Americans today, um, that two things happened in history, slavery and the

00:38:59.860 Holocaust. 0.77

00:39:01.200 Those are the only two things that happened for a lot, for a lot of people walking around

00:39:06.000 today.

00:39:06.440 It's, uh, slavery happened in the Holocaust and then me.

00:39:10.340 It's like, that's it.

00:39:11.220 That's all the things that happened in history.

00:39:13.080 Nothing else happened.

00:39:14.540 Maybe the crusades.

00:39:15.720 They might, they don't know anything about the crusades, but the crusades said, like,

00:39:18.680 I think there was the, what was it?

00:39:19.880 The inquisition.

00:39:21.020 That's where the Catholics were, did some bad stuff or something and then slavery and 1.00

00:39:25.640 then the Holocaust. 0.78

00:39:26.340 And then, and it's just nothing, but just, just a bunch of terrible things.

00:39:30.280 And then, uh, and then here I am, that's, that's the story of world history that most

00:39:35.080 people have, uh, jumbling around in their heads.

00:39:39.060 And that's a major problem and one that I think Trump was trying to fix.

00:39:43.300 Okay.

00:39:44.100 Here's a headline from Reuters.

00:39:46.980 With majority of black beauty products being made in China and Vietnam, U.S. President Donald

00:39:50.500 Trump's tariffs have disproportionately impacted black business owners.

00:39:55.720 There's a video that accompanies this.

00:39:57.300 Let's watch that.

00:39:58.080 I understand that tariffs are designed to protect U.S. businesses and that's important. 0.98

00:40:06.420 But when you start creating policies like this and you're not consulting with professionals

00:40:11.760 in the beauty industry, especially black professionals, it creates a gap.

00:40:15.820 So now we're being impacted at every level.

00:40:17.560 Earlier this summer, Deja Blackshear Calloway began to realize that her usual clients weren't

00:40:23.520 coming in as frequently as before.

00:40:26.220 Her salon, Hair Freak Beauty, offers services ranging from $50 natural styles to $745 tape-in

00:40:33.480 weave extensions.

00:40:34.280 But the price of hair extensions and the glue used to craft wigs and weaves have skyrocketed.

00:40:41.240 Why?

00:40:42.100 Well, most black beauty products are made in China and Vietnam.

00:40:45.980 And the two countries have been hit by U.S. President Donald Trump's series of tariffs.

00:40:50.800 Here's an example.

00:40:51.580 A package of synthetic hair imported from Vietnam has gone up $100 to $290 since May.

00:40:58.980 And another.

00:41:00.060 A bottle of hair glue ordered from China has nearly doubled in price at the local supply

00:41:04.420 store.

00:41:05.340 That's really affected my bottom line.

00:41:07.440 And when you start having these type of issues happening, I'm either having to eat that cost

00:41:11.980 or pass that expense along to my clients.

00:41:14.720 Experts say the hikes are impacting black business owners more than others, especially those in low

00:41:19.580 margin businesses like these.

00:41:21.580 That's because black entrepreneurs often start off with fewer funds.

00:41:25.720 As the tariffs eat into their bottom lines, that wealth gap makes them even more financially

00:41:29.420 vulnerable, they say.

00:41:31.380 So they're still going with this.

00:41:33.220 They can't let it go.

00:41:34.560 Speaking of founding myths, one of the foundational myths of modern leftism is the myth of disparate

00:41:39.900 impact.

00:41:41.060 The idea that, you know, their favored victim groups are disproportionately impacted by things

00:41:46.280 that actually impact everybody.

00:41:47.420 So it's the old, you know, asteroid wipes out humanity, trans people most impacted bit.

00:41:54.580 So it's that old thing.

00:41:56.920 And they can't give it up.

00:41:58.400 Even in cases where it really, if anything, it makes the preferred group look worse. 0.99

00:42:02.880 Because all they're telling us is that black businesses are more likely to buy cheap crap 0.98

00:42:08.040 from China rather than trying to support American suppliers. 0.98

00:42:10.940 So what you're actually telling us, I mean, what you Reuters are saying is that black business

00:42:15.480 owners are on average less patriotic.

00:42:17.440 I mean, that's what that's what you're that's what you're telling us.

00:42:19.400 But, you know, the good news is that when you watch this kind of stuff now, a news report

00:42:25.700 explaining how somehow the tariffs target black women, you know, it's a that you watch it 0.96

00:42:32.340 and it feels like a relic from an ancient civilization.

00:42:38.740 Very few people buy this anymore.

00:42:40.460 It's a parody of itself.

00:42:41.600 No one's convinced by this kind of stuff anymore.

00:42:47.060 And yet the media and the left continue.

00:42:49.400 They continue beating this dead horse.

00:42:50.940 It's not even a dead horse.

00:42:51.880 I mean, the horse is like bones and ash at this point.

00:42:54.900 And they're still beating it.

00:42:56.620 And that's because the victim narrative is inextricable from the modern left.

00:43:00.540 They can't let it go.

00:43:01.820 They can't move on from it.

00:43:02.840 It's the core of the thing.

00:43:05.840 You know, what we have to understand about leftism is that it has no positive vision.

00:43:10.740 It's not trying to build anything or build to anything.

00:43:13.340 It's only it's merely a collection of grievances.

00:43:16.520 It's a it's a kill list, a list of things and people and institutions that it wants destroyed.

00:43:22.220 That's all.

00:43:23.420 That's all it ever can be, which is to say that which is to say that wokeness.

00:43:28.180 You get into this conversation about it was wokeness dead.

00:43:31.720 Well, it can never truly die until leftism is dead.

00:43:34.780 So anyone who says that wokeness is dead, you just have to ask them.

00:43:38.200 So you're saying what the left doesn't exist anymore.

00:43:39.920 That leftism is no longer everyone's conservative now.

00:43:45.200 That'd be good news, but I don't think that's the case.

00:43:47.820 And as long as leftism exists and is a force in American culture.

00:43:54.100 Is the is the is the driving force.

00:43:58.140 The animating force behind many of our institutions, as long as that's the case.

00:44:02.900 Then wokeness will exist because this is what this is what wokeness is. 0.86

00:44:08.060 It's a it's a list of grievances.

00:44:10.880 It's a it's the victim hierarchy.

00:44:12.540 That's that's the whole thing.

00:44:13.560 That's the deal.

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00:45:23.360 Well, I was just informed that this week for the first time in a very long time, I've been

00:45:28.120 knocked out of the top entertainment spot on the Daily Wire Plus app.

00:45:31.940 I'm just learning this now.

00:45:33.400 The new number one is Michael Knowles' docuseries, The Pope and the Fuhrer, The Secret Vatican

00:45:38.160 Files of World War II.

00:45:40.120 Apparently, episodes one and two are what everyone is watching right now.

00:45:43.860 Michael's been saying he wants to beat me just to rub it in, which, let's be honest,

00:45:48.440 sounds exactly like Michael.

00:45:50.420 Well, I'll give him this much.

00:45:52.080 It's an important piece of history.

00:45:54.460 They're making me pretend I'm happy about all this.

00:45:56.920 I'm not.

00:45:57.920 Members can watch The Pope and the Fuhrer now on Daily Wire Plus.

00:46:00.320 If you're not a member, join today and get 40% off an annual membership with code SUMMER.

00:46:07.020 And then when you use that, go watch Am I Racist first?

00:46:10.320 And then go watch Michael's thing, maybe.

00:46:13.380 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:46:14.800 So in our decadent society outside the world of AI, it may seem like there isn't a lot

00:46:25.540 of innovation going on, but that's not entirely true.

00:46:28.760 Some people in our society are still innovating.

00:46:32.500 For example, every three or four months, feminists in the media come up with a new term to denigrate 1.00

00:46:37.800 men.

00:46:38.620 And it's been about four months since the last one, which means that this New York Times

00:46:41.500 article that we'll talk about today is arriving right on Q.

00:46:44.780 Q, here's the headline.

00:46:47.100 Why women are weary of the emotional labor of mankeeping. 1.00

00:46:51.180 As male social circles shrink, female partners say they have to meet more social and emotional

00:46:56.340 needs.

00:46:58.000 Yes, mankeeping.

00:47:00.240 Now, to be fair, I don't think the New York Times actually invented the term.

00:47:03.120 They're helping to popularize it.

00:47:04.440 There was a headline back in The Guardian back in June that said, mankeeping, why single women

00:47:09.380 are giving up dating?

00:47:10.560 As the male social circle continues to shrink, their partners have to take on much more emotional

00:47:14.520 labor, and many are opting to spend their lives alone instead.

00:47:18.960 Another headline a few months before that tells us, mankeeping is on the rise, and it's exhausting

00:47:24.460 women. 0.81

00:47:26.180 So what is mankeeping?

00:47:29.100 Well, if you type the term into Google, here's the definition it provides.

00:47:32.600 Mankeeping refers to the unpaid emotional labor that women often perform in relationships 0.99

00:47:36.460 where they're expected to manage and support the emotional well-being of their partners,

00:47:40.120 often without reciprocation.

00:47:41.880 This includes tasks like anticipating needs, managing conflicts, and providing emotional

00:47:45.700 support, which can lead to exhaustion and resentment.

00:47:49.760 So mankeeping is when a wife is expected to, you know, be a wife. 1.00

00:47:55.900 It's when she's saddled with the horrific burden of having to provide emotional support

00:48:00.280 to her husband.

00:48:02.420 Worst of all, she has to do this unpaid.

00:48:04.620 Imagine that.

00:48:06.820 Women are being asked to form emotional connections with their spouses without any form of financial

00:48:13.220 compensation.

00:48:14.720 Obviously, this is unfair.

00:48:16.040 Husbands should pay their wives an hourly wage for every hour that their wives spend caring 1.00

00:48:20.840 about them.

00:48:22.420 So if you want your wife to care about you for, say, eight hours a day, full-time job,

00:48:27.920 then you should pay her, I'd say, $2,400, about $300 an hour.

00:48:31.720 You might think that's kind of steep, but hey, do you want your wife to care about you or

00:48:36.080 not?

00:48:38.060 And if you want her to do some overtime and, say, care about you for 10 or 11 hours, maybe

00:48:43.020 you say, well, I get home from work and I still want her to care about me for a couple

00:48:46.220 of hours at least.

00:48:48.300 We're going to sit down for dinner.

00:48:49.500 I'd like her to still care about me when we're having dinner.

00:48:51.520 I don't know.

00:48:52.860 Well, that's another three or four hours.

00:48:54.160 And, you know, that'll cost overtime. 0.97

00:48:55.500 It costs you time and a half.

00:48:57.280 This is all very healthy, of course. 0.96

00:48:58.840 Acting as an emotional prostitute, demanding that your husband or boyfriend leave cash 0.94

00:49:03.020 on the side table as compensation for your emotional intimacy, that's very normal, right? 0.99

00:49:08.300 That's all very good.

00:49:09.980 Or is it?

00:49:11.640 I have to confess I'm a little bit skeptical.

00:49:13.640 So let's read through a little bit of this New York Times article to find out more.

00:49:19.440 Quote, Justin Leoi is a licensed clinical social worker in Brooklyn who specializes in therapy

00:49:24.180 for men.

00:49:24.720 When he sees a new client, one of the first things he asks is, who can you talk to about

00:49:29.180 what's going on in your life?

00:49:30.320 Much of the time, Mr. Leoi always says his straight male clients tell him that they rarely

00:49:34.420 open up to anyone but their girlfriends or wives.

00:49:36.580 Their partners have become their unofficial therapists, he said, doing all the emotional

00:49:40.760 labor.

00:49:41.880 That particular role now has a name, mankeeping.

00:49:44.820 The term coined by Angelica Puzio Ferrara, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University,

00:49:50.820 has taken off online.

00:49:51.900 It describes the work women do to meet the social emotional needs of the men in their 0.86

00:49:55.340 lives.

00:49:56.840 From supporting their partners through daily challenges and inner turmoil, to encouraging

00:50:00.560 them to meet up with their friends.

00:50:02.580 What I've been seeing in my research is how women have been asked or expected to take on

00:50:06.740 more work to be a central, if not the central piece of a man's social support system, Dr.

00:50:11.080 Ferrara said, taking care to note that the dynamic isn't experienced by all couples.

00:50:15.320 Yes, women are expected to be the central piece of a man's social support system. 1.00

00:50:22.380 Now, you might think, well, yeah, isn't that what it means to be in a relationship?

00:50:29.580 Isn't that what marriage is? 0.94

00:50:32.460 Shouldn't you want to be your man's primary source of emotional support?

00:50:37.660 Shouldn't you want to have a level of emotional intimacy with him that he doesn't have with

00:50:42.220 anyone else in his life?

00:50:44.640 Isn't that the whole point?

00:50:46.440 Why the hell are you in a relationship with you if you consider emotional intimacy to be

00:50:50.100 some huge slave-like burden?

00:50:53.540 Well, these are all good questions, and the New York Times will not answer any of them.

00:50:57.740 Let's read on anyway.

00:50:58.620 Quote, Dr. Ferrara, who researches male friendship at Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender

00:51:04.840 Research, and Dylan Vergara, a research assistant, published a paper on mankeeping in 2024 after

00:51:11.600 investigating why some men struggle to form close bonds, a growing and well-documented

00:51:16.220 issue.

00:51:17.340 In a 2021 survey, 15% of men said they didn't have any close friends, up from 3% in 1990.

00:51:22.780 In 1990, nearly half of young men said they would reach out to friends when facing a personal

00:51:26.820 issue.

00:51:27.500 Three decades later, just over 20% said the same.

00:51:30.280 Dr. Ferrara found that women tended to have all of these nodes of support they were going 0.99

00:51:34.260 to for problems, whereas men were more likely to be going to just them.

00:51:39.700 She sees mankeeping as an important extension of the concept of kinkeeping, the work of keeping

00:51:44.700 families together that researchers have found tends to fall disproportionately on women.

00:51:49.280 Eve Tilley-Colson, 37, was relieved to stumble upon the concept of mankeeping on social media.

00:51:53.340 Ms. Tilley-Colson, who lives in Los Angeles, is happy in a relationship with her boyfriend 0.99

00:51:56.920 of nearly seven months, describes him as emotionally mature, funny, and caring.

00:52:00.560 They make a good team, but Ms. Tilley-Colson finds herself offering him a fair amount of

00:52:04.820 social and emotional scaffolding, she said.

00:52:08.920 We'll stop right there.

00:52:10.280 I think we all get the point.

00:52:12.320 And the point is that, as you probably already suspected, mankeeping is yet another term feminists 1.00

00:52:17.860 have coined as an elaborate and roundabout way of justifying their own monstrous, hideous 0.93

00:52:24.300 narcissism. 0.99

00:52:26.000 They are selfish. 1.00

00:52:27.700 These are selfish women. 1.00

00:52:29.160 And they want to continue being selfish. 0.97

00:52:30.980 And anything that distracts from them focusing 100% of their energies on themselves and their

00:52:37.040 own desires is emotional labor.

00:52:40.420 That's what they really mean by the term.

00:52:41.920 And that's why, as usual, the struggles of men are being reframed as problems for women.

00:52:49.700 You know, this is the familiar framing now.

00:52:51.980 Men are lonely.

00:52:53.760 Women most affected.

00:52:55.860 A woman is a victim because of her own emotional struggles. 1.00

00:53:00.860 And a woman is also a victim because of a man's emotional struggles.

00:53:04.840 No matter who's struggling, it's always the woman who's struggling more. 0.99

00:53:08.640 That's the way the game is played.

00:53:09.840 Now, all that said, there is a morsel of truth in this idea.

00:53:17.480 In fact, I'm not really disputing the underlying premise, which is that women tend to be more 1.00

00:53:26.140 social.

00:53:26.640 They tend to be the primary ones in the relationship who create and maintain, as the article says,

00:53:32.620 the social and emotional scaffolding.

00:53:34.680 You know, I'll fully admit, if I ever find myself at a social event of any kind, it's almost always

00:53:42.080 because my wife coordinated it, planned it, scheduled it, and convinced me to attend.

00:53:48.160 And reminded me like 20 times that we're doing this thing on Saturday.

00:53:51.580 And, you know, over the summer, we had various visits from family and friends, and I had

00:53:57.840 no hand in organizing any of it.

00:54:00.420 If left up to me, none of it would have happened.

00:54:03.280 If I was entirely abandoned to my own devices, I would probably be just a hermit out in the

00:54:07.980 woods somewhere.

00:54:08.620 I mean, that's my default setting, as it is for many men.

00:54:11.160 So when it comes to organizing social events, does my wife carry a disproportionate amount 1.00

00:54:17.640 of the burden?

00:54:18.340 Absolutely.

00:54:19.480 No question about it.

00:54:21.480 Does that mean she's an oppressed slave? 0.99

00:54:24.240 Does that mean I owe her financial compensation like she's my employee?

00:54:28.560 Am I saddling her with an unfair amount of emotional labor?

00:54:32.200 No.

00:54:33.900 You know what it means, feminists? 1.00

00:54:35.400 It means that my wife is my wife.

00:54:41.480 It means she's not my business partner or my associate.

00:54:45.360 It means she's my wife, and she's wired differently than me.

00:54:50.320 She brings different things to the table.

00:54:52.400 There are different kinds of burdens that have to be assumed and carried in order for a

00:54:56.780 family to function.

00:54:58.240 My wife and I do not go exactly 50-50 on any of those burdens.

00:55:03.220 She carries a hugely disproportionate amount of the social burden, for sure. 0.57

00:55:10.600 Now, on the other hand, for example, I carry 100% of the burden to provide for the family

00:55:18.020 and ensure that we always have a roof over our heads and food on our plates.

00:55:22.400 Like, making sure that we're not homeless and starving, that job is 100% mine.

00:55:29.240 That is an enormous pressure that I carry every single day of my life.

00:55:36.380 And that's the case for most men.

00:55:39.540 In most marriages, even in our enlightened age, the man is still the primary breadwinner. 0.80

00:55:44.280 And even in marriages where the split is 50-50, the man is still the default breadwinner. 0.54

00:55:49.040 If anyone's going to stop working, it's almost always going to be the woman. 1.00

00:55:52.860 So, even in marriages where there's a 50-50 split, or even if the woman makes 60% of the 0.69

00:55:58.320 income, still, there's the option for the woman to stay home with the kids. 1.00

00:56:03.740 The man, it's assumed, must always work.

00:56:07.480 In the vast majority of families, the man is either the sole breadwinner, the primary 0.67

00:56:11.620 breadwinner, or the default breadwinner.

00:56:13.760 That's the case in most families.

00:56:15.660 And as we've discussed before, there's a substantial emotional and mental burden that comes with

00:56:22.520 this responsibility.

00:56:23.380 And it's one that is never talked about.

00:56:25.840 You'll never see that.

00:56:26.860 We don't come up with any fancy, trendy new terms for it.

00:56:32.480 We just don't discuss it.

00:56:34.920 And instead, the assumption is that there's no, that the task of providing for your family,

00:56:41.220 keeping the roof over the head, keeping food on the plate, making sure people aren't starving

00:56:45.900 or ending up homeless, making sure the kids have money to go to college, if that's what

00:56:49.920 you decide to do, making sure you're able to go on a vacation, making sure that, you know,

00:56:53.600 all that stuff.

00:56:55.360 The assumption is that there is no psychological or emotional burden associated with that at

00:57:02.520 all.

00:57:03.700 Like, we're just walking around on cloud nine all the time, just wandering around.

00:57:09.280 Our heads totally empty, which is not the case.

00:57:15.760 Because in reality, men who have this responsibility, they walk around every moment of their lives

00:57:25.360 very aware of it.

00:57:28.080 And almost everything they do is in some way directed towards that objective and that responsibility.

00:57:39.520 They're never not aware of it.

00:57:41.460 There's never a time when they're not feeling it.

00:57:46.500 And this is a burden that in many families, the wife will never feel, at least not to the extent 1.00

00:57:55.380 that the man feels it.

00:57:57.160 Now, am I saying that wives should step up and carry more of this weight in order to make 1.00

00:58:01.920 things equal?

00:58:02.720 No.

00:58:03.140 So I'm saying that nothing is equal in a healthy marriage.

00:58:07.000 The husband and wife are different people and will carry different burdens to different 0.76

00:58:10.840 degrees.

00:58:11.480 They can either choose to whine and complain about this and make themselves into perpetually

00:58:15.500 aggrieved martyrs, or they can delight in the opportunity to serve and love their family

00:58:21.340 in a way that the other cannot.

00:58:23.060 This is entirely a question of the attitude or perspective that you choose to adopt.

00:58:28.200 And any woman running around whining about mankeeping obviously has chosen to adopt the wrong 1.00

00:58:34.160 attitude and the wrong perspective.

00:58:35.840 You have chosen to make yourself the martyr.

00:58:38.620 You want to be the martyr.

00:58:39.900 That's what this is about.

00:58:41.380 You've chosen to see it that way.

00:58:42.960 When if you were a selfless, good person, right, frankly, you would look at it as this, I am

00:58:50.060 blessed.

00:58:51.600 I am so happy that I can do this for my husband.

00:58:55.300 Yeah, my husband, if not for me, would be much more isolated, but I love him and I know

00:59:01.400 that him keeping social connections is important and I know that this is not his MO.

00:59:05.660 This is not what he's good at.

00:59:06.960 I am good at it and I am blessed to be able to do that for him and serve him in that way

00:59:11.820 because I love him and I'm married to him.

00:59:14.280 You could see it that way if you were a good, decent person and a good wife, but you're a 0.96

00:59:19.560 bad wife. 1.00

00:59:20.380 So instead you sit around complaining and whining and feeling aggrieved and put upon and persecuted

00:59:27.020 because you're expected to do anything in the marriage at all.

00:59:33.300 Mankeeping is just another way for some women in modern society to complain about the basic 1.00

00:59:38.100 wifely duties that they signed up for when they got married. 0.94

00:59:40.720 What we find is that some women, not all, but some become wives, but have no interest

00:59:47.000 in actually being wives. 1.00

00:59:48.620 They don't want to offer emotional intimacy.

00:59:50.460 They don't want to offer physical intimacy.

00:59:52.260 They don't want to be affectionate.

00:59:53.420 They don't want to be caring.

00:59:54.200 They don't want to take care of the house.

00:59:55.240 They don't want to tend to the children.

00:59:56.220 They don't want to cook meals. 0.80

00:59:56.900 They don't want to clean.

00:59:58.320 Being a wife is a role, but as it turns out, they don't want to fill that role at all.

01:00:04.100 They took the part, but they don't want to play it.

01:00:06.240 And then when the marriage falls apart, when the husband becomes detached and resentful,

01:00:11.520 when he perhaps finds intimacy with somebody else because his wife has refused to offer it,

01:00:19.160 we're still supposed to see the wife as the clear-cut victim in the case. 1.00

01:00:22.220 When the wife says, we hear the story of my husband cheated on me, well, he shouldn't have.

01:00:29.120 I mean, adultery is never justified.

01:00:31.320 It's a mortal sin.

01:00:32.320 It's a terrible evil.

01:00:34.200 It can't be justified.

01:00:37.280 However, oftentimes it doesn't happen in a vacuum.

01:00:41.040 It just happened out of nowhere.

01:00:44.080 And I'm not telling you what should happen.

01:00:46.380 I'm telling you what likely will happen.

01:00:48.340 And when you withhold affection from your husband, emotional affection, because you don't want to,

01:00:54.760 I'm not the mankeeper.

01:00:57.040 It shouldn't be my job to do this for you.

01:01:00.060 When you do that, and then usually you're withholding physical affection as well.

01:01:04.000 Those two things go together.

01:01:05.720 You'll withhold that for long enough.

01:01:07.220 You know, it's not going to take that long.

01:01:08.340 It doesn't say like eventually he's at work and there's some woman at work.

01:01:12.340 And, you know, there's a woman who takes him seriously and respects him and shows him some affection and seems to actually be interested in him and kind of like likes being around him.

01:01:22.920 And then all of a sudden he's, you know, what he gets at home is just cold and detached and awful.

01:01:29.820 And what he finds with this woman is this warmth that he's so deeply lacking in desires.

01:01:36.320 And the moment that happens, you're in trouble.

01:01:39.280 You're in trouble.

01:01:39.980 Your marriage is in trouble.

01:01:40.940 You are in the danger zone.

01:01:42.280 You are, you, this, this is, this is, you know, the asteroid's about to hit moment.

01:01:47.680 And when it happens, again, it's not justified.

01:01:49.880 It's a mortal sin.

01:01:50.840 But you don't get to pretend to be the clear cut victim.

01:01:53.880 You can't, you can't sit back and say that, well, it's, I, this is, I, how did this happen?

01:01:58.100 I didn't do it.

01:01:59.680 You know, these, these are choices that you made as well.

01:02:01.700 So choices have consequences and treating your marriage like a chore and your husband like a child is a choice.

01:02:15.260 The consequences will be dire for your marriage one way or another.

01:02:20.980 And that is why any woman complaining about man keeping or using the term unironically at all is today canceled. 0.99

01:02:29.960 That'll do it for the show today.

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