The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1682 - The EBT Scam Just Went From Bad To Worse

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, as we've talked about it this week, I've done a deeper dive into the EBT program.

00:00:04.980 Turns out this scam is even worse than I thought, and much worse than most people realize.

00:00:10.160 I'll give you the facts today. You don't want to miss this.

00:00:12.220 Also, a popular liberal podcaster says that Democrat politicians need to get on board with wishing death on their opponents.

00:00:19.180 An MSNBC anchor claims that no Democrat has ever compared Trump to Hitler.

00:00:23.020 Of all the fake news ever reported by the fake news, this has to be the fakest.

00:00:27.100 And a single childless millennial woman has a moment of realization in a video that has gone massively viral.

00:00:32.760 All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:05.240 I have to admit that I've genuinely become interested in seeing how Democrats plan to defend the food stamp program, which is about to run out of money because of the government shutdown.

00:02:25.420 We did the whole opening segment yesterday on how taxpayers are being forced to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on subsidizing other people's groceries, which substantially raises the price of groceries for everybody.

00:02:36.660 And we talked about how the massive number of people who receive these subsidies, 45 million people, or one in eight Americans, clearly don't need them for the most part.

00:02:46.500 According to the Wall Street Journal, and I promise I'm not making this statistic up, this is real, roughly three-quarters of adult food stamp beneficiaries are overweight or obese.

00:02:58.780 Three-quarters of them.

00:03:00.560 75% of these people are obese.

00:03:04.520 And these are not particularly sympathetic people either.

00:03:07.420 Half of them are on TikTok at the moment.

00:03:10.440 BMI north of 40, smoke detector ringing off the hook, sass off the charts.

00:03:15.400 And they're threatening to rob their local grocery store the moment food stamps are cut off.

00:03:19.800 So, if you're the Democrat Party, how do you defend any of this?

00:03:24.460 How do you argue with a straight face that Americans should be forced to continue paying for other people's food stamps?

00:03:30.840 Well, it took a few weeks, but we finally have our answer, straight from Tim Walls himself.

00:03:34.600 And here's what Tim wrote on social media the other day.

00:03:37.340 Quote,

00:03:38.300 Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in economic activity.

00:03:44.000 It's not about the money.

00:03:46.180 Trump just wants Americans to go hungry.

00:03:49.520 So, that's the argument.

00:03:51.020 This is the best Democrats could come up with.

00:03:53.320 So, let's give Tim Walls the benefit of the doubt.

00:03:55.740 Let's really, really think about this for a moment.

00:04:00.060 He doesn't want you to think about it.

00:04:01.120 He just wants you to ingest it and move on.

00:04:04.640 But let's think about it.

00:04:05.680 Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in economic activity.

00:04:14.660 What does that mean exactly?

00:04:17.460 How would that even be possible?

00:04:19.320 How can you turn $1 into $1.80 just by taking it from one person and giving it to someone else?

00:04:25.940 Is that, I'm no economics major, but, so, is that how it works?

00:04:32.120 And if this trick actually works, then why don't we invest 100% of the U.S. budget into food stamps?

00:04:38.200 We double our money overnight.

00:04:40.240 Sounds like a fantastic idea.

00:04:41.740 Well, the trick, of course, is that you have to parse what Tim Walls is saying.

00:04:45.880 He's not saying that he can turn $1 into $1.80 with the SNAP program.

00:04:49.340 Instead, he's saying that every dollar in SNAP generates $1.80 in economic activity.

00:04:56.640 Well, what the heck is economic activity?

00:04:59.660 Well, here's one way to explain what this term means.

00:05:01.960 I saw this analogy making the rounds on social media, and it describes the sleight of hand very well.

00:05:06.980 I saw it posted by a guy named Lee, though I think it's been circulating around on the Internet for a while.

00:05:12.440 So, I don't know where it originally comes from, but here's how it goes.

00:05:16.100 So, let's say you have two economists walking in the woods, and the first economist says to the second,

00:05:22.160 I'll pay you $100 to eat this pile of manure. 1.00

00:05:26.700 And the second economist says, sure, and he eats the poop, and he takes $100.

00:05:33.300 A few minutes later, the second economist makes the same offer.

00:05:37.460 He says they come across another pile of poop, and he says to the first economist,

00:05:40.820 well, I'll give you $100 back if you eat this new pile of poop over here.

00:05:45.360 And the first economist accepts, and he gets his $100 back.

00:05:50.960 Well, in this scenario, of course, the economists have not created any new value.

00:05:56.520 Each of them has eaten manure in exchange for nothing.

00:06:00.620 They've completely wasted their time in addition to contracting E. coli.

00:06:04.880 And yet, these two economists have also increased the GDP by $200.

00:06:09.620 They have engaged in $200 worth of economic activity, because economic activity is simply a measure of how often money changes hands.

00:06:20.260 It's not a measure of value creation.

00:06:22.060 It's just that it means that money has changed hands.

00:06:25.260 Well, Democrats are pushing this absurd talking point about how SNAP creates economic activity,

00:06:29.520 because they want to confuse people about the reality of what's actually happening,

00:06:33.160 which is that we are being defrauded on a massive, incomprehensible scale.

00:06:40.100 And it doesn't require any kind of deep investigative reporting to realize this.

00:06:43.620 You can just go on Amazon.com and look for the items that are SNAP or EBT eligible.

00:06:50.060 You can go do this yourself.

00:06:51.020 You can see, you can get Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pies using your EBT card.

00:06:57.660 You can get giant bags of M&Ms and Snickers and Twix with your EBT.

00:07:02.200 You can pick up a family-sized pack of Gushers.

00:07:05.640 You can get double-stuffed Oreos, various other cookies, Chips Ahoy.

00:07:11.280 You can even get a massive $80 vat of double-chocolate whey protein powder on SNAP,

00:07:17.900 along with your Nespresso capsules.

00:07:19.660 Grey Poupon is also on the table, of course.

00:07:22.740 That goes without saying.

00:07:23.600 I mean, without your Grey Poupon, you might as well starve to death.

00:07:27.700 I'll never forget the story of the guy.

00:07:29.300 Maybe you never heard this, but this is a real story.

00:07:31.500 He was stranded in the desert, and he starved to death in agony.

00:07:36.420 But the real tragedy is that he had a whole cooler of food with him the whole time,

00:07:40.880 but he ran out of Dijon mustard.

00:07:43.860 And what good is the food without the mustard?

00:07:45.900 So, you know, lives are really at stake here.

00:07:48.380 But don't stop there.

00:07:50.400 Don't stop with the mustard.

00:07:51.340 You can also get a $110 California Ultimate Meat and Cheese Gift Crate with your SNAP benefits.

00:07:59.540 And here's the product description on that one.

00:08:01.520 Quote,

00:08:01.640 Send a crate fully loaded with delicious flavors for a charcuterie night experience.

00:08:07.000 Summer sausage and salami complement the savory variety of cheeses and mustard,

00:08:11.800 along with the crunch of two types of crackers and nuts.

00:08:14.600 A drizzle of vinegar and olive oil help create a variety of delicious flavor combinations.

00:08:19.380 They'll finish on a sweet note with dried fruits.

00:08:21.800 Now, just to put this in perspective, I would not, with my current income, ever spend $110 on a crate of meat and cheese.

00:08:33.620 Okay?

00:08:34.300 That would be outside of my current budget.

00:08:37.980 And you would think that my budget would be larger than the budget of somebody on EBT.

00:08:43.140 Apparently not.

00:08:46.380 Now, it doesn't need to be said, but none of this should be legal.

00:08:51.100 A lot of it probably is not legal, if we're being honest.

00:08:53.960 To the extent that it should exist at all, SNAP should cover the basics.

00:08:59.500 And it'd be really easy to have this requirement and enforce it.

00:09:04.220 It's not difficult at all.

00:09:06.320 Okay?

00:09:07.340 This is all done electronically.

00:09:09.180 You can just set it up so that the card doesn't work if you try to buy something like a meat and cheese crate for $110.

00:09:18.160 Or a bag of Oreos.

00:09:20.480 You could easily do it.

00:09:21.980 It'd be the easiest thing in the world to enforce.

00:09:25.060 But we don't.

00:09:27.200 You know, the cheap staples, if we're going to have this program at all,

00:09:30.480 it should be for people who really need it, and it's only for the staples.

00:09:33.660 Things like rice, beans, potatoes.

00:09:39.460 Maybe you put some produce in there.

00:09:41.260 And that's it.

00:09:43.520 You know, each person needs something like $50 a month.

00:09:48.100 And that should be it.

00:09:49.060 Like, if you really need it, that will keep you alive.

00:09:51.400 And if you want, now, you might say, well, people want to live.

00:09:54.600 That's no way to live.

00:09:55.480 You want more than just what you need to live.

00:09:58.560 You want to be able to treat yourself.

00:10:00.220 Well, fine.

00:10:00.920 Great.

00:10:01.120 Go ahead and do that with your own money.

00:10:04.320 We'll give you enough so that you don't actually starve to death,

00:10:06.820 if that's actually even a risk, which it isn't for almost all these people.

00:10:10.120 But if it is, then we'll cover the absolute basic essentials.

00:10:14.380 That's it.

00:10:16.080 You want anything more than that?

00:10:17.600 I totally understand wanting more than that.

00:10:19.380 Use your own money.

00:10:21.840 Snap should not be covering bodybuilding supplements.

00:10:25.000 It should not be covering candy or coffee, even.

00:10:29.000 That's exactly how many Snap recipients are spending your money.

00:10:31.660 Your money.

00:10:35.300 Take a look at this chart from USDA.

00:10:37.700 It's one of the few pieces of data we have from the government as it relates to food stamp spending.

00:10:41.720 This is not the kind of thing they really want to tell us much about.

00:10:44.640 But the chart shows how Snap recipients spend their money in yellow and how normal households spend their food budget, which is in blue, as a percentage of their overall food budget.

00:10:55.020 Now, there are entire categories on this chart that should not exist for Snap recipients.

00:11:01.340 There are entire categories.

00:11:02.360 Most of the categories should be N.A., not applicable.

00:11:04.820 But, for example, 9.25% of food expenditures in Snap households go to sweetened beverages, like Coke and Pepsi, compared to only 7% in normal households.

00:11:19.000 Meanwhile, 6.9% of the budget in Snap households goes to prepared desserts, compared to 6.41% in normal households.

00:11:27.180 So, in other words, Snap households are spending, when measured against their total budget, more money on non-essential food purchases as compared to households that actually pay for their own groceries.

00:11:40.640 Let me say that again in case you missed it.

00:11:42.620 In case you missed it.

00:11:43.400 EBT recipients are spending more money on non-essential food purchases than households that pay for their own groceries.

00:11:53.320 The people who are funding the food stamp program are living more modestly when it comes to groceries than the people who are on the food stamp program.

00:12:04.100 This is completely inverted and upside down and insane.

00:12:08.920 It is actually evil.

00:12:10.960 The food stamp program is evil.

00:12:14.200 And because of that, these results are exactly what we should expect.

00:12:18.720 When people are spending someone else's money and they don't need it, they tend to spring for unnecessary purchases.

00:12:25.720 When you give somebody a card and say, yeah, buy any food you want, basically, this is human nature.

00:12:33.540 Most people are not going to say, well, let me be, you know, let me, yeah, you know, I know I could buy junk food with it, but that would be unethical.

00:12:40.560 And I'm not going to force my fellow citizen to pay for that.

00:12:43.880 And so I'm going to stick only with the essentials and I'm going to be an honest person.

00:12:48.580 That's not what most people do.

00:12:49.960 That's not how most people respond.

00:12:51.540 It's just not.

00:12:52.180 In fact, they apparently tend to spring for purchases that are actively harmful to their health, like prepared desserts.

00:13:00.140 And by the way, it's not a remotely compelling argument to say that we need to spend a lot of money on SNAP for the benefit of children.

00:13:08.960 Because if anything, SNAP benefits are hurting children.

00:13:11.500 Take a look at this chart, which you can see here.

00:13:13.620 It shows child obesity rates in the U.S. by family income level.

00:13:17.820 And what do you notice?

00:13:18.440 The demographic that receives the most food stamps just so happens to have the highest child obesity rate by a significant margin.

00:13:25.240 Who could have seen that come?

00:13:27.600 We're not actually improving the lives of children.

00:13:29.660 Instead, we're putting money into the very large pockets of women like this. 1.00

00:13:34.040 Watch.

00:13:34.220 So, I get $3,000 in food stamps.

00:13:40.780 Obviously, it's eight of us.

00:13:42.600 So, you do the math.

00:13:44.360 That's why I get $3,000.

00:13:45.700 I have no income.

00:13:46.800 So, obviously, I'm going to get the full benefit amount.

00:13:50.820 Does that make you mad too?

00:13:55.960 Does it make you mad that the government is helping me feed my children?

00:14:01.100 Hmm? 0.77

00:14:02.200 Does that make you want to punch me in my face? 0.85

00:14:05.260 Does that make you angry?

00:14:06.520 Does that make you shiver in your boots?

00:14:10.820 Yeah.

00:14:13.240 Be mad.

00:14:14.460 Stay mad.

00:14:17.260 How else am I going to feed my kids?

00:14:18.760 I don't have a job.

00:14:20.500 Even though I'm going to an interview today.

00:14:23.340 Like I said, I took your advice.

00:14:25.480 So, it is what it is.

00:14:26.580 So, she's making $3,000 a month, $36,000 a year for doing nothing. 1.00

00:14:31.740 And she's mocking people for noticing how absurd this is.

00:14:35.180 There are millions of people in this country who make $36,000 a year for a full-time job.

00:14:39.260 They work eight hours a day.

00:14:40.360 And those people are being taxed on every paycheck.

00:14:42.940 And their money is then going to obese welfare queens like this one. 1.00

00:14:47.600 Now, she's obviously able to afford a smartphone, a car, so she can shoot videos complaining about how oppressed she is. 1.00

00:14:55.400 And, of course, she's obviously eating quite well.

00:14:57.240 So, or at least if she's not eating well, she's eating a lot.

00:15:01.740 She's eating high volume, if not high quality.

00:15:05.160 So, why exactly are we allowing people like this to collect thousands of dollars a month?

00:15:09.220 I mean, why don't we have regular weigh-ins to make sure that food stamp recipients actually need food?

00:15:13.980 Why don't we drug test these people and check their social media feeds to see if they're gloating about their EBT balances?

00:15:19.580 We do that in bankruptcy court.

00:15:20.800 If you declare bankruptcy and then you post a video where you're on a yacht or something, they're going to ask you to explain yourself.

00:15:25.820 This is what happened to 50 Cent.

00:15:27.820 And it should happen to every single one of these people.

00:15:31.080 But it hasn't happened.

00:15:32.160 And there's a very simple reason why it has not happened.

00:15:34.840 Yes, many of these people vote Democrat.

00:15:36.500 It's true the Democrat Party wants to buy their votes by stealing your money and handing it to them.

00:15:40.060 But the food stamp program isn't simply a creation of the Democrat Party.

00:15:42.900 Many Republican administrations have supported it as well.

00:15:46.120 In fact, they all have to one extent or another for as long as it's existed.

00:15:49.600 So, there's bipartisan support for wasting your money like this.

00:15:54.960 And that's because, and even now, by the way, they're messaging from the Republicans about the government.

00:16:01.080 They're not saying that, well, look how wasteful EBT is.

00:16:05.700 Instead, they're saying, oh, no, EBT is running out.

00:16:07.780 It's the Democrats' fault.

00:16:09.200 They're trying to take food out of your mouth. 0.97

00:16:11.360 That's what Republicans are saying.

00:16:12.640 So, very few Republicans are actually being honest about the food stamp program.

00:16:20.840 Even though they all know, every politician in America, every single one, right and left,

00:16:24.220 they all know that everything I'm saying is correct.

00:16:26.500 They know the whole thing's a total scam.

00:16:28.060 It's completely insane.

00:16:29.580 It's gotten way out of hand.

00:16:30.640 They all know that.

00:16:32.340 But very few of them will point it out.

00:16:35.320 And why is that?

00:16:36.200 Well, one, they're afraid of offending this constituency.

00:16:42.760 But the other one is that some of the biggest business interests in this country, as well as

00:16:46.680 several foreign governments, are essentially dependent on the food stamp program, too.

00:16:51.080 Something like 25% of all food stamp spending, talking about billions of dollars every month,

00:16:55.060 goes to Walmart.

00:16:56.740 Obviously, Amazon takes a large chunk, too, which is why they have SNAP-eligible items

00:17:00.700 all over their website.

00:17:02.940 As I mentioned earlier, roughly 10% of food stamp spending goes to sweetened beverages

00:17:06.680 like Coke, which has launched a very aggressive lobbying campaign to keep this money.

00:17:10.740 You might remember that last year, big soda companies were linked to a campaign to pay

00:17:15.300 conservative influencers on X in exchange for posts that said soda purchases should remain

00:17:19.980 SNAP-eligible.

00:17:21.100 So, in other words, SNAP isn't just a form of welfare that's mainly intended for Democrat

00:17:24.940 voters.

00:17:25.480 It's that, but it's also a form of corporate welfare.

00:17:28.180 If you pay taxes, you're contributing to the profits of Walmart, Amazon, and Coke, whether

00:17:35.000 you want to or not.

00:17:35.920 You're also contributing to the GDP of several foreign nations through remittances.

00:17:41.340 Watch.

00:17:44.040 42 million people in this country that need food stamps on a weekly basis.

00:17:50.780 And we're saying people deliberately instead of Americans, because most of the people that 0.95

00:17:55.880 are on food stamps aren't even from this country.

00:17:59.400 45% of Afghanistan immigrants are on food stamps.

00:18:03.840 42% of Somali immigrants.

00:18:06.660 34% of every immigrant from Iraq.

00:18:09.920 23% of Haitians.

00:18:11.600 59% of all illegal aliens are collecting food stamps, meaning that most of the people getting

00:18:19.980 food stamps from the U.S. government and the U.S. taxpayer are not even Americans.

00:18:25.920 Think about that.

00:18:27.260 And we didn't know about any of this before the government shutdown started.

00:18:30.160 But thanks to Democrats, we can confirm tonight that millions of Joe Biden illegal aliens, people

00:18:36.500 who crossed the border when Joe was president, are now collecting food stamps from a program

00:18:41.260 funded by hardworking American taxpayers.

00:18:45.980 So well over half of illegal aliens are receiving food stamps, as well as cash for low-income

00:18:50.280 households.

00:18:51.000 As we just established, they don't really need this money.

00:18:53.240 And even if they did, they still shouldn't receive it, because they don't belong in the

00:18:57.180 country.

00:18:57.460 But regardless, if they don't need the money, what are they doing with it?

00:19:01.340 Well, they're buying food to ship back home, either to family members or to sell in the

00:19:04.900 black market.

00:19:05.360 This is from the New York Post, quote, food stamp fraud in New York has turned into foreign

00:19:09.400 aid to black market profit years in the Dominican Republic.

00:19:13.340 Last week, the Post found two people hawking barrels of American products for a profit on

00:19:18.620 the streets of Santiago.

00:19:20.200 It's a really easy way to make money, and it doesn't cost me anything.

00:19:22.620 A seller named Maria Teresa said Friday, the 47-year-old Bronx native told the Post she

00:19:27.100 scalps barrels of frosted flakes, a baby formula bought with welfare money in the U.S.

00:19:32.080 She even takes her customers' requests for hot ticket items.

00:19:34.540 Her bestsellers include a 19-ounce box of frosted flakes, which goes for $6.50 at Dominican

00:19:39.680 supermarkets.

00:19:40.720 She sells it for $2 less after her sister buys it on sale for $2.99.

00:19:45.040 But because the sister uses her EBD card, she actually pays nothing.

00:19:48.740 Taxpayers foot the bill for the $2.99.

00:19:51.320 So they run this scam with other items also.

00:19:56.500 You know, this is a wide range, including baby formula, Kellogg's cornflakes.

00:20:00.700 It actually gets worse as you continue reading, if you can believe it.

00:20:04.200 The food stamp fraud, reading now again, quote, the food stamp fraud doesn't stop there.

00:20:07.780 The woman said her sister has Bronx grocery stores ring up bogus $250 transactions with her 0.87

00:20:13.120 EBT card.

00:20:13.660 But in exchange, the store hands her $200 cash and pockets the rest.

00:20:18.560 No goods are exchanged.

00:20:19.920 Instead, Maria Teresa's sister sends the money to Santiago when she's not spending it on liquor

00:20:24.520 or other non-food items.

00:20:26.300 We do it all the time, and a lot of people do this.

00:20:28.120 Maria Teresa said it's a way of laundering money, but it's easier because it's free.

00:20:31.800 Now, as anyone who works in a grocery store, and, you know, if you ask anyone who works

00:20:36.680 in a grocery store, you'll hear dozens of stories like this.

00:20:39.240 I saw a post from somebody in Hawaii who says that on the first day of the month, EBT recipients

00:20:43.480 buy caseloads of spam, and then they sell the spam to street vendors at a 50% discount,

00:20:49.060 and they use the proceeds for drugs and alcohol.

00:20:52.360 So if you're an actual customer and you're looking for spam on the shelves, you got to look

00:20:55.940 because you've paid for criminals to clear out the shelves and buy drugs with it.

00:21:00.060 Now, a system this easy to defraud, which was designed to be defrauded, should be scaled

00:21:07.980 back drastically, not expanded.

00:21:11.180 I mean, really, it should just be abolished, but at a minimum, it should be scaled back.

00:21:14.980 But the Biden administration did not scale back.

00:21:17.040 They did expand it.

00:21:17.840 In fact, as you can see, food stamp spending has doubled since 2019, and this is not just

00:21:23.780 COVID-related, by the way.

00:21:25.160 The numbers have remained high long after the lockdowns ended.

00:21:27.760 And that's because in this same period, the Biden administration imported millions of

00:21:33.200 illegal aliens.

00:21:34.420 And it simply does not matter that technically these people shouldn't receive food stamps

00:21:38.400 under the law.

00:21:39.080 They're not even supposed to be inside the country under the law, yet they are.

00:21:42.300 And once they get here, states like California give them food stamps.

00:21:46.540 The feds give them food stamps.

00:21:48.880 And their anchor babies get food stamps, too.

00:21:51.360 They even get a nice little EBT card so they don't seem remotely conspicuous or shameful as

00:21:55.520 they defraud the American taxpayer.

00:21:57.360 Coke wins.

00:21:58.580 Walmart wins.

00:22:00.900 Democrats win.

00:22:03.240 Illegal aliens win. 1.00

00:22:04.500 Foreign countries win.

00:22:05.520 But you lose.

00:22:09.160 You are taxed more and your groceries become more expensive.

00:22:12.620 You lose.

00:22:13.800 Your children lose.

00:22:15.520 Your family loses.

00:22:17.100 Because they also have no choice.

00:22:18.500 The ongoing government shutdown has finally drawn attention to the scale of this fraud.

00:22:24.780 And it is astronomical.

00:22:27.060 It has exposed a vast network of criminal activity that needs to be shut down.

00:22:31.740 Just for starters, as the attorney Mike Davis has pointed out, it's illegal under federal

00:22:35.280 law to provide financial assistance to illegal aliens.

00:22:39.160 It's also illegal to rob stores and then brag about it on TikTok.

00:22:42.320 At a minimum, we could start there.

00:22:45.080 Arrest these criminals.

00:22:46.940 Prosecute the state officials who are paying out benefits to illegal aliens.

00:22:50.360 Who, by the way, typically receive Medicaid funding as well.

00:22:54.020 And then also other welfare benefits.

00:22:55.880 And then, once we're done with that, we need drug testing and weight testing for anyone

00:22:59.400 receiving SNAP.

00:23:00.760 We need a system that does not subsidize the grocery bills of 45 million people for the

00:23:04.780 indefinite future with no time limit or restriction.

00:23:07.380 And beyond that point, if the food stamp program is going to continue to exist at all, which

00:23:12.180 I'm not convinced it should, it needs to have standards.

00:23:16.180 Strict standards.

00:23:17.220 It needs to have a reason to exist.

00:23:18.980 Someone needs to be able to explain in a coherent fashion why the spending is necessary.

00:23:24.280 Democrats have had several days to give us an explanation, and they've failed to do it.

00:23:27.860 In fact, they've essentially admitted it's a shell game, and it's rife with fraud.

00:23:31.900 They've admitted that they're just redistributing money or creating economic activity, as Tim

00:23:36.020 Walls put it, and for the benefit of every taxpayer and the millions of obese, profoundly

00:23:41.460 ungrateful people they're feeding, we should end this particular economic activity. 1.00

00:23:46.580 And in its place, we should encourage food stamp recipients to engage in some actual activity,

00:23:51.700 like, you know, getting a job or going for a walk around the block.

00:23:57.760 Hold them to some standards.

00:23:59.060 That'll be a big adjustment, no doubt, but one TikTok video and Tim Walls tweet at a time,

00:24:05.780 Democrats, of all people, are making a very compelling case that it's a change we need

00:24:10.740 to make.

00:24:12.280 Let's get to our five headlines.

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00:26:10.100 All right, Jennifer Welsh is a left-wing podcaster.

00:26:13.860 She's been popping up on my feed more and more, which is unfortunate because she's very

00:26:18.820 difficult to look at.

00:26:20.620 She has a face that only a mother could love, although I suspect her mother did not love

00:26:26.520 it, which is how she ended up the way that she did. 1.00

00:26:29.280 And here she is reacting to a clip of a leftist protester.

00:26:32.000 It's a clip of another leftist, a protester, saying that she, the protester, is glad that

00:26:39.140 Charlie Kirk is dead and she wants more conservatives to also die.

00:26:42.880 And Jennifer Welsh, who again is a somehow popular left-wing podcaster, is really thrilled

00:26:52.500 by this.

00:26:53.280 So let's watch.

00:26:54.180 Finally, if you think this Zoran thing is happening just in New York, and you think 0.86

00:27:01.080 people are waking up only in New York City, you're mistaken.

00:27:05.920 Look at this clip of a wine mom at the No Kings March.

00:27:09.540 Play the clip.

00:27:10.440 Her name was? 0.99

00:27:12.000 Charlie Kirk, ma'am. 0.59

00:27:12.980 Yeah, him is horrible. 0.95

00:27:14.520 Horrible. 0.73

00:27:15.080 Charlie Kirk is horrible? 0.51

00:27:16.380 Yes, I'm glad he's not here. 0.98

00:27:18.400 You're glad he's dead?

00:27:19.880 Yes.

00:27:20.260 Why would you say something like that, ma'am?

00:27:22.900 He was horrible on the campuses, the college campuses. 0.71

00:27:26.780 Horrible person.

00:27:27.660 You know what?

00:27:28.040 I do the exact same thing. 0.99

00:27:29.780 Would you be glad if I would die? 0.99

00:27:31.740 Maybe. 0.90

00:27:32.640 I'd have to think about it.

00:27:34.120 You should be ashamed of yourself.

00:27:35.400 You should be ashamed of yourself. 1.00

00:27:36.660 Your friend just said she'd be happy if I died. 0.99

00:27:38.960 I think we need to...

00:27:41.420 So listen up, Democratic establishment.

00:27:46.580 You can either jump on board with this, or we're coming after you in the same way that

00:27:52.860 we come after MAGA.

00:27:57.280 Well, she's pretty angry. 0.99

00:28:00.940 At least I think she is.

00:28:03.240 I mean, her entire face is made of plastic, so I can't really be sure.

00:28:06.220 Her face is just paralyzed, paralyzed from Botox, like some kind of stroke victim.

00:28:11.980 And, you know, her face is... 0.52

00:28:15.860 It's a cartoonish face.

00:28:17.340 It's a face...

00:28:17.780 It looks like...

00:28:18.540 You know what?

00:28:18.800 It looks like her face was erased and then redrawn by a child. 1.00

00:28:25.140 So she truly is just a hideous beast. 0.97

00:28:27.900 And I don't feel bad saying that because I believe her hideousness is a reflection of 0.98

00:28:32.480 her soul. 0.83

00:28:32.980 I mean, it's also a reflection of the botulism she's injecting into her head every day. 1.00

00:28:36.600 But it is itself a reflection.

00:28:39.960 But the fact that she's injecting the botulism is also a reflection of the evil in her soul. 0.90

00:28:45.220 So this is an evil, terrible person, and it seeps out of her pores. 0.99

00:28:49.980 And she's explicitly saying here that Democrat Party needs to get on board with wishing death 0.98

00:28:54.640 on conservatives.

00:28:55.680 Which, of course, I think if you're in the Democrat Party and you hear that, you're going,

00:29:02.180 what do you mean?

00:29:03.040 Haven't we already made it clear we're on board with that?

00:29:05.920 What are you talking about?

00:29:07.520 But she wants them even more on board.

00:29:10.460 Keep in mind, this woman is not some kind of fringe figure.

00:29:13.100 She's a mainstream liberal podcaster.

00:29:15.320 She is what counts as normal on that side.

00:29:19.600 She may not look like it.

00:29:22.900 She may look like Count Chocula's fraternal twin sister, but still, this is a normal person

00:29:29.940 over there.

00:29:30.480 And the other woman in that clip, the wine mom, is also what counts as normal. 1.00

00:29:35.980 Which is why I've been saying these people truly want us dead.

00:29:38.820 They really do. 0.98

00:29:39.980 In the mainstream, they want us dead.

00:29:42.660 And that is clear.

00:29:44.840 I had one other thought about this Jennifer Welsh creature as I was watching that. 0.97

00:29:50.040 It occurred to me as I was watching the clip that truly everything I do as a father of daughters,

00:29:57.540 as a father of a 12-year-old girl and a 6-year-old girl, everything I do is specifically intended

00:30:05.060 to ensure that my girls do not turn into a woman like that. 1.00

00:30:09.960 She is the picture, she is the symbol of everything I don't want my girls to be.

00:30:18.600 I look at that, everything about her, and I say, yeah, that's exactly it.

00:30:22.300 That's exactly the opposite of it.

00:30:25.220 I want, it's like, take that, and I want my daughters to become that, but the opposite.

00:30:29.720 In every single way.

00:30:32.860 If I could look into the future and see that my precious daughter had become Jennifer Welsh,

00:30:38.640 I would die from heartbreak.

00:30:41.460 I truly would.

00:30:42.180 I think I would just die.

00:30:43.500 I don't think I'd be able to live with that.

00:30:47.940 For me, that's a fate worse than death.

00:30:50.440 I would rather be dead than have my daughters end up like that. 0.99

00:30:54.920 I looked this woman up, and the first thing I see in her bio, the least surprising news

00:31:02.000 of all time is that in her bio, it says that she is happily divorced.

00:31:08.480 Isn't that a shock?

00:31:09.880 Never saw that one coming.

00:31:14.260 Which, of course, we already knew that.

00:31:16.400 Not only did you know that she was divorced, but you knew that she'd be the kind of person

00:31:19.200 who would describe herself as happily divorced.

00:31:21.960 She's the kind of person who would describe the dissolution of her marriage, the destruction

00:31:25.860 of her family, as a happy, a happy thing. 0.76

00:31:30.080 And sadly, this monster also has two sons.

00:31:33.400 So, you know, she's not childless. 0.68

00:31:35.540 She has two sons.

00:31:36.360 You can only imagine how awful she is to them, what agony it must be to have this person as

00:31:41.100 your mother, how much they must loathe her, and it's hard to even imagine.

00:31:47.880 And so the whole picture, the whole thing is just everything, it's everything wrong, everything

00:31:57.940 that can kind of go wrong with a woman is found right there. 0.99

00:32:03.220 Um, divorced, selfish, ugly, inside and out, ruined, face ruined from, uh, from plastic 0.99

00:32:18.540 surgery, crass, uh, nasty, mean, just like unpleasant, everything you don't want your daughter to 1.00

00:32:33.100 turn into.

00:32:33.640 So that's, that's the lesson there.

00:32:36.040 I think that's the lesson we can all take away from it.

00:32:39.260 Here's a video that I think lives of Tik TOK put together.

00:32:42.280 I believe I found it on this, that's where I found it was on her, um, on her X page.

00:32:47.940 Uh, so JB Pritzker went on Nicole Wallace's podcast and denied having ever called Trump

00:32:55.360 Hitler. 0.57

00:32:55.840 And then Wallace says that, well, no, yeah, no Democrat, no Democrat has ever done that.

00:33:03.040 And lives of Tik TOK put together this little, uh, video sort of fact checking that claim.

00:33:07.780 Uh, here it is.

00:33:08.660 I haven't suggested that, that Donald Trump is Hitler.

00:33:11.660 Um, I, I, I wouldn't say that.

00:33:13.820 I don't think any Democrat has.

00:33:15.560 I, I actually.

00:33:16.860 It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler,

00:33:23.680 the man who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews.

00:33:29.940 How, how can you possibly compare what happened in Germany in World War II, uh, to what's going

00:33:35.260 on here in the United States?

00:33:36.220 Well, we're talking about the death of a constitutional republic.

00:33:39.800 That's what happened in Germany, 1933, 1934.

00:33:43.580 Uh, and we're seeing today that you've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring

00:33:48.360 court orders.

00:33:49.580 And this rogue department of justice going out to do the bidding of, um, this Timu Hitler. 0.80

00:33:57.480 I don't even know what to call him.

00:33:58.980 I've called him so many things, but, uh, this wannabe Hitler for sure. 0.96

00:34:02.520 Trump actually, uh, reenacting, uh, the Madison square garden rally in 1939 that neo-Nazis.

00:34:13.980 So anyway, this could go on for 37 hours, of course.

00:34:18.700 Uh, it could go on and on.

00:34:21.240 Although, although in a way watching that clip back, I guess he was, he was technically

00:34:29.220 correct in what, in Jamie Prisker, his original claim was actually true because he said, well,

00:34:34.180 I've never suggested that Trump is Hitler.

00:34:36.620 And then Nicole Wallace said, well, no Democrat has, and that's correct in that. 1.00

00:34:40.640 Yeah.

00:34:40.700 They haven't suggested it.

00:34:42.080 They just outright said it.

00:34:43.780 So maybe that's, maybe that's how you would parse that.

00:34:47.580 Um, yeah, there's, there's no suggestion.

00:34:50.320 There's no insinuation.

00:34:51.300 They're just outright saying that Trump is Hitler and Democrats have been calling Trump,

00:34:56.080 uh, and all their political opponents, Hitler for a long time, obviously.

00:34:58.840 Which is maybe the single worst political miscalculation in modern political history in this country.

00:35:06.800 Anyway, forget about the fact that it's a lie, uh, that it's false.

00:35:11.020 Obviously, obviously it's false. 1.00

00:35:13.200 Trump is not Hitler, but just on a pure political level, it was a catastrophically stupid mistake. 1.00

00:35:18.440 And they keep making it because they don't know what else to do. 1.00

00:35:20.880 They just keep forging ahead.

00:35:22.680 And now they have nowhere else to go.

00:35:24.240 I mean, they've thrown the, the worst possible accusation they could fabricate at their opponents.

00:35:29.240 They went all the way to the most extreme denunciations.

00:35:31.920 It didn't land and nobody cared.

00:35:34.480 We're numb to it.

00:35:36.360 Uh, it doesn't mean anything anymore.

00:35:39.780 And now what?

00:35:43.020 Right.

00:35:43.460 That's the problem.

00:35:44.100 When you go all the way there and, and you come out and say, you know what?

00:35:47.700 He's Hitler. 0.95

00:35:49.900 Well, okay.

00:35:53.660 When you go for the most extreme denunciation where there's nowhere else to go.

00:35:59.240 After that one's been used up, uh, there's nowhere else to go.

00:36:03.520 That's the situation the left is in.

00:36:05.500 It was a very bad strategy.

00:36:07.300 Although it really wasn't a strategy at all.

00:36:08.940 I mean, this is, this is what, I think this is what people don't fully appreciate.

00:36:12.220 Um, when Democrats go around calling everybody, they hate Hitler, it's not really a political tactic.

00:36:19.640 It's sort of that.

00:36:20.760 It's not fully that.

00:36:21.880 I think it's more a product of their limited vocabulary and their lack of imagination and

00:36:28.540 their historical literacy, which is not to make an excuse for them. 0.99

00:36:32.260 I'm just saying it's impossible to overstate just how dumb and witless and clueless, um, 0.99

00:36:37.100 these, uh, these people are, they don't read books. 0.99

00:36:39.880 They don't think they don't engage in any level of reflection about anything ever.

00:36:43.660 And so they go around shouting Hitler because he's one of the like three historical figures

00:36:48.500 that they know about, right?

00:36:51.140 They, they know of three historical figures and he's one of them.

00:36:58.880 The historical figures they can name would be like Hitler, Martin Luther King Jr.

00:37:06.180 and Abraham Lincoln.

00:37:08.440 Those are the only three they know.

00:37:12.660 Right.

00:37:13.200 And on the left, that's the case, but really this is, this is a, it's also a function of the,

00:37:18.500 failed school system.

00:37:21.620 So that's one of the reasons why they compare everyone to Hitler, because they're thinking

00:37:24.620 like, okay, well, only three people have existed in history before this moment, Abraham Lincoln,

00:37:29.920 Martin Luther King Jr.

00:37:30.640 and Hitler. 0.69

00:37:31.880 And they're thinking, well, we can't compare them to the other two.

00:37:35.320 So this is the only one left.

00:37:39.280 And so that's why they do it.

00:37:41.620 They have, um, a vocabulary range, not much more extensive than that of the average

00:37:48.080 third grader.

00:37:49.420 And they have historical knowledge that is, um, less than a third grader who's been well

00:37:56.560 educated anyway, historical knowledge, less than a homeschooled third grader.

00:38:02.180 And so this is what they're left with.

00:38:03.500 It's kind of like that old, there's that old Louis C.K.

00:38:05.560 A bit where he talks about the word hilarious.

00:38:09.020 I think it's from the special.

00:38:10.340 It was also called hilarious and how people use the word hilarious to describe things that

00:38:14.600 are at best mildly amusing.

00:38:16.980 Something mildly amusing happens and people say, oh, it's hilarious.

00:38:20.420 And the problem is that, that, okay, well, what do you do when something actually hilarious

00:38:24.380 happens?

00:38:24.900 You just used hilarious on something that barely elicits, elicits a smirk.

00:38:28.960 And now this really hilarious thing is happening.

00:38:31.900 And what are you going to call it?

00:38:33.180 Well, you're also going to call it hilarious.

00:38:34.760 So you've cheapened the hilarious event by using that word to describe anything that's

00:38:40.760 remotely funny at all.

00:38:42.020 That was kind of, I mean, that was not the funny way at all of me doing the bit, but that

00:38:47.180 was the point he was making.

00:38:49.620 So, um, Democrats have a kind of political version of this problem.

00:38:53.520 They have a political version of it.

00:38:55.380 And, um, and there's nowhere else to go.

00:38:58.960 Especially with Trump.

00:39:01.920 I mean, they've said everything they possibly can about him.

00:39:05.080 They've, they've every, every, the worst accusations they've tried to arrest him.

00:39:09.820 Obviously they've tried to put him in jail.

00:39:11.460 They've tried to kill him and there's nothing left to be said.

00:39:16.120 And that's why they're, they're totally ineffectual at this point in, um, in opposing him.

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00:41:19.500 You know, on this show through the years, we've played and discussed many videos of single millennial women on TikTok talking about their experience of being single and millennial.

00:41:28.980 And the one thing these videos almost always lack, which is what makes them sad and sometimes also funny, is any semblance of self-awareness or wisdom.

00:41:41.240 Well, today we have another in this genre, except this does have a healthy portion of the ingredients that the others lack.

00:41:46.760 This is a woman named Layla, who's gone very viral. 0.95

00:41:51.420 This is all over TikTok.

00:41:52.820 This had like 500,000 likes or something, so millions and millions of views.

00:41:57.080 And so she's gone viral with her very, her honest, and at least to a point, I think, insightful reflection on her experience as a woman in her 30s with no husband and no children.

00:42:08.060 Here it is, watch.

00:42:10.400 I just realized that I'm not anybody's priority in life.

00:42:13.520 I mean, I've known this, but it came like, it just like kind of really hit me today.

00:42:18.400 Like, wow, I'm not, there's no one that prioritizes me in their life.

00:42:24.640 And I feel like I prioritize a lot of people, but that is just like the nature of being a single girl with friends or a single adult with friends,

00:42:32.600 is that I prioritize my friendships because I have to, because I don't have anybody else, right?

00:42:40.080 But like realizing that I'm not anybody's priority is just like such a freaking bummer, such a bummer.

00:42:49.380 Um, and it hurts and it kind of feels like really bad.

00:42:53.020 Like, did I make every wrong choice in life ever to end up in this place where like, I'm no one's priority.

00:42:59.080 But then like on the flip side of that is like, I am, I have to be my priority and I just have to like live in that more.

00:43:06.660 Like I'm my priority.

00:43:08.400 I am.

00:43:09.080 So things take a turn towards the end there, as we'll discuss, but she's touching on something true.

00:43:16.160 And for someone in her position, uh, quite painful, which is why it's certainly not my intention to make fun of her, deliver any lecture or anything like that.

00:43:23.780 I just want to talk about the point that she's making and, and, and also try to explain why the solution that she offers the, the answer to the riddle, um, doesn't work, unfortunately.

00:43:35.660 Uh, but Layla is correct.

00:43:37.700 If you're single and childless as an adult, there probably isn't not anyone in your life who considers you their top priority.

00:43:45.080 And you may have people who love you.

00:43:46.820 Hopefully you have friends, you have family members, but you aren't going to be anyone's most important person.

00:43:53.700 Okay.

00:43:54.100 You're, you're not the first or last thought in anybody's head as they go to bed at night or get out of bed in the morning.

00:44:00.080 That's a brutal reality.

00:44:01.200 And it's one that women in Layla's position, at least the ones who post TikTok videos, 1.00

00:44:04.500 often don't have the courage to face.

00:44:06.320 And I give her credit for being honest with herself about it.

00:44:08.920 This is one of the reasons why I have always so aggressively opposed the lie that life is easier and happier if you forego marriage and children.

00:44:19.140 The culture has been pushing this falsehood for generations.

00:44:21.740 Now, as we know, millions of people have found themselves, uh, have, have, have, have listened to it.

00:44:26.600 And they've found themselves desperately lonely and in a state of near total despair,

00:44:31.200 because they allowed themselves to be ushered down a path that they were told would lead to happiness and fulfillment.

00:44:36.320 And instead they end up in exactly the opposite place.

00:44:38.880 They end up with the realization that although they've freed themselves from the responsibility of being a spouse and a parent,

00:44:44.220 they've also deprived themselves of the love that they might've otherwise found.

00:44:49.440 They're free, but they don't have love.

00:44:53.420 And giving someone freedom by depriving them of love is like, it's like giving them freedom by depriving them of food.

00:44:58.440 You know, it's not freedom at all, except the freedom to die.

00:45:01.440 And in the case of food, you will physically die without it.

00:45:04.120 In the case of love, you'll die in every other sense that matters.

00:45:07.620 And this is not to say that you can't be loved or experience love if you're single.

00:45:11.180 It's to say that to choose that lifestyle is to choose lesser things over the greater thing, which is love.

00:45:18.820 And when somebody like Layla talks about this feeling of emptiness, this feeling of lacking,

00:45:25.000 well, this is what she's talking about.

00:45:26.660 Love is the thing that she's missing.

00:45:29.020 Maybe not missing completely in her life, but missing in a significant and meaningful way.

00:45:36.080 But it's not just about being prioritized by somebody else.

00:45:38.820 The greater problem is that without a family, there is no one for you to prioritize.

00:45:44.320 There's no one for you to pour yourself into.

00:45:47.020 No one for you to serve and give to and sacrifice for.

00:45:51.540 There's no one who you know, not think, not hope, but you know you would take a bullet for,

00:45:59.920 you would lay down your life for, because it's the kind of love and devotion you have for that person.

00:46:05.280 And that is why Layla's solution doesn't work.

00:46:09.820 You know, she says that, well, she needs to work on prioritizing herself. 0.94

00:46:13.100 In an article for Newsweek, she expounded, saying, quote,

00:46:15.940 In many ways, this realization feels freeing, Layla told Newsweek, but it was also quite demoralizing.

00:46:21.340 Most people would say their partner or children come first.

00:46:23.740 Layla said, I have wonderful friends and family who value and appreciate me,

00:46:27.260 but I don't think I'm anyone's first call or first thought.

00:46:29.560 Just part of this phase of life.

00:46:31.060 I can do whatever I want, whenever I want.

00:46:33.380 No one depends on me and choosing myself doesn't mean letting anyone down.

00:46:36.160 But there are moments when I wish I'd had someone to share certain experiences with.

00:46:39.600 Realizing that she's no one's priority and going viral as a result,

00:46:42.720 has a courage, Layla, to start a self-prioritization challenge.

00:46:46.700 She hopes to be more intentional about showing up for herself and to feel fulfilled through her own merit.

00:46:53.540 So this is a solution that most people in Layla's position land on.

00:46:56.160 It's a solution suggested by the culture, which is that if you're feeling lonely, if you're feeling unfulfilled,

00:47:01.800 if you're feeling like maybe you should pursue a traditional family life, well, fear not.

00:47:07.220 You could just prioritize yourself and start a self-prioritization challenge

00:47:11.840 and be more intentional about showing up for yourself, whatever that means.

00:47:17.200 Well, the problem with this approach, again, is that it simply doesn't work,

00:47:20.480 which is why people who are in Layla's position tend to have to spend a lot of time convincing themselves

00:47:27.700 that it will work and that it does work.

00:47:30.760 This is where a lot of the self-help stuff comes from,

00:47:32.900 repeating these mantras to yourself about how happy you are to convince yourself,

00:47:38.240 to try to conjure it into being.

00:47:41.180 But it doesn't work because you cannot, you're feeling a hole inside yourself, inside your soul.

00:47:49.020 You cannot fill the hole inside yourself with yourself.

00:47:52.360 You cannot fill the desire for companionship by staring at your reflection in the mirror.

00:47:58.360 The self-help book tells you that you're enough.

00:48:01.700 You're enough.

00:48:03.020 But you aren't enough.

00:48:04.800 You're not even close to enough.

00:48:06.680 No one is.

00:48:07.200 You are not enough, in and of yourself, to live a fulfilling and meaningful and happy life.

00:48:13.960 Such a life requires other people.

00:48:16.420 You can't do it alone.

00:48:18.160 It's impossible.

00:48:19.640 You cannot live for yourself and be happy.

00:48:22.100 And I'm not saying that you shouldn't be happy living for yourself.

00:48:26.620 I'm saying that we don't even need to talk about should or shouldn't.

00:48:29.380 It doesn't matter.

00:48:29.960 I'm saying you can't.

00:48:31.440 You cannot be happy that way.

00:48:33.280 It is not possible.

00:48:34.240 It is a contradiction in terms.

00:48:36.200 Look at it this way.

00:48:37.840 What if you lived in a big, majestic old house with eight bedrooms, eight bathrooms, beautiful wood floors, you know, nice crown molding and all the little details?

00:48:50.640 Could you be happy in such a home?

00:48:53.920 Could you fully appreciate it if you live there alone?

00:48:57.440 Well, the answer is no.

00:49:01.120 You can recognize the beauty of the home.

00:49:03.880 You can enjoy spending some time in it.

00:49:07.280 You may even enjoy living in it for a short period.

00:49:10.420 But you can't find happiness in this home.

00:49:13.280 You certainly cannot find all of the happiness that would otherwise be available to you if you're living there alone.

00:49:19.060 Because what is a big house with eight bedrooms for?

00:49:23.460 What is its purpose?

00:49:25.180 Its purpose is to be lived in.

00:49:26.860 Its purpose is to be a home for a family.

00:49:29.160 All of those rooms are not meant to go empty.

00:49:31.780 They're not meant to just be there for decoration.

00:49:33.680 They were built to be occupied, to be lived in.

00:49:36.660 That's what the house is for.

00:49:40.140 And you cannot be happy with a thing, at least not fully happy, not as happy as you could be, unless you know what it's for and you use it accordingly.

00:49:50.580 And by the way, this is also one of the reasons why, because I know people will say, well, why can't you enjoy something by yourself?

00:49:56.240 Well, you can enjoy it up to a point by yourself, sure.

00:49:59.520 But, and as an introvert myself, I enjoy alone time.

00:50:05.960 I enjoy that kind of thing.

00:50:08.520 But you can't be fully happy.

00:50:11.800 And it also tells you something that even when people say, well, I can enjoy this alone.

00:50:15.440 I can be happy alone.

00:50:17.920 What does it tell you that, what do those people do all the time?

00:50:20.820 Right?

00:50:21.320 They're constantly posting on social media.

00:50:23.840 They're constantly taking pictures of things and posting them online.

00:50:27.480 I mean, what, if somebody was alone in that big house, what would they actually do to try to enjoy it?

00:50:32.160 They would take pictures of it and they'd post it online.

00:50:35.600 And why do people do that?

00:50:37.620 It's because we all have this recognition that in order to be really happy, it has to be shared.

00:50:42.840 We can't really be happy with this thing, with anything, unless we share it.

00:50:47.080 We have this need to share it with somebody else.

00:50:51.180 And if you have no one in your life to share it with and you settle on, well, I'll just share it with anybody on the internet.

00:50:55.660 I got to share it with somebody.

00:50:59.440 And that's a poor substitute.

00:51:01.840 But it all goes back to this question of what is a thing for?

00:51:04.360 And so you have to ask yourself, what are you for?

00:51:07.820 What is your purpose?

00:51:11.180 That's really the existential question that Layla is asking herself.

00:51:14.980 And it's a good question to ask, but we should all ask ourselves that.

00:51:19.000 What are you for?

00:51:19.880 If I'm not happy in my life at all, then the first question I should ask myself is, what am I for?

00:51:29.660 I don't mean, what do I stand for?

00:51:30.980 What do I believe?

00:51:31.760 That's a downstream question.

00:51:33.760 You got to get to that.

00:51:34.520 But before you can answer that, you have to know, what am I for?

00:51:38.020 What am I here for?

00:51:40.360 What's the purpose of me?

00:51:41.580 And the answer is that, first of all, our purpose is to love and serve God.

00:51:46.480 And serving God means fulfilling our vocation.

00:51:49.140 And none of us are called to live only for ourselves.

00:51:51.840 That is not anyone's vocation.

00:51:54.080 And again, it is simply not possible for anyone to be happy that way, which is why no one ever has been.

00:51:59.700 Most of us are called to start families.

00:52:01.440 All of us are called to a paternal or maternal vocation.

00:52:04.920 For most of us, that calling will be fulfilled through motherhood or fatherhood.

00:52:07.880 A small minority might become fathers or mothers in a different way, in a spiritual way, in a spiritual sense, through a different kind of life of service, the religious life, mission work, or something similar.

00:52:18.220 But nobody is called to prioritize themselves and just live that way until they die.

00:52:23.220 That is not what you are for.

00:52:25.400 That is not the point of your existence.

00:52:28.580 Which is good, because what a pointless point that would be.

00:52:31.920 Now, the good news for Layla and anybody else in her boat is that there is still time to go and live your true purpose.

00:52:39.700 It is maybe late in the game.

00:52:41.260 It's certainly not too late.

00:52:43.060 So put aside all the self-actualization mumbo-jumbo and go do what you're made to do.

00:52:48.860 What you are for.

00:52:52.120 Or else, if not, if not, then you will be, in that case, and only in that case, today, canceled.

00:52:59.740 But that'll do it for the show today.

00:53:01.460 Thanks for watching.

00:53:01.960 Thanks for listening.

00:53:02.520 Talk to you tomorrow.

00:53:03.440 Have a great day.

00:53:04.520 Godspeed.

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