00:10:58.800Sure, there are places where they can live cheaply.
00:11:01.060I mean, do you want your kid to live in, I don't know, Gary, Indiana? Flint, Michigan? Are there good, high-paying jobs in those neighborhoods? Are they safe? Is that where you want your grandkids to be playing on the playground in Gary, Indiana?
00:11:17.600in america today even bad neighborhoods like south central los angeles are expensive
00:11:23.360and here's a here's a 1500 square foot home that's going for 500 000 it's surrounded by a fence
00:11:30.860there are bars on the front door there's a half a million dollar home again to afford it you need
00:11:38.340six figures in cash you're putting your life and your family's life in danger for a half a million
00:11:46.160dollar home in a neighborhood like this. It's far more than most people can afford, but that's what
00:11:54.540they're being asked to do. That's the situation people are facing today. Now, at the same time,
00:11:59.420there are many people who understand the benefits of giving their kids a longer runway to start
00:12:05.020their adult lives, and they don't kick their own kids out at 18. If anything, that's the global
00:12:11.600norm. And many other cultures in many other countries encourage adult children to remain
00:12:16.280close to home until marriage and even afterwards in some cases. Something like 80% of South Koreans
00:12:21.420in their 20s live with their parents. 73% of Greek adults under 35 live at home. More than 70% of
00:12:27.840young Italians live with their parents. Portugal and Spain are around 50%. But for white Americans,
00:12:34.080the situation is completely different. Only around 30% of white Americans between the ages of 18 and
00:12:39.16034, live with their parents. And those figures include Hispanics, which skew the results much
00:12:45.920higher. According to Pew, quote, white young adults are less likely than Asian, Hispanic,
00:12:50.800and black counterparts to live in a parent's home. And metropolitan areas with a higher than
00:12:55.680average share of white adults among the young adult population tend to have a lower than average
00:13:00.540share of young adults living in a parent's home. And indeed, as you can see from this map,
00:13:06.320A lot of people living with their parents are concentrated on the coast, which you can see there. In Southern California, where most of the population is Hispanic, it's very common for people to live with their parents well into adulthood. The same is true in New York, where around 40% of the population was born in a foreign country. On the other hand, in pretty much the entire middle of the country, in the Pacific Northwest, which are mostly white areas, it's a different story.
00:13:31.660With a couple of exceptions, the 10 metros with the lowest shares of young adults living in a parent's home have a higher than average share of white young adults.
00:13:39.200For example, 4% of young adults in Bozeman, Montana, live in a parent's home, and 77% of all young adults there are white.
00:13:47.820In the metros with above average shares of white young adults, the median metro has 14% of young adults living in a parent's home.
00:13:56.280now given everything else we know about how white americans are under attack in this country this
00:14:02.060doesn't seem like an accident pretty much every other culture on the planet is focusing on
00:14:09.740family development building generational wealth while white americans are encouraged to live on
00:14:17.380their own often with roommates like it's better to live with a roommate than with your family
00:14:24.000is the idea. I'm not sure why that would be the case. White Americans predominantly are
00:14:30.460the ones who are going forth and taking on enormous debt in the process at a point in
00:14:36.780their lives when they are not able to do that. And you might say, well, white Americans have
00:14:42.120a different culture. We wouldn't have conquered the Americas if we stayed at home. Hence the
00:14:47.160famous quote, go West, young man, and grow up with the country. But in reality, for most of
00:14:51.820this country's history, white American culture generally involved staying close with your
00:14:56.780family. I mean, there were exceptions, but that's generally the way it worked. We did kind of a deep
00:15:01.960dive into how families functioned before the boomers. And this is what we found. If you go
00:15:07.400back to the 19th century, it was common for children in rural New England to sing the rhyme
00:15:14.600big house, little house, back house, barn as an ode to the kind of family compounds that many of
00:15:20.100them grew up in. This was very normal. This was the norm. This was common. An author named Thomas
00:15:25.160Hubka wrote a book about these connected farmstead-style homes, which look like this.
00:15:32.320And, you know, Hubka writes that, quote, by the middle of the 19th century, young married
00:15:36.760couples in many established farming areas could not obtain a farm and often live with their parents.
00:15:41.940In a common pattern, the parents would retain control of the older big house with its older
00:15:46.280kitchen and the younger family would use the new kitchen. He states that the ideal family unit for
00:15:50.940most farm families in the 19th century was a nuclear family with the anticipated addition
00:15:55.560of parents in old age. It was common for households to gain related and non-related
00:16:00.880members, including aged parents, orphaned young, widowed relatives, and neighbors.
00:16:07.040But this kind of living arrangement has now fallen out of favor. Hubka continues, quote,
00:16:10.380today the connected house to barn arrangement is still the region's dominant farm architecture,
00:16:15.300Yet few farms are still active, and their total numbers are fast retreating.
00:16:18.760In several towns I know well, more than two-thirds of the historic connected farmsteads have either lost their connecting middle buildings or have completely vanished.
00:16:27.640It's a transformation that, in various ways, has taken place all over the country for many different reasons.
00:16:33.700It's true that, as of 2020, data does indicate that among U.S. adults with at least one living parent or adult child, 75% live within 30 miles of that parent or adult child.
00:16:43.140At the same time, only around 35% of U.S. adults had all of their living parents and adult children living within 30 miles of their household.
00:16:53.080That's according to researchers from the University of Michigan.
00:16:55.420In other words, while families aren't completely separated, it's now overwhelmingly common for adults to live far away from at least one of their parents or children.
00:17:03.840And that wasn't always the case. Far from it.
00:17:06.000Take a look at this census data beginning in 1850.
00:17:08.540That was a significant year because it was the first time that the census tracked the total number of people in a household as opposed to simply tracking the head of the household.
00:17:19.120And the top graph shows the total number of households, which increased from just 3.5 million in 1850 to well over 90 million by 1990.
00:17:27.640And the bottom graph is almost the complete opposite, which you can see here.
00:17:31.560It shows the average number of persons per household in the United States beginning in 1850.
00:17:35.620They actually included a data estimate from 1790 as well, but otherwise it starts in 1850.
00:17:41.240In 1850, there were an average of 5.39 persons per household. By 1900, the number had dropped to
00:17:48.8604.55. By 1950, that number was down to 3.38. And by 2010, it was down to about 2.6.
00:17:59.420And what this means is that in the middle of the 19th century and beforehand,
00:18:01.980it was common for adults to remain in the household they grew up in or on the same property
00:18:08.180rather than move away and start their own household. And that was how most people,
00:18:14.260many of them on farms, but not all of them, lived their lives. But in every single census beginning
00:18:19.500in 1850, the average number of persons per household has dropped. It's become less and
00:18:23.400less common for households to contain entire families, including adult children. And the
00:18:28.780decline intensified around the turn of the century from 1880 to 1900 and then it picked up again
00:18:33.220as you'd expect in the 1950s and 1960s. Now it's no secret what happened here. First there was the
00:18:39.060industrial revolution which meant that many young people left the family farm to secure more
00:18:44.680lucrative jobs at textile mills and steel plants and slaughterhouses and so on. The farms didn't
00:18:50.340need as many people due to the invention of new machinery and crop prices were often unstable so
00:18:54.780there was an economic reason to move out. Add in plenty of foreign migration, as well as the freed
00:18:59.340slaves, and you have the recipe for one of the most significant demographic transformations in
00:19:03.540the history of the United States. In 1870, only around a quarter of the U.S. population lived in
00:19:09.040urban areas. By 1900, that number had increased to nearly 40%, and these numbers resulted, in many
00:19:14.700cases, from the departure of young people from their hometowns. By the 1950s and 60s, you had
00:19:20.300many other factors, the GI Bill, the rise of the suburbs, the interstate highway system,
00:19:25.520air travel, and so on, which made it even easier for families to grow apart. But it's important
00:19:29.840to emphasize that in the 1800s and 1900s, adult children who left home weren't going off to
00:19:36.520college to join a fraternity or hang out with roommates. They were getting jobs and getting
00:19:40.720married for the most part. In 1900, men got married at 25 and women at 21 on average.
00:19:46.580In 1960, the average man got married at 22.
00:19:52.140Now, as of 2026, the numbers are completely different.
00:19:55.240The average age of marriage for men is around 31 and 28 for women.
00:20:02.820Now, you can see the general trend from 1890 to 2017 in this chart from the Census Bureau,
00:20:07.380which shows the median age when men and women are getting married.
00:20:11.160So what's happened is that, you know, young adults initially moved away from home in order to raise families of their own, you know, on their own property in their own cities. And that was the case for decades after the industrial revolution began. But now young people are moving away from home for a very different reason.
00:20:30.100You know, they're leaving in many cases to experience a kind of extended adolescence where they delay marriage in favor of hanging out, attending an expensive college, experiencing city life and all that sort of thing.
00:20:43.160Now, none of this is historically normal or good. I mean, the idea of having adult children move away, not get married, not actually start adult life, but just kind of like hang out with roommates for 5, 10, 15 years, it's never worked that way in the history of humanity.
00:21:04.800I mean, this is all very, very new. And it doesn't work now. As the historian Stephanie
00:21:13.020Kuntz has pointed out, this is a very new phenomenon in the context of American history.
00:21:17.640Quote, the 1950s was a historical fluke. For the first time, young people could afford to move away
00:21:22.500from home, marry early, and buy a house on a single income. That brief period created an
00:21:26.740unrealistic expectation that this was the traditional American way, when in fact,
00:21:30.840multi-generational living and delayed independence had been the historical norm for centuries.
00:21:38.000In other words, the perspective that I'm talking about, that I prefer my kids to live near me,
00:21:43.280or even on our property, was the norm throughout most of this country's history,
00:21:48.660not to mention the history of human civilization generally. There was a period beginning in the
00:21:54.260late 19th century, accelerating in the 1950s, where that norm was suspended, but that was a
00:22:00.180unique period when the economy was booming and you could buy a house for 25 cents and everybody
00:22:06.100was expected to get married very soon after leaving home. Now, to be clear, maybe you do
00:22:12.900have a very strong argument in your particular situation for encouraging your children to leave
00:22:16.380your community and your household. But whatever that argument is, you have to recognize that
00:22:21.360it's completely different from the argument that people could make in the 1950s or even the 1880s
00:22:28.280or any other point in American history.
00:22:54.140so they could remain in close proximity to their families.
00:22:56.720And there's a reason for that. Barring some sort of economic necessity or some very unusual circumstance, it's good to live around people you care about and who you have something in common with.
00:23:11.300It's a very good and healthy practice to build out a support structure so that you aren't living entirely around strangers who don't know you or care about you.
00:23:23.800Because even when you do move away and you move away from your family, you move away from your parents, you're just going to be looking for someone else to fill that.
00:23:49.960You're not entirely, quote unquote, independent.
00:23:52.000It's just that in this case, you're getting help from someone you're paying and who is a stranger and who doesn't care about you or love your children.
00:24:01.740Which obviously seems like an inferior arrangement.
00:24:04.140the goal of every major industry in this country from hollywood to the universities has been to
00:24:10.860separate you from those people your family the people who love you at a young age they'll tell
00:24:17.220you it's the way things have always been but that's not true it was never true and that's
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00:25:40.020wouldn't normally pay attention to. This is a show, the existence of which I have never acknowledged
00:34:07.800Because there's no justification for domestic violence, no matter who commits it.
00:34:11.820And you look at Taylor's own statement. She put this out by her through her publicist after the season was canceled. And here's what it said.
00:34:23.460Taylor is very grateful for ABC support as she prioritizes her family's safety and security.
00:34:29.800Oh, her family, like the one that she was throwing a chair at.
00:34:33.700She's prioritizing her child's safety by throwing a chair at the child.
00:34:39.660After years of silently suffering extensive mental and physical abuse
00:36:01.660Men are less likely to report being the victims of domestic violence than
00:36:08.440And in part because of the embarrassment that many men would feel.
00:36:14.280And courts are less likely to pursue those cases, but the evidence suggests that women commit domestic violence nearly as often as men do, or just as often.
00:36:25.480Now, unsurprisingly, men are more likely to cause severe damage when they do commit domestic violence.
00:36:32.540So the majority of severe cases, the majority of homicides are committed by men.
00:36:38.780The majority of murders in general are committed by men.
00:36:42.000Although even there, even there, there is a caveat that I think is important, which is that when a woman kills her unborn child, which happens a lot, that is not counted in any violence stat or murder stat.
00:37:00.800And if we did count that, which we should, then we'd find that, in fact, women commit a huge majority of the murders in this country every year.
00:37:13.860So what's happened is that the type of murder that a woman is most likely to commit has just been categorized as not murder.
00:37:20.400And so that kind of lets them off the hook.
00:37:23.620But if you were to include that, well, that's like a million murders a year, give or take.
00:37:30.800um now granted if you're counting abortions then you'd also have to count as accomplices the people
00:37:38.400working at the clinics some of whom are men you have to count the fathers who are supportive of
00:37:44.380the abortions or insist on them which happens plenty of times but even if you do um account
00:37:50.640for all that there's still no question that women would be responsible for or at least involved in
00:37:56.400a huge majority of murders. So all this to say the way that we treat violence varies significantly
00:38:03.420depending on the sex of the perpetrator. There is a whole category of brutal violence that
00:38:09.900isn't even counted because women commit it. And even in the categories where we do count it,
00:38:17.220we don't weigh it the same. And when you take everything together, I think what you find is
00:38:22.840actually pretty bleak, unfortunately. And it's that the reason why men commit more murder on
00:38:31.360the books anyway, according to our current laws, and more severe domestic violence is that they're
00:38:37.840bigger and stronger. Yeah, I don't actually think it's that men are necessarily more inclined to
00:38:45.160violence. I think when you look at everything objectively and in an even way, you might say,
00:43:59.820pay too much in taxes for this to keep happening.
00:44:01.460um so we have a clicker we can play of nick shirley's latest investigation this dropped
00:44:07.000a couple of days ago and this one too has i don't know tens of millions of views a lot
00:44:12.240uh here it is watch and so what's the need for a thousand percent increase in hospice here inside
00:44:18.500of la in california you're asking me yeah because you're in the industry so we figured might as well
00:44:24.420ask you you obviously found it was a good business to start you just started yours right i started
00:44:29.560in my business 1997 okay great so how come you're how come you're seeing such an increase in hospice
00:44:37.960care here maybe i don't know everybody likes the business what could i say i do this from 1997.
00:44:44.680good for you and so since you've been in the industry for so long why do you think we're
00:44:47.960seeing a thousand percent increase in hospice care here inside of la and in california i cannot
00:44:52.520answer that question because looks like they're all running out of here everyone's heading out
00:44:56.840We just gotta ask some answer some questions and why can't
00:45:01.080What look at all the people scattered out of here. They're all here just a minute ago. It's strange
00:45:05.140You know, there's you know over 80 people connected to one of these dormant motel rooms with no furniture
00:45:10.440And they are you know getting 30,000 per person. It's millions of dollars. We come and knock on the door
00:45:16.240It's an abandoned shelf company. I don't say it's right and I don't care about those people
00:45:22.940Could you just answer the question, what's the need for a thousand percent increase in hospice care here inside of LA, inside of California?
00:45:30.740You're in the industry, sir. You know it better than me.
00:46:20.080So they'll have an office off site somewhere and, but there's no one receiving hospice
00:46:26.300care in the office they send to the home.
00:46:28.680So all that is true, but the sudden explosion of hospice care, the, the big complexes with
00:46:35.420empty offices, all of that clearly indicates fraud.
00:46:41.540And as always, most of these people seem to not be Americans.
00:46:46.560I mean, it's fraud, mostly perpetrated by foreigners.
00:46:50.080There have been some attempts to debunk Nick Shirley's investigation. There's this article in Yahoo News that's making the rounds. Headline is Nick Shirley says he exposed $170 million in California hospice fraud, but his last big investigation raised serious doubts.
00:47:05.000it says nick shirley's latest video is 40 minutes long not a tiktok clip not a highlight reel 40
00:47:12.800minutes of a 23 year old in a hoodie that reads support independent journalism walking through
00:47:16.980los angeles strip malls knocking on the doors of hospital providers saying he says are billing
00:47:21.660medicare for services they never delivered he films a custom-wrapped cyber truck and a new
00:47:25.840bmw parked outside buildings that look like they should be condemned nearly 9 million people have
00:47:31.800watched it in less than two days in an era when most people won't sit through a two-minute ad
00:47:35.620that's not just a video going viral, it's a verdict arriving before the evidence has been
00:47:40.080checked. Okay, first of all, actually, we should put the text on the screen here because I want
00:47:45.320you to see this and understand that this is not really the topic. This is a side, just to get
00:47:49.660sidetracked for a minute, but just so you know, this article, which was on Yahoo News, and I saw
00:47:55.520that someone shared on X, this is 100% written by ChatGPT, like generated by ChatGPT. And hopefully
00:48:04.160you can see that. I mean, I think a lot of people still can't spot AI writing, but once you learn
00:48:10.720how to spot it, you see it everywhere. It is everywhere. I mean, it is completely taken over.
00:48:17.760So much of what you already see is AI generated and people don't know it. In particular, these,
00:48:24.180whatever news site you go to so many of them already it's like the whole thing is ai generated
00:48:31.820now so this is ai i'd bet a million dollars as a chat gpt and there are a few tells here um
00:48:38.740first of all the first few sentences ai ai loves doing this ai loves this thing where it's a
00:48:45.180statement about what something is followed by a list of things that it isn't followed by repeating
00:48:52.640the original statement. So it goes like, this is X, not Y, not Z. This is X. AI loves that.
00:49:01.960Anytime you see that, that's AI. I don't know why, but ChatGPT loves doing that. That's a clear
00:49:07.460tell. It's filler. It's redundant. And plus, you notice that with AI writing, it homes in on
00:49:17.140details that don't matter. Like it just kind of, so, so it starts with the video is 40 minutes
00:49:24.100long. Okay. So what does that have to do with anything? What does that have to do with you
00:49:29.680debunking the video, which is what you're supposed to be doing? And then it happens down here again,
00:49:35.800in an era when most people won't sit through a two minute ad, that's not just a video going viral.
00:49:39.800It's a verdict arriving before the evidence has been checked. I mean, that's a, that's all
00:49:44.280chat GPT. That is AI slop all the way. That's a twofer. That's a buy one, get one, because you
00:49:49.460have the, that's X, not Y. And then you also have the M dash. AI loves the M dash. So anyway,
00:49:59.260I'm going to move on from that. There's no debunking going on. This is all AI slop,
00:50:06.200but really there is no way to debunk this. I mean, it's just a fact that fraud is rampant,
00:50:10.020especially in California. And it's so bad that even the mainstream media is starting to notice.
00:50:16.880So Fox News has this report. A single building in Van Nuys, California, is raising eyebrows
00:50:21.600with questions about the dozens of hospice providers and healthcare agencies registered
00:50:25.340at the address. The Morabi Professional Medical Plaza has been dubbed ground zero for Medicare
00:50:30.540fraud in the hospice industry. The building is three stories, 32,000 square feet. According to
00:50:37.280CBS News, which recently visited to investigate the hospice companies.
00:50:41.300The outlet reported 89 hospice companies were registered in the building.
00:50:45.200Fox News Digital reviewed state records showing 50 hospice companies and 97 home health agencies registered to just that address.
00:50:53.240CBS News said it found more than 700 of the nearly 1,800 hospice centers in Los Angeles County exhibited three or more flags that the state has cited as indicators of fraud.
00:51:02.800So it's completely out of control. And this is what makes it so enraging. It's not like these are sophisticated fraud schemes that are being uncovered here. There's a reason why YouTubers are able to just show up and expose this stuff. It's incredibly obvious. It's happening right out in the open.
00:51:26.220I mean, you only do this when you're very comfortable that no one is going to bother
00:51:32.440even investigating or looking into it all. Like having a business complex where you just have a
00:51:40.140bunch of fraudulent businesses all clustered in the same spot. All it takes is one person
00:51:46.300to look at it and go, that's weird. Why would you have dozens of the same business in the same
00:51:51.220complex. That's strange. And they, they have, they have total confidence up to this point
00:51:59.700that nobody will do that. Um, I mean, they're setting up learning centers where they misspell
00:52:06.540the word learning. Again, we, we all, that's a great joke. Now we all get a good laugh out of
00:52:12.720it and we should, it's funny, but it's also not funny because it's so in your face. It's a
00:52:20.240learning center that misspelled the word learning? Like, how did no one look into that?
00:52:25.260How did that not raise any red flags? And all it takes is somebody to show up with a camera
00:52:32.900and say, huh, well, this is weird. And yet they've been able to do this. The scammers have operated
00:52:40.240with impunity because there's been no attempt at all, no real attempt to stop it. Here's what
00:52:46.940I would like to know, or maybe I don't want to know. I don't know. But if you were to add together
00:52:52.560all of the different forms of fraud, I mean like hospice fraud, the autism, the autism treatment
00:52:59.700center fraud, uh, various kinds of insurance fraud, Medicare fraud. And then you add in EBT fraud,
00:53:06.520you add in the nonprofit NGOs that, that get, uh, government funding for no legitimate reason.
00:53:13.760add in the stuff that Doge was looking into, like the entire agencies of the government
00:53:20.840that exist just as jobs programs for bureaucrats. All of that is fraud.
00:53:27.460Add all of that together, all of the ways that taxpayers are being defrauded,
00:53:32.940whether illegally or legally, technically, what do you end up with? How many hundreds of
00:53:40.520billions of dollars are actually being stolen from us every year. That's what I would like to know.
00:53:48.660I mean, it's almost impossible to count. It's almost impossible to do an accounting of this,
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