The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1753 - Why Kicking Your Kids Out at 18 Is Actually INSANE

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00:01:01.720 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we'll talk about why the old school method of kicking your kids

00:01:05.540 out at 18 and forcing them to make their own way in the world is actually a terrible idea

00:01:10.120 and actually much more modern than it is old school. Plus, controversy surrounding the now

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00:01:54.340 A few days ago, I did something you're not supposed to do on social media. I changed my

00:02:01.140 mind about something. In particular, I had a change of heart on an issue that's apparently

00:02:05.220 very contentious for millions of people. I wrote that while I used to be in the camp that said you

00:02:10.980 should kick your kids out of the house at 18 in order to force them to live independently and 0.89

00:02:15.680 make their own way in the world, I don't feel that way anymore. As I've grown older and had

00:02:21.060 kids of my own. I've come to see things differently. My preference now is for all of my children to

00:02:26.960 live with us until they're married. And even after they're married, if they want to live on our 0.86

00:02:29.920 property or close by, my wife and I would be very much in favor of that. My goal now is to establish

00:02:35.740 basically a family compound where everybody can live if they want to. I'm not going to force my

00:02:40.780 children to do so once they're adults, but it's my strong preference because I actually like my

00:02:46.360 kids. I enjoy being around them. I think keeping a family together is important.

00:02:51.060 Want to be close by to help them when they have kids of their own one day?

00:02:54.640 The benefits of this arrangement are numerous, and I've taught my kids responsibility.

00:02:58.980 They contribute around the house. 0.96

00:03:00.960 They aren't ungrateful, useless moochers. 0.92

00:03:04.100 Of course, it's bad to allow your older kids and adult kids to shirk responsibility and 0.91

00:03:08.440 sit around your house all day, hang out in the basement or whatever without working or

00:03:12.300 contributing, but provided that you aren't doing that, provided that everybody in the

00:03:16.860 household is pitching in and working hard in one capacity or another, then what's the problem? Why

00:03:21.760 exactly should I kick them out? Why should I drive them from the family home? Is that the goal of

00:03:27.380 parenthood, to raise your kids, send them a thousand miles away so that you only see them on holidays

00:03:31.220 for the rest of your life? Now, a lot of parents in the modern age seem to think, at least in this

00:03:37.000 country, that you reap the rewards of parenting by kicking them out of the house and reclaiming

00:03:42.860 your independence or whatever. So the reward is just sort of going back to your pre-parent state.

00:03:50.440 Well, that doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I mean, the reward should be a family that you

00:03:54.420 love and get to enjoy until you die. The reward should be raising children who one day also become

00:03:59.560 companions. And eventually, as you become very old, they become caretakers. The reward is not

00:04:05.720 or shouldn't be 30 years in a silent, empty house and then dying under fluorescent lights in a

00:04:12.380 nursing home alone. Now, there's a pretty massive response when I posted about this on X and

00:04:18.240 Facebook. There were the usual personal attacks. One guy called me a feckless, grifting, degenerate,

00:04:24.660 idiot clown for changing my opinion, which he described as a flip-flop because you can't change 1.00

00:04:31.840 your opinion about anything anymore without it being a flip-flop. There were also several people 1.00

00:04:36.120 who made the case that I was being selfish and hypocritical because I don't live on my parents'

00:04:40.780 property and because I should want my children to spread their wings and explore the world and

00:04:45.880 experience different cultures and so on and so on. And on the other side of the coin, plenty of

00:04:50.940 people agreed with my take. And many said that they want to create a family compound of their

00:04:57.000 own for their own children. But in general, I noticed that no one seemed to be able to explain

00:05:01.520 how exactly this arrangement became so uncommon. Why did it become so unusual to say that, no,

00:05:08.180 we shouldn't launch 18-year-olds as far from their hometowns as possible so that they can 1.00

00:05:12.520 learn about genderqueer theory at a university that costs $100,000 a year to attend.

00:05:18.560 Well, one reason is propaganda, Hollywood. You know, you go back to the 90s and early 2000s,

00:05:24.880 the main character in Sex and the City lives in a New York City apartment that in real life

00:05:29.220 costs around $10 million. It became so iconic that to this day, tourists show up outside

00:05:35.060 and the owner has to shoo them away.

00:05:39.500 Be more respectful and continue.

00:05:42.340 You can't just take over the street because you like it.

00:05:44.860 I understand, but it wasn't our group, but it's okay.

00:05:47.620 I apologize if it wasn't you.

00:05:49.700 I apologize if I take it back.

00:05:51.260 This happens all the time.

00:05:52.660 The loud ones go and I lecture the one Tuesday.

00:05:55.520 Now, most people can never afford an apartment like that in their entire lives.

00:05:59.180 It's extremely expensive, even by the standards of New York.

00:06:03.420 But in Sex and the City, it's rent-controlled or something along those lines.

00:06:07.960 For young women watching the show, it looks like a place they might realistically be able to live. 0.98

00:06:12.780 Friends had a similar idea with Monica's apartment, which would cost something like $10,000 a month to rent in real life.

00:06:21.120 But in the show, once again, it's rent-controlled.

00:06:24.020 So millions of young people saw scenes like this and believed that it was a reasonable approximation of life in New York.

00:06:30.380 the massive apartment, the big windows for someone making a chef's salary. And many other

00:06:35.760 shows at the time had a similar message. The idea, you know, that your 20s are when you're supposed to

00:06:41.180 just focus on having fun. That's kind of been the drumbeat that young people have marched to

00:06:47.540 in our culture for a long time. Just wait until you're 30 to get married, to have kids and so on.

00:06:53.080 But does anyone at this point not realize that this is anti-human, anti-family propaganda?

00:06:57.760 do you think it makes people happy, leads to human flourishing? What percentage of young women 0.59

00:07:03.420 living like that are on antidepressants? How are they doing when their 20s come and go and now it's

00:07:08.540 their 30s or their 40s and they're living alone in an empty apartment? Why should we push our kids 0.82

00:07:13.740 in that direction? I mean, what's the point? Now, the cliche thing is to blame all this on the

00:07:18.680 boomers and to say that this whole idea came from the boomers, but the reality is, cliche or not,

00:07:23.880 that they do strongly believe this. And one reason boomers think along these lines is that

00:07:29.380 they turned 18 in a radically different country. The median baby boomer was born in about 1955.

00:07:38.160 The average cost for them to go to school in the 1970s was $500 to $600 a year. Now,

00:07:43.860 even if you account for inflation, the cost of attending a major public university has more than

00:07:49.200 doubled, even with inflation. And the same is true for housing. In 1970, the median home price was

00:07:55.660 around $23,000. And if you adjust for inflation, that $23,000 home in 1970 should only cost about

00:08:04.320 $180,000 today. But that's not what happens. Today's median home is well over $400,000.

00:08:12.340 So that's more than double. So while our economy is better by most metrics, it's also a lot harder

00:08:18.400 for young people to own a home than it used to be, a lot harder. That's because though our economy

00:08:24.320 is generating more money, it's also much more competitive for people who are starting their

00:08:29.480 careers. Young people today are competing against robots, AI, tens of millions of new foreign 1.00

00:08:36.580 migrants in the job market. We also have one of the least affordable housing markets in history 1.00

00:08:41.440 right now with low inventory, high prices, and a lot of people who don't want to sell because they

00:08:46.580 got locked into a very low interest rate during COVID. A college degree, even a degree in computer

00:08:51.580 science or hard science like physics, something useful, doesn't even come close to guaranteeing

00:08:56.580 a job anymore the way that it used to. And all this to say, the arguments in favor of telling

00:09:02.080 your kids to spread their wings are much less persuasive now than they were in the 1950s.

00:09:08.940 In response to my post on X, Mike Cernovich made a similar point. He wrote that

00:09:12.480 when he was an early 20-something, he was able to live in Santa Monica without spending much money.

00:09:18.400 He could afford it by waiting tables and finding a roommate. Well, today, if you want a one-bedroom

00:09:22.940 in Santa Monica, you're looking at spending around $3,500 or $1,750 a month with a roommate

00:09:30.700 and throw in utilities and internet and tax, and you're looking at $2,000 a month easily for one

00:09:37.720 half of a one-bedroom apartment in Santa Monica. So if you make 50 grand a year as a waiter,

00:09:44.880 which is on the high end, then after tax and rent, you will have precisely zero dollars left

00:09:50.680 over at the end of the month. You can't save a dime. You won't build any wealth. You can't save

00:09:55.660 for your retirement, much less your kid's education or living expenses. So the whole idea that you're

00:10:01.700 starting out your life and building is pretty difficult because you can't build anything. You

00:10:06.280 can't save any money. Now, none of this happened by accident. The government began backing loans

00:10:12.100 and grants for college education while also slashing taxes to fund many colleges. So students

00:10:17.940 took on a much bigger burden for paying their tuition and colleges knew that they could simply

00:10:23.360 raise tuition year after year and students could get a loan to cover it. Meanwhile, zoning became

00:10:29.220 more restrictive and institutional buyers purchased hundreds of thousands of homes

00:10:32.940 and the borders were opened,

00:10:36.180 flooding the housing market with many more buyers.

00:10:39.580 And all of this happened, for the most part,

00:10:43.000 with the consent of the boomers, 0.89

00:10:44.760 many of whom are now aghast at the possibility

00:10:47.040 that their children might want to live near home

00:10:50.320 past the age of 18.

00:10:53.240 So when you tell your 18-year-old to leave the house,

00:10:55.960 where are they going to go?

00:10:58.800 Sure, there are places where they can live cheaply.

00:11:01.060 I 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?

00:11:17.600 in america today even bad neighborhoods like south central los angeles are expensive

00:11:23.360 and here's a here's a 1500 square foot home that's going for 500 000 it's surrounded by a fence

00:11:30.860 there are bars on the front door there's a half a million dollar home again to afford it you need

00:11:38.340 six figures in cash you're putting your life and your family's life in danger for a half a million

00:11:46.160 dollar home in a neighborhood like this. It's far more than most people can afford, but that's what

00:11:54.540 they're being asked to do. That's the situation people are facing today. Now, at the same time,

00:11:59.420 there are many people who understand the benefits of giving their kids a longer runway to start

00:12:05.020 their adult lives, and they don't kick their own kids out at 18. If anything, that's the global

00:12:11.600 norm. And many other cultures in many other countries encourage adult children to remain

00:12:16.280 close to home until marriage and even afterwards in some cases. Something like 80% of South Koreans

00:12:21.420 in their 20s live with their parents. 73% of Greek adults under 35 live at home. More than 70% of

00:12:27.840 young Italians live with their parents. Portugal and Spain are around 50%. But for white Americans,

00:12:34.080 the situation is completely different. Only around 30% of white Americans between the ages of 18 and

00:12:39.160 34, live with their parents. And those figures include Hispanics, which skew the results much 0.64

00:12:45.920 higher. According to Pew, quote, white young adults are less likely than Asian, Hispanic,

00:12:50.800 and black counterparts to live in a parent's home. And metropolitan areas with a higher than

00:12:55.680 average share of white adults among the young adult population tend to have a lower than average

00:13:00.540 share of young adults living in a parent's home. And indeed, as you can see from this map,

00:13:06.320 A 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.

00:13:30.440 Again, this is from Pew, quote,

00:13:31.660 With 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.

00:13:39.200 For example, 4% of young adults in Bozeman, Montana, live in a parent's home, and 77% of all young adults there are white.

00:13:47.820 In the metros with above average shares of white young adults, the median metro has 14% of young adults living in a parent's home.

00:13:56.280 now given everything else we know about how white americans are under attack in this country this

00:14:02.060 doesn't seem like an accident pretty much every other culture on the planet is focusing on

00:14:09.740 family development building generational wealth while white americans are encouraged to live on

00:14:17.380 their own often with roommates like it's better to live with a roommate than with your family

00:14:24.000 is the idea. I'm not sure why that would be the case. White Americans predominantly are

00:14:30.460 the ones who are going forth and taking on enormous debt in the process at a point in

00:14:36.780 their lives when they are not able to do that. And you might say, well, white Americans have

00:14:42.120 a different culture. We wouldn't have conquered the Americas if we stayed at home. Hence the 0.93

00:14:47.160 famous quote, go West, young man, and grow up with the country. But in reality, for most of

00:14:51.820 this country's history, white American culture generally involved staying close with your

00:14:56.780 family. I mean, there were exceptions, but that's generally the way it worked. We did kind of a deep

00:15:01.960 dive into how families functioned before the boomers. And this is what we found. If you go

00:15:07.400 back to the 19th century, it was common for children in rural New England to sing the rhyme

00:15:14.600 big house, little house, back house, barn as an ode to the kind of family compounds that many of

00:15:20.100 them grew up in. This was very normal. This was the norm. This was common. An author named Thomas

00:15:25.160 Hubka wrote a book about these connected farmstead-style homes, which look like this.

00:15:32.320 And, you know, Hubka writes that, quote, by the middle of the 19th century, young married

00:15:36.760 couples in many established farming areas could not obtain a farm and often live with their parents.

00:15:41.940 In a common pattern, the parents would retain control of the older big house with its older

00:15:46.280 kitchen and the younger family would use the new kitchen. He states that the ideal family unit for

00:15:50.940 most farm families in the 19th century was a nuclear family with the anticipated addition

00:15:55.560 of parents in old age. It was common for households to gain related and non-related

00:16:00.880 members, including aged parents, orphaned young, widowed relatives, and neighbors.

00:16:07.040 But this kind of living arrangement has now fallen out of favor. Hubka continues, quote,

00:16:10.380 today the connected house to barn arrangement is still the region's dominant farm architecture,

00:16:15.300 Yet few farms are still active, and their total numbers are fast retreating.

00:16:18.760 In 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.

00:16:27.640 It's a transformation that, in various ways, has taken place all over the country for many different reasons.

00:16:33.700 It'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.

00:16:43.140 At 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.

00:16:53.080 That's according to researchers from the University of Michigan.

00:16:55.420 In 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.

00:17:03.840 And that wasn't always the case. Far from it.

00:17:06.000 Take a look at this census data beginning in 1850.

00:17:08.540 That 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.

00:17:19.120 And 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.

00:17:27.640 And the bottom graph is almost the complete opposite, which you can see here.

00:17:31.560 It shows the average number of persons per household in the United States beginning in 1850.

00:17:35.620 They actually included a data estimate from 1790 as well, but otherwise it starts in 1850.

00:17:41.240 In 1850, there were an average of 5.39 persons per household. By 1900, the number had dropped to

00:17:48.860 4.55. By 1950, that number was down to 3.38. And by 2010, it was down to about 2.6.

00:17:59.420 And what this means is that in the middle of the 19th century and beforehand,

00:18:01.980 it was common for adults to remain in the household they grew up in or on the same property

00:18:08.180 rather than move away and start their own household. And that was how most people,

00:18:14.260 many of them on farms, but not all of them, lived their lives. But in every single census beginning

00:18:19.500 in 1850, the average number of persons per household has dropped. It's become less and

00:18:23.400 less common for households to contain entire families, including adult children. And the

00:18:28.780 decline intensified around the turn of the century from 1880 to 1900 and then it picked up again

00:18:33.220 as you'd expect in the 1950s and 1960s. Now it's no secret what happened here. First there was the

00:18:39.060 industrial revolution which meant that many young people left the family farm to secure more

00:18:44.680 lucrative jobs at textile mills and steel plants and slaughterhouses and so on. The farms didn't

00:18:50.340 need as many people due to the invention of new machinery and crop prices were often unstable so

00:18:54.780 there was an economic reason to move out. Add in plenty of foreign migration, as well as the freed 0.76

00:18:59.340 slaves, and you have the recipe for one of the most significant demographic transformations in

00:19:03.540 the history of the United States. In 1870, only around a quarter of the U.S. population lived in

00:19:09.040 urban areas. By 1900, that number had increased to nearly 40%, and these numbers resulted, in many

00:19:14.700 cases, from the departure of young people from their hometowns. By the 1950s and 60s, you had

00:19:20.300 many other factors, the GI Bill, the rise of the suburbs, the interstate highway system,

00:19:25.520 air travel, and so on, which made it even easier for families to grow apart. But it's important

00:19:29.840 to emphasize that in the 1800s and 1900s, adult children who left home weren't going off to

00:19:36.520 college to join a fraternity or hang out with roommates. They were getting jobs and getting

00:19:40.720 married for the most part. In 1900, men got married at 25 and women at 21 on average.

00:19:46.580 In 1960, the average man got married at 22.

00:19:50.040 For women, it was 20. 1.00

00:19:52.140 Now, as of 2026, the numbers are completely different.

00:19:55.240 The average age of marriage for men is around 31 and 28 for women.

00:20:02.820 Now, you can see the general trend from 1890 to 2017 in this chart from the Census Bureau,

00:20:07.380 which shows the median age when men and women are getting married.

00:20:11.160 So 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.

00:20:30.100 You 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.

00:20:43.160 Now, 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.

00:21:04.800 I mean, this is all very, very new. And it doesn't work now. As the historian Stephanie

00:21:13.020 Kuntz has pointed out, this is a very new phenomenon in the context of American history.

00:21:17.640 Quote, the 1950s was a historical fluke. For the first time, young people could afford to move away

00:21:22.500 from home, marry early, and buy a house on a single income. That brief period created an

00:21:26.740 unrealistic expectation that this was the traditional American way, when in fact,

00:21:30.840 multi-generational living and delayed independence had been the historical norm for centuries.

00:21:38.000 In other words, the perspective that I'm talking about, that I prefer my kids to live near me,

00:21:43.280 or even on our property, was the norm throughout most of this country's history,

00:21:48.660 not to mention the history of human civilization generally. There was a period beginning in the

00:21:54.260 late 19th century, accelerating in the 1950s, where that norm was suspended, but that was a

00:22:00.180 unique period when the economy was booming and you could buy a house for 25 cents and everybody

00:22:06.100 was expected to get married very soon after leaving home. Now, to be clear, maybe you do

00:22:12.900 have a very strong argument in your particular situation for encouraging your children to leave

00:22:16.380 your community and your household. But whatever that argument is, you have to recognize that

00:22:21.360 it's completely different from the argument that people could make in the 1950s or even the 1880s

00:22:28.280 or any other point in American history.

00:22:31.880 What you're supposed to think now

00:22:33.600 is that if your kids settle down far away from you,

00:22:36.880 then they've achieved independence

00:22:38.220 and they've succeeded in life.

00:22:41.140 At the same time, the children of the elites,

00:22:43.500 they're not settling down far away

00:22:45.240 from their mansions and compounds.

00:22:47.680 You know, the Kardashians, the Hemsworth brothers,

00:22:50.420 the Kennedys, the Bush family, the Rockefellers, 0.55

00:22:52.700 they all bought massive property

00:22:54.140 so they could remain in close proximity to their families.

00:22:56.720 And 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.

00:23:11.300 It'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.

00:23:23.800 Because 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.

00:23:33.540 Then you have kids of your own.

00:23:35.320 And traditionally, if you live around your parents, you live on the same property, live in a compound, you live in the same town.

00:23:40.380 Well, your parents can help you with your kids.

00:23:43.960 Well, if you don't have that, then what do you end up doing?

00:23:45.920 Well, you drop them off in daycare.

00:23:48.460 So you're still getting help.

00:23:49.960 You're not entirely, quote unquote, independent.

00:23:52.000 It'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.

00:24:01.740 Which obviously seems like an inferior arrangement.

00:24:04.140 the goal of every major industry in this country from hollywood to the universities has been to

00:24:10.860 separate you from those people your family the people who love you at a young age they'll tell

00:24:17.220 you it's the way things have always been but that's not true it was never true and that's

00:24:23.900 why in my own life i'm not going to pretend otherwise now let's get to our five headlines

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00:25:35.140 See site for details. Tecovas, point your toes west. All right, here's a story I certainly

00:25:40.020 wouldn't normally pay attention to. This is a show, the existence of which I have never acknowledged

00:25:46.320 and hadn't planned on acknowledging,

00:25:50.000 have only been vaguely aware of.

00:25:52.440 But it's worth noting that the next season

00:25:56.220 of The Bachelorette has been canceled by ABC.

00:26:00.460 So if you're looking forward to that,

00:26:01.520 unfortunately, you're not gonna be able to watch it.

00:26:03.860 And now I genuinely didn't know

00:26:05.640 they were even still doing this show.

00:26:06.960 I knew that it existed,

00:26:08.000 but apparently they're still doing it.

00:26:10.960 And I wouldn't be sharing any news about it,

00:26:12.880 except that the reason behind the cancellation

00:26:14.800 is um kind of interesting so the bachelorette this year was supposed to be some woman named 1.00

00:26:23.480 taylor frankie paul and she was the woman who i guess what the 30 men or whatever were gonna

00:26:31.100 on the show the contestants would be competing for i think that's the idea

00:26:37.600 now already this is bizarre even before we get to the source of the controversy and the reason

00:26:43.920 the season was canceled. It's bizarre because this woman, uh, if we put a picture up on the 1.00

00:26:50.080 screen and you know, I'm not trying to be mean, although as we'll see, she would, she would

00:26:55.940 deserve it, but she's not very attractive at all. You know, she's not, there's, she's not hideous. 0.91

00:27:02.940 She's just kind of a normal looking woman. She's also a divorced single mother. So the idea was

00:27:09.860 that 30 men would be vying for the heart of an average-looking, divorced, 31-year-old

00:27:16.280 single mom. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the original premise of The Bachelor

00:27:22.800 was that The Bachelor was a man who was successful and rich. I think that was, I don't know. I think

00:27:30.180 that was the premise. And that was probably fake. I'm sure it was, but the premise made sense.

00:27:37.020 like in theory a bunch of women competing to marry the rich guy okay well that makes sense

00:27:42.060 i mean it's trash tv but it makes sense logically but then they rolled out the bachelorette

00:27:49.740 and uh the show's been on now for a million years and now we're at the point 0.66

00:27:53.640 where dozens of men are locked in a death struggle for the right to marry a woman who is

00:27:58.960 basically in every way less desirable than the average IHOP waitress. And I get that it's reality

00:28:07.400 TV and it's fake. And all the guys are really just there because they want to be on TV and

00:28:10.560 they want to grow their social media brands or whatever. But it's just too much suspension of

00:28:15.960 disbelief. Like I can't, and we haven't even gotten to the crux of the issue, which is that

00:28:20.440 this woman also has been arrested and charged with domestic violence. She pleaded guilty to

00:28:26.580 aggravated assault related to her domestic violence arrest. That was back in 2023, so not

00:28:32.240 that long ago. And this was all known. This was known before the season had even been filmed.

00:28:40.520 I guess it's already been filmed. Now they're not going to air it. So actually, this was a bunch of

00:28:45.600 men competing to win the heart of an average looking divorced 31-year-old single mother and

00:28:52.740 domestic abuser. And again, this was all known. ABC brought this woman on, cast her, knowing that

00:29:03.420 she had very recently been arrested and pled guilty to domestic violence. And then yesterday,

00:29:11.480 a video of the domestic violence incident was leaked. And I'm not sure how much of this we can

00:29:18.480 show because it is violent but here it is yeah yeah look at you look look yeah look this is called

00:29:30.120 physical abuse yeah

00:29:33.660 yeah see taylor this is all you do it's the only thing you know how to do 0.99

00:29:43.300 holy shit it's okay i don't give a let me go stop dude leave me alone 0.98

00:29:53.100 oh my god 0.99

00:29:55.580 your daughter is right here

00:30:00.220 oh my gosh oh my

00:30:06.180 now if you're listening to the audio version uh so what to describe what's happening here

00:30:16.260 taylor the woman is slapping the man whose name is dakota mortensen uh kicking him pulling his 0.99

00:30:22.780 hair starts throwing metal stools at him even while her daughter is sitting on the ground right 0.99

00:30:29.820 there it sounds like she gets hit the daughter gets hit sounds like the daughter's like you know

00:30:34.020 a baby, an infant, and gets hit or is very close to getting hit by one of these chairs that this 0.96

00:30:40.660 crazy woman is throwing around the house. So it's pretty brutal. And keep in mind, this woman never 1.00

00:30:47.840 served any prison time for this. She pled guilty to aggravated assault. She was given probation,

00:30:55.580 I believe. But the video, which had not been released, was released. It went viral. And a

00:31:03.200 few hours later, ABC pulled the plug on the season and they announced that the season will not air.

00:31:08.720 So what makes this case worth talking about? Well, because it reveals, of course, some major

00:31:15.420 disparities that many of us were already aware of in how domestic violence is treated,

00:31:23.860 depending on who commits it. This is one of the most egregious double standards that you'll find

00:31:31.360 in modern life. Because the fact is that there's just no way that ABC would have ever moved forward

00:31:39.560 with a season of The Bachelor if The Bachelor, the male lead on the show, had just been arrested

00:31:46.740 and charged with domestic violence. I mean, can you imagine a scenario where a video like that

00:31:52.640 exists, except you reverse it and it's the man doing all that? And that guy then becomes The

00:32:01.160 Bachelor. ABC casts him as the Bachelor. There's just no way. But that's what happened here. They

00:32:11.260 were prepared to move forward with the show, knowing about all that. It's just that the video

00:32:16.920 came out and it got such a big reaction, they had no choice but to cancel the season. And this is

00:32:22.900 the double standard. And even now, if you look at the commentary around this story, you'll find

00:32:29.000 plenty of people on social media defending the abuser. There's a lot of that. A lot of comments

00:32:35.480 basically saying, well, he probably deserved it. Hey, if a woman is treating you like that, 1.00

00:32:40.600 it's because you're antagonizing her. This is a post from Ashley Hollis, who is herself,

00:32:48.220 I think, a former reality TV contestant. It says 7,000 likes. And there's a bunch like this,

00:32:53.860 all of our social media. She posts, I'm not saying Taylor Frankie Paul is an angel,

00:33:00.120 but toxic men like Dakota are the kind of guys who purposefully push limits to get big reactions.

00:33:06.760 I don't think it's a coincidence his call logs are leaking and the story's getting out.

00:33:11.160 He's a clout chaser. That is the consensus view among many women, certainly not all,

00:33:18.680 but many women on social media right now is that the abuse victim, this guy Dakota,

00:33:25.540 who I don't know anything about, is actually at fault because he pushed her.

00:33:30.840 He pushed her buttons, right? He antagonized her. He pushed the limits.

00:33:37.880 Hey, if this woman is beating you with a chair, it's because you push the limits, mister. 1.00

00:33:42.620 Stop, stop, hey, stop pushing it.

00:33:44.280 Again, this is the kind of logic that never gets applied in the reverse.

00:33:50.620 Ever.

00:33:51.900 I mean, you're not ever going to hear this.

00:33:56.400 And if it were, you know, if you did hear something like this, whoever made that argument would be roundly condemned.

00:34:04.500 And then, and for good reason.

00:34:07.800 Because there's no justification for domestic violence, no matter who commits it.

00:34:11.820 And 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.

00:34:23.460 Taylor is very grateful for ABC support as she prioritizes her family's safety and security.

00:34:29.800 Oh, her family, like the one that she was throwing a chair at.

00:34:33.700 She's prioritizing her child's safety by throwing a chair at the child. 1.00

00:34:39.660 After years of silently suffering extensive mental and physical abuse

00:34:43.780 As well as threats of retaliation

00:34:45.020 Taylor is finally gaining the strength to face her accuser

00:34:47.680 And taking steps to ensure that she and her children

00:34:50.100 Are protected from any further harm

00:34:51.920 There are too many women who are suffering in silence 1.00

00:34:55.820 As they survive aggressive, jealous ex-partners

00:34:58.580 Who refuse to let them move on with their lives

00:35:01.420 So she's the victim

00:35:04.980 She's been suffering silently

00:35:06.480 She's gaining strength now

00:35:09.140 She's trying to survive. Meanwhile, she was the one throwing metal chairs around the house. 1.00

00:35:17.540 And again, this would never fly in the opposite direction. It would not fly like those chairs

00:35:23.000 were flying around the house. And this matters because actually domestic violence by women 1.00

00:35:30.980 is very common. It's not some sort of rare aberration exception sort of thing. Now,

00:35:38.440 there's no doubt that men are more likely to be arrested and charged with

00:35:43.480 domestic violence,

00:35:44.260 but a number of studies have been done trying to measure the actual rates of

00:35:48.820 domestic violence,

00:35:49.820 even if it isn't reported or charged.

00:35:52.340 And those studies consistently show that women account for 40 or 50% of the

00:35:58.840 perpetrators of domestic violence.

00:36:01.660 Men are less likely to report being the victims of domestic violence than

00:36:08.440 And in part because of the embarrassment that many men would feel.

00:36:14.280 And 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.

00:36:25.480 Now, unsurprisingly, men are more likely to cause severe damage when they do commit domestic violence.

00:36:32.540 So the majority of severe cases, the majority of homicides are committed by men.

00:36:38.780 The majority of murders in general are committed by men.

00:36:42.000 Although 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.

00:37:00.800 And 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. 0.84

00:37:13.860 So what's happened is that the type of murder that a woman is most likely to commit has just been categorized as not murder.

00:37:20.400 And so that kind of lets them off the hook.

00:37:23.620 But if you were to include that, well, that's like a million murders a year, give or take.

00:37:30.800 um now granted if you're counting abortions then you'd also have to count as accomplices the people

00:37:38.400 working at the clinics some of whom are men you have to count the fathers who are supportive of

00:37:44.380 the abortions or insist on them which happens plenty of times but even if you do um account

00:37:50.640 for all that there's still no question that women would be responsible for or at least involved in 0.70

00:37:56.400 a huge majority of murders. So all this to say the way that we treat violence varies significantly

00:38:03.420 depending on the sex of the perpetrator. There is a whole category of brutal violence that

00:38:09.900 isn't even counted because women commit it. And even in the categories where we do count it, 1.00

00:38:17.220 we don't weigh it the same. And when you take everything together, I think what you find is

00:38:22.840 actually pretty bleak, unfortunately. And it's that the reason why men commit more murder on

00:38:31.360 the books anyway, according to our current laws, and more severe domestic violence is that they're

00:38:37.840 bigger and stronger. Yeah, I don't actually think it's that men are necessarily more inclined to

00:38:45.160 violence. I think when you look at everything objectively and in an even way, you might say,

00:38:52.540 this is not exactly the case.

00:38:55.940 They're more capable of inflicting damage.

00:39:01.780 And the only reason women don't commit a higher share 1.00

00:39:04.340 is because they're less capable of it.

00:39:07.480 I mean, that's a bleak way of looking at it.

00:39:10.940 To say that the only reason that women don't kill more men 1.00

00:39:14.080 is that they can't, not because they're less inclined.

00:39:18.040 I think, you know, that's bleak.

00:39:20.000 I think it's true though.

00:39:22.540 You know, evil men inflict violence on those who are weaker and women are weaker. 0.51

00:39:29.120 Evil women generally inflict violence. 1.00

00:39:33.840 Sometimes they inflict violence on those that are stronger than them.

00:39:37.620 That's generally not the way evil works.

00:39:39.420 If you're an evil, violent person, generally your violence is going to go down.

00:39:44.080 It's going to go towards people who are physically inferior to you.

00:39:48.880 so evil women inflict violence on those who are weaker too, 1.00

00:39:54.480 but men generally are not weaker.

00:39:56.520 So that's why they are more likely to inflict violence on children.

00:40:01.000 And I'm not just talking about abortion.

00:40:02.660 I mean, this is something that isn't discussed hardly at all,

00:40:05.920 but the majority of child abuse in the home is committed by women.

00:40:10.780 According to the most recent data I saw in 2023,

00:40:12.840 the perpetrators of child abuse and maltreatment are majority female,

00:40:17.060 about 54 or 55%.

00:40:18.880 to about 45%. Now, it is true that men, maybe backtracking slightly, I do think that men

00:40:30.420 have a natural aggressiveness that women don't have, generally speaking, or that most women 1.00

00:40:39.240 don't have. So there's something about masculinity that is aggressive. And if we target it in the

00:40:45.140 right direction. It's a good thing. There's a kind of noble violence and aggression that we

00:40:50.400 should target in that direction. But my only point is that certainly women are just as likely 1.00

00:41:04.960 to be evil as men are. That certainly is the case. No question about that. Men are not more 0.73

00:41:10.540 inclined to evil than women. That's if you're, we are all fallen. And so we all, we all have 0.97

00:41:16.380 that capacity. And if you're an evil person, you want to do evil, then that generally is going to

00:41:24.160 involve in some way, inflicting yourself on someone else. You know, exercising power and

00:41:32.980 control over them because you find pleasure in it. And the point is that women have ways of doing 1.00

00:41:40.020 that on those that are weaker than them or those who are vulnerable to them, susceptible to them.

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00:43:21.580 all. All right, Postmillennial has this. Independent journalist Nick Shirley, who rose to

00:43:29.560 prominence after exposing fraud taking place in Minnesota, has released a new video report

00:43:33.560 about the level of fraud in California.

00:43:36.960 And it said that he and his team

00:43:38.280 were able to uncover around $170 million in fraud

00:43:42.260 taking place in the state

00:43:43.320 related to home healthcare, daycares,

00:43:44.980 and other services that get government subsidies.

00:43:49.420 He posted, Minnesota is big,

00:43:51.160 but California is even bigger.

00:43:52.240 We uncovered around $170 million in fraud

00:43:55.380 as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences.

00:43:58.720 We all work way too hard,

00:43:59.820 pay too much in taxes for this to keep happening.

00:44:01.460 um so we have a clicker we can play of nick shirley's latest investigation this dropped

00:44:07.000 a couple of days ago and this one too has i don't know tens of millions of views a lot

00:44:12.240 uh here it is watch and so what's the need for a thousand percent increase in hospice here inside

00:44:18.500 of la in california you're asking me yeah because you're in the industry so we figured might as well

00:44:24.420 ask you you obviously found it was a good business to start you just started yours right i started

00:44:29.560 in my business 1997 okay great so how come you're how come you're seeing such an increase in hospice

00:44:37.960 care here maybe i don't know everybody likes the business what could i say i do this from 1997.

00:44:44.680 good for you and so since you've been in the industry for so long why do you think we're

00:44:47.960 seeing a thousand percent increase in hospice care here inside of la and in california i cannot

00:44:52.520 answer that question because looks like they're all running out of here everyone's heading out

00:44:56.840 We just gotta ask some answer some questions and why can't

00:45:01.080 What look at all the people scattered out of here. They're all here just a minute ago. It's strange

00:45:05.140 You know, there's you know over 80 people connected to one of these dormant motel rooms with no furniture

00:45:10.440 And they are you know getting 30,000 per person. It's millions of dollars. We come and knock on the door

00:45:16.240 It's an abandoned shelf company. I don't say it's right and I don't care about those people

00:45:22.940 Could you just answer the question, what's the need for a thousand percent increase in hospice care here inside of LA, inside of California?

00:45:30.740 You're in the industry, sir. You know it better than me.

00:45:34.700 You're asking me? No, I don't.

00:45:36.260 You've been in it since 1997, you said.

00:45:37.840 Yeah, but I don't.

00:45:39.120 So what's the need for an increase?

00:45:40.880 Maybe there is a lot of old people already. I don't know what to say. 0.90

00:45:44.780 A lot of old people are dying.

00:45:46.640 So I don't know if that guy in the clip is one of the fraudsters. It looks like he isn't.

00:45:50.860 He said he's been in the business since the 90s, which is a pretty good indication that

00:45:54.480 it's legitimate.

00:45:55.060 But the numbers that Nick talks about are undeniable.

00:45:58.860 I mean, there's really no other plausible way to explain the statistics, except there's

00:46:02.920 a lot of fraud going on.

00:46:05.260 And it doesn't mean that everybody in the hospice industry in California is a scammer,

00:46:08.920 obviously.

00:46:09.320 There are actual hospice businesses in the state, and there are hospice businesses where

00:46:18.200 they do in-home care.

00:46:20.080 So they'll have an office off site somewhere and, but there's no one receiving hospice

00:46:26.300 care in the office they send to the home.

00:46:28.680 So all that is true, but the sudden explosion of hospice care, the, the big complexes with

00:46:35.420 empty offices, all of that clearly indicates fraud.

00:46:41.540 And as always, most of these people seem to not be Americans. 0.78

00:46:46.560 I mean, it's fraud, mostly perpetrated by foreigners. 1.00

00:46:50.080 There 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.

00:47:05.000 it says nick shirley's latest video is 40 minutes long not a tiktok clip not a highlight reel 40

00:47:12.800 minutes of a 23 year old in a hoodie that reads support independent journalism walking through

00:47:16.980 los angeles strip malls knocking on the doors of hospital providers saying he says are billing

00:47:21.660 medicare for services they never delivered he films a custom-wrapped cyber truck and a new

00:47:25.840 bmw parked outside buildings that look like they should be condemned nearly 9 million people have 0.60

00:47:31.800 watched it in less than two days in an era when most people won't sit through a two-minute ad

00:47:35.620 that's not just a video going viral, it's a verdict arriving before the evidence has been

00:47:40.080 checked. Okay, first of all, actually, we should put the text on the screen here because I want

00:47:45.320 you to see this and understand that this is not really the topic. This is a side, just to get

00:47:49.660 sidetracked for a minute, but just so you know, this article, which was on Yahoo News, and I saw

00:47:55.520 that someone shared on X, this is 100% written by ChatGPT, like generated by ChatGPT. And hopefully

00:48:04.160 you can see that. I mean, I think a lot of people still can't spot AI writing, but once you learn

00:48:10.720 how to spot it, you see it everywhere. It is everywhere. I mean, it is completely taken over.

00:48:17.760 So much of what you already see is AI generated and people don't know it. In particular, these,

00:48:24.180 whatever news site you go to so many of them already it's like the whole thing is ai generated

00:48:31.820 now so this is ai i'd bet a million dollars as a chat gpt and there are a few tells here um

00:48:38.740 first of all the first few sentences ai ai loves doing this ai loves this thing where it's a

00:48:45.180 statement about what something is followed by a list of things that it isn't followed by repeating

00:48:52.640 the original statement. So it goes like, this is X, not Y, not Z. This is X. AI loves that.

00:49:01.960 Anytime you see that, that's AI. I don't know why, but ChatGPT loves doing that. That's a clear

00:49:07.460 tell. It's filler. It's redundant. And plus, you notice that with AI writing, it homes in on

00:49:17.140 details that don't matter. Like it just kind of, so, so it starts with the video is 40 minutes

00:49:24.100 long. Okay. So what does that have to do with anything? What does that have to do with you

00:49:29.680 debunking the video, which is what you're supposed to be doing? And then it happens down here again,

00:49:35.800 in an era when most people won't sit through a two minute ad, that's not just a video going viral.

00:49:39.800 It's a verdict arriving before the evidence has been checked. I mean, that's a, that's all

00:49:44.280 chat GPT. That is AI slop all the way. That's a twofer. That's a buy one, get one, because you

00:49:49.460 have the, that's X, not Y. And then you also have the M dash. AI loves the M dash. So anyway,

00:49:59.260 I'm going to move on from that. There's no debunking going on. This is all AI slop,

00:50:06.200 but really there is no way to debunk this. I mean, it's just a fact that fraud is rampant,

00:50:10.020 especially in California. And it's so bad that even the mainstream media is starting to notice.

00:50:16.880 So Fox News has this report. A single building in Van Nuys, California, is raising eyebrows

00:50:21.600 with questions about the dozens of hospice providers and healthcare agencies registered

00:50:25.340 at the address. The Morabi Professional Medical Plaza has been dubbed ground zero for Medicare

00:50:30.540 fraud in the hospice industry. The building is three stories, 32,000 square feet. According to

00:50:37.280 CBS News, which recently visited to investigate the hospice companies.

00:50:41.300 The outlet reported 89 hospice companies were registered in the building.

00:50:45.200 Fox News Digital reviewed state records showing 50 hospice companies and 97 home health agencies registered to just that address.

00:50:53.240 CBS 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.

00:51:02.800 So 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.

00:51:26.220 I mean, you only do this when you're very comfortable that no one is going to bother

00:51:32.440 even investigating or looking into it all. Like having a business complex where you just have a

00:51:40.140 bunch of fraudulent businesses all clustered in the same spot. All it takes is one person

00:51:46.300 to look at it and go, that's weird. Why would you have dozens of the same business in the same

00:51:51.220 complex. That's strange. And they, they have, they have total confidence up to this point

00:51:59.700 that nobody will do that. Um, I mean, they're setting up learning centers where they misspell

00:52:06.540 the word learning. Again, we, we all, that's a great joke. Now we all get a good laugh out of

00:52:12.720 it and we should, it's funny, but it's also not funny because it's so in your face. It's a

00:52:20.240 learning center that misspelled the word learning? Like, how did no one look into that?

00:52:25.260 How did that not raise any red flags? And all it takes is somebody to show up with a camera

00:52:32.900 and say, huh, well, this is weird. And yet they've been able to do this. The scammers have operated

00:52:40.240 with impunity because there's been no attempt at all, no real attempt to stop it. Here's what

00:52:46.940 I would like to know, or maybe I don't want to know. I don't know. But if you were to add together

00:52:52.560 all of the different forms of fraud, I mean like hospice fraud, the autism, the autism treatment

00:52:59.700 center fraud, uh, various kinds of insurance fraud, Medicare fraud. And then you add in EBT fraud,

00:53:06.520 you add in the nonprofit NGOs that, that get, uh, government funding for no legitimate reason.

00:53:13.760 add in the stuff that Doge was looking into, like the entire agencies of the government

00:53:20.840 that exist just as jobs programs for bureaucrats. All of that is fraud.

00:53:27.460 Add all of that together, all of the ways that taxpayers are being defrauded,

00:53:32.940 whether illegally or legally, technically, what do you end up with? How many hundreds of

00:53:40.520 billions of dollars are actually being stolen from us every year. That's what I would like to know.

00:53:48.660 I mean, it's almost impossible to count. It's almost impossible to do an accounting of this,

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00:55:43.980 All right, finally,

00:55:44.840 there's been a renewed push, it seems,

00:55:46.460 recently from what I've noticed, a renewed push

00:55:48.900 to normalize polyamory

00:55:50.920 or non-monogamy.

00:55:53.320 Just in the last week,

00:55:54.940 I've seen two articles from major publications.

00:55:58.020 New York Magazine had this headline,

00:55:59.600 Could opening your marriage lighten your

00:56:01.100 mental load? For some moms, 1.00

00:56:02.940 Non-monogamy is a way to reclaim more than just their sex drive. 0.94

00:56:07.720 And it's an article all about, I'm not even going to read the article.

00:56:09.680 It's all about these women that have cucked their husbands. 1.00

00:56:12.320 And it's really helped to de-stress.

00:56:16.900 They don't have as much mental load anymore.

00:56:20.000 And then the New York Post, in the same week, had this headline.

00:56:24.400 We're a throuple raising young children together.

00:56:27.300 Here's why we're more responsible than regular parents.

00:56:30.100 uh it says an inseparable thruple who raised three children together say they're more responsible

00:56:37.060 than regular mom and dads frank eric black cloud titania brown and lexi bowman live under one roof

00:56:43.180 with kids oliver sage and naomi eric who works in pest control and tattoo artist titania first

00:56:50.960 met 11 years ago as friends and they brought in the third person and anyway it goes into their

00:56:57.260 whole biography. I don't need to read it. Let's just put this lovely thruple up on the screen

00:57:04.060 so you can see what these people look like. The guy works at pest control, it said. Did he meet

00:57:11.760 the other two on the job? I mean, were they the pests? Were they the infestation that he was

00:57:17.320 going to clear out and then ended up falling madly in love with them? I don't know.

00:57:21.800 But one thing that's kind of encouraging, because you got to look for encouragement

00:57:24.920 wherever you can find it these days. It is kind of encouraging that this whole thing,

00:57:30.920 this bull has not really caught on. They're trying. They've tried. They are trying. They're

00:57:38.400 still trying. Like I said, two articles in a week about non-monogamy, quote unquote,

00:57:43.420 polyamory. They want it. They want it to catch on, but it's just not landing.

00:57:50.280 like still if you go about in your daily life you're not going to meet anyone in the real world

00:57:55.700 who lives like this and um unless you hang out with a bunch of degenerates and why is that

00:58:02.480 well for one thing every polyamorous group is just a horror show like every time the media

00:58:10.160 tries to highlight one of these one of these groupings and you look at them and you go that's

00:58:15.580 it's a nightmare it's a nightmare to behold you see these people they look like they come from 1.00

00:58:20.160 some kind of Tim Burton acid trip. And they look like, you know, manic depressive Willy Wonka

00:58:25.940 characters. So it's not the best advertisement for the lifestyle. Anybody who's even like slightly

00:58:31.140 tempted to go the polyamory direction, well, you go and you survey your options. You take a look at

00:58:36.160 what's in stock, what your choices would be. And it's, I mean, you recoil in horror. So

00:58:43.000 that's a problem. But most people never really get to that point because it turns out that this

00:58:48.420 kind of lifestyle is actually unnatural. It is actually unhuman. Obviously, it's really bad for

00:58:55.680 children who should all be removed from this home for their own safety and well-being, but it's also

00:59:01.680 miserable for any sane adult to be involved in. It turns out that the monogamous setup, one man,

00:59:07.580 one woman, is not some top-down oppressive system imposed on us. It is rather a natural 1.00

00:59:14.980 outgrowth of human nature. It's what we are made for, what we are meant to do.

00:59:20.680 You know, the Bible tells us right in the first chapter of Genesis or second chapter. And

00:59:26.220 what do you know? The Bible is right again, as always. And this is what's so great about

00:59:34.080 being a Christian. Our faith prescribes certain things, mandates certain things, certain life

00:59:38.580 choices. And if you reject those mandates, if you go and try to rebel, you're going to quickly find

00:59:44.220 out that actually the mandates are not arbitrary. There is no happiness to be found outside of what

00:59:51.400 is being prescribed to us because the mandates are deeply rooted in our nature as human beings

00:59:56.860 because our nature was created by God who also gave us the mandates. That's why it hasn't caught

01:00:03.000 on. Although they've tried. They've tried to push it. They'll still push it. But again, there's a

01:00:08.400 reason why it's one man and one woman. No other arrangement works. It will only bring you hardship 0.99

01:00:15.300 and misery. And you'll end up looking like Edward Scissorhands or something, apparently, for some

01:00:22.280 reason. So there's that too. And that will do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks

01:00:27.120 for listening. We'll talk to you on Monday. Have a great weekend. Godspeed.

01:00:38.400 I do believe that if people have committed treason against the United States of America,

01:00:43.680 their statues should not be in the Capitol.

01:00:47.680 History is written by the victors, and since the 1960s we've been told,

01:00:50.720 mostly by people whose ancestors didn't even live here during the war,

01:00:54.480 the South committed treason.

01:00:57.040 But if the Confederates were traitors,

01:01:01.360 then why was Jefferson Davis never put on trial for treason?

01:01:04.160 What were Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson afraid of?

01:01:09.120 Do they know something they're not allowed to say today?

01:01:14.040 It's time for the truth.

01:01:15.040 So here it is.

01:01:16.040 Robert E. Lee was a military genius and a man of immense honor.

01:01:19.280 He was beloved by Americans from the North and South for a century after the war.

01:01:24.720 This is the real history of the Civil War.

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