The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1761 - This VIRAL Video Shows What We've Lost -- And It's Devastating

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00:01:17.800 of time trying to manufacture enthusiasm, and they make a lot of money doing it or failing to do it

00:01:22.960 in many cases. Kamala Harris's campaign ended up in debt to the tune of tens of millions of dollars

00:01:27.480 because they paid a few celebrities to pretend to like her. And this kind of political marketing

00:01:32.440 is big business because increasingly our politicians are out of ideas. They're inauthentic.

00:01:37.280 They're not especially bright. So they cut some checks and hope for the best. But the best kind

00:01:42.440 of political messaging, and by far the most effective, isn't really political at all. If you

00:01:47.040 want to motivate millions of people to vote in a particular way, it's actually not that difficult.

00:01:52.020 It doesn't require a convoluted argument or an appeal to authority or an exhaustive study, statistics, or anything like that.

00:01:58.640 All you need to do is show people what's been taken from them.

00:02:03.000 You have to demonstrate that not too long ago, people lived much better lives on a day-to-day basis.

00:02:08.380 You have to illustrate in an objective fashion that the birthright of millions of Americans has been stolen.

00:02:14.780 It's harder to find a man who's angrier, and justifiably so,

00:02:19.080 than a man whose children will be forced to grow up in a more dangerous, more dirty,

00:02:23.580 less wealthy, less proud nation than the one his ancestors did.

00:02:27.880 This is why Trump's famous slogan, Make America Great Again, resonated to the degree that it did.

00:02:33.600 And it's also why this footage posted by the official count of Fenway Park in Boston on April 2nd

00:02:38.540 has racked up more than 10 million views and radicalized pretty much everyone who's seen it.

00:02:44.100 In their post, Fenway Park was attempting to mark the occasion of opening day.

00:02:47.620 And to do that, they posted old footage of previous opening days at Fenway Park in the 1950s.

00:02:53.500 And see what you notice.

00:02:56.260 Boston skyline bids welcome as it looms over the Charles River Basin.

00:03:00.220 Tulips in the public garden signal another New England springtime.

00:03:03.780 Red Sox fans have had a long winter's wait, and they're always eager to be at Fenway for opening day.

00:03:08.660 Yes, sir, let's go to the ball game.

00:03:10.420 We're outside with the crowd right now on the Jersey Street side of the park.

00:03:14.100 Time for that program, though, that scorecard, peanuts now.

00:03:17.640 Baseball and Gansett a bit later.

00:03:20.160 It's the opening of another baseball season,

00:03:22.400 and the usual colorful ceremonies get things off to a good start.

00:03:25.780 And another season is underway as the Boston team breaks onto the field.

00:03:29.900 Well, here's the first pitch.

00:03:31.820 And the season is officially underway.

00:03:39.440 We appreciate your loyalty to the Boston Red Sox.

00:03:44.100 So, everyone's well-dressed, they're behaving in an orderly fashion, everything looks clean and bright and safe.

00:03:51.260 You can't help but notice that pretty much everyone is white, and in general, they all seem to be pretty happy.

00:03:57.980 Immediately, tens of thousands of comments began flooding in, and here's just a handful of them.

00:04:02.500 Quote, Mayor Michelle Wu Han and the radical left have done everything in their power to erase this version of the once beautiful city of Boston.

00:04:10.240 quote dear god this is heartbreaking what have we done to our civilization since the 1960s

00:04:15.760 cultural revolution quote america of the past is unrecognizable when compared to today sad

00:04:21.620 quote um where's the diversity where's all the somalians and transgenders that are the fabric

00:04:26.760 of our democracy this is racist and homophobic quote it's wild how you can post a video from

00:04:32.400 60 years ago in boston it immediately looks like what democrats call white supremacist propaganda

00:04:39.000 And on and on and on.

00:04:40.220 Every single comment was like this, hundreds of them, thousands of them.

00:04:43.660 So eventually the Fenway Park account decided to shut down the comment section on the video.

00:04:48.180 Nobody else could reply to their video, at least not directly.

00:04:50.620 So Congressman Brandon Gill of Texas wrote this message about Fenway Park's video on his own feed.

00:04:55.320 Quote, a world my generation never got to experience.

00:04:58.840 Our country declined so much in just a few decades, and it's utterly radicalizing.

00:05:03.420 Now, you can make the case that this short one-minute video from Fenway Park is the single

00:05:07.960 most effective piece of political messaging of the year. Everyone knows that Boston no longer

00:05:13.020 looks anything like that footage from the 1950s, and everyone knows that since the 1950s,

00:05:17.620 every single major city in the United States has transformed in very similar ways, from Los Angeles

00:05:23.960 to Detroit to New York, Chicago. Now, for simplicity's sake, let's stick to Boston for now

00:05:30.780 and just take a look at this. Take a look at this chart. The demographic element of this story is

00:05:37.520 unavoidable. So in 1950, white people accounted for 95 percent of Boston's population. As of last

00:05:45.060 year, they are now a minority. The white population dropped to 45 percent in 2018. It's been falling

00:05:51.100 ever since. This is the kind of mind-blowing historic demographic transformation that if

00:05:57.460 were happening to any other race or ethnicity, it would be treated as a crisis, a tragedy.

00:06:03.340 But, you know, it's white people, so it's supposed to be cause for celebration.

00:06:07.700 More than a quarter of Boston's residents now are born in a foreign country, typically

00:06:13.540 the Dominican Republic, China, Haiti.

00:06:17.700 According to the city government, quote, 234,792 residents, 37% of Boston's population

00:06:24.580 speak another language at home besides English. And more than 105,000 people, 16% of residents

00:06:31.680 age five and older, quote, do not speak English as their primary language and have some language

00:06:36.740 access needs in speaking, reading, writing, or understanding English. And instead of English,

00:06:43.780 they're speaking Spanish, Haitian, Creole, Mandarin, Vietnamese. And those are just the

00:06:50.340 official numbers. Of course, a lot of illegal aliens don't respond to these surveys. So the

00:06:53.780 actual figures are probably worse, a lot worse. This is a transformation that no American should

00:07:00.480 tolerate. It's, I mean, total demographic replacement intentionally. Even if Boston

00:07:06.780 and other major cities were importing high achieving law abiding foreigners, which they

00:07:10.620 aren't for the most part, it would still be unacceptable. I mean, the reality is there's

00:07:17.220 no reason to be shy about saying it. This country was built in every meaningful way, predominantly

00:07:21.420 by white people who came from Europe and descended from Europeans.

00:07:26.280 And those Americans created a distinct culture and way of life,

00:07:29.580 which is why we're basically the only country on the planet anymore

00:07:33.060 that actually respects freedom of speech, freedom of religion,

00:07:37.080 or that's capable of sending men to the moon.

00:07:40.920 That's worth defending.

00:07:43.040 And if we were talking about any other country and their culture,

00:07:45.340 everybody would agree with that.

00:07:47.720 But unless we make the active conscious choice to defend this country,

00:07:51.160 we will lose it. That's how the Bolsheviks conquered Russia. People got too complacent,

00:07:55.360 too passive. It's also other Western countries, including the UK and Canada, have collapsed in a

00:08:00.240 very short period of time. They're unrecognizable now. They've been colonized without a single shot

00:08:04.740 being fired by foreigners who have nothing in common with them. And the same thing is happening

00:08:11.040 to us. So take a look at this footage from opening day at Fenway. This is from a couple

00:08:16.180 of days ago, not from the 1950s. See if you notice any difference from, you know, between this and

00:08:20.980 the 1950s. Watch. So the mayor is a Taiwanese communist and everyone's booing her probably

00:08:45.960 because the audience at baseball games skews conservative. Presumably, they're not happy with

00:08:49.940 the fact that Boston obstructs federal immigration law or that Massachusetts has one of the highest

00:08:54.740 tax burdens in the entire country. According to one recent poll, quote, a third of Massachusetts

00:08:59.640 voters are either personally considering moving out of the state in 2026 or know someone who's

00:09:04.760 thinking about leaving. You see, it turns out that when you discriminate against white people,

00:09:10.340 import a zillion foreigners into a welfare state, everything gets more expensive for productive

00:09:15.280 people. And then those productive people want to leave and want to move to Florida. Who could

00:09:21.500 have seen that coming? In the wake of that Boston video, conservatives have posted a slew of similar

00:09:26.980 videos from major cities. And we'll put some of the viral videos up on the screen from New York

00:09:34.000 and Boston that are circulating now. And on the surface, these videos seem just like the one that

00:09:39.700 Fenway Park's official account posted, clearly shot a long time ago. They portray major American

00:09:45.580 cities that are unrecognizable compared to today. But it's important when you're looking at these

00:09:50.800 videos to understand exactly when they were recorded. Some of this footage, particularly

00:09:56.380 the footage from New York, is actually from the 1970s. And regardless of what this footage might

00:10:01.180 imply, that was not a good decade for New York. Cities like New York were a lot more dangerous

00:10:07.600 in 1975 than they are even today. If you were alive at that time, or if you saw a movie like

00:10:13.320 Death Wish, then you know exactly what I'm talking about. So right now, all over social media,

00:10:18.780 conservatives are posting videos of 1970s New York as if it was some kind of utopia,

00:10:23.860 and various figures on the left are pointing out the absurdity of this.

00:10:29.420 And that's a sign from my perspective that conservatives need to learn a lot more about

00:10:34.260 the specific causes of urban decline in the United States. There's no other way to say this.

00:10:41.320 If you think it happened after the 1970s, then you fundamentally misunderstand American history,

00:10:47.880 at least recent American history. That's a big problem if you want to undo the damage that both

00:10:52.420 political parties have done to this country. You got to understand what the damage is and how it

00:10:56.940 happened. So to illustrate what I'm talking about, let's go back to Boston. This is a quote from the

00:11:02.120 Boston Globe, written by a journalist named Ray Richard. It was published on November 1st,

00:11:07.620 1970. Quote, the odds are greater than they've ever been that anyone in Boston in the wrong

00:11:13.260 circumstances at the right time will be shot, stabbed, choked, burned, beaten, drowned, or

00:11:18.380 kicked to death. The wrong circumstances might be opening your garage doors to put the car away

00:11:24.780 while someone with a knife intending to rob you is hidden inside or sitting at a bar minding your

00:11:29.020 business when a fight breaks out and an onlooker, you, gets shot and dies. Or doing your assigned

00:11:35.560 work as a clerk in a variety store or a bank manager when a holdup man bursts in.

00:11:42.120 Now, that article would indicate that the 1960s were the decade when everything went south

00:11:46.280 for Boston. And indeed, if you pull up the police commissioner's report for the city of Boston in

00:11:50.800 1969, that's exactly what you'll find. So take a look at this. It's pretty stark. In 1967,

00:11:59.020 the total number of robberies in Boston, including highway robberies, commercial robberies, home

00:12:03.520 invasions, and so on, was 1,121. That's a rate of 1.78 per 1,000 residents. By 1969, the total

00:12:12.000 number of robberies had soared to 2,984, or 4.75 per 1,000 residents. In other words, in just three

00:12:19.240 years, your odds of getting robbed in Boston increased by nearly three times. Now, you can see

00:12:26.000 how sharp the increase was. That's a chart from the same report by the police commissioner.

00:12:32.080 Street robberies became almost exactly three times more common. Now, let's take a look at

00:12:37.760 violent crime, aggravated assault, and let's see how that changed during the 1960s. In 1966,

00:12:43.900 a total of 1,029 aggravated assaults, and that means assaults committed with a gun,

00:12:48.740 knife, or other dangerous weapon, including fists, were recorded in Boston. By 1969,

00:12:54.740 the number had increased to 1,529. In per capita, that's an increase from 1.64 to a rate of 2.43

00:13:03.380 aggravated assaults per 1,000 residents. And today, as of 2025, that number is even higher.

00:13:10.380 Boston's rate of aggravated assaults is around 3.7 per 1,000 residents. So in Boston, you're

00:13:16.200 more than twice as likely to get attacked with a deadly weapon in 2025 as compared to 1966.

00:13:22.060 But if you listen to the corporate press, including local stations, you'll hear a very different story.

00:13:28.200 Watch.

00:13:29.460 Boston police are touting historically low homicide and gun violence rates in 2024.

00:13:35.400 While not all crime is down, the city is saying its police and social service efforts are working.

00:13:41.800 Here's WBZ's Mike Sullivan.

00:13:44.000 Don't adjust your TVs.

00:13:45.500 Nothing is wrong.

00:13:46.740 This is Boston in the 1950s.

00:13:48.640 It's also the last time the city saw homicide rate as low as it is today.

00:13:53.140 In the entire time that I've been a police officer, going back since when I came on, the city has never been safer, period.

00:14:00.640 Incidents of gunfire are down 14% and 37% over the last five years.

00:14:05.800 It's the lowest it's been since 2011, and they started tracking it consistently.

00:14:10.360 Homicide numbers are equally as baffling.

00:14:12.940 When you hear the number 24, that is the number of homicides to the whole year.

00:14:16.980 Wow, that's great.

00:14:18.280 That. Yeah, that's the response. Yeah. Where does that response come from?

00:14:23.460 I would think it would be higher than that. Beth and John Caffarella said they always feel

00:14:28.060 comfortable walking in the city, even at night. The city is so safe that even squirrels will just

00:14:33.220 walk up to random strangers. Feel safe. Yeah. The biggest upward trend in crime is shoplifting.

00:14:40.360 Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox says it's up 30 percent. I think high prices. I mean,

00:14:45.400 And it's just, you know.

00:14:47.100 So how could this be?

00:14:48.140 How is it possible that the murder rate is comparable to the 1950s, even as other crimes like shoplifting and aggravated assault and so on are going up?

00:14:56.060 The media doesn't have an explanation for this.

00:14:57.840 They simply say that in general, Boston has gotten safer, just kind of randomly, you know, for no reason at all.

00:15:04.480 But that's not true.

00:15:06.380 And that's not how things really work.

00:15:07.820 Murders are down in large part because of medical advances since the 1950s.

00:15:11.720 a stabbing victim who would have died of infection in the 1950s can now be saved relatively easily

00:15:16.860 in most cases. The modern 911 system didn't even exist in the 50s, so emergency response was much

00:15:23.000 slower. They also didn't have CT scans that would show the precise location of internal bleeding or

00:15:28.360 organ damage. Blood banks weren't anywhere near as organized or ubiquitous. We have a better

00:15:34.080 understanding of antibiotics and trauma surgery. So a lot of these kinds of medical advances,

00:15:40.000 There's a study that was published in 2006 in the journal Homicide Studies found that, quote, murder rates would be up to five times higher than they are, but for medical developments over the past 40 years.

00:15:50.020 According to new research, doctors are saving the lives of thousands of victims of attack who four decades ago would have died and become murder statistics.

00:15:57.360 In the research, Dr. Anthony Harris and a team from the University of Massachusetts and Harvard Medical School found that technological developments had helped to significantly depress today's murder rates, converting homicides into aggravated assaults.

00:16:10.000 Without this technology, we estimate there would be no less than 50,000 and as many as 115,000 homicides annually instead of an actual 15,000 to 20,000.

00:16:21.180 Now, on top of that, people might commit less murder now because they're much more likely to be caught.

00:16:26.200 Surveillance cameras, cell phones are everywhere.

00:16:29.060 DNA evidence is now common.

00:16:30.880 And at the moment, murder is the one crime that might potentially provoke a serious response from prosecutors, even in Democrat-run cities.

00:16:42.100 Might.

00:16:43.200 It's the one crime that you generally want to avoid if you don't want to go to prison.

00:16:47.760 Now, if you steal $10,000 of merchandise or you assault a police officer or you assault a random pedestrian, you probably won't spend any time in jail.

00:16:57.120 So the decline in murders doesn't mean that cities are as safe as they were in the 1950s.

00:17:01.260 It means that technology has improved and criminals are simply committing other crimes.

00:17:06.760 And criminals began committing those crimes in large numbers in the 1960s.

00:17:11.620 So that's the key point.

00:17:13.540 The rule of law in America broke down very quickly at a very specific moment.

00:17:19.520 It was the civil rights era and the various inventions of the civil rights movement that rapidly destroyed American cities.

00:17:27.120 And the consequences are apparent today. Very apparent. The journalist Tony Heller has spent the last week going through homicide data from the city of New York's official website. And here's what he found. Quote, there were 83 shootings in Queens, New York during 2025. None of the shooters were white.

00:17:45.160 There were 111 shootings in Manhattan during 2025.

00:17:48.940 None of the shooters were white.

00:17:50.540 There were almost 300 shootings in the Bronx during 2025.

00:17:53.820 None of the shooters were white.

00:17:56.280 And on and on and on.

00:17:58.720 And a lot of these shootings didn't result in homicides, so they won't show up in murder rates.

00:18:03.200 But they're obviously a sign of a city that's declining.

00:18:06.700 And it's clearly declining because its demographics changed.

00:18:12.280 And that's unavoidably true.

00:18:14.460 And this all happened in accordance with the demands of civil rights leaders.

00:18:19.840 It was the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart-Celler Act, that accelerated this transformation.

00:18:25.740 This is where the whole melting pot idea breaks down, by the way.

00:18:30.320 A century ago, America accepted foreigners who came predominantly from Western countries like Italy and Australia, or rather Italy and Austria, some from Australia.

00:18:39.780 They mostly assimilated into our culture because they shared our values, and they shared a similar ancestry in many cases.

00:18:48.920 Then the Hart-Celler Act passed, and look what happened.

00:18:52.520 You can see here, now a much larger percentage of migrants to America are coming from Mexico, Latin America, Asia.

00:18:59.740 And the raw number of migrants has increased exponentially.

00:19:02.900 Annual net migration, according to official statistics, went from a few hundred thousand people to several million.

00:19:09.240 It's the exact opposite of what Americans were told.

00:19:11.120 Senator Ted Kennedy said, quote,

00:19:12.780 the bill will not flood our cities with immigrants.

00:19:15.340 It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society.

00:19:19.720 Senator Haram Fong, a Republican, said, quote,

00:19:25.380 our cultural pattern will never be changed as far as America is concerned.

00:19:31.660 It's hard to imagine a promise that was less true than that.

00:19:35.040 And that's how they sold this legislation to us at the height of the civil rights era.

00:19:38.980 And none of it was true.

00:19:41.440 They lied.

00:19:43.020 And now everybody knows it was a lie.

00:19:45.320 That's the big breakthrough with the Fenway Park footage, an idea that was fringe on the

00:19:49.520 right for many generations is going mainstream.

00:19:52.820 Nobody can deny that our elected leaders in Washington have betrayed us.

00:19:56.820 They've made our cities unrecognizable, and Democrats are doing everything in their power

00:20:00.600 to make the problem even worse.

00:20:02.420 This is from the New York Post the other day. Quote.

00:20:32.420 club. I'm on the way to gym, 8.30 a.m. The guy is squatting over a camp chair, and the other woman

00:20:36.860 is holding a pizza box under him to defecate in, said neighbor Chris Shingler. This is prime time,

00:20:42.360 work day, kids going to school. This is right out front in the middle of the sidewalk, said the 46

00:20:47.720 year old who moved to the rising neighborhood with his wife in 2007. Now in the Giuliani era,

00:20:54.640 they just throw these people in prison in about five minutes, and you can do that. It's very easy,

00:20:59.540 easy way to solve it. You see, Giuliano believed in enforcing the law, every law. He knew that if

00:21:05.880 somebody deliberately breaks the law, there's a good chance that they're going to commit many

00:21:10.000 other crimes. He also understood that if you're going to have a functioning society, you cannot

00:21:15.380 allow people to openly ignore the rule of law. If you crack down on every crime, even the quote

00:21:21.120 unquote nonviolent ones, then you'll make the city a lot safer very quickly. Again, the decline of

00:21:27.900 New York is a choice. It is engineered by the Democrats. Now, as if to illustrate that point,

00:21:33.980 back in Massachusetts, here's Ayanna Pressley, a leading contender for dumbest member of Congress

00:21:39.180 now that Jasmine Crockett is on the way out. And here's what she has to say. Watch.

00:21:45.600 Eviction is an act of violence and we have to do everything to prevent it. It is devastating for

00:21:51.080 the families. It degrades the health of communities. There is race stigma associated

00:21:56.640 with it. It affects your credit score. Housing is a human right. It is a predictor of health

00:22:03.320 outcomes. It's essential for social and economic mobility. And so many people, when they receive

00:22:08.740 a notice to quit or to vacate their homes, usually because of non-payment, because wages

00:22:14.680 are not keeping pace with inflation, they don't know their rights. And a lot of times

00:22:19.520 they will just accept that notice to quit and leave. And so my legislation is making

00:22:24.320 sure that they have access to legal counsel, because we have found that when tenants know

00:22:28.820 their rights, when they have access to legal counsel, we can usually keep them safely housed.

00:22:37.640 Now, she's absolutely right about that last part. Because of the way the laws are written

00:22:41.040 in cities like Boston and New York, it's virtually impossible for landlords to evict anyone.

00:22:44.960 Somebody wants to stay in your property, even if they don't have any kind of written lease,

00:22:48.800 even if they don't pay rent for months, judges will just rule in their favor. Watch.

00:22:54.320 He asked if we had any plans for that house, I told him yes.

00:22:58.040 Barbara Gunner is the landlord on top of the hill.

00:23:01.580 From her front porch in Canto, she can see her rental house down below,

00:23:06.360 where she says people have been living for nine months without paying rent.

00:23:11.860 How many people are living here now?

00:23:13.140 About six.

00:23:14.240 Barbara says none of the people living here have a written lease.

00:23:18.360 They took over the property after her longtime tenant died.

00:23:22.440 Do you think that these people are squatters?

00:23:24.820 They are squatters.

00:23:25.820 They haven't paid a nickel.

00:23:26.820 Yeah, they're squatters.

00:23:27.820 That's why they're down there now.

00:23:29.440 Barbara filed eviction papers and took the people to court, but she represented herself

00:23:35.300 and lost the case.

00:23:37.260 In fact, the judge ruled against her twice.

00:23:39.820 It's a terrible thing, but your hands are tied.

00:23:43.820 You know, to do things legally, you have to go by what the judge says.

00:23:47.820 It all came down to what the judge called a verbal lease agreement.

00:23:52.400 formalized when Barbara accepted initial rent payments from one of the tenants.

00:23:57.860 Her husband, Roy, is a retired criminal attorney,

00:24:01.440 and he still doesn't understand the complicated ruling.

00:24:05.420 It looks to me it's damn near impossible to get anybody out of your house.

00:24:08.820 They can come in and tell any lie,

00:24:10.780 and that's enough to squeeze by these current laws in California.

00:24:15.660 Whether you're a squatter or not, squatters still have rights.

00:24:18.660 Christina Williams and her husband, Chris Thorne, told me they do live in the house.

00:24:24.480 She lost. She lost twice in her unlawful detainer.

00:24:28.440 And she was told by the judge that she could not come down here and do repairs

00:24:32.960 and have the tenants removed.

00:24:34.820 But she doesn't care what the court said.

00:24:37.180 And admitted they don't pay rent.

00:24:39.780 As a landlord, don't you think she deserves to at least have rent paid to her?

00:24:44.300 Well, yeah. I mean, I'm not disputing that.

00:24:46.740 She does deserve to have her rent paid, but there's a way to go about things.

00:24:51.400 I mean, if you tried to forcibly remove somebody and you lost, then you go back to a starting point and try to resolve that.

00:25:01.280 Just total madness.

00:25:03.480 Someone can just live in your house and not pay your rent and not leave, and the courts will side with them.

00:25:10.180 Totally, no reason for it.

00:25:11.640 Like, it's not complicated.

00:25:14.100 This is the easiest problem in the world to solve.

00:25:16.740 You just send in a cop, you know, a couple of cops at most, drag them out, put them in jail.

00:25:21.960 And if they go back and you charge them with burglary, home invasion, you know, put them in prison for life.

00:25:25.940 It's very easy to solve. You could easily solve this problem.

00:25:28.480 And it's not like these people that are squatting are sympathetic.

00:25:31.240 Like they don't have any, they have no argument.

00:25:33.640 We've seen so many stories like this and videos where the squatters are interviewed.

00:25:39.440 And it's not even like they have any kind of compelling, there's no argument you can make in favor of any.

00:25:44.140 There's no argument you could make in favor of living in someone's house that isn't yours, refusing to leave, and refusing to pay them rent.

00:25:49.600 But they don't have anything.

00:25:52.400 They don't have a sympathetic sob story.

00:25:54.120 They don't have, it wouldn't matter if they did.

00:25:56.520 And then when you ask them, well, don't you think you should pay rent?

00:25:59.520 Yeah, probably should, but I'm not going to.

00:26:03.380 That's it.

00:26:04.780 And for some reason, this is tolerated.

00:26:08.160 Well, not just some reason.

00:26:09.400 The reason that judges issue rulings like this is that they subscribe to Democrat Party orthodoxy, which states, as Ayanna Pressley said, that housing is a human right and that eviction is therefore a violent and unlawful act depriving someone of that right.

00:26:25.040 They simply don't believe in the right to own private property.

00:26:27.500 They're communists.

00:26:29.100 Because in their view, that right conflicts with some imaginary right to housing.

00:26:33.440 remember that during COVID the Biden administration decided to nationalize

00:26:39.320 every rental property in the United States how quickly people forget about that

00:26:42.840 they use the CDC yes the CDC to ban evictions they had no authority to do that whatsoever

00:26:51.100 did it anyway so tenants could stay wherever they wanted without paying rent and a lot of them did

00:26:57.020 this whole idea that housing is a human right is very closely related to the broader decline

00:27:02.840 in American cities. That's why it all ties in. You've got the Civil Rights Act,

00:27:08.040 heart seller, communism makes its way into the culture. All these things are happening

00:27:15.000 at the same time. All of them are related. And housing as a human right is an idea that

00:27:19.560 paints homeless people as victims who are being deprived of their rights rather than

00:27:26.800 what they were before this,

00:27:29.500 which is vagrants who are actively depriving

00:27:32.840 the rest of us of our rights

00:27:34.820 to live in a clean and safe community.

00:27:38.680 You know, if someone is living on the sidewalk,

00:27:41.040 taking a dump in a pizza box in front of your kid,

00:27:43.900 whose rights are being violated?

00:27:46.020 His or yours and your kids?

00:27:49.380 In a sane and just society,

00:27:50.940 it's an easy question to answer.

00:27:54.060 The truth is that no one has a right

00:27:56.000 to housing. No one has a right to someone else's labor or someone else's property.

00:28:01.580 You have the right to speak your mind, to practice your religion, defend yourself, and so on,

00:28:06.660 but you don't have a right to force other people to house you, obviously. That's slavery.

00:28:13.200 These squatters are enslaving their landlords. Their landlords are their slaves.

00:28:18.980 They're being forced to provide for you. That's slavery.

00:28:22.280 In the beginning of the 1960s, as part of the radical transformation of the civil rights era, Democrats decided to reject fundamental American principles.

00:28:31.180 They decided to begin forcing people to hire candidates on the basis of race, to force their children to attend schools they didn't want to attend, and so on.

00:28:37.960 And as they did so, Democrat elites made every effort to avoid confronting the consequences of their own decisions.

00:28:44.220 There's an article that's going viral right now from a foreign cultural magazine called Thymos.

00:28:49.180 And here's a paragraph from that article.

00:28:50.600 It was written by an Austrian on a visit to Washington, D.C.

00:28:54.740 And he's talking about the fact that Georgetown, one of the wealthiest areas of D.C., doesn't have a metro stop.

00:28:59.440 So people from poor areas can't easily travel to Georgetown.

00:29:03.680 Quote, I've already spent several days in the USA and already gained the most important sociological insights from my study trip.

00:29:09.680 We're sitting in a bar in Georgetown, an English-style area of Washington, D.C.

00:29:14.280 It's a rich area and therefore not accessible by public transport.

00:29:17.520 The residents may be on the left, but apparently it is important to them not to offer African-Americans the opportunity to get to their residential area.

00:29:26.040 That's a guiding ethos of the American left, beginning with the Civil Rights era.

00:29:30.380 They unleash pure destruction, devastation on American cities, and then they left ordinary Americans to deal with the carnage that was left behind in their wake.

00:29:42.380 And when I say carnage, if anything, that's an understatement.

00:29:45.460 the civil rights era brought horrors beyond imagination to innocent men women and children

00:29:51.260 throughout the united states and that's why i can tell you the next two episodes of my

00:29:56.760 documentary series real history are going to explore this they're going to explore the extent

00:30:02.360 of this devastation from the civil rights act and how exactly it happened it's far more than i can

00:30:09.660 unpack in any one monologue or any one segment so it's going to be a two-part episode we will dive

00:30:15.260 deeply into everything from busing to disparate impact theory to the brutal fate that awaited

00:30:20.980 many of the poor and elderly Americans who couldn't participate in the so-called white

00:30:24.600 flight. We'll talk about the life of Martin Luther King Jr., which isn't anything remotely

00:30:29.620 like what the history books tell you. This is a comprehensive point-by-point breakdown

00:30:34.020 of where exactly America went wrong as a country. It's an in-depth explanation of why that Fenway

00:30:40.680 Park video is so radicalizing to so many people, and why that radicalization is fully justified.

00:30:46.740 Once you understand how quickly our elites destroyed every urban center in this country,

00:30:51.340 it becomes easier to understand how quickly we can reverse the damage they've done if we wanted to.

00:30:58.160 And as tens of millions of Americans react in horror at the sight of that damage,

00:31:02.720 now's the time, more than any other time in recent history, to get started.

00:31:09.100 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:33:05.400 Let's start with this on Easter Monday.

00:33:07.820 There have been many encouraging reports recently about the revival of religion, religious fervor among young Americans.

00:33:15.520 And Fox News just had a report on the subject.

00:33:19.200 Let's watch that.

00:33:20.480 In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

00:33:28.240 Mass baptisms of hundreds of young people.

00:33:30.980 thousands come to raise hearts of joy in song

00:33:37.200 there is a palpable spirit moving on college campuses arenas and megachurches younger

00:33:47.400 generations gathering to worship coming to faith as the new fox nation special reveals

00:33:52.600 their spiritual hunger in gen z bible sales are booming things that you never thought would

00:33:57.840 happened before. It's a kind of worship that's different from their parents and grandparents.

00:34:02.100 This is a relationship with grace, and I think that's what young people resonate with today.

00:34:06.200 This isn't achieving, it's receiving. It's not trying to be good enough to earn God's love.

00:34:10.920 God already loves us. Churches are reporting record numbers of young people filling pews,

00:34:15.680 especially in the Catholic Church, while reports show social media is exploding with young faith

00:34:20.520 influencers spreading a new approach to religion. Still, while Pew Research Center data shows

00:34:25.780 religion is gaining influence in America, and that Gen Z is showing higher rates of religion,

00:34:30.820 researcher Ryan Burge isn't convinced there's an actual Great Awakening.

00:34:34.800 We're not seeing anything in the data that even points close to the idea of a mass revival in

00:34:39.460 America. For us to go from a 25% weekly attendance rate to a 35% weekly attendance rate means

00:34:44.480 35 million new people are going to be going to church this Sunday.

00:34:48.220 But for others, the numbers only tell part of the story.

00:34:51.380 This is a radical generation that believes that God is going to do great things.

00:34:55.040 But the data does show that the number of Americans who say they are non-religious is declining.

00:35:00.760 And many leaders say it's because young generations are leading a new movement of faith.

00:35:05.940 So the data here is a little bit conflicted, a little contradictory, because you have, you know, you have these kinds of reports, a lot of anecdotal evidence, not just anecdotal, but evidence of this resurgence of faith among younger people, evidence that younger people are more religious than their parents, which has never happened before.

00:35:24.280 But then people on the other side of the argument will say that, well, the overall data, the national surveys do not show that religion is actually making a comeback.

00:35:32.880 And instead, what we're seeing are kind of pockets here and there where faith is on the uptick, but overall it isn't.

00:35:39.620 Now, I'm biased, obviously, but there might be some element of wishful thinking here, maybe, but anyone is susceptible to that.

00:35:46.740 I believe that the revival is real.

00:35:48.260 and um and it's what i see with my own eyes and if it is real then the question is

00:35:57.020 you know whether it will be sustained young young people are discovering or rediscovering

00:36:02.380 christianity but where will they be you know what will things look like 10 years from now 20 years

00:36:08.120 what will their children believe you know that that's really the question and we're not going

00:36:13.420 to know until we get there. So here's what I think is happening. First of all, you find that

00:36:19.460 conservative and more orthodox, reverent churches, traditional churches, especially for Catholics,

00:36:26.800 are the churches that are getting younger and larger. And that tells me that what's happening

00:36:34.060 is that partially the so-called cultural Christians, the priesters, the CEOs, the

00:36:42.440 Christmas and Easter only types, Christians don't really believe in the religion, but sort of

00:36:48.020 participate for social reasons. Those people over the past decade or two have been dropping off,

00:36:56.300 have been, have been leaving completely because it's, it's perfectly socially acceptable these

00:37:01.580 days to be non-religious, to be atheist, or at least to just be non-religious, to just sort of

00:37:08.400 like if somebody asks you what's your religion and you say, whatever. And that's socially

00:37:13.920 acceptable now in a way that it wasn't 40 years ago. And so there's not as much of an incentive

00:37:20.280 socially for people who don't really believe it to show up anyway and go to church. And so they're

00:37:25.420 not. The non-believing fake social Christians are falling off. They're being separated like wheat

00:37:33.440 from the chaff. And that has left a core that's left a kind of nucleus of believers who really

00:37:40.340 believe, who really love the faith, who are really excited or on fire with the faith. And the effect

00:37:46.460 is it's made the church stronger. The dead weight is gone. The fakers, the pretenders, they're going

00:37:53.040 away. And so it's basically addition by subtraction. So what I'm saying is not that it's good. I mean,

00:38:00.880 If you had 100 people in a church, you'd prefer that they're all there and excited and they're all true, real believers, but that wasn't happening.

00:38:06.960 So if you have a church with 100 people, let's say, and 60 of them don't really believe and don't really care and they're just sort of coming in on Christmas and it doesn't really matter to them and they're only there for the social experience, treating church like a networking event or something, well, your church will be stronger without them.

00:38:28.280 Because the problem is when those people, especially when they reach a critical mass, they're showing up, they're watering everything down, and because they have more of a vote than the real believers because there's more of them and they're so loud, and so everything becomes watered down.

00:38:42.700 Now the church service, the mass, is being conducted in a way to appeal to those people who don't even really care in the first place, and it kind of waters everything down.

00:38:57.660 It's better to not have them, right?

00:39:00.580 Better to be hot or cold, not lukewarm.

00:39:02.580 We're told in scripture, and this is why.

00:39:04.060 It's better to have 40 real believers

00:39:06.340 than to have 100 congregants

00:39:10.080 where more than half of them are not real.

00:39:13.380 Now, hopefully the fakers discover the true faith

00:39:16.340 and come back.

00:39:17.920 You'd rather have 100 believers, real believers, than 40.

00:39:22.120 But you don't want 60 non-believers who are pretending.

00:39:24.800 That's what you don't want.

00:39:25.440 You don't want 60 people there out of the 100 who are faking it, who are just pretending and are just there for the social experience.

00:39:32.260 That's what you don't want. That kills your church.

00:39:35.060 A big church where more than half of them aren't real Christians is dead.

00:39:40.240 A small church where everybody is real, that's an alive church.

00:39:44.880 That's a vibrant church, and it has a core now that can actually grow, grow for real.

00:39:51.160 And I think that's part of what's happening.

00:39:52.620 And then also this younger generation, they're the first generation to really grow up in essentially a post-Christian America. They're the first to grow up in a culture that is predominantly secular, non-religious.

00:40:07.620 And so it should tell us something that this real, I mean, I grew up in the 90s and it was a very heavily secularized culture then, but not like what someone born in the year 2000 even would have experienced, not as bad as that.

00:40:24.280 um so now we've got this first generation first generation or two of uh of young people who grew

00:40:33.540 up in this secularized culture and and they're rebelling against it what does that tell you

00:40:41.100 it tells you that a non-religious society doesn't work it just doesn't work the young people they

00:40:46.900 grew up in secularism which means they grew up on the idea that life has no inherent fundamental

00:40:52.000 meaning. We're here for the blank of an eye. We come from nothing. We're going back to nothing.

00:40:58.360 Nothing that happens in between really matters. That's what they're taught.

00:41:04.280 Well, guess what? You can't live that way. That's pure misery. That's nihilism. That's despair.

00:41:11.440 I mean, what's the point of anything? It's just, it's not workable. It's not livable.

00:41:14.420 And, uh, if that, if that, if, if the claim of, of secularism is true, if atheism is true, then the more, the more honest, more rational conclusion is, is like antinatalism, right?

00:41:30.480 I mean, the antinatalists are, are bleak. That's, that's a, it's a bleak and depressing, uh, worldview, but it's, it's honest because if it's true that there is no God and therefore life has no meaning, then what's, there's no reason to live.

00:41:48.440 Like actually life becomes this cruel joke. And yeah, to have more kids and have them born into this, this, it's like a life of misery and suffering. You come from nothing and your life has no meaning and there's no reason that you're here. It's all an accident. And you're going to go back into nothingness and just like decay back into nothingness in an eternity of nothingness. And that's what you're heading for. And you know it.

00:42:12.100 I mean, that's the cruel joke of it, is that unlike the other animals, we are aware of that, and we're aware that all this pain and suffering we're going through really has no meaning. It doesn't matter. And if that's the case, then life is like, why even live? Why propagate the species? Why spread human civilization? Why keep it going? There's no reason for any of it.

00:42:34.180 um so the most logical conclusion is well we shouldn't you know just just let humanity die

00:42:41.360 off and none of it matters anyway it's totally pointless and uh let's just embrace nothingness

00:42:47.740 embrace the abyss um so that is the logical conclusion of it and i think we got a lot of

00:42:55.200 young people who've kind of noticed that and they've looked at that and said well that's not

00:42:58.780 that that that's not right i can't live that way we can't you can't have a society that runs that

00:43:04.400 way it's absurd i mean you've made life itself as an absurdity it's an absurd depressing

00:43:09.040 miserable horrible dark thing and um and i think you got young people who are rebelling against

00:43:17.200 that kind of inevitably i mean there's a reason why there's never really been a um an atheist

00:43:24.340 a fully atheist society that survived for very long anyway. You can't live that way. Nobody can.

00:43:30.180 A society, a culture can't function, can't thrive, certainly can't exist for very long

00:43:34.500 because of that absurdity. Life without God is an absurdity. It's a grotesque absurdity.

00:43:40.860 And who can live a grotesquely absurd life? So I think young people are rebelling against that.

00:43:45.480 They're rebelling against the meaninglessness by finding meaning. They're determined to live

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00:44:47.980 So I guess what's happening.

00:44:48.760 All right.

00:44:49.040 The first lady of California, excuse me, first partner, the first partner of California,

00:44:55.860 as she calls herself, Jennifer Newsome, had some interesting comments about raising boys.

00:45:03.020 And by interesting, I mean horrifying, of course, but here it is.

00:45:06.500 Watch.

00:45:07.640 I've given our boys dolls, even if they tear the head off.

00:45:12.460 I've given them dolls to learn that care and caregiving is not just an activity that's

00:45:18.800 reserved for women, but that it's also an activity that is a responsibility of men.

00:45:26.140 What I've done with both my daughters and my sons is if I'm reading a book and the protagonist

00:45:31.700 is a male, I just change the he to a she.

00:45:35.220 And it just normalizes for my sons in particular, I don't even just do it for my girls, I do

00:45:39.580 for my sons because i want them to see that women can be the center of a story that women matter

00:45:46.700 that women are interesting at the end of the day we're all kind of like in this place in

00:45:55.740 history maybe where we're recognizing what it is to ultimately deconstruct all these

00:46:00.460 gender roles and ultimately be human and that's exciting to me so i

00:46:05.740 you know i'll just continue to kind of do my work and try and deconstruct all of these like

00:46:12.400 limiting narratives about ultimately what it means to be human that actually makes me like

00:46:17.260 irrationally angry uh or i guess rationally rationally angry no matter how many times i

00:46:22.720 hear this sort of nonsense from a feminist like this lady it infuriates me uh where to even begin

00:46:30.100 well let's start with her changing the books in her house so that the protagonists are always

00:46:34.780 female. So she's admitting, she's admitting to censoring children's literature in her home.

00:46:41.260 I mean, we've heard from Gavin Newsom, this ridiculous, he's propagating this myth of book

00:46:47.420 bans that are allegedly being instated by conservatives, by Republicans, which is not

00:46:52.840 real. It's never actually happened. But you're telling us you had a book ban in your own house

00:46:56.860 and the worst kind. Because, you know, sure, like everyone practices some amount of censorship in

00:47:04.120 your home. You decide what kind of material is allowed in your home or not, especially for your

00:47:08.740 kids. Fine. But it's one thing to just, to just not buy a book for your child. It's another to

00:47:15.400 actually, to actually, to buy the book and then change it, to lie to your children about what's

00:47:20.300 in the book, what it's about in order to fit your political and ideological ends. I mean,

00:47:26.940 that's crazy. That's what she just admitted to doing. Banning books with male protagonists would

00:47:33.080 be insane already, but this crazy wench has actually found an even more insane way to go

00:47:42.140 about it because she lets the books in the house and then changes them, lies to her sons about the

00:47:50.220 books, edits them in ways the author never intended. And why? What's the reason for that?

00:47:56.860 Well, she says, she wants to send the message that women can be the center of the story.

00:48:02.600 Oh, really?

00:48:03.420 They can?

00:48:04.940 Wow.

00:48:05.340 I never knew that.

00:48:07.080 Oh, women can be the center of something?

00:48:09.020 Whoa.

00:48:10.100 We never noticed.

00:48:11.720 We never noticed.

00:48:14.060 Yeah, I tell you what, in modern culture, that's a newsflash.

00:48:16.880 Well, women are never the center of anything.

00:48:19.460 They can be the center?

00:48:20.720 Who knew?

00:48:21.240 You know, women are always, you know, very meekly hanging out on the peripheral, never saying anything, never being at the center of anything.

00:48:30.040 So this is news. Wow.

00:48:35.500 Of course, the dumbest thing about this, aside from just the principle of it, is the idea that a child growing up in modern America would not already encounter endless stories centered around women.

00:48:46.660 Like, you need to create more.

00:48:49.040 Like, that's not already every movie, almost every show.

00:48:56.100 The idea you have to change a few stories, the few stories that have male protagonists

00:49:00.020 so that your sons never get to have a male, like they could never have one is what you're

00:49:03.720 saying.

00:49:05.260 It's not even like we want to balance it out.

00:49:07.320 You notice.

00:49:08.700 No, it's they're never allowed to encounter a male protagonist.

00:49:13.080 100% of the protagonists must be female.

00:49:16.200 this is like this is flat out abusive she should have her kids taken away she should really have

00:49:25.040 her kids take away and if you think that i'm that i'm exaggerating imagine i hate to to be the guy

00:49:30.980 imagine if the roles were reversed but yeah imagine if it was reversed imagine a male politician

00:49:38.040 now she's not the politician but you know she doesn't know that uh a male politician

00:49:43.180 saying this, but about his daughters.

00:49:49.020 That he changes the stories

00:49:51.000 so that it's always a male protagonist.

00:49:54.480 He forces his daughters to play with male masculine toys

00:49:59.580 so that they become more like boys.

00:50:05.580 Everyone would be saying,

00:50:06.560 this is an abusive house, take the kids away.

00:50:09.200 She should have her kids taken away.

00:50:10.420 this is this is flat out abuse is what it is

00:50:15.780 um and by the way you know these kids growing up with a narcissistic feminist mother

00:50:25.500 who already puts herself at the center of everything i think they know you know they

00:50:30.380 especially know i mean her husband is trying to gear up for a presidential campaign

00:50:35.520 and this woman is all over the place doing interviews trying to put herself at the center

00:50:40.340 of that. Gavin Newsom is taking great pains to pretend to be a reasonable moderate, trying to

00:50:48.740 soften and broaden his appeal, his image. And his wife is in front of cameras every day. Like I

00:50:55.340 forced my sons to play with dolls. I told my sons that the cat in the hat is a girl. So because no

00:51:03.080 hero should ever be a boy. She's out here saying that while Gavin Newsom is trying every day

00:51:09.020 to pretend to be this moderate guy now.

00:51:11.680 And she's just ruining it.

00:51:14.280 I mean, it's great.

00:51:15.260 I'm glad she is in a certain extent,

00:51:16.740 but it is very funny.

00:51:20.180 So this is what her sons are already used to.

00:51:22.100 They have a domineering, narcissistic mother

00:51:24.160 who makes herself the center of everything all the time.

00:51:26.740 Her boys are very aware

00:51:27.880 that women can be the center of attention.

00:51:29.340 It's what they live with every day.

00:51:31.620 And let's go back to the bit about the dolls, right?

00:51:34.360 So she says she gives her sons dolls

00:51:37.380 so that they learn that caretaking is for men just as much as it's for women.

00:51:44.680 So she's trying to turn her sons into like effeminate, weak boys.

00:51:50.320 And like I said, it's abusive.

00:51:52.180 I mean, this is actually abusive.

00:51:54.240 And before anyone, I'm not saying that letting your son play with a doll is abusive.

00:51:59.620 I'm saying forcing them to.

00:52:01.960 Because you're trying to make them feminine, effeminate, weak.

00:52:06.240 That is abuse.

00:52:07.720 That's exactly what she's doing to those boys.

00:52:12.700 And that's what all liberal mothers do, all of them.

00:52:15.300 Their ambition for their sons is that they become weak, soft, effeminate.

00:52:20.280 Now, the good news is that very often it backfires.

00:52:23.260 You know, very often you end up with, what you're going to end up with is a son who's even more radically right-wing than me, you know.

00:52:31.040 And that's often what happens.

00:52:34.340 But, because here's the thing.

00:52:35.620 Jennifer Newsom's premise is obviously totally wrong. She forces her son to play with dolls

00:52:43.020 because she thinks that the dolls make the child feminine, make them into the caretaker types.

00:52:50.700 The reason that girls are feminine and want to be caretakers is that they're given dolls to play

00:52:54.580 with. That's what she thinks. And she has it, of course, completely backwards. It's not that girls

00:52:59.940 are feminine caretakers because they play with dolls. They play with dolls because they're

00:53:04.940 feminine caretakers.

00:53:07.340 This is the nature versus nurture thing that women like Jennifer get completely wrong.

00:53:11.640 They just don't understand it because they have no insight into the human condition.

00:53:15.480 They're totally clueless.

00:53:16.680 Their ideology has overridden everything.

00:53:19.020 They're basically aliens.

00:53:20.380 Someone like Jennifer Newsom is essentially a space alien.

00:53:22.920 She has an alien's understanding of the human species.

00:53:27.480 Even less, a space alien who gets over another galaxy would probably be able to understand

00:53:34.080 males and females of the human species better than this woman does.

00:53:40.920 Doesn't understand anything. Girls are naturally inclined towards being nurturing and

00:53:45.840 maternalistic. They're not socialized that way. That is nature. These days they are socialized

00:53:52.440 away from that. Great pains have to be taken to steer girls away from that, away from what is

00:53:58.640 natural for them, which is the opposite of what you should do. The answer to nature versus nurture

00:54:03.920 is that girls are feminine by nature,

00:54:06.100 boys are masculine by nature,

00:54:07.180 and the nurturing should be intended

00:54:09.800 to help them understand and fully inhabit

00:54:13.340 and embody their natural selves, their nature.

00:54:17.320 The nurturing should be in harnessing

00:54:20.360 what is natural to them.

00:54:24.000 The dolls don't make girls maternalistic and nurturing.

00:54:28.800 They are instead, the dolls are,

00:54:31.620 a really profound and beautiful reflection

00:54:35.500 of what is natural.

00:54:37.820 I mean, I've marveled at this with both of my girls,

00:54:39.860 the fact that they, at such a young age,

00:54:42.700 without being pushed in that direction,

00:54:45.480 we never tell them, oh, you have to play.

00:54:47.180 You're a girl.

00:54:47.960 You have to play with dolls.

00:54:49.320 That's never been said.

00:54:51.400 Like I've said many times,

00:54:52.140 I got started with a boy-girl twins

00:54:54.080 and we had a playroom

00:54:55.920 and we had toys in the playroom.

00:54:58.160 We never said,

00:54:59.540 here's the toys that boys play with.

00:55:01.160 here's the toys. Never said that one time. Don't need to say that. You just kind of unleash these

00:55:07.080 two little kids on the playroom and they immediately gravitate. Boy toys, girl toys.

00:55:14.200 It's a very natural thing. And I've kind of marveled at this, not in a surprise kind of way,

00:55:20.700 but in a finding it a beautiful kind of way that girls at such a young age from toddlerhood

00:55:30.620 and are already trying to sort of inhabit the role of mother.

00:55:37.040 This is how they play from the youngest age.

00:55:39.740 They want to have a baby doll and pretend they're feeding the baby doll

00:55:42.500 and comb the hair and all of it.

00:55:45.500 And boys don't do that naturally.

00:55:48.980 Very rare.

00:55:49.840 It would be a rare exception to have a boy who naturally plays that way.

00:55:54.540 And boys, on the other hand,

00:55:57.020 they're trying to inhabit the role of protector and provider.

00:55:59.440 And so they have no interest in dolls, right?

00:56:02.480 And if you do force them to play with dolls,

00:56:04.780 then they're going to end up,

00:56:05.300 the dolls will end up being locked in mortal combat

00:56:09.320 with the action figures or whatever.

00:56:12.140 The dolls will become combatants, ninjas,

00:56:14.700 because that's how boys are.

00:56:18.440 It's in their nature.

00:56:19.900 What a boy is not going to do on his own

00:56:22.680 is sit for hours and pretend to feed the doll

00:56:27.320 and comb the hair and all of that.

00:56:29.440 boys don't have no interest in that. Girls do. And, uh, it's, it's in their nature.

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00:59:21.440 Okay, let's, before we wrap up, I want to mention this.

00:59:25.260 Somebody named Ellie Slateholm went viral over the last few days with a selfie photo from the Artemis launch.

00:59:33.100 And she showed up to the launch and took this photo of herself watching the launch.

00:59:38.320 And we'll put it on the screen.

00:59:39.640 You can see the rocket in her glasses.

00:59:42.260 so she says Artemis 2 launch caught caught in my glasses reflection right now the reason that this

00:59:48.840 photo went viral it's got what is that almost 30 million views okay is that some people thought it

00:59:54.660 was a cool photo but a bunch of other people pointed out that she's doing the meme she's doing

01:00:00.420 the meme you've probably seen where it's you know the meme is like photographing something you want

01:00:08.400 to show everybody and then you see males and they photograph the object and then females who

01:00:14.280 photograph themselves in front of the object this is kind of the perfect example of that of that

01:00:20.580 meme a lot of people pointed that out so went viral and then there was a backlash and people

01:00:25.220 were saying well that those people are sexist and then they argued back and on and on so this is

01:00:29.920 obviously a worthwhile thing to argue about uh this selfie photo from a random woman at the

01:00:36.440 Artemis launch, obviously worth arguing about. So I just want to get my two cents on it because

01:00:42.900 obviously the selfie thing is out of control. It has been for many years. And a lot of people

01:00:51.060 are pointing out how narcissistic it is that this woman took a picture of herself watching the

01:00:55.980 rocket rather than just taking a picture of the rocket. But that's not really my point because

01:01:00.340 I also don't think there's any reason to take a picture of the rocket.

01:01:03.500 i mean there are a bunch of people there watching the rocket launch and yeah a lot of them were like

01:01:08.680 on their phones getting video of it or taking a picture of it why there will be a thousand high

01:01:16.960 quality photos and videos of the rocket like if you you don't need to take a picture of it

01:01:21.620 they got professional photographers there they got news cameras they got

01:01:25.240 why do you need your own video it's not even going to be as good as the one that they're

01:01:29.300 taking over there. Because I have a different suggestion. And I don't mean to pick on Ellie,

01:01:36.500 I'm sure she's a nice person. And she's just doing what a billion other people do all the time. And

01:01:40.680 not just women, by the way, men do it too. But here's my suggestion. What if everybody just

01:01:47.100 put their phones down every once in a while and experience a moment, like actually experience

01:01:57.400 the moment. Just experience it. What if I don't have a picture of it? No, it's okay.

01:02:05.500 You don't need a picture of it. Did you know that? Did you know you can actually experience

01:02:09.560 something and not have a picture of it? It's not like a waste, okay? It doesn't become a wasted

01:02:15.320 moment because you don't have photographic evidence of it. Where do we get this idea that

01:02:20.300 nothing is real and nothing matters unless you have photographic evidence that it occurred?

01:02:28.340 What kind of way is that to live your life?

01:02:32.120 You're at a rocket launch.

01:02:34.280 History's being made.

01:02:35.120 You'll probably never see anything like this again in your life.

01:02:38.020 Okay, I know they say they're going to go back to the moon in a couple of years,

01:02:40.240 but you might not be at that rocket launch.

01:02:42.560 And even if you are, you're not going to...

01:02:43.940 This was the first launch back to the moon in our lifetime,

01:02:48.480 and you're not going to get another first.

01:02:51.120 So this specific thing will never happen again.

01:02:55.320 And I wish I could have seen it.

01:02:57.400 You know, I, they invited Michael to go see it for some reason, not me. I don't know. I'm not bitter about it. I mean, I am bitter about it for sure, but we won't focus on that. Uh, and in a lot of ways, it's good. They didn't invite me actually, because if I was there, I wouldn't, you know, they would have wanted me to do content or something about it. And I wouldn't want to do any content. I just want to watch it.

01:03:16.780 oh do a selfie video and talk no i don't want to do a selfie i just want to watch it that's all

01:03:21.480 i don't even want i don't that's it i just want to be there for it um and and what about that

01:03:27.160 like you're at the rocket launch just let just instead of trying to get a perfect shot of it

01:03:30.700 or get a shot of yourself watching it what about putting your phone down and being in the moment

01:03:35.680 experiencing it living it experience the full size and scope of the moment and this is why i

01:03:43.380 mean, it's like one of the million reasons why, uh, smartphones are like the worst thing that's

01:03:47.940 ever happened to humanity. I really believe that most people just can't handle having these things,

01:03:55.020 carrying them around everywhere. And now anytime anything happens, any big moment, small moment,

01:04:00.040 moment, life milestone, anything at all, everyone has their phone out documenting it for who exactly?

01:04:06.420 Nobody in the public cares about whatever the thing is, or if they do, it's like a rocket launch.

01:04:11.240 there's already a billion other photos.

01:04:13.540 We don't need yours.

01:04:15.780 Are you documenting it for yourself?

01:04:17.940 Well, okay, fine.

01:04:18.600 But now you're going to go back

01:04:19.640 and reminisce over a moment

01:04:21.620 you never actually experienced fully

01:04:23.840 because you were too busy filming it

01:04:26.220 or taking a picture of it.

01:04:28.200 You experienced this moment

01:04:30.060 through a little box.

01:04:31.500 You're in the world.

01:04:33.820 It's three-dimensional.

01:04:35.340 And you're choosing to experience it

01:04:37.440 like this.

01:04:38.320 or even worse you experience it i mean it really is like you even worse you experience the moment

01:04:46.780 with your back turned to it so that your face can be in it so that you can become the subject

01:04:54.000 of whatever this thing is and what's the point of that again nobody in the public cares about

01:05:01.320 your selfie so what are you doing what's the point are you really going to go back later and

01:05:07.880 just flip through all the pictures of your own face. I always wonder this about people that take

01:05:11.220 selfies. The people that take selfies, you know, they have a million selfies. What do you, what do

01:05:16.580 you, like you've got millions of people walking around with thousands of pictures of their own

01:05:24.280 face in their phone, just walking around with in their pocket, carrying around every second of the

01:05:30.560 day, thousands of pictures of their own face. For what? Do you forget what you look like?

01:05:39.040 We have mirrors, if that's the problem. Are you ever going to really go back? Do you do that?

01:05:44.300 Is that what people do? Do you just like reminisce? You just, yeah, look at my face.

01:05:48.440 Oh, there's my face at the rocket launch. There's my face at dinner that day. There's my face the

01:05:54.220 next morning. There's my face at breakfast. There's my face walking on the sidewalk. There's

01:05:59.760 my face at the baseball game. There's my face. Is that what people do? Is that what you do?

01:06:05.040 Just reminiscing about your own face?

01:06:11.340 The narcissism is out of control. It's like, it's, it's unlike anything our ancestors could

01:06:15.700 have ever conceived. And the cost is that you miss out on your own life because you're so

01:06:20.440 obsessed with documenting it. You know, I still think about it. I think I've shared this before,

01:06:26.700 but and there are a million more recent examples that work but just for whatever reasons always

01:06:31.040 stuck out to me is uh maybe because it was so early in the selfie age uh because in 2011 on

01:06:36.800 my honeymoon we went on a cruise i'll never do that again but uh different subject for another

01:06:42.220 day but we're on a cruise and it's 2011 so this is only a few years into you know smartphones

01:06:47.440 existing and uh we're out on the deck and there's a sunset and it was like the first clear night that

01:06:53.720 we got and cause it was like, had been cloudy and overcast. And, um, anyway, so we're getting our

01:07:00.000 first sunset over the ocean and I'd never seen a sunset over the ocean at that time. So I was there

01:07:06.000 along with like the whole deck was crowded. People just want to see the sun set open. It sets pretty

01:07:09.420 quickly when you're on the water. And of course, you know, every single person on the deck, every

01:07:16.500 single one was experiencing that moment through their phone. They were all just like taking

01:07:23.660 pictures of, they all, they all were, I mean, we're on a deck, we're in the ocean. It's the

01:07:26.960 ocean. We're on this huge ship with a bunch of fat old people. The only people that go on cruises

01:07:33.480 apparently on this ship in the ocean and it's the sun and it's the water. And you're like looking

01:07:40.100 at it like this? And for what? So you can get a picture of a sunset? A picture of a sunset is

01:07:49.440 worthless. We've all seen a zillion photos of sunsets. Who cares about it? I could go on Google

01:07:54.580 right now and pull up instantly the most beautiful sunset ever. It means nothing to me. It's just a

01:08:01.300 picture. The thing itself, to actually be there and see it, that has value. The picture has no value.

01:08:08.960 The thing has infinite value.

01:08:13.360 And you're choosing the picture, the thing that has no value over the thing, over the thing itself.

01:08:20.000 So, I don't know.

01:08:22.660 I just don't get it.

01:08:26.220 There's a Louis C.K. bit, I think, where he talks about being at a, I guess, like a recital or something.

01:08:33.260 And it's the same thing of everybody's just looking at it through their experience through the box.

01:08:37.920 he's talking about. And because they all got to get a video of their daughter in the recital or

01:08:42.840 whatever it was. And it's like, again, who is that for? No one is going to watch a 20 minute

01:08:48.220 video of your kid's recital. I can't think of anything more boring than that. I'm not going to

01:08:52.760 watch that. And I won't even watch a video of my own kid's recital. I'm not going to go back and

01:08:58.260 watch a video. It's like a year from now. I'm not going to sit there and watch a 20 minute video of

01:09:03.800 a recital. But in the moment, I just want to be in the moment. In the moment, it has meaning.

01:09:07.920 so just put the put the phones down and experience the moment it's i have this conversation my wife

01:09:17.920 every year at this time actually uh because and my wife is not an obsessive selfie taker at all

01:09:22.440 or even you know a a heavy picture taker in general by woman's standards anyway so she's

01:09:28.620 pretty moderate with that stuff which i appreciate but we have this running theme in our family every

01:09:32.840 easter which i think a lot of families have especially if you have a lot of kids and they're

01:09:36.940 younger, where my wife wants to get an Easter photo of the kids in their nice outfits before

01:09:42.160 we go to church. And it's got to be before we go to church, because we all know that

01:09:46.060 you put the nice outfits on and those out, it's not going to last. The outfits are going to look

01:09:51.860 nice for about, you have a five minute window where the outfits look nice. And she really

01:09:58.620 wants to get this photo every year, which is fine. It makes sense. But every year the photo

01:10:02.720 is ruined, she thinks, because like a kid is crying or they spill juice on themselves. Somehow

01:10:07.000 no one even gave them juice. They just had juice. They spill on themselves. And, um, and, and then

01:10:12.760 we do, we try to do the photo and it's just like, it's, and yes, yesterday was the closest we ever

01:10:18.000 got to a good Easter photo. We still had one kid crying in it, but we had five out of six were

01:10:24.320 smiling and looked basically put together. And that's the best we've ever done. But still 12

01:10:30.620 Easter's in a row. My wife still has not gotten the nice, smiling, clean, crisp Easter photo she

01:10:36.760 wants. Maybe next year we'll go for our 13th try. But my point always is, hey, look, the crying kid,

01:10:43.820 the messy kid, the kid with juice on her dress, whatever it is, that's what this moment actually

01:10:47.960 is. That's what this time in our life actually is. That's the truth of it.

01:10:54.160 So the photos that my wife thinks didn't work, I think are good because they're honest.

01:11:00.620 To me, they do the thing that a photo like this should do, which is that if I look back on them

01:11:06.500 in the future, I'll remember what it actually was like, what really happened. And I'll remember

01:11:11.720 the truth of it. If we had a clean, smiling, perfect Easter photo of all of our kids, then

01:11:17.260 20 years from now, when I look at that photo, I'll remember the moment as the photo tells it,

01:11:22.400 which is not true, which is not fully honest. It's not real. And I don't want that. And that's

01:11:30.040 usually why I don't want photos at all. Like just give me the moment, just the moment. I don't want

01:11:33.800 some dressed up photo. It's not real. It doesn't reflect what had really happened. With all that

01:11:39.700 said, there are times when obsessive picture taking is justified and that's mainly when

01:11:44.080 you're fishing. So I will say that. My phone is full of pictures of fish and I have more pictures

01:11:52.580 of fish than my own kids, like by a huge, by a huge margin. It's like 10 to one fish to kids

01:11:59.380 in my phone. And that's different. That is different. That that's okay. That's the kind

01:12:05.380 of obsessive documenting that's okay. Cause it's what I do. And, uh, and I do go back and look at

01:12:11.040 my fish pictures and reminisce. I scroll through my phone like fish, fish. I'm reminiscing. Oh,

01:12:16.960 there's my kid. Scroll past that. I remember when I caught that fish. So there's exceptions to every

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