The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 606 - When A Society Gives Up On Educating Its Children

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, schools across the country are shutting down again. Many of them

00:00:04.320 still have never opened in the first place. It's clear that the people running the education

00:00:08.520 system, to include the teachers unions especially in fact, don't really care that much about

00:00:13.520 education. So where does that leave us? Also five headlines including a bombshell study

00:00:17.100 which seems to vindicate the anti-maskers. We were told they're anti-science, maybe not so much. Plus

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00:02:34.220 call 800-651-1148 and use promo code dailywire. Well, a parent of a child in the Seattle public

00:02:45.000 school system tweeted that her daughter's language arts class was canceled on Monday because the

00:02:50.140 teacher was quote, living in the forest and unable to find an adequate internet connection

00:02:55.040 to conduct the lesson remotely. Now, as, as, as funny, as funny as the living in the forest

00:03:00.060 excuse to get out of work may seem, and as much as I lament not using the same excuse when I was

00:03:05.360 working remotely for the daily wire before coming to Nashville, this speaks to a reality. That's

00:03:10.620 actually not very funny at all. That is that the matter of educating children has become an

00:03:16.180 afterthought, a sideshow, something that a teacher can do while living in the forest, unless the

00:03:21.660 internet goes out, in which case, well, I guess the kids don't need to hear about language arts that

00:03:25.220 day. Schools across the country, of course, shut down in mass last year in response to the

00:03:30.520 coronavirus. This, in spite of the fact that we knew very early on, in fact, there was one of the

00:03:34.900 first data points we all knew reliably that children are not likely carriers, contractors,

00:03:40.960 or spreaders of the disease. Um, there was never any solid data-driven reason to shut down the schools.

00:03:47.100 There especially isn't one now, as we have months of evidence showing that schools are among the least

00:03:54.020 dangerous places, the least infectious places. There's also plenty of evidence that the alternative

00:03:59.740 to open schools, uh, remote learning is a disaster. The other law, the other alternative homeschooling

00:04:07.580 is preferable to both. But the fact is that millions upon millions of children have been stuck

00:04:12.720 with remote learning for months now. And there is little reason to think that they're benefiting at

00:04:18.620 all from it. And now, just as schools had started to open up again for in-person learning,

00:04:24.640 many are reverting back to the charade of online learning instead. Just yesterday, New York Mayor

00:04:29.440 Bill de Blasio announced that, um, New York schools would be shutting down once again. They joined schools

00:04:35.100 in Pittsburgh, Michigan, many other places in closing down again after sort of reopening. Here's

00:04:41.220 de Blasio making an announcement and pay attention to the reason that he gives. Listen to this.

00:04:45.400 Unfortunately, as of today, on our seven-day rolling average for coronavirus positivity, New York City

00:04:51.300 has hit exactly 3.0 percent. And as a result, we do need to close our schools for the coming days.

00:05:00.280 Uh, no one is happy about this decision. We all, in fact, are feeling very sad about this decision

00:05:06.980 because so much good work has been put into keeping the schools open, opening them up to begin with.

00:05:12.960 Let's start there, opening the schools when almost no other major school system in America opened,

00:05:17.420 making them so safe. But we set a very clear standard, and we need to stick to that standard.

00:05:24.760 And I want to emphasize to parents, to educators, to staff, to kids, that we intend to come back and

00:05:31.060 come back as quickly as possible. We are working right now with the state of New York, and that was a

00:05:35.820 lot of what we talked about this morning. I had a number of conversations with the governor,

00:05:39.400 and our teams have been talking throughout the morning on exactly what it would take to come back

00:05:43.940 and bring our schools back quickly, and it will be a higher standard. I want that to be clear. We

00:05:47.720 have a stringent health and safety standard right now. We're going to have to raise that up even

00:05:51.720 higher. Three percent positivity in the whole city. This means that the schools have to shut down. Why?

00:05:59.380 Why should the schools shut down because the magical 3.0% threshold has been crossed? Well,

00:06:07.080 because like 10 p.m. curfews and 10-person limits at Thanksgiving and six feet between people,

00:06:13.180 the number was chosen arbitrarily. And after being chosen arbitrarily, it became gospel,

00:06:18.600 as if there was ever something solid behind it. In this case specifically, behind the three percent

00:06:23.720 number is a deal that was struck with the teachers' unit, a deal it would seem was chosen because New

00:06:32.160 York was certain to hit it. It's like they wanted to choose a threshold that they would hit so that

00:06:38.220 the schools could be shut down again. We've learned during the pandemic what we already knew, that

00:06:42.860 teachers' unions hate nothing so much as educating children. They are enemies of education, enemies of

00:06:49.720 children, and their goal is to make things as hard as possible on children especially. This is why

00:06:57.360 teachers' unions should be forcibly abolished and outlawed in my view, but that's a discussion for

00:07:01.080 another time. Now, you may wonder, what's the positivity rate in New York for schools? I mean,

00:07:07.660 who cares about positivity in the whole city? What about schools? Are kids getting sick left and right

00:07:13.600 in school? Is that why they shut it down? Well, no. A New York Times article has the school

00:07:18.800 positivity rate at, get this, 0.17 percent. Not 1.7, 0.17. The highest estimate I've read is 0.23 percent.

00:07:30.480 So take whichever you like, split the difference, whatever it is. The point is, it's very, very low.

00:07:36.480 And if a fraction of a percent of positivity for COVID can shut down the schools,

00:07:41.060 then why is any school anywhere ever open during flu season? Flu is, we all know this now,

00:07:47.980 more dangerous for children. And I'm willing to bet that plenty of schools match or exceed the 0.23

00:07:55.140 percent during flu season for the infection rate. So this is just nonsense. But don't expect any

00:08:03.400 decision maker in charge to make any sense of the nonsense. Governor Cuomo was pressed on school

00:08:08.660 closures during a press conference. And here's what he had to say about it. He didn't really want to

00:08:13.080 talk about it, but this is what we got out of him. What are you talking about? How, what are you

00:08:18.620 talking about? You're now going to override. We did it already. That's the law. An orange zone and a red

00:08:26.600 zone. Follow the facts. I'm still confused. Well, then you're confused. I'm confused. Then I'll tell you

00:08:32.840 what you mean. Parents are still confused as well. They're not confused. You're confused. No, I think

00:08:39.060 parents are very confused as well. Read the law and you won't be confused. He's an absolute clown.

00:08:44.740 Worst of all, he's an obnoxious clown, which I suppose all clowns are by definition. There is no 1.00

00:08:49.700 science behind this. There's no good reason to do it. And yet it's being done. That is the theme of the

00:08:56.520 last many months. No reason to do it, but we're going to do it anyway. So taking a step back and

00:09:02.540 widening the lens, what we see is that American society in effect has given up on educating

00:09:09.480 children. It got scared of a virus and gave up on education. It is one of the most shameful and

00:09:16.320 cowardly things I have ever seen. Now, as I've argued before, if this pushes families towards

00:09:23.380 homeschooling, that will ultimately be a net positive for the kids and for society in general,

00:09:28.020 but most kids are not being homeschooled. And in fairness, not all families can homeschool.

00:09:34.900 There are many families who think they can't, but actually can if they prioritize around it, but

00:09:39.660 that doesn't mean that every family can. So for millions of children, they in effect have not had

00:09:45.060 an education since like last April. There are millions of kids who right now are not in school

00:09:51.980 and haven't been in school since the middle of the spring and sitting there looking at a computer

00:09:57.100 for a few hours a day. That doesn't count as being in school. And this deprivation in the name of

00:10:02.620 keeping ourselves safe, that's the thing. This is keeping ourselves safe, not our children who aren't at

00:10:08.100 much risk from coronavirus. This is about keeping us safe. We've shut down education and stopped

00:10:13.620 educating kids because we're scared that we will get sick. It is, as I said, an act of collective

00:10:21.020 cowardice, possibly unmatched in American history. And I don't even think that's hyperbole.

00:10:26.520 Consider the psychological impact this must be having on children. I mean, not just the psychological

00:10:31.300 impact of not receiving a real education, but also of seeing as a child that education is not a

00:10:38.140 serious priority of those tasked with providing it to you. See, I can remember when I was in

00:10:43.500 school. I always felt like it was extremely important to all the adults around me that I

00:10:49.580 go to school and learn. I always, it always seemed like that to me, no matter what, you know, they

00:10:54.700 would send us to school. And if they did shut us down for snow or for some other reason, uh, we had

00:11:00.380 to make up that time later. I always felt like the school treated school as an utterly crucial thing.

00:11:08.800 I wasn't happy about this. I should add at the time as a kid, um, I would have much preferred

00:11:15.080 having teachers who moved to the forest and canceled class. I would have loved that. I would have loved

00:11:19.740 remote learning too. That's how, this is how I know remote, remote learning is a bad idea. It's because

00:11:24.120 when I was a kid, I would have loved it, but I would have loved it for all the wrong reasons.

00:11:29.020 So a lot of kids today, um, they may not be right now upset that the schools don't care about school,

00:11:37.940 but this is enormously harmful in the long run. And we, as the adults are supposed to be the ones

00:11:43.520 with the foresight to see that. Now I say all this, but I don't want to give the impression that the

00:11:48.520 school system was doing, you know, a good job of educating children before all of this. It wasn't.

00:11:54.080 And frankly, a great many of the kids just went from not learning in person to not learning remotely.

00:12:00.620 And in those cases, not much change really. But what we're seeing now are these school systems

00:12:05.480 not even trying to teach the kids. They're not even pretending that education is a priority.

00:12:12.700 Education has been officially deemed across the nation, non-essential. And the people who deemed it

00:12:19.880 such always felt that way about it. Now they're letting the mask slip a little bit, at least that

00:12:25.780 mask, the other mask, the cloth, the cloth mask is still firmly affixed to their faces. So let's keep

00:12:31.920 this in mind going forward, uh, because eventually the schools will be open again someday, but we now

00:12:38.180 know for certain how the people who run the schools really feel about it and how much they really care

00:12:44.960 about education, which is not at all. And we should never forget that. Let's get to, uh, our five

00:12:52.640 headlines. Okay. Let me read this to you from the New York times. It says researchers in Denmark

00:13:02.400 reported on Wednesday that surgical masks did not protect the wearers against infection with the

00:13:07.740 coronavirus in a large randomized clinical trial. The study was published in the annals of internal

00:13:13.740 medicine did not contradict growing evidence that masks can prevent transmission of the virus from

00:13:18.600 wearer to others. But the conclusion is at odds with the view that masks also protect the wearers,

00:13:24.040 a position endorsed just last week by the CDC. Uh, critics were quick to note the study's

00:13:28.820 limitations among them that the findings depended heavily on participants reporting their own test

00:13:33.160 results and behavior at a time when both mask wearing and infection were rare in Denmark.

00:13:37.960 Um, then it goes on and says, here's how the study was conducted from early April to early

00:13:43.680 June. Researchers at the university of Copenhagen recruited about 6,000 participants who had been

00:13:48.560 tested beforehand to be sure that they were not infected with the coronavirus. Half were given

00:13:52.460 surgical masks and told to wear them when leaving their homes. The others were told not to wear masks

00:13:58.040 in public. At that time, 2% of the Danish population was infected, a rate lower than in many places in the

00:14:04.800 U.S. and Europe today. Um, social distancing and frequent hand washing were common, but masks were

00:14:10.440 not. About 4,860 participants completed the study. The researchers had hoped that the masks would cut

00:14:17.360 the infection rate by half among wearers. Instead, 42 people in the mask group or 1.8% got infected

00:14:24.800 compared with 53 in the unmasked group or 2.1%. The difference was not statistically significant.

00:14:32.860 Dr. Hennon, uh, Bungard, lead author of the study said, our study gives indication of how much you gain

00:14:39.880 from wearing a mask. He concludes, not a lot. So, I mean, this is science here. This is, this is probably

00:14:49.780 from, from, from, as far as I'm aware, this is the most extensive study of its kind that's been done

00:14:55.720 on mask usage as it relates specifically to the coronavirus. Um, so this is some of the best

00:15:02.240 science we're going to find. Yeah. No study is perfect. And so you can, you could poke holes in it,

00:15:06.900 so to speak. Um, but this is, this is evidence in the column that wearing a mask isn't going to help you

00:15:16.340 that much. Now you could say, well, you should still wear it from other people, but now you have

00:15:22.460 to ask the question. So if, if what, let's say if masks aren't doing anything for you, and the thing

00:15:28.120 is, uh, as much as we say, oh, you know, you're wearing the mask for others, that's not really why

00:15:33.580 people are wearing it though. I don't, I don't think that's really psychologically. I don't think

00:15:37.280 that's why people are wearing it. I think people are wearing it because it makes them feel safe.

00:15:40.940 Yeah. They might also be concerned about others, but they're the real reason people are wearing it

00:15:45.920 is because it makes them feel safe. Especially when you see someone wearing a mask, walking down

00:15:51.540 the street or in their car by themselves, who are they, who are they trying to protect? No,

00:15:57.220 they're doing it because it makes them feel safe. And there's good evidence now that that is a false

00:16:03.440 sense of security, which is, which is, um, which is bad because it's, it's, it's, it's false,

00:16:11.220 but also it's, it's dangerous. I would think you don't want to give people a false sense of

00:16:15.540 security. You want them to have a, um, you know, you want them to have a reasonable idea,

00:16:21.660 an accurate idea of how much risk there really is for them. Um, but now you have to ask, okay,

00:16:28.880 so if the mask, if let's say the mask doesn't protect you at all or hardly at all, not a lot

00:16:34.360 as the author of the study says. So then let's say mass not gonna protect you. Uh, and let's say

00:16:41.200 you're a, you know, a young, a younger, healthy person, you're not symptomatic. You don't have

00:16:45.780 coronavirus as far as, you know, uh, you have no symptoms at all and you're going out in public

00:16:50.760 and okay. You're social distancing. And if you have to cough, you cough into your sleeve. I mean,

00:16:57.640 like since why can't people do that anymore? Why is that enough? If, why do you need the mask?

00:17:05.800 If you're following those protocols, social distancing, if you have to cough, you cough into your sleeve.

00:17:10.540 If you're not symptomatic, what's the point of the mask then in that case, what purpose is it

00:17:18.320 really serving? That's the question. Um, okay. Now for a little bit of sanity, here's governor

00:17:24.300 gnome of South Dakota, as so many other governors are going into lockdown, shutting down schools,

00:17:29.720 mask mandates, so on and so forth. Here she is giving her philosophy, um, of how she's handling it

00:17:36.820 going forward and how she has handled it up to now. This is what she has to say.

00:17:40.640 I don't want to approach a policy or a mandate just looking to make people feel good. I want to do

00:17:48.760 good and actually put forward provisions that make a difference for families. And these local

00:17:53.920 communities have some flexibility today that Sioux Falls can make a different decision than Rapid City.

00:17:59.520 Rapid City can make a different decision than Lemon, South Dakota. Watertown can make a different

00:18:03.860 decision than pure. And, and that's what some of these local leaders are doing in, in reacting to

00:18:09.320 the people in the community based on what they want. She says, I don't want a policy just to make

00:18:13.140 people feel good. It sounds good to me. That's a, that's, that's exactly the right attitude. And then

00:18:19.540 she, and then she clarifies that she's not stopping local towns from having their own ordinances. 0.96

00:18:27.640 If a local town city wants to have its own, uh, policy, they can do that.

00:18:33.860 She's not going to impose something on everyone. That to me seems like the reasonable and correct

00:18:39.860 approach here. Uh, so governor Nome continues to acquit herself. Well, during this, uh, during this

00:18:46.260 crisis, number three, in case you were wondering if the media would ever, you know, be able to

00:18:50.680 embarrass itself any more than it already has. Can it be more embarrassing than it's already been?

00:18:56.240 Well, here's your answer. This is a headline in the daily mail. Here's the headline. This is real.

00:19:01.220 So it says Ivanka Trump blamed a fart on her classmates when she was a bratty teenager 0.77

00:19:07.220 and creepy Donald commented on her friend's weight, according to a former best friend.

00:19:13.280 So this is Lysandra Ostrom, who was a friends with Ivanka Trump back in their youth. She says that

00:19:19.660 Ivanka was nice and charming, you know, a nice girl. Ivanka never did anything to her really,

00:19:24.700 except the fart perhaps. And yet Ostrom has decided to stab her old friend in the back in broad daylight.

00:19:29.900 And she wrote this expose, this blog post or whatever it is, listing all of the terrible

00:19:35.120 things that Ivanka did. The only problem is they're all pretty much along the lines of

00:19:39.900 farting in class. So here's more from the article. It says, um, goes on for a while. And then it says,

00:19:46.440 Ivanka also allegedly said, since when can a teacher afford a BMW and quote, why is a police officer

00:19:52.600 living in a house like that while the pair were watching movies claiming they would not be able to

00:19:56.700 afford them in real life? Well, Lysandra says that Ivanka also coaxed other girls into bad behavior, 1.00

00:20:02.480 including flashing their breasts at the quote, hot dog man from the windows of their school,

00:20:06.740 then talked her way out of trouble when they were caught. Uh, and then she says,

00:20:10.760 one of the earliest memories I have of Ivanka from before we were friends is when she blamed a

00:20:15.440 fart on a classmate. Then there's, there's other stuff here too, that also sounds basically just made

00:20:20.700 up. Um, Lysandra also said that Ivanka told her that she quote, hated a necklace she wore with her 0.61

00:20:25.940 name in Arabic and once said to her, how does your Jewish boyfriend feel when you're having sex and 0.99

00:20:31.300 that necklace hits him in the face? How can you wear that thing? It just screams terrorist. 0.98

00:20:36.940 So that sounds made up to me, but later on in the article, she acknowledges that Ivanka

00:20:40.460 is, uh, was generous, has been generous to her. They've maintained a cordial relationship until now.

00:20:46.680 And this is how she repays the generosity. Similar to, uh, Melania Trump's friend who was

00:20:55.600 secretly recording her for, you know, months on end and then released the recordings to the, uh,

00:21:01.100 to the media. But once again, we have this effect. So we've seen now close confidants of Melania

00:21:10.300 Trump, Donald Trump, uh, and now Ivanka Trump come forward, like spilling the beans and none of them

00:21:20.340 have anything. It's actually shocking how clean the Trump's actually are. Apparently I would have

00:21:26.520 assumed just based on the fact I, uh, I would assume about pretty much any politician that if

00:21:31.680 their closest confidants and friends, old friends come forward and tell everything they've ever known

00:21:38.180 about the person, you know, spilling all of the beans, I would assume that there'd be some juicy

00:21:42.760 tidbits in there about pretty much any politician or almost any person forget about politician,

00:21:48.960 but, um, that's not been the case with the Trump's is they've been stabbed in the back by people

00:21:55.920 closest to them, including, including secret recordings. There isn't one here. As far as we know,

00:21:59.920 maybe eventually there will be a secret recording that comes out of the, of the, uh,

00:22:03.920 of the fart, who knows, but with, with, uh, Melania and, and Donald Trump secret recordings,

00:22:10.500 nothing much on them. Pretty surprising, but listen, uh, you might want to consider

00:22:17.560 that if there is someone that you've been friends with since childhood and they've always been generous

00:22:25.020 to you and they were nice and charming and you've had a cordial relationship and then you're going to

00:22:31.580 the media to try to destroy them. Even if all you have is a fart in fourth grade or whatever,

00:22:37.340 you might want to consider that you're the bad guy. Just a thought. Number four, BBC has a report here

00:22:42.980 about how working from home can make you racist. And this really shouldn't be a revelation because

00:22:49.300 everything makes you racist. Of course, if there's a thing in existence that hasn't yet been accused

00:22:54.800 of being racist or causing racism, it's only because they haven't gotten around to it yet.

00:23:00.060 They're just sort of methodically going through and covering every single thing in existence.

00:23:06.100 So it'll take them time to hit everything. So eventually we'll get reports like why Europa

00:23:11.260 is the most racist moon of Jupiter. And I don't know, something like why eating omelets turns you

00:23:18.320 into a white supremacist. We'll get to all of that. But for now there's this, uh, it says widespread

00:23:23.640 working from home could lead to an increase in racism and prejudice, a new report warns.

00:23:30.000 Workplace friendships are key to breaking down misconceptions. According to the England and

00:23:34.840 Wales study from the Wolf Institute, Institute founder Ed Kessler said, as more people work

00:23:39.640 from home, they risk going back into isolated silos. He called on ministers to focus on offices

00:23:45.720 and workplaces as a vital area for improving community relations. Um, let's see. It says the

00:23:52.140 study suggests that of those who work in shared offices, three quarters, 76%, regardless of

00:23:57.840 ethnicity, we're in a setting that is ethnically diverse. However, it suggests that unemployed people

00:24:03.060 are 37% more likely to only have friends from their own ethnic group. And it warns that without

00:24:09.420 alternative settings to offices being set up opportunities for social mixing between different

00:24:14.240 religious and ethnic groups will be greatly reduced. Well, there's an obvious solution 1.00

00:24:19.500 here. Um, affirmative action for the home. Every home should be required to have at least 0.99

00:24:26.640 one non-white person in it. Of course, it's also racist. Now you think, okay, if that's the

00:24:33.760 requirement, then there's an obvious way to make that happen. But no, we've also learned

00:24:39.060 it's racist for a white person to adopt a non-white person. We learned that about Amy Coney Barrett. 0.99

00:24:43.300 Of course, uh, it became racist with her when, because of her. So we're gonna have to figure

00:24:48.820 out some other way around this. Maybe white families could pay a non-white person to stay 0.97

00:24:55.480 in their home, kind of like renting a room out like Airbnb, except the homeowner is now paying

00:25:00.900 for the privilege of someone staying in their house just to keep the racism in check. This could be a

00:25:08.220 whole industry. I've just come up with here. This could work. Who's that woman who, uh, white, 1.00

00:25:13.280 white people pay her to come to dinner so that she can scream at them and call them racist. Who's that 1.00

00:25:18.860 woman that does that? This, this is, and that's, you know, that, that that's working out well for 0.99

00:25:24.000 her. Very profitable. So maybe this could be a, another business she starts, but really this just

00:25:28.400 shows you this, this of course shows you, uh, how the left feels about family. There's a reason

00:25:34.120 that BLM wants to destroy the nuclear family by its own emission because they're, they are suspicious

00:25:39.400 of families. They see people behind closed doors with their own family groups. The left feels

00:25:47.600 uncomfortable with that because they have no control over it and they don't want people in

00:25:52.620 their own families coming up with their own ideas, forming their own value systems. It's very,

00:25:57.440 suspicious of that. Um, all right, number five, finally in, in more creepy Japanese robot news

00:26:06.020 yesterday, we had the, uh, severed robotic hand that Japanese dudes are walking around holding 1.00

00:26:10.740 because it feels like a girlfriend. We had that yesterday. Uh, it feels like a girlfriend. If you

00:26:14.980 happen to be dating the Terminator, now we have Robovi and you can see him here. He's a robot who goes

00:26:21.600 around and I guess stores, some stores in Japan have this, this robot and he goes around telling

00:26:28.140 you to socially distance and wear your masks. He's just reminding you. And if you don't comply,

00:26:34.280 it will immediately incinerate you. Actually, no, it just whines. It whines at you. If you don't

00:26:39.600 comply, I continue to be disappointed by the robot technology, um, in existence right now. Like we're in

00:26:45.940 the middle of, of this actual real life dystopia with governments shutting down society and now

00:26:52.780 they're using robots, but the robots don't shoot lasers at you or anything. They just annoy the

00:26:58.200 hell out of you. That's what we get from, from robots. But Hey, it's a step in the right direction.

00:27:04.460 Finally, uh, we're going to get to our daily cancellation just a second, but before we do,

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00:29:02.300 replace the legacy media with the daily wire. You won't regret it. Now time for our daily

00:29:07.380 cancellation today for our daily cancellation. We need to have a very important conversation about

00:29:12.000 hallway etiquette. Now that I'm working here in the office, I expect that this is an issue that

00:29:17.020 will arise frequently as it does in any workplace. So I'm issuing a preemptive cancellation of everyone

00:29:22.900 who violates the rules of hallway etiquette, etiquette. Everyone here at the daily wire understands

00:29:27.500 that if they are canceled by me or violate one of my rules, they must immediately resign.

00:29:33.460 This I'm pretty sure is written in the employee handbook. At least it's written in mine because I

00:29:37.760 added it in crayon. Now, as everyone knows, passing by another human being in a hallway is a daunting

00:29:44.580 challenge. The problem is that as you both approach each other, you must time your greeting for exactly

00:29:50.700 the right moment or else immense awkwardness ensues. If you're still 20 paces apart and you say hello at

00:29:57.460 that point, then you have to walk the remaining steps having already issued your greeting. You

00:30:02.260 can't very well greet each other and then have 15 seconds of silence as you complete your walk past

00:30:06.220 one another. It would be akin to, you know, making brief small talk on an elevator and then saying

00:30:11.280 bye to the person when you both still have 10 floors left to climb. So you say, all right, well,

00:30:16.120 good talking to you. See you later. Then you're both just standing there for another 30 seconds.

00:30:20.700 We're talking nuclear levels of awkwardness. What this means is that if you fire your greeting

00:30:25.340 round too early in the walk past somebody in the hallway, when you're both still say 15 seconds apart,

00:30:30.120 you must then have precisely 15 seconds of small talk to fill the gap. But if the small talk goes on

00:30:36.420 too long, or if one of you said something that requires a longer answer, now you'll end up stopping

00:30:42.000 and having a stop in chat, which is exactly what you both want to avoid. That's what this

00:30:46.000 what's at stake here. If you get it wrong, you may be stuck having, God forbid, a full-on

00:30:51.000 conversation. Nobody wants that. The key then is to wait to acknowledge the other person until you

00:30:56.260 are exactly four paces apart. In order to achieve this, you must make sure to avoid eye contact until

00:31:02.740 precisely the moment when you hit the four-pace threshold. You could accomplish this by looking

00:31:08.320 down at your phone, looking up at the ceiling, staring straight ahead, noticing a smudge on your

00:31:13.000 shoe. I have a tendency of noticing lint on my sleeve. Whenever I'm in a hallway with someone,

00:31:17.860 I'll brush at the lint until we hit four paces. And then I look up and I say, oh, hey, how are you?

00:31:22.260 To which they can respond, great, how are you? And I can say, great, great. Then I go back to the lint

00:31:27.300 for about half a beat to sell the ruse. Boom, four paces have been completed. And I have succeeded in

00:31:32.920 passing by the person without having a meaningful or extended interaction, which again is the whole

00:31:37.240 objective. Now, on occasion, you may run into someone who throws this plan for a loop because

00:31:41.840 when you say, hey, how are you? They actually have the audacity to answer the question honestly,

00:31:47.160 actually telling you how they are as if you wanted to know, thereby sucking you into a vortex of

00:31:52.340 conversation that it may take minutes to extricate yourself from. Not much you can do about

00:31:57.120 psychopaths like this except avoid them at all costs. One additional tip. If you really want to avoid

00:32:03.080 talking to people in hallways or making eye contact, one thing you could try doing is walking backwards

00:32:08.480 through the hallway. This will have the added benefit of not only avoiding eye contact and

00:32:13.380 conversation in hallways, but probably in general too, because your coworkers will think you're a weird

00:32:17.480 freak. Of course, this can backfire if the other person is also walking backwards. So you might try

00:32:23.000 somersaulting through the hallways. That's something the other person has to jump over you. But again, it

00:32:27.100 avoids conversation with coworkers, especially after you get fired. One other wrinkle to explore here

00:32:32.600 briefly. What happens when you're out, say, at the grocery store and you pass by an acquaintance

00:32:37.500 in like the condiment aisle? Well, you follow the four pace rules as discussed, simple enough. But many

00:32:43.900 of us have been in the crisis situation where you pass by the same person again in the pasta aisle.

00:32:50.640 You can't use the, hey, how are you line? Because it's already been asked and answered. Now you have to

00:32:55.000 make a brief joke about the fact that you already saw them. Maybe something like long time, no see,

00:32:58.940 or something similar. If you pass by them a third time, you could probably get away with a, hey,

00:33:04.420 stop stalking me. But there cannot be a fourth time. Under no circumstance can you allow yourself

00:33:09.780 to pass the person a fourth time. If you end up in the same aisle as them a fourth time, you have no

00:33:14.780 choice but to drop your groceries, run in the other direction, change your name, move to Mexico.

00:33:21.080 These are the rules of passing people in hallways or aisles. It's very complicated,

00:33:26.140 but they must be strictly observed. All who fail in such observances are, of course,

00:33:33.060 canceled. That's going to do it for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

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00:34:23.180 Orwellian. A Danish study shows that masks don't protect wearers from the virus,

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The Matt Walsh Show - November 19, 2020

Ep. 606 - When A Society Gives Up On Educating Its Children

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