The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 690 - Sacrificing A Goat For Racial Justice

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, as the Derek Chauvin trial continues, we'll try to sort through all of the issues related to George Floyd's death.

00:00:06.820 Was he actually murdered? Did it have anything to do with race? And however he died, does he deserve to be memorialized and celebrated nationwide?

00:00:14.060 These are three separate questions that all need to be dealt with separately.

00:00:17.220 Also, five headlines, including another vicious anti-Asian assault that's being blamed on white supremacy, even though it wasn't carried out by a white person.

00:00:24.960 Small technicality there. Plus, YouTube makes a move to protect the feelings of YouTube creators like myself.

00:00:31.280 And I really appreciate that because my feelings are fragile. And AOC says you're racist if you use the term border surge.

00:00:37.760 All of that, plus our daily cancellation and much more today on The Matt Wall Show.

00:00:48.660 Centuries from now, as archaeologists of the future sift through the rubble of our collapsed civilization,

00:00:54.240 I wonder what they'll think when they uncover all the statues, memorials, murals to an ancient historical figure named George Floyd.

00:01:02.040 If they're very perceptive, they may even note that hundreds of monuments to other figures were torn down around the time that Floyd's monuments went up,

00:01:08.840 sometimes the latter directly replacing the former.

00:01:12.000 They'll conclude, I imagine, that Floyd was some kind of history-shaping leader, pioneer, hero.

00:01:18.240 They'll think he was a great man, perhaps one of the greatest men to ever live.

00:01:21.800 This assumption will be understandable, given the evidence, yet totally wrong.

00:01:27.340 George Floyd, we know, was not a great man, or a good man, or even a passively decent man.

00:01:32.320 He was a violent felon and a drug addict, celebrated as a martyr, based entirely on the manner of his death,

00:01:38.420 which, whatever else you might think about it, was not exactly heroic itself.

00:01:43.080 The conversation around this man, especially now that the trial of the cop charge and his death has begun,

00:01:49.340 and will drag on probably for weeks,

00:01:51.100 that conversation is hopelessly convoluted.

00:01:54.560 There are really three separate conversations that have, since last May, been blended together as one.

00:02:01.900 There's the conversation about the manner of Floyd's death.

00:02:04.820 Was he murdered by Derek Chauvin?

00:02:07.060 And the conversation about Floyd's race and how it related to his death.

00:02:10.440 If he was murdered, was it racially motivated?

00:02:12.600 And the conversation about Floyd's posthumous elevation to the status of folk hero.

00:02:18.560 Whether he was murdered or not, whether it was racially motivated or not,

00:02:22.560 is it good for us to celebrate this man and plaster his face all over our cities in his memory?

00:02:27.860 For the media and the left, this is all one discussion with only one acceptable point of view.

00:02:34.820 Yes, Floyd was murdered.

00:02:36.400 Yes, he was the victim of racism.

00:02:37.820 And yes, he should be mourned and honored by all people everywhere through all time.

00:02:42.640 To them, the final two propositions flow automatically from the first.

00:02:46.800 If you ask them, you know, why we should honor George Floyd, they'll say, well, because he was murdered by a police officer.

00:02:52.860 If you ask them how they know he was the victim of racism, they'll say, well, it's because he was murdered by a police officer.

00:02:59.080 If you ask them how they know he was murdered by a police officer, they'll just spit in your face and refuse to dignify the question with an answer.

00:03:06.780 This is why you cannot criticize the hero worship of George Floyd without being accused of defending the officer who allegedly killed him.

00:03:15.580 They don't see a distinction between his death and the hero worship.

00:03:19.640 It's all part of a package.

00:03:20.820 You're required to believe that Floyd was murdered and that it was because of racism and that he deserves to be honored in death in the way that we honor civil rights pioneers and war heroes.

00:03:33.140 To stray from that narrative on any one of those points is to reject them all.

00:03:39.060 Now, of course, in reality, you might really reject them all and there's nothing wrong with that.

00:03:43.700 So it'll send the left into hysterics.

00:03:45.840 Who cares?

00:03:46.760 But the point is that one need not reject them all in order to reject one.

00:03:51.460 We're two of them.

00:03:52.800 These are, again, different conversations, different points of contention, different things entirely.

00:03:59.000 As to my own view, I think it is going to be very difficult to prove that George Floyd was murdered,

00:04:03.460 given the fact that he had chosen to put lethal doses of a dangerous narcotic into his system before he died.

00:04:08.760 Floyd, if he had not taken those drugs and then resisted arrest, resisted, we should note, repeatedly and frantically over the course of several minutes, he would most likely be alive today.

00:04:18.680 Floyd was also complaining that he couldn't breathe before he was on the ground and restrained.

00:04:22.180 The prosecution will have to prove not only that Chauvin's actions were negligently homicidal, but that Floyd died from those actions and not from the drugs.

00:04:32.600 They haven't proved it yet.

00:04:34.100 We'll see if they can.

00:04:35.080 Now, I tend to hold the increasingly controversial view that murder cases should be decided in court and that both sides should be heard from before a verdict is decided.

00:04:46.320 As to the other questions, these are much clearer to me.

00:04:51.060 No, George Floyd's death had nothing to do with racism.

00:04:54.900 There is simply no evidence, not even the hint of evidence, that Derek Chauvin was motivated by any racial animus at all.

00:05:00.540 There is no evidence, not even the hint of evidence, that Chauvin would have acted differently had Floyd been white instead of black.

00:05:07.000 There's also no evidence that police are more likely to kill an unarmed black suspect.

00:05:11.560 More unarmed white suspects are killed each year by police.

00:05:13.940 And when you examine the statistical likelihood that the arrest, that's what you have to look, that's how you have to look at this.

00:05:20.680 The likelihood that the arrest of an unarmed black suspect will turn fatal versus the statistical likelihood that the arrest of a white suspect will turn fatal,

00:05:28.880 you're going to find that they are almost exactly the same.

00:05:32.460 Also, you'll find that the category of unarmed suspect is misleading in the extreme,

00:05:36.700 as much of the time the unarmed person, quote-unquote, was nonetheless in the process of trying to kill the police officer through some other means.

00:05:44.580 Sometimes by trying to take the officer's gun and use it against him.

00:05:48.480 The racial element of the George Floyd saga is a fabrication. 0.85

00:05:52.720 It is not based on anything other than the left's blanket assumptions, which they apply to all police killings indiscriminately.

00:05:59.400 If a black man is killed by the cops, no matter the circumstance, it was because of racism.

00:06:05.560 That's what they think.

00:06:06.800 Ten years ago, I may have been exaggerating had I summarized their position that way, but not anymore.

00:06:13.060 That is really what they think.

00:06:16.640 Finally, should we be celebrating George Floyd?

00:06:20.080 This, again, to me is clear-cut.

00:06:21.580 No, we should not.

00:06:22.320 Whether you believe he was the victim of murder or manslaughter or his own choices or some combination of these,

00:06:29.000 the fact remains that it's a disgrace and embarrassment to our country to have this man's face and likeness plastered everywhere.

00:06:34.760 It is gross to give a man like this an elaborate funeral, a golden casket visited by weeping dignitaries from across the country.

00:06:42.360 Remember the mayor of Minneapolis breaking down in tears?

00:06:45.480 He can't contain himself, breaking down in tears.

00:06:47.740 As if he was at the casket of his own child or something, the way that he was reacting.

00:06:54.500 It's insane to spend a year mourning his death while thousands of other people have died in the meantime,

00:06:59.680 and the vast majority of them were far more deserving of our tears than Floyd.

00:07:04.820 Again, this is the case no matter how he died,

00:07:07.640 because the manner of his death does not change the fact that this was a man who preyed on members of his own community. 0.86

00:07:14.660 He was a violent man, a career criminal, a predator.

00:07:17.740 Who should be alive today simply because he never should have been allowed out of prison after he invaded a woman's home, 0.99

00:07:22.500 put a gun to her stomach, and robbed her. 0.91

00:07:24.540 Another man in Floyd's group pistol whipped her in the process.

00:07:28.020 I mean, think about that.

00:07:29.960 Not just breaking into someone's house. No, no, no.

00:07:32.800 Forcing your way in at gunpoint. 0.99

00:07:36.140 Pistol whipping a woman.

00:07:37.200 This wasn't a youthful mistake, but an act of barbaric cruelty committed by a then 33-year-old Harding criminal.

00:07:46.420 And after serving an absurdly short sentence for that crime, I think he served maybe six or seven years or less,

00:07:52.060 he was released from prison.

00:07:53.300 Now, the media tells us he cleaned up his act at that point,

00:07:55.560 but it's odd that a reformed man with a cleaned up act would be high on fatal levels of fentanyl

00:08:01.320 while attempting to scam a local store clerk with counterfeit bills.

00:08:04.480 You know, that to me doesn't sound like reformation.

00:08:08.040 Does any of this matter in assessing the facts surrounding his death?

00:08:12.820 No.

00:08:13.620 None of it but potentially the fentanyl.

00:08:15.620 Matters for that.

00:08:16.420 It does, however, matter in deciding whether Floyd should be canonized.

00:08:22.420 That's where it matters.

00:08:24.080 And it's clear that he should not be.

00:08:26.660 Or I should say, should not have been.

00:08:28.380 Because it's already happened.

00:08:30.180 And this point matters.

00:08:31.340 It's not semantics.

00:08:32.500 We're not picking a dead man's life apart for no reason.

00:08:35.460 Normally, this is not a conversation that I would want to have.

00:08:38.860 I don't relish the opportunity to point out the sins of the dead.

00:08:41.600 I'm not going to find any random person, their obituary in the newspaper,

00:08:47.300 and start examining and pointing out all the bad things they did.

00:08:50.840 It's not what I want to do.

00:08:51.860 It's not how I want to spend my time.

00:08:53.740 But when you paint giant murals of him and rename streets after him,

00:08:59.160 then it becomes necessary to think about the kind of message that might send.

00:09:03.540 Now, the irony here is that the left certainly agrees with this in principle

00:09:06.760 because they're the ones who've torn down hundreds of statues of dead men

00:09:10.540 based on the alleged sins those men committed.

00:09:14.960 For Floyd, we have to ask,

00:09:17.640 do we want our children to grow up in a world where a violent felon

00:09:21.200 who victimized women and stole from and robbed his neighbors is celebrated 1.00

00:09:25.080 and put forward as an example,

00:09:28.640 all because he died while resisting arrest and high on drugs?

00:09:33.000 I would say no, we don't.

00:09:34.900 At least I don't.

00:09:36.840 I want my kids to aim a little higher in life than that.

00:09:40.540 Now, let's get to our five headlines.

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00:11:10.560 You know, we're experiencing kind of a contentious moment in our household,

00:11:14.160 which I share with you because why wouldn't I just share it with a bunch of strangers?

00:11:18.280 You know, I went into my daughter's room this morning before I left for work to say bye to her.

00:11:24.060 Like I always do.

00:11:24.800 And she told me that she had lost a tooth the night before.

00:11:31.400 And she didn't tell us that she had lost a tooth because she was running a test.

00:11:36.920 She's a smart girl.

00:11:38.180 She's smart.

00:11:39.140 And she was running a test.

00:11:41.400 She's like, daddy, I lost a tooth.

00:11:43.240 I didn't tell you.

00:11:44.460 She was running a test because she wanted to see, like, yeah, the tooth fairy comes allegedly.

00:11:50.580 But if I don't tell mommy and daddy that I lost a tooth, will the tooth fairy still come?

00:11:58.500 Because the tooth fairy should still come if the tooth fairy exists, even if mommy and daddy don't know about it.

00:12:03.280 Tooth fairy should know.

00:12:05.380 And so she told me that night, you know, I'm kind of like scrambling and I'm like, well, yeah, well, we communicate with the tooth fairy or something.

00:12:12.060 I don't know.

00:12:12.240 We have to send her an email.

00:12:13.240 I was trying to think of an excuse.

00:12:14.360 And of course, the whole time I'm thinking in my head, like, what?

00:12:16.360 Why are we doing this?

00:12:17.900 This has been my point all along.

00:12:19.400 If I could go back and redo one thing as a parent, go back to the beginning, it would probably be this.

00:12:27.200 I don't think I would do the fantasy.

00:12:30.040 I think I might not introduce tooth fairy, Santa, Easter bunny, all that.

00:12:37.420 And the problem is, or maybe you pick one, like just do Santa, not the others.

00:12:43.480 Because the problem is now they're a package.

00:12:46.440 And the tooth fairy is a lot more frivolous than Santa and it feels not as important.

00:12:51.480 And also somehow even weirder and crazier and harder for kids to believe.

00:12:55.700 Like they're going to figure out tooth fairy before they figure out Santa.

00:12:59.040 But now it's a package.

00:13:00.880 So I was talking to my wife about it.

00:13:02.200 She's like, oh, we can't tell her about tooth fairy because then Santa goes and I want to get another Christmas out of that.

00:13:08.160 It's not worth the trouble.

00:13:10.540 And then you're just lying to your kid's face about it.

00:13:12.500 All for what?

00:13:13.360 All for what?

00:13:14.080 Is what I ask.

00:13:15.640 All right, let's move on.

00:13:16.680 This is number one here for the New York Post.

00:13:18.760 It says a racist attacker brutally beat an Asian woman who was walking to her church in Midtown on Monday morning.

00:13:25.060 Maybe you've seen this.

00:13:25.800 Let's play the clip right here.

00:13:26.840 This looks like security camera footage.

00:13:30.580 The woman walking, she's walking down the street and then the guy comes up, kicks her. 0.89

00:13:37.300 It's a horrible footage.

00:13:39.360 It was me stomping on her head. 1.00

00:13:41.820 Could easily have killed her. 1.00

00:13:42.920 He's trying to kill her.

00:13:45.600 And then probably the most disturbing thing you see in the video, you see at the very end, there are two guys standing there watching all this happen.

00:13:52.860 And then it looks like at the very end.

00:13:54.520 I mean, literally insult to injury, the guy starts shutting the door.

00:14:01.200 And leaving this woman, this was a 65 year old woman bleeding on the sidewalk. 1.00

00:14:06.780 Now, for the New York Post report here, the guy yelled at the woman, F you, you don't belong here. 0.99

00:14:19.100 So this was, it would seem really clearly, an anti-Asian hate crime.

00:14:25.340 It's all that's what he's being charged with.

00:14:27.900 And from what I read, the hotel staff also have been put on leave for just standing by and watching.

00:14:34.600 And I, you know, and I'm not going to make any excuses for them at all, because when you watch something like this happening, your duty is to step in.

00:14:44.520 I don't want to hear any, yeah, this is a, this guy that was doing this, a big guy, you know, you might think, I don't know if I can take it.

00:14:49.560 So what?

00:14:50.480 You got to step in.

00:14:51.720 It was one of those times, even if you get yourself hurt in the process, you have to step in.

00:14:55.620 It's your responsibility as a man, as another human.

00:14:58.620 It's your responsibility to step in.

00:15:00.120 But we also have created a situation as a society where we discourage people.

00:15:08.200 Now, after the fact, yeah, we blame people who don't step in.

00:15:12.020 And again, we should, we should blame them for, because they should, because they ought to step in.

00:15:15.980 But we've also created a situation where we're discouraging people from stepping in, because, you know, the hotel staff might start thinking, well, you know, if I step in, am I going to get sued?

00:15:29.240 Am I going to start saying that I'm a racist?

00:15:31.880 Am I going to get blamed for this?

00:15:34.820 Am I going to get fired?

00:15:36.000 There are plenty of cases of employees in different establishments, retail stores, trying to stop someone from stealing.

00:15:43.800 Then they get fired for doing it.

00:15:45.380 So I'm going to get fired.

00:15:46.160 And they're running through all that in their head.

00:15:50.220 Still, you got to do the right thing, even in spite of that.

00:15:52.460 But we haven't exactly created a situation as a society where people really are encouraged to do the right thing in these situations.

00:16:02.220 Now, an update on this story.

00:16:03.940 Anyway, the attacker's name is Brandon Elliott.

00:16:08.920 I want to read this to you.

00:16:11.740 He is, he's out walking the streets, or he was walking the streets, because he was off on parole after killing his mother in 2002.

00:16:25.120 Now, he killed his own mother.

00:16:27.060 And he would have been, I think he's 38 now.

00:16:30.840 He would have been in his early 20s when he did this.

00:16:35.780 Now, that is a sentence that just should not ever need to be written.

00:16:39.580 That's a sentence that shouldn't exist.

00:16:41.800 On parole after killing his mother.

00:16:44.720 That is not a sentence that should ever be published, because that's not a thing that should ever happen.

00:16:52.320 There is no situation where anyone should ever see the outside of a prison after killing their own parents.

00:16:59.580 No, what we should be reading about with Brandon Elliott is we should be reading, you know, the state carried out an execution of Brandon Elliott.

00:17:10.780 Like, that should be the headline of Brandon Elliott.

00:17:13.740 His execution for killing his own mother.

00:17:15.820 At the very least, you keep him in prison.

00:17:20.880 You want to talk about prison reform?

00:17:23.820 Rather than, I know the prison reform that we got from Donald Trump, supposedly the law and order candidate, the law and order president, right?

00:17:31.520 The prison reform we got from him was about letting people out of prison, and it made Kim Kardashian really happy.

00:17:38.820 So, that's nice.

00:17:39.900 That prison reform made Kim Kardashian happy.

00:17:42.740 Great.

00:17:43.180 But that's not the kind of prison reform that's going to stop things like this from happening.

00:17:49.600 That's not the kind of prison reform that's going to make our community safer.

00:17:53.920 The kind of prison reform we need is where you do something like murder your mother or murder anybody.

00:18:02.000 You never get out of jail.

00:18:04.240 Automatically, you are in jail forever.

00:18:06.240 You never see the end.

00:18:07.300 That is a one, not, we don't get three strikes, not ten.

00:18:11.080 One strike and you're out. 0.95

00:18:13.180 You kill someone, you're in prison forever. 0.94

00:18:16.440 If not, at a minimum, you're in prison forever.

00:18:19.500 You do something like what he just did, brutally assault someone randomly for no reason when they're walking down the street, in prison forever.

00:18:31.160 When you do that, there are things that you can do as a person where you are announcing to society that you have no interest in being a part of it.

00:18:42.000 You don't want to be a part of civilized society.

00:18:44.080 You want to be an animal. 0.95

00:18:47.100 That's what you want.

00:18:48.000 And so we have no choice if we want to protect the innocent.

00:18:52.260 We have no choice but to say, okay, you want to be treated like an animal?

00:18:56.220 That's what you're asking for.

00:18:57.520 That's what you'll get.

00:18:58.300 Now you're going to be in a cage for the rest of your life. 0.98

00:18:59.960 If we're not forced to put you down like a dog. 0.63

00:19:04.300 Through your own behavior, we have no choice.

00:19:09.700 You got a guy like Brandon Elliott.

00:19:11.260 What choice do we have?

00:19:12.920 He's making it exceedingly clear. 0.99

00:19:15.080 He kills his own mother. 0.98

00:19:16.020 We let him out of prison. 0.97

00:19:16.840 Then he just starts attacking random elderly people.

00:19:19.780 What does Brandon Elliott have to do to get the message across?

00:19:23.440 I don't want to be a person.

00:19:24.760 I want to be an animal.

00:19:26.620 Let me out of jail.

00:19:27.620 I'm going to keep victimizing people.

00:19:29.360 And what does the court system say?

00:19:33.700 Well, okay, we'll give you another chance. 1.00

00:19:36.800 I mean, you start by killing your mother. 0.99

00:19:38.860 You spend 17, 18 years in prison. 0.68

00:19:40.680 And magically, you're going to be better now?

00:19:44.140 That's probably not. 0.93

00:19:45.180 You spend 17, 18 years hanging out with other violent sociopaths.

00:19:48.580 You're probably not going to be less dangerous now than you were when you went in.

00:19:56.180 And if you are really, here's the thing.

00:19:57.540 If you are really reformed, the way I see it, if you do something like that, and then

00:20:05.520 you go to the parole board and you ask to be let out of prison, that to me is an indication

00:20:10.160 that you're not reformed.

00:20:12.140 Because if you were reformed, actual reformation would be, yeah, I've realized the error in

00:20:17.980 my ways, and I realize that I deserve to be here.

00:20:19.760 I don't deserve to be out in society.

00:20:22.180 I deserve this punishment.

00:20:23.600 The fact that you think you deserve to get out of jail after doing something like that

00:20:29.760 tells me that you are not reformed. 0.98

00:20:31.960 That you are still the violent sociopath you were 17 years ago. 0.98

00:20:35.820 18 years ago, whatever. 0.99

00:20:36.860 But even so, even after that attack, we're still told that now Brandon Elliott is a black

00:20:46.340 man, not a white man.

00:20:48.240 Even so, this is still white supremacy, of course, as you might expect.

00:20:51.200 Eugene Gu, Dr. Eugene Gu, is a prominent leftist crackpot on social media.

00:20:58.220 He's got a big following and half a million followers.

00:21:02.340 In fact, he sent out a tweet that said, it was after this story broke, he said, black

00:21:07.020 on Asian crimes only occur because of our system of white supremacy that strips African 0.97

00:21:11.420 Americans of their economic opportunities while taking respect and dignity away from 0.93

00:21:15.460 Asian Americans. 0.59

00:21:16.280 Also, white people in power are experts at dividing and conquering to stay in power. 0.88

00:21:20.600 Oh, okay. 0.98

00:21:23.400 That's why Brandon Elliott stomped an elderly Asian woman half to death. 0.88

00:21:27.600 It's because he didn't have economic opportunities. 0.99

00:21:29.480 That's also why he killed his mother, because of white supremacy. 0.99

00:21:34.160 That is, this logic is not only insane and twisted, but it also strikes me as incredibly 0.99

00:21:40.980 racist that you're taking agency away from black Americans. 0.98

00:21:49.160 What he's saying here pretty clearly is he couldn't help himself. 0.98

00:21:55.980 Can't expect him.

00:21:57.080 We can't expect him to not act that way.

00:22:01.000 That's what he's saying.

00:22:02.820 That to me is racist.

00:22:05.080 The not racist approach is to say, I don't care if you're white, black, or I don't care

00:22:09.320 what your color is.

00:22:10.560 You act like that.

00:22:11.680 You're going to jail forever.

00:22:12.760 It is your fault.

00:22:14.960 100%.

00:22:15.360 It's on you.

00:22:17.120 We expect you to act like a civilized person.

00:22:19.300 If you can't, you're going to prison.

00:22:21.020 The race is irrelevant. 1.00

00:22:26.140 All right.

00:22:26.720 Number two, on the subject of white supremacy, that's a subject every day, of course.

00:22:32.640 Even though there are about 12 white supremacists in the country, but this is what we have to 0.89

00:22:40.720 worry about is white supremacy is the major problem.

00:22:42.380 So AOC had some thoughts about the surge at the border, which we're not supposed to call

00:22:47.220 it that, but she had some thoughts on it, which she shared on Instagram, and here it

00:22:51.500 is.

00:22:52.300 They want to say, what about the surge?

00:22:55.420 Well, first of all, just gut check.

00:22:59.660 Stop.

00:23:00.100 Anyone who's using the term surge around you consciously is trying to invoke a militaristic

00:23:07.780 frame, and that's a problem because this is not a surge.

00:23:14.740 These are children, and they are not insurgents, and we are not being invaded, which, by the way,

00:23:22.700 is a white supremacist idea, philosophy, the idea that if an other is coming in the population,

00:23:34.920 that this is like an invasion of who we are.

00:23:37.980 Yeah, white supremacists, right? 0.65

00:23:39.440 Because white people invented that, that people who are on the outside of your group, your 0.94

00:23:45.060 tribe, are an other, and when they come, they're invading. 0.97

00:23:50.400 That's a white supremacist idea.

00:23:52.700 Huh.

00:23:55.320 Isn't that what we hear for the Native American groups all the time?

00:23:59.600 Don't we always hear about the European invasion of the Americas?

00:24:03.800 So that's white supremacists. 0.93

00:24:04.920 It's white supremacists to say that about white people. 0.75

00:24:08.200 Well, but of course, in that case, it's not, because we know that the term white supremacist,

00:24:11.340 you, I still hear somehow normal, sane, rational people, even conservatives using the term white 1.00

00:24:18.220 supremacy, you know, as if it still means something.

00:24:21.440 You got to just stop using that word, you know, because you're, you're, you're, you're accepting

00:24:26.900 the left's framework.

00:24:27.860 The word now, it doesn't mean anything anymore.

00:24:29.780 It just doesn't.

00:24:30.380 You can't use it.

00:24:31.480 It has no meaning.

00:24:33.960 White supremacy now is whatever they don't like is white supremacy.

00:24:36.440 That's, that's all it means.

00:24:39.440 They have, they have stripped it of, of any other meaning.

00:24:44.100 By the way, surge, she says it's, you're, uh, you're consciously.

00:24:47.880 If you use the word surge consciously, as opposed to what using it unconsciously, but if you

00:24:56.200 use it consciously, then you're, uh, it's a militaristic white supremacist framework.

00:25:00.380 She says, well, the, the definition of according to the dictionary definition of surge is a sudden

00:25:05.280 powerful forward or upward movement, especially by a crowd or by a natural force, such as the

00:25:10.640 waves are tied, uh, a crowd or a natural force moving suddenly and powerfully forward or upward.

00:25:17.140 Okay.

00:25:17.380 So it's when a, when you've got a crowd of people who are suddenly moving in a certain

00:25:23.160 direction, that's what surge means.

00:25:28.080 You got a crowd of people moving in a certain direction.

00:25:31.240 So like, let's say for example, a crowd of illegal immigrants moving up North.

00:25:39.080 Hmm.

00:25:40.640 It's almost like, what would you call it?

00:25:42.060 A surge?

00:25:43.460 I don't know.

00:25:45.080 Number three, this is from a tube filter, which is apparently a website.

00:25:48.420 It says in a, what would mark a major change to the way in which viewers can engage with

00:25:52.920 YouTube videos.

00:25:53.760 If permanently implemented, the platform is testing a new display whereby video dislike counts

00:26:00.000 wouldn't be publicly shown.

00:26:02.340 YouTube announced on Twitter that the experiment is being conducted among a small group of users

00:26:05.740 and was conceived quote in response to creator feedback around wellbeing.

00:26:10.640 And targeted dislike campaigns.

00:26:13.620 While dislikes won't be publicly displayed or participate, uh, for participants in the

00:26:17.940 test, creators will still be able to see the exact number of likes and dislikes on their

00:26:22.240 videos on the backend and YouTube studio.

00:26:25.040 Um, in a help forum post, YouTube clarified that there is no way to opt out of the experiment,

00:26:29.820 though.

00:26:30.000 It says the move is impermanent and that's keeping a close eye on feedback.

00:26:32.860 So, uh, what they're saying is that, you know, when, when you're, when you're making YouTube

00:26:39.200 videos, like much like I do and you get a bunch of dislikes, it's, it is, it is, uh, damaging

00:26:44.700 to your wellbeing, to your psychological and emotional wellbeing.

00:26:47.140 And you know what?

00:26:50.120 At first I saw this and I thought that this is ridiculous, but then I realized, Hey, I'm

00:26:54.000 a YouTube creator and it hurts my feelings when I get dislikes. 0.71

00:26:58.680 How dare you?

00:27:00.340 I spent all my time putting this, these videos out there and for you to not like it, you're

00:27:08.860 entitled to like it.

00:27:09.780 I mean, I made it.

00:27:12.300 How dare you not like it? 1.00

00:27:14.340 You ungrateful bastards. 1.00

00:27:17.860 I'm in favor of this. 0.99

00:27:19.860 I think it should be really, instead of getting rid of the dislike button, it should be a like

00:27:24.040 button and another like button.

00:27:25.240 So you get two choices, but you can like it or you can, or maybe like you can like it

00:27:28.520 or you can love it.

00:27:29.160 Those are your two options.

00:27:32.320 I think that that's, that's what we should go with.

00:27:33.960 I I've got some, I've, I've been the victim of targeted dislike campaigns.

00:27:41.540 Some recent shows, in fact, I think of mine have like tens of thousands of thumbs down.

00:27:49.500 And again, initially when I, when I would see something that I'd laugh about it, but

00:27:53.520 then I realized that no, I'm a victim here.

00:27:56.320 I should take the opportunity to be the victim.

00:27:59.900 So remember if you're, if you're watching this right now on YouTube, remember to, remember

00:28:02.900 to smash that like button.

00:28:03.960 Not the dislike button. 0.98

00:28:05.320 You bigot.

00:28:06.420 Think about my emotional wellbeing before you hit that dislike.

00:28:10.660 All right.

00:28:11.200 Number four, Chelsea Handler noted scholar had this to say on Twitter. 0.89

00:28:14.840 She said, uh, it's so pathetic that there's a trial to prove that Derek Chauvin killed George

00:28:19.860 Floyd when there's video of him doing so. 1.00

00:28:23.200 It's pathetic. 0.98

00:28:24.420 It's pathetic that we're still doing trials in this country. 1.00

00:28:29.560 Ridiculous. 0.99

00:28:31.140 But Twitter's already decided that he's guilty. 0.98

00:28:33.080 Why can't that be enough?

00:28:37.100 Now she's getting, um, there's a, there's a bit of a targeted dislike campaign going against 0.97

00:28:41.580 that tweet right now.

00:28:42.420 And I'm sure she's a victim of that because people are responding to it in a negative way

00:28:46.020 as well.

00:28:46.340 They should.

00:28:46.700 But she's only being honest about, about what the media feels and, and, uh, and how people

00:28:52.460 on the left feel about this.

00:28:53.540 In fact, here is, uh, Lindsay Davis on ABC.

00:28:56.580 She was, uh, talking about the George Floyd case and her opinion, she used, she used more

00:29:05.060 words and different words, but really she came to the same conclusion as Chelsea Handler.

00:29:10.780 Let's listen.

00:29:11.140 This case is so much bigger than what happened 10 months ago in the corner of 38th and Chicago

00:29:16.120 in Minneapolis on its face.

00:29:18.240 Derek Chauvin is on trial for sure.

00:29:20.400 But for many Americans, this nation is on trial.

00:29:23.900 Our criminal justice system is on trial.

00:29:26.620 And for many, especially black people, um, this is about black and white.

00:29:32.600 This is about justice for people who aren't specifically involved in this case.

00:29:38.380 This is about justice for Eric Gardner and, uh, Breonna Taylor and Daniel Prude and on and

00:29:44.280 on and on the countless black people who've been killed by police in this country with very

00:29:49.040 little repercussions or, or, or punishment.

00:29:51.800 And I think that that's what makes it interesting.

00:29:53.900 When you look at the context, the backdrop of what also was happening in this country on

00:29:58.520 May 25th of 2020 in New York city, central park.

00:30:02.260 It's the same day that a white woman called the police on a black man who was birdwatching

00:30:06.160 and said threatened that she was going to call and follow through with that, uh, to say 0.99

00:30:10.000 that a black man is threatening my life. 1.00

00:30:13.280 So what does that have to do with George Floyd? 0.96

00:30:16.760 The woman, woman called the cops on a guy who was birdwatching.

00:30:20.620 So what, what does that have to do with Derek Chauvin being on trial?

00:30:27.020 Well, it's because she feels exactly how, uh, how Chelsea Handler feels, which is that

00:30:32.680 we don't even need a trial.

00:30:35.100 It's not about Derek Chauvin.

00:30:37.240 I said this yesterday.

00:30:37.920 This is proof of, of, uh, proofs in the pudding here that from the left's perspective and

00:30:42.460 the media's perspective.

00:30:43.240 And I don't know why I list those two groups, like they're two different things, but from

00:30:47.920 their perspective, um, Derek Chauvin is, it's not about the facts of the case for him.

00:30:54.860 It's not about what he did or didn't do.

00:30:57.160 It's not about George Floyd.

00:30:58.660 It Derek Chauvin is a, is a symbol.

00:31:02.740 And you heard us say America is on trial, right?

00:31:06.020 Racism is on trial.

00:31:06.700 He's a symbol for all of the things they don't like.

00:31:10.120 They don't like America.

00:31:11.320 So this is, he, he, he symbolizes America. 0.88

00:31:13.840 He symbolizes white people. 0.86

00:31:15.320 He symbolizes all of the alleged and perceived sins of whiteness. 0.97

00:31:19.480 He symbolizes, um, every alleged or actual white racist who has ever done anything wrong.

00:31:25.660 All of that is contained in the person of Derek Chauvin or everything that makes up the actual

00:31:34.980 Derek Chauvin, all of his unique traits and, uh, all the things that he did or didn't do

00:31:41.320 that's, that is emptied out.

00:31:43.460 We have kind of hollowed him out and in his place, we have put, um, all of this.

00:31:52.360 He's, he's a sacrificial goat, right?

00:31:57.340 And they need him. 1.00

00:31:58.340 He's a sacrificial goat and he needs to be slaughtered. 0.99

00:32:02.040 It's kind of like an actual sacrificial goat you bring up to the altar to sacrifice. 0.96

00:32:07.640 It's not because the goat did anything wrong necessarily.

00:32:09.860 It's about what the goat symbolizes and he's the goat here.

00:32:15.140 And they're, they are very clear about that.

00:32:18.420 All right.

00:32:19.120 Um, Chet Hanks.

00:32:21.720 Now we got, now we got to get to the really important stuff.

00:32:23.400 I've been waiting to talk about this because this to me is, is the biggest, most important

00:32:27.840 thing happening in society right now.

00:32:29.620 Chet Hanks is the son of Tom Hanks.

00:32:31.800 Um, he is, or was a rapper, I think at one point, and now he's an actor, I believe.

00:32:38.320 Uh, but mostly he's a pioneer.

00:32:41.120 And so for example, he pioneered something called white boy summer, which is picking up 0.90

00:32:45.480 steam online.

00:32:46.620 And, uh, you know, I saw people talking about it online.

00:32:48.560 I didn't know, I didn't know what they're referring to.

00:32:50.420 And, you know, and then, and then I found out that they're, Oh, they're referring to

00:32:53.140 what Chet Hanks said.

00:32:54.120 And I didn't know who Chet Hanks was.

00:32:55.660 And then I had to look that up and I was, I was digging through and I finally got to the

00:32:59.680 videos where Chet Hanks announces white boy summer.

00:33:01.900 I still don't know what white boy summer is even after watching the videos, but I thought 0.86

00:33:05.640 I'd play them for you so that we can all join together and be confused together.

00:33:09.260 So here's Chet Hanks announcing white boy summer.

00:33:12.580 Hey guys.

00:33:13.580 Um, look, I just wanted to tap in really quick.

00:33:15.680 I just got this feeling, man, um, that this summer is, uh, it's about to be a white boy 0.98

00:33:22.380 summer, you know, take it how you want.

00:33:25.520 I'm not talking about like Trump, uh, you know, NASCAR type white. 0.72

00:33:29.320 I'm talking about, you know, you know, me, um, John B, Jack Harlow type white boy summer.

00:33:37.340 You know what I mean?

00:33:37.660 Let me know if you guys, uh, can vibe with that and, uh, get ready, you know, cause I

00:33:43.360 am.

00:33:45.100 I think I'm ready.

00:33:46.300 I don't know.

00:33:46.920 I don't know who any of those people are.

00:33:48.220 So I'm a little suspicious.

00:33:51.180 He said, it's not a, I'm not a big NASCAR guy either, but you know, he's, it's doesn't

00:33:57.540 really clear.

00:33:57.920 He's just, he, all he says is I, I got this feeling.

00:34:00.400 I got a feeling that's white boy summer. 0.94

00:34:01.620 That's all.

00:34:02.840 What is white boy summer?

00:34:03.940 It's just a feeling I had.

00:34:04.960 That's it.

00:34:05.600 And we're, it's, it's happening.

00:34:07.120 What's happening.

00:34:07.840 I don't know.

00:34:08.200 It just is.

00:34:09.900 Now, later on, as this conversation about white boy summer, uh, continued, he recorded

00:34:14.700 another video giving some of the, and so now it's starting to clarify a little bit.

00:34:18.340 He's giving some of the rules for white boy summer. 0.61

00:34:21.180 And let's listen to that.

00:34:22.600 Oh, wow.

00:34:24.440 Wow.

00:34:24.760 Wow.

00:34:25.660 Woke up this morning.

00:34:27.380 Internet gone mad again.

00:34:29.760 Sheesh.

00:34:30.800 Um, but I just want to drop a few, uh, rules and regs for the white boy summer. 0.82

00:34:37.020 Okay.

00:34:37.300 Rule number one.

00:34:38.180 Uh, to all my white boys out there, no plaid shirts.

00:34:42.760 Okay.

00:34:43.080 I can't be looking like a picnic table out here, boys.

00:34:45.560 Wait, what?

00:34:46.200 Uh, you know what I'm talking about? 1.00

00:34:47.280 Leave that shits at home. 1.00

00:34:48.340 The, uh, Vineyard Vines and, you know. 1.00

00:34:51.300 Okay. 0.99

00:34:51.760 Ralph Lauren or whatever the shits. 0.99

00:34:54.020 I've been sold a bill of goods. 1.00

00:34:55.220 Just put on a black tea, a white tea.

00:34:56.840 You know what I mean?

00:34:57.720 Keep it simple.

00:34:58.420 Uh, rule number two.

00:35:00.220 No Sperry Top Siders. 0.99

00:35:02.220 That's not the kind of white boys we're talking about, dog. 0.99

00:35:05.220 Okay. 0.99

00:35:05.980 Uh, get yourself some Vans.

00:35:08.220 Some X.

00:35:09.820 Some Jordans.

00:35:10.660 I'm not really a sneakerhead.

00:35:11.500 I don't know what he's referring to.

00:35:11.900 These shoes?

00:35:12.480 Feel it out.

00:35:13.740 Uh, and, uh.

00:35:15.300 Okay, serious, I'm told.

00:35:16.080 There'll be more rules coming.

00:35:17.280 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:35:18.040 No calling girls smoke shows.

00:35:20.140 Okay?

00:35:20.940 Okay?

00:35:21.580 That, that term is, uh, it's played out, dude.

00:35:25.560 And you can't just see a hat check and be like, dude. 0.99

00:35:27.440 Okay, shut up. 1.00

00:35:28.140 Shit. 1.00

00:35:28.380 Smoke shows. 1.00

00:35:29.860 Is this, so this is what white boy summer is just at is a bunch of rules that we have to follow? 0.52

00:35:34.960 That's what the summer is?

00:35:36.040 I thought, I thought it, I thought it, I thought it.

00:35:37.160 I was expecting something a lot more fun than that.

00:35:39.660 You're just introducing more rules for us.

00:35:42.340 You cannot call it white boy summer and tell me no plaid.

00:35:46.580 That, that is not going to fly.

00:35:47.960 That's not going to cut it.

00:35:48.620 The rest of that, I don't know what the rest of that is.

00:35:51.580 So fine.

00:35:51.980 I could do without it.

00:35:54.740 Maybe, and I admit, maybe the problem is he's white boy summer. 0.70

00:35:58.100 I'm, I'm probably too old for white boys. 1.00

00:35:59.660 I think he is too.

00:36:00.440 It looks like he's like 45.

00:36:01.580 But, um, I, I, I, I will admit I'm too old.

00:36:06.540 Uh, maybe it's more, it's not really about your chronological age.

00:36:08.840 It's about your station in life.

00:36:10.220 And as a father of four kids, a married man, I'm probably too old for white boy summer, which 0.69

00:36:14.080 is why I decided I'm announcing, and this is pretty exciting.

00:36:18.420 Um, they can have white boy, white boy summer.

00:36:21.040 I'm, I'm announcing white dad summer. 0.64

00:36:24.200 Um, and white dad summer, the uniform for that, very simple.

00:36:28.380 You can do a polo or a t-shirt.

00:36:30.900 Um, and you can go plaid, but the main thing is tucked into cargo, cargo shorts, new balances.

00:36:39.200 You know, white new balance is obviously going to be the traditional footwear of our people 0.50

00:36:42.940 as white dads, but you can really go any color you want.

00:36:44.820 Um, and you got the socks pulled up and, uh, and then you got the sweat stained ball cap,

00:36:50.040 which is with the bent brim that you've had since 1993 that you still wear.

00:36:54.660 And then the knockoff Oakley shades, of course, that is white dad summer.

00:37:00.440 That's what I, and that, and by the way, that summer is in full effect in my house anyway.

00:37:05.580 All right, let's move on to, I'm glad we were able to talk about that and cover that.

00:37:08.600 Let's move on to reading the YouTube comments.

00:37:10.420 Uh, it's from Ronnie says, how can Chauvin possibly get a fair trial when the city of

00:37:14.660 Minneapolis already admitted guilt by settling a lawsuit and awarding the family millions of

00:37:18.380 dollars?

00:37:18.780 This has mistrial written all over it.

00:37:20.160 Well, that's a very good question.

00:37:21.960 Yes.

00:37:22.200 Not only is it, is the trial still in Minneapolis and not being moved to another city, but this,

00:37:28.440 yeah, exactly.

00:37:29.020 The city has already, has already admitted guilt.

00:37:31.320 Um, and they did that during the jury selection process.

00:37:33.760 So it's clear that I talk about the left and the media, they're trying, they, they want,

00:37:40.920 they see Chauvin as a symbol and he has to pay the price.

00:37:44.820 That's what the city sees him as also.

00:37:47.040 He's, he's a sacrificial goat as far as they're concerned.

00:37:50.780 Um, Mike says, could you explain your stance on breaking up via text?

00:37:55.100 It's not really a stance.

00:37:56.140 It's more of, um, you know, if, if, if, if you've only been dating, I know this is not

00:38:03.920 a popular view, but if you've only been dating for a few months or a few weeks or whatever,

00:38:07.040 and, and it's not working out, like your relationship is so insignificant that it really

00:38:13.160 doesn't, you don't need a whole long emotional conversation.

00:38:16.940 And, uh, one of the problems is if you do the long emotional conversation in person or on

00:38:20.920 the phone, uh, that's when the other person might be able to convince you.

00:38:25.100 Like, you know, this is not working at all because it's a couple months into it and already

00:38:29.600 I don't like you.

00:38:30.520 And so this is just, it's not going anywhere.

00:38:32.920 But if you have a conversation, other person might be able to emotionally blackmail you

00:38:36.160 and convince you to stick it out for a little bit longer and just delay the heartbreak for

00:38:40.420 later.

00:38:40.740 So, you know, I'm of the opinion, it's, they won't like it, but it's the best for everyone

00:38:44.220 involved to just make it like a bandaid, quick, simple, easy, send the text message, you

00:38:48.740 know, they're going to hate you for it.

00:38:50.560 But at the same time, it's probably better for them anyway to, to, to hate you for it.

00:38:53.820 And then they can move on.

00:38:54.740 And, uh, and that's my, I'm not saying it's good advice, but that's simply my advice.

00:39:01.460 Um, Roland says, uh, hi Matt.

00:39:05.200 The phrase no cap means something is true or that the person who says it is not lying.

00:39:10.940 Cap means the opposite or not true.

00:39:14.700 Love the show.

00:39:15.720 What?

00:39:17.760 No cap.

00:39:18.720 Yeah.

00:39:18.860 Someone said no cap yesterday in the comments.

00:39:20.500 I didn't know what that meant.

00:39:21.480 No cap means something is true or that the person who says it is not lying.

00:39:25.920 Cap means the opposite or not true.

00:39:29.480 What?

00:39:30.060 Why though?

00:39:32.540 This is, this has been the theme of the show.

00:39:34.540 I just, I get older and older as, as we progress here.

00:39:38.300 Um, and finally, Nicholas says commenting for the algorithm.

00:39:42.240 I will say, Nicholas, you are not banned for that.

00:39:45.300 You are the opposite.

00:39:45.900 You are, uh, I don't know.

00:39:46.760 You are knighted.

00:39:47.980 You are a knight of the Matt Walsh show for doing that.

00:39:50.140 Thank you for your service.

00:39:51.880 And, and by that, that's the, that is, that is the main thing.

00:39:54.580 Leave a comment, smash the like button and, uh, and leave a comment.

00:39:59.520 It doesn't matter what the comment is.

00:40:00.840 And if all, if that's all you're doing is leaving the comment saying it's for the algorithm,

00:40:03.800 I'm fine with that.

00:40:05.540 Thank you for your service to the show.

00:40:07.620 It is an honor.

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00:41:33.640 As you probably heard, Candice joined the Daily Wire a few weeks ago, uh, with the premiere 0.83

00:41:37.520 of her new talk show, Candice.

00:41:39.080 The show streams on dailywire.com Fridays at 9 p.m.

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00:42:11.860 now.

00:42:12.160 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:42:16.640 Today for our daily cancellation, I'm not sure who exactly is getting canceled, but I do know

00:42:20.020 what I want to complain about.

00:42:21.860 Um, we'll figure out the rest as we go along.

00:42:23.700 So this past weekend, I went to the zoo with my wife and kids, along with my niece and nephew

00:42:27.040 and brother and sister-in-law.

00:42:28.000 We had six kids, seven and under, four adults.

00:42:31.220 Um, one of the adults was pushing a stroller.

00:42:33.180 Another one, my brother-in-law was carrying around a fussy one-year-old and I was hampered

00:42:37.260 because of the soft pretzel and cheese dip that I was trying to eat as we walked along.

00:42:40.840 Now it's, um, it's very hard to keep track of six children in this environment, especially

00:42:46.620 with the soft pretzel and cheese dip.

00:42:47.780 So you have to constantly do the count, right?

00:42:49.800 You're going to, you're going one, two, three, four, five.

00:42:53.260 We're missing one.

00:42:54.540 Where's the other way?

00:42:56.240 Oh, there he is.

00:42:56.760 Hey, no, stop climbing that fence.

00:42:58.300 There's a tiger in there.

00:43:00.680 And to make matters worse, as your kids are running around this way and that you're noticing

00:43:04.180 that the meerkats and monkeys all have better behaved children than you do.

00:43:08.400 They're looking at you shaking their heads with disapproval.

00:43:10.300 But then I noticed a woman, um, with what appeared to be just one child walking him along on a

00:43:17.120 leash and the leash was attached to the kid's backpack, making it slightly less aggressive

00:43:21.740 and noticeable than the harnesses they used to attach directly to kids' bodies back in

00:43:24.980 the old days.

00:43:25.620 I saw this and I thought the same thing that I always think on the rare occasion that I

00:43:30.140 encounter a leashed child in modern society.

00:43:32.260 And that is, wow, that looks so much easier.

00:43:36.620 I totally understand why that parent is doing that, but I can't do it because I don't want

00:43:41.100 to endure the glares from other parents.

00:43:44.160 See, as parents, we all know that the child leash makes a lot of sense.

00:43:48.340 We've all looked with a mixture of awe and envy at the parents with leashes.

00:43:52.240 We've all thought to ourselves, I get it.

00:43:54.180 I do.

00:43:54.860 I get it.

00:43:56.220 But that we don't say that though, because if we notice another parent is also looking,

00:43:59.780 instead we'll turn to them and say out loud, sheesh, she's got a leash on that kid. 1.00

00:44:05.000 Pretty awful, right? 0.99

00:44:06.280 What a weirdo.

00:44:07.120 I would never do that.

00:44:08.400 And we all walk away speaking our forbidden pro-leash truth silently in our hearts.

00:44:14.080 As I said, back in the old days, this wasn't an issue.

00:44:15.960 Parents used to leash kids all the time.

00:44:18.260 I distinctly remember being five or six years old and seeing other kids walking around the

00:44:22.740 park, tethered to their parents.

00:44:24.040 It was totally normal.

00:44:25.460 Then at some point in the last 20 years or so, we decided that this is now unacceptable.

00:44:30.400 Many parenting shortcuts have been deemed problematic and somehow negligent or abusive in recent

00:44:35.900 years, just in time for me to not get to use them.

00:44:41.080 Play pens are another.

00:44:42.900 Back when I was a young child, kids were put into pens, much like barn animals, for hours

00:44:48.640 at a time.

00:44:49.920 You didn't have to worry about your one-year-old running through the house, swallowing quarters, 0.88

00:44:54.520 sticking their fingers into outlets, falling down the steps.

00:44:56.780 You just had to put them in the cage, I mean, the detainment facility, and sit down and drink

00:45:03.080 your beer.

00:45:04.440 It was that simple.

00:45:05.840 But nobody uses play pens anymore.

00:45:08.320 So many other examples come to mind.

00:45:09.680 Again, when I was a kid, I vividly remember being left in the car often and for long stretches

00:45:14.800 while my mom ran into the grocery store. 0.98

00:45:17.560 We would get left with snacks and a sleeping bag in case it gets late.

00:45:23.220 She made sure that the temperature was comfortable.

00:45:25.140 Obviously, we weren't left in a 95-degree vehicle.

00:45:27.300 But then she would run and do her errand, that we would wait in the car.

00:45:30.180 It was totally normal.

00:45:31.560 Again, everyone did it.

00:45:32.720 But now, leaving your child in a car for even two minutes, no matter how cool it is outside

00:45:38.160 or what precautions you take, it's considered an act of unthinkable neglect.

00:45:43.240 If you do that now, people say, you left your child in a car?

00:45:47.060 What?

00:45:47.740 In a car?

00:45:49.880 Parents these days are afraid to leave their kids alone in a car while they walk 12 feet

00:45:53.520 away to put their shopping cart back.

00:45:55.560 Or at least that's the excuse they always give me for leaving the cart.

00:45:59.020 There's no reason for this.

00:46:00.320 A child in a locked car on a cool day in a shopping center parking lot is perfectly safe.

00:46:04.900 Might be one of the safest places for him.

00:46:08.160 Oh, he might be kidnapped.

00:46:09.200 Well, he's just as likely to be kidnapped in that circumstance as he is to be kidnapped

00:46:12.140 out of his room at night.

00:46:13.720 Which is to say it almost certainly will not happen.

00:46:16.580 And almost never has happened.

00:46:18.500 Almost never.

00:46:20.360 You hear about the cases when it happens because it almost never does.

00:46:24.980 Yet we've decided to make life a little harder for parents in this area for no reason.

00:46:31.100 Car seats, another example.

00:46:32.900 Do you know they expect you to keep a kid in a car seat until he's like five now?

00:46:37.480 And then you switch to a booster seat until he graduates college?

00:46:41.000 And the car seats are not so much car seats as they are seats salvaged from rocket ships.

00:46:45.540 They're massive, heavy, impossible to install.

00:46:47.940 And they restrict the child's movement so much so that he's guaranteed to cry and whine

00:46:51.660 for the whole nine hour drive to the beach.

00:46:53.720 When I was a kid, you know what putting a kid in a car meant you just, you opened the

00:46:57.880 door and said, get in.

00:46:59.620 And the kid got in and buckled themselves and said, that was it.

00:47:02.240 My parents had me in the front seat, no car seat, no booster seat.

00:47:06.020 When I was like four, we had the middle seat in the front.

00:47:08.800 I would sit there.

00:47:10.580 We just jumped in the car and took off.

00:47:12.560 They have to spend 45 minutes getting everyone locked in.

00:47:14.560 Like we're about to blast off on our way to a settlement on Mars or something.

00:47:18.020 It was easier back then for parents.

00:47:19.620 Fewer rules, less shame, less of a chance that CPS would knock on your door because your

00:47:23.520 neighbor reported you for allowing your eight-year-old to ride his bike down to the playground by

00:47:27.740 himself.

00:47:30.060 That's the way it was.

00:47:30.820 It's not that way anymore.

00:47:32.380 In conclusion, woe is me.

00:47:35.840 Who am I canceling?

00:47:38.000 I guess everyone who has made parenting this complicated.

00:47:40.520 Which includes myself because like I said, I do join in the shaming of the leashed kids 1.00

00:47:46.460 and the, or the parents who use leashes, even though I sort of envy them.

00:47:51.540 So I'm a part of the problem.

00:47:53.180 Um, but I don't cancel myself.

00:47:54.520 I cancel everybody else and boomers also for having it so damned easy. 1.00

00:47:58.440 You don't know how easy you had it.

00:48:00.480 You don't know what it's like now for us.

00:48:03.820 So everyone's canceled.

00:48:04.900 That's it.

00:48:05.840 Um, and I guess we'll leave it there for today.

00:48:08.900 Nice note to leave it on.

00:48:10.520 Have a great day.

00:48:12.100 Godspeed.

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