The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 762 - The Empty People

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, we are witnessing an infinite expansion of gender and sexuality 0.57

00:00:05.220 identities, though all of the new identities seem to be repetitions of each other. Why is

00:00:09.400 this happening exactly? Where is it coming from? I have a theory that I'll share with you. Also,

00:00:13.020 five headlines. Democrats begin their latest investigation, quote unquote, into the events

00:00:17.700 of January 6th. California introduces vaccine mandates and John Oliver pushes for reparations.

00:00:24.260 And also new polls show that most Americans don't think that men should compete against women in

00:00:29.080 sports. And yet that's exactly what's happening. Why? We'll talk about all of that and much more

00:00:34.200 today on the Matt Wall Show. I'd like to start today with a video not unlike so many others that

00:00:48.800 we've played on this show. You know generally what to expect at this point. A person of unclear sex

00:00:53.200 rambling incoherently and parading out a whole encyclopedia of new gender and sexuality labels

00:00:58.760 that all seem to mean the same thing and nothing at the same time. And if that's what you're

00:01:03.560 expecting, well, you're exactly right. This is the kind of thing I would normally say for the end of

00:01:07.400 the show. But there is a larger point to be made here, I think. So first, I must subject you to the

00:01:12.000 video. And here it is.

00:01:14.000 Non-asexual aromantic and allosexual aromantic are not always interchangeable. Non-asexual

00:01:22.000 aromantic includes identities such as my own. I'm not asexual, but I'm not allosexual either. My

00:01:28.520 experiences are going to be very different from an allosexual aromantic person's. I think it's just 1.00

00:01:34.060 important if you're an ally who's talking about aromantic issues, if you're talking about allosexual 0.79

00:01:38.960 aromantic issues, make sure to say allosexual aromantic. There is nothing wrong with that 1.00

00:01:44.240 term. Just saying non-asexual aromantic also includes other aromantic people who might not

00:01:49.780 experience sexual attraction, but still don't identify as asexual. Just something to keep in mind.

00:01:56.420 Indeed. Indeed, I will keep that in mind. And thank you for that reminder. I'd actually been thinking

00:02:01.940 about these very issues recently. In fact, I was sitting around with some guys drinking beer and

00:02:05.840 debating the finer distinctions between allosexual, aromantic, asexual, and non-asexual, aromantic.

00:02:11.640 We had actually draw a four-ringed Venn diagram just to keep it straight. But now we know. And

00:02:16.580 that is very good. So thank you for that. Now, for anyone confused, allosexual may sound like the

00:02:22.480 name of a dinosaur from the late Jurassic period, but it's not. You're thinking of Allosaurus.

00:02:27.900 An allosexual person is not an extinct reptile, nor is he necessarily attracted to them,

00:02:33.860 though he could be. No, an allosexual, according to WebMD, means anyone who experiences sexual 0.51

00:02:40.580 attraction. Yes, any sort of attraction at all makes you an allosexual. So even if you didn't 0.95

00:02:47.200 want to be an allosexual, and didn't feel the need for an additional label to add on to your

00:02:52.140 sexual orientation, you have it anyway. There it is. Just take it and be grateful, you brat. 1.00

00:02:57.240 As for the other labels just listed, an asexual person is somebody who allegedly experiences no 0.95

00:03:03.160 attraction to anyone. However, an aromantic person is someone, again, I'm using WebMD here,

00:03:08.620 a site that sometimes makes me think I'm dying, and at other times, like now, makes me wish I was.

00:03:14.300 An aromantic person is someone who experiences no romantic attraction to others, but may still be

00:03:19.920 sexually attracted. So someone who isn't very romantic, but is still sexual, may be considered

00:03:27.660 aromantic. Every woman listening right now is thinking, oh, you mean like literally all men?

00:03:34.600 Yes, perhaps. But we should note that aromantic people can not only still be sexually attracted,

00:03:39.140 but also can experience, quote, intense loving feelings. So a sexual person who experiences intense

00:03:46.420 loving feelings towards another person. Isn't that the same thing as being romantic? Perhaps

00:03:50.760 again, but who cares? We're on a roll here. Let's keep going. And please do not confuse aromantic

00:03:55.680 people with demiromantic people. Those are those who have romantic attraction only after forming an

00:04:02.120 emotional bond with another person. And every man listening is now thinking, oh, you mean like

00:04:06.960 literally all women? There's also a lithe romantic or okoiro romantic. These are people who experience

00:04:14.300 romantic attraction, but don't want it to be returned. So they want to be romantically attracted

00:04:19.460 to you, but they don't want you to feel anything to them. Otherwise known as creepers. And don't

00:04:25.400 forget gray romantics. Those are people who experience romantic attraction sometimes, but not other

00:04:30.820 times. Otherwise known as everyone. And then there are koiro romantic people who can't tell the difference 1.00

00:04:39.720 between romantic and platonic attraction. Once again, that simply describes every male member

00:04:46.460 of the human species. Now, I know what you're thinking. What about panromantics? Well, you're

00:04:54.300 either thinking that or something more along the lines of, please stop talking about this. Assuming it was

00:04:59.040 the former, I can tell you that Healthline just published an article about panromanticism, which

00:05:04.000 says, quote, panromantic and asexual are not synonymous. They're two different identifiers

00:05:09.740 with two different definitions. Someone on the asexuality spectrum could use both identifiers

00:05:14.540 in order to best name their lived experience with romantic, panromantic, and sexual asexual

00:05:19.140 attraction. But identifying as one doesn't imply identifying as the other. While your sexual

00:05:24.240 orientation names who you want to have sex with, if anyone, your romantic orientation names who you

00:05:29.160 want to spend time with, well, romantically, if anyone. Romantic orientation names who you feel

00:05:34.740 a pull toward, who you desire to cuddle or make dinner with, and who you want to spend all your

00:05:39.460 time with, explains graysexual panromantic Elle Rose, founder of asexuality spectrum resource secret

00:05:45.500 lady spider and co-host of the invisible spectrum podcast. I don't even know what any of the words I'm

00:05:52.060 using mean. Panromantic, I feel like I'm having a stroke as I read this. Panromantic is one of the

00:05:58.420 many romantic orientations. Other romantic orientations include homoromantic, heteroromantic,

00:06:04.040 and biromantic. Someone who's panromantic can experience romantic attraction to someone

00:06:09.780 regardless of their gender, she explains. Okay. So that's the breaking news here. We've got

00:06:15.840 sexual orientation, but also romantic orientation. That's the latest thing hot off the presses. Okay,

00:06:21.440 just dropped romantic orientation. You may notice that the explanations offered by these people

00:06:28.100 always seem to do the opposite of what an explanation typically is meant to achieve.

00:06:33.280 They explain things in order to make those things more confusing and obscure rather than

00:06:38.140 less. That's nothing new. We know that there are dozens and dozens of sexual orientations,

00:06:43.320 which combine with dozens and dozens of genders to create thousands of different variations, 0.85

00:06:48.600 though the variations seem to be incredibly redundant, describing the same basic thing in

00:06:52.980 different ways with differences that are more meaningless than subtle.

00:06:56.700 We've talked many times about where this proliferation of identity labels comes from

00:07:02.040 and why so many people become so obsessed with endlessly labeling themselves.

00:07:08.060 But now I'd like to travel deeper. I don't know if I'd want to travel deeper, but I'm going to

00:07:13.220 into the mindset of these people, all the way into the dark cavernous maze of their convoluted egos

00:07:21.240 and see if we can't come up with a more complete answer. What really is going on here?

00:07:29.060 Because it is something significant and consequential.

00:07:33.660 Why are so many people, especially young people and not a small number of them,

00:07:38.380 wasting their lives by trying to categorize themselves?

00:07:41.580 I thought I was boring because I'll sit around on a Saturday on a Saturday organizing my fishing

00:07:47.800 tackle. That's a fun Saturday to me. But these people or even my sock drawer,

00:07:54.000 as much of a stereotype as that is, I will I will do that. And I kind of enjoy it. But these people

00:07:59.920 spend hours every day sifting through their own psyches and dividing themselves into smaller parts

00:08:06.360 and putting each part into its own drawer with its own label. What kind of a bizarre hobby is this?

00:08:11.520 And again, why? Well, I think a few factors are converging to create this perfect storm of total

00:08:18.080 nonsense. Many people today of all ages, but especially those who grew up in the internet era,

00:08:23.640 have spent their entire lives, including all of their formative years, staring blankly into screens.

00:08:30.440 Now, this not only exposes them to all of these new contrived identities, but more importantly,

00:08:34.780 often prevents them from developing any functional skills or hobbies outside of cyberspace.

00:08:41.660 These are people who don't know how to do anything and don't desire to do anything unless it can be

00:08:47.500 done by moving their thumbs across a screen or a video game controller. There are obviously exceptions

00:08:54.040 to this general rule, but the fact is that teenagers today spend almost all of their leisure time on

00:08:59.100 screens. And we all know that intellectually, but I think we often don't sit and really reflect on

00:09:05.760 the implications of it. A report from a couple of years ago said that the average teen is using a

00:09:10.160 screen seven hours a day, not including schoolwork. And I think that estimate is probably low.

00:09:17.260 But assuming it's not seven hours and then schoolwork, that's just every hour of the day.

00:09:25.400 That's the entire, there's no time for anything else.

00:09:29.740 There's no time to do anything else or find any physical or creative outlets,

00:09:33.680 which means there's also no time to develop anything like an authentic and unique personality.

00:09:38.500 A person begins compulsively self-labeling, not in order to understand their own personality,

00:09:45.280 but as a replacement for it. That's why the newer sexual categories all seem to be centered around

00:09:51.260 androgyny. They're not discovering their identity, but rejecting identity. It's an anti-identity.

00:09:59.640 Opting for something dull and indistinct, where they're all allegedly being their authentic selves,

00:10:04.220 but end up looking exactly like one another. And together they look like nothing, a dreary blend

00:10:10.280 of two sexes, where all that is beautiful about both has been lost and only the most superficial 0.99

00:10:14.740 aspects remain. It's tempting to say that we're turning people into sexless robots.

00:10:22.040 That's not quite the case. See, a robot has no sense of itself, no self-awareness.

00:10:29.520 And that's the case everywhere, but in sci-fi. In reality, robot has no self-awareness.

00:10:34.220 But the other hallmark of the modern Western person is that he is fanatically self-aware.

00:10:40.500 He is consumed by his awareness of himself. He is aware of almost nothing but himself, in fact.

00:10:47.740 He has the exact opposite problem of the robot. While the robot cannot think of, cannot, cannot think of

00:10:53.980 itself, he can't think of anything else. He is obsessed with figuring out what he feels and how he feels

00:11:02.340 about what he feels and how his feelings about what he feels make him feel, and on and on and on,

00:11:06.940 an endless spiral, a black hole. Now, I'm skipping some steps here, admittedly. The internet, the lack

00:11:14.420 of identity, the narcissism, the self-obsession, these only lay the groundwork. We still need the

00:11:20.740 cultural influences to come in and introduce these concepts, giving the empty people a framework that 0.67

00:11:26.660 appeals to them in their emptiness. But they're only spreading fertilizer on ground that is somehow

00:11:32.500 both sterile and yet fertile. So what happens in the end when a person has no personality

00:11:39.620 and yet can do nothing but stare back into the void of himself, trying to discover an authenticity that

00:11:46.540 is long since destroyed? Well, this is what happens. Modern culture is what happens. Gender theory and 1.00

00:11:54.780 pride flags with a thousand contrasting colors are what happens. A person with no life and who has had

00:12:02.280 no experiences telling us to respect his lived experiences. That's what happens. Along with suicide

00:12:09.400 and drug abuse and society beset by meaninglessness and despair. Ultimately, civilizational collapse is

00:12:17.380 what happens. But the good news is that we get some funny TikTok videos out of it. So try to look on

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00:13:48.160 Anyway, you know, I wanted to mention, because I have this undeserved reputation as a hater of animals,

00:13:54.700 maybe because I always talk about how I hate animals. But in spite of that, I did allow my kids to get a

00:13:59.440 new pet. So that's big news in our house. And actually they kidnapped the pet more like,

00:14:04.520 or I mean, rescued it. It's a, it's a pet, it's a turtle, a baby turtle that they found.

00:14:09.100 And the turtle is, it's, it's like, it's damaged. It's disabled. It has a, it's like half of its foot

00:14:14.100 is missing and it's got, it's a cracked shell. Really kind of a hideous little beast, but they

00:14:20.860 wanted to keep it. And we said, yes, but then get this. Um, I go to, to, uh, uh, the pet store

00:14:28.760 that shall remain nameless. It's a big giant chain pet store type of place. Um, and I go in

00:14:39.360 and I tell the guy that we, we have this turtle and I'm looking and I'm trying to be responsible.

00:14:44.120 Like I'm like, what's the right kind of aquarium? Um, do you have one that costs less than $6,000

00:14:50.840 because all of these things for a glass box, the prices here are ridiculous. Uh, what do you mean?

00:14:55.220 Do we need a heat lamp or something like, give me, give me the, give me the basics here. I'm already

00:14:58.640 spending more time on this than I wanted to spend, but I'm trying to be responsible and the kids like

00:15:04.380 it. And so I'm trying, you know, that's what I'm trying to do. And the guy refuses to help me

00:15:08.660 because he said that we're not supposed to take turtles out of the wilderness. He won't help me.

00:15:14.240 He refuses to, he takes like this, this ethical stand. And I said, okay, but the thing is a cripple 1.00

00:15:21.700 and we were, my kids are saving it. It would be dead out there. Okay. It'd be bird food.

00:15:28.580 And he said, and this is what he actually said. It's what he actually told me. This is what he

00:15:31.140 recommended. He said, call the Tennessee game warden and have them come take the baby turtle. Oh really?

00:15:37.120 That's what you wanted me to do. You want me to get on the phone and call the game warden and say,

00:15:41.080 we got this baby turtle with one, with a leg missing coming, come and take it. Are they really

00:15:45.320 going to waste their time on that? Anyway, the prices were too expensive. So I just, I ended up

00:15:51.260 leaving and we ordered it online anyway. Um, and I had to control myself because I wanted so bad

00:15:58.580 to get into an argument with this guy, but I also, you know, my kids are there. It's like,

00:16:04.500 do I want to start yelling at the guy at the pet store in the middle of the aisle making

00:16:08.460 a scene? I decided part of me thinks I should have, but, but I decided not to, but, um, you

00:16:15.100 know, I'm just thinking afterwards, what you, you sell animals here. Where do you get them?

00:16:20.660 Like where, where you come off getting all high and mighty where these animals got, these

00:16:24.300 animals aren't out in the wilderness. You sell them. How dare you? And now I'm, uh, and now I'm

00:16:34.040 thinking maybe I shouldn't even be talking about this publicly because apparently it's illegal

00:16:37.320 what we did. Now there's gonna be a SWAT team breaking down my door, trying to free the disabled 1.00

00:16:41.880 turtle. All right. Um, let's move on. The January 6th commission is underway right now. Democrats are,

00:16:51.380 uh, having their investigation. This is what their 10th or 11th investigation they've had into these

00:16:57.040 events. And, um, uh, I'm not going to play any clips of it right now. I'm not going to talk much

00:17:04.880 about it because I really don't care. And the whole thing is nothing but political theater.

00:17:10.380 Um, and that's it. That's all that I think really needs to be said about it.

00:17:17.700 If, if it were anything but that, you know, if you want to prove to me, prove to everyone that it's,

00:17:23.000 that it's not political theater, then after you're done your little January 6th commission,

00:17:27.660 um, then next, I want you to have a summer of 2020 commission where we talk about the riots that

00:17:35.960 plagued our country for months and months on end and which caught, cost billions of dollars of damage

00:17:41.840 and killed dozens of people and left hundreds of people without jobs and without their homes and

00:17:47.820 their, and their livelihoods taken away from them. That's what I want to know about.

00:17:53.660 I don't know how, I want to know how this was allowed to happen.

00:17:57.120 I already know the answer, but that's the investigation. How did this happen? How did

00:18:00.880 that happen? How was that allowed to happen? Where were the governors of these states? Where were the

00:18:07.580 mayors? Well, we know where they were. In many cases, they were out in the street, explicitly

00:18:14.000 encouraging it, calling for more of it. We know there are high ranking elected Democrats,

00:18:21.440 explicitly calling for more unrest. Going way further than Donald Trump ever did.

00:18:32.740 Because Donald Trump never called for a riot. He never said, he never called for unrest.

00:18:38.060 He never used any euphemism for riot. The Democrats did with the BLM riots. 0.85

00:18:46.180 How is it that BLM militants were able to invade a police station in the middle of a major American 0.88

00:18:57.720 city and burn it to the ground? How did that happen? So that's the investigation I want. Of

00:19:05.740 course, that investigation is never going to happen. And that's how we know that this is nothing but,

00:19:10.340 but political theater. And that's why I refuse to care. Any conservatives, so-called conservatives or

00:19:18.900 Republicans who go along with this and pretend that this is some sort of good faith effort to get to

00:19:26.500 the bottom of it, get to the truth. And if you're playing that game, you are either stupid beyond all 1.00

00:19:35.460 repair or something way worse than that. And I'm thinking probably the latter. 1.00

00:19:42.840 All right, next from Fox News, California state employees and health care workers will need to show

00:19:47.100 proof they've gotten a COVID-19 vaccine or get tested weekly under a new mandate, according to state

00:19:52.360 officials who announced this on Monday. The new rule, which will take effect next month, comes as the state

00:19:57.040 looks to slow a rising number of coronavirus infections and hospitalizations, primarily affecting those who are

00:20:02.340 not vaccinated. But the number of new cases is still well below the peak. At least 238,000 state

00:20:08.880 employees and 2 million health care workers across public and private sector will be subjected to the

00:20:12.420 new mandate. So we're seeing the vaccine mandates officially begin now, starting with state workers.

00:20:21.300 Is it going to stay only with state workers and government workers? I highly doubt it.

00:20:25.060 Governor Newsom was on CNN talking about this, and he made an analogy that I thought was 0.80

00:20:31.100 interesting and also ridiculous. Let's listen. 0.61

00:20:35.240 Is it time, Governor, to bring back a universal mask mandate, regardless of vaccination status there

00:20:42.800 in California?

00:20:45.380 Look, we don't even have to have that debate if we can just get everybody vaccinated that's not

00:20:49.600 vaccinated, that's refusing to get vaccinated, that's living vaccine free and impacting the rest of us.

00:20:55.000 It's like drunk drivers. You don't have the right to go out and drink and drive and put everybody else

00:20:58.860 at risk, including your own life at risk. California is one of the highest vaccination

00:21:02.440 rates in America, but yet we're still seeing an increase because so many people, 25 percent in

00:21:08.000 California, are refusing to get vaccinated. So we're really trying to focus on ending this pandemic

00:21:13.160 once and for all. Those non-pharmaceutical interventions like face coverings and face masking

00:21:17.900 were necessary in the absence of vaccines. But with these vaccines, we can extinguish this virus

00:21:22.920 once and for all and get it behind us and not worry about getting our kids safely back into in-person

00:21:27.740 instruction or keeping our businesses open. We're encouraged by the local determinations as it

00:21:34.580 relates to mask covering, mask wearing. But at the end of the day, the real focus here,

00:21:39.380 get vaccinated so we can end this pandemic.

00:21:41.980 Yes, the vaccines work. They're safe and effective. Also, get the vaccine or you might infect me.

00:21:55.180 Why would you question the effectiveness of the vaccine? That doesn't make any sense. That's absurd.

00:21:58.860 I have it and it's working. Now, please get it or I might die. What's the problem? Why are you

00:22:06.140 confused? Don't you understand? I have a vaccine. It's really safe. It's working. It's great.

00:22:12.300 You don't have the vaccine. And if you don't get it, then you're going to kill me. 0.98

00:22:15.820 What? What's the problem here? Why are you staring at me like you're confused? 0.90

00:22:24.400 Oh, oh, oh, because my the messaging here is completely confused and convoluted. It makes

00:22:28.980 no sense and contradicts itself from one sentence to the next. OK, well, that's why.

00:22:34.940 Drunk drivers. OK, see, there's no vaccine. Here's here's the difference.

00:22:40.360 He says that not getting a vaccine, not getting the vaccine is is like being a drunk driver.

00:22:45.820 There's no vaccine against drunk driving, is there? You can wear a seatbelt.

00:22:55.680 But if someone crashes into you, you know, head first collision at 60 miles an hour,

00:23:01.020 whether you got the seatbelt or not, you're you're you're probably done for.

00:23:06.160 Are you saying that the vaccine is only as effective as a seatbelt and a 60 mile per hour collision,

00:23:12.800 which is to say doesn't really do much at all? Or often doesn't do anything?

00:23:22.560 Because if you're set, if you want us to believe that the vaccine is effective,

00:23:27.120 then that message messaging doesn't make any sense at all.

00:23:29.960 Either the vaccine works or it doesn't. That's it. Either it's effective or it isn't.

00:23:40.680 Choose one or the other.

00:23:41.880 If your message, if your manner of your strategy for getting people to take the vaccine

00:23:52.260 is to talk about the vaccine as if it doesn't work at all.

00:23:58.220 Then that is not going to be an effective strategy.

00:24:00.740 Just a just a thought.

00:24:06.020 All right. This is from USA Today.

00:24:07.700 It says PayPal is collaborating with the Anti-Defamation League on research aimed at cutting off funding

00:24:12.920 for extremist or hate groups.

00:24:15.240 In a statement Monday, ADL said the research will explore how extremist or hate movements

00:24:19.380 use financial platforms to fund their activities.

00:24:22.260 Both that organization and PayPal say the results of their research will be shared

00:24:26.300 within the financial industry, also policymakers and law enforcement.

00:24:31.680 The chief risk officer and executive vice president of risk and platforms at PayPal said in a statement,

00:24:37.880 by identifying partners across sectors with common goals and complementary resources,

00:24:42.000 we can make an even greater impact than any of us would ever do on our own.

00:24:46.360 As part of the initiative, PayPal and ADL will also form a coalition with civil rights organizations

00:24:51.180 to protect marginalized communities from extremism.

00:24:55.760 ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said,

00:24:58.400 We have a unique opportunity to further understand how hate spreads and develop key insights

00:25:03.560 that will inform the efforts of the financial industry, law enforcement and our communities

00:25:07.780 in mitigating extremist threats.

00:25:09.620 So that's the story.

00:25:13.800 Here's a relevant part of the ADL statement on this new initiative.

00:25:18.620 It says the initiative with PayPal will be led through ADL's Center on Extremism,

00:25:24.620 a leading authority on extremism, terrorism, and hate.

00:25:27.880 PayPal and ADL will focus on further uncovering and disrupting the financial pipelines that support

00:25:34.300 extremist and hate movements.

00:25:36.380 In addition to extremist and anti-government organizations,

00:25:39.200 the initiative will focus on actors and networks spreading and profiting

00:25:43.180 from all forms of hate and bigotry against any community.

00:25:50.500 This is a financial institution teaming up with Anti-Defamation League,

00:25:55.300 which is really just a left-wing advocacy group,

00:25:57.400 in order to target hate and extremism.

00:26:00.520 Nothing to worry about there, right?

00:26:01.520 Of course, there's a lot to worry about.

00:26:05.500 And this was guaranteed.

00:26:06.820 Now, we should have been worried about this.

00:26:10.300 You know, back when concepts like hate speech took hold.

00:26:18.500 Or even using a word like extremism or an extremist,

00:26:24.320 as if it's an objectively bad label.

00:26:27.600 You know, to be extreme in your views,

00:26:34.720 whether or not that's a bad thing,

00:26:37.520 it really depends on what the view is.

00:26:41.420 If you're correct,

00:26:44.440 if you are in truth,

00:26:48.740 then there's no way to be too extreme.

00:26:52.880 There's no way to be too extreme about the truth.

00:26:55.320 Right?

00:26:57.600 Extremism becomes a problem.

00:27:01.740 Extremism is a problem of degree.

00:27:06.880 If you're wrong,

00:27:09.460 and you're,

00:27:10.080 you know,

00:27:12.100 and you're extremely wrong,

00:27:14.260 then that's going to be even worse

00:27:15.220 than being sort of moderately wrong.

00:27:19.620 So all of these were extreme,

00:27:22.060 radical.

00:27:22.680 Oh, we wouldn't want to have radicals.

00:27:23.920 It's a bad thing to be a radical.

00:27:24.900 Well, it really depends, doesn't it?

00:27:28.140 Depends on what your cause is,

00:27:29.720 what your movement is.

00:27:34.980 Fundamentalist is another word related to that.

00:27:37.620 It's a bad thing to be a fundamentalist,

00:27:39.180 talking about religious people.

00:27:41.760 Yeah, it's bad to be a fundamentalist

00:27:43.340 if the fundamentals of your religion are flawed.

00:27:46.920 But if they're not,

00:27:49.980 then, yeah,

00:27:50.480 you ought to be a fundamentalist.

00:27:52.540 Just means abiding by the fundamentals

00:27:54.300 of your religion.

00:27:56.840 If the fundamentals of your religion are violent,

00:27:59.620 then, yes,

00:28:01.860 it's a problem to be a fundamentalist there.

00:28:04.920 So it really depends.

00:28:05.820 And that's also the case with hate.

00:28:09.960 Is it a bad thing to hate?

00:28:13.460 Again, it depends.

00:28:15.180 It depends on what you hate and why.

00:28:18.940 Everybody hates things.

00:28:20.980 It's part of being a human being.

00:28:23.040 Hate is the other side of the coin to love.

00:28:27.460 They're on the same coin.

00:28:28.520 In fact,

00:28:31.640 in order to love something,

00:28:33.620 you must also hate.

00:28:36.700 Example,

00:28:37.980 I love my children

00:28:39.820 more than life itself.

00:28:42.420 And because I love them,

00:28:44.280 there are many things

00:28:46.160 that I therefore hate.

00:28:49.000 Primarily anything

00:28:50.080 that threatens to hurt them

00:28:51.680 and cause them harm.

00:28:53.820 Anything that wishes to corrupt them.

00:28:58.520 I hate that.

00:29:04.540 It's a big reason why

00:29:05.860 I hate

00:29:06.540 left-wing gender theory.

00:29:10.880 Critical race theory.

00:29:12.120 Because of the harm

00:29:13.680 that it does to kids

00:29:14.440 who are indoctrinated into it.

00:29:18.380 But we have,

00:29:19.660 as a society,

00:29:20.560 including a lot of conservatives,

00:29:21.640 we've gone along

00:29:22.540 with this idea

00:29:23.780 that all hate

00:29:25.880 is automatically bad.

00:29:26.980 I don't want to engage in,

00:29:30.100 hate speech

00:29:30.940 is like a different category

00:29:32.500 from regular speech.

00:29:34.160 See,

00:29:34.400 there's regular speech

00:29:35.340 which is okay

00:29:36.120 and that's when you're

00:29:36.880 giving your opinions

00:29:37.880 about things.

00:29:39.000 But hate speech

00:29:40.080 is a totally different thing

00:29:41.400 and that's bad

00:29:42.740 because it means

00:29:43.340 that you're using speech

00:29:44.880 to convey

00:29:45.320 that you hate something.

00:29:47.080 Well,

00:29:47.320 it's only bad sometimes.

00:29:50.160 Depends on what you're hating,

00:29:51.240 right?

00:29:51.400 is extremism,

00:29:57.000 is a radical fundamentalist.

00:29:58.620 We allowed all of these words

00:30:00.140 to become

00:30:00.900 objectively bad

00:30:03.560 in our culture.

00:30:07.180 And now,

00:30:08.020 and now this.

00:30:10.780 And now there's a,

00:30:12.140 by the most powerful forces

00:30:13.360 in our culture

00:30:13.940 on a campaign

00:30:15.100 to erase

00:30:16.800 hate and extremism.

00:30:18.140 And on the surface level,

00:30:20.660 who could possibly object?

00:30:21.680 They just want to get rid of hate.

00:30:22.640 Hate's a bad thing,

00:30:23.300 right?

00:30:25.260 Hate,

00:30:25.640 hate speech

00:30:26.160 is different than regular speech.

00:30:27.240 We've already,

00:30:27.760 apparently we've all agreed

00:30:28.640 with this and established it.

00:30:33.280 But because it all depends,

00:30:35.740 now it's going to be

00:30:36.720 a matter of,

00:30:37.440 the question is,

00:30:38.120 well,

00:30:38.340 okay,

00:30:39.140 what type of hate

00:30:44.500 are you going after here?

00:30:48.200 Are you going to be

00:30:48.860 targeting people?

00:30:49.860 What about those

00:30:50.460 who would hate someone like me

00:30:51.440 for being a white

00:30:53.560 conservative male?

00:30:55.340 What about that kind

00:30:56.140 of hate speech?

00:30:57.680 Oh no,

00:30:57.840 we're going to leave that alone

00:30:58.460 because that's a good hate.

00:31:03.860 All right.

00:31:05.500 Moving on,

00:31:06.020 this is from the Daily Wire.

00:31:07.020 John Oliver,

00:31:07.700 host of HBO's

00:31:09.060 fake news show

00:31:09.620 last week tonight,

00:31:10.360 believes the U.S.

00:31:11.140 government should pay

00:31:11.900 monetary restitution 0.92

00:31:13.020 to black Americans 0.67

00:31:14.060 to compensate 0.97

00:31:14.660 for the country's

00:31:15.360 past racism.

00:31:17.160 He argued Sunday night,

00:31:18.160 the only really strange

00:31:19.300 thing about it

00:31:20.020 is that we haven't

00:31:20.740 done it yet.

00:31:23.500 Citing a 2014

00:31:24.400 Atlantic article,

00:31:25.980 The Case for Reparations,

00:31:27.180 the British comedian

00:31:27.680 based his arguments

00:31:28.400 not on slavery

00:31:29.120 but on housing discrimination.

00:31:31.080 Oliver said,

00:31:31.580 the history of race

00:31:32.280 and land ownership

00:31:32.840 in America

00:31:33.320 has many horrifying chapters,

00:31:35.140 pretty much from chapter one

00:31:36.180 when America was discovered

00:31:37.100 from under other people's feet.

00:31:39.980 Despite the fact

00:31:40.860 that the Fair Housing Act,

00:31:42.100 first enacted in 1968,

00:31:43.240 makes it illegal

00:31:43.820 to consider race

00:31:44.620 or skin color

00:31:45.160 in the sale of homes,

00:31:46.200 Oliver contended

00:31:46.700 that minorities

00:31:47.740 still face discrimination

00:31:48.780 when it comes to

00:31:49.480 federal mortgage loans

00:31:50.400 and home appraisals.

00:31:51.580 The comedian also

00:31:52.260 blasted colorblind proposals

00:31:53.940 like Joe Biden's

00:31:54.820 $15,000

00:31:56.020 first-time homebuyer

00:31:57.220 tax credit

00:31:57.940 and made an argument

00:31:58.760 specifically for

00:31:59.700 race-based policies.

00:32:01.940 And he went on

00:32:02.440 for about 30 minutes here

00:32:03.340 advocating for reparations.

00:32:05.620 Of course,

00:32:06.220 the first thing

00:32:06.740 I'm going to say,

00:32:07.100 anytime someone

00:32:07.540 advocates for reparations

00:32:08.680 and if you are

00:32:10.680 a white person yourself,

00:32:12.080 John Oliver is worth,

00:32:13.200 I think,

00:32:13.920 worth $30 million,

00:32:15.240 maybe more than that.

00:32:17.820 With your net worth

00:32:19.280 and all the wealth

00:32:19.880 that you have, 0.60

00:32:21.620 how many black families

00:32:23.440 could you lift

00:32:24.020 out of poverty

00:32:24.520 on your own?

00:32:27.400 If all of the wealthy

00:32:28.580 white liberals

00:32:29.120 in our country

00:32:29.740 who say they want

00:32:30.900 things like reparations,

00:32:31.860 talk to pretty much

00:32:34.880 any Hollywood celebrity,

00:32:35.880 any white Hollywood celebrity,

00:32:36.940 ask them what they think

00:32:37.940 about reparations

00:32:38.620 and they're going to tell you,

00:32:39.320 oh yeah, absolutely,

00:32:40.180 we need that.

00:32:42.880 I'm enlightened,

00:32:43.720 of course I'm in favor of that.

00:32:46.840 Okay, well,

00:32:47.680 what about selling

00:32:49.020 one of your seven mansions

00:32:50.320 and going into one of these

00:32:54.460 underprivileged cities

00:32:56.260 and, you know,

00:32:57.960 giving out the profits?

00:32:58.800 Okay.

00:33:02.280 Well, no,

00:33:02.780 because you want,

00:33:04.020 you don't want to be

00:33:04.860 the one to pay.

00:33:05.540 You want other people

00:33:06.180 to pay the reparations,

00:33:07.020 of course.

00:33:08.280 In fact,

00:33:08.520 when I brought this point up,

00:33:09.520 some people observed

00:33:11.580 that John Oliver is British,

00:33:13.560 although I think he's now

00:33:14.220 an American citizen,

00:33:15.980 technically.

00:33:16.840 Well, he's British 0.96

00:33:17.580 and so I was actually

00:33:19.440 told this on Twitter

00:33:21.220 that it's,

00:33:21.920 well, he's British

00:33:22.760 and he just came

00:33:23.940 to this country recently

00:33:24.660 and none of this

00:33:25.720 is his fault.

00:33:28.160 Well,

00:33:28.740 a couple of things here.

00:33:29.540 First of all,

00:33:30.120 yeah,

00:33:31.560 that's part of the point

00:33:32.600 about reparations,

00:33:33.400 isn't it?

00:33:36.000 Even if I were to agree

00:33:37.280 that you could inherit

00:33:38.240 guilt from your ancestors,

00:33:41.080 meaning that now

00:33:42.480 you have to pay up

00:33:43.440 for the sins they committed,

00:33:44.760 which I don't agree,

00:33:46.040 but even if I did,

00:33:48.000 a great number

00:33:48.660 of the white people

00:33:49.300 who live here now,

00:33:50.000 myself included,

00:33:51.700 weren't,

00:33:52.240 our bloodline,

00:33:53.720 our ancestors

00:33:55.380 weren't in this country

00:33:56.740 when this stuff

00:33:57.180 was happening.

00:33:57.580 And in fact,

00:34:01.080 for many of us,

00:34:01.720 when our ancestors

00:34:02.420 did come here,

00:34:03.760 they also faced

00:34:05.080 discrimination

00:34:05.700 and prejudice.

00:34:07.100 So how do you

00:34:07.640 work that out?

00:34:10.040 That's the case

00:34:10.820 for me

00:34:11.140 as a person

00:34:11.720 of Irish descent.

00:34:13.940 And speaking of

00:34:14.940 John Oliver

00:34:15.940 being a Brit,

00:34:18.040 okay,

00:34:18.340 maybe he should be

00:34:18.840 paying his own

00:34:19.280 reparations then

00:34:20.120 for the sins

00:34:21.800 of his ancestors.

00:34:22.820 Pay them to me.

00:34:23.520 Pay them to the Irish. 1.00

00:34:25.020 Cut me the first check.

00:34:26.220 I'll be first in line.

00:34:27.580 And that's always

00:34:30.720 going to be the first

00:34:31.360 problem with any

00:34:34.180 call to reparations

00:34:35.520 is that so often

00:34:38.040 the people calling

00:34:38.840 for it

00:34:39.300 are in a position

00:34:41.700 where they could

00:34:42.340 start doling it out

00:34:43.260 themselves

00:34:43.860 of their own

00:34:44.820 volition

00:34:45.140 and they choose

00:34:45.660 not to,

00:34:46.040 which tells you

00:34:46.460 something.

00:34:48.640 But also,

00:34:49.680 you know,

00:34:49.980 when we talk

00:34:52.780 about past

00:34:54.640 discrimination,

00:34:56.880 bad things

00:34:57.800 that happened

00:34:58.240 in the past

00:34:58.880 and how that

00:35:00.900 is responsible

00:35:01.900 and that has

00:35:02.360 led to the

00:35:03.680 situation

00:35:04.000 that we face

00:35:05.400 today,

00:35:08.020 you know,

00:35:08.500 my first question

00:35:09.700 is going to be

00:35:10.080 what's going on

00:35:10.680 in the family?

00:35:11.220 So before

00:35:13.240 we can talk

00:35:14.060 about reparations

00:35:14.840 at all,

00:35:16.060 how about this?

00:35:18.260 Let's get the

00:35:18.980 fatherless rate

00:35:19.820 in the black

00:35:20.840 community. 0.88

00:35:21.280 Let's get it down.

00:35:22.000 It's 70% right now

00:35:23.120 or more,

00:35:23.620 depending on where,

00:35:24.220 you know,

00:35:24.720 depending on what

00:35:25.360 community

00:35:25.680 specifically

00:35:26.560 we're looking at.

00:35:28.180 Around 70%.

00:35:29.240 Let's get it down

00:35:31.680 to 30%,

00:35:33.860 which is still

00:35:34.660 really high.

00:35:35.260 But what

00:35:38.140 would happen

00:35:38.640 if we got

00:35:39.400 that fatherless

00:35:40.140 rate down

00:35:41.100 to 30%

00:35:41.920 where only

00:35:43.840 30%

00:35:44.500 of black

00:35:45.440 children are 0.79

00:35:46.240 growing up

00:35:46.640 in fatherless

00:35:47.160 homes?

00:35:49.520 Because I'm

00:35:50.320 going to bet

00:35:50.920 that if we

00:35:51.580 were to do

00:35:51.920 that,

00:35:52.800 a lot of

00:35:53.640 these problems

00:35:54.220 that we blame

00:35:54.800 on historical

00:35:55.360 racism would

00:35:56.460 start to go

00:35:56.980 away or they 1.00

00:35:58.320 would at least

00:35:59.060 improve

00:35:59.760 dramatically.

00:36:03.240 How's that

00:36:03.840 for an idea?

00:36:04.220 Why don't we

00:36:04.440 start there?

00:36:05.740 Let's get down

00:36:06.420 to 30%.

00:36:07.200 And while we're

00:36:08.920 at it,

00:36:09.140 we can work

00:36:09.460 on the fatherless

00:36:10.040 rate in every

00:36:10.560 other community

00:36:11.600 because it's

00:36:12.360 too high

00:36:12.980 everywhere

00:36:13.420 for everybody.

00:36:15.280 And then we

00:36:16.220 can check back.

00:36:17.040 We can check

00:36:17.420 back in on

00:36:17.840 this issue.

00:36:20.480 I would even

00:36:21.080 make that deal.

00:36:22.060 You know what?

00:36:22.800 If that doesn't

00:36:23.680 move the needle

00:36:24.280 at all,

00:36:25.160 then all right,

00:36:25.640 fine,

00:36:25.800 we'll do

00:36:25.960 reparations.

00:36:26.900 That's how

00:36:27.380 confident I am

00:36:28.360 that it will.

00:36:32.500 All right.

00:36:33.200 This is from

00:36:34.020 the Daily Wire

00:36:34.440 also.

00:36:34.740 It says,

00:36:34.820 Americans are

00:36:35.420 deeply divided

00:36:36.220 on the issue

00:36:36.780 of transgender

00:36:37.540 athletes and

00:36:38.240 most Americans,

00:36:38.900 even most

00:36:39.160 Democrats,

00:36:39.600 believe that

00:36:39.960 athletes should 0.62

00:36:40.600 not compete

00:36:41.200 against others

00:36:41.840 of the gender

00:36:42.500 with which they

00:36:43.060 identify.

00:36:44.180 According to

00:36:44.640 an Axios poll

00:36:46.040 out on Monday,

00:36:47.420 the poll seems

00:36:47.860 to indicate a

00:36:48.300 consensus among

00:36:49.000 Americans that

00:36:50.060 transgender athletes,

00:36:51.040 most often

00:36:51.420 biological males,

00:36:52.880 should not

00:36:53.380 compete according

00:36:54.060 to the gender

00:36:54.680 with which they

00:36:55.140 identify if that

00:36:56.200 gender is different

00:36:56.820 from the biological

00:36:57.440 sex they were 0.52

00:36:58.020 assigned at birth.

00:36:59.360 There does not

00:36:59.900 appear to be a

00:37:00.340 consensus,

00:37:00.760 however,

00:37:00.860 on who

00:37:01.360 athletes who

00:37:02.620 identify as

00:37:03.120 transgender should

00:37:03.960 compete against. 0.92

00:37:05.700 Axios notes that

00:37:06.460 the poll shows a

00:37:07.300 deep division,

00:37:08.180 but overall,

00:37:08.700 just 20% of

00:37:09.460 respondents said

00:37:10.460 that transgender

00:37:10.940 athletes should be

00:37:11.980 able to select

00:37:12.640 which team they

00:37:13.340 compete on.

00:37:14.000 Um, it says,

00:37:15.940 quote, while 39% of

00:37:17.400 people say

00:37:17.800 transgender athletes

00:37:18.500 should compete

00:37:19.100 against others of

00:37:19.800 the gender they 0.89

00:37:20.240 were assigned at

00:37:20.740 birth, 20% said

00:37:22.540 they should compete

00:37:23.120 against others of

00:37:23.940 the gender with 0.96

00:37:24.520 which they identify.

00:37:26.980 And, uh, it

00:37:28.620 says while

00:37:28.920 Americans disagree,

00:37:30.380 while Americans 0.67

00:37:31.320 disagree seems to

00:37:32.160 be over, while

00:37:34.560 Americans

00:37:34.900 disagreement, I

00:37:35.820 guess I'm supposed

00:37:36.220 to say, it seems

00:37:36.660 to be over where

00:37:38.080 transgender athletes

00:37:39.180 fit in, around 40%

00:37:40.800 of respondents said

00:37:41.820 transgender athletes

00:37:42.660 should compete

00:37:43.180 against others of

00:37:43.980 their biological

00:37:44.520 gender.

00:37:44.900 Okay, this is all

00:37:45.780 very confusing

00:37:46.540 because it sounds

00:37:48.200 like you have a

00:37:48.600 majority of Americans

00:37:49.580 on both sides of

00:37:50.400 the political aisle

00:37:51.080 who say, no, men

00:37:53.100 shouldn't, to

00:37:54.060 simplify the language

00:37:54.880 here, what they're

00:37:55.280 saying is, no, males

00:37:56.860 should not compete

00:37:57.440 against females.

00:38:00.080 But not all of the

00:38:02.000 people saying that

00:38:02.980 are willing to also

00:38:05.120 say that the males

00:38:05.900 should only compete

00:38:06.480 against males.

00:38:07.180 So who should they

00:38:07.900 compete against?

00:38:08.900 This is really the

00:38:09.480 only two options,

00:38:10.280 either male or

00:38:10.800 female.

00:38:12.160 Should males

00:38:12.640 compete against

00:38:13.220 females? 0.99

00:38:13.980 Most people say,

00:38:14.860 no, of course

00:38:15.300 not.

00:38:16.100 Oh, so you mean

00:38:16.700 that they should

00:38:17.060 only compete

00:38:17.400 against males?

00:38:18.160 And then half

00:38:18.580 the people say,

00:38:19.600 well, no, I

00:38:20.260 wouldn't go that

00:38:20.700 far.

00:38:23.860 What I think we

00:38:24.560 can get from

00:38:24.960 this, because the

00:38:25.560 results are totally

00:38:27.580 confused and don't

00:38:28.680 really make a lot of

00:38:29.280 sense on the

00:38:30.080 surface, what I

00:38:32.580 think we can glean

00:38:33.540 from this is that

00:38:34.280 most people know

00:38:35.380 that men shouldn't

00:38:37.280 compete against

00:38:37.840 women. 0.81

00:38:38.900 Most people know

00:38:39.720 that intuitively.

00:38:40.400 they recognize

00:38:41.140 that because it's

00:38:42.460 obvious, but

00:38:44.280 they're terrified

00:38:46.500 of their own

00:38:47.140 common sense.

00:38:50.020 They don't want to

00:38:50.880 go, they don't want

00:38:51.420 to take their own

00:38:52.380 common sense logic

00:38:53.340 all the way to

00:38:54.340 its, not only

00:38:55.580 its logical

00:38:56.300 conclusion, but

00:38:58.840 the only conclusion,

00:38:59.820 which is that if

00:39:00.380 males aren't 1.00

00:39:00.800 competing against

00:39:01.280 females, they're 1.00

00:39:02.140 only competing

00:39:02.580 against males.

00:39:03.020 but people are

00:39:05.920 so afraid.

00:39:06.920 They know that

00:39:08.860 this is crazy,

00:39:10.040 right and left.

00:39:12.020 I think most

00:39:12.600 people know that

00:39:13.480 this is crazy,

00:39:14.140 doesn't make any

00:39:14.720 sense.

00:39:15.720 We're going to

00:39:16.040 have a male 0.90

00:39:17.380 weightlifter

00:39:19.880 competing against

00:39:20.700 females in the 0.77

00:39:22.060 Olympics.

00:39:22.320 That's coming up

00:39:23.020 in a few days, so

00:39:24.140 you can tune in

00:39:24.640 and watch that.

00:39:27.240 Laurel Hubbard, I

00:39:28.120 believe, is the

00:39:28.840 man's name.

00:39:29.940 Laurel Hubbard, who

00:39:30.680 wouldn't, would

00:39:31.840 not, would not

00:39:33.000 be able to

00:39:33.500 compete at all

00:39:34.060 against the

00:39:34.460 men.

00:39:35.680 Mediocre at

00:39:36.380 best against the

00:39:37.020 men.

00:39:37.240 Wouldn't make it

00:39:37.740 onto the field,

00:39:38.740 wouldn't come

00:39:39.220 close to even

00:39:40.540 sniffing a

00:39:41.980 qualification as

00:39:42.940 a male, but

00:39:44.540 put him against

00:39:44.980 females and he 0.99

00:39:45.960 dominates because

00:39:46.620 that's how profound

00:39:48.540 the differences are

00:39:49.160 between the sexes

00:39:49.820 physically.

00:39:51.880 And I think most

00:39:52.960 people look at

00:39:53.460 that and they

00:39:54.100 intuitively recognize

00:39:55.600 this doesn't make

00:39:56.260 any sense, it's 0.98

00:39:57.040 completely ridiculous. 0.96

00:40:00.120 But they are 0.97

00:40:00.820 terrified to

00:40:01.680 recognize that.

00:40:04.000 And so they

00:40:04.520 don't want to

00:40:04.780 take it all

00:40:05.080 the way to

00:40:05.320 its logical

00:40:05.740 conclusion.

00:40:06.740 They certainly

00:40:07.120 don't want to

00:40:07.460 talk about it

00:40:07.920 very much.

00:40:10.580 And although

00:40:11.100 most people

00:40:11.440 recognize that

00:40:12.080 it's wrong,

00:40:12.720 these policies

00:40:13.460 are put in

00:40:13.880 place across

00:40:14.340 the country,

00:40:15.380 not only in the

00:40:17.260 Olympics and in

00:40:18.400 colleges, but all

00:40:19.100 the way down to

00:40:19.800 high school and

00:40:21.080 lower levels than

00:40:21.980 that.

00:40:23.500 And most of the

00:40:24.240 people who

00:40:24.560 recognize that it's

00:40:25.280 wrong don't say

00:40:25.960 anything about it.

00:40:26.680 you know, a lot

00:40:29.500 of conservatives

00:40:29.880 look at these

00:40:30.460 kinds of poll

00:40:31.100 results and

00:40:31.540 they're encouraged

00:40:32.000 by them.

00:40:33.480 But me, maybe not

00:40:34.540 surprisingly as an

00:40:36.120 avowed pessimist, I

00:40:37.960 kind of take it the

00:40:38.600 other way.

00:40:40.840 I would almost,

00:40:41.500 given the fact that

00:40:42.440 these policies are

00:40:43.180 being put in place

00:40:43.860 across the country

00:40:44.620 and most people

00:40:45.260 simply go along

00:40:46.140 with it and don't

00:40:46.800 protest it, I would

00:40:48.280 almost rather that

00:40:49.340 the poll results

00:40:50.380 show that 90% of

00:40:52.040 Americans think it's

00:40:53.160 okay to have males

00:40:54.140 competing against

00:40:54.640 females. 0.98

00:40:56.160 Because 90% of

00:40:57.900 Americans are going 1.00

00:40:58.960 along with it.

00:41:00.700 I would rather

00:41:01.600 believe that they're

00:41:02.140 going along with it

00:41:02.840 because they honestly

00:41:03.720 believe this is the

00:41:04.360 right thing.

00:41:09.080 In some ways, I

00:41:10.160 would rather live in

00:41:11.260 a country full of

00:41:12.520 really confused

00:41:14.740 people than a

00:41:17.100 country full of 0.99

00:41:17.600 cowards, which I 0.99

00:41:19.860 think is what we 0.99

00:41:20.240 have.

00:41:21.160 Okay, I'm reading

00:41:22.240 the YouTube comments

00:41:23.260 now.

00:41:23.540 This is from

00:41:24.180 Gibberish, says

00:41:25.240 Matt, today your

00:41:26.380 shirt color is blue

00:41:27.280 and white with a

00:41:27.980 checkered pattern.

00:41:29.200 I'm sure you were

00:41:29.720 wondering.

00:41:30.060 Well, that was my

00:41:30.340 shirt color yesterday,

00:41:31.100 of course.

00:41:32.140 And now I'm getting

00:41:32.640 these comments a lot,

00:41:33.320 people telling me

00:41:33.860 what clothes I'm

00:41:35.500 wearing and what

00:41:36.040 color the clothes

00:41:37.060 are.

00:41:37.360 And I appreciate

00:41:37.880 that.

00:41:39.120 As a color vision

00:41:40.460 deficient American,

00:41:41.340 I do appreciate

00:41:42.020 that.

00:41:44.500 Chloe says, Matt,

00:41:45.480 you better not

00:41:45.920 forget about me when

00:41:46.660 you're famous.

00:41:47.620 Well, I'm already

00:41:48.140 famous and I've

00:41:48.700 already forgotten

00:41:49.120 about you.

00:41:51.140 I'm sorry,

00:41:51.660 those.

00:41:53.380 Ryan says, your

00:41:54.820 arguments for

00:41:55.440 conservatorship are

00:41:56.320 just poorly thought

00:41:57.340 out.

00:42:00.040 Well, sir, your

00:42:01.040 counter-argument has

00:42:01.800 persuaded me.

00:42:02.840 Thank you for that.

00:42:03.640 I abandoned my

00:42:04.980 previous position.

00:42:06.900 I love these

00:42:07.800 comments you get

00:42:08.780 from people.

00:42:09.720 You make an

00:42:10.320 argument and you

00:42:10.900 lay it out.

00:42:11.340 I mean, I laid out

00:42:11.780 my argument with the

00:42:12.400 conservatorship yesterday

00:42:13.220 for like 15 minutes.

00:42:14.980 And then someone

00:42:15.740 says, actually, you're

00:42:18.140 wrong about that.

00:42:19.680 Period.

00:42:21.520 Oh, okay.

00:42:23.800 Well, never mind

00:42:24.640 then.

00:42:28.240 Old Schooled says,

00:42:29.520 Matt, please make

00:42:30.240 this the last time you

00:42:31.340 waste our time on

00:42:32.520 Britney. 0.83

00:42:34.000 Fair enough, but give

00:42:34.900 me credit because

00:42:35.560 people were talking

00:42:36.300 about the Britney

00:42:37.040 Spears thing for

00:42:37.800 months and I didn't

00:42:39.840 say anything about

00:42:40.420 it.

00:42:41.200 I think I showed

00:42:41.840 incredible restraint.

00:42:44.460 But then I couldn't

00:42:45.500 take it anymore and I

00:42:46.180 had to run my mouth.

00:42:47.520 So I can only, it was

00:42:48.820 really, it was once I

00:42:49.880 found out that the

00:42:50.840 Republicans are, some

00:42:54.120 Republicans are trying

00:42:54.920 to push legislation, the

00:42:56.780 Save Britney Act. 1.00

00:42:57.840 That for me was the

00:42:58.500 last straw and I

00:42:59.480 couldn't, I had to, I

00:43:00.960 had to say something.

00:43:02.520 Frederick says, you are 1.00

00:43:03.980 truly a pathetic and 1.00

00:43:05.180 bitter little man. 1.00

00:43:06.580 You have never

00:43:07.140 achieved an

00:43:07.740 infinitesimal amount

00:43:09.060 of the beauty and joy

00:43:10.360 John Lennon has brought

00:43:11.520 into the world.

00:43:13.380 Well, maybe, but John

00:43:14.580 Lennon released the

00:43:15.880 plague known as

00:43:17.020 Imagine onto

00:43:17.860 mankind and he

00:43:19.700 should never be

00:43:20.120 forgiven for that.

00:43:21.620 Okay.

00:43:22.420 I have never

00:43:23.440 committed an

00:43:23.920 atrocity as bad as

00:43:24.780 that.

00:43:26.400 Though he's not as

00:43:27.360 bad as Paul

00:43:27.860 McCartney who is

00:43:29.000 responsible for

00:43:29.960 wonderful Christmas

00:43:31.340 time, which

00:43:32.980 forever will be the

00:43:34.020 worst song ever

00:43:34.580 written.

00:43:37.900 Jeannie says, Matt,

00:43:38.820 I don't agree that

00:43:39.540 Britney should be 1.00

00:43:40.020 under conservatorship.

00:43:41.060 If she can't, if

00:43:41.880 she can work in Las

00:43:42.760 Vegas doing shows

00:43:43.860 several nights a week,

00:43:44.780 she deserves her own 0.99

00:43:45.780 money and time.

00:43:47.340 Yeah, I hear this a

00:43:48.240 lot.

00:43:48.440 That to me makes no

00:43:49.300 sense.

00:43:49.580 The fact that someone

00:43:50.420 can get up on stage

00:43:52.220 and sing and perform a

00:43:53.560 choreographed routine,

00:43:54.660 even if they're really

00:43:56.820 good at the choreography

00:43:57.780 and the dancing and

00:43:58.820 are moderately okay at

00:44:02.320 the singing part of it,

00:44:03.140 that doesn't prove

00:44:04.780 anything about their

00:44:05.860 psychological state.

00:44:08.160 You could certainly be 0.98

00:44:09.840 totally psychotic and do 0.99

00:44:12.100 that.

00:44:12.480 So I don't think that

00:44:14.920 really proves anything

00:44:15.620 in and of itself.

00:44:18.960 And Kurt says, I

00:44:20.740 like this show.

00:44:21.460 Please don't get me

00:44:22.000 wrong.

00:44:22.500 I'd like it even better

00:44:23.420 if you did a show

00:44:24.220 slamming the right's

00:44:25.400 shortcomings.

00:44:26.160 I think I do that a

00:44:26.780 lot, don't I?

00:44:28.100 The right loves

00:44:28.840 regulating things.

00:44:30.180 The war on drugs, for

00:44:31.380 one, is immoral.

00:44:32.260 I should be able to 0.98

00:44:33.040 ingest any damn thing 0.99

00:44:34.260 I want. 0.99

00:44:36.000 Well, you can ingest 0.99

00:44:37.140 any damn thing you 0.99

00:44:37.880 want, Kurt. 0.99

00:44:39.460 I mean, you could

00:44:40.300 drink a bottle of

00:44:41.040 gasoline if you wanted

00:44:42.020 to.

00:44:42.300 I wouldn't

00:44:42.520 recommend it.

00:44:43.300 Please don't.

00:44:44.020 But you could.

00:44:45.500 There's no law to

00:44:46.360 prevent it.

00:44:48.400 Or if there is a

00:44:49.340 law, there's no law

00:44:50.020 that could prevent you

00:44:51.020 from doing that, we

00:44:51.740 should say.

00:44:53.040 The question, though,

00:44:54.280 at least for me,

00:44:55.000 here's the question.

00:44:56.600 Because you said 0.99

00:44:57.220 ingest any damn 0.99

00:44:58.020 thing you want. 0.99

00:44:58.640 Okay, let's take

00:44:59.260 gasoline.

00:45:02.320 There are probably

00:45:03.660 laws saying, please

00:45:04.940 don't drink gasoline,

00:45:05.740 but no one can

00:45:06.480 actually stop you

00:45:07.000 from doing it.

00:45:08.000 The question is

00:45:08.700 whether it should be

00:45:09.400 legal for the gas

00:45:11.100 station to put the

00:45:12.180 gasoline into bottles

00:45:13.320 and sell it to you

00:45:14.400 for the purpose of

00:45:15.220 drinking, even if they

00:45:16.760 tell you it's going to

00:45:17.720 kill you. 0.99

00:45:18.900 Put it on the label. 1.00

00:45:19.900 Should they be able

00:45:20.660 to do that?

00:45:23.420 My answer is no.

00:45:25.120 I don't think it

00:45:26.080 should be legal to

00:45:28.380 sell poison to people

00:45:29.880 in any form.

00:45:32.500 Something that is

00:45:33.220 purely poison and

00:45:35.220 really can't do

00:45:36.020 anything but damage

00:45:37.120 you and eventually 1.00

00:45:37.760 kill you. 1.00

00:45:38.320 I don't think 1.00

00:45:39.380 that should be

00:45:39.680 legal.

00:45:42.080 And finally,

00:45:42.960 William says,

00:45:43.780 us sweet babies

00:45:44.660 must address Matt

00:45:45.940 as Daddy Walsh.

00:45:48.820 No, that's too

00:45:49.920 weird.

00:45:50.300 Let's back it down

00:45:50.960 a little bit.

00:45:52.620 Sweet baby gang,

00:45:53.660 obviously.

00:45:54.560 Sweet baby gang

00:45:55.180 for life.

00:45:55.800 I'm into that,

00:45:56.520 but don't call me

00:45:57.900 Daddy Walsh.

00:45:59.200 Obviously, you

00:45:59.900 should be calling

00:46:00.400 me Sweet Daddy

00:46:01.180 Walsh.

00:46:03.940 And I'm going to

00:46:04.780 so badly regret

00:46:05.660 having just said

00:46:06.300 that.

00:46:06.460 I know I will.

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00:47:01.860 slash Ben.

00:47:03.420 And also,

00:47:04.060 is there anything

00:47:04.620 more terrifying

00:47:05.280 than a bunch of

00:47:05.840 communist world

00:47:06.620 leaders all

00:47:07.160 deciding to be

00:47:07.700 extremely communist

00:47:08.760 and tyrannical at

00:47:09.760 the same time?

00:47:10.660 I don't think so.

00:47:11.500 You have Cubans 1.00

00:47:12.920 being thrown in

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00:47:15.160 their authoritarian

00:47:15.700 government in the

00:47:16.340 streets, the French

00:47:17.040 facing police

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00:47:24.580 LA into lockdown

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00:47:26.500 and that's happening

00:47:26.920 across the country.

00:47:27.740 And perhaps the

00:47:28.060 most frightening of

00:47:28.540 all, our own

00:47:29.460 president is

00:47:30.000 colluding with

00:47:30.640 big tech to

00:47:31.440 increase censorship

00:47:32.220 of dissenting

00:47:32.900 viewpoints.

00:47:33.920 Governments all

00:47:34.600 over the world,

00:47:35.100 including ours,

00:47:35.640 are trying to

00:47:36.120 squeeze their

00:47:36.660 citizens for every

00:47:37.620 last drop of

00:47:38.400 freedom that they

00:47:38.940 have, and

00:47:39.380 unfortunately,

00:47:40.140 they're succeeding.

00:47:41.240 That's why it's

00:47:41.660 time for your

00:47:42.140 favorite Voices of

00:47:42.940 Reason.

00:47:43.620 Oh, okay, we're

00:47:44.120 finally getting to

00:47:44.600 the part where I

00:47:45.000 talk about the

00:47:45.480 backstage.

00:47:46.120 I was wondering

00:47:46.480 when that would

00:47:46.760 happen.

00:47:47.980 We're going to

00:47:48.620 have a backstage

00:47:49.040 is what I'm

00:47:49.380 trying to tell you.

00:47:50.100 Ben Shapiro,

00:47:51.120 myself, Jeremy

00:47:52.120 Boring, Michael

00:47:52.680 Knowles, and Andrew

00:47:53.200 Clavin are going to

00:47:54.560 be having backstage

00:47:55.680 tomorrow.

00:47:57.000 It'll be another

00:47:57.440 cigar-packed

00:47:58.400 session of

00:47:59.260 backstage.

00:48:00.640 This has just been

00:48:01.280 an absolute

00:48:01.860 disaster.

00:48:03.020 You know, you

00:48:03.460 guys know it

00:48:03.860 back.

00:48:04.000 The other thing

00:48:04.400 is, with the

00:48:04.940 backstage events,

00:48:06.900 we kind of end up

00:48:07.760 talking about

00:48:08.140 everything, so you

00:48:09.520 never know what

00:48:09.940 we're going to

00:48:10.200 talk about, but I

00:48:10.760 guess this will be

00:48:11.260 the primary topic

00:48:12.660 of conversation.

00:48:13.360 It streams this

00:48:13.840 Wednesday at 7

00:48:14.420 o'clock p.m.

00:48:15.040 Eastern, 6 p.m.

00:48:15.760 Central, on

00:48:16.160 dailywire.com, and

00:48:17.580 on our YouTube

00:48:18.060 channel, Daily

00:48:18.800 Wire.

00:48:19.860 Don't miss it, and

00:48:21.320 don't make me read

00:48:21.920 this copy again.

00:48:22.820 Now let's get to

00:48:23.440 our daily

00:48:23.720 cancellation.

00:48:28.460 Our daily

00:48:29.100 cancellation comes,

00:48:30.180 in some ways,

00:48:30.640 full circle from

00:48:31.320 the opening

00:48:31.660 monologue.

00:48:32.180 Our focus is on

00:48:32.980 a man named

00:48:33.420 Rob Rousseau, who

00:48:34.620 described himself in

00:48:35.460 his bio as a

00:48:36.300 flamboyant writer,

00:48:37.500 whatever that is

00:48:38.100 supposed to mean

00:48:38.620 exactly.

00:48:39.380 On Sunday, he

00:48:39.940 tweeted this.

00:48:40.440 He said,

00:48:40.700 Do you ever just

00:48:41.360 sit around and

00:48:42.120 suddenly remember

00:48:42.760 that you've been

00:48:43.280 living through an

00:48:43.860 unprecedented traumatic

00:48:45.100 crisis event for

00:48:46.300 the past year and a

00:48:47.040 half and will

00:48:47.500 probably be dealing

00:48:48.140 with the profound

00:48:48.720 psychological consequences

00:48:49.800 for years to come?

00:48:51.440 LOL.

00:48:53.800 Now, as always,

00:48:54.880 on the internet,

00:48:55.460 the comments are

00:48:56.240 what tell the story,

00:48:57.040 I think.

00:48:57.300 Many people like to

00:48:58.080 say that the internet

00:48:58.620 isn't real life,

00:48:59.580 and it isn't.

00:49:00.000 That's correct.

00:49:00.880 You can't live a real

00:49:01.880 life on the internet

00:49:02.620 as previously

00:49:03.400 discussed.

00:49:03.900 But it is,

00:49:04.360 however, largely

00:49:04.940 populated by real

00:49:05.960 people, not counting

00:49:07.640 all the bots.

00:49:09.040 So the way people

00:49:10.060 act, the things they

00:49:11.500 say, however they

00:49:12.160 comport themselves on

00:49:12.940 the internet, is then

00:49:13.780 a reflection of the

00:49:14.600 sorts of people that

00:49:15.380 exist in reality.

00:49:16.900 That's a chilling

00:49:17.480 thought, I realize,

00:49:18.500 but it's an

00:49:18.900 inescapable conclusion

00:49:20.680 all the same.

00:49:21.200 On that note, here

00:49:22.460 are some of the

00:49:22.940 comments under Rob's

00:49:24.020 post, and there

00:49:25.180 are hundreds more

00:49:26.140 where these came

00:49:26.660 from.

00:49:27.220 I'll read a few.

00:49:29.440 I tend to cloak my

00:49:30.780 own psychological

00:49:31.540 on this site, but

00:49:34.400 small, wait, this

00:49:35.480 doesn't make any

00:49:35.940 sense.

00:49:36.980 I tend to cloak my

00:49:38.360 own psychological

00:49:39.120 trauma on this

00:49:40.480 slight but small

00:49:41.380 reveal.

00:49:42.680 Primary trauma was

00:49:43.700 five years ago when

00:49:44.740 Trump got GOP nod and

00:49:46.340 then won the general.

00:49:47.640 It felt personal,

00:49:48.580 intentional, like

00:49:49.200 discovering a portion

00:49:50.040 of my friends,

00:49:50.720 family, acquaintances

00:49:51.340 secretly wished me

00:49:52.680 ill.

00:49:54.060 Another says, this, I

00:49:56.100 was dealing with

00:49:56.640 anxiety and depression

00:49:57.460 already, but Trump's

00:49:58.360 election damaged my

00:50:00.000 trust in the world in

00:50:00.860 large ways.

00:50:01.820 It's so frustrating

00:50:02.620 knowing this was all

00:50:03.480 coming for five years

00:50:04.400 and seeing so many

00:50:05.400 oblivious to it drove

00:50:07.100 me mad.

00:50:08.220 Now I'm just angry all

00:50:09.280 the time.

00:50:10.920 Wait a second, you

00:50:11.520 knew that the

00:50:12.080 coronavirus pandemic was

00:50:13.380 coming for five years

00:50:14.240 and you didn't tell

00:50:15.340 anybody?

00:50:18.740 Like we might need to

00:50:19.560 circle back around to

00:50:20.260 that one.

00:50:21.240 Another comment says,

00:50:22.080 definitely, never had

00:50:23.640 anxiety before.

00:50:24.700 Now I'm anxious about

00:50:25.620 everything.

00:50:26.180 Example, the

00:50:27.060 thermostat broke in my

00:50:28.020 refrigerator.

00:50:28.960 Rather than having it

00:50:29.660 fixed, I bought a

00:50:31.040 large mini fridge because

00:50:32.260 I didn't want a

00:50:32.880 possible disease-infested

00:50:34.300 repairman in my

00:50:35.340 house.

00:50:38.400 Disease-infested

00:50:39.520 repairman.

00:50:41.000 That's not elitist at

00:50:42.080 all, is it?

00:50:43.720 Another says, no, I

00:50:45.080 sit around and realize

00:50:46.060 we're watching an

00:50:46.680 entire world in free

00:50:47.900 fall and wonder if I

00:50:48.840 should gently talk my

00:50:49.840 children out of having

00:50:50.760 children because at this

00:50:51.580 point, in 30 years, the

00:50:53.020 planet may be unlivable

00:50:54.120 with global warming and

00:50:55.560 raging COVID variants

00:50:56.760 caused by the selfish and

00:50:58.020 the cruel.

00:50:59.600 And another says, try being 0.99

00:51:01.320 black on top of that the 0.98

00:51:02.640 last 30 years.

00:51:03.920 My every waking moment is

00:51:05.640 psychological trauma I

00:51:07.540 have to laugh at through

00:51:08.520 memes to function the next

00:51:09.800 day. 0.97

00:51:10.740 If a cop doesn't shoot me 0.97

00:51:11.920 in the face first, then a 0.96

00:51:13.740 pandemic on top?

00:51:14.700 It may be comforting to

00:51:18.580 imagine that these are the

00:51:19.780 ramblings of a small

00:51:20.820 assortment of paranoid

00:51:21.820 schizophrenics, but what is

00:51:23.380 comforting is not always

00:51:24.800 true, and it certainly is not

00:51:26.180 true in this case.

00:51:26.800 The sad fact is that a large

00:51:27.960 portion of the population

00:51:28.800 feels this way.

00:51:31.340 They have fashioned 0.96

00:51:32.300 themselves survivors of a

00:51:34.380 near-death experience,

00:51:35.840 though the experience isn't

00:51:37.120 over in their minds.

00:51:38.080 It never will be.

00:51:39.620 And they believe that what

00:51:41.480 they're living through is, as

00:51:42.540 the original post said,

00:51:43.340 unprecedented, the horror

00:51:46.080 which we have suffered, but

00:51:47.300 mostly which they have

00:51:48.000 suffered, has no analog in

00:51:49.840 human history, they think.

00:51:52.380 And it's an easy mistake to

00:51:53.740 make if your knowledge of

00:51:54.760 history extends no further

00:51:55.940 than, I don't know, a

00:51:56.920 decade or so into the past.

00:51:58.560 In truth, of course, and this

00:52:00.060 is really important to

00:52:00.820 understand, to put things in

00:52:02.120 perspective, there is nothing

00:52:05.380 at all unprecedented about the

00:52:07.780 pandemic itself.

00:52:09.640 Nothing.

00:52:11.140 It'll take you about 15

00:52:12.420 seconds on Google to

00:52:13.480 discover many examples of

00:52:15.500 far deadlier outbreaks.

00:52:17.060 The most obvious one that

00:52:18.000 comes to mind is the Black 0.94

00:52:18.940 Plague, of course, which

00:52:20.200 killed half of the population

00:52:22.060 of Europe.

00:52:23.720 Now, by comparison, in the

00:52:24.940 U.S., COVID has killed about

00:52:26.660 2.0, rather I should say

00:52:29.100 0.2% of the population.

00:52:32.620 So that's 50% versus a tiny

00:52:37.220 fraction of 1%.

00:52:38.760 Almost none of those deaths

00:52:41.620 have been children, thank God,

00:52:43.020 or young people.

00:52:44.540 The vast majority have been 0.54

00:52:46.120 the elderly or sick or

00:52:47.360 morbidly obese.

00:52:48.600 Now, it's still a sad and

00:52:50.080 terrible thing, no doubt.

00:52:51.700 And you can call it a sad and

00:52:53.480 terrible thing without hearing

00:52:54.740 any objection from me.

00:52:56.180 If you would just say, well,

00:52:58.100 COVID has been sad and

00:52:59.800 terrible, of course it has

00:53:02.080 been.

00:53:02.580 I agree.

00:53:03.120 But if you call it

00:53:04.740 unprecedented and speak of

00:53:06.960 the lifelong trauma you'll

00:53:08.380 now suffer because of it, I

00:53:09.500 have to remind you that your

00:53:10.940 real issue is your own 1.00

00:53:12.080 ignorance and self-absorption. 0.98

00:53:14.720 Now, with that said, there was 0.82

00:53:17.320 one unprecedented element of

00:53:19.300 this pandemic.

00:53:20.560 Our response to it has been

00:53:22.580 unprecedented.

00:53:23.620 Trying to shut down the whole

00:53:24.980 world and the global economy

00:53:26.340 for a year, that is

00:53:28.020 unprecedented.

00:53:29.240 People who are not at any

00:53:30.640 high risk wearing medical

00:53:32.580 masks every day, all day,

00:53:34.980 everywhere they go for a

00:53:36.300 year or more, that is

00:53:37.900 unprecedented.

00:53:39.800 But an unprecedented reaction

00:53:41.780 to an event does not make

00:53:43.180 the event itself

00:53:44.220 unprecedented.

00:53:45.980 I might scream and run

00:53:48.060 away from a spider in the

00:53:49.260 house, but the fact that I'm

00:53:50.700 reacting to the spider in a

00:53:52.180 way that no other

00:53:53.020 self-respecting man ever

00:53:54.280 would doesn't mean that the

00:53:55.920 spider is actually the

00:53:57.140 biggest spider anyone has

00:53:58.200 ever seen.

00:54:00.060 By the way, that was just a

00:54:01.080 hypothetical example.

00:54:01.920 I would never react to a

00:54:03.200 spider that way, as far as

00:54:04.880 you know.

00:54:05.880 Are people actually

00:54:06.800 traumatized by all of this

00:54:08.020 though?

00:54:09.160 I mean, certainly if you

00:54:10.060 nearly died from it or if a

00:54:11.580 loved one did die from it or

00:54:13.360 almost died from it, then I

00:54:16.520 don't doubt that you're

00:54:17.220 suffering psychological

00:54:18.100 wounds from that experience.

00:54:21.480 I mean, if you lose a loved

00:54:22.660 one, it doesn't matter how

00:54:23.880 you lose them.

00:54:25.300 We can call that a traumatic

00:54:26.660 event.

00:54:26.980 But many of the people

00:54:28.880 talking about their trauma

00:54:30.220 didn't actually have a

00:54:32.000 traumatic experience with the

00:54:33.260 virus.

00:54:34.340 I can only assume that Rob

00:54:35.860 didn't.

00:54:36.880 That's why he said LOL at the

00:54:38.240 end of it.

00:54:38.580 I mean, I assume if a close

00:54:39.720 family member died, he

00:54:41.140 wouldn't be saying this was a

00:54:42.380 traumatic event, LOL.

00:54:45.600 I wish I could say that, you

00:54:47.720 know, these people merely think

00:54:49.420 that they're traumatized.

00:54:49.980 But I think the truth is worse

00:54:53.460 and more disturbing.

00:54:54.900 It's more accurate to say, I

00:54:56.760 think, that lots of people

00:54:59.900 wish they were traumatized

00:55:01.700 because we've come to see

00:55:04.120 trauma as a fashionable and

00:55:06.320 desirable thing.

00:55:09.600 That's where we get this very

00:55:11.940 modern phenomenon of people

00:55:14.580 bragging about their trauma

00:55:16.440 and discovering trauma

00:55:19.020 everywhere they look.

00:55:21.000 Not just in global pandemics,

00:55:23.000 but someone looks at them the

00:55:24.900 wrong way or says a word they

00:55:26.280 don't like, it's traumatic.

00:55:29.280 You talk to a lot of people

00:55:30.460 these days and they suffer

00:55:32.760 traumatic, in fact, one of

00:55:35.020 those comments said every

00:55:35.960 waking moment is a traumatic

00:55:37.780 event.

00:55:41.920 Because that's what they wish.

00:55:44.660 That's what they want.

00:55:45.420 They've come to sort of

00:55:48.180 fetishize trauma.

00:55:52.960 And back when everybody

00:55:57.300 lived a hard life,

00:55:58.980 almost everyone did.

00:56:00.680 This is most of human history,

00:56:02.400 by the way.

00:56:02.980 Again, for perspective.

00:56:05.420 Most of human history,

00:56:07.160 for the majority of time that

00:56:09.480 humans have occupied this planet, 1.00

00:56:12.480 almost everyone on the planet,

00:56:13.940 with the exception of the

00:56:15.380 absolute most

00:56:16.660 wealthy and powerful.

00:56:20.220 Everyone else lived lives of

00:56:22.600 deprivation

00:56:23.880 and suffering.

00:56:27.300 And they died

00:56:28.440 often horrible deaths

00:56:30.160 at much younger ages.

00:56:33.780 And they had to have a lot of

00:56:34.840 kids because they knew that

00:56:36.740 some of their kids would die.

00:56:37.960 It was just an expected thing.

00:56:39.520 Do you think they went around

00:56:43.600 every day talking about their

00:56:44.720 trauma,

00:56:46.060 bragging about it?

00:56:48.600 No, they didn't have time for

00:56:49.680 that.

00:56:50.460 Because they were busy living

00:56:51.760 and surviving.

00:56:54.200 Which was a job,

00:56:55.360 which was work.

00:56:58.180 In our culture,

00:56:59.360 people are so comfortable

00:57:00.680 and have gotten so accustomed

00:57:03.600 to the ease of life

00:57:05.100 and the luxury of it

00:57:06.240 that they have

00:57:08.920 now the luxury

00:57:10.640 of making a fetish

00:57:12.500 out of trauma.

00:57:14.920 Which brings us back

00:57:15.840 to the beginning.

00:57:17.140 People without personality 1.00

00:57:18.400 or identity

00:57:19.080 who seem to think

00:57:20.600 that trauma

00:57:21.220 makes them interesting

00:57:22.760 and is sort of a

00:57:25.100 replacement for personality.

00:57:28.300 And all of that

00:57:29.240 is why

00:57:29.760 I forget even who

00:57:31.040 we're canceling now.

00:57:31.720 Oh, yeah.

00:57:32.360 Rob Rousseau,

00:57:33.860 the flamboyant writer,

00:57:34.580 is today now canceled.

00:57:37.360 And we'll leave it there.

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The Matt Walsh Show - July 27, 2021

Ep. 762 - The Empty People

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