The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 767 - The Muppets Try to Convince Preschoolers to Cross Dress

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left celebrates as the show Muppet Babies pushes cross-dressing on three-year-olds. 0.80

00:00:06.200 Also, our five headlines, a member of the squad sets up her own homeless encampment outside of the Capitol.

00:00:11.340 A Republican governor says that kids should mask in school.

00:00:14.260 This is what we're getting from Republicans now.

00:00:15.980 Robin DiAngelo talks about the time when she discovered she was white.

00:00:19.840 And this didn't happen until she was in her 30s, apparently. 0.98

00:00:22.240 The Babylon Bee cyberbullies me.

00:00:24.580 I'm a victim of cyberbullying, I'll tell you why.

00:00:26.280 And our daily cancellation, we'll talk about the increasing scourge of internet panhandlers.

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00:02:01.680 You know, a few years ago, if you had said that we are getting to a point as a culture where cartoon shows for preschoolers will openly push gender nonconformity on three-year-olds,

00:02:11.780 you would have been laughed at and mocked by almost everyone, especially those on the left,

00:02:15.200 who would have accused you of engaging in a slippery slope fallacy.

00:02:18.260 But as we've seen time and time and time again, if the slippery slope is a fallacy at all,

00:02:22.620 it is only a fallacy because it assumes that our descent will be slow and gradual like a man sliding down a slope as opposed to fast and cataclysmic like a man pushed out of an airplane at 35,000 feet.

00:02:34.540 These slippery slope arguments of 10 years ago understated the case.

00:02:38.680 They were far too optimistic.

00:02:41.060 But the basic predictions, if on a faster timeline, have played out.

00:02:44.820 In fact, before we get to the preschool shows, we should note that we've already reached the point where people are identifying as animals

00:02:51.880 and not a few people.

00:02:53.940 This is a trend now, and the very people who would have laughed at you for predicting it will now solemnly inform you that it's your duty to take these hysterical delusions seriously.

00:03:03.660 As always, TikTok gives us a revealing peek into this particular form of degenerate madness.

00:03:08.460 So let's take a look.

00:03:10.580 I made a really loud yelly video about this, but I decided I will approach this in a more calm but stern manner.

00:03:16.200 A lot of the people using kitty and pup and bunny self pronouns are neurodivergent minors.

00:03:23.560 It is a very common neurodivergent experience to feel a disconnect from being human and from the societal expectation of the gender you were assigned at birth.

00:03:34.180 So when you have this intersection of feeling a disconnect from being human and a disconnect from the societal expectation of gender,

00:03:42.280 whether you're neurodivergent or not, a lot of people have this experience who are neurodivergent.

00:03:46.320 It's just very common with neurodivergent people.

00:03:49.460 When this intersects, you get noun self pronouns and animal noun self pronouns.

00:03:57.060 If you are not comfortable using someone's pronouns because you assume it's kink for some weird a** reason,

00:04:05.320 don't interact with them and just shut up about it.

00:04:09.280 There were, of course, only about three real words used during that entire rant.

00:04:15.760 But I don't want to be too harsh in dealing with this young lady as she was clearly just assaulted by a violent gang of permanent markers. 0.88

00:04:22.520 I don't want to add to her suffering.

00:04:24.040 In any case, she says that lots of people these days are using animal pronouns, including what she calls bunny self pronouns.

00:04:31.980 Just so you know, according to my quick Google search, bunny self pronouns are bun, bunny, and bun self.

00:04:37.620 So if you run into any bunnies, that's how you're supposed to refer to them.

00:04:41.140 Used in a sentence, you might say, bun went to the grocery store.

00:04:45.100 Or bun is here and buns brought buns for the cookout.

00:04:48.620 Or hey bun, please stop fidgeting while I put your straight jacket on.

00:04:51.520 If you're not willing to use these completely made-up words in order to respect the insane hallucinations of a mentally ill person who thinks that they're a bunny rabbit, 1.00

00:04:59.020 then you are the weird-ass. 0.97

00:05:02.020 No, it's not weird to identify as a woodland creature and demand that the English language be changed to accommodate your strange, bestial roleplay. 0.98

00:05:10.380 It's weird to deny such a request.

00:05:12.020 Hey guys, I'm a moose now.

00:05:14.080 Just became a moose yesterday.

00:05:16.720 Please refer to me as moose, moose self, and moose moose.

00:05:21.200 What, you're, you're, no, you're not a moose.

00:05:23.960 You're a person. 1.00

00:05:24.660 Well, calm down, weirdo, you pervert. 1.00

00:05:27.220 What kind of creep goes around telling a moose that they're people? 0.99

00:05:29.480 Now, this kind of extreme gaslighting may seem too silly to be effective, but then you forget that lots of people in this country today are so spineless that they might as well identify as jellyfish with, I guess, gel and gel self pronouns.

00:05:45.400 All you have to do is scream at them and call them a bigot, and they will do literally anything you ask them to do.

00:05:51.480 There is no reality they won't deny for the sake of seeming enlightened, which is why they will also, I'm sure, applaud this.

00:06:00.240 The show Muppet Babies, a show specifically targeted at preschool-aged kids, has now introduced its first gender-nonconforming character.

00:06:09.060 Gonzo has begun cross-dressing, it seems, and an entire episode of the show titled Gonzarella,

00:06:15.400 revolved around this development.

00:06:17.180 Early in the episode, while the Muppets are planning to attend a royal ball for whatever reason,

00:06:22.180 Gonzo says that he wants to wear a pretty dress to the ball, and he's quickly informed by his Muppet friends that only girls wear dresses.

00:06:29.140 Now, in a different time and place, that would have been it, right?

00:06:33.040 That would have been a gag for the kids to laugh about.

00:06:36.180 A male character wanting to wear a dress would be seen as funny. 0.59

00:06:40.720 It would have been played for laughs because it's silly.

00:06:43.100 You might have had stuff like that in kid shows back in the day, where a male character says,

00:06:48.580 oh, I'm going to wear the dress.

00:06:51.200 And then everyone laughs. 1.00

00:06:52.220 Oh, no, you're silly. 1.00

00:06:53.140 You don't wear a dress. 1.00

00:06:55.540 Because it's silly for boys to wear dresses.

00:06:57.420 That is, in fact, exactly what I've taught my own kids.

00:06:59.700 Like, for example, when my daughter, a couple years ago, was out with my wife, and they happened across a man in a dress.

00:07:08.200 And my daughter was confused about it, and I talked to her about it later. 0.88

00:07:12.220 And she said to me that the man in the dress was silly. 0.92

00:07:17.220 And I said, you're right. 1.00

00:07:19.400 He was silly. 0.99

00:07:20.740 That's silly, isn't it? 1.00

00:07:21.940 Men don't wear dresses. 0.97

00:07:23.420 Dresses are for girls. 0.99

00:07:24.740 That's very, very silly. 0.97

00:07:27.560 And that's the correct way to handle that. 0.89

00:07:30.440 I think a lot of parents today, probably even the ones that know that it's silly, would still say to their kids,

00:07:36.520 I don't know, but we have to respect.

00:07:37.860 Don't call it silly.

00:07:38.980 That's disrespectful.

00:07:40.900 That's not my approach.

00:07:41.840 I said, oh, no, you're exactly right.

00:07:43.160 We should laugh about that. 0.88

00:07:43.980 It's silly.

00:07:47.280 But it's not how our cultural overlords at Disney want us to handle it.

00:07:51.500 So in the show, Gonzo shows up to the ball in his dress and becomes the Cinderella in their weird cross-dressing take on the story.

00:07:58.700 And that all leads to this scene.

00:08:00.640 Let's watch.

00:08:02.260 There you are.

00:08:03.620 You missed our royal ball.

00:08:05.080 We met the most amazing princess.

00:08:07.900 But they ran away.

00:08:09.420 And all they left behind was this.

00:08:12.080 Everyone, there's something I need to tell you.

00:08:15.300 The princess who came to your ball tonight was me.

00:08:22.720 I'm Gonzarella.

00:08:25.540 But Gonzo, why didn't Vu tell us?

00:08:29.100 Because you all expected me to look a certain way.

00:08:32.360 I don't want you to be upset with me.

00:08:33.860 But I don't want to do things just because that's the way they've always been done, either.

00:08:38.620 I want to be me.

00:08:40.760 Oh, Gonzo.

00:08:41.940 We're sorry.

00:08:43.580 It wasn't very nice of us to tell you what to wear to our ball.

00:08:46.920 You're our friend.

00:08:48.080 And we love you any way you are.

00:08:50.660 Yeah, of course we do.

00:08:51.940 Now, think about something here.

00:08:57.760 There have been many film adaptations of Cinderella.

00:09:00.640 Too many, certainly.

00:09:02.100 Most of them targeted at older audiences.

00:09:04.180 Older kids and adults.

00:09:06.600 None of them have gone so far as to make Cinderella a boy.

00:09:09.640 The closest would be the latest adaptation to be released on Amazon, in which the fairy godmother is a dude.

00:09:16.040 But even in that case, the princess and the prince are your standard traditional male-female duo.

00:09:21.920 The point here is that Disney Junior is being edgier and going further with this show targeted at three-year-olds than with the shows and movies it makes for older people.

00:09:32.160 And the point is important because we need to understand that the indoctrinators are not using kid gloves with the kids.

00:09:39.680 The indoctrination, much like the slippery slope, is not gradual but abrupt and extreme.

00:09:45.260 They intend to take kids, when they're the most vulnerable, the most susceptible, the least able to resist, and toss them right into the deep end of the propaganda pool.

00:09:54.720 They are not waiting.

00:09:57.040 They are not easing anyone into this.

00:09:59.480 They're taking them at three years old and saying, hey, let's start cross-dressing, kids. 0.91

00:10:06.780 As always, of course, they will snicker at us for making so much out of an episode of Muppet Babies.

00:10:13.340 Hey, it's just the Muppet Babies.

00:10:14.800 Calm down, drama queen or king.

00:10:18.880 And yet, if you check social media, you'll see the left celebrating this episode of Muppet Babies and exclaiming of its beauty and power,

00:10:26.020 saying that they were brought to tears of joy by the sight of Gonzo in a ball gown.

00:10:31.520 If you object at all, then you're making a big deal out of nothing, they say, as they pop the champagne bottle with tears in their eyes.

00:10:40.560 It's a clever trick.

00:10:41.600 They can extol the great significance of a certain event, while at the same time mocking their critics for acting like it's significant.

00:10:49.600 And this enables them to avoid actually defending the thing itself, which is good for them because the thing itself is indefensible.

00:10:56.580 You are directly encouraging young children to cross-dress. 0.59

00:11:00.760 It's the kind of thing that if a man came up to your son on the playground and said it,

00:11:07.000 Hey, little boy, you ever tried wearing a dress?

00:11:09.620 It's a lot of fun.

00:11:12.280 If a man came up to your child, your boy, your son on the playground and said that, you would assume he's a pedophile.

00:11:17.880 And you'd call the police. 1.00

00:11:20.840 After you throttle him and punch him in the face. 0.99

00:11:24.160 But when Disney does it, or your kid's preschool teacher does it, 0.98

00:11:28.660 it's supposed to be not only acceptable, but laudable.

00:11:33.800 It's all a mind game.

00:11:34.980 It's a mind game they're playing with adults and having great success.

00:11:41.380 And if they're having that much success with adults, think about what this is doing to children.

00:11:45.620 Because children are, of course, the primary victims of all of this madness.

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00:14:50.500 So Representative Cori Bush has quickly become somehow the most shameless, attention-hungry charlatan in Congress. 1.00

00:14:59.320 Which is really saying something, especially because she's a member of the squad.

00:15:02.560 She's one of the newest members of the squad.

00:15:04.880 And I guess she showed up and they were going to induct her into the squad, bring her in, bring her into the fold.

00:15:11.800 And she knew she really had to bring her A game as far as being a shameless hack. 0.87

00:15:17.040 And she has.

00:15:18.180 I mean, she has surpassed her fellow squad members for that title somehow.

00:15:23.220 And now, having already won the title, she's spiking the football. 1.00

00:15:27.820 She's doing an end zone dance. 1.00

00:15:29.220 She's rubbing it in with this. 0.89

00:15:30.960 Because right now, as we speak, she has camped out on the steps of the Capitol.

00:15:36.420 She has set up her own fake homeless encampment in order to demand an extension to the eviction moratorium.

00:15:43.380 Of course, she's choosing to be homeless during a time when the weather is sunny in the 70s and 80s.

00:15:50.660 And it gets down to a nice, you know, 65 at night.

00:15:53.680 She has all the necessary comforts, including an endless supply of junk food, it would seem.

00:15:58.740 So she's choosing to do this stunt at that, you know, when it's still quite comfortable.

00:16:02.740 I'd be a little bit more impressed if it was, like, February with a high of 22 degrees in the middle of the day and she was doing this.

00:16:12.480 A little bit more impressed.

00:16:15.760 But she's not—needless to say, camped out on the steps of the Capitol, sleeping out there.

00:16:23.880 This is not legal, okay?

00:16:26.460 This is not something you could normally do if you're just a normal peon.

00:16:31.680 Show up on the steps and go to sleep.

00:16:35.120 So this is, you could argue, another insurrection being perpetrated by the squad.

00:16:43.620 Well, let's listen to what she has to say.

00:16:44.960 She's outside of the Capitol right now talking to reporters.

00:16:48.260 And she's clutching her head in pain and agony, crying very authentic tears.

00:16:54.680 Here's what she says.

00:16:56.460 Don't worry about it.

00:16:59.500 She's got it.

00:17:00.700 Triggering.

00:17:01.980 But when you hear the cries of others, when you hear the suffering of others, we're already fighting a battle and losing a battle.

00:17:14.440 Because there are people who slept out last night, the night before.

00:17:18.720 There are people who are already unhoused.

00:17:21.180 And we don't have enough.

00:17:22.220 We don't have enough shelters.

00:17:24.680 We don't have enough.

00:17:25.560 We don't have the safe housing for them right now.

00:17:28.440 And that's a failure.

00:17:31.480 That's another moral failure on our society.

00:17:34.280 And so, to then say, yes, $7 million more, you can go while I go on vacation.

00:17:41.480 $7 million more, you can hit the go ahead.

00:17:44.220 Like, that was your decision to be in this position.

00:17:46.840 No.

00:17:47.760 No.

00:17:48.800 This is a systemic problem.

00:17:50.300 This is a structural problem that can be handled by better policy decisions.

00:18:00.780 So, that's why we're out here.

00:18:03.780 I guess one question I have, first of all, how many Oreos does one person need?

00:18:10.580 She has a box of 20 bags.

00:18:13.580 She's sitting next to a box of 20 bags of Oreos.

00:18:16.740 And she had Fritos back there. 0.99

00:18:20.100 Gorging on junk food.

00:18:21.860 Is that the normal homeless experience?

00:18:24.660 She looks pretty comfortable out there.

00:18:30.880 But who exactly are the people who can't pay their rent?

00:18:36.620 Now, we know in the normal course of events, there are people who fall on hard times and

00:18:43.900 are not able to pay their rent.

00:18:44.760 So, we know this is something that happens in general.

00:18:46.660 But this all stems from the lockdowns and the pandemic.

00:18:51.060 This, again, remember, was originally a CDC policy, although they had no authority whatsoever

00:18:57.180 to enact any policy like this.

00:19:01.160 They have no authority in the realm of housing.

00:19:04.760 This is originally a CDC policy connected to the pandemic.

00:19:09.020 So, these are people who, I guess we're supposed to assume, you know, many people, millions of

00:19:14.240 people, thousands of people, at least, who were not able to pay their rent because

00:19:20.200 I guess they lost their jobs during the pandemic.

00:19:24.980 Okay.

00:19:27.020 Well, there are thousands and thousands, millions of open jobs right now.

00:19:36.840 Employers are begging people to come and work for them.

00:19:39.880 So, if you're in a position, the eviction moratorium has ended, and you don't have a job, you're not

00:19:48.340 able to pay your rent, well, go get a job.

00:19:52.660 Go find a job.

00:19:56.200 Now, there are exigent circumstances.

00:19:58.060 There might be some people who, for whatever reason, even though there are so many jobs

00:20:01.140 available, aren't able to find one.

00:20:02.620 But, however many people are being threatened with becoming unhoused, as Cori Bush puts it,

00:20:13.620 it seems to me a good portion of them could probably find jobs because the jobs are out

00:20:18.580 there waiting to be scooped up.

00:20:22.060 And you could talk to almost any employer and they will tell you they've got plenty of

00:20:29.040 jobs and they cannot convince people to take them.

00:20:35.440 But all of that, not to replay everything we talked about yesterday, and it's hard for

00:20:39.260 me not to because I find this so infuriating, these crocodile tears that she's shedding for

00:20:47.060 the people who are now squatters, refusing to pay their rent.

00:20:52.480 By the way, if you talk to landlords, and I have, a lot of them will tell you, hey, you know,

00:20:59.060 the stimulus payments came and it was supposed to go towards these kinds of living expenses,

00:21:05.860 and I didn't see it.

00:21:07.240 Because my tenants, you know, they went out and bought new TVs and they bought new cell phones.

00:21:11.900 They didn't pay their rent.

00:21:16.140 Because you give the stimulus payments in order to take care of living expenses, but

00:21:19.160 at the same time, you're saying the government says, oh, well, you don't have to pay your

00:21:21.780 living expenses.

00:21:25.580 So there, and I'm not saying it's the case for all of them, but there's a certain, probably

00:21:29.660 not small portion of the people who have not been paying their rent and are facing eviction

00:21:33.580 now who could have paid it and chose not to.

00:21:37.400 But whether they could have or they couldn't, you know, these crocodile tears for squatters

00:21:46.620 while the people who own the property have faced immense financial hardship.

00:21:55.520 It was hard enough for a lot of people to just support themselves.

00:22:00.400 You know, if you lost your job or took a pay cut or lost hours during the lockdowns, well,

00:22:06.720 you know, it was hard enough to take care of yourself and pay for yourself.

00:22:09.340 Now, imagine if you had to support other, like whole entire other families, whole apartments

00:22:14.600 of people that now, now it was on you to take care of them.

00:22:20.900 While you are also losing income, just like they did.

00:22:27.700 But that again is the kind of compassion we get from the left.

00:22:30.540 All right.

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00:22:41.720 This is him saying it, not me.

00:22:44.540 This is the Biden's COVID advisor.

00:22:47.180 Here he is on CNN.

00:22:48.740 We know today that many of the face cloth coverings that people wear are not very effective in reducing

00:22:53.860 any of the virus movement in or out.

00:22:56.120 Either you're breathing out or you're breathing in.

00:22:58.140 And in fact, if you're in the upper Midwest right now, anybody who's wearing their face

00:23:01.860 cloth covering can tell you they can smell all the smoke that we're still getting.

00:23:05.800 We need to talk about better masking.

00:23:08.180 We need to talk about N95 respirators, which would do a lot for both people who are not

00:23:14.000 yet vaccinated or not previously infected, protecting them as well as keeping others who

00:23:19.640 might become infected having been vaccinated from breathing out the virus.

00:23:24.580 Here's the thing.

00:23:27.240 Everything you just heard there, if I said that, I'd probably get kicked off of YouTube.

00:23:36.820 But if we say that, that's misinformation.

00:23:42.080 Only a bureaucrat wearing a suit and tie on cable news, he's allowed to say that, but we

00:23:48.640 can't.

00:23:52.400 So I guess I have to phrase this a certain way.

00:23:55.640 It would seem, according to him, that these masks that many millions of people have been

00:24:04.320 wearing are functionally useless.

00:24:06.820 And you might say that it was obviously, that was always obviously the case.

00:24:15.040 Okay.

00:24:15.460 You might say that, like, what exactly are we hoping to accomplish?

00:24:20.400 All these people with just pieces of cloth over their face are wearing bandanas.

00:24:24.740 Because, I mean, that was one of the, at least for me, where I live, that was one of the

00:24:29.980 most, one of the primary forms of face covering that I saw for months and months was people

00:24:34.600 would just, they look like, you know, train car robbers from 1847 with bandanas around their

00:24:41.680 face.

00:24:44.200 And it's, the bandana is hanging down and it's just kind of flapping in the wind.

00:24:48.760 And what, what exactly is that supposed to do?

00:24:56.520 Or the neck gaiter, you know, and that's, that's, you know, back when, when we were forced

00:25:02.480 to wear masks everywhere, that was the one that I chose the neck gait.

00:25:05.700 Cause you just kind of pull it up over your face.

00:25:07.340 And then when no one's looking, you can take it back down.

00:25:11.200 But I always thought to myself, the only reason I'm doing this is because I need to get into

00:25:15.800 this grocery store and get some groceries and they won't let me in if I don't wear it.

00:25:18.760 I do not, I do not imagine that I'm actually preventing any illnesses from infecting me

00:25:24.640 with this little piece of cloth over my face.

00:25:27.620 Anyway, that's what he seems to be saying.

00:25:34.200 And you might agree with it or you might not.

00:25:37.080 Who knows?

00:25:37.700 All right, let's go next to Mike DeWine, Republican governor of Ohio, who says now that he is calling

00:25:45.580 on all schools to require children to wear masks.

00:25:49.380 Once again, this is the Republican governor of Ohio.

00:25:51.640 Here he is.

00:25:52.760 We came out last week with recommendations.

00:25:56.180 There are recommendations.

00:25:57.140 We leave it up to the local schools, 600 and some local schools.

00:26:01.140 We leave it up to them.

00:26:02.180 But we have a strong recommendation that because the population in school, kids in school, most

00:26:09.220 of them are unvaccinated, you know, obviously we can't get anybody 11 and under vaccinated

00:26:14.260 yet.

00:26:14.740 So most of these kids are unvaccinated.

00:26:16.580 And we had great success last winter, last school year.

00:26:20.240 We saw virtually no spread in the classroom when all the kids were wearing masks.

00:26:23.860 So we recommend, strong recommendation to our schools that they do that.

00:26:28.560 Now, some will do that.

00:26:29.780 Some will not.

00:26:30.420 But it's clear the evidence shows that that's a way to really slow down spread in the school.

00:26:37.660 And we think it's very important.

00:26:40.540 So I say this and I want you to know, I don't mean it as a compliment.

00:26:45.220 This guy, Mike DeWine, is the perfect Republican.

00:26:49.900 Absolutely a perfect representative of the Republican Party.

00:26:53.240 I could not think of a better one.

00:26:54.300 Just this totally unimpressive, empty, nothing of a person.

00:27:04.820 Going along with, you know, not taking any kind of stand here at all.

00:27:10.480 And just saying, oh, sure, sure, yeah.

00:27:12.500 I mean, put the kids in masks for all day, every day for an entire year.

00:27:19.560 Yeah.

00:27:20.620 Why not?

00:27:21.260 That's the best you're going to get from the Republican Party most of the time.

00:27:29.580 In fact, there was a, Christy Noem, a couple of days ago, she sent out a tweet,

00:27:35.880 speaking of unimpressive Republican governors, she sent out a tweet talking about the employers

00:27:42.340 who would require vaccine mandates.

00:27:45.140 And she said she was taking a stand against that by saying, well, listen, if you're an employee at one of these places

00:27:51.760 and your employer is requiring that you get a vaccine mandate,

00:27:55.660 then I encourage you to go and find another job.

00:28:02.220 Well, hold on.

00:28:02.660 You're the governor of the state.

00:28:05.860 Can't you do a lot better than that?

00:28:07.380 How about using your power to prevent these companies from having that kind of requirement?

00:28:17.580 Because it's an infringement on privacy.

00:28:19.760 It's a HIPAA violation.

00:28:22.700 There are, you know, many angles you could approach it from.

00:28:26.540 How about using the power that you have if you're actually concerned about people losing their job for this reason?

00:28:39.420 That's the Republican Party for you.

00:28:41.160 Okay, next we got Robin DiAngelo.

00:28:43.000 She's the nutty hack who wrote White Fragility. 1.00

00:28:45.540 And then she wrote another book recently that I guess nobody read.

00:28:49.700 I don't think anyone's actually read White Fragility either, by the way.

00:28:52.900 It sold a lot of copies.

00:28:54.160 I think probably 10 people have read it, but it sold a lot of copies.

00:28:59.180 The other book didn't even sell any copies.

00:29:01.300 She was on some kind of show or podcast recently.

00:29:03.940 I don't even know what show this is.

00:29:04.840 It doesn't matter.

00:29:06.000 And this is the conversation that occurred.

00:29:08.440 Listen to this.

00:29:09.580 Talk to me about when you first realized you were white.

00:29:12.520 And in whiteness.

00:29:13.600 Yeah, talk to me about that.

00:29:16.760 It was a very abstract sense.

00:29:19.840 I honestly believe I was about 34 years old.

00:29:23.760 I was college educated.

00:29:25.580 I was a parent.

00:29:28.040 And someone handed me Peggy McIntosh's article.

00:29:31.900 And I read through that list and I had an out-of-body experience.

00:29:37.640 I could tell you where it was sitting.

00:29:40.040 I'm not ever going to forget that moment where all of a sudden I was like, oh my God, I'm white.

00:29:46.020 And I felt so loudly white that I remember being hesitant to go outside. 0.79

00:29:52.840 I didn't want to go outside because everybody could see that I was white.

00:29:56.000 Well, here's the thing, Robin.

00:30:00.100 We could see it before you realized.

00:30:02.560 We could see it all along.

00:30:05.540 You have to laugh about it because the other option is crying.

00:30:10.420 And I've already made clear that men should not cry.

00:30:12.900 But we can laugh at how insane this is.

00:30:19.500 But this is what kids are being taught in school. 0.99

00:30:26.660 As whiteness is, it's like a disease. 1.00

00:30:29.100 It's realizing that you're white. 0.96

00:30:32.140 I mean, she talks about it.

00:30:33.180 If you didn't have any frame of reference and you take out a couple of the words here and there that she uses,

00:30:37.320 you would think she was recounting the time when she got the test results back and found out that she had breast cancer or something.

00:30:45.280 She's talking about it like it's a disease.

00:30:49.940 Because that's how she sees it.

00:30:53.900 And that's what critical race theory brings.

00:30:56.440 That's what kids in school are being taught about themselves, to hate themselves.

00:31:02.880 And whiteness, it's not just, you know, it's this kind of, it's like this spiritual concept.

00:31:11.960 It's apart from skin color. 0.72

00:31:14.880 But also it's connected to your skin color.

00:31:18.140 It's a spiritual affliction that is passed down by your ancestors to you.

00:31:26.440 Does anything good happen from that?

00:31:31.660 I mean, where does that go?

00:31:32.900 When you raise entire generations of people, entire races of people, to hate themselves and be self-loathing?

00:31:43.880 Where does that head?

00:31:45.940 Is there any historical analog for that?

00:31:47.860 For that working out well for society?

00:31:49.920 All right, here's also this from NBC Chicago.

00:31:55.240 This is from last week, but this ties directly back to the cancellation yesterday.

00:32:00.740 And it says,

00:32:03.520 A series of LGBTQ rights bills signed by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker will reverse archaic laws and change the way county clerks issue marriage licenses, the governor said.

00:32:14.060 Pritzker signed four bills that will expand rights to the LGBTQ community.

00:32:17.260 Actually, one of them is the one of the most historic HB 1063 will make Illinois only the second state in the country, second to California.

00:32:27.520 We talked about California yesterday to completely reverse the criminalizations, criminalization of of those living with the HIV virus.

00:32:35.800 At least anyway, that's the way it's being framed, that in the past to have HIV had been criminalized and now we are reversing the criminalization.

00:32:44.640 Well, that's not the case at all.

00:32:45.700 It was not a criminal act to have HIV in Illinois prior to this.

00:32:50.640 Here's what actually was the case.

00:32:53.860 Before the bill signing, you could face prison time and thousands of dollars in fines if you didn't disclose your HIV status to your intimate partner.

00:33:02.260 Advocates say the law discriminated against marginalized communities and prevented people from getting tested, fearing legal repercussions for knowing their HIV status.

00:33:13.340 And so now it is no longer illegal.

00:33:16.600 It's not that it's no longer illegal to have HIV.

00:33:19.420 I think we can all agree that it shouldn't be illegal to have any virus.

00:33:24.200 And it isn't anywhere in the country.

00:33:26.240 But prior to this bill, it was illegal to knowingly expose someone else to the virus without telling them.

00:33:37.300 And now it's not.

00:33:38.860 It is no longer a felony.

00:33:40.140 You can participate in an act with someone that is highly likely to transmit to them a deadly virus and not tell them and not get their consent.

00:33:55.880 And it's not a felony.

00:33:58.660 Anymore.

00:33:59.260 We talked yesterday about California and they passed that law, that change in their law, I think it was back in 2017 or 2018, so three or four years ago.

00:34:13.260 I actually didn't realize.

00:34:14.940 Some people in the comments pointed out that Illinois had just passed a similar law last week.

00:34:20.220 I didn't even realize that.

00:34:21.540 That somehow had escaped my notice.

00:34:23.260 But there's a very interesting dichotomy between this and all the masking stuff.

00:34:30.420 Because in California, they're bringing mask mandates back.

00:34:33.560 Now in Illinois, they're also talking about bringing the mask mandates back or at least masking guidelines, encouraging people to wear masks.

00:34:41.660 So think about the contrast here.

00:34:43.380 That what they're saying, and again, we talked about this yesterday, and Dr. Fauci and others, Don Lemon, have been very upfront and explicit about this.

00:34:55.680 That you don't have the right to expose other people to any potential diseases that you have, which means that you should wear a mask.

00:35:03.880 Presumably forever and just never take it off.

00:35:06.240 COVID or no COVID.

00:35:07.540 Because that's the implication.

00:35:09.760 That's the precedent that's being set.

00:35:11.240 So, you're infringing on people's rights if you walk through the store without a mask on.

00:35:20.780 But you could have sex with, you could be HIV positive, have even unprotected sex with someone.

00:35:29.060 And be nearly guaranteed to transmit it to them.

00:35:33.820 And not tell them, and that's not an infringement on rights?

00:35:36.440 If you need a more proof that all the justifications that were given for mask mandates are hypocritical and contradictory, if you need a more proof of that, then here it is.

00:35:52.260 All right, five, finally.

00:35:53.360 The Babylon Bee is a site that I like.

00:35:55.980 I'm a fan of it.

00:35:56.980 But I'm not a fan of targeted harassment, which is what they have subjected me to.

00:36:01.860 And I got to call them out on this.

00:36:02.900 Here's a headline on Babylon Bee posted this weekend.

00:36:05.860 It says, report Matt Walsh mad about something.

00:36:10.400 And this is not the first time I've been targeted.

00:36:12.660 You know, they also had a while back, they had another one that said,

00:36:15.220 porn addiction ended by new law that requires Matt Walsh's disapproving face to appear on all adult sites.

00:36:21.800 And then this, leaked security footage shows Matt Walsh attending yoga class.

00:36:26.020 Now, let me tell you something, Babylon Bee.

00:36:31.340 Bullying is not a joke.

00:36:33.860 Hate crimes are not a joke.

00:36:36.660 Am I mad about something?

00:36:37.980 Yeah, I'm mad about the marginalizing language that you're using about me.

00:36:41.340 I'm mad about fake news and misinformation.

00:36:45.280 I'm mad about oppression, especially the oppression that I suffer at your hands.

00:36:48.440 And for the record, by the way, the yoga class didn't even have security cameras.

00:36:54.560 I know I checked.

00:36:55.860 So, just more lies.

00:36:58.260 I got you there.

00:36:59.920 Let's move on now to our reading the YouTube comment section.

00:37:02.440 This is from Jesse Richards who says,

00:37:04.400 Matt, instead of saying, let's move on to reading the YouTube comments,

00:37:07.600 you should say, you should instead go, let's see what my sweet babies have to say.

00:37:13.480 How about you don't tell me how to do my job?

00:37:16.260 You're banned from the show.

00:37:18.440 But thanks for listening.

00:37:20.220 Jonah says, I can't stop imagining Matt locked up in a dark closet at the Daily Wire studio,

00:37:24.220 being fed dog food through a flap,

00:37:26.060 and then drugged up for the duration of the show before being sedated back into his neutral form.

00:37:31.140 Who told you about this?

00:37:32.560 This has never been made public.

00:37:35.000 Haley says, I literally have 50 pounds of old-fashioned oats in my pantry right now.

00:37:39.800 The sale was just too good.

00:37:41.580 Thanks, Costco.

00:37:42.980 50 pounds of oatmeal?

00:37:46.440 How much oatmeal are you eating?

00:37:52.160 That's like decades it would take to get through that much.

00:37:55.040 And the thing is, you know, it's one thing if you bought 50 pounds of oats and it was like five bucks.

00:38:01.420 You probably spent, how much did you spend on that?

00:38:03.680 Probably spent like 50 bucks on that.

00:38:06.660 This is what Costco does to people.

00:38:09.820 Commander Korb says, at this point, being burned at the steak doesn't sound so bad.

00:38:14.120 Only he spelled steak, S-T-A-E-A-K, which, yeah, I mean, being burned at one of those kinds of steaks sounds downright delicious, in fact.

00:38:23.260 So I'd agree with you there.

00:38:25.340 James says, dear Sweet Daddy Walsh, what do you think about physician-assisted suicide?

00:38:29.980 I mean, it's not funny, but, you know, there are, I know I have encouraged this name, Sweet Daddy, but, Sweet Daddy Walsh, but there are times when maybe I wouldn't use that name.

00:38:43.720 There are subjects where it doesn't seem very appropriate, and this might be one of them.

00:38:48.040 What do I think about physician-assisted suicide?

00:38:49.500 I think that physicians should be in the business of treating and healing.

00:38:54.340 That is, after all, the Hippocratic Oath.

00:38:57.800 That's what they swear to do.

00:39:00.020 And I think they should only be in that business.

00:39:02.360 So that is my radical view of doctors.

00:39:04.480 I think the only thing they should do, this is it, is treat and heal afflictions.

00:39:13.660 Diseases, illnesses, injuries, okay?

00:39:15.740 That's the only thing they should do.

00:39:17.160 They should never directly cause harm on purpose to a person.

00:39:27.160 Unless that harm, unless we're talking about chemotherapy or something, and the harm is all part of an effort to treat an illness.

00:39:37.780 They certainly should not be in the business of directly killing anybody.

00:39:42.300 And that includes through physician-assisted suicide, and it includes through abortion.

00:39:45.740 So that's my view on that.

00:39:47.160 Uh, Tyler says, hey, Matt, simple trick I use for converting kilograms to pounds is to double it, then add 10%.

00:39:54.560 So 10 kilograms times 2 equals 20.

00:39:58.480 20 plus 10% equals 22 pounds.

00:40:01.400 I think technically 1 kilogram is 2.203 or something pounds, but it's a pretty accurate way to convert for any weightlifting weights.

00:40:07.800 See, that just confuses me more.

00:40:11.820 This is why I was terrible in math classes, because any way, you know, I had tutors who would sit me down and say, okay, well, here's an easy way to think of this.

00:40:21.020 And the easy way to think of it always made me more confused. 0.99

00:40:24.720 Because I'm very stupid. 0.98

00:40:25.620 Zelmo says, as a 7-foot man, I'm offended that you suggested we're just automatically supposed to go to the NBA. 0.99

00:40:31.600 You have attacked an extremely marginalized group, literally 40 of us, in the entire U.S.

00:40:36.380 I demand an apology and for you to recognize my lived experience ducking under door frames and barely fitting on airplanes while wearing two small shoes.

00:40:44.620 Just know if you ban me from the show, you'll lose literally your biggest fan.

00:40:47.720 Shame on you.

00:40:48.620 Wait, is that true, though?

00:40:49.780 There are only 40 people in the whole U.S. that are 7 feet or larger?

00:40:56.380 Because here's, I don't want to make you feel worse about this thing, but if that's true, that there are only 47-footers in the entire country, as you claim, and this is your community, so I'll defer to you, there have to be at least 39 in the NBA.

00:41:15.040 So, Zelmo, you're literally the only 7-foot guy in the country who didn't make it to the NBA.

00:41:21.720 Tough break, man.

00:41:23.220 Tough break.

00:41:23.660 And finally, Bill Dow says, Matt, it's been a while since we've had any Pooh Shiesty updates, and I'm beginning to become concerned.

00:41:31.280 Well, Bill, I thank you for asking, and, you know, honestly, nobody ever asks me about Pooh, or frankly, how I'm doing, now that my guy Pooh is locked up, and that's pretty hard on me, personally.

00:41:42.840 As for the latest, I did look it up, and it's not good.

00:41:45.060 The website HipHopDX has this.

00:41:47.400 It says, Pooh Shiesty is currently locked up in a Miami-Dade federal jail for the foreseeable future.

00:41:51.780 And according to 3-6 Mafia affiliate Crunchy Black, that's exactly how it should be.

00:41:57.080 During a recent interview with Dirty Glove Bastards' Off the Porch series, fellow Memphis native Crunchy Black boldly states,

00:42:04.200 jail is where Pooh Shiesty belongs, considering his alleged involvement in the October 2020 shooting incident in the Bay Harbor Island area.

00:42:11.260 So, Pooh Shiesty, Crunchy Black, Dirty Glove Bastard, we're starting to see sort of our modern Mount Rushmore come together.

00:42:19.060 Although I can't tell if these are people or street slang for methamphetamine.

00:42:24.620 But Crunchy Black is unfortunately throwing Pooh Shiesty under the bus. 0.98

00:42:29.120 We have some of the footage of that.

00:42:30.560 Let's watch it.

00:42:32.140 Pooh Shiesty. 0.99

00:42:33.240 Look at this s***. 0.99

00:42:34.740 He just got in the game. 0.99

00:42:36.120 He's already jumping out the car robbing this s***. 0.99

00:42:39.120 You know what I'm saying? 0.99

00:42:39.780 Allegedly.

00:42:40.900 Yeah, yeah, whatever. 0.98

00:42:42.420 But, uh, that was that s***. 0.96

00:42:44.340 We saw that s***, you know what I'm saying? 0.98

00:42:47.420 Allegedly my s***. 0.99

00:42:48.780 But Pooh Shiesty, that's my y'all s***. 0.98

00:42:50.000 You know what I'm saying? 0.97

00:42:51.180 I'm just saying.

00:42:51.960 He did it.

00:42:52.720 It was him.

00:42:53.420 You know what I'm saying?

00:42:56.320 I ain't gonna act like that wasn't him.

00:42:58.820 Y'all can't act like that.

00:43:00.220 But that was Pooh Shiesty. 0.87

00:43:01.860 You know, they can't lock him up because I said it was him.

00:43:05.340 I can be still lying.

00:43:06.700 You know what I'm saying?

00:43:07.920 I'm just saying.

00:43:09.780 Yeah, yeah, I'm just saying. 0.98

00:43:11.620 They're young s*** and wild, too. 1.00

00:43:14.740 Lies. 1.00

00:43:15.820 Damned lies. 1.00

00:43:17.200 I never thought I'd see the day when Crunchy Black turns on Pooh Shiesty. 1.00

00:43:22.000 What's next, Crunchy Black? 0.96

00:43:23.300 Are you gonna throw Spot'em Got'em under the bus? 0.57

00:43:27.120 What about Lil Durk, who appeared on Pooh's iconic anthem, Back in Blood?

00:43:31.420 Gonna give him up to the feds, too?

00:43:35.980 These young men have done nothing wrong.

00:43:38.500 These are men of dignity and grace.

00:43:42.120 They are gentlemen. 0.99

00:43:44.300 And you, sir, are a scoundrel. 0.95

00:43:45.700 This has been one of the weirder reading the comment sections that we've done. 0.98

00:43:51.660 So let's quit while we're behind.

00:43:52.960 You know, this past weekend, vaccine passport protests in Berlin turned violent when police

00:43:58.160 decided to start batoning innocent women and children.

00:44:00.640 Pretty disturbing if you saw that footage.

00:44:02.780 Why were they doing that?

00:44:03.740 Because it hurts the narrative that they've been spinning, the narrative that cares only

00:44:07.360 about how easy you are to control.

00:44:09.500 It's a blatant, transparent show of authoritarianism.

00:44:11.600 And if you think it can't happen in America, you're certainly wrong about that.

00:44:15.500 That's why there's never been a better time to pick up Ben Shapiro's new book,

00:44:19.220 The Authoritarian Moment.

00:44:20.300 The book does a deep dive into the history of authoritarianism, how it's creeping into

00:44:24.280 our own government, and then really the most important thing is what we can do to stop it.

00:44:28.320 So it's time to learn how to stop our tyrannical government in its tracks.

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00:45:24.260 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:45:25.600 So today we're going to cancel panhandlers, beggars, vagrants, and I don't mean the people 1.00

00:45:34.540 who stand on the median strip with a sign or come up to you in the parking lot at Walmart

00:45:38.480 or sit on the sidewalk with a jar.

00:45:40.140 That's the old-fashioned panhandling.

00:45:42.280 Say what you want about it, but at least they're asking for money face-to-face, in person. 0.97

00:45:46.560 Also, almost all of them are drug addicts or severely mentally ill or both.

00:45:49.800 These are desperate, broken people.

00:45:51.280 I don't often give them money because, frankly, I don't really want to fund someone else's

00:45:56.900 crack addiction or my own.

00:45:59.880 I don't know why I said someone else's crack addiction like I have one.

00:46:02.160 But anyway, but I'm not mad about being asked.

00:46:06.120 So that's not what we're talking about.

00:46:08.160 A far worse category of beggar is the internet beggar. 0.79

00:46:12.520 And I'm also not talking here about the person in legitimately desperate straits trying to raise

00:46:17.780 money to pay for their child's medical treatments or something like that.

00:46:20.400 And I'm obviously not talking about people who raise money for other people, for charitable

00:46:23.860 causes, especially if they're raising money for, say, needy abuelas.

00:46:27.580 I'm talking about the rising tide of people who beg the internet for money for frivolous

00:46:32.720 reasons or for no stated reason at all.

00:46:35.100 People who start GoFundMes for themselves despite not being in any dire need.

00:46:40.340 In fact, when I did that Abuela fundraiser, out of the kindness of my heart, I got messages

00:46:44.220 from dozens and dozens of people sending me their own GoFundMes and asking, sometimes demanding,

00:46:49.280 that I share their GoFundMes and raise money for them.

00:46:53.360 Often there are causes where things like, please pay my student loans or please give

00:46:57.320 me money so I can go on vacation.

00:46:59.220 That was a real one.

00:46:59.960 Someone actually asked me to do that.

00:47:01.520 Or help me, sir.

00:47:02.680 I need money to get my car detailed.

00:47:04.100 I made the last one up, but it's not far from the kinds of campaigns I've seen.

00:47:09.220 And we should also say that even some of the fundraising campaigns stemming from actual

00:47:14.320 tragedy or affliction are, at a minimum, some of them, sort of weird and inappropriate and

00:47:20.160 off-putting.

00:47:21.240 Because these days, when someone suffers a misfortune, especially if that misfortune generates

00:47:24.620 some attention online, the first thing they often do is start a GoFundMe, even if it isn't

00:47:29.400 really clear how money is going to help them in their situation or why they're asking for

00:47:34.180 it.

00:47:34.920 The pitch seems to be, something bad happened to me, and now please everyone give me money

00:47:39.500 to make yourselves feel better about it.

00:47:42.180 Now, this is all pretty objectionable, but at least it's better than another form of cyber

00:47:46.420 panhandling in which a person simply puts their cash app or Venmo handle in their bio

00:47:51.000 on social media and asks people to send them money for no reason.

00:47:55.400 Often these days, the panhandler doesn't bother with a sob story or any story.

00:47:59.400 They just preemptively ask the whole internet for money and hope for the best.

00:48:03.380 And even that is better than the latest innovation, something I've noticed more and more recently,

00:48:09.520 and I saw it again yesterday in a shopping center parking lot.

00:48:12.640 Perhaps you've seen this yourself.

00:48:14.420 People who put their cash app or Venmo handles on the rear windshield of their cars, soliciting

00:48:20.680 donations from anyone in the world who happens to park near them or end up behind them in

00:48:25.120 traffic.

00:48:25.480 The car I saw yesterday had the person's cash app information along with a brief message

00:48:30.160 indicating that she's a single mother and any little bit helps.

00:48:34.720 I mean, it didn't say she's homeless.

00:48:36.140 It didn't say anything.

00:48:36.700 It just said single mother, any little bit helps.

00:48:39.800 Apparently, just the simple fact of being a single mother, regardless of your actual

00:48:43.700 financial situation, is supposed to be enough to justify public solicitation.

00:48:47.600 I'm a single mother.

00:48:49.760 Give me money.

00:48:51.600 Why?

00:48:52.660 Why should I?

00:48:53.440 I'm a father of four.

00:48:54.320 Why don't you give me money?

00:48:56.500 Now, I wasn't sure if this windshield trend was something that I was just noticing myself.

00:49:00.160 Maybe these people are following me around to torment me specifically.

00:49:03.760 I don't know.

00:49:05.160 But it turns out that's not the case.

00:49:06.500 I looked it up and found a recent article from The Washington Post on this very subject

00:49:09.760 indicating that it is indeed a national trend.

00:49:12.000 It says, quote, when Corey Roy was heading out on the final leg of a road trip to celebrate

00:49:17.620 her wife's 29th birthday in April, she decided to add a message to the rear window of her

00:49:22.580 Hyundai.

00:49:23.660 Help us get to New Orleans, she wrote, adding her Venmo and Cash App accounts.

00:49:27.960 Roy, an Austin-based hip-hop artist who goes by Mama Duke, said in an interview that she

00:49:32.560 was inspired by fellow road trippers on TikTok.

00:49:35.680 Even $20 would be better than nothing, Roy figured, but there was reason for optimism.

00:49:39.800 Over the past few months, social media users, especially on TikTok, have been sharing their

00:49:43.560 own experience of Venmo-powered road trips as travel has revved up again.

00:49:47.560 Users have sought and received contributions from strangers for graduations, birthdays,

00:49:51.760 bachelorette parties, anniversaries, even divorces.

00:49:54.500 Some of the videos have been viewed millions of times.

00:49:57.160 Now, the article gives several examples, including one car spotted by a journalist who posted it

00:50:01.320 to Twitter, which said, just divorced, buy me a drink, D-R-A-A-A-A-N-K.

00:50:08.120 And then it had her Venmo.

00:50:10.680 Well, at least the divorce is no mystery here.

00:50:13.020 I mean, shameless and greedy is not a recipe for success in any human relationship, least

00:50:16.940 of all a marriage.

00:50:18.180 One other example from the article, a woman named Alyssa Harris had the bright idea to 1.00

00:50:21.800 start panhandling for her bachelorette party. 1.00

00:50:24.500 It says, quote, during a stop early on, she wrote a message on the back of the car as she

00:50:29.680 had seen a fellow TikTok user do.

00:50:31.440 It said, quote, last fling before the ring, buy the bride a drink.

00:50:34.820 A friend shot a video and they posted it to TikTok during the drive.

00:50:38.040 It blew up so fast, said Harris, a dental hygienist.

00:50:40.460 She had her phone propped up on a stand in the car for directions, but Venmo notifications

00:50:44.940 kept flashing.

00:50:46.340 I was like, oh my gosh, guys, every time I checked, there was another $100.

00:50:50.720 While she thought a few hundred dollars might come in, I've seen what TikTok can do, she

00:50:54.940 said.

00:50:55.480 She was floored when the total topped $3,200.

00:50:58.100 Yes, well, who could think of a more worthy charitable cause than sending money to a random

00:51:04.080 dental hygienist so that she can have a fun bachelorette party? 1.00

00:51:07.920 People in her line of work have salaries up to $100,000 a year.

00:51:11.780 A good number of the people who sent her money probably make less than she does, but she accepted

00:51:17.500 it without shame.

00:51:18.880 And that's the common theme here, a total lack of shame.

00:51:22.940 So what is the problem? 1.00

00:51:24.000 Granted, if people are stupid enough to give their money to some flagrant money grubber 0.99

00:51:29.380 who put their personal financial information on the windshield of their car or post it 1.00

00:51:33.620 to their Twitter bio or to TikTok, that's their own fault, right?

00:51:38.100 True, but even so, there's reason to be concerned that people in our culture have become so comfortable

00:51:42.760 begging the world for money, even when they don't really need it and are hardly pretending

00:51:47.040 to need it.

00:51:48.520 To understand the problem, consider this.

00:51:50.940 Consider this.

00:51:51.440 How many of these moochers would actually go up to a stranger face-to-face and say,

00:51:57.960 hey, will you give me some money?

00:52:00.240 Why?

00:52:00.680 Why do you need it?

00:52:01.960 Oh, no reason.

00:52:03.100 I just want some, I guess.

00:52:05.320 I'm going to go party later.

00:52:06.680 And I, you know, I didn't want to spend my own money on the party, so maybe I could spend

00:52:11.020 yours.

00:52:12.920 How many would do that?

00:52:14.700 Almost none of these people would.

00:52:15.980 And yet, that's what they do online or on their windshields or on their TikTok accounts.

00:52:21.520 Now, this, of course, is a far-reaching problem on the internet.

00:52:24.000 People saying things they would never say in person, acting in ways they would never

00:52:27.880 act in front of a physical audience.

00:52:30.240 And whenever you find yourself doing or saying anything behind the shield of your screen or

00:52:33.920 keyboard that you would never even think about doing or saying to another human in

00:52:37.480 the flesh, you should really stop yourself and ask why.

00:52:41.420 In the case of the panhandlers, they wouldn't do it in person because it's shameful and embarrassing 1.00

00:52:47.240 and pathetic to solicit money from strangers when you're not in desperate need and are not 0.77

00:52:52.500 giving them anything in exchange. 0.98

00:52:55.080 Doing it online is not any less shameful or embarrassing or pathetic, but it does insulate 0.75

00:52:59.180 you from those emotions.

00:53:01.280 And that's maybe, that's one of the primary dangers of the internet, is it insulates you from

00:53:05.900 the emotional consequence of the things that you're doing and saying.

00:53:13.740 Now, you know, soliciting money from strangers, even when you do need it and are actually

00:53:20.740 desperate, can still be quite a humbling experience.

00:53:23.720 If, again, you're making these pleas in person, it should be humbling.

00:53:28.600 There's nothing wrong with asking for help if you need it, but it's something that should

00:53:31.780 be approached with humility.

00:53:33.340 You're going up to a stranger and asking that they give to you while you offer nothing in

00:53:37.060 return.

00:53:37.400 There is a time and place for that sort of plea, but the fact that you're asking them

00:53:40.560 to make 100% of the sacrifice for your sake when they don't even know you should, again,

00:53:45.800 bring forth within yourself a deep sense of humility.

00:53:49.020 It's that deep sense of humility that's lost among so many of the cyber panhandlers.

00:53:54.100 There is no sense of humility.

00:53:55.700 They feel no mortification in receiving money in exchange for nothing, as long as the money

00:53:59.620 comes from faceless, nameless people who do not have to solicit, who they don't have to

00:54:03.520 solicit personally, nor thank personally, or thank at all.

00:54:08.540 Entitlement, shamelessness, laziness, these all are the hallmarks of modern American culture.

00:54:15.520 And so it is no surprise that we have produced a legion of comfortable, well-fed, well-dressed

00:54:19.760 internet hobos using their $900 iPhones to clink their jars to the world, pleading that we

00:54:25.140 might spare some change, though they have plenty of spare change themselves.

00:54:28.360 I will not give these people a dime, but I will tell them, you're canceled.

00:54:36.780 And we will leave it there for today.

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