The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 808 - Ron DeSantis Is Accused Of Not Being A Tyrant

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00:02:14.980 So I was on a plane yesterday flying from my home state of Virginia back to my old stomping grounds of Tennessee.

00:02:21.380 It's great to be back here, kind of nostalgic, giving a speech.

00:02:24.440 I'll be giving a speech in Memphis tonight.

00:02:26.360 I'll be at the Faith Baptist Church Bartlett to give the keynote speech at the Confidential Care Mobile Ministry 25th Anniversary Banquet.

00:02:33.600 Doors open at 7.

00:02:34.820 Anyway, on the plane on the way over, I had the wonderful experience of being lectured three times in the first 30 minutes of the flight for improperly wearing my mask.

00:02:43.980 I was wearing it, but improperly.

00:02:46.400 And the first couple of lectures, I had my nose exposed.

00:02:50.380 And you don't want to have your nose exposed when you're wearing the mask.

00:02:52.900 No one's ever been able to explain why that's the case.

00:02:55.300 What does it actually matter to you if my nose is poking out over the mask?

00:02:59.900 Do you think that I'm going to infect someone who's wearing a mask, is probably vaccinated, just by breathing through my nostrils?

00:03:06.540 What's the likelihood of that?

00:03:07.520 But it doesn't matter.

00:03:08.720 At least it doesn't matter to the people who impose these policies.

00:03:10.800 The last lecture I got came after I took off my mask to drink the soda that had just been handed to me.

00:03:19.900 The flight attendant handed me a soda.

00:03:22.360 And I had only taken one sip before she was back, informing me that I can't take my mask off all the way to drink a drink.

00:03:31.300 So it has to be around my ears.

00:03:33.660 I can pull it down briefly for a sip, but then you have to replace it.

00:03:37.900 That's just science, folks, okay?

00:03:39.740 It's a very dangerous situation.

00:03:41.660 You've got to have the mask, even if it's not on your mouth.

00:03:43.840 It's got to be hanging around your ears.

00:03:45.520 And the act of hanging around the ears affords extra protection.

00:03:49.420 That is pure science right there.

00:03:51.920 Now, she pretended to be sort of apologetic about this.

00:03:54.260 And she explained, as they always do, that, well, this is just the policy, sir.

00:03:59.520 It's just the policy.

00:04:01.580 Why is it the policy?

00:04:03.200 What sense does it make?

00:04:04.980 Well, those are irrelevant questions again, apparently.

00:04:08.200 Now, I've done a lot of flying recently.

00:04:09.300 And I can tell you that the mask enforcement on airplanes and in airports tends to vary wildly,

00:04:15.380 not from airline to airline, but from flight crew to flight crew.

00:04:18.640 So these policies have given power to people who normally have little power or authority

00:04:24.040 in their positions.

00:04:26.040 So it's up to the individuals to decide how far they'll go with it, how controlling and

00:04:30.660 tyrannical they want to be.

00:04:32.820 It's just a matter of whether or not they want to exploit this power.

00:04:36.640 So if they want to decide that you have to have the mask hanging around your ears for

00:04:41.120 no reason, then they can decide that.

00:04:43.320 Even just like the guy stocking shelves at the grocery store can yell at you now if there's

00:04:47.980 a mask mandate in the store and you aren't wearing yours properly, lots of people have

00:04:54.000 been given power they didn't have before.

00:04:56.080 So we've learned quite a lot about our fellow Americans through this time.

00:05:01.100 And often, unfortunately, what we've learned has not been terribly encouraging because there

00:05:05.320 are plenty of people at every level in the public sector and the private who are eager

00:05:10.680 to impose themselves on you, excited to capitalize on the power they've been granted, however

00:05:15.980 small and limited in scope it might be.

00:05:19.580 This is not new with COVID, by the way.

00:05:21.460 This is something we noticed.

00:05:22.420 There's a tendency in people you've noticed, of course, before COVID.

00:05:26.620 Just the smallest amount of power could go to someone's head.

00:05:28.880 The most tyrannical person I've ever known or been around was a shift supervisor that I

00:05:35.280 had at a fast food restaurant where I worked when I was like 17.

00:05:39.560 This is a person who had very little power in his position as shift supervisor at a fast food

00:05:44.720 restaurant, but he was going to milk that for every drop that it was worth.

00:05:49.280 So we know about this tendency in people, and I think COVID has really brought that out.

00:05:54.080 And that's why those at the top who've been granted the most power are so hesitant to

00:05:58.520 relinquish it.

00:05:59.540 Principal among them, of course, is Fauci, who this week has announced that in order to

00:06:02.780 be fully vaccinated, I mean fully, fully vaccinated, you need three shots, not two.

00:06:09.300 Here's the Post Millennial, says, in an exclusive interview with the Atlantic, Joe Biden's chief

00:06:14.360 medical advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, revealed that COVID-19 booster shots don't keep people

00:06:18.360 alive, but can allegedly prevent severe effects from the virus.

00:06:21.520 According to Dr. Fauci, booster shots add crucial temporary protection against the virus and will

00:06:25.680 become a standard regimen in the future.

00:06:27.740 He says, quote, it's likely for a real, complete regimen that you would need at least a third dose.

00:06:34.900 Fauci continued, quote, I think we should be preventing people from getting sick from COVID,

00:06:38.720 even if they don't wind up in the hospital.

00:06:40.660 Dr. Fauci said at the Atlantic Festival on Tuesday, skeptics of the COVID-19 booster shots believe that

00:06:45.820 boosters won't provide significant protection and will only act as a temporary shield to the virus,

00:06:50.600 contrary to the vaccines that were designed to prevent hospitalization and death.

00:06:53.500 However, Fauci said that he rejects skeptics' notions and insisted it's beneficial to have

00:06:58.560 temporary protection rather than no protection.

00:07:02.280 So, in summary, bad news for the double-vaxxed, because you're about to find yourself back in 0.98

00:07:08.180 the ranks of the unvaxxed.

00:07:10.360 Three shots to be fully vaccinated.

00:07:12.680 So you got two shots and now you're back in the unvaxxed.

00:07:16.620 You're an anti-vaxxer.

00:07:17.960 You got two shots and you're an anti-vaxxer now.

00:07:19.700 So, three shots will do it.

00:07:22.140 That is until it becomes four shots and five shots and six shots and so on.

00:07:25.760 As long as they have another shot to push, which they always will, because apparently

00:07:30.020 what they're telling us is that this, and this is not me saying this, YouTube, this is what

00:07:34.760 they're telling us apparently, that the protection afforded by the vaccine is very, very temporary.

00:07:40.200 Or at least the full protection afforded by the vaccine is temporary, which is why they

00:07:46.280 recommend you get the booster shot, which would mean that there's always going to be

00:07:49.080 another shot.

00:07:50.360 And as long as there's always going to be another shot, and we can always be yelling

00:07:54.700 at people who have not gotten the latest shot, the pandemic will continue.

00:07:58.940 At least they can claim that it's continuing.

00:08:01.380 And all they need is the claim in order to have the power.

00:08:03.520 And with all these people from flight attendants to public health experts to governors exploiting

00:08:09.080 their power and clinging to it like Gollum grasping the ring, it becomes even funnier to

00:08:14.700 see how guys like Ron DeSantis, who've declined the additional powers that the pandemic panic

00:08:20.560 might have afforded him, are still somehow painted as the dystopian tyrants.

00:08:25.520 They've declined the power, and that makes them the tyrants.

00:08:28.420 An ad airing in Florida right now, put together by a group called Remove Ron, tries to make

00:08:36.020 this point explicit, but it only succeeds in highlighting all of the best things about

00:08:40.360 DeSantis.

00:08:40.920 And also the ad is really just very funny.

00:08:43.520 Watch this.

00:08:48.940 Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of your cabin crew, we'd like to inform you that we have

00:08:54.100 officially entered Florida airspace.

00:08:55.940 Now that we're making our final dissent, please watch this short message from Governor Ron DeSantis

00:09:03.220 on COVID-19.

00:09:05.240 Thereafter, everyone on board will be required to comply with the state's forever purge.

00:09:12.160 We are not doing any vaccine passports in the state of Florida.

00:09:17.140 We trust people to make their own decisions in this state.

00:09:20.360 We are not going to be bludgeoning people with restrictions and mandates and lockdowns or

00:09:28.240 any of that stuff.

00:09:29.640 As Governor DeSantis stated, while you're within state lines, you do not have to wear a mask.

00:09:36.040 You do not have to get a vaccine.

00:09:38.100 It is against the law for private businesses or schools to mandate masks or vaccines.

00:09:44.020 And you have the absolute right to infect whoever you want, whenever and wherever with COVID-19.

00:09:53.540 Thank you for traveling with us.

00:09:55.520 And please enjoy your floor ever purge.

00:10:00.020 COVID-19 is surging again.

00:10:02.120 This is the time to double down.

00:10:03.560 The governor is doubling down.

00:10:05.220 He says students shouldn't be forced to wear masks.

00:10:08.380 If you are trying to lock people down, I'm going to stand in your way.

00:10:13.100 That's, I honestly, when I saw that last night, I had to do some digging because I wasn't,

00:10:19.000 I really wasn't sure if that was actually supposed to be an attack ad or like some kind of hype

00:10:23.100 video.

00:10:23.600 It was not clear to me.

00:10:25.360 And, uh, and, but no, apparently, yes, this is, this is, we are really supposed to watch

00:10:30.020 that and come away with it, come away from it with a, with a lower opinion of Ron DeSantis.

00:10:34.100 And it only proves that you actually can't turn anything sinister just by putting creepy

00:10:38.340 music in the background.

00:10:39.880 All the creepy music in the world won't make the phrase, we trust people to make their own

00:10:44.640 decisions suddenly seem evil or terrified.

00:10:47.960 I mean, you could set the Jaws theme to footage of Mother Teresa walking down the street or

00:10:52.940 volunteering at a soup kitchen, but it's not going to make people shake in their boots

00:10:55.900 unless they're shaking from laughter.

00:10:57.680 And this ad really is unintentionally the most hilarious political attack ad of all time.

00:11:02.080 It has the exact opposite effect from the effect that was intended because I like Ron DeSantis

00:11:07.960 even more now.

00:11:08.680 I, I mean, I would love that if I landed, if I was flying into a state and I landed there

00:11:12.880 and that was the, like the welcome video we watched where they said, Hey, you'll make your

00:11:16.500 own choices here.

00:11:17.080 You have freedom here.

00:11:19.200 That would be fantastic.

00:11:21.540 What are we supposed to be afraid of here?

00:11:24.260 What are they attacking him for?

00:11:25.900 Well, freedom.

00:11:26.740 They're comparing a lack of vaccine mandates and passports and his refusal to shut down

00:11:33.520 small businesses to a purge where people are running through the streets, murdering each

00:11:39.040 other at will.

00:11:40.280 They want us to be afraid of freedom.

00:11:42.780 They want us to be afraid of leaders, what few exist, who declined to exploit their authority.

00:11:47.860 They want us to be afraid of leaders who value our freedom over their power.

00:11:51.780 And to the sane among us, we see that and it's hilarious that it becomes a little bit

00:11:59.380 less funny when you realize that for a lot of Americans, that message has actually worked.

00:12:04.560 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:12:05.920 You know, I've been telling you about this new book that if you haven't picked up yet,

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00:12:20.560 And this book, you know, back when they first wrote it and had the idea to publish it, it

00:12:26.760 was obviously relevant.

00:12:27.720 It's been relevant for 40 years, ever since Roe v. Wade.

00:12:30.760 But they couldn't have known, you know, that with this Texas bill, that abortion would be

00:12:35.780 back in the headlines right when this book comes out.

00:12:37.640 So there's never been a better time for it.

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00:12:43.300 two Amazon bestseller.

00:12:44.440 And it's already on its second printing.

00:12:46.740 And it's easy to see why that's the case.

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00:13:19.640 You know, the enforcement in the planes with the masking really varies, like I said, with

00:13:27.820 flight crews in airports, too.

00:13:29.880 I mean, really everywhere you go in the country.

00:13:32.000 And I've done a lot of traveling recently and throughout the whole pandemic.

00:13:37.240 And it's always been the case that it's not just city to city, but place to place, wherever

00:13:42.980 you go.

00:13:43.620 They've all got their own little version of what they're doing.

00:13:46.720 The little measures they've put in place most of the time don't make any sense.

00:13:50.660 And so there's just no coherent message at all.

00:13:55.920 If you didn't know anything about what was going on with COVID or anything, and you just

00:13:59.040 traveled around to different places, and you saw all of the competing, different, conflicting

00:14:03.720 safety measures that have been put in place, you would just have no idea what was happening.

00:14:07.520 You wouldn't have any clue what they're trying to protect us against.

00:14:11.880 And that's especially the case in airports.

00:14:13.680 In fact, in Reagan Airport in D.C., that's the first airport I've been to in many months

00:14:20.520 where they actually enforce the mask mandate at all.

00:14:23.000 I mean, usually I just walk around the airport and I don't wear the mask and no one says anything.

00:14:27.720 But I got yelled at two or three times at Reagan Airport because the people working there are

00:14:34.420 excited for that opportunity to yell at you for not wearing a mask.

00:14:38.540 In fact, just at the baggage claim, I was dropping my bags off.

00:14:43.240 And as I'm walking away, the woman yells at me, where's your mask? 0.99

00:14:46.580 Where's your mask?

00:14:48.800 I said, it's in my pocket.

00:14:50.380 But are you going to put it on?

00:14:51.820 Yeah, sure.

00:14:52.560 Because I just walked away and didn't put it on.

00:14:55.160 This has been my general policy, and I've shared with you before.

00:15:00.260 And I think this is really important, and it's something we all need to start doing if

00:15:04.720 you're not doing it already.

00:15:05.560 I'm not going to say, I can't say that I simply won't wear the mask at all, because

00:15:13.180 if I say that, that means I'm not getting on planes, I'm not traveling to the places

00:15:16.480 I need to travel to.

00:15:18.120 So I can't say that exactly.

00:15:20.060 But what I will say is that, and this has been my policy all along, is I'm not going to

00:15:25.440 volunteer to wear the mask.

00:15:26.860 I'm not going to walk into a place and choose on my own to put it on.

00:15:31.020 I'm going to at least make you tell me to put it on.

00:15:33.680 And then once you, depending on who you are, I'll decide if I care, you know, if you're

00:15:38.860 just some random person with no position of authority at all, I'm just going to ignore

00:15:43.300 you.

00:15:43.500 I don't care what you think.

00:15:44.820 But if you do have some position of authority in this establishment where I am, then I'll

00:15:48.900 decide.

00:15:49.440 Maybe I want to leave because I don't want to wear the mask, or I'll put it on.

00:15:52.240 But I'm going to make you tell me.

00:15:53.380 I'm not going to volunteer doing it.

00:15:55.340 It really is disturbing.

00:16:00.880 It's been disturbing for me this whole time to see how so many people have just, even if

00:16:08.840 they don't like wearing it, they've gotten used to wearing it.

00:16:10.900 And now a lot of people do like, actually like wearing the mask.

00:16:13.680 I noticed this shift in planes early on.

00:16:16.520 It's like the first couple of months when they had the mask mandates in planes and the

00:16:22.940 flight attendants were prowling through the plane the whole time, telling people, put the

00:16:27.340 mask back on, put the mask back on, yelling at people over the intercom and everything.

00:16:31.760 And you could see people around you.

00:16:32.960 They're always fidgeting with the mask, pulling it down.

00:16:35.040 And then this shift happened.

00:16:36.840 And it was pretty sudden from what I observed a couple months into it where that people

00:16:41.260 weren't doing that anymore.

00:16:41.900 They just put the mask on over the nose, didn't touch it, didn't fidget with it, and kept

00:16:46.080 it on the whole time without any complaint at all.

00:16:49.140 I don't understand that mentality, but it's a pretty disturbing mentality that so many people

00:16:53.640 have.

00:16:54.420 All right.

00:16:54.720 So this is from, this is a report from the website American Greatness.

00:17:00.640 And I'll just read the report to you.

00:17:03.160 This is what, this is what they are reporting.

00:17:05.520 We had the, we had the, the alleged scandal involving Christy Noem yesterday that we talked

00:17:10.380 about where allegedly she used her position of, of authority to get a position, um, for 0.98

00:17:17.320 her, for her daughter and, you know, kind of nepotism using her influence to get a position 1.00

00:17:23.420 for her daughter.

00:17:23.940 That was the, that was the story yesterday.

00:17:26.120 We had a new scandal alleged.

00:17:28.400 This is from American Greatness.

00:17:29.920 It says multiple sources have informed American Greatness that South Dakota Governor Christy

00:17:35.500 Noem is having an extramarital affair with advisor Corey Lewandowski, who previously served as

00:17:40.460 a campaign manager for Donald Trump.

00:17:42.600 The alleged fling reportedly has continued for months, for months, sources say.

00:17:46.860 Lewandowski accompanied Noem across the country as she stumped for Trump's re-election last

00:17:50.960 year.

00:17:51.800 According to South Dakota Republicans, former Noem chief of staff Joshua Shields left in part

00:17:56.320 because of Lewandowski's butting in.

00:17:58.180 Lewandowski was married with four children, still has the former president's ear, which he reportedly

00:18:01.680 uses to Noem's advantage.

00:18:04.040 American Greatness contacted Noem's office for comment on Tuesday.

00:18:06.960 No comment has been received at the time of publication.

00:18:08.900 We do have a comment from her now, which I'll get to in a second.

00:18:11.740 And Noem is a married mother of three and has been eyed as a possible running mate for

00:18:15.780 a Trump presidential bid in 2024.

00:18:18.020 Then it goes on to say that this is, uh, allegedly one of those open secrets in Washington, D.C.

00:18:23.760 that everybody knows about.

00:18:24.700 That's the claim anyway.

00:18:26.680 Now, Christy Noem responded to, uh, these claims.

00:18:30.000 And here's what she said on her official Twitter account, her governor Twitter account. 0.99

00:18:33.260 She said, these rumors are total garbage and a disgusting lie. 0.99

00:18:37.220 These old, tired attacks on conservative women are based on a falsehood that we can't achieve 1.00

00:18:41.580 anything without a man's help.

00:18:43.560 I love Brian.

00:18:44.540 That's her husband, I assume.

00:18:45.700 I'm proud of the God-fearing family we've raised together.

00:18:49.260 Uh, now I'm getting back to work.

00:18:52.240 All right.

00:18:53.840 Here's what I'll say about this.

00:18:55.900 Uh, I don't know if it's true or not.

00:18:58.140 How could I possibly know that?

00:19:00.000 I, I, I didn't like the nature of Christy Noem's denial yesterday with the nepotism scandal

00:19:06.220 where she said that, well, you'd stop attacking my kids, but no one's attacking your kid.

00:19:11.640 That's not the point.

00:19:12.440 Your kid who's an adult, they're attacking you and they're saying that you shouldn't have

00:19:16.720 done this.

00:19:18.440 Um, and I also don't really like this denial because once again, this is like a reflex for

00:19:26.380 her, she did the same thing to me, as you recall, when all I did was criticize her policy choices.

00:19:33.800 Um, she, she, she reflexively goes to the sexism charge charge. 1.00

00:19:41.140 These old, tired attacks on conservative women.

00:19:43.660 I mean, come on, give me a break.

00:19:46.220 So conservative women are the only ones who get accused of sex scandals. 1.00

00:19:53.860 It's, it's actually thankfully pretty rare.

00:19:56.320 I think for conservative women that they get, that, that, uh, their name gets tossed around 0.99

00:20:00.600 with scandals like this.

00:20:01.960 It's much more common with, uh, male politicians.

00:20:06.960 And when it happens, the media makes a big deal of it.

00:20:09.600 And it's a, it's a story.

00:20:11.380 I mean, the public loves sex scandals.

00:20:13.980 They always have.

00:20:14.620 It's one of the, it's one of the things that, that, that brings both sides of the aisle together.

00:20:19.860 So, uh, trying to make it into a, into a gendered thing, into a sexism thing, that's a lame move. 0.90

00:20:25.860 I don't know if that doesn't mean that it's true, but it's a lame, it's a lame form of denial.

00:20:33.720 And meanwhile, as far as the American public goes, although, although everyone seems to share an 0.97

00:20:41.580 interest in the sex scandal story, we are a bunch of rank hypocrites when it comes to how we respond 0.82

00:20:48.660 to these sorts of stories, because obviously the, the relevance of an, of an alleged affair 0.90

00:20:55.480 that's going to be judged entirely based on party affiliation. 0.99

00:21:00.980 So this is, this is one issue where almost everybody is a total hypocrite. 0.98

00:21:07.200 You know, you look at party affiliation, do you like the politician? 0.98

00:21:10.500 Are they in your party?

00:21:11.860 Are, do you ideologically align with them?

00:21:14.080 And, uh, if, if you do, then, then the response is always, well, who cares?

00:21:17.820 It's their personal life.

00:21:18.660 What does it matter?

00:21:20.220 And if you don't like them, then all of a sudden it becomes, it becomes an issue.

00:21:23.200 That's why the left has jumped on this story and, uh, are going after Christy Nome about

00:21:28.260 this, pretending, pretending now to have standards on these issues to, to value, you know, the

00:21:33.980 sanctity of marriage and everything.

00:21:35.540 So that's the way the game is played.

00:21:37.620 Um, I, I try not to be a hypocrite on issues like this as best I can.

00:21:42.740 So I will, I will say, and I think I've been pretty consistent on this, uh, I do think that

00:21:50.400 these issues do matter.

00:21:53.900 You know, if a, if a politician has an affair, it's, it's not just their, their personal life.

00:22:03.100 Yeah, that's not, that's not the only implication here because it can speak to their integrity.

00:22:08.340 And you have to wonder, right, if a, if a, if someone is in a position of leadership,

00:22:13.940 position of authority, and they're willing to betray their family, betray someone who

00:22:19.980 they have made an undying commitment to before God, if they're willing to do that, then you

00:22:25.840 have to ask, can I trust them on anything else?

00:22:29.220 I mean, if a politician is willing to betray their spouse, their family, their kids, what,

00:22:35.620 what hope do we have in the public that they're not going to, that they're going to, what's

00:22:38.620 stay loyal and true and be honest with us?

00:22:43.400 You, you have much less of a, of a moral obligation, even as a politician, you have,

00:22:47.840 you're, you have less of a moral obligation to the public than you do to your family.

00:22:52.560 Your first and primary and most important moral obligation for all of us is to our own

00:22:56.560 families.

00:22:58.620 And so if we're willing to throw that by the wayside, then it raises questions about

00:23:03.040 serious questions about integrity.

00:23:04.540 So I do think it matters.

00:23:06.180 These kinds of stories, they do matter.

00:23:07.820 I don't think we could just say, well, it's, who cares?

00:23:09.520 It's a personal life.

00:23:12.440 The only question is whether or not it's true.

00:23:14.500 And I have absolutely no idea.

00:23:16.060 And I can't possibly know.

00:23:18.540 But it is a, it is a subject worthy of public discussion.

00:23:22.660 I think this is also something when you pursue that position of power and you get into politics,

00:23:31.000 this is, this is part of the deal.

00:23:34.980 And you know that going in.

00:23:37.480 If you didn't know it, then you should have.

00:23:39.880 All right, next.

00:23:40.840 So there's this show on Netflix called Squid Game that is apparently right now, and Netflix

00:23:48.840 is not very forthcoming with this sort of information about how many people are actually watching

00:23:53.420 their, their programs.

00:23:55.780 I mean, for all we know, you know, their top show has like 10 viewers and we would never

00:23:59.600 know because they don't tell us.

00:24:01.120 But they have told us proudly that this show, Squid Game, is their, I think right now, their

00:24:06.780 most popular show across the world on streaming.

00:24:09.440 Everybody's watching this thing.

00:24:10.300 Well, here's the story from the Daily Mail, dubbing Squid Game the most twisted series

00:24:17.620 on TV.

00:24:19.200 It says, a gruesome Netflix horror series about a fictional deadly game show in which poverty

00:24:24.340 stricken characters compete battle royale style to win a $27 million cash prize has come

00:24:29.800 under fire from viewers over its unnecessary gore and violence.

00:24:34.220 Korean made Squid Game, which is the most streamed show in the US and in the UK, features

00:24:38.920 grisly scenes of characters being shot in the head and organ harvesting in the latest

00:24:43.280 example of shock tactic programming from the streaming giant.

00:24:46.840 It's become a cult hit with fans.

00:24:48.680 I don't know if you can call it a cult hit when it's the most widely viewed show on streaming

00:24:51.500 right now.

00:24:52.360 More of a mainstream hit.

00:24:53.420 With fans of the slasher horror genre who have dubbed the nine-part series Saw meets

00:24:58.780 The Hunger Games and reveled in scenes of torture and mass murder.

00:25:04.800 But some TV fans have been left repulsed by the excessive violence, with several saying they

00:25:08.860 could not even make it through the first episode.

00:25:10.780 And others recommending it be banned for viewers under 20 because it's too gory.

00:25:15.140 And then it goes into graphic descriptions I probably don't need to read.

00:25:20.220 In each episode of Squid Game, characters take part in bloody versions of traditional children's

00:25:24.160 games like Grandmother's Footsteps or British Bulldogs.

00:25:27.700 With the winners progressing to the next round of the game show, the losers are executed by a

00:25:33.400 masked death squad standing by with machine guns.

00:25:37.820 But I guess it does add some extra intensity to Jeopardy or to a game show if that's the way

00:25:44.920 they're doing it.

00:25:46.060 And then it goes into graphic descriptions of what the show depicts.

00:25:50.600 And I don't need to get into that.

00:25:53.580 You know, having not watched the show, and I don't plan on watching it,

00:25:56.980 it does bring up this conversation about violence in shows and when does it go too far.

00:26:06.280 There's a tendency among people, I think on both sides, really, to say that,

00:26:15.060 we try to say this about entertainment in general, whether it's sexual content or violent content.

00:26:20.280 And we say, it's just entertainment.

00:26:21.880 It doesn't have any effect on anybody.

00:26:23.760 Come on. 0.94

00:26:25.000 That's silly. 0.97

00:26:25.900 What, so I'm going to watch Squid Game and then go out and join a death squad and start 1.00

00:26:29.960 executing people? 0.97

00:26:30.640 You think that's what I'm going to do? 0.98

00:26:33.600 People do the same thing with pornography.

00:26:35.680 And this is really like a form of porn. 0.94

00:26:37.160 This is torture porn. 0.63

00:26:39.920 Which seems to be coming back into popularity.

00:26:42.620 I can remember when I was a teenager, that was a big genre.

00:26:46.060 Things like Saw.

00:26:49.440 There's a movie called Hostel and other movies where that was the whole attraction.

00:26:54.240 To the film.

00:26:55.440 You went and you watched people get tortured for 95 minutes and then you left.

00:26:59.040 And there's really no plot.

00:27:00.140 That's just all that happened.

00:27:02.260 And it seems like those kinds of shows dipped in popularity but are now surging back into popularity.

00:27:09.900 So it's a kind of pornography. 0.53

00:27:11.520 It's torture porn. 0.97

00:27:12.160 And with actual sexual pornography, you hear the same kind of thing. 0.99

00:27:16.600 The people defending it. 0.83

00:27:17.540 Saying, oh, you thought, I'm not, I'm going to watch porn. 0.99

00:27:20.120 You think I'm going to go out and become a rapist? 1.00

00:27:21.400 Come on. 1.00

00:27:21.660 It's ridiculous. 0.96

00:27:23.500 Yeah. 0.71

00:27:23.720 When you, if you want to be reductive about it and try to draw these simplistic dots and

00:27:32.900 connect them that directly, then yeah, it seems silly.

00:27:35.480 Like no one is suggesting that you're going to watch a show like Squid Game and then go 0.78

00:27:38.940 out and kill people directly as a result. 0.79

00:27:42.200 That would, that would be an absurd thing to suggest, but no one's suggesting it. 0.94

00:27:46.680 It's just as absurd to suggest that you're not influenced at all by the images and messages

00:27:53.740 and ideas that you sit there passively eating your Doritos and drooling and ingesting.

00:28:01.840 That is also absurd.

00:28:03.440 Of course it has an effect on you.

00:28:05.680 We're human beings.

00:28:06.760 We have minds.

00:28:07.720 We're, we're, we are affected by all of the messages and images that we come in contact

00:28:12.920 with.

00:28:13.100 The advertising industry is, if we're not affected by, by images and messages and ideas,

00:28:18.920 then the advertising industry wouldn't exist.

00:28:20.500 And with that, with advertisements, they can influence you in 30 seconds.

00:28:25.960 They can influence you with a, with a billboard you see on the highway for three seconds as

00:28:31.500 you're driving by.

00:28:33.440 That's how impressionable, how easily influenced we are.

00:28:38.380 And so I do worry about that with pornography, of course.

00:28:43.000 And I worry about that with, with, with gratuitous violence in films and in shows.

00:28:49.020 And when I say gratuitous, that doesn't mean that every single show and movie we watch has

00:28:54.180 to be rated G.

00:28:55.580 You know, I don't, I don't think that at all.

00:28:57.400 Some of my favorite films of all time, Saving Private Ryan, one of my favorite films, extremely

00:29:01.980 violent.

00:29:03.320 I think what makes it gratuitous is when almost all of the entertainment value is in watching

00:29:11.600 people be mutilated and, and killed in all of these gory and graphic ways.

00:29:18.160 When, when that is the entertainment, you know, if violence is part of the story, you're watching

00:29:22.380 a war film, violence is part of the story.

00:29:25.540 You can't take violence out of that.

00:29:26.860 If you're going to take violence out of a, of, of a war story, you might as well not tell

00:29:30.140 the story at all, but when the whole story is the violence and the entertainment value

00:29:37.100 isn't watching people be ripped open and, uh, and disemboweled, that's when it becomes

00:29:45.560 gratuitous.

00:29:47.220 And that's when you have to worry about the kind of influence that has on us.

00:29:51.620 And I think the primary influence is not that it's turning people into murderers.

00:29:54.980 Uh, it's just, it's just a, it's desensitization, it's moral desensitization, which is also one

00:30:03.240 of the primary influences of pornography.

00:30:06.040 It's not that it causes you to go out and do things, kind of the opposite.

00:30:09.060 It just, it just turns you into this sort of blank slate and you become desensitized to

00:30:15.740 these kinds of images.

00:30:18.320 And even though it's fictional, right, if you're watching someone be disemboweled in Squid

00:30:24.380 Game, it's fictional, but if you're sitting there watching it and enjoying it, you do

00:30:30.900 have to ask yourself, why do I enjoy watching this?

00:30:34.660 Even though it's fictional, what is it about this?

00:30:38.040 Because part of enjoying a fictional story when you're watching a show, part of the enjoyment

00:30:41.500 aspect is to forget that it's fictional.

00:30:44.260 If you have in your mind the whole time, oh, this is fictional, this is fictional, then

00:30:47.520 you can't enjoy it.

00:30:48.180 That's called breaking the fourth wall, right?

00:30:50.480 So you have, you have to surrender your mind to this story.

00:30:54.380 And get into the mentality, sort of pretend that it's not fictional.

00:30:57.380 So then you have to ask yourself, what is it about that that I enjoy watching?

00:31:02.580 It is feeding a part of me that probably should not be fed.

00:31:09.600 All right, next, this is from MSN.

00:31:12.080 It says, YouTube is banning prominent, this is the headline, YouTube is banning prominent

00:31:15.840 anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content.

00:31:20.060 All anti-vaccine content is being blocked by YouTube.

00:31:25.240 But what does that mean?

00:31:26.320 Well, let's find out.

00:31:27.600 It says YouTube is taking down several video channels associated with high-profile anti-vaccine

00:31:34.600 activists, including Joseph Mercola and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who experts say are partially

00:31:40.560 responsible for helping seed the skepticism that's contributed to slowing vaccination rates

00:31:44.940 across the country.

00:31:46.080 As part of a new set of policies aimed at cutting down on anti-vaccine content on the Google-owned

00:31:49.940 site, YouTube will ban any videos that claim that commonly used vaccines approved by health

00:31:55.920 authorities are ineffective or dangerous.

00:31:59.140 The company previously blocked videos that made those claims about coronavirus vaccines,

00:32:02.800 but not ones for other vaccines like those for measles or chickenpox.

00:32:06.600 So now they're extending it to all vaccines, and you cannot claim that the vaccine is ineffective.

00:32:16.680 Of course, the problem there is, well, what do you mean by ineffective?

00:32:24.420 Fauci himself, as we talked about in the opening, says that now you need a booster shot, which

00:32:31.360 would seem to indicate if you need a third shot six months after you got your first dose, your

00:32:38.620 first complete dose of two shots, that would seem really to suggest that there is a certain

00:32:46.320 lack of effectiveness in the first complete dose.

00:32:53.520 If it's totally effective, then you wouldn't need another one.

00:32:56.900 And we're also told all the time that even if you have the vaccine, you should still be

00:33:05.680 wearing a mask and all of that.

00:33:09.280 Why do we need to do that if a vaccine is totally effective?

00:33:14.480 Does this count as anti-vaccine messaging?

00:33:18.580 Or is it anti-vaccine messaging when they say it, or only if someone like me says it?

00:33:23.040 What I'm saying right now, is this anti-vax content?

00:33:27.360 I have no idea.

00:33:28.060 But that's the way, that's the point.

00:33:29.500 That's how this is set up.

00:33:32.040 We're not supposed to know exactly, because then it frees them up to just decide what voices

00:33:36.200 they want to get rid of kind of arbitrarily.

00:33:38.720 You know what apparently didn't count as anti-vax content?

00:33:42.200 Back in November, in October, when, and let's go back through memory lane here, this was not

00:33:49.960 anti-vax content, when Democrats were on TV saying stuff like this.

00:33:53.500 Watch.

00:33:54.640 As you know, President Trump has promised a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year,

00:33:58.880 or maybe sooner.

00:34:00.340 Would you trust that vaccine?

00:34:02.040 No, I would not trust his word.

00:34:04.320 I would trust the word of public health experts and scientists, but not Donald Trump.

00:34:07.880 First of all, I don't trust the president on vaccines.

00:34:12.760 I think it's going to be a very skeptical American public about taking the vaccine, and it should be.

00:34:17.660 He will push anything to get reelected.

00:34:20.360 Don't fall for it.

00:34:21.540 And by the way, I will take the vaccine after Ivanka takes it.

00:34:24.960 You would be hesitant to receive the vaccine if it were approved by the end of the year.

00:34:31.560 I'm going to, yes, I would be hesitant.

00:34:33.920 I mean, if doctors and scientists like Dr. Fauci are taking that vaccine, of course I will take the

00:34:42.200 vaccine, but we also know that we can't trust the president and take his word.

00:34:47.940 I trust vaccines.

00:34:49.660 I trust the scientists, but I don't trust Donald Trump.

00:34:55.620 And at this moment, the American people can't either.

00:34:58.080 I believe all across the country, you're going to need someone other than this FDA and this CDC saying it's safe.

00:35:09.040 These people.

00:35:10.360 Every time, I can't say I'm not shocked by it, but in a way, every time I go back and I watch a clip like that,

00:35:18.220 you could almost be shocked by how soulless and fraudulent these people are.

00:35:31.180 It is interesting to imagine an alternative history where Donald Trump is still in the White House serving a second term.

00:35:41.600 Where would the vaccine conversation be right now?

00:35:44.060 You know, we could be in a totally different universe, potentially.

00:35:52.940 Because all the way up to Joe Biden, they were making it very clear that as long as Donald Trump is in the White House, they are anti-vax.

00:36:01.480 Everything you just, I mean, you heard them saying there, direct quotes, I wouldn't trust the vaccine if Donald Trump is in the White House.

00:36:09.840 And you can't, the stuff they said there, I couldn't, if I said that right now about Joe Biden, I'm done on YouTube.

00:36:17.900 I'm off.

00:36:19.000 And on every other social media platform.

00:36:22.260 So what kind of alternative reality would we be living in if Donald Trump was still in the White House?

00:36:28.660 Well, here's one thing we know.

00:36:29.860 It wouldn't be an entirely alternative universe.

00:36:31.800 Because say what you want about the anti-vaxxers on the right.

00:36:39.600 And by that, I mean, and here I'm referring to, you know, actual anti-vax.

00:36:44.440 I mean, there are people who are actually against vaccines in general.

00:36:50.600 And then there are people who are against the COVID vaccine in general.

00:36:54.560 They don't want a part of it.

00:36:55.480 They don't think anyone should take it.

00:36:56.420 You know, I think that both of those, both of those points of view could accurately be described as anti-vax.

00:37:04.380 The problem is now we broaden that category to include anyone who is anything less than religious in their fervent, you know, support of vaccination.

00:37:14.640 But anyway, the people that might be on the right, who might be accurately described as anti-vax, are consistent in that.

00:37:26.660 Because they were saying that back when Donald Trump was in office.

00:37:31.160 And those who are Trump fans, I mean, the fact is that this is one of Trump's great achievements, is that he got this vaccine out there.

00:37:39.020 And yet there are people who are big Trump fans and still take a very skeptical attitude towards the vaccine.

00:37:48.200 So that's consistency, at least.

00:37:51.660 We can't say that if Donald Trump was still in office, all of the quote-unquote anti-vaxxers on the right would be majorly in favor of the vaccine, while the pro-vaccine people on the left would be against it.

00:38:00.460 I think the pro-vaccine people on the left would be against it, but the people on the right would probably still be where they are now.

00:38:06.120 Because they've shown that they're not, they're not coming to these conclusions based on who happens to be in office.

00:38:14.540 All right.

00:38:15.980 Here's a, just a headline from, and I got, I got to call this out when I see it.

00:38:19.980 I got to call this kind of hate out, this hate and misinformation.

00:38:24.280 This is from the Daily Beast.

00:38:25.500 This is their headline.

00:38:26.220 It says, right-wing podcaster fakes address just to go on anti-trans rant at school board.

00:38:35.800 It says, the Daily Wire star troll immediately ran to Fox News to brag about, quote, outsmarting the Loudoun County school board.

00:38:45.420 I do appreciate, by the way, I do appreciate there at least being given the title of star troll at the Daily Wire.

00:38:51.060 But I do also have to humbly decline that title because I think we are, we're a crew of trolls, very proudly.

00:38:56.220 And I'm one, I'm but one member of a team of trolls.

00:38:59.860 But faked my address?

00:39:02.880 This, again, my trans-Virginian identity continues to be marginalized by the media.

00:39:09.520 Though I will also mention, since we're on the topic, that, you know, I was talking about it with my wife last night.

00:39:14.380 And I think I'm ready to announce this, that we are considering moving back to Tennessee.

00:39:24.440 It's been, it's been a long journey here in Virginia.

00:39:30.900 And I've really come to know and love these people here in Virginia.

00:39:35.360 But I still, I still also feel this, this deep connection to Tennessee.

00:39:39.260 So this is, this is a conversation that's ongoing in my family.

00:39:42.880 You know, I'm saying to my wife, look, I think we should just get all the kids together. 0.85

00:39:47.640 We should, we should continue to live in this lady's basement in Loudoun County. 1.00

00:39:50.820 And she has an alternative viewpoint.

00:39:52.360 And so we're going back and forth on that and maybe more to come on that in the future.

00:39:55.900 But let's get now to reading the comments.

00:39:57.820 This one is, I actually lied because this is not a comment on YouTube.

00:40:18.240 This is just a tweet someone sent to me, but I had to read it.

00:40:21.600 It says,

00:40:21.980 My son's college music school is doing a full concert honoring a composer who is retiring from the college.

00:40:28.520 He's not invited because he's not vaccinated.

00:40:31.760 He can't be vaccinated because of his medical condition.

00:40:34.480 I thought masks worked.

00:40:35.940 Shameful for them to treat him that way.

00:40:38.620 So that they're doing the concert for him in his honor and he's not allowed to come?

00:40:44.980 My God.

00:40:47.440 We, just as I'm worried about how people have been conditioned to,

00:40:51.220 to enjoy wearing masks,

00:40:54.120 which is,

00:40:55.380 which is like an objectively unenjoyable experience.

00:40:59.120 You shouldn't,

00:41:00.400 you really shouldn't be comfortable wearing that thing across your face all day.

00:41:06.420 But as people have gotten comfortable with that,

00:41:08.080 they've, 0.99

00:41:08.260 we've also just gotten used to treating people like garbage. 0.97

00:41:14.040 And that is by design. 0.97

00:41:15.540 When you,

00:41:16.060 when you create these,

00:41:17.220 these different,

00:41:18.200 these two tribes,

00:41:19.140 these two categories,

00:41:20.080 the vaxxed and the unvaxxed,

00:41:22.620 the clean and the unclean.

00:41:25.340 That's,

00:41:25.900 that's by design.

00:41:28.000 And it gives people an excuse to just,

00:41:32.740 you know,

00:41:32.960 if you're in that,

00:41:33.560 if you're in that unclean category,

00:41:35.500 there is no treatment for you.

00:41:38.500 That is too harsh.

00:41:39.320 You're,

00:41:39.560 you're not worthy of anything because of,

00:41:41.820 because you're refusing to get vaccinated.

00:41:43.080 This is from Stanislav says,

00:41:48.800 Matt Walsh has an acquired taste to put it mildly.

00:41:52.380 I,

00:41:52.740 but I find him rarely annoying and simultaneously utterly intriguing.

00:41:58.380 I'm not just sure.

00:41:59.280 I'm not just not sure what the make of him.

00:42:00.560 I detest his shallow philosophies and medieval zealotry, 1.00

00:42:03.700 but I admire the out of his wrapped conviction and intellectual courage.

00:42:08.500 I'll keep watching for now.

00:42:12.020 Well,

00:42:12.280 Stanislav,

00:42:12.860 that was quite a journey.

00:42:14.320 Uh,

00:42:14.640 that was,

00:42:15.240 that was quite a journey.

00:42:15.980 You took me on there.

00:42:16.620 And I'm at the end,

00:42:17.300 I'm not sure if you hate my guts or if you think,

00:42:19.920 or if you deeply admire me,

00:42:21.600 maybe it's a little bit of both,

00:42:22.920 but,

00:42:23.220 uh,

00:42:23.440 but I'll take it as long as you're watching.

00:42:25.900 This is from a gibberish says,

00:42:28.060 Matt would be the guy to judge in the judgment free zone at planet fitness,

00:42:32.240 planet fitness is one of our new sponsors.

00:42:34.020 They are a judgment free zone.

00:42:34.920 They make it very clear when you go in there,

00:42:36.880 no judgment allowed.

00:42:38.760 Uh,

00:42:39.320 and,

00:42:39.760 uh,

00:42:39.940 no,

00:42:40.180 I,

00:42:40.360 you know,

00:42:40.520 the only,

00:42:41.340 the only thing I'll judge you for at the gym is if you're sitting on the

00:42:45.380 equipment and using your phone,

00:42:47.500 which is a,

00:42:48.840 which is a,

00:42:49.280 an epidemic in gyms across the country where people,

00:42:52.600 people sit there like they do one set and then,

00:42:55.380 and they sit there and they flip through Instagram for 17 minutes and then

00:42:58.660 they do another set.

00:42:59.600 So I'll judge you for that.

00:43:01.960 And if you don't re-rack,

00:43:03.200 re-rack the weights correctly,

00:43:05.520 I'll probably judge you for that.

00:43:07.440 Uh,

00:43:07.800 and if you don't wipe down the equipment afterwards,

00:43:09.920 and if you're using bad form,

00:43:13.100 uh,

00:43:13.500 then,

00:43:13.800 so,

00:43:13.920 so yeah,

00:43:14.220 I guess I am judging in the judgment free zone.

00:43:16.100 I guess you got me pegged.

00:43:17.540 Ruth Ann says,

00:43:18.500 Matt,

00:43:18.880 you better show us a picture of that dog.

00:43:20.760 You literally confessed that there's hundreds of them.

00:43:24.000 Uh,

00:43:24.360 no,

00:43:24.560 I'm not.

00:43:24.900 Why,

00:43:25.040 why do you want to see a picture of my dog?

00:43:26.180 Why do you need to see?

00:43:26.840 This is not,

00:43:27.440 no,

00:43:27.640 I'm not.

00:43:28.380 The dog has already taken over my,

00:43:29.880 my house.

00:43:32.340 It's taken my family from me,

00:43:34.560 my kids.

00:43:37.400 And what,

00:43:37.920 now you want the dog to be the star of this show too? 0.88

00:43:39.780 Not going to happen.

00:43:42.040 Uh,

00:43:42.420 relaxed straight says,

00:43:44.040 Matt,

00:43:44.320 technically speaking,

00:43:44.920 should a hot dog be considered a sandwich?

00:43:46.800 You know,

00:43:46.960 I get really tired of this debate.

00:43:48.140 I,

00:43:48.340 you know,

00:43:48.740 a hot dog is obviously a form of a Twinkie,

00:43:51.240 which is itself a form of a calzone.

00:43:53.340 So that is the technical answer there.

00:43:55.040 Well,

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00:44:24.200 And,

00:44:24.600 uh,

00:44:25.020 there you go.

00:44:25.400 You know what?

00:44:25.620 On that note,

00:44:26.020 we'll get to our daily cancellation.

00:44:31.020 In one month,

00:44:31.920 I will celebrate my 10th anniversary with my wife.

00:44:34.720 Uh,

00:44:35.000 so far,

00:44:35.500 I,

00:44:35.680 I must give the marriage experience five stars out of five.

00:44:38.960 I must,

00:44:39.660 because my wife might listen to this,

00:44:40.920 but also because it's actually true.

00:44:42.780 You know,

00:44:42.900 I had the good fortune of marrying a woman who's careful,

00:44:45.240 caring,

00:44:45.720 faithful,

00:44:46.160 intelligent,

00:44:46.620 talented,

00:44:47.120 good mother, 1.00

00:44:47.640 nurturing,

00:44:48.160 joyful,

00:44:48.600 loving.

00:44:49.400 Uh,

00:44:49.800 she also believes in me and supports me in my ambitions.

00:44:51.960 And that's one of those qualities in a wife that a man kind of takes for granted if he has it until he realizes that lots of men end up in marriages with women who doubt them,

00:45:00.440 cut them down,

00:45:01.720 belittle their, 0.99

00:45:02.540 their dreams.

00:45:03.880 Uh,

00:45:04.320 I've never had to worry about that with my wife,

00:45:05.960 which is a good thing because as you've noticed,

00:45:07.580 I come up with some pretty weird schemes sometimes and she's almost always game for it.

00:45:11.440 In fact,

00:45:11.640 sometimes she's the one suggesting the weird schemes and things I should do.

00:45:16.340 All of these are positive qualities.

00:45:17.660 And on top of it all,

00:45:18.560 I must say that my wife is actually also really hot, 1.00

00:45:21.340 which,

00:45:21.620 which frankly is,

00:45:22.560 is a huge bonus.

00:45:23.980 Now,

00:45:24.340 if you're looking at me and wondering how I managed to land somebody with all of those qualities,

00:45:29.460 I have no answer for you.

00:45:30.760 I'm just as perplexed as you are,

00:45:32.540 but it's just one of the reasons why I thank God every day that I am married.

00:45:36.180 And another reason is that being married means I'm not involved in a dating scene today,

00:45:41.740 which is great because that scene is abysmal in every conceivable way.

00:45:47.220 Now,

00:45:47.380 dating was not easy a decade ago when I was still in the game,

00:45:51.200 but it was a walk in the park compared to the situation today.

00:45:55.080 It's,

00:45:55.360 it's probably never been more difficult in modern American history anyway,

00:45:58.160 for a single person to find the right match.

00:46:00.140 And that may seem paradoxical because it's also true that single people have never had more choices.

00:46:06.120 And that's exactly the problem.

00:46:08.000 Case in point,

00:46:08.620 a recent article on the website studyfinds.org about dating apps and how people use them.

00:46:13.640 And this,

00:46:14.360 this is important because almost all single people today use dating apps.

00:46:17.840 You know,

00:46:18.180 Tinder alone has 57 million users.

00:46:20.840 That's just one app.

00:46:22.300 Overall,

00:46:22.720 about 50% of the population consists of single adults,

00:46:25.320 which is a staggeringly high number as marriage rates continue to plummet.

00:46:29.340 And about 40% of adults use online dating.

00:46:32.700 So you connect the dots there.

00:46:33.900 Granted,

00:46:34.260 unfortunately not all of those online daters are actually single,

00:46:37.440 but we can hopefully assume that the vast majority are.

00:46:40.060 So what is the actual experience of using these apps?

00:46:43.380 How do people use them?

00:46:44.740 Here's what the article says.

00:46:46.400 It says,

00:46:46.680 online dating became a way of life for millions of singles during the coronavirus pandemic.

00:46:50.160 Dating apps like Match.com,

00:46:51.420 Tinder,

00:46:51.660 and OkCupid are responsible for 10% of the long lasting adult relationships.

00:46:55.320 Which is actually pretty low considering how many people use these apps.

00:46:59.760 And as it turns out,

00:47:00.700 these daters aren't wasting time when it comes to choosing who to swipe right on. 0.96

00:47:05.300 A recent study shows that users know within a second whether or not to express interest in someone else.

00:47:11.500 So what makes someone choose to make the move on a profile?

00:47:14.760 Researchers say it comes down to judging the book by its cover.

00:47:18.080 The attractiveness of a person is primarily what compels another to swipe right,

00:47:22.660 the study finds.

00:47:23.540 Within a split second,

00:47:24.360 the user determines whether or not they will accept a date based on appearance and even race.

00:47:30.240 Now, there's nothing new or scandalous about people choosing mates based first on appearance.

00:47:34.720 Appearance is important, and it's not a small or irrelevant detail.

00:47:38.020 Yeah, they say don't judge a book by its cover,

00:47:39.680 but the thing about a book is that you don't have to see the cover while you're reading it.

00:47:43.740 You just open the cover and that's it.

00:47:45.560 But as for someone you're dating or married to, you have to look at that cover every day.

00:47:50.660 So it's good if you find it appealing.

00:47:52.620 My wife has already outlined, has many wonderful qualities,

00:47:55.040 but I never would have learned about those qualities if I didn't find her attractive.

00:47:58.500 When you first meet someone, you aren't going to know about their deeper, truer selves,

00:48:02.400 and whatever character traits, good or bad, may be lying under the surface,

00:48:06.660 those things come out in time.

00:48:08.340 It doesn't take a long time, but it does take time.

00:48:10.680 Initially, you're going to be making more surface-level judgments to decide if it's worth investing that time.

00:48:15.080 So that's not in itself the problem here.

00:48:18.420 The problem is the sheer number of choices

00:48:20.600 and how quickly the dating app user has been conditioned to swipe through them.

00:48:25.640 The problem is also the very act of swiping, I think.

00:48:28.560 There's something about swiping through just doing this,

00:48:32.120 through a series of human faces that makes the whole exercise somewhat dystopian and dehumanizing.

00:48:38.280 Yes, the cover on the book matters.

00:48:40.680 Yes, physical attraction matters.

00:48:42.540 It's important.

00:48:43.100 But these days, people are reduced to just a postage stamp-sized picture on a phone,

00:48:48.680 and potential matches will give them all of one second

00:48:52.300 before deciding whether to relegate them to the junk folder.

00:48:54.720 It's quite degrading, not to mention fruitless,

00:48:58.260 because there are so many people on these apps,

00:49:00.740 and because they're designed in such a way to encourage these split-second decisions,

00:49:04.800 all that means is that you have to browse through an enormous number of potential matches.

00:49:08.760 An article in Mashable a couple of years ago,

00:49:10.740 quoting the editor of a trade publication called Global Dating Insights,

00:49:14.160 says that the average dating site user has to swipe through 7,500 profiles

00:49:18.580 before having a meaningful interaction.

00:49:20.520 Now, that's not 7,500 before finding a girlfriend or boyfriend.

00:49:23.560 That's just the amount of swiping needed to even have a meaningful human interaction with a person.

00:49:27.720 And worst of all, because these apps require almost no effort and no investment and no energy to use,

00:49:35.060 they only encourage more of the sort of meandering unseriousness that has already made the dating scene difficult

00:49:41.160 and had made it difficult when I was single a decade ago.

00:49:44.460 Swiping left and swiping right becomes more of a game, an end in and of itself,

00:49:47.720 and the people who are on these apps actually looking for meaningful interactions,

00:49:51.520 for relationship, for commitment,

00:49:53.540 have to somehow sort through this sea of people who only want to hook up,

00:49:57.000 or maybe don't even want that.

00:49:58.560 Maybe they want to keep swiping and have no real deep interest in human relationships at all.

00:50:02.960 Perhaps because they feel that their porn habit takes care of those needs.

00:50:07.220 It's instructive that even the words boyfriend, girlfriend, and dating aren't as common as they once were.

00:50:12.440 However, instead of saying, you know, I'm dating this person,

00:50:16.140 you'll hear people say things like, well, we're talking.

00:50:19.220 Someone said to me recently, when referring to the person that we would have once called his girlfriend,

00:50:23.300 he said, yeah, I've been talking to this girl for six months.

00:50:26.460 Six months?

00:50:27.480 And that's how you describe it?

00:50:29.100 Just talking?

00:50:30.700 You haven't even graduated to any kind of actual human relationship yet?

00:50:36.480 After six months of dating my wife,

00:50:38.600 at that point I was calling her my fiancé because we were engaged.

00:50:42.440 Fear of commitment,

00:50:44.620 passivity,

00:50:46.460 men who will not take the lead in their relationships,

00:50:50.000 single people kind of meandering along,

00:50:52.000 floating on the tide,

00:50:53.580 dating for no particular reason,

00:50:55.120 with no end goal in mind,

00:50:57.060 too afraid to even call it dating.

00:50:58.640 All of these have been major problems for years.

00:51:01.240 They've been problems increasingly ever since we came up with

00:51:03.520 the idea of dating to supplant the idea of courtship.

00:51:06.960 That's really when the train went off the rails.

00:51:08.940 The dating apps have only,

00:51:11.520 as I said,

00:51:12.080 made all of this worse.

00:51:13.460 They've poured fuel on that fire,

00:51:15.560 though I'm not sure that fire is the right analogy here,

00:51:17.540 because that evokes

00:51:18.340 something that's burning hot with passion and intensity.

00:51:22.240 But passion and intensity are the opposite

00:51:24.180 of what most single people encounter

00:51:25.800 out in the dating world right now.

00:51:28.680 And that is why the dating apps,

00:51:29.860 at least the swiping dating apps,

00:51:31.840 today are canceled.

00:51:34.320 And we'll leave it there for today.

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Ep. 808 - Ron DeSantis Is Accused Of Not Being A Tyrant

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