The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 816 - NFL Fires Coach For Vulgar Language. Still Employs Domestic Abusers And Drug Addicts.

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, NFL head coach John Gruden has been forced to resign after the media published his private emails containing, quote, vulgar language.

00:00:08.800 Meanwhile, the NFL still employs domestic abusers, rapists, drug addicts, but none of those crimes are as bad as thought crimes, apparently.

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00:01:49.240 So a few days ago, John Gruden, the now former head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders in the NFL,

00:01:54.620 became the subject of intense scrutiny when it was revealed in a stunning report from the Wall Street Journal that he had sent an email 10 years ago making fun of someone's big lips.

00:02:04.380 The recipient of the email, Bruce Allen, then president of the then Redskins, was not the target of the lips comment.

00:02:11.300 Gruden was referring to a third guy, Demorris Smith, who's the executive director of the NFL Players Association.

00:02:18.540 Does Demorris Smith actually have big lips?

00:02:21.520 Well, if you were to compare Smith's lip circumference to the national average for his height and weight class,

00:02:27.760 you'd probably discover that Gruden's claim was statistically correct.

00:02:31.460 I imagine that my own lips would be on the north end of average as well.

00:02:35.480 But the difference is that I am white and Demorris Smith is black.

00:02:39.760 It would be at worst a childish insult to make that kind of physical observation about a white man.

00:02:44.860 But if in reference to a black man, it is an act of jaw-dropping racism.

00:02:49.540 That's the rule anyway, even if it doesn't make the slightest bit of sense at all.

00:02:53.600 And this was just the beginning of Gruden's troubles.

00:02:55.880 The public became aware of Lipgate because the NFL has been combing through 650,000 emails

00:03:01.680 in connection with an investigation into misconduct in the Washington football team organization.

00:03:07.060 Gruden was never a member of the Washington football team organization.

00:03:10.160 He was never accused of misconduct.

00:03:12.480 He wasn't even an employee of the NFL when the allegedly racist email was sent.

00:03:17.260 But it was caught up in the dragnet.

00:03:20.040 Why was it released?

00:03:21.360 Out of the over half a million emails the league has reviewed, why was the spotlight shown on this one?

00:03:28.500 Sent by a guy who was not being investigated and who, again, wasn't an NFL employee at the time.

00:03:34.540 Why?

00:03:35.620 Well, that question has yet to be answered, mostly because it has yet to be asked by the media.

00:03:40.500 And it wouldn't exactly be a tinfoil hat conspiracy theory to suggest that perhaps Gruden's team,

00:03:45.140 the Raiders, have something to do with these emails coming out.

00:03:49.640 But they coaxed Gruden out of the ESPN analyst booth in 2018 with a ludicrous 10-year,

00:03:56.840 $100 million coaching contract.

00:03:59.760 Emails aside, Gruden has not come close to justifying that payday.

00:04:03.900 It's arguable whether any coach could.

00:04:06.100 But in his case, in three years with the team, he's yet to finish with a winning record.

00:04:10.160 And they're paying him $100 million.

00:04:12.520 Is this email scandal just a way for the Raiders to get out from under the financially suicidal agreement

00:04:18.280 they signed with him?

00:04:20.420 Well, I don't know.

00:04:21.160 We're left to speculate.

00:04:22.820 Whoever is behind it, and whatever their reason, the goal is pretty clear.

00:04:27.700 Destroy John Gruden.

00:04:29.600 And it wouldn't be hard to accomplish that objective, aided by a media ever eager to knock 0.97

00:04:34.500 a white man off his perch.

00:04:36.340 But the final nail in the coffin came last night with a New York Times report detailing

00:04:39.980 more, quote, offensive emails sent by Gruden to Allen during Gruden's tenure as a sports

00:04:45.660 commentator.

00:04:46.460 So between 2011 and 2018, as the Times reveals, Gruden penned several vulgar emails, becoming

00:04:54.420 no doubt the first person affiliated with professional football to ever use salty language.

00:04:59.000 Gruden called the NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in one email an anti-gay slur and also

00:05:04.200 a, quote, clueless anti-football P-word.

00:05:06.960 Now, the latter characterization of the widely hated Goodell can also be heard nearly verbatim

00:05:13.000 on any given Sunday in any sports bar in the country.

00:05:17.120 He blasted the commissioner for pressuring the Rams to draft Michael Sam a few years ago,

00:05:22.160 who was the first openly gay football player.

00:05:25.280 And Gruden called Sam, quote, queer.

00:05:28.120 Now, the word queer is used by gay people themselves.

00:05:31.000 It's what the Q in LGBTQ stands for. 0.97

00:05:33.540 But as we've learned, the offensiveness of the term depends entirely on what identity

00:05:38.220 group the person using it belongs to.

00:05:41.340 The Times says that Gruden also called for players who protest the anthem to be fired,

00:05:45.620 which is another sentiment that you can hear in any sports bar in the country or in millions

00:05:50.340 of homes or almost anywhere else.

00:05:52.560 It's how most people feel about it.

00:05:54.980 And there are more shocking disclosures.

00:05:56.920 Here's more from the New York Times.

00:05:58.140 They say, Gruden exchanged emails with Allen and other men that included photos of women

00:06:02.760 wearing only bikini bottoms.

00:06:05.300 There's no indication that this was there's no indication, by the way, that this was a

00:06:08.500 revenge porn situation or that he was sharing pictures that had been taken without consent.

00:06:13.700 So that's that's an important point, though.

00:06:15.800 It also says, quote, privately, Allen and Gruden appeared to have few boundaries in expressing

00:06:20.460 homophobic and transphobic language.

00:06:22.280 In one email, Gruden crudely asked Allen to tell Brian Glazier, whose family owns the 0.99

00:06:28.120 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where Gruden coached in 2008, to perform oral sex on him. 0.99

00:06:33.600 Allen said Glazier would take you up on that offer. 0.97

00:06:36.640 Allen and Gruden also mocked Caitlyn Jenner, who received an award from ESPN in 2015 after,

00:06:42.240 quote, unquote, she transitioned. 0.51

00:06:44.160 In an email from 2015, Allen and Gruden criticized a congressional bill that aimed to force the Washington

00:06:49.300 franchise to change its name, which the team stopped using last year.

00:06:53.860 OK, so the takeaway from all this is that John Gruden is about as crass and vulgar as

00:06:59.480 literally every man who has ever coached or played football and who isn't named Tim Tebow.

00:07:04.780 He also has opinions about anthem protests, about Caitlyn Jenner, about Gruden's leadership

00:07:10.860 of the NFL that are shared by tens of millions of ordinary people.

00:07:14.840 In spite of that, or maybe really because of it, Gruden was still forced to resign late

00:07:21.400 last night.

00:07:22.060 So he's gone.

00:07:23.740 And with him gone, NFL locker rooms will now be almost entirely free of PG-13 language.

00:07:30.600 We just need, you know, every other player and coach to resign as well.

00:07:33.900 So one down, 2,000 to go.

00:07:36.780 And then locker rooms will be a place of only G-rated language and gentlemanly decorum.

00:07:42.440 Speaking of those other people collecting paychecks from the NFL, it should be noted that among

00:07:48.520 them, you'll find Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Richard Sherman, who was arrested for domestic

00:07:53.660 violence this past summer.

00:07:56.040 Also, also Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson, who has been accused of sexual assault

00:08:00.980 by over 20 women.

00:08:02.880 20.

00:08:03.720 Actually, I think it's like 23 to count this up to now.

00:08:05.660 Also, you'll find Bucs wide receiver Antonio Brown, who's been accused of violence against

00:08:12.740 women on multiple occasions, also settled a sexual assault lawsuit this past spring.

00:08:17.620 And Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill, who pled guilty to punching and choking

00:08:22.640 his pregnant girlfriend. 0.51

00:08:24.700 I could go on. 0.90

00:08:27.020 Indeed, the NFL is now and has historically been filled with violent criminals.

00:08:31.980 The difference between Gruden's actions and that of Tyreek Hill or any of the other members

00:08:37.160 of the NFL's all-convict squad is that Gruden's behavior was victimless.

00:08:43.980 Okay, these were private conversations through email between men who clearly were not offended

00:08:49.820 by the sort of jokes being told and language being used.

00:08:53.460 Nobody was harmed in the writing of the emails.

00:08:56.760 Nobody's feelings were even hurt because nobody else knew about it.

00:09:00.480 These were private conversations.

00:09:03.040 The same cannot be said of Tyreek Hill's battered girlfriend or any of the 20-plus women that

00:09:08.180 Deshaun Watson has allegedly assaulted.

00:09:11.940 But in our terminally confused culture and country, violent crimes do not weigh nearly as

00:09:19.500 heavy as thought crimes.

00:09:21.560 Because that's what this is.

00:09:23.860 This is the policing of thought crimes.

00:09:27.300 Gruden harmed no one.

00:09:28.480 He reserved his crass jocularity for private communications between friends.

00:09:34.840 There is no reason why we ought to have been told what he said.

00:09:39.880 And now that we have been told, there's no reason to be offended.

00:09:44.040 Because the conversations didn't concern us.

00:09:47.020 And we were not intended, they were not intended for our eyes or ears.

00:09:50.660 But all of that's beside the point for the cancel culture. 0.98

00:09:56.420 You know, if the cancel mob could develop the technology to read your mind, they would

00:10:01.060 not hesitate to do it.

00:10:02.820 And they would not hesitate to summarily cancel you for things you don't even say out loud.

00:10:07.800 I mean, after all, canceling someone for a private email exchange is only one small step

00:10:12.740 away from canceling them for private thoughts.

00:10:14.880 In fact, it's not really a step away at all.

00:10:17.900 The two are not removed.

00:10:19.560 It is the thought that's being prosecuted by the Pitchfork Mob Tribunal here.

00:10:25.100 The fact that many of the thoughts Gruden shared and some of the words he used are common among

00:10:29.640 ordinary people is precisely the point.

00:10:33.480 The NFL higher-ups, you know, they may have had their own self-serving, profit-motivated

00:10:37.620 reasons for throwing him to the wolves, but for the wolves themselves, tearing him apart

00:10:43.100 is meant to be a message to the onlookers.

00:10:46.140 And the message is, stop thinking this way, or you're next.

00:10:51.280 And yet, it still isn't quite as simple as that.

00:10:54.920 Because not all thought crimes are prosecuted the same.

00:10:59.060 The NFL may have strapped Gruden to a donkey and exiled him to the hinterlands, but they'll

00:11:04.240 still be paying millions of dollars for a Super Bowl halftime show this February, featuring

00:11:08.400 the likes of Eminem, Dr. Dre, and Snoop Dogg, all of whom have used all of the words Gruden

00:11:13.320 used, and then some, in dozens of hit songs that were released to the public, a few of

00:11:20.020 which will actually be performed during that broadcast.

00:11:24.680 That's quite a disparity.

00:11:25.880 The disparity, though, is due to the fact that bad thoughts are not the problem in and of

00:11:30.200 themselves.

00:11:30.740 It's the combination of identity and thought that determines what a person is allowed to

00:11:38.800 think and say and what their fate will be.

00:11:42.660 That's what this is about.

00:11:44.560 The cancel mob will look at you and your identity, and they will decide what you're allowed to 0.95

00:11:50.380 think and what you're allowed to say, even in private. 0.89

00:11:54.300 Gruden is a white man, and even worse, if his comments about the anthem and Biden are any

00:12:06.380 indication, he's a right-wing white man, or at the very least, he's certainly not a leftist 0.98

00:12:11.760 white man. 0.93

00:12:13.480 And that was his real crime. 0.98

00:12:15.860 All the rest is pretense.

00:12:17.580 Now, let's get to our five headlines.

00:12:27.060 Okay, so, you know, one other note about that.

00:12:30.040 I continue to, and I know that this is a moot point, because all the people in the media,

00:12:38.480 sports media, you know, who are pretending to be so scandalized, oh my gosh, by what John

00:12:44.440 Gruden said in those emails, I know that, again, it's pretense, that they are pretending.

00:12:50.120 This is all theatrical.

00:12:51.640 This is all performative.

00:12:54.520 But taking them at face value for a moment, I once again invite any of them to release

00:13:04.300 their, to give the public their Gmail passwords so that we can comb through their emails and

00:13:11.160 just, and take a look and see if at any point over the last 10 years, they have ever sent

00:13:17.780 even a single private message to a friend or a family member where they used a vulgar

00:13:22.540 offensive language.

00:13:25.400 Now, I said this to Mark Lamont Hill, of course, a well-known race baiter.

00:13:30.540 He was responding to me on Twitter where I made the point that, as I just did in the opening,

00:13:35.740 that Gruden's vulgar comments were in private emails, the people who received the emails

00:13:42.900 didn't care, nobody else knew about them, so this is a victimless crime, and Gruden is

00:13:47.820 getting canceled for thought crimes.

00:13:50.520 And Mark Lamont Hill responded, he said, agreed, you know, being sarcastic, he says, I mean,

00:13:54.460 what are the chances that a racist, sexist, and homophobic person would do anything improper

00:13:58.820 in a leadership position?

00:13:59.860 And why shouldn't a private company employ someone who has brought shame and disgrace?

00:14:04.760 Libs, am I right?

00:14:07.420 Now, of course, the problem with the way that he's presenting this is, first of all, John

00:14:10.860 Gruden, he didn't bring the NFL shame and disgrace.

00:14:13.600 Nobody knew about this.

00:14:14.620 Shame and disgrace is something that happens in the public, in the public's eye.

00:14:20.400 The only reason the public knows about these shameful emails is that the NFL told them.

00:14:25.160 So, he did not bring shame and disgrace to anyone.

00:14:29.880 No one knew about it.

00:14:33.860 And as far as, well, you know, if he's saying these things in private, then probably he's

00:14:39.320 acting improperly in his leadership position.

00:14:42.440 Well, is he?

00:14:44.860 He's been in a leadership position for this organization for three years.

00:14:48.840 He was a coach before that.

00:14:49.840 So, if he's done, if he's actually done wrong things, if he has, has, in fact, acted improperly

00:14:59.140 in his position, then why are we just being told that?

00:15:05.140 If that was the case, they'd tell us that.

00:15:08.740 But no, by all indications, he has behaved perfectly fine.

00:15:15.380 You know, these are just his private thoughts.

00:15:19.840 And even though he's reserving that for private and not publishing it, still, he's being canceled

00:15:27.400 for it.

00:15:28.040 But even so, you know, I said to Mark Lohan, I'm still waiting for the response, but I

00:15:31.940 invited him to just, you know, he could send it to me or he could put it out on Twitter.

00:15:39.800 Either way, give us your Gmail password and we'll go through and we'll keep it to a decade.

00:15:47.520 We won't look, we won't look back any farther than that, I promise.

00:15:50.820 But we'll keep it to a decade and we'll look back a decade and see, have you ever said anything

00:15:54.500 in your private communications?

00:15:56.060 And you know what?

00:15:56.580 Show us your text messages as well while we're at it.

00:16:02.460 Do you really want to claim that?

00:16:04.900 Does anyone?

00:16:07.540 All the people pretending to be offended, do any of them want to claim

00:16:10.340 that over the course of 10 years, they have never said anything offensive

00:16:16.680 through a text message or email at all?

00:16:24.440 If you want to, you know, anyone who wants to make that claim, just step up and say so.

00:16:27.980 But then put your money where your mouth is.

00:16:29.580 Prove it.

00:16:30.200 Let's see.

00:16:33.120 All right, we'll start with this.

00:16:34.400 Now, this is one I'll mention kind of briefly and I'll probably want to go into more detail

00:16:39.380 about it tomorrow because it's a very important story and deserves, you know, more than a brief

00:16:45.840 mention.

00:16:46.780 But here's a report, exclusive report by the Daily Wire.

00:16:52.460 You go to dailywire.com and find it.

00:16:54.400 And the headline is, Loudoun County Schools Tried to Conceal Sexual Assault Against a Daughter

00:17:00.100 in the Bathroom, according to the daughter's father.

00:17:04.180 Now, here's some of the background on this.

00:17:06.820 I'll just read some from the report.

00:17:08.900 It says, on June 22nd, Scott Smith was arrested at a Loudoun County, Virginia, school board meeting,

00:17:14.040 a meeting that was ultimately deemed an unlawful assembly after many attendees vocally opposed

00:17:18.220 a policy on transgender students.

00:17:20.740 What people did not know is that weeks prior, on May 28th, Smith says a boy allegedly wearing

00:17:26.200 a skirt entered a girl's bathroom at nearby Stonebridge High School, where he is sexually

00:17:29.940 assaulted Smith's ninth grade daughter.

00:17:32.300 Juvenile records are sealed, but Scott's attorney, Elizabeth Lancaster, told the Daily Wire that

00:17:36.420 a boy was charged with two counts of forcible sodomy, one count of anal sodomy, and one

00:17:41.840 count of forcible fellatio related to an incident that day at the school.

00:17:48.820 As a result of the viral video showing his arrest, Smith became the poster child for what the National

00:17:53.220 School Boards Association has since suggested as potential domestic terrorism.

00:17:57.040 That is a white, blue-collar male who showed up to harangue obscure public servants on his

00:18:01.580 local school board.

00:18:03.140 Now, there's a lot more to this story.

00:18:05.860 Now, I would, again, encourage you to go to dailywire.com and read it for yourself.

00:18:10.540 I can't read the entire thing here.

00:18:11.640 But the important points to note here are that, allegedly, a girl was raped in a bathroom during

00:18:25.420 school hours in a girl's bathroom by a male.

00:18:30.860 Allegedly, the male was wearing a skirt at the time.

00:18:33.100 Now, there's no indication that he identifies as trans, I believe, but that's totally irrelevant

00:18:41.560 to the point.

00:18:43.960 And it's especially irrelevant to the point that Loudoun County Schools wanted to, this

00:18:48.800 is according to the father, they wanted to handle this in-house.

00:18:54.360 A rape of a student, they wanted to keep that in-house.

00:18:57.140 So, just right in line with the kinds of sexual assault cover-ups that we've seen in so many

00:19:04.920 other institutions, including in the public school system.

00:19:08.540 This is not the first time that this kind of thing has happened in a public school, where

00:19:12.180 there's been a sexual assault in a public school, either student against student or teacher

00:19:16.920 against student.

00:19:17.900 And it's certainly not the first time that a public school has said, well, we're going to

00:19:21.480 handle this in-house.

00:19:22.360 We're going to...

00:19:24.380 Why do they want to handle it in-house?

00:19:25.820 Well, for all of the obvious reasons, including the fact that when this happened, the school

00:19:34.200 board and the school system, they were in the process of trying to push this trans bathroom 1.00

00:19:38.180 policy through.

00:19:39.800 And they wanted to be able to claim, as they just went ahead and claimed anyway, that there's

00:19:45.160 been no assaults in the bathroom at all by males against females, which was a lie.

00:19:50.180 And to make all of this even worse, if it could possibly get worse, this father who was, I mean,

00:20:00.960 understandably...

00:20:03.720 I'm not sure I have the word to describe what he must...

00:20:07.360 I was going to say furious, but I think something even more...

00:20:11.720 A word even more severe is probably needed here.

00:20:15.200 This father, enraged, you know, he goes to the school after this happened.

00:20:22.400 The parents were contacted and they were told that, oh, there was an incident.

00:20:26.820 And he shows up there and they're trying to downplay it.

00:20:30.280 And he gets extremely upset and starts, you know, yelling and everything like any father

00:20:34.320 would.

00:20:36.620 And then he shows up to the school board meeting when they're talking about putting a policy

00:20:42.280 in place to officially codify this.

00:20:45.300 Oh, yeah, well, let's mix males and females in the restrooms because we know how well that 1.00

00:20:49.580 goes.

00:20:51.320 And he gets really upset there and he's yelling.

00:20:54.200 And then he gets into some kind of minor altercation with somebody else and he gets arrested.

00:20:59.720 And that case specifically, when we hear about violence at school board meetings, there has

00:21:07.940 been almost none.

00:21:11.640 With rare exception, and one of the rare exceptions was this case.

00:21:16.740 So the media uses this case of a distraught, angry father whose daughter was raped in a bathroom

00:21:24.020 and it was covered up, reacting as any father would to that.

00:21:30.800 They use that as one of their, this case, without any of the details, all they're telling

00:21:35.740 us is this man's reaction at the school board meeting.

00:21:39.120 They're using this as a justification to label all parents at school board meetings, including

00:21:45.860 Scott Smith, domestic terrorists.

00:21:49.120 It is unspeakably evil.

00:21:51.800 All of it, the whole story.

00:21:54.020 From what the, from what this guy, this, this male allegedly did to have the way the school

00:22:00.240 handled it and the school board, knowing what happened to this man's daughter, they still

00:22:10.080 push this policy through.

00:22:12.300 And why do they push it through?

00:22:13.400 Because they don't give a damn about the safety of kids.

00:22:17.740 You really got to understand that if you're sending your kids to public school, this is

00:22:21.360 not hyperbole.

00:22:22.100 The people running these schools, they do not care about your child's safety.

00:22:28.320 They don't care.

00:22:30.560 Do you think any of the people on this school board lost any, after pushing a policy through

00:22:35.000 to put males into female lockers, when we, when we know, allegedly, that at least one girl 1.00

00:22:42.980 had been raped recently.

00:22:44.140 You think they lost any sleep over it? 0.84

00:22:46.100 You think they're worried at all?

00:22:47.300 You think they care in the slightest?

00:22:48.720 No.

00:22:51.360 All they care about is the ideological agenda.

00:22:53.240 That's all they care about.

00:22:54.600 People are just pawns.

00:22:55.900 Your children are pawns to them. 1.00

00:22:59.500 These people are scum, the lowest of the low, running school board meetings. 1.00

00:23:05.120 And what do they do after that? 1.00

00:23:09.460 The Loudoun County School Board, what do they do after this?

00:23:12.960 After this incident?

00:23:16.200 That's when they basically shut down the meetings.

00:23:18.860 They don't let the public inside.

00:23:21.160 And you're only given 60 seconds to speak.

00:23:23.640 How convenient for them.

00:23:27.080 How convenient, right?

00:23:28.100 That they just had to put these policies in place for safety right after this incident happened.

00:23:38.280 Which means, coincidentally, now you're not going to get an angry crowd of people in the room

00:23:44.520 talking about this alleged rape.

00:23:50.520 They're not going to have a lot of time to speak about it.

00:23:53.640 I believe when I went to the Loudoun County meeting, one of the people to go before me

00:23:59.120 did mention this case.

00:24:00.640 But they only had 60 seconds and they got cut off, like mid-sentence. 1.00

00:24:06.820 Absolute scum. 1.00

00:24:07.980 I mean, really. 1.00

00:24:11.280 And does all of this relate back?

00:24:13.880 I mean, does it really relate back to the trans bathroom issue?

00:24:16.520 If this kid allegedly doesn't identify as trans, or I don't know what he identifies as.

00:24:23.640 Um, if that's the case, does it still relate back to the trans bathroom issue?

00:24:29.820 Yes.

00:24:30.960 Yes, it does.

00:24:32.800 The school system obviously thinks it does, which is why they tried to cover this up.

00:24:36.800 It relates back for a few reasons, but we'll start with this.

00:24:42.620 Because it demonstrates to anybody who needed, you know, uh, to have this demonstrated to them

00:24:50.080 why you don't mix boys and girls in high school bathrooms and locker rooms.

00:24:58.120 This is why you don't mix them.

00:25:02.480 Bad things happen when you mix them.

00:25:05.460 Nothing good can happen.

00:25:07.640 There's no possible positive outcome.

00:25:11.600 It's just a matter of how bad it will be.

00:25:13.600 And we see it gets very, very bad.

00:25:19.540 All right.

00:25:20.340 So Southwest, uh, we'll mention this as well briefly.

00:25:23.860 Uh, Southwest, their flight cancellations continue as they continue to, uh, to claim

00:25:30.800 that this has nothing to do with the pilot strike, even though pilots went on strike

00:25:35.060 over the vaccine mandate.

00:25:36.200 And then right after that, they're canceling flights by the thousands, uh, and there's

00:25:41.720 chaos in airports all across the country, but they still say no connection at all.

00:25:45.220 The CEO of Southwest was on ABC, uh, and, uh, he continued to do a little CYA dance.

00:25:52.740 And here's what he said.

00:25:53.980 I know Spirit Airlines has some trouble as well, but it seems like Southwest really bore the

00:25:57.940 brunt of this.

00:25:58.500 Why, why Southwest?

00:26:02.060 Well, I think it's what I said.

00:26:03.820 I think over half of our fleet touches the state of Florida.

00:26:07.040 We have a linear route system.

00:26:08.860 We're just different.

00:26:09.980 And, you know, I can't really speak to, uh, what their issues were or weren't.

00:26:14.360 Uh, everyone was impacted on Friday, uh, and everyone was impacted in a, in a very big

00:26:19.560 way.

00:26:20.040 Seem a lot of people invested in this idea that this is somehow related to vaccine mandates.

00:26:25.920 There's just no evidence of that.

00:26:27.620 Uh, you know, as I said, and as Captain Murray said, our people are working very hard.

00:26:31.760 Uh, they're doing a great job.

00:26:33.880 I'm very proud of them.

00:26:35.340 Uh, and especially when we get into a difficult situation like this, uh, they're also delayed.

00:26:40.980 They're also ending up in places, uh, that they didn't expect.

00:26:44.600 So, uh, no, our people are doing a phenomenal job.

00:26:48.180 Um, and the vaccine mandate obviously is controversial and, uh, it's not anything that, that I wish

00:26:55.040 for our company.

00:26:55.880 Uh, this is a government mandate.

00:26:57.700 It's a presidential order.

00:26:59.380 Uh, and we're doing our best to comply with that according to the deadlines that have been

00:27:05.780 set.

00:27:06.200 Um, we're not going to fire any employees over this.

00:27:10.140 We're urging all of our employees to get vaccinated.

00:27:12.680 If they can't get vaccinated, uh, we're urging them to seek an accommodation.

00:27:17.380 So, uh, uh, you know, we'll do everything we can to support our people here.

00:27:22.880 To seek an accommodation.

00:27:24.480 What exactly does that mean?

00:27:26.460 Because the policy says that there really are no accommodations.

00:27:29.600 You have to get vaccinated.

00:27:30.700 So this to me seems to be just a bald face lie, uh, which is, and this is the narrative

00:27:39.160 that Southwest has settled on.

00:27:41.620 And we know this is how lies work.

00:27:43.080 They have a snowball effect.

00:27:44.600 When you tell the first lie, then you got to tell another lie.

00:27:46.840 You got to keep lying.

00:27:48.480 And then you get to a point where now you definitely can't tell the truth because now,

00:27:51.700 now you'd be confessing not just to one lie, but to a thousand lies, all the other lies

00:27:55.040 that you told because of the one lie.

00:27:56.880 And so they decided at the very beginning to not be honest about why this was happening.

00:28:00.700 And, uh, that's what they're going to stick to, but it, it defies all common sense that

00:28:08.220 there will be no relation whatsoever.

00:28:11.280 You know, he uses the excuse.

00:28:12.940 You heard, I think some of it there in the clip, but in a longer interview, he says that

00:28:17.480 a lot of this goes back to Florida and there were some air traffic control, you know, it

00:28:21.140 was grounding flights in Florida and it was rather weather related and everything, but that

00:28:25.380 doesn't get around the fact that no other airline was canceling.

00:28:29.340 You know, it was like, in terms of cancellations, Delta versus Southwest, it was something like

00:28:35.220 three to 1500 in a day.

00:28:41.040 Um, I don't know.

00:28:43.760 Is it, is this our Southwest planes, especially susceptible to bad weather?

00:28:50.660 Is that the case?

00:28:52.300 Because if that's the case, then please tell me that so I can keep, take that into account

00:28:56.840 the next time I'm, uh, deciding what airline to take when I got to fly somewhere.

00:29:01.580 Or, or maybe, you know, maybe this is a weather phenomenon that is, that only targets Southwest

00:29:07.960 planes.

00:29:09.840 It's a very unique phenomenon, but this does happen sometimes.

00:29:13.760 It could be a giant tornado or something that kind of chooses based on the color of the

00:29:19.000 plane.

00:29:19.280 I don't know.

00:29:20.760 Now it's science.

00:29:23.140 So that's possible.

00:29:24.060 Or this is all total, complete nonsense from people who have no problem lying to you.

00:29:30.580 Just like the Loudoun County school board, they're all cut from the same cloth.

00:29:33.860 They have no problem lying to you for two reasons.

00:29:36.460 Number one, they think that, uh, it's, it's, it's for the best, you know, ends justify the

00:29:42.000 means.

00:29:42.280 And for the Loudoun County school board, the, the end was pushing the transgender bathroom 1.00

00:29:48.680 policy for this, it's pushing vaccine mandates.

00:29:53.580 And when your ideology is grounded in moral relativism, then this is what you're going

00:29:59.300 to ascribe to this idea that ends justify the means.

00:30:03.620 And if the means are simply lying, well, who cares about that?

00:30:06.940 And they'll go much further than lying if they need to.

00:30:12.880 So that's one reason.

00:30:13.800 The other reason is that they simply don't believe that you are owed the truth.

00:30:17.840 You as some peon, some mere passenger, some mere customer, some mere parent on a school board,

00:30:27.100 you're not owed the truth.

00:30:27.940 They don't owe it to you.

00:30:28.600 All right, let's move now to this, uh, going back to the sports world.

00:30:35.880 Unfortunately, Greg Popovich is the head coach of the Spurs.

00:30:39.160 And for some reason, he, uh, had some thoughts about Columbus Day that he wanted to share

00:30:46.220 while he's, you know, I mean, you'd think we, we want to talk to him about basketball.

00:30:51.240 That's really his only area of expertise, but he wanted to talk about Columbus Day too.

00:30:55.040 And, uh, this is what he had to say.

00:30:56.380 I'm a little confused about our city and why it's Indigenous Peoples Day slash Columbus Day.

00:31:08.600 Columbus?

00:31:11.140 I mean, he initiated a new world genocide.

00:31:16.240 That's what he did.

00:31:17.220 And beginning with him and what he said in motion and what followed meant the annihilation of every Indigenous person in Hispaniola,

00:31:31.600 which was Haiti and the Dominican Republic today.

00:31:34.860 That's what he did.

00:31:36.600 He took slaves.

00:31:38.760 Uh, he, he mutilated.

00:31:40.100 He murdered. 0.86

00:31:41.960 Uh, and we're going to, they're going to say slash and honor him.

00:31:48.700 Well, you know, I got to give the San Antonio Independent School District a little bit of credit

00:31:53.220 because at least they added Indigenous Peoples Day along with it.

00:31:57.700 And that's a step in the right direction.

00:31:59.460 But what the hell is Alamo Heights thinking?

00:32:02.280 It's Columbus Day.

00:32:03.820 That's why they're off? 0.88

00:32:04.900 You know, maybe there's something I'm missing and I'm ignorant.

00:32:10.560 But it makes me feel like they're living in a phone booth and they're educating our kids.

00:32:15.880 Columbus Day?

00:32:17.680 And we're going to honor that.

00:32:20.360 And it's, it's, it's no knock on Italian-Americans. 0.96

00:32:22.780 That's a silly argument. 0.73

00:32:24.460 You know, it's, it's like saying we should be proud of Hitler because we're German. 0.98

00:32:28.320 Maybe there's something you're missing.

00:32:30.160 Uh, yeah, I think there is.

00:32:31.160 Like a comb, for one.

00:32:33.500 Is that actually the head coach of the Spurs?

00:32:35.440 Or is that a homeless guy who just stumbled out of the methadone clinic down the street?

00:32:38.320 I'm not exactly sure.

00:32:41.280 Um, but you, you see a couple things happening here.

00:32:45.180 Number one, he's, he's saying Columbus Day?

00:32:47.560 You're celebrating Columbus Day?

00:32:50.360 This is unthinkable.

00:32:51.600 Well, he's reacting that way to something that up until 10 seconds ago, everybody celebrated Columbus Day.

00:33:02.820 You know, he's, by the looks of it, 97 or 98 years old.

00:33:06.880 And so he's been living in a country for nearly a century that celebrates Columbus Day.

00:33:13.440 And as far as I know, he's, he's, he hasn't been ranting about it all that entire time.

00:33:18.300 Um, and, and now, so, so, but this is what they do.

00:33:26.240 You know, they want to make a drastic change.

00:33:30.100 And this is a very drastic change.

00:33:31.880 It's not just about the holiday.

00:33:34.460 But rather than celebrating Columbus and the European settlers and pioneers who came here and brought civilization to these shores and are, are, you know, among the founders of the civilization that we currently live in.

00:33:46.520 Rather than celebrating them, we're not going to celebrate them anymore.

00:33:49.980 We're going to celebrate the indigenous people.

00:33:52.100 Even though, as I reviewed yesterday, no one has really explained what exactly we're celebrating about these indigenous people.

00:33:59.740 What are we celebrating?

00:34:02.920 But wherever you fall on that, this is a drastic change in our culture.

00:34:07.100 Uh, only the left, and he's a member of the left, they'll never really admit that they're proposing a, a change at all, let alone a drastic change.

00:34:21.720 You know, we're, we're doing something a certain way for years and years and decades.

00:34:26.820 And then they come along and say, um, you know what, uh, no, we're going to do it this other way now.

00:34:33.080 And the moment they say that, the moment they say it, if you do not go along with them and make this sudden left turn, then you're not just wrong.

00:34:44.460 I mean, they're not, they're not going to simply argue with you and try to, try to present, present, uh, justifications for this change. 0.97

00:34:51.960 They're going to treat you like a lunatic.

00:34:56.380 I mean, you're, you're doing what people have, have always done for years and they're proposing a whole new thing. 0.98

00:35:02.760 But if you simply stay on that same path that you've already been on and that they themselves were on up until that moment, now you're insane.

00:35:12.600 It's like, it's, it's, it's, they, they treat it as self-evidently, um, absurd.

00:35:17.860 That's the game they always play.

00:35:22.080 And it's very effective.

00:35:24.360 People fall for it.

00:35:27.640 Because when you, when you propose a drastic change and you admit that it's a drastic change, people tend to evaluate that a little bit different.

00:35:34.600 And they say, oh, well, drastic change.

00:35:35.960 I don't know if I'm, I don't, I don't know if I'm really game for that.

00:35:38.000 Well, let's, let's talk about it.

00:35:39.300 But when you, when you act as though your new proposed path is, well, clearly we should be doing this instead.

00:35:52.600 Putting, putting that pretense on it, it's, it's very effective in convincing people.

00:35:56.800 Or if not convincing them, then shaming them into, scaring them into silence.

00:36:03.540 And then of course he makes the comparison between Columbus and Hitler, uh, which is the same comparison that, you know, any high school junior, uh, will make.

00:36:17.820 Based on, you know, reading three sentences about, about Columbus.

00:36:24.400 This is a part of this goes, goes back to a.

00:36:29.100 Absolute historical illiteracy on the part of many people in this country.

00:36:35.640 Yeah, you, you, you go up to the average, especially the average leftist who wants to throw Columbus into the burn pile, ask them to, to just start listing historical figures.

00:36:46.800 As many as they can name, they could probably give you like five.

00:36:51.460 And they're going to have those historical figures separated, a clear line between them, black and white.

00:36:57.980 You've got the bad guys and the good guys.

00:37:01.340 And Hitler, he's like the main bad guy. 0.92

00:37:04.680 And anyone who's on his side is basically Hitler, throw Columbus in there. 0.85

00:37:08.140 That's the way they look at it.

00:37:10.720 No understanding of history whatsoever.

00:37:12.380 A fail, I would say it's a failure of the public school system, but it's not really a failure because it's, they're doing exactly what they intend to do.

00:37:21.160 They don't want to give students a real appreciation for history or for historical context.

00:37:28.240 Least of all, do they want students to graduate with any sort of admiration for, um, any of the men who used to be the heroes, considered the heroes of our civilization?

00:37:38.220 Uh, genocide?

00:37:44.220 Well, we already know that, that, uh, the Europeans, they did not bring slavery to, to, to the Americas that was already here.

00:37:51.460 They didn't bring conquest that was already here.

00:37:54.560 They didn't bring any, they didn't bring any of those things.

00:37:57.900 Did they bring genocide?

00:37:59.160 I, no, they didn't.

00:38:02.920 I mean, archaeologists are still digging up mass graves, um, of, uh, of various Indian tribes from pre-contact times.

00:38:15.880 Like hundreds of years before any European ever showed up here.

00:38:19.520 There were entire tribes being wiped out.

00:38:24.640 Who was responsible for that?

00:38:26.760 Was it the Europeans? 0.98

00:38:27.620 Were they, were they sneaking over here unbeknownst to anybody?

00:38:32.400 So they didn't bring that either.

00:38:35.600 Um, and as far as celebrate, you know, the thing is in other countries, Columbus is not a villain, despite how he's, how he's portrayed.

00:38:43.840 But there are countries in this world, non-Western countries, that without any embarrassment, will celebrate truly villainous historic figures, because those historical figures are, you know, the founders of their, of their culture.

00:39:01.480 Genghis Khan, for example.

00:39:02.800 I mean, there are, there are statues to Genghis Khan in Mongolia. 0.79

00:39:05.980 Genghis Khan, who was such a prolific rapist that, you know, whatever, a third of the world is related to him right now, whatever the number is.

00:39:19.240 I mean, this is a guy who, who, who, uh, is responsible for the slaughter of millions of people without using bombs or guns. 0.89

00:39:30.860 And they have no shame about it, no embarrassment whatsoever.

00:39:33.140 That's who Genghis Khan was, but he's their founder, he's their historical hero, and they honor him.

00:39:44.840 Columbus was not Genghis Khan, not even close.

00:39:49.180 But in the West, we're the only ones who have this kind of embarrassment of our, of our, about our historical figures.

00:39:54.960 Um, let's see, one other quick, uh, note here.

00:39:59.080 It says, from the Daily Wire, it says, California Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed a bill to streamline the assisted suicide process for terminally ill patients who wish to end their own lives.

00:40:10.480 The bill will slash the current 15-day waiting period for patients to get the legal drugs to a mere 48 hours.

00:40:16.740 The law also requires healthcare providers to post their physician-assisted suicide policies on their websites.

00:40:22.260 So they already had, uh, assisted suicide, but Gavin Newsom, he looked at it and he said, you know, the real problem here is that people aren't able to kill themselves quickly enough.

00:40:34.120 Just think about that for a second.

00:40:35.280 The 15-day waiting period, but to have assisted suicide at all is barbaric.

00:40:39.380 But with the 15-day waiting period, the point is you're, you're giving people some more time to think about what they're about to do because you're making a choice you cannot take back.

00:40:50.460 And Gavin Newsom is saying, no, give them less time to think about it.

00:40:54.720 What could possibly be the non-horrifying reason for that?

00:41:01.720 You just want to get, you want these people gone.

00:41:04.200 All right, you're done.

00:41:05.140 Let's just get you out of here. 1.00

00:41:06.120 Let's get, let's get you off of the earth. 0.79

00:41:07.220 That's, that's the attitude.

00:41:12.020 And there, you know, we don't have time to get into all the problems with assisted suicide.

00:41:17.620 Assisted suicide, which is in and of itself is kind of a euphemism.

00:41:21.800 Um, but maybe we shouldn't have to go any, any, uh, beyond this point.

00:41:28.640 That this is a total inversion of medicine and a corruption and perversion of the medical profession.

00:41:37.220 You know, doctors traditionally in Hippocratic oath are swearing to do no harm.

00:41:45.040 And whether they take any official oath or not, that is, that's supposed to be the idea behind medicine.

00:41:49.500 It is to treat and cure and heal.

00:41:52.040 Um, destroying a life is not treating it.

00:41:58.100 It's certainly not curing or healing it.

00:42:01.980 You don't treat someone's body by destroying it, by poisoning it.

00:42:06.200 And so you have turned medicine on its head when doctors become dealers of death.

00:42:13.180 And yet, of course, even without assisted suicide, we know that that's already the case all across the country, because that's what abortionists do who call themselves doctors.

00:42:21.900 But it is not a positive trend.

00:42:26.800 You know, to have a doctor in one room, he's got a patient with cancer and that, and that patient wants to, wants to stick around and fight it.

00:42:35.880 And so he's trying to help that, uh, that person overcome and trying to treat their, their illness.

00:42:42.760 Then he goes over to the next room and he's helping that person kill themselves.

00:42:48.820 To have this kind of schizophrenic approach to medicine is, uh, not a positive development at all.

00:42:54.160 All right, let's get to our, uh, YouTube comments. 1.00

00:42:56.700 This is from Lieutenant Crazy Man, says, Matt, you're a genuine imbecile, angry and childish. 1.00

00:43:20.720 I listen to arguments from you, but it hurts my brain trying to decipher the flatulence that comes from your mouth. 1.00

00:43:26.700 Uh, I don't know if this is supposed to be a joke because you spelled imbecile, I-M-B-A-C-I-L-E, imbecile? 1.00

00:43:36.600 Matt, you're damned imbecile? 1.00

00:43:39.300 Uh, and I'll, I will never, you know, that's, that's always going to be hilarious to me when someone tries to call you stupid and misspells it in the process. 1.00

00:43:46.340 So thank you for that. 0.97

00:43:47.880 I, I, you know, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and say this was a joke on your part.

00:43:50.820 Uh, Nicholas the Cage says,

00:43:54.360 Uh, you don't like dogs and flying makes you anxious.

00:43:58.040 Matt, if you didn't have kids, I'd wonder if you were even a man.

00:44:02.100 But no, I, I think, uh, disliking flying, that's, uh, that's quite, I, I have a manly reason for it.

00:44:10.280 The reason I don't like flying, the anxiety comes from the lack of control.

00:44:13.960 That's why I have no anxiety about driving, even though statistically we all know driving is significantly more dangerous.

00:44:21.180 I mean, you're way more likely to die in the car, uh, than you are on a plane.

00:44:25.640 Being on a plane, 35,000 feet in the air is probably the safest place on earth.

00:44:31.280 And it's not even, you know, on earth, on, on the earth, on the ground anyway.

00:44:37.340 And I recognize all that, but I, I still don't feel like I have control.

00:44:42.940 And that's where the anxiety comes from.

00:44:44.180 I need, it's my desire for control.

00:44:46.000 Um, let's see, Jack says on the topic of indigenous people's day, it really says something about our cultural decay that we choose to celebrate the conquered rather than the conquerors, a good microcosm for the victimhood culture that plagues our society. 1.00

00:45:02.420 Yeah, it is, it is kind of interesting.

00:45:04.080 One of the things that we always hear is that, uh, when it comes to tearing down the Confederate statues, people who support that, what's, what's one of the things they always say?

00:45:13.580 They always say that, well, we, why are we celebrating losers? 0.99

00:45:16.220 They're the loser. 0.99

00:45:16.940 They lost the war.

00:45:19.600 Well, in this, in the Indian war, in the, in the battle of civilizations, the indigenous people lost.

00:45:26.720 Could you apply that same logic there?

00:45:32.100 Um, David Osvog says it should be called Vikings day.

00:45:37.660 It was my ancestors who landed first, a millennia before Columbus.

00:45:41.000 Yeah, you know, of course we hear about Leif Erikson and everything, but the, the, and okay, but he didn't establish lasting colonies in the new world.

00:45:52.340 So it didn't have the same history shaping, um, civilization changing effect.

00:46:00.300 It's, I mean, still, still quite, I mean, I'm impressed with anyone back in, in history, able to get on a ship without any modern navigational equipment whatsoever and go from point A to point B and not die in the process.

00:46:17.760 I'm impressed by all of that personal, but there is a significant difference.

00:46:22.220 Um, and finally, another comment says, very few natives were violent to each other.

00:46:30.760 Isn't the whole thing with Native American tribes was the fact that they didn't own the land.

00:46:34.940 The land owns them.

00:46:36.480 Do you want to talk about painting a bra, a large brush? 1.00

00:46:39.080 You hypocrite, hypocrite spelled H I P P C R I T E. 1.00

00:46:43.780 Hip crit, you hip crit, you imbecile hip crit. 1.00

00:46:47.380 Uh, this is another one that I, I, I want to think is a joke. 0.99

00:46:53.460 I mean, I, cause I don't want to believe that there are people this dense actually watching my show.

00:46:57.060 That would, that would make me question myself.

00:46:59.960 Very few native tribes were violent to each other.

00:47:02.720 Really?

00:47:04.200 They were all violent to each other, but it's not just them.

00:47:09.720 Violence was the way of the world for thousands of years through human civilization.

00:47:13.920 Our ancestors were brutal people.

00:47:18.140 And when I say our ancestors, I mean, everybody, I don't care what the color of your skin is or where you're from.

00:47:25.240 And you know something else?

00:47:26.780 If you lived 500 years ago or a thousand years ago, you would have been a brutal person too, or you'd be dead.

00:47:33.160 You know, you would have died.

00:47:34.540 Those would, those really would have been your two choices, especially if you were a man.

00:47:38.460 So that's the reality across the world.

00:47:40.140 But, uh, were Native American tribes violent to each other?

00:47:42.760 Or, yes, they were.

00:47:43.880 And what I would suggest is, you know, maybe instead of getting all of your historical information from Facebook memes, maybe pick up a book.

00:47:51.660 Just a thought.

00:47:53.000 We know that abortion advocates are going insane still over the Texas law banning abortion.

00:47:58.240 I mean, they already were insane, but they continue even more in that state because of this law.

00:48:02.920 And that's why we need, as this conversation continues, we need as many voices as possible to join the defense of Texas and any other states that are joining the fight for life.

00:48:12.700 That's one of the reasons why I wrote the forward to the new book from 40 Days for Life, What to Say When, the complete new guide to discussing abortion.

00:48:19.160 I wrote the forward to it.

00:48:20.000 I read the book myself and found it very useful, even as someone who argues about these issues all the time, and I feel like I know them pretty well.

00:48:27.180 I still found useful tips, and a lot of other people have as well.

00:48:30.540 That's why this book has been number one on the Amazon new release chart and a number two Amazon bestseller.

00:48:36.800 The book is very easy to use.

00:48:38.100 It tells you what to say, what not to say, and also the proven arguments that have worked for everybody.

00:48:42.980 They've even used these arguments with Planned Parenthood workers, and they've converted 221 of them.

00:48:48.460 That's how compelling it is.

00:48:49.880 So go to Amazon right now or get the book directly.

00:48:53.040 That's What to Say When, the complete new guide to discussing abortion.

00:48:56.120 You can get it directly from 40 Days for Life at 40daysforlife.com.

00:49:00.140 And tonight is the night.

00:49:01.340 It's a huge night for Backstage.

00:49:02.920 Instead of the usual Daily Wire studio, we'll be live streaming our conversation on stage at the famous Ryman Auditorium right here in Nashville,

00:49:09.320 where we'll attempt to make sense of the increasingly authoritarian world we're living in.

00:49:13.340 This will be an event and a live stream unlike any other that we've done before, and you're not going to want to miss it.

00:49:18.560 So join myself, Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Jeremy Boring, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, and our live audience for a backstage like never before.

00:49:25.080 Tonight's live stream will begin at 8.30 p.m. Eastern, 7.30 p.m. Central.

00:49:28.500 So head to dailywire.com or dailywire.com to catch the show.

00:49:31.920 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:49:32.980 So today for our daily cancellation, we must pick on some random sap who wrote a letter seeking advice from a New York Times columnist,

00:49:44.260 which should give you an idea of just how clueless and desperate this person really is.

00:49:49.500 But our purpose is not simply to mock this person.

00:49:51.800 That's part of the purpose, yeah.

00:49:52.780 But the larger purpose is to talk about the deeper societal issue that this person's attitude is symptomatic of.

00:49:57.420 So writing to advice columnist Roxanne Gay, a person named Britt from Indianapolis, poses this quandary.

00:50:04.940 Britt says,

00:50:05.460 Anyway, my partner and I are considering starting a family in a few years

00:50:34.180 Now the answer from Roxanne dances around the issue, trying to validate this person's concerns and perspective

00:50:55.720 while still gently suggesting that maybe, just maybe, work is an unavoidable fact of life.

00:51:00.740 Though she does leave open the hope that perhaps we as a culture, quote, will eventually decide there is indeed more to life than work.

00:51:08.440 Of course, saying there's more to life than work is like saying there's more to life than water or breathing.

00:51:13.440 It's true at face value, but it's not true if what you mean is that these things are negotiable or expendable.

00:51:19.940 You cannot have life without water or oxygen.

00:51:22.820 You cannot have life without work.

00:51:24.240 Look, all people must work to live or else they must force someone else to do the work for them. 0.55

00:51:29.920 Those are the only two options.

00:51:31.840 There are no other options.

00:51:34.080 There will never be any others.

00:51:36.740 Work may not be life, but life is work.

00:51:40.740 Anyone telling you different is selling you something.

00:51:42.880 To paraphrase the Princess Bride. 0.62

00:51:44.640 Now, capitalism did not invent work.

00:51:46.600 Here's another history lesson.

00:51:48.700 In pre-industrial times, life was work, and also work was life.

00:51:54.680 And for them, they had it both.

00:51:57.320 For everyone but the privileged few, royalty, nobility back in those days,

00:52:01.220 every second of every day was a battle to survive.

00:52:03.780 It was work.

00:52:05.640 Capitalism is just one system of work.

00:52:08.260 It is just one way for people to exploit their work in order to sustain themselves.

00:52:13.000 It also happens to be the best system.

00:52:14.600 Certainly better than any other system that anybody has ever devised.

00:52:19.340 So this is one important point.

00:52:21.120 You cannot escape work.

00:52:22.740 Unless you escape it by living off the work of others.

00:52:24.940 But then you haven't decreased the amount of work that needs to be done.

00:52:28.080 You've just pawned your share off on someone else.

00:52:31.480 And this is a bad option because it's immoral.

00:52:33.760 And if you don't care about morality, maybe you'll care about this.

00:52:36.640 A life without work is far more miserable than a life of work.

00:52:40.500 To be unproductive.

00:52:41.720 To reap the fruits of labor that you didn't participate in.

00:52:44.600 To have striving and effort and ambition removed from your life entirely.

00:52:48.220 That's a recipe for despair.

00:52:50.480 Check in with jackpot lottery winners sometime and see how happy they really are.

00:52:54.020 Or welfare recipients.

00:52:55.380 Or unemployed adults who live at home with their parents.

00:52:57.600 These are not joyful people.

00:52:59.900 You could be satiated in a life like that.

00:53:02.100 You could be numb and comfortable.

00:53:03.380 But joy comes from striving.

00:53:05.720 There is no other way to find it.

00:53:07.240 So that's the first point.

00:53:09.320 The second, obviously, is that 40 hours a week is really not that much at all.

00:53:12.920 40 hours a week leaves you 16 hours a day during the week and 48 hours on the weekend.

00:53:17.720 You have 128 hours a week to yourself to do what you want.

00:53:23.700 Even with a basket of laundry to fold and a small dog to take care of, still, you should have a healthy surplus of free time.

00:53:32.280 I mean, I can't even imagine having that much free time.

00:53:34.800 It sounds almost mythological.

00:53:37.180 It is literally beyond my wildest dreams.

00:53:39.700 And yet, it's not enough?

00:53:42.860 How much free time do you want?

00:53:45.180 Eight hours of work a day, five days a week is too much.

00:53:47.760 How many hours do you think you ought to be doing?

00:53:50.340 What, 30 minutes a day?

00:53:51.480 Is that the goal? 0.99

00:53:52.980 The problem here is not just the whiny, pathetic laziness that's so endemic in our society today, 0.98

00:53:57.380 but also a total inability to prioritize time. 0.99

00:54:02.080 This is also endemic.

00:54:03.400 And we all, you know, suffer from this to one degree or another.

00:54:06.980 You look at any poll or any survey on the subject, or you talk to almost anybody,

00:54:11.180 and you'll find that nearly everyone thinks that they're so busy,

00:54:14.420 and they complain about their stress and their anxiety, and they feel overworked and exhausted, etc.

00:54:19.260 And yet, we also know that Americans spend 10 hours a day on their phones,

00:54:22.720 watching TV, you know, playing video games, cumulatively.

00:54:25.920 I read one report that says that the average American is subscribed to four streaming services

00:54:31.040 and streams up to eight hours a day of content.

00:54:33.440 I bet the person who sent this question to the New York Times is on the higher end of those averages.

00:54:39.220 So how can it be that we waste our lives consuming media, but also we're stressed out and busy?

00:54:46.660 Well, again, because we don't know how to prioritize our time.

00:54:50.120 Also, most of us have terrible diets and don't get enough exercise,

00:54:53.220 which contributes to both exhaustion and feelings of stress.

00:54:57.260 We have no sense of higher purpose in life, which causes anxiety.

00:55:00.200 See, many factors can be taken into account here, but an inability to prioritize time is certainly a major one.

00:55:06.380 Chances are, whatever it is you'd like to do with your time, but think you don't have time to do,

00:55:10.760 the lack of time is a figment of your imagination.

00:55:13.080 It's an illusion.

00:55:15.200 Where does this illusion come from?

00:55:17.100 I mean, how have we all convinced ourselves that we're so busy and stressed out,

00:55:22.260 even as we spend a third of the day staring at images on screens?

00:55:25.080 I think the answer is threefold.

00:55:27.540 One, we've fooled ourselves into believing that we're busy because we equate busyness with importance

00:55:32.000 and we want to feel important.

00:55:33.960 Two, most of our time is wasted consuming media and we tend to go into a slightly catatonic state

00:55:38.820 when we consume media, especially if we're in the middle of a streaming binge,

00:55:42.040 which means our perception of time is altered.

00:55:44.680 Social media is specifically designed to have this effect.

00:55:48.140 It's made to keep you sort of glued there while not perceiving just how much time you're spending on it.

00:55:52.980 That's what they call eternal scrolling is all about,

00:55:55.760 where you just keep scrolling and scrolling down a screen and it never, never ends.

00:56:00.440 And then third, there's marketing.

00:56:02.120 Most of the advertisement and marketing that bombards our eyes and ears carries with it this message

00:56:06.380 that we're all a bunch of super busy people leading busy, bustling lives.

00:56:11.880 Advertising companies want to sell us on our busyness because they want to sell products

00:56:15.720 that are meant to help with that fictional problem.

00:56:18.280 Most consumer products are focused on making our lives easier, more convenient,

00:56:21.820 because, you know, we need more shortcuts because our lives are so hectic.

00:56:26.560 Or else we're being sold things that are supposed to give us rest and recreation

00:56:29.600 so that we can have a break from those allegedly busy lives of ours.

00:56:33.140 Either way, the marketing companies have to first tell us that we're busy

00:56:36.280 so that they can sell the cure to it, not unlike the method used by pharmaceutical companies.

00:56:41.320 And that's how we, with hours and hours of free time every day,

00:56:45.300 still convince ourselves that we don't have time to start the hobby that we want to start

00:56:48.600 or go to the gym or read a book or do whatever other worthwhile and edifying thing we want to do.

00:56:56.740 We're just too busy.

00:56:58.180 We've got our dog and the laundry and Hulu and Netflix and Disney Plus and Apple TV.

00:57:02.940 There's just no time, even though there's lots of time.

00:57:06.980 I mean, all we have is time.

00:57:08.040 It's just a matter of how we choose to spend it.

00:57:12.720 And so that's my advice to that person who sent the question to the New York Times columnist.

00:57:18.280 But even after giving the advice, I still have to say to them that they are canceled.

00:57:22.640 And we'll leave it there for today.

00:57:23.900 Thanks for watching.

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The Matt Walsh Show - October 12, 2021

Ep. 816 - NFL Fires Coach For Vulgar Language. Still Employs Domestic Abusers And Drug Addicts.

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