The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 854 - COVID Lockdowns Destroyed Our Kids. Here's The Proof.

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a report from the Surgeon General shows the extent of the damage

00:00:04.020 COVID lockdowns did to children, although that's not the lesson the government wants us to take

00:00:07.820 from the report. We'll talk about that. And BLM comes out in support of Jussie Smollett. Big

00:00:11.560 surprise, Media Matters launches an attack on the most prominent and revered LGBT author in the

00:00:16.460 nation, if you can believe it. And Prince Harry says that if your job doesn't bring you joy,

00:00:21.220 you should just quit. Is that good career advice from a guy who's never had a career? We'll talk

00:00:25.520 about that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:44.900 DAILYWIRE sent you. That's 1-800-651-1148. The Surgeon General of the United States issued a report

00:01:50.760 this week, which contains some extremely troubling, though not at all unexpected information. It's 53

00:01:56.260 pages long and details the mental health challenges, quote unquote, that children have experienced over

00:02:01.600 the last year. And mental health challenges is an understatement. The Surgeon General, Dr. Murthy,

00:02:07.620 says that most of these problems can be blamed on the coronavirus pandemic. Now, as usual with our

00:02:13.740 government, even when they correctly identify a problem, which is rare, they still make the wrong

00:02:18.300 diagnosis. That's what they've done here. Here's the New York Times with more on the report. It

00:02:22.260 says, the report cited significant increases in self-reports of depression, anxiety, and emergency

00:02:26.880 room visits for mental health challenges. In the United States, emergency room visits for suicide

00:02:31.100 attempts rose 51% for adolescent girls in early 2021, as compared with the same period in 2019.

00:02:38.480 The figure rose 4% for boys. Globally, symptoms of anxiety and depression doubled during the pandemic,

00:02:43.800 the report noted. But mental health issues were already on the rise in the United States,

00:02:47.280 with emergency room visits related to depression, anxiety, and related issues, up 28% between 2011

00:02:53.000 and 2015. Now, a 51% rise in suicide attempts among adolescent girls in one year is staggering,

00:03:00.920 catastrophic. 4% rise in one year among boys is already enormous. But 51% is unthinkable. It's an

00:03:10.980 epidemic in every sense of the word. It's also exactly what many of us warned would happen.

00:03:16.280 That's what makes this all the more tragic and infuriating. It was predictable,

00:03:22.000 and thus it was preventable. But the powers that be are determined to miss the point.

00:03:27.880 Because they don't care about the point, and they don't care about kids. They don't care about 0.91

00:03:30.500 anybody. Back to the article, it says, the reasons are complex and not yet definitive.

00:03:36.180 Adolescent brain chemistry and relationships with friends and family are important factors,

00:03:40.140 the report noted, as is a fast-paced media culture, which can leave some young minds feeling

00:03:44.560 helpless. Quote, young people are bombarded with messages through the media and popular culture

00:03:49.200 that erode their sense of self-worth, telling them they're not good-looking enough, popular enough,

00:03:53.580 smart enough, or rich enough, Dr. Murthy wrote in the report. That comes as progress on legitimate

00:03:58.140 and distressing issues like climate change, income inequality, racial injustice, the opioid epidemic,

00:04:04.340 and gun violence feels too slow. Okay, no. Children are not attempting suicide

00:04:10.000 because of climate change or racial injustice. Although the fear-mongering done on these issues

00:04:16.220 certainly doesn't help matters, I'm sure it can contribute to an overall feeling of despair

00:04:21.200 and hopelessness when the adults in your life are all telling you that the world is doomed

00:04:25.320 and your neighborhood will be underwater in 10 years and the planet is dead. And on top of it all,

00:04:29.640 there are legions of white supremacists and racist, murderous cops prowling the streets, 1.00

00:04:33.560 executing racial minorities at will. And on top of that, if you're white, that you're born with a 1.00

00:04:39.340 stain of guilt, with blood on your hands that you can't wash off. And if you're black, you're born a 1.00

00:04:44.880 victim and you'll never not be a victim. I mean, all that stuff doesn't help. I have no doubt that 0.99

00:04:49.640 this messaging contributes significantly to the problem, but that's not climate change or racial

00:04:54.220 inequality hurting a child's mental health. It's the things that adults are saying about those

00:04:58.420 subjects, the false claims they're making, which are causing the damage. And the damage is intentional

00:05:04.740 again. Likewise, the coronavirus has almost nothing to do with any of this. Not almost, it has nothing

00:05:13.480 to do with any of this. There has not been a 51% increase in suicide attempts due to the coronavirus.

00:05:21.300 If the virus was dangerous to kids and children across the country had to see their friends die from it,

00:05:27.140 and worry that they might be next, then we could draw probably a straight line connection between

00:05:32.480 COVID to the child suicide epidemic. But that's not the case. This is a mild disease for kids in most

00:05:39.060 cases. What's hurting them isn't COVID itself, but our response to it. Also keep in mind that there

00:05:44.360 have been pandemics throughout the course of human civilization. Many of them much worse than this,

00:05:50.960 and many of them affecting kids much more than this one has. Polio, for example.

00:05:57.140 During those occasions, did we see mass epidemics of child suicide? I don't think we did.

00:06:04.980 So why is it happening now? Well, because kids were isolated for no good reason. Torn out of their

00:06:11.460 normal routines and social lives for no good reason. Made to wear masks for years on end now.

00:06:18.480 Deprived of the ability to see their friends' faces and to be seen.

00:06:21.660 To see people and be seen is one of the most elemental, fundamental aspects of living in a

00:06:30.700 human society. And we took that away. They were treated as though they were diseased and

00:06:36.960 encouraged to treat everybody else the same. We made them afraid of social contact with other people.

00:06:43.980 Afraid of the very air they breathe. This is still going on in many places in the country.

00:06:49.360 Look at this video from a post-millennial reporter in Portland. She says, here's the caption with the

00:06:54.860 video. She says, kindergartners are forced to eat lunch outside in 40 degree weather at Capitol Hill

00:06:59.860 Elementary School in Portland, Oregon. They sit on buckets to social distance from their classmates.

00:07:05.060 You can see the video there. They're sitting on the ground in 40 degree temperatures.

00:07:09.740 And, um, and they've got buckets for, I don't know if that's buckets for, uh, tables or buckets for

00:07:17.000 chairs. Now we don't treat prison inmates like this. If this was footage from a prison with inmates

00:07:25.920 forced to sit on the ground in the cold with buckets as tables isolated, we would call it cruel and

00:07:30.700 unusual punishment. A lot of people would, I probably wouldn't if it was prisoners. People would say

00:07:37.640 things like, you know, even a convicted murderer doesn't deserve to be treated that way. And yet

00:07:41.420 a child does. Then they go back into class with their masks on faceless entities around other

00:07:46.840 faceless entities sitting behind desks with plastic barriers between them and their classmates.

00:07:54.140 Most of their, of their parents still won't let them socialize like normal after school with

00:07:58.820 their friends. They go home and sit behind a computer screen. It's the only place where they can be

00:08:03.040 normal and free, except the internet is poisoned for their minds, just like it's poisoned for ours

00:08:07.600 as adults. Now the surgeon general connects the internet to this. And I think for good reason,

00:08:13.420 I mean, it is not a coincidence at all that we've got the child suicide epidemic, which as the report

00:08:19.400 points out was already a rising problem, uh, before the lockdowns. And, and, and this is all

00:08:27.980 unheard of in, in, through, through human civilization up until now. To have all these kids at such young

00:08:35.460 ages contemplating suicide or committing suicide, this has never happened before. It's not a coincidence

00:08:42.620 that it's happening now while the internet takes over everybody's lives. And it's, it's afflicting a

00:08:48.020 generation that has, that has been raised in cyberspace. They've never known a life outside of it.

00:08:53.020 But what's the connection? I mean, the surgeon general worries that kids on the internet are

00:08:58.340 learning that they're not good looking enough. They're not popular enough. They're not smart

00:09:01.920 enough or rich enough. This is superficial surface level analysis of the dangers of the internet.

00:09:07.760 It's not wrong per se, but the problem runs much deeper than that. After all, as long as there's been

00:09:14.920 pop culture and media, there have always been people staring at screens and feeling uglier and less

00:09:20.800 popular in comparison to what they see inside the magic box. But, and, and even before that,

00:09:27.240 there, there have always been people looking at other people and saying, well, that person's more

00:09:31.360 attractive. That person's, uh, you know, has a better personality. They're more popular or whatever.

00:09:35.260 That kind of thing has always happened. But with the internet, a child's, and this is really true

00:09:40.020 of all of us, but we're talking about kids right now. A child's mind is altered. His whole way of being.

00:09:45.260 It's not just a TV where you're watching things happen, where you're a mere viewer. The internet

00:09:52.120 is, and now even more so because of the way kids have been isolated. It's the primary mode of

00:09:56.960 engagement with the world. You don't just watch, you engage. You present yourself to the world.

00:10:03.900 You see on the TV, the world presents itself to you. And that's problematic enough because

00:10:07.620 the presentation that you're seeing is not, is, is, is not accurate. And you can get some wrong

00:10:15.520 ideas about the world, but through the internet, you're getting a false presentation of the world

00:10:20.840 while you present yourself a false presentation of yourself to the world. Your presentation of

00:10:27.200 yourself is not real. It's an avatar. And now with the metaverse on the way, we'll be, we will become

00:10:32.180 avatars in a more literal sense, but that will only be an escalation of a process that's already

00:10:37.920 been underway. The more that kids live their lives on the internet, the more that they're deprived

00:10:43.460 of an authentic self. It's not just that they feel badly about themselves. It's that they,

00:10:48.940 they don't have a self at all. They don't have a firm identity. When you see all these kids running

00:10:56.180 around with all their LGBT labels and they've got 50 different labels and it changes by the day

00:11:00.660 and their pronouns change by the day. I mean, these are, these are kids who have no identity.

00:11:04.760 They have no sense of self at all. They don't know anything about themselves.

00:11:09.720 They've been subsumed into cyberspace and nothing is real there. There's nothing firm or consistent

00:11:15.600 to anchor yourself to. Now I said that this is how they engage with the world, but that's not exactly

00:11:21.220 true because engage makes it sound too purposeful and active. Most of us, kids especially, engage with

00:11:27.920 the internet in a state that's something like highway hypnosis. You scroll and click and type

00:11:32.900 barely noticing what you're doing or the hours ticking off the clock or the days and months and

00:11:39.180 years and lives that you've wasted. Now, none of this began with COVID or more precisely with our

00:11:44.800 response to COVID, but that's made it a lot worse. Literally every significant problem our kids already

00:11:51.140 face by nature of living in the modern world was made worse, much worse by the COVID policies they've been

00:11:57.260 living under and suffering under for two years. And now the people responsible for this will act

00:12:03.240 surprised, but they should have known. And they didn't know. They knew exactly what they were doing.

00:12:10.080 This was simply a trade they were willing to make for their own sakes. Your kid's life for theirs.

00:12:18.140 That's the trade. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:13:51.180 when the kids wear the masks and they're deprived of the ability to see and be seen. And I thought of

00:13:57.460 an essay that I read very recently by the writer, Jonathan Franzen. And he was, from what I remember

00:14:04.680 in the essay, he was talking about the experience. He wrote the essay in like 1998 or something,

00:14:10.000 1997. It was in the 90s. And it was when, maybe the early 2000s, when people were first starting

00:14:16.640 to use cell phones. It was like the big bulky cell phones and people, they weren't on the

00:14:19.940 internet. They were just texting or, you know, just staring down at them. And he's talking about

00:14:25.320 the experience, lamenting it, like walking down a sidewalk in New York. And now it's this new thing

00:14:30.560 where everybody passes by. They're just looking down at their phones. And he says something like,

00:14:35.140 the one thing I want from a sidewalk is to see people and be seen. And that's what we've lost

00:14:43.600 because of the internet. No matter where you are in public, you know, you're sitting in a waiting

00:14:49.220 room somewhere, waiting to get your oil changed. It used to be that you would sit there and there'd

00:14:54.340 be other people around and God forbid you'd make some small talk or something, or at least you'd just

00:14:57.900 like, you'd be aware of the presence of other people and you'd be, you'd have this shared

00:15:01.980 experience with them. Might not be the most profound experience, but it's some kind of shared

00:15:05.580 experience waiting there. And now it's, no one even looks like, you don't even know who's,

00:15:09.320 you leave and you got your oil changed and anybody asked you to describe anybody who was in the room

00:15:14.380 with you, you couldn't do it because you didn't even notice them. So that was already a problem.

00:15:18.480 But I talk about how our reaction to COVID has exacerbated all these problems that already existed.

00:15:22.940 And now with, and now with masks and are putting our kids in masks all the time.

00:15:28.220 And when you, when you live like where I do, it's, it's hard to even fathom that this is still

00:15:32.600 happening because I go out and I don't see any masks, but traveling around the country and many

00:15:36.780 places in the country, it's still everywhere. And so there are still millions of kids who all they

00:15:42.840 need from a sidewalk or walking down the hallway at school is to see and be seen. And they don't have

00:15:48.540 that. They can't see anything. All they see is eyes. They see no faces. The psychological damage

00:15:54.300 of that alone. I mean, isolate that little piece alone. Okay. Let's, let's raise millions of kids

00:16:01.920 in an environment where we deprive them of the ability to see, to have their faces seen and see

00:16:07.060 other people's faces. And let's do that for years and see what happens. This is like a social experiment

00:16:11.300 that alone, the psychological damage being done is hard to fathom, but then you put it on top of

00:16:16.640 everything else. And what do you get? Well, you get 51% suicide attempts. All right. Uh, we'll start

00:16:24.140 with this. BLM.com has just put out a statement and a statement regarding the ongoing trial of Jussie

00:16:32.860 Smollett. Now keep in mind, of course, nobody was really asking BLM their opinion on this. Nobody was,

00:16:39.420 no one asks BLM's opinion on anything. Nobody wants to know or care, but, um, they've gone out of their

00:16:45.300 way. So it's not like they were backed into a corner and they had to say something about Jussie

00:16:50.420 Smollett. They could have said nothing at all and nobody would have noticed, but they wrote this

00:16:55.900 statement, put it right up on the website, big headline. And here's what they have to say about

00:17:01.200 it. They say, as abolitionists, we approach situations of injustice with love and align ourself.

00:17:07.220 We approach situations of injustice with love and with a torch so that we can set the buildings on

00:17:15.680 fire. Um, and we align ourselves with our community and they align themselves with their community by

00:17:22.000 burning it to the ground. That's one way of doing it because we got us. Wait, what? We align ourselves

00:17:29.760 with our community because we got us. I don't even know what that means. And this is a statement from

00:17:36.140 Dr. Malina Abdullah. So this is a doctor for some fake doctor, probably, but a highly educated person.

00:17:43.420 And this is what they're writing because we got us. So let's be clear. We love everybody in our

00:17:50.120 community. It's not about a trial or a verdict decided in a white supremacist charade. It's about

00:17:56.340 how we treat our community when corrupt systems are working to devalue their lives. In an abolitionist

00:18:02.040 society, this trial would not be taking place and our communities would not have to fight and suffer

00:18:06.700 to prove our worth. Instead, we find ourselves once again, being forced to put our lives and our value

00:18:11.600 in the hands of judges and juries operating in a system that is designed to oppress us while

00:18:16.140 continuing to face a corrupt and violent police department who has proven time and again to have

00:18:19.780 no respect for our lives. In our commitment to abolition, we can never believe police, especially

00:18:24.640 the Chicago police department over Jussie Smollett, a black man who has been courageously present,

00:18:29.560 visible and vocal in the struggle for black freedom. While policing at large is an irredeemable

00:18:35.440 institution, CPD is notorious for its long and deep history of corruption, racism, and brutality.

00:18:41.140 Blah, blah, blah, and so on and so forth. So they're supporting Jussie Smollett is what they're

00:18:45.500 trying to say. But, and they, and they say, well, we believe Jussie Smollett instead of the Chicago

00:18:51.180 police department, but what they don't do here, and I'm not going to read the entire statement. I've already

00:18:57.360 read more than you probably needed to hear. But what they don't do is lay out the reasons why

00:19:02.520 they, they believe Jussie Smollett, which if they had good reasons, you'd think they'd do that.

00:19:08.880 They would, they would have their bulletproof points in their, their case that they would make,

00:19:12.720 and they would say, look, here's why. Boom, boom, boom. He's clearly innocent.

00:19:18.380 They don't do that. They have one line. We believe Jussie Smollett instead of the Chicago 0.85

00:19:21.800 police department. And, uh, and then the rest of it is all about systemic racism and everything else.

00:19:27.360 What they're ignoring, of course, they're ignoring a lot, which just basic common sense. And the fact

00:19:31.520 that the evidence is utterly overwhelming, but also, um, if this is a, he said, he said situation,

00:19:36.720 it's not Jussie Smollett versus the Chicago police department. It's Jussie Smollett versus

00:19:43.880 the, uh, Nigerian brothers. One of whom is, was his gay lover at one point, according to him.

00:19:51.780 Are they part of this white supremacy system? They're the ones who said the only reason really 0.62

00:19:55.980 that Jussie Smollett is on trial right now is that the brothers came out and admitted what happened.

00:20:02.300 And yes, through Jussie Smollett under the bus at the same time, because it was either,

00:20:05.340 it was either going to be him or them. So I guess they're part of the white supremacy system.

00:20:12.940 That's what this trial is without the brothers admitting it. Then we, we'd still know that it

00:20:17.120 was fake, but they probably wouldn't have them on trial because they wouldn't have,

00:20:20.280 they'd still have a significant amount of evidence, but it would all be a sort of like

00:20:25.400 negative evidence. It would, it would, it would be evidence like, well, you claim that these people

00:20:29.040 are out there. We didn't say anything in the security cameras, but here there's positive

00:20:33.780 evidence. We have positive evidence that this was fake because we got the two guys that you

00:20:38.140 conspired with saying that it was fake. And oh yeah, here's the check. You wrote them

00:20:42.120 for the fake hate crime. And, um, even though Jussie Smollett described his attackers as white

00:20:50.280 and then pale, you know, I can tell you that Nigerians are neither of those things. So, um, 0.97

00:20:56.760 really these are two black men from Africa. It's their word. If you want to look at it this way

00:21:02.060 against Jussie Smollett. And so if you're, if you're trying, if, if that's, if we're doing this

00:21:08.380 based on identity, who's more trustworthy based on their identity and where they fall on the victim

00:21:13.960 scale, wouldn't the black immigrants from Africa, wouldn't, wouldn't they be the ones that you would 1.00

00:21:18.980 rally behind? Jussie Smollett's whole, their whole case is, uh, is yeah, they're, they're trying to

00:21:27.120 paint the Chicago police department as racist, but really their whole case is to throw the brothers

00:21:31.200 under the bus. They had their closing arguments. Actually, the defense attorney had a closing

00:21:35.540 argument. The whole closing argument is that these guys are, you know, psychopaths and they, 0.99

00:21:40.060 and they, this is all them. And this is all their fault. Uh, go after them. 0.99

00:21:47.340 Yes, I did say this is all their fault. Forget about that. That's their whole case.

00:21:52.380 So it's two black men from Africa against the word of a black guy, a rich, wealthy, privileged,

00:21:59.400 black guy in America, but black lives matter. They don't, the point is they don't care 1.00

00:22:05.340 about the truth. Obviously they don't care about what actually happened. They don't care

00:22:08.600 about black people. They don't care about any of the things they talk about. This is all 1.00

00:22:12.860 politics. This is all power. That's all it is. All right, let's move on to this very distressing

00:22:19.380 news here. Um, this is from media matters. It says headline Amazon's bestselling LGBTQ book

00:22:29.060 is a hateful picture book comparing being trans to pretending to be a walrus.

00:22:35.280 The bestselling LGBTQ plus book on Amazon is Johnny the walrus, a hateful picture book by the

00:22:40.800 daily wires, Matt Walsh that compares the gender identities of trans youth to a young boy who

00:22:45.060 imagines he's a walrus. Amazon mislabeled the book into its LGBTQ book section. And as a result,

00:22:51.380 it's promoting harmful anti-trans views to its consumers interested in LGBTQ stories.

00:22:58.500 Um, and then they, uh, go on. This is, this is outrageous and very upsetting for me.

00:23:05.600 And I was worried that this would happen, that this kind of homophobia and gay erasure would happen.

00:23:10.240 Um, but for media matters to be doing it is beyond the pale for them to be going after and attacking

00:23:20.860 the most prominent, the most revered, the most respected and beloved and bestselling LGBT author,

00:23:28.220 not just in the nation, but in the world. Okay. Amazon, they don't say these are the books selling

00:23:33.220 in America. This is the world. And I'm still number one. I've been number one. I've been the best

00:23:37.760 selling LGBT book for a week. And I put my heart and soul into that book and, and with, with the

00:23:45.540 objective and the goal of getting on that list so that I could represent the LGBT community as its

00:23:52.280 most prominent figure and speaker. Uh, and yet I'm being attacked in this way. It's very, very upsetting

00:24:02.640 to me. Shame on you, media matters. And, uh, glad the gay and lesbian alliance against defamation, they've

00:24:09.420 joined in. Okay. These media matters, the gay and lesbian alliance against defamation, you should be on

00:24:16.420 my side. I'm the one being defamed as the number one, most prominent bestselling LGBT author in the 0.70

00:24:21.960 country, in the world. But they're coming out against me and they put out this tweet. They say, this is horrible.

00:24:27.420 Amazon, please remove this book from the LGBTQ category immediately. It is absolutely not an 0.96

00:24:34.460 LGBTQ book. It specifically targets transgender people with hateful and dehumanizing rhetoric.

00:24:43.120 Where can I turn now? As the leading voice, as my generation's leading voice in the LGBT community,

00:24:52.740 where can I turn? I can't turn to glad. I can't turn to media matters. I'm a man without a home.

00:24:59.300 I'm a man on an Island. Um, let's read a little bit more from this. Johnny, the walrus is an anti-trans

00:25:06.940 allegory that compares a child imagining that he's a walrus to society affirming and accepting trans

00:25:13.020 youth, including by providing life-saving best practice medical care. When kids go through puberty

00:25:18.500 in reality. Now I just want to point out, okay, I, the word transgender does not appear in the book at any

00:25:26.620 point. So if you read the book and you think there might be similarities between what we do with quote

00:25:34.640 unquote trans kids and a kid pretending to be a walrus. I mean, if you are drawing those connections and 0.84

00:25:39.460 connecting those dots, maybe you should think a little bit more about that. Um,

00:25:47.240 and, uh, the description of the children's book claims that it is about a little boy with a big

00:25:53.220 imagination named Johnny who forced to make a decision between the little boy he is and the

00:25:56.880 things he pretends to be. The book depicts Johnny first pretending to be a walrus by using wood spoons

00:26:01.840 as tusks and socks as fins, then going through the process of trying to become a walrus by eating worms,

00:26:06.760 putting on gray makeup and visiting a doctor who offers a simple procedure to cut his feet into fins.

00:26:11.120 Notably, Amazon has faced backlash for selling anti-trans books in the past.

00:26:17.000 The company continues to sell the book irreversible damage, the transgender craze seducing our 1.00

00:26:20.860 daughters by anti-trans author, Abigail Schreier, even though employees of Amazon filed an internal

00:26:25.980 complaint in April claiming that the book violates the company's policy against selling books that

00:26:30.700 frame LGBTQ identities as a mental illness. Um, and, uh, then it goes on. Okay. So they're, 1.00

00:26:37.860 they're very upset. They're very upset that the book exists. They're very, very upset that it got

00:26:43.260 on the LGBT list, which was Amazon's call, not mine, but I'm honored by it.

00:26:51.220 And, uh, and this is what they're doing. Rampant homophobia over at media matters.

00:26:58.220 Disgraceful. All right. What else do we got? Uh, this is from, okay, this is just a quick thing I want 0.92

00:27:06.480 to mention real quick. The, the BBC reports, uh, that Finland's prime minister is a 36 years old

00:27:12.500 and went out clubbing until 4am. Now you can see it right there. So she left her work phone at home

00:27:19.120 and, uh, and, uh, and she, and she, they, like I said, Finland's prime minister, 36 year old,

00:27:25.120 went out clubbing until 4am, left her work phone at home and was therefore unreachable to get a text

00:27:29.580 telling her that she needed to quarantine. So Santa Marin is her name. And most people on the internet,

00:27:35.120 because they're very immature. Um, they're commenting on the fact that she's easily the

00:27:39.220 most attractive world leader, you know, on earth. And that's true. I just want to say it is a very

00:27:43.760 low bar, not taking anything away from her, um, because our politicians, and this is something 0.97

00:27:47.680 that is kind of interesting when you think about it, because you would think, especially in the,

00:27:52.440 in the age of media, um, there would be this requirement. And given how superficial we all are,

00:27:58.280 there'd be a requirement that our politicians be attractive, but there, there really isn't. 0.94

00:28:02.400 Apparently our politicians are mostly extremely ugly and it's embarrassing. We've got a bunch of 0.74

00:28:08.040 disfigured dorks running the world. So the standards are very minimal and she easily exceeds them. 1.00

00:28:13.620 But my bigger point here is what sort of person goes clubbing at 36 years old?

00:28:19.940 You know, she didn't quarantine, didn't have her phone. She's, she's the leader of the country.

00:28:23.460 We'll put it that also, but 36 years old and out clubbing the oldest age for clubbing is probably 22,

00:28:29.700 22, which means that if you live in America, you have basically one year where you can do it

00:28:34.440 legally. And, uh, it's not completely pathetic, only a little bit by 23. You're too old. You're

00:28:40.620 too old at 25. You at a club, you look like a, like a, like an 80 year old at a skate park or

00:28:46.020 something. But to be doing that at 36 is pretty absurd. Um, all right, let's move to this. We

00:28:52.740 mentioned yesterday, the Dante rights, uh, situation, Kim Potter, the officer that shot

00:28:57.900 Dante, right? Is on trial or trial started this week and they did jury selection yesterday.

00:29:04.100 Now Fox has, uh, reached out to, and has now gotten on film one of Dante rights victims. And 0.50

00:29:12.540 we've, I don't think we've ever seen this before. So this is new where one of the victims of Dante,

00:29:17.800 right? We went through his list of crimes that he committed before fighting the cops and getting

00:29:21.920 himself shot by Kim Potter when they were trying to bring him in because he had a warrant for his

00:29:25.300 arrest. They originally told us, remember the media said, uh, originally that, uh, that they

00:29:29.600 were trying to arrest him because he had an air freshener in his car. In fact, the original story

00:29:35.760 was that, uh, he had an air freshener hanging from his, from his, uh, rear view, uh, mirror.

00:29:42.380 And so they pulled him out of the car and shot him and executed him. And there were all these,

00:29:45.980 there were all these texts, there are all these tweets from people on the left saying,

00:29:49.240 well, what kind of country is this where a man can be executed on the spot for having an air

00:29:53.300 freshener? Well, it turns out that's not the case at all. Air freshener had nothing to do with it.

00:29:58.520 Uh, he did commit some kind of traffic violation. That's why they pulled him over. And then they

00:30:01.940 discovered because they run your plates and they look at your ID and they said, oh, look at, look at

00:30:05.640 this. This is a violent felon. And there's a warrant for his arrest stemming from a gun charge.

00:30:10.900 Um, and that's why they brought him in. Then we start finding out information about his past.

00:30:17.260 And the one revelation that I hadn't known, I don't think anyone knew until yesterday when it

00:30:21.700 was reported by Fox is that Dante Wright had previously shot a 16 year old kid in the head.

00:30:28.260 And that, uh, person fortunately managed to survive, but they're now disabled for the rest of their lives.

00:30:34.420 And Dante Wright did that, but he also committed armed robbery against a woman

00:30:38.960 and, uh, sexually assaulted her in the process and choked her. And now we have Fox track this woman

00:30:46.160 down and she was willing to go on camera and here she is talking about her experiences and what it's

00:30:51.200 been like. And, uh, again, we've, we've never seen this from one of these BLM martyrs where one of

00:30:55.020 their victims is actually willing to speak on camera. So let's watch a little bit of this.

00:30:59.000 Um, yeah, we were hanging out and drinking and smoking and stuff. Um, and we, it was just

00:31:09.060 very casual. Um, neither of them flirted with me or her and tried to pursue anything in any

00:31:17.880 other type of way. It was just simply like, we're just hanging out. Um, so I didn't like

00:31:24.020 think of anything, you know, they're being really nice. Somehow, um, a conversation got

00:31:30.120 brought up. I talked about my ex and how I've had an abusive past. And so that's why I was

00:31:36.480 kind of sketched out about having Image bring this guy over. I didn't know. And I mess like

00:31:44.140 in the Snapchat messages, I had said that, like, I don't know if I feel comfortable with

00:31:50.340 someone I don't know coming over just because this just happened. Like, I just got out of a

00:31:56.440 relationship where I'm having trouble trusting men. Um, and it's just, yeah. And they

00:32:05.120 end up, Dante himself, like, actually, we were, we had started talking and he said that

00:32:15.420 any man who, who puts his hands on, on a woman and abuses them deserves to rot in jail. And

00:32:27.480 so that was very ironic to me. People have done that to me over and over and over and over.

00:32:33.500 And so like when he did it, it was just the last straw for me. It's like, how many men are

00:32:40.300 going to take money for you, for you to finally stand up for yourself? And so like, that's

00:32:46.800 kind of how it was for me. I didn't want him to take it because I was tired of men taking

00:32:54.340 advantage of me and walking all over me and trying to like, make me feel worthless. 0.99

00:33:03.080 Now, if, uh, if feminists were not for the most part soulless cowards, they would be celebrating 1.00

00:33:12.900 this woman, um, treating her as a hero because in fact, what she's doing here is, is actually 0.94

00:33:19.780 heroic and, uh, takes a whole lot of courage. You know, there's a reason why we, as I said,

00:33:27.820 we never see this. Every BLM martyr, martyr, every BLM martyr has, has left a trail of victims 0.52

00:33:35.460 in their wake and then they're celebrated and canonized and they've got their murals all

00:33:41.260 over the place, which means that the, the, the victims of this person, they have to walk

00:33:45.840 by. I mean, imagine George Floyd's victim and we've never seen anything from her. We don't

00:33:51.680 even know. Um, not even sure if we know her name, but she has to walk by and see his

00:33:57.520 mural and, and, uh, and, you know, schools are going to be named after him and they're

00:34:01.960 gonna have George Floyd laws and every legislation named after him. And she has to live in that 0.92

00:34:06.340 world now where the man who abused her is celebrated as a martyr. So many women have

00:34:15.940 been in this position and you can see why they wouldn't want to come and speak out because

00:34:20.920 there's almost nothing in it for them. The media is not going to listen, not going to

00:34:25.700 care. Feminists are not going to rally behind them. Um, they just put themselves in line 1.00

00:34:30.140 for more abuse by speaking out. So it takes a whole lot of courage to do it. And she,

00:34:34.420 and that's exactly what she's doing. And on top of that, what she's talking about in that

00:34:37.760 clip there, where she says, I didn't want to let him do it. It's happened too many times.

00:34:41.720 What she's referring to is that when Dante Wright, who was in, who she was skeptical about inviting

00:34:47.300 him into the home just because she didn't know him and she decides to do it anyway. And

00:34:51.680 she lets him stay the night there and he's an absolute sociopath. No. And she had shared 0.98

00:34:57.040 with him how she's been abused in the past and, and, and what that's, what that's done

00:35:01.840 to her. And he's listening to that according to her story and saying, Oh yeah, any man who

00:35:07.480 does that is terrible. Knowing what he plans to do. Absolute sociopath. Like I said yesterday,

00:35:12.340 this guy's, he's a monster. This is not a misguided youth. This is a monstrous person. 0.98

00:35:17.260 We're supposed to weep that he's gone and that the world is now deprived of his presence. I don't

00:35:23.660 weep. I don't mourn it. I tell you that I am not sad that, that a guy like Dante Wright is gone. I am

00:35:29.860 not. So he's sitting there and he, and he, you know, hatches this plan. And then we also know,

00:35:37.140 by the way, right before the next morning, he decides he's going to, he's going to stick the gun in 0.98

00:35:41.860 her face and robber. And he goes into the, to her bathroom before he does this. And he starts

00:35:46.560 taking pictures for Instagram, posing with his gun. And the police have those. We know that,

00:35:50.900 that, that those are out there. So it certainly lends a lot of credibility to her story.

00:35:57.940 Um, when he points the gun at her face, starts reaching his hand into her bra,

00:36:01.820 sexual assault, looking for the money is choking her and she doesn't give it to him. She actually

00:36:06.100 fights back and, um, and he ends up running away without getting the money. She had like $800 in

00:36:13.400 cash from her job on her. And, uh, he, she ends up, she keeps it. She fights back against a guy 0.86

00:36:18.260 pointing a gun at her and says, I'm not giving you this money. And, uh, he runs away. And now she's

00:36:24.820 out in front of the media speaking the truth about this guy. This is a very courageous woman and, uh,

00:36:32.960 but not going to get any credit at all from feminists or from anyone in the media. 1.00

00:36:36.100 Okay. Next we have from the daily wire. It says pro-life activists and abortion advocates are

00:36:42.280 gearing up for an intense political battle in the States of, uh, if Roe v Wade and precedent from the

00:36:47.520 decisions that followed it are overturned. And now a new poll from Politico shows how Americans might

00:36:52.380 be looking at abortion heading into the midterm elections. According to Politico, 42% of respondents

00:36:56.840 to the poll said they would vote for a candidate who doesn't align with their views on abortion compared

00:37:00.900 to 32% who said that the candidate stance will determine their vote. Another 26%

00:37:06.080 were unsure or had no opinion on the matter. The poll also discovered that 44% of people

00:37:11.000 who are part of the survey. So they had not, they had heard not much or nothing at all about the

00:37:15.800 Mississippi case. Almost two thirds either said they didn't know how likely the court was to

00:37:20.700 overturn Roe or said that the court isn't likely to overturn the president. Uh, the precedent,

00:37:24.980 the poll also went into details regarding how respondents consider abortion in general.

00:37:28.640 Total of 52% of respondents said abortion should remain legal in most or all cases compared

00:37:33.080 to 36% who said it should be banned in most or all cases. And 45% said Roe should not be overturned

00:37:39.160 compared to 24% who said it should be. Okay. The interesting thing about a poll like this

00:37:44.720 is that it gives you, no matter what side of the issue you're on, there are things that you can latch

00:37:49.920 onto and call it a win for your side. Um, one thing that I've actually seen some conservatives

00:37:57.660 talk about the results of this poll in a positive way, because it seems to indicate unlike what you

00:38:03.080 hear from the left. Now the left says, well, if Roe is overturned, it's going to be a huge voter

00:38:07.060 backlash against Republicans and conservatives. And, uh, this poll would seem to indicate that's

00:38:12.240 probably not going to be the case, but then on the negative side, if you're a pro-lifer, it's more

00:38:17.860 than 50% according to the poll. Anyway, we think that abortion should remain legal. The main thing we

00:38:21.940 take from this poll, and this is, this is the greatest hurdle for pro-lifers and it always has

00:38:26.940 been, and it remains the greatest hurdle, even though the pro-life movement has made great strides,

00:38:31.560 especially in the last 10 years or so, even no matter what happens with this case, whether Roe

00:38:37.160 is overturned or not, the pro-life movement has made enormous strides over the last 40 years and

00:38:41.620 especially over the last 10. But the greatest hurdle that we face in the pro-life movement has always

00:38:46.420 been and still is not the people who disagree with us, but it's apathy. That's the greatest hurdle

00:38:53.740 that the majority of people are kind of apathetic about it. They don't have strong feelings one way

00:39:01.940 or another. You know, I would rather hear, I would rather a poll, uh, tell me that a majority of

00:39:10.340 Americans are passionately in favor of abortion. I would rather that than a poll where you find out

00:39:16.360 that a majority of Americans are kind of like, yeah, yeah, I don't know. I'm not paying attention

00:39:19.160 because at least when people are passionate, then they're engaged on the issue. You can talk to them

00:39:26.740 about it. You know, there's, there's something there that you can kind of grab onto. Um, but when

00:39:36.040 people are apathetic, the first thing you have to do is get them to care. And once you've done that,

00:39:42.220 then you have to convince them that you're right about your position, the convincing them that

00:39:47.240 you're right. In my experience is a lot easier than getting them to care. That's the hardest part

00:39:53.680 is getting people to care if they don't. And if it's the kind of person who doesn't naturally

00:39:59.460 automatically care about the fact that 60 million babies have been killed, if they're already apathetic

00:40:05.360 about that and kind of yawning and shrugging their shoulders, it is a, it is a, that is quite an

00:40:10.360 obstacle to get over. It's not impossible, but it's an obstacle. And so that remains, I think the

00:40:14.620 greatest challenge for the pro-life movement. All right. Hillary Clinton was interviewed on the

00:40:17.400 today show where she read a portion of the speech that she would have given had she won the presidency 0.97

00:40:22.520 and it is equal parts pitiful and hilarious. Let's watch it. So I didn't, as you know,

00:40:30.300 write a concession speech because even though we had a lot of bumps, those last 10 days, uh,

00:40:35.320 I still thought, you know, we could pull it out. So I worked on, um, a speech that really

00:40:42.300 was about my journey and had, had a real emphasis on my mother's life and journey as a way of, you know,

00:40:50.820 making it clear that yes, I would be the first woman president, but I, I like everybody, uh, stood

00:40:58.020 on the shoulders and live the lives, uh, and the experiences of those who came before us.

00:41:04.520 I dream of going up to her and sitting down next to her, taking her in my arms and saying,

00:41:13.540 look at me, listen to me. You will survive. You will have a good family of your own

00:41:21.820 and three children. And as hard as it might be to imagine, your daughter will grow up and become

00:41:30.320 the president of the United States. Oh, that's great. Yeah. I hadn't even

00:41:35.200 watched that entire clip cause I couldn't get through it. It was so cringe inducing.

00:41:40.640 That is, uh,

00:41:42.160 that's even better than her tweet that she sent out where she, uh, wished herself a happy birthday

00:41:48.300 to this future president. And that tweet lives in infamy. Uh, and she's roundly mocked for it, 0.90

00:41:55.460 but here, here she goes and does this as well. That's amazing. She cannot get over the fact

00:42:03.240 that she did not win. It has ruined her. But imagine being such a megalomaniac, such a narcissist

00:42:12.440 that your, your life is ruined by the fact that you're not the president, right? It's it's, 0.72

00:42:22.280 there's, there's only been a relative handful of presidents of American presidents that have

00:42:27.660 existed, you know, like the vast majority of Americans who ever lived vast, vast match,

00:42:31.980 like 99.99999, et cetera, 999% of all Americans have, have, they've, they've done many amazing

00:42:38.020 things, but they haven't been president. So if you're not the president, all that means is that

00:42:42.780 you're, you're just in that category with almost every other American who has ever lived.

00:42:46.580 And, uh, to be utterly devastated by that fact just shows what a narcissist she is. And she also

00:42:55.820 says, I thought I was curious. She says that she was standing on the shoulders of those who came

00:43:00.580 before her. Okay. I'm familiar with that phrase. Then she says, I lived the lives of those who came

00:43:05.700 before me. Is this some sort of Hindu reincarnation thing that she's doing? I don't quite understand.

00:43:11.160 All right. One other thing really quick. This is a pretty fascinating. We played for you yesterday,

00:43:16.180 a couple of days ago, the museum in DC that now offers an audio tour with a genderless voice.

00:43:22.980 So, uh, the genderless voice is a new thing and it's quickly become, it's quickly catching fire

00:43:27.720 and becoming pretty common. And now CNN has actually jumped on the bandwagon and they had a news report

00:43:33.400 yesterday, uh, delivered by a genderless voice. So let's play clip seven. Check this out.

00:43:38.940 You know, the biggest media story this weekend, it's the firing of Chris Cuomo from this network,

00:43:44.980 CNN. Now I've been working the phones ever since this was announced yesterday, uh, evening. Um,

00:43:50.640 frankly, I've been on the phone until the last five minutes here, getting information about what

00:43:54.400 happened. Wow. So lifelike yet. So neutered. That's all. That was the joke. And I, I guess I

00:44:03.220 totally stole that joke from somebody in the YouTube comments, by the way. So credit to the SBG

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00:45:22.380 Dex says, Hey Matt, actual Spanish speaker here. The guy who corrected you about bench is wrong.

00:45:27.960 Again, both El Banco and La Banca can both mean the bench or barstool or the financial institution.

00:45:35.560 So you're correct. All right. So I was still, I was right. Well, that's good to know, but now I'm even

00:45:41.160 more confused. So if you refer to El Banco in Spanish, the person you're talking to, they won't

00:45:48.220 know if you mean a bank, a barstool or a bench. I guess this is why I took three years of Spanish and

00:45:54.640 none of it. I mean, not one little bit of it actually seeped in, which is why, by the way,

00:46:00.760 teaching foreign languages in a, this is a separate subject, but teaching foreign languages in a public

00:46:04.740 school setting is a total waste of time. Okay. You're not going to teach someone. I know that

00:46:09.720 they do it to kind of check the box and the diversity box and everything, but nobody's going 0.98

00:46:14.560 to learn a foreign language by being exposed to it for 45 minutes at a time, like three days a week

00:46:20.400 for, you know, for, for a couple of years. If you're going to learn a language, you have to be

00:46:25.240 immersed in it really. And, uh, so there's just no point in doing it. LT says, what did you think

00:46:30.380 about Bobert, Congressman Bobert taking a Christmas picture with all of her kids holding guns? The

00:46:35.780 libs were hysterical. She goes to the Matt Walsh school of trolling apparently. And yeah, you can see 0.94

00:46:41.400 the picture there. Um, and she was, so that's the picture. All of her kids are holding guns.

00:46:47.320 The Boberts have your six, uh, representative Thomas Massey representative Massey was the first

00:46:52.080 one to take a picture where he was with his kids and his wife and they were all holding guns. And

00:46:55.360 they were, they were in front of a Christmas tree. It was like a Christmas, there was a Christmas card

00:46:58.360 picture. And, uh, and then the libs were pretty mad about that. And so then Bobert does her own 1.00

00:47:02.740 and the libs were mad about that one too. I might surprise you. I'm, I'm a little bit here

00:47:08.160 and, uh, I'm going to be a total lib about this. Not really, not that bad, but I will say that I'm not

00:47:14.940 very crazy about posing with guns for photos. Um, it's one thing if you're like doing something

00:47:21.960 with a gun and someone takes a picture of you, like you're out hunting or target practice or

00:47:26.060 something, but just posing with the gun for the picture, especially for the purpose of trolling

00:47:32.380 the libs. Now guns are great. Trolling the libs is great, obviously, but I don't like combining the

00:47:39.340 two, especially when kids are involved because it sends the message that the gun is a toy. And

00:47:45.480 it's a, I mean, it's what you're saying is that it's a prop because you're literally using it as

00:47:49.660 a prop. Um, and it's not that right. Guns are tools. That's what they are. They aren't anything

00:47:57.980 more or less than that. And I think that's the message that we should send when the libs are really

00:48:04.040 angry about guns. Our message should be, you're freaking out about a tool. That's all it is.

00:48:09.060 It has a certain purpose. Now, some people like to collect them. People like to collect tools.

00:48:13.660 That's fine. But if you saw someone, this is what I look at it. I look at it like this.

00:48:19.780 If you saw someone posing for a staged picture with a hammer, right? Because they wanted everyone

00:48:26.180 to think that they, you know, that they're construction worker and that they like to go out

00:48:30.100 back to the shed and build decks or whatever. Um, if you saw that you would think this person's kind

00:48:36.300 of a dork. And that's sort of how I feel about posing for pictures with your guns to impress people 0.90

00:48:42.820 or to show off or to upset people or whatever. Uh, it's a bit dorky and it also gives the wrong

00:48:49.060 impression about guns. I think, especially to kids. I think it's, there's nothing wrong at all

00:48:54.320 with exposing kids to gun or guns early on. I think you should because you're teaching them

00:48:59.280 how to be around guns. You're making it less mysterious. You know, if you have the gun in

00:49:04.860 your house and you treat it as this mysterious thing and you say, don't even, don't even look

00:49:09.720 at that item. Right. Which is what a lot of parents end up doing if they have guns, but 0.56

00:49:14.420 then you're just making it, you're keeping your kid in ignorance, first of all, about

00:49:18.920 the gun and they're not going to know how to use it or be safe around it, but you're just

00:49:22.080 making them more interested in it in the wrong kind of way. So to get rid of the mystery

00:49:28.360 and say, this is a gun. It's a tool. Uh, if you use it the right way, then it's perfectly

00:49:33.020 safe. If you don't really horrible things could happen. So I think that's a great thing

00:49:37.580 to teach kids, but when you have them posing for pictures and everything, then again, I

00:49:41.320 think it just kind of sends the message that this is a toy. This is a prop. And so I'm not,

00:49:45.280 not big into that. Um, social hazard says it seems when someone from the daily wire writes

00:49:51.980 a book, that's all they want to talk about. Michael Knowles didn't shut up about speechless.

00:49:55.940 And now Matt Walsh is doing the same. Well, yeah, this is like complaining that the only

00:50:00.740 thing Kellogg's wants to talk about is Kellogg's cereal. It's, you know, it's not the only thing

00:50:05.420 we talk about, but when you have a book, you have to market it. That's, it's a product that

00:50:08.860 you're marketing. So I'll let you behind the curtain a little bit. That's, that's what that's

00:50:13.360 all about. Although I do agree with you in general, that one of the unfortunate things

00:50:19.240 about releasing a book is that you have to talk about it all the time. And you do, you have

00:50:23.900 to, to let people know that it's out there and so that you'll sell the copies. Uh, your publisher

00:50:28.600 kind of requires that going into it, that you have to talk about it. But that's why I like Johnny

00:50:32.940 the Walrus because there's so much surrounding this book to talk about. And it's also funny

00:50:39.640 that actually it's been a joy to promote the book. And, uh, Patrick says, Matt, which food,

00:50:48.460 uh, would you be going, what would be worth going out at 2 a.m. during a, uh, polar vortex for mine

00:50:55.220 is White Castle. Yeah, definitely not subway like Jussie Smollett. I mean, it's, it's never worth

00:51:04.120 going into subway at any time of day, no matter the temperature. You're better off picking pieces

00:51:09.800 of a sandwich out of the garbage at like a firehouse sub or a Jersey Mike's or something

00:51:14.400 than going into subway. Um, I probably go out at 2 a.m. for five guys. I mean, the restaurant

00:51:21.740 Smollett might go out for five guys too, at 2 a.m. As the Biden administration continues to attempt to

00:51:27.720 force vaccine mandates on American citizens, it's more important than ever that we continue to fight

00:51:32.060 it. And so, so far, you know, the pushback has been working. Um, it's been successful. Not only has

00:51:37.440 the OSHA mandate received a nationwide stay this week, a federal court enjoined the Biden administration

00:51:43.400 from enforcing its federal contractor vaccine mandate as well. So this is where we're, we're

00:51:48.220 having real success with this fighting back against the Biden administration. It's all great news, but

00:51:53.020 it's, it's, uh, doesn't mean that we should take this and stop applying pressure and get apathetic.

00:51:57.420 We don't want to do that as the Biden administration itself is not backing down. Most recently, Biden

00:52:01.620 announced his winter COVID plan, which includes the extension of the federal mask mandate for public

00:52:06.740 transportation, as well as the consideration of requiring Americans to be fully vaccinated in order

00:52:11.380 to fly domestically, which means that if you want to visit your family for the holidays, you might

00:52:15.360 have to drive all across the country instead of taking a plane. That's what they want to do. And

00:52:19.020 that's why we have to continue to fight back. Um, but we need your help. If you haven't signed our

00:52:23.460 petition against Biden's vaccine mandate yet, I need you to head over to dailywire.com slash do not

00:52:27.900 comply to add your name. We have so far 750,000 signatures. We want to get to 1 million because that's

00:52:34.780 when you really make a statement. So go to dailywire.com slash do not comply. And if you haven't heard yet,

00:52:40.000 I am the top LGBT author in the world. Media Matters doesn't like it. I love it though. I think

00:52:45.440 it's great. Uh, I think everyone else can appreciate how wonderful that is. And if you want to be a

00:52:49.140 part of this LGBT, uh, literary sensation, if you want to have a copy for yourself, well, I don't have 0.88

00:52:55.520 a copy with me on the, somehow I don't have my Johnny the Walrus copy. I knew I was missing something

00:52:58.840 from the show. Um, but you can get your own copy at johnnythewalrus.com. Reserve your, your copy now of

00:53:05.440 this timely, important masterpiece, johnnythewalrus.com. Now let's get to our daily

00:53:10.660 cancellation. Today, we're going to cancel Prince Harry, who, uh, we really shouldn't be calling

00:53:19.040 Prince anymore, but I'm not sure how else to refer to him. It feels sort of weird to just say Harry.

00:53:23.340 So for lack of a better name, Prince Harry was interviewed by the website Fast Company, where

00:53:27.000 he delivered insights and advice on a number of topics, despite having no special insight into any

00:53:31.640 of them or any other topic. Most absurdly, he had a few tips for navigating the working world.

00:53:37.000 Now, this is strange coming from a man who has never had a job in his life. Uh, well, up until now, 0.96

00:53:41.620 I mean, that's not true anymore. He has a job now. He is a working man jumping in the pickup truck every

00:53:46.680 day, lunch, pail in hand, punching the clock over at the mental health company, better up where he is

00:53:52.300 a chief impact officer. Now I have no idea what a chief impact officer is. I assume it's the corporate

00:53:58.020 equivalent of being a figurehead in the Royal family. So Prince Harry is perfect for the job,

00:54:02.220 I suppose. Out of curiosity, I did look up the, uh, the title of chief impact officer on Google to see

00:54:07.440 what role a person in such a position fills in a company. And I found an explanation on a website

00:54:12.200 called Kindred. Apparently says this site, there are two positions that sometimes get confused.

00:54:18.140 There's chief impact officer and then chief purpose officer. Um, so we have one chief in charge of

00:54:26.180 impact and another one in charge of purpose. And here's what it says. Chief purpose officers and

00:54:31.340 chief impact officers have similar objectives to drive impact through organizations, mission,

00:54:36.560 vision, and values. However, there are key differences between the two roles that make

00:54:40.060 them distinct. Generally, CPOs operate on a micro scale internally, ensuring that a company's purpose

00:54:45.640 is embedded throughout its practices. On the other hand, CIOs tend to have an external focus around

00:54:51.440 the impact of the business's activities and how they align with the company's mission and values.

00:54:57.180 Okay. Well, that clears things up. Needless to say, chief impact officer, Prince Harry has a lot,

00:55:02.200 a lot of advice to offer folks in the working world. And his first piece of advice is that you

00:55:06.840 should quit. That's the advice reading from the interview. The question is COVID has accelerated

00:55:12.660 a lot of trends in the workplace, like increased burnout and job resignations. How have you adapted

00:55:17.460 your strategy to address these things? Here's the answer from Prince Harry. That's such a great

00:55:22.660 question because it brings us back to the thesis of better up and the work Alexi and Eddie and the

00:55:27.220 team have been doing for the past eight plus years before I arrived. And also my personal belief and

00:55:31.680 work in the mental fitness space. While on the surface, it looks like these last couple of years

00:55:36.280 brought all these issues to the foreground. The reality is that these struggles and issues have

00:55:40.060 been brewing for quite some time. We are just at the beginning of the mental health awakening.

00:55:45.000 This work has never been more important because people are finally paying attention. And a big component of this

00:55:49.540 mission is building awareness and continuing to pioneer the conversation. I've actually discovered

00:55:54.660 recently, courtesy of a chat with Better Up Science board member, Adam Grant, that a lot of the job

00:55:59.000 resignations you mentioned aren't all bad. In fact, it's a sign that with self-awareness comes the need

00:56:03.080 for change. Most people around the world have been stuck in jobs that didn't bring them joy. And now

00:56:07.700 they're putting their mental health and happiness first. This is something to be celebrated.

00:56:11.740 Now we're going to try our best to breeze past phrases like mental fitness space and pioneer

00:56:19.120 the conversation. The thing to focus on here is that Prince Harry is telling us to celebrate quitting.

00:56:24.740 And there's been a lot of that kind of thing in our culture recently. As you remember, the most heroic

00:56:27.760 and laudable performance at the Olympics, said the media, was Simone Biles when she quit on her team.

00:56:33.380 Because quitting is the new heroism. We used to think that it took courage and tenacity

00:56:37.860 tenacity to do things you don't want to do in order to achieve some greater goal.

00:56:43.680 Now we say that the real courage and tenacity is to throw up your hands and say,

00:56:46.700 never mind, this is too hard, I quit. Prince Harry says that it's good to quit your job in order to

00:56:52.280 put your mental health and happiness first. And that you should do this if your job doesn't bring 0.73

00:56:57.560 you joy, quote unquote. Now what he forgets to mention is that he was born rich and will be rich for

00:57:03.460 the rest of his life through no effort of his own. He could afford to wait until he was 37 to get his

00:57:09.200 first job, which isn't even a real job. But most people are not in that position. So as always,

00:57:15.260 the leftist ethic is not only wrong, but born from privilege. For most people, quitting your job

00:57:21.840 will leave you unemployed and poor, which is certainly not the path to mental health and happiness.

00:57:28.100 The unemployed are not traditionally seen as a community which best exemplifies mental health

00:57:32.560 and well-being. Now if you can leave your job for a new one, a better one, that's great.

00:57:38.160 But then we're talking about changing jobs, not simply quitting jobs. What you cannot do in spite

00:57:44.340 of Prince Harry's suggestions, or should not do, is leave your job because it doesn't make you happy

00:57:49.980 and then wait around on the unemployment line until a happier job comes along. This is an especially bad

00:57:55.800 idea because it's very unlikely that you'll ever find any job that makes you happy and brings you joy.

00:58:00.520 And that's not to say that your job ought to make you miserable or that you ought to stick with a

00:58:05.720 job that you hate indefinitely. By all means, look for another job while you currently still have

00:58:10.760 the one you hate and then make the switch once the new job is secured. But for a lot of miserable

00:58:15.480 people in the workforce, the problem is that they're expecting something from a job that a job

00:58:20.120 can't provide them. Joy is found in that which most deeply fulfills you, completes you, as Jerry

00:58:26.360 Maguire would say. Joy is found in your faith, your family, your passions. Now a very small group of

00:58:32.100 people on earth might make a living doing the thing that they're absolutely the most passionate about.

00:58:37.640 Most people do jobs that pay the bills. And a job that, you know, they can feel like they contribute

00:58:43.040 something worthwhile and where there's career advancement and financial stability and so on.

00:58:49.460 Prince Harry looks down on that from a position of privilege. He says, no, if you aren't deeply on

00:58:54.820 fire with passion about your job, just quit. As a multimillionaire born with a silver spoon and a

00:59:00.780 literal royal crown on his head, that's a strategy that he's able to pursue. But most people can't.

00:59:06.500 And in fact, there's something quite admirable, I think, and dignified and good about people who work

00:59:12.140 jobs that they maybe don't love. And yet they do it in order to fulfill their responsibilities and to

00:59:17.140 care for their families and so on. For them, the job is an act of love for those who depend on them.

00:59:23.000 And they do find joy there, not so much in the job itself, perhaps, but in the reason for the job.

00:59:28.680 You know, I think about the guys who collect the garbage in my neighborhood, especially in the

00:59:32.480 summer in the South when it's 95 degrees with humidity of 145% and all the trash is putrid and

00:59:38.040 covered in maggots. And they have to come to my house where we've got dirty diapers in the trash 0.92

00:59:42.060 that have been stewing there for six days. Does that bring them joy? Is the job itself a cause of joy

00:59:49.820 or happiness? Would Prince Harry approve? Now, I don't know for sure. I'm not inside their heads, of course,

00:59:55.800 but I'm going to guess it's not. I'm going to guess the act of cleaning up garbage does not in itself

01:00:02.320 bring joy. Does that mean that those guys aren't happy or joyful? No, certainly not. In fact, from the

01:00:08.120 outside anyway, they appear to be very cheerful, more cheerful than me in the morning when I'm on

01:00:12.120 my way to a job in a climate-controlled environment where I sit here in my comfortable chair, which a

01:00:16.200 sponsor pays me to sit in. They're more cheerful probably because they know something about

01:00:21.360 happiness that Prince Harry does not know, and I struggle to keep in mind half the time. And that

01:00:25.880 is that happiness is so often a matter of what you choose to pay attention to, where you choose to set

01:00:31.240 your focus. You can be miserable in the greatest job in the world or doing the most fun thing or even

01:00:37.740 around your loving and beautiful family if you choose to pay attention to the aspects of those

01:00:42.180 experiences that you don't like. Happy people are mentally disciplined. They know how to control their

01:00:48.920 emotional attention. And here's the other secret of happiness that you'd hope the chief of happiness at a

01:00:55.520 mental health company would know, but he doesn't. The worst thing you can do if you want to be happy

01:01:00.480 is actively try to be happy. If you're pursuing happiness for its own sake, you're not going to find

01:01:06.600 it. If you're looking simply for a job that makes you happy, you will never find it. You have to shoot

01:01:13.380 for things beyond that, things perhaps more solid, more firm, and then you'll find happiness in the

01:01:18.080 bargain. See, all parents know that family vacations, for example, especially with young children,

01:01:23.080 are very stressful. And there tends to be a lot of unhappiness involved in them, ironically.

01:01:29.260 And the reason is that it's a big elaborate thing that you're doing with the express purpose of being

01:01:35.040 happy. So you're saying, okay, from this day to this day, we're going to spend X amount of money from

01:01:39.380 our vacation budget to be happy. And then things don't go exactly as you plan and you aren't as happy

01:01:44.920 as you wanted. And then you become even less happy because you're mad that you aren't happy.

01:01:48.420 And this is a microcosm of life. The happiness moments you have as a family are the times when

01:01:53.900 you're not all trying desperately to be happy. You're just being together for the sake of being

01:01:59.140 together. And then you find, well, look at that. We're happy. I think the same holds true on an

01:02:03.660 individual basis. It's true at your job. You can even find happiness while cleaning up trash,

01:02:08.340 maybe not because of the trash, but alongside it. Happiness can be found in many unexpected places.

01:02:14.480 You just have to stop expecting it. And as for your job, try to find something that will allow

01:02:19.200 you to care for yourself and your family, where you can utilize your skills, where you can have

01:02:24.300 some financial stability, hopefully contribute something to the world. And if you find that

01:02:29.620 and you focus on the right things, you'll probably find happiness as long as you aren't looking too

01:02:35.860 hard for it. And those are all the reasons why who's canceled. Oh yeah. Prince Harry is canceled

01:02:42.300 today. And that'll do it for us. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.

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The Matt Walsh Show - December 09, 2021

Ep. 854 - COVID Lockdowns Destroyed Our Kids. Here's The Proof.

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