The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 893 - Male Athlete Heroically Dominates Female Swimming Championship

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, after a year of controversy, Leah Thomas, the trans swimmer,

00:00:03.820 finally went to the swimming championships this week and dominated the field, as expected.

00:00:07.960 The media and the left have been kind of twisting themselves into knots to justify this insanity.

00:00:12.360 We'll talk about it today. Also, Democrats in California introduce a dog and cat's bill of

00:00:17.160 rights piece of legislation. You know, I've got to love that. And a parent at a school board meeting

00:00:21.900 delivers probably the best smackdown of CRT we've heard yet. We'll play that for you. Plus,

00:00:25.740 BLM crowdfunds bail for an attempted assassin while the people who donated to the Canadian 0.91

00:00:31.080 truckers are hunted down, doxxed and shamed. And our daily cancellation, we'll take a look at the

00:00:35.520 New York Times article, which hails our age of anti-ambition. Is anti-ambition a good thing?

00:00:42.600 Talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:01.640 so they know that we sent you. The Ivy League Women's Swimming Championships were held this week. This is

00:02:07.240 not the sort of event that would normally attract much attention, especially from me, except that

00:02:11.340 it was the culmination of a year's worth of controversy surrounding, quote unquote, transgender

00:02:16.380 swimmer Leah Thomas, a male who says that he's a woman. Leah Thomas, as you're probably familiar with

00:02:21.760 by now, was a man his whole life and for the first three years of his college swimming career,

00:02:27.700 and still is one actually. But during that time, as a college male swimmer named William,

00:02:33.160 he ranked somewhere in the mid 400s. So as an athlete, he could be most generously described as

00:02:40.380 mediocre. But then through some miracle of science, wonder of wonders, William realized that he is

00:02:47.500 actually a woman. What does that mean? And what way is he a woman? How could he be a woman? What is a 0.94

00:02:53.520 woman? None of these questions, especially the last one famously, have been answered. All we know,

00:02:57.540 or all that we are supposed to believe and accept anyway, is that the spiritual woman who had been

00:03:03.360 mystically trapped inside William's male exterior, his male shell, finally broke to the surface,

00:03:09.680 which entitled him to swim against the women, where he instantly went from 400th to first,

00:03:15.880 which brings us to this week and the swimming championships. Now, there were in fact two trans

00:03:20.780 swimmers on the docket. The other is Yale swimmer Isaac Hennig, who is a female who identifies as

00:03:28.060 male. Now, Isaac won the championship in the 500-yard freestyle last night. That, again, is the female 1.00

00:03:34.280 identifying as a male. You might ask, hold on a second, if we're supposed to take a person's self-identity

00:03:40.580 at face value and put them in the league that's in accordance with that self-identity,

00:03:44.680 then why would a trans man, quote unquote, still be allowed to compete against women? 0.55

00:03:50.680 If Leah Thomas is a girl because he says he's a girl, then isn't Isaac a boy because he says he's

00:03:55.800 a boy? Or isn't Isaac a boy because she says she's a boy? I get confused. Meaning that by the very logic

00:04:01.900 of the trans side, she should be barred from competing against women. I mean, if we're adopting 1.00

00:04:07.740 their logic by their logic, sure, Leah Thomas is allowed in because he says he's a woman. But Isaac says

00:04:14.380 she's a boy, so then she shouldn't be allowed by their logic. Well, the answer is no, because there

00:04:19.840 is no logic on the trans side. The only logic, if we can call it logic, is that the people in that 1.00

00:04:26.160 protected class should be allowed to do literally anything they want all the time, no questions asked.

00:04:32.640 And that brings us back to Leah Thomas, who dominated the 500-yard freestyle on Thursday night,

00:04:36.980 easily beating all the real women in the field and setting a pool record at the same time. 0.99

00:04:41.000 If you're wondering what that looked and sounded like, well, here you go.

00:04:47.280 Thomas heads in for the final turn. It's going to be a race for second place. It might be

00:04:53.260 Penn going 1-2 with Barroker making the turn currently in second place. And over the last

00:04:59.040 half of the pool, nobody will touch Leah Thomas, who will finish at 4-37-32. Leah Thomas, 1.00

00:05:06.200 Ivy League champion in the 500-free, second place to Catherine Barroker.

00:05:12.780 By the way, he beat second place by, it's like eight seconds, I think. You know, seven or eight

00:05:17.560 seconds. And the argument that I've heard from the left on social media and, you know, the trans

00:05:24.040 activists is they're pointing out that, yeah, but he, or she, as they would call, he didn't set a world

00:05:32.160 record. So clearly it's still fair. Yeah, he set a pool record. So he's the fastest, he was the fastest

00:05:38.720 quote woman to ever compete in that pool and dominated the competition and beat, you know, 1.00

00:05:43.160 second place by, by seven or eight seconds, but it's not a world record. And so therefore it was

00:05:48.420 still fair. But as far as it goes, Thomas finishes first, Catherine Barroker finishes second. So

00:05:55.440 congratulations to Catherine Barroker for finishing first. I mean, she was the fastest woman in the pool, 0.98

00:06:00.520 despite what the silver medal may imply, though all of the medals awarded to everybody involved in

00:06:05.460 this farce are essentially worthless, especially Thomas's. You know, my daughter made herself an

00:06:10.500 Olympic medal out of aluminum foil, and it has more value and meaning than any medal or trophy

00:06:15.800 Thomas wins. And unfortunately there's a trickle down effect. His participation renders the entire

00:06:21.280 event pointless and absurd, delegitimizing everybody involved and undoing everything that everybody

00:06:27.720 achieves. The whole thing is a blatant, totally unjustifiable charade. Women's sports have been 1.00

00:06:33.920 turned into some kind of strange burlesque performance, a parody of itself. And the left

00:06:39.000 has tried its best to legitimize it, but the task is impossible. Yesterday, the New York Times ran an

00:06:44.360 article titled, Trans Swimmer Revives an Old Debate in Elite Sports. What Defines a Woman?

00:06:51.740 Yes, well, I know someone who's been asking that same question, though it is, it's not a question

00:06:56.000 that was ever asked in sports up until now. This is not an age-old debate in sports. What is a woman 1.00

00:07:01.680 anyway? No, it's a debate that we've had for the last five seconds of human history. Because in fact,

00:07:09.660 the whole attraction of sports, its value, its purpose, its meaning, is derived from the fact that

00:07:15.440 it's a raw physical competition between individuals or groups where nothing matters but your skill and

00:07:22.540 strength and strategy. The left seeks to make this realm of refreshing clarity ambiguous because

00:07:29.360 that's what they do everywhere and with everything. They make it all ambiguous. Now, the article makes

00:07:34.420 the case that the debate over William Thomas is no different from debates that have raged in the past.

00:07:40.600 Quoting out, it says, these thorny questions over the nature of athleticism are not new in women's

00:07:45.500 sports. They've come up many times over the past century, typically when an athlete deemed too

00:07:50.040 masculine started to win. Sports authorities have leaned on medical tests, whether anatomical,

00:07:56.640 chromosomal, or hormonal, to determine eligibility in women's categories, while requiring no analogous 0.90

00:08:02.280 tests for men. But in the realm of elite physical performance, where extraordinary biology is the

00:08:07.340 rule, science has never provided neat answers. Quote, in the end, it's about how we think about who is a

00:08:13.800 woman, right? Said Katrina Karkazi, an anthropologist at Amherst College and co-author of Testosterone,

00:08:20.100 an unauthorized biography. She continues, and of course, sport has for a very long period not been

00:08:25.740 at the forefront of gender equality and inclusion. So it's no wonder that we're having this kind of

00:08:30.480 debate. Now, the article goes on for a while, twisting and torturing itself to try to find some way to

00:08:36.360 justify biological males competing against women. Ultimately, it cannot be directly justified,

00:08:41.920 even by a New York Times writer. So instead, they fall back on ambiguity, as always. And it finishes

00:08:47.720 with this. Still, because of development during puberty, transgender athletes may have some lasting

00:08:54.120 physical advantages in a sport like swimming. May have, they say, such as a taller height and larger

00:09:00.080 hands and feet. Coming up with a policy for sex-segregated sports, therefore, requires making a choice.

00:09:06.040 Either exclude these athletes or allow them to compete with potential advantages, says Jacob Vingren,

00:09:10.580 an exercise physiologist at the University of North Texas. There's no good answer, Vingren said.

00:09:16.340 Someone is disadvantaged, one way or another. But, you know, there is a good answer, and a simple one.

00:09:23.280 Males compete against males. Females compete against females. If a few of the males would really prefer 0.92

00:09:28.660 to compete against females, for whatever reason, and if that preference, when frustrated, causes them

00:09:34.660 emotional discomfort, that's too bad for them. I'm sorry for them. But it doesn't really create any

00:09:40.900 complications. Because the point of sports is not to make everyone feel happy and included.

00:09:48.780 That's actually close to the opposite of its purpose, in fact. The point of any sport, once the

00:09:54.240 competitors or teams take the field or the court or the pool, is to find out who is the best on that day.

00:10:00.100 Which means that, ultimately, you're excluding everybody who is not the best. Not everyone can

00:10:05.080 be the best. But in order for that process itself to have any meaning, everyone has to begin on an

00:10:11.240 essentially level playing field. All that means is that, you know, we don't have high school seniors

00:10:17.260 competing against middle schoolers. We don't have pro athletes competing against college athletes.

00:10:21.800 Well, I mean, you know, actually, high school athletes have competed against pro athletes

00:10:27.300 when it was the men competing against female soccer players, and they beat them. But, you know,

00:10:32.060 the other way, we don't do it. And we don't have men competing against women, usually. 1.00

00:10:37.320 If those basic walls of segregation are not put in place, then the result is a game, but not really a

00:10:42.940 sport. You know, I'll go outside to my driveway, and I'll play basketball against my kids.

00:10:48.660 But I can't derive any real meaning out of the fact that I win. And I do always win,

00:10:54.220 because I never let them win. No one's going to give me a trophy for being undefeated against

00:10:58.580 eight-year-olds in one-on-one basketball. I'd take that trophy if someone gave it to me,

00:11:02.820 because it'd be hilarious, but no one is offering it. And at best, that's all that this is, right?

00:11:08.220 With males competing against females, it's, at best, a hilarious spectacle. That's the silver lining. 1.00

00:11:14.620 Now, it's also sickening and infuriating, but I lack the energy to be too upset about it, because,

00:11:21.120 you know, I have come to see it as a victimless crime, or at least a crime where the victims have

00:11:27.080 volunteered, willingly submitted themselves to be victimized. We live in a culture absolutely

00:11:35.240 infected with cowardice. It's what most defines our age, I think. And only in an age of terminal

00:11:41.400 cowardice, could something like this happen? Something that we all recognize as wrong and

00:11:47.020 ridiculous, but which few have the courage to call as such. And so men intrude into women's sports, 0.63

00:11:53.040 and few of the women fight back. A few of them. You know, there's a few women who fight back, 1.00

00:11:58.200 and then there are some others who complain anonymously, as William Thomas' teammates have

00:12:03.480 been. They've been going to outlets and complaining about it, you know, not putting their name on the

00:12:09.540 complaint. But then most just go along with it, grumbling to themselves, perhaps, but choosing

00:12:15.840 to participate in the travesty, thereby validating it and allowing it to continue. If you listen to

00:12:22.220 that clip again, you listen to the audience. The audience even applauds Thomas as he wins.

00:12:30.240 None of them are actually happy to see a man beat a bunch of women. All of them know, 0.51

00:12:34.400 all of them know that it's stupid and wrong and bad, what's going on. But they lack even the courage 1.00

00:12:40.460 to refrain from clapping their hands like gutless seals. Even that they can't do. To just sit on

00:12:46.940 their hands and not clap. They can't do that. So female sports will collapse because the females 1.00

00:12:55.040 in these sports lack the courage to defend it and to defend themselves. It's the same story replayed over

00:13:02.660 and over again. Bad people do bad things while the good people prove they're not so good by allowing

00:13:08.820 the bad people to do as they wish. So there are, in the end, very few victims in this story, but there

00:13:15.160 is a primary villain. And now he's taken home the gold. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:15:35.200 slash watch. I want to revisit this story to make an important connection here. The Courier

00:15:40.520 Journal. We talked yesterday about Quintez Brown, the Louisville BLM activist who tried to kill a mayor

00:15:45.320 this weekend. And they were planning on, BLM was planning on trying to bail him out. And now

00:15:51.780 they've succeeded in doing so. So going back to the story, it says, Quintez Brown, the Louisville

00:15:56.000 activist accused of trying to murder mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg has been released

00:15:59.620 on bail from the county jail. So he was freed around 7.30 p.m. Wednesday after the money was put

00:16:06.780 forward by the Louisville Community Bail Fund, which is a local group that raises money to free

00:16:11.640 defendants in criminal cases and connect them with pretrial support resources. So this was

00:16:15.840 a crowdfunded bail. And just, we have to keep emphasizing this. Quintez Brown walked into a

00:16:25.480 guy's office on Sunday and tried to kill him with a gun. And by Wednesday night, he's back in his own

00:16:34.500 house or his mom's house or wherever he sleeps. His bond had been set at $100,000 Tuesday morning by

00:16:40.940 Judge Annette Karam, which was raised at the request of the Jefferson County Attorney's Office

00:16:45.720 after that figure, was initially recommended $75,000. So they tried to give him a bail under

00:16:51.820 $100,000 and they at least got it to $100,000 from $75,000. But Brown will be subject to home

00:16:58.680 incarceration. He'll have house arrest anyway. Maybe BLM will complain about that and they'll say

00:17:04.640 that that's, no, he should be allowed to go, he should be able to go on a vacation to Paris if he wants

00:17:09.000 to. So this was a crowdfunded bail for an attempted assassin, which BLM got together,

00:17:18.260 fundraised, and they provided it. Meanwhile, people who tried to donate to the Canadian truckers,

00:17:26.380 peaceful protesters, when they tried to do that, the website that was taking those donations was

00:17:34.500 shut down and hacked. Information about the donors was leaked to the public. And American media has

00:17:40.680 participated in doxing these small donors. Let's put up this from libs of TikTok. They've got

00:17:45.240 some examples of what the media is doing. This is happening. This is not just one. This is one

00:17:52.500 example we'll give you, but this is pretty widespread in the media right now. It says,

00:17:56.640 the Salt Lake Tribune is now using the Give, Send, Go hack data to reach out to donors who gave as

00:18:01.420 little as $50. This is harassment. This is not journalism. And then we have, do we have the

00:18:06.760 actual screenshot? A reporter who reached out to one of these guys who donated 50 bucks says,

00:18:13.940 I'm a reporter with the Salt Lake Tribune. Your name and email address appeared in leaked data from

00:18:18.640 Give, Send, Go contributions to the Canadian trucker convoy. Your name, your name appeared to be

00:18:23.540 associated with a $50 donation. Can you email or call me to confirm this matches your records?

00:18:31.100 Why did you decide to donate to the campaign? But here's a good response. None of your damn

00:18:37.260 business why I donated to it. These are just normal people giving $40, $50 to peaceful protesters in 0.98

00:18:47.220 Canada. And they're being doxed by the corporate media. Compare again. Do you think anyone, are they

00:18:54.740 going to be chasing down the people who donated to the bail fund for an attempted assassin, a BLM 0.92

00:19:01.060 assassin who went in and tried to shoot a Jewish guy? Are we going to get any doxing of that,

00:19:07.820 of those people? Probably not. But what we can do, and I'm glad that this email was put out there

00:19:15.840 with the guy's, um, Brian Scott's the guy's name, apparently, uh, Salt Lake Tribune. So we got his

00:19:22.600 name. I wish that his email address was out there as well, because I'll tell you the only way that

00:19:27.460 this stops with the corporate media doxing and harassing regular law abiding people who've done

00:19:34.800 nothing wrong whatsoever. The only way it stops is if the journalists who engage in this behavior are

00:19:41.520 doxed themselves. I mean, their email addresses, their phone numbers, their home addresses, everything

00:19:47.200 put out there. And they would deserve it because this is the environment that they've created. And

00:19:53.980 it's the only way this stops. Not just, not just giving screenshots of emails. That's a good first

00:20:00.600 step, but all their other information too, because these are parasites. I mean, this, this is scum of the 1.00

00:20:09.820 earth we're talking about. Enemy, enemy of the people. Trump was ahead of his time in that, in that 1.00

00:20:13.860 label. Um, there were a lot of people when Trump first started calling the media, the enemy of the

00:20:21.060 people, there were even a lot of people on the right who said, I don't know, it's a little bit

00:20:24.900 overboard. Well, that's quite literally the enemy of the people. They are going after the people, just

00:20:32.520 normal people and trying to destroy their lives. Why? No reason. Just, well, because they don't agree

00:20:38.900 because they have the wrong opinions about things. So we're going to destroy their life. 0.94

00:20:44.820 Now this, this question of, uh, whether or not the journalists who do this should, whether we

00:20:50.700 should be sort of fighting fire with fire. You know, there's some on the right to say that's not

00:20:54.760 the right approach. In fact, someone emailed me yesterday. I have the email right here. It says,

00:20:58.380 Matt, what do you think about the conservatives saying that we should dox the journalists who dox the

00:21:02.200 truck trucker donors? Isn't that repaying evil with evil, which the Bible forbids?

00:21:06.520 Well, here's the point that I want to make. It's not okay. It's fighting fire with fire.

00:21:13.100 It's kind of a war of attrition, um, mutually assured destruction. It is that,

00:21:19.100 you know, that's, that's also why I would say people who participate in cancel culture

00:21:25.060 deserve to be canceled. People who went after Joe Rogan for saying naughty words and then others

00:21:31.640 went and dug through their tweets and found, Oh, you use the same naughty words. They deserve that.

00:21:36.260 Joe Rogan didn't, but they do. And that's the only way the cancel culture stops. Mutually assured

00:21:41.620 destruction. If you, if you take part in this, it's going to turn around on you eventually,

00:21:45.600 right? You launch your nuke. The other country is going to launch theirs and now everybody's dead.

00:21:52.340 But it's not evil with evil because only one party is evil here. It's not inherently evil to

00:21:59.920 dox someone. It's not like that's an inherently evil act. Now it's, it is never acceptable to engage

00:22:05.280 in an inherently evil activity, even if you have good intentions, because that's ends justify the

00:22:11.200 means. And that's, that's morally wrong, but doxing someone is not inherently evil. I mean,

00:22:16.920 there's nothing inherently evil about putting someone's information out there necessarily.

00:22:20.400 Is it inherently evil to put a child rapist on a registry? That's certainly a form of doxing.

00:22:29.200 So you, but I think we'd all agree that it's not. So your motive and reason matter.

00:22:35.760 It's evil to dox someone who gives $40 to a crowdfunding campaign for peaceful protesters.

00:22:41.140 That's evil because they've done nothing wrong and they don't deserve that treatment.

00:22:45.960 There's no benefit. There's no good to come of doing this to them.

00:22:53.740 Doxing journalists who behave this way is different because they have done evil. They

00:22:57.860 are evil and they have to pay for it in order to stop this in the future. It's justice for them. Number

00:23:04.820 one, but also it's the only thing that would, that has any hope of putting an end to this whole

00:23:11.320 vicious cycle. All right. Um, okay. I want to pull this up. Here's the latest

00:23:18.200 from, uh, uh, the latest from Gallup. It says the percentage of us adults who self-identify as

00:23:27.400 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or something other than heterosexual has increased to a new high

00:23:31.760 of 7%, which is double the percentage from 2012 when Gallup first measured it. Um, Gallup asks

00:23:39.100 Americans, whether they personally identify straight or heterosexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual,

00:23:42.540 transgender, as part of the demographic information it collects on all U S telephone

00:23:46.100 surveys. Um, I still, every time I read this, one of these surveys, I always ask the question,

00:23:52.480 who, who exactly is stopping to talk to these people? I've never answered a single survey in

00:23:57.360 my entire life. And if I was going to answer one, it wouldn't be about some stranger calling

00:24:03.360 me and asking me why sexual orientation is. How do you not immediately hang up the phone?

00:24:08.640 Excuse me, uh, sorry. I'm with Gallup. I'm just wondering, uh, who are you sexually attracted to?

00:24:12.700 Men or women? What? Leave me alone. I'm eating dinner. You freak. But there are people who stop 1.00

00:24:19.480 and say, well, let's, let's sit down and talk about it. Uh, in fact, I'm usually attracted to like,

00:24:23.320 what, who's doing this? But some people do. And, um, it says respondents can also volunteer any

00:24:27.880 other sexual orientation or gender identity they prefer. So they, so they could also, you know,

00:24:32.460 that you can answer the questions. And if you have any other information about your sex life

00:24:35.480 that you want to give to a stranger on the phone, he's more than willing to listen to it. And a lot

00:24:39.540 of people will volunteer that. Um, in addition to the 7.1% of U S adults who consider themselves to

00:24:44.900 be an LGBT identity, 86.3% say they're straight or heterosexual and 6.6, uh, do not offer an opinion.

00:24:52.840 The results are based on aggregated 2021 data, um, encompassing, uh, 12,000 U S adults. So

00:25:00.640 that's the overall number. There's been a doubling of LGBT identity, uh, for the overall population

00:25:10.460 since 2012, which is significant. It's, it's more than significant. This is, um, you're talking

00:25:17.560 about an astronomical rise in the general population, but then when you get a little

00:25:22.820 more specific and you look at this from a generational perspective, that's when you really

00:25:27.380 see what's happening. So, uh, breaking it down the Gallup poll, um, yeah, generation, Gen Z,

00:25:36.720 millennials, generation X, baby boomers, and I guess what they're calling traditionalists

00:25:41.300 who were people born before 1946 are traditionalists. So as of 2021, let's look at this data.

00:25:48.620 The number who, the numbers who identify as LGBT for traditionalists born before 1946,

00:25:54.800 it's 0.8% identifies LGBT, not even 1%. And this actually undersells it because if we were

00:26:03.560 doing Gallup polls, you know, going back all through history, we could pretty much guarantee

00:26:09.200 that it's going to be around 0.8%. If you, if there was some way to conduct a seance and,

00:26:14.980 um, do a survey of people born in 1846, you're going to find a 0.8% or probably a lot lower

00:26:22.480 than that, actually. Then you get up to baby boomers and they're saying, and 2.6% identify

00:26:28.360 as a LGBT. Then you get up to Generation X and it's 4.2%. And then to millennials, my generation,

00:26:36.520 we're at 10.5%. Already that is 10 times higher than our grandparents. Now Generation Z, 20.8%

00:26:48.960 identify as LGBT. Nearly 21%, a 20 times increase over their grandparents or great-grandparents

00:26:57.640 generation. Identifying as LGBT. And while this is happening, it is still considered a conspiracy

00:27:08.280 theory, a wild and offensive conspiracy theory to, to suggest that there is any kind of intentional

00:27:16.280 effort going on to recruit younger kids into the LGBT camp. You're still not allowed to say that.

00:27:23.720 Even after a 20-fold increase in a matter of a few years, still, most people that you talk to will

00:27:31.260 say, oh, no, there's not, this isn't intentional. This is just a, it's a coincidence.

00:27:37.500 Now the, the, uh, clips that we played for you yesterday at the educational conference for

00:27:44.320 private schools, and they're talking about the, the sex ed curriculum for preschoolers,

00:27:49.680 introducing queer inclusion for four-year-olds.

00:27:56.640 This is exactly the result that is intended. It's to get to them young and to recruit them early.

00:28:04.140 And it is working.

00:28:07.380 As I've said before, this is the, uh, most effective recruit, the LGBT, um, LGBT activists are conducting

00:28:15.740 the most effective recruitment drive in American history. I don't think, I don't think any other

00:28:20.660 group, organization, institution has ever accomplished anything like this.

00:28:28.460 And it's kind of easy, you know, when you're, first of all, you're doing this in the midst of

00:28:32.160 total civilizational decay and collapse. And also you're getting to the kids when they're four years

00:28:36.160 old and they have absolutely no psychological defenses whatsoever. All right, let's go to, uh,

00:28:41.600 this from the daily wire. It says earlier this month, a democratic lawmaker in California

00:28:47.080 introduced a bill of rights for dogs and cats. The proposal states that it would enact the dog

00:28:53.280 and cat bill of rights and would require every public animal control agency or shelter society

00:28:58.280 for the prevention of cruelty to animals, to animals, uh, shelters and human society shelter

00:29:03.500 or rescue group to post a copy of the dog and cat bill of rights. The bill would impose a civil

00:29:09.580 penalty for failure to post the dog and cat bill of rights as specified. The bill would make

00:29:14.400 legislative findings and declarations in support of the dog and cat bill of rights by imposing new

00:29:20.200 duties on local public officials. The bill would create a state mandated local program. The act

00:29:25.220 continues dogs and cats have the right to be respected as sentient beings that experience complex

00:29:31.380 feelings that are common among living animals while being unique to each individual animal.

00:29:36.180 And if you're wondering what exactly are the rights of dogs and cats, according to this legislation

00:29:41.480 in California, well, let's take a look. Um, they, they have listed, uh, looks like, you know,

00:29:47.660 five or six rights that they're, they are enumerating for dogs and cats. Number one, dogs and cats have

00:29:53.920 the right to be free from exploitation, cruelty, neglect, and abuse. Two dogs and cats have the right

00:30:00.140 to a life of comfort free of fear and anxiety. So anytime a dog experiences fear, his rights are being

00:30:09.380 infringed upon. By the way, are we including just domesticated, uh, dogs and cats in this? Are they the

00:30:18.320 only ones who have these rights? Like, uh, wolves and tigers and so on? Are they included in the bill

00:30:25.700 of rights? I mean, lions out on the Serengeti there, I imagine they experienced, it's not exactly

00:30:34.120 the most comfortable life. So are their rights being infringed upon? Do we need these animal rights

00:30:40.960 activists? Do they got to go and find all those lions and, uh, round them up and bring them into

00:30:45.640 their homes? Because I'll tell you something, I would not oppose a program like that. If you believe

00:30:53.340 in the dog and cat's bill of rights, in fact, I would, I would actually suggest that this should

00:30:57.140 be maybe put in the legislation. If you believe in the dog and cat's bill of rights, um, you should

00:31:01.840 be required to adopt a, you know, a lion or a tiger in your home. Don't put it in a cage or anything.

00:31:09.220 It's just equal to you. Um, dog and cats have the right to daily mental stimulation and appropriate

00:31:17.160 exercise. Dogs and cats have the right to nutritious food, sanitary water, and shelter in an

00:31:23.020 appropriate and safe environment. Once again, all those lions and tigers, they don't have any

00:31:28.700 shelter whatsoever. I'd do something about that. Dogs and cats have the right to preventative and

00:31:33.400 therapeutic health care. Dogs and cats have the right to be properly identified through tags,

00:31:38.920 microchips, or other humane means. Dogs and cats have the right to be spayed and neutered to prevent

00:31:44.220 unwanted litters. How do you throw that in at the end? Dogs and cats have the right to be, 0.99

00:31:49.380 uh, to population control. Dogs and cats have the right to be castrated. How do you throw that in 1.00

00:31:56.520 after all the stuff about they have a right to, to, to, uh, you know, to a life free of fear and

00:32:01.240 anxiety? Well, I don't know about you, but the idea of, of, you know, being anesthetized at the,

00:32:07.540 at the, at the vet and then castrated, like that, that would give me a lot of fear and anxiety.

00:32:11.780 Um, so there's, those are all the rights and it raises a whole lot of questions. Uh, first of all,

00:32:18.740 how do you, how, again, how do you only target domesticated, uh, domestic dogs and cats and

00:32:24.860 something like this? And, and also if we're saying they have the right to be properly identified,

00:32:30.960 I thought where they were going with that is, uh, they also have the right to, you know,

00:32:34.520 to, to having their personal pronouns respected. I don't know how you don't add that into the bill.

00:32:38.700 And third thing, why only dogs and cats putting aside the domestic versus wild problem?

00:32:46.800 Why only them? There are a lot of other animals out there.

00:32:51.340 Why have we decided that dogs and cats are special? Well, I'll tell you why.

00:32:56.420 And this is the flaw in all the animal rights thinking and all the stuff about how the animals

00:33:00.800 are equal to all of us. Nobody really thinks that nobody lives that way, you know, because I don't

00:33:07.700 care. You, you take the most devoted animal rights activists in the world. And if they

00:33:12.600 have a roof, a roast, uh, roach, there's what I'm going for. If they have a cockroach infestation

00:33:18.760 in their house, which many of them do because these are dirty people, most of them, animal

00:33:24.100 rights activists, uh, all of them are calling the exterminator. There has never been an animal

00:33:30.180 rights activist who had a roach infestation in their house and said, you know what? They have 0.96

00:33:33.680 a right to be here just as much as I do while the roaches are crawling all over them at night. And

00:33:38.280 like, you know, you know, crawling into the refrigerator and their food and everything

00:33:44.980 defecating on their silverware. So no, we, all of our focus is on the animals that we find to be

00:33:54.040 the cutest and that we like having around. And so while they pretend that this is about respecting

00:34:01.260 the animals and it's about equality of animals, it's actually the opposite of that. It's a very

00:34:05.140 narcissistic, self-centered view of the world where the animals that you personally like the most

00:34:13.460 and that you think are cute and you want to be able to cuddle with them, the most cuddly animals

00:34:18.860 to you are the ones that also have rights equal to your own. So it all comes back to you, doesn't

00:34:24.820 damn narcissist. All right. Um, what else do we have here? Okay. I wanted to play this for you. 0.99

00:34:32.200 We've got, um, a couple of school board highlights actually. Here's a parent. I don't know if we'll

00:34:38.680 play this, the whole thing here, but he's, he's speaking out against CRT. This is a black parent 0.92

00:34:43.100 we'll mention and at his school board. And here's what he has to say about critical race. Let's play

00:34:48.700 the non-discrimination resolution, the CRT deal, because it's, it's happening. And as a parent,

00:34:55.720 I speak to other parents. There's a few things that we don't want. I'm biracial, I'm bilingual,

00:35:01.240 I'm multicultural. The fact is in America, in North Carolina, I can do anything I want. And I teach

00:35:06.320 that to my children. And the person who tells my little pecan colored kids that they're somehow

00:35:10.780 oppressed based on the color of their skin would be absolutely wrong and absolutely at war with me.

00:35:16.040 And I think that's the same for every parent with the mask showed us is that the parents,

00:35:21.960 the most powerful group of people in our country, that they're taking back the wheel. Now, obviously

00:35:27.240 we had to take the wheel back for the mask, but we're taking the wheel back from Washington,

00:35:31.240 all the way to Raleigh and into our local school board because CRT, all of that, the parents don't

00:35:38.260 want it. It's a big fat lie. There's not one billion. If there, if you believe in CRT,

00:35:42.760 I want to tell you, you're a liar because that means you look at your black neighbor and say 1.00

00:35:46.540 that they're oppressed and you look at your white neighbor and say that they're evil, regardless 1.00

00:35:50.820 of the experience that you've had with them. And we're not going to do that. The parents in the

00:35:56.380 United States of America, right here in North Carolina and Canberra County, we know that's

00:36:01.340 not true because we believe the lives we live. The fact is, I've been a business owner right here

00:36:07.020 in North Carolina and I deal with white people, black people, Hispanic people. My children deal 0.99

00:36:12.560 with everybody. And the racism is only happening at the government level and on the media. The fact

00:36:17.960 is you have racists and there's like, you can't even find them hardly. You just hear the stories

00:36:23.060 about them. But this is, this is what we're dealing with. The parents are taking the wheel. I have an

00:36:28.800 eight-year-old daughter who is absolutely dynamic. This is an important perspective too, because we talk

00:36:35.300 about critical race theory and I've pointed out that it's anti-white racism, which it is. And we 0.62

00:36:42.180 have to call it that. And we have to condemn anti-white racism because it's the only acceptable

00:36:49.320 form of racism left in America, which means that it deserves most of our attention. The types of racism

00:36:56.480 that almost everyone agrees are bad. Well, we don't have to talk about it much because everyone agrees

00:36:59.880 that it's bad. But his perspective is also important too, because, because it's, it's quite

00:37:05.960 demoralizing to say the least when you tell someone, tell a kid from a very young age that he's oppressed

00:37:15.960 and he's a victim and you're, and you're driving that into his head. Now it's also bad when you tell

00:37:22.220 a kid that because of his skin color, he's a villain and he has something to apologize for and should feel 1.00

00:37:26.540 guilty. But honestly, if I had, if, if I could choose, you know, if, if we were, if we were actually

00:37:34.100 able to identify as whatever race and decide which benefits we want to enjoy, I think I would, I would

00:37:41.640 still prefer to be shouted out, shouted down as the villain and be blamed for all of the world's

00:37:50.400 atrocities and every bad thing that's ever happened in history. I think I would prefer that

00:37:56.280 over constantly being told that I'm a victim and I'm oppressed and there's nothing I can do about

00:38:01.180 it. I prefer neither of those options, but if I had to choose one, I think I'd rather be called the

00:38:08.440 villain than be called the helpless victim. Because when you're the helpless victim, you have your free

00:38:15.260 wills being taken away. You know, you're immediately being assigned this position. And so it's quite

00:38:25.360 degrading and dehumanizing. So we appreciate that from that parent. All right, let's get to the comment

00:38:30.220 section. Dailywire.com slash sweet baby comments. If you want to leave a video comment, we've got a couple

00:38:47.920 here. Uh, let's start with clip eight. Hey, sweet daddy Walsh. My name is Jules and I just wanted to say

00:38:54.260 thank you for not changing your child's diaper on Valentine's day and depriving your wife of her

00:39:00.500 role in life. I come from a long line of diaper changing women. My parents had 11 children in 14 1.00

00:39:07.880 years, no twins. And my dad can count on one hand, the amount of times he had to change diapers.

00:39:12.920 And actually that's one of the reasons my husband decided to marry me is because I assured him that he

00:39:17.520 would not have to change any diapers from our children. And he can probably count on one hand also the

00:39:23.600 amount of times that he's been forced to do such a role and take on that, that challenge. So as a

00:39:31.200 newly appointed gender educator, as of this week, I've decided to say thank you on behalf of women

00:39:37.620 everywhere and mothers everywhere for letting us fulfill our true roles and know our place in life.

00:39:44.120 So SBG for life. Bye. Wow. So much internalized misogyny there. And I really appreciate it. You

00:39:49.500 actually told your husband before you got married, you promised him you would never have to change a

00:39:53.220 diaper. I hope that he proposed to you on the spot when you said that. Like if you said that on the

00:39:56.860 first date, that's just proposed right then and there. You have found the woman of your dreams.

00:40:02.100 All right, let's go to clip 10. Hey, sweet daddy Walsh. I just got off the Peloton. I wanted to show you

00:40:08.060 this leaderboard here. Look at the second name down. Hashtag sweet baby gang. It's going to become my

00:40:15.220 hashtag as soon as I'm finished with this. That's from Roadside. Looks like he's identifying as a male in his

00:40:21.460 40s in Colorado. He had a hell of a ride. Anyway, sweet baby gang has made it to the Peloton. This is

00:40:29.560 unbelievable. Sweet babies for life. We're everywhere. We can't be stopped. We're now. I'm not even sure

00:40:37.600 what that is. I know what the Peloton is. I thought, isn't that just an exercise bike? So you compete

00:40:42.120 against other people on the Peloton. I'm always five years behind on every trend. So I'm just learning

00:40:48.880 what a Peloton is right now. I'd only heard the name before. And so you're competing. Is that what it is?

00:40:52.300 You compete against other people and you have their against their times? Well, and someone from the 1.00

00:40:59.240 sweet baby gang is what is it? Number nine. Pretty good, but you got it. You got to get into the top

00:41:04.980 five if you're going to don't. I appreciate it, but don't represent the sweet baby gang until you're in the

00:41:08.780 top five. It's embarrassing. But thanks for that anyway. You're banned from the show. Peyton Ruth says, Matt,

00:41:15.800 I got to know if you had leftover pizza, would you warm it up or eat it cold?

00:41:20.260 Yeah. I'm glad you brought this up because it's something really annoys me when I hear people say

00:41:23.140 that the cold pizza tastes better or they prefer it cold. That's of course ridiculous. If you have 0.95

00:41:29.980 the time and you're not lazy, then it's going to be better if you warm it up. Not in a microwave,

00:41:34.880 but if you can warm it up and pop it in the oven on 350 for five minutes, it's going to be a better

00:41:39.600 experience. But you can eat it cold. It's acceptable to eat it cold,

00:41:43.920 but that's just out of laziness. It's not better cold. In fact, there really isn't any food that's

00:41:51.240 actually better as a... There are some foods that are good as leftovers, but I don't think there are

00:41:55.300 any foods that are better as leftovers, despite the propaganda that you often hear. Sidney says,

00:42:01.480 Matt, the diapers don't change depending on what the baby has expelled from their body. You shame a man

00:42:08.060 who can't help his fellow citizens by simply returning his cart, yet you can't take the time to learn how to

00:42:13.220 change a diaper to help out your family. Your wife pushed out four children. The least you could do is

00:42:17.920 learn how to change a diaper. Your excuses aren't valid. Try harder, Matt. Try harder.

00:42:24.000 Well, why don't you try harder to get banned from the show? Actually, you don't have to try because you are.

00:42:28.900 Sidney, so you just know all about my lived experiences, huh? You've seen the world through my truth

00:42:36.900 prism and you can just make all of these statements about me and my life. No, you haven't had my lived

00:42:45.800 experience because if you had, you would also know that on top of everything else, I suffered a hand

00:42:51.480 injury years ago that makes it excruciatingly painful to change diapers. It's a very... I can do most

00:42:59.680 things, but the particular mechanism of changing a diaper for whatever reason, it causes me great pain.

00:43:05.820 I've told my wife this. Now I tell you. I don't want to have to talk about it, but you forced me to.

00:43:13.340 Redder says, Matt Walsh, if you can't do the right thing when it costs you nothing, you can't do the

00:43:17.060 right thing when it really matters. Also, Matt Walsh, I'm really proud that I've avoided changing diapers

00:43:20.780 for eight years and you should admire me for it. Okay, except that avoiding changing diapers is the right

00:43:26.720 thing in my case. It's the right for me and my physical health and well-being and my emotional

00:43:33.100 well-being and my mental health. That's what this is, really. I just stumbled on it. It's mental

00:43:38.900 health. We learned from Simone Biles. We've learned from a lot of female athletes who are all heroes of 0.98

00:43:44.640 mine that your mental health comes before everything. And it is a drain on my mental health to change

00:43:51.800 diapers. There we go. All right. Logan says, Matt,

00:43:57.740 what do you say to the claim that communism is good in theory, but just fails in practice? 1.00

00:44:05.500 Well, I say that claim is very stupid. I mean, it's not good in theory. Communism in theory robs 0.99

00:44:11.220 humans of free will, of their own identity, of the ability to have things of their own,

00:44:16.040 to have a life of their own. But even putting that aside, what does it mean to say that something is

00:44:20.220 good in theory? A system is good in theory, but every time it's put in practice, it's bad. What does that

00:44:25.000 even mean? If a theory is always bad when put into practice, isn't that proof that it's not a good

00:44:29.920 theory? How do we judge a good theory? How do we judge a theory, good or bad, but by putting it into

00:44:36.000 practice? Isn't that the test of a theory? It's like if I said that my theory is that humans can fly

00:44:42.180 and that everybody starts jumping out of their windows and splattering on the pavement, and I just

00:44:46.160 shrug my shoulders and go, well, it was a good theory. No, it was a bad theory, clearly. It might be

00:44:52.380 true that I wish humans could fly, but that makes it a good fantasy, not a good theory.

00:44:59.460 So is communism a good fantasy? Well, no, it isn't that either. But you can fantasize about

00:45:05.480 whatever you want. Biden just appointed a guy who fantasizes about having sex with dogs. 1.00

00:45:10.920 So people have a lot of sick fantasies. Communism is one of them, but it's certainly not a good theory. 0.99

00:45:15.400 And finally, Denton says, I love that half the show is just Matt stating something stupid that 0.98

00:45:22.820 someone said or did and then saying, what? 10-10 insight and observation. Look, Denton, 0.99

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00:46:51.100 our daily cancellation. Today we cancel writer Noreen Malone for her piece just published in the New

00:47:00.260 York Times titled The Age of Anti-Ambition. When 25 million people leave their jobs, it's about more

00:47:05.580 than just burnout. The article is long, very long. In fact, I'm beginning to realize that this is the

00:47:10.580 defense mechanism used by the New York Times and by their columnists and their ilk, because if they

00:47:15.440 write pieces that are rambling and long and boring, nobody will be able to read enough of it to criticize

00:47:19.240 their arguments. But I've broken through those defenses, subjected myself to the entire screed,

00:47:23.700 and I can report that it is yet another soliloquy about how hard it is to work and how this great

00:47:29.000 difficulty has led to more and more people stopping their work. And how this is, in many ways,

00:47:34.820 she says, a more enlightened path than that taken by our grandparents who were futile

00:47:40.160 wage slaves blind with hopeless ambition. Malone proposes that we're living in, as the title

00:47:45.820 suggests, the age of anti-ambition, where our ambition is to have no ambition. So a few select

00:47:52.600 portions of this piece I think should suffice. She begins by talking about how COVID made it so much

00:47:56.860 more stressful to work, especially because so many people were forced to work at home in their pajamas,

00:48:00.740 the poor dears. And she says, quote, they log on to Slack and Zoom, where their co-workers are 1.00

00:48:06.640 two-dimensional or avatars, and every day is just like the last one. Depending on what's happening

00:48:11.300 with the virus, their children might be there again, just as in March 2020, demanding attention

00:48:15.520 and sapping mental energy. The internet is definitely there, always demanding attention and sapping

00:48:20.600 mental energy. A job feels like just one more incursion, demanding attention and sapping mental

00:48:26.500 energy. And it didn't help that early in the pandemic, all jobs were pointedly rebranded,

00:48:31.900 essential or non-essential. Neither label feels good. There's still plenty of purpose to be found

00:48:37.000 in a job that isn't one of the helper professions, of course, but non-essential is a word that invites

00:48:41.620 creeping nihilism. This thing we fill at least eight to ten hours of the day with, five days a week

00:48:46.600 for years and decades, missed family dinners for? Was it just busy work? Perhaps that's what it was

00:48:52.920 all along. Now, pausing for a second, I agree with her that the essential versus non-essential

00:48:58.000 distinction was grotesque and wrong. But that's because I would say all jobs are essential,

00:49:03.520 as all jobs provide people with an opportunity to care for themselves and their families. And so

00:49:08.200 they are essential to the people doing the job. The writer, though, takes issue with both labels.

00:49:13.220 She doesn't like being called non-essential, but neither does she like the pressure that comes with

00:49:16.820 being called essential. She says, quote,

00:49:19.100 For the obviously essential workers, ICU nurses, pulmonologists, the burden of being needed is a

00:49:25.460 costly one. The word burnout, promiscuously applied these days, was in fact coined to diagnose

00:49:30.480 exhaustion in medical workers in a more quaint time when we weren't heading into the third year of a

00:49:35.460 multi-wave global pandemic. Teachers who happen to be both highly unionized and college educated

00:49:41.020 haven't taken kindly to being on the expendable end of the equation, asked to work in person with

00:49:46.500 tiny people who aren't good at distancing and masking and have spent the past years cooped up.

00:49:51.720 Right? Because the teachers are the primary victims of the fact that many kids were locked in their

00:49:55.660 homes for a year. Now, after a while, you know, we get to the fundamental complaint, which is that

00:50:01.400 work in general is hard, she says. It's just so very hard. Nobody wants to work. It's not fair that

00:50:07.800 people have to work. Malone explains, quote,

00:50:09.880 Essential or non-essential, remote or in person, almost no one I know likes work very much at the

00:50:15.880 moment. The primary emotion that a job elicits right now is the determination to endure. If we

00:50:21.080 could just get through the next set of months, maybe things will get better. The act of working

00:50:25.100 has been stripped bare. You don't have little outfits to put on and lunches to go to and coffee

00:50:29.680 breaks to linger over and clients to schmooze. The office is where it shouldn't be, at home,

00:50:33.920 in our intimate spaces. And all that's left now is the job itself, naked and alone.

00:50:41.420 And a lot of people don't like what they see. It's as if our whole society is burned out. The

00:50:45.800 pandemic may have alerted new swaths of people to their distaste for their jobs or exhausted them

00:50:50.500 past the point where there's anything to enjoy about jobs they used to like. Perhaps that's why

00:50:54.200 the press is filled with stories about widespread employee dissatisfaction. I paused there for a second

00:51:00.720 because I was looking for the Jeffrey Toobin joke when she said our jobs are naked and alone,

00:51:04.340 but I couldn't quite get to it. So there it is. And then we get a whole lot of stuff after that

00:51:08.280 about all the people who are heroically quitting their jobs, not to pursue a better job necessarily,

00:51:13.360 but to do nothing at all, to live a life of anti-ambition. Malone does find a silver lining

00:51:18.400 though. She writes, quote, it's important to acknowledge that some people have reacted to

00:51:21.700 this moment by becoming less cynical about the possibilities of work. The broader world is getting

00:51:26.080 darker, climate change, crumbling democracy. It feels impossible to change it. But work?

00:51:31.240 Work could change. An idealistic generation is set upon demanding a utopian world on a local scale

00:51:36.880 in their own little busy towns. More diversity, more attention to structural racism, better hours,

00:51:42.320 better boundaries, better leave policies, better bosses. Now she says this in an approving way,

00:51:47.880 of course, literally demanding a utopia is presented as a reasonable and positive path forward.

00:51:54.660 The message seems to be from this article and from the culture broadly that we're all entitled to be a

00:51:59.220 perfect, we are all entitled to a perfect and painless life. And if we can't have that or

00:52:05.380 within our rights to simply give up, stop working. Of course, the Noreen Malones of the world never 1.00

00:52:11.960 grapple with the fact that the choice to stop working is a choice to leech off of the work of others

00:52:17.640 because life requires work. Life is work. It is impossible to live without work. You have to eat.

00:52:24.720 You have to live under some sort of shelter. You need clothing. You need clean water. None of these

00:52:29.200 things materialize on their own out of thin air, which means that work must be done to provide them.

00:52:33.920 The only question is whether you will contribute to that work or make others do it for your sake.

00:52:40.440 So you don't want to be a wage slave? Fine. But if your choice is to be nothing instead and to do

00:52:45.320 nothing, then you're making other people your slaves. And I can understand the selfish appeal of that

00:52:51.620 decision from a lazy perspective, but don't pretend that you're taking some kind of moral high ground.

00:52:55.820 And please stop trying to be poetic about your laziness and weakness.

00:53:01.560 I'm really tired of everybody sitting around staring at their own navels,

00:53:05.440 obsessing over their own feelings, thinking about what they're thinking about, throwing one pity party

00:53:10.740 after another. Okay, you've noticed that working is hard and not always fun. Good for you.

00:53:16.360 It doesn't make you Socrates. Now, why don't you try just going and doing what needs to be done

00:53:20.760 because it needs to be done without thinking so much about how you feel about the things that you're doing.

00:53:26.500 What I'm trying to say is suck it up, buttercup. Get a grip. Try thinking about someone other than

00:53:31.440 yourself for five seconds of your life. It will be a relief. Trust me. One other point to make here.

00:53:39.580 Ambition, as the word is used in modern English, is not a bad thing. Far from bad. It's essential to

00:53:46.260 living a fulfilled and meaningful life. Ambition is not just about earning money either. In fact, I would

00:53:52.740 define ambition as the ability and desire to do the things you want to have done rather than always

00:53:59.920 doing the things you want to do. What I mean is, if your only guiding principle is simply to always

00:54:05.780 just do whatever you feel like doing in the moment, whatever is most enjoyable right now,

00:54:10.740 which is the non-ambitious life, then you'll never do anything worthwhile with your life because the most

00:54:16.940 enjoyable thing in any given moment, the thing you most feel like doing right now, is always going

00:54:21.960 to be to just sit on your couch and watch YouTube videos. And that's why a lot of people never do

00:54:26.460 anything but lie around and stare at screens because they're always doing what they feel like doing

00:54:31.100 right now, which is nothing. Because I mean, who really feels like doing anything? So instead of

00:54:36.760 thinking about what you want to do, you have to think about what you want to have done.

00:54:41.540 One, somebody once said of writing that they don't love writing, but they love having written.

00:54:47.540 The experience of having written, you know, of having crafted something with language in your

00:54:51.400 own mind is one of the most fulfilling things in the world. But writing itself is not enjoyable

00:54:55.380 often. I mean, it's hard, it's exhausting, it's tedious. You write so that you have written. The payoff

00:55:01.020 comes at the end. You do what you want to have done, what you wish you did yesterday. So you might

00:55:08.160 not feel like going to the gym today, but I bet you wish you did yesterday. I mean, who

00:55:13.020 doesn't wish they went to the gym yesterday? You might not feel like pursuing that difficult

00:55:17.480 opportunity, taking on a tough project, taking a chance, whatever. You might not feel like

00:55:21.140 doing that now, but you wish you did it yesterday. So do it today so that tomorrow it will have

00:55:25.860 been done. And this principle really can never guide you wrong. If there's something that

00:55:30.480 you wish you had already done, then it's worth doing now. If there's something that after

00:55:35.140 doing you're going to wish you had not done, then it's not worth doing now or ever. This

00:55:40.380 is all a long way of saying that modern Americans demand instant gratification. We can't bring

00:55:45.420 ourselves to endure even a moment of pain or mild discomfort. Each moment has to be pleasurable

00:55:50.260 in itself. But there just isn't any way to achieve anything or live a real life that way.

00:55:56.720 For most of human history, it wasn't even an option to choose pleasure and comfort in each

00:56:00.460 moment. Now it is. But if you do, then you're forfeiting success, fulfillment, joy, and purpose

00:56:08.060 with your anti-ambitious life. And that's why today, Noreen Malone of the New York Times

00:56:15.340 is canceled. And we'll leave it there for today in the week. Have a great weekend. Talk to you on

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