The Matt Walsh Show - February 18, 2022


Ep. 893 - Male Athlete Heroically Dominates Female Swimming Championship


Episode Stats

Length

57 minutes

Words per Minute

180.82068

Word Count

10,382

Sentence Count

669

Misogynist Sentences

17

Hate Speech Sentences

19


Summary

After a year of controversy, Leah Thomas, the trans swimmer, finally went to the Ivy League Championships this week and dominated the field. As expected, the media and the left have been kind of twisting themselves into knots to justify this insanity. Also, Democrats in California introduce a dog and cat s bill of rights piece of legislation, and a parent at a school board meeting delivers the best smackdown we ve heard yet. Plus, BLM crowdfunds bail for an attempted assassin while the people who donated to the Canadian truckers are hunted down, doxxed, and shamed.


Transcript

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
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
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
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?
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
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
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.
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,
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,
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,
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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,
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,
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,
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
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
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
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
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
00:20:09.820 earth we're talking about. Enemy, enemy of the people. Trump was ahead of his time in that, in that
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.
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
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,
00:31:49.380 uh, to population control. Dogs and cats have the right to be castrated. How do you throw that in
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
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.
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
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
00:35:46.540 that they're oppressed and you look at your white neighbor and say that they're evil, regardless
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
00:44:05.500 Well, I say that claim is very stupid. I mean, it's not good in theory. Communism in theory robs
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.
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.
00:45:15.400 And finally, Denton says, I love that half the show is just Matt stating something stupid that
00:45:22.820 someone said or did and then saying, what? 10-10 insight and observation. Look, Denton,
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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
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
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
00:56:19.500 Monday. Godspeed.
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