The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 909 - The Never Ending Cycle Of Mass Hysteria

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, mass hysteria has gripped hold of our nation. People are so hysterical

00:00:04.680 that many are now begging for nuclear war. But closer to home, on a smaller scale, we see the

00:00:09.180 hysteria and the proliferation of racism hoaxes, especially in our schools. Speaking of which,

00:00:13.640 there have been three in our schools in just the past week or two. We'll talk about that. Plus,

00:00:18.060 Ukrainian President Zelensky addresses Congress and asks for a no-fly zone, which would lead

00:00:22.180 directly to World War III. Small little detail. And a funny thing, when most Americans are told

00:00:27.040 what's actually in the so-called don't say gay bill, they support it. Plus, lawmakers want to

00:00:31.440 hold social media companies responsible for making our children addicted to the internet.

00:00:35.180 And in our daily cancellation, lawmakers also now plan to make daylight savings permanent.

00:00:39.860 I'll explain why that's a bad idea and might, in fact, bring about the end of human civilization.

00:00:45.080 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:09.660 claims paying ability of the insurer. You know, people as a group, when taking the shape of a mob,

00:02:16.020 have always been susceptible to mass hysteria. History provides, of course, many examples,

00:02:20.880 but recent history provides many more examples. A new example each day, it seems, because modern media

00:02:26.360 and modern methods of communication are the perfect delivery system for the sorts of psychological

00:02:30.940 contagions which lead to hysteria. Now, we're seeing this play out with respect to the war

00:02:35.740 in Ukraine. Many Americans who couldn't point to Ukraine on a map three weeks ago and probably still

00:02:41.220 can't, nonetheless, now have Ukrainian flags in their bios and appear to feel greater patriotic

00:02:47.420 pride for this foreign country that they've never been to and know nothing about than for their own

00:02:53.140 country. That it's hysteria. It's not rational thought. And now the latest Pew Research poll shows that

00:02:59.540 35% of Americans, nearly a third, favor taking direct military action against Russia, even if it means

00:03:07.400 risking nuclear war. That was written in the question. If it meant risking nuclear war, would you still

00:03:12.160 want to get involved to protect Ukraine? 35% of Americans said yes. Now, these people, who again,

00:03:17.960 know almost nothing about this conflict or the countries involved, would risk their own children's

00:03:24.200 lives for the sake of Ukraine. They would risk global death on an unimaginable scale for Ukraine. 0.96

00:03:31.460 They don't know why they feel this way. They can't explain it. But they do. It's mass hysteria.

00:03:38.000 Now, we'll get back to Ukraine later. But as I said, our capacity for mass hysteria extends far beyond

00:03:42.380 the current conflict overseas. It invades every aspect of our lives. We see it on every level

00:03:46.960 everywhere. And this is where all the racist hate hoaxes also come from. Now, they're both,

00:03:52.420 they're, they are born from a sort of hysteria, an obsession with being the victim, a need for

00:03:57.660 attention. And the hoaxes also take advantage of that same proclivity towards hysteria in the

00:04:02.900 general public. So here's, here's an example, closer to home, smaller scale, actually three

00:04:07.080 examples. So we'll start with this. A student at Our Lady of Mercy School for Young Women in

00:04:13.300 Rochester, which is a grade six through 12 school, claimed last week to have discovered racist graffiti

00:04:18.260 in the bathroom. Of course, protests followed, you know, kids were protesting, lots of media

00:04:23.620 coverage. You know how this works. And you also know where it's going. But before we get there,

00:04:29.280 here's a local media reporting on the conclusion of this case while leaving something important out.

00:04:35.340 Listen to this.

00:04:36.320 But first, a breaking update to a local story that's gotten a lot of traction. Our Lady of

00:04:40.640 Mercy school officials say they know who was behind racist graffiti in one of the bathrooms,

00:04:45.400 a fellow student. The message said the all-girls school is filled with a bunch of, quote,

00:04:51.040 N-words. Administrators discovered it earlier this week. Brighton police immediately begin

00:04:56.760 investigating the case as a hate crime. This afternoon, school leaders tell us one of their

00:05:02.540 students confessed to writing that message. They say the maximum disciplinary action has already

00:05:08.840 been taken. Also in their statement, the school says Mercy will work to help heal the wounds caused by

00:05:14.380 this incident as well as help heal deep-rooted related feelings this incident has brought to the

00:05:19.640 surface. Brighton police have not charged the students. So the investigation concluded they

00:05:25.940 found the culprit. Raises the question as to, you know, first of all, why they were investigating

00:05:31.480 scribblings on a middle school bathroom stall as a federal crime. So they were investigating it as a

00:05:37.800 hate crime, which means a federal crime because some kid supposedly wrote something in marker on a

00:05:45.840 bathroom stall. Now, of course, we don't really need to ask the question as to why they're doing

00:05:50.940 that. We already know. It's part of the mass hysteria. And it's that same hysteria that somehow

00:05:54.820 prevents people from seeing that this was obviously a hoax from the beginning. These things in recent

00:06:00.520 history are literally always hoaxes. I mean, always. Though in this case, the authorities

00:06:09.020 involved refused to come out and say so. Here's the post-millennial. Says Brighton police chief

00:06:13.740 David Catholdi said, quote, we have shared the results of our investigation with OLM. They have

00:06:18.500 decided to handle the matter internally and not pursue criminal charges. Several students at the

00:06:23.840 school shared the offending message to at primetime 585, which is the Twitter handle of Karen

00:06:28.560 Iglesias, a local woman who chronicles Section 5 sports and has developed a close relationship

00:06:33.220 with many high school athletes. At the beginning of the week, Iglesias posted an image of the racist

00:06:36.940 graffiti on Twitter. She said, quote, my inbox was flooded today from OLM high school girls,

00:06:42.180 the Twitter account. This note was written in the bathroom and they had issues on how the

00:06:45.960 administration dealt with it. They, many athletes, all white, begged me to post it because they were

00:06:50.900 so upset at how trivial the school made it. Iglesias wrote on Monday afternoon, Rochester area radio

00:06:56.100 talk show host, Bob Lansbury tweeted that four sources, including two in government said the

00:07:00.680 culprit was an African-American student. Quote, not true. She's Hispanic, a Hispanic, not considered 0.97

00:07:06.620 African-American in no way, Iglesias responded on Twitter in a quote tweet replying to Lansbury.

00:07:11.520 So you got two people on the ground there, both confirming they're, they're debating whether

00:07:16.440 African-American or Hispanic, but confirming it was not a white student. So it's what we've seen

00:07:22.260 many times, a cycle from which we cannot escape somebody, often a child commits an obvious hoax.

00:07:29.340 Everyone loses their minds. And then, and then we simply move on after it's proven to be a hoax,

00:07:34.540 having not learned any lesson at all. Nobody ever retracts anything they said. There's never any kind

00:07:39.640 of apology. This was made clear over in Minnesota recently as well. Listen to this story from WCCO in

00:07:46.380 Minneapolis. Says quote, the superintendent of New Prague area schools says allegations of a racist

00:07:52.680 chant at a girl's basketball game last month could not be substantiated by the school's

00:07:57.500 investigations. Robbinsdale area schools released a statement after the February 15th game between

00:08:02.500 Cooper high school and New Prague saying quote, according to several accounts, some spectators

00:08:06.820 made monkey sounds directed at the Cooper team. Many of the Cooper players are black. He said about

00:08:12.780 20 people who were at the game were interviewed and none reported hearing monkey noises. The

00:08:17.500 superintendent also said no one reported hearing any noises on the night of the game. And the

00:08:21.480 district only learned of the allegation via social media after the fact. So after the game on social

00:08:27.240 media, a few accounts claimed they heard quote monkey sounds, whatever that means. And they extrapolated

00:08:33.200 from this ambiguous sound that they allegedly heard that white people in the stands were being racist

00:08:39.780 towards black players on the court. Now, um, call me crazy, but I would say really that the racism comes 0.66

00:08:45.740 in when if you hear a sound and it vaguely sounds like a monkey sound, and then you immediately assume 0.92

00:08:52.800 that it's directed at black people. I would think that that makes you the racist, if anything. 0.95

00:09:00.380 You know, if it were me and I heard something like that, I heard a sound like, what was that?

00:09:03.900 I wouldn't draw that connection immediately. But anyway, the school district investigated,

00:09:09.600 interviewed 20 people, discovered that nobody in the room heard these sounds, and also that nobody

00:09:14.600 who was present for the event reported anything of the sort. Does that mean we can move forward now,

00:09:19.600 relieved that yet another allegedly racist act was a figment of somebody's imagination? No,

00:09:24.020 of course not. Because the report continues. In a message to families, new Prague superintendent,

00:09:28.860 Tim Dittburner, somehow just a perfect last name for this guy, I don't know why, said,

00:09:34.940 while the investigation found the allegations of the racist chant could not be substantiated,

00:09:39.120 the findings of this investigation neither negate the lived experiences of Robinsdale Cooper student

00:09:43.860 athletes and staff, nor does it absolve the new Prague area schools of its responsibility to create a

00:09:49.240 culture that does not tolerate inappropriate behavior. Dittburner reiterated a three-step plan

00:09:55.180 to address the school culture so these incidents do not happen in the future.

00:09:58.860 That plan includes creating a school climate task force, professional development, and resources

00:10:04.580 for staff, and also working with student leaders. Okay, so the racist chant doesn't appear to have

00:10:11.880 happened, because of course it didn't happen, because it's just beyond belief that a bunch of parents at

00:10:18.680 a girl's basketball game would start making monkey sounds at black players. But even though it didn't 1.00

00:10:23.860 happen, we still must respect the lived experience of people who think it did happen. What's more,

00:10:31.700 the superintendent, Dittburner, felt the need to reiterate that he won't tolerate the kind of

00:10:36.820 behavior that didn't actually occur. And he's putting in place policies and plans to address

00:10:41.860 this non-existent activity and ensure that the stuff that isn't happening continues to not happen.

00:10:47.820 But wait, there's more. The superintendent made reference to incidents, plural, at the school.

00:10:54.440 Later in his statement, he said that, well, even if this racist thing didn't happen,

00:10:58.540 other racist stuff has happened recently. Well, what racist events was he referring to? Well,

00:11:05.220 according to a local NBC affiliate, a few students in the stands during a hockey match,

00:11:09.660 also recently, flashed a, quote, white supremacist hand symbol. Now, the symbol was the OK sign, 0.78

00:11:18.300 which is not actually a racist symbol, and which we know for a fact was only connected to racism

00:11:23.040 because of a 4chan hoax a few years ago. I mean, you can go back and look at the posts

00:11:27.320 where they came up with this and said, hey, wouldn't it be funny if we pretended that this was a racist

00:11:31.560 symbol? So we know that it's all a hoax. And yet, continually, people get in trouble for,

00:11:38.060 you know, doing this with their hands. The offenders, in this case, explained afterwards

00:11:43.020 that they had no idea that the symbol had any connection to racism at all. No clue.

00:11:48.860 But of course, you know, of course they didn't know that because it doesn't have any connection.

00:11:52.680 And also, the only way they'd even know that the symbol supposedly is connected to racism

00:11:57.200 is if they spend a lot of time on Twitter, because that's the only place you'll see this.

00:12:02.200 But most kids their age don't use Twitter as their social media poison of choice.

00:12:07.040 So, three fake racist incidents in our schools in the span of a couple weeks.

00:12:13.920 Mass hysteria. And when I say hysteria, of course, this is not hysteria from the people

00:12:19.720 amplifying all of this, encouraging it. They're not being hysterical. They're being quite intentional

00:12:24.980 in their actions. But the plan is to make everybody else hysterical. Because when we are

00:12:30.740 in the throes of mass hysteria, we can be manipulated. We're at their mercy. And that,

00:12:37.340 of course, is their plan. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:13:52.860 so much going on in the world. It's hard to fit it all into five headlines. Not that in the five

00:13:57.140 headlines segment, I actually only do five headlines. I mean, sometimes it's like two

00:14:00.600 headlines. Sometimes it's 12. So five headlines, you know, we'll change the name of the segment

00:14:05.120 to five headlines, give or take. So we'll start here. Zelensky, president of Ukraine, addressed

00:14:12.680 Congress today. And he's kind of doing the world tour here all through Zoom, but he's talked

00:14:18.720 to, you know, he was, he addressed Canadian lawmakers, I think a few days ago. So he's

00:14:24.900 kind of going around and in addressing Congress here in the United States, he evoked 9-11, evoked

00:14:32.120 Pearl Harbor, and also the, I had a dream speech. So he's kind of greatest hits here, throwing it all

00:14:38.080 in there. And as to the latter, we have that clip. Let's listen to that.

00:14:42.160 I have a dream. These words are known to each of you today. I can say, I have a need. I need

00:14:51.500 to protect our sky. I need your decision, your help, which means exactly the same, the same

00:14:59.900 you feel when you hear the words, I have a dream. Ladies and gentlemen, friends, Ukraine

00:15:08.300 is grateful to the United States for its overwhelming support for everything that your government

00:15:16.440 and your people have done for us, for weapons and ammunition, for training, for finances,

00:15:23.040 for leadership in the free world, which helps us to pressure the aggressor economically. I'm

00:15:29.360 grateful to President Biden for his personal involvement, for his sincere commitment to the defense

00:15:36.120 of Ukraine and democracy all over the world. I am grateful to you for the resolution which

00:15:41.680 recognizes all those who commit crimes against Ukraine, against the Ukrainian people as war

00:15:47.840 criminals. However, now it is true in the darkest time for our country, for the whole Europe,

00:15:54.820 I call on you to do more. New packages of sanctions are needed constantly every week.

00:16:02.880 So he has a dream. He wants us to protect the skies. He wants us to do more. And when he talks

00:16:10.160 about protecting the skies, of course, what he means is what he wants most of all is a no-fly

00:16:17.120 zone. And that's what he's been asking for talking to the UK, Canada, United States have been asking

00:16:22.660 for a no-fly zone. That's what he wants. Now, as I've been saying all along about this and about

00:16:30.920 Zelensky, I understand why he would want a no-fly zone. I understand why he would want

00:16:37.880 the United States to get involved directly and militarily in this conflict. So I get why he

00:16:44.320 wants that. Okay, because he's worried about Ukraine. It's his job to be worried about Ukraine. 0.78

00:16:51.880 He's not worried about the United States, though. That's not on his list of concerns.

00:16:56.100 He's not concerned about how many American deaths would follow if we got into a direct

00:17:03.900 conflict with Russia because that's what a no-fly zone would mean. I feel like this is something 0.78

00:17:09.620 that needs to be explained to people because I'm not sure if everyone really understands. When you

00:17:13.400 hear no-fly zone, I think what people imagine, I don't know, but just based on the way they talk

00:17:19.080 about it, how casually it's discussed by some people, especially on social media, they appear

00:17:25.140 to think that a no-fly zone is like a force field that we can magically put over Ukraine to make sure 0.98

00:17:33.120 that no planes fly over it and drop any bombs. And by the way, if that was an option, if we had a

00:17:40.240 magical force field and we could set it up over Ukraine, then I would say, yeah, let's definitely

00:17:45.440 set up the force field. But that's not what it is. And also, what a no-fly zone is, it's also not

00:17:54.480 like a gun-free zone where you just post signs all around. You know, that's also not what we're

00:18:02.580 doing. We're not just posting signs saying, no flying here, Russia. No, it means shooting down

00:18:08.360 Russian planes. Okay. It means active, direct military engagement with Russia. It means getting 0.82

00:18:15.640 involved in a war with Russia. That's what it means. And that's what he would like to see happen, 1.00

00:18:21.600 which would result, you know, now that we're, now we're in a war with another major power,

00:18:29.540 a nuclear power. We're risking nuclear war, which apparently, according to Pew, a third of Americans

00:18:34.360 are okay with. They're not really okay with it. But again, they're in, they're in the throes of

00:18:40.960 hysteria. They don't really know what they're saying. If they stop to think for a minute about

00:18:45.760 what that would actually mean. Okay. Think about, because this is what you're saying. Now you're

00:18:52.380 saying that you'd be okay with nuclear war potentially to protect Ukraine. Okay. Well just

00:18:57.340 stop for a second and imagine what it would mean for a nuclear bomb to be dropped on a major

00:19:03.460 American city. Okay. Just think about that. You're really okay with that potentially, the risk of

00:19:11.760 that for Ukraine, the country you don't know a damn thing about. A country that three weeks ago,

00:19:18.860 you never thought about. Up until three weeks ago, you never thought once about it in your life,

00:19:23.020 ever. Never thought about Ukraine. And now you're willing to risk the nuclear destruction of American 0.62

00:19:29.720 cities for its sake. That's not thinking. That's not clear thinking. It's just not.

00:19:38.360 Now there are, I'm not saying that this is an overly simple situation. War never is. And there

00:19:45.680 are different points of view people can have. The level of involvement of the United States,

00:19:52.120 what we do to help, do we help at all? I mean, there's, you know, there's varying degrees,

00:19:55.400 different opinions people can have as intelligent people. But to purposefully get involved in a

00:20:02.960 military conflict with Russia, which would lead to a world war. I'm not saying it would definitely 0.67

00:20:07.840 lead to nuclear annihilation, although that's on the table when you get into a world war and

00:20:13.140 everybody has nuclear weapons. But it would certainly lead, I think, to a world war.

00:20:18.680 You have to think about what that means. And that's what Zelensky wants for his sake and for

00:20:26.780 the sake of Ukraine. Fine. I understand why he wants it. But this is why the fawning treatment of 0.99

00:20:35.100 this guy, I just find it is very disturbing to me. Because when you're fawning over somebody and

00:20:42.480 treating them like a god. In fact, I just saw there was a, I forget who it is, but a band,

00:20:52.280 a singer just put out, and he was getting a lot of praise for this. And, you know, he was doing the

00:20:56.980 rounds on cable news, performing this song that he wrote as a tribute to Zelensky. And the name of the

00:21:04.120 song is, Can One Man Save the World? Maybe I'll find that. We'll play it for you tomorrow, play a clip

00:21:10.080 of it. And people were loving this song. And it's all about Zelensky and about how he's taken a stand

00:21:15.200 to save the world. Talking about him literally like a Christ figure. And the problem with doing

00:21:23.100 that is, first of all, it's sacrilegious to talk about anybody that way. But especially in a situation

00:21:28.980 like this. Because when you're talking about a guy like he's a Hollywood hero or something more than

00:21:37.360 that, an actual savior of humanity, a messianic figure, then you're not thinking rationally.

00:21:44.900 And you're not thinking about what he is actually trying to get us involved in and what that would

00:21:50.220 mean for us and our families and our children. Also, I'll tell you this right now. Zelensky,

00:21:58.480 shoes on the other foot, you know? You think Zelensky is getting involved? He's sending Ukraine, 1.00

00:22:06.360 Ukrainian troops to defend America? You think he's doing that? Do you think, shoes on the other foot, 0.57

00:22:13.200 do you think that Zelensky would risk thousands of Ukrainian lives for the sake of us? You think

00:22:21.180 he'd do that? We all know he wouldn't. We all know he wouldn't. Yet another one of our great

00:22:29.820 allies who we all know would never do this for us, ever. And yet we think we're obligated to do it

00:22:36.780 for them. It's crazy to me. All right. This is from the Daily Wire. It says, nearly two-thirds of

00:22:44.200 Americans support the key features of Florida's HB 1557 parental rights and education proposal.

00:22:52.220 So we've got one terrible thing that a third of Americans supposedly support, but then we've got

00:22:58.640 two-thirds who support something good. This is according to a new poll released on Monday by

00:23:04.480 the Daily Wire. The national poll of U.S. adults was conducted over the weekend by market research

00:23:08.760 technology platform Lucid on behalf of the Daily Wire. The survey is a thousand-person sample,

00:23:13.680 was 37% Democrat, 32% Republican, 31% Independent. Unlike other surveys that have relied on a summary

00:23:21.060 of the legislation written by pollsters, the Daily Wire's researchers presented the respondents

00:23:25.380 in its study with the actual language from the Florida's bill, and it's the most criticized

00:23:30.360 passage, and then asked them to react to it. Who would have thought? What do you know? When you

00:23:36.860 actually tell people what's in the bill itself and you don't say, yeah, if you ask people,

00:23:41.500 should there be a bill where if you say the word gay, you're sent to Gitmo? What do you know?

00:23:49.300 If you ask people that, most of them are going to say, no, no, no, I don't think I support that bill.

00:23:52.940 Seems a little bit, seems a little overboard. You tell them what the bill actually says and how

00:23:58.420 limited it is, far too limited in my opinion. We're not going to teach sexuality, sexual orientation,

00:24:06.760 gender identity to kids in grades six through three, or K through three. You tell them that and most

00:24:13.600 Americans support it. More than six in 10 Americans, 64%, support the Florida bill's ban on classroom

00:24:18.020 instructions on sexual orientation and gender identity in grades K through three.

00:24:23.280 21% said they opposed the bill. The Florida measure is backed by 69% of Republicans, 62% of Democrats,

00:24:33.800 and 57% of independents. There was also no notable differences among whites, blacks, and Latinos.

00:24:40.080 They're all in the 60% range. Actually, black respondents had the highest in favor of the bill,

00:24:48.080 66%, 63% for white people, Latinos, 62%. And that's what happens when you actually tell them what 0.54

00:24:56.200 the bill says. Most Americans, when you, when you, when you ask them, do you think that seven-year-olds

00:25:04.540 should be taught about transgenderism in school? Most Americans say no. Now that's the glass half full.

00:25:12.640 That's the, you know, that's the, the optimistic way of reading this. That's the majority of Americans

00:25:17.140 are opposed to this. If you want to look at it from the more pessimistic end, then you, you might say

00:25:23.500 only 62% are opposed to teaching that kind of stuff to, to seven-year-olds. That's the other way you

00:25:33.060 might look at this, that, you know, 62% is still, or 64% rather, 64%, that's good. It's, it's a majority.

00:25:40.040 And so you make the point. Majority of Americans are actually in favor of this bill that the left

00:25:46.740 is treating like, um, like it's like Armageddon. And they're in favor of it when you tell them the

00:25:53.220 actual language. But the, the negative side of that, which, you know, I, I like to always take a

00:26:01.060 gander at the negative side of the coin as well, because I like to be a realist. Um, and that tells

00:26:07.300 you that, okay, 64% say we shouldn't teach transgenderism to seven-year-olds. You know,

00:26:12.800 that leaves pretty sizable number of Americans who, um, are, do not have that opinion or either

00:26:19.120 in favor of teaching it or don't care either way, which to me is somehow the most disturbing.

00:26:27.760 If you have no opinion, you can't be bothered to care.

00:26:30.200 And the thing is, if you were to ask the same exact question 10 years ago, you know,

00:26:38.420 you put this bill on the table 10 years ago, uh, I think the first reaction from everybody would be,

00:26:44.620 well, why would you need this? I mean, no, no one would ever, we don't need this bill. No one would

00:26:49.220 ever even conceive of teaching this stuff to little kids. But almost everyone would agree that yes,

00:26:57.280 we should not be teaching it. It would, but it would seem like a conversation that doesn't need

00:27:01.600 to be had in the first place. Now you have a certain preponderance of Americans who are

00:27:07.060 actually actively in favor of teaching this stuff to kids. It shows you the kind of soul rot and the

00:27:14.460 mental rot that afflicts our country. Speaking of soul rot and mental rot, the Surgeon General,

00:27:20.980 Dr. Vivek Murthy has chimed in on the Florida bill. And this is what he says.

00:27:26.700 Florida's recent law restricting discussions about gender identity in school has understandably

00:27:30.920 raised serious concern. The law concerns me too. Let me explain why. Learning that people are 1.00

00:27:36.820 different and that not all families look the same. These are important lessons that start early in

00:27:41.340 life, including in school. They help create a society based on understanding and respect.

00:27:46.260 They help children know they belong, even if they're different. I grew up in Florida and I'm a proud

00:27:51.100 graduate of the public school system. As a kid who often felt I didn't belong, it helped tremendously

00:27:55.580 when teachers openly discussed our different backgrounds. This built understanding and

00:27:59.800 reduced shame. LGBTQ youth also deserve such proactive support, preventing or criminalizing 0.87

00:28:06.320 efforts to foster such understanding hurts kids and families. It shuts down dialogue instead of

00:28:11.840 nurturing healthy conversation. And it sends a signal to LGBTQ youth that they're not fully accepted.

00:28:17.220 So he's finding a more wordy way to do it. And he's being, um, a little bit more subtle,

00:28:22.620 but he's still hammering on this for this propaganda, this false narrative that this is a bill that

00:28:32.440 forbids people from saying the word gay. He doesn't, he doesn't, he doesn't mention the don't say gay bill.

00:28:37.500 Um, but this is what he's basically claiming that the bill would somehow prevent classrooms and

00:28:47.960 students and teachers from acknowledging the existence of various different kinds of people.

00:28:53.340 That's not what the bill does. And also, by the way, kids in a modern classroom,

00:28:59.660 you don't need to have lessons teaching them that there are different, but what was he saying?

00:29:07.140 Learning that, that people are different and not all families look the same.

00:29:11.540 You actually, at no point even need to sit kids down and tell them that because they can see it for

00:29:17.180 themselves. They can look around them in a modern public school classroom, especially in a place like

00:29:23.840 Florida, and they can look around and see that, oh yeah, people all look different.

00:29:29.660 You don't need to talk about it at all. They can see that. That's the world they live in.

00:29:33.380 Talk about lived experience. That is their, that is their lived experience.

00:29:38.200 So you don't need to talk about it. It's not a discussion that needs to be had,

00:29:41.500 but that's also not what the bill does. It's got nothing to do with that.

00:29:48.600 Despite that, um, that piece of propaganda, that ridiculous commercial that we played last week,

00:29:59.660 mommies mentions both of her mommies in class, an alarm will sound and the teacher will be 1.00

00:30:04.620 immediately fired. Uh, it's actually not what the bill does. All it does is it says that we're not

00:30:09.280 going to have lesson plans about gender identity and sexuality. Okay. You're not going to talk to a 1.00

00:30:16.100 seven-year-old about that. All right. Let's, um, move to this from the wall street journal. A pair of

00:30:23.900 California lawmakers introduced a bill that aims to hold technology companies liable for social media

00:30:28.700 addictions that may affect children. The bill would let parents and guardians sue platforms that

00:30:33.400 they believe addicted children in their care, um, through advertising push notifications and design

00:30:39.960 features that promote compulsive behavior, particularly the continual consumption of harmful

00:30:44.080 content on issues such as eating disorders and suicide. It would hold companies accountable

00:30:48.900 regardless of whether they deliberately design their products to be addictive. The bill called

00:30:53.120 the social media platform duty to, to children act was introduced Tuesday by state assembly members,

00:30:59.460 Jordan Cunningham and Buffy Wicks. One's Democrat, one's Republican. Um, the bills were written to

00:31:05.540 improve children's experiences online from two different angles. Uh, so that's what this is about. It's

00:31:12.720 about improving their experiences and holding these tech companies responsible for making kids

00:31:18.720 addicted to the content. I think it tells you something that this is supposed to be a bill protecting

00:31:26.160 children and protecting them when they're online. And if you want to do that, then the very first thing that

00:31:32.440 you should be doing is everything possible to restrict pornographic content. Because the worst thing that's

00:31:42.020 happening to kids online is that ages as young as seven or eight or even younger, they're being exposed to

00:31:48.260 hardcore pornography. They're being exposed to the kinds of sexual images that most people through

00:31:54.360 history never in their lives would have ever been exposed to even as adults. And now we've got eight

00:31:59.520 year olds whose minds are marinating in this kind of filth and who, um, go through their formative years

00:32:08.420 marinating in it and suffer the consequences for a lifetime. So if you really want to protect kids,

00:32:15.100 that should be the first thing your bill accomplishes. As far as I can tell with this bill, it doesn't even

00:32:19.880 touch on that. Instead, they're concerned with push notifications. That's kind of the fact that it makes

00:32:26.980 kids addicted. Now I'm all about holding the big tech companies responsible. I'm certainly all about

00:32:34.100 protecting kids. Um, and that's why I say when it comes to the kind of content that these companies allow to

00:32:44.540 proliferate on their platforms, the fact that there, there's, there are no barriers put in place at

00:32:50.900 all. Kid can go online and within two seconds, he can access anything. Um, that to me is crazy and

00:32:59.660 anything done to address that issue is a, is a positive step. But also we have to acknowledge

00:33:07.020 that if your kid is addicted to the internet, if he's addicted to social media, yeah, it's true that

00:33:16.300 social media companies, they want that they're doing everything they can to, to make it, to, to form this

00:33:22.940 into a compulsion. And that's not good. That's, that's evil in fact. But also if you're, if your child, if

00:33:32.520 your nine-year-old has a compulsive need to use social media, that's primarily your own fault.

00:33:41.540 So we, we have to always turn the mirror around so the parents can see themselves.

00:33:47.640 That's on you. As I've said a million times, especially younger kids, your ability to control,

00:33:56.680 you, you have a profound ability to control their access to the internet, how much time they spend on

00:34:03.400 it. Now you might not be able to completely control it, especially if they're going to school and

00:34:09.780 they've got friends who have phones and that kind of thing. So you can't completely control it, but

00:34:14.500 whether or not your own child has a phone, that's a big one. Your nine-year-old's not going out and

00:34:19.040 buying his own phone. If he has a phone, it's because you bought it for him. Just don't buy it.

00:34:24.400 That one decision, don't buy the phone for him. Or if you do buy the phone, don't buy a phone that

00:34:30.260 has internet capacity at all. Buy a dumb phone, buy a phone that only makes, it can only call two

00:34:35.160 people. It can call, you know, call his parents. It can call 911. Give him that phone. Then you've 1.00

00:34:40.820 got, then you could keep track of him. Uh, any safety concerns are taken care of. No problem. You can do

00:34:47.340 that. You give him a phone that has access to the entire, entire, you know, wild west of the internet,

00:34:54.760 then that's on you. And his internet addiction and his compulsion, which he will develop. And so

00:35:02.740 many kids have developed. I mean, almost every kid you see now has a compulsive need, uh, to look at

00:35:10.800 their phone every 10 seconds, but that's, that's a decision that you made as a parent, I think.

00:35:15.540 All right. So here's another, uh, I wanted to play this for you. Cause this is, this was a lot of fun

00:35:20.840 as well. You know, of course, Georgia tech two nights ago, um, speaking out about the, the male

00:35:28.780 invasion of sports. And as we saw, you know, protesters came out and, uh, they were very upset,

00:35:35.040 but, but many of them couldn't actually explain why they were there, what they were upset about.

00:35:40.340 I think this kind of ties into the whole mass hysteria theme of this show. So campus reform,

00:35:44.720 they were also on the scene and here's another fun interview with, uh, with a protester. He's got,

00:35:49.160 he's, you know, he's come out, he's got all the protesters behind him. They've got the trans flag,

00:35:52.180 they got all the signs. And, um, can he explain why he's there and what he's so upset about? Let's see.

00:35:58.460 Tell us why you're out here today. I'm standing for trans rights.

00:36:01.540 Do you think there's a biological difference between men and women?

00:36:10.060 Biological.

00:36:15.780 I was standing for lesbian, gay, um, LGBT, bisexual, and trans community.

00:36:25.780 Why are you guys out here yelling instead of maybe going inside? I mean, there's a Q&A,

00:36:29.420 you guys have the opportunity to go in at Moscow. It's a question. Don't you think that would be

00:36:32.840 more productive? When it comes to Republicans, Republicans are more argumentative. More

00:36:38.080 my way or the highway.

00:36:40.300 Matt can't swim! Matt can't swim!

00:36:43.460 Don't you think this might be my way or the highway here?

00:36:46.400 No. 1.00

00:36:47.300 F*** these fascists! F*** these fascists! F*** these fascists! 1.00

00:36:51.540 You couldn't have scripted that any better. That was great. He, he, they were, they were literally 1.00

00:36:58.040 chanting in the background. Hey, hey, ho, ho. Uh, what was it? Matt Walsh has to go, or this fascist

00:37:03.620 has to go, whatever it was. They're, they're, that's what they're chanting in the background.

00:37:07.420 While the guy in the front claims that Republicans are the ones who are the, it's my way or the highway.

00:37:13.780 Anyway, um, he couldn't, he couldn't have scripted that any better. That was great.

00:37:18.960 But of course, he, you know, he couldn't really explain why he was there. I'm here for trans rights.

00:37:24.420 Are men and women different biologically? Oh, what do you mean biologically? I'm not even sure.

00:37:28.180 I'm a college student. I don't know what the word biologically means.

00:37:32.440 So they didn't, they didn't know why they were there. But this is, again, for them, it's, it's a,

00:37:37.620 it's hysteria. They're not, they're not, they, they, they don't really know why they're there,

00:37:41.960 what they're doing. But, um, pulling the strings, the people who are encouraging this,

00:37:48.100 you know, there's that, that's a very intentional choice.

00:37:51.400 All right. I want to play one other thing for you quickly. Herschel Walker is running for,

00:37:55.800 for Senate and, um, he was trending online yesterday. And one thing, you know, general rule of thumb,

00:38:03.020 if you're a Republican candidate for office and you're trending online, it's, it's never for

00:38:09.000 anything good. Right. So he was, uh, he was trending because he was recently at, it looks

00:38:13.580 like a church and he was giving his views on things. He started to riff on evolution and is

00:38:18.680 now being mocked ruthlessly for what he said about it. Let's listen. So when the light was created

00:38:26.240 here, that means somebody up there had to say, let there be light that the earth started. And then he

00:38:31.460 had to put someone there on earth. Cause remember, Adam was there. Remember Adam came there. Then

00:38:36.480 Eve came. So somebody had to start it out. So that means there had to be a God. Cause it didn't just

00:38:42.620 some bomb blew up and it started out. And then I tell you something else I heard. And I think about

00:38:46.700 this because at one time science said man came from apes. Did it not? That's when you go to the science.

00:38:55.100 Every time I read or hear that, I think to myself, you just didn't read the same Bible I did.

00:38:59.180 Well, what this was interesting though, if that is true, why are there still apes?

00:39:05.500 Think about it. You know, now you're getting too smart for it. No, no, no, no. Think about this.

00:39:09.240 We have an evolution that is, we've gotten so intelligent that if that is true, why are there

00:39:14.480 still apes? Yeah. No, I see. I, I struggle with this and I get kind of frustrated because I mean, 0.97

00:39:20.120 I appreciate someone running for office, sharing their faith. I think it's a wonderful thing.

00:39:24.080 Um, but I don't like it when Christians go out and say things that reinforce the stereotype, 1.00

00:39:32.260 which says that Christianity is not compatible with science and that one must choose science or

00:39:37.140 Christianity. And the reason I don't like it, it's not because I care when people are making fun of 0.55

00:39:41.660 us. Um, the reason that I care is because it's, it's not true. First of all, it's just not true

00:39:47.840 that Christianity and science aren't compatible or that Christians in general are ignorant of science.

00:39:52.640 It's not true at all. And very often the truth goes the other way around where, where, what we find

00:39:58.400 is that people in the secular leftist religion are truly the anti-science ones who believe that men

00:40:03.840 could get pregnant and so on and so forth. So that's the truth. And I care about people knowing

00:40:07.420 the truth, but also this is a, this is a line, a false narrative that I think is persuasive to people

00:40:16.140 who are not religious, but are sort of considering it. And the people who could be reached, who could be

00:40:20.900 saved? Uh, I think when they're told that, well, you know, that Christianity, that's anti-science and

00:40:28.780 it's, you, you gotta, I think for many people in that camp, that, that becomes a persuasive argument

00:40:33.900 for them. And then, uh, people that could be reached ultimately are not because of that.

00:40:39.800 And that's why scientific ignorance when it's displayed in a Christian context can be harmful,

00:40:48.280 I think. And also another thing that makes it frustrating is that it's such an unforced error.

00:40:52.580 There's just no reason to do it. So here's what I'm saying. Um, if you, if you don't, if you don't

00:40:58.840 know much about evolution, that's fine. That's okay. No big deal. Um, you're running for office.

00:41:06.180 Doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter how you feel about evolution. Doesn't, you know,

00:41:09.280 doesn't, doesn't make a difference. And so just don't, don't talk about it. Don't go on stage

00:41:12.760 talking about it. The problem here for Herschel Walker is that he doesn't understand the theory.

00:41:17.740 Um, the theory does not say that humans came from apes. That's not the theory. That's, that's just

00:41:23.080 not it. Um, the theory states that apes and humans have a common ancestor. Okay. And that's not

00:41:30.100 semantics that we're not splitting hairs here. It's just a very different sort of thing. So in other

00:41:36.220 words, the point is that it's not that apes are our great grandparents. It's that in this analogy,

00:41:41.020 there are our cousins, um, according to the theory of evolution. Now think what you want

00:41:45.720 about it, say what you want about it, but that is the theory common descent as they call

00:41:50.900 it. So if you want to try to debunk it or whatever, or express your disagreement, that's

00:41:55.800 what you're disagreeing with. And so you say that and it just opens up the floodgates and

00:42:01.280 it's again, it's a, it's an unforced error. There's no reason to do that. Um, but if you,

00:42:06.480 if you do want to go down, I mean, I would say if you're running for office as a Christian,

00:42:09.860 there's really no reason to go down this path at all, but if you're going to do it,

00:42:13.560 at least know what it is first so that you don't open yourself up to this.

00:42:20.060 All right. One other thing quickly, this was interesting. Apparently an asteroid hit earth

00:42:23.660 a few days ago. Um, sadly it didn't do much damage burned up in the, in the atmosphere.

00:42:27.660 Once again, we were so close to all of our problems being solved, but yet so far, the bigger

00:42:32.520 issue is the headline from the daily mail and the headline says asteroid half the size of

00:42:37.500 a giraffe strikes earth off the coast of Iceland. Now I know the media sometimes struggles to

00:42:44.300 describe things like asteroids on a scale that will make sense to the average viewer.

00:42:49.000 And so that's why they come up with this, but I'm not sure that you're helping matters by using

00:42:54.200 giraffes as a measuring unit, not even a whole giraffe. Like if you said, Oh, it's an asteroid,

00:43:00.740 the size of a giraffe. It's like, okay, well that I can conceive of that a little bit,

00:43:04.380 but now I'm sort of imagining an asteroid in the shape of a giraffe. Uh, but okay.

00:43:09.320 The size of a giraffe fine, but half giraffes, that's the measuring unit is by half, which half

00:43:17.480 of the giraffe are we talking about? How are we splitting it? We splitting it down the middle

00:43:21.060 and is it a male or a female giraffe? Cause they're different sizes. So, so many questions

00:43:27.440 are raised. And also how do you convert this unit of measurement into a, let's say otters?

00:43:32.540 I think it's 57. So an asteroid, the size of 57 otters hit the earth, or maybe we can say an

00:43:38.040 asteroid, the size of 114 half sized otters hit the earth. I guess we'd have a lot of fun with this

00:43:45.080 measuring skill. Let's get now to the comment section.

00:43:47.340 Who makes a Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage? Who's to blame? It's a sweet baby gang.

00:44:00.200 All right, dailywire.com slash sweet baby comments. Let's check clip number eight.

00:44:05.380 Hey man, out here just returning my cart. Um, unfortunately I just learned

00:44:12.420 that my own father is a member of the cult that leaves their carts out in the street. As he just

00:44:20.120 told me to leave mine by the side of the car. Naturally, of course, I instantly disowned him.

00:44:27.380 Um, and now I will be taking you, adopting you as my, uh, sweet new daddy. So sweet daddy Walsh,

00:44:35.900 you have a new son, sweet little John boy. So sweet baby gang for your life. And, uh, we'll see you at home.

00:44:42.420 Is your dad in the car with you when you're saying all of this? Well, but look, you, you did the right

00:44:49.460 thing. And I, I appreciate that. My son, you, uh, you saw something and you said something. That's

00:44:55.780 what, that's what we need. And it doesn't matter. Familial units and bonds, I think are very important

00:45:02.900 to me. I'm a, you know, I'm a big advocate of the family and I think fathers are very important,

00:45:07.500 but there are limits and those bonds can be dissolved. I think over something like a shopping

00:45:13.560 card. It's serious enough for that. Rob Green says, wow, Matt, those protesters really found

00:45:18.260 your kryptonite that you can't swim. How will you possibly recover? I mean, it would be my kryptonite

00:45:23.180 if they threw me into the ocean or something. So in a literal sense, but I still don't know what it

00:45:26.500 had to do with what we were talking about. Uh, Jonathan Richter says, Matt, society needs more men. 0.94

00:45:32.140 Also Matt, doggy paddles. Well, look, I admit it's, it's hard to look manly when you're doggy

00:45:41.780 paddling, but the only reason I would ever be in that position in the first place is if I'm,

00:45:46.280 is if I did get thrown out into the ocean or something like that and I'm drowning so that

00:45:49.900 I'm probably not gonna be worried too much about style points. I just, yeah, I never really,

00:45:53.220 I never learned the proper form for swimming, but I, because it's just, it's not something that ever

00:45:57.080 comes up in my life. You know, when, when I see a body of water, rarely do I think that I want to

00:46:03.220 be inside it. Like I like to go over top it in a kayak or a boat or something so I can go fishing.

00:46:09.460 That's fun. But I rarely have the experience of, I see a big lake. It's like, I want to be in the

00:46:14.820 water. I just, I don't, I don't have that instinct. Um, let's see. Evie says, Matt, if you can manage

00:46:26.240 without a microwave in your home, then you should see if you can manage without a television.

00:46:30.600 Then you don't have to put so much effort into censoring what your kids are watching.

00:46:34.760 Uh, Hey, I got nothing but respect for people that go without televisions in the home.

00:46:40.320 I don't, for me though, see a phone, phone and television, those are two different things

00:46:45.420 when it comes to with kids. Um, I think there's just no circumstance as I've said, where you give

00:46:51.320 your say nine-year-old a phone. Um, and also because once you give them the phone with internet

00:46:59.080 access, one of the big problems is that it's just not going to be possible for you to monitor all

00:47:03.340 the times when they're using it. You're just not going to be able to do that. TV is very different.

00:47:07.620 So our policy with a TV, we have one TV in the house. So that is our, that's our one. That's the,

00:47:13.580 that's the, the one rejection of modern society when it comes to the TV for us is that we only have one,

00:47:18.360 which even that that's how bad it's gotten that that seems shocking to people. Most people have,

00:47:22.560 I think, in fact, the house that we live in right now, when we moved in,

00:47:25.740 they had a TV in literally every room of the house. I mean, the kitchen, the bathroom everywhere.

00:47:33.500 So I guess they would put a show on and then so, and then they could just move from room to room

00:47:39.080 and watch the show and never miss a second of any show. Um, that that's crazy to me. So we have one TV

00:47:47.800 it's in a public area of the house. You know, we don't do TVs in bedrooms. We certainly would never

00:47:53.700 do TV in a kid's bedroom, asking for problems there. One TV public area. And, um, and we can

00:48:00.720 easily control when they watch the TV, what they watch. Not a lot of effort actually has to go into

00:48:07.340 it. It's, it's pretty, it's pretty low effort thing with kids. This is when you're allowed to

00:48:11.080 watch TV. No, you're not allowed to watch that. You are allowed to watch that pretty low effort.

00:48:16.280 Jesse says, Matt, the problem with your NBA versus WNBA player criticism analogy regarding Westbrook

00:48:22.200 is that in order for taunting to occur, there must first be fans to watch the game. Well,

00:48:27.840 I guess that is the one thing that protects the WNBA from taunting. You're right. I mean,

00:48:31.440 there's no fans in the stands, although really that makes the taunting even worse in the WNBA, 1.00

00:48:37.680 because if there are fans in the stands, it's only going to be family members. And so if you're

00:48:42.880 getting taunted at a WNBA game, it's like your own mother who's doing it. And that makes it all 0.60

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00:51:22.540 DeGeneres and Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, all those people coming and attacking you, putting

00:51:28.020 your name on their account, saying he should be in prison. All these things that they have no idea

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00:51:37.460 their job, the less good qualified police you're going to have. When you read 12 Seconds in the Dark,

00:51:43.840 you will find out the truth of what really happened the night of the Breonna Taylor raid.

00:51:52.540 In a world where voices like his are censored, this story is incredibly important, and we're

00:51:58.400 so grateful to have this brave truth teller on board. The book is available now on Amazon or

00:52:02.520 anywhere you buy books online, so go order your copy today because I can promise you it will sell

00:52:07.280 out. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. Here's a rule that will never steer you wrong.

00:52:14.960 The second worst thing the government does are the things that Democrats do by themselves. The third

00:52:19.860 worst are the things Republicans do by themselves, but the worst of all are the things that the two

00:52:24.260 sides agree to do together, the bipartisan things. So one example, which we may tragically see again

00:52:32.320 in the near future, are all of the disastrous military conflicts we've been involved in over

00:52:36.340 recent decades. Those were all bipartisan things. Here's another example, perhaps slightly less serious,

00:52:44.000 but maybe not. And it happened yesterday when the Senate passed by unanimous consent,

00:52:48.560 the so-called Sunshine Protection Act. I haven't heard of a bill this misleadingly named since

00:52:57.040 the, you know, don't say gay bill, even though that wasn't really the name of the bill. The Sunshine

00:53:01.400 Protection Act. This bill, greeted with much applause and fanfare by many in the public, would make

00:53:07.060 daylight savings time permanent. Now, that's not to say that it would abolish daylight savings. No,

00:53:12.040 it would keep us stuck in daylight savings eternally. The hour that we lost when we jumped ahead a few

00:53:18.660 days ago will never be recovered. It's gone forever. It's banished to purgatory, never to be seen again.

00:53:24.640 Now, the idea behind this proposal is, for one thing, to end the silly ritual where we switch our clocks

00:53:29.880 back and forth arbitrarily. That's the part that most everybody can agree with, and I agree with. You know,

00:53:34.140 we've been switching our clocks back and forth for decades. Nobody knew why. Nobody wanted to do it.

00:53:38.020 Yet the daylight savings tradition continued, lingering on, hanging there uselessly like

00:53:43.040 some kind of vestigial limb, and it was time to end it. That's good. But the question is whether we

00:53:49.000 end the tradition by making daylight savings permanent or by reverting back to standard time

00:53:54.320 and just leaving the clocks there. Out of these two options, Congress, of course, has chosen the worst

00:53:59.900 one, electing to turn daylight savings into a chronic condition. Two of the senators behind this ploy,

00:54:05.680 Marco Rubio and Edward Markey, wrote an op-ed for CNN congratulating themselves and extolling the

00:54:11.640 brilliance of their plan. They wrote, quote, we can't always get bipartisan agreement in Congress

00:54:17.540 these days, but here's one thing we can agree on. We could all use a bit more sunshine. That's why

00:54:22.960 we're working together in the U.S. Senate to make sure we end the practice of spring forward and fall

00:54:26.840 back by making daylight savings time permanent. Yes, they say the Sunshine Protection Act will literally

00:54:33.560 protect the sunshine by giving us more of it. Now, I find it necessary to point out that no matter what

00:54:39.800 the clocks say, there will be exactly the same amount of sunshine regardless. Now, Congress may

00:54:46.000 imagine itself to be powerful enough to literally control the sun itself, but it's not. We're not

00:54:52.100 giving ourselves more sunshine this way. We're not giving ourselves anything. We're merely agreeing by

00:54:57.000 legislative decree to permanently pretend that it's an hour later than it really is. But why?

00:55:02.940 Why are we doing this? Where did this come from? What the hell's going on? Well, let's go through a

00:55:08.460 brief history of this madness. And I think most of what I'm about to say is basically true, but I

00:55:13.700 didn't care enough to look it up. So we'll just, we'll go with it. Daylight savings was first proposed

00:55:17.980 by, I believe, Benjamin Franklin as a joke 250 years ago. He told it to his buddies at a bar and

00:55:24.620 everybody laughed and said, ah, there's old Benny again with his wild schemes. And for the next 100

00:55:29.020 years, people continued to laugh at the joke. And then in the 1890s, a weirdo bug collector named

00:55:33.660 George something or other decided that he wanted more time after work to stare at crickets and

00:55:38.420 beetles. This, this megalomaniac actually wanted to shift time itself just to accommodate his pointless

00:55:45.800 hobby. One hobby that I enjoy is night fishing. Okay. I like to go out fishing at night, but you don't

00:55:52.960 see me suggesting that we blow up the sun so I can do it more often. That's essentially what George

00:55:58.460 wanted to do. Slightly less drastic, but still a significant change. Now, fast forward to 1918 when

00:56:04.220 daylight savings time was officially instated here in the USA. Our lawmakers at the time, they didn't

00:56:09.040 say they were doing this so that a guy named George could look at beetles. Instead, they said that we

00:56:13.100 were doing it for a few reasons, most importantly, to save energy. Now, how could changing the numbers on a

00:56:19.200 clock, save energy? How could it achieve anything at all? Who knows? But we did it. And since then,

00:56:25.080 studies have proven that this policy, like almost all government policies you can name, utterly failed

00:56:29.820 to achieve whatever it was supposed to achieve. It didn't save energy. It didn't force the sun to give

00:56:34.520 us more daylight. It didn't usher in an era of utopia. It didn't do anything except annoy everybody.

00:56:41.200 And now after a hundred years of this failed government policy, the government's decided to do what

00:56:47.000 it always does when a policy fails, which is make it permanent. If it didn't work, do it more. That's

00:56:52.300 the motto of our elected leaders. But many people in the public are celebrating this policy. As I

00:56:58.020 mentioned, they insist that this will now give us more sunlight during waking hours. Of course, what

00:57:02.940 they apparently don't realize is that there's another way to have more sunlight during waking

00:57:06.820 hours. Wake up earlier. But no, people don't want to wake up earlier. They don't want to adjust

00:57:12.680 their schedules. Instead, they prefer to manipulate time itself or try to manipulate. I mean, you could

00:57:18.280 either adjust your schedule or adjust time itself. Which one should we do? Oh, I know. We'll adjust

00:57:25.600 time. This is how lazy we've become as a society. Nevermind the fact that your extra hour of daylight

00:57:32.340 after work now means that school children are going to be walking to the bus stop in the pitch black

00:57:37.500 for several months out of the year. Maybe some safety hazards there. You think that'd be enough

00:57:42.740 reason not to do this? But who cares about safety if it means that you can have more sunlight after

00:57:47.700 work? Sunlight that you're going to squander anyway by just sitting on your couch and watching

00:57:51.940 Netflix. I like all these people pretending that I want more sunlight when I get home from work so I

00:57:55.520 can go for a jog. You're not jogging. You're going to sit on your couch on your phone is what you're

00:58:00.900 going to do. Stop pretending otherwise. What we should be doing, it's obvious, is abolish daylight

00:58:08.400 savings entirely and revert back to standard time. Now, standard time is a human construct in the

00:58:14.160 sense that any method of measuring time will inevitably be a human construct, but it was far

00:58:18.400 less arbitrary. Standard time was more closely aligned with the body's circadian rhythm and with

00:58:24.360 the rising and setting of the sun. That's why standard time was devised. That's where it comes from.

00:58:29.920 In fact, it's more important for your body and your mind to have sunlight in the morning than at

00:58:36.300 night. It's not natural to have sunlight that late at night. Your body wants to wake up with the sun.

00:58:44.820 That's how we're designed. Daylight savings is unnatural. It's an attack on nature and creation itself.

00:58:52.740 We will have to answer for this come judgment day. One other point, not to make too much of this.

00:58:57.540 Too late, I guess. But there's another serious problem. As I was discussing this on Twitter

00:59:03.260 yesterday, many people insisted that, well, we can and should make daylight savings permanent because

00:59:08.780 time is an illusion. It's a construct and we can do with it whatever we please. This, of course,

00:59:14.740 is completely false. Our method of measuring and keeping time is a construct, but time itself is

00:59:19.500 real. Time is simply the progression of reality from one moment to the next. Time ensures that everything

00:59:24.760 won't happen all at once. Time is what keeps you from getting eaten by a T-Rex. Time is the movement

00:59:29.740 and flow of existence. Yet these claims from the anti-time agitators only show how Congress,

00:59:36.500 by making daylight savings permanent, has undermined faith and confidence in the reality of time itself.

00:59:42.760 The United States Senate has caused many people to question the very meaning and existence of time.

00:59:47.640 They've created a mass existential crisis, one which threatens the foundations of human society.

00:59:53.940 Recklessly, the Senate passed this bill without even grappling with these questions and implications,

00:59:58.720 without even first establishing what time is, where it comes from, or if it exists at all.

01:00:04.620 Are the past and future but illusions? Are we trapped forever in an eternal now? Legislation raises

01:00:12.220 these questions, doesn't answer them. And now we're lost. Mass anarchy, madness, and despair will be

01:00:18.960 the result. So not much of a change on second thought, I guess. Even so, for all these reasons,

01:00:25.680 I hereby declare that as far as I'm concerned, daylight savings is canceled. And we'll leave it

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Ep. 909 - The Never Ending Cycle Of Mass Hysteria

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