The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 931 - Leftists Want To Keep Twitter In Hands Of People We Can Trust, Like The Saudi Royal Family

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a trans psychologist is now raising concerns about the rush to

00:00:04.340 transition children. He's concerned about it, even though he is still doing the thing he's 0.99

00:00:08.160 concerned about. Also, the left continues in its hilarious panic attack over Elon Musk potentially

00:00:12.520 buying Twitter, and a woman celebrates her abortion with a cake and a party. Whatever 0.86

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00:01:43.800 Well, many on the right were pleased this week when Dr. Erica Anderson, a clinical psychologist, 0.93

00:01:49.200 raised concerns about the epidemic of teens identifying as transgender.

00:01:53.640 Anderson is trans himself, a male who identifies as a woman, and has, as his LA Times profile puts it,

00:02:01.720 helped hundreds of teens transition throughout his career. Helped. We've really got to put that

00:02:06.640 word in quotes. But now he has concerns, and we're supposed to cheer him for blowing the whistle,

00:02:12.380 I guess, but I'm not quite in the mood to applaud people like this, I have to confess.

00:02:16.820 Reading now from the Times article, it says,

00:02:18.200 Day after day, emails pour into Erica Anderson's inbox from parents struggling to support their

00:02:24.000 teenagers coming out as transgender. The parents come to Anderson, 71, in part because she herself

00:02:29.940 is transgender. Anderson also stands out because she, again, she is, I'm really quoting from the

00:02:35.540 article. These are the incorrect words they're using in the article, is one of the few clinical

00:02:40.740 psychologists specializing in transgender youth to publicly question the sharp rise in

00:02:44.880 adolescence coming out as trans or non-binary. She has helped hundreds of teens transition.

00:02:49.800 But she also has come to believe that some children identifying as trans are falling under

00:02:53.840 the influence of their peers and social media, and that some clinicians are failing to subject

00:02:58.860 minors to rigorous mental health evaluations before recommending hormones or surgeries.

00:03:04.740 You think? I mean, some of us have been saying this for years. This was immediately obvious to

00:03:11.580 some of us from the very beginning, and yet it took Anderson years and hundreds of teen transitions

00:03:16.460 before it finally dawned on him that maybe there's a problem here. This is a licensed,

00:03:22.500 trained clinical psychologist, and yet the social contagion possibility only recently occurred to him?

00:03:30.480 Back to the article, it says,

00:03:31.640 I think it's gone too far, said Anderson, who until recently led the U.S. Professional Society at the

00:03:36.380 forefront of transgender care. Quote,

00:03:39.280 for a while, we were all happy that society was becoming more accepting and more families than

00:03:43.620 ever were embracing children that were gender variant. Now it's got to the point where there

00:03:48.180 are kids presenting at clinics whose parents say, this just doesn't make sense. Her skepticism and

00:03:53.760 her willingness to speak directly to the public puts her at the center of America's culture war over

00:03:57.940 trans kids. But this skepticism has not stopped Anderson from still participating in the

00:04:05.400 transitioning of children. As the Times notes, quote, Anderson's website promises to help you

00:04:11.780 become your authentic self. And her Twitter bio proclaims, working for a radically inclusive world

00:04:17.600 for all transgender people. Some cases are relatively straightforward. After a year of weekly 1.00

00:04:23.120 conversations with Liz, a 15-year-old who had no mental health issues and had long questioned her

00:04:28.420 gender, his gender. I think we're talking about a boy. No mental health issues and had long questioned

00:04:42.920 his gender. That's like saying, well, you know, he had no problems with his physical health and also he

00:04:50.960 had lung cancer. That is the mental health issue. But it says that Anderson wrote a letter of support

00:04:57.520 this year for a puberty blocker implant and estrogen patches for this young boy. Apparently,

00:05:05.660 Anderson sees himself as quite moderate on the issue, though. As he's quoted, quote,

00:05:10.940 the people on the right and on the left don't see themselves as extreme. But those of us who see all

00:05:16.500 the nuance can see that this is a false binary. Let it all happen without a method or don't let any pass.

00:05:22.920 Both are wrong. Now, the real scary thing here is that, in fact, Anderson does represent moderation

00:05:31.420 in comparison to the rest of his field. The Times mentions how WPATH, which stands for the World

00:05:38.040 Professional Association for Transgender Health, proposed new standards of care for kids. And

00:05:42.760 these are the new ones that were proposed in December. And the new standards of care are

00:05:47.120 minimum age of 14 for hormone therapy, 15 for chest masculinization, and 17 for genital surgeries.

00:05:58.380 And only after comprehensive assessments showing patients meet the diagnostic criteria of gender

00:06:03.640 incongruence and demonstrate persistent gender incongruence or nonconformity for several years.

00:06:09.420 Okay, so they will still drug kids as young as 14. They'll still chop the breasts off of 15-year-old 1.00

00:06:18.540 girls. That's the euphemism, masculinization, otherwise known as chopping body parts off. 1.00

00:06:24.580 And they'll still generally mutilate minors. They're still going to do that. And yet, 0.76

00:06:29.660 many trans-affirming doctors and psychologists say that even those standards are too strict,

00:06:34.560 not affirming enough. What they want is nothing. They want no guidelines, no standards, no rules at

00:06:42.700 all. Anderson supports at least some standards and thus qualifies as not only moderate, but really

00:06:50.040 downright conservative in comparison to the Frankenstein psychopaths in his field. Or I should

00:06:56.700 say the other Frankenstein psychopaths. Because Anderson, even while raising concerns, 0.66

00:07:02.100 has participated in this kind of unthinkable abuse hundreds of times and is still doing it even now

00:07:10.320 in spite of all of his concerns. Now, I don't mean to downplay or say that it's insignificant for

00:07:18.920 someone like this to come out and concede that there's a problem. It is indeed quite significant.

00:07:23.880 And it should tell you something that even a trans psychologist who transitions children is willing 1.00

00:07:29.800 to admit that there are some red flags here at least. That's significant. I just don't give him

00:07:35.580 any credit is my point. It should again be immediately obvious, self-evident to anyone with

00:07:42.480 the slightest understanding of child psychology that kids are not mentally equipped to make these kinds

00:07:47.740 of decisions and that kids are extremely susceptible to peer pressure. So if lots of minors are all at

00:07:56.640 once making this kind of decision, that should tell you all you need to know. If some of the medical

00:08:02.760 professionals responsible for fomenting this confusion and helping to spread the social contagion

00:08:08.100 are now suddenly concerned, it's not because they give the slightest damn about the well-being of kids.

00:08:14.860 It's because they're performing another medical procedure called CYA in the medical field. Cover your ass. 1.00

00:08:19.940 But here's the important point. Anderson still obviously affirms trans ideology at its core. 1.00

00:08:28.720 Here he is, for example, in a recent video on his YouTube channel, giving some advice to trans people. Listen.

00:08:36.060 I often talk with my patients about the voice in our head that's self-critical. And what we need to do

00:08:43.620 is we need to address that self-criticism and realize that what we're doing is extraordinary.

00:08:50.360 That to live an authentic life as a trans person requires a lot of bravery and not to discount that.

00:08:56.980 And if we do that, if we are really authentic in knowing who we are and believing in our journey,

00:09:04.820 people will come along sooner or later. And not all people will come along,

00:09:10.080 but it won't matter because we're living our authentic life. And that's what's most important.

00:09:17.520 Yeah, it's really someone you want to go to for your mental health troubles.

00:09:22.680 Now, it doesn't matter how many concerns you raise about the rush to transition children.

00:09:29.220 Those concerns mean nothing if you're still telling the story that we hear in that clip.

00:09:34.300 A story where authenticity can be found by rejecting your true physical, biological, divinely created nature

00:09:42.040 and reaching for some figment, some phantom version of yourself, even to the point of

00:09:47.720 carving up your body to align with it.

00:09:50.860 After all, the whole reason why we should not rush to transition children 1.00

00:09:54.940 is not that they aren't ready for it,

00:09:57.720 but rather that nobody at any age is ready for it because it is an impossibility.

00:10:04.920 We shouldn't rush to transition kids.

00:10:07.080 We also shouldn't transition them slowly or carefully.

00:10:10.680 Shouldn't transition them at all.

00:10:13.680 And even more so, we can't.

00:10:16.220 You actually can't transition kids from one sex to another.

00:10:19.920 You can't transition adults either.

00:10:21.320 But you can't drug them and mutilate them.

00:10:26.280 Because you cannot become something other than what you biologically are.

00:10:30.580 The problem with trans ideology isn't that it's too nuanced or too mature or too complicated

00:10:37.680 for children to fully understand.

00:10:40.460 That's not the problem.

00:10:42.340 The problem is that it's false.

00:10:44.940 And because it's false, it is dangerous.

00:10:47.300 Now, if trans ideology were not false, 1.00

00:10:51.320 then you could probably make an argument for transitioning teens if it weren't false.

00:10:57.020 I mean, if it's true that a male can be born in the wrong body,

00:11:01.200 if it's true that your authentic self could be something other than your physical self,

00:11:05.940 then why should we prevent teenagers from embracing and living that truth?

00:11:10.760 The argument against transitioning children becomes incoherent pretty quickly,

00:11:14.580 or at the very least, it becomes much, much, much weaker

00:11:18.100 if it's not based in a fundamental rejection of trans ideology as a whole.

00:11:25.120 The entire thing.

00:11:28.240 And that's why someone like Erica Anderson,

00:11:30.660 for as long as he perpetuates the ideology,

00:11:32.900 will always be part of the problem, not the solution.

00:11:37.040 Because there's no middle ground here.

00:11:39.620 There is no moderate stance.

00:11:41.480 There's no in-between position.

00:11:45.060 This is not a both sides are wrong kind of thing.

00:11:49.480 One side is wrong.

00:11:51.740 It's the side that tells people, whatever their age,

00:11:54.760 that authenticity and happiness can be found in a rejection of their natural self.

00:12:00.400 It's the side that tells people, whatever their age,

00:12:03.560 that it's possible to transition from one sex to another.

00:12:08.660 That gender is fluid.

00:12:13.420 That's the side that's wrong.

00:12:15.000 That's where all the wrongness lives.

00:12:17.880 Now, over on that wrong side, there may be degrees of wrongness.

00:12:22.200 Some are even wronger than others.

00:12:24.840 Even more dogmatic in their wrongness.

00:12:27.820 More dedicated to it.

00:12:29.320 More extreme, even.

00:12:31.740 But they're all wrong.

00:12:33.080 The whole side.

00:12:33.980 The whole ideology.

00:12:34.620 We have to reject it all.

00:12:37.880 Every piece of it.

00:12:39.840 That's the only way.

00:12:42.220 Now, let's get to our five headlines.

00:12:49.060 All right.

00:12:51.580 Let's start here.

00:12:52.800 It's from the Daily Wire.

00:12:53.520 Twitter CEO, Parag Agrawal, tried to calm the company's employees during an emergency all-hands meeting today.

00:13:01.400 This is yesterday.

00:13:02.740 As they panicked over the possibility that Elon Musk will buy the company outright.

00:13:09.260 Agrawal reportedly told nervous employees that Musk could not change the company's culture because no one man can change that.

00:13:17.380 Now, this is significant because it sounds like he's preparing them at least for the possibility that Musk might actually pull this off and buy the company.

00:13:26.860 It says, while he is legally limited to what he can disclose about the situation, it's an interesting choice of words as it appears to leave open the possibility that Musk really may take over the company and turn it private.

00:13:35.240 One Twitter employee tried to claim that what Musk was doing by trying to buy the company for far above market value was like a hostage situation.

00:13:46.960 Agrawal said, I don't believe we're being held hostage.

00:13:49.520 He said, this provides all of us with this moment where we feel distracted, where we feel a loss of control.

00:13:54.780 I am personally going to spend my time focusing on things I can control and that I believe will matter.

00:14:00.800 So, they had kind of a, oh man, I would have loved actually, I wish we had some clips of this meeting.

00:14:07.680 I would have loved to be a fly on the wall there to see that.

00:14:11.840 All of the Twitter employees panicking, sobbing, crying, comforting each other.

00:14:17.180 We'll get through this together.

00:14:18.460 It's just what, it's so great.

00:14:20.720 This is one of my, this story is one of my, this is one of my favorite stories.

00:14:25.140 One of my favorite, this is one of my favorite news events of probably the decade.

00:14:29.440 It's got everything you could possibly want.

00:14:32.600 And as we discussed yesterday, the fact that the man responsible for this, Elon Musk, is an African-American on top of it, just makes it all the much better. 0.98

00:14:42.000 Now, Elon Musk, meanwhile, was at a TED Talk conference and he was explaining some of what's going on and why he decided to do this.

00:14:51.120 We'll start here.

00:14:52.020 He was asked why he made this offer to begin with.

00:14:54.480 And let's listen.

00:14:56.400 Why make that offer?

00:14:57.360 Oh, so, well, I think it's very important for there to be an inclusive arena for free speech, where all, so, yeah.

00:15:11.080 So, Twitter has become kind of the de facto town square.

00:15:18.160 So, it's just really important that people have the, both the reality and the perception that they're able to speak freely within the bounds of the law.

00:15:30.980 And, you know, so, one of the things that I believe Twitter should do is open source the algorithm and make any changes to people's tweets.

00:15:43.620 You know, if they're emphasized or de-emphasized, that action should be made apparent so anyone can see that that action has been taken.

00:15:51.640 So, there's no sort of behind-the-scenes manipulation, either algorithmically or manually.

00:15:58.620 Well, you will hear on the left that they care a lot about inclusivity.

00:16:06.240 And that's Elon Musk's pitch here, is that he wants Twitter to be actually inclusive.

00:16:11.900 I mean, inclusive in the only way that means anything.

00:16:14.760 And also, diverse in the only way that means anything, especially for a social media platform, which is to, you know, allow a diversity of opinion, allow people to express their viewpoints.

00:16:32.260 That's what matters on a social media platform.

00:16:35.400 And that's his pitch, that it should be inclusive.

00:16:38.020 He also says, interestingly, that he doesn't care about the economics of it.

00:16:42.360 That's not what he's in it for.

00:16:43.340 Let's listen to that.

00:16:44.760 My strong, intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization.

00:17:02.400 But you've described yourself.

00:17:03.840 I don't care about the economics at all.

00:17:08.000 Now, meanwhile, over on the left, of course, the panic continues.

00:17:10.900 And they're very concerned about the devastating consequences to speech.

00:17:19.540 And they're trying to dress this up as, well, they're worried about how this is going to affect free speech, even though Elon Musk's whole point is that when the reason he wants to take over is that Twitter is not protecting free speech.

00:17:30.400 So over on MSNBC, they were talking about these devastating consequences, how bad this is going to be for the entire world.

00:17:39.020 Let's hear that.

00:17:41.000 There are real and devastating consequences for using that platform to lie.

00:17:47.060 And we've seen it.

00:17:48.440 We've seen it happen.

00:17:49.740 I wonder, you know, when talking about this, it's, you know, it's kind of funny.

00:17:53.920 Oh, Elon Musk wants to buy it.

00:17:55.800 But there are massive life and globe altering consequences for just letting people run wild on the thing.

00:18:03.440 Yes, 100 percent.

00:18:04.420 But that's Facebook is really the real action is in that.

00:18:07.260 So that's this is a very small company.

00:18:08.880 It has an outsized influence because media people like it, politicians, world leaders and Elon Musk.

00:18:15.140 And so one of the issues is if he's not going to do this.

00:18:18.160 And by the way, Twitter and some of its biggest investors, like Prince Al-Walid bin Talal, are saying no and they're putting poison pills in.

00:18:27.300 What is he going to do?

00:18:28.740 He's going to have to somehow unload this 10 percent stake.

00:18:32.500 And he probably that's probably what he's going to have to do or raise private financing, which has its own risks.

00:18:38.060 There's a lot of risks and possible rewards, but a lot of risks for him.

00:18:41.600 Well, I didn't play the soundbite, but he was asked if there's a plan B and he laughed and said there is.

00:18:47.340 We'll find out what that is.

00:18:48.980 That's what a super villain hero would say, right?

00:18:51.980 He thinks he's Tony Stark, right?

00:18:54.000 That's what they'd say.

00:18:54.820 Whatever, however you feel about him.

00:18:56.280 That's what Tony Stark would say.

00:18:59.160 Super villain, devastating consequences.

00:19:00.960 This was echoed by a salon writer, Matthew Rosa.

00:19:04.760 Can we pull this up?

00:19:05.440 This is what he says.

00:19:08.600 This is not supposed to be a joke, okay?

00:19:10.900 We showed you some of the similar reactions yesterday on Twitter from the blue check crowd, journalists and everything. 0.61

00:19:18.440 And they really do think that this is a civilizational catastrophe to have Elon Musk on Twitter.

00:19:26.680 So Matthew Rosa, who writes for Salon, said, if Elon Musk allows Trump back on Twitter, it'll be a death blow to the free world.

00:19:37.000 Trump's big lie will spread like a virus.

00:19:39.860 I discussed the danger of Trump's big lie for Salon.

00:19:42.540 Like, okay.

00:19:43.720 Like Hitler's big lie, it must not be normalized, lest fascism return. 0.83

00:19:48.160 So we got it all in there.

00:19:49.700 We got fascism.

00:19:50.660 We got Hitler. 0.95

00:19:52.080 The death blow to the free world.

00:19:53.980 That's how much power Trump has, apparently, just by trolling Twitter.

00:20:00.480 And here's one of the many great ironies about this.

00:20:04.940 It's that the left, very worried about what will happen if this billionaire is able to purchase Twitter.

00:20:16.440 You know, God forbid a billionaire owns a social media platform.

00:20:19.100 It'd be the first one.

00:20:20.360 First time this ever happened, right?

00:20:21.480 But one of the many ironies is that, first of all, these journalists, almost every single one of them, work for companies that are owned by billionaires.

00:20:32.480 Jeff Bezos owns Washington Post.

00:20:36.100 And, but yet the Washington Post, they're among the outlets telling us what a crisis this will be for Elon Musk to own Twitter.

00:20:42.620 And then, also, who owns Twitter right now?

00:20:49.460 Yes, we don't want it to fall into the hands of Elon Musk.

00:20:52.800 We want it to be in the hands of people we trust.

00:20:54.780 People like BlackRock, the Vanguard Group, Morgan Stanley, the Saudi royal family.

00:21:04.180 You know how much the Saudi royal family cherishes free speech, right?

00:21:07.420 We know the Saudi royal family, that's, they really care a lot about democracy.

00:21:14.800 And so that's why we need, we need them, we need them to keep their stake in Twitter so that, so that democracy will remain intact.

00:21:23.620 It'll be a death blow to the free world.

00:21:25.720 It'll be the death blow to the free world if the Saudi royal family does not still own a large portion of Twitter. 0.98

00:21:30.800 And when the Saudi prince yesterday said that he's not going to sell, the left was cheering him on, say, yes.

00:21:42.000 Please stay invested in Twitter so that we know that we can, that it's in the hands of people we can trust.

00:21:51.000 Asset management firms, banks, foreign dictators, we're a lot better off with them owning it, right?

00:22:00.240 Rather than an African-American immigrant. 1.00

00:22:03.840 You damned racists. 1.00

00:22:06.420 All right. 1.00

00:22:07.400 Ron DeSantis yesterday signed a late-term abortion ban.

00:22:10.660 This has been just a great week for the pro-life cause.

00:22:15.600 We've got abortion bans in Oklahoma and Kentucky and now in Florida. 1.00

00:22:22.220 They signed, this is not an, unfortunately, this is not an abortion ban that covers all abortions,

00:22:26.300 but does cover a lot of them.

00:22:27.700 It was a late-term abortion ban.

00:22:29.860 And Ron DeSantis signed it in front of a very excited crowd yesterday and also gave a shout-out.

00:22:34.540 We've got to play this because it gave a shout-out to Daily Wire and one of our great reporters at Daily Wire.

00:22:39.380 Let's listen to that.

00:22:40.980 Do you see how that type of mindset has led to things that really shocked the conscience in our society?

00:22:50.340 We just saw this terrible scandal in Washington, D.C.

00:22:55.720 Do we, we, where, is Mary Margaret here from the Daily Wire?

00:22:59.900 There's Mary Margaret.

00:23:01.320 She did this great expose.

00:23:03.540 They found all these remains of babies and they found five who were basically infants, premature, they would have been,

00:23:14.100 but they would have been able to survive, you know, outside the womb.

00:23:17.660 And yet Washington, D.C. is treating that just like we would treat the trash from our lunch or something like that.

00:23:25.620 And it's really horrifying to see that that could go on in our country, but particularly in our nation's capital.

00:23:32.540 And so that is callous.

00:23:34.360 That is wrong.

00:23:35.680 And I want to thank her and Daily Wire for exposing it.

00:23:39.160 Thank you so much.

00:24:09.160 But, um, it's, it's already like a distant memory.

00:24:14.220 Um, the fact that the fully developed infants were butchered in D.C. 0.76

00:24:23.580 And the police are refusing to do an autopsy, refusing to conduct any investigation whatsoever.

00:24:30.900 Um, this is, and it becomes difficult.

00:24:34.120 Even if you're on the right side of the issue and you care about it, it's, there,

00:24:38.140 there are so many things going on all at once, you know, one of our, one of our big challenges

00:24:43.000 that we have on the right, I think it's challenges everybody has, but just speaking about, uh,

00:24:47.200 on the right, one of our challenges is, is to remain focused on issues that matter.

00:24:51.980 When we have an issue, it's really important to remain focused on, not get distracted by

00:24:54.960 other things.

00:24:55.460 Um, so that's not something, we can't just let that go.

00:25:01.720 That, oh, they, they're murdering fully developed infants in D.C.

00:25:05.860 And law enforcement is helping to cover it up.

00:25:09.300 You don't just let that go and move on.

00:25:10.640 Um, and certainly the Daily Wire, we're not going to let it go.

00:25:14.720 Um, so that was great from DeSantis.

00:25:16.880 Meanwhile, Nikki Fried is the agriculture commissioner and she's running for governor

00:25:21.860 as a Democrat.

00:25:23.780 And she spoke out about this ban.

00:25:25.480 She was very upset about it.

00:25:26.380 So I want you to remember the footage you just saw, Ron DeSantis in front of a, a large

00:25:31.480 cheering, excited crowd.

00:25:32.900 Um, and here is his primary challenger on the Democrat side.

00:25:37.900 Um, and, uh, let's, let's watch this.

00:25:40.980 Something very sad that happened today.

00:25:43.460 Um, moments ago, Governor DeSantis signed the abortion ban in our state.

00:25:49.560 So, um, that's why we have to win.

00:25:53.280 We have to win because he just moved us back 50 years.

00:25:58.420 All right.

00:25:59.180 Ron DeSantis has got to be shaking in his boots looking at that.

00:26:01.480 This is a formidable challenge.

00:26:04.560 I counted what?

00:26:05.240 About 10 people in the crowd there.

00:26:07.920 She's in a parking lot talking to 10 people.

00:26:11.740 This is, uh, that, that turnout, that makes Biden's turnouts.

00:26:16.520 That makes like a Biden campaign event look like a Trump event in comparison.

00:26:20.920 So pretty sad.

00:26:22.520 Speaking of sad, um, and disgusting and infuriating, uh, also someone who goes by Carmelita Hate,

00:26:30.140 appropriate last name. 1.00

00:26:31.480 Calls herself a professional slut. 1.00

00:26:33.440 That's what she calls herself. 1.00

00:26:34.800 And I'm not going to quibble with that description at all.

00:26:38.400 Um, anyway, she tweeted this viral this week.

00:26:42.960 Abortion is healthcare and also traumatic.

00:26:45.280 So if you do have one, please gather all of your closest friends after to celebrate, be around

00:26:51.040 endless love and happiness for your decision.

00:26:53.820 Thanks for everyone who came last night.

00:26:55.960 And, um, apparently she had a party to celebrate her abortion. 1.00

00:26:59.880 And then she has a picture of a cake and it says originally it's a boy, but the Y is crossed

00:27:04.900 out to spell, uh, it's aborted.

00:27:07.060 And then, you know, people, as you might expect, reacted to this, um, in a not so positive way.

00:27:17.460 And so she, she kind of responded to the backlash.

00:27:19.500 She says, is it crazy that I posted this kind of, but to stop making abortion, some shameful

00:27:24.900 secret in people's lives.

00:27:26.060 Maybe some crazy stuff is what they need to see.

00:27:29.120 I'm thankful to have such a good support system and good sense of humor to get through the

00:27:33.580 tough stuff.

00:27:34.860 And that's that on that.

00:27:37.980 Eloquent as always.

00:27:39.600 Now, there are a couple of, uh, things to note here.

00:27:43.900 First of all, as always, we see how the, the safe, legal and rare mantra has long since

00:27:51.520 gone away.

00:27:52.080 I mean, there, there was a time and maybe if you're a little bit younger, you might not even

00:27:55.720 remember this time, cause this is, this was back mostly in the nineties, you know, when

00:27:59.940 I, when I'm coming of age and first became introduced to the, uh, issue of abortion back

00:28:06.940 then, the people on the pro abortion side said that, you know, we, we don't like abortion

00:28:12.400 either.

00:28:13.000 Nobody likes abortion. 0.76

00:28:14.560 Um, we just want it to be, we want, we want it to be safe, which is a misnomer because

00:28:18.320 there's no such thing as a safe abortion because it's always killing at least one person. 1.00

00:28:21.820 And, um, it's always damaging the second person, which is the mother, whether physically

00:28:25.420 oftentimes physically, but certainly psychologically and emotionally, whether she wants to face

00:28:29.260 up to that damage right away or not.

00:28:31.240 But that's what they said.

00:28:32.120 We want a safe abortion. 1.00

00:28:32.980 We want it legal and, uh, we want it to be rare.

00:28:35.880 We, you know, we don't, we don't want a lot of abortions. 0.55

00:28:38.480 It's just, um, it's a kind of an, it's a necessary evil.

00:28:41.240 That was sort of the approach back in the nineties.

00:28:45.320 Well, now all that's gone away.

00:28:46.720 Well, legal is still there.

00:28:47.900 They still want it to be legal.

00:28:49.840 They want abortion at every stage to be legal.

00:28:51.680 And they still talk about safe abortions, which don't exist, but, um, rare is out the

00:28:57.580 window because the problem is if you, if you admit that you want abortion to be rare, then

00:29:08.500 you are admitting that there's, that it's not a good thing.

00:29:11.660 You're at least conceding that it's less than ideal to be murdering babies, let's say, and

00:29:17.720 they're not going to concede that.

00:29:20.220 And so that gives rise to the shout your abortion movement and all this stuff and people

00:29:23.840 going out of their way to celebrate it.

00:29:26.120 You know, though, even when they celebrate it, you can still tell the truth because she

00:29:32.220 even says, uh, abortion is healthcare and it's traumatic.

00:29:37.720 And then she talks about how it's, it's, it feels a shameful.

00:29:40.900 It's a shameful secret.

00:29:42.980 Well, hang on a second.

00:29:43.940 How is it traumatic?

00:29:47.800 I mean, why, why would abortion be traumatic?

00:29:51.720 If it's, if it's just a clump of cells, if it's not a human being that you're killing,

00:29:56.760 then what's traumatizing about it?

00:29:59.980 And if, if even more than that, you are, it's a statement of your autonomy and your liberty

00:30:06.440 as a woman, then there's nothing traumatic.

00:30:09.380 I mean, I, the, the way that they talk about abortion, it's like, in fact, they will quite 0.98

00:30:16.820 literally compare it to, um, having a parasite removed or you have a tapeworm or something

00:30:23.480 and you go to the doctor and get medicine for it or having a, having a cancerous lump taken

00:30:28.680 off of your body.

00:30:30.140 Well, who would ever describe that as, as traumatic?

00:30:32.260 I mean, it might be, it'd be traumatic to have the cancer, but, but, you know, being

00:30:37.020 free of an illness that that's not a, in and of itself traumatic.

00:30:43.080 Um, so it doesn't make a lot of sense according to the narrative that they give us, but then

00:30:50.580 it starts to make a lot of sense when you realize that, uh, of course, abortion is killing

00:30:55.040 a human child and that even these women, they, they still know that that's still in the

00:31:01.500 back of their minds, in their subconscious and probably not even buried that deep.

00:31:06.320 Because when you see all of this celebration of abortion and we're to throw a party for 0.90

00:31:10.280 our, for the abortion, um, yeah, it's disgusting and it's, it's enraging to see. 0.95

00:31:15.720 And, um, these people are psychopaths in a lot of ways, but you also have to understand 0.93

00:31:20.200 they're not trying to convince us of anything. 0.81

00:31:23.240 They're trying to convince themselves.

00:31:24.720 This is, um, you know, this is overcompensation to a maximum degree because, you know, this

00:31:39.320 is, this is the truth about abortion that I'm, that I'm always trying to get across is

00:31:43.040 that, you know, despite what the abortion industry tells women, you can't just go get 1.00

00:31:49.940 the abortion and then it's like what they, what they tell the women is it's like set,

00:31:53.360 it's like hitting the reset button and going back.

00:31:56.720 Well, you, you, you were going to have a child, but, um, you decided to get abortion and now,

00:32:01.800 so now there's no child anymore and you can go back to how it was before.

00:32:06.160 It's like, it's like turning the clock back.

00:32:07.860 It's, it's magical.

00:32:08.660 It's like resetting, taking an eraser to a chalkboard, but that's not actually what it

00:32:15.000 is because you are still a mother.

00:32:19.720 You become a mother the moment you conceive a child. 0.99

00:32:24.060 And so you are killing your child. 0.98

00:32:27.460 And now you are the mother of a dead child. 0.99

00:32:31.000 And that is the reality that will always be with you.

00:32:35.600 And you could try to stave off the mourning process.

00:32:38.220 You could try to stave off the trauma.

00:32:39.860 Um, you could try to stave off the guilt by going over the top and getting the confetti

00:32:47.580 out and setting off fireworks, but eventually it, it, it will, it will come through and you're

00:32:53.180 going to have to face it.

00:32:54.440 Okay.

00:32:54.900 Two other quick things to mention here.

00:32:56.000 This is from the Daily Mail.

00:32:56.940 It says two women in New Jersey's only all women's prison have both fallen pregnant after 0.95

00:33:01.200 having sex with transgender inmates. 0.98

00:33:03.840 The pregnant women who were not identified are housed at the embattled Edna Mahan correctional 0.98

00:33:09.440 facility in Clinton, which New Jersey governor announced plans to close last year.

00:33:13.520 Prison bosses said that in both instances, the sex was consensual.

00:33:17.160 It is unclear if the women had sex with the same transgender inmate or if it was two different

00:33:21.080 inmates.

00:33:22.420 So already we have, we need a Snopes fact check here.

00:33:25.180 Well, not a Snopes fact check because they're not going to fact check something like this,

00:33:27.580 but this is not an all women's prison.

00:33:29.300 Apparently that's kind of cool.

00:33:31.160 That's, that's, uh, that's, that's hard to figure out.

00:33:33.940 It's an all women's prison and, and women are falling pregnant. 1.00

00:33:36.340 How does that happen?

00:33:37.700 Well, because it's not all women's. 0.80

00:33:39.440 Um, Edna Mahan houses 27 transgender prisoners and over 800 women altogether.

00:33:46.680 It is also unclear how far along the two inmates are and whether they plan to continue with

00:33:51.320 their respective pregnancies, whether they plan to continue.

00:33:54.520 There's another euphemism for you.

00:33:56.060 Um, an investigation has been launched.

00:33:58.060 So there's a women's prison, 800 women, and they already have almost 30 men in the women's 0.99

00:34:06.520 prison.

00:34:06.780 Um, and I can also, without, without knowing anything about the particulars here, and I

00:34:15.140 don't know that I fully even believe the particulars that we're being told.

00:34:17.900 Like we're just told that the sex was consensual.

00:34:21.960 I mean, maybe it was, but listen, there's no reason to believe that whatsoever. 0.97

00:34:28.200 You're taking violent criminal men, oftentimes they're like rapists and sex offenders who

00:34:36.020 are in prison as men. 0.60

00:34:37.480 And then one day say, you know what, I'm actually a woman and they're, they're sexually attracted

00:34:42.020 to women.

00:34:42.480 And so this is all just, just kind of a happy coincidence that now they get to be housed

00:34:46.660 with women.

00:34:48.860 Uh, you're taking them, you're locking them into cages with actual women. 1.00

00:34:53.920 Um, and then if, if a, if a woman, uh, becomes pregnant, in fact, some of the headlines, there

00:35:01.240 was one headline, it might've been in the Daily Mail or one of these other outlets.

00:35:03.560 It said that, uh, two women have fallen pregnant at a women's prison.

00:35:08.280 They've fallen pregnant.

00:35:10.360 Yeah.

00:35:10.760 What are they falling on exactly?

00:35:13.100 That's not, that's not something that that's a, that's a, something that happens after a particular

00:35:17.280 act.

00:35:17.860 Now, whether that act was consensual, that's my point is, is I, there's no reason to believe

00:35:21.700 that.

00:35:24.260 Um, because we are not going to be told if a trans male rapes a female inmate, that information

00:35:35.820 is not going to make it to us through any official channels.

00:35:37.740 They would never tell us that.

00:35:38.860 Um, I mean, and even if it was supposedly on the surface consensual, when you, when you

00:35:48.860 put a woman in a, in, in a prison cell with a violent, dangerous man and the woman quote 0.78

00:35:56.840 chooses to have sex with the man, is that actually consent?

00:36:01.560 Is there a real choice there?

00:36:02.760 I mean, we, we've been told by the me too movement that, um, if a woman chooses to have

00:36:09.100 sex with her boss, that it's not really a choice. 1.00

00:36:12.000 There's not really any consent there or not as much consent as there should be because of

00:36:16.500 the power, power dynamics at play.

00:36:19.200 So you're a woman locked in a cell with a man who could overpower you at any moment and 0.99

00:36:26.220 who is sexually attracted to females and you have sex with them. 0.97

00:36:28.720 Is that, is, is it even a choice or is it something these women are doing? 1.00

00:36:32.760 Just out of self-preservation.

00:36:37.580 So I don't, no matter how you slice it, I'm not sure how you can even call it consensual.

00:36:43.520 And if they've got 30 male prisoners in, in a, in this one women's prison in New Jersey,

00:36:49.680 um, this is, we're talking about hundreds, if not thousands of men who are in women's prisons

00:36:57.880 right now.

00:36:58.320 And again, they're, they're violent and dangerous.

00:37:03.000 That's why they're in prison.

00:37:06.600 So as I've been saying for a long time, I, this is, um, I, I guarantee you there is right

00:37:13.900 now an epidemic of sexual assaults by men against women in women's prisons. 0.84

00:37:19.940 And it's happening right now.

00:37:21.460 And we will, we will never be told about it though, because these women have no way of 1.00

00:37:26.320 telling us.

00:37:29.300 And of course the me too movement is, uh, conspicuously silent about the whole thing.

00:37:34.840 Let's get now to the comment section.

00:37:36.380 Let's see the, uh, Sean Speck says that title alone probably called for at least 2000 outraged

00:37:56.280 liberals and leftists to scream out loud.

00:37:58.140 So thank you for that.

00:37:58.920 That has made my week.

00:37:59.840 The title of the show yesterday with the Elon Musk as an African-American immigrant.

00:38:03.440 Like I said, it will never not be funny.

00:38:06.640 One of the many things that makes this story just so incredible.

00:38:10.700 Um, another comment says your discussion talking through this, what's the plan here situation

00:38:15.380 when choosing to fight the cops makes it so painfully clear that all of these young men

00:38:20.220 grew up without fathers because your point of view is exactly what any good father would

00:38:24.460 say.

00:38:24.800 I've heard similar things from my own dad.

00:38:27.120 Think things through before you act.

00:38:28.620 Consider the consequences.

00:38:30.240 Use the brain that's in your head.

00:38:31.400 Fatherlessness is literally killing people. 0.92

00:38:33.980 Well, of course it is killing lots of people.

00:38:35.740 It's killing, um, the people who grew up, grew up without fathers.

00:38:39.420 It's killing the people who those fatherless criminals then go on to victimize, killing 0.95

00:38:44.880 a lot of people. 0.87

00:38:46.700 And you're exactly right.

00:38:47.860 I had the same thought because as a father, I, I'm, I'm constantly having this conversation

00:38:52.440 with my own kids.

00:38:55.020 They do something that doesn't make any sense that I have to sit them down and say, okay,

00:38:58.160 what, what were you hoping would, would happen here?

00:39:00.940 What was, what would, walk me through the steps?

00:39:04.740 That's what you're supposed to do as a father.

00:39:07.680 It's about imparting just a little bit of common sense because it turns out that common

00:39:12.700 sense doesn't, um, especially for kids, doesn't always come naturally.

00:39:16.880 You've got to kind of condition them into common sense and being able to think rationally

00:39:22.640 and, um, being able to think like being able to think through an action where you say, okay,

00:39:30.360 I'm going to do this and here are the potential results of this particular action.

00:39:36.680 That's not something that kids are naturally good at.

00:39:39.320 They need parents there.

00:39:40.440 And I think especially fathers to walk them through it.

00:39:42.240 And then if you have kids who never get that because they have no father at home, then

00:39:47.220 they grow up.

00:39:48.040 And, uh, next thing you know, as happened with the most recent BLM martyr, you know, he stopped

00:39:53.460 by the police, he runs away.

00:39:57.460 And the next thing you know, he's in, he's in this, this hand-to-hand battle with the cops

00:40:01.500 and there's just nothing good that can come of it.

00:40:04.120 There is no positive outcome imaginable.

00:40:08.680 Even if you're able to fight the cops off and run away, when they catch you, you're going

00:40:14.120 to go to jail for longer now.

00:40:17.300 But the moment you start fighting the cops, especially if you're grabbing at their weapons,

00:40:20.540 even if it's the taser, your chances of now being killed in this, um, interaction have

00:40:26.560 just increased tenfold.

00:40:28.480 And you know what, it's, it's, it, it, it, an unwillingness or inability to think through

00:40:36.780 your actions and use some common sense.

00:40:38.480 But I also think at a deeper level, uh, you find people who, who just, there's this despair

00:40:44.440 there and they, they don't, they don't see their life as having any value.

00:40:48.140 And so if the Black Lives Matter movement could serve any purpose at all, and if it actually

00:40:55.480 cared about black lives, it, it, it wouldn't be screaming at us.

00:41:00.200 Like you don't need to scream at me that black lives matter. 1.00

00:41:02.480 I know that I never said anything otherwise.

00:41:04.180 But instead, maybe you should tell that to someone like the most recent BLM martyr, who

00:41:14.020 was, uh, you know, uh, who was killed while, while fighting the cops.

00:41:20.340 Like that's a message that he needs to hear, needed to hear before it was too late about

00:41:24.980 himself.

00:41:25.700 Your life has value.

00:41:28.580 You know, value your own life, protect your own life by not.

00:41:34.180 Making these kinds of decisions, self-destructive decisions.

00:41:39.960 Um, let's see.

00:41:42.700 Jason says, love the show, Matt, but I feel it's time for a little constructive criticism.

00:41:46.800 I'm sure you're right about Dr. Oz and the position he holds, but that felt like a lack

00:41:51.500 of context.

00:41:52.840 Um, was that video you play with Jussie Smollett pre the facts coming out?

00:41:56.640 Did he change his tune afterwards?

00:41:58.340 Felt a little judgy to me.

00:42:00.560 Just saying, I don't like the idea of bagging on the guy who admittedly, I would likely despite

00:42:04.160 as well, using a video that I'm guessing was before the juicy scandal blew up and no

00:42:08.600 context as to where he stands now.

00:42:10.600 He was referring to, uh, uh, of all the damning video clips you can play of, of Dr. Oz.

00:42:15.800 It's just the latest one to resurface was him after, um, the Jussie Smollett hoax was perpetrated.

00:42:22.160 Him, him supporting Jussie Smollett, talking about what a great guy he is.

00:42:24.940 Well, first of all, it, it, speaking of common sense, it was obvious to anybody with common

00:42:32.320 sense immediately that that story was, was false.

00:42:36.800 Um, and, and also Dr. Oz is running for office now as a politician.

00:42:40.740 So there's no being, yeah, judgy of a, of a political candidate.

00:42:44.700 Sure.

00:42:47.780 You know, that's, there's, I don't think it's possible actually to go overboard in our skepticism

00:42:53.260 towards and, um, criticism of political candidates.

00:43:00.160 Oftentimes I think we go the other direction, but we're not skeptical enough.

00:43:05.180 So you want to run for office, then you have to endure that kind of criticism.

00:43:08.120 Especially when you have made a career over, um, sending false falsehoods out into the world.

00:43:20.740 The only thing about that Jussie Smollett clip is like there, we don't even need to focus

00:43:24.060 on that because of, I don't think we need to get past the fact that the first clip we

00:43:27.280 played last week of, of Dr. Oz endorsing trans kids or abortion or gun control or any of the

00:43:35.060 rest of it.

00:43:36.060 And yet he's still got the, uh, Donald Trump endorsement, of course.

00:43:39.760 Well, as you know, the Daily Wire is intent on changing the culture, which is why we're

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00:44:32.600 businesses that were starting to be looted.

00:44:35.080 The crowd started to become hostile.

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00:45:20.760 Now let's get to our Daily Cancellation.

00:45:26.520 Recently for the Daily Cancellation, we spent some time dumping on boomers 1.00

00:45:30.680 after Jeff Foxworthy tried to blame the younger generations for the existence of participation trophies.

00:45:35.800 And as I pointed out, the boomers label millennials the participation trophy generation

00:45:40.200 on neglecting to mention that they, the boomers, are the ones who invented participation trophies 0.99

00:45:43.720 and gave them out.

00:45:44.840 In fact, the boomers invented almost all of the terrible things that are ripping our society apart. 1.00

00:45:48.680 Things like veganism, the internet, the sexual revolution.

00:45:53.160 I don't know if boomers actually invented veganism, but I'm blaming them for it anyway. 1.00

00:45:56.200 But today we're going to take the always enjoyable generational blame game 0.63

00:46:00.440 and move it over to the younger set this time, Gen Z and millennials.

00:46:04.120 My generation, technically.

00:46:05.960 Though from a spiritual and emotional perspective, I'm really more of a

00:46:08.760 disgruntled 85-year-old hermit who lives in a hollowed-out tree in the woods or something.

00:46:13.160 I don't really identify with my generation.

00:46:15.400 And this Yahoo News article reminds me why.

00:46:17.880 Here's the headline.

00:46:19.000 Gen Z and millennials are disrupting the workplace as they're choosing to be jobless 1.00

00:46:23.240 rather than work for a company they don't like.

00:46:26.520 Now there are different ways to be a disruptor.

00:46:28.360 You could be the Elon Musk type of disruptor, doing new and bold things, challenging the

00:46:33.400 powerful institutions, innovating. 0.97

00:46:35.880 Or you could be the kind of disruptor who disrupts by standing off to the side like a useless lump 1.00

00:46:40.360 and scratching your ass while everyone else gets the work done. 1.00

00:46:43.960 Sadly, many of my peer group and younger have chosen the latter course. 0.99

00:46:48.040 So the article says, quote,

00:46:49.320 Gen Z and millennials are unique when it comes to demanding a work-life balance.

00:46:53.320 They don't just want flexible work hours and environments.

00:46:55.880 They want to work for companies that align with their own personal beliefs and values.

00:47:00.120 And almost half of Gen Z and millennials would rather be unemployed than unhappy in a job,

00:47:03.720 according to a new study.

00:47:05.160 The career goals of Gen Z and millennials are changing power dynamics in the workplace.

00:47:09.160 Almost two in four members of younger generations would prefer being unemployed than work in a job

00:47:13.560 they don't like, according to the study.

00:47:15.720 Most of the young people surveyed said they preferred to work at companies that shared their personal values.

00:47:20.280 Two in five Gen Zers and millennials said they would take a lower-paying salary if it meant

00:47:24.760 that they were purposefully contributing to society.

00:47:27.320 Diversity and inclusion were also important to the survey respondents.

00:47:30.600 49% of Gen Z and 46% of millennials said that they wouldn't work for a company that didn't make diversity a priority.

00:47:37.240 Priority of Gen Z and millennials is their own happiness. 0.71

00:47:39.320 In fact, 56% of Gen Z and 55% of millennials said they would quit a job if it interfered with their personal lives.

00:47:45.000 Now, there's obviously nothing wrong with wanting to work for a company that represents your values.

00:47:50.760 I mean, in principle, that's a very good thing. 0.97

00:47:52.760 The problem is in the perverse and stupid value system that so many of these people want companies to align with, 0.98

00:47:58.280 as evidenced by their insistence on diversity and inclusion. 0.99

00:48:02.280 Aside from value alignment, we're also told that millennials and Gen Z demand a better work-life balance,

00:48:08.280 that they would rather be unemployed than unhappy at their jobs.

00:48:11.000 And this is where the real problems arise, I think.

00:48:13.960 First of all, if you're a young person today, or even an old person,

00:48:18.520 the balance you should be worried about is not work-life, but screen life.

00:48:23.880 We're told that young people don't want work to interfere with their personal lives,

00:48:28.280 but almost every waking hour of their personal lives are wasted staring at screens anyway.

00:48:33.480 I could have more respect for the desire for work-life balance if you were going home to be with your spouse and children,

00:48:39.880 or you were trying to leave yourself time to engage in a productive hobby like woodworking or gardening or something.

00:48:47.480 But the fact is that for many of these people, the lives they're trying to protect from workplace intrusion are hardly lives at all.

00:48:55.720 There's something quite morbidly ironic about a man screaming that there's more to his life than being a wage slave,

00:49:01.080 only to discover that the only thing he wants to do is scroll through TikTok and binge Netflix.

00:49:06.120 Second, even leaving that issue to the side, the more fundamental problem with the work-life balance idea

00:49:13.000 is that work and life are not two separate things.

00:49:17.080 Life is work.

00:49:18.160 It's a symptom of our privilege and entitlement in the modern industrialized West

00:49:21.740 that we can even consider life and work as two distinct categories.

00:49:25.720 Talk to anybody outside of that bubble about their work-life balance,

00:49:29.260 and they'll have no idea what you're even talking about.

00:49:31.280 Because life requires work.

00:49:33.800 Every life is sustained by work.

00:49:37.320 So when the self-righteous millennial or Gen Zer turns up his nose and says,

00:49:41.000 I'd rather be unemployed than unhappy working,

00:49:44.180 the question is then, who will be doing the work to sustain his existence?

00:49:50.620 Whether you're happy or not, the fact of life is that your life requires work.

00:49:55.860 And if you refuse to do it, somebody else has to.

00:49:58.400 So who's that going to be?

00:49:59.680 Your parents?

00:50:01.060 Johnny Taxpayer next door? 0.92

00:50:03.000 Maybe a combination?

00:50:05.000 Whoever it is, if you are not living a life free of the work requirement, nobody can.

00:50:12.680 You are rather living a life where that requirement has been offloaded to somebody else.

00:50:17.880 You've made someone else your slave, in effect.

00:50:21.160 You don't want to be a wage slave, so someone else is going to be your slave.

00:50:24.900 Nothing noble about that.

00:50:26.500 It's entitled.

00:50:28.080 It's selfish.

00:50:28.640 In fact, it's evil.

00:50:30.720 The refusal to participate in the difficult aspects of your own life is evil.

00:50:36.380 It's a shameful thing.

00:50:38.620 Third point.

00:50:39.400 We hear that all of these younger people are prioritizing their happiness,

00:50:43.820 focusing on their happiness, giving up work for the sake of happiness,

00:50:47.900 pursuing happiness, thinking about their happiness, talking about happiness,

00:50:51.260 obsessing over their happiness.

00:50:52.220 And yet, shockingly, so few of them are actually happy.

00:50:57.180 There have never been people who talk so much about happiness and yet feel it so little.

00:51:03.620 Isn't that interesting?

00:51:05.580 Millennials and Gen Z are at once the most focused on their happiness and yet also the least happy. 0.51

00:51:12.080 Perhaps there's a lesson there, which we might consider finally learning at some point.

00:51:15.980 And the lesson is that happiness cannot be conjured out of the ether like a magical spell.

00:51:22.100 You can't will yourself into it.

00:51:24.040 You can't convince yourself to be it.

00:51:27.020 Happiness is a byproduct of a well-ordered, well-situated, grounded, virtuous, productive life.

00:51:34.220 That's the only way to achieve sustained happiness.

00:51:37.400 You can find pleasure outside of that.

00:51:39.400 You can, you know, go to a back alley somewhere, buy some black tar heroin and find some pleasure that way, I guess. 0.96

00:51:44.900 You could derive pleasure from an extra-large fast food value meal or a $3 hooker.

00:51:50.820 But you won't find happiness any of those places.

00:51:54.320 And you won't find it in a directionless life free of work, free of challenge.

00:51:58.620 Spend staring at screens while somebody else provides for all of your many needs.

00:52:01.940 As it turns out, life and work cannot be severed, and neither can happiness and work.

00:52:08.100 It takes work to be happy.

00:52:09.880 You have to do difficult things.

00:52:11.060 You have to exert yourself.

00:52:11.880 You have to give yourself over to some cause beyond yourself.

00:52:16.760 Happiness comes then as a side effect, often when you least expect it.

00:52:20.760 And always when you aren't thinking about it.

00:52:23.680 You simply fulfill your responsibilities.

00:52:25.700 You live your life.

00:52:26.340 You do your work.

00:52:27.580 And one day you look up and you say, wow, look at that.

00:52:29.680 I'm happy.

00:52:31.940 That's how happiness works.

00:52:33.780 You only find it when you stop looking for it.

00:52:36.320 This is one of the fundamental facts of life.

00:52:38.520 And it's something that both the Gen Z and millennial generations would do well to learn.

00:52:42.920 Until then, they are, of course, canceled.

00:52:46.720 And we'll leave it there for today.

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