The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 996 - White Slaves, And Other Inconvenient Historical Facts

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the outrage mob is coming after me because I mentioned the forbidden historical fact that white people were slaves too.

00:00:07.560 But why is this fact forbidden and why does it matter? We'll discuss.

00:00:10.660 Also, the Biden administration gears up to forgive student loans, and by forgive we mean transfer the loans to people who didn't take them out.

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00:02:02.740 You know, over the weekend, I finished the book Skeletons on the Zahara.

00:02:07.720 It tells the story of James Riley, captain of the merchant ship Commerce, which shipwrecked off the coast of North Africa in 1815.

00:02:15.000 Riley, along with his entire crew, found themselves stranded in the vast Saharan desert,

00:02:19.480 where they began to die from thirst and exposure almost immediately.

00:02:23.880 That was only the beginning of their troubles, of course.

00:02:25.820 The men were soon seized and enslaved by a band of desert nomads. 0.87

00:02:29.300 And from that point, the crew was split off in different directions as each man was sold and traded from one nomad to the next.

00:02:35.780 They were abused, starved, beaten, found themselves on a hierarchy where white slaves, 0.97

00:02:40.660 Christian dogs, as they were called in Arabic, occupied a rung on the social ladder somewhere well beneath camels and probably donkeys. 0.98

00:02:48.200 And at one point, Captain James Riley was traded for an old blanket, just to give you an idea of how much they were valued.

00:02:53.720 Several of the slaves were lost into the interior of the continent and never were heard from or seen again.

00:03:00.540 Doomed to live out their lives in bondage, though their lives would have been mercifully short.

00:03:05.000 You could only live so long when you're being used as a pack animal in the desert and forced to subsist on snails and camel urine,

00:03:11.640 which is what they were consuming most of the time.

00:03:14.000 But Riley and a few of his men managed to escape with the assistance of a comparatively merciful Arab 1.00

00:03:19.480 who ransomed them for several hundred dollars and a couple of muskets.

00:03:23.820 Yet, the survivors never escaped the physical or mental trauma of their experiences, and most of them died relatively young.

00:03:31.620 But two of them, including Riley, did publish books about their experiences,

00:03:35.460 and both books were sensations at the time that they were published.

00:03:39.020 Captain James Riley would become a household name.

00:03:42.060 Even Abraham Lincoln named his book Sufferings in Africa as one of his greatest inspirations.

00:03:46.380 The funny thing, though, is that this incredible and true tale,

00:03:51.400 which was once widely known and renowned across the country,

00:03:54.940 has faded into obscurity in recent years.

00:03:58.380 In fact, the author of Skeletons on the Zahara, Dean King,

00:04:02.600 only found out about the story and decided to write a book about it

00:04:05.500 after stumbling across an old, dusty, leather-bound copy of Riley's memoir

00:04:10.820 while researching another book at the New York Yacht Club Library in 1995.

00:04:14.740 It's the only reason he even knew about this.

00:04:18.540 So, why don't more people know about this story?

00:04:21.160 Why isn't it taught in schools?

00:04:23.200 Why haven't there been movies made based on it?

00:04:25.660 It is an incredible story.

00:04:27.640 The book was actually adapted as a screenplay before it was even published

00:04:31.080 with DreamWorks attached back in, like, 2001.

00:04:34.180 But the film was never made.

00:04:35.580 And then five years, or rather ten years later, in 2010,

00:04:38.720 another screenplay was written.

00:04:40.420 But that project also fizzled out.

00:04:42.600 The movie was never made.

00:04:43.320 Well, there's no mystery here, of course.

00:04:46.700 This story has fallen into the cracks of history

00:04:48.980 because it touches the tip of an iceberg

00:04:50.760 that our educational establishment, the media, and Hollywood

00:04:53.980 would all prefer that we not acknowledge or explore.

00:04:57.360 And that would be the subject of white slaves in Africa. 0.64

00:05:01.520 Riley and his men were not the only ones, not by a long shot.

00:05:04.600 In fact, over the course of a few centuries,

00:05:06.660 well over a million white people were enslaved in northern Africa.

00:05:10.580 A million.

00:05:11.060 Some of them detained and enslaved after being shipwrecked,

00:05:15.520 but the vast majority were abducted right off of ships still at sea

00:05:18.460 or from coastal European communities by Muslim raiders

00:05:21.720 who carried them back to Africa to be sold, traded, or ransomed.

00:05:25.720 In some cases, entire communities, coastal European communities, were ransacked.

00:05:32.320 Hundreds of people captured at one time.

00:05:34.440 You know, the United States fought a whole war, a series of them, the Barbary Wars,

00:05:39.180 to put a stop to this practice.

00:05:41.280 There's a reason, though, that school curricula tends to skip over that conflict,

00:05:44.840 going from, you know, the Revolutionary War to the War of 1812 to the Civil War,

00:05:50.120 hop, skipping, and jumping over some of these more uncomfortable and troublesome episodes.

00:05:54.960 There's a concerted effort in our society to erase, ignore, and cover up

00:06:00.420 not just the story of white slaves in Africa,

00:06:03.580 but almost the entire global history of slavery in general.

00:06:08.060 The impression that we're supposed to have is that the transatlantic slave trade,

00:06:12.980 white Westerners enslaving Africans, 0.91

00:06:14.800 which was actually only a small piece of the transatlantic slave trade, 0.59

00:06:18.200 but that's the only form of slavery that ever existed.

00:06:20.500 That's the impression we're supposed to have. 0.96

00:06:21.640 Black Africans were the victims, white Americans and Europeans were the villains. 1.00

00:06:26.660 End of story. 0.97

00:06:28.300 And this is indeed what many people believe,

00:06:30.760 because that is what our culture wants them to believe.

00:06:34.760 This point was driven home when I posted a thread

00:06:37.820 about the true history of slavery to Twitter on Saturday.

00:06:41.260 Thinking about all these issues, you know, after having just finished the book,

00:06:44.900 I posted this.

00:06:46.040 This is what I said.

00:06:47.600 Well over one million whites were enslaved in Northern Africa

00:06:50.600 between the 16th and 19th centuries, most of them abducted and sold by Muslim pirates.

00:06:54.540 Africans were raiding Europe for slaves for hundreds of years.

00:06:57.300 The school system has totally erased this fact from history.

00:07:00.560 Continuing.

00:07:01.480 Of course, white people were enslaved in other parts of Africa too

00:07:03.960 and across the world for centuries, including in North America,

00:07:06.260 where white servants, quote unquote, were shipped to the colonies by the thousands. 0.57

00:07:10.620 Slavery in America didn't begin in 1619.

00:07:12.960 White children were being kidnapped and sold into servitude in the colonies before that.

00:07:16.600 And of course, slavery existed in the Americas for hundreds of years prior to Europeans ever

00:07:20.960 setting foot there.

00:07:21.760 Indian tribes all practiced slavery. 1.00

00:07:24.060 Slavery persisted in non-Western countries long after it had been abolished in the West.

00:07:28.380 Slavery was an accepted institution in Africa and Asia for millennia,

00:07:31.760 and it seems to have never occurred to any of these societies

00:07:33.640 that there might have been something wrong with the practice.

00:07:36.200 And of course, the African slave trade was mostly furnished by Africans capturing other Africans 0.62

00:07:40.380 and selling them into bondage.

00:07:41.980 The African slave trade was abolished by the West, not by Africa.

00:07:46.460 Slavery remained legal in parts of Africa well into the 20th century.

00:07:50.700 Actually, I should have said that slavery was abolished against the,

00:07:55.600 not just, you know, without the help of the non-Western world, 0.80

00:07:58.040 but against the objections of the non-Western world was the slave trade abolished.

00:08:02.680 Everything I wrote there is as true as it is unknown to the average American.

00:08:06.900 But predictably, the outrage mob has been screaming at me for the past two days because of this,

00:08:13.200 calling me a Nazi, accusing me of excusing or justifying or minimizing the enslavement 0.87

00:08:18.920 of black people, accusing me of upholding white supremacy, quote unquote.

00:08:23.900 My messages and emails have been, as you can imagine, even more colorful than that. 0.85

00:08:28.380 But the attacks have come from the right as well.

00:08:31.680 This is not all from the left.

00:08:32.580 Maj Touré is a prominent gun rights activist. 0.98

00:08:36.880 Maybe you've seen him on Fox News, maybe you've seen him on YouTube.

00:08:40.100 He launched into a tirade that included many tweets and several videos about me.

00:08:44.560 Beginning with this response, he said, 0.99

00:08:46.340 Dumb, reductive, and horrible attempt at justifying the transatlantic slave trade take here. 0.99

00:08:52.480 Conservatives love going full retard and damaging any inroads into black communities with these kind of takes. 0.99

00:08:58.180 I just big up, dude, for the what is a woman film and then this.

00:09:02.580 Yes, how dare I say something he disagrees with after he just said he likes my movie.

00:09:07.240 I should have known that his endorsement of my film puts me in debt to him for life.

00:09:10.280 I didn't realize that.

00:09:12.820 Others on the right agreed with him, including Aja Smith, who's a GOP congressional candidate,

00:09:17.220 who tweeted,

00:09:18.280 Maj was correct for calling him out. 0.96

00:09:20.200 Far too long.

00:09:20.960 Folks are silent when they see and hear a wrong.

00:09:23.700 That's why we're in this disinformation that we're in.

00:09:26.020 Now, despite my urging, I could not get Smith to explain what part of my statement was disinformation.

00:09:33.380 Most of the people angry at me for talking about this issue could not even begin to explain,

00:09:37.820 didn't try to explain, how or why I'm wrong.

00:09:41.800 There was at least one exception.

00:09:43.180 Well-known Twitch streamer, to the extent that any Twitch streamer can be called well-known,

00:09:47.320 Hassan Piker, tried to debunk at least one of the things that I said about slavery.

00:09:52.000 Let's listen to that attempt.

00:09:53.160 Matt Walsh.

00:09:55.480 Well, over one million whites were enslaved in North Africa between the 16th and 19th centuries.

00:09:59.360 Most of them abducted and sold by Muslim pirates.

00:10:01.300 Africans were raiding Europe for slaves for hundreds of years.

00:10:03.840 The school system has totally erased this fact from history.

00:10:06.780 First of all, you know, the glories of Muslim pirates doing that was erased, 1.00

00:10:16.160 probably because the Western world was embarrassed by the L that they held,

00:10:20.640 most likely to the Ottoman Empire. 0.92

00:10:22.640 Most frequently to the Ottoman Empire, the sick man of Europe. 1.00

00:10:26.460 Okay.

00:10:28.780 Of course, white people were enslaved in other parts of Africa too and across the world for centuries,

00:10:32.780 including in North America, where white servants were shipped to the colonies by the thousands.

00:10:37.600 Matt Walsh is doing the classic like chattel slavery is the same as indentured servitude,

00:10:42.100 which of course it's not.

00:10:43.460 Indentured servitude in and of itself is, of course, still completely unacceptable, obviously.

00:10:49.220 But the main differences in that situation is that you can actually purchase your way,

00:10:54.720 you can purchase your freedom.

00:10:55.800 Not that it's like super likely or whatever, but you can do that

00:10:58.420 where there was no purchasing of your freedom as a black slave, okay?

00:11:02.820 Your child was immediately also seen as property, whereas indentured servitude doesn't work that way as well.

00:11:09.600 And that's precisely why there is a difference between the way that like Irishmen 0.97

00:11:17.860 or the way that Italians or the way that like whoever the fuck we're talking about in this situation 0.98

00:11:22.400 were able to assimilate or be welcomed into white society in comparison to black people, 0.98

00:11:30.460 which Matt Walsh, of course, still doesn't want to welcome into white society.

00:11:35.620 So there you go.

00:11:36.840 Now, we're going to be generous and ignore the part where he refers to the glories, 0.98

00:11:43.600 his words, of Muslims enslaving white people. 0.98

00:11:46.460 He considers that a glory. 0.97

00:11:49.140 And instead, we're going to focus on his claims about indentured servitude.

00:11:52.380 This is totally different from chattel slavery, he says.

00:11:55.880 And I've heard a lot of this.

00:11:56.860 You hear a lot of this, this attempt to distinguish chattel slavery from other kinds of slavery.

00:12:01.720 Well, in the West, there was chattel slavery, which is so much worse than all the other kinds of slavery.

00:12:05.380 Well, chattel just means property, right?

00:12:07.660 So chattel slavery is when the slave is property.

00:12:10.820 Well, that's slavery. 0.99

00:12:11.760 That's the definition of slavery is when someone is made property.

00:12:16.100 So there is no coherent distinction to be made between slavery and chattel slavery.

00:12:22.780 This is just what people do when they, in fact, are looking to minimize or justify one type of slavery

00:12:28.840 and separate it from other types.

00:12:31.940 In the indentured servitude thing, he says, well, this is very different.

00:12:34.860 But that's also incorrect.

00:12:36.580 In a book called White Cargo, The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America,

00:12:40.260 authors Don Jordan and Michael Walsh explain, no relation, by the way, as far as I know,

00:12:44.380 that in most cases, an indentured servant, so-called, was simply a slave by another name.

00:12:50.740 The servants were bought, sold, and traded like any other slave, like any other property.

00:12:56.860 And though their period of bondage was supposed to be temporary,

00:12:59.780 oftentimes they were kept in servitude for life after their sentence was complete

00:13:05.040 because there was no one around to enforce the terms of the deal.

00:13:09.260 Many others were worked to death long before they could be freed.

00:13:12.340 Many of these, quote-unquote, indentured servants, when they were shipped to the Americas,

00:13:17.340 died within a year because they were worked to death.

00:13:20.760 They were worked harder than you worked your livestock.

00:13:23.760 Also, as the authors explain, many of the servants did not choose that arrangement at all.

00:13:30.020 Kids were kidnapped off the street and sold into servitude.

00:13:33.860 Others were coaxed there on false pretenses and then enslaved.

00:13:37.820 So yes, there were white slaves in America.

00:13:40.060 There were a lot of them.

00:13:41.800 As a New York Times review of White Cargo says in its concluding sentence,

00:13:45.360 this again is the New York Times, which wrote this, but this was 15 years ago,

00:13:49.280 there are probably tens of millions of Americans who are descended from white slaves without even knowing it. 0.54

00:13:56.780 You don't often hear that brought up in the reparations conversation, do you?

00:14:01.520 Now, the fact that white people were slaves should not come as a surprise anyway,

00:14:05.360 given that the word slaves comes from Slav

00:14:08.140 because Slavic people historically were so often enslaved.

00:14:13.120 Was the enslavement of black people in America completely different in its barbarity

00:14:17.120 from all other forms of slavery across the world and throughout history?

00:14:20.400 No.

00:14:21.280 We've already discussed the conditions of white slaves in Africa

00:14:23.820 and of white children abducted and shipped to America and then literally worked to death.

00:14:27.380 What we see very quickly from any honest study of the history of slavery

00:14:30.500 is that it was unspeakably brutal in all of its forms.

00:14:35.980 Galley slaves on Arab ships were kept in chains for years at a time,

00:14:39.640 not allowed to leave the ship.

00:14:41.580 And then if a British patrol approached and they thought that the slaves were going to be liberated, 0.97

00:14:45.240 they would just cut their throats and throw them overboard. 0.94

00:14:48.900 Slaves in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans, 0.97

00:14:51.740 that is, slaves owned by Native American tribes because they all owned slaves, 0.95

00:14:55.220 were frequently tortured and brutalized, especially in Mesoamerica,

00:14:58.360 where they often would be gutted, dismembered, and sometimes cannibalized during religious rituals.

00:15:04.140 It was not good to be a slave anywhere, let's just say.

00:15:06.960 Maybe we could leave it at that.

00:15:09.700 America was not unique in its relationship with slavery.

00:15:12.580 It wasn't even unique in its exploitation of the transatlantic slave trade.

00:15:17.160 Most slaves from Africa were shipped not to the U.S., but to the Middle East and South America.

00:15:23.460 What makes the U.S.A. different for most countries is not that it had slaves.

00:15:28.180 In that fact, it's on the same footing as literally every other country that had existed on Earth until that point,

00:15:33.220 but that it had slaves for such a comparatively short amount of time.

00:15:36.260 But does this matter?

00:15:41.380 I mean, should we be talking about any of this?

00:15:44.760 Well, yes, it matters.

00:15:46.440 It matters because it's true,

00:15:49.020 and it's a truth that a lot of people aren't aware of,

00:15:52.740 and it matters because we cannot study history,

00:15:57.400 and most importantly, learn from it,

00:15:59.680 if we're determined to only look at little pieces of the bigger stories.

00:16:06.160 That's why it matters most of all.

00:16:10.040 Slavery was not America's sin or the Western world's sin.

00:16:14.440 It was the entire world's sin.

00:16:17.740 One that the Western world ultimately did far more to stamp out and rectify than anyone else.

00:16:23.840 This is the entire world.

00:16:25.320 I mean, for thousands of years.

00:16:27.780 It's not just that slavery existed for thousands of years.

00:16:30.240 It's that for thousands of years across the world,

00:16:32.760 it hardly even occurred to anyone,

00:16:35.900 even some of the greatest philosophical and religious thinkers for thousands of years across the world,

00:16:42.340 hardly even occurred to anyone that there might be something wrong with the practice in and of itself.

00:16:47.780 There are people who spoke out against the conditions of slaves, against the abuse of slaves,

00:16:51.380 but very, it's very, very rarely did you hear anyone even get close to criticizing slavery as an institution.

00:17:00.660 This was a massive moral blind spot that virtually everyone who existed on Earth for thousands of years shared.

00:17:10.600 That's an important story.

00:17:17.220 That there could be a blind spot like that, that everyone shares.

00:17:23.700 Something we should probably talk about and think about and learn from.

00:17:29.500 Because as I said, it's the truth.

00:17:30.860 And the thing about the truth is that the more you tell me not to say it, the louder I'll be about it.

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00:19:02.540 So, this, you know, this is just, this is how it goes.

00:19:07.160 You tell me to stop talking about it, then I do a 15-minute monologue about it to start the week.

00:19:11.120 That's just the way this works.

00:19:13.420 And, in fact, that ended up, that ended up superseding what I was going to start the show with today originally,

00:19:21.400 which was the issue of student loans.

00:19:23.980 Because there's a couple of things going on on that issue that are important.

00:19:27.940 So, first of all, we have this from NPR.

00:19:30.480 It says, a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office finds the U.S. Department of Education

00:19:34.800 miscalculated the cost of the federal student loan program.

00:19:40.160 Miscalculated is a generous understatement, let's say.

00:19:45.180 From 1997 to 2021, the Education Department estimated that payments from federal direct student loans

00:19:51.060 would generate $114 billion for the government.

00:19:55.640 But the Government Accountability Office found that, as of 2021,

00:20:00.320 the program had actually cost the government an estimated $197 billion.

00:20:06.000 A percentage of that shortfall, $102 billion,

00:20:08.740 stems from the unprecedented federal student loan payment pause that began under the CARES Act of 2020.

00:20:13.880 The pause has been extended several times under former President Trump and President Biden.

00:20:17.900 The most recent extension runs through August 31st.

00:20:20.280 A bigger reason for the $311 billion difference, report says,

00:20:24.960 is that initial predictions did not account for the high percentage of borrowers

00:20:28.580 who ended up enrolling in income-driven repayment plans.

00:20:31.880 About half of all direct loans are now paid through these plans,

00:20:34.500 which are designed to help people who can't afford to make large monthly payments

00:20:37.780 and which promise loan cancellation after 20 to 25 years.

00:20:41.060 So, what do we learn from this? 0.88

00:20:42.340 First of all, the Department of Education is incompetent, useless, should not exist, 0.96

00:20:45.960 and it's really bad at estimating the costs of things. 0.97

00:20:50.200 To the extent of estimating a $114 billion windfall,

00:20:55.500 that in reality becomes a nearly $200 billion loss, a money pit.

00:21:01.200 And that should make you really nervous about this.

00:21:03.500 This is a story from Business Insider.

00:21:05.100 It says,

00:21:05.240 The Education Department is ready to cancel student debt once President Joe Biden gives the word,

00:21:10.140 according to Politico.

00:21:10.980 On Thursday, Politico released a report detailing internal memos within the Education Department

00:21:15.040 on plans to carry out broad student loan forgiveness.

00:21:17.740 Biden has considered moving to cancel $10,000 in student debt for borrowers making under $150,000.

00:21:23.400 And the report says the department is prepared to provide that relief within months of any announcement

00:21:27.300 for borrowers whose income information is available.

00:21:29.680 For example, borrowers without income information readily available to the department would apply

00:21:35.780 through a form on studentave.gov to self-certify their income and qualifications for relief per the report.

00:21:42.720 So, the Department of Education is ready to do this.

00:21:45.160 The most recent student loan pause, as it said, is up at the end of this month that just began.

00:21:52.600 So, either Biden is going to kick the can down the road some more and pause it again,

00:21:57.320 which I wouldn't be surprised if he does because he's just going to keep pausing until we get to the midterms,

00:22:01.320 which at this point it would take, I think, one more pause and you're past the midterms.

00:22:04.500 Or he's going to institute some sort of student loan forgiveness.

00:22:10.100 Now, on this issue of student debt and so-called forgiveness,

00:22:15.600 which is a euphemism that I'm using myself because I'm reading it in these articles,

00:22:19.480 but it is, we should keep in mind, it is a euphemism.

00:22:21.600 Because it's actually not possible.

00:22:24.220 This is not something that anyone has a magic wand where they can wave it and say,

00:22:28.180 oh, you are forgiven.

00:22:29.760 Go in peace, my child.

00:22:31.300 You are absolved of your debts.

00:22:34.420 No, as I always point out, this is not student loan forgiveness.

00:22:37.520 It is student loan transferal.

00:22:39.700 It is debt transferal, not debt forgiveness.

00:22:43.100 All debt forgiveness is debt transferal.

00:22:46.920 Because somebody is left holding the bag.

00:22:49.340 Someone has to pay the debt.

00:22:50.480 It's just a matter of who is it going to be.

00:22:55.760 And on that topic of who it's going to be,

00:22:57.920 I thought this poll from Nina Turner, who's a, I don't know, she's a leftist mouthpiece.

00:23:03.220 She has a blue check on Twitter, so she must be important.

00:23:06.320 She was, she sent out this poll about student debt,

00:23:10.280 and she obviously wanted it to go a certain way.

00:23:13.160 The way she phrases the poll, she says,

00:23:14.880 should the president cancel student debt?

00:23:17.140 And then the options are, no, people should suffer.

00:23:21.860 Yes, $10,000.

00:23:23.840 Yes, $50,000.

00:23:24.980 Or cancel all of it, in exclamation points.

00:23:27.960 Now, she's phrased it that way because obviously she's hoping that everyone will hit on,

00:23:31.860 hit the cancel all of it option there.

00:23:34.660 I mean, obviously, when you phrase it, no, people should suffer,

00:23:37.720 no one's going to click on that.

00:23:40.140 But in fact, people did.

00:23:41.380 So what she ended up with is almost 69% of the respondents of her poll answered,

00:23:48.160 no, people should suffer.

00:23:51.460 And I actually, even though this was not intentional,

00:23:55.440 and the way she phrased it was meant to skew the results in favor of debt forgiveness,

00:24:00.100 I actually love the way she phrased it because inadvertently she brings up a good point.

00:24:08.140 And it's a question of who should suffer.

00:24:13.200 And when you answer no, you know, when you say no,

00:24:16.320 the president should not cancel student debt,

00:24:20.000 you're saying no, people should suffer, but not just people in general.

00:24:24.820 Well, it's that the people who took out the loans should suffer because of those loans.

00:24:33.120 Yes, that's my position.

00:24:35.880 And if that sounds cruel or uncaring,

00:24:39.120 well, how could you think that people should suffer

00:24:40.640 from the consequences of the choices they made?

00:24:44.520 Well, because, and look, I would love it if nobody ever had to suffer ever again.

00:24:48.300 That would be my preference.

00:24:49.540 So if that was the poll, you know,

00:24:55.340 if there was a poll where we could click a certain option or press a button

00:24:58.860 and no one ever has to suffer again, then I would take that option.

00:25:03.520 But unfortunately, we live in reality.

00:25:06.500 And that's never the option in reality.

00:25:09.240 So really, it's a question of not whether people should suffer,

00:25:12.740 but who should suffer.

00:25:14.320 There is some suffering that's going to happen.

00:25:16.960 It just is.

00:25:19.540 Who's going to have to carry that burden?

00:25:22.120 There is a cross that has to be carried.

00:25:24.420 Someone's going to have to carry it.

00:25:25.380 Who's it going to be?

00:25:25.980 Well, there are two options.

00:25:29.120 Either the mostly upper class college graduates who took out these loans

00:25:35.620 can suffer because of them.

00:25:37.980 You know, that's one option.

00:25:39.980 Or the people who didn't take out the loans can suffer

00:25:44.320 because of the loans that the upper class college grads took out.

00:25:50.200 People who took out the loans suffer or the people who didn't suffer.

00:25:55.700 And another way you could break this down is that, you know,

00:25:58.800 upper class college grads can suffer or middle class working class people can suffer.

00:26:02.680 And of those two options, yeah, the people who took out the loans should do the suffering

00:26:08.140 for the choices that they made.

00:26:12.080 The person who should suffer from the mistake is the person who made it.

00:26:15.440 Yes, definitely.

00:26:19.700 That's, there's not much to even think about there.

00:26:23.540 And let's make no mistake about this, that if we have student debt, quote unquote, forgiveness,

00:26:29.780 yeah, it might be, it might be a temporary relief for the people who, you know, just look and,

00:26:36.220 oh, my debt's gone away.

00:26:38.660 But there's going to be a lot of suffering because of it.

00:26:40.760 I mean, that money is going to come from somewhere.

00:26:45.760 And as much as the Democrats might claim, oh, it's going to come from billionaires.

00:26:49.420 No, it's going to come from the working class because it always does. 1.00

00:26:53.140 They're always the ones who end up holding the bag.

00:26:55.100 And then there are other consequences, too, like inflation.

00:27:02.960 Okay, inflation that is already causing much suffering.

00:27:08.720 And now you're talking about canceling all student debt, now inflation.

00:27:11.940 Is that going to help inflation or hurt it?

00:27:16.180 Is that going to help us in battling inflation or is that going to hurt us is the question.

00:27:21.180 So this would mean suffering for a lot of people and it would mean suffering for the people

00:27:24.500 who did not make that choice to begin with.

00:27:30.440 This is just, it's, it's, it's not a fun reality.

00:27:34.660 And in fact, I am sympathetic.

00:27:37.460 I'm sympathetic to the people who took out these loans because they were duped into it

00:27:43.800 and they were convinced, you know, by the education system, by their high school guidance counselors,

00:27:52.220 by their own parents, by the media, by everybody, by the college, you know, by the university

00:27:57.540 system, especially that they have to take out these loans and purchase this really expensive

00:28:02.440 piece of paper, purchase the degree, because if they don't, then they're going to be failures

00:28:06.840 and they're never going to have any chances at success in life.

00:28:09.660 That's a lie.

00:28:10.480 It's a scam, but, uh, there were a lot of people that were duped into it and I feel bad for those

00:28:15.860 people.

00:28:16.200 I'm very sympathetic to them, but my sympathy dries up the moment you take your hand and

00:28:24.460 try to reach into somebody else's pocket.

00:28:27.320 Okay.

00:28:28.840 The moment you try to offload your suffering onto someone else, that's when my sympathy goes

00:28:34.760 away just like that.

00:28:35.440 It's gone.

00:28:35.820 It evaporates.

00:28:36.380 I have none left for you.

00:28:40.240 Now, if you are carrying this burden with, uh, some stoicism, you know, if you're, if

00:28:46.840 you're carrying it with some courage and strength and saying that like, this is really, really 0.99

00:28:50.760 hard and it's not fair and I was lied to and I paid six figures for this stupid piece 0.97

00:28:59.320 of paper, which has done nothing for me, but you carry it because there's no other choice 0.97

00:29:05.900 and the last thing you're going to do is expect anyone else to carry it for you.

00:29:09.640 You know, if you do that, then, then all the sympathy in the world.

00:29:16.220 There's just no, there is no magic wand way around this.

00:29:18.800 What we can start thinking about and talking about is what do we do going forward?

00:29:26.840 Because we're left with this really difficult situation.

00:29:30.120 Um, and it's a very unfair situation for a lot of people.

00:29:34.640 It's just that, you know, it, yes, I think it's, it is, it is unfair.

00:29:37.620 I mean, the idea like 18 years old, you can make a choice like this.

00:29:40.620 These 18 year old kids don't know what they're doing.

00:29:42.020 So it is unfair.

00:29:44.780 It's just that it becomes even more unfair.

00:29:46.900 So if it's, if it's already unfair in many ways to expect people who took out these loans

00:29:51.440 when they're 18 to pay them back, how much more unfair is it to expect people who never

00:29:55.660 took out the loans to pay them back?

00:29:59.080 But if we want to rectify the unfair situation in the future, what we have to do is start telling

00:30:07.560 people the truth, start telling kids the truth.

00:30:09.440 You don't need to go to college.

00:30:13.240 It's not just that college is unnecessary.

00:30:15.320 It is that it is a, it is in many cases malignant.

00:30:20.600 And the college, the university system's overall effect on the culture has been generally malignant

00:30:26.780 for decades now.

00:30:31.660 You can just sidestep that completely and go off and have a lot of success in life.

00:30:37.180 It is possible.

00:30:37.780 And the really great thing is that if you do, if you do just leap right over this thing

00:30:44.880 that they told, this step that they told you you had to take and you go off and you live

00:30:49.180 your life down the line, when you're, when you're older and you actually have some financial

00:30:55.660 means, if you decide that you actually do want to go to college, you still can.

00:30:59.200 It's, it'll still be there for you.

00:31:00.460 That's the truth we should be telling.

00:31:05.060 Okay.

00:31:07.140 It's from the daily wire.

00:31:08.060 It says, um, well, first of all, Thursday night was the, um, the congressional baseball

00:31:14.560 game where Republicans won 10 to zero.

00:31:18.140 And which is, which is pretty funny already.

00:31:20.420 Of course, it was only five years ago that Republicans were attacked, um, during a baseball,

00:31:26.480 during a baseball game by a crazed Bernie bro who went there with a hit list intent on

00:31:32.080 murdering GOP lawmakers.

00:31:34.340 And, um, so you might think that given that history, that this would be, you know, a congressional

00:31:40.460 baseball game is a, is a time for displays of unity and brotherly love.

00:31:45.080 You might think that if you're brain damaged, but if not, you're, you're not surprised to

00:31:49.320 see this representative Linda Sanchez, a Democrat from California after I believe striking out, 1.00

00:31:55.720 we can only assume she's, uh, walking by the GOP dugout and then she does this.

00:32:00.220 Let's play this clip here.

00:32:01.280 She, she flips them off as she walks by lead off the inning. 1.00

00:32:04.240 We'll get a pinch runner down there. 0.99

00:32:05.760 The fist bump.

00:32:06.980 We'll get an eye on who the pinch runner is going to be.

00:32:08.820 It looks like it's going to be Jeffries and she will come off to a nice ovation.

00:32:15.080 Well, not much reaction from the flip off there.

00:32:20.740 So, okay.

00:32:22.500 I might've been unfair to her.

00:32:23.500 I guess I take from the context there that she, she did, she did get a hit, but then she 0.96

00:32:27.720 had a pinch.

00:32:28.240 She has someone running for her. 1.00

00:32:29.520 She has a pinch runner. 0.99

00:32:31.340 No big surprise there, but she, she goes by the dugout and she just flips off the Republicans. 1.00

00:32:38.020 I mean, this is like, this is a lawmaker, right?

00:32:40.460 This is someone who's supposed to, there was a time when you expected, there's never been

00:32:45.900 a time when, when politics was anything but a rough and tumble sport, but there was a time

00:32:50.220 when you would expect some measure of decorum and dignity and statesmanship from your elected

00:32:58.960 leaders.

00:32:59.340 Even when they were pummeling each other over the head, when, you know, when arguments in

00:33:06.000 Congress became physically violent, still there was some dignity and decorum to it.

00:33:11.760 Now we just don't expect that at all.

00:33:13.260 So it's not a surprise to see that, but here's her excuse from the daily wire.

00:33:16.840 She said, says a Democrat representative, Linda Sanchez claimed in a statement Friday afternoon

00:33:20.680 that she flipped off the Republican dugout during Thursday night's congressional baseball

00:33:24.420 game because she heard a sexist remark being made as she ran back to the Democrats' dugout. 1.00

00:33:31.580 The statement read, the congressional baseball game is one of my favorite events of the year.

00:33:34.940 It's a great cause and brings both sides of the aisle together for a night off from partisan

00:33:38.760 politics.

00:33:39.640 That's why it really struck a nerve when I heard an offensive and misogynistic comment from

00:33:43.320 the Republican side on my way back to the dugout.

00:33:47.540 So there was a, it was an offensive and misogynistic comment that was made to her.

00:33:50.800 She doesn't say what the comment was and I guess being very charitable, she never meant,

00:33:57.240 she never says who, who said it.

00:34:00.740 Well, this excuse didn't really land and that's why a day later she clarified the story yet

00:34:06.560 again.

00:34:06.880 This is from Red State.

00:34:07.740 It says, now Sanchez is clarifying her story again.

00:34:11.280 She's now saying it wasn't the Republican team that made the comment.

00:34:14.460 She says, quote, it wasn't the team.

00:34:17.060 It was an obnoxious fan who shouts misogynistic S at me every single year.

00:34:22.600 But she still went after a Republican. 0.94

00:34:24.580 She says, actually they, you know, she's the victim here.

00:34:27.340 She says, if the Republican women would have stood up and said, that's not acceptable instead

00:34:32.280 of, you know, trashing me for my response, then we might have a place where there's no

00:34:36.860 misogyny that's tolerated by anybody anywhere.

00:34:39.760 And yet, amid all these excuses that she's offering, she still has not, she's not told

00:34:47.380 us what the comment was.

00:34:50.380 And she even says, well, it wasn't now, you know, it wasn't the, it wasn't the Republican,

00:34:54.760 it wasn't the actual Republicans themselves.

00:34:56.160 It was someone on their side up in the, in the stands who, who made the comment, but she

00:35:00.540 knows who the guy is because she says he's there every year.

00:35:03.620 But very nice of her to not mention his name because Democrats are known for that, right?

00:35:10.940 Of course.

00:35:12.720 They're very reticent to throw anybody under the bus, to name names, to send the outrage

00:35:18.240 mob after anybody.

00:35:19.280 They never do that kind of thing.

00:35:22.260 All right, this is, uh, moving on.

00:35:23.700 This is New York Post.

00:35:24.320 It says, there's a chance the identity of the winner of the $1.3 billion mega millions

00:35:29.560 jackpot will never be known, thanks to an Illinois law allowing people who score more

00:35:34.060 than $250,000 to keep their name secret.

00:35:36.940 The winning ticket to the mind-boggling fortune was sold at the Speedy Cafe Speedway gas station,

00:35:43.140 um, according to lottery officials.

00:35:45.740 And, uh, but no one yet has come forward to claim the prize.

00:35:48.980 So that's the news.

00:35:49.700 There's a, there was, the jackpot was up to $1.3 billion.

00:35:53.060 Someone claimed it.

00:35:54.480 We still don't know who.

00:35:55.300 So this apparently is not the highest jackpot that the lottery's ever had.

00:36:00.680 $1.5 billion.

00:36:02.680 What don't have a billion dollars in the lottery that somebody won back in 2018 and we still

00:36:07.520 don't know who that person was either.

00:36:09.620 Probably a smart move to not tell people who you are if you win a billion dollars in the

00:36:13.220 lottery.

00:36:13.940 I only mention this because, and I know this is one of those things that for whatever reason

00:36:18.900 nobody cares about, but just, just FYI, you know, lotteries are one of the most indefensible

00:36:27.160 and dystopian things that we all take for granted.

00:36:31.500 We all just kind of accept that the lottery exists and lots of people like it and they

00:36:35.940 think it's a lot of fun.

00:36:36.760 Um, but this is an actual gambling ring run by the government.

00:36:42.340 And in the case of the mega millions, it's a, I guess, a consortium of, uh, consortium

00:36:47.480 of, of, of state governments.

00:36:49.600 But however they divvy it up, this is the government, state governments, um, governmental powers that

00:36:56.000 are running a gambling ring.

00:36:59.380 And, and this happens even as many other forms of private gambling are banned.

00:37:04.340 In some states, in fact, I think there's at least, I don't know, there's, there's several,

00:37:09.100 I don't know how many, five, six maybe, uh, states where the only form of gambling that's

00:37:14.400 allowed is that which the government runs and profits off of.

00:37:17.840 So they've banned all forms of gambling.

00:37:20.640 You know, you can't do sports gambling.

00:37:22.760 There's no slot machines.

00:37:24.300 There's no casinos.

00:37:25.140 You can't bet on cards.

00:37:26.000 You can't bet on anything.

00:37:27.040 Oh, but they have the lottery though.

00:37:28.340 You can bet on that.

00:37:29.000 And that's, by the way, the one form of gambling where you're the least likely to win.

00:37:37.060 That's, that's the worst form.

00:37:39.700 It's just as addictive as, if not more so, any other form of gambling.

00:37:43.620 But the difference is that unlike sport, like with sports betting, you could actually get

00:37:46.700 good at it and, uh, and win money consistently.

00:37:49.500 I know people who do, uh, but with, uh, with the lottery, there's no way to master it and

00:37:55.140 eventually win consistently.

00:37:56.340 And yet that's the one kind that's allowed in a lot of states.

00:38:00.980 Um, and the reason that they give, just add insult to injury, the reason given for banning

00:38:06.220 these other forms of gambling in other states is, uh, they always give moral reasons.

00:38:10.680 They say, well, gambling is bad.

00:38:12.220 You shouldn't be doing it.

00:38:12.820 It's harmful.

00:38:13.500 It's addictive.

00:38:16.520 And yet the very agents of the government making this argument are running their own

00:38:21.620 gambling ring.

00:38:24.500 Uh, and what is the lottery?

00:38:25.500 It's, of course, it's a tax on the poor. 1.00

00:38:28.440 It's a tax on ignorant people. 0.99

00:38:30.240 It's a tax on addicts, people who, you know, dump. 1.00

00:38:35.440 I mean, we've all, we've all been at the gas station standing behind some pathetic sight 0.76

00:38:41.000 of a person dumping like $90.

00:38:43.620 And you could tell it's, this is like, this is their gas money and, and grocery bill for

00:38:48.440 the week and dumping it all into scratch-offs.

00:38:50.740 Or jackpot lottery tickets.

00:38:56.660 And the thing is, you're never going to win.

00:39:00.800 Almost certainly.

00:39:01.600 And if you do win, it's worse than not winning because it's almost certain to destroy your

00:39:07.160 life.

00:39:09.380 Like, it's one thing to hit it big on sports betting, but to just take someone, some average

00:39:16.940 person and hand them like $900 million is, uh, that's almost a death sentence.

00:39:23.060 Guaranteeing it's going to ruin, rip their lives apart.

00:39:27.820 Uh, they're going to die of an overdose, all the rest of it.

00:39:29.820 We've seen that many, many times.

00:39:32.580 Yeah, it's just one of the, I guess it's because there, there are so many corrupt and inexcusable

00:39:36.860 and indefensible things that the government does that you have to, you have to pick your

00:39:39.260 spots a little bit.

00:39:40.440 And so I guess we kind of, kind of gloss over this one, which maybe is somewhat understandable.

00:39:46.760 All right.

00:39:47.080 I also wanted to mention this.

00:39:47.840 This is from ESPN, um, news hot off the presses here.

00:39:50.680 It says Cleveland Browns quarterback, Deshaun Watson will serve a six game suspension for

00:39:54.720 violating the league's personal conduct policy following accusations of sexual misconduct.

00:40:00.180 So if you haven't followed this story at all, um, Deshaun Watson is a superstar quarterback

00:40:09.600 now for the Cleveland Browns after being traded from the Houston Texans.

00:40:13.960 And now he's going to get a six game suspension.

00:40:16.040 And this is after being accused of, um, um, of sexual assault by, I think we're up to 26

00:40:25.540 women, all of them massage therapists. 0.96

00:40:29.940 So it's the same story they all tell where they were either assaulted or, you know, harassed

00:40:36.540 in very graphic ways while giving Deshaun Watson a massage.

00:40:40.440 And what we know about him is that he has, is that while he was in Houston, he cycled through

00:40:46.560 like 40 different masseuses over the course of like a year or two.

00:40:50.860 That's a normal thing, isn't it?

00:40:54.660 26 women come out and say, this is what happened to them. 1.00

00:40:58.380 And now he's facing a six game suspension.

00:41:01.860 No, no monetary fine either being added on top of that.

00:41:05.340 And this is where, you know, it's important to distinguish between a lot of the Me Too

00:41:12.260 stuff and something like this.

00:41:15.200 Because during the height of the Me Too hysteria, there were plenty of men who suffered far worse

00:41:21.280 consequences while being accused of things not nearly as bad as this.

00:41:29.040 But this is what Me Too does is one thing it does is that it, you know, kind of just discredits

00:41:33.460 everybody all at once.

00:41:34.620 Anyone who makes an accusation is discredited.

00:41:37.600 And in this case, yeah, it's, there isn't any physical evidence because of the nature

00:41:41.780 of the accusation that if, if he did physically sexually assault or harass someone during a

00:41:48.040 massage, there would, what kind of physical evidence could there possibly be of that?

00:41:54.160 And so all you're left with is the accusations, but 26?

00:41:57.540 Six?

00:42:00.440 Now it's true.

00:42:01.080 Just because one woman comes out and accuses a famous man of doing something doesn't mean

00:42:04.420 he did it.

00:42:05.520 If another woman comes out and corroborates and said, same thing happened to me, doesn't 0.99

00:42:10.200 mean it's true.

00:42:11.640 Another woman comes out also doesn't mean it's true.

00:42:13.720 But at a certain point, when you get into the 20s, you do have to stop and think like,

00:42:18.980 there's something going on here.

00:42:22.080 This is not a problem that anybody else has.

00:42:24.460 Lots of guys go get massages and none of them have ever been accused of 25 women of sexual

00:42:33.100 harassment.

00:42:36.540 And yet, interestingly enough, even though there are plenty of men at the height of the

00:42:41.280 Me Too hysteria who are accused of far less, had far less evidence against them, because

00:42:48.760 25 accusations, I mean, that is a form of evidence, right?

00:42:51.400 That's testimony against you, and yet suffered far worse repercussions.

00:42:59.920 I wonder why that is.

00:43:02.440 All right, one other thing I want to mention before we get to the comment section.

00:43:05.660 This is from Live Science.

00:43:10.620 It said, explorers have discovered a series of mysterious, perfectly aligned holes punched

00:43:14.680 into the seafloor, roughly 1.6 miles beneath the ocean surface, and they have no idea who

00:43:20.120 or what made them.

00:43:21.640 The strange holes were spotted by the crew of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's

00:43:26.720 Explorer Vessel as they investigated the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a mostly unexplored region of the seafloor

00:43:31.940 that is part of the world's largest mountain range.

00:43:34.760 The holes form a straight line and appear at irregularly repeating distances, and they

00:43:38.360 are surrounded by tiny mounds of sediment.

00:43:41.960 And no one knows exactly where these holes came from.

00:43:44.460 What's so fascinating about this, as I once again try to convince you to care about a science

00:43:50.240 story, what's fascinating is how little we actually know about our oceans and what's

00:43:55.420 happening in them.

00:43:56.100 80% of the world's oceans remain unexplored.

00:43:58.800 That's because the oceans are so vast, obviously, but also they're so inhospitable to, if not

00:44:03.320 life in general, then at least us.

00:44:05.040 Because deep down in the ocean, it's extremely dark and cold.

00:44:08.360 The water pressure, if you go all the way down to the deepest part of the Marianas Trench,

00:44:11.900 six or seven miles down, you're talking about 15,000 pounds of pressure per square inch,

00:44:16.100 which is the equivalent of having like a bunch of tanks or cement trucks stacked on top of

00:44:20.460 you.

00:44:21.120 And yet there are all kinds of life forms living deep in the ocean anyway.

00:44:24.360 Who are, who are able to survive in those conditions.

00:44:28.320 And we don't know anything about most of them.

00:44:31.120 And who knows what else is going on down there?

00:44:33.640 Like I said, 80% unexplored.

00:44:36.000 70% of the, of the earth is covered in oceans.

00:44:38.560 80% of that 70% is unexplored.

00:44:40.500 We have no idea what's going on.

00:44:43.900 Who aren't, who knows who or what made those holes?

00:44:48.600 We may never know, but it was probably aliens is the point I was getting to.

00:44:53.840 Ultimately.

00:44:54.960 Let's get now to the comment section.

00:44:57.220 Daily cancellations are the law and order of the day.

00:45:02.660 We the sweet baby gang.

00:45:08.120 Sprint Kick says, this human filing cabinet would be something seen on Mars where the atmosphere

00:45:13.280 is totally unsustainable for human life.

00:45:15.720 The fact that the elites think this would be a good idea here really illustrates their contempt

00:45:19.920 for humanity.

00:45:20.560 The guy who's referring to the city of the future that we talked about on, uh, on Thursday's

00:45:25.260 show.

00:45:25.880 And this is something that they're supposedly going to build in Saudi Arabia.

00:45:29.020 And then they, and then they hope to export it to other countries, including our own,

00:45:32.440 which just a long, they call it the line, but really it's just a long, vast rectangle where

00:45:39.440 they want to stuff all of the people.

00:45:41.660 And you would live there between these mirrored walls your whole life and never leave.

00:45:47.440 Um, and yeah, it does, it does kind of remind you of what you would put on a planet if it

00:45:51.480 was a total wasteland that couldn't sustain human life.

00:45:54.600 And the other point there is that Mars and Venus are, are, you know, you mentioned Mars, Venus

00:46:02.500 as well.

00:46:03.420 Good case studies, I think, in the sort of inevitable course of all planets, because, because both

00:46:10.660 of them were once like earth, you know, they had oceans and atmospheres and everything probably

00:46:15.040 had life on them, but now they're barren wastelands. 0.98

00:46:18.200 And it's not because anybody was driving SUVs on those planets three billion years ago, as

00:46:25.820 far as we know, but just because this is the course of nature.

00:46:29.880 This is the course of the universe and it's inevitable and there's nothing you can really

00:46:35.980 do to stop it.

00:46:38.700 Um, Zachary Todd says, I'm glad someone else is finally calling out the BS midget just randomly 1.00

00:46:44.620 went from being normal to being a slur without any explanation.

00:46:48.200 Well, it's like I said, there's this absurd idea that the comfort level of the speaker,

00:46:53.480 when it comes to speaking, right?

00:46:55.720 The comfort level of you as the speaker doesn't matter.

00:46:58.700 It's only the comfort level of the person hearing whatever you're saying that matters,

00:47:02.940 which doesn't make any sense to me.

00:47:06.900 So some people, for whatever reason, feel more comfortable hearing little people than midget, 0.98

00:47:12.340 which, which is fine if that's what they prefer.

00:47:14.160 And if that's what they want to say, but I don't feel more comfortable saying that.

00:47:19.040 It feels weird to me to say little people instead of midget.

00:47:22.280 And since I'm the one speaking, shouldn't it be up to me what words I use based on my

00:47:27.260 own comfort level, based on what feels right to me?

00:47:29.640 Annie says, Matt, to this day, I regret objecting when my husband tried to confront some pervert

00:47:38.480 who came into the ladies' room.

00:47:39.920 My marriage would be better today if I just sat quietly and let him deck the guy.

00:47:44.340 We've come to a point in our culture where women don't know how to be protected any more 1.00

00:47:48.580 than men know how to protect us.

00:47:50.160 So I think that's a really important insight there.

00:47:54.260 It's not just men losing the instincts and the ability, the desire, the will to protect women.

00:48:03.760 But on the other side of it, you know, women should allow themselves to be protected by men. 0.97

00:48:11.640 So both of these things are happening all at once.

00:48:13.700 Mike says, I'm roughly the same age as Matt, and I remember in elementary school believing

00:48:21.040 that if AIDS didn't get me, it would be the acid rain.

00:48:24.460 Those were the childhood propaganda of our time.

00:48:28.360 Yeah, and we've talked about, you know, we've been over this, especially in the 90s.

00:48:35.520 If you made the mistake of going to elementary school in the 90s, which at least is better

00:48:39.820 than going to elementary school now, but there are a lot of things you didn't have to deal

00:48:43.120 with in the 90s in elementary school that kids today do have to deal with.

00:48:47.080 But one of the big things in the 90s in elementary school is that you were told about AIDS, and

00:48:52.080 you were told that anyone can get it, and you're like basically just walking past someone in a

00:48:56.220 hallway, you can contract AIDS.

00:48:58.000 And I do always wonder if all of this AIDS propaganda and paranoia being, you know,

00:49:07.140 shoved into the minds of kids in the 90s, if that has helped to turn us into

00:49:12.260 hypochondriacs.

00:49:15.860 And then when you get to the COVID panic and the way that especially my generation has

00:49:20.420 reacted to it, many of them still walking around with masks on, you know, is it because

00:49:24.540 of like the mental conditioning that started way back 30 years ago?

00:49:29.860 I do wonder that.

00:49:32.480 And finally, another comment says, I think it's really hard to fall in deep and genuine

00:49:36.460 love with anyone if you don't like them even a little bit on the outside.

00:49:39.760 We have to be honest.

00:49:41.120 Men, and yes, women too, do take looks into consideration, even if they don't want to

00:49:45.080 admit it.

00:49:45.700 We need to stop going by the exceptions to the rule.

00:49:48.280 Those who don't take even a small amount of looks into consideration.

00:49:51.200 Well, it's not just a matter of taking looks into consideration, right?

00:49:53.380 Your looks are part of who you are.

00:49:56.320 It's how the other person knows you.

00:49:58.840 It's how they experience your presence.

00:50:02.900 Your physical body is not just a container.

00:50:05.180 We aren't hermit crabs living in shells, right?

00:50:08.580 Now, the difference for women is that their perception of your physical attractiveness is 1.00

00:50:14.280 more determined by aspects of you that are not physical.

00:50:19.060 So, like, if a woman finds you smart and thinks that you're kind and generous and funny, especially 0.90

00:50:26.620 funny, then she'll begin to perceive you as more physically attractive, even if in reality 0.92

00:50:32.660 you look like a giant toad. 0.93

00:50:35.020 And that's very good for men. 0.99

00:50:37.220 Because without this advantage, we would, most of us, probably die alone.

00:50:41.820 All right, so this is the moment in the show where in years past I would have read you an

00:50:45.720 ad for Harry's Razors.

00:50:46.940 I would have said something like, hey, you millions of listeners, I love Harry's, go

00:50:50.480 out and buy one.

00:50:52.000 But I'm not going to do that because I don't love Harry's.

00:50:54.400 I hate Harry's, in fact.

00:50:55.580 If you don't know the story by now, Harry's used to advertise on our shows until someone

00:50:59.220 here said that boys are boys and girls are girls, if you can imagine the horror of a

00:51:03.620 statement like that.

00:51:04.540 This was too much for our sponsor who pulled their ads due to values misalignment.

00:51:08.940 Well, we're not going to promote products that hate your values.

00:51:12.760 So we did the only thing that made sense to us.

00:51:14.700 We launched our own razor company, Jeremy's Razors.

00:51:17.440 Every Jeremy's Razors kit comes with a premium razor, two sets of blades, shaving cream,

00:51:21.620 and aftershave balm.

00:51:23.100 It's a beautiful thing to behold.

00:51:24.500 And over 70,000 kits have shipped already.

00:51:27.040 People love this product for good reason.

00:51:29.680 You can see why.

00:51:30.640 So instead of telling you that I'm a big fan of Harry's, I'm here to tell you about the

00:51:34.440 thousands of ex-Harry's fans who've literally thrown their razors in the trash and switched

00:51:38.760 to Jeremy's.

00:51:39.360 And they're not going back, I can tell you.

00:51:41.460 Go to IHateHarrys.com and get your Jeremy's Razors Founders kit.

00:51:44.980 It's time to stop giving your money to woke corporations that hate you.

00:51:48.760 Give to Jeremy instead.

00:51:49.980 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:51:55.540 Today we cancel Mary Catherine Starr, who is the artist, podcaster, consultant, professional

00:52:01.240 yoga instructor with pronouns in her bio, though that last detail I'm sure would already have 0.59

00:52:05.840 been assumed, who's amassed a large online following through her viral comics depicting

00:52:10.660 motherhood as she sees it.

00:52:13.460 Now if you spend any time on social media, you may have already encountered one or two

00:52:16.340 or 20 of these mom life comics where Starr shares her relatable insights into marriage.

00:52:21.840 Relatable to her anyway, and I suppose to the band of bitter, sullen women who follow her 1.00

00:52:26.280 and share her content.

00:52:27.680 It becomes clear rather quickly after glancing at her work that Starr really does not enjoy

00:52:31.680 motherhood very much, doesn't like her husband very much, and is now attempting to 0.73

00:52:34.740 make her resentment seem inspirational.

00:52:38.520 Much of it centers around, as a glowing profile in the Huffington Post explains, the unfair

00:52:42.540 ways that society views moms versus dads.

00:52:46.140 Except that these viral comics often seem less relevant to society and more based on whatever

00:52:51.340 petty gripe she has about her husband on any particular day.

00:52:54.820 For example, one of her recent offerings, which has circulated widely on social media, is captioned,

00:53:00.480 one of the many differences between me and my husband.

00:53:03.820 In one panel, we see her staring at a peach on the table, and the thought bubble says,

00:53:07.860 oh look, the last ripe peach. 0.75

00:53:09.840 I'll save it for the kids.

00:53:10.920 They love peaches so much.

00:53:12.860 And the next panel shows her husband, and his thought bubble says, oh look, the last ripe

00:53:17.320 peach.

00:53:17.760 I'll use it as a special treat in my daily smoothie.

00:53:21.880 Now surely her husband deserves this public shaming for having the audacity to eat the food

00:53:25.720 in his own house.

00:53:26.480 And he gets shamed for many other things, too.

00:53:29.000 In another comic, this one with nearly 20,000 likes on Instagram, she tells us the saga of

00:53:34.100 her husband having trouble finding things.

00:53:37.020 It says, we're sitting down to eat breakfast.

00:53:39.180 My husband is still in the kitchen.

00:53:40.680 I say, will you grab a bib for Teddy?

00:53:43.440 He says, where are the bibs?

00:53:45.480 What I want to say in response is, they're in the same place they've been for the past five

00:53:49.340 years, in the same place I put them every time I washed them and put them away.

00:53:52.600 Presumably the same place you've gotten them from a thousand times before.

00:53:55.520 Unless, of course, you've never gotten either one of our kids a bib in the past five years.

00:54:00.860 But what I actually say, in the corner cabinet, the same place they've always been.

00:54:05.480 And that, my friends, is called self-control.

00:54:08.280 Nothing like bitching about your spouse publicly while also congratulating yourself for being

00:54:12.640 passive-aggressive.

00:54:14.120 Oftentimes, she seems to make no attempt to be humorous at all.

00:54:16.740 I'm being generous in assuming that some of this is at least supposed to be somewhat funny,

00:54:20.540 I guess.

00:54:20.960 I don't know.

00:54:21.220 So, and in these other cases, she just simply lectures her husband directly, like this one.

00:54:27.860 It says, me trying to explain our household dynamics in terms my husband understands.

00:54:33.040 Then we see her saying, on most sports teams, you have a superstar or a playmaker who makes

00:54:37.760 things happen.

00:54:38.740 That's me.

00:54:39.760 Then you often have that one person who just stands around waiting for other people to

00:54:43.280 make plays or shoot the ball.

00:54:44.880 That's you.

00:54:45.500 We need you to step up so we can win as a team.

00:54:49.600 Now, here we see the danger of making a sports analogy when you've never watched a single

00:54:53.600 sporting event in your entire life.

00:54:55.420 But we're going to return to that in just a moment.

00:54:57.180 There are many other examples we don't need to cycle through.

00:54:59.760 She has comments complaining that her husband doesn't carry as many grocery bags from the

00:55:03.420 car as she does. 0.60

00:55:04.960 Another where she complains that her husband gets to work out alone while she has to work

00:55:08.680 out with her kids draped all over her.

00:55:10.920 However, she complains that once he wore a winter hat that was hers without her permission.

00:55:17.480 She has a whole comic about that. 1.00

00:55:19.080 She complains that he takes up too much room on the couch when he naps.

00:55:22.580 She complains that he gets to nap in the first place and she doesn't.

00:55:28.220 She complains that he takes too long to run errands.

00:55:30.480 She has many comments complaining that her husband spends too much time going to the bathroom. 1.00

00:55:34.520 This is a theme she returns to over and over again.

00:55:37.140 Her husband's defecation habits have been thoroughly chronicled by this woman.

00:55:41.340 She even has a Father's Day card that she's created, which centers around this theme.

00:55:45.640 It says, this Father's Day, take as much time as you need in the bathroom.

00:55:50.120 Oh wait, that's you every day.

00:55:52.120 So this Father's Day, take as much time as you need in the bathroom and I promise not

00:55:55.320 to say anything about it.

00:55:56.600 Well, I'll try my very best.

00:55:59.040 While this is passive aggressive, it's at least a little bit nicer than the Mother's Day card

00:56:02.940 that I wish her husband would give to her sometime.

00:56:06.360 It could say something like, happy Mother's Day.

00:56:08.220 Being with you is at least better than being fed feet first into a wood chipper.

00:56:13.540 Though the wood chipper is looking better every day.

00:56:16.260 Her husband, we can assume, lacks the gumption to say anything like that to her.

00:56:19.380 But others on the internet have spoken up on his behalf, suggesting that maybe she should

00:56:23.060 stop incessantly whining publicly about her marriage.

00:56:26.280 Maybe this is something she could do in counseling or something. 0.80

00:56:30.020 In response to the critics this weekend, she martyred herself some more, posting a defiant

00:56:33.900 response on Instagram and extensively quoting Taylor Swift lyrics at the same time.

00:56:38.400 And she, of course, chalked the criticism up to sexism and said that anyone who disagrees

00:56:42.400 with her approach will be blocked, which certainly is the least intimidating threat ever issued

00:56:48.120 in the history of threats.

00:56:49.040 But at the risk of maybe suffering the same fate, I want to offer some thoughts to this

00:56:55.100 woman about her marriage.

00:56:57.300 I mean, given that she's talking publicly about it, I guess it's fair game.

00:57:00.920 First of all, I don't know how many of these complaints accurately describe her husband's

00:57:06.160 behavior.

00:57:07.160 There's no reason to think that any of them are 100% fair.

00:57:10.260 I do know that many of them certainly don't accurately describe husbands in general as

00:57:16.760 she claims they do.

00:57:18.080 I've never met a man who doesn't take immense pride in his ability to transport an entire

00:57:22.800 trunk full of grocery bags into the kitchen in one trip.

00:57:26.080 That's what men do. 0.72

00:57:27.060 That's like, we love doing that.

00:57:29.040 As for having kids draped all over you while exercising, I actually encourage my kids to

00:57:32.800 do that to me because it adds extra resistance and makes for a more effective workout.

00:57:37.340 Also, it puts them to good use for a change.

00:57:39.080 It might be true that men take longer to complete one specific bathroom activity, but this is 0.53

00:57:44.460 balanced out by the amount of time that women take to do everything else in the bathroom. 1.00

00:57:48.680 And do we as men have a habit of forgetting where things are in the house, often staring

00:57:52.800 helplessly at our own kitchen cabinets and pantries as if this is the first time we've

00:57:56.640 ever laid eyes on them?

00:57:58.780 Yes.

00:57:59.280 I mean, that stereotype is, I admit, richly deserved.

00:58:02.440 But here's the bigger question.

00:58:05.720 So what?

00:58:06.320 Sure, Mary, your husband isn't perfect.

00:58:10.040 No husband is.

00:58:11.700 All husbands are deeply and irretrievably flawed.

00:58:15.840 Yes, the rumors are true.

00:58:17.960 As a wife, you will not be able to turn your husband into a perfect specimen of faultless 0.99

00:58:24.220 humanity.

00:58:25.640 You especially won't be able to accomplish that by scolding, nagging, or whining.

00:58:29.760 That approach always, and I mean always, has the opposite effect.

00:58:35.200 The only thing you can do is decide whether you will obsessively focus on your husband's

00:58:41.840 flaws or not.

00:58:43.600 You have to decide if you want to be a martyr or simply a wife. 0.59

00:58:49.540 A martyr or simply a mother.

00:58:51.780 Do you want to stew in the juices of your own resentment, constantly adding to the broth

00:58:56.860 with new groans and gripes?

00:58:59.580 Or do you want to actually be happy and content, or at least have a chance of happiness and contentment?

00:59:06.900 Are you going to be so resentful over the chores you do around the house that simply being around you

00:59:12.820 becomes a chore for everybody else?

00:59:15.520 This is what you have the power to control.

00:59:17.220 And so does your husband for himself.

00:59:20.560 Because despite what you apparently believe, your husband certainly has a whole litany of

00:59:26.080 complaints about you.

00:59:27.840 He may not say them out loud very often or post about them on the internet because he respects

00:59:33.620 you more than you respect him, but he has them.

00:59:37.360 No husband is perfect, yes, but neither is any wife. 0.99

00:59:40.500 And that's especially true in your case.

00:59:41.920 I wonder, have you ever taken a break during one of your self-pity sessions to reflect on the things

00:59:49.200 that you might be doing wrong?

00:59:51.680 You've devoted hours and days and months and years to thinking about, talking about, crying about,

00:59:57.540 screaming about all the many ways that you're put upon, oppressed, unappreciated.

01:00:01.700 But have you ever at any point allowed for even one second of honest self-reflection?

01:00:07.680 If you feel that your husband is so oblivious to his failings that you need to point them out 75 times

01:00:13.460 a day, have you considered the possibility that you might suffer from the same blind spot?

01:00:19.600 Or worse, are you aware of your failings and yet you justify them to yourself by comparing them

01:00:24.560 to your husband's failings?

01:00:26.920 And if this is the case, and I'm certain that it is, have you considered that he might be doing

01:00:30.200 the same thing?

01:00:31.960 Perhaps your marriage is stuck in a cycle of self-rationalization and self-martyrdom,

01:00:35.960 and it will continue in that circle all the way around the drain.

01:00:40.800 One other thought.

01:00:42.380 Your sports analogy was instructive, but not for the reason that you hoped.

01:00:46.380 You say that there's always the one guy on the team who stands around doing nothing.

01:00:51.720 Now that might be true on amateur teams like in Little League or Pop Warner or on the Detroit Lions,

01:00:57.180 but in the big leagues, everyone on the field or on the court is involved.

01:01:02.260 They all have a role.

01:01:03.400 They're all doing something on every play, even if they appear to be doing not much at

01:01:08.240 all.

01:01:09.480 So someone who doesn't understand football might watch the action, you know, from whistle

01:01:13.360 to whistle and conclude that the left tackle is mostly just a spectator.

01:01:17.100 But those who know the game understand that he has an indispensable role to play, even if

01:01:21.060 it's less glamorous, less highlight worthy, less praised.

01:01:24.760 And even if he tends to only get his name called when he screws up.

01:01:29.440 In spite of that, he's in the trenches on every play, filling a role that no one else

01:01:33.360 on the team could possibly fill.

01:01:35.640 So I wonder if you might misinterpret your marriage in the same way that you misinterpret

01:01:40.420 football.

01:01:41.000 Just because you don't appreciate or understand all the ways that your husband contributes,

01:01:46.400 that doesn't mean he isn't contributing.

01:01:50.160 I mean, this could be less a problem with his effort and more a problem with your self-centered

01:01:54.360 refusal to even attempt to see things from his perspective.

01:01:57.980 You're the superstar, the playmaker in your own mind.

01:02:00.500 And just like any other player who elevates himself while denigrating his team, you're

01:02:06.320 doing more harm than good.

01:02:08.360 You're destroying your team, in fact, while telling yourself that you're the only one helping

01:02:12.540 it succeed.

01:02:14.780 So I would recommend that you try watching a game before saying anything else about sports

01:02:18.360 and also try looking in the mirror before saying anything else about your marriage.

01:02:24.200 But you don't have to look in the mirror to know that you are today still canceled.

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 01, 2022

Ep. 996 - White Slaves, And Other Inconvenient Historical Facts

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