The Matt Walsh Show - August 12, 2023


Matt Walsh Reacts To People Being Losers On TikTok


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8 minutes

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Word count

1,557

Sentence count

115

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Misogyny

3

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Hate speech

1

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Quitting is the new negative talent crisis, and it s all thanks to the new trend called Quiet Quitting. It s a term coined by Peter Walsh to describe a person who decides to quit their job because they re tired of it.

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00:00:00.000 Where do you work, Peter?
00:00:02.160 It doesn't really matter.
00:00:04.080 I don't like my job, and I don't think I'm going to go anymore.
00:00:08.800 Well, our culture's most popular pastime, as we know, is complaining, especially about stress.
00:00:15.420 Now, our second favorite hobby is to come up with trendy new labels for common human experiences.
00:00:21.340 What if we could whine about our stressful lives while also inventing a new label for
00:00:26.600 something people have always done?
00:00:27.700 That would be the modern dream.
00:00:30.240 That's the holy grail.
00:00:31.620 And that's what brings us to the hot new trend called quiet quitting.
00:00:35.480 This is a major topic of conversation on TikTok, especially where people are too burned out
00:00:39.380 to do their jobs, but not too burned out to record TikTok videos talking about how burned
00:00:43.940 out they are.
00:00:44.560 So here's one viral TikTok video giving more details about this revolutionary new concept.
00:00:51.060 Everybody's talking about quiet quitting and how it's the new negative talent crisis.
00:00:56.120 I think it's a good thing.
00:00:58.620 The youngest generations at work are rejecting the idea of hustle culture or framing your
00:01:04.260 entire life around some dream job.
00:01:06.980 With quiet quitting, you're doing what you're paid for and not more.
00:01:12.380 And it's about setting boundaries.
00:01:13.760 I see this as a healthy evolution that can actually equalize the employee-employer relationship
00:01:20.660 more.
00:01:21.280 First of all, doing the bare minimum at work is not some unique, quirky, new approach to
00:01:27.180 life.
00:01:27.640 We don't need a label for it.
00:01:28.980 It's called lazy.
00:01:30.260 You're lazy and you're stupid.
00:01:32.600 Second, if you want to do the bare minimum, that's fine.
00:01:36.740 That's mediocrity.
00:01:38.260 If you want to live a mediocre life, you're welcome to it.
00:01:41.200 Shut your mouth, you mediocre clarinet player.
00:01:45.480 Mediocre?
00:01:46.220 Many people before you have chosen that path and many people after you will do the same.
00:01:50.480 That's why it's mediocrity.
00:01:51.780 And if you're doing the bare minimum at work, refusing to go above and beyond and not pursuing
00:01:56.860 anything else notable with your life, then you will be unsuccessful and again mediocre.
00:02:02.000 We do the bare minimum.
00:02:03.840 Sometimes people die.
00:02:04.960 You will not flourish financially or in any other way.
00:02:07.900 Being lazy will extract a payment from you, whether you like it or not.
00:02:12.100 And what you are giving up in exchange for ease of life is any chance of doing anything
00:02:17.140 notable, interesting, or great with your life.
00:02:19.440 You are the chosen one!
00:02:21.440 Because the notable, interesting, and great things are done by people who give more of
00:02:25.740 themselves than is required.
00:02:27.740 You want to be a quiet quitter?
00:02:28.620 Fine.
00:02:28.900 Don't come around later complaining about your lack of success.
00:02:31.840 Don't become envious of the people more successful than you.
00:02:34.540 You wanted to quiet quit.
00:02:35.940 Okay, you wanted to put in less effort, you aimed low, and you got what you wanted.
00:02:40.420 You have no right to resent people who aimed higher than you.
00:02:42.980 Third and final point, related to the first two points.
00:02:44.900 I am not suggesting that you should stay forever in a job you hate, pouring yourself into it
00:02:49.380 year after miserable year.
00:02:50.680 If you hate your job and you feel unfulfilled by it, if you feel that it's not making use
00:02:55.800 of your talents, if you think it's a dead end, etc., then go chase something better.
00:03:00.080 If you just don't want to work at all, then you're a lazy, overgrown child.
00:03:04.540 Goo goo ga ga. 0.99
00:03:05.840 As long as you maintain that attitude, you're destined, as previously discussed, to be a
00:03:09.320 mediocre failure and a disgrace and an embarrassment to your family and everyone who knows you.
00:03:12.940 But if you're willing to work and yet you feel that your work right now is wasted or
00:03:16.920 futile or pointless, then go and pursue a new opportunity.
00:03:20.280 What matters is whether you're doing work that is meaningful to you and which utilizes
00:03:25.160 your talents, skills, and efforts.
00:03:27.020 And it's a lot better than being a lazy bum.
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00:04:15.040 And now the makers of Quiet Quitting are back with a new hit called Hashtag Act Your Wage.
00:04:21.240 This is another viral trend, which is essentially the same thing as Quiet Quitting, sort of taking
00:04:25.120 the Marvel approach, where the sequel is a carbon copy of the original.
00:04:28.940 The Act Your Wage trend, which has taken off on TikTok, is apparently best explained by
00:04:33.580 this viral video, which has millions of views from TikTok user Sarai Marie.
00:04:38.660 Let's take a look.
00:04:39.980 Do you even know how to do your job?
00:04:42.160 I don't understand what...
00:04:44.600 Hey, Veronica, I'm going to have you take this home and work on it tonight, okay?
00:04:48.980 Respectfully, Susan.
00:04:49.820 I'd rather spend time with my family.
00:04:51.360 Veronica, did you just decline the Zoom meeting that's at 6.30 tonight?
00:04:57.240 Oh, yeah, I did.
00:04:58.220 I did do that.
00:04:58.880 Yeah, because it's outside of my working hours, 9 to 5, so I won't be attending.
00:05:02.780 All right, Veronica, I do need you to be available during your vacation, okay?
00:05:05.840 Hello, darkness, my old friend.
00:05:10.160 I've come to talk with you again.
00:05:13.220 Okay, Veronica, I'm going to need you to complete all this today.
00:05:16.440 Susan, do I look like two people to you?
00:05:18.720 No.
00:05:19.080 Oh, okay, just making sure, because that looks like the work of two people, right?
00:05:23.580 Right?
00:05:23.820 And I'm one.
00:05:24.500 I'm just one person, right?
00:05:26.360 And it's time to go home, 5 o'clock.
00:05:31.720 All right, thank you, bye.
00:05:33.360 It would appear that acting your wage means being so grating and annoying and shrill
00:05:39.600 that you end up sitting alone in an empty corner of the office
00:05:42.100 because everybody else has jumped out the window.
00:05:44.460 Now, we should first note here, as we did with the quiet quitting trend,
00:05:51.960 that proponents of this approach do, in theory, make a couple of valid points.
00:05:57.480 So it's true that you should have a life outside of work.
00:06:00.920 It's also true that you need to know how to set boundaries,
00:06:04.120 not just at work, but in general, so you don't get taken advantage of.
00:06:06.680 But both of these potential positives are ultimately neutralized because, for one thing,
00:06:10.840 there is no real value in ensuring that you have extra time outside of work
00:06:14.320 if you aren't going to spend that extra time doing something enriching and worthwhile.
00:06:18.700 I am not chugging beer.
00:06:20.520 I'm sampling a flight of gluten-free German lagers with a French wine pairing.
00:06:24.440 So most of these people will just go home and scroll through TikTok.
00:06:26.920 That's how they're spending their extra time.
00:06:27.980 We heard in the video that Veronica wanted to spend more time with her family. 0.99
00:06:37.300 But the problem is that these days, most people in their 20s don't have families.
00:06:41.320 So by family, they really mean their couch, their phone, and their HBO Max subscription.
00:06:45.860 Second, setting boundaries is important.
00:06:48.260 But in the adult world, you need to know how to do that with a certain amount of tact and diplomacy.
00:06:53.140 We call this a diplomatic solution?
00:06:54.980 No, I call it aggressive negotiations.
00:06:56.880 What the video is recommending is that employees act like a bunch of spoiled toddlers, 0.97
00:07:01.600 turning up the smarmy level to 100, screeching like overgrown bats,
00:07:06.180 and acting offended that their boss would even ask them to do a little bit extra.
00:07:09.780 See, you can't, this is what you have to understand, kids.
00:07:12.360 You cannot talk to your boss that way.
00:07:14.120 You might wish that you could, but you can't.
00:07:15.980 What the hell is wrong with you people?
00:07:18.060 And if you've made yourself expendable, that's going to be a problem for you.
00:07:21.820 And making yourself expendable, it's certainly one way to approach life.
00:07:24.480 The other way to approach it is to strive to be indispensable.
00:07:28.240 But that takes effort, and it takes talent.
00:07:31.320 And here's an important point.
00:07:32.280 It takes time.
00:07:33.520 But here's the good news.
00:07:34.700 If you're a younger person, and you're just starting out in your career, the deck has been cleared.
00:07:39.460 Okay, many of your peers are settling for mediocrity already.
00:07:43.580 They haven't even tried yet.
00:07:45.520 And they've decided there's no point in trying.
00:07:47.240 This is an opportunity for you, if you're not one of those people.
00:07:51.300 As long as you have slightly more fortitude, and a slightly better work ethic, than all
00:07:56.740 those other losers, you have an opportunity.
00:07:58.960 And that'll do it for today.
00:08:00.400 Godspeed.
00:08:00.720 It's a big job getting by with nine kids and a wife.
00:08:08.040 Yeah, but I've been working, man, dang there all my life.
00:08:12.480 And I'll keep on working.
00:08:13.600 I'll keep on working.