The Matt Walsh Show - Matt Walsh's 10 Tips for Life

00:00:00.000 this is all i'm saying because the holidays can be stressful but what i would recommend if you're

00:00:07.080 a man and you're stressed around the holidays get married so if you're right now and you're

00:00:11.920 three weeks from christmas and you're a single guy you're stressed about the holidays just run

00:00:15.160 out and get married real quick and that'll take care of it it is it is really stress-free to be

00:00:20.880 a man during the holidays um i i can't recommend it enough i love it and then the great thing is

00:00:26.180 here's what makes it fun is that um when everyone's opening their gifts on christmas

00:00:32.200 i get to find out what i gave them you know so it's always a nice surprise i also find out what

00:00:41.140 i bought for myself and it just it makes the whole experience great and uh it's it's really

00:00:46.020 it's really wonderful cannot recommend marriage enough for many reasons that's just one of them

00:00:51.640 it's not the only reason but that's one of them

00:00:53.120 so you know they say honesty is the best policy but um sometimes in marriage you know i i do tend

00:01:04.100 to doubt that a little bit i have to be honest with you i'll be honest about that sometimes i doubt

00:01:07.720 a little bit i sometimes doubt the honest the the value of honesty in marriage and i'll just explain

00:01:13.340 why like for example yesterday i got home from traveling i was traveling over the the weekend i was

00:01:18.260 in austin and for a pro-life event actually because they do have those in austin it turns out it was

00:01:23.540 a great event anyway i came home a few hours i thought everything was fine a few everything looked

00:01:28.620 you know everything looked normal and the same to me when i got home as it did when i left because

00:01:32.780 i left the day before and a few hours after i got home my wife said to me she said as we're sitting

00:01:39.460 on the couch um hey so you didn't say anything about my hair and i said and this is where the

00:01:46.580 honesty kicked in okay this is where i was going to be honest and i said what about your hair and she 0.99

00:01:52.380 said i dyed it and i said oh and she said you know it's it's brown now it was blonde before

00:02:00.640 and then i said it was blonde before and then i realized i should stop saying things in that moment

00:02:08.600 but here's my point i was honest for the whole conversation i was completely honest now do you

00:02:13.680 really want to tell me that was the best policy i don't think it was and then actually in in my in

00:02:18.940 my defense i actually went because i never know when to drop it so um a little bit later on i went

00:02:23.860 back to try to prove my point i pulled up her her profile picture from twitter which is from before 0.73

00:02:29.320 she allegedly dyed her hair and i showed it to her and i said no your hair was brown before it looks 1.00

00:02:33.280 the same i was trying to mansplain her own hair color to her i was bringing facts and evidence

00:02:38.800 and destroying her with it but it didn't matter she said i was colorblind i don't know maybe i am

00:02:43.940 i am at this moment calling for a complete and total shutdown of tipping until we figure out

00:02:53.800 what the hell is going on to paraphrase donald trump now to be clear i don't consider myself to

00:02:59.240 be a cheap person growing up my dad would always tip 20 to 25 percent as a baseline starting point

00:03:04.820 at restaurants i have inherited this custom and will also generally tip 20 to 25 percent sometimes

00:03:11.180 more actually partly as an act of generosity and partly as an apology because i have four young kids

00:03:17.260 and as a consequence we leave our tables looking like a pack of wild dogs has just been dining there

00:03:21.720 except the dogs at least would eat all their chicken nuggets which is more than i can say for my

00:03:25.440 daughter but in any case the point is i have always tipped well i think and i've tipped the pizza

00:03:31.480 delivery guy well also and the cab or the uber driver and of course if i'm staying at a fancy hotel

00:03:37.540 then i know i'm supposed to tip basically everyone who happens to glance at me at fancy hotels employees

00:03:43.440 will invent weird and unnecessary things to do for you just so they can get a tip somebody will like

00:03:49.680 come to your room at 8 30 in the morning and spoon feed you granola and clip your toenails you're

00:03:55.140 supposed to tip them five dollars and i've always gone along with that i have prided myself as a tipper

00:04:00.020 but recently i have reached my limits because the problem is that now everybody expects a tip

00:04:07.080 whereas before you were only supposed to give a tip in certain limited and specialized circumstances

00:04:12.540 now every person who rings up a purchase at a cash register or pours you a cup of coffee

00:04:18.720 wants to be tipped for their trouble you know the solicitation for tips can come in in only these

00:04:26.140 mildly invasive ways like a you know there's a tip jar left out on the counter or sometimes in

00:04:30.680 slightly more obnoxious forms like when you're handed a receipt or told to confirm your purchase on

00:04:34.860 an ipad that's a big one now they flip the ipad around and and there's a there's you know you're

00:04:39.860 supposed to click through how much gratuity do you want to leave but sometimes and i've had this

00:04:44.440 experience more than once especially recently the person ringing up the purchase will actually ask

00:04:49.200 you outright whether you would like to add a gratuity like asking you verbally applying social 0.97

00:04:55.220 pressure and attempting to make you look like a jerk to the other customers in line if you say no 0.98

00:04:59.320 now fortunately in my case i'm used to being a jerk in public so i have no problem responding with 0.99

00:05:04.900 no i don't want to add a gratuity or the more passive aggressive no but thanks for asking 0.95

00:05:09.940 many kinder and gentler people than myself however are guilted into tipping a dollar or more on a

00:05:16.180 coffee that's already twice as expensive as it should be the situation is entirely untenable

00:05:21.720 the average cost of living in america has increased by upwards of 65 percent in the last two

00:05:27.100 years because of excessive tipping don't fact check me on that figure it's emotionally correct if not

00:05:32.220 factually correct so i have to put it i have to put tipping on probation banning it across the board

00:05:37.580 temporarily until sanity can be restored to the proceedings and here's some sanity just because

00:05:43.920 you work in customer service doesn't mean you automatically deserve a tip you are getting paid a

00:05:49.820 wage after all customers are already paying for the good or service you're providing here's the way

00:05:56.620 tipping should only come into play if three conditions are met number one it's a low-paying

00:06:02.380 service job two it's a service that i could not or would not want to perform myself and three

00:06:09.420 my experience as a customer can be greatly enhanced by your excellent performance or greatly diminished

00:06:17.040 by your poor performance so those are the three conditions this is why we should and always have

00:06:21.880 tipped waiters waiter has a low-paying job and you know the fact that the customer is at a sit-down

00:06:28.920 restaurant means they don't want to cook and serve themselves and the quality of the customer's

00:06:32.620 experience at the restaurant is highly dependent on the quality of the waiter service a bad waiter

00:06:37.340 means a bad time a good waiter means a good time barbers and pizza delivery guys also meet all

00:06:42.340 three conditions but what about a cashier ringing up my items at a grocery store often they ask for a tip

00:06:48.400 now too but they shouldn't receive one because yes condition one low-paying job is met but conditions

00:06:53.960 two and three are not i would gladly use the self-checkout if it's an option so it's not a

00:06:59.600 service i couldn't or wouldn't do myself and though there are people who somehow find ways to be very

00:07:03.640 bad at running cash registers there really isn't any way to be excellent at it so my experience as a

00:07:09.460 customer will be about the same with an excellent cashier as it is with a mediocre one

00:07:14.200 the barista pouring my coffee also should not be tipped because she fails to meet all three

00:07:20.240 conditions again condition one is met okay low-paying job but i could without much trouble pour my own

00:07:27.440 coffee if given the option in fact at some places they'll just hand you the empty cup and have you

00:07:31.920 fill it yourself yet even then they want to tip the simple act of picking up an empty cup and doing this

00:07:37.920 like just just that this is it this is this is what this is what earns you a tip now

00:07:42.540 here you go that'll be three extra dollars like you you get a financial bonus for doing that

00:07:52.320 this system with the three conditions i've outlined um also explains why we don't tip say airline pilots

00:07:59.620 you know in their case conditions two and three are met i can't fly the plane myself and my experience as a

00:08:05.700 customer would be quite unpleasant if the pilot isn't good at his job but condition one is not met

00:08:10.480 airline pilots are paid handsomely and for good reason now the only category that throws my system

00:08:15.520 for a loop are the endangered species known as bathroom attendants used to be a lot more common than they

00:08:21.980 are today but you still find them sometimes uh standing by the sinks at like a bar or restaurant

00:08:28.460 handing out towels and mints i've always tipped them even though i could quite easily grab my own towel

00:08:34.220 and i'm really not interested in mints that have been saturating in the fumes of strange farts all day

00:08:39.380 but i tip mainly out of pity because they have to stand there in the bathroom experiencing the sounds

00:08:44.140 and smells of human waste plopping ominously into toilets or near toilets at any rate an exception was

00:08:51.840 made for bathroom attendants but now everybody wants the bathroom attendant exception now everybody

00:08:57.940 expects a tip even random people online will post their venmo or gofundme soliciting funds for no reason

00:09:05.300 after having provided you absolutely no service of any kind whatsoever they just say hey by the way

00:09:10.800 if you want to give me some money here it is it's not even tipping anymore this is panhandling

00:09:16.020 and we have to pull back from it while we still can't before it gets so out of hand that you'll be

00:09:21.780 bankrupted just by running errands for three hours on a saturday afternoon given recent scotus wins it

00:09:27.580 feels like the pendulum may be swinging back to a time when the nuclear family was situated at the

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00:10:43.880 i was just on a plane i mentioned yesterday we were traveling over the weekend and i was on a plane

00:10:53.480 and um uh fully packed flight so i guess we're forgetting about the coronavirus thing now because

00:11:01.220 of course you have to be socially distanced to get on the plane as we know but then you get on the

00:11:05.940 plane and you're just packed in like sardines um and there's someone sitting next to me in the middle

00:11:10.720 seat and so here's here's the kind of person that you ban i think and if i'm if i'm setting the rules

00:11:15.800 for an airline this is what i'm doing when you're sitting in the middle seat a lot of times there's

00:11:20.660 controversy over who gets the armrests well i'll tell you right now and i'm surprised so many people

00:11:26.720 don't realize this when you're in the middle seat you get no armrests you have no right to any space at

00:11:33.860 all you are an imposition on the people around you and when you're sitting down in the middle seat and

00:11:40.100 you have to kind of do that awkward thing where you say oh can i sit there is anybody sitting there

00:11:42.680 and you feel like both the person in the aisle and the and the and the uh window seat is looking

00:11:47.300 at you and judging you and hating you for being there that's right they are and they do hate you

00:11:51.700 for being there so all you're allowed to do in the middle seat this is all you can do you sit still

00:11:56.080 do not move do not speak do not eat don't put your tray table down don't get on your laptop

00:12:04.900 don't even read because that involves moving your elbows this is all you do the entire time just like

00:12:09.580 this do not move i don't care if it's six hours anyone who doesn't follow that rule should be banned

00:12:17.140 so that's the first thing i would do middle seat yeah middle seat you have you are basically less

00:12:22.800 of a person you have you have no constitutional rights no rights of any kind because you're sitting 0.60

00:12:27.900 in the middle seat quick uh quick little fitness tip for you a little bit fitness inspiration you

00:12:37.040 know i like to inspire you i don't know if you knew this on the show i consider myself a motivational

00:12:40.680 inspirational speaker in many ways so yesterday i was coming home from the gym uh stopped at the gym

00:12:45.260 on the way home from work and um you know i've been going to the gym pretty regularly feeling good

00:12:49.640 about that but the problem is that my diet isn't great i just i eat crap all the time just a lot of

00:12:54.600 junk food that's that's the truth and they say you can't outrun a bad diet you know you can't work

00:12:59.360 out enough to compensate for the bad diet you're always going to be like a net it's always going

00:13:02.760 to be a net negative um in the end so on my way home i was thinking about this and i'm realizing if i

00:13:08.120 only had a good diet i'd be doing well if it was just for the the diet part and i resolved in that

00:13:13.780 moment i had this like moment in the car driving home and i resolved i said i'm going to start eating

00:13:17.640 healthy from this moment on it's going to happen not eating junk food i'm not gonna i'm gonna whatever

00:13:25.140 you're gonna cut back on carbs all that stuff and i was resolved to do it i felt i just was i felt

00:13:32.080 so motivated and then i walked in my home and the first thing my wife said to me was hey we made brownies 0.74

00:13:39.720 and so i ate half the pan immediately and that's when i realized i had a second epiphany

00:13:47.660 and i realized as i was eating my third brownie i realized you know you can't outrun a bad diet

00:13:54.360 that's true but you can go for the tie and uh you know that's bad that i think that's good enough

00:14:00.720 right just kind of maintaining where you're at that's what i'm going for

00:14:05.680 you know i just have to say i almost this is something i almost talked about for the daily

00:14:13.940 cancellation but then something else came along that annoyed me more and so i'm doing that instead

00:14:17.800 but uh this is this is a something that has plagued me for for my whole life and it happened to me again

00:14:23.980 this morning when i was coming in i was at the at the stopping the gas station you know the only thing

00:14:28.560 worse than someone who doesn't hold the door for you when you're walking into a building right behind

00:14:34.920 them is when somebody holds the door for you when you're too far away now i had i was at the gas

00:14:42.340 station i was practically just getting out of my car like 25 paces away and this guy looks back sees

00:14:47.240 that i'm heading towards the door and holds it for me and i tried to give him the wave and say no it's

00:14:51.180 fine go ahead just keep going and he gives me the way i'll stand here and so now it's just that

00:14:56.260 awkward walk where i have to do that sort of half jog walk to get to the door faster than i otherwise

00:15:02.220 would have all for the sake of me not having to just do this and open it myself i'm perfectly

00:15:07.920 capable of doing that you can just keep going so that is a lot worse and here's because here's

00:15:13.660 the mistake people make and this is just the tip i'm going to give you walking inside a building

00:15:17.780 it's a very complicated procedure but here's what you want to do because if you're walking into the

00:15:21.240 building and then you look back you do the check to make sure there's no one coming in behind you

00:15:25.300 if you catch eye contact with someone coming in behind you now you feel like you have to hold it

00:15:29.640 for them right uh and even if they're 20 paces away so make sure when you look back your eyes are

00:15:34.900 looking down so you'll catch just their feet and then you can make a judgment of how many paces if

00:15:39.840 it's more than 10 paces you just keep going let them open the door for themselves that's it okay

00:15:43.800 and at the end of the day if they have to open the door for themselves it's not a big deal always

00:15:47.600 err on the side of being too rude than too polite that's my tip that's my etiquette tip

00:15:56.320 you know you really got to trust your instincts uh and so when you hear you know i always hear

00:16:06.800 these claims from from from people when they're pushing like vegan or soy-based substitutes for real

00:16:13.860 food or now they're pushing bugs and they're saying oh you know have a bug burger made of

00:16:18.960 grasshoppers and crickets it's just like the real thing and i never try that stuff but i always know

00:16:24.820 i'm just like there's no way it tastes the same it just doesn't and so yes this past weekend i tested

00:16:30.640 the theory i was at my in-law's house and my sister-in-law is uh big into vegan ice cream uh i don't think

00:16:38.220 she she hasn't gone full vegan herself but some of the stuff so she has this vegan ice cream it was

00:16:42.280 like mint chocolate chip and it looked pretty real and she was telling me like no it tastes just

00:16:49.220 you never know the difference it's delicious and so i tried some of it was my first taste of a vegan

00:16:56.060 substitute and i said i took one spoonful and it was horrifying don't listen to anyone who tries to push

00:17:05.520 vegan ice cream on you it tastes you know it tasted like melted chalk doused in pepto-bismol and

00:17:13.320 splenda that's what it it was really unsettling actually that's the word i was trying to figure

00:17:17.700 out there's something yeah it's it's horrible it's bad it's also kind of creepy it's it's weirdly

00:17:23.460 inorganic and inedible it tasted dyspeptic and and and dystopian even it's like a ration they might

00:17:32.260 serve in a prison cell on mars in the year 2075 it was really i didn't like it in other words stick

00:17:39.160 with the real stuff

00:17:40.020 we need to have a very important conversation about hallway etiquette now that i'm working here in the

00:17:51.240 office i expect that this is an issue that will arise frequently as it does in any workplace so i'm

00:17:56.440 issuing a preemptive cancellation of everyone who violates the rules of hallway etiquette etiquette

00:18:01.560 everyone here at the daily wire understands that if they are canceled by me or violate one of my

00:18:06.780 rules they must immediately resign this i'm pretty sure is written in the employee handbook at least

00:18:12.300 it's written in mine because i added it in crayon now as everyone knows passing by another human being

00:18:18.380 in a hallway is a daunting challenge the problem is that as you both approach each other you must time

00:18:25.240 your greeting for exactly the right moment or else immense awkwardness ensues if you're still

00:18:31.460 20 paces apart and you say hello at that point then you have to walk the remaining steps having

00:18:35.800 already issued your greeting you can't very well greet each other and then have 15 seconds of silence

00:18:40.700 as you complete your walk past one another it would be akin to you know making brief small talk on an

00:18:45.600 elevator and then saying bye to the person when you both still have 10 floors left to climb so you

00:18:51.340 say all right well good talking to you see you later then you're both just standing there for another 30

00:18:56.120 seconds we're talking nuclear levels of awkwardness what this means that is that if you fire your

00:19:00.860 greeting round too early in the walk past somebody in the hallway when you're both still say 15 seconds

00:19:05.600 apart you must then have precisely 15 seconds of small talk to fill the gap but if the small talk

00:19:11.900 goes on too long or if one of you said something that requires a longer answer now you'll end up stopping

00:19:17.860 and having a stop in chat which is exactly what you both want to avoid that's what's at stake here

00:19:22.700 if you get it wrong you may be stuck having god forbid a full-on conversation nobody wants that

00:19:28.360 the key then is to wait to acknowledge the other person until you are exactly four paces apart

00:19:34.020 in order to achieve this you must make sure to avoid eye contact until precisely the moment

00:19:39.640 when you hit the four pace threshold you could accomplish this by looking down at your phone looking

00:19:45.120 up at the ceiling staring straight ahead noticing a smudge on your shoe i have a tendency of noticing

00:19:50.160 lint on my sleeve whenever i'm in a hallway with someone i'll brush at the lint until we hit four

00:19:55.920 paces and then i look up and i say oh hey how are you to which they can respond great how are you and

00:19:59.600 i can say great great then i go back to the lint for about half a beat to sell the ruse boom four

00:20:05.880 paces have been completed and i have succeeded in passing by the person without having a meaningful

00:20:10.660 or extended interaction which again is the whole objective now on occasion you may run into someone who

00:20:16.200 throws this plan for a loop because when you say hey how are you they actually have the audacity to

00:20:20.960 answer the question honestly actually telling you how they are as if you wanted to know thereby

00:20:26.700 sucking you into a vortex of conversation that may take minutes to extricate yourself from not much you

00:20:32.620 can do about social you know psychopaths like this except avoid them at all costs one additional tip

00:20:37.080 if you really want to avoid talking to people in hallways or making eye contact

00:20:41.240 one thing you could try doing is walking backwards through the hallway this will have the added

00:20:46.800 benefit of not only avoiding eye contact and conversation in hallways but probably in general

00:20:51.260 too because your co-workers will think you're a weird freak of course this can backfire if the

00:20:55.880 other person is also walking backwards so you might try somersaulting through the hallways

00:21:00.120 this will mean the other person has to jump over you but again it avoids conversation with co-workers

00:21:04.220 especially after you get fired one other wrinkle to explore here briefly what happens when you're out

00:21:10.080 say at the grocery store and you pass by an acquaintance in like the condiment aisle well

00:21:16.120 you follow the four paced rules as discussed simple enough but many of us have been in the

00:21:20.480 crisis situation where you pass by the same person again in the pasta aisle you can't use the hey how

00:21:27.840 are you line because it's already been asked and answered now you have to make a brief joke about

00:21:31.920 the fact that you already saw them maybe something like long time no see or something similar if you

00:21:36.960 pass by them a third time you could probably get away with a hey stop stalking me but there cannot

00:21:42.460 be a fourth time under no circumstance can you allow yourself to pass the person a fourth time

00:21:47.040 if you end up in the same aisle as them a fourth time you have no choice but to drop your groceries

00:21:51.780 run in the other direction change your name move to mexico these are the rules of passing people in

00:21:58.960 hallways or aisles it's very complicated but they must be strictly observed

00:22:04.280 all right you know i i get accused of being uh antisocial mostly because i am antisocial but one

00:22:18.560 of the reasons why i get this acquisition is i'm not big into small talk i'm not a big small talk it's

00:22:22.900 not that i don't like talk i talk for a living i just don't i'm not into small this idea that like

00:22:26.720 anytime you're around someone you have to fill that space with by making noise with your mouth

00:22:32.820 it doesn't matter what you're saying because that's what small talk is and um it annoys me to

00:22:37.280 no end and i experienced over the weekend maybe the worst example of this in my life we were we were

00:22:46.520 out uh from world they were at a lake and i was walking to the car to get something and i noticed that

00:22:51.140 my shoes were untied so i stopped to tie my shoes and there was this guy walking by and we're the

00:22:58.860 only ones in the in the area for a moment and so he's one of these small talkers and he feels like

00:23:02.880 okay in his mind i guess he's thinking i'm gonna i'm gonna be passing by this other guy and we're

00:23:08.540 gonna be in the same vicinity for five seconds and so i have to say something to him and so this guy

00:23:14.120 what he says is he's passing by he says ah tying your shoes huh he actually said that and i look up

00:23:20.580 i said yep tie my shoes then he just kept walking why do people what why do people do that why why do

00:23:31.820 you feel you obviously had nothing to say to me at all that's perfectly fine just say nothing keep

00:23:36.600 walking tying your shoes huh is that supposed to spark a conversation and then i feel like the

00:23:45.160 antisocial one because i don't know how to respond to that i'm not sure what i'm supposed to say

00:23:49.020 is that supposed to be the beginning of a of a conversation i don't know

00:23:53.080 you know they say if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all and i don't

00:23:58.680 really agree with that because if i followed that rule this show wouldn't exist um but i think

00:24:03.380 it's more like if you don't have anything to say period then don't say anything i don't care

00:24:08.100 if it's nice or not only speak when you have something to say and then we do away with small

00:24:13.700 talk entirely so the actress monique recently got herself into hot water because of comments she made 1.00

00:24:25.060 about the way according to her some black women dress and present themselves in public she was inspired

00:24:31.980 to offer this criticism after noticing lots of slovenly attire at the airport she spoke about

00:24:36.220 the issue for several minutes and then did a follow-up video further explaining it but here's

00:24:40.940 some of the original instagram posts let's watch and as we begin to walk through the airport

00:24:46.860 i saw so many actually too many to count and too many for me to tap but i saw so many of our young

00:24:57.980 sisters in head bonnets scarves slippers pajamas blankets wrapped around them and this is how they're

00:25:09.900 showing up to the airport and it i've been seeing it not just at the airport i've been seeing it at the

00:25:18.460 store at the mall i've been seeing sisters showing up with these bonnets and headscarves and their slippers 1.00

00:25:24.700 and the question that i'm having to you my sweet babies when did we lose pride in representing

00:25:31.020 ourselves now after watching that i'm beginning to think i need to start softening some of my

00:25:37.180 more controversial takes by calling the audience sweet babies seems to work for monique something 1.00

00:25:42.300 tells me it wouldn't work as well for me as for the point she's making she's right and this isn't just

00:25:46.860 about black women this is a problem that extends equally across all sexes all of them all 95 sexes all 0.99

00:25:52.860 races in fact it's maybe the one thing that still unites us as americans is our one source of unity

00:25:58.540 that we dress like hobos in public especially at airports airports now look like refugee camps with 1.00

00:26:03.020 people sprawled out all over the place laying across seats on the floor wrapping themselves in old

00:26:07.740 newspaper using a half-eaten bag of chips as a pillow everyone's wearing pajamas they have their

00:26:13.980 shoes off exposing their gnarled fungus crusted toes to the world it's unseemly disgusting and it's made 0.81

00:26:20.140 all the worse by the fact that all of us have paid way too much money for the privilege of being tossed

00:26:25.420 in with this gang of foul-smelling circus freaks now you see this sort of thing everywhere as monique

00:26:32.140 rightly points out at the store walking down the street everywhere i saw a guy the other day at the

00:26:37.180 grocery store wearing fuzzy bear slippers as in slippers that look like teddy bears as he walked

00:26:43.980 around the frozen food aisle this man was older than me by the way his attire was an unholy mix

00:26:49.980 of infantilizing and bedraggled childish and disheveled now for comparison go back and look at

00:26:57.340 old photos taken of any random busy pedestrian area in say 1935 all the men are dressed in hats and

00:27:05.500 suits all the women are wearing dresses everybody looks like they just came out of church all the time 0.99

00:27:10.860 now take that same street and get a snapshot from yesterday in the year 2021 and everyone's adorned

00:27:18.220 like a bunch of nine-year-olds at a slumber party in fact get a snapshot of them walking out of church

00:27:23.340 what few still attend and they probably still look like nine-year-olds at a slumber party

00:27:27.740 i saw a guy at church recently in a batman t-shirt and shorts if that's what he considers dressing up i'd

00:27:34.380 hate to see what he wears to the airport probably naked with just a bathrobe and socks with no shoes

00:27:39.340 which at least would make it easier when he goes through security admittedly of course many people

00:27:43.980 including monique have pointed all this out before it's well known and understood that people go out

00:27:49.420 in public looking like half-melted slugs i mean we become a nation of pajama-clad oafs that much is

00:27:55.580 known but what's interesting is to compare this to the way that people present themselves online

00:28:02.940 most americans feel comfortable walking around in a three-dimensional public space

00:28:07.020 with uncombed hair unbrushed teeth sweatpants they just pulled out of a dumpster but most of

00:28:13.900 those same people wouldn't be caught dead on instagram looking like that and this could be

00:28:19.660 an interesting experiment if a bit stalkerish but it would be fascinating to see a person you know

00:28:24.220 walking out of target looking like they were just in there sleeping on the bathroom floor for the past

00:28:28.060 nine hours and then find that same person on instagram and see the sort of image they put out into the

00:28:32.700 world it is guaranteed to be quite a bit different now in fairness it is easier requires less effort

00:28:39.340 to present yourself as well-kempt and attractive online because you only have to worry about what

00:28:44.140 you look like for the half a second it takes to snap a picture and then you can alter it in post if you

00:28:48.540 need to one must expend more energy for a longer period of time to look suitable in the real world you

00:28:54.300 have to do things like you know shower iron your shirt put on pants it's not much effort but it's

00:29:01.580 some effort and some is more than a lot of people are willing to give but i think there's more to it

00:29:07.260 aside from the effort it seems that these days we simply don't value in-person interaction the way

00:29:13.740 that we value our interactions with avatars online i mean the classic example of this that everyone points

00:29:19.660 to all the time and the most depressing also is the infamous sight of a family at a restaurant

00:29:24.300 sitting around a table silently while they all interact with strangers through their phones

00:29:29.420 i think the poor dress in public is part and parcel with this it speaks to our inability to recognize the

00:29:34.540 value of other humans and of human to human interchange unless it's mediated by a digital device

00:29:43.020 it's common to hear someone defend their embarrassing attire and disgusting appearance

00:29:47.340 and this is what some of the people were saying to monique saying that well you know i don't care

00:29:51.340 what anyone thinks it's none of their business except that you do care what other people think

00:29:57.500 you care tremendously it's just that you only seek approval of strangers in cyberspace

00:30:04.540 see it's not a matter of not caring about people's opinions it's a matter of which people's opinions

00:30:10.140 they choose to care about and for so many they choose the internet strangers rather than humans that

00:30:15.900 they encounter face to face in flesh and blood and i think that's the wrong choice it's not just the

00:30:21.260 wrong choice it's deeply disordered and dehumanizing and demeaning to everybody involved

00:30:29.180 so please everyone stop walking around in public looking like hideous unbathed ogres my sweet babies

The Matt Walsh Show - July 25, 2022

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