The Matt Walsh Show - January 25, 2025


Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok


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12 minutes

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168.66869

Word count

2,139

Sentence count

218

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Misogyny

1

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Hate speech

4

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I thought being in your early 20s was supposed to be fun. I see all these young people that expect their 20s to be one long party. But that s not how it works. Your 20s are for building the life you will enjoy later, but that requires work.

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00:00:00.000 I'm betting the Joker told you to kill me as soon as we loaded the cash.
00:00:06.360 No, no, no, no. I killed the bus driver.
00:00:10.740 Bus driver?
00:00:13.940 What bus driver?
00:00:16.840 All right, time for another trusty TikTok reaction.
00:00:20.640 Today we have some videos of adults complaining about being adults.
00:00:24.620 Always a fun one.
00:00:27.160 What the f***? This sucks.
00:00:30.200 Always one that, these don't frustrate me at all.
00:00:32.340 I just give it a pause. The benefits suck, okay? The hours suck. How do I quit?
00:00:37.620 I enjoy watching these kinds of videos.
00:00:40.380 Let's, uh, let's begin.
00:00:43.020 I thought being in your early 20s was like supposed to be fun.
00:00:46.300 I see all these b***h having so much fun. 1.00
00:00:49.680 I am miserable.
00:00:52.880 Miserable. To my core, miserable.
00:00:55.860 What the f***?
00:00:57.160 F***. This s*** sucks.
00:00:59.260 I'm suing whoever told me that this was supposed to be the most fun time in my life.
00:01:03.660 Because it is. It is not.
00:01:06.560 Definitely not.
00:01:07.680 Not even close.
00:01:09.060 You should sue that person.
00:01:10.380 Because whoever told you that your 20s were supposed to be the greatest time of your life
00:01:13.840 was lying to you.
00:01:15.000 You've got now all these young people that expect their 20s to be fun.
00:01:21.280 Expect their 20s to be one long party.
00:01:23.300 But that's not how it works.
00:01:25.180 Because guess what?
00:01:26.100 Your 20s kind of suck.
00:01:27.760 Actually, they suck a lot.
00:01:29.060 I mean, you have no money.
00:01:30.720 You're just starting out.
00:01:32.000 You have no experience as an adult.
00:01:34.080 You have no clout or credibility.
00:01:36.080 You're most likely single.
00:01:40.360 At least you will be at the start of your 20s.
00:01:43.380 So you're alone.
00:01:45.360 You're at the very beginning of everything.
00:01:47.580 You're not reaping the rewards yet.
00:01:50.300 Because you haven't done anything.
00:01:52.240 This is another one of the reasons why it's so ridiculous that people
00:01:55.500 talk about aging like it's embarrassing.
00:02:00.380 Someone turns 32 and they're like,
00:02:02.260 Oh, don't remind me.
00:02:02.980 I'm 32.
00:02:04.720 Oh, you know, I'm 25.
00:02:07.420 This is my 30th, 24th birthday.
00:02:11.740 Why do you want to be 24?
00:02:14.260 If anything, being 24 is embarrassing.
00:02:16.480 It's not embarrassing to be older.
00:02:19.880 Because being older just means experience and wisdom.
00:02:22.740 Or at least it should mean that.
00:02:23.840 Oh my gosh, I'm going to be 40.
00:02:25.120 I can't wait to be 40.
00:02:26.660 I cannot wait to have experience by 40.
00:02:28.280 It's going to be great.
00:02:28.860 It's going to be a blast.
00:02:29.980 I have less time now to hang out at bars.
00:02:33.460 That's the only, but I don't want to do that.
00:02:36.700 I could still go to a bar if I wanted to.
00:02:39.760 I walk by the bars down on Broadway here in Nashville.
00:02:43.060 And I see the masses of people standing around, sweating,
00:02:47.200 drinking out of plastic cups, no personal space.
00:02:49.900 Everything is loud.
00:02:51.320 Everyone's shouting.
00:02:53.020 And there's no part of that.
00:02:54.640 That seems even slightly appealing.
00:02:56.300 And yet that is the only thing.
00:02:58.280 The only thing that I could do in my 20s that I am less able to do now.
00:03:03.520 So your 20s are for building.
00:03:05.200 They're for building the life that you will enjoy later.
00:03:07.680 But that requires work.
00:03:09.860 And that's the problem.
00:03:12.020 Is that you got a lot of these younger people don't want to do the work.
00:03:16.860 Yeah, yeah, he said it.
00:03:18.660 He said it.
00:03:21.080 All right, here's this one.
00:03:23.700 Hi, can someone tell me what the f*** is going on?
00:03:26.200 Like, what are we doing?
00:03:28.460 After you work your job and you pay your bills and you go to the gym and you eat good
00:03:33.980 and maybe you socialize and you sleep and then you take care of yourself.
00:03:39.040 Like, what's the end goal?
00:03:42.540 Retirement?
00:03:43.520 No.
00:03:44.260 Even when you meet your goal, you travel, you save up through something financially,
00:03:47.580 you buy a house, you have a baby.
00:03:49.360 What then?
00:03:50.440 Like, it's really this day in, day out, every f***ing day forever?
00:03:55.200 Until what, the big finale is we die?
00:03:57.680 Like, what's going on?
00:04:00.380 What are we doing here?
00:04:03.440 Yeah, I mean, that's basically right.
00:04:06.420 And that's, yeah, that is life.
00:04:08.860 Life sucks and then you die.
00:04:13.780 This is the whole thing.
00:04:15.380 The whole kit and camoodle.
00:04:16.460 This is what it is.
00:04:17.920 Get up every day.
00:04:19.060 You do the things you got to do.
00:04:20.320 Go home, go to sleep, repeat it, and then you die. 0.86
00:04:24.420 That's it.
00:04:25.420 That's why you need to have some source of meaning in your life.
00:04:29.080 And what gets me about videos like this is just how much of a revelation this seems to be to a lot of people.
00:04:36.360 The search for meaning, the pursuit of meaning, that's like the fundamental thing that mankind has wrestled with since the beginning of time.
00:04:44.640 So how are you just coming around to it?
00:04:46.500 If all you care about is what is immediate and temporal and directly around you, then yeah, life is meaningless.
00:04:53.360 Effectively.
00:04:53.840 Because this is it.
00:04:56.000 This is all there is.
00:04:57.240 Seventy years from now, maybe a little bit more or less, depending on how old you are, you'll be nothing but a memory.
00:05:02.460 A hundred years from now, barely that.
00:05:03.900 A thousand years from now, there will be no evidence that you ever existed on the planet.
00:05:07.560 And a few billion years from then, the planet doesn't exist.
00:05:10.680 So you need to have meaning that transcends that.
00:05:13.060 You have to have meaning rooted in the eternal, in God.
00:05:16.260 If your search for meaning does not extend beyond what you physically see around you, then you're kind of screwed.
00:05:25.820 Because then all you're left with is trying to artificially create sort of a sense of meaning in your life.
00:05:35.480 But the problem there is that you're always aware of the fact that it's artificial.
00:05:40.880 You're aware of the fact that you've just kind of arbitrarily selected this as the meaning.
00:05:46.440 There has to be a meaning that existed before your life itself started.
00:05:52.180 Way too heavy.
00:05:53.080 Way too heavy for a TikTok reaction.
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00:06:01.540 They're called data brokers and they make billions of dollars a year tracking your activity across the internet.
00:06:06.200 They know what you've bought, everywhere you've been, who you talk to, your private and personal beliefs.
00:06:11.060 And they package all that into a profile that they sell to people who want to control you.
00:06:15.400 Marketers, activists, and yes, even politicians.
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00:07:05.200 I don't want to be an adult anymore!
00:07:15.360 I hate this job!
00:07:17.040 I hate this job!
00:07:18.120 I didn't even apply!
00:07:19.360 The benefits suck, okay?
00:07:21.140 The hours suck!
00:07:22.080 How do I quit?
00:07:23.440 Where do I put my two weeks in?
00:07:26.080 There's the door.
00:07:27.760 All right.
00:07:28.300 Thanks.
00:07:28.680 Okay, well, I'll tell you how you quit your job.
00:07:35.560 I mean, in your case, there is another option.
00:07:38.040 You can marry a man who will support you, and you can stay home and raise the kids.
00:07:42.580 That's an option for you.
00:07:43.460 The problem is that, first of all, no man wants to marry a woman who screams and complains like this, 0.95
00:07:50.040 and no man worth his salt is going to look at that video and go,
00:07:54.880 wow, yeah, I want that woman to raise my children. 1.00
00:07:58.340 Because they're coming off like just another kid who needs to be raised, or was not raised well.
00:08:02.860 The other problem is that getting married and having kids still means that you need to be an adult.
00:08:06.780 It especially means that you need to be an adult.
00:08:10.220 Right?
00:08:10.580 Because what you're looking for is a life of no work, no responsibility, no obligation,
00:08:15.440 which to me sounds like hell, where you've got just nothing to do.
00:08:19.760 Nobody needs you.
00:08:21.400 Nothing to do.
00:08:23.540 That's like nothingness.
00:08:25.240 I mean, it's sort of imagining a state of existing and nothingness, and I find that to be horrifying.
00:08:38.080 And yet you pine for it.
00:08:39.660 And yet the problem is that you can't have it.
00:08:42.480 I think a life like that would be one of great misery, where there's nothing to do.
00:08:49.200 Nobody needs you to do anything.
00:08:51.360 You are not needed at all.
00:08:53.580 Again, I would find that life to be miserable, and I think you would too if you had it.
00:08:58.340 But the bad news, or the good news, depending on how you look at it, is that that's not an option.
00:09:02.100 You don't get to have that life.
00:09:03.680 Well, I want to have a life where I don't do anything, and everything's...
00:09:06.160 Well, you know, sorry, you don't get to have it.
00:09:08.260 You don't get to have it.
00:09:09.160 Not an option.
00:09:10.420 Not on the table.
00:09:14.220 I mean, you might as well be having a temper tantrum because you want a time machine.
00:09:18.800 Yeah, I'd like to have a time machine, too.
00:09:20.720 Can't have one.
00:09:21.420 Sorry.
00:09:21.840 Doesn't exist.
00:09:23.240 Not on the table.
00:09:24.600 Not on the menu of options.
00:09:27.360 So that's it.
00:09:30.020 I mean, that's not the reality that you live in, or will ever live in.
00:09:33.820 All right, I can only do one more of these.
00:09:35.080 It's Misery Monday.
00:09:36.480 I am a child.
00:09:37.680 I don't want to work.
00:09:39.080 I don't want to work.
00:09:39.900 I don't want to work.
00:09:40.700 I don't want to work.
00:09:41.240 Horrific.
00:09:52.960 Obviously, it's unseemly for a man to be carrying on this way, even as a joke.
00:10:00.180 It is unsightly, truly.
00:10:03.800 But I just have no sympathy for this kind of thing anyway.
00:10:07.540 If you hate your job, go get a better one.
00:10:11.200 Have you tried that?
00:10:12.360 Have you actually tried that?
00:10:14.360 Because I think that 95% of the people that make these kinds of videos actually have
00:10:19.080 not really tried.
00:10:20.360 Because trying means more than just, like, sending in one resume.
00:10:24.040 All right, I'll give it a try.
00:10:25.480 No.
00:10:26.520 Try not.
00:10:27.920 Do.
00:10:29.480 Trying is, if you're trying.
00:10:32.840 There is no try.
00:10:33.740 If your attempts to move up, to get a better job, better position.
00:10:38.160 And when I say try, I mean, like, this is something that you should, it's a project that
00:10:47.420 will, that lasts for years.
00:10:49.760 You know, it's not just, if you're going to say, oh, yeah, I try.
00:10:52.420 I've tried.
00:10:52.960 I tried once last Tuesday for 30 minutes.
00:10:55.600 Then you didn't try.
00:10:58.500 But I still go back to, and this is especially the case for men, not wanting to work at all. 0.83
00:11:04.680 I don't get it.
00:11:05.660 I don't even understand that desire.
00:11:09.260 I really don't.
00:11:09.920 I can't relate to it.
00:11:10.800 Because I can understand not liking a particular job that you're in.
00:11:15.220 I hate this place.
00:11:20.180 Jim Smith, you've done a hell of a lousy job.
00:11:23.900 You're fired.
00:11:24.940 Get out of here.
00:11:25.900 That I totally understand.
00:11:27.680 I've had jobs I hated.
00:11:28.980 I mean, everybody has.
00:11:30.620 So that I get.
00:11:31.400 I'm not even being dismissive of that.
00:11:34.240 Because having a job that you have to do every day and you hate it, that could be quite miserable.
00:11:40.920 But then the question is, okay, what's the solution?
00:11:45.200 Once we've established, okay, you hate your job.
00:11:47.200 It's a miserable job.
00:11:47.860 It's terrible.
00:11:48.480 Okay.
00:11:49.180 All right.
00:11:49.520 So what are you doing next?
00:11:51.120 What are we doing about that is the question.
00:11:54.340 But then when you get to the point where you're just wishing that you didn't have to work at all, then that goes back to what you're actually wishing is that there is nothing that anyone needs you to do.
00:12:07.860 Which means that you are pining for an existence where you are not needed at all, where you are an unnecessary member of the human race.
00:12:21.820 And I just don't, I don't think that's quite the paradise that maybe the good folks of TikToks are assuming.
00:12:32.720 I was planning to watch more, but I think that's all I can do.
00:12:35.220 I think that's enough.
00:12:35.780 I think we've been through enough together, you and I.
00:12:38.520 So that's it.
00:12:40.480 Okay, bye.