Ep. 1006 - Criminals Should Go To Prison, And Other Controversial Opinions
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a man who’d already been arrested 41 times in New York City is arrested again for violent assault. We know that Leftist DAs are allergic to punishing violent criminals, but why is the Left so determined to enable and spread crime and anarchy? I think I know why. Also, the Biden Administration mulls its options as the student loan pause nears its expiration date. A Christian private school causes outrage by instating Christian policies and rules. Brian Stelter haș his final, emotional show with CNN. And we’re told that a new trend is taking the workforce by storm. It’s called quiet quitting. What is it and is it as stupid as it sounds?
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, a man who'd already been arrested 41 times in New York City is arrested again for violent assault.
We know that leftist DAs are allergic to punishing violent criminals, but why is the left so determined to enable and spread crime and anarchy?
I think I know why, and I'll explain.
Also, the Biden administration mulls its options as the student loan pause nears its expiration date.
A Christian private school causes outrage by instating Christian policies and rules.
If you can imagine that.
Brian Stelter has his final emotional tragic show with CNN.
And we're told that a new trend is taking the workforce by storm.
It's called quiet quitting.
What is it?
And is it as stupid as it sounds?
We'll discuss all of that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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Last week, a man named Alexander Wright showed up at a subway station in New York City and
began harassing other patrons.
A subway worker witnessed Wright accosting people and tried to intervene.
Wright then walked up to him and punched him in the head.
Then the victim tried to run away, but was grabbed and thrown to the ground.
The assailant was later then arrested.
It was, for Alexander Wright, The 42nd arrest.
He'd already been arrested 41 times before this.
Many of those arrests were for acts of violence even more brutal than his attack on a subway employee.
Just last year, Wright was caught on camera randomly punching an Asian woman in the head as she walked by, knocking her to the ground.
Now, it's not that difficult to kill somebody with one punch to the head, especially if they're not expecting it, and especially when you're so much bigger and stronger than your victim.
Fortunately, though, the victim survived.
Wright was hit with hate crime and also assault charges, other charges too, and yet he was back on the street almost immediately.
A month before that assault on the Asian woman, he had been charged with assault for throwing hot coffee on two traffic cops.
So to summarize, this man has been walking the streets of New York City for years, viciously assaulting and brutalizing pedestrians.
The system is aware of him.
They know that he's out there.
They know what he will do to people.
They know he'll never stop.
And yet they allow him to remain on the streets.
His freedom is worth the cost, they've decided.
Even if the cost is the physical safety of innocent people.
Now, there are, of course, many such cases.
Our cities are full of Alexander Wrights.
And they're not just terrorizing the poor areas anymore.
As the Daily Wire reports today, lawlessness abounds across New York City neighborhoods like the West Village and Greenwich Village, which have seen the largest spike in crime this year out of the five boroughs, according to the latest New York City Police Department report published last week.
Compared to the crime stats from the same time last year, Manhattan's 6th precinct saw an 80% increase in overall significant crimes, with burglaries up 119% and grand larcenies up more than 100%.
Business owners and residents have spoken to media outlets airing their frustrations of the lack of law and order in a neighborhood that draws celebrity sightings, historic brownstones, and gentrified taquerias on roofs amid the fashion and art scene.
Jama Alsner, who owns Village Revival Records in Greenwich Village, told CBS2 he rarely calls the police anymore because anything seems to go these days.
According to the latest data, other crime statistics show car thefts are up 39%, robberies reach up to 45%, and rapes are up nearly 43%.
Now, this trend holds up across the country as the violence from the inner city bleeds further and further out into the areas that were once considered safe.
Now you might think that this would be enough to finally spur some change and maybe a little bit of a revival of law and order.
Now that the urbanite liberals who support the policies that have caused this anarchy are finally being made to reap what they've sown, perhaps things will change.
But that seems unlikely because they're still leftists, and leftism at this point is hopelessly nihilistic, deluded, destructive, and utterly severed from reality.
As long as the cities are run by this suicidal ideology, things will just not get better.
Crime is a, among other things, a practical problem, and leftists, floating as they are in an alternative universe, are not capable of solving any practical problems in this universe whatsoever.
Least of all a practical problem like crime.
Because it has some not-as-practical dimensions to it, which we'll get to in a second.
Anna Kasparian over at the Young Turks is learning this lesson about the left the hard way.
In a fascinating career shift, Kasparian has recently tried her hand at something very new and novel for her.
She's tried making logical points.
Specifically on the issue of crime.
She has in recent days ever so gingerly dipped her toe into the waters of logic and reason.
But she's discovering that she can't wade into those depths without alienating herself from her leftist comrades.
That's why she's been getting into a lot of trouble on the left for saying things like this.
Listen to this.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm crazy.
I don't believe in the death penalty.
But I would say that if you murder someone and you have spent time in a facility in a prison that does not rehabilitate, because that's what our prisons are, it's very unlikely that you're rehabilitated.
And just releasing you into the world with no rehabilitation, bad idea, bad idea.
More than 63,000 inmates convicted of violent crimes will be eligible for good behavior credits that shorten their sentences by one-third instead of one-fifth that had been in place since 2017.
That includes nearly 20,000 inmates who are serving life sentences with the possibility of parole.
Keep in mind, by the way, we don't even know how these good credits are determined.
There's really no specificity there.
More than 10,000 inmates convicted of a second serious but nonviolent offense under the state's three strikes law will be eligible for release after serving half their sentences.
That's an increase from the current time served credit of one third of their sentence.
And if you think that, no, come on Anna, they're just They're not releasing violent criminals, even though the reports indicate they are.
This is all about nonviolent individuals.
No, actually, a much smaller portion of the individuals who have been released from California state prisons are nonviolent offenders.
Well, so you mean that if you release violent criminals out into society, you're going to end up with more violent crime in society.
Next, you're going to tell me that if you pour water into a cup, You'll end up with water in a cup.
These sorts of claims may not seem terribly shocking to you and I, but on the left, such talk is verboten.
Kasparian has been getting pilloried for even the most tepid suggestion that perhaps our laws against violent crime should be enforced.
A reporter for Rolling Stone was among the leftists taking her to task, and Kasparian responded, referencing the Alexander Wright case, saying, This is a man who was arrested 41 times.
After this incident, he was released and went on to send a subway worker to the hospital with a broken collarbone.
But according to this crime reporter, the man committing assault slash breaking bones is the real victim.
Well, yeah, Anna.
Welcome to the left.
Been there for a while.
Should have noticed this by now.
The responses under her tweet show you how far gone the left is on this topic, and on any other topic of course.
Reading just a few, someone says, you can debate whether or not a 49-year-old mentally ill homeless man is a victim, but there's not a lot of evidence that sending him to Rikers, where most people are pre-trial and so legally innocent, is a solution that improves public safety.
Another person says, I think the issue is that your position shouldn't just boil down to this guy sucks
punishment.
That doesn't help anyone. It's not constructive and shouldn't be a conclusion made on a program that positions itself on
the left.
Another person says, I don't know the details of this particular case, but what are you trying to achieve with
this narrative?
The public hears enough dishonest fear mongering about crime.
Left/alt media should offer something different, such as exploring root causes of crime.
And another person, more to the point, says, you should feel a deep sense of shame, Anna.
Yes, Anna should feel ashamed.
Well, she probably should feel ashamed of a lot of things, but should she feel ashamed of suggesting that perhaps after 40 arrests it might be time to put somebody in jail for longer than 15 minutes?
Perhaps we could adopt a 40 strikes and you're out rule.
Could we do that?
40 strikes?
No, because even that would be offensive to the left.
They see no evidence that the public is made safer when violent criminals are kept in prison.
There's no evidence to them that you are safer from a violent criminal when he's behind bars, as opposed to if he was like right in front of you.
There's no evidence that one is safer than the other.
They presumably also see no evidence that patrons at the zoo are made safer when the door to the lion's cage is closed and locked, as opposed to open.
It's totally neutral either way.
If they were at the zoo and the zookeeper said, you guys want this open or closed?
You care?
Whatever, it doesn't matter.
What difference does it make?
There's literally no difference between looking at a lion when he's in a cage and confronting him out in the open with nothing between the two of you.
No difference.
This is the delusion that permeates the left.
So, I thought I would try to help our friend Anna understand why she's getting this reaction from her own compatriots and why anybody on the left, any Democrat who And very few of them ever do.
But every once in a while, one of them will say something like this.
Hey, you know, maybe this violent crime thing is a little bit of a problem.
And they just get devoured by the piranhas.
And let me try to help you understand why that is.
Now, part of it is the delusional nature of modern leftism, as we've already discussed.
This is what makes leftist political leaders totally incapable of providing actual leadership.
Their ideology requires them to live and think as though they've been transported through a portal into an alternate dimension.
And in this dimension, the usual rules of life and the laws of physics and everything else don't apply.
Here in this alternate dimension, men can have babies, babies aren't people, and many other bizarre occurrences become commonplace.
Even the laws of cause and effect no longer apply.
Releasing a violent criminal from prison has nothing to do with the fact that the violent criminal was then enabled to violently victimize someone else.
Even if he'd still been in prison, the same event may have occurred, they say.
Now this makes no sense in reality when you understand cause and effect, but these people are not living in reality.
But there's a deeper point here also.
And this is the part that I want everyone to focus on, especially Anna.
You know, ironically, these people who call, who we call social justice warriors, and I don't like that phrase, and this is why, because they actually have no concept of justice at all.
It's kind of like we talk about virtue signaling, but the people that are signaling their virtue are signaling the opposite of virtue.
It's like most of what we call virtue signaling is actually vice signaling.
So most of what we call social justice, you know, is actually, it's anti-justice.
It's the opposite of justice.
It's the absence of justice.
After all, putting violent criminals in prison is not just a matter of keeping people safe.
It's also a demand of justice.
And most normal and healthy people have an innate sense of justice.
Okay?
They see a man randomly assaulting a woman as she walks down the street, and they want him to be punished severely for his crimes.
That's not vengeance.
It's not bloodlust.
It is justice.
They see that action as one that cries out for a response.
The scales have been tipped out of balance and they must be righted.
There must be justice.
Even if it were possible to keep society safe from this man without punishing him, a normal person would still want him punished.
You want him to experience some measure of suffering for his crime.
Yes, that is justice.
You actually want him to suffer.
And if you care about justice, and also if you actually have love and compassion for the victim, which is another thing that doesn't exist on the left, as much as they talk about compassion and love, there's none of that.
It's indifference.
But if you actually have compassion for the victim, you want that other guy to suffer.
Because that is justice.
Justice is a virtue.
It's a cardinal virtue.
It is, in fact, the most important virtue of all.
You can't have any other virtue without justice.
And it is what ensures that an individual is given what they are due.
Okay, I think that would be the definition of what is justice.
That's the definition.
It is giving an individual what they are due.
To enact justice.
is to give to a person what properly belongs to him.
And what properly belongs to an innocent person walking down the street is protection from violent scumbags like Alexander Wright.
But what properly belongs to Alexander Wright is a cage.
He should be punished because that is what he is due.
That is what he is owed.
That is the treatment which naturally and properly belongs to him.
Because of his own actions.
And because of the sort of person he has chosen to be.
This is something that, again, doesn't need to be explained to the average person.
The average person, you ask them, what is justice?
Just like if you ask them, what is a woman?
They may be stumped by the question only because the answer is so obvious they haven't even had to think about it.
But that is what justice is.
And unless you are fighting for that, then you're not fighting for justice.
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Now before we get to the headlines, I need to update you on my latest marital battle.
So I decided that I wanted to take my two boys away for a weekend fishing trip.
Come up here in a few weeks.
And my wife is totally supportive of that.
Actually, she's maybe a little bit too supportive.
Because I said to her, hey, I wanted to take the two boys away.
Yep, sounds good.
Definitely, you guys should go. 100%.
So she was pretty enthusiastic about us being gone for whatever reason, but then I started thinking about the details of the trip and what I wanted to do, and I decided that I'd really like to take, to have a more sort of rustic experience with the kids.
And I started looking for a very simple kind of cabin in the woods somewhere with water nearby.
You know, whether it's on water, we have to walk to it or drive to it, whatever.
And I found this.
This is real.
This is actually for rent.
I found this thing.
I put it up on the screen.
I asked for a rustic cabin and this is what I found.
It's basically a shed.
Someone's renting out their shed.
But there's a lot of privacy.
They said in the listing there's a lot of privacy because it's in the woods somewhere.
And it's about 200 square feet.
And there's a tarp for a roof.
And there's no bed.
There's no furniture of any kind.
There's no electricity.
No water.
Nothing.
And so I showed this to my wife.
I was excited about it.
I said, the kids, the boys will love this.
And I showed it to my wife and she was horrified.
She looked at me like I was an insane person.
But then, this just shows you, you know, this shows you the inherent differences between men and women.
Because my wife is horrified by it.
She's like, there's no way you can take my precious sweet baby boys and put them in that for a weekend.
I'm not gonna allow it.
But then, just to get a second opinion, I called my boys in and showed them this, and they were stoked.
I mean, they could not have been more excited to spend three days in that thing.
And I even told, I told my son, I said, you know, there's like definitely probably snakes in this thing.
And he said, well, that's okay, daddy, we can kill them and eat them.
That's the spirit, okay?
When life gives you snakes, make some dinner.
That's the spirit you want to, I think, imbue into your boys.
I don't know, I did find another place that's still a very small cabin in the woods, but significantly nicer than that, and a little bit less serial killer-y.
But my heart keeps coming back to that.
It's just, it's calling my name.
And if you stay in that cabin, you'll probably hear all kinds of things calling to you outside in the woods at night, but it's an adventure.
All right, so we'll start with this.
Daily Wire reports, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Sunday that the Biden administration would announce in the next 10 days whether or not the nationwide pause on federal student loan payments and interest accrual that went into effect two and a half years ago would extend or expire.
During an appearance at NBC's Meet the Press, Cardona told host Chuck Todd that the administration knows many people are waiting to hear something about the August 31st deadline, and he said in the next 10 days they're going to announce something.
Now, let me take a guess here, just a wild, crazy guess, that the Democrats are not going to let the pause expire a few months before the midterms.
Like I said, it's a shot in the dark, but I'm going to guess that they're going to come back and announce something because they're not going to let it pause right before the midterms.
And I don't think we need to spend much time talking about student loan forgiveness as an issue.
You know how I feel about the subject.
We've talked about it many times.
We'll talk about it in the future.
But I want to just add one thing.
Because I was thinking about this yesterday.
Is that actually, it seems to me, and I'm not in favor of loan forgiveness of any kind, okay?
I'm in favor of Because I'm old-fashioned, as you know.
And what I believe is that you pay your debts.
You pay your debts.
You agree to pay something, you pay it back.
That's how I look at it.
Very simple.
But it does occur to me that actually, of all the different types of debt that people deal with, in many ways student loan debt makes the least sense to forgive.
It should be the last type of debt that we talk about forgiving, rather than being the first and only type of debt we talk about forgiving.
I mean, mortgages, car loans, even credit card debt.
These are all things that working class people deal with.
Student loan debt is largely an upper class problem.
Half of the debt Around half is held by graduate students, okay?
And it's exactly, though, that kind of debt that we're forgiving.
And it's exactly the kind of debt that poorer people have to deal with that we aren't talking about forgiving.
Now, the reason I've been given for this is that student loan debt can't be discharged in bankruptcy.
And it kind of makes sense, actually, in a way, why you can't discharge it in bankruptcy.
I mean, for one thing, a loan or a degree cannot be repossessed.
You can't take it back from you.
So it can't be discharged bankruptcy.
And so that's one of the reasons they say, well, that's why we're treating this as a special thing.
That, to me, seems a pretty weak justification for the inordinate amount of attention given to it.
Not to mention just the inordinate amount of sympathy that we're supposed to have for people with student loan debt.
While having no sympathy at all for all the other kinds of people.
Many of them don't have college degrees.
Many have, on average, incomes much lower than the average college graduate.
And they're swimming in debt, a lot of them.
Totally ignore the problem.
All right, we'll move to this.
So the Prime Minister of Finland, Sanna Marin is her name, has been taking heat after video of her partying went viral.
And this is something she does a lot, apparently.
She likes to go out clubbing.
She heads out onto the town.
I think if I'm remembering correctly, I think it was this prime minister who like went missing for a day or two because she was out partying and forgot her phone or something like that.
And anyway, here's the video that was on that I guess they posted on Instagram or something.
We'll play this video.
video.
All right.
Okay, we cut out that.
Okay, so there she is having a great time at the club partying.
Thank you.
There's been a lot of criticism, a lot of discussion about this, and she finally responded to some of the criticisms.
We'll play this, and I'll have to translate because, you know, she's speaking a foreign language, but I actually know Finnish, so I'll translate this for you, but we'll go ahead and play the clip.
What do you think these party videos show?
These videos are private and filmed in a private space, she says.
I resent that these became known to the public.
But you posted them!
I spent a night with my friends.
We just partied, also in a boisterous way.
I danced and sang.
I represent a younger generation.
Oh, she's speaking English now, okay.
When it comes to social media or Instagram, I think that I'm an individual, a person, a real person also, even though I'm a prime minister.
So I won't change the way I behave.
Of course I won't.
I have to be careful what I say because it can be represented as the whole government.
But I'm still a person and I will be.
Oh, you're a person, okay.
That's good.
That is the laziest justification for behavior in general.
Someone's asking why you behave this way.
Well, I'm a person.
Well, yeah, I know, but you're a person who did this particular thing.
Lots of other people don't do that.
So can you explain a little bit more?
Well, I'm just a person.
She says she resents that it ended up on social media.
You're dancing in front of a video.
It's like someone has their phone out and you're dancing in front of it, looking right into the camera.
I resent that this video I'm taking right now exists.
I resent this.
Now this has led to a whole annoying discourse.
There's nothing worse than a discourse in our country.
And this discourse in particular is pretty bad.
It's a discourse about whether prime ministers have the right to party.
And the AP actually asks this specifically in an article.
Headline, does a prime minister have a right to party?
Now, we know the Beastie Boys.
We know how they would answer.
They would say, if you fight for it, you have the right to it.
But this is what the AP says.
In a leaked video, Finland's Prime Minister, Sanna Marin, is seen dancing and singing with friends at a private party.
The 36-year-old leader poses for the camera.
She sits on her knees, hands behind her head.
She's entangled in a group hug.
She's having a good time.
Countless similar videos are shared daily on social media by young and not-so-young people partying in Finland and all over the world.
But the leak has triggered a debate among Finns about what level of reveling is appropriate for a prime minister, especially considering neighboring Russia's attack on Ukraine, which prompted long-neutral Finland and Sweden to apply for NATO membership.
Marin, who leads the center-left Social Democratic Party, has faced a barrage of questions about the party.
Were there drugs?
Was there alcohol?
Was she working or on summer vacation?
Was the prime minister sober enough to handle an emergency, had one arisen?
The video, clearly shot by someone at the party, was leaked on social media and caught the attention of Finnish media this week.
Okay.
So I just want to make a couple points about this very briefly.
First of all, prime minister or not, you're too old to be out at clubs and that sort of thing when you're 36.
Anyway, it doesn't matter if you're prime minister.
Even if she wasn't.
Even if she just worked at Starbucks or something.
She was assistant manager at Starbucks.
I would say, yeah, you're a little too old for that.
I'm 36.
Okay, so we're the same age.
At 36, you should be home with your family.
You can go out for a date night with your spouse.
You can also go out with friends on occasion.
But people are talking about this woman and excusing it like, oh, she's young, just doing what young people do.
No, she's not that young, actually.
You're 36.
It's not that young.
You're middle-aged.
That's what you are.
You don't really count as a young adult anymore.
You're middle-aged.
You're getting older.
And so, especially at 36, you should be at the age now where you walk into a place, and not only are you not dancing to that music, but you're complaining that it's too loud.
I'm officially at the age where everywhere I go, the music is too loud, and I have to make a comment about how loud the music is.
That is what makes sense for a 36-year-old, to begin with.
Second, she is the Prime Minister.
And I get that it's just Finland and there's like five people that live there, but even so, this to me is part of a larger problem with political leaders in general and this sort of lack of seriousness.
We're not being led by serious people.
And there used to be this concept called just dignity among our leaders.
There used to be a concept called dignity that we tried to apply to all adults and everybody in general.
Which again is another reason why that would stop, you know, even if you're not prime minister, it should stop you from being a 36-year-old woman making videos like that.
But even so, especially if you're a leader, we expect even more dignity.
And what does dignity mean?
Okay, dignity doesn't mean, sometimes I think dignity gets a bad rap these days, and especially because it's often appropriated by political leaders, especially like Republicans will use this.
The squishiest Republicans will use dignity as their excuse for being squishy.
So dignity has become somehow a synonym for like cowardice or lack of conviction.
They don't want to fight hard for what they supposedly believe in, and they use dignity.
Oh, because I'm dignified.
No, no, no.
You can still be dignified and fight for what's right.
That's part of dignity, actually.
But what dignity means is that dignity is about a seriousness of purpose.
That's what that is.
It's about maturity, growth, and a seriousness of purpose.
And we used to expect that of elected leaders in Finland and everywhere else across the Western world, and we don't anymore.
I mean, you've got, what's his name?
In Pennsylvania, the Senate race, so there's not a lot of dignity on either side of that race.
But Fetterman, have you seen this guy walking around with, like, jean shorts and a hoodie?
You're running for the Senate, and this is how you're dressing?
This is how you're talking to people?
I'm just being a common, like, being a regular person.
No, but no, you're not, because regular people know that you're supposed to dress differently for different occasions.
So, acting with a lack of dignity?
That's how you see regular people?
No.
So, that's my problem with this.
Okay, let's go next to this.
Brian Stelter had his last show and signed off with a really powerful speech.
And let's just watch.
This is Brian Stelter's last words as a CNN host.
Here it is.
Here's what I do know.
I know it's not partisan to stand up for decency and democracy and dialogue.
It's not partisan to stand up to demagogues.
It's required.
It's patriotic.
We must make sure we don't give platforms to those who are lying to our faces.
But we also must make sure we are representing the full spectrum of debate and representing what's going on in this country and in this world.
That's why CNN needs to be strong.
That's why I believe CNN will always be strong.
You viewers at home, it's on you.
CNN must remain strong.
I know the 4,500 staffers are going to do their part to make it stronger than ever.
But it's going to be on you to hold CNN accountable, and not just CNN.
You've got to hold your local paper accountable.
You've got to hold your local digital outlet accountable.
It's on all of us.
We are all members of the media, all helping to make it better.
That's what I believe.
I can't wait to be watching CNN, seeing what happens in the future.
I'm going to be rooting for it.
I want CNN to be strong.
I believe America needs CNN to be strong.
I believe the free world needs CNN to be strong, and it will continue to be, because all of us are going to help make that happen.
The free world needs a reliable source.
So, for Reliable Sources for the last time, I'm Bryan Stelter.
Thanks for being with us.
That was rough at the end there.
That was rough with the applause at the end.
It was already sad and then you get the... It's better off without the applause.
You got one person applauding.
I'm gonna miss this guy, Brian.
I will miss him.
I will miss him.
May he rest in peace.
CNN must be strong.
CNN is necessary for democracy.
CNN will save the world.
CNN is the future of the world.
I don't know, for some reason...
Watching this, and it's probably just me, but I was reminded of the scene from The Office where Michael Scott is giving a speech at a business school and all the students are telling him how, you know, paper companies are obsolete.
And he says, no, Dunder Mifflin is the future, but you're too stupid to see that.
And that's, that's just, it reminds, it's kind of what Stelter's doing here.
Like, CNN is totally obsolete and irrelevant and nobody cares about it.
And he's clinging on to it as humanity's last great hope.
And he's doing that even after they just canned his ass.
It's just sad.
First of all, you get fired, and then most of the time you work for a media company, if you get fired, you're not going to be back on the air.
I can guarantee you, if The Daily Wire ever fired me, they're not going to let me do one last show.
They would never let me do that.
That would be a bad decision, when you fire someone, and then you give them access to your cameras one last time, when they've got nothing to lose.
But they let Stelter do it because they know he's a eunuch.
They know that he's just gonna, they can absolutely count on him to get up there and still talk about how great CNN is.
After they got rid of him.
I don't know, I feel bad for him, I really do.
I feel bad because he's 35 but he looks like a retired bus driver.
And I feel bad for him in general.
I won't even make any more potato jokes about him.
I won't because it's, you know, It's not bad to look like a potato anyway.
That's the other thing.
I don't think it's fair.
There are worse root vegetables that you could look like.
Imagine if you looked like a radish or parsnips.
That would be pretty weird.
So, you know, go easy on Brian Stelter.
Okay, I want to mention this too.
It says, this is from Fox News, a private Christian school in Florida told parents ahead of the coming school year that students will only be identified by their biological sex and said that students who are found participating, quote-unquote, in gay or transgender lifestyles will be asked to leave the school immediately.
The email sent by Grace Christian School Administrator Barry McKean says, We believe that God created mankind in his image, male, man, and female, woman, sexually different but with equal dignity.
Therefore, one's biological sex must be affirmed and no attempt should be made to physically change, alter, or disagree with one's biological gender, including but not limited to elective sex reassignment, transvestite, transgender, or non-binary gender-fluid acts or conduct.
Students in school will be referred to by the gender on their birth certificate and be referenced in name in the same fashion.
The private Christian school is located in Florida, which is less than 20 miles outside of Tampa.
And, of course, this has sparked outrage among many people on the left, including some of the people in the school, and parents are pulling their kids out and all the rest of it.
Meanwhile, this is, of course, a wonderful thing.
It's not going to surprise you to hear me say that.
This is a wonderful thing.
And, in fact, if you—here's what you need to do, okay?
If you send your kid to a private Christian school and they have not sent an email like that out, I'd be marching into the office and print out a copy of this email and say, why haven't you sent this out?
Copy this email down, put it in your own words a little bit, send it out.
Why haven't you?
If you're paying money, and private Christian schools, most of them, I certainly know this, are not cheap.
And if you're paying all that money, there should be a reason behind it.
And the only reason I can think of to spend so much money to send your kid to a private school instead of just sending them to a public school is because not just the education, but the culture is going to be vastly different from what they get in public school.
And, of course, they're in Christian school, so you should expect that they are being introduced to and brought up in Christian values.
Although, in this case, of course, what he just described in that email, I mean, those are Christian values, but that's also just reality.
These are biblical values.
Male and female, he created him.
But that's also science and reality.
All these things work together, as they so often do.
So that would be my question.
If I were sending my kid to a private Christian school, have you sent an email like that out?
And if you haven't, I want to know why.
Except you can already assume why they haven't sent it out.
It's because they have no intention of enforcing Christian values in that way, and they're perfectly happy to let the insanity of modern culture not only permeate into their Christian school environment, but define it.
Right?
What about the people who are surprised by this?
Parents.
Again, paying money to send your kid to a Christian school and then you're surprised when the Christian school says, hey, this is a Christian school and we're going to operate accordingly.
How can they be shocked by that?
Well, it's only because we've gotten used to this idea that LGBT people have the right to just do whatever they want.
And to do it anywhere, in any situation.
That they're entitled to it.
That they're entitled to living this life where people are constantly making exceptions for them.
You know, speaking of the Bible, they are entitled to be like Moses, just parting the Red Sea everywhere they go.
Everywhere they go, just everything kind of parts and accommodates them and makes special exceptions.
But that is simply not the reality.
All right, one clip I want to play.
This is from the director of the Gender Development Program in Adolescent Medicine at Lurie Children's Hospital.
Lives of TikTok, of course, found this and posted it.
Here it is.
You work with trans kids and teens, and I would love for you to share with people, like, a little window into what the process is like when a family comes to you.
When kids realize they're trans, what are they looking for when they meet with you?
Is this a risky process for a young person?
Yeah, I mean, the answer to that is largely no and yes.
So there are things that we do not know about the process, but these are medical interventions that have been used for a long time now.
They've been done quite safely.
The medical interventions themselves are not rocket science.
I mean, these are medications that we've used in other conditions for many years that have a really strong evidence base.
And so I really want to be clear that I believe these medicines can and are used safely.
You know, I know for a fact that the teams that are out there that are doing this work do it with a lot of care and thought and precision.
And so, yes, I mean, there is not a full range of evidence to support the treatments that we're using.
But there is a lot of anecdotal evidence to support it, and the safety data that's coming out really suggests that these treatments can be used both safely and appropriately.
Now, it's important that I play all these sorts of videos as they are found and make their way into the public light, and because it's information that you need, but also because all of these videos are going away, okay?
For the last several years, in fact, as we have discovered, recently especially, the people who are transing the kids have been, at least amongst each other, have been relatively open and honest about what they're doing.
Relatively.
Now, the face they present to the world is not honest at all.
The things they say to the world are not honest.
Because what they'll say to the world is, oh, all the evidence, all the studies, all the evidence is there.
So that's all a lie.
But they have been kind of circulating in their own little worlds and being pretty honest with each other.
And saying things like that.
That's not the only video we've seen just in the last couple weeks.
So yeah, we don't have the evidence for it.
It's anecdote.
We are going to surgically alter your child permanently based on anecdote.
They've been saying this to each other because up until now there's been no accountability and they know that there's kind of this agreed upon, this conspiracy of silence.
Certainly on the part of the media.
So they know that they can talk amongst each other, they can have their like seminars and forums and they can talk kind of openly about it.
They can even have interviews that they post on YouTube.
And they know that the media is not going to go dig these things up and tell anyone about them.
So they have the things they say to each other, even ostensibly in public, because they post it online, and then they've got the things that they intend for the whole public to see, and they're very different.
And they know that the media is part of the conspiracy, so the media is going to take that stuff on the top level, the stuff that's intended for the public, and that's all they're going to show us.
But that agreement has broken down now, because what these Butchers and quacks are discovering is that it's not up to the mainstream media to decide what people see anymore.
They used to be the only ones who decide, but not anymore.
Doesn't work that way anymore.
And so all those kinds of things are going away.
But it's still the truth.
He said it.
It's the kind of thing you can't take back.
We don't have a range of evidence to support these drastic surgical interventions that we're doing to kids.
Can't take that back.
It's true.
The evidence isn't there.
Alright, one other quick note here.
Some science for you today before we get to the comments section.
The NASA Exoplanet team tweeted out a video which they say is the sound of a black hole.
So for the first time, they were able to capture what a black hole sounds like.
This is real, okay?
It's not like they were... Now, it's real in a certain sense.
It's not like they were putting a tape recorder up to the black hole and recording what it sounds like.
They use computer data or something to come up with this.
I don't know exactly how they do it.
But here is the actual sound of what a black hole... It's like if you're getting sucked into the black hole, like Matthew McConaughey in Interstellar.
He ended up behind a bookcase or something somehow.
Is that what happened in that film?
But this is what it would... Yeah, he ended up behind a bookcase?
He did.
Okay.
Anyway, well this is what it would actually happen.
This is what it would sound like.
Go ahead and play it.
So it... So it sounds basically like your deepest nightmares come to life.
It sounds like a portal to hell.
And the thing I love is that NASA tweeted this out, like a cool little bit of... bit of trivia.
They tweet it out like, hey, check it out, gang.
And then the sound is, it's the actual sound of demons screaming from the pit of hell.
This is the sound that a possessed person hears as the evil spirit takes over.
It's just the most viscerally disturbing sound and NASA tweets it and says, hey folks, listen to this, neato.
You know what that actually sounds like?
This is actually the sound that I hear whenever someone tries to make small talk with me on an elevator.
I don't hear the words, I just hear sheer pain and agony and despair.
That's what that is.
Let's get to the comment section.
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So how did Matthew McConaughey end up behind the bookcase?
I saw the movie one time, and I can never remember if that's actually what happened
in the movie or did I dream it or something.
But okay, so he got sucked into black hole and he ends up behind a bookcase.
And it makes no sense.
That movie, Interstellar, can I just say, I'm still mad about it.
It was such a wasted opportunity.
I've probably never been as excited for a film as I was for that one, and I'm still traumatized by how disappointed I was by it.
Because, you know, being a space nerd like myself, I thought, well, this is great.
I've been waiting for a movie like this, kind of a science-based film.
They're going to other solar systems and stuff, and they're exploring different planets.
But then the whole movie is spent just Listening to Anne Hathaway give speeches about the power of love and how it bonds people together.
She's quoting, like, pop lyrics the whole movie.
And then it ends with the big grand finale and he ends up behind a, you know, an Ikea bookshelf.
Total waste of opportunity.
That was a physical reality he could understand.
That was a physical reality he could understand?
We'll talk about it in the post-show.
What does that mean?
So how do you end up there because of a black hole?
We'll talk about it in the member segment.
Okay.
You give that explanation like it's supposed to make sense.
Oh, okay.
Oh, it's a physical or adequate.
So if you get sucked into a black hole, then it's going to present you with a physical.
So a black hole is like a genie or something.
A black hole will rip you to shreds.
That's what never made sense.
They never explained why didn't the black hole rip you to shreds.
It rips everything to shreds.
It annihilates light itself.
It annihilates everything.
Except Matthew McConaughey.
He's the exception.
Crazy Scandi says, Matt Walsh saying the name Hugh Jarsoul without hearing the joke is hilarious.
I don't know what you mean, what joke?
I read a comment from Mr. Jarsoul and I responded to it.
I don't know why you'd find that funny.
MakeRealitySane again says, you okay Matt?
You seem tired and a bit more fidgety than usual.
I know all this stuff takes a toll on me when I'm exposed to it day after day and you're under threat constantly from the crazies.
Great episode, either way.
Take care, brother.
Praying for you.
Well, I was okay until I read that comment.
Now you made me feel self-conscious.
Like, there's nothing worse than that, when you feel perfectly fine and someone comes up to you and says, hey man, you okay?
You look tired and haggard and unkempt, more than usual.
Actually, you're pretty disgusting.
You doing okay?
Everything cool?
Well, not anymore.
Thanks a lot.
You jarsel.
RCTech says, Hey Matt, perhaps you do not realize in your everyday duties how many people learn from you, agree, and support you in Latin America.
Keep up the good work, not only for the USA, but for the West.
Well, I do appreciate hearing that, but I'm always shocked to learn.
So you're telling me, down in Latin America, So I take it from that, if you're listening to me, then I guess you don't go for the whole Latinx, Latinx America, you're not... Shocking.
So you don't appreciate it when white liberals in the United States try to give you a new language you have to speak?
On the logic that the new language they're assigning to you will make trans people feel better about themselves?
So you don't appreciate that.
Really surprising.
Per Simmons says, this is the downside of homeschooling.
Matt has to do the work of assigning his own children their gender rather than just waiting for the first grade teacher to decide for them.
Well, it's not just gender though, right?
It's the public school system is happy to decide everything for my child.
So that's, I gotta do, I gotta do all, you know, you homeschool, you gotta do it all yourself.
Because if, what the public school would love to do is just give them your child as a blank slate and they'll create whatever they want.
More than happy to do it.
And finally, Bethany says, Matt, congratulations on the new babies.
Will you run the names by the Sweet Baby Gang so we can get a vote?
It may just come to that.
My wife and I have been going back and forth about this already, and we're already not seeing eye to eye.
For one thing, she's advocating that one of the kids be named Matthew.
But I'm trying to explain to her that the ship has sailed on Junior.
We can't do the Junior thing.
You can't do the Junior thing with a younger son.
I've got two sons.
I can't leapfrog two sons and then give Junior to my third son or my fourth son.
Just doesn't... You're asking for all kinds of resentment and weird dynamics down the line.
Plus, I have made a number of very good, very serious suggestions that she has shut down without even thinking about.
I actually wrote out on Friday night I was with a couple of my kids, and I was writing out, because all my kids have written out lists of the names they want.
And they said, oh, Daddy, you should write it.
So I wrote a list.
And we gave it to my wife.
She wouldn't even look at it.
There were some good suggestions on there.
Walter, Gollum, Sludge is one.
I thought Sludge was pretty good.
Very strong, unique name for a boy.
I looked up some Egyptian pharaohs, and there's one called Khufu.
Good name.
Honestly, I don't know why my wife wants to keep having kids, because she knows it'll go this way.
All I will do for nine months is come up with joke names, and the gag isn't even funny anymore.
It was hardly funny when I did it with the first set of twins, but I'll just keep doing it.
And every conversation she'll try to have for the next nine months, it's like, seriously, can we talk about names now?
And all I'm going to do is throw out fake names.
And I know it's not funny, but I have to.
I have this responsibility.
I don't know why.
It's a medical compulsion, I think.
All right, let's get to the Daily Cancellation.
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Well, our culture's most popular pastime, as we know, is complaining.
Especially about stress.
You know, the idea of stress, as we know it today, wasn't invented in the English language until the 1930s.
Before that, it's fair to say that nobody ever complained about their stress because the concept didn't really exist.
That's not to say that people didn't feel stress or didn't lead stressful lives.
It's just to say that they simply lived those lives and dealt with the strain without feeling the need to put a label on it and talk about it incessantly.
These days, though by most measures we have easier lives, we love nothing more than to talk about our difficulties.
We're so burned out.
We have so much anxiety, so much stress.
Everything is so hard.
And we need to talk about this to our friends, our families, to strangers on the internet, to counselors and therapists.
I mean, we've got armies of people we've set up to just complain to them about how hard our lives are.
We have to vomit our feelings of being overburdened onto everyone, everywhere, all the time.
This is, without question, the modern world's favorite hobby.
Now, our second favorite hobby is to come up with trendy new labels for common human experiences.
So we like to take things that people have always done, or always felt, or always said, and invent a term to describe it, so that we can pretend that this universal experience is somehow novel.
So, for example, Recently, I came across the term flexitarian to describe people who eat both vegetables and meat.
This is a diet strategy shared by 99% of the human civilization since the dawn of civilization, but now the flexitarian can pretend that he's reinvented the wheel by giving this exceedingly normal thing a brand new name.
In fact, I'm surprised we haven't come up with a new name for wheels so that we can pretend that we actually did reinvent them.
Maybe we'll get around to that eventually, as we seem to specialize in the art of inventing things that were already invented.
But what happens when these two popular pastimes are combined?
What if we could whine about our stressful lives while also inventing a new label for something people have always done?
What if we could do both?
That would be the modern dream.
That's the holy grail.
And that's what brings us to the hot new trend called quiet quitting.
Now, the media tells us that quiet quitting is a revolutionary concept, quickly gaining traction in society, and especially in the workplace.
The headlines are full of references to this practice.
Here are some samples of the headlines.
Quiet quitting is a trend taking over TikTok and your workplace.
Everyone is talking about quiet quitting, but is it a good idea?
Three millennials on their experience of quiet quitting.
What is quiet quitting and why are employees doing it?
An explainer.
The Washington Post provides more details.
It says, Quiet quitting is taking social media by storm, but you might not have noticed.
The term is a bit of a misnomer because quiet quitters aren't walking away from their jobs.
Instead, they're renouncing hustle culture, quitting the idea of going above and beyond at work, as TikTok user Zayd Lepin I see what he did there.
Set in a July post that has amassed more than 3 million views and helped popularize the phrase, the trend is resonating strongly with those Gen Z and millennial workers fighting to rewrite the rules of the workplace.
Signs of quiet quitting look like classic indicators of diminished motivation and low engagement, according to Joe Grasso, Senior Director of Workplace Transformation at Lyra Health.
That might be decreased productivity or withdrawing from the team, limiting communication and interaction to only what's required, Grasso said.
It could manifest as employee cynicism or apathy about work, or staying silent rather than sharing input.
Now, the article goes on to explain that quiet quitting is the result of, quote, unprecedented employee burnout.
People are feeling more burned out and overworked than ever before, allegedly.
This has led to the quiet-quitting trend wherein employees, in defiance of something called hustle culture, decide to go to work but put in less effort.
They'll do only the bare minimum and no more.
They'll work, but they won't work hard.
As mentioned, this is a major topic of conversation on TikTok, especially where people are too burned out to do their jobs, but not too burned out to record TikTok videos talking about how burned out they are.
So here's one viral TikTok video giving more details about this revolutionary new concept.
Everybody's talking about quiet quitting and how it's the new negative talent crisis.
I think it's a good thing.
The youngest generations at work are rejecting the idea of hustle culture or framing your entire life around some dream job.
They're rejecting putting their mental health below their performance goals.
With quiet quitting, you're doing what you're paid for and not more.
And it's about setting boundaries around what you're willing to do.
If the inflation rate is 8.5% and you get a 1% raise, what do employers expect?
I see this as a healthy evolution that can actually equalize the employee-employer relationship more.
Do you think quiet quitting is a good thing?
Let me know.
Okay, so a few points here.
First of all, doing the bare minimum at work is not some unique, quirky, new approach to life.
We don't need a label for it.
We already had a label.
It's called Lazy.
And lazy people have always existed.
In fact, they made a movie called Office Space over 20 years ago about exactly this idea.
I think this is my second Office Space reference in as many shows.
The protagonist feels drained by his soul-sucking office job and decides to stop trying.
And hilarity ensues.
But Office Space didn't invent anything either.
In fact, what makes the movie funny is that it's relatable.
Everybody knows what it's like to be fed up with your job, you know, and to be fed up with other various mundane aspects of your life.
Everybody is fantasized about adopting an I-don't-give-a-damn attitude.
Everyone is especially fantasized about smashing office appliances with a baseball bat, as they do in that film.
The point is that Millennials and Gen Z aren't sparking a revolution here.
They're experiencing laziness.
The only difference is that they're narcissistic enough to think they invented it.
Second, if you want to do the bare minimum, that's fine, okay?
That's mediocrity.
And if you want to live a mediocre life, you're welcome to it.
Many people before you have chosen that path, and many people after you will do the same.
That's why it's mediocrity.
Just don't pretend that you're putting in less of an effort at your job so that you can invest more of your time into more enriching pursuits and passions.
Now, that may be what a very small fraction of the quiet quitters do, but it's not how it works for the vast majority.
As we discussed last week, most people who give themselves more free time end up spending all of that extra spare time staring at their phones or watching Netflix.
Now, if you're actually going to take all the free time, take all the extra energy you have now because you are quiet quitting, and go climb Mount Everest, or start a side business, or even like take painting classes or something, then okay.
You are reinvesting your time and energy into another pursuit that to you is more worthwhile.
But that is just simply not what most people do, or are going to do.
And we should be honest about that.
And you should be honest with yourself.
And if you're doing the bare minimum at work, refusing to go above and beyond, and not pursuing anything else notable with your life, then you will be unsuccessful and, again, mediocre.
That's who you're going to be.
That's what your life is going to be.
You will not flourish financially or in any other way.
You're going to leave little mark on the world.
You'll achieve nothing of note.
That is going to be your life.
Now the luxury of the modern world does provide people with the unprecedented option of coasting by on the bare minimum if they want, expending very little energy.
This was not a lifestyle available to most people for most of history.
Now it is available.
You can take advantage of that opportunity, and you can if you want, but it does come with a price.
Nothing is free.
Even laziness is not free.
Especially laziness is not free.
Not in this life.
Being lazy will extract a payment from you, whether you like it or not.
And what you are giving up in exchange for ease of life is any chance of doing anything notable, interesting, or great with your life.
Because the notable, interesting, and great things are done by people who give more of themselves than is required.
Great lives are led by those who look for ways to give more, not less.
This is also true just in the microcosm of the workplace.
For the most part, the people who succeed are the ones who are giving more.
So you're just doing exactly what you need to.
The guy next to you is doing a lot more than he needs to.
He's probably going to be more successful than you.
And then when he is, you're going to whine about it and say, oh, it's not fair.
This isn't fair.
Actually, it's totally fair.
Now it's possible there could be someone who's awarded with success even though they didn't earn it and you did.
That kind of unfairness really does happen.
But probably that's not the case.
Probably that's a story you're telling yourself to make yourself feel better.
Probably that person earned it.
And you didn't.
And in general, the great people are the ones who do hard things, not the ones who avoid hard things.
That's a fact of life.
It'll never change.
So all I'm asking You want to be quiet, quit, or fine.
Don't come around later complaining about your lack of success.
Don't become envious of the people more successful than you.
You wanted to quiet, quit.
Okay?
You wanted to put in less effort.
You aimed low, and you got what you wanted.
You have no right to resent people who aimed higher than you.
Third and final point, related to the first two points.
I am not suggesting that you should stay forever in a job you hate, pouring yourself into it year after miserable year.
If you hate your job and you feel unfulfilled by it, if you feel that it's not making use of your talents, if you think it's a dead end, etc., then go chase something better.
If you just don't want to work at all, then you're a lazy, overgrown child.
And as long as you maintain that attitude, you're destined, as previously discussed, to be a mediocre failure and a disgrace and an embarrassment to your family and everyone who knows you.
But if you're willing to work, and yet you feel that your work right now is wasted or futile or pointless, then go and pursue a new opportunity.
And yeah, you can make excuses.
I can't do that.
I can't do it for all these... You can make excuses all you want.
I can't do it.
It's a risk.
If I do that, it won't work out.
I have a family.
Those are excuses, and I mean, they might even be valid.
But once again, the people who do great things are not focused on the excuses, or they act in spite of them.
Staying at your job and trying to do the bare minimum is the coward's way out.
That's what the guy in Office Space discovered.
By the end of the film, he had left the office world completely, found happiness as a construction worker.
He found work that was meaningful to him.
And that's what you should do.
Because that's professional success, right?
There isn't a certain salary you have to reach in order to be successful professionally.
What matters is whether you're doing work that is meaningful to you, and which utilizes your talents, skills, and efforts.
That's success.
And it's a lot better than being a lazy bum.
Also known as a quiet quitter.
And that's why quiet quitting, as a concept, and especially also just as a label, is cancelled today.
And that'll do it for this portion of the show as we move on to the special members section of the show.
