Ep. 1569 - The Media Desperately Wants You To Ignore This Horrifying Story
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the murder of a white high school student in Texas has led to a long overdue conversation about violent crime in this country. A conversation about who is actually committing most of these crimes and why. However, there are still plenty of people who are very determined to shut down this conversation. We'll talk about it today. Also, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett proudly admits she was a DEI hire. And a video of a woman explaining why she almost divorced her husband has gone extremely viral.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the murder of a white high school student in Texas has led to a long overdue conversation about violent crime in this country, a conversation about who is actually committing most of this crime and why, although there are still plenty of people who are very determined to shut down this conversation.
We're going to talk about all that today.
Also, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett proudly admits that she was a DEI hire, and a video of a woman explaining why she almost divorced her husband has gone extremely viral.
I have a lot to say about that.
We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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There are a few skills that are hardwired into the brains of infants that are so fundamental and so critical for survival that they're operative from the moment of birth, if not sooner.
And one of them is pattern recognition, which is how infants recognize their mother's faces.
Even the youngest child is capable of matching a new stimulus with an event that's previously established in their memory and alter their behavior accordingly.
Of course, animals do the same thing.
But a funny thing happened to pattern recognition starting around the middle of the last century.
Pattern recognition transformed from a fundamental feature of human psychology to something that we were told is far more sinister.
To paraphrase the author Steve Saylor, a war on noticing commenced.
And over the past several decades, we've been told that we are not allowed to notice patterns of human behavior, and if we do notice them, we must pretend that we don't.
It's not enough to say that all men deserve equal rights under our Constitution, that all men are created in God's image.
Instead, it's now incumbent on all Americans, we're told, to affirm that their past experiences and observations should have no bearing whatsoever on their current thought process or future behavior.
White Americans who observed that cities were becoming much more dangerous, for example, were not supposed to flee to the suburbs for the safety of their families.
Rather than engage in white flight, they were supposed to stay put and enjoy the fruits of diversity.
This campaign has been going on for several generations.
And as we all know, the cities aren't any safer.
They're far more dangerous in every respect.
But our leaders are undeterred.
The mandate of total conformity, the war on noticing, is still underway.
And that's why you probably haven't heard the story of a white 19-year-old Berkeley student named Seth Smith.
Five years ago, Seth Smith was shot in the back of the head while he was out for a walk near campus.
There was no warning.
It was not an attempted robbery or anything like that.
In fact, Seth Smith Still had his headphones on when his body was discovered.
And when investigators identified the killer and began questioning him, he complained, quote, a white kid gets killed and the whole damn world stops.
F that white mother effer.
Seth Smith's killer, as you might have guessed, was black.
And in response, there were no CNN segments about a modern day lynching.
There was no national outcry.
Instead, a few months later, the Biden administration declared that white supremacy is the greatest threat facing the nation.
Not long afterwards, a white Philadelphia parking enforcement officer named Tim McKenzie was nearly executed in a similar fashion.
He was shot in the back of the head by a black man while he was on the job the day after Thanksgiving.
This, again, was not a robbery or the result of any kind of altercation.
Security camera footage shows that the two men did not interact in any way before the shooting.
As Tim McKenzie crumbled to the ground with a bullet lodged in his skull that would take surgeons 15 weeks to remove, the shooter immediately ran away.
And again, National media buried the story.
You weren't supposed to notice that it happened.
In 2023, there was a similar response, or lack thereof, when a white handyman named Lawrence Herr was murdered while he was fixing his elderly mother's mailbox in a suburb of New Orleans.
We talked about the murder on the show at the time, but no other major media outlet has ever been interested in the story.
Two black men had taken the day off of their jobs at IHOP in order to find a white person to murder.
That was their explicit goal, which they later admitted to police.
They wanted to go hunting for white people.
And so when they saw Lawrence Herr, they circled the block a few times before gunning him down and leaving him to die in the street.
No words were exchanged.
No altercation.
Their only motive was that Lawrence Herr was white.
So these two black men decided that he had to die.
That same year, a white social worker named Leah Rosen Pritchard was butchered with a hatchet while she worked in a homeless shelter in Vermont.
And again, not a robbery, not the result of an altercation.
It was a premeditated murder that was not provoked in any way.
And after the killing, a local prosecutor remarked, Now, whatever community conversations this liberal prosecutor in Vermont had in mind, it's hard to say.
Apparently, she can't say either because she never explained what she meant.
But her general sentiment, at least, is absolutely correct.
It's time to talk about something that nobody in mainstream politics is willing to talk about, which is why there are so many black people, young black males in particular, committing violent crimes.
And why they're committing so many crimes against white people.
Now for years it's been obvious that this violence would only become more overt and intolerable as a major political party in this country openly encouraged anti-white race hatred.
And indeed, that's exactly what's been happening.
The lynchings, as the media would call these killings if the races were reversed, are continuing in broad daylight.
And they're becoming harder and harder to ignore despite the best efforts of the media.
And on Wednesday, as you may have seen, the latest instance of black-on-white homicide took place in Frisco, Texas, which is a short drive from Dallas.
A white 17-year-old high school junior named Austin Metcalfe was stabbed to death by a black athlete at a championship track meet, which was being held at a local stadium.
I want you to listen to how the local media is reporting on what happened.
Listen. His dad told me he's holding on to memories and leaning deep on his faith as he tries to wrap his mind around this senseless tragedy.
Wednesday morning, Austin Metcalfe was at a District 11 5A track meet at Kirkendall Stadium.
Around 10 a.m., Frisco police say 17-year-old Carmelo Anthony stabbed Metcalfe in the chest after some sort of fight.
Jeff Metcalf says it was Austin's twin brother, Hunter Metcalf, who tried to save him.
And his brother was holding him, trying to hold the blood in, and he passed.
My son watched his brother die in his arms.
It's unclear how Anthony got the knife into the meat or what exactly led up to the fight.
It is senseless.
According to the local news station, there was some kind of fight.
But what kind of fight was it exactly?
Did Austin Metcalfe attack his killer first?
Why exactly would somebody bring a knife to a track meet?
And where exactly did the murder take place?
Apparently, none of these questions seem relevant to the local Fox affiliate that aired that report.
Pretty much all the reporting has been like this.
You're supposed to gloss over details from the arrest affidavit, which states that the black athlete, Carmelo Anthony, was spotted in a tent that was reserved for Memorial High School, even though he was competing for a different school called Centennial.
And that's when Austin Metcalfe, who was running for Memorial High School, told Carmelo Anthony to get out of the tent.
In response, One witness says that Anthony opened his bag and reached inside then he told Metcalf quote touch me and see what happens At some point Metcalf reportedly grabbed Anthony or his backpack to get him out of the tent in response according to the affidavit Anthony pulled a knife from his bag Stabbed Metcalf in the heart and ran away as Metcalf bled out Police say that he then threw the murder weapon into the stands in order to hide the evidence Those are facts that look a lot like premeditation I mean after all Bringing
a deadly weapon into the opposing team's tent during a track meet, and then daring them to touch you so you can stab them, is exactly the kind of thing you'd do if you wanted to find a pretext to kill someone.
And of course, if you had just defended yourself in any kind of legitimate way, you probably wouldn't flee the scene and then throw the murder weapon.
The local news station, you know, they don't want to talk about these aspects of the story because they might lead to some unapproved conclusions.
It's the same reason they don't show you Carmelo Anthony's recent social media posts.
And you can look at these two images here.
As you can see, Carmelo Anthony has an evil grin while extending his middle finger towards the camera.
In other images, he's hoisting a gun in the air.
By contrast, here are Austin Metcalfe's recent posts.
He's celebrating that his hard work paid off and that he won linebacker of the year in football, as well as team VP.
And also Team MVP, rather.
And just a week ago, he was writing about his faith in God and all the hard work paying off.
So the contrast could not be more obvious or more predictable.
Now, the reason these images aren't being played in primetime by every news outlet is the same reason they showed you the childhood images of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin and so on, instead of the images where they were wearing gold teeth or flashing gang signs.
They're trying to short-circuit your pattern recognition.
You're not supposed to notice that posing like a thug and acting like one is a commonly accepted aspect of black culture in this country.
Everybody knows that's true, but no one's supposed to say it.
But no matter how much the media tries to deceive us, the fact remains that pattern recognition is hardwired at birth.
And to prove that point, consider this hypothetical, which I posted yesterday on social media, A lot of people were very upset by this post, which is why, you know, of course I'm going to repeat it.
Here's the hypothetical.
Imagine you didn't know anything.
Let's say you didn't know anything about this latest incident.
And imagine that I told you that a young man stabbed another young man to death for telling him that he was in the wrong seat.
And then I told you that one young man in the altercation was white and the other was black.
And then I asked you to guess the race of the assailant.
Without any more information, you would know the answer immediately, wouldn't you?
Every single person in the country would know the answer immediately.
Because young black males are violent to a wildly, outrageously disproportionate degree.
That is a fact.
The racist reverse scenario would almost certainly not happen.
Okay, black people don't have to worry about being murdered in cold blood if they say something slightly irritating To a random white person.
White people have a lot more reason to worry the other way around.
The statistics on this point could not be more stark.
And really, any stat you look at bears it out.
But let's just look at this, for example.
From 2010 to 2020, as one of my followers pointed out to me yesterday, there were a total of 14,689 black-on-white homicides.
By contrast, there were just 6,148 white-on-black homicides.
This is in spite of the fact that there are over 200 million white people in this country and only 40 million black people.
So that means that adjusting for population size, a black person is approximately 12 times more likely to kill a white person than vice versa.
12 times more likely.
Now, when you look at violent crime in general, the disparity is even wider.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics in 2019, There were 562,550 violent interrational incidents involving blacks and whites.
A total of 472,570 of these incidents, 84% of them were black on white.
And adjusted for population size, that means that it's about 28% more likely that a black person will violently attack a white person than the other way around.
Actually, not 28%.
That's 28 times, right?
Not 28%.
It's quite a bit more than that.
And that includes robbery, rape, assault, and so on.
Now to clarify, I'm talking about a very small subset of the population here.
Almost all of the violent crime among black people, and people of any race, is committed by young males.
While there are 20 million black males in the country, 40 million black people, 20 million black males about in the country, which only accounts for about 7% of the American population.
So if we were to take out all of the black males over the age of 36 from these calculations, you'd realize quickly that it is a very small portion of the population that is committing a hugely, astronomically disproportionate amount of violent crime.
According to FBI statistics, the 18 to 34 age range dominates violent crime statistics to the point that it makes up something like 50 to 60 percent of all arrests.
And again, that's general of all races.
Overall, Somewhere around 50% of the murders in this country are committed by black people, and about 35% of non-fatal violent crime is committed by the same group.
Again, these crimes are being committed by less than 13% of the population.
So in other words, there's clearly a massive problem in black culture specifically as it relates to younger black males.
And contrary to what the media will claim, This is not a problem that can be solved by eliminating systemic racism, alleged systemic racism, or sending reparations to the black community.
The New York Times, of all places, made this very clear in its reporting a few years ago.
Here's what they wrote in the New York Times.
And this is one of the most remarkable statistics that you'll ever hear.
Quote, the sons of black families from the top 1% had about the same chance of being incarcerated on a given day as the sons of white families earning $36,000 a year.
I'll say that again for emphasis.
The sons of black families from the top 1% economically had about the same chance of being incarcerated on a given day as the sons of white families earning $36,000 a year.
So that means pretty clearly that the legacy of slavery or whatever does not explain the statistical propensity for violence that we see among young black males.
No amount of affirmative action or DEI can solve the problem.
Reparations are not going to fix this.
It is a much deeper issue.
So then, what does explain these statistics?
Well, we've discussed many times that roughly 70% of black children are born to single mothers.
That's far higher than any other demographic group on the planet.
And it's obviously a major contributing factor.
No demographic group can remain productive and functional members of society if their children are routinely abandoned by their fathers.
But at the same time, We still have to explain why exactly all of these black fathers are abandoning their children.
We have to solve the cause of the problem rather than talking about just the symptoms.
Jason Whitlock wrote this on X yesterday, quote, Ghetto, prison, victimhood, profane, matriarchal, and tatted.
Loudly and boldly reject so-called black culture.
It separates black people from Christ.
Reject the idols of black degeneracy.
Snoop, Kendrick, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, Cardi B, etc.
All demons.
Now, this is a black man saying this, of course, and it's probably worth paying attention to.
Now, of course, much of modern culture across the board is, as Jason says, demonic.
The glorification of materialism, of hedonism, and so on, is not a feature exclusive to black culture.
But these problems are obviously significantly more pronounced in the black community.
And black culture is therefore producing a lot of very angry, very violent young men who do not value human life, their own or anyone else's.
This is a fact borne out by both statistics and individual experience of pretty much everyone in the country.
This is a real problem.
We all know it.
We have to stop pretending that we don't know it.
Now, is this the only cause for dysfunction in black communities?
Of course not.
Anyone who tells you that there's an easy solution here is lying to you.
The roots of this problem are deep and far-reaching and tangled in many different directions.
But we know with certainty that we'll never identify those roots if we can't speak honestly about it.
Every academic is required to believe that any negative statistic involving racial disparities in the aggregate, whether it's SAT scores or violent crime or anything else, must be the result of systemic racism and nothing else.
As a corollary, we're required to believe that every statistical discrepancy can be solved with liberal social engineering.
Well, this approach has been a disaster for this country.
Too many people of all races have been killed because statistics and common sense and open debates are now effectively outlawed.
You know, we constantly hear about the need for an uncomfortable conversation about race.
We hear this all the time.
Well, this is it.
This is the uncomfortable conversation.
And for Austin Metcalf's sake, and the sake of countless other victims, both white and black, it's time that we finally start having it.
Now let's get to our five headlines.
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Okay, we missed the show yesterday.
As you noticed, we had big storms and flooding here in Middle Tennessee.
Still have a lot of flooding.
Wednesday night, actually early Thursday morning, I guess, Was just one tornado warning after another and I don't think I've ever been through something quite like that I mean you get a lot of tornado warnings here in Tennessee but this was We must had three or four tornado warnings in a row between the hours of like 2 30 a.m.
And 5 a.m I read that Tennessee as a state had a hundred and forty tornado warnings on between Wednesday and Thursday and Of course, you know when you have a tornado warning as opposed to just a tornado watch which in Tennessee are just under a tornado watch Pretty much constantly in the spring and summer.
But that means you have to get to a safe place in the house, which is going to be somewhere, you know, on a lower level, interior room, so you're not on any exterior walls, there's no windows, that's what you want.
And so like three different times we had to get up all the, get all the six kids up in the house to go sit in the pantry, because that's for us, our only interior room in the house that's not on an exterior wall, doesn't have a window, Is our walk-in pantry and so that's where we Spent about three or four hours on Very early Thursday morning was sitting in the pantry and of course You know, this is a my kids were having a blast the younger ones.
Anyway, they thought it was fun We were we were locked in a room that has all the snacks So that's a lot of fun and also diminished our chances of starving to death by you know by a considerable margin although they were still a chance and The next day my five-year-old Kept asking when the tornado would come back because she wanted to go in the pantry again with the family because to her it was like fun like camping or something and That's that wonderful childhood innocence.
You know it's my wife, and I were in the pantry Looking at the radar with a like a line of tornado storms going gunning right for us and Meanwhile to the kids.
It's a game.
It's fun and And that's good.
That's the innocence that you want with kids.
Now, a few stories to mention here before we get to the daily cancellation.
And I hesitate to start with this.
I promise that we will stop playing Jasmine Crockett clips for a while after this.
But I do have to play it because it's just too perfect.
So during a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight meeting, Crockett admitted, for some reason, That she was a DEI hire.
And this, of course, is the same person who has spent many months and years claiming that DEI basically doesn't exist and that the whole concept of a DEI hire is not real.
And yet here she is just coming out and admitting it openly.
Listen. When I first became a public defender I had no criminal defense experience and I walked in and I told my boss Charlie I said listen you should hire me.
He said why I said because I'm black Charlie looked at me like I was crazy Yeah, well there you go Yes, that's deep now now Fox News has the rest of that quote which isn't in the clip for some reason, but she continued and said And I said, let me tell you something.
When I walk in, I'm going to walk in with a level of rapport and understanding that maybe some of my other colleagues will not.
Charlie offered me my job, and I worked my butt off, and I worked really, really hard for all of my clients, not just those that look like me.
That's what it looks like to serve.
Okay, so yes, there you go.
Yes, that's DEI hiring.
This is indeed Jasmine Crockett admitting that she was a DEI hire.
She got hired to a position.
Where she had no experience, all because she was black.
And that was her only qualification, or at least that was her main qualification, according to herself.
Now, ironically, of course, a lot of black defendants ended up getting the short end of the stick here.
It was most likely predominantly black people who ended up on the losing end of Jasmine Crockett being a DEI hire.
Because imagine that you're charged with a crime and they give you a public defender and you ask the defender what her qualifications are and she tells you, oh well, I'm black.
Don't worry, you're in good hands.
I'm black.
And the thing is, Jasmine really doesn't even understand the problem here.
Okay, I don't think she even understands it.
On the one hand, she goes around claiming that the concept of a DEI hire is a myth.
And the next thing you know, she announces proudly that she was hired because she's black.
And this is not even necessarily a double standard or hypocrisy or whatever.
This is her not understanding the point.
There is a comprehension problem here.
And I'm not saying that to let her off the hook.
That's not my point.
I'm just saying that I actually think Jasmine Crockett Truly doesn't understand the difference between objecting to black people being hired for a job and objecting to black people being hired for a job because they're black.
So when we object to the latter, she hears it as the former.
Again, not excusing her.
I only mean to point out that she is very dim.
This is a very dim bulb that we are dealing with.
And I was thinking about this.
I think, I think I think part of what's happening here is this, that for a long time we had these left-wing race hustlers who would intentionally misconstrue these kinds of arguments.
They knew that there was a difference between objecting to hiring black people and objecting to hiring them because they're black.
Right? They understood that what we're actually objecting to is again the latter, not the former.
They knew that, but they conflated the two cynically and intentionally.
And they did this to manipulate the rubes Who would follow them and are too stupid to understand the distinction.
And I think with Jasmine Crockett, we now have the Rubes themselves taking over.
The Rube generation is now taking over for the, I think, more intelligent, cynical race hustlers who came before them.
And these people like Jasmine Crockett, I mean, they're just as morally debased as the old guard of race hustlers were.
And they're just as dishonest and they're just as cynical, but I do think that they're a lot dumber.
They are, you know, they are very, very dumb.
Post-millennial reports on this, a Colorado bill introduced by Democrats would classify misgendering and deadnaming as forms of child abuse to be considered in child custody disputes.
The legislation introduced Friday, sponsored by Democratic representatives Lorena Garcia, Rebecca Stewart, Faith Winter.
The bill is named The Kelly-Loving Act, after a transgender-identifying individual killed in a 2022 club shooting in Colorado Springs.
The bill is based on the premise that individuals can identify as a gender identity contrary to their biological sex.
It defines deadnaming as to purposefully, and with the intent to disregard the individual's gender identity or gender expression, refer to an individual by their birth name rather than their chosen name.
Similarly, the bill defines misgendering as to purposefully, and with the intent to disregard the individual's gender identity or gender expression, Refer to an individual using an honorific or pronoun that conflicts with the individual's gender identity or gender expression.
Under the proposed law, courts handling child custody decisions would be required to consider misgendering and deadnaming, or threatening to publish information related to a child's sex change procedures, as forms of coercive control when determining the best interests of the child.
Okay, so they would be required to view this as abuse.
Which obviously would end up meaning that the parent who is not on board with the gender transition would lose custody of the child.
That's the whole point here.
And this is something that, in practice, is already happening in many family courts, as we know.
You can look at the case of somebody like Jeff Younger, for example, who we've talked about many times.
But now Colorado wants to codify it into law.
They want to require it.
And what that would mean is that if a mother wants to trans her child and the father doesn't, She can just divorce him and take the child and get full custody because under this law the father would be viewed as as an abuser and the father is guilty of abuse and By the way in this hypothetical I say the mother is transing the child only because in literally every case of one parent transing a child over the objection of the other It's like always the mother doing it always
always I Mean, I've never heard of the reverse of this Have you?
I've never heard of it.
And, you know, the reverse where it would be the father wants to trans the kid and the mother is objecting.
Has anyone ever heard of that happening?
And I think that's an interesting fact that we should probably spend more time on.
Not all mothers trans their kids, obviously.
But you could argue that only mothers trans their kids.
I mean, sure, you'll find cases where the dad is on board.
Dwayne Wade is a prominent example.
But even in those cases, the dad is always following the mother's lead, not to let the dad off the hook by any means.
And as I said, if there's a disagreement between the parents on this point, mom is always on the pro-trans side.
So, you know, that's worth exploring.
But for now, just when it comes to this law, this is obviously horrifically evil and crazy and barbaric and Demonic, beyond all imagining.
And this is what trans activists are going to increasingly resort to.
Because they've lost the argument.
They've lost the debate.
The debate is over.
As we've covered extensively, this is an 80-20 issue.
The vast majority of Americans are against men and women's sports.
The vast majority are against transing the kids.
The debate is over.
There's no debate.
Trans activists have lost.
They know they lost.
And so all that is left is coercion.
Right? Rip the children away from their parents.
Trans the children by force.
Which is kind of the nuclear option.
And to be clear, trans activists have been using this option the whole time.
But now it's all they have.
Force and compulsion.
Tear the families apart.
Throw the sane parents out.
Throw them in jail if you can.
Trans the kids.
Do it by force.
That's their approach now.
Because it's all they have.
And that's why it's going to become even more important if you're a single person, if you're a single man especially, to make sure that, you know, when you're out on the dating scene, that the woman you're dating, the woman you're considering proposing to, is fully on your side on this issue and all, that your values are fundamentally aligned completely.
So, and that's pretty easy to tell.
Because like when when you bring up the trans stuff to a woman that you're dating Which I think no reason why I can't bring it up on the first date Maybe you want to wait till the second or third that's fine, but when you bring it up She better react with revulsion disgust fury Right the the idea of a gender transition for a child the any of this stuff You
know, she better say words to the effect of, castrated kids, are you insane?
Hell no.
I would rather die than have that happen to my kids.
Like, something like that.
Her answer needs to be that strong, needs to be that conclusive, because if she has the slightest sympathy for the pro-trans side, run away.
I mean, get up in the middle of the day, walk away, ghost her, don't even, don't even, don't even bother breaking, just, just leave.
This is over, we're done, I'll never talk to you again.
I mean, that is how strict the line has to be.
And that's partly because if your values are not aligned on that level, on that fundamental level, if you can't even agree on, you know, reality, biological reality, or these basic moral questions, then the relationship ultimately isn't going to work.
But also, when you look at the way family courts work and also these laws that are being passed and proposed in many states, this is the level of caution you need to exercise so that you don't end up married to a woman who will try to steal your son and castrate him.
And that's a real thing you have to worry about.
But that doesn't mean that if you're a young man you have to give up on relationships, give up on marriage, You know, that's why I've always said, no reason why you have to abandon it.
You just need to bring up these subjects early and hear what she thinks and it will be easy to tell.
Right? Any person who's sane on an issue like this, you can't fake that.
So, you just have to have the conversation.
All right, I want to talk about this.
This is a case with The most predictable twist ending maybe in history It started a few days ago earlier in the week when the media started frantically reporting about a guy named Chris Lewis Who was arrested in Georgia for leaving his kids aged one six and ten at a McDonald's for two hours unattended So that he could go to a job interview and the media ran with the story tons of headlines about it A lot of commentary on social media focusing on the fact that Chris Lewis is black So the implication is that this
was somehow racist as well And before long, there was a GoFundMe that was established for this father that raised tens of thousands of dollars to give to this dad because he was just trying to better his life and better his children's lives.
And, you know, people love donating to GoFundMes.
And anytime there's a viral story about anyone who seems to be, you know, vaguely sympathetic, we know the GoFundMe is close behind and it's going to raise a lot of money.
And that's exactly what happened here.
Now, I saw this story and I didn't comment on it at first, even though I would tend to probably be on the side, maybe not on the side of, but sympathetic to the father in this story.
Like, in this version of the story, if it was true, I would tend to be sympathetic to a father who did something like that in order to go to a job interview.
It's a bad idea, don't get me wrong.
I would not do that.
It's a very bad idea.
It's very ill-advised to leave a ten-year-old to watch a one-year-old at McDonald's for two hours.
Very bad idea.
But if he's trying to go get a job, and he's trying to better his life and the life of his children, then I'd be sympathetic.
And I do think that we've gotten way, way too hyper and paranoid about leaving kids alone places.
And, you know, I was just talking to somebody recently who had the cops called on him, Because he left a kid in the car for five minutes while he ran into a gas station.
It was not hot out, okay?
It's not like it was 95 degrees.
It was whatever, 65, 70 degrees.
So it was a nice mild day.
Doors were locked.
They're in a safe part of town.
The car was in sight the whole time.
He just ran into the, you know, because maybe you pump the gas, you got to run into the store to get a couple things.
So he could see the car the whole time.
And I guess somebody, you know, Notice this, call the cops, and then it becomes a whole thing.
So people are very hyper about it these days, whereas when I was a kid, I feel like I spent half my childhood waiting in cars while my parents were in stores and running errands.
Half my childhood was just sitting in a car, waiting for my parents to come back.
It was a very common thing.
But these days, you can't even do that.
As you know, you know how I feel about Ditching shopping carts in parking lots.
We've talked about that plenty of times, but still not nearly enough.
And this is what you hear from a lot of mothers.
They won't even leave their kid in the car alone for 20 seconds to walk across a parking lot.
What the hell is gonna happen in that time?
Nothing's gonna happen.
It'll be fine.
But this is how we are.
And not just in cars.
I mean, we've talked about stories where, you know, cops are called on parents because they let A 10-year-old walk down the street to a park alone, that sort of thing.
We've basically made any form of independence for children illegal.
And for no real reason, by the way.
As I think most people understand, intellectually at least, the worst case scenario is like, why wouldn't you just leave a kid alone?
Leave him in a car, leave him at home for a limited amount of time.
Why wouldn't you do that?
What's the worst that could happen?
And most people, The worst case scenario they're worried about is that, well, what if somebody comes and takes the kid?
I'll leave my kid in the car for five minutes.
What if somebody comes and steals my kid?
But that is almost certainly not going to happen.
I mean, you have to look at the stats, but I think the chance that your child is kidnapped by a stranger is basically in line with the chance that he's struck by lightning.
It's just something that hardly ever happens.
It's almost certainly not going to happen.
And now, again, with that said, I still don't think you should leave a one-year-old at McDonald's alone.
Now, he wasn't alone.
Granted, he was with a ten-year-old, but a ten-year-old's not old enough to watch a kid for two hours.
So, it's still a bad idea, but, you know, I would be sympathetic if the story was true.
That brings us to the twist ending, which is that it's not true.
Now we have the update from OutKick, who reports, quote, The story of the Georgia man who says that he left his kids at a McDonald's to attend a job interview has taken quite a twist.
In a supplemental police report obtained by Outkick from the Richmond County Sheriff's Department, police determined that Chris Lewis, the father of three, did not attend a job interview while leaving his kids at an Augusta McDonald's.
So they looked into it and they found out that he was not going to a job interview.
What was he actually doing?
I don't think we know that yet.
I would guess it's related to drugs.
I don't know that, just to be clear.
Just my guess, my best bet.
If I was making a bet on FanDuel right now, that's what I would say.
I'd put $1,000 on it.
I'd feel pretty confident.
Or, you know, maybe go into a strip club or something.
Usually something like that.
And, you know, I want to give people a hard time if they bought the job interview thing.
If they thought that this was some kind of pursuit of happiness sort of story.
You know, Will Smith.
Showing up to the job interview in a wife beater covered in paint, you know And I think a lot of people hear stories like this and you want you want it to be something like that And I want to give you a hard time for that for being so naive but I get it I mean, I would rather live in a world Where this story is believable.
I read that story and The first thing I thought is yeah, he didn't go to a job interview first thing I thought and I wish I was wrong I really, truly do.
I really wanted to see the update where, you know, it turns out that the whole story was right and maybe the company, whatever company he was applying for a job, maybe they come out and say, yeah, he was with an interview.
He came to an interview.
It was a great interview.
He did great.
We're going to hire him next week.
Right? He's turning his life around.
I really wish that was the case.
I really wanted that to be true.
But it just was certainly not going to be true.
And it turns out that it isn't.
Because that's not the actual world that we live in, I'm afraid to say.
And I do think that a lot of people would do well to adopt just a bit more skepticism and even a little bit more cynicism.
I'm not saying you have to be as cynical as I am all the time, but just a little bit more.
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want to talk about a certain mom influencer who's gone extremely viral with videos recently where she dispenses Truly awful advice to women.
And I think this woman is worth discussing because she is but one tentacle on a giant and hideous squid.
Women, in particular young married mothers, are getting a lot of very bad advice from our culture, and often they're getting it from these kinds of influencers.
This woman, Paige Connell is her name, is not the most famous or the most followed in this space, but she is growing in prominence with hundreds of thousands of followers across multiple platforms.
Millions of views.
And she's amassed a growing base of fans who consider her to be a role model and a kind of wise sage, which, as we'll see in a moment, is quite alarming.
Now, much has been said about the so-called Manosphere and the reported harm that those influencers are doing to young men.
They're even making Netflix miniseries about it now.
Not nearly enough is said about what we might call the Woman'sphere.
These are the feminist boss babe influencers like Paige Connell, And the very real harm that they're doing to women and those women's husbands and children by extension.
About a year ago, we discussed a video featuring Paige Connell where she was bragging, you may remember, about all the things she doesn't do for her husband.
In case you forget, just to jog your memory, here's that insufferable diatribe again.
Watch. A few weeks ago I said I don't do my husband's laundry and a lot of people are saying, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Those are small acts of kindness.
Why wouldn't you want to do that for your partner?
But here's the thing.
Small acts of kindness that are mostly domestic labor just add up to work at the end of the day.
So here's a list of things that I don't do for my husband.
You all know I don't do his laundry.
He can do that himself.
I do my laundry and we do the kids laundry, but he does his own.
I don't cook dinner.
He cooks dinner every single night.
I do breakfast and lunch for us and our kids.
I don't pack him a lunch.
If he's hungry, he'll figure out what he's going to eat for lunch, the same way that I do.
I don't make his doctor's appointments, because guess what?
He's not making mine.
Would it be kind of me to do that?
For sure.
Is it my job?
Absolutely not.
I want him to be healthy, but he's a grown-ass man and he can book his own appointments, right?
There's a lot of things that I don't do for my husband.
I don't schedule his haircuts.
I don't pack his clothes for vacation.
Right? I don't do those things.
I don't buy him new underwear when it's got holes in it.
All of those are things that he's a grown man and he can do himself.
Can I do smaller things?
She goes on listing all the things she doesn't do for her husband.
Won't do her laundry.
Won't do laundry for her husband.
Won't cook him meals.
Won't help him keep appointments.
Won't help him pack for trips.
Won't do anything that requires any effort.
In fact, she'll put an effort to avoid doing things for her husband.
This is a woman who apparently picks through the dirty laundry Puts her husband's stuff to the side and forces him to do it himself.
Then she calls it an act of kindness when she buys him a bag of chips at the grocery store.
Now, why is Paige so committed to never doing anything that might lead to embarrassing accusations that she actually loves and respects her husband?
Well, because Paige, as the woman in the relationship, is burdened with an enormous quote-unquote mental load.
Now, Paige talks a lot about the mental load.
She has a mental load explainer front and center on her website.
It says, quote, The mental load of motherhood is the often invisible cognitive and emotional labor that mothers carry in managing household tasks, family schedules, and daily logistics.
The mental load often falls disproportionately on mothers, leading to stress and burnout.
Paige has designed resources and support to support and advocate for open communication between partners to share this invisible labor responsibility equitably, ensuring that both partners actively participate in noticing, planning, and executing household tasks and family-related tasks.
Now, if you want to know more about this, the good news is that Paige offers one-on-one consultation.
It'll only cost you about $250 an hour, so you can unload your mind and your wallet at the same time.
Pretty good deal.
Now, the mental load, as I mentioned, is a constant theme in Paige's work.
She's convinced that women carry a disproportionate allotment of the mental burdens of supporting and caring for a family.
She's made dozens of videos about it, one after another, all with the same message, which is that women carry basically the whole mental load of marriage and family life, Men carry almost none of it.
And this is a total fiction.
But it's a fiction that is apparently very appealing to a large number of women.
So let's now play the latest video from Paige, which has gone astronomically viral on X. It has over 100 million views, well over 100,000 likes.
Tens of thousands of women are cheering and shouting amen to this video.
And it is a five-minute rant where Paige tears her husband down, complains about him, belittles him, I've been with my husband for almost 20 years, but about 3 years ago I was strongly considering divorce and I want to talk to you about why.
So I'm going to tell you the story of the day where I thought to myself, maybe I don't want to do this anymore.
My husband and I had 4 kids.
We both worked full-time.
We had been together for 16 years at this point.
We've been together since high school.
And on paper, I have an amazing husband.
He is incredibly supportive.
He's kind.
He's loyal.
He's a great dad.
He's very hands-on.
He's an active participant.
He's always present.
Like, on paper, what else could I ask for?
But in reality, my experience is very similar to the experience of other women.
I had this amazing husband, who on paper was great, but I was incredibly frustrated and burnt out from our marriage and from motherhood.
Because what happens to so many of us is that we marry these amazing men, and we have amazing relationships, and then we have kids.
And when we have kids, women tend to carry a disproportionate amount of the work in the home, the work of raising kids, and the mental load.
And that is exactly what happened to us.
About three months after my fourth baby was born, I remember looking at my husband and saying, I need more.
I need you to do more.
I am exhausted.
I am in charge of everyone and everything in this house.
Every night, when we cook dinner, you ask me what to make.
Every day, when you drop off the kids at daycare, you ask me what they need in their backpacks.
I am the project manager of this home and I need you to do more.
And he looked at me and he said, okay, just tell me what to do.
Right? Every woman has heard this.
Just tell me what to do and I'll do it.
And I said, okay.
You know, something that would make my life easier is if in the mornings when I came downstairs with the four kids, because I do mornings by myself, the dishwasher was emptied, the dishes were put away, and the trash was taken out.
Okay, now, by the way, just a note there.
You notice how she says that he asks her what to make for dinner?
Well, we learned in the other video that this man makes dinner for the family every night.
She said it herself.
When he comes home from his very demanding job, which we'll get to in a moment, He's the one making the dinner for everyone.
All he does is ask her what she wants.
And so somehow in her mind, she has the greater burden when it comes to dinner because she only has to say, here's what I'd like.
She spends 10 seconds saying what she wants.
He spends an hour making it.
But the burden is on her somehow in her mind.
So we've learned so far that her husband is amazing.
He's loyal, supportive, attentive.
And yet she still considered blowing up her family and upending her children's lives because she was frustrated that he wasn't doing chores the way she wanted.
Now, why would that thought even enter her mind?
How in the world could the dissolution of your marriage ever even be considered as a solution for household chores?
Well, she goes on to explain it all came to a head one morning when she walked into the kitchen only to discover that her instructions had not been followed.
That was the precise moment when she considered throwing her marriage vows straight into the garbage.
And there was this one morning where I woke up and I went to put something in the trash and it was overflowing And I went to get my son's water bottle and it was in the dishwasher with all the other clean dishes and I felt so disrespected and unseen and Unvalued at that point in time and I remember texting my husband being like what happened like why didn't you do this?
And he said sorry I was running late for work, and I remember thinking oh my god He doesn't see me because What he's done has now made me late for work.
And he doesn't care about that.
He doesn't care about the impact on me.
And he doesn't see how every single thing in our home happens because I ask him to do it, or because I do it myself, or because I planned and organized it.
The diaper bag is full because I filled it, right?
I put the wipes in there.
And I felt so frustrated.
And I remember thinking, what's the point?
What's the point of doing this with someone else?
I might as well just do it at home.
Happy ending to this story is that she decided not to divorce her husband because he started doing what she wanted him to do without being told.
And as she puts it, a woman's love language is not having to ask.
So she expects everything to be done exactly as she wants, exactly when she wants, and she expects all that to happen without having to say it out loud.
If it doesn't happen, she will seriously entertain ending her marriage.
And somehow she sees herself as the good guy in this scenario.
Even worse, Thousands of women seem to agree, even though approximately 100% of those women would be furious if their husbands ever came up to them and said, Honey, I expect you to do what I want without being told.
Okay, a man who said that publicly about his wife would be denounced as an abuser by the very same women cheering PageCom.
The glaring double standard in this video, and in literally every video this woman makes, is just one problem.
There are many others.
Let's start with the fact, again, that she is criticizing her husband publicly.
The first rule of marriage is that you do not attack, criticize, or tear down your spouse publicly.
Much less do you use your spouse's supposed flaws as clickbait on the Internet.
Paige, though, has made an entire brand out of doing exactly that.
But again, we can bet that if her husband ever made one single video where he spent even one minute Offering the slightest critique of his wife, she would lose her mind.
And we all know that.
She desperately wants to feel seen, but I'm guessing she doesn't want to be seen like that.
Now Paige insists that she is the exclusive carrier of the mental load.
All that tells us is that she is a raging narcissist who has never stopped to even consider what kind of mental and emotional burdens her husband might be shouldering.
Now, we talked about this during a segment last week.
We often hear about emotional labor in a marriage, which means basically the same thing as the mental load.
And these terms are always used by and about women.
The assumption is that men have no mental load, that they have no emotional labor.
And the reason why some women, like Paige, have come to that conclusion is that, along with being raging narcissists who are fundamentally incapable of showing the slightest empathy for the men they married, they're also confused.
They confuse their husband's lack of complaints with a lack of things to complain about.
The fact that he's not saying his complaints out loud is taken to mean that he has no complaints in his head.
But their husbands don't go around whining about their mental and emotional troubles because they're trying to spare their wives from having to share in their burdens.
Also because they assume, rightly, That their wives will hold it against them and resent them if they open up.
Here's what we know.
If Paige's husband were to actually talk about his mental load with Paige, she's the kind of woman who would flip it around and make it immediately about herself.
Because suddenly, his sharing of his mental load has only contributed to her mental load.
Next thing you know, she's filming another TikTok video bashing him while he's at work.
So he says nothing.
And his wife considers that as evidence that his mind is free of all troubles, but that is certainly not the case.
So, what then might Page's husband's mental load consist of?
Well, for one thing, he works full-time to support his family.
Even in our enlightened age, in the majority of families, men are still the primary or sole breadwinners in the majority of cases.
Now, I know you might object and say that, well, Page has a full-time job.
That's true, but listen to her on a podcast recently.
Describe her job.
And this is really important, okay?
Why she still has it, even after having kids.
Listen. The reason, I feel like I have to often justify it, right?
I shouldn't have to do that, but I do.
I justify it.
And the reason that I personally remain in the workforce is, first and foremost, because I wanted to.
I want to have a job.
I want to have purpose outside of my kids.
My parents were divorced when I was young and I always saw the value in my mom being able to support herself and have that financial security.
That's really important to me, not even just for divorce, but God forbid something happens to my partner.
He works an incredibly dangerous job.
I want to know that I could take care of my family.
If I wanted to, it gives me purpose, right?
It gets me motivated.
More than that, if we were solely talking financial reasons, what I've said is oftentimes people leave the work for a short period of time or people tell them to, like, just leave for five years.
You can go back.
And for me, the short-term cost savings didn't outweigh the long-term opportunity for my career, for my income growth, for my retirement fund, for my benefits, right?
All of these things Hmm.
My, my, I, me, I. You notice when she was talking about why she has a job?
She never once mentioned her kids.
So, why does Paige work?
Well, she works first and foremost, you heard her say it, because she wants to.
Because she enjoys it.
Because it gives her purpose.
Okay, fine.
Fine. But, and this is Important to understand, the mental load of your job is significantly decreased if you're doing it essentially for fun.
On the other hand, if you asked Paige's husband why he works, he would likely give the same answer that almost any husband and father would give.
Go up to any man, ask him why he has a job.
Okay, I guarantee you he's not going to say, well, first and foremost, I work because it gives me purpose.
No, he will say that he works because he needs to provide for his family.
He works because he has to.
Paige works because she wants to.
The pressure and burden of providing for the family still falls primarily on him, even if her income is equal or almost equal or even greater than his.
Because she could quit her job if she wanted to.
He cannot.
He's the backstop.
He's the cornerstone.
He works because he must.
And this is how it goes in the majority of families.
Not every, not every, but the majority.
The man works so that his family survives.
The woman works, if she works at all, because she wants to.
The woman works for lifestyle.
The man works for livelihood.
The mental burden is not the same, not even close.
It's like comparing a woman walking a tightrope five feet off the ground to a man walking 500 feet off the ground with no safety net and his wife and kids balancing on his shoulders.
If she falls, it's an inconvenience.
If he falls, they die.
Now, speaking of which, you may have noticed that Paige mentioned her husband's Dangerous job?
She says it kind of as an aside.
Oh yeah, it works a dangerous job.
Anyway, what is this job?
I want you to listen to this clip from the same podcast.
It's the last clip of this woman that I'll play, I promise.
But this short 45-second snippet is too perfect to not share because the whole problem with this woman and every woman like her is contained in this one moment.
Listen very carefully to this.
Okay, Paige, my squirrel brain really won't let it go.
What dangerous job does your husband do?
Oh, yeah.
He's a lineman, which when I say that people will think football, which is not football.
It's an electrical lineman, essentially.
So he climbs utility poles and fixes electricity.
And could get electrocuted any day.
For you, that's what your brother-in-law does, right?
No. Or he does something similar to that?
No. No.
But it's something like...
No. Okay.
Not really.
Bye. Totally off.
Totally off there, Joanne.
Totally off there.
Yeah, it's just a lot of electricity, which is dangerous, right?
And they work like a ton of storms and works a lot of crazy unexpected hours.
It's just, yeah, it's just a dangerous job.
But it's crazy.
But let's get into it.
So you put the video out saying that you chose to stay in the workforce, take the temporary hit and cost, and you got a lot of quote unquote reaction.
What was some of the pushback to that argument?
Because to me, it makes total sense.
Oh, man.
This poor guy.
He's out climbing utility poles, putting his life on the line every day, this incredibly demanding job, while his wife is at home complaining about him on TikTok.
And then he comes home and makes dinner for the family every night.
And his wife still isn't happy.
I mean, incredible.
Her husband is a utility lineman.
That's one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet.
And in the middle of Paige whining about all of her mental loads, she briefly acknowledges that point and then pivots right back Into whining about people being mean to her on Instagram or whatever.
Hey, Paige.
Do you think that maybe there might be some mental loads involved in doing a job with a fatality rate 400% higher than the national average?
You think the possibility of dying on the job might weigh a bit on your husband's mind?
You think the mental load that he carries because he might die on the job Might even be just a bit higher than the load you carry because you have to write a grocery list?
You think?
Maybe? He is literally risking his life every day to provide for his family.
But you insist that the mental burden is carried exclusively by you because you spend more time worried about the dishes than he does.
Your husband left in the morning to go do a job that might kill him.
Then you woke up and the only thing you could think about was the fact that he didn't unload the dishwasher.
You complain about feeling unseen because some household chore wasn't completed.
Meanwhile, you apparently don't see your husband at all.
I mean, I've never met the guy and I have a greater appreciation for the sacrifices he makes and the struggles he faces than you do.
Paige's problem, aside from being monstrously self-absorbed, is that it's the same problem that, thanks to feminism, plagues so many marriages.
She insists that everything has to be equal.
Even though equality in a marriage is impossible.
Yes, women, it's true, often end up taking on a disproportionate amount of the domestic responsibilities.
That's not oppression.
Okay, that is a millennia of biological hardwiring.
A woman's mind tends to be more focused on needs inside the home.
Which is why a woman might tend to be, like, the fact that there's dishes to do, a man can do the dishes, but he's not going to be Troubled by that fact to the extent that a woman will be, which is not an insult to women.
It's just women are more focused on that.
A man's mind is more focused on what needs to be accomplished outside the home for the sake of the family.
Here's the point.
Neither the husband or the wife are wrong in their focus.
In fact, it's good they focus on different things.
They got all the bases covered.
That's the way it's supposed to work.
They're different.
But women like Paige are forever frustrated and doomed to misery because they just cannot accept that their husband is different.
They cannot accept that they married a man and not a woman.
But this inequality cuts both ways.
There are things that the wife will bring to the table in unequal measure.
There are also things that the husband brings to the table in unequal measure.
Most obviously, as we discussed, in the vast majority of cases, the husband is the financial bedrock of the family.
He's the sole breadwinner, the primary breadwinner, or even in cases where he's neither sole nor primary, still very often, the necessary breadwinner.
The wife can have a job or not, the husband must have a job regardless.
But it's not just that.
The husband also provides many other things, including a sense of security and safety.
Now, it's unlikely that he'll ever have to fight off armed intruders, but even so, his wife and children look to him to feel secure.
The wife, in turn, provides precisely No sense of security and safety for her husband.
The wife feels safer with the husband there and around.
The husband does not feel safer with the wife around.
Because he's the sole source of security.
The road only goes one way in the family.
Everybody looks to him to feel safer, more secure.
He looks to nobody.
There's no one.
He looks over to his right and he's the last.
He's it.
He's the guy.
That's not a bad thing.
As a husband, I have absolutely no bitterness about the fact that I carry the pressure of providing for my family and making them feel safe and secure.
I am honored that I can do that for my family.
I take joy in the inequalities, in the things that I can do without receiving an equal measure in return.
And that is the only way to have a happy and lasting marriage.
You have to accept that your spouse is not the same as you.
They do not think the same way.
They don't focus on the same things.
They don't have all the same anxieties.
They have different anxieties in many cases.
You married another person, not a carbon copy of yourself.
And that fact can either be a source of joy, or it can be a source of envy and resentment.
That depends entirely on how you choose to look at the situation.
Paige chooses to see her extra burdens as the mother as oppressive, while not acknowledging that her husband has any burdens at all.
This will be very scandalous for Paige to hear, but you know Paige, you could delight in the opportunity to love and serve your husband and your children.
You could see that as a source of great joy.
You could say, I get to serve and love my husband and my children today, and I am joyful about that fact.
You know what?
There are things that I bring into this house and I bring into this marriage that my husband doesn't, and I am so glad that I'm able to do that for them.
You could have that attitude.
Instead, you choose to be irritated and disgruntled all the time.
Paige could choose to see her husband as the man who risks his life to provide for his family.
Instead, she chooses to see him as the dummy who forgot to unload the dishwasher.
She chooses misery.
And so she gets it.
And sadly, so does her family.
And that is why she is today, with a vengeance, cancelled.
