The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1753 - Why Kicking Your Kids Out at 18 Is Actually INSANE
Aired: 2026-03-20
Duration: 59:55


=== Kicking Parents Out at 18 (15:17) ===

[00:00:00]  Today, Matt Wall Show, we'll talk about why the old school method of kicking your kids out at 18 and forcing them to make their own way in the world is actually a terrible idea and actually much more modern than it is old school.
[00:00:10]  Plus, controversy surrounding the now canceled new season of The Bachelorette reveals a major double standard in how we treat and view domestic violence.
[00:00:18]  Nick Shirley investigated hospice fraud in California.
[00:00:22]  We'll show you what he found.
[00:00:23]  And the media seems to have started a renewed push to normalize polyamorous marriages.
[00:00:28]  We'll talk about all that and more today in the Matt Wall Show.
[00:00:56]  A few days ago, I did something you're not supposed to do on social media.
[00:00:59]  I changed my mind about something.
[00:01:00]  In particular, I had a change of heart on an issue that's apparently very contentious for millions of people.
[00:01:06]  I wrote that while I used to be in the camp that said you should kick your kids out of the house at 18 in order to force them to live independently and make their own way in the world, I don't feel that way anymore.
[00:01:18]  As I've grown older and had kids of my own, I've come to see things differently.
[00:01:22]  My preference now is for all of my children to live with us until they're married, and even after they're married, if they want to live on our property or close by, my wife and I would be very much in favor of that.
[00:01:32]  My goal now is to establish basically a family compound where everybody can live if they want to.
[00:01:37]  I'm not going to force my children to do so once they're adults, but it's my strong preference because I actually like my kids.
[00:01:45]  I enjoy being around them.
[00:01:46]  I think keeping a family together is important.
[00:01:49]  I want to be close by to help them when they have kids of their own one day.
[00:01:53]  The benefits of this arrangement are numerous.
[00:01:55]  And I've taught my kids responsibility.
[00:01:58]  They contribute around the house.
[00:01:59]  They aren't ungrateful, useless moochers.
[00:02:02]  Of course, it's bad to allow your older kids and adult kids to shirk responsibility and sit around your house all day, hang out in the basement or whatever without working or contributing.
[00:02:11]  But provided that you aren't doing that, provided that everybody in the household is pitching in and working hard in one capacity or another, then what's the problem?
[00:02:20]  Why exactly should I kick them out?
[00:02:21]  Why should I drive them from the family home?
[00:02:24]  Is that the goal of parenthood to raise your kids, send them a thousand miles away so that you only see them on holidays for the rest of your life?
[00:02:31]  A lot of parents in the modern age seem to think, at least in this country, that you reap the rewards of parenting by kicking them out of the house and reclaiming your independence or whatever.
[00:02:43]  So the reward is just sort of going back to your pre-parent state.
[00:02:48]  Well, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
[00:02:50]  I mean, the reward should be a family that you love and get to enjoy until you die.
[00:02:55]  The reward should be raising children who one day also become companions.
[00:02:59]  And eventually, as you become very old, they become caretakers.
[00:03:03]  The reward is not or shouldn't be 30 years in a silent, empty house and then dying under fluorescent lights in a nursing home alone.
[00:03:12]  Now, there's a pretty massive response when I posted about this on X and Facebook.
[00:03:17]  There were the usual personal attacks.
[00:03:20]  One guy called me a feckless, grifting, degenerate, idiot clown for changing my opinion, which he described as a flip-flop, because you can't change your opinion about anything anymore without it being a flip-flop.
[00:03:33]  There were also several people who made the case that I was being selfish and hypocritical because I don't live on my parents' property and because I should want my children to spread their wings and explore the world and experience different cultures and so on and so on.
[00:03:47]  And on the other side of the coin, plenty of people agreed with my take.
[00:03:51]  And many said that, you know, that they want to create a family compound of their own for their own children.
[00:03:56]  But in general, I noticed that no one seemed to be able to explain how exactly this arrangement became so uncommon.
[00:04:04]  Why did it become so unusual to say that, no, we shouldn't launch 18-year-olds as far from their hometowns as possible so that they can learn about genderqueer theory at a university that costs $100,000 a year to attend?
[00:04:17]  Well, one reason is propaganda, Hollywood.
[00:04:20]  You know, you go back to the 90s and early 2000s, the main character in Sex in the City who lives in a New York City apartment that in real life costs around $10 million.
[00:04:30]  It became so iconic that to this day, tourists show up outside and the owner has to shoe them away.
[00:04:41]  You can't just take over the street because you like it.
[00:04:43]  I should have sent, but it wasn't our group, but it's okay.
[00:04:46]  I apologize if it wasn't you.
[00:04:48]  I apologize.
[00:04:50]  I allowed what I know and I lecture the ones who stay.
[00:04:54]  Now, most people could never afford an apartment like that in their entire lives.
[00:04:57]  It's extremely expensive, even by the standards of New York.
[00:05:02]  But in Sex in the City, it's rent controlled or something along those lines.
[00:05:06]  For young women watching the show, it looks like a place they might realistically be able to live.
[00:05:11]  Friends had a similar idea with Monica's apartment, which would cost something like $10,000 a month to rent in real life.
[00:05:19]  But in the show, once again, it's rent controlled.
[00:05:22]  So millions of young people saw scenes like this and believed that it was a reasonable approximation of life in New York, the massive apartment, the big windows for someone making a chef's salary.
[00:05:33]  And many other shows at the time had a similar message.
[00:05:36]  The idea, you know, that your 20s are when you're supposed to just focus on having fun.
[00:05:42]  That's kind of been the drumbeat that young people have marched to in our culture for a long time.
[00:05:47]  Just wait until you're 30 to get married, to have kids, and so on.
[00:05:51]  But does anyone at this point not realize that this is anti-human, anti-family propaganda?
[00:05:56]  Do you think it makes people happy, leads to human flourishing?
[00:06:00]  What percentage of young women living like that are on antidepressants?
[00:06:04]  How are they doing when their 20s come and go and now it's their 30s or their 40s and they're living alone in an empty apartment?
[00:06:10]  Why should we push our kids in that direction?
[00:06:12]  I mean, what's the point?
[00:06:14]  Now, the cliche thing is to blame all this on the boomers and to say that this whole idea came from the boomers.
[00:06:20]  But the reality is, cliche or not, that they do strongly believe this.
[00:06:25]  And one reason boomers think along these lines is that they turned 18 in a radically different country.
[00:06:32]  The median baby boomer was born in about 1955.
[00:06:36]  The average cost for them to go to school in the 1970s was $500,000 to $600 a year.
[00:06:42]  Now, even if you account for inflation, the cost of attending a major public university has more than doubled, even with inflation.
[00:06:50]  And the same is true for housing.
[00:06:52]  In 1970, the median home price was around $23,000.
[00:06:56]  And if you adjust for inflation, that $23,000 home in 1970 should only cost about $180,000 today, but that's not what happens.
[00:07:06]  Today's median home is well over $400,000.
[00:07:11]  So that's more than double.
[00:07:12]  So while our economy is better by most metrics, it's also a lot harder for young people to own a home than it used to be.
[00:07:19]  A lot harder.
[00:07:21]  That's because though our economy is generating more money, it's also much more competitive for people who are starting their careers.
[00:07:28]  Young people today are competing against robots, AI, tens of millions of new foreign migrants in the job market.
[00:07:37]  We also have one of the least affordable housing markets in history right now with low inventory, high prices, and a lot of people who don't want to sell because they got locked into a very low interest rate during COVID.
[00:07:48]  A college degree, even a degree in computer science or hard science like physics, something useful, doesn't even come close to guaranteeing a job anymore the way that it used to.
[00:07:57]  And all this to say, the arguments in favor of telling your kids to spread their wings are much less persuasive now than they were in the 1950s.
[00:08:07]  In response to my post on X, Mike Cernovich made a similar point.
[00:08:10]  He wrote that when he was in early 20-something, he was able to live in Santa Monica without spending much money.
[00:08:16]  He could afford it by waiting tables and finding a roommate.
[00:08:19]  Well, today, if you want a one-bedroom in Santa Monica, you're looking at spending around $3,500 or $1,750 a month with a roommate and throw in utilities and internet and tax.
[00:08:31]  And you're looking at $2,000 a month easily for one half of a one-bedroom apartment in Santa Monica.
[00:08:40]  So if you make $50,000 a year as a waiter, which is on the high end, then after tax and rent, you will have precisely $0 left over at the end of the month.
[00:08:50]  You can't save a dime.
[00:08:51]  You won't build any wealth.
[00:08:53]  You can't save for your retirement, much less your kids' education or living expenses.
[00:08:59]  So the whole idea that you're starting out your life and building is pretty difficult because you can't build anything.
[00:09:04]  You can't save any money.
[00:09:07]  Now, none of this happened by accident.
[00:09:08]  The government began backing loans and grants for college education while also slashing taxes to fund many colleges.
[00:09:15]  So students took on a much bigger burden for paying their tuition.
[00:09:20]  And colleges knew that they could simply raise tuition year after year and students could get a loan to cover it.
[00:09:26]  Meanwhile, zoning became more restrictive and institutional buyers purchased hundreds of thousands of homes and the borders were opened, flooding the housing market with many more buyers.
[00:09:38]  And all of this happened, for the most part, with the consent of the boomers, many of whom are now aghast at the possibility that their children might want to live near home past the age of 18.
[00:09:51]  So when you tell your 18-year-old to leave the house, where are they going to go?
[00:09:57]  Sure, there are places where they can live cheaply.
[00:09:59]  I mean, do you want your kid to live in, I don't know, Gary, Indiana, Flint, Michigan?
[00:10:06]  Are there good, high-paying jobs in those neighborhoods?
[00:10:09]  Are they safe?
[00:10:11]  Is that where you want your grandkids to be playing on the playground in Gary, Indiana?
[00:10:17]  In America today, even bad neighborhoods like South Central Los Angeles are expensive.
[00:10:22]  And here's a 1,500 square foot home that's going for $500,000.
[00:10:27]  It's surrounded by a fence.
[00:10:30]  There are bars on the front door.
[00:10:33]  There's a half a million dollar home.
[00:10:35]  Again, to afford it, you need six figures in cash.
[00:10:39]  You're putting your life and your family's life in danger for a half a million dollar home in a neighborhood like this.
[00:10:49]  It's far more than most people can afford, but that's what they're being asked to do.
[00:10:53]  That's the situation people are facing today.
[00:10:56]  Now, at the same time, there are many people who understand the benefits of giving their kids a longer runway to start their adult lives, and they don't kick their own kids out at 18.
[00:11:07]  If anything, you know, that's the global norm.
[00:11:10]  And many other cultures and many other countries encourage adult children to remain close to home until marriage and even afterwards in some cases.
[00:11:17]  Something like 80% of South Koreans in their 20s live with their parents.
[00:11:22]  73% of Greek adults under 35 live at home.
[00:11:25]  More than 70% of young Italians live with their parents.
[00:11:28]  Portugal and Spain are around 50%.
[00:11:31]  But for white Americans, the situation is completely different.
[00:11:34]  Only around 30% of white Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 live with their parents.
[00:11:40]  And those figures include Hispanics, which skew the results much higher.
[00:11:45]  According to Pew, quote, white young adults are less likely than Asian Hispanic and black counterparts to live in a parent's home.
[00:11:51]  And metropolitan areas with a higher than average share of white adults among the young adult population tend to have a lower than average share of young adults living in a parent's home.
[00:12:02]  And indeed, as you can see from this map, a lot of people living with their parents are concentrated on the coast, which you can see there.
[00:12:09]  In Southern California, where most of the population is Hispanic, It's very common for people to live with their parents well into adulthood.
[00:12:16]  The same is true in New York, where around 40% of the population was born in a foreign country.
[00:12:20]  On the other hand, in pretty much the entire middle of the country and the Pacific Northwest, which are mostly white areas, it's a different story.
[00:12:28]  Again, this is from Pew, quote, with a couple of exceptions, the 10 metros with the lowest shares of young adults living in a parent's home have a higher than average share of white young adults.
[00:12:37]  For example, 4% of young adults in Bozeman, Montana live in a parent's home, and 77% of all young adults there are white.
[00:12:46]  In the metros with above average shares of white young adults, the median metro has 14% of young adults living in a parent's home.
[00:12:56]  Now, given everything else we know about how white Americans are under attack in this country, this doesn't seem like an accident.
[00:13:03]  Pretty much every other culture on the planet is focusing on family development, building generational wealth, while white Americans are encouraged to live on their own, often with roommates.
[00:13:18]  Like it's better to live with a roommate than with your family is the idea.
[00:13:23]  I'm not sure why that would be the case.
[00:13:27]  White Americans predominantly are the ones who are, you know, going forth and taking on enormous debt in the process at a point in their lives when they are not able to do that.
[00:13:38]  And you might say, well, white Americans have a different culture.
[00:13:42]  We wouldn't have conquered the Americas if we stayed at home.
[00:13:45]  Hence the famous quote, go west, young man, and grow up with the country.
[00:13:49]  But in reality, for most of this country's history, white American culture generally involved staying close with your family.
[00:13:56]  I mean, there were exceptions, but that's generally the way it worked.
[00:13:59]  We did kind of a deep dive into how families functioned before the boomers.
[00:14:04]  And this is what we found.
[00:14:05]  If you go back to the 19th century, it was common for children in rural New England to sing the rhyme, big house, little house, back house, barn, as an ode to the kind of family compounds that many of them grew up in.
[00:14:19]  This is very normal.
[00:14:20]  This was the norm.
[00:14:21]  This was common.
[00:14:22]  An author named Thomas Hubka wrote a book about these connected farmstead style homes, which look like this.
[00:14:30]  And, you know, Hudka writes that, quote, by the middle of the 19th century, young married couples in many established farming areas could not obtain a farm and often live with their parents.
[00:14:40]  In a common pattern, the parents would retain control of the older big house with its older kitchen and the younger family would use the new kitchen.
[00:14:47]  He states that the ideal family unit for most farm families in the 19th century was a nuclear family with the anticipated addition of parents in old age.
[00:14:56]  It was common for households to gain related and non-related members, including aged parents, orphaned young, widowed relatives, and neighbors.
[00:15:05]  But this kind of living arrangement has now fallen out of favor.
[00:15:07]  Hubka continues, quote, today the connected house-to-barn arrangement is still the region's dominant farm architecture, yet few farms are still active and their total numbers are fast retreating.

=== Why Families Stayed Together (08:21) ===

[00:15:17]  In several towns I know well, more than two-thirds of the historic connected farmsteads have either lost their connecting middle buildings or have completely vanished.
[00:15:26]  Now, it's a transformation that in various ways has taken place all over the country for many different reasons.
[00:15:32]  Now, it's true that as of 2020, data does indicate that among U.S. adults with at least one living parent or adult child, 75% live within 30 miles of that parent or adult child.
[00:15:41]  same time, only around 35% of U.S. adults had all of their living parents and adult children living within 30 miles of their household.
[00:15:51]  That's according to researchers from the University of Michigan.
[00:15:53]  In other words, while families aren't completely separated, it's now overwhelmingly common for adults to live far away from at least one of their parents or children.
[00:16:02]  And that wasn't always the case, far from it.
[00:16:04]  Take a look at this census data beginning in 1850.
[00:16:07]  That was a significant year because it was the first time that the census tracked the total number of people in a household as opposed to simply tracking the head of the household.
[00:16:17]  And the top graph shows the total number of households, which increased from just 3.5 million in 1850 to well over 90 million by 1990.
[00:16:26]  And the bottom graph is almost the complete opposite, which you can see here.
[00:16:30]  It shows the average number of persons per household in the United States beginning in 1850.
[00:16:34]  They actually included a data estimate from 1790 as well, but otherwise it starts in 1850.
[00:16:39]  In 1850, there were an average of 5.39 persons per household.
[00:16:45]  By 1900, the number had dropped to 4.55.
[00:16:49]  By 1950, that number was down to 3.38.
[00:16:53]  And by 2010, it was down to about 2.6.
[00:16:57]  And what this means is that in the middle of the 19th century and beforehand, it was common for adults to remain in the household they grew up in or on the same property rather than move away and start their own household.
[00:17:10]  And that was how most people, many of them on farms, but not all of them, lived their lives.
[00:17:16]  But in every single census, beginning in 1850, the average number of persons per household has dropped.
[00:17:20]  It's become less and less common for households to contain entire families, including adult children.
[00:17:26]  And the decline intensified around the turn of the century from 1880 to 1900.
[00:17:30]  And then it picked up again, as you'd expect, in the 1950s and 1960s.
[00:17:35]  Now, it's no secret what happened here.
[00:17:36]  First, there was the Industrial Revolution, which meant that many young people left the family farm to secure more lucrative jobs at textile mills and steel plants and slaughterhouses and so on.
[00:17:48]  The farms didn't need as many people due to the invention of new machinery, and crop prices were often unstable.
[00:17:53]  So there was an economic reason to move out.
[00:17:55]  Add in plenty of foreign migration as well as the freed slaves.
[00:17:58]  And you have the recipe for one of the most significant demographic transformations in the history of the United States.
[00:18:04]  In 1870, only around a quarter of the U.S. population lived in urban areas.
[00:18:08]  By 1900, that number had increased to nearly 40%.
[00:18:11]  And these numbers resulted, in many cases, from the departure of young people from their hometowns.
[00:18:16]  By the 1950s and 60s, you had many other factors, the GI Bill, the rise of the suburbs, the interstate highway system, air travel, and so on, which made it even easier for families to grow apart.
[00:18:27]  But it's important to emphasize that in the 1800s and 1900s, adult children who left home weren't going off to college to join a fraternity or hang out with roommates.
[00:18:37]  They were getting jobs and getting married for the most part.
[00:18:40]  In 1900, men got married at 25 and women at 21 on average.
[00:18:45]  In 1960, the average man got married at 22.
[00:18:48]  For women, it was 20.
[00:18:50]  Now, as of 2026, the numbers are completely different.
[00:18:53]  The average age of marriage for men is around 31 and 28 for women.
[00:19:01]  Now, you can see the general trend from 1890 to 2017 in this chart from the Census Bureau, which shows the median age when men and women are getting married.
[00:19:09]  So what's happened is that young adults initially moved away from home in order to raise families of their own on their own property in their own cities.
[00:19:21]  And that was the case for decades after the Industrial Revolution began.
[00:19:24]  But now young people are moving away from home for a very different reason.
[00:19:30]  They're leaving in many cases to experience a kind of extended adolescence where they delay marriage in favor of hanging out, attending an expensive, expensive college, experiencing city life and all that sort of thing.
[00:19:43]  Now, none of this is historically normal or good.
[00:19:45]  I mean, the idea of having adult children move away, not get married, not actually start adult life, but just kind of like hang out with roommates for five, 10, 15 years.
[00:20:00]  It's never worked that way in the history of humanity.
[00:20:03]  I mean, this is all very, very new.
[00:20:06]  And it doesn't work now.
[00:20:10]  As the historian Stephanie Kuntz has pointed out, this is a very new phenomenon in the context of American history.
[00:20:16]  Quote, the 1950s was a historical fluke.
[00:20:18]  For the first time, young people could afford to move away from home, marry early, and buy a house on a single income.
[00:20:24]  That brief period created an unrealistic expectation that this was the traditional American way, when in fact, multi-generational living and delayed independence had been the historical norm for centuries.
[00:20:36]  In other words, the perspective that I'm talking about, that I prefer my kids to live near me or even on our property, was the norm throughout most of this country's history, not to mention the history of human civilization generally.
[00:20:51]  There was a period beginning in the late 19th century, accelerating in the 1950s where that norm was suspended.
[00:20:58]  But that was a unique period when the economy was booming and you could buy a house for 25 cents and everybody was expected to get married very soon after leaving home.
[00:21:09]  Now, to be clear, you know, maybe you do have a very strong argument in your particular situation for encouraging your children to leave your community and your household.
[00:21:16]  But whatever that argument is, you have to recognize that it's completely different from the argument that people could make in the 1950s or even the 1880s or any other point in American history.
[00:21:30]  What you're supposed to think now is that if your kids settle down far away from you, then they've achieved independence and they've succeeded in life.
[00:21:39]  At the same time, the children of the elites, they're not settling down far away from their mansions and compounds.
[00:21:46]  You know, the Kardashians, the Hemsworth brothers, the Kennedys, the Bush family, the Rockefellers, they all bought massive property so they could remain in close proximity to their families.
[00:21:56]  And there's a reason for that.
[00:21:58]  You know, barring some sort of economic necessity or some very unusual circumstance, it's good to live around people you care about and who you have something in common with.
[00:22:09]  It's a very good and healthy practice to build out a support structure so that you aren't living entirely around strangers who don't know you or care about you.
[00:22:22]  Because even when you do move away and you move away from your family, you move away from your parents, you're just going to be looking for someone else to fill that.
[00:22:32]  Then you have kids of your own.
[00:22:33]  And traditionally, if you live around your parents, you live on the same property, you live in a compound, you live in the same town, well, your parents can help you with your kids.
[00:22:42]  Well, if you don't have that, then what do you end up doing?
[00:22:44]  Well, you put it, drop them off in daycare.
[00:22:46]  So you're still getting help.
[00:22:48]  You're not entirely quote unquote independent.
[00:22:50]  It's just that in this case, you're getting help from someone you're paying and who is a stranger and who doesn't care about you or love your children, which obviously seems like an inferior arrangement.
[00:23:04]  The goal of every major industry in this country, from Hollywood to the universities, has been to separate you from those people, your family, the people who love you at a young age.
[00:23:15]  They'll tell you it's the way things have always been, but that's not true.
[00:23:19]  It was never true.
[00:23:21]  And that's why in my own life, I'm not going to pretend otherwise.
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[00:24:40]  This is a show the existence of which I have never acknowledged and hadn't planned on acknowledging, have only been vaguely aware of.
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[00:25:02]  And now I genuinely didn't know they were even still doing this show.
[00:25:05]  I knew that it existed, but apparently they're still doing it.
[00:25:09]  And I wouldn't be sharing any news about it, except that the reason behind the cancellation is kind of interesting.
[00:25:17]  So The Bachelorette this year was supposed to be some woman named Taylor Frankie Paul.
[00:25:24]  And she was the woman who, I guess, what, the 30 men or whatever were going to on the show, the contestants would be competing for.
[00:25:34]  I think that's the idea.
[00:25:37]  Now, already this is bizarre, even before we get to the source of the controversy and the reason the season was canceled.
[00:25:44]  It's bizarre because this woman, if we put a picture up on the screen, and I'm not trying to be mean, although as we'll see, she would deserve it.
[00:25:56]  But she's not very attractive at all.
[00:25:59]  You know, she's not hideous.
[00:26:01]  She's just kind of a normal looking woman.
[00:26:04]  She's also a divorced single mother.
[00:26:07]  So the idea was that 30 men would be vying for the heart of an average looking divorced 31-year-old single mom.
[00:26:17]  Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the original premise of The Bachelor was that The Bachelor was a man who was like successful and rich.
[00:26:27]  I think that was a premise.
[00:26:27]  I don't know.
[00:26:28]  I think that was the premise.
[00:26:29]  And, you know, that was probably fake.
[00:26:32]  I'm sure it was, but the premise made sense.
[00:26:35]  Like, in theory, a bunch of women competing to marry the rich guy.
[00:26:39]  Okay, well, that makes sense.
[00:26:41]  I mean, it's trash TV, but it makes sense logically.
[00:26:46]  But then they rolled out The Bachelorette, and the show's been on now for a million years.
[00:26:51]  And now we're at the point where dozens of men are locked in a death struggle for the right to marry a woman who is basically in every way less desirable than the average IHOP waitress.
[00:27:04]  And I get that it's reality TV and it's fake and all the guys are really just there because they want to be on TV and they want to grow their social media brands or whatever.
[00:27:12]  But it's just too much suspension of disbelief.
[00:27:15]  Like I can't, and we haven't even gotten to the crux of the issue, which is that this woman also has been arrested and charged with domestic violence.
[00:27:23]  She pleaded guilty to aggravated assault related to her domestic violence arrest.
[00:27:29]  That was back in 2023, so not that long ago.
[00:27:31]  And this was all known.
[00:27:33]  This was known before the season had even been filmed.
[00:27:38]  I guess it's already been filmed.
[00:27:39]  Now they're not going to air it.
[00:27:42]  So actually, this was a bunch of men competing to win the heart of an average-looking divorced 31-year-old single mother and domestic abuser.
[00:27:55]  And again, all this, this was all known.
[00:27:57]  ABC brought this woman on, cast her, knowing that she had very recently been arrested and pled guilty to domestic violence.
[00:28:09]  And then yesterday, a video of the domestic violence incident was leaked.
[00:28:15]  And I'm not sure how much of this we can show because it is violent.
[00:28:20]  But here it is.
[00:28:22]  Yeah.
[00:28:23]  Yeah, look at you.
[00:28:24]  Look, look.
[00:28:26]  Yeah, look.
[00:28:28]  This is called physical abuse.
[00:28:31]  Yeah.
[00:28:36]  Yeah.
[00:28:37]  See, Taylor, this is all you do.
[00:28:40]  It's the only thing you know how to do.
[00:28:45]  I don't want to f let me go.
[00:28:48]  Stop.
[00:28:50]  Dude, leave me alone.
[00:28:52]  Oh, my God.
[00:28:56]  Your daughter is right here.
[00:29:01]  Oh, my God.
[00:29:04]  Oh, my.
[00:29:08]  Now, if you're listening to the audio version, so what to describe what's happening here, Taylor, the woman, is slapping the man whose name is Dakota Mortensen, kicking him, pulling his hair, starts throwing metal stools at him, even while her daughter is sitting on the ground right there.
[00:29:28]  It sounds like she gets hit.
[00:29:30]  The daughter gets hit.
[00:29:30]  It sounds like the daughter is a baby, an infant, and gets hit or is very close to getting hit by one of these chairs that this crazy woman is throwing around the house.
[00:29:42]  So it's pretty brutal.
[00:29:44]  And keep in mind, this woman never served any prison time for this.
[00:29:51]  She pled guilty to aggravated assault.
[00:29:52]  She was given probation, I believe.
[00:29:56]  And so, but the video, which had not been released, was released.
[00:30:00]  It went viral.
[00:30:01]  And a few hours later, ABC pulled the plug on the season and they announced that the season will not air.
[00:30:07]  So what makes this case worth talking about?
[00:30:10]  Well, because it reveals, of course, some major disparities that many of us were already aware of in how domestic violence is treated, depending on who commits it.
[00:30:25]  This is one of the most egregious double standards that you'll find in modern life.
[00:30:32]  Because the fact is that there's just no way that ABC would have ever moved forward with a season of The Bachelor if The Bachelor, the male lead on the show, had just been arrested and charged with domestic violence.
[00:30:48]  I mean, can you imagine a scenario where a video like that exists, except you reverse it and it's the man doing all that?
[00:30:57]  And that guy then becomes the bachelor.
[00:31:01]  ABC casts him as the bachelor.
[00:31:05]  There's just no way.
[00:31:08]  But that's what happened here.
[00:31:09]  They were prepared to move forward with the show knowing about all that.
[00:31:14]  It's just that the video came out and it got such a big reaction, they had no choice but to cancel the season.
[00:31:20]  And this is the double standard.
[00:31:22]  And even now, if you look at the commentary around this story, you'll find plenty of people on social media defending the abuser.
[00:31:31]  There's a lot of that.
[00:31:33]  A lot of comments basically saying, well, he probably deserved it.
[00:31:36]  Hey, if a woman is treating you like that, it's because you have, it's because you're antagonizing her.
[00:31:43]  This is a post from Ashley Hollis, who is herself, I think, a former reality TV contestant.
[00:31:48]  This has 7,000 likes.
[00:31:51]  And there's a bunch like this all over social media.
[00:31:54]  She posts, I'm not saying Taylor Frankie Paul is an angel, but toxic men like Dakota are the kind of guys who purposefully push limits to get big reactions.
[00:32:05]  I don't think it's a coincidence his call logs are leaking and the story's getting out.
[00:32:09]  He's a clout chaser.
[00:32:12]  That is the consensus view among many women, certainly not all, but many women on social media right now, is that the abuse victim, this guy, Dakota, who I don't know anything about, is actually at fault because he pushed her.
[00:32:29]  He pushed her buttons, right?
[00:32:30]  He antagonized her.
[00:32:33]  He pushed the limits.
[00:32:36]  Hey, if this woman is beating you with a chair, it's because you push the limits, mister.
[00:32:41]  Stop.
[00:32:41]  Hey, stop pushing it.
[00:32:44]  Again, this is the kind of logic that never gets applied in the reverse.
[00:32:49]  Ever.
[00:32:50]  I mean, you're not ever going to hear this.
[00:32:55]  And if it were, you know, if you did hear something like this, whoever made that argument would be roundly condemned.
[00:33:03]  And then, and for good reason, because there's no justification for domestic violence, no matter who commits it.
[00:33:11]  And you look at Taylor's own statement.
[00:33:13]  She put this out through her publicist after the season was canceled.
[00:33:17]  And here's what it said.
[00:33:21]  Taylor is very grateful for ABC's support as she prioritizes her family's safety and security.
[00:33:28]  Oh, her family, like the one that she was throwing a chair at.
[00:33:32]  She's prioritizing her child's safety by throwing a chair at the child.
[00:33:39]  After years of silently suffering extensive mental and physical abuse, as well as threats of retaliation, Taylor is finally gaining the strength to face her accuser and taking steps to ensure that she and her children are protected from any further harm.
[00:33:51]  There are too many women who are suffering in silence as they survive aggressive, jealous ex-partners who refuse to let them move on with their lives.
[00:34:02]  So she's the victim.
[00:34:03]  She's been suffering silently.
[00:34:05]  She's gaining strength now.
[00:34:07]  She's trying to survive.
[00:34:10]  Meanwhile, she was the one throwing metal chairs around the house.
[00:34:16]  And again, this would never fly in the opposite direction.
[00:34:19]  It would not fly like those chairs were flying around the house.
[00:34:23]  And this matters because actually, domestic violence by women is very common.
[00:34:31]  It's not some sort of rare aberration exception sort of thing.
[00:34:36]  Now, there's no doubt that men are more likely to be arrested and charged with domestic violence, but a number of studies have been done trying to measure the actual rates of domestic violence, even if it isn't reported or charged.
[00:34:50]  And those studies consistently show that women account for 40 or 50% of the perpetrators of domestic violence.
[00:35:00]  Men are less likely to report being the victims of domestic violence, and in part because of the embarrassment that many men would feel.
[00:35:13]  And courts are less likely to pursue those cases, but the evidence suggests that women commit domestic violence nearly as often as men do, or just as often.
[00:35:23]  Now, unsurprisingly, men are more likely to cause severe damage when they do commit domestic violence.
[00:35:31]  So the majority of severe cases, the majority of homicides are committed by men.
[00:35:37]  The majority of murders in general are committed by men.
[00:35:40]  Although even there, even there, there is a caveat that I think is important, which is that when a woman kills her unborn child, which happens a lot, that is not counted in any violence stat or murder stat.
[00:36:00]  And if we did count that, which we should, then we'd find that in fact, women commit a huge majority of the murders in this country every year.
[00:36:12]  So what's happened is that the type of murder that a woman is most likely to commit has just been categorized as not murder.
[00:36:18]  And so that, you know, kind of lets them off the hook.
[00:36:22]  But if you were to include that, well, that's like a million murders a year, give or take.
[00:36:32]  Now, granted, if you're counting abortions, then you'd also have to count as accomplices the people working at the clinics, some of whom are men.
[00:36:40]  You'd have to count the fathers who are supportive of the abortions or insist on them, which happens plenty of times.
[00:36:45]  But even if you do account for all that, there's still no question that women would be responsible for, or at least involved in, a huge majority of murders.
[00:36:58]  So all this to say the way that we treat violence varies significantly depending on the sex of the perpetrator.
[00:37:05]  There is a whole category of brutal violence that isn't even counted because women commit it.
[00:37:13]  And even in the categories where we do count it, we don't weigh it the same.
[00:37:17]  And when you take everything together, I think what you find is actually pretty bleak, unfortunately.
[00:37:26]  And it's that the reason why men commit more murder on the books anyway, according to our current laws, and more severe domestic violence is that they're bigger and stronger.
[00:37:40]  I don't actually think it's that men are necessarily more inclined to violence.
[00:37:44]  I think when you look at everything objectively and even in an even way, you might say that's not exactly the case.
[00:37:54]  They're more capable of inflicting damage.
[00:38:00]  And the only reason women don't commit a higher share is because they're less capable of it.
[00:38:05]  I mean, that's a bleak way of looking at it.
[00:38:09]  To say that the only reason that women don't kill more men is that they can't, not because they're less inclined, I think that's bleak.
[00:38:18]  I think it's true, though.
[00:38:21]  Evil men inflict violence on those who are weaker and women are weaker.
[00:38:27]  Evil women generally inflict violence.
[00:38:32]  Sometimes they afflict violence on those that are stronger than them.
[00:38:35]  That's not just generally not the way evil works.
[00:38:37]  If you're an evil, violent person, generally your violence is going to go down.
[00:38:42]  It's going to go towards people who are physically inferior to you.
[00:38:49]  So evil women inflict violence on those who are weaker too, but men generally are not weaker.

=== AI Fraud in Hospice Care (13:10) ===

[00:38:54]  So that's why they are more likely to inflict violence on children.
[00:38:59]  And I'm not just talking about abortion.
[00:39:01]  I mean, this is something that isn't discussed hardly at all, but the majority of child abuse in the home is committed by women.
[00:39:09]  According to the most recent data I saw in 2023, the perpetrators of child abuse and maltreatment are majority female, about 54 or 55% to about 45%.
[00:39:20]  So now, it is true that men, maybe backtracking slightly, I do think that men have an aggressive, men have a natural aggressiveness that women don't have, generally speaking, or that most women don't have.
[00:39:38]  So there's something about masculinity that is aggressive.
[00:39:42]  And if we target it in the right direction, it's a good thing.
[00:39:46]  There's a kind of noble violence and aggression that we should target in that direction.
[00:39:53]  But my only point is that is that certainly women are just as likely to be evil as men are.
[00:40:04]  That certainly is the case.
[00:40:07]  No question about that.
[00:40:08]  Men are not more inclined to evil than women.
[00:40:12]  We are all fallen, and so we all have that capacity.
[00:40:16]  And if you're an evil person, you want to do evil, then that generally is going to involve in some way inflicting yourself on someone else.
[00:40:29]  Exercising power and control over them because you find pleasure in it.
[00:40:36]  And the point is that women have ways of doing that on those that are weaker than them or those who are vulnerable to them, susceptible to them.
[00:40:45]  It's just that it isn't always measured the same.
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[00:41:52]  All right, Postmillennial has this.
[00:41:56]  Independent journalist Nick Shirley, who rose to prominence after exposing fraud taking place in Minnesota, has released a new video report about the level of fraud in California.
[00:42:05]  And it said that he and his team were able to uncover around $170 million in fraud taking place in the state related to home health care, daycares, and other services that get government subsidies.
[00:42:17]  He posted, Minnesota was big, but California is even bigger.
[00:42:20]  We uncovered around $170 million in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences.
[00:42:27]  We all work way too hard, pay too much in taxes for this to keep happening.
[00:42:32]  So we have a clip here we can play of Nick Shirley's latest investigation.
[00:42:34]  This dropped a couple of days ago.
[00:42:37]  And this one too has, I don't know, tens of millions of views, a lot.
[00:42:41]  Here it is, watch.
[00:42:43]  So what's the need for a thousand percent increase in hospice here inside of LA in California?
[00:42:49]  You're asking me?
[00:42:50]  Yeah, because you're in the industry, so we figured might as well ask you.
[00:42:54]  You obviously found it was a good business to start.
[00:42:56]  You just started yours, right?
[00:42:57]  I started buying my business in 1997.
[00:43:00]  Okay, great.
[00:43:01]  So how come you're seeing such an increase in hospice care here?
[00:43:07]  Maybe I don't know if everybody likes the business.
[00:43:09]  What could I say?
[00:43:10]  I do this from 1997.
[00:43:13]  Good for you.
[00:43:13]  And so since you've been in the industry for so long, why do you think we're seeing a thousand percent increase in hospice care here inside of LA in California?
[00:43:20]  I cannot answer that question because looks like they're all running out of here.
[00:43:24]  Everyone's heading out.
[00:43:26]  We've just got to answer some questions and why can't...
[00:43:28]  Who's running out?
[00:43:29]  What?
[00:43:30]  Look at all the people scattering out of here.
[00:43:31]  They're all here just a minute ago.
[00:43:33]  It's strange.
[00:43:33]  You know, there's over 80 people connected to one of these dormant motel rooms with no furniture and they are, you know, getting $30,000 per person.
[00:43:41]  It's millions of dollars.
[00:43:43]  We come and knock on the door.
[00:43:44]  It's an abandoned shelf company.
[00:43:47]  I don't say it's right.
[00:43:49]  And I don't care about those people.
[00:43:51]  Could you just answer the question?
[00:43:53]  What's the need for a thousand percent increase in hospice care here inside of LA?
[00:43:57]  Inside of California?
[00:43:59]  You're in the industry, sir.
[00:44:01]  You've known it.
[00:44:02]  You know it better than me.
[00:44:03]  I'm asking me.
[00:44:03]  No, I don't.
[00:44:04]  You've been it since 1997.
[00:44:06]  Yeah, but I don't.
[00:44:07]  So what's the need for an increase?
[00:44:09]  Maybe there is a lot of old people already.
[00:44:11]  I don't know what to say.
[00:44:13]  A lot of old people are dying.
[00:44:15]  So I don't know if that guy in the clip is one of the fraudsters.
[00:44:17]  It looks like he isn't.
[00:44:19]  He said he's been in the business since the 90s, which is a pretty good indication that it's legitimate.
[00:44:23]  But the numbers that Nick talks about are undeniable.
[00:44:27]  I mean, there's really no other plausible way to explain the statistics, except there's a lot of fraud going on.
[00:44:33]  And it doesn't mean that everybody in the hospice industry in California is a scammer, obviously.
[00:44:38]  There are actual hospice businesses in the state.
[00:44:43]  And there are hospice businesses where they do in-home care.
[00:44:48]  So they'll have an office off-site somewhere, but there's no one receiving hospice care in the office.
[00:44:55]  They send to the home.
[00:44:57]  So all that is true.
[00:44:59]  But the sudden explosion of hospice care, the big complexes with empty offices, all of that clearly indicates fraud.
[00:45:10]  And as always, most of these people seem to not be Americans.
[00:45:15]  I mean, it's fraud mostly perpetrated by foreigners.
[00:45:19]  There have been some attempts to debunk Nick Shirley's investigation.
[00:45:22]  There's this article in Yahoo News that's making the rounds.
[00:45:25]  Headline is, Nick Shirley says he exposed $170 million in California hospice fraud, but his last big investigation raised serious doubts.
[00:45:36]  It says, Nick Shirley's latest video is 40 minutes long, not a TikTok clip, not a highlight reel, 40 minutes of a 23-year-old in a hoodie that reads, support independent journalism walking through Los Angeles strip malls, knocking on the doors of hospice providers saying he says they're billing Medicare for services they never delivered.
[00:45:52]  He films a custom-wrapped cyber truck and a new BMW parked outside buildings that look like they should be condemned.
[00:45:58]  Nearly 9 million people have watched it in less than two days in an era when most people won't sit through a two-minute ad that's not just a video going viral.
[00:46:05]  It's a verdict arriving before the evidence has been checked.
[00:46:08]  Okay, first of all, actually, we should put the text on the screen here because I want you to see this and understand that this is not really the topic.
[00:46:16]  This is a side, just to get sidetracked for a minute.
[00:46:19]  But just so you know, this article, which is on Yahoo News, and I saw someone shared on X, this is 100% written by ChatGPT, like generated by ChatGPT.
[00:46:31]  And hopefully you can see that.
[00:46:33]  I mean, I think a lot of people still can't spot AI writing.
[00:46:38]  But once you learn how to spot it, you see it everywhere.
[00:46:42]  It is everywhere.
[00:46:43]  I mean, it is completely taken over.
[00:46:46]  So much of what you already see is AI generated and people don't know it.
[00:46:51]  In particular, these whatever news site you go to, so many of them already.
[00:46:56]  It's like the whole thing is AI generated now.
[00:47:02]  So this is AIJ.
[00:47:03]  I'd bet a million dollars as a ChatGPT.
[00:47:05]  And there are a few tells here.
[00:47:08]  First of all, the first few sentences, AI, AI loves doing this.
[00:47:11]  AI loves this thing where it's a statement about what something is followed by a list of things that it isn't, followed by repeating the original statement.
[00:47:22]  So it goes like, this is X, not Y, not Z.
[00:47:27]  This is X. AI loves that.
[00:47:30]  Anytime you see that, that's AI.
[00:47:32]  I don't know why, but ChatGPT loves doing that.
[00:47:35]  That's a clear tell.
[00:47:37]  It's filler.
[00:47:38]  It's redundant.
[00:47:40]  And plus, you notice that with AI writing, it always, like, it homes in on details that don't matter.
[00:47:48]  Like, it just kind of, so, so it starts with, the video is 40 minutes long.
[00:47:53]  Okay.
[00:47:53]  So what does that have to do with anything?
[00:47:56]  What does it have to do with you debunking the video, which is what you're supposed to be doing?
[00:48:02]  And then it happens down here again.
[00:48:04]  In an era when most people won't sit through a two-minute ad, that's not just a video going viral.
[00:48:08]  It's a verdict arriving before the evidence has been checked.
[00:48:11]  I mean, that's all ChatGPT.
[00:48:13]  That is AI slop all the way.
[00:48:15]  That's a twofer.
[00:48:16]  That's a buy one, get one, because you have the, that's EC, that's X, not Y.
[00:48:22]  And then you also have the M dash.
[00:48:24]  AI loves the M dash.
[00:48:26]  So anyway, I'm going to move on from that.
[00:48:32]  There's no debunking going on.
[00:48:33]  This is all AI slop.
[00:48:34]  But really, there is no way to debunk this.
[00:48:36]  I mean, it's just a fact that fraud is rampant, especially in California.
[00:48:40]  And it's so bad that even the mainstream media is starting to notice.
[00:48:45]  So Fox News has this report.
[00:48:47]  A single building in Van Nuys, California is raising eyebrows and big questions about the dozens of hospice providers and healthcare agencies registered at the address.
[00:48:54]  The Marabi Professional Medical Plaza has been dubbed ground zero for Medicare fraud in the hospice industry.
[00:49:00]  The building is three stories, 32,000 square feet.
[00:49:05]  According to CBS News, which recently visited to investigate the hospice companies, the outlook reported 89 hospice companies were registered in the building.
[00:49:13]  Fox News Digital reviewed state records showing 50 hospice companies and 97 home health agencies registered to just that address.
[00:49:21]  CBS News said it found more than 700 of the nearly 1,800 hospice centers in Los Angeles County exhibited three or more flags that the state has cited as indicators of fraud.
[00:49:31]  So it's completely out of control.
[00:49:33]  And this is what makes it so enraging.
[00:49:36]  It's not like these are sophisticated fraud schemes that are being uncovered here.
[00:49:43]  There's a reason why YouTubers are able to just show up and expose this stuff.
[00:49:50]  It's incredibly obvious.
[00:49:52]  It's happening right out in the open.
[00:49:56]  I mean, you only do this when you're very comfortable that no one is going to bother even investigating or looking into it all.
[00:50:03]  Like having a business complex where you just have a bunch of fraudulent businesses all clustered in the same spot.
[00:50:13]  All it takes is one person to look at it and go, that's weird.
[00:50:16]  Why would you have dozens of the same business in the same complex?
[00:50:21]  That's strange.
[00:50:25]  And they have total confidence up to this point that nobody will do that.
[00:50:32]  I mean, they're setting up learning centers where they misspell the word learning.
[00:50:37]  Again, that's a great joke now.
[00:50:39]  We all get a good laugh out of it.
[00:50:41]  And we should.
[00:50:41]  It's funny.
[00:50:43]  But it's also not funny because it's so in your face.
[00:50:48]  It's a learning center that misspelled the word learning.
[00:50:50]  Like, how did no one look into that?
[00:50:53]  How did that not raise any red flags?
[00:50:58]  And all it takes is somebody to show up with a camera and say, huh, well, this is weird.
[00:51:06]  And yet they've been able to do this.
[00:51:07]  The scammers have operated with impunity because there's been no attempt at all, no real attempt to stop it.
[00:51:14]  Here's what I would like to know.
[00:51:17]  Or maybe I don't want to know.
[00:51:18]  I don't know.
[00:51:19]  But if you were to add together all of the different forms of fraud, I mean, like hospice fraud, the autism treatment center fraud, various kinds of insurance fraud, Medicare fraud.
[00:51:33]  And then you add in EBT fraud.
[00:51:36]  You add in the nonprofit NGOs that get government funding for no legitimate reason.
[00:51:43]  Add in the, you know, the stuff that Doge was looking into, like the entire agencies of the government that exist just as jobs programs for bureaucrats.
[00:51:53]  All of that is fraud.
[00:51:56]  Add all of that together.
[00:51:58]  All of the ways that taxpayers are being defrauded, whether illegally or legally, technically.

=== Government Funding and EBT Scams (07:00) ===

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[00:52:17]  I mean, it's almost impossible to count.
[00:52:21]  It's almost impossible to do an accounting of this, but somebody should because I guarantee it's staggering.
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[00:54:12]  All right, finally, there's been a renewed push, it seems, recently, from what I've noticed, a renewed push to normalize polyamory or non-monogamy.
[00:54:21]  Just in the last week, I've seen two articles from major publications.
[00:54:26]  New York Magazine had this headline.
[00:54:27]  Could opening your marriage lighten your mental load?
[00:54:30]  For some moms, non-monogamy is a way to reclaim more than just their sex drive.
[00:54:36]  And it's an article all about, I'm not even going to read the article.
[00:54:38]  It's all about these women that have cucked their husbands.
[00:54:40]  And it's really helped, it's helped to de-stress.
[00:54:45]  They don't have as much mental load anymore.
[00:54:48]  And then the New York Post in the same week had this headline.
[00:54:52]  We're a thruple raising young children together.
[00:54:55]  Here's why we're more responsible than regular parents.
[00:55:01]  It says, an inseparable thrupple who raised three children together say they're more responsible than regular mom and dads.
[00:55:07]  Frank Eric Blackcloud, Titanya Brown, and Lexi Bowman live under one roof with kids Oliver Sage and Naomi.
[00:55:15]  Eric, who works in pest control and tattoo artist Titanya, first met 11 years ago as friends.
[00:55:21]  And they brought in the third person.
[00:55:24]  And anyway, it goes into their whole biography.
[00:55:26]  I don't need to read it.
[00:55:29]  But if we put, let's just put this lovely thrupple up on the screen so you can see what these people look like.
[00:55:35]  The guy works in pest control, it said.
[00:55:37]  So did he meet the other two on the job?
[00:55:42]  I mean, were they the pests?
[00:55:44]  Were they the infestation that he was going to clear out and then ended up falling madly in love with them?
[00:55:48]  I don't know.
[00:55:50]  But one thing that's kind of encouraging, because you got to look for encouragement wherever you can find it these days, it is kind of encouraging that this whole thing, this bull has not really caught on.
[00:56:03]  They're trying.
[00:56:05]  They've tried.
[00:56:05]  They are trying.
[00:56:06]  They're still trying.
[00:56:07]  Like I said, two articles in a week about non-monogamy, quote unquote, polyamory.
[00:56:14]  They want it.
[00:56:15]  They want it to catch on, but it's just not landing.
[00:56:20]  Like still, if you go about in your daily life, you're not going to meet anyone in the real world who lives like this.
[00:56:26]  And unless you hang out with a bunch of degenerates.
[00:56:30]  And why is that?
[00:56:33]  Well, for one thing, every polyamorous group is just a horror show.
[00:56:37]  Like every time the media tries to highlight one of these groupings and you look at them and you go, it's a nightmare.
[00:56:44]  It's a nightmare to behold.
[00:56:46]  You see these people, they look like they come from some kind of Tim Burton acid trip.
[00:56:51]  And they look like manic depressive Willy Wonka characters.
[00:56:55]  So it's not the best advertisement for the lifestyle.
[00:56:58]  Anybody who's even like slightly tempted to go the polyamory direction, well, you go and you survey your options.
[00:57:03]  You take a look at what's in stock, what your choices would be.
[00:57:08]  And it's, I mean, it's, you recoil in horror.
[00:57:11]  So that's a problem.
[00:57:13]  But most people never really get to that point because it turns out that this kind of lifestyle is actually unnatural.
[00:57:20]  It is actually unhuman.
[00:57:22]  Obviously, it's really bad for children who should all be removed from this home for their own safety and well-being.
[00:57:29]  But it's also miserable for any sane adult to be involved in.
[00:57:33]  You know, it turns out that the monogamous setup, one man, one woman, is not some like top-down oppressive system imposed on us.
[00:57:41]  It is rather a natural outgrowth of human nature.
[00:57:45]  It's what we are made for, what we are meant to do.
[00:57:49]  You know, the Bible tells us right in the first chapter of Genesis or second chapter.
[00:57:54]  And what do you know?
[00:57:58]  The Bible is right again, as always.
[00:58:00]  And this is what's so great about being a Christian.
[00:58:03]  Our faith prescribes certain things, mandates certain things, certain life choices.
[00:58:07]  And if you reject those mandates, if you go and try to rebel, you're going to quickly find out that actually the mandates are not arbitrary.
[00:58:16]  There is no happiness to be found outside of what is being prescribed to us because the mandates are deeply rooted in our nature as human beings because our nature was created by God who also gave us the mandates.
[00:58:30]  And that's why it hasn't caught on.
[00:58:32]  Although they've tried.
[00:58:33]  They've tried to push it.
[00:58:34]  They'll still push it.
[00:58:35]  But again, there's a reason why it's one man and one woman.
[00:58:39]  No other arrangement works.
[00:58:41]  It will only bring you hardship and misery.
[00:58:46]  And you'll end up looking like Edward Scissorhands or something, apparently, for some reason.
[00:58:51]  So there's that too.
[00:58:53]  And that will do it for the show today.
[00:58:54]  Thanks for watching.
[00:58:55]  Thanks for listening.
[00:58:55]  We'll talk to you on Monday.
[00:58:57]  Have a great weekend.
[00:58:58]  Godspeed.

=== The One Man One Woman Rule (00:49) ===

[00:59:06]  I do believe that if people have committed treason against the United States of America, their statues should not be in the Capitol.
[00:59:16]  History is written by the victors, and since the 1960s, we've been told, mostly by people whose ancestors didn't even live here during the war, the South committed treason.
[00:59:25]  But if the Confederates were traitors, then why was Jefferson Davis never put on trial for treason?
[00:59:34]  What were Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson afraid of?
[00:59:38]  Do they know something they're not allowed to say today?
[00:59:42]  It's time for the truth.
[00:59:43]  So here it is.
[00:59:44]  Robert E. Lee was a military genius and a man of immense honor.
[00:59:47]  He was beloved by Americans from the North and South for a century after the war.
[00:59:53]  This is the real history of the Civil