B (14:05)

So I get $3,000 in food stamps. Obviously it's eight of us, so you do the math. That's why I get 3,000. I have no income, so obviously I'm get the full benefit. Benefit amount.

A (14:19)

Um.

B (14:22)

Does that make you mad too? Does it make you mad that the government is helping me feed my children?

A (14:30)

Hmm?

B (14:31)

Does that make you want to punch me in my face? Does that make you angry? Does that make you shiver in your boots? Yeah, be mad, stay mad.

A (14:46)

House.

B (14:46)

I'm feed my kids. I don't have a job, even though I'm going to an interview today. Cut. Like I said, I took your advice, so it is what it is.

A (14:56)

So she's making $3,000 a month, 36 grand a year for doing nothing. And she's mocking people for noticing how absurd this is. There are millions of people in this country who make 36 grand a year for a full time job. They work eight hours a day and those people are being taxed on every paycheck. And their money is then going to obese welfare queens like this one. Now, she's obviously able to afford, you know, a smartphone, a car, so she can shoot videos complaining about how oppressed she is. And of course, she's obviously eating quite well, so, or at least if she's not eating well, she's eating a lot. She's eating high volume, if not high quality. So why exactly are we allowing people like this to collect thousands of dollars a month? I mean, why don't we have regular weigh ins to make sure that food stamp recipients actually need food? Why don't we drug Test these people and check their social media feeds to see if they're gloating about their EBT balances. We do that in bankruptcy court. If you declare bankruptcy and then you post a video where you're on a yacht or something, they're going to ask you to explain yourself. This is what happened to 50 Cent and it should happen to every single one of these people. But it hasn't happened. And there's a very simple reason why it has not happened. Yes, many of these people vote Democrat. It's true, the Democrat Party wants to buy their votes by stealing your money and handing it to them. But the food stamp program isn't simply a creation of the Democrat Party. Many Republican administrations have supported it as well. In fact, they all have to, to one extent or another, for as long as it's existed. So there's bipartisan support for wasting your money like this. And that's because. And even now, by the way, the messaging from Republic of the Republicans about the, about the government shutdown, it's. They're not saying that. Well, look how wasteful EBT is. Instead they're saying, oh no, EBT is running out. It's the Democrats fault. They're trying to take food out of your mouth. That's what Republicans are saying. So very few Republicans are actually being honest about the eb, about the, the food stamp program. Even though they all know every politician in America, every single one, right and left, they all know that everything I'm saying is correct. They know the whole thing's a total scam. It's, it's completely insane. It's gotten way out of hand. They all know that, but very few of them will point it out. And why is that? Well, one, they're. They're afraid of offending this constituency. But the other one is that some of the biggest business interests in this country, as well as several foreign governments, are essentially dependent on the food stamp program too. Something like 25% of all food stamp spending, talking about billions of dollars every month, goes to Walmart. Obviously, Amazon takes a large chunk too, which is why they have SNAP eligible items on all their all over their website. As I mentioned earlier, roughly 10% of food stamp spending goes to sweetened beverages like Coke, which has launched a very aggressive lobbying campaign to keep this money. You might remember that last year big soda companies were linked to a campaign to pay conservative influencers on X in exchange for posts that said soda purchases should remain SNAP eligible. So in other words, SNAP isn't just a form of welfare. That's mainly intended for Democrat voters. It's that. But it's also a form of corporate welfare. If you pay taxes, you're contributing to the profits of Walmart, Amazon and Coke whether you want to or not. You're also contributing to the GDP of several foreign nations through remittances. Watch 42 million people in this country that need food stamps on a weekly basis. And we're saying people deliberately instead of Americans because most of the people that are on food stamps aren't even from this country. 45% of Afghanistan immigrants are on food stamps, 42% of Somali immigrants, 34% of every immigrant from Iraq, 23% of Haitians, 59% of all illegal aliens are collecting food stamps, meaning that most of the people getting food stamps from the US Government and the US Taxpayer are not even Americans. Think about that. And we didn't know about any of this before the government shutdown started. But thanks to Democrats, we can confirm tonight that millions of Joe Biden illegal aliens, people who crossed the border when Joe was president, are now collecting food stamps from a program funded by hardworking American taxpayers. So well over half of illegal aliens are receiving food stamps as well as cash for low income households. As we just established, they don't really need this money and even if they did, they still shouldn't receive it because they don't belong in the country. But regardless, if they don't need the money, what are they doing with it? Well, they're buying food to ship back home either to family members or to sell in the black market. This is from the New York Post. Quote, food stamp fraud in New York has turned into foreign aid to black market profiteers in the Dominican Republic. Last week the Post found two people hawking barrels of American products for a profit on the streets of Santiago. It's a really easy way to make money and it doesn't cost me anything. A seller named Maria Theresa said Friday. The 47 year old Bronx native told the Post she scalps barrels of Frosted Flakes and baby formula bought with welfare Money in the U.S. she even takes her customers requests for hot ticket items. Her bestsellers include a 19 ounce box of Frosted Flakes which goes for $6.50 at Dominican supermarkets. She sells it for $2 less after her sister buys it on sale for 299. But because the sister uses her EBD card, she actually pays nothing. Taxpayers foot the bill for the 299. So they run this scam with other items also. You know, this is a wide range. I'M including baby formula, Kellogg's Cornflakes, but actually gets worse as you continue reading. If you can believe it, the Food Stamp Fraud Reading now again quote the food stamp fraud doesn't stop there. The woman said her sister has Bronx grocery stores ring up bogus $250 transactions with her EBT card in exchange for the store hands her $200 cash and pockets the rest. No goods are exchanged. Instead, Maria Theresa's sister sends the money to Santiago when she's not spending it on liquor or other non food items. We do it all the time and a lot of people do this, maria Theresa said. It's a way of laundering money, but it's easier because it's free as anyone who works in a grocery store. And you know, if you ask anyone who works in a grocery store, you'll hear dozens of stories like this. I saw a post from somebody in Hawaii who says that on the first day of the month, EBT recipients buy caseloads of spam and then they sell the spam to street vendors at a 50% discount and they use the proceeds for drugs and alcohol. So if you're an actual customer and you're looking for spam on the shelves, you're out of luck because you've paid for criminals to clear out the shelves and buy drugs with it. Now, a system this easy to defraud, which was designed to be defrauded, should be scaled back drastically, not expanded. I mean, really, it should just be abolished, but at a minimum, it should be scaled back. But the Biden administration did not scale back. They did expand it. In fact, as you can see, food stamp spending has doubled since 2019. And this is not just Covid related, by the way. The numbers have remained high long after the lockdowns ended. That's because in this same period, the Biden administration imported millions of illegal aliens. And it simply does not matter that technically these people shouldn't receive food stamps under the law. They're not even supposed to be inside the country under the law, yet they are. And once they get here, states like California give them food stamps, the feds give them food stamps, and their anchor babies get food stamps too. They even get a nice little EBT card so they don't seem remotely conspicuous or shameful as they defraud the American taxpayer. Coke wins, Walmart wins, Democrats win, illegal aliens win, foreign countries win. But you lose. You are taxed more and your groceries become more expensive. You lose, your children lose, your family loses. Because they also have no choice. The ongoing government shutdown has finally drawn attention to the scale of this fraud, and it is astronomical. It has exposed a vast network of criminal activity that needs to be shut down, just for starters. As the attorney Mike Davis has pointed out, it's illegal under federal law to provide financial assistance, assistance to illegal aliens. It's also illegal to rob stores and then brag about it on TikTok. At a minimum, we could start there, arrest these criminals, prosecute the state officials who are paying out benefits to illegal aliens, who, by the way, typically receive Medicaid funding as well, and then also other welfare benefits. And then once we're done with that, we need drug testing and weight testing for anyone receiving snap. We need a system that does not subsidize the grocery bills of 45 million people for the indefinite future with no time limit or restriction. And beyond that point, if the food stamp program is going to continue to exist at all, which I'm not convinced it should, it needs to have standards, strict standards. It needs to have a reason to exist. Someone needs to be able to explain in a coherent fashion why the spending is necessary. Democrats have had several days to give us an explanation, and they fail to do it. In fact, they've essentially admitted it's a shell game and it's rife with fraud. They've admitted that they're just redistributing money or creating economic activity, as Tim Walls put it. And for the benefit of every taxpayer and the millions of obese, profoundly ungrateful people they're feeding, we should end this particular economic activity. In its place, we should encourage food stamp recipients to engage in some actual activity, like, you know, getting a job or going for a walk around the block, hold them to some standards. That'll be a big adjustment, no doubt, but one TikTok video and Tim Wall's tweet at a time, Democrats of all people, are making a very compelling case that it's a change we need to make. Let's get to our five headline. Well, there's no way around it. When it comes to health care, people are really frustrated with how much it costs and how. How to pay for it. Also, the usual ways that we've been doing this have only gotten more expensive, more complicated, and frankly, really aggravating. That's why Medishare is such a welcome relief. It's called healthcare sharing. It's different and it works. More than a million Americans are now doing this, and Medishare has been a great option for more than 30 years. So really, you could save thousands of dollars a year. On your healthcare and be happy. Imagine that now. If you've heard about it and you want to know more, there are two easy options. Go to Medishare.com Matt that's Medishare.com Matt or just grab your phone and send a text. 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Their customers are saving an average of 800 bucks a month. That's like a $10,000 raise without having to change jobs. Call now before it's too late. American Financing 866-56947 11. That's 86 x 5694711 or visit american financing.net/walsh. All right, Jennifer Welsh is a left wing podcaster. She's been popping up on my feed more and more, which is unfortunate because she's very difficult to look at. She has a, a face that only a mother could love, although I suspect her mother did not love it, which is how she ended up the way that she did. And here she is reacting to a clip of a leftist protester. It's a clip of another leftist, a protester saying that she, the protester, is glad that Charlie Kirk is dead and she wants more conservatives to also die. And Jennifer Welsh, who again is a, is a somehow popular left wing podcaster, is really thrilled by this. So let's watch.

B (27:25)

Finally, if you think this Zorin thing is happening just in New York and you think people are waking up only in New York City, you're mistaken. Look at this clip of a wine mom at the no Kings march. Play the clip. Bird's name was Charlie Kirkman.

A (27:42)

Yeah, him Is horrible. Horrible.

B (27:44)

Charlie Kirk is horrible. Yes.

A (27:46)

I'm glad he's not here.

B (27:48)

You're glad he's dead?

A (27:49)

Yes.

B (27:50)

Why would you say something like that, man? He was horrible on the campuses, the college campuses.

A (27:56)

Horrible person. You know what?

B (27:57)

I do the exact same thing. Would you be glad if I would die?

A (28:01)

Maybe.

B (28:02)

I'd have to think about it. You should be ashamed of yourself. Be ashamed of yourself. Her friend just said she'd be happy if I died.

A (28:09)

I think we need.

B (28:14)

So listen up, democratic establishment. You can either jump on board with, or we're coming after you in the same way that we come after Maga.

A (28:27)

Well, she's. Yeah, she's pretty angry. At least I think she is. I mean, her entire face is made of plastic, so I can't really be sure. Her face is just paralyzed. Paralyzed from Botox, like a. Some kind of stroke victim. And, you know, her face is. It's a cartoonish face. It's a face. It looks like. You know what it looks. It looks like her face was erased and then redrawn by a child. So she truly is just a hideous beast. And I don't feel bad saying that, because I believe her hideousness is a reflection of her soul. I mean, it's also a reflection of the botulism she's injecting into her head every day, but it is itself a reflection. But the fact that she's injecting the botulism is also a reflection of the evil in her soul. So this is an evil, terrible person, and it seeps out of her pores. And she's explicitly saying here that Democrat party needs to get on board with wishing death on conservatives. Which, of course, I think if you're in the Democrat Party and you hear that, you're going, what do you mean? Haven't we already made it clear we're on board with that? What are you talking about? But she wants them even more on board. Keep in mind, this woman is not some kind of fringe figure. She's a mainstream liberal podcaster. She is what counts as normal on that side. She may not look like it. She may look like Count Chocula's fraternal twin sister, but she's still. She. She. This is a normal person over there. And the other woman in that clip, the Wine mom, is also what counts as normal. Which is why I've been saying these people truly want us dead. They really do, in the main. In the mainstream, they want us dead. And that is clear. You know, I had one other thought about this. This Jennifer Welsh Creature. As I was watching that, it occurred to me as I was watching the clip that truly everything I do as a father of daughters, as a father of a 12 year old girl and a 6 year old girl, everything I do is specifically intended to ensure that my girls do not turn into a woman like that. She is the picture, she is the symbol of everything I don't want my girls to be. I look at that, everything about her and I say, yeah, that's exactly it. That's exactly the opp. That's exactly the opposite of it. I want, it's like, take that and I want my daughters to become that, but the opposite in every single way. If I could look into the future and see that my precious daughter had become Jennifer Welsh, I would die from heartbreak. I truly would. I, I think I would just die. I don't, I don't, I don't think I'd be able to live with that. For me, that's a fate worse than death. I would rather be dead than have my daughters end up like that. I looked this woman up and I. And the first thing I see in her bio that the least surprising news of all time is that in her bio it says that she is happily divorced. Isn't that a shock? Never saw that one coming. Which of course, you know, we already knew that. Not only did you know that she was divorced, but you knew that she'd be the kind of person who would describe herself as happily divorced. She's the kind of person who would describe the dissolution of her marriage, the destruction of her family as a happy, a happy thing. And sadly, this monster also has two sons. So you know, she's not childless, she has two sons. You can only imagine how awful she is to them, what agony it must be to have this person as your mother, how much they must loathe her. And it's hard to even imagine. And so the whole picture, the whole thing is just everything I, it's, it's everything wrong. Everything that can kind of go wrong with, with a, a woman is found right there. Divorced, selfish, ugly, inside and out. Ruined face, ruined from, from plastic surgery. Crass, nasty, mean, just like unpleasant. Everything you don't want your daughter to turn into. So that's, that's the lesson there. I think that's the lesson we can all take away from it. Here's a video that I think Lives of Tick Tock put together. I believe I found it on this. That's where I found it was on her, on her X page. So JB Pritzker went on Nicole Wallace's podcast and denied having ever called Trump Hitler. And then Wallace says that, well, no, yeah, no Democrat, no Democrat has ever done that. And lives of TikTok put together this little video sort of fact checking that claim. Here it is. I haven't suggested that. That Donald Trump is Hitler. I wouldn't. I don't think any Democrat has.

B (33:44)

I actually. It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews.

A (33:59)

How can you possibly compare what happened in Germany in World War II to what's going on here in the United States? We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany, 1933. 1930. And we're seeing today that you've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court.

B (34:18)

Orders and this rogue Department of Justice going out to do the bidding of this Timu Hitler. I don't even know what to call him. I've called him so many things, but this wannabe Hitler for sure. Trump actually reenacting the Madison Square garden.

A (34:39)

Rally in 1939, that neo Nazis. So anyway, this could go on for 37 hours. Of course, it could go on and on. Although. Although, in a way, watching that clip back, I guess he was. He was technically correct in what Jamie Pritzker. His original claim was actually true because he said, well, I've never suggested that Trump is Hitler. And then Nicole Wallace said, well, no Democrat has. And that's correct in that. Yeah, they haven't suggested it, they just outright said it. So maybe that's. Maybe that's how you would parse that. Yeah. There's no suggestion, there's no insinuation. They're just outright saying that Trump is Hitler. And Democrats have been calling Trump and all their political opponents Hitler for a long time, obviously, which is maybe the single worst political miscalculation in modern political history in this country. Anyway. Forget about the fact that it's a lie, that it's false, obviously. Obviously it's false. Trump is not Hitler. But just on a pure political level, it was a catastrophically stupid mistake. And they keep making it because they don't know what else to do. They just keep forging ahead, and now they have nowhere else to go. I mean, they've thrown the worst possible accusation they could fabricate at their opponents. They went all the way to the most extreme denunciations. It didn't land and nobody cared. We're numb to. Doesn't mean anything. Anymore. And now what? Right, that's the problem. When you go all the way there and. And you come out and say, you know what? He's Hitler. Well, okay. When you go for the most extreme denunciation where there's nowhere else to go after that one's been used up, there's nowhere else to go. That's the situation the left is in. It was a very bad strategy, although it really wasn't a strategy at all. I mean, this is. This is what I think. This is what people don't fully appreciate. When Democrats go around calling everybody they hate Hitler, it's not really a political tactic. It's sort of that. It's not fully that. I think it's more a product of their limited vocabulary and their lack of imagination and their historical illiteracy, which is not to make an excuse for them. I'm just saying it's impossible to overstate just how dumb and witless and clueless these. These people are. They don't read books, they don't think, they don't engage in any level of reflection about anything ever. And so they go around shouting Hitler. Because he's one of the, like, three historical figures that they know about, right? They. They know of three historical figures, and he's one of them. The historical figures they can name would be, like, Hitler, Martin Luther King Jr. And Abraham Lincoln. Those are the only three they know, right? And on the left, that's the case. But really, this is. This is a. It's also a function of the failed school school system. So that's one of the reasons why they compare everyone to Hitler, because they're thinking, like, okay, well, only three people have existed in history before this moment. Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr. And Hitler. And they're thinking, well, we can't compare them to the other two. So this is the only one left. And so that's why they do it. They have a vocabulary range not much more extensive than that of the average third grader. And they have historical knowledge that is less than a third grader who's been well educated anyway. Historical knowledge less than a homeschooled third grader. And so this is what they're left with. It's kind of like that old. There's that old Louis CK Bit where he talks about the word hilarious. I think it's from the special. It was also called hilarious and how people use the word hilarious to describe things that are at best mildly amusing. Something mildly amusing happens and people say, oh, it's hilarious. And the problem is that, okay, well, what do you do when something actually hilarious happens? You just used hilarious on something that barely elicits a smirk. And now this really hilarious thing is happening. And what are you going to call it? Well, you're also going to call it hilarious. So you've cheapened the hilarious event by using that word to describe anything that's remotely funny at all. That was kind of, I mean, that was not the funny way at all of me doing the bit, but that's, that was the point he was making. So Democrats have a kind of political version of this problem. They have a political version of it. And, and there's nowhere else to go, especially with Trump. I mean, they've said everything they possibly can about him. They've, they've every, every the worst accusations. They've tried to arrest him, obviously. They tried to put him in jail. They've tried to kill him, and there's nothing left to be said. And that's why they're, they're totally ineffectual at this point in, in opposing him. All right, let's get to the daily cancellation. We're living in a time when lies are easy and, and truth is costly. And nowhere is that more devastating than in the battle for life. That's exactly what Natalia faced when she first learned of her pregnancy. Natalia considered abortion, and she was influenced, of course, by messaging she'd been exposed to all the time in the culture. But everything changed when she heard her baby's heartbeat. And in that moment, she felt a divine calling to continue her pregnancy. Trusting that God would make a way forward, Natalia chose life, found herself surrounded by the love, support, and resources she needed at preborn network clinics. And this happens on average 200 times a day because of the support from people like you. Moms who are overwhelmed and pressured suddenly see their child, hear the truth, and realize they're not alone. 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If you're not a member yet, join for as little as $7 a month with our deal of the decade@dailywire.com subscribe. Remember to watch Friendly Fire live tonight at 7pm Eastern on Daily Wire Plus. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. You know, on this show, through the years, we've played and discussed many videos of single millennial women on TikTok, talking about their experience of being single and millennial. And the one thing these videos almost always lack, which is what makes them sad and sometimes also funny, is any semblance of self awareness or wisdom. Well, today we have another in this genre, except this does have a healthy portion of the ingredients that the others lack. This is a woman named Layla who's gone very viral. This is, this is all over TikTok. This had like 500,000 likes or something. So it's millions and millions of views. And so she's gone viral with her very her honest and at least to a point, I think insightful reflection on her experience as a woman in her 30s with no husband and no children. Here it is. Watch.

B (42:39)

I just realized that I'm not anybody's priority in life. I mean, I've known this, but it came like, it just like kind of really hit me today. Like, wow, I'm not. There's no one that prioritizes me in their life. And I feel like I prioritize a lot of people. But that is just like the nature of being a single girl with friends or a single adult with friends is that I prioritize my friendships because I have to, because I don't have anybody else, right? But, like, realizing that I'm not anybody's priority is just like such a freaking bummer. Such a bummer. And it hurts and it kind of feels like really bad. Like, did I make every wrong choice in life ever to end up in this place where, like, I'm no one's priority? But then like on the flip side of that is like, I am. I have to be my priority and I just have to, like, live in that more. Like, I'm my priority. I am.

A (43:41)

So things take a turn towards the end there, as we'll discuss, but she's touching on something true and for someone in her position, quite painful, which is why it's certainly not my intention to make fun of her, deliver any lecture or anything like that. I just want to talk about the point that she's making and, and, and, and also try to explain why the solution that she offers, the. The answer to the riddle doesn't work, unfortunately. But Layla is correct. If you're single and childless as an adult, there probably isn't not anyone in your life who considers you their top priority. You may have people who love you, hopefully you have friends, you have family members, but you aren't going to be anyone's most important person, okay? You're not the first or last thought in anybody's head as they go to bed at night or get out of bed in the morning. That's a brutal reality, and it's one that women in Layla's position, at least the ones who post TikTok videos, often don't have the courage to face. And I give her credit for being honest with herself about it, is one of the reasons why I have always so aggressively opposed the lie that life is easier and happier if you forego marriage and children. The culture has been pushing this falsehood for generations now. As we know, millions of people have found themselves, have listened to it, and they found themselves desperately lonely and in a state of near total despair because they allowed themselves to be ushered down a path that they were told would lead to happiness and fulfillment. And instead they end up in exactly the opposite place. They end up with the realization that although they've freed themselves from the responsibility of being a spouse and a parent, they've also deprived themselves of the love that they might have otherwise found. They're free, but they don't have love. And giving someone freedom by depriving them of love is like. It's like giving them freedom by depriving them of food. You know, it's not freedom at all, except the freedom to die. And in the case of food, you will physically die without it. In the case of love, you'll die in every other sense that matters. And this is not to say that you can't be loved or experience love if you're single. It's to say that to choose that lifestyle is to choose lesser things over the greater thing, which is love. And when somebody like Layla talks about this feeling of emptiness, this feeling of lacking, well, this is what she's talking about. Love is the thing that she's missing. Maybe not missing completely in her life, but missing in a significant and meaningful way. But it's not just about being prioritized by somebody else. The greater problem is that without a family, there is no one for you to prioritize. There's no one for you to pour yourself into, no one for you to serve and give to and sacrifice for. There's no one who you know, not think, not hope, but you know you would take a bullet for, you would lay down your life for, because it's, it's the kind of love and devotion you have for that person. And that is why Layla's solution doesn't work. You know, she says that, well, she needs to work on prioritizing herself. In an article for Newsweek, she expounded saying, quote, in many ways, this realization feels freeing, Layla told Newsweek. But it was also quite demoralizing. Most people would say their partner or children come first. Layla said, I have wonderful friends and family who value and appreciate me, but I don't think I'm anyone's first call or first thought. Just part of this phase of life. I can do whatever I want, whenever I want. No one depends on me. In choosing myself doesn't mean letting anyone down. But there are moments when I wish I'd had someone to share certain experiences with. Realizing that she's no one's priority and going viral as a result has encouraged Leela to start a self prioritization challenge. She hopes to be more intentional about showing up for herself than and to feel fulfilled through her own merit. So this is a solution that most people in Layla's position land on. It's a solution suggested by the culture, which is that if you're feeling lonely, if you're feeling unfulfilled, if you're feeling like maybe you shouldn't pursue a traditional family life, well, fear not, you could just prioritize yourself and start a self prioritization challenge and be more intentional about showing up for yourself, whatever that means. Well, the problem with this approach, again, is that it simply doesn't work. Which is why people like who are in Layla's position tend to have to spend a lot of time convincing themselves that it will work and that it does work. This is where a lot of the self help stuff comes from. Just repeating these mantras to yourself about how happy you are to convince yourself to try to conjure it into being. But it doesn't work because you cannot. You're feeling a hole inside yourself, inside your soul. You cannot fill the hole inside yourself with yourself. You cannot fill the desire for companionship by staring at your reflection in the mirror. The self help book tells you that you're enough. You're enough, but you aren't enough. You're not even close to enough. No one is. You are not enough in and of yourself to live a fulfilling and meaningful and happy life. Such a life requires other people. You can't do it alone. It's impossible. You cannot live for yourself and be happy. And I'm not saying that you shouldn't be happy living for yourself. I'm saying that we don't even need to talk about should or shouldn't. It doesn't matter. I'm saying you can't. You cannot be happy that way. It is not possible. It is a contradiction in terms of, you know, look at it this way. What if you lived in a big, majestic old house with eight bedrooms, eight bathrooms, beautiful wood floors, you know, nice crown molding and all the little details. Could you be happy in such a home? Could you fully appreciate it if you live there alone? Well, the answer is no. Now you can recognize the beauty of the home. You can enjoy spending some time in it. You may even enjoy living in it for a short period, but you can't find happiness in this home. You certainly cannot find all of the happiness that would otherwise be available to you if you're living there alone. Because. Because what is a big house with 8 bedrooms for? What is its purpose? Its purpose is to be lived in. Its purpose is to be a home for a family. All of those rooms are not meant to go empty. They're not meant to just be there for decoration. They were built to be occupied, to be lived in. That's what the house is for. And you cannot be happy with a thing, at least not fully happy, not as happy as you could be, unless you know what it's for and you use it accordingly. And by the way, this is also one of the reasons why. Because I know people will say, well, why can't you enjoy something by yourself? Well, you can enjoy it up to a point by yourself, sure, but. And as. As an introvert myself, I enjoy alone time. I enjoy that kind of thing. But you can't be fully happy. And it also tells you something that even when people say, well, I can enjoy this alone. I can be happy alone. What does it tell you that? What do those people do all the time, right? They're constantly posting on social media. They're constantly taking pictures of things and posting them online. What if somebody was alone in that big house? What would they actually do to try to enjoy? They would take pictures of it and they'd Post it online. And why do people do that? It's because we all have this recognition that in order to be really happy, it has to be shared. We can't really be happy with this thing, with anything, unless we share it. We have this need to share it with somebody else. And if you have no one in your life to share it with and you settle on, well, I'll just share it with anybody on the Internet. I gotta share it with somebody, and that's a poor substitute. But it all goes back to this question of what is a thing for? And, and so you have to ask yourself, what are you for? What is your purpose? That's really the existential question that Layla is asking herself. And it's a good question asking. We should all ask ourselves that, what are you for? Like, if I'm not happy in my life at all, then the first question I should ask myself is, what am I for? I don't mean what do I stand for? What do I believe? That's a. That's a downstream question. Got to get to that. But before you can answer that, you have to know, what, what am I? What am I for? Like, what am I here for? What's the what? Why? What's the purpose of me? The answer is that first of all, our purpose is to love and serve God. And, and serving God means fulfilling our vocation. And none us are called to live only for ourselves. That is not anyone's vocation. And again, it is simply not possible for anyone to be happy that way, which is why no one ever has been. Most of us are called to start families. All of us are called to a paternal or maternal vocation. For most of us, that calling will be fulfilled through motherhood or fatherhood. A small minority might become fathers or mothers in a different way, in a spiritual way, in a spiritual sense, through a different kind of life of service, the religious life, mission work, or something similar. But nobody is called to prioritize themselves and just live that way until they die. That is not what you are for. That is not the point of your existence. Which is good, because what a pointless point that would be. Now, the good news for Layla and anybody else in her boat is that there is still time to go and live your true purpose. It is maybe late in the game. It's certainly not too late. So put aside all the self actualization mumbo jumbo and go do what you're made to do, what you are for. Or else. If not. If not, then you will be in that case, and only in that case today canceled. I'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed. Don't just get the news under Understand what the news means. On the Michael Knowles Show, I will take you beneath the surface of daily political events to see their historical, philosophical, even religious roots. Catch it Monday through Friday at 9:30am Eastern on the Daily Wire. It's okay not to be perfect with finances. Experian is your big financial friend and here to help. 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