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The Matt Walsh Show

Ep. 25 - Your Career Won't Make You Happy

The Matt Walsh Show

The Matt Walsh Show

News, News Commentary

4.727.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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We have fled the home and family life in pursuit of happiness, but in the process we have become the most depressed and confused society in history. That's because happiness and fulfillment is found not in professional achievement or material wealth, but in service to God and family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Slack.com slash DHQ. So there's an article on the daily wire yesterday about the former

0:33.8

first lady, Michelle Obama. Maybe you remember her. She was at some kind of women's conference

0:38.7

and she was having a conversation on stage with an actress from the show Blackish, the actress's

0:44.8

name Tracy Ellis Ross, never heard of her but she's an actress apparently. And the women

0:49.5

were lamenting the fact that girls still dream of weddings and they still dream of Prince

0:56.5

Charming. This is a problem in the eyes of Michelle Obama and this other woman. The two agreed

1:02.4

that some women Tracy Ellis Ross apparently included. Can Sacrifice family for the sake

1:08.8

of a career and for professional ambition and for success and be happy as a clam. It's

1:15.8

a perfectly legitimate fine, great choice that a woman can make. In fact, it would seem

1:22.2

that Mrs. Obama, who is married with two kids, you may remember, thinks that this path

1:27.2

is actually preferable given the fact that she considers it a problem that girls aspire

1:32.4

to get married and have kids. She wouldn't call it a problem if a young girl said she

1:38.0

wanted to grow up to be an astronaut or a CEO of a Fortune 500 company. That wouldn't

1:42.7

be a problem. But if a girl said she wants to get married and have kids and that's what

1:45.5

she's dreaming of and Michelle Obama's mind and in the minds of a lot of feminists and

1:49.8

a lot of people in our culture, that is a problem. It's an interesting thing because Americans

1:57.0

are increasingly looking outside of the home for happiness. We have fled the home in search

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