00:00Because fans are going to defend Arch Manning and what people are angry about.
00:06And I have now, there is one tweet that has now been responded to over 700 times by Texas fans
00:13who are telling me and calling me all sorts of names.
00:15It's pretty funny, to be quite honest.
00:18Because of my opinion that it is never funny to watch a woman be hit.
00:24I'm sorry, this is never, never funny.
00:31I've seen a few AI edits of stuff, but that's about it.
00:35I saw an AI edit of Sarg's interview.
00:39Y'all seen that one?
00:41That's a good one.
00:44Of him slapping Holly Rowe.
00:51That's funny.
00:54How are you not sick to your stomach watching that?
00:56And again, there are internet clips all the time, okay?
01:01I'm not ripping the internet, although I don't love the internet.
01:05I'm not ripping Arch Manning for bringing it up because he's 22, okay?
01:12It's not a real clip.
01:13I get it.
01:15It's the people in the room.
01:16It's the media members in the room who are feeding into this and finding it funny and laughing
01:25alongside of this.
01:26And you see Arch, he's looking over to the side.
01:29He's looking at Texas PR to see what their reaction is to this.
01:34He knows he's saying something that's not exactly what you should be saying.
01:38He understands that what he's talking about is probably, but he was asked about it.
01:42He didn't bring it up.
01:43The media member asked him about that AI clip.
01:47So he's a young kid.
01:49He sees all sorts of things on the internet.
01:51I mean, he grew up with it.
01:53So he's used to seeing things that are far more gory, far more gross.
01:58I mean, we literally have sent our teenagers to school every day with a porn box.
02:03Like, that's what a cell phone is, okay?
02:06And so is the slapping of a female reporter all that outrageous to these kids?
02:12No.
02:13Because we have failed them as adults.
02:15That's why.
02:16It's our fault that they have been exposed to these things.
02:19So Arch Manning is not someone I'm attacking here.
02:21I'm not going after Arch.
02:23But I am going after the media members who know better because we have all grown up with
02:28the stats.
02:29We all know what it's like in America.
02:33We know somebody or we have seen somebody in our own lives who have dealt with domestic
02:40violence.
02:41Yes, 22% of U.S. women have experienced domestic violence from their partner in their lifetime.
02:49That's two in 10.
02:52Less than 40% of women actively seek help in domestic violence.
02:57There are obstacles.
02:58There are issues.
03:00There are psychological and mental consequences from reporting it.
03:04And about one-third of women leaving an abusive situation re-victimize.
03:08They go back into another domestic violence situation with a different partner.
03:14That's one in three.
03:16It's a cycle.
03:19We know this.
03:21As adults, we know this.
03:23And I know this as a child.
03:26I watched this.
03:28I suffered through this.
03:31And that's why it's so meaningful to me.
03:34That's why when I see this, I get so sick to my stomach.
03:37And it's way beyond a sports story.
03:39It becomes a story about my life and about my raising of a daughter and the woman that
03:44she's going to be and the mate that she's going to choose.
03:49Because domestic violence is a cycle that we have to break.
03:55And we can't be laughing at these things.
03:58My father is now retired.
04:01My dad worked in politics for a long time.
04:05So I never talked about my childhood because, look, my father is a different person than
04:10I, I don't know my father, I mean, flat out.
04:12The last time I would say I knew my father was probably when I was 12 or 13 years old.
04:18The rest of it has been spots and days and funerals and just once in a while letters
04:24and conversations.
04:25The last correspondence I really had with my father was during COVID, when he was writing
04:31me letters during COVID.
04:33My daughter does not know her grandfather, her biological grandfather.
04:36My mother remarried.
04:37And she knows my mother has been remarried for 30 years now, had three more children.
04:44But my brother and I grew up in an incredibly violent household.
04:48And my father was smart about it.
04:51My dad was really, really smart.
04:53He knew where to hit us.
04:55So we didn't go to school with black eyes and we didn't go to school with problems.
04:59But every once in a while, the school nurse would come over to me and say, Matt, why are
05:02you so sad today?
05:03What's going on?
05:04And we'd have a conversation and she didn't really know what to do.
05:08Oh, my dad hit me on the way to school today.
05:11My dad would hit me in my thighs and in my stomach where my clothing would cover it.
05:16So there was never any conversation about why I was bruised or why I was hurt.
05:23And my dad thought it was funny in a lot of ways.
05:25My dad thought I cried and complained.
05:27I was told all the time that kids had it way worse than I.
05:30And I was growing up in Andover, Massachusetts.
05:32And I was lucky to be growing up in an upper middle class town.
05:35Even though my family, we were not upper middle class.
05:37My parents were and my grandparents were.
05:40But my family, my father was 20.
05:43My mom was 18 in 1976 when they met and got married because they were pregnant with me
05:49after six weeks.
05:51There wasn't some big, long romance between my father and my mother.
05:54It was an, oh, my God, we're pregnant.
05:55What do we do in 1976?
05:57And in 1976, you get married.
05:59And so I was born in April of 1977 to a 21-year-old father and a 19-year-old
06:04mother,
06:0418th time, who had no idea what the hell they were going to do with their lives.
06:08All they knew was, oh, my God, we're pregnant.
06:11And so for my entire life, it was always like, what will Matt turn out to be?
06:16How will he do this?
06:17How will he get through life given what he has gone up against?
06:21And so I fought a lot through things.
06:26But the best thing that ever happened was my dad left my life.
06:29And when he left my life, things cleared up.
06:31And the violence and the abuse and all the things that were going on around me, calm down.
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