The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1582 - The Education System Is Failing, But Change Is Coming

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Trump administration just waged an all-out assault on the corrupt

00:00:04.380 university system in this country. We'll get into the details. And Democrats have found the strategy

00:00:08.780 that will make them cool again, or so they think. It's called dark woke, and it completely misses

00:00:13.980 the point. And Michelle Obama says that as a black woman, she isn't able to talk about her stresses

00:00:18.820 and articulate her pain, which is weird because that's literally all she ever seems to do. We'll

00:00:23.680 talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:32.160 You won't find a legal theory that's done more damage to this country in the last half century

00:01:36.860 than the idea of disparate impact. Whether you realize it or not, this is a legal concept that

00:01:41.880 has almost certainly impacted your life at some point, along with the lives of millions of other

00:01:45.740 people. In short, disparate impact allows people to sue whenever a policy, whether it's a

00:01:51.060 government policy or the policy of a private business, has a disproportionate effect on certain

00:01:56.100 demographics, supposedly. It doesn't matter if the policy is intended to be discriminatory. It

00:02:00.980 doesn't matter if the policy is completely neutral on its face. All that matters is whether the policy

00:02:05.300 affects some demographics more than others, allegedly. And to give just one example, if a

00:02:11.400 written test for a police academy contains basic math questions, questions which are not racist in

00:02:17.260 any way, the test is still considered to be illegal under the disparate impact theory if, say, 80% of

00:02:23.800 black applicants fail it. The only way to survive a lawsuit under this theory is to prove that, in 0.99

00:02:28.620 reality, the disparate impact is strictly necessary for some important purpose of the business or

00:02:34.360 organization. And in practice, especially in places like New York and California, this is extremely

00:02:38.880 difficult to prove. After all, meritocracy is now a racist concept, we're told. Why do police officers

00:02:44.240 need to understand that 2 plus 2 equals 4 anyway? Don't they have calculators they can use if they

00:02:48.860 need them? A lot of jurors actually think like this, especially the ones who won't venture outside

00:02:54.060 unless they're wearing two masks and a portable ventilator. And therefore, most companies and

00:02:58.800 government agencies, in the end, have decided to simply water down their standards in order to avoid

00:03:03.400 the possibility of litigation. Disparate impact was the precursor for affirmative action and equity,

00:03:10.480 as it's called today. Mediocrity has become the norm because it's enforced by law. That's what disparate

00:03:16.080 impact is all about. Now, we've all been conditioned to accept this status quo since the 1960s, even

00:03:21.220 though it's obviously contrary to basic principles of fairness and morality and common sense. Several

00:03:27.720 administrations have come and gone, both Democrat and Republican, and disparate impact has remained

00:03:31.800 untouched. But very abruptly, that changed yesterday when the Trump administration issued an executive

00:03:37.560 order formally ending disparate impact in this country in all contexts. The order called Restoring

00:03:44.120 Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy states that, among other things, disparate impact liability has

00:03:49.540 hindered businesses from making hiring and other employment decisions based on merit and skill. And

00:03:54.680 therefore, according to the order signed by the president, it is the policy of the United States to

00:03:58.020 eliminate the use of disparate impact liability in all contexts to the maximum degree possible to avoid

00:04:03.360 violating the Constitution, federal civil rights law, and basic American ideals, close quote.

00:04:09.320 Now, yes, there will be inevitable legal challenges to this executive order. Yes, Congress should

00:04:13.780 immediately pass this executive order into law in order to insulate it as much as possible from Obama

00:04:19.360 appointed judges. But even as it stands, already this executive order is a major step towards reforming

00:04:25.820 America's failing institutions. It's part of a broader effort by this administration to end the era of racial 0.80

00:04:32.040 grievance, which has made a husk out of everything that it touched. In particular, it's helped destroy

00:04:37.880 the educational system in this country, which has now fixated on spreading propaganda instead of

00:04:42.340 teaching students the skills they need to survive and actually function in society. Universities

00:04:46.980 currently spend, of course, most of their time administering affirmative action programs and teaching

00:04:51.240 students about the evils of white supremacy and colonialism and so forth. It's a complete waste of time.

00:04:56.580 Actually, it's even worse than a waste of time, and everyone knows that. And now the Trump administration,

00:05:00.000 with this executive order on disparate impact, is doing something about it. And it's clear that

00:05:05.100 the administration had the education system in mind yesterday when they issued this executive order,

00:05:09.180 because on Wednesday, the administration also took several other actions aimed at reforming

00:05:14.380 America's colleges. And one of those executive orders, for example, is called Reforming Accreditation

00:05:19.360 to Strengthen Higher Education. And the text of this order points out that the national

00:05:24.080 six-year undergraduate graduation rate in this country currently stands at just 64%. Yes,

00:05:30.260 just 64% of undergraduates currently finish college on time. Additionally, roughly 25% of

00:05:36.740 undergraduate programs and 40% of graduate programs ultimately yield a negative return on

00:05:42.000 investment for students. And therefore, the Trump administration is requiring an overhaul of

00:05:46.980 the process through which schools are accredited. If schools can't demonstrate a commitment to merit

00:05:53.040 instead of racial discrimination, then they won't be accredited anymore. And for many universities,

00:05:58.360 that would be a death knell. They'd immediately lose access to billions of dollars in federal funding

00:06:03.060 for Pell Grants and student loans. This is why Donald Trump, during the campaign, referred to the

00:06:08.820 accreditation process as his secret weapon. It's a way to use the established powers of the federal

00:06:13.300 government to compel schools to start upholding basic educational principles. Now, for generations,

00:06:20.120 the government has not used these powers. We've allowed pretty much every school from community

00:06:25.740 colleges up to Harvard to get away with scamming their students, discriminating along racial lines,

00:06:32.380 teaching useless classes about decolonizing Shakespeare or whatever. And at the same time,

00:06:38.320 tuition has increased exponentially because the federal money has just kept flowing in the form of easy

00:06:43.860 student loans. And then to make matters worse, college students, many of them left-leaning,

00:06:49.240 have taken this loan money and refused to repay it. In other words, people who didn't go to college are

00:06:54.720 directly subsidizing people who spent four years earning useless degrees and then became deadbeats who

00:07:00.120 are unable or unwilling to pay their debts. This fraud was enabled by the Biden administration,

00:07:05.140 as you probably remember. In fact, even when the Supreme Court ruled that the Biden administration was

00:07:09.520 breaking the law, they still refused to compel college graduates to pay off their loans.

00:07:14.740 But yesterday, the Trump administration ended this state-sanctioned fraud. They're now beginning

00:07:18.440 the collections process on these deadbeats, including federal employees who are about to have

00:07:24.040 their pensions frozen if they don't repay their debts. Watch.

00:07:27.500 In other news, the Trump administration has announced we will put an end to Joe Biden's

00:07:32.620 illegal student loan bailout attempts. No student loan has been referred to collections since March

00:07:38.560 of 2020. That comes to an end. On May 5th, the Department of Education will resume involuntary

00:07:44.880 collections for borrowers with defaulted federal student loans. The student loan portfolio controlled

00:07:50.240 by the federal government is nearly $1.6 trillion. But fewer than four out of 10 borrowers are in

00:07:57.400 repayment. This is unsustainable, unfair, and a huge liability for American taxpayers. Debt cannot

00:08:04.920 be wiped away. It just ends up getting transferred to others. So why should Americans who didn't go to 0.99

00:08:10.200 college or went to college and responsibly paid back their loans pay for the student loans of other

00:08:14.940 Americans? The Trump administration will never force taxpayers to pay student loan debts that don't

00:08:20.460 belong to them. Student loan borrowers need clarity, and we're finally giving it to them.

00:08:25.000 Borrowers will now be clearly expected to repay their loans, and those who default on their loan

00:08:30.820 obligations will face involuntary collections. The government can and will collect defaulted federal

00:08:36.300 student loan debt by withholding money from borrowers, tax refunds, federal pensions, and even

00:08:41.220 their wages. America is $36 trillion in debt. We must get our fiscal house in order and restore common

00:08:47.460 sense to our country. If you take out a loan, you have to pay it back. It's very simple. President Trump will

00:08:53.680 not kick the can down the road anymore. So it's a simple principle that everybody understands,

00:09:00.040 which is that if you borrow money, you should repay it. But Democrats attempted to suspend this

00:09:05.120 principle during the last election campaign because they thought it would resonate with voters. And in

00:09:09.580 some areas of the country, it did resonate. You know, there's a reason that Joe Biden won the state

00:09:13.860 of Virginia, where all of the so-called public servants live. But as it happens, the rest of the

00:09:19.600 country wasn't happy about assuming the debts of these alleged public servants, so they won't have

00:09:24.540 to assume those debts anymore. There are other executive orders and actions that Trump took

00:09:29.300 yesterday concerning universities. For example, one order requires that universities disclose any

00:09:34.860 foreign funding that they might be receiving. The attorney general is tasked with overseeing compliance

00:09:40.000 with this requirement as a matter of national security. And this is a measure that's obviously long

00:09:44.680 overdue, especially after we learned that Joe Biden was stashing classified documents in his office

00:09:49.660 space at the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Biden Center, which was funded extensively by the

00:09:54.740 Chinese. And everyone knows that for a long time, major universities in this country have been

00:09:59.380 openly operating like sort of de facto embassies for various countries that hate us. And now they could

00:10:06.400 face criminal prosecution for doing so. There was another order that was signed yesterday implementing

00:10:11.720 new procedures to improve the quality of education at so-called historically black colleges and

00:10:16.720 universities, which have struggled significantly in comparison to most other schools in the country.

00:10:21.720 For many years, the federal government has simply flooded these schools with money without any

00:10:27.060 concern for how they've been wasting it. And now pursuant to this executive order, the Trump

00:10:31.540 administration will seek to, quote, increase the private sector role, including the role of private

00:10:36.620 foundations in funding these schools. In other words, the taxpayers won't have as big of a

00:10:41.700 role in these institutions. And all of these changes are necessary because under the current

00:10:47.700 system, the university system in this country is failing. And as a result, a lot of people, as you

00:10:54.140 know, myself included, have made the rational decision to forego college altogether. Bloomberg just

00:11:01.040 published a lengthy report on this trend, and their report focuses on an 18-year-old student who just

00:11:07.340 graduated from high school in Madison, Ohio, which is about 45 minutes east of Cleveland. And according

00:11:13.200 to this student, anecdotally, neither he nor any of his male classmates are going to attend a four-year

00:11:20.120 university. They're opting out of four-year colleges for one reason or another. They're going to trade

00:11:25.480 schools. They're going to trade into the workforce, but they're not going to a four-year college. Quote,

00:11:30.080 In this corner of the Midwest, where the median household income is $78,000 and the largest city

00:11:35.660 is $47,000 strong, the share of men age 18 to 24 enrolled in college dropped by more than 15

00:11:43.880 percentage points in the decade through 2023, the biggest decline in any large county in the U.S.

00:11:49.860 The average slide, by comparison, was about three percentage points. In 2013, half of the young men in

00:11:56.520 Lake County were enrolled in college. Ten years later, that number was only one in three, according

00:12:01.100 to a Bloomberg Business Week analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. Men opting out of college isn't a new

00:12:07.180 phenomenon. Women have outnumbered men in undergraduate enrollment for about 40 years, and the gap continues

00:12:12.680 to widen. Almost half of women aged 25 to 34 have earned a bachelor's degree, according to Pew Research

00:12:18.060 Center data. For men, the rate is 37 percent. Between 2011 and 2022, the number of Americans attending

00:12:25.160 college dropped by 1.2 million, with men accounting for almost the entirety of that drop. When Jennifer

00:12:32.420 Shuler became president in 2023 of Lake Erie College, the only four-year college in Lake County,

00:12:37.680 the drop in enrollment was palpable. She inherited a $5.6 million deficit. In the previous decade,

00:12:44.140 the student body, which is majority man, had decreased by almost 20 percent, close quote.

00:12:49.480 Now, as much as I criticize the university system, as much as I encourage young people to not see

00:12:56.900 college as the necessary default option right out of high school that everyone should and has to do

00:13:03.040 automatically, still, I will say that this is not a decline that's worth celebrating. Of course, it's a

00:13:09.280 completely understandable decline. Universities and colleges have done this to themselves. They've

00:13:14.800 wasted hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money, and all they've done is churn out a useless

00:13:20.000 product in so many cases that more and more people are foregoing because it's too expensive and it's

00:13:25.080 pointless. I mean, it's completely rational for millions of students to stop attending these schools.

00:13:29.640 That's true. But ultimately, that's not exactly the outcome we should want. A functioning country

00:13:35.640 should not require that every 18-year-old goes to college, but it should be able to offer 18-year-olds

00:13:42.160 a variety of good schools to attend if they want to master some highly specialized skill, whether it's

00:13:49.180 engineering or programming or medicine or whatever. And that's the main reason people should be going

00:13:54.900 to college is in a situation like that. That should always be an option for certain students, but we

00:14:01.180 don't have that anymore. We have a system where even if you're a very smart individual who would

00:14:06.760 theoretically become a doctor, you stand a very real chance of being denied admission to a medical

00:14:12.260 school simply because you're white or because you have the wrong political beliefs. And if you're

00:14:17.460 confronted with that possibility and you're 18 years old, why would you bother with the whole process?

00:14:22.800 Why not take a guaranteed job where your skills will pay you right away? Why subject yourself to

00:14:28.740 hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and years of indoctrination, especially if it may not pay off

00:14:33.920 for reasons that are both completely unfair and outside of your control entirely? Now, young people

00:14:39.660 are asking these questions and the only correct answer is to tell them that this insanity is coming

00:14:45.880 to an end. Otherwise, the education system will continue to fail. And the good news is that finally,

00:14:52.220 for the first time in a very long time, some action is being taken on this front. The other day,

00:14:57.800 we talked about efforts by elementary schools to indoctrinate children into the gender cult and

00:15:03.120 how it looks like the Supreme Court is about to put an end to those policies or at least

00:15:07.600 guarantee that there will be opt-out options for schools that have these policies, which in effect

00:15:14.940 will end up ending the policies because most parents will opt out of it. And now we're talking about how

00:15:19.720 the Trump administration just issued an all-out blitz of executive orders that are designed to restore

00:15:24.160 merit and competence to all of America's institutions, including its universities.

00:15:29.280 This is progress. Now, it's not a guarantee that these institutions will be saved. Harvard,

00:15:33.800 in particular, is fighting back, as you would expect. But it's a start. And the truth is that

00:15:39.160 the education system can either teach students or it can attempt to brainwash them into the religion

00:15:45.640 of leftism. Those are the options. There's no middle ground. And if there's one thing this week has

00:15:50.660 made clear, it's that the current administration, unlike every other administration in recent

00:15:54.660 history, understands that choice very well. Now, let's get to our five headlines.

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00:17:27.120 appeared on a podcast called Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso. And never heard of that,

00:17:34.800 but that was the podcast she was on. And she was asked about her repeated statements during the

00:17:40.700 campaign that Joe Biden was mentally sharp. And you could tell that she was not expecting this

00:17:45.960 question at all. She was not prepared to answer it. Watch. Do you regret saying that President

00:17:52.000 Biden had a mental acuity? He had a sharpness to him. You said that up until July of last year.

00:17:59.000 I said what I believe to be true. And you think he was as sharp as you?

00:18:04.800 Um, I said I had not seen decline. And I hadn't at that point.

00:18:14.340 You did not see any decline from 2024 Joe Biden to 2021 Joe Biden?

00:18:19.020 Not when I said that. You know, the thing is, he, look, he was sharp. He was on his feet.

00:18:30.100 I saw him. Live event. I had meetings with him a couple of times.

00:18:34.360 Senator on his feet is not praise. He can speak in sentences is not praise.

00:18:42.320 All right. Fair enough. Fair enough. Look, it is, the question is, what are we going to do now?

00:18:51.960 Okay.

00:18:54.180 Uh, he was sharp. He was so sharp that he could even walk for short distances. I mean, I had a

00:19:02.320 meeting with him. He could, he was, he was awake even for most of it, I think. You know, the thing

00:19:09.520 that makes this all the more pathetic is that there is an answer here that in the eyes of a lot of people, 0.80

00:19:14.620 people, not mine, but a lot of people would, would basically let Warren off the hook. In fact,

00:19:22.240 there's an answer that, that would make a lot of people, not me, sympathize with her even if she

00:19:29.800 could deliver it in a, in a convincing, authentic sounding way, which, you know, which she can't,

00:19:34.540 but, but she could have said this and I'm, so I'm giving this to Democrats for free. I don't know

00:19:39.940 why, but I am. So she could have said, you know, look, when you care about somebody as deeply as I

00:19:47.540 cared about Joe Biden, who's one of my closest friends and a mentor for many decades, it can be

00:19:53.900 hard to admit to yourself that they're on the decline. And, uh, and, and many Americans have been

00:19:58.340 there. You know, when, when, how, how, so many of my friends have been in the same position when your

00:20:04.120 parents or grandparents start to lose their faculties, you just don't want to admit, admit,

00:20:07.760 admit it to yourself because they, they mean so much to you and you just, you can't see it because

00:20:11.800 you're so close, you're so close to them that you just can't see it. Sometimes you got to take a step

00:20:15.560 back, you know, and, and that's when you realize what's actually going on. I just, so that's why I didn't

00:20:22.000 see Joe's decline. I just, I, I love him too much to admit it to myself. I was too close to him.

00:20:26.180 And that's why I didn't see it. Something like that. You know, I mean, I'm not saying it's,

00:20:32.700 it's very plausible, but that's at least a better answer than what we get from these people.

00:20:38.320 And the media would run with it. You know, they would run with it and they would say that it was

00:20:42.980 a courageous moment of raw emotional honesty or whatever. And, uh, and it's, it's an answer,

00:20:49.760 at least it's an answer, but, uh, Warren is not smart enough to come up with that on the fly or,

00:20:57.120 uh, even to come up with it, not on the fly. Cause it's not like you need to be on the fly with this.

00:21:02.700 These people have had months to workshop some kind of good excuse, uh, and yet they haven't. So

00:21:10.180 instead she stammers and gets all flustered and, uh, even almost starts laughing at the absurdity of her 0.61

00:21:17.460 own answer, which is pretty remarkable. And by the way, you know, when you watch this clip,

00:21:25.060 this is kind of the answer to the mystery of why Democrat politicians don't do podcasts.

00:21:32.400 There's always this question of why Democrats will not embrace the podcast era and go do the podcast

00:21:39.760 rounds where there's the much bigger, much more engaged audience, where you're, you're offered the

00:21:46.240 opportunity to sit, you get like two hours of free advertising, free promotion, where you can just

00:21:51.560 sit down with someone, you know, audience of millions. And, um, it's an incredible opportunity

00:21:59.080 that they refuse to take advantage of. And the reason is what you just saw. It's a long form

00:22:06.380 conversation with somebody who is not a part of the mainstream media club, which means, which makes

00:22:11.800 them, you know, there's, there's not, there's kind of an understanding if you're Elizabeth Warren and

00:22:16.780 you go on CNN or MSNBC or ABC news or NBC news, there's, first of all, it's a much shorter,

00:22:24.640 you know, most likely it's like 10 or 15 minutes, if not less that you're going to be talking.

00:22:31.200 And, um, and there's just kind of an understanding, like, you know, these people, they're part of the

00:22:35.860 same club. They, they're part of the same, you know, you see them out in public and you're part of

00:22:40.520 the same social circles. And so there's just an understanding that they're not going to say

00:22:44.460 anything. Like they know what kinds of things will embarrass you. And so they're just not going to

00:22:48.400 say those things and they're not going to ask those questions, but you go on the podcast and

00:22:52.820 these are people that are just not part of that club. And so they don't, there's really very little

00:22:57.020 incentive for them to avoid embarrassment. Um, and it's a long conversation. It can go in a million

00:23:03.100 different directions. So either you have to be very quick on your feet and able to evade all the

00:23:07.360 potholes and keep track of all the lies that you've told, or you just have to be honest and

00:23:13.500 not have any lies to keep track of. And then in that case, you got nothing to worry about.

00:23:18.240 Now, you know, Pete, Pete Buttigieg is one of the few Democrats who will do the podcast.

00:23:24.220 Uh, he was on Andrew Schultz yesterday. A lot of clips of that are circulating. I'm not going to

00:23:28.400 play any of them because it's not, I mean, there's nothing terribly interesting that came out of it.

00:23:31.760 Um, other than, you know, you see, I'm seeing all these clips on X now of, uh, look at this,

00:23:39.060 this people, very impressed, very impressed with, with Pete Buttigieg's performance on this podcast

00:23:45.040 with Andrew Schultz. And then you watch the clip and there's nothing, he's not saying anything

00:23:51.180 incredibly insightful. It's just, they're impressed with his ability to speak coherently

00:23:57.320 and not on a script for two hours. And that's how low the bar is. You know, there was a time when

00:24:06.440 we just, when, when it, this was par for the course, we expected politicians to be able to do that.

00:24:13.580 Now, this is back at a time when podcasts didn't exist, but you just expected a politician to be

00:24:19.660 able to hold a conversation, have an in-depth conversation for hours at a time, potentially.

00:24:28.100 There was, um, I mean, you could, even though they didn't have podcasts, you can go back and

00:24:32.400 watch interviews of politicians in the, you know, in the, say the early days of the news media, go

00:24:39.560 back to the sixties and you could see these interviews that maybe weren't, maybe weren't two

00:24:44.220 or three hours long, like, uh, like Joe Rogan, but were, were long enough. They were long form

00:24:48.740 interviews. And, um, and even your average politician back then was, was just impressively

00:24:57.000 insightful and intelligent compared to what we have now. So, uh, and, and that's, and, and so you've

00:25:07.000 got the two categories of people now of, of politicians who can kind of do this, who can go on

00:25:11.460 these podcasts and do these interviews. And again, one category is smart enough to think

00:25:18.620 on your feet or just honest. And you got nothing to hide or both. Maybe be smart and honest. That's

00:25:25.020 the best combination. Uh, Buttigieg is in the first category in that he's relatively quick on his feet

00:25:34.360 by the standards of modern politicians. He's relatively intelligent by the standards of

00:25:38.380 modern politicians. And he can keep track of the lies that he's supposed to be telling,

00:25:42.400 and he can kind of get around the landmines. And so he performs, uh, he performs well enough.

00:25:47.640 President Trump did a bunch of podcasts, of course, uh, without, without fear because he's

00:25:54.140 in the second category. Now he's also intelligent and he's quick on his feet in conversation,

00:25:58.320 but more importantly, he's just honest about how he feels about things. So there's nothing to

00:26:03.300 worry about. Most of these politicians, they're like terrified. I mean, this is Kamala Harris.

00:26:08.780 Didn't want to do Joe Rogan for this reason. Terrified of the idea of like an unscripted conversation

00:26:14.360 for an hour or two hours. There's just so many things they want to avoid and not have to talk

00:26:20.400 about. Um, Trump did not have that compunction because for him, it's like, yeah, I'll tell you

00:26:27.200 what I think. I don't, I don't care. Um, the Dems don't have very many people in either category,

00:26:34.340 really least of all the second. And when someone is not honest and also not especially quick or

00:26:41.940 intelligent and they try to do one of these podcasts, one of these long form interviews,

00:26:46.960 uh, well, you get what you just saw there. And this is the problem that, uh, Democrats have and

00:26:53.240 are going to continue to have, uh, which I think transitions us into this that I wanted to talk

00:26:57.760 about. It's kind of related, but I've had, I've, I've had this on deck for a few days. So over the

00:27:03.980 past few months, there's a phrase, a term that started popping up in headlines and the term is,

00:27:11.940 uh, dark woke is the term. And this is a new form of wokeness that has emerged. It's called dark woke

00:27:21.500 and the media is very excited about it. They're very excited about this. This is perhaps the answer

00:27:28.060 to countering Donald Trump and MAGA. They've, they've not been able to come up with an answer

00:27:32.420 over 10 years. What's their answer? And they think they've finally landed on it and they're calling

00:27:38.460 it dark woke. And now the New York times has a long think piece on the topic headline. What is dark

00:27:45.680 woke? Democrats are trying out a new attitude. It's provocative, edgy, and perilously towing the line

00:27:52.420 of not being too offensive. Sounds exciting. Provocative, edgy. It's been a long time since we got

00:28:00.640 anything like that on the left, anything that can be called provocative or edgy from the left.

00:28:04.720 So here's what the article says. There was a time last summer when the democratic party was cool.

00:28:10.800 Kamala Harris had just stepped in as Democrat party nominee for president in the waning days of brat 0.83

00:28:15.640 summer. She went on the popular podcast, call her daddy. Tim Walz's outdoorsy drip led to a, uh,

00:28:22.620 Chapel Roan inspired camo trucker hat. The memes were flowing and the party's mood was high.

00:28:28.980 Okay. Now, just to cut in here, we haven't even gotten to dark woke yet, but just to cut in just

00:28:36.000 for a moment, uh, to clarify editor's note, the, the democratic party was not cool during that time.

00:28:45.620 Okay. So you say that there was a time last summer when the Democrat party was cool. No,

00:28:49.520 there wasn't. That time didn't exist. No, it thought it was cool, but that's a very different thing.

00:28:56.000 In fact, thinking you're cool and being cool are not only different things, but, but like opposite

00:29:01.600 things, or I should say the democratic party was trying hard to be cool. And that was the,

00:29:09.580 all the memes and the trucker hat and the brat summer stuff and this and that, and the, uh,

00:29:15.800 whatever it was with the coconut tree and the, and the TikTok videos. I don't even know.

00:29:19.560 Um, trying hard to be cool, but being cool and trying hard to be cool are definitely opposite

00:29:29.920 things. The, the essence of being cool is not trying to be cool, right? That's like the paradox

00:29:36.980 of coolness is that the moment you try to be it, you aren't it. The only people who can be cool are

00:29:45.260 people who aren't trying to be cool. Every attempt fails by definition. Cool is perhaps the, it's,

00:29:51.260 it's, you know, this, it's like a riddle. That's like, what's, what's the one thing you can become,

00:29:57.200 but cannot try to become. And that's cool. You know, you, you can, someone can become cool.

00:30:04.440 They can be cool, but you can't try, you can't attempt it. Uh, you can't say, you know what,

00:30:11.040 I'm going to get, I'm going to give being cool a shot. Let's, let's try this out. Let's give this

00:30:15.260 a spin. Already. You're not cool. It was like, no matter what happens next, you're not cool just

00:30:20.360 because of the way that you approached it. So anyway, back to the article, as liberals try to

00:30:26.920 get their groove back. Some party insiders say democratic politicians have been encouraged to

00:30:30.840 embrace a new form of combative rhetoric aimed at winning back voters. So I've responded to

00:30:36.720 president Trump's no hard holds barred version of politics. It's an attempt to step outside the

00:30:42.180 bounds of political correctness that Republicans have accused Democrats of establishing and requires

00:30:46.620 being crass, but discerning rude, but only to a point online. It has a name dark woke Republicans

00:30:53.600 have essentially put Democrats in a respectability prison said Bavik Lathia, a communications consultant

00:30:59.680 and former digital director for the Wisconsin Democrat party. There's an extreme imbalance and strategy

00:31:04.960 that allows Republicans to say stuff that really grabs voters attention while we're stuck with

00:31:09.640 boring pablum. I see this as a strategic shift within democratic messaging. I'm a big fan of dark

00:31:16.420 woke. Dark woke for now is a meme that lives mostly online, but its roots have been sown throughout the

00:31:22.340 party for years. In the waning days of the Biden administration, memes about dark Brandon, often

00:31:27.380 referred to the version of the former president that were conservatives most feared. Outside the party,

00:31:31.880 the dirtbag left, the term for a cohort of leftist provocateurs, inspired headlines for their

00:31:38.780 unrestrained derision of conservatives and liberals alike. Okay. So, I mean, first of all,

00:31:46.500 the idea that the Democrat, I mean, you hear this from Democrats all the time that this fantasy that,

00:31:52.100 you know, they're in a respectability prison, that they're held to this standard of being respectable,

00:31:58.620 that Republicans aren't. The truth, of course, is exactly the opposite. We talked about this,

00:32:04.920 what, yesterday, two days ago, that, you know, you've got liberals right now on a nationwide campaign,

00:32:12.160 for instance, of vandalizing and destroying Teslas because they don't like the guy that owns Tesla.

00:32:19.440 They're celebrating the, you know, massive drop in profits, the stock hit. The DAs are refusing to

00:32:27.000 prosecute. Like, really? That's your respectability prison? Really? That's your problem? Is that you're

00:32:34.220 too respectable? Okay, like, this is the side that not too long ago was setting entire city blocks on

00:32:42.300 fire because you were upset. So, like, I don't think that's your issue. But this is what they're

00:32:49.500 claiming, that Democrats have, you know, have this problem and they've started to get more aggressive

00:32:54.580 and more confrontational because they weren't already, right? With the rioting and, you know,

00:33:02.320 destroying vehicles and all that, like, they weren't already aggressive and confrontational enough.

00:33:06.120 But that's what they're doing. They're offering Jasmine. They offer Jasmine Crockett is given as

00:33:10.260 an example in this article. And this is dark woke. And the New York Times says that it may just save

00:33:16.780 the party. This is the party's redemption, is dark woke. Now, the problem is that

00:33:24.480 this is all an attempt to basically mimic what they think they see on the right. But

00:33:33.740 they don't understand what they're seeing. You know, this has always been the left's biggest,

00:33:43.460 their downfall, really, their Achilles heel, is that they are incapable of understanding their

00:33:52.400 opponents. And if you don't understand your opponents, you're hopeless. You're going to lose.

00:34:00.980 So they don't understand what they're seeing. For one thing, it's the reason why the people on the

00:34:09.560 right who have achieved popularity and influence, whether we're talking about Donald Trump all the

00:34:14.200 way at the top or podcasters or anybody in between, they've achieved it not because they're crass and

00:34:22.560 confrontational and insulting. That may be part of, that may be a personality trait of some of them.

00:34:34.440 Right. But we know that Donald Trump has a tendency to insult people he doesn't like.

00:34:41.980 There's also people that are sort of at least perceived as being on the right, being kind of

00:34:48.780 right-wing, part of the right-wing podcast sphere who don't do that at all. Like Theo Vaughn, for

00:34:57.700 example. Now, you know, he might use profanity, but he's not insulting. This is not, this is not an

00:35:03.000 insulting. He's like a really nice guy. He seems like it anyway. It's actually part of his brand.

00:35:08.500 Is not, not being, not really being insulting at all. So that's not it. You don't have to be

00:35:14.320 insulting. You know, if it, here's what it is. Again, if I'm, if I'm doing Democrats a favor by

00:35:20.600 explaining things to them, it doesn't matter because they won't listen to me anyway, which

00:35:23.720 is part of your problem is like, you won't, you don't understand us. And even when we try to help

00:35:28.380 you out, which we shouldn't even do by explaining to you, it's like, we'll explain ourselves to you.

00:35:34.920 So you actually understand it. You still won't listen.

00:35:36.700 I am someone on the right and I'm trying to explain to you how it works. And if you're on

00:35:44.080 the left, you're going to, you'll just tune this out. You say, well, what do you know? Don't listen

00:35:46.860 to him. So for what it's worth, which I guess is not much, it, the way that they have achieved this

00:35:57.180 popularity is not simply by being crass or insulting or anything. It's through authenticity. Okay. This is

00:36:05.340 the fundamental thing that has always made Trump so appealing is that he's being authentic.

00:36:10.980 He came onto the political scene and, and he was exactly the same guy there as he had been for

00:36:17.380 decades. And for him, yeah, he can be kind of crass, kind of profane. He can, he can, he can,

00:36:23.600 you know, start insulting people. He can, he can do all that, but it's, it's not that alone.

00:36:32.460 This is what people have been that try to mimic that. It's all, you know, this was his formula.

00:36:39.160 So the reason why it works for him is just because that's who he is.

00:36:42.840 And it resonated with people, not because they were so impressed that, oh, look, here's a

00:36:46.880 presidential candidate who used the S word. It's not that it's just like, well, that's the kind of

00:36:52.120 guy he is. That's how he speaks. And he's speaking like this now. And he hasn't changed just because

00:36:56.500 he's running for president and we respect that. Um, so whether you hate or, or, or love Trump,

00:37:04.940 whether you hate or love the guy, he's just being who he is. And it's the same thing with

00:37:11.340 the podcasts that are most popular. What makes them popular is the authenticity. It's a format

00:37:16.220 where that it just, you know, it, it kind of naturally strips away the sheen and the gloss,

00:37:22.920 and you're left with real people having actual human conversations and saying what they really

00:37:27.780 think about things. So if you're on the left and you're looking at this and you're studying it like

00:37:32.460 some kind of mathematical equation, and then you're trying to follow the same formula, you've already

00:37:37.780 lost. It's not going to work. The formula is that there is no formula. Donald Trump doesn't have a

00:37:42.740 formula. He's the least formulaic politician that's ever existed. The formula is just himself.

00:37:50.500 Joe Rogan is not trying to follow a formula. He's just having conversations with, with,

00:37:55.860 with people who interest him. He's, he's exploring things he finds interesting with people who he,

00:38:02.040 who he thinks are interesting. That's it. That's the whole formula. That's literally, that's actually

00:38:09.160 it. Um, Theo Vaughn, as I just mentioned, what's his formula? There isn't one. He's a curious guy.

00:38:15.540 Who's also very funny and that's it. It's not a formula. It's just who he is.

00:38:18.640 And so they're trying to copy a formula, but the formula is again, that there is no formula.

00:38:25.480 And then you have to deal with the actual substance. And one of the things again,

00:38:28.740 that makes right-wing podcasts and the MAGA movement generally popular is that

00:38:32.680 these are people who are saying the things that lots of people think, but aren't supposed to say.

00:38:41.020 Okay. How do I get away with saying all the stuff that I say all the time?

00:38:46.860 Well, first of all, it's because I want, it's because I want, it's what I actually believe.

00:38:51.680 And the audience knows that I'm just being honest. I'm telling you what I believe.

00:38:55.300 So whenever there's a big, a big, a big controversy and people get upset

00:38:58.500 and they're saying, Oh, can you, can you believe what Matt Walsh said?

00:39:02.380 My audience hears that and says, yeah, so what? It's what he thinks.

00:39:06.900 You don't have to think the same thing, but it's what he thinks. So what's the big deal?

00:39:11.500 But also leaving aside, at least for me personally, leaving aside some of my more bizarre tangents,

00:39:18.220 generally the things that I say out loud are the things that millions of people have already said

00:39:24.260 out loud in their living rooms to their families and to their friends.

00:39:28.300 And that's the case for almost anybody on the right with any size platform. Much of our success is due

00:39:36.680 not to trying to be edgy, but almost the opposite. It's due to the fact that most of what we say

00:39:46.540 is stuff that hundreds of millions, if not billions of people believe.

00:39:51.240 It's the stuff that everyone believes, but you're not supposed to say, you know, when I got in

00:40:00.500 trouble with the, uh, after the Austin Metcalfe stabbing saying that, you know, well, everyone

00:40:07.020 already knew the assailant was a young black male, even though there was a controversy around that,

00:40:14.500 everyone in my audience heard it and said, well, yeah, I mean, we all like, of course, we all think

00:40:18.460 that. Okay. Let's be real. Let's just be honest. We all think that now over on the left. And this is

00:40:25.240 why dark woke just doesn't work. Uh, it with leftism, it's all about saying things that nobody

00:40:35.960 really believes. So on the right, we say what everyone believes, but you're not supposed to say

00:40:41.160 on the left, they say what nobody believes, but you are supposed to say it's the stuff that people

00:40:48.120 believe versus the stuff that people pretend to believe. There is no dark woke version of that.

00:40:56.000 There is no edgy way right to, uh, to go about that. There is no edgy way to avoid the basic truths

00:41:04.740 of life, which is what wokeness is. It just can't exist. You cannot be woke and edgy. You cannot be

00:41:11.740 woke and provocative. You can be woke and use profanity, right? You could be Jasmine Crockett, 1.00

00:41:20.180 um, using profanity and screaming and yelling and all this kind of stuff, but it doesn't, it's,

00:41:27.800 it, that doesn't resonate with people because the problem is that you cannot be woke and honest.

00:41:35.700 That's the point. If, if there's one word that could describe why podcasts are so popular,

00:41:46.660 it's that word. It's well, we already said authentic or honest, either one, you know,

00:41:50.360 it's basically the same thing. Um, which by the way, doesn't also doesn't mean. So, so on the

00:41:57.780 left, when they complain about the podcasting world and they say, Oh, you know, there's a,

00:42:01.680 there's misinformation. Not everything these people say is true. They say things that aren't

00:42:05.060 true sometimes. Yeah, of course. Like no one's, no one thinks no one, anyone who's a fan of podcasts,

00:42:10.880 no one thinks that everything you hear there is true necessarily. People can be mistaken. We can

00:42:15.820 have opinions that aren't true. We could be wrong about stuff. Um, of course, like no one is right all

00:42:22.500 the time, but people aren't listening because they think that everything they hear is automatically

00:42:27.220 true. Just because someone like me says it. No, they think it's honest. So like, even if we're

00:42:34.060 wrong, we're, we're, we're only, we're wrong. We are sincerely wrong. We're just wrong because

00:42:41.020 we're mistaken. We're not wrong because we're pretending to believe something that we don't.

00:42:45.020 Um, so you know what? Here is the only real version that I can imagine of like, like what,

00:42:56.480 what could dark woke actually be? Uh, maybe this may, maybe, maybe dark, dark woke is Jasmine Crockett, 0.99

00:43:08.840 let's say coming out and saying, Hey, you know what? I actually just hate white people. Okay. 0.99

00:43:16.760 Let me be real with you. I don't like white people. I want policies that punish white people. 0.99

00:43:22.020 I want to elevate my people over them because I think they deserve it. And that's, that's just what 0.98

00:43:28.680 I think. Now something, and you know, you can say she's kind of already said that, but she hasn't

00:43:33.200 actually directly said that. Maybe that could be kind of a dark woke. That's the only thing that

00:43:39.440 could maybe qualify as, as dark woke is the only thing that could maybe be sort of what they're

00:43:44.240 going for because, because it isn't, it's honest. Like that is what Jasmine Crockett actually believes.

00:43:49.920 So if she came out and said that I would strenuously object to it on the merits,

00:43:54.580 but I would, I would give her credit for being honest. I would say, okay, well,

00:43:59.640 at least she's being honest. At least you're being honest. Finally, that's progress.

00:44:07.180 So it would be an honest articulation of left-wing racial ideology.

00:44:13.140 And you know what? It would, unfortunately, it would probably resonate with a certain portion

00:44:19.140 of the country. Uh, there'd be a certain portion of the country that would say, yeah, finally,

00:44:23.820 I feel the same way. And, uh, so I guess that's sort of the woke answer to right-wing authenticity.

00:44:33.240 The, the wrote, the woke answer to right-wing authenticity is left-wing authenticity.

00:44:40.140 It's where you come out and just say what you really believe. But the problem is that they,

00:44:47.460 they, they don't, they won't do that because what they really believe in so many cases is just awful.

00:44:56.660 Okay. Like what Jasmine Crockett really believes about race in America, she just hates white people. 1.00

00:45:01.440 Uh, she, she's, she's, there may be some people that resonates with, but it's going to be a minority 0.63

00:45:06.220 of the electorate. I guarantee you that. So she won't say it.

00:45:09.960 What, what, what would be the dark, woke version of approaching, say, an issue like abortion?

00:45:17.700 It's not coming out with this. Oh, I believe in reproductive rights and women making choices. 1.00

00:45:23.120 No, the, the dark, woke version, the authentic, right? Authentic version would be coming out if

00:45:29.560 they just come out and said, you know what? Yeah. Um, these, uh, we use the word fetus,

00:45:34.100 but really it's a baby. Of course, it's a baby. It's a living human being. Obviously it is. And,

00:45:38.500 but I just don't care about, uh, babies in the womb. I just don't care about them. Uh, and I,

00:45:43.020 I think it's okay to kill them flat out. That's what I think. Um, again, you, you hear that a little 1.00

00:45:50.780 bit, like there are some people on the left who have come close to that line, but you're never going

00:45:55.960 to hear no Democrat politician will ever come out and say that even though it's what they actually

00:46:00.780 think. And that would be the, so maybe, so, so go ahead. I'd like to see Democrats do that.

00:46:08.980 You know, on the right, we're pretty honest about what we think. So on the left, just,

00:46:13.200 just be honest, just come out and say what you really think about all this stuff. Let's just put

00:46:16.020 it on the table. Let's put it all on the table. And, uh, and then we can have some real, real

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00:47:59.960 As we've discussed on the show before, Michelle Obama has made a career pivot into podcasting. Lots 0.93

00:48:06.100 of people thought that she would run for president. Instead, she's run for podcaster. And this campaign is

00:48:12.540 having about as much success as her presidential campaign would have had. It's not going well,

00:48:17.140 in other words. Now we've dealt with Michelle's podcast already. I hadn't planned to revisit the

00:48:21.560 topic, but a clip from her latest episode is now making the rounds on social media. And it's so

00:48:26.160 cancelable that I have no choice but to do a segment on it. So here we are. And here is Michelle

00:48:31.960 Obama, yet again. Listen. We grew up with women who weren't voicing the pain and the burden. 1.00

00:48:41.680 They made it look easy. And when you make stuff look easy, people assume that you must like this.

00:48:49.040 Yeah. It's okay with you, right? Right. You know, we don't articulate as black women our pain

00:48:55.940 because it's almost like nobody ever gave us permission to do that. And does anyone care?

00:49:01.920 Yeah. There's no. They care. There's that part. If we knew, I think we would care. If we knew.

00:49:08.100 Mm-hmm. If we knew. Or, you know, yeah. And we have to ask ourselves, the men in our lives is,

00:49:16.060 you know, why wait to be asked? You know, it seems like what we go through is pretty obvious. I mean,

00:49:24.480 maybe we're not complaining, but we're actually living life out loud, you know, turn that cycle

00:49:30.060 on its head. Yeah. And we have to talk about our stresses openly, you know. And also as black women,

00:49:37.320 we are so easily labeled as angry and bitter. I see the difference in some of my white female friends. 1.00

00:49:46.620 I see a lightness, an ability to be in the world and see what's going on, but still be

00:49:54.020 not as burdened about it as I think I am. You know, I think that what I see happen in the news,

00:50:06.140 you know, the assault on immigration rights, the, you know, the challenges that face our community,

00:50:13.960 the inequality, I think it burns at me in a different way.

00:50:20.520 Because it affects you. Yeah.

00:50:22.300 It affects your children. Yeah.

00:50:23.880 It affects you. Yeah.

00:50:26.720 Now, I'm no fashion guru, but Michelle Obama appears to be going for a kind of 1500 BC look. 1.00

00:50:34.200 She's dressed like one of the wives of an Egyptian pharaoh or something. Don't quite understand the

00:50:38.920 look. But in any case, aside from that, three points to make here. First of all,

00:50:43.960 Michelle Obama has an estimated net worth along with her husband of $70 million. And I suspect

00:50:48.980 that's a pretty significant undercount. The Obamas, for example, made $65 million on one book deal

00:50:56.300 in 2017. And to put it mildly, as someone who's written books myself, $65 million as a book advance

00:51:03.900 for two books, one from Michelle, the other from Barack, is astronomical. I mean, mind boggling amounts

00:51:10.740 of money. And Michelle didn't even write her book. She had not just one ghostwriter, but an entire

00:51:15.620 team of ghostwriters. That's the kind of luxury and privilege that few people in the history of

00:51:21.300 this country or the world have ever enjoyed. It's a luxury and privilege that none of her white female 1.00

00:51:26.760 friends have enjoyed. I mean, Michelle Obama is almost certainly richer than almost all of her

00:51:32.140 friends. She's more famous. She's more powerful. She's more influential. She's more beloved. She's more 0.90

00:51:37.940 celebrated. She doesn't deserve to be any of those things, but she is. And yet, if you listen to her

00:51:43.260 without context and you didn't know who she was, you would think, based on the way that she speaks

00:51:48.760 and what she says, that she's like impoverished and oppressed. You would think that she works for 0.99

00:51:54.000 like a house cleaning service or something. She drives home from her 14-hour shift every day in her

00:51:59.080 beat-up Honda to her two-bedroom rancher, tries to feed her children, craft macaroni and cheese for dinner, 1.00

00:52:04.800 but the power shut off because her account is delinquent. That's the kind of life you would

00:52:09.520 imagine someone must live based on the way that she speaks. You would never guess that, in fact,

00:52:15.700 this woman is chauffeured home to her 7,000 square foot coastal estate in Martha's Vineyard after a long 0.97

00:52:22.960 day of doing whatever the hell she wants because she doesn't have a job and hasn't had one for like 1.00

00:52:27.320 30 years. This is what a victim mentality does to you. It means that you can never be happy. You must

00:52:33.460 always be a victim. You could be the richest person on earth. You could be the supreme dictator of the

00:52:38.900 planet. You could have more power and wealth than any human has ever possessed and you would still be

00:52:45.580 unhappy. You would still feel put upon and persecuted. Victimhood is a religion for Michelle and she

00:52:51.740 literally cannot see the world any other way. Second point, she says that black women don't 1.00

00:53:01.280 articulate their pain, that they don't talk about how they feel. Now, I want to be delicate in how I

00:53:07.420 phrase this, but I will only say that that is not what I've noticed. If someone asked me to describe

00:53:17.280 black women, afraid to tell you how they feel is not the first description that would come to mind.

00:53:25.440 Now, if I were to make a list of all the ethnicities and divide them by gender and then rank them 0.82

00:53:30.360 according to how stoic and reserved they are, black women would not be number one on that list or number 1.00

00:53:37.580 two or three or four or five. For the record, I think East Asian men would probably rank the highest

00:53:42.420 and then probably Eastern European men, Western European and American men might land at number

00:53:47.660 three. You'll notice that all of the spots at the top of the stoicism list are occupied by men and

00:53:52.580 that's because women in general, black, white or any other color, are not generally shy about, as 1.00

00:53:58.640 Michelle says, articulating their pain. And I say this with all due affection to women, but if a woman 1.00

00:54:06.700 in your life is feeling sad or hurt, you'll know it. If a man in your life is literally dying,

00:54:14.560 you might not know it. Michelle Obama is herself a perfect example of this. All she does, all she's

00:54:22.340 ever done is articulate her pain. Like, I don't know Michelle Obama. I've never met her. And yet I know

00:54:30.140 exactly how she feels. I know everything about her emotional state. I know about all of her fears and

00:54:35.860 worries and stresses and concerns. I'm not even trying to know any of that. I'm not interested

00:54:41.220 in knowing any of it, but I do because it's all she talks about. Third, finally, whether you're a man

00:54:49.000 or a woman and no matter your race, I think that we would all do well to take Michelle Obama's advice

00:54:55.780 to heart and then do exactly the opposite of what she's saying. You know, she says that it's really

00:55:02.240 important to articulate your pain and talk about your stress. Well, I think we should go exactly

00:55:07.220 the other way. You should actually be talking about your stresses and pains a whole lot less

00:55:12.180 than you likely already do. However often you talk about your stresses, you should ratchet it down by

00:55:17.260 about 75 percent or let's say 95 percent. Contrary to Michelle Obama, talking about your pain and stress

00:55:25.120 is generally an unhealthy, selfish practice. Now, for one thing, and you have to understand this,

00:55:35.220 most people don't care. Your stories of woe are boring to them. When you start droning on about it,

00:55:46.080 they politely listen, but in their heads they are just waiting for you to stop because everyone has

00:55:52.900 their own problems that they're dealing with. They also have people very close to them in their lives

00:55:57.320 who are not you, spouses, children, whose problems are also their problems, right? So they don't have

00:56:04.060 the mental or emotional capacity to care that much about your issues. We all have a limited bandwidth,

00:56:09.780 which is why most of us, most of the complaints we hear from most people just go in one ear and out

00:56:15.100 the other. We don't have the space to store that information on the mental hard drive, even if we wanted to.

00:56:20.620 Now, you know, a lot of people seem to find this fact very troubling. They just can't deal with the

00:56:28.480 fact that 99.99999 percent of the people on the earth truly don't care about their problems at all.

00:56:36.680 Like at all. But no matter how you feel about this reality, it's still the reality. And there's also no

00:56:43.000 reason why it should be troubling to you. This is all the more reason, by the way, to, you know, get married

00:56:47.860 and start a family and remain closely bonded to your family. These are the people who care immensely

00:56:52.400 about you. Most of the rest of the world would hardly notice if you died. But these people,

00:56:57.500 these few people, they love you deeply. They know you intimately. Although even they don't want to

00:57:02.940 listen to you complain 24-7. I mean, the honest truth is that most of your worries and most of your

00:57:09.160 stresses and personal hang-ups are not interesting or relevant to any other human on the entire face of

00:57:16.600 the planet. That web of tangled anxiety in your mind that you spend all day staring into,

00:57:24.900 like nobody wants to hear about most of it. Certainly not constantly. Certainly not on a

00:57:31.080 daily basis. And that's why if you really want someone in your life who will sit and listen to

00:57:35.960 you complain incessantly about every last little thing you're worried about and stressed about,

00:57:39.880 you have to pay them to listen. Only your therapist will endure that kind of barrage of

00:57:45.340 self-obsessed whining. And they only do it because you pay them to. And even they are annoyed by it

00:57:53.080 and are probably making fun of you behind your back. So you can choose to find this fact isolating

00:57:59.700 and depressing. You can choose to see it that way. I prefer to see it as liberating. You know, the fact

00:58:07.000 that most of your pains and stresses are boring and uninteresting to everybody around you, including and

00:58:12.600 especially your family, is a good indication that most of your pains and stresses are just not that

00:58:19.660 important. You can be free of them. You know, now you can whine to yourself and say, nobody cares about

00:58:27.140 this problem I have. It's not fair. Nobody cares. Or you can stop and think, well, wait a minute.

00:58:34.280 Maybe nobody cares because it's actually unimportant. Maybe nobody cares because there's not much to care

00:58:42.400 about. Maybe nobody cares about the vast majority of my incessant complaints because my complaints

00:58:49.540 are small and dumb and superficial. You can see it that way too. You could choose freedom. Freedom from 0.98

00:58:59.480 your own petty narcissism. But that requires a certain amount of self-awareness, self-awareness

00:59:05.540 that Michelle Obama simply is not capable of. And that is why she is today, again, canceled. 0.97

00:59:13.820 That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day.

00:59:17.100 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 24, 2025

Ep. 1582 - The Education System Is Failing, But Change Is Coming

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