The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 187 - Millennials Don’t Like Dealing With Reality

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show we'll talk about what I think is the biggest problem with my generation

00:00:05.480 and that is how so many of us are unwilling to deal with the reality of a given situation

00:00:10.640 and instead we're always focused on, well it shouldn't be this way, this is how it should be.

00:00:15.480 Refusing to focus and deal with the actual reality.

00:00:18.480 So we'll talk about that.

00:00:19.180 Also we'll talk about why more people should be moving to find job opportunities. 0.76

00:00:24.340 And finally, Democrats continue to let their pro-abortion radicalism shine through in disgusting and hideous and evil ways.

00:00:34.840 We'll discuss that as well today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:45.860 Welcome to the Matt Walsh Show everybody.

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00:00:56.040 I hope you're all surviving the polar vortex as it's being dramatically called.

00:01:01.060 It's not that bad where I live.

00:01:02.340 We're maybe at about 25 degrees or so, so pretty balmy temperatures.

00:01:05.340 We did get a bit of snow though, so I enjoyed taking the kids out last night to go sledding.

00:01:10.900 And of course when I say I take them out to go sledding, what I mean is that I'm the one who does most of the sledding

00:01:16.240 while they're making snow angels or whatever they're doing.

00:01:19.800 I'm on the, you know, I'm hitting the slopes with that, with the little plastic green saucer thing.

00:01:24.740 So it was a lot of fun.

00:01:27.180 Yesterday I wrote about the student loan crisis.

00:01:30.740 And I talked about this on the show a couple of days ago, I think.

00:01:34.200 And the case that I made is that, just to review very, very briefly to get into what I want to talk about.

00:01:42.800 What I said, and I've made this case many times, is that on an individual level, the way to deal with the absurd cost of college is to,

00:01:52.140 or one way to deal with it is to maybe not go to college.

00:01:56.100 You know, often when you notice that something is absurdly crazy expensive,

00:02:01.740 and you're thinking about what are ways to deal with how expensive this thing is,

00:02:07.560 well, one of the things that you could do is just not buy that thing, right?

00:02:12.100 Now, I'm not defending colleges that charge so much.

00:02:15.800 I've been accused of that.

00:02:17.400 Of course I'm not.

00:02:17.940 I agree with everyone who says that it's ridiculous that universities charge so much.

00:02:22.920 They require students to mortgage the next 15 years of their life just for the privilege of attending classes.

00:02:29.260 I agree that it's immoral to lend tens of thousands of dollars to a person who has no job and no assets and no wealth,

00:02:37.540 a net worth of zero, and no immediate prospects of making an income of any kind.

00:02:42.660 What's worse, many of these kids are purchasing this massively expensive thing without having any idea as to how they might actually use it,

00:02:50.800 or if they might use it.

00:02:51.940 So it's like selling a Cessna, you know, a plane, to a broke 17-year-old who doesn't even have a pilot's license

00:02:58.100 and really has no immediate plans of even getting one. 0.58

00:03:02.180 So the whole system is ludicrous and unethical in too many ways to count.

00:03:06.580 But what frustrates me is that when we have this conversation, what frustrates me is it's not just the victim mentality of the college grads

00:03:14.180 who did, after all, sign on the dotted line and agree to the terms of the loan,

00:03:18.440 even if it is a loan that they never should have taken out in the first place.

00:03:25.060 So it's not just the victim mentality.

00:03:27.180 That's one thing that annoys me.

00:03:28.660 But even more so, it's the way that this conversation, like so many other conversations in our culture today,

00:03:36.360 avoids the one clear solution.

00:03:40.520 Most people are just unwilling to consider or take seriously the one single thing that could actually address

00:03:47.300 and finally solve the student loan crisis.

00:03:50.100 Everyone wants to talk about policies.

00:03:51.740 They want to talk about regulations and laws and everything.

00:03:54.400 None of that's going to do anything.

00:03:55.640 In fact, it would probably make the problem much worse.

00:03:57.700 The real answer is obvious.

00:04:00.440 It's what I already said.

00:04:01.380 It's for fewer people to go to college.

00:04:03.620 Universities have no incentive to drive down the cost of their tuition if everybody's going to keep going regardless.

00:04:11.640 I made the analogy in my piece yesterday where I talked about imagine that you're a denim company selling jeans

00:04:18.940 and imagine that you've discovered that everybody will buy your jeans no matter how much they cost.

00:04:26.120 You raise the cost to $90, everyone's still buying them.

00:04:29.680 In fact, more people are buying them.

00:04:31.260 You raise them to $300, people are still buying them.

00:04:33.360 So what are you going to do?

00:04:34.460 Are you going to drop the prices back down to $30 just to be nice?

00:04:39.360 Or are you going to keep raising those prices because people are willing to buy it?

00:04:44.640 Well, maybe if you're a really nice person or a terrible businessman or both, you'll drop the prices just for the heck of it, just to be nice.

00:04:52.800 But if you are focused on the bottom line, then, you know, you're going to have, if people want to mortgage their homes to buy a pair of pants,

00:04:59.440 then you're going to be perfectly willing and happy to have them do that if it puts money in your pockets.

00:05:05.140 And that's how colleges operate.

00:05:07.140 So if you're thinking that colleges are run by really nice, generous, you know, philanthropists, they're not.

00:05:14.300 They're run by business people who want to make money.

00:05:16.700 That's what it's about.

00:05:17.380 College will become less expensive the moment that a preponderance of potential students start showing a willingness to not go.

00:05:26.640 It starts showing a little bit of prudence and discernment.

00:05:30.420 I'm not saying that everybody should avoid college because the prices are so high.

00:05:34.600 If you want to be an architect or an engineer or, you know, a doctor or a lawyer or something,

00:05:39.120 then obviously in those cases, the cost of college, even as high as it is, might be worth it.

00:05:43.980 But if you know that you want to get into a line of work where the degree isn't necessary, then obviously you shouldn't go.

00:05:50.100 And most importantly, if you have no idea what you want to do with your life,

00:05:54.980 if you have no clue what your skills are, your passions, your interests,

00:05:59.500 if you have no real five or ten year plan at all at this point,

00:06:02.900 then the last thing you should do is sign up for this massive loan to buy a thing that you aren't even sure if you're going to use.

00:06:16.620 And even if you do use it, you don't at this point know how you're going to use it.

00:06:21.280 In no other situation would we ever recommend that somebody buy something for $100,000 without knowing whether or not they're even going to use it.

00:06:34.180 We would never say, yeah, you know what, just go buy the thing for six figures and then, you know, at some point you'll figure out what to do with it.

00:06:40.220 We would never say that.

00:06:41.760 In any other situation, we should stop saying with a college education it is absurd.

00:06:46.020 So that's my whole case.

00:06:47.120 I think it's a really reasonable case.

00:06:48.940 It's just if you know that you're going to use this education and that ultimately it will pay off financially, then go do it.

00:06:56.540 If you don't know that yet, then don't go to college right now.

00:07:00.440 It doesn't mean never go.

00:07:01.660 It just means don't go right now until you've figured it out.

00:07:06.320 Really reasonable point of view, I think.

00:07:07.940 And this is a, I don't know why I just did this with it.

00:07:10.080 I'm doing the Donald Trump, I'm developing Donald Trump's hand mannerisms for some reason.

00:07:15.900 I think it's a really reasonable point of view.

00:07:17.520 Just don't buy an expensive thing unless you know how you're going to use it.

00:07:21.540 That's my whole case.

00:07:22.540 Very logical, I think.

00:07:23.800 But I've heard from a lot of people who said, well, that's not fair.

00:07:27.460 You know, college shouldn't be this expensive in the first place.

00:07:31.940 Yeah, I know that I'll drive myself into debt going to college.

00:07:35.500 And it's true that I don't know what I want to do with my life and all of that.

00:07:38.880 But I should be able to go to college.

00:07:41.140 I should be able to.

00:07:42.580 College should be affordable for me.

00:07:46.060 I should be able to go just for the experience and just for the education, even if I'm never

00:07:50.860 going to use it in any practical way at all.

00:07:53.660 That's how it should be.

00:07:54.940 This is what I'm hearing from people.

00:07:57.340 And, okay.

00:08:00.560 Yeah, maybe it should be.

00:08:02.700 But it's not, though.

00:08:05.460 See, that's, it should be, okay, fine.

00:08:08.640 But it's not.

00:08:10.340 It's not.

00:08:11.080 That's not what it is.

00:08:12.760 Should be, fine.

00:08:14.000 Not, though.

00:08:15.040 So, when you say should, you're talking about a world that doesn't exist.

00:08:19.340 You're talking about a fantasy world.

00:08:21.040 You may as well say, you know what?

00:08:24.320 There should be unicorns. 1.00

00:08:26.760 And the government should assign flying unicorns to every person. 0.99

00:08:31.340 Every person should get their own flying unicorns. 1.00

00:08:33.620 And the unicorn should be able to make pancakes in the morning.

00:08:36.520 So, I should be able to get up in the morning and there's a unicorn making me pancakes.

00:08:40.720 That's how it should be.

00:08:42.920 And, you know what?

00:08:43.700 Maybe it should be that way. 0.75

00:08:44.600 I think that would be great.

00:08:45.580 But it's not that way, though.

00:08:47.780 So, don't live your life as though you have a flying unicorn that makes pancakes because

00:08:52.080 you don't.

00:08:54.660 And I know you might say, well, you know, having affordable college is a more practical

00:08:59.260 should than flying unicorns. 1.00

00:09:01.840 Fine.

00:09:02.200 But the point is, they are similar right now in the fact that they are both situations

00:09:06.520 that don't exist.

00:09:08.900 Maybe one is achievable down the line, but that's not the situation right now for you.

00:09:14.520 So, I heard the same kind of thing yesterday when I was, and I don't remember exactly how

00:09:20.320 this came up, but on Twitter we were talking about the whole college thing and the challenges

00:09:24.500 that young people face.

00:09:26.040 And I was making my case for, hey, you know, go get a job, live on your own for a bit if

00:09:31.680 you don't know what you want to do with your life, rather than, you know, rather than signing

00:09:36.900 up for this loan and going to pay to do this really expensive thing.

00:09:40.600 Instead, you could spend that time of discernment working a job and making money and living on

00:09:47.700 your own, gaining life experience, actual valuable life experience.

00:09:51.640 Because the life experience you get in college, I know you say, well, college is an experience,

00:09:55.960 but the life experience you get there is basically, I know it's easy for me to say it because

00:10:01.060 I didn't go, but it strikes me that it's basically worthless.

00:10:04.400 It's not, you know, the day-to-day experience of being in college, you're not ever going to

00:10:09.560 have anything like that again.

00:10:10.760 Which means, fine, you'll have great memories, great, but it's not going to give you skills

00:10:18.300 and habits that will do you much good anywhere else in life.

00:10:25.760 Now, you live in an apartment by yourself, you learn to pay the bills, you learn to deal

00:10:29.200 with landlords and everything.

00:10:30.760 Well, those are skills and talents that you're going to take with you for your whole life.

00:10:35.200 But whatever skill you develop with living with a roommate in a dorm, partying and stuff,

00:10:40.320 I mean, yeah, I know it's fun and memories are great, but I don't know if you should

00:10:47.200 drive yourself into six figures of debt to make memories at this point of your life or

00:10:52.220 ever, really, actually.

00:10:56.080 So rather than that, you could go and get the life experience and make some money and develop

00:11:01.520 skills, build your resume while you're discerning and figuring out what you want to do.

00:11:06.660 And so, you know, I was saying that and a bunch of people said to me, well, well,

00:11:10.240 you know, I'd love to, but there are no jobs around where I live.

00:11:13.600 There are no jobs or living expenses are very high.

00:11:17.360 You know, what am I supposed to do?

00:11:18.720 There's nowhere to work and I can't, I can't live anywhere because it's so expensive.

00:11:22.780 I'm living at my parents' house.

00:11:23.820 And so I said, well, then move.

00:11:29.880 Move to a different place.

00:11:31.600 It's a big country.

00:11:32.640 There are lots of places that you could potentially live.

00:11:36.200 So just move to a place with low costs of living and more job opportunities.

00:11:41.260 Those places do exist.

00:11:42.600 There are a lot of places like that.

00:11:44.000 And it's a really exciting thing because America is like, I don't know, it's, it's, it's millions

00:11:49.480 of square miles of land and you could go anywhere.

00:11:54.080 You can go literally anywhere you want.

00:11:57.500 So go somewhere else.

00:12:00.140 But once again, I got the same kind of response.

00:12:02.460 People say, well, that's not fair.

00:12:03.840 That's, that's, that's, that's not how it should be.

00:12:06.080 It shouldn't be that way.

00:12:07.240 I shouldn't have to move.

00:12:09.260 I shouldn't have to move.

00:12:11.020 I should be able to stay where I am.

00:12:13.280 I've got my family here, my whole life and my friends.

00:12:16.020 And this is where I grew up.

00:12:17.540 And this is, you know, the town that I live in.

00:12:20.020 I shouldn't have to move.

00:12:22.280 I want to be close to family.

00:12:23.700 I should be able to be close to family.

00:12:25.840 People should be able to stay where they are.

00:12:27.520 That's the way it should be.

00:12:28.260 There's a problem in society when everyone has to leave and disperse and families are

00:12:32.260 broken up.

00:12:32.840 This isn't how society should be.

00:12:38.460 I agree, but that is how society is.

00:12:45.240 Okay.

00:12:45.860 It shouldn't be, but it is.

00:12:48.760 So that's all.

00:12:50.460 It just is.

00:12:52.860 This is something I noticed with millennials a lot.

00:12:55.200 Okay.

00:12:55.500 And I'm not generally a millennial basher.

00:12:58.260 I am a millennial myself.

00:13:00.120 And as I've said many times in the past, our generation did get screwed by previous generations.

00:13:05.400 There's no question about that.

00:13:07.140 The baby boomers drove this country into bankruptcy. 1.00

00:13:09.720 They ruined most of our institutions.

00:13:11.580 They left the institution of marriage and tatters.

00:13:13.920 And look what they did with government and media and academia and everything.

00:13:20.000 The baby boomer generation is a generation of, generally speaking, not for all of them, but

00:13:25.220 generally speaking, it's a generation of selfishness and financial irresponsibility.

00:13:29.240 And they are, in general, leaving the country in worse shape than they found it, which is

00:13:37.340 the ultimate indictment on any generation.

00:13:39.960 It's, you know, how did it look when you got it?

00:13:42.260 And how does it look now?

00:13:43.240 And the baby boomers inherited a pretty good situation, a pretty prosperous situation, and 0.60

00:13:49.600 that's not the situation they're leaving behind.

00:13:51.320 So they have little room to criticize anyone, and I'll be the first to say that.

00:13:56.360 But that said, there are some legitimate criticisms of the millennial generation, and

00:14:01.060 this is one of them.

00:14:02.340 The refusal to deal with reality.

00:14:05.100 A refusal to acknowledge how things are.

00:14:07.740 This insistence always on saying, but it shouldn't be, it shouldn't be, college shouldn't be so

00:14:14.400 expensive, living shouldn't be so expensive, I shouldn't have to move, it shouldn't be this

00:14:18.960 way.

00:14:20.240 But it is.

00:14:22.860 And you do have to deal with it.

00:14:26.840 And that's just all there is to it, I'm afraid, right now.

00:14:32.100 You know, people don't like my plan for dealing with student debt, because they say that we

00:14:36.940 need policy changes and everything else.

00:14:39.500 Okay, even if I agreed with that, and I don't really, but even if I did, that doesn't change

00:14:44.160 the immediate situation.

00:14:46.500 And I'd rather talk about what can a person do right now, in this exact moment, an individual

00:14:51.780 person who is looking at the situation as it currently stands, what can they do?

00:14:57.120 I mean, should they be lobbying Congress?

00:14:59.200 Is that the way that they should personally be dealing with the situation?

00:15:03.880 No.

00:15:04.220 So, that's the thing, with a lot of people in my generation I've noticed, is just an

00:15:11.920 absolute refusal to simply deal with things and cope with things as they are.

00:15:20.200 And so you end up with a lot of millennials who just stay at home, or they stay in their 0.85

00:15:23.860 hometown, they whine and they complain, and they just tread water and run in place and do

00:15:28.080 nothing while whining about how things should be.

00:15:31.660 Well, that's not how you change things.

00:15:35.660 And if you notice that the environment and the society and everything around you, it's

00:15:40.680 not how you want it to be, well, you can't immediately do anything about that, but you

00:15:45.300 can do something immediately about your own situation.

00:15:49.420 That's the thing that you can immediately grab a hold of and change.

00:15:53.760 So, do that.

00:15:57.080 And then there's just this general resistance people in my generation have often to moving

00:16:02.220 to a different town to pursue opportunities.

00:16:06.080 I don't understand.

00:16:07.140 I can't wrap my head around that.

00:16:09.200 Do you expect the opportunities to just come to you?

00:16:13.000 What's the plan exactly?

00:16:14.240 To sit there pouting until the situation improves?

00:16:17.000 Well, it's never going to improve.

00:16:18.480 So, you're just going to be pouting for the rest of your life, and you're going to be 0.95

00:16:21.500 a loser who does nothing and accomplishes nothing in life, if that's how you go about 0.98

00:16:26.900 it. 0.99

00:16:27.700 There are no jobs.

00:16:29.020 Okay.

00:16:29.680 Yes, there are.

00:16:30.680 But you just have to go somewhere else for them.

00:16:33.700 I do not understand a 20-year-old or 22-year-old person saying, there are no jobs anywhere.

00:16:40.420 There are so many jobs everywhere.

00:16:42.780 But you just have to be willing to go more than, like, 20 miles from where you grew up.

00:16:48.720 That's all.

00:16:50.840 I mean, go work in North Dakota.

00:16:53.200 Go work on an oil rig in North Dakota.

00:16:55.540 Make six figures and live in a place where the living expenses are almost, like, non-existent.

00:17:00.460 And just bank money.

00:17:01.860 You know what?

00:17:02.160 I wish I had done that.

00:17:03.280 You know what I wish I had done when I was 18?

00:17:05.060 I wish I had gone to North Dakota and worked for seven years on an oil rig.

00:17:08.560 And just saved tons of money.

00:17:12.480 And that's, you know what?

00:17:13.920 That's what I think.

00:17:14.440 If you're 18 years old, go do that.

00:17:16.340 Go work on an oil rig for about five, six, seven years.

00:17:18.940 And then do what you want.

00:17:20.140 You can go to college.

00:17:20.960 You can pay for it all on your own.

00:17:23.480 You can pay for it out of pocket.

00:17:26.960 Or something.

00:17:27.900 I mean, there are so many different things you can do.

00:17:30.820 And especially when you're young and you don't have kids.

00:17:34.080 Now, when you have kids and you have a family, the situation becomes a little bit more complicated.

00:17:39.240 Although, even then.

00:17:40.540 Look, I've moved since I was, since I moved out of the house when I was 20.

00:17:45.720 And including that move, I've moved five times in the last 12 years.

00:17:51.240 And three of those times is when I had kids.

00:17:53.980 It's a lot harder when you have kids.

00:17:56.080 And I've changed jobs.

00:17:57.440 I've changed careers.

00:17:58.360 I mean, I, you know, I, when I, it was only six, seven months after we had our twins.

00:18:03.120 And we were living eight, eight hours away from family.

00:18:05.460 And we were living in Kentucky, eight hours away from family.

00:18:08.260 We were completely, you know, alone.

00:18:12.000 And, and we had just had kids, twins.

00:18:15.720 So now all of a sudden we went from a two-person family to a four-person family.

00:18:19.500 And it was only six, seven months after that when we made the decision, which was probably an insane decision.

00:18:24.840 But I was going to leave full-time employment and I was going to go full-time on, on blogging.

00:18:35.340 I had just started my website and I was just writing, I was just writing.

00:18:40.360 And we decided I was going to do that full-time.

00:18:43.840 And it was a crazy risk to take.

00:18:46.500 It could have been backfired horribly and, and completely ruined us.

00:18:52.040 Um, but it was a risk we felt like we should make.

00:18:56.720 And, and, and in the end it, it paid off.

00:19:00.000 But, so the point is, I'm not just saying this, you know, I've been through that myself.

00:19:03.600 I've taken the risks.

00:19:04.640 I've had, you know, and I know that moving is hard.

00:19:07.280 The first couple of times I moved, I had no money.

00:19:09.460 And so, you know, you're, you've got very little money.

00:19:12.580 It's like, you can't even rent a U-Haul hardly.

00:19:14.480 When you get to a place, you've got, you've got to put a down payment on our apartment and all that.

00:19:18.460 And so if you've saved money, then maybe you have enough to get the U-Haul and to put the down payment, but then you're going to have no money.

00:19:26.260 And so you better be able to get a job.

00:19:28.000 And then, you know, you're, you're kind of climbing out of that hole.

00:19:30.380 It's a, it's a difficult thing to do, but it can be done.

00:19:33.720 And so sometimes you have to do difficult things.

00:19:35.700 And my point is when you have no kids and no family, it's like you could do anything.

00:19:43.920 You could go anywhere and worst case scenario, if the, you know, the worst thing happens and you're, and you end up on the street, like you have no money.

00:19:52.940 And even that is, you could deal with it.

00:19:55.120 There are people who have lived in their cars until they were able to get enough money to get an apartment.

00:19:59.560 I'm not saying you want to end up with that, but I'm saying when you have no kids, there's really, it's, that is not disastrous.

00:20:05.420 With kids, that's disastrous.

00:20:06.920 Without them, so what?

00:20:08.320 Okay.

00:20:08.660 So that's what you do.

00:20:09.760 Or you, or you couch surf or, you know, whatever you stay in a motel or something.

00:20:13.740 I mean, that's what I did.

00:20:16.820 The message I'm always trying to communicate to people, especially younger people without kids, like you can go and do anything.

00:20:22.920 You, I know that there's this, there's this path that's been set out for you and that everyone, you know, there's this idea of what you're supposed to do.

00:20:31.660 A, B, C, you know, follow along the points on the path because that's what everyone else does.

00:20:36.300 But you don't really have to follow that path.

00:20:38.740 And in fact, that path for most people is not the best one.

00:20:43.160 There are better ways to go about it.

00:20:45.100 There are smarter ways.

00:20:46.100 For instance, you don't have to, even if you decide you want to go to college, that doesn't have to involve massive debt.

00:20:59.300 But if you're willing to just wait for a few years and, like I said, work somewhere for a while, and if you're willing to do a job that's a little bit more hands-on, it's not a cushy office job, it might be a little bit more difficult, physically challenging.

00:21:14.600 It's not a job that you can, you know, brag about on social media, maybe.

00:21:23.180 It won't be, you know, it won't be the nice job that maybe some of your friends are able to get, maybe, out of college, although a lot of them won't be getting nice jobs either.

00:21:31.160 So, but if you're willing to do that for a few years, and then at that point, if you decide you want to go to college, well, then you don't even have to send yourself into debt because you'll have the money to pay for it.

00:21:44.600 All right, so that's my life advice.

00:21:49.960 Now, let's, we're talking about life advice, let's go to the culture of death.

00:21:55.340 New York, of course, passed that law last week, outlawing, or I should say allowing, I wish it was outlawing, allowing abortion up until birth. 0.91

00:22:03.820 We talked about that.

00:22:05.440 But now this has kind of got the ball rolling for the Democrats.

00:22:08.720 So Democrats in Virginia have proposed a bill that would allow abortions up until seconds before birth.

00:22:15.720 Virginia Delegate Kathy Tron presented the bill in a subcommittee this week, and she was questioned by Chairman Todd Gilbert about what this law actually involves.

00:22:26.560 And it's pretty chilling to listen to.

00:22:28.520 So here's how that questioning went.

00:22:31.040 So how late in the third trimester would you be able to do that?

00:22:34.080 You know, it's very unfortunate that our physicians, our witnesses, were not able to attend today to speak specifically to that.

00:22:42.340 No, I'm talking about your bill.

00:22:43.860 Yeah, but I mean...

00:22:44.080 How late in the third trimester could a physician perform an abortion if he indicated it would impair the mental health of the woman? 0.83

00:22:52.960 Or physical health.

00:22:54.440 Okay.

00:22:54.960 Okay.

00:22:55.400 I'm talking about the mental health.

00:22:56.720 So, I mean, through the third trimester.

00:22:59.680 The third trimester goes all the way up to 40 weeks.

00:23:01.960 Okay.

00:23:02.500 But to the end of the third trimester?

00:23:04.360 Yep.

00:23:04.600 I don't think we have a limit in the bill.

00:23:06.380 So, where it's obvious that a woman is about to give birth, she has physical signs that she is about to give a birth,

00:23:21.480 would that still be a point at which she could request an abortion if she was so certified? 1.00

00:23:26.720 She's dilating.

00:23:33.720 Mr. Chairman, that would be a, you know, a decision that the doctor, the physician, and the woman would make at that point.

00:23:40.720 I understand that.

00:23:41.260 I'm asking if your bill allows that.

00:23:43.200 My bill would allow that, yes.

00:23:44.720 So, very disturbing.

00:23:47.640 A baby that is mere minutes away from birth, a fully healthy, viable baby, can be aborted at the behest of a fully physically healthy woman moments before birth 1.00

00:24:02.160 if she feels that her mental health would be harmed by the birth of her child.

00:24:08.280 Meanwhile, you have Democrats in Rhode Island who are working on a similar bill, except theirs would allow abortion up until birth.

00:24:17.900 So, same as New York, same as Virginia.

00:24:19.560 But it would also repeal the partial birth abortion ban in the state.

00:24:25.780 Okay.

00:24:26.460 Now, partial birth abortion is banned on the federal level.

00:24:31.040 So, even by overturning the ban in Rhode Island, that doesn't mean that they're actually going to be able to perform partial birth abortions legally.

00:24:37.880 But this just shows you, the fact that the Democrats want to do that tells you everything you need to know about them.

00:24:45.580 Do you know what partial birth abortion is?

00:24:47.480 Okay, I'll tell you what it entails.

00:24:48.740 And this is a graphic, so if you have kids in the car, maybe, or if you have kids, you know, while you're watching this or listening to this, maybe shut it off.

00:24:56.100 But a partial birth abortion is when a fully viable, fully healthy baby who could survive outside of the womb, who has reached term, is delivered, alive, and then moments before fully emerging from the birth canal, with half of its body hanging out of the birth canal, the baby's head is held inside the woman's body.

00:25:24.280 And then his brain is sucked out of his head.

00:25:29.740 That's what a partial birth abortion is. 1.00

00:25:33.340 Obviously, no difference at all, none, between just delivering the baby and killing him. 0.88

00:25:41.760 This is infanticide.

00:25:44.240 And they're trying to get around the infanticide by just keeping one part of the body inside of the mother.

00:25:50.060 Again, that's banned on the federal level.

00:25:56.280 And now Democrats, I'm sure they would love to overturn that federal ban.

00:25:59.720 They don't, they don't, they can't right now.

00:26:01.900 But this is where Democrats are. 0.99

00:26:03.620 These are bloodthirsty, evil lunatics who support this kind of thing. 0.98

00:26:09.360 And it just goes to show, the Democrat Party is becoming more and more radical, especially on the abortion issue. 0.96

00:26:19.780 They are, you know, they're not moderating their stance or going to the middle or anything like that.

00:26:30.120 Which is why, in opposing them, we have to be just as radical on the other end of the spectrum.

00:26:38.040 On the good end of the spectrum, on the spectrum, on the, on the, on the life preserving and loving and protecting end of the spectrum.

00:26:48.920 Because Democrats are saying, well, we want all abortions, partial birth, everything.

00:26:53.840 Abortion for any reason, at any point, up to and even after birth.

00:26:59.980 Because partial birth, I mean, that's, the birth has happened at that point.

00:27:03.380 Um, so that is really an after birth abortion.

00:27:07.300 So that's what Democrats are saying.

00:27:08.700 That's what liberals want.

00:27:10.300 And our response has to be, no abortions.

00:27:12.900 None.

00:27:13.300 For anyone.

00:27:13.880 Ever.

00:27:14.200 For any reason.

00:27:15.400 Life begins at conception.

00:27:18.620 Because if you try to moderate, you try to meet them in the middle, they clearly are not willing to do that.

00:27:23.680 And all they're going to do is they're going to keep dragging you further and further and closer to them.

00:27:28.540 They're going to keep saying, okay, yeah, sure, let's, let's meet in the middle.

00:27:31.600 Just come a little bit closer to us.

00:27:32.860 Yeah, come a little bit, come, come closer.

00:27:34.720 Yeah, no, no, no, no, no.

00:27:35.420 Just walk a little bit further our way.

00:27:37.160 We'll, we'll meet you.

00:27:37.920 Just keep coming.

00:27:40.600 But they never do.

00:27:43.180 And that's how the, that's how the left has dragged the entire culture further left. 0.88

00:27:47.600 Because the left keeps going more and more left while kind of beckoning everyone else.

00:27:52.820 Come on, you know, come meet us.

00:27:54.760 Let's, let's, let's, let's, uh, you know, let's, let's compromise.

00:27:58.680 Let's find a middle ground.

00:27:59.860 But they keep going left so that the middle ground, the middle ground is always shifting.

00:28:06.780 I realize I'm saying left, but I'm pointing right.

00:28:09.280 But, you know.

00:28:09.720 One other thing about this, I was thinking about it is, um, you know, Kermit Gosnell is, uh, is in prison for the rest of his life for killing babies after they were born.

00:28:22.640 And for, you know, other things as well, putting, putting women's, you know, he killed at least one woman and, uh, put, uh, you know, unsanitary, disgusting conditions of his, of his clinic and all that.

00:28:35.700 But the main thing is that he killed babies, uh, probably hundreds of babies after they were already born.

00:28:41.840 But, as I said, there's no difference between that.

00:28:47.000 There's no biological, no moral, no physical difference between that and killing a baby moments before birth or even during the process of birth.

00:28:55.240 So, really, I guess we should just let Kermit Gosnell out of prison.

00:29:02.460 I think we shouldn't allow Democrats to kind of, to, to, to kind of draw this distinction between Kermit Gosnell and so-called regular good abortionists.

00:29:15.860 There is no, there is no distinction.

00:29:17.720 Kermit Gosnell is just an abortionist.

00:29:19.280 He's no different from the rest of them.

00:29:20.920 They're all the same.

00:29:21.480 Now, I would love for all of them to be in prison.

00:29:23.480 I think that's where they all belong.

00:29:27.600 But I don't think we should let the left draw these distinctions and say, no, not, not Kermit Gosnell.

00:29:32.380 No, he's, he's totally, he's not different.

00:29:36.080 So, really, if the laws were consistent, then Kermit Gosnell, he should have maybe been fined for, um, you know, disposing of medical waste inappropriately.

00:29:47.300 So, maybe give him a $500 fine or something like that.

00:29:49.880 Uh, but other than that, it's all the same.

00:29:53.560 There's no difference.

00:29:57.600 All right.

00:29:58.080 Finally, we'll go to the inbox, check some of your messages and emails.

00:30:01.080 Remember, uh, mattwalshow at gmail.com, mattwalshow at gmail.com.

00:30:04.740 If you have a question, comment, concern, hate mail, anything that you, that you have.

00:30:08.740 Um, this is from Ellie.

00:30:10.920 She says, hi, Matt.

00:30:11.860 I'm a homeschooled ninth grade student, and I am involved in a wonderful Christian co-op that I attend once a week.

00:30:17.180 Since first grade, I've been in a cycle of learning about ancient history for one year, medieval history the next year, American history the third year.

00:30:23.840 The cycle still repeats to this day, and I really enjoy it.

00:30:26.440 And, uh, I feel that I'm getting a really thorough education.

00:30:30.440 I've heard from my friends and a few of my family members that the ancient and medieval courses are pointless, and learning about Charlemagne is a waste of time.

00:30:38.000 How would you defend the study of ancient and medieval history, if at all?

00:30:41.980 Thank you for the show.

00:30:42.880 I really enjoy it.

00:30:44.680 Well, hi, Ellie.

00:30:45.580 First of all, it's awesome that you enjoy learning about history.

00:30:47.920 That's a great passion and interest to have, and I think you should cultivate it.

00:30:51.780 I have the same interest myself.

00:30:53.940 Being a history nerd is one of the coolest things you can be.

00:30:57.220 Now, I'm not quite a history nerd.

00:30:58.920 You might be.

00:31:00.060 See, I aspire to be a history nerd.

00:31:02.480 That's kind of, that's a level up.

00:31:04.420 There are basically three levels.

00:31:06.260 There's a history enthusiast, and then you graduate to history nerd, and then you become history buff.

00:31:12.300 So I'm still on the enthusiast level, hoping to make it to nerd and then eventually buff.

00:31:17.120 That's where I'm going.

00:31:18.120 You may be further along than I am already.

00:31:19.860 But I think it's a great thing.

00:31:22.800 As far as learning about the Middle Ages, that's one of the most important and interesting times to learn about.

00:31:31.360 There's this, a lot of people think that nothing happened, and it's sort of this time in history where humanity was at a standstill.

00:31:39.520 And so we could just cut that out and forget about it.

00:31:42.140 But that's not the case at all.

00:31:43.960 I mean, Charlemagne is considered the father of Europe.

00:31:46.200 There are a lot of other really interesting, important, fascinating people.

00:31:49.860 Thomas Aquinas and William Wallace and Joan of Arc and Da Vinci, who was kind of more Renaissance, but still, I think, Leif Erickson, who's a Viking, made it to North America 500 years before Columbus.

00:32:02.740 And then think about all the innovations that came out of the Middle Ages, like one of the most important ever, the printing press and the mechanical clock and gunpowder and eyeglasses.

00:32:12.980 So the next time someone tells you that it's a waste of time to learn about history and to learn about the Middle Ages, then ask them if they think the printing press was a waste of time.

00:32:23.220 Because if it wasn't, then obviously it's not a waste of time to learn about it.

00:32:27.060 So I would encourage you to keep doing that.

00:32:28.740 This is from John.

00:32:30.620 He says, hey, Matt, I really liked your show, especially the ones where you talk about theological and philosophical ideas.

00:32:34.880 I was wondering about what you think the stance of a Christian should be towards meditation, because it is inspired by and is advocated by non-Christian, new agey, and even anti-Christian, like Sam Harris, thought, should Christians avoid meditation?

00:32:51.760 Thanks in advance.

00:32:53.380 I think it depends on the purpose and method of meditation.

00:32:55.920 I think meditation that is meant to sort of empty the mind completely is problematic.

00:33:05.800 As Christians, we know that our minds should be focused on God all the time, not nothingness, not emptiness.

00:33:14.760 But contemplative prayer might be confused with meditation, and it's similar in some ways.

00:33:21.760 But in that, and it could look like a very similar thing, in that it's a very quiet, very still sort of thing.

00:33:29.840 But in that case, you are centering your thoughts and your mind on God.

00:33:35.820 So as I understand it with the new agey type of meditation, it's all about just kind of obliterating the ego and thinking about nothing and just sort of being there, which I think is a problem.

00:33:47.960 But in this case, contemplative prayer, it's about, yeah, you're not thinking about yourself anymore.

00:33:53.820 You're trying to get your thoughts away from yourself and focus them up on God.

00:33:58.220 Rather than just dispersing your thoughts into the ether, you're trying to target them up and focus on something good and holy.

00:34:04.440 So I think that's a good thing.

00:34:05.260 From Luisa, it says,

00:34:07.040 Hi there, Matt.

00:34:07.660 You should be proud to know that a 36-year-old Spaniard thinks your show is pretty great.

00:34:12.320 Even though I don't live in America, almost everything you talk about ends up being relevant to me.

00:34:16.040 The problems we face as conservatives in Europe are not that different from the ones that you face in America.

00:34:20.680 For example, the Spanish government has been pretending we don't have an immigration problem for years now.

00:34:25.980 The poisonous feminist ideology has also led to the destruction of the nuclear family in this country, 1.00

00:34:30.140 and consequently to a dramatic increase in crime rates and people living off welfare benefits.

00:34:35.540 Moral relativism has taken the place of Christian values that are now dismissed as old-fashioned and even oppressive.

00:34:41.120 The pro-choice and the LGBTQYWTF agendas are inseparable and indistinguishable from the liberal lefts, 1.00

00:34:48.700 and they have completely reshaped our society and even infiltrated our public school system.

00:34:53.720 Politicians here have been just as baffled about the fact that the so-called far-right is gaining foothold everywhere in Europe

00:34:58.980 as they were about Trump winning the elections in America.

00:35:01.900 Still, it seems that Europe hasn't had enough of the leftist nonsense just yet.

00:35:05.760 That is just to name a few.

00:35:07.580 Anyway, I've been listening to your podcast from day one, and I love it.

00:35:09.940 I would appreciate if you gave a shout-out to me on one of your shows.

00:35:12.740 You have at least one subscriber in Spain who cares enough to say hi.

00:35:15.780 God bless.

00:35:16.420 Well, here's your shout-out, Luisa, and please keep fighting the fight over there in Spain. 1.00

00:35:19.680 I know that, you know, on the train into insanity and destruction, we're all on the same track,

00:35:28.880 but I think you guys in Europe, you're just a few train cars ahead of us,

00:35:32.880 so we can look over and see what's happening to you, and we know where we're going to be in just a few years.

00:35:39.820 From Luke, he says, Matt, one question.

00:35:41.640 What are your favorite Civil War generals?

00:35:43.420 Well, Luke, I'll give you the best in order, starting at five.

00:35:50.060 Five would be Sheridan.

00:35:51.140 Four would be Nathan Bedford Forrest.

00:35:52.980 Three would be Grant.

00:35:54.020 Two would be Robert E. Lee.

00:35:54.960 And number one would be Stonewall Jackson.

00:35:57.240 And I think you could mix around.

00:35:59.180 Two through five, you can mix and match and move around the order.

00:36:03.280 But number one, I feel very strongly, has to be Stonewall Jackson.

00:36:06.140 I think he did things that no one else could do in the war, or maybe in any war in American history.

00:36:16.860 And he did it with this ragtag group of shoeless farm boys. 1.00

00:36:21.300 You look at just his valley campaign alone, where he maneuvered this small force all over the Shenandoah Valley,

00:36:28.020 marching dozens of miles in a single day, and methodically picking apart these larger armies, winning battle after battle.

00:36:34.760 It's just a thing of beauty.

00:36:36.820 And just, he was a fascinating person and a great military commander.

00:36:45.200 Let's see, I'll do one more.

00:36:46.580 From Joel, he says,

00:36:47.660 Hi, Matt.

00:36:48.240 I thought it was extremely irresponsible to encourage people not to go to college.

00:36:53.320 Often I find your show and you as a person to be hard to stomach and insufferable.

00:36:57.540 But this was the last straw for me.

00:36:59.300 I won't be listening or following anymore. 1.00

00:37:00.880 I think your anti-education stance is idiotic and irresponsible, even for you. 0.99

00:37:06.260 Yes, you got lucky and got to be a blogger for a living, which I'm sure is a fun and easy life. 1.00

00:37:10.480 But the rest of us have real jobs and so we need an education.

00:37:13.660 Now that I mention it, why should anyone listen to you now that you've admitted you have no education?

00:37:20.080 Well, hello, Joel.

00:37:21.540 First of all, you don't have to listen to me.

00:37:24.380 I give you my blessing to leave.

00:37:25.900 I just ask that before you leave, Joel, please just think of the good times we shared.

00:37:31.540 Don't focus on the bad.

00:37:32.860 Don't focus on the way things ended for us.

00:37:35.280 Just think of the good times.

00:37:36.500 That's all I ask.

00:37:37.580 As far as my lack of education, well, I have made the effort to learn things on my own, which you can do.

00:37:45.440 There are things called books.

00:37:47.320 I've got a few back there.

00:37:48.540 And so here's the interesting thing that I discovered is you could pick up a book, right, and the book has what's called information inside it.

00:37:58.660 And it's written on, there's these things called words on this thing called a page, right?

00:38:04.500 And then the words are assembled in such a way as to communicate information.

00:38:09.380 And so what you can do without paying anyone $80,000 is you can just pick up the book and read it and find out the information.

00:38:17.280 It's a really fascinating process you should look into.

00:38:20.940 So I was able to do that.

00:38:22.100 But if you feel that a person cannot really know anything unless they've paid $80,000 to walk in the doors of a building that has the word school written on it,

00:38:31.100 then, again, you have every right to just ignore me. 0.99

00:38:36.260 As far as me being an insufferable idiot, that is a point that I will not dispute. 0.97

00:38:44.540 But thanks for watching anyway. 0.98

00:38:47.540 And thanks, everyone else, for watching.

00:38:48.720 We'll leave it there.

00:38:50.360 Godspeed.

00:38:57.320 I'm Michael Knowles, host of The Michael Knowles Show.

00:38:59.460 As the 2020 race heats up to be a battle over whose mother washed more floors for less money,

00:39:04.060 we ask why victimhood became a substitute for virtue.

00:39:07.360 We'll be joined by Peter Boghossian and Jim Lindsay, authors of the infamous Grievance Studies Experiment. 0.68

00:39:12.920 Lots more to catch up on after that.

00:39:14.420 Check it out at dailywire.com.

00:39:15.800 I want to take care of last.

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00:39:17.100 Thanks, everyone.

00:39:18.960 Thanks for listening.

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 30, 2019

Ep. 187 - Millennials Don’t Like Dealing With Reality

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