The Matt Walsh Show - March 13, 2019


Ep. 217 - The ＂Higher Education＂ Scam Exposed


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47 minutes

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161.07906

Word Count

7,641

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486

Misogynist Sentences

25

Hate Speech Sentences

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, over on the Matt Walsh Show today, we're going to talk about this big, the big news of the college admissions scandal that is rocking the nation, I suppose, right now.
00:00:10.220 Yet, it proves something that we should have known for a long time, which is that higher education is a massive scam.
00:00:16.620 And now that we can see that, what are we going to do about it, is the question.
00:00:20.420 Also, we'll discuss the feminist movement in modern America and why it is, I believe, not only worthless, but harmful, very harmful to the country.
00:00:31.100 And finally, there is some controversial and even, according to some people, scandalous video footage of Mitt Romney that we're going to play for you and talk about as well today over on the Matt Walsh Show.
00:00:44.980 So I just, I watched last night, finally, that Peter Jackson documentary, They Shall Not Grow Old.
00:00:54.900 And it is just stunning, remarkable. It's an achievement.
00:01:00.480 You can't say that about very many films, but it really is an achievement.
00:01:04.260 It's like, it's the closest thing you'll ever experience to going in a time machine, presumably, unless someone actually invents one.
00:01:11.600 So if you're not familiar, the documentary is about World War I, and it follows a group of British soldiers as they, starting at home, and then they enlist and go to basic and then hit the trenches.
00:01:27.080 And the entire film consists of, there's no narration.
00:01:31.780 It consists of interviews with veterans of the war, obviously interviews that were conducted decades ago, and then also archival footage.
00:01:40.980 But this is, you know, a hundred years ago, they didn't have, you couldn't record sound or color.
00:01:46.380 Everything was sped up, grainy, black and white, silent.
00:01:50.500 And so what Jackson and his team did was they, they colorized it, they slowed it down, and then they put sound with it, including hiring lip readers to tell what these men were saying.
00:02:08.220 And then they hired voice actors to dub the original dialogue back in.
00:02:11.540 And the effect is, it's like you're watching, I mean, it's, you're watching actual footage from a hundred years ago, but it's like you're watching a Hollywood film, except it's real.
00:02:25.340 And so it's staggering.
00:02:27.220 I demand that you go watch it.
00:02:29.260 All right, I demand it.
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00:04:26.140 All right, big news out of academia today.
00:04:32.580 50 very rich people have been charged in a bribery scheme wherein they paid to have their children admitted into college, basically,
00:04:43.880 which everyone pays to have their kids admitted into college, but they paid in illegal ways.
00:04:50.100 They paid under false pretenses.
00:04:51.480 These parents paid an admissions consultant who then bribed administrators and coaches and testing officials and so on to get the kids in.
00:05:03.300 They had their kids admitted into school in various different ways by claiming that they were going to join, for instance, the crew team,
00:05:11.060 even if the kids had no experience in the sport and were not actually planning on playing.
00:05:17.560 Let me just, I'll read a bit from the AP article on this.
00:05:20.760 It says,
00:05:21.160 At least nine athletic coaches and 33 parents, many of them prominent in law, finance, or business, were among those charged.
00:05:29.180 Dozens, including Huffman, an actress, were arrested by midday.
00:05:35.600 The coaches worked at such schools as Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, Wake Forest, University of Texas, University of Southern California, and the University of California, Los Angeles.
00:05:45.240 A former Yale soccer coach pleaded guilty and helped build the case against others.
00:05:49.380 Prosecutors said parents paid an admissions consultant from 2011 through last month to bribe coaches and administrators to falsely make their children look like star athletes to boost their chances of getting into college.
00:06:01.900 The consultant also hired ringers to take college entrance exams for the students and paid off insiders at testing centers to alter students' scores.
00:06:11.300 Parents spent anywhere from $200,000 to $6.5 million to guarantee their children's admission, officials said.
00:06:21.340 U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling said for every student admitted through fraud, an honest and genuinely talented student was rejected.
00:06:29.620 Several defendants, including Felicity Huffman, the actress, were charged with conspiracy to commit fraud punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
00:06:38.720 And the case is ongoing.
00:06:41.460 Other parents charged were Gordon Kaplan of Greenwich, Connecticut, co-chairman of an international law firm based in New York, Jane Buckingham, CEO of a boutique marketing company, Gregory Abbott, founder and chairman of a packaging company, Manuel Henriquez, CEO of a finance company.
00:07:04.360 So, a bunch of really rich people, to sum it up, we're doing this.
00:07:10.400 Now, this is an interesting item.
00:07:12.900 This is an interesting news story because, in a way, it brings the left and the right together.
00:07:20.200 It's a very rare news story where both sides at least are furious about it and are outspoken about it and care about it.
00:07:29.660 Right. Because it seems like with most news stories these days, you can't even get an agreement on the two sides that this issue is important.
00:07:40.200 But this is one where both sides agree.
00:07:42.940 And that's largely because it gives both sides an opportunity to go on their favorite tangents.
00:07:50.020 So, for the left, this is about privilege.
00:07:53.400 They're talking about, well, this is a proof of privilege.
00:07:55.320 This is what happens when you have privilege.
00:07:57.160 And for the right, it's about corruption and academia.
00:08:00.340 Now, both sides are right, although the right is more right about this.
00:08:04.960 As far as privilege, yeah, this is indeed about privilege.
00:08:09.160 But it's the privilege of wealth, not race.
00:08:13.200 Manuel Henriquez was one of the people charged, as I mentioned.
00:08:21.280 That doesn't sound like the name of a white guy.
00:08:24.420 I could be wrong, but it doesn't sound like it.
00:08:29.240 So, this is just about money.
00:08:30.820 That's all this is about.
00:08:32.580 If you're rich, you buy your way in.
00:08:35.120 The people getting bribed, you know, they don't care what race you are.
00:08:39.240 The only color they care about is green.
00:08:40.820 If you have the money, then you can do it.
00:08:43.360 That's all that matters.
00:08:44.840 This is a case, actually, that I think undermines the left's general narrative about privilege
00:08:52.200 because it shows that money talks.
00:08:56.220 And that's how privilege works.
00:08:57.980 It's not race.
00:08:58.980 It's just money.
00:09:00.060 If you're rich, then you can do what you want, which we already knew that, right?
00:09:05.060 Now, I don't want to get off on my own irrelevant rant here, but this is what frustrates me about
00:09:11.760 the left's whole narrative about privilege because we could have a worthwhile discussion
00:09:19.420 about privilege and about what it means and all that kind of stuff and about the ways
00:09:27.880 that sometimes wealthy people are able to game the system and so on.
00:09:31.100 I mean, that's a worthwhile thing to talk about, but we have to let go of the idea that it's
00:09:37.480 automatically tied to race because it isn't.
00:09:40.860 A black kid in the inner city in Baltimore has no privilege to speak of.
00:09:45.460 We know that.
00:09:46.080 But I can tell you this.
00:09:47.420 Because a white kid growing up in a trailer park, in a meth-infested trailer park in eastern
00:09:54.320 Kentucky, he doesn't have any privilege either.
00:09:57.640 And there's a very striking clue that the kid in the trailer park has no privilege.
00:10:02.920 You know how you know he has no privilege?
00:10:04.300 Aside from the fact that he has no money and there's drugs all around and his dad's gone
00:10:07.380 and his mother's addicted to drugs, aside from that, it's the fact that society would call
00:10:17.440 him and his family and his entire community white trash.
00:10:23.700 We literally call these people garbage.
00:10:27.300 And it's okay to do that.
00:10:28.820 Nobody bats an eye.
00:10:30.620 No one bats an eye at the phrase white trash, right?
00:10:33.700 Now, if you were to put any other race in front of the word trash, that would be unspeakable
00:10:41.500 racism.
00:10:42.400 But with white people, you could say, yeah, white trash.
00:10:45.220 Think about that phrase, right?
00:10:46.580 White trash.
00:10:48.600 We're calling them garbage simply because of where they live and how much money they have
00:10:56.060 or don't have.
00:10:56.840 And yet, while we call them garbage, we still say that they are the beneficiaries of some
00:11:04.960 kind of invisible privilege.
00:11:06.360 Well, you know, I don't know what kind of privilege there is in being considered garbage
00:11:11.700 by society, but that is privilege that I certainly wouldn't want myself.
00:11:15.760 Well, so if society sees you as actual trash and calls you that, then you ain't got privilege.
00:11:26.320 We just put it that way.
00:11:27.440 That's a good rule of thumb.
00:11:29.500 But I think the problem is that the people who talk about white privilege have simply never
00:11:37.220 seen white poverty.
00:11:39.380 They don't know what it looks like.
00:11:40.620 They've never seen a trailer park, you know, and they haven't seen the hopeless third world
00:11:49.340 conditions that some white kids grow up in, and they assume that all white families live
00:11:53.580 in single family homes in the suburbs, and that's just simply not the case.
00:11:58.140 So anyway, this scandal shows the true nature of privilege, which, as I said, is about money,
00:12:05.220 not about race.
00:12:05.920 And even more so, though, it shows the true nature of modern academia.
00:12:11.380 It shows what I've been saying all along, which is that higher education has turned into a
00:12:18.280 massive scam.
00:12:19.420 Academia is intellectually and morally corrupt from top to bottom.
00:12:24.240 That's the fact.
00:12:25.820 Academia is a business.
00:12:30.760 And they are in the business of making money, as any business is.
00:12:34.360 That's what they care about.
00:12:36.500 Not educating your kids, but making money off of your kids.
00:12:41.660 Of course, you're going to have problems.
00:12:44.280 Once the art of education becomes a billion-dollar business, when that happens, you're going to
00:12:56.040 have corruption and scandal and all of this stuff.
00:12:58.460 And that's just, there's no way around it.
00:13:02.920 And that's where we are.
00:13:03.940 It's where we've been for a long time.
00:13:06.320 And we can see that fact evidenced not just by the manner in which these kids got into these
00:13:12.360 schools, but also by what happened once they got in.
00:13:18.360 Namely, nothing happened.
00:13:20.440 Nothing unusual.
00:13:21.040 I mean, these kids, apparently, they just went along and did fine.
00:13:26.240 You're not reading, from what I've read, these kids didn't fail out.
00:13:30.640 They're not going to flunk out of school because that would defeat the whole purpose.
00:13:35.000 So think about that for a second.
00:13:36.900 They lied their way in, or at least their parents lied for them.
00:13:39.780 Um, I think it's very likely that these kids didn't, had no idea that they were, um, that
00:13:45.100 their parents were doing that.
00:13:47.380 Uh, so, and I, and I do feel badly for these kids as well, that, um, although they're rich
00:13:55.060 and privileged at the same time, they're probably now just now discovering that that's how they
00:14:00.200 got into school.
00:14:00.900 And they thought that they earned their way in and apparently no.
00:14:03.520 Um, so they, they got in without any qualification and the system, if it's, if it's really about
00:14:15.560 education and if it's really about a sort of rigorous academic, um, program, then it should
00:14:26.780 be kind of, it should, it should be able to filter out kids like that.
00:14:30.680 It, it should be able to guard itself against this kind of thing, because if you got in
00:14:38.440 without the academic qualifications, then you should fail out.
00:14:41.580 You shouldn't be able to make it, but, but these kids got in and, and, and they did fine.
00:14:46.040 Um, which shows you that it's not about rigorous academic study.
00:14:49.740 It's just a place where you go and you coast through and you get your degree and you do all
00:14:55.640 this for social status and for credentials, not for actual intellectual enrichment.
00:15:00.680 College is just one big credentialing, credentialing, credentialing.
00:15:06.180 There we go.
00:15:06.740 I can't even say the word, uh, mechanism.
00:15:08.920 It's a mechanism for giving kids credentials and social status.
00:15:11.840 And that's what it is.
00:15:13.220 Lori Loughlin, uh, aunt Becky from full house was indicted as well in this scandal.
00:15:18.360 And she allegedly paid several hundred thousand dollars to get her kids into college.
00:15:23.840 One of those kids, her daughter, um, got into, I think it was USC this way.
00:15:30.500 And that daughter then proceeded to spend her time at college becoming apparently a YouTube
00:15:34.860 star.
00:15:35.780 Uh, she has a YouTube channel where she tries on makeup and stuff.
00:15:39.320 And it's, she's got like 2 million subscribers that watch her, um, try on clothes and different
00:15:45.840 and, and makeup and that sort of thing, which, which by the way, has given me the idea that
00:15:50.200 maybe I should start, maybe I need to start wearing makeup on this show and finally it'll
00:15:53.980 really take off.
00:15:55.440 The numbers will skyrocket, but let me show you just because it's, I think it's, it kind
00:16:01.620 of demonstrates what I'm talking about.
00:16:02.680 Let me show you a little clip of this girl.
00:16:05.900 Um, this is Lori Loughlin, aunt Becky's daughter.
00:16:10.820 Let me show you a little clip of this girl recording one of her YouTube videos.
00:16:14.380 I don't know how much of school I'm going to attend, but I'm going to go in and talk
00:16:17.740 to my deans and everyone and hope that I can try and balance it all.
00:16:21.500 Um, but I do want the experience of like game days, partying.
00:16:25.800 I don't really care about school as you guys.
00:16:28.260 Okay.
00:16:28.660 So she, she's not sure if she's going to go to classes at all.
00:16:33.340 She doesn't really like school.
00:16:35.940 She's thinking about maybe she'll go to class.
00:16:38.740 Maybe she won't, but she wants the experience of, of like game day and parties and stuff.
00:16:46.820 That's what she says.
00:16:48.380 And listen, I'm not trying to single her out, um, for that attitude because that is precisely
00:16:55.140 the attitude that many, probably most kids have when they go to college.
00:16:59.020 For them, for kids, this is the way it works.
00:17:03.140 For the kids, college is about the experience of partying.
00:17:07.420 That's what the kids care about.
00:17:08.300 They, they want the experience, um, for their parents.
00:17:12.120 It's about social status and credentials for the school administrators.
00:17:17.760 It's about money.
00:17:18.820 For many of the professors, it's about ideological indoctrination.
00:17:24.200 The one thing that we're missing here with all these groups is an actual concern for education
00:17:31.040 itself.
00:17:32.520 Few people in any of these groups are worried about education.
00:17:36.100 They all have their different things that they're worried about and that they want out of it,
00:17:40.500 but education has little to do with it.
00:17:44.220 And that's why it's perfectly possible, even, uh, commonplace for kids, kids to go to college
00:17:50.820 and graduate with a degree and learn absolutely nothing the whole time.
00:17:55.380 Why do you think, why is it so easy for, for anyone with a YouTube channel and a camera and a
00:18:03.340 microphone to go to pretty much any college campus and do one of those man on the street
00:18:09.140 interview things where they, uh, where they, you know, quiz random people with these very easy
00:18:15.980 questions and then no one knows the answers and you know, then they can prove how stupid everybody
00:18:20.420 is.
00:18:21.360 Um, well, you see a million of those things on YouTube and so often they're on college campuses.
00:18:26.680 And why is it so easy to do that?
00:18:29.440 If you want to get a million hits on YouTube, you know that all you need to do is, is get like a
00:18:33.140 third grade civics exam and grab your camera and a microphone and go to any college campus
00:18:38.180 and ask these kids, any of these questions and people won't be able to answer it.
00:18:42.660 It shouldn't be that easy.
00:18:45.760 It shouldn't be that easy to find absolute clueless morons on a college campus,
00:18:51.080 but you can because you don't need to be intelligent to get in.
00:18:57.100 You don't need to be hardworking and you don't need to be intelligent or hardworking to graduate.
00:19:02.960 That's the reality.
00:19:03.900 So when are we going to wake up to this?
00:19:07.160 When are we going to, uh, as I've said it a million times, but when are we going to stop
00:19:14.640 playing this game and realize that academia has become a scam, it's corrupt.
00:19:22.440 And so the only way to change anything is like we've been talking about money talks, right?
00:19:30.260 So if we stop giving these people our money, and more importantly, if we stop feeding our
00:19:38.640 children into this system, then maybe there will be some changes.
00:19:43.580 But if we're not willing to do that, if we're not willing to make that change, um, then it's
00:19:51.740 it's just going to go on like this and it's never going to get any better.
00:19:57.520 All right.
00:19:58.040 What else?
00:19:58.720 Uh, let's see.
00:20:00.480 There was this headline on the daily wire.
00:20:02.340 Mothers team up to create a porn film.
00:20:04.780 They want their children to watch.
00:20:06.420 Yeah, I'm not going to even go there.
00:20:10.600 It's just too disturbing.
00:20:12.000 All right.
00:20:12.260 Here's one.
00:20:12.680 Here's one other thing.
00:20:13.480 I talked yesterday about the case of the man who's suing an abortion clinic because his
00:20:19.100 child was aborted against his wishes.
00:20:21.060 And I wanted to go back to that for a second to highlight a point, an important point.
00:20:26.100 Now, the whole reason why this man had to sue in the first place is that his girlfriend was
00:20:34.280 able to kill his child without his consent, right?
00:20:37.540 And so now he's suing and he's so far been able to go forward suing, um, in the, in the
00:20:46.620 place of, of the aborted child.
00:20:48.420 And, but the reason it got to this point is that, as we talked about yesterday, men have
00:20:58.580 no reproductive rights.
00:21:00.580 We hear about this thing of reproductive rights, and this is a whole category of rights that
00:21:07.120 men don't have.
00:21:09.920 Uh, now, now think about that for a second.
00:21:12.680 Human reproduction, as much as the left would like to change this fact, it's still
00:21:18.400 remains the fact that in every case of human reproduction in human history, in the billions
00:21:25.280 of instances of human reproduction, it has always involved a man and a woman in every
00:21:32.080 single case.
00:21:33.780 So men are just as essential to the reproductive act as are women.
00:21:41.280 Yet, we have invented this whole category that we call reproductive rights, and men,
00:21:48.400 don't have any.
00:21:51.180 Can you think of one reproductive right that a man has?
00:21:55.620 He has none.
00:21:57.700 Um, a whole category of rights that men are excluded from.
00:22:04.100 They have no rights as parents until the child is born, and even after the child is born, the
00:22:10.020 fathers still are treated by the law as essentially expendable and replaceable.
00:22:14.100 We all know how it goes in family court.
00:22:17.200 It's, it's, uh, it is a lot, a lot easier for, in the case of, uh, of a divorce or something,
00:22:23.440 it's, it's a lot easier for the woman to be awarded custody of the children than it is for the,
00:22:28.680 for the man.
00:22:29.540 And there are just a million examples of this, and this is the way it goes.
00:22:32.860 Which only affirms, yet again, uh, an important point, which is that women in the United States
00:22:41.400 do not suffer any form of systematic legal oppression.
00:22:49.420 And that only, now that might sound like a bold statement, it only sounds like a bold statement
00:22:56.720 if you've been brainwashed by feminist rhetoric.
00:23:00.420 And you might kind of instinctively, viscerally be taken aback by that.
00:23:07.040 But, but to anyone else, it's, that's incredibly obvious that you cannot provide one example
00:23:14.080 of systematic legal inequalities that, um, that women are subjected to, or women suffer from.
00:23:24.900 Um, you, you cannot think, come up with an example of, of, uh, legal inequality for women.
00:23:35.740 Now, I already gave you, there, there are several examples.
00:23:38.820 I already gave you one of a, of legal inequalities, um, where men are on the losing end of it,
00:23:45.940 where men are legally unequal to women.
00:23:50.120 So I've given you one example of that.
00:23:52.160 It's, it's a pretty profound example where women have the legal right to murder a man's child.
00:24:01.560 So that's one example, but you can't come up with one example on the other end.
00:24:04.460 In fact, the, the only example, and I put this challenge out on Twitter last night,
00:24:08.940 and there were a lot of people reacting to us.
00:24:10.960 Oh, that's crazy.
00:24:11.860 But nobody could come up with an example, except the only example that one person came up with was,
00:24:16.260 um, was that, well, men are allowed to, uh, to walk around topless and women can't.
00:24:23.600 So, okay.
00:24:24.160 Now, in many places in the country, that's not the case anymore.
00:24:27.840 And in fact, in, in, in, um, you know, in most places you go, everyone is expected to keep their
00:24:34.400 shirts on, but it is true that there are some, you know, uh, counties and, and, and towns where,
00:24:40.660 especially on, on, if you go to the beach or something, men cannot have their shirts on and women
00:24:44.340 are supposed to wear a shirt. So fine. I'll get, so there you go. If, if that's the,
00:24:48.600 that's the one thing left, right? That's the one example of legal inequality is that women are
00:24:52.740 expected to keep their shirts on in, in many places still in America. Uh, so you got that,
00:24:57.340 but that is just so incredibly outweighed by the fact that yes, well, women are supposed to keep
00:25:04.280 their shirts on legally, but they also have the power to kill human beings. Uh, so I think it's
00:25:10.620 something that outweighs it so much that it doesn't even count. Um, still the fact remains
00:25:18.280 that at the very least we would have to agree that the deck is stacked heavily in favor of women
00:25:23.900 didn't used to be that way. Of course it was, it was only a hundred years ago that women couldn't vote,
00:25:32.140 but that has all changed. And it, it, it has, uh, been changed for a long time now, which is why
00:25:42.540 the feminist movement is utterly, completely worthless. And I think it's, um, crucial for us
00:25:53.200 to understand this because you still hear sometimes from conservatives who say that, uh, say, well,
00:25:59.540 you know, yeah, the, the feminist movement now has gone off the rails and everything, but
00:26:04.480 they're still fighting for something important. And so we need to reclaim feminism or whatever.
00:26:10.020 Um, no, we don't need to reclaim it. It is a worthless movement because it has nothing left
00:26:17.540 to fight for. And this is just one of the, it's, it's so true that it's become a cliche that, that
00:26:24.580 after a movement has achieved what it set out to achieve, if it sticks around, if it doesn't go
00:26:32.020 away, if it sticks around, then it will become right. It becomes a racket. It becomes a scam.
00:26:37.460 Um, and that's what's happened with feminism.
00:26:43.300 A hundred years ago, they were fighting for real legal equality. Now they have it. And now there's just
00:26:49.140 nothing, there's nothing left. And so they're marching around with genitalia on their head and
00:26:55.700 they're doing this and that. And, and, uh, yeah, maybe they make a big deal out of something like,
00:27:00.820 oh, men are allowed to have their shirts off, you know, that kind of thing, because they've got
00:27:04.260 nothing, they've got no other battles left to fight. Um, which is why the feminist movement,
00:27:11.300 I think from, from rational people, the feminist movement at this point is owed nothing but
00:27:18.020 contempt. Um, and primarily because when I say it's worthless, it's worse, it's much worse than
00:27:25.060 worthless because actually what is the primary thing that the feminist movement now fights for?
00:27:30.900 And that is to protect its right to kill human beings, which makes it worse than worthless. It is
00:27:37.700 actually an evil, um, uh, movement. Finally, this is very important. Um, I want you to watch something.
00:27:51.140 Mitt Romney had a birthday yesterday. So happy birthday to Mitt Romney. I don't know how old he
00:27:56.020 turned. And there is footage from his birthday celebration that has confused and disturbed the
00:28:04.660 nation. And so, first of all, watch this to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.
00:28:23.700 Oh my goodness. What I've always wanted. Look at that. Holy cow. That's fantastic. Wow. What are you guys gonna have?
00:28:34.340 Look at this. This is never gonna work, is it? Don't burn yourself. These are, these are all wishes I'm getting.
00:28:48.340 All these wishes. Paige, Paige made it. Paige designed it. No, really? It's beautiful. Are you kidding? Paige, did you do this?
00:29:00.340 You are sick.
00:29:03.940 That's the first time I've heard that. Goodness gracious. Look at this. Wow. Glad I haven't had
00:29:10.820 breakfast yet. Now, let's leave aside the fact that he's eating a Twinkie cake. Uh, Twinkies are,
00:29:16.580 of course, completely revolting. They're like moldy sponges injected with off-brand Ready Whip or something.
00:29:22.500 But the thing that most people are focusing on is the fact that he, that he, the way that he blew out
00:29:29.060 the candles, um, he took each candle off the cake, right? And he blew it out individually, uh, which
00:29:34.980 I've never seen anyone do that before. And he's being attacked across the nation for this, for the
00:29:40.740 way that he blew out the candles. I saw on Twitter, someone said that he, he blows out candles like a
00:29:46.420 serial killer. Now maybe he does. I, I'm not, I'm not, I don't really know how serial killers
00:29:52.180 typically, um, deal with birthday candles. Maybe that's how they do it. But I will say this serial
00:30:00.420 killer or not. Um, I think that Mitt Romney by blowing the candles out that way has proven
00:30:06.980 that he is a visionary and a humanitarian. Um, it is about time that people stop blowing their
00:30:17.460 rancid, disgusting spittle all over perfectly good cakes. Why has it, it is the year 2019
00:30:26.940 and we are still doing this. Think about the whole concept of blowing on a pastry item before you share
00:30:36.260 it with a whole group of people. You're saying like, like, hang on a second. Um, uh, I'm going
00:30:42.180 to distribute some of my mouth particles on this cake before here. I put some extra flu virus on this
00:30:47.080 slice of cake. Have some of that. This is how we, this, this is how you spread disease. This, this is
00:30:54.440 how people get the plague is through this kind of thing. How would you react if you were going to
00:31:01.400 Outback Steakhouse and your, your waiter brought out your steak and before he handed it to you,
00:31:07.440 he said, Hey, hold on a second. It's disgusting off. It's, it's, and it's, it's the worst with kids.
00:31:16.640 Have you ever been to a, you ever seen like a three-year-old blow out candles on a cake?
00:31:22.580 My son, when he blows out candles on a cake, he essentially just hawks a loogie on the cake.
00:31:27.660 That's what he does. He puts out the candles by spitting on it and people still eat the cake.
00:31:31.740 Like no one's bothered by this. Have you ever been to a toddler's birthday party?
00:31:35.840 And the worst thing there is that all the kids want to blow out the candles. So it ends up being
00:31:39.280 this free for all. And all the kids are blowing their mucus. They're basically frosting the cake
00:31:45.600 with their mucus. And then everyone eats it and no one is just, I'm the only one. Everyone is like,
00:31:51.820 Oh yeah, give me some of that. And I'm standing in the back like, Oh my. So of course every birthday
00:31:56.260 party. Now I bring a CSI kit with a blacklight and I take it out and I, you know, first I say,
00:32:00.220 everyone back up. I inspect the cake and I say, give me that. And I noticed there's one little
00:32:04.340 corner without any mucus. Give me that corner right there. Um, so that's what I do. And sometimes
00:32:10.120 I'll bring, if, if that's not good enough, I'll also bring a backup cake that I keep in the trunk.
00:32:15.000 Uh, and worse, worse comes to worse. I'll go out and eat the cake in the trunk. Uh, because of course,
00:32:19.480 I'm not going to give up the cake. I'm not crazy. I'm just saying, I'm not going to eat someone's spit.
00:32:23.440 So you know what? Maybe Mitt Romney is setting an example for all of us to follow. And I want you
00:32:34.560 to think about this. Everyone says, well, you got to blow out all the candles in one breath for good
00:32:39.040 luck or whatever. Uh, no, well, it might be good luck for you. Okay. And that's fine. But you just
00:32:45.440 gave everybody else bronchitis. So congratulations, you sociopath. Happy birthday. All right. Um,
00:32:57.160 let's check some emails. Matt wall show at gmail.com. Matt wall show at gmail.com. Uh,
00:33:04.260 some interesting ones today. We'll go first to Joel who says, hi, Matt. Really enjoy the show. I was
00:33:10.760 recently in a discussion with someone about the accuracy of the Bible. And they made a point that
00:33:16.320 I, did I answer this one yesterday? No, I don't think I did. Um, they made a point that I thought
00:33:21.880 I'd, I'd like your opinion on. He said that the Bible stories, uh, we were talking specifically about
00:33:26.280 the gospels were transmitted orally before they were written down. He said that the transmission of
00:33:32.400 stories orally is like the telephone game. The story changes over time. There's no way for us to
00:33:39.340 know if the story written down in the gospels is the same as the first time it was told.
00:33:43.680 How would you respond to that? Thank you for the question, Joel. This is a pretty common meme,
00:33:51.420 um, common argument from, from often from atheists. Bart Ehrman, the atheist New Testament scholar
00:33:59.560 uses this analogy a lot. Um, and, um, that's probably might be where your atheist friend got it.
00:34:07.900 Ehrman says that, uh, that the stories about Jesus were told, they were passed down, uh, through,
00:34:15.380 through spoken word for decades and they necessarily would have changed with the telling much like the
00:34:20.580 telephone game. Now I'm kind of surprised when smart guys like Ehrman use this analogy of the
00:34:27.140 telephone game because it's, it's completely, uh, without basis. And I'll explain why, but first we
00:34:36.320 have to, um, we have to say that we can't, the easy answer for Christians is to say, well, no, because
00:34:44.560 first of all, the gospels were written by eyewitnesses. And second, they had the Holy Spirit telling them
00:34:50.040 what happened, uh, um, helping to keep it accurate. Right. And so that's, that's the easy answer that
00:34:57.820 probably most Christians would go with. And it's true. Well, two of the gospels were written by
00:35:03.100 eyewitnesses. The other two, uh, Mark and Luke were, were not, but it's also true that we don't know
00:35:10.460 exactly what the process of inspiration looked like or, or what it consisted of. And it's probably
00:35:21.160 not as straightforward as God literally speaking the words audibly into the ears of, uh, you know,
00:35:30.100 Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and then them sort of just being typists for God, uh, transcribing
00:35:36.100 what he said. It seems that inspiration worked through a more human process, which is not
00:35:43.580 surprising because that's, that's the way that God in our own experience in life, right? That's
00:35:49.180 how God seems to always work is through, is through, um, is through a human process. Um,
00:35:56.380 and what I mean is that if you read the gospels side by side, especially if you read a parallel gospel
00:36:01.880 translation, which I would recommend going out and getting one of those very interesting where you,
00:36:05.660 it gives you the, uh, usually be the synoptics, um, it gives you each passage, you know, side by side
00:36:11.940 with all with the other three. And you see rather inescapably that, um, one of these gospels, probably
00:36:18.280 Mark was written first and the others used it as a source. In fact, Luke even says in the preamble to
00:36:26.360 his gospel that he, that he used sources. He doesn't say he used Mark's gospel, but, but he does say
00:36:32.040 that he interviewed people and he, um, you know, collected all the best information and that's
00:36:37.620 how he's writing his gospel. So we already know that that's how it's, it says it right there in
00:36:41.560 the text. And we know because, um, we know that because there, there are whole sections of, of
00:36:48.300 Matthew and Mark and Luke that are verbatim the same. And then there are sections that are very
00:36:55.400 different, which is what you would expect if Matthew was using Mark and then also using other
00:37:01.320 sources and also using his own recollections. So that's what Matthew looks exactly as you would
00:37:07.380 expect it to look. If that's, if that was the process, uh, for writing the gospel of Matthew
00:37:13.460 with the Holy spirit guiding the process, but not in such a way as to make Matthew basically a puppet
00:37:20.680 who almost against his will is just moving his hand across the papyrus, right? So the point is
00:37:27.640 it's perfectly possible, even likely that the gospel writers, especially Mark and Luke did use for some
00:37:36.020 of their stories, oral tradition. That's a, you know, to me, that seems almost certain that that's part of
00:37:43.580 what happened. Um, but this doesn't mean that the oral tradition was changed or mutated and the
00:37:56.040 telephone game is an absurd comparison. And I think the people who use this comparison, at least the
00:38:01.300 scholarly educated ones who use it, they know that it's a bad comparison because they know that, um,
00:38:09.400 the whole point of the telephone game is to change the message, right? The rules of the game are set
00:38:16.720 in such a way as to make it so that the message changes. It wouldn't, the game wouldn't be any fun
00:38:22.340 if, uh, if you, you, you transmitted the message accurately. In fact, I will fully admit that I wouldn't
00:38:30.540 admit it at this, this at the time, but when I was a kid and we played the telephone game,
00:38:33.860 when the message got to me, I would intentionally change it to make it funnier. And so I would all
00:38:40.820 basically, no matter what any, no matter what the message was, I would always hear something
00:38:45.680 involving poop. And then I would transmit that because everything is funnier when you put poop
00:38:50.540 into it, obviously. So that's the way the telephone game works. Oral tradition, especially in an oral
00:38:57.660 culture, um, does not work that way. It's not like you're only allowed to say it once and you have to
00:39:03.040 whisper it to one person and then they can only whisper to, that's not the way it works. Uh, it
00:39:07.580 would be, there would be, you know, um, it was done in such a way as to try to maximize accuracy,
00:39:15.740 not minimize it. And you tried not to change the story. And also, um, most historians who've looked
00:39:23.200 at this know that, uh, people in these oral, you know, these cultures of oral tradition, they,
00:39:30.280 they had methods, they had, you know, strategies for how they memorize these things. And they also
00:39:35.200 just had better memories for it than we do. Uh, we don't have to have great memories because we have
00:39:41.540 everything written down because we're a literate culture. So everything is written down. So you
00:39:46.180 don't need to remember it. Um, but that wasn't the way it was for them. So if you wanted to know
00:39:51.880 your history, you, you had to remember it. It was something like, you know, like 98% of the people
00:39:58.440 back in that time. And in that part of the world, couldn't, couldn't read and write. So
00:40:03.340 if they wanted to know anything and, and, um, be informed about their own culture and their own
00:40:09.900 history, they, they had to remember it. So, you know, I, I just think that that comparison is,
00:40:14.960 uh, is a little ridiculous. Let's see, uh, from Jerry says, Matt, I'm sorry, but I have to tell you
00:40:22.480 that your show is definitely caps lock the worst show on the daily wire. I don't know how you still
00:40:27.620 have a job. It's a mystery to both of us, Jerry. I don't know how either. I honestly, um, if you
00:40:33.080 can even call this a job, which I mean, which it really, it isn't from Aaron says, hello, I was
00:40:38.340 listening to your show today. And it reminded me once again, that I have an amazing husband. You
00:40:43.080 were discussing the selfishness of a man that wrote that he regretted having his son. I already knew
00:40:47.280 that my husband was awesome, but this discussion brought it to the front of my thoughts. When I met my
00:40:52.120 husband, I was a single mom of three kids shortly after he and I were married. We had a set of
00:40:55.480 twins. My husband went from zero kids to five in less than a year. Uh, that, you know, I was bragging
00:41:01.740 about going from zero kids to two with our twins, but that's a, I can't compete with that. Even
00:41:06.620 though three of the kids are not biologically his, he supports them spiritually, emotionally,
00:41:10.780 and financially as if they were his own. He and I now have six children and feel very blessed.
00:41:15.740 I think sometimes women are busy mothering and taking our husbands for granted. At least I know I'm
00:41:20.240 guilty of this. Thanks for all you do. My husband and I are big fans. I would appreciate a shout
00:41:25.100 out to my awesome husband and father of my children. His name is Monty. Shout out to, uh,
00:41:29.800 to Monty. I think that's great. Real man. You've found yourself there, Aaron. And I also think it's
00:41:35.180 great that you're showing gratitude to your husband. This is, I've talked about it before, but
00:41:38.060 I think, um, this is certainly one of the top three most important things in a marriage is,
00:41:46.500 is gratitude from both parties towards the other, uh, and just recognizing their contributions.
00:41:53.520 And as you said, we get lost in the, in the day-to-day stuff. And, um, it's very easy to lose
00:42:00.380 sight of what the other person is doing. Uh, so I think it's great that you're remembering that
00:42:05.960 and acknowledging it. This is from Heath. He says, today, my friend brought up a pretty good
00:42:10.500 topic on if Christians are allowed to kill during wartime. This came up when we were talking about
00:42:16.480 the bombs dropped in Japan and how many civilians died. I don't believe citizens should die during
00:42:21.120 war, but I also don't think that an evil empire like Japan during World War II should have military
00:42:25.180 control over other territories and mistreat its civilians. My friend doesn't believe that we
00:42:30.740 should kill anyone in war on the opposing side, but I disagree. The topic reminded me of the movie
00:42:35.100 Hacksaw Ridge, where the soldier during World War II was a conscientious objector and became a medic,
00:42:40.440 but didn't kill anyone. My question is, is it a sin to kill a soldier from the opposing side of war,
00:42:45.220 especially when they are part of an evil regime? I would say, um, absolutely not. Um,
00:42:52.760 the, the concept of just the just war theory has been developed by Christians over the,
00:43:01.380 over the centuries and the millennia. Um, and it's been with rare exceptions of, I think, you know,
00:43:10.420 Hacksaw Ridge, great movie as well. But in that case, the, um, and I'm blanking on his name, but
00:43:17.520 a real, a real man, a hero that the movie was based around, but, and he was, I believe, a Quaker,
00:43:24.040 I think. But so, so he was, you know, there, there have been some small, um, subdivisions of
00:43:30.560 Christianity that have been conscientious objectors have been, uh, you know, have, have believed that
00:43:36.280 all violence is wrong, but the predominant thought throughout Christian history has been that,
00:43:42.720 um, you know, killing and self-defense is perfectly morally justified and waging a war, um, as long as
00:43:52.040 it's for just reasons. And I think that it would be very hard to argue that World War II on the ally
00:43:59.600 side was waged for unjust reasons. It was clearly, uh, waged, uh, not just to, to, to stop the mass
00:44:08.500 slaughter of innocent people, but also to stop this evil empire from taking, from literally taking over
00:44:14.020 the world. Um, so I think that's pretty, pretty clearly a case of just killing. Now you lump the,
00:44:22.340 it sounds like you're lumping the nuclear, uh, strikes on Japan into that. And that is sort of a
00:44:30.060 different, sort of a different topic entirely. It's sort of, it's a different question. You,
00:44:36.300 you could certainly arrive at the conclusion that, um, you could certainly arrive at the conclusion
00:44:42.480 that it's perfectly justified to wage war, but then also arrive at the conclusion that dropping a nuclear
00:44:50.940 bomb on a city and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians is also wrong. Uh, you know, those two
00:44:57.780 things don't necessarily go together. All right. Um, let's see from Jason. Hi, Matt. I have a very
00:45:04.200 important question for you. Do you listen to music? If so, I'd like to ask what are your all-time
00:45:09.180 favorite songs? I'd like to ask what your all-time favorite songs are, but I know that that can be a
00:45:14.280 hard question instead. It is a hard question because it changes for me. I mean, you'd have to add changes
00:45:18.540 by the day, really. Um, instead I'll be more specific. What are the five most recently played
00:45:23.500 songs on your iTunes playlist or Spotify slash Pandora, et cetera? First of all, Jason, I do
00:45:29.240 listen to music. Uh, I am a human contrary to popular belief. What kind of human doesn't,
00:45:35.000 is there anyone who doesn't listen to music? Just doesn't like any kind of music at all, period.
00:45:39.840 Uh, I, if there is that kind of human, I'm certainly not that now as most recently played songs,
00:45:46.660 not most played songs is what you want. Well, I actually can answer that because I was,
00:45:52.380 I was, uh, over the weekend, I was driving, I had a kind of a long drive through the country on Sunday
00:45:57.660 and it was beautiful day. And so I was playing my, um, driving through the country on a Sunday,
00:46:05.200 uh, playlist, which we all have a playlist, right? That. So, so I, so most recently played would have
00:46:11.540 been, um, Jolene by Ray LaMontagne, great song, Angel from Montgomery, Old Crow Medicine Show,
00:46:18.460 which is a, uh, a cover of, uh, John Prine, I believe. Young Fathers by Typhoon, uh, Rising Water
00:46:25.860 by James Vincent Gamora, and Red Eyes by The War on Drugs. So kind of a weird collection.
00:46:32.780 Oh, it doesn't, that's a, that was my phone talking to me. Uh, a weird, I think my phone
00:46:41.800 heard me say the war on drugs and said, that doesn't sound good. My phone is a libertarian,
00:46:47.200 I guess. Anyway, uh, weird collection of songs, but you know, it's, it's, uh, that's, I'm kind
00:46:52.820 of a weird guy, I guess. We'll leave it there. Thanks for watching everybody. Thanks for listening.
00:46:56.340 Godspeed.
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