The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 283 - Santa Claus Sanders Wants To Get Rid Of Student Debt

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Santa Claus Sanders wants to forgive all student debt and make college

00:00:05.240 free for everyone magically. What are the problems with this idea? Well, there are too many to list,

00:00:10.480 but we'll try to get through as many as we can today on the show. Also, the NBA is getting rid

00:00:14.860 of the term owner because that term is racist, apparently. And they're replacing that term

00:00:19.760 with a new term that is the weirdest and stupidest replacement you could possibly imagine. 0.99

00:00:26.940 We'll talk about that today and read your emails on the Matt Wall Show. 0.91

00:00:35.320 All right, let's start with this real quick, because this is too good and I have to play it

00:00:38.960 for you right away. I just I can't wait. Chicago police. Well, they're they're going to spend the

00:00:44.160 next year probably embarrassing Jussie Smollett with releases and leaks and information about the

00:00:51.440 case. And it will be and has been a well-deserved public shaming. This one is is pretty good. They

00:00:59.320 released the body cam footage from when they first came to Smollett's house and they have footage of

00:01:05.420 him still with the rope around his neck. And it's it's even more absurd than you imagined that it would

00:01:13.680 be. Because remember that after Smollett paid the two dudes to jump him, he he then they put the

00:01:20.560 rope around his neck. He kept the rope on like it was a necklace and just went home and waited for

00:01:26.660 the cops to arrive with the with the rope still on. So here's Smollett with the rope.

00:01:30.660 Come on in, sir. Any weapons or anything inside the apartment?

00:01:34.540 No, nothing like the y'all coming. No, I just don't want my neighbors to do it.

00:01:36.960 Okay.

00:01:38.700 So, so I explained to them how you were going to get something in. And the reason I'm calling

00:01:43.700 because it's a horrible, so I'm forgetting. Okay.

00:01:47.580 Do you want to take it off or anything? Yeah, I do. I just want to go out and see.

00:01:50.540 Yeah, that's right.

00:01:51.980 Show us your hand point. I want to email. There's a bleach on me.

00:01:55.220 We're a bleach on me.

00:01:56.240 Okay.

00:01:58.620 You're filming us, right?

00:01:59.720 If you want, if it's in this house.

00:02:05.140 They're filming you.

00:02:07.220 You're being audio and reading.

00:02:08.480 Audio. Yeah, I guess when I, I mean, they didn't know when they were walking.

00:02:11.860 It's in the hour. Okay, so can we turn it off?

00:02:15.100 Yeah, you're giving us permission to shut it off.

00:02:19.560 So that's, that's something else. And that's a, one thing you notice about that rope is that

00:02:24.780 it's a glistening white brand new rope. 0.90

00:02:27.660 This wasn't, you know, you imagine a couple of racist rednecks, if they were attacking people 0.95

00:02:34.120 with a rope and they would grab some old dirty rope from the shed or something. This is a, 0.95

00:02:38.920 this is a rope that obviously someone just picked up from the hardware store, like, you know,

00:02:43.440 a half hour before, which is exactly what happened. But anyway, I tell you, now here's the interesting

00:02:48.920 thing about that video. That video proves conclusively that it was a hoax. Now we already

00:02:54.160 knew that it was a hoax, obviously, but if you didn't know, if there was any doubt in your mind,

00:02:59.500 well, you could put that doubt to rest because there is no way that two racist dudes would attack

00:03:05.600 a guy who's wearing a sweater like that. Did you see that sweater? There's just, because the racist

00:03:10.980 dudes would assume that a guy wearing that sweater has to be white, even if he doesn't look

00:03:16.320 white. I mean, there's, there's gotta be a white guy. There's no way a non-white guy would wear a 0.95

00:03:20.740 sweater like that. Now I personally, I'm not making fun of the sweater. I liked the sweater

00:03:24.140 personally, but case in point, right? I'm more of the white, whitest dudes you'll ever meet. 0.64

00:03:29.640 And I have very white taste. I mean, I love corny, ugly sweaters. Um, so that's just the whitest 0.98

00:03:36.040 sweater I've ever seen. And I'm thinking that as soon as cops laid eyes on that sweater, they said,

00:03:42.980 this is fake. No way, no way you wear a sweater like that. You're not getting attacked by racist,

00:03:48.260 just not happening. All right. Um, now a lot to talk about, including Bernie Sanders just unveiled

00:03:55.240 his plan to, uh, give free college to everyone and to, and to erase student debt, free college. I

00:04:02.760 mean, this guy is Santa Claus, uh, just giving out free stuff to everyone. We'll talk about that in a

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00:05:30.080 All right. Uh, so yesterday, Bernie Sanders unveiled a plan to cancel all student debt,

00:05:37.860 cancel, just get rid of it. Like it never happened. Magical, just like that. Um, here's from CNN.

00:05:44.400 It says the new legislation would cancel $1.6 trillion of student loan undergraduate and graduate

00:05:49.700 debt for approximately 45 million people. His ambitious plan, that's one way of putting it,

00:05:54.760 has no eligibility limitations, limitations and will be paid for with a new tax on wall street

00:06:01.260 speculation. The proposal goes further than the plan previously unveiled by his democratic primary

00:06:07.940 rival Senator Elizabeth Warren. Her debt relief package would, would, uh, was subject to income 1.00

00:06:13.300 eligibility levels to determine how much relief the average person would receive under the Sanders plan.

00:06:19.320 If you have student debt of any kind, it would be canceled. The second legislation is signed into law.

00:06:24.840 So if you are, uh, you know, a rich doctor, um, your, your debt is getting canceled just the same way

00:06:35.060 that it would if you were, you know, uh, working at, uh, uh, McDonald's because the degree didn't exactly

00:06:41.720 do for you what you thought it would do. Either way, it's being treated the same. And this is the

00:06:46.960 competition that we're going to see now between the socialists and the democratic party, which is

00:06:52.500 basically all of them at this point, uh, whether they're professed socialists or not, the competition

00:06:57.180 is someone offers free stuff and then someone else says, Oh, you know what? I'll see that and

00:07:02.940 I'll give you more free stuff. And then the next person, but I'll give you even more free stuff.

00:07:06.660 And that's going to be, there's going to be a debate. We're going to have two debates this week,

00:07:09.640 democratic debates. Um, uh, I think on NBC tomorrow night and Thursday, and that's really what the entire

00:07:16.780 debate is going to be. My, my opponent says that he's going to give you free stuff, but I actually

00:07:22.240 will give you that free stuff and also more free stuff. And that's going to be the whole, the whole

00:07:26.700 argument. Now, if you think he's actually going to pay for all of this with a tax on wall street,

00:07:32.800 you are stupid. Um, no offense. Keep in mind that he wants to forgive student debt and make college 1.00

00:07:44.040 free for everyone. That's so there's 1.6 trillion dollars of student debt still outstanding in this

00:07:49.080 country. Sanders wants to pay for that by taxing wall street. He says he's going to raise 2.2

00:07:53.540 trillion dollars in 10 years, but then he also wants to make college free for everyone forever.

00:08:00.040 Well, that only leaves $600 billion to make college free for everyone forever. And it's going to cost a

00:08:06.000 hell of a lot more than $600 billion. Now $600 billion is a lot of money, but it's going to cost a lot

00:08:12.280 more than that. He can't just wave his wand and make college free for everyone. These colleges are,

00:08:18.340 are, uh, staffed by people, administrators, professors, janitors, coaches, et cetera.

00:08:24.540 These colleges have utility needs, maintenance needs. Um, many of them have, have huge stadiums to

00:08:29.900 maintain. Uh, you got the dorms. Yeah. I mean, it's just, there, there are hundreds of expenses,

00:08:35.280 thousands of expenses, significant expenses go into running a college, especially a really big college.

00:08:41.580 Um, all of those expenses are not going to be erased. Right now. I think it's probably true that

00:08:50.760 a lot of college administrators, especially get paid, um, way more than they should. But unless you're

00:09:00.060 thinking of slave labor, unless you're going to force people to teach at college and work out, you got

00:09:04.800 to pay them. Where's that money going to come from? Well, I'll give you the answer. The money's going

00:09:11.240 to come from you and me. I totally believe that wall street, the, the big, bad, rich people like

00:09:18.580 Bernie Sanders himself, who's a millionaire are going to carry a large portion of the burden, but

00:09:24.740 they're not going to carry all of it. They can't. So this is going to fall on you and me.

00:09:29.420 Don't fall for this wall street nonsense for a second. This money will come out of your pocket

00:09:35.820 and mine, and there's no way around it. You know, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a good point 1.00

00:09:40.620 about all this yesterday. Um, unintentionally good. I mean, the, she made the good point was the

00:09:47.100 opposite of the point she was trying to make, but here she is yesterday talking about free college.

00:09:52.520 Watch this. I think so much about this moment when I was in college and, uh, I was mentoring this girl

00:10:00.620 that this young woman, her name was Andrea. She was about three or four years younger than me,

00:10:05.180 but I was about 19 years old and she was in high school and she had gotten into all of these

00:10:10.760 prestigious universities, but she was given no, uh, student loan assistance, no real student. She was

00:10:17.960 given no, um, scholarships. All of her student aid was presented to her in the form of loans and she

00:10:25.640 came from a solid middle-class family. She was not exceedingly wealthy. And, uh, and so she really,

00:10:33.480 she got into her dream college, but her dream college offered her no scholarships, just loans.

00:10:39.160 And she truly felt at 16, 17 years old, she felt that the decision of college was so important that she

00:10:46.440 felt that she needed to consider taking on $250,000 worth of debt. Okay. So the girl, um,

00:10:55.400 wanted to go to her dream college, but she didn't get any scholarships. So she decided to take on $250,000

00:11:03.320 of debt so she could go to her dream college. Well, why did she need to take on that debt in order to go to

00:11:13.840 college? See, this isn't a sob story about someone who couldn't go to any college. He didn't have any

00:11:19.840 money. This is, I think, uh, Cortez described her as solidly middle class, which means probably upper 0.99

00:11:27.360 middle class. And, uh, she wanted to go to her dream college, $250,000. There are many ways to go to

00:11:35.220 college that will not cost anywhere close to $250,000. You could go to a community college for two years,

00:11:43.260 transfer to a state school, and you could do it for much, much, much, much less than $250,000.

00:11:50.940 She took on that debt because she wanted specifically to go to her dream school.

00:11:57.900 But here's the thing, your dream version of anything, dream school, dream car, dream house,

00:12:04.360 dream vacation, um, is going to be extremely expensive. That's why it's a dream.

00:12:11.480 Most people never have their dream anything. Most people go their whole lives and they never have

00:12:18.880 their dream, uh, version of any particular thing. Most people, if they ever go on their dream vacation,

00:12:26.920 they do it when they're retired and they have less expenses and they've saved up and that's when they

00:12:32.560 do their dream thing. Uh, my dream bottle of bourbon cost two, $2,000 on the secondary market.

00:12:39.800 I'm probably not ever going to buy that bottle of bourbon. I'm never going to spend $2,000 on a

00:12:45.180 bottle of bourbon. So it remains a dream. It's just something that I can lay my head on my pillow at

00:12:50.300 night and fall, fall asleep dreaming of that, uh, of that bourbon. Um, that's, that's why, again,

00:12:58.380 we call it a dream. So for most people, in fact, everyone, here's the thing. We all have our dream

00:13:09.860 thing, right? Our dream house, dream vacation, dream, whatever. Most anyone could have their dream

00:13:19.440 thing if they had the money for it. That's the situation we're all in. But most people, what they

00:13:25.140 do is they realize they don't have the money for it. And so they don't buy that thing.

00:13:33.020 Um, if you buy your dream thing, even though you didn't have the money for it, that's your fault.

00:13:41.580 That's wasteful and honestly selfish. And that's on you. It's not on anybody else.

00:13:49.820 There are, there are worst, uh, there are worse sob stories than the one that

00:13:56.900 Cortez shared with us. People who are crushed by hundreds of thousand dollars of debt. Um,

00:14:04.260 uh, you know, people who, people who are crushed by, by debt or maybe not hundreds of thousands.

00:14:10.600 You know, generally, if you're crushed by hundreds of thousands, this isn't the case for everyone, but

00:14:14.440 you know, if you want to become a doctor, go to medical school. Well, that's going to, it's not

00:14:20.480 about going to your dream school. It's just, you want to be a doctor. We do need doctors and you're

00:14:24.440 going to take on hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt. And I, I agree. That's too much. That's

00:14:28.180 crazy. Uh, so I do feel for people in that position, but there are a lot of people that they

00:14:35.160 want to go to that really expensive college, not because they have any particular career in mind,

00:14:40.660 but just because it's prestigious, uh, maybe that's where their rich friends are going. They

00:14:45.080 want to be able to tell people they went there. Uh, they just want the experience of it. I mean,

00:14:49.500 that's why a lot of people spend that kind of money on college. And so that's a sob story that

00:14:55.460 just really doesn't do it for me. Um, here's, here's, here's the problem with this student loan

00:15:04.720 forgiveness stuff. The real victims are going to be the people who made responsible choices.

00:15:14.620 That's, those are the real victims. And we'll talk about that in a moment, but first I want to tell

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00:17:23.480 the real victims of loan forgiveness are the responsible people, people who made the sacrifices

00:17:32.020 to actually pay their back, their loans, people who've spent, you know, a hundred thousand dollars

00:17:36.820 over the last 20 years, paying back those loans, paying them on time, being responsible or people

00:17:42.680 like myself who didn't go to college at all because we couldn't afford it. And instead we

00:17:47.040 chose a different path in life. We made sacrifices and we struggled and we made something of ourselves

00:17:51.660 in spite of that. And to now just come in and erase all of that debt and especially to do it

00:17:57.060 by using our money. Well, that is incredibly unjust and immoral. And I'll tell you something,

00:18:03.820 if you're going to do that, I want reparations. Okay. I'm lining up. Everyone's lining up for

00:18:08.260 reparations. I'm lining up. I want my reparations. I, as I said, I didn't go to college because

00:18:12.640 I couldn't afford it. I've been paying off my wife's loans for the last eight years. Okay.

00:18:17.900 Me as the person who doesn't have the college degree, I'm supporting a family of five, paying

00:18:22.620 for a house, paying for two cars, paying for my wife's loans as well. I want financial compensation

00:18:29.720 for that. I want compensation for all of the money that I've been spending on, on my wife's loans. 0.93

00:18:35.040 I want compensation for that. And I want compensation because I, I, uh, for foregoing

00:18:41.760 a college degree, I couldn't afford it. I didn't go. If I knew, if it was free at the time, then maybe

00:18:47.860 I would have went. And so I want compensation for that. We could talk about what the compensation

00:18:54.040 might be, but, uh, but look from, for, as I, I've told the story before from the ages of about 20 to

00:19:02.740 27, I was extremely broke. And, um, and, uh, especially from 20 to 25 and then 25 to 27 was a

00:19:13.300 little bit less broke, but still pretty broke. Um, I had to make a lot of sacrifices during that time.

00:19:17.540 Um, and it took me a long time to get to the place where I am now. Well, maybe if I'd gone to

00:19:24.180 college cause it was free, um, I wouldn't have been as broke during those times. So I want some

00:19:28.620 of that money, the money that I could have made, had I gone to college, had it been free at the time,

00:19:33.400 or had I known that they would just, that I wouldn't have to pay the loans cause they would

00:19:36.900 just forgive them. Um, I want that money. I want a check is what I want. Uh, that's, you know,

00:19:44.980 that's only fair, right?

00:19:47.540 You can't erase the debt of some 23 year old who just got out of college and paid almost nothing

00:19:53.060 towards it while leaving those of us who have been paying it off for a decade or more in the

00:19:57.260 lurch. You just, you can't do that. We're out a ton, a ton of money, right? And, and so what then

00:20:05.120 we're just out of luck too bad. I'm fine with that attitude. Don't get me wrong. I know you could say,

00:20:11.120 well, too bad. You know, um, you you're out of luck. You, you, it was your responsibility. You paid it

00:20:15.640 back. You made choices. Um, and, uh, you know, sorry, that's, uh, that's life. I'm here's my,

00:20:23.380 here's, that's my point. If that's your answer to me, I agree. That's exactly. Yes. Agreed.

00:20:30.660 But then that has to be the message to everybody, not just to me, not just to the people who, who have,

00:20:38.880 who've put a hundred thousand dollars back into their loans, which is way more than they ever took

00:20:42.860 out over 20 years. You can't just say to them, oh, you're out of luck. Hey, that's life. If that's

00:20:50.660 the message to them, fine. But it's the message to everybody, including the 23 year old who just

00:20:55.160 got out of college, hasn't made any sacrifices yet. Hasn't done anything. That's the thing. It's

00:21:00.080 hard for me to feel sorry for someone in that position. You haven't done anything with your

00:21:03.760 life yet. You haven't made the sacrifices that the rest of us have made. I feel a lot more sorry

00:21:09.600 for the people who've actually paid it back and are out all that money. And now you're going to

00:21:15.460 turn around and say, nevermind. You didn't have to pay a dime. So you wasted all of that. No,

00:21:21.120 those you are. If you do that, then you're creating real victims because then those are people who's

00:21:27.720 put their own money into it. Think of all the sacrifices they had to make. Think of how different

00:21:32.420 their life could have been. They're the victims now. And I'm not even thinking of myself. It's

00:21:39.700 only eight years we've been, we've been paying off the, my wife's loans. I mean, there have been

00:21:43.260 people over who've been put a lot, who put a lot more money into it and made a lot more sacrifices.

00:21:48.960 I'm thinking of them. They're going to be the victims and they're real victims because they didn't

00:21:55.780 choose that. Okay. They didn't choose to be screwed over by the government and Bernie Sanders at the last

00:22:01.600 minute who swoops in and says, nevermind. And not only that, but you wasted all that money.

00:22:07.180 Now we're going to take more of your money to make college free for everybody else.

00:22:13.380 They're the victims. If you took out a loan and agreed and signed on the dotted line,

00:22:18.840 you are not a victim. You agreed to it. Now I agree. It's way too much money. It's ridiculous.

00:22:24.260 These colleges are fleecing people. The banks are fleecing people. I agree with all of that, 0.95

00:22:28.320 but it's the reality remains. You still signed on the dotted line. You didn't have to. And there

00:22:34.140 are a lot of people out there who, um, it, the reason why, again, there are exceptions. If you're

00:22:40.940 a doctor or something like that, that's different, but there are a lot of people with, with just

00:22:45.080 exorbitant debt who took on that debt for no reason other than they just thought it'd be cool to go to

00:22:50.900 the, they wanted to go to the nicest college. So they could simply say that they went to the nicest

00:22:55.600 college. So they could brag about the nice college they went to and they could be in the party scene

00:22:59.340 and they could be, you know, have the best version of any, it was just total selfishness. There are a

00:23:03.520 lot of people in that position. We don't want to talk about those people. We want to pretend they

00:23:07.040 don't exist. We have to cry tears, you know, for, for all of these people with all, well, you know,

00:23:12.380 there, there are a lot of people who just made selfish, ridiculous decisions. They could have gone, 0.95

00:23:17.520 you know, the reality is, um, you, you, and I keep saying it again, with some exceptions,

00:23:24.740 uh, for a lot of people, there, there are tons of people where you, you really didn't need to go

00:23:31.520 to college at all. Um, and there are a lot of jobs where you just don't need it. But then there's a

00:23:37.680 whole big category of jobs where, okay, you do need the degree, even if it's sort of an artificial

00:23:43.200 need where the, where the companies have sort of decided arbitrarily that we want to see that

00:23:49.240 you have a degree, even though you don't really need the degree in order to do the job capably.

00:23:53.760 But there are a lot of, uh, jobs in that category and the jobs in that category, it doesn't really

00:24:00.220 matter where you got the degree from. You could have gotten it from anywhere. They just want to

00:24:04.520 see that you have the degree. That's all they care about. So if you spend $300,000 on college,

00:24:12.160 it was, it was a stupid decision. You didn't have to do it. You could have spent a lot less. 1.00

00:24:18.900 And now you're telling me that that, that, that decision on your part, it falls on everyone else's

00:24:24.600 shoulders. When they're the ones who made the more humble decision and made the sacrifices and said,

00:24:30.300 you know what? I don't need the best version. I don't need to be able to brag about you made that

00:24:34.460 decision. And so now it's everyone else's responsibility. No, sorry. No, definitely not.

00:24:40.920 Especially when you consider that most of the people with that kind of college debt,

00:24:47.200 these are upper, these are upper middle-class to upper-class people.

00:24:53.200 Okay. There aren't a lot of poor, some exceptions. There aren't a lot of poor people out there with

00:25:00.800 $250,000 of college debt. There aren't many in that category. Most of the people in that category

00:25:06.420 are well-off and come from well-off families. And, uh, and now they're whining. Uh, you know,

00:25:14.600 I'm sorry. I just, it, you know, especially when you've, when you've lived life for a while,

00:25:23.920 you know, you just, you, you, you see that this is, this is just life. I mean, we all go through it.

00:25:32.020 And, uh, now you want me to cry for you. Uh, you know, no, I, I, I'm sorry. I can't,

00:25:38.880 I, I, I could be sympathetic if you were, uh, dealing with your financial struggles with dignity

00:25:52.900 and not demanding that the government bail you out and not trying to steal money from other people

00:25:58.900 through the government in order to solve your problem. If you weren't doing that and you were

00:26:03.540 just dealing with the problem and struggling silently with dignity, then I have a ton of,

00:26:09.660 a ton of sympathy. I have a ton of sympathy for people in that position, but it's when you,

00:26:13.960 when you try to steal, when you ask big daddy government to bail you out, um,

00:26:21.940 my sympathy just drains at that point. It's gone. It evaporates.

00:26:27.880 All right. Let's look at this. So this woman who accused Trump of rape, um, E. Jean Carroll, 0.75

00:26:35.800 I already explained yesterday why I doubt her story. I think the story is literally unbelievable.

00:26:40.660 And I think she's just not a credible person, um, or she doesn't seem credible anyway,

00:26:45.480 for a number of reasons. One of those reasons is that she appears to be disturbed. Uh, and I mean

00:26:51.220 that sincerely. It's not an insult or anything. I don't mean it as a joke. I mean, I think this woman

00:26:55.380 has something wrong with her mentally. Um, and to prove my point, watch this victim. 0.99

00:27:01.920 You don't feel like a victim. I was not thrown on the ground and ravished,

00:27:05.280 which the word rape carries so many sexual connotations. This was not, this was not sexual.

00:27:13.140 It just, it, it hurt. It just, what, it just, you know, I think most people think of rape as a,

00:27:19.280 I mean, it is a violent assault. It is not. I think most people think of rape as being sexy.

00:27:24.160 Hmm. Let's take a short break. Think of the fantasies.

00:27:27.660 Hmm. We've got to take a quick break. If you can stick around, we'll talk more on the other side.

00:27:33.280 You're fascinating to talk to. Uh, no additional commentary needed there. This woman is just 0.99

00:27:40.140 not right in the head. Uh, that, that, that's what, what else can you, what can you say about that?

00:27:51.360 Uh, you, I, that's, that's, draw your own conclusions. Just, you know, watch that clip again

00:27:57.020 and ask yourself if this is a woman whose word you can trust.

00:28:07.840 All right. One other thing before we get to some emails, this is, um, reading now from Fox news,

00:28:16.320 Adam Silver, the NBA commissioner said in an interview published Monday that the league has

00:28:20.160 moved away from the term owner and said they are now referred to as governors. Silver was stopped

00:28:26.580 in New York by TMZ said he is sensitive to the term owner. TMZ reported earlier that few NBA teams

00:28:31.540 have dropped the term because of its racial component. And since most of the players in the

00:28:36.060 league are black, um, so, okay, so they're, they want to get rid of the term owner because 0.77

00:28:43.400 most of the players are black and it supposedly brings to mind slavery, even though these men 0.69

00:28:49.200 in the NBA are paid millions of dollars and are adored by legions of fans and live just an

00:28:56.080 amazing life. So that, that, that, that to me has, is not similar to slavery. That's what

00:29:02.560 I think of slavery. I think of the exact opposite of NBA players, basically just the end, when I

00:29:08.040 think of slavery, I think NBA players, but the exact opposite, someone who is in the exact opposite

00:29:12.540 position in, in pretty much every conceivable way. Um, so, but that's what they're saying is it brings

00:29:19.300 to mind slavery. And even though we're paid millions of dollars, uh, and so now we're going

00:29:23.500 to use governor instead, uh, that, first of all, doesn't that seem much weirder and creepier to

00:29:32.900 call them governors? If the owner of a company, let's say you work for a company because companies

00:29:39.440 have owners too. Most companies have owners. If you came into work and the owner of your company

00:29:44.680 showed up and demanded that everyone call him governor instead of owner, wouldn't that creep you

00:29:50.240 out? Wouldn't that strike you as deeply weird and, and troubling? What if you went into a store and

00:29:56.840 you saw a guy who looked to be in charge and you went up to him and said, hi, sir, are you the owner?

00:30:01.380 Oh no, no, no, no. Call me governor. What? Why? Yeah. Just call me governor. I'm the governor of

00:30:09.900 these. Yeah, but you're not, you're not the governor at all. You're the owner of the company.

00:30:14.100 Uh, it's, that would be weird because it's, it's, uh, that is a, there's a classic example

00:30:23.500 of taking a problem that is not a problem and solving it by creating a problem. So calling

00:30:32.700 someone an owner when they do in fact own the thing, which is the team, the team, that's not a

00:30:37.900 problem. Now you're calling them governor, which is just, which is so much worse. Um,

00:30:44.520 what about the fact that I own my house? Is that, can I say that still, is that racially insensitive?

00:30:50.160 Can I call myself the owner of my house? And wait a second, remember the psycho dude from the

00:30:56.200 walking dead who had the eye patch and, um, it wasn't, he called the governor. That's all I can think

00:31:03.660 of when I, when I think of, when I hear the term, I think of the psycho dude with the eye patch from,

00:31:07.100 from the walking dead. That's governor. Um, this is, this is beyond parody. All right,

00:31:14.660 let's go to emails. Matt wall show at gmail.com. Matt wall show at gmail.com.

00:31:19.960 This is from Jack says, hi, Matt. I enjoy your show. You've recently got into reviewing songs

00:31:25.140 on your show. It seems you have a particular distaste for country rap songs. You hated old town

00:31:30.840 road. You're wrong about that by the way. Uh, but what do you think of the song get up?

00:31:38.100 Can you at least acknowledge that it's catchy? Well, okay. So I, I hadn't heard of the song,

00:31:44.220 which is not called, it's called the get up by the way, not get up, uh, G I T get, get up.

00:31:51.380 That's what it's called. I hadn't heard of the song somehow. I escaped my notice before you mentioned

00:31:56.220 it, but I went back and looked it up. It's a, it's by a guy named Blanco Brown. So now this, uh,

00:32:01.980 country rap country trap, I think they call it is a whole, a whole genre now growing genre.

00:32:07.440 Um, old town road is a terrible song, but let's play a bit of this one so that everyone knows

00:32:13.200 what we're talking about. Here's, um, here's the get up by Blanco Brown.

00:32:17.600 Gonna do the two step and cowboy boogie. Grab a sweetheart and spin out with him. Do the 1.00

00:32:23.640 hold down and get into it. Take it to the left now and dip with it. Gonna throw down,

00:32:31.920 take a sip with it. Now lean back, put your hips in it. Let's have some fun. To the left, 0.95

00:32:39.180 to the left, to the left, to the right, to the right. Now take your left hand and put it on your

00:32:46.780 side. Okay. You know what? That's, that's catchy. Uh, I can't deny it. That is, uh, that's a catchy

00:32:56.120 damn song. So see, to me, that's catchy. That's fun. That's going to be a staple in every wedding 0.99

00:33:03.020 DJ's playlist for the next 600 years. Uh, so I appreciate that old town road is

00:33:08.360 garbage. There's nothing fun about it. It's not really catchy. It's just, there's, there's nothing 0.92

00:33:13.880 going on. It's got no charm or anything. It's simply a bad song. Whereas this is, uh, you know,

00:33:20.180 it's a, it's a, it's a, it's kind of dumb, right? But it's a, it's a fun song. It's a dance song. 0.84

00:33:26.880 And so, yeah, I can appreciate that. Oh, I will give that a solid B minus. And I really don't give

00:33:34.220 out a pluses. So that's pretty good. I mean, that's so good that it almost makes me want to

00:33:40.920 dance. Unfortunately, when I dance, I look like a praying mantis having a seizure. So, uh, I won't,

00:33:47.280 but it does all my, I'll, I'll remain seated, but in my head I'm dancing when I hear that song.

00:33:53.040 So, all right. From Luke says, uh, hi, Matt, what is the most annoying thing people do while driving?

00:33:58.660 Well, do you have five hours? Because there are so many things, everything is annoying in life,

00:34:04.800 but especially when you're driving, uh, especially for me, because I am the only good driver in the

00:34:12.020 world. I don't know if you knew this. I don't know if you realize you're watching a show

00:34:15.120 hosted by officially the only good driver in the world. Um, and so I sit in judgment of all other

00:34:23.980 drivers. I judge you. If you're, whoever you are watching this, you're a worst driver. I judge you.

00:34:28.660 You're not good. I am a good driver. You're not. No one is a good driver, but me. Um, and I come

00:34:33.220 from a long line of men who are the only good drivers. My dad always claimed to be the only

00:34:39.140 good driver. He still says he's the only good driver, but he can't be because I am. So I've

00:34:42.880 unseated him in that position. So there are so many things that people do wrong while I drive.

00:34:49.160 Um, let's start with the, with the, with the fact that they're on the road in the first place

00:34:53.080 when they're bad drivers, the road, what I, what I, I expect that when I get out on the highway,

00:34:59.700 I'm, I'm going to have the highway to myself because I'm the only one who's capable of doing

00:35:03.240 it. As I have discovered, I'm clearly the only one who knows how to do this. So the rest of you

00:35:07.380 should stay home, ride a bike or something. You could dig holes, you know, maybe dig an elaborate

00:35:13.300 series of, of tunnels. Like, um, it could be like moles or something going from place to place.

00:35:18.240 How about that? Just stay out of the way so that I can drive. I know what I'm doing.

00:35:23.720 Um, what's the main thing people do wrong? Well, it's hard to even point out. It kind of like,

00:35:28.360 it depends on what, are we on a highway? Are we on a back road? Are we on suburb? Are we on a rural,

00:35:32.640 you know, neighborhood? Are we in a parking lot? I mean, if we're on a highway, I'll tell you the main

00:35:38.160 thing people do wrong is merging. Uh, and what people do is they get scared, I guess, and they slam on

00:35:46.280 their brakes when they're trying to merge, treating it like a stop sign or they slow way,

00:35:51.160 way down. And that's not what you're supposed to do. When you merge, you're supposed to speed up.

00:35:56.420 You want to get with the speed of traffic. And if you slow down too much and then you try to merge,

00:36:03.400 what's going to happen is that all of the people who are like, they all, now they have to slam on

00:36:07.400 their brakes because this, you know, this, this slow poke just dropped himself into the middle of

00:36:13.200 the highway. If everyone's going 70 miles an hour and you merge going 30, you're going to kill

00:36:20.580 people. Speed up to merge. If you don't know how to do this, then stay. That's all I'm saying. If

00:36:27.240 you don't know how to do it, then stay home. That, that's, it's real simple. They need to put this

00:36:34.100 stuff on the driving test. That's what they, I mean, the drive, what, I don't know how the driving test

00:36:38.440 works now, I guess, but here's how it, and tell me if it's changed. The way it worked for me is we

00:36:44.980 went around in a circle a couple of times. We went, we ran around like a few cones and then we parallel

00:36:51.680 parked. And for me, when I, for the driving test, the parallel parking was the star attraction. It was

00:36:57.920 the main thing. It's the main way people failed their test. How stupid is that? You could go your,

00:37:02.900 now it's true that most people don't know how to parallel park and that's a problem. And again,

00:37:06.280 I'm the best parallel parker, but I could do it in three turns. No problem. But you could go your

00:37:12.680 whole life and never parallel park. You can avoid parallel parking if you're bad at it. It's even if

00:37:17.140 you live in the city, you could probably get away with avoiding it. Well, maybe not in that case,

00:37:22.080 but most people can get, can go their whole life and, and never parallel park, but, or at least not

00:37:29.760 have to parallel park in a really tight space. You know, a lot of people can avoid that. Merging onto the

00:37:35.180 highway though. That's something that you do. Most, a lot of people do every day, multiple times a day.

00:37:40.020 So why doesn't the driving test involve stuff like that? Things that actually are a crucial

00:37:45.300 part of everyday driving and things that, by the way, if you do wrong, you could kill someone.

00:37:51.480 If you parallel park wrong, you're just going to bump someone's fender. Um, but if you do these other

00:37:58.600 things wrong, someone could die. And so that's why that stuff should be on the driving test.

00:38:03.360 Although again, everybody in the world should fail their driving tests, except for me.

00:38:10.580 All right. This is from, uh, let's see. This is from Sarah says, I, I was never a mother myself,

00:38:18.160 but I've been watching a step grandchild quite often. She's five months old now.

00:38:23.260 And I feel guilty when her only issue clearly is exhaustion and she won't fall asleep.

00:38:27.700 Is it okay to let her cry it out? I feel like someone who has raised multiples can answer this

00:38:32.680 question better than most. God bless you. Uh, a lot of interesting questions today. I'm like a lot

00:38:37.840 of random questions that have nothing to do with anything. And I say that as a, and I appreciate

00:38:41.800 that by the way, I mean that, um, yeah, crying it out. You know, I, I think a problem with parenting

00:38:52.020 these days is that first of all, everything is controversial. Everything you do as a parent,

00:38:58.880 there's going to be someone who says it's abusive and terrible. You're an awful parent. 0.99

00:39:02.420 Um, so you know, you'll, you'll, whatever you do, you'll be judged for it.

00:39:07.580 And we're always like coming up with labels and terms and strategies and things. Are you a,

00:39:14.760 this kind of parent or that kind of parent? Do you cry it out or not cry it out? We call it the

00:39:20.980 cry it out method. It's, it's not a method. It's a, it's not a, it's not a type of parenting. It's,

00:39:27.040 it's nothing special. It's a very simple thing, which is if you put a baby down to bed and he

00:39:32.380 starts crying, well, you're going to go check on the baby, make sure that everything's okay,

00:39:36.220 uh, that he's safe. And, uh, I mean, does he need to be changed? Uh, does he, is he hungry? You

00:39:41.600 know, uh, you'll make sure that all his needs are met, that he's safe, that everything's fine.

00:39:45.600 But if he keeps crying, which sometimes babies will do, even though all their needs are met,

00:39:52.240 everything's fine. They're just, they're crying because they're tired. Babies will cry when they're

00:39:56.120 tired. And then, um, because babies are babies, they don't understand that when you cry, now you're

00:40:02.460 just keeping yourself awake. You're, you're exacerbating the problem. So just stop crying

00:40:06.500 and then you could fall asleep. And in that situation, then, yeah, I think you just, maybe

00:40:11.600 you just let the baby alone for a few minutes, let it, let the baby cry. And he'll usually pass

00:40:18.280 out and go to sleep in a few minutes. That's the cry it out method. It boggles my mind that there

00:40:24.060 are people. So my answer to you, Sarah, is I see nothing wrong with it. Um, there are people out

00:40:28.780 there say, Oh, you could never do that. Never let him go. What? So you never let the baby cry in his

00:40:33.280 crib ever. What? So every time he cries, even if all his needs, but you just go and get them up

00:40:38.980 every time, you don't, you won't even let him cry for 20 seconds. That's crazy to me. I mean,

00:40:44.040 how could you function as a human being that way? And if you do that, your baby's never going to

00:40:49.260 learn to sleep. There are a lot. I'll tell you something we've had, we've had three kids so far.

00:40:56.220 We got fourth on the way. We did do multiples. We had twins. We had, we had, we got two infants at

00:41:01.200 one time. So we've been through it. Um, and with all of our kids and it's only three so far, but,

00:41:07.420 uh, they've all been pretty good sleepers and they all sleep through the night and just, and

00:41:13.200 like we, we get them to the point where they're sleeping through the night in a few months.

00:41:16.340 And you hear from these parents that, uh, you know, their kids are like one and a half,

00:41:20.000 two years old. They're still not, so they're still waking up in the middle of the night.

00:41:23.000 They don't sleep. They don't sleep. Uh, we don't have that problem. And I think one of the

00:41:27.200 reasons is that this is, this is the method we use, which is kids crying. We meet, we meet their

00:41:33.200 needs. If their needs are met and they're safe, we let them cry. Not for six hours, but, but just for

00:41:40.720 a little bit until they fall asleep. And usually they will, and they learn to sleep. And, uh, and so

00:41:45.500 we have kids who sleep. It's amazing. It's great. Um, well, I think a lot of parents, uh, they, they cause,

00:41:53.460 they end up with kids who never learn how to sleep because you never give them a chance.

00:42:00.140 So yes, uh, I, I am an advocate for the cried out method. And I know that by saying that I have 0.88

00:42:05.580 just invited hundreds of emails from people horrified. You let your child cry. How could

00:42:12.380 you do that? I never let my child cry for one minute. Now he'll be traumatized. Your child will,

00:42:21.320 will remember when your child is 30 years old, he'll remember the time when he was two months

00:42:25.380 old and crying and you never came. He'll be in therapy talking about it. You monster. Those

00:42:30.440 are the emails I'm going to get. All right. Uh, so I can't read anymore. Every email I've read so far

00:42:37.800 has just set me off on a deranged rant. So I think I need to stop reading them before I have a heart

00:42:43.400 attack live on camera, which would be interesting and probably would get a lot of views. Maybe I should

00:42:49.760 consider that, but not today. So we'll leave it there. Thanks for watching everybody. Godspeed.

00:43:00.780 Bernie Sanders proposes that taxpayers pay off every single student loan in the country. We will

00:43:05.620 explain how student loan forgiveness is welfare for the rich. Then the woman accusing president 0.94

00:43:10.740 Trump of rape describes rape as sexy. Finally, the United States might go to war with Iran. 0.98

00:43:16.240 We'll explain it all on the Michael Knowles show.

The Matt Walsh Show - June 25, 2019

Ep. 283 - Santa Claus Sanders Wants To Get Rid Of Student Debt

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