The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 367 - Only 100 Billion Dollars Away From Utopia

00:00:00.760 Michael Bloomberg is jumping into the race.

00:00:04.060 This is huge news.

00:00:05.380 This is very significant.

00:00:06.480 It's really great, I think.

00:00:08.420 The great thing about Bloomberg is that he's an old,

00:00:11.660 white, billionaire, nanny state gun grabber.

00:00:17.860 So amazingly, he checks nobody's boxes.

00:00:22.180 He manages to be the exact opposite

00:00:24.400 of what almost everybody wants.

00:00:26.240 He manages to be precisely the thing

00:00:29.660 that everybody on all sides is not looking for.

00:00:34.120 And he's like, you know those games at the carnival

00:00:36.900 where they say everybody wins,

00:00:39.900 and so you just have to throw a ping pong ball

00:00:42.420 in the direction of 600 fish bowls

00:00:46.140 that are all stacked next to each other.

00:00:49.260 And of course, whatever prize you win,

00:00:51.200 you spend $2 on a ball,

00:00:52.700 whatever prize you win is worth a lot less than $2.

00:00:55.400 But anyway, Michael Bloomberg throws his ping pong ball

00:01:00.680 at the fish bowls,

00:01:01.780 and the ball manages to bounce off of the rim

00:01:04.660 of every fish bowl and then land at a pond 50 yards away.

00:01:08.400 It's kind of amazing.

00:01:09.780 It's almost impressive.

00:01:10.760 It's almost impressive that somebody could manage

00:01:12.940 to have no constituency at all,

00:01:15.860 and that's what Bloomberg pulls off.

00:01:18.120 So it's great to have him in the race.

00:01:19.260 I'm pretty impressed by that.

00:01:20.900 Speaking of billionaires,

00:01:22.100 there's been a discussion recently

00:01:24.660 about how much money Bill Gates

00:01:27.580 should be allowed to have of his own.

00:01:31.660 Speaking at a conference a few days ago,

00:01:33.680 Gates said that he pays a lot in taxes.

00:01:36.300 He said he's paid over $10 billion in taxes.

00:01:39.300 He says that's more than anybody else in the country,

00:01:41.300 which I would believe.

00:01:43.540 And he's fine with paying even more than that,

00:01:46.520 he says, but he doesn't like the tax plans

00:01:50.020 put forward by people like Elizabeth Warren

00:01:51.860 because he feels that she would want to confiscate

00:01:56.140 way more than is reasonable.

00:01:58.540 So his exact words were,

00:02:00.440 I've paid over $10 billion in taxes.

00:02:02.780 I've paid more than anyone in taxes.

00:02:04.400 If I had to pay $20 billion, it's fine.

00:02:06.500 But when you say I should pay $100 billion,

00:02:09.020 then I'm starting to do a little bit of math

00:02:10.800 over what I would have left over.

00:02:13.940 Now, it seems reasonable to me, right?

00:02:16.580 The guy doesn't want to pay $100 billion in taxes.

00:02:20.920 Pays $10 billion, he says fine.

00:02:22.720 He says he'd do $20 billion.

00:02:24.980 Honestly, that'd be more generous than I would be.

00:02:27.040 I don't think I'd be willing to pay $20 billion

00:02:28.780 even if I had $100 billion.

00:02:31.440 But he says he doesn't want to pay $100 billion.

00:02:34.140 Warren responded by saying that

00:02:36.220 she wouldn't take $100 billion, very generous of her,

00:02:38.960 although she doesn't say how much she would take.

00:02:41.460 It'd be more than $10 billion.

00:02:43.100 She says not $100 billion.

00:02:44.660 Very nice of her.

00:02:45.740 But Bernie Sanders, of course, sensed an opportunity.

00:02:51.200 And he jumped in to, he sensed an opportunity

00:02:54.280 to out-socialist Elizabeth Warren

00:02:56.340 and to out-class warfare Elizabeth Warren. 0.99

00:03:00.740 And he sent a tweet last night saying,

00:03:03.180 this was Bernie Sanders,

00:03:04.700 say Bill Gates was actually taxed $100 billion.

00:03:09.220 We could end homelessness and provide safe drinking water

00:03:12.720 to everyone in this country.

00:03:14.380 Bill would still be a multi-billionaire.

00:03:17.300 Our message?

00:03:19.260 The billionaire class cannot have it all

00:03:21.680 when so many have so little.

00:03:23.860 Okay, a few problems here.

00:03:28.940 And I say all of this as someone who is not a Bill Gates fan.

00:03:33.740 I'm not waving pom-poms for Bill Gates.

00:03:36.540 If I were to list 100 people in the country who I most admire,

00:03:41.120 Bill Gates probably won't make the list.

00:03:43.680 But I also don't think that I have a right to his money.

00:03:48.640 As much as I would like it.

00:03:51.740 And just like anyone else,

00:03:54.280 as jealous as I am that other people get to be billionaires,

00:03:58.080 and I don't.

00:03:58.740 I mean, I would love to be a billionaire.

00:04:00.280 I'm not.

00:04:00.860 And I know we're all very jealous about that.

00:04:03.500 But even if that's the case,

00:04:06.360 I don't have a right to his money.

00:04:08.920 So here's the problem with Bernie's approach.

00:04:11.500 Aside from just how massively stupid it is in general,

00:04:14.940 Sanders says that we could end homelessness

00:04:17.020 with $100 billion.

00:04:20.940 Now, think about that.

00:04:23.100 Because this is really the mentality of a child.

00:04:27.760 Well, we'll just give them all money

00:04:29.240 and the problem will be solved.

00:04:31.180 How do you get rid of homelessness?

00:04:32.780 Just give them all money.

00:04:34.900 Easy enough.

00:04:36.640 No, the majority of homeless people are homeless

00:04:39.500 either because of drugs or mental illness

00:04:42.960 or often both.

00:04:45.860 That is the thing that,

00:04:48.740 maybe not in every case,

00:04:49.920 but in most cases,

00:04:51.820 if somebody's living on the street,

00:04:53.540 it's going to have a lot to do

00:04:55.160 with one of those factors or both.

00:04:56.780 Now, if you can't solve that problem,

00:05:01.860 addiction and mental illness,

00:05:03.320 by throwing money at it,

00:05:04.700 which you can't,

00:05:07.280 then, I mean,

00:05:08.240 if someone's addicted to heroin,

00:05:09.780 you can't just,

00:05:11.440 maybe Bernie Sanders doesn't understand this,

00:05:13.660 but if someone's addicted to heroin

00:05:14.980 and they're living on the street

00:05:16.400 and you walk up and say,

00:05:18.140 here's $10,000.

00:05:19.560 Stop being addicted to heroin.

00:05:22.400 Not only is that not going to work,

00:05:25.000 but you probably have just killed that person

00:05:26.800 by doing that.

00:05:29.180 So, if you can't solve the problems

00:05:31.120 of addiction and mental illness

00:05:33.000 by throwing money at it,

00:05:34.780 that means you can't solve homelessness

00:05:36.940 by throwing money at it.

00:05:38.480 And this is,

00:05:40.280 it's talking about solving homelessness

00:05:43.040 with $100 billion.

00:05:44.240 It's like saying

00:05:45.620 that you could solve anorexia

00:05:48.660 and eating disorders

00:05:50.220 by just making sure

00:05:51.420 that everyone has enough food to eat.

00:05:53.280 It just,

00:05:53.800 it completely misses the point entirely.

00:05:57.260 You're not understanding

00:05:59.000 what the problem is.

00:06:01.260 And your solution actually

00:06:03.120 would make the problem

00:06:04.740 a whole lot worse.

00:06:05.680 Also,

00:06:07.900 second point here,

00:06:11.580 if $100 billion

00:06:12.500 could end homelessness

00:06:14.680 and give everyone

00:06:16.960 safe drinking water,

00:06:18.800 think about that.

00:06:20.740 No more homelessness.

00:06:23.040 Everyone has safe drinking water

00:06:24.340 with $100 billion.

00:06:27.840 Now, in theory,

00:06:29.100 I think it's a great idea.

00:06:30.180 If it was possible

00:06:32.060 for the government

00:06:33.740 to end homelessness,

00:06:35.240 quote unquote,

00:06:36.340 and make sure that everyone

00:06:37.540 has safe water to drink

00:06:38.480 with $100 billion,

00:06:39.280 I would say,

00:06:40.680 yes,

00:06:41.060 they should do that.

00:06:43.580 But,

00:06:44.140 here's the point.

00:06:45.200 They wouldn't,

00:06:46.140 that doesn't,

00:06:46.800 that doesn't mean

00:06:47.460 they need to go

00:06:47.940 and take $100 billion

00:06:48.720 from Bill Gates.

00:06:51.180 Because,

00:06:51.980 if they could do that

00:06:53.060 with $100 billion,

00:06:54.340 then they should have

00:06:55.940 already done it

00:06:57.420 without Bill Gates' money.

00:07:00.020 The government brings in

00:07:02.620 $4 trillion a year.

00:07:06.140 $4 trillion,

00:07:07.660 with a T.

00:07:08.940 That's almost 40 times

00:07:11.260 Bill Gates' net worth

00:07:13.440 that they bring every year.

00:07:16.120 So,

00:07:16.720 if $100 billion

00:07:17.260 could have

00:07:19.400 those utopian results,

00:07:21.160 then shouldn't we

00:07:22.240 be living in utopia

00:07:24.000 right now,

00:07:25.460 considering the $4 trillion

00:07:26.840 they have at their disposal?

00:07:29.000 Shouldn't we be living

00:07:29.880 in a literal Garden of Eden

00:07:31.660 at this point?

00:07:34.200 Now,

00:07:34.900 you could try to say,

00:07:37.200 well,

00:07:37.700 yeah,

00:07:37.940 they bring in all that money,

00:07:39.260 but it's spent elsewhere.

00:07:40.620 There are other things

00:07:41.380 we need to spend it on,

00:07:42.480 and that's why we need

00:07:43.100 the extra $100 billion

00:07:44.240 so we can go

00:07:44.980 and solve homelessness.

00:07:46.700 Okay,

00:07:47.220 so you're telling me

00:07:48.000 there's $4 trillion

00:07:50.900 worth of stuff

00:07:52.600 for the government

00:07:54.120 to spend money on,

00:07:55.320 and all of it

00:07:56.760 is more important

00:07:57.660 than ending

00:07:58.280 homelessness

00:07:58.680 and making sure

00:07:59.440 people have safe

00:08:00.020 water to drink?

00:08:02.040 You're telling me

00:08:02.820 that it's possible

00:08:03.900 to do both

00:08:04.760 of those things,

00:08:05.880 end homelessness,

00:08:07.280 make sure everybody

00:08:07.940 has safe drinking water,

00:08:09.320 with 1 40th

00:08:11.240 of the government's

00:08:12.040 revenue,

00:08:12.800 but they just decide

00:08:15.780 to allocate

00:08:16.300 the money elsewhere

00:08:17.280 anyway?

00:08:19.500 Well,

00:08:20.120 isn't that

00:08:20.520 a problem?

00:08:21.900 isn't it then

00:08:23.960 a problem

00:08:24.520 of allocation

00:08:25.380 of resources,

00:08:26.180 not a problem

00:08:27.100 of a lack

00:08:27.960 of resources

00:08:28.560 to get the job

00:08:29.240 done?

00:08:30.820 Either that,

00:08:32.360 or it's a problem

00:08:33.520 of the government

00:08:34.120 just not functionally

00:08:35.640 having the ability

00:08:36.760 to solve those problems

00:08:38.680 by dumping money

00:08:39.640 on it.

00:08:40.620 So either way,

00:08:42.420 taking another

00:08:43.380 100 bill

00:08:44.260 from Bill

00:08:44.960 isn't going to matter.

00:08:46.520 But

00:08:48.360 this is just

00:08:50.220 a general

00:08:50.700 point.

00:08:52.040 Every time

00:08:52.600 someone like

00:08:53.340 Bernie Sanders

00:08:54.780 or Elizabeth Warren 0.89

00:08:55.760 starts talking

00:08:57.280 about all

00:08:58.140 of the wonderful

00:08:58.680 things they could

00:08:59.300 do,

00:08:59.600 if only they

00:09:00.160 had an extra

00:09:00.860 50 billion,

00:09:02.220 100 billion a year,

00:09:03.200 whatever,

00:09:05.080 or not even a year.

00:09:06.260 I mean,

00:09:06.420 if they're talking

00:09:06.860 about,

00:09:07.140 if you confiscate

00:09:07.780 100 billion from,

00:09:09.260 you're not going

00:09:09.960 to get 100 billion

00:09:10.780 from Bill Gates

00:09:11.740 every year.

00:09:12.180 That's just a

00:09:12.540 one-time deal

00:09:13.240 because you've

00:09:13.980 taken almost

00:09:14.400 all of his money

00:09:15.020 and so now

00:09:16.040 you have it.

00:09:18.280 So anytime

00:09:19.140 you hear one

00:09:19.500 of these people

00:09:19.800 say,

00:09:20.280 okay,

00:09:20.680 if we just

00:09:21.040 had this amount

00:09:21.520 of money,

00:09:21.800 we could do

00:09:22.160 all these

00:09:22.460 amazing things.

00:09:23.740 Well,

00:09:24.240 just keep in

00:09:24.900 mind that

00:09:25.980 they already

00:09:26.600 have 4 trillion

00:09:27.800 a year

00:09:28.340 to throw

00:09:29.740 around.

00:09:31.900 And so if

00:09:32.220 it were possible

00:09:32.980 to do those

00:09:33.640 things they're

00:09:34.080 talking about,

00:09:34.860 they would

00:09:35.160 have already

00:09:35.700 done it.

00:09:38.220 And besides

00:09:38.940 all that,

00:09:39.320 the bigger

00:09:39.600 point is this,

00:09:41.320 and this maybe

00:09:43.180 is the most

00:09:43.600 important point

00:09:44.280 with Bernie Sanders,

00:09:45.460 Elizabeth Warren,

00:09:46.040 who are you

00:09:48.600 to decide

00:09:49.820 what people

00:09:51.100 should and

00:09:51.580 shouldn't have?

00:09:54.060 Bernie Sanders,

00:09:54.780 his exact

00:09:56.380 words,

00:09:58.800 our message,

00:09:59.680 the billionaire

00:10:00.120 class cannot

00:10:01.000 have it all

00:10:01.760 when so many

00:10:02.500 have so little.

00:10:04.860 Okay,

00:10:05.440 but who are

00:10:06.740 you,

00:10:07.080 Bernie,

00:10:07.420 to decide

00:10:08.160 what the

00:10:08.720 billionaire

00:10:09.080 class can

00:10:09.880 have?

00:10:11.740 Why should

00:10:13.100 you get to

00:10:13.940 make that

00:10:14.380 decision?

00:10:16.240 That's the

00:10:16.820 question that

00:10:17.340 never gets

00:10:17.920 answered by

00:10:18.660 these people.

00:10:20.680 I mean,

00:10:20.860 they can stand

00:10:21.480 up there and

00:10:22.000 talk all they

00:10:22.480 want about how

00:10:23.060 evil and greedy

00:10:24.340 the billionaires

00:10:24.980 are.

00:10:26.360 Maybe they are

00:10:27.600 evil and greedy.

00:10:28.700 I don't know.

00:10:29.180 It doesn't

00:10:29.480 matter.

00:10:31.340 The point is

00:10:31.860 if you're

00:10:33.800 saying,

00:10:34.360 nobody needs

00:10:36.540 that much

00:10:36.900 money.

00:10:38.440 Okay,

00:10:38.920 well,

00:10:39.260 how much

00:10:40.200 money do

00:10:40.680 they need?

00:10:41.160 What's the

00:10:41.660 cutoff?

00:10:43.880 You've

00:10:44.260 decided that

00:10:44.880 once you get

00:10:45.400 to X amount

00:10:46.060 of money,

00:10:46.500 that's too

00:10:47.100 much.

00:10:47.740 You don't

00:10:48.280 need that

00:10:48.700 much.

00:10:49.920 Well,

00:10:50.360 what is the

00:10:51.580 cutoff?

00:10:52.600 What is the

00:10:53.460 X amount

00:10:53.920 of money?

00:10:55.460 And how

00:10:57.000 did you

00:10:57.300 decide that?

00:10:59.080 And who

00:10:59.820 empowered you

00:11:00.700 to be the

00:11:01.240 one to

00:11:01.660 decide that?

00:11:03.060 It all

00:11:04.040 seems very

00:11:04.660 arbitrary to

00:11:05.400 me.

00:11:06.460 And why

00:11:07.240 should you

00:11:07.800 be the

00:11:08.200 one to

00:11:09.360 decide that?

00:11:11.860 Okay,

00:11:12.620 back to

00:11:14.560 Warren for a

00:11:15.260 moment here.

00:11:16.000 So,

00:11:16.280 sorry about

00:11:16.660 that.

00:11:16.800 We have to

00:11:17.060 go back to

00:11:17.820 Elizabeth Warren.

00:11:18.500 But Warren

00:11:19.100 secured a big

00:11:19.860 endorsement

00:11:20.440 yesterday.

00:11:21.200 I want to

00:11:21.960 acknowledge it.

00:11:23.220 I think it

00:11:23.920 would only be

00:11:24.240 fair to do

00:11:24.660 that.

00:11:25.480 She was

00:11:25.820 endorsed by

00:11:26.500 the organization

00:11:27.400 Black Women 1.00

00:11:28.420 4.

00:11:30.240 That's

00:11:30.800 4-F-O-R 1.00

00:11:32.100 and women

00:11:33.640 spelled with

00:11:34.340 an X.

00:11:36.220 So W-O-M-X-N 1.00

00:11:38.740 which would

00:11:39.120 really be

00:11:39.680 pronounced,

00:11:40.160 I guess,

00:11:41.520 Wimix-N. 1.00

00:11:44.280 So she

00:11:45.460 was endorsed

00:11:45.780 by the

00:11:46.020 organization

00:11:46.420 Black 0.64

00:11:46.860 Wimix-N-4 1.00

00:11:48.120 and

00:11:49.300 they came

00:11:50.620 out and

00:11:50.860 endorsed her

00:11:51.320 for president

00:11:51.920 and Warren

00:11:52.860 responded by

00:11:53.700 saying,

00:11:55.200 thank you

00:11:55.740 Black 0.64

00:11:56.220 women 1.00

00:11:56.500 for

00:11:57.240 Black 0.64

00:11:58.860 trans

00:12:00.680 and

00:12:01.200 cis

00:12:01.480 women, 1.00

00:12:02.480 gender

00:12:02.760 non-conforming

00:12:03.660 and non-binary

00:12:04.760 people are

00:12:05.500 the backbone

00:12:06.260 of our

00:12:06.700 democracy

00:12:07.220 and I

00:12:08.060 don't take

00:12:08.660 this endorsement

00:12:09.380 lightly.

00:12:10.180 I'm committed

00:12:11.020 to fighting

00:12:11.520 alongside you

00:12:12.260 for the big

00:12:12.780 structural change

00:12:13.780 our country

00:12:14.740 needs.

00:12:16.020 The

00:12:16.580 backbone

00:12:17.260 of our

00:12:17.680 democracy

00:12:18.220 non-binary

00:12:20.480 people

00:12:21.140 are the

00:12:22.280 backbone

00:12:22.960 of our

00:12:23.360 democracy.

00:12:24.200 First of

00:12:24.800 all,

00:12:24.960 that's a lot

00:12:25.580 of work

00:12:25.860 for 14

00:12:26.420 people to

00:12:26.860 do.

00:12:27.500 To make

00:12:28.620 them the

00:12:28.980 backbone

00:12:29.460 that's

00:12:30.820 your,

00:12:31.320 you know,

00:12:31.760 that's

00:12:32.220 having them

00:12:33.220 hold up

00:12:33.560 democracy

00:12:34.020 like that.

00:12:34.500 That's a lot

00:12:35.720 of weight

00:12:35.940 you're putting

00:12:36.240 on just

00:12:37.280 14 people's

00:12:38.240 shoulders.

00:12:39.640 But,

00:12:40.540 by the way,

00:12:41.640 why are

00:12:42.100 Black 0.64

00:12:42.520 women getting 0.98

00:12:43.080 lumped in

00:12:43.920 with non-binary

00:12:45.320 and gender

00:12:46.340 non-conforming

00:12:47.040 people?

00:12:48.440 Now,

00:12:48.760 this particular

00:12:49.500 organization,

00:12:50.560 that's what

00:12:51.360 they do.

00:12:53.040 So,

00:12:53.760 that's why

00:12:55.500 Elizabeth Warren

00:12:56.220 brought it up.

00:12:56.760 But the question

00:12:57.280 still stands.

00:12:58.300 How are those

00:12:59.340 groups even

00:12:59.900 related?

00:13:01.800 And isn't it

00:13:02.460 kind of

00:13:02.760 insulting to

00:13:03.960 equate their

00:13:06.080 identity with

00:13:06.980 some passing

00:13:07.820 fad like

00:13:08.580 gender

00:13:09.000 non-conforming?

00:13:11.520 And would it

00:13:12.000 be like if

00:13:12.520 someone said,

00:13:13.740 I appreciate

00:13:14.880 the support

00:13:15.480 of American

00:13:15.980 Catholics

00:13:16.500 and Star

00:13:17.340 Trek fans?

00:13:19.240 What?

00:13:20.080 What do

00:13:20.560 those two

00:13:20.960 have to do

00:13:21.320 with each

00:13:21.580 other?

00:13:22.400 I mean,

00:13:23.080 it's possible

00:13:23.620 that someone

00:13:23.980 could be a

00:13:24.400 Star Trek

00:13:24.780 fan and

00:13:25.420 a Catholic.

00:13:28.000 I'm Catholic

00:13:28.800 and I kind

00:13:29.580 of like,

00:13:29.800 well,

00:13:29.840 certainly Star

00:13:30.260 Trek is better

00:13:30.720 than Star

00:13:31.140 Wars at the

00:13:31.500 very least,

00:13:31.900 which isn't

00:13:32.180 hard to do.

00:13:33.920 But do you

00:13:35.500 really think

00:13:35.860 those two

00:13:36.280 identities are

00:13:37.040 on the same

00:13:37.640 level or

00:13:39.460 just as

00:13:39.960 important?

00:13:40.420 carry the

00:13:43.060 same

00:13:43.280 importance?

00:13:44.000 Is that

00:13:44.360 really how

00:13:44.760 you see

00:13:45.080 it?

00:13:47.640 But anyway,

00:13:48.600 here,

00:13:50.100 but this

00:13:50.640 is what the

00:13:51.340 left does,

00:13:52.340 where they

00:13:52.840 take all

00:13:54.240 of these

00:13:54.680 various

00:13:55.100 identities

00:13:55.700 and they

00:13:57.200 lump them

00:13:57.600 all in a

00:13:58.220 pile together

00:13:58.920 and act

00:14:01.180 as though

00:14:01.540 they're all

00:14:02.040 equally as

00:14:02.820 legitimate.

00:14:04.700 So you have

00:14:05.380 something like

00:14:05.900 black women, 0.99

00:14:07.740 okay,

00:14:08.820 well,

00:14:09.280 that makes

00:14:09.580 sense.

00:14:10.420 you know,

00:14:11.500 there's an

00:14:11.880 identity that

00:14:12.660 has to do

00:14:13.060 with someone's

00:14:14.360 race,

00:14:15.600 their sex, 0.57

00:14:17.100 their actual

00:14:17.600 biological sex.

00:14:19.940 Okay,

00:14:20.560 that makes

00:14:20.980 sense.

00:14:22.400 But then

00:14:23.240 into that

00:14:24.320 same category,

00:14:25.400 you're putting

00:14:25.840 stuff like

00:14:26.400 non-binary,

00:14:29.700 gender

00:14:30.220 non-conforming.

00:14:31.260 and it's

00:14:34.400 insulting and

00:14:36.680 demeaning

00:14:37.380 on top of

00:14:38.740 everything else.

00:14:39.600 But this is

00:14:40.420 just turbocharged

00:14:41.840 pandering here

00:14:42.540 that Warren

00:14:42.980 is doing

00:14:43.420 and it's

00:14:44.460 the kind

00:14:44.880 of thing,

00:14:45.380 I mean,

00:14:45.660 I always

00:14:45.960 say it,

00:14:46.300 but it is,

00:14:48.040 the left

00:14:48.520 is beyond

00:14:49.700 parity at

00:14:50.400 this point.

00:14:51.600 A statement

00:14:52.340 like non-binary 0.99

00:14:53.540 people are the

00:14:54.600 backbone of our

00:14:55.440 democracy,

00:14:55.900 that's the

00:14:56.940 kind of thing

00:14:57.280 that I would

00:14:57.880 say sarcastically.

00:14:58.940 That's the

00:14:59.380 kind of thing

00:14:59.660 I would say

00:15:00.200 if I was

00:15:00.960 trying to

00:15:01.900 satirize the

00:15:03.300 left.

00:15:03.580 But they're

00:15:05.880 becoming

00:15:06.180 increasingly

00:15:06.980 difficult to

00:15:07.600 satirize

00:15:08.080 because in

00:15:09.920 order to

00:15:10.340 do good

00:15:11.060 satire or

00:15:11.820 good parody,

00:15:13.960 whatever you're

00:15:14.880 trying to

00:15:15.240 satirize,

00:15:16.080 you're taking

00:15:16.620 it to a

00:15:18.260 sort of absurd

00:15:18.980 extreme to

00:15:20.940 try to

00:15:21.580 highlight the

00:15:22.260 flaws with

00:15:23.040 the thing that

00:15:23.980 you're satirizing,

00:15:24.720 but it's

00:15:26.420 becoming

00:15:27.120 difficult to

00:15:27.960 take it to

00:15:28.420 a more

00:15:28.900 absurd extreme

00:15:29.980 than these

00:15:31.000 people will

00:15:31.480 already take

00:15:32.080 it themselves.

00:15:33.580 Okay,

00:15:35.420 so moving

00:15:37.460 on,

00:15:38.820 Jeff Goldblum,

00:15:40.120 they're now

00:15:41.460 trying to

00:15:41.860 cancel Jeff

00:15:42.460 Goldblum.

00:15:45.780 Goldblum,

00:15:46.360 if Goldblum

00:15:46.980 gets canceled,

00:15:47.900 then I

00:15:48.520 truly no one

00:15:49.540 is safe.

00:15:50.400 A T-Rex

00:15:51.360 couldn't even

00:15:51.900 cancel Jeff

00:15:52.640 Goldblum,

00:15:53.360 but now the

00:15:53.960 woke mob is

00:15:54.820 trying to,

00:15:55.700 because of

00:15:56.220 something Goldblum

00:15:56.940 said in an

00:15:57.460 interview,

00:15:58.900 this is what

00:16:00.240 he said,

00:16:01.400 and I'm just

00:16:01.900 looking at this

00:16:02.380 now for the

00:16:02.760 first time.

00:16:03.580 So we'll

00:16:05.800 see if this

00:16:07.000 justifies him

00:16:09.120 getting canceled.

00:16:10.260 Jeff Goldblum

00:16:10.880 has said that,

00:16:11.900 and I'm reading

00:16:12.300 now from

00:16:12.700 The Independent,

00:16:14.540 Jeff Goldblum

00:16:15.140 has said he

00:16:16.260 thinks there's a

00:16:16.960 presumption of

00:16:17.600 innocence until

00:16:18.400 proven guilty

00:16:19.140 regarding Woody

00:16:20.460 Allen and the

00:16:21.280 sexual abuse

00:16:21.820 allegations made

00:16:22.540 against him.

00:16:23.540 Allen was

00:16:23.900 accused of

00:16:24.320 child molestation

00:16:25.060 by his

00:16:25.400 daughter,

00:16:26.380 Dylan Farrow.

00:16:27.740 He has also

00:16:29.340 always denied

00:16:30.340 any abuse.

00:16:30.940 Since the

00:16:31.680 allegations came

00:16:32.260 to light,

00:16:32.660 numerous

00:16:32.900 Hollywood

00:16:33.160 figures,

00:16:33.600 including

00:16:33.800 Colin Firth

00:16:34.440 and Greta

00:16:34.820 Gerwig,

00:16:35.860 have pledged

00:16:36.400 never to

00:16:36.720 make a film

00:16:37.120 with Allen

00:16:37.440 again.

00:16:38.720 In the

00:16:38.920 new interview

00:16:39.380 with The

00:16:40.080 Eye Paper,

00:16:41.500 Goldblum

00:16:41.820 has said he

00:16:42.760 would,

00:16:43.440 consider working

00:16:44.200 with the

00:16:45.340 director in

00:16:45.780 the future,

00:16:46.160 having had a

00:16:46.580 minor role in

00:16:47.160 his 1977

00:16:47.760 film,

00:16:48.900 Annie Hall.

00:16:49.880 I think

00:16:50.980 there's a

00:16:51.340 presumption of

00:16:51.940 innocence until

00:16:52.620 proven guilty,

00:16:53.220 said Goldblum.

00:16:53.940 I know I

00:16:54.640 enjoyed working

00:16:55.120 with him many

00:16:55.580 years ago,

00:16:56.100 and I sat in

00:16:57.020 with his band

00:16:57.600 once too.

00:17:00.760 Okay,

00:17:01.240 that's it.

00:17:01.680 That's what he

00:17:02.000 said.

00:17:03.380 That's all.

00:17:04.000 He said innocent

00:17:04.520 until proven

00:17:05.020 guilty.

00:17:06.000 And people are

00:17:07.100 upset by this.

00:17:09.180 In fact,

00:17:09.760 the very first

00:17:10.200 sentence,

00:17:11.260 Jeff Goldblum

00:17:11.980 has said he

00:17:12.560 thinks there's a

00:17:13.440 presumption of

00:17:13.960 innocence.

00:17:14.840 Well, isn't

00:17:15.620 there though?

00:17:17.420 Now, I happen

00:17:18.300 to think that Woody

00:17:18.900 Allen is a

00:17:19.380 creep.

00:17:19.640 But if Woody

00:17:23.160 Allen came

00:17:23.680 knocking on

00:17:24.160 my door and

00:17:24.680 asking me to

00:17:25.140 appear in one

00:17:25.540 of his films,

00:17:26.200 I would probably

00:17:27.260 have to turn

00:17:27.680 him down,

00:17:28.400 even if that's

00:17:30.220 unlikely to

00:17:30.680 happen.

00:17:31.920 But what

00:17:34.020 exactly is the

00:17:34.800 problem here?

00:17:36.640 I think there's

00:17:37.340 a presumption of

00:17:37.920 innocence until

00:17:38.400 proven guilty.

00:17:39.380 Okay, yes.

00:17:42.140 That's an

00:17:44.060 idea that is

00:17:46.160 very much a

00:17:47.360 cornerstone of

00:17:48.640 our system,

00:17:49.640 and our

00:17:50.120 democracy,

00:17:50.840 innocent until

00:17:51.820 proven guilty.

00:17:53.640 And it's

00:17:54.360 pretty disturbing

00:17:55.080 now when you

00:17:55.640 have people that

00:17:56.420 are basically

00:17:58.080 in principle

00:17:59.340 coming out

00:18:00.080 against innocent

00:18:01.120 until proven

00:18:01.680 guilty.

00:18:03.180 Where it's

00:18:03.900 now controversial

00:18:05.160 and it can get

00:18:06.860 you canceled

00:18:07.540 to say that,

00:18:10.340 to say innocent

00:18:10.940 until proven

00:18:11.460 guilty.

00:18:11.740 those are

00:18:15.100 scary times

00:18:16.240 we live in.

00:18:16.960 All right,

00:18:17.100 before we get

00:18:17.480 to emails,

00:18:18.180 one other

00:18:20.020 thing.

00:18:22.220 If you've

00:18:23.040 been paying

00:18:23.860 attention online,

00:18:25.700 the trend

00:18:26.480 now is this

00:18:27.560 OK Boomer

00:18:28.560 meme.

00:18:30.060 I don't know if

00:18:30.700 you're not on

00:18:31.040 Twitter.

00:18:31.380 I don't know if

00:18:32.160 this is bled

00:18:32.760 outside of

00:18:33.260 Twitter or not,

00:18:33.880 or if it's

00:18:34.260 just a Twitter

00:18:34.740 thing.

00:18:35.060 But on

00:18:38.000 Twitter, this

00:18:38.600 is the trend

00:18:39.560 now where you

00:18:40.080 say OK Boomer.

00:18:41.320 And, you know,

00:18:41.700 anytime someone

00:18:42.500 who's older

00:18:43.100 makes a point

00:18:43.980 that everyone

00:18:44.880 else feels is

00:18:45.960 out of touch,

00:18:46.680 then you just

00:18:47.760 respond with OK

00:18:48.560 Boomer.

00:18:50.180 Well, boomers, 0.97

00:18:51.780 I guess, don't

00:18:52.180 like this.

00:18:53.020 And so there's

00:18:53.580 been this slate

00:18:55.560 of articles and

00:18:57.040 tweets and things

00:18:57.780 from boomers who 0.81

00:18:58.740 are reacting to

00:18:59.960 the OK Boomer

00:19:00.920 meme in ways

00:19:02.620 that only show

00:19:05.040 how out of touch

00:19:05.780 they are and

00:19:06.660 just elicit more

00:19:07.680 OK boomers. 0.66

00:19:09.180 And maybe the

00:19:10.040 worst example of

00:19:10.860 this was a guy,

00:19:12.340 a radio host,

00:19:13.400 who said a few

00:19:15.380 days ago, he

00:19:16.060 tweeted that he

00:19:17.920 compared the word

00:19:19.200 Boomer now to

00:19:20.520 the N-word,

00:19:21.460 saying that it's a

00:19:22.180 slur, basically, 0.97

00:19:23.140 to say it.

00:19:23.940 He said,

00:19:24.500 Boomer is the 0.95

00:19:26.900 N-word of ageism.

00:19:28.920 Being hip and

00:19:30.000 flip does not

00:19:30.780 make bigotry

00:19:31.620 OK, nor is a

00:19:33.200 derisive epithet

00:19:34.240 acceptable because

00:19:35.960 it's new.

00:19:38.620 So just the

00:19:40.000 word Boomer is

00:19:41.060 now a derisive

00:19:42.120 slur comparable

00:19:44.160 to the N-word.

00:19:45.900 And of course,

00:19:46.280 he tweets this,

00:19:47.020 and then what

00:19:47.420 happens?

00:19:48.000 There's 50

00:19:48.800 million people

00:19:49.620 responding with

00:19:50.440 OK Boomer,

00:19:51.380 because of course

00:19:52.040 that's going to

00:19:52.460 happen.

00:19:53.300 The only thing I

00:19:53.680 want to say is

00:19:54.240 it seems like

00:19:56.060 there's finally a

00:19:57.140 real generational

00:19:58.080 warfare ramping

00:19:59.040 up with

00:20:01.820 millennials and

00:20:02.820 Gen Z going 1.00

00:20:03.600 after boomers.

00:20:05.540 And I'm kind

00:20:07.480 of enjoying it,

00:20:08.020 I have to be

00:20:08.420 honest.

00:20:10.420 I think we

00:20:11.140 were due for a

00:20:11.780 good generational

00:20:12.460 war.

00:20:12.960 Well, here's

00:20:13.520 what I'll say.

00:20:14.480 A couple of

00:20:15.180 things.

00:20:16.240 First of all,

00:20:17.320 I don't mean to

00:20:18.100 get into a you

00:20:19.020 started it type

00:20:19.820 of thing.

00:20:20.960 But with the

00:20:21.700 boomers, you

00:20:22.500 did kind of

00:20:23.420 start it because

00:20:24.420 it seems to me

00:20:25.820 that for the

00:20:26.460 last 10 years,

00:20:27.780 it's been

00:20:30.320 perfectly

00:20:30.920 acceptable to

00:20:32.080 insult

00:20:33.600 millennials and

00:20:34.440 to complain

00:20:34.820 about millennials

00:20:35.440 and boomers

00:20:36.080 did that all

00:20:36.500 the time.

00:20:37.780 And I've

00:20:38.480 done it too.

00:20:39.400 There's plenty

00:20:40.080 of things to

00:20:40.600 criticize about

00:20:41.260 us.

00:20:41.800 Don't get me

00:20:42.480 wrong.

00:20:43.940 But that was a

00:20:44.880 perfectly acceptable

00:20:45.740 thing to do for

00:20:46.360 the last decade.

00:20:47.760 And now just

00:20:49.140 really just

00:20:49.840 recently, I

00:20:51.360 think millennials

00:20:51.880 have been

00:20:52.380 starting to throw

00:20:53.700 it back in the

00:20:54.420 direction of

00:20:54.900 boomers.

00:20:55.420 and now

00:20:57.220 all of a

00:20:57.720 sudden, now

00:20:58.120 all of a

00:20:58.380 sudden, it's

00:20:58.620 a problem.

00:20:59.380 Well, how

00:20:59.700 dare you

00:21:00.280 lump an

00:21:00.860 entire, how

00:21:01.700 dare you

00:21:02.180 criticize an

00:21:02.860 entire generation 0.69

00:21:03.580 and make

00:21:03.900 these generalities

00:21:04.920 like this?

00:21:06.920 Isn't that

00:21:07.520 what you've

00:21:07.860 been doing

00:21:08.180 with millennials

00:21:08.720 this whole

00:21:09.640 time?

00:21:11.080 So now

00:21:11.840 it's a

00:21:12.320 problem?

00:21:14.120 That's an

00:21:14.640 issue for me.

00:21:16.220 Also, the

00:21:16.820 other thing is

00:21:17.460 when you get

00:21:19.200 into the

00:21:19.540 generational

00:21:20.020 war,

00:21:21.000 the issue

00:21:24.300 that boomers 1.00

00:21:25.060 are going

00:21:25.380 to run

00:21:25.640 into is

00:21:26.380 that you

00:21:28.140 can't really,

00:21:29.980 and this is

00:21:30.600 what I've

00:21:30.820 been saying

00:21:31.140 for the

00:21:31.360 last several

00:21:31.800 years with

00:21:33.080 boomers

00:21:33.500 criticizing and

00:21:35.060 complaining about

00:21:35.560 millennials,

00:21:36.360 you can't

00:21:37.800 really criticize

00:21:38.960 a millennial

00:21:39.640 as a boomer

00:21:40.420 without criticizing

00:21:42.200 yourself because

00:21:44.740 they're your

00:21:45.560 kids.

00:21:46.280 You're the

00:21:46.520 one who

00:21:46.800 raised these

00:21:47.460 people.

00:21:49.560 And so

00:21:49.760 I think

00:21:50.820 there has

00:21:51.380 been in the

00:21:53.140 boomer

00:21:53.400 generation

00:21:53.940 and again

00:21:55.080 we're

00:21:55.220 speaking

00:21:55.440 generally

00:21:55.900 but in

00:21:59.180 the boomer

00:21:59.560 generation

00:22:00.060 there has

00:22:00.680 been I

00:22:01.360 think in

00:22:02.120 some ways

00:22:02.640 a failure

00:22:03.420 to confront

00:22:05.600 their own

00:22:06.680 failures especially

00:22:07.520 when it comes to

00:22:08.120 parenting and to

00:22:08.800 acknowledge that

00:22:09.680 hey, you know,

00:22:11.280 if the millennial

00:22:12.120 generation really

00:22:12.860 is terrible

00:22:13.640 like we say

00:22:15.080 that's on us

00:22:16.960 because we're the

00:22:17.780 ones who raised

00:22:18.420 these people.

00:22:19.940 So that's

00:22:20.820 probably our

00:22:21.380 fault.

00:22:21.720 It seems like

00:22:22.520 we may have

00:22:22.900 screwed up big

00:22:23.520 time in the

00:22:23.960 parenting department

00:22:24.600 but there's very

00:22:26.820 little acknowledgement

00:22:27.520 of that which is

00:22:28.520 kind of annoying.

00:22:31.340 Not to mention

00:22:32.120 of course boomers 0.60

00:22:33.400 bankrupted the

00:22:34.180 country, drove

00:22:35.860 up massive

00:22:36.340 debts, destroyed

00:22:38.680 the institution of

00:22:39.480 marriage and the

00:22:40.240 family, started a

00:22:41.300 bunch of pointless

00:22:42.000 wars, so on and

00:22:42.760 so forth.

00:22:43.080 There are other

00:22:43.620 things too.

00:22:44.320 I think there are

00:22:44.720 other things that

00:22:45.660 maybe, you

00:22:48.940 should be reason

00:22:51.420 to pause and

00:22:52.560 have a little bit

00:22:53.200 of self-reflection

00:22:53.960 and maybe acknowledge

00:22:56.380 that hey, you know,

00:22:57.180 we kind of screwed

00:22:58.040 up in a few areas

00:22:59.280 and we're sort of

00:23:01.040 leaving you a country

00:23:01.920 that's not in great

00:23:03.020 shape and we're

00:23:05.400 leaving you a lot

00:23:06.060 of problems to fix

00:23:06.960 and we're sorry

00:23:07.500 about that.

00:23:09.520 That's all.

00:23:10.180 I think maybe if

00:23:12.080 you want to stop

00:23:12.720 the okay boomer

00:23:13.540 meme, maybe that's

00:23:14.400 all.

00:23:14.840 Just I think boomers 1.00

00:23:15.580 may just need to

00:23:16.240 say that.

00:23:17.240 Listen, we screwed

00:23:17.940 up.

00:23:18.100 You know, we're

00:23:19.140 we're kind of on

00:23:20.800 our way out and

00:23:21.780 you're taking over

00:23:22.700 the country and

00:23:23.520 it's and we're not

00:23:24.500 you know, we're

00:23:24.920 handing you the

00:23:25.680 keys to the car and

00:23:27.280 it's pretty dinged

00:23:28.200 up and our bad.

00:23:30.020 Sorry about that.

00:23:33.380 Actually, the keys

00:23:34.240 the car is not

00:23:35.140 dinged up.

00:23:35.700 It is on fire.

00:23:36.600 As we speak, we

00:23:37.440 are handing you a

00:23:38.240 car that is on

00:23:39.000 fire.

00:23:39.500 Here are the

00:23:39.880 keys.

00:23:41.360 Sorry about that.

00:23:43.960 Okay.

00:23:45.400 Let's go to

00:23:46.320 emails.

00:23:46.800 Matt wall show at

00:23:47.740 gmail.com.

00:23:48.680 Matt wall show at

00:23:49.580 gmail.com.

00:23:51.680 This is from

00:23:52.380 Steven says, hey,

00:23:54.340 Matt, this is

00:23:54.840 Steven today on

00:23:55.960 your podcast.

00:23:56.420 You mentioned that

00:23:57.000 the school system is

00:23:57.860 geared mostly towards

00:23:58.860 girls and you also

00:23:59.760 noted that many boys

00:24:00.680 in our school system

00:24:01.340 are hopped on drugs

00:24:02.360 because they have too

00:24:03.480 much energy or can't

00:24:04.380 focus.

00:24:05.920 They're put on drugs

00:24:07.060 because of their

00:24:08.340 energy.

00:24:08.720 Yeah.

00:24:09.220 I was curious as to

00:24:10.880 how you think the

00:24:11.400 school system could be

00:24:12.140 better geared towards

00:24:13.180 both genders.

00:24:14.860 Well, the problem

00:24:15.300 Steven is that in

00:24:19.460 order to gear the

00:24:21.860 school system towards

00:24:23.000 both genders, you 0.71

00:24:23.980 would need to rework it

00:24:25.420 from the bottom up.

00:24:26.400 You would need to tear

00:24:27.120 the whole thing down

00:24:27.940 and basically start

00:24:29.400 over.

00:24:30.940 And I don't think as

00:24:32.100 long as we're going to

00:24:32.900 have this massive

00:24:35.700 education system, this

00:24:38.000 government run system

00:24:39.840 where you've got

00:24:41.360 millions of kids in

00:24:42.860 the system and

00:24:43.640 they're going to

00:24:44.080 these schools and

00:24:45.500 they're in classrooms

00:24:46.380 with 35 other kids.

00:24:49.240 As long as we're

00:24:50.200 doing that, there's

00:24:51.600 not going to be any

00:24:52.600 way to gear the

00:24:53.980 system towards each

00:24:55.300 of them individually.

00:24:56.540 You got 35 kids in

00:24:57.620 a classroom.

00:24:58.860 There's no way to do

00:25:00.720 it.

00:25:00.900 You can't gear.

00:25:02.520 You cannot

00:25:03.440 personalize education

00:25:05.660 when you're doing

00:25:06.960 that.

00:25:07.680 There's no way for

00:25:08.560 the teachers to do

00:25:09.280 it.

00:25:09.380 And it's not the

00:25:09.860 teacher's fault.

00:25:12.620 So what ends up

00:25:13.860 happening is because

00:25:16.920 you've got all these

00:25:17.740 kids in the system

00:25:18.540 and just with the

00:25:19.560 way that it works,

00:25:20.500 you put them in,

00:25:21.520 you got a bunch of

00:25:22.220 kids in a class and

00:25:23.240 they're in this class

00:25:24.620 for 45 minutes and

00:25:25.760 they go to the next

00:25:26.340 class and on and on

00:25:27.320 and then they leave.

00:25:29.700 And because of that,

00:25:31.380 the system has to

00:25:33.120 streamline and it's

00:25:35.180 inevitable that the

00:25:36.360 system is going to

00:25:37.320 run on just

00:25:39.080 memorization and

00:25:40.440 regurgitation and

00:25:42.060 you got to be able

00:25:42.800 to sit still and

00:25:44.420 and fill out

00:25:45.540 paperwork and

00:25:47.620 remember things and

00:25:49.020 then repeat them

00:25:50.340 onto a sheet of

00:25:51.020 paper and and

00:25:52.920 that's how it's

00:25:53.720 going to work.

00:25:55.700 And that is a lot

00:25:59.180 easier for girls than 0.98

00:26:00.360 it is for boys.

00:26:01.620 And it's just a

00:26:02.260 fact.

00:26:02.580 boys have a lot

00:26:04.400 more physical

00:26:05.220 energy.

00:26:05.700 They have they have

00:26:06.560 a harder time paying

00:26:07.880 attention in that kind

00:26:09.080 of environment.

00:26:09.860 They're not as good

00:26:11.160 at memorization as

00:26:12.840 as girls are.

00:26:15.380 So my point is, if

00:26:17.140 you're looking for the

00:26:17.780 school system to be

00:26:20.160 able to personalize

00:26:21.300 and gear the

00:26:22.200 educational environment

00:26:23.400 and the educational

00:26:24.120 experience to the

00:26:25.180 personal needs of each

00:26:26.000 kid, that isn't going

00:26:27.820 to happen.

00:26:28.240 But I do think that

00:26:30.960 education needs to be

00:26:32.300 personalized and

00:26:33.200 needs to be geared

00:26:34.500 towards the personal

00:26:35.520 needs of every

00:26:36.760 individual kid, which

00:26:38.220 means that I think

00:26:39.680 the best thing is to

00:26:41.320 not put your kids in

00:26:42.260 that system to begin

00:26:43.040 with.

00:26:44.000 That's why I think

00:26:44.780 homeschooling is great

00:26:45.740 or there are not

00:26:48.800 every private school is

00:26:49.720 great, but there are

00:26:50.280 private schools that are

00:26:51.340 much smaller and and

00:26:53.380 are able to do that,

00:26:54.480 at least do it much

00:26:55.300 more than the public

00:26:56.020 schools can.

00:26:56.560 So I think that's

00:26:58.920 that's the answer.

00:27:00.640 The answer is to

00:27:02.040 withdraw from this

00:27:03.580 system as much and I

00:27:05.440 know not everybody can,

00:27:06.640 but as much as

00:27:07.520 possible to withdraw

00:27:09.580 from this system.

00:27:11.400 And to give our kids

00:27:12.880 an education that is

00:27:13.800 tailored to their

00:27:14.620 specific needs.

00:27:17.060 This from Caleb says,

00:27:18.540 Hey, Matt, I

00:27:18.920 appreciate your views

00:27:19.720 on relationships and

00:27:20.780 more broadly morality.

00:27:21.940 I've been a listener

00:27:22.920 since the start of this

00:27:23.980 year and have come to

00:27:24.680 value the wisdom and

00:27:25.500 dry humor you

00:27:26.100 consistently share.

00:27:26.980 I was hoping you

00:27:27.440 could help me with

00:27:27.920 an issue I've been

00:27:28.640 having.

00:27:29.640 I'm 22 and I've been

00:27:30.860 dating this girl for

00:27:31.620 almost a year now.

00:27:32.500 A couple of weeks

00:27:33.000 ago, she said she

00:27:33.860 loved me.

00:27:34.680 There was an awkward

00:27:35.480 moment as I couldn't

00:27:36.580 make myself say it

00:27:37.680 back.

00:27:38.020 We talked about it

00:27:38.640 afterwards and came to

00:27:39.500 an understanding.

00:27:40.720 My question is that I

00:27:41.800 don't think I will ever

00:27:42.560 say that to her and I

00:27:44.160 feel and feel like I

00:27:45.240 mean it.

00:27:45.880 When I think of my

00:27:46.540 future, I don't ever

00:27:47.320 really consider her a

00:27:48.240 part of it.

00:27:49.180 I don't want to hurt

00:27:49.900 her and I feel like a

00:27:50.680 horrible person for

00:27:51.460 letting this happen.

00:27:53.120 What should I do?

00:27:54.660 Thank you for your

00:27:55.220 time.

00:27:56.100 Well, Caleb, first of

00:27:56.900 all, good for you for

00:27:58.020 not saying I love you

00:27:58.880 back if you didn't mean

00:27:59.700 it.

00:28:00.080 I think most people

00:28:00.720 probably would have

00:28:01.500 said it back to be

00:28:02.360 nice, thereby leading

00:28:03.640 the other person on and

00:28:04.540 making the situation

00:28:05.240 worse.

00:28:05.760 So I think I would

00:28:08.140 commend you for that.

00:28:10.000 As for what you

00:28:10.760 should do now, I think

00:28:11.860 you probably know what

00:28:13.240 you should do.

00:28:13.840 And in a relationship

00:28:17.120 like this, when

00:28:18.000 you're dating, the

00:28:20.140 moment you start

00:28:20.780 asking questions like

00:28:21.980 this, that's probably

00:28:24.900 a good sign that you

00:28:26.720 already know what you

00:28:27.500 should do, which is to

00:28:28.420 end the relationship.

00:28:29.700 If you've been with

00:28:30.360 this girl for a year,

00:28:31.440 you're 22, you don't

00:28:32.640 love her, you don't

00:28:33.360 see her in your

00:28:34.920 future, that means

00:28:36.920 that there's no

00:28:38.000 reason for this

00:28:38.720 relationship to

00:28:39.380 continue.

00:28:40.680 Dating someone when

00:28:42.280 you know there is no

00:28:43.140 future is pointless.

00:28:44.520 It's just, it's just

00:28:45.340 building up heartache

00:28:46.400 for the future.

00:28:47.180 It's like going on a

00:28:48.320 long road trip, um,

00:28:50.960 knowing ahead of time

00:28:52.280 that your car is going

00:28:53.380 to break down on the

00:28:54.500 side of the road before

00:28:55.380 you get to your

00:28:55.880 destination.

00:28:57.080 So the further you go,

00:28:58.480 the worse it's going to

00:28:59.680 be when the car breaks

00:29:00.740 down.

00:29:01.900 So why not, if you

00:29:02.960 know, it's going to

00:29:03.580 happen, why not pull

00:29:04.400 over now, take control

00:29:06.400 of the situation.

00:29:08.240 I think this is

00:29:09.440 especially the case

00:29:10.960 when the other person,

00:29:12.080 your girlfriend in

00:29:12.580 this case, is

00:29:13.140 obviously thinks that

00:29:14.560 it is headed

00:29:15.060 somewhere.

00:29:16.240 So she has

00:29:17.320 intentions for your

00:29:18.400 relationship that you

00:29:19.320 don't have.

00:29:20.520 And so I think it's

00:29:21.400 your responsibility to

00:29:22.440 just tell her that,

00:29:23.480 break it off.

00:29:25.240 It'll hurt.

00:29:26.040 It'll be painful.

00:29:27.520 It'll be kind of

00:29:28.320 miserable for a while.

00:29:29.320 So will she, but it

00:29:30.920 gets better a lot

00:29:31.600 faster than you think

00:29:33.580 it will.

00:29:34.100 Um, and then you'll,

00:29:34.940 and you'll be glad

00:29:35.520 before, you know,

00:29:36.120 you'll be glad that

00:29:36.840 you broke it off when

00:29:38.940 you did, uh, both for

00:29:40.480 her sake and for

00:29:41.460 yours.

00:29:42.500 Okay.

00:29:43.100 Um, let's see

00:29:45.700 another, another

00:29:50.480 relationship one.

00:29:52.900 This is, uh, I guess

00:29:55.140 I'm putting on my

00:29:55.800 doctor love hat here.

00:29:57.020 This is from Cam

00:29:58.500 says, dear Matt, I've

00:29:59.500 been a fan of your

00:30:00.360 work for the last five

00:30:01.300 years.

00:30:01.500 I'm writing because I

00:30:02.580 really value your

00:30:03.340 insight and opinion.

00:30:04.300 I think maybe other

00:30:05.120 people my age could

00:30:06.620 benefit from this

00:30:07.420 question too.

00:30:09.000 I'm 27 and recently

00:30:10.280 started dating a man

00:30:11.140 who checks all of the

00:30:11.980 most important boxes

00:30:13.020 I've been hoping and

00:30:13.920 praying for.

00:30:14.800 He's a Christian.

00:30:15.740 We align on politics,

00:30:16.900 hobbies, worldview,

00:30:18.100 maturity, humor,

00:30:18.940 communication.

00:30:19.940 He's everything I

00:30:20.660 could want in a

00:30:21.100 husband and I can 0.99

00:30:21.740 imagine building a

00:30:22.420 life together.

00:30:23.440 The only doubt I'm

00:30:24.340 facing is that I don't

00:30:25.140 feel the same excitement

00:30:26.100 and infatuation that I

00:30:27.420 felt in past

00:30:28.040 relationships.

00:30:29.600 Is this a sign that

00:30:30.680 something important is

00:30:31.600 missing from the

00:30:32.140 relationship?

00:30:32.960 I feel affectionate

00:30:34.140 towards him and I'm

00:30:34.940 attracted to him, but

00:30:36.580 it's not the head over

00:30:37.440 heels effect. 1.00

00:30:38.040 In fact, it's more,

00:30:38.780 more of the opposite.

00:30:39.640 I feel calm, secure,

00:30:40.600 and happy and a little

00:30:42.040 nervous at the same time

00:30:43.140 with the thought of

00:30:43.640 committing to each

00:30:44.180 other forever.

00:30:45.120 Can you have a long,

00:30:46.160 happy, successful

00:30:46.720 marriage with someone if

00:30:47.860 it starts off without

00:30:49.360 figurative fireworks?

00:30:50.960 What do you think?

00:30:52.640 Also, was there a

00:30:53.660 point in your courtship

00:30:54.480 that you knew you were

00:30:55.360 going to marry your 0.95

00:30:56.040 wife?

00:30:56.660 Sincere thanks for all

00:30:57.440 you do and may God

00:30:58.020 bless you.

00:30:59.100 Well, if you hadn't,

00:31:00.060 Cam, if you hadn't

00:31:00.600 included that paragraph

00:31:01.740 where you said that you

00:31:02.980 feel calm, secure, and

00:31:07.180 happy, if you hadn't

00:31:08.980 said that, then I would

00:31:09.860 say it's probably not a

00:31:10.720 good sign.

00:31:12.360 Because yes,

00:31:13.140 relationships are not

00:31:13.960 all about feelings and

00:31:15.500 love is not just a

00:31:16.500 feeling, it's a choice,

00:31:17.460 it's an act of, an

00:31:19.020 act of will, it's a

00:31:21.520 choice to sacrifice for

00:31:22.680 another person, that's

00:31:23.400 what love is.

00:31:24.300 But you should still,

00:31:25.820 there should still be

00:31:26.620 feelings there, and if

00:31:27.460 you just feel nothing

00:31:28.360 for somebody from the

00:31:29.420 very beginning, well,

00:31:31.200 that's not a good foot

00:31:34.340 to begin on.

00:31:37.120 But you say that you

00:31:38.280 feel calm, secure, and

00:31:39.680 happy, and I would say

00:31:43.520 that that's, and you're

00:31:47.500 affectionate, you feel

00:31:48.160 affectionate towards

00:31:48.720 them, and you're

00:31:49.080 attracted to them.

00:31:50.180 And on top of that, you

00:31:52.220 align on politics,

00:31:53.380 hobbies, worldview,

00:31:54.260 maturity, humor,

00:31:54.880 communication.

00:31:56.900 Look, you have to make

00:31:57.940 the decision for

00:31:58.420 yourself, but to me, that

00:31:59.280 sounds like a keeper.

00:32:02.140 And as far as not having

00:32:03.700 that infatuation feeling,

00:32:05.380 well, you talk about

00:32:05.880 infatuation, that's really

00:32:06.940 sort of the obsession

00:32:08.520 that people have.

00:32:10.000 And I think the fact that

00:32:11.160 you don't have that is

00:32:13.400 probably just more a sign

00:32:14.880 of you're older, and so

00:32:17.500 if you compare this, and

00:32:18.860 I don't think you said

00:32:19.700 how old you are, you

00:32:20.320 said you're 27, okay.

00:32:21.900 So if you compare this

00:32:23.100 relationship maybe to

00:32:24.400 when you were 16 and

00:32:26.660 dating someone, yeah,

00:32:29.060 it's not going to be the

00:32:30.460 same, quote, fireworks

00:32:31.420 that you're talking about

00:32:32.280 because when you were

00:32:32.860 16, being emotionally

00:32:35.740 immature, you were just 1.00

00:32:37.320 obsessed with the other

00:32:38.580 person.

00:32:39.460 And of course, it didn't

00:32:40.560 last for very long, and

00:32:41.780 you had this obsession,

00:32:43.020 and then it quickly

00:32:44.140 faded away, and the

00:32:45.200 relationship died, and

00:32:45.840 that's how it goes when

00:32:46.640 you're 16 years old.

00:32:47.460 But as you get older,

00:32:48.460 you're not going to be

00:32:49.340 obsessed with the other

00:32:49.960 person, which is good

00:32:50.740 because to be married to

00:32:53.520 someone and be obsessed

00:32:54.660 with them, and you want

00:32:55.700 to be around them 24-7,

00:32:57.220 and you can't be away

00:32:58.060 from them ever, you

00:32:59.680 couldn't function that

00:33:01.200 way.

00:33:01.400 It would be a very weird

00:33:02.020 way to have a marriage,

00:33:02.940 and it would get pretty

00:33:03.940 exhausting pretty quick.

00:33:06.020 So this thing you're

00:33:06.920 talking about of feeling

00:33:07.940 calm, secure, happy, I

00:33:11.360 think that's a sign that

00:33:13.020 it's not a bad sign, and

00:33:16.380 it's certainly not a bad

00:33:18.180 sign about this guy.

00:33:19.600 I think that's just a

00:33:20.360 sign of your own

00:33:21.380 maturity, and the fact

00:33:24.200 that you're looking for

00:33:25.040 something deeper, and

00:33:27.460 stronger, and more solid,

00:33:30.960 and it sounds like you

00:33:31.880 found it.

00:33:32.640 Okay, finally, this is

00:33:34.800 from Shane, says, Matt,

00:33:35.980 not really a question,

00:33:36.900 just a remark on how you

00:33:38.040 said David Fulkenflick,

00:33:39.600 and then remarked that

00:33:40.460 it's a dangerous name to

00:33:41.480 say on the air, and then

00:33:42.740 proceeded to say his name

00:33:43.780 eight times in a row.

00:33:46.000 I know you really

00:33:46.980 disregarded the left's

00:33:48.460 outrage mob, but wow,

00:33:49.720 that was bold, almost as

00:33:50.960 bold as people who say

00:33:51.800 Epstein did kill himself,

00:33:53.060 which he most definitely

00:33:53.840 did.

00:33:54.720 Your friend, David

00:33:55.560 Fulkenflick.

00:33:56.680 Yeah, well, David

00:33:57.340 Fulkenflick is just, I

00:33:58.560 think, one of the best

00:33:59.180 reporters out there, and

00:34:00.360 that's what it comes down

00:34:00.920 to.

00:34:01.080 The thing about David

00:34:01.680 Fulkenflick, I'd say

00:34:03.440 that Fulkenflick's best

00:34:04.420 attribute, the main point

00:34:05.380 about Fulkenflick that I

00:34:06.240 would make about Fulkenflick

00:34:07.180 is that Fulkenflick, he's

00:34:09.460 just Fulkenflick.

00:34:10.460 He's true to himself,

00:34:11.680 you know what I'm

00:34:11.980 saying?

00:34:12.480 There aren't many

00:34:13.140 Fulkenflicks out there. 0.98

00:34:14.520 There's Fulkenflick, and 0.82

00:34:15.460 then there's not Fulkenflick,

00:34:16.360 you know what I'm saying?

00:34:17.180 But Fulkenflick is the

00:34:18.260 only Fulkenflick.

00:34:20.140 And you gotta love

00:34:21.160 Fulkenflick.

00:34:24.540 That's really all.

00:34:25.360 So thank you for giving me

00:34:26.140 the chance to talk about

00:34:27.440 my favorite reporter,

00:34:29.340 David Fulkenflick, again.

00:34:31.260 And thanks, everybody,

00:34:32.060 for watching.

00:34:32.360 We'll leave it there, I

00:34:32.960 think.

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The Matt Walsh Show - November 08, 2019

Ep. 367 - Only 100 Billion Dollars Away From Utopia

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