The Matt Walsh Show - November 08, 2019


Ep. 367 - Only 100 Billion Dollars Away From Utopia


Episode Stats

Length

35 minutes

Words per Minute

157.7197

Word Count

5,596

Sentence Count

318

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

25


Summary


Transcript

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.
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
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
00:11:28.420 4.
00:11:30.240 That's
00:11:30.800 4-F-O-R
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
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.
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
00:11:46.860 Wimix-N-4
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
00:11:56.220 women
00:11:56.500 for
00:11:57.240 Black
00:11:58.860 trans
00:12:00.680 and
00:12:01.200 cis
00:12:01.480 women,
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
00:12:42.520 women getting
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,
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,
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
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,
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
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.
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,
00:19:23.140 to say it.
00:19:23.940 He said,
00:19:24.500 Boomer is the
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
00:34:14.520 There's Fulkenflick, and
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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