Ep. 573 - Another Trump Bombshell Fizzles
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The Media obtained President Trump s tax records. The big scandal is that Trump managed to keep a lot of his own money. Also, another revelation in the Jacob Blake shooting, and Amy Coney Barrett is officially announced as Trump s Supreme Court pick.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media obtained President Trump's tax records.
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The big scandal is that Trump managed to legally keep a lot of his own money.
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Somehow, I'm just not able to feel much outrage about this, though the media wants me to.
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Also, five headlines, including another revelation in the Jacob Blake shooting,
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and Amy Coney Barrett is officially announced as Trump's SCOTUS pick.
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The attacks from the left have been as deranged as expected, but we'll go over
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Well, you know, I think back to 2018, all those centuries ago, it feels like, when Michael
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Cohen, Trump's lawyer and fixer, his Harvey Keitel from Pulp Fiction, his guy who goes in and
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figures out how to hide the bodies, you know, that's what we were told anyway, when that
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guy turned on Trump and revealed that he had been secretly recording conversations with
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his former boss, and he gave those tapes to the media.
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A guy who is now president of the United States, a guy who we're told is corrupt down to his
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bones, has been secretly recorded by his lawyer, and the media has the tapes.
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What sort of deep, dark, dirty misdeeds will they uncover?
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One can only imagine, except one need not imagine.
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Well, then CNN played the tapes, and they weren't nearly as exciting as we had hoped or anticipated.
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Mostly, they just discuss normal business dealings.
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At one point, they apparently talk about buying the rights to a story about a Playboy model
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who says she had an affair with Trump, but you can't even really hear Trump's part of
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Regardless, listening to the tapes, you know, an honest person couldn't help but think, well,
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if this is the worst thing they have in secret recordings between Trump and his lawyer, then
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maybe he isn't the criminal mastermind that CNN wants us to believe he is.
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It's the same thing with all the tell-all books, the various White House officials leaving the
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administration, turning around and revealing everything that happened.
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They have some things that they say that, you know, aren't very flattering to Trump, though
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you can't necessarily believe all of it anyway.
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But we've been told that Trump is the embodiment of evil.
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You'd expect some indication of that when all of these secrets are dumped out in front of
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Instead, we're always left with the impression that if the stuff is true, Trump is kind of
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a jerk, which we already knew, but he isn't the mob boss the media wants him to be.
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And then we add to this the FBI investigations, the impeachment.
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They've gone through every aspect of Trump's life and business looking for skeletons.
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And they haven't really found them, which at a certain point makes a rational man conclude
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All of this comes to mind when reading about the next big media scoop that's supposed to
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The New York Times has obtained Trump's tax records.
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And by obtained, of course, we mean that someone Trump trusted with his finances turned around
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If there's any crime uncovered here, it's that.
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But the crime is in the uncovering, not in the thing that was uncovered.
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Well, the website dnyuz.com has helpfully given us the bullet points, so I'll read them here.
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Mr. Trump paid no federal income taxes in 11 of 18 years that the Times examined.
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In 2017, after he became president, his tax bill was only $750.
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He has reduced his tax bill with questionable measures, including a $72.9 million tax refund
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Many of his signature businesses, including his golf courses, report losing large amounts
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of money, losses that have helped him to lower his taxes.
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The financial pressure on him is increasing as hundreds of millions of dollars in loans
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Even while declaring losses, he has managed to enjoy a lavish lifestyle by taking tax deductions
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on what most people would consider personal expenses, including residences, aircraft, and $70,000 in hairstyling for TV.
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Ivanka Trump, while working as an employee of the Trump Organization, appears to have received
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consulting fees that also helped reduce the family's tax bill.
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And then it says, as president, he has received more money from foreign sources and U.S. interest groups
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Now, to be clear here, there is no known crime involved in any of this.
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The refund that they talked about that's questionable is in audit right now.
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The rest of it is entirely legal and above board.
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Even if you don't like the fact that Trump paid so little in taxes, if he's a crook,
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you'd expect his personal financial records to reveal something more than that he's creative in his tax deductions.
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The media is making a lot of the fact that Trump, as it mentioned, deducted his hairstyling expenses for TV.
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But all of the media people panicking over it are doing their panicking with professionally styled hair and professional makeup.
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The studios that they're in have stylists and makeup artists on staff.
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If any of those media people had to pay for it themselves, they'd be deducting it too.
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It's a completely legitimate deduction for a TV personality.
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Any accountant of a TV personality that doesn't tell them to deduct those sorts of things is guilty of malpractice.
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And that's the case for most of this, at least as far as the taxes go.
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Trump took advantage of the tax law to mitigate his tax liability as much as possible.
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If you don't like that he could mitigate it that much, take it up with the people who write the tax law.
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Trump is working within the boundaries of the law.
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If you think those boundaries should be tightened, your qualm is not with Trump,
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who had nothing to do with setting the boundaries in the first place.
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Personally, I have never been able to generate significant emotional outrage against people
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who manage to keep most of their own money at tax time.
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Even illegally, criminal tax evasion, which isn't what this is.
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But just to give you an idea of my own leanings, full disclosure,
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even criminal tax evasion doesn't make me very angry.
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I reserve most of my moral disgust and outrage for child rapists, murderers, people of that sort.
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Those guilty of stealing their own money from the IRS just don't raise my hackles, to be honest with you.
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But if they do it legally, as Trump did, well then, not only am I not outraged,
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but I admire your ingenuity, or at least the ingenuity of your accountants.
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If I recognize any serious moral obligation when it comes to taxes,
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it's to keep as much of your hard-earned money as you can.
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You certainly have no moral obligation to pay one dime more to the IRS than is required.
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Many of us do pay more than is required, but not intentionally.
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Listen, the government already brings in over $3 trillion a year in taxes.
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That's enough money that if you put it all in a stack, it would nearly reach the moon.
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Again, I say that our moral obligation is to contribute as little to that grotesque behemoth pile as we can.
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The government takes way too much and wastes way too much.
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Only give it what it forces you to, not one penny more than that.
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It's just that I'm not going to make an exception in order to criticize Trump,
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Let's say that your accountant, if you have one, comes to you and says,
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hey, you're going to owe $5,000 in taxes, but you forgot to deduct this and that,
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And if you do all that, you'll actually get a $500 refund.
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Now I ask, who among us would respond, no, that's okay, I'll pay the $5,000?
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If you actually don't want that $5,000, then give it to charity.
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It would be a greater moral deed to stuff it down the garbage disposal
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than to give it to the IRS when you don't actually legally owe it.
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Of course, you could point out that the real problem here
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is that rich people are able to navigate and take advantage of the tax code
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while the non-rich end up paying way more than they need to
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because it's impossible to navigate the tax code without high-priced accountants.
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And that is an argument for simplifying the tax code.
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And it may be an argument for a flat tax, something easier and the same for everybody.
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It's an argument for abolishing the IRS and income tax entirely.
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That stack of $3 trillion I mentioned earlier, half of that is from the income tax.
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Take it away and the government is still collecting or rather sucking in, absorbing,
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I think it should be able to get by on a paltry $1.5 trillion.
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So get rid of the income tax for everyone and we no longer have this problem.
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Or keep it and let it remain complicated and labyrinthine in complexity.
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When rich guys like Trump take advantage, as any rich person would, including you.
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And I hope you guys noticed and appreciated, by the way, my bookcase.
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But the bookshelf behind me, nice and pretty finally.
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You know, it had looked a little bit like a serial killer's bookshelf would, I imagine.
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Not so much in the content of the books, but just in the haphazard way that they were all
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Or maybe serial killers would actually, okay, let me back up on that.
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I think serial killers would actually probably have very neat books.
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She, or give her credit, however you look at it.
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And so now everything has to look pretty, including my dingy little office.
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Well, I have to admit, it's a pretty bookshelf finally for the first time.
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Okay, well, this should come as a shock to no one really.
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In fact, if you're a thinking person, it shouldn't.
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So according to the attorney of the officer involved in the Jacob Blake shooting, the
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officer thought, going back to that day, the officer thought that Jacob Blake was trying
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In fact, the woman who called 911, that would be Blake's alleged rape victim and ex-girlfriend,
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was screaming, according to the officer, she was screaming, he's got my kid, he's got my
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He had the, he had the, the, his, his alleged victim's keys to her car.
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And that's the car that he was trying to get in.
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She was indicating that he was trying to steal the kids and the car.
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Now, as I said, it was clear from the beginning that there was probably some kind of domestic
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The officer also says that Blake had a knife, had been fighting with the cops.
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But now we also know, according to the officer anyway, that, and this is consistent with the
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facts of the case and everything we've seen with the, consistent with the evidence, that
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Blake was trying to get into a car, not his car, with a knife, evade arrest, and drive
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Even, even take, take the knife out of it, resisting arrest, everything.
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Just the idea of, of letting a man who is wanted for crimes, wanted for domestic abuse
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and sexual assault, to get into a car that is not his, and to evade arrest by driving
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away with kids who he doesn't even, we can presume doesn't have custody of.
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There's just no way you can allow a person to do that if you're a police officer.
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You have to, and any measure must be taken to prevent that.
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And the attorney argues, and he's right, that if the officers had not shot, and Blake had
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gotten into the car and driven away, and then something had happened to those kids, everybody
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would be blaming the officers for not doing more to save them.
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They, they would still be, they'd be accused of, of, of racism even then, because then
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they'd be said, then it would be said that, uh, well, they didn't care enough about black
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And so they let this guy drive away and then something horrible happened to the kids.
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So, the moment those officers arrived on the scene, it was a lose-lose situation.
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But it looks like those officers did the right thing anyway.
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Not just, so it's, it's not just that they shouldn't be blamed or, you know, they didn't
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It's that they, they acted heroically to save these innocent children.
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Um, and they should be given a lot of credit for that.
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Judge Amy Coney Barrett is Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court.
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Today it is my honor to nominate one of our nation's most brilliant and gifted legal minds
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She is a woman of unparalleled achievement, towering intellect, sterling credentials, and
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Of course, the left, as expected, did its thing, jumping into action, uh, finding ways
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to smear Barrett, which, which is no easy task because, like Trump said, she's a respected
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Well, fortunately, if you're a lunatic with the moral sensibilities of a tapeworm, then
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it's not much of a challenge to attack a woman, even a woman like this.
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The guy we mentioned, you may remember him last week, we mentioned him.
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He got, he got paid 20 grand from a school district in Virginia to do a Skype session where
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he talked about why white people are bad and he got paid 20,000.
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So this, this guy's got a, you know, a nice little racket going and he, uh, chimed in
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to explain, um, why in fact, uh, Barrett adopt, cause she's, she's also an adoptive mother.
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She's adopted, um, uh, I believe two children and he's explaining why Barrett adopting black
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children, something that most people would see as a mark in her favor character wise, um,
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She's, he, he says some white colonizers adopted black children.
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They civilized quote, these savage children in the superior ways of white people while
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using them as prompts in their lifelong pictures of denial while cutting the biological parents
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of these children out of the picture of humanity.
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Most of us, we look at, and I, I watched this and it really did appear to be just a wonderful,
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beautiful, loving family, uh, sincerely, you know, I know that politicians and people that
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are in the political scene, which unfortunately now Supreme court justices are whether they
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should be or not, and they shouldn't be, but you know, they, they all try to give the impression
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of having wonderful, loving, fully intact families.
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And we know that oftentimes that's certainly not the case, but in this case, it really seems
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to be, it's just a loving, good, wholesome family.
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Most of us see that and that's how we feel about it.
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But people on the left, they look at it and they're disgust somehow they're disgusted by
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She's racist because she has black children because she has black children.
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You know, like we talked about with Trump before, you know, it's like they have all this, this
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stuff on him and, and, and they haven't found that really, really found where the bodies
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So it makes us think maybe there are no bodies.
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Well, even more so with Amy Coney Barrett, that they're calling through her life, looking
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And what they have to settle on is attacking her because she adopted kids.
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That tells you how, how clean her record must really be.
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Number three, well, the election is basically over now, folks, I think.
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That's happening tomorrow, but I think this sort of seals the deal.
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For Joe Biden, because the moment we've been waiting for has happened.
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Dwayne, the rock Johnson has given his endorsement.
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We are approximately five weeks away from election day, arguably the most critical election our
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Now that said, I'm going to be pushing this political conversation just a little bit more.
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Now, you know, look, I've got friends in all parties, but the one thing that we can always
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agree on is the conversation and the dialogue and where that conversation lands is always
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Now, this is something that I've certainly not done in the past.
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So, guys, I had the opportunity to sit down with Vice President Joe Biden and Senator
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Kamala Harris to talk about a number of important issues that we're facing as a country.
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I thought it was a great and extremely productive conversation that we had.
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And as a registered independent for years now with centrist, centrist, excuse me, ideologies,
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I do feel that Vice President Biden and Senator Harris are the best choice to lead our country.
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And I am endorsing them to become president and vice president of our United States.
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First, look, I'm in no position to body shame the rock.
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He could quite clearly snap me in half with his pinkies, I'm sure.
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But at the same time, I do feel like the muscular physique gets a little bit absurd at a certain point.
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Doesn't it just you you cross through a threshold at a certain point where it's like, OK, dude, just relax.
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And I think the rock is teetering close to that line.
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Biden has been working two hours, two hour days for the last like 19 weeks.
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He calls it a lid on the day at 930 a.m. most mornings.
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And yet he had time to meet with Dwayne the rock Johnson.
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Is that why he was calling a lid in order to have extensive meetings with the rock?
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I'm imagining five or six hour long meetings every day for weeks on end, hashing out domestic policy, foreign policy, everything with the rock.
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But as usual, my imagination has no connection to reality.
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Here's what the conversation between the rock and Joe Biden really sounded like.
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So you guys are both obviously experienced to lead.
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You've led, in my opinion, with great compassion and heart and drive, but also soul.
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And you and I talked about that in the past and how important soul is.
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And Kamala, I'm going to embarrass you just for a little bit because I'm going to talk a little bit about your amazing experience.
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And you have been an attorney, a district attorney, a state attorney, a U.S. senator, smart, tough.
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And, but he was also definitely, I hope you noticed that he was definitely reading all of that information about Kamala Harris.
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He was saying, Kamala, I know so much about you.
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I've always been a huge supporter for your whole career in the Senate.
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I mean, but in fairness to him, and this is why I give him credit.
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To pretend that you're a big fan of Kamala Harris, that's no easy task.
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So that's probably his greatest acting moment, I think, was right there.
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Number four, in more celebrity news, singer John Legend says that he and his wife, Chrissy Teigen, might be, might be, are thinking of maybe leaving the United States if Donald Trump is reelected.
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Now, as many have pointed out, this seems like a bit of an idle threat considering they apparently just bought a $17 million mansion in Beverly Hills.
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Not the kind of thing you do if you're planning on fleeing a country because it's become a fascist wasteland.
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In fact, not the kind of thing you could do, probably, if it was a fascist wasteland.
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But besides that, of course, you just have to reflect on the psychotic narcissism of these celebrities, that they think it's some sort of effective form of blackmail to threaten to leave the country.
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As if we're all going to fall to the ground, grabbing at their feet, like, no, don't leave us, please.
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I don't think anyone's going to have that reaction.
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Even if you're a fan of John Legend, what do you care where he lives?
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On a smaller scale, it reminds me of the thing that people do to me online all the time.
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They probably, it's a comment, they probably do it to you, too.
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But on social media, I get this kind of thing all the time on a smaller scale where someone will threaten to unfollow me or unfriend me because I express an opinion they don't like.
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And my favorite is when they, when they say something like, you know, I'm really thinking of unfollowing you now, Matt.
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This, this opinion that's got me thinking I might unfollow.
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And again, it's as if I'm supposed to break down in tears and plead with them and say, Noah, I'll change, I promise.
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Whoever you are, whether you're John Legend, you're just a normal, a random person on the Internet, no one cares that much what you do or what you think.
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So don't, don't try to hold it as a bargaining chip.
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Number five, finally, this is interesting from the Daily Star, always a reputable publication.
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It says, real life inception as scientists figure out how to plant ideas in dreams.
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And then it goes on, it may sound like a plot of inception, but scientists have figured out how to plant ideas into other people's dreams.
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Researchers at MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces have been testing a new technique called targeted dream incubation, which allows them to insert topics into someone's dream.
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The study involved 25 participants taking daytime naps.
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Before going to bed, they would record audio prompts in an app, such as, remember to think of a tree, and remember to observe your thoughts.
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Okay, and then they would just, okay, well, that's a bummer.
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I thought this would be some kind of fancy technological thing, like hacking into someone's brain, you know, something from the Matrix.
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But no, they just, they just remind themselves before going to bed, hey, I should think of a tree.
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And then they wake up and say, yo, I had a dream about a tree.
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Not, I don't know, that's, why is this a new revelation?
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And speaking of dreams, being on a research team where my whole job is to listen to dream stories from other people, that's my nightmare.
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Because there is nothing worse than listening to someone drone on about their stupid dream that they think is so profound, and they tell you about it, but really it's just boring.
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They tell you, they say, oh man, I had a dream last night where I was walking down the road, and then the road turned into a snake pit, and then the snakes turned into candy canes, and I started to fly, and next thing you know, Ronald Reagan was there.
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First of all, you're embellishing half of this, and I can tell.
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To everyone else, a dream is just bad storytelling.
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Before we get to our real daily cancellation, which we'll get to in just a second.
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All right, let's get to our daily cancellation.
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We're going to cancel Jill Falopovic, a noted feminist who, being a feminist, commits incancelable infractions every day.
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But this one actually has little to do with feminism.
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I know the thing parents hate most is when non-parents assert what they will do as parents, which is inevitably smug and incorrect.
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But I am 100% sure I will never assent to a kid's menu or the concept of kid food.
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And then she continues, everyone who is like, oh, this is so unrealistic, just wait until you're a parent.
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Do you think children in most of the world order off of the kid's menu and survive primarily off of chicken fingers and plain pasta?
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Now, I'm not interested in spending much time discussing the merits of the children's menu.
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I can only tell you that as a parent of four children, ages seven and younger, not only do I not avoid places with children's menus, but I won't take my family there unless they have a children's menu.
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In fact, what I'm really looking for is a restaurant with a children's menu that gives out crayons for the kids to use before the food comes out.
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And that is loud and obnoxious and filled with whiny, crying kids, throwing chicken nuggets all over the place, squirting ketchup on the walls.
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I want a restaurant that is just a nightmare of loud noises and questionable smells.
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For me as a parent, that's going to be the least stressful, least anxiety-inducing environment because it means I don't have to worry about my own kids being loud and obnoxious.
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I mean, the worst thing imaginable is when you go to a restaurant with a bunch of kids and you walk in and it's quiet and there's a bunch of older people without children eating and they have like fancy cloth napkins at the table and the entrees have names you can't pronounce and there's no children's menu and they don't sell corn dogs or boneless chicken wings.
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That's when you know you're in for a stressful dining experience.
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Those are one of the most stressful moments as a parent of young kids.
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Every noise your child makes will reverberate through the establishment.
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And if, say, your seven-year-old son makes a fart noise, which causes your three-year-old son to laugh hysterically and make his own fart noises,
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the older couple at the table to your right will look and shake their heads with horror as if this is the first time they've ever been in the vicinity of young boys.
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So, as a parent, that's what you're trying to avoid at all costs.
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That's what I want in my dining establishments if I have kids with me because that's where I know I'm home.
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The real point is that we have here the classic faux pas that even Jill herself acknowledges.
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She acknowledges what she's getting herself into.
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This is a non-parent making a confident declaration about what she will do or not do when she's a parent.
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All current parents did do this before they were parents, and we all regret having done it.
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We all look back on our past selves when we said things like,
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when I'm a parent, my kids will never eat sugary cereal.
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Or, when I'm a parent, my kids will never watch TV.
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Or, when I'm a parent, my kids will never walk through the grocery store and bare feet
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because they lost their third pair of shoes this week.
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And I was so fed up with it that I said, fine, you're just going to walk around without shoes all day if that's what you want.
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And we think back to that, and we laugh at ourselves.
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And we wish that we could reach back through time and space and grab ourselves by the shoulders
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and shake ourselves and say, stop talking, you fool.
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Doomed forever to carry the yoke of our past ignorance.
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I can remember as a non-parent when I used to drive in my car.
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And driving in my car as a non-parent, like everything else, was easy and carefree.
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I could roll down the windows and enjoy the breeze.
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And I remember sometimes my tranquility would be interrupted
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when I would end up behind a minivan in traffic.
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And the TV was playing cartoons or a Disney movie or something.
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And then I would always shake my head and say, ah, what a shame.
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The car is a time for quiet reflection or fruitful conversation.
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Those parents are clearly inferior to the parent that I will be when I am a parent.
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Yes, when I'm a parent, I shall never let my kids watch TV in the car.
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At first, I stuck with my previous pronouncement,
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mainly because I didn't have a TV in our car at the time, so it was sort of easy.
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But after a few years, we purchased a Chevy Suburban
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that has a TV that drops down from the ceiling.
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And I remember saying to my wife, upon purchasing the vehicle,
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as I tried desperately to remain obedient to the pointless rule I had set for myself,
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I said to my wife, we are not going to use this thing.
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And I stuck to my words on that valiantly for about three hours.
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is that they're a lot like kids outside the car,
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except now you're stuck in a metal box with them
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And if there's any conversation in that environment,
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But most of the conversation will revolve around philosophical questions like,
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Other similar topics, all coming at you relentlessly for hours on end,
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And you realize now that you're the one in the car,
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rather than being the judgmental, pretentious, know-nothing
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And you realize that there actually isn't any particularly good reason
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other than out of some weird sense of principle.
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But it's a principle grounded more in the need you felt as a non-parent
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to believe that your hypothetical parenting skills
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were superior to the actual parenting skills of actual parents.
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So you turn on the TV and you enjoy the silence,
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because now instead of listening to the kids fight,
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There are a lot of trade-offs like that in parenting.
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But that's simply a reality that you can't fully appreciate
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until you're down there in the trenches with them
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So what I would recommend if you're not a parent,
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Never say anything about what you will or won't do
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And all non-parents who say stuff like this are canceled,
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The Matt Wall Show is produced by Sean Hampton,