The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 573 - Another Trump Bombshell Fizzles

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media obtained President Trump's tax records.

00:00:03.920 The big scandal is that Trump managed to legally keep a lot of his own money.

00:00:08.260 Somehow, I'm just not able to feel much outrage about this, though the media wants me to.

00:00:12.820 Also, five headlines, including another revelation in the Jacob Blake shooting,

00:00:15.860 and Amy Coney Barrett is officially announced as Trump's SCOTUS pick.

00:00:19.420 The attacks from the left have been as deranged as expected, but we'll go over

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00:00:25.600 Much more, all that on the way.

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00:01:58.660 Well, you know, I think back to 2018, all those centuries ago, it feels like, when Michael

00:02:07.220 Cohen, Trump's lawyer and fixer, his Harvey Keitel from Pulp Fiction, his guy who goes in and

00:02:14.220 figures out how to hide the bodies, you know, that's what we were told anyway, when that

00:02:18.420 guy turned on Trump and revealed that he had been secretly recording conversations with

00:02:24.240 his former boss, and he gave those tapes to the media.

00:02:27.980 Now, think about that.

00:02:28.860 A guy who is now president of the United States, a guy who we're told is corrupt down to his

00:02:33.880 bones, has been secretly recorded by his lawyer, and the media has the tapes.

00:02:40.180 What sort of deep, dark, dirty misdeeds will they uncover?

00:02:44.860 One can only imagine, except one need not imagine.

00:02:47.480 It's on tape.

00:02:48.240 What a score.

00:02:49.680 Well, then CNN played the tapes, and they weren't nearly as exciting as we had hoped or anticipated.

00:02:56.220 Mostly, they just discuss normal business dealings.

00:02:59.360 At one point, they apparently talk about buying the rights to a story about a Playboy model

00:03:03.820 who says she had an affair with Trump, but you can't even really hear Trump's part of

00:03:07.160 the conversation.

00:03:08.360 Regardless, listening to the tapes, you know, an honest person couldn't help but think, well,

00:03:13.240 if this is the worst thing they have in secret recordings between Trump and his lawyer, then

00:03:18.100 maybe he isn't the criminal mastermind that CNN wants us to believe he is.

00:03:22.600 It's the same thing with all the tell-all books, the various White House officials leaving the

00:03:27.480 administration, turning around and revealing everything that happened.

00:03:30.600 They have some things that they say that, you know, aren't very flattering to Trump, though

00:03:35.440 you can't necessarily believe all of it anyway. 0.93

00:03:37.600 But we've been told that Trump is the embodiment of evil. 1.00

00:03:41.300 He's corrupt. 1.00

00:03:42.000 He's criminal. 1.00

00:03:42.540 He's a Russian asset. 1.00

00:03:43.620 He's a fascist warlord. 0.71

00:03:45.300 You'd expect some indication of that when all of these secrets are dumped out in front of 0.87

00:03:51.020 the public.

00:03:52.100 Instead, we're always left with the impression that if the stuff is true, Trump is kind of 1.00

00:03:56.940 a jerk, which we already knew, but he isn't the mob boss the media wants him to be. 0.99

00:04:02.620 And then we add to this the FBI investigations, the impeachment. 1.00

00:04:06.520 They've gone through every aspect of Trump's life and business looking for skeletons.

00:04:11.100 And they haven't really found them, which at a certain point makes a rational man conclude

00:04:16.280 maybe there are no skeletons.

00:04:19.600 All of this comes to mind when reading about the next big media scoop that's supposed to

00:04:24.200 bring down Trump for real this time.

00:04:25.800 No, for real, for real this time.

00:04:27.960 The New York Times has obtained Trump's tax records.

00:04:30.740 And by obtained, of course, we mean that someone Trump trusted with his finances turned around

00:04:35.540 and gave it to the media.

00:04:37.040 If there's any crime uncovered here, it's that.

00:04:39.740 But the crime is in the uncovering, not in the thing that was uncovered.

00:04:44.940 What do the tax records reveal?

00:04:47.140 Well, the website dnyuz.com has helpfully given us the bullet points, so I'll read them here.

00:04:52.960 Mr. Trump paid no federal income taxes in 11 of 18 years that the Times examined.

00:04:57.760 In 2017, after he became president, his tax bill was only $750.

00:05:01.920 He has reduced his tax bill with questionable measures, including a $72.9 million tax refund

00:05:06.640 that's a subject of an audit by the IRS.

00:05:08.380 Many of his signature businesses, including his golf courses, report losing large amounts

00:05:12.660 of money, losses that have helped him to lower his taxes.

00:05:16.540 The financial pressure on him is increasing as hundreds of millions of dollars in loans

00:05:19.920 he personally guaranteed are soon coming due.

00:05:22.500 Even while declaring losses, he has managed to enjoy a lavish lifestyle by taking tax deductions

00:05:27.160 on what most people would consider personal expenses, including residences, aircraft, and $70,000 in hairstyling for TV.

00:05:36.160 Ivanka Trump, while working as an employee of the Trump Organization, appears to have received

00:05:39.880 consulting fees that also helped reduce the family's tax bill.

00:05:43.860 And then it says, as president, he has received more money from foreign sources and U.S. interest groups

00:05:47.800 than previously known.

00:05:49.080 Now, to be clear here, there is no known crime involved in any of this.

00:06:01.600 The refund that they talked about that's questionable is in audit right now.

00:06:06.080 It's going through the proper channels.

00:06:07.700 The rest of it is entirely legal and above board.

00:06:10.440 Once again, we have the same effect. 0.97

00:06:13.520 Even if you don't like the fact that Trump paid so little in taxes, if he's a crook,

00:06:19.540 you'd expect his personal financial records to reveal something more than that he's creative in his tax deductions.

00:06:26.880 And not even that creative, actually.

00:06:28.560 The media is making a lot of the fact that Trump, as it mentioned, deducted his hairstyling expenses for TV.

00:06:33.980 But all of the media people panicking over it are doing their panicking with professionally styled hair and professional makeup.

00:06:43.060 The studios that they're in have stylists and makeup artists on staff.

00:06:47.020 If any of those media people had to pay for it themselves, they'd be deducting it too.

00:06:51.700 It's a completely legitimate deduction for a TV personality.

00:06:54.720 Any accountant of a TV personality that doesn't tell them to deduct those sorts of things is guilty of malpractice.

00:07:00.660 There's really nothing strange about it.

00:07:02.100 And that's the case for most of this, at least as far as the taxes go.

00:07:05.400 Trump took advantage of the tax law to mitigate his tax liability as much as possible.

00:07:09.620 If you don't like that he could mitigate it that much, take it up with the people who write the tax law.

00:07:15.580 Trump is working within the boundaries of the law.

00:07:17.720 If you think those boundaries should be tightened, your qualm is not with Trump,

00:07:21.700 who had nothing to do with setting the boundaries in the first place.

00:07:25.280 Now, I admit I'm biased, okay?

00:07:27.700 Personally, I have never been able to generate significant emotional outrage against people

00:07:33.600 who manage to keep most of their own money at tax time.

00:07:37.000 Even illegally, criminal tax evasion, which isn't what this is.

00:07:41.980 But just to give you an idea of my own leanings, full disclosure,

00:07:45.680 even criminal tax evasion doesn't make me very angry.

00:07:49.080 I reserve most of my moral disgust and outrage for child rapists, murderers, people of that sort.

00:07:54.580 Those guilty of stealing their own money from the IRS just don't raise my hackles, to be honest with you.

00:08:00.280 But if they do it legally, as Trump did, well then, not only am I not outraged,

00:08:05.380 but I admire your ingenuity, or at least the ingenuity of your accountants.

00:08:09.720 And I like their numbers.

00:08:11.480 If I recognize any serious moral obligation when it comes to taxes,

00:08:15.080 it's to keep as much of your hard-earned money as you can.

00:08:18.440 You certainly have no moral obligation to pay one dime more to the IRS than is required.

00:08:24.620 Many of us do pay more than is required, but not intentionally.

00:08:28.300 If you intentionally do it, you're not moral. 1.00

00:08:30.960 You're a sucker. You're a sap. 1.00

00:08:32.360 You're probably clinically insane, actually. 1.00

00:08:34.940 Listen, the government already brings in over $3 trillion a year in taxes. 0.82

00:08:38.800 $3 trillion.

00:08:40.360 That's enough money that if you put it all in a stack, it would nearly reach the moon.

00:08:44.480 Again, I say that our moral obligation is to contribute as little to that grotesque behemoth pile as we can.

00:08:52.720 The government takes way too much and wastes way too much.

00:08:56.460 Only give it what it forces you to, not one penny more than that.

00:09:00.440 And this has always been my opinion.

00:09:01.900 I didn't come up with it now to defend Trump.

00:09:04.460 It's just that I'm not going to make an exception in order to criticize Trump,

00:09:08.220 which is what most people in the media do.

00:09:10.180 I mean, just be honest here for a minute.

00:09:11.440 Let's say that your accountant, if you have one, comes to you and says,

00:09:14.600 hey, you're going to owe $5,000 in taxes, but you forgot to deduct this and that,

00:09:19.420 and you also forgot to claim this and that.

00:09:21.440 And if you do all that, you'll actually get a $500 refund.

00:09:25.500 Now I ask, who among us would respond, no, that's okay, I'll pay the $5,000?

00:09:30.720 Who among us?

00:09:32.080 If you actually don't want that $5,000, then give it to charity.

00:09:35.940 Give it to a struggling family member.

00:09:37.720 Hell, give it to me. 0.99

00:09:38.540 I'll take it.

00:09:39.680 Don't give it to the IRS.

00:09:41.300 Anything but that.

00:09:43.000 It would be a greater moral deed to stuff it down the garbage disposal 0.79

00:09:46.520 than to give it to the IRS when you don't actually legally owe it.

00:09:51.240 Of course, you could point out that the real problem here

00:09:53.520 is that rich people are able to navigate and take advantage of the tax code

00:09:57.580 while the non-rich end up paying way more than they need to

00:10:00.780 because it's impossible to navigate the tax code without high-priced accountants.

00:10:04.180 I would agree with you there.

00:10:05.760 And that is an argument for simplifying the tax code.

00:10:10.540 And it may be an argument for a flat tax, something easier and the same for everybody.

00:10:15.080 Or really, here's even better.

00:10:16.980 It's an argument for abolishing the IRS and income tax entirely.

00:10:21.380 That stack of $3 trillion I mentioned earlier, half of that is from the income tax.

00:10:26.380 Take it away and the government is still collecting or rather sucking in, absorbing,

00:10:29.620 like a black hole, $1.5 trillion a year.

00:10:34.360 I think it should be able to get by on a paltry $1.5 trillion.

00:10:38.480 So get rid of the income tax for everyone and we no longer have this problem.

00:10:42.360 Or keep it and let it remain complicated and labyrinthine in complexity.

00:10:48.120 And if we do that, just don't complain.

00:10:50.120 When rich guys like Trump take advantage, as any rich person would, including you.

00:10:55.120 So let's get to our five headlines.

00:11:03.480 All right.

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00:13:25.060 Okay, well, this should come as a shock to no one really.

00:13:29.620 In fact, if you're a thinking person, it shouldn't.

00:13:31.800 In fact, I predicted exactly this a week ago.

00:13:35.720 And I'm barely a thinking person.

00:13:37.680 But it's good to have some confirmation.

00:13:39.140 So according to the attorney of the officer involved in the Jacob Blake shooting, the

00:13:44.300 officer thought, going back to that day, the officer thought that Jacob Blake was trying

00:13:51.220 to kidnap a child.

00:13:53.060 In fact, the woman who called 911, that would be Blake's alleged rape victim and ex-girlfriend,

00:13:59.600 was screaming, according to the officer, she was screaming, he's got my kid, he's got my

00:14:03.800 keys.

00:14:05.460 And he did.

00:14:05.780 He had the, he had the, the, his, his alleged victim's keys to her car.

00:14:10.320 And that's the car that he was trying to get in.

00:14:11.860 It wasn't his car.

00:14:12.560 It was, it was, the car didn't belong to him.

00:14:14.260 He was trying to steal it, apparently.

00:14:16.300 And she, that's what she was indicating.

00:14:17.580 She was indicating that he was trying to steal the kids and the car.

00:14:21.360 Now, as I said, it was clear from the beginning that there was probably some kind of domestic

00:14:25.360 thing going on here involving the kids.

00:14:28.120 The officer also says that Blake had a knife, had been fighting with the cops.

00:14:31.720 We knew all of that.

00:14:33.180 But now we also know, according to the officer anyway, that, and this is consistent with the

00:14:37.060 facts of the case and everything we've seen with the, consistent with the evidence, that

00:14:40.340 Blake was trying to get into a car, not his car, with a knife, evade arrest, and drive

00:14:48.940 away with three kids.

00:14:51.420 No way the officers could let him do that.

00:14:54.320 So, you know what?

00:14:54.800 Even, even take, take the knife out of it, resisting arrest, everything.

00:15:02.400 Just the idea of, of letting a man who is wanted for crimes, wanted for domestic abuse

00:15:08.160 and sexual assault, to get into a car that is not his, and to evade arrest by driving

00:15:15.700 away with kids who he doesn't even, we can presume doesn't have custody of.

00:15:19.800 There's just no way you can allow a person to do that if you're a police officer.

00:15:23.860 You, you can't allow him to do that.

00:15:25.460 You have to, and any measure must be taken to prevent that.

00:15:28.420 And they tried non-lethal measures.

00:15:30.180 You may remember, they tried to tase him.

00:15:31.580 It didn't work.

00:15:32.420 He resisted.

00:15:33.280 And the attorney argues, and he's right, that if the officers had not shot, and Blake had

00:15:40.380 gotten into the car and driven away, and then something had happened to those kids, everybody

00:15:45.540 would be blaming the officers for not doing more to save them.

00:15:48.080 And you know what else?

00:15:48.940 We could pretty much guarantee it.

00:15:50.280 They, they would still be, they'd be accused of, of, of racism even then, because then

00:15:54.900 they'd be said, then it would be said that, uh, well, they didn't care enough about black

00:15:58.420 children. 0.99

00:15:58.820 So, cause they're racist.

00:15:59.960 And so they let this guy drive away and then something horrible happened to the kids.

00:16:03.240 We all know that's what would happen.

00:16:04.600 So, the moment those officers arrived on the scene, it was a lose-lose situation.

00:16:10.800 But it didn't matter what happened.

00:16:12.720 Lose-lose.

00:16:14.320 But it looks like those officers did the right thing anyway.

00:16:18.100 Not just, so it's, it's not just that they shouldn't be blamed or, you know, they didn't

00:16:21.920 commit a crime.

00:16:22.780 It's that they, they acted heroically to save these innocent children.

00:16:29.100 Um, and they should be given a lot of credit for that.

00:16:33.040 Number two, it was made official on Saturday.

00:16:35.760 Judge Amy Coney Barrett is Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court.

00:16:38.960 Uh, here he is announcing the news.

00:16:41.160 Today it is my honor to nominate one of our nation's most brilliant and gifted legal minds

00:16:47.760 to the Supreme Court.

00:16:50.180 She is a woman of unparalleled achievement, towering intellect, sterling credentials, and

00:16:57.540 unyielding loyalty to the Constitution.

00:17:01.180 Judge Amy Coney Barrett.

00:17:09.320 Of course, the left, as expected, did its thing, jumping into action, uh, finding ways

00:17:13.800 to smear Barrett, which, which is no easy task because, like Trump said, she's a respected

00:17:19.060 and brilliant judge.

00:17:19.900 She's a loving mother, impeccable credentials.

00:17:21.640 Everyone likes her, a good looking woman. 1.00

00:17:23.480 I mean, the total package.

00:17:24.540 So what do you do?

00:17:25.920 How do you go about this? 0.99

00:17:26.840 Well, fortunately, if you're a lunatic with the moral sensibilities of a tapeworm, then 0.99

00:17:31.340 it's not much of a challenge to attack a woman, even a woman like this. 0.97

00:17:34.760 So here's, here's a Ibram X.

00:17:37.000 Kendi, anti-racism expert, supposedly.

00:17:40.420 The guy we mentioned, you may remember him last week, we mentioned him.

00:17:42.860 He got, he got paid 20 grand from a school district in Virginia to do a Skype session where

00:17:49.300 he talked about why white people are bad and he got paid 20,000.

00:17:52.680 So this, this guy's got a, you know, a nice little racket going and he, uh, chimed in 0.86

00:17:56.980 to explain, um, why in fact, uh, Barrett adopt, cause she's, she's also an adoptive mother. 0.80

00:18:04.480 She's, she's a mother.

00:18:05.440 She's adopted, um, uh, I believe two children and he's explaining why Barrett adopting black 1.00

00:18:13.000 children, something that most people would see as a mark in her favor character wise, um,

00:18:18.840 is not.

00:18:19.400 In fact, it's the opposite. 0.84

00:18:20.280 She's, he, he says some white colonizers adopted black children. 0.95

00:18:24.060 They civilized quote, these savage children in the superior ways of white people while 1.00

00:18:29.420 using them as prompts in their lifelong pictures of denial while cutting the biological parents

00:18:33.980 of these children out of the picture of humanity.

00:18:37.160 Um, that's what he had to say about that.

00:18:39.400 That's how he looks at adoption.

00:18:42.200 Most of us, we look at, and I, I watched this and it really did appear to be just a wonderful,

00:18:47.400 beautiful, loving family, uh, sincerely, you know, I know that politicians and people that

00:18:53.100 are in the political scene, which unfortunately now Supreme court justices are whether they

00:18:57.800 should be or not, and they shouldn't be, but you know, they, they all try to give the impression

00:19:01.920 of having wonderful, loving, fully intact families.

00:19:04.680 And we know that oftentimes that's certainly not the case, but in this case, it really seems

00:19:09.620 to be, it's just a loving, good, wholesome family.

00:19:12.180 Most of us see that and that's how we feel about it.

00:19:15.300 But people on the left, they look at it and they're disgust somehow they're disgusted by

00:19:20.240 it.

00:19:21.520 So this is what they're going to go with.

00:19:22.760 They're really going to go with this. 0.99

00:19:24.500 She's racist because she has black children because she has black children. 1.00

00:19:28.820 That's, that's the line of attack. 0.99

00:19:31.020 You know, like we talked about with Trump before, you know, it's like they have all this, this

00:19:34.860 stuff on him and, and, and they haven't found that really, really found where the bodies

00:19:38.840 are buried.

00:19:39.200 So it makes us think maybe there are no bodies.

00:19:41.180 Well, even more so with Amy Coney Barrett, that they're calling through her life, looking

00:19:46.880 desperately for something.

00:19:48.520 They'll take anything they can.

00:19:50.380 And what they have to settle on is attacking her because she adopted kids. 0.99

00:19:56.880 That tells you how, how clean her record must really be.

00:20:01.080 Impressive.

00:20:01.900 Number three, well, the election is basically over now, folks, I think.

00:20:05.120 I know we haven't even had the debate yet.

00:20:06.360 That's happening tomorrow, but I think this sort of seals the deal.

00:20:08.840 For Joe Biden, because the moment we've been waiting for has happened.

00:20:14.140 Dwayne, the rock Johnson has given his endorsement.

00:20:17.860 Watch.

00:20:19.120 Happy Sunday, everybody.

00:20:20.940 We are approximately five weeks away from election day, arguably the most critical election our

00:20:27.040 country has seen in decades.

00:20:28.940 Now that said, I'm going to be pushing this political conversation just a little bit more.

00:20:34.660 Now, you know, look, I've got friends in all parties, but the one thing that we can always

00:20:39.100 agree on is the conversation and the dialogue and where that conversation lands is always

00:20:44.920 the most critical part.

00:20:46.640 Now, this is something that I've certainly not done in the past.

00:20:49.980 So I'm going to go big.

00:20:52.240 You guys know me.

00:20:53.640 If I go, I go big.

00:20:55.420 So, guys, I had the opportunity to sit down with Vice President Joe Biden and Senator

00:21:01.800 Kamala Harris to talk about a number of important issues that we're facing as a country.

00:21:06.840 I thought it was a great and extremely productive conversation that we had.

00:21:10.960 And as a registered independent for years now with centrist, centrist, excuse me, ideologies,

00:21:18.080 I do feel that Vice President Biden and Senator Harris are the best choice to lead our country.

00:21:24.340 And I am endorsing them to become president and vice president of our United States.

00:21:30.380 OK, now just a few quick points, if I may.

00:21:32.880 First, look, I'm in no position to body shame the rock.

00:21:36.800 He could quite clearly snap me in half with his pinkies, I'm sure.

00:21:40.260 But at the same time, I do feel like the muscular physique gets a little bit absurd at a certain point.

00:21:45.900 Doesn't it just you you cross through a threshold at a certain point where it's like, OK, dude, just relax.

00:21:53.040 Take it down a notch.

00:21:54.260 Take it. I get the point.

00:21:55.600 Just take it down a few notches.

00:21:57.200 And I think the rock is teetering close to that line.

00:21:59.480 It's it's a little much is all I'm saying.

00:22:01.380 That's it. That's all I'm trying to say.

00:22:04.500 Second point, probably more to the point.

00:22:06.420 Why did Joe Biden sit down with the rock?

00:22:11.200 I mean, and when did this happen?

00:22:12.880 Biden has been working two hours, two hour days for the last like 19 weeks.

00:22:16.940 He calls it a lid on the day at 930 a.m. most mornings.

00:22:21.020 And yet he had time to meet with Dwayne the rock Johnson.

00:22:24.000 Is that why he was calling a lid in order to have extensive meetings with the rock?

00:22:30.940 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.

00:22:39.740 That's what I'm imagining.

00:22:41.140 But as usual, my imagination has no connection to reality.

00:22:45.100 Actually, because we have the conversation.

00:22:46.960 Here's what the conversation between the rock and Joe Biden really sounded like.

00:22:50.280 So you guys are both obviously experienced to lead.

00:22:54.020 You've done great things.

00:22:55.760 Joe, you've had such an incredible career.

00:22:57.740 You've led, in my opinion, with great compassion and heart and drive, but also soul.

00:23:06.080 And you and I talked about that in the past and how important soul is.

00:23:10.020 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.

00:23:17.240 And you have been an attorney, a district attorney, a state attorney, a U.S. senator, smart, tough.

00:23:25.000 I've seen you in those hearings.

00:23:26.720 And in my opinion, you are a certified badass.

00:23:30.860 Well, he grilled them, didn't he?

00:23:33.120 He really, he held their feet to the fire.

00:23:36.440 And, but he was also definitely, I hope you noticed that he was definitely reading all of that information about Kamala Harris.

00:23:44.340 He was, he didn't know anything about her.

00:23:46.460 He was saying, Kamala, I know so much about you.

00:23:49.040 I've always been a huge supporter for your whole career in the Senate.

00:23:55.520 Yeah, big fan of Kamala Harris there. 1.00

00:23:57.360 I mean, but in fairness to him, and this is why I give him credit.

00:24:00.500 I think he is a pretty good actor.

00:24:01.580 To pretend that you're a big fan of Kamala Harris, that's no easy task.

00:24:07.900 So that's probably his greatest acting moment, I think, was right there.

00:24:12.540 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.

00:24:22.160 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.

00:24:32.140 Not the kind of thing you do if you're planning on fleeing a country because it's become a fascist wasteland.

00:24:38.020 In fact, not the kind of thing you could do, probably, if it was a fascist wasteland.

00:24:42.260 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.

00:24:55.620 As if we're all going to fall to the ground, grabbing at their feet, like, no, don't leave us, please.

00:25:02.220 We can't go on without you, John Legend.

00:25:05.960 I don't think anyone's going to have that reaction.

00:25:07.600 Even if you're a fan of John Legend, what do you care where he lives?

00:25:11.560 What difference does it make?

00:25:13.920 It's a little similar.

00:25:15.080 On a smaller scale, it reminds me of the thing that people do to me online all the time.

00:25:20.380 They probably, it's a comment, they probably do it to you, too.

00:25:22.360 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.

00:25:33.080 And my favorite is when they, when they say something like, you know, I'm really thinking of unfollowing you now, Matt.

00:25:38.740 I'm thinking of it.

00:25:40.200 This, this opinion that's got me thinking I might unfollow.

00:25:43.300 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.

00:25:50.120 Don't leave me.

00:25:51.120 It'll be different this time, I promise.

00:25:54.160 We can go to counseling together.

00:25:56.460 No, it just doesn't, doesn't work.

00:25:58.120 The threat doesn't work.

00:25:59.160 Nobody cares that much.

00:25:59.980 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.

00:26:07.580 So don't, don't try to hold it as a bargaining chip.

00:26:10.980 Number five, finally, this is interesting from the Daily Star, always a reputable publication.

00:26:15.940 It says, real life inception as scientists figure out how to plant ideas in dreams.

00:26:23.920 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.

00:26:29.480 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.

00:26:40.860 Let's see, how do they do this?

00:26:42.920 The study involved 25 participants taking daytime naps.

00:26:46.920 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.

00:26:54.640 Okay, and then they would just, okay, well, that's a bummer.

00:27:00.600 I thought this would be some kind of fancy technological thing, like hacking into someone's brain, you know, something from the Matrix.

00:27:06.540 But no, they just, they just remind themselves before going to bed, hey, I should think of a tree.

00:27:10.780 And then they wake up and say, yo, I had a dream about a tree.

00:27:14.600 Not, I don't know, that's, why is this a new revelation?

00:27:17.400 And why is it being studied at all?

00:27:21.100 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.

00:27:30.220 That's my personal nightmare. 0.98

00:27:31.400 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. 0.99

00:27:41.940 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. 0.99

00:27:57.680 And no, stop.

00:27:59.420 First of all, you're embellishing half of this, and I can tell.

00:28:02.480 Second, I don't care.

00:28:04.500 Dreams are only interesting to the dreamer.

00:28:07.280 To everyone else, a dream is just bad storytelling.

00:28:12.080 Rule of thumb.

00:28:13.280 We should take that with us, all of us.

00:28:15.280 Dreams are canceled.

00:28:16.320 Before we get to our real daily cancellation, which we'll get to in just a second.

00:28:20.100 But first, as mentioned, the debate is tomorrow night.

00:28:24.160 Fight night at 9 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Pacific.

00:28:26.480 Donald Trump and Joe Biden will face off in the first of three presidential debates this election season.

00:28:30.940 Will Biden fall asleep?

00:28:32.380 Will Trump wear a mask?

00:28:34.020 Many questions.

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00:29:16.860 All right, let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:29:18.600 A quick daily cancellation today.

00:29:19.900 We're going to cancel Jill Falopovic, a noted feminist who, being a feminist, commits incancelable infractions every day. 1.00

00:29:26.560 But this one actually has little to do with feminism. 1.00

00:29:29.160 Here's what she tweeted.

00:29:29.820 I know the thing parents hate most is when non-parents assert what they will do as parents, which is inevitably smug and incorrect.

00:29:36.480 But I am 100% sure I will never assent to a kid's menu or the concept of kid food.

00:29:42.660 And then she continues, everyone who is like, oh, this is so unrealistic, just wait until you're a parent.

00:29:46.920 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?

00:29:54.240 That's what she said.

00:29:55.040 Now, I'm not interested in spending much time discussing the merits of the children's menu.

00:30:00.260 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.

00:30:09.680 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.

00:30:17.400 And that is loud and obnoxious and filled with whiny, crying kids, throwing chicken nuggets all over the place, squirting ketchup on the walls.

00:30:25.920 I want a restaurant that is just a nightmare of loud noises and questionable smells.

00:30:30.980 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.

00:30:41.620 I know they'll fit right in.

00:30:43.120 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.

00:31:01.880 That's when you know you're in for a stressful dining experience.

00:31:05.760 Those are one of the most stressful moments as a parent of young kids.

00:31:08.220 Every noise your child makes will reverberate through the establishment.

00:31:12.540 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,

00:31:18.880 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.

00:31:26.560 And this is what you have to deal with.

00:31:28.620 So, as a parent, that's what you're trying to avoid at all costs. 0.61

00:31:32.700 No, give me loud, dirty, cheap, unhealthy.

00:31:37.240 That's what I want in my dining establishments if I have kids with me because that's where I know I'm home.

00:31:44.260 But that's all a side issue, really.

00:31:45.840 The real point is that we have here the classic faux pas that even Jill herself acknowledges.

00:31:50.480 She acknowledges what she's getting herself into.

00:31:53.280 This is a non-parent making a confident declaration about what she will do or not do when she's a parent.

00:32:00.580 All non-parents do this.

00:32:02.100 All current parents did do this before they were parents, and we all regret having done it.

00:32:07.660 We all look back on our past selves when we said things like,

00:32:11.080 when I'm a parent, my kids will never eat sugary cereal.

00:32:13.680 Or, when I'm a parent, my kids will never watch TV.

00:32:16.120 Or, when I'm a parent, my kids will never walk through the grocery store and bare feet

00:32:19.380 because they lost their third pair of shoes this week.

00:32:21.360 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.

00:32:26.380 And we think back to that, and we laugh at ourselves.

00:32:28.760 And we wish that we could reach back through time and space and grab ourselves by the shoulders 0.99

00:32:34.460 and shake ourselves and say, stop talking, you fool. 1.00

00:32:38.700 You know not what you say. 1.00

00:32:41.260 But we can't.

00:32:42.420 So we are stuck with what we said.

00:32:44.580 Doomed forever to carry the yoke of our past ignorance.

00:32:48.160 Let me give you an example from my own life.

00:32:50.400 I can remember as a non-parent when I used to drive in my car.

00:32:56.160 And driving in my car as a non-parent, like everything else, was easy and carefree.

00:33:01.680 I could listen to music.

00:33:02.820 I could maybe listen to an audio book.

00:33:04.840 I could roll down the windows and enjoy the breeze.

00:33:07.020 It was quiet.

00:33:07.720 It was tranquil.

00:33:09.440 Just me and the open road.

00:33:11.240 And I remember sometimes my tranquility would be interrupted

00:33:13.960 when I would end up behind a minivan in traffic.

00:33:16.740 And I would notice that it had a TV.

00:33:18.800 And the TV was playing cartoons or a Disney movie or something.

00:33:22.080 And then I would always shake my head and say, ah, what a shame.

00:33:25.120 TV in the car.

00:33:26.320 The car is a time for quiet reflection or fruitful conversation.

00:33:29.420 Not TV.

00:33:30.660 Those parents are clearly inferior to the parent that I will be when I am a parent.

00:33:35.460 Yes, when I'm a parent, I shall never let my kids watch TV in the car.

00:33:39.820 It will never happen.

00:33:41.560 And then I had kids.

00:33:43.160 At first, I stuck with my previous pronouncement,

00:33:45.600 mainly because I didn't have a TV in our car at the time, so it was sort of easy.

00:33:49.300 But after a few years, we purchased a Chevy Suburban

00:33:51.820 that has a TV that drops down from the ceiling.

00:33:53.620 And I remember saying to my wife, upon purchasing the vehicle,

00:33:57.260 as I tried desperately to remain obedient to the pointless rule I had set for myself,

00:34:01.620 I said to my wife, we are not going to use this thing.

00:34:04.760 I forbid it.

00:34:06.660 And I stuck to my words on that valiantly for about three hours.

00:34:12.580 But you know, the thing about kids in the car

00:34:14.840 is that they're a lot like kids outside the car,

00:34:17.740 except now you're stuck in a metal box with them

00:34:19.880 as you careen down the road at high speeds.

00:34:21.620 There isn't going to be any quiet reflection.

00:34:24.900 And if there's any conversation in that environment,

00:34:26.900 it will be fruitful only in spurts.

00:34:28.920 But most of the conversation will revolve around philosophical questions like,

00:34:33.200 are we there yet?

00:34:34.140 Can I have a snack?

00:34:35.300 I need to pee.

00:34:36.480 Luke called me a poopy head.

00:34:38.020 Other similar topics, all coming at you relentlessly for hours on end,

00:34:42.500 unless you put on the TV.

00:34:44.360 And like magic, it all stops.

00:34:45.840 And you realize now that you're the one in the car,

00:34:52.180 rather than being the judgmental, pretentious, know-nothing

00:34:55.500 in the quiet, peaceful sedan behind you.

00:34:58.060 And you realize that there actually isn't any particularly good reason

00:35:01.020 not to turn the TV on,

00:35:02.260 other than out of some weird sense of principle.

00:35:04.580 But it's a principle grounded more in the need you felt as a non-parent

00:35:08.640 to believe that your hypothetical parenting skills

00:35:11.400 were superior to the actual parenting skills of actual parents.

00:35:14.340 So you turn on the TV and you enjoy the silence,

00:35:18.200 at least as much as you can,

00:35:19.920 because now instead of listening to the kids fight,

00:35:21.560 you have to listen to Scooby-Doo.

00:35:22.840 It's a trade-off.

00:35:23.900 Not a perfect one, but you'll take it.

00:35:26.760 There are a lot of trade-offs like that in parenting.

00:35:29.660 But that's simply a reality that you can't fully appreciate

00:35:34.300 or realize until you have kids,

00:35:36.400 until you're down there in the trenches with them

00:35:39.720 every single day of your life.

00:35:41.420 So what I would recommend if you're not a parent,

00:35:44.480 just seriously, take it from me.

00:35:47.340 Never say anything about what you will or won't do

00:35:51.780 when you have kids.

00:35:53.520 Nothing.

00:35:54.660 I don't care how obvious you think it is.

00:35:58.060 Because you never know. 0.99

00:36:00.460 Just don't say one damn word. 0.99

00:36:02.560 And then you could go into parenting 0.99

00:36:07.180 when you finally have kids

00:36:08.140 without dealing with the judgmental gaze

00:36:11.900 of your own past self.

00:36:15.220 That's my tip.

00:36:17.160 And so, yeah, Jill Philopovic is canceled. 0.87

00:36:20.340 And all non-parents who say stuff like this are canceled,

00:36:22.780 which means I'm canceled.

00:36:23.880 You know, everyone's canceled.

00:36:25.320 This is another one of those.

00:36:26.480 We're all canceled.

00:36:27.320 Okay.

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