The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 662 - The Media Creates Another Fake Scandal

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the media goes wild over a supposedly major scandal involving Ted

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00:02:03.940 information. So perhaps you heard about the big political scandal that broke yesterday. This was

00:02:08.580 major news, big, big deal. The media was going crazy over it. It was all that anybody was talking

00:02:12.600 about on Twitter. There were calls for resignations and investigations. It was a big, big deal,

00:02:17.300 right? Massively important story. At least that's what I have been assured repeatedly and

00:02:23.440 loudly over the course of the past 24 hours. The scandal, get ready for this if you haven't heard

00:02:27.080 yet. The scandal is that Ted Cruz went on vacation with his family. That's, I'll pause right here and

00:02:35.420 let you collect yourself for a moment because I know it takes a minute to recover from hearing

00:02:40.020 something as shocking as this. Yes, Ted Cruz went on vacation. I'll say it again so that the severity of

00:02:46.160 this situation can sink in. I repeat, Ted Cruz went on vacation. Why does this matter? Why is it

00:02:56.000 important? Why should it garner all the headlines and so much controversy? Well, you'll have to ask

00:03:01.520 somebody else, frankly, because I don't see it. But it does matter. That's what I'm told. It matters a

00:03:07.320 lot. You should care. You must care. Now let's back up and let's try to figure out why we should care so

00:03:15.100 much about this. We'll back up for a minute. As the story goes, Ted Cruz was spotted at the airport

00:03:19.420 Thursday morning with his family boarding a plane for Cancun. This is scandalous, supposedly, because

00:03:26.680 Texas is in the midst of a crisis with millions of its citizens without power and stranded because

00:03:32.860 of the winter storms. As the scandal broke and Texas Democrats called for his resignation about it

00:03:38.720 and every media outlet turned the whole thing into Pearl Harbor, Cruz announced that he would be

00:03:44.820 returning immediately from Cancun and that he was only going there to escort his family, implying that

00:03:50.280 he always planned to bring them and then turn around and fly back and come back home. He later admitted,

00:03:56.400 though, that he actually cut his trip short, that he was planning to go for the week or however long,

00:04:00.580 and he decided to turn around and come back. That night, the New York Times had an exclusive report

00:04:06.260 featuring private text messages between Cruz's wife, Heidi, and her friends. And they published

00:04:14.060 these private text messages. Here's the Times. Here's what they reported. Like millions of his

00:04:19.160 constituents across Texas, Senator Ted Cruz had a frigid home without electricity this week amid the

00:04:23.760 state's power crisis. But unlike most, Mr. Cruz got out, fleeing Houston and hopping a Wednesday

00:04:30.120 afternoon flight to Cancun with his family for a respite at a luxury resort. Photos of Mr. Cruz and

00:04:36.740 his wife, Heidi, boarding the flight ricocheted quickly across social media, left both his political

00:04:40.660 allies and rivals aghast, aghast at a tropical trip as a disaster unfolded at home. The blowback

00:04:47.620 only intensified after Mr. Cruz, a Republican, released a statement saying that he had flown to

00:04:52.300 Mexico, quote, to be a good dad and accompany his daughters and their friends. He noted he was flying

00:04:58.080 back Thursday afternoon, though he did not disclose how long he had originally intended to stay.

00:05:02.980 Text messages sent from Ms. Cruz to friends and Houston neighbors on Wednesday revealed a hastily

00:05:08.480 planned trip. Their house was, quote, freezing, as Ms. Cruz put it, and she proposed a getaway until

00:05:14.020 Sunday. Ms. Cruz invited others to join them at the Ritz-Carlton in Cancun, where they had stayed,

00:05:19.700 quote, many times, noting the room price this week, $300 a night, and its good security.

00:05:24.380 Um, the text messages were provided to the New York Times and confirmed by a second person on the

00:05:30.660 thread who declined to be identified because of the private nature of the text. Okay. So that gets

00:05:36.960 us up to speed on the controversy. Now, a few things here. Number one, this is not a scandal. Okay.

00:05:45.540 There's no actual reason why Ted Cruz should stay in Texas. He's not going to be pulling out his

00:05:53.520 toolbox and going to fix the power grid himself. Is it a good look to leave? Is it good optics? No,

00:06:01.040 obviously not. It was a political blunder, a political mistake. But that's another way of saying

00:06:06.700 that there's nothing actually wrong with taking his family to a warm place. It only looks wrong.

00:06:13.420 It's not actually wrong. It just looks bad. So if you want to slam him for doing something that

00:06:20.540 looks bad, if you want to hit him for being politically careless, then fine. But if you

00:06:27.700 pretend that there's some deeper scandal here, some actually corrupt behavior involved in this guy

00:06:33.500 taking a vacation to Cancun, then you're being absurd. You're being ridiculous. In fact, to hit him

00:06:39.920 on the optics is to admit. That's the point about optics. If we say that something is bad optics from

00:06:46.420 a politician, what we're saying is it's not actually bad. It just looks bad, but we know it's

00:06:51.180 not actually bad. Well, if you know that it's not actually bad, then stop pretending like stop acting

00:06:55.300 as though you think it is. You know, that said, he obviously was not planning to fly with his family

00:07:01.960 down to Cancun and then turn around and come back as he seemed to imply initially. So he shouldn't

00:07:07.280 have implied that. So he's handled this badly. There's no question about it. Still, it's not a

00:07:11.740 major scandal or a scandal at all. It's a gaffe. Okay. There's a difference between a gaffe and a

00:07:17.700 scandal. A gaffe is when a politician does something that looks really stupid and bad,

00:07:22.780 but there's no corruption, no crime, no real unethical behavior taking place.

00:07:29.080 So it's a gaffe. Number two, given that this is not a real scandal,

00:07:35.780 publishing private text messages with Cruz's wife and her friends is scummy behavior. Almost as scummy

00:07:42.360 as whatever quote unquote friend sent the text to the media in the first place. Imagine what a scumbag

00:07:48.740 you have to be to do that. You've got your neighbor inviting you on a trip and what do you do? You

00:07:55.660 immediately contact the New York times to throw her husband under the bus. Now there may be a 1.00

00:08:03.120 scenario where it would be ethical for the media to publish text messages between a politician's wife 1.00

00:08:08.600 and her friends. There may be a situation where that would be ethical. If there is, this is not that

00:08:14.960 situation. A trip to Cancun is not that situation. Maybe if there was criminal behavior taking place and

00:08:21.980 you had text messages that proved it, then, uh, then, then, okay, that might be a reason to

00:08:26.060 publish them. This is not criminal behavior or anything close to it. So there's no excuse to

00:08:31.420 publish text messages. Number three, people on social media, especially on the left have been

00:08:35.140 drawing comparisons between this and the Democrats like Newsom who went to restaurants or hairdressers

00:08:40.620 during the lockdowns. Um, and many were claiming that this thing with Cruz is, is in fact, worse

00:08:46.960 somehow than the stuff with, uh, Nancy Pelosi at the hairdresser or Newsom at the, at the restaurant or,

00:08:53.600 uh, uh, the mayor of Chicago going to hairdresser saying that, that at least it's on par, if not

00:09:01.540 worse, the Cruz thing, that's, that's the claim, which is utterly ridiculous. The outrage over Newsom

00:09:07.880 and others, it wasn't that they were off having a good time during the pandemic. That's not the

00:09:13.220 problem. Okay. Nobody cares if they have a good time. I don't care if they have a good time or not.

00:09:18.960 That makes no difference to me. The scandal was that they were doing what they had forbidden the

00:09:24.260 citizens of their state from doing. They were breaking their own rules and laws and policies. 0.68

00:09:30.320 They were passing rules saying, you guys cannot do this. And if you do it, we'll find you or arrest

00:09:36.380 you. And then they turned around and did that thing. That's the scandal. And that's a real scandal.

00:09:42.300 That's real corruption. That's abuse of power. So that's the difference. So there you have a

00:09:48.120 scandal as opposed to a gaffe from Cruz, uh, from Cruz at best bad optics, not an abuse of power.

00:09:56.320 It's not Cruz violating laws that he helped to pass or any other law. Um, he's not violating any law

00:10:02.180 rule at all. In fact, to equate these two things is obviously misleading in the extreme. Number four,

00:10:07.100 most importantly, however you feel about a Cancun gate, you should understand why the media was

00:10:14.460 focusing so intently on this. You can argue that it was a bad thing for Cruz to do a stupid thing,

00:10:21.280 but you cannot reasonably or credibly argue that it deserves all the headlines and the attention

00:10:27.720 that it got. So why did it get that attention? Well, I submit that probably had something to do

00:10:32.280 with this. The times union, the paper in Albany, uh, several hours before the big Cruz news broke

00:10:38.140 had this report quote, uh, the FBI and the U S attorney's office in Brooklyn have launched an

00:10:43.220 investigation that is examining at least in part, the actions of governor Andrew Cuomo's coronavirus

00:10:47.740 task force in its handling of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities during the pandemic.

00:10:52.300 The probe by the U S attorney's office in the Eastern district of New York is apparently in its

00:10:56.700 early stages and is focusing on the work of some of the senior members of the governor's task

00:11:02.020 force, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter who is not authorized to speak

00:11:05.680 publicly. Um, okay. So there is a, an FBI investigation. There's a lot more to this

00:11:13.860 report, by the way, you can go to the times union and read about it. There's an FBI investigation

00:11:17.860 into Andrew Cuomo, um, the governor of New York who was hailed as the COVID hero. Now he's being

00:11:24.160 investigated by the FBI for a scandal, an actual scandal that led to the deaths of thousands of people.

00:11:32.020 Right as news of this investigation was beginning to spread, suddenly the major story is Ted Cruz

00:11:37.320 going to Cancun. I don't think this is a coincidence. Now you could argue that even without

00:11:44.960 the story from, from, uh, Cuomo, the media would still be making hay with the Cruz quote unquote

00:11:49.720 scandal because it's a Republican and it's their opportunity to embarrass a Republican. And that's

00:11:53.820 probably true too. I think all of these things are related. What we do know though, is that the

00:11:58.940 Cruz story does not deserve the attention that it got? And yet, yeah, you go on social media and

00:12:04.380 you find even conservatives who are joining in the outrage bandwagon, willfully being manipulated by

00:12:11.520 the media. The media wants you to see this as a much bigger deal than it is. They want you to see,

00:12:19.340 they are telling you to see it as on par with Newsom. They want you to focus on this instead of the

00:12:24.520 Cuomo thing. And even now, so many conservatives are happy to go along. Even now are happy to say,

00:12:31.960 well, okay, if you tell me this is what I should care about, it's absolutely absurd.

00:12:37.880 And by the way, just to, just to reiterate, reinforce what I said at the very top here,

00:12:42.460 Ted Cruz is not going to be going and fixing the power grid. Now, maybe what you want him to do

00:12:54.580 is to do the photo ops and to go out and to hand out cups of soup or whatever. And that's what a lot

00:13:01.280 of politicians in fact do in these circumstances. Why do they do that? You know, if there's some sort

00:13:06.760 of natural disaster and the politicians are there themselves personally, you know, handing out the

00:13:11.960 soups and waving to the cameras, why are they doing that? Is it because they care about, is it

00:13:16.360 because they care about their citizens? No, it's because it's a political opportunity. They don't

00:13:20.000 act, nobody needs them. In fact, it's, it's better for them not to be there because when they're there,

00:13:25.020 then there's, there's, there's media, there's security. It's actually better logistically to not

00:13:30.380 have them. They can delegate that. I'm not saying that a Senator should be doing nothing in response to,

00:13:36.760 a crisis like this in his state, but he can delegate it. He can get on the phone privately,

00:13:42.320 make phone calls, send people out to do things. He doesn't need to personally be there himself.

00:13:46.840 And in fact, it's probably better, all things concerned, if he's not. The reason why the

00:13:51.840 politicians themselves personally want to be there is for the photo op. I don't understand why. So that,

00:13:57.820 I understand why they, the politician wants to do that. Why do citizens want that from their

00:14:03.340 politicians? Why do you want a politician to do the photo op? I don't need that 0.90

00:14:08.900 personally. It's not something that I need to see. And I'd prefer, if not, if the, if we didn't see

00:14:16.460 it. Now, if there's evidence that Ted Cruz, even behind the scenes is doing nothing whatsoever,

00:14:22.420 hasn't delegated anything, hasn't made any phone calls, hasn't sent any of his people out to, uh,

00:14:27.400 you know, to go hand out the soup and to go to the warming stations at all. You know,

00:14:30.240 if there's evidence that he's done absolutely nothing behind the scenes, then fine. You can

00:14:33.140 get them on that. But I don't see any reason to assume that. All we know is that he was not

00:14:39.040 originally going to be going himself for the photo op. Now he is going to go for the photo op. And I

00:14:43.940 guess a lot of people feel more comfortable and they feel comfortable now. Oh, thank God. We've got

00:14:47.940 the politician doing the photo op. I don't get it. Being manipulated by the media. Let's all,

00:14:52.880 let's all try to be better than that. Let's get to our five headlines.

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00:17:07.880 You know, I wanted to mention, I know I'm way behind the times here, but I finally saw the movie,

00:17:13.100 I watched with my wife a couple of nights ago, we watched Hillbilly Elegy. Um, and I hadn't read

00:17:17.840 the book, but, uh, and I'm sure the book was better. Books are always better in the movies

00:17:21.900 in almost every case, but, uh, finally saw the movie, which is, you know, that's the movie based

00:17:28.280 on the book written by JD Vance about his experiences. And, uh, I think most of it is set

00:17:33.740 in kind of middle-class working class Ohio and with his, with his family and his mother struggled

00:17:39.720 with drug addiction, kind of his memoir. And, uh, I thought it was a, a really solid movie. It's not

00:17:46.080 the, it's not going to be in my top 10 of all time, but it was a solid movie with powerful

00:17:50.220 performances. A couple of the performances were weak. Some of them involving kids, you know,

00:17:54.240 you can't really hit the kid actors for not being the greatest, but, um, uh, particularly the,

00:17:59.560 the, the, the main adult actors, Glenn Close, Amy Adams, really powerful performances. Um,

00:18:06.600 and overall just a solid, well-made movie and a well-told story and telling a story that, uh, that,

00:18:15.000 uh, many millions of people can relate to, unfortunately, especially having family members

00:18:19.980 that struggle with drug addiction and that kind of thing. But then you go to Rotten Tomatoes and

00:18:23.960 the critics absolutely panned this movie. They hated it. And it's, it's, this is one of,

00:18:33.000 at least from the movies that I've seen, this is one of the greatest disconnects I've ever seen

00:18:36.940 between, uh, what the critics say about a movie's quality and the actual quality of the film.

00:18:42.520 Because in reality, this is a solid, like B plus good movie. Like I said, not a cinematic classic,

00:18:48.560 but a solid, really good movie. Critics panned it. And I can only assume whenever you see that

00:18:54.160 critics are panning it, but it's a good movie. Meanwhile, the audience and the audience reviews

00:18:58.920 are, um, it's kind of like run, hide, fight, our daily wire movie, but the audience reviews are

00:19:03.240 like 80, 90% while the critics are giving it a 25, 30%. Anytime you see that, there's always a reason

00:19:08.120 behind it. It's always a political reason. And in this case, I can only assume that the reason

00:19:11.400 number one is that J.D. Vance is, you know, I think basically right wing slash conservative-ish.

00:19:17.100 Um, I don't, I'm not overly familiar with his politics, but I think that's kind of where he lands.

00:19:21.160 And, uh, and also I think the other reason is that the movie kind of makes the white privilege

00:19:29.300 narrative seem absurd because here you have a story, um, a, a not unusual, a pretty typical story

00:19:35.780 about, you know, white, a white family in a white working class neighborhood and went, what they went

00:19:41.540 through. You can't watch that movie or read the book and come away thinking, well, yeah, those people

00:19:46.680 were privileged. In fact, the, the, the guy in the movie, J.D. Vance himself, who eventually

00:19:52.840 becomes, if you want to say privileged because he goes to Yale and he becomes a lawyer, but, uh,

00:19:57.360 he had to earn that. He had to work very hard. He didn't, he didn't start with any advantages. He had

00:20:01.420 to claw his way up and go get that. And I can only assume that's why the critics didn't like it.

00:20:07.920 But if you haven't seen it, I will, I will give it my recommendation. Okay. Number one,

00:20:11.480 NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars yesterday, um, yesterday afternoon to begin its search for

00:20:16.640 signs of life on Mars. I don't think they're looking for, uh, intelligent civilizations,

00:20:22.700 let's say, but, um, they're looking at least for signs of, uh, that there was life at some time,

00:20:28.980 at one point on Mars. They were aiming for and hit a big crater called the Jezero crater,

00:20:34.440 which was a big lake three billion years ago. And they're thinking there might be evidence that life

00:20:39.700 used to be in the water there, evidence of, of organisms billions of years ago. So this,

00:20:46.640 this thing traveled 293 million miles. Okay. Think about that. 293 million miles. What? 293 million

00:20:54.460 miles. The, the, the craft did over six months and it hit not only the planet it was aiming for,

00:21:01.600 but the specific crater that it wanted on the planet. Meanwhile, it takes me like six tries to

00:21:09.520 toss a skittle in the air and catch it with my mouth. That's so an incredible achievement overall,

00:21:14.460 the rover. I mean, not me and the skittles. Um, we've already seen some pictures from the rover.

00:21:19.380 It's, uh, it's easy to take this for granted. And we, we, we've seen a lot of pictures of this kind,

00:21:23.760 but even so we're looking at pictures of another planet. That's a, that's a remarkable and profound

00:21:30.560 thing. We should stop and appreciate that. Of course, these pictures come in and the first thing

00:21:37.580 that happens is that the internet makes memes out of them and they Photoshop Bernie Sanders into the

00:21:43.580 photo of, of Mars, which I understand. I get it, but still damn it. Internet, can you be serious

00:21:51.380 about something for five minutes? Anyway, well, I guess we should say thank you to NASA. Uh, thank you

00:21:57.640 for sending that rover 290 million miles so that it could send us back some awesome meme templates

00:22:03.000 because that's all, that's all that we're going to use it for. Number two, you want to hear something

00:22:08.460 really insane? Maybe you don't, but I'm going to play it anyway. This is democratic representative

00:22:12.060 Katie Porter. I want you to listen to her take on, uh, the school closings and when she thinks we can

00:22:18.300 get the schools back open again. Listen. Well, I think there's two issues. One is how do we get them

00:22:23.220 back? I think the good thing that president Biden has done is he's pushing, he's pushing, he's asking the

00:22:28.420 right questions. He's setting deadlines and he's mobilizing agencies like the CDC to issue guidance,

00:22:34.420 guidance that then Senator Kamala Harris and I called for back in the summertime. The other part

00:22:40.360 of this though, that I think we're not planning enough is about what's going to happen when they

00:22:44.040 do all go back to school. And that's where Senator Michael Bennett from Colorado and I have authored a

00:22:48.940 letter to the department of education pointing out to them that we can't just put kids back in school

00:22:54.640 as if they're learning and social and emotional development has not been severely interrupted.

00:23:00.260 And this problem is particularly acute with regard to math and science education. So it's a workforce

00:23:05.320 issue and a workforce development issue as well. So did you get that? We can't put kids back in school

00:23:11.560 until we figure out how much harm we're doing to them by not putting them back in school.

00:23:18.280 So we can't put them back in school until we figure out how much damage we're doing by continuing to not

00:23:24.020 put them in school. But it's such a classic government answer. You know, we got first before

00:23:30.400 we, uh, before we stop doing this thing that we're doing, we have to file some reports and do some,

00:23:36.700 uh, you know, have some commissions to look into, see how much damage we're currently doing by the

00:23:41.900 thing we're doing. And then, and then we'll figure out if we should stop it and go back. So that's,

00:23:46.480 that's the, that's, that's the strategy. Uh, more audio related to the school issue I wanted to play.

00:23:52.300 First, here's the report from the daily wire. It says, California parents are calling for the

00:23:56.300 resignation of the Oakley Unified Elementary School District board of trustees after board

00:24:00.500 members made disparaging remarks about the parents in an online meeting. In a video obtained by Fox

00:24:05.480 News, school board members can be heard cursing and claiming that parents with children at home

00:24:09.240 are using marijuana at increased rates. The board members believe that they were alone and were unaware

00:24:14.560 that they were broadcasting the meeting live to parents. Uh, let's listen to this went on for

00:24:19.840 several minutes, but let's listen to just a little snippet of this. Just to encourage you.

00:24:26.240 Yeah. People, it's easy to hide behind a screen and put it. But when you're face to face with

00:24:33.140 people, it's a whole different, it's a little different ball game. Well, what's funny is that,

00:24:40.120 uh, she's friends with, uh, it was posted by social media. Someone else posted it. It's like, whatever,

00:24:51.820 I wasn't doing anything bad. I could, I really, I honestly don't care about that part, but you know

00:24:57.580 what, are we alone? Yeah. If you're going to call me out, I'm going to f*** you up. Sorry, that's just me.

00:25:10.280 You know, they forget that there's real people on the other side of those, those letters that

00:25:14.620 they're writing. Yes. We're real community members. We have kids or have known kids that have gone to

00:25:21.140 these schools. Right. Have an invested interest in this process and they don't know what we have

00:25:27.060 behind the scenes. And it's really unfortunate that they want to pick on us because they want

00:25:33.040 their babysitters back. So she calls the parents, the B word says she's going to F them up, which

00:25:38.680 no, she won't. And then there's a comment about how the parents only want their babysitters back.

00:25:45.060 And that's, that's all that school is. And that's, this is revealing in a certain way, but in another

00:25:51.840 way, it's, it's not, not surprising that this is what the school board thinks of parents. This is

00:25:59.320 the antagonistic view that the hostile view that they have of, of parents. And this is what they think

00:26:08.920 of their own job and of school itself is nothing more than, than babysitting. Another thing to keep

00:26:15.520 in mind about, uh, as, as, as maybe you consider going into next year, you want to get your kids

00:26:22.400 back into the school system or do you want to try out homeschooling? Maybe a reason to lean towards

00:26:26.940 the latter. Number three, more from the daily wire. It says a Baltimore activist who had spent 18 years

00:26:31.280 in prison, then turned to efforts to stem violence in the city has an idea for combating massive numbers

00:26:36.880 of homicides in the city. The idea is this pay people not to kill others. Tyree Moorhead, who was

00:26:43.820 jailed at the age of 15 for 18 years after a second degree murder conviction told Fox 45, I can relate

00:26:48.880 to the shooters. Guess what they want? They want money. I've talked to these people. I've seen the

00:26:52.840 shooters. It's a small city. I know who the hustlers are. I can't stop the shootings. No one in this

00:26:57.200 world has proven, uh, has proven to stop the shootings, not even the church. What, but what we can do is put

00:27:03.000 them in compliance. Fox News reported that as of 2019, he had painted, this is the, the activist had

00:27:10.720 painted nearly 200 no shoot zones throughout the city. In 2020, the city eclipsed 300 homicides for

00:27:17.620 the sixth year in a row while recording more than a thousand shootings. So this, uh, Moorhead, this

00:27:22.360 activist, uh, along with advocating that we pay people not to kill others. He's also going around

00:27:28.520 the city and painting, uh, actually like, like spray painting. I think he has a permit or something

00:27:33.640 to do it. I'm pretty sure. But, uh, and he, and he, and he paints no shoot zone around certain areas

00:27:38.540 of the city. I don't know why, I don't know why nobody ever thought of that before. Well, I guess

00:27:44.340 we have thought about them before. It's, it's kind of like the, the gun-free zone, no shoot zone.

00:27:49.680 And so I guess the hope here is that if, um, some, you know, two rival gangs were about to get into

00:27:56.340 a fight over, over turf, over, you know, whose corner belongs to whom. And, uh, maybe they're

00:28:01.800 about to start shooting each other. And then they would look and one of them would see the paint,

00:28:05.300 the, the sign on the wall saying no shoot zone. And there was a, Hey guys, look, it says no shoot

00:28:10.680 zone, but yeah, let's not do it here. No shoots on let's respect the no shoots on. And, uh, what do

00:28:16.700 you say? We reconvene down the street. If there's not a no shoot, no shoot zone, that's the hope that

00:28:21.680 it will work that way. I don't know if it actually does work that way. I tend to doubt it.

00:28:25.220 Um, more from this, it says, I, I, I'm trying to read where he explains what, how this program

00:28:32.040 would actually work. Um, but I'm not sure where that is. Anyway, that's, that's the basic idea.

00:28:41.560 Maybe the, maybe all the details aren't quite fleshed out yet. We haven't ironed out all the

00:28:45.400 kinks, but, uh, the idea is to pay people not to kill each other. Hey, I, you know, I, if we're doing 0.72

00:28:53.240 that, I would just like to say that I have gone my whole life and not killed anybody.

00:28:59.000 So I don't know how much I'm owed for that. You know, I've, I've gone my whole life, never

00:29:04.420 killed anybody. Uh, never robbed anybody, never set anything on fire. So every day that

00:29:11.880 I've not done those things, I guess I'm owed some money. We can laugh at this idea, but, uh,

00:29:18.660 it, you know, it's certainly no more absurd than defund the police or any of those other ideas

00:29:23.000 because what you can't get around is the idea of punishment, um, justice, segregating. Here's

00:29:34.920 what you, at the end of the day, probably the only thing that really works for a lot of the,

00:29:41.780 the really bad guys, the kinds of people who would think nothing of going out and just killing

00:29:46.420 somebody because they want to sell drugs in the same corner or killing someone, you know,

00:29:50.640 going to rob a liquor store and just shooting a guy so that you can steal $87 from the till.

00:29:55.860 Um, those kinds of people, the only thing that really works is to segregate them from society

00:30:03.320 in a prison cell. That's, that's what works. That's how you keep whether or not they can be

00:30:09.660 reformed while they're in prison. If they can, great. Most of the time they can, but the first

00:30:15.520 job of the justice system and the court system is to protect society, the innocent people to make

00:30:22.460 sure that the next liquor store clerk is not shot in the head. Uh, and that means you take these

00:30:26.740 people and you put them in a cage. That's what works. Number four at his town hall. Um, a couple

00:30:33.220 of days ago, Biden was asked if he would increase his student loan debt forgiveness plan from $10,000

00:30:38.900 to $50,000. And here's how that conversation went. Student loans are crushing my family,

00:30:43.980 friends and fellow Americans. Me too. The American dream is to succeed, but how can we fulfill that

00:30:51.160 dream when debt is many people's only option for a degree? We need student loan forgiveness beyond the

00:30:56.900 potential $10,000. Your administration has a proposed. We need at least a $50,000 minimum.

00:31:03.820 What will you do to make that happen? I will not make that happen. It depends on whether or not

00:31:09.520 you go to a private university or a public university. It depends on the idea that I say

00:31:16.400 to a community, I'm going to forgive the debt, the billions of dollars, the debt for people who have

00:31:21.760 gone to Harvard and Yale and Penn and schools, my children. I went to a great school. I went to a

00:31:27.220 state school. Um, but is that going to be forgiven rather than use that money to provide for early

00:31:33.380 education for young, uh, children who are come from disadvantaged circumstances? But here's what

00:31:41.160 I think. I think everyone, and I've been proposing this for four years, everyone should be able to go

00:31:47.520 to community college for free. Okay. So he's trying to take an unreasonable and bad idea, which is student

00:31:54.600 loan forgiveness and find, and find what the most reasonable version of it, but that's not good

00:32:01.240 enough. And so the white house has experienced a lot of backlash from, from the left on this.

00:32:07.200 People like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who say, that's not good enough. You need to bail out $50,000. 1.00

00:32:12.160 And now the white house is trying to, uh, navigate their way around this. And here's Jen Psaki trying 1.00

00:32:18.160 to finesse Biden's answer a little, a little, a little bit, a little bit the following day. Here she is.

00:32:23.580 Listen, the president said pretty clearly that he doesn't think he has the authority to cancel

00:32:30.020 $50,000 in student loan debt. Today, Senator Schumer and Warren said in a statement that they were told

00:32:37.980 the administration is still working on figuring out if it has the authority. So if your lawyers would

00:32:44.060 determine that canceling this is legal, would the president go ahead with this? And if not, why not?

00:32:49.780 Well, first on last night, uh, uh, last night's town hall, for those of you who didn't see the whole

00:32:54.580 thing. Uh, he was reiterating his previously stated position, which is he doesn't favor $50,000

00:33:00.340 in student loan relief without limitation. And he used some examples of the types of schools or when

00:33:05.800 it should be reimbursed or refunded. He said previously that relief above $10,000 should be

00:33:11.940 targeted based on the borrower's income, based on the kind of debt in question, public schools versus

00:33:16.640 private schools, graduate schools versus undergraduate. Obviously there's a lot of considerations

00:33:20.480 at play. Yeah. The, the, the problem for the white house is that anything other than we're simply

00:33:26.820 going to forgive everyone's student debt up to, up to at least $50,000, anything, anything outside of

00:33:32.400 that is not going to be acceptable to their own base, to their own constituents on the left. And it's,

00:33:38.040 it's, it's a terrible idea. Like we talked about a few days ago, uh, you know, I mean, we, we, we could,

00:33:43.060 we could spend another hour going through all the reasons, but a couple of quick reasons. Number one,

00:33:47.500 $50,000 student loan forgiveness, uh, that is a bailout. Make no mistake about it. That's a bailout

00:33:53.960 for the upper class. It's not, it's not primarily poor people who have $50,000 of student debt, uh,

00:34:00.200 that they're dealing with. This is upper class families. Many of them, many of whom have the

00:34:04.200 means to, to pay it back. Uh, they might not want to, it's not fun to pay it back, but, uh, they have

00:34:09.980 the ability to do it. You know, I, I have plenty of debt myself, not, not student loan debt, but I've

00:34:18.980 got car payments. I've got mortgage, even got my, not my own student debt, but my wife's student debt

00:34:25.500 that I've been, that I have been paying, um, for the last 10 years. It's not, I don't like it. It's

00:34:32.220 not fun. I don't enjoy doing it. Um, we, we, we can do it and we do pay it because we're the ones,

00:34:42.180 you know, we took on the debt for the car or the house and my wife took on the debt for the student

00:34:47.340 loans. So we pay it back. Not fun. I don't like it, but we do it. The point is, this is,

00:34:53.900 you know, we hear about a lot of the extreme scenarios. Um, people who are destitute working

00:34:59.720 for jobs, they've got $80,000 of debt they're trying to pay back. Uh, and there are situations

00:35:06.040 like that. There are also a whole lot of situations of upper class families with a lot of student debt

00:35:12.260 that they chose to take on. And they do have the ability to pay it back. Even if not the actual

00:35:18.960 student, then the family, I mean, if you're a, if you're a, uh, you know, upper class parents

00:35:25.220 and you pushed your kid to go to college and you know, in large part, because, because you couldn't

00:35:33.300 imagine any other situation and you didn't want to have kids who don't go to college because you'd

00:35:38.760 be embarrassed by that. So you pushed them to go to an expensive school and now they've got all the

00:35:43.400 student debt taken. That's, that's on them to pay back. And also you, if they can't do it, then you

00:35:48.880 should do it because I, I agree. You know, 18 year old kids, even if they're legal adults,

00:35:55.140 they don't understand what they're getting themselves into. That's the part of this student

00:36:00.900 loan debt forgiveness debate where, uh, I guess I agree with a lot of what you hear on the left.

00:36:06.940 That part I agree with that the people taking on this debt at 18 or 19 years old, just out of high

00:36:13.880 school, they don't understand what they're doing. And we can't really expect them to understand.

00:36:19.860 The difference though, is that for me, the blame falls on the parents. Okay. And it falls on the

00:36:27.500 schools, falls on the actual universities. Somehow in all this conversation about student loan

00:36:33.400 forgiveness, the schools themselves escape punishment, escape blame.

00:36:38.780 They get off scot-free and they can continue doing with all these plans. They can continue

00:36:45.860 doing what they're doing right now, which is to pay is to charge exorbitant amounts for an education

00:36:51.260 that is not worth that. And they're doing it by bilking these kids. So the government wants to come

00:37:01.060 in and fix it, but you're not really fixing the problem, not fixing it for the future.

00:37:04.020 So I put the blame primarily on parents who push their kids into this. Should be talking some sense

00:37:13.780 into kids, into their kids. They should be saying to their kids, listen, you don't need to go to a

00:37:20.460 four year university right out of high school. Take a year, take two years, get a job, work a little bit,

00:37:26.340 save up some money, get some life experience. You can always go to college anytime you can go to

00:37:31.280 college when you're 40 if you want. You don't have to, there's no reason to go to college

00:37:35.140 right out of high school. There's just no good reason to do it. Whatever you want to do with your

00:37:40.800 life, you don't need to go right from 13 years of grade school, K through 12, right into more school.

00:37:48.340 Take a couple of years. What's the downside? Who, what is it? Who are you racing? You got to make sure

00:37:54.840 you get that college degree before, before who, who, who are we racing? I know. Yeah. When you,

00:38:01.520 when you do go to college in most cases, you can go to community college for two years. It's a lot

00:38:06.000 cheaper. Transfer those credits to the four year institution. Why not that plan? I think there are

00:38:13.500 a whole lot of people, millions of kids who are going to college and shouldn't be going at all

00:38:17.040 because they don't need to go. And they're going to ultimately end up doing something with their life

00:38:21.740 where that college degree is useless. So there are a lot of people in college who don't need to be

00:38:27.380 there. And there are many more who are in college and maybe do use the degree, but they didn't need

00:38:33.740 to go right out of high school. They didn't need to pay as much as they did. And they didn't need to

00:38:37.480 go to four years of a four year institution. They could have gone to two. So whose job is it to

00:38:44.680 communicate this to the kids? It's the parents and it's the schools, the public schools, the grade schools

00:38:49.560 should be telling the kids this. The university should be saying this. The university should be

00:38:55.700 saying to an 18 year old kid who shows up and says, yeah, I want to go to your school. I don't

00:39:00.620 know what I want to do with my life. I have no idea, but I, you know, I'll plunge myself into debt

00:39:05.400 just so I can go to school right at, right at the age of 18 and, you know, be with all my friends

00:39:09.520 so we can go and party. The school should be saying, no, you know what? You not right now. Maybe go

00:39:13.560 take a cup. I know the schools will not say that because they're not going to turn down the money,

00:39:16.500 but that's my point. They're the real villains here. So I don't, I don't think the government

00:39:23.480 can solve that problem. There should be real accountability with the people who are actually

00:39:26.460 at fault. Schools, parents, they're the ones at fault. Okay. And also if we're, if we're,

00:39:32.840 if we're assigning guilt and fault, then I would also say a lot of employers, a lot of employers

00:39:38.380 who require a four year degree for jobs that don't actually need it. It is a, it is an artificial

00:39:47.900 necessity. There are jobs where you really need the extra education. Obviously, if you want to be a

00:39:54.900 doctor or an engineer or an architect or something, or a lawyer, you know, then you need that extra

00:39:59.700 education. So that is an actual need. There are a lot of other jobs where entry level, you're going

00:40:05.600 to be sitting in a cubicle typing into a computer all day. And whatever you need to know about the

00:40:12.060 job, you're going to learn on the job. That's the case for so many other millions of situations.

00:40:18.700 But even in those situations, the employers require the degree for no real reason other than it's just

00:40:25.160 an artificial need. It's a way of weeding out applicants. It makes it easier, a little bit easier

00:40:29.220 on them because they're too lazy to do the real work and find, and find candidates who, um, who

00:40:35.820 have the skills and the ability for the qualities needed for the job. And so as a way of kind of

00:40:40.920 weeding out, uh, kind of dwindling down the pack, they throw out all the people who don't have college

00:40:45.540 degrees. They deserve some of the blame too. Okay. Number five, Dolly Parton sent out a statement 1.00

00:40:51.600 yesterday and the statement reads, uh, let's see here. She says, I want to thank the Tennessee

00:40:55.780 legislature for their consideration of a bill to erect a statue of me on the Capitol grounds.

00:41:00.160 I'm honored and humbled by their intention, but I have asked the leaders of the state legislature

00:41:03.800 to remove the bill from any and all consideration. Given all that's going on in the world, I don't

00:41:08.120 think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate at this time. I hope though that somewhere down the

00:41:11.240 road, several years from now, or perhaps after I'm gone, if you still feel I deserve it, that I'm

00:41:14.880 certain I will, I will stand proud in our great state Capitol as a grateful Tennessean. Uh, Dolly Parton

00:41:20.720 getting a lot of credit for this and for good reason. I like that too. Dolly Parton may be, and I bring that

00:41:25.520 up because I've, I've raised the question before, especially after the death of Alex Trebek, uh,

00:41:30.040 who was, who was a universally beloved American. And I know he wasn't really American, but I'm,

00:41:35.960 I'm claiming him as our own as an adoptive son of America. Um, so he was universally beloved

00:41:42.400 and now, and now he's tragically gone. So how many people do we have left famous people who are

00:41:50.400 universally beloved across the board, both political aisles, no matter where you stand

00:41:56.180 ideologically, everybody loves you. Uh, there aren't many. I think Dolly Parton may be one of

00:42:02.420 the only ones. Dolly Parton, Betty White, I don't know. Keanu Reeves maybe. But, uh, this is one of

00:42:10.120 the reasons why, why she, it's, it's, it's smart too. I think it's a, it's a, it's a good idea in

00:42:14.500 general with, with statues. We know statues have become contentious issues and I'm all about building

00:42:18.780 statues to our historical icons. I'm all about that. I think it's a great, great thing to do.

00:42:23.180 Uh, but you should at least wait until they're dead. We could call this the Joe Paterno rule.

00:42:27.780 Um, it's, it's, even if someone is, you know, towards the end of their days and they're, and

00:42:33.340 they're older and you know, they're, they're going to be dead in the next 10, 15 years anyway.

00:42:37.780 Uh, even so it's not a good idea to build the statue while someone is still alive. Just wait until

00:42:43.660 they're gone. And you, you, you alleviate the risk of having to tear that statue down. If things go,

00:42:50.180 go wrong. All right. We're going to go now to read the comments. This is from April. She says,

00:42:54.920 hold up, Matt, you're 35. Interesting. Uh, no, actually I'm 34. I said yesterday on the show that

00:43:00.440 I'm 35. I'm actually 34. I said I'm 35 because I can't remember my own age. And my wife was not here

00:43:06.280 to tell me. Usually when someone asks me how old I am, I turn to my wife and say, how old am I? And

00:43:11.280 she tells me, um, and that's not a joke either. That's not a bit. I really do forget my age

00:43:16.740 already. So I'm, and I'm, what am I, right? I just said I'm 34. I'm 34 and I'm already forgetting

00:43:21.760 how old I am. I cannot imagine what I'm, if I make it to 70, it's gonna be bad news. Uh, Jess says

00:43:28.680 about the ADHD thing, you know, it's an actual disorder, right? There's a physical difference in our

00:43:33.060 brains. We have a lack of dopamine that makes us lethargic and inattentive and twitchy and a lot

00:43:37.440 of other nasty things. ADHD isn't just hyper or inattentive. There is a model brain as you put it,

00:43:42.840 and we don't have it. But yes, I agree. A lot of young kids probably get misdiagnosed.

00:43:46.360 Well, Jess, first of all, I don't know that you're right about a lot of what you're saying here. Um,

00:43:51.160 the, the, uh, the issue of whether or not ADHD is reflected physically in the brain,

00:43:57.780 or rather how exactly it's reflected physically in the brain, that is a very controversial,

00:44:02.680 contentious. Uh, that's something that scientists and neurologists and neurobiologists have been

00:44:07.000 looking at for, for decades now. Uh, I, I don't think it's nearly as simple as you're putting it.

00:44:13.260 Uh, it's kind of like people will, will sort of blithely say that, uh, well, depression is,

00:44:18.180 is a chemical imbalance in the brain. And that's, that, that's the common narrative because that's

00:44:23.680 what we've been grown up. We were told growing up that it's a chemical imbalance. Well, that's actually

00:44:27.600 not true. Um, there's, there's not a lot of evidence for that. So, which isn't to say that

00:44:33.060 it's not reflected in the brain. It's not as simple as you put it. Uh, that's the first thing.

00:44:37.720 Second thing though, is, um, it, it, it doesn't actually matter to me whether or not it is reflected

00:44:44.020 in the brain. Let's just say sake of argument, uh, there is such thing as an ADHD brain, which as I

00:44:49.520 told you, if there is an ADHD brain, I've got it. I'm, I'm, I am, uh, a model case for ADHD. I can tell

00:44:58.380 you that right now. Now, um, so let's say there is such thing as an ADHD brain. Okay. The question

00:45:06.980 though is whether our brains should not be that way. So what I would put it to you is, okay, maybe

00:45:16.680 there is an ADHD brain. Who's to say that your brain is not supposed to be like that.

00:45:20.460 You say there's a model brain. Well, on that one, I can surely tell you you're wrong. Uh, there's,

00:45:26.180 there's, there's, there's no, there is no one single brain that we can pull out of someone's

00:45:31.000 head and say, this is what your brain is supposed to look like. Now we can do that on a real general

00:45:36.400 sort of basis. Okay. We could speak very generally about how the human brain functions and what it

00:45:43.740 looks like. But when you get into the real specifics of it, everyone's brain is different

00:45:48.020 because we all have different personalities, different proclivities, different experiences,

00:45:51.880 different emotions, all these things. Everyone's brain is different. And all our brains are going

00:45:56.040 to be different also in ways that we can't even fully detect yet because we don't have the science

00:45:59.920 for it. So only in the most general sense, can you talk about model brains? When you get started

00:46:06.460 getting more specific and talk about individual personality traits, I don't, I don't think that exists.

00:46:12.640 I don't think there is a model brain all the way down to the personality types.

00:46:18.880 There is no personality trait or way of thinking that we can point to and say, that's the right,

00:46:26.000 that's the right personality. That's the right way of thinking. The ADHD brain, I would say,

00:46:32.040 or the ADHD personality, ADHD type, I would say is not a disorder. It's a way of thinking. It's a mode

00:46:38.480 of thinking. Now that mode of thinking doesn't work very well in certain circumstances. In other

00:46:45.940 circumstances, it does. There are other circumstances where having the quote ADHD brain

00:46:50.740 is going to help you. But just because it doesn't work in certain, it doesn't work as well in certain

00:46:56.760 circumstances, that does not mean that it is disordered. That's my point. That's why I say my issue is with

00:47:03.740 the disorder part of it. I don't think that it's, it's, it's right to call it disorder. I don't think

00:47:08.820 there's evidence for that. Okay. It's not like a neurological disease like dementia. Okay. We can

00:47:15.460 look at dementia and obviously say that this is a disease, that your brain is not supposed to do

00:47:21.080 that. We can say that for one thing, because we, you can, you can physically see it destroying the

00:47:25.780 brain and it will kill you. It's pretty, pretty good giveaway that that's not how the brain is supposed

00:47:31.080 to be. There's something wrong here. It's not the case for ADHD. The person with the ADHD brain can,

00:47:37.000 can function very well in society. They can be wonderful, well-adjusted people. They can be very

00:47:42.240 successful. All of that. It's just in certain circumstances, they're going to struggle.

00:47:49.060 Who is to say that the, that the, you know, that, that every person is supposed to

00:47:54.460 succeed in those circumstances. Um, let's see, let's see. We'll go to one more.

00:48:04.060 Kenneth says, no, Matt, you lost the Aquaman question. You can't just name a character and

00:48:08.660 have whoever you're with pick a power. And oh yeah, he does just pick Superman every time.

00:48:14.040 Someone who can go back in time. Hey, you win super strength. Hey, you win flight. You win,

00:48:18.540 et cetera. You're a cheater. You need a full confession of acknowledgement that you are a game

00:48:23.180 scammer. Shame. Well, Kenneth, I went through this yesterday. Didn't you see me? I pulled up the

00:48:29.140 evidence. Okay. I've done my research. You didn't do your research. The question was what superpower

00:48:35.120 would you like to have? I said, I'd like to have the superpowers of Aquaman. Okay. Then my wife says,

00:48:39.400 oh, he wants super strength. What does Aquaman have? Super strength. So that is, I fairly won and I was

00:48:47.040 robbed. And the fact that you would sit here and, and take the side of the people who have scammed

00:48:53.100 me and rigged the game against me when I'm the victim is just more reason why you are banned

00:48:58.600 from listening to this show. How dare you? How dare you, sir? We talk about the problems in the

00:49:03.180 education system all the time. We talked about it again today. It's a common theme on this show

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00:50:31.520 making her way through the news cycle recently. She was the star of Disney Plus. She was, uh,

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00:51:11.900 and use promo code Gina. That's G I N A to get 25% off of your membership today. Now let's get to

00:51:18.860 our daily cancellation. Now today for our daily cancellation, it really pains me to do it. I

00:51:26.480 hate to do it. I don't want to do it. Uh, but I have to once again, cancel my wife. She is now the 1.00

00:51:31.760 most canceled person on the Matt Wall show beating out AOC though. The contest remains close. The

00:51:37.800 reason I'm canceling her is this tweet here that she sent out yesterday. This is what she tweeted.

00:51:42.220 She says the moment when you can't stop laughing because Matt tried to run and slide with the

00:51:46.980 storage lid sprayed with Pam and instead makes a hard stop and his face bounces off the snow covered,

00:51:51.940 uh, off the snow covered cement. And then there's a picture of me on the ground, clutching my side

00:51:57.100 and in obvious great agony. Now a few things here. First, I was using a storage lid and a cooking

00:52:06.000 spray, uh, because we don't own sleds. I was spraying down a lid with cooking spray because we

00:52:13.100 don't own sleds. As I explained a few days ago, the stores around me all out of sleds too. I had to

00:52:19.080 stop on my way home on, um, Wednesday at the store, uh, for some necessary supplies like diapers and of

00:52:25.880 course, bread and milk. And I noticed that all of those kinds of supplies, this was like in an ice

00:52:31.140 storm and I'm on my way home from the hotel where I'm shooting this week and it's in an ice storm.

00:52:36.360 Roads are untreated as I've documented. Had to stop. And I go in and all of those kinds of like diapers,

00:52:44.660 milk, bread, uh, you know, all that kind of stuff. That's all fully in stock. But what the store is out

00:52:51.240 of is beer and sleds. Those are the two things that it's out of. And I, and I had this moment of

00:52:57.060 pride in my community that, um, we all have our priorities in order, you know, running out in an

00:53:02.660 ice storm to buy beer and sleds that you've got to make sure you have the essentials. Now that's

00:53:09.140 first thing. Second, my wife's recounting of the events is accurate. I did indeed take a plastic storage

00:53:15.280 lid, uh, spray with cooking oil and then attempt to slide down our cement driveway. And I did in fact

00:53:23.360 take a running head start and then actually dive. This is what I did. Okay. I want you to understand

00:53:28.560 this. I made a running head start and dove intentionally chest first onto the cement and 0.98

00:53:34.720 ice. All of these things happened. Why is my wife canceled for that? Well, because for one thing,

00:53:40.400 I probably broke my ribs. I was in pain, not even necessarily joking about having broken ribs. I

00:53:46.700 really might have broken ribs. I just refuse to go to the doctor for it because I don't want to have

00:53:50.220 to explain this story. And, um, and, but all my wife did was, was laugh and take pictures. Like she's 0.99

00:53:56.660 literally standing above me, taking pictures, laughing while I can barely breathe. And then my daughter,

00:54:05.040 as I'm on the ground, my daughter runs over and jumps on top of me. She actually yells, 1.00

00:54:09.440 yay, jump on daddy. And just jumps right on top of me with my broken ribs. It wasn't until several

00:54:15.420 minutes later, several minutes until all the pictures had been taken and the laughter subsided

00:54:20.220 for a moment. And then, and then my wife asked me if I was okay. Only then, which for the record,

00:54:24.920 I wasn't not physically or emotionally. So that's the first reason she's canceled. The second reason

00:54:29.780 is that she allowed me to do this in the first place. And the escapade on the, uh, on the concrete

00:54:36.520 driveway was right after I went sledding down our ice covered stone steps. I mean, what sort of

00:54:43.820 self-destructive idiot behaves this way? And I'm a grown adult, uh, apparently 34 years old who does

00:54:51.620 this more importantly, though, what sort of wife sits back and films while her husband behaves this

00:54:57.980 way? See, I take no personal responsibility here at all. I'm not responsible for this. I am not

00:55:03.020 responsible for my own behaviors. Wives should know that husbands are usually quite rational when

00:55:09.100 it comes to most things, but when it comes to balancing the risk of physical harm against the

00:55:14.720 reward of having fun, we have a short circuit in our brain. Something goes haywire and it does,

00:55:20.600 it just doesn't work. It's, it's not our fault. It's a condition. We're born with it. We can't do

00:55:25.280 anything about it. This is why this all falls on my wife, who is not only morally, but I think

00:55:31.400 legally liable for my behavior. I could sue her for this. I really could. And I still might.

00:55:37.020 This is almost as bad as the time a few years ago when I went sledding off a massive ramp. Uh,

00:55:41.120 we went to a school, uh, to, to go sledding down this hill and some kids had made a ramp that they

00:55:46.880 were snowboarding off of. And I went sledding off of it and I nearly broke my tailbone. And yet again,

00:55:52.480 guess who's standing off on the side, laughing her ass off while mine is broken into seven pieces.

00:55:59.600 That's right. My wife. So you're starting to see the pattern here.

00:56:05.740 You might say that the pattern is me acting like a moron. Um, and yes, that is one pattern. I don't

00:56:11.280 deny that. But the other pattern is my wife exploiting my idiocy for her own sick amusement. 1.00

00:56:16.760 And that's why my wife is once again canceled. And that's going to do it for us today. Uh, we'll leave

00:56:26.780 it there. Have a great weekend, everybody. Stay safe out there. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 19, 2021

Ep. 662 - The Media Creates Another Fake Scandal

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