The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 305 - Trump Is Right About Baltimore

Episode Date: July 29, 2019

Today on the show, President Trump says Baltimore is a dump. His observation is factually correct. But is it racist? Democrats says so. Also, a mother complains about childless millennials ruining Disney world. Should grown ups without kids be banned from theme parks? We will tackle that important question today. Date: 07-29-2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today on the Matt Wall Show, President Trump says that Baltimore is a dump. A rhyme not intended there. His observation, of course, is factually correct, but is it racist to make that observation? Democrats say so. We'll talk about that today. Also, a mother complains about childless millennials ruining Disney World. Should grown-ups without kids be banned from theme parks? We will tackle that important question today on the Matt Wall Show.

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You have to be a Pell Grant recipient. You have to start a business. The business has to be in a disadvantaged community, and you have to have the business for three years. That is the most weirdly specific plan that. I think I've heard. And the great thing is she unveiled it, like it would be this huge deal. And meanwhile, it'll probably help three people, which is good as far as I'm concerned, because that means it'll be cheap.

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So controversy of the day is Baltimore. We're going to talk about that. Why not? Well, let's talk about Baltimore for a few days. Okay. Now, this is a subject that is near and dear to my heart because, as I think some of you know, I grew up in the Baltimore area, lived there for 25 years or so. Not in the city, in the area, in the county. I wouldn't live in the city for reasons that I will now flesh out. But even living in the county, I've been into the city hundreds of times in my life. And I think significantly hundreds of times over the course of about three decades. So I've seen firsthand, as anyone in the area has seen, the progression or digression, I think, in this case of Baltimore. And I've been through pretty much every part of the city at one time or another.

And I say all of that just to establish that I am actually familiar with the city, unlike a lot of the people who have been talking about it the past few days. And of course, we've been talking about it because of the tweets that Trump sent out over the weekend. He sent a bunch of tweets about Baltimore. Tweets targeted at Elijah Cummings, who represents the 7th District, which encompasses a big chunk of Baltimore, I think about half of the city and then Howard County as well. What did Trump say? Well, I'm not going to read all the tweets. He sent several of them. I think you've probably seen them, or you can look for yourself if you have.

but he said that the city is rat infested, which it is. He said that it's dangerous, which it is. He's, you know, said that it's essentially in shambles, which it is. That wasn't his exact word. I'm paraphrasing. And he said that, and these were his exact words, he said, no human would want to live there, which his general point about Baltimore is correct. That part is not exactly correct.

There are people who want to live there. Now, I think a lot of the people who do live there live there because they were born there and would probably prefer if they weren't, but they were. There are, though, people who do move into the city. I have friends who moved into the city into the nicer parts of the city. But the problem is that the nicer parts are shrinking while the more dangerous parts expand and sort of bleed into the county to the point now where the place where I grew up, which was 20 minutes outside of the city, 30 minutes outside the city, is now is, you know, now you see more drugs and more crime even there. So that's the effect that it has.

So Trump is substantially right about what he said. There's no question about it. Baltimore's a mess. And there's also no question that it's been under Democrat leadership for decades, which is significant. That's not just a coincidence. That's the point that we don't need to speak theoretically, right, about about Democrat policies and Democrat ideology and, you know, does it work? Does it now work?

We don't need to, sometimes we speak about these things as if we're speaking theoretically or abstractly. When we don't need to, we can see whether they work or not. There are, not just Baltimore, there are many cities in this country that have been under Democrat rule and have been run according to Democrat views and philosophies for decades.

all we have to do is go look and see if it's working out. And what you're going to find out in every case is no, it's not really. The only question is, to what degree of a disaster is it? In Baltimore, it's a full-on disaster. So, but what we've seen over the past few days now, interestingly, are leftists valiantly defending Baltimore, claiming that it's not so bad, it's a nice city.

Now, keep in mind, if you go online and you see a leftist, or if you, if you look on, if you turn on the TV and you see leftists on the media defending Baltimore, talking about what a nice city it is, all of those people, if you had talked to them privately,

or even not privately any time up until this weekend about Baltimore and you had said, oh man, that's a rough city that Baltimore. You know, that's not a city

I'd want to live in. All of them would agree. That's hell yeah, Baltimore, sure. Have you seen the wire? No, no thanks. But now they're all pretending,

they're all pretending that they love the city and it's like a second home to them. Hashtag, we are Baltimore was trending this weekend with, again, a bunch of people who don't live in the city, have some,

many of them probably never even been into it, who are now coming to its defense, which as someone who's lived in the area for so long, that it's been interesting to see because up until now, if Baltimore was ever talked about on a national level, it was almost always in a negative light. But for the most part, it really isn't talked about. Baltimore is kind of an ignored city, even though it's historically significant and it's been around for a long time. But it's always been this city that everyone ignores.

And now all of a sudden, everyone's pretending that they love Baltimore and they just love going there and everything else. It's all quite stupid. And I say that as someone who is not generally a fan of Trump's tweeting, which I've been open about. I'm not a fan of Trump randomly deciding what he cares about for the day based on Fox and Friends segments, which I can pretty much guarantee. to you. I haven't checked, but I'm 98% sure that if you went and checked, either on a Thursday or Friday,

Fox and Friends did a segment about Baltimore, or they met one of their guests mentioned it or something. And then that's when Trump started tweeting about it. Which, because that's, most of his tweets, you will match up with a Fox and Friends segment. That's where he gets most of his content from, which kind of, I think debunks this whole idea. that Trump is this genius guy doing 3D chess and that there's some plan behind his tweeting, we know that's not the case

because he gets it all from Fox and Friends. He talks about whatever they talk about. So if there's any genius chess master pulling the strings, it's not Trump. It's Fox. They're the ones. Because they decide what he talks about. And, you know, I'm not a fan of that. I don't really think.

think, and I know this apparently puts me in, I guess, a minority, at least among, at least among, you know, hardcore conservatives. But I don't really think that the president's main job is to just run his mouth on Twitter. I think that, you know, in fact, he should be doing almost none of that and instead governing. That's my opinion. That's just, that's the way I look at it. But all the same. He is right about what he said. Baltimore is indeed in shambles. and by the way, another aside here, Baltimore, it is Baltimore. It's not Baltimore.

So if you are a liberal and you're trying to pretend today that you love Baltimore and then it's a second home to you and you go there all the time, then if you say Baltimore or Baltimore, it's going to make it clear that you don't know anything about the city.

It's Baltimore, B-A-W-D-I-M-O-R-E. Now, if you really, if you want to get really serious, you could say Balmer, B-A-W-E-A-W-E, M-E-R. And if you really want to sound like a local, it's Balmer Merlin. Okay. So it's not Maryland or Maryland, M-E-R-L-I-N, Balmer-Murlin. But that's, you know, that's, as I said, that's one step up. I just start with Baltimore and then you'll sound more authentic. So with liberals rushing to the defense of Baltimore, of Balmer, I've seen a lot of tweets like this one here with the hashtag we are Baltimore and then a nice little photo there you see the photo

well that's a photo of the aquarium at the inner harbor and yeah Baltimore does have a very nice aquarium there's no question about it in fact I would recommend it if you ever do go to Baltimore or if you live anywhere around and you want to I think it's the best aquarium it's certainly in the in the country I think probably one of the best in the world not just my opinion I think that's how it's ranked it's a very nice aquarium that's all I'm saying. We also have a nice zoo too, I think, a very nice zoo. But the aquarium does not represent the city. And in fact, what that nice little picture posted by someone who's probably been to the city twice doesn't show is that even in the inner harbor, which is one of the safest and certainly the most touristy place in the city, there's a significant amount of crime, even there. So if you really want to cherry pick, if you're, if you're, if you're, trying to pretend that what Trump said about Baltimore isn't true and say, well, that's not true. Look at the inner harbor. Even there. Now, of course, that's, most of the city is not that.

But even there, you've got big problems. Just a few years ago, stuff like this started happening. Watch this. Laying in a hospital bed with no sight out of his one eye. It's a horrifying ordeal. Treshell May says no mother should ever have to endure. I am disgusted, and I'm upset because my son got hurt. May's son is just the latest victim of yet another attack at the Inner Harbor, a story she's only sharing with WJZ. 10 days ago, a Saturday night out for the 18-year-old and friends turned to bloodshed when they were bombarded by a group of teens. May is not the only one who's outraged and disgusted. On Monday, WJZ first told you about a family from New Jersey who was attacked by a group of teens at the inner harbor on the same night. It's what's become a disturbing trend downtown. Last year, a man was jumped on his way home from work by a group of teens, and before that city councilwoman, Ricky Spector was attacked by a group of juvenile.

While the entire city tries to get a hold on the random attacks, these victims say it's the last time they'll visit the heart of Baltimore. And again, that's the harbor. That's one of the safest, most family-friendly parts of the whole city. And you have that. Now, as I said, that was a couple of years ago. So you might say, well, the one-off event. Not really.

Let me show you. Let me play a different clip for you, local news clip. And this is about something that happened in the Inner Harbor just a few months ago. Watch this. Six people were arrested in the Inner Harbor Saturday night. To police say fights broke out among a crowd of teens. WJC is live at the inner harbor. Kelsey Kishner with reaction for witnesses and what the mayor is saying tonight.

Kelsey. Well, Vic, witnesses say it was complete chaos here. Hundreds of people were seen running around. Fights were breaking out in that crowd of people. City officials say the mayhem needs to stop. It was chaos at the Inner Harbor Saturday night. Cell phone video shows crowds of people running away. Others witnessed the mayhem from the ground.

Just children of all ages running amok and then they would just start hitting people. They would try to split in different directions to get away from the cops. And it was just a massive rush of kids. I thought it was like a parade or something. Baltimore City Police tell WJZ they received calls around 6.30 p.m. of a large crowd of juveniles at the inner harbor near the corner. of Light Street and East Pratt Street. A short time later, they received reports

of teens fighting and called additional officers downtown to assist. Police say no major injuries were reported and six people were arrested. City leaders calling it a violent turn during a holiday weekend. Random assaults and fights and everything are pretty common in Baltimore, even in broad daylight.

Now, let's look at, here's security camera footage of another random assault, a pretty, a brutal one that has happened to a city employee in broad daylight just down the street from the harbor. So this is, this is not like this guy was walking through West Baltimore at two o'clock in a morning. This is broad daylight, supposedly safe part of the city. And here's what happened to him. And then going back a couple of years, here's something that happened. This was a guy walking back,

I believe he was walking back from power plant, which once again, near the harbor, it's a touristy spot. As far as the bar scene, that's kind of the most touristy sort of bar scene you can go to. Like if you don't know anything about the city and you're not from around there, you'll end up at power plant rather than Canton or Fed Hill or something. So this guy was walking back from power plant and here's what ended up happening to him. This is Euphoria Calvin Klein, the new elixir collection, featuring three perfum intense scents, inspired by a unique orchid accord, paired with vanilla, each with its own distinct attitude, each with its own universe, bold elixir, sensual, woody, addictive, magnetic elixir, sweet and romantic

like a lingering touch, solar elixir, a radiant expression of joy, ultra-concentrated for amplified impact and lasting power. Find your euphoria. Discover the Euphoria Elixir Collection by Calvin Klein. It's two o'clock in the morning in downtown Baltimore the day after St. Patrick's Day. Parties are winding down. Watch what happens to the guy in the green shirt. Police say he has been drinking and he appears a little dazed. A rowdy crowd gathers. Women start dancing around him suggestively, people messing with him.

Then someone notices his watch. You see someone grabs something from his piece. pocket. He goes to get it back. But it doesn't stop there. This is a second view. Someone else is also recording the incident. The man who has been identified as a 31-year-old Arlington, Virginia resident, is kicked and punched and then stripped of his clothes. And the bystanders do nothing but laugh. Interestingly enough there, as you notice, that was a white man who was beaten, robbed, and stripped naked by a group of black people. those people, they were apprehended.

They were not charged with hate crimes. Now, of course, it goes without saying. Just imagine the reverse. Imagine reversing the races in this altercation. And let's say that it was a black man being beaten, robbed, and stripped naked on camera by a bunch of white people. You can absolutely guarantee that these would be federal hate crime charges, but not with the races going the other way. And so this is not uncommon. It's one of the reasons why, like, for, you know, I've taken my kids down to the harbor because we know the area pretty well.

We know even around there, which parts to avoid. But I wouldn't generally recommend if you don't know the area, I wouldn't recommend taking your kids down to the harbor, even though it's supposed to be a place for, where you can bring your family because of things like that. but if that's what happens in the supposedly safer parts of town, even in broad daylight, now the assault, the one I just played, that assault wasn't in broad daylight, but the other ones were, if that's what happens in broad daylight and safer parts of town, what does it look like in the not-so-safe places? Well, here's a video from someone Kimberly Claychick, I think I pronounced the last name correctly. She's a resident of Baltimore. And here's a quick video of her showing us what the not so pristine parts of the city look like.

He said two to three musters to bring me a trash can like that. And the reason why I picked this already to show you is because of the college is right. You know what I mean? Yeah. They spent all that money on the college and just left everything around it. Just like this. Look up in there. Do people live in, I mean, live in the college, or not.

I don't know. All these houses are like this. You can tell me. That's how I say, I know the best neighborhood. All of this stuff is like that. Wow, I just think it's cute. It's probably home people live in a weird, don't way? Trump said rat infested.

That's, I mean, that's the least of your problems there. Certainly you have a lot of rats in a place like that, but that's understating it. That really does look like a third world country. It looks like the kind of place that you don't expect to exist in America. in a modern civilized country. But that's what it looks like. And it's not just that one little block.

Here's, let me show you, this is the kind of scenery that you could enjoy if you take the Amtrak out of Baltimore or through Baltimore. Here's the kind of, look at this. Here's the kind of stuff you're going to see. I mean, this is just, this is normal. This is what Baltimore looks like.

And it is as bad as it looks. Okay, you can judge a book by its cover when it comes to this city. the murder rate in Baltimore is famously sky high. I mean, Baltimore's known for that. That's like, that's a problem when you talk to anybody, you say Baltimore, the first thing they're going to think of is murder. And it's not just because of the wire. It's because the murder rate is ridiculously high. 300 plus a year is what we're at now. I think there was 330 or something murders last year. It's bad enough that in Baltimore, if you get the

murder rate down to 250 or 200, that's caused for celebration. That's wow. You know, it's like a five-year low and people are excited about it. You have a parade down the street because of it. The actual murder rate itself is around 50s. That's 50 per 100,000 people, which is really, really high. More people have been killed in Baltimore since the turn of the century than have U.S. troops been killed in Afghanistan? Okay, let me repeat that. Just see you. The casualty count in Baltimore is higher than it is in Afghanistan, at least as far as U.S. citizens are concerned. Someone told me, I was talking about this on Twitter. Someone said, oh, you're exaggerating. It's not like Baltimore is a war zone. And I said to her, yeah, you're right, it's worse than a war zone.

As far as the casualty account goes, it's worse. There were about 12,000 violent crimes reported in the city last year for a rate of 2,000 per 100,000 people. So what that means is that for every 100,000 people in the city, you're going to have about 2,000 murders, rapes, assaults, and robberies. That, again, is extremely high. That's over 400% higher than the national average. And this is to say nothing of the schools in Baltimore, which are among the worst in the country. There was a report done recently a couple of years ago that found that a third of the of the schools in the city a third of the schools in the city have a zero percent proficiency in math okay so for a third of the schools zero percent of the students are proficient in math none are proficient. Proficient just means

at grade level you know just accept they have they have an acceptable ability and knowledge when it comes to mathematics, zero percent fall into that category in a third of the schools. What other indicator can you look at? Yeah, we looked at crime. We've looked at the schools. Economic, well, the poverty rate in Baltimore is 23%. That's more than twice the overall average in Maryland. That's eight point higher than the national average.

And you could go on from there. You could look at the drug problem. Any property crimes, I mean, any indicator you look at, Baltimore is going to be among the worst in the country, if not the worst. And so there you go. There's nothing to disagree with. It is absolutely the case. And it is not compassionate or progressive or enlightened to ignore this.

These are real human beings who are living amid this filth and this crime. They're people. hundreds of thousands of people living with this. And many of them, especially if they're kids and they were born there, they can't leave, at least not yet. So pretending that it's not the case, that's not the answer. And I say that as someone who, you know, I still love the city in a certain way. I consider it home as someone who grew up in the area. I love the history of it, the American history.

National Anthem was written there. You've got Fort McHenry. And then just my own kind of history of visiting there over the years. And, you know, I love the football team. It has, it does have some cool spots. The aquarium, as I mentioned, Fort McHenry, we got a pretty good bar scene, some good food, seafood, you know, crabs, of course. I think the crabs, crabs are a little overrated in general, but, you know, as far as steam crabs, you can't do better than Baltimore. So, yeah, I mean, there's some good things about the city. It's not like it's a total loss.

But there's just no doubt that the city in general as a whole is a disaster zone, literally. I mean, it literally looks like a disaster zone. It looks like an asteroid just hit. It looks like something out of a zombie movie for a lot of places in the city. And that's a fact. There's nothing racist about pointing that out. In fact, if anything is racist, as far as this conference, conversation goes, I would think it'd be a lot more racist to ignore the problem, especially if you're a privileged white person living somewhere else, living in a nice area somewhere far away from the slums of Baltimore, for you to sit there and say, ah, it's fine, it's great. They love it there. They love it. That's racist. Or at least it's, it is cruel and callous and shows a disregard for the suffering of people, many of them minorities.

All right. So that's Baltimore for you. Let's talk about a place that's even worse than Baltimore, and that would be Disney World. There's this Facebook post that's gone viral. I feel like this exact post went viral a couple years ago. I don't know. Maybe it's a rerun. Anyway, this post was written by a mom on Facebook, and then it was screenshot it and put on Twitter,

and that's when it went viral with a lot of people very mad and angry. at this mom for what she had to say. There's a lot of outrage, yada, yada, so and so forth. But this is a mom who's complaining that there are too many childless adults at Disney World clogging up the lines, getting in the way. So this has sparked a sparked a conversation, which is one of my least favorite phrases that I just used. It sparked a conversation about whether or not childless grown-up should be going to amusement

parks like Disney World. Let me read the original Facebook post from this mom, whoever it is. She says, it pisses me off to no end, multiple exclamation points. When I see childless couples without at Disney World. Wait, what? It pisses me off to no end sentence. When I see childless couples. Okay.

All right. It pisses me off to no end when I see childless couples without children at Disney World. DW is a family amusement park. Yet these immature millennials throw away their money on useless. crap. They have no idea the joy and happiness it is to mothers who buy their babies, treats and toys. They will never experience the exhaustion that it is to chase a three-year-old around and getting stares at assuming I'm a bad mother. Okay, I can't even read this. This is unreadable. You know, now I'm going to get off on a whole tangent that I didn't mean.

This is not the point. I wanted to talk about Disney World. And I really wanted to defend this woman, actually, but I can't even, I can't defend her even if I want to, because I can't read what she's saying. This, now, if you're going to accuse other people of being immature and needing to grow up, you can't do that if you yourself are not able to write a coherent sentence. And there's no excuse for being unable to write a coherent sentence. But yet this is 90% of the stuff you read online is like this. You can't even hardly read it. And yet these people, all of them had formal schooling for 12 or 13 years.

Most of them went on to college. Okay. And yet they can't even write a sentence. I could write a sentence in, what, first grade? I could at least write a sentence. Bobby throws the ball. Yeah, I could write that or something in first grade. But all these adults on the internet, they can't even manage that.

I really don't get it. How could you be? an adult, in modern America, having gone to school, and I know the public schools aren't the greatest, but how could you make it to the age of 25 or 30 or 35 and not be able to write a sentence? I really don't get it. This is really a question. I'm asking you. Someone, explain it to me.

How do you not, you're going to post it on Facebook. Don't you stop and read it before you post it? You're posting this for potentially thousands or millions of people to read. Don't you stop and you don't see a problem here? Like, does it make sense to you? How do you make it to 30 and you don't even know where to put punctuation in a sentence? Anyway, that's not really the point. It wasn't supposed to be the point.

I putting that aside. I basically agree from what I could tell of what this woman is trying to say, I basically agree that Disney World is a place for kids. And that doesn't mean that you shouldn't be allowed to go if you are a childless grownup. I can't for the life of me figure out why you would want to. I mean, I can't figure out why anybody would want to go to any amusement park as a grown-up. Even with kids. Now, I understand why you would take your kids because it's for them.

You're doing it for then. But you're not going to enjoy yourself. it is not an enjoyable experience. I was just having this argument with my wife recently. She was trying to convince me that we should bring the kids to Disney World. And I told her, I would rather die. I would rather be dead. I would I think I would more enjoy the experience of dying than going to Disney World.

That's how strongly I feel. Why would I, you go down in the heat to stand in line and spend thousands of dollars. You know, you want to buy an ice cream cone. It's going to cost $300. Everything's expensive. Everything is hot. Everything is crowded. There are lines everywhere.

And this is your vacation, and this is how you want to spend it? I mean, if you, considering the money that it costs to go to Disney World and the time, if you have that kind of time and money, good for you, there are so many other ways you could spend it. And then if you're a grown-up without kids. So you have that. the money, you have no kids, you got a week or two off work, you want to go somewhere with somewhere with your grown-up friends, and Disney World is what you come up with? You could go anywhere. You know, without kids, if you got money and no kids, you could go anywhere. You

could go to New Zealand if you want to. You could go wherever you want to go. And you choose Disney World of all places. You say, I got a week off. Let me, I got seven days off. Let me spend four of those days consecutively standing in line. That's what I want to do. What? I don't get it personally. But to each their own, I suppose. I do feel, though, that you go to Disney World.

You've got, it's Disney. I mean, you've got someone dressed up as Snow White, someone else dressed up as Shrek or whatever. I guess Shrek isn't Disney. Who cares? You've got Captain America. You've got a bunch of rides and everything. this is for kids. Okay, this is all for kids. And so I actually agree in part with this woman that, you know, kids take priority. Get out of the way and let the kids enjoy. It's not for you. You already did this. You went, you had your childhood thing at Disney World. Now, get out of the way. Let another generation of kids enjoy it. Let go of your childhood a little bit. Be an adult. Can you develop some interests and some, some hobby? that you know that you that you that aren't holdovers from when you were eight years old

that's what gets me about it is that when when my generation when we were kids Disney World was a just a family place you went with families you went with little kids you didn't have a lot of grownups walking around clogging up space in the line by themselves it didn't really exist when we were kids right really at any theme park and now so now my generation we're going to deprive the next generation of kids from that experience because we can't let go of it? That annoys me a little bit. So I guess if it were up to me,

I wouldn't ban childless grownups from going to Disney World, but I would discriminate against them. That's what I would advocate. I would advocate, and that's all. I just advocate, I'm sure everyone would agree. I'm sure this will be a popular view. I would simply advocate discrimination against childless grown-ups at theme parks.

So you can come in, but it's going to cost you more, which I suppose probably already does, right? So that's good. And then, and also kids take priority. So if you're in line and you're about to get on the roller coaster and a kid walks up and he wants to get on, you have to step back because this is mainly for the kids. And if God forbid for some reason as a grown up, you're taking a picture with Snow White and a kid comes up, you got to get the hell out of the way because this is for kids is not for you. If there's no other kid around, I guess it doesn't not hurting anybody. It's a little bit weird for the person playing Snow White that they have to, you know, take a picture with a grownup, but it's not hurting anybody else. If there's, that's my point. If there's no kids around, it's not hurting anybody.

Fine, do what you want. But if there are kids there, get out of the way. You are, you did this already. You had your chance. You're not a kid anymore. Let, let a kid do it. And then, you know, after them you can go. That's my thought.

Because it does annoy me. I know anytime I talk about this, people get very upset. They say, well, you care how people enjoy themselves. All right, fine. But I'll tell you why I care because I have kids now. And it seems like many of these things in our culture that should be geared to kids and should be for kids now are more geared to adults like my age. Because the people in my generation can't let go of their childhood and have not developed any more. more mature interests than what we liked when we were eight or nine years old. So superhero movies

are a perfect example. My son just turned six years old. I think, and you've got superhero movies coming out six times a week. Well, that should be great for a kid my son's age. I should be able to take him to a superhero movie, and it should be great for him. And every once in a while, you get a superhero. Well, the only superhero movies nowadays that are really geared towards children are if they're Legos. If it's a Lego superhero movie, then yeah, you can bring the kids to it. But the problem is that these superhero stories, which are four kids, because these are stories about people in tights running around and fighting bad guys, this is for kids, for little boys. But the primary audience now are people my age. So they make these

stories that are fundamentally childish and for kids, but then they put in, you know, they put in extra violence and some language and mature themes that make it inappropriate for kids my age. So this, it's a story that should be tailored to a six-year-old boy, but I can't bring my six-year-old son because the movie studios are catering towards people my age because the people my age haven't grown up. And that annoys me. You know, I tried to, in fact, just the other day, I put on, um, whatever it was, Avengers, uh,

whatever the Avengers end game or something. Whatever it was, whatever the most recent Avengers thing is, that's out now on demand. And, uh, I said, I'll give it a try. I wanted to put it on and watch it with my son because,

again, he's a little boy. This is for him. You got, you got Iron Man, you've got Thor. I mean, this is great for him.

He loves it. And so I put it on. I had to turn it off after 20 minutes because it's just, it's, it's too intense for him. Uh, it's just, it's not appropriate. Right? It should be appropriate, though. So that's my issue, is when you've got these adults who won't let go of their childhood and their team. And the problem is my generation, rather than leaving the childhood things in their childhood and passing them on to the next generation, bequeathing them to the next generation. Instead, we are dragging all these childhood things into adulthood with us because we refuse to let them go. He said, no, no, I need it. Don't take it from me.

You've got adults who are still watching like rug rats reruns and stuff on Nicolet. I mean, are you kidding me? Just, there's so much. There's a whole world out there of, of, you know, things that you can enjoy as an adult. Maybe explore some of that and leave the kid stuff for kids. That's my. And last thing I'll say is, the way it's supposed to work is you get to, you get to relive your childhood once you have children. Because then you go and you do all these things

again with your kids and you sort of experience it again, but from a different perspective. Now you're experiencing it as the parent. And so that's the way the cycle is a play. And then you experience it again as a grandparent. So it's supposed to be a cycle like that. So it's not even that you completely live your childhood behind, but you live your childhood and then you sort of relive it in a sense as an adult though, as a parent, because now you are passing it down, giving those experiences to your kids. That's the way it's supposed to work that cycle. But instead, with my generation, we're not having kids.

So instead, we are just staying, you know, entrenched in our own childhoods. And I think that's kind of annoying. That's my only point. All right. I think we'll leave it there. Thanks everybody for watching. Thanks for listening. Godspeed. If you prefer facts over feelings, if you aren't offended by the brutal truth, if you can still laugh at the nuttiness filling our national news cycle,

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