Matt Welch
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460 appearances
11 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
Matt Welch’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Oh, yeah. Good movie.
I think that's just Up.
I mean, I think it's important to just, and we don't have the executive order yet, but what I'll say briefly is, as Matt pointed out, like we've seen this go back and forth a bunch and the attempts to try and kind of dictate exactly what the culture will be or how it will work through executive orders is brilliant. probably a fraught project.
The best you can hope for in a circumstance like that is a kind of reprieve from whatever kind of social craziness is happening at the moment. So I think folks have to really acknowledge that there are limits on what Donald Trump can do here.
And I don't know that the actual precedent that currently exists, where you get into office and you just pass a bunch of executive orders reversing the thing that happened right before you were in office, that can't be the status quo that we actually want here. And moving back to the universe of pluralism.
I was going to say, it's a cough drop, yeah.
Wow, you're like the RFK of SiriusXM.
I mean, look, on these issues, I cede everything to Matt Welch, who is a Southern California boy, hasn't lived there in a long time, but never stops talking about it. Matt should maybe go back. Former LA Times employee, and Camille actually lives in California. But I see things like this, and I see something, you know, like a $17 million budget cut in
And, you know, as somebody from the outside who has no particular expertise in the fires that are always afflicting Southern California, one would presume that, you know, beefing up the fire department, not cutting $17 million from the budget would be the first thing that one might do, particularly considering that California has one of the heaviest tax burdens of any country in the state, in the union.
I mean, you look at how much money that they're gathering in taxes? And where is it going? I mean, that's what I would love to see of like, where in LA County is that money going? Otherwise, I mean, obviously, they have an enormous amount of money in their hands to deal with a homelessness problem, which has not, you know, been dealt with. So
So maybe we should reroute some of that money towards the fire department. A couple of other small things is that one, I mean, Matt said, you know, we have friends and, you know, it's, she did tweet about it. So, you know, I feel okay saying it, is that our friend Kennedy has a house in the Palisades.
And Matt and I were talking before this, like we were looking at videos and we're like, oh my God, is that Kennedy's house? Cause we've all been there. And, you know, so we have friends that are just on the front lines of this. And the second thing is, is because, of the unbelievable silliness of the fire chief that you showed clips of. It's like, why are you telling me about staffing?
Nobody cares about the staffing of the post office in California. What are you telling me about your staffing policies? We don't need to know. But they're telling you that because they want you to think, look, they're such great people. But let's move away from her for a second, who seems like a thoroughly ridiculous individual, and just praise the firefighters. I mean, two people have died.
Look at that photograph from the plane. That looks like CGI from an apocalyptic Hollywood movie. And I looked this morning in terror and I say, I don't, this must have killed X number of people. God knows that that number is unfortunately going to increase, but I saw that we have a confirmed two people died in a fire that big. They should have never gotten that big. It should have been contained.
There should have been policy. We know that this is what happens in Southern California. But on the positive side, if we can find a small silver lining, is that, you know, the people that are fighting this fire are, you know, doing, you know, yeoman's work here. They're doing quite a job that they should be praised for.
If if I can go backwards on one small thing, which is, I think, a really important thing. Matt said something that I very rarely hear him say, because I've known him for a very long time, is that something is un-American.
And I think that he's right about that, because I want to just point out that, as you said, Megan, and as Matt said about his friends in the kind of Pasadena area, not all these people are rich. But my response to that is, yes, that's clearly true. But also, who cares? What if they all were rich? That is fine. I didn't grow up rich. I'm not rich now.
I have no special fealty to a class of social and economic class of people. That's not my concern. But I mentioned our friend Kennedy. And on Twitter, someone responded to her talking about her house potentially burning down. And someone responded, sucks to be rich. To which Kennedy responded, go fuck yourself, which is an appropriate tweet, by the way.
I think that's the next one. That's just us. That's queued up. This is a bit of that... you know, Luigi Mangione kind of class warfare that we have kind of accepting these days. Like, well, if it's rich people, then who cares? They can pay for it. Well, that's what I heard when I was in Wisconsin, you know, the day that Donald Trump was there after the riots.
burning down swathes of cities in Wisconsin. And people say, well, you know, they have insurance. It turned out a lot of them didn't have insurance. But even if that were the case, there are memories there. There are, you know, family photos. There's your entire life. And for someone to say, well, you're in a high tax bracket, so it doesn't matter as much.
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