Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media wants us to panic over a government shutdown,

but in my opinion, the only real problem with the shutdown is that it's only temporary.

Also, some people are upset because I said superhero movies are stupid. I will elaborate

on this very crucial point that is so important to all of our lives today on the Matt Wall Show.

So, California state regulators have looked into a plan to tax text messages, not only

tax text messages, but even tax them retroactively. So, they'd be taxing the last five years of

text messages that were sent. And of this, of course, is California for you. I have no idea why

anyone would choose to live in this state. And I say this state because that's the state that I'm

in right now, as I speak, and I can't wait to get back to the liberty and sanity and conservative

values of Maryland. It is unfortunate, though, really, because every time I come here to California,

it's such a geographically beautiful state, minus the trash and the smog and everything. But if you

can dig, if you can literally dig through that, you will uncover quite a lot of beauty. But this

is the way that it often goes. It seems like liberalism infects some of the most beautiful states.

It's the same thing in the Northeast. I'm wearing a new Hampshire shirt. So, it infects it and

disfigures it. And next thing, you know, text messages are being taxed. All right, speaking of

of the government, I want to talk briefly, no, great transition, by the way. I want to talk

briefly about the shutdown because it looms. The government shutdown looms. Looms is the the word

that the media very ominously uses. It's looming. The shutdown is looming. We're only two weeks away

from a shutdown. A shutdown that Donald Trump has threatened, they tell us, if he doesn't get funding

for the wall. I must say that the hype that we give to these shutdowns or to these potential

shutdowns is really so silly. It's one of the silliest things in modern politics. And I know that

that's saying quite a lot. The media wants us to tremble in fear at the possibility of some

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