The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1093 - Deranged ‘Medical Experts’ Recommend Diet Pills And Surgery For Overweight Children

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the corrupt and morally bankrupt American Academy of Pediatrics

00:00:04.320 has announced new guidelines for dealing with childhood obesity.

00:00:07.160 No surprise, they recommend drugs and surgery.

00:00:09.340 We'll talk about that and the medical industry's decades-long campaign to medicalize every aspect

00:00:13.660 of the human condition.

00:00:14.840 Also, the DOJ is investigating after classified documents from Joe Biden's time as vice president

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00:01:30.920 Between their reaction to COVID and their full-on embrace of gender ideology, nearly every major

00:01:36.840 medical organization in the country has completely discredited itself over the past couple of years.

00:01:42.240 I'm not sure that we've really ever seen an industry so quickly and so thoroughly torch its

00:01:46.820 own credibility in this way.

00:01:48.740 Granted, we're facing an institutional crisis in the West where almost all major institutions

00:01:52.780 have forfeited the public's trust.

00:01:54.180 But the medical industry sets itself apart because of the dramatic and seemingly, seemingly

00:01:59.760 sudden nature of its moral and intellectual collapse, and because the consequences of

00:02:05.080 the public losing confidence in the medical industry, of all industries, are especially

00:02:09.320 dire.

00:02:10.520 The public may still have faith in medicine, the science of medicine, but they don't trust

00:02:15.240 the people charged with developing, dispensing, and prescribing it.

00:02:19.040 And why should they?

00:02:20.560 Worst of all, the specific area of the medical field that has conducted itself,

00:02:24.180 the most shamefully and destructively, is that area which deals with children.

00:02:29.280 In particular, the American Academy of Pediatrics, which is the largest association of pediatricians

00:02:33.840 in the country, has gotten it disastrously wrong on every important issue for the past several

00:02:39.460 years and counting, pushing faux medicine and faux treatments and putting ideology ahead

00:02:44.820 of science every step of the way.

00:02:47.060 The APA, of course, pushed school shutdowns during COVID, masking for children, even now recommending

00:02:53.560 the COVID vaccine for six-month-old babies.

00:02:56.280 That's the APA's recommendation.

00:02:58.660 And of course, it is one of the principal promoters of gender ideology in the country, giving a 0.97

00:03:02.420 rubber stamp to whatever the extremist World Professional Association of Transgender Health

00:03:06.960 has to say.

00:03:07.980 And as WPATH guidelines recommend castration, mutilation, and sterilization for ever-younger,

00:03:13.620 gender-confused children, so too then does the APA.

00:03:17.380 Of all the once-respected organizations that have been ideologically captured by the far

00:03:22.560 left and become these grotesque, discredited husks of what they once were, the APA perhaps

00:03:28.920 sets itself apart.

00:03:30.380 And it's not done.

00:03:31.920 It's not done yet.

00:03:33.700 CBS News has the latest.

00:03:35.080 Quote, children struggling with obesity should be evaluated and treated early and aggressively,

00:03:41.140 including with medications for kids as young as 12 and surgery for those as young as 13,

00:03:46.680 according to new guidelines released on Monday.

00:03:49.100 The longstanding practice of watchful waiting or delaying treatment to see whether children

00:03:54.020 and teens outgrow or overcome obesity on their own only worsens the problem that affects more

00:03:59.320 than 14.4 million young people in the U.S., researchers say.

00:04:03.280 Left untreated, obesity can lead to lifelong health problems, including high blood pressure,

00:04:08.100 diabetes, and depression.

00:04:09.860 Waiting doesn't work, said Dr. Ihuma Ineli, co-author of the first guidance on childhood obesity

00:04:19.420 in 15 years from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

00:04:22.140 What we see is a continuation of weight gain and the likelihood that they'll have obesity

00:04:26.160 in adulthood.

00:04:27.480 For the first time, the group's guidance sets ages at which kids and teens should be offered

00:04:31.680 medical treatments such as drugs and surgery, in addition to intensive diet, exercise, and

00:04:36.460 other behavior and lifestyle interventions, said Ineli, director of the Center for Healthy

00:04:41.260 Weight and Nutrition at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

00:04:44.180 In general, doctors should offer adolescents 12 and older who have obesity access to appropriate

00:04:48.580 drugs and teens 13 and older with severe obesity referrals for weight loss surgery.

00:04:53.940 Those situations may vary.

00:04:57.320 So, as we've seen, the APA loves nothing more in this world than performing medically unnecessary

00:05:04.140 and potentially dangerous elective surgeries on children who cannot consent to them or fully

00:05:09.600 understand their long-term ramifications.

00:05:11.580 It's like their favorite thing to do.

00:05:13.880 Apparently, they aren't able to get their fix with just gender transition surgeries, and so

00:05:19.360 now they've moved over to the area of obesity.

00:05:23.120 And what sort of supposedly extreme situations might warrant weight loss surgeries for minors?

00:05:31.540 Well, CBS News also provides a helpful example, and let's listen.

00:05:37.640 Rose Garcia says, for as long as she can remember, doctors told her she was overweight.

00:05:42.580 What did the doctor or others tell you to do?

00:05:45.040 Just to exercise and eat better.

00:05:47.000 She struggled unsuccessfully for years.

00:05:50.120 Then, at age 15, she developed hypertension and became pre-diabetic.

00:05:54.360 I visited my doctor, and I told her that I wanted to lose weight, but I wanted help.

00:05:59.180 I knew I couldn't do it for myself.

00:06:00.840 With parental permission, she finally tried bariatric weight loss surgery last June,

00:06:05.240 along with counseling for emotional eating.

00:06:07.760 Since then, she has lost more than 90 pounds.

00:06:10.860 Did you look in the mirror and think, who is that?

00:06:13.520 My clothing was a big, big sign.

00:06:16.160 I would put on my favorite dresses, and they were too big.

00:06:20.180 And it was really, really surprising to me.

00:06:23.080 The new guidelines from the AAP recommend better nutrition, exercise, and face-to-face counseling.

00:06:28.740 Treatment may also include weight loss drugs and surgery for adolescents who meet the criteria.

00:06:33.660 But for many families, medication and surgery are not covered by insurance, if they have insurance.

00:06:40.020 What do you think about these new guidelines?

00:06:41.760 I think that it's definitely a step in the right direction.

00:06:46.620 Step in the right direction.

00:06:48.140 But we have to operate on even more kids.

00:06:51.700 Now, you notice a couple of things about the girl in that clip, if you're watching on the video podcast.

00:06:56.320 The first is that she was not morbidly obese, especially when she was younger.

00:07:02.460 They show pictures of her when she was a younger child.

00:07:05.520 They say, well, she's been struggling with her weight since she was a very young child.

00:07:09.180 They show the picture she was chubby, moderately overweight. 0.99

00:07:12.280 The kind of overweight that can be quite easily handled with modest diet changes and a reasonable amount of exercise.

00:07:21.200 It's very easy to deal with.

00:07:23.580 Second, she says that doctors initially told her to eat healthy and exercise.

00:07:28.240 But she doesn't say that she actually followed those recommendations.

00:07:32.740 You know, and we know that she didn't because anyone, anyone who eats healthy and gets exercise will not be overweight.

00:07:43.420 Okay, that's the case for every person on earth.

00:07:47.240 And if you're listening to this and saying, I'm an exception to that.

00:07:49.300 No, you're not.

00:07:50.820 Okay, if you eat less than you're eating now and you eat better than you're eating now and you get more exercise than you're getting right now, you will lose weight.

00:07:59.580 You will.

00:08:00.480 Everyone will.

00:08:01.020 Now, we hear a lot about alleged hormone issues and other medical complications that cause people to gain weight uncontrollably.

00:08:08.600 And yet the fact remains that eating less food or better food will result in less fat on your body.

00:08:14.880 This is a matter of simple science.

00:08:16.780 And it's the reason why most third world countries do not have an obesity epidemic.

00:08:22.140 The people don't eat a lot of food in those countries and therefore they don't get fat.

00:08:25.440 If it was possible that genetics or hormones could make you morbidly obese regardless of what you eat, then we should see starving 450-pound Ethiopians. 1.00

00:08:37.500 But we don't.

00:08:39.900 Weight gain is a simple formula.

00:08:41.960 If you consume more calories than you burn, you will gain weight.

00:08:45.620 If you burn more calories than you consume, you will lose weight.

00:08:49.980 It's not complicated.

00:08:52.020 And therefore, losing weight is not complicated.

00:08:55.520 Though it may be difficult.

00:08:57.780 There's a difference between difficult and complicated.

00:09:00.820 Difficult, not because there's any sort of complex math equation involved, but simply because developing healthy habits requires discipline and discipline requires effort.

00:09:11.980 And effort can be hard, especially in a culture that encourages laziness.

00:09:16.980 Effort is always at least going to be harder than no effort.

00:09:21.500 The easiest thing is to put in no effort.

00:09:23.540 And the difficulty level will increase with each extra bit of effort you apply.

00:09:32.340 Difficult, not complicated.

00:09:35.700 Living a healthy life, in any sense of the word, healthy physically, healthy mentally, healthy spiritually, is difficult in our society especially.

00:09:43.360 But there is no substitute for just doing the difficult thing.

00:09:47.440 Either you will do it and have the life you wish to have or not.

00:09:51.800 I mean, it's your choice.

00:09:53.000 It is your choice.

00:09:55.200 And in the end, there is nothing a doctor can do to compensate for your refusal to make the right choices.

00:10:03.540 Or rather, if there is something they can do to compensate, the negative consequences in the long run will vastly outweigh, pun slightly intended, the benefits.

00:10:13.340 Now, every doctor in the country and every member of the APA knows that everything I've said so far is true.

00:10:23.240 They know that anyone can lose weight with a healthy lifestyle.

00:10:26.640 They know that the obesity epidemic is an epidemic of people living unhealthy lifestyles, choosing unhealthy lifestyles.

00:10:34.640 Or if their children we're talking about very often, these are lifestyles being chosen for them, their parents, feeding them garbage, putting them on a couch with video games and TV and whatever and screens.

00:10:48.040 Yet, and again, every doctor knows that all of this is true, yet they have embraced the obesity as a disease model of care anyway, where the fat person is treated as though his fatness was inflicted upon him through no fault of his own.

00:11:05.580 Rather than telling the parent of the obese child, that they should feed him better food, instead they now treat the obese child as though his obesity is a virus or a cancer, as though it is something that he contracted, an illness inflicted upon him, which must now be surgically removed like a tumor.

00:11:29.480 The important thing to understand is that the medical professionals involved in instituting this change of approach, they know that their reasoning is bogus.

00:11:40.620 They know it. They went to medical school. They know why people get fat.

00:11:45.380 They know how people get unfat, just like they know the difference between males and females and how binary and immutable those identities are.

00:11:54.240 But they're now operating within their medical field as if they do not know these things.

00:11:59.480 This is a philosophical decision, and we must understand what the philosophy is.

00:12:07.340 The medical field has long since decided, and this goes back many years, okay, so it's actually not just in the last couple of years.

00:12:14.320 It goes back many years.

00:12:15.780 The medical field decided that human beings are helpless automatons with no free will, no capacity to make choices or to change, and no agency over their own lives.

00:12:25.840 Okay, that is the assumption that the medical field as a whole operates on.

00:12:33.100 It is an industry run by extreme materialists who believe essentially that the human mind basically doesn't exist.

00:12:42.700 Certainly the soul does not exist.

00:12:44.400 We are the product of chemical reactions.

00:12:46.720 We are governed by these reactions entirely.

00:12:49.140 And so literally any problem we have, anything we suffer from, can be solved chemically.

00:12:53.800 That's the way they look at it.

00:12:54.620 This is a process that has been ongoing for decades, and it began principally in the psychiatric industry, where every bad habit is an addiction now, and every addiction is a disease, and every uncomfortable or inconvenient human emotion or behavior is a mental illness, and every mental illness is a disease.

00:13:12.180 The psychiatrists have spent decades cataloging and medicalizing the entire human condition, prescribing psychotropic drugs to treat everyone who behaves in a way that falls slightly outside the norm, the norm as defined and determined by them, the psychiatrists.

00:13:30.900 They have done this for so long with almost no resistance from the public, and mostly because the public has bought into the program or been drugged into it, as the case may be.

00:13:42.180 The psychiatrists have been lying to us, but for many people it's a comforting lie.

00:13:47.340 It's a convenient lie.

00:13:48.460 It's a lie that absolves the individual of all responsibility.

00:13:52.020 If you're doing something you shouldn't be doing, and you're destroying your life and your family in the process, it's only because you're addicted, and it's not your fault because it's a disease.

00:13:59.420 And if you're experiencing difficult emotions, well, then take a drug and get rid of them because human beings are not supposed to feel those sorts of feelings.

00:14:05.740 All of this rests on a whole precarious pile of philosophical claims and assumptions that make no sense and that fall apart under the slightest scrutiny.

00:14:20.080 But most people do not scrutinize them because they're afraid of the burden of personal responsibility they'll end up with if they reject the psychiatric industry's claims.

00:14:29.040 Now, that's psychiatry.

00:14:34.300 My point here is simply that when you start seeing doctors prescribing diet pills and gastric bypass surgeries for chubby 13-year-olds,

00:14:43.840 treating their obesity like a cancer that cannot be cured any way except with medical interventions,

00:14:49.120 you should know that this sort of extreme medicalization of the human condition,

00:14:53.680 this treating human beings like pre-programmed robots who cannot be expected to change their behavior,

00:14:59.260 this has all been going on for a very long time, and the stage has been set for many years.

00:15:07.300 And the average American, tragically, has gone along with it up until now.

00:15:13.400 There may reach a point, I think we've already reached the point, where the average American starts to object.

00:15:21.400 But the question is whether it's simply too late.

00:15:26.040 Now let's get to our headlines.

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00:16:32.820 We begin with this headline from The Daily Wire.

00:16:35.700 Breaking.

00:16:36.360 DOJ-FBI probing classified documents from Biden's vice presidency found at a Biden think tank, according to reports.

00:16:45.700 So, Attorney General Merrick Garland has reportedly assigned the U.S. Attorney in Chicago to review classified material from President Joe Biden's time as vice president that was discovered at a Biden think tank.

00:16:55.920 CBS News reported that the approximately 10 documents were found at the Penn-Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington.

00:17:02.980 The files were discovered by Biden's personal attorneys when they were packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space at the Penn-Biden Center in Washington, D.C.

00:17:13.720 The report says that the FBI was involved in the situation.

00:17:18.100 Now, this obviously is, and, you know, people on the right are having a lot of fun with this, and for good reason, because it's pretty hilarious.

00:17:25.920 That, you know, all of this freaking out and panicking that went on because Donald Trump had classified documents and initial speculations that he was, was he taking these documents to Mar-a-Lago and then selling them the information to the Russians and all this crazy.

00:17:43.900 He had, he had nuclear secrets and he was, he was meeting, you know, he was meeting Vladimir Putin in, you know, a dark street corner somewhere underneath a streetlight and passing off a briefcase with secrets and then being handed a, you know, a bag with a dollar sign on it in exchange.

00:18:00.820 That's what we were told.

00:18:04.180 And it was all complete nonsense, of course.

00:18:06.940 And as it happens, why did, why did Donald Trump have the documents?

00:18:10.860 Well, just because he, he had them, he, you know, he didn't think it was a big deal, whatever, you know, it's like just kind of like a general sort of carelessness.

00:18:17.880 Many of us pointed out that it's, it's almost certain that Donald Trump is not the first person who's done this.

00:18:25.560 He's, it's almost certain that he's not the first president or someone in the White House who has done something like this.

00:18:30.880 And, and then we find out, oh, well, apparently Biden is guilty of it as well, which is great.

00:18:36.560 And, you know, it, it puts the left in a position and it puts us in a position too.

00:18:43.000 But the position that we're in, it's their fault because, and this happens, this kind of thing happens a lot.

00:18:49.740 Where you read this story and you think, well, like in, in reality, right, who, who cares?

00:18:54.740 I don't actually care that he had the documents.

00:18:57.240 It just means nothing to me at all.

00:18:59.140 It doesn't matter.

00:19:00.680 I'm sure it's not a big deal.

00:19:02.000 Okay.

00:19:02.600 I'm sure that there was not anything sinister, nefarious going on.

00:19:05.720 There are just 10 documents, whatever, who cares?

00:19:09.000 That's my reaction.

00:19:10.200 That's my gut initial reaction.

00:19:13.600 Objectively, you know, analyzing the situation from what we've been told so far.

00:19:18.280 That's what I would say about it.

00:19:19.300 Now, you know, it, we don't know.

00:19:21.680 There's still a lot of information we don't have.

00:19:23.020 So maybe there's something more serious going on here.

00:19:25.300 I tend to doubt.

00:19:26.880 So that's my objective, immediate reaction.

00:19:30.260 But that's not the grace that the left gives to Republicans and conservatives in the same situation.

00:19:41.180 Okay.

00:19:41.320 They are the ones who have set the precedent here.

00:19:43.140 So while I will say that I don't think this matters and I don't personally care, I'm all about, as you know, holding the left to their own standards.

00:19:53.560 Which is not a double standard for me, because it's not my standard.

00:19:59.420 I'm saying that you should be, you should have to reap what you sow.

00:20:03.400 You should be held to your own standards.

00:20:06.500 That's the exact opposite of a double standard for me.

00:20:08.460 That's, that's, that is my standard.

00:20:10.260 You have your standards.

00:20:11.260 You have your, you know, you, you, you set the precedent based on your own behavior and your own words.

00:20:17.180 And you should be stuck with that.

00:20:20.120 Okay.

00:20:20.440 It's your medicine.

00:20:21.140 You're trying to give everybody else.

00:20:22.200 And now you got to take a dose of it.

00:20:25.120 Which means that in this case, even if objectively, who cares?

00:20:32.000 Our reaction has to be, well, let's, let's got a call for investigations.

00:20:35.320 We need to think about impeachment.

00:20:36.560 This is like, we have to treat it like a crisis.

00:20:41.320 Because that's what the left did.

00:20:42.880 And we're going to hold them to their own standard.

00:20:44.460 Sorry, sorry, this, this, this is a major crisis now, according to you.

00:20:52.340 And that's how we have to treat it.

00:20:55.820 I don't want to have to do that.

00:20:57.220 You know, it's like, we don't want to have to talk about this or make it into a thing.

00:20:59.820 But you, see, this hurts us more than it hurts you.

00:21:03.240 Is what I'm trying to say.

00:21:05.080 But this is your punishment.

00:21:06.680 Now we're going to, now we're going to have to make a very big deal about these documents.

00:21:10.600 And I, and we do have to call for, and there have to be investigations into it.

00:21:15.140 Hearings, everything.

00:21:18.500 It's the precedent you've set.

00:21:20.780 All right.

00:21:21.580 ABC News headline.

00:21:24.240 More U.S. schools institute mask mandates as COVID cases rise.

00:21:28.840 More schools across the United States are putting mask mandates in place as COVID-19 cases continue to rise.

00:21:34.040 Before winter break, districts in New Jersey and Pennsylvania announced that they would temporarily be requiring masks among students and staff members amid a surge of respiratory illnesses.

00:21:44.180 Now schools in Massachusetts and Michigan are following suit, while Chicago schools are asking students to take rapid tests before classes start.

00:21:50.560 Chelsea public schools in Boston announced in a letter to the community that the decision was due to Suffolk County designated as high risk for COVID-19 transmission as defined by the CDC.

00:22:00.560 As a result of this designation, Chelsea public schools will implement a mask mandate.

00:22:05.700 Mask must be worn in school buildings at all times except when eating or drinking.

00:22:08.700 Meanwhile, Ann Arbor schools in Michigan said it was instituting a two-week mandate starting, oh, two-week.

00:22:18.480 Where have we heard that before?

00:22:19.800 It'll only be for two weeks.

00:22:21.240 That sounds familiar, but I just can't, my memory's not what it used to be.

00:22:26.300 I can't put my finger on it, but that sounds familiar of like COVID-related things where they say it's only two weeks.

00:22:32.780 According to a local affiliate WXYZ, the decision comes after a wave of respiratory illnesses led to at least five school closures in December alone.

00:22:40.160 The Ann Arbor public schools will require a well-fitting mask to be worn by school, students, staff, and visitors while indoors in AAPS schools beginning on January 9th and during the first two weeks following the winter break.

00:22:51.240 Now, you notice what they're doing here.

00:22:54.340 The schools that are instituting these mask mandates, which are only temporary, only for two weeks, but they're citing COVID as a reason, but not just COVID.

00:23:08.180 And they know they can't just cite COVID anymore.

00:23:10.800 That's not going to be enough because even the most brainwashed of the sheep, most of them have realized at this point that all the masking and all the panicking that happened was completely absurd, especially as it pertains to children.

00:23:30.780 So people know that, even people that were oblivious and going along with it for years, most of them have woken up to that fact.

00:23:39.040 And so it's not, they can't just say COVID anymore because they know that most people will respond rightfully so.

00:23:44.960 Okay, who cares?

00:23:45.960 So there's another spike of COVID, whatever.

00:23:48.900 COVID is going to be spiking and then going down and up and down forever.

00:23:52.520 It's endemic.

00:23:53.480 It's with us.

00:23:54.400 As some of us said from the very beginning, this is always going to be with us.

00:23:57.000 It's just another thing that's out there now of so many other things.

00:24:00.780 And it's always been the case that it has very little impact, certainly very little serious impact on children to begin with.

00:24:10.440 But they can't just cite COVID.

00:24:11.840 So now what they're saying is, well, it's respiratory illnesses.

00:24:15.820 COVID is just one of them.

00:24:16.820 There's also RSV and influenza and all these other things.

00:24:19.160 Now, you might point out that, well, RSV and the flu, influenza, these things have been out there circulating forever.

00:24:30.140 I mean, they were circulating long before COVID.

00:24:34.420 And yet there were never mask mandates.

00:24:36.600 Nobody ever even, it's not just that there were no mask mandates in school in response to flu before COVID.

00:24:43.620 It's not just that there were none.

00:24:44.820 It's that no one even suggested it.

00:24:47.460 It wasn't even a topic of conversation.

00:24:50.560 It wasn't in the realm of possibility.

00:24:55.580 But now it is.

00:24:58.020 And what they'll tell us is that, well, yeah, influenza was out there before.

00:25:03.500 RSV was out there before.

00:25:04.980 Nobody ever masked for any of that before.

00:25:07.740 Certainly, we never had kids wearing surgical masks in school because of it.

00:25:12.880 They'll say, yeah, that's true, that's true.

00:25:14.380 But we've learned.

00:25:15.640 We've learned from the lessons of COVID.

00:25:18.420 And so things are different now.

00:25:19.200 Really, what did we learn?

00:25:21.140 What did we learn about masking that we didn't know before?

00:25:25.280 Actually, we didn't learn.

00:25:26.480 We didn't, maybe some people who were oblivious before learned something.

00:25:30.680 But there's like no new information about masks and how they work and when they work and when they don't work.

00:25:37.440 There's no new information.

00:25:39.520 These are all things that we knew before.

00:25:40.720 So, no, we didn't learn anything.

00:25:45.420 It's just that the political situation has changed.

00:25:48.940 Masking has become a political issue.

00:25:50.620 And so that is what has changed.

00:25:51.940 And that's why they're now requiring.

00:25:54.040 Now, and this is what it's going to be.

00:25:57.280 Speaking of things that are always with us, masking in schools, this is just how it's always going to be forever now.

00:26:03.020 They know they can't get away with keeping the masks on the kids permanently in schools.

00:26:09.140 But you'll have masking and then they'll get rid of the masking and then it'll be back and back and forth.

00:26:13.480 And that's just how it's going to be forever.

00:26:16.780 If you don't like it, which you shouldn't, then the only real answer is to not subject your kids to the government indoctrination camps to begin with.

00:26:25.180 Because as soon as you send them into that building, they are at the mercy of the government.

00:26:29.500 They're in a government building being cared for or not cared for by government employees.

00:26:36.980 And that's it.

00:26:39.760 All right.

00:26:40.380 I missed this yesterday, but Dr. Fauci was interviewed by CBS News over the weekend.

00:26:44.640 Fauci retired and yet still does like 14 interviews per day in retirement.

00:26:51.960 He just, he loves the spotlight that much.

00:26:54.000 He can't let it go.

00:26:55.180 He's 145 years old and retired and yet still sitting down for every interview he can get.

00:27:01.720 Anthony Fauci has done, I mean, he's easily done more interviews in the last three years than like the average Hollywood actor will do in three decades.

00:27:10.980 And I'm making that statistic up, but then Anthony Fauci makes up statistics all the time.

00:27:15.620 So, you know, it's what's fair is fair.

00:27:19.120 He was asked in this interview with CBS about the DeMar Hamlin situation.

00:27:23.800 And about the theories and speculation and the questions really about whether this, his cardiac event had maybe anything to do with vaccines.

00:27:33.740 And here's what Fauci said.

00:27:36.740 Dr. Fauci, I don't know if you saw it, but on Monday Night Football this week, DeMar Hamlin, a player for the Buffalo Bills, collapsed on the field.

00:27:43.840 You're not an NFL expert and you're not an NFL expert on any cardiovascular issues the player might have had.

00:27:50.320 But what I want to ask you about, Dr. Fauci is, as I want to do in moments like that, I kept an eye on Twitter.

00:27:58.400 And I can't tell you exactly how many minutes transpired, but it was less than 20.

00:28:02.540 Before people on Twitter began to say, well, clearly the vaccine caused his seizure.

00:28:12.500 And that had a multiplier effect on Twitter, as these things tend to do.

00:28:20.180 What's your reaction to that?

00:28:22.240 Well, my reaction is one of concern about...

00:28:25.560 Isn't it horror?

00:28:26.560 Borderline more than concern?

00:28:28.040 Yeah, it's horror that misinformation and disinformation, when you have a platform like social media that exponentially spreads, in its best form, proper and important and value-added information can spread, which is good.

00:28:48.240 Yes.

00:28:48.460 The thing, as a public health person, and as a physician and a scientist, and my identity as a physician, is the thing that gets pained the most by that.

00:28:59.580 Because what that means, Major, is that, yet again, another conspiracy theory, complete nonsense, is going to have some people make a decision for themselves and their family not to get vaccinated, which may cost them their lives.

00:29:14.900 So that's the thing that's so horrible about it.

00:29:17.660 And if you want to go out spouting nonsense, conspiracy theories, and spreading it all around, fine, except if it results in a person suffering and perhaps dying.

00:29:30.200 And that's what happens when disinformation disincentivizes people to get proper interventions for a threat like a pandemic.

00:29:40.280 There's, uh, some real journalism there.

00:29:46.140 That's some real journalism from, uh, who's that, Major Garrett?

00:29:50.440 This is, uh, Dr. Fauci, these people disagree with you.

00:29:55.860 How horrified are you by that?

00:29:58.440 On a scale of 1 to 10, how horrified are you by people who disagree with you and thus are wrong about everything?

00:30:03.740 There's no attempt, like, there's, there's, there's no attempt to extract actual information at all.

00:30:11.340 This is just, and this is all, he doesn't, I said before that he's done a million interviews, but they're not really interviews.

00:30:17.480 Because an interview is asking questions, and then if you don't get an answer, you try and, you keep trying to extract that information.

00:30:24.180 That's how interview is supposed to go.

00:30:25.500 Isn't that interview, this is, uh, these are just speeches, really.

00:30:29.040 It's all scripted, and they're setting him up, they're lobbing the volleyball up so he can spike it over the net.

00:30:34.320 That's, that's all it ever is.

00:30:36.660 Um, and, and we hear again this, this phrase conspiracy theory, which if there's, if there's one phrase that I could ban from public discourse at this point, that would be the one.

00:30:49.440 Um, even if you disagree with the people theorizing that maybe the DeMar, DeMar Hamlin situation had something to do with the vaccine, it's not a conspiracy theory.

00:31:00.360 There's, it's that, it's, it's, it's, where's the conspiracy?

00:31:03.740 Now, there might have been a lot of conspiracies surrounding this, but the, the theory that, okay, whether it's right or wrong, the theory or the question about whether, okay, did he take the vaccine and did that cause a, a, uh, cardiovascular event?

00:31:19.720 That's not, that's just a, that's a medical theory, not a conspiracy theory.

00:31:28.540 And if you're sure that it's not true, if you're sure that, that, that it had nothing to do with that, if you have evidence that had nothing to do with it, then tell us the evidence.

00:31:38.240 As I said from the beginning, I'm not convinced that it had anything to do with the vaccine.

00:31:45.140 We still don't even know if the guy's vaccinated.

00:31:46.680 I don't, I don't know yet that that's even been answered.

00:31:49.800 Now, statistically, it's likely because the majority of the NFL is vaccinated, I believe, but they're not all vaccinated and it was never mandated for players.

00:31:56.620 So it's possible he wasn't even vaccinated.

00:32:00.240 I'm going to assume that he was though, because if he wasn't, then that, that information would probably be out by now.

00:32:05.140 They'd probably be telling us that, um, they'd find some way to get that information out, but we don't know if it was vaccinated.

00:32:12.740 Like the simple fact that somebody was vaccinated and then, uh, and then ends up having, you know, their heart stops.

00:32:18.660 And it's like, that doesn't automatically mean that that's correlation.

00:32:22.400 That doesn't automatically mean that there's causation.

00:32:25.460 So I'm not convinced by that.

00:32:28.280 And I don't think anyone's really saying they're convinced.

00:32:30.560 It's more like, it's a question.

00:32:32.800 Is there a connection here?

00:32:34.120 Can we talk about that?

00:32:36.120 Can we, let's, let's, what's the evidence?

00:32:37.940 What's going on?

00:32:38.720 Tell us what, you know, he went to the hospital, was in the hospital for several days.

00:32:43.820 What do the people in the hospital say?

00:32:45.040 What the doctors are treating him say?

00:32:48.900 So if you have evidence that disproves this theory or this possibility, then present it.

00:32:58.100 But he doesn't bother doing that.

00:32:59.480 And he thinks it's good enough to just label it as disinformation, dangerous, it's going

00:33:04.200 to get people killed.

00:33:07.140 And of course, the more you respond to it that way, the more you respond to questions like

00:33:11.340 this, which are totally valid questions.

00:33:14.860 Okay.

00:33:15.220 The question about a possible connection to the vaccine, it's a valid question.

00:33:18.980 But the more you respond to those questions by trying to shut people down who even ask

00:33:28.700 them, accusing them of killing people by simply asking a question, the more you respond that

00:33:34.660 way, then the more that the so-called conspiracy theories will grow.

00:33:40.580 If you're really worried about so-called conspiracy theories, well, that's a great way to encourage

00:33:45.220 them.

00:33:47.580 All right.

00:33:49.000 Quick headline from the Daily Wire.

00:33:50.180 House Republicans pass rules for McCarthy's reign with one GOP holdout.

00:33:54.460 The House of Representatives passed on Monday evening a set of rules that will govern how

00:33:57.660 the lower chamber operates for the next two years under the leadership of Speaker Kevin

00:34:00.520 McCarthy.

00:34:01.280 All Democrats voted against the rules package, while every Republican except for one voted

00:34:05.100 to pass it.

00:34:06.060 The final tally was 220 to 213.

00:34:08.200 The set of rules featured concessions by McCarthy to woo hardline conservatives who were holding

00:34:12.400 up his rise to Speakership last week across more than a dozen votes.

00:34:16.200 Among the concessions was changing the rules so that a sole member of the House can file

00:34:19.340 a motion to vacate the chair.

00:34:21.480 And then there were other concessions that we talked about yesterday, 72 hours to read

00:34:26.620 the bill, single issue bills, investigating, you know, government corruption, the FBI.

00:34:34.720 These were all things that were conceded.

00:34:37.480 They should not have necessitated a concession in the first place because these are things that

00:34:42.520 should just happen anyway.

00:34:45.200 And do make note of the fact that Democrats voted against it, right?

00:34:48.740 Every Democrat in the House voted against reading bills before you passed them.

00:34:56.540 Okay?

00:34:56.800 Every Democrat said, no, we should not read bills before we passed them. 0.54

00:35:00.760 60 Minutes, though, said that this was all very embarrassing.

00:35:07.500 The whole process was very embarrassing.

00:35:09.680 And the fact that there was this negotiation, you know, in the Republican Party and that

00:35:17.040 it led to this agreement with, it's very embarrassed.

00:35:20.200 It should be very embarrassing to all of us.

00:35:21.740 They said, listen to this.

00:35:22.700 The historic chaos in the House of Representatives this past week embarrassed not only a party,

00:35:30.500 but an entire nation.

00:35:32.760 A small minority blocked the House from electing a leader or even swearing in its own members.

00:35:39.540 Vote after vote, a would-be speaker could not bring himself to stand aside in favor of a colleague.

00:35:47.020 Yes, it was only for a few days in January.

00:35:49.360 But if members of the incoming majority party can't bring themselves to support a new leader,

00:35:56.140 then one wonders what happens when Congress faces tough decisions on budgets, taxes, defense,

00:36:03.780 or raising the debt ceiling, actually governing.

00:36:08.100 I'm Leslie Stahl.

00:36:10.000 We'll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

00:36:14.360 Yes, my God, how embarrassed.

00:36:16.600 It's a deliberative body engaging in deliberation.

00:36:20.640 The legislative branch, people in the legislative branch are deliberating and compromising.

00:36:25.420 How embarrassing.

00:36:27.700 It's embarrassing that they didn't just immediately coronate whatever leader was put forward in front of them

00:36:35.140 by, you know, the establishment of their party.

00:36:37.200 It's embarrassing.

00:36:38.520 I'm embarrassed by that, she said.

00:36:40.200 The entire nation is embarrassed.

00:36:43.100 Well, I don't know.

00:36:43.600 I'm in the nation.

00:36:44.420 I'm a member of the entire nation.

00:36:45.880 I'm not embarrassed by it.

00:36:48.040 It's one of the only times I have not been embarrassed.

00:36:50.640 It's one of the only times recently I have not been embarrassed by something happening in Congress.

00:36:54.020 That's one of the very rare occasions where I'm actually proud of some members of Congress for the way they handled something.

00:37:08.160 In this case, specifically the holdouts who, you know, stuck by their guns and got these concessions and got these rule changes in place.

00:37:17.340 Proud of them for that.

00:37:18.040 It does not happen very often.

00:37:20.740 Is anyone actually embarrassed?

00:37:23.580 You can go up to somebody on the street.

00:37:25.140 I'd like to see 60 Minutes test this theory and go do kind of like man on the street interviews and ask people, you know, the whole Kevin McCarthy battle.

00:37:35.980 How'd you feel about that?

00:37:36.660 Pretty embarrassing, right?

00:37:37.440 Of course, as I said last week, most people will have no idea that it even happened.

00:37:42.300 But when you tell them about it, I don't think anyone's going to say, oh, wow, that's embarrassing.

00:37:45.320 They're going to say something like, I don't care.

00:37:50.020 I got to go.

00:37:51.060 Or they're going to say, oh, OK, well, isn't that what Congress does?

00:37:54.140 They're supposed to argue about things, right?

00:37:58.200 I also wanted to mention this New York Post headline, terrible headline.

00:38:01.080 Seven-year-old Louisiana girl was mauled to death by a neighbor's pit bull that ran into her family's yard, authorities said.

00:38:06.920 Sadie de Villa was playing outside the East Baton Rouge parish home at 6.30 p.m. Friday when the dog barreled onto the property and viciously attacked her, according to arrest documents obtained by the advocate.

00:38:17.940 A family member tried to ward off the dog by hitting it with a walking cane, but the animal couldn't be deterred.

00:38:23.760 The first grader was taken to the hospital with multiple dog bites to her face and severe skull damage.

00:38:27.620 She later succumbed to her injuries now.

00:38:31.080 This is, I believe, at least the second pit bull mauling of a child in the last couple of days.

00:38:39.260 There was a story a few days ago of a child who, I believe, fortunately survived but was horrifically mutilated.

00:38:47.800 The child was basically scalped, his scalp ripped off by this dog.

00:38:55.260 And this just happens all the time, every year.

00:38:59.100 It just goes on and on.

00:39:02.080 And it remains a statistical reality.

00:39:08.100 I don't care if you're a pit bull owner and it makes you upset to hear it and you're going to tell me that, oh, not my pity.

00:39:13.840 Not my pity.

00:39:14.820 He's a nice puppy.

00:39:16.160 He's a nice puppy.

00:39:17.080 Yeah, well, the reality is that the vast majority of fatal maulings in this country are carried out by your nice puppies.

00:39:27.100 OK, that's they are they are responsible for a vastly disproportionate number.

00:39:32.360 I mean, it's not even close.

00:39:33.440 OK, all the of all the fatal dog attacks, pit bulls account for.

00:39:38.480 I don't know.

00:39:38.960 You can look at this.

00:39:39.580 It's something like 70 percent or more.

00:39:42.080 And and that's that's of all dog breeds.

00:39:45.420 OK, there are many dog breeds and you've got this one dog breed that is that is that is responsible for almost all of the fatal dog attacks.

00:39:57.180 And and please don't tell me, don't pull up statistics about dog bites and say, oh, actually, they they don't bite nearly as much as chihuahuas or, you know, poodles, poodles bite a lot more.

00:40:10.640 Yeah, but poodles don't kill anybody. 1.00

00:40:12.160 That's the difference.

00:40:13.060 OK, if you're a little annoying, ugly poodle goes rogue and the worst it can do is like maybe you might have to get stitches on your shin or something.

00:40:23.600 That's the absolute worst case scenario. 0.93

00:40:27.040 Whereas with a pit bull.

00:40:30.060 If it decides to act as it has been breeded, as it is genetically programmed to act, then it will kill somebody.

00:40:37.640 And very often it's not even going to kill you as the owner is going to kill somebody else, someone else who didn't choose to take this animal on, didn't choose the risk.

00:40:46.740 Now, you can say all you want.

00:40:47.560 Well, I'm going to buy a pit bull and adopt a pit bull and I'm going to take on the risk.

00:40:51.980 It's not just a risk for you.

00:40:53.740 You are assuming this risk for on behalf of everybody else in the neighborhood.

00:40:57.360 If your neighbor has young children, you've decided that this risk is worth taking not only with your own life, but with your neighbor's children's lives, too.

00:41:05.480 Because why?

00:41:06.160 Because you think the pit bull is cute.

00:41:08.460 That's what it is.

00:41:09.340 It's I think the pit bull is cute weighed against the lives of the children and innocent bystanders and various mailmen and joggers and all the rest of them who might be mauled to death by this beast.

00:41:21.860 There's just no contest here.

00:41:24.000 Your desire to adopt an animal that you find cute does not outweigh the right of your people in your community to be safe from these vicious animals.

00:41:34.240 And don't tell me it's all about how they're raised.

00:41:37.400 They're all, well, you know, you keep telling me it's all, it's all about the owner.

00:41:40.380 Yeah, but, but the owners of these pit bulls that end up attacking and killing people, they always say that they did everything right, that they raised the animal right, that they got proper training.

00:41:49.300 That's what they always tell us.

00:41:50.420 Now, you can assume that that's not true, but that's just your assumption.

00:41:56.720 You have like this unfalsifiable theory on your part, which is that every pit bull that attacks another person, it's because it was a bad owner.

00:42:05.480 And how do you know that?

00:42:07.340 Well, because you just assume that any time a pit bull attacks, it was a bad owner.

00:42:12.020 You have no evidence of that whatsoever.

00:42:13.580 There's zero evidence of that.

00:42:14.820 You just say it.

00:42:18.020 And what you are disregarding amid all of this is that you're disregarding genetics, okay?

00:42:26.420 Which that's a real thing that exists.

00:42:29.640 That's not, it's not superstition.

00:42:31.860 It's not, it's nothing magical going on there.

00:42:33.300 Pit bulls aren't genetically programmed to be vicious fighting animals.

00:42:40.140 They just are.

00:42:44.240 And so the job of the owner is to do everything they can to suppress that nature in the wild animal.

00:42:50.200 And if, you know, something goes wrong, then someone might die.

00:42:53.880 And I might add, die horrifically.

00:42:56.780 Like the most painful and horrific death you can imagine is what might happen.

00:43:03.300 This is not like guns.

00:43:05.300 Oh, you're saying guns should be banned?

00:43:06.580 No, I'm not.

00:43:08.080 Because you have a constitutional right to a gun.

00:43:10.800 You do not have a constitutional right to own whatever animal you want.

00:43:13.700 And I'm assuming you agree with that, which is why you're not advocating for people being allowed to have lions and tigers and like cheetahs, you know, in neighborhoods.

00:43:26.140 What does that tell us?

00:43:26.960 It tells us that you do not have a constitutional God-given human right to own whatever animal you want.

00:43:31.660 You just don't.

00:43:32.540 There are certain animals that we say do not belong in communities.

00:43:35.020 And how do we judge that?

00:43:36.420 How do we make that judgment call?

00:43:37.860 Well, if the animal is unreasonably dangerous, then he doesn't belong in the community.

00:43:43.320 And pit bulls, I mean, how many children do they have to maul to death before we are willing to accept that this animal falls into the unreasonably dangerous category?

00:43:53.460 The other thing, too, is that guns don't have minds of their own.

00:44:01.000 What's the one thing that gun owners like myself, what do we always say when people say, oh, you know, gun, we got to get rid of the guns?

00:44:06.520 You know, there's that cliched response, which is true.

00:44:08.340 It's guns don't kill people. 1.00

00:44:09.400 People kill people.

00:44:10.160 Well, people with guns kill people. 0.89

00:44:11.680 But the point is that the gun is not going to get up on its own and just go out and shoot somebody.

00:44:16.880 It's a person has to do that.

00:44:19.620 Well, you know what dogs can do?

00:44:21.200 They can get up on their own and just go out and kill somebody because they have minds of their own.

00:44:27.500 They are sentient beings, unlike guns.

00:44:31.600 So we just need to pit bulls need to be banned from from communities.

00:44:35.580 It just that that's the law that needs to be passed everywhere.

00:44:38.460 It cannot be allowed.

00:44:39.480 We need to stop breeding these things. 0.89

00:44:41.060 We need to stop allowing them in communities. 1.00

00:44:43.020 And there really is no sane argument to the contrary.

00:44:45.780 The entire argument to the contrary is just that, well, I like pit bulls.

00:44:49.640 I think they're cute.

00:44:50.340 That's the whole argument.

00:44:51.720 And I've had this discussion so many times and I've listened to the other side and that's all they got.

00:44:55.980 That's it.

00:44:58.940 Why don't I want them in communities?

00:45:00.320 Well, because they are responsible for killing a vast disproportionate number of children.

00:45:04.260 That's why I don't want them.

00:45:05.240 Why do you want them there?

00:45:06.580 Because I like them.

00:45:08.980 Not a good argument.

00:45:09.740 Finally, I want to play this for you.

00:45:13.380 Dr. Jill Biden, Ph.D., has some inspirational words for women. 0.74

00:45:17.840 Listen.

00:45:18.000 From soft lullabies to battle cries for justice, women nurse and nurture, teach and build, lead and dream our world forward each and every day.

00:45:33.520 I'm going to turn this a little bit like this.

00:45:35.700 We have never been silent, but women have been silenced. 1.00

00:45:44.060 For many women around the world, simply raising their voice is a struggle. 0.86

00:45:49.700 And they've had to fight for a seat at the table.

00:45:54.320 When women are left behind or pushed out, it hurts us all. 0.91

00:46:00.080 But when women get the opportunities that they deserve, there's no limit to what we can do, right? 0.99

00:46:08.360 The only thing more incredible than that inspiring speech was her dress, which was either pixelated because it contained a series of obscenities, or it was meant to be some sort of tribute to the game Tetris.

00:46:21.960 I don't really know.

00:46:23.120 Whatever the case, Jill Biden, Dr. Jill Biden, Ph.D., is right.

00:46:27.780 Women are done being silent. 1.00

00:46:30.120 Every woman in the world, every woman is done being silent.

00:46:34.700 And we know that because no woman has ever been silent for more than 15 seconds at a time.

00:46:40.180 So they are really done with it.

00:46:42.000 They never even started being silent.

00:46:44.040 That's how done with it they are.

00:46:46.240 Anyway, we'll have more about female empowerment in the Daily Cancellation coming up. 1.00

00:46:49.840 But first, the comment section.

00:46:52.120 Do you know their name?

00:46:55.400 They're the sweet baby gang.

00:46:59.860 Proud Troll says, if you choose to rob a place, then you forfeit your life.

00:47:04.080 If you deliberately choose to carry what looks to be a gun, then you should expect people to respond as if you're a threat.

00:47:10.560 Yeah, pretty simple.

00:47:11.600 That's how I see it, too.

00:47:15.080 You know, and of course, I say the same thing about people who, you know, if someone breaks into your house in the middle of the night.

00:47:21.080 That's why somebody breaks into your house in the middle of the night and they end up dead.

00:47:25.400 Like, I don't really care about the details.

00:47:27.740 If it was totally up to me, I wouldn't even ask any questions.

00:47:30.620 All I need to know, like, right, if it's if I'm if I'm the one calling the shots and if I am the theocratic fascist dictator of the country and, you know, there's someone breaks into your house.

00:47:44.340 They're dead.

00:47:45.740 Only question I have is, does this person live at your house?

00:47:49.320 No.

00:47:50.140 Did you invite them in?

00:47:51.920 No.

00:47:53.440 OK, that's it.

00:47:54.580 That's all.

00:47:54.960 I don't need to know anything else. 0.92

00:47:56.020 And so if they were as far as I'm concerned, if they're like coming at you with a knife or if they're pulling a gun on you and you shoot them, obviously justified. 0.98

00:48:07.240 If you're shooting them in the back as they're walking away.

00:48:11.860 Like that's when we could we could have a moral conversation about, you know, not not all shootings are the same morally.

00:48:17.940 But as far as the law should look at it, you come into someone's house uninvited, you break in, you forfeited your life and that's it.

00:48:26.780 And we're not even going to attempt to parse it and figure out what exactly it's just you are in there.

00:48:32.300 You made that decision.

00:48:34.080 Your life is forfeit.

00:48:35.320 And that, you know what, that approach and that attitude will actually, that is a pro-life attitude.

00:48:41.500 It preserves lives in the future because of what it's going to do.

00:48:44.240 It tells other people, don't do this.

00:48:46.440 Don't break into people's houses.

00:48:47.820 Don't turn to a life of crime.

00:48:49.620 OK, it's not worth the risk.

00:48:51.080 It's not worth the cost of your life, which is what, which is the price you will have to pay.

00:48:57.920 All right.

00:48:58.460 Tim, the tool says, my favorite part of the full taco shop video is when the hero, after he finished saving the day and making the other customers whole, proceeded to return to his table, finish his coffee and calmly step over the robber and leave.

00:49:12.020 I guess I didn't I didn't see the full video.

00:49:13.720 I saw the part leading the actual shooting.

00:49:15.740 And I guess I didn't watch it to the very end.

00:49:17.480 I didn't realize that that's how it ended.

00:49:18.700 But yeah, he took care of business, gave people back their money and and then left.

00:49:27.000 And I believe the police are still looking for him to ask him questions.

00:49:30.460 But, you know, the only question I have for him is like, what's your favorite beer so I can buy you one?

00:49:35.320 That's that's my question.

00:49:36.500 That would be my if I'm the police, if I'm the detective and I'm sitting down, we finally get him.

00:49:41.140 We're sitting down for questioning in the room, you know, at a table much like this one.

00:49:45.560 My only my my only question is, sir, do you like IPAs or are you more of a stout guy?

00:49:52.140 But you seem like maybe a Bud Light guy.

00:49:53.680 You want one of those?

00:49:54.160 OK, that's it.

00:49:55.260 Anyway, be on your be on your way.

00:49:57.000 Locutus says, my daughter is 18, so she's been driving for a couple of years now.

00:50:02.680 But when she had her permit, I was blown away at how crappy driver's ed has become.

00:50:06.540 She just had to watch videos on her laptop and pass a multiple choice test.

00:50:10.640 And the driving test for her license was even worse.

00:50:13.000 She just drove around the block. 0.99

00:50:14.460 No parallel parking, no highway driving.

00:50:16.960 I had to take it upon myself to teach her about blind spots, merging, parking and everything else that keeps you alive.

00:50:21.520 If I didn't know any better, I would think that the state doesn't care very much about human life.

00:50:26.400 Well, I think that you think that apparently you do know better because you're exactly right.

00:50:33.080 And we talked about this before with the driver's test.

00:50:35.780 It was it was already a joke back when I took the driver's test 20 years ago.

00:50:41.060 It was already a joke.

00:50:42.800 And there was almost like if it's let's make sure you could do a three point turn and you know how to make a right turn at a stop sign and you know how to parallel park.

00:50:50.500 And that was it.

00:50:51.000 That's all they did.

00:50:51.700 And of course, most people don't even know how to do any of those things and yet still ended up passing the driver's test anyway.

00:50:58.700 And now it seems like apparently they don't even do any of that anymore.

00:51:00.740 It's just like are can you see can you see out of at least one eye?

00:51:05.940 And if you could do that, then we'll give you and eventually even that will be too much of a burden.

00:51:11.680 Even that will be a bar too high because that's you know, that's that's not equitable.

00:51:15.840 We're excluding those with the with the vision impairment.

00:51:18.480 It is at the point where there's it's just like why even do the whole licensing thing anyway?

00:51:27.880 The only reason to have a driver's license really is if you're going to actually if there's going to be some process for obtaining the license to make sure that you know how to do it.

00:51:38.860 And if you're not going to do that, then what's the point of the license to begin with?

00:51:44.560 LFT says you got lucky.

00:51:47.100 You managed to find a good woman and you have enough money to take care of a family. 0.80

00:51:51.160 Not everyone is so lucky.

00:51:52.360 In fact, most aren't stop assuming that your life works for everyone.

00:51:57.660 Now, that's that's another cope.

00:51:59.740 That's that's that is also cope on your part to hear that.

00:52:02.980 Oh, you got lucky.

00:52:05.080 You know, you see someone who has things in their life that you don't have and that maybe you wish you had.

00:52:11.000 And then you immediately just say, oh, they're lucky and I'm not.

00:52:14.300 Come on.

00:52:15.420 Now, is there luck involved to some extent?

00:52:17.980 Yeah.

00:52:19.060 Obviously, yes.

00:52:20.060 If you're still walking around on two legs and haven't been killed or paralyzed in a car accident, that's partly luck.

00:52:27.640 Right.

00:52:27.840 Lots of things could have happened to you that that that so that you didn't have those advantages.

00:52:34.440 Right.

00:52:34.560 I mean, so there's there's luck involved every time you walk outside of your house.

00:52:40.060 Right.

00:52:40.480 You drive down the road.

00:52:41.400 You drive across a bridge.

00:52:43.580 If that bridge bridge could collapse one day and that's like no fault of your own.

00:52:47.220 That's just a matter of luck.

00:52:48.000 So there's luck involved in life.

00:52:51.080 But is it all a roll of a dice?

00:52:54.040 You know, the fact that I have a family, a wife that I love and kids and a career that I'm happy in.

00:53:00.840 I found some financial stability.

00:53:02.560 Like, is that all just a roll?

00:53:03.980 Did I stumble blindly into all of this?

00:53:06.240 No.

00:53:08.180 You know, it's it is a process and you have to work very, very hard.

00:53:13.660 And if you want financial success, you have to work very, very hard for it.

00:53:17.520 There's there's just there's no way around it for most people.

00:53:21.780 There are rare exceptions of a person who just, you know, maybe they're born with a silver spoon in their mouths or they really do get lucky and everything falls into place.

00:53:30.600 There are rare exceptions, but those are the exceptions.

00:53:33.600 That's why we call them that.

00:53:35.740 For most of us, if you want to have a life worth living, if you want to be happy in life, if you want to have anything worthwhile in life, you just have to work and you have to keep working at it.

00:53:44.560 And you've got to you've got to you've got to keep at it for years and years and years where I am where I am professionally right now.

00:53:51.600 It took me 15 years to get there, 15 years.

00:53:57.000 And what you find, it's like it's not a coincidence.

00:54:00.120 The majority of the people that I know and that I've ever met who are really hard workers and they put the time in and they're willing to work and do it and just humble themselves.

00:54:12.480 And even if they have a setback or, you know, there are peaks and valleys when they're in the valleys, they don't get discouraged.

00:54:17.560 They keep at it.

00:54:18.440 Almost everyone I know like that.

00:54:20.320 I know plenty of people like that.

00:54:21.820 But here's the crazy thing.

00:54:22.940 Almost everyone I know like that is living a successful life.

00:54:29.840 And almost everyone I know who isn't living a successful life, they're not like that.

00:54:33.700 So there is just a connection here.

00:54:37.820 All right.

00:54:39.440 So that's my self-help speech for the day.

00:54:42.740 You know who hates ads?

00:54:44.440 I do.

00:54:45.240 The last thing I want to do is read an ad, even though I'm so good at reading them.

00:54:49.480 But I do it because ads help pay the bills.

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00:55:34.600 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:55:35.800 We live in a culture that is always changing, always evolving, always reaching greater and greater heights of tolerance and enlightenment.

00:55:48.080 And as everyone knows, the vanguard of this movement, the warriors up on the front lines fighting the hardest for progress,

00:55:54.160 the people we look to first and foremost for guidance and insight are corporate brands and most specifically candy companies.

00:56:01.100 We would be facing grave civilizational peril without the leadership of candy.

00:56:06.640 We would be lost without candy's wisdom.

00:56:09.380 The ancient Greeks had Aristotle and Plato.

00:56:12.080 We have Reese's peanut butter cups and Starburst.

00:56:14.960 Our philosophers are more progressive, wiser.

00:56:18.700 Even better, you can eat them.

00:56:20.820 2022 was a landmark year for candy-centric social justice.

00:56:24.240 It seemed that every candy brand was stepping up to the plate, so to speak.

00:56:27.360 For example, Mars Incorporated announced in May of 2022 that Skittles would be teaming up with GLAAD to bring us Pride Skittles for Pride Month.

00:56:35.660 Now, Skittles had, for several years prior, turned their Skittles all gray for Pride Month to symbolically represent the brand's cemented, quote-unquote, support for LGBT rights.

00:56:45.140 Because who wouldn't want to, you know, eat cement-themed candies?

00:56:51.780 But in 2022, they took it up a notch, hiring a collection of LGBT artists to create special LGBT art for the packaging.

00:56:58.420 It's estimated that approximately, from the numbers I read, 98,000 homosexuals were saved from persecution because of the Skittles packaging.

00:57:07.160 KitKat also spoke out forcefully in defense of gay rights.

00:57:09.800 I'll let Wunderman Thompson, which is the consultant firm that came up with this gay rights campaign, explain it.

00:57:16.120 Here it is.

00:57:17.700 Canada's LGBTQI2S population has risen to over 1 million.

00:57:23.240 But hate crimes, discrimination, and mental health issues have also continued to rise.

00:57:28.700 The LGBTQI2S community needs a break, and KitKat wanted to help. 1.00

00:57:33.440 So we reimagined its iconic brand identity to redefine what it means to take a break for those who really need one.

00:57:41.740 We partnered with Toronto LGBTQI2S organization, Friends of Ruby, to help young people express who they are.

00:57:50.880 Our partnership was launched with a video that celebrated a full spectrum of identity and love.

00:57:56.080 We created two limited-edition KitKat flavors and sold them at the KitKat Chocolatory.

00:58:13.080 All proceeds were donated to Friends of Ruby.

00:58:15.840 We also sent the Pride bars along with custom mailers to LGBTQI2S influencers.

00:58:21.540 Wow. KitKat's traditional slogan is, give me a break, which is exactly what most people say to themselves when they hear the acronym LGBTQI2S.

00:58:32.480 So this campaign really makes a lot of sense, I suppose.

00:58:34.580 It's like a, it's got something meta going on here.

00:58:37.000 But as heroic as the efforts of KitKat and Skittles were, they obviously paled in comparison to M&Ms. 0.62

00:58:42.340 Indeed, M&Ms have been civil rights pioneers for a long time.

00:58:46.160 They are the Martin Luther King Jr. of candies, some have said.

00:58:48.800 Last year, they redesigned their candy mascots to be more inclusive.

00:58:52.560 The changes were nothing if not bold and dramatic.

00:58:55.880 Most startling of all, the green M&M ditched her iconic high heels in favor of sneakers. 0.96

00:59:00.900 Because M&Ms had decided they could no longer enable those legions of misogynistic perverts who have candy-related foot fetishes.

00:59:07.620 All the other M&M characters underwet their own makeovers in the hopes of making them more sympathetic and relatable to a new generation.

00:59:14.640 That's what M&M said. They wanted, we needed to sympathize with and relate to these characters.

00:59:18.720 Because, of course, it's important to sympathize with and relate to an object that you're about to eat.

00:59:24.940 This ability to see something as human and yet also consume it will at least come in handy when we all turn to cannibalism during the forthcoming apocalypse, I suppose.

00:59:33.000 But that was 2022.

00:59:35.160 Now it's a new year.

00:59:36.140 And I'm pleased to report that M&Ms will be aggressively defending their crown as the world's wokest candy.

00:59:41.680 Parade has this report, quote,

00:59:43.740 For the first time ever, select M&M packaging will feature a cast of all-female characters.

00:59:48.540 Parent company Mars is releasing the new packaging to spotlight dynamic female M&M characters in celebration of women everywhere who are flipping the status quo, as revealed in a January 5th press release.

00:59:59.200 The limited edition packs feature brown, green, and recently introduced purple, and will exclusively contain brown, green, and purple candies.

01:00:05.320 The M&M's brand is on a mission to use the power of fun to create purposeful connections as we work to create a world where everyone feels they belong.

01:00:13.680 Gabrielle Wesley, Chief Marketing Officer, Margs Wrigley, North America, said in a release,

01:00:19.220 Women all over the world are flipping how they define success and happiness while challenging the status quo. 1.00

01:00:24.700 So we're thrilled to be able to recognize and celebrate them.

01:00:27.480 And who better to help us on that mission than our own powerhouse spokescandies, green, brown, and purple.

01:00:33.380 To represent the flip, the packaging shows the three female spokescandies standing upside down above a note, supporting women, flipping the status quo.

01:00:42.860 Now, apparently there will be milk, chocolate, peanut, and peanut butter versions of the new packages,

01:00:47.340 which is good because just like female human beings, as we've learned, there's no reason why the female M&M's can't have nuts. 1.00

01:00:53.940 Needless to say, this latest campaign by M&M's has already been a source of great joy and inspiration for women all over the country and the globe.

01:01:03.060 In fact, I have seen this firsthand.

01:01:04.920 I walked into my living room yesterday, and I'll never forget this.

01:01:09.780 I found my wife and my daughter embracing each other and smiling, just tears of pure happiness streaming down their faces.

01:01:16.880 And my wife turned to me and said, she said, didn't you hear the news?

01:01:19.880 And I shook my head.

01:01:21.440 Now, like everybody else, I'm on the M&M email list so that I can read all of their press releases and PR statements as soon as they come out.

01:01:27.360 But somehow I had missed this one.

01:01:28.460 I don't know how.

01:01:29.380 And my wife then took me by the hand, and she said to me, they're making an all-female M&M package. 0.51

01:01:36.280 And I was floored.

01:01:37.920 I didn't know what to say.

01:01:38.780 It was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard in my life.

01:01:41.860 The courage and heroism of Mars Incorporated had once again left me speechless.

01:01:47.340 And then through tears, my wife and daughter, they both announced in unison, we've never felt so empowered and inspired.

01:01:53.720 And together we all went.

01:01:55.780 It was beautiful.

01:01:57.800 And no doubt a scene repeated all around the world.

01:02:00.200 Now, there are those of a more critical disposition who have ruthlessly mocked this latest example of what they would describe as woke corporate virtue signaling.

01:02:11.580 But these people are nothing but cynics, nihilists even.

01:02:14.440 They lack the purity of heart necessary to fully appreciate what M&Ms have done.

01:02:20.560 They're so jaded they can't even admire an international corporate conglomerate brand when it comes up with an uplifting marketing campaign designed to empower women and also sell candies with 18 grams of processed sugar per serving.

01:02:33.020 And there are still other critics who, you know, they've pointed out that while Mars Incorporated is empowering women with purple candy, they're also facing a lawsuit filed last year by eight Africans from the Ivory Coast who say that they were used as slave labor on cocoa plantations.

01:02:46.320 It's hard, you know, they say to take their empowerment seriously when they're also profiting from the enslavement of human beings, allegedly.

01:02:54.460 And to that I say, yeah, but still.

01:02:59.040 The point is that M&Ms are empowering everyone except for the slaves, allegedly.

01:03:06.400 And that's what we should be focused on.

01:03:09.140 And that is why, once again, the critics and the naysayers, certainly not M&Ms or Mars Incorporated, are today canceled.

01:03:18.740 And that will do it for this portion of the show as we move over to the members block.

01:03:21.980 Hope to see you there.

01:03:22.600 If not, talk to you tomorrow.

01:03:24.240 Godspeed.

01:03:24.640 Godspeed.

01:03:29.040 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 10, 2023

Ep. 1093 - Deranged ‘Medical Experts’ Recommend Diet Pills And Surgery For Overweight Children

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