The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1197 - How Big Pharma's Marketing Machine Is Fueling The ADHD Surge

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media is panicking over an Adderall shortage in the

00:00:03.600 United States. Apparently, many Americans aren't getting their daily doses of stimulants,

00:00:07.540 and this is leading to catastrophe, we're told. But what this story really demonstrates is that

00:00:11.720 big pharma has a stranglehold on the population. We'll talk about that. Also,

00:00:15.700 Ron DeSantis accepts a debate challenge from Gavin Newsom. Is that the right move for him?

00:00:20.500 Justin Trudeau announces his separation from his wife, and Lizzo is accused of sexual harassment

00:00:24.440 and fat shaming. Plus, two new and highly disgusting TikTok trends take off. All of that

00:00:29.280 and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:27.600 It's hard to think of any industry that's enjoyed more success over the past 20 years or so than

00:01:32.200 big pharma. More than 131 million people, that's two-thirds of all adults in the United States,

00:01:38.000 report that they're taking at least one prescription drug currently. That's a significant increase

00:01:41.640 from the year 2000 when around half of American adults said they were doing so. The percentage of

00:01:46.500 people taking five or more prescription drugs has nearly doubled since the turn of the century.

00:01:51.020 Spending on prescription drugs in that period has more than tripled. Drugs that supposedly treat

00:01:55.420 psychological issues like unhappiness or lack of self-control have done especially well. From

00:02:00.300 1991 to 2018, SSRI prescriptions increased by over 3,000%. Roughly half the country either takes the

00:02:08.360 mind-altering drug Ozempic to lose weight or knows someone taking it. Now, given big pharma's tremendous

00:02:15.160 success, you'd think that by now they would have solved a lot of the health problems facing Americans

00:02:20.720 or at least made progress in resolving these problems. But the opposite is true. Average life

00:02:26.680 expectancy is declining. Suicide rates are going up. So are the rates of obesity, drug addiction,

00:02:32.460 cancer among young adults. How is that possible? How is the pharmaceutical industry succeeding

00:02:38.500 financially while failing in every other area that matters? How can they have so many people

00:02:44.620 on so many medicines and yet at the same time, everyone is only getting sicker and less healthy?

00:02:50.520 Part of the answer is that many drugs created by big pharma aren't even intended to alleviate

00:02:55.420 health problems anymore. They're designed instead to cause more death and suffering.

00:03:01.420 Big pharma is churning out record amounts of sterilization drugs, abortion drugs, suicide drugs,

00:03:06.580 especially in Canada, where the government has begun putting down the undesirables who don't

00:03:10.540 even have a terminal illness. They are euthanizing human beings like stray dogs and hardly anyone is

00:03:15.260 objecting to it. More than half of all abortions are now performed using drugs from pharmaceutical

00:03:19.440 companies. So-called puberty blockers, which can cause lifelong complications, are now prescribed to

00:03:24.020 children under the age of 18 more than twice as often as they were just a few years ago. The rest of

00:03:29.620 big pharma's catalog, the drugs that are at least allegedly beneficial to patients' health,

00:03:33.960 have had a lot of marketing behind them. Other than New Zealand, we are the only country that

00:03:40.000 allows drug companies to market directly to consumers. This means that the pharmaceutical

00:03:44.800 industry can sell not just the medication, but also the illness that the medication is supposed to

00:03:50.640 cure. Do you have such and such symptoms? Then you might have this disease. Here's a drug that can help.

00:03:55.820 Diagnosis and prescription in one 30-second advertisement. How convenient. Fortunately for

00:04:03.500 big pharma, the U.S. government has also granted them immunity from lawsuits, even when their products

00:04:09.060 injure people, which they quite often do. Maybe the most important single reason for big pharma's

00:04:14.900 success, though, is media coverage. And in particular, media coverage that the drug companies have paid

00:04:21.300 for. Pharmaceutical companies recently began spending more on advertising than they do on

00:04:26.380 research and development. In 2020, the year of the great pandemic, Pfizer spent $12 billion on marketing

00:04:33.260 compared to just $9 billion on R&D. Companies like AbbVie and Johnson & Johnson and Bayer and many other

00:04:39.060 pharma companies posted similar numbers. Now, what does all this money buy you? If you turn on any cable

00:04:46.180 or network news channel, you know the answer to that question. It buys incessant advertisements

00:04:51.600 that air during every commercial break. And although the networks, of course, will never admit it, it also

00:04:56.900 buys positive coverage. After all, if the networks criticize big pharma, they stand to lose millions in

00:05:03.220 advertising dollars. Every single news report you see on TV is sponsored by big pharma. Now, you might

00:05:12.640 have noticed that the entire national news media, kind of staying on this point here, is currently

00:05:18.180 freaking out over the shortage of the drug Adderall. Adderall is manufactured by Teva Pharmaceuticals,

00:05:24.060 although they're competitors that make other versions of the drug. All of a sudden, Adderall is really

00:05:29.300 hard to find. And here's one recent report from ABC Action News on the shortage. And I want you to see

00:05:34.880 and watch how they frame this issue. Listen. A shortage of ADHD medication is leaving some parents

00:05:42.460 in limbo, and they're wondering if they're going to have enough pills to help their children. Yeah,

00:05:46.300 experts say shortages of medications are not rare, but the shortage of ADHD medications is in a category

00:05:52.140 of its own. Arvanessa Ariza spoke with one mother who says it's a game of roulette when it comes to her

00:05:56.760 daughter's medicine. She also spoke to an expert who may have a better idea of when the problem will slow

00:06:02.020 down. Meets six-year-old Ayana, a beam of light with a love for lyrics.

00:06:15.220 Her mom, Jessica McBride, says this is her lovable daughter on a good day when she's on her ADHD

00:06:20.660 medication. They finally found one that works well for Ayana last fall. Within about a week of being on it,

00:06:27.380 she was finally able to memorize her sight words that she had been working on for months. You know,

00:06:31.220 as she was finally able, her brain was able to slow down enough for her to focus.

00:06:36.820 What will that six-year-old do without her stimulants? This is a medical crisis. After all,

00:06:42.820 the six-year-old has trouble sitting still to memorize sight words when she's not drugged,

00:06:48.020 which makes her very similar to almost every other six-year-old that has ever lived on the planet.

00:06:53.420 But this mother wants her six-year-old to be less like a six-year-old because it's very

00:06:58.360 inconvenient to have a six-year-old acting like a six-year-old in the home. And that's why she

00:07:02.200 desperately needs the drug. And by she, I mean the mother, not the child. The mother needs the

00:07:07.720 child to be drugged so that the child is not such a burden on her, the mother. The anchor says that

00:07:13.000 the shortage of ADHD medication is leaving parents wondering, quote, if they're going to have enough

00:07:17.040 pills to help their children. But of course, ADHD drugs for kids are really meant to help the parents.

00:07:21.840 Think about what a revealing line that is, though, for a moment. Well, there's two lines there. The first is

00:07:29.340 about the sight words. By the way, if your six-year-old has not memorized all of her sight words in a few

00:07:34.540 months, that's normal. That is a normal six-year-old thing. I've had three six-year-olds. I know what I'm

00:07:41.220 talking about. But there's also the statement from the news anchor, which assumes, as a matter of fact, that

00:07:49.640 the only possible way for parents to help their children is by giving them pills.

00:07:54.740 Now, what's the scientific basis for that claim? Later on, ABC Action News provides an expert.

00:08:00.640 And here's what this expert has to say. This is a really, really difficult shortage. A lot of

00:08:06.920 patients require this medication just to function on a daily basis. That's Michael Ghaniel. He's with

00:08:12.180 a nonprofit organization, American Society of Health System Pharmacists. Initially, he says the

00:08:17.300 shortage of ADHD medication was due to manufacturing. Now, he says one aspect of the drug drought is due

00:08:23.480 to demand. More people being diagnosed with ADHD, resulting in more people needing the drug.

00:08:29.320 In this case, it's really hard to understand how much demand is out there. So manufacturers can scale

00:08:34.100 up production, but they really don't know how much to make. So the expert who affords legitimacy to

00:08:41.360 the idea that six-year-olds need ADHD medication is named Michael Ghaniel. He's with the American

00:08:47.420 Society of Health System Pharmacists. He says that a lot of patients, quote, require this medication just

00:08:52.060 to function on a daily basis. Therefore, he says the ADHD shortage is very difficult. Soon we might have

00:08:57.800 an epidemic of six-year-olds not memorizing sight words. Think of the devastation. Now, what's left

00:09:04.920 unstated in that report is that the American Society of Health System Pharmacists is sponsored by

00:09:10.100 Big Pharma. They admitted on their website, the most recent mid-year conference lists Pfizer

00:09:15.200 as a platinum sponsor. So these are the experts that the pharmaceutical industry launders

00:09:20.960 through so-called news reports in order to convince you that ADHD is a real disorder and that your kid

00:09:27.200 has it and needs the drugs. This is the quality of medical professional they throw on television to

00:09:32.320 tell you that your six-year-old needs a lifetime supply of psychiatric medication

00:09:35.880 so that she'll be docile and compliant as if that's how a six-year-old is supposed to be.

00:09:43.340 But these experts are really PR people. This is marketing they're doing. As if to prove that point,

00:09:49.820 the same expert, Michael Ghaniel, popped up in a PBS news article on Adderall. It's entitled,

00:09:55.260 A Perfect Storm Led to an ADHD Medication Shortage. Here's why. Once again, the expert explains that the

00:10:01.560 Adderall shortage is really frustrating, presumably because patients desperately need the drug.

00:10:06.500 PBS agrees. They reported that millions who rely on the drugs have been left with uncertainty,

00:10:11.200 frustration, and bureaucratic hassles. National Geographic was even more melodramatic. They

00:10:16.500 wrote, quote, as Adderall shortage continues, people with ADHD struggle to stay afloat. The article

00:10:22.060 quotes an adult who says that, who's been diagnosed with ADHD, and he says that, quote,

00:10:26.420 it doesn't take much for us to drown. National Geographic added that, quote, some adults with

00:10:32.060 ADHD are now forced to navigate life while unmedicated. Oh, man, can you imagine? American

00:10:39.760 adults are having to figure out how to navigate life without their regular dose of stimulants?

00:10:45.060 God forbid. The horror. Navigating life unmedicated. How will you ever do it? I mean,

00:10:52.200 how can these people possibly live and deal with normal distraction and boredom without their

00:10:56.760 chemical crutches? Now, of course, prior to the invention of ADHD medicine and ADHD itself,

00:11:03.900 everybody lived without these drugs, and not one single person died because of it.

00:11:08.960 Yet now a shortage of these drugs, the ones that everyone was fine without since forever,

00:11:13.960 represent some kind of existential crisis. People are drowning without them.

00:11:17.860 Mrs. South Pharmaceutical Company wants you to feel. They want you to feel that this drug they're

00:11:23.580 giving you is a life raft that you have to cling to. And if you don't have it, you will drown somehow.

00:11:31.840 The Biden administration, of course, agrees that this is a major problem. They want everybody

00:11:35.380 hopped up on as many drugs as possible. Accordingly, CNN reports that the FDA and DEA are now calling on

00:11:41.160 drug makers to boost manufacturing amid ongoing shortages of prescription stimulants.

00:11:45.300 CNN blamed the shortage on the, quote, surge in demand for prescription stimulants during the

00:11:50.380 COVID-19 pandemic, especially among adults. Of course, this is not the first time there's been

00:11:55.420 a rush to manufacture and push out drugs, allegedly because of the pandemic. And we all know how well

00:12:00.540 it worked out the first time. In any case, it's the pandemic's fault, they say. They're blaming the

00:12:05.580 shortage of the Adderall on the pandemic, just like they blame everything on the pandemic. But

00:12:09.520 here's the thing. If the pandemic increased ADHD by such an enormous degree, then that only shows

00:12:18.080 that ADHD is not a real disease. It's a concept invented by the medical industry, and it's never

00:12:23.040 ending pursuit to medicalize and subsequently profit off of every inconvenient human trait and

00:12:27.480 behavior. You know, the fact that more people suddenly came down with ADHD when they were locked

00:12:32.180 in their homes absolutely proves that this disorder is simply a way of categorizing normal boredom

00:12:37.860 and restlessness, which is all extremely human and, again, normal. That would explain why ADHD

00:12:45.220 diagnoses somehow increased by two-thirds from 1998 to 2016. It would explain why these diagnoses

00:12:50.800 increased again during the pandemic by roughly 20 percent for some demographic groups, including

00:12:55.260 young women. You know, you might notice a pattern here that as we have more and more distractions

00:13:03.160 in life—that's one of the changes from the 90s into the, you know, 2010s and into 2020—is that there

00:13:10.780 are more and more distractions, okay? You introduce smartphones and social media, and people are on their

00:13:16.160 screens constantly, 10 hours a day of screen time, okay? So as there are more distractions in life,

00:13:22.980 people become more distracted. Is that because we all have a mental disorder, or are we just

00:13:28.840 responding to our environments in ways that are actually pretty normal?

00:13:36.480 It's not like some new objective ADHD test was developed that explains these numbers. They're just

00:13:41.780 making up criteria that mean nothing and diagnosing every patient who walks in the door.

00:13:45.480 Take a look at how the CDC defines ADHD, if you're skeptical. The CDC says that children

00:13:49.640 have ADHD if they do the following—make careless mistakes or take unnecessary risks, daydream a lot,

00:13:55.760 forget or lose things a lot, squirm or fidget, and have a hard time resisting temptation.

00:14:02.640 My God, the epidemic is worse than I thought. I mean, apparently, literally every child who has

00:14:06.680 ever lived on Earth is infected. Apologists will try to claim that the diagnostic criteria

00:14:13.000 isn't really that broad. You know, there are other ways of determining whether a child really has it

00:14:18.280 or not. They'll even claim that ADHD can be detected in the brain with brain scans. And yet,

00:14:24.020 you'll notice something, that the disorder is never diagnosed with brain scans. Why is that?

00:14:30.500 Supposedly, it's in the brain. You can see it in the brain. Then why don't you diagnose it that way?

00:14:34.600 Just take—you don't need to talk to a psychologist, a therapist, anybody, counselor. There's no

00:14:39.480 conversation to take a child to get a brain scan. But they never diagnose it that way, ever. That's

00:14:45.580 because it really is as broad as it seems. Every child can be diagnosed with it, every single one.

00:14:51.120 If you want your child to have it, they have it. If you want the drugs, you can get them.

00:14:56.000 Apart from the shortage, of course. You can indeed diagnose every kid on the planet with ADHD,

00:15:02.080 just like you can diagnose every unhappy, masked, middle-aged woman with long COVID.

00:15:07.360 The diagnosis is about as rigorous. That's because ADHD, like long COVID,

00:15:12.600 is not a real medical diagnosis. It is a category error. These are real human behaviors. ADHD describes a set of real human behaviors,

00:15:23.840 real human traits. But then the determination has been made by the medical industry, by the pharmaceutical industry,

00:15:32.080 that profits off of this determination to categorize these behaviors and traits as disordered.

00:15:38.100 That is a value judgment on their part. It's not a medical judgment. And it's a value. The value

00:15:45.000 judgment is, oh, people shouldn't act this way. It's bad to act this way or be this way.

00:15:49.740 So which all amounts to this being a made-up illness that's used to describe normal human

00:15:54.300 responses to a modern environment, which is filled with distractions. The solution, which no one ever talks

00:16:00.280 about because it wouldn't make big pharma any money, is to either change your environment to the extent

00:16:05.420 that you can or learn to deal with it, learn to cope with it. If everyone did that, it's very possible

00:16:13.440 that the pharmaceutical companies would lose money, in fact, a lot of money. But maybe the metrics that

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00:18:04.740 Politico reports, Governors Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom have tentatively agreed to debate,

00:18:10.220 one that would be hosted by Fox News. The Florida Republican and California Democrat

00:18:14.020 have repeatedly sparred over policies in their respective states, each representing one side

00:18:18.420 of the ideological spectrum, though occupying different political purchase. DeSantis, a Republican,

00:18:22.640 is trailing former President Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination,

00:18:25.460 while Newsom, a Democrat, has brushed aside questions about his own presidential ambitions

00:18:28.920 to become a super surrogate of sorts for President Joe Biden. A showdown between the two seemed

00:18:35.840 unlikely as DeSantis ramped up his presidential campaign, but Newsom still has spent months trying

00:18:40.200 to entice his counterpart into joining him on stage. And now on Wednesday, DeSantis agreed to it. We

00:18:44.880 have that clip. DeSantis with Sean Hannity last night agreeing to the debate. Listen.

00:18:50.720 You heard, Gavin, make the offer. Your answer is? Absolutely. I'm game. Let's get it done. Just

00:18:59.660 tell me when and where. We'll do it. And here's the thing, Sean. I mean, in one respect, the debate

00:19:06.840 between California and Florida, you know, has already been had, as you suggest. People have been voting

00:19:11.840 on that. They've been voting on it with their feet. They have fled California in record numbers.

00:19:16.860 Florida has been the number one state for net in migration. We have the number one ranked economy,

00:19:22.580 number one now in education, crime rate at a 50-year low. But in another sense, this is the

00:19:28.200 debate for the future of our country. Because you have people like Joe Biden, they would love to see

00:19:33.400 the Californication of the United States. Biden may not even be the nominee. You could have Gavin

00:19:40.180 Newsom. You could have Kamala Harris. And I think if we go down that direction, that's going to

00:19:46.480 accelerate American decline. We can't see America decline anymore.

00:19:53.260 So first of all, this, he's right that in this contest between California and Florida, the decision

00:19:58.940 has already been made. You know, there's not much of a debate here. People are leaving California for

00:20:03.860 Florida. So the people have decided. It's not going the other way around. I mean, there may be a few

00:20:07.760 stragglers here and there, a few confused and hapless poor saps who have left Florida and gone to

00:20:15.260 California for, you know, God knows what reason. But for the most part, you know, the, it's, the,

00:20:21.420 the, the tidal wave is going in one direction and people are leaving California and they're going to

00:20:24.740 Florida or they're going other places. Sometimes they're going to Tennessee, they're going to Texas.

00:20:29.720 But they are almost always going to red states. Yeah. That's the general kind of national picture

00:20:35.180 is that you've got people fleeing blue states for red states. It doesn't really go the other way

00:20:38.940 around. And there's, there's a reason for that. I mean, the proof's in the pudding here and everyone

00:20:43.900 knows you can see what's happening in Florida or rather in California. And unless you have to be

00:20:50.660 there for work, which some people do, or if you've just grown up there and you can't imagine living

00:20:55.840 anywhere else. But if you have a choice about where you're going to live, and especially if you have

00:21:01.360 a family, there's just no way, I don't care what your politics are. And it's the great thing about

00:21:08.720 this kind of metric. When you look at where are people moving to and where are they moving away

00:21:13.360 from, it transcends politics. Because the fact is that if you have a family and you have kids,

00:21:20.580 you can't afford to really take that into account. What you're thinking about is like, where are my

00:21:26.080 kids going to be safe? Where's my family going to be the safest? Where can we have the best life?

00:21:30.760 You know, the greatest, where will our well-being as a family be the highest? Where can we, you

00:21:40.000 know, where will we be happiest and most prosperous? In what part of the country? And there's just no

00:21:47.100 way you could look at California right now and say, oh, I think it's there. You look at the news

00:21:52.140 reports coming out of San Francisco or Los Angeles or any of these cities. Who's going to look at that

00:21:55.940 and say, you know, I want, yeah, I want my kids to be right in the middle of that. That's what I want.

00:21:58.980 Yep. That's what we need. You know what we're missing, honey? You know, what we're missing is

00:22:04.960 homeless people defecating on the street. We're really missing that in our lives. Our kids are

00:22:09.280 missing that. Let's go. Let's go find some of that. No, no one is saying. So the debate there,

00:22:15.940 there's not much of a debate. It's already been settled. But as far as the actual debate between

00:22:19.580 these two guys, I think this is a smart move for DeSantis politically. I agree with a point that

00:22:24.400 I think Ben was making during backstage this week, which is that, which by the way, is an episode

00:22:29.680 you should watch. Not because of anything, but the fact that we did have our alien debate,

00:22:34.440 even though they only let us go for about seven minutes, but literally put a timer on the alien

00:22:39.300 debate. And then next thing you know, we're talking about Barbie and that goes on for like 47 minutes.

00:22:42.660 Anyway, still, I absolutely decimated Ben once again in the alien debate. So this is just

00:22:49.520 every, every person that's taken me on here in the alien debate has been, has left practically

00:22:54.720 in tears. I can tell you that, and I shouldn't even be talking about this, but when we left

00:22:58.180 backstage, you know, I, you know, Ben, to me, to me, from my perspective, it looked like he was,

00:23:03.140 might've even been in tears. He was so upset about it. That is a fact. That is true.

00:23:08.100 Anyway, what were we talking about? Oh yeah. DeSantis and DeSantis. So at one point that Ben made,

00:23:12.760 his points about aliens is totally wrong, but the point that I made this correct is that DeSantis needs to be

00:23:17.360 doing more of this kind of thing, like getting out there, taking the fight to the left in these

00:23:22.560 kinds of face-to-face one-on-one ways. Now, obviously DeSantis has taken the fight to the

00:23:26.880 left his entire term as governor. It's why I like him. It's why I support him, but he needs also,

00:23:31.160 you need the show, right? You need the display of it. You need people to see it. And that means

00:23:36.240 sitting down across the table from, you know, going to MSNBC, going to CNN. He's already done some of

00:23:43.800 this sitting across from Gavin Newsom. And not, by the way, this is not in order so that they can

00:23:52.260 have a conversation that's very nice and civil and it proves that really we could all get along.

00:23:57.980 We're not that far apart in the end. That's not the point. Now you're going in there to embarrass him.

00:24:04.720 You need to go in there and like I do with Ben or Michael when it comes to aliens, you need to go

00:24:09.780 in there and just humiliate him. And then that becomes, in the primary anyway, for DeSantis,

00:24:21.300 his argument to the voters. It's like, this is what I can do. I am capable of doing this.

00:24:31.220 And not only that, but I can do it better than Trump can do it.

00:24:33.820 And if you actually go out and do it, if you go out and you sit, you know, if you square off with

00:24:40.700 Gavin Newsom and you destroy him, then the fact that you can do this and Trump can, you don't need

00:24:47.280 to say that. People can put that together themselves. And also it's good in general, the more that in a

00:24:54.200 primary, it's inevitable that people on the same side are going to be going after each other.

00:24:57.720 Some of that's inevitable, but the more that that can be directed back out at the actual opponent

00:25:03.560 here, the better. But this is something that DeSantis can do. Look, I mean, I, well, I was going

00:25:13.220 to say that even Trump's most ardent supporters would admit this. That probably is naive. I don't

00:25:16.660 think they would, but I think most people can admit that for Trump taking someone on one-on-one

00:25:24.940 in a debate, like that is not his strong suit. It's just simply not like it would be a very bad

00:25:31.780 idea for Trump to face off with someone like Gavin Newsom in a debate. He's got a lot more to lose

00:25:37.120 and, uh, the chances that Gavin Newsom could just kind of talk circles around him pretty high

00:25:43.320 for, for DeSantis. He's much more incisive. He gets right to the point. He's able to kind of

00:25:49.800 methodically, this is what he's, this is his great skill, his talent. It's being able to

00:25:55.660 methodically sort of dissect things one by one in this very systematic way that people can understand

00:26:00.580 doing that in the form of debate can be very compelling. So I think it was a good move by him.

00:26:06.700 All right. Daily Wire has this report. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Wednesday

00:26:10.380 that he and his wife, Sophie Trudeau are separating. Hi everyone. Sophie and I would like to share the

00:26:15.460 fact that after many meaningful and difficult conversations where we have made the decision to

00:26:19.480 separate, Trudeau wrote on Instagram, as always, we remain a close family with deep love and respect

00:26:23.800 for each other and for everything we've built and will continue to build. For the well-being of our

00:26:28.140 children, we ask that you respect our and their privacy. He added, thank you. Uh, the two met when

00:26:34.260 they were children and reconnected when they ran into each other at charity drive 20 years ago.

00:26:38.320 They've been married, uh, they married in 2005, so they've been married for about 20 years

00:26:41.540 and now they're separating. Um, I don't know what happens from here, but you know, I wouldn't be

00:26:47.920 surprised if ultimately it turns out that they split up because they both would prefer to be with

00:26:51.980 men. Uh, that's just one theory. That's all. And I'm not, I'm not spreading any rumors. I'm not

00:26:56.800 accusing and it's nothing like that. I mean, there are a lot of rumors about Trudeau in this vein, a lot,

00:27:03.480 but, but I don't know. I can't confirm it. I have no idea. I'm just, I'm just, I'm wondering out loud.

00:27:08.960 Maybe that's ultimately what happens. I will say that, uh, I hate this line that in its inevitable,

00:27:17.460 you know, it's going to, you know, it's coming every time, but I hate this line. You get in every

00:27:21.960 statement from a famous person announcing a divorce. We always get this, but well, we,

00:27:27.520 we still love each other deeply. We still deeply love each other. Um, no, you don't. No,

00:27:34.720 you definitely don't. I prefer for you to at least be honest about it. There's just saying the

00:27:39.720 statement, we don't love each other. We hate each other. We resent, despise each other. We have for

00:27:43.460 a long time. That's why we're getting divorced. It still wouldn't be a good thing to divorce. You

00:27:48.420 should, you still should not be getting divorced. And if you really care about your children and

00:27:53.420 that's the other, that's the second thing you always get in these statements is, uh, well, we're,

00:27:57.560 we're focused on the kids now and please respect our kids privacy. Okay. Well,

00:28:01.780 you focused on the kids and you want to respect their privacy. And yet you're very publicly blowing

00:28:08.220 up your marriage and announcing it to everybody. So you can't really have it both ways. Uh,

00:28:12.680 if you really cared about the kids, then you would stay together. Um, but so it's, it, it's a bad

00:28:20.760 thing either way, but I would at least, I could at least give you credit for honesty. If you would

00:28:26.780 just put out a statement, I'm waiting for one famous couple to do this and at least get the

00:28:32.340 one point for honesty, when you put out the statement and said, we're breaking up, we despise

00:28:36.440 each other with the years of resentment. We can't stand to be in the same room as each other. We

00:28:40.740 definitely do not love each other at all. We don't want to be around each other. Then we're getting

00:28:44.640 divorced. Be honest about it. Cause if you love each other, then you don't get divorced.

00:28:52.580 Getting divorced is the opposite of love. The whole point of marital of love and the love that you

00:29:01.540 pledge to someone is that you are, um, that you're committed to them. That's, that's, that's what it

00:29:09.260 means. Being committed, being faithful, being loyal, uh, sacrifice, making sacrifices for them and for

00:29:15.580 the sake of their happiness. That's all, that's all love. The moment you cut bait and run, the moment

00:29:23.580 you say, I'm done, I'm out of here. That's, that's you, that there's no love there anymore.

00:29:29.000 Um, that is an act of at the very least indifference to the other person. And, and, uh, so that's certainly

00:29:38.060 not love. There is no such thing as a loving divorce. It doesn't, doesn't exist. And I wish

00:29:46.940 again, we could at least be honest about that. Um, here's a story from NBC news. The gunman who

00:29:54.060 opened fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue, killing 11 and wounding seven others will be sentenced to death.

00:29:59.060 Federal jurors decided on Wednesday, the tragedy nearly five years ago was the most heinous antisemitic

00:30:04.160 attack in us history for months before the attack. The gunman, Robert Bowers posted Cessling social

00:30:08.600 media about his hatred of Jewish people and immigrants armed with an AR-15 and other weapons.

00:30:12.240 He then barged into the tree of life congregation in the squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh,

00:30:16.780 October 27th, 2018, surrendered only when he ran out of ammunition. Uh, I think we all remember this,

00:30:21.960 uh, remember this case and now he's being sentenced to death as well. He should be, obviously mass

00:30:28.120 murder needs to, needs to be sentenced to death. The only thing I'm wondering when I read,

00:30:32.160 when I read about, um, this and the sentence is where are all the people on the left objecting

00:30:38.900 to this death penalty? Are we going to get protests? Are we going to get protests? But like we do with,

00:30:44.020 you know, very often with, with people that are sentenced to death and, um, and now, now oftentimes it,

00:30:50.740 it happens, you know, days before the person is, is executed. Uh, we start getting all the tearful,

00:30:55.220 uh, protests and then the protests are outside when the execution is being carried out. Um,

00:31:00.520 we're, we're a ways away from that with, uh, with this guy, with, uh, Robert Bowers,

00:31:05.260 because actually carrying out the execution takes years and years. It shouldn't, it should be like

00:31:11.260 you're sentenced. And then, I mean, the way they used to do it in the old days is you're sentenced

00:31:15.300 and then dawn the next dawn, you are going up the, uh, you're, you're walking up and they're tying

00:31:22.700 the noose around your neck and they're pulling the lever and then that's it. And that's the way that

00:31:25.360 it should go. Um, but it doesn't. So, you know, there still are years. So maybe, maybe years from

00:31:32.560 now when it's actually time for this guy to be executed, maybe that's when the leftists will

00:31:35.580 show up and protest tearfully. The state is killing someone. This is a horrible trick, but I, but I

00:31:40.380 doubt it. I doubt they will. They don't protest this. Um, Dylan Roof was another one. Dylan Roof was

00:31:47.960 sentenced to death. He tried to appeal his, uh, his, uh, death penalty sentence and the appeal was

00:31:55.240 rejected. Interestingly enough, nobody on the left is tearfully objecting to that.

00:32:04.280 And yet they should, because these are the people who claim to be in principle opposed to the death

00:32:10.160 penalty. And if in principle you're opposed to the death penalty and you say things like, uh, the state

00:32:16.220 should never kill anybody. This is murder. I mean, if that's your position, then you need to stand up

00:32:21.480 for these, for these men and say, no, this is wrong. You're murdering them. This is terrible. Don't do

00:32:26.080 it. If you won't, then that means that you're not really opposed to the death penalty. You're only

00:32:33.960 opposed to the death penalty for certain people, which is not the same thing as being opposed to

00:32:37.240 the death, which means you're not opposed to the death penalty at all. It turns out. So which is it?

00:32:40.720 As it turns out, you know, this is one of the reasons why, um, our discussions and debates over

00:32:50.520 the death penalty, like our debates on pretty much every other issue, they don't go anywhere. And one

00:32:55.180 of the reasons they don't go anywhere is because people aren't even being honest about what their

00:32:59.380 actual viewpoint is. You can't have a productive debate with someone if they're not being honest and

00:33:05.160 upfront about what they actually think. And what we find out when you look at, uh, this guy or, or

00:33:11.360 Dylan Roof or, um, someone similar to that, what you find out is that actually almost everyone agrees

00:33:20.480 with the death penalty in principle. It's really just an argument about when do you use it, not whether you

00:33:25.080 should use it or not. And if we could, if we could narrow it down to that and we could all admit that

00:33:33.040 that's what we're actually arguing about, not whether we should, like almost everyone agrees that, yeah,

00:33:37.880 well, there are some people who need to be executed. When it comes to Dylan Roof, no one has spoken up for

00:33:43.980 this guy and said he shouldn't be executed. Everyone agrees he should be executed. So it's out, so there's

00:33:50.180 almost universal agreement that, that, uh, the death penalty is necessary in some cases. Then the argument

00:33:56.780 becomes, what are those cases? That could be a productive discussion because now we, we're all,

00:34:04.800 we're on sort of the same playing field. Um, we have some shared principles here, you know,

00:34:11.960 we got some, we, foundationally, we have some things in common that we all agree that, you know,

00:34:16.420 obviously some people need to be executed. Now it's how, how, how, how, who should those people to be,

00:34:22.500 be? And, and what sort of crime should qualify you for that? Uh, but we can't have what could be

00:34:31.760 that productive debate because you've got one side of it pretending that they object to it in

00:34:37.880 principle. So when, when they don't, so when they come out, uh, and they're crying about someone who's

00:34:47.040 going to get the death penalty and it's almost always a black guy. I mean, they don't, they don't do

00:34:50.300 this for white people usually. So it's a black guy who killed a cop or something. It's like always

00:34:54.200 somebody like that who, who, you know, the left comes out and defends and says, we shouldn't execute

00:34:57.820 him. Uh, but the arguments they present, it's like the arguments they present, it's usually not

00:35:03.720 defending that person individually or that, or, or making a case related to that individual case.

00:35:10.020 It's always broad. It's like, this is government sanctioned murder. When what they really mean is,

00:35:17.400 yeah, it's okay for the government to kill people, but I don't think they should kill this guy.

00:35:22.920 And the reason I don't think they should kill this guy is because I don't think what he did

00:35:26.040 is all that bad. Actually, he killed a cop. I don't think it's that bad. That's their real position.

00:35:33.680 Once again, if they would at least say it out loud, as horrifying as it is and as wrong as it is,

00:35:37.300 if they would at least say it out loud, now we're being honest with each other. Maybe we can have some

00:35:40.960 kind of a real conversation about it. All right. Finally, this is a report for the Daily Wire.

00:35:50.260 This one's getting a lot of attention. Former backup dancers for Lizzo filed a lawsuit on Tuesday

00:35:54.820 against the singer and her production company, alleging sexual harassment and a toxic work

00:35:59.460 environment in a lawsuit attained by People Magazine and filed in Los Angeles Superior Court

00:36:05.120 against the 35-year-old singer born Melissa Jefferson. The three backup dancers are suing Lizzo.

00:36:10.460 Her production company, Big Girl, Big Touring, that's G-R-R-R-L, Big Touring. That's the name

00:36:17.040 of the company. Big Girl, Big Touring, and Lizzo's dance team captain, Shirlene Quigley. The three

00:36:23.040 dancers, Ariana Davis, Krista Williams, and Noel Rodriguez, in the suit alleged that Lizzo pressured

00:36:27.880 them to engage with nude performers at an Amsterdam club in February of 2023. According to the AP,

00:36:34.820 Lizzo began inviting cast members to take turns touching the nude performers. During the sexually

00:36:39.400 themed show in Amsterdam, Amsterdam's red light district, the good as hell hitmaker, allegedly

00:36:43.920 led a chant, pressuring Davis to touch the breasts of one of the nude women performing at the club,

00:36:48.920 despite the dancer expressing her desire not to touch the performer, People noted.

00:36:53.080 The complaint states, finally, the chorus became overwhelming and a mortified Ms. Davis acquiesced

00:36:59.020 in an attempt to bring an end to the chants. Plaintiffs were aghast with how little regard

00:37:03.700 Lizzo showed for the bodily autonomy of her employees and those around her, especially in the presence of

00:37:07.840 many people whom she employed. Another part of the filing reads, quote,

00:37:11.920 things quickly got out of hand. Lizzo began inviting cast members to take turns touching the

00:37:16.120 new performers and interacting with objects launched from the performers' vaginas. And then

00:37:21.220 there's a lot of other, so it's getting into details we probably don't need. And then they also

00:37:26.720 allege other things as well. They say that their rehearsals are very long, 12 hours is excruciating,

00:37:33.740 they're being worked like slaves, they say. And there was also inappropriate conversations that

00:37:41.840 went on. And now I'm just summarizing. Ironically, they claim that Lizzo fat shamed one of the

00:37:50.600 dancers and said that she needs to lose weight and other things as well. I'm shocked. I'm flabbergasted.

00:37:58.380 I mean, there's no way. You're telling me Lizzo did all of this? You're accusing Lizzo of being a

00:38:07.460 deviant, of being a pervert, of being disgusting and inappropriate? I can't believe it. You're

00:38:14.200 accusing big girl, big touring ink of cultivating an inappropriate work environment? I don't believe

00:38:20.220 it. That doesn't sound like the big girl, big touring ink that I know. That's not the big girl,

00:38:27.400 big touring ink that I worked for, okay? I just can't believe any of this. I mean, you're telling

00:38:34.280 me that Lizzo, along with her company, big girl, big touring ink, they went to a sex show in Amsterdam

00:38:41.740 with all their dancers and inappropriate things happened? Unbelievable. You know, what I always say

00:38:49.060 is that if you're going to go with your colleagues to a sex show in Amsterdam, you got to make sure that

00:38:53.500 things are very appropriate the whole time. You got to respect boundaries. Respect those boundaries

00:38:58.660 while you're at the sex show in Amsterdam. So, of course, there really isn't any victim here.

00:39:07.220 There's really no one to root for in this thing. I mean, you're in Amsterdam and you went to the

00:39:12.200 red light district to a sex show with your boss. Did you think things would be like, what boundary?

00:39:18.180 All the boundaries are obliterated already. So, walk it in the doors. No one should be there in the

00:39:23.900 first place. And I also just don't, I don't have a lot of sympathy. Oh, they were cheating and they

00:39:29.280 told me, so just leave. Just leave. But it's not right. I'm assuming that all this happened. I don't

00:39:35.980 know if it happened or not. All joking aside, all of this sounds exactly like what I would expect.

00:39:41.560 Every part of this is like, oh yeah, well, that's, you're on tour with Lizzo. This is exactly what I

00:39:46.880 assumed happened. So, if the allegations are true and they were chanting and they were being

00:39:55.000 pressured to touch the performers, that's very wrong and gross and bad. And also, you're an adult

00:40:04.280 and you're in that situation. You shouldn't have gone in the first place. Just leave. I didn't know

00:40:10.380 what to do. They were chanting at me. So? They were chanting at you so you can't just leave? Leave

00:40:16.160 immediately. You know what? It's a lot more compelling to me if, well, if you don't go in

00:40:21.740 the first place. But even if you go and then, and this all happens, you're being pressured to

00:40:29.240 engage in like sexual activity, essentially. And you refuse like an adult and you say, I'm not going

00:40:36.860 to do that. And you leave and then you immediately go and tell people what happened. You say, this is

00:40:42.700 what I just experienced. I left the situation. This is wrong. But when you do the thing and then

00:40:49.440 months later, you come out and say, I was really uncomfortable with that. Well, all that means is

00:40:54.140 like, there's just blame to go around for everyone. No one's a good guy in this. Everyone's just hard.

00:40:58.400 It was a bunch of horrible, deviant, disgusting perverts. Essentially, that's my, that is my,

00:41:02.980 that's my judgment of all of this. And it's not a surprise, of course, even though Lizzo has her

00:41:11.340 whole brand about body positivity and respecting people and all of that. Of course, that's all

00:41:18.200 nonsense. Or rather, maybe I wouldn't say it's nonsense. It's very narrow. Okay. When she talks

00:41:26.920 about body positivity and respecting people and all these things, she means it in a very narrow sense

00:41:33.900 in that it only pertains to her. It's all about her. So she wants you to be positive about her body

00:41:41.020 and she wants, she wants you to be respectful of her because all that matters is her. It is all

00:41:46.620 focused on her. That's all. She doesn't care about anybody else, obviously. Still, I'm wondering if

00:41:52.700 we're supposed to believe all women, what do we do here? Like, how do we navigate this one?

00:41:57.900 Believe all women. So we believe all of them, I guess. That's what we're left with. Everybody's

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00:43:09.360 the only time I was ever liberal was when I was completely blind to what was going on and still pretty well

00:43:13.280 a child. This is their only following. Dumb people are people who don't understand or look into

00:43:18.580 anything before voting. There's a lot of truth there. Leftism relies mostly on a total misapprehension

00:43:26.360 of the realities of the world and especially of human nature. And so if you're naive to those

00:43:34.440 things, you don't understand how the world works, then you're more likely to fall for it. You're more

00:43:40.320 likely to buy what they're selling. Sian says, you want to raise a family and protect your country?

00:43:46.420 You must be conservative. That's another advantage that we have is that the left has ceded all of

00:43:52.180 the normal common sense ground to us. We talked about one of the great advantages that we have

00:43:57.260 on the right right now is the fact that if you want to be rebellious, if you have that rebellious

00:44:04.440 instinct as young people tend to, especially young males tend to, then it means being conservative

00:44:10.300 because that is the culturally rebellious position. Another advantage that we have is that the left

00:44:16.620 has, again, they've surrendered all of the, if you want to be, even if you don't care about being a rebel,

00:44:22.460 you know, if you just want to be like normal and have common sense and you're not all that political

00:44:28.300 and you don't think in those terms, well, you still end up being conservative.

00:44:34.580 You cannot even believe that only women get pregnant and only men have penises. You can't

00:44:43.180 even believe that without being a full on right winger now. And us on the right, we didn't say that.

00:44:49.960 We didn't determine that. And we don't, I wish it wasn't that way. Like I very much wish that the

00:44:56.260 position that only women could get pregnant was not an ideological position, that it was not

00:45:00.020 political, that it was not contested, that it was a, you know, I wish it was the way it was

00:45:03.280 before the world lost its mind. And it was just like a fact of life that we didn't even talk about.

00:45:08.340 It didn't enter into these conversations at all. I prefer it was that way, but this is how the left

00:45:12.040 has set it up. And it puts them again at a disadvantage ultimately because they've just given it all to

00:45:18.420 us. They've all common sense, everything they've said, that's all your guys. And that all belongs to

00:45:23.200 you guys. And to that, I say, okay, I mean, I'll take it. Mooney9869 says, as a 12th grade boy,

00:45:32.820 I know this is true. The conversations we have at the lunch table would make national news if it was

00:45:37.040 ever leaked. Yeah. You and every other high school boy. And this is, and I've known that was the case

00:45:44.460 from when I was in high school. And I'm happy to hear that it's still the case. I've always kind of

00:45:49.720 wondered, is it like, you know, uh, when I was in high school, it's like the, the ways that you

00:45:55.900 joke around and the things that you say would just be shocking to most people. Um, and apparently

00:46:03.460 that's still the case. That's still how, that's still how it works. And, and, you know, that's,

00:46:06.740 that's good. And this is especially the case if you see, you know, a, what we would call now a,

00:46:11.520 a diverse group of male friends, this of any age, by the way, not just high school

00:46:16.780 diverse group, you know, different races and all that. And they're all friends.

00:46:21.820 Um, and you see it from the outside and, and, and maybe, especially if you're a woman,

00:46:26.660 I don't know, you might see that and think, Oh, they must be, they're very tolerant and they all

00:46:29.760 very, it's like, no, the kinds of racist things they say to each other constantly would make

00:46:35.740 Robin D'Angelo cry. It's just constant, but it's funny for guys. It's funny. Um,

00:46:44.180 finally, final comment says, now we just need to figure out how to fix the issue regarding teen

00:46:51.120 girls and young women being so liberal. That whole demographic appears to be done for.

00:46:55.940 No, not done for. I would never say they're done for. Uh, the issue is that women are more

00:47:02.660 relational by nature. They're more empathetic and they're less decisive. And this is why men in

00:47:10.280 many contexts are more equipped to be leaders. Okay. You need someone who doesn't care as much

00:47:15.380 about how people feel and who isn't focused on people pleasing to come in and say, we're going

00:47:20.180 this way. We're doing this. That's what you need. And so if women are falling ever more prey to

00:47:25.040 leftism while men go the other direction, it only goes to show why men should be leaders in the

00:47:29.160 culture. And we need the lead right now because you need that decisiveness. You need to say,

00:47:34.560 this is wrong. This is stupid. We're not doing this. This is dumb. And you're going to hear from

00:47:38.920 the women's, well, it hurts people's feelings. It's if you don't, okay, well, so what it does.

00:47:44.240 Um, every once in a while you might run across a woman who kind of has that attitude, but it's very

00:47:48.120 rare. Men are much, it's much more of a masculine attitude. And so you need men to take the lead.

00:47:53.100 And that's, so no, they're not, um, certainly not lost, but this is just a call for male leadership

00:48:01.320 in the culture. I think of all those books, uh, that I love to read about explorers. And you guys

00:48:06.160 know I'm a nerd for that, for that stuff. I love all books about explorers, exploration, and, um,

00:48:11.180 every captain who ever piloted a ship to an unknown part of the world or around the world as Magellan

00:48:16.280 did, or, you know, up to the Arctic or down to the Antarctic, all these people were men and,

00:48:21.460 and they had to be because when you're alone out on that uncharted sea on this vessel and you're

00:48:28.020 vulnerable and you're at the mercy of the elements, you need a leader who can set the course and stick

00:48:32.420 to it and be harsh and sometimes even brutal situation calls for it. You know, when Magellan

00:48:36.580 had made it across the Atlantic on his journey, ultimately around the world, um, you know, they

00:48:42.520 made it across the Atlantic and there's a, and he faces a mutiny and they're just out there in the

00:48:47.120 wilderness out, you know, um, in the middle of nowhere. He put it down violently and he had the

00:48:53.460 ringleaders of the mutiny dismembered and beheaded, like their body parts chopped up in front of

00:49:00.140 everybody. Very brutal thing, but it needed to be done because if he, if he lost control of the ship

00:49:06.180 all the way out there, everybody dies. And so he had no choice. And this is why men lead. And in our

00:49:12.440 culture right now, we are very much floating, uh, out in a stormy sea. And, um, I'm not saying that we

00:49:18.300 need to literally draw and quarter people. I mean, I can think of a few candidates, but I'm not saying

00:49:24.540 that that's not the point. The point is that we need culturally decisive, masculine, perhaps sometimes

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00:50:07.900 about a new TikTok trend, they always have a different name. They're always annoying and

00:50:11.640 weird and slightly different ways. But the one thing that most of them have in common is that

00:50:14.940 they are very thinly veiled excuses for being lazy. The TikTok community works hard at only one thing,

00:50:20.760 and that is finding new ways to make their laziness seem trendy. And now they have a new one. It's called

00:50:27.040 bed rotting. And it's as bad as it sounds. CBS news explains. Watch.

00:50:32.040 There's a new TikTok trend that could trigger depression in some people. And it's got a

00:50:37.480 rather interesting name. I know. Have you heard of this bed rotting? No. It's not something that

00:50:42.020 sounds like something I would want to do, right? But I guess people want to do it. And it's actually

00:50:46.100 the practice of lying in bed for long periods of time, sometimes for days, while binge watching TV

00:50:52.400 or scrolling through social media and eating, of course. Now, influencers tout it as a form of

00:50:57.840 self-care. But experts say the behavior is more typical of someone who's depressed.

00:51:03.280 Once again, the experts are on the scene to point out the immensely obvious. Thank God for the

00:51:07.760 experts. What would we ever do without them? And we can certainly trust the experts on this one. As

00:51:11.740 it turns out, it is not a healthy practice to become a voluntary invalid. Actually, it's better

00:51:17.880 for a human, it turns out, to do things like move around and walk and maybe get some sun on occasion.

00:51:25.080 If you're getting less fresh air and exercise than a prisoner in solitary confinement,

00:51:29.860 that's a pretty good indication that you're making some very poor life choices.

00:51:34.260 But then again, how bad can your life choices be if other people are doing the same thing?

00:51:40.420 Have you ever heard of bed rotting? It's something that I learned about last week,

00:51:46.200 but it's something I've been doing for years off and on. And I didn't know it had a name for it. I just

00:51:51.580 thought it was like just depression. And I'm sure you've been doing this too. It's a form of self-care,

00:51:57.360 but you shouldn't do it too often because apparently it can be laziness. But basically,

00:52:03.740 it's where you just sit or lay in bed all day. You can eat snacks, watch Max. But some of the

00:52:10.680 girlies, they're like high-tech and high-end version where they like do skincare and some spa treatments

00:52:16.280 just from their bed. Normally in the past, if I stayed in bed all day, I would feel so guilty.

00:52:22.880 But now that I've learned that this is a thing, I'm no longer going to feel guilty for bed rotting.

00:52:30.480 Yes. Why feel guilty for being an unwashed sedentary bum? There are so many other unwashed

00:52:36.320 sedentary bums after all. It's a thing. It's a whole thing. How bad can a thing be if it's a thing?

00:52:42.120 These are important philosophical questions, but bed rotting is somehow not the worst or at least

00:52:48.040 not the most overtly grotesque TikTok laziness trend to gain traction recently. A different

00:52:53.260 but closely related trend is called depression rooms. And the depression room phenomenon involves

00:52:59.580 TikTokers showing off their cluttered, filthy, bug-infested bedrooms, which have become unsightly

00:53:04.800 garbage heaps because of their depression. Sometimes in the video, they'll clean their room and

00:53:09.480 congratulate themselves for performing this basic daily chore for the first time in nine months.

00:53:14.340 In other videos, they make no attempt to clean and they simply just give a tour of the toxic waste

00:53:19.900 dump that they sleep in. Here's one example of the genre.

00:53:24.620 I've had a lot of people comments on my room and how messy it is. I'm pretty sure it comes from the

00:53:30.100 aunties who are like, are you proud of this? You're disgusting. How can you let it get like this?

00:53:36.220 I'm not proud of, you know, how messy I let my room get. I think if you have depression or you

00:53:42.600 suffer from depression or anxiety or any kind of mental health disorder, you understand that

00:53:49.760 sometimes we just can't get up. She just can't. She can't get up. Can't do it. She can record TikTok

00:53:57.780 videos and edit them and post them and scroll the comments to see what people are saying about them,

00:54:01.420 but she can't get up and clean a room. She just can't do it until she does it, of course. But the

00:54:06.740 times that she doesn't do it, it's because she simply can't. This is a theme that emerges in many

00:54:10.720 of these videos like this one. Okay, so I don't want to hear any slander or any hate on this video

00:54:17.060 because I know a lot of you guys, a lot of people in the comments are going to deal with something

00:54:21.240 like this and I'm going to give you a sneak peek into my life. This is what happens when I get

00:54:26.640 particularly stressed or anxious or depressed. I cannot clean anything, get organized. I can't do

00:54:34.320 it. Can't do it. Can't do it. She's physically incapable somehow in some way. Again, this is a

00:54:41.860 theme. By the way, I'm fine. I want to clean my room really, really badly. I can't. And I know some

00:54:50.360 of you are going to understand that and some of you are just going to get up and do it. Just do it if

00:54:53.700 you want to. I can't. Does anyone know what I mean? I can't. Yeah, some of us are going to say

00:54:59.840 get up and do it because that actually is the answer. Just get up and do it. Stop whining and

00:55:03.220 do it. You can do it. You can. Shut up and do it. So that's why your room is filled to the brim

00:55:09.080 with useless junk that you bought because you can't clean up after yourself. Well, I saw an Old Navy

00:55:13.520 shopping bag. You somehow managed to go to Old Navy. Against all odds, you figured out how to walk out of

00:55:17.940 your house, get into your car, drive to Old Navy, walk around Old Navy, buy all those clothes with your dad's

00:55:22.320 credit card. You could do that. You weren't too physically immobilized and crippled by your depression

00:55:26.920 to do that thing you wanted to do. And yet when it comes to things you don't want to do, somehow your

00:55:30.880 depression turns into paralysis. What an interesting medical phenomenon. I'm crippled by depression when

00:55:37.520 I don't want to do things. Is the depression crippling you or are you just lazy? That's called being lazy.

00:55:44.000 That's like the definition of lazy. Actually, it's not a very interesting phenomenon because, again, you're just

00:55:48.460 lazy. I mean, you may be depressed or you may not be, but one thing you definitely are is lazy. Let me

00:55:52.980 ask you this. You say that you can't clean your room. What if I walked up to you with a giant bag

00:55:58.040 filled with $10 million in cash and I said that I would give it to you if you cleaned your room? $10

00:56:02.600 million right here. I will give it to you right now if you clean the room. I bet you'd find a way to do

00:56:08.140 it, wouldn't you? See, this is the difference between things like depression, ADHD, anxiety, and

00:56:12.640 something like cancer or diabetes. Because if I offered you $10 million to not have cancer anymore,

00:56:19.520 you couldn't take me up on the offer no matter how badly you wanted to. But if I offered you $10

00:56:23.600 million to no longer be crippled by depression, you would magically find a way. The same goes for

00:56:28.880 ADHD and anxiety and similar quote-unquote mental health disorders. If you feel properly incentivized

00:56:34.100 and interested, you can become a functional human being. You might walk around saying, I can't do this,

00:56:40.300 I can't do that, I'm so depressed. And yet, if the incentive was high enough, you'd figure out a

00:56:44.440 way, wouldn't you? It's like the parents who insist that their 12-year-old son has ADHD and can't sit

00:56:50.080 still. And yet, even as they make that claim, that very same son has been sitting nearly motionless for

00:56:55.580 five hours in front of a TV playing video games. He can sit still, it turns out. It's just that a lot

00:57:01.000 of the time, especially in school, he doesn't want to. This is an important point. You know, one of the

00:57:06.800 great curses of our age is that people have been convinced that they don't have agency, that they

00:57:11.100 are not rational, conscious agents making choices and acting freely in the world. The medicalization

00:57:17.340 of every human foible we talked about at the beginning, every bad feeling, every unpleasant

00:57:20.860 emotion plays a big part of this. People don't want to do things, or they don't feel incentivized to do

00:57:25.620 them, and then they're convinced that because of some kind of invisible disease, they can't do those

00:57:29.960 things. This is the main reason why I object to depression being categorized as a disease. Depression is a

00:57:35.500 feeling. It's a thought process. You decide how much power it has over your life. You decide that.

00:57:42.540 The same cannot be said for other diseases. You have absolutely no power to decide how, say,

00:57:50.000 hepatitis affects you. You can take medicine. You can do other things to try and manage it, but

00:57:54.200 you can't use the force of sheer willpower to mitigate its impact on you. Yet, that is exactly what

00:57:59.740 you could do with depression or anxiety or one of these other things. You can get out of your bed and

00:58:04.700 clean your room. You can do the thing you say you cannot do. You absolutely can. There is nothing

00:58:10.080 physically preventing you. You choose not to. But, you know, the real problem with chalking up all

00:58:16.960 this to, you know, depression is that it masks the real epidemic that has long-sense gripped hold of

00:58:22.820 American society in general, and especially the younger generations. Zoomers are not depressed.

00:58:28.160 They are apathetic. And this may seem like a distinction without a difference,

00:58:33.140 except that depression is supposedly a chemical function in the brain, even though the chemical

00:58:37.140 imbalance theory has been shown to be bunk. But the apathy choking the life out of the youngest

00:58:41.740 generation is a cultural problem, something ingrained in them practically from birth.

00:58:47.980 This is the thing that ties together bed rotting and depression rooms and quiet quitting and all the rest

00:58:52.380 of it. Not depression, but a general philosophical apathy, a nihilism. They don't care. They don't

00:58:59.020 see meaning or purpose. It's a serious problem. No question about it. In fact, it's much deeper than

00:59:05.220 any kind of chemical imbalance. And that's not the thing that's led them here, but rather a life full

00:59:10.800 of digital stimulation, yet devoid of any kind of spiritual or moral formation. They don't really

00:59:16.020 want anything. They have no goals, not because they're so deeply fulfilled, but because they're so deeply

00:59:20.100 empty. Now, I don't say this applies to everyone in Gen Z, but it's a widespread epidemic, one that

00:59:25.420 extends far beyond their generation, of course. We've all heard these complaints from employers who

00:59:31.320 hire young people and say that they have no useful skills. But even worse, they don't care enough to

00:59:37.760 learn the skills. They just don't care. They don't care about anything. Or at least they don't care about

00:59:42.580 any of the right things. Now, the good news is that this is a problem that can be overcome.

00:59:50.100 On an individual level, especially. It means that all the people lying around complaining that they

00:59:55.220 can't get up, they can't clean their room, they can't go to work, they can't put in effort, they

00:59:59.140 can't move out of their parents' house, they can't become real functioning adults, they can't find

01:00:02.360 true success, they can't find fulfillment in life, they can't do this, they can't do that. They can't.

01:00:06.380 They just can't. All of these people are mistaken. They can absolutely do all of that. They could do it

01:00:13.800 starting tomorrow. They could do it starting right now, this moment. They might be depressed,

01:00:19.040 but they can act like they aren't. And the great thing is that in so many cases,

01:00:23.520 the more you act like you aren't depressed, the less depressed you will be. The more you act like

01:00:28.900 you care about the things in life that you should care about, the more you will actually care. The

01:00:33.540 more you work hard, the more you will want to work hard. You just have to start. You have to put one

01:00:39.020 foot in front of the other and start doing it. And you can start, especially, by getting out of bed

01:00:45.980 and cleaning your filthy room. And this is why bed rotting and depression rooms are both today

01:00:52.260 canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you

01:00:56.540 tomorrow. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - August 03, 2023

Ep. 1197 - How Big Pharma's Marketing Machine Is Fueling The ADHD Surge

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