Ep. 1222 - Big Pharma Once Again Makes Billions Off Of A Drug That Doesn't Work
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It s been revealed that some very popular cold medicines that many people have been using for years are effectively useless. It s a bigger story than you may think, and I ll explain why. Also, Apple goes for gold in the cringe Olympics with a new skit touting their green initiatives, a prominent professor has been revealed as a fraud after he faked data that was supposed to prove systemic racism, and the internet is on fire with the news that Matt Walsh will appear on this season of Dancing with the Stars.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, it's been revealed that some very popular cold medicines that many
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people have been using for years are effectively useless. They don't work at all, reportedly. This
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is just the latest example of big pharma making billions on a product that doesn't do what it's
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supposed to do. It's a bigger story than you may think, and I'll explain why. Also, Apple goes for
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gold in the cringe Olympics with a new skit touting their green initiatives. A prominent professor has
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been revealed as a fraud after he faked data that was supposed to prove systemic racism,
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and the internet is on fire with the news that Matt Walsh will appear on this season of Dancing
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with the Stars. Dance has been my passion for my whole life, and I'm excited to share it with the
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world. I'll talk about that today and much more on The Matt Walsh Show.
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When the government suddenly announces a recall or even talks about pulling a product from the
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shelves, it's normal to assume that some unexpected defect has recently been discovered. Maybe the
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feds have noticed that a car's airbags don't deploy during a crash or that a certain brand of fish
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tank is prone to spontaneous implosion. Whatever the case, you're inclined to think that some new
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information has come to light that necessitates the recall, and in most circumstances, that's true.
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But there's one industry, big pharma, that has consistently been the exception to this rule.
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This is an industry that happens to enjoy a lot of special treatment from the federal government,
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including immunity from lawsuits. In the pharmaceutical industry, a recall doesn't necessarily mean that
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some catastrophic defect has just been identified. Instead, it often means that there's been a known
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problem for a very long time, one that's been deliberately hidden from the public until finally
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it's impossible to deny any longer. After COVID, most of the country realizes that this kind of thing
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can happen and does happen all the time. What they might not realize, because there's a mountain of
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propaganda designed to hide this fact, is just how frequent this is. So here's the latest example.
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Right now, the pharmaceutical industry is debating whether to issue one of the biggest recalls
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in modern history. The recall would affect a wide array of over-the-counter cold medicines,
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including some products bearing the brand names of Mucinex, Tylenol, Sudafed, NyQuil, Benadryl.
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The reason? Well, according to the government, these products don't work at all. Now, to be clear,
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as we'll explain in a second, some Benadryl and Sudafed products do work,
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according to the government, we're talking about a certain but very popular subset of these
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over-the-counter products that use a specific ingredient. At the same time, if you're one of
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the hundreds of millions of people who have consumed these products over the past decade,
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this is a big headline, or at least it should be for you. I mean, you paid money for a product
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that you thought worked on assurances from the government and big pharma. You ingested this product
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into your body based on those assurances. And now you're being told that these pills had all
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the effectiveness of like eating a cookie and drinking some warm milk. One of the first questions
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you think to ask under these circumstances is when exactly the regulators and the pharmaceutical
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companies figured out that these products are completely useless and ineffective. If you listen
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to most news reports on the subject, you'd be left with the impression that some kind of new
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information came out. But that impression would be completely wrong. Yet it's what they're
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presenting. So here, for example, is CBS News giving off this impression. Watch.
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Popular over-the-counter medicines that many of us use for cold and allergies,
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they don't work. That's according to an FDA committee looking into phenylephrine. It is the
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main ingredient used in over-the-counter nasal decongestants that many of you probably have
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in your medicine cabinet right now. I know I do. It's in Sudafed PE, Mucinex Sinus Max,
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Theraflu, VIX Dayquil, Nyquil, Severe Cold and Flu, among others. The committee looking into the drug
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says it's ineffective in oral medications. If the FDA ends up agreeing with the committee,
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those products with that in it could be removed from store shelves. In a statement,
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the Consumer Healthcare Products Association says the ingredient is safe and effective.
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Talk to your local pharmacist, local provider, about what the alternatives are, because there
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are, that can be used effectively. And the panel of advisors told the FDA that using the drug at
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higher doses is not an option because it can raise blood pressure to potentially dangerous levels.
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What's left unmentioned in that report is that this significant alleged defect in these drugs,
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the fact that they don't do anything, has been widely known for years. It's not new information.
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Nearly a decade ago, in 2015, researchers at the University of Florida said that they found
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conclusive evidence that many non-prescription decongestants didn't work. Quote,
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scientific evidence continues to show that the most popular products on the market containing
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phenylephrine are ineffective. Phenylephrine, to be clear, is used in certain drugs like
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over-the-counter Sudafed. It's not used in the brand of Sudafed that you have to get from the
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pharmacist. And we'll talk about that in a second. The researchers continued, quote,
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we think the evidence supports that phenylephrine status as a safe and effective over-the-counter
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product should be changed. We're looking out for the consumer and he or she needs to know
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that science says that oral phenylephrine does not work for the majority of people.
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Now, that was back during the Obama administration. Again, that was in 2015.
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The findings raised a lot of uncomfortable questions, such as, why would the FDA approve
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a drug that's effectively a placebo? Why were regulators still allowing big pharma to sell it?
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Why were people continuing to buy drugs that didn't do anything? Where are the prosecutors?
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Where's the court system? I mean, isn't it fraud to advertise products that don't work?
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Should there be penalties for making billions of dollars off of something that
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By refusing to do anything about phenylephrine, the federal government dodged all these questions.
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They also helped cover up their role in causing the problem in the first place.
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You know, you rarely hear this discussed, but the supposedly useless ingredient in question,
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phenylephrine, wasn't always used in medications like Sudafed. 20 years ago,
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the key ingredient in the most popular form of Sudafed was a very different
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decongestant called Sudafedrin. And this ingredient, we can be reasonably confident,
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actually does work. But in 2006, the federal government made it a lot harder to get real
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Sudafed with this ingredient. Congress passed a law effectively requiring people to, you know,
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undergo a background check before they could walk out of the store with it. Real Sudafed was no longer
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an over-the-counter medication after this law. Before that, it was. And the justification for
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this restriction, ostensibly, was that they were trying to stop people from using the ingredient to
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make meth. You know, we'll be taking a lot of dangerous drug kingpins off the streets, they told
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us, if we just take this kind of Sudafed and we put it behind the pharmacist's counter.
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Once Congress passed that law, Big Pharma needed an alternative. Most customers don't want to wait in
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line for a pharmacist every time they need a decongestant. They don't want to have to, you
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know, they don't want to go through all that. So they'll leave the CVS without making a purchase.
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So very quickly, Big Pharma came out with a new form of Sudafed using a different ingredient called
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phenylephrine. Big Pharma and the federal government told us that it was the best of both worlds. This
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new form of Sudafed can't be used to make meth. At the same time, we were assured it's just as effective
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as real Sudafed. Now, shortly after that law was passed, there were reasons to doubt
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the narrative that the government was pushing. For one thing, because of all these changes,
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a lot of innocent people were arrested for no reason. One of them, just as one example,
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was named Tim Nouveau. And he was charged with a federal crime for buying too much Claritin.
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He wanted to get some extra pills for his son who was going away to camp. And in response,
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local officials arrested the man. They didn't care that he wasn't making meth, and he wasn't.
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They charged him anyway because he was collateral damage, I suppose, in the larger meth war, which
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this legislation would help the federal government win. Nearly two decades later, we learned that
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nothing we were told turned out to be true. For one thing, meth has never been easier or cheaper
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to obtain in this country than it is right now. It's not coming from domestic meth labs for the most
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part. Instead, it's coming from Mexico across a border that the federal government has deliberately
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left open. And on top of that, according to the government, the substitute Sudafed and related drugs
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were not effective, as we were promised they were. They're useless. The new narrative is that Big Pharma
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made billions of dollars every year selling products that did not work, and they knew it.
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The federal government let them do it. Why are they telling us now? You know, is anything they're
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telling us true? That's a question we can't answer because both Big Pharma and federal regulators
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have lied so routinely, so consistently, that there's no reason to take anything they say at face
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value. If recent history is any indication, it's probably not a good sign for us. I mean, normally,
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when the federal government says a drug doesn't work, there are two possibilities when they say this.
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The first possibility is that they're trying to drive up sales of some other drug. We saw that during
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COVID. You know, don't take that therapeutic. It's a horse tranquilizer. Take our shot instead.
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In the case of these decongestants, there's long been a push to require prescriptions for these.
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You know, in various states, activists and politicians have said that it's not enough to
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hide these decongestants behind the counter and to track their sale. They say that it's necessary to
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require people to get a prescription first. And this has been going on for a while. Here's one
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report in Indiana from a decade ago, for example. Watch. Pseudoephedrine is one of the main
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ingredients in making methamphetamine. And some agencies want it off the shelves. But many
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are discussing whether this issue is a law enforcement situation only or if it should
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affect the medical field as well. News 10's Sarah Schaefer has more.
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In 2013, one box of Pseudoephedrine was sold about every 15 seconds. That's according to officials
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with the Indiana State Police. They're one of the agencies in the group known as Indiana's
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Coalition Against Meth Making Meds. Along with them, the mayor of Terre Haute.
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It's a coalition of multiple groups across the state of Indiana that want to encourage the
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legislature to make this change, make it a prescription med so that we can fight the
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meth problem that we have in Indiana. So this is the first possibility for why they're pulling
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these drugs or they're gearing up potentially to pull them anyway. Maybe it's part of a larger
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effort to shift these decongestants to prescription model so that more people are seeing doctors and
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pharmacists. And then also, by the way, there's more money being made by everybody involved in that
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case. That's one theory. The other possibility is that the FDA's fraud simply couldn't go on
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any longer because the evidence that they're lying about these drugs' effectiveness was becoming too
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overwhelming. And if that's the case, it wouldn't exactly be the first time something like this has
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happened. It was just a couple of years ago that the FDA unanimously approved an Alzheimer's drug
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called Aduhelm that didn't work. This is one of the most expensive drugs available on the market.
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It costs more than $50,000 per year per customer. But the approval process didn't go as smoothly as
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the FDA and the drug maker called Biogen would have liked. Several of the FDA's experts resigned in
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protest after the agency approved Aduhelm, even though there was no evidence that it did anything
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to actually treat Alzheimer's. Here's one of the experts who quit. Watch.
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Does Aduhelm really do anything to stop symptoms?
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So the new drug that the FDA approved in June targets amyloid plaques very effectively.
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Unfortunately, the drug doesn't seem to have any clear effect on the progression of Alzheimer's
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disease. Dr. Aaron Kesselheim is professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
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He was on the FDA advisory panel on Aduhelm until he quit in protest when the agency gave the drug a green
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light, a move he calls probably the worst drug approval decision in recent U.S. history.
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But how can you say definitively that it doesn't work any more than the FDA could say definitively
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that it does? You can't say definitively that it doesn't work. You can't say definitively that it
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does work either. And in that circumstance, you need to do some more testing of the drug.
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The system in our country is that in order for a drug to be approved by the FDA, it has to show
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substantial evidence that the drug actually does work. And in this case, there isn't good evidence
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As you just heard, the entire premise of the drug was that you can cure Alzheimer's by removing so-called
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sticky plaques in the brain. But it later emerged in the research supporting that theory,
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which appeared in Nature magazine, that it later emerged that all this was doctored. On top of that,
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serious side effects of the drug emerged, including brain bleeding. So why did the FDA
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approve the drug if there's no evidence that it actually works? It turns out the agency had a
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close relationship with the drug company Biogen that made the drug throughout the approval process.
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This relationship, Congress later determined, broke the FDA's own rules, but it worked out for Biogen.
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And we see this phenomenon again and again. The federal government tells us that a drug works
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and that they know exactly how it works. And by the time we find out that they're lying,
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the drug company has made a ton of money off of it. We saw something similar happen with SSRIs. For
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decades, we were told that low serotonin levels were linked to depression. Therefore, SSRIs would
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fix that problem by allowing more serotonin in the brain. Even as mass shootings and depression and
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suicide rates all went up, as more and more people were put on these drugs, we were assured by Big Pharma and
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the media that despite all appearances, the SSRIs are working. That was what the science said,
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they claimed. And if you disputed it, you're some kind of anti-science troglodyte.
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It only emerged last year that in fact, low serotonin isn't linked to depression at all.
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And somehow that wasn't a major scandal. SSRIs, which stands for selective serotonin reuptake
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inhibitors, were never pulled from the shelves. Even though the official position of the scientific
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community is that low serotonin doesn't cause depression. There were no massive class action
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lawsuits that bankrupted the companies that made billions of dollars from these SSRIs
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that don't do anything. Just as Biogen hasn't been held accountable for its worthless Alzheimer's
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drugs. And just as no one in the Sackler family went to prison for lying about the effect,
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the addictiveness of opioids. For all those reasons, we can assume Big Pharma and the government
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will continue to lie to us. If they don't face consequences, they have no reason to change what
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they're doing. That's why at this moment, our political leaders are gearing up for a new round
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of COVID decrees. These decrees have already arrived in Canada, where public health officials are now
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calling for children as young as six months old to receive COVID shots. Now, there are no clinical
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trials or studies that demonstrate that it's safe or necessary in any way to give COVID shots to six
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month old children. Not a single one, not a single study. And to be honest, even if they had conducted
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trials, even if there were these studies, there would be reason to doubt those as well. I mean,
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we're now at the point where whatever the class of drug we're talking about, whether it's Alzheimer's
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treatments, COVID shots, SSRIs, all the gender transition drugs on the market, even decongestants,
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whatever the drug is, you could just assume you're being lied to. If you consume drugs that Big Pharma
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and the federal government are pushing, you're running the risk that 10 or 20 years from now,
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you'll learn what that drug was actually doing. And it might not be what you thought it was doing.
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And you'll learn what the actual side effects might be. Whatever you take and whatever your
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kids take, you simply have to factor that doubt into the equation. You have to keep in mind that
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if something bad happens down the line, you'll be told that it's breaking news. No one saw it coming.
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Even though the people who made the drug, in fact, knew it was coming. Now, is this an ideal
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situation from a public health perspective? Of course not. But it's the system we have.
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And if there's any upside to the news this week, it's that no one, not even people who are
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just shopping for a decongestant, can deny it anymore. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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So we'll start our five headlines, our five-ish headlines with what may be, what may be,
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may be the cringiest corporate virtue signal of all time. And I realize that's a bold statement.
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I understand they're competing with some real heavy hitters in that arena, you know, to make a
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statement like that, the cringiest corporate virtue signal of all time. I mean, you're in the arena now
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with Bud Light, the reigning champion. But I think it may emerge victorious with this. So first,
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here's the article from Business Insider. It says, you might be surprised to learn that,
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to learn there was a Jeff Bezos cameo in Star Trek Beyond. You probably missed it. His face was
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hidden behind an alien mask after all. Not to be outdone, Apple CEO Tim Cook acted opposite Oscar
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winner Octavia Spencer sans mask in a surprise skit during Apple's big iPhone event,
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event on Tuesday. Apple held its fall event, Wunderlust, on Tuesday, where it unveiled new
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products, including the iPhone 15 and new Apple watches. This year's event, however, featured a
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rare skit on Apple's sustainability initiatives starring Cook and Spencer, who also stars in the
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Apple TV drama series, Truth Be Told. Now, okay, before we play the clip, this is their event to roll
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out the iPhone. So we're on the iPhone 15 now, which, I mean, it's a cliche at this point to point
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this out, but it's also true that this thing is exactly the same as the iPhone 14, which is exactly
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the same as the iPhone 13 and the 12 and the 11. I mean, this is, and it's relevant too, because to
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what you're about to see, because this is a company that is totally out of ideas. They have not had,
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like, what was the last interesting, exciting innovation that we've seen from Apple? It's been
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a very long time. They haven't had any interesting ideas in many years. So the pitch for every new
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iPhone is basically just, hey, remember the iPhone you have right now? Well, you should get this one.
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It's exactly the same. If you like that iPhone you have now, well, then you'll love this one,
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because it's literally the same phone. So there's no innovation here. There's nothing new.
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I've mentioned before Ross Douthat's book from a few years ago called The Decadent Society,
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which outlines his theory that we aren't really, we're not exactly collapsing as a society. It's
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not some big dramatic collapse that we're experiencing, he says, but rather we are languishing
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in decadence. And by decadence, he means that we are treading water. We're going around in circles,
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repeating ourselves. We're just, we're just out of ideas. And the constantly updated iPhone that's
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no different from the iPhone before is just a perfect example of this. And this means that Apple
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has to look for other ways to get attention and to make themselves seem fresh. And I guess to try to
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incentivize people to buy their products. And that's where this skit comes from. Let's watch a
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little bit of it. I hope we didn't keep you waiting. Mother Nature. Mother Nature. Welcome
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to Apple. How was the weather getting in? The weather was however I wanted it to be.
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Let's cut to the chase. In 2020, you promised to bring Apple's entire carbon footprint to zero
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by 2030. Henry David Thoreau over here said we have a profound opportunity to build a more
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sustainable future for the planet we share. I think our 10 o'clock said the same thing.
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They all do. All right. This is my third corporate responsibility gig today. So who wants to
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disappoint me first? Well, we've got some updates we're excited to share with you.
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Materials. Status. Is there a materials person here? Yes. We are in the process of eliminating
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all plastic from our packaging by the end. Let me guess. 50 years from now when someone else is
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left holding the bag. By the end of next year, actually. And we're also currently using 100%
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recycled aluminum in the enclosures of all our MacBooks, Apple TVs, Apple Watch. What about iPod
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shuffle? Well, it's a joke. Don't you people make Ted Lasso? That's a different group. We're also
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phasing out leather in our iPhone cases. What about Brando over there? They phasing you out too?
00:24:02.880
Oh. What's next? Electricity. Electricity status. We're operating on 100%. I think we've seen enough.
00:24:13.680
So that goes on for like five minutes. And first of all, I know that I've been skeptical recently
00:24:19.140
about the concept of toxic work environments. But if you work at a place where you're asked to
00:24:24.960
participate in a skit like this, then that really is a toxic work environment. I mean,
00:24:28.560
you need to get out of there. That's traumatic. And I don't know if the other people in that sketch
00:24:33.020
were actual Apple employees or if they were actors, but either way, it's horrible.
00:24:37.500
Yeah. Let's not be distracted from the uber wokeness. I mean, the wokeness on steroids on display
00:24:43.460
here. This is what we've come to. Okay. This is what it's come to with a corporate woke
00:24:47.960
virtue signaling. A company CEO groveling to mother nature represented by an overweight black woman.
00:24:57.700
The only thing they're missing when it comes to the woke bingo card, the only thing they're missing
00:25:02.000
is the LGBT tie-in. And honestly, I mean, like I said, the thing goes on for five minutes. I haven't
00:25:06.600
watched the whole thing. So maybe they throw that in there somewhere. They must. I'm not exactly sure.
00:25:11.620
Um, all that said, I do appreciate the video in some ways because it makes clear for anyone who
00:25:20.840
hasn't been paying attention that these people really are full-on pagans. I mean, this is full-on
00:25:26.220
paganism. This skit really isn't a skit. It's more like, uh, it's, it's like the, the leftist
00:25:31.960
version of a video you might play for kids at vacation Bible school. Uh, it's not supposed to be
00:25:37.960
funny. I think that's why people are confused. So this kind of went viral for all the wrong
00:25:41.460
reasons, you know, as far as Apple's concerned. And everyone was sort of confused and saying,
00:25:45.940
is this supposed to be funny? What's happening here? Am I supposed to be laughing? And the answer
00:25:50.580
is no, this is an expression of religious worship more than anything else. Now it may not be entirely
00:25:56.340
sincere from Apple since they're a soulless corporate behemoth, but, but that's the idea.
00:26:00.740
And here's what you have to understand. Uh, what you see in the video is not really a metaphor.
00:26:07.760
Like they really do think of mother nature as an entity, as an individual, as a goddess of some
00:26:14.640
kind. And for some on the left, an increasing number on the left, this is, this is explicit.
00:26:19.820
I mean, they are explicitly pagan for others. It's a bit more ambiguous, even to themselves.
00:26:24.860
They don't quite understand how they feel about it, but ultimately they worship nature because,
00:26:29.280
because, because this is inevitable, right? Everybody worships something or someone,
00:26:33.820
uh, you know, you got to serve somebody, as Bob Dylan said, and the instinct to worship is embedded
00:26:41.040
deeply in our human nature. The question is only whether you will worship the creator or the creation.
00:26:52.620
And, uh, the modern left chooses the latter. And that's, I mean, that gets maybe more philosophical
00:27:00.520
than we need to get, because ultimately, again, this is just really, I mean, on the surface,
00:27:04.580
this is just a cringy, uh, corporate virtue signal. And, um, at least Apple, maybe we'll say
00:27:12.540
that they, they are innovating when it comes to the realm of cringy, uh, corporate virtue signalings,
00:27:17.200
they are innovating there. At least there's a little bit of innovation. So they've gone farther than
00:27:20.540
most have. So at least they've done that. All right. Uh, moving on to this, Donald Trump was
00:27:25.260
interviewed by Megyn Kelly and it was a good interview. Uh, she pressed him, she actually
00:27:31.080
pressed him on, on things, challenged him, which is what you're supposed to do when you interview a
00:27:36.460
politician, whether they're on your side or not, like that's, that's what you're supposed to do.
00:27:40.800
And, uh, she, she especially pressed him on his COVID response, operation warp speed,
00:27:46.240
the vaccine, Fauci. And here's just one clip of this, uh, of this exchange. Watch.
00:27:52.660
Fire Anthony Fauci, uh, was because he'd been there for a long time that you would have taken
00:27:57.700
heat, that it would have created a firestorm, quoting your words. Then for the first time in
00:28:02.320
May, I also said, I didn't listen to him too much. I'm getting there. But then in, in May,
00:28:05.900
you started saying, well, he's a civil servant. So I couldn't technically. The truth is though,
00:28:10.240
not only did you not fire Fauci, who is loathed by many, many millions of Republicans in particular,
00:28:16.060
but also some Democrats. By the way, you made him a star. You made him a star. This is the
00:28:19.720
criticism of you, that you made him the face of the white house coronavirus. You think so?
00:28:24.280
That he was out at every presser, that he was running herd for the administration on COVID and
00:28:29.440
that you actually gave him a presidential commendation before he left office. Wouldn't you like a do over
00:28:34.260
on that? Uh, I don't know who gave him the commendation. I really don't know who gave him
00:28:39.060
the commendation. I wouldn't have done it. Presidential commendation. One went off to Mark
00:28:41.500
Milley too. Somebody probably. Okay. Well, I mean, there's a presidential commendation. So the
00:28:46.800
president gave it to him. So just to, just to clear that up, uh, what she says there is correct
00:28:52.540
because yeah, there are some who claim, well, he didn't have the authority to fire Fauci.
00:28:56.280
I don't really buy that. And I just, I just don't buy it. But even if it's true, it's the real issue
00:29:03.940
is, you know, I mean, prior to COVID, most people had never heard of Fauci's name before. They'd never
00:29:11.520
heard of him. During COVID, it becomes this, uh, star, right? It becomes this media star, media
00:29:17.220
darling, this, uh, this saint. And that was thanks entirely to the white house at the time, putting
00:29:26.740
him on TV every single day, every day. Okay. It's easy to forget maybe now because we block it out of
00:29:34.820
our memories, such a miserable time, but every day, this freaking guy is on TV. Um, you didn't have to
00:29:42.640
do that. There was no law saying that you had to do that. You could have, you could have kept him off
00:29:46.800
TV entirely, but you made him like a, you gave him a prime time show every single day. And, and so
00:29:52.400
that's the criticism and it is an entirely valid criticism. Of course it is. Uh, and this is where,
00:29:59.860
and I know that like Trump is, is constitutionally incapable of saying this. He's not going to say
00:30:06.100
it, but I would love for him to say when pressed on this, like, why'd you make Fauci a star? Why did
00:30:13.100
you hand the government over to Fauci? I'd love for him to say, yeah, you know what? I got that one
00:30:18.060
wrong. I got that one wrong. Not perfect. Not a perfect person. Nobody is. Yeah. Every president
00:30:23.540
makes mistakes. That was my, that was my biggest one. That was my biggest one. And you know something
00:30:28.400
I get back in the office. I'm not going to make that mistake again. Guarantee you that. Okay. There's
00:30:33.300
not going to be any new, uh, even a Fauci is retired. There's not, there's not gonna be a new Fauci.
00:30:37.480
In fact, I'm looking for the Fauci's and I'm, and I'm getting them out of there. That's what I would
00:30:40.660
love to hear. Uh, and, and I think it's very important to say that because it might give people
00:30:47.980
confidence that even though, um, from the years 2016 to 2020, the swamp was not drained. It just
00:30:57.060
simply was not, it wasn't, but to acknowledge these missteps, then you can make the case that,
00:31:06.360
yeah, you know what? Uh, I got that wrong, but I'm going to do it differently in the future.
00:31:10.460
And so then maybe you can have a little bit of confidence that, okay, the swamp wasn't
00:31:13.560
drained between 2016 and 2020. Maybe, uh, it'll be drained on the next term.
00:31:20.820
If there's no acknowledgement that, oh, I got to do things a little bit differently this time,
00:31:24.840
then there's no reason to think that things will be done differently because you're not even
00:31:28.120
acknowledging that they need to be. Um, now from a political perspective, I think the political
00:31:34.860
argument that, uh, people will make in defense of Trump entirely from a political perspective
00:31:41.840
is they'll say, well, look, he's up by, uh, he's up by a zillion points in the polls.
00:31:45.560
He's almost certainly going to be the nominee and that's true. Um, and just politically.
00:31:51.600
So, so, and then once you get to the general, to the general election, you know, this issue of like
00:31:55.720
denouncing Fauci, it's not, it's not like, it's not like Biden's going to challenge him on that.
00:32:01.040
And so, you know, that's the kind of thing you only need to do potentially in the primaries
00:32:05.660
to appease, uh, conservative voters, but he's already going to win the primaries. And so he
00:32:11.460
doesn't need to do it. That's the political argument. I think, I think that that is misguided
00:32:15.120
because I think that, um, yes, Trump is nothing is certain in life. Nothing is certain in politics,
00:32:23.120
but obviously, uh, the, the, the, the, the smartest money is on Trump winning, uh, the, the nomination.
00:32:29.880
And then we're going to get this rematch. I think the issue for both, uh, Trump and Biden
00:32:36.660
is going to be an issue of turnout. It's like mobilizing your voters and making them excited
00:32:42.220
to come vote. Now, I know again, that, that might not be a conventional wisdom because
00:32:47.260
allegedly in 2020, there were, you know, 600 billion people voted or something like that.
00:32:53.460
The entire universe voted, um, the entire universe came out to vote. And part of it is because they
00:32:59.140
didn't actually have to come out because they can mail in their, their, uh, their votes,
00:33:02.120
you know, three months ahead of time. Um, so I think you, people might look at that and say,
00:33:06.740
well, there's not gonna be a turnout issue, but, but, but I, I think that is going to be the issue.
00:33:10.460
It's like mobilizing your own people to come out and be excited to vote for you. That's going to be
00:33:14.560
the issue. And, um, acknowledging something like this and saying, I'm doing it differently next time.
00:33:19.360
That might help with that. And if you're not going to make that acknowledgement, then
00:33:23.780
I think it's a, I think it's a serious mistake. I do. Um, all right. This is from the post-millennial.
00:33:32.760
This kind of, uh, it takes us out of the pharmaceutical and medical field, but it's
00:33:37.940
kind of a related story in a lot of ways. Uh, post-millennial says a renowned criminology
00:33:43.920
professor who proved quote unquote, that racism is systemic and America's law enforcement and American
00:33:49.460
society has been fired for faking data and his studies have now been retracted. Eric Stewart,
00:33:55.540
51, a now former criminology professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee is now out of work
00:34:00.780
due to extreme negligence in his research. According to Google scholar, uh, Stewart and his work were
00:34:05.640
cited over 8,500 times by other researchers. Uh, now the WB Dubois, uh, fellow at the National
00:34:13.000
Institute of Justice is out of a job on account of extreme negligence and incompetence. Retraction
00:34:18.280
watch obtained the termination letter from the university, which said that due to Stewart's
00:34:22.180
conduct, decades of research previously thought to be at the forefront of the field of criminology
00:34:27.060
has been shown to contain numerous erroneous and false narratives. In the July 13th letter that
00:34:31.540
informed Stewart of his term of his termination, uh, the letter said, quote, the details of problematic
00:34:39.460
data management, false results, and the numerous publication distractions have negatively affected
00:34:44.320
the discipline on a national level. Clark noted that Stewart's actions had also impacted the
00:34:49.120
recruitment of students and faculty, and that now the university's researchers are concerned that
00:34:53.220
their papers will not be published in major journals writing in the termination, uh, letter,
00:34:57.720
quote, the damage to the standing of the university, in particular the College of Criminology,
00:35:00.960
criminal justice, and its faculty approaches the catastrophic and may be unalterable. Clark added,
00:35:07.340
quote, I do not see how you can teach our students to be ethical researchers or how the results of
00:35:12.280
future research projects conducted by you could be deemed as trustworthy, adding that six of studies
00:35:17.000
have been retracted while his other work was in doubt. For, uh, let's see, some of the, uh,
00:35:23.660
some of the stuff that he fakes, Stewart, which, uh, was, was honored, uh, in 2017, was fired after
00:35:28.840
nearly two decades of his data, was found to have false results, which included information used in
00:35:33.560
his study in which he claimed that the history of lynchings made whites perceive blacks as criminals
00:35:39.500
and that the issue was more prevalent among those who are politically conservative. Okay. And there
00:35:43.720
are other studies as well. Um, I think this story is important because there are two big takeaways,
00:35:49.540
uh, and they're both things that I've said many times and now I get to say again. Uh, the first is
00:35:55.360
that, of course, obviously systemic racism is a myth. Systemic racism in modern America is a myth. Um,
00:36:03.280
not only that, like many myths, it is unfalsifiable. That is an unfalsifiable myth,
00:36:09.580
uh, much, much like, uh, the, the climate change narrative, unfalsifiable, right? Whatever happens.
00:36:18.980
So the left has their narrative about climate change, literally anything that happens with the
00:36:24.840
weather, if it's cold, if it's hot, if there's a hurricane, there's no hurricane, there's more
00:36:29.560
hurricanes than usual, fewer than usual, whatever happens, it automatically proves climate change.
00:36:35.460
It's all because it's all baked in, uh, systemic racism, exactly the same way, no matter what
00:36:41.600
happens in the culture, it proves systemic racism. And that's why it's always an interesting question.
00:36:47.900
If you're talking to a believer or a proponent of the systemic racism myth, if you go and you ask them,
00:36:54.200
okay, what would you need to see? Like in your, if you could, your ideal scenario, what would you
00:37:03.540
need to see, uh, to prove to you that systemic racism doesn't exist, or at least it's getting
00:37:10.740
better? What would be some indicators for you that things are trending in the right direction
00:37:15.460
at the very least? And they can't answer that. They won't answer that because, uh, the other part of
00:37:21.940
the systemic racism myth is that not only does it exist, even though it can't be proven, but it's
00:37:25.520
always somehow getting worse. No matter what happens, it's always worse. Um, so that's the
00:37:31.260
first thing. The second is that, you know, I, I, I have an opportunity to jump back up on my soapbox
00:37:36.900
about studies. Uh, I, I mean, at this point, if someone throws a study at you in any context
00:37:45.580
and it means anything to you, then, then, then I don't know, you're hopeless. If you hear someone
00:37:51.260
say, well, study proves, this is the point where I, this is where I am now. You tell me that a study
00:37:56.300
proves this and that, I don't care. It doesn't mean anything. None of it means it's, all of this stuff
00:38:01.920
is faked so often, especially if we're talking in, if we're in the realm of sociology, uh, or psychology,
00:38:10.300
we're talking about human behavior, human tendencies, and you come to me with a study.
00:38:15.620
It's like, that doesn't mean anything. This stuff is so easy to fake. It retracted so often
00:38:21.220
that it just doesn't mean anything. But we also saw, as we talked about in the, uh, in the opening,
00:38:26.460
even in a realm where you would think it's okay, now it's like a hard science of medicine.
00:38:31.640
Even there you hear, well, studies prove this is effective. And then 10 years later,
00:38:35.660
oh, no, it wasn't effective at all. Sorry about that. It happens so often that it just doesn't
00:38:40.780
mean anything anymore. Um, the fact that there was a study done means absolutely nothing. And that is
00:38:49.560
the consequence of people lying so much. You get to a point where there is so much fraud that now you
00:38:57.740
have no choice but to throw the baby out with the bathwater. It's, it's, it's indistinguishable now.
00:39:01.660
So, and, uh, this proves that yet again. All right. We just had a Trump interview. Uh, DeSantis
00:39:09.900
has also been making the rounds, of course, doing interviews. And, uh, I figure I might as well make
00:39:14.480
both sides mad at me today because, uh, I want to play some of this clip for you, uh, where he was
00:39:20.340
interviewed by CBS. And this was, I think last night. And I want to tell you what I think DeSantis
00:39:27.160
is doing wrong. Um, but let's play a little bit of this first. The NAACP issued a warning earlier
00:39:33.600
this summer saying that Florida is quote, openly hostile for African Americans, people of color,
00:39:39.040
and LGBTQ individuals. As president, you would represent the entire country. Can everyone feel
00:39:46.760
welcome in a DeSantis America? A hundred percent. And that is politics. That's a stunt that they're
00:39:52.720
playing. They obviously have very left wing agenda, which I don't begrudge them that, but in Florida,
00:39:58.140
our unemployment rate amongst African Americans is way lower than New York, California, and these
00:40:05.140
blue States. We have more black owned businesses in Florida than any state in the United States. I have
00:40:11.720
more, uh, African American students on scholarships for our school choice program than any other state
00:40:18.760
in the United States. And so we've shown people can succeed in Florida, regardless, uh, of their
00:40:24.840
race, ethnicity, any of that. We will judge people as individuals. We want people to rise up based on
00:40:30.100
their merit. But here's the thing. Because of your policies in Florida, there are minorities,
00:40:35.900
black Americans, and there are people who are part of the LGBTQ community who think that you would
00:40:41.340
discriminate against them. Well, part of the reason they think that is because of narratives that are
00:40:46.040
put out by, by media. If they think that, then they're stupid. I mean, I, and I'm not saying he
00:40:50.880
should, I know that he, that wouldn't be the right thing for him to say. If you're running for president,
00:40:54.820
you probably don't want to say that, but I'm not. So I can say, uh, when she says, well, there are
00:40:59.140
black Americans and minorities who think that they're going to be horribly discriminated against
00:41:02.080
in Florida. Well then, well then those particular, uh, black Americans and minorities who feel that way
00:41:06.640
are very, very stupid. That is a stupid thing to think. Um, and yeah, they're being lied to,
00:41:12.780
but if you are that easily misled, then you are a moron. I mean, if you, oh, I can't go to Florida.
00:41:21.560
I'm afraid to go to Florida. Then you're just a freaking moron is the problem. Uh, and you're being
00:41:28.600
lied to, but we got, we got to hold people more accountable than that. You know? Yeah. Yeah. We hold
00:41:32.760
the media accountable for their lies and false narratives and we hold the government accountable
00:41:35.720
for that. Uh, yes, we put, but, but, but we can, individual Americans cannot be helpless,
00:41:44.220
you know, adults, individual American adults cannot be helpless children that are so easily misled.
00:41:51.560
Uh, what I would like to see DeSantis do here is, is, uh, and his answer is fine. And that's going to
00:41:58.100
be the theme here. Like nothing. Okay. I'm not, we're going to play a little bit more of this clip in a
00:42:01.580
second, but nothing DeSantis says here is wrong. Uh, it's not, this isn't some great meltdown where
00:42:08.540
he embarrasses himself. Like it's a fine, it's fine. It's a fine exchange. It's a fine interview.
00:42:12.900
Uh, I'll tell you what my issue is with it in a minute, in a minute. Um, but right here, I think
00:42:19.680
it would be a good move to throw it back at her. And she says, well, uh, it's, they feel that it's
00:42:25.160
unsafe. Why, why is it unsafe? Can explain to me why I don't, you know, I'm not, I can't even answer
00:42:32.320
the question. What do you mean? It's unsafe. Florida is unsafe for black Americans. You know,
00:42:37.640
it's like, what is Florida is disproportionately unsafe for black Americans. Why, why would you
00:42:42.920
even say that? Where are you getting this from? I need, I need to understand that that's such an
00:42:48.400
absurd question. It's absolutely ridiculous. Um, and put it on hers as well. Well, here's,
00:42:56.840
here's exactly why they'd feel unsafe there, but she can't do that. Let's keep watching.
00:43:02.660
For example, when we had the fight with Disney over the elementary education about, should you have
00:43:08.280
things about sex and gender identity telling a second grader that their gender is fluid? We said,
00:43:14.580
absolutely not. Parents in Florida agreed and throughout the country, I think, agreed with
00:43:18.920
that. That was termed by the media as don't say gay. The bill had, did not mention the word gay.
00:43:25.120
I never said that gay people wanted kindergartners to be told they can change their gender. That was
00:43:29.800
the media that created that and the left that created that. There were a lot of gay people in
00:43:34.020
Florida that felt that was unfair to them because they didn't think it was appropriate to have that
00:43:38.420
kind of, is the right age to talk about gender identity? Well, I think the idea that a teacher
00:43:43.940
would say, yes, you can change. And there's some schools around the country where they say it's
00:43:49.740
okay to transition a kid without the parent's consent or knowledge. And as a parent, that is
00:43:56.300
just unacceptable. I mean, schools serve an important function, but to be intruding into a family matter
00:44:01.980
like that, uh, I think goes beyond, uh, what is appropriate. And here's the thing. Are we doing so?
00:44:07.420
Uh, when is the correct, when's, when's the right age to talk to kids about gender identity? Uh,
00:44:14.300
there is no right age. There isn't a right age. The right age is, is non-existent. Never talk to
00:44:20.700
them about it. It should never come up in school. It should never come up at all because gender
00:44:24.380
identity is a made up radical left-wing concept. Um, now DeSantis and that exchange there,
00:44:33.680
again, his answers are fine. Like these are fine answers. They aren't bad. This is not,
00:44:37.920
uh, some sort of embarrassment. You're not going to watch that and think, oh man,
00:44:40.600
he really made a fool of himself. Of course not. It's fine, but it's just fine. And DeSantis,
00:44:45.880
if he has any hope of winning the nomination, he needs chunk plays. Okay. He needs chunk plays.
00:44:52.700
He needs, he needs to hit triples and home runs to mix sports metaphors. Uh, he needs big moments,
00:44:58.280
big moments and a fine interview is not enough. It's almost like why even do it at that point?
00:45:05.940
It's, it's, it's, it's, it's a lateral move at best. Um, so I think you get into those positions,
00:45:13.540
again, there's, there's no way around it. Even if you're a big DeSantis fan, you have to admit
00:45:18.300
that he's way, way down in the polls. And so there's a massive gap that needs to be closed here. There just
00:45:24.020
is. And, um, you have an opportunity where you're sitting across, you know, you're sitting right
00:45:31.760
there with some left-wing propagandist journalist, so-called journalist. You got to go after them
00:45:38.480
aggressively. I get what he's going for here is, well, you know, I'm going to be civil. I'm going
00:45:43.040
to be calm. I'm going to explain my position in a very, uh, in a very clear and concise way.
00:45:48.940
And that, again, all that's, that's all fine. There's, there's, there's something objectively wrong
00:45:52.920
with that, but it's not going to be enough. And here is an opportunity. You got to go after her,
00:46:01.660
go after her aggressively. So an example, he brings up, um, the, the, the media's invention
00:46:09.400
of the so-called don't say gay bill. Well, he's being interviewed by CBS news. And it took me five
00:46:15.780
seconds on Google to, you know, look up, well, what did CBS news say about this, uh, about this bill,
00:46:22.420
which was actually a parental rights bill. And here's just one headline that CBS news ran.
00:46:27.800
He was being interviewed by CBS CBS news ran this headline, Florida Senate passes controversial.
00:46:32.700
Don't say gay bill despite protests. Many headlines where that comes from.
00:46:38.160
Well, how about throwing it back at her? Like, Hey, you, you work for CBS news. This is a CBS news
00:46:44.440
interview. I mean, you're asking why you work for CBS and you're asking me why, uh, Americans are,
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have these, uh, are confused about what's happening in Florida. Well, it's because of you people,
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because you're lying to them. Hey, do you remember last year when you, uh, published this headline,
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Florida Senate passes controversial. Don't say gay bill despite protests. That bill doesn't exist,
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Nora. That's not, you guys made that bill up. Let me ask you something. You guys reported on the,
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on the don't say gay bill. Where in the bill does it say that you can't say the word gay? Go ahead.
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You tell me, is it in there? Oh, you know, you can't. So you lied about that. Are you going to
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denounce your employer CBS for lying about this bill for, for inventing legislation that I never
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signed? And now you're going to sit there and you're going to ask me why people are confused
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or why they have this impression of Florida. You're the reason they have this impression. And you know
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that, uh, that's something like that. I, I, I think, uh, maybe, maybe turned down slightly maybe,
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but that's what people want to see. And that gets, and that gets you the headlines that people are
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going to see that and they're going to be motivated. Like, okay, finally, like finally,
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someone is doing this. And I, and I also know that DeSantis has the ability to go after the media
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like that. This is what put them on the map in the first place. Well, there was the COVID of course,
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but as part of that, you know, doing this press conferences, being a challenge by the corrupt and
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dishonest press and like throwing it back in their faces very aggressively. This is what put them on
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the map to begin with. It's what put them in position to run. The only reason he's even thinking
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about running for president is because of the popularity that he gained from, from those sorts of
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moments. And now he's running for president. He's not doing that anymore. And I, I just don't get it.
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I don't get it. I mean, you compare it to Trump, for example, like Trump understands what people
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want to see from him. He, he, and he plays the hits. Like he knows why he's popular. He knows what
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not that you need a lot of, it's pretty obvious people like him. And, and so he, he does that.
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This is just the confusing thing to me about the, uh, DeSantis campaign. All right, let's get to
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Yukon says, I feel I must point out the paradoxical nature of saying that we should know everything
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about somebody's private life. If we know everything about it, then it's not a private
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life. In fact, it's an extreme invasion of privacy. Well, you're leaving out the context of me
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saying that. I'm not saying we should know everything about someone's private life if
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they're a private person, just a normal citizen. In fact, we shouldn't. Most people volunteer much
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more about their private life than they should. But if you're running for president, if you want
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to be president, that's where, yeah, we should basically know everything about your private
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life. We should because you don't have a private. Once you become president, you are not a private
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person. I mean, let me ask you, when someone's elected president, four years in office, is there
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a time during those four years when they aren't president, when they don't wield the powers of
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the presidency at any point during those four years, unless they're incapacitated? And as we see,
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even if they're incapacitated, as Biden has been this entire time, he still wields the power of
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presidency. So you don't have it. I mean, you live where you work. That's your house now. There's
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no private life anymore. So that makes every aspect of your life relevant for public discussion. It just
00:51:46.560
does. William says, Matt, you call porn cyber prostitution as an argument for banning it as if
00:51:55.080
it's self-evident that prostitution should be banned, but I don't see it that way at all. Why
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should I care if an adult wants to pay another adult for sex? Look, I don't know this, this kind
00:52:05.660
of libertarian weak sauce argument, uh, with all due respect is, um, it's hard to even take seriously
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anymore. Um, it's the kind of thing I think you got to grow out of this mentality. You know, I, I
00:52:19.840
understand going through a libertarian phase. Many of us did, uh, maybe, I don't know how old you are.
00:52:24.360
So maybe you're in that phase right now. Um, but as you get older, you start to understand
00:52:28.900
what is the matter with, what two people does, what people decide to do. I mean, look, you could
00:52:33.060
use that logic about anything. I mean, you could use that logic about murder. Well, that person's
00:52:40.260
killing a person over there. It doesn't affect me. What do I care? It doesn't affect, and like,
00:52:43.740
it probably doesn't, it doesn't directly affect you that that is happening. All this, we live in a
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country of 330 million people and there are, there are many things happening every day. Millions of
00:52:54.460
things are happening and, um, almost none of them directly impact you. Does that mean none of them
00:53:00.080
matter? Um, so why should you care about prostitution being legal? Well, I don't know because the industry
00:53:11.340
rests entirely on sex trafficking, um, on, on, uh, on, you know, abusing and grooming and trafficking
00:53:19.660
in children included. Um, because every prostitute is drugged is, is just, you know, they're in that
00:53:29.040
position. It's, it's not like this is, this is not a decision that somebody makes, um,
00:53:34.840
when their life is going, uh, great. This is almost always, this is just, it's an industry that just
00:53:41.500
runs on despair and abuse and coercion and objectification and all of these terrible things.
00:53:50.860
Uh, that's what the industry runs on. So why do we, why would it be legal is a better question.
00:54:00.280
How does society benefit from it being legal, from embracing it? What are the benefits of that?
00:54:09.460
I see no benefits. I mean, when you look around, uh, I'd ask you, you look around at society right now
00:54:15.880
and you see what's going on. Do you say to yourself, you know, what would help some of this
00:54:20.620
to make prostitution legal? That's what would really help. Is that really what you think?
00:54:25.960
That should honestly be reason enough to be opposed to legalizing prostitution.
00:54:34.140
If you cannot imagine any conceivable way that it would make society any better,
00:54:39.920
then why would you legalize it? There's no argument for it. Um,
00:54:47.920
W. Day Walker says, uh, even though I don't support the prostitution and cam work is just that
00:54:57.520
technically they were correct with the terminology saying that it was leaked. So this is the Virginia
00:55:03.320
state delegate candidate who, uh, was, uh, a cyber prostitute, a porn star uploading videos of
00:55:09.600
herself having sex on camera, uh, before running for office. And then, and then apparently even some
00:55:15.120
of these videos went up while she was running for office and now people are criticizing her for these
00:55:19.180
videos. And she says that, uh, that, that these videos have leaked, even though she put them up on
00:55:23.380
this website, she put them up on the internet herself. That's what he's referring to. Uh, they were
00:55:28.300
technically correct in their terminology saying it was leaked because the sites they use to sell their
00:55:31.780
bodies do not store and save the videos for rewatching as they are live streaming services.
00:55:36.520
Basically she, as many other stupid people nowadays, didn't bother to think of, uh, is the fact that
00:55:42.260
people record everything on the internet. And even though the site itself does not store the videos
00:55:46.080
that are people out there with the recordings of her sex acts that can upload them to sites for
00:55:50.740
people to rewatch. Again, I don't support the disgusting acts, but they're trying to reword
00:55:55.280
this as though she's the victim for deciding to do these acts to begin with. Um, okay. So we don't,
00:56:01.080
I don't think we're that far apart. We don't disagree very much, but you're, you're looking to,
00:56:05.200
uh, save her a little bit by, by at least saying, well, technically these are leaked videos if they were
00:56:11.240
streaming and she didn't know that they'd be recorded, but no, that still doesn't count as
00:56:14.080
leaking. When you say that a video is leaked, what everybody imagines and what you're trying
00:56:19.960
to get people to imagine is that there was some kind of private video that you had, uh, on a device
00:56:27.020
somewhere you want anyone to see, which by the way is already stupid enough. Okay. Like I think
00:56:33.160
everyone would understand this by now. You shouldn't have any video or picture on your phone or computer
00:56:39.860
that, um, you know, it would ruin your life. If the whole world saw that video shouldn't be taken
00:56:48.180
in the first place because really nothing is private in this world of ours, especially if it's
00:56:52.760
on any electronic device, you just, you should just assume it's not private, but, um, what people
00:56:58.120
are going to, what, what you put in people's mind is the idea that when you hear leaked video,
00:57:02.700
that it was, that it was stored on advice somewhere privately, and then someone hacked it or stole it
00:57:07.640
or something and then put it out, uh, for public consumption. That's not what happened. When you
00:57:12.900
take the video, whether it's streaming or not, and you say to the world, Hey, check this out.
00:57:19.540
Then that's it. That's, that's, that's all she wrote. You have presented that to the public.
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It's going to live forever. And that is entirely on you. You're not a victim at all.
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as you want them to be, where triumph is often accompanied by tragedy, where there may be a silver
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lining, but you can't forget the dark cloud inside of it. Which meant that, in my life yesterday,
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an occasion that should have been joyous and celebratory was marred by hatred and bigotry
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and cruelty. Now first, the good news. Many outlets, including Variety, announced yesterday
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the all-star cast for this season of the ABC hit show Dancing with the Stars. There are a number of
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names that you may or may not recognize, but probably not. Tyson Beckford, Adrian Peterson,
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that girl from American Pie, and also right there, plain as day, Matt Walsh. Yes, Matt Walsh will be
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on Dancing with the Stars. As you may or may not know, my name is Matt Walsh, which means that,
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yes, I will be on Dancing with the Stars. Told you that I had some big projects on the way. Remember I
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told you that? And now you know about one of them. Now, there were some people on the internet when this
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was announced who started to engage in wild speculation, spreading false information about
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there being another Matt Walsh out there who is some kind of actor who appeared allegedly in the
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show Veep. And they tried to negate my own achievements by claiming that this other Matt
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Walsh is the one who will appear on Dancing with the Stars. This sort of fake news was bad enough,
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but even worse were all the many people, there were a great many of them, who rightly assumed that I was
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going to be on the TV show, but were for some reason extremely upset about it. To appear on Dancing
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with the Stars has been my dream since I was a very young child, and yet these people danced all over
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my dream, the way that I will be dancing on that stage when season 32 starts. Just a quick sample of
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some of the things that these haters said on Twitter, just reading a few of the comments.
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Why the F is ABC giving a platform to far-right bigot Matt Walsh? Another says, why the F is Matt
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Walsh on Dancing with the Stars? A lot of comments like that. Also, something tells me that Christo
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fascist and transphobic and homophobic Matt Walsh will regret making a fool of himself on Dancing
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with the Stars. Like, who told you this was a good idea, Matt? You're literally gifting the people
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you hate with enough ammo to launch a war. Another says, I'm sorry, why the F is Matt
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Walsh here? Another says, I think it's ridiculous that this huge show, Dancing with the Stars,
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is letting racist, misogynistic, anti-LGBTQ plus commentator Matt Walsh be filmed. Be better. I
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mean, we missed out on some horrible content from him while he practiced, but still. Another says,
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this dork calls Disney execs groomers and then joins the cast of an ABC reality show? Another says,
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I'm done with Dancing with the Stars. Matt Walsh is going to be on it. Is Disney struggling that
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they need a transphobic on their show? WTF? Now, there were many, many more where these came from,
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as the left cried out in protest against my very real inclusion in Dancing with the Stars. I was
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trending nationwide on Twitter due to the outrage about this. All of these leftists were convinced,
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and rightly so, that it must be me and no other Matt Walsh, because there is no other Matt Walsh. I am
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the ultimate Matt Walsh. I am the only Matt Walsh. The others have faded into dust,
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blown away by the wind. I am the last of the Matt Walshes, still standing, still dancing.
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Now, this is the most important thing to understand. For all those on the left who have
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been asking, why is Matt Walsh on the show? Why did they give him a platform? What is he doing there?
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The answer is that I'm there to dance. I am on the show to tell my story and to reveal what is
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hidden deeply in my heart through the art of dance. And you know something? Dance transcends
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politics. It breaks through ideological barriers. It speaks to a deeper truth that lies inside all of
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us. This is why I have always turned to dance, even in my darkest moments, in moments of turmoil and
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confusion. I've always had dance there to bring clarity and light. And that's what I intend to do
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on Dancing with the Stars when I appear on the show, which I am really going to do in real life,
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because this is an actual thing that is true and that is happening. Look, I'm not going to claim that
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I'm the best dancer who has ever danced, though I did perform for one summer with the New York City
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Ballet, so I'm certainly no novice. But my dance is not meant to be technically perfect. My dances are
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bold, innovative, sometimes provocative, even shocking. I want you to watch me dance and admire
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the beauty of the routine, but I also want you to think. I want you to be challenged.
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You know, I learned to dance under the tutelage of the great Russian choreographer,
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Viktor Korkivlyov, and he told me something that's always stuck with me as a dancer. He said,
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to dance is to speak, and to speak is to dance. I don't think that really means anything, but the
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point is that dance is self-expression, intensely personal and yet paradoxically public. And I can
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go on and on about dance, about my passion for it, my relationship to it, about my years learning
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dance from the Russian guy I just made up, but I think that misses the point. The point is that these
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people complaining about my appearance on the show are missing a real opportunity for unity,
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a chance to be elevated above their petty political concerns. And either way, they need to just
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accept it. I am appearing on the show, me, Matt Walsh. Now, I will warn you, I might look a little
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different when you see me on the show. I've been practicing pretty hard, takes a lot out of me.
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All this dance practice might make me look older, balder. It might make my beard fall off. And even for
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some reason, it might change the color of my hair. And I want you to be prepared for that because it can be
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a little bit jarring. But when they announce Matt Walsh and I come dancing up on that stage,
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you should know that it's really me and nobody else. Unless he sucks, in which case it's that
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Veep guy. Anyway, what matters most is the dance. And to those who can't see that, who are focused
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more on their personal resentment towards me than the opportunity to experience the magic of dance
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together, all I can say is that they are all today canceled. That'll do it for the show today.
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Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.