The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1222 - Big Pharma Once Again Makes Billions Off Of A Drug That Doesn't Work

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, it's been revealed that some very popular cold medicines that many

00:00:04.220 people have been using for years are effectively useless. They don't work at all, reportedly. This

00:00:08.660 is just the latest example of big pharma making billions on a product that doesn't do what it's

00:00:13.320 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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00:01:58.320 When the government suddenly announces a recall or even talks about pulling a product from the

00:02:02.960 shelves, it's normal to assume that some unexpected defect has recently been discovered. Maybe the

00:02:08.460 feds have noticed that a car's airbags don't deploy during a crash or that a certain brand of fish

00:02:13.680 tank is prone to spontaneous implosion. Whatever the case, you're inclined to think that some new

00:02:19.500 information has come to light that necessitates the recall, and in most circumstances, that's true.

00:02:24.560 But there's one industry, big pharma, that has consistently been the exception to this rule.

00:02:31.280 This is an industry that happens to enjoy a lot of special treatment from the federal government,

00:02:34.800 including immunity from lawsuits. In the pharmaceutical industry, a recall doesn't necessarily mean that

00:02:39.940 some catastrophic defect has just been identified. Instead, it often means that there's been a known

00:02:46.000 problem for a very long time, one that's been deliberately hidden from the public until finally

00:02:50.780 it's impossible to deny any longer. After COVID, most of the country realizes that this kind of thing

00:02:56.460 can happen and does happen all the time. What they might not realize, because there's a mountain of

00:03:01.280 propaganda designed to hide this fact, is just how frequent this is. So here's the latest example.

00:03:08.020 Right now, the pharmaceutical industry is debating whether to issue one of the biggest recalls

00:03:14.080 in modern history. The recall would affect a wide array of over-the-counter cold medicines,

00:03:18.900 including some products bearing the brand names of Mucinex, Tylenol, Sudafed, NyQuil, Benadryl.

00:03:26.040 The reason? Well, according to the government, these products don't work at all. Now, to be clear,

00:03:32.800 as we'll explain in a second, some Benadryl and Sudafed products do work,

00:03:36.860 according to the government, we're talking about a certain but very popular subset of these

00:03:41.460 over-the-counter products that use a specific ingredient. At the same time, if you're one of

00:03:46.560 the hundreds of millions of people who have consumed these products over the past decade,

00:03:50.580 this is a big headline, or at least it should be for you. I mean, you paid money for a product

00:03:54.520 that you thought worked on assurances from the government and big pharma. You ingested this product

00:04:00.300 into your body based on those assurances. And now you're being told that these pills had all

00:04:05.760 the effectiveness of like eating a cookie and drinking some warm milk. One of the first questions

00:04:11.440 you think to ask under these circumstances is when exactly the regulators and the pharmaceutical

00:04:16.060 companies figured out that these products are completely useless and ineffective. If you listen

00:04:22.520 to most news reports on the subject, you'd be left with the impression that some kind of new

00:04:26.980 information came out. But that impression would be completely wrong. Yet it's what they're

00:04:32.300 presenting. So here, for example, is CBS News giving off this impression. Watch.

00:04:38.980 Popular over-the-counter medicines that many of us use for cold and allergies,

00:04:42.640 they don't work. That's according to an FDA committee looking into phenylephrine. It is the

00:04:48.260 main ingredient used in over-the-counter nasal decongestants that many of you probably have

00:04:53.400 in your medicine cabinet right now. I know I do. It's in Sudafed PE, Mucinex Sinus Max,

00:04:59.120 Theraflu, VIX Dayquil, Nyquil, Severe Cold and Flu, among others. The committee looking into the drug

00:05:06.160 says it's ineffective in oral medications. If the FDA ends up agreeing with the committee,

00:05:12.420 those products with that in it could be removed from store shelves. In a statement,

00:05:16.920 the Consumer Healthcare Products Association says the ingredient is safe and effective.

00:05:21.200 Talk to your local pharmacist, local provider, about what the alternatives are, because there

00:05:29.100 are, that can be used effectively. And the panel of advisors told the FDA that using the drug at

00:05:37.080 higher doses is not an option because it can raise blood pressure to potentially dangerous levels.

00:05:42.360 What's left unmentioned in that report is that this significant alleged defect in these drugs,

00:05:47.720 the fact that they don't do anything, has been widely known for years. It's not new information.

00:05:54.680 Nearly a decade ago, in 2015, researchers at the University of Florida said that they found

00:05:58.560 conclusive evidence that many non-prescription decongestants didn't work. Quote,

00:06:03.920 scientific evidence continues to show that the most popular products on the market containing

00:06:07.420 phenylephrine are ineffective. Phenylephrine, to be clear, is used in certain drugs like

00:06:12.280 over-the-counter Sudafed. It's not used in the brand of Sudafed that you have to get from the

00:06:17.380 pharmacist. And we'll talk about that in a second. The researchers continued, quote,

00:06:21.520 we think the evidence supports that phenylephrine status as a safe and effective over-the-counter

00:06:26.420 product should be changed. We're looking out for the consumer and he or she needs to know

00:06:30.880 that science says that oral phenylephrine does not work for the majority of people.

00:06:35.520 Now, that was back during the Obama administration. Again, that was in 2015.

00:06:40.600 The findings raised a lot of uncomfortable questions, such as, why would the FDA approve

00:06:45.340 a drug that's effectively a placebo? Why were regulators still allowing big pharma to sell it?

00:06:51.400 Why were people continuing to buy drugs that didn't do anything? Where are the prosecutors?

00:06:56.020 Where's the court system? I mean, isn't it fraud to advertise products that don't work?

00:07:02.120 Should there be penalties for making billions of dollars off of something that

00:07:06.340 doesn't do what it's supposed to do?

00:07:10.400 By refusing to do anything about phenylephrine, the federal government dodged all these questions.

00:07:15.100 They also helped cover up their role in causing the problem in the first place.

00:07:19.080 You know, you rarely hear this discussed, but the supposedly useless ingredient in question,

00:07:23.640 phenylephrine, wasn't always used in medications like Sudafed. 20 years ago,

00:07:27.860 the key ingredient in the most popular form of Sudafed was a very different

00:07:32.140 decongestant called Sudafedrin. And this ingredient, we can be reasonably confident,

00:07:37.960 actually does work. But in 2006, the federal government made it a lot harder to get real

00:07:42.980 Sudafed with this ingredient. Congress passed a law effectively requiring people to, you know,

00:07:47.700 undergo a background check before they could walk out of the store with it. Real Sudafed was no longer

00:07:52.820 an over-the-counter medication after this law. Before that, it was. And the justification for

00:07:58.360 this restriction, ostensibly, was that they were trying to stop people from using the ingredient to

00:08:03.020 make meth. You know, we'll be taking a lot of dangerous drug kingpins off the streets, they told

00:08:08.160 us, if we just take this kind of Sudafed and we put it behind the pharmacist's counter.

00:08:14.480 Once Congress passed that law, Big Pharma needed an alternative. Most customers don't want to wait in

00:08:19.300 line for a pharmacist every time they need a decongestant. They don't want to have to, you

00:08:22.640 know, they don't want to go through all that. So they'll leave the CVS without making a purchase.

00:08:27.540 So very quickly, Big Pharma came out with a new form of Sudafed using a different ingredient called

00:08:32.600 phenylephrine. Big Pharma and the federal government told us that it was the best of both worlds. This

00:08:38.520 new form of Sudafed can't be used to make meth. At the same time, we were assured it's just as effective

00:08:43.520 as real Sudafed. Now, shortly after that law was passed, there were reasons to doubt

00:08:49.260 the narrative that the government was pushing. For one thing, because of all these changes,

00:08:53.400 a lot of innocent people were arrested for no reason. One of them, just as one example,

00:08:57.420 was named Tim Nouveau. And he was charged with a federal crime for buying too much Claritin.

00:09:04.260 He wanted to get some extra pills for his son who was going away to camp. And in response,

00:09:09.020 local officials arrested the man. They didn't care that he wasn't making meth, and he wasn't.

00:09:14.400 They charged him anyway because he was collateral damage, I suppose, in the larger meth war, which

00:09:20.480 this legislation would help the federal government win. Nearly two decades later, we learned that

00:09:26.360 nothing we were told turned out to be true. For one thing, meth has never been easier or cheaper

00:09:31.980 to obtain in this country than it is right now. It's not coming from domestic meth labs for the most

00:09:37.680 part. Instead, it's coming from Mexico across a border that the federal government has deliberately

00:09:41.940 left open. And on top of that, according to the government, the substitute Sudafed and related drugs

00:09:48.140 were not effective, as we were promised they were. They're useless. The new narrative is that Big Pharma 0.97

00:09:55.180 made billions of dollars every year selling products that did not work, and they knew it.

00:10:02.320 The federal government let them do it. Why are they telling us now? You know, is anything they're

00:10:08.960 telling us true? That's a question we can't answer because both Big Pharma and federal regulators

00:10:14.560 have lied so routinely, so consistently, that there's no reason to take anything they say at face

00:10:20.440 value. If recent history is any indication, it's probably not a good sign for us. I mean, normally,

00:10:26.300 when the federal government says a drug doesn't work, there are two possibilities when they say this.

00:10:30.600 The first possibility is that they're trying to drive up sales of some other drug. We saw that during

00:10:35.500 COVID. You know, don't take that therapeutic. It's a horse tranquilizer. Take our shot instead.

00:10:41.340 In the case of these decongestants, there's long been a push to require prescriptions for these.

00:10:46.260 You know, in various states, activists and politicians have said that it's not enough to

00:10:50.820 hide these decongestants behind the counter and to track their sale. They say that it's necessary to

00:10:55.620 require people to get a prescription first. And this has been going on for a while. Here's one

00:11:00.940 report in Indiana from a decade ago, for example. Watch. Pseudoephedrine is one of the main

00:11:05.680 ingredients in making methamphetamine. And some agencies want it off the shelves. But many

00:11:11.820 are discussing whether this issue is a law enforcement situation only or if it should

00:11:17.320 affect the medical field as well. News 10's Sarah Schaefer has more. 1.00

00:11:22.060 In 2013, one box of Pseudoephedrine was sold about every 15 seconds. That's according to officials

00:11:30.900 with the Indiana State Police. They're one of the agencies in the group known as Indiana's

00:11:36.240 Coalition Against Meth Making Meds. Along with them, the mayor of Terre Haute.

00:11:41.740 It's a coalition of multiple groups across the state of Indiana that want to encourage the

00:11:47.880 legislature to make this change, make it a prescription med so that we can fight the

00:11:52.980 meth problem that we have in Indiana. So this is the first possibility for why they're pulling

00:11:57.980 these drugs or they're gearing up potentially to pull them anyway. Maybe it's part of a larger

00:12:03.440 effort to shift these decongestants to prescription model so that more people are seeing doctors and

00:12:08.800 pharmacists. And then also, by the way, there's more money being made by everybody involved in that

00:12:13.600 case. That's one theory. The other possibility is that the FDA's fraud simply couldn't go on

00:12:19.940 any longer because the evidence that they're lying about these drugs' effectiveness was becoming too

00:12:23.960 overwhelming. And if that's the case, it wouldn't exactly be the first time something like this has

00:12:28.940 happened. It was just a couple of years ago that the FDA unanimously approved an Alzheimer's drug

00:12:33.260 called Aduhelm that didn't work. This is one of the most expensive drugs available on the market.

00:12:39.380 It costs more than $50,000 per year per customer. But the approval process didn't go as smoothly as

00:12:45.700 the FDA and the drug maker called Biogen would have liked. Several of the FDA's experts resigned in

00:12:50.600 protest after the agency approved Aduhelm, even though there was no evidence that it did anything

00:12:56.520 to actually treat Alzheimer's. Here's one of the experts who quit. Watch.

00:13:00.840 Does Aduhelm really do anything to stop symptoms?

00:13:05.200 So the new drug that the FDA approved in June targets amyloid plaques very effectively.

00:13:10.380 Unfortunately, the drug doesn't seem to have any clear effect on the progression of Alzheimer's

00:13:14.760 disease. Dr. Aaron Kesselheim is professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

00:13:21.140 He was on the FDA advisory panel on Aduhelm until he quit in protest when the agency gave the drug a green

00:13:30.560 light, a move he calls probably the worst drug approval decision in recent U.S. history.

00:13:38.060 But how can you say definitively that it doesn't work any more than the FDA could say definitively

00:13:43.220 that it does? You can't say definitively that it doesn't work. You can't say definitively that it

00:13:47.880 does work either. And in that circumstance, you need to do some more testing of the drug.

00:13:53.280 The system in our country is that in order for a drug to be approved by the FDA, it has to show

00:13:59.800 substantial evidence that the drug actually does work. And in this case, there isn't good evidence

00:14:06.080 that the drug works.

00:14:07.440 As you just heard, the entire premise of the drug was that you can cure Alzheimer's by removing so-called

00:14:12.820 sticky plaques in the brain. But it later emerged in the research supporting that theory,

00:14:17.300 which appeared in Nature magazine, that it later emerged that all this was doctored. On top of that,

00:14:21.720 serious side effects of the drug emerged, including brain bleeding. So why did the FDA

00:14:27.900 approve the drug if there's no evidence that it actually works? It turns out the agency had a

00:14:32.760 close relationship with the drug company Biogen that made the drug throughout the approval process.

00:14:38.740 This relationship, Congress later determined, broke the FDA's own rules, but it worked out for Biogen.

00:14:45.040 And we see this phenomenon again and again. The federal government tells us that a drug works

00:14:49.320 and that they know exactly how it works. And by the time we find out that they're lying,

00:14:54.340 the drug company has made a ton of money off of it. We saw something similar happen with SSRIs. For

00:15:00.300 decades, we were told that low serotonin levels were linked to depression. Therefore, SSRIs would

00:15:05.420 fix that problem by allowing more serotonin in the brain. Even as mass shootings and depression and

00:15:11.100 suicide rates all went up, as more and more people were put on these drugs, we were assured by Big Pharma and

00:15:16.300 the media that despite all appearances, the SSRIs are working. That was what the science said,

00:15:24.340 they claimed. And if you disputed it, you're some kind of anti-science troglodyte.

00:15:28.800 It only emerged last year that in fact, low serotonin isn't linked to depression at all.

00:15:34.320 And somehow that wasn't a major scandal. SSRIs, which stands for selective serotonin reuptake

00:15:41.840 inhibitors, were never pulled from the shelves. Even though the official position of the scientific

00:15:47.020 community is that low serotonin doesn't cause depression. There were no massive class action

00:15:52.940 lawsuits that bankrupted the companies that made billions of dollars from these SSRIs

00:15:57.900 that don't do anything. Just as Biogen hasn't been held accountable for its worthless Alzheimer's

00:16:04.320 drugs. And just as no one in the Sackler family went to prison for lying about the effect,

00:16:09.140 the addictiveness of opioids. For all those reasons, we can assume Big Pharma and the government

00:16:15.100 will continue to lie to us. If they don't face consequences, they have no reason to change what

00:16:20.700 they're doing. That's why at this moment, our political leaders are gearing up for a new round

00:16:25.240 of COVID decrees. These decrees have already arrived in Canada, where public health officials are now

00:16:30.320 calling for children as young as six months old to receive COVID shots. Now, there are no clinical

00:16:37.720 trials or studies that demonstrate that it's safe or necessary in any way to give COVID shots to six

00:16:44.200 month old children. Not a single one, not a single study. And to be honest, even if they had conducted

00:16:50.880 trials, even if there were these studies, there would be reason to doubt those as well. I mean,

00:16:55.720 we're now at the point where whatever the class of drug we're talking about, whether it's Alzheimer's

00:16:59.720 treatments, COVID shots, SSRIs, all the gender transition drugs on the market, even decongestants, 0.81

00:17:07.580 whatever the drug is, you could just assume you're being lied to. If you consume drugs that Big Pharma

00:17:14.160 and the federal government are pushing, you're running the risk that 10 or 20 years from now,

00:17:18.600 you'll learn what that drug was actually doing. And it might not be what you thought it was doing.

00:17:24.680 And you'll learn what the actual side effects might be. Whatever you take and whatever your

00:17:29.900 kids take, you simply have to factor that doubt into the equation. You have to keep in mind that

00:17:37.220 if something bad happens down the line, you'll be told that it's breaking news. No one saw it coming.

00:17:42.760 Even though the people who made the drug, in fact, knew it was coming. Now, is this an ideal

00:17:49.640 situation from a public health perspective? Of course not. But it's the system we have.

00:17:56.500 And if there's any upside to the news this week, it's that no one, not even people who are

00:18:01.040 just shopping for a decongestant, can deny it anymore. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:19:32.640 So we'll start our five headlines, our five-ish headlines with what may be, what may be,

00:19:39.360 may be the cringiest corporate virtue signal of all time. And I realize that's a bold statement.

00:19:45.880 I understand they're competing with some real heavy hitters in that arena, you know, to make a

00:19:51.480 statement like that, the cringiest corporate virtue signal of all time. I mean, you're in the arena now

00:19:56.420 with Bud Light, the reigning champion. But I think it may emerge victorious with this. So first,

00:20:03.140 here's the article from Business Insider. It says, you might be surprised to learn that,

00:20:08.320 to learn there was a Jeff Bezos cameo in Star Trek Beyond. You probably missed it. His face was

00:20:13.360 hidden behind an alien mask after all. Not to be outdone, Apple CEO Tim Cook acted opposite Oscar

00:20:19.740 winner Octavia Spencer sans mask in a surprise skit during Apple's big iPhone event,

00:20:26.020 event on Tuesday. Apple held its fall event, Wunderlust, on Tuesday, where it unveiled new

00:20:31.500 products, including the iPhone 15 and new Apple watches. This year's event, however, featured a

00:20:36.080 rare skit on Apple's sustainability initiatives starring Cook and Spencer, who also stars in the

00:20:41.340 Apple TV drama series, Truth Be Told. Now, okay, before we play the clip, this is their event to roll

00:20:50.860 out the iPhone. So we're on the iPhone 15 now, which, I mean, it's a cliche at this point to point

00:20:56.620 this out, but it's also true that this thing is exactly the same as the iPhone 14, which is exactly

00:21:02.740 the same as the iPhone 13 and the 12 and the 11. I mean, this is, and it's relevant too, because to

00:21:08.040 what you're about to see, because this is a company that is totally out of ideas. They have not had,

00:21:14.300 like, what was the last interesting, exciting innovation that we've seen from Apple? It's been

00:21:21.460 a very long time. They haven't had any interesting ideas in many years. So the pitch for every new

00:21:28.760 iPhone is basically just, hey, remember the iPhone you have right now? Well, you should get this one.

00:21:35.840 It's exactly the same. If you like that iPhone you have now, well, then you'll love this one,

00:21:40.520 because it's literally the same phone. So there's no innovation here. There's nothing new.

00:21:46.460 I've mentioned before Ross Douthat's book from a few years ago called The Decadent Society,

00:21:51.540 which outlines his theory that we aren't really, we're not exactly collapsing as a society. It's

00:21:56.660 not some big dramatic collapse that we're experiencing, he says, but rather we are languishing

00:22:02.700 in decadence. And by decadence, he means that we are treading water. We're going around in circles,

00:22:08.600 repeating ourselves. We're just, we're just out of ideas. And the constantly updated iPhone that's

00:22:14.720 no different from the iPhone before is just a perfect example of this. And this means that Apple

00:22:20.620 has to look for other ways to get attention and to make themselves seem fresh. And I guess to try to

00:22:28.500 incentivize people to buy their products. And that's where this skit comes from. Let's watch a

00:22:35.320 little bit of it. I hope we didn't keep you waiting. Mother Nature. Mother Nature. Welcome

00:22:44.640 to Apple. How was the weather getting in? The weather was however I wanted it to be.

00:22:55.720 Let's cut to the chase. In 2020, you promised to bring Apple's entire carbon footprint to zero

00:23:01.380 by 2030. Henry David Thoreau over here said we have a profound opportunity to build a more

00:23:08.260 sustainable future for the planet we share. I think our 10 o'clock said the same thing.

00:23:12.380 They all do. All right. This is my third corporate responsibility gig today. So who wants to

00:23:19.240 disappoint me first? Well, we've got some updates we're excited to share with you.

00:23:25.320 Materials. Status. Is there a materials person here? Yes. We are in the process of eliminating

00:23:32.200 all plastic from our packaging by the end. Let me guess. 50 years from now when someone else is

00:23:36.940 left holding the bag. By the end of next year, actually. And we're also currently using 100%

00:23:42.580 recycled aluminum in the enclosures of all our MacBooks, Apple TVs, Apple Watch. What about iPod

00:23:48.060 shuffle? Well, it's a joke. Don't you people make Ted Lasso? That's a different group. We're also

00:23:56.860 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 1.00

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. 0.99

00:24:57.700 The only thing they're missing when it comes to the woke bingo card, the only thing they're missing 0.95

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 0.84

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 1.00

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 0.82

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, 0.98

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 1.00

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 0.81

00:41:06.640 are very, very stupid. That is a stupid thing to think. Um, and yeah, they're being lied to, 1.00

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. 1.00

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 1.00

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, 1.00

00:42:37.640 it's like, what is Florida is disproportionately unsafe for black Americans. Why, why would you 1.00

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, 0.98

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, 0.98

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,

00:46:49.000 have these, uh, are confused about what's happening in Florida. Well, it's because of you people,

00:46:53.220 because you're lying to them. Hey, do you remember last year when you, uh, published this headline,

00:46:59.120 Florida Senate passes controversial. Don't say gay bill despite protests. That bill doesn't exist,

00:47:04.060 Nora. That's not, you guys made that bill up. Let me ask you something. You guys reported on the,

00:47:10.340 on the don't say gay bill. Where in the bill does it say that you can't say the word gay? Go ahead. 0.79

00:47:13.740 You tell me, is it in there? Oh, you know, you can't. So you lied about that. Are you going to

00:47:18.800 denounce your employer CBS for lying about this bill for, for inventing legislation that I never

00:47:24.580 signed? And now you're going to sit there and you're going to ask me why people are confused

00:47:30.600 or why they have this impression of Florida. You're the reason they have this impression. And you know

00:47:35.080 that, uh, that's something like that. I, I, I think, uh, maybe, maybe turned down slightly maybe,

00:47:45.160 but that's what people want to see. And that gets, and that gets you the headlines that people are

00:47:49.520 going to see that and they're going to be motivated. Like, okay, finally, like finally,

00:47:52.700 someone is doing this. And I, and I also know that DeSantis has the ability to go after the media

00:48:00.820 like that. This is what put them on the map in the first place. Well, there was the COVID of course,

00:48:06.680 but as part of that, you know, doing this press conferences, being a challenge by the corrupt and

00:48:11.440 dishonest press and like throwing it back in their faces very aggressively. This is what put them on

00:48:15.980 the map to begin with. It's what put them in position to run. The only reason he's even thinking

00:48:20.500 about running for president is because of the popularity that he gained from, from those sorts of

00:48:24.360 moments. And now he's running for president. He's not doing that anymore. And I, I just don't get it.

00:48:29.400 I don't get it. I mean, you compare it to Trump, for example, like Trump understands what people

00:48:36.940 want to see from him. He, he, and he plays the hits. Like he knows why he's popular. He knows what

00:48:41.740 people like to see. And he, he knows that he has, he, he, his intuition about that. It's, you know,

00:48:47.280 not that you need a lot of, it's pretty obvious people like him. And, and so he, he does that.

00:48:52.620 This is just the confusing thing to me about the, uh, DeSantis campaign. All right, let's get to

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00:50:25.400 Yukon says, I feel I must point out the paradoxical nature of saying that we should know everything

00:50:29.560 about somebody's private life. If we know everything about it, then it's not a private

00:50:32.920 life. In fact, it's an extreme invasion of privacy. Well, you're leaving out the context of me

00:50:39.820 saying that. I'm not saying we should know everything about someone's private life if

00:50:42.900 they're a private person, just a normal citizen. In fact, we shouldn't. Most people volunteer much

00:50:47.860 more about their private life than they should. But if you're running for president, if you want

00:50:51.900 to be president, that's where, yeah, we should basically know everything about your private

00:50:56.520 life. We should because you don't have a private. Once you become president, you are not a private

00:51:02.420 person. I mean, let me ask you, when someone's elected president, four years in office, is there

00:51:11.260 a time during those four years when they aren't president, when they don't wield the powers of

00:51:16.500 the presidency at any point during those four years, unless they're incapacitated? And as we see,

00:51:21.980 even if they're incapacitated, as Biden has been this entire time, he still wields the power of

00:51:25.600 presidency. So you don't have it. I mean, you live where you work. That's your house now. There's

00:51:35.620 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

00:51:59.460 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

00:52:13.340 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

00:52:49.880 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 0.85

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 0.98

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 0.71

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 1.00

00:55:09.600 herself having sex on camera, uh, before running for office. And then, and then apparently even some 0.99

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. 0.97

00:55:36.520 Basically she, as many other stupid people nowadays, didn't bother to think of, uh, is the fact that 0.98

00:55:42.260 people record everything on the internet. And even though the site itself does not store the videos 0.98

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 0.98

00:56:27.020 somewhere you want anyone to see, which by the way is already stupid enough. Okay. Like I think 0.98

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.

00:57:24.600 It's going to live forever. And that is entirely on you. You're not a victim at all.

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01:00:23.640 our daily cancellation. We live in an imperfect world, a world where things are never as simple

01:00:37.200 as you want them to be, where triumph is often accompanied by tragedy, where there may be a silver

01:00:42.640 lining, but you can't forget the dark cloud inside of it. Which meant that, in my life yesterday,

01:00:48.500 an occasion that should have been joyous and celebratory was marred by hatred and bigotry

01:00:54.420 and cruelty. Now first, the good news. Many outlets, including Variety, announced yesterday

01:00:59.640 the all-star cast for this season of the ABC hit show Dancing with the Stars. There are a number of

01:01:05.860 names that you may or may not recognize, but probably not. Tyson Beckford, Adrian Peterson,

01:01:10.680 that girl from American Pie, and also right there, plain as day, Matt Walsh. Yes, Matt Walsh will be

01:01:18.580 on Dancing with the Stars. As you may or may not know, my name is Matt Walsh, which means that,

01:01:25.580 yes, I will be on Dancing with the Stars. Told you that I had some big projects on the way. Remember I

01:01:31.320 told you that? And now you know about one of them. Now, there were some people on the internet when this

01:01:37.700 was announced who started to engage in wild speculation, spreading false information about

01:01:43.340 there being another Matt Walsh out there who is some kind of actor who appeared allegedly in the

01:01:48.160 show Veep. And they tried to negate my own achievements by claiming that this other Matt

01:01:53.160 Walsh is the one who will appear on Dancing with the Stars. This sort of fake news was bad enough,

01:01:58.060 but even worse were all the many people, there were a great many of them, who rightly assumed that I was

01:02:04.900 going to be on the TV show, but were for some reason extremely upset about it. To appear on Dancing

01:02:11.160 with the Stars has been my dream since I was a very young child, and yet these people danced all over

01:02:17.340 my dream, the way that I will be dancing on that stage when season 32 starts. Just a quick sample of

01:02:24.260 some of the things that these haters said on Twitter, just reading a few of the comments.

01:02:28.600 Why the F is ABC giving a platform to far-right bigot Matt Walsh? Another says, why the F is Matt

01:02:34.460 Walsh on Dancing with the Stars? A lot of comments like that. Also, something tells me that Christo

01:02:39.540 fascist and transphobic and homophobic Matt Walsh will regret making a fool of himself on Dancing 0.99

01:02:44.620 with the Stars. Like, who told you this was a good idea, Matt? You're literally gifting the people 0.99

01:02:49.320 you hate with enough ammo to launch a war. Another says, I'm sorry, why the F is Matt

01:02:54.300 Walsh here? Another says, I think it's ridiculous that this huge show, Dancing with the Stars,

01:02:58.320 is letting racist, misogynistic, anti-LGBTQ plus commentator Matt Walsh be filmed. Be better. I 0.96

01:03:04.600 mean, we missed out on some horrible content from him while he practiced, but still. Another says,

01:03:09.380 this dork calls Disney execs groomers and then joins the cast of an ABC reality show? Another says, 0.99

01:03:15.700 I'm done with Dancing with the Stars. Matt Walsh is going to be on it. Is Disney struggling that

01:03:19.900 they need a transphobic on their show? WTF? Now, there were many, many more where these came from, 1.00

01:03:26.820 as the left cried out in protest against my very real inclusion in Dancing with the Stars. I was

01:03:32.760 trending nationwide on Twitter due to the outrage about this. All of these leftists were convinced,

01:03:37.940 and rightly so, that it must be me and no other Matt Walsh, because there is no other Matt Walsh. I am

01:03:43.900 the ultimate Matt Walsh. I am the only Matt Walsh. The others have faded into dust,

01:03:49.060 blown away by the wind. I am the last of the Matt Walshes, still standing, still dancing.

01:03:56.000 Now, this is the most important thing to understand. For all those on the left who have

01:04:00.680 been asking, why is Matt Walsh on the show? Why did they give him a platform? What is he doing there?

01:04:05.900 The answer is that I'm there to dance. I am on the show to tell my story and to reveal what is

01:04:13.440 hidden deeply in my heart through the art of dance. And you know something? Dance transcends

01:04:18.660 politics. It breaks through ideological barriers. It speaks to a deeper truth that lies inside all of

01:04:25.560 us. This is why I have always turned to dance, even in my darkest moments, in moments of turmoil and

01:04:31.420 confusion. I've always had dance there to bring clarity and light. And that's what I intend to do

01:04:38.140 on Dancing with the Stars when I appear on the show, which I am really going to do in real life,

01:04:42.420 because this is an actual thing that is true and that is happening. Look, I'm not going to claim that

01:04:49.020 I'm the best dancer who has ever danced, though I did perform for one summer with the New York City

01:04:53.120 Ballet, so I'm certainly no novice. But my dance is not meant to be technically perfect. My dances are

01:04:59.940 bold, innovative, sometimes provocative, even shocking. I want you to watch me dance and admire

01:05:05.700 the beauty of the routine, but I also want you to think. I want you to be challenged.

01:05:13.300 You know, I learned to dance under the tutelage of the great Russian choreographer,

01:05:17.600 Viktor Korkivlyov, and he told me something that's always stuck with me as a dancer. He said,

01:05:22.660 to dance is to speak, and to speak is to dance. I don't think that really means anything, but the

01:05:29.800 point is that dance is self-expression, intensely personal and yet paradoxically public. And I can

01:05:36.180 go on and on about dance, about my passion for it, my relationship to it, about my years learning

01:05:40.980 dance from the Russian guy I just made up, but I think that misses the point. The point is that these

01:05:45.780 people complaining about my appearance on the show are missing a real opportunity for unity,

01:05:50.060 a chance to be elevated above their petty political concerns. And either way, they need to just

01:05:56.520 accept it. I am appearing on the show, me, Matt Walsh. Now, I will warn you, I might look a little

01:06:05.160 different when you see me on the show. I've been practicing pretty hard, takes a lot out of me.

01:06:09.340 All this dance practice might make me look older, balder. It might make my beard fall off. And even for

01:06:16.200 some reason, it might change the color of my hair. And I want you to be prepared for that because it can be

01:06:19.960 a little bit jarring. But when they announce Matt Walsh and I come dancing up on that stage,

01:06:24.660 you should know that it's really me and nobody else. Unless he sucks, in which case it's that 0.98

01:06:30.760 Veep guy. Anyway, what matters most is the dance. And to those who can't see that, who are focused 0.99

01:06:38.040 more on their personal resentment towards me than the opportunity to experience the magic of dance

01:06:42.760 together, all I can say is that they are all today canceled. That'll do it for the show today.

01:06:51.220 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.

01:06:54.560 I'll see you next time.

01:07:03.020 I'll see you next time.

01:07:03.300 I'll see you next time.

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