The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1531 - Another Insane Government Money Laundering Scheme REVEALED

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, as Elon Musk continues to uncover the waste and fraud rampant

00:00:04.060 in the federal government, it's now becoming clear that some of the media outlets panicking

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00:00:12.140 women's sports, but is this actually the end of it? Will the left finally give up the fight? 1.00

00:00:16.340 And the NFL has made the highly controversial decision to remove the words end racism from

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00:02:04.040 As you may have noticed, every so often I read a promo statement for our subscription service,

00:02:08.960 Daily Wire Plus. And by every so often, I mean three times a day. And I explain the reasons why

00:02:14.880 I think it's a good deal, why you should get one. And then you as a listener can decide whether or not

00:02:20.900 you want to subscribe. I don't force you to pay the Daily Wire any money. I don't steal anything

00:02:27.380 from you. I just make the pitch over and over and over again. And then the free market takes over

00:02:32.920 from there. But after reading reports yesterday on some of the government spending that's being

00:02:37.620 scrutinized by Doge, it looks like I've been going about things wrong this whole time. I'm a sucker. 0.97

00:02:45.080 We all are here at the Daily Wire. Because as it turns out, there's no need for media companies to 0.88

00:02:49.460 actually convince anyone to buy their products, or at least there wasn't up until now. There's

00:02:54.740 certainly no need to come up with a competitive price or anything like that. Instead, all you have

00:02:58.380 to do is make some friends in the federal government, and they'll buy millions of dollars

00:03:02.840 worth of subscriptions from you with tax money. And you can set whatever rate you want for the

00:03:08.160 subscription. You can charge tens of thousands of dollars annually per person if you want, because

00:03:13.200 after all, it's the federal government. They have limitless resources, courtesy of taxpayers.

00:03:17.380 So who's going to notice? This week, as the Trump administration goes line by line through the

00:03:22.700 federal budget, people did notice, finally, that this was going on. Reporting from Kyle Becker, Liz

00:03:28.980 Wheeler, and others has just established that the left-wing outlet Politico, from fiscal year 2016 to

00:03:34.540 2025, has raked in more than $8 million in total from federal government agencies. And specifically,

00:03:41.340 Politico has been selling subscriptions to its so-called Politico Pro service for $10,000 a year

00:03:48.420 per subscription, $10,000 a year. NASA spent something like half a million dollars on these

00:03:56.000 subscriptions. So did the FDA. They spent nearly $520,000 for just 37 subscriptions. The State

00:04:04.120 Department spent more than $1 million. The Defense Department spent more than $850,000. And for its

00:04:10.760 part, USAID, the agency that funds secret coups all over the world, spent tens of thousands of dollars

00:04:15.660 on Politico Pro. And it's not just Politico that's receiving massive amounts of money from the federal

00:04:20.240 government in recent years. The Associated Press has been pulling in several million dollars a year

00:04:24.600 from the government, going back several years. So has the New York Times. In fact, just last August,

00:04:29.220 the New York Times reported that it had received a million dollars, or rather millions of dollars from

00:04:33.560 the federal government. This is big money that before 2021, the New York Times was not making.

00:04:39.320 But after the Biden administration came into power, the fire hose of federal subscriptions opened up.

00:04:45.660 All of this is documented on official government websites, but until now, it's gone unreported.

00:04:51.500 What this means really cannot be overstated. Many countries have state media. There's nothing new

00:04:57.220 about that. You know, it's a hallmark of authoritarian regimes everywhere. But

00:05:01.340 we have something even more sinister in this country, which is state media that claims to be

00:05:06.560 independent. Say what you will about North Korean state television, but they at least admit that

00:05:12.040 they're controlled by the government. Left-wing media outlets in this country don't have the decency

00:05:16.400 to do that. They were happy to continue collecting money from the government, which of course means

00:05:20.980 they're taking money from you, from your paycheck, without disclosing their conflict of interest in any of

00:05:26.820 their reporting. The government also never asked you for permission to buy these subscriptions with

00:05:31.920 your money. But fortunately, they're not going to be collecting that money anymore. Yesterday,

00:05:36.780 the White House press secretary announced that this funding, and in particular, the millions of

00:05:40.140 dollars for Politico, has now officially been cut.

00:05:45.200 So upon coming out here to the briefing room, I was made aware of the funding from USAID to media

00:05:53.420 outlets, including Politico, who I know has a seat in this room. And I can confirm that the more than

00:05:59.900 eight million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico

00:06:04.660 on the American taxpayers' dime will no longer be happening. The Doge team is working on canceling those

00:06:09.920 payments now. Again, this is a whole of government effort to ensure that we are going line by line

00:06:17.060 when it comes to the federal government's books. And this president and his team are making decisions

00:06:23.780 across the board on, do these receipts serve the interests of the American people? Is this a good

00:06:30.140 use of the American taxpayers' money? If it is not, that funding will no longer be sent abroad,

00:06:35.640 and American taxpayers will see significant savings because of that effort.

00:06:40.040 Now, if you look at the left-wing response to this situation, they'll tell you that everything's

00:06:43.820 being blown out of proportion. CNN, for example, ran the headline, quote,

00:06:47.540 White House says it will cancel $8 million in political subscriptions after a false right-wing

00:06:51.740 conspiracy theory spreads. So the fact that Politico got $8 million from the federal government

00:06:57.680 is true, just to be clear. But apparently the story is a false right-wing conspiracy theory.

00:07:05.420 And they make that claim because they say that some people are reporting that Politico got $8

00:07:09.020 million in one year when really it was spread out over several years. And that's supposed to make

00:07:14.740 this all okay. So rather than Politico getting $8 million in a year, it got about $1 million per year

00:07:20.500 for eight or nine years. To me, somehow that doesn't make this sound any better. If anything,

00:07:26.700 it's worse. This was not like one single bad decision. This was something that was happening

00:07:34.400 continually for eight or nine years. Meanwhile, an Associated Press investigative reporter named

00:07:40.440 Byron Tao wrote this, quote, I looked at these contracts and I have my own fun fact. This is

00:07:46.040 occurring because agencies, not just USAID, are buying subscriptions to Politico's pro-editorial

00:07:52.400 product, not because Politico is getting grants or other federal funding. Then he adds, quote,

00:07:57.620 this is true of every media outlet with a subscription model. Now that last line is

00:08:03.600 especially amusing because it's very obviously not true. Really? Every media outlet with a

00:08:10.160 subscription model is getting money from the federal government? Really? Now it's true for the AP,

00:08:15.980 where Byron Tao works. They're selling tons of subscriptions to the federal government, but

00:08:19.520 it's not true for us, for example, conservative publications. As far as I'm aware, we didn't rake in

00:08:26.360 $8 million from the federal government over the last few years. We raked in nothing. So why might

00:08:33.140 that be the case? Now, if you listen to Politico, they'll tell you that their product is superior.

00:08:38.220 They just put out a statement claiming that they offer, quote, granular fact-based reporting.

00:08:43.740 Now, they didn't cite any specific examples of this excellent reporting, though, which is pretty

00:08:47.500 conspicuous. In fact, none of the people defending Politico on social media were able to point to

00:08:52.000 this singular, this granular fact-based reporting from Politico, much less were they able to give

00:08:59.640 examples of the kinds of things that Politico Pro offers that would justify spending taxpayer money

00:09:07.020 on it. No one was able to point to a specific thing and say, oh, well, they do this thing here.

00:09:12.960 And so obviously, tax money should go to that. And we all know why that is. And that is that

00:09:20.900 Politico doesn't generally offer quality reporting. Unlike the Daily Wire, when they break news over

00:09:26.040 at Politico, it's often completely fake. It's a lie that's intended to benefit the people who are

00:09:31.740 paying their salaries in the federal government. Maybe the most obvious example of many of this

00:09:36.220 propaganda came just before the 2020 election when Politico published the blatant falsehood

00:09:40.880 that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. And here's that headline.

00:09:47.840 What happened here is that dozens of partisan former intelligence officials got together and

00:09:52.340 they decided that they needed to give Joe Biden some cover. They needed to hand him a talking point

00:09:56.360 before the debate. And I'm not speculating about that, by the way. The former acting CIA director,

00:10:01.360 Mike Morrell, literally sent out an email to the former intelligence officials telling them

00:10:05.660 they need to provide a talking point to the Biden campaign. And then when the debate rolled

00:10:11.280 around, Biden used that talking point, just like they drew it up. There are 50 former national

00:10:18.680 intelligence folks who said that what this he's accusing me of is a Russian plant. They have said

00:10:25.480 that this is has all the care for five former heads of the CIA. Both parties say what he's saying is a bunch

00:10:32.860 of garbage. Nobody believes it except him. His and his good friend Rudy Gianni. You mean the laptop is 1.00

00:10:39.980 now another Russia, Russia, Russia hoax? That's exactly what this way.

00:10:44.440 Exactly. Now, whatever you call this political story about these intelligence officials,

00:10:49.660 election interference, a fraud on the public, a threat to democracy, you know, or anything like

00:10:55.900 that, you cannot call it journalism. And you also can't deny that the bureaucrats who sent millions

00:11:01.600 of dollars to Politico in the end got their money's worth. They wanted to keep Trump out of office and in

00:11:07.860 part because of this stunt four years ago, it worked. But that whole episode was nothing out of the

00:11:12.480 ordinary. As anyone who reads Politico understands very well, attempting to keep Trump out of the

00:11:16.120 White House is essentially the mission statement over there or was. Just ahead of the most recent

00:11:20.860 election, for example, Politico wrote that Trump was delivering a, quote, racist anti-immigrant message,

00:11:25.980 which was getting, quote, darker. This isn't exactly a unique take on the left, of course. Pretty

00:11:31.620 much every liberal blog has been saying the same thing for a decade. But Politico said that they had

00:11:36.880 watched 20 Trump rallies to really provide a comprehensive analysis of all the racism and

00:11:41.820 anti-immigrant messages. So they went the extra mile. And that's why they deserve $8 million from 0.99

00:11:48.840 taxpayers. Because they put a lot of legwork into explaining why Trump is bad. Now, if you show

00:11:56.120 these headlines to Politico's defenders in the federal government, they'll tell you that Politico

00:11:59.540 Pro, which is the product the feds are paying for, is actually different from the free Politico.

00:12:05.180 They'll claim that Politico Pro offers a higher end product that's actually fact-based

00:12:09.380 and highly useful to the federal government. But if you go looking at the headlines from Politico

00:12:14.840 Pro, you'll quickly realize that's not true either. Take this headline, for example. The headline

00:12:21.100 states, former Senator James Inhofe, who claimed climate change a hoax, dead at 89. So they're

00:12:29.460 reporting on the death of a senator, which isn't exactly a big exclusive scoop. Okay. So you're paying

00:12:36.880 $10,000 a year for that? Everybody else was reporting on this at the time also. But Politico

00:12:44.340 Pro's special contribution to the story is to mock James Inhofe because he didn't want to dismantle the

00:12:49.760 US economy in order to change global weather patterns. So they throw that little aside into

00:12:54.800 the headline on his obituary. He's dead. And the most important thing we want you to know about him

00:13:00.660 is that he didn't believe in our climate narratives. That's the keen fact-based reporting that you can

00:13:06.440 only get at Politico Pro. And that is apparently worth $10,000 a year. Now, in their defense,

00:13:13.580 in their statement addressing their payments from the federal government, Politico goes on to claim

00:13:17.820 that, quote, Politico has never been a beneficiary of government programs or subsidies, not one cent

00:13:23.000 ever in 18 years. So their defense is to rely on semantics, essentially. They know that subscriptions

00:13:29.420 have such a high price, five figures in most cases, precisely because the government will happily pay

00:13:34.700 it. They know that their coverage has been extremely favorable to permanent Washington,

00:13:39.900 but they think no one will recognize this as a payout or a subsidy because in the line item,

00:13:45.320 it says subscription. This is the game they're playing, which again, just to emphasize,

00:13:50.420 there's no way they could just... The reason why the subscription is so expensive is because

00:13:57.660 tax money was being spent on it. If not that, who else would pay $10,000 for Politico Pro?

00:14:09.540 Now, as egregious as this particular story is, the truth is that this problem is far more endemic

00:14:15.820 than the journalism industry. As Mike Cernovich has pointed out on X, until this week, what we're getting

00:14:22.520 from Doge and from a lot of these revelations is that basically the whole DC, Northern Virginia

00:14:28.580 economy ran on tax money funneled to NGOs, nonprofits, and media outlets. The White House announced the

00:14:35.620 other day that we've spent $20 million for a Sesame Street show in Iraq, $8 million to teach Sri Lankan

00:14:43.900 journalists how to avoid binary gendered language, $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala,

00:14:50.280 and $2 million to help the BBC value the diversity of Libyan society. As the writer Pichy Keenan pointed

00:14:59.680 out, we also spent $40 million for AIDS drugs for transgender prostitutes in South Africa.

00:15:05.560 Specifically, the money provides accessible clinical interventions for sex workers,

00:15:10.160 otherwise known as prostitutes. There's also $8 million that we spent to study the effects of

00:15:14.640 flavored cigarettes on bisexuals and lesbians, which you would assume is the

00:15:20.200 same as the effect on anyone who is not a bisexual or lesbian. I don't know.

00:15:24.020 But you got to spend millions of dollars to figure that out, as well as roughly $100 million to combat

00:15:28.680 HIV in Ukraine. Now, again, that's the stated reason for all of these expenditures. But almost

00:15:36.440 certainly, most of this money is simply being stolen. Even if it was being spent on what they say,

00:15:42.740 it would still be a major problem. But we also know that when you hear about stuff like this and you

00:15:50.640 think, even if I thought it was a good idea to fund a study into the effects of flavored cigarettes on

00:15:58.240 lesbians, why would that cost millions of dollars? Well, when you hear that, it's because most likely 1.00

00:16:05.620 it doesn't cost that. The money is going elsewhere. Where else is it going? Who knows?

00:16:15.140 So this is one of the biggest political scandals in American history. I mean, and we've only seen the tip

00:16:20.160 of the iceberg. And this is only a handful of agencies we're talking about here. Imagine what Elon could turn up if

00:16:25.540 he audited the IRS or the ATF or the FBI, other massive federal agencies. In fact, that appears to be

00:16:31.300 exactly what's happening. Doge officials have just been spotted at FBI headquarters, as well as the

00:16:35.620 Department of Education. And last night, the Wall Street Journal reported that Doge is now looking

00:16:39.080 into Medicare fraud, which is far more pervasive than most people could possibly comprehend.

00:16:45.380 Specifically, Doge has been granted access to payment and contracting systems at the Centers for

00:16:49.640 Medicare and Medicaid Services. And they're already on site right now doing this. So if Doge is successful

00:16:55.120 in just this one area, the savings for taxpayers will be astronomical.

00:16:59.960 As the journal reports, quote, insurers pocketed $50 billion from Medicare for diseases that no doctor

00:17:07.720 treated. And here's how the journal explained the problem. Quote, insurers can add diagnoses to ones

00:17:13.840 that patients' own doctors submit. Medicare gave insurers that option so they could catch conditions

00:17:18.880 that doctors neglected to record. The journal's analysis, however, found many diagnoses were added for

00:17:24.200 which patients received no treatment or that contradicted their doctor's views. Close quote.

00:17:29.960 Now, this is the kind of systemic fraud that has defied government spending for generations. There's

00:17:36.960 massive waste, bribery, corruption at every level. Outlets like Politico haven't reported on it for

00:17:44.240 the simple reason that they benefited from that spending. But it's coming to an end now. A lot of

00:17:50.360 these corporate outlets are going to have to survive on their own merits, which is to say that they're not

00:17:54.740 going to survive at all. They will run out of money very quickly. And the rest of us, people who are

00:18:00.940 tired of reading thinly veiled propaganda from the intelligence agencies and wasting billions of

00:18:06.360 dollars on various forms of government-sponsored fraud, will get to keep more of our own money.

00:18:12.120 This is what Doge promised to do. And right now, based on the panic that's overtaking left-wing

00:18:17.560 newsrooms in Washington, they are certainly succeeding beyond anyone's wildest imagination.

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00:19:24.860 Daily Wire reports, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday banning men from women's

00:19:28.680 sports, a historic moment in the fight to protect the integrity of women's spaces from gender

00:19:33.560 activists and ideologues. From now on, he said women's sports will be only for women.

00:19:37.500 The president signed the order in the East Room of the White House, surrounded by young schoolgirls, 0.97

00:19:41.600 female athletes, and advocates, including Independent Women's Forum Ambassadors, rightly 0.98

00:19:45.180 gains Paula Scanlon and Peyton Edwards. And it is the reading from the executive order.

00:19:56.880 It's the policy of the United States to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive

00:20:00.440 women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation, 0.98

00:20:04.200 and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy. It shall also be the policy 0.91

00:20:07.900 of the United States to oppose male competitive participation in women's sports more broadly

00:20:11.280 as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth.

00:20:16.620 So he signed the executive order. We have a quick clip from the event. Let's see it.

00:20:21.620 This was one of the big reasons that we all won. And it's one of the big reasons that we had a record,

00:20:28.200 a landslide like they haven't seen before, very often anyway. And who could forget last year's Paris

00:20:35.860 Olympics where a male boxer stole the woman's gold medal after brutalizing his female opponent so viciously

00:20:41.960 that she had to forfeit just after 46 seconds. And she was a championship fighter. And actually, 0.54

00:20:48.460 they had two women or two people that transitioned and both of them won gold medals and they won them

00:20:55.480 very convincingly. But all of that ends today because with this executive order, the war on women's 0.86

00:21:02.120 sports is over.

00:21:03.140 So he says the war on women's sports is over and it could be. I mean, this could be essentially

00:21:30.980 the end of the issue. It really depends on what the left decides to do next. This is a major victory

00:21:37.400 one way or another, but it remains to be seen what the left, how the left's going to respond to this

00:21:44.140 because they've lost the battle completely. They've lost politically. They've lost culturally.

00:21:52.680 Everyone is against them. Public opinion is very much against them. The question is whether they

00:22:02.240 want to keep falling on the sword in a desperate attempt to pull the culture back towards allowing 1.00

00:22:07.640 men in women's sports again, which would be a fool's errand. But I think it remains to be seen 0.90

00:22:14.480 whether the left decides to do that. And I think that I think right now they don't know what to do.

00:22:22.860 And I also think they probably won't try to do that.

00:22:28.180 You know, because let's say a Democrat wins, God forbid, in 2028.

00:22:33.120 The Democrat president could sign an executive order just overturning what Trump just did.

00:22:38.800 And it's hard to predict what we'll have in four years from now. But as it stands right now, I wouldn't

00:22:45.900 see that happening because it would be an extremely politically unpopular thing to do.

00:22:53.560 And what you have to remember about this issue and the trans issue generally is that almost nobody

00:22:59.320 on the left ever believed in any of it. Almost none of them actually thought it was right or fair

00:23:06.520 or made any sense to have dudes compete against women. They took this position cynically because

00:23:13.480 for a very brief moment in time, like kind of a blip on the screen, but for a brief moment in time,

00:23:18.680 the trans rights, quote unquote, movement seemed to have the cultural upper hand. And so for a very

00:23:23.860 brief moment, it seemed like the more popular position, the safer bet. And so that's that they

00:23:30.200 decided to ride that horse. Now, if the left had the foresight to see this moment coming,

00:23:37.820 Donald Trump flanked by smiling female athletes, signing an executive order banning men from women's

00:23:42.620 sports with the wide approval of the public. I mean, if they could have seen that, they never would have

00:23:47.000 embraced this position to begin with. And and please don't think I'm giving the left any credit

00:23:51.880 here. I mean, precisely the opposite. My point is that most of them knew better. Most of them knew that the

00:23:56.820 trans rights stuff was ridiculous the whole time. The trans agenda was always something that 1.00

00:24:04.100 almost nobody truly believed in. How could they? It's objectively, plainly, egregiously wrong in every

00:24:13.700 way, morally and scientifically. If this was a political play by the left and it backfired in

00:24:21.840 historic fashion. You know, if you rewind the clock back to 2017, let's say, and everything

00:24:28.500 plays out the same since 2017, except the left never leans into the trans stuff or tries to shove

00:24:36.680 it down our throats. If it had played out that way, then I think a Democrat probably is in office right

00:24:43.760 now. That's how badly this whole thing has backfired on them. So as always, you got to remain vigilant

00:24:54.860 and you never know what what will happen next. And now you also you can't. Now there's a lot of

00:25:00.480 there's a lot of the trans activists are fully bought in and they're getting more and more desperate 0.97

00:25:07.000 and more and more angry and panicked. And so you have to worry about that. There's no telling what

00:25:11.980 they're going to do. We also know that, you know, there's a there's a an established history of

00:25:18.440 violence among trans activists. So that also becomes a concern that I think is a major concern

00:25:23.840 right now when they start lashing out violently even more. And then the other thing, too, as we talked

00:25:31.540 about a couple of days ago, is that you have to keep in mind that. I mean, one of one of the reasons

00:25:39.040 why the the trans ideology caught on so much, particularly in high levels of government,

00:25:46.900 in media, Hollywood, big tech. There was that it was a political ploy like we just discussed.

00:25:54.600 That's true. But then the other part of it is that for a lot of the people in positions of power,

00:26:02.200 it was it's personal for them, like their kids. You know, they transitioned their own kids.

00:26:13.340 And for those people, we talked about this a couple of days ago, they they can't just let it go.

00:26:19.940 They can never let it go because to let it go would be to admit to themselves and to the world what

00:26:26.080 they did to their own kids. And so they can never let that go. So that and that's another factor here,

00:26:30.240 which means that even as the culture moves past trans ideology, it there's going to be this core

00:26:39.000 of people, some of whom are powerful, who can never move on from it. And the more that everyone

00:26:45.820 else moves on from it, the angrier, more desperate they get. So how does that play out in the next few

00:26:51.820 years? Well, we're going to find out now. Staying on this topic for a moment, I thought this was funny.

00:26:56.640 Here's a tweet from ESPN about this. The tweet says, President Donald Trump will sign an executive

00:27:02.600 order Wednesday designed to prevent people who are biologically assigned male at birth

00:27:06.860 from participating in women's or girls sporting events.

00:27:12.540 Now, it may not look like it, but this tweet actually signifies, I think, a major capitulation by ESPN.

00:27:21.780 Because by their uber woke standards, like this might as well be them endorsing Donald Trump.

00:27:30.580 The phrase biologically assigned male at birth, biologically. The woke thing, the orthodox

00:27:38.900 thing on the left, obviously, is to say assigned male at birth, which makes no sense, you know,

00:27:44.900 for reasons we all know now, you're not assigned anything, least of all at birth. Your sex is not 0.86

00:27:51.000 assigned or decided at birth. It is noted or noticed or recorded at birth, although actually

00:27:57.380 usually is noticed and noted and recorded before birth. But that's the woke way of putting it,

00:28:05.040 is assigned male at birth. ESPN, though, has tried to split the baby here. Because,

00:28:10.980 you know, the two ways of phrasing, there's the correct way, which is to say that Trump

00:28:15.880 has banned biological males from women's sports. Now, yeah, biological male is redundant. 1.00

00:28:24.760 But it at least makes sense. You don't need to add male is a biological category. You don't need

00:28:30.280 to add biological male. But it's not a nonsensical phrase. So that's the correct way of putting it.

00:28:37.320 The other way to phrase it is the woke, nonsensical, assigned male at birth. ESPN

00:28:41.720 has tried to combine them. And so they've said biologically assigned male at birth.

00:28:47.560 And this is their attempt to compromise. But they've ended up with a phrase that makes

00:28:52.080 even less sense. This is the most nonsensical way of phrasing it you could possibly come up with.

00:28:57.820 You know, biologically assigned male at birth. Now, biologically assigned male maybe sort of makes

00:29:09.320 sense. Because I guess you could say biology assigns our sex. That's a weird way of putting it.

00:29:15.580 Not necessarily wrong, I guess. But then they added at birth. As if biology doesn't decide if we're

00:29:23.420 male or female until we emerge from the birth canal. So if you heard the phrase biologically

00:29:29.720 assigned male at birth and you didn't know any better, you would think that it means that like

00:29:33.600 the moment the baby emerges from the birth canal, their sex takes shape in that moment. Like this

00:29:40.560 mystical moment of transformation. And that's the way, you know, that's the way that they have

00:29:49.860 presented it in their attempt to compromise ever so slightly. And, but it makes even less sense

00:30:02.520 because there is no, you know, when you have something that makes sense and something that's

00:30:06.080 nonsensical, any attempt to compromise between sensible and nonsensical, you just end up with

00:30:12.660 something that's nonsensical. That's, that's the problem. All right. I've had this for a couple of

00:30:19.080 days. I want to mention, uh, New York post has a report. Smartphones are making teenagers more

00:30:23.420 aggressive, detached from reality and causing them to hallucinate. According to new research,

00:30:27.320 scientists concluded the younger person starts using a phone, the more likely they would be

00:30:31.880 crippled by a whole host of psychological ills after surveying 10,500 teens from between the ages

00:30:38.560 of 13 and 17 for both the U S and India. People don't fully appreciate the hyper real and hyper

00:30:45.040 immersive screen experiences, which can blur reality at key stages of development. According

00:30:49.620 to addiction psychologist, Dr. Nicholas Cardaris, um, the digital world can compromise their ability

00:30:55.980 to distinguish between what's real and what's not a hallucination by any other name.

00:31:01.820 Staggering 37% of 13 year olds reported experiencing aggression compared with 27% of 17 year olds.

00:31:08.780 Frighteningly, 20% of 13 year olds say they suffer from hallucinations,

00:31:12.060 which seems way too high. I mean, this, how could that possibly be true? 20%.

00:31:17.940 Um, whereas today's 17 year olds typically got a phone at age 11 or 12, today's 13 year olds got

00:31:24.540 their phones at age 10, the report noted. And the report goes on from there. I mean,

00:31:29.620 and whether it's true that 20% of 13 year olds are having hallucinations, I mean, I, you have to

00:31:37.100 wonder if those 13 year olds really understand what a hallucination is. So this is all, this is

00:31:40.560 obviously all self-reported data, but it does all come back to the same conclusion, which a million

00:31:46.400 studies have found something similar, which is that just to basically summarize it and generalize

00:31:53.140 it, um, phones are really bad for kids. It's just not, it's not good. It's not, it's not making

00:31:59.800 anything better. And of course, everyone's heard my rant about this many times. I really think that

00:32:04.980 we're whistling past the graveyard on this issue, having generations of children who are addicted

00:32:10.060 to screens and phones practically from birth is a major civilization level problem. And I don't think

00:32:20.140 that most of us are facing that or allowing it to really sink in. And in fact, even when someone calls

00:32:26.600 attention to this problem, I think that the focus is often on the wrong things, uh, or it's presented

00:32:34.420 in the wrong way. Like in this article, they treat the screen as a kind of medical problem, which means

00:32:40.920 that's, that's often how this is a, even the studies that are trying to demonstrate the harms that are

00:32:46.260 done by having kids addicted to screens from the youngest ages, even those studies, they, they,

00:32:53.560 they treat it like a medical issue, which means that someone's going to come up with a medical

00:32:58.440 solution. We already have those allegedly, right? There, there, there are drugs for kids who have

00:33:03.980 aggression or experienced depression and so on. And, uh, so that's, that's going to be the solution

00:33:08.860 that we already see this happen. And we've talked about ADHD, you know, this whole week was,

00:33:16.200 it's been a recurring theme and, um, the screens play a big part of that. One of the reasons

00:33:23.440 why kids are perpetually distracted is that they are surrounded by distraction. What do you know?

00:33:30.680 And when you got a kid walking around with this distraction machine in their pocket,

00:33:35.420 uh, 24 hours a day, they're going to be distracted.

00:33:42.040 And so what's our solution to that is to give them drugs, right? Not to take away the distraction

00:33:47.860 machine, but to just give them drugs to kind of dull the effects. Um, maybe eventually somebody

00:33:54.900 will come up with a vaccine to protect, protect against the, the effects of chronic screen usage

00:33:59.760 in children. I mean, you know, like I, and I don't even mean that as a joke. Eventually that's going to

00:34:04.840 happen. Um, but I think the, the real problem here cannot actually be quantified in a study

00:34:13.260 because it's bigger and deeper than that. I think the problem is that raising kids on a screen as

00:34:22.380 screen addicts along with all the other, the fact, does it make them more aggressive? Yes. I think

00:34:28.420 certainly, uh, does it detach them from reality? I think yes, certainly. Does it make them distracted?

00:34:33.960 Absolutely. Does it destroy their, their, their memory, their capacity to retain information? Yes,

00:34:41.240 yes, yes. But I also think that again, you go, you go a couple of doubles deeper than that.

00:34:50.020 It kind of robs them of fundamental aspects of their humanity. Um,

00:34:55.920 like for example, and again, I don't know how you account for this in a study. You probably can't,

00:35:04.000 but one of the defining things about being a person is that you can, or should be able to

00:35:12.400 entertain yourself, uh, in your own mind with your own thoughts. You should be able to get lost in a

00:35:19.940 thought, right? This is where every great creative idea comes from. It's where every profound, uh,

00:35:27.480 philosophical concept has that, you know, that's ever been conceived of has come from. It's, it's

00:35:33.900 where every great song or work of art or movie or painting originates. It originates with somebody

00:35:40.760 thinking just, just simply thinking. But now with the constant reliance on screens and phones,

00:35:46.200 a lot of kids never develop, I think that very basic ability, which is to sit and, uh, ruminate

00:35:55.760 and think and develop a thought because any moment that would have otherwise been an occasion for

00:36:03.420 thought and reflection and daydreaming is now used for mindlessly staring at a screen,

00:36:09.600 whether it's a phone or a TV or video game or whatever. Um, and we all know this. I mean,

00:36:16.200 how many people today, kids, kids or adults, how many people have the experience have had the

00:36:23.760 experience anytime recently of just sitting somewhere, sitting on a chair or on the couch

00:36:32.260 and, and that's it. It's just sitting and thinking.

00:36:36.240 And you might think about this in your own life. Like what, what's the, in fact, you should try

00:36:43.300 doing it just to get an idea of how it's kind of idea of how screwed up your mind is at this point.

00:36:51.120 Get a read on how bad the situation is for you. I think we should all do this. So just try it. Try,

00:36:56.180 try sitting, uh, somewhere just on a couch. I'm not saying this is not a meditation exercise,

00:37:02.060 just to be clear. Okay. I'm not sitting, saying sit on the ground on a yoga mat, cross legged,

00:37:07.020 just, you know, no, just sit on a couch, a chair. So, and just try sitting there.

00:37:14.060 How long can you do it before you pull out your phone? And cause that's the other part. I'm not

00:37:22.320 saying to turn your phone off and leave it in another room. Like have it with you just like you

00:37:25.500 would. Well, we all do have it with you, have it on and, uh, try sitting on a couch or on a chair and

00:37:33.380 just how long can you do it before you pull out the phone? I think for a lot of people now, the answer

00:37:38.680 is 20 seconds. I even think that's an exaggeration. I think there's plenty of people walking around

00:37:44.820 today who could not do that for more than 20 seconds. Just can't do it. Literally do not know

00:37:50.860 how to occupy themselves with their own minds, which is to say they don't know how to think

00:37:55.560 basically. And probably the older you are, the more successful you will be in this exercise

00:38:02.160 because you, you lived longer without these things. So you at least developed that ability

00:38:08.340 at some point. Uh, maybe it's atrophied, but you still have it. I think for a lot of kids whose

00:38:14.400 parents just give them the phones as soon as they're, you know, the kids are just three year,

00:38:19.640 three-year-olds running around now with tablets and those kids like what the hell chance do they

00:38:25.540 have? When that three-year-old with a tablet who becomes a six-year-old with a phone and full

00:38:31.720 internet access, when he's 25, how long is he going to be able to just sit here? Just out of chair,

00:38:38.300 just kind of sit, just thinking. He won't be able to do it, which again is to say you, you don't know

00:38:47.060 how to think. You actually don't know how to think, which is, that's maybe the biggest problem

00:38:54.660 a human can have. And then what happens when you have a whole society of people who don't know how

00:38:59.680 to think? Um, what happens there? Extrapolate that for 50 years. What do you end up with?

00:39:12.580 You know, and there's, there's no indication that it's good. And then you, you add to that,

00:39:16.900 you got a whole bunch of people who don't know how to think

00:39:19.180 utterly incapable of entertaining themselves with their own thoughts.

00:39:23.760 And then you add in the rise of AI and everything, which is getting smarter and smarter,

00:39:30.080 uh, so that you can get away with not thinking more and more.

00:39:37.720 What does it look like in 50 years from now? Uh, that's why I've said many times that

00:39:44.180 idiocracy, which is a very funny movie, but I think that it, I truly do think that it was a 1.00

00:39:50.860 far too optimistic because it painted a picture of the dystopian future that it imagined was one 0.99

00:39:59.060 500 years from now where people are just drooling morons who do not know how to think and rely on 0.99

00:40:06.520 technology for everything. But they also don't know how to operate the technology because they're 0.99

00:40:10.360 too dumb. An idiocracy that took 500 years. It is, it is not going to take that long. We are well 1.00

00:40:19.340 on our way, uh, give it another couple of decades and we'll be there. So that's my

00:40:22.440 encouraging thought for the day. Let's get to the, uh, comment section.

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00:41:46.600 I say this at least once a week in my regular life. Who's demanding more Snoop Dogg? I've yet

00:41:49.820 to meet one single person who's an actual Snoop Dogg fan. Seriously point to me one single person

00:41:53.120 who's so in love with Snoop Dogg enough to justify him being on television every single

00:41:56.540 ad break for the past few years. Yeah, it's a great mystery. Uh, zero demand for Snoop Dogg.

00:42:01.720 The supply has exceeded the demand by a hundred percent. There's 100% more supply of Snoop Dogg than

00:42:07.880 there is demand for him. And to be clear, I'm not saying that people hate Snoop Dogg. That's not

00:42:11.640 my point. Uh, nobody cares enough about Snoop Dogg to actually hate him. What I'm saying is that

00:42:17.520 nobody has ever turned on a show or a movie or a commercial or anything and said to themselves,

00:42:23.500 man, I hope Snoop Dogg shows up in this. Nobody has ever said that. And yet he does show up in

00:42:30.480 everything. Always Matt's take on ADHD is very embarrassing to say the least. It's definitely

00:42:36.600 overdiagnosed, but there's tremendous scientific evidence to show that it's real. And yes, you can

00:42:41.780 see that the ADHD brain is real and different than the norm by a significant amount. Yes, it should be

00:42:46.120 diagnosed with brain scans, but just because it's generally not and it's overdiagnosed doesn't make

00:42:50.360 it unreal. I like how we quickly jumped over the part about how you can actually see that ADHD brain

00:42:55.520 is tangibly different by blurting out, well, then why don't they all diagnose them the same way?

00:43:01.220 Okay. This is the last thing I'll say about this for now. And I'll try to explain this one more time.

00:43:06.760 I am not disputing that an ADHD brain quote unquote may be visible in brain scans. My point is that it's

00:43:15.180 irrelevant because they don't consult brain scans at all during the diagnostic process or at any other

00:43:21.280 point. So whether someone's ADHD brain can be found in the brain, whether someone's ADHD can be found

00:43:28.220 in the brain or not, the diagnosis would be the same. So it's not relevant, right? This is, at best,

00:43:35.420 it's an after the fact rationalization, but it doesn't factor in to the diagnosis. But that's not even

00:43:43.580 the point because let's just say for the sake of argument that ADHD is very visible and obvious in the

00:43:50.840 brain. And let's even imagine a scenario where they do diagnose it with a brain scan. They don't,

00:43:59.240 but let's just, let's just say that they did. Well, the question still remains, an ADHD brain looks a

00:44:06.100 certain way. Okay. Who's to say that it isn't supposed to look that way? If a, if an ADHD brain is

00:44:15.140 ordered a certain way, how do you know that it's disordered? You see, that's the question.

00:44:22.020 So you being able to establish, well, yes, this is how an ADHD brain is ordered. This is how it's

00:44:26.060 structured. This is how it looks like. Okay. That's fine. But that's not the case you're making.

00:44:31.380 You're saying it is disordered, that it looks this way and it should not look that way.

00:44:36.360 That's the part you got to explain. I don't need to be told that it looks a certain way.

00:44:43.640 Okay, fine. But you're saying that it shouldn't look that way. So you have an idea in your head of

00:44:50.900 what a brain is supposed to look like. And which to a certain extent, we all agree. I mean, there are,

00:44:57.600 there are a lot of things we could say about the human brain and there are certain components of it

00:45:00.900 that if those components are missing, then we know that there's a major problem. But,

00:45:06.440 but with, with the ADHD brain, like there's nothing, it's not going to, there's, you know,

00:45:15.500 it's, it's not a degenerative illness. It's not eating away at your brain. It's not going to kill

00:45:20.140 you. It's a person could have an ADHD brain and live just as long a life as anybody else.

00:45:27.120 So how is it an illness? But maybe this is the best way to look at it. If our technology

00:45:36.160 and our understanding of the brain was sophisticated enough, we would be able to,

00:45:42.060 and I think can already in many cases, locate any personality type in a brain scan.

00:45:48.460 So let's, let's just say, and I don't know, I'm not sure to what full extent we can do this now,

00:45:54.280 but certainly there, if we can't now, there'll be a time in the future when we can

00:45:58.880 look at a brain scan and with, if we had the technology, right. And someone,

00:46:03.840 and someone has the right training, they'd be able to look at it and pinpoint

00:46:07.620 many different aspects of that person's personality.

00:46:11.920 Okay. A person prone to optimism probably has in some way, a different brain from someone who is

00:46:19.980 not prone to optimism. And there's, there is probably an optimistic brain.

00:46:26.340 Well, if we can look at a scan and see an optimistic brain,

00:46:30.100 would that mean that optimism is now a disease that we have to medicate?

00:46:33.700 If somebody is more prone to optimism than average, and we can locate that phenomenon in

00:46:41.320 the brain, should we then give them drugs to drag them back down to the average? 0.93

00:46:46.600 Should we just figure out what the kind of average personality is and just give everybody drugs to

00:46:52.320 either bring them down or bring them up to the, to the mean, you know, the, the average personality?

00:46:58.900 Is that what we should do?

00:47:00.000 Or do we accept that everybody has different personalities and therefore everyone has different

00:47:05.860 brains and some personalities work better in some situations than, than others. And that's just how,

00:47:11.880 that's just being a person. That's what it means to be a person.

00:47:17.180 Um, that's my point. And if, if that still doesn't get across and I don't know what else to tell you.

00:47:23.740 Stephen Colbert is the biggest bell end on American TV. And that's saying something

00:47:27.180 cause you have loads of them over there. P.S. Sorry, Matt, but the best whiskey is made in

00:47:31.500 Scotland. Uh, yeah, scotch is good. No, so quiet. I mean, I like scotch, but I have to say,

00:47:39.080 I kind of prefer Japanese whiskey, uh, recently, which is, I've been on a bit of a Japanese whiskey

00:47:43.720 kick, which is basically scotch, but made in Japan. And, uh, I kind of prefer it, you know?

00:47:50.200 So that's it. That's nothing else to say about that. Uh, sometimes I get the feeling that Matt

00:47:58.440 is not really as happy to lick Trump's boots as he'd have us believe. I mean, he's a team player,

00:48:03.360 but he knows who Trump really is and it bothers him. Yeah, this is funny. I'm a, so I'm a Trump

00:48:07.920 bootlicker now. That's the latest. If you've been following, if you've been following, you know,

00:48:13.980 my career, that's the latest, uh, development. And it's funny because over the past eight years,

00:48:19.320 nine years, I have been accused alternatively of being a never Trumper and a Trump bootlicker.

00:48:27.340 Like it's all, it's one or the other for the last eight years, I'm always one or the other. And it

00:48:31.600 just got, it seems to fluctuate back and forth. I'm just kind of trading places as we go along.

00:48:36.960 Um, so maybe what's happening here, here's a thought. Maybe what's occurring is that when Trump

00:48:46.740 is doing stuff that I think is good and that I agree with, I praise him. And when he does stuff

00:48:54.600 I don't like, I criticize him. And since taking office this time around, I've liked almost everything

00:49:02.760 he's done. I've been very impressed. I just, I don't know what to tell you. I've just been very

00:49:06.100 impressed. I think it's been great. I think he's done a great job. I mean, sorry, I don't know. I

00:49:10.220 don't know what to tell you. That's just my take on it. And so I'm telling you my take.

00:49:16.380 So could that be it? Could it be that I'm just, I'm, the opinions that I give about Trump are based

00:49:24.340 on what he's doing. And when he does different things, I say different things about them.

00:49:30.120 It's possible. Like something to consider anyway. Uh, let's get to the daily cancellation.

00:49:40.220 I have something, um, difficult that need to talk about today. This is

00:49:47.380 going to be upsetting to hear, uh, just like it's upsetting for me to discuss,

00:49:51.180 but here it goes. According to reports this week, the NFL is going to remove the words end racism

00:49:57.300 from the end zone during the Superbowl this Sunday. And I know that sounds so shocking that

00:50:05.860 you think it can't be real, but it is. Here's the daily wire, uh, quote, the NFL has reported

00:50:10.160 sent the word to remove the messaging end racism from the end zone for the Superbowl in New Orleans

00:50:16.120 on Sunday. It'll be the first time since February, 2021, that the message end racism has not appeared

00:50:22.360 in a Superbowl end zone. According to multiple sources, when the Kansas city chiefs of Philadelphia

00:50:26.100 Eagles take the field at a Caesar Superdome, the messaging in the end zones will read,

00:50:31.120 it takes all of us and choose love. Quote, we felt it was an appropriate statement for what the

00:50:36.760 country has collectively endured given recent tragedies and can serve as an inspiration.

00:50:40.900 According to NFL spokesperson, Brian McCarthy. Now, um, I don't even know where to begin. Uh,

00:50:47.640 all I can say is that obviously I'm very opposed to this move, not just opposed, but I'm anxious.

00:50:53.500 I'm worried, terrified because how are we supposed to know what to do about racism now? You know,

00:51:01.660 there's some people that are celebrating this announcement because they're saying, well,

00:51:04.280 this means that racism is over. Racism is done. The NFL ended racism by putting end racism in the

00:51:10.800 end zone. And so now we can all move on and look, sure. Um, there's no doubt that the end racism

00:51:19.020 message did end racism. I'm not disputing that. I know just from my own life prior to that message

00:51:25.460 being spray painted in the end zone, I myself was racist, but then I saw end racism on the field

00:51:31.520 during a football game. And I said, Oh wait, we're supposed to be not racist.

00:51:38.340 My God, I had no idea. And from that day forward, I was transformed. I was born anew.

00:51:43.160 I stopped going to clan meetings and I started volunteering at afterschool programs for disabled

00:51:47.760 minorities. And I'm sure that this is the same thing that happened for so many millions of people

00:51:51.900 out there. But here's the problem. We ended racism. We created a post-racism utopian society,

00:51:58.360 or I should say the NFL did. Uh, that message and racism was the glue holding our new paradise

00:52:05.920 together. And now they're taking that slogan off the field. What then? What if everybody starts

00:52:11.640 doing racism again? How are we supposed to know if we should keep racism ended or if we should start

00:52:17.540 it up once more? Is that what the NFL saying? We should start racism again? Like people are going

00:52:23.080 to watch the Superbowl and they're going to say, wait a minute. It doesn't say end racism. I guess we

00:52:26.820 need to start doing the racisms again. And who's to tell them that they shouldn't now. Sure. There

00:52:32.220 will be a new message. The NFL says it's going to put the words. It takes all of us on, you know,

00:52:35.960 and they're going to put that on the field. That's not good enough. I mean, what takes all of us?

00:52:41.380 Racism. Superbowl viewers are going to think that it's a rallying cry to join together and be racist

00:52:47.780 again. You know, the other message choose love doesn't help much. Who are we supposed to love?

00:52:54.460 Who shouldn't we love? What if somebody loves Hitler? What then? Like, think about it. We need 0.76

00:53:02.440 to be more specific. It should at least say, choose love. But just to be clear, that doesn't mean

00:53:09.040 Hitler. And there's more than enough. It's a football field. You could write that whole message 0.97

00:53:13.180 on there. No problem. So they can give us a lot more information. They can give us a lot more guidance,

00:53:18.500 but they aren't. And that's inexcusable. And now I'm lost. And think about the message that this

00:53:24.200 sends to kids or doesn't send more specifically. Just last night, this is true. You know, my son

00:53:30.040 heard about this news and he came up to me and he said, Father, does this mean that we should do

00:53:36.560 racism again? And I didn't know how to respond. The truth is that I'm just as confused as he is.

00:53:42.700 And I said to him, I don't know, my son. I just don't know. And he paused for a moment and his

00:53:49.660 eyes got misty and he looked at me and said, I'm scared. And I said, I am too. And then my son started

00:53:55.860 crying. And so did I. And we wept. We wept for hours. This is what the NFL has done. Now, the point

00:54:05.580 is that we are lost without moral instruction delivered to us via slogans painted on football

00:54:10.920 fields. Now, in general, of course, I have always looked to professional sports leagues, athletes,

00:54:15.680 sports commentators for guidance and direction like any American. I never form any opinion on

00:54:20.580 anything without first consulting NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, all the Sports Center anchors and

00:54:25.060 LeBron James's Twitter feed. Professional sports leagues have over the past 10 years, especially

00:54:30.080 position themselves as our teachers, our surrogate father figures, really. And I've always been very

00:54:37.620 happy with this arrangement. It makes a ton of sense to me, because after all, if a guy knows how

00:54:41.280 to throw a ball into a hoop or run down, run with a ball down a field really fast, it stands to reason

00:54:48.320 that he also has deep insight into the most important questions of life. You know, I think I think

00:54:53.380 one two follows from one. They're pretty logically. Every time I see a basketball player hit a three

00:54:58.800 pointer, I think to myself, wow, he must be a great philosopher. And every time I see a football

00:55:04.000 player make an open field tackle, I think, geez, that guy must have great moral intuition.

00:55:08.740 I realize I'm not saying anything that you don't already know. This is what we all think when we

00:55:12.640 watch sports. But the NFL is now abandoning its post. It's hanging us all out to dry.

00:55:17.960 Racism is about to make a major comeback in this country. Millions of people are going to tune into

00:55:22.980 the Super Bowl, see that the words end racism have been removed, and then immediately run out and commit

00:55:29.440 hate crimes. And I will too. I'm going to go commit hate crimes. I don't know what else to do.

00:55:39.600 We're all now like lost sheep, wandering alone through the pastures without our great shepherd,

00:55:44.380 the NFL, there to show us the way. I feel so alone now, and so scared, and also so, so racist.

00:55:53.080 All because of the NFL. And that is why the NFL is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today.

00:56:00.820 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - February 06, 2025

Ep. 1531 - Another Insane Government Money Laundering Scheme REVEALED

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