The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1576 - The 'Experts' Are Finally Admitting That ADHD Is A Scam

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, some of us have been arguing for years that ADHD is a fake disease.

00:00:04.800 We've been shouted down and defamed as science deniers, but now these so-called experts who

00:00:09.060 sold this fraud to the public are coming out and admitting that we were right all along. We'll

00:00:13.520 discuss. Also, the president of El Salvador visits the White House. Cory Booker embarrasses himself

00:00:17.540 on camera again, and the media celebrates the historic spaceflight of an all-female crew.

00:00:22.760 The only problem is that it was not historic at all. We'll talk about all that and more today

00:00:26.820 on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:10.340 At the risk of angering all the people who will scream from the rooftops that correlation doesn't equal

00:02:15.780 causation, like it's some kind of scriptural edict. Here's some data that's worth considering.

00:02:21.360 From 1980 to 2020, the share of male teachers in both elementary and middle schools declined

00:02:26.380 from 40% to less than 20%. Men have mostly stopped teaching young children in school, and during this

00:02:34.540 same period, as men have abandoned elementary schools, there's coincidentally been another major

00:02:40.000 change in childhood education. Everyone's being diagnosed with ADHD. More than 21% of

00:02:45.600 14-year-old boys in this country now supposedly suffer from this condition. The number goes up

00:02:51.220 to 23% for 17-year-old boys. As a result, prescriptions for drugs like Ritalin and Adderall

00:02:56.800 have skyrocketed. From 2012 to 2022, the total number of prescriptions for stimulants to treat

00:03:01.680 ADHD increased dramatically by nearly 60%. And boys between the ages of 10 to 14 were the demographic

00:03:09.080 that saw the highest increase in these prescriptions. Now, for decades, you've been instructed to believe

00:03:14.180 that there's no significance to this correlation whatsoever. You know, as women increasingly

00:03:20.140 entered the workforce and replaced men in teaching jobs, we're not supposed to draw any conclusions

00:03:24.940 about how the behavior of male children is now being addressed. The truth, we've been told, is not that

00:03:32.520 a feminized education system has increasingly punished normal male behavior that it doesn't understand.

00:03:38.340 It's not that schools have lost their capacity to educate male students. It's not that smartphone

00:03:43.760 use and electronics in general have become distractions, which teachers have been unable to

00:03:47.700 control. Instead, we've been led to believe that, in truth, boys have suddenly become afflicted with

00:03:53.580 a severe and mysterious psychological disorder. There's no objective biologically-based test for this

00:04:00.840 disorder, nor can anyone point to a specific gene or pathogen that might cause it. But the scientific

00:04:06.740 consensus for many years now has nevertheless been clear. ADHD, they've said again and again, is real.

00:04:13.680 And the way to treat it is to give children speed in the form of drugs like Ritalin. Now, as I've said

00:04:19.820 repeatedly all this time for well over a decade, the science behind the theory of ADHD isn't simply

00:04:27.180 underbaked or inadequate. It is comically useless to the point that it is obviously fraudulent.

00:04:33.700 The whole thing is a fraud. And to give just one of many examples, a few years ago, researchers at the

00:04:40.380 University of Central Florida conducted a grand experiment where they put a child in front of a

00:04:45.780 computer, and here's what it looked like. You can see it there. The researchers showed a child two separate

00:04:53.020 videos. One of the videos was about mathematics, and it involved a teacher talking about basic addition and

00:04:59.640 subtraction and multiplication. The other video was the pod racing scene from Star Wars. And as you can

00:05:06.240 see from the videos, the child became bored during the math lecture. He starts spinning in his chair and

00:05:11.500 fidgeting. On the other hand, when the child has shown something more engaging, he suddenly stops

00:05:17.340 fidgeting. He's actually paying attention to Star Wars. He was not paying attention to the math video.

00:05:22.480 Now, unless you're an alien who's never interacted with a child and was never a child yourself, 0.64

00:05:28.920 there is nothing remotely interesting or surprising about this footage. It's exactly what you would

00:05:35.800 expect a normal, healthy child to do. But in the academic world, which exists to sell pharmaceuticals

00:05:42.380 to children, this was a groundbreaking experiment. The footage was the basis for a peer-reviewed article

00:05:47.920 in something called the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. And the University of Central Florida

00:05:55.620 bragged about their findings with this headline, ADHD kids can be still if they're not straining their

00:06:01.500 brains. Their conclusion was that ADHD is a nefarious disorder that's only triggered by cognitively

00:06:08.680 demanding tasks and that we need to be vigilant of ADHD whenever children have to use their brains

00:06:13.680 in specific ways. Now, in reality, of course, the University of Central Florida had simply discovered

00:06:21.940 the concept that is known as boredom. That's all they accomplished. The kid was bored of the math video

00:06:30.940 because a math video is boring. Every person on the planet would also be bored by a math video.

00:06:38.780 It would be like discovering that children prefer ice cream to broccoli and then announcing that

00:06:43.660 you've identified a major new psychiatric disorder. It's exactly like doing a study to discover

00:06:50.220 that children are more excited about opening presents on Christmas than they are about doing

00:06:56.440 their chores. And then concluding that there must be some previously undetected mental illness that's

00:07:02.260 infecting every child on the planet. Now, multiply this garbage study by about 10 million and you get 0.99

00:07:08.480 the sum and substance of ADHD research over the past few decades. None of it is legitimate. It is all 0.95

00:07:17.200 nonsense. And as a result, we've all been waiting for the moment when, at long last, the medical

00:07:23.620 establishment and mainstream media will finally acknowledge that none of this science is legitimate

00:07:28.960 because when that happens, millions of children will be spared these damaging and grossly unnecessary

00:07:34.080 ADHD drugs. And this week, belatedly, that moment has started to arrive, it would seem.

00:07:42.380 So, the New York Times Magazine has just published a very lengthy article entitled, quote,

00:07:48.740 Have we been thinking about ADHD all wrong? Now, it's important to note at the outset that this article

00:07:55.880 is not the result of some new discovery in the field of ADHD. There has not been any new groundbreaking

00:08:03.480 research. Instead, the piece is a collection of existing studies about ADHD. Some of them are dating

00:08:07.940 back more than a decade, along with testimony from researchers who, in the past, were some of the

00:08:13.120 leading voices promoting ADHD medications. And now these researchers would like you to know that

00:08:18.320 they've changed their minds because after thinking about things for a while, they've realized

00:08:22.580 that they were completely wrong. Oops, sorry about that. You all have your kids on speed for no

00:08:29.000 reason. Our bad. Now, the article opens by discussing a researcher named James Swanson, who conducted a

00:08:36.360 famous experiment in the 1990s that tracked three groups of students over a long period of time. One group

00:08:42.420 of students received drugs for their alleged ADHD. Another group received behavioral training, and then a

00:08:47.200 third group didn't receive any kind of treatment at all. After a little over a year, the study supposedly

00:08:52.360 showed that the kids who received Ritalin were doing a lot better than any other group. And this study

00:08:58.000 immediately became a major national news story. It was sold as proof that Ritalin works and that ADHD

00:09:03.420 is real. Researchers like Swanson became highly paid consultants for the pharmaceutical industry,

00:09:09.180 shilling ADHD drugs. So, you know, everybody was happy, at least everybody who's making money off of

00:09:15.300 this thing. And that is in spite of the fact that even if the drugs really did improve a child's

00:09:22.600 behavior or academic performance, that obviously in and of itself does not prove that he has a

00:09:31.320 disorder. Okay, steroids improve athletic performance. If you were to do a study with

00:09:37.700 kids who took steroids and kids who didn't, you would find out that the kids took steroids.

00:09:42.020 What do you know? They're performing better in sports. But that doesn't mean that a child who

00:09:47.480 lacks athletic skill is disordered. Okay, just because a drug enhances performance, that doesn't

00:09:54.660 make it a legitimate medication. But it turns out that these drugs don't even do that much.

00:10:01.840 As the New York Times now admits, the researchers understood very quickly that

00:10:05.000 their narrative was false. Quote,

00:10:07.340 But listen to this part.

00:10:29.680 By 36 months, the advantage had faded completely and children in every group, including the

00:10:37.060 comparison group, displayed exactly the same level of symptoms. Swanson is now 80 and close to the end

00:10:43.320 of his career. And when he talks about his life's work, he sounds troubled, not just about the MTA

00:10:47.380 results, but about the state of the ADHD field in general. There are things about the way we do this

00:10:53.480 work, he told me, that just are definitely wrong. Close quote.

00:10:59.740 So in other words, now that he's 80, this researcher who played a vital role in the mass

00:11:05.320 prescribing of ADHD drugs has no problem going on the record and explaining that the so-called

00:11:10.360 science on ADHD is essentially meaningless.

00:11:14.360 You know, in the end, we're not correcting any kind of disorder in the brain. We're not providing a

00:11:18.520 long-term solution to a medical problem. We're just giving children amphetamines, which have the

00:11:23.300 predictable effect of artificially stimulating their brains so that they seem less bored while

00:11:29.540 introducing a whole host of catastrophic side effects that we'll discuss in a moment.

00:11:33.000 And like all drug highs, eventually it stops working and reality sets in.

00:11:39.920 The quote-unquote top scientists are all admitting this now. It's not just James Swanson who's recanting

00:11:45.100 his old research on ADHD. For example, in 2017, a Dutch neuroscientist named Martine Hoogman

00:11:50.380 announced that she had discovered evidence confirming that ADHD is a real observable disorder that's

00:11:56.560 reflected in human biology. She stated at the time, quote, we confirm with high-powered analysis that

00:12:02.240 patients with ADHD have altered brains. Therefore, ADHD is a disorder of the brain. That's what this

00:12:08.980 researcher found with her high-powered analysis less than a decade ago. That was her statement.

00:12:13.640 But now, this same scientist is admitting that her data showed something completely different.

00:12:21.080 And so this is again from this week's Times article, quoting the reporter who wrote the story,

00:12:24.480 quote,

00:12:24.920 When I interviewed Hoogman by email recently, I was surprised to learn that she now wishes she could

00:12:30.200 have revised that statement. Back then, we emphasized the differences that we found, although small.

00:12:35.700 But you can also conclude that the subcortical and cortical volumes of people with ADHD and those

00:12:40.440 without ADHD are almost identical, she wrote. In retrospect, she added, it was not fitting to

00:12:46.560 conclude from her findings that ADHD is a brain disorder. The ADHD neurobiology is so much more complex than

00:12:52.720 that, close quote. Okay, so here we have a leading expert who claimed in 2017 that her research proved that

00:13:02.120 ADHD alters the brains. Now, via an email with a New York Times reporter, she casually admits that her

00:13:08.320 research showed that the brains of people who are diagnosed with ADHD and the brains of everybody else

00:13:14.040 are almost identical. Now, to call this a walkback would be a massive understatement. These people are

00:13:21.040 completely abandoning everything they've been saying with absolute certainty for years now. And yet,

00:13:27.240 their research is still being used by believers in ADHD to support the theory that ADHD is a real

00:13:34.300 disease, even though the actual researchers themselves no longer stand by it. To be clear,

00:13:41.440 it wasn't just this one scientist. Dozens of leading experts pushed the idea that ADHD is a symptom of

00:13:46.880 observable physical issues in the brain. They even published a consensus statement claiming that a

00:13:51.620 single gene caused ADHD and that ADHD patients had less brain matter and less electrical activity

00:13:58.240 in their brains. None of that was actually true. When they ran experiments to prove that this was true,

00:14:06.220 they got the opposite result. But they pretended otherwise at the time. And that's what this Dutch 1.00

00:14:11.600 scientist is now admitting to. It's impossible to measure the full extent of the damage that's been

00:14:16.740 done to millions of young children as a result of this fraud. Here's just one metric citing the MTA

00:14:22.580 study. Quote, children who took Ritalin for an extended period of time grew less quickly than the

00:14:29.240 non-medicated children did. By the end of those 36 months, subjects who had consistently taken

00:14:33.860 stimulant medication were on average more than an inch shorter than the ones who had never received

00:14:38.760 medication. Many of the scientists in the MTA group assumed this height suppression in childhood

00:14:43.480 would be temporary, that these shorter children would catch up during adolescence. But when data

00:14:48.040 was collected again, nine years after the initial experiment, the height gap remained. Amphetamines

00:14:53.220 can be powerfully addictive. And last year, a study in the American Journal of Psychiatry found that

00:14:57.240 even a medium-strength daily dose of Adderall more than tripled a patient's likelihood of developing

00:15:02.260 psychosis or mania. So yes, we have drastically increased the risk of permanently destroying children's

00:15:10.700 brains and bodies. We have given them drugs that are stunting their growth permanently based entirely 0.70

00:15:18.580 on junk science. And that's just what the New York Times is willing to admit right now. You know, give

00:15:24.740 them another 20 years and they'll tell you all about the effects that amphetamines have on the heart as

00:15:28.340 well. And all of this data already exists, of course. Like, it's all out there. They're just refusing to tell

00:15:35.260 you about it. Now, to be fair, there is one study that the Times cites that is actually recent. Here's

00:15:41.600 the groundbreaking insight that the new MTA study has uncovered. Quote, last October, the MTA group

00:15:47.600 published a new study that explored how ADHD symptoms in MTA participants changed over the course

00:15:54.040 of their childhood and young adulthood. In contrast to the categorical model of ADHD, you either have it or

00:15:59.600 you don't. The researchers showed that for most subjects, the symptoms and level of impairment

00:16:04.360 in fact fluctuated over the years, often quite substantially. Only about 11% of the children

00:16:10.260 who entered the study with an ADHD diagnosis experienced the symptoms consistently year after

00:16:15.120 year. Close quote. This is something you don't need an MTA group or a controlled high-budget study to

00:16:22.860 realize. Any parent could tell you this. Anybody with common sense can tell you this. On this show

00:16:29.960 a few months ago, I said this exact thing in the context of the ADHD debate. Just to remind you,

00:16:36.640 here's what I said at the time. And if I could get parents to understand one thing, it might be this.

00:16:43.480 Nothing is permanent. Everything changes. And they go through phases. And those phases can be intense.

00:16:51.100 They could last for six days or six years. But either way, they won't last forever.

00:16:59.340 So just to give you one example of the dozens and dozens that I could supply from my own life and my

00:17:04.080 family, my oldest daughter struggled to read. Hated reading for many years. Many years. From the age of

00:17:13.140 like about four, right around the time when you first start reading, to right around 11. Getting her to read

00:17:19.160 was like pulling teeth. And she had a very hard time with it for a long time. She was for a long

00:17:25.300 time way behind her peers. And yes, as parents, we worried about it. For all this stuff that I'm

00:17:30.320 saying about, you know, give it time, it's not easy to do. I understand that. And so as a parent,

00:17:35.260 we're worried. And we're fretting. And we can't help but imagine a dark future where our daughter is

00:17:41.620 25 years old and can barely read. Well, then one day it changed. And now at 11 and a half,

00:17:49.580 we can't get her to stop reading. I mean, she reads like two whole chapter books a week. I'm talking

00:17:54.600 books that are 300 pages. Now, everyone, whether they have children or not, intuitively understands

00:18:00.680 that children go through phases. We don't need to administer psychoactive drugs every time they go

00:18:05.980 through a phase we don't like. And we all know that it didn't really take decades for leading

00:18:11.260 scientific experts to come to this conclusion. They knew it all along. But they had a financial

00:18:16.000 incentive to say otherwise. Only now that the situation has devolved into total absurdity,

00:18:21.080 now that we're supposed to pretend that 25% of teenagers suffer from this diagnosis, are some of

00:18:26.880 these experts finally telling the truth. And they're also finally admitting that in reality,

00:18:30.800 the cure for ADHD is simply doing things that are interesting. That's it. It turns out that

00:18:37.580 according to the Times, ADHD patients suddenly lost their symptoms when they started doing things

00:18:43.900 that they actually like doing. Quote, a hairstylist told the researchers that her inability to concentrate 1.00

00:18:50.140 in school vanished when she began studying hair. A young man who was training to be an auto

00:18:55.000 technician said that in his new career, his ADHD was no longer an issue. Patient symptoms tend to

00:19:00.460 improve rather than worsen during times of higher environmental demands, periods of more

00:19:04.860 responsibility and busier schedules. Jobs or college courses that were demanding and interesting helped

00:19:10.140 alleviate their symptoms. And as their symptoms lifted, they changed the way they thought about

00:19:15.020 themselves. Close quote. So again, we're talking about boredom. That's what all this is. People who are

00:19:25.200 bored. Imagine that. It turns out that people become bored when you talk to them about something that

00:19:31.840 isn't interesting. It turns out that when you sit kids down in a structured educational environment,

00:19:38.620 especially boys, you sit them down in a classroom with 30 other kids for seven hours a day, five days a

00:19:46.020 week for nine months out of the year, and you have them do busy work, they're going to get bored and

00:19:51.200 they're going to get fidgety. Wow. Amazing. What a revelation. But they become more engaged when you

00:20:01.380 talk about things they find interesting. This is the cutting edge of the science on ADHD medication.

00:20:07.640 They're figuring out things that anyone with 10 brain cells could have told you a long time ago.

00:20:12.040 And something that a lot of us did say a long time ago. You know, as I've mentioned plenty of times,

00:20:18.420 I have gone through this myself. I was a terrible student in school. I could have easily been

00:20:23.280 diagnosed with ADHD if my parents wanted to go that route, which thankfully they didn't.

00:20:27.600 But even though I couldn't complete a school assignment to save my life, now as an adult,

00:20:33.740 I write the word count equivalent of like two or three chapters of a book every single week while

00:20:39.960 preparing for this show. I also read all the time. I enjoy learning new things. I didn't when I was in

00:20:45.860 school. What changed? What accounts for the change? Did my ADHD wear off? Well, no. For one thing,

00:20:52.340 I grew older and became more mature and more disciplined. And for another thing, I enjoy what

00:20:57.360 I'm doing now and I'm interested in it. And I was not interested in school, so therefore I was less

00:21:04.180 engaged. Like it's not that complicated. But the medical field has treated it as if it's complicated

00:21:10.900 for decades. This whole thing has obviously become something of a pattern in the field of modern

00:21:16.000 medicine. In the last few years, we've learned, or at least those of us who hadn't been paying close

00:21:22.440 attention, learned that the chemical imbalance theory of depression was a lie. Gender affirming care

00:21:28.960 was a lie. The claims about how lockdowns wouldn't hurt children was a lie. And now ADHD is a lie.

00:21:35.820 At this point, you have to ask yourself, why would you trust the psychiatric industry ever again?

00:21:44.400 They are lying about everything. They are constantly lying. And these are not lies of little

00:21:52.020 consequence. Millions of people, especially children, have been hurt, often permanently.

00:21:58.260 The only winner in this process, as always, has been the pharmaceutical industry, which has convinced

00:22:02.820 millions of parents to buy their drugs and medicalize a completely normal aspect of the 0.98

00:22:07.980 human condition. These are all points that some of us have been making for years, even decades.

00:22:13.900 We were shouted down as science deniers. And now we get the inevitable missive in some corporate

00:22:19.140 media outlet unceremoniously announcing that the people they defamed and insulted were actually right

00:22:24.940 all along. That's what this New York Times article amounts to. And I get no pleasure out of it.

00:22:31.580 I find it infuriating. And all you can do going forward is to treat the self-described experts

00:22:38.960 in the field of psychiatry and in the big pharma with maximum contempt and skepticism,

00:22:48.940 especially when they're trying to convince you to drug yourself or your child. Just be prepared for

00:22:54.520 the inevitable backlash that will follow when you don't go along with the next wonder drug they're

00:22:59.420 pushing for you or your children. First, they'll call you a science denier. Then they'll try to

00:23:05.140 censor you on social media. And then many years later, without giving away a dime of the money

00:23:11.280 they've made from their fraud or suffering any consequences whatsoever, they'll tell the New York

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00:24:46.980 Daily Wire reports, the president of El Salvador, Naive Bukele, and Trump administration officials

00:24:51.360 tore into CNN reporter Caitlin Collins after she asked if there are plans to return to the United States

00:24:56.080 an illegal alien and suspected MS-13 gang member who was recently deported. The exchange came as Trump

00:25:01.300 hosted Bukele in the Oval Office on Monday with the two discussing immigration and the ongoing

00:25:04.880 agreement between the two nations which allows the United States to deport criminal illegal aliens

00:25:09.100 to an El Salvadoran prison facility. Collins questioned President Donald Trump on the case of

00:25:14.120 Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien and suspected MS-13 gang member who was deported to El Salvador and is

00:25:20.100 now being held in the country's terrorism confinement center, a massive prison holding tens of thousands of

00:25:25.580 cartel and gang members. And Caitlin Collins was asking about this. And in fact, this clip is pretty

00:25:36.260 entertaining because Trump brings into the conversation, you know, half of his cabinet. He's

00:25:42.740 got the whole Trump administration kind of gangs up to respond to this line of questioning from

00:25:49.760 Caitlin Collins. And let's let's watch some of that. He had been illegally in our country. And in 2019,

00:25:57.720 two courts, an immigration court and an appellate immigration court ruled that he was a member of MS-13

00:26:05.060 and he was illegally in our country. So as Pam mentioned, there's an illegal alien from El Salvador.

00:26:12.760 So with respect to you, he's a citizen of El Salvador. So it's very arrogant even for American 1.00

00:26:21.140 media to suggest that we would even tell El Salvador how to handle their own citizens as a starting point.

00:26:26.580 As two immigration courts found that he was a member of MS-13, when President Trump declared MS-13 to be a

00:26:32.700 foreign terrorist organization, that meant that he was no longer eligible under federal law, which I'm sure 0.56

00:26:38.780 you know, you're very familiar with the INA, that he was no longer eligible for any form of immigration

00:26:43.320 relief in the United States. So he had a deportation order that was valid, which meant that under our

00:26:49.340 law, he's not even allowed to be present in the United States. I don't understand what the confusion

00:26:53.720 is. This individual is a citizen of El Salvador. He was illegally in the United States and was returned

00:26:59.440 to his country. That's where you deport people back to their country of origin, except for Venezuela that 0.97

00:27:04.100 wasn't refusing to take people back or places like that. I can tell you this, Mr. President,

00:27:08.320 no, the foreign policy of the United States is conducted by the President of the United States,

00:27:12.640 not by a court. And no court in the United States has a right to conduct the foreign policy of the

00:27:17.760 United States. It's that simple. So we've got Pam Bondi, Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, all getting in

00:27:24.180 on the action there. And they're right, of course, about everything they said. The main point here,

00:27:28.040 as Rubio emphasized, is that this guy is a citizen of El Salvador, and he is now back in El Salvador.

00:27:34.200 The idea that an illegal alien should be returned from his home country back into our country is

00:27:40.820 absurd. He's not a citizen here. He's a citizen of the country that he's now residing in. And so it's 0.96

00:27:46.740 up to El Salvador what they do with him. It's not really our concern. They'll figure it out. He is an

00:27:55.680 El Salvador citizen. I also appreciated this moment from Bukele talking about the just incredible

00:28:05.180 turnaround in his country that went from one of the most violent and dangerous countries in the world

00:28:10.680 to one of the safest. And he has a line here that I really appreciated. Let's listen to it.

00:28:16.020 We're very happy, and we're very eager to help. We know that you have a crime problem, a terrorism 0.99

00:28:26.680 problem that you need help with. And we're a small country, but if we can help, we can do it. And we

00:28:32.120 actually turned the capital of the world, that was the Journalist College, right, capital of the world

00:28:38.920 to the safest country, the Western Hemisphere. And, you know, they sometimes they say that we

00:28:45.480 imprisoned thousands. I like to say that we actually liberated millions. So, you know, like, it's very

00:28:53.140 good. Who gave him that line? Do you think I can use that?

00:28:59.340 So they say we imprisoned thousands, but we actually liberated millions is what he said, which is a great

00:29:04.440 line. And it's true. Law and order is liberation. This is what all of the dimwit anarchists in our

00:29:12.140 country get wrong. It's what they don't understand. They don't really understand anything, but they 1.00

00:29:15.740 don't understand this, that law is freedom. You cannot have freedom without law, without order,

00:29:21.540 without the enforcement of law. If you think of freedom as the absence of law, as the absence of

00:29:27.680 accountability, as just the ability to do whatever you want, well, then many Central and South American

00:29:34.040 countries today are very free by that, you know, logic. There are a lot of countries in Africa that

00:29:39.920 are free in that sense, in the sense that they are failed states with very little law and order so

00:29:45.560 that you can, you know, commit crimes without fear of being held responsible. Haiti. Haiti is the

00:29:52.840 freest country on earth because there's basically no law. It's a failed state. But would anyone consider

00:30:01.600 Haiti free? I mean, are the people of Haiti enjoying freedom? What about the people of

00:30:06.420 Ethiopia or Somalia? Is that freedom? Well, no, it's not. That's oppression. That's misery. That's not

00:30:11.960 freedom. And that's because the freedom, freedom is not actually the ability to just do whatever you

00:30:19.080 want. As Pope John Paul II said, freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. It's the ability

00:30:26.560 to do what you ought. Now, freedom is the ability to do what you should be doing. It's the ability to

00:30:32.360 live a good life. And if you do not have the ability to live a good life, then you do not have

00:30:41.120 freedom. And nobody is living a good life in Haiti. Very few people were living good lives in El Salvador 0.57

00:30:47.540 prior to the new regime taking effect. The law should enable and facilitate the good of its citizens.

00:30:56.260 It should enable its citizens to live good lives, to do what they ought. That is freedom. And

00:31:03.080 that's how you have freedom, not by absence of laws, but through, through the law.

00:31:11.540 And El Salvador is a great example of that. All right, Cory Booker posted a video the other day.

00:31:19.960 And before we get to that, let's just recall something. It was only two weeks ago that Booker

00:31:26.200 had the longest filibuster in the history of Congress, speaking for 25 hours straight.

00:31:32.280 And he did all that for no reason, as you remember. He wasn't even trying to block any particular law.

00:31:37.100 He wasn't protesting any particular policy. He just did it purely as a publicity stunt.

00:31:42.560 Well, the great thing is that it was just two weeks ago that it happened. And it's like it never

00:31:47.580 happened. Nobody cares. Nobody's talking about it. It made no impact. It didn't even really increase

00:31:54.620 Cory Booker's profile at all. The vibes for Cory Booker have not shifted. Everything is the same.

00:32:01.960 Like, I had to remind you that that filibuster happened because you forgot, right? We all forgot.

00:32:05.660 So it was for absolutely nothing. Nothing at all. Nothing was gained. Not even for Cory Booker

00:32:11.740 himself. Not even his own profile and brand, because politicians have brands now. That didn't

00:32:20.440 even change. Nothing changed, which is great. But here's Booker again. He posted this clip from a

00:32:26.980 town hall over the weekend, and he obviously thought that it was very inspirational. Here it is.

00:32:32.540 I have a question about LGBTQ rights because, as you know, we get attacked, like, every time

00:32:40.360 a fascist government comes in. They say they're protecting kids, but it's not about the kids.

00:32:45.400 We can't even live our truth because me going out every single day as who I am puts me in

00:32:50.540 danger. So my question, Senator, to you is what are we going to do about protecting LGBTQ rights 0.89

00:32:56.320 and trans rights for those who don't have a voice that can speak up? This is not a costume. 0.63

00:33:01.700 This is who I am, and I am not about to let him tell me who I am.

00:33:07.080 Thank you for coming. So first of all, can I have a hug? Yes.

00:33:11.260 Thank you. So this is what really bothers me about bullies. They often will first target

00:33:25.820 the people they believe and perceive are the weakest. And from Stonewall to Harvey Milk to

00:33:32.380 some of the activists that lead Garden State Pride right now, they make a mistake when it

00:33:36.800 comes to the New Jersey LGBTQ community if they think we're weak. And I will tell you this.

00:33:44.480 I will stand with you. If they come after trans Americans or LGBTQ Americans,

00:33:50.600 they're going to have to come through this United States senator.

00:33:54.720 He did say we, didn't he? They make a mistake about the LGBT community if they think that we

00:34:00.800 are weak? I didn't hear that wrong. Now, okay, that's not anything we didn't already know, but

00:34:07.500 it's nice that Cory Booker is finally admitting it. I think that's new. Is that the first time he

00:34:13.580 admitted it? Even that has, he just, I mean, he came out of the closet, didn't he? Didn't he just,

00:34:19.860 didn't that just happen? Again, not a surprise by any stretch of the imagination. But,

00:34:27.440 and even that, like, Cory Booker just came out of the closet and it got no headlines. Nobody cares.

00:34:34.640 No one cares about this guy. It's great. So, anyway, the flamboyant gay guy there, not Cory 1.00

00:34:42.280 Booker, the other one, he's got lipstick and a wig and it looks like goggles for some reason. 0.72

00:34:48.580 Maybe he just came from the pool. I don't know. It looks like he was out snorkeling.

00:34:52.260 He identifies as a scuba diver. He's scuba curious. He's scuba fluid. And, anyway, that guy says that

00:35:03.260 when he goes out as himself every day, he's in danger, which is obviously nonsense. As I've

00:35:08.240 outlined so many times, there is no hate crime epidemic against trans people or gay people or

00:35:13.560 any other letter in the LGBT alphabet soup. It's all made up. It's all fake. Actually, 1.00

00:35:19.660 if you look at the numbers, you'll see that, for example, the murder rate for trans people is lower

00:35:26.380 than the general population. It's actually safer to be LGBT than it is to be straight.

00:35:32.500 That's what the stats say, anyway. And I'm not implying that straight people are getting attacked

00:35:36.580 for being straight. You know, people who speak out against the LGBT community do get attacked and do

00:35:41.900 get threatened. And I know that from experience, at least on the threat part of it, I know from

00:35:48.260 experience. But I'm not saying there's some kind of epidemic of anti-straight hate crimes.

00:35:55.160 All I'm saying is that these hysterical claims of danger faced by LGBT people are nonsensical.

00:36:00.900 There's no evidence of it. It's not grounded in reality. The stats do not bear that out at all.

00:36:07.740 And you know that just based on how these people carry themselves. You know, it's like I was saying

00:36:13.280 this on Friday, I think, about the BLM narrative, that we always hear that, you know, young black men

00:36:18.700 are terrified of the cops, terrified of what will happen during traffic stops and everything else,

00:36:24.160 terrified of driving while black, all this kind of stuff. But then you see the body cam footage of

00:36:30.900 these BLM martyrs. And what you see is the exact opposite of what they claim. You see behavior

00:36:38.480 that shows the exact opposite of fear. You see people going out of their way to turn a low stakes

00:36:47.320 non-violent interaction into a life or death struggle. The cops aren't doing that, right?

00:36:53.480 That's the BLM martyrs. That's what they do. And there are a million examples of this. George Floyd, 0.69

00:36:58.960 of course, is the most prominent. But I mean, think back to, remember that video from last year of a

00:37:06.460 woman chasing a cop down a hallway with a knife. The footage, it looks like something out of a horror

00:37:14.040 movie. And the cop shows up to do a welfare check. And this woman rushes out of the apartment 1.00

00:37:19.060 waving a butcher knife, again, like a horror film. And you watch that. And this is not someone afraid

00:37:29.680 of the cops. This is someone who is not nearly afraid enough. This is somebody pathologically

00:37:36.460 incapable of experiencing even just normal human levels of trepidation and anxiety. Because that's

00:37:45.040 what would stop you from trying to chase a cop with a knife while he's putting a gun at you. And

00:37:50.420 there's a similar thing here with the LGBT people. They say that they're so afraid,

00:37:55.000 they're so terrified. And yet they go out of their way to call attention to themselves. They go out of

00:38:02.820 their way to act as provocatively as possible. In a fascist, far-right dictatorship, as this guy

00:38:10.780 claims that we're living in, well, in that kind of country, a man is not going to leave the house 1.00

00:38:18.220 in lipstick, a wig, and bedazzled goggles. Okay, that's not what you do. If you're living in a

00:38:24.720 anti-gay fascist dictatorship, you're not going to leave the house looking like that. 0.99

00:38:32.340 That's not how people behave when they're in fear. That's like, I mean, that would be like 0.99

00:38:36.480 smearing pig's blood on yourself and jumping into the ocean and then flapping around like a 0.70

00:38:42.820 wounded seal and then claiming that you're doing that because you're afraid of sharks.

00:38:49.540 No, you're doing all that because apparently you're very confident that there are no sharks.

00:38:55.140 That's the kind of stunt you pull if you're really, really confident that there are no sharks within

00:39:00.900 a hundred miles of you. And every pride parade that you see is like this. It's like, it's really

00:39:10.380 the LGBT community's triumphant celebration of their own imperviousness. They think they're above 1.00

00:39:18.280 any rules or laws or standards of decorum and decency. They're flaunting their protected status in our

00:39:24.520 faces. That's what this is all about. You might say that everything these LGBT activists do 0.88

00:39:35.160 is an expression of their lack of fear, or at least their lack of shame. It's more a lack of shame,

00:39:42.900 I suppose, than a lack of fear, but these things are related. They are utterly shameless and obviously

00:39:48.280 not afraid to broadcast that fact to the world. And, you know, that's not to say that LGBT activists 0.54

00:39:54.960 fear nothing. They do fear quite a lot, actually. They fear the truth. They fear reality.

00:40:05.800 They fear any attempt to put any kind of moral standards in place. They fear themselves to a large

00:40:13.440 extent. So they fear a lot, but they definitely do not fear repercussions from the imaginary fascists

00:40:21.160 that they're constantly squealing about. I think that's the point. Let's get to the comment section.

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00:42:04.840 the parents were all good on the surface, but clearly we all know that at the end of the day,

00:42:08.480 they actually are to blame. It's impossible that they're blameless because they're his parents.

00:42:13.380 The heartbreak is so much more powerful than they tried when they tried their best and still fell

00:42:18.520 short. It shows the vast difficulty of being a good parent. You know, but I don't think that's true.

00:42:26.500 I don't think it's difficult to be a good parent. You say the vast difficulty of being a good parent.

00:42:34.680 I don't think it is. It's difficult to be a perfect parent. It's impossible actually, but

00:42:41.140 it's not difficult to be a good parent. If you love your child, if you care about your child's

00:42:49.240 well-being, if you care about his intellectual and moral formation, if you really put in the effort,

00:42:55.460 if you're really trying your best, as you say, if you actually are, then you're probably a good

00:43:03.080 parent. Not perfect, but good. If you're trying your best, I mean, actually trying your best,

00:43:11.220 not just claiming that you are, but actually trying your best, then you are a good parent.

00:43:17.080 Okay. It's, it's, it's, it's incredibly rare that you'll find two parents that are trying their

00:43:25.960 best, right? Two married parents, still married, trying their best and yet would still qualify as

00:43:36.340 bad parents. That's, that's, you don't, you don't encounter that very often. Almost every bad parent,

00:43:42.900 and there are a lot of them out there, they're bad because they aren't really trying. I mean,

00:43:47.780 that's basically what we mean by the term bad parent. We mean a parent who doesn't try, a parent

00:43:51.900 who has given up trying or never did try, a parent who is neglectful, whether, you know, in any sense,

00:44:02.100 morally, intellectually, emotionally, physically. And I think this is actually a very harmful

00:44:09.060 misconception. The idea that being a good parent is vastly difficult and that you could actually

00:44:13.900 try your best as a parent and still end up with a child who's in jail for murder by the age of 13

00:44:19.980 is just not true, or at least it's almost certainly not true. Okay. Do a survey of every

00:44:29.100 person under the age of 30 who's currently in prison for a serious crime. What percent of those

00:44:34.900 people do you think had two parents at home who loved their kids and were quote unquote trying

00:44:41.900 their best? What percent of the violent criminals in prison right now, really of any age, so not even

00:44:49.740 at any age, violent criminals in prison who had two loving parents in the home who were sincerely

00:44:57.180 trying their best. Is it even 5%? Can we imagine even 5% of violent criminals with two loving parents

00:45:06.840 in the home who were trying their best? I doubt it. I mean, I doubt it's even 5%. So that was my point

00:45:15.260 yesterday talking about this, this aspect of the show adolescence when they, you know, they wanted to

00:45:20.200 make sure this kid had good parents, attentive parents, because they want to send the message that,

00:45:24.440 well, this could happen to anybody. This could be your kid. And that's just, it's almost certainly

00:45:31.440 not true. And it's important that parents understand this because all that ends up happening is that

00:45:38.440 good parents, loving parents end up walking around with this kind of this anxiety, this almost hysteria,

00:45:47.920 this sense of panic that, you know, you make one mistake, you screw up on one thing, you make one

00:45:54.480 bad decision, uh, whatever, whatever it may be, you know, that, that you do that. And next thing you

00:46:03.160 know, your kid's going to be a serial killer. Like, like that's the, that's this anxiety that parents

00:46:09.120 walk around with, especially these days, uh, all the time. And you know, the, the whole parenting,

00:46:16.480 all the parenting books and all the, all the so-called parenting experts, and they've all made

00:46:22.140 a killing off of this anxiety where they're saying here, here's the perfect formula for being a good

00:46:28.140 parent. Follow this formula because if you don't, your kid's life will be destroyed, right? Even if they

00:46:35.000 don't end up being serial killers, uh, they will end up in therapy for the rest of their lives,

00:46:39.300 complaining about what a screw up you were. And, and it's, it's, it's just not, it's just not the

00:46:46.260 reality. Um, and I think that's important for us to understand. Let's see, Matt being a snob about

00:46:53.560 Stephen A. Smith not being able to run for president is super cringe. The vision of the founding fathers was

00:46:59.260 that anyone could hold the office. No, that, that was not the vision. Whose vision was that exactly?

00:47:08.500 Which founding father expressed this vision that literally anyone could be president?

00:47:14.760 Was that Thomas Jefferson? Yeah, I think it was Thomas Jefferson, right? I think, I think he was the

00:47:19.360 one who said that, um, his greatest dream is that one day a man with no leadership skills and no

00:47:24.800 relevant experience of any kind whose only professional talent is yelling about basketball

00:47:29.300 might become the leader of the entire country. Wasn't that, yeah, it was, it was Thomas Jefferson's

00:47:33.380 vision, wasn't it? The binder bit, it was funny, but Matt, it went on a little too long.

00:47:42.860 Well, yeah, you're talking to the guy who actually sat down and wrote and then delivered a 10 minute

00:47:47.100 monologue complaining about my wife buying goats. So yeah, it, it was funny, but it went on too long is

00:47:53.720 basically my whole career. That's describe that'll be on my gravestone. That's my life. That'll be on

00:48:00.920 my gravestone. It was funny, but it went on too long. Uh, finally, I added master and commander of

00:48:09.360 the far side of the world to my watch list. Uh, that's good because it's, um, you should, it's one

00:48:15.140 of my favorite movies of all time. I just forced my kids to watch it for like the third time. My 11 year

00:48:20.460 daughter boycotted and refused, but, uh, to watch it again, but the rest of the kids watched it and

00:48:25.360 it's a great film. Uh, it's a, it's about a British, British naval ship in the Pacific in 1805.

00:48:33.680 And, um, and it's, well, I'm not going to go into it. In fact, we're going to, I'm going to do a

00:48:38.380 separate video just on this, on this movie. You know, and I think it'll be a video that's

00:48:44.680 entertaining to about 10 people, but, uh, it's interesting to me anyway. So we're going to,

00:48:49.140 we're going to do that. It is a great, it is a great film. It's,

00:48:53.720 you can make an argument. It's the most underrated film of all time is master and commander. Um,

00:49:02.900 so it's kind of, it's the diametric opposite of the dark night, which is the most overrated film

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00:49:43.060 Over 60 years ago, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to travel into

00:49:49.020 space. And since that remarkable achievement, hundreds of people from 47 different countries

00:49:53.460 have made the journey into space. Uh, some have spent considerable length of lengths of time there.

00:49:59.000 Two astronauts were stranded in space for nine months and just returned home a few weeks ago,

00:50:02.800 thanks to Elon Musk and SpaceX. Three or four years ago, William Shatner made a brief trip to space

00:50:08.080 at the age of 90. Uh, Jeff Bezos has been to space. Michael Strahan has been to space. One of the guys

00:50:13.740 from the Dude Perfect YouTube channel has been to space. Going to space was an incredible achievement

00:50:19.880 60 years ago, and now it's something that a YouTuber can do. Now there are still, of course, many

00:50:25.900 mind-boggling achievements to be had in space. There's an infinite number, in fact. Lots and lots and

00:50:31.920 lots of history can still be made in space. But if you want to make it, you'll still, you'll have to

00:50:36.860 do something a little bit more than a suborbital flight at the age of space, because literally

00:50:41.800 hundreds of people have already done that and more. Uh, the next truly historic achievement in space

00:50:47.000 will have to occur somewhere past the moon, anywhere past the moon, as no human being has ever been

00:50:52.780 that far. At least that's what I thought. You know, I thought that when you have a 90-year-old

00:50:59.300 William Shatner taking a tourist trip into orbit, it just isn't possible anymore for anyone to make

00:51:05.760 history by also taking a tourist trip into orbit. But apparently I was wrong. Because yesterday,

00:51:12.140 six celebrity women, including Gayle King, Katy Perry, and Lauren Sanchez, who is the plastic fiance

00:51:17.920 of Jeff Bezos, took a Blue Origin rocket into space on a trip that lasted from takeoff to touchdown

00:51:23.840 less than 12 minutes in total. Now, it was, no doubt, a cool experience for those women.

00:51:30.680 It's an experience that I would love to have. Not one I'd want to have with those women, but one I'd

00:51:35.220 like to have in general. I'm sure it was a lot of fun. But according to the media, it was more than

00:51:40.200 just fun. It was somehow, someway, historic. Headlines across the corporate media trumpeted the news.

00:51:48.380 Vanity Fair declared, Lauren Sanchez, Katy Perry, Gayle King, and their historic all-women's space

00:51:53.600 flight land safely. People reported, Katy Perry, Gayle King, and Lauren Sanchez go to space and back

00:52:00.060 in historic all-female Blue Origin flight. NPR says, Katy Perry, Gayle King, and others reflect on

00:52:06.080 their brief but historic trip to space. Space.com. Katy Perry and Gayle King launched a space with four

00:52:12.600 others on historic all-female Blue Origin rocket flight. And many other headlines use this language.

00:52:19.020 The mainstream media was on hand, covering the whole ordeal like it was a major newsworthy event.

00:52:23.820 All the corporate media outlets had reporters and anchors on the ground. The Associated Press was

00:52:28.500 especially excited. Watch.

00:52:31.320 The vibe of the New Shepard crew this morning, now that the morning is finally here.

00:52:36.480 Oh, there is so much energy here. In fact, I've already heard happy screams coming from inside the

00:52:41.880 Astronaut Training Center. And these women are feeling all the feels, right? This is 0.99

00:52:46.020 a very human emotion to feel. Energy, excitement, a dash of anxiety as you kind of teeter on the edge

00:52:52.940 of history. But these women are all rock stars in their own field. 0.99

00:52:59.280 Now, needless to say, any reporter who uses the phrase feeling all the feels should immediately and

00:53:05.280 permanently lose their press credentials and their right to vote and their citizenship. But

00:53:10.800 lots of other people in the media were embarrassing themselves during this ordeal. Oprah Winfrey

00:53:15.440 actually wept as she watched the all-female team launch into space for a trip that would last for

00:53:21.600 approximately half the length of an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. And there she is crying there.

00:53:28.280 Just such a historic moment. Katy Perry, one of the women on this crew, was particularly dramatic. 0.87

00:53:34.680 Before the flight, she bragged about the historical journey that she was about to undergo. Listen.

00:53:41.320 Hi, guys. It's one hour and five minutes till we launch. We are the Taking Up Space crew.

00:53:51.600 There's six of us, all women. It's a historical flight to space because it's the first time that all women 1.00

00:53:59.760 have been in space. And I'm so excited for this launch. I have never felt this much love

00:54:09.720 like I have felt today. I feel like my message that I'm getting is you never know the amount of love

00:54:17.260 that you have inside of you until the day you launch. And I'm feeling that love. I'm sending you love.

00:54:25.420 Please come check it out on blueorigin.com slash live. Watch us go up. Watch us land safely.

00:54:34.160 And for my Katie Katz, I have a special reveal coming to you.

00:54:40.480 All right. Okay. Shut up, Katie. So that was not terribly eloquent, but at least it was better

00:54:45.480 than what she said in an interview with Elle magazine a few days earlier. Quoting her directly,

00:54:50.620 this is what she said. Quote, space is going to finally be glam. Let me tell you something.

00:54:57.640 If I could take glam up with me, I would do that. We're going to put the ass in astronaut. 0.99

00:55:03.300 Yes, we're going to put the ass in astronaut. So we went from one small step for man to 1.00

00:55:10.420 putting the ass in astronaut in the span of just a couple of generations. 0.98

00:55:16.720 Katie Perry, in other words, had certainly set the bar high for herself. She was so insufferably 1.00

00:55:21.060 stupid and ditzy before the flight that everybody wondered if she could come up with anything even 1.00

00:55:26.160 dumber when she landed. And fortunately, she delivered. The brief exposure to radiation had 1.00

00:55:31.760 plunged her IQ down to Arctic levels, enabling her to come up with this gem after she landed. Listen.

00:55:38.540 It is the highest high and it is surrender to the unknown, trust. And this whole journey is not

00:55:50.660 just about going to space. It's the training. It's the team. It's the whole thing. I couldn't

00:55:59.020 recommend this experience more. This is like up there with all the, you know, different tools that

00:56:05.580 I've learned in my life from meditation to the Hoffman process. This is up there because what

00:56:10.900 you're doing is you're fine. You're like really finding the love for yourself because you got to

00:56:15.420 trust in yourself on this journey. And then you're feeling the love when you come down for sure.

00:56:19.960 And you're feeling that strength. So I feel really connected to that strong, divine feminine right

00:56:26.180 now. By the way, you're such a badass. I love that the month of April, you're like, I'm going to space

00:56:30.040 and I'm launching my tour. You know, Sir Edmund Hillary, sometime after becoming the first person

00:56:37.560 to climb Mount Everest in 1953, is reported to have said it is not the mountain we conquer, but

00:56:43.980 ourselves. And his point was that achieving any great thing requires us to subordinate ourselves

00:56:49.860 and overcome our own weakness and our own frailty. Now compare that to the quote just offered by

00:56:55.380 great explorer Katy Perry, who says, quote, you're like really feeling the love for yourself because

00:57:00.720 you got to trust in yourself on this journey. So Edmund Hillary found that achieving something

00:57:05.520 great required the subordination of the self. Katy Perry found that it requires an even more intense

00:57:11.000 focus on and worship of the self, along with the divine feminine, whatever the hell that's supposed 0.62

00:57:17.060 to mean. Now it makes sense that Katy Perry came to this sort of opposite conclusion after her historic

00:57:22.920 accomplishment, mainly because there was no historic accomplishment. She did not accomplish anything at

00:57:30.680 all, and neither did anyone else on the all-female crew. A crew that was not really a crew any more than 0.76

00:57:37.420 I'm part of the crew when I take an American Airlines flight from Nashville to DC. Okay, they were passengers

00:57:42.900 on a tourist trip. They weren't even the first tourist to go on this trip. They missed the chance to be the

00:57:48.740 first tourist in space by about 25 years, as the first space tourism flight happened in the spring of

00:57:54.420 2001. So nothing historic happened here at all. They were not the first female astronauts because they 0.98

00:58:02.320 aren't astronauts, and women have been going into space since the 1960s. In fact, get this, this wasn't 1.00

00:58:13.060 even actually the first all-female space crew. That happened not in 2025, but in 1963, when Valentina 0.98

00:58:22.600 Tereshkova took a solo trip into space where she orbited the Earth 48 times. It was an all-female 1.00

00:58:28.560 flight crew. So even if you're inclined to give a woman credit for being a pioneer because she's the

00:58:34.240 first woman to do something that men have already done a bunch of times, this still would not even come 1.00

00:58:40.220 close to qualifying. This is like celebrating a random, you know, female Delta pilot as if she's

00:58:46.040 Amelia Earhart. Never mind that Amelia Earhart is one of the most overrated historical figures of all

00:58:50.580 time. Not a great aviator. Not even the best female aviator of her time. Only reason anyone remembers her 1.00

00:58:56.900 name is because she crashed into the Pacific, which is hardly an achievement. But in any case, however

00:59:01.660 historical Amelia Earhart was or wasn't, these women are not historic figures at all. In reality, these are a

00:59:08.300 bunch of rich ladies who got to take a sightseeing tour on a rocket because their friend's boyfriend 1.00

00:59:14.000 is Jeff Bezos. So in the pantheon of female heroes, Katy Perry is not exactly Joan of Arc. In terms of

00:59:21.900 historic significance, this trip is about as monumental as like being the 100th customer to ride the

00:59:27.740 Batman roller coaster at Six Flags on a random Saturday. Historians will look back on this journey the

00:59:34.680 way they look back on your Uncle Jim's trip to the Grand Canyon last August. All that said, again,

00:59:41.280 I have no doubt that it was a cool experience. It was not historic or significant in any way,

00:59:48.220 but it was still, I'm sure, cool. More than cool, it must have been profound and quite moving.

00:59:55.700 It's a shame then that it was wasted on a woman with the wisdom and intellectual depth of a newborn 1.00

01:00:00.460 poodle. And that is why all of the media outlets claiming that Katy Perry's trip into space was

01:00:06.340 historic and Katy Perry herself are all today canceled. That'll do it for the show today.

01:00:14.220 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 15, 2025

Ep. 1576 - The 'Experts' Are Finally Admitting That ADHD Is A Scam

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