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

Episode Date: September 14, 2023

Today on the Matt Walsh Show, it's been revealed that some very popular cold medicines that many people have been using for years are effectively useless. They don't work at all, reportedly. This is just the latest example of Big Pharma making billions on a product that doesn't do what it's supposed to do. This is a bigger story than you may think, and I'll explain why. Also, Apple goes for gold in the cringe olympics with a new skit touting their green initiatives. A prominent professor has been revealed as a fraud after he faked data that was supposed to prove systemic racism. And the internet is on fire with the news that Matt Walsh will appear on this season of Dancing With The Stars. Dance has been my passion for my whole life and I'm excited to share it with the world.   Ep.1222   - - -    Click here to join the member exclusive portion of my show: https://utm.io/ueSEm    - - -    DailyWire+:     Watch Episodes 1-4 of Convicting a Murderer here: https://bit.ly/3RbWBPL   Become a DailyWire+ member to watch shows, documentaries, movies, and more : https://bit.ly/3JR6n6d   Represent the Sweet Baby Gang by shopping my merch here: https://bit.ly/3EbNwyj    - - -    Today’s Sponsors:   Innovation Refunds - Learn more about Innovation Refunds at https://bit.ly/3LEwYnO.    PureTalk - Switch to PureTalk and get 50% off your first month! Promo code WALSH https://bit.ly/42PmqaX   Good Ranchers - Get $25 off your order PLUS free ground beef for 2 years! Promo code Walsh at checkout. https://bit.ly/3UywSAT    Headrest Safe - Save $100 today with code WALSH at http://www.theheadrestsafe.com    - - -   Socials:   Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3Rv1VeF   Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3KZC3oA   Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3eBKjiA   Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RQp4rs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today on the Matt Walls show, it's been revealed that some very popular cold medicines that many people have been using for years are effectively useless. They don't work at all, reportedly. This is just the latest example of big pharma making billions on a product that doesn't do what it's supposed to do. It's a bigger story than you may think, and I'll explain why. Also, Apple goes for gold in the cringe Olympics with a new skit touting their green initiatives. A prominent professor has been revealed as a fraud after he fake data that was supposed to prove systemic racism. And the internet is on fire with the news that Matt Walsh, will appear on this season of Dancing with the Stars. Dance has been my passion for my whole life, and I'm excited to share it with the world. I'll talk about that today, and much more on The Matt Wall Show. Well, you know a company is looking out for you when they actually upgrade your service and don't charge you for it. This is great news for new and current Pure Talk customers.

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That's PureTalk.com. Walsh, Pure Talk. Wireless for Americans, buy Americans. When the government suddenly announces a recall or even talks about pulling a product from the shelves, it's normal to assume that some unexpected defect has recently been discovered. Maybe the feds have noticed that a car's airbags don't deploy during a crash, or that a certain brand of fish tank is prone to spontaneous implosion. Whatever the case, you're inclined to think that some new information has come to light that necessitates the recall.

and in most circumstances, that's true. But there's one industry, Big Pharma, that has consistently been the exception to this rule. This is an industry that happens to enjoy a lot of special treatment from the federal government, including immunity from lawsuits. In the pharmaceutical industry, a recall doesn't necessarily mean that some catastrophic defect has just been identified.

Instead, it often means that there's been a known problem for a very long time, one that's been deliberately hidden from the public, until finally it's impossible to deny any long. After COVID, most of the country realizes that this kind of thing can happen and does happen all the time. What they might not realize because there's a mountain of propaganda designed to hide this fact is just how frequent this is. So here's the latest example. Right now, the pharmaceutical industry is debating whether to issue one of the biggest recalls in modern history.

The recall would affect a wide array of over-the-counter cold medicines, including some products bearing the brand names of mucinex, Tylenol, pseudofed, NyQuil, Benadryl. The reason? Well, according to the government, these products don't work at all. Now, to be clear, as we'll explain in a second, some Benadryl and Sudafed products do work, according to the government. We're talking about a certain but very popular subset of these over-the-counter products that use a specific ingredient.

At the same time, if you're one of the hundreds of millions of people who have consumed these products over the past decade, this is a big headliner, or at least it should be for you. I mean, you paid money for a product that you thought worked on assurances from the government and Big Pharma. You ingested this product into your body based on those assurances. And now you're being told that these pills had all the effectiveness of like eating a cookie and drinking some warm milk. One of the first questions you think to ask under these circumstances is when exactly the regulators and the pharmaceutical companies figured out that these products are completely useless and in effect.

effective. If you listen to most news reports on the subject, you'd be left with the impression that some kind of new information came out. But that impression would be completely wrong, yet it's what they're presenting. So here, for example, is CBS News giving off this impression. Popular over-the-counter medicines that many of us use for cold and allergies, they don't work. That's according to an FDA committee looking into phenylophrine. It is the main ingredient used in over-the-counter nasal decongestants that many of you probably have in your medicine cabinet right now. I know I do. It's in pseudafed PE, mucinex sinus max, theraflu, Vix dequil, Nyquil, severe cold and flu, among others. The committee looking into the drug says it's

ineffective in oral medications. If the FDA ends up agreeing with the committee, those products with that in it could be removed from store shelves. In a statement, the Consumer Health Care Products Association says the ingredient is, the ingredient is. is safe and effective. Talk to your local pharmacist, local provider, about what the alternatives are, because there are that can be used effectively. And the panel of advisors told the FDA that using the drug at higher doses is not an option because it can raise blood pressure to potentially dangerous levels.

What's left unmentioned in that report is that this significant alleged defect in these drugs, the fact that they don't do anything, has been widely known for years. It's not new information. Nearly a decade ago in 2015, researchers at the University of Florida said that they found conclusive evidence that many non-prescription decongestants didn't work. Quote, scientific evidence continues to show that the most popular products on the market containing phenolephrine are ineffective. Phenolephrine, to be clear, is used in certain drugs like over-the-counter pseudofed. It's not used in the brand of pseudofed that you have to get from the pharmacy.

and we'll talk about that in a second. The researchers continued, quote, we think the evidence supports that phenolephrine status as a safe and effective over-the-counter product should be changed. We're looking out for the consumer and he or she needs to know that science says that oral phenolephrine does not work for the majority of people. Now, that was back during the Obama administration. Again, that was in 2015.

The findings raised a lot of uncomfortable questions, such as, why would the FDA approve a drug that's effectively a placebo? Why were regulators still allowing big pharma to sell it? Why were people continuing to buy drugs that didn't do anything? Where are the prosecutors? Where is the court system? I mean, isn't it fraud to advertise products that don't work? Should there be penalties for making billions of dollars off of something that doesn't do what it's supposed to do?

By refusing to do anything about phenolephrine, the federal government dodged all these questions. They also helped cover up their role in causing the problem in the first place. You know, you rarely hear this discussed, but the supposedly useless ingredient in question, fetolephrine, wasn't always used in medications like pseudofed. 20 years ago, the key ingredient in the most popular form of pseudofedad was a very different decongestant called pseudophedrine. And this ingredient, we could be reasonably confident, actually does work. But in 2006, the federal government made it a lot harder to get real pseudofed with this

ingredient. Congress passed a law, effectively requiring people to, you know, undergo a background check before they could walk out of the store with it. Real Sudafed was no longer in over-the-counter medication after this law. Before that, it was. And the justification for this restriction, ostensibly, was that they were trying to stop people from using the ingredient to make meth. We'll be taking a lot of dangerous drug kingpins off the streets,

they told us, if we just take this kind of pseudofed and we put it behind the pharmacist's counter. Once Congress passed that law, Big Pharma needed an alternative. Most customers don't want to wait in line for a pharmacist every time they need a decongest. They don't want to have to, you know, they don't want to go through all that. So they'll leave the CVS without making a purchase. So very quickly, Big Pharma came out with a new form of pseudofed using a different ingredient called phenolephrine.

Big Pharma and the federal government told us that it was the best of both worlds. This new form of pseudofed can't be used to make meth. At the same time, we were assured it's just as effective as real pseudofed. Now, shortly after that law was passed, there were reasons to doubt the narrative that the government was pushing. For one thing, because of all these changes, a lot of innocent people were arrested for no reason. One of them, just as one example, was named Tim Nouveau. And he was charged with a federal crime for buying too much clareton. He wanted to get some extra pills for his son who was going away to camp.

And in response, local officials arrested the man. They didn't care that he wasn't making meth, and he wasn't. him anyway, because he was collateral damage, I suppose, in the larger meth war, which this legislation would help the federal government win. Nearly two decades later, we learned that nothing we were told turned out to be true. For one thing, meth has never been easier or cheaper to obtain in this country than it is right now. It's not coming from domestic meth labs, for the most part. Instead, it's coming from Mexico across a border that the federal government has deliberately left open.

And on top of that, according to the government, the substitute pseudofed and related drugs were not effective, as we were promised they were. They're useless. The new narrative is that Big Pharma made billions of dollars every year selling products that did not work, and they knew it. The federal government let them do it.

Why are they telling us now? You know, is anything they're telling us true? That's a question we can't answer because both big pharma and federal regulators have lied so routinely, so consistently that there's no reason to take anything they say at face value. If recent history is any indication, it's probably not a good sign for us. I mean, normally when the federal government says a drug doesn't work, there are two possibilities when they say this. The first possibility is that they're trying to drive up sales of some other drug. We saw that during COVID. Don't take that therapeutic. It's a horse tranquilizer. Take our shot instead. In the case of these decongestants, there's long been a push to require prescriptions for these. You know, in various states, activists and politicians have said that it's not enough to hide these decongestions behind the counter and to track their sale.

They say that it's necessary to require people to get a prescription first. This has been going on for a while. Here's one report in Indiana from a decade ago, for example, watch. Suduophedrin is one of the main ingredients in making methamphetamine. And some agencies want it off the shelves. But many are discussing whether this issue is a law enforcement situation only or if it should affect the medical field as well. News 10, Sarah Schaefer has more. In 2013, one box of pseudofedrine was sold about every 15 seconds.

That's according to officials with the Indiana State Police. They're one of the agencies in the group known as Indiana's Coalition Against Meth-Macon. meds. Along with them, the mayor of Tara Hote. It's a coalition of multiple groups across the state of Indiana that want to encourage the legislature to make this change, make it a prescription med so that we can fight the meth problem that we have in Indiana. So this is the first possibility for why they're pulling these drugs or they're gearing up potentially to pull them anyway. Maybe it's part of a larger effort to shift these

decongestants to prescription model so that more people are seeing. doctors and pharmacists, and then also, by the way, there's more money being made by everybody involved in that case. That's one theory. The other possibility is that the FDA's fraud simply couldn't go on any longer because the evidence that they're lying about these drugs effectiveness was becoming too overwhelming. And if that's the case, it wouldn't exactly be the first time something like this has happened. It was just a couple of years ago that the FDA unanimously approved an Alzheimer's drug called Aduhlm that didn't work. This is one of the expensive drugs available on the market. It costs more than $50,000 per year per customer.

But the approval process didn't go as smoothly as the FDA and the drug maker called Biogen would have liked. Several of the FDA's experts resigned in protest after the agency approved Adahelm, even though there was no evidence that it did anything to actually treat Alzheimer's. Here's one of the experts who quit. Watch. Does Aegehelm really do anything to stop symptoms? So the new drug that the FDA approved in June targets amyloid plaques very effectively. Unfortunately, the drug doesn't seem to have any clear effect on the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Aaron Kesselheim is Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He was on the FDA advisory panel on Aja Helm until he quit in protest when the agency gave the drug a green light.

a move he calls probably the worst drug approval decision in recent U.S. history. But how can you say definitively that it doesn't work any more than the FDA could say definitively that it does? You can't say definitively that it doesn't work. You can't say definitively that it does work either. And in that circumstance, you need to do some more testing of the drug. The system in our country is that in order for a drug to be approved by the FDA, it has to show substantial evidence. that the drug actually does work. And in this case, there isn't good evidence

that the drug works. As you just heard, the entire premise of the drug was that you can cure Alzheimer's by removing so-called sticky plaques in the brain. But it later emerged in the research, supporting that theory, which appeared in Nature magazine, that it later emerged as all this was doctored. On top of that, serious side effects of the drug emerge,

including brain bleeding. So why do the FDA approve the drug? if there's no evidence that it actually works. It turns out the agency had a close relationship with the drug company, Biogen, that made the drug throughout the approval process. This relationship, Congress later determined, broke the FDA's own rules,

but it worked out for biogen. And we see this phenomenon again and again. The federal government tells us that a drug works and that they know exactly how it works. And by the time we find out that they're lying, the drug company has made a ton of money off of it. We saw something similar happen with S&S. SSRIs. For decades, we were told that low serotonin levels were linked to depression. Therefore,

SSRIs would fix that problem by allowing more serotonin in the brain. Even as mass shootings and depression and suicide rates all went up, as more and more people were put on these drugs, we were assured by Big Pharma and the media that despite all appearances, the SSRIs are working. That was what the science said, they claimed. And if you disputed it, you're some kind of anti-science troglodyte. It only emerged last year that, in fact, low serotonin isn't linked to depression at all. And somehow that wasn't a major scandal. SSRIs, which stands for selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, were never pulled from the shelves, even though the official position of the scientific community is that low serotonin doesn't cause depression. There were no massive

class action lawsuits that bankrupted the companies that made billions of dollars. from these SSRIs that don't do anything. Just as biogen hasn't been held accountable for its worthless Alzheimer's drugs. And just as no one in the Sackler family went to prison for lying about the effect of the addictiveness of opioids, for all those reasons, we can assume Big Pharma and the government will continue to lie to us. If they don't face consequences, they have no reason to change what they're doing. That's why at this moment, our political leaders are gearing up for a new round of COVID

decrees. These decrees have already arrived in Canada where public health officials are now calling for children as young as six months old to receive COVID shots. Now, there are no clinical trials or studies that demonstrate that it's safe or necessary in any way to give COVID shots to six-month-old children. Not a single one, not a single study. And to be honest, even if they had conducted trials, and even if there were these studies, there would be reason to doubt those as well. I mean, we're now at the point where whatever the class of drug we're talking about, whether it's Alzheimer's treatments, COVID shots, SSRIs, all the gender transition drugs on the market, even decongestants. Whatever the drug is, you could just assume you're being lied to. If you consume drugs that big

pharma and the federal government are pushing, you're running the risk that 10 or 20 years from now, you'll learn what that drug was actually doing. And it might not be what you thought it was doing. and you'll learn what the actual side effects might be. Whatever you take and whatever your kids take, you simply have to factor that doubt into the equation. You have to keep in mind that if something bad happens down the line, you'll be told that it's breaking news. No one saw it coming, even though the people who made the drug,

in fact, knew it was coming. Now, is this an ideal situation from a public health perspective? Of course not. but it's the system we have. And if there's any upside to the news this week, it's that no one, not even people who are just shopping for a decongestion, can deny it anymore. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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There's no upfront charge since they don't get paid unless you get paid. go to Innovationrefonds.com or dial 1843 refunds. That's Innovationrefonds.com or 1843 refunds. Terms and conditions apply. So we'll start our five headlines, our five-ish headlines, with what may be, what may be, may be the cringiest corporate virtue signal of all time. And I realize that's a bold statement. I understand they're competing with some real heavy hitters in that arena,

you know, to make a statement like that, the cringiest corporate virtue signal all time. I mean, you're in the arena now with Bud Light, the reigning champion. But I think it may emerge victorious with this. So first, here's the article from Business Insider. It says, you might be surprised to learn that, to learn, there was a Jeff Bezos cameo in Star Trek Beyond. You probably missed it. His face was hidden behind an alien mask after all. Not to be outdone, Apple CEO Tim Cook, acted opposite Oscar winner Octavia Spencer, Sons mask, in a surprise skit. during Apple's big iPhone event event on Tuesday. Apple held its fall event wonderlust on Tuesday,

where it unveiled new products, including the iPhone 15 and new Apple Watches. This year's event, however, featured a rare skit on Apple's sustainability initiatives starring Cook and Spencer, who also stars in the Apple TV drama series Truth Be Told. Now, okay, before we play the clip, so this is their event to roll out the iPhone, so we're on the iPhone 15 now. which, I mean, it's a cliche at this point to point this out, but it's also true that this thing is exactly the same as the iPhone 14, which is exactly the same as the iPhone 13 and the 12 and the 11. I mean, this is, and it's relevant, too, because to what you're about to see, because this is a company that is totally out of ideas. They have not had, like, what was the last interesting, exciting innovation that we've seen from Apple? It's been a very long time. They haven't had any interesting. interesting ideas in many years. So the pitch for every new iPhone is basically just, hey, remember the iPhone you have right now?

Well, you should get this one. It's exactly the same. If you like that iPhone you have now, well, then you'll love this one because it's literally the same phone. So there's no innovation here. There's nothing new. I've mentioned before Ross Douthit's book from a few years ago called The Decadent Society, which outlines his theory, that we aren't really. We're not exactly collapsing as a society.

It's not some big, dramatic collapse that we're experiencing, he says, but rather we are languishing in decadence. And by decadence, he means that we are treading water. We're going around in circles, repeating ourselves. We're just out of ideas. And the constantly updated iPhone that's no different from the iPhone before is just a perfect example of this. And this means that Apple has to look for other ways. to get attention and to make themselves seem fresh. And I guess to try to incentivize people

to buy their products. And that's where this skit comes from. Let's watch a little bit of it. I hope we didn't keep you waiting. Mother Nature, welcome to Apple. How was the weather getting in? The weather was however I wanted it to be. Let's cut to the chase.

In 2020, you promised to bring Apple's entire carbon footprint to zero by 2030. David Thoreau over here said we have a profound opportunity to build a more sustainable future for the planet we share. I think we're 10 o'clock at the same thing. They all do. All right. This is my third corporate responsibility gig today, so who wants to disappoint me first?

Well, we've got some updates we're excited to share with you. Materials, status. Is there a materials person here? Yes. We are in the process of eliminating all plastic for from our packaging by the end. Let me guess. 50 years from now when someone else is left holding a bag.

By the end of next year, actually. And we're also currently using 100% recycled aluminum in the enclosures of all our MacBooks, Apple TVs, Apple Watch. What about iPod shuffle? Well. It's a joke. Don't you people make Ted Lasso?

That's a different group. We're also phasing out leather in our iPhone cases. What about Brando over there? They phasing you out too? What's next? Electricity. Electricity, status. We're operating on 100%.

I think we've seen enough. So that goes on for like five minutes. And first of all, I know that I've been skeptical recently about the concept of toxic work environments. But if you work at a place where you're asked to participate in a skit like this, then that really is a toxic work environment. I mean, you need to get out of there. That's traumatic. I don't know if the other people in that sketch were actual Apple employees or if they were actors, but either way, it's horrible. Yet, let's not be distracted from the Uber wokeness.

I mean, the wokeness on steroids on display here. This is what we've come to, okay? This is, this is what it's come to with corporate woke purchasing. A company CEO groveling to mother nature represented by an overweight black woman. The only thing they're missing when it comes to the woke bingo card. The only thing they're missing is the LGBT tie-in. And honestly, I mean, like I said, the thing goes on for five minutes. I haven't watched the whole thing. So maybe they throw that in there somewhere. They must. I'm not exactly sure. All that said, I do appreciate the video in some ways because it makes clear for anyone who hasn't been paying attention that these people really are full-on pagans. I mean, this is full-on

paganism. This skit really isn't a skit. It's more like, it's, it's, It's like the leftist version of a video you might play for kids at vacation Bible school. It's not supposed to be funny. I think that's why people are confused. So this kind of went viral for all the wrong reasons, as far as Apple's concerned. And everyone was sort of confused and saying, is this supposed to be funny? What's happening here? Am I supposed to be laughing?

And the answer is no. This is an expression of religious worship more than anything else. Now, it may not be entirely sincere from Apple since they're a soulless corporate behemoth. But that's the idea. And here's what you have to understand. What you see in the video is not really a metaphor. Like, they really do think of Mother Nature as an entity, as an individual, as a goddess of some kind. And for some on the left, an increasing number on the left, this is explicit. I mean, they are explicitly pagan. For others, it's a bit more ambiguous, even to themselves. They don't quite understand how they feel about it. but ultimately they worship nature because this is inevitable, right?

Everybody worships something or someone. You know, you got to serve somebody, as Bob Dylan said, and the instinct to worship is embedded deeply in our human nature. The question is only whether you will worship the creator or the creation. And the modern left chooses the latter. And that's, I mean, it's maybe more philosophical than we need to get because ultimately, again, this is just really, I mean, on the surface, this is just a cringy corporate virtue signal. And at least Apple, maybe we'll say that. They are innovating.

When it comes to the realm of cringy corporate virtue signaling, they are innovating there at least. There's a little bit of innovation, so they've gone farther than most have. So at least they've done that. All right. So moving on to this, Donald Trump was interviewed by Megan Kelly. And it was a good interview. She pressed him. She actually pressed him on things, challenged him, which is what you're supposed to do when you interview a politician, whether they're on your side or not. Like, that's what you're supposed to do. And she especially pressed him on his COVID response,

Operation Warp Speed, the vaccine, Fauci. And here's just one clip of this exchange. Watch. Fire Anthony Fauci was because he'd been there for a long time, that you'd, you would have taken heat that it would have created a firestorm, quoting your words. Then for the first time in May... I also said I didn't listen to him too much. I'm getting there. But then in May, you started saying, well, he's a civil servant, so I couldn't technically. The truth is, though, not only did you not fire Fauci, who is loathed by many, many, millions of Republicans in particular, but also some Democrats.

By the way. You made him a star. You made him a star. This is the criticism of you. That you made him the face of the White House coronavirus task. You think so? That he was out at every presser, that he was running herd. for the administration on COVID,

and that you actually give him a presidential commendation before you left office. Wouldn't you like a do-over on that? I don't know who gave him the commendation. I really don't know who gave him the commendation. Presidential accommodation, one went on to Mark Millie too. Somebody probably... Okay. Well, I mean, there's a presidential accommodation,

so the president gave it to him. So just to clear that up. What she says there is correct, because, yeah, there are some who claim, well, he didn't have the authority to fire Fauci. I don't really buy that. And I just don't buy it. But even if it's true, it's the real issue is, you know, I mean, prior to COVID, most people

had never heard of Fauci's name before. They'd never heard of them. During COVID, it becomes this star, right? It becomes this media star, media darling, this saint. And that was thanks entirely to the White House at the time. putting him on TV every single day, every day. Okay, it's easy to forget maybe now because we block it out of our memories. It's such a miserable time.

But every day this freaking guy is on TV. You didn't have to do that. There was no law saying you had to do that. You could have kept him off TV entirely. But you made him like, you gave him a prime time show every single day. And so that's the criticism. And it is an entirely valid criticism. Of course it is.

And this is where, and I know that Trump is constitutionally incapable of saying this, he's not going to say it. But I would love for him to say when pressed on this. Like, why did you make Fauci a star? Why did you hand the government over to Fauci? I'd love for him to say, yeah, you know what? I got that one wrong. I got that one wrong. Not perfect.

Not a perfect person. Nobody is. Every president makes mistakes. That was my biggest one. That was my biggest one. And you know something? I get back in the office, I'm not going to make that mistake again. Guarantee you that.

Okay, there's not going to be any new, even if Fauci's retired. There's not going to be a new Fauci. In fact, I'm looking for the Fauci's and I'm getting them out of there. That's what I would love to hear. And I think it's very important to say that because it might give people confidence that even though from the years 2016 to 2020, the swamp was not drained. It just simply was not. It wasn't. But to acknowledge these missteps, then you can make the case that, yeah, you know what, I got that wrong, but I'm going to do it differently in the future.

And so then maybe you can have a little bit of confidence that, okay, the swamp wasn't drained between 2016 and 2020. Maybe it'll be drained on the next term. If there's no acknowledgement that, oh, I got to do things a little bit differently this time, then there's no reason. to think that things will be done differently because you're not even acknowledging that they need to be. Now, from a political perspective, I think the political argument that people will make in defense of Trump, entirely from a political perspective, is they'll say, well, look, he's up by a zillion points in the polls. He's almost certainly going to be the nominee. That's true. And just politically, and then once you get to the general, to the general election, you know,

this issue of like denouncing Fauci. It's not like it's not like Biden's going to challenge him on that. And so, you know, that's the kind of thing you only need to do potentially in the primaries to appease conservative voters, but he's already going to win the primaries and so he doesn't need to do it. That's the political argument. But I think that that is misguided because I think that yes, Trump is nothing is certain in life, nothing is certain in politics. But obviously, the smartest money is on Trump winning the nomination, and then we're going to get this rematch. I think the issue for both Trump and Biden is going to be an issue of turnout, it's like mobilizing your voters and making them excited to come vote.

Now, I know, again, that might not be conventional wisdom because allegedly in 2020, there were 600 billion people voted or something like that. the entire universe voted. The entire universe came out to vote. And part of this, because they didn't actually have to come out because they can mail in their votes three months ahead of time. So I think people might look at that and say, well, there's not going to be a turnout issue.

But I think that is going to be the issue. It's like mobilizing your own people to come out and be excited to vote for you. That's going to be the issue. And acknowledging something like this and saying, I'm doing it differently next time. That might help with that. And if you're not going to make that acknowledgement, then I think it's a serious mistake.

I do. All right, this is from the post-millennial. This kind of, it takes us out of the pharmaceutical and medical field, but it's kind of a related story in a lot of ways. Post-Mellennial says, a renowned criminology professor who proved, quote, unquote, that racism is systemic in America's law enforcement and American society has been fired for faking. data and his studies have now been retracted. Eric Stewart, 51, and now former criminology professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee, is now out of work due to extreme negligence in his research. According to Google Scholar, Stewart and his work were cited over 8,500 times by other researchers. Now the WB. DeB. DeB. DeB. DeB. DeB. Fellow at the National Institute of Justice

is out of a job on account of extreme negligence and incompetence. Retraction watch obtained the termination letter from the university, which said that due to Stewart's, Stewart's conduct, decades of research previously thought to be at the forefront of the field of criminology has been shown to contain numerous, erroneous, and false narratives. In the July 13th letter that informed Stewart of his termination, the letter said, quote, the details of problematic data management, false results, and the numerous publication restrictions have negatively affected the discipline on a national level. Clark noted that Stewart's actions had also impacted the recruitment of students and faculty, and that now the university's research. are concerned that their papers will not be published in major journals writing in the termination letter, quote, the damage to the standing of the university, in particular the College of Criminology, criminal justice, and its faculty,

approaches the catastrophic and may be unalterable. Clark added, quote, I do not see how you can teach our students to be ethical researchers or how the results of future research projects conducted by you could be deemed as trustworthy, adding that six of studies have been retracted while his other work was in doubt. for, let's see, some of the stuff that he fakes, Stuart, which was honored in 2017, was fired after nearly two decades of his data, was found to have false results, which included information used in his study in which he claimed that the history of lynchings made whites perceive blacks as criminals and that the issue was more prevalent among those who are politically conservative. Okay, and there are other studies as well.

I think this story is important because there are two big takeaways, and they're both things that I've said many times, and now I get to say again. The first is that, of course, obviously, systemic racism is a myth. Systemic racism in modern America is a myth. Not only that, like many myths, it is unfalsifiable. That is an unfalsifiable myth, much like the climate change narrative.

unfalsifiable, right? Whatever happens, so the left has their narrative about climate change, literally anything that happens with the weather, if it's cold, if it's hot, if there's a hurricane, there's no hurricane, if there's more hurricanes than usual, fewer than usual, whatever happens, it automatically proves climate change. It's all, because it's all baked in. Systemic racism is exactly the same way. No matter what happens in the culture, it proves systemic racism.

And that's why it's always an interesting question if you're talking to a believer or a proponent of the systemic racism myth, if you go and you ask them, okay, what would you need to see? Like in your, if you could, your ideal scenario, what would you need to see to prove to you that systemic racism doesn't exist or at least it's getting better? what would be some indicators for you that things are trending in the right direction at the very least? And they can't answer that. They won't answer that. Because the other part of the systemic racism myth is that not only does it exist, even though it can't be proven, but it's always somehow getting worse. As matter what happens, it's always worse. So that's the first thing. The second is that, you know, I have an opportunity to jump back up on my soapbox about studies. I mean, at this point, if someone throws a study at you in any context and it means anything to you, then I don't know, you're hopeless.

If you hear someone say, well, study proves, this is the point where I am now. You tell me that a study proves this and that. I don't care. It doesn't mean anything. None of it means all of this stuff is faked so often, especially if we're talking, if we're in the realm of sociology. or psychology. We're talking about human behavior, human tendencies, and you come to me with a study.

It's like, that doesn't mean anything. This stuff is so easy to fake. It retracted so often that it just doesn't mean anything. But we also saw, as we talked about in the opening, even in a realm where you would think it's, okay, now it's like a hard science of medicine. Even there. You hear, well, studies prove this is effective.

And then 10 years later, oh, no, it wasn't effective at all. Sorry about that. it happens so often that it just doesn't mean anything anymore. The fact that there was a study done means absolutely nothing. And that is the consequence of people lying so much. You get to a point where there is so much fraud that now you have no choice but to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

It's indistinguishable now. And this proves that yet again. All right, we just had a Trump interview. DeSantis has also been making. the rounds, of course, doing interviews. And I figure I might as well make both sides mad at me today because I want to play some of this clip for you where he was interviewed by CBS,

and this was, I think, last night. And I want to tell you what I think DeSantis is doing wrong. But let's play a little bit of this first. The NAACP issued a warning earlier this summer saying that Florida is, quote, openly hostile for African-Americans, people of color, and LGBTQ individuals. As president, you would represent the entire country.

Can everyone feel welcome in a DeSantis America? 100%. And that is politics. That's a stunt that they're playing. They obviously have very left-wing agenda, which I don't begrudge them that. But in Florida, our unemployment rate amongst African Americans is way lower than New York, California, and these blue states. We have more black-owned businesses in Florida than any state in the United States. I have more African-American students on scholarships

for our school choice program than any other state in the United States. And so we've shown people can succeed in Florida, regardless of their race, ethnicity, any of that. We will judge people as individuals. We want people to rise up based on their merit. But here's the thing. Because of your policies in Florida,

there are minorities, black Americans, and there are people who are part of the LGBTQ community who think that you are people that you would discriminate against them. Well, part of the reason they think that is because of narratives that are put out by media. If they think that, then they're stupid. I mean, and I'm not saying he should. I know that he, that wouldn't be the right thing for him to say.

If you're running for president, you probably don't want to say that. But I'm not. So I can say, when she says, well, there are black Americans and minorities to think that they're going to be horribly discriminated against in Florida, well, then those particular black Americans and minorities who feel that way are very, very stupid. that is a stupid thing to think. And yeah, they're being lied to. But if you are that easily misled, then you are a moron.

I mean, oh, I can't go to Florida. I'm afraid to go to Florida. Then you're just a freaking moron is the problem. And you're being lied to. But we got to hold people more accountable than that. Yeah, yeah, we hold the media accountable for their lies and false narratives. And we hold the government accountable for that. Yes, we put, but, but we can, individual Americans cannot be helpless, you know, adults, individual

American adults cannot be helpless children that are so easily misled. What I would like to see DeSantis do here is, is, and his answer is fine, and that's going to be the theme here. Like nothing, okay, I'm not, we're going to play a little bit more of this clip in a second, but nothing DeSantis says here is wrong. This isn't some great meltdown where he embarrasses himself. It's a fine. It's a fine exchange. It's a fine interview. I'll tell you what my issues is with it in a minute.

But right here, I think it would be a good move to throw it back at her. And she says, well, they feel that it's unsafe. Why is it unsafe? Explain to me why? I can't even answer the question. What do you mean it's unsafe? Florida is unsafe for black Americans? you know, it's like, what, does Florida's disproportionately unsafe for black Americans?

Why? Why would you even say that? Where are you getting this from? I need to understand. That's such an absurd question. It's absolutely ridiculous. And put it on her. It says, well, well, here's exactly why they'd feel unsafe there. But she can't do that. Let's keep watching. For example, when we had the fight with Disney over the elementary education, about should you have things about sex and gender identity, telling a second grader that their gender's fluid?

We said absolutely not. Parents in Florida agreed, and throughout the country, I think, agreed with that. That was termed by the media as don't say gay. The bill did not mention the word gay. I never said that gay people wanted kindergartners to be told they can change their gender. That was the media that created that and the left that created that. There were a lot of gay people in Florida that felt that was unfair to them. because they didn't think it was appropriate to have that kind of...

So then is the right age to talk about gender identity? Well, I think the idea that a teacher would say, yes, you can change, and there's some schools around the country where they say it's okay to transition a kid without the parent's consent or knowledge, and as a parent, that is just unacceptable. I mean, schools serve an important function, but to be intruding into a family matter like that, I think goes beyond what is appropriate. And here's the thing. Are we doing so? When is the correct age? When's the right age to talk to kids about gender identity?

There is no right age. There isn't a right age. The right age is non-existent. Never talk to them about it. It should never come up in school. It should never come up at all. Because gender identity is a made-up radical left-wing concept. Now, DeSantis and that exchange there, again, his answers are fine. Like these are fine answers, they aren't bad. This is not some sort of embarrassment. You're not going to watch that and think, oh, man, he really made a fool of himself. Of course not.

It's fine. But it's just fine. And DeSantis, if he has any hope of winning the nomination, he needs chunk plays. Okay? He needs chunk plays. He needs to hit triples and home runs to mix sports metaphors. He needs big moments. Big moments.

And a fine interview is not enough. It's almost like why even do it at that point? It's a lateral move at best. So I think you get into those positions. Again, there's no way around it. Even if you're a big DeSantis fan, you have to admit that he's way, way down in the polls. And so there's a massive gap that needs to be close to her.

There just is. And you have an opportunity where you're sitting across, you know, you're sitting right there with some left-wing propaganda journalist, so-called journalist, you got to go after them aggressively. I get what he's going for here. Well, you know, I'm going to be civil. I'm going to be calm. I'm going to explain my position in a very clear and concise way.

Again, all that's all fine. There's something objectively wrong with that. But it's not going to be enough. And here is an opportunity. You've got to go after her, go after her aggressively. an example. He brings up the media's invention of the so-called

don't-say gay bill. Well, he's being interviewed by CBS News. And it took me five seconds on Google to look up, well, what did CBS News say about this bill, which was actually a parental rights bill? And here's just one headline

that CBS News ran. He's being interviewed by CBS. CBS News ran this headline. Florida Senate passes controversial don't say gay bill, spite protests. Many headlines where that comes from. Well, how about throwing it back at her? Like, hey, you work for CBS News. This is a CBS News interview. I mean, you're asking why, you work for CBS and you're asking me why Americans are confused about what's happening in Florida. Well, it's because of you people, because you're lying to them. Hey, do you remember last year

when you published this headline? Florida Senate passes controversial, don't say gay bill despite protest. That bill doesn't exist, Nora. That's not, you guys made that bill up. Let me ask you something. You guys reported on the don't say gay bill. Where in the bill does it say that you can't say the word gay? Go ahead. You tell me. Is it in there? Oh, you know, you can't. So you lied about that. Are you going to denounce your employer, CBS, for lying about this bill, for, for inventing legislation that I never signed? And now you're going to sit there and you're going to ask me why people are confused or why they have this impression of Florida, you're the reason they have this impression, and you know that.

That's something like that, I think, maybe turn down slightly, maybe, but that's what people want to see. And that gets you the headlines. And people are going to see that and they're going to be motivated, like, okay, finally, like finally someone is doing this. And I also know that DeSantis has the ability to go after the media like that. that. This is what put him on the map in the first place. Well, there was COVID, of course, but as part of that, doing this press conferences being a challenge by the corrupt and dishonest

press and, like, throwing it back in their faces very aggressively. This is what put him on the map to begin with. It's what put him in position to run. The only reason he's even thinking about running for president is because of the popularity that he gained from those sorts of moments. And now he's running for president. He's not doing that anymore. And I just don't get it. I don't get it. I mean, you compare it to Trump, for example, like Trump understands what people want to see from him. And he plays the hits.

Like, he knows why he's popular. He knows what people like to see. And he knows that. He is his intuition about that. It's not that you need a lot of it. It's pretty obvious people like him. And so he does that. This is just the confusing thing to me about the DeSantis campaign.

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Yukon says, I feel I must point out the paradoxical nature of saying that we should know everything about somebody's private life. If we know everything about it, then it's not a private life. is an extreme invasion of privacy. Well, you're leaving out the context of me saying that. I'm not saying we should know everything about someone's private life if they're a private person, just a normal citizen. In fact, we shouldn't.

Most people volunteer much more about their private life than they should. But if you're running for president, if you want to be president, that's where, yeah, we should basically know everything about your private life. We should because you don't have a private. Once you become president, you are not a private person. I mean, let me ask you when a someone's elected president, four years in office, is there a time during those four years when they aren't president, when they don't wield the powers of the presidency at any point during those four years unless they're incapacitated? And as we see, even if they're incapacitated, as Biden has been this entire time, he still wields the power of the presidency. So you don't have it.

I mean, you live where you work. That's your house now. There's no private life anymore. So that makes every aspect of your life relevant for public discussion. It just does. William says, Matt, you call porn cyber prostitution as an argument for banning it, as if it's self-evident the prostitution should be banned. But I don't see it that way at all.

should I care if an adult wants to pay another adult for sex? Look, I don't know. This kind of libertarian, weak sauce argument with all due respect is, it's hard to even take seriously anymore. It's the kind of thing. I think you've got to grow out of this mentality. You know, I understand going through a libertarian phase. Many of us did.

I don't know how old you are, so maybe you're in that phase right now. But as you get older, you start to understand. What does it matter what people decide to do? Look, you could use that logic about anything. I mean, you could use that logic about murder. Well, that person's killing a person over there. It doesn't affect me. What do I care?

It doesn't affect, and like, it probably doesn't. It doesn't directly affect you that that is happening. All this, we live in a country of 330 million people, and there are many things happening. Every day is. Millions of things are happening. And almost none of them directly impact you. Does that mean none of them matter? So why should you care about prostitution being legal?

Well, I don't know, because the industry rests entirely on sex trafficking, on, you know, abusing and grooming and trafficking in children included. Because every prostitute is drugged is just, you know, they're in their. that position, it's not like this is, this is not a decision that somebody makes when their life is going great. This is almost always. This is just, it's an industry that just runs on despair and abuse and coercion and objectification and all these terrible things. That's what the industry runs on. So why do we, why would it be? legal is a better question. How does society benefit from it being legal, from embracing it?

What are the benefits of that? I see no benefits. I mean, when you look around, I'd ask you, you look around at society right now and you see what's going on. Do you say to yourself, you know what would help some of this? To make prostitution legal. That's what would really help. Is that really what you think? That should honestly be reason enough. to be opposed to legalizing prostitution. If you cannot imagine any conceivable way that it would make society any better, then why would you legalize it?

There's no argument for it. W. Day Walker says, even though I don't support the prostitution and cam work is just that, technically they were correct with the terminology saying that it was leaked. So this is the Virginia State delegate candidate who was a cyber prostitute, a porn star uploading videos of herself, having sex on camera,

before running for office. And then apparently even some of these videos went up while she was running for office. And now people are criticizing her for these videos. And she says that these videos have leaked, even though she put them up on this website. She put them up on the internet herself. That's what he's referring to. They were technically correct in their terminology saying it was leaked because the sites they used to sell their bodies do not store and save the videos for rewatching.

as they are live streaming services. Basically, she, as many other stupid people nowadays, didn't bother to think of is the fact that people record everything on the internet, and even though the site itself does not store the videos, there are people out there with the recordings of her sex acts that can upload them to sites for people to rewatch. Again, I don't support the disgusting acts, but they're trying to reword this as though she's the victim

for deciding to do these acts to begin with. Okay, so I don't think we're that far apart. We don't disagree very much, but you're looking to save her a little bit by at least say, well, technically these are leaked videos if they were streaming and she didn't know that they'd be recorded. But no, that still doesn't count as leaked. When you say that a video is leaked,

what everybody imagines and what you're trying to get people to imagine is that there was some kind of private video that you had on a device somewhere. You don't want anyone to see, which, by the way, is already stupid enough. I think everyone would understand this by now. You shouldn't have any video or picture on your phone or computer that it would ruin your life if the whole world saw.

That video shouldn't be taken in the first place because really nothing is private in this world of ours, especially if it's on any electronic device, you should just assume it's not private. But what people are going to, what you put in people's mind is the, idea that when you hear leaked video, that it was stored on advice somewhere privately, and then someone hacked it or stole it or something, and then put it out for public consumption.

That's not what happened. When you take the video, whether it's streaming or not, and you say to the world, hey, check this out, then that's it. That's all she wrote. You have presented that to the public. It's going to live forever, and that is entirely on you. You're not a victim at all. We all have a lot on our schedules with how much we have to be.

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was marred by hatred and bigotry and cruelty. Now, first, the good news. Many outlets, including Variety, announced yesterday, the all-star cast for this season of the ABC hit show Dancing with the Stars. There are a number of names that you may or may not recognize, but probably not. Tyson Beckford, Adrian Peterson, that girl from American Pie, and also right there, plain as day, Matt Walsh. Yes, Matt Walsh will be on Dancing with the Stars.

As you may or may not know, my name is Matt Walsh, which means that, yes, I will be on dancing with the stars. Told you that I had some big projects on the way. Remember I told you that? And now you know about one of them. Now, there were some people on the Internet when this was announced who started to engage in wild speculation, spreading false information about there being another Matt Walsh out there who was some kind of actor who appeared allegedly in the show Veep. And they tried to negate my own achievements by claiming that this other Matt Walsh is the one who will appear on Dancing with the Stars. This sort of fake news was bad enough, but even worse, were all the many people. There were great many of them who rightly assumed that I was going to be

on the TV show, but we're for some reason extremely upset about it. To appear on dancing with the stars has been my dream since I was a very young child, and yet these people danced all over my dream, the way that I will be dancing on that stage when season 32 starts. Just a quick sample of some of the things that these haters said on Twitter, just reading a few of the comments, Why the F is ABC giving a platform to far-right bigot Matt Walsh? The other says, why the F is Matt Walsh on Dancing with the Stars. A lot of comments like that. Also, something tells me that Christophastic and transphobic and homophobic Matt Walsh will regret making a fool of himself on Dancing with the Stars. Like, who told you this was a good idea, Matt? You're literally

gifting the people you hate with enough ammo to launch a war. Another says, I'm sorry why the F is Matt Walsh here. Another says, I think it's ridiculous that this huge show, Dancing with the Stars is letting racist, misogynistic, anti-LGB-Q Plus commentator Matt Walsh be filmed. Be better. I mean, we missed out on some horrible content from him while he practiced, but still. Another says, this dork calls Disney execs groomers and then joins the cast of an ABC reality show. Another says, I'm done with Dancing with the Stars. Matt Walsh is going to be on it. Is Disney struggling that they need a transphobic on their show?

WTF. Now, there were many, many more where these came from as the left cried out and protest against my very real inclusion in dancing with the stars. I was trending nationwide on Twitter due to the outrage about this. All of these leftists were convinced, and rightly so, that it must be me and no other Matt Walsh, because there is no other Matt Walsh. I am the ultimate Matt Walsh. I am the only Matt Walsh. The others have faded into dust, blown away by the wind.

I am the last of the Matt Walsh's, still standing, still dancing. Now, this is the most important thing to understand. For all those on the left who have been asking, why is Matt Walsh's? on the show. Why do they give him a platform? What is he doing there? The answer is that I'm there to dance. I am on the show to tell my story and to reveal what is hidden deeply in my heart through the art of dance. And you know something? Dance transcends politics. It breaks through ideological barriers. It speaks to a deeper truth that lies inside all of us. This is why I have always turned to dance, even in my darkest moments and moments of turmoil and confusion.

I've always had dance there to bring clarity and light. And that's what I intend to do on Dancing with the Stars when I appear on the show, which I am really going to do in real life, because this is an actual thing that is true and that is happening. Look, I'm not going to claim that I'm the best dancer who has ever danced, though I did perform for one summer with the New York City Ballet, so I'm certainly no novice. But my dance is not meant to be technically perfect. My dances are bold, innovative, sometimes provocative, even shocking? I want you to watch me dance and admire the beauty of the routine, but I also want you to think. I want you to be challenged. You know, I learned to dance under the tutelage of the great Russian choreographer Victor Korkivlyov, and he told me something that's always stuck with me as a dancer. He said, to dance is to speak, and to speak is to dance.

I don't think that really means anything, but the point is that dance is self-expression, intensely personal and yet paradoxically public. And I can go on and on about dance, about my passion for it, my relationship to it, about my years learning dance from the Russian guy I just made up. But I think that misses the point. The point is that these people complaining about my appearance on the show are missing a real opportunity for unity, a chance to be elevated above their petty political concerns. And either way, they need to just accept it.

I am appearing on the show, me, Matt Walsh. Now, I will warn you, I might look a little different when you see me on the show. I've been practicing pretty hard. It takes a lot out of me. All this dance practice might make me look older, balder. It might make my beard fall off. And even for some reason, it might change the color of my hair. And I want you to be prepared for that because it can be a little bit jarring.

But when they announced Matt Walsh and I come dancing up on that stage, you should know that it's really me and nobody else. unless he sucks, in which case it's that VEEP guy. Anyway, what matters most is the dance. And to those who can't see that, who are focused more on their personal resentment towards me than the opportunity to experience the magic of dance together, all I can say is that they are all today canceled. I'll do it for the show today.

Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.