Michael Walsh
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176 appearances
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2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 15 Mar
Michael Walsh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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um it's not i'm not going to argue that religion is the cause of war which is not the truth uh one might equally argue that war is the cause of religion when you start with the greeks and the ancient hebrews and from our common shared from 800 bc on but they are battles that are very very nasty because they are civil in a way civil wars uh among sex
of either the abrahamic faiths uh even i'm going to include the taiping rebellion in china because it was led by a chinese man who thought he was the brother of jesus christ and was fighting for christianity in china when general gordon who later died at khartoum was hired by the chinese government put this rebellion down so you find all these common thrills and you link them up and
And here you impose a narrative. I mean, as a writer, you're allowed to do that with these big books because you have to have a framework. Why am I talking about this? But once it gets going, it's hard work, but it's a lot of fun. And the readers have responded very well, I'm happy to say.
The press believes, and this is kind of simple, that whatever they tell you is for your own good. And that you're a troglodyte and a Nazi and a whatever if you question what they do. Because their virtue... like Calpurnia is beyond, you cannot question it. And they've been in this business, I mean, I've been in it 50 years off and on. I did a 25 for real.
And they believe they're sort of a priest class to government. And they really are the handmaiden of the state. And I would hope that the young reporters who start way too early and get public platforms because of the internet far too soon so that they embarrass themselves with silly positions when they're 25 that Even years later, they're ashamed of. I wish we had a better media.
I wish that reporters started the way my generation did, which was as a police reporter in a small or medium-sized city. So you saw violence. You saw social problems up close. You couldn't just read about it. It actually had to be there. When you see your first...
corpse when you see that when you smell the first house fire and and you'll never get that and you have this visceral reaction to these things if all you know is what you read on the internet you don't really know much at all unfortunately the-pipeline.org is that like a sub stack what is that Yes, that is. It's a website. It's moving to Substack. And it was for four years.
I had a number of writers writing every day, mostly about energy issues, climate change. We did a lot on the COVID hoax from the beginning, which I'm assembling into a book. But it's now become more or less my personal website. So you can see the-pipeline.org or Michael Walsh at The Pipeline on Substack. And I'm writing once a week there.
And then I'm interviewing people that I think are interesting once a week as well. So maybe we'll talk again in that form at some point soon. I'd love it.
Yes. Yes, I'm calling it After the Journal of the Plague Year, just like Daniel Defoe's fiction book.
You know, it was the only movie that I've gotten actually produced and made. I've sold enough scripts to be a lifetime WGA writer now. But that was the easiest project in the world. My writing partner, Gail Parent, brought me on because I knew something about military stuff. And we wrote the script and Disney approved it.
And the only hiccup in that movie was at one point, our creative executive said, well, we have a little problem with standards and practices. I said, what was it? Now, the movie's done, the script's done, everything's done. She said, I don't think we can use guns in this movie. And I said, it's about a military school and a drill team. That's what they use.
So there is a disclaimer on this movie that says no actual guns were used in the making of this movie. But it was, and Hillary was great. And it was the highest rated movie and the highest rated show of any kind on the Disney Channel when it came out in 2002.
Yeah, I was very glad that she did a great job in that picture.
A Journal of the Plague Year, just like Daniel Defoe's famous book about Britain in the 70s.
Okay, thank you, Drew. I appreciate it.
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