The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1152 - The Hard Truth That Jazz Jennings Needs To Hear

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Jazz Jennings is one of the most prominent trans-identified people in the country.

00:00:04.740 He's also an abuse victim who has been brainwashed by the evil adults in his life, especially by his mother.

00:00:10.140 Jazz posted a video criticizing me this week, and I'll give my response today.

00:00:14.420 Also, a woman accusing Tucker Carlson of creating a hostile work environment has been doing the media rounds.

00:00:19.680 We'll analyze her claims today.

00:00:21.520 And we have an all-time classic to add to the catalog of terrible Kamala Harris speeches.

00:00:25.500 Finally, companies are sending opt-out emails to save customers from having to receive traumatic Mother's Day emails.

00:00:32.640 What's that all about? We'll talk about it and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:41.000 Jazz Jennings is a name you probably recognize.

00:01:45.040 He's now a 22-year-old man who identifies as a woman, or I should say was identified, was identified as a woman.

00:01:52.860 This is not a path that Jennings chose for himself.

00:01:55.960 It was chosen for him at a very young age.

00:01:58.720 And we know that about him, and we know much else about him because his parents not only chose to make him trans from a young age,

00:02:05.940 but also chose to make him a public figure from a young age.

00:02:08.840 We're told that Jennings was first diagnosed with gender dysphoria at the age of four,

00:02:13.560 though his mother insists that he identified as a girl before that, before he was even old enough to talk.

00:02:18.040 Somehow he was identifying as a girl.

00:02:20.300 By six years old, the child was already doing the media rounds.

00:02:25.180 His mother shuffled him from one interview to the next.

00:02:28.620 He was featured on 2020, and the Rosie O'Donnell Show, which existed at the time, as well had him.

00:02:34.240 By the age of seven, Jazz's parents had established their own foundation, which is the Trans Kid Purple Rainbow Foundation.

00:02:41.600 And this foundation was made so that they could assist trans youth and also, as it happens, receive donations.

00:02:48.500 You know, coincidence there that they started doing the media rounds, and then they started a foundation where they could take donations.

00:02:53.820 You know, total coincidence.

00:02:54.900 Barely in a middle school, Jazz started in his first documentary, I Am Jazz, A Family in Transition,

00:03:01.000 premiered on the Oprah Winfrey Network in 2011.

00:03:03.420 A couple years later, Jazz had another 2020 interview, a follow-up.

00:03:06.720 Two years after that, while still a child, Jazz, quote-unquote, co-wrote a children's book about his life titled I Am Jazz.

00:03:14.240 And that was in the same year that Jazz Jennings began receiving awards and accolades and recognition

00:03:19.720 from organizations like GLAAD and Time Magazine and many others.

00:03:23.580 A year later, the Jazz Jennings reality TV show debuted on TLC when he was still a kid, followed by the Jazz Jennings memoir.

00:03:32.580 And while he was being constantly filmed and documented with this spotlight shining on him,

00:03:40.100 he was also, at the same time, being led from one step in the medical transition process to the next,

00:03:45.700 starting with, of course, the chemical castration drugs at the age of 11, followed by hormones,

00:03:50.260 and then genital mutilation at the age of 17.

00:03:54.840 Now, yes, we're told, right, that nobody's performing actual surgeries on kids.

00:03:58.360 That's not happening.

00:03:59.160 And yet, one of the most prominent trans-identified people in the country had surgery when he was a kid.

00:04:06.460 That was just the first surgery, by the way.

00:04:08.380 By the age of 20, Jazz had undergone three, quote-unquote, gender confirmation surgeries.

00:04:13.460 So, he still wasn't old enough to legally purchase a beer, Bud Light, presumably.

00:04:18.380 And yet, he had been taking drugs for nearly a decade at that point,

00:04:23.020 and had been getting one gender transition surgery after another for the past three years before that.

00:04:28.460 Jazz's mother was there every step of the way, of course, helping him along.

00:04:32.000 And that, quote, help would often take on a very aggressive and horrendously disturbing form.

00:04:37.480 So, listen to this clip from the reality show just a few years ago, shortly after Jazz got,

00:04:43.560 I think this was his first surgery, and here's his mother.

00:04:47.940 With her, I'm worried about, like, her mental well-being and her dilation.

00:04:54.820 The minute she leaves my house, we have a dilation problem. 0.99

00:04:58.380 That is a concern.

00:04:59.640 We don't have that watchful eye.

00:05:01.840 They tend to go back to old patterns.

00:05:04.100 I have woken Jazz out of a dead sleep and taken the dilator and put the lubrication on it and said, 0.99

00:05:10.280 here, you take this and you put it in your vagina. 1.00

00:05:12.540 If not, I will. 1.00

00:05:13.740 But Jazz is bad, even when I'm home once a day.

00:05:16.480 I would be so mad if she goes away to college and that thing seals up. 0.99

00:05:21.400 I would rank her neck. 0.78

00:05:23.460 Can you imagine?

00:05:26.240 Can we imagine?

00:05:27.240 No, we can't.

00:05:28.600 We cannot imagine any of this.

00:05:29.940 Yeah, it's happening. 0.87

00:05:30.520 Yes, that is the mother of Jazz Jennings talking about how she forcibly dilates her son's fake neo-vagina in the middle of the night. 0.99

00:05:40.360 You know, normal mom stuff. 0.99

00:05:42.640 And this never-ending process of dilation and lubrication is necessary to prevent the quote-unquote vagina from closing up 1.00

00:05:49.020 because it's not a vagina. 1.00

00:05:50.260 It is an open wound, which is carved into the place where the male genitalia used to be. 0.99

00:05:56.820 This is what was done to Jazz Jennings at the age of 17.

00:05:59.760 He was butchered, turned into a lifelong medical patient in pursuit of something that he can never attain,

00:06:06.600 searching for a female identity that will always be out of reach.

00:06:10.940 And this explains why, most recently, Jazz was on camera on the reality show expressing deep and profound despair

00:06:19.740 and telling his mother that he, quote-unquote, doesn't feel like himself.

00:06:23.480 Listen.

00:06:24.040 So, um, are you feeling like you wanted to start talking about, are you okay?

00:06:31.000 I'm okay.

00:06:31.820 I feel like I'm going to cry.

00:06:34.520 You know I can't get out of my head.

00:06:36.320 I know.

00:06:36.760 No, listen.

00:06:38.060 It just doesn't stop.

00:06:39.600 It's okay.

00:06:40.080 Give me a hug.

00:06:40.620 It's okay.

00:06:41.040 I know what you're going through.

00:06:42.040 We've been there before.

00:06:42.560 No, it still doesn't stop now.

00:06:44.260 I'm already going back to negative.

00:06:45.580 But the more you're talking about yourself, it gets harder.

00:06:48.620 You're digging in and you're, it's making you put a magnifying glass on what's already difficult as it is.

00:06:54.340 So this is hard for you, I know.

00:06:56.020 And you don't, we don't want to push you anymore.

00:06:57.340 And I know I'm the one doing it, like.

00:06:59.000 I know, you're your own worst enemy.

00:07:02.720 I feel kind of all over the place and, like, my mind is very cluttered and not clear.

00:07:07.920 And I really want to have that clarity.

00:07:10.020 I really want to understand myself and be able to read my own soul and what I want.

00:07:15.480 And it's just very challenging.

00:07:17.340 And I think I'm kind of breaking down a little bit and spiraling into negativity.

00:07:22.340 I just want to feel like myself.

00:07:24.020 Like, that's it.

00:07:24.680 I don't care.

00:07:25.880 All I want is to be happy and feel like me and I don't feel like me.

00:07:28.900 I know what you're going through, she says.

00:07:32.640 Oh, really?

00:07:33.020 Do you?

00:07:33.620 Did your mom take you to Dr. Frankenstein to be genitally butchered as well? 0.98

00:07:37.780 So you know what that's like?

00:07:40.260 Of course, this is terrible to watch, unfathomably sad.

00:07:43.260 And I feel nothing but sympathy and compassion for Jazz Jennings.

00:07:46.680 He was subjected to a lifelong brainwashing campaign, which began practically from birth

00:07:52.260 and which led to permanent physical changes in his body long before

00:07:56.440 he could have possibly had any chance to realize what was being done to him.

00:08:01.060 He is a victim.

00:08:04.000 Though, like many abuse victims, he is at this point in his life not able to see it.

00:08:10.260 Not able to see the fact that he's an abuse victim or at least not able to accept it.

00:08:14.100 That's what came through yesterday when Jazz published a video on his own YouTube channel

00:08:17.340 responding to a number of conservative commentators, including myself.

00:08:20.880 Jazz reacts to a segment of this show from a few weeks ago where I am myself responding

00:08:25.480 to that clip we just watched of Jazz expressing despair and apparent regret.

00:08:29.160 And in his response, he says that I have misconstrued and he insists that the surgery brought him

00:08:33.880 happiness and joy.

00:08:35.120 And then we get to this part.

00:08:37.500 Listen.

00:08:38.680 So now let's go to this, this same person.

00:08:43.060 Okay.

00:08:43.560 I'm not even going to name him.

00:08:44.560 And this is what he says later in the interview.

00:08:46.960 This is the person, everyone who said, Jazz is so unhappy and it's because of this is what

00:08:53.360 he says.

00:08:54.260 Oh.

00:08:55.040 You ready?

00:08:55.700 Mm-hmm.

00:08:56.320 Let's watch.

00:08:57.060 And I want you to respond to this and maybe whatever you want to say to this.

00:09:01.240 Okay.

00:09:01.800 You ready?

00:09:02.320 Mm-hmm.

00:09:02.780 Mother brainwashed this kid into doing this and now she's going to keep that brainwashed 1.00

00:09:07.360 going. 0.94

00:09:07.760 Brainwashed. 0.99

00:09:09.780 So he may never fully come to terms with what happened, at least as long as his disgusting 1.00

00:09:14.360 wretch of a mother is still alive. 1.00

00:09:16.000 Wow. 0.96

00:09:16.620 It's just really hard to watch that.

00:09:18.300 I don't know why people like are so intent on bringing our community down.

00:09:24.360 Like, why do you care?

00:09:25.620 Let us just be.

00:09:26.680 Let us be happy.

00:09:27.680 Let us be ourselves.

00:09:28.800 We're not hurting anyone.

00:09:30.020 You know, we need to celebrate each other and our diversity.

00:09:32.560 Not bringing each other down.

00:09:34.120 Anytime you're wishing death on anyone, I think you need to take a step back and look

00:09:37.640 at yourself and your, you know, whatever's going on with you.

00:09:41.320 My mom is not the abuser.

00:09:42.940 People like him are the ones abusing us by saying these awful negative things about our

00:09:47.380 community.

00:09:48.520 You know?

00:09:49.380 We are under attack.

00:09:51.000 And it is clear in this video that there are people out there who want to hurt us, who

00:09:54.860 want to see us fail, who want to see us be miserable.

00:09:57.460 And that's really f***ed up because we're not wishing that upon anyone.

00:10:00.660 We just want people to open their eyes and see that we are beautiful.

00:10:04.940 Everyone is beautiful and everyone deserves to be their authentic self.

00:10:07.980 Our messages are about love, about positivity.

00:10:10.860 And just to see someone like this saying such negative things, it's, you know, it's hurtful. 0.99

00:10:16.580 It sucks. 0.87

00:10:17.140 My whole life, I have faced bullying. 0.99

00:10:18.940 I have faced people, you know, attacking me and my identity.

00:10:23.100 And I just wish people would let me be.

00:10:25.420 You know?

00:10:25.660 Why do you?

00:10:27.060 Oh, it's so frustrating.

00:10:28.340 Now, I was going to respond to this just sort of in general terms, but I think instead I'd

00:10:34.320 like to be more direct.

00:10:35.360 Jazz has addressed me directly, asked some questions, and I'd like to answer them.

00:10:38.880 So, Jazz, first of all, I understand why you're frustrated that people are talking about

00:10:44.760 you and from your perspective involving themselves in your private life.

00:10:49.540 You are absolutely right that your conversation with your mother that we saw there about your

00:10:53.820 own deep emotional and psychological pains should not have been a public spectacle.

00:10:59.460 I never should have seen that or heard it.

00:11:02.240 Nobody should have.

00:11:03.860 But I didn't make it a public spectacle.

00:11:07.440 And I didn't make you into a public figure.

00:11:09.640 Your mom did that. 1.00

00:11:12.040 She did it way before you could have possibly chosen this, chosen any of this for yourself.

00:11:17.220 She had you on 2020 and starring in Oprah Winfrey specials when you were a young child.

00:11:22.480 She had a camera in front of your face. 1.00

00:11:24.920 She was parading you around as a mascot for transgenderism at an age when, you know, when 0.92

00:11:30.520 I was that age, I was spending my time watching cartoons and playing outside in the woods.

00:11:34.680 And I wish that you had a childhood like that.

00:11:37.740 You deserved to have that kind of childhood.

00:11:39.840 But your mom took that away from you.

00:11:42.700 She was more interested in monetizing you, using you as a vehicle to promote her ideology. 1.00

00:11:49.000 And it's proven to be an effective vehicle, which is why I have to respond.

00:11:56.780 You want to be left alone.

00:11:58.120 I get that.

00:11:59.620 I wish that you were left alone way back when you were a child, left to simply be a child.

00:12:05.280 That's the life you should have had.

00:12:06.660 You had a right to it.

00:12:08.960 And it was taken from you by the adults in your life, especially your mom.

00:12:13.340 And I'm sorry that it was taken from you.

00:12:14.520 I truly am.

00:12:16.580 Listen, even if it was somehow true that you really are a female, you need to go through 1.00

00:12:22.320 this necessary process of becoming your true self through the surgeries and everything else,

00:12:27.280 which it isn't true at all.

00:12:29.340 It just simply isn't.

00:12:31.280 But that still would not justify your mom's decision to turn you into a public figure as

00:12:37.120 a child, a symbol for a cause from such a young age.

00:12:42.760 Even if we accept the logic behind transitioning children, which again, I do not accept and never 1.00

00:12:48.920 would, it still would be unforgivable for a parent to make it into a public exhibition,

00:12:55.500 which is what your parents did.

00:12:59.580 Now, you also accused me of wanting to hurt you and make you miserable.

00:13:03.020 I don't.

00:13:03.900 I'm not out to hurt you.

00:13:04.940 I see, I see that you are hurt.

00:13:07.880 You said it yourself.

00:13:09.140 You don't feel like yourself.

00:13:11.340 And you don't feel like yourself because you have been led since childhood down a path

00:13:15.520 of self-rejection.

00:13:18.260 Now, you say that everyone deserves to be their authentic self.

00:13:20.780 I could not possibly agree more.

00:13:22.300 Deserve is an apt choice of words, in fact, in this case.

00:13:25.820 Every child deserves to be shown the way towards truth and their own true selves.

00:13:31.840 Every child deserves to grow up in the light, surrounded by adults who are sources of clarity

00:13:38.440 and guidance for them.

00:13:40.920 You didn't have that, and you still don't.

00:13:44.580 And that's not fair.

00:13:46.280 You have been fed lies, one lie after another, and they are the worst kinds of lies.

00:13:51.000 They are lies that deprive you of the recognition of your true self.

00:13:55.860 This is the deepest form of abuse.

00:13:58.060 I can't imagine what it does to a person to live with it every day since the earliest

00:14:03.800 moments of childhood.

00:14:06.920 Nobody in your life will tell you the truth.

00:14:09.980 Nobody in your life has ever told you the truth.

00:14:13.940 They have never been honest with you about anything, ever.

00:14:17.480 They all are incentivized to keep up the deception.

00:14:23.000 Well, I have no incentive other than my own love of the truth and my concern for you as

00:14:28.760 a person and my concern for everyone else in your same situation.

00:14:31.960 I don't stand to gain anything when I tell you this, but I'll tell you anyway.

00:14:35.840 You are a man.

00:14:37.180 It's who you are.

00:14:38.720 There's nothing wrong with who you are, with who you actually are.

00:14:41.780 Your maleness was never a problem that needed to be fixed. 0.99

00:14:47.780 The adults in your life told you that you were sick.

00:14:51.040 They diagnosed you and they labeled you and they defined you by those labels.

00:14:57.720 They introduced horrific confusion into your life and then they profited off of that confusion.

00:15:03.740 They exploited you.

00:15:05.680 All of them did.

00:15:06.560 The doctors, your parents, the activist groups, the media, the TV networks, they all swarmed around

00:15:11.280 you like vultures taking pieces of you.

00:15:15.080 And now those same people, they want you to live a lie for the rest of your life because

00:15:19.320 if you don't, if you don't, it will embarrass and potentially impoverish them.

00:15:27.020 Well, if we're talking about what people deserve, they deserve that.

00:15:31.720 You deserve the truth.

00:15:32.880 And I'm telling it to you, even if it hurts to hear.

00:15:37.820 Still, you need to hear it at least once in your life.

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00:16:57.240 Let's start with something fun, something we all always enjoy, Kamala Harris giving a speech

00:17:03.340 and as always, for whatever reason, attempting to inflate the word count.

00:17:08.340 Nobody can figure out why she feels the need to always do this, but she does.

00:17:11.920 And here's how it came out this time.

00:17:13.940 I think it's very important, as you have heard from so many incredible leaders, for us at

00:17:22.560 every moment in time, and certainly this one, to see the moment in time in which we exist

00:17:30.160 and our present and our present, and to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we exist

00:17:37.060 in the history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past, but the future.

00:17:42.920 It is so important at every moment in time, and at each individual moment in time, certainly

00:17:52.880 this moment in time, but also the next moment in time, and even the moment in time after

00:17:58.560 the next moment in time, which precedes the moment in time after that.

00:18:04.360 And through all these moments, moment after moment after moment, time after time, if you're

00:18:11.020 lost, you can look and you will find me, moment by moment, through all the moments.

00:18:15.280 You know what?

00:18:15.940 I just figured out, I figured out, I just, as I'm babbling like Kamala Harris, I realized,

00:18:20.860 I figured out Kamala Harris, in every speech, she is Ben Stiller saying grace in Meet the

00:18:26.800 Parents.

00:18:27.320 That every speech is like watching that scene where Ben Stiller is put on the spot and has

00:18:32.240 to say, trying to figure out how to say grace.

00:18:34.400 It's like every speech she does, but it doesn't make sense because, you know, he was put on

00:18:38.380 the spot.

00:18:39.220 She's not being put on the spot.

00:18:41.240 These are, right?

00:18:42.040 It's not like she's five wines deep at the wedding, and now she has to give a toast, and

00:18:47.860 she didn't prepare anything, and so she's rambling.

00:18:50.380 These are pre-planned official speeches, right?

00:18:56.060 And if you're a politician, really if you're the vice president, you have served no function. 0.99

00:19:02.240 Other than to show up to stuff like this and give dumb speeches. 0.99

00:19:06.200 That's all you do. 0.94

00:19:07.960 And so I always assumed, anyway, that don't they have people on staff that they write these

00:19:12.760 things for you, and they tell you, oh, you're giving a speech here for, what's that for? 0.99

00:19:16.160 Oh, for this whatever stupid thing. 0.98

00:19:17.480 And then they hand you the paper, and you read it, or you put it up on the prompter. 1.00

00:19:21.900 That's what I can't figure out.

00:19:23.080 Do they really send her out there to riff for all these events?

00:19:27.740 Or maybe they are writing this.

00:19:30.980 That could be the twist ending, that all this stuff, we're making fun of Kamala Harris.

00:19:34.080 Maybe she's reading all of this directly from prompter.

00:19:36.760 It could be more like, rather than meet the parents, maybe it's more like the scene in

00:19:39.760 Idiocracy, where the president starts the State of the Union address, and he's like,

00:19:44.840 I know it's real bad right now.

00:19:46.800 And then you look, and you see the prompter, and it says that on the prompter.

00:19:49.440 So it could be that, you know, this could be an ongoing act of sabotage against Kamala

00:19:56.580 Harris by her speechwriting team.

00:19:59.760 I don't know what it is, but the end result is that it's very funny, at least.

00:20:04.340 All right, this is from the Daily Wire.

00:20:05.300 Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez celebrated Fox News' firing of former host Tucker Carlson

00:20:09.880 on Monday, saying that deplatforming works and that good things can happen.

00:20:14.480 Ocasio-Cortez's remarks came after she claimed over the weekend that Carlson was responsible 0.99

00:20:18.280 for incitement of violence, and that lawmakers needed to be open to explore through law ways

00:20:23.460 to regulate news content on networks like Fox News.

00:20:26.380 So this is very fortuitous timing for her.

00:20:29.580 It makes her feel very good because, yeah, in fact, just a couple of days before Tucker

00:20:35.440 Carlson was fired, she was out.

00:20:39.240 In fact, the day before it was announced that he was fired, she was on the news saying that

00:20:43.860 he needs to be deplatformed.

00:20:45.560 And then what do you know?

00:20:46.360 It happens.

00:20:46.840 Um, let's start by watching this from AOC.

00:20:51.220 Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News.

00:20:55.660 Couldn't have happened to a better guy.

00:20:58.760 Um, what I will say, though, is while I'm very glad that the person that is arguably responsible

00:21:10.580 for the, some of the largest, driving some of the most, uh, amounts of death threats and

00:21:16.540 violent threats, not just to my office, but to plenty of people across the country, um,

00:21:20.700 I also kind of feel like I'm like waiting for the cutscene at the end of a Marvel movie after

00:21:27.080 all the credits have rolled and then you see like the villain's like hand reemerge out to

00:21:35.140 grip, grip over like the end of a building or something.

00:21:38.180 Um, but deplatforming works and it is important and, um, there you go.

00:21:47.140 Good things can happen.

00:21:49.840 Deplatforming works, she says.

00:21:51.640 And, um, that's, that's sort of true.

00:21:57.320 You know, it also, it also very often backfires against them.

00:22:01.060 You know, in fact, uh, speaking of which there, as we know, there's been this effort to deplatform

00:22:07.900 me on YouTube and everything else.

00:22:09.860 Well, uh, and I posted this to Twitter yesterday, but after all of that, uh, my podcast is ranked

00:22:17.120 top five on, uh, Apple podcasts and Spotify in our category, um, in large part in response

00:22:23.920 to all these deplatforming efforts.

00:22:25.800 So she says it works, but that's often the end result.

00:22:31.060 Uh, as long as, right.

00:22:34.440 As long as when, when you're, when they're doing this cancellation campaign against you,

00:22:38.300 as long as you refuse to apologize and you stay on message.

00:22:43.080 Okay.

00:22:43.440 As the target of the cancellation, as long as you do that, you could come out on the other

00:22:47.080 end, having a larger platform and more influence than you had before.

00:22:50.440 And I have no doubt that that will happen with Tucker Carlson.

00:22:53.300 You know, Tucker Carlson is going to be the, I believe trying to peer into the future through

00:22:57.640 my crystal ball.

00:22:58.240 I believe this, Tucker Carlson is going to be the prime example, the number one example

00:23:03.420 of how deplatforming ultimately backfires on these people because he's going to go somewhere

00:23:10.460 else.

00:23:10.660 He's going to do something else and he's going to have more influence than he's ever had

00:23:14.780 before.

00:23:15.100 I think that's what's going to end up happening.

00:23:16.300 But in the short term, yeah, it does, it does work in the sense that you, you don't, somebody's

00:23:22.740 on a platform and they're saying things and they're able to reach an audience.

00:23:25.960 And we know on the left, they cannot engage with any of it.

00:23:29.960 They can't argue against any of it.

00:23:32.540 They have no rebuttals to offer whatsoever.

00:23:35.160 So all they can do is just forcibly stop you from talking, at least on that platform.

00:23:41.780 And then you go over to another one and they follow you there and they try to get rid of

00:23:44.340 that.

00:23:44.460 That's all they can do.

00:23:45.380 So she feels like she got a big win here, which that alone, it is unforgivable and disgraceful

00:23:54.140 by Fox News that they would give this kind of, at least in the short term, this seeming

00:24:00.800 apparent win to the left, rewarding their deplatforming efforts.

00:24:06.560 A day after AOC is talking about how it needs to be censored by the government, Tucker Carlson

00:24:11.540 should have been on air and it probably would have been on Monday responding to that.

00:24:16.040 And it said Fox News cans them.

00:24:18.660 So this was a disgraceful move by Fox for a lot of reasons.

00:24:22.740 But let's just start with that.

00:24:24.900 You are rewarding your own enemies, who it turns out are not really your enemies because

00:24:32.260 you're on the same side in so many ways.

00:24:35.180 But the question still remains about why this termination happened.

00:24:37.940 And there have been many reports about how it was related to lawsuits and so on.

00:24:41.380 And I told you yesterday, I don't buy that.

00:24:43.760 I just don't buy it.

00:24:44.560 I have no inside information.

00:24:46.420 I have no insight.

00:24:47.240 I have no sources that I'm talking to.

00:24:49.020 All I have is my own BS meter that is usually pretty well honed.

00:24:53.960 And I don't buy it.

00:24:55.020 I don't buy anything to do with lawsuits.

00:24:56.240 I told you yesterday that to me, this is simply, this happened because of who Tucker is and

00:25:02.760 what he says and the stands that he takes.

00:25:05.040 The fact that he's actually an effective right wing figure and advocate, that's why he's not

00:25:12.820 welcome at Fox and that's why they got rid of him.

00:25:14.320 And now there's a new report from Vanity Fair, which seems to confirm this.

00:25:17.900 So this is Vanity Fair.

00:25:19.740 It says, 24 hours after Fox News ousted its highest rated host, the network has yet to

00:25:25.720 explain one of the most shocking defense stations in cable news history.

00:25:30.560 I'm not going beyond the release of Fox News spokeswoman texted yesterday when I asked her

00:25:36.480 for comment.

00:25:36.980 In this information, void multiple theories about why Fox fired Carlson circulated in the

00:25:42.400 media.

00:25:43.660 It was fallout from the Dominion settlement.

00:25:45.580 It was punishment for vulgar text messages published in Dominion court filings.

00:25:48.800 It was a consequence of former Fox producer Abby Grossberg's lawsuit, which we'll talk more

00:25:53.240 about that in a minute, which alleged Carlson oversaw a hostile work environment.

00:25:58.680 But none of these potential reasons fully add up.

00:26:01.220 Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo hyped Dominion for conspiracies far more than Carlson did,

00:26:08.560 and yet she remains on the air.

00:26:10.060 Fox had access to Carlson's texts and emails and Dominion lawsuit for months, and they didn't

00:26:13.420 punish him, so on and so forth.

00:26:14.940 So that's why all that doesn't line up.

00:26:17.700 Mystery remains, why did Fox News take its biggest star off the air?

00:26:21.020 A new theory has emerged.

00:26:23.000 According to the source, Fox Corporation chair Rupert Murdoch removed Carlson over remarks

00:26:28.500 that Carlson made during a speech at the Heritage Foundation's 50th anniversary gala on Friday

00:26:33.560 night.

00:26:34.380 Carlson laced his speech with religious overtones that even Murdoch found too extreme, according

00:26:39.100 to the source, who was briefed on Murdoch's decision making.

00:26:41.680 Carlson told the Heritage audience that national politics has become a battle between good and

00:26:46.280 evil.

00:26:47.060 Carlson said that people advocating for transgender rights and DEI programs want to destroy America

00:26:51.620 and they could not be persuaded with facts.

00:26:54.560 Quote,

00:26:54.820 That's what he said in the speech.

00:27:08.900 It's a great speech, by the way.

00:27:10.860 And everything that he says in the speech is 100% accurate.

00:27:14.040 This is, in fact, a battle of good versus evil.

00:27:18.280 Um, this has gone well beyond any sort of debate over the facts because we, we are debating

00:27:25.260 with people who don't care about the facts.

00:27:27.480 They, it's not just they don't care about the facts.

00:27:29.680 They, they reject the concept of facts.

00:27:36.200 They reject in principle the very idea that there can be a fact.

00:27:41.780 Okay.

00:27:42.380 These are relativists.

00:27:43.920 Everything is, all truth is relative.

00:27:45.940 We all get our own truth, right?

00:27:48.620 We all have, we all live in our own universe.

00:27:50.080 We have our own truth and we get to set the rules for our own universe according to our,

00:27:55.120 our own, you know, emotional and narcissistic whims.

00:27:58.960 That's what they believe.

00:27:59.840 That's what all this is about.

00:28:01.060 And it is a spiritual battle versus good of good versus evil.

00:28:04.580 Tucker Carlson's 100% correct about that.

00:28:07.040 And according to this report, that's a big reason why he got canned.

00:28:10.700 Um, quote, that stuff freaks Rupert out.

00:28:15.120 He doesn't like all the spiritual talk, the source said.

00:28:18.340 Rupert Murdoch was perhaps unnerved by Carlson's, uh, uh, messianism because it echoed the end

00:28:24.660 times worldview of Murdoch's ex-fiancee and Leslie Smith, the source said in a May cover

00:28:30.260 story of, uh, Vanity Fair, uh, Murdoch and Smith called off their two week engagement

00:28:34.880 because Smith had told people that Carlson was a messenger from God.

00:28:38.240 Uh, Murdoch had seen Carlson and Smith discuss religion firsthand.

00:28:42.920 And so apparently they were at a dinner, uh, back in March and, uh, uh, Rupert Murdoch's

00:28:48.380 then fiancee, his fiancee would have been going on wife number five, I think, was having this 0.99

00:28:53.940 conversation with Tucker Carlson.

00:28:54.860 Rupert Murdoch was there and they were talking about all these things about how this is a

00:28:58.200 spiritual battle, good versus evil.

00:29:00.320 Rupert Murdoch was there.

00:29:01.100 He didn't like that.

00:29:01.860 Uh, shortly after that, he dumps the fiancee and then shortly after that, he gets rid of

00:29:06.740 Tucker Carlson.

00:29:07.620 That's the report anyway.

00:29:09.420 This makes a lot more sense.

00:29:11.720 I mean, it doesn't make sense to fire him for it, but it makes sense that Fox would, uh,

00:29:17.340 makes more sense than anything tied to this Abby Grossberg lawsuit, which, you know, other

00:29:22.980 media outlets are still claiming is one of the central reasons why he got fired.

00:29:27.960 So Yahoo has this, Grossberg, formerly a senior booking producer for Fox News, um, began working

00:29:34.380 as the head of booking for Tucker Carlson tonight last year.

00:29:36.960 She was fired by Fox News last month after filing suit against the company claiming that

00:29:40.900 she was bullied and subjected to sexist and antisemitic comments while working on Carlson's

00:29:45.520 show.

00:29:45.740 There are other reports, by the way, that, uh, she never actually met Tucker Carlson.

00:29:50.340 So she was never in the same room as him, according to some reports, but in a separate

00:29:53.880 lawsuit filed in Delaware, Grossberg claimed that she was coerced by the company's lawyers

00:29:57.060 to give misleading answers to her deposition in the Dominion case.

00:30:00.260 In the 79 page lawsuit filed in the Southern district of New York, Grossberg said that she

00:30:03.640 was startled by the behavior of male colleagues when she showed up for her first day of work

00:30:08.000 on Carlson's show in September.

00:30:09.900 According to Grossberg, she arrived at the office to see many large and blown up photographs

00:30:13.960 of Nancy Pelosi in a plunging bath bathing suit, revealing her cleavage.

00:30:19.400 I think we have, uh, she also was doing the rounds on MSNBC, of course, and other media

00:30:22.580 outlets talking about all her horrible experiences working for Tucker Carlson.

00:30:25.740 And we have the clip of her talking about this, uh, traumatic encounter with Nancy Pelosi pictures.

00:30:31.860 Let's watch that.

00:30:33.340 I was hoping that it would be more professional and what he was portraying on air was just a

00:30:38.860 show.

00:30:39.360 And unfortunately that wasn't the case.

00:30:42.100 So when do you realize that?

00:30:44.400 Immediately.

00:30:46.120 I show up first day of work and I know that this is a popular one.

00:30:50.480 It's been widely publicized.

00:30:51.680 There are literally pictures like this big of Nancy Pelosi in a bathing suit in Europe,

00:30:58.460 plastered all over.

00:31:00.520 Um, there was even one on my computer screen for the temporary computer I had to use and

00:31:04.220 I had to take it down just to work.

00:31:06.620 Um, within a few days there, I was called into Justin Wells office with Alex McCaskill,

00:31:11.940 who was a senior producer as well, and asked if Maria was having an affair with Kevin McCarthy.

00:31:18.120 It was just, it was just, I was shocked.

00:31:22.100 I couldn't even believe it.

00:31:23.280 I was floored.

00:31:26.040 Uh, that's, that's pretty funny.

00:31:27.720 Look, you know what, Abby, you're the one body shaming Nancy Pelosi.

00:31:31.640 So what, maybe they're, maybe they, they think that Nancy Pelosi is a beautiful woman and,

00:31:37.160 uh, and, and, and that's all.

00:31:38.640 It's, it, yeah, this is your assumption.

00:31:41.980 So you have decided to interpret that in a negative way.

00:31:46.540 Shame on you.

00:31:48.640 Can you imagine if Abby Grossberg came to work for the Daily Wire and she, uh, encountered

00:31:53.260 our, uh, our, our five foot tall, you know, cigar store Indian of, uh, of, uh, Elizabeth Warren.

00:32:01.640 How would she, I mean, she would break down in tears immediately upon encountering that.

00:32:08.360 Uh, she also, she says that, uh, staff members frequently engaged in group discussion in which

00:32:13.460 misogynistic views of women as objects to be judged solely based on their appearance were 0.75

00:32:18.280 broadcasted.

00:32:19.800 In these discussions, no woman, whether she was a Republican politician or female staffer

00:32:23.460 at Fox News was safe from suddenly becoming the target of sexist, demeaning comments.

00:32:28.340 In one instance cited by the paper, the lawsuit recalled a crass and sexist discussion in

00:32:33.940 the newsroom before the Republican gubernatorial candidate, uh, in Michigan, Tudor Dixon was

00:32:38.160 scheduled to appear as a guest on Carlson show.

00:32:40.360 Before Dixon arrived, staffers discussed whether Ms. Dixon or her opponent, Gretchen Whitmer 1.00

00:32:45.080 was hotter.

00:32:47.620 That's an interesting question.

00:32:48.940 And that's a debate many of us have had.

00:32:50.460 Um, I think ultimately, uh, Tudor Dixon is going to be the more attractive one.

00:32:54.860 Um, Gretchen Whitmer, you know, in my opinion, the fact that she's so evil, it's just, you, 0.90

00:33:00.840 you can't quite, maybe it's not fair to, to deduct points based on that in the discussion

00:33:06.920 of this sort.

00:33:07.580 But the fact that she is so despicably, horrifically evil, I think it does exude out of her and it 0.82

00:33:13.320 actually affects her physically as well.

00:33:15.000 But a very interesting conversation, um, that apparently traumatized poor, uh, Abby

00:33:21.940 Grossberg.

00:33:23.420 Um, and then, uh, okay.

00:33:26.260 In another instance, McCaskill allegedly referred to, uh, a room in the office where Fox News

00:33:32.640 employees could pump breast milk as a waste of space. 1.00

00:33:36.400 There's someone who worked for Fox said that the room for pumping breast milk was a waste 0.85

00:33:39.640 of space and suggested it should be converted into a room of tanning beds for the guys to 0.99

00:33:44.220 tan their testicles. 0.97

00:33:46.620 Um, you know, if that was actually said, Abby, that's what's known as, uh, we actually have 0.99

00:33:51.900 a word for that.

00:33:52.460 It's called a joke.

00:33:53.980 So that's a, someone was making a joke is what they were doing.

00:33:57.100 If that was even said at all.

00:33:59.720 But she also accuses, uh, the Tucker team of, of saying and doing a lot of things that,

00:34:03.960 uh, that don't pass the smell test at all.

00:34:07.000 So let's, let's watch one more clip here.

00:34:08.640 Um, when I got to Tucker, it was different.

00:34:11.240 And as a text that came out revealed my suspicions, um, he was looking for ratings bait purely,

00:34:18.540 uh, and was also looking for power.

00:34:20.940 It was a combination of ratings and power and manipulating the audience, um, and manipulating

00:34:26.880 also the political system.

00:34:28.520 There was an aspect of, I can pick who the house speaker is.

00:34:32.220 I can pick who the president of the United States is or who the Republican candidate's

00:34:36.780 going to be.

00:34:37.440 And I thought that was really dangerous and didn't want that kind of power.

00:34:42.180 I didn't want to have, um, Senate candidates calling me and being very upset.

00:34:49.040 But are you going to destroy our whole campaign tonight?

00:34:51.400 Because he could do that.

00:34:52.700 And he would call and tell them that, that if you don't participate or you don't come 0.82

00:34:57.720 on the show, we will destroy you. 0.95

00:34:59.380 And I was told to tell that to congressmen sometimes.

00:35:01.680 And I didn't, how can I, that was disrespectful.

00:35:05.220 So in addition to the misogyny and the sexism and the antisemitism, there was also just this

00:35:11.220 sort of moral growth with me where I reached a breaking point because of all of those things.

00:35:17.540 And I literally did not want to do it anymore.

00:35:20.260 It felt disgusting.

00:35:21.680 I stopped watching news when I came home.

00:35:24.460 I didn't watch anything.

00:35:25.620 I just didn't want to because I was so depressed and disillusioned by the entire media system

00:35:32.720 because of Tucker Carlson.

00:35:34.600 Oh, my moral growth.

00:35:36.120 You know, the only, look, the only mistake that, uh, the Tucker team made, and it's not

00:35:42.080 like this is Tucker Carlson himself.

00:35:43.340 He doesn't, he's not overseeing every aspect.

00:35:45.660 That's not the way it works.

00:35:46.860 But, you know, the only mistake, obviously, is hiring this woman. 0.99

00:35:50.040 But of course, it's just, it's not always easy to sniff these kinds of people out.

00:35:55.140 The kind of person who's going to see, you know, a joking picture of Nancy Pelosi, if

00:35:59.160 it's even true that the pictures are present.

00:36:01.140 But see a picture like that and be offended.

00:36:03.900 Just get over yourself.

00:36:05.720 My God, how do you function in life?

00:36:09.160 Oh, it's her moral, it's my moral growth.

00:36:10.720 My moral growth, right, my moral growth was that I could work there and take the paychecks

00:36:16.400 in, then I get fired, and only then do I turn, you know, I get fired, and then I turn

00:36:22.060 around and try to profit to the tune of however many millions she's suing for. 1.00

00:36:26.500 That's all part of the moral growth.

00:36:29.500 Suing for millions because you were offended by alleged jokes, right, that's a sign of moral

00:36:36.460 growth.

00:36:36.800 I will say, though, that I am, there is one revelation from this that really disappoints

00:36:43.240 me, as much of a fan of Tucker Carlson as I am.

00:36:47.040 You know, when she said that Tucker Carlson was interested in ratings, good Lord, I am so

00:36:58.360 disappointed.

00:36:59.000 That he wanted to get ratings for his show?

00:37:03.960 That is unacceptable.

00:37:05.520 And surely, Tucker Carlson, the only figure in all of media that's concerned about ratings.

00:37:13.560 Everyone, it doesn't come up, you know, and I've worked in media, I can tell you right

00:37:16.240 now, I've never even encountered a conversation like this.

00:37:19.360 No one talks about it.

00:37:21.480 Performance, ratings, you know, downloads, advertising dollars, we never discuss it.

00:37:27.560 In fact, if I'm in a, if it even, on occasion, someone's about to, maybe I'm in a meeting,

00:37:33.540 someone broaches the conversation, well, let's look at the numbers.

00:37:36.060 Nope, we're not talking about this.

00:37:37.520 Doesn't matter.

00:37:38.160 How dare you?

00:37:39.540 Get out of the room.

00:37:42.240 I say to Jeremy Boring, that's what happens in, so, Tucker Carlson, the only figure in all

00:37:48.380 of media who cares about ratings.

00:37:49.540 And so that is a scandal, but all the rest of it, not so much.

00:37:52.460 Um, and the claim that she, as a, like a booking producer, was told to call up congressmen and

00:38:00.980 say, come on the show or we'll destroy you, uh, that also didn't happen.

00:38:05.300 That's, that's not the way it works.

00:38:08.520 And this is why, listen, I don't know the percentages, but it is my suspicion that the

00:38:15.760 vast majority of, um, of hostile work environment claims are really come, they are, they are

00:38:25.120 used as cover by losers who couldn't hack it.

00:38:29.140 That's most of it.

00:38:30.980 Because if something illegal or actually unethical happened, then say what it was, just name it,

00:38:37.640 you know, give actual examples of that.

00:38:40.220 But when we get these kind of broad, oh, it's a hostile work environment, um, no, you're 0.99

00:38:45.260 just a loser and you couldn't hack it. 0.99

00:38:46.560 You couldn't do it. 0.99

00:38:47.260 It's a high pressure environment.

00:38:49.080 You know, you're working with a lot of, uh, you're working with a lot of high performance

00:38:53.440 people and there's a lot of egos around.

00:38:55.920 That's just the way it is in the media business.

00:38:57.280 It's the way, it's the way, it's the way it is at high levels in any industry.

00:39:00.300 That's how it is.

00:39:01.820 Um, and, uh, and she couldn't deal with it.

00:39:04.760 She couldn't do it.

00:39:06.440 She couldn't keep up with the pressure.

00:39:07.840 And so she washed out and now she's filing a lawsuit. 1.00

00:39:11.300 That is my, that is my interpretation.

00:39:14.580 That is my theory personally about this.

00:39:18.260 All right.

00:39:19.800 Maybe we have time for one or two other things.

00:39:22.280 Uh, Kevin Bacon has come to the defense of drag queens who perform for kids.

00:39:27.000 Uh, let's watch that.

00:39:29.440 Drag is an art and drag is a right. 0.96

00:39:32.580 Drag is a centuries old art form of creativity, expression, and self-exploration.

00:39:37.840 It's an opportunity to educate through entertainment and it's not dangerous.

00:39:43.320 At Six Degrees, we believe in amplifying the voices of those that are experiencing injustice.

00:39:49.020 So join us in supporting the ACLU drag defense fund by shopping our bonfire campaign or making

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00:40:05.680 Drag is a gift. 0.93

00:40:06.700 He says drag is a, um, is a blessing.

00:40:10.060 Sounds a lot like David French.

00:40:11.380 He's almost exactly quoting David French and saying some of this, uh, the quote unquote

00:40:15.460 conservative David French.

00:40:16.420 Um, this is one of the reasons why, uh, you know, I, I think this, this fight against

00:40:23.500 the sexualization of children, especially as it comes in the form of, you know, drag events 1.00

00:40:29.460 for children is why it's so important.

00:40:31.460 I mean, it's important number one, because it's a evil thing that we need to stop for the

00:40:35.540 sake of the kids who are being victimized by it.

00:40:37.840 Um, so that's the most important thing, but also even from, um, kind of political perspective,

00:40:45.920 um, I'm, I'm more than happy for the Democrats to go into 2024, uh, making this part of their

00:40:54.040 platform and the more high profile Democrats and liberals who come out strongly in defense

00:41:00.540 of not just drag, but specifically drag Queens performing in front of children.

00:41:05.220 Um, I, we know that they, that they are in favor of it.

00:41:08.720 We know they're in favor of the sexualization of children.

00:41:10.660 We know that's happening.

00:41:11.920 And since it's happening and since they're in favor of it, I think it's good for them

00:41:15.340 to say it out loud and to, and to kind of wear this, um, position with pride, march under

00:41:23.120 the banner so everybody can see it and make their decisions accordingly as we go into, uh,

00:41:30.260 election season and beyond.

00:41:31.360 Because if you're like, if you're a dyed in the wool leftist, then you're brainwashed

00:41:36.820 into this too. 0.96

00:41:37.520 You're, you're in favor of the sexualization of children.

00:41:39.480 It's part of your whole, it's part of your whole ideology, but anybody who's not, you

00:41:44.000 know, you don't have to be a far right extremist like myself.

00:41:46.840 If you're just not that, if you're not a dyed in the wool, far left leftist, then you,

00:41:54.160 you know, you just need to ask yourself, do you, do you really believe this?

00:41:58.900 Is it, is this what you believe?

00:42:00.320 Do you believe that not only is it okay for drag queens to perform sexually in front of 0.99

00:42:05.060 children, but they have a right to, do you believe that grown men have the God given natural

00:42:13.180 right to cross dress and perform sexually in front of children? 0.99

00:42:18.680 That's what we're hearing from everybody on the left, Democrats, celebrities.

00:42:23.200 You just need to decide if that makes any sense to you.

00:42:27.800 And if you have any kind of a soul left and any brain in your, in your head, then the

00:42:33.280 answer to that obviously will be no.

00:42:34.960 Let's get to the comment section.

00:42:36.180 Who makes Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage? 0.94

00:42:42.320 Who's to blame?

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00:43:55.040 Sean says, the only reason why millions of people even watched Fox News in the first place

00:43:59.100 is because of Tucker Carlson.

00:44:00.820 He'll be hugely successful wherever he goes.

00:44:03.500 Well, you know, I obviously agree with you on that.

00:44:05.400 I think the bet that Fox News is making is that this will be kind of a Bill O'Reilly situation.

00:44:11.040 Now, you remember that, and it can be easy to forget.

00:44:14.000 Maybe that's part of the point that, you know, for Fox News is part of their point that it's so easy to forget this.

00:44:17.860 But for years, Bill O'Reilly was the biggest star in not just the Fox News, but in all of cable news.

00:44:24.660 And he was also kind of, he was no Tucker Carlson, don't get me wrong, but he was the biggest star in cable news at the time, driving conversation as well.

00:44:37.120 And then they canned him, and, you know, he's still out there doing his thing, but he's not that anymore.

00:44:46.020 His audience didn't really follow him to his next endeavor.

00:44:48.340 And because, in that case, the time slot, Fox News itself, and the whole structure they have in place, and the time slot is what made Bill O'Reilly a star.

00:44:59.960 And then they discard him, and they put somebody else in, and they say, well, make them a star.

00:45:04.620 And their bet is that it's going to be the same thing here, that Tucker Carlson wasn't really the star.

00:45:10.060 It's Fox News in the 8 o'clock time slot, Eastern Time.

00:45:12.980 That's the star.

00:45:14.240 And we take him out, and his audience will go away.

00:45:16.800 That's their bet.

00:45:17.640 I think that, although that has proven to be the case, sometimes, I think it's a bad bet with Tucker Carlson.

00:45:25.640 I think he's just a, he's a different sort of media figure.

00:45:28.120 It's a different kind of media landscape, even, than it was back, even though it wasn't all that long ago when Bill O'Reilly was given the boot.

00:45:34.380 It's a different media landscape.

00:45:36.080 And so I think it's, I think it's a bad bet.

00:45:37.900 And I think that Fox News is going to take a ratings hit that will not recover quickly, and that Tucker's audience will go with him wherever he goes.

00:45:48.480 Will says, I was thinking when I was reading those accusations against Don Lemon, man, I hope Matt doesn't pounce on this, because this is really weak.

00:45:55.400 And he handled it beautifully, LOL.

00:45:58.220 Well, if you even thought, you thought I would read some of those examples of Don Lemon's supposed sexism, and I would jump on that bandwagon and pretend that it was offensive.

00:46:06.640 What was one of them? 0.96

00:46:07.260 He said that, he said one of the, a woman that was on the air with him, he said, you have mommy brain. 0.94

00:46:14.240 And this is supposed to be an example of, oh, misogyny.

00:46:17.180 Come on, Will.

00:46:17.860 Was there any thought in your head that I would read that and say, well, that's terrible.

00:46:22.380 That's, well, that, he'd need to be fired for that.

00:46:25.880 Mommy brain? 1.00

00:46:26.660 That's unthinkably sexist. 0.94

00:46:28.580 No, come on. 0.85

00:46:29.020 Nothing wrong with saying that. 0.84

00:46:32.500 Don Lemon, again, it's not even a defense of Don Lemon, but it's just a statement of fact.

00:46:37.300 He's not a sexist.

00:46:38.780 He doesn't hate women.

00:46:39.900 He probably hates everybody, because he's a narcissist, only cares about himself, like so many other people in media.

00:46:45.520 And he disregards and hates everybody else, especially anyone who he perceives to be a threat to him, anyone who he thinks is more talented than him, or getting better ratings than him.

00:46:56.420 And his ratings were always really bad, so that means he's just, that's why he hates you.

00:47:01.180 Man, woman, doesn't matter. 1.00

00:47:02.160 However, he certainly deserved to be fired, just based on the fact that he was untalented and doing a terrible job.

00:47:13.220 Mr. Public says, I canceled my Fox Nation subscription.

00:47:16.320 I made sure to tell them that it was due to the way they treated Tucker going out the door.

00:47:20.240 Bud Light moment.

00:47:22.580 And this is very, and I've thought about this as well, this is a really interesting move on the heels of Bud Light.

00:47:28.060 And as we know, when everything happened with Bud Light, there were many people, including on the right, who said that, look, Bud Light's too big.

00:47:36.600 It's just, we can say that we're going to boycott it.

00:47:39.220 It's not going to make a dent.

00:47:42.160 And that did not prove to be the case.

00:47:45.100 And I think there's also an assumption that Fox News is, because it's also a powerful brand, and it's just kind of like by default.

00:47:52.500 You know, there are many middle America sort of conservative people that by default, they would just go for the Bud Light, just like by default, they go for Fox News.

00:48:03.560 That didn't save Bud Light, and I don't think it's going to save Fox News either.

00:48:07.880 And Enigma says, there's nothing more annoying than someone yelling on the phone out in public, but it's even worse when the person they're yakking at is on speaker.

00:48:15.520 Yeah, I, why would you even want, I will never understand it, it's one of the mysteries of life for me, is why would you even want to speak to somebody on speaker out in public in the first place?

00:48:30.860 And, you know, it's very rude to everybody around you, because you're forcing them to listen to this conversation.

00:48:39.740 It's also rude for the person who's on speaker, because they probably don't know.

00:48:45.120 Because here's the other thing, when I'm around someone and they're speaking to somebody on the speaker phone, I never hear that person tell the person on the phone, oh, hey, by the way, you're in public right now, there's 50 people standing around, you're on speaker, everyone can hear you, continue.

00:48:58.420 You never hear that warning being given. So, just don't do it.

00:49:04.080 And, like I said, in many of these cases, you really don't need to be using your phone at all.

00:49:08.440 While it is tempting, certainly, to blame postmodernism for ushering in a prevailing sense of nihilism, the truth is, this was an issue going all the way back to biblical times.

00:49:16.700 No one likes a complainer, no matter what century you live in, you just drag everybody down, and the consequences of that are just as dire today.

00:49:23.300 This is what Dr. Stephen Blackwood points out in the 16th episode of Exodus with Jordan Peterson. Check it out.

00:49:29.360 The vision of God is a necessary condition of the flourishing of society.

00:49:36.260 And without that vision, a people perishes.

00:49:39.840 Well, there's technical reasons for that, I would say, that we know biologically now, too, is that almost all enthusiasm, and so that is to be filled with the Spirit of God, that's positive emotion.

00:49:51.260 And all positive emotion of the most intense sort, I don't mean satiation and satisfaction, I mean hope and enthusiasm, that moves you forward, is tied to a vision, because all positive emotion signals movement towards a valued goal.

00:50:07.760 In addition to Stephen Blackwood, Jordan Peterson is joined by a roundtable of impressive minds who have gathered to discuss one of the most seminal books in the Bible.

00:50:15.200 We are heading into the conclusion of Exodus, which is exclusively for Daily Wire Plus members.

00:50:19.480 If you haven't seen it yet, start at the beginning, because it's well worth your time.

00:50:22.420 Trust me.

00:50:22.780 Join now at dailywire.com slash subscribe to watch Exodus.

00:50:26.800 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:50:32.360 Mother's Day is just around the corner, which means that it's time for some woke virtue signaling from corporate America.

00:50:37.580 Every holiday is an occasion for woke virtue signaling.

00:50:39.860 Of course, every day in general is an occasion.

00:50:42.080 But Mother's Day presents a unique opportunity, and this year, the virtue signaling is taking on a perhaps slightly unexpected form.

00:50:49.460 The Daily Wire reports, quote,

00:50:50.740 Major corporations and businesses are sending out emails offering a chance to opt out of Mother's Day-related communications.

00:50:57.540 In a viral thread posted Sunday, Twitter account Arizona Informer posted more than a dozen screenshots from businesses sending Mother's Day opt-out offers,

00:51:04.940 noting the similar language used in the emails and equating the trend with anti-family activism.

00:51:09.860 Arizona Informer captioned,

00:51:11.980 Something very strange is happening with big corporations.

00:51:14.700 Out of nowhere, Kroger-owned Fry's food store, Kay Jewelers, Hallmark, and now DoorDash have all sent opt-out of Mother's Day emails to their customer base.

00:51:23.240 This is not organic, the account charged.

00:51:25.360 This reeks of anti-family activism.

00:51:28.080 We understand that Mother's Day may be a difficult time for some, a message from DoorDash said,

00:51:32.100 adding an option to be removed from additional emails and push notifications relating to the holiday.

00:51:36.340 A message from Kay Jewelers said,

00:51:38.420 We know Mother's Day can be a challenging time, which is why we want to know if you'd rather not receive Mother's Day-related emails.

00:51:45.160 Quote,

00:51:45.740 With Mother's Day coming up, we understand this can be a difficult time of year for some.

00:51:50.220 Read a similar email from Nespresso.

00:51:53.060 If you would like to opt out of Mother's Day emails, you can simply click below.

00:51:57.400 Levi's, Ancestry, Mac Cosmetics, Stitch Fix, Bye Bye Baby, Etsy, and others were some of the other companies included in the thread.

00:52:04.840 The list is even longer than this, by the way.

00:52:07.640 Seemingly, all at once, you know, major companies across the spectrum have jumped on the Mother's Day opt-out train.

00:52:13.600 And this is one of the hallmarks of wokeism, is that, you know, the new form of virtue signaling pops up out of nowhere.

00:52:21.020 And in the blink of an eye, everyone is expected to embrace it, even if they have no idea why they're embracing it.

00:52:28.160 Because all these corporations that are sending out emails, you can opt out of Mother's Day.

00:52:31.500 Do they even all know why they're doing this?

00:52:33.240 They just saw everyone else doing this.

00:52:35.200 Oh, yeah, we got to get one of those out.

00:52:36.980 In the corporate world especially, the new virtue signal spreads like wildfire at each company.

00:52:42.000 And, you know, they all quickly adopt it for fear that being the last to adopt it might hurt their ESG score.

00:52:48.200 But don't get too excited.

00:52:49.840 This opt-out trend is, I think, rather limited.

00:52:53.440 It is not an option that will be offered for other occasions.

00:52:57.440 We can be fairly certain that DoorDash isn't going to be offering the chance to opt out of Pride Month promotions or, you know, Black History Month spam.

00:53:05.580 It's very unlikely that Levi's or Etsy will send an email that says,

00:53:08.940 We know Pride Month can be an extremely annoying time for you, which is why we want to know if you'd rather not receive Pride Month-related emails.

00:53:16.440 Now, this is something that will only be applied to Mother's Day.

00:53:19.100 It probably won't even extend to Father's Day as well, simply because Father's Day is already mostly ignored.

00:53:23.720 You know, we've kind of opted out of that as a society in general.

00:53:27.960 Mother's Day is the holiday that traditionally gets all the press with a great emphasis on making sure that you shower your mother with gifts and attention and appreciation.

00:53:35.780 Father's Day, on the other hand, is a time to throw a gift bag with a new pair of socks at your dad and say,

00:53:41.080 Hey, Happy Father's Day or whatever, and then move on with your day, which I can say as a dad is how we prefer it.

00:53:46.300 So I'm not complaining.

00:53:47.940 The point is that the opt-out trend will be limited in scope, I think.

00:53:51.460 So why are the corporations doing this?

00:53:55.120 And why all of a sudden, all at once?

00:53:58.020 The working theory among conservatives is that, as we mentioned, it's rooted in this kind of woke, anti-family ideology.

00:54:04.080 The assumption is that it has something to do with the left's doctrines on gender and sexuality.

00:54:08.620 Mother's Day presents a problem for these doctrines, because motherhood presents a problem. 0.73

00:54:14.140 And that's why companies are slowly, or not so slowly, backing away from it.

00:54:18.480 But I actually don't think that that's the motivating factor here.

00:54:23.660 Mostly because the left doesn't believe that motherhood presents any problem for them on this front.

00:54:28.400 It does, but they don't think that.

00:54:30.900 The gender ideologue doesn't want to abolish Mother's Day, but rather appropriate it. 0.57

00:54:36.700 Which ultimately will have the same effect as abolishing it, of course.

00:54:39.560 We simply arrive at that destination from a different direction.

00:54:42.600 But, so I don't think that's the reason.

00:54:44.820 That doesn't mean that the Mother's Day opt-out trend isn't woke.

00:54:49.080 It certainly is, just for different reasons.

00:54:51.940 In this case, we're told the reason, actually.

00:54:54.040 NPR has an article on the subject about all these opt-out emails.

00:54:57.320 And it explains this, quote,

00:54:58.460 Many people struggle with Mother's Day and Father's Day for different reasons.

00:55:02.340 Perhaps they've lost parents or children, confronted fertility issues,

00:55:05.560 or they have complicated relationships with family members.

00:55:08.100 As author and grief advocate Megan Devine points out,

00:55:10.740 There are so many ways to lose a mother or to lose mothering.

00:55:14.920 The website Upworthy concurs, quote,

00:55:17.260 Mother's Day is an occasion of celebration and love for some,

00:55:19.940 while for others it is a painful reminder.

00:55:21.920 It reminds them of grief, infertility issues, or traumatic pasts.

00:55:25.340 Some major brands have started to realize this.

00:55:27.380 DoorDash, Pandora, Mac, KJewelers, and several other companies

00:55:31.620 have sent an email blast to their customers,

00:55:33.420 providing them with the option to stop any sort of Mother's Day branded emails or promotions.

00:55:37.000 Quote,

00:55:39.680 What can be a wonderful time for some can be a difficult time for others.

00:55:42.340 Jewelry brand Pandora wrote in an April 2023 email to customers,

00:55:45.520 We completely understand if you'd prefer to opt out.

00:55:47.440 Simply let us know and give us your email and so on.

00:55:49.840 This gesture brings relief to many for whom this day brings grief.

00:55:53.620 Quote,

00:55:53.920 As an infertile person who did years of medical treatment to get pregnant,

00:55:56.920 I can tell you this opt-out stuff is not new,

00:55:59.380 and it's something appreciated by infertility and lost communities,

00:56:02.360 and I imagine by people who have lost parents or have bad relationships with them.

00:56:06.060 According to one Twitter user.

00:56:08.240 So, this is the point.

00:56:10.560 Mother's Day is triggering for all the people who have experienced difficulties

00:56:14.640 related to their mothers or motherhood or fertility or childbirth,

00:56:19.360 and somehow a Mother's Day advertisement is traumatic, according to this logic,

00:56:25.800 and yet having to actively opt out of Mother's Day ads for dozens of different brands

00:56:31.180 is not traumatic.

00:56:32.880 That's totally incoherent, of course,

00:56:35.420 but the lack of coherence is another hallmark of wokeness.

00:56:38.420 You know, if my own mother died, God forbid,

00:56:41.360 I would think it'd be much more emotionally taxing to go into my inbox

00:56:46.000 and find all of the spam emails

00:56:48.340 and open them and actively reply to them,

00:56:52.260 asking them not to send me any Mother's Day material because my mother is dead.

00:56:56.700 You know, I think that'd be much more difficult than simply just ignoring the spam,

00:57:02.140 which goes to the spam folder anyway, most of it.

00:57:06.200 Yet, one way or another, Mother's Day will come, and people will celebrate.

00:57:11.440 And yes, if you've lost your mother or if you struggle with fertility

00:57:14.480 or if you have a bad relationship with your mother or whatever else,

00:57:17.880 that celebration may conjure up some difficult emotions for you.

00:57:21.900 But it's not just Mother's Day that will have that effect.

00:57:25.940 When you're struggling with a serious challenge in your life

00:57:28.380 or you're grieving over a loss or experiencing some other kind of deep emotional pain,

00:57:32.320 you'll find a universe suddenly chock full of signs pointing back to those wounds.

00:57:39.100 And this is true when it comes to, you know, very serious traumas like the loss of a loved one.

00:57:44.060 In your grief, you will find reminders of your loss everywhere you go.

00:57:48.480 It's also true of much less severe but still significant pains like financial difficulties.

00:57:53.360 If you've ever had serious money problems, you know that when you have money problems,

00:57:57.900 the world will constantly remind you of your money problems,

00:58:01.100 especially around the holidays, any holiday.

00:58:04.480 And even if there is nothing actively reminding you of whatever it is you're struggling with,

00:58:08.540 you still are stuck with your own mind, which is keenly aware of these struggles

00:58:12.560 and constantly turning them over and dwelling on them,

00:58:15.240 no matter what else is going on in the outside world.

00:58:18.300 Wokeness wants to make us fragile by encouraging us to shield ourselves 1.00

00:58:23.840 from these difficult emotional experiences.

00:58:25.580 In fact, it tells us that we have the right to be shielded from them,

00:58:28.520 that the world should reorient itself so that we are not forced to think about things

00:58:32.900 that make us uncomfortable.

00:58:34.600 The result is that we never learn to live with the hardships.

00:58:38.120 We only learn how to live around them, avoiding them, hiding from them.

00:58:43.120 That's how we become a country full of people who cannot cope with any discomfort,

00:58:46.520 whether big or small.

00:58:48.480 Always looking for the opt-out option.

00:58:51.920 And unfortunately, our society is run by institutions that are eager to provide it,

00:58:55.600 which may make us more comfortable in the moment,

00:58:58.120 but they won't help us become stronger, better-functioning people in the long run.

00:59:02.120 And that is why these companies and their Mother's Day opt-out emails are today canceled.

00:59:08.800 Now we'll do it for this portion of the show.

00:59:10.020 Let's move over to the members block.

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00:59:13.480 for two months free on all annual plans.

00:59:15.240 Hope to see you there.

00:59:15.860 If not, talk to you tomorrow.

00:59:17.480 Godspeed.

00:59:17.800 Godspeed.

00:59:17.840 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 26, 2023

Ep. 1152 - The Hard Truth That Jazz Jennings Needs To Hear

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