Ron DeSantis has gone to war with woke corporations, especially Disney. But some Republicans have come to Disney s defense, arguing that it s more important to save corporations than to save the culture. And this attitude is exactly why Republicans so often lose. Also, Biden s DOJ is suing to stop Tennessee's law banning child gender mutilation. Plus, Leah Thomas scolds the women who object to his presence in their locker rooms and on their sports teams. But this is one inclusivity campaign that I actually support. And I ll explain why.
00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Wall Show, Ron DeSantis has gone to war with woke corporations, especially Disney.
00:00:04.400But some Republicans have come to Disney's defense, arguing that it's more important to save corporations than to save the culture.
00:00:10.360And this attitude is exactly why Republicans so often lose.
00:00:13.820Also, Biden's DOJ is suing to stop Tennessee's law banning child gender mutilation.
00:00:18.860Plus, Leah Thomas scolds the women who object to his presence in their locker rooms and on the sports teams.
00:00:23.500Mattel puts out an inclusive Barbie, but this is one inclusivity campaign that I actually support, and I'll explain why.
00:00:30.000In our Daily Cancellation, a wellness advocate attempts to explain why losing weight is fatphobic.
00:00:35.180We'll talk about all that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:02:49.680They're absorbing the messages but not looking for them.
00:02:52.840And they absorb the messages at extremely high volumes for hours at a time.
00:02:56.400A person might sit and binge a Disney show for five hours in a row, being swayed and influenced and preached to without ever being consciously aware of it.
00:03:07.760Entertainment propaganda is much more effective and therefore a much bigger problem than any other kind of propaganda,
00:03:13.160especially in Disney's case as they produce entertainment for children.
00:03:17.280And this is why Ron DeSantis' fight against the Disney Corporation is so important.
00:03:20.980As you recall, the fight began after Disney came out to lobby against the bill in Florida that banned the sexualization of elementary school students.
00:03:30.120The legislation that leftists erroneously and absurdly dubbed the Don't Say Gay bill.
00:03:35.840Disney came out forcefully in favor of child sexualization, insisting that it's very important for five-year-olds to be taught about sexuality and gender fluidity.
00:03:45.580But the bill passed anyway, and Ron DeSantis responded to Disney's child sexualization advocacy by revoking the special legal privileges that the company had enjoyed for decades and benefited from.
00:03:58.020Disney had essentially been granted the power to run its own government, a privilege unique to Disney, not enjoyed by any other corporation in the state.
00:04:07.020And so the move made sense by Ron DeSantis.
00:04:09.180Disney has no inherent right to operate its own fiefdom.
00:04:13.260This was a deal worked out decades ago between Florida and Disney, back when it seemed to be beneficial to the people of the state.
00:04:23.500For one thing, many more companies have moved to the state and operated under state law, not their own law.
00:04:29.060Reason enough to expect Disney to do the same.
00:04:31.420But now that Disney has decided to use its power and influence to work against the people and work for the harm and corruption of children,
00:04:40.860it was certainly time to make this change.
00:04:43.560Not surprisingly, this has led to an intense battle between DeSantis and Disney, one that DeSantis right now appears to be winning.
00:04:49.480That's why Disney is running to federal court to try to recoup their special benefits.
00:04:56.500Walt Disney Parks and Resorts on Wednesday sued Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his handpicked oversight board,
00:05:01.440accusing the Republican 2024 presidential prospect of weaponizing his political power to punish the company for exercising its free speech rights.
00:05:08.060The lawsuit was filed in federal court minutes after the board, appointed by DeSantis to oversee Disney's special taxing district,
00:05:14.280sought to claw back its power from the entertainment giant, voting to invalidate an agreement struck between Disney and the previous board in February,
00:32:37.480We brought the doll with Down syndrome to life in close partnership with the National Down Syndrome Society.
00:32:43.340Through this collaboration, we were able to ensure the doll and all the design elements and details
00:32:48.320were an accurate representation of a person with Down syndrome.
00:32:51.220Okay, so here's what I want to say about this because I've seen some conservatives making fun of this and calling it woke.
00:33:02.440It's another woke, inclusive, PC thing is what some are saying.
00:33:07.220And I'll admit that in the first moment after I saw this headline, I almost had that reaction
00:33:14.480because I saw the term inclusive Barbie doll.
00:33:17.240And my first instinctive reaction is to roll my eyes because 99.9% of the time, it's going to be something stupid.
00:33:23.780If there's an inclusive whatever, it's something stupid.
00:33:26.300It could be something or it's going to be something actively objectionable or both, you know, like a whatever, a non-binary Barbie doll or something.
00:33:34.700If they don't already have that, I'm sure they're going to soon enough.
00:33:37.880But then there's the 0.1% of the time when it's actually something good.
00:33:58.700Down syndrome people really do need to be included.
00:34:03.420We do need inclusivity campaigns for them because Down syndrome people, especially children, are being excluded from society in the most violent and bloody ways.
00:34:14.460They're being exterminated by the abortion industry.
00:34:17.220That's a big reason why they run tests for Down syndrome in utero because they run the tests and then they give the parents the option to kill the child if they don't want to have a child with Down syndrome.
00:34:30.940So, if we're doing anything as a society, I would say to include Down syndrome children, to humanize them, represent them, that's a good thing.
00:34:58.680Okay, did the Mattel corporation and they're in their marketing department, their toy development department, whatever, and they're sitting around, did they say, hey, what can we do to advance the pro-life cause?
00:35:24.200Like, take the wins where they come, even if they're unintentional.
00:35:28.960Even if we're seizing on to something that was meant a certain way, and we're saying, nope, this is what it means.
00:35:36.060You might not have meant it this way, but this is what it means.
00:35:38.080And this is a perfect example of that.
00:35:42.240Whether you intend for it to be pro-life or not, whether that's a conscious intention, it is.
00:35:47.280Because to include and humanize and represent, again, I know these words have connotations now, and every time we hear them, we have that instinctive reaction to it.
00:35:57.000But there are contexts where these words really do mean something, even if they're misused most of the time.
00:36:05.000And in this case, yeah, representing and including Down syndrome children, a very good thing.
00:36:11.220And also, look, it's true that if you're a parent with a child who has Down syndrome, the shows that your child watches, the movies, the toys that he plays with,
00:36:21.560he's not going to often see people like him in those contexts.
00:36:27.000Partly because, again, Down syndrome people are being eradicated in an actual eugenics campaign that's happening in this country and across the Western world.
00:36:36.220So I can imagine that if I had a daughter with Down syndrome, yeah, I'd be going out and buying this doll for her.
00:36:43.040And it would be extremely unfair and annoying, to say the least, if I heard conservatives accusing me of participating in something woke because of it.
00:36:54.620But it's not, and we need to be smarter than that, I think.
00:37:05.000It says, transgender athlete Leah Thomas has defended her triumphs over her biologically female competitors
00:37:09.820as she hit out at what she deemed to be fake feminists who want to police women's bodies.
00:37:15.280Once again, air quotes around her and she in this paragraph.
00:37:18.000I'm just reading what the Daily Mail actually says.
00:37:20.240As the Daily Mail is misgendering Leah Thomas by using the preferred pronoun that is actually misgendering because it's not accurate.
00:37:30.100Anyway, the former University of Pennsylvania athlete joined the first NCAA transgender swimmer, Schuller Bilar, on his podcast, Dear Schuller,
00:37:40.680to discuss the controversy about allowing trans female athletes to compete on women's sports teams.
00:37:55.220You can't really have that sort of half support where you're like, oh, I respect her as a woman here, but not here.
00:38:00.520They're using the guise of feminism to sort of push transphobic beliefs.
00:38:07.280And I think a lot of people in that camp sort of carry an implicit bias against trans people, but don't want to, I guess, fully manifest or speak that out.
00:38:17.340And so they try to just play it off as this sort of half support.
00:38:20.880They think about how twisted feminism, quote unquote, feminism has become.
00:38:24.920Their arguments, you know, in order to exclude anybody in the trans category, you have to reduce women to reproductive capacity, which is, in my opinion, extremely anti-feminist.
00:38:33.920I don't want to put those women down either, and I know you don't want to either, because I see pain.
00:38:37.920I see pain, and the pain is coming from somewhere.
00:40:27.540I don't respect your claim that you are a woman.
00:40:29.960And I don't respect you, given what you're doing and how you're trying to invade these spaces and you're totally disregarding all the actual women and how they feel about it and their own rights and privacy.
00:42:22.260You can't just point to some woman and say, you can't, you don't have access to this, right?
00:42:27.740Just like we couldn't say to a, if there's a woman who happens to appear somewhat masculine and, you know, we can't say, well, because you look like that, you don't get to go into the women's locker room.
00:43:21.900And this stuff of I don't want to criticize adult transgender, I don't want to criticize the ideology, I want to respect the identities, but I don't want this happening to kids, I don't want that doesn't make any sense.
00:43:36.360You're trying to straddle a line that doesn't exist, you're threading a needle, but there's no thread there.
00:43:58.700There's no compromised position you can find.
00:44:03.580There is a compromised position, an intellectually compromised position, which is the one that many conservatives have selected.
00:44:11.280And so on that note, at least on that part of the discussion, Leah Thomas is correct, but he's wrong about literally everything else that he says and is.
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00:45:52.960Jazz is so far along in his transition, any concept of reversing course will be impossible for him, aside from God, of course.
00:45:58.700His identity has been this for so long, and his family and friends are so involved that an existential crisis for him would be unbearable.
00:46:04.780If he ever comes to see the truth, he'll either be suicidal or the strongest voice of the D-trans movement.
00:46:09.060Likely, he knows this, and the fear of that alone could prevent him from even considering it.
00:46:13.580I don't intend to sound pessimistic, but we are not a society of emotionally well people, and those involved in the trans ideology are worse off in this regard.
00:46:20.260Yeah, you're exactly right, William, and this is a comment I read from many other people talking about Jazz Jennings yesterday and my urging Jazz to accept the truth, to accept the reality.
00:46:36.740And I did hear from some people that said, well, there's no going back.
00:46:44.380There's no, you know, he can't fully embrace his maleness and his male identity because these surgeries have been done that are irreversible.
00:46:52.740Irreversible, and that is true in that these surgeries are irreversible, and there's no, there are things that happen in life sometimes where you can't go back from them, and this is one of those things.
00:47:04.760And it does show that there's no, when we start transitioning kids, you put them in a, as they become adults, you put them in a, in a situation where there's no, there's no win, there's no good option.
00:47:22.340That's the ultimate tragedy, when someone's in a position in their life where there is no good option, and you can't pretend there is.
00:47:28.560It doesn't exist, because either you keep living this lie with your broken body, or you accept finally the truth, but you're still stuck with the broken body, and a body that can never recapture what it once had.
00:48:01.340It's, it's not good either way, and unfortunately for Jazz Jennings, he is, he has despair and, and depression and deep, deep struggles that he's already experiencing now and that are, that are in front of him for probably the rest of his life.
00:48:24.140Um, but, still, the best option is the truth.
00:48:29.820And your best, his best chance, and it's not like his life is worthless, it's not like it's not worth living, everyone's life is worth living.
00:48:37.060And you can still find a purpose, I think you pointed out to one of them, William.
00:48:40.120I mean, he could be one of the greatest and most effective advocates.
00:48:44.540Given that he's this public figure that went through this, was taken through this process against his will because he was a kid and he couldn't consent to it.
00:48:51.840And for him to come out and be, you know, a D-trans advocate would be incredibly powerful.
00:48:56.540I mean, he could, he could save so many people, um, and that, and that's, uh, and that is a, a vocation that he could have and you could find a lot of fulfillment and joy in that.
00:49:07.800Um, and that's, so it's the right thing to do to live in the truth and to live with the recognition of the truth.
00:49:14.700It's also going to be your best chance to live a fulfilling life and to find happiness in your life, which he can still have all of that, along with the suffering.
00:49:23.780And the suffering is going to be, going to be unavoidable.
00:49:47.920I had to put the Daily Wire on blast publicly because, uh, it was, I don't know if you knew this, but it was national, national pretzel day yesterday.
00:49:56.960And so they had, um, pretzels in the break room for everybody.
00:51:16.800So, yeah, it's a, it's a hostile work environment around here, um, for that alone.
00:51:24.300Uh, let's see, uh, talking about the, uh, Abby Grossberg, the employee that's, um, that's suing Tucker Carlson and Fox News.
00:51:34.180John says, literally within one second of seeing the clip of that ex-employee, the only thought that came to mind was who looked at her and hired her.
00:51:42.220The only thing she's missing are those bright, bright, giant rimmed glasses.
00:51:46.880That's a liberal plant if there ever was one.
00:51:49.320Yeah, you should have been able to, you know, you should have been able to see that just by, by looking at her.
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00:54:38.860Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:54:44.240For our daily cancellation, we turn to recovery coach and weight neutral trainer Ashantis Jones.
00:54:50.500Now these two meaningless job titles fall under the umbrella of an even more meaningless job title.
00:54:54.700On her website, Jones refers to herself as a wellness advocate and offers paid wellness consultations.
00:55:01.160She promises that she never judges, just supports.
00:55:04.600This is what a person most often means these days when they say that they're a wellness advocate or life coach or counselor or even therapist.
00:55:12.020What they mean is that they will cheer you on and offer vague support for whatever life choices you've already made.
00:55:18.600What they most certainly won't do and wouldn't know how to do anyway is guide you towards better life choices and a better life.
00:57:50.120I'm not saying if you exercise and happen to lose weight that that is fat-phobic.
00:57:57.940I'm not saying if you start a medication and you happen to lose weight, that is fat-phobic.
00:58:03.660I am not saying that if you're going through any type of, you know, illness and that is altering your body in some way, that that is fat-phobic.
00:58:13.520I'm saying when you are intentionally exercising to lose weight, altering your diet to lose weight, doing any activity intentionally to lose weight, is fat-phobic.
00:58:28.960And the reason why is because you are intentionally attempting to make your body smaller to fit into what narrative?
00:58:38.960The narrative that smaller is healthier, even though we've already discussed why that's not true.
00:58:49.520Ashantis Jones has given you permission to lose weight if you have an illness.
00:58:53.180So if a terminal disease is ravaging your body and you're withering away and you happen to lose weight, Ashantis will give you a get-out-of-fat-phobia-free card.
00:59:00.900She'll even come to the hospital and deliver her last rites absolving you of fat-phobia so that you won't be condemned eternally in the afterlife.
00:59:08.440Indeed, in her generosity, she has even allowed us to lose weight as a result of exercise so long as losing weight wasn't the goal.
00:59:15.960So if you're going for a run around the neighborhood because you want to work off your beer gut, you are fat-phobic scum and you should die.
00:59:21.460But if you're sprinting through an airport terminal because you want to get to the Dairy Queen at the food court before the flight boards in 15 minutes, that will be acceptable.
00:59:28.720In one case, you're exercising for the sake of losing weight.
00:59:30.980In the other case, you're exercising with the intent of stuffing your fat face with ice cream.
00:59:34.740These are the sorts of nuances that we need Ashantis Jones to help us navigate.
00:59:41.260Now, I'm not going to waste a lot of time explaining, once again, why the concept of fat-phobia is nonsensical.
00:59:46.500Phobias are irrational fears, by definition.
00:59:48.940A fear of becoming fat is not irrational, given that fatness comes with heart disease, cancer, dozens of other negative health outcomes.
00:59:57.780And yes, fatness also looks displeasing.
01:00:01.100Fatness is not attractive because it is unhealthy.
01:00:03.480We are wired to be attracted to health and vitality, not disease and decay.
01:00:09.400Now, it's not that everyone who's even slightly overweight is automatically ugly, but that nobody is attractive because they are overweight.
01:00:16.600This is why a slogan like fat is beautiful is not only morally problematic as it encourages people to engage in self-destructive behavior, but also factually wrong.
01:00:56.620But it's not a misunderstanding about obesity that drives the fat acceptance movement.
01:01:01.080Even Ashantis Jones understands that, you know, objectively, by every measure, it is better to be physically fit than physically fat.
01:01:08.500Yet she, along with all the other fat advocates, admonishes you for dieting and exercise and tries to, you know, if you try to improve yourself simply because your self-improvement makes her feel worse about herself.
01:01:32.380People who are unhappy with their lives, dissatisfied with their own choices, but yet lack the discipline and courage to make the necessary changes.
01:01:40.760People who have no self-control, no ability to moderate, no capacity for delayed gratification.
01:01:46.780People who are not healthy, not well-adjusted, therefore don't want you to be either.
01:01:52.820And this is the case whether we're talking about fat acceptance or gender identity, really anything else.
01:01:58.480Everything you hear from that side is motivated, at least on some level, by the fact that they are unhappy,
01:02:04.500and your happiness makes them feel even less happy by comparison.
01:02:09.240The attack on the nuclear family is most especially fueled by this mentality.
01:02:13.940Lots of people who came from broken families and then grew up and created more broken families
01:02:18.620absolutely despise those of us who have happy, intact families.
01:02:23.880They're like the five-year-old bully at the beach who can't figure out how to make a good sandcastle,
01:02:28.940so he knocks down other kids' sandcastles instead.
01:02:32.040So much of the madness that grips hold of our culture right now is driven by motivations,