The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1153 - From Bud Light to Disney, The War On Woke Corporations Must Continue

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Ron DeSantis has gone to war with woke corporations, especially Disney.

00:00:04.400 But some Republicans have come to Disney's defense, arguing that it's more important to save corporations than to save the culture.

00:00:10.360 And this attitude is exactly why Republicans so often lose.

00:00:13.820 Also, Biden's DOJ is suing to stop Tennessee's law banning child gender mutilation.

00:00:18.860 Plus, Leah Thomas scolds the women who object to his presence in their locker rooms and on the sports teams. 1.00

00:00:23.500 Mattel puts out an inclusive Barbie, but this is one inclusivity campaign that I actually support, and I'll explain why.

00:00:30.000 In our Daily Cancellation, a wellness advocate attempts to explain why losing weight is fatphobic.

00:00:35.180 We'll talk about all that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:50.100 Well, Disney has, of course, been pushing leftist propaganda for a very long time.

00:01:55.460 Unfortunately, their propaganda is especially effective because it's embedded into ostensibly non-political entertainment.

00:02:02.700 The bias on CNN or in the New York Times is bad and can be quite harmful to the country and is harmful,

00:02:08.280 but the harm will be mitigated by the fact that it's being disseminated on cable news and in newspapers.

00:02:15.100 Even the most oblivious people recognize that the news media is a political business, no matter what it claims about itself.

00:02:21.640 You turn to CNN or the New York Times because you want to be exposed to a left-wing bias.

00:02:26.900 You go to them because they're on your team.

00:02:28.420 And besides, most people don't spend very much time watching cable news or especially reading newspapers anyway.

00:02:33.680 But Americans do spend hours and hours every day mentally ingesting entertainment content.

00:02:42.900 Worst of all, most viewers don't think that entertainment is political or ideological.

00:02:47.940 They're not looking for the messages.

00:02:49.680 They're absorbing the messages but not looking for them.

00:02:52.840 And they absorb the messages at extremely high volumes for hours at a time.

00:02:56.400 A 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.

00:03:07.760 Entertainment propaganda is much more effective and therefore a much bigger problem than any other kind of propaganda,

00:03:13.160 especially in Disney's case as they produce entertainment for children.

00:03:17.280 And this is why Ron DeSantis' fight against the Disney Corporation is so important.

00:03:20.980 As you recall, the fight began after Disney came out to lobby against the bill in Florida that banned the sexualization of elementary school students.

00:03:30.120 The legislation that leftists erroneously and absurdly dubbed the Don't Say Gay bill.

00:03:35.840 Disney 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.

00:03:45.580 But 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.

00:03:58.020 Disney 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.

00:04:07.020 And so the move made sense by Ron DeSantis.

00:04:09.180 Disney has no inherent right to operate its own fiefdom.

00:04:13.260 This was a deal worked out decades ago between Florida and Disney, back when it seemed to be beneficial to the people of the state.

00:04:21.840 Circumstances have changed.

00:04:23.500 For one thing, many more companies have moved to the state and operated under state law, not their own law.

00:04:29.060 Reason enough to expect Disney to do the same.

00:04:31.420 But 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,

00:04:40.860 it was certainly time to make this change.

00:04:43.560 Not surprisingly, this has led to an intense battle between DeSantis and Disney, one that DeSantis right now appears to be winning.

00:04:49.480 That's why Disney is running to federal court to try to recoup their special benefits.

00:04:54.860 Here's CNN with the latest quote.

00:04:56.500 Walt Disney Parks and Resorts on Wednesday sued Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his handpicked oversight board,

00:05:01.440 accusing the Republican 2024 presidential prospect of weaponizing his political power to punish the company for exercising its free speech rights.

00:05:08.060 The lawsuit was filed in federal court minutes after the board, appointed by DeSantis to oversee Disney's special taxing district,

00:05:14.280 sought to claw back its power from the entertainment giant, voting to invalidate an agreement struck between Disney and the previous board in February,

00:05:21.060 just before that board's dissolution.

00:05:22.500 Wednesday's moves are the latest escalation in the fight between DeSantis and Disney as DeSantis moves towards a 2024 presidential bid.

00:05:30.920 Disney responded by suing DeSantis, the board, and Florida Department of Economic Opportunity Acting Secretary Meredith Ivey,

00:05:37.600 seeking to block the board's moves.

00:05:39.060 The lawsuit characterizes Wednesday's vote as the latest strike in a targeted campaign of government retaliation,

00:05:45.020 orchestrated at every step by Governor DeSantis as a punishment for Disney's protected speech.

00:05:51.300 It says that DeSantis' retaliation now threatens Disney's business operations, jeopardizes its economic future in the region,

00:05:57.760 and violates its constitutional rights.

00:06:01.360 Well, no, it doesn't.

00:06:02.580 Again, Disney has no constitutional right to be exempt from the laws of the state,

00:06:09.200 the laws that everyone else is expected to abide by.

00:06:12.820 That was a privilege.

00:06:14.840 Privileges can be revoked, and Disney very much deserved to have its privileges revoked.

00:06:20.540 Not all Republicans agree, however.

00:06:22.800 In fact, there has been a noticeable move recently by some prominent Republicans to circle the wagons around Disney,

00:06:28.940 start rooting for Disney against Ron DeSantis.

00:06:32.820 The latest was Nikki Haley, long-shot presidential candidate, who appeared on Fox News yesterday and said this.

00:06:39.840 I want to ask you about what could be another Republican candidate in the field, and that is Ron DeSantis.

00:06:46.240 We just learned a few moments ago that Disney is now suing the Florida governor for an alleging political effort to hurt their business.

00:06:55.480 We've all been watching this back and forth for quite some time.

00:06:59.020 This is obviously dramatically escalating the feud between Disney and Ron DeSantis.

00:07:04.760 They're alleging that the Republican governor has waged a, quote,

00:07:07.740 relentless campaign to weaponize government power over the company.

00:07:13.420 What is your reaction to that, as we still have yet to see him jump officially into the race?

00:07:18.800 You know, as governor, I took a double-digit unemployment state, and I turned it into an economic powerhouse.

00:07:26.240 Businesses were my partners, because if you take care of your businesses, you take care of your economy,

00:07:30.960 your economy takes care of the people, and everyone wins.

00:07:34.360 And so that's the way we dealt with it.

00:07:36.400 We are—South Carolina was a very anti-woke state.

00:07:39.860 It still is.

00:07:40.700 And if Disney would like to move their hundreds of thousands of jobs to South Carolina and bring the billions of dollars with them,

00:07:47.080 I'll let them know.

00:07:47.800 I'll be happy to meet them in South Carolina and introduce them to the governor and the legislature that would welcome it.

00:07:55.180 And that, in a nutshell, is why Nikki Haley is a tremendous Republican presidential candidate in 2008. 0.78

00:08:01.620 This is 2008-era establishment Republican corporatism, which unfortunately has not died away.

00:08:07.860 I mean, now, in the electorate, it basically has.

00:08:12.480 There's hardly any market for it in the electorate.

00:08:14.660 Outside of Sean Hannity viewers and David French readers, the voters aren't interested in this.

00:08:20.000 The market for what Haley is selling is extremely small.

00:08:22.780 But when it comes to the Republicans who have their hands on the levers of power,

00:08:26.440 or are trying to get their hands on the levers of power, this is still the predominant view.

00:08:31.360 The Republican establishment has not evolved since 2008.

00:08:34.080 Mostly because the exact same people are controlling it now, as we're controlling it in 2008, and in 1998, and in 1988.

00:08:42.060 We saw the same sort of thing with the Bud Light boycott.

00:08:45.740 High-ranking Republicans, to include some on the Trump team, came swooping in to defend Anheuser-Busch,

00:08:51.140 warning us that we must not upset the company because they donate heavily to Republicans.

00:08:55.520 The donor money! Think of the donor money, they cried.

00:08:58.240 We ignored them, and Bud Light's sales fell through the floor, and their marketing executives started getting fired one by one.

00:09:05.780 And we should ignore them on the Disney issue, too.

00:09:08.640 We should totally disregard any Republican who is not on board with the fight against woke corporations like Disney and Bud Light.

00:09:17.060 You know, Haley says that we should defend Disney because they create jobs.

00:09:20.660 Yeah, well, so does Planned Parenthood, okay?

00:09:23.880 So does the porn industry.

00:09:25.700 Is she going to solicit Pornhub to relocate to South Carolina, too?

00:09:29.720 We're an anti-woke state in South Carolina, so come here and make anti-woke porn.

00:09:34.880 Better yet, why don't you encourage the child gender transition industry to make your state into its headquarters? 1.00

00:09:41.280 Disney advocates for that practice, and you apparently have no issue with it, so why not cut right to the chase?

00:09:46.220 Here's the thing, Nikki.

00:09:49.600 Jobs are good.

00:09:51.020 You know, we want people to have jobs.

00:09:53.460 But it takes more than a job to live a good and fulfilled life.

00:09:58.100 It takes more than jobs to have a thriving country.

00:10:00.760 And your job is cold comfort if you're working your job in a dying and decaying society.

00:10:06.200 We are in the midst of a collective march into degenerate madness,

00:10:09.520 and the destination will be ruinous for all of us and for our children,

00:10:13.060 even if we all have jobs when we get there, which, by the way, we won't.

00:10:18.280 Economic collapse always accompanies cultural collapse.

00:10:21.600 The culture goes down and brings everything with it. 0.96

00:10:25.300 But you cannot save the culture by only focusing on the economy.

00:10:31.120 Am I really suggesting that the Disney Corporation is, you know, helping to usher in the cultural collapse?

00:10:37.940 Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.

00:10:41.840 It is a company with nearly unfettered access to the minds of millions of children.

00:10:48.600 If it decides to promote confusion and dysfunction, and it has,

00:10:54.100 it will have and does have the unique ability to spread that virus to our children quickly and efficiently.

00:11:00.080 That's why we desperately need our leaders to use the power they have,

00:11:05.760 the power they've been granted by the voters, to push back against these corporations

00:11:09.360 and push back in ways that will actually hurt, ways that will actually mean something.

00:11:15.340 Okay, not simply promising hearings and investigations that don't go anywhere,

00:11:19.480 or sending out tweets or writing statements, but actually hurting them.

00:11:24.940 That's what Ron DeSantis is doing.

00:11:28.120 But we really don't, we don't have time to be explaining this anymore.

00:11:30.900 We just don't.

00:11:32.320 There's no time.

00:11:33.260 At this point, okay, where we are in the culture, where we are in this fight,

00:11:38.520 it is, it's too late to have to explain this to people.

00:11:42.520 So if you're a conservative, whether you're a Republican politician or anyone else,

00:11:45.680 if you're a conservative and you still need this kind of stuff explained to you,

00:11:49.000 if you still need basic realities like, you know, the culture matters

00:11:51.680 and we can't just focus on the economy and then hope that that's going to be enough,

00:11:56.540 if you still need that explained to you, then we don't need you anymore.

00:12:00.640 Any Republican who doesn't intuitively understand why these fights are so important

00:12:04.560 should be, as I said, discarded.

00:12:06.800 Dump them on the side of the road, leave them in the dust, leave them in 2008 finally. 0.98

00:12:12.500 They are weak. 0.57

00:12:13.380 They care only about money and power.

00:12:18.740 Not because they want to use the money and power to advance the conservative cultural agenda.

00:12:22.560 No, that's the last thing they'll use it for because that might jeopardize the money and power.

00:12:27.000 So we give them the power and then they say, well, I can't use this

00:12:29.480 because then we won't have power anymore because they'll be mad at us if we do that.

00:12:32.720 No, they want it for its own sake.

00:12:34.380 They want it for themselves, for their own advancement, not the advancement of the cause.

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00:14:01.180 This is from the Daily Wire.

00:14:03.200 The Department of Justice sued Tennessee on Wednesday over a state law

00:14:06.480 prohibiting transgender hormone treatments and surgeries for minors.

00:14:10.280 That's the law that we got passed here recently.

00:14:14.280 Tennessee's ban on sex change treatments for minors violates the Equal Protection Clause,

00:14:18.580 the DOJ said in the statement.

00:14:20.720 The law discriminates against transgender youth, quote unquote,

00:14:23.660 diagnosed with gender dysphoria, blocking sex change treatments for them

00:14:27.260 while allowing non-transgender minors access to the same or similar procedures.

00:14:33.440 No person should be denied access to necessary medical care just because of their transgender status,

00:14:38.160 said the Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clark.

00:14:40.880 The right to consider your health and medically approved treatment options with your family and doctors

00:14:45.160 is a right that everyone should have, including transgender children who are especially vulnerable

00:14:48.720 to serious risks of depression, anxiety, and suicide.

00:14:51.020 Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee hit back at President Joe Biden's DOJ in a statement to The Daily Wire

00:14:56.780 saying,

00:14:57.040 Tennessee is committed to protecting children from permanent life-altering decisions.

00:15:00.540 This is a federal overreach at its worst,

00:15:03.040 and we will work with the Attorney General to push back in court and stand up for the children.

00:15:08.380 So this was, this doesn't take anyone by surprise.

00:15:14.540 This is exactly what was expected.

00:15:16.740 I think the Tennessee legislature expected this to happen,

00:15:19.820 not because it should happen, obviously.

00:15:21.980 This is, you know, on top of the fact that this is obviously the right thing to do

00:15:25.600 to protect children from being mutilated and butchered,

00:15:28.960 it's also firmly in the realm of states' rights.

00:15:34.520 So this is the federal government trying to come in and saying,

00:15:36.960 you're not allowed to pass that law because we personally don't like it.

00:15:41.500 You know, we have political disagreements with what you guys are doing here,

00:15:45.340 so we want to stop you from doing it.

00:15:47.620 That's what the federal government is saying.

00:15:49.280 And the basis of their argument is total nonsense, right?

00:15:53.060 So they, it's also telling, too,

00:15:57.120 because they know that they can't really argue that this is medically necessary.

00:16:01.340 They can't argue on the merits of the,

00:16:06.280 of these procedures and the drugs that are given to kids.

00:16:10.440 They can't argue for that.

00:16:12.180 They know they don't have, they don't have the data on their side.

00:16:14.100 They don't have anything on their side.

00:16:14.960 They don't have common sense.

00:16:15.780 They don't have science.

00:16:16.720 So instead they make this equal protection claim saying,

00:16:19.680 well, similar things, it still allows similar procedures and, you know,

00:16:26.260 similar drugs to be given to non-transgender kids.

00:16:33.040 Except that there's major differences here.

00:16:39.120 So what are we talking about?

00:16:40.500 For example, the law bans, quote unquote, gender affirming mastectomies for minors.

00:16:52.360 So you're not allowed to, you're not allowed to mutilate, you know, a young girl,

00:16:58.160 perform a cosmetic double mastectomy in, in hopes of turning her into a boy. 0.83

00:17:04.420 But does that mean that, um, double mastectomies are 100% disallowed?

00:17:14.100 Well, no, you know, it, if it's very rare for someone that young to have breast cancer,

00:17:21.880 but in a, in a hypothetical scenario like that, when there's an actual disease that needs to be

00:17:27.220 treated, well, then of course it would be allowed.

00:17:30.380 And the same thing goes for, you know, for example, precocious puberty.

00:17:35.120 Like, it is an actual illness.

00:17:36.820 It's a, it's an affliction, you know, it's a disorder, a disease.

00:17:42.360 And so there's actual treatment for that.

00:17:47.700 But there's a difference between diagnosed precocious puberty, which again is an illness,

00:17:53.420 it's a disorder, uh, versus normal puberty that everybody goes through.

00:17:57.580 So, on one hand, we are treating an illness, and on the other hand, these are cosmetic things

00:18:09.920 that are being done, treating no illness at all, in order to make the child resemble supposedly

00:18:18.580 the other sex. 0.51

00:18:21.600 I think it should be obvious to everyone what the distinctions are between those two things.

00:18:27.460 Um, normal puberty is not a disease.

00:18:31.860 The normal development, the normal healthy development of a child is not a disease.

00:18:40.160 That's not an illness that needs to be treated.

00:18:43.000 If there is an illness, we treat it.

00:18:45.140 But when you're giving drugs to someone, and there's no illness to treat, that's, that's

00:18:53.540 always going to be bad.

00:18:55.100 But anytime doctors are giving drugs to someone, in spite of the fact that there's no illness

00:19:00.020 there, that's always going to be a bad thing, which it is here.

00:19:03.720 Um, and this is why, you know, we get all, we have all these, uh, state laws being passed,

00:19:09.060 which, which is great.

00:19:10.500 Um, but we also need action on the federal level.

00:19:15.820 We really want to make sure that these kids are protected.

00:19:18.180 We need action on the federal level.

00:19:20.840 Um, and that has to be, and I know that, you know, Donald Trump has come out and said that,

00:19:26.460 uh, that, that he believes that these procedures should be banned on the federal level.

00:19:30.060 Um, we need every Republican candidate.

00:19:32.440 To come out in favor of that, banning these procedures, protecting kids across the country

00:19:39.640 from this, uh, we need them, we need them all to line up behind that.

00:19:45.560 And that needs to be, you know, not just something that's mentioned one time and then you move

00:19:50.440 on from it, but one of the central parts of their campaign is protecting kids from this

00:19:56.560 madness.

00:19:59.200 All right.

00:19:59.800 Interesting contrast here is this also from the daily wire four members of the Senate introduced

00:20:05.760 legislation on Wednesday that would ban minor minor minors under the age of 13 from using

00:20:10.860 social media and mandate parental consent for those younger than 18.

00:20:15.520 The bill called the protecting kids on social media act would also prohibit the use of algorithmic

00:20:21.340 content recommendations for all minors in order to reduce the addictive elements of social

00:20:25.860 media.

00:20:26.940 Uh, the bill is sponsored by, it looks like two Democrats and two Republicans.

00:20:31.480 So it's a bipartisan bill.

00:20:33.520 Um, one of the Democrats, Brian Schatz, this is an actual last name, uh, says the growing

00:20:40.820 evidence is clear.

00:20:42.020 Social media is making kids more depressed and wreaking havoc on their mental health.

00:20:45.420 While kids are suffering, social media companies are profiting.

00:20:47.720 This needs to stop.

00:20:48.380 Our bill will help us stop the growing social media health crisis, um, among kids by setting

00:20:53.460 a minimum age and preventing companies from using algorithms to automatically feed them

00:20:57.260 addictive content based on their personal information.

00:21:00.340 Uh, now I'd have to, I'd have to read, I haven't read the actual bill.

00:21:04.500 I'd have to read more into it, but just on surface level based on the, uh, quick description

00:21:09.720 of it, I'm in favor of it.

00:21:12.620 I think it's a very good idea, but there's also, as I said, uh, an interesting contrast

00:21:17.360 here because you have at least some Democrats who are willing to say that, you know, kids

00:21:22.760 under a certain age shouldn't be exposed to this at all.

00:21:26.060 Like kids under 13 shouldn't be on social media at all.

00:21:28.520 It should be banned from being on it is what the bill says.

00:21:30.800 I agree.

00:21:32.940 There's no good reason for an 11 year old child to be on social media.

00:21:39.720 No good can come from it.

00:21:41.660 It cannot help them.

00:21:43.220 It's like, there's zero chance of it helping them in any way.

00:21:47.040 And there's a great chance that it hurts them.

00:21:49.000 So when you're putting a child on social media, giving your child access to social media, you

00:21:54.200 are doing something that for that child, it's all downside and there is zero upside.

00:22:01.940 The only upside really, and this is why parents do it, is that it gets them out of your hair

00:22:07.480 and it occupies them so that you don't have to deal with them, but that's not really upside.

00:22:12.600 That's not upside for them, right?

00:22:13.980 That's an upside for you in your laziness, but it's not an upside for them.

00:22:17.720 It's not going to benefit them.

00:22:19.660 So I totally agree.

00:22:20.960 No, no kid under 13 should be on social media.

00:22:22.580 I don't think any kid should be on social media period at any age because the same rule

00:22:27.080 applies.

00:22:27.560 16 year olds, how do they benefit from being on social media?

00:22:29.640 I know why they want to be on it.

00:22:31.680 Understand that.

00:22:32.360 But do they benefit?

00:22:34.220 Does it make them a better person?

00:22:35.220 Will it make them healthier, happier?

00:22:36.480 Will it do any of that?

00:22:37.120 Is there any chance?

00:22:39.620 Is there any chance that your kid will make it into adulthood and then look back on their

00:22:47.320 childhood without social media and lament and say, I wish I was using social media all

00:22:51.620 that time?

00:22:52.820 You think you're ever going to be at a point as a parent years down the line when you say

00:22:58.600 to yourself, I wish my kid had spent more time on social media?

00:23:02.360 If only.

00:23:03.600 No, that would never happen.

00:23:06.020 But there are going to be a lot of kids as they get older who deeply lament how much

00:23:11.040 time they spent on it.

00:23:12.660 And many parents who regret allowing it.

00:23:16.160 Agree with all that, but obviously the hypocrisy here is that at least you have some Democrats

00:23:20.280 who can see that kids under a certain age shouldn't be on social media.

00:23:23.460 And yet, it seems almost certain that those same Democrats, and I don't know, I could look

00:23:30.120 it up, these particular Democrats, what's their position on this?

00:23:33.520 But almost every Democrat is fully on board with kids taking gender transition drugs, puberty 0.92

00:23:39.840 blockers, chemical castration.

00:23:41.180 And so if a bill like this passes, we're going to be in a situation where, you know, on the

00:23:48.520 federal level, nationwide, we have declared that 12-year-old children are not old enough

00:23:55.980 to use Twitter.

00:23:57.100 They are not old enough to use TikTok.

00:23:59.020 But they are old enough to take castration drugs.

00:24:05.320 They are old enough for hormone therapy that sterilizes them.

00:24:10.040 That doesn't make any sense.

00:24:12.840 That doesn't make any sense.

00:24:14.040 But considering this bill on its own, you know, in a vacuum, it does make sense to me.

00:24:19.300 And look, I understand the argument, and I've heard this even from plenty of people on the

00:24:25.320 right, that this is a parental rights thing, and parents should be able to make the decision.

00:24:31.920 I don't see it as parental rights any more than, you know, setting an age limit for alcohol,

00:24:38.500 setting an age limit for tobacco, setting an age limit even for R-rated movies.

00:24:45.840 I don't see it as a parental rights issue any more than those things are.

00:24:50.140 And most people, now, if you take a really purist, libertarian stance on this, if you're

00:24:57.480 an absolutist, libertarian type, then you probably say, well, yeah, there shouldn't be any age

00:25:01.740 limit for those things either.

00:25:03.260 Let parents make up their own mind.

00:25:05.860 But most people aren't really troubled by the fact that there is a drinking age.

00:25:11.420 And we could argue about how effective the drinking age is and all the rest of it, but

00:25:14.300 most people, there's not a real, there's not much of a movement to lower the drinking age

00:25:19.180 to 16 or 14, or to get rid of it entirely.

00:25:22.460 Most people are okay with that.

00:25:24.320 Because they understand that it's just, it, yeah, even if you set an age for it, that's

00:25:28.880 not actually going to stop, right?

00:25:32.100 If a kid really wants to drink, they're still going to be able to do it.

00:25:34.820 But we're, at a minimum, like, at a minimum, we're at least making a statement as a society

00:25:40.140 that this is not something that kids should be doing.

00:25:42.140 And there's no benefit to throwing open the doors of the liquor store and say, yeah, 13-year-olds,

00:25:49.260 come on in.

00:25:51.700 And so that's why the laws are in place the way they are.

00:25:53.520 And I think it's the same thing with social media.

00:25:57.300 In fact, I think you can make a very good argument that kids are, you know, that open,

00:26:03.700 kind of unfettered access and exposure to social media is even more damaging for kids than alcohol.

00:26:09.920 I think you could make that argument because it damages them at an even deeper level.

00:26:16.640 Like, it's affecting the kind of person that you are and that you'll become.

00:26:21.260 It's affecting your mind.

00:26:23.640 Of course, alcohol does that too, obviously.

00:26:25.460 But I think at an even deeper level.

00:26:29.940 All right.

00:26:31.520 Are you ready for the saddest video you'll ever see?

00:26:33.820 Howard Stern responded to Tucker Carlson's firing. 0.95

00:26:36.960 He says that Tucker should have understood that he's a nobody.

00:26:40.580 He's a worker bee over at Fox and should have just obeyed his masters, obeyed them like Howard Stern does.

00:26:47.200 So listen to him talking about this.

00:26:49.680 Like, if you work for Rupert Murdoch, you know that's got so many billions.

00:26:54.480 That is important as Tucker Carlson might be to the Fox network. 0.99

00:26:58.160 He will fire your a** if you're a pain in the a** because at the end of the day, you are a fly on his a**. 0.99

00:27:09.280 You're nothing because he's still going to have billions upon billions upon billions of dollars and own a giant corporation. 1.00

00:27:16.160 And, you know, you cannot, you can only push them so far.

00:27:24.780 Now, I'm a guy who's pushed my, like, when I was at NBC, I pushed management pretty far, but I didn't care. 1.00

00:27:29.480 I was like, you know what, f**k them. 0.99

00:27:31.060 Let them fire me. 1.00

00:27:32.900 Which was probably arrogant and stupid. 1.00

00:27:34.820 Not probably, very arrogant and stupid. 1.00

00:27:36.720 But one thing I know, like, I know who owns Sirius XM. 1.00

00:27:39.900 I know who the guy is on top.

00:27:42.920 And that guy owns, like, I think he owns entire states in the United States.

00:27:49.200 He doesn't need me.

00:27:51.040 I'm here at his, what do they call that, Robin?

00:27:56.460 I'm here at his service.

00:27:57.780 Oh, God, what is that term?

00:28:00.140 Service.

00:28:01.000 Pleasure.

00:28:01.920 Pleasure.

00:28:02.540 Thank you, Gary.

00:28:04.580 I'm here at his pleasure.

00:28:06.000 I'm here at his behest.

00:28:07.080 You know, I know at the end of the day, my man is my master.

00:28:16.260 And I like working at Sirius XM. 0.98

00:28:18.360 So, you know, I could bust balls, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 0.98

00:28:20.600 But at the end of the day, I'm worthless. 0.96

00:28:23.700 That is, I mean, this is, you know, if you're a younger kid, if you didn't grow up in the 90s,

00:28:30.600 it may surprise you to learn.

00:28:32.720 But this is, this is not the Howard Stern in the 90s.

00:28:36.500 That was the Howard Stern that was constantly going, as he says there, now he apparently regrets it and is apologizing for it.

00:28:42.060 But he was constantly fighting against the management and all the rest of it and trying to do his own thing.

00:28:47.780 And now, talking about his bosses as his master and lord and savior, he'll do whatever he needs to to keep his job.

00:28:57.680 Meanwhile, this guy's got hundreds of millions of dollars and he's like 70 years old, clinging onto this.

00:29:05.640 He'll have more money than he'll ever, ever be able to even come close to spending in the amount of time he has left in his life.

00:29:11.900 He's clinging onto it, debasing himself.

00:29:18.200 Now, there's an element, like there's a core of something true and useful that he's saying,

00:29:24.820 which is that we're all replaceable in our jobs, even if we think that we aren't.

00:29:29.960 Now, there's no indication that Tucker Carlson didn't realize that, that he got too big for his britches or whatever.

00:29:35.660 There's no indication of that.

00:29:37.740 But just as a general statement, that's true.

00:29:39.980 We're all replaceable.

00:29:41.260 We can all be replaced, no matter how important you think you are in your job, which is an argument.

00:29:47.460 It's not an argument for kowtowing to the bosses all the time.

00:29:50.480 It's not an argument for giving up your integrity, as Howard Stern has long ago done.

00:29:56.960 It's an argument for not placing your career and your job as the highest thing in your life, as the highest priority in your life.

00:30:04.720 It's a priority, but the reason why it's such a big priority for most of us is that we have families to take care of.

00:30:10.360 But our families is where we find our true identity and our fulfillment.

00:30:14.760 It's where we cannot just be replaced like that.

00:30:19.180 If you have a family, if you're a man with a wife and you have kids,

00:30:23.560 and then you're, and then you're gone, either because you left or because you died,

00:30:30.060 that's, that's something that will deeply impact everyone in your family forever.

00:30:39.100 And you'll never, you'll never really be able to replace you and who you are.

00:30:43.780 It's not like that at a job.

00:30:45.820 So, that's true.

00:30:48.260 That's not really the point he was making.

00:30:50.120 He was making, he was, he was advocating for doing whatever you're told,

00:30:54.900 hang on to the job, hang on to the money, no matter what, it's all that matters.

00:30:59.760 Calling his boss, his, my man, oh my God.

00:31:03.500 This, I'm telling you, if you didn't, you know, if you, if you were born sometime after the year 2000,

00:31:09.420 it'll shock you to learn, but this is not the Howard Stern that existed back in the 90s.

00:31:13.600 And it's, it's, uh, if only he had retired 20 years ago, uh, with all of his money and retained his, uh, his dignity.

00:31:21.900 Now, some would argue he never really had any dignity to begin with, which is probably true,

00:31:25.500 but retain some semblance of it anyway.

00:31:29.120 Really sad to see.

00:31:30.620 I want to talk about this too.

00:31:31.900 This is from, uh, AP News.

00:31:34.120 Toy company Mattel revealed its first Barbie doll representing a person with Down syndrome on Tuesday.

00:31:38.960 Mattel collaborated with the National Down Syndrome Society to create the Barbie

00:31:42.500 and ensure the doll accurately represents a person with Down syndrome, the company said.

00:31:48.560 Design features of the new Barbie were made under guidance from NDSS.

00:31:53.300 Mattel, uh, said in addition to portraying some physical characteristics of a person with Down syndrome,

00:31:57.300 the Barbie's clothing and accessories carry special meaning.

00:32:00.360 The blue and yellow on the doll's dress accompanied by butterflies represents symbols and colors associated with Down syndrome awareness.

00:32:04.800 Uh, they also wear, the Barbie also has ankle foot orthotics, which some Down syndrome children use.

00:32:11.260 Good Morning America had a segment on this so you could see the Barbie. 1.00

00:32:13.440 Let's check that out.

00:32:15.280 And I'm here for the first ever Barbie with Down syndrome.

00:32:18.720 And it's like me.

00:32:20.500 And it's beautiful and I love it to pieces.

00:32:23.620 I love it.

00:32:30.080 What do you think?

00:32:31.480 Nice, yeah.

00:32:33.060 What do you like about it?

00:32:34.680 Um, the hair and the clothes.

00:32:37.480 We brought the doll with Down syndrome to life in close partnership with the National Down Syndrome Society.

00:32:43.340 Through this collaboration, we were able to ensure the doll and all the design elements and details

00:32:48.320 were an accurate representation of a person with Down syndrome.

00:32:51.220 Okay, so here's what I want to say about this because I've seen some conservatives making fun of this and calling it woke.

00:33:02.440 It's another woke, inclusive, PC thing is what some are saying.

00:33:07.220 And I'll admit that in the first moment after I saw this headline, I almost had that reaction

00:33:14.480 because I saw the term inclusive Barbie doll. 0.99

00:33:17.240 And my first instinctive reaction is to roll my eyes because 99.9% of the time, it's going to be something stupid. 1.00

00:33:23.780 If there's an inclusive whatever, it's something stupid. 0.99

00:33:26.300 It 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. 0.98

00:33:34.700 If they don't already have that, I'm sure they're going to soon enough.

00:33:37.880 But then there's the 0.1% of the time when it's actually something good.

00:33:43.820 And this is the 0.1%.

00:33:45.860 We don't want to be like dogs, you know, barking whenever we hear a car in the driveway, no matter who's driving it.

00:33:53.920 We want to have discernment, right?

00:33:56.440 And we should have it here.

00:33:58.700 Down syndrome people really do need to be included.

00:34:03.420 We do need inclusivity campaigns for them because Down syndrome people, especially children, are being excluded from society in the most violent and bloody ways. 0.91

00:34:14.460 They're being exterminated by the abortion industry.

00:34:17.220 That'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.

00:34:28.700 And tragically, many parents do.

00:34:30.940 So, 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.

00:34:41.180 It's pro-life, actually.

00:34:42.560 It is pro-life.

00:34:43.980 The correct and also strategically intelligent reaction for conservatives from something like this is to say, wow, Mattel is pro-life.

00:34:52.460 They're putting out something pro-life.

00:34:53.860 This is great.

00:34:55.540 Now, does Mattel mean it that way?

00:34:58.680 Okay, 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?

00:35:09.620 Well, obviously not.

00:35:10.760 And they would be horrified probably if we took it that way.

00:35:14.580 If conservatives started coming out and saying, this is pro-life, this is amazing, this is great, Mattel would not be happy about that.

00:35:21.420 But we should do it anyway.

00:35:24.200 Like, take the wins where they come, even if they're unintentional.

00:35:28.960 Even if we're seizing on to something that was meant a certain way, and we're saying, nope, this is what it means.

00:35:36.060 You might not have meant it this way, but this is what it means.

00:35:38.080 And this is a perfect example of that.

00:35:42.240 Whether you intend for it to be pro-life or not, whether that's a conscious intention, it is.

00:35:47.280 Because 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.

00:35:57.000 But there are contexts where these words really do mean something, even if they're misused most of the time.

00:36:05.000 And in this case, yeah, representing and including Down syndrome children, a very good thing.

00:36:11.220 And 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,

00:36:21.560 he's not going to often see people like him in those contexts.

00:36:27.000 Partly because, again, Down syndrome people are being eradicated in an actual eugenics campaign that's happening in this country and across the Western world. 0.65

00:36:36.220 So I can imagine that if I had a daughter with Down syndrome, yeah, I'd be going out and buying this doll for her.

00:36:43.040 And 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.

00:36:54.620 But it's not, and we need to be smarter than that, I think.

00:37:01.460 All right, here's the Daily Mail.

00:37:05.000 It says, transgender athlete Leah Thomas has defended her triumphs over her biologically female competitors

00:37:09.820 as she hit out at what she deemed to be fake feminists who want to police women's bodies. 1.00

00:37:15.280 Once again, air quotes around her and she in this paragraph.

00:37:18.000 I'm just reading what the Daily Mail actually says.

00:37:20.240 As the Daily Mail is misgendering Leah Thomas by using the preferred pronoun that is actually misgendering because it's not accurate.

00:37:30.100 Anyway, the former University of Pennsylvania athlete joined the first NCAA transgender swimmer, Schuller Bilar, on his podcast, Dear Schuller,

00:37:40.680 to discuss the controversy about allowing trans female athletes to compete on women's sports teams.

00:37:45.420 So this is a podcast.

00:37:46.760 We have a clip of that, I think.

00:37:48.000 Let's play it.

00:37:48.340 Oh, we respect Leah as a woman, as a trans woman, whatever.

00:37:52.820 We respect her identity.

00:37:53.940 We just don't think it's fair.

00:37:55.220 You can't really have that sort of half support where you're like, oh, I respect her as a woman here, but not here.

00:38:00.520 They're using the guise of feminism to sort of push transphobic beliefs. 0.99

00:38:07.280 And 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.

00:38:17.340 And so they try to just play it off as this sort of half support.

00:38:20.880 They think about how twisted feminism, quote unquote, feminism has become. 0.99

00:38:24.920 Their 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.

00:38:33.920 I don't want to put those women down either, and I know you don't want to either, because I see pain.

00:38:37.920 I see pain, and the pain is coming from somewhere.

00:38:40.840 It's not you, though.

00:38:41.620 It's the patriarchy.

00:38:42.520 And how can we get people to see that?

00:38:45.420 I would never unironically use the term mansplaining, but if I was to ever do that, it would apply to that scenario right there.

00:38:55.920 You've got two men sitting around talking about how women should feel about men invading their locker rooms in sports.

00:39:07.160 And then at the end, we get the patronizing, why do I feel sorry for them? 0.97

00:39:12.060 You know, those silly girls who don't want men disrobing in front of them in the locker room. 1.00

00:39:17.540 Those silly, silly girls who don't want to see a penis in the locker room while they're trying to get changed. 1.00

00:39:25.160 I feel sorry for them. 1.00

00:39:26.900 There's pain.

00:39:27.920 There's pain behind that.

00:39:29.380 Well, yeah, there is pain.

00:39:30.360 I imagine that there is pain.

00:39:31.480 It is a painful thing to have to witness that, have to deal with that.

00:39:34.640 That's the pain.

00:39:36.900 But you know what?

00:39:37.240 Also, I probably surprised you to hear me say this, but I agree with Leah Thomas in the first part of what he said.

00:39:47.900 I agree very much with the first part, because he says you can't have it both ways.

00:39:53.040 He points out that there are plenty of people who say, I respect your identity.

00:39:57.080 I respect you as a woman.

00:39:58.180 I'll use the preferred pronouns, she, her, whatever, but I don't want you competing in the women's sports. 1.00

00:40:04.580 And Leah Thomas says that doesn't make any sense.

00:40:06.040 If you respect me as a woman, then I should be able to compete in the sports.

00:40:08.460 He's exactly right about that.

00:40:10.400 Correct.

00:40:11.840 It doesn't make any sense.

00:40:14.180 That's a halfway position that doesn't make sense.

00:40:17.540 Which is why the only correct position, the only coherent position, is to say, no, Leah Thomas, I don't respect your self-identity.

00:40:25.840 I don't respect you as a woman. 1.00

00:40:27.540 I don't respect your claim that you are a woman. 0.97

00:40:29.960 And 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.

00:40:44.060 See, I don't respect you as a person.

00:40:45.820 I don't, I just don't, I don't respect anything about you.

00:40:49.260 You are owed no respect. 1.00

00:40:51.180 You are a terrible person. 1.00

00:40:54.860 So I don't respect your self-identity. 0.99

00:40:56.740 I don't respect the claims you make about yourself.

00:40:59.100 And I don't respect you.

00:41:01.780 Also, get the hell out of the pool. 1.00

00:41:03.200 There are women in there. 1.00

00:41:04.080 Get the hell out of the locker room. 0.97

00:41:05.140 Okay, so I can say that.

00:41:07.340 That's a consistent position.

00:41:08.560 It is totally inconsistent what you get from the theme of today, these milquetoast, squeamish Republicans, so many of them.

00:41:20.140 So I respect your identity, but I just don't, you know, I have no problem.

00:41:23.940 I have no problem with the transgenderism.

00:41:26.420 I have no problem with trans ideology.

00:41:28.300 But let's leave women's sports alone and leave the kids alone. 1.00

00:41:31.720 Other than that, I totally affirm it.

00:41:34.740 Makes no sense.

00:41:36.860 Okay.

00:41:37.260 There were conservatives who consider Caitlyn Jenner to be a good advocate.

00:41:41.840 Oh, no, we need Caitlyn Jenner.

00:41:43.140 Caitlyn Jenner is anti-woke.

00:41:45.340 That's right.

00:41:46.660 You know, man dressed like a woman, awarded Woman of the Year honors in 2015, anti-woke, right? 1.00

00:41:53.000 That's who we need.

00:41:55.500 No, Jenner's position is completely incoherent.

00:41:58.360 It makes no sense.

00:42:00.100 Either Leah Thomas is a woman or not. 0.99

00:42:05.300 One or the other.

00:42:06.220 And if Leah Thomas is a woman, then yes, he belongs in the women's locker room. 1.00

00:42:12.100 He belongs in the women's sports teams.

00:42:13.600 If he's a woman. 0.85

00:42:14.580 There's no argument against it.

00:42:16.040 You can't, you cannot say, yeah, you're a woman, but you shouldn't go there. 1.00

00:42:20.180 Then you are singling him out.

00:42:21.460 That doesn't make sense.

00:42:21.980 He's a woman.

00:42:22.260 You can't just point to some woman and say, you can't, you don't have access to this, right?

00:42:27.740 Just 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. 1.00

00:42:40.580 It doesn't make sense.

00:42:44.060 The only argument against Leah Thomas in the locker rooms and in the sports teams is that he's not a woman. 1.00

00:42:50.760 That's the only argument.

00:42:51.920 And if that's not, if we're giving that up, if we are surrendering that ground, then there's nothing left.

00:42:58.320 So it's the only argument and it's the only argument you need.

00:43:02.300 It's a very powerful argument.

00:43:04.920 Like that, fundamentally, that is our entire argument about all of this stuff.

00:43:10.180 That's it.

00:43:11.140 Our argument is this isn't true.

00:43:13.600 That's the whole argument.

00:43:15.540 Everything else is peripheral.

00:43:18.520 So it's time to choose a lane, right?

00:43:21.900 And 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. 1.00

00:43:36.360 You're trying to straddle a line that doesn't exist, you're threading a needle, but there's no thread there.

00:43:44.860 You know, you have to choose.

00:43:46.980 You're either on their side or you're on ours.

00:43:49.100 It really is that simple.

00:43:50.140 There is no in-between ground, okay?

00:43:52.500 Like the question of whether Leah Thomas is a woman or a man, there's no middle ground there.

00:43:57.780 There's no in-between.

00:43:58.700 There's no compromised position you can find.

00:44:03.580 There is a compromised position, an intellectually compromised position, which is the one that many conservatives have selected.

00:44:11.280 And 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.

00:44:23.440 Let's get to the comment section.

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00:45:49.880 William says,

00:45:51.880 My thoughts.

00:45:52.960 Jazz is so far along in his transition, any concept of reversing course will be impossible for him, aside from God, of course.

00:45:58.700 His identity has been this for so long, and his family and friends are so involved that an existential crisis for him would be unbearable.

00:46:04.780 If he ever comes to see the truth, he'll either be suicidal or the strongest voice of the D-trans movement. 1.00

00:46:09.060 Likely, he knows this, and the fear of that alone could prevent him from even considering it.

00:46:13.580 I 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. 0.90

00:46:20.260 Yeah, 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.

00:46:36.740 And I did hear from some people that said, well, there's no going back.

00:46:42.860 It's too late for that.

00:46:44.380 There's no, you know, he can't fully embrace his maleness and his male identity because these surgeries have been done that are irreversible.

00:46:52.740 Irreversible, 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.

00:47:04.760 And 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. 1.00

00:47:22.340 That'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.

00:47:28.560 It 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.

00:47:47.140 Both options are really terrible.

00:47:50.000 That's true.

00:47:51.200 And you're kind of stuck in this limbo zone.

00:47:53.520 But of two bad options, the best one is always going to be the one that is true.

00:48:00.900 Okay?

00:48:01.340 It'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.

00:48:22.000 Either way.

00:48:24.140 Um, but, still, the best option is the truth.

00:48:29.820 And 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.

00:48:37.060 And you can still find a purpose, I think you pointed out to one of them, William.

00:48:40.120 I mean, he could be one of the greatest and most effective advocates.

00:48:44.540 Given 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.

00:48:51.840 And for him to come out and be, you know, a D-trans advocate would be incredibly powerful. 0.89

00:48:56.540 I 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.

00:49:07.800 Um, 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.

00:49:14.700 It'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.

00:49:23.780 And the suffering is going to be, going to be unavoidable.

00:49:27.600 Um, all right.

00:49:29.860 David says, Matt's defense of hostile work environments makes me suspicious of Daily Wire's work environment.

00:49:38.820 Uh, well, it should be.

00:49:40.200 I, I've, you know, I've been talking about this publicly the last few days, but the Daily Wire is a hostile work environment.

00:49:44.520 I mean, there's so many stories I could tell.

00:49:46.140 I said just one, yeah, one yesterday.

00:49:47.920 I 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.

00:49:56.960 And so they had, um, pretzels in the break room for everybody.

00:50:03.040 Well, not for everybody.

00:50:03.900 Cause I didn't get one.

00:50:05.100 And I, I got into the break room and all the pretzels were gone.

00:50:08.180 This always happens.

00:50:09.360 And the thing is, I, this time, like nobody tells me when it's national, whatever food day.

00:50:13.580 Uh, every time it's national pizza day, it's national popcorn day.

00:50:17.200 Uh, it's national ice cream day.

00:50:19.100 No one ever tells me this.

00:50:19.980 No one ever says it.

00:50:21.240 This time I happened to see the sign that it was national pretzel day.

00:50:24.740 And I said, there's gonna be pretzels here today.

00:50:26.360 I know it.

00:50:26.860 And so I kept checking back in the break room every 30 minutes just to see if the pretzels had been set out yet. 0.98

00:50:34.400 And in between like checking, the pretzels were set out and consumed by the damn piranhas around here who just like descend on this stuff. 0.98

00:50:43.860 And it's gone instantly. 0.98

00:50:45.260 And no one said to themselves, oh, I wonder if Matt got a pretzel.

00:50:50.520 No one said that.

00:50:52.140 And I come out.

00:50:54.680 I'm really excited for my pretzel.

00:50:56.380 And all I find, they leave the, they leave the dishes out.

00:50:58.700 They leave the signs, a national pretzel day, just some crumbs, just a little, just a few crumbs there.

00:51:03.640 That's all they have left for me.

00:51:05.420 Same thing happened on national popcorn day.

00:51:07.420 I tell you this right now, if it happens on national donut day, which is June 2nd this year, uh, there's going to be problems.

00:51:12.960 There's going to be serious problems.

00:51:16.800 So, yeah, it's a, it's a hostile work environment around here, um, for that alone.

00:51:24.300 Uh, let's see, uh, talking about the, uh, Abby Grossberg, the employee that's, um, that's suing Tucker Carlson and Fox News.

00:51:34.180 John 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.

00:51:42.220 The only thing she's missing are those bright, bright, giant rimmed glasses.

00:51:46.880 That's a liberal plant if there ever was one.

00:51:49.320 Yeah, you should have been able to, you know, you should have been able to see that just by, by looking at her.

00:51:55.440 It is true.

00:51:55.880 The, the, the hairstyle.

00:51:57.860 Yeah, she didn't have the glasses.

00:51:58.860 That was the only thing that was missing.

00:51:59.720 But even hairstyle and general aura, right?

00:52:03.680 You put me in a room with that woman for 30 seconds and I'm going to be able to tell you that about it. 1.00

00:52:08.840 Like, don't hire her.

00:52:10.260 He's right.

00:52:10.900 You work at a supposedly conservative company.

00:52:13.440 Uh, no, she's not one you want. 0.85

00:52:15.800 But the good news is that, uh, we, we, we don't blame Tucker Carlson for that.

00:52:19.960 It turns out, I just, I mentioned that I'd seen reports indicating this yesterday, but then I read some more about it.

00:52:25.620 And it seems pretty certain that Tucker Carlson never met this woman.

00:52:28.960 Okay.

00:52:29.120 This woman never met Tucker Carlson.

00:52:30.780 They were never in the same room together.

00:52:32.220 And yet she's suing and claiming a hostile work environment for Tucker Carlson, who was not there. 0.92

00:52:37.780 She was in, I guess she was in DC and, uh, and he's not there.

00:52:41.340 And, um, so they're never even in the same room together.

00:52:45.720 This was someone who was hired elsewhere at Fox and had been at Fox for a while, working out as a booking producer on some other show.

00:52:53.400 And then she was, she was shifted over to talk to Tucker's team.

00:52:56.840 And, um, I'm, I'm betting not, you know, it wasn't, wasn't, he wasn't the one who orchestrated that.

00:53:02.980 But she is not the only, you say liberal plant at Fox News.

00:53:06.560 Um, she's, she's not the only one there.

00:53:09.920 In fact, it would very much appear that there are liberal plants, uh, running the place.

00:53:14.580 Craney Company is hosting a 2023 NFL draft live stream this Thursday, April 27th, which is, uh, today, right?

00:53:21.720 Isn't that today?

00:53:22.500 Yeah, it is today.

00:53:24.000 Today, they're hosting this live stream.

00:53:25.600 They'll be, uh, taking bets, providing in-depth analysis on draft picks and the upcoming season,

00:53:29.760 as well as, uh, some special guests that will appear there as well.

00:53:32.960 Tune in at 745 Eastern time.

00:53:35.240 Don't miss what they'll do if they hit 100,000 subscribers during the stream.

00:53:38.620 Also, in stores all across America, prices are going up for the things you love, but not at the Daily Wire store.

00:53:44.080 Right now, you can get a huge discount on some amazing Daily Wire shirts, hats, accessories, and more during our biggest clearance sale ever.

00:53:50.780 You can save on great items like, uh, Candace, the Candace dad hat, which I just bought six of.

00:53:57.140 No, I'm not going to claim that I'm buying other people's.

00:53:58.860 I only buy my own merchandise.

00:54:00.480 That is not true.

00:54:01.800 The other stuff is fine, but I only buy Matt Walsh merchandise.

00:54:04.800 Uh, that's why I put all my kids in it.

00:54:07.440 That's what my wife wears. 1.00

00:54:08.620 We wear it around the house.

00:54:09.920 There's the Let Go Brandon gear to show support for all the Brandons in your life.

00:54:13.220 And, of course, some terrific anti-panda merchandise.

00:54:15.940 The Pro Panda Lobby does not want you to have these great items, but we will not be swayed by their bully tactics.

00:54:21.620 I don't know why we're advertising the panda.

00:54:23.100 The panda stuff is real niche.

00:54:24.300 I don't think it does really well in the shop, but there's other stuff that does a lot better.

00:54:27.500 Anyway, you should still buy it.

00:54:28.580 I'm terrible at selling things.

00:54:29.800 Proudly show your defiance to woke culture and pandas by shopping the Daily Wire store mega sale because it ends tomorrow.

00:54:36.280 So go right now to dailywire.com slash shop.

00:54:38.860 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:54:44.240 For our daily cancellation, we turn to recovery coach and weight neutral trainer Ashantis Jones.

00:54:50.500 Now these two meaningless job titles fall under the umbrella of an even more meaningless job title.

00:54:54.700 On her website, Jones refers to herself as a wellness advocate and offers paid wellness consultations.

00:55:01.160 She promises that she never judges, just supports.

00:55:04.600 This 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.

00:55:12.020 What they mean is that they will cheer you on and offer vague support for whatever life choices you've already made.

00:55:18.600 What 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.

00:55:26.640 That would require judgment.

00:55:28.460 You know, you can't help someone better themselves without exercising judgment, but judgment is bad, we're told,

00:55:33.400 which means that these counselors and coaches will not actually do any counseling or coaching.

00:55:38.300 Wellness in this context doesn't mean physical health, and it certainly doesn't mean mental or emotional health.

00:55:42.380 It means something more like mental comfort.

00:55:44.280 So they exist to make you feel comfortable with your own dysfunction.

00:55:50.760 They will not cure the dysfunction or help you navigate past it.

00:55:54.520 Rather, they will convince you to accept and embrace your dysfunction as an identity.

00:55:59.040 That's what Ashantis Jones is all about, and I gleaned all of that just by looking at her website for a few seconds.

00:56:03.660 But there is a caveat to this non-judgmental affirmative model,

00:56:08.040 because when you dig just a little bit deeper, it doesn't take long before you discover that

00:56:11.400 the non-judgmental types are, in fact, extremely judgmental.

00:56:15.860 They will judge you up and down in six ways from Sunday.

00:56:18.360 They will judge both your behavior and your motivations.

00:56:21.500 They'll claim the power to peer inside your very soul and pass judgment on it.

00:56:26.320 It's just that they will judge wrongly.

00:56:29.200 So this is what you can know about every single person who brags about their own lack of judgment.

00:56:33.180 In every case, every time, these will be the most judgmental people you ever come across in your life.

00:56:39.020 They don't practice no judgment.

00:56:40.700 They practice bad judgment.

00:56:42.940 Everybody judges.

00:56:43.900 It's not possible to be a sentient being in the world without engaging in acts of judgment nearly every waking moment of the day.

00:56:51.000 Every waking moment, you're making judgment calls.

00:56:52.920 You're making decisions.

00:56:53.520 The anti-judgment movement is really a movement away from good judgment and towards bad judgment, foolish judgment, destructive judgment. 0.81

00:57:03.760 These are people who judge without wisdom.

00:57:06.500 Which leads us to this recent TikTok video from wellness coach Ashantis Jones,

00:57:11.160 where she non-judgmentally explains that anyone who tries to lose weight is a fat-phobic bigot.

00:57:17.900 Listen.

00:57:18.100 Another great question.

00:57:20.260 This person was asking if there is any time in which intentional weight loss is not fat-phobic.

00:57:29.300 I'm going to say 99.9% of the times if you are intentionally losing weight, it is fat-phobic.

00:57:37.500 I'm leaving that .01% in case I am truly, truly wrong, but I don't think I am.

00:57:48.100 And here's the reason why.

00:57:50.120 I'm not saying if you exercise and happen to lose weight that that is fat-phobic.

00:57:57.940 I'm not saying if you start a medication and you happen to lose weight, that is fat-phobic.

00:58:03.660 I 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.

00:58:13.520 I'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.

00:58:28.960 And the reason why is because you are intentionally attempting to make your body smaller to fit into what narrative?

00:58:38.960 The narrative that smaller is healthier, even though we've already discussed why that's not true.

00:58:44.860 Oh, well, thank God.

00:58:47.700 That's a relief.

00:58:48.620 Don't worry, folks.

00:58:49.520 Ashantis Jones has given you permission to lose weight if you have an illness.

00:58:53.180 So 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.

00:59:00.900 She'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.

00:59:06.480 She is a merciful master.

00:59:08.440 Indeed, 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. 1.00

00:59:15.960 So 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. 0.98

00:59:21.460 But 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. 0.99

00:59:28.720 In one case, you're exercising for the sake of losing weight.

00:59:30.980 In the other case, you're exercising with the intent of stuffing your fat face with ice cream.

00:59:34.740 These are the sorts of nuances that we need Ashantis Jones to help us navigate.

00:59:39.140 This is why she's the professional.

00:59:41.260 Now, I'm not going to waste a lot of time explaining, once again, why the concept of fat-phobia is nonsensical.

00:59:46.500 Phobias are irrational fears, by definition.

00:59:48.940 A fear of becoming fat is not irrational, given that fatness comes with heart disease, cancer, dozens of other negative health outcomes.

00:59:57.780 And yes, fatness also looks displeasing.

01:00:01.100 Fatness is not attractive because it is unhealthy.

01:00:03.480 We are wired to be attracted to health and vitality, not disease and decay.

01:00:09.400 Now, it's not that everyone who's even slightly overweight is automatically ugly, but that nobody is attractive because they are overweight.

01:00:16.600 This 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.

01:00:26.720 Fatness itself is not beautiful.

01:00:28.860 Fatness is excessive lard on the body.

01:00:32.260 Okay, that's what fat is.

01:00:33.320 It's a lard that you're carrying around on your body.

01:00:35.220 There's nothing inherently appealing about that.

01:00:37.980 If an overweight person is beautiful, it is in spite of being fat, not because of it.

01:00:42.400 But aside from the aesthetic concerns, the main point is that, again, fatness will disable you. 0.93

01:00:50.040 Fatness will kill you.

01:00:51.200 And that provides very rational reasons to fear it.

01:00:54.300 It is not fat phobia.

01:00:55.580 It is fat realism.

01:00:56.620 But it's not a misunderstanding about obesity that drives the fat acceptance movement.

01:01:01.080 Even Ashantis Jones understands that, you know, objectively, by every measure, it is better to be physically fit than physically fat.

01:01:08.500 Yet 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.

01:01:20.680 That's what this is, okay?

01:01:22.520 We all need to understand that this is so much of what drives the wokeism on the individual level.

01:01:29.940 It is an ideology of envy.

01:01:32.380 People who are unhappy with their lives, dissatisfied with their own choices, but yet lack the discipline and courage to make the necessary changes.

01:01:40.760 People who have no self-control, no ability to moderate, no capacity for delayed gratification.

01:01:46.780 People who are not healthy, not well-adjusted, therefore don't want you to be either.

01:01:52.820 And this is the case whether we're talking about fat acceptance or gender identity, really anything else.

01:01:58.480 Everything you hear from that side is motivated, at least on some level, by the fact that they are unhappy,

01:02:04.500 and your happiness makes them feel even less happy by comparison.

01:02:09.240 The attack on the nuclear family is most especially fueled by this mentality.

01:02:13.940 Lots of people who came from broken families and then grew up and created more broken families

01:02:18.620 absolutely despise those of us who have happy, intact families.

01:02:23.880 They're like the five-year-old bully at the beach who can't figure out how to make a good sandcastle,

01:02:28.940 so he knocks down other kids' sandcastles instead.

01:02:32.040 So much of the madness that grips hold of our culture right now is driven by motivations,

01:02:37.260 not any more complicated than that.

01:02:40.560 They don't want you to be happy because they're not happy.

01:02:42.900 They don't want you to be healthy because they aren't healthy.

01:02:46.640 And they're not going to put the work in.

01:02:47.980 And the fat acceptance advocate who advocates fat acceptance purely because she's too lazy to go for a jog 1.00

01:02:55.980 is really the perfect example of this, which is why our friend Shantus Jones is today canceled.

01:03:03.240 And that'll do it for this portion of the show.

01:03:04.280 As we move over to the member's block, you can become a member today by using code Walsh

01:03:07.220 at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.

01:03:11.260 See you over there.

01:03:12.180 If not, talk to you tomorrow.

01:03:13.400 Godspeed.

01:03:13.760 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 27, 2023

Ep. 1153 - From Bud Light to Disney, The War On Woke Corporations Must Continue

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