The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1288 - Our Intellectual ‘Elites’ Aren’t Just Plagiarists. They’re Also Morons.

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Claudine Gay plagiarism controversy continues to expose

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00:01:52.020 There's a documentary called Behind the Curve in which a group of people who think the

00:01:56.320 earth is flat decided to test their hypothesis.

00:01:59.300 They spend something like 20 grand on a laser gyroscope and they run some tests.

00:02:04.960 And lo and behold, they learn that the earth, contrary to their assumptions, is in fact

00:02:09.040 round, it turns out.

00:02:10.180 Their response to that was exactly what you'd expect.

00:02:13.240 At first, they didn't want to believe it.

00:02:14.440 They started rationalizing away the experiment.

00:02:17.920 We were taken aback by that, one of the men said.

00:02:20.460 He added, we obviously were not willing to accept that.

00:02:23.880 Now, that documentary came out a few years ago.

00:02:25.640 It was an interesting look at human psychology and how people respond when their own actions

00:02:30.180 debunk their whole worldview, I mean, literally their worldview in the case of the flat earthers.

00:02:35.440 It's not an easy thing to experience.

00:02:37.400 You know, it's one thing for someone else to prove you wrong.

00:02:39.560 That's difficult enough.

00:02:41.240 It's something else entirely to disprove your own ideology and to reveal how bankrupt and

00:02:46.560 nonsensical it is.

00:02:48.060 Now, it's easy to point and laugh at flat earthers, but this is a phenomenon that we are seeing

00:02:52.280 more often these days.

00:02:53.260 In fact, it's been playing out for the whole country over the past few weeks as proponents

00:02:57.480 of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, or DEI, have witnessed the complete implosion of

00:03:04.320 the president of Harvard University, Claudine Gay.

00:03:06.980 Now, this is a woman who personifies everything DEI stands for. 0.84

00:03:11.160 She came from an extremely wealthy background.

00:03:13.640 Her family runs the largest concrete plant in Haiti.

00:03:17.000 She became the first black president of Harvard University despite publishing only a handful

00:03:21.400 of academic papers.

00:03:22.540 And she did it all based on three factors, her skin color, her gender, and her willingness 1.00

00:03:27.560 to smear and destroy all of her ideological enemies along the way. 1.00

00:03:31.160 And in just a couple of weeks, she's been outed, as you know, as a complete moron and 1.00

00:03:36.200 a fraud. 1.00

00:03:37.040 She proved that she's incapable of answering extremely basic questions in Congress. 0.99

00:03:41.920 She also demonstrated that she's incapable of writing anything without ripping off dozens

00:03:46.300 of other papers.

00:03:47.120 Now, given all this, the cognitive dissonance for the DEI crowd has to be overwhelming right

00:03:53.300 now.

00:03:53.620 I mean, after all, one of their holiest figures in their entire cult has just crashed and

00:03:58.960 burned.

00:03:59.820 She's provided irrefutable evidence that DEI rewards mediocrity and destroys every institution 0.99

00:04:06.840 that embraces it.

00:04:08.420 And that's difficult for these people to accept, as you can imagine.

00:04:12.600 And that's why, in the wake of Claudine Gay's resignation as president of Harvard, there hasn't

00:04:17.280 really been a debate over the merits of DEI or anything approaching a reasonable conversation.

00:04:23.300 Because the word debate suggests that two sides are presenting their arguments in a real

00:04:28.940 and rational, you know, a clear and rational way.

00:04:31.980 But in this case, what's happening is that the anti-DEI side is making coherent arguments,

00:04:38.380 while the pro-DEI faction can do nothing but perform and posture and vomit its emotions

00:04:45.400 all over the place.

00:04:46.780 They're actually a lot less respectable and coherent than even the flat earthers, because at least 1.00

00:04:51.100 the flat earthers proponents have arguments, as flimsy as those arguments may be.

00:04:56.520 But that's still more than can be said for the DEI defenders.

00:05:00.900 Now, the spectacle that aired on CNN over the weekend perfectly captures this dynamic.

00:05:04.960 It features two DEI advocates, one of them named Lulu Garcia Navarro and then another one

00:05:10.180 named Kara Swisher.

00:05:11.840 And they're speaking with two male counterparts who are actually sane.

00:05:15.900 There's Rihon Salam and Jonah Goldberg.

00:05:19.020 Now, in this debate, Goldberg and Salam explain why DEI is a scam used to smuggle leftist ideology

00:05:25.200 under the guise of diversity.

00:05:27.000 The women on the other side of the discussion can only scowl and huff and repeatedly declare 1.00

00:05:33.200 how infuriated they are by it.

00:05:36.140 Lulu Garcia Navarro also interrupts constantly while demanding that the two men on the other 0.95

00:05:40.560 side of the debate stop interrupting her, which they never did.

00:05:44.720 So we'll play just a portion of this tire fire, which aired on national television.

00:05:50.480 But before we get to the really disastrous part for the pro-DEI side, first, here's Salam 0.57

00:05:57.040 making the reasonable case against DEI.

00:06:01.180 You need to hear this first to fully appreciate the contrast.

00:06:05.580 So here it is.

00:06:06.600 Watch.

00:06:06.760 Has, in effect, the country moved on from the so-called racial reckoning we were all

00:06:13.380 talking about after the murder of George Floyd?

00:06:15.820 I think there is a broad sense that that racial reckoning involved smuggling in certain really

00:06:20.700 contentious ideological ideas that weren't ultimately about diversity, but rather were

00:06:25.560 about imposing ideological uniformity.

00:06:28.000 When you're looking at DEI bureaucracies, what really is noxious about them is that they

00:06:33.100 actually don't respect all sorts of diversity, including viewpoint diversity, including the

00:06:38.060 fact that, look, in some cases you have groups that are overrepresented and that can be OK.

00:06:44.660 You know, the point that J.D.

00:06:45.820 Vance was making about the Dallas Mavericks is that it can be good and healthy and reasonable

00:06:50.320 in some domains to have overrepresentation.

00:06:52.760 That means that underrepresentation can also be.

00:06:55.400 What she said. 0.98

00:06:56.200 You can say it's ridiculous. 0.99

00:06:57.560 You can make that assertion.

00:06:58.600 But fundamentally, the fact that, you know, I am one second generation Asian American on

00:07:03.760 a panel of four.

00:07:04.700 I am massively, massively overrepresented.

00:07:07.440 But I think it's reasonable to say that you're going to judge people based on their

00:07:10.340 merits.

00:07:11.660 Now, OK, put aside the inaccurate assertion from Chris Wallace that George Floyd was murdered.

00:07:17.160 The rest of that clip is logical, level-headed, perfectly coherent.

00:07:22.760 Now, let's see if things remain on that level once the other side starts interjecting.

00:07:28.280 Let's watch.

00:07:29.760 When you're looking at organizations that count that matter, they're high-performance organizations.

00:07:34.240 Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me.

00:07:35.360 This is the burden, and I can't tell you how infuriating I find it.

00:07:39.480 This is the burden that always comes with representation.

00:07:41.760 The idea is that because you are a person of color, suddenly it is, you are only there

00:07:49.160 because it is some noblesse oblige.

00:07:51.560 It is because some white guilt put you there because there was some DEI initiative.

00:07:56.540 And you can't win either way you look at it.

00:07:59.340 I mean, what infuriates me is you look at the whole Claudine Gay thing, and everyone's 0.99

00:08:03.100 talking about DEI.

00:08:04.120 This woman cannot win or lose either if she is there. 0.99

00:08:10.140 I'm having to talk about Claudine Gay.

00:08:11.520 No, let me finish.

00:08:11.600 Let me finish. 0.98

00:08:13.060 If she's there, it's because of DEI, that they put her there because she's black. 0.94

00:08:17.400 If she loses and they kick her out, it's because she actually was never good enough to be there 0.85

00:08:22.180 in the beginning, and she was...

00:08:23.600 You can't win in this situation.

00:08:25.520 And it is infuriating as a person of color to constantly have this cudgel put on our

00:08:31.320 heads.

00:08:31.340 I get the argument that you can't win, but you also can't have it both ways.

00:08:34.800 You can't celebrate and tout that someone was hired, and it's a wonderful thing to expand

00:08:40.120 diversity, and Harvard went full tilt talking about how great it was to hire the first black

00:08:44.240 woman, and then say all of a sudden... 1.00

00:08:46.480 The first black person.

00:08:47.980 It wasn't even the first black woman. 0.95

00:08:49.100 It was the first black person.

00:08:50.120 I don't care.

00:08:50.700 The point is, is that she got caught obviously plagiarizing, and that is the...

00:08:57.420 Those are the facts that, you know, there's this massive piece...

00:08:59.220 This was an ideological, very well-funded...

00:09:02.760 The motives of the attack don't change the fact that she plagiarized.

00:09:05.760 And where I disagree with you, Cara, is when you say...

00:09:08.480 When somebody fails who's white, and who's a man... 0.91

00:09:11.900 Let me finish.

00:09:12.300 You mean like the president's statement?

00:09:13.840 Yes.

00:09:14.600 When someone...

00:09:15.080 Nobody...

00:09:15.840 In fact, there's books written about this.

00:09:17.880 Fail and then come back.

00:09:19.220 You know, look at pivot.

00:09:21.660 Exactly.

00:09:22.160 Pivot.

00:09:23.780 Okay, so there's a lot of incoherence in that, too.

00:09:26.200 She was struggling to figure out what her point even was.

00:09:29.420 Well, you can't...

00:09:30.160 You can't win.

00:09:31.400 You can't win or lose.

00:09:32.640 I mean, you can't...

00:09:33.260 You can't lose.

00:09:33.960 No, you can't win.

00:09:35.420 What can't you do? 0.99

00:09:36.520 And then she says that, well, if she's hired, it's only because she's black because of 0.89

00:09:41.220 diversity, and then if she gets fired, it's only because she's a plagiarist. 1.00

00:09:44.780 Well, yeah.

00:09:45.920 I mean, that's pretty much how it works with DEI.

00:09:48.560 So that's the funny thing is that if it sets up a no-win scenario, which, by the way,

00:09:53.200 this didn't have to be a no-win scenario for Claudine Gay.

00:09:55.760 If she wasn't a plagiarist, then she'd still have the job and that'd be...

00:09:58.600 But if it does set up a no-win scenario, it is DEI setting up that no-win scenario.

00:10:04.460 When you start hiring people, because she didn't really make the point well, but you

00:10:09.500 could make the point, although it's an anti-DEI point, that when you hire people based on their

00:10:14.760 race and you tout that they're hiring because of the diversity and inclusion, then you have

00:10:19.800 automatically created this sort of aura of suspicion around this person that they're not

00:10:28.360 cut out for the job.

00:10:30.600 Because if they were cut out for the job, then you wouldn't need to say anything about the

00:10:34.280 diversity.

00:10:34.700 You would just hire them based on the merits.

00:10:36.840 If you don't hire based on the merits, then people suspect that, oh, this person doesn't

00:10:39.920 have the merits for the job.

00:10:41.000 So again, if it's a lose-lose scenario, it is one that DEI sets up.

00:10:48.540 But the whole segment goes on like this.

00:10:50.080 The women just keep shouting about how horrible it is to assume that Claudine Gay was a DEI

00:10:54.820 hire, even though Harvard's policy for generations now has been to elevate mediocre candidates

00:10:59.860 on the basis of their skin color.

00:11:01.300 And then when it's pointed out that Claudine Gay plagiarized more than half of her academic 1.00

00:11:04.740 writings, the response is to just attack the motivations of the people who uncovered the

00:11:10.360 plagiarism.

00:11:12.000 But even if that's true, that the people who are politically motivated and uncovering,

00:11:17.520 it's still plagiarism.

00:11:19.120 And what is her response to that?

00:11:20.620 When Jonah Goldberg points out that, yeah, well, whatever their motivations were, she still

00:11:23.520 plagiarized.

00:11:24.260 She says, oh, come on.

00:11:26.060 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:11:27.240 Yeah, but still.

00:11:28.840 Come on.

00:11:30.280 They have no response but just to screech incoherently.

00:11:33.800 And as with so many other debates on so many other issues, if you know nothing about the

00:11:37.700 issue and you saw this discussion, right, you would immediately know that the women on the 0.99

00:11:43.480 left are full of crap without knowing anything else. 0.99

00:11:46.400 Because you can tell they bring nothing but their emotions to the table. 1.00

00:11:49.320 All they have is their indignation and their feelings.

00:11:53.240 If you ask them for evidence to prove their assertions, they'll say something about books

00:11:57.540 that have been written about this.

00:11:59.260 And this is why these people get in trouble for plagiarism so often, by the way.

00:12:01.660 They don't know how to provide citations.

00:12:04.000 They just say books.

00:12:05.540 Well, where did you get that?

00:12:06.760 Books?

00:12:07.680 I got it from books.

00:12:08.860 You know, there's books about it.

00:12:11.700 You know, if you read one of their papers and there's a little citation marking, you go

00:12:15.500 down to the footnotes, you know, you look for where it is.

00:12:18.960 It just says books.

00:12:21.780 And again, all this would be clear to any observer who had no background knowledge about

00:12:27.120 the subject.

00:12:27.520 If you do have background knowledge, then it's even more obvious that these women on the 1.00

00:12:31.540 left are full of crap. 0.99

00:12:32.360 Now, on this issue, like so many others, the left has no intellectual leg to stand on. 1.00

00:12:38.440 If there was any sort of substantive argument to be made for DEI, they would make it.

00:12:43.820 They would produce evidence, for example, that institutions become more effective as they

00:12:48.340 become more diverse and inclusive.

00:12:50.480 They wouldn't just assert this as a fact, as they always do.

00:12:53.220 They would show it, but they can't.

00:12:55.400 Instead, they simply insist that their position must be true.

00:12:59.000 And even if it isn't true, only a bigot would point that out.

00:13:03.040 Because after all, pointing things out, noticing things, is the cardinal sin on the left.

00:13:08.560 That appears to be their entire argument when it comes to the entire Claudine Gay controversy.

00:13:13.180 You know, they won't try to claim that Gay didn't plagiarize. 0.66

00:13:16.300 It's clear that she did repeatedly.

00:13:17.720 So, instead, they appear to be arguing that it was our responsibility to not notice the 0.87

00:13:22.940 plagiarism or to ignore it once we did notice it because she's a black woman. 0.94

00:13:27.940 Now, this is the total intellectual bankruptcy that you find on the left. 0.97

00:13:31.780 And since the left controls all of our powerful institutions, this intellectual bankruptcy lies

00:13:36.500 at the core of all of them.

00:13:38.400 Now, this is the larger problem underlying the Claudine Gay debacle. 0.79

00:13:43.500 You know, the real problem with Claudine Gay's plagiarized papers isn't that they were plagiarized. 0.99

00:13:48.780 It's the fact that even if they were original thoughts, they were still vapid and dumb and 0.97

00:13:54.840 pointless thoughts. 0.94

00:13:56.820 You know, it used to be that Harvard presidents conducted original research on important topics

00:14:00.940 like, you know, biochemistry. 0.94

00:14:02.320 But now they write useless garbage for a non-existent audience solely to advance themselves. 0.86

00:14:08.980 And this is the part of the whole Claudine Gay story that you don't hear much about, but 0.93

00:14:12.040 it's far more important, actually, than the fact that she lifted several paragraphs from

00:14:16.320 other authors.

00:14:17.060 It turns out that even if she hadn't plagiarized a word of her academic writings, Claudine Gay

00:14:22.600 would still be a total fraud.

00:14:25.780 So, first of all, let's just look at the topics of all of her publications.

00:14:29.820 Okay, every single one of them is about black people or equity in some fashion.

00:14:35.960 And that's not an exaggeration.

00:14:37.720 That's like the only thing she wrote about before she got this job.

00:14:41.460 That was Claudine Gay's obsession. 0.95

00:14:43.740 Her papers have titles like, The Effect of Black Congressional Representation on Political

00:14:47.820 Participation, and the Impact of Gender and Race on the Politics of Black Women, and the 0.96

00:14:53.180 Effect of Economic Disparity on Black Attitudes Towards Latinos.

00:14:56.940 So, this is what passes for research on diversity.

00:15:02.000 You know, it's the least diverse resume you can possibly imagine.

00:15:08.860 It's all the same subject.

00:15:10.360 It's like paging through a random author bio on salon.com.

00:15:14.900 You know, with a sole exclusive focus on black issues, Claudine Gay, for that reason alone, 1.00

00:15:22.100 shouldn't have been in the running for any job anywhere in academia, but perhaps maybe

00:15:26.360 historically black college.

00:15:28.200 Like, what was she doing running Harvard in the first? 0.97

00:15:29.960 The only thing she cares about are black issues. 0.99

00:15:32.720 It's the only thing she's ever written about, talked about, the only thing she even pretends

00:15:36.460 to care about.

00:15:38.760 But even for a historically black college, she would still be totally unqualified.

00:15:41.900 Now, to be fair to Claudine Gay, in and of itself, maybe you could argue that this resume isn't

00:15:50.680 necessarily disqualifying.

00:15:52.680 If Claudine Gay had been writing truly groundbreaking stuff about gender and race and the politics

00:15:58.700 of black women or whatever, then maybe you might be inclined to give her a pass on this 1.00

00:16:03.840 singular obsession that she has on skin color. 1.00

00:16:05.960 I mean, if she was actually saying something useful or interesting or unique or insightful

00:16:10.300 about it, then okay.

00:16:13.960 But the deeper you dig, the worse it gets. 0.91

00:16:15.620 It turns out that Claudine Gay wasn't just a race-obsessed grifter who plagiarized whole 1.00

00:16:19.900 paragraphs every now and then.

00:16:21.340 In fact, the data behind Claudine Gay's papers, the information she was passing off as new and 0.91

00:16:26.180 important, was garbage.

00:16:28.760 Which, again, is really a much bigger deal than plagiarism, as big a deal as plagiarism is.

00:16:34.440 So let's zero in on one of the papers I mentioned a few seconds ago.

00:16:38.440 It's called The Effect of Black Congressional Representation on Political Participation. 0.61

00:16:42.180 This paper was published in the American Political Science Review all the way back in 2001.

00:16:47.680 And it's an important paper because it's one of the handful of publications that somehow

00:16:51.160 got Claudine Gay tenure at Stanford University before she moved on to Harvard.

00:16:56.280 And the basic idea of this paper is that when black people get elected to Congress, they make

00:17:00.320 white people want to vote less.

00:17:02.280 And somehow this thesis made sense to Claudine Gay and everyone who peer-reviewed this document.

00:17:07.920 And to that end, the paper contains all kinds of tables which point to data that supposedly 0.95

00:17:13.300 proves this point, that whites just hate voting when black people are on the ballot. 0.95

00:17:18.380 And that's the kind of discovery that would confirm that white supremacy is real and white 1.00

00:17:22.400 people are bad. 0.99

00:17:23.920 And so that's the idea anyway.

00:17:25.760 So of course, both Stanford and Harvard loved it.

00:17:27.900 And of course, it was too good for them to check.

00:17:31.440 They just, they loved the conclusion.

00:17:33.540 So they didn't bother to check whether the data was any good.

00:17:38.060 Now, the problem is that a few decades later, a researcher named Jonathan Paulison decided

00:17:43.960 to look into the claim anyway.

00:17:45.640 And he found that Claudine Gay's data contradicts itself.

00:17:48.800 At one point, Gay's data tables show that Missouri Congressman Bill Clay's presence on the ballot

00:17:54.440 didn't have much impact on voter turnout.

00:17:57.700 But elsewhere, Gay's tables show that Bill Clay had a very significant effect on voter turnout,

00:18:02.660 close to a 17% reduction in turnout, in fact.

00:18:05.620 Now, put aside the fact that it's absurd to claim that Bill Clay, simply because he's black,

00:18:09.400 would make white voters want to stay home on election day.

00:18:12.020 The question remains, why do Claudine Gay's tables contradict themselves?

00:18:18.140 Now, there's no clear answer to that question.

00:18:20.540 Paulison couldn't come up with an explanation.

00:18:22.380 Claudine Gay certainly hasn't offered one herself.

00:18:24.840 And here's the really incriminating detail.

00:18:26.540 Every time researchers have tried to look into this, Gay refused to provide the underlying 0.97

00:18:31.060 data that she used to generate the tables in her papers.

00:18:35.500 In 2002, two professors, Michael Heron of Dartmouth and Kenneth Schatz of Stanford,

00:18:42.480 presented a paper that effectively debunked Gay's entire methodology.

00:18:46.680 And they included this footnote, quote,

00:18:49.680 We were, however, unable to scrutinize Gay's results because she would not release her data set to us.

00:18:55.980 That's pretty incriminating.

00:18:57.780 But here's the really amazing thing.

00:18:59.900 That footnote was removed from the final version of their paper.

00:19:05.200 If you try to find and download the paper online today,

00:19:08.460 you're not going to find any mention of Claudine Gay.

00:19:10.740 Because it's been scrubbed completely.

00:19:13.660 And instead, if you find the paper, you'll find that Heron and Schatz debunk a hypothetical methodology

00:19:18.900 without using Claudine Gay's name at all.

00:19:22.160 It's almost like someone wanted to protect her for some reason.

00:19:24.520 But writing for Jordan Schatzel's substat, Chris Brunet, got his hands on the first version of Heron and Schatz's takedown.

00:19:35.140 And, you know, the one that hasn't been censored or redacted in any way.

00:19:39.120 And the full uncensored footnote calls Gay's conclusions, quote,

00:19:43.380 It repeatedly calls out Claudine Gay by name.

00:19:49.400 And it includes a lot of technical details, which no one, including Claudine Gay, has refuted.

00:19:54.600 Now, the point is that this is a far bigger scandal than Claudine Gay lifting some paragraphs here and there.

00:20:01.900 As bad as that is.

00:20:02.880 The fact is that her ideas and the data underlying those ideas were useless and fraudulent and apparently just, like, made up.

00:20:12.560 Her publications were race-based screeds that were only ever cited by a handful of academics. 0.99

00:20:18.440 And those handful of academics very quickly proved that they were complete garbage. 0.99

00:20:24.120 And yet, Gay somehow became president of Harvard. 0.98

00:20:26.580 And documents criticizing the substance of her, quote-unquote, scholarship were scrubbed.

00:20:32.160 And even now, she's still making around $900,000 a year as a professor. 1.00

00:20:37.700 This is the state of Harvard University and American academia in general.

00:20:41.660 And this is the key point.

00:20:43.320 Yes, our intellectual elites are often thieves and plagiarists.

00:20:47.320 You know, that certainly matters.

00:20:49.540 But what matters more is that they are just as intellectually bankrupt as they are morally bankrupt. 0.95

00:20:55.380 They are charlatans at every level. 0.82

00:21:00.400 And their power and influence is crumbling by the day. 0.91

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00:22:21.020 So we'll begin with this as we must, because over the weekend, there was the solemn third

00:22:26.780 anniversary of January 6th, a sacred occasion where we all come together to remember the

00:22:33.680 time when members of Congress experienced a minor and temporary inconvenience for a couple

00:22:39.320 of hours.

00:22:40.680 But, you know, it was an inconvenience that they never got over, because these people are

00:22:45.100 not very accustomed to being inconvenienced.

00:22:48.040 And so they were traumatized.

00:22:49.260 And the media was traumatized.

00:22:51.860 And so on Saturday, there were a lot of dramatic displays of mourning and grief and remembrance.

00:23:00.600 But none were as unintentionally hilarious as what happened on MSNBC, where one of the anchors

00:23:06.660 started to weep on air.

00:23:10.400 Let's watch that moment.

00:23:12.840 I'm going to try to get through this.

00:23:14.740 Thank you for what you did three years ago today.

00:23:22.840 Please tell me your thoughts on this third anniversary.

00:23:26.960 We are still in the midst of the the same fight that began on January 6th, 2021.

00:23:46.560 And we have a lot at stake in this country.

00:23:50.660 And I think that it deserves every American's attention.

00:23:57.140 That's emotional.

00:23:58.500 That's that's that's that's that's tough to watch.

00:24:02.340 I haven't seen acting that good since the Jussie Smollett Good Morning America interview.

00:24:08.560 Or maybe good isn't the word here, but it is acting.

00:24:11.780 It is acting at any rate.

00:24:13.540 And, you know, I think probably more than enough has been said about the media's increasingly

00:24:18.700 desperate attempts to turn January 6th into a national tragedy on par with 9-11 or worse

00:24:24.480 than 9-11, as they often claimed.

00:24:27.200 And, you know, there's not much else to say, except that it is in a way fascinating and

00:24:33.520 often unintentionally hilarious to see how these people really have constructed an alternate

00:24:38.260 reality for themselves.

00:24:40.780 And it's a reality, you know, it's a reality that exists basically only in D.C., like the

00:24:47.680 national media there and politicians.

00:24:50.180 And this is their reality.

00:24:52.820 And no one else is a part of it.

00:24:56.200 So when you watch MSNBC, it's like you're watching a cable news broadcast from another

00:25:01.460 planet.

00:25:02.100 You're tapping into something from some other dimension somewhere out in space.

00:25:07.540 Because I can tell you this.

00:25:10.280 No MSNBC viewer.

00:25:14.180 I mean, never mind people who are not MSNBC viewers, but even MSNBC viewers.

00:25:18.560 None of those viewers actually feel this way about January 6th.

00:25:23.680 Now, they might claim they do, but I guarantee that not even an MSNBC viewer is getting choked

00:25:30.420 up in the year 2024 when remembering January 6th, 2021.

00:25:36.520 Okay, like nobody in real life, no actual human in real life actually considers that event to

00:25:43.360 be 9-11 or Pearl Harbor or whatever.

00:25:46.680 Nobody does.

00:25:47.240 And even with 9-11, you know, with 9-11, you did not see people in media crying on air

00:25:57.480 about it three years later.

00:26:00.500 There was a lot of emotion at the time, in that case, understandably.

00:26:04.440 Three years later, nobody was crying.

00:26:06.120 I mean, that doesn't happen with 9-11.

00:26:08.800 It doesn't happen with natural disasters or school shootings or whatever.

00:26:12.140 It doesn't happen with any legitimate tragedy where dozens or hundreds or thousands of people

00:26:17.580 die.

00:26:18.280 I mean, there were, you don't have to go back to 9-11.

00:26:21.500 I mean, there were historically bad wildfires in Hawaii, you know, just a few months ago.

00:26:29.000 And dozens of people burned to death, if not more.

00:26:31.900 I mean, we still don't even really know the full death toll, I don't think.

00:26:34.760 But I'm willing to bet that this guy on MSNBC, he could talk about that event, which is only

00:26:43.400 a few months old and in which dozens of people died horrific deaths.

00:26:49.520 He could talk about it without choking up, right?

00:26:52.580 He probably talked about it while it was happening, while people were actually burning to death in

00:26:58.020 real time, without getting emotional about it.

00:27:02.240 And yet, January 6th does this to him, supposedly.

00:27:07.920 It's an alternate reality.

00:27:09.320 It's another universe.

00:27:11.140 And I should say, you know, I say that they're living in it.

00:27:13.800 They're not living.

00:27:14.680 I mean, they don't buy this stuff either.

00:27:17.320 But they're trying to construct it for everybody else to live in.

00:27:22.440 But we're not.

00:27:23.280 So it's just them alone.

00:27:25.280 Okay, we talked at the beginning of last week about the cowardly governor of Ohio, Mike

00:27:31.220 DeWine, who vetoed a bill that would have banned the chemical castration and butchery of gender

00:27:37.200 confused children in the state.

00:27:38.940 He vetoed the bill.

00:27:39.880 He claimed that, you know, he respected the parental rights of parents who want to mutilate 0.95

00:27:44.420 their kids.

00:27:45.060 And it's very important that we don't interfere with that, he said.

00:27:47.860 I obviously was not happy with that decision.

00:27:50.760 And I expressed that point.

00:27:51.880 Well, on Friday, I started getting tagged in a bunch of tweets from leftists claiming

00:27:58.120 that I had bullied Mike DeWine into changing his mind.

00:28:02.300 So tweets like this from a guy named Dan Smith, it says, the anti-trans mob bullied DeWine

00:28:07.780 back into submission.

00:28:09.060 Don't be fooled.

00:28:09.780 This is more Matt Walsh and libs of TikTok domestic terrorism using their hateful followers

00:28:14.960 to intimidate conservative leaders into doing their bidding.

00:28:19.120 Now, I will say that if we bullied Mike DeWine into submission, that would be great.

00:28:26.060 Okay, I am 100%. 0.94

00:28:27.460 I am totally in favor of bullying cowards and making them do our bidding. 0.95

00:28:33.160 Absolutely. 0.97

00:28:33.640 And if they cave to us in fear, then I say, fantastic.

00:28:42.540 That's awesome to see.

00:28:44.440 And that is how we should treat these people.

00:28:46.220 Someone like Mike DeWine should absolutely be bullied and disgraced and mocked and belittled 0.98

00:28:52.400 for the rest of his life until he dies. 0.89

00:28:55.880 Like, that's the kind of shame he should experience for the rest of his life.

00:28:59.360 But unfortunately, Dan Smith, I think, is giving me a little bit too much credit because DeWine

00:29:05.820 has not exactly backtracked, at least not all the way.

00:29:09.360 So here's the Daily Wire in the report.

00:29:11.240 Governor Mike DeWine signed a limited executive order on Friday banning transgender surgeries

00:29:15.880 on children just one week after he vetoed a bill that would have prohibited all transgender

00:29:20.040 procedures on minors.

00:29:21.760 DeWine's executive order comes as Republicans in the state pushed to override his veto of the

00:29:25.480 Saving Adolescents from Experimentation Act.

00:29:29.360 A bill that would have protected children from transgender surgeries, as well as puberty

00:29:35.360 blockers and cross-sex hormones, which have life-altering impacts and can harm fertility,

00:29:40.080 bone development, and heart health.

00:29:41.640 In his executive order, DeWine said that he instructed the Ohio Department of Health

00:29:44.580 to come up with rules to ban gender transition surgeries on minors.

00:29:49.240 According to the Ohio Department of Health, the emergency rules filed on Friday, prohibit health

00:29:53.160 care facilities, including ambulatory surgical facilities and hospitals, from performing gender

00:29:57.620 surgeries on minors.

00:29:59.360 And DeWine had a press conference on Friday where he explained these new rules that he

00:30:05.160 is going to be passing.

00:30:06.500 And let's watch that.

00:30:07.320 We'll provide protections for children and adults receiving care in this area from hospitals

00:30:15.000 and clinics.

00:30:17.120 Candidly, as I expressed a week ago, I am concerned that there could be fly-by-night providers,

00:30:26.340 clinics that might be dispensing medication to adults with no counseling and no basic standards

00:30:33.300 to assure quality care.

00:30:35.700 With the rules that we are announcing today that we'll take care of that, we need to ensure

00:30:45.800 that adults, as well as children, are protected.

00:30:49.580 These draft rules will be discussed at length with legislators and interested parties and will

00:30:55.240 include the following.

00:30:56.380 One, the requirement of a multidisciplinary team to support an individual through care,

00:31:04.740 including but not limited to an endocrinologist, a bioethicist, and a psychiatrist.

00:31:11.300 Second, the requirement...

00:31:14.600 That's fine.

00:31:15.340 So, just to skip ahead, he vetoed the outright ban on children receiving, quote-unquote, gender

00:31:21.420 transition care.

00:31:22.260 And now he is, through executive order, passing a ban on surgeries.

00:31:27.620 And then also, as he explains, he's putting in some regulations around adult gender transitions,

00:31:34.460 not banning it, which those should be banned also, but requiring a waiting period and further

00:31:40.940 medical consultations.

00:31:42.240 And you've got to bring a bioethicist in, which none of that means anything, by the way.

00:31:46.700 There is no bioethicist who would be consulted for something like this, who would not give

00:31:54.900 it an immediate rubber stamp anyway.

00:31:57.280 Same for psychiatrists, and because all these industries have been, are totally ideologically

00:32:02.200 captured.

00:32:03.540 But, in other words, this is DeWine trying to thread the needle, you know, trying to find

00:32:08.780 a compromised position.

00:32:10.740 And it's not even close to good enough.

00:32:12.580 Which means that we are not done bullying Mike DeWine.

00:32:17.440 I mean, he's still getting bullied.

00:32:19.160 Because this makes no sense.

00:32:20.420 I mean, first of all, yes, we should ban gender surgeries on minors, obviously.

00:32:26.460 But surgical mutilation is only one form.

00:32:29.520 And the much more common form of abuse like this is through puberty blockers and hormones.

00:32:36.700 So, when we talk about kids being castrated, this is happening all the time.

00:32:41.480 Most of the time, though, it's happening chemically, which doesn't make it any better, clearly.

00:32:49.340 Like, that should also be banned.

00:32:51.960 What he's saying, and he doesn't phrase it like this, he's saying, okay, surgical castration

00:32:56.500 of children is no longer allowed, but chemical castration is fine.

00:32:59.660 Which, I mean, makes no sense.

00:33:05.260 Like, you're banning the less common form of the butchery and allowing the more common form of it.

00:33:14.180 And not only is that just wrong on its face, it also makes no sense logically.

00:33:18.120 I mean, this is the guy who claimed that we can't ban hormones and puberty blockers because

00:33:23.220 parents and doctors know best.

00:33:25.520 Right?

00:33:25.800 That's the whole argument.

00:33:27.940 Okay, well, what about the doctors and the parents, and they are out there, who would

00:33:33.900 say that a 15-year-old girl needs to have her breasts removed so she can be a boy? 0.90

00:33:39.120 Or that a boy needs a vaginoplasty?

00:33:42.700 What about those doctors and parents?

00:33:44.300 So, in those cases, we're able to recognize that the parents and doctors are simply wrong,

00:33:51.120 yet we can't do that with puberty blockers and hormones.

00:33:54.860 In fact, the same exact medical organizations that endorse and perform cosmetic double mastectomies

00:34:01.580 on minors are the ones who also claim that kids need hormones and puberty blockers.

00:34:07.740 So, if we recognize that double mastectomies for minors are not only wrong, but wrong is

00:34:21.660 an understatement, but this is like utter savagery and butchery.

00:34:26.300 Like, doesn't that prove then that these organizations can be wrong, can be horrifically wrong about

00:34:36.940 these sorts of things?

00:34:39.000 So, then why would we trust them on anything, especially anything related to this very topic?

00:34:44.520 Like, these medical organizations are doing something so horrible that you feel the need

00:34:53.600 to ban it by executive order, and yet in the next breath, you cite the authority of these

00:35:00.500 same exact organizations to explain why you aren't banning hormones and puberty blockers?

00:35:07.400 How does that make any sense?

00:35:08.720 Now, there's going to be a temptation on the right to see this as progress, and they'll say,

00:35:17.720 hey, you know, at least we're moving in the right direction, and they'll want to see this

00:35:22.240 as kind of incremental improvement, but it isn't.

00:35:27.040 Okay, that's not what, now, actual incremental improvement, I'm in favor of.

00:35:33.540 Okay, you know, if we're trying to move a certain direction, and, you know, I want to be

00:35:38.660 all the way over here, but I can only make it to right here for now, then let's take that,

00:35:43.600 let's take that ground, and then immediately set to work to take the rest of it.

00:35:50.160 So, I'm all in favor of that.

00:35:51.780 In fact, the entire fight, as far as I'm concerned, the entire fight against the mutilation and abuse of children

00:36:01.840 is itself, you know, an incremental move in the ultimate, towards the ultimate goal.

00:36:10.520 Because, yes, protecting kids from this butchery is the most important thing, and so we have to do that,

00:36:17.600 and we should do it, but it's not over at that point.

00:36:22.480 Because this entire industry, the entire gender transition industry, is corrupt and brutal, 1.00

00:36:33.740 and based on false science.

00:36:38.980 Like, the entire industry should be taken down.

00:36:41.280 It shouldn't exist.

00:36:42.680 It shouldn't be allowed to exist at all.

00:36:46.520 And so that's the ultimate goal.

00:36:49.060 But you take what you can, you know, on your way, as you're chipping away and chipping away and chipping away.

00:36:53.700 But my point is that what you're seeing with someone like Mike DeWine, this is not incrementalism, okay?

00:36:57.840 This is not, we're moving slowly in that direction.

00:37:01.320 And we know that because we could have, as far as banning this stuff for kids,

00:37:06.600 you could have done the whole thing in Ohio.

00:37:08.940 And he pushed it back.

00:37:10.520 He pushed the ball back.

00:37:12.940 Because what he's trying to do is he's looking for a way to take trans ideology and make it palatable to conservatives, right?

00:37:21.680 So people like DeWine, they want to give us just enough, you know, just enough so that we think we've won on the issue and then we move on.

00:37:33.020 While the evil that we were fighting against continues virtually unabated.

00:37:38.240 That's what this is really about.

00:37:40.520 It's not about keeping things moving forward.

00:37:42.540 It's about stopping things in their tracks and saying, all right, we'll give you this and then move on.

00:37:49.160 It's over.

00:37:49.460 So really, although it appears that he's making some minor, you know, sort of moves against gender ideology,

00:38:00.920 he's actually trying to help it.

00:38:03.140 He's trying to find this sort of compromise position where we on the right will accept, like, the basic premise of gender.

00:38:14.000 Because if your position is that, okay, sure, we're not going to perform surgeries on kids, but everything else is fine, including permanent chemical castration, sterilization of kids.

00:38:24.860 If that's your position, then you are accepting the basic underlying premise of gender ideology.

00:38:32.820 And that's what he wants.

00:38:33.780 He wants us to accept the basic underlying premise, which we cannot do.

00:38:38.280 So, the bullying must continue.

00:38:43.140 All right, speaking of people who should be bullied, the Golden Globes happened last night.

00:38:47.800 And obviously, nobody cares. 1.00

00:38:50.260 Award shows are stupid, etc. 1.00

00:38:51.420 But the story of the night, if there is a story, is the guy they found to host the show. 0.99

00:38:56.900 And now, the background here on this is that nobody wants to host the Golden Globes anymore.

00:39:02.720 You know, like 15 years ago, they would not have had this problem.

00:39:06.400 If they want to find someone to host the Golden Globes, I imagine it would have been a line a mile long of people in Hollywood who would love to host the show.

00:39:16.500 But now, you know, the show is a disaster.

00:39:19.560 It's a ratings disaster.

00:39:20.640 Nobody cares.

00:39:21.420 And so, nobody wants to be associated with it.

00:39:24.780 And they asked a bunch of people.

00:39:25.460 They asked Chris Rock, and he didn't want to do it.

00:39:26.860 They asked Tina Fey, and she didn't want to do it. 1.00

00:39:29.380 They asked everybody.

00:39:30.640 Until they finally got to this guy, whose name is Joe Coy, who is allegedly a comedian.

00:39:37.580 Now, all you need to know about Joe Coy is that he came onto the scene, whatever scene he's on, I don't know, by appearing on Chelsea Handler's show.

00:39:47.160 So, that was his way into the business.

00:39:50.480 So, he's on the Chelsea Handler comedic tree.

00:39:55.620 And that's a tree that has fallen over in the forest, and nobody heard it, and now it's rotting on the ground, and there are worms living inside it, and that's the tree that he's on.

00:40:06.120 So, needless to say, the guy bombed, and he bombed because he's an unfunny hack.

00:40:10.860 But specifically because he tried to pull a Ricky Gervais and kind of roast the audience.

00:40:17.200 But he doesn't have Ricky Gervais' wit and intelligence, which you kind of need.

00:40:23.620 And he also, I think more to the point, he doesn't have Ricky Gervais' actual willingness to offend these people.

00:40:30.700 Which, if you're going to get up there and make fun of them for our amusement, then you have to be willing to upset them, which Ricky Gervais did, infamously.

00:40:40.560 So, Joe Coy's opening monologue ended up being the most milquetoast, corniest thing imaginable.

00:40:47.760 And just to give you a quick taste of it, here he is kicking things off.

00:40:52.180 Let's watch a little bit of this.

00:40:54.220 Welcome to the 81st Annual Golden Globes.

00:40:56.920 I'm your host, Joe Coy.

00:40:58.720 I loved Oppenheimer.

00:41:00.100 I loved Oppenheimer.

00:41:01.600 I just got one complaint.

00:41:03.500 Needed another hour.

00:41:06.500 I felt like it needed some more backstory.

00:41:09.860 Oppenheimer answered a lifelong question that's been on my mind for years.

00:41:14.380 Yes, scientists do get laid.

00:41:17.740 As long as they look like Cillian Murphy.

00:41:19.960 I watched Barbie.

00:41:21.020 I loved it.

00:41:21.620 I really did love it.

00:41:23.680 I don't want you guys to think that I'm a creep, but it was kind of weird being attracted to a plastic doll.

00:41:31.180 It's just something about your eyes, Ryan.

00:41:35.180 Killers of the Flower Moon is so great.

00:41:37.740 Killers of the Flower Moon, the cast is here. 0.98

00:41:39.780 The one thing I learned about that movie is that white people stole everything. 0.99

00:41:45.160 You guys stole everything. 0.94

00:41:47.140 Not like 97%.

00:41:48.560 You guys stole 100% of everything.

00:41:51.800 You took the land.

00:41:53.340 You took the oil.

00:41:55.580 You took the premise of the movie.

00:42:00.680 What?

00:42:01.280 That was your premise?

00:42:04.680 That's hilarious.

00:42:05.560 I don't care.

00:42:06.100 It's just that the room is really white.

00:42:08.020 I watched Salt Burn.

00:42:09.380 I watched Salt Burn.

00:42:10.340 All right.

00:42:11.580 So that's the basic idea.

00:42:13.900 I mean, you know it's bad.

00:42:15.420 You know you're bombing.

00:42:16.960 When he was getting some polite laughter there.

00:42:18.700 But when you can't get a laugh, like a performative big laugh at the Golden Globes by making fun of white people, if you can't get that, I mean, that should be your crowd pleaser. 0.81

00:42:30.920 Like, that's something you fall back on if you're bombing.

00:42:33.800 And then you go, you know what?

00:42:35.080 And white people, am I right? 1.00

00:42:37.140 They're terrible. 1.00

00:42:37.760 They're just the white. 1.00

00:42:38.400 And then you get applause and laughter and the whole crowd goes nuts.

00:42:41.340 But even that wasn't working for him as much.

00:42:45.460 So that's how bad.

00:42:46.020 It was so bad that you watch that and you almost are longing for these stinging comedic brilliance of Trevor Noah.

00:42:55.560 Like, that's how bad.

00:42:56.580 They might as well have Hannah Gadsby host next year. 1.00

00:43:00.480 They might as well just open the show with Hannah Gadsby rambling for 45 minutes about how she's sad and obese. 1.00

00:43:09.360 Like, you might as well do that at this point.

00:43:12.100 It would at least be, well, it wouldn't be any funnier, but it would at least be maybe in a weird way slightly more interesting.

00:43:18.560 But here's the thing that's the saddest thing about this is that the people in the audience were obviously not amused.

00:43:27.500 But it's not because he's unfunny.

00:43:29.640 It's because they were actually offended by these tame, corny jokes.

00:43:35.320 So just to show you what I mean, watch this moment where he has the tamest joke imaginable about Taylor Swift.

00:43:42.680 And then look at her reaction.

00:43:44.540 Watch.

00:43:45.920 As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader.

00:43:49.680 The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL.

00:43:53.120 On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.

00:43:57.600 I swear.

00:43:58.720 There's just more to go to here.

00:44:01.040 Sorry about that.

00:44:03.240 And he apologizes, too.

00:44:04.200 So the joke is not funny.

00:44:06.480 It's tired and lame.

00:44:08.520 But Swift isn't really reacting like it's a corny joke.

00:44:11.220 Like, she's visibly mad about it.

00:44:14.200 She's offended by that joke.

00:44:15.980 And that's why Joe Coy is doing this and not Ricky Gervais.

00:44:18.780 These people cannot stand even the gentlest bit of teasing.

00:44:24.640 That's how seriously they take themselves.

00:44:28.380 The most cliched, hacky jokes are too much.

00:44:32.560 Like, I bet if you called Taylor Swift on the phone and she picked up and you said, is your refrigerator running?

00:44:37.440 And she's like, yeah, I think it is.

00:44:39.260 And then you said, well, you better go and catch it.

00:44:41.520 She would hang up and cry.

00:44:42.980 She would cry over that.

00:44:44.800 It's such a devastating joke to her that she would cry over that.

00:44:48.760 And that goes to show.

00:44:53.900 So I guess that also shows why nobody wants to host this thing.

00:44:57.640 All right.

00:44:58.520 Let's get to Was Walsh Wrong?

00:45:00.940 Okay, on Friday I played a video of Grandma Madonna at her recent concert strapped to a safety harness,

00:45:10.280 clinging to her safety bar and attempting to gyrate her hips in a humiliating display. 0.99

00:45:17.220 And Madonna's career for the past decade has been nothing but one humiliating display after another. 0.73

00:45:21.500 And as I explained on Friday, that's because Madonna is, like so many others in our culture,

00:45:25.560 refusing to accept the reality of aging.

00:45:28.740 She refuses to age gracefully.

00:45:30.540 She refuses to be an older woman, which is what she is. 1.00

00:45:34.040 She's 65, still pretending to be a 25-year-old, you know, sex symbol. 1.00

00:45:39.080 And as I explained, you know, we hear people like Madonna complain about ageism.

00:45:43.440 But we are not an ageist society.

00:45:45.340 We are an age-denying society because we refuse to accept aging for what it is and to respond accordingly.

00:45:52.260 And that was the point.

00:45:52.980 Anyway, my monologue on the topic managed to capture the attention of Madonna's fans on social media

00:46:00.540 because she apparently still has a few fans, and they're not happy.

00:46:04.940 So let's read some of their comments.

00:46:08.160 Bronny says,

00:46:09.380 Ageist and misogynist, this bloke takes the cake.

00:46:12.400 Who is he to say how a woman should behave in their 60s? 1.00

00:46:14.980 Who is he to say how people should dance or enjoy themselves?

00:46:18.020 Madonna brings joy to the world.

00:46:19.640 As far as I can see, all this guy does is bring other people down.

00:46:25.080 Who am I to say how a woman should behave in her 60s? 1.00

00:46:27.440 Well, for one thing, my qualification, really my only qualification, is that I have eyes.

00:46:33.020 And so I have eyes that I can see with.

00:46:35.360 And with my eyes, I can see, as anyone else can see, 0.99

00:46:38.280 that a 65-year-old woman looks pathetic and ridiculous when she puts on aluminum spandex 1.00

00:46:45.600 and gyrates around on stage. 1.00

00:46:48.400 I can just see it, and that's it.

00:46:50.760 Now, Madonna's free to do whatever she wants, 0.99

00:46:53.160 and I'm free to say whatever I want about it.

00:46:55.580 But here's the thing.

00:46:57.320 Madonna, at the age of 65, has chosen to still make her, quote-unquote, sex appeal,

00:47:02.960 however much of it she has or doesn't have at this point,

00:47:06.260 into her primary selling point.

00:47:08.580 So she has chosen to put that front and center on stage. 0.78

00:47:14.400 Right?

00:47:14.840 And when you do that, you cannot complain, at least with any credibility,

00:47:19.400 when that becomes the topic of conversation.

00:47:21.360 So, in other words, if Madonna was a dignified, graceful, older lady,

00:47:26.760 and she was on stage singing and entertaining everybody with her beautiful voice

00:47:32.480 and just wearing, like, normal clothes for a woman that age to wear, 0.97

00:47:37.380 then in that case, yeah, I would be just a huge jerk if I made fun of how she looked 1.00

00:47:45.700 or I made comments about how she doesn't have the sex appeal she had when she was younger, 0.98

00:47:49.820 you know, because she has not chosen to make any of that the topic or to highlight it.

00:47:54.860 And so for me to focus on that would be obnoxious and wrong.

00:48:01.740 But that's not what's happening here.

00:48:03.600 And she herself chooses to make that the focal point.

00:48:09.640 Right?

00:48:10.040 At this point, as far as she's concerned, all she has is that.

00:48:15.020 And so you can't complain.

00:48:17.300 She can't complain when the rest of us notice and comment

00:48:23.260 and are viscerally horrified by the sight.

00:48:26.720 Like, that's just a natural reaction.

00:48:29.020 You see a 65-year-old woman carrying on the way that she does, 0.99

00:48:32.020 because for most people, you feel secondhand embarrassment.

00:48:39.400 Again, it's a natural reaction.

00:48:43.000 Carly says,

00:48:43.820 An age-denying society, as we should be. 1.00

00:48:46.320 I'm going to age utterly disgracefully.

00:48:48.660 Have a blast doing it.

00:48:50.040 And beardy conservatives can whinge about it on social media

00:48:52.600 until the cows come home for all I care.

00:48:55.200 Okay, well, it's fine, Carly.

00:48:56.140 You can be disgraceful by your own admission.

00:48:58.300 You can try to avoid the unavoidable reality of,

00:49:01.780 you can try to deny the unavoidable reality of aging.

00:49:04.160 You can't avoid it.

00:49:04.860 You can try to deny it. 1.00

00:49:06.440 And you can look pathetic and embarrassing when you do it. 0.98

00:49:09.060 But what you should realize is that when people comment on it, 0.99

00:49:14.260 they're not offended by it.

00:49:15.660 Like, no one's offended by Madonna.

00:49:17.040 Madonna's not nearly provocative or interesting enough to be offensive at this point.

00:49:21.520 Or will we see any other woman, you know, older woman, 1.00

00:49:27.320 carrying on, pretending she's still 25?

00:49:29.680 It's not offensive, okay?

00:49:31.760 You're not offending us.

00:49:32.620 You're not, like, blowing our minds.

00:49:34.240 No, it's just, it is, again, secondhand embarrassment. 0.91

00:49:37.540 People are just cringing at how embarrassing you are.

00:49:39.820 And if that's the effect that you want to have on the world

00:49:42.940 and the legacy you want to leave,

00:49:46.520 then, you know, if you want to be,

00:49:50.140 it's like people don't even want to be in the same room as you 1.00

00:49:52.180 because you're such a pathetic and pitiful specimen, 1.00

00:49:57.020 then that's your choice, I suppose. 1.00

00:49:59.000 Jackie says,

00:50:01.800 Madonna's not trying to be a sex symbol. 1.00

00:50:03.980 She is a sex symbol, 1.00

00:50:05.240 as has been by hundreds of thousands seen around the world

00:50:10.320 on her sold-out greatest hit store.

00:50:12.420 Long may she continue to piss you off, 1.00

00:50:14.180 you pathetic irrelevance. 1.00

00:50:16.800 Here's an interesting thing here 0.99

00:50:17.640 where I noticed that the Madonna fans

00:50:19.360 claiming that Madonna is still as hot as, you know,

00:50:22.160 she was at 25,

00:50:24.160 all the people saying that are all women, right?

00:50:26.740 It's all a bunch of female Madonna fans

00:50:28.560 claiming that she's still a sex symbol

00:50:30.040 and she's still as hot as ever.

00:50:33.000 And that's because, for the women saying this,

00:50:35.700 you want that to be the case, right?

00:50:38.380 Because you want to believe

00:50:39.780 that you can retain your youthful beauty into your 60s.

00:50:45.120 And so that's really what this is all about.

00:50:47.380 It's, you know,

00:50:48.040 Madonna is sort of an avatar for you

00:50:50.440 and you want to,

00:50:50.920 if you can convince yourself

00:50:52.200 that age is just a number

00:50:54.400 and Madonna at 65 is as sexy as ever, 0.97

00:50:58.180 if you can convince yourself of that,

00:51:00.560 then really you have convinced yourself that

00:51:03.420 for your own sake

00:51:04.380 so that you can lie to yourself.

00:51:06.020 You're lying on behalf of Madonna,

00:51:07.980 but really you're just lying to yourself.

00:51:11.660 And finally,

00:51:12.860 you say Madonna is irrelevant,

00:51:14.640 but here you are ranting about her for 10 minutes.

00:51:16.560 You're obsessed with Madonna

00:51:17.460 and you say she's irrelevant.

00:51:18.700 You know, I've done,

00:51:22.080 what is it?

00:51:25.600 One, probably 12,

00:51:27.560 almost 1,300 shows at this point.

00:51:29.020 I'm not sure what we're up to.

00:51:30.220 So almost 1,300 shows

00:51:31.760 and let's just,

00:51:34.280 conservative estimate,

00:51:35.620 let's say that's like 1,200 hours of content

00:51:37.980 and of those 1,200 hours,

00:51:40.580 I have talked about Madonna collectively

00:51:42.520 for maybe like 40 minutes

00:51:46.320 out of 1,200 hours.

00:51:49.500 So I'm not sure if obsessed

00:51:51.000 is quite the right term here.

00:51:52.540 Also, just so you know,

00:51:54.920 in the exact same show,

00:51:56.940 one segment before that,

00:51:58.520 I spent the same amount of time

00:52:00.200 talking about 10-foot aliens

00:52:02.440 at the mall in Miami.

00:52:04.280 So don't flatter yourselves too much,

00:52:06.940 Madonna fans.

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00:53:32.560 Over the past several years,

00:53:40.120 the medical field

00:53:40.820 has been,

00:53:41.400 it would appear,

00:53:42.120 on a mission

00:53:42.640 to destroy its own credibility.

00:53:44.400 And that process

00:53:44.980 was essentially completed

00:53:46.020 when every major medical institution

00:53:47.480 in the Western world

00:53:48.360 decided to wholeheartedly endorse

00:53:49.900 and in many cases

00:53:50.600 actively engage in

00:53:51.780 the castration and sterilization 0.99

00:53:53.520 of gender-confused children.

00:53:55.060 The moment that the medical industry

00:53:56.700 as a whole,

00:53:57.420 over the objection

00:53:58.000 of a sane minority,

00:53:58.940 declared that actually

00:54:00.940 biological sex doesn't exist 1.00

00:54:02.760 and that actually turns out

00:54:03.600 men can have babies,

00:54:05.400 the game was over.

00:54:06.660 You know, that was it.

00:54:07.280 The entire industry

00:54:08.100 had been ideologically captured

00:54:09.500 and now it has

00:54:11.340 less scientific credibility

00:54:12.720 than your local psychic

00:54:14.580 or tarot card reader

00:54:16.120 or whoever.

00:54:17.340 But that was not

00:54:17.820 the end of the story

00:54:18.420 because things only got worse

00:54:19.740 from there.

00:54:20.160 The medical field

00:54:20.940 cannot kill

00:54:22.500 its own credibility twice,

00:54:23.660 but it can dig up

00:54:24.680 the rotting corpse

00:54:25.580 of its credibility, 0.99

00:54:27.040 light the corpse on fire, 0.99

00:54:28.200 and then toss it 0.99

00:54:29.080 into the deepest depths

00:54:30.100 of the sea.

00:54:30.900 And that seems to be

00:54:32.440 its plan now.

00:54:33.480 So that brings us

00:54:34.860 to the war

00:54:35.440 on so-called fatphobia,

00:54:37.040 which we've talked about

00:54:37.740 many times on the show.

00:54:39.160 And we know that

00:54:39.720 plus-sized TikTok influencers

00:54:41.480 and others in that vein

00:54:42.680 have been on a crusade

00:54:44.140 against the imaginary concept

00:54:45.900 of fatphobia

00:54:46.640 for a while now.

00:54:47.980 But increasingly,

00:54:50.080 doctors,

00:54:51.400 who might also be

00:54:52.420 TikTok influencers,

00:54:53.240 many of them are,

00:54:54.480 are joining the fight

00:54:55.680 to defend morbid obesity.

00:54:58.900 Libs of TikTok

00:54:59.400 alerts us to one

00:55:00.300 of these doctors.

00:55:00.960 Dr. Nicole Van Groning

00:55:03.220 has a TikTok account

00:55:05.120 with nearly 50,000 followers

00:55:06.720 where she often discusses

00:55:08.100 the dangers of fatphobia.

00:55:10.400 Not the dangers of obesity,

00:55:11.820 but the dangers of fatphobia.

00:55:13.620 And in fact,

00:55:14.080 she says that TikTok

00:55:15.020 helped to open her eyes

00:55:17.540 to this problem.

00:55:18.680 Her medical textbooks

00:55:19.580 may tell her

00:55:20.940 that obesity is bad,

00:55:22.080 but TikTok says

00:55:22.920 that it isn't.

00:55:23.620 And she,

00:55:24.580 like so many other

00:55:25.200 medical professionals,

00:55:25.920 is siding with TikTok

00:55:27.820 on this one.

00:55:28.620 So watch.

00:55:30.540 I am tired all the time

00:55:32.000 and something is wrong.

00:55:32.880 And he said,

00:55:33.940 you just need to lose some weight.

00:55:35.560 One of the things

00:55:36.080 I've learned as a doctor

00:55:36.820 on TikTok

00:55:37.300 is how many people

00:55:38.700 are going to the doctor

00:55:39.700 and just being told

00:55:41.000 to lose weight.

00:55:42.060 I have always known,

00:55:43.200 trust me,

00:55:43.660 that weight can be

00:55:44.700 a source of shame

00:55:45.780 and stigma

00:55:46.360 and something that

00:55:47.160 actually stops people

00:55:48.240 from going to the doctor

00:55:49.280 because they want to go

00:55:50.400 get help with their problems,

00:55:51.400 but they don't want

00:55:52.240 to be weighed.

00:55:52.900 They don't want to get

00:55:53.580 a lecture on how

00:55:54.800 they need to lose weight,

00:55:56.060 especially when they're things

00:55:56.820 that have nothing

00:55:57.640 to do with their weight

00:55:58.940 and people want to avoid

00:56:00.240 that lecture on weight loss

00:56:01.620 when they just want help

00:56:02.820 with their nausea

00:56:03.740 or something.

00:56:04.420 I think learning

00:56:05.020 from all of you creators

00:56:06.460 and commenters

00:56:07.340 how big of a problem

00:56:08.680 this is

00:56:09.420 has really made

00:56:10.480 an impression on me

00:56:11.280 and quite frankly

00:56:11.860 has changed my practice.

00:56:13.460 So I actually ask patients

00:56:14.920 if it is okay

00:56:15.980 to talk about weight.

00:56:17.080 If they don't want

00:56:17.920 to be weighed

00:56:18.360 at an appointment,

00:56:19.080 that is okay.

00:56:20.020 We actually are changing

00:56:21.000 our electronic health record

00:56:22.260 to make it so weight

00:56:23.540 isn't even printed out

00:56:24.780 on their discharge paperwork

00:56:26.040 if they don't want

00:56:26.780 to see it.

00:56:27.360 Because this is crazy.

00:56:28.260 You should be able

00:56:28.900 to go to a doctor

00:56:29.920 for a legitimate

00:56:31.060 health concern

00:56:31.820 and not have it blamed

00:56:32.980 on your weight.

00:56:34.040 This is not okay.

00:56:35.740 Well, that's good.

00:56:36.500 Yeah, let's not put the weight

00:56:37.680 on their health records,

00:56:38.680 you know,

00:56:39.100 because increasingly

00:56:40.940 we want to remove

00:56:42.040 all actual physical information

00:56:44.920 about people

00:56:45.600 from their health records

00:56:46.420 because they don't want

00:56:47.320 to put weight on there

00:56:47.920 because it might offend them.

00:56:49.440 Obviously,

00:56:49.900 you don't want to put

00:56:50.220 their biological sex

00:56:51.080 on there

00:56:51.340 because that might offend them

00:56:52.200 and you don't want

00:56:53.380 to put their height

00:56:53.900 on there

00:56:54.360 because a lot of people

00:56:54.900 are self-conscious

00:56:55.560 about that.

00:56:56.960 And, you know,

00:56:57.820 basically,

00:56:58.580 so everyone's health record

00:56:59.480 just says person

00:57:01.660 and that's the entire record.

00:57:03.480 It's just that this is a,

00:57:04.380 this is something,

00:57:05.060 but even that might be

00:57:05.780 because that's limiting too.

00:57:07.140 So we're all,

00:57:08.380 according to our health records,

00:57:09.240 we're all just like

00:57:09.880 these amorphous kind of

00:57:11.920 vague blobs

00:57:13.940 of nondescript matter.

00:57:16.480 That's what our health records

00:57:18.100 will say about us.

00:57:19.060 Now, first of all,

00:57:20.360 I may not be a doctor myself,

00:57:22.620 but I'm pretty sure

00:57:23.520 that if you are struggling

00:57:24.680 with nausea,

00:57:26.140 your weight could have

00:57:27.720 everything to do with it.

00:57:28.880 In fact,

00:57:29.520 pretty much any ailment

00:57:30.860 involving your stomach

00:57:31.920 or your digestive tract

00:57:33.620 can be caused

00:57:35.440 or exacerbated

00:57:36.420 by obesity.

00:57:38.100 Also,

00:57:38.660 any ailment involving

00:57:39.560 your internal organs

00:57:40.520 or your bones

00:57:41.400 or your heart

00:57:41.960 or any other part

00:57:43.380 of your body

00:57:43.860 can be caused

00:57:44.760 or exacerbated

00:57:45.560 by obesity.

00:57:46.060 This is one of the many

00:57:47.280 basic medical facts

00:57:48.560 that this medical doctor

00:57:49.720 apparently doesn't understand

00:57:51.460 or is pretending

00:57:52.040 to not understand.

00:57:53.220 She also says that,

00:57:55.000 you know,

00:57:55.300 again,

00:57:55.480 she won't talk about weight

00:57:56.540 with her patients

00:57:57.200 if they don't want

00:57:57.760 to hear about it,

00:57:58.700 which is exactly the same

00:58:00.360 as a dentist

00:58:01.300 agreeing to not talk

00:58:02.700 about cavities

00:58:03.460 or a fire inspector

00:58:05.100 agreeing to not tell you

00:58:06.940 about fire hazards

00:58:07.940 or a mechanic

00:58:08.700 agreeing to ignore issues

00:58:10.380 with your braking system.

00:58:12.120 Like,

00:58:12.400 the person's whole job

00:58:13.780 is to address

00:58:14.640 those kinds of issues.

00:58:16.380 Now,

00:58:16.780 it's true that,

00:58:18.040 you know,

00:58:18.400 it makes me feel bad

00:58:20.820 when the mechanic

00:58:21.580 tells me

00:58:22.180 that I need new brake pads.

00:58:23.720 I don't like hearing it.

00:58:25.120 It makes me feel

00:58:25.840 all icky and sad

00:58:27.220 and I don't like it.

00:58:29.520 So,

00:58:30.140 when he comes back

00:58:31.620 with the brake pad news,

00:58:32.880 I say to myself,

00:58:34.240 man,

00:58:34.680 I wish I didn't need

00:58:35.460 new brake pads.

00:58:36.740 But what I don't say is,

00:58:38.880 man,

00:58:39.160 I wish he didn't tell me

00:58:40.540 about the brake pads.

00:58:42.500 That's because

00:58:43.180 if there is an issue

00:58:44.120 with the brake pads,

00:58:45.000 it's much better

00:58:45.860 that I know

00:58:46.780 than I not know.

00:58:48.360 And I'd much prefer

00:58:49.080 a mechanic

00:58:49.500 who identifies

00:58:50.220 these problems

00:58:50.880 and tells me about them

00:58:51.900 than one who can't

00:58:53.020 identify them

00:58:53.640 or worse,

00:58:54.460 can,

00:58:55.500 but doesn't tell me.

00:58:57.020 And this logic

00:58:57.620 clearly applies

00:58:58.480 to doctors too.

00:59:00.080 I should say

00:59:00.700 that it applies

00:59:01.220 to doctors especially.

00:59:03.260 But it gets worse

00:59:04.220 from Dr. Nicole,

00:59:05.500 if you can believe it.

00:59:06.700 Let's watch this

00:59:07.420 next video from her.

00:59:08.200 Here's my hot take

00:59:10.300 as a doctor.

00:59:11.120 I totally agree.

00:59:12.580 It is okay

00:59:13.140 to be fat.

00:59:13.940 We don't say that enough,

00:59:15.380 but it needs

00:59:15.780 to be normalized.

00:59:16.700 If you are fat,

00:59:17.900 that is okay.

00:59:19.160 It is typically

00:59:19.880 not a problem

00:59:20.980 that requires

00:59:21.720 immediate solving.

00:59:23.080 It is not an emergency.

00:59:24.420 You don't have

00:59:24.780 to drop everything

00:59:25.900 in the pursuit

00:59:27.760 of being not fat.

00:59:29.160 Erin said this other thing

00:59:30.240 in a different video

00:59:30.900 that I totally agree

00:59:31.940 with as well

00:59:32.680 is that it is okay

00:59:33.500 to not be healthy.

00:59:35.160 We act like

00:59:36.440 it is this moral failing,

00:59:38.500 this cardinal sin

00:59:39.580 that you deserve

00:59:40.140 a scarlet letter

00:59:41.440 if you are not healthy.

00:59:43.580 And there's a name

00:59:44.200 for that

00:59:44.620 and that's called healthism.

00:59:46.020 Now don't get me wrong.

00:59:46.780 In my line of work,

00:59:47.800 there's a lot of people

00:59:48.940 that I see

00:59:49.640 that want to gain weight,

00:59:51.720 lose weight,

00:59:52.480 take other measures

00:59:53.360 that they think

00:59:53.940 will improve their health

00:59:55.000 in some way.

00:59:56.240 And by all means,

00:59:56.840 that's what we're here for.

00:59:57.880 We're here to help you

00:59:58.780 with that

00:59:59.200 and be supportive of that.

01:00:00.600 But a good doctor

01:00:01.460 will not judge you

01:00:02.640 for being fat.

01:00:03.440 They will not judge you

01:00:04.620 for being unhealthy.

01:00:06.440 They will not judge

01:00:07.420 the decisions

01:00:08.160 that you made

01:00:09.140 or the decisions

01:00:09.840 that were made for you,

01:00:10.900 which is the much more

01:00:11.740 likely scenario

01:00:12.500 that got you to the point

01:00:14.220 where you are right now.

01:00:15.320 We're here to help you

01:00:16.200 with the changes

01:00:16.860 that you want to make.

01:00:18.040 And if you are someone

01:00:19.140 who wants to lose weight

01:00:20.460 for health purposes

01:00:21.200 and there are certain scenarios

01:00:22.820 where losing weight

01:00:24.260 can be health promoting,

01:00:26.240 we're here to help you

01:00:26.940 with that.

01:00:27.320 We are also here to help you

01:00:28.820 if you decide

01:00:29.940 to not make any changes

01:00:31.200 at all.

01:00:31.980 We're still there.

01:00:33.520 Now, it's hard to know

01:00:34.740 where to begin

01:00:35.260 except to say

01:00:35.920 that a doctor

01:00:36.520 who announces

01:00:37.140 it's okay to be unhealthy

01:00:38.320 should be immediately fired

01:00:39.920 and then bankrupted

01:00:40.780 by malpractice lawsuits.

01:00:42.380 If you are a patient

01:00:43.400 of Dr. Nicole,

01:00:44.400 then you would be better off

01:00:45.760 getting on a plane

01:00:47.260 and flying down to Brazil

01:00:48.600 and then hiking

01:00:49.340 into the Amazon

01:00:50.180 to seek medical care

01:00:51.880 from a tribal shaman

01:00:53.000 in a mud hut

01:00:53.720 somewhere deep in the jungle.

01:00:55.180 In fact, a lot better off,

01:00:56.240 actually,

01:00:56.400 because the shaman

01:00:57.340 may not have the best remedies

01:00:58.640 for your ailments,

01:00:59.540 but at least he'll recognize

01:01:01.020 that your ailments

01:01:01.960 are ailments.

01:01:03.300 He at least knows

01:01:04.100 that being unhealthy

01:01:04.980 is bad.

01:01:06.720 And although Amazonian shamans

01:01:08.200 have probably never

01:01:08.840 actually witnessed

01:01:09.640 obesity firsthand,

01:01:11.180 we can be pretty certain

01:01:12.120 that if they did see it,

01:01:13.560 they would recognize

01:01:14.420 that it's not ideal.

01:01:16.180 So, no matter how you slice it,

01:01:18.120 this American doctor

01:01:19.120 has less medical knowledge

01:01:20.760 and credibility

01:01:21.300 than somebody

01:01:22.820 whose scientific understanding

01:01:23.840 of the world

01:01:24.280 hasn't advanced

01:01:24.920 beyond the year 3000 BC.

01:01:27.020 I mean,

01:01:27.240 that's how bad things are now.

01:01:29.140 She also assures us

01:01:30.000 that being unhealthy

01:01:32.140 is not a moral failing.

01:01:33.740 And, you know,

01:01:34.620 that can be true

01:01:35.160 in certain circumstances.

01:01:36.020 I mean,

01:01:36.160 if you have multiple sclerosis

01:01:37.520 or arthritis

01:01:38.400 or brain cancer,

01:01:39.660 then your illness 0.85

01:01:40.440 certainly is not your fault.

01:01:41.720 But many forms

01:01:43.100 of unhealthiness

01:01:43.580 are, in fact,

01:01:44.540 at least partially

01:01:45.280 a result of your

01:01:46.340 moral failings.

01:01:48.360 Like, physical unhealthiness

01:01:49.520 is one of the

01:01:50.520 main immediate consequences

01:01:53.720 of moral failings,

01:01:55.300 in fact.

01:01:56.820 Obesity is the prime example.

01:01:58.580 You become obese

01:01:59.200 by eating too much

01:02:00.140 and exercising too little.

01:02:01.160 In other words,

01:02:01.760 you become obese

01:02:02.460 through gluttony and sloth,

01:02:04.320 which are not only sins,

01:02:05.400 but two of the seven deadly sins.

01:02:07.160 They're both bad enough

01:02:08.100 to have made the top seven.

01:02:09.840 That doesn't mean

01:02:10.320 that you should wallow

01:02:11.620 in your self-loathing

01:02:12.480 and guilt

01:02:12.920 if you're fat.

01:02:14.180 Quite the opposite.

01:02:15.420 Realizing that your obesity

01:02:17.140 is indeed your fault

01:02:18.220 and is indeed a moral failing

01:02:19.980 is empowering.

01:02:21.920 It means that you have

01:02:22.520 the power to change it.

01:02:23.780 You made yourself fat.

01:02:24.880 You can now make yourself unfat.

01:02:26.800 And this is good news.

01:02:28.500 And if a patient

01:02:29.120 doesn't want to hear

01:02:29.860 the good news,

01:02:30.380 that's all the more reason

01:02:31.200 why they should hear it.

01:02:33.020 But they're not going to hear it

01:02:33.720 from Dr. Nicole,

01:02:34.480 who isn't interested

01:02:35.100 in helping her patients

01:02:36.120 be healthier.

01:02:36.660 Instead,

01:02:37.380 she wants to free them

01:02:38.460 from the bonds

01:02:39.100 of what she calls

01:02:40.040 healthism.

01:02:41.460 Now, it had been

01:02:42.080 about three weeks

01:02:42.720 since the left

01:02:43.180 invented a new ism word.

01:02:45.160 So we have a new one

01:02:46.240 just in time

01:02:46.900 and it's healthism.

01:02:48.640 But what is healthism?

01:02:49.780 Well, she uses the term, 1.00

01:02:50.920 but the exact definition

01:02:53.320 isn't clear

01:02:54.100 from the context.

01:02:55.420 You know,

01:02:55.580 we know that racism

01:02:57.000 is supposed to be

01:02:58.780 when you hate someone

01:02:59.680 based on their race. 0.51

01:03:01.100 Sexism is when you hate 0.80

01:03:02.480 someone based on their sex.

01:03:04.220 So is healthism

01:03:05.340 when you hate someone

01:03:06.380 because they're healthy?

01:03:08.380 I mean,

01:03:08.700 the fat acceptance crowd

01:03:09.740 does tend to resent people

01:03:11.140 who lose weight

01:03:11.900 and get healthy.

01:03:13.260 Does that make them healthist?

01:03:15.100 Are they health phobic?

01:03:16.920 That would actually

01:03:17.540 make a little bit of sense,

01:03:18.840 which is how you know

01:03:20.480 that that's not

01:03:21.420 what's meant by the term.

01:03:23.060 So I googled it

01:03:23.920 and here's what I found

01:03:24.820 on a website called

01:03:25.660 withinhealth.com.

01:03:27.080 They have a whole article

01:03:28.220 about healthism

01:03:28.860 and this is what it says.

01:03:31.160 Quote,

01:03:31.740 healthism refers to

01:03:32.800 a set of attitudes

01:03:33.500 and beliefs

01:03:33.960 that health is the most

01:03:35.060 important pursuit in life

01:03:36.440 and that it is

01:03:37.400 the personal responsibility

01:03:38.380 of the individual

01:03:39.080 and solely within

01:03:39.960 that person's control.

01:03:41.260 Those who subscribe

01:03:41.920 to these beliefs

01:03:42.720 view the pursuit of health

01:03:44.220 which is often conflated

01:03:45.360 with thinness

01:03:45.960 as a moral good.

01:03:48.540 Now,

01:03:48.680 just a quick note here.

01:03:50.100 The pursuit of health

01:03:51.100 is a moral good.

01:03:53.080 Now,

01:03:53.980 it may not be

01:03:54.600 the most important

01:03:55.440 pursuit in life

01:03:56.440 but given that

01:03:58.020 the continuation

01:03:59.180 of your life

01:04:00.380 and your ability

01:04:01.000 to pursue anything

01:04:02.020 at all

01:04:02.580 depends on your health

01:04:04.440 it should at least be

01:04:06.360 like in your top five

01:04:07.600 of priorities

01:04:08.340 and none of this

01:04:10.000 should be remotely

01:04:10.560 controversial.

01:04:12.340 It especially

01:04:13.200 should not be controversial

01:04:14.080 among medical professionals

01:04:15.720 but here we are.

01:04:17.800 Reading on

01:04:18.440 the problem with this

01:04:20.140 is that healthism

01:04:21.120 doesn't acknowledge

01:04:21.760 that health

01:04:22.220 isn't entirely

01:04:23.220 within a person's control.

01:04:24.460 There are also

01:04:24.800 larger biological

01:04:25.840 social,

01:04:26.620 cultural,

01:04:27.100 and environmental issues

01:04:28.260 that contribute

01:04:29.040 to poor health

01:04:29.700 such as genetics,

01:04:30.620 poverty,

01:04:31.020 violence,

01:04:31.740 trauma,

01:04:32.200 environment,

01:04:32.760 diet culture,

01:04:33.360 and discrimination

01:04:33.880 and oppression

01:04:34.660 of all kinds

01:04:35.220 including ableism,

01:04:36.180 racism,

01:04:36.600 sexism,

01:04:37.040 transphobia,

01:04:37.560 homophobia,

01:04:38.360 fatphobia,

01:04:39.060 and weight stigma. 0.52

01:04:40.320 Healthism is insidious

01:04:41.560 and stigmatizing,

01:04:42.660 harming people

01:04:43.200 living in larger bodies

01:04:44.260 as well as many other

01:04:45.360 marginalized identities.

01:04:46.740 Fat is a term

01:04:47.340 that has been reclaimed

01:04:48.140 by higher weight individuals

01:04:49.620 and fat people

01:04:50.320 are subject to weight stigma

01:04:51.840 in many different settings

01:04:52.880 by many different people.

01:04:54.280 These include school,

01:04:55.220 work,

01:04:55.520 health care,

01:04:55.980 and even the home

01:04:56.780 by family,

01:04:57.740 friends,

01:04:58.100 health care providers,

01:04:58.900 teachers,

01:04:59.280 coaches,

01:04:59.600 and colleagues. 0.59

01:05:00.520 Fat people are often 0.98

01:05:01.260 viewed and labeled 0.56

01:05:01.940 as immoral,

01:05:02.760 irresponsible, 0.90

01:05:03.620 lacking willpower, 1.00

01:05:04.660 lazy, 0.99

01:05:05.160 weak, 1.00

01:05:05.780 slovenly, 0.98

01:05:06.720 unmotivated,

01:05:07.520 undisciplined,

01:05:08.240 unintelligent,

01:05:08.880 and so much more.

01:05:10.000 Healthism doesn't just harm

01:05:11.140 people living in larger bodies.

01:05:12.480 Either it is used

01:05:13.700 to maintain ableism,

01:05:14.960 racism,

01:05:15.420 transphobia,

01:05:16.120 classism,

01:05:17.020 and more.

01:05:18.700 Well,

01:05:19.180 that's no surprise.

01:05:19.940 All of the new isms

01:05:21.200 and phobias they invent

01:05:22.300 are always connected

01:05:23.060 to the other isms

01:05:24.120 and phobias,

01:05:25.180 so if you're guilty of one,

01:05:26.540 you're automatically guilty

01:05:27.460 of all the rest

01:05:28.200 along with whatever new ones

01:05:29.440 they might make up

01:05:30.320 in the future.

01:05:31.220 That's how this works.

01:05:33.340 But whether they call this

01:05:35.100 healthism or fatphobia

01:05:36.540 or whatever new buzzword

01:05:37.880 they might invent tomorrow,

01:05:39.400 it doesn't change the truth,

01:05:40.440 which is that

01:05:41.060 it is good to be healthy

01:05:42.200 and it is not good

01:05:43.760 to be unhealthy.

01:05:45.040 A medical professional

01:05:46.120 like Dr. Nicole

01:05:46.920 certainly understands

01:05:48.000 that fact.

01:05:48.700 Notice how she herself

01:05:50.340 appears to be

01:05:52.100 in excellent physical shape.

01:05:53.880 So she is obviously

01:05:54.900 taking care of her body,

01:05:56.300 but if you want to destroy

01:05:58.260 your own body, 0.74

01:05:59.500 she will be there

01:06:00.360 standing on the sidelines

01:06:02.200 with pom-poms

01:06:03.460 cheering you on.

01:06:04.880 And that's because

01:06:06.360 she wants you 0.99

01:06:07.320 to be fat 1.00

01:06:08.220 and weak 1.00

01:06:09.040 and sick. 0.91

01:06:10.520 That's what all these people 0.99

01:06:11.580 want for you.

01:06:12.840 They wish for you

01:06:13.960 a short

01:06:14.700 and mediocre life.

01:06:16.860 Joy,

01:06:17.540 health,

01:06:18.080 fitness,

01:06:18.600 longevity.

01:06:19.860 These are the things

01:06:20.720 they want for themselves,

01:06:21.940 but not for you.

01:06:24.300 And speaking of insidious,

01:06:26.260 it really doesn't get

01:06:27.340 more insidious

01:06:28.200 than that.

01:06:28.720 And that is why

01:06:30.320 Dr. Nicole

01:06:31.160 and every doctor

01:06:32.200 like her

01:06:32.620 is today

01:06:34.160 canceled.

01:06:35.760 That'll do it

01:06:36.120 for the show today.

01:06:36.680 Thanks for watching.

01:06:37.180 Thanks for listening.

01:06:37.760 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:06:38.580 Have a great day.

01:06:39.680 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 08, 2024

Ep. 1288 - Our Intellectual ‘Elites’ Aren’t Just Plagiarists. They’re Also Morons.

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