The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 719 - Spoiled, Ungrateful Brats

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Tim Tebow is getting another crack at the NFL, but Colin Kaepernick isn't.

00:00:05.100 The media says this is evidence of racism. I say it's evidence of something else.

00:00:09.020 Also, five headlines, including hackers shut down a major U.S. pipeline.

00:00:12.480 And the GOP says that we need to get mothers back to work.

00:00:16.400 Is that the right messaging? Is that conservative messaging?

00:00:18.840 Also, is a horse the latest victim of cancel culture? We'll have to talk about that.

00:00:22.860 And speaking of canceling and our daily cancellation, we'll deal with the morbidly obese model, in quotes there, 0.53

00:00:28.560 who now says she has anorexia. They just don't make anorexics like they used to. 0.99

00:00:33.820 We'll talk about that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:44.540 Yesterday, we began the show by talking about the many millionaire and billionaire celebrities

00:00:48.900 who are being horrifically oppressed in this country. It's a big problem.

00:00:51.960 Michelle Obama, principal among them, a woman who says she fears walking down the street

00:00:55.780 because of all the racist cops out there prowling around. 0.95

00:00:59.040 She also says she was in line for ice cream once and a white woman cut in front of her accidentally.

00:01:03.400 These are the kinds of deprivations and persecutions that she has suffered.

00:01:06.900 Oprah, LeBron James, Meghan Markle, and others join her in the ranks of extraordinarily wealthy and powerful victims. 0.97

00:01:13.280 But I feel a little embarrassed today because while listing all of the most prominent and profitable victims in America today,

00:01:20.540 I somehow neglected to mention the greatest of them all,

00:01:24.180 the man who will surely take center stage on the Mount Rushmore of self-victimizing millionaire brats.

00:01:31.160 And that would be, of course, Colin Kaepernick.

00:01:33.720 Colin Kaepernick, a former NFL bench writer who decided to start protesting injustice

00:01:38.700 at exactly the moment when his NFL career was going off the rails.

00:01:43.560 Interesting timing.

00:01:44.440 Then when he failed out of the league after a season where he went 1-10 as a starter,

00:01:50.360 he started a new career as a professional activist.

00:01:54.620 That career has been far more successful and profitable than his playing career by a large margin.

00:02:00.700 He's had deals with Netflix, Nike, many other major companies, released his own shoe,

00:02:05.300 gotten a book deal, a movie deal.

00:02:06.840 And all the while, he's being hailed as a martyr for the cause.

00:02:11.760 I mean, what cause exactly?

00:02:13.180 Well, that was never made exactly clear.

00:02:16.220 Originally, we were told that his kneeling during the anthem was a protest against police brutality,

00:02:21.120 not against the flag itself or the country.

00:02:24.140 But then a few years ago, Nike released a shoe or tried to release a shoe with an American flag on it,

00:02:29.600 and Kaepernick complained.

00:02:31.560 Because he didn't want there to be a shoe with a flag on it, and they recalled the shoe.

00:02:34.920 Now, apparently, I guess he does have a problem with the flag itself.

00:02:39.220 What could his problem possibly be?

00:02:41.220 I mean, how could he hate a country that's made him rich and famous beyond the wildest dreams of normal people?

00:02:47.840 And given him all this wealth and fame, despite the fact that he's produced nothing of value,

00:02:52.460 really nothing at all, and actually flunked out of his chosen field.

00:02:55.220 How is that possible?

00:02:57.780 Well, these are all good questions.

00:02:59.240 And we have another chance to think about these questions now that Kaepernick is back in the news.

00:03:04.400 Reading out from the Daily Wire, it says,

00:03:05.820 As Tim Tebow awaits a possible one-year contract to play for the Jacksonville Jaguars,

00:03:10.540 progressives on Twitter have excoriated the NFL for leaving former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick out in the cold.

00:03:16.780 As Daily Wire reported on Monday, Ian Rappaport of NFL Insider announced that

00:03:20.500 Tebow stands on the cusp of signing with the Jacksonville Jaguars and reuniting with his former mentor.

00:03:25.140 He's tweeted, quote,

00:03:26.820 The Jaguars are planning to sign QB turned tight end Tim Tebow to a one-year deal,

00:03:31.580 a deal that could be official in the next week or so.

00:03:33.460 Nothing done yet, but he'll have a chance to make the team,

00:03:35.680 to reunite with his mentor and college head coach Urban Meyer.

00:03:38.380 So it's a chance to make the team.

00:03:40.840 He's not actually on the team yet.

00:03:42.720 But back to the articles.

00:03:44.460 As Kaepernick fans, many of whom feel the NFL blackballed him in response to his national anthem protests

00:03:49.060 in the name of Black Lives Matter, did not welcome the news.

00:03:52.360 Quote,

00:03:52.800 Interesting how the same people that are praising Tim Tebow for his values outside of football

00:03:57.020 see Colin Kaepernick's values as a distraction.

00:04:00.060 That according to Ahmed Ali.

00:04:02.640 Another one says,

00:04:03.680 There's no way you can tell me that Tim Tebow deserves to be on a team as an unproven tight end

00:04:08.080 who hasn't played in nine years more than Colin Kaepernick.

00:04:11.260 There's just no way that's going to make sense.

00:04:14.040 That according to David Dennis Jr.

00:04:16.180 There was plenty more reactions along those lines, all from the usual suspects,

00:04:19.480 including Jameel Hill and others, of course.

00:04:21.200 Corey Booker, a noted NFL analyst, chimed in as well.

00:04:25.540 Here's what he said.

00:04:26.980 People are saying, you know, there's a little white privilege going on here.

00:04:30.240 You know, Tim Tebow has a different, there's different standards for him.

00:04:32.860 I don't need to cast a shadow on Tim Tebow in order to point out the injustice of Colin Kaepernick.

00:04:38.420 I mean, that is, it's wrong.

00:04:41.680 He was blackballed.

00:04:42.760 And I don't need to push somebody else down in order to point that out.

00:04:48.080 So I just know that he's gotten an awful deal.

00:04:51.580 It's, it's, he is an extraordinary athlete who had his career sabotaged by people that were against him

00:04:59.760 doing what some of the greatest athletes of all times, from Arthur Ashe to Muhammad Ali, have done,

00:05:04.460 which is speak out against injustice.

00:05:05.800 Do you think Colin maybe should try a different position or is that, is it just, you think it's,

00:05:09.820 it's more than just a position thing?

00:05:11.200 I think it has nothing to do with him.

00:05:12.500 It has to do with the NFL and the decisions that were made.

00:05:14.960 Just perfect there in that video.

00:05:18.220 Perfect timing as they're interviewing Cory Booker in, it looks like D.C.

00:05:23.220 And a guy jogs by wearing a mask.

00:05:27.320 Just absolutely perfect. 1.00

00:05:29.520 These lunatics, these psychos. 0.98

00:05:33.380 Anyway, these comparisons are all coming from people who either don't understand the game of football, 0.98

00:05:37.680 probably the case for Cory Booker, or who are pretending not to understand.

00:05:41.120 Tim Tebow will be attending training camp to try out for a different position

00:05:45.120 where he will no doubt be a backup and get paid the minimum salary or close to it.

00:05:50.920 So he just wants to play the game and he's willing to do whatever it takes for a shot at playing the game.

00:05:55.100 In contrast, Colin Kaepernick has shown no interest in playing at any position,

00:06:00.020 let alone, let alone a less glamorous one as a backup for comparatively little money.

00:06:06.000 In fact, two years ago, the NFL held a workout for Kaepernick in the middle of the 2019 season.

00:06:11.300 25 scouts attended.

00:06:13.120 This was all unprecedented as far as I know.

00:06:15.380 The NFL doesn't usually hold personal workouts for aging backup players in the middle of the season

00:06:20.400 or at any other time of the year.

00:06:22.460 They certainly didn't do that for Tim Tebow, I can tell you.

00:06:25.460 But they did it for Kaepernick because he'd call them racist if they didn't.

00:06:31.040 But as it turns out, he'll call them racist even if they do.

00:06:33.620 You're racist if you do, racist if you don't.

00:06:35.820 That's how it goes with guys like Kaepernick.

00:06:37.280 Kaep bailed on the workout, though, and instead held his own media event where he wore a shirt

00:06:43.120 comparing himself to a slave, making him the highest paid slave in history, we must say.

00:06:48.840 And he blasted the NFL and Roger Goodell, the commissioner.

00:06:51.840 It was all publicity stunt.

00:06:53.080 They held the workout for him.

00:06:55.540 He refused to go to it and then did his own event in front of the cameras where he was complaining about the NFL.

00:07:02.320 Is that what you do?

00:07:03.140 If you really want to play for the NFL, if you want a job in the NFL, is that what you do?

00:07:06.840 They invited you to the workout.

00:07:09.200 There are 25 scouts there.

00:07:11.740 Show up.

00:07:12.960 Show them what you can do.

00:07:14.640 Demonstrate a little bit of professionalism and humility.

00:07:17.640 And you get an offer.

00:07:19.300 At least a tryout for a team.

00:07:23.040 But he didn't want to actually play.

00:07:24.840 He still doesn't.

00:07:25.720 He never did. 0.99

00:07:27.280 He's a con man and a grifter, an actor playing a role. 0.98

00:07:30.460 And we have to also say playing it pretty damn well. 0.97

00:07:33.020 Give him credit for that.

00:07:33.760 But NFL head coaches, they don't want actors on their sidelines.

00:07:38.520 They want players.

00:07:40.480 Colin Kaepernick is not a player and doesn't want to be one.

00:07:43.820 He hasn't wanted to be one since he discovered how much money there was to be made pretending to be an activist.

00:07:49.480 But there's another difference, too.

00:07:51.000 And this is important.

00:07:52.400 Another difference between Tebow and Kaepernick.

00:07:55.960 The fans love Tim Tebow.

00:07:59.720 Almost everyone loves Tim Tebow.

00:08:01.320 Lots of people hate Colin Kaepernick.

00:08:04.720 Why is that? 1.00

00:08:06.220 If you're a very stupid person, you've probably already shouted, it's racism! 1.00

00:08:11.760 Because of Team Tebow, he's the white guy. 1.00

00:08:13.900 That's why they like him.

00:08:16.660 Except that the NFL is full of beloved black athletes. 0.80

00:08:21.080 So it's obviously not that.

00:08:23.020 But the key difference, or one of the key differences, is gratitude.

00:08:29.560 Both Tebow and Kaepernick have lived a blessed life.

00:08:33.600 They're both wealthy and famous.

00:08:36.100 And this country has treated them extraordinarily well.

00:08:40.340 What people like about Tim Tebow is that he seems to be aware of this fact.

00:08:44.480 And he exudes gratitude and humility because of it.

00:08:47.180 He loves this country, and he's grateful for the opportunities that the country has afforded him.

00:08:52.140 This is an attractive quality.

00:08:55.000 Among all people.

00:08:56.960 People root for that.

00:08:58.620 People like to be around that kind of attitude. 0.92

00:09:02.700 Kaepernick, on the other hand, is sullen, spoiled, ungrateful.

00:09:07.180 This country has given him everything, but it's never enough.

00:09:11.260 He always demands more.

00:09:12.980 Not because he's earned it, but because he feels entitled to it.

00:09:17.460 He's a self-victimizing drama queen. 0.95

00:09:19.840 A rich, whiny, entitled complainer. 0.98

00:09:22.500 Now, his fellow rich, whiny, entitled complainers in the media, 0.96

00:09:26.800 they like that about him because they can relate to it.

00:09:29.240 But it's not the kind of thing that normal people respect or want to root for.

00:09:34.020 And it distresses normal people that this attitude is so common.

00:09:38.860 That there is so little gratitude in this country.

00:09:42.980 And it is especially absent among the people who should be the most displaying it.

00:09:50.360 Gratitude.

00:09:51.860 That is a virtue.

00:09:54.980 That's a quality that we're losing in this country.

00:09:58.460 And we need to regain.

00:10:02.300 Tim Tebow versus Colin Kaepernick.

00:10:04.120 Perfect example as to why.

00:10:06.560 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:11:24.840 So starting here, number one from the BBC, it says a cyber criminal gang that took a major U.S. fuel pipeline offline over the weekend

00:11:32.600 has acknowledged the incident in a public statement.

00:11:35.360 The group is called Darkside and they wrote on their website, quote,

00:11:40.360 our goal is to make money and not to create problems for society.

00:11:44.400 So they're saying that they didn't mean to create problems.

00:11:47.180 I don't know, this is kind of an apology in a way.

00:11:50.520 They just, they wanted, it was like a ransom thing and they were trying to make money.

00:11:54.540 They didn't mean to cause problems.

00:11:57.140 Oh, well, in that case, don't worry about it, Darkside.

00:12:00.980 They're saying, hey, all we did was take down a major U.S. fuel line.

00:12:04.740 We didn't think it would cause problems.

00:12:06.500 What, that causes problems?

00:12:08.360 Seriously?

00:12:08.820 I had no idea.

00:12:09.640 The U.S. issued emergency legislation on Sunday after Colonial Pipeline was hit by a ransomware cyber attack.

00:12:16.960 The pipeline carries 2.5 million barrels a day, 45% of the East Coast supply of diesel patrol and jet fuel.

00:12:26.420 That's what, Darkside, they're, they're surprised by this.

00:12:29.420 Well, you mean to tell us if we shut down 45% of the East Coast supply of fuel, it's going to make, it's going to create an issue?

00:12:38.100 It's going to be a problem?

00:12:39.560 Man, had no idea.

00:12:41.400 Sorry about that.

00:12:42.080 My bad.

00:12:44.140 The operator took itself offline on Friday after the cyber attack, after the cyber attack, worked to restore services continuing.

00:12:50.620 On Monday, the FBI officially confirmed that Darkside was responsible for compromising Colonial Pipeline's networks, saying that it was continuing to work with the firm and other government agencies on the investigation.

00:13:03.980 Now, you read about this and how some sort of hacking group was able to infiltrate and take down a major fuel line.

00:13:12.420 And it might make you kind of concerned about what else could they do?

00:13:19.060 Could they take down the power grid if they wanted to?

00:13:22.500 But don't worry about it.

00:13:23.920 Okay, don't worry about this, because we know, we know that, that our intelligence agencies, they're on top of it.

00:13:30.660 The FBI, the CIA, all the intelligence community, they're on top of this.

00:13:34.440 By, right, by putting out advertisements, extolling the virtues of tolerance, and by, you know, bringing people onto the job because they're, because of their gender identity and so on and so forth.

00:13:54.100 Doesn't that, doesn't that make you feel pretty comfortable?

00:13:57.520 Knowing that our intelligence community, that's where their priorities are.

00:14:00.220 Gender identity, tolerance, acceptance, diversity.

00:14:06.520 Diversity is our number one priority.

00:14:10.120 So while they're focused on that, we've got cyber criminals taking down fuel lines.

00:14:15.920 Perfect.

00:14:17.560 Wonderful.

00:14:19.020 Number two, this is from the, is a tweet here from the GOP official Twitter account.

00:14:23.620 This is what they tweeted out.

00:14:24.640 They said, 1.5 million U.S. mothers have fallen out of the workforce, and many are staying home to take care of their children because schools have not reopened.

00:14:33.880 Biden is proving to be a detriment to getting mothers back to work. 1.00

00:14:40.260 This is why the Republican Party is awful at messaging and at everything else.

00:14:47.440 Now, yes, we agree that having millions of people leave the workforce, women or men, is a bad thing.

00:15:00.220 And one of the consequences of having all the schools shut down is that, yeah, now you've got either people or you've got to pay more for child care or you've got to, someone has to stay home and take care of the kids.

00:15:10.320 Because, and that has been a crisis in a lot of families, even if I think that in the long term, it's better not to have a public school system at all, when you take it away all at once like this, it creates major, major problems for families.

00:15:23.060 So all of that is true.

00:15:25.840 And it's okay to point that out.

00:15:29.240 You should be able to point that out in a way that's consistent with conservative values.

00:15:40.040 Because getting mothers back to work, that's not exactly our goal as conservatives. 1.00

00:15:48.680 That's certainly not the way that I would phrase it.

00:15:52.340 Yet we want to get the economy back open again.

00:15:55.320 That's true.

00:15:56.820 And we want people who want to work to be working.

00:15:59.240 This is just another perfect example here of the GOP.

00:16:04.220 Terrible messaging.

00:16:06.220 Biden is proving to be a detriment to getting mothers. 1.00

00:16:09.000 Let's get mothers back to work. 1.00

00:16:13.420 It's actually, all in all, it's a positive thing to have mothers at home caring for their children.

00:16:20.300 Which isn't to say that no women should be out working. 1.00

00:16:24.300 But that's a positive thing.

00:16:25.800 And presenting it as a negative, like this is a problem.

00:16:31.780 We got all these mothers at home. 1.00

00:16:33.120 We got to get them back to work, out in that workforce.

00:16:34.840 This is like, if I, if it wasn't for the, if it wasn't for Biden, the fact that Biden was being attacked here.

00:16:45.340 If you didn't know who was in office and you read that, you would assume that was a tweet from the Democrats.

00:16:51.560 Because that's their goal is to get the mothers back. 1.00

00:16:55.160 We don't want the mothers at home. 1.00

00:16:56.020 We want them at, we want them in the workforce.

00:16:57.740 But as always, very little difference between the Republicans and the Democrats, as we know.

00:17:03.220 Speaking of Biden, number three, Joe Biden addressed the claim that unemployment is high right now because people are being paid to stay at home.

00:17:10.840 And he doesn't see evidence of that.

00:17:13.500 But at the same, he doesn't see evidence that it's a problem.

00:17:15.560 But at the same time, he has a plan for supposedly solving that problem.

00:17:18.620 So I'm not really sure how that makes a lot of sense.

00:17:20.020 But here is Joe Biden.

00:17:22.200 We're going to make it clear that anyone collecting unemployment who is offered a suitable job must take the job or lose their unemployment benefits.

00:17:33.460 There are a few COVID-19 related exceptions so that people aren't forced to choose between their basic safety and a paycheck.

00:17:42.440 But otherwise, that's the law.

00:17:44.660 I know there's been a lot of discussion since Friday, since Friday's report, that people are being paid to stay home rather than go to work.

00:17:55.100 Well, we don't see much evidence of that.

00:17:57.800 That is a major factor.

00:18:01.540 We don't see that.

00:18:03.020 Look, it's easy to say the line has been because of the generous unemployment benefits that it's a major factor in labor shortages.

00:18:12.980 Americans want to work. 0.99

00:18:16.140 So we'll insist that the law is followed with respect to benefits.

00:18:20.720 But we're not going to turn our backs on our fellow Americans.

00:18:24.760 Twenty two million people lost their jobs in this pandemic through no fault of their own.

00:18:32.000 We still have eight million fewer jobs than we did when the pandemic started.

00:18:36.600 And for many of those folks, unemployment benefits are a lifeline.

00:18:40.860 No one should be allowed to gain the system and will insist the law is followed.

00:18:46.440 But let's not take our eye off the ball.

00:18:48.820 OK, so it's not it's not an issue, but here's the plan to solve the problem that doesn't exist in the first place.

00:18:57.960 I agree with him that people lost their jobs through no fault of their own.

00:19:01.560 I mean, that was like his fault, the fault of the Democrat Party, largely in many of these states run by Democrats, especially that where the lockdowns were particularly strict and in some cases are still in place.

00:19:12.700 So I agree that it's not people's fault they lost jobs.

00:19:16.160 It's the government's fault.

00:19:17.060 That's absolutely the case, which is why I've said from the beginning that I support stimulus payments, any unemployment benefits for people who lost their job because the government took it away.

00:19:34.380 As I've said all along, that's an example, I think, of an actual entitlement.

00:19:41.080 The problem, generally speaking, with what we call entitlements is that oftentimes the people receiving those benefits aren't really entitled to them.

00:19:50.780 So entitlement is kind of an ironic label.

00:19:54.740 If you're entitled to something, it means that you're owed it.

00:19:57.700 I'm owed this.

00:19:58.280 Well, in many cases, the people that are getting entitlements, they're not really owed that.

00:20:04.060 And if they are owed it, who is in debt to them?

00:20:08.620 In this case, when the government comes along and for no good reason takes your job away, takes millions of jobs away all at once, destroys your business, destroys your entire industry in some cases, you are entitled to restitution for that, I would say, from the government.

00:20:26.180 So that is true.

00:20:28.280 But it's also true, first of all, that we didn't give this entitlement only to people who were actually entitled to it.

00:20:37.200 We passed out millions and millions of checks worth billions and billions and billions of dollars, regardless of whether or not someone actually needed it or not.

00:20:47.200 There was no attempt made.

00:20:50.020 I know it can be difficult to do, but these are difficult times.

00:20:54.560 And so you got to do the difficult thing.

00:20:56.140 It's difficult to first figure out who actually needs the money, who lost their job, and to target it that way.

00:21:01.920 Difficult to do.

00:21:03.060 It's worth doing.

00:21:03.960 Because the other option is just to give the money to everybody.

00:21:05.960 And that means there's going to be billions of dollars wasted for no reason.

00:21:12.980 And that's what we did.

00:21:13.940 But even for the people who really need it, the fact is that there is a tension here.

00:21:21.340 There is a problem.

00:21:22.800 When you pay people not to work, when you incentivize not working, then they're not going to work.

00:21:28.620 And you're going to have a lot of people staying at home and living off of the government.

00:21:32.060 And we're not just talking about mothers who, you know, now they're a single-family household and the father is working.

00:21:39.060 It's not like that.

00:21:39.940 We're talking about entire households where nobody's working.

00:21:41.740 And that's what happens when you incentivize unemployment.

00:21:49.500 I don't fully blame people either.

00:21:52.260 I mean, I have to think, okay, if I didn't have a job and I'm getting paid by the government,

00:21:59.600 and the only job that I could really get right now is something that pays me less than what the government is giving me,

00:22:05.360 yeah, I would certainly be tempted to just continue taking more money for doing nothing.

00:22:13.500 You can understand why people would make that calculation.

00:22:16.320 It's not unreasonable.

00:22:18.840 I don't think it's right either, but it's not unreasonable.

00:22:22.560 So that's the issue.

00:22:23.800 And it's a very real problem.

00:22:26.160 But Biden says, oh, we don't have to worry about it because if you're offered a suitable job, you have to take it.

00:22:33.520 And if you don't take it, then you're going to lose your unemployment benefits.

00:22:38.380 There are so many ways around that.

00:22:41.740 It's hard.

00:22:42.340 I don't even want to say that there are loopholes.

00:22:44.660 It's not loop.

00:22:45.320 The entire thing is one big hole.

00:22:46.700 The entire policy is one big hole.

00:22:48.580 You can march right through it.

00:22:50.740 It's not like loopholes you have to sneak through.

00:22:54.920 Because who decides what a suitable job is?

00:22:57.060 That's up to you to decide.

00:22:58.780 Couldn't you just say, well, that wasn't a suitable job by my estimation?

00:23:01.620 And how's the government going to know that you were offered a job?

00:23:05.560 And aren't you actually only going to be offered a job if you go out and look for one?

00:23:10.140 Are they requiring that you go out and look for one?

00:23:12.580 How are they requiring that?

00:23:13.880 How are they checking in on that?

00:23:15.780 How are they confirming it?

00:23:19.560 Obviously, there's no real way to enforce this.

00:23:23.260 And if there is a way to enforce it, our government is not interested in doing that and isn't capable of doing it.

00:23:28.020 Again, this is the same government that couldn't be bothered or claimed it was unable to first find out who needed the benefits before doling them out.

00:23:38.200 Now we're supposed to believe that they have the capacity and the interest in enforcing these kinds of policies?

00:23:45.760 Not going to happen.

00:23:47.340 Just not going to happen.

00:23:48.960 All right.

00:23:49.160 Next, we've got, there's some controversy after the horse that won the Kentucky Derby turned out to have banned substances in its system.

00:23:56.700 The horse is a junkie, basically. 0.92

00:23:58.100 Just a total drug addict.

00:23:59.940 And here's the horse's trainer on, I think this is on Fox News, addressing the controversy and claiming that the horse is a victim of cancel culture. 0.78

00:24:09.140 Let's listen.

00:24:09.540 Will you run Medina Spirit this weekend in the Preakness?

00:24:13.880 I know you've said that, but they're going to have a meeting tomorrow down there at that race.

00:24:20.360 No, actually, they're on their way right now.

00:24:23.380 They're in a van.

00:24:25.000 They should arrive this afternoon, and we're definitely planning on running them.

00:24:28.840 Actually, I'm going to run two horses.

00:24:31.360 Okay.

00:24:31.580 Bob, here's my understanding.

00:24:33.120 They were going to have the draw today for the Preakness, and they've kicked it back until tomorrow.

00:24:38.600 You have another review.

00:24:41.340 Those results may not be available for several weeks.

00:24:44.340 So the Preakness goes down this weekend.

00:24:46.160 The Belmont is here in New York four weeks from now.

00:24:48.800 I don't know if we have final results even before the Belmont is done, but your plan is to race in the Preakness.

00:24:54.660 Is there a chance they may punt and not allow Medina Spirit to run this weekend?

00:24:58.940 Well, I haven't heard anything officially.

00:25:03.960 They haven't told me anything.

00:25:05.960 I know when Churchill Downs came out with that statement, that was pretty harsh.

00:25:11.720 And I think they had to just, you know, with all the noise going out, you know, we live in a different world now.

00:25:19.260 This America is different.

00:25:21.520 And it was like a cancel culture kind of a thing.

00:25:26.120 So they're reviewing it.

00:25:27.020 I haven't been told anything.

00:25:28.940 We're prepared to run.

00:25:31.340 I can't see them.

00:25:32.360 But under the rules, does your team get to review the results?

00:25:36.640 Or is that left with the horse officials?

00:25:40.300 No.

00:25:41.360 There's a long process.

00:25:42.700 There'll be a split sample.

00:25:44.220 And then there'll be a hearing.

00:25:45.980 And it's going to take months.

00:25:47.440 This isn't done within a week.

00:25:49.980 And it's a long period.

00:25:52.300 But you're here to say that Bob Baffert's team did not cheat to win the Kentucky Derby.

00:25:58.220 We did not cheat to win the Kentucky Derby.

00:26:01.680 Okay.

00:26:02.120 That was a lot more information about horse doping than I really cared to hear.

00:26:05.960 And I have no opinion whatsoever about whether or not this horse is guilty of doping.

00:26:10.720 I don't know what that entails.

00:26:13.200 I don't care at all.

00:26:15.460 But what I do care about a little bit is the claim there of cancel culture.

00:26:21.100 And the reason I care about that is the cancel culture is a real thing.

00:26:25.640 It's a real problem in our culture right now.

00:26:32.020 Many people's lives, many people's actual human, real lives, not horses.

00:26:36.860 Like horses can deal with it.

00:26:37.980 You can shame a horse, publicly shame a horse, cancel them.

00:26:42.240 You can even take their jobs away.

00:26:44.320 And they'll probably be okay because they're still going to be a horse at the end of the day.

00:26:48.580 Until we turn them into glue or whatever.

00:26:50.520 If that's what we're canceling, if that's how we're canceling the horse, then I would say that maybe is a little bit harsh.

00:26:55.640 But there are real human beings who have been canceled.

00:26:59.620 And their lives have been destroyed.

00:27:02.140 Big, big problem.

00:27:04.040 But when we abuse this term and overuse it, as we see all throughout society, same problem all the time.

00:27:12.980 But the label loses its meaning because we've applied it to too many things.

00:27:17.340 And that's what I really hated.

00:27:18.740 Now, anytime someone's backed into a corner like this guy is, and you can kind of see his heart's not even fully in it.

00:27:26.580 He's kind of grasping for an excuse.

00:27:28.680 As I said, I have no opinion on whether or not he's guilty or whatever.

00:27:30.740 I don't care.

00:27:31.620 But he's grasping for an excuse.

00:27:33.820 He's saying, you know, society is like this right now.

00:27:37.160 It's a thing with society.

00:27:38.720 And it's a cancel culture.

00:27:40.520 You know, yeah, yeah.

00:27:41.160 It's cancel culture.

00:27:41.840 That's what it is.

00:27:42.560 Cancel culture.

00:27:43.240 It's a, yeah.

00:27:43.700 Now, no, this is not, this is not cancel culture.

00:27:48.640 This is, you've been accused of doing something.

00:27:52.500 Maybe you did it.

00:27:53.180 Maybe you didn't.

00:27:53.860 People are kind of upset.

00:27:55.020 Most people in the horse racing world care about it.

00:27:58.520 Nobody else outside of it does.

00:27:59.980 That's a normal thing.

00:28:00.920 Like, at any time, as long as there's been horse racing, you know, there are going to be controversies like this.

00:28:09.760 So this is not, because of cancel culture, this hasn't been affected.

00:28:14.660 It's not like the controversy is amped up now because of cancel culture.

00:28:19.600 This controversy is probably what it would have always been, even without the advent of cancel culture. 0.92

00:28:25.760 Cancel culture is an entirely different deal.

00:28:29.320 And it is, as I always say, it is a left-wing phenomenon.

00:28:35.780 Because most of the time, it is about using institutions.

00:28:39.080 Either calling for institutions to punish someone, or those institutions actually doing it.

00:28:45.640 Punishing someone, deplatforming them, firing them, maybe even arresting them, as the case may be.

00:28:53.440 But it's using the power of institutions to destroy someone's life.

00:28:58.840 Along with your standard kind of public shaming and all of that.

00:29:03.560 All right.

00:29:04.960 We also have this.

00:29:05.980 Axios interviewed the CEO of GLAAD, which is the Gay and Lesbian, what is that, Alliance Against Defamation, I think is what it is.

00:29:15.480 LGBT activist group.

00:29:17.240 And she talked about how social media companies are unsafe, very unsafe for LGBT people.

00:29:24.480 And she's, and we got to do something about that, all these unsafe.

00:29:28.960 Now, what does she mean by that?

00:29:30.020 How is it unsafe?

00:29:31.080 What should we do about these unsafe conditions?

00:29:34.280 Well, she explains that, sort of, here.

00:29:38.180 So, you created a social media safety index.

00:29:42.080 And so, the original intention was to give each of these, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, a grade.

00:29:48.080 And to say, here's how you're doing.

00:29:50.320 That didn't happen.

00:29:51.320 Why?

00:29:51.740 We did come out with grades initially, internally.

00:29:54.780 And what we realized was it wasn't the right starting point.

00:29:58.560 The right starting point was to give them the information to act and give them a roadmap to be successful.

00:30:06.480 This is about less watchdogging, more partnering with these platforms to get it right.

00:30:13.700 What we ended up realizing was that if we started grading, they'd all fail, quite frankly.

00:30:19.640 You found them all to be unsafe in different ways.

00:30:23.540 They are categorically unsafe across the board, yes.

00:30:27.120 We're looking for real, concrete changes in the next year and thereafter.

00:30:32.280 And I think we live in this space, quite frankly, between government, which is going to take a very long time to put in regulations,

00:30:41.080 and these social media companies who have the roadmap but are not enacting it.

00:30:47.180 And in the middle of this is the LGBTQ community, who is being profited off of by hate speech and harassment.

00:30:55.720 And we needed to step in quickly and make sure that our community is protected.

00:31:00.960 Not going to make any comments about the interviewer there.

00:31:07.160 We'll move on to the woman who, the president of GLAAD, who is kind of, this is what tyrants look like and sound like now. 0.95

00:31:16.540 First of all, using the phrase quite frankly a lot, it's a common thing among them.

00:31:20.960 But she says, oh, we want to walk alongside you and we want to partner.

00:31:27.500 This is not about us controlling.

00:31:29.760 No, no, no.

00:31:31.000 We're going to partner with you.

00:31:32.820 We're going to walk alongside you and take your hand and grab it and not let go.

00:31:39.400 And guide you with however much force is necessary to the path that we have decided you need to walk.

00:31:46.260 But it's partnering.

00:31:48.380 Don't let go of my hand.

00:31:49.480 That's the kind of partnering they're talking about.

00:31:52.700 Now, I said she explains what she means by social media being unsafe for LGBT people.

00:31:58.720 That is false advertising on my part.

00:32:00.240 She actually doesn't explain that at all.

00:32:01.760 Of course she does, because they never do.

00:32:04.860 And that's really the point.

00:32:06.220 Because if they don't define it, then in any given situation, they want to be able to define it situationally, whatever the situation calls for.

00:32:15.700 They don't want to set clear boundaries of like this is what is an unsafe thing for an LGBT person.

00:32:24.740 They just want to be able to because really what this is obviously about is shutting down dissenting speech.

00:32:30.240 People who fail, it's not just people who are, it's not even just people who actively disagree with the LGBT agenda.

00:32:40.160 Obviously they want to shut you down.

00:32:42.160 But if you fail to offer the appropriate amount of applause, and you fail to have the appropriate amount of enthusiasm while giving that applause, then you get shut down for that too.

00:32:53.480 Because that's also unsafe.

00:32:55.360 Because that makes people feel bad about themselves.

00:32:57.180 We just cannot stress enough how, talk about dangerous.

00:33:03.360 Okay, this is actually dangerous.

00:33:06.020 When we start, when speech and opinions are labeled unsafe successfully, that's the real danger zone.

00:33:22.520 Because we've always been told, we all grew up with this idea, sticks and stones, right?

00:33:27.180 People can say what they want.

00:33:30.000 They can believe what they want.

00:33:31.200 As long as you're not physically harming another person.

00:33:33.680 As long as you're not causing harm to another person, then you're well within your rights.

00:33:40.740 Right?

00:33:41.680 It's the old thing about how your fist can travel as far as, your right to move your fist ends where my nose is and that kind of thing, right?

00:33:51.440 Um, and what they want to be able to say, what people like over at GLAAD want to say, is that they still believe that.

00:33:58.320 That, of course, you have the right to have whatever opinion and express whatever views you want.

00:34:03.500 As long as you're not harming another person.

00:34:05.100 And then what they quickly add is that, oh, by the way, a lot of your opinions do cause harm.

00:34:12.820 How do they cause harm?

00:34:13.960 What kind of harm is it?

00:34:14.980 Doesn't matter.

00:34:16.020 We don't have to explain that to you.

00:34:17.300 In fact, asking us to explain it also causes us harm.

00:34:20.160 All right, let's move on now to reading the YouTube comments.

00:34:26.420 First comment says, when I received my license, my parents instructed me that if I get pulled over, I am to say yes, sir, no, sir.

00:34:32.600 And to obey all instructions.

00:34:35.860 That's the, I got the exact same speech.

00:34:37.720 From my parents. 0.82

00:34:41.760 Of course, we're told that this is, this is the talk that only black parents have to give their kids.

00:34:47.320 But I can remember getting the same talk from, as a white kid, I got the same talk from my parents.

00:34:52.020 If you get pulled over, be respectful to a police officer.

00:34:55.220 It's not going to do you any good to be disrespectful.

00:34:57.480 And also, you know, my parents were of the opinion that as kids, we should just be respectful to all adults in general, whether they're police officers or not.

00:35:04.880 Probably good advice in general.

00:35:10.340 Orange Banana says, hey, Matt, sauna is a Finnish word.

00:35:13.480 We're continuing this controversy from yesterday.

00:35:15.720 Sauna is a Finnish word.

00:35:16.840 In the Finnish language, each letter is enunciated.

00:35:19.100 So it is pronounced sauna.

00:35:22.100 If you did go to a Finnish sauna and pronounced it that way, they'd be impressed and might even give you a deal for saying it properly.

00:35:30.020 Well, I would never be in a Finnish sauna or any other kind of sauna.

00:35:34.880 But I refute.

00:35:35.940 That is one word.

00:35:36.760 Even if you're correct, I don't know if I believe you that it's pronounced sauna.

00:35:41.260 Heading over to the sauna today.

00:35:43.420 I don't know if I believe you.

00:35:44.840 But if you're right, this is one of those words where I think the right thing to do is to mispronounce it because the actual pronunciation sounds weird.

00:35:52.880 Kind of very similar to when I go to get a gyro, I'm getting a gyro.

00:35:56.900 I know it's, you could say it's pronounced gyro or whatever.

00:36:02.620 G-Y-R-O. 1.00

00:36:05.640 Gyro sounds better.

00:36:07.060 It looks better.

00:36:07.900 That's how I pronounce it.

00:36:10.240 Usually I'm all about protecting the integrity of language.

00:36:14.300 But there are some exceptions.

00:36:17.240 Whenever I decide those exceptions are, that's when they are.

00:36:19.780 Matt, how do you get to the point where you don't care how many people you offend?

00:36:24.640 I'm almost there myself, but I still have a guilty conscience when I hurt somebody's feelings.

00:36:31.000 I guess for me, I can't really give you the how-to process.

00:36:35.980 For me, it's been really just a process of being numb.

00:36:42.520 When everybody is offended all the time by everything you say, and you've got hundreds of people tossing labels at you and calling you a bigot and so on and so forth every single day, eventually you become numb to it and you simply don't care anymore.

00:36:59.960 And I'm certainly at that point.

00:37:02.080 But at the same time, and I think we're at a, we all have to get to that point where you don't care about the labels that are tossed at you and the opinion of the peanut gallery doesn't mean anything to you.

00:37:15.260 I think in order to survive, we all have to be that way.

00:37:17.900 Now, speaking of cancel culture, in this cancel culture world, we all have to get to that point.

00:37:23.720 Because if you allow yourself to be manipulated by those sorts of things, then you're never going to speak up at all.

00:37:30.200 So I do think it's a necessity.

00:37:32.420 But I would almost call it a necessary evil in a way.

00:37:38.340 Because, you know, in a perfect world, that's not actually a healthy way to be.

00:37:44.860 It's not great psychologically.

00:37:46.380 I realize that about myself.

00:37:48.080 Psychologically, I don't care about other people's opinions at all.

00:37:50.260 It doesn't mean anything to me.

00:37:51.580 And so I could have a thousand people screaming at me and so upset, and it just means nothing.

00:37:57.260 I don't care.

00:37:57.920 I sleep like a baby.

00:37:58.720 But in a perfect world, I probably should care.

00:38:03.520 It's not really natural to not care.

00:38:06.620 We are supposed to care about what other people think and say.

00:38:09.540 We're human beings.

00:38:10.400 We're social animals.

00:38:11.260 So to be completely numb to it, it's ultimately not psychologically healthy, but it is necessary these days.

00:38:19.100 So it's kind of a necessary evil.

00:38:21.280 Andre says, LMAO at Matt confusing Tupac with Biggie.

00:38:27.860 When did I do that?

00:38:29.340 A few people in comments accused me of that.

00:38:31.160 I said that P. Diddy killed Tupac, which I don't know if that's true.

00:38:37.560 Allegedly, that's the conspiracy theory.

00:38:39.680 So I didn't confuse them at all.

00:38:40.860 Are you saying that you think he killed Biggie too?

00:38:43.340 I haven't heard that one. 0.53

00:38:45.440 He just killed them all. 0.96

00:38:46.460 Maybe he did. 0.99

00:38:46.980 I don't know.

00:38:47.300 And Joshua says, your rap music causes violence argument is no different than video games cause violence.

00:38:56.760 It is different for all the reasons I gave yesterday.

00:39:01.080 I would put video games more.

00:39:03.600 Video games are a separate, distinct thing from music and movies.

00:39:07.220 But if I had to put them in one category or the other, I think they're more in the movie category, certainly than the music category.

00:39:12.740 With rap music, there is the explicit encouragement.

00:39:18.440 You are directly romanticizing this kind of behavior and encouraging it.

00:39:24.800 And also the rappers themselves claim repeatedly and passionately that they're not making this up.

00:39:31.560 This is how they actually, these are things they really did.

00:39:34.160 Even Jay-Z, who's like 67 years old now and worth $50 billion.

00:39:38.820 I might be exaggerating slightly.

00:39:39.860 But he's still, when he's rapping, he's talking about when he sold crack 46 years ago.

00:39:46.180 That's all he's got to talk about.

00:39:48.420 He's been rich forever.

00:39:50.020 He's been a rich multimillionaire for way longer than he was poor.

00:39:56.860 And, but he, the only thing he could think to talk about, the only thing in the world that he finds worthy of discussion still is bragging about when he was selling crack and also bragging about how rich he is now.

00:40:08.820 That's it.

00:40:11.240 Oftentimes that's just, that's how rap music is.

00:40:13.640 That's all it really has to offer.

00:40:15.660 There may be some exceptions, but not many.

00:40:18.900 And so that's the difference.

00:40:20.180 Rap music presents itself as not fictional, even when it is.

00:40:24.400 And you are, and the rapper is explicitly, directly romanticizing and encouraging this behavior.

00:40:34.240 Film is different because it's clearly fictional most of the time.

00:40:37.380 And in many cases, even if there's a bad guy doing bad things in the movie, it's not being, it's not being encouraged.

00:40:44.380 Like that, the bad guy is the bad guy, and he's being presented that way.

00:40:49.100 And I think that's probably the case oftentimes in video games, though not always.

00:40:52.640 I also don't play video games, so it's hard for me to speak.

00:40:54.580 But I would, I would probably say video games belong more in the film category.

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00:42:35.560 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:42:39.960 Today for our daily cancellation, we turn our gaze to a woman called Tess Holliday, 1.00

00:42:43.940 a morbidly obese woman who identifies as a model.

00:42:47.600 Holliday has been a plus-size model and body acceptance advocate for many years.

00:42:51.880 She feels very strongly that obesity is a wonderful thing, and we should encourage more of it.

00:42:56.260 Basically, Tess Holliday will be dead before the age of 60,

00:42:58.720 and she very much wants you to join her in this act of suicide.

00:43:02.380 And I understand that may seem like a harsh way of putting it,

00:43:04.480 but encouraging morbid obesity is an awful, dangerous thing to do.

00:43:08.620 And I think we need to be very exceedingly clear about that.

00:43:11.780 Tess Holliday is easily 200 pounds overweight from the looks of it, maybe more than that. 1.00

00:43:17.180 Nobody gets to that point naturally.

00:43:18.820 Nobody is born that way.

00:43:20.020 That isn't a thyroid condition.

00:43:21.500 You have to spend many years eating a lot of food

00:43:24.060 and getting very little exercise in order to achieve that sort of size.

00:43:27.760 And that's why we have in the past and should continue to put a stigma on morbid obesity.

00:43:33.400 Yeah, there should be a stigma.

00:43:34.960 It's not the look that we're stigmatizing.

00:43:37.260 It's sloth and gluttony, which is what leads to morbid obesity.

00:43:42.460 Why do we stigmatize sloth and gluttony? 0.69

00:43:44.380 Well, because those qualities will make you miserable and unhappy and unhealthy and eventually kill you.

00:43:50.580 So, yeah, we should stigmatize it.

00:43:52.180 So, when we say that Tess Holliday is an obesity advocate,

00:43:55.660 what we really mean is that she advocates the behaviors,

00:43:58.380 the self-destructive suicidal behaviors that lead to obesity.

00:44:02.840 And for that, she should be thoroughly shamed and condemned.

00:44:07.280 She doesn't care about body positivity anyway, much less self-love. 0.99

00:44:10.560 She is merely trying to justify and feel better about her own vices 0.98

00:44:14.220 by encouraging others to join her in them.

00:44:17.620 Misery loves company.

00:44:18.600 It's a truth as old as time.

00:44:19.880 Now, these are all true statements about Tess Holliday,

00:44:22.780 but we were never supposed to say any of that out loud.

00:44:26.420 And now we're even more so supposed to shut up about it,

00:44:29.240 given that Tess Holliday has found a new way to make a victim of herself. 1.00

00:44:33.540 The morbidly obese woman announced on Twitter a few days ago 1.00

00:44:36.020 that she's in recovery for anorexia.

00:44:39.880 And we have to say that her recovery appears to be going pretty well.

00:44:44.120 Here's what she said, reading from the Daily Wire article.

00:44:46.060 It says,

00:44:46.320 This plus-size model and fat activist, Tess Holliday, revealed last week 0.86

00:44:49.660 that she has anorexia and is in recovery.

00:44:52.860 Quote,

00:44:53.140 I'm anorexic and I'm in recovery.

00:44:54.640 Holliday wrote on Twitter on May 1st.

00:44:56.720 I'm not ashamed to say it out loud anymore.

00:44:58.360 I'm the result of a culture that celebrates thinness and equates that to worth.

00:45:01.540 But I get to write my own narrative now.

00:45:03.720 I'm finally able to care for a body that I've punished my entire life,

00:45:06.920 and I am finally free.

00:45:09.300 And then she continued,

00:45:10.220 Responding to criticism concerning Holliday's body acceptance activism,

00:45:29.280 she said,

00:45:29.560 To everyone saying that I can't possibly love myself and have an eating disorder,

00:45:33.640 that is the actual definition of loving myself,

00:45:36.220 being able to prioritize myself and be in recovery.

00:45:39.720 I'm more self-aware than any of my critics, but you know, y'all go off.

00:45:43.820 In an Instagram post, Holliday similarly talked about her weight 0.88

00:45:46.260 and scolded people who tell her that she looks healthy lately.

00:45:50.180 Quote,

00:45:50.420 To everyone that keeps saying you're looking healthy lately or you're losing weight,

00:45:53.500 keep it up.

00:45:54.540 Stop.

00:45:55.420 Don't comment on my weight or perceived health.

00:45:58.740 Keep it to yourself.

00:45:59.900 Thanks.

00:46:01.380 Periods in between all those words.

00:46:05.200 Okay.

00:46:05.820 Now, yeah,

00:46:06.320 don't comment on Tess Holliday's weight.

00:46:08.720 None of your business.

00:46:10.180 I mean,

00:46:10.440 Tess Holliday poses half naked in front of cameras every day, 0.83

00:46:13.240 talks about her weight, 0.99

00:46:14.460 brags about her body,

00:46:15.440 constantly shares all kinds of information and imagery with the public

00:46:18.260 that none of us asked to know or see.

00:46:21.480 I mean,

00:46:21.660 we're trying to go about our lives,

00:46:23.240 and Tess Holliday is always running up with a bullhorn shouting, 1.00

00:46:25.680 Hey guys,

00:46:26.620 let me tell you more about my body.

00:46:28.080 Anyone want to hear?

00:46:29.860 And yet it's none of our business.

00:46:31.600 We aren't supposed to talk about it.

00:46:33.480 Well,

00:46:33.620 perhaps Tess Holliday needs to choose a lane here. 1.00

00:46:36.580 If you're a private person living your everyday life,

00:46:39.000 minding your own business,

00:46:40.040 and somebody comes up to you as you walk down the street and tells you that you're fat,

00:46:45.200 then sure, 0.97

00:46:46.040 that person's probably a bully.

00:46:47.540 But if you go up to someone else who's minding their own business and say,

00:46:51.880 Hi,

00:46:52.180 I'm fat.

00:46:52.720 Isn't that great?

00:46:54.240 They are well within their rights to respond and say,

00:46:56.560 No,

00:46:56.780 ma'am,

00:46:56.980 it's not great.

00:46:57.620 It's not attractive.

00:46:58.280 It's not healthy. 0.50

00:46:59.200 And you're going to die soon. 0.63

00:47:01.600 You might not like that answer, 0.97

00:47:03.040 but you brought it up.

00:47:05.100 Don't want to hear the answer?

00:47:06.700 Then don't bring it up.

00:47:09.600 This is the rule.

00:47:11.480 Anything you say to me,

00:47:13.600 anything you bring up to me,

00:47:15.960 I am allowed to have an opinion about.

00:47:19.100 If you don't want to hear my opinion,

00:47:21.120 don't tell me.

00:47:22.780 If you don't want to hear the public's opinion,

00:47:25.100 don't tell the public.

00:47:28.760 But what about this claim that she's anorexic?

00:47:31.080 I mean,

00:47:31.260 how can that be?

00:47:32.560 Good Morning America did a segment on the issue a few days ago

00:47:35.240 where they interviewed Tess Holliday,

00:47:37.200 and here's what she said about it.

00:47:38.980 This morning,

00:47:40.260 supermodel Tess Holliday revealing her struggle with anorexia.

00:47:44.180 The mother of two saying she was recently diagnosed by a psychologist,

00:47:48.000 but has ultimately been struggling with disordered eating most of her life.

00:47:52.180 I always thought that I overate.

00:47:55.520 But then people in my life would say,

00:47:57.520 oh yeah,

00:47:57.840 I eat more than Tess.

00:47:58.860 And it was almost like I wore it as a badge of honor.

00:48:02.260 Known for loving and celebrating her curves as a body positive activist,

00:48:06.600 Holliday has been receiving support for her honesty for many,

00:48:10.260 but also being questioned by some online about how she could love her body

00:48:15.540 and also have an eating disorder.

00:48:17.880 I've had a lot of messages from folks that are anorexic,

00:48:21.620 that are livid and angry because they feel like I'm lying.

00:48:26.520 I am plus size,

00:48:27.900 but advocating for diversity in larger bodies.

00:48:31.800 And so I think for people hearing me say I'm anorexic was really jarring.

00:48:39.800 Holliday's dietician,

00:48:41.080 Anna Sweeney says,

00:48:42.140 if you think that most eating disorders are visible conditions,

00:48:45.760 you're wrong. 0.83

00:48:46.840 Eating disorders don't have to look a certain way.

00:48:49.920 I understand that people look at me and I don't fit what we have seen presented as,

00:48:55.660 you know,

00:48:56.620 the diagnosis for anorexia.

00:48:58.700 But then for me,

00:49:00.460 that tells me that there's a larger problem,

00:49:03.380 which I've been actually saying for years is that we have a lack of diversity and representation in the world.

00:49:11.540 Oh my gosh.

00:49:13.240 We need more diversity and representation in eating disorders.

00:49:17.080 That's what she just said.

00:49:20.920 For too long,

00:49:21.580 skinny women have been getting all the anorexic attention. 1.00

00:49:24.940 Tess Holliday believes that she's owed some of that attention too.

00:49:28.360 Why should they be getting this attention?

00:49:30.320 I'm here.

00:49:30.980 I want attention too.

00:49:33.240 She believes that she's owed attention for being too fat and too skinny at the same time.

00:49:38.560 She also seems to think she's stumbled on a good excuse here.

00:49:41.100 She says that she thought she thought she was overeating.

00:49:44.260 And frankly,

00:49:44.760 the evidence for that theory is pretty good.

00:49:46.480 I have to say,

00:49:47.040 but then she realized that she's anorexic.

00:49:49.800 So if anything,

00:49:50.480 she's under eating. 0.99

00:49:52.880 It's a clever trick.

00:49:53.960 You have to admit.

00:49:55.240 Now,

00:49:55.720 obviously a 300 plus pound woman would not qualify under any coherent definition of the term as anorexic. 1.00

00:50:01.760 The very term anorexia comes from the Greek meaning without appetite.

00:50:07.080 That's what anorexia means without appetite.

00:50:09.520 That is evidently not Tess Holliday's problem.

00:50:15.600 But anorexia is a mental illness.

00:50:17.800 And as we've discussed in this segment a few times recently,

00:50:20.620 mental illness is a category experiencing its own rapid inflation, shall we say.

00:50:26.500 A great many mental illnesses are simply medical labels for normal human behaviors.

00:50:32.560 And even many of the ones that describe some kind of legitimate condition have been expanded now into near meaninglessness.

00:50:39.980 Anorexia is the perfect example.

00:50:41.780 Listen to the latest definition of anorexia provided by the website nationaleatingdisorders.org.

00:50:47.280 Okay, this is what they say.

00:50:49.380 Quoting now.

00:50:50.660 To be diagnosed with anorexia, or rather anorexia nervosa, according to the DSM-5,

00:50:55.920 the following criteria must be met.

00:50:59.080 One, restriction of energy intake relative to requirements leading to a significantly low body weight

00:51:05.000 in the context of age, sex, developmental trajectory, and physical health.

00:51:08.540 Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat even though underweight.

00:51:12.460 Those are the two actually.

00:51:13.180 So there's the low body fat, and then also the intense fear of becoming fat.

00:51:18.560 Those are the two classic definitions for anorexia.

00:51:22.840 So far, so sensible.

00:51:24.440 That's what you imagine when you think of an anorexic person, right? 0.98

00:51:27.740 Underweight, little appetite, not eating much, afraid of getting fat, etc.

00:51:34.260 But then there's the third definition added recently.

00:51:38.340 Also this.

00:51:40.220 Quote.

00:51:40.420 Disturbance in the way in which one's body weight or shape is experienced.

00:51:45.860 Undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation.

00:51:49.140 Or denial of the seriousness of the current low body weight.

00:51:53.720 Well, there it is.

00:51:55.680 Undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation. 0.94

00:51:59.940 In other words, everyone is anorexic.

00:52:02.700 Did you know that? 1.00

00:52:03.560 You're anorexic. 0.91

00:52:04.400 So am I. 0.73

00:52:04.840 We all are.

00:52:05.880 Welcome to the club.

00:52:06.720 Every single person on earth is anorexic because it could be argued that all of us, at least one point or another, have been overly concerned about our body weight or shape.

00:52:17.200 What counts as undue influence?

00:52:19.700 I mean, how much influence is due?

00:52:21.520 And who decides that?

00:52:22.520 And who decides when it's undue?

00:52:24.660 Well, nobody does.

00:52:25.460 It's all subjective.

00:52:26.340 It's all arbitrary.

00:52:27.100 It's a one-size-fits-all label.

00:52:29.780 That's the point.

00:52:31.800 We live in a culture where many people are desperate to be victims.

00:52:35.320 Desperate to relieve themselves of the burden of agency and self-determination.

00:52:40.420 Unfortunately, the medical industry is more than happy to oblige.

00:52:43.940 Which is how Tess Holliday gets to be a morbid, obese, body positivity advocate who brags about her obesity, yet at the same time is not responsible for her obesity because somehow it's a symptom of a disorder which, for everyone else, causes a catastrophic loss of body weight. 0.98

00:52:57.240 It doesn't make any sense at all.

00:53:00.580 No sense.

00:53:01.860 But it's not supposed to.

00:53:04.120 This is what makes Tess Holliday feel the best about herself and her choices, and that's all that matters.

00:53:10.360 That's all that matters.

00:53:13.600 So, for that reason, we have to say that Tess Holliday today is canceled.

00:53:21.280 And we'll leave it there.

00:53:22.540 And, you know, for good measure, we're going to cancel the DSM-5 for, like, the fourth time in the last week and a half.

00:53:28.160 I didn't even plan this out.

00:53:29.200 We spent much of the last week talking about this problem of how mental illnesses are being expanded, and then this is the story today.

00:53:37.260 There you go.

00:53:38.780 Hate to say I told you so.

00:53:39.820 Actually, I don't.

00:53:40.440 I love it.

00:53:40.880 But, anyway, Tess Holliday is canceled. 0.98

00:53:42.580 We'll leave it there for today.

00:53:44.220 Have a great day.

00:53:45.260 Godspeed.

00:53:45.540 We'll be right back.

00:54:15.540 Our technical director is Austin Stevens.

00:54:18.960 Production manager, Pavel Vodosky.

00:54:20.980 The show is edited by Sasha Tolmachov.

00:54:23.380 Our audio is mixed by Mike Koromina.

00:54:25.400 Hair and makeup is done by Nika Geneva.

00:54:27.760 And our production coordinator is McKenna Waters.

00:54:30.080 The Matt Wall Show is a Daily Wire production.

00:54:31.980 Copyright Daily Wire 2021.

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The Matt Walsh Show - May 11, 2021

Ep. 719 - Spoiled, Ungrateful Brats

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