One day before the premiere of What is a Woman, we'll talk about a few stories that highlight why this film is necessary. Leah Thomas was interviewed by Good Morning America where he defended his decision to steal opportunities from female swimmers. In an exclusive clip from the film, a female swimmer on Thomas' team reveals to me what it was really like behind the scenes. Also, the mask comes off as the left pushes for a ban on handguns. They just instated one in Canada, in fact. Meanwhile, new revelations about the Texas shooter show just how many red flags were ignored before he committed his massacre.
00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Wall Show, one day out from the premiere of What is a Woman, we'll talk about a few stories that highlight why this film is necessary.
00:00:06.300Speaking of which, Leah Thomas was interviewed by Good Morning America, where he defended his decision to steal opportunities from female swimmers.
00:00:12.480But in an exclusive clip from What is a Woman, which we'll play today, a female swimmer on Thomas' team reveals to me what it was really like behind the scenes.
00:00:19.620Also, the mask comes off as the left pushes for a ban on handguns. They just instated one in Canada, in fact.
00:00:25.160Meanwhile, new revelations about the Texas shooter show just how many red flags were ignored before he committed his massacres,
00:00:31.420how many different ways this could have been prevented without even talking about gun laws.
00:00:35.040We'll talk about all of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:08:47.380There's usually lots of drugs and alcohol involved.
00:08:49.480That's why until recently, drag was the almost exclusive province of gay nightclubs.
00:08:55.000There's no morally decent or rational defense of involving children in this in any capacity.
00:09:01.320And that fact can be easily demonstrated by simply noting one thing.
00:09:04.660If everything else was the same with these drag shows, everything's the same, except that the men pretending to be women were actually women.
00:09:16.520If this was female burlesque rather than female mimicking burlesque, nearly everyone would agree that it shouldn't be anywhere near children.
00:09:25.760I mean, imagine if a middle school hired Las Vegas burlesque performers to come dance for 12-year-old boys.
00:13:19.920And I have a little bit of a rebuttal to play as well.
00:13:22.380But first, let's listen to Good Morning America and Leah Thomas talk about, well, in fact, what it says on the screen is Leah Thomas breaks her, quote, unquote, silence.
00:13:48.940And I became a lot weaker and a lot slower in the water.
00:13:52.560After following NCAA guidelines of a year of hormone therapy to change gender categories, Thomas started her senior year on the women's team.
00:14:02.520But her success in the water was met with outrage leading up to the NCAA championships.
00:14:07.580Her critics say she jumped in the rankings between the men's and the women's team.
00:14:11.140There are some who look at the data and suggest that you're enjoying a competitive advantage.
00:19:53.960Leah's performance helps the University of Pennsylvania swim team.
00:19:57.740The feeling of winning doesn't feel as good anymore because it feels tainted.
00:20:01.200There was a lot of things you couldn't talk about that were very concerning, like a locker room situation.
00:20:07.100If you even brought up concerns about it, you were transphobic.
00:20:10.480If you even bring up the fact that Leah's swimming might not be fair, you were immediately shut down with being called a hateful person or transphobic.
00:20:21.240The coaches don't sit everyone down and acknowledge what everyone's really upset about.
00:20:25.800So Penn actually brought in people high up in the athletic department to talk to us.
00:20:29.840They brought in someone from, like, the LGBTQ center.
00:20:32.340They brought in someone from the psychological services.
00:20:35.160So you, you're upset about what's happening, and so you need psychological help.
00:20:39.440Yeah, and they told us in this meeting, they said, look, we understand there's an array of emotions, but Leah's swimming is a non-negotiable.
00:20:46.080However, we can help you make that okay, that's what we're here for.
00:20:50.080Now, on the left, they're very fond of the term gaslighting, and we hear it all the time.
00:20:59.420And usually, you get accused of gaslighting if you just say something that's plainly correct and obvious, and then you're accused of gaslighting.
00:21:08.980Well, this, that, what you just heard there, that's gaslighting.
00:21:11.500What the girls experienced on their team is gaslighting, where if you have a problem, if you're uncomfortable being around a man in your locker room, if you don't want to see a penis in a locker room,
00:21:26.180or if you've done all this work to this point in your swimming career, and you don't like the idea that now you're being overshadowed and having this opportunity stolen from you,
00:21:36.440then you are the one with the problem.
00:21:39.040You need to go get psychological counseling.
00:24:00.980He said a .22 caliber bullet will lodge in the lung, and we can probably get it out.
00:24:07.180We may be able to get it and save the life.
00:24:09.600A 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body.
00:24:13.240So the idea of this high-caliber weapon is that there is simply no rational basis for it in terms of what we see about self-protection, hunting.
00:24:28.460I mean, I just, I remember, the Constitution of the Second Amendment was never absolute.
00:24:35.560Oh, the Second Amendment was never absolute.
00:24:37.500It's kind of hard to hear what he's saying there with the helicopter in the background.
00:24:39.840But the good news is it doesn't really matter because it's all nonsense.
00:24:43.240And he says that there's no rational basis for using a 9mm in self-defense.
00:24:51.580It'll blow your lung out of your body.
00:24:54.200Now, the defense of this statement from Joe Biden is that he didn't know what he was talking about and that he was confused.
00:25:01.500Which, anytime somebody offers that as a defense of Biden, I'm willing to believe that.
00:25:07.580I'm willing to believe that anything he says, he was really confused because he's confused about everything.
00:28:03.960But Canada has fallen, it's done, it's finished.
00:28:06.260And if you live in Canada and you cherish your liberties and you're a rational person and you cherish freedom and moral decency and you're not a degenerate, then you need to leave.
00:28:22.320And granted, the situation in the United States of America, especially with our government, is not much better.
00:28:30.560And I would like to say, it would be nice if I could say, well, no, stay in Canada and fight, fight for your country, fight for freedom, you know, try to push back against all this stuff.
00:28:40.980And if that's what you do, then that's very noble anyway, if you're one of the few fighting back against it.
00:28:46.840But the problem, though, the reason I say that Canada is just finished is that most of the people appear to be fully on board with this stuff.
00:29:28.340It's almost a losing game in a certain way to engage with this to begin with, because it's all built on a false premise.
00:29:35.160There's no reason to be, why are you doing this right now?
00:29:38.640I mean, I know why, but why are you doing, why right now are you banning handguns?
00:29:43.320Well, we know the reason is that they're capitalizing on the tragedy in Texas.
00:29:51.460But why should that, like, what happened in Texas?
00:29:54.780Why should that have any bearing at all on gun laws or on your, whatever your opinion was of guns before, and gun laws before, why would it change?
00:30:08.220Because we, of course, always have known that these sorts of things can happen and do happen.
00:30:17.040And unfortunately, in this fallen, terrible world that we live in, they have happened since the dawn of civilization.
00:30:22.780Not with guns before guns were invented, but that's the point.
00:30:27.520Even before guns existed, the world was a horrifically violent place.
00:30:32.440In fact, probably, you could argue, much more violent than it is now.
00:30:35.020So we've always known that, and it's a terrible thing.
00:30:41.460But to see one example, one terrible example of violence, one outburst like this, and then why would that change it?
00:30:50.840Because this, if you're a rational person, this should have already been built into your calculus and that you know that this is, that this happens in the world.
00:31:16.440We should be taking actual, real, direct actions to stop this sort of thing from happening.
00:31:21.760And there were direct things that could have happened in Texas that would have stopped this,
00:31:26.600that have nothing to do with legislation, and they should have happened and they didn't.
00:31:29.460But what I'm trying to figure out is why, because of this, how that would affect your opinion of guns in general or gun law.
00:31:42.220So they're doing this just to take advantage.
00:31:45.380This is something they've always wanted to do, kind of pretending that it's in response to what happened in Texas.
00:31:49.720But really, this is just something they've always wanted to do.
00:31:51.460And they're taking advantage of the tragedy, of course, to do it.
00:31:55.660And the other thing that we see, as always, one other note about that, too.
00:31:58.320And I know this point is often made, but it cannot be made enough, which is that there is this real irony here where the people who advocate the most for banning guns also tend to be the most skeptical of law enforcement.
00:32:25.600So you're very, very skeptical of law enforcement.
00:32:28.760And if you're on the left, then you're prone to say that law enforcement are a bunch of murderous psychopaths out on the prowl, hunting and killing innocent black men all the time.
00:32:42.840Now, you're not right about that, but that's what you think.
00:32:45.380And so your response to that is to disarm?
00:32:48.360So you want the only armed people to be law enforcement who you don't trust at all?
00:32:55.340And, of course, in reality, it's going to be worse than that because if you have your way, then the only armed people are law enforcement and the bad guys because they don't care about the laws and they're going to do what they want anyway.
00:33:07.140So the only people you have actually effectively disarmed, of course, are the good guys, are the people who care about the law and are going to follow it.
00:33:18.220And the other thing we always see after mass shootings, of course, is you have the kind of virtue signalers, and this is a common trend now, who will destroy their guns for some reason.
00:33:32.180So there was this video that went viral yesterday of a guy listening to the names of the children who were killed in Texas while taking a sledgehammer to his AR-15.
00:34:20.100This is just so, it's actually, you know, you want to laugh at a spectacle like that, but at the same time, he's playing the names of the actual victims.
00:34:30.860So it's not, it goes from being stupid and unintentionally hilarious to really quite grotesque, given that he's, you know, he's got the victims' names that he's using to show off his fake virtue here, which I will never understand this.
00:34:49.120And I say that rhetorically because I do understand it because this is all about virtue signaling.
00:34:52.180But if you know, like if you have a gun and you know that you're never going to go on a mass shooting spree, then how have you made the world a safer place by getting rid of or destroying your gun?
00:35:08.200So if I'm going to take you seriously, let's just, you know what, fine, it's not a virtue signal, actually.
00:35:12.820This guy, I'll take him at his word, I'll take him seriously, I'll pay him that respect.
00:35:17.680Not a virtue signal, he's being completely serious, which means that he thinks he's, that he has the potential within himself to commit a mass shooting.
00:35:30.560If he's doing this seriously and sincerely to make the world a safer place, then that would mean that he has judged about himself that he is a danger to society.
00:35:40.900I can only assume that because otherwise, you know, I have guns, I'm not going to destroy them because of a mass shooting because I'm not ever going to use them for a mass shooting.
00:35:52.120There's a 0.0% chance of that happening.
00:35:56.680No, I have them and if I ever use them outside of the gun range, I'm going to be using it to make sure that I or my family don't become victims of a crime like that.
00:36:10.900So, I guess if you feel, if you see something like this happen and you feel like you need to destroy your guns because you don't trust yourself, then good.
00:36:45.160It says, disturbing new video obtained by the Post shows demented Rob Elementary School shooter Salvador Ramos grinning as he holds up a bag of blood-soaked dead cats.
00:36:54.460The deranged 18-year-old gunman is seen smiling in the undated footage while sitting in the passenger seat of a pal's car, holding up a clear plastic bag with at least two bloodied cats visible inside.
00:37:06.120This is, and then there's some interviews with people that knew him.
00:37:11.760David Chervino Jr., related to the shooter's grandmother, said,
00:37:16.280The shooter was known for herding cats.
00:37:59.540And then very quickly after that, we're told, oh, no, well, actually, he murdered cats, and he was known for doing that.
00:38:07.740And he did it on film, and people knew about it.
00:38:12.560Okay, so remember how I said that what happened, the tragedy in Texas, could have been easily avoided by taking some direct, simple steps that have nothing to do with legislation?
00:38:28.300So you charge him with a crime for doing that, and then he's not going to be able to legally own guns.
00:38:36.520And if you think that the law is going to stop him, well, then there you go.
00:38:39.540Well, or better yet, if he's known for doing this and known to be a dangerous person who has not just, it's not just that he's given off weird vibes.
00:38:51.540It's that he's actually acted out in violent ways and made threats and everything else.
00:38:58.660Well, then how about you take him and you put him in an institution?
00:39:54.100You know, I know from experience when I was a kid, as a teenager, you know, because my parents were involved and were not stupid and were not oblivious, I couldn't hide like anything from them.
00:40:04.040I couldn't sneak something into the house without it being discovered by them.
00:40:11.040Much less, I mean, how do you have a whole arsenal of guns and you're, you know, the people who are supposed to be supervising you don't know about it?
00:40:22.180Some basic supervision could have been done or just enforcing the laws that exist.
00:40:27.620And absent of any of that, lock the door and have security in the school.
00:42:07.700But then again, we allow 82-year-olds to run the country and be president.
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00:44:35.720Frank says, the fact that mothers wanted to run into the line of fire and not the cops highlights your point that our kids don't belong to the village.
00:44:43.020And that, in fact, is a really good point, although kids don't belong to the village, they don't belong to the government.
00:44:51.560And yet the village and the government do have certain responsibilities.
00:44:57.200Just like the police had a responsibility in Texas to go into that building and save those kids, and they didn't do it.
00:45:03.200That just yet again goes to show exactly as you say.
00:45:05.760You know, there are a lot of things that people these days expect the government to do for their kids that really that's not the government's role.
00:45:17.540But even where it is the government's role, and they are supposed to do it, still so often they fail.
00:52:17.340Well, my answer is as simple as theirs is distorted because truth matters.
00:52:20.840And because the destructive consequences being put upon women and children for abandoning truth are not an imaginary construct, but a painful reality.
00:52:40.460Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:52:45.740Several months ago, we discussed one of the hottest new trends among young people, especially on TikTok.
00:52:50.160It's the coolest new thing, multiple personality disorder, or as they call it now, dissociative identity disorder.
00:52:55.860And just on TikTok alone, there are thousands of DID influencers raking in millions of views as they talk about their alleged experiences with this condition.
00:53:04.920And they even demonstrate what it looks like when they switch from one personality to another.
00:53:09.240You know, they put that on camera, too, because that's how the illness works, they claim.
00:53:15.660Like, hey, look, everyone, I just switched into a new personality.
00:53:18.560Coincidentally, this new one is just as insufferable as all my other ones.
00:53:21.180Like, I don't have any good ones, but, yeah, it's a whole new one.
00:53:25.560Dissociative identity disorder, in which a patient supposedly has multiple distinct personalities, multiple consciences, basically, inside one head, has seen various waves of popularity, was frequently diagnosed in the 80s and 90s, and then fell out of favor for a couple of decades, only to have seen a massive resurgence in the last few years.
00:53:42.420This has also been the trajectory of, by the way, baggy jeans.
00:53:46.540And I'm not sure if there's any connection there, but I will say that it's never a good sign when a mental illness follows the same course as a fashion trend.
00:53:53.700Although it's to be expected, as mental illnesses are themselves fashionable and trendy.
00:53:58.020And that's helped along not only by social media, but by the news media as well.
00:54:01.580So, this weekend, there were multiple headlines floating around about a guy named Leonard Stockel, who claims to have 10 unique personalities, all with their own names and ages.
00:54:14.080A man has revealed he suffers from a rare disorder where his identity is split into 10 different personalities, all with different names, ages, and opinions.
00:54:22.780Leonard Stockel has been diagnosed with dissociate identity disorder, a rare psychiatric condition that develops in early childhood and is a result of severe trauma.
00:54:29.820Stockel says the 10 personalities are Kovu, age 4, Hector, 8, Anna, age 16, Cosmo, 17, Ash, 18, Jesse, 19, Leo, 21, Billy, 23, Liv, 24, and Red, 26.
00:54:46.020The 22-year-old calls his collective personalities his system, with a group of identities sharing one body in each distinct form of consciousness, is the person or alter.
00:54:55.580Leo calls himself the host of the system, meaning that they are the person who has control over the body most often.
00:55:03.180Now, Leo explains that he had something of a psychotic break from the stress of taking his exams last year, and that's what led to him getting diagnosed with DID.
00:55:12.980He also says that he's in a romantic relationship with a guy named Massimo, who I think is a real guy, like a physical real guy.
00:55:19.200But if this split personality story is legitimate, it raises some troubling questions about Massimo.
00:55:24.880I mean, given that four of Leo's personalities are underage, and one is a toddler.
00:55:29.920Now, speaking of those other personalities, he does tell us a little bit more about them.