The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1152 - The Hard Truth That Jazz Jennings Needs To Hear

Episode Date: April 26, 2023

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Today, the Matt Wall Show, Jazz Jennings is one of the most prominent trans-identified people in the country. He's also an abuse victim who has been brainwashed by the evil adults in his life, especially by his mother. Jazz posted a video criticizing me this week, and I'll give my response today. Also, a woman accusing Tucker Carlson of creating a hostile work environment has been doing the media rounds. We'll analyze her claims today. And we have an all-time classic to add to the catalog of terrible Camilla Harris speeches. Finally, companies are sending opt-out emails to save customers from having to receive customers from having to traumatic Mother's Day emails. What's that all about? We'll talk about it and much more today

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And we know that about him, and we know much else about him, because his parents not only chose to make him trans from a young age, but also chose to make him a public figure from a young age. We're told that Jennings was first diagnosed with gender dysphoria at the age of four, though his mother insists that he identified as a girl before that, before he was even old enough to talk. Somehow he was identifying as a girl. By six years old, the child was already doing the media rounds. His mother shuffled him from one interview to the next. He was featured on 2020, the Rosie O'Donnell Show, which existed at the time, as well had him. By the age of of seven, Jazz's parents had established their own foundation, which is the Trans Kid Purple Rainbow Foundation.

And this foundation was made so that they could assist trans youth and also, as it happens, receive donations. Coincidence there that they started doing the media rounds and then they started a foundation where they could take donations. You know, total coincidence. Barely in a middle school, Jazz started in his first documentary. I Am Jazz, a Family in Transition, premiered on the Oprah Winfrey Network in 2011. a couple years later, Jazz had another 2020 interview, a follow-up. Two years after that, while still a child, jazz quote-unquote co-wrote a children's book about his life titled, I Am Jazz. And that was in the same year that Jazz Jennings began receiving awards and accolades

and recognition from organizations like Glad and Time Magazine and many others. A year later, the Jazz Jennings reality TV show debuted on TLC when he was still a kid, followed by the Jazz Jennings memoir. And while he was being constantly filmed and documented with this spotlight shining on him, he was also at the same time being led from one step in the medical transition process to the next, starting with, of course, the chemical castration drugs at the age of 11, followed by hormones, and then genital mutilation at the age of 17. Now, yes, we're told, right, that nobody's performing actual surgeries on kids. That's not happening. And yet, and yet one of the most prominent trans-identified people in the country had surgery when he was a kid. That was just the

first surgery, by the way. By the age of 20, Jazz had undergone three, quote-unquote, gender confirmation surgeries. So he still wasn't old enough to legally purchase a beer, Bud Light, presumably, and yet he had been taking drugs for nearly a decade at that point, and had been getting one gender transition surgery after another for the past three years before that. Jazz's mother was there every step of the way, of course, helping him along. And that, quote, help, would often take on a very aggressive and horrendously disturbing forms. Listen to this clip from the reality show just a few years ago. Shortly after Jazz, God, I think this was his first surgery, and here's his mother.

But with her, I'm worried about, like, her mental well-being and her dilation. The minute she leaves my house, we have a dilation. problem. That is a concern. When you don't have that watchful eye, they tend to go back to old patterns. I have woken jazz out of a dead sleep and taken the dilator and put the lubrication on it

and said, here, you take this and you put it in your vagina, if not I will. But jazz is bad, even when I'm home once a day. I would be so mad if she goes away to college and that thing seals up. I rank her neck. Can you imagine?

Can we imagine? No, we can't. We cannot imagine any of this yet it's happening. Yes, that is the mother of Jazz Jennings talking about how she forcibly dilates her son's fake neo vagina in the middle of the night. You know, normal mom stuff. And this never-ending process of dilation and lubrication is necessary to prevent the quote-unquote vagina from closing up because it's not a vagina. It is an open wound, which is carved into the place where the male genitalia used to be. This is what was done to Jazz Jennings at the age of 17. He was butchered, turned into a lifelong medical patient in pursuit of something that he can never attain, searching for a female identity that will

always be out of reach. And this explains why most recently jazz was on camera, on the reality show, expressing deep and profound despair and telling his mother that he, quote unquote, doesn't feel like himself. Listen. So, um, are you feeling like, like? like you wanted to start talking about. Are you okay? I'm okay. I'm gonna cry. You know I can't get out of my head.

I know, no, listen. It just doesn't stop. It's okay, give me home, it's okay. I know what you're going to. We've been there before. No, it still doesn't stop now. And I'm already going back to negative. But more you're talking about yourself,

it gets harder. You're digging in and it's making you put a magnifying glass on what's already difficult as it is. So this is hard for you, I know. And you don't, we don't want to push you any. I'm the one doing it. I know your own worst enemy. I feel kind of all over the place,

and my mind is very cluttered and not clear. And I really want to have that clarity. I really want to understand myself and be able to read my own soul and what I want. And it's just very challenging. And I think I'm kind of breaking down a little bit and spiraling into negativity. I just want to feel like myself.

Like that's it. I don't care. All I want is to be happy and feel like me, and I don't feel like me yet. I know what you're going through, she says. Oh, really? Do you? Did your mom take you to Dr. Frankenstein to be genitally butchered as well? So you know what that's like? Of course, this is terrible to watch, unfathomably sad. And I feel nothing but sympathy and

compassion for Jazz Jennings. He was subjected to a lifelong brainwashing campaign, which began practically from birth and which led to permanent physical changes in his body long before he could have possibly had any chance to realize what was being done to him. He is a victim, though like many abuse victims, he is at this point in his life not able to see it, not able to see the fact that he's an abuse victim, or at least not able to accept it. That's what came through yesterday when Jazz published a video on his own YouTube channel, responding to a number of conservative commentators, including myself, Jazz reacts to a segment of this show from a few weeks ago where I am myself responding to that clip we just watched of jazz expressing despair and apparent regret.

And in his response, he says that I've misconstruited and he insists that the surgery brought him happiness and joy. And then we get to this part. Listen. So now let's go to this same person. Okay. I'm not even going to name him. And this is what he says later in the interview. This is the person, everyone, who said, jazz is so unhaping. happy and it's because of this is what he says.

You ready? Mm-hmm, let's watch. And I want you to respond to this and maybe whatever you want to say to this. Okay. You ready? Mm-hmm. Mother brainwashed this kid into doing this and now she's going to keep that brainwash go, brainwash.

So he may never fully come into terms of what happened, who, at least as long as his disgusting the wretch of the mother is still alive. It's just really hard to watch that. I don't know why people like, are. so intent on bringing our community down. Like why do you care? Let us just be. Let us be happy. Let's be ourselves. We're not hurting anyone. You know, we need to celebrate each other in our diversity, not bring each other down. And anytime you're wishing death on anyone, I think you need to take a step back and look at yourself and your, you know, whatever's going on with you. My mom is not the abuser. People like him are the ones abusing us by saying these awful negative things about our community. You know, we are a attack and it is clear in this video that there are people out there who want hurt us who want to see us fail who want to see us be miserable and that's really f***ed up because we're not wishing that upon anyone we just want people to

open their eyes and see that we are beautiful everyone is beautiful and everyone deserves to be their authentic self our messages are about love about positivity and just to see someone like this saying such negative things it's you know it's hurtful it sucks my whole life I faced bullying I have faced people, you know, attacking me and my identity. And I just wish people would let me be. You know, why do you... Oh, it's so frustrating.

Now, I was going to respond to this just sort of in general terms, but I think instead I'd like to be more direct. Jazz has addressed me directly, asked some questions, and I'd like to answer them. So, jazz, first of all, I understand why you're frustrated that people are talking about you. And from your perspective, involving themselves in your private life. You are absolutely right that your conversation with your mother that we saw there about your own deep emotional and psychological pains should not have been a public spectacle. I never should have seen that or heard it.

Nobody should have. But I didn't make it a public spectacle. And I didn't make you into a public figure. Your mom did that. She did it way before you could have possibly chosen this, chosen any of this for yourself. She had you on 2020 and starring an open. Oprah Winfrey specials when you were a young child. She had a camera in front of your face. She was parading you around as a mascot for transgenderism. At an age when, you know,

when I was that age, I was spending my time watching cartoons and playing outside in the woods. And I wish that you had a childhood like that. You deserved to have that kind of childhood. But your mom took that away from you. She was more interested in monetizing you, using you as a vehicle to promote her ideology. And it's proven to be an effective vehicle, which is why I have to respond. You want to be left alone. I get that. I wish that you were left alone. Way back when you were a child, left to simply be a child. That's the life you should have had. You had a right to it.

And it was taken from you by the adults in your life, especially your mom. And I'm sorry that it was taken from you. I truly am. Listen, even if it was somehow true that you really are a female, you need to go through this necessary process of becoming your true self through the surgeries and everything else, which it isn't true at all. It just simply isn't. But that still would not justify your mom's decision to turn you into a public figure as a child, a symbol for a cause from such a young age. even if we accept the logic behind transitioning children, which again, I do not accept and never would,

it still would be unforgivable for a parent to make it into a public exhibition, which is what your parents did. Now, you also accused me of wanting to hurt you and make you miserable. I don't. I'm not out to hurt you. I see that you are hurt. You said it yourself. You don't feel like yourself. and you don't feel like yourself because you have been led since childhood down a path of self-rejection. You say that everyone deserves to be their authentic self. I could not possibly agree more. Deserve is an apt choice of words, in fact, in this case.

Every child deserves to be shown the way towards truth and their own true selves. Every child deserves to grow up in the light surrounded by adults who are sources of clarity and guidance for them. You didn't have that and you still don't. And that's not fair. You have been fed lies, one lie after another, and they are the worst kinds of lies. There are lies that deprive you of the recognition of your true self. This is the deepest form of abuse. I can't imagine what it does to a person to live with it every day since the earliest moments of childhood.

Nobody in your life will tell you the truth. nobody in your life has ever told you the truth. They have never been honest with you about anything, ever. They all are incentivized to keep up the deception. Well, I have no incentive other than my own love of the truth and my concern for you as a person and my concern for everyone else in your same situation. I don't stand to gain anything when I tell you this, but I'll tell you anyway. You are a man.

It's who you are. there's nothing wrong with who you are, with who you actually are. Your maleness was never a problem that needed to be fixed. The adults in your life told you that you were sick. They diagnosed you and they labeled you and they defined you by those labels. They introduced horrific confusion into your life and then they profited off of that confusion. They exploited you. All of them did. The doctors, your parents, the activist groups, the media, the TV networks, they all swarmed around you like vultures, taking pieces of you. And now those same people, they want you to live alive for the rest of your life, because if you don't, if you don't, it will embarrass and potentially impoverish them. Well, if we're

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and to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we exist in the history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past but the future. It is so important at every moment in time and at each individual moment in time, certainly this moment in time, but also the next moment in time. and even the moment in time after the next moment of time, which precedes the moment in time after that. And through all these moments, moment after moment after moment, time after time, if you're lost, you can look and you will find me, moment by moment, through all the moments. You know what? I just figured out, I figured out, I just, as I'm babbling like Camille Harris,

I realized I figured out Camel Harris, in every speech, she is Ben Stiller saying grace in Meet the Parents. That every speech is like watching that scene where Ben Stiller is put on the spot and has to say, try to figure out how to say grace. It's like every speech she does, but it doesn't make sense because, you know, he was put on the spot. She's not being put on the spot. These are, right? It's not like she's five wines deep at the wedding and now she has to give a toast and she didn't prepare anything.

And so she's rambling. These are pre-planned official. speeches. Right? And if you're a politician, really if you're the vice president, you're, you have served no function other than to show up to stuff like this and give dumb speeches. That's all you do. And so I always assumed anyway that don't they have people on staff that they write these things for you? And they tell you, oh, you're giving a speech here for the, what's that for? Oh, for this, whatever, stupid thing. And then they hand you the paper and you read it or you put it up on the prompter.

That's what I can't figure out. Do they really send her out there to riff for all these events? Or maybe they are writing this. You know, that could be the twist ending, that all this stuff, we're making fun of Kamala Harris. Maybe she's reading all of this directly from prompter. It could be more like, rather than meet the parents, maybe it's more like the scene in idiocracy where the president, you know, starts the state of the union address. And he's like, I know it's real bad right now.

And then you look and you see the prompter and it says that on the, the prompter. So it could be that. You know, this could be an ongoing act of sabotage against Kamala Harris by her speechwriting team. I don't know what it is, but the end result is that it's very funny, at least. All right, this is from the Daily Wire. Representative Alexandria Casio-Cortez celebrated Fox News as firing of former host Tucker Carlson on Monday saying that deplatforming works and that good things can happen. Casual Cortez's remarks came after she claimed over the weekend that Carlson was responsible for incitement of violence and that lawmakers needed to be open to explore through law ways to regulate news content

on networks like Fox News. So this is very fortuitous timing for her and makes her feel very good because, yeah, in fact, just a couple of days before Tucker Carlson was fired, she was out, in fact, the day before it was announced that he was fired, she was on the news saying that he needs to be deplatformed. And then what do you know what happens? Let's start by watching this from AOC. Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News. Couldn't have happened to a better guy.

What I will say, though, is, while I'm very glad that the person that was arguably responsible for some of the largest driving some of the most amounts of death threats and violence, threats, not just to my office, but to plenty of people across the country. I also kind of feel like I'm like waiting for the cutscene at the end of a Marvel movie after all the credits have rolled. And then you see like the villains like hand reemerge out to grip over like the end of a building or something. But deep platforming works and it is important. And there you go. Good things can happen. Deep platforming works, she says. And that's sort of true.

You know, it also very often backfires against them. You know, in fact, speaking of which, as we know, there's been this effort to deplatform me on YouTube and everything else. Well, I'm going to post this to Twitter yesterday. But after all of that, my podcast is ranked top five on. on Apple Podcasts and Spotify in our category, in large part in response to all these deep platforming efforts. So she says it works, but that's often the end result. As long as, right, as long as when you're doing this cancellation campaign against you,

as long as you refuse to apologize and you stay on message, okay, as the target of the cancellation, as long as you do that, You could come out on the other end, having a larger platform and more influence than you had before. And I have no doubt that that will happen with Tucker Carlson. You know, Tucker Carlson is going to be the, I believe, trying to peer into the future through my crystal ball. I believe this, Tucker Carlson is going to be the prime example, a number one example of how deep platforming ultimately blackfires on these people. Because he's going to go somewhere else. He's going to do something else.

And he's going to have more influence than he's ever had before. I think that's what's going to end up happening. But in the short term, yeah, it does work in the sense that you, you know, somebody's on a platform and they're saying things and they're able to reach an audience. And we know on the left, they cannot engage with any of it. They can't argue against any of it. They have no rebuttals to offer whatsoever. So all they can do is just forcibly stop you from talking, at least on that platform. And then you go over to another one and they follow you there and they try to get rid of that.

That's all they can do. So she feels like she got a big win here, which that alone, it is unforgivable and disgraceful by Fox News, that they would give this kind of, at least in the short term, this seeming apparent win to the left, rewarding their deep platforming efforts. A day after, AOC is talking about how it needs to be censored by the government, Tucker Carlson should have been on air, and it probably would have been on Monday, responding to that. And it said Fox News Kansom.

So this was a disgraceful move by Fox for a lot of reasons. Well, let's just start with that. You are rewarding your own enemies. Who it turns out are not really your enemies because you're on the same side in so many ways. But the question still remains about why this termination happened. And there have been many reports about how it was related to lawsuits and so on. And, you know, I told you yesterday, I don't buy that.

I just don't buy it. I have no insight information. I have no insight. I have no sources that I'm talking to. All I have is my own BS meter that I, that is usually pretty well honed. And, and I don't buy it. I don't buy it anything to do with lawsuits. I told you yesterday that to me, this is simply, this happened because because of who Tucker is and what he says and the stands that he takes, the fact that he's actually an effective right wing figure and advocate, that's why he's not welcome at Fox, and that's why they get rid of them. And now there's a new report from Vanity Fair, which seems to confirm this. So this is Vanity Fair. It says 24 hours after Fox News ousted its high-rated, highest-rated host, the network has yet to explain one of the most shocking

defenserations in cable news history. I'm not going to, I'm not going beyond the release of Fox News spokeswoman texted yesterday when I asked her for comment. In this information, void multiple theories about why Fox fired Carlson circulated the media. It was fallout from the Dominion settlement. It was punishment for vulgar text messages published in Dominion court filings. It was a consequence of former Fox producer Abby Grossberg's lawsuit, which we'll talk more about that in a minute, which alleged Carlson oversaw a hostile work environment. But none of these potential reasons fully add up. Fox News anchor Maria Bartramo hyped Dominion of conspiracies far more than Carlson did, and yet she remains on the air. Fox had access to Carlson's text and emails

and been in a lawsuit for months, and they didn't punish him, so on and so forth. So that's why all that doesn't line up. Mystery remains, why did Fox News take its biggest star off the air? A new theory has emerged. According to the source, Fox Corporation Chair Rupert Murdoch removed Carlson over remarks that Carlson made during a speech at the Heritage Foundation's 50th anniversary gala on Friday night. Carlson laced his speech with religious overtones that even Murdoch found too extreme, according to the source, who was briefed on Murdoch's decision-making. Carlson told the heritage audience that national politics has become a battle between good and evil. Carlson said that people advocating for transgender rights and DEI programs want to destroy America

and they could not be persuaded with facts. Quote, we should say that and stop engaging with these totally fraudulent debates. I've tried. That doesn't work. The answer, Carlson suggested, was prayer. I've concluded that it might be worth taking just 10 minutes out of your busy schedule to say a prayer for the future, and I hope you will. That's what he said. It's a great speech, by the way. And everything that he says in the speech is 100% accurate. This is, in fact, a battle of good versus evil. This has gone well beyond any sort of debate over the facts because we are debating with people who don't care about the facts. It's not just they don't care about the facts. They, they reject. the concept of facts. They reject in principle the very idea that there can be a fact. Okay, these are relativists. Everything is, all truth is relative. We all get our own truth, right? We all live

in our own universe. We have our own truth. And we get to set the rules for our own universe according to our own, you know, emotional and narcissistic whims. That's what they believe. That's what all this is about. And it is a spiritual battle of good versus evil. Talk Carlson's 100% correct about that. And according to this report, that's a big reason why he got canned. Quote, that stuff freaks Rupert out. He doesn't like all the spiritual talk, the source said. Rupert Murdoch was perhaps unnerved by Carlson's messianism because it echoed the end times worldview of Murdoch's ex-fiancee and Leslie Smith, the source said, in a mayor. cover story of Vanity Fair, Murdoch and Smith called off their two-week engagement because

Smith had told people that Carlson was a messenger from God. Murdoch had seen Carlson and Smith discussed religion firsthand, and so apparently they were at a dinner back in March, and Rubber Murdoch's then-fiancee, his fianc would have been going on wife number five, I think, was having this conversation with Carlson, Rupert and Murdoch was there, and they were talking about all these things, about how this is a spiritual battle, good versus evil. Rupert Murdoch was there. He didn't like that. Shortly after that, he dumps the fiancé, and then shortly after that, he gets rid of Tucker Carlson. That's the report anyway. This makes a lot more sense. I mean, it doesn't make sense to fire him for it, but it makes sense that Fox would. It makes

more sense than anything tied to this Abbey Grossberg lawsuit, which other media outlets are still claiming is one of the central reasons why he got fired. So Yahoo has this. Grossberg, formerly a senior booking producer for Fox News, began working as the head of booking for Tucker Carlson tonight last year. She was fired by Fox News last month after filing suit against the company claiming that she was bullied and subjected to sexist and anti-Semitic comments while working on Carlson's show. There are other reports, by the way, that she never actually met Tucker Carlson. So she was never in the same room as him, according to some reports. But in a separate lawsuit filed in Delaware, Grossberg claimed that she was coerced by the company's lawyers to give misleading answers to her deposition of the Dominion case. In the 79-page lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York,

Grossberg said that she was startled by the behavior of male colleagues when she showed up for her first day of work on Carlson's show in September. According to Grossberg, she arrived at the office to see many large and blown-up photographs of Nancy Pelosi in a plunging bath bathing suit, revealing her cleavage. I think we have, she also is doing the rounds on MSNBC, of course, and other media outlets talking about all her horrible experiences working for Tucker Carlson. We have the clip of her talking about this traumatic encounter. with Nancy Pelosi pictures. Let's watch that.

I was hoping that it would be more professional, and what he was portraying on air was just a show, and unfortunately that wasn't the case. So when do you realize that? Immediately. I show up first day of work, and I know that this is a popular one. It's been widely publicized. There are literally pictures like this big of Nancy Pelosi in a bathing suit in Europe, plastered all over. There was even one on my computer screen for the temporary computer I had to use and I had to take it down just to work.

Within a few days, there I was called into Justin Well's office with Alex McCaskill, who was a senior producer as well, and asked if Maria was having an affair with Kevin McCarthy. It was just, I was shocked. I couldn't even believe it. I was flured. That's pretty funny. Look, you know what, Abby, you're the one body shaming, Nancy Pelosi. So what? Maybe they're, maybe they think that Nancy Pelosi is a beautiful woman. And, uh, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, it's, it, it, it, this is your assumption. So you have decided to interpret that in a negative way. Shame on you. Can you imagine if Abby Grossberg came to work for the Daily Wire and she, uh, encountered our, uh, our, our, our five foot tall, you know, cigar store Indian of, of, uh, of, Elizabeth Warren. How would she, I mean, she would break down in tears immediately upon encountering that.

She also, she says that staff members frequently engaged in group discussion in which misogynistic views of women as objects to be judged solely based on their appearance were broadcasted. In these discussions, no woman, whether she was a Republican politician or female staff or Fox News, was safe from suddenly becoming the target of sexist demeaning comments. In one instance cited by the paper, the lawsuit recalled a crass and sexist discussion in the newsroom before the Republican gubernatorial candidate in Michigan, Tudor Dixon, was scheduled to appear as a guest on Carl Schen Cho. Before Dixon arrived, staffers discussed whether Ms. Dixon or her opponent, Gretchen Whitmer, was hotter. That's an interesting question, and that's a debate many of us have had. I think ultimately Tudor Dixon is going to be the more attractive one. Gretchen, in my opinion, the fact that she's so evil, it's just you can't quite, maybe it's not fair to deduct points based on that in the discussion of this sword. But the fact that she is so

despicably horrifically evil, I think it does exude out of her and it actually affects her physically as well. But a very interesting conversation that apparently traumatized poor Abby Grossberg. And then, okay, in another instance, McCaskill allegedly referred to a room in the office where Fox News employees could pump breast milk as a waste of space. Someone worked for Fox said that the room for pumping breast milk

is a waste of space and suggested it should be converted into a room of tanning beds for the guys to tan their testicles. You know, if that was actually said, Abby, that's what's known as, we actually have a word for that. It's called a joke. So someone was making a joke is what they were doing, if that was even said at all. But she also accuses the Tucker team of saying and doing a lot of things that don't pass the smell test at all. So let's watch one more clip here.

When I got to Tucker, it was different. And as a text that came out revealed my suspicions, he was looking for ratings bait purely. and was also looking for power. It was a combination of ratings and power and manipulating the audience and manipulating also the political system. There was an aspect of, I can pick who the House Speaker is. I can pick who the President of the United States is or who the Republican candidate is going to be.

And I thought that was really dangerous and didn't want that kind of power. I didn't want to have Senate candidates calling me and being very upset, are you going to destroy our whole campaign tonight? Because he could do that. And he would call and tell them that. That if you don't participate or you don't come on the show, we will destroy you. And I was told to tell that to congressmen sometimes.

And I didn't. How can I? That was disrespectful. So in addition to the misogyny and the sexism and the anti-Semitism, there was also just this sort of moral growth with me where I reached a breaking point because of all of those things. And I literally did not want to do it anymore. It felt disgusting.

I stopped watching news when I came home. I didn't watch anything. I just didn't want to because I was so depressed and disillusioned by the entire media system because of Tucker Carlson. Oh, my moral growth. You know, the only, look, the only mistake that the Tucker team made, and it's not like this is Tucker Carlson himself. He doesn't, he's not overseeing every aspect.

That's not the way it works. But, you know, the only mistake, obviously, is hiring this woman. But, of course, it's just, it's not always easy to sniff these kinds of people out. The kind of person who's going to see, you know, a joking picture of Nancy Pelosi, if it's even true that the pictures are pros. But see a picture like that and be offended. Just get over yourself. My God. How do you function in life?

Oh, it's her moral, it's my moral growth. And my moral growth, right? My moral growth was that I could work there and take the paychecks in. Then I get fired. And only then do I turn, you know, I get fired. And then I turn around and try to profit to the tune of however many millions you're suing for. That's all part of the moral growth. Suing for millions because you were offended by alleged jokes.

Right? That's a sign of moral growth. I will say, though, that I am, there is one revelation from this. that really disappoints me, as much of a fan, Chuck Carlson as I am, you know, when she said that Tucker Carlson was interested in ratings, good Lord,

I am so disappointed that he wanted to get ratings for his show, that is unacceptable. And surely Tucker Carlson, the only figure in all of media that's concerned about, ratings. It doesn't come up, you know, and I've worked in media. I can tell you right now, I've never even encountered a conversation like this. No one talks about it. Performance, ratings,

you know, downloads, advertising dollars. We never discuss it. In fact, if I'm in a, if it even on occasion someone's about to maybe I'm in a meeting, someone broaches the conversation, well, let's look at the numbers. Nope, we're not talking about this. Doesn't matter. How dare you? Get out of the room. I say to Jeremy Boring. that's what happens in so talk carlson the only figure in all of media who cares about ratings and so that is a scandal but all the rest of it not so much um and the claim that she as a like a booking producer was told to call up congressman and say come on the show or we'll destroy you uh that also didn't happen that's that's not the way it works and this is why listen i don't know the percentages

But it is my suspicion that the vast majority of hostile work environment claims are really, they are used as cover by losers who couldn't hack it. That's most of it. Because if something illegal or actually unethical happened, then say what it was. Just name it. You know, give actual examples of that. But when we get these kind of broad, oh, is a hostile way? environment. No, you're just a loser and you couldn't hack it. You couldn't do it. It's a high

pressure environment. You know, you're working with a lot of, you're working with a lot of high performance people. And there's a lot of egos around. That's just the way it is in the media business. It's the way, it's what it is. At high levels in any industry, that's how it is. And she couldn't deal with it. She couldn't do it. She couldn't keep up with the pressure. And so she washed out, now she's filing a lawsuit. That is my. That is my. That is my interpretation. That is my theory personally about this. All right, maybe we have time for one or two other things. Kevin Bacon has come to the defense of drag queens who perform for kids. Let's watch that. Drag is an art and drag is a right. Drag is a century's old art form of

creativity, expression, and self-exploration. It's an opportunity to educate through entertainment and it's not dangerous. And six degrees, we believe in amplifying the voices of those that are experiencing injustice. So join us in supporting the ACLU Drag Defense Fund by shopping our Bonfire campaign or making a gift. Designed by the amazing Mason K. Kira and I are honored to support this important fund, and we welcome you to do the same. Drag is a gift, he says.

Drag is a blessing. Sounds a lot like David French. almost exactly quoting David French and saying some of this, the quote-unquote conservative David French. This is one of the reasons why, you know, I think this fight against the sexualization of children, especially as it comes in the form of, you know, drag events for children, is why it's so important. I mean, it's important, number one, because it's an evil thing that we need to stop for

the sake of the kids who are being victimized by it. So that's the most important thing. But also, even from a kind of political perspective, I'm more than happy for the Democrats to go into 2024 making this part of their platform. And the more high-profile Democrats and liberals who come out strongly in defense of not just drag, but specifically drag queens performing in front of children. we know that they are in favor of it. We know they're in favor of the sexualization of children.

We know that's happening. And since it's happening and since they're in favor of it, I think it's good for them to say it out loud and to kind of wear this position with pride, march under the banner so everybody can see it and make their decisions accordingly as we go into election season and beyond. Because if you're like if you're a dyed-in-the-wall leftist,

then you're brainwashed into this too. You're in favor of the sexualization of children. It's part of your whole ideology. But anybody who's not, you know, you don't have to be a far-right extremist like myself. If you're just not that, if you're not a dyed-in-the-wool far-left-leftist, then you, you know, you just need to ask yourself,

do you really believe this? Is this what you believe? Do you believe that not only is it okay for drag queens to perform sexually in front of children, but they have a right to. Do you believe that grown men have the God-given natural right to cross-dress and perform sexually in front of children? That's what we're hearing from everybody on the left, Democrats, celebrities. You just need to decide if that makes any sense to you.

And if you have any kind of soul left and any brain in your head, then the answer to that obviously will be no. Let's get to the comment section. Who makes a Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage? Who's to play baby game? The first step in growing up and being a real man is getting off of your parents' phone plan. Getting your own cell phone plan gives you a sense of independence and responsibility to step towards becoming more self-sufficient. By paying for your own finances, you learn how to budget, how to manage your money, how to be an adult in general. There are a ton of cell phone providers out there.

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for Fox News is part of their point that it's so easy to forget this. But for years, Bill O'Reilly was the biggest star in not just a Fox News, but in all of cable news. And he was also kind of, he was no Tucker Carlson, don't get me wrong, but he was the biggest star in cable news at the time, driving conversation as well. and then they canned him and he's still out there doing his thing but he's not that anymore

his audience didn't really follow him to his next endeavor and because in that case the time slot Fox News itself and the whole structure they have in place and the time slot is what made Bill O'Reilly a star and then they discard him and they put somebody else in and they say

we'll make them a star and their bet is that it's going to be the same thing here that Tucker Carlson wasn't really the star. It's Fox News in the 8 o'clock time slot, Eastern Time. That's the star. And we take him out and his audience will go away. That's their bet. I think that although that has proven to be the case,

sometimes, I think it's a bad bet with Tucker Carlson. I think he's just a different sort of media figure. It's a different kind of media landscape even than it was back, even though it wasn't all that long ago when Bill Lerrela was given the boot. It's a different media landscape. And so I think it's a bad bet. And I think that Fox News is going to take a ratings hit that will not recover quickly. And that Tucker's audience will go with him wherever he goes.

Will says, I was thinking when I was reading those accusations against Don Lemon, man, I hope Matt doesn't pounce on this because this is really weak. And he handled it beautifully, L.O.L. Well, if you even thought, you thought I would read some of those examples of Don Lemon's supposed sexism. and that I would jump on that bandwagon and pretend that it was offensive? What was one of them? He said that, he said one of the, a woman that was on the air with him, he said, you have mommy brain.

And this is supposed to be an example of, oh, misogyny. Come on, Will. Was there any thought in your head that I would read that and say, well, that's terrible. That's, well, that, he need to be fired for that. Mommy brain? That's unthinkably sexist. Now, come on. Nothing wrong with saying that.

Don Lemon, again, it's not. It's not even a defense of Don Lemon, but it's just a statement of fact. He's not a sexist. He doesn't hate women. He probably hates everybody because he's a narcissist, only cares about himself, like so many other people in media. And he disregards and hates everybody else, especially anyone who he perceives to be a threat to him, anyone who he thinks is more talented than him or getting better ratings than him. And his ratings were always really bad.

So that means he's just, that's why he hates you. Man, woman, doesn't matter. However, he certainly deserved to be fired just based on the fact that he was untalented and doing a terrible job. Mr. Public says, I canceled my Fox Nation subscription. I made sure to tell them that it was due to the way they treated Tucker going out the door. Bud Light moment. And this is very, and I've thought about this as well. This is a really interesting move on the heels of Bud Light.

And as we know, when everything happened with Bud Light, there were many people including on the right who said that look bud light's too big it's just we can say that we're going to boycott it it's not going to make a dent um and that did not prove to be the case and i think there's also an assumption that fox news is because it's it's also a powerful brand and it's just kind of like by default you know there are many um middle america sort of conservative people that by default they would just go for the bud light just just like by default they go for Fox News. That didn't save Bud Light, and I don't think it's going to save Fox News either.

And Enigma says there's nothing more annoying than someone yelling on the phone out in public, but it's even worse when the person they're yacking at is on speaker. Yeah, why would you even want, I will never understand it. One of the mysteries of life for me is why would you even want to speak to somebody on speaker out in public in the first place? And, you know, it's very rude to everybody around you because you're forcing them to listen to this conversation. It's also rude for the person who's on speaker because they probably don't know. Because there's the other thing.

When I'm around someone and they're speaking on a speaker phone, I never hear that person tell the person on the phone, oh, hey, by the way, you're in public right now. There's 50 people standing around. You're on speaker. Everyone can hear you. Continue. You never hear that warning being given. So, just don't do it. And like I said, in many of these cases, you really don't need to be using your phone at all.

While it is tempting, certainly, to blame postmodernism for ushering in a prevailing sense of nihilism, the truth is this was an issue going all the way back to biblical times. No one likes a complainer, no matter what century you live in, you just drag everybody down, and the consequences of that are just as dire today. This is what Dr. Stephen Blackwood points out in the 16th episode of Exodus with Jordan Peterson. Check it out. of God is a necessary condition of the flourishing of society. And without that vision, a people perishes.

Well, there's technical reasons for that, I would say, that we know biologically now too, is that almost all enthusiasm, and so that is to be filled with the spirit of God, that's positive emotion. And all positive emotion of the most intense sort, I don't mean satiation and satisfaction, I mean hope and enthusiasm,

that moves you forward is tied to a vision because all positive emotion signals movement towards a valued goal. In addition to Stephen Blackwood, Jordan Peterson is joined by a roundtable of impressive minds who have gathered to discuss one of the most seminal books in the Bible. We are heading into the conclusion of Exodus, which is exclusively for DailyWire Plus members. If you haven't seen it yet, start at the beginning because it's well worth your time. Trust me. Join now at DailyWire.com slash subscribe to watch Exodus.

Now let's get to our daily cancellation. Mother's Day is just around the corner, which means that it's time for some woke virtue signaling from corporate America. Every holiday is an occasion for woke virtue signaling. Of course, every day in general is an occasion. But Mother's Day presents a unique opportunity. And this year, the virtue signaling is taking on a perhaps slightly unexpected form. The Daily Wire reports, quote, major corporations and businesses are sending out emails offering a chance to opt out of Mother's Day related communications.

In a viral thread posted Sunday, Twitter account Arizona Informer posted more than a dozen screenshots from businesses sending Mother's Day opt-out offers, noting the similar language used in the emails and equating the trend with anti-family activism. Arizona former captioned, something very strange is happening with big corporations. Out of nowhere, Kroger owned Fry's Food Store, K-Juelers, Hallmark, and now DoorDash have all sent opt-out of Mother's Day emails to their customer base. This is not organic, the account charged. this reeks of anti-family activism. We understand that Mother's Day might be a difficult time for some, a message from DoorDash said,

adding an option to me, removed from additional emails and push notifications relating to the holiday. A message from Kay Jewelers said, we know Mother's Day can be a challenging time, which is why we want to know if you'd rather not receive Mother's Day related emails.

Quote, with Mother's Day coming up, we understand this can be a difficult time of year for some. Read a similar email from Nespresso. If you would like to opt out of Mother's Day emails, you can simply click below. Levi's, Ancestry, Mac Cosmetics, Stitch Fix, Bye Bye Baby, Etsy, and others were some of the other companies included in the thread. The list is even longer than this, by the way, seemingly all at once, you know, major companies across the spectrum have jumped on the Mother's Day opt-out train.

And this is one of the hallmarks of wokeism is that, you know, the new form of virtue signaling pops up out of nowhere. And in a blink of an eye, everyone is expected to embrace it. Even if they have no idea why they're embracing it. You see, all these corporations that are sending out emails, you can opt out of Mother's Day. Do they even all know why they're doing this? They just saw everyone else doing this. They say, oh yeah, we've got to get one of those out. In the corporate world especially, the new virtue signal spreads like wildfire at each company,

and they all quickly adopt it for fear that being the last to adopt it might hurt their ESG score. But don't get too excited. This opt-out trend is, I think, rather limited. It is not an option that will be offered for other occasions. We can be fairly certain that DoorDash isn't going to be offering the chance to opt out of Pride Month promotions or, you know, Black History Month spam. It's very unlikely that Levi's or Etsy will send an email that says, we know Pride Month can be an extremely annoying time for you, which is why we want to know if you'd rather not receive Pride Month-related emails. Now, this is something that will only be applied to Mother's Day.

It probably won't even extend to Father's Day as well, simply because Father's Day is all. already mostly ignored. We've kind of opted out of that as a society in general. Mother's Day is the holiday that traditionally gets all the press with a great emphasis on making sure that you shower your mother with gifts and attention and appreciation. Father's Day, on the other hand, is a time to throw a gift bag with a new pair of socks at your dad and say, hey, happy Father's Day or whatever, and then move on with your day, which I can say as a dad is how we prefer it, so I'm not complaining. The point is that the opt-out trend will be limited in scope, I think. So why are the corporations doing this and why all of a sudden all at once?

The working theory among conservatives is that, as we mentioned, it's rooted in this kind of woke anti-family ideology. The assumption is that it has something to do with the left's doctrines on gender and sexuality. Mother's Day presents a problem for these doctrines because motherhood presents a problem. And that's why companies are slowly or not so slowly backing away from it. But I actually don't think that that's the motivating factor here. Mostly because the left doesn't believe that motherhood presents any problem for them on this front. It does, but they don't think that.

The gender ideologue doesn't want to abolish Mother's Day, but rather appropriate it, which ultimately will have the same effect as abolishing. Of course, we simply arrive at that destination from a different direction. But so I don't think that's the reason. That doesn't mean that the Mother's Day opt-out trend isn't woe. It certainly is, just for different reasons. In this case, we're told the reason, actually. NPR has an article on the subject about all these opt-out emails, and it explains this.

Quote, many people struggle with Mother's Day and Father's Day for different reasons. Perhaps they've lost parents or children confronted fertility issues or they have complicated relationships with family members. As author and grief advocate, Megan Devine, points out, there are so many ways to lose a mother or to lose mothering. The website Upworthy concurs, quote, Mother's Day is an occasion of celebrating. celebration and love for some, while for others it is a painful reminder that reminds them of grief, infertility issues, or traumatic paths. Some major brands have started to realize this. DoorDash, Pandora,

Mac, K-Juelers, and several other companies have sent an email blast to their customers, providing them with the option to stop any sort of Mother's Day branded emails or promotions. Quote, what can be a wonderful time for some, can be a difficult time for others. Jewelry brand Pandora wrote in an April 2023 email to customers, we completely understand if you'd prefer to opt out. Simply let us know. and give us your email and so on. This gesture brings relief to many for whom this day brings grief. Quote, as an infertile person who did years of medical treatment to get pregnant, I can tell you this opt-out stuff is not new, and it's something appreciated by infertility and lost communities,

and I imagine by people who have lost parents or have bad relationships with them, according to one Twitter user. So, this is the point. Mother's Day is triggering for all the people who have experienced difficulties related to their mothers or motherhood or fertility or childbirth. And somehow a Mother's Day advertisement is traumatic, according to this logic. And yet having to actively opt out of Mother's Day ads for dozens of different brands is not traumatic. That's totally incoherent, of course, but the lack of coherence is another hallmark of wokeness.

You know, if my own mother died, God forbid, I would think it'd be much more emotional taxing to go into my inbox and find all of the spam emails and open them and actively reply to them, asking them not to send me any Mother's Day material because my mother is dead. You know, I think that would be much more difficult than simply just ignoring the spam, which goes to the spam folder anyway, most of it. Yet one way or another, Mother's Day will come and people will celebrate. and yes, if you've lost your mother or if you struggle with fertility or if you have a bad relationship with your mother or whatever else, that celebration may conjure up some difficult emotions

for you. But it's not just Mother's Day that will have that effect. When you're struggling with a serious challenge in your life or you're grieving over a loss or experiencing some other kind of deep emotional pain, you'll find a universe suddenly chalk full of signs pointing back to those wounds. And this is true when it comes to very serious traumas like the loss of a loved one. In your grief, you will find reminders of your loss everywhere you go. It's also true of much less severe but still significant pains like financial difficulties. If you've ever had serious money problems, you know that when you have money problems, the world will constantly remind you of your money problems, especially around the holidays, any holiday.

And even if there is nothing actively reminding you of whatever it is you're struggling with, you still are stuck with your own mind, which is keenly aware of these struggles and constantly turning them over and dwelling on them, no matter what else is going on in the outside world. Wokeness wants to make us fragile by encouraging us to shield ourselves from these difficult emotional experiences. In fact, it tells us that we have the right to be shielded from them, that the world should reorient itself so that we are not forced to think about things that make us uncomfortable. The result is that we never learn to live with the hardships. We only only learned how to live around them, avoiding them, hiding from them. That's how we become a country

full of people who cannot cope with any discomfort, whether big or small, always looking for the opt-out option. And unfortunately, our society is run by institutions that are eager to provide it, which may make us more comfortable in the moment, but they won't help us become stronger, better-functioning people in the long run. And that is why these companies and their Mother's Day opt-out emails are today canceled. Now we'll do it for this portion of shows. Move over to the members block. You can become a member today by using Code Walsh at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.

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