Ep. 880 - Our Overlords Want You Fat, Lazy, And Addicted To Porn

**Matt Walsh** (0:00)
Today on The Matt Walsh Show, a major health magazine puts out an issue celebrating fatness and calling for gyms and fitness instructors to be better fat allies, and it's not a satire, it's all very real. Also, Joe Biden cusses out a Fox reporter. How would the media have reacted if Trump did the same thing to someone at, say, CNN?
And amid talk of war for the sake of protecting Ukraine, the White House has asked why America should put itself at risk to protect Europe if Europe won't protect itself. It's a good question.
The answer was not so great, though. Also, the ladies of The View agree that they may never feel comfortable in public again without a mask because of everything we've learned during the pandemic. But what have we learned exactly? And finally, in our Daily Cancellation, Lena Dunham is back on the scene, and it didn't take long for her to get canceled. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

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**Matt Walsh** (0:53)
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People across the country are looking back at our previous year, reflecting on the collective hours and days spent lying around like slugs consuming three times as many calories as we burn off on a good day. Our waistlines expanding to blimp-like proportions, feeling the fleeting pains of guilt for all of this, remembering that both sloth and gluttony are deadly sins, and thus resolving to finally begin engaging in some form of physical movement in the year ahead. Of course, the problem is that once we embark on our new health and wellness quest, we discover that exercise is, you know, difficult. And worst of all, it takes up time that can be better spent watching TikTok videos. And so the resolve dies away and the gyms empty out as quickly as they were filled. Though most of the people who abandon their gym routine still continue paying their membership fees, hoping that at least being a dues-paying member of a gym might, you know, count for something, as if heart disease will see their membership card on their keychain and pass them over on that basis alone. The fitness industry does not need you to actually get healthy and fit. It just needs you to see health and fitness as at least theoretically desirable. But what happens when these things, health and fitness and general physical wellness, can no longer be presented as even theoretically desirable? That's when you end up with absurdities like the latest issue of Self Magazine. Now Self is an online publication allegedly focused on health and beauty and owned by the same mega corporation that gives us Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, pretty much every other magazine in existence it would seem. Self's first issue of 2022 looks so on the nose, so perfectly representative of all of the foibles of wokeness that you might at first think it's some kind of intentional self parody. And it is self parody, but it's just not intentional. As you can see on the cover here, it features an obese woman in spandex, along with the headline, The Future of Fitness. And one wonders if the next issue will have a picture of a square with the headline, The Future of Circles, or the number five with the headline, The Future of 2 Plus 2 In any case, the subheadings on the cover promise to give us more information about, quote, the relentless reality of anti-fatness in fitness, and, quote, four ways to respond to unnecessary encouragement at the gym. Yeah, you know, all those bullies at the gym that encourage you. An introductory article by the editor-in-chief, Lita Shai, explains the point and purpose of this health magazine's new focus on promoting obesity. She writes, quote, In this digital issues articles and essays, when we say future, we're not talking about the latest fitness trackers or streaming workout equipment. We're talking about the people who are changing the landscape of an industry that has for too long excluded many. Over the past few years, thanks to the body positivity movement, as well as other thoughtful explorations that have challenged complacent ideas about weight and size, we've seen an important shift in how we discuss larger bodies. But fitness spaces can be a final frontier in a particular strain of body discrimination where anti-fat bias and weight-related stigma are entrenched in our collective understanding of what it means to be fit. It's time to break free from this limited view. The future of fitness is about making space for everyone to feel welcome. So in this package, we're celebrating the people who are helping get us there. Now clicking through to discover the whole package, we find articles with titles like, quote, 12 pieces of running gear that can make running in larger bodies more comfortable. Now I know what can make running in larger bodies more comfortable, a salad, but I'm guessing that doesn't make it on the list. Other titles, here's how to find a gym that's size friendly, end quote, these 10 people are challenging how the fitness industry treats fatness. And then how to feel confident at the gym when you're starting out according to 12 larger bodied exercisers. Now please note the updated PC lingo here. A fat guy at the gym is no longer a fat guy at the gym. He is now a larger bodied exerciser. If all of this doesn't sound inane enough, then how about this headline? Six things fitness instructors should do to become a better fat ally. End quote, seven seemingly empowering body positive phrases that actually reinforce ableism. And then my favorite, seven ways to repair your relationship with movement. Now I love that last one because it provides a very useful framework for laziness, which of course is what all of this is really doing. But now when my wife asks me for a third time to get off the couch and go take the garbage cans out, I can just say, sorry, honey, I'm really working on my relationship with movement right now. We've decided to take some time apart and that's for the best. Can you bring me another beer, by the way? I need you to be a fat ally, honey.