The Matt Walsh Show - March 22, 2022


It’s Time to Win — Introducing： Jeremy’s Razors


Episode Stats

Length

5 minutes

Words per Minute

193.68475

Word Count

1,008

Sentence Count

85

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary

A year ago today, Harry's Razors dropped their ads on The Daily Wire because, well, because we had the audacity to disagree with them on a political issue. Today, we re launching a new competitor to Harry s Razors.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey, it's Jeremy Boren, co-CEO and God King of The Daily Wire.
00:00:03.340 Do you remember one year ago today when Harry's Razors dropped their ads on The Daily Wire
00:00:07.100 because, well, because we had the audacity to disagree with them on a political issue?
00:00:11.340 Of course you don't. Why would you?
00:00:13.360 Woke corporations cancel their advertisements on conservative shows and platforms all the time.
00:00:17.720 It's hardly even news at this point, just the cost of doing business.
00:00:21.600 See, corporate America wants it both ways.
00:00:23.920 They want conservatives to buy their goods and services,
00:00:26.140 but they also want to virtue signal to the woke mob and their 23-year-old employees
00:00:30.720 by publicly repudiating those same conservative customers.
00:00:34.460 Here's the thing. I do remember.
00:00:36.820 I remember every time one of these cowardly companies betrays us.
00:00:40.380 And it is a betrayal, make no mistake.
00:00:42.400 They know our politics before they advertise with us.
00:00:44.960 It's why they advertise with us.
00:00:47.420 We reach a large audience.
00:00:49.000 They want that audience to buy their goods and services.
00:00:51.820 We go out of our way to make absolutely sure they know what we're about
00:00:54.900 before they get into business with us.
00:00:56.440 And they get into business with us anyway, because it works.
00:00:59.920 They're happy that we leverage our personal credibility
00:01:02.300 to tell our audience about their products.
00:01:04.600 We're happy, too.
00:01:06.500 But then at the first sign of trouble,
00:01:08.140 in the case of Harry's Razors,
00:01:09.340 it was an attack from a Twitter account with two,
00:01:11.980 yes, two followers online.
00:01:14.060 Well, then they not only pull their sponsorships,
00:01:16.260 but they publicly attack us and the very audience that they paid us to reach.
00:01:20.900 Now, look, I don't mind any company pulling their sponsorships.
00:01:23.760 That's their right.
00:01:25.180 That's just business.
00:01:27.100 It's the public attack I can't abide.
00:01:29.860 Harry said our views, in this case,
00:01:31.940 the very common view that gender dysphoria is a mental illness,
00:01:35.340 were, quote, inexcusable.
00:01:37.260 They said it publicly,
00:01:38.520 showing the whole world how pure they are, of course,
00:01:40.580 but also signaling to all of our other advertisers
00:01:42.960 that the only excusable thing to do would be to also cancel on us.
00:01:47.440 See, that makes it a direct attack on our business
00:01:49.820 and a direct attack on our audience, too.
00:01:51.760 So what are we to do?
00:01:54.100 Well, what conservatives have been doing for years is lose.
00:01:57.780 We're supposed to take the L.
00:01:59.220 We're supposed to get a little poorer.
00:02:00.520 We're supposed to hire fewer people.
00:02:01.820 We're supposed to be a little less profitable.
00:02:04.220 And, of course, we bitch.
00:02:05.720 Oh, how we complain.
00:02:07.060 The left is terrible.
00:02:08.100 It's cancel culture.
00:02:09.000 They're trying to silence us.
00:02:10.360 And then we beg.
00:02:12.420 We beg for donations, mostly.
00:02:14.500 Stand up to the censorious left, we shout,
00:02:16.460 by sending us your money.
00:02:17.680 And what you get for your money is, well, more losing and more bitching and more begging.
00:02:23.980 That's economic incentive at work.
00:02:26.340 As far as actual action, at most, we might rally for a good old-fashioned boycott.
00:02:30.860 Boycotts, of course, cost the offending company in question virtually nothing,
00:02:33.820 and they're over in virtually no time.
00:02:35.680 Of course they are.
00:02:36.900 Because in the end, we still need those products.
00:02:39.780 Nike may endorse Colin Kaepernick, but we still need good shoes.
00:02:43.640 Hollywood may sucker punch us every time we turn on the TV,
00:02:46.160 but we still need good entertainment.
00:02:48.220 Harry's may call us inexcusable, but you still need a good shave.
00:02:52.240 Well, I'm tired of losing.
00:02:53.600 I want to win for a change.
00:02:55.060 I want to create culture.
00:02:56.440 And I want to have a frickin' good time doing it.
00:02:58.340 Because losing?
00:02:59.980 Losing sucks.
00:03:01.600 That's why today, the Daily Wire is launching Jeremy's Razors,
00:03:05.020 a direct competitor to Harry's,
00:03:06.900 where people with inexcusable values like mine
00:03:09.440 can get a great razor without having to give their money
00:03:11.700 to people who clearly hate them.
00:03:13.520 It's why the Daily Wire launched its own film company last year,
00:03:16.560 so people, again, with inexcusable values like mine
00:03:19.340 can get great entertainment without giving their money
00:03:21.960 to people who clearly hate them.
00:03:23.700 It's why the Daily Wire is in the podcasting business,
00:03:26.300 and the news business, and the commentary business,
00:03:28.340 and the technology business.
00:03:29.860 Business, mind you, not charity.
00:03:32.000 We're a for-profit company.
00:03:33.680 We don't make our money by complaining and begging.
00:03:36.500 We make our money by building value
00:03:38.600 and selling it to people who think it's worth buying.
00:03:41.220 We win by winning.
00:03:43.820 The left is happy to bifurcate the culture,
00:03:46.260 to rip it in two.
00:03:47.360 They're convinced they'll pay no economic price for this
00:03:49.860 because they know what I know.
00:03:51.600 You still need those goods and services.
00:03:53.880 So in order to win,
00:03:55.200 we have to rip the economy in two.
00:03:57.720 We have to give conservatives their own companies.
00:04:00.040 We have to give conservatives their own products to buy.
00:04:02.080 We have to build actual market alternatives
00:04:04.800 that, in success, will force the left to take real losses
00:04:08.860 if they don't compete for our business.
00:04:11.800 The Daily Wire is doing just that.
00:04:14.000 Jeremy's Razors is doing just that.
00:04:17.020 Will it work?
00:04:18.560 I don't know.
00:04:19.680 It certainly won't work perfectly,
00:04:21.060 this being the real world and all.
00:04:22.620 But I know what won't work,
00:04:24.420 what doesn't work.
00:04:25.720 And what doesn't work is the non-profit right
00:04:28.260 losing its way to higher and higher donations
00:04:30.940 from a smaller and smaller conservative movement
00:04:33.380 that still has to actually spend its real money
00:04:35.520 paying the left for all of its goods and services.
00:04:38.320 That is a sure recipe for failure.
00:04:40.860 If we want to win, we have to compete.
00:04:43.620 And competition means building a future,
00:04:46.080 not just lamenting the loss of the past.
00:04:48.360 It means fighting in the economy and culture,
00:04:50.520 not just complaining about the loss of the economy and culture.
00:04:54.180 It means starting for-profit companies
00:04:56.020 that create actual economic incentives
00:04:58.340 for better behavior.
00:05:00.500 That's what animates me.
00:05:02.020 That's what drives the Daily Wire.
00:05:04.080 That's the real fight.
00:05:05.860 If you want a better future, you have to build it.
00:05:08.860 And if you want a better shave,
00:05:10.300 well, we're going to build that for you.