The Matt Walsh Show - Matt Walsh Reviews His FIRST Podcast Episode

00:00:00.760 Okay, it's time for a little bit of Anthropology,

00:00:03.280 some historical research today.

00:00:05.320 We're gonna go back and re-watch,

00:00:07.620 as much as we can stomach, of my very first episode.

00:00:11.280 We're gonna move the clock back five years

00:00:13.640 to April 2nd of 2018 is the first episode,

00:00:16.780 with me homeless in my car.

00:00:19.460 And I have to tell you that I don't like to watch

00:00:21.300 my old stuff because you have to understand

00:00:23.000 it's like a lose-lose proposition.

00:00:24.720 Because either it's really good,

00:00:27.900 and then you worry that you were better back then

00:00:30.060 than you are now and you've fallen off,

00:00:32.160 or it's terrible and embarrassing

00:00:34.860 and then you're just embarrassed.

00:00:35.960 How embarrassing?

00:00:37.860 So no matter what, it's emotionally painful

00:00:41.420 to watch anything that you've done

00:00:42.960 prior to the day before yesterday.

00:00:46.100 But I'm gonna endure that pain today.

00:00:48.380 So let's get into episode one of the Matt Wall Show

00:00:50.320 called Never Apologize to the Pitchfork Mob.

00:00:53.240 It was the name of the episode,

00:00:54.120 a theme that of course I've returned to

00:00:55.860 frequently in preceding years.

00:00:57.480 And let's put it on.

00:00:59.140 All right, so Laura Ingram is taking a vacation.

00:01:04.480 Okay, pause it.

00:01:06.080 I can't actually do this.

00:01:08.980 So first of all, we don't have to worry about

00:01:10.580 that it's too good and makes me feel bad

00:01:12.640 about what I'm doing now.

00:01:13.420 So that's not a concern.

00:01:14.260 That concern's off the table.

00:01:15.100 It's not, it's, we don't have to worry.

00:01:16.980 We don't have to worry the show was better back then.

00:01:18.860 That's the good, that's the good news.

00:01:21.320 The, what we do have to worry about though, is, is everything else that's happening.

00:01:27.320 And we have to start with my appearance, which I don't know what's going on with the haircut.

00:01:31.920 It's like a little bit of Donald Trump.

00:01:33.460 It's a little bit of an unkempt sixth grader on school picture day.

00:01:39.020 There's the Cyclops glasses.

00:01:42.520 Not the best look.

00:01:44.020 And then there's the faux leather jacket.

00:01:45.800 It was definitely faux leather.

00:01:46.740 It wasn't real.

00:01:47.260 That's not real leather.

00:01:48.080 That was a $30 jacket probably.

00:01:49.980 So there's the faux leather jacket with the salmon striped wrinkled shirt that's not even

00:01:54.800 buttoned all the way.

00:01:55.940 And then it goes, the worst, the most egregious offense of all, of course, is the, is the

00:01:59.180 beard, which is way too trimmed down.

00:02:01.200 And that's like, if you're going to have a beard like that, there's no reason to have

00:02:03.040 a beard.

00:02:03.340 So you really got to commit one way or another.

00:02:05.140 You have the beard, you don't have the beard.

00:02:07.700 So here's what I'm wondering when I watch this, which is, so I don't put the blame on

00:02:11.660 myself, as you might expect.

00:02:13.180 I put the blame on everybody else.

00:02:14.220 Like, why did no one else say to me, hey, you look like shit on camera.

00:02:18.240 Let's figure something out.

00:02:19.400 No one said that to me.

00:02:20.460 It might shock you to learn that.

00:02:21.580 No one ever said that.

00:02:22.900 Not one time.

00:02:23.520 Nobody.

00:02:24.300 So I feel betrayed.

00:02:25.900 This is not my fault.

00:02:27.980 All right.

00:02:28.600 Let's continue.

00:02:30.080 Vacation amid the advertiser boycott and all the outrage that's still growing.

00:02:35.740 It hasn't died down.

00:02:37.180 You know, here we are four or five days later because of this, you know, unnecessary and

00:02:43.100 dumb tweet that she sent about David Hogg.

00:02:46.420 Unnecessary and dumb.

00:02:47.860 Okay.

00:02:48.300 Let's just stop.

00:02:48.980 Just get to the point.

00:02:50.240 Look, what they said is just babbling in the beginning.

00:02:52.580 No one knows what I'm talking about.

00:02:54.560 I'm not hooked in at all to that.

00:02:55.920 I don't even know what I'm talking about.

00:02:57.980 I know that it's something to do with Laura Ingraham.

00:02:59.960 I don't know.

00:03:00.760 I'm not interested.

00:03:01.720 I'm already bored.

00:03:02.820 And I'm the one who said this.

00:03:03.920 Couldn't get into it.

00:03:04.700 Explain yourself.

00:03:05.500 What didn't you like about it?

00:03:06.420 It insists upon itself.

00:03:07.900 But I'm not, I'm also not paying attention to what I'm saying because I'm still hung up

00:03:10.880 on some of the aesthetics of this broadcast.

00:03:12.420 Like there's a random book bag in the background.

00:03:15.420 Why is that there?

00:03:16.240 I actually remember the, so I remember that.

00:03:18.260 Oddly enough, I remember before I hit record on the, on the camera, I remember, I looked

00:03:23.480 back and said, there's a book bag there.

00:03:24.880 I should probably move it.

00:03:26.240 And then I said, eh, it's not worth it.

00:03:28.580 So it wasn't worth the effort for me to turn around and move the book bag over.

00:03:33.420 And so I said, we'll just keep it on camera because why does it matter?

00:03:37.620 Speaking of the aesthetics, you'll notice the fence in the background there.

00:03:41.460 And so a lot of times people will ask me back in the car cast days, which by the way, is

00:03:45.560 what I'm calling it now, where did I go to do the podcast?

00:03:48.580 And really nobody asked me that because nobody was watching and no one cares.

00:03:51.020 But if you were wondering that, this very first episode I did outside of my house, that's

00:03:56.720 my yard there.

00:03:57.720 And I stopped doing that because what would happen is I'd be in the car doing the podcast

00:04:03.700 and my kids would come out and they would just stand in the yard and stare at me.

00:04:07.660 And that made me feel self-conscious.

00:04:09.180 And then my wife would come out and my, my, my kids would say, oh, what's daddy doing in

00:04:13.080 the car?

00:04:13.580 And she would say, oh, daddy's pretending to have a job, kids.

00:04:17.040 She didn't say that exactly, but she could have said that.

00:04:18.860 And it would not have been inaccurate.

00:04:21.820 So anyway, so eventually I found a new spot at a, like at a parking lot, like a shopping

00:04:26.200 center parking lot.

00:04:27.000 And I would do it there.

00:04:27.960 I'm in a parking garage right next to an overflowing trash can.

00:04:32.100 And then instead of my kids staring at me, it would be random people walking by staring

00:04:35.180 at me, which was better, I guess.

00:04:37.200 And I remember, and this is true, one time in one of these parking lots doing the show,

00:04:43.380 this is not a show.

00:04:43.920 And a guy actually came up and knocked on the window and said, hey, you okay in there?

00:04:50.520 Am I okay?

00:04:51.560 What are you, what are you, why?

00:04:52.780 Of course I'm okay.

00:04:53.500 Why do I, but then I realized I look like I'm having a psychotic episode.

00:04:57.940 So I guess he was checking to make sure that it wasn't.

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00:05:53.660 All right.

00:05:54.220 In fact, just to frame this, and in case you forget, let's just remind you what the

00:06:03.860 tweet was, what this offending tweet was.

00:06:05.800 This is the tweet that has potentially destroyed her career.

00:06:09.440 So I'm holding a phone in my hand while delivering the monologue.

00:06:14.720 And this is the tweet, okay?

00:06:18.080 Got to pull up the tweet because I didn't have it ready.

00:06:19.640 Okay.

00:06:20.500 You can just stop it again.

00:06:23.360 So I'm still not paying attention to the content at all because I'm not interested in the content.

00:06:26.760 The other question I get is, this is a real question that comes up.

00:06:30.340 It's a fair question, which is like, why?

00:06:33.160 Well, how was this ever a thing?

00:06:34.460 Why did anyone ever think that this was a good idea for you to do a show in the car?

00:06:39.300 And the answer to that is that when I first started The Daily Wire, before I even had

00:06:44.720 a podcast, they wanted me to record like little video rants just because they needed

00:06:50.820 content.

00:06:51.740 And so, you know, and I was writing and I worked at The Daily Wire and I was mostly writing

00:06:56.460 and they said, well, you need to make more content than that.

00:06:58.620 We've got to squeeze every bit of content we can out of you.

00:07:02.520 And so they wanted me to start doing this every once in a while, just like do a little

00:07:05.080 video and post it.

00:07:07.480 It wasn't a lot of direction.

00:07:08.220 And I did those in my car because only because it was the only place I could go where it

00:07:13.180 was quiet.

00:07:13.880 And I thought that no one's going to watch it anyway.

00:07:15.460 So it doesn't really matter what it looks like.

00:07:17.500 And then when DW came to me and said that they would like me to do a daily show and I was

00:07:24.180 meeting in Jeremy's office in Los Angeles at the time and they said, I want to do a daily

00:07:29.080 show.

00:07:30.100 And I said, that sounds great.

00:07:32.160 So what like studio wise, what are we going to do about the studio?

00:07:35.800 And he said, well, keep doing it in your car.

00:07:38.880 Because we love the look.

00:07:40.660 We love the look in the car.

00:07:42.880 And he even said, this is true. 0.99

00:07:44.440 He even said that maybe down the line I could move into a studio, but maybe we would make

00:07:50.800 the studio look like the inside of a car so that I wouldn't be in a car anymore, but it

00:07:55.420 would look like it.

00:07:55.940 So we still have that great look.

00:07:57.720 And I think I sort of bought that at the time, but now I'm looking at this and I'm

00:08:00.640 like, there's no way you like that look.

00:08:02.740 That's not, it's not, no, there's no way.

00:08:05.020 There's no way you looked at this and said, that's a great look.

00:08:07.560 You know what?

00:08:08.160 That's the look.

00:08:08.820 That's the look that's going to take you to the top, kid.

00:08:10.440 That look right there.

00:08:11.280 So I think it was more like, hey, you don't even know how to comb your hair.

00:08:16.460 So we're not going to put a lot of money into this operation.

00:08:18.660 You got to, you got to prove it.

00:08:19.820 You got to earn it.

00:08:20.460 So I think it was more of that, which is fair.

00:08:22.820 All right.

00:08:24.840 We'll watch.

00:08:25.300 How far into this video have we made?

00:08:27.000 I think we've made it about 15 seconds, 50 seconds.

00:08:30.960 All right.

00:08:31.080 Let's see if we can make it to a minute.

00:08:32.080 Let's put 10 seconds on the clock.

00:08:33.220 Go ahead.

00:08:35.640 She, the tweet is linking to an article.

00:08:38.320 It says, David Hogg rejected by four colleges to which he applied.

00:08:45.200 Hmm.

00:08:46.140 How do I still have a job?

00:08:48.660 How did that happen?

00:08:50.160 I will get myself.

00:08:50.840 So I'm, you know, I'm, I'm looking at this and I'm like,

00:08:52.820 what's the bright side?

00:08:53.960 What can I give myself some credit for?

00:08:56.040 Where are the strong points?

00:08:57.500 And I'll give myself credit for one thing.

00:08:59.180 I don't think it doesn't look or sound like I'm reading.

00:09:02.060 You sure about that?

00:09:03.220 But, and I don't know if this is good or bad, but I definitely was reading.

00:09:07.100 So I would write out a monologue and then I would go and print it at Staples

00:09:10.660 because we didn't have a printer at our house.

00:09:12.320 And then I would go into my car when I would usually just stay parked in the Staples parking lot.

00:09:17.320 And the employees at Staples were definitely wondering because they're like,

00:09:22.240 who is this disheveled weirdo coming in here every day and printing out a little speech

00:09:27.360 and then delivering it to nobody in his car outside.

00:09:31.460 Imagine how confused everybody was.

00:09:33.740 And that was my audience too, by the way.

00:09:35.380 So the employees at Staples were kind of like looking out the window.

00:09:38.400 Is he in, is he in his car?

00:09:40.820 What are they doing in there?

00:09:41.980 That was the whole audience of the show.

00:09:43.660 That was it.

00:09:44.300 That was the entire audience.

00:09:45.140 But at least I had an audience.

00:09:48.220 But now everything has changed.

00:09:50.100 Now I'm in this beautiful studio looking out over trees and mountains,

00:09:53.540 very real trees and mountains.

00:09:55.040 You sure about that?

00:09:56.240 And I think we've walked out memory lane enough.

00:09:58.800 I want to remove these early episodes from the internet now and burn them.

00:10:02.640 That's what I would, if that was even possible, that's what I would prefer to do.

00:10:05.260 Why?

The Matt Walsh Show - October 07, 2023

Matt Walsh Reviews His FIRST Podcast Episode

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