The Matt Walsh Show - Matt Walsh Takes A Trip Down Memory Lane

00:00:00.000 Today is President's Day, which means that we have off the show. There's no show today and

00:00:07.100 the studios are closed down, which comes as a shock to me every year when I remember again

00:00:12.140 that for some reason we have off for President's Day. Nobody knows why. No one at the Daily Wire

00:00:16.800 knows why they give us off for President's Day of all days, but they do and we're not going to

00:00:21.260 complain about it. But then again, I actually never have off because we need to feed the content

00:00:26.400 machine. And today for the content machine, we're actually jumping into a time machine.

00:00:31.620 There are a lot of memories from this show. So we're going to go take a look back at some

00:00:34.900 moments of the show. And what we're interested in is not like what I'm saying, because who cares

00:00:41.040 about that, but some of the objects and things that are in the background as this show has traveled

00:00:47.980 literally from my car to a house, to a studio, some things that are now part of the show's

00:00:53.860 lore, I suppose. So we'll just go through these. I don't think we're going in sequential order

00:01:00.040 exactly, but I'm just going to take them as they come. So yeah, first we have this. This is back

00:01:04.520 when I had graduated from the car anyway, but I was in my house in a studio we set up. And I call it a

00:01:11.300 studio, but really it was just like the corner. It was actually the corner of our bedroom is where we

00:01:16.220 set this up. And as you can see there, the crutches from when I tore my Achilles. Now the thing about

00:01:22.140 that is, this was back in, when was this? 2019, I guess. I tore my Achilles. I was, I went to a kind

00:01:28.560 of a bachelor party weekend. My good friend of mine was getting married. And so he got this house and

00:01:34.080 it was like a lake, Deep Creek Lake in Maryland. And then I come home from that weekend hobbled and

00:01:40.060 injured, which makes it sound like some crazy things happen when actually that's not the case at all.

00:01:44.220 We just played pickup basketball and I'm old and middle-aged now. So in playing pickup basketball,

00:01:48.920 I tore my Achilles, totally ruined the weekend, by the way, they had to like, they had to, this is,

00:01:54.720 this is a, you know, the middle of nowhere basically. So it's like, they got driving an

00:01:58.120 hour to a hospital and I can't do anything for the rest of the weekend because I'm, because I'm

00:02:02.760 crippled. It's just completely ruined it. And I was on crutches for a time after that. And also, 1.00

00:02:08.580 you know, I got home, I think this was on like a Monday and I got home and, and I was severely

00:02:15.260 injured. You know, there was a week in between when I tore the Achilles and when I actually got

00:02:20.520 the, the, the, the surgery to repair it. Because actually when I went to the hospital, which was

00:02:25.780 this rundown, like rinky dink hospital in Deep Creek, Maryland. And when I went there, they told

00:02:30.400 me that it wasn't torn and that it was just a, it was just a sprain. And they gave me some,

00:02:34.420 some Tylenol and said, go home, you're fine. And so I sat with a completely torn Achilles for a week

00:02:41.160 until I finally went to a different doctor. They said, oh no, it's, it's totally shredded and we

00:02:44.660 need to do surgery. But anyway, I remember coming home and I, I called up the God King Jeremy Boring

00:02:50.000 and I said, I'm horrifically injured. I'm in a lot of pain. I need to take a couple of days off.

00:02:54.540 And he said, well, you can still sit, can't you? You don't do the show while standing.

00:03:00.300 I said, you're right. So I sat there and I had my, I think I put the crutches there as like a small

00:03:04.220 act of protest to show everyone, look what you're making me do. But I don't think anyone felt sympathy.

00:03:08.580 Next we have the globe, you know, the famous globe. I've, I've had a, do we have any globes on the set

00:03:14.520 right now? How do we not have any globes? Somehow we've moved past the globe. This was the one thing,

00:03:19.200 you know, the globe thing is when I was doing these shows in random spots in my house and I was a little

00:03:25.300 bit jealous that all the other shows on the Daily Wire, they were all in Los Angeles and I was on the

00:03:30.380 East coast and they had real studios and all the fancy equipment. And so I needed some way to spruce

00:03:37.320 things up a little bit, to class it up a bit. And so I thought, what better way to do that than

00:03:42.240 with a globe? Also, you can see that a mess of a bookshelf behind me that my wife would always 0.99

00:03:48.880 complain about. And she said, it looks terrible in the shot, but I, I disagreed. You know, at the time

00:03:53.880 I thought, I think it's, I think it's good. It looked, you know what? It's a, she said, you got to

00:03:57.040 decorate the book. It's on camera every day. You got to decorate it better. You've got to organize

00:04:00.460 things, make it look less messy. And I said, no, this is an authentic bookshelf. This is a bookshelf

00:04:04.880 that's actually used. Like I actually take books off that shelf and read them. That was

00:04:09.860 my thought process. Looking back on it now, it does look a little messy. There appears

00:04:14.880 to be some sort of, what is that bottle in the background? All the background, I see some

00:04:18.860 sort of, looks like a medicine bottle of some kind. Is that like Robitussin? I don't even

00:04:22.520 know what that is. And then we have, well, this is, now we're going all the way back to

00:04:27.060 the very early days of the show when I was a homeless drifter going from town to town in

00:04:32.540 my car. I would usually have this book bag in the background of the shot. And the

00:04:38.380 reason is that I, I didn't, wasn't like any thought process. It wasn't decorating the

00:04:42.560 set or anything. It wasn't much of a set to decorate, but this is what it meant for

00:04:45.480 me to go to work. It meant I was grabbing my book bag, hopping into my car and I was

00:04:50.640 finding some random spot. Usually it'd be a Walmart parking lot and I would just sit

00:04:55.240 there and do the show, but I had to move around quite a bit. You know, I had to work

00:04:59.120 with, there's a, there's a lot you don't take into, you don't, you don't think about

00:05:01.940 before you start doing a show in your car. It's like the sun. It's also the fact that

00:05:06.800 I can't roll the windows down because then everybody can hear me as they're walking by.

00:05:10.420 They hear me ranting about whatever. Easter is on Sunday.

00:05:17.260 What? And then that's, I got to keep the windows rolled up. Also that way you don't have

00:05:20.940 the ambient noise, but then it all gets really, gets really hot. Sometimes in the summer,

00:05:24.660 there are some shows, if you go back to the early shows, you'll see some shows where I'm in a,

00:05:28.640 it appears to be that I'm in like a parking garage, which I was because I needed some shade,

00:05:34.060 you know, from the sun and to be able to keep the windows rolled up. This next one. Yeah,

00:05:38.340 that's my, I went through this brief odd phase of wearing a bracelet and I don't know why or what

00:05:44.380 I was thinking. I'm wondering if this was even photoshopped. Did I really do that?

00:05:48.740 It's a moment of temporary insanity. I'm not exactly sure. I really don't know. I don't remember ever

00:05:54.200 putting this thing on. Is that even me? Is this a deep fake? I don't believe that's me. I never

00:05:58.540 wore a bracelet. This is, this got slipped in there. I don't believe it. And then we finally,

00:06:02.280 we moved to a real studio. This is where you may remember the sloth in the tumbler that had another

00:06:08.940 thing. Now I'm just remembering all these things that have somehow disappeared from the set that I

00:06:11.960 want back. Okay. I want the globe back. Now you guys hear me in the controller. I want a globe back. I

00:06:15.820 don't know why we don't have a globe. And I want the sloth back. That's the sloth that we had in our

00:06:20.600 tumbler. And that was from, that was a gift that I received in our 12 days of Christmas series that

00:06:27.120 we did shortly after moving here. Now we came to Nashville and it was right before the Christmas

00:06:32.140 holiday. Okay. We got another gift here. This one from a fan in the UK. Apparently I have

00:06:38.940 at least one fan in the UK. I've got one fan there. I've got two or three fans here. That makes

00:06:44.700 three or four total. Um, it's a slow brew sloth tea infuser. I don't even know what that is.

00:07:01.120 Okay. So it's, it's just a sloth. Well, here's the note says greetings from across the pond. You 0.62

00:07:07.260 recently reviewed Chelsea Handler's standup comedy in which she called slow people koalas.

00:07:12.560 I think she meant to call them sloths. Enjoy this tea infuser as a reminder of your listeners in the

00:07:18.880 UK. Well, my listeners in the UK suck. It would seem. Striking out again on Christmas. 1.00

00:07:29.160 And I guess the idea of the joke was supposed to be that all the gifts were terrible, but I

00:07:33.440 actually liked most of them. And I liked that little sloth too. And now he's gone. No one

00:07:37.480 knows where he is. And then obviously who can forget the, uh, the, the alien. Now the interesting

00:07:43.040 thing about this alien that I still have on the set, and this is, this is an ongoing fight here

00:07:48.080 about, I insist on keeping this alien somewhere and he moves all around. And for a while he was

00:07:54.360 outside that window. Uh, but, and then I think that they just now, now that I'm realizing, I think that

00:08:00.180 they, they move the alien off the set completely. So what they do is I'll make a stink about,

00:08:04.260 I want my alien back and they'll put it somewhere and then they'll wait for me to forget about it. 0.97

00:08:08.220 And then they'll take it away. Um, until I remember and I say, I want my alien back. It's just,

00:08:12.240 this is push and pull that goes on. And now with aliens in the news and UFOs all over the news,

00:08:17.580 um, I think we need this alien to have a prominent place on the set once again, like he did

00:08:22.100 for all that time. The other funny thing about this alien is that we got him, we put him on the set,

00:08:26.180 we had him with the banjo. It also, part of the theme here is I'm not very observant. And so it

00:08:31.260 didn't occur to me until months later that this may be a gay pride alien. Uh, we're not exactly 0.90

00:08:36.780 sure. It's got all, it's got the colors of the rainbow. So we don't know. Is this a homosexual 0.99

00:08:41.360 alien showing his, his pride? Nothing wrong with that. If that's the case, I'm not going to judge the 0.98

00:08:48.160 aliens for their lifestyle choices, mainly because I don't want to be incinerated. You might,

00:08:53.940 you might call him a galleon. That was my joke too. I just thought of that. Um, finally,

00:09:00.500 what's the last one? Okay. Well, this is something on the set that I never even knew about, but they

00:09:05.160 told me about, and you can see there, um, that cup, which I have here now, this is, I'm told in my

00:09:12.560 notes, this is McKenna's cup. Actually what they told me, this is the claim. This is the story that I

00:09:17.360 heard that I'm not sure I quite believe. What I was told is that this is a cup. I'm pretty sure this is

00:09:22.560 what Sean told me. This cup is from 1776 and I'm looking at the cup and I think like, it's a nice

00:09:28.360 cup. I don't think it's from 1776. Also, it says 1776 on it. And I don't think that in 1776, they're

00:09:34.100 making cups and just saying to themselves, this is going to be a really significant year. We should

00:09:38.560 put that year right on the cup. McKenna, when was this cup made? Was it in 1776? You have no idea.

00:09:44.900 She has no idea where the cup was made. Well, let's just say this is a cup. Scratch all that. The really

00:09:49.880 crazy thing is that for so long on the set, we had a cup from the year 1776 sitting on the

00:09:56.440 set. That is true history from the Matt Wall Show.

The Matt Walsh Show - February 20, 2023

Matt Walsh Takes A Trip Down Memory Lane

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