Best Moments from Matt Walsh’s ＂Am I Racist？＂ Media Tour
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Summary
In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the comedian and podcaster chats with filmmaker Matt Walsh about his new movie, Am I Racist. They discuss the making of the film, how it came to life, and why it's one of the funniest movies he's ever made.
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You may have heard by now that I have a new movie in theaters called Am I Racist?
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People across the country have been loving the movie, including a lot of big names in
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Over the past couple of weeks, I've gotten to sit down with some of these people to discuss
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We've put together these great moments from the interviews for you to enjoy.
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By myself, laughing out loud hysterically today.
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It's one of the best comedies I've seen in a long time because there's so many moments
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The Robin DiAngelo one where you gave that guy money for reparations and you got her.
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It almost feels like satire, but you realize it's not.
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You do a really good job of staying calm and deadpanning because I don't have that skill.
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It's just I wouldn't be able to not enjoy it in the moment to the point where I would go.
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That's the thing you don't enjoy it in the moment because it's actually it's really unpleasant
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You're in this environment with these insane people.
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It's like it's exhausting, you know, listening to this.
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If I was there and I didn't know you, I'd be like, I think this guy's around.
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There's just an edge, just a touch of it, just a touch of it that makes it even funnier.
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And I think it's it's a great way to expose how ridiculous some of this is.
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This is a world that they live in to do it the way you did it and just make it a hilarious
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You know, I'm a successful author, podcaster and filmmaker.
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And I'm just like so worried that you're going to get found out getting Robin DiAngelo
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to actually pay reparations one to one to your black director.
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Because she was she she was talking the game of systemic racism.
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And then you said, OK, well, let's give money right now to my director.
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Yeah, we kind of I was because at this point I'm on the journey myself to become a DEI consultant
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And by the end of it, I was able to teach Robin DiAngelo because we went through this whole
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And and and I gave her because we were just talking in theory.
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I said, let's let's put this into practice right now.
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And I called my black friend Ben out, who's a producer on the film.
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And then eventually we convinced Robin DiAngelo to pay as well.
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Although I will say that once the cameras were off, I did take my reparations back.
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I love that uncomfortable silence where you handed money to Ben and then she was like,
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You know, I said I only like to talk to creative geniuses and I've got one today and he's a good
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I'm so excited because your movie that's being released, it's a big deal.
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Well, it's got a huge theatrical release, which is a very big deal for, you know.
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Because it's funny, I think, because, you know, you get a lot of good laughs in it.
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So it's a good date night thing or a guy's night out or a girl's night out thing.
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You are doing the right thing by making a funny movie.
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Because that's really the way to reach people is doing something funny that, you know, just
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And that's something that the left has typically been very good at.
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Now, in recent years, they haven't been so good at it because they put the, you know,
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it's interesting in the entertainment world anyway, the left is now making kind of the
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mistake that, you know, Christian films have made for a long time where they're putting
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So it's nothing but one long homily and people just aren't that interested.
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And so, but I think it creates an opportunity for someone to come in and make entertainment
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that's actually entertaining, but also has the message.
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And, you know, if you want to go to your own white grief support group, you can go.
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I just would love to thank you for being here today.
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He makes things turn, but he's there to turn them.
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Joining me now, Matt Walsh, host of The Daily Wire is The Matt Walsh Show and star and producer
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So I have good news for you because I watched it with a focus group of two.
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My husband, Doug Brunt, and I watched it together and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Doug Brunt enjoyed it even more than I did because Doug, who is very affable and a great
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guy, is not particularly prone to fits of emotion in any particular way.
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He loved your deadpan, you know, just demeanor, your comments.
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You weren't, you know, in people's faces, but you would keep asking questions when you
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You would keep like pressing little buttons when you could tell they were on their heels
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wondering what the hell had just walked into the room.
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Looking back at it, of course, it's quite humorous.
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But when you're in the moment, it's actually not all that funny to me when you're really
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there and you're watching these people, especially these grifters who, you know, this is their
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They take normal people and they try to break them down.
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And it's like this brainwashing session that you see in the movie that goes on over and
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That Saira Rao is the most hateful person in this entire film.
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America is a piece of S, I believe she says, or her words.
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Seeing you needle her and like tweak her and ultimately expose and thus embarrass her is
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That's how you wind up feeling at the end of this, even though there are infuriating moments.