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

Episode Date: October 7, 2023

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Okay, it's time for a little bit of anthropology, some historical research today. We're going to go back and rewatch as much as we can stomach of my very first episode. We're going to move the clock back five years to April 2nd of 2018, is the first episode, with me, homeless, in my car. And I have to tell you that I don't like to watch my old stuff because you have to understand it's like a lose-lose proposition. Because either it's really good and then you worry that you were better back then than you are now and you've fallen off, or it's terrible and embarrassing, and then you're just

embarrassed. How embarrassing. So, no matter what, it's emotionally painful to watch anything that you've done prior to the day before yesterday. But I'm going to endure that pain today. So let's get into episode one of the Matt Wall Show called Never Apologize to the Pitchfork Mob, the name of the episode, a theme that, of course, I've returned to frequently in preceding years, and let's put it on.

All right, so Laura Ingram is taking a vacation. Okay, pause it. I can't actually do this. So first of all, we don't have to worry about that it's too good and makes me feel bad about what I'm doing now. So that's not a concern. That concerns off the table. It's not, we don't have to worry. We don't have to worry the show was better back then. That's the good news.

What we do have to worry about, though, is everything else that's happening. And we have to start with my appearance, which. I don't know what's going on with the haircut. It's like a little bit of Donald Trump. It's a little bit of an unkempt sixth grader on school picture day. There's the Cyclops glasses. Not the best look. And then there's the faux leather jacket.

It was definitely faux leather. It was a $30 jacket probably. So there's the faux leather jacket with the salmon striped, wrinkled shirt that's not even buttoned all the way. And then it goes the most egregious offense of all, of course, is the beard, which is way too trimmed down. And that's like, if you're going to have a beard like that, there's no reason to have a beard. So you really got to commit one way or another.

You have the beard. You don't have the beard. So here's what I'm wondering when I watch this, which is, so I don't put the blame on myself, as you might expect. I put the blame on everybody else. Like, why did no one else say to me, hey, you look like shit on camera. Let's figure something out.

No one said that to me. Am I shocked you to learn it? No one ever said that. Not one time. Nobody. So I feel betrayed. This isn't not my fault. All right.

Let's continue. Vacation amid the advertiser boycott and all the outrage that's still growing. It hasn't died down. Here we are four or five days later because of this, you know, unnecessary and dumb tweet that she sent about David Hogg, unnecessary and dumb. Okay, let's just stop. Just get to the point.

What they said is babbling in the beginning. No one knows what I'm talking about. I'm not hooked in at all to that. I don't even know what I'm talking. I know that it's something to do with Laura Ingram. I don't know. I'm not interested. I'm already bored.

And I'm the one who said this. Couldn't get into it. Explain yourself. What didn't you like about it? It insists upon itself. But I'm not, I'm also not paying attention to what I'm saying because I'm still hung up on some of the aesthetics of this broadcast.

Like there's a random book bag in the background. Why is that there? I actually remember the, so I remember that. Oddly enough, I remember before I hit record on the, on the camera, I remember,

I look back and said there's a book bag there. I should probably move it. And then I said, it's not worth it. So it wasn't worth the effort for me to turn around and move the book bag over. And so I said, we'll just keep it on camera because why does it matter? Speaking of the aesthetics, you'll notice the fence in the background there. And so a lot of times people will ask me back in the car cast days, which, by the way, is what I'm calling it now, where did I go to do the podcast? And really nobody asked me that because nobody was watching and no one cares.

But if you were wondering that, this very first episode I did outside of my house, that's my yawks. there. And I stopped doing that because what would happen is I'd be in the car doing the podcast and my kids would come out and they would just stand in the yard and stare at me. And I made me feel self-conscious. And then my wife would come out and my kids would say, oh, what's daddy doing in the car? And she would say, oh, daddy's pretending to have a job, kids. She didn't say that exactly, but she could have said that. And it would not have been inaccurate. So anyway, so eventually I found a new spot at a, like at a parking lot, like a shopping center parking lot, and I would do it there. I'm in a parking garage right next to an overflowing trash can. And then instead of my kids

staring at me, it would be random people walking by staring at me, which was better, I guess. And I remember, and this is true, one time in one of these parking lots doing the show, this is not a show. And a guy actually came up and knocked on the window and said, hey, you okay in there? Am I okay? What do you? Like, what do you? Why? Of course, I'm I'm okay. But then I realized I looked like I'm having a psychotic episode. So I guess he was checking to make sure that it wasn't. You know, Vladimir Putin called the U.S. dollars drop in dominance objective and irreversible, as Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa formerly agreed to use local currencies

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And this is the tweet that has potentially destroyed her career. So I'm holding a phone in my hand while delivering the monologue. And this is the tweet, okay? Got to pull up the tweets. I didn't have it ready. Okay. You just stop it again. So I'm still not paying attention to the content at all because I'm not interested in the content.

The other question I get is this is a real question that comes up. It's a fair question, which is like, why, well, how was this ever a thing? Why did anyone ever think that this was a good idea for you to do a show in the car? And the answer to that is that when I first started the Daily Wire, before I even had a podcast, they wanted me to record like little video rant just because they needed content. And so, you know, and I was writing, and I worked in the other way, and I was mostly writing, and they said, well, you need to make more content than that. We've got to squeeze every bit of content we can out of you. And so they wanted me to start doing these little, every once in a while, just like, do a little video and post it.

It wasn't a lot of direction. And I did those in my car, only because it was the only place I could go where it was quiet. And I thought that no one's going to watch it anyway, so it doesn't really matter what it looks like. And then when DW came to me and said that they would like me to do a daily show and I was meeting in Jeremy's office in Los Angeles at a time. And they said, want to me to do a daily show? And I said, this sounds great. So what, like studio-wise, what are we going to do about the studio?

And he said, well, keep doing it in your car because we love the look. We love the look in the car. And he even said, this is true. We even said that maybe down the line I could move into a studio, but maybe we would make the studio look like the inside of a car so that I wouldn't be in a car anymore, but it would look like it. So we'd still have that great look. And I think I sort of bought that at the time, but now I'm looking at this and I'm like, there's no way you like that look. That's not, it's not, no. There's no way.

There's no way you looked at this and said, that's a great look. You know what? That's the look's going to take you to the top kid. That look right there. So I think it was more like, hey, you don't even know how to comb your hair, so we're not going to put a lot of money into this operation. You got to prove it. You got to earn it. So I think it was more of that, which is fair.

All right. Well, watch. How do you know, how far into this video have made? I think we've made it about 15 seconds. 50 seconds. All right. Let's see if we can make it to a minute. Let's put 10 seconds on a clock.

Go ahead. The tweet is, linking to an article, it says, David Hogg, rejected by four colleges to which he applied. How do I still have a job? How did that happen? I look at myself, so I'm looking at this and I'm like, what's the bright side? What can I give myself some credit for? Where are the strong points?

And I'll give myself credit for one thing. I don't think it doesn't look or sound like I'm reading. You sure about that? But, and I don't know if this is good or bad, but I definitely was reading. So I would write out a monologue and then I would go and print it at Staples because we didn't have a printer at her house. And then I would go into my car when I would usually just stay parked in the Staples parking lot. And the employees at Staples were definitely wondering because they're like,

who is this disheveled weirdo coming in here every day and printing out a little speech and then delivering it to nobody in his car outside? Imagine how confused everybody was. And that was my audience too, by the way. So the employees at Staples were kind of like looking out the window. Is he in his car? What are he doing in there? That was the whole audience of the show.

That was it. That was the entire audience. But at least I had an audience. But now everything has changed. Now I'm in this beautiful studio looking out over trees and mountains, very real trees and mountains. You sure about that? And I think we've walked out memory lane enough. I want to remove these early episodes from the internet now and burn them.

That's what I would, if that was even possible, that's what I would prefer to do. Thanks for watching. Why?