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Joe Rogan Experience #2204 - Matt Walsh

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The Joe Rogan Experience.
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All right, what's happening?
Hey, great to be back. Thanks for having me.
Your movie is really funny. It's really funny.
By myself, laughing out loud hysterically today.
I watched it in the sauna. I watched it in the gym.
I watched it. It's one of the best comedies I've seen in a long time
because there's so many moments in it that are so uncomfortable.
That means a lot. I appreciate that. Yeah, that's what we're hoping for.
The Robin DiAngelo one where you gave that guy money for reparations
and you got her, she thought it was uncomfortable.
Yeah, that was kind of...
When we had the idea for the film to talk about race,
we knew we needed to get Robin DiAngelo.
I didn't think we'd get her because I figured she'd be a lot more cautious.
Yeah, savvy and cautious.
But apparently she has no idea what's happening outside of her bubble at all.
So she didn't know who I was.
I mean, I gave her my name and she had no clue.
Wow.
But we kind of went into that knowing what the end was supposed to be,
if we could get her.
We came up with that idea.
We went to a bar the night before the interview and we came up with this idea.
Could we get her to actually pay reparations to Ben, our black producer?
And we had to kind of talk him into it.
And, you know, it was really just like, in real time, I was there for about two
hours
and it was an hour and a half of the most mind-numbing conversation where I'm
just...
None of that's in the movie because it's just me, like, fluff questions.
And I'm repeating back to her own ideas so she knows that I'm a safe person.
Right.
It's a safe space.
And then you got to build to it and build to it and build to it.
And then finally you get to a point where you can do something a little weird.
And she'll probably go along with it.
And she did.
I mean, you saw we go through a whole...
We have a whole series of exercises we want to do with her.
And she went...
She did it.
She was game.
So that was...
And that was one of the first things we filmed.
So after we got that, we knew that, okay, we have a movie here.
I feel like you got your money's worth with her, seeing as it's $15,000.
But I feel like you got robbed by the lady that got upset about the mascot.
50 grand.
You barely got anything out of her.
Yeah, that was...
Well, part of the point of the movie is...
That's why we put the price tags on the screen.
We want people to see how absurd it is.
So in a certain way, it was like...
The higher they quoted the price, we said, great, we'll pay that.
Because we want this in the movie.
Right.
Because if all these people had said, oh, yeah, I'll do it for free, or I'll do
it for 200 bucks, just pay my travel, doesn't really make the point.
Right.
But they all were quoting exorbitant prices, and she was the most.
$50,000.
And then she basically said almost nothing.
But it was okay.
No one ever found out who the identity of the mascot is?
No.
I don't think so.
It would have been hilarious if it was a person of color.
Well, it almost certainly was.
It almost certainly was, because if it was a white guy...
They would have thrown him under the bus.
Yeah.
Yeah, they would have.
So the fact that they didn't...
Yeah, it was probably some Hispanic kid or something.
And you've got to imagine, you can't see real good with that fucking costume.
Have you ever put a mascot costume on?
I haven't, but I can tell that there's little eye slits.
You can't even see what's below you.
Exactly.
And that's why...
Yeah.
Duncan and I did a whole podcast where we were pretending to be furries.
We lasted...
Every podcast we do, we dress up.
We'll dress up like Star Wars people or whatever, spaceship people.
We did a podcast as furries.
We kept the helmets on for maybe five minutes.
We're like, I can't fucking do it.
And we both took them off.
We're like, props to the furries.
If you could run around with this thing on, this is hard to do.
You can't see shit.
You can't breathe.
So the idea that he missed those kids is like...
The furries are doing a lot more than running around in those things too.
So that's the...
They are.
They are.
I think they designed special ones for that.
Yeah.
I don't even want to know, but...
Like a hatch.
But that's...
It's actually a perfect example of what these people do, these race hustlers,
that something
happened.
It was a little bit unpleasant.
Yes.
Not a big deal.
There's a million ways to interpret that.
It's just a normal human thing that happens in the world.
Things happen that are a little bit unpleasant.
You're disappointed.
Your kid didn't get a high five.
Okay.
It happens.
But for them, they have one lens for seeing the world.
And the lens is through this left-wing racial ideology.
So everything that happens is colored by that.
Right.
And everything is understood through that lens.
So anything...
I mean, you think about Michelle Obama, when she was first lady, she had
multiple stories
that she would tell about as first lady being discriminated against because of
her race, allegedly.
And one of them was she was in line for ice cream or something, and someone cut
in front
of her.
And she told this story in some interview, this very dramatic story about, well,
they didn't
see her because she's black.
And meanwhile, it's like, we've all been cut...
Lady, people have cut in front of all of us.
It's just that if it happens to me at Walmart, I don't think of it racially.
I just think, oh, this person's an asshole.
But for her, it's all racial.
So that's kind of...
But that's a crazy one to say that someone cutting in front of you a selfish
act is somehow
racist just because...
That's like looking for racism everywhere.
Right.
Because that kind of situation is so normal.
It's so normal that some dick cuts in front of you.
Right.
Exactly.
It's an unpleasant thing that happens to all people.
And if you're not in the kind of race hustler bubble, you don't see it that way.
But that's...
But it's interesting that nobody wants to call that out.
Nobody wants to be reasonable.
Nobody wants to say, well, is that...
Like, you just say, oh, wow.
You know, you have to listen to it.
That's part of the problem.
Like, you can't say, are you sure that's racist?
Because then you're a racist apologist.
And then you're racist by proxy.
Yeah.
And how do you know...
So how do you know what's in that other person's mind?
How can you ascribe motives to them?
It drives me nuts that this is what we do now, where if someone does something
or says
something, someone else is offended by it.
That person who's offended gets to decide what the intent was behind the other
person's
action to the extent that if the other person says, no, no, no, this was my
intention.
I'll tell you what it was.
They don't get to have a say in the intentions behind their own actions.
They are suddenly not authorities in their own behavior.
Exactly.
This other person who was the offended party gets to inform you what you meant
by that thing.
which is really what the, you know, I mean, the move is called Am I Racist?
But in reality, there's only one person who can answer whether you're a racist
person, and
that's you.
And if you don't think that you're racist, then you, then you aren't because
racism is a thought process.
And if it's not in your head, then you're not racist.
You might, you might have stereotypical views about people of other races.
Everybody does.
To some extent, you might think things that are even insulting about people of
other races, but it's not, it's not racist.
Because racist means you hate people of other races, or you think they're
inferior to you.
Right.
But you could be not a racist person and think that whatever, Asians are bad
drivers.
You know, you could think that that stereotype is true.
Whether it's true or not, you just happen to think that that's a true thing
about this group.
Doesn't mean you hate them.
Doesn't mean that you think that they're inferior.
It's just.
You can say frat boys are annoying and not hate men.
Exactly.
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Exactly.
Whether...
And most of the time, these stereotypes, they didn't just fall out of the sky.
Right.
They're grounded in something.
If they did, no one would...
It wouldn't make any sense.
Right.
And nobody would be offended...
That's the thing.
Nobody would be offended by a stereotype that really was not true at all.
Right.
But you're only offended because it rings true at least a little bit.
Because otherwise, it would just be...
It would be...
Exactly.
Absurd.
Which is why when you get...
I mean, in the movie, we go...
There's a section where we go kind of outside this bubble.
And we go down.
We talk to bikers at a biker bar in the South.
We talk to the poor black community in New Orleans.
And the only reason we did that was just, well, let's find people who are not...
They probably didn't go to college, so they didn't get brainwashed there.
They're not getting the corporate DEI seminars.
They're not reading Robin DiAngelo or any of these people.
What do they think about this stuff?
Are they worried about systemic racism?
Do they see everything as racist all the time?
And what we found is no.
They're just not even...
They don't even speak that language.
When you say the term systemic racism to them, they say, well, what do you mean
by that?
What is that?
Well, this was something that, like, people are always concerned about people
being racist.
But there's something that happened in this country somewhere around 2012-ish
where things really, really ramped up.
And it just became much more of a subject, a subject that was, like, constantly
around, you know, worrying about racial bias.
And it ramped up, right?
It ramped up until you get to the point where you do have some of these race
hustlers that are saying everyone's racist.
You must confront your unconscious bias.
And you'r