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Am I Racist? (2024): Did Matt Walsh infiltrate and trick the woke movement? | Under the Docs 006 · Under the Docs

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Speaker 1: Under the Dogs.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, under the Dogs, very fam we're breaking the locks.
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Speaker 2: Funny you could they erase the shots they kind the
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Speaker 2: dogs under the docks.
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Speaker 1: Under the Dogs, Yeah, under.
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Speaker 3: The docks, Under the Dogs.
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Speaker 4: We're back under the docks today. Were looking into Am
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Speaker 4: I Racist? A twenty twenty four film directed by Justin
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Speaker 4: Folk narrated by Matt Walsh. Now, this film the reason
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Speaker 4: we're covering it. It's kind of a huge deal because
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Speaker 4: it's backed by the Daily Wire and anybody that knows
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Speaker 4: Matt Walsh knows that he did the What Is a Woman?
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Speaker 4: Which did pretty well and people kind of liked it
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Speaker 4: and it got into people's faces because it's going into
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Speaker 4: this dei in wokeism and you know, right now you
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Speaker 4: either are woke or you're against it, and it feeds
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Speaker 4: that narrative. And Daily Wire is a big platform, so
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Speaker 4: they've gotten around. This one is really easy to find,
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Speaker 4: Not like some of the other ones we've discussed. This
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Speaker 4: one you can find anywhere. As soon as you put
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Speaker 4: im Racist, it should pop up.
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Speaker 5: This one is also unique because it had a theatrical release,
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Speaker 5: Like you could actually go and see this movie depending
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Speaker 5: on what city you're in, but you could see it
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Speaker 5: at a mainstream local theater right alongside Avengers or X
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Speaker 5: Men or whatever the hell else was playing at the time,
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Speaker 5: so that kind of makes us stand apart. I think
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Speaker 5: this might be the first documentary of everything we've seen
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Speaker 5: so far that had a theatrical release, So this is
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Speaker 5: about as mainstream as we've gotten so far, and it
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Speaker 5: kind of does summarize the first two episodes that we
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Speaker 5: did in the series, all for Floyd and the Trayvon
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Speaker 5: Martin Hoax. This one kind of puts a nice little
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Speaker 5: bow on that, and it also ends it with some
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Speaker 5: softer edges instead of just like getting eve in more
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Speaker 5: sort of like inflammatory.
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Speaker 4: And the basic the basic premise of this is are
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Speaker 4: people just racist or are they more prejudiced? Is this
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Speaker 4: a systematic thing? They kind of explore that avenue of it.
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Speaker 5: Of course, more specifically, I would almost say that the
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Speaker 5: movie has an unofficial subtitle that I'm submitting here that's
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Speaker 5: not from Mott Waalasher Daily Wire, but that it's am
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Speaker 5: I racist and in parentheses as a white guy. Like
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Speaker 5: it's it's not really for just anyone to be considering
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Speaker 5: this question. It's really focused on our white people in particular,
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Speaker 5: racist against black people full stop.
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Speaker 4: So plotting the course Matt Walsh, he does some funny stuff.
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Speaker 4: It becomes a DEI expert in diversity. He actually really
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Speaker 4: paid the money to become certified, and I thought that
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Speaker 4: was hilarious. This film, to me, it's fun. I know,
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Speaker 4: not everybody will enjoy it. For me, I enjoyed it.
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Speaker 4: I laughed a lot, Like I thought it was really humorous,
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Speaker 4: like at times, you know, but telling the story of
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Speaker 4: like you said, specifically being a white Cish gender male,
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Speaker 4: that this is speaking to you, like this film is
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Speaker 4: directed towards whatever that is.
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Speaker 5: And I also almost want to point out early on
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Speaker 5: that we're calling this a documentary, but I don't know
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Speaker 5: if it makes any specific key claims it really it's
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Speaker 5: just more of pokes and prods and makes fun of
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Speaker 5: the current you know, the people that would require you
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Speaker 5: to have a DEI license, Like that's sort of the
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Speaker 5: reason he gets a DEI certification, a little card, and
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Speaker 5: he starts showing it off to anyone that he can
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Speaker 5: in any context like, oh, by the way, I'm DEI certified.
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Speaker 5: That's the whole premise of the movie, is that he's
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Speaker 5: meeting up with people that have the exact opposite view
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Speaker 5: that Matt Walsh does and the Daily Wire typically do.
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Speaker 5: But he's meeting with the experts and then sort of
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Speaker 5: asking the dumbest questions, but they're like they're obvious questions,
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Speaker 5: like the questions that usually are being asked rhetorically. Matt
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Speaker 5: Walsh asks the people that are writing books about DEI
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Speaker 5: and why you should consider yourself racist. He's asking them
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Speaker 5: these rhetorical questions on camera in a very like like
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Speaker 5: formal sit down interview way. He's hiring them in some
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Speaker 5: cases even tells you exactly how much they charge for
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Speaker 5: some of their seminars in order to go to them.
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Speaker 5: So it's really hard, though, to go down a list
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Speaker 5: of specific claims that he's making, because he does a
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Speaker 5: great job at This movie is about him asking this question,
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Speaker 5: am I racist? And then asking a whole bunch of
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Speaker 5: other questions like what would this be racist? Does this
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Speaker 5: make me racist? Just over and over again to a
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Speaker 5: whole bunch of different people.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I would say.
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Speaker 4: Instead of claims, it was more of exposing, maybe exposing
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Speaker 4: and putting a light onto some of these things that
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Speaker 4: some people may not know about that like you know,
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Speaker 4: for instance, he went to a white grief seminar where
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Speaker 4: he paid thirty grand to be a part of it,
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Speaker 4: and which is hilarious, Like, there's some really funny parts
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Speaker 4: in him where he's like interjecting in there. They're asking
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Speaker 4: what can he do better and what's his promise to
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Speaker 4: the black community, And the scene that really got me
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Speaker 4: is he's.
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Speaker 6: This isn't still in the beginning of the movie.
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Speaker 4: He's dressed normal as Matt Walsh, but he calls himself
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Speaker 4: Steve and as he's talking, he's like, yeah, my promise
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Speaker 4: to the black communities, I'm gonna do better, and for
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Speaker 4: the world, I'm gonna do better and better.
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Speaker 6: I'm gonna be better.
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Speaker 4: And then he stops and the next person starts to
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Speaker 4: talk and he's like, wait, I think I remember something else,
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Speaker 4: and then they're like, well, hold on, we gotta wait.
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Speaker 6: Turns he's like, we're gonna.
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Speaker 4: Come back around, and they're like, well, we don't come
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Speaker 4: back around, and he's like, well, I just don't want
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Speaker 4: him to say my promise that I'm about to say,
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Speaker 4: and then the girl proceeds to say so he's like,
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Speaker 4: that's what I was gonna say, and like, to me,
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Speaker 4: there's a lot of comic relief in it. For people
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Speaker 4: that are either in the middle or like that are
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Speaker 4: leaned that way will find it humorous. Now, if you
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Speaker 4: lean the other way, you probably think it's despicable and
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Speaker 4: he's just mockery making a mockery of them. But from
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Speaker 4: an unbiased state, me being in the middle, I thought
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Speaker 4: it was pretty funny.
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Speaker 5: I think maybe a better way to do the claims
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Speaker 5: for this movie is that they allow what the popular
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Speaker 5: claims being pushed in mainstream media. He allows those claims
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Speaker 5: to come to the forefront, and he in some cases
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Speaker 5: he even allows the people that wrote those books that
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Speaker 5: get cited by corporations that then get mentioned on news.
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Speaker 5: He goes directly to them, lets them make the claim,
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Speaker 5: and then he just throws these rhetorical questions at them.
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Speaker 5: So a lot of those claims, again, they just kind
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Speaker 5: of amount to privilege and DEI and allocational resources. They
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Speaker 5: don't go into any sort of reparations talk, so if
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Speaker 5: you're expecting it to go down that political rabbit hole,
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Speaker 5: it doesn't even come up once. And then there's also
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Speaker 5: a few other things that usually in this space would
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Speaker 5: come up, but he kind of remains laser focused on
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Speaker 5: just the experts that he's able to talk to and
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Speaker 5: like you said, sometimes antagonizes them.
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Speaker 4: Which makes for a good theatrical film, but like you said,
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Speaker 4: not necessarily a documentary because it's not revealing it in
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Speaker 4: information that we don't know that's been out there. But
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Speaker 4: it is nice to see, you know, something funny from
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Speaker 4: time to time. This was good from us decompressing from
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Speaker 4: the heavy stuff that we were kind of seeing the
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Speaker 4: last few weeks. This was really a chill one where
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Speaker 4: you could actually just pop up, put your legs up
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Speaker 4: and need some popcorn and laugh and have a good time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: No aerial drone footage of riots in this one.
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Speaker 6: So the Hidden Treasures. So for me, the Hidden Treasures was.
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Speaker 4: Just like actually going and paying the money to talk
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Speaker 4: to these people like he does the Dinner the White
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Speaker 4: Grief seminar, he talks to Robin DiAngelo, if you guys
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Speaker 4: don't know who that is, the White Fragility pretty much
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Speaker 4: the patriarch of this whole white privileged movement, and she
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Speaker 4: kind of sets the baseline of what everybody was talking
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Speaker 4: and he talking about in the film because they initiated
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Speaker 4: by after the White Grief. You know, he's like, well,
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Speaker 4: I got to put in the work, and he goes
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Speaker 4: to a bookstore that where he's explained like, hey start
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Speaker 4: here with white fragility, and he starts reading the book.
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Speaker 6: So the focal point.
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Speaker 4: Is Robin DiAngelo, who is kind of like one of
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Speaker 4: the pioneers quote unquote for this white privilege movement.
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Speaker 5: And that's my highlight of this entire movie is that
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Speaker 5: when he goes and talks to Robin DiAngelo at the
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Speaker 5: end of this he's got, of course, because this is
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Speaker 5: the stick he's got, like a black camera guy that
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Speaker 5: follows him everywhere. So after like this initial interview, he's
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Speaker 5: kind of acting as if they're off camera or something,
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Speaker 5: and he's talking to her and he's like, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 5: that's why, you know the way that I want to
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Speaker 5: show my appreciation. I see a black guy in the room, sir,
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Speaker 5: I just want to give you some money right now?
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Speaker 5: Can I just give you twenty dollars and just take
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Speaker 5: this on behalf of me and how sorry that I am,
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Speaker 5: and this is me sharing my resources with you. But
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Speaker 5: he's doing this obviously very sarcastic, but it's done in
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Speaker 5: a subtle enough way that Robin DiAngelo is by all
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Speaker 5: appearances not hip to the fact that she's kind of
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Speaker 5: being trolled here. So as he's doing this, she's even
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Speaker 5: verbalizes like that was weird, and he's kind of like
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Speaker 5: why why is that weird? Isn't being uncomfortable part of
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Speaker 5: the doing the work? Like we should make ourselves uncomfortable
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Speaker 5: and it's not about our comfort, it's about this black
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Speaker 5: guy's comfort, right, are you comfortable? And the guy's like,
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Speaker 5: if you want to give me money, I'll take money.
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Speaker 5: So they start just kind of like staring at Robin,
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Speaker 5: and then eventually Robin's like, do you want me to
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Speaker 5: give you money? And then she writes him a check
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Speaker 5: or she goes and gets her pocketbook and like gives
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Speaker 5: him some money as well. It is incredibly hard to watch.
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Speaker 5: I got secondhand embarrassment watching this, but it was by
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Speaker 5: far the crowning jewel of this just kind of showing
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Speaker 5: if you were to take some of the claims to
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Speaker 5: their most extreme logical conclusions, that it does put you
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Speaker 5: in these like weird Kofka esque sort of situations that
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Speaker 5: in retrospect, I would love to know what Robins thought
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Speaker 5: of this movie when she saw herself in it. But
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Speaker 5: that that was by far the hidden Treasure and then
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Speaker 5: the other main pros here is I think that so
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Speaker 5: far this movie has the best production quality by a mile,
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Speaker 5: even way more than the Trayvon Martin Hoax, which was
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Speaker 5: only the best one up until its point, but it
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Speaker 5: was still like a one man show. This one's got
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Speaker 5: the full force of the Daily Wire behind it, which
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Speaker 5: kind of goes the show that it was put into theaters.
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Speaker 5: I don't think Joe Gilbert's documentaries would have made it
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Speaker 5: to a full, you know, theatrical release. This one gets
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Speaker 5: the treatment in order to do that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think some of the overboard moments is
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Speaker 4: some of the production value, Like some of the scenes
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Speaker 4: are a little cheesy, like at the end for me,
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Speaker 4: like where they're just you know, he's getting going back
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Speaker 4: to the scene where he's pouring the coffee, because it
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Speaker 4: starts off where he's getting coffee and he's like, how
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Speaker 4: do you want it? And she's he's like black, and
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Speaker 4: he's like, that's how I like it. And that's where
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Speaker 4: he starts questioning himself because he's playing this role, which
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Speaker 4: I understand because it's the atric you know, for the theaters,
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Speaker 4: but a little bit of it was a little bit
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Speaker 4: much for a documentary, But I don't know if it's
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Speaker 4: necessary classified as a documentary. I think it might be,
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Speaker 4: but it's not a traditional documentary. It's more of a
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Speaker 4: mockumentary and political satire if anything.
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Speaker 6: But it was still very enjoyable for me.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. The whole narrative of this movie is that he
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Speaker 5: goes to a diner and his waitress is black, and
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Speaker 5: she asks him how he likes his coffee, and then
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Speaker 5: it shows this internal dialogue where he wants to say black,
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Speaker 5: but then he's like it, will it be weird that
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Speaker 5: I'm saying I want black coffee to this black waitress?
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Speaker 5: Is she going to be offended? And then he just
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Speaker 5: says the word black and she's like okay and writes
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Speaker 5: down and walks like it was not an issue. But
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Speaker 5: that was the whole premise of this idea. That was
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Speaker 5: where the seed was planted in Matt Walsh's head was
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Speaker 5: when he went to order black coffee from a black waitress.
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Speaker 5: Thus you get the whole rest of the movie. The
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Speaker 5: main con is for me, it's that he becomes increasingly
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Speaker 5: antagonistic in this like it comes across in some cases
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Speaker 5: like a really cheesy Daily Wire version of pranked, and
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Speaker 5: instead of Ashton Kutcher, you get you Know Walsh. And
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Speaker 5: one of the things that he does, for example, is
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Speaker 5: in one of those early circles where everyone's talking about,
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Speaker 5: you know, their white privilege or whatever, he keeps interrupting
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Speaker 5: to the point where that the lady says, Hey, if
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Speaker 5: you interrupt again, I'm gonna have to ask you to leave.
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Speaker 5: And he knows that he's going over the line. Everyone
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Speaker 5: in the room knows that he's going over the line,
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Speaker 5: to the point where they have a crying room, which
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Speaker 5: it's kind of it's kind of funny to even mention that,
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Speaker 5: but yeah, this convention that he's at, they have a
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Speaker 5: room down the hall that if you feel like you
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Speaker 5: have to cry, you leave the meeting and you go
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Speaker 5: in this room and you cry. So he makes use
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Speaker 5: of this cry room, which I don't know how often
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Speaker 5: people have to use that, but and he makes a
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Speaker 5: very big deal about it. When he comes back in,
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Speaker 5: they've all looked his name up online and they know
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Speaker 5: that he's this guy from the Daily Wire, and that's
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Speaker 5: what leads to him putting on this new persona where
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Speaker 5: he literally just gets a man bun wig and that's
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Speaker 5: his whole entire new persona, and he puts on like
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Speaker 5: a sweater vest or something, and this kind of comes
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Speaker 5: to an absurd climax that at the end of the
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Speaker 5: movie he pays to be part of this group where
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Speaker 5: these two black ladies will have dinner with you and
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Speaker 5: just talk about all the problems with racism in the country, essentially,
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Speaker 5: and it's only for white women. It's black women talking
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Speaker 5: to white women, and if you're not a white woman
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Speaker 5: that you're not even allowed to, I guess address these
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Speaker 5: two ladies. So he kind of plays an undercover waiter
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Speaker 5: so that he can be a fly on the wall,
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Speaker 5: and then he starts interjecting himself in these people's conversation
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Speaker 5: all the way to the point where he does slapstick comedy.
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Speaker 5: He's falling, he's dropping plates multiple times, he's like sitting
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Speaker 5: down at the table. He brings it so overboard. If
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Speaker 5: this were an episode of PUNKD, someone would be like,
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Speaker 5: am I getting punked right now? I'm I on candid camera.
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Speaker 5: And maybe they just have more decorum that they just
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Speaker 5: didn't bring that up, or maybe they just edit it
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Speaker 5: out of the movie. But I would just say that
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Speaker 5: if we're looking at this as if it were a
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Speaker 5: documentary or even a mockumentary, really it was more about
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Speaker 5: Walsh getting in his funny little one liners and his
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Speaker 5: slapstick comedy, and maybe less on presenting any new claims
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Speaker 5: or new information. This is gonna tell you maybe what
15:53
Speaker 5: you already know, although I would say that even if
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Speaker 5: you hate Daily Wire, there might be a reason to
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Speaker 5: still watch that you might still laugh at some of
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Speaker 5: the stuff that happens.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and one other thing I'd like to add is
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Speaker 4: I think that since you saw no new information, a
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Speaker 4: lot of the information is stuff that we've seen on
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Speaker 4: podcasts and tiktoks and social media feeds, poking fun of wocism.
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Speaker 6: That's pretty much what this is.
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Speaker 4: It's a you know, a conservative SNL like long sketch.
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Speaker 6: You know what I mean.
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Speaker 4: It's like an hour and forty minute sketch where they're
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Speaker 4: just stretching it as far as they can and they
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Speaker 4: built this character. Or it's like an SNL sketch turn movie,
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Speaker 4: you know what I mean, like Pat where it's like.
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Speaker 6: That one did that one really need a movie.
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Speaker 4: Like It's entertaining enough though to keep you through it
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Speaker 4: for me. I liked all of it until like towards
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Speaker 4: the end there was a couple. But yeah, that's what
16:47
Speaker 4: I would give Mike Ripe is a little bit of
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Speaker 4: the recycled material as presented as if he's like, it's
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Speaker 4: our first time knowing that they have these dinners dinner
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Speaker 4: to race or white grief or any of these white fragility.
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Speaker 4: We kind of had it out there in the sphere.
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Speaker 4: It's just all kind of put together and here and
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Speaker 4: kind of expose it. But we've seen people expose this
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Speaker 4: before on YouTube channels and TikTok. So that's one of
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Speaker 4: the gripes I had with it. Take a deep dive
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Speaker 4: now for me, the one deep dive with pretty much
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Speaker 4: in this film is he's trying to go after racism
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Speaker 4: versus prejudice. Right, is it systematically formatted that a white
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Speaker 4: this straight male or however you say it, that the
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Speaker 4: systems created for him, or is it that there's just
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Speaker 4: prejudice within individuals? And I think that's a philosophy, a philosophical.
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Speaker 6: Way of going about it.
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Speaker 4: Whether they try to stretch the whole film and they
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Speaker 4: kind of say it at the end like hey, you know,
18:01
Speaker 4: we all like you know, there's a few times where
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Speaker 4: he talks about the guys are like, you know, we
18:05
Speaker 4: all bleed the same.
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Speaker 6: You know, when they go to that little.
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Speaker 4: Hic bar where they're talking to the one fellow Pat
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Speaker 4: who is hilarious because he's drunk a shit and he's
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Speaker 4: smoking a cigarette, he's.
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Speaker 5: Like, where, I'm a black friend, and he says all
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Speaker 5: the things that you know usually come up as a joke,
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Speaker 5: the guy actually says it and he's not joking.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's not at all. And if you see him,
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Speaker 4: he's more than serious. And it kind of just strugs
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Speaker 4: on the heart strings of conservatives, I think, not heart
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Speaker 4: strings necessarily, but they're biased where they already think like, yeah,
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Speaker 4: you know, we're all the same.
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Speaker 6: So you're not getting any new material.
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Speaker 4: But it is to me the Deep Dive is really
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Speaker 4: on systematic racism verse prejudiced.
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Speaker 5: Well, I would say the Deep Dive might actually be
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Speaker 5: the question of the movie. Am I racist? Or is
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Speaker 5: Matt Walsh racist? So what do you think if you
18:58
Speaker 5: had to answer that question after seeing the movie? Do
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Speaker 5: you think Mount Walsh's racist?
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Speaker 4: No, I think he's a little prejudiced maybe, but I
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Speaker 4: don't think he's racist.
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Speaker 5: Okay, that's a fair point. I don't know where I'm at.
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Speaker 5: I wanted to come out of the gate and be like, yeah,
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Speaker 5: of course he's racist. But if we're gonna split hairs
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Speaker 5: and separate racism from prejudice, he doesn't do anything outwardly
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Speaker 5: in the course of this movie. If you go in
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Speaker 5: not knowing who Matt Walsh is, you might want to
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Speaker 5: come out and be like, yeah, he's a racist, because
19:31
Speaker 5: he was kind of making fun of all these people
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Speaker 5: that are, you know, quote unquote anti racist. He doesn't
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Speaker 5: do anything racist in the movie itself, so I can't
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Speaker 5: make the claim that he is in fact racist. But
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Speaker 5: there is a pretty interesting thing that he brings up.
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Speaker 5: For anyone that hasn't even contemplated this question, maybe it
19:48
Speaker 5: just turns you off, maybe it offends you, maybe you
19:52
Speaker 5: already think that you know the answer. But towards the
19:55
Speaker 5: end he hosts after he gets his DEI certification, he
19:58
Speaker 5: hosts his own little con where people have to pay
20:01
Speaker 5: and go and figure out if they're racist. And he's
20:03
Speaker 5: just trying to show you how easy this grift is
20:06
Speaker 5: to pick up and perpetuate. But he also shows the
20:11
Speaker 5: limits of certain people are willing to go to. For example,
20:15
Speaker 5: he stands up. The first thing he says, in this
20:17
Speaker 5: room full of people, they just paid in order to
20:19
Speaker 5: like find out, you know, more about racism, And he goes,
20:22
Speaker 5: I want everyone to point at who they think the
20:25
Speaker 5: biggest racist of this room is right now, right, And
20:28
Speaker 5: there's a couple people that are just like, this is
20:30
Speaker 5: not for me. They just stand up and immediately leave
20:33
Speaker 5: because clearly they they weren't there for that particular sort
20:37
Speaker 5: of experience. And he twisted around and he points at himself,
20:40
Speaker 5: and he's like, anyone that didn't immediately point at yourself,
20:43
Speaker 5: you've got some work to do, right, Like it was
20:45
Speaker 5: kind of funny the way that he went about this,
20:48
Speaker 5: but he does show, like in a very practical sense,
20:52
Speaker 5: and he also shows that he's getting invited onto national
20:56
Speaker 5: television stations and promoting this course that he's doing all
21:00
Speaker 5: the way to the end where that almost is this
21:02
Speaker 5: little mini narrative of this rising star of a white
21:05
Speaker 5: guy that's learning how to check his privilege and then
21:08
Speaker 5: telling other white people how to do it, to where
21:11
Speaker 5: he loses all faith in his own movement. And he
21:14
Speaker 5: goes on this final television interview it's actually on like
21:17
Speaker 5: a live, you know, daily broadcast somewhere as this like
21:22
Speaker 5: fake persona that Matt Walsh came up with, and every
21:25
Speaker 5: time they ask him questions, he's like, I don't even
21:27
Speaker 5: know anymore. I think I am ory, I think this
21:29
Speaker 5: is all pointless, and then this is just a big grift,
21:31
Speaker 5: and he just like kind of like gets up and
21:33
Speaker 5: walks off camera. So there's a narrative that he kind
21:36
Speaker 5: of presents with that. But I would say that that
21:38
Speaker 5: is the claim, is Matt Walsh racist? And in his course,
21:42
Speaker 5: he kind of puts everyone on this sliding scale. It's
21:45
Speaker 5: not a yes or no, it's a zero to ten,
21:48
Speaker 5: and a whole bunch of people get up and they
21:49
Speaker 5: put themselves at like two or three, where it's like, okay,
21:52
Speaker 5: maybe a little bit. No one puts their name right
21:54
Speaker 5: at zero. No one says I am zero percent racist.
21:58
Speaker 5: And I think, out of anything, that might be the
22:01
Speaker 5: most intriguing claim that's indirectly made by this movie is
22:05
Speaker 5: that not a single person that I remember said that
22:09
Speaker 5: they were completely zero percent racist. They all said I was,
22:12
Speaker 5: I'm at least ten percent or at least twenty percent.
22:15
Speaker 5: So I don't know If the question is framed in
22:17
Speaker 5: that way, then yeah, Matt Walsh is racist, but maybe
22:21
Speaker 5: it's only like ten or twenty percent.
22:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he's on the lower scide, only twenty percent.
22:27
Speaker 4: I think what holds up is the scam you know
22:31
Speaker 4: that we already know about is a lot of these
22:33
Speaker 4: anti racism studies and seminars are basically just that scams,
22:38
Speaker 4: where you know, hey, pay thirty grand and then we're
22:41
Speaker 4: gonna just tell you what a piece of shit you
22:43
Speaker 4: are and how terrible you are and it's your fault
22:46
Speaker 4: and there's nothing you can do about it because it
22:49
Speaker 4: exposes that not only do they want to profit off
22:54
Speaker 4: of you, but they give you zero solutions. They're like, well,
22:57
Speaker 4: what if I do this? Because some of the questions
22:58
Speaker 4: that he asked him in the film, he's even though
23:01
Speaker 4: he's mocking them, he's pushing like, well.
23:03
Speaker 6: How do we fix this?
23:05
Speaker 4: Like that. At one point they ask him like you know,
23:06
Speaker 4: you have the seeds of racism in you? And he's like, well,
23:09
Speaker 4: how do I get him out? And they're like, well,
23:10
Speaker 4: you don't you know? Ripples and waves. The historical and
23:23
Speaker 4: cultural impact. I think the main impact this had culturally
23:29
Speaker 4: was on the conservative crowds. A lot of Trump people
23:31
Speaker 4: were loving this when it came out. It was his
23:34
Speaker 4: pretty not a sequel, but kind of a sequel to
23:36
Speaker 4: his What Is a Woman? It's his sequel of the
23:39
Speaker 4: Dei and this whole woke agenda. And I think that
23:44
Speaker 4: it was significant in dividing people more, you know what
23:48
Speaker 4: I mean, because a lot of the people that are
23:51
Speaker 4: divided more that are not on that side, they didn't
23:53
Speaker 4: watch it, but just the fact that's seeing some of
23:56
Speaker 4: the clips that came out and making a mockery and
23:58
Speaker 4: I'm sure like people like Robin DiAngelo at some point
24:02
Speaker 4: saw herself in there, and I'm assuming they had to
24:05
Speaker 4: sign something right to be into this film, so I'm
24:09
Speaker 4: sure they weren't too happy, and I think it made
24:11
Speaker 4: them more mad and kind of split people. But it
24:15
Speaker 4: was very, very viral for a while. When this movie
24:19
Speaker 4: came out, it was everywhere.
24:22
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say that the cultural relevance or the
24:25
Speaker 5: impact that this makes in the long term is probably
24:30
Speaker 5: more that it shows that a theatrical release of this
24:34
Speaker 5: kind of movie is viable. I believe it was profitable.
24:37
Speaker 5: It got enough reviews in pr campaigns associated with it
24:42
Speaker 5: that it's probably gonna be the first of a few
24:45
Speaker 5: in a series of this. This seems like the Daily
24:48
Speaker 5: Wire dipping their toe into this other format of movie,
24:52
Speaker 5: mockumentary angle where you are kind of just getting their
24:56
Speaker 5: political bias wrapped up in a new package, right one
24:59
Speaker 5: that you can laugh that a little bit, although it
25:02
Speaker 5: also represents maybe a gap in the market, So I
25:05
Speaker 5: would I would say there's strong evidence that maybe the
25:08
Speaker 5: movie itself, the content of the movie isn't super relevant.
25:12
Speaker 5: It's not going to change anybody's mind, it's not going
25:14
Speaker 5: to start a movement anywhere. But the fact that they're
25:17
Speaker 5: showing a commercially viable way of repackaging some of these
25:22
Speaker 5: political beliefs that I believe is a huge sort of
25:27
Speaker 5: change in the tides here.
25:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, kind of switching it up on everybody, like maybe
25:32
Speaker 4: we'll see like a Trayvon Hoax, but a little bit
25:34
Speaker 4: with with even more humor if Joel I hope not, Yeah,
25:40
Speaker 4: because Joel is Humor's a little bit out there. Time
25:45
Speaker 4: for sink or swim what you got on this one?
25:48
Speaker 4: Sink or swim for me?
25:52
Speaker 5: This one is probably going to be a sink And
25:55
Speaker 5: maybe it's it's my fault. I think I'm the one
25:58
Speaker 5: that also suggested this one, thinking that it kind of
26:01
Speaker 5: counted as a documentary. But after watching it again for
26:05
Speaker 5: the purposes of this show, I realized maybe it's not
26:07
Speaker 5: a traditional documentary in that way. It's about something that
26:12
Speaker 5: they're telling the truth. It's almost like a reference movie
26:15
Speaker 5: where they're not just making jokes. Everything they're doing in
26:19
Speaker 5: here is just trying to paint something very absurd. It's
26:22
Speaker 5: almost like watching an episode of The Daily Show or
26:25
Speaker 5: the Colbert Rapport or you know, God help me, if
26:29
Speaker 5: you've ever seen more than a few hours of the
26:32
Speaker 5: Stephen Crowder Show, this is kind of like a Stephen
26:35
Speaker 5: Crowder skit stretched out to be about an hour and
26:38
Speaker 5: a half. So if you've ever seen a Stephen Crowder skit, ever,
26:42
Speaker 5: you've already seen ami racist.
26:44
Speaker 6: Right.
26:44
Speaker 5: So I would say on the scale for documentaries, not
26:48
Speaker 5: for how entertained I was, or not production quality, but
26:51
Speaker 5: for a documentary, this one sinks. For me. It is
26:55
Speaker 5: as shallow as you can get, yet is a sync.
26:58
Speaker 4: Same sink for me. It was super entertaining. It made
27:02
Speaker 4: me laugh, you know, I laugh at a lot of stuff.
27:05
Speaker 4: I was able to watch it. It's not a terrible movie.
27:08
Speaker 4: But it's not a documentary. It's not something that you're
27:12
Speaker 4: gonna be like, oh, there's no insight recycled material. It's
27:17
Speaker 4: a lot of little sketches within it, like when he
27:19
Speaker 4: gets it, like you said, he gets his DEI certification
27:24
Speaker 4: and then he's just walking around like, hey, you need
27:26
Speaker 4: ADI guy because I'm a DEI guy, and like you know,
27:29
Speaker 4: there's some funny moments, but it really doesn't add up.
27:33
Speaker 4: And then it has mix of sketches mixed with mockery,
27:38
Speaker 4: mixed with some overextended overproduced scenes, like especially at the end,
27:44
Speaker 4: where you can tell like at first you're like, this
27:46
Speaker 4: is not a real scene. These are paid actors. It's
27:48
Speaker 4: not real enough, you know what I mean to be
27:50
Speaker 4: a documentary. There's not really diving into anything. They're just
27:54
Speaker 4: kind of poking fun at the woke people, which we
27:58
Speaker 4: all do already. And I would suggests that there's way
28:01
Speaker 4: funnier stuff on YouTube, TikTok, almost any podcast that talks
28:07
Speaker 4: about this stuff than what's in the film.
28:09
Speaker 6: It's cool, but eh, it seks.
28:14
Speaker 5: If your parents are slightly racist, then they'll probably love
28:18
Speaker 5: this movie. That's kind of a weird way to look
28:21
Speaker 5: at it. But yeah, Boomer humor for sure.
28:34
Speaker 4: All right, that does it for us, Set under the Docks,
28:37
Speaker 4: But look out for the next three Conspiracy of Silence, America,
28:42
Speaker 4: Freedom to Fascism, and a Noble Eye. We're gonna keep
28:45
Speaker 4: continuing this trend of kind of connecting these documentaries that
28:50
Speaker 4: kind of fit together, so it's a more of a
28:53
Speaker 4: story outline for you guys.
28:56
Speaker 5: And I feel that these first nine are a decent
29:01
Speaker 5: representation of conspiracy theory. We haven't watched every single conspiracy
29:05
Speaker 5: documentary out there, but we've given a good little sampling.
29:08
Speaker 5: So maybe after these next three we'll get into more
29:11
Speaker 5: mainstream ones and more like niche topics. But yeah, look
29:14
Speaker 5: out for these next three because I do think all
29:17
Speaker 5: three of them are incredibly important for you to check out.
29:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, I think this is the the next
29:24
Speaker 4: uh set of the foundation. We have the pillars. Now
29:27
Speaker 4: we're kind of putting up the drywall. Alright, tune in
29:30
Speaker 4: the next one, guys, Peace.
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Speaker 1: The Dukes, Yeah, the Ducks.
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Speaker 2: Looks money, the Ducks, money the Ducks.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Mondon the Ducks. One of the dogs