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Matt Walsh

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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
549. Matt Walsh on Making Movies, the Woke Right, & Winning

a piece of long form, you know, entertainment content that you work on for months and months and months, put a lot of time into it. You put it out into the world and it makes an impact. People watch it and it makes an impact that lasts longer than 30 seconds, which is usually how long, you know, like a podcast lasts. Once you experience that, you want to keep doing it. You can't let it go.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
549. Matt Walsh on Making Movies, the Woke Right, & Winning

So there's plenty more to come. I wish I could say more about it, but that's it for now.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
549. Matt Walsh on Making Movies, the Woke Right, & Winning

So there's plenty more to come. I wish I could say more about it, but that's it for now.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
549. Matt Walsh on Making Movies, the Woke Right, & Winning

So there's plenty more to come. I wish I could say more about it, but that's it for now.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
549. Matt Walsh on Making Movies, the Woke Right, & Winning

Yeah, I mean, we were blessed in both cases that they were extremely successful. I mean, sometimes it's hard to put it into perspective when you're talking about success for a piece of content that's on the platform behind the paywall versus, you know, in theaters. But, and What Is The Woman was only on the platform and we never released it in theaters. It was a huge, massive hit for us.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
549. Matt Walsh on Making Movies, the Woke Right, & Winning

Yeah, I mean, we were blessed in both cases that they were extremely successful. I mean, sometimes it's hard to put it into perspective when you're talking about success for a piece of content that's on the platform behind the paywall versus, you know, in theaters. But, and What Is The Woman was only on the platform and we never released it in theaters. It was a huge, massive hit for us.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
549. Matt Walsh on Making Movies, the Woke Right, & Winning

Yeah, I mean, we were blessed in both cases that they were extremely successful. I mean, sometimes it's hard to put it into perspective when you're talking about success for a piece of content that's on the platform behind the paywall versus, you know, in theaters. But, and What Is The Woman was only on the platform and we never released it in theaters. It was a huge, massive hit for us.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
549. Matt Walsh on Making Movies, the Woke Right, & Winning

And then at the time, the biggest hit that Daily Wire had ever had, when you look at just number of views and subscribers and everything else. And then Am I Racist comes out, we decided to pursue the theatrical release with that. And there was always the question of how is that going to affect We wanted to put it in theaters. We wanted to reach a wide audience. We want to kind of play in that.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
549. Matt Walsh on Making Movies, the Woke Right, & Winning

And then at the time, the biggest hit that Daily Wire had ever had, when you look at just number of views and subscribers and everything else. And then Am I Racist comes out, we decided to pursue the theatrical release with that. And there was always the question of how is that going to affect We wanted to put it in theaters. We wanted to reach a wide audience. We want to kind of play in that.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
549. Matt Walsh on Making Movies, the Woke Right, & Winning

And then at the time, the biggest hit that Daily Wire had ever had, when you look at just number of views and subscribers and everything else. And then Am I Racist comes out, we decided to pursue the theatrical release with that. And there was always the question of how is that going to affect We wanted to put it in theaters. We wanted to reach a wide audience. We want to kind of play in that.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
549. Matt Walsh on Making Movies, the Woke Right, & Winning

We want to be on that playing field. If you really want to engage with the culture, you have to go where the culture is happening. And it is still happening in movie theaters also. So we wanted to do that. We weren't sure how that would impact the success on the platform. Would everybody go see it in theaters? They're not interested in watching it on the platform.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
549. Matt Walsh on Making Movies, the Woke Right, & Winning

We want to be on that playing field. If you really want to engage with the culture, you have to go where the culture is happening. And it is still happening in movie theaters also. So we wanted to do that. We weren't sure how that would impact the success on the platform. Would everybody go see it in theaters? They're not interested in watching it on the platform.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
549. Matt Walsh on Making Movies, the Woke Right, & Winning

We want to be on that playing field. If you really want to engage with the culture, you have to go where the culture is happening. And it is still happening in movie theaters also. So we wanted to do that. We weren't sure how that would impact the success on the platform. Would everybody go see it in theaters? They're not interested in watching it on the platform.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
549. Matt Walsh on Making Movies, the Woke Right, & Winning

We weren't sure it was worth trying. And what we found is that For a documentary, it was massively successful in theaters. It was the number one documentary box office-wise of this decade. It's top 35, top 30 for documentaries in the box office all time. And then on the platform, it became... the new biggest hit the daily wire had ever had, uh, even, even surpassing what is a woman.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
549. Matt Walsh on Making Movies, the Woke Right, & Winning

We weren't sure it was worth trying. And what we found is that For a documentary, it was massively successful in theaters. It was the number one documentary box office-wise of this decade. It's top 35, top 30 for documentaries in the box office all time. And then on the platform, it became... the new biggest hit the daily wire had ever had, uh, even, even surpassing what is a woman.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
549. Matt Walsh on Making Movies, the Woke Right, & Winning

We weren't sure it was worth trying. And what we found is that For a documentary, it was massively successful in theaters. It was the number one documentary box office-wise of this decade. It's top 35, top 30 for documentaries in the box office all time. And then on the platform, it became... the new biggest hit the daily wire had ever had, uh, even, even surpassing what is a woman.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
549. Matt Walsh on Making Movies, the Woke Right, & Winning

And what we found is that, is that actually there's a, you know, putting in theaters, you access a large audience. It also has its own kind of marketing engine. Now more people know about it and they're going to want to go find it. So it's been, um, it's been incredible. And, um, I think the main opportunity it opens up for me anyway, is, is doing more, doing another one.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
549. Matt Walsh on Making Movies, the Woke Right, & Winning

And what we found is that, is that actually there's a, you know, putting in theaters, you access a large audience. It also has its own kind of marketing engine. Now more people know about it and they're going to want to go find it. So it's been, um, it's been incredible. And, um, I think the main opportunity it opens up for me anyway, is, is doing more, doing another one.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
549. Matt Walsh on Making Movies, the Woke Right, & Winning

And what we found is that, is that actually there's a, you know, putting in theaters, you access a large audience. It also has its own kind of marketing engine. Now more people know about it and they're going to want to go find it. So it's been, um, it's been incredible. And, um, I think the main opportunity it opens up for me anyway, is, is doing more, doing another one.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
549. Matt Walsh on Making Movies, the Woke Right, & Winning

And, you know, once you, uh, you kind of have to prove yourself, especially for us. And I know going into this, I never made a movie before, before what is a woman. You got to prove yourself. You got to prove you can do it. Then you got to keep proving yourself. And if you have success with one film and that kind of buys you the next one.