Matt Welch
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460 appearances
11 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
Matt Welch’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I agree with Kennedy that these people should go fuck themselves.
Megan, I think that, I mean, and you're right about Canada. I mean, the conservatives have about 44, 45% in the last opinion polls, and that's just marching towards the next prime ministership. But I think you're right about this.
And I think it's a kind of global thing because I think people are very tired of the politics of symbolism because the politics of symbolism oftentimes have very destructive consequences. So, for instance, Camille says, you know, rightfully so, said, you know, what? Why not just tell us what the plan is? Lay out the plan for dealing with these fires. Go until. Well, there's no.
What is the incentive for that? There's no incentive for that. The incentive for people like the fire chief in L.A. County is to come out and you will get on TV because of the people who are controlling these news networks and newspapers, et cetera, will put you on the front cover.
If you tell them how many one-legged transgender Albanians are going to be fighting fires, like this is symbolism that is tough constituency to find. But they do have one, by the way. But no, that is the same.
Same thing about immigration is that, you know, we talk about immigration in these kind of philosophical ways and accuse the people who are opposed to sort of unmitigated illegal immigration and say, well, you know, if you disagree with that, this is kind of a racist kind of Trumpian thing. And then people in New York City and L.A.
and, bless their own L.A., but New York City especially, you know, are dealing with this crisis and saying, oh, yeah, that's just not a talking point. It's not like, you know, something that we argue about in the opinion sections of newspapers. It actually has practical consequences. But the incentives are totally wrong.
I mean, there is no incentive to go out there and say, this is our plan for fires. But there is an incentive to go out and say, okay, Look at how great I am. Pat me on the back for what I'm doing for some political issue inside the fire department that no one cares about and affects no one, but affects them negatively. But it's about that person. It's about that fire chief.
Look at how great I am and look at how I'm following the sort of precepts of modern politics. No one cares. You see it in Hollywood too. Think about the interview.
Better firefighters, I think, according to all the data. I don't know.
YouTube, your move. Your move. C-3PO is on the right side of speech. I want to do the things. It's like, what? He's a robot. By the way, there's a lot of people trying to read Mark Zuckerberg here, and it's like now he's bowing down to Trump.
If it's any indication of the people I think that Matt and Camille and I have talked to, Megan, I'm sure this is true of you, too, that after the kind of Me Too movement, after the so-called racial reckoning, all of these things that companies were doing after the 2016 election of Donald Trump.
And when they kind of unwound those things, the number I'm thinking of very specific people in my mind right now, too, who have come to me and said, yeah, no, we never believed that. It was just like we kind of had to do that in the moment. And they're admitting to their own cowardice. And it's not a great position to be in. But it could very well be true.
And I can't look into his brain and figure out why he's doing this. But it could very well be true that Mark Zuckerberg never believed the stuff that he was implementing on Facebook. And then we had something like COVID. And COVID is a really key component here. Because when it comes to trust in the media, It's been low for a long time. Its lowest ebb has been after COVID.
Incredibly low trust in media because people were actually paying attention. You have to wear masks. You have to stay inside. Your kids can't go to school. So you're actually checking this stuff rather than it only being left to a very narrow band of people who care about this stuff and whether the fact checkers and whether the experts are right about it.
So that kind of buckled people's impression of what these experts are. And so when experts, quote unquote, are coming onto Facebook and saying, no, the expert says this isn't true. We don't have that trust anymore. But to the Stossel thing, one final point is that look at the way they did this. It omits context.
Has anyone here ever written an editorial? I know all of us have. What do you do when you write an editorial? Why is the newspaper not this big, but this big? Because you have to, by nature, omit context in everything that you do. So therefore, it is a weapon to wield against anyone at any time. Of course, it's not going to have context for everything.
You have to leave certain things out and say, hey, the general narrative is this. I'm going to inform you about some other opinions. And then the fact checker comes in and says, well, why didn't you include the initial narrative? That is unbalanced, as it were. And this is the kind of nonsense game that these people were playing. And people were wising up to it.
And that's the other reason that they backed away from it.
Well, I don't even know where to start with this. The people of Greenland as a duchy of the... Wait, wait. Start with this.
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