Michael Walsh
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176 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 15 Mar
Michael Walsh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it really found root in academia. It started at Columbia and it moved all across the country. And we're dealing with the end stage of that now with what's going on at our major universities. They're collapsing under the weight, just as communism did, of reality eventually overtakes theory and reality.
Oh, it does. I'm pessimistic about the media as it's currently constituted.
I think that's right. And that's what's cracking the media finally. And it's why they're collapsing. And it's why Tapper, who, by the way, used to be the press spokesman for Chelsea Clinton's mother-in-law. So Tapper goes back as a Democrat activist all the way back to Marjorie Margolis, Ms. Vinsky. These guys are folding under the pressure. He'll try to get away with it.
He'll say, you know, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa, and go on. But I think the audience is on to them. You know, as an author and a screenwriter, you make your living because of your audience, the way you do. And if your audience abandons you, there's nothing you can really do. You've done the damage or you've attracted the audience, and they depend on you to deliver what you believe is the truth.
And I think in that sense, the truth will out. But this media, as it's constructed, won't survive that because it can't. The New York Times and The Washington Post are too deep into it now.
Yeah, I hope so, too. I mean, he's friends with Jordan Peterson, whom I've known for a long time and respect. And, you know, you're seeing this with someone like Bill Maher, who I met 20 some years ago at the Aspen Comedy Festival. In fact, it was when Cadet Kelly came out. And I said to myself and to others, you know, Bill's not really a hardcore leftist.
He's really kind of conservative in his own personal beliefs. He's a libertarian who wants to be left alone to do this and that. And he now feels, as he says all the time on his show, that I didn't leave the party. The party left me. And Dave Rubin is the same way. And there are a lot of those guys. We welcome them.
under any circumstances they want to come and say yes this is the truth this is propaganda this is fantasy
You're absolutely right, Drew. And obviously, you've made some journey from X to Y over the course of your life. I mean, in many ways, I still am a 60s liberal kid. You know, I went to college at 87. Yes, me too.
Yes, right. Well, COVID was obvious to me that it was a scam. The Russia hoax was clearly an op that was foisted on the public via the media.
and you say these things people look like you're like you're the crazy person and then later on when all the truth comes out and you say you know joe biden is a rutabaga and has been since god knows how long now and he's not a nice man and if you've spent any time around washington you know he's considered one of the stupidest and nastiest people in congress which is really saying something and we all knew this so we're sitting here going
Yeah, okay, well, finally, everyone sees that the emperor has no clothes. But it's just about honesty and perception. And as a writer, I tell the truth. That's what I do. Whether it's in fiction or nonfiction or the books that I edit, I stand behind what I write. And I think that's the only way to approach life.
Well, that's a sequel to a book called Last Stance, which came out four years ago and was a big bestseller for Macmillan. And they immediately commissioned a second one and now a third one. It's about warfare and it's about masculinity. Chrissy was talking about Dylan Mulvaney. And so masculinity, having grown up in the Marine Corps, as I did, which is an odd way to
path to becoming a concert pianist but uh i had that as a model as my father served in korea he's a veteran of the chosen reservoir he's 99 years old in two weeks i had that as a model and i wanted to write last dance was about why do men fight when all's lost why don't they give up and run away but they don't they sit and fight and they die to the last man and they're proud to do it
It's not a question because it is who a man is. And in A Rage to Conquer, I take 12 battles throughout history and the commanders who led them and say, what characteristics do they share in person as men, as thinkers, as warriors?
So I start with Achilles and then Alexander the Great and Caesar and some generals most people haven't heard of, such as Aetius, the last of the Roman generals who fought Attila the Hun. Napoleon gets a big chapter. And then the third book, which I'm writing now, is called The Wrath of God. Give me one of the traits that they share. Give us a taste. Yes, I'll give you a taste.
They know when they're in a battlefield situation what the other guy did a thousand years before. That they have a kinetic sense of the battlefield. This is really the important thing. Alexander had it. Napoleon had it. Which is, they know as they look at a battlefield,
that what's going to happen 10 minutes from now they know where the enemy is going to be and they're there and they nail him and alexander did it to darius three times in a row in his conquest of the persian empire napoleon did it most famously at austerlitz against the russians and the austrians um
Caesar, what he did during the siege of Alesia, Beaumont of Toronto in the First Crusade does the same thing to the Turks and the Egyptian Fatimids during the siege of Antioch. So you find these common characteristics. They take command. They're not afraid.
and they fight to the end sometimes they lose napoleon eventually lost but you know you've been to paris you know where he is he's right on display for the entire city to see at the uh so i found it very illuminating and now the third book's about religious warfare and how the most brutal fighting we have is over god
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