Matt Walsh sat down with comedian John Crist to discuss some of the funnier aspects of the film “Am I Racist?” including how attendees of a white guilt support group read The Daily Wire host’s Wikipedia page to police officers in an attempt to get him arrested.
“I went to the cry room and while I was gone… they went to my Wikipedia page,” Walsh said on the “Net Positive with John Crist” podcast. “They’re reading my sins off my Wikipedia.”
According to Walsh, only a brief moment of that incident is shown in the film’s final cut. But he told Crist about how other support group attendees tried to state their case to law enforcement.
“The cops came in, and they talked to some of the people, and they were reading my Wikipedia page to the cops to try to explain,” Walsh told Crist, who started laughing.
“The cops were like, ‘He didn’t commit a crime,’” Walsh said. “So there was nothing they could do.”
Walsh later discussed how toward the end of the film, he held a “Do the Work Workshop” which included a nine-step process to “decenter your whiteness.”
“Just for timing reasons, we had to cut out most of the steps,” Walsh said. “So that’s something that maybe I’d like to do one of these days is release the whole seminar with all the steps.”
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Crist and Walsh also discussed how audiences often take the “What Is A Woman?” star’s jokes too seriously — like his recent comment that adults should never take sick days.
“It’s embarrassing,” he said of sick days for adults. “You have to call your boss and say, ‘My tummy doesn’t feel too good, I can’t make it in,’ it’s embarrassing,” Walsh said. “I stand by that,” he added. “I didn’t say you shouldn’t take it. But you should be embarrassed.”
“I mostly am serious about that but not entirely,” he said of the sick day comment, which prompted social media backlash. “That’s one of those, it’s 80% serious and 20% joking.”
Walsh said he also caught heat for saying raw milk is “disgusting.”
Crist said something similar happened to him when he said essential oils were a “hoax.” He said he didn’t think it was a big deal if people wanted to use them, but didn’t think they had any real positive benefits.
“I agree with you about essential oils,” Walsh said. “It’s a total scam.”
“I don’t even know what they are,” he continued. “Like, what makes them essential? As opposed to other oils?”
“Am I Racist?” debuted at number four in the national box office the week of its release, and remained in the top ten the following weekend, making it the top grossing documentary of the year and a top 5 political documentary in the last decade.
The film made three times its production budget, clearing more than $9 million in total gross revenue. It has a 97% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, with more than 2,500 verified reviews.