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Marshall Matters: Matt Walsh

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4.4785 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Winston speaks with American author, film-maker, political commentator and activist Matt Walsh. They discuss Matt’s film ‘What Is A Woman’ and its cultural and political impact, the difference between the transgender and women’s movement in the UK and the US. Winston asks about TikTok trans activist Dylan Mulvaney and the censorship of conservative media.

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0:39.9

Hello and welcome to Marshall Matters with me, Winston Marshall for The Spectator.

0:44.8

Today I'm in Nashville with author, filmmaker, and host of the Matt Walsh show at the Daily Wire,

0:51.9

Matt Walsh. Matt, thank you so much for taking the time to

0:55.2

speak me. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. And thank you to your team for this wonderful set of,

0:59.8

very accommodating. Yeah, I mean, they gave you a table and some chairs. I don't know how much they

1:04.1

went all out, but, you know. Matt, it's been, I guess, what, June 2020 was when you put out, what is a woman your film? I should start

1:12.0

with a hardball question. What is a woman? Well, I was told finally an adult human females what a

1:17.9

woman is. Turns out it's pretty simple. There's more that could be said about women and about

1:22.9

individual women, obviously, but, and people have pointed that out to me after the film came out, because, of course,

1:29.2

at the end of the film, spoiler alert, we do have the answer. And that's one criticism I've heard

1:35.5

from some people. It's like, well, yeah, a woman is that, but she's a lot more than that. So isn't

1:39.3

that a little bit reductive to just say a woman is an adult human female? And of course,

1:42.7

there's a lot more you can say about an individual person, but we need to have the simple biological definition in place first.

1:49.4

So you can build from there. So that's the simple definition. I see. And so in America,

1:55.7

now, you have to excuse me, because I'm very aware of what's going on in my country,

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but here, in terms of

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