The Matt Walsh Show – This Week's Top 5 Most Clicked Stories

Date: November 21, 2025
Host: Matt Walsh (Daily Wire)

Overview

In this weekly roundup, Matt Walsh provides a no-holds-barred conservative take on the top five most clicked news stories, ranging from a controversial Michigan shooting case to the cultural decline of Hollywood, fresh questions about the Thomas Crooks attempted assassination of Donald Trump, a viral journalism scandal, and the ongoing demographic and cultural conflict in Dearborn, Michigan. Walsh’s irreverent and unapologetic commentary scrutinizes what he sees as pervasive injustices, cultural decay, and failures of authority in America.

1. Michigan Stand Your Ground Shooting Controversy

[00:58 - 13:56]

Key Points:

• Incident Recap: Dayton Napton, 24, shot and killed 17-year-old Sivon Wilson after Napton’s garage was broken into by a group of teenagers. He fired initially through a door and continued shooting as the teens fled.
• Legal Outcome: Despite repeated burglaries and inaction from authorities, Napton is charged with manslaughter and faces up to 15 years in prison.
• Family’s View: Wilson’s family argues the shooting was malicious and want murder charges.
• Walsh’s Perspective:
  • Full support for the homeowner, Napton: “I am entirely on Dayton Napton's side with no reservation at all. How could you not be? I mean, what kind of twisted freak would you have to be to want to put this guy away in jail for 15 years for trying to protect his own property?” (06:50)
  • Argues the justice system protects criminals over victims.
  • Extreme stance on home defense: Suggests law should give homeowners nearly “carte blanche” to defend property, even to absurd extremes:

    “If someone broke into your house and you like enslaved them and made them do your laundry and wash your dishes, the law would not intervene.” (11:55)

  • Sees the charge as outrageous compared to leniency shown to young criminals.

Notable Quotes:

• “The full benefit of the doubt should go to the homeowner, the victim of the crime.” (08:04)
• “People are just fed up with being victims.” (13:50)

2. Hollywood’s Box Office Collapse and the Death of Monoculture

[13:56 - 35:44]

Key Points:

• Industry Flops: 25 dramas/comedy releases, zero hits; blockbusters like “After the Hunt” fail spectacularly.
• Analysis:
  • Walsh doesn’t celebrate Hollywood’s failure, noting what follows is likely worse (“an endless stream of content on your phone”).
  • The decline is blamed less on ‘wokeness’ than changing consumer behavior (the smartphone) and a collapsing shared cultural space.
  • The physical moviegoing experience is inferior, not just due to content, but due to etiquette, safety, and overall decline of public life.
  • Parallels made with the demise of malls and a rise in social dysfunction.
  • Critique of audiences: Claims Americans don’t demand quality, given that “low effort slop” like Moana’s live-action remake thrills box offices while original films flop.
• Moana Remake as Culture Symbol:
  • Points out Disney’s “Moana” is being remade after only nine years, mostly in CGI, calling it “the least inventive, least creative, most uninspired thing Hollywood has ever done. And it will make $90 billion at the box office and we all know it…” (31:59)

Notable Quotes:

• “What comes after Hollywood…is not anything better. It’s really just an endless stream of content on your phone.” (17:40)
• “The uncomfortable truth…is that audiences don’t demand better quality content…The low effort slop earns billions of dollars.” (34:32)

3. The FBI, Thomas Crooks, and the Near-Assassination of Donald Trump

[35:44 - 48:28]

Key Points:

• New Tucker Carlson Revelations: The FBI withheld critical information about Thomas Crooks, the would-be Trump assassin:
  • Crooks left numerous public threats online and was egged on by a shadowy figure, ‘Willie Tepes,’ possibly linked to both intelligence agencies and extremist groups.
  • Crooks’ PayPal account used the name of an FBI agent from another mass shooting investigation.
  • Crooks identified as “they/them,” displayed disturbing sexualized/deviant interests, and his radicalization appears linked to LGBT subcultures and online grooming.
• Walsh’s Reaction: Alleges FBI incompetence at best, or possible sinister motives at worst:

  “The worst case scenario is almost too dark to say out loud…that the FBI has been hiding all this information about Thomas Crooks for the same reason that the Secret Service…failed to secure…the roof…The leadership of our intelligence agencies wanted Donald Trump dead.” (46:10)

  • Government transparency is slammed as abysmal, with “podcasters” filling the information gap.

Notable Quotes:

• “It should not fall to anyone in the media to tell us what Thomas Crooks was saying online…” (36:38)
• “We are not being told the whole story, or even an incomplete story. And it’s way past time for us to ask one question: why?" (48:26)

4. Vanity Fair Journalist Scandal – Olivia Nuzzi’s Conflicts and Melodrama

[48:28 - 51:31]

Key Points:

• Background: Vanity Fair editor Olivia Nuzzi is revealed to have had inappropriate (sometimes sexual) relationships with political sources (RFK Jr., Mark Sanford, Keith Olbermann) whom she was assigned to cover as a journalist.
• Walsh’s Mockery:
  • Highlights how her infamous 2015 tweet ("Why does Hollywood think female reporters sleep with their sources?") aged poorly.
  • Lampoons Nuzzi’s melodramatic writing from her new book as “self-serious, pretentious, melodramatic in the extreme, and very poorly written.”
• No Consequences: Despite the scandal, Nuzzi’s career flourished, illustrating what Walsh sees as a lack of standards in modern media.

Notable Quotes:

• “What Olivia found appealing about a man who looks and sounds like a giant half sentient wart, I have no idea…” (51:05)
• “It reads like a seventh grade girl doing an impression of Taylor Swift doing an impression of Cormac McCarthy.” (51:21)

5. Dearborn, Michigan: Demographic Conflict, Islamification, and Constitutional Crisis

[51:31 - 77:05+]

Key Points:

• Dearborn Demographics: Now America’s first Arab-Muslim majority city, where, Walsh argues, American cultural and constitutional norms are under siege.
  • Recent city council meeting saw violence, intimidation against Christian/conservative activists and journalists.
  • Video reports show police refusing to intervene as Americans are assaulted for protesting “Islamification.”
• Chilling Footage/anecdotes:
  • Activist Jake Lang and journalist Cam Higby attacked, police passive, crowd chants “Allahu Akbar.”
  • City mayor, Abdullah Hamoud, denounced assimilation and publicly tells pastor critics they are “not welcome.”
• Walsh’s Diagnosis:
  • Frames this as the inevitable result when “you engage in open racial warfare,” leading to radicalized resistance and open conflict:

    “When you target a specific race for replacement, which is what the left has done across the country, when you engage in open racial warfare, then you cannot pretend to be outraged when you get this kind of response. It's inevitable.” (62:11)

  • Critiques left and some on the right for minimizing the Muslim-Christian conflict or blaming protesters rather than “invaders.”
• Solution Proposed:
  • Calls for federal intervention, National Guard deployment, and reassertion of American sovereignty in cities like Dearborn.
  • Welcomes Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s designation of CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as terror organizations.
  • Points to widespread welfare fraud and terrorist connections among Somali immigrants in Minnesota.

Notable Quotes/Moments:

• “This is what happens…when the government decides to replace American citizens with Muslims from the third world. When you displace Americans...you get resistance. And at that point…you don’t get to choose what the resistance looks like.” (61:11)
• “How much longer can Americans tolerate this takeover of Dearborn, the hometown of Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company?...these foreigners…not interested in peace…” (67:48)
• “The only way to prevent the chaos is to return American cities to Americans, to return America to Americans.” (75:17)
• “The Islamification of America is one of the greatest threats we face to our country and to our national identity. It's impossible to be an American first nationalist unless you’re taking a stand against this.” (78:05)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• On the Michigan shooting case:
  “I am entirely on Dayton Napton's side with no reservation at all. How could you not be? I mean, what kind of twisted freak would you have to be to want to put this guy away in jail for 15 years for trying to protect his own property?” (06:50)
• On Hollywood’s fall and ‘Moana’ remake:
  "This is the least inventive, least creative, most uninspired thing Hollywood has ever done. And it will make $90 billion at the box office and we all know it, okay? It will earn more than like the GDP of Nigeria at the box office on the first day." (31:59)
• On FBI & Thomas Crooks:
  “The worst case scenario is almost too dark to say out loud, but I'll try my best. The worst case scenario is that the FBI has been hiding all this information about Thomas Crooks for the same reason that the Secret Service…failed to secure…the roof…” (46:10)
• On Dearborn:
  "When you target a specific race for replacement, which is what the left has done across the country, when you engage in open racial warfare, then you cannot pretend to be outraged when you get this kind of response. It's inevitable." (62:11)
• On returning cities to Americans:
  "The only way to prevent the chaos is to return American cities to Americans, to return America to Americans.” (75:17)

Segment Timestamps

• Michigan Shooting & Stand Your Ground:
  [00:58 – 13:50]
• Hollywood, Movie Theaters & Monoculture:
  [13:56 – 35:44]
• Thomas Crooks, FBI & Trump Assassination Attempt:
  [35:44 – 48:28]
• Olivia Nuzzi Journalism Scandal:
  [48:28 – 51:31]
• Dearborn City Council, Demographics, and Cultural Conflict:
  [51:31 – 77:05]
• Policy & National Response (Abbott Terror List, Somali Fraud):
  [77:06 – end]

Tone & Language

The episode combines unapologetic conservatism with biting sarcasm, dark humor, and an “us vs them” rhetorical style. Walsh is dismissive of political correctness, extremely critical of liberal and mainstream institutions, and frames issues in alarmist, sometimes incendiary terms.

For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

Expect a raw, polemical exploration of cultural flashpoints: a legal system that (in Walsh's view) punishes victims, America's retreat into “content” instead of shared entertainment experiences, a damning critique of federal agencies' transparency, cynicism about modern journalism, and outspoken warnings about demographic and constitutional upheaval in cities like Dearborn. The episode threads all these together as symptoms of a deeper national crisis, calling for radical reassertion of traditional American identity and civic order.