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Off The Record: Get to Know Podcaster Matt Kim

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0:00 racist for Life racist for life baby keep it racist the places that tell you that the world is racist are the only places that you experiened the racism which I think is so odd La [Laughter] [Music] baby hey welcome everybody to an amazing and very special episode of the careful boys where today we have Mr Matt Kim in the everyone to thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you hey Matt all right so all of our fans want to know who the are you Matt waa that's like the craziest question because I don't think I'm anybody that's tight but you're somebody like I'm not though like I just decided one day I want to open up my camera and start talking to it and

0:50 give what I perceive to be what's going on in the world and it's not like I ever planned on so many people listening to me or watching me like there was no agenda or objective to do that it just kind of happened and this entire year and this entire 6 months has been like the wildest journey of my life like the craziest Evol like an avalanche one thing as in I mean when I started this about less than a year ago I was like if maybe in 2 years 10,000 people listen to me like that would have been a huge W right and then all of a sudden it's like more and more and more and starts snowballing wow when did you start I did my first podcast episode about a year ago oh wow I didn't start making my Clips online which is kind of what I'm known for I didn't start doing that until May wow 2023 yeah and what what is what are you talking about what is the

1:41 content that started snowballing and started getting a lot of attention so the very first video that I had to go viral and the first video I made I made a I did a story it was on Father's Day I did a story about it was a guy that shot a man and a woman Asian man and a woman in a car in Seattle oh I remember that was pregnant M and I was talking about how the media doesn't cover this and I ended with the question how many people died that day because a pregnant woman had died how many people died it's a real question oh are these the restaurant owners yes we covered them here too and it that video my first video I ever did talking to a camera that did like 3 million views wow and then ever since then it kind of went and that really messed with people cuz people were like well two people clearly died cuz it was a mom and their unborn

2:32 child and the other side's like well like abortion they're not actually it's not actually a baby now you got this really like cuz the story hits hard but at the same time how do you qualify how many people died and then they're like well according to Seattle law like he should have been charged with two murders he should have been but they charged him with one so he actually got charged with murder for killing one person and that story kind of really messed people up and that's kind of what started people watching what what made you want to start even sharing your perspective or point of view on life I think I I was one of those guys that was at home and always yelling at the TV like a old Dad yeah like the old guy my my wife was pregnant my daughter look at Dallas Cowboys get it together it's Dallas Cowboys huh started those guys it was just

3:24 yelling at the TV and my wife would say like seriously go tell someone that cares waa cuz my daughter was like so young she was like a few months old that's a good wife though and I'm yelling at the TV and she's like you're going to wake up the kid you got to tell someone that cares that's and I remember I had just started watching Andrew Tate early in the year and Andrew Tate's voice is like in the back of my head get off your ass and do something you know what I mean yeah yeah um do something difficult be something different right put yourself in uncomfortable situations you think girls want to sleep with a loser exactly yeah think they do I don't I'm not a loser well he has a wife wife and a child no one's going to I'm never going to get laid with this ████ that's what it was I I went into the office one day and I was like we're going to start a podcast and the guys in my office like what and I'm like yeah like how do we do that I'm like I have

4:15 no idea I had never been on someone's podcast before I had never tried to do a podcast before like I had no experience in any of it I just felt like this is what I something I wanted to do what did you do before that you could even say that yeah what office were you Home Depot we're going to start a podcast what so I own a lighting company and in the back I had like an lamps and stuff yeah we we sell like commercial industrial La lights something so not relevant to what I do but you could use the lights for your like equ equally Lighting on my set is always on point oh that makes sense you know but that's it it was no like I want to do this because I want to change the world right it was I want to do this because because I want to be a model for what I want my daughter to do which is not accept the

5:05 narrative as it's written to question everything to think for yourself and that's why I do what I do because you know you can't you can tell a kid a million times this is how you should live your life mhm right you can tell them this is the right way to do it but it's not the same as doing it yourself because kids model their parents they're watching you they're always watching and doing what you do they're mimicking constantly so I just wanted do what I wanted my daughter to do which is question everything and that's literally why I do what I do that's it but don't you think you're setting yourself up for a lot of Disobedience cuz she's going to be like I'mma question my daddy you're conspiracy I am not going to accept that narrative that you're G Dad you say do homework but that's a conspiracy and if she comes up to those

5:56 decisions on her own and she makes that decision because she has reason to believe it I'm all for it wow right that's cool if she came up and analytically thought about a situation and said that I don't want to go to college because these are the things I feel like I can do different great amazing I'm glad if someone tells her you have to do something and she does it because other people told her that's what to do then I'm against that that's too much reason for Asian family you totally broke the chain so hard was it like growing up did you have like hard poor Asian parents like straight immigrant like whatever they say is Law and you can't like debate yeah my parents and especially mom is like fully the indoctrinated elitist type Mom I love you but but that's how they are like super educated and education is the

6:47 most important and but they also were I think all Asians deep down in one way shape and form especially if you if you're here in the United States you have a little bit of this anti-establishment blood in your DNA because if you didn't you wouldn't be here yeah you'd be back over there you're a little Pioneer at some point in your history of your being here in this country somebody said damn the man damn the system something's not right about where we are let's go to America for opportunity pck this ████ ████ the little bit of anti-establishment pck the emperor and somehow we got here and all of a sudden the Asians are like yeah the establishment they're they got our they're looking out for our best behalf it's like really you didn't believe that home you know but now that's true like

7:37 that doesn't make sense so crazy it's always interesting to me when you see like the first generation immigrants they're more like rebellious or they're more like anti- big government or they came from communist countries but then their kids become hella like I don't know how to explain it it's almost like they just believe everything that's been told to them by the institutions from school to politics to everything and I don't know how it turns out that way cuz our propaganda is sick maybe that's what it is America's good marketing very believable you know what I notic maybe it's a class thing because I've noticed it more in middle class and upper Asians like broke ghetto Asians are all anti-establishment right cuz they're just like don't trust anybody I don't trust the police they're like Hillbillies and ████ but then I see

8:28 compliance happening from a lot of uh well to-do Asians and I think it's because the system works for them so if you live in a community that's already safe that's doing well then for them it's like why do you need a gun I never needed a gun for my whole entire life and it's like yeah cuz you live in a gated community where your security guards have guns but you never need one you know it's it's it's it's almost like they live in a world where it all works that therefore everyone should follow that same system and probably the socioeconomic like system also works in their favor or they're playing it well you know yeah yeah I think it's this desire for social acceptance so if you comply then they accept you and it's easier to live your life right so therefore you comply because your life is good and then all of a sudden you want to indoctrinate the people around you because again life is good once you're drinking the Kool-Aid once you're

9:19 part of the establish and part of the machine it's not easy to because there's this idea especially for Asians when they get into that upper echelon of kind of the corporate World y they always kind of feel like they don't belong y but if they comply with The Narrative of what they're told then they're accepted a little bit more and they're scared to kind of push back because I feel like a lot of people even in that Echelon of society don't agree with what's going on but they don't want to speak out because they don't want to lose their place in in the world because at the end of the day they're trying to make lives better for their families also and if they step out on line it could potentially ruin the futures for their future Generations today's video is brought to you by rocket money check this out guys these days with set it and forget it

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13:30 wife's angle it's like here they go again well she doesn't listen to me on my videos because she's like I got to listen to you at home all day why do I have to watch you on video I would rather I already know what you're going to say I already know the content exactly exactly but I think she understands what's going on in the world she was not a political or politically motivated person ever in the past uh but I think over the last few years like a lot of people they kind of see like hey that that doesn't make sense you know when they say um you know magga country is really racist she hears that all the time but we live in like a really conservative area of the country and she's like nobody's racist to us at all ever yeah so it's like weird to her to hear that I mean I think that's a part of the propaganda machine like growing

14:20 up here in California going to the schools here you hear it you've probably never met a white person but you hear like people from Texas are a bunch of like backwards rednecks that are racist or people from Georgia are all KKK or whatever and you actually go to the South and you're like yo the white people here are so much nicer than the white people in California and I'm like what the ████ I've been told all this stuff about you know they're even worse and I'm like really I mean it's anecdotal but that's what I I that southern hospitality thing it's so true they're so kind they're like way nicer I don't know I think New Yorkers and Californians are even way more mean but yeah I I've lived in Georgia for 12 years now yeah I don't think I've ever had a racist experience once dang in In

15:10 Living in Georgia if anything people have been amazing really friendly so accepting and uh so supportive of what I do especially in the last 6 months the only time I've ever experienced racism in my life is if I'm in like LA or New York so the places that tell everyone let's go baby baby racist for Life racist for baby keep it racist the places that tell you that the world is racist are the only places that you experienced the racism which I think is so odd I mean La baby get your Ching CHS out of here I mean like it's also like you just never know cuz racism does exist everywhere bullying exists everywhere so like you don't know maybe someone had an experience and then they're just they're just telling you what they felt I I

16:01 think like when I was growing up a lot of the teachers came from like the Civil Rights Movement so they had a lot of like pain and suffering from that era and they were teaching us what happened to them and I I have relatives and people who grew up you know as kids during World War II or whatever and then they talk about the interment C they talk about how they were treated so like all that stuff is like I think passed down and maybe it's not even true for Our Generation and we haven't fir hand experienced any of this stuff but then like you're paranoid like oh there's a ████ racist down the street I know it you know like I mean there's hella experiences like that where it's it's so difficult to say that it it does or it doesn't exist cuz there's 300 million people in America and you can't really make a blanket statement like yeah

16:51 there's absolutely no racism in California or like we're the better ones and they're not you know see I'm a free speech Absolut abst meaning racism actually doesn't bother me at all that's TI meaning be because the reality is is that there is a ISM for everything in life yeah right if you're a if you like one football team and you have a rival football team you hate them just as much as you may hate someone of a different color right like there are so many ways to divide people and the market will decide so if you have if you're if you have a restaurant in the hood and you're like we don't cater to black people people the market around would be like all right like that's pretty ████ up we're going to put reviews to say these guys are racist and they will cancel you and your business will go out of business yeah they won't support you with they won't support you it's the market will decide it is not the

17:42 government's place to show up with the government gun and tell you what you can and cannot say I think the federal government has no say in that matter because the country itself is so diverse already we can self-govern ourselves we don't need the government going to show up and tell you how to live your life or or what you can and cannot say and I think that's the biggest part and sometimes if you have free speech it means you have to hear things that you hate yeah because if you don't hear hate speech it means Free Speech actually isn't working mhm so I'm I'm okay with it like I don't agree with it I may think you're a s█████ person right cuz the market will decide if you say something hateful people don't like you yeah then something's going to happen right have faith in the people right MH yeah and on the flip side too with too much government control I mean when racism they say like institutional

18:32 racism or by law there was racist laws right all those things it didn't pan out like people fought against it now we don't have that you know and a lot of uh racist uh I guess you know legislation and law that was that was out there they no longer exist so I think too much government control over the people is dangerous it can be extremely dangerous yeah so you you mentioned that the last 6 months have just been a Snowball Effect roller coaster and and everything like that like where are you now so to speak with like what you're doing with where the content's gone with maybe uh where you might be wanting it to go Etc did you sell the lighting company yeah no um I actually don't make money from what I do so I don't run ads or very little ads um I don't take sponsors I

19:24 don't do paid content which I get a lot of requests for which is crazy we'll go into that story later you don't want to promote like meundies athletic greens or something yeah I I don't do any of that I just kind of talk right right no athletic greens he doesn't want to be ████ influenced like we don't need that sh coffee meets bagel bagel coffee meets bagel has never never reached out so maybe we'll do that you know uh but I don't do any of that so I don't know what I'm doing I don't I I've never known what I was doing since I started you know what I mean it was just kind of you take one day as it comes and um somehow I was able to connect with some of the largest people in the space which is just wild

20:15 and so so give us some of those details like as a snowball grew like what was like well I can't believe I'm talking to this person I can't believe I'm talking to I can't believe I'm going here or recognized here so the first kind of big kind of interview I guess I did was in June which came out of nowhere um I had opportunity to be on war room with Steve bennon so Steve benn's war room is kind of on the right one of the biggest podcast and shows out there and they reached out and their CFO CEO is actually the korean-american girl which most people don't know like oh they're so racist but number two in the entire steeve B organization is Korean so like there goes that theory uh but I got to do his show and then that kind of gave me my first little bump and then somehow over time I made a couple like Pro and Andrew Tate posts and Andrew Tate reached out and

21:05 now we're connected I'm actually probably going to go to Romania in February that's cool Cobra Tate you're telling me do you need a camera which you know like he's a polarizing guy but I judge people by the way they've impacted my life not what they've done in their lives right I think that's a good way I just made fun of him cuz I had no idea who he was yeah I retract all my statements about people don't know and you don't know what you don't know right but for me I think he just plays a character yeah after I W I got so hooked on his stuff I love I his stuff is H I think he he exaggerates a point he's almost like Borat he exaggerates a point to make the point yeah I mean I I got fooled that's why I thought he was stupid and I realized I was the dumb one to think that was real yeah I like when he yells at me and it get off my ass I like that yeah kind like oh ████ maybe I should I should he's way richer than me I should yeah I mean I think it's effective and I think

21:56 the reason that you know they canc him and they've been trying to cancel him is because he has the largest inet army in the world by far no one has more influence on the internet amongst men and men that understand how the internet works than he does wow so if he doesn't comply you got to get rid of him I really think that's why because he can move the needle pretty much yeah he has an army of a million plus men that understand how the internet works wow it's a risk I really think that's why they went after him they trying to discredit him right he needs to come out with the nft then has a good email list you should that's the best way to get back fantastic actually makes I saw a video where he's yelling at me to sign up for the email list and I was like all right sign up for sign me up my email all right I'll do it then yeah so that was a huge one and then um and then I got

22:46 opportunity to connect with Tucker Carlson which is like and for me how did you get him on your podcast it it just happened man wow what I got to say his light your lighting is good but his ████ camera setup he look ████ like he's in a barn back on TV dude yeah bro yeah his his setup and his team is like 10 people wow which is crazy you think that he would have like this 100 Man team and I got to speak to some of the people that work for him in the background and they are 100% Believers in his mission which is like amazing I was talking to them and they're like when we're at lunch or dinner and when Tucker is not around what they say amongst themselves is we really feel like we're doing God work wow and the fact that they're so bought in into what they're doing and what they're really doing is trying to just spread truth about what's going on in

23:36 the world like I'm you know that's so amazing to me and they just found me I I never reached out to them they found me that's cool that's tight and one of Tucker's friends who like he trust was like hey you got to check out this guy's stuff and he started watching me and and then one day I saw like one of his team follow me and I I did what anyone else would do hi Lexi like I'm a fan like how are you like I'm here appreciate you guys and she messaged me back right away she's like well good news for you Tucker is actually the one that told me to start following you and ever since then we've been in touch and when he announced his Network I was like Hey like what are the chances like I can meet with him not even like can he be on my show not can I be on his show like I just want to meet him and I want to ask him questions because I've had such quick growth in 6 months I feel like

24:27 there's so much I need to learn like I want to know what's going on and she was like even better like I'm sure he'd be willing to do your show and that's how it happened wow just like wow wow that's really cool I wonder why you're getting so much like love and and and attention from like the right and nothing are you getting anything from the in independent or or the left or anything no cuz when I see your content I never thought of it as a rightwing I always saw it as like anti-establishment I saw it as you know someone who's just like wait a minute the media might not be telling you everything they might have a biased opinion they might be funded by someone just look at the sources and for me that's not a right-wing leftwing thing it's more like check your sources yeah I

25:18 I think the I think through that process just like you said I think it's pretty clear the top of the left is part of the establishment that controls the media and part of the far right that is maybe we we like to call the Rhinos they're just as in bed with establishment media they don't like me they don't like someone that's questioning what their official narrative what their official talking points are right it's the people that want to break away from that that kind of want to be freethinking that want to question their narrative those are the people that have been really embracing me uh so it's not just only the left that doesn't support me it's part of the right also that really hate what I do it's it's not like just one side right yeah I first came across your content cuz my wife Gio followed you and then like you know we the same you yelling at the TV but it's me and Gio

26:08 yelling at each other like what the ████ they're talking about this again we always felt like is there like anyone else that doesn't think like this so we would always have like these conversations you hey check this guy out that's when I first came across your content I'm like yes another Asian person that isn't like ████ drunk with this crazy like it's crazy that everyone has the same thoughts cuz it's not even like that in a classroom yeah you know hey we have homework tomorrow ah ████ you I love homework oh man you know there's like homework theast it's ████ in in the state or like in the nation it's like homework andone say yeah put up my ████ ass I'm like what the ████ since when dude I've never heard it like that but now I understand that's how I feel dude since when did we like shoving homework up our ass weird yeah I don't expect anyone to agree with everything I say I

26:58 don't think it's impossible I think that's weird actually to agree with everything I think if anything even identical twins fight yeah I if you agree with everything someone says it just means you're living in an echo chamber right you should always question what you're what you hear and you know if anything tell me I'm wrong I love it when you tell me I'm wrong but as long as you believe I'm wrong because you believe I'm wrong because you've done your own research and Prov me wrong and I've changed my opinion on things all the time because maybe what I researched wasn't as comprehensive that I should be maybe you provided a different perspective than what I had like that's how people should be that's how people really are in real life and this idea that you pick a side and you pick a stance on a point and that's your point for the rest of your life it's so ████ weird it is weird you know like that's your Hill to die on why yeah I

27:50 have no it's like a weird religion to me like a cult where I've been seeing like people commenting on like popular Asian pages and then they're like if you vote right then you're voting for anti- Asians mm and I'm all like what are you talking about like it's not a racial was his comment mhm stop trolling everyone every liked it too everyone like the satire he's actually the troll of the that was me

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