Ep. 1720 - Woke TV Is Back With A Vengeance In This New Paramount Show

January 20, 2026

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🎙️ The Voices & The Context

The Format: Solo monologue podcast episode, blending sharp cultural critique, TV show takedown, and rapid-fire headlines.
The Key Players: Matt Walsh, conservative commentator and host, delivering a one-man rant with self-deprecating Trekkie credentials; references guests like Stephen Miller and William Shatner indirectly via social media exchange.
The Vibe: Fun, sarcastic, and intensely mocking—a hilarious roast of "woke" Hollywood with educational jabs at leftism, politics, and theology.

🗝️ Key Themes & Topics

The episode skewers modern entertainment as leftist propaganda while celebrating conservative cultural wins; covers 4 core topics: woke Star Trek decay, Dem retreat on trans issues, fake Christianity, and uncontacted tribes debunking noble savage myths.

Topic 1: Starfleet Academy Roast – Walsh eviscerates the new Paramount+ series as blank slateism incarnate: Klingons now birdwatchers, felony-murder moms get rehab, multiracial criminals are geniuses, dialogue is cringe millennial sarcasm, production errors abound (e.g., port/starboard mix-up, "injuries but no casualties"). Ties it to female writers' Trump-era grudges and DEI slop ruining franchises.
Topic 2: Democrats Ditch Trans Rights – Axios report shows 2028 hopefuls (Newsom, Harris, etc.) dodging questions post-Trump's "they/them" ad;

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What you'll learn

1 (00:00) **Starfleet Academy: Stephen Miller's Critique and Franchise Decline**
2 (05:42) **Starfleet Academy's Awful Writing and Dialogue**
3 (08:56) **Plot Analysis: White Guilt and Criminal Redemption Fantasy**
4 (16:50) **Production Errors and Woke Propaganda**
5 (26:11) **Broader Hollywood Woke Slop**
6 (29:35) **Democrats Fleeing Trans Issues**
7 (36:43) **James Talarico's Religious Pluralism**

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Show Notes

Today on The Matt Walsh Show, we will do a deep dive into what may perhaps be the worst, most laughably bad, and wokest TV series to ever be produced by a streaming service. And that’s obviously saying a lot. Also, a new report by Axios makes it clear that Democrats are running from the trans issue as fast as they can. And a prominent Democrat senatorial candidate, who claims to be a Christian, says that all religions are equally valid. Is that a position that a Christian can actually hold?

Ep. 1720

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