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Friendly Fire: Run Hide Fight: Infidels, Useful Idiots, and the Jihadi Coup · The Matt Walsh Show

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  Speaker 1: 1,315 years after the Battle of Covadonga, when the Muslims
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  Speaker 1: invaded Iberia and attempted to conquer all of Europe, we
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  Speaker 1: are releasing Run, Hide, Fight infidels.
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  Speaker 2: This is Friendly Fire.
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  Speaker 1: I was hoping we'd get for the intro for this episode,
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  Speaker 1: one of those like calls to prayer from the minarets. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I hope, dear audience, we've roped you in with this riveting, urgent,
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  Speaker 1: kovidanga discourse. But we're not just talking about ancient history.
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  Speaker 2: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about Daily Wire's new movie. If you have
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  Speaker 1: not subscribed, shame on you. Shame on you. What are
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  Speaker 1: you thinking?
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  Speaker 2: You go to dailywire.com.
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  Speaker 1: Slash subscribe so that you can see the movie that
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  Speaker 1: Variety is writing about.
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  Speaker 2: You can see it. We'll get to the Variety review.
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  Speaker 1: You'll see the movie that Slate is calling Deranged, and they.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know the half of it.
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  Speaker 1: If you haven't seen the trailer, here it is.
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  Speaker 3: Your country is beneath contempt.
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  Speaker 4: We who love and serve Allah fought back against the
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  Speaker 4: Americans and the Zionists from the scourge of secularism and
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  Speaker 4: the lands of unbelief.
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  Speaker 5: Anyone gonna listen to Captain Saunders tomorrow?
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  Speaker 3: The retired Delta Force soldier with the new book out.
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  Speaker 6: He's the polar opposite of those brain-dead protesters.
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  Speaker 7: Given the current climate, should Clay Saunders even be allowed
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  Speaker 7: on campus?
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Saunders is a close personal friend of Chancellor Friedman.
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  Speaker 2: This is a decision I cannot fight.
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  Speaker 8: There are three ways Islam will conquer the West. Through immigration,
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  Speaker 8: through the wombs of our women, and by using our
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  Speaker 8: nation's freedoms against us. Are you paying attention?
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  Speaker 3: Listen carefully. The great Satan America will fall.
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  Speaker 2: You are infidels.
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  Speaker 3: The bodies of women are not pure and the men's
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  Speaker 3: souls are unclean.
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  Speaker 8: What makes them so dangerous? Their goals are not in
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  Speaker 8: this life, but the next.
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  Speaker 4: Anyone?
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  Speaker 6: I got friends here.
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  Speaker 2: I can't just leave. Listen to me.
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  Speaker 5: In the law.
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  Speaker 8: We cannot run or hide from what is coming.
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  Speaker 3: We have to fight.
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  Speaker 1: I will be rewarded.
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  Speaker 2: 10,000 times in the next life.
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  Speaker 3: When you die, you are nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Only one way to find out.
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  Speaker 8: That's the American way.
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  Speaker 2: Now I know that was pretty subtle.
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  Speaker 1: So for those of you who didn't get the subtext
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  Speaker 1: of what was going on, a bunch of Muslims take
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  Speaker 1: over a school with the help of the leftist students.
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  Speaker 1: Variety is calling this movie Islamophobic. Matt, would you like
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  Speaker 1: to respond and correct the record?
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  Speaker 7: Uh, great to be with you guys, by the way. Um, and, uh,
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  Speaker 7: it's always quite, always quite, uh, burdensome to be with,
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  Speaker 7: be with all of you. That's not the word I wanted.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 7: Uh, look, I think it is, it's very Islamophobic and, uh,
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  Speaker 7: I think we can embrace that. Uh, if Islamophobia, if
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  Speaker 7: that's even a word that means anything, then sure. Let's, uh, let's,
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  Speaker 7: let's embrace that. I think that the, look, the, the
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  Speaker 7: promise of the daily wire has always been, or the, the,
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  Speaker 7: the pitch has always been, uh, Well, we're going to
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  Speaker 7: make movies that you can't get anywhere else. We're going
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  Speaker 7: to make the movies that no one else will make.
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  Speaker 7: We'll make the movie like Netflix won't make, Amazon won't make.
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  Speaker 7: And one thing you could certainly say about this movie,
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  Speaker 7: having seen it myself, of course, is that it definitely
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  Speaker 7: fulfills that promise. This is certainly one. You're not going
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  Speaker 7: to find this on Netflix. You literally can't go anywhere
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  Speaker 7: else to find this movie or anything like it. And
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  Speaker 7: that's reason enough to go check it out, I'd say.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say in the fevered dreams of Charles
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  Speaker 1: Martel himself, you probably wouldn't see this movie. I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Pope Pius X would say like, hey guys,
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  Speaker 1: slow your roll a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: This is a little heavy handed on the old Muslims,
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't you say? But it's not just the Muslims.
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  Speaker 1: It's also the purple haired liberal students who have a
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  Speaker 1: very strange alliance that a lot of us have been
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  Speaker 1: talking about for a long time. And Ben, you've been
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  Speaker 1: calling attention to for many years.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, obviously the movie is, I would say
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  Speaker 9: sort of a mashup of like Red Dawn and Blazing Saddles,
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  Speaker 9: but about radical Muslims.
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  Speaker 6: And so it's a lot of fun. It's awesome.
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  Speaker 9: For the people who have not seen it yet today,
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  Speaker 9: or you should go subscribe and watch it right now.
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  Speaker 9: By the way, we should say Run, Hide, Fight was
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  Speaker 9: our most successful movie release ever at The Daily Wire.
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  Speaker 9: Our day one numbers on Run, Hide, Fight infidels are
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  Speaker 9: doubling the numbers that we did on the original Run, Hide, Fight.
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  Speaker 9: So already tons and tons of people are watching it.
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  Speaker 9: And the reviewers are hating it. And yeah, they're calling
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  Speaker 9: it Islamophobic. Again, these are the same reviewers who were
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  Speaker 9: saying that one battle after another needed to win Best
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  Speaker 9: Picture Oscar, which was just a radically anti-American piece of
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  Speaker 9: crap about how America was a white supremacist country and
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  Speaker 9: murdering federal officers was an active good. And so what
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  Speaker 9: this movie is, is it's about the Red-Green Alliance, really.
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  Speaker 9: It could have been called Useful Idiots. Basically, you have
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  Speaker 9: a bunch of blue-haired liberal protesters who are taking over
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  Speaker 9: the college campus, obstructing events, and all the rest. And
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  Speaker 9: they are used by their Islamist friends in order to
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  Speaker 9: take over the campus, things don't go right for them.
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  Speaker 9: I would say from there on in, as has been
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  Speaker 9: historically the case. And, you know, people are focusing on
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  Speaker 9: the politics of the thing, but the reason that I'm
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  Speaker 9: kind of mashing up the red Dawn with the blazing
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  Speaker 9: saddles of it is because there is a fairly serious
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  Speaker 9: point here that I think slate was, was best. The
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  Speaker 9: ones called the deranged, the reason they said it was
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  Speaker 9: deranged is because they said that we took an evil
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  Speaker 9: glee in portraying what exactly would happen to the blue
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  Speaker 9: haired liberals. If radical Muslims took over a campus and
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  Speaker 9: that's not evil glee, that's just called realism. Like in
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  Speaker 9: the real world, all of the queers for Palestine go
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  Speaker 9: off buildings in an Islamic state run area. And that's
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  Speaker 9: one of the points that I think the film makes it,
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  Speaker 9: it makes it an entertaining fashion, but I mean, it, Again, but.
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  Speaker 1: There are also some knocks on the Muslims in the movie, too.
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  Speaker 2: Like, yes, it does.
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  Speaker 1: Portray some of their best attributes, but it also shows
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  Speaker 1: the bad stuff, I think.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Wow. Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 9: But yes, I mean, the basic idea, again, is that, again,
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  Speaker 9: Slate was very angry at us for showing ISIS doing
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  Speaker 9: ISIS things.
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  Speaker 6: Like they're very upset at it, at us for that.
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  Speaker 9: And I believe that it was Slate that actually went
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  Speaker 9: and quoted a top member of the Muslim Public Affairs Council.
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  Speaker 9: which is a group that was founded by legitimate Muslim
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  Speaker 9: Brotherhood offshoots to talk about why it's so Islamophobic. And
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  Speaker 9: the whole conversation about Islam versus Islamophobic, Islamist, Islamism, which
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  Speaker 9: modifier we're supposed to use. Can we just put it
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  Speaker 9: out there that Islam as a global force, as Samuel
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  Speaker 9: Huntington once said, has bloody borders and bloody innards, and
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  Speaker 9: that were there to be mass Muslim migration to the West,
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  Speaker 9: it would be a bad thing. And we know this
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  Speaker 9: because it already happened and it hasn't been awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, one of my favorite writers, the Catholic
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  Speaker 1: conservative types, every time they quote anybody, it's either Chesterton
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  Speaker 1: or Hilaire Belloc. You know, those are the great 20th
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  Speaker 1: century polemicist writers. And Belloc totally called this.
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  Speaker 2: He had this book on the.
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  Speaker 1: Crusades where he says, we lost the Crusades. The Muslims
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  Speaker 1: won because we lost at Damascus. And so as a result,
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  Speaker 1: Islam is solid and it's the West that's weaker. And
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  Speaker 1: he's writing this in the 1930s when it looked like
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  Speaker 1: Islam was kind of dead as a major world force.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, you guys are crazy. I mean, nobody
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  Speaker 1: is more to the right of Hilaire Belloc basically that's
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  Speaker 1: ever lived. And he said, you guys are crazy. Islam
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  Speaker 1: is going to reassert itself and it's going to happen
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  Speaker 1: sooner than later.
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  Speaker 2: And it did.
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  Speaker 1: It started to happen again in the 1970s, obviously 2001.
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  Speaker 1: And it's continued since then. So, you know, I'm delighted
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  Speaker 1: that we're really doubling and tripling down on the hardcore,
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  Speaker 1: you know, message here. The other thing I really like, look,
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  Speaker 1: I love a lot of the DW movies, but we
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  Speaker 1: now have a male lead. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We've had a lot of chicks in the movies. We
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  Speaker 2: have a male lead. This is, to your point, Ben,
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  Speaker 2: it is, it's like Red.
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  Speaker 1: Dawn with a bunch of Muslims added to, turned up
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  Speaker 1: to 11. uh, get, get a real kick out of it.
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  Speaker 1: So if you haven't subscribed, if I haven't showed this
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  Speaker 1: enough for you yet, dailywire.com slash subscribe, you get the
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  Speaker 1: message goes great with a Mayflower cigar. It goes well though, even,
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  Speaker 1: even without a Mayflower cigar. Is it this line that we,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I made the joke about careers for Palestine,
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  Speaker 1: but a lot of people are scratching their heads. How
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  Speaker 1: is it the case that the, you know, purple haired
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  Speaker 1: tranny would, would team up with the Islamists or whatever?
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  Speaker 1: It does kind of make some sense to me though.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Drew, is it just, they're all just
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  Speaker 1: dumb and they don't realize that the Muslims don't like
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  Speaker 1: them or something?
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  Speaker 5: No, you know, the funny thing about that variety review,
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  Speaker 5: just like it's excoriated us, they start out, the first
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  Speaker 5: sentence is, this is more of an epic troll than
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  Speaker 5: a creative endeavor. Now, in a world where people like
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  Speaker 5: variety own, have a stranglehold on the culture, an epic
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  Speaker 5: troll is the best creative endeavor you can do. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: we've been doing epic trolls at this place for, since
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  Speaker 5: the daily wire began and they've had tremendous effects. The
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  Speaker 5: movie is hilarious throughout. I don't understand why it's wrong
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  Speaker 5: to show what is, you know, radical Muslims would do
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  Speaker 5: to the people who are queers for Palestine and women
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  Speaker 5: for Palestine. I don't see why that is anything but
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  Speaker 5: a very, a perfectly good piece of satire. I have
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  Speaker 5: to reveal, I don't want to get anything away from
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  Speaker 5: the movie. I laughed throughout the movie. I thought it
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  Speaker 5: was really funny, totally over the top. There's one scene
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  Speaker 5: in this picture where an American of South Korean descent
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  Speaker 5: who is into brewing alcohol, and he's seen throughout the
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  Speaker 5: movie studying brewing alcohol and talking about brewing alcohol. He's
• 10:17
  Speaker 5: faced with a tremendous challenge in a computer where he
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  Speaker 5: has to dismantle a terrible thing that's going to happen
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  Speaker 5: to his computer. He's doing it. His girlfriend says to him,
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  Speaker 5: why do you know how to do this? And he says,
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  Speaker 5: I'm Asian. I just thought, I thought, we're not supposed
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  Speaker 5: to be taking this entirely seriously. This is a movie
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  Speaker 5: that is kidding around from the first line. And on
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  Speaker 5: top of that, while it's kidding around, I thought the
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  Speaker 5: action sequences were pretty good. You know, I thought the
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  Speaker 5: action sequences were gripping and scary. And so I thought
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  Speaker 5: it did its job. And as Ben says, Blazing Saddles,
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  Speaker 5: you know, and Red Dawn. Why not? Why would you
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  Speaker 5: not do that? I don't understand why the people who
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  Speaker 5: gave an Oscar to a movie in which conservatives are
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  Speaker 5: portrayed as sexual perverts and white supremacists can't take a joke.
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  Speaker 2: I'm shocked that they can't take a joke.
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  Speaker 1: Our pal Dallas Sonier, who produced the film and who
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  Speaker 1: has made a lot of Daily Wire content, and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of many films before he was at The Daily Wire,
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  Speaker 1: Adela Sonnier is a maestro of violence.
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  Speaker 2: He is maybe the.
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  Speaker 1: Leading connoisseur of on-screen violence working today.
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  Speaker 2: And so you get that too, you know, it's not
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  Speaker 2: all just funny.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there are some really phenomenal acting sequences in it,
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  Speaker 1: or sorry, action sequences in it. But I do want
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  Speaker 1: to get to the point, because a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: seem to think that the kind of purple-haired queers for
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  Speaker 1: Palestine They're just dummies. If they ever opened up the Quran,
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  Speaker 1: if they ever read a history book, they would know
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  Speaker 1: that Islam is really violent. And I want to give
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  Speaker 1: them more credit than that. I think they kind of
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  Speaker 1: know that. I think the radical left is very disordered,
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  Speaker 1: and they're in the thrall to bad ideologies and possibly Satan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not even really being hyperbolic.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think they just realize that they have
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  Speaker 1: a common enemy, that they and the radical Muslims, though
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  Speaker 1: they disagree on a lot of particulars, they have a
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  Speaker 1: common enemy, which is Christian civilization and America and, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, white people and men and whatever. And so
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  Speaker 1: they're willing to team up with them and anything that
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  Speaker 1: we oppose, they want to support.
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  Speaker 2: Is that too reductive a reading?
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  Speaker 7: I don't think it is at all. I mean, it
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  Speaker 7: really is that simple. And I think that the movie
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  Speaker 7: does a pretty good job of showing this. Now, in
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  Speaker 7: the movie, because a lot of it's to comedic effect,
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  Speaker 7: so a lot of the leftists in the film are
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  Speaker 7: portrayed as the more oblivious types, like they don't really
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  Speaker 7: understand what they're getting themselves into. And there is an
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  Speaker 7: element of truth to that. I think that maybe at
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  Speaker 7: the kind of low level among the grunts on the left,
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  Speaker 7: maybe they don't quite understand it. But at a higher level,
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  Speaker 7: they certainly do. It's a strategic alliance. I think you're right, Michael.
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  Speaker 7: It's actually pretty simple in that the left, that is,
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  Speaker 7: hates Western civilization and They hate white people in particular.
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  Speaker 2: They hate Christians.
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  Speaker 7: And they see Islam and they see that we have
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  Speaker 7: a shared enemy. They see Islam as a destructive force,
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  Speaker 7: something that seeks to destroy Western civilization. And it's really
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  Speaker 7: that simple. I mean, we know on the left, we
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  Speaker 7: talk about it all the time, that it's not as
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  Speaker 7: though they necessarily have the best plan for rebuilding on
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  Speaker 7: the other side. They're not quite as worried about that.
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  Speaker 7: It's a destructive force. And that's why I always say,
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  Speaker 7: we call it progressive, progressivism. I think some people on
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  Speaker 7: the right don't like that term because they say, well,
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  Speaker 7: it's not really progress. I like the term because it's
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  Speaker 7: progressive in the sense that cancer is progressive. It progresses
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  Speaker 7: in the same way and to the same end. Cancer
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  Speaker 7: doesn't have an intention necessarily for what it does after
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  Speaker 7: it kills you. It just kills you. And it's the
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  Speaker 7: same thing for the left. And they see They see
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  Speaker 7: Islam as a tool for that. They see mass migration
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  Speaker 7: from the third world generally as a tool for that.
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  Speaker 2: And you know something? They're right. It is.
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  Speaker 7: You know, it's that simple.
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  Speaker 1: And there is that commonality of just being a destructive force.
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  Speaker 1: I say this as someone, like, I guess I'm Islamophobic
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  Speaker 1: in the sense that I think Islam is just contrary
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  Speaker 1: to our civilization. And they've been trying to conquer us
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  Speaker 1: for roughly 1,400 years. And it's ultimately just an incompatible
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  Speaker 1: world system. and one of us is going to prevail,
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  Speaker 1: and one of us is going to lose, at least
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  Speaker 1: in the fight.
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  Speaker 2: Over the West.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that, but I agree with Dante, who
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  Speaker 1: hasn't yet come up on this show for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: who has a kind of grudging respect for Saladin, the
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  Speaker 1: great Muslim in the Crusades, who he puts him with
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  Speaker 1: the virtuous pagans. And so you see this in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of crusade literature, like the Song of Roland and
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  Speaker 1: those kinds of poems. There's this kind of grudging respect
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  Speaker 1: for Islam while recognizing that they are intent on our destruction.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of liberal propaganda about the Muslim conquest
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  Speaker 1: of Spain, of Iberia, in which they say, well, it
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  Speaker 1: was this thriving multicultural civilization and.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it was just very diverse. And that's not
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  Speaker 2: really what happened.
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  Speaker 1: They came over, they enslaved, they conquered, they killed tens
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  Speaker 1: of millions of Christians and enslaved them. And really they just,
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  Speaker 1: the great triumphs of that civilization are was just the
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  Speaker 1: Muslims kind of using the Spanish and Western goods that
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  Speaker 1: had already existed. So I think there is a commonality, too,
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  Speaker 1: in that Islam has brought.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of destruction. It's spread through destruction.
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  Speaker 1: It hasn't syncretized with the West. It hasn't grown anything
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  Speaker 1: out of the West. And the same can be said,
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  Speaker 1: to your point, Matt, of the left. The left is very,
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  Speaker 1: very good at destroying things. The left is not so
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  Speaker 1: good or really in any way concerned with building things,
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  Speaker 1: but I do fear people are going to take from
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  Speaker 1: our commentary that the movie is like a little too nuanced,
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  Speaker 1: a little too subtle, a little too kind of hard
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  Speaker 1: to get. So just in case you want to more
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  Speaker 1: accurately understand what the movie is about, here is a
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  Speaker 1: Muslim kicking a homosexual off a roof.
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  Speaker 3: You both did your part in our conquest and for
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  Speaker 3: this I am thankful. Your government kills people all over
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  Speaker 3: the world. They celebrate it. You only care when they
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  Speaker 3: look like you. America destroyed our original glorious caliphate. They
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  Speaker 3: tortured and imprisoned our caliph. But they could not kill
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  Speaker 3: our spirit. Our purpose transcends the things of this world.
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  Speaker 2: We just.
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  Speaker 6: Didn't expect so much death.
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  Speaker 3: We have killed the right amount to instill fear. Many
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  Speaker 3: we let run so they could tell others of our
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: strength and the remaining ones are piano keys.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: I expected more resistance.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: But I should not be surprised. So many in your
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: country cannot even be bothered to produce children, but this
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: is a day that you will tell yours about.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: We're not We won't have kids.
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: I like everyone, and Bruce.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: I'm gay.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: I want to address this. I want to address this.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: Wait a minute. As someone who has kicked many homosexuals,
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: although we were in chorus lines at the time... I
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: just want to say that along with what Walsh is
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: saying about common enemies and things like this, there's this wild,
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: wild atmosphere of imaginary life on the left that I've
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: never quite been able to get over. In one of
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: the reviews, I think it may have also been the
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: Variety review, they shake their finger at us because we
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: don't have the empathy to sympathize with land acknowledgements. You know,
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: with saying, oh, this land belonged to the Chippewa or whatever.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: And I've always felt like I will sympathize with those
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: acknowledgements the minute at the end of it, they give
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: the land back to the Comanches. You know, whatever they,
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: when they say this campus was once owned. by the
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: Chippewas and from now on, we're giving classes out on
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: the sidewalk because we're letting them come back and hunt
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: buffalo through the campus. Then I'll agree with it, but
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: it's all fantasy. And we saw it was all fantasy
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: in Martha's Vineyard when the illegals came in and it
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: was like, ooh, we didn't quite mean that much. We
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: didn't quite want you here. It's all this imaginary life
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: that they live. And They can't stand that you make
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: fun of it because it exposes it for what it is,
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: which is vapor.
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: Can I just say one thing? Go for it, Matt.
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: On that scene, I feel like the gay guy didn't
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: have to tell him.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: He should have just kept that to himself.
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: When I was watching that scene, I find myself rooting
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: for the left a little bit.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: I'm like, you don't have to tell him. You don't
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: have to tell him this.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: Just keep it to yourself.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: If he couldn't tell from the voice, you don't have
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: to tell him, you know, he's clearly a little oblivious.
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: You know, it was a mistake. It was a tactical mistake.
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: I think we can all admit it was a tactical
• 19:44
  Speaker 9: mistake for him to say something about it at that time. But,
• 19:46
  Speaker 9: you know, one of the things that you were saying, Michael,
• 19:48
  Speaker 9: earlier where you were saying it, I think Matt was
• 19:50
  Speaker 9: saying it too, that we're not sure like how dumb
• 19:53
  Speaker 9: some of the members of the left are or how
• 19:54
  Speaker 9: much they understand this. So I use as my case
• 19:58
  Speaker 9: in point of them being just stupid, the actual reviewer
• 20:01
  Speaker 9: for Variety, who it seems may have actually attended the
• 20:03
  Speaker 9: protest in the movie. Here is a line from the actual,
• 20:07
  Speaker 9: it is a line from the actual review, quote, Are
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: you contemptuous of radical leftists who believe that others should
• 20:13
  Speaker 9: be treated with decency.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: Care, and respect? If so, this is the film for you.
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: So I have to say, first of all, the notion
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: that radical leftists are just wonderful people who believe that
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: others should be treated with decency, care, and respect is
• 20:27
  Speaker 9: such a bunch of horseshit.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's just something. But it's how they perceive themselves, right?
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: Some of the cruelest people, some of the most destructive people,
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: people who would, for example, be chortling it up on
• 20:37
  Speaker 9: TikTok over Charlie Kirk getting assassinated or something, right? Those
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: people are the people who just want others to be
• 20:43
  Speaker 9: treated with decency and care and respect. And that's why
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: they're protesting decency in favor of Hamas in Gaza, or
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: why on 9-11, they're reading Osama bin Laden's letters and
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: finding some, it's just because they're so empathetic.
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: And how dare we make fun of those people?
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: Like, again.
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: If you really feel the empathy for the Islamic terrorists,
• 21:01
  Speaker 9: then yeah, you're kind of suicidal. And we actually have
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: seen worlds historically, the circumstance actually play out. I mean,
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: this was the story of the 1979 revolution in Iran.
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: It was not just a bunch of radical Muslims. It
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: was also communists. And the communists and the radical Muslims
• 21:15
  Speaker 9: came together pretty openly. and overthrew the Shah, at which
• 21:19
  Speaker 9: point the communists turned to the Muslims and said, let's
• 21:22
  Speaker 9: govern together. And the Muslims said, we're going to execute
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: literally all of you, which they then proceeded to do.
• 21:26
  Speaker 9: And so, again, we tend to think, I think that
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: maybe we're projecting our understanding of them onto them. I'm
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: not sure they even self-understand some of them, particularly the
• 21:35
  Speaker 9: kids on college campuses who are.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: Mostly dumb as a rock.
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: I mean, maybe that's me being actually too flattering for them.
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: Maybe they truly understand the nature of what it is
• 21:43
  Speaker 9: that they are allying with. But I think what they
• 21:45
  Speaker 9: figure is that those people that are allying with will
• 21:47
  Speaker 9: never be fully victorious in the end will be the
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: ones who are driving the car. And I just think
• 21:51
  Speaker 9: that they don't understand that in the end, they will
• 21:53
  Speaker 9: not be driving any car at all, particularly if they
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: are women.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Well, this line too, where they, they, the variety guy
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: is getting to where he says, you know, that we
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: just want to be compassionate and caring. And the line
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: that you're seeing the Dems trot out on the campaign
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: trail now is you're calling us radicals. Um, Our radicalism
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: is that we want to give people health care. That's
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: the new spin doctor line they're all reciting it. And
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: it falls so flat for anyone paying attention because they're
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: saying they just want to give you health care as,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: to your point, Ben, they're making TikTok celebrating Charlie's assassination. Or,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: not just to rely on the anecdote, or they are
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: responding to pollsters and saying that 25 to 28% of
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: very liberal respondents or leftists under the age of 45
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: justify political violence, killing otherwise innocent conservatives just because of
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: what they believe.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: They are very violent.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is a commonality between the left and
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the Muslims right now that is really overlooked.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: We give the left too much of a pass on it.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Even the Atlantic had to come out a few months
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: ago and say that left-wing terrorism is is the chief
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: problem with political violence right now. And by the way,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: they're relying on data sets that still exclude most left-wing violence,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: that actually exclude an Antifa attack on one of my
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: very own speaking events. So I caught it just because
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: I was looking for that one incident. And then you look,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: the BLM violence is not counted in these data sets.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: So even taking out most of the left-wing violence, still
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: most of the political violence is coming here from the left.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: And so there is, there is a real commonality with that.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: And I think the left has to grapple with it
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: because they're, they're going to try to downplay the Hassan
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Piker of it all. They're going to say, oh, that
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: was just a one candidate in Maine. It was just
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Abdul El-Sayed, or it was just AOC campaigning with Hassan Piker,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: or it was Bernie Sanders, or, you know, all of
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: a sudden the list is pretty long to campaign with
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: a guy who says America deserved 9-11, who says he
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: wipes himself with the American flag. who called for the
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: murder of two Republican senators, and who fantasized about personally
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: murdering Charlie Kirk before one of his fellow travelers actually
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: did it. But the violence is a major, major problem here.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: And we just give them a pass for it.
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I see a huge commonality between the two sides.
• 24:08
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• 24:10
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• 25:16
  Speaker 9: what one thing, Michael, that I found astonishing about some
• 25:19
  Speaker 9: of these reviews also is. it's one of the things
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: that annoys me the most about what the left typically
• 25:24
  Speaker 9: does is Matt, you'll tell a joke and the left
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: will pretend that you're not joking. When you tell the joke, Michael,
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: you'll do the same thing. Drew, this happens to you
• 25:31
  Speaker 9: legitimately all the time. And so the reviews are like,
• 25:34
  Speaker 9: why isn't this a nuanced drama about the necessities and
• 25:38
  Speaker 9: desires of Muslims in America facing down predations of the
• 25:41
  Speaker 9: United States? And why, why don't you treat the left
• 25:44
  Speaker 9: with nuance? Like when was the last action movie from
• 25:47
  Speaker 9: 1992 that, where you got like a nuanced view of
• 25:50
  Speaker 9: the good guys and the bad guys. Let's just be clear.
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: One battle after another, which again is the one that
• 25:55
  Speaker 9: I'm going to come back to because it won best
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: picture last year.
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 25:58
  Speaker 9: One battle after another is the least nuanced movie in
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: the history of film. It makes this movie look like
• 26:03
  Speaker 9: an Ingmar Bergman presentation. One battle after another is just
• 26:07
  Speaker 9: a botchery of a film. It is a full scale
• 26:10
  Speaker 9: propaganda effort on behalf of the hard left that glorifies
• 26:13
  Speaker 9: the murder of federal agents, treats the leadership of the
• 26:16
  Speaker 9: United States as though they're polo shirt wearing, golfing, full-scale
• 26:20
  Speaker 9: white supremacists who also have sexual fetishes for black women.
• 26:24
  Speaker 9: And also there's like an underground railroad of illegal immigrants
• 26:27
  Speaker 9: run by the only competent person in the movie, Benicio
• 26:29
  Speaker 9: Del Toro. And that's that one best picture. So don't
• 26:32
  Speaker 9: give me that this movie isn't subtle enough for your taste.
• 26:35
  Speaker 9: It just doesn't agree with your view of the world.
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: And that's why you're actually super pissed about it. And listen,
• 26:40
  Speaker 9: I think we're all very grateful for them for saying
• 26:42
  Speaker 9: the quiet part out loud about their hatred of the
• 26:44
  Speaker 9: politics of the film. They then try to hide behind, oh, well,
• 26:46
  Speaker 9: we don't like the quality of the film. You don't
• 26:49
  Speaker 9: care about the quality of the film. You care about
• 26:50
  Speaker 9: the politics of the film because the film is just,
• 26:53
  Speaker 9: it is funny and it is entertaining. And I promise
• 26:55
  Speaker 9: you're going to enjoy it with your friends and your family.
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: when you watch, I wouldn't recommend watching with a 10
• 27:00
  Speaker 9: year old, but, but certainly with a 15 or 16
• 27:02
  Speaker 9: year old, you're going to have a good time with it.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: You could watch it with your husband.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: You could watch it with your brother in the case
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: of Ilhan Omar, who might well have appeared in the movie.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Obviously that would be the same person. The one, the
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: one real heart.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: I want to follow up on a point you made
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: before though, because I think it actually is, is kind
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: of important. You know, I think everybody on this panel,
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: I know Ben has, and he's such an evil Jewish guy.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: We've all talked about the fact that they're wonderful Muslim
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: people and all that. But those aren't the people that
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: the left elects when they elect people to lead in
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: this country. I mean, the mayor of New York is
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: a Jew-hating, terrorist-sympathizing person. piece of garbage. And Abdul El-Sahid
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: is not that far behind. In fact, he may actually
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: outstrip Zorah Mamdani. So these are not the people they're
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: actually elevating. They're not elevating the people that they would
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: like us to acknowledge, and I acknowledge them, but they're
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: elevating the people in the film. They're looking at this
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: movie and saying, that's a terrible, terrible depiction of a Muslim.
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: Let's elect a mayor of New York. That would be
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: a great idea. So I don't even know what their.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: They're not like I like the the Islamic grocer on
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: whatever block it is in New York or the cab
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: driver or whatever. But that's not the guy that they're promoting.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: And it's also, by the way, not just the fringe.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's important to point out that we are
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: seeing this show up in the elections. But even, you know,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: the movie obviously presents these kind of dumb college kids
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: with the crazy hair queers for Palestine and then the
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: radical jihadi types.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: And you say, OK, well, you guys are just talking
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: about fringes.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Again, don't forget. The leading thought leader on the left,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: such as it is, as it were, is Hasan Piker.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's an exaggeration. I think he's the guy.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: He's the guy that the Democrat candidates look to. He's
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: the biggest streamer on the left. And he's not just
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: being promoted by the fringe elements. He was being platformed
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: by the New York Times. The New York Times platformed
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: that guy approvingly twice in the days following Charlie Kirk's assassination.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: They've platformed another couple times since that first spate. So
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: this is a widespread phenomenon. It's obviously happening.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: The left is never interested in nuance when it's their projects.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: It's only for ours that we're supposed to make, I
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: don't know, we're supposed to make nothing, which is really
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: what they want. And I think they're very upset that
• 29:21
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• 29:29
  Speaker 1: this is awful.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: This is awful. Can I just leave now?
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: They're saying that Abdul El-Sayed has a 63% chance of
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: winning the race in Michigan overnight. over Mike Rogers at 37%.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Do you guys buy those numbers?
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: I think they're a little bit high.
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: I would say they're a little bit high for Abdul El-Sayed.
• 29:52
  Speaker 9: I think that you're going to see Rogers in the
• 29:55
  Speaker 9: last month of the election start to climb back into
• 29:57
  Speaker 9: competitiveness there. I mean, there's been a lot of press
• 30:00
  Speaker 9: for Abdul El-Sayed right now. And I do think that
• 30:02
  Speaker 9: the ad spend hasn't really hit yet in Michigan. But
• 30:05
  Speaker 9: to pretend that El-Sayed is not the favorite in Michigan
• 30:07
  Speaker 9: would be to whistle past the graveyard.
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: And again, it's not just El-Sayed.
• 30:10
  Speaker 9: I mean, there are going to be multiple members of
• 30:12
  Speaker 9: Congress who are open jihadi sympathizers in the next Congress.
• 30:15
  Speaker 9: I mean, people who for sure will get elected. Milak
• 30:16
  Speaker 9: Hirosh over in Colorado. Adam Hamawi was literally a mouthpiece
• 30:20
  Speaker 9: for the blind sheikh who bombed the World Trade Center
• 30:23
  Speaker 9: in 1993. And that dude is going to end up
• 30:24
  Speaker 9: in Congress from New Jersey. You have Daryl Lisa Chevalier
• 30:28
  Speaker 9: over in New York, who's a full-scale terrorist sympathizer. They're
• 30:31
  Speaker 9: a multiplicity of these candidates. And again, to your guys' point,
• 30:34
  Speaker 9: it's not just the candidates. The groups that are quoted
• 30:37
  Speaker 9: in all of these pieces calling us Islamophobic are literally
• 30:40
  Speaker 9: unindicted co-conspirators in terrorism trials, right? They're quoting people from
• 30:44
  Speaker 9: like the Council on American Islamic Relations, which was an
• 30:48
  Speaker 9: unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial. The Holy
• 30:50
  Speaker 9: Land Foundation was a charitable group in Texas. It was
• 30:53
  Speaker 9: not a charity. It was a front group for fundraising
• 30:55
  Speaker 9: for Hamas. And Kerr was an unindicted co-conspirator in that case.
• 30:57
  Speaker 9: Like all the people they're quoting may not agree with
• 31:01
  Speaker 9: the exact terrorist attacks, but they have tremendous sympathy for
• 31:04
  Speaker 9: these terrorist groups overall. And this is, again, one of
• 31:07
  Speaker 9: the games that drives me crazy. It's the semantic game.
• 31:10
  Speaker 9: No one is arguing that every Muslim in the United
• 31:12
  Speaker 9: States loves terrorism and is evil. Nobody is arguing that.
• 31:15
  Speaker 9: But is Islam as a general world force regressive, restrictive?
• 31:19
  Speaker 9: And does it have bloody borders and bloody innards, as
• 31:21
  Speaker 9: Samuel Huntington said? I mean, the answer is yes. And therefore,
• 31:24
  Speaker 9: if you then ship millions of people from these civilizations
• 31:28
  Speaker 9: into your own where they build enclaves, is that a
• 31:30
  Speaker 9: good idea or a bad idea? I think the obvious
• 31:33
  Speaker 9: answer is it's quite a bad idea. And let's be
• 31:36
  Speaker 9: real about this. Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan is a person
• 31:38
  Speaker 9: who said about an actual honest-to-God terror attack on a
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: Jewish kindergarten in Detroit by presumably one of his constituents
• 31:45
  Speaker 9: in Dearborn. He said, hurt people hurt people, and likened
• 31:48
  Speaker 9: that guy trying to murder Jewish schoolchildren in Detroit to
• 31:51
  Speaker 9: Israel hitting a member of Hezbollah with a rocket in Lebanon.
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: That guy is probably going to be in the Senate.
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: I mean, that's psychotic. That's crazy.
• 31:59
  Speaker 9: So when we talk about this being like an actual issue,
• 32:00
  Speaker 9: when you put aside the funniness and the fact that
• 32:03
  Speaker 9: the movie is kind of a gas, like it's a
• 32:05
  Speaker 9: real underlying issue that everybody is whistling past the graveyard on,
• 32:08
  Speaker 9: which is why three quarters of the damned media coverage
• 32:10
  Speaker 9: on 9-11 was about Islamophobia. And I said to the
• 32:12
  Speaker 9: New York Times, they tweeted back at me. that if
• 32:15
  Speaker 9: you had come down in a spaceship as an alien
• 32:17
  Speaker 9: on 9-11 this year, and you just read the front
• 32:19
  Speaker 9: page of the New York Times, you immediately would have
• 32:21
  Speaker 9: assumed that 9-11 was a mass at-scale attack on Muslims
• 32:26
  Speaker 9: by Americans. That's what you would have assumed. Because the
• 32:28
  Speaker 9: headline was like, 9-11 morning takes place. And then the
• 32:30
  Speaker 9: second headline was, Islamophobia even worse 25 years later.
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: It's like, what the living? It's just the Norm Macdonald joke.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: It's the Norm bit. Yeah.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: You know, the odd thing after 9-11, I mean, this
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: is a real indictment of us.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Just as a polity.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: But after 9-11, public support for Islam increased. So not
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: only did you not have the Islamophobic backlash that Norm
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: was joking about, support for Islam increased. Since 9-11, the
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: number of mosques in the United States has more than doubled.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: So I think a lot of people are looking around
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: and saying, huh, maybe we don't want to be cruel.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: We don't want to be unjust, but maybe we could
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: have used a little touch of Islamophobia. Maybe that would
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: have helped a little bit. I mean, so people have
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: this sense that, okay, the really bad elements, we got
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: to get them out of the country. The Trump administration,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: I alluded to it a little earlier about Ilhan Omar.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: They did just come out. You had Tom Holman on
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: TV the other day saying that there's an investigation into
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Ilhan Omar, whether or not she committed immigration fraud. And
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: the anchor raised the suggestion and said, well, Ilhan Omar
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: is both a citizen and a member of Congress. Is
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: there a chance that she could be denaturalized and deported
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: and obviously thereby removed from Congress?
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: And Holman didn't say no. So I don't know.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: A lot of people were sort of licking their chops
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: at this prospect.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know. To me, do you guys think that's
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: actually going to happen?
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: Nah.
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: It should happen.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: I don't think it will.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: But it should.
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: Of course it should. I mean, I don't even understand
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: the fact that she's in Congress. I mean, it's like
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: what Ben is talking about. The fact that she's in
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: Congress is like a bad dream anyway.
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: She literally wrote a letter to a judge. It would
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: happen on the other side. Like this shows how kind
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: of demoralized and defeated, I guess, conservatives are to some
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: extent that we all agree. Like our answer to that
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: is absolutely it should happen. And absolutely it probably won't.
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: And why is that? I think that shows you something,
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: that why wouldn't that happen? If we all agree that
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: it should, why wouldn't?
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: No, but I'll tell you why, Matt, because if we
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: did that, if we did that good and lawful thing
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: that would help the country, why then in the future...
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: if the left gets power, they might do an unlawful
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: and unjust thing to us.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Could you imagine?
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: Yeah, they might do what they were going to do anyway.
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: That's the fear. If the left gets in power, they'll
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: do exactly the thing that they were always going to do.
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: I don't know if we're demoralized. I think we expect
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: nothing of Congress. I mean, I notice this now that,
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: you know, there used to be this thing in conservative
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: media where people would just brush off the media. They just,
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: they say, well, the media is to the left, so
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: we have to expect that. And I would think, no,
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: you know, we can reform the media. We can take
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: them on. We can beat them. I think we have,
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: to a large extent, beaten the mainstream media or at
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: least tamed them. But, you know, we now feel this
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: way about Congress. And I think that that's a little
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: bit more legitimate. I think expecting anything to come out
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: of Congress, anything... Any investigation to end with an indictment,
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: any conversation to end with a law is just way,
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: way out of the reach of reality. I mean, it's
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: not what's happening at all. So if she were on
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: trial or investigated, I'd say maybe, but in Congress, eh.
• 35:45
  Speaker 9: By the way, the American public tends to apparently agree
• 35:48
  Speaker 9: with all of us, according to our friends over at Calshi,
• 35:51
  Speaker 9: a 16% shot that Ilhan Omar gets charged with a
• 35:53
  Speaker 9: federal crime this year.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: And notice the number has gone down.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Notice that even you would expect, you'd hope that the
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: number would go up after you have the deportation czar
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: going on TV saying this is a possibility. But the
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: number actually in recent months, it's gone down. Nobody expects
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: that Ilhan's even going to be charged with a crime.
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: That's exactly right. It's also true.
• 36:14
  Speaker 9: Again, I come back to less about the crime that
• 36:16
  Speaker 9: she committed or allegedly committed by marrying her brother to
• 36:20
  Speaker 9: achieve his chain migration into the country, which is the allegation.
• 36:23
  Speaker 9: Like the fact that this woman is in Congress in
• 36:25
  Speaker 9: the first place is an indictment of mass migration.
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: It just is.
• 36:28
  Speaker 9: Her district elected her and she literally wrote a letter
• 36:31
  Speaker 9: to a judge trying to lower the sentence for a
• 36:33
  Speaker 9: person who tried to join ISIS. I wish that I
• 36:35
  Speaker 9: were joking, but that's absolutely true. She literally wrote a
• 36:38
  Speaker 9: letter to a judge. There's a young man who tried
• 36:39
  Speaker 9: to join ISIS. He was sentenced to jail time. She
• 36:42
  Speaker 9: wrote a sympathetic letter to the judge saying that the
• 36:44
  Speaker 9: cruelties of American foreign policy had caused him to want
• 36:47
  Speaker 9: to join ISIS. Therefore, he should be let largely off
• 36:49
  Speaker 9: the hook. And again, this is happening in the country
• 36:52
  Speaker 9: right now. It is a thing that is happening. And
• 36:55
  Speaker 9: I mean, Michael, you mentioned it. And since we're the
• 36:57
  Speaker 9: week after 9-11, you know, there are many mistakes made
• 37:00
  Speaker 9: in the aftermath of 9-11. I will still say, I
• 37:02
  Speaker 9: think one of the biggest mistakes made in the aftermath
• 37:04
  Speaker 9: of 9-11 is that in the days immediately following 9-11,
• 37:06
  Speaker 9: I mean, immediately, George W. Bush went on national television
• 37:09
  Speaker 9: flanked by people from the Council on American Islamic Relations
• 37:12
  Speaker 9: and then explained to Americans that Islam was a religion
• 37:14
  Speaker 9: of peace.
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: And that what had happened was a perversion of Islam.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: He just doubled down on that to Condoleezza Rice, by
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: the way, just about a week ago.
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: It's totally insane. It's totally insane. It's crazy.
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: And it's the thing that drove me to start talking
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: about this stuff is that is a cultural problem. That
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: is a problem. You know, what does God's side call it?
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: He calls it suicidal empathy or something like that. But
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: it's just that that has been enforced in the minds
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: of people through by movie after movie, by television show,
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: talk show, talk show, you know, all the news media.
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: That somehow that's a good thing to look at a
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: suicide bomber or somebody who attacks a synagogue and say, well,
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: I have empathy because I can identify with that and
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: sympathize with that. That's not what empathy is supposed to be.
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: And it is a thing. You know, as somebody who's
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: written thrillers all my life, I know that when you
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: create a complex evildoer, you feel like you've done something good.
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: And I think you have. You've shown that these people
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: are not monsters. They're people. But that you should take
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: that into life by saying, yeah, you know, I really
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: feel for Hannibal Lecter. I really feel, you know, like
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: we need to give that guy some better spices for
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: his meat. You know, I think that that's mistaking the
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: message of that kind of art. I think the thing is,
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: you know, hunt that guy down. You're supposed to be
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: rooting for the good guys. And we really have, when
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: I say that the left is living a fantasy, that's
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: the fantasy. The fantasy is that if you feel empathy,
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: you are somehow good and you are somehow doing something good.
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: And in spite of what Chesterton said, the road to
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: hell really is paved with good intentions.
• 38:43
  Speaker 9: This goes back to a point that Matt was making,
• 38:45
  Speaker 9: and I think it's a really good point, which is
• 38:46
  Speaker 9: that I think that the Bush move, the Islam is
• 38:50
  Speaker 9: a religion of peace move, was in fact less about
• 38:53
  Speaker 9: the suicidal empathy for radical Islam and much more about
• 38:56
  Speaker 9: insecurity about pride in America. I really think that that's
• 38:59
  Speaker 9: the thing that's been lacking here. And I think that
• 39:01
  Speaker 9: that's true across the United States. I think that for
• 39:03
  Speaker 9: the left, again, it's not that the left predominantly loves Islam.
• 39:06
  Speaker 9: It's that they hate the United, like truly hate, passionately
• 39:09
  Speaker 9: and deeply hate the United States. And so they are
• 39:11
  Speaker 9: willing to not only fellow travel with, but push Islam
• 39:15
  Speaker 9: as some sort of solution to global problems. And even
• 39:18
  Speaker 9: on the right, there is now this bizarre move, this
• 39:20
  Speaker 9: kind of shyness about America, this desire to paint America
• 39:23
  Speaker 9: as inherently bad or as causative of everybody else's bad feelings.
• 39:27
  Speaker 9: And these are all kind of normal people who would
• 39:29
  Speaker 9: just be living their own lives in the middle of nowhere,
• 39:32
  Speaker 9: except that we really pissed them off by having a
• 39:33
  Speaker 9: military base in Saudi Arabia. And if only we weren't
• 39:36
  Speaker 9: so mean and Western, then probably they'd be fine and
• 39:38
  Speaker 9: happy with us.
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: And that's just not true.
• 39:40
  Speaker 9: It turns out that, as Michael said, right at the
• 39:42
  Speaker 9: top of the show, for some 1400 years, Islam has
• 39:44
  Speaker 9: been a religion of of conquest. It is not as
• 39:46
  Speaker 9: though people don't have independent motivations without us doing things.
• 39:50
  Speaker 9: When you are so self-centered and navel-gazing that you think
• 39:54
  Speaker 9: that every bad thing a radical Muslim does around the
• 39:56
  Speaker 9: world or Muslim regimes do around the world, that must
• 39:59
  Speaker 9: be the result of what we do. That is so self-centered, arrogant,
• 40:04
  Speaker 9: and again, reflective of this bizarrely you know, self-involved worldview,
• 40:09
  Speaker 9: that you end up destroying everything around you, not because
• 40:12
  Speaker 9: you're empathetic for them, but because you're so concerned with yourself.
• 40:14
  Speaker 9: And I think that there's a lot of that going on.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's this error.
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: And you say they truly hate America, but do they
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: really hate America? This is my point. You know, I
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: believe you. I think you're right. They truly hate America.
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: But if they really hated America, there's a plane leaving
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: every 10 minutes. You know, they could just leave. But
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: they don't. And they and even the ones even those
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: dumb celebrities who run away because, oh, my God, Trump
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: is coming. Godzilla Trump is coming. They come back after
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: a couple of months, as I well know, as a
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: former expatriate. there's no place better to be than this.
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: And I, and after a while they find that out.
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: So this hate, even the hatred is narcissistic fantasy. Even
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: the hatred is just like, if I hate America, I'm
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: doing something good because I'm not being, I don't know,
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: jingoistic or whatever it is. Uh, they feel that that's why.
• 40:58
  Speaker 7: I really, I really hate the term. That's why I
• 41:02
  Speaker 7: hate the term suicidal empathy. I mean, it's because as
• 41:05
  Speaker 7: you guys have covered, I agree. It's, it's actually not
• 41:07
  Speaker 7: empathy at all. I mean, we do them a huge
• 41:09
  Speaker 7: favor when we say that they're suicidally empathetic, because if
• 41:13
  Speaker 7: somebody was actually, had like a suicidal level of empathy, well,
• 41:18
  Speaker 7: that would be someone who's crazy and should not be
• 41:21
  Speaker 7: in power and is irrational, but it's actually a really
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: good person. I mean, that's someone who, like you care
• 41:26
  Speaker 7: so much about other people that you're driven to do
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: things that are self-destructive. That makes you irrational, but like,
• 41:34
  Speaker 7: very morally decent, if confused. And that's just not the
• 41:38
  Speaker 7: case here at all. I think that what we call
• 41:40
  Speaker 7: suicidal empathy is actually the exact opposite. It's a total
• 41:43
  Speaker 7: lack of empathy. I mean, it's the same thing with,
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: you know, you find on the left that they sympathize
• 41:49
  Speaker 7: with the criminals. And so that's why we have to
• 41:51
  Speaker 7: keep releasing the murderous black guys back out into the
• 41:57
  Speaker 7: public because they're so empathetic supposedly for these criminals. That's
• 42:01
  Speaker 7: not empathy. That's a total lack of empathy and sympathy.
• 42:04
  Speaker 7: for the victims of that guy. That's like, you don't
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: feel anything. We just went, not to take this in
• 42:11
  Speaker 7: a totally wrong direction, but we went through this with
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: the Lindsay Clancy trial. It's like, pretending that we're so
• 42:15
  Speaker 7: empathetic for this woman. No, no, no, you're not empathetic
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: for her. You don't care at all about the three
• 42:20
  Speaker 7: children she murdered. You're not even thinking about them. You
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: feel nothing for them. And, you know, it's like the
• 42:25
  Speaker 7: saying that, you know, cruelty for the... Mercy for the
• 42:29
  Speaker 7: guilty is cruelty.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: To the innocent. Adam Smith.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: The nicest thing I think you can say about the
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: libs here equally applies to George W. Bush when he
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: made that crazy statement that he just doubled down on
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: 25 years later. that Islam is a religion of peace.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: And it's this kind of wish casting. When the left
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: wants to let the aforementioned career black criminal homeless guy
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: out in New York so that he can go push
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: more people down the subway stairs, what they're saying, the
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: most charitable read of what they're saying is, well, I
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: just prefer to think that this guy will be reformed.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: I prefer to think, after the 75th time he's been arrested,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: that that's it. There's not going to be a number 76.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: I prefer to think that a boy really can be
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: a girl. That's probably the extreme version of that wish casting.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: And when George W.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Bush says, Islam is a religion of peace, what he's
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: really saying is, I prefer to think that Islam is
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: a religion of peace.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: And it isn't.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: That's obviously belied by the entire history of Islam, from
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: the moment that Muhammad received his supposed... apparitions all the
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: way up to present day. Some religions don't spread through violence,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: namely Christianity, which spreads, Christianity spreads through violence in the
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: sense that Christians are the victims of violence as they
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: are evangelizing. You know, the instances of Christian violence and evangelism,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: you can count on far less than one hand throughout history,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: and there was controversy over them at the time, going
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: back to the reign of Charlemagne, okay? With Islam, that
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: is just the modus operandi, and so Bush couldn't grapple
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: with that. I have sympathy for him, though not to
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: a suicidal degree, in the sense that he, He wanted
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: to keep the Muslims who are in America happy. He
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: wanted to think the best of people. He didn't want
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: to offend our Gulf allies, perhaps. So he said something
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: that isn't true. But this is what the left does.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: The left's argument, all the way up through the transgender thing,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: was that they seem to believe that lies are liberating.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: That if we just lie and we all agree to
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: lie together, that we can change the world. And that
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: the truth is somehow oppressive. And that's entirely contrary to
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: what we've always believed and what is true. which is
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: that the truth is what sets you free. That's a
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: pretty foundational principle for us. And you see this in
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: all of our Western institutions, going back to the church.
• 44:46
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  Speaker 5: You make a good point, Knowles, because like, you know,
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: you know, that book Dominion by Tom Holland, wonderful kind
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: of an epoch making book almost where he traces the
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: just universal effect that Christianity has had on the West
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: and how it seeped into our pores. And one of
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: the reasons really that I that I became convinced of
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: Christianity was noticing that it was so true that it
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: vanished once you accepted it. Like once you accept the
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: ethos of Christianity, it disappears because it's so obviously the case.
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: So you're just living in reality. You don't have to
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: label it Christian. And I think that that's one of
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: the problems the West has in this moment when Christianity
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: has fallen away and when belief has fallen away is
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  Speaker 5: that we forget that this is who we are and
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: this is why we believe what we believe. And I
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: am somebody who loves to anger the anti-Semites by pointing
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: out that it is Judeo-Christianity. It's the same ethos of Christianity.
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: you know, caring about other human beings as you care
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: for yourself. And I think that that's the Bush problem.
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: You know, there's that wonderful line that I think it
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: was William F. Buckley had about the Bushes was that
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: they are conservative. He is a conservative, but he's not
• 46:58
  Speaker 5: conservative with the big C and the big C makes
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: all the difference. And I think that's the thing about
• 47:02
  Speaker 5: George W. Bush was that he didn't really understand that
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  Speaker 5: his own religion, which he was sincere about, was why
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: he thought the things he thought, why he stood against
• 47:12
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• 47:17
  Speaker 5: as Ben says, he muddied them very, very quickly so
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: that the Babylon Bee had that great headline. I think
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: it was the Babylon Bee. if not the onion, where
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: they said, we predict victory against whoever it is we're fighting.
• 47:30
  Speaker 5: I think that that was a real problem with the
• 47:32
  Speaker 5: wars on terror, is not focusing on what exactly we
• 47:35
  Speaker 5: were doing.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we need to focus on this movie by
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: playing a video of the Muslim leaders saying a bunch
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: of crazy stuff.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: That was a worse transition.
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: My name is Ibrahim Assad Melod. I'm an expatriate of
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: the Islamic State in Iraq and Al-Shar.
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: We who love and serve Allah fought back against the
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: Americans and the Zionists and established the glorious Caliphate. It
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: was a place where Muslims could live with dignity and
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: find a refuge from the scourge of secularism and the
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: lands of unbelief. But, unfortunately, your imperialism would.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: Not allow you to leave us alone. in peace, pursuing
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: the ways of Allah, no. It was destroyed. But the
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: miracles of Allah, they never cease. For here, today, inside
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: of your United States, we establish.
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: A new Caliphate.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: Maybe small.
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: Every soul who truly serves allah is a whole world
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: and only in a true caliphate can we truly serve
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: allah the great satan america will fall.
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: It's a documentary That's my main criticism of this film.
• 49:19
  Speaker 6: Yes, yes. I mean, well, that's kind of the point, right?
• 49:22
  Speaker 9: I mean, that's kind of the point, Michael, is that
• 49:24
  Speaker 9: actually when you watch the film, one of the things
• 49:25
  Speaker 9: that's weird about it, and I think that the reason why,
• 49:28
  Speaker 9: you know, I called it sort of a mashup between
• 49:31
  Speaker 9: Red Dawn and Blazing Saddles, is there are these very
• 49:34
  Speaker 9: funny moments that obviously are like half joking, but then
• 49:37
  Speaker 9: the villain actually is just saying things that people actually say, right?
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: I mean, like That is stuff that ISIS says.
• 49:43
  Speaker 9: And so when it gets called deranged by Slate, yeah,
• 49:47
  Speaker 9: I mean, that belief system is totally deranged. It also
• 49:49
  Speaker 9: happens to be the governing belief system for literally hundreds
• 49:52
  Speaker 9: of millions of people in a wide variety of countries
• 49:54
  Speaker 9: around the world. And what he's saying about Islamic caliphate
• 49:56
  Speaker 9: and Sharia law being a way to govern your life
• 49:59
  Speaker 9: and the only way that you can truly be fulfilled
• 50:01
  Speaker 9: as a human being is to be Muslim and to
• 50:03
  Speaker 9: be Muslim in a Sharia law society. That is the
• 50:05
  Speaker 9: case made by like Pakistan.
• 50:07
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 50:07
  Speaker 9: That's a case that is made by Indonesia, right? These
• 50:09
  Speaker 9: are cases that are made all over planet earth. And
• 50:12
  Speaker 9: to pretend that away. is, I think, a sin. Because
• 50:15
  Speaker 9: when you pretend to weigh the truth, you end up
• 50:17
  Speaker 9: making yourself vulnerable. I mean, Drew, you threw out the
• 50:20
  Speaker 9: term war on terror, because that was the term, obviously,
• 50:21
  Speaker 9: that Bush used. You can't fight a war against a tactic.
• 50:24
  Speaker 9: And everyone was pointing this out with half a brain
• 50:26
  Speaker 9: the minute that George W. Bush started talking about this
• 50:28
  Speaker 9: back in 2001, 2002. War on terror is like saying
• 50:31
  Speaker 9: war on murder. You can't do that. You If you
• 50:39
  Speaker 9: had said that the war against the Nazis during World
• 50:41
  Speaker 9: War II was not a war against Nazis, it was
• 50:43
  Speaker 9: a war on Blitzkrieg, that would have made zero sense
• 50:46
  Speaker 9: to anybody. But again, we did like two decades of
• 50:48
  Speaker 9: that simply because we refused to acknowledge the elephant in
• 50:51
  Speaker 9: the room. And it's an elephant that we still refuse
• 50:53
  Speaker 9: to acknowledge. And that you called us like you're called
• 50:56
  Speaker 9: a slur for acknowledging the elephant in the room. That's
• 50:59
  Speaker 9: that's what's so frustrating about all of this.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, listening to the speech.
• 51:03
  Speaker 5: Are you saying that Nazism is not the religion of peace?
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 51:06
  Speaker 5: I just want to be clear.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: Relatively, maybe, to even the newer ideologies that are coming out.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: Listening to the speech, I'm reminded of a great... It
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: might have been Belloc, too. I just crib all my
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: good stuff from Chesterton and Belloc. But it was an observation.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: It's been made by many other people over history, though,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: which is that one of the features of Islam that
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: distinguishes it from Christianity, which you very eloquently described, Drew,
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: is this sort of.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: Ethos of reality.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: One of the elements of Islam that distinguishes it is
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: that it's a very carnal religion. And I think Chesterton
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: said it appeals to carnal men. It's carnal in the
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: sense that when Christians think about heaven, our image of
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: heaven is the beatific vision. It's being with God and
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: loving him forever in the communion of the saints in
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: this way that we.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: Can't possibly imagine.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: We can't even begin to fathom what God has prepared
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: for us in heaven. So I remember when I was
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: a little boy, I asked my family friend, I said, hey,
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: will I have pizza in heaven? Because I really like pizza,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: and you say heaven's where all the good stuff is,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: so am I going to get pizza?
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: And he said, well, I guess you could, but you
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: won't need it or want it.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: And with Islam, it kind of goes backwards, and it
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: substitutes all of these spiritual goods for carnal goods. That's
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: the idea of the 72 virgins. And so it's no
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: surprise that Christianity, the religion that animates and defines.
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: Our civilization, spreads.
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: in this very spiritual way, where the violence is really
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: just committed against us, and yet somehow the religion spreads
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: because of the Holy Spirit. Whereas for Islam, being carnal,
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: it has to spread through physical means, not through the
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: spiritual warfare of holding my rosary and praying, but the
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: physical warfare of actual bullets. Those two things don't jibe,
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: and so I think that's why you're having a lot
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: of problems of assimilation here. Did you see some of
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: these reports that after we've been reading for years and
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: years about no-go zones in Paris and throughout continental Europe
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: and parts of the UK, now we're getting something kind
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: of like that in the United States. I think a
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: cop said he's not going into some of these neighborhoods.
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: How's it going, sir?
• 53:11
  Speaker 10: Quick question for you.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: I noticed you're giving a ticket to this car, right?
• 53:15
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 53:15
  Speaker 10: Okay, and what about all the taxis that are double parked?
• 53:19
  Speaker 6: They're allowed in the type of salat.
• 53:23
  Speaker 10: Please say that again to the camera.
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 53:34
  Speaker 10: How do you know they're Muslim? Why is he not
• 53:38
  Speaker 10: allowed to? How do you know he's not praying? How
• 53:45
  Speaker 10: do you know that that car is not going to pray?
• 53:48
  Speaker 10: How do you know that the guy that drives that
• 53:49
  Speaker 10: car is not going to pray?
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: This is not the question.
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: Only the question is, the time of prayer, they can park.
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: We are not justified, and police justify that's the matter.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: I have two takeaways.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: One, I think it's kind of based that cops are
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: not giving out tickets so that people can pray.
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: That is awesome.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: The problem is they're doing it for Muslims. If it
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: were around churches, I think that's way better. But there's
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: also clearly this two-tiered system. The Christian guy, the Jewish guy,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: the atheist guy who's driving, he gets the ticket, but
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: the Muslim guy has a separate set of laws. I mean,
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying we're going to have Sharia law at
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: the federal level tomorrow, but that is clearly... incrementally moving
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: in that direction, isn't it?
• 54:33
  Speaker 7: It shows you the total fiction of the separation of
• 54:37
  Speaker 7: church and state myth, which we know was always kind
• 54:42
  Speaker 7: of mythology because that's not actually in the First Amendment,
• 54:44
  Speaker 7: the separation of church and state. But you had judges
• 54:48
  Speaker 7: in the middle of the 20th century that kind of
• 54:50
  Speaker 7: latched on to this phrase that, as we know, came
• 54:52
  Speaker 7: from a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote. It wasn't actually
• 54:54
  Speaker 7: a legal document. And they totally misinterpreted it. And the
• 54:59
  Speaker 7: way that they interpreted it for the last, what, 60
• 55:02
  Speaker 7: or 70 years is that separation of church and state,
• 55:06
  Speaker 7: it means that religion and government cannot commingle at all.
• 55:10
  Speaker 7: It means that you can't pray in school. It means
• 55:12
  Speaker 7: that you can't have the Ten Commandments up in a classroom.
• 55:15
  Speaker 7: You can't have the nativity scene up on public property.
• 55:18
  Speaker 7: Even though none of that stuff constitutes the legislature establishing
• 55:24
  Speaker 7: a state religion, which is the only thing That, you know,
• 55:27
  Speaker 7: which is all that the separation of church and state
• 55:28
  Speaker 7: so-called was even supposed to do. But that's what they
• 55:31
  Speaker 7: told us. And, you know, total separation. And now you
• 55:35
  Speaker 7: have this. And now you have a New York. If
• 55:37
  Speaker 7: you're a Muslim, you can double park. You get a
• 55:38
  Speaker 7: different set of laws. And you would think that all
• 55:41
  Speaker 7: of the, you know, all the nonprofits, all the kind
• 55:45
  Speaker 7: of atheist, secularist nonprofits.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: That exist.
• 55:48
  Speaker 7: They exist for exactly this, supposedly. They exist for when
• 55:52
  Speaker 7: that happens, they're going to rappel down like the SWAT
• 55:55
  Speaker 7: team and just start filing lawsuits. And they're not doing
• 55:58
  Speaker 7: that here because what we discover is that the separation
• 56:00
  Speaker 7: of church and state thing was always about, it was
• 56:03
  Speaker 7: never about, you know, freedom from religion. It was always
• 56:06
  Speaker 7: specifically about Christianity. They wanted to, they wanted to push
• 56:09
  Speaker 7: Christianity in particular to out of the public sphere as
• 56:14
  Speaker 7: much as they could. And then what happens? You end
• 56:16
  Speaker 7: up with a giant vacuum. I mean, Drew, you mentioned
• 56:18
  Speaker 7: earlier the land acknowledgements. And it's just another form of
• 56:24
  Speaker 7: kind of religious worship. It's another form of religious observation.
• 56:28
  Speaker 7: And so we push Christianity out of the public sphere.
• 56:31
  Speaker 7: And then you start filling it in with this kind
• 56:34
  Speaker 7: of secularist religion, with the land acknowledgements. Or you end
• 56:37
  Speaker 7: up with radical Muslims who show up. And they take
• 56:41
  Speaker 7: their religion very seriously. And they're very happy to fill
• 56:45
  Speaker 7: in the gap. And of course, the left isn't there
• 56:46
  Speaker 7: to stop them because they have no interest.
• 56:48
  Speaker 5: And not to hammer the same point over and over again,
• 56:51
  Speaker 5: but you just notice that Just this guy is asking questions.
• 56:54
  Speaker 5: He's not trying to humiliate the officer or anything like that.
• 56:57
  Speaker 5: He's just trying to get the facts out of him.
• 56:59
  Speaker 5: He stops, I'm not talking to you. It reminded me
• 57:01
  Speaker 5: of Matt's film, What is a Woman? Where he would
• 57:04
  Speaker 5: say the most innocent thing, like, what is a woman?
• 57:06
  Speaker 5: And it would be like, get out, you know, get
• 57:08
  Speaker 5: out of the room.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: Why are you asking that?
• 57:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, why are you asking that? What is wrong with you?
• 57:14
  Speaker 5: It's just, it cannot stand the light of day, which
• 57:17
  Speaker 5: is what makes The Daily Wire and places like it,
• 57:20
  Speaker 5: if there are other places like it, It's what makes
• 57:22
  Speaker 5: it so important. It's just shining a light on the
• 57:24
  Speaker 5: absurdity of it, that it is just an imaginary world.
• 57:27
  Speaker 5: It's an imaginary world they're living in. It is threatening
• 57:31
  Speaker 5: to this world, which I happen to like, you know, it's,
• 57:33
  Speaker 5: it's threatening to the real world because if you live
• 57:35
  Speaker 5: by those imaginary values, the real world can't stand. And
• 57:39
  Speaker 5: it's just, it's just amazing. It's, it happens again and again.
• 57:42
  Speaker 9: It's incredible to see where the left sees oppression and
• 57:45
  Speaker 9: where they, where they see freedom.
• 57:47
  Speaker 6: It's kind of incredible.
• 57:48
  Speaker 9: There, there was, An interviewer, I think that the piece
• 57:51
  Speaker 9: is probably going to come out tomorrow from the New
• 57:52
  Speaker 9: York Times. The New York Times interviewed Dallas and they
• 57:54
  Speaker 9: interviewed me about the film. And one of the things
• 57:56
  Speaker 9: that the interviewer asked, he said, well, you know, aren't
• 57:58
  Speaker 9: you afraid that this is going to cause Islamophobic sentiment?
• 58:01
  Speaker 6: I said, well, I mean, it is simply just portraying
• 58:03
  Speaker 6: ISIS as ISIS.
• 58:04
  Speaker 9: And it is saying things that are perfectly true about
• 58:06
  Speaker 9: Islam as a global religious force, not talking about individual
• 58:09
  Speaker 9: Muslims or anything like that. And he said, well, you know,
• 58:11
  Speaker 9: people in Dearborn are deeply, you know, Jake Lang was
• 58:13
  Speaker 9: in Dearborn and people in Dearborn are deeply afraid. I said, well,
• 58:16
  Speaker 9: it seems to me that Jake Lang should have been
• 58:17
  Speaker 9: more deeply afraid considering they beat the living hell out
• 58:19
  Speaker 9: of him. And the reporter kind of stopped for a
• 58:22
  Speaker 9: second because it had literally never occurred to him that
• 58:25
  Speaker 9: Jake Lang having the shit kicked out of him was
• 58:27
  Speaker 9: actually worse than Jake Lang standing there with a sign
• 58:30
  Speaker 9: that was offensive to Muslims. And you don't have to
• 58:32
  Speaker 9: be a Jake Lang bang to acknowledge that like the
• 58:35
  Speaker 9: reality of physical assault is a worse thing than carrying
• 58:39
  Speaker 9: a sign in a place where people don't want you
• 58:41
  Speaker 9: to carry the sign. But this had literally never occurred
• 58:44
  Speaker 9: to the New York Times report. You heard him stop
• 58:47
  Speaker 9: on the phone as though this was the first time
• 58:48
  Speaker 9: anybody had ever articulated something like this. And again, I
• 58:52
  Speaker 9: think that it's that level of just blindness to what
• 58:56
  Speaker 9: actual misuse of law looks like That is making us
• 58:59
  Speaker 9: so vulnerable as a country. It's like, OK, if people
• 59:01
  Speaker 9: come here and they legitimately use the rules of the
• 59:03
  Speaker 9: society against us and then they violate those rules in
• 59:06
  Speaker 9: the same way in order to harm us and they
• 59:09
  Speaker 9: do both those things simultaneously. then it must be some
• 59:11
  Speaker 9: failing of ours. We haven't fully understood what we've done
• 59:14
  Speaker 9: to make that happen. And I mean, that that truly
• 59:16
  Speaker 9: is suicidal.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: You know, it reminds me of this discourse on the
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: right that you hear a lot about whether the right
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: should be more muscular in its use of government power.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: And they're all debates that have gone on for decades
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: on the American right. But one of the memes that's
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: come out of that, which I think is manifestly true,
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: is that if you have two parties fighting against each
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: other and one of them wants to wield power and
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: one of them doesn't want to wield power, guess which
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: party is going to win? It's always going to be
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: the party that's actually doing something that has activity, that
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: has a vision, that has a coalition and has momentum.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: And so when you look at this scene out of
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: New York, where the Islamic community is saying, look, we're
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: going to reshape the standards and the norms. We're going
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: to violate the law and we'll effectively change the law
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: to accommodate us.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: What are you guys going to do about it?
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I don't see a lot of Christians
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: banding together saying, actually, we're going to double park during
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: lunchtime daily mass. Or, you know, I don't see a
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: broader coalition of Christians and Jews in New York which
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: is basically what New York has been for a very,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: very long time saying, actually, we're going to have X, Y,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: and Z series of standards. And that's going to be
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: enshrined in our law because to Matt, to your point,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: there's no such thing as a separation of church and state,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: never a perfect one anyway, because the legislators have to
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: have recourse to morality, which means they have to have
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: recourse to religion. And they're governing particular people who have
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: certain rituals.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: That go along with their religion.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: Like, uh, being closed on Sundays for, you know, having
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: blue laws or something like that.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: So there's never any way to do that.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: And we bury our heads in the sand and say, no,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: we're going to have a totally neutral, secular kind of law.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: And the Muslims come in and they say, yeah, we're
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: not interested in that. What are you going to do
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: about it?
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: Nothing. Okay, cool. We're going to double park.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 5: This is why I think the declaration is so important.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 5: The Declaration of Independence is so important because it actually
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 5: establishes a God that we believe in. a God who
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 5: installs in us the rights to life, liberty, and the
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 5: pursuit of happiness, which is different. That's different. Not every
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 5: religion actually gives you those rights and endows you with
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 5: those rights. And I don't think that we have any
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 5: business taking that out of schools. I don't think we
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 5: have any business taking the Bible out of schools because
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 5: that's where that thought comes from. I don't think we
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 5: have any business taking the history of Christianity and its
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 5: formative value in the society out of schools. And I
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 5: think those are fights we should definitely be fighting. We
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 5: should be fighting them in the courts. We should be
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 5: fighting them, you know, we should be getting sued. Our
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 5: schools should be getting sued for bringing the Bibles into class.
• 1:01:45
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