In this episode, host Nicholas J.J. Fuentes talks about the ongoing FBI investigation into him and why he believes he should be brought to justice for his involvement in a civil, First Amendment-protected demonstration in Washington, D.C. on the day of the Women's March on the Capitol. He also talks about how technology companies are using their power to stifle freedom of speech, and why it's only a matter of time before they do the same to everyone else. He also explains why he thinks China is not much different than the United States and why they should be paying attention to what's going on in the Middle East and other parts of the world that aren't getting the same attention they're getting from the media and the political system. The FBI is investigating him for his role in a protest outside the White House, but it's not clear when it will decide to bring him in or when they'll decide to press charges against him for anything he's done. It may be years before they decide to do anything, and if they do decide to charge him, it could take years to build a case against him, or it may not even be a case at all. He's not the only one who's been targeted by tech companies, and that's the problem, not just by the government, but by the media, not by the tech companies themselves. I'm living proof that the Chinese government is just as bad as the U.S. government, and they're not that much different. And they don't even care about freedom, they're just doing their best to give us what we think we need to get the most out of it, they just don't give us the most money they can get from the most of our taxes, and we're just as we're paying them the most they can afford. They're not even paying us the same thing we're getting in the most we can get in the best way they're paying for it, we're not getting any more of it...they're not giving us any more, are they really giving us the best service we can afford? is it really that we can be free, they are not even giving us a choice, we can we have a choice to vote for us to vote on our money, or are they're giving us anything we want us a better day, or we're going to get it, or they're gonna pay us more, or do we get it?
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00:00:02.000It's not that much different and I'm living proof.
00:00:10.000The first political content that I ever saw was an interview with Thomas Sowell, actually, for the Hoover Institute.
00:00:16.000Every single time the reduction in the tax rates has led to an increase in tax revenue.
00:00:22.000So I hear people on television saying how the government can't afford to give this tax cuts to the rich, you know, not giving anything to anybody.
00:00:32.000The first book I read was Free to Choose by Milton Friedman and, you know, from that point on I was political.
00:00:45.000I've been doing this show now for four years.
00:00:48.000Really, it's been a quest for truth and for knowledge ever since I got into this stuff, which was when I was a little kid, ever since I was in middle school.
00:00:56.000I started to realize that there would be consequences for my views almost immediately.
00:01:01.000I started my show America First in February 2017, and the first ever hit piece that was written about me came in April 2017 in response to comments I had made on my show.
00:01:13.000And of course, the comments were taken out of context.
00:01:15.000The first major wave of deplatforming was in 2019 that I got banned from Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and then PayPal.
00:01:25.000People forget how rapidly that's accelerated.
00:01:29.000I distinctly remembered when tech censorship arrived on the scene as a new phenomenon.
00:01:44.000The big tech companies have launched their fiercest attack yet on your right as an American to follow your conscience and to say what you believe.
00:02:02.000It's not like they have a good reason.
00:02:04.000I'm now banned from every major social media platform.
00:02:07.000As somebody who was deeply entrenched in the media ecosystem and in the landscape, it was pretty clear what the writing on the wall was, which is that everybody is going to be deplatformed from everything, and it's only a matter of time.
00:02:25.000Currently, the FBI is pursuing an investigation against me for my involvement at the Capitol.
00:02:30.000I had done nothing wrong at the Capitol.
00:02:33.000I went there for the Trump rally on the Ellipse, which was just outside the White House.
00:02:37.000I walked to the Capitol with hundreds of thousands of other people for a civil, First Amendment-protected demonstration.
00:02:45.000I didn't participate in any violence, illegal criminal activity, and so on the one hand I knew I had done nothing wrong, but I also know that in this new country that we have, that doesn't necessarily protect you from law enforcement.
00:02:57.000I won't even know when the investigation ends.
00:03:26.000One night I think I was playing video games or streaming or something and before I started up to go to bed I checked my email and I saw my email that my credit card had been declined for some subscription and I said well that's weird I don't think I'm over my limit on my credit card as far as I know it's a good credit card and so I go to my online banking app and I see that on my checking account it was zero dollars
00:03:50.000And understand I had something like a half million dollars in that checking account just the other day.
00:03:56.000And so at first I assumed, I thought this is a glitch, you know.
00:03:59.000So I refreshed the app and nothing changes.
00:04:02.000I closed the app, I reopened it, nothing happened.
00:04:06.000And upon further investigation I saw there was a legal order placed on my account.
00:04:11.000I went through my transaction history and I saw legal order and subtracted my entire bank balance.
00:04:18.000I froze both my credit cards and my entire checking account was frozen, which is where nearly all of my cash was.
00:04:24.000I called customer service at the bank.
00:05:07.000In order to get in touch with the people that have placed a legal order on your account, you can call these numbers, and she gives me three phone numbers for U.S.
00:05:16.000attorneys working for the Department of Justice.
00:05:19.000And so at that point, I know this is an FBI investigation.
00:05:24.000At that point, I know this is the Department of Justice, which has placed a freeze on all my cash in my bank account.
00:05:31.000And the reason why this is so crushing is because the Department of Justice and the FBI are immovable.
00:05:37.000Because of the War on Terror, because of the Patriot Act, because of how the federal government operates, they really can do whatever they want to whoever they want, and there's nothing you can do about it.
00:05:49.000And so I talked to my lawyer, I asked him, can I get my money back?
00:05:56.000Which are the obvious questions that anyone would ask.
00:05:59.000And the response is basically, they can take your money, they don't need a reason, and they can keep it as long as they want and they don't have to give it back.
00:06:08.000And this is how the federal government works.
00:06:10.000A lot of people assume that because this is America and not Russia or China that there must be something that can be done.
00:06:26.000If you find yourself the subject of an FBI investigation, if you find yourself a target of the federal government, there's really nothing more that you can do.
00:06:36.000It's as inevitable as death or gravity.
00:06:39.000The federal government is going to do what it's going to do.
00:06:51.000And the kind of shock and awe that we saw in 2003 or 2001, Patriot Act, Panopticon surveillance state, that's now being wielded by politicians, bureaucrats, connected, wealthy, elite people
00:07:06.000And they can now wield that and utilize that against people with American citizenship.
00:07:10.000People that have done nothing wrong, are not criminals, are not a threat to society, but people that are merely an inconvenience or a problem to powerful people.
00:07:18.000And so at that point, that's the total end of a free society.
00:07:22.000That's the end of your rights, that's the end of your property, and it could be the end of your life.
00:07:26.000And so that was the first major instance of the federal government coming after me after January 6th.
00:07:59.000I had planned a press conference in Palm Beach, Florida, to demand that Ron DeSantis strengthen his big tech censorship legislation.
00:08:08.000I have it on authority that Ron DeSantis signed a toothless big tech censorship bill.
00:08:13.000And so the press conference was supposed to be attended by me, Michelle Malkin, Laura Loomer, Lauren Witski, a few other friends of mine.
00:08:20.000Lauren Witski flew into Florida the day before the press conference, and she had texted me that day and said that she was put through advanced screening.
00:08:28.000So I show up to O'Hare Airport the morning of the press conference.
00:08:41.000I had an American Airlines flight booked from Chicago to Fort Lauderdale, and I was unable to print my boarding pass.
00:08:47.000But I go to the kiosk, and the kiosk wasn't letting me check in either, which was weird to me, but it fell in line with my expectation.
00:08:53.000I thought, well, I'm not able to check in because I'm on some kind of a list.
00:08:58.000All I have to do is go to the counter and have them print my boarding pass for me and I'll be on my way.
00:09:02.000I might have to go through security like others have but I'll be on a plane in no time.
00:10:42.000She said, I don't know, but I'm just being told by airport security, you can't fly on the plane today.
00:10:47.000I said, okay, so I'm on a no-fly list.
00:10:50.000America's first founder, Nick Fuentes, put on no-fly list.
00:10:55.000It's a part of a very coordinated and systematic effort to intimidate and persecute people that are against the Biden administration, people that are against the American regime, specifically Trump supporters and the leaders of Trump supporters such as yourself and me.
00:11:08.000Michael Sherwin, who is directing the Capitol investigation in DC, he said on 60 Minutes, and he actually got in trouble for it, he said the reason they went after the
00:11:17.000Internet celebrities and the people on social media first, when they were investigating the Capitol, was to create a shock and awe effect and prevent people from protesting the inauguration.
00:11:28.000So I wanted to ensure and our office wanted to ensure that there was shock and awe that we could charge as many people as possible before the 20th.
00:11:36.000And it worked because we saw through media posts that people were afraid to come back to D.C.
00:11:42.000because they were like, if we go there, we're going to get charged.
00:11:44.000And so it represents a major escalation.
00:11:49.000So I get home, I tweet about it, I say, hey, I'm on a no-fly list, and this goes viral.
00:12:01.000And what I find is that people are asking me for evidence.
00:12:04.000And, you know, so I talked to Glenn Greenwald, I talked to a few other people.
00:12:09.000I don't have any evidence and in fact I found out
00:12:28.000That they're actually not even permitted, the government is not authorized or permitted to tell you if you're on a no-fly list, much less inform you in advance.
00:12:37.000They don't send you something in the mail, they don't email you, they don't tell you, and even if you ask them they're not permitted to tell you whether or not you're on the list.
00:13:04.000And I thought, surely, if I'm not on a no-fly list, I should be able to make this flight, because it's a different airport, different airline, different destination, different time of day, and I got there four hours before the plane departed.
00:13:18.000So I thought, if I can't get on this flight, there's no reason that I wouldn't be able to, other than that I am on a federal no-fly list.
00:14:05.000And they told me there's no way I could fly today, there's nothing I could do about it, nobody I could talk to, and they didn't know if there was any other airline that would accommodate me.
00:14:13.000And I recorded the whole encounter, posted it on social media, and that was the end of that.
00:14:18.000That's how I figured out I'm on a no-fly list.
00:14:20.000This overbroad dragnet swept up young Trump supporter and America First show host Nick Fuentes.
00:14:26.000Nick was just trying to fly to exercise his First Amendment.
00:14:28.000You know, America's not a police state.
00:14:41.000I'm so controversial to mainstream political people that they don't even care to talk about things that happen to me that they don't agree with.
00:14:49.000When it's far-reaching censorship or even freezing of my assets, I've never had any sympathy from the mainstream before.
00:14:57.000And ultimately, Tucker Carlson talked about it on his show that very night on Fox News.
00:15:02.000This is a turning point in American history.
00:15:05.000These are people, again, who have not been charged with crimes.
00:15:09.000If they have been prevented from traveling within their own country by the administration because the administration doesn't like their political views, that is not democracy.
00:15:19.000Everybody, it seemed like, came together to say, well, even though we don't always like this guy, we don't like everything that he says, we don't agree with the fact that the government is now openly and actively persecuting dissidents.
00:15:45.000People may not like my views, they may not like me personally, but I'm somebody that did nothing wrong, and I'm being punished by the federal government in a real tangible way that is really life-changing for doing nothing other than saying something that they disagree with, saying something that they don't like.
00:16:02.000And we demand that we get a proper audit of every single parent from the state of Georgia!
00:16:14.000President Trump is our rightful president and we demand that he be seated for four more years!
00:16:22.000This is a life-changing turn of events.
00:16:24.000This is something where this changes my entire outlook now.
00:16:29.000I can't just go to Florida on a weekend.
00:18:03.000I think I've been targeted because I'm effective.
00:18:07.000I'm somebody that has been isolated and separated out and singled out exclusively for this level of persecution because there are a variety of things that differentiate me from other people.
00:18:19.000Up until they took my cash, I had no shortage of money.
00:18:22.000I'm somebody who can mobilize my supporters in real life in any major city in the country.
00:18:28.000I'm somebody who's a compelling, effective orator.
00:18:31.000And, uh, you know, I'm somebody that people are very, very loyal to.
00:18:35.000And I think if you look throughout history in the United States, it's these kinds of figures that tend to be killed by the government.
00:18:42.000And, you know, if not killed, targeted, censored, everything like that.
00:18:47.000You know, they went after Malcolm X, and RFK, and JFK, and MLK, and characters like this throughout the 60s and 70s.
00:18:55.000They went after musical artists, and activists, and political figures.
00:18:59.000And I think what differentiates me from most is I'm pushing a message which is really radically different from the mainstream, and I say that in a good way.
00:19:08.000It's a message that is completely against the ruling regime in the United States.
00:19:52.000And so, that's where I'm truly kind of a unique individual where, throughout Stop the Steal, I demonstrated a particular effectiveness which the federal government's very aware of.
00:20:03.000This is what weaponization of the federal government looks like, and the legal system.
00:20:12.000They can wage this kind of terror campaign against you without a trial, without evidence, without a charge, without an arrest, and they have to tell you nothing about it, and it goes on in perpetuity.
00:20:23.000I don't know how that could be constitutional.
00:20:25.000I don't know how anybody could even see that as right or okay.
00:21:19.000Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo.
00:24:18.000Can we get a big shout out and some cheers in chat for our director on that one?
00:24:25.000I don't know if he wants us to give his whole docs out I know last time it was a little dicey with that but our director with our film team guy's just incredible absolute professional and I think he did an amazing job with that I mean everything from the graphics to the footage you know the production even the b-roll I thought very effective and I don't know about you but I was just texting him a moment ago that last
00:24:54.000When it goes through and it lists everything that's happened to me, and it says, you know, he's never been charged with a crime, he's banned from all social media, banned from most banking institutions, the federal government took half a million dollars from him, he can't fly in his own country, and then it all fades away and it says he's never been charged with a crime.
00:25:42.000You know, if he's making me get all... If he's getting me emotional about it... That happened to me like a year ago!
00:25:49.000And I'm watching this and I'm like, man, this poor guy... This poor son of a bitch, he did nothing wrong.
00:25:57.000He didn't even get charged with a crime and yet... Look at what's happened to him, so... So if he can make me feel bad about my own story, it's like, wow, it's a good documentary.
00:26:35.000The show's gonna be a little bit different tonight.
00:26:39.000There's actually a lot in the news right now, but I will save that for tomorrow.
00:26:44.000Tonight I wanted to go over and cover the mini documentary you just watched.
00:26:49.000I also wanted to get into the Louis Theroux documentary, if that's okay with you.
00:26:55.000I don't want to spend the night just kind of talking about that stuff and then we'll read super chats and it you know even though it's a Monday it's gonna be more of a casual show tonight I hope you're okay with that but it's sort of a media night you know a documentary night on America first so I want to talk a little bit more about the mini documentary and sort of our plans for that because there's a little bit more on the way
00:27:18.000I don't want to watch the whole thing on the show tonight because
00:28:11.000Which kind of sucks, because it's been slow news for weeks and weeks, and now something finally happens, and... We've got to save it for tomorrow.
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00:29:20.000Also, remember to get your AFPAC tickets.
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00:29:26.000We announced our speaker and special guest lineup on Friday.
00:33:06.000Jesse Lee Peterson who again another one who needs no introduction another legend from the fallen state.
00:33:12.000He'll be joining us and You know that the guy is just truly a character He's just gonna be I think everybody here used to watch a show every day on D live and and even to this day I think it's still on YouTube if I'm not mistaken so we love Jesse Lee Peterson an old legend and
00:33:32.000And a very funny, intelligent, and a pious man.
00:33:36.000So we're very, I mean, I'm excited about that one too.
00:33:39.000I met him a couple years ago at Politicon, one of my heroes.
00:34:32.000Our special guests you could check out on Gab, but we've got all your favorites.
00:34:37.000A lot of the streamers here from Cozy will be there.
00:34:41.000We've got Jayden, Dalton is now confirmed, Kai, Wurzelroot, we've got Patrick Holley, we've got Jared Taylor, Peter Brimelow, we've got Lance Videos, okay, if you could believe it.
00:35:01.000We've got people from the mainstream, we've got people that are from the fringe, your favorites from Cozy, your favorites from other places.
00:35:09.000A gathering like this has just simply never happened.
00:35:12.000A coalition this broad and this deep has never happened.
00:35:16.000We're rolling a thousand deep at this conference, and it's everybody who's anybody
00:35:22.000And the America First Movement is going to be there.
00:35:24.000Michelle, of course, how could I forget?
00:35:51.000I don't know how much longer they'll last.
00:35:54.000Conferences in 10 days anyway, so I mean there's really just not much time So if you still want to go make sure you get them we open them up just for you But it's it's gonna be a big party.
00:36:04.000Okay, gonna be a thousand plus people at this event catered dinner speeches If you get the reception or if you got the reception ticket You'll have a reception get a chance to mingle with me and the guests and speakers all around.
00:36:53.000If I become known as the guy with the mustache, you know, everyone's gonna go with the usual crap.
00:36:58.000You know, you look like a porn star, you look gay, you look like a cop, you look like a... It's like, how about I look like a man with a mustache, okay?
00:37:08.000So, I may bring it back after Act Pack 3, I don't know.
00:37:12.000But, you know, there's just this real stigma to having a mustache.
00:37:16.000Honestly, it's almost a cloaked form of racial hatred, in my opinion.
00:37:22.000Like, when people give me these kinds of comments about my mustache, that's, it's the same sort of thing as like when that announcer called that basketball player a nappy-headed, you know, whatever.
00:37:34.000Or, it's like when black women get offended when white women want to touch their hair.
00:47:00.000About me, about America First, about the persecution issue, the censorship in general.
00:47:07.000And you could send that to any person.
00:47:11.000I mean, probably would make more sense, any person on the right wing, any conservative.
00:47:16.000And I think that they would be sympathetic to what we're doing.
00:47:19.000And I think it allows people to look at me in a little bit of a different way, which is to say that
00:47:25.000You know, this show is very raunchy, this show is very edgy and offensive sometimes, and we'll get into that even with the Louis documentary a little bit more.
00:47:34.000This show is sometimes totally off the rails.
00:47:37.000But that being said, there is a target audience.
00:49:52.000But point being is it's not what people think when people come up with this caricature of me as like some kind of villain or a terrorist or a hate monger you know like like it was said in the documentary or some other thing.
00:50:09.000It's like I'm really just a young guy doing this, doing this show, yet expressing my political views with no institutional backing, with no sponsors, I'm not paid by anybody, I don't have a boss, and it's a result of just strictly the things that I say that I've been targeted to such an extent by the most powerful institutions in the world.
00:50:31.000And you know, to me, that's a very compelling story.
00:51:26.000And that frame at the end where it says, you know, all the things that have happened to me, it's even mind-blowing to me, all the things that have happened to me.
00:51:33.000And again, I mean, you would think based on that story, you would think strictly just based on what has happened, you know, people might say, oh, well, what did you do?
00:52:11.000No person blacklisted like I'm a ghost and for nothing that's a really compelling story to tell people and I think it's very sympathetic and ultimately it I don't say these things like um you know we've got to make this compelling story it is a compelling story it is a David and Goliath fight it's what it is
00:52:33.000And if it seems sympathetic, that's because it is a very sympathetic struggle.
00:52:38.000And it honestly is wild to me that so much of the population wouldn't be on board with that.
00:52:44.000And when I say that, I'm talking particularly about liberals.
00:52:48.000Because liberals claim to be the champion of the oppressed, and the little guy, and all that kind of stuff.
00:52:56.000And in this instance, in my particular case, but also broadly in the country and in the world, they're on the side of power.
00:53:49.000So I think that making things like that is very important and I hope you enjoyed at the end it was I think the ending really brought it all together really tied it together when it showed some of these clips from the rallies and there was some stuff in there about like Martin Luther King jr.
00:57:11.000In order to understand politics, you need to understand the role that media plays, and how media operates, and what kind of people are in media.
00:58:02.000And so I got an email from a producer at MTV and they said, hey, we want to do a reboot of this show with an episode about you.
00:58:11.000And they said the episode is going to be about young political people, young political influencers.
00:58:17.000And they said, so we want to make a true life episode and part of it will be about your life as a right wing influencer and then we'll do half the show about a left wing political influencer.
00:58:54.000And so eventually I said, you know what?
00:58:56.000If you're giving me all these assurances, you know, we'll give it a shot.
00:59:01.000And so part of this was that they sent somebody out to do a preliminary interview and I could meet the producer and get a sort of feel for them and then decide if we were going to proceed.
00:59:12.000So they flew their guy out, he met me, he met my family and everything.
00:59:17.000And you know it felt okay, very nice guy, he brought the film crew with, we met all of them, it was fine.
00:59:22.000And so they came over and they shot for a whole week in my house.
01:00:04.000You know, my mom, like, baked them cookies and we had dinner with them and it was, uh, you know, we thought that they were who they said they were.
01:00:16.000I assumed that even if it was going to be a hit piece, even if it was going to be negative, at least it'd be publicity.
01:00:21.000I thought it'd be free publicity in any case.
01:00:24.000I was under no impression that they were going to do a great, nice episode about me, but I thought, you know, it might have some slant or something.
01:01:28.000booed out of his event at UCLA, and they're writing about me in the Washington Post, and they're talking about me everywhere, and then it turns out that they took the footage that they shot for True Life and they repackaged it into a hit piece about white supremacy and terrorism
01:01:48.000And so then they aired it in December 2019 which is close to two years after they shot it and it wasn't an episode of True Life about how I make my bed in the morning and you know and how I do my show and where I like to go get a burger.
01:02:01.000It turned into a 10-minute segment in a bigger hit piece about like the KKK and Neo-Nazis and I sit down with a KKK guy and he tells me how everything you're saying is what we said back in the 90s.
01:02:17.000And I published all this back in December 2019.
01:02:19.000I said, here's the emails we got, here's their names, this is the kind of stuff they put us through, you know, so they basically just straight-up lied.
01:02:26.000I mean, they lied to our faces for weeks and weeks and weeks.
01:02:30.000They lied, you know, and we should have got it in writing, but you know, we're not lawyers here.
01:02:41.000You know, so they lied to us about all the accommodations they would make, they lied to us about who they were, the project they were working on, the whole deal.
01:02:49.000And, you know, came in everyday with a smile on their face, lying to us, knowing full well what they were doing, which was basically, it was like a honeypot.
01:03:00.000You know, coming in, getting my smiling face, and then plastering me all over their network in hit piece about how I'm a hateful Nazi terrorist, all this kind of stuff.
01:03:09.000Which, you know, I don't really care who you are or what you think about me, but that's just fucked up, you know?
01:03:27.000You know, even though I am right-wing and even though I perceive the left as our political enemies and I vehemently disagree with them, I would never do something like that.
01:03:37.000I don't think I could do something like that because I'm just fundamentally not a dishonest person.
01:03:44.000And I understand you might tell a white lie, I understand you might tell a fib, you might try to do some kind of operation, but to go in for weeks and weeks and take advantage of somebody's hospitality and their kindness and their friendliness and all of that, and then to reciprocate it but be faking it, and your whole plan is to destroy those people?
01:04:45.000Is there just scum like that and I think any famous person knows that there is just no and it's been like that forever But there's no integrity.
01:04:55.000There is no they have no compunction No scruples about how to get there not even the truth Not the story not the scoop but their angle
01:06:53.000Um, and that's just one example of how, you know, this, oh, we just want to get another angle, so that we can repackage it for our hate speech documentary, so we have it in our back pocket in case you ever blow up, and then we can make you look like a terrorist and ruin your life.
01:07:55.000So the reason I bring that up is to set the stage because you know then a lot of people are skeptical of why I participated in this documentary.
01:08:03.000You know, a year ago I did a shoot with Louis Theroux from the BBC.
01:08:07.000He's a big, famous British documentarian.
01:08:10.000And people knew I was participating in this project and they said, well, why would you do that?
01:08:14.000Don't you know it's going to be a hit piece?
01:08:16.000Don't you know they'll make you look bad?
01:08:18.000I bring up the MTV thing to kind of set the stage and to say, you know, it's not like I was under any illusions about what they're capable of and who they are and what they're about.
01:10:59.000I've been banned from DLive, Facebook, Instagram, all my payment processors, and I thought I was going to lose my Twitter imminently too.
01:11:08.000And so the thought process in 2021 was actually a lot different than it was before because the conventional wisdom was you don't want to participate in hit pieces, you don't want to give a comment to a journalist, not because they're going to use it as a hit piece.
01:11:23.000Hit pieces can often be good publicity.
01:11:26.000That was always my thought process was.
01:11:37.000I never liked press up until 2021, because prior to censorship reaching its end stage, I thought that any noise, any attention, is just going to increase the odds that I'm going to get censored.
01:13:01.000Obviously, they've got a bias and a narrative.
01:13:03.000But, you know, the effective hit piece is this.
01:13:07.000People that already don't like us will continue to dislike us.
01:13:11.000People that would probably dislike us if they watch my show will now dislike me.
01:13:17.000But on the flip side, people that may be curious or sympathetic will watch it and they'll check out my show.
01:13:27.000We're not going to lose anybody doing this.
01:13:51.000But the upside is great, which is publicity, which is hard to come by, and also, it's going to be content from my audience, and if there's even 1% of the audience is going to be curious and check out my show, it's going to result in a spike in viewership and volume and everything else.
01:14:32.000So they came out to Orlando, they shot the conference, and then they shot some other people.
01:14:38.000They came over to Chicago, they did some stuff with me back in May.
01:14:44.000And throughout the whole thing they were saying, oh, you know, we're just trying to cover you, but very quickly it was obvious what they were doing.
01:14:52.000You know, like I said, despite their assurances that it wasn't going to be a hit piece, the entire thing was just this interrogation.
01:14:59.000You know, Louis comes out and it's, you're a white nationalist.
01:15:27.000I mean, we talked about a lot of stuff and very little of it made it into the documentary.
01:15:32.000And it was all the line of questioning was always something like this, you know, they would bring up something I had said in the past on my show.
01:15:41.000And I would clarify and say, well, you know, that was either a joke, which it obviously was, or I would explain, I would elaborate and say, well, what I meant by that was this, that, and the other thing.
01:17:54.000So when you talk extemporaneously for two, three hours a night, every weeknight for five years, and one or two of those hours is just getting any and every comment or question from anybody, there's nowhere to hide.
01:18:09.000I couldn't do what I do if it was a carefully crafted persona.
01:20:47.000I was disappointed because they lied to me, and I was also disappointed because, you know, what we have going on here actually is very interesting.
01:20:54.000It actually is a really interesting thing, and if you are an astute observer of the political scene, you understand that what's going on here is very significant, and you understand the gravity of what we're doing here.
01:21:09.000And I think there is a way that you can show what's happening without being sympathetic,
01:21:38.000They made another popcorn tabloid hit piece, which is just... You know, I expected more because I thought Louis Theroux was like a serious filmmaker.
01:21:53.000I mean, this is just like a hit job for the fucking Jews.
01:22:06.000This is a hit job for the powers that be, for lack of a better word.
01:22:11.000Sorry, I know there's a lot of Jews in there and you can't say that, but it's a hit job for the powers that be.
01:22:16.000It's a hit job for the elite, it's a hit job for the liberals, whatever you want to say, but it's just a drive-by hit job, which is just...
01:22:27.000Is that really what you want your legacy to be, is just sort of being like smarmy at easy targets?
01:22:33.000Westboro Baptist Church, you know, hillbillies, South Africans, you know, racist white people.
01:22:42.000You know, when we die and we leave this world, the career, the money, all that stuff's gonna matter a lot less.
01:22:48.000It's gonna matter more your, first and foremost, your integrity and your