In this special episode of the Antifa Special, we talk about the growing problem of Antifa and the lawsuits they are bringing against the alt-left. We also talk about a new documentary about the Black Lives Matter movement, and a new song from the Sex Pistols.
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00:00:35.000That's a great little jam from the day punk ended and rap began.
00:00:40.000That was Johnny Rotten, who had changed his name back to John Leiden, featured there and Africa Bombata.
00:00:51.000You know, I think every man who has a major accomplishment in life is envious of Johnny Rotten because you want an act too.
00:00:59.000You know, I had vice and was worried that would be my legacy, and I'd always be that guy, but I feel content that I had a second kick at the can, a second career.
00:01:09.000And Johnny Rotten had that after the Sex Pistols.
00:01:12.000He's not really permanently known as the Sex Pistols guy.
00:01:15.000That's obviously a part of his legacy, but he also has a lot to contribute.
00:01:19.000And this song was really cool and weird.
00:01:22.000Africa Bambata, of course, was the guy in the Bronx who was part of this movement to stop killing each other, stop these gang wars, and just have rap battles.
00:01:33.000Seemed silly at the time, but it saved lives.
00:01:37.000So this was an interesting sort of passing of the buck.
00:01:39.000Why is it every time I touch something, I lose my connection on that TV?
00:02:27.000We're going to focus on lawsuits that are being brought against the alt-left.
00:02:32.000And I think it's clear that their days are numbered.
00:02:35.000They're going to have to start to face the consequences.
00:02:38.000You can't strangle a guy and almost kill him in the name of your made-up justice, assuming that he's a Nazi, and not face consequences, not go to jail, not get sued.
00:02:49.000So we're going to talk about Jack Murphy, who I hope to have on the show soon, but also talk to people who are suing Berkeley for the riots.
00:02:59.000And I also want to focus on, I want to indulge myself in my favorite movie, Animal House, and talk about this Doug Kenney biography, I guess you'd call it, where they've gone over Nash Lampoon, Harvard Lampoon, of which I'm a member, and they've talked about Animal House and Kenny Shack in this great movie called A Futile and Stupid Gesture.
00:03:20.000But before, before we get to that, you know, the more that Trump says horrible things like the rest of the world sucks and is a shithole, the more we realize it's true.
00:03:54.000Why, they seem to be mimicking fornication and lying on top of each other.
00:04:00.000I noticed a reaction, by the way, from some Westerners, some Canadians, where, well, they should have known that Cambodia is a very sacred place.
00:08:46.000And I think they were sort of confused by me and thought I was an asshole.
00:08:49.000And then I had brought John Belushi's exact costume from Animal House with the college sweatshirt cut off and the khakis.
00:08:56.000So while I was doing my speech with my suit, I took off my suit right down to my underwear and then put on the John Belushi thing.
00:09:02.000And I believe, although you never know if you're misremembering things, I believe that ingratiated me to them and we had a great night.
00:09:10.000But Doug Kenney was a guy, Harvard student, middle class guy, whose dad was a tennis instructor and always resented the way they looked down on his father in this posh neighborhood in Ohio where he was from.
00:09:24.000And that's why he made Caddyshack to sort of crap on the Ted Knights of the world, you know, the stuffy country club owner.
00:09:33.000And also put on a pedestal the Rodney Dangerfield, the nouveau riche, the white trash rich guys who are at these clubs.
00:09:41.000And that's, by the way, whom I describe Trump as.
00:09:45.000I can't believe I just used the word whom.
00:09:47.000I see Trump as Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack.
00:09:50.000But anyway, he started National Hampoon, brilliant magazine, hilarious.
00:09:54.000PG O'Rourke did a guide to all the races that is so offensive and shocking that you need to read it to remember who you are.
00:10:03.000And I was watching this movie going, this is who I am.
00:10:06.000I'm from the era of being blatantly offensive.
00:10:11.000And you tend to forget in this day and age, especially the past two years during this PC zenith.
00:10:17.000But Doug Kenney really pioneered the idea of not holding back with jokes and willfully offending people, knowing it's going to piss them off, getting in trouble on purpose.
00:10:27.000I mean, the whole concept of a food fight.
00:11:53.000Now, he didn't have children, so that wasn't the case in that.
00:11:55.000But I'm sick of movies and culture in general trivializing divorce.
00:12:00.000Secondly, and this is a bigger one, cocaine.
00:12:04.000Now, there's a wonderful documentary called All Things Must Pass about Tower Records and how they used cocaine to power the wheels.
00:12:12.000And that's fine if you're young and everything.
00:12:14.000But cocaine has some downsides, especially as you get older.
00:12:18.000And as I've described on the show before, you have a massive up that's through the roof, it's off the screen, but you have a massive down too.
00:12:25.000So you go from this normal life to whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
00:12:30.000You're just borrowing the fun from tomorrow.
00:12:32.000So Saturday night is awesome, but Sunday night is hell.
00:12:36.000The total balance is still zero, but you put all your eggs in Saturday's basket.
00:14:03.000And the record goes, we don't want the New York Times in here.
00:14:09.000It was, you know, Animal House was Harold Ramos and Doug Kennedy, a bunch of guys, just amalgamating all their craziest college stories into one.
00:14:17.000And it really is a culmination of maybe 30 years of a thousand people going to college, which is what a movie should be.
00:14:25.000I want the totally over-the-top parts.
00:14:27.000I want it to be a relentless roller coaster with tits.
00:15:01.000But that is another brilliant part of the movie.
00:15:03.000And another brilliant part of Doug Kenney was no b and just saying, I'm going to explain.
00:15:07.000There's a scene, that scene that they just showed.
00:15:09.000They stopped the movie and they have a scroll of all the licenses they've taken out of context and all the things they've added that didn't really fit and all the changes they made to make the movie magic.
00:15:21.000And I remember doing that with Vice all the time.
00:15:30.000Fisher Spooner was a band like that, an Electroclash band that would say, stop, stop, stop, in the middle of a show and say, I don't like you standing there.
00:15:37.000And they'd move people or pull up, like literally pull back the curtains and talk to the sound guy and then start to show up again.
00:16:13.000Every once in a while, we like to check in on the alt left and the insane things they're doing.
00:16:17.000I met a guy from ABC News the other day at a party and he had just quit his job and he told me that they did a whole feature on Antifa and ABC News goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you doing here?
00:17:00.000But the amazing thing I find about Antifa is not just their mainstream acceptance and that their shirts are available at Walmart and that CNN keeps falling for that stupid name, anti-fascist.
00:17:15.000That's why he's trying to murder someone for going to hear a talk.
00:17:20.000But the crazy thing about this is they go through like people like me and you and find our jobs, get us fired, all because this person who's new right or libertarian might know alt-right people.
00:17:33.000Those alt-right people might be Nazis or no Nazis, and that Nazi might be anti-Semitic and he might want another Holocaust, maybe.
00:17:41.000So they do all that hard work based on a thousand maybe's.
00:17:46.000Meanwhile, radically Imams are spewing anti-Semitism in the U.S. with impunity.
00:17:55.000Last July, an imam at Davis Islamic Center in Northern California preached Jews were contaminating Muslim shrines with their quote-unquote filth and, get this, called for their genocide.
00:19:47.000He is fighting back, and he says, I hope to put a chill on Antifa and their supporters, thinking that they could just go around ruining people's lives.
00:19:55.000Somebody has to take a stand, and I'm going to be that person, says Jack Murphy.
00:20:03.000She poched, claiming that there's footage of this, but a deplorable, some guy, there was a mob of 500 people trying to kill us, throwing batteries and feces.
00:20:13.000Some guy comes at me, walks in front of my pass.
00:20:52.000But she met this Turkish Muslim guy and she went back to Turkey with him because he's Muslim and he's a person of color and that's great to have in your Rolodex.
00:21:04.000And it's this willful naivete we saw with Pippa Beca, who went to hitchhiking to prove that Muslims aren't rapists and she was murdered.
00:21:12.000You know, it's the Timothy Treadwill thing all over again.
00:21:15.000I'm going to go befriend the grizzly bears to show you're uptight.
00:21:18.000But this is, in her words, this is what happened with her Muslim boyfriend.
00:21:22.000I endured threats that I would be burnt with cigarettes, flinching as he faked with his lit cigarette.
00:21:28.000I had to duck to avoid having sharp objects thrown at my face.
00:21:32.000I had water angrily poured over my head.
00:23:19.000I do have a sibling who went to Berkeley, but my connection to Berkeley is really just I lived in the Bay Area for a decade and an awful lot of events and stuff take place there that I attended over the year with significantly less incident than attempting to see Milo.
00:23:41.000I would say I'm right libertarian or arguably even anarcho-capitalist.
00:23:48.000So not a traditional conservative, definitely not fully aligned with all of Milo's views.
00:23:55.000But I'm also a free speech extremist like him.
00:23:59.000So I would kind of go see anybody that people are trying to shut down.
00:24:03.000Well, like New York City, Berkeley believes that if you're not completely left and you don't have a Shea Guevara shirt on, you're a Nazi who wants to commit ethnic cleansing against the entire country and round people up into camps and murder them all.
00:24:30.000No, it's crazy because when I first moved to the Bay Area, and that was, you know, a little over 10 years ago, I was actually very impressed because I've never been shy about my views.
00:24:39.000And I expected a little bit of ostracism, a little bit of resistance.
00:24:43.000I'm an anti-environmentalist, for instance, and that's a big thing in San Francisco.
00:24:48.000But the entire time I've lived there, I've been totally open and people were very like, yeah, man, cool, like you do, you, you know?
00:24:55.000And they seem to legitimately embrace this individualism and this diversity of opinion and that kind of thing.
00:25:02.000I never, I once had a problem, never, never, never.
00:25:05.000And something in the last two years changed.
00:25:08.000And I don't think it just changed in Berkeley.
00:25:09.000I think it changed across the country, maybe even globally, where suddenly the people who are saying, like, you know, yeah, man, whatever, that's cool, were suddenly saying, you know, stay away from me or you deserve to be shut down.
00:25:22.000And yeah, then on the extreme end, either punching people or an awful lot of people who are okay that that's happening.
00:25:28.000And that was very disturbing to see, although pretty eye-opening.
00:25:32.000I mean, I think it's kind of revealing the true character of a lot of people.
00:25:35.000Yeah, it really is a zenith in the past two years.
00:25:38.000Now, I was talking about a night for freedom that we did the other night, and all these antifoot people were outside screaming.
00:25:43.000The police instantly erected these two fences that were honestly maybe 18 feet high.
00:26:19.000And we find out later that Jesse Aguera, who's friends, Jesse Aguera, the mayor of Berkeley, who's friends with Yvette Falerca on Facebook, he's basically part of these anti-fug groups.
00:26:30.000There's a lot of evidence to suggest that he told not just the cops, but the Berkeley cops to stand down in order to foment a riot so then he could later say, hey, we can't have Republicans in our city.
00:26:46.000I mean, obviously, we'll see what we find out in Discovery, but he was tweeting out before the event that he felt Milo shouldn't be allowed to come to campus.
00:26:53.000So clearly not a First Amendment fan at the very least.
00:26:57.000He's not in charge of the UC police, who were the first group to kind of stand down.
00:27:01.000And you're absolutely right that kind of a lot of the rank and file cops there were not happy about that decision.
00:27:09.000A lot of them weren't even called in that night to work.
00:27:12.000So they were really not happy about that.
00:27:15.000But the decision being made between the university and the head of the university police was essentially the same thing.
00:27:22.000They were, I suppose, I'm not sure what they were protecting.
00:27:26.000I mean, they retreated inside a university building, but that building sustained quite a bit of damage, about $100,000.
00:27:33.000So they weren't really protecting the university property.
00:27:36.000Arguably, they, you know, Milo, I think, was inside there.
00:27:39.000So maybe they were helping protect Milo.
00:27:41.000And then other than that, they're protecting themselves.
00:27:44.000And right, rather than like happened in New York, erecting a barricade that separated the people who were protesting from the people who were trying to attend the talk, which is what we saw at virtually every other campus that Milo went and spoke at, you know, successfully, even where there was violence, they erected barricades that essentially just funneled everyone into the same place with like total chaos, no direction on where to go.
00:28:07.000And we just kind of got caught up in that maelstrom.
00:29:58.000They beat him unconscious, broke his ribs.
00:30:01.000That was this Ian Dabney Miller guy who apparently worked for the university, at least at the time, who bragged about doing that on social media.
00:30:08.000And then meanwhile, all I could think to do was turn around and face the barricade to try and at least protect my face.
00:30:14.000And people were coming up, pelting me with more sticks.
00:30:19.000Someone sprayed chemicals down my back and I was trapped there until some good Samaritans on the other side of the barricade pulled me over and got me out of out of harm's way.
00:31:10.000But to allow for a riot, I mean, the risks there of someone dying, it's either remarkably naive and just stupid to not realize that a riot can be dangerous or just evil.
00:31:48.000He suffered the worst of anyone that we've been able to find.
00:31:51.000But yeah, I mean, people all the time, you know, people die in bar fights.
00:31:54.000You know, it's very much just coincidence that someone died at Charlottesville at an ostensibly right-wing event before they died in one of these left-wing attacks.
00:32:06.000But at the same time, the people who are doing this, at least in Berkeley, this isn't their first rodeo, right?
00:32:12.000They know to some extent how to organize a mob.
00:32:16.000And it sounds weird to say that a riot is organized, but from sitting there on the ground, it was very clear that there were people directing things.
00:32:24.000There were people who had orders and were carrying them out.
00:32:29.000And the level of violence and the level of damage that was committed was to a certain extent very intentional.
00:32:34.000And yes, of course, someone still could have died, but it was weird to see this sort of controlled chaos that they were in.
00:32:45.000Especially in Berkeley, a lot of these kids are homeless and they're brainwashed kids in a cult.
00:32:50.000Like here in New York, that guy who strangled the old man, he's looking at 15 to 20 years.
00:32:55.000I don't think he realized that when he did it.
00:32:56.000Or we had a guy, Jovie Valle, was wearing a MAGA hat in New York and he got smashed with a bottle.
00:33:01.000I think the guy who did that has never done that before and doesn't realize that a bottle can sever your facial arteries, permanently disfiguring you.
00:33:40.000I'm not sure what related to, but certainly not related to assaulting us.
00:33:44.000Everyone else has, on a criminal charges basis, basically gotten away with it.
00:33:48.000But we still have the civil court option.
00:33:51.000And right now, I think we have a lot of people who think that they can go out and do this.
00:33:55.000They can go out and LARP as street fighters and then expect to go and still get a white collar job or still get supported by their parents or, you know, still be able to own a home and just be kind of an average person who happens to do this horrible violence at night.
00:34:09.000And it really should be one or the other that you have to choose.
00:34:12.000That's why they wear masks is because they want to have a separate identity.
00:35:45.000Although, if there are other people who are interested in getting involved who are attacked that night, my lawyers are very, very interested in helping out anyone.
00:36:21.000Well, it's nice to see someone fighting back for a change because these spoiled brats have been getting away with all but murder for a long time now and painting the narrative as the victims simultaneously.
00:36:34.000Yeah, it's been interesting to see the number of people who, I mean, I think it's faded at this point, but an awful lot of people just in major, major denial mode.
00:36:43.000I was hearing that the riot was actually orchestrated by Milo and Breitbart.
00:37:14.000No, I was just saying that so far there isn't any evidence of that, right?
00:37:17.000I mean, a lot, a lot, a lot of research has been done largely independently, you know, by us and by other amazing people on the internet.
00:37:24.000You know, Pave Darker is the guy who found Ian Miller.
00:37:27.000He's just some dude in the UK with an internet connection, you know, and a will to do the right thing.
00:37:31.000It's amazing what we can figure out, you know, finding people like Eric Clanton the way that, you know, the Chans did, it's just, it's really amazing.
00:37:39.000They're not able to get away with this stuff as much anymore.
00:37:41.000And even when you have the institutional apathy that we see in Berkeley, there's still, you know, there's still the civil court, there's still the federal system, and they're still just making us think about it on social media.
00:37:51.000So it makes a huge difference with shows like yours publicizing this stuff because people can't just deny it anymore.
00:37:58.000You know, the legacy media can't just cover it up.
00:38:01.000There's too many ways to get the information out there.
00:38:03.000Okay, so how do we get in contact with you if we find more people?
00:38:07.000Should I put an email on the screen here or how should we do this?
00:38:13.000If they can reach out to me on Twitter, that would be great.
00:39:33.000This is both good and horribly embarrassing at the same time.
00:39:38.000I mean, they're on some beautiful grass, but even though there was some good moments there, I'm afraid, ladies, you're going to have to get off my lawn.
00:39:55.000I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever.