The Ben Shapiro Show - June 26, 2026


They Want To Cancel Jonathan Majors AGAIN

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Run, Hide, Fight, Infidel is the most controversial action movie in recent memory, starring Jonathan Majors. It tells the truth about who the enemies of America are, and it just kicks ass. It s starring Jonathon Majors, and he s just kicking ass.

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00:00:00.000 Well, the communist jihadis, the people who love terrorism and hate America, those people are on the rise.
00:00:05.000 And so we made an action movie that totally takes those people on.
00:00:09.000 It is the most controversial action movie probably ever, probably ever, because it tells the truth about who the enemies of America are.
00:00:16.000 It's called Run, Hide, Fight, Infidel. 0.98
00:00:18.000 It's starring Jonathan Majors, and it just kicks ass. 0.92
00:00:20.000 So if you thought that we were doing controversial things before here at Daily Wire, this one's going to melt brains. 0.96
00:00:25.000 But let's start with, you know, the commies.
00:00:28.000 Hassan Piker, of course, is the face. 0.57
00:00:30.000 Of the online media centric Momdani movement.
00:00:36.000 Over the course of the last couple days, he's been lamenting the fact that he says, You know, I wish they stopped calling me a terrorist. 0.57
00:00:42.000 It's just mean to call them a terrorist.
00:00:44.000 I mean, you support terrorists.
00:00:46.000 It really is not mean, it's just reality.
00:00:49.000 Here is Hassan Piker playing victim.
00:00:52.000 I wish they stopped calling me a terrorist.
00:00:55.000 That's what I wish.
00:00:57.000 I wish they stopped calling me a radical.
00:00:59.000 None of these people are radical.
00:01:00.000 They just want health care.
00:01:02.000 They want to end American militarism.
00:01:04.000 They want to spend money on roads, on infrastructure, on schooling, on healthcare rather than bombs.
00:01:13.000 Just a reminder, just a reminder Hassan Piker has promoted violence and terrorism.
00:01:17.000 Here's a reminder of what Hassan Piker.
00:01:19.000 Stop calling him a terrorist or a terrorist supporter just because he promotes violence and terrorism.
00:01:23.000 Stop that right now.
00:01:26.000 I'm sick and tired of it.
00:01:29.000 Left wingers, liberals, you need to be showing.
00:01:33.000 Your opponent's guts on there, okay. 0.99
00:01:36.000 You need to be gutting them, you need to be shanking these and letting their intestines just ride on stage. 1.00
00:01:45.000 What the is this man? 1.00
00:01:48.000 Slice them up, slice them, and dice them. 0.91
00:01:52.000 What the is this?
00:01:54.000 You cannot have a bigger layup.
00:01:58.000 Hezbollah is a paramilitary organization that is also a part of the Lebanese parliament.
00:02:05.000 Do we like them or no?
00:02:08.000 I think as a resistance group, they're pretty successful against Israel. 0.91
00:02:13.000 Oh. 0.97
00:02:14.000 But everybody hates them.
00:02:15.000 Like everybody in the region, a lot of people don't like them.
00:02:19.000 I like what you like.
00:02:21.000 I don't have an issue with them, let's just say.
00:02:25.000 Again, he promotes terrorism at every turn.
00:02:28.000 He's a radical communist who wears Cartier.
00:02:31.000 This is, and it's taking over the country.
00:02:34.000 Again, as we've been discussing all week long, it's taking over New York already.
00:02:37.000 It's going to take over all of Los Angeles.
00:02:39.000 It's going to take over.
00:02:40.000 Areas in Michigan.
00:02:41.000 You're going to have a senator in Michigan who reflects all of the beliefs of Hassan Piker, literally campaigned with Hassan Piker.
00:02:48.000 Graham Plattner, the dude with the Nazi tattoo, who also hates America.
00:02:52.000 That guy is very likely to be a senator in Maine. 0.93
00:02:55.000 What you are watching is a takeover of American politics by communists who also love radical jihadis.
00:03:02.000 Well, we here at the Daily Wire felt that we had to fight back against this in every way that we knew how.
00:03:06.000 And that includes on the narrative front.
00:03:08.000 It is kind of incredible that Hollywood has such an awful record of actually labeling America's enemies.
00:03:13.000 Truly, an awful record of labeling America's enemies.
00:03:17.000 Hollywood, for years and years and years, after 9 11, refused to make movies in which jihadists were actually the enemy.
00:03:23.000 Today, Hollywood, out of fear of the Chinese markets, refuses to make movies in which the Chinese government is a problem.
00:03:30.000 Red Dawn, you'll recall, when they made the remake of Red Dawn, it was originally supposed to be the Chinese government attacking the United States.
00:03:36.000 They figured it would piss off the Chinese government, and so instead they changed it to the North Koreans.
00:03:41.000 Hollywood refuses to make films and narrative that actually tell the truth about who the enemies of America are.
00:03:48.000 Well, we decided that we had had enough of that.
00:03:50.000 And so we have made a film.
00:03:52.000 This is going to melt brains.
00:03:54.000 It is in the Run, Hide, Fight universe.
00:03:56.000 So, for those of you who are fans of Run, Hide, Fight on Daily Wire, it's not a sequel.
00:04:01.000 It's in the universe of Run, Hide, Fight. 0.85
00:04:03.000 It is titled Run, Hide, Fight, Infidels. 1.00
00:04:05.000 Here's the teaser trailer. 0.68
00:04:09.000 We have a terror warning in Northern Virginia. 0.98
00:04:12.000 Radical Islam has designs openly on the West. 0.91
00:04:14.000 The FBI thwarted a terror plot on New Year's Eve. 1.00
00:04:17.000 Violent attack over the Halloween weekend in Michigan.
00:04:20.000 Protests on college campuses showing no signs of stopping.
00:04:59.000 For those who can't see, that is an ISIS flag flying over an American college campus. 1.00
00:05:14.000 It says run, hide, fight, infidels. 1.00
00:05:19.000 Coming soon, or already here. 1.00
00:05:22.000 Now, I'm just going to point out that when we actually made even the teaser trailer, when we said, or already here, you know, maybe we're speculating.
00:05:29.000 It's already here, gang.
00:05:30.000 It's already here.
00:05:32.000 I mean, the people who love and make room for jihadism in the United States are already here.
00:05:36.000 They're openly talking it up.
00:05:38.000 They're not hiding.
00:05:38.000 There's literally a candidate in New Jersey who is allegedly a spokesperson for an Al Qaeda member.
00:05:44.000 Okay, that is where we are in America right now.
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00:06:51.000 So, this movie is a kick ass film. 0.63
00:06:54.000 It's a hero story in which a bunch of college students have to band together to take on radical jihadists who take over a college campus after exploiting a pro Hamas encampment.
00:07:04.000 It's the comeback movie for megastar Jonathan Majors that you've heard us talk about.
00:07:09.000 And it is just balls to the wall awesome.
00:07:12.000 It is great.
00:07:13.000 It is great.
00:07:14.000 Joining me on the line to discuss it is the producer of the film, Dallas Sonier.
00:07:18.000 Dallas, thanks so much for taking the time.
00:07:19.000 I really appreciate it.
00:07:20.000 Always great to be here.
00:07:22.000 So, first of all, as we've been saying, this is not a sequel.
00:07:24.000 It's part of the Run, Hide, Fight universe.
00:07:27.000 It's the same writer, it's the same director.
00:07:28.000 But what was the basic idea that caused this thing to come to fruition?
00:07:33.000 Well, it was great.
00:07:33.000 It was a conversation that happened a couple of months ago with the new Daily Wire CEO, Mike Richards.
00:07:40.000 And he said, you know, it'd be great, Run, Hide, Fight, you know, another movie in that franchise.
00:07:45.000 And he actually was the one that thought about the college campus setting.
00:07:49.000 And then we got on the phone with Kyle and talked through it.
00:07:51.000 And then you and I and Kyle did a ton of work on the script.
00:07:55.000 And so on and so forth.
00:07:56.000 And then months later, we were shooting a movie.
00:07:59.000 It was really that kind of that simple.
00:08:02.000 I mean, what makes this thing unique?
00:08:04.000 I mean, I'm not sure I've ever seen a better timed film in terms of Run, Hide, Fight, Infidels dropping into the middle of a news cycle that is about radical Islamic terrorism all over the world, an uptick everywhere, a war in Iran, and of course, the takeover of major American cities by people who are not only openly sympathetic, but in many cases working hand in glove with jihadist organizations. 0.61
00:08:25.000 It really is astonishing. 0.81
00:08:26.000 We watched New York get taken over the other night by communists.
00:08:29.000 Who are openly sympathetic to terrorism.
00:08:31.000 I mean, Darializa Chevalier, who just won a congressional seat essentially, she literally was a founder of an organization that called for the extirpation of Western civilization and was openly in support of Hamas literally on October 8th, the day after October 7th. 0.65
00:08:46.000 And she is now going to Congress.
00:08:48.000 And so this movie, unlike any movie, probably ever actually looks at the enemies of the United States in clear eyed fashion with regard to the jihadis.
00:08:58.000 Without giving any spoilers, how seriously does the movie take all that?
00:09:01.000 Oh, I mean, it is the core.
00:09:03.000 Essence of the movie. 0.99
00:09:04.000 I mean, we are basically warning America of the radical Islamic takeover of our college campuses, of our youth, of our major cities. 0.99
00:09:15.000 And we're saying enough. 0.97
00:09:16.000 And we want to fight back.
00:09:18.000 And as movie makers, this is how we do it with art and with culture and things like that.
00:09:23.000 So I'm not a politician.
00:09:24.000 I'm not in the military.
00:09:26.000 I'm a movie maker.
00:09:27.000 And this is how we do it.
00:09:28.000 So, yeah, the movie is designed as a roadblock obstacle. 0.99
00:09:33.000 And then obviously, A counterattack to communism, socialism, and all of the craziness of radical Islamic takeovers in America right now. 0.85
00:09:45.000 For those who don't know, I mean, the premise of the film is essentially that a pro Palestine, pro Hamas protest is taken advantage of by jihadis who then take over the campus and red blooded Americans have to fight back. 0.84
00:09:56.000 So it's essentially Red Dawn, except with jihadis.
00:09:59.000 Again, I think that it is the first depiction, maybe in modern Hollywood history, of what jihadists actually are like and what they do.
00:10:07.000 Yeah.
00:10:07.000 And, and that is in and of itself unique.
00:10:09.000 Again, that's a thing that only Daily Wire would produce.
00:10:11.000 It's a thing only Daily Wire would do.
00:10:12.000 And you can see that people are sort of shocked and appalled that somebody would even mention what groups like ISIS do.
00:10:18.000 It really is kind of astonishing.
00:10:20.000 The blowback, which has already occurred.
00:10:22.000 I mean, you saw yesterday that the teaser trailer comes out.
00:10:25.000 The blowback has already begun. 0.94
00:10:26.000 People very angry that you would mention the fact that radical Islamic jihadists are in fact evil and do terrible things. 0.87
00:10:33.000 It is kind of astonishing that that should be relatively uncontroversial.
00:10:36.000 It certainly is not.
00:10:37.000 This is not a quiet movie.
00:10:39.000 This is a jamming the ice pick in the Matrix movie to try to get people to wake up, but also entertain them, right?
00:10:46.000 I mean, movies have to be entertaining and they have to be great art and things like that.
00:10:50.000 So, this movie is like something that was plucked out of the 80s, whether it's Red Dawn or Toy Soldiers or Navy SEALs or any of these movies that I loved watching as a kid.
00:11:01.000 And the Daily Wire audience is going to love this movie.
00:11:05.000 And we made it for them.
00:11:07.000 I mean, that was really the point.
00:11:08.000 And And, uh, and then of course the movie is just taking on its own life outside of Daily Wire in the press and things like that.
00:11:16.000 Yes, it's, I love all the controversy surrounding it.
00:11:19.000 I think that's great.
00:11:20.000 I think that's how you release a movie these days.
00:11:23.000 Uh, if you look at so many of the successful endeavors, uh, over the past two or three years, it's just part of the culture now.
00:11:29.000 And so we're leaning into it and we're not afraid.
00:11:32.000 And certainly, uh, you know, we made a great movie.
00:11:34.000 You and I have seen it and it's awesome.
00:11:37.000 And, uh, and it's just incredible.
00:11:39.000 So, When the audience gets to see it, their minds are going to melt and the left is going to go apoplectic.
00:11:46.000 Oh, it is a kick ass film.
00:11:48.000 It also is the comeback film for Jonathan Majors, who's sort of cast out of Hollywood based on allegations that turned out largely not to be true.
00:11:56.000 And he's coming back.
00:11:57.000 It's an audacious move for Jonathan Majors, not only to work with us, obviously, but also to make a movie that, as you say, really is a full scale attack on radical Islamic jihadism and campus craziness and all the rest. 0.97
00:12:10.000 Yeah, Jonathan Majors is a professing Christian.
00:12:14.000 He is a wonderful human being.
00:12:16.000 He's a great husband to his wife and just a great man.
00:12:20.000 And I really enjoyed working with him on set.
00:12:23.000 He was so generous with the rest of the cast, who's very young.
00:12:27.000 And he took them to dinner, he took them to the gym, he took them on acting lessons.
00:12:32.000 I mean, he was so generous with his time.
00:12:35.000 He was also so focused.
00:12:36.000 I mean, like Marlon Brando, Joaquin Phoenix, level focused, Daniel Day Lewis.
00:12:42.000 And I've just never been around anyone that was that sort of dialed in.
00:12:46.000 And I've worked with all the greats Mel Gibson, Kurt Russell, Vince Vaughn, all of them.
00:12:50.000 And he was just so connected and so, and he loves the movie so much.
00:12:56.000 He never hesitated on any of the scenes or the lines of dialogue.
00:13:02.000 He's committed to getting behind the release of the movie.
00:13:04.000 Couldn't ask for a better partner and lead actor in Jonathan Majors.
00:13:10.000 And then the movie is, folks, you will see, I promise, it is hardcore.
00:13:14.000 This is a hardcore film.
00:13:16.000 And there are things that blow up, there are bullets that are fired, there are helicopters.
00:13:21.000 There's a lot of things going on in this film.
00:13:23.000 It is an audacious move by Jonathan Majors, by Daily Wire, by Dallas Sonier.
00:13:28.000 Again, another entry into the run, hide, fight canon.
00:13:31.000 Kyle Rankin is the writer and the director.
00:13:33.000 Of it.
00:13:33.000 We could not be more excited.
00:13:35.000 So, this is going to be released sometime over the next few months.
00:13:38.000 We're sort of still deciding on the final release date, but I believe that there's going to be a fuller trailer that is going to be made public inside of the next few weeks.
00:13:45.000 That's my understanding.
00:13:46.000 Yeah, that's right.
00:13:47.000 We're working on it right now with the team over here at Daily Wire, and they're so excited.
00:13:53.000 Everyone's starting to see bits and pieces of the movie and getting really pumped up about it.
00:13:57.000 So, yeah, we're going to bring it to Daily Wire Plus here in the next few months and release a trailer in the next few weeks.
00:14:03.000 And, you know, minds are going to melt even further.
00:14:07.000 That's Dallas Sonia.
00:14:08.000 Go check out the teaser trailer right now and subscribe at dailywire.com right now.
00:14:13.000 And that way you'll be able to see everything.
00:14:15.000 You'll be able to see the behind the scenes.
00:14:16.000 You'll be able to see the film itself.
00:14:17.000 The film itself is going to, as Dallas says, melt some brains.
00:14:20.000 So get ready.
00:14:21.000 Dallas, thanks so much for the time and congrats.
00:14:23.000 Thanks for having me.
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