00:11:56.240If what you say is true, then we can only conclude that you were willing to do anything just for the money.
00:12:02.240Which is basically the whole point of the movie.
00:12:05.240So thank you for emphasizing the point for us.
00:12:08.240Reading on quote, Matt presented himself as someone new to anti-racist work and seemed earnest, and his questions did not come across as adversarial.
00:12:16.240By the end, however, things got weird.
00:12:18.240Matt asked what I thought about reparations for black Americans.
00:12:21.240I said that I agreed with reparations, but that it was not my area of expertise.
00:12:25.240He then pulled up a chair and invited a black crew member who went by Ben to sit down with us, took out his wallet, and handed Ben some cash.
00:12:32.240He said that if I believed in reparations, I should also give Ben cash.
00:12:35.240While some black people have asked white people to engage in reparations by giving directly to individuals, reparations are generally understood as a systemic approach to past and current injustice.
00:12:43.240The way Matt set this up felt intended to put Ben and I on the spot.
00:12:47.240Because Matt was pushing this on us, I expressed my discomfort and checked in with Ben to be sure that he was okay with receiving cash in this way.
00:12:54.240Ben reassured me that he was, so I went to my wallet and handed him my cash, and the interview ended.
00:13:00.240Okay, so let's back up here and review again your version of events, Robin.
00:13:06.240Robin, you walked into the room to do an interview with an organization that you knew very little about.
00:13:12.240Things felt off, you say. The interviewer was wearing a strange wig.
00:13:16.240Then the interviewer in this wig forces a black man to sit down and receive cash reparations.
00:13:22.240You felt like the whole thing was a setup and intended to put you on the spot, but you still paid the reparations.
00:13:28.240Even in spite of all that, you still paid. That's your defense. That's what you're saying.
00:13:34.240Now, as for me, I don't want to give spoilers away for the film.
00:13:38.240I don't care how many times some of these spoilers have been reported by the media.
00:13:42.240I refuse on principle to officially confirm the legitimacy of any of the spoilers.
00:13:48.240Everybody will have to go to the theater this weekend to watch Am I a Racist for themselves and see what exactly happens.
00:13:54.240But if what you say is true, if it is true, then it would seem to make you not only a fool, but a money-grubbing grifter.
00:14:06.240Which again is sort of the whole point of the film.
00:14:08.240I will say that your assumption that my black friend, Ben, was manipulated into taking part in this alleged reparations exercise is quite demeaning and infantilizing to him.
00:14:20.240No great shock coming from the woman who demeans and infantilizes black people for a living.
00:14:24.240If this reparations thing actually did happen, as you claim, how do you know Ben was not a willing participant?
00:14:32.240In fact, how do you know that he wasn't forcing me to do it?
00:14:36.240Maybe I'm the innocent victim in all this. Have you thought about that, Robin?
00:14:40.240Continuing on, she says, after reviewing the sequence of events and discussing it with colleagues, I realized that they had lied about their agenda and I had been played.
00:14:47.240I spread the word on my networks. Unfortunately, last month I started receiving hateful and misogynistic emails.
00:14:52.240Some reference the Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro's website, which announced that the film is indeed being released.
00:14:58.240It's not titled Shades of Justice, nor is it meant to support the anti-racist cause.
00:15:02.240It is a Borat-style mockumentary titled Am I Racist and designed to humiliate and discredit anti-racist educators and activists.
00:15:10.240Their deception was carefully planned and well-funded. The interviewer was in fact Matt Walsh, a far-right provocateur,
00:15:16.240backed by Shapiro and Daily Wire Plus, and yes, wearing a wig.
00:15:20.240Am I Racist is not only about me, and I was not the only one who fell for their deception.
00:15:24.240Sadly, many of those being mocked are women of color.
00:15:27.240I've not seen the film, nor do I plan to watch it, so I don't know how they have used any of my interview or how they've edited it.
00:15:33.240But if you see clips of the full film, consider the source, Matt Walsh.
00:15:37.240So, who is Matt Walsh and what is his and his backer's agenda?
00:15:40.240Luckily for us, he has clearly answered that question without shame time and time again.
00:15:45.240She then goes on to quote and provide a link to Southern Poverty Law Center's hit piece on me.
00:15:50.240They say that I'm a white supremacist shock jock, etc.
00:15:55.240All in all, much of what she says about me and the Daily Wire and our film is not true,
00:16:03.240especially when she claims that our film was well-funded.
00:16:06.240In fact, this was a very low-budget operation, at least by Hollywood standards.
00:16:10.240Borat, which she compares our film to, had a budget of around $18 million 20 years ago.
00:22:47.240With this film and the last, we're going after academics, so-called experts, DEI grifters, con artists, and in general, upper class liberals.
00:22:59.240Um, there are a few scenes in our film, in this, in the latest film, Am I Racist?
00:23:06.240We're featuring normal working class people.
00:23:08.240We do go into some low income areas, uh, to talk to people who are, um, uh, working class or even lower than that on the income, uh, ladder.
00:23:22.240But in those scenes, as you'll see when you watch the movie, I'm the butt of the joke.
00:23:28.240And we were very intentional about that.
00:23:30.240I said this many times all throughout shooting.
00:23:32.240This was like a, a mantra as we were shooting it.
00:23:35.240That, that I said that if we do any scenes with normal, good, nice people, uh, I need to be the butt of the joke in those scenes.
00:23:44.240I'm not trying to embarrass normal people or just trying to live their lives.
00:23:47.240I'm not, I don't want to trap them into saying anything that's going to make them look bad.
00:23:53.240Uh, because I'm, we actually do have ethical sensibilities when we're making a movie like this.
00:24:00.240So if anyone is going to be the butt of the joke in my films, it's either going to be me for the comedic effect, or it's going to be these people who are, again, so-called experts.
00:24:17.240Getting, you know, many of them worth millions of dollars, getting paid thousands of dollars just for, you know, to do seminars and whatever.
00:24:24.240And, and the kinds of people, the kinds of people who can charge thousands of dollars to be interviewed.
00:25:38.240So it's interesting that that's so, you know, a, a, a Hollywood multimillionaire celebrity making a movie where he's tricking and embarrassing, you know, working class people who make $30,000 a year.
00:36:32.240It has to be the fundamental reason why this bad thing happened to her because it's the fundamental reason why any bad thing happens to her because that is the lens.
00:37:03.240Our immigrant detention system is out of control and I believe we must end the unfair incarceration of thousands of individuals, families and children.
00:37:10.240I was one of the first senators after President Trump was elected to advocate for a decrease in funding to ICE.
00:37:17.240Well, now, of course, she's touting the Biden administration's executive order to crack down on the border.
00:37:22.240K-Files Andrew Kaczynski joins me now.
00:37:24.240Andrew, that's pretty incredible on its own when you're talking about what you found here on ICE.
00:39:38.240That and and oftentimes the results of their ideas, the results of their policies also so crazy.
00:39:45.240That we sound insane just for repeating them.
00:39:50.240And this is the game that they play all the time.
00:39:53.240And they're doing this now with Kamala Harris, especially with things that she said, you know, not all that long ago, things that she said four or five years ago.
00:43:16.240Because their agenda is so deranged, so corrupt, so evil, so far beyond the bounds of normalcy and decency that it just sounds unbelievable.
00:43:28.240And as we just saw in that clip there, it sounds unbelievable even to some people on the left.
00:43:36.240People who are paying attention to news, people who are making, who are reporting on the news.
00:44:49.820Over 1,500 theaters coast to coast are showing Am I Racist.
00:44:54.500The demand has been nothing short of shocking to the movie industry.
00:44:57.960Theaters were selling out during pre-sale, something that very rarely happens.
00:45:01.500Well, with your help, we're proving Hollywood wrong and taking on the left and their weird agenda with the most outrageous comedy to hit the big screen since Borat.
00:46:26.560I don't have the answer to all those questions, but I can confirm, if any future historians are watching this podcast many years down the line,
00:46:32.720that this is a very real chant from a Tim Walz rally that took place in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
00:49:56.540Suffice it to say, at this point, everything has, you know, gotten a little bit out of hand.
00:50:00.220The facts of the situation in Springfield are now secondary to the memes.
00:50:04.260So to correct the record, in order to prevent future mental breakdowns by sitting congressmen,
00:50:07.960it's important to clarify what we know and don't know about animals getting eaten in Springfield.
00:50:12.260As far as I can tell, the allegation that people's cats are being eaten first gained popularity after this recent body cam footage from Canton, Ohio,
00:50:19.620which is about three hours from Springfield.
00:51:25.300But what is clear at this point is that the woman is not a Haitian migrant, legal or otherwise.
00:51:30.140The authorities have made that very clear.
00:51:32.080At the same time, the fact that this one incident did not involve a Haitian migrant does not mean that people's pets are necessarily safe in Springfield.
00:51:37.380The Federalists obtained the audio of a Springfield resident's phone call to police from about August 26th.
00:51:42.400This is before Springfield attracted national attention, so there's no chance that the caller was just trying to play into a current narrative.
00:51:49.600And in the call, the resident reports a group of Haitian migrants carrying four geese.
00:52:44.220So, this is obviously pretty strong contemporaneous evidence that Haitians may indeed be killing geese and other animals that they find on the street.
00:52:55.240Which, I mean, I will say geese are incredibly annoying.
00:52:59.620So, you know, if people want to kill any geese in my neighborhood, I'm fine with it.
00:53:05.380But, then again, stray cats can also be kind of annoying, but I'm not endorsing eating them.
00:53:13.780Anyway, there's also these images from Springfield obtained by the Daily Wire's Spencer Lindquist, showing that, quote,
00:53:20.080the heads and carcasses of slaughtered pigs are being left out in public.