Ep. 1271 - The Left's Epic Fury

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1:03bombs with their leaders. According to the Times, Middle East bureau chief Omar Jihad, Muhammad Jihad, Muhammad, wave after wave of American bomb and missile attacks have been repelled by an iron dome of Iranian leaders so that the weapons explode harmlessly against their bodies, destroying nothing but the Iranian army, Air Force, Navy, missiles, drones, radar, and of course the Iranian leaders who are more than willing to sacrifice their lives to protect those Iranian people they haven't yet murdered themselves. In an exclusive interview at an undisclosed location, the New York Times Middle East reporter Omar Jihad, Muhammad, Fatwa Muhammad, interviewed Iran's chief of police, Fatwa Muhammad Jihad Omar Mamdani, who said, quote, we have the Americans exactly where we want them since. And while he was unable to finish his sentence because he was assassinated by Israeli defense forces, he was immediately replaced by his younger subordinate, Alahu Akbar, Muhammad, Tucker, Jihad, Jihad, Muhammad, who said, quote, as my predecessor was about to explain,

2:04but he was unable to finish his sentence because he was assassinated by Israeli defense forces. According to either Iranian officials or CNN reporters, it's difficult to tell the difference. Iran continues to stymie American attacks so that the only thing keeping the US war effort alive is the fact that the French have refused to join the fight so there's no one who'll surrender for us. And now the Iranians have achieved a, quote, stunning moral victory, unquote, according to CNN chief Middle East correspondent Vladimir Muhammad Jihad death to America Carlson Muhammad Fatwa. In a move reflecting the enduring strength of the Iranian regime, the nation has replaced the 15 levels of leadership who were wiped out by American and Israeli attacks by appointing as their new supreme leader, Mojtaba Kamani, a one-legged homosexual who's in a coma. President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Muhammad Jinping Fatwa Bernie Sanders, Jihad, celebrated the appointment of Hamani saying, quote, this is a tremendous

3:07leap forward for Iranian diversity, equity, and inclusion by selecting and unconscious handicapped gay man to ruthlessly oppress their people. Iran has a stalled and I tell a, who looks exactly like the sort of person for whom Hollywood has been making movies. We hope this will encourage more people to become one-legged coma. One-legged comatose homosexuals so we can begin to fill up our theaters. Otherwise there'll be no one there to see it when Nicole Kidman finally manages to move for face again, unquote, American breaches of the organization, queers for Palestine also celebrated the appointment of the gay Ayatollah with queer house parties across the nation at which the honored Islamic tradition by climbing up to the rooftops and hurling themselves to their deaths. As queer for Palestine leader Anatole Proposterous announced to his fellow queers, quote, Iran has struck a blow against the homophobic splat, although I'm not sure if that was the

4:08last word in the sentence or just the sound he made when he hit the pavement. The organization feminist for Palestine was also pleased by the Ayatollah's appointment, FFP president Sally Ann Proposterous, no relation, said quote, although we're disappointed Iran is not yet elevated to woman to leadership, as feminists, we feel that a homosexual in a coma will at least represent people who hate women without thinking, which is what feminism is all about, unquote. Just for the new Ayatollah, though he has not yet been able to issue a statement of his own, the regime has released some of the old messages he posted on the website, sleepinggayamputees.com, which is such remarks as must have good sense of humor and if you like my picture, my picture, swipe right. Meanwhile, according to PBS Middle East reporter, Muhammad Mamdani, Jihad, Tucker Tucker, Fatwa Jihad, global financial markets continue to reel at the plucky Iranian attacks on

5:08the Strait of Hormuz, PBS interviewed surviving Iranian naval commander, Muhammad Jihad Fuente's Fatwa Carson, who said quote, we will continue to attack shipping here until, but he was unable to finish his sentence because he was assassinated by Israeli defense forces, trigger wanting, I'm Andrew Klaven, and this is the Andrew Klaven show. All right, we are back laughing our way through the fall of the Republic and other hilarious incidents they're taking place all around me. Got some some news I told you last week about the new jacket for the next Cameron Winter novel, find me nowhere, it's not out until October, but feel free if you want to go on Amazon. You can pre-order it, it's find me nowhere. And the other thing I want to tell you about is I am going to do a new show, a test out a new show

6:11with Spencer Klaven, no relation. It's called Klaven's on the culture. We're going to call it no relation, but we decided to call it Klaven's on the culture. And what we want to do is we want to talk about things we like, what's coming out, that we like movies, novels, video games, and take a different kind of look than we feel conservatives do when they look at the culture, which is only to find things that they agree with, to hate anything that they disagree with, to hate Hollywood for being leftist. We don't want to do any of that stuff. We just want to talk about the stuff we love, which is the arts. So we're going to do that. That's Klaven's on the culture. Meanwhile, wherever you watch the show, whether it's on YouTube or on Daily Wire Plus, where we hope you watch it, or if you just kind of watch it behind your eyes, when you close them and you see it there, and people hear voices in your head, just leave a comment right there. And if it is as sick as this show, we will read it right here, because look, we can't get any lower. So we might as well read your comments. This is from Foothill Girl, 7989. She says, the English patient, I was talking on a

7:13bonus video about movies. The English patient has selfish characters, but isn't it realistic in the sense that most people are selfish and would act that way nine out of ten times? No, I have to say that is not a way that you can read that movie. I understand what you're saying. It is realistic for people to be selfish, but in the movie, they're the heroes and the sources of wisdom. And their selfishness is projected as wisdom. You can't read the film any other way. That's what makes it romantic. They expect you to think it's incredibly romantic that this guy betrays his country to the Nazis for his girl, which I don't find romantic at all. I find it's the opposite of romance. So you can't really read it that way. I see what you're saying that it is true that people are selfish and will do terrible things for selfish reasons, but they're not the villains of the piece. So the moral world that it exists in is a false one. All right, let's get to it. Speaking of moral worlds that are false ones, let's get to today's episode, The Left's Epic Fury. Many of you may feel that nutrition is getting too complicated.

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10:20I've told you once before, but I'll say it again. We've heard a lot of stuff about Donald Trump does know what he's doing. He can't get the message out. He's the pawn of Israel and the pro-Israel people are probably more happy that Iran is being taken out on a blame them for that. I can totally understand why that is a good thing. I've talked about this before. I'm not enthusiastic about war because I just think war sucks. I think it is an incredible waste of manpower and all our technology and all that stuff. It's always bad. War is always bad, even good wars are bad, but tornadoes are bad and tornadoes happen. You always have to talk about them in the context of the fact that they're going to happen. Same thing is true as war. It's something people do. They can't go very long without fighting wars. While you don't want your country to necessarily be the unjust aggressor, you do want them to fight to win. The question is whether a particular outcome is going to be worse than the alternative. In this case, the answer is in theory, obviously, we had to fight this war

11:24and it's bad if we lose and Trump and the country will suffer for it. It's great if we win, if we get regime change in Iran and Iran becomes a part of the community of nations such as it is, but it becomes less of a threat to the Middle East. If it's half and half, if we have good and half bad, if we do some damage, but we don't entirely win, which I think is the most likely outcome. I'm not saying that's what will happen. I'm saying that's the most likely thing to happen. So my feeling about this is this war is the ultimately the way we feel about it is going to depend on the outcome and if the outcome is what we like, we'll blame all these different people, but it doesn't matter because all I care about is the good of the country. I don't believe we could have just sat back and allowed them to develop nukes. That was the way it was obviously going. There's a feeling in the West and we can talk about this more another time, but there's a feeling in the West, I think, that it's time for the West to die. It's not my feeling. It's not your feeling. It is a feeling throughout Europe, I think, that Europe just wants to play America and Russia

12:25and China off each other and fold itself into its little blanket of social welfare and just slowly pass away and let the Muslim migrants take it over. The left wants us to be the same as Europe. They just think it's time for us to be over. This idea of freedom, this idea of individualism, this idea of getting things done rather than worrying about the forms of things. It's just time for that to be over so they can bring about the perfect socialist paradise and I don't want that and Trump doesn't want that. I think that that is why he is doing what he's doing and I want to explain that. Sometimes when I do these openings, I think they're really funny Q&A's and I think they're funny because they make my wife laugh, which is basically what I'm here for. Let me do a semi-series Q&A. Why are we bombing Iran? I think this is the thing that I keep reading about in the paper. Trump isn't telling us. Iran is a nuclear threat and I don't know, they pel takah, how imminent that threat is, how imminent does it have to be? I mean, do we have to wait until they're ready? Got their finger on the button and then just killed them at the last minute.

13:28Now, this is an evil nation. They've been killing Americans for 50 years. They've sought to dominate the Middle East every violent threat in the Middle East, every cause of war in the Middle East. Israel is not a cause of war. Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, all the anti-American terrorists, just about everything is funded by Iran. They are the world's top exporter of terrorism. And so we're in Iran for all those reasons. That is the reason it is okay for us to go into Iran. But mostly we're in Iran, I think, because Iran is central to Chinese plans to take over Taiwan. And everything Trump thinks about is about China. And he sees a major cold war coming with China. And his outlook is focused on preventing them taking over the world. He doesn't want to destroy them. He wants to compete with them, but he wants to compete with them from a position of strength. And that's what's behind the war. So cute. I can't present in Trump just come out and say that. And the reason is Trump wants good relations with China while he undermines their plans to take over the world. Again, he's not trying to destroy them. He just wants to deal with them from a position

14:29of strength. So he doesn't tell the media everything he thinks. I'm told that he just made an example with the, was it the president of Japan who was in the room, the prime minister? And he said, he said with him there, he said, it's like, it's like you guys did with Pearl Harbor. We want to keep the element of surprise. So you ask, what is China got to do with Iran? This is where they get a lot of their cheap oil. It comes to the straight of war moves. And they want Iran, if they go into Taiwan, the Chinese want Iran to be able to choke off oil to their enemies and to make sure that oil keeps flowing to them while they're fighting with us. So Trump wants to be in a position where he can go to them and say, hey, you know, President Xi, we love you. You love the Chinese. We have a great relationship together. And we want to keep that oil, you know, it's just because we happen to be now in control of the straight of our moves. We just want that oil to keep on flowing to you. I wouldn't want anything to happen to your lovely oil. So let's just sit down and make deals. That's where Trump is going for. We've destroyed the Iranian leadership. We've destroyed their infrastructure. We've

15:32destroyed all their war machines. So why can't we stop them? What they're doing in the straight is they're jamming up the straight. And the reason is drones. This is why we can't stop them. The Iran revolutionary guards have teams of guys with drones who can attack shipping and let their friends through and scare off their enemies. And that's why NATO won't get involved because they don't want to get involved. They don't want to get mired fighting for the straight of her moves with some guys who can take them out with a radio shack weapon. Basically, these things cost nothing. The missiles that we fire, they cost a lot. The drones cost under a thousand bucks. They're nothing. And you know, just as a side note, a couple of months ago, I had a dinner party with some very knowledgeable people when I say I had a dinner party. I mean, my wife prepared a dinner party. My role was to come down every now and again during the week and say, honey, how's the dinner party coming along? And anyway, we had these very knowledgeable people there. And they were telling me, and this is months ago, they were saying the Ukrainians are inventing generations, new generations of drones, like every week to fight the Russians and to

16:36attack the Russians. And the Americans can't do that because of red tape. So the Ukrainians in their chaos are more free in this particular regard than we are. They can invent these drones. And now because we're fighting a drone war in the Middle East, we're around though it's barely still excellent. It ran as barely there anymore. It can still attack ships in the strait of our moose, our moose with these, with these radio shack weapons. Now, Ukraine is ahead of us. And we're going to them and saying, how do we make a drone that can do what they're doing? So, Q, are we going to win? It is a question of time. Politically, Trump can't wage this war forever because he'll become so unpopular that he will turn America over to our leftist enemies because if he's really far down in the polls, AOC will be the next president of the United States. And he's already unlikely to win the midterms, so he could. It's not written in stone yet. But his legacy depends on the next president being in his image, being a mega guy. And the hawks want him to stay in Iran until every goal is achieved until we have a new,

17:42you know, wonderful government and everything's perfect. And the left and the right haters on either side want him out because they hate America. And personally, I think Trump's got about two or three more weeks before his popularity starts to crater. And if he can't solve the problem of how to take control of the strait by then, he's going to have to leave it or else turn our government over to the left, which we don't want him to do and which he's not going to do. So, so the question is, would leaving too soon be as terrible as the hawks are going? And remember, the hawks are going to say this is the worst thing ever. And the doves are going to say it too. The people who don't want to be there at all are going to say he didn't finish the job. He didn't finish the job. Trump put out a tweet on truth social that says, I wonder what would happen if we finished off what's left of the Iranian terror state and left the countries that use it. We don't be responsible for the so-called strait. That would get some of our non-responsive allies in gear and fast. So our allies don't want to help because they don't get mired there. And Trump is saying, well, what if we just leave? What if we just, you know, kill off, you know,

18:44the Iranian guard, the Iranian revolutionary guard and all their security apparatus and destroy all their weapons and just go away and leave you to have a problem with the straight of our moves because you get your oil there. We get it from our places, from Texas. We get it from Santa Barbara. They opened up the old Derrick's out in the ocean that we used to that I used to fly over when I was learning how to fly a plane. So he's not too worried about it. And I think he's right. I think sometimes you just have to declare victory and walk away. I hope he wins. I hope he takes over the straight of our moves. I hope our Marines can take it over. And I think if he does, that's great. But if he leaves, it will still have been a victory. And that's what we may have to have to settle for. All right. So that's what I just wanted. That's my attitude. That's my opinion. And from there, I will now get on to what I have to say with chapter two. Sheets don't usually fall apart all at once. Like me, they deteriorate over time. The corners won't stay tucked. The fabric feels a little scratchier than you remember. You wake up warmer than

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21:54smaller and smaller, tighter and tighter. And as that happens, it doesn't mean they won't win elections from time to time because that always depends on momentary concerns like the economy or whether we're winning a war or something like that. But it means the number of people who think socialism, European style socialism is going to save us is dwindling away and conservative populism is on the rise everywhere. And that means if you think about it mathematically that as the left wing shrinks the radicals, the people who really are socialist and communist, they become a larger percentage of the left. And that's what's happening here in America as well. And this is one of the reasons I don't cover the Oscars anymore. I know they had them. I know we're supposed to talk about them. I never talk about I never watch them anymore because I'm not interested because I think that the movie industry has been so taken over by this radical fragment of the left, not even the left, just a radical fragment of the left that is essentially a dying industry run by a dying ideology, clapping each other on the back and talking to fewer and fewer people as they insult

22:54half the nation by attacking Trump and really more than half the nation by telling us the political opinions which nobody cares about anyway. So some days, you know, Academy Awards, their audience declined about 10% and many more of that from young people because young people aren't going to the movies at all. So I love the arts. I love novels, movies, video games, music, older poetry and older painting. But when an art form becomes more of them, I don't pretend it's still great. You know, popular music is more of them. That doesn't mean they won't be great popular songs. Painting is more of them. It doesn't mean they won't be great painting. It just means that no good work is done that's at the center of culture anymore. You know, you might find something that is just really they're great plays being written and they are incredibly moving and they'll last forever, I think, but they're still not, but the play is still not the way we talk to each other. So the Oscar went to one battle after another, which is an okay film. It's kind of too long. It's some funny scenes, some good acting, interesting plot of times. It's based on Thomas Pension who's a really interesting novelist. But it's also an evil film that romanticizes left-wing violence. And the fact that nobody

23:59talks about this except the right is shameful. That these are the people who celebrated the death of Charlie Kirk, the murder of Charlie Kirk. They celebrated that. They cover up when a trans person commits an atrocity. They cover up when a left-winger commits an atrocity. They won't admit that Charlie Kirk was murdered by a trans person. And they're going to the movies and eating popcorn at scenes of leftist blowing things up and firing off rifles and beating people up. And a depiction of a right-winger played by Sean Penn. Ben says he thought it was a bad performance. I thought it was a cartoon part and he played it in a cartoon way, which is the right thing to do. But here's a scene of what they think of us. I want to just show you what they think of us, because you're not going to see the movie probably. But here is Sean Penn as a guy who is stopping migration. He's essentially a migration fighter being invited in to a secret white supremacist organization, which I'm sure you all belong to. There's a cut one. Colonel, I don't think I'm being

25:01immodest when I say that joining the Christmas Adventurers Club means that you are a superior man. No, not the best man, not the most intelligent, the most sophisticated, or the wisest. It just means that you are superior to other human beings, and you shall never want for riches or the greatest of friends. Now, we report to ourselves with a freedom to be creative and cut through layers of bureaucracy. We live by the golden rule, in a network of like-minded men and women dedicated to making the world safe and pure. What would you say to someone who believes that you have been soft in your duty to racial purification? I would say they are a liar who has no business in society or on the planet for that matter. That's a fair depiction of us, right? We want to make sure that we have racial purity, and if we don't, we want to kill you, and that's why they keep killing us. That's why

26:03they laugh when we get killed. That's why they cover it up when they kill people and overemphasize when somebody has some right-wing ideology. It was very rarely happens. Almost all political violence in this country is on the left, not all, but almost all. They are justified in being this, because they only talk to each other. They are the only people who have control of the movies. They can produce films like this that have this cartoonish view of what a conservative is, and that justifies them in their hearts for the violence and the hatred they feel against us, the fact that they blacklist us, the fact that they will not celebrate our work, the fact that they won't do everything they can to keep our work from being done, and the fact that they intimidate any actor or artist who comes forward with a right-wing opinion. You ask yourself, how do people get into this state of epic stupidity? One of my favorite videos, I've played it on the show many times, which is always worth coming back to, is a 1948 cartoon called Make Mine Freedom, and it was propaganda in favor of freedom. It was opposed then, that was the beginning of the

27:06Cold War, so it was opposed to Soviet communism, but it was also looking backward at the German fascism that had just been defeated in World War II, and it starts out with all these different American people, a farmer and a politician and a worker and a businessman all getting into a big argument, and then this snake oil salesman breaks in with his panacea. It's a cure that will solve all your problems. It's just quick, quick, a clip from Make Mine Freedom, cut to. Remember, you're the big boss. Government control, no worry about votes, name your own salary,

28:06bigger crops, lower costs. Why is them even makes the weather perfect every day? And now then, because we are introducing this amazing item, for the first time in this country, it isn't going to cost you one cent. All you have to do is sign this little scrap of paper, and you get your bottle empty, so loosely free. So ism, ideology, socialism, fascism, even capitalism, when it becomes an ideology, if capitalism just means free trade, that's one thing, but when it becomes an ideology, like Ein Rand, turned it into an ideology, this is why I dislike her so much, when you can't see that selling pornography is a bad thing, because look at all the money you're making, isms make you stupid. And it's funny, you know, that one of the tricks the left uses when they're selling their ism, when they're selling leftism, is to attack other isms, so they attack racism, but then they become racist, because they're not really against racism, they're just for leftism, they're just for their ism. Racism does make you stupid, by the way, I mean, look, that races are different,

29:08the English and the Italian are different, Kenyans, Kenyans, and Somalis are different, Somalis are different than Englishmen, and there's nothing wrong with liking English culture more than you like French culture, or liking French culture more than you like Somali culture, some cultures are better than others, they are just better morally and practically, and some are simply more to your taste, nothing wrong with choosing between cultures, even though they have made this sign of horror, because it means there's a moral order, but if you start to attribute these differences purely to race, to blood, then you become an idiot, because there's so many factors that go into a culture, right, there's weather and terrain, and traditions and religion is a big force in forming a culture, so all of all you do is you look at the person's skin culture, color, or even a country's skin color, and think, oh, that explains everything, you're an idiot, you know, that's how racism makes you stupid, but it also, but isms also, don't just make you stupid, they give you an opportunity to do evil, because they put a good above the good of God, which is

30:11the good of human beings, and the goods of the people you love. Alexander Sultansson famously said ideology, which is what we're talking about, those are isms, ideology, that is what gives evil doing, it's long sought justification, and gives the evil doer the necessary steadfastness and determination, that is the social theory, which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses, but will receive praise and honors, and doesn't that sound like the left? I mean, you wonder, how did the Nazis do the incredibly horrific things they did, turn them into alcoholics, left them impudent many times, because what they were doing to other human beings, but their ideology caused them to think, oh, we are doing the good thing, there are speeches where they say, yes, it's tough work, but we've got to do it because we'll be a hero to our people instead of realizing that they would become a villain to everybody, but Tucker Carlson, so the thing that's so convincing about isms is just what they show you in that cartoon, is that they explain everything, which makes smart people suspicious, but it's very appealing to

31:12people who don't think very well, right? I mean, when somebody says, look, it's all the Jews, or it's all blacks, or it's all whatever it is, smart people go like, I don't know, life is pretty complicated, I'm pretty sure there may be more things than that, or it's all conservatives, like the people who made that movie, one battle after another, you know, that's very appealing to people who are caught up in this virtue, this virtue bestowing ideology that tells them they are good people if only they believe this, and as things get worse and worse, they keep telling you, you just leave a little bit more of this ism, a little bit more feminism, and women will be happy again, a little bit more, you know, socialism and everything's going to be great, you know, so today, what we have is we have this interesting situation, where a small, but powerful group of so-called influencers on the right, and Tucker is their leader, that's why I keep bringing them up, are pushing a hateful ism on the right, and the idea that we don't have to talk about that, because it's on the right, is just a false idea, because that's what happened to the left,

32:14on the left, you know, Bill Maher said this recently, Bill Maher talking about the fact that the left never called out their lunatics, this has got three. I don't think most liberals are insane, but neither do they make it clear they disapprove of the ones who are, and their cowardice in not marginalizing their own crazies has been their downfall. I couldn't get Neil DeGrasse Tyson, a genius scientist and preeminent scientific voice in the media, to agree that it was ridiculous for scientific American and the Atlantic to be claiming that separating sports by sex doesn't make sense. Yes, it does. Actually, it makes perfect sense, and it's obvious that it does. When conservative see it, they say, I'm sorry, we're just not going to go along with reinventing society, often pointlessly, even if we have to cancel democracy to do it. They see gender is only a construct, and sex is assigned at birth, and they say, we're not doing that. Transing kids by self-diagnosis with no age limit, no parental notification, and no acknowledgement of social

33:19contagion, not doing it. So this is what happens if you ignore these people, they take over the philosophy, and they represent the philosophy until we all look like the Sean Penn character in one battle after another. So we have to talk about this. We can't let this obscure, you know, we can't let it just go on unchecked, but at the same time, we can't let it obscure the fact that the leftism, the leftism is so pervasive in our communication channels, whether entertainment or the academy or the news media, that it's virtually become invisible. This is something I try to explain to my Trump hating friends who think George W. Bush or George H. W. Bush were great presidents. I keep saying they were not great presidents because they did not stand up to this cultural force that the left has created that is destroying the country, whether we win elections or not. You know, I saw this argument a while back on the five, which is a show on Fox who haven't seen it, and Greg Gutfeld is on, and he's always, you know, Whittians and smart, but he was talking to Jessica

34:22Tarlov, who is their left-wing spokesman, and this is when I feel Greg missed the boat a little bit. You know, I'm always enjoying his work, but I think he missed the boat on this. Jessica Tarlov was talking about how evil Donald Trump was for like taking over the Kennedy Center and wanting to put this show on and not that show. And here's what she says is cut for. Let's say a Democratic president said I would like to control what goes in our museums. I would like to control American life on campus. We could play this dystopian universe forever, but it's now 527. He did it. They're saying sorry, we have to go, but you know that if a Democratic president was doing any of these things, you would be outright. I know you well enough. No, you can't. Yes, I know you very well. Typical check. Oh, you. You have now absolutely gone too far. All right, so Greg's very funny, but he missed the point. The point is the left does do that. They don't need the president to do that. They have controls of the museums. They have controls of the theaters. They have controls in the control of the movie

35:26business and the news business for the most part, except for the new media raising up to stop them. They have all that. That's why Trump has to be as belligerent and as intrusive as he is. And yeah, it's funny. The idea that he renames Lincoln's Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Trump Center. That's funny. He goes overboard. But if he doesn't do it, the left runs those institutions. And this is the thing we keep missing that it's just all there. You know, the other last week, the week before, two anti-Semitic incidents. A Muslim guy tries to ram his explosive laden truck into a Detroit synagogue, and a shooter, a yelling Allah who Akbar fires on a rotsie class at Old Dominion University and the students actually beat him to death. This is the story from PBS about these incidents. Cut five. Within two weeks into the war with Iran, Muslim Americans are confronting a new surge of hateful rhetoric here at home, amplified online and echoed by Republican lawmakers. Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles posted that Muslims don't belong in American society.

36:29Florida Congressman Randy Fein wrote this. We need more Islamophobia, not less. Fear of Islam is rational. And Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville paired images of 9-11 with New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani saying, quote, the enemy is inside the gates. Civil rights advocates and democratic lawmakers have condemned the remarks is dangerous and openly bigoted. That was those wonderful Democrats standing up. See, the thing is, I don't want to hate Muslim people. You know, it's not a race. Islam is not a race. It's a philosophy. I can disagree with that philosophy. I can say it's a bad philosophy, but I don't want to hate Islamic people because I know that people can transform even bad philosophies into good ones if they have good hearts. However, the fact that there is violence wherever Islam exists on the borders is just true. They are at war around the world with their fellow Muslims, the many decent Muslims that there are with Christians, with Jews, with non-believers, with Adamists, say, all of them,

37:30it can't all be the other guy's fault. But I am far, far more phobic, although it's not an irrational fear. I am far, far more fearful of the people who are willing to support them and protect them and turn the fast, rapidly growing anti-Semitic attacks, say that the worst thing about them is that they cause all this anti, all this Islamophobia. I'm much more afraid of them. I'm much more afraid of the New York Times and all the outlets that take their news from the New York Times, which is reporting on this war as if it were already a forever war that we've lost after 20 years of mistakes instead of a war that is going incredibly well in two weeks after two or it's almost three weeks. They want Iran to win. They want Iran to win. There's just no question about this. And I know it sounds like right wing can't, but it is also true. They want Iran to win because their good is leftism. Their good is not America. Their good is not you. Their good is not

38:32me. Their good is not even the person next to him. Next to them, if he should suddenly change his mind and think, oh, abortion is actually a bad thing, then he's out because their good is the ism and that is what makes them evil. That is how they become evil and how they walk down that line. It's going to happen to the people on the right who are doing this. It's going to happen. It's already happened to a lot of the people who are left to laugh and chuckle at the murder of a guy like Charlie Kirk. It's not going to happen to us and that's why it's important that we keep calling it out on both sides. What is the opposite of an ism? The opposite of an ism is freedom, which is a very unsatisfying philosophy to theorists. It is great for life, but for theorists, it's bad because it doesn't have a system that always works. It's about individuals and what they do. If enough individuals go to church and actually believe in the gospel of love, we will have a better country, but each one of them has to be convinced one by one. And that's a very hard thing to do. It's no good knowing what's going to come down the pike. You might know

39:32what's going to come down the pike in the five-year plan of communism. You don't know if you just leave it up to whatever Elon Musk happens to be doing at a time, but that's much, much more productive. That's why I'm against Elon Musk getting money from the government for his testless. If he can make a car that people can afford and buy, then fine, we don't need the government deciding which one of his ideas is good. Let him figure it out. He's the richest man who ever lived. And Donald Trump, you know, this is the thing. The other side of ism is that a guy, it ends up with idolatry. It ends up worshiping a Hitler or a Stalin or a Mao. And the people who worship people, you know, individuals can be bad and do great things. And that is what makes freedom so remarkable. It doesn't depend on your being a nice guy. It depends on your doing great things. You know, I have really loved this Trump term. I think he's doing a lot of things, but he's got huge flaws. I mean, let's not kid ourselves that he's not a flawed individual. Elon Musk is a flawed individual. These are people who do great things and we love them for that. But Donald Trump has got that

40:36ego and the big mouth and all that stuff. He's too willing to turn a blind eye to money corruption. He's selling digital currency and he's allowing Jared Kushner to raise money for his private businesses in the Middle East, while he's negotiating in the Middle East. You know, there's the things he should be a little, he should crack down on a little, a lot more, I think. But President Trump does good things and he believes in freedom. And I think he's being a very good president and I think he's being a good president right now in Iran. And that's why he's fighting to protect us from Iran. He's fighting to stop Iran because he's fighting to protect us from the coming Cold War with China in which our freedom will be on the line. America is dealing with a real cholesterol and liver health crisis. And for a lot of people, this feels basically unavoidable considering our sedentary lifestyles. Then when someone finally goes in for blood work, they're told to hop on some traditional healthcare option and start taking capsules for the rest of their lives. The problem here is that people want to feel like

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43:51climate extremist today, climate panickers today. So I just want to play one clip of how he was going to stop America from having children. Too many children in America. He said they're all going to starve to death. It's going to be a catastrophe. This is this is what's got to happen. And he said, we've got to coerce people in. We got to take stages of coercing people into not having children, not getting married. It's cut seven, Paul Ehrlich. There ought to be a tremendous amount of television time devoted to spot commercials. This is what we've had against smoking. But the ones in the middle, say in the middle of Beverly Hillbillies, you get a scene which shows Los Angeles and the smog. And it just says this city has a fatal disease. It's called overpopulation and so long. Now, that sort of campaign, you could have a census, a sample census, which would see whether that was having a desired effect. If that didn't, you could move to giving women bonuses for not having babies. That almost certainly would do the job. If that didn't have the effect, then you could move to changing the tax structure so that people who had the money and had the children paid for the children. In other words, you would increase taxes on people with children rather than decrease them since they, when they have the

44:53children, they require more services. If that doesn't work, then you'll have the government legislating the size of the family. And people say, oh, that's impossible. Government can never intrude and tell you how many children to have. Well, I got news. You know, it intruded a long time ago and told you how many wives you can have. And there's not the slightest question that if we don't get the population under control with voluntary means that in the not too distant future, the government will simply tell you how many children you can have and throw you in jail if you have too many. That's it. Throw you in jail if you have too many kids and we've got to stop him, that makes a long speech before that about how we have to stop asking people when they're going to get married. Stop introducing them to a nice girl. Stop it. And the only point I want to make about this, because it turned out that early was wrong about everything. He was wrong about everything. Why? Because people, there was a green revolution, guys like Norman Barlog, you know, found ways to produce more food for more people. It's like when they tell us we're going to run out of oil, we don't, our cars don't run on oil. They run on the human imagination. There is nothing particular about dinosaur fossils that should run our cars until the human imagination turns

45:54it into gasoline. And so the human imagination is an amazing, amazing instrument. It is bottomless and the things that it can supply are bottomless. But I just want you to notice how everybody who gets caught up in an ideology ultimately comes to the love of death and the hatred of women as mothers. I know I hammer this all the time, but I just want to, I can't help but point it out that everybody who gets caught up in an ideology or an idolatry, which is really what it is. A love of some idea out there, some idol of an idea that's going to fix everything. Nothing fixes everything. The human heart is broken. The human soul is stained with sin. Nothing fixes everything. But you do have solutions to problems as they come up. You know, in the Bible, I think it's in Proverbs, wisdom is speaking and wisdom says those who hate me love death. Those who hate me love death says wisdom. And wisdom of course is always at the right hand of God. Those who hate wisdom love death. And I just think we see this all the time. All they can do is think of abortion and euthanasia

46:58and less marriage and, you know, telling you to have a, a throttle instead of being faithful to your wife and telling women that they are nothing if they stay home and create a generation. You know, creating a generation. What's so great about that? You could be pushing paper right this very minute. You could be looking at a computer and instead you're raising children and forming fashion souls. What is wrong with you women? You know, this is the way it comes down when people get caught up in an idea instead of living life and taking people as they come. You know, each person as he comes or she comes and loving them basically, loving them as well as you can, the people around you. If you start to do that, you start to think like, oh, you know, I will solve the problem as it comes. This is part of our obsession with politics is that we think politics is going to save us. It's not. It might prevent people like leftists and rightists from taking over and that would be a good thing. Did you know the United States has historically defined encryption as weaponry? That's true. Until the 90s, our government literally classified encryption as munitions.

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50:12both what's going on in people's minds. Like when we look at one battle after another, we see a segment of our society, the segment that makes movies and has owned, monopolized the arts for too long. We see them sinking into an ism and forgetting that other people that they disagree with are human beings with a point of view that may have something to teach them rather than they should be shot down and they'll think, oh, they deserved it. We can see that happening right there in that movie. We can see it happening that they would give that movie the Oscar is it tells you who they are and we should believe them. We should believe who they are and we should basically boycott them and make our own pictures and our own art and look at the art that actually feeds us. I've talked before about the fact that when the last great surge of good art happened that it happened on television and all the stories were about bad men, breaking bad, the sopranos, the shield, almost all of them were about flawed or actually bad men. They're great shows, the wire also. And I kept I keep saying that it was an attempt to reclaim masculinity pointing out

51:15simply expressing the fact that masculinity had become outlawed so that only outlaws were masculine. And the culture was kind of the yearning to find out what is a good man? What is a good man? And we still have not addressed that question for the simple reason of feminism. People are afraid of offending the feminism, feminists by showing what a good woman looks like. They're afraid of showing the feminists that yeah, a woman actually can't run down a suspect or beat up a man or any of those things. That's not going to happen. But she has other magical powers that maybe should be addressed. You know, in the old days, the really old days when movies were in black and white even before my time, a woman's movie was a movie that a man could watch. You can go back and watch a Betty Davis movie. You won't be a, if you're a guy like me, I'm a guy who loves action films. That's basically what, you know, my favorite thing. But I can go back and watch a Betty Davis movie and really love it because it's a drama. It's about people. I women or half the world. I love women and there they are. You find out kind of what they're thinking, what they're talking about. Today, you can't watch a woman's movie because it doesn't represent anything realistic and anything I really,

52:16anybody really cares about. And that is true of a lot of things. However, recently I've noticed this, now this is just a little blip. But I was talking recently about the film Song Song Blue, if you may remember, with Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson playing Neil Diamond impersonators and they bring this new love and they're kind of losers. They kind of down on the luck. They have a terrible, terrible hard time, financially, health wise in every different way. But they have great strengths and great faith and great love for one another and their Neil Diamond act becomes momentarily and in a local way becomes very popular. It's a true, based on a true story. And it's, I thought this film should be sentimental. It should be too soapy. Took for me to even watch. It should be stupid. It should be second rate. But it was good. And I thought it's weird that it's good. And the reason it was good was not just the terrific performances. They did have terrific performances was because it took the dreams of ordinary people seriously. So the other day, I sat down and I don't know why.

53:19I guess it was the trailer. And I watched the new Anaconda film with Jack Black and Paul Rudd. And if you don't know what Anaconda is, it is worth knowing what Anaconda is. Anaconda is a film that came out in, let's say it's 1997. Okay. And it was a B, if not a C film, a B film doesn't mean it's not an A film. A film is like a side of a record. You have the A side and the B side, the B side is the throwaway side. And so there used to be double features. And this second film in the Fischer was not that good. It's called the B movie. And this was a total B movie about a gigantic snake, a film crew in the Amazon being eaten one by one by this gigantic snake. And the only thing about it was it was incredibly overcast. It had a great cast, including John Voight, one of the greatest actors of his generation. But Jennifer Lopez was in it. Ice Cube was in it. Owen Wilson was in it. It was just really good actors. And it had a script that was written. The first draft

54:20was written by Gundam Hans Bauer, but the re-rexward done by Jim Cass and Jack Epps Jr. who wrote Top Gun. So it actually had a script that didn't take itself too seriously or seriously at all. But also was frightening. It actually had frightening scenes. And I watched, I remember watching and thinking this film should be bad, but it's good. Here is a brief glimpse of John Voight, delivering a hilarious but also excellent performance as kind of the snake expert. This is cut eight. It snakes up to this beak. This skin is three, four years old. Whatever shed it has grown since that. But something like this has made a meal by their captain. What? Snakes don't eat people. Oh, they don't? Anacondis are a perfect killing machine. They have heat sensors. The one body like Mateus in the water wasn't hard to find. They strike, grab around you, hold your tighter than your true love, and you get the privilege of hearing your bones break before the power of the embrace

55:24causes your veins to explode. It's tough. Voight looks like he's just having a field day. And everybody in it takes the script seriously, but the script doesn't take itself seriously. And I remember watching it and just thinking, this is really good. It's terrible, but it's good. So I sat down to watch the sequel. And as I say, it's Jack Black and Paul Rudd playing two guys. It's a joke sequel because they made sequels to Anaconda, but this is a joke reboot. And the joke is the Jack Black and Paul Rudd are two guys who wanted to go into the movies, but they both opted for, they both have little lives. Jack Black is making wedding videos, and Paul Rudd is an actor who can barely get a part. And they come together and deciding they're going to remake this film that they love, there's little kids, Anaconda, and they go to remake this film. And I sat down to watch this thing just, you know, passing the time basically, and I'm rolling on the couch. I'm laughing my head off. And I start telling people, you know, that film is really

56:29funny. And it's dumb. It's like the first one. It shouldn't be funny, but it's hilarious. And so I thought, is this me? It was just one of those days when I was ready to live. So I wrote to a friend of mine. I can't name him because he probably doesn't want to be associated with me, but he's a guy I love. He's a really, really talented high level writer. And he's really got in size of critiques of things. When you go, I've been to plays with him. I've seen, you know, talked movies over with him. And he really gets at the heart of things. And he actually sat down and watched it with his wife and wrote to me and said, it's a funny film. And it's charming. And it's delightful. So here's a brief glimpse of Paul Rudd and Jack Black trying to remake the film, Anaconda. This is cut, this other cut. I don't want to wait, man. Doug, what are you talking about? Let's do it. Let's reboot Anaconda. Yes. Wait. What? This is going to be the adventure of a lifetime. We've dreamed of making this movie ever since we were

57:32kids. What does it cost you at this thing, mate? Two and a half million dollars. We've approved a loan for up to $9,400. Yes. We're going to shoot it in the style. Run and gun. We need a riverboat, a script, a snake handler, and a real snake. Claire, you and I are starting it. I love you, Derek. Kenny, you shoot it. Here we go. Doug, you direct action. Put your face right up next to the snake. Maybe it'll be okay. It's all like that. It's all avid and Castello kind of humor. I can't say anything about it. There's not a single thought in it, but it is really funny. So I'm watching this film and I think this film should be bad. It's good. And Song Song Glue should be bad. And it's good. What is it that puts these things together? Part of it is the charm of the performance. Jack Black is a charming guy. There are people who hate Jack Black, but he's got a lot of charm. A lot of

58:32charisma. Paul Rod is funny too. But the thing that they are both about, that they haven't common, is they're about small people. They're about unknown people whose biggest dream is to imitate big people, to do what big people have done. And they're not really creative themselves. They can't do anything fresh or original or even good. But they can dream their way into the image of something they see as a success. So it's Neil Diamond in the one film. It's making this film, this cult favorite film in this film. And they sort of imitate the people who do these things and actually create something. And it actually leads them to a better place. It actually elevates their lives. And so the culture is looking for what is a good man. And it still hasn't found that because it's afraid of feminism. But it's also looking for what is the good life. And it's suddenly occurring to people that maybe the good life is not gay activism. And it's not about changing your sex. And it's not about all the things that Hollywood thinks are so, so, so important

59:35or killing people because they disagree with your political points of view that it really is. And maybe it's not even about being famous or being the toughest guy on the block or any of those things. You know, these are people in these movies who want to be famous. They actually, they actually don't even want to be famous. They want to be like the people who are famous. They want to be just famous enough to be like the people who are famous to be successful. And you know, there was a famous quote by Andy Warhol, the actor, the artist, sorry, who said, in the future, the famous quote, in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. But he was actually true. That was actually untrue because the fact is the future has come. And now everybody is famous all the time. And we have now defined success as being looked at, being loved, getting clicks, getting likes, you know, we're popular. Oh, I put out this tweet and it got this much engagement blah, blah, blah, blah. And, and of course, we know from the gospels, we know that our God died on a cross with people laughing at him and was completely ignored.

1:00:37And the next day his followers just thought, well, that, that was a bad bet. We actually lost that bet. And, and so here are people who are never going to be that, that kind of person. They're never going to be really famous, but they're inspired by the people who are famous. The people who are famous are there to give them dreams. And they are there to actually live out dreams that might be smaller than that than that. Nobody might see. You know, I'm always talking about motherhood of being this actual sacrificial life in a way, although you get paid for it. If you do it right in tremendous joy and tremendous love, but nobody sees your motherhood. You can paste it on Facebook all you want. That's not what it is. That's not the, you're not actually pasting the experience. You're just pasting pictures of yourself. And the only, I don't have any easy answers to what is the good life. I'm not going to give you like a sermon when was the good life. That would be ridiculous. But I will tell you this. I do remember in the first part of my career writing a book that has made into a movie. And I remember standing, walking in

1:01:38Times Square and suddenly seeing my name up in Times Square and thinking, I don't care about this. I thought I was going to care. I thought this was what I was working for. I thought I wanted to be a big success. This is not what I love. What I love is the act of creating something beautiful and having somebody appreciate it. I don't write for myself. I write for you. I want you to appreciate the things that I write. But I'm not looking for my picture of my name up in lights. I'm looking for that. I'm looking for you to read this book and think that is actually a beautiful thing that has been created. And the fact is, you only have an audience of one. And it's not yourself. You only have an audience of the one who made you and he created you to be a thing. And if you live into that dream, you will have a good life. Everything might go wrong. And you will still have a life where you think I did the thing that I was supposed to do. It is an amazing thing. It's an amazing, I can testify to it. I have lived by it. I have had moments of great success and moments when things didn't work out. And all the time, it has always been about

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1:04:47snake. Do you know where you are? You're in the middle of the jungle. Yeah. We are all soulfully in the middle of the jungle. Clavin clapbacks. Clavin with a K, clapbacks with a K, a Delaware.com. Send in any question you want. I will answer as well as I can, as many as I can. This one is from Joshua. He says, dear marvelous, merry-making merchant of birth. Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us every week. You've changed my life and I'm so grateful. I believe you're secretly quite humble and are mostly joking when you claim to be an omission of God, but in my life at least it's entirely true. Well, thank you. That is very nice to hear. My question. On last week's show, you made the statement, if we're in a war, I want America to win, even if we're wrong, I want us to win. If we're wrong, wouldn't it be bad to win if I heard someone else say this? I would recoil. Am I taking it too literally? No, you're mistaking what I mean. Obviously, if we are wrong in the sense of evil, that's different. So if we became a Hitlerian country, you know, you would either have to fight the government from within or leave,

1:05:48that's different. But if we were wrong to go into the war, like in other words, if we could have counted on Iran, the collapse, let's say, if you could make that argument, or we were wrong to go into Afghanistan and try and transform it into democracy because there's no country there to transform. I believe we were wrong to do that and said so. But I would still want us to come out victorious in some way because I believe we are a good country, not just a good country, but the guarantor of goodness in the international world. I believe that's us. And so I would want us to win. You know, you can say we were wrong to go into Vietnam. I'm not entirely sure that's true, but you can say we were wrong, but I would still want us to come out victorious because we were fighting for good cause and against bad guys. From a fellow artist, my wife has been telling me for months that I should write to you and ask for your advice because if I could paint a picture of what I would like my life to look like when I'm older, it would be a perturbed view. I would rather have more hair and a slightly smaller nose, but I don't won't actually be too picky. It's one of my nose.

1:06:52I earn this nose. This is a greatness. I'm an artist. I'm a musician. I'm also a music teacher. My wife and I have two small children. My wife is a stay-at-home mom. My days are filled with the joy of my wife, the wonder of having children and the immense pleasure of teaching kids the beauty of music. However, not to be, not to fail to be humble, I'm also a gifted performer. And right now I find I have no time or energy to pursue this core part of who I am and what I feel God has put me on this earth to do to say that this grieved me would be a gross and understatement. What advice would you give a starving artist who is not starving for physical nourishment, but for the life blood of doing the thing you were born to do what cannot do at this time? Well, yeah, this is a problem. I remember having this problem. I could continue to work, but I had to work all the time. I had to work constantly and when I wasn't working, I was playing with my kids and I didn't get, I got almost no sleep whatsoever. But I still felt that I wasn't working the way I'm working now when I work on things that I love, that only on things that I love. I also had to do other things to make

1:07:52sure that the family was supported. I've talked about writing that terrible horror movie. I've done all kinds of things to keep the family going and I didn't have the freedom that I have now. So what I would say is this. Life is short, but life is long. Life goes by in a flash. It's a minute before your my age, but but still every day is a day. And so just because you can't do something now doesn't mean you can't do it eventually. It doesn't mean you can't prepare to do it. It doesn't mean you can't make a plan. It doesn't mean as your kids get older and need less supervision, you can start to move into it and doesn't mean you can't work on it now in ways wherever the possibility arrives. You got to work hard and you got to not be tired and not talk about being tired and not worried about being tired. You just got to do it. I mean, this is the way I did it. And I still felt I wasn't doing the best work of my life until my kids were more or less grown. That's when I started to do my best work now, which is amazing. It's an amazing thing. So that's what I would say. Life is short, but life is long. Each time has its purposes

1:08:55and its priorities, but still if this is what you were made to do, you will do it if you do it. That's basically the answer. If this is what God made you to do, he will make sure you get to do it. If you make the move. All right, I will stop there unless you remember. If you remember, you get more, more, more and more. But if you're not a member, you will be plunged into a darkness that is as unbearable as it is indescribable. So become a member today. Go to dailywire.com, slash subscribe. Use code clavinetcheckout for two months free on all annual plans. If you have already done that, come to member block. Early birds always rise to the occasion for summer vacation planning, because early gets you closer to the action. So don't be late. Book your next vacation early on Verbo and save over

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