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Danny
Shout out to Beck lover for hooking us up.
Bassam
Shout out to Back Becky lover.
Danny
Love you.
Bassam
Back, back. The Albanian.
Danny
Yes. Yeah, he's a wild boy.
Bassam
Yeah.
Danny
But it's nice to meet you, man. Thank you for coming.
Bassam
No, thank you for having me.
Danny
You have a. I think we should start this thing out by, by explaining like your insane backstory how you started as a heart surgeon and ended up in stand up comedy. Has anyone ever done that before? Are you the first?
Bassam
That particular trajectory? I think because I, so I was a doctor. 20 years in medicine, 7 years studying, 13 years operating. And I hated every second of it. Hated every second of it. But you know why we go into medicine in the Middle East? Because you want to please your parents. Because you know in the Middle east you're allowed to be one of three things. A doctor, an engineer, or a disappointment. So I didn't want to disappoint my parents. So I went into medicine and I was never happy. It was a line of work that I was never happy. And so I always wanted to have event and I wanted to try things to kind of like get me out of that. So I would pick up crazy hobbies, like for example, salsa. So as I was a doctor, I was actually a salsa teacher. I went to Tusulsa. I came to Miami after I finished my Medical School in 19, in 2001. And I came to Miami to learn Rueda de casino. People who dance salsa, who know what I'm talking about. This is the stuff that with people like dance in a circle and partners.
Danny
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Bassam
And it's funny because that was 2001. I, my return ticket was 17th of September 2001.
Danny
Oh.
Bassam
But I ran out of money two days before 9 11. So I, I just like booked a flight back and I went back home. And I remember like my mom waking me up because I was jet lagged, like, get up, see what's happening. And I go to CNN and I see the two towers full and you're
Danny
in, you're in Egypt.
Bassam
I was in Egypt. So I said, oh my God, I was in Miami where allegedly people like got their training the pilots and then. Yeah, yeah, yeah, allegedly. So this is, and then I, I, I went back to Egypt right before 9 11. And then I, I have a, a big salsa school. I was teaching people salsa while I was doing my medical. So it was a little bit of a, it was a little bit weird. And, and then I, I specializing in heart surgery. And I passed my USMLE exams, my transfer exams to the United States. Of America. And I got accepted in a fellowship in Cleveland for not Cleveland Clinic, it was the Rainbow Hospital Children Hospital in Cleveland. And I got accepted in pediatric heart surgery fellowship. 2011. The Egyptian Revolution happens and the media goes crazy. I describe it as the media was like in Fox News, but on steroids. They were spreading all kinds of fake news, all kind of like crazy conspiracy theories. So I do a couple of YouTube videos, they go viral, and then I get the offer to have my own TV show. And the same day that I'm signing the contract, the papers from Cleveland arrived, my H1 visa papers that now I'm ready to fly and I have to make a choice, you know, So I. On that day, I left medicine and I became a comedian. And because of that decision, many more patients are alive today.
Danny
Wow. Oh my God.
Bassam
So I. I go into like three years doing that show, and that show is insanely successful. 40 million people watching each episode.
Danny
On YouTube?
Bassam
No, on television.
Danny
Oh, on television, yeah.
Bassam
40 million people. 40 million people in Egypt alone. It was the biggest show in. In the Arab world. And then I got in trouble with all kind of governments, with the Muslim Brotherhood, the military, and on the Muslim Brotherhood. I was arrested, I was interrogated. I had like, interrogated from my jokes. And then the military had my. My shows canceled a couple of times. And then at a certain point, it becomes. The pressure becomes too much and I leave. I leave. I come to the United States now. It's like the perfect fall from grace scenario. Like, I was like on top of the world, and now I'm a nobody. I come into America, nobody cares. Nobody cares. No. It's like, yeah, yeah, you're the guy from Egypt who did that. So who cares? And I went into a dark place for two, three years. I didn't know what I'm going to do with myself. I started teaching myself stand up comedy. In the beginning, I failed miserably. I suck. And I remember the disappointments that I see in the eyes of my fans who know me from Egypt. And then they come to my show and of course I'm still new in stand up comedy in my second language. I suck big time. And I see the disappointments like, oh, bas, six months from now, he's gonna be driving an Uber. And. And then I get better, and I get better. And during COVID where everything was shut down, I continued to tour, even in a. In a comedy club that would have six people and I would just like, I want to try to hone my craft and I get better and I start Selling out little shows, then bigger shows, then bigger theaters. And I started to do like a European tour, an Australian tour. And then October 7th happened. I go into Piers Morgan. That video, that video clip goes viral. And then now I have like a second wind. And, and this is the, this is the story, basically. It's, it's. I cannot read. I cannot write this script if I had to.
Danny
It's a wild script, bro. Is that Pierce Moore? That might be his number one most viewed.
Bassam
Yeah.
Danny
23 interview ever.
Bassam
Yeah.
Danny
It's so insane.
Bassam
I know, I know, I know. And it's. But it came to in the right time because it came when I was ready. Because I remember before going from that in the interview, I was, you know, I was very frustrated. I said like, why am I not. Like, I'm better now? Why people are not coming? But I was selling like medium sized theaters. I was doing well. I was actually the income was going well, but I wanted more. But it is good that that interview came in the right time because if it came earlier, I wasn't that good. So it came when I was better at my craft.
Danny
Right.
Bassam
Yeah.
Danny
You had been primed up. Yeah, you had been primed up. And then you were on again later.
Bassam
Did.
Danny
Where did Dershowitz actually sue you when he was starting? He was threatening to sue you.
Bassam
I think he's busy getting his massage with his underwear on from a Russian woman called Olga. I found it very interesting that he said like, I got a massage from a 50 years old woman named Olga. You managed to find the only 50 years old woman in this whole Epstein Island? Like, do you think there's people over 50 in Epstein Island? Come on.
Danny
Oh my God. The best moment where he's like, if he was Mossad, I would have been able to get him off scot free. And you're like, what. You hear what he just said?
Bassam
And then at that moment I said like, can I apply to Mossad? I need my health insurance. I need my health insurance. Like maybe, maybe working for Mossad is not that bad. I mean like, do you have benefits?
Danny
Yeah, I told you, I was listening to that, that Gad Sad interview yesterday.
Bassam
And then I, you know what they call Gad Sad?
Danny
What do they call him?
Bassam
They call him Timu Bessive.
Danny
That's up.
Bassam
Yeah.
Danny
And then I heard, I heard, I just real. I just heard this morning that he used to be a Mossad agent.
Bassam
Yeah, he, he, he, he, he, he brags about applying for Mossad or something, but I think even Mossad didn't get him because he's not good enough.
Danny
Oh, he applied, but he didn't get in.
Bassam
Yeah, something like that. Or like he talked to. The story was crazy. But the fact is like someone that gets out, he's being platformed and pushed by someone like Elon Musk. The whole his books about like is like the guy is an immigrant himself. He's from Lebanon and then he comes in as like all immigrants. Like, and he's just like a part of. From Hasbro. It's very. Because the guy is a mediocre writer at best, but somehow he's being celebrated by the tech bros. And, and, and, and every now and then you see Elon Musk just pushing his books and it's just.
Danny
Well, his theory, his theory. The, the whole suicidal empathy thing makes sense and it is true in a lot of cases on different things. But I think he overextends it to. He applies it to things that it shouldn't be applied to.
Bassam
Like, it's interesting that he only uses the. It's only suicide empathy when you're talking about Muslims.
Danny
Right.
Bassam
But he doesn't talk about designers control or, or like, it's like, yeah, let's just close all of the Islamic school, but let's have the Jewish school open. You know, it's the picking and choosing is crazy. A little bit.
Danny
Yeah, it is.
Bassam
Because like, I, I'm, I'm not aware of an, of an Islamic lobby that's controlling politicians in the United States. I'm not aware of an Islamic APAC that is bribing and blackmailing both sides of the aisle.
Danny
Yeah.
Bassam
For another Islamic country. I'm not aware of an Islamic country who is basically sucking out all of the funds of the United States of America and our taxpayer money to buy weapons to kill people. I'm not, I'm not aware of that. So, so, so maybe his empathy works on one side.
Danny
Have you seen what's happening with this Thomas Massie race in Kentucky, which is supposed to happen next week? I think it gets the votes happen.
Bassam
The amount of money that APAC is pouring against him is crazy.
Danny
Is it like 15 million or something they're pouring into that guy?
Bassam
Well, if you remember last year, I think in Brooklyn or two years ago, there was. They were. They poured like a $60 million for one seat in Brooklyn or something like that. And if this doesn't tell you, what
Danny
the hell do they have? Why do they care so much about Kentucky? No, Kentucky is one of the poorest states in the country.
Bassam
It doesn't matter. They are so if you follow the spending, the APEC spending, they don't care about like how important the district is. They just want to make an example of someone. If you stand against it. Because Thomas Messi is one of the very few people who speaks very like very openly against aipac and he want to push, he even, I think a couple of days ago he submitted a legislation to force AIPAC to register as a foreign. Foreign lobby.
Danny
Yes.
Bassam
Which is something that JFK tried to do and failed. So it is not for, it's for them. It's not about Kentucky. It's like who are the voices that are against us so we can make an example out of them. So the fact that they are pouring 15, 16 million dollars for a seat.
Danny
Right.
Bassam
It tells you everything you need to know about the politics of this country.
Danny
Yeah, and I think he's all crowdfunded and he's still beating the dude by I think maybe one point he's winning by.
Bassam
Yeah. So imagine if he didn't have the $16 million. That other guy would not even have a chance. Because, because Thomas Messi is not just like anti aipac. He's one of the very few congressmen who is speaking openly about the Epstein list. And he's standing next to the victims. There are only two or three of them standing next to the victims, which is crazy. 535 Congressmen, none them stood next to the victims other than two or three. Which tells you again everything you need to know about that lobby and the people that they buy.
Danny
Yeah, the Epstein thing is completely crazy. And it's been, it's, it's been eye opening to see how different people in the government have reacted to it. You know, people that have been implicated in it, that have been like caught, caught flat out lying about like Howard Lutnick and you know, it's just, it's really crazy to see how these people are behaving in public in regards to these Epstein files.
Bassam
And I think there was a vote Congress also about a transparency about the money being spent in order to settle all of the sexual scandals of congressmen. I can't remember what is it, but it did not pass. I think if you look up, look it up. The Congress has actually been paying like millions of dollars in order to settle sexual allegations against its own members.
Danny
Oh, I didn't hear about that.
Bassam
Yeah, I think if you look it up, I think you can do that.
Danny
Yeah, Well, I think it's very odd that. Well, not maybe not odd. Maybe it makes a lot of sense that they're finally releasing all these files now that it's. It's been five years since he's died, and the statute of limitations is 5 years for most of the offenses, that of the people that were in the Epstein files. So now that the files are out, no one can be prosecuted. No one can be sent to prison or anything.
Bassam
But also, you see the way that they release it. They just, like, flooded the Internet. They flooded Internet and then suddenly normal citizens are playing detective.
Danny
Right.
Bassam
I'm sorry, that's not my job. That's the FBI job. What are you guys doing? Basically, you're dumping it to us and say, look, okay, like, you go have fun with it. And then people are trying to make connections and redact and look at the redacted files. I said, what is this? I mean, so what's next? Are you going to, like, give us, like, the. Your plans for invading Iran and we have to figure it out, right? I mean, what other. What other functions of the government should we be taking over?
Danny
And not just that now the alien stuff. And now, like, there's no analysis. There's no, like. What was the FBI's conclusion on all this stuff?
Bassam
I think Steve Bannon said it perfectly. He said the. The way that you deal with the media is to flood the Zone with shit.
Danny
Yeah.
Bassam
And they're flooding the Zone with bullshit. Distractions. Distractions. And then people are. Let's talk about the ufo. Let's talk about whatever crazy tweet Trump will put out today on Truth, Social and trut. Or through social, whatever. It's. I mean, I'm the one who's coming from a third world country, and I'm saying, like, guys, this is bullshit. Like, I'm just appalled about the level of inefficiency of their bullshit.
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Bassam
Yeah.
Danny
And stop looking at the Epstein files. And you know, I don't think the whole Iran war was all about that. I think there was probably lots of reasons that they did that, but I
Bassam
feel like, give me one good reason for invading Iran.
Danny
I don't think it's a good reason. I think they had many reasons that they did it, but I think that
Bassam
like, like, like Israel pushing us to do it.
Danny
Yeah, pretty much. But I think. I know there was. We can get into that whole thing. But like if. I feel like if Trump was on the fence because he's historically, I don't think Trump wanted to do it. I don't think Trump wanted to do the whole Iran invasion. If you just go out, we could play tape of him for the next two days to two weeks of him saying how stupid it would be to start another Middle east war. Right. And now that he's doing it, it's kind of weird. Like, why are you going against everything you always said, Right.
Bassam
He's compromised.
Danny
So maybe it's black. Maybe he's.
Bassam
Maybe there's so much things. So basically we are.
Danny
My point I'll try to make real quick is that I think that if they were trying, if somebody, if there was a bunch of forces that we don't know about, a bunch of shadowy, invisible leverage that they have on Trump and they're trying to get him to do this war and he's maybe on the fence of doing the war, but not sure. I think the Epstein files would be one thing that could push him over the fence to do it.
Bassam
For sure.
Danny
Yeah.
Bassam
I mean, basically you have a compromised president and I Think it happened before. It happened before. And I went on Piers Morgan and said that. And I remember when I went on his show, he said like, oh, this is ridiculous. This is. But I was talking about a book that was reviewed by Times of Israel, which is an Israeli newspaper, about a book written by an Israeli about how during the peace talks in the end of the 90s, basically, Netanyahu approached Clinton and said, like, your Monica Lewinsky tape is safe. So basically they had the tapes on him.
Danny
I saw that.
Bassam
Yeah, I saw that article. And it's very interesting how Bill Clinton in the 90s said one thing and now they say, like, I killed myself for the Palestinian to have everything. And they rejected it. And it was proven times and times again that this was not true. And basically he was pushed and blackmailed into doing so because of the. And they released the tapes anyways. So basically you have a bunch of presidents being US Presidents being compromised by our greatest ally because of like what they have about the. Because they have sex tapes on them, which is crazy. Now we're. America paid so far 29 billion, $30 billion into this war with Iran because our presidents are. Cannot contain their.
Danny
Yeah.
Bassam
Especially with little kids.
Danny
Yeah.
Bassam
I mean, it's just like saying this. It's. I was like, what is this? It's a very dystopian reality. For me.
Danny
It seems like the most logical conclusion. Right. Like, it's the, it's like the one thing you can't. No one wants you to jump to.
Bassam
You know, I mean, the Trump was on tape. When you're telling me would you are going to release the Epstein files. It's like. Well, it's, it's going to destroy a lot of people's lives. And they have basically. Because his friends is only.
Danny
Because he's friends. Yeah.
Bassam
And maybe he's on it too. So.
Danny
Yeah.
Bassam
His, his life was one of the ones that's going to be destroyed. So instead of that, let's destroy the American economy with the American military in another useless war that the only one who benefit from it is Israel. So.
Danny
And apparently they still have like half the files to release and you know, and we're probably never going to see those.
Bassam
Yeah. We're not gonna use.
Danny
Yeah.
Bassam
And I don't, I know. I don't just like, like blame Trump because Biden was in power when these files were available and he didn't release it.
Danny
Right.
Bassam
Both sides are being compromised. So it is not like against Republicans.
Danny
No. Like, and no love. No. And. And you can't give any love to all the Democrats in Congress who are just trying to take bite, you know, take their shot at him, that now that it's convenient for them and you know, taking a shot at all the people that are trying to cover up the files now because they, you know, they had their chance to do it and they never did it.
Bassam
I was one of those people.
Danny
Yeah.
Bassam
Like I'm, I got my citizenship in 2019, so 2020 I could vote. And I was one of those people like vote blue no matter who. Bernie Sanders, Biden, anybody but Republicans. Right? But now I'm trying to see that this is a useless fight. This is a made up animosity where there's a right versus the left.
Danny
It's all fake.
Bassam
It's all fake because it doesn't make any sense when you have two sides of the aisle. They are fighting about everything. They cannot agree on anything. Abortion, gay identity politics, immigration, building the wall, guns, foreign policy, health care. They are like, they are fighting each other tooth and nail about every single item except Israel. It's 100% almost. So it tells you like this is fake. This is just like two people giving us like a, this is like wwe. This is a political wwe. And there is like one master who's controlling them. And then when it comes to let's send Israel $30 billion of weapon, they all sign. It is crazy. And it's in the Senate. It's even crazier than the Congress. In the Senate, every single pro Israel legislation is being approved by 99 to 1 or 100 to 0, which is crazy. Like the voting. And that one is most probably is Ron Paul. Yeah, yeah. Seriously, look at it. It's like 99 senators, they agree for everything that is related to Israel. It doesn't make any sense. So as a newly American citizen, I wonder if our infrastructure is falling apart, if our healthcare is falling apart, if everything in this country is not running as it should be. And in the same time, our greatest ally is having free health care, free education. They have almost like very, very affordable housing with our money. It's like, am I working for those people? Am I sending my money to this? Maybe we should have all immigrated to Tel Aviv then.
Danny
Yeah, I, I think what's happening with, and I'm sure you're aware of this stuff. There's lots of people who like have gone and explained their theories on it. But everything that Netanyahu and the government there has been doing since October 7th has been the worst. They've done all, made all the worst decisions in regards to Like PR and public opinion and doing it, like, you know, Netanyahu is a lot of things. He's certainly not a retard. He knows what the fuck he's doing. And he's going in front of a camera talking about, like, what do we do? Class, we buy TikTok, blah, blah, blah, blah. He knows, like, what he's doing is going to rile up people against Jewish people and against Israel. And it feels very much like it's on purpose.
Bassam
It's. It's 100% because they hide behind the Jewish identity while a lot of Jewish people say, not in my name.
Danny
Yes.
Bassam
Israel doesn't represent me. We're not Zionists. Yes, but they would push so hard on making this about Jewish people. So ultimately people will hate Jews. You know, it's like, imagine if, for
Danny
example, and when you get somebody like Dan Bilzerian, I feel like that's how they win. I feel like that's what they want.
Bassam
Well, actually, I have to say, I am now on the side of Dan Balzarian. I'm seriously. Because if you have Dan Bilzerian and you have Randy Fine, who would you choose? I would choose Dan Balzarian every single day. Because if, like, you have Dan Balzarian saying whatever he said, but you have Randy Fine, who's talking about dogs are better than Muslims, let the blood flow, kill our Arabs, like, let us nuke Gaza, and he gets away with it. Dan Balzarian is an influencer on Instagram. Randy Fine is a sitting congressman with actual power who actually have the power to send your money to Israel.
Danny
Right.
Bassam
So I would choose them as they every single day.
Danny
Right. But do you not see how that's how Israel wins? Like, that's what they want. They want people to become extreme extremists like that, and they want to use that as a pretext to clamp down, more, control.
Bassam
You. You. What do you call it? You. You sow what you. You reap what you saw.
Danny
Yeah, but don't you think that's part of the strategy?
Bassam
Maybe. Maybe it is, but. And it's. And then they're. And they're doing that because the more people get, the more hate there is, the more victimization that they can claim.
Danny
Exactly.
Bassam
I mean, I'll give you one example, which is you've been to the military. Has anybody here served in the military?
Danny
No.
Bassam
Okay. I didn't. But I think even if we're not in the military, we know that the military is where there is, like, the very rigid rules you cannot break. These rules, the military is the highest level of, of discipline. Right now. If you have Israeli soldier going with their mobiles, filming everything that they do, like how they wear the women lingerie, how they're like humiliating people and how they're like blowing things up. And if you are in the American military, you will not be allowed to post any of this unless it is being approved by your leadership. Right. So the fact that you go in and you do all of these provocative videos to show how you are killing little children, how you're wearing women lingerie, this has to be approved or allowed,
Danny
and how you're sodomizing somebody behind a
Bassam
shield, and they want to do that in order to sow more hate against Israel and then by proxy, other Jewish people, and then they go into this cycle of they hate us anti Semitism, more hate, more money. So you see how the cycle goes on.
Danny
Yeah, yeah. What do you make of the whole. Are you familiar with the whole Pax Judaica idea?
Bassam
Yeah.
Danny
What do you mean? What do you think of that? So basically, they want to sow worldwide anti Semitism to get the whole diaspora to return to Israel.
Bassam
Well, so far it is considered as a conspiracy theory.
Danny
Yes.
Bassam
And I have.
Danny
It's a conspiracy theory that makes sense.
Bassam
But so far the conspiracy theories have been right.
Danny
I know.
Bassam
So now I'm open to any of this. I'm open to any of this. And I don't know if this is what they. They do, but they keep saying this is what's gonna happen. And we see that the path going there. And I don't even need to meddle into conspiracy theory to tell you that what is happening now is wrong. Away from conspiracy theories, I'm an American citizen where my money is going to another country who are being found out to be committing atrocities with my money in the name of Jewish people. And that is not right. And this is all like, I don't need a conspiracy to prove that. But this whole thing about, like, if they have the strongest country in the world, which is the United States going there fighting their wars, you know, whether it's Iraq, whether it is Somalia, which is in Libya, where it is in Iran, it's all on behalf of Israel. So it is crazy that we are the ones who are paying the money, we are the one who have all the power and we're the one who being led from our necks.
Danny
Yes.
Bassam
It's like being dating a dominatrix and she's like slapping you. It's like, yes, like, slap my money. Like, take my Money and slap my ass. It just. It is.
Danny
Yeah.
Bassam
So this. It's a very toxic relationship. And I don't understand it. And. And I. And I always say, like, people from the Middle east, they left the Middle east because they didn't want to be controlled by their countries, and they come to America to find out that they're still controlled by another country in the Middle East.
Danny
What do you think of, like, the whole idea of the Al Aqsa Mosque getting like, hit by a rocket and then using that as like a pretext to nuke them and all this shit? Are you familiar with that whole thing?
Bassam
Say again?
Danny
The Al Aqsa mosque.
Bassam
Al Aqsa mosque. Oh, yeah. Well, they. I have actually used that in one of my videos. There's one of these, like, Israeli Jewish rabbis. His name is Yusuf Mizrahi. And he said, like, if I was there, I would just, like, you know, as Israelis, like shooting rockets, I would just blow up the mosque and say that they did it.
Danny
Right.
Bassam
And the thing is, they say that in front of you. And this is what drives me crazy. You know, they have already talked about Greater Israel. And then when you talk about them, they want to expand Israel, they say it's a conspiracy theory. They already talked about ethnic cleansing and pushing people from Gaza into Egypt. And when you talk about that, you say it's a conspiracy theory. They talk openly about blowing up the Aqsa mosque to build the Third Temple and just like pin it on Iran. And when you say that it's a conspiracy theory. We talk many times about the false flags attacks that Israel has done, even in the last war. They are attacking many of the Arab countries. And then a couple of days ago, they just found a secret base that was put in Iraq by the Israeli. The idf. Have you seen? I'm sure no, dude, can you please see the secret base that was uncovered in Iraq?
Danny
Secret.
Bassam
So basically they did like a temporary secret base.
Danny
Israel did.
Bassam
Yeah. And when the Iraqi army was alerted, they were bombed where they were trying to figure out what that. Did you find it?
Danny
No way.
Bassam
Yeah, so. And then people were saying many of the attacks on the Arab refinery has been actually done by. Yeah.
Danny
Secret Israeli base in Iraq. What we know Israeli troops reportedly reportedly use this base to launch attacks against Iran during the war.
Bassam
And I think. And I think they actually use it to launch attacks on the other Arab countries and then pin it to Iran.
Danny
Israel built a secretly operated military outpost deep inside the Iraqi desert to support its air campaign in the run up to the start of The US Israel war in Iran reports in the US media have claimed. On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Israel That Israel built the installation which housed special forces and served as a logistical hub for its air force with the knowledge of the United States just before the start of the war in Iran. The military post also included capacity for search and rescue teams to assist down Israeli pilots. Wow.
Bassam
Yeah.
Danny
Yeah, wow. This just came out two days ago. That's insane.
Bassam
Yeah. And actually there's other reports afterward that's like this might be actually a base where they have actually hit other Arab countries and then pin it on Iran. And they have done this. They have done this full flag strategy Israel has adopted many years ago. And they did it even against their own people. In 1950, 1951, they sent in a Mossad agent to Iraq with one objective which is scaring the Iraqi Jews out of Iraq into Israel. And they have done, oh yes, five bombing. And this was actually reported by Avi Shlaim, an Israeli Jew from Iraq who wrote a whole book about it. And they basically bombed four or five synagogues, their own synagogues, their own people, in order to scare Jewish people and to leave Iraq. And then that same guy a year later went to Egypt and he was involved in the Lavon affair, which is Operation Susanna, which is also bombing British and American facilities in order to turn America and Britain against Nasser, who just like God became president of Egypt. And Israel denied this operation, the lavon affair for 51 years. 51 years they denied it. And then in 2005 they finally admitted it by giving the participants participation certificates, kind of like an Amazon card or something.
Danny
I know. I have a mutual. An acquaintance who was former FBI agent in New Jersey who was a part of the team that arrested the Israelis on 911 that were dancing. Oh yeah, that ended up being Mossad agents and they shipped them back. Yeah, that's a fucking crazy.
Bassam
That's a fucking crazy story. And what's actually interesting for me is I remember there was a clip and I think you can find it. Also there's a guy say, I think it was on CNN or something, he said, believe it or not, they. We found one of the passports of the hijackers lying down in lower Manhattan. So what? Amazing. So this maybe, maybe those, maybe maybe the. The twin tower should have been built by the same material that this passport, this super passport that they just found lying around. It's, it's. It's just pristine. Pristine. And, and I found. And here's the thing. Whenever people tell me like what is this?
Danny
Oh, that's the flight ticket. Yeah.
Bassam
No, no, no. You, you. There's actually a video about it.
Danny
Is there really?
Bassam
There's a video. There's a video. If you find, if you find like a video saying I actually posted that video on my, my thing. If it's like talking about how they found an intact passport in lower Manhattan. Yeah.
Danny
Some random person found it.
Bassam
One of police officers found.
Danny
A police officer found it.
Bassam
Right.
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Bassam
Yeah the, the Solomon Brothers building.
Danny
They say that that building would have been pre wired with explosives anyways because of all the that was in it.
Bassam
Well, funny story about Building 7. Do you remember Rosie O' Donnell when she went on the View and talked about Building 7 and then she lost her career.
Danny
I vaguely remember that, yes.
Bassam
Okay, so ROSIE o' DONNELL remember that? She went to, she said like I'm just asking the question. There were two planes and three building went down. What happened to building number 7?
Danny
Right.
Bassam
What happened to building number 7, right. And then just because she asked that question, her career was destroyed.
Danny
Can you find that clip? Yeah, see if that's on YouTube.
Bassam
And then they were like. And Yanni, I'm just like. With people asking questions. How can you just like lose your career before just asking. And the building seven, they. Oh yeah, here it is.
Danny
What year was this? Oh my God. 2007.
Bassam
Yeah.
Danny
All right, hit it.
Rosie O'Donnell
And I'm not a military strategist. Had anything to do with 9 11. Elizabeth, you know what, that's something that I struggle with. Did Iraq have anything to do with blowing up the twin jets? At the time George Bush was our president was faced with a decision and all the evidence stated that it did. And all the evidence that all the Democrats who voted for this war saw. Evidence or the cherry picked evidence? Okay, well the evidence that they saw indicated that Iraq had a part in 911 and that they were, they were plotting to use those weapons of mass destruction in. Hang on. He hasn't made a mistake and go in there assuming that they did or that they didn't. Okay. I'd rather him make the mistake on the fact that yes, they had it. And at least we went. Let me ask you one more thing. Do you think the government purposely misled the American people to believe that Iraq had something to do with 9 11?
Bassam
No.
Rosie O'Donnell
Yes, says the proud. Do you believe that the government had anything to do with the attack of 9 11? Do you believe in a conspiracy in terms of the attack of 9 11? No. But I do believe that it is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics. For the World trade Center, Tower 7, Building 7 which collapsed in on itself. It is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. World Trade Center 7, World Trader 1 and 2 got hit by planes 7 miraculously the first time in history steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible. And who do you think is responsible for that? I have no idea. But to say that we don't know that it imploded and it was an implosion in a demolition is beyond ignorant. Look at the films. Get a physics expert here from Yale, from Harvard. Pick the school. It defies reason.
Bassam
Get one.
Rosie O'Donnell
Okay.
Bassam
You haven't seen that, no.
Danny
Oh my God, that's amazing.
Bassam
In 2007, her career, like, took a nose dive after this and she was vilified. She was nasty woman. She was called anti Semitic. Everything nasty. So. And then if you ask a question like, like this, I mean, have you, have you seen all of these, like airport accidents when like, like a plane, like hits like a truck and that it crumbles because plane bodies are very fragile.
Danny
Yes, yes, yes.
Bassam
That because they are light, they need to fly.
Danny
Right.
Bassam
But then we have to believe that they went into steel, like steel buildings, burned it and then it went down like perfectly like this.
Danny
There's lots of really weird questions about that whole thing.
Bassam
And then if you ask this, you called conspiracy theories, because this is the easiest thing to kind of.
Danny
There's this documentary called 9 11, the New Pearl harbor. And it. They break down all kinds of big questions like, like physics questions about that whole thing.
Bassam
Oh yeah, I've seen that.
Danny
Like the one about like, how do they make the phone calls moving so fast? Because they're going to like, you can't. It's going to connect from like, you're going to get cut off every two minutes because of all the cell towers that are being connected to the phones there. And then the other thing is like flying at that low altitude where the air is so thick it would have ripped the wings off. And they interviewed like multiple like aviation experts and like that.
Bassam
And this is why when Israel said like, like October 7th is our new 9 11. I believe them. It is, it is. I mean, look at what happened on October 7th. The attack was 6:20am the attack, the Hamas attack on the music festival and the kaputz was 6:20am the first response from Israel was at between 12 and 2pm, six to eight hours after the attack. You know, how big is Israel big? Israel is as big as New Jersey.
Danny
New Jersey.
Bassam
Right, right. So we like a helicopter will get like from the, from the north to the south in Israel in 15 minutes. And yet the first response ever was six to eight hours. Nobody talks about this. And I actually talked about.
Danny
Charlie Kirk talked about this on.
Bassam
Talked about. And when I went to P.S. morgan, that interview that went viral, I asked that question on that and that. But people don't remember because there were so many other, like, stuff on that interview. But I asked that question in 18th of October 2023, 11 days after October 7th. I said, if I'm an Israeli father and my kid killed on October 7, I need to understand why did the government took eight hours to respond. And then there was videos popping all over about IDF soldiers said that we were told to stand down. We were told not to go to our post on that day. We were told, dude, find it out.
Danny
There's videos of IDF soldiers saying that.
Bassam
Yeah. In front of the Knesset. In front of the Knesset. Saying, like we were told, you will find it. You will find it. They're speaking in Hebrew, but they have English subtitles, titles.
Danny
That's freaking nuts, dude.
Bassam
And then. And you know what's crazy? I am taking all of my information from Israeli media. The American media is not reporting that the Israel meeting to talk open about the Hannibal Directive. Which meaning they were. Do you know about the Hannibal Directive?
Danny
No.
Bassam
Okay. I need to educate you, man.
Danny
You need it.
Bassam
Okay.
Danny
That's what you're here for, bro.
Bassam
So the Hannibal Directive base. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be condescending to say.
Danny
No, no, no, no. I agree with you. You need to educate.
Bassam
So the Hannibal Directive is basically a protocol where if there's a hostage situation, the Israeli forces kill everybody, including the hostages, so they don't have to negotiate with them. So there is multiple reports about using the Hannibal Directive from Israeli media, Israeli newspaper, that they actually the number of casualties have ballooned on October 7th because the Israeli tanks and Israeli Apache airplanes they shot indiscriminately, killing everybody. So. So now you have two homeworks. You need to get that video from the Israelis talking about in front of the chemist. And, and. And you have multiple articles about Hannibal Directive.
Danny
Talking about what? The Hannibal Directive.
Bassam
Hannibal Directive. Oh, yeah.
Danny
The. The other crazy thing is that whole story about those IDF soldiers that were sodomizing that man behind those shields.
Bassam
Yeah.
Danny
And they like went in front of the A court or something and they basically let them off.
Bassam
No, not just that. They. The Israeli citizens went out and they made a whole demonstration defending the rapists. So that's why when they tell me, oh, it's only Netanyahu, it's only the government. I'm sorry, the whole society is sick. And I don't care if people call me at this.
Danny
Yeah, that's what I heard. I heard a lot of the young people in Israel are very pro Netanyahu, Very pro that government.
Bassam
80 to 80, 82% of Israelis are. With ethnic cleansing and driving people out of Gaza.
Danny
Is this new or has it been like this? No, it's been like this because there definitely wasn't. They definitely aren't fans of Netanyahu because there was all those protests that were happening in the streets.
Bassam
Yeah, but compared to the number of like the, the, you know, the, the population, I think it is a minority. Maybe it's like, is it really 10, 20% maybe. And then they're still like, have some brains in them and the rest, 80% or more are actually like going for the genocide in Gaza. Going like. If you look to the, the statistics and percentages, it's crazy. Did you find the Hannibal Directive?
Danny
The Hannibal Directive, would it be a video or would it just be like
Bassam
you have like multiple articles.
Danny
Yeah.
Bassam
Find an article, you have articles about
Danny
it in that describes what it is.
Bassam
And you'll find it a lot in Israeli media too.
Danny
There you go. Yeah, what's that? What's the AI say? The Hannibal Directive is a controversial directive formerly used by the idf, designed to prevent the capture of Israeli soldiers by enemy forces, even at the risk of harming or killing the captive soldier. Wow.
Bassam
Yeah. Hearts. So this is so.
Danny
Okay, so in October 7, 2023, investigations by Hertz and UN investigators found that the IDF ordered a version of the Hannibal Directive during the Hamas led attack, aiming to prevent vehicles from returning to Gaza with captives, which likely resulted in the deaths of both Israeli soldiers and civilians. God damn, dude. Stopped doing it in 2016.
Bassam
No, but what's that?
Danny
IDF officially revoked the directive in 2016.
Bassam
Yeah, officially. But it doesn't mean that they continue doing it.
Danny
Right? Officially. Right. It's a crazy. It's so crazy, man. It's hard to. It's hard to get a real grasp on all this sitting here in Florida.
Bassam
These are the soldiers that show me
Danny
videos of the id. So you're asking Perplexity to show you videos of the IDF soldiers talking about standing down. Is this giving you multiple videos? Yeah, bunch of Instagram videos, Facebook video,
Bassam
and all of these videos were like IDF soldiers in front of the Knesset talking about how they were told to stand down, not to report to their posts.
Danny
Wow.
Bassam
Can you hold the thought? Because I want to actually say something and maybe in the edit I can talk freely.
Danny
Yeah, of course.
Bassam
Maybe in the edit you can actually include it when we talked about Gad Sad about like suicidal empathy. Because I find it very interesting when he talks about suicidal empathy, but he never talks about all of the Jewish community in New Jersey who basically go there and take over a whole town. And they drain down the public spending of schools, buying up schools, turning them into religious schools. They use the government programs to support Jewish families of five or six or seven kids. And he doesn't talk about that. He talks about Indian immigrants, he talked about Arab Indians, he talked about Muslim immigrants. But he never talks about the Jewish communities in New Jersey, basically draining the public spending. And they live as a burden on the government spending to support. They don't work, they just study the Torah and they just sit there and then they take the money from the government.
Danny
So how is this all subsidized?
Bassam
Basically there's government programs and they abuse these government programs.
Danny
I see.
Bassam
So he doesn't talk about that. He picks and choose. He picks and choose. He talk about the Somalis, talk about the Indians. And there's a reporter called Tyler Oliveira. He did like an expose about this. He first went about like Indians in Toronto, Muslims, Somalis in Minnesota. And he was applauded by all of those people. And once he talked about the Jewish community who do the same. Same exact thing that you have one county who's taking more than 50% of the government spending of all of the states. And they are intentionally, they took over the city council, they are defunding the public schools and they already bought two or three schools, turning them into Jewish schools. But he never talks about that. So that's the. I'm fine with suicidal empathy, but why don't you spread it and talk about all the communities?
Danny
Right, Totally.
Bassam
Because you know what, if there was a Muslim community doing that, I will be 100% against it.
Danny
And didn't Tyler Alera get like kicked off Patreon or something?
Bassam
Yes, because of that. So Indians in Toronto, no problem. Bangladesh in Portugal, no problem. Somalis in Minnesota, no problem. Oh, Jewish people in New Jersey, oh no. You get kicked out of Patreon. So it tells you a lot about, about the picking and choosing and the cherry picking of the suicide empathy of that guy, you know?
Danny
Yeah, but like going back to what I was saying before, so that's kind
Bassam
of like the edit. So you can put it down because like.
Danny
Well, no, it'll just, it'll be in there. We don't edit it. It's fine. It's okay. We can be.
Bassam
No, no, because I don't want to be as if I remember if you want to edit.
Danny
No, it's fine, it's fine.
Bassam
It's up to you, sir.
Danny
It's, it's fine. It's. We're all over the place all the time. But it goes back to like what I was saying, that Americans are more aware of this stuff than ever before and, and they're sick and tired of it. And you go on social media, everyone's talking about It. So it's like this compiling Streisand effect. Like, where does this end up? What happens with the next US President? What are they going to say? How are they going to campaign? What's they're going to be? Their stance on a package.
Bassam
Let me give you.
Danny
And how are you going to get elected to be the next president, United States, while taking money, taking millions of dollars from apex?
Bassam
Let me give you my experience from third world countries in a third world country where you have very obvious dictatorship. The people know. The people are not stupid.
Danny
Yes.
Bassam
And when they know and they speak up, the more that they speak up, the more brutality that happens. And that's how you see how you kind of, you know, control the people with more brutality. In America, for a very long time, people have been ruled by bread and circus. You have entertainment, you have sports. You have all kind of. Kind of like brave new world kind of mentality. So give the people bread and circus and control them. At a certain point, the bread and circus is not enough. So people will start to wake up then. So what you're seeing now is how you shut people down by a call of anti Semitic. You're not patriotic, you're not American enough. You just. You hate Jews. All of these people to shut people up. If people continue to talk, I think you're going to see more surveillance, more brutality. And because now the bread and circus is not enough. America has been doing like, the third world countries haven't been doing this because we don't have enough resources to offer bread and circus. But now America is richer, so they are using that distraction. At a certain point, the distraction will not be enough. And now you're going to see more brutality, more surveillance. And we've already seen that. You see, more people are. I think the turning point that I've ever seen is a lot that happens in American University, in Columbia University, in ucla. You see how they brutally beat those students in those.
Danny
I didn't see the videos.
Bassam
You haven't seen.
Danny
I'm not tapped in, man. Okay, okay. I'm kind of like out in outer space.
Bassam
Do you remember last year, Columbia University, like, there were like a lot of student protests.
Danny
Yes. Yes. Okay. Yes.
Bassam
Those protests were crushed. Were crushed the same way that we see protests are crushed in the third world country. We've seen people, Special forces coming and beating the shit out of those students. They were doxxed, they were suspended. They basically. They lost their career. And this was a message. It was like, if you go so far, this is what we can do. To you. So this is like a warning to you. So this has already happened. So in ucla, they even have. They went in, they beat the shit out of the encampment. They. They destroyed their lives. So it is a message for everybody. It's like, if you are. If you're too loud, this is how we're going to get you. So this is basically an introduct. If we can do that to university students, we can do that to the rest of the society. So it's not like people are not waking up. They're waking up, but they're being beaten into submission.
Danny
Yeah, because.
Bassam
And Americans are not used to that. They're like, what? What the hell?
Danny
Well, we're used to being convinced that we live in an open and free society and we're not living in some. Some sort of totalitarian hellhole like in the Middle east right now.
Bassam
It's.
Danny
The difference is they're aware of it. There's no hiding it. In China. You know what it is? We had this illusion of being this free, open, flourishing democracy.
Bassam
You know why? Because the media for so long have made it as if it is a media that's not afraid of the president. Not afraid of, like, pointing at the fingers to the president, to the election. But now you understand that the president is not really the person in power. You know who's in power when. You know, when you have a problem criticizing them, this is who we know you're in power. So basically, it's the same thing in a third world country. You can. Can criticize the prime minister, but not the president. You can criticize the president, but not the army. So this is where your red lines is here. The red lines is like, it's not really Trump. Everybody say whatever they want.
Danny
Yeah, yeah.
Bassam
So it's like, oh, if we can criticize the president, we are a free country. But it just means that he's not the one who's in control.
Danny
Yes, yes, but we can also criticize. I mean, we can criticize pretty much anything. More people are criticizing Israel than I've ever seen in my life.
Bassam
And more people are. Are getting punished and getting hurt because of criticizing Israel. They're losing their career. They're putting in a blacklist. They're being called. I'm actually, I'm performing in Royal Albert hall in London, and already, like, there's a whole campaign on Twitter that started yesterday wanted to cancel my show.
Danny
Really?
Bassam
I already sold 90% of the show in Royal Albert hall, like, one month out, and they already want to cancel my show. There's so it is, it is, it's a different way of censorship. It's not a censorship where somebody would come knock on your door, take you away. Which, which started to happen a little bit.
Danny
What do you got, Steve?
Bassam
Yeah, Susan dropped by tenant agency. Coffee boredom. Reportedly being dropped from projects. Mark Rufalo.
Danny
So, yeah, people that are. Yeah, right. People that are part of the sort of like Hollywood establishment or like they answer to big companies. Right. They're like independent people are more. I feel like most people aren't paying attention to that mainstream shit anymore. Most people are kind of paying attention to the independent journalists and the podcasts and that kind of stuff.
Bassam
But as long as the megaphones are still with the mainstream media, abc, NBC, Fox News, and they are the ones basically not talking about any of this.
Danny
Right, exactly.
Bassam
Like, exactly. So I'll give you an example. I'm sorry, I'm jumping around. No, that's fine. I'll give you. Do you know that remember the sting operation that happened in Nevada, in Las Vegas last year where the Israeli security officer cyber security was formed? This guy was caught red handed in a sting operation where he was soliciting a minor. He gets deported the next day. Not deported, he flees the next day to Israel. He doesn't stand court. And then I went into AI and asked him, has this been reported by any major news media? And said no, not abc, not fox, not mnbc.
Danny
No one covered it.
Bassam
And it was covered only by independent podcasts.
Danny
So Tucker Carlson was the one. Yeah, I remember he covered it first. That's where I saw it first.
Bassam
So, so basically when you have a media that is completely complicit with this, what can this can tell you about the media? So I have, I have, I have a saying about this. It's like you make fun of our countries for having state run media. Here you're having state run media, but it's just for the state of Israel. It's just a different state.
Danny
Yeah. And what, what just recently happened, they, they're trying to do something with Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes. They're trying to.
Bassam
I think Carlson was being called by the Trump administration as a potential domestic terrorist.
Danny
Domestic terrorist, yes. Him and Nick Fuentes.
Bassam
I'm, I'm the Arab and they're culturally appropriate.
Danny
This guy was.
Bassam
I am the Arab here. And I don't get that accusation. I am very mad. I'm. They're miss, they're, they're cultural appropriating my accusations. Now this is the stuff that I should be called what the hell?
Danny
You beat him.
Bassam
Just. Tucker Carlson gets it because he's a white guy. What the hell, man? What the hell?
Danny
Well, I think it's because he had the biggest. He, he, he moved the most, right? He went from being the, the headliner at the Republican National Convention to being the. One of the top people in the media who speaks out on the show,
Bassam
which tells you a lot.
Danny
You've been on this beat for a lot longer than he has.
Bassam
Yeah, yeah, but then he gets all the glory.
Danny
Because he gets all the glory, right?
Bassam
What the hell, man?
Danny
Because he did a turn. You beat him on the anti Semite list though, right? You were what, number three?
Bassam
No, but. No, but here's the thing. There is. This is so much fun to talk about. So in 2024, I was the anti Semite of the month, okay? According to Stop antisemitism.org, okay, I was the anti Semite of the month of August. You know, like Playboy, I was Playmate of the month of August. And then 2024, I was even nominated to be anti Semite of the year. But then Candace Owens got it like fucking dei, man. They had to give it to a black woman, right? And then 2025, they gave it to Tucker Carlson, right? But recently, I was one of the top 10 according to an Israeli ministry called the Ministry of Diaspora and Combating Anti Semitism. So at least I got the official acknowledgement by the ISRA government. So eat that cocker Carlson. And then Bazarian was number one. Greta Thunberg was number two. I was number three. Which tells you that this is a very diverse list. Like a white dude, an autistic child, and an Arab. So, so I like how they're very inclusive.
Danny
You can't write a better script.
Bassam
It is just like, it's, it's very, it's. It's. They took one of the most serious accusations. Anti Semitism. Anti Semitism. It's a serious accusation. And then they're just like, they made it a life.
Danny
Well, they're trying to. They're trying to hide behind that religion, right? They're trying to hijack it. Yeah, they're trying to hijack Judaism just like the, the American military is trying to hijack Christianity right now to justify this whole war in Iran if, if
Bassam
Egypt had that kind of power. And they started to do all of these horrible things. And it's like, we are Muslims. We're the only. Right, like, good Muslim. We are the only real Muslims. And any other Muslim who doesn' approve of that is a Fake Muslim is a self hating Muslim. You will end up hating Muslims. Right? And Israel is doing the same thing. It's like we are the Zionism is Judaism, anti Semitism is anti Zionism. If you don't approve that, you are a self hating Jew. So people will say, all right, well we're going to hate Jews, right? So that's why they are hurting Jewish people all over.
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Bassam
Yeah.
Danny
So it's Christianity, Islam and that accounts for like 2 billion, roughly 2 billion people. And then Judaism is like 15 million.
Bassam
So but I think with numbers I think Hindus will be more like, I
Danny
think there's more, there's more Hindus than there are Jews.
Bassam
Yeah, I mean like if Jewish people have 15 million, I mean India is 1.4 billion.
Danny
Right, right, right.
Bassam
So I'm sure. So I, I don't think they are. Yeah. You see a Hinduism so smart. I'm so good, you know all about this. I'm so good. Oh, my God, I just told you. Hinduism, the third one. I'm so good.
Danny
Oh, Taoism. I didn't know their sign was a yinyang. That's awesome.
Bassam
Yeah.
Danny
I need to convert.
Bassam
Yeah.
Danny
But, yeah, so if they, if they want to, like, it seems like they're also trying to hijack Christianity because I hear, I've heard people, you know, talk about, oh, we have to be so fearful of this Muslim majority that's going to happen because in 2030, it's, the world's going to be majority Muslim.
Bassam
There is a very interesting exchange between Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly. And they talk about how we were always. I think you're going to find this video, it's a longer video, but, like, how we were being manipulated into hating Muslims and how anything other than, like, absolute hate to Muslims is unacceptable. And they're saying, like, what else have allowed, like, how else have been manipulated? And it is interesting to see that on the right, like, because I remember Tucker Carlson Kelly saying the most horrible things about Islam. And I was like, maybe you've been manipulated. And I'm not absolving them from whatever they said before. But I say it's an interesting shift, like, how you're just like, being pushed to just like, hate people who are different, hate immigrants, hate Muslims, hate Arabs, hate Christians, and, and, and then the, you sit to sit back and, and watch the fight.
Danny
Yeah, it's, it's certainly interesting to, to watch it all play out for sure. And, you know, again, the whole thing with the American military trying to embrace this Christian nationalism stuff lately, I, I,
Bassam
I found it very interesting when the, there it was. Have you heard about, like, the beginning of the war, how many of the troops actually complained in the military, how they were told that Trump was anointed by Jesus to bring on an Armageddon. So basically, Trump was chosen by Jesus to bring on the end of the world. And I have to say, great choice. I mean, if I would trust anybody to bring the destruction of that planet, it would be Donald Trump. I don't think Trump would actually believe it. You know, he will announce the Rapture as if he's one of Israeli. And it's like, Second Coming is gonna be huge. Everybody loves. Nobody comes like me. I'm gonna be coming and coming. Thank you.
Danny
There was a, allegedly, I saw that the Texas televangelist who was at Trump's birthday who said that he was anointed
Bassam
by Christ when they had this gold statue. And it's like, I assure you. This is not a golden Cal.
Danny
Yeah, he just got busted with a meth lab in his church. Oh yeah, he was cooking meth in his church.
Bassam
There is so many. And, and the number of, of pastors who were by the way, they go on the free trips of Israel and they come back because Israel announced that they have you. I'm sure they can bring like how Israel is recruiting pastor. They fly hundreds of pastors. They're flying them to Israel and they come back and they affect like simple Americans going to churches and then many of them has been called by actually having sex with minors and the escapement. So you're basically this. You have an Epstein list everywhere. Yes, you have an Epstein. You have Epstein like characters in churches in Silicon Valley in politicians. So basically you have a bunch of people who are caught with their pants down children and then you hold them on for the rest of their life and they become their. For the rest of your life. And now we have to pay for that.
Danny
Right. And what do you make of the. These tech companies like Palantir and all this? They see, they seem to be the ones pulling the strings behind a lot of it. And not just, not just pulling the strings with like mentoring the politicians or funding the politicians and donating money everywhere, but also being behind this huge push to like map everything that's happening in Christian in Silicon Valley with Christianity.
Bassam
Well, I mean of course you remember when what's his name? Teal.
Danny
Yeah, yeah, Peter. Gay Christian billionaire.
Bassam
And he is like giving, giving a four part course about the Antichrist.
Danny
I said like, what the hell, right?
Bassam
I mean, what the right.
Danny
What is that about?
Bassam
What does that.
Danny
It's so fucking weird.
Bassam
It is, it is. It is crazy. And, and now Alex Karp when he like just posted the manifesto for the new. They want to bring back the new Czech Republic.
Danny
Yeah, they want to start. They want to bring back the draft
Bassam
and it's all about surveillance and well, and now it's like, yeah, it's. It's all come up. We're living in a minority report reality now.
Danny
Yes.
Bassam
Where surveillance will gonna be the norm. So again you cannot just like do all of that and say like, oh, we still live in a free country. Country. I mean we're still relatively free, but with the way things are progressing, it is very scary.
Danny
And not only do you have Palantir in their manifesto saying they want to bring back conscription and bring back the draft, but you also have the guy who's running against Thomas Massie just said on a podcast that he thinks that it's a problem that we don't have the draft.
Bassam
It is interesting how they are normalizing stuff. Like, for example, like Netanyahu and many of the designers is really tech people. They say, like, well, the First Amendment should be like, should be reviewed. Like, there's no. Like, they. We. We talk about, like, oh, how they're basically telling people, like, there's too much free speech, there's too much freedom on the. It's like we could never think that there's someone will actually come and tell us, guys, you're having too much freedom. I think we need to trim this up a little bit. Yeah, there's too much. You need to. You need to. You need to lose your love handles a little bit. You need to lose. You have. You have an extra one way to freedom that you need to lose. You need to go to on a freedom diet.
Danny
Yeah. A lot of people are very unhappy about the, the, the Netflix roast. They're saying that we need to dial back the freedom of speech a little bit after that. That might have been too much.
Bassam
I. I don't care about if you do it for comedians, but like, you're talking about like freedom of speech, but like actually talking about the social media and talking. And then, and then if you don't like, if they don't like it, they. Okay, okay. Tik Tok is too free. We're gonna buy it now. Larry Elson buys TikTok Tok. How. How is like one person is allowed. Well, by the way, he's one of the biggest donors of the IDF. How is one person is allowed to control CNN?
Danny
I thought TikTok. The problem with TikTok was China. I thought that China was the problem.
Bassam
No, it was never.
Danny
That's what they were telling us.
Bassam
Okay, I, I remember this conversation. You said like, well, TikTok is a Chinese platform. Dude, you manufacture every single iPhone in China.
Danny
Yeah.
Bassam
And now you're worried about TikTok. So it was never, it was never about China. It was basically about. Because TikTok was the only non American unregulated platform where people basically, people knew what was happening in Palestine and Gaza through TikTok. So we're gonna buy it and. Yeah, and then it's like, the only difference is that in the Middle east, your freedom is taken away by the government. Here your freedom's taken away by corporations. And this corporation work for a foreign government. So by proxy, they basically.
Danny
Here you're saying you get taken away by corporations.
Bassam
Yeah. And this corporation work very closely to the Israeli Government, they, they all of them openly support Israel. So it is just making me feel as if I am a stranger in my own country. It's crazy.
Danny
Do you ever. Do you ever go back to Egypt?
Bassam
Not yet. It's been 12 years, but my relationship.
Danny
It's been 12 years.
Bassam
Yeah. I left 2014.
Danny
And you still have family there?
Bassam
My brother.
Danny
Your brother?
Bassam
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Danny
Are you not allowed to go back? Will it be? Would you?
Bassam
There was, okay. There was a, a big part of that where it was, it was not very comfortable. It was not a comfortable relationship. But in the past couple of years, there had been like, you know, connections I've even had. I appeared remotely into a TV show as a, as interview in Egypt. So it was kind of a sign that things are like calming down between. Yeah, but because honestly, I talked about this very openly. I had a lot of problems with, with how things were in Egypt and it was not very friendly for a while. But honestly, now I don't need to fight a hundred battles on different fronts. I am an American citizen now. I have a big problem about me as an American having my money going out to support a genocidal criminal country. This is my big fight right now. And I have to say, with all of the stuff that I said about Egypt, what I'm seeing here is much crazier now. So. So I think we are kind of like buried the hatchet somehow and maybe next year I'm going to visit.
Danny
What do you make of talking about the funding and all that of Israel? Didn't Netanyahu just say he wants to wean off the funding? He wants to stop all the foreign aid from Social Security.
Bassam
How about giving more money back? How about that? How about that?
Danny
He said it's going to be a 10 year taper. Wean off it in 10 years. We're not going to go cold turkey.
Bassam
Turkey. This doesn't mean anything because the aid that we give to Israel, which is $4.2 billion, is a fraction of the money that we actually give them, you know, because only in the past two years, America gave Israel $30 billion. Only in two years for all of the weapons that they're using now since October 7th. So this $4 billion is nothing. Is really nothing. Because there's other ways where Israel is taking away our money. There is, there's money outside of the aid. There is direct military aid. There's the amount of money being donated in evangelical Christian churches. As a matter of fact, I think I read somewhere you can actually use perplexity for this, the non governmental donation to Israel is more than $4 billion. And you are talking about like poor people in the south giving their money to the pastor and then they just like ship it to Israel. All of these Christian churches, they are supporting aliyah, which is the right of return. Like, you know, making aliyah is for the Jewish people to come to Israel and they're supporting and funding these trips with the donation money, which is crazy. So the fact that like, are we going to wean off after 10 years? Like, what do you mean? You, you already, you already like sucked us dry and then it's like, it's enough. There's no more money to give them, basically.
Danny
And you also have like all. Yeah, like what you were saying, all these billionaires, these Jewish billionaires that are just sending tons of money over there and, and also trying to influence media. Like the whole Charlie Kirk story was insane how all of those Jewish billionaires were trying to like influence the way he thought. Influence.
Bassam
I would, I would say Jewish Zionists because like, I want to be very specific because like, I have a lot of Jewish friends who are completely against Israel and I. And you know, so sometimes you. And that's the problem when you're talking and you have to kind of tiptoe around the subject because yes, we don't mean like all Jews. We mean the Zionists who are basically who happen to be Jewish because there's also a lot of Christian Zionists who are actually even more dangerous, like Ted Cruz and like Huckabee and all of those people, they are Christian and they're Zionists and together they are, are taking our resources. They are. The amount of money that Silicon Valley sends to Israel, the amount of money of the Zionist control of Silicon Valley, it is insane. And I have Arab friends in Silicon Valley and they are complaining about the absolute monopoly in Silicon Valley and all of these countries work on the behalf of Israel. It is just insane.
Danny
Do you think, think that with everything that's happening right now, with all this crazy hitting the fan, like with the Epstein files, with this war where, especially with Epstein files, it feels like it's made everyone aware that this is just a house of cards and the politicians are really not in control and they're just kind of lining their pockets. Do you, do you ever think about like the possibility of what happened in Egypt in 2011 happening here?
Bassam
What do you mean? Oh, you mean the revolution?
Danny
Like the revolution?
Bassam
I don't think so. Because the American society is freer, but also the American authority is much stronger and we saw what they can do if they can wanna crush demonstrations. We've seen it with our own eyes in the universities and I think this was a warning sign. And I think basically they are letting us know what's happening and take us. There's nothing you can do about it because people have been shouting about what you've, you've read what's in the files. It's terrible. It's like what they do to the kids and what they do and all of the coded words and people have been talking about it and the media
Danny
said and no one protests about it.
Bassam
Conspiracy theories. Conspiracy. It's not true.
Danny
The dow is up 50.
Bassam
The 50,000 Dow.
Danny
You want the Dow to drop?
Bassam
Yeah. Now she got the Dow up her ass and she left. Now become name. She got the D up her ass. She left.
Danny
Yeah, man. I don't know. I feel like that's the, that's one of the most unifying apolitical stories of my lifetime is the Epstein files. It's. Both sides are implicated in that, which it's not. It's not a left and right fight, it's a vertical fight.
Bassam
I actually, actually it made me think about something you remember like how we. For a few years now people talk about Epstein file. They've seen the Epstein files and nothing happening. And now the same people were watching all of these videos, horrific videos coming out of Gaza and then we see it and nothing is happening. I feel it's almost by design that I'm going to show you what I'm doing. I'm going to show you how corrupt everything is and you're going to watch it and nothing will happen. And eventually people will feel helpless. Because right now like if you talk to my friends, like a huge amount of, huge number of them are just like they lost hope. It's like if we, if we are
Danny
seeing a genocide, we're overwhelmed with shit.
Bassam
Yeah. If you're seeing like all of that in front of your eyes and nothing happening, it's like what's the use? They, they, they, they became. And I think this is, this is their strategy because by. If you lengthen the period where there is no action, people will either either lose hope or become more radicalized or become. And then at the end of the day you will find you're left with a few people and then it's easy to call them conspiracy theorists. They're radical. They're problematic, you know, because nothing is happening. They just like. So they're basically way like sticking out their things like we have it here's like the kids. Here are the kids being killed in front of your camera and there's nothing you can do about you.
Danny
Yeah. Didn't you say you have. You have family who live in or lived in Gaza?
Bassam
My. My wife's family. My. My. My. My. My wife is half Palestinian from her father's side, so. And half of this family is gone and the other half fleet to Egypt.
Danny
Oh, they're back in Egypt now.
Bassam
Yeah.
Danny
And we don't know what is happening now in Gaza. Like, what do you. Are you.
Bassam
I know. They, they, they. They every. They are. The killing in Gaza never stopped since the ceasefire in Gaza. Gaza. More than 3,000 people have been killed. 3,000 in Gaza.
Danny
So are there still people there right now?
Bassam
Yeah. And they're basically pushing the line over them. They're supposed. First Israel took 45% of Gaza and now they actually move 10% more. They're actually moving like they are closing in on them. The killing in Gaza never stopped and the killing in the west bank never stopped. And all of the stuff they have been doing in Palestine never stopped. And nobody talks about what they're doing in Lebanon, which is another generation genocide. Oh yeah, nobody talks about they're doing Lebanon, but it is very easy to just like hide behind Hezbollah, Hamas. We're doing it because of the terrorists. And then you go in and you raise a complete, like, neighborhood, like villages. You just like. Like Kadun Lebron. Nobody talks about what's happening to Lebanese. Lebanese people right now. It's crazy.
Danny
And you know, one of the other crazy things about this is like, I've had former CIA officers in here, like John Kiriakou who said that.
Bassam
I love that guy. Can. Can I get his. His number?
Danny
Yeah, of course.
Bassam
I would love. I'm a huge fan of jump. Oh, yeah, I love that guy.
Danny
Connect you guys for sure.
Bassam
Yes.
Danny
He was telling me that on his first day at the CIA, they warned them like on the. About like the tier list of all the foreign threats. And he's like Israel's number two.
Bassam
Who's number one?
Danny
I think it was. I want to say it was China or North Korea.
Bassam
Okay.
Danny
But like, as far as. As far as foreign spies infiltrating us, like, our number. Our number two, like red alert is Israeli undeclared spies.
Bassam
John Kiriakou has. Has talked many times about like every single gift given by the Israelis. Are they all bugged? It's like we were instructed not to receive any gifts.
Danny
Oh yeah.
Bassam
From Israeli. Because they bug everything.
Danny
He told me about a Time they tried to recruit him too.
Bassam
Yes. And he said, like, no. And yeah, yeah. Like, are you Jewish? It's like, don't ever do it. Yeah, I saw that clip. And he. And he. And in another. In another. At another interview, I remember John Kriyaku talking about how they had two CIA officers or, like, from America, and they were.
Danny
They went to live there.
Bassam
Yeah. And when they lived there and they. They cut their dog's tail and they were like, shat in their bed and they just, like, cramble and they are, like, pro Israel. It's like this is what they do to their friends. Imagine what they do in their.
Danny
Their.
Bassam
With their enemies.
Danny
Yeah. Like, intimidation tactics. Like, you aren't in control here. Like, it's. It's. It's crazy.
Bassam
One of the. One of the characters. Do you know the famous story about how every time Netanyahu and his wife visit the White House, they come with, like, suitcases of dirty laundry so they would they wash it in the White House? Please pull. I know. I know this sounds crazy. Pull that up. Pull that up. Talk about, like, Bibi Netanyahu's dirty laundry White House. You will find that I didn't know
Danny
shit about his wife until I watched that BB Files document.
Bassam
Yeah. Well, I mean, if you look at your wife, you understand why Bibi is messed up.
Danny
Yeah. It seems like she's really got her. Her hooks into him, like, really controlling a lot of it.
Bassam
No, I'm not gonna absolve bb.
Danny
No, no, you can't absolve him. But she's certainly manipulative.
Bassam
Yeah.
Danny
The Guardian Stained Relations. Israeli Prime Minister accused of taking dirty laundry on state trips. Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife said to pack soiled clothes to be cleaned on foreign trips. Trips. What the. Is that. Is that sort of weird? Like, symbolic, religious?
Bassam
And they do do it a lot in. Especially when they go to. To United States. It's basically they are trolling people and
Danny
they tell people about this.
Bassam
I. I don't know if they tell it or brag it, but it's there.
Danny
Or brag about it to people.
Bassam
Yeah.
Danny
One of the craziest stories that I learned.
Bassam
Yeah. You see, like, a practice notice by Steph at the White House guest house.
Danny
House.
Bassam
The Netanyahu are the only ones who bring actual suitcases of dirty laundry for us to clean. After multiple trips, it be. It became clear this was intentional. This like. Like, seriously like it. Like I am to tell you Israel is the ultimate. You in your face.
Danny
Yes.
Bassam
They are just, like, going around saying, like you guys, we don't care.
Danny
And that's exactly what the American politicians are doing too, because they're saying you to us as well. Because they're the ones like, I don't blame Israel real for doing everything they're doing. Like if, if that's what they should do, that's what a foreign country should do if they want to survive. I blame the people in the United States, the people who run this country who are allowing it to happen, taking the money.
Bassam
It's very easy if, like, if a government is formed of people and if you control or blackmail or bribe enough people, you control that government.
Danny
Yes.
Bassam
Right. So it's not a conspiracy if we, you have APAC bragging about 98 of our candidates. Make like, make it to power. So if, if you're bragging openly about this and then when you say it, you're anti Semitic, is it, how is this, how is me repeating what you say is anti Semitic? Well, that just repeated what you said.
Danny
That word has lost its meaning. Like it doesn't really mean anything.
Bassam
Yeah, it's, it's like used and abused. Like I use condom. It doesn't, it's, it's ineffective anymore.
Danny
It is completely ineffective.
Bassam
Can I have a bathroom break?
Danny
Yes.
Bassam
Thank you.
Danny
Yeah.
Bassam
Yes, I'm just.
Danny
We'll be right back. So this was a tweet from yesterday where he said, Netanyahu said today I,
Bassam
my legal advisors to Nicholas Kristoff had an incredible report about the sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners.
Danny
And Kristoff is a New York Times reporter.
Bassam
Yes. And the, and, and, and, and basically so they tried to whitewash them with another CNN report talking again about the sexual violence on October 7, which was basically the main author is a Jewish Israeli woman. Her sons are in the idf. So it's a completely non. Biased report. And then Nicholas Kristof and Nicholas Kristof, he talks about like the systematic sexual abuse and sodomization of Israeli of Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli prisons, including using dogs to fucking rape them. Right, right, dogs. And then I'm going to be like on a tangent here because I remember. Do you know the Nelk boys? Yes, I interviewed the Nelk boys and I and I got a clip from them in their trip to Israel and they were bragging in front of Nelk boys how this is like the only dogs who are, they are actually trained to kill people. Dogs. Not just like to attack, to kill people. Who was telling them this when they went to like an Israeli camp? They use dogs to kill people to people. It's crazy the amount of evil that these people take animals like dogs and use them this way.
Danny
So how is Netanyahu going to file a lawsuit against America? American. How does that work?
Bassam
What.
Danny
I mean I'm not a lawyer but
Bassam
I, I don't know. But like I'm sure they, they, they, I, I don't think they care about these details. I think they're going to do it anyways. But the fact that they, they cry foul while that. Well, the New York Times itself has, has published a lot of.
Danny
In their favor.
Bassam
In their favor.
Danny
Yeah.
Bassam
But then one and, and all of the stuff that they have. Remember the decapitated baby babies 40 daycare baby. Remember babies in oven babies held on, on, on laundry wires. It's just, it didn't, it never happened. And all of this was published by the New York Times and others.
Danny
Yeah. I had this gentleman, this gentleman named Ben Ephraim who is a former, he used to work for the IDF as like a cyber security guy or something like that. And now he, he lives here and he reports on all the crazy that's happening over there and he still has people that work in the idf and he was telling me all about this stuff and like how they use the dogs and all that. And he was explaining how Netanyahu has been like on record explaining how he is like has been nurturing and incubating Hamas forever and trying to like control the height of the flame because they're a useful tool for him to control Gaza.
Bassam
Yeah.
Danny
And like cyber like sending millions and millions of dollars in cash through Qatar directly to Hamas.
Bassam
Yes. Because he wanted to split the Palestinians. You know, like it's very, it's a very old tactic. You know, divide and conquer. And, and yes, you, they would finance your. And finance their enemies and make radicalize them so they will never have a unity against them. So and then when you say well that's. If you say like oh, antisemitism, conspiracy theories. Guys. They are on record saying that I'm just like sick and tired of repeating their words and being called as anti Semitic. I'm just telling you what they have just told you.
Danny
Yeah.
Bassam
When you say for example, when you have Jewish people in the Jewish International Jewish Congress or global Jewish Congress, there's something in Switzerland right now and they're talking about like we control the media. We say this with. And then when you say the same thing, you're being called anti Semitic.
Danny
Right.
Bassam
I'm just repeating their words back to them and they're calling me an anti semite how they. Is that possible? And, and that's, that's why it, it's not a serious accusation anymore. And this is a way to just shut, shut, shut down conversation. Remember when every time you talk about anything that's. And then they tell you you're racist, you're chauvinist, right? You're. And, and this is a way to shut down people.
Danny
Are you religious at all?
Bassam
I'm Muslim. Yeah.
Danny
So you are. Are you from 1 to 10? How, how hardcore are you? You?
Bassam
No, I'm not hardcore. I am a Muslim. But every person beck goes to the
Danny
mosque like every day, right?
Bassam
Yeah, I'm not that religious. But I have to say on a personal level, my faith has been shaken big time. What's happening in the world?
Danny
What do you mean by that?
Bassam
My faith has been shaken. If there's so much injustice and so much terrible things and then like, how is this allowed to happen? And I have a lot of existential crisis questions in my mind and it's like, how is this allowed to happen? And as a matter of fact, if you keep telling me that this is God's chosen people, I will have like, second. I was like, oh, well, well, God definitely chooses. Well, this is not. If this is God's choice, how is this allowed to happen?
Danny
So yeah, like the, the, the one of the biggest arguments against Islam is like, as God, as Gad, however you pronounce his name, was explaining is that like the true, like fundamental un unfiltered version of Islam is like, kill all the enemies. You're not allowed to leave Islam. You're supposed to recruit everybody possible to join Islam.
Bassam
Very interesting, right? What about the unfiltered version of Judaism and what's written in the Talmud? How about that? I agree with you if you want to talk about the unfiltered. And the thing is, I'm yet to find a single Muslim country who was invoking religious texts in order to justify genocide. Because they kill Palestinians. Like, oh, it's the Amalek we allowed to kill women and children and their animals and their trees. If a Muslim leader say that, like the next day they're gonna be nuked. Like, I have never. I'm yet they are the ones who are invoking religious texts in order to justify genocide and killing people. I have not seen that. I've seen that with isis. I've seen that with Qaeda, which by the way, they have been with very close tight with Israel. You understand that like isis, have Qaeda never attacked Israel? And the one time they've actually attacked them. They apologize. Apologized. You know this.
Danny
No.
Bassam
Pulled it up, pulls it like Al Qaeda like apologizes for attacking Israel or isis. It was either ISIS or Qad. And they apolog. And then one of their.
Danny
Qatar.
Bassam
The Qada. Qada. No, no, not Qatar. Qada. Al Qaeda.
Danny
Al Qaeda.
Bassam
Al Qaeda.
Danny
Al Qaeda.
Bassam
Okay, say Qaeda or isis. They, they, they shot once towards Israel and they apologize and they, one of the, their ISIS leaders were treated in a, in a, in a, in a Israeli hospital. You understand? Can you, can you pull that up? I know I'm looking to you and you're looking at me as like I'm a crazy person, but like someone else has to show to, to see that craziness. Sure. Here.
Danny
Al Qaeda apologizes.
Bassam
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Danny
For attacking Israel. That's what he typed in. Al Qaeda apologizes for shooting at Israel. Type it into AI St. Steve,
Bassam
reports
Danny
of Al Qaeda apologizing.
Bassam
Is it. Or isis. I can't remember.
Danny
Try isis. Reports of ISIS apologizing to Israel.
Bassam
Yeah, yeah, the independent first one ISIS
Danny
spiders attacked the IDF unit and then apologized. Isn't that, isn't one of the Al Qaeda leaders now running Turkey or something or. No, no. Syria.
Bassam
Yeah, I don't know.
Danny
There's like an Al Qaeda that this
Bassam
guy went to throw like a whole like pr, like and they put him to all of these CNN very curated interviews. So I don't know.
Danny
Do you ever, do you ever travel and like do shows in any of those countries?
Bassam
Oh yeah.
Danny
In the Middle east, like, like Turkey or, or.
Bassam
I'm having a show in Istanbul actually this year.
Danny
Oh really?
Bassam
19th of June, I performed in, in Dubai, in Bahrain, in Oman, in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia. I have been in many. I didn't perform there yet, but I, I performed in Jordan and in Lebanon.
Danny
What is like the sentiment of the people there when it, when it comes to this whole issue of Israel and the United States and all these foreign wars invading the Middle east forever and all this crap.
Bassam
Remember years ago when George W. Bush would say like, they are attacking us because they hate our freedom.
Danny
They hate our freedom. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Bassam
Nobody hates your freedom. All of these attacks, all of these bad sentiments because you are supporting the biggest bully in the region. It's like you have a bully like Israel. They're supported 100% by America. So it is of course their is a, like a negative sentiment against the American policy, not the American people. Because the same people who attack those who say those things about American Israel, they want to live in America. They love the American lifestyle. They like the American wave freedom. They're just like. They, they are. They are. Sorry, what is this?
Danny
It's the, it's the energy drink you just had. It's a, it's a kratom. Have you ever heard of kratom Atom? No. It's a, it's an Indonesian plant that's a stimulant and it's also an opiate. So if you drink too many of them, it'll give you like a Xanax effect.
Bassam
A Xanax.
Danny
It's like a, it gives you more of like an opiate kind of like Xanax type.
Bassam
Oh, so it makes me high?
Danny
Basically, yes.
Bassam
All right.
Danny
How many years did you practice medicine?
Bassam
13.
Danny
Do you stay up to date with, with stuff? No. With like, any of the studies or anything?
Bassam
No, no, no. I've been traumatized by medicine enough.
Danny
You are, you're not like, health conscious or anything after all?
Bassam
I am. I am.
Danny
Like, you have your heart, health and all.
Bassam
I'm mostly plant based. I try not, I try to. Oh, really? I try to stay away from animal products, not because of. Can I have water? Because.
Danny
Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's grab him water.
Bassam
I was actually, I wanted to drink that because of the hiccup, but maybe that's not the. Good choice. Thank you. Yeah. So now, yeah. So if, if you would, like, you know, something happened to you, God forbid I'm gonna do what the doctor would do. I'm gonna call 91 1.
Danny
Right, right, right, right. That's so funny that you spent all those years doing that and now you could, like, care less about it.
Bassam
I, I, I, I, I, I, I don't, I can't, I can't. I, I was. I, I like, imagine like, being in a career for 20 years and you hate every single second. I can do it. And by the way, I was good. I passed all my exams on paper. I had, like, on the map. My master's, my doctorate, my USMLE exams, my. I even passed the Royal College of Surgeons, you know, in. Because I was on to. I also wanted to apply to the uk, so on paper I was good. But in here, I hated every single second of it.
Danny
Right.
Bassam
I was just like, yeah, I did what Arabs do. Okay. I have to do it because I have to do it.
Danny
Do you stay away from animal products specifically for your health or for, like, religious?
Bassam
Mostly health. Not religious, but mostly health. That's why I avoid the word vegan, because vegan comes with a lot of other stuff. Yeah. Baggage Baggage. People think that, like, I'm gonna be upset if they eat meat in front of me. It's like I ate meat 40 years of my life. I don't judge. But right now, if I eat like a steak or something, it will destroy, Destroy me. I'm not going to feel good. So it. Now I, I. When I, When I'm more strict on plant based diet, I'm. I'm. I feel much better.
Danny
Interesting.
Bassam
Yeah.
Danny
Going back to the, the Epstein stuff, what is your, like, overall?
Bassam
That's a nice segue.
Danny
That's a great.
Bassam
Okay, let's talk.
Danny
Super smooth. Right.
Bassam
Speaking of animals. Let's talk about speaking of animals.
Danny
Right. What is your like, overall view of like, what. What happened to him?
Bassam
Well, there's a lot of stuff there. A lot of people say he's still alive. A lot of people say this is me. It's just the whole idea about like. And you remember the one minute that was missing and I'm. When you are faced. When everything in your life turns up to be a lie, when everything is staged, you stop believing, then the official narrative, you. You lose the faith of how news are reported. Right. So I don't have. And then if you start talking about it now, you're gonna sound crazy. You sound like a conspiracy theorist. And the way that the conspiracy. Even the term was coined, I think in 1954 by the CIA in order to kind of delegitimize or kind of, you know, put doubt on everything that they will say. But as I said, like, in the past couple of years, I think the conspiracy theorists have been the one who's right. Right.
Danny
Yeah.
Bassam
About everything.
Danny
Well, there's that funny. There's that funny saying. What's the difference between conspiracy theory and the truth? And it's like six months.
Bassam
That's a, That's a great. Yeah, that's a, That's a great analogy.
Danny
I think that was Alex Jones who came up with that one.
Bassam
Okay. Now I take it back.
Danny
Yeah. I mean, like, one of the, One of the craziest things about the, the whole Epstein thing was that, like, there was reports with him and his doctor where he was going back and forth about like, his hormones and all that kind of stuff. And there he was like, yeah, I don't have a prostate. Prostate or whatever. So he had to take medicine and stuff to like, make up for the fact that he didn't have a prostate. And then in his official autopsy report, they examined his prostate and it was functioning perfectly.
Bassam
Yeah.
Danny
Yeah. It was like in. He was. Had A very, very good, strong prostate.
Bassam
Yeah, I think they, they, they, they, they. They used the wrong body
Danny
or it was all fake. Yeah, yeah. A lot of people think that it was just like a body double that they rolled out of there.
Bassam
And part of the whole thing. You understand that Israel spends so much money on Hasbro. You understand. You know what Hasbra is on what Hasbra. Okay, can you please pull up Hasbara? H, A, S, B, A, R A. Hasbara is basically Israeli propaganda, and they have quadrupled the spending of Israeli propaganda to $730 million. You can find. Find that figure. $730 million on hasbara. So basically, are paying so much money, all of these influencers, all of these people who get paid for talking. This is Hasbro. All of Hasbara.
Danny
Yeah.
Bassam
And there is a quote by St. Augustine. He said, the truth is like a line. It doesn't need to defend itself. You just let it loose and it defend itself by itself.
Danny
Right.
Bassam
If you spend so much money. Money. Oh, my God, Bass, I'm. I'm so good. I. I know. I like. Look. And this is the Jerusalem Post. So.
Danny
And there, the guy on the Jerusalem Post is holding up a New York Times article. Israeli. Israel just quadrupled its PR budget to $730 million. Experts claim it won't work. Israel has quadrupled its public. Wow. But experts say no amount of PR can reverse the damage caused by policy and the war in Gaza. Gaza.
Bassam
If you spend that much money to preserve your image, there's something wrong with your image.
Danny
Yeah, I. I would say so.
Bassam
Hasbar. I see those videos of Ben Gavir,
Danny
like, dancing around, popping champagne because of that new law where they're allowed to execute Palestinians.
Bassam
And his wife giving him a cake with, like, a news. A new. Did you see that?
Danny
I didn't see that one.
Bassam
Okay, I'm. I'm sorry. Can you pull up Israel birthday cake,
Danny
Israeli birthday cake, Ben Gir. Birthday cake, Ben Gavir birthday cake, cake.
Bassam
Yeah. And there's a picture of his wife giving him a cake with, like, a noose on it.
Danny
No, A noose.
Bassam
A noose.
Danny
Oh, no, sorry.
Bassam
Like, English is second language. My. My. My. My pronunciation is so dark. Did you find it? Yeah. Because this. This picture tells you everything you know about those people. It's crazy.
Danny
Have you ever been to Israel?
Bassam
No, I. I've been. I was offered this night, 2019, to go there, and I said no even before all that.
Danny
Who offered you?
Bassam
Like, my Asian camps? Like, where there's an offer. Well, there's a festival In. In. In Israel, like, by, like, by, like a group of, like, peace people. Like, it's a mix of Israel and. And Arabs. Like, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna go there. Even if I was invited by Arabs, I'm not gonna go there. That's it. It's so weird. I couldn't find a photo.
Danny
Oh, my God. Full screen. That. That's not. Yeah, there you go. That's his wife.
Bassam
That's his wife giving him, like, a cake with a new song.
Danny
Holy.
Bassam
That's wild, dude.
Danny
It's like the Twilight Zone.
Bassam
Yeah. Look at him, like, with all the love in his eyes.
Danny
Look at. Oh, yeah, he loves her.
Bassam
Yeah, he loves her. I can imagine what happens in that bedroom.
Danny
Oh, my God. That's insane, man. It just seems like that whole part of the world is just so insane, and it's. It's really hard to know. Like, you know, maybe not for you, because you were born there and you go travel there all the time, but for, like, just being inundated with, like, all crazy shit like this and sitting here in Florida and trying to digest it and talk about it all the time is like.
Bassam
I love how, like, Americans come to me.
Danny
Did you see that?
Bassam
Like, we know. We know. We. We know that. It's like, welcome. I'm. I'm happy, guys. You're being red pilled right now. But we've. We've lived. We've, like, these people are our neighbors, and we have seen what they can do for years for. For. For decades. So none of this comes as surprise for us, but you guys are still finding out. Yeah, welcome to our world.
Danny
Because it seems like there's a lot of. There's a lot of bad happening in that part of the world, and not just in Israel, but also in some other countries. I mean, you have, like, the whole story of Jamal Khashoggi getting chopped up by the freaking leader of Saudi Arabia. And then, like, a lot of the comics caught a lot of flack for going and doing that Riyadh Comedy Festival.
Bassam
I have. I have no problem with these people going to Riyadh. Neither do I. I have no problem. As a matter of fact, I have actually made a video talking about this. Like, okay, you don't like those comedians because they went there to. Part of the propaganda. Okay, what do you call about the comedians who are going to entertain the troops, who are going there to kill people? Isn't that propaganda? What about the sports team going to the White House having, like, a photo op with the president? Isn't that propaganda? What about all of the military going or making all of the these halftime shows to. Isn't that propaganda? Right. And I'm sorry, like, you can say whatever you want about Saudi Arabia, but I don't see Saudi Arabia committing like the terrible genocide like Israel is doing.
Danny
Right, right, right.
Bassam
And, and then, and if, and Saudi Arabia is so bad, why do we have an American president going every time they're going there and get more money? So it's, it's same thing with China. It's. It's a little bit hypocritical, right?
Danny
Yeah, it's super. It definitely is. And it just seems like, it seems like there's a different layer between like the media and what we're, what we're told and the propaganda that we're given and like what's actually happening behind the scenes because you have like Trump and all the leaders going to and shaking hands and doing deals with all these presidents. Like even just what was it yesterday that Trump was in China doing the talking to Xi about all this stuff and he was interviewed by the head of Fox News and he was like, you know, it would be very rude for me to say, no, we don't want your students here. We don't want 500000 Chinese students here. I don't want to be rude to them. You know how r would be for me to say that? Like, when are, since when are you afraid of being rude to leaders of other countries?
Bassam
Trump is suddenly have manners. And again, you can say whatever you want about China, you can say whatever you want about Saudi Arabia or Egypt. But I yet to find a strong Saudi lobby who is financing both sides of the aisle in order to send money there. I've never heard about like an Egyptian lobby who's blackmailing and bribing being politicians in order to write registrations to send my tax money there. I have never seen that. So you can say whatever you want about those countries, but none of them has a choke hold on American politicians like Israel does.
Danny
Yeah, well, you hear a lot about the, the. You certainly hear most about the APAC and the, the Israel lobby. But one of the things I also learned about recently was the how big the evangelical lobby was. Yeah, like the whole evangelical thing is
Bassam
huge, but the evangelical lobby is an extension of the Israeli lobby. Like for example, you have find out,
Danny
find out the percentage of money that gets paid gets lobbied for the e Evangelical lobby. Like if you can find like a tier list of like APAC versus everyone else. Where does the evangelical have you, have
Bassam
you heard about Kofi? See, Christian United for Israel. This is led by John Haggie, of course, you know John Haggie and this. And they, they have sent to, to date, $70 million to IS Israel from people's nations. Since when they. So so far you can find out how much money did Kofi Cufi have raised for Israel and you'll find tens of millions of dollars from regular Americans going to Israel.
Danny
Wow.
Bassam
So the evangelical lobby is an extension of the Israeli lobby.
Danny
You're right, because they've, they've basically convinced them that they are part of this whole end times prophecy, right?
Bassam
Yes. And it's funny that in that prophecy they said like, we need Israel to bring on the end of times, but in the Christian version it will end up by killing all of the Jews except 144,000 Jews who will convert to Christianity. That is the prophecy. But for the Israeli version, no. It is basically the end of time and the Antichrist will come. And basically this is our Messiah. Messiah, Their own version of Christ. Christ, they will come in and rule. Yeah, you've heard about that.
Danny
Yeah.
Bassam
Okay.
Danny
Yeah, I've heard about it. Yeah. They're supposed to come to Megiddo, right.
Bassam
And it's supposed to come the battle of Armageddon, the end of wars. So basically you have religious fanatics on the Israeli side and the Christian side going on. It's like, okay, we need to bring on the end of the world, so the second coming of Mushay or Christ to come. So you are led by people who want the destruction of the planet to fulfill a promise. Prophecy.
Danny
Evangelical religious and specifically Christian Zionist organization spend roughly 4,400 million even more.
Bassam
Yeah.
Danny
Annually on advocacy and lobbying in Washington D.C. but this is. Okay, so this is. Evangelical and Christian Zionists combined find out like just the evangelical lobby by itself that this is what it gave you, huh.
Bassam
Christian Zionist funding, Evangelical funding for Israel related causes has been been substantial with some groups over $10 million in a single year. And in another guy as well, over 28 million over five years.
Danny
Yeah, man. The Charlie Kirk thing like really sort of sent this spiraling out of control.
Bassam
Yeah.
Danny
Because like when people started to look into like especially Candace Owen started like do all this crazy research into all the stuff that he was doing behind the scenes, like the communication with Netanyahu and when Netanyahu went on his big podcast tour, asked to be on Charlie Kirk's podcast and he said, no, I don't want to have you on, and then.
Bassam
And he was, it was was opposing the war in Iran. He was opposing going to invent.
Danny
And he was apparently like in the White House telling people like.
Bassam
And I'm not absolving Charlie Kirk because he said horrible things about Arabs and Muslims. And I. I still think that he have contributed into that horrible negative image for Muslims. I remember him in a very famous video where he said, well, at the beginning of the war, well, they say they throw gay people over high buildings. Now there is no high buildings in Gaza. So those Muslims or like stupid Muslims.
Danny
And do you say like Islam is the sword that's gonna cut America's throat or something?
Bassam
Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. It's distraction, man. It's everything that the Muslims have been accused of. 9, 11. The other stuff like the terrorism we see the Israel has had a huge hand in it.
Danny
Yeah. And then, you know, like them pushing us into all these conflicts that people clearly don't want. It makes sense why you would you start to get countries like Iran after all these years that allegedly chant death to America. And they. They hate America with every fiber of their being.
Bassam
Yeah.
Danny
Because they were a prosperous like almost pretty westernized country before we did that coup. When they tried to nationalize.
Bassam
Yeah. 1954, the Musadaku Sadaku's prime minister.
Danny
Yeah.
Bassam
They went in, they killed him. They brought in the Shah and the Shah own secret police, which is the Savak. The SAVAK is the. Basically it's the Gustavo or the ss. Right. And they. And they were trained by the CIA and trained by Mossad. And it's one of the most brutal. Like they just like they were brutally killed and tortured Iranians for long under the Shah. And he was like Israel and America friend in 1979 when they had another coup.
Danny
Yeah.
Bassam
Khomeini like arrived to Iran on an Air France plane.
Danny
Right.
Bassam
Yeah. Right. And then in. And then. And then afterwards there was like a huge war that broke up between Iran and Iraq for 10 years. And in that war, Israel was supplying Iran with weapons in order to fight Saddam. Which is crazy. Right? They were. You can find like how Israel. And you remember the Iran Contra.
Danny
Oh yeah.
Bassam
Oliver north, who two weeks ago went on Fox News said like we need to bomb Iran. He is the same guy who admitted that we send that we use like a whole operation of like getting money out of the drug, drugs and send money to the Contra in. In Panama, the rebels in Panama and
Danny
to Iran by selling weapons to Iran.
Bassam
So. So you. You basically telling us now that you need to bomber. You've been helping them. You've Been helping them. You created the beast, you created the, the boogeyman. And now you want us to be a friend.
Danny
And they did that through Israel. Yeah, they traded those weapons through Israel. Yeah.
Bassam
So it now anything that they tell you about, like how we need to fight Iran, you guys, you were helping them with weapons. Happens. So what is this?
Danny
Yeah, and it seems like those people that are like way like super high up on the food chain, like above the layer of politicians and above the layer of even intelligence, those are the people that are really just like all that really matters is just finding ways to profit from conflict and from internal civil wars. Like when you have those emails between Epstein and ahud. Barack on like, hey, check out this little civil war happening in Sierra Leone. Yeah, I think we can make some good money. We could sell some weapons, sell some intelligence, some drones.
Bassam
What's happening in Congo? What's happening? Like all, all of that is like you'll find, yeah, you, you'll find their hand somehow.
Danny
And it's all about weapons deals and getting cash.
Bassam
And when you, when you talk about this like your anti Semitic, your conspiracy theories guys, it's there. I mean, I'm just like sick and tired of just telling you what's obvious or what's, I'm sick and tired of just like repeating what's being reported by your own media. And then you call me anti Semitic. I don't know what to do.
Danny
Yeah, it's disheartening. But like I said, man, I think that this stuff is becoming so evident to everyone, especially young people in the U.S. i don't see how this sort of death grip on politics can last into another presidency. I feel like the next, whoever runs for president next is going to have to campaign pain on not no being involved.
Bassam
They have still enough people to just believe that. And case in point, that recent Kentucky, the guy who's running for Israel is only one point behind after $16 billion.
Danny
Yeah.
Bassam
So there's enough people, can they still buy into that?
Danny
Yeah. But isn't that just like the really old people who just watch FOX and CNN and that are like signing up? These are the people like boomers.
Bassam
At the certain point, at a certain point when, when funding is not enough, when money is not enough, I, I, I expect to see more brutality, more, more clipping of our freedoms, more, more control and more. You, you see more, you'll see like a third war type of brutality coming when, when the PR is not working.
Danny
Yeah, man, it does seem like the, you know, some of those big tech companies are Just. Just the ones that are really in control.
Bassam
Yeah, yeah, it's one.
Danny
And they're not hiding what their objectives are.
Bassam
They're not hiding. They're not hiding.
Danny
They're explaining everything they want to do and putting it out in the open for us to see. They want to bring back the draft, they want to monitor everything going to
Bassam
take away our freedom. And they, they want to tell you this is for your own good. This is when you have. Was it Peter Teal who said, like, everybody will be on their best behavior? Behavior, yeah, best behavior according to who?
Danny
Right. And they're also buying. You see, they partnered. Palantir partnered up with this, this fitness tracking device called Aura Ring, where, like, people buy, they pay for these rings that they wear that monitor their fitness and their heart rate and their blood pressure, all that crap. And they now have, like, access to all of the data owned by this company, Oura Ring. So it's like biometric data on human beings.
Bassam
Last year I had a tour in England, England in London, and I have people coming to me saying, like, now Palantir has paid $500 million in order to take control of the NHS, which is their national health, the basically their Ministry of Health. They have control of all of the record, all of the record in England. And there's like a huge pushback. You can, you can talk about Palantir. If you've typed Palantir NHS London, uk, There's like, it's huge. They're basically buying their health record, everybody. So, like, forget about the tracking device. They have direct access. Did you find it? Yeah.
Danny
That's wild.
Bassam
Can you, can you. Can you pull it up?
Danny
Yeah. And he's also invested in a lot of social.
Bassam
Palantir's access to identify NHS England patient data is dangerous. Yeah.
Danny
Palantir's access to identifiable NHS England patient data is dangerous. The MPS say Healthcare Safe has given
Bassam
US tech firm unlimited access to certain data to build integrated platform, according to reports. And everything goes through and everything grows to. To Oracle, which is. Which is. They have Oracle and palantir, like.
Danny
Yeah. MPs have warned that an NHS decision to grant Palantir access to identifiable patient information and its plan to use AI to improve the health service is dangerous and will fuel public fears that data privacy is not being prioritized.
Bassam
List
Danny
Paler, which also supports Donald Trump's ICE immigration crackdown and the Israeli US and UK militaries was awarded another 30. 330. What is that?
Bassam
Pounds sterlings? Yeah. Almost like $450,000 contract to help build
Danny
the FDP, whatever that means. Installing AI systems to integrate scattered health data sets and bring efficiencies to medical treatment. But the deal has been been dogged by warnings, warnings from campaigners and mps concerns about security and patient records.
Bassam
Yeah, see, see what's happening? This is, this, this is all a rehearsal. Because once they do that, they're going to do it here. They're already doing it here. They're basically, they're having all of these government contracts. You have unelected officials take control over our data using it.
Danny
Right.
Bassam
And, and, and, and Palantir is the same company who's using AI in war in Gaza. And I feel like this is all like it's, it's, it's a lab experiment. They're. They're using this, experimenting it on real people in real time, in real war conditions. They're. It's a testing ground. And then before you know it, it's going to be here.
Danny
Right?
Bassam
It's already here.
Danny
And the AI is, isn't the AI like failing, failing really badly with this war in Iran? Like they're using AI to like figure out drone targets.
Bassam
I don't know if it's failing because
Danny
I heard the reason that school for full of girls was shot was an accident because of the AI.
Bassam
If, if this school is accident means that the 30. Was the 36 hospitals bombed in Gaza by accident. I mean I can accept it for once or twice, but not 36 times with every school that in Gaza bombed was in by accident. Every university, every building. Well, there was, there's, there's a, there's a limit for access.
Danny
Well, there was a park called like Police park or something like this in Iran that was, it was an empty, an empty field with a bunch of trees in it, like a bench that they, they, they hit it with like a million dooll rocket and they thought that it was. They t. I guess the, the story is they used AI to target police stations to hit those.
Bassam
So anything with the word police and
Danny
they hit the, they hit a part called Police Park Park.
Bassam
Oh my God. So imagine if you, if. Imagine now it's like you hit like a national park, but they say like the federal park.
Danny
So yeah, that's just like another example of how that, how that AI stuff is failing.
Bassam
And then there's the whole thing about like the data center who's like sucking water and that.
Danny
Yeah, I haven't been paying attention. I haven't, I've been hearing, but I haven't listened to the data.
Bassam
So can you can you write data center Atlanta? Because there had been a report about out. They have guzzled 330 million gallons of water because they need a lot of water to cool down. These data center. They're taking actually like what the water resources is being abused and kind of look. And they're taking our water to cool down These data center. Did you find it, Atlanta? Yeah. A Data center drained 30 million gallons of water unnoticed until residents complained about low water pressure. What
Danny
in Fayetteville, Georgia? Yeah, low water pressure. As of last year, the utility discovered two unaccounted for water connections at one of the nation's largest data center campuses.
Bassam
I'm very proud of myself.
Danny
Is that the, is that the, what is the big problem with all these data centers? Like, what is the like 30, 000 foot view?
Bassam
Well, first of all, they need huge amount of water to.
Danny
Right.
Bassam
To cool down.
Danny
To cool.
Bassam
Right. That makes sense. And so, and, and, and there is like a lot of pollution to the water resources. There is a huge amount of energy being used in order to make these data centers. So people can go and, and ask ChatGPT have a simple question.
Danny
Right? Right.
Bassam
And people are like, they are. They. There's like a huge. And then there's a girl in Atlanta that blew up because of TikTok. She did TikTok videos about that and they, they canceled. They cancel it. They suspended her account count.
Danny
That's nice.
Bassam
Yeah, I, you can say, you can say like teenage girl in Atlanta or Georgia. Tik Tok suspended because is this the end of civilization?
Danny
Is this how we go?
Bassam
Well, I, I think they're the, the. The. The place is ripe to get the second coming of Jesus. This is what they want. They want. They want the end of. They wonder what is happening over it. Did. Did you find the girl? Oh my God, dude, I'm faster than you. What the hell? No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Danny
We'll just plug your phone into the screen and you can pull that out.
Bassam
Okay. Yeah, here it is. No, that's two. 2019. There's 2019.
Danny
16 hours ago.
Bassam
Yeah. Yeah.
Danny
We're going to send Steve to go live with you for a week and you're going to train. You're going to train him on searching the Internet.
Bassam
Yeah. No, there, There is a. There's a teen girl in. In. There's a teenage girl in, in Atlanta who's been active on Tik Tok and her. Tik Tok was suspended because of that.
Danny
People get suspended on Tik Tok for everything though. We've had our account suspended on Tik Tok before. Yeah, he's not going to find it. You're not going find it anyways. Did you see. I mean my, one of my biggest questions about this is like they have so much. Israel has an apac, has so much influence over, over United States politics and the tech giants and the, the, these tech billionaires are so wrapped up in Israel. Israel like people like Larry Ellison and all this stuff that are buying up all these social media accounts. Sam Altman, how much longer will free speech last on the Internet and, and like on websites like, like X or YouTube? Like it seems like it's open season right now. It seems like, like when Biden was president and before that, when we went started going through Covid, there was a massive lockdown on censorship online. No matter what. There were so many things you could get, you could talk about that you would get flagged for, you would get demonetized, you would get shadow banned, you name it. All kinds of crazy shit would happen with free speech online. And now it's like it's wide open.
Bassam
Yeah. It's interface.
Danny
So, so, so how, how much longer can that possibly last?
Bassam
I have no idea. My guess is as good as you, but it is becoming exponential. If you just search the amount of people who lost their jobs, got doxed, had their career destroyed because they're speaking up against, for example, Israel, you will find dozens of that. You have already now 37 to 38 states that it's in the government contract that you have.
Danny
Florida is one of them.
Bassam
You have to actually sign an allegiance to Israel.
Danny
Yeah, well, if you're.
Bassam
You cannot boycott Israel. You cannot boycott Israel. You cannot get government. I, I don't understand. Why are we penalizing people for talking against a foreign country? And because of that I will have my livelihood being affected.
Danny
Yes.
Bassam
And, and you have it now as a law.
Danny
Well, it is crazy if, if you want to get a state contract in the state of Florida, it's in the, it's in the paperwork that you cannot boycott Israel. It's so weird.
Bassam
Weird. Yeah. So it tells you who's really in control. You can on, on the President of the United States, you can on the Congress in the United States, but you cannot talk about this.
Danny
Yeah, which is, but I'm also skeptical of the people who like come out of nowhere and like want to run for a political position that are like super the other way. They're like super anti Israel. Like this Jason Fishback or the, what's the name? Fishback back the guy who's running to be governor of Florida.
Bassam
Yeah, he.
Danny
Who is like, he's saying he wants to abolish all Israeli influence. He wants, want to send another penny to Israel for Florida, wants to get rid of all those laws. He wants to do a 50% sin tax on only fans, people who do only fans. And he wants to put a moratorium on all immigration into Florida. And this dude was like, born in Columbia, I think, and he migrated here from Colombia.
Bassam
Well, I agree with him on the first part at least, but it's like,
Danny
what sort of other influence are, are getting into this guy? Right, because it's convenient right now to go against Israel. So now does that open the door for some other sort of like, Trojan horse, I don't know, another country?
Bassam
Well, I, I can only talk about what I can see right out in the open. Yeah, there is a huge influence for Israel and he's fighting against that. What? And as you have. You just said Thomas Messi, who's one of those people, he's also all crowdfunding. This is from normal people. Yeah, but I don't see Fishback or, or Massey getting money from lobbies. There's always like, oh, he's Qatari money, which doesn't make any sense. So I don't, I don't. So I'm, I'm willing, I'm willing to see. All right, what other hidden agenda behind those people? I'm yet to find any.
Danny
Yeah, yeah, I don't know either. I'm just trying to like, to game it out to like, look at, look at, like, if you could.
Bassam
But, but like there's a, there's an American citizen running for Congress telling. Or for governor telling you guys. I'm running because there's a huge, huge influence from the Israeli lobby, which no one can deny. I would automatically go with this guy, but I'm yet to see if there's another influence from an opposing side, because the opposing side is basically the crowdfund we get from normal people. Basically. It's like people against Israel. So I don't have a reason to doubt Thomas Messi or Fishback. His name is Fishback or Fischer.
Danny
Fishback.
Bassam
Pushback. Yeah. Yeah. I would support right now. I would support anybody who was like the prime objective of getting us away from that Israeli influence. And I'm told maybe we have a problem with then Balzarian previous life or whatever. I don't care. I really don't care. This is my prime objective now is to support anybody who stands against that horrible tsar Finest like death grip on American politics. And even if someone who had previously said horrible things about Muslims. I'm fine. I am fine. Because this is the prime danger that we are facing now as Americans.
Danny
Yeah. I just think. Yeah. With people like Bilzerian and some other people where you don't know a lot, I feel like it's. You don't know a lot about their background. Well,
Bassam
was all in the open and, and, and, and he talked about, like, how he actually gave up about this hedonism, like, lifestyle that he had.
Danny
Uhhuh.
Bassam
Which, which, which is too bad. Now I'm friends. Actually, I talked to Dan B. I mean, me and him, we weak text.
Danny
Crazy thing about Dan Bazeran is like, show the lifestyle in the background and remove the names and it's kind of like interchangeable with Epstein and Diddy.
Bassam
No, but he, it's, it's like, I don't think he, he was involved with. I'm not with underage girls.
Danny
I'm just saying from a, from a 30,000 foot perspective.
Bassam
But there you can't write it off. Well, Demelzerian has actually got spoken openly about like his past life and he said like, openly, like, this is not my life anymore. I gave it up. Which for me, as someone who's texting is like, damn, now we're friends. After you left all of that, I would like to be invited. I wanted to be invited to some of these parties. But, but it was, it was, it was hedonistic. It was like a lot of, like, yeah, models, like a lot of naked girls. But I, I, I haven't seen anything that, or anybody suggesting him going out with underage girls or making like a black male ring where he was like, filming people like PDD or, or Epstein. And if there is like, okay, where's the evidence? Like, arrest him and show us the, the videos. Like, show us the files.
Danny
But see, I ain't gonna show that they're keeping that close.
Bassam
If, if you were have someone like there, like, if you have something against him, arrest him. But I don't think that he has anything so far.
Danny
Yeah, it's just like, you got to be careful with him, that's all. He's just got to be very careful. And you got to, you got to. I don't know. It seems like the.
Bassam
I would choose Dan B. Over Randy Fine every single day of the week.
Danny
Yeah.
Bassam
Yeah. Every single day.
Danny
Yeah. Randy Fine is a, A grade A piece of.
Bassam
Dan Bazeran is a private citizen with questionable lifestyle and that. And, and Randy Fine. Is someone in Congress with absolute, with, with, with, with power.
Danny
Yes.
Bassam
So who's, who's hurting America more?
Danny
100%, man. Tell people about your future shows that are coming up and, and your show and, and all that stuff.
Bassam
Well, I'm. My next show is in Houston. 4, 5, 6 of June. Then I'm going on a European tour, a small European tour. I'm going to Berlin, Vienna, London, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Istanbul, Bull, Antwerp and Paris. And then I'm coming to Jacksonville. 17th to 18th of July. You have to come to Jacksonville.
Danny
I'm down.
Bassam
And then Denver and then I'm going to Australia and New Zealand. We didn't announce that yet.
Danny
Oh, wow. Be careful in Australia. They got those new laws.
Bassam
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's going to be fun to, to navigate those laws.
Danny
You're going to run into some like, pushback or are the people there not really for that. It's just the government.
Bassam
Well, this is the second time I go to Australia. I went to Australia two, two years ago and it was one of the best shows I've ever had. It was incredible. I, we sold, I sold out the. I sold out the Sydney five times.
Danny
Wow.
Bassam
And I, and I. And I'm going back to Sydney. I'm going. One of the biggest arena there, the TikTok arena, 8,000 people. So I'm actually excited. Australia. I had an incredible time there in Australia and I haven't been to New Zealand before, so I can't wait to see the holiday. It's.
Danny
That's amazing, man. What. Do you ever. Do you ever run into any kind of like crazy protesters when you go out there to these places or not crazy.
Bassam
I've actually marched in a San Diego in one of the pro Palestine protests. I've been walking to many of the pro Palestinian protests.
Danny
I mean, like, I mean protesters on the other side, like against you who like hate what you say or what you stand for.
Bassam
99. Actually 99.999% of the encounters that I have in the streets are people who are very supportive. Supportive. I had a couple of people in New York stop me. Oh, yeah. And they say like. And it's like, is it you? And I said like. And you know, he had the hammock and everything. And they were very respectful. They said like, I disagree with your politics, but I respect you.
Danny
One more thing that just popped in my head, which Australia reminded me of. What was the story? I heard you saying something about one of the guys at Bondi Beach. That Bondi meat shooting.
Bassam
Yeah. There is a. Oh, what's his name?
Danny
There was a guy who had left allegedly was an actor or something.
Bassam
No, no, he's. He's one of those like you know, pro Zionist Australian people who happened to be on October 7th and had the picture and then happened to be in. In Australia.
Danny
He was at the concert on October 7th.
Bassam
No, he. He was one of the people who said like oh, I've been like he was there. And also he was in Australia. And then in Australia he had this very comical like he wrapped his head and this is not blood. Like what's his name? Name? What the guy name. The Bond Day attack.
Danny
Bondi.
Bassam
Bondi.
Danny
Bondi Beach.
Bassam
Bondi. They Bondi B Di Beach. Yeah, Bonde attack.
Danny
Type in like actor or something after.
Bassam
No, no, he's not actor. He's. How was. I know I knew his name, but
Danny
was he faking it?
Bassam
He had this guy right there. No. Yes, yes, yes, yes. That guy. Okay, look at this picture. Is any self respecting medic don't show
Danny
this on the screen.
Bassam
When Washington will wash the blood on his face. Nobody would get like, like bandage like this with blood energy. This is freaking fake. Is it proven?
Danny
Is it provenly fake how like it or you just think it's fake?
Bassam
No, I know it's fake. I and I made a video about this and everybody was commenting about this is like. This is like a. Like this is a crisis actor.
Danny
Well, how is this guy there on October 7th and at the Bondi beach thing when that happened? That's crazy. That's insane. Yeah.
Bassam
Coincidence, man.
Danny
Well, Bassam, thank you man. This has been fun.
Bassam
Oh my God, thank you so much.
Danny
Yeah, my pleasure, man. Thanks for coming out. I really appreciate it.
Bassam
I really enjoyed it.
Danny
We'll link all your stuff below.
Bassam
Please, please. Thank you.
Danny
So what is it? You're. You have a YouTube channel, right?
Bassam
I have a YouTube channel, but I'm mostly. I'm mostly active on Instagram.
Danny
Instagram.
Bassam
My. My thing at Besson. Perfect.
Danny
We'll add it all below. Thanks again, bro.
Bassam
Thank you.
Danny
All right, good night, folks.
Host: Danny Jones
Guest: Bassem Youssef
Date: June 5, 2026
Duration: ~127 minutes
In this wide-ranging and politically charged episode, comedian and former Egyptian heart surgeon Bassem Youssef joins Danny Jones for an unfiltered conversation about his remarkable career transitions, the state of U.S.-Israeli relations, lobby influence in Washington, the Israeli war on Gaza, media censorship, the Epstein files, and the growing sense of global disillusionment and radicalization. The language is bold, irreverent, and deeply critical—anchored by Bassem’s wit and informed outspokenness.
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Notable Quote:
“Because of that decision, many more patients are alive today.”
— Bassem, on leaving medicine for comedy (03:52)
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Notable Exchange:
“He (Gad Saad) brags about applying for Mossad…” — Bassem (08:10)
“The whole suicidal empathy thing makes sense … but he overextends it…” — Danny (08:55)
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“If you stand against it… they just want to make an example of someone.”
— Bassem, re AIPAC targeting outspoken politicians (10:27)“Thomas Massie is one of the very few who’s speaking openly about the Epstein list…” — Bassem (11:25)
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“I’m sorry, that’s not my job. That’s the FBI’s job. What are you guys doing?”
— Bassem on the handling of Epstein files (13:21)
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“It’s a very dystopian reality for me.” — Bassem (18:29)
“It’s all fake. This is a political WWE.” — Bassem, about US left/right division (20:11)
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“The Hannibal Directive is basically a protocol where ... Israeli forces kill everybody, including the hostages, so they don't have to negotiate.” — Bassem (40:04)
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“You make fun of our countries for having state run media. Here you're having state run media, but it's just for the state of Israel.” — Bassem (53:06)
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“It was never about China. ...people knew what was happening in Palestine and Gaza through TikTok.” — Bassem (64:08)
“Here your freedom's taken away by corporations. ...these corporations work for a foreign government.” — Bassem (64:51)
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“They want the destruction of the planet to fulfill a prophecy.” — Bassem (101:26)
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This episode offers a rare, unfiltered conversation about the deep political, cultural, and financial entanglements between Israel and the U.S.—from the halls of Congress to Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and the digital surveillance age. Bassem Youssef blends comedic insight with hard-hitting critique, drawing from personal history, international affairs, and recent news. It’s especially valuable for those seeking to understand how control over narrative, money, and political outcomes is exercised—and resisted—in the current era.
(This summary omits ad reads and non-content banter, focusing on substantive discussion.)