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5 min readBen Shapiro crashes out.. | Asmongold TV
Ben Shapiro has been having a bad few days, and the immediate trigger is Kanye West's new song—titled "Heil Hitler," with lyrics that pair a hard-R "Heil Hitler" with a soft-R version of the N-word. The song has already accumulated tens of millions of views across platforms, and Asmongold and his co-host spend much of the episode trying to figure out exactly how popular it is, running AI-powered deep searches that return conflicting numbers. But the conversation is not really about Kanye. It is about what the song's virality reveals about a larger cultural shift—and about the gap between how Ben Shapiro and how the internet's younger, more transgressive wing understand that shift.
The transgression machine
Asmongold's central argument is that the song's popularity is driven less by genuine antisemitic conviction than by a desire to break rules for its own sake. "It's all about transgressiveness," Asmongold says, echoing Shapiro's own analysis. "And so many of the people who are parroting the Heil Hitler, Kanye West song are doing so because they think it's fun to be transgressive and all rules must be broken."
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:45) **Ben Shapiro's Bad Week: Kanye's "Heil Hitler" Song** - Asmongold introduces the episode's dual focus: Ben Shapiro's reaction to Kanye West's new antisemitic song and Shapiro's commentary on Middle East geopolitics.
- 2 (05:00) **Andrew Tate Piggybacks on the Antisemitic Trend** - Asmongold shows Andrew Tate driving an expensive car while playing Kanye's song, calling it a transparent bid for attention.
- 3 (09:20) **Polling Data on Hitler's "Good Ideas"** - Asmongold cites a poll showing over a fifth of Black Americans and 19% of Hispanic Americans think Hitler had some good ideas, likely influenced by Kanye.
- 4 (11:10) **Calling Out Racism in His Own Chat** - Asmongold directly addresses chat comments he views as racist, arguing that he is not so stupid as to miss their coded bigotry.
- 5 (12:20) **The Viral Reach of Kanye's Song** - Asmongold and co-host investigate the song's viewership, finding 27 million views on one post and discussing its spread across remixes, Instagram, and TikTok.
- 6 (18:13) **Ben Shapiro on the Hostage Situation** - The focus shifts to a Ben Shapiro clip about the release of an American hostage from Gaza, where Shapiro criticizes the U.S. for facilitating a deal with Qatar, a Hamas sponsor.
- 7 (20:57) **Qatar's Leverage and the "Airbase" Threat** - Ben Shapiro argues the U.S. could have forced all hostages out by threatening to move the airbase from Qatar to the UAE.
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