The Tucker Carlson Show
Dave Smith: Debating Douglas Murray, the “Woke Right” Narrative, and the Moment He Found God
Mon, 12 May 2025
Dave Smith on the Douglas Murray debate and how he came to find God. (00:00) Dave Smith Breaks Down His Debate With Douglas Murray (10:11) The Biggest Moment of the Debate (15:30) The Moment Douglas Murray Destroyed His Career (35:54) The Real Reason They Want to Destroy Darryl Cooper (46:51) Sam Harris’s Attacks Against Dave Smith (1:09:00) How Con Inc. Tried to Buy Dave Smith (1:16:16) The “Woke Right” Absurdity Paid partnerships with: Silencer Central: Promo code Tucker10 for 10% off your purchase of banish suppressors at https://www.silencercentral.com SimpliSafe: Visit https://simplisafe.com/TUCKER to claim 50% off & your first month free! PureTalk: Go to https://PureTalk.com/Tucker to make the switch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: How did Dave Smith view his debate with Douglas Murray?
Dave, I'm really glad to see you. I know you've been here before, but it's nice to have you back. I am an expert in all things Tucker Carlson. So, I know you've been asked this a million times, but I'm coming to this late. How do you assess the debate that you had with Douglas Murray? Now, it's been a month. How long has it been? Something like that. Something like a month, right?
Yep, a few weeks. Looking back, what was that?
It's an interesting question. I mean, I think essentially it was what everyone saw. It's like my first impression of it. My impression during it, during the first half hour of the debate, I was like, well... Douglas just embarrassed himself in front of the world. You felt that in real time? Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, it was... You know, look, he was ridiculous.
And it was kind of strange to witness as it was happening. I go, so you decided to open the debate... by just chastising everyone as not being as good as you, that the expert class ought to be the ones consulted that you, I mean, you know, you could argue what he exactly he was saying, but he was clearly saying that you, you guys on podcasts are simply not qualified to talk about these subjects.
Now you're saying this on the Joe Rogan experience, right? Of all places to go and deliver this message, this is the place guaranteed to turn the entire audience against you. And of course, I just think that, I think it's a ridiculous non-argument that never would have made sense. But coming off of the COVID years, the idea that you're going to convince people that you ought to kind of...
They ought to trust your opinions. That your class ought to be trusted was a ridiculous attempt.
But he's not even in that class. No, he's not. I know Douglas, and I think that I've always gotten along with him, and I think that he's clever. But he's clever in a boarding school way. He went to boarding school, as I did, and you instantly recognize it in the way that he debates class. which is by dropping references that suggest deep air edition that doesn't actually exist.
I think he's clever. He's got a kind of bullshitty boarding school vibe to him again that I recognize that I have sometimes. Right. So I'm not, you know, not trying to be holier than thou, but like the idea that he's an expert is absurd. He's a journalist like the rest of us who's been taken on PR tours in various countries by their governments trying to win his support. Got it. I've done that too.
Um, but he's hardly an expert on anything.
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Chapter 2: What were the key moments in the Douglas Murray debate?
They both get in the Octagon and like one of them puts up his hands and then the other one puts his hands down and goes, you know, I'm such a better fighter than you. And this is ridiculous that me and you are even fighting. It's like, okay, but we are. But we are. We're here. We signed up for it. Right. We both accepted. We're both here.
So if you are such a better fighter, if you have trained so much more, if you have all these advantages against me, well, then you can't just – you have to demonstrate that. Take on the argument. You should be able to then – Destroy me. And so he weirdly opened with this thing where he was gonna turn everybody off, turn everyone against it, because the style is bullshit.
Even if you're, and I've had lots of people who are pro-Israel reach out to me since then and be like, listen, I disagree with you on the issue, but that was ridiculous the way he attempted to argue. Because weirdly, number one, you're turning everyone against you. And number two, you're just setting the bar so much higher for yourself. Because now once we start actually getting into the debate,
You've already explained that you should be dominating me on every facet of this. And yet you're not. And yet actually, when it comes down to it, you have no answer for the points that I'm making. And that was the theme of the entire knowledge. Yes, that's right. But no, but there was there were two points in the debate that actually stuck out to me the most.
Um, and it wasn't the have you been, which is, you know, was the funniest thing that everyone's making that, you know, Douglas will be mocked for eternity for. But, you know, he made his own bed. Um, but the two points to me that really stuck out in the debate, because this is the way my mind works, is that I'm like... Oh, if you like, give me something, give me something to challenge me on.
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Chapter 3: Why does Tucker Carlson think Douglas Murray hurt his career?
That will actually keep me up at night, by the way. If you were to be like, no, Dave, you got this completely wrong and you need to read these three books to understand why you're missing all this information.
Can I just interrupt and say, knowing you pretty well, I think I mean this. I believe I would take a lie detector test and pass. I believe that if you read those books and found that you were wrong, that you would admit it.
Oh, yeah. I've done this lots of times before. I have I have views from a decade ago that are quite embarrassing in hindsight. I was at one. I was an atheist at one point. I was pro-life. Excuse me. I was pro-choice at one point. I've got this. I was up for open borders. Oh, I've been I've had all of those. I've had some really bad views over the years and I've changed my mind.
Do you think Douglas would admit if he was wrong? Well, of course not. I mean, that's obvious, right?
No, but that's kind of the asset test, right?
Well, look, if you can get Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Ukraine, and COVID wrong, and then with certainty say you're right about the next one, and then also arguing that the other person should have some humility. I mean, come on. Like, what is this? It's so good. It's just too, you couldn't write, if I just scripted this for you and wrote it on a script, you'd be like, take it down.
And this is too ridiculous. No one would believe this. But regardless of that, so there were two moments that actually really stood out to me in the debate were, okay, so number one was in the Ukraine portion. Number two was in the Israel portion. So in the Ukraine portion at one point, I said to him, we were talking about the, you know, what led up to the war.
And so he said something like, he goes, you know, the real question is why all these countries wanted to join NATO. I mean, we didn't incorporate them in NATO through force. And I was like, well, yes, obviously that's the argument. Isn't that we force the governments willingly wanted to join NATO. I was like, that's pretty obvious why.
You'd want to have your defense subsidized and want to have the most powerful government in the history of the world guaranteeing your defense. Sure. And also because they're concerned about the former Soviet Union, which is still Russia. Okay. But I was like, but that wasn't the argument. You know, the argument is why would we do this?
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Chapter 4: What criticisms does Dave Smith have about the 'Woke Right'?
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So why do you think he did it? I mean, he was basically, it felt to me like he was sent on a kamikaze mission. That's the way it looked. Here, the guy just flies into your aircraft carrier, doesn't sink it, but it destroys his plane, his career.
I don't get it. In a sense, I don't think Douglas Murray destroyed his career. I think he destroyed his reputation. And so his reputation amongst the people. But his career is actually going to be fine. Much like Kamala Harris's career is actually going to be fine.
You're right.
And I don't know. I'm speculating a little bit with this because there was not almost any interaction off the podcast. Douglas Murray showed up. Five minutes later, we were recording. He left immediately afterward, and me and Rogan hung out. So there's nothing more that the viewer didn't see that I saw, really. Hellos and goodbyes. But I think...
Number one, one of my guesses, I'm speculating here, is that he just wasn't really prepared for me. And it was like, oh, a comedian will be on there. And maybe he came in kind of confident that he'll be able to handle me. I've had that happen a few times in my career. I think it's happening less. I can't imagine he didn't look into me before the debate, but maybe that's possible. Yeah.
But the feeling that I got as it was going on was kind of... Okay, do you remember... I'm sure you do. You remember very well when Kamala Harris was running for president. I know that seems like a long time ago, but that actually happened, which is really crazy. It's like a dream sequence.
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Chapter 5: How did Con Inc. attempt to influence Dave Smith?
Yes, and it is something... It's a comment on our time and on our society that the guy who... Essentially, if you actually consume any of Daryl's work, as I have consumed a lot of it, basically... Daryl's whole kind of, his template, the way he operates is he's, there's basically only like a couple rules. And like, number one is he has to read everything that's available on the subject.
So he reads everything. The guy's a machine. His depth of knowledge is like second to none. He just knows everything. And then number two is whenever you talk about history, basically his rule is that you have to understand that everyone involved is a human being. every one of them was a three-year-old at one point.
So like totally innocent, like good little boy, like my three-year-old that I have at home. And that they grew up in real circumstances and real things happened to them.
And if you're going to do history, you have to constantly be doing your absolute best to put yourself in this person's shoes and then put yourself in this person's shoes and then put yourself on this side of the conflict and then put yourself on this side of the conflict. That's basically it. It's pure empathy. And actually-
as I've mentioned to you personally, and I've told Daryl this personally, he is probably the best shot people have at de-radicalizing people in the worst form of being radicalized.
He's the guy, listen, for me personally, and I thought I was pretty well read on the history of Israel-Palestine, and he has this incredibly long series, like a 30-hour series, called Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem. And
The thing is, I knew most of what I knew, not all of it, but most of what I had read about with the Israeli-Palestine conflict, like most people, starts in 1947, 1948, and then goes up to today. His series is about, it's like from the 1890s until 1947. So he's talking about the creation of the state from Zionism being created to the state being created. From Herzl to Ben-Gurion.
Right, right, exactly. That's basically the whole, you know, he has a little bit where he's talking about the pogroms that preceded the Zionists, but that's really the story. And it actually made me much more sympathetic to the Zionists.
You know, as somebody who grew up kind of in that propaganda, in the pro-Israel propaganda, then ultimately turned on it and became a critic of Israel, listening to his series, you understand. It just puts you in the position, and you do understand, like, oh, okay, these were real men who were reacting to the circumstances of their day.
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Chapter 6: What are Dave Smith's views on Sam Harris's comments?
Or how about the only question that matters is whether or not something is true. Yeah. And another way to put it, a phrase that I've coined and made copyright is facts don't care about your feelings. That's a good one. You like that? Someone should really run with that. I like that. That's a good... You could get a long way. You could get like a special deal with Facebook on the basis of that.
But I actually agree. I agree with that. Right. And I agree. I don't think you should hurt people's feelings on purpose. But I think the core question, the only one that matters...
is is something true and i know that you share that and that's why and i hate to beat up on poor douglas who's like a sad a sad character but he had this line in here oh this isn't sorry i never go to my notes but i'm no this is from a guy called sam harris i'm loosely familiar So one of the easiest decisions you're going to make this week is to make your home secure with SimpliSafe.
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Chapter 7: How did Dave Smith's career evolve post-debate?
You get this little area of allowable opinion, and then that's where the conversation takes place. That's been shattered into a million pieces. And now there's voices from all over the place, and some good and some great and some bad and really bad.
But it's just much harder for people to, you know, that control existed so that you don't get exposed, so that you don't get exposed, so that you could go like, look, even the right winger, John McCain,
agrees or even the far left activist nancy pelosi i mean it's like do you have to hear or aoc there sean hannity goes the far left nancy pelosi it's like how many leftists have you actually talked to and you're like how many leftists have you ever read you think nancy pelosi's a far left it like really living on her vineyard in napa it's all these different you know
These different tools of corporations are left and right. But so that's over now. And now I think it's just much tougher to keep this charade going. It seems to be collapsing so fast. Yes, yes. And it's not, again, you could be honest about it and kind of maintain some of your respect. But the truth is that, like, look, even when they'll say these things,
Like, if you accuse Ben Shapiro of having dual loyalty, they go, oh, that's an anti-Semitic trope. That means you hate the Jews. But then he'll sit there in his own words and say, I forget his exact quote, but it was something like, my favorite thing about the United States of America is that it protects Israel. And... So you're already saying you have loyalty to both of these countries.
In fact, I'm not so sure about one of the loyalties, but I'm very sure about the other one. And that is not, I'm sorry, that's not a statement against Jewish people. I'm Jewish. I love Jewish people. You know, it's like I get called a self-hating Jew on Twitter or whatever. It could not be further from the truth. I actually really love Jewish people.
There's many things about Jewish culture that have, you know, had a huge impact on me, made me the person I am, made me a better person for their impact on me. But this is a foreign government. Like, I'm sorry. We're allowed to talk about that. If you, you know, I saw Glenn Beck the other day had Douglas Murray on.
And he wasn't like, Glenn Beck wasn't like mean to me personally, which I appreciated. But he was just going, I mean, it was just so ridiculous. But it's like, we're sitting here, we're having a conversation about a foreign government. You started crying on your show talking about this foreign government. That's fucking weird. That's weird. We should not be doing that.
What the hell is going on here? Like, I don't even think you should cry about our own government, you know, but if you're going to cry about one, it should be ours. And no, but no, no one would even think to cry about it. Right. I mean, like, come on, like, let's have a real conversation about this. And if you don't, especially, and by the way, this is not my primary goal.
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