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Welcome to office hours. I'm Georgia Howe with the Daily Wire. Today, we sit down with

former member of Antifa and author of Behind the Black Mask, My Time as an Antifa activist, Gabriel Nidalas. Gabriel's newly released Prager You video is titled, I Used to Be Antifa, where he walks us through what led him to join the infamous group, as well as the thinkers that changed his life and turned him toward conservatism. If you haven't seen his video yet, you can find a link to it in the description below.

Let's jump right in.

Gabriel, thank you so much for joining me.

Thank you. I appreciate it.

Well, I'm really looking forward to talking to you because your story is actually

really reminds me of my own, and I think there's a lot of lefties who kind of relate to what you went through. Yeah, you know, I think you're exactly right. As a matter of fact, my email, every time that I go on a show like yours, I get random different people saying, you know, I used to be part of the radical left and I can't believe I was doing

all of these things. As a matter of fact, I have a call with somebody who was involved with BAM

in the early 2000s. Now, BAM is one of the Antifa organizations that tried to, that essentially

orchestrated a riot at the Ben Shapiro event at UC Berkeley in 2017. You know, and all of these

different people, they've seen what

Antipa has grown into and they feel like it's a time to speak out and to put a stop to Antifa

violence.

In the video, you said that you were recruited, but you also described Antifa as a very informal

organization.

Can you talk for a minute about how you became involved?

So I like to say that I was kind of recruited into it because it was around March of 2011,

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