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Welcome to office hours. I'm Georgia Howe with The Daily Wire. Today, we sit down with New York Times bestselling author, co-founder of the Daily Wire,

and host of the largest, fastest-growing conservative podcast, The Ben Shapiro Show, Ben Shapiro.

His new Prager U video is titled Taking On Woke, where he highlights how a very loud, woke minority,

now holds top companies across the United States hostage, as well as how a quiet

majority can find its voice and stand up against it.

Let's jump right in.

Ben, thank you so much for joining me.

Thanks for having me.

I appreciate it.

Woke capitalism is, frankly, a a really bizarre phenomenon and it's kind of

overwhelming to me personally. I mean, I'm glad we have like our best guy on it, but is this

something that you really actually think we can make a dent in? I do. So I think the first thing

you have to understand about corporations and all these companies, people tend to think of these companies as free market oriented.

They're not free market oriented. They're profit oriented. There's a difference. If you're a

company and you want to make a profit, very often the best way to make a profit is to work hand

and glove with the government, do what government actors want you to do, or work with interest groups

are the most likely to hurt you. Because you're not interested in making sure that you have

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