Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends (TV Series)

Survivalists (1998)

Louis Theroux: Self - Presenter

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Quotes 

• [Louis meets ex-Special Forces Colonel turned conspiracy theorist Bo Gritz] 

  Louis Theroux : [narrating]  OK, so I admit I was a bit intimidated at first. After all, he was the model for Rambo, had personally killed 400 people,

  [the camera zooms in on a glass cabinet displaying lots of medals] 

  Louis Theroux : and by the looks of it, stolen their medals.

• [Louis has been invited inside the home of one of the members of the Almost Heaven community] 

  Louis Theroux : Is there anything in the way of a guided tour or...?

  Mike Cain : Well, it's kind of a typical house, I don't know if there's much of a guided tour, but come on.

  Louis Theroux : Well, see, there's a gun rack over there, that's not that typical.

  Mike Cain : Maybe not where you're from.

  Louis Theroux : No, not in Britain, that wouldn't be typical.

  Mike Cain : They don't let you have those back there, do they?

  Louis Theroux : No, they don't.

  Mike Cain : How do you live that?

  Louis Theroux : Well...

  Mike Cain : You know, for an American to live without a gun is like... you guys trying to live without tea.

• Louis Theroux : Is Almost Heaven a militia community?

  Bo Gritz : No, the answer is absolutely not. We don't have any cache of guns, there's no bunker. These three families may have a plan for attack with...

  Louis Theroux : You're talking about families here at Almost Heaven?

  Bo Gritz : I'm talking about three noodles right here. Three families, out of probably sixty or seventy up here, that think there's going to someday be a war against the government, and they were looking foward to attacking. I asked them "Who the hell are you gonna kill?" We have one federal employee that I know of, that's the postmaster.

• Louis Theroux : What do you think people in Britain are going to think when they see you on this tape?

  Mike Cain : [smiles]  That I'm a radical nut. But that's OK. I think my kids think I'm a radical nut.

• [Louis is riding in a big old Cadillac through snowy Idaho with Richard Butler and Jerry Gruidl of the Neo-Nazi group Aryan Nations] 

  Jerry Gruidl : The scenery, especially in the winter, reminds me a lot of Cheltenham.

  Louis Theroux : [puzzled]  Cheltenham, England?

• [Reverend Jerry Gruidl is showing Louis the Aryan Nations church] 

  Jerry Gruidl : There's no armed guards or anything. Anybody that's white is welcome all the time.

  Louis Theroux : What about people who aren't white?

  Jerry Gruidl : Well, uh, they would be very uncomfortable up here, I think.

  Louis Theroux : But would they be welcome?

  Jerry Gruidl : No.

  Louis Theroux : [smiling]  No?

  Jerry Gruidl : No, what would be the point?

  Louis Theroux : Umm... just so they could have a look round?

• Jerry Gruidl : You know, from way early history times, even pre-Roman times, when Aryans got together and Aryans waved at each other, they'd give a salute.

  [he does the Nazi salute] 

  Jerry Gruidl : The niggers and all this, they're gonna give some palm up...

  [he holds his hands out together, palms up] 

  Jerry Gruidl : But Aryans, we have a palm-down salute.

  [he laughs] 

  Louis Theroux : Yeah. What's the significance of that?

  Jerry Gruidl : [demonstrating the Nazi salute again]  Well, we're showing that our hand is empty, we have no weapon in our hand. Not begging for something.

  [he holds his hand out] 

  Jerry Gruidl : Oy vey. Oh, oy vey, I'm a poor Jew. Ooooh, I couldn't sell it to you any cheaper if you were my own mother!

  [he cackles] 

  Louis Theroux : You're a regular Benny Hill, aren't you?

• Jerry Gruidl : I like that program 'Are You Being Served?'.

  Louis Theroux : Really?

  Jerry Gruidl : Yeah.

  Louis Theroux : What bits do you like in it?

  Jerry Gruidl : Oh, I like that, uh... that, uh... the two ladies that work in, uh, ladies lingerie counter. The young voluptuous one. And the other one that usually has blue hair...

  Louis Theroux : Mrs Slocombe.

  Jerry Gruidl : Oh, I think she's hilarious, yes, I like Mrs Slocombe.

  Louis Theroux : What about Mr Humphries?

  Jerry Gruidl : Uh... Well, I try to ignore that part.

  Louis Theroux : Why?

  Jerry Gruidl : Uh...

  [he hesitates and scratches his chest] 

  Jerry Gruidl : Uh... He's, uh, the one that's the fairy?

  Louis Theroux : Uh, the camp one.

  [imitating Mr Humphries] 

  Louis Theroux : I'm free! I'm freee!

  [Gruidl giggles] 

  Jerry Gruidl : No, I just ignore that.

  Louis Theroux : Why?

  Jerry Gruidl : Because he's a queer.

  Louis Theroux : But he's the funniest thing in it.

  Jerry Gruidl : Well, maybe to you. I think he's disgusting.

  Louis Theroux : But you said you liked the show and he's...

  Jerry Gruidl : Oh yeah, the show. They just, chuck that... They throw that in because they have to have the 'diversity'. They have to show that 'Oh, we love everybody.' See, up here, we're free to say 'Hey, I discrimate.'

  Louis Theroux : [doing his Mr Humphries imitation again]  I'm free!

  Jerry Gruidl : [giggles]  Yeah, I'm free to discriminate.

  Louis Theroux : I'm freee!

  [he laughs, Gruidl starts to look uncomfortable] 

  Louis Theroux : Say 'I'm free'. Do you want to? Do you want to say 'I'm free'? I'm freee!

  Jerry Gruidl : I'm not free.

  Louis Theroux : Why not?

  Jerry Gruidl : Because our country is in bondage to the Jews.

• Louis Theroux : [watching an old lady shooting a submachine gun at a firing range, astonished]  Shirley's getting amazing accuracy.