Ben Shapiro explains why it s so hard to live in a leftist bubble, even if you ve voted for Donald Trump. Plus, he explains why leftist paranoia is a symptom of a larger problem, which is that people with whom they disagree are not the awful, evil villains they picture in their heads in the heads of the media and the media outlets they portray themselves as being the bad guys in the minds of people they don t even know. Ben Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show on Fox News Radio and host of the conservative podcast, The Weekly Standard. He's also the co-host of the radio show "The Weekly Standard Radio Show" on SiriusXM Radio and is a regular contributor to the New York Times and other media outlets. You can also join the FB group and join the conversation by using the hashtag on social media, and find him on all of the social medias, if you search for him, including the , and the . hashtags , or in the search engines, and . He's on the air wherever he goes, and wherever he s on the internet, and he's a good friend of mine, too! Thank you for listening, Ben Shapiro if you like what you re listening, and if you re enjoying the show, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms! and tell a friend about what you think of the show! or if you think it s good, rating and reviewing it on Apple or whatever else you like it's great! Thanks for listening to this podcast! - we really appreciate it. - it really does mean a lot, and we appreciate it! Timestamps: 5 stars, right? 5 stars is much appreciated, really really really helps spread the word out there about what we're listening to us, and it helps us spread it around the word around the world! I hope you enjoy it more people can be kinder than that, and I really do appreciate it :) Thanks again for listening and sharing it! - thank you so much, thank you, thanks for listening - Timestories thank you for your support and good vibes, good day, good night, bye, bye <3 - Ben and good night! xoxo, Kristy -- Rachel - - Ben
00:00:00.000The week after this election, senior editor of ThinkProgress, Ned Reznikoff, penned a screed online about his unfortunate experiences with his neighborhood plumber.
00:00:09.000Here is the harrowing story, as quoted by roving journalist Michael Tracy.
00:00:13.000He said, quote, I wanted to share an experience from earlier today.
00:00:16.000This afternoon, I had a plumber over to my apartment to fix a clogged drain.
00:00:20.000He was a perfectly nice guy and a consummate professional, but he was also
00:00:23.000A middle-aged white man with a southern accent who seemed unperturbed by this week's news.
00:00:29.000And while I had him in the apartment, I couldn't stop thinking about whether he had voted Trump, whether he knew my last name is Jewish, and how that knowledge might change the interaction we were having inside my own home.
00:00:39.000I have no real reason to believe he was a Trump supporter or an anti-Semite, but
00:00:43.000In my uncertainty, I couldn't shake the sense of potential danger.
00:00:47.000I was rattled for some time after he left.
00:00:49.000I'm very privileged insofar as this sense of danger is unfamiliar to me, and I know I feel it much less acutely than a lot of other people right now.
00:00:56.000I'm still a straight white guy who can phenotypically pass for gentile.
00:01:24.000Certain radical leftists constantly attribute motives to random people without knowing those people.
00:01:28.000Plumbers, it turns out, don't want to murder you just because they are plumbers.
00:01:32.000It turns out many plumbers are even Democrats.
00:01:34.000People with southern accents are not out to murder Jews en masse.
00:01:37.000If you feel like you're living in near-Nazi Germany because a random plumber came to your house at your request to fix your shower and then was polite but had a different accent and different profession than you, you might be a political hypochondriac.
00:01:50.000Well, stop hyperventilating and get out a bit more.
00:01:54.000But the bubble only grows because people only associate with people with whom they agree, particularly on the left.
00:02:00.000Conservatives, we're confronted with leftist ideas and leftists personally on a pretty regular basis.
00:02:04.000There's only one conservative cable news source, Fox News.
00:02:07.000There's only one major conservative national news publication, the Wall Street Journal.
00:02:10.000And even there, the reportorial side of the Wall Street Journal leans left.
00:02:14.000Hollywood, the universities, ESPN, dominated by the left.
00:02:22.000So, when their bubble is punctured, they freak out.
00:02:25.000It's why leftists are far more likely to defend someone on Facebook for their politics than people are on the right.
00:02:30.000This sort of paranoia, it means it's going to be kind of difficult to live together.
00:02:33.000And if you can't hire somebody to unclog your toilet because you're afraid they're secretly a brown shirt, it's going to make it kind of tough to share a political system.
00:02:40.000Maybe leftists ought to take a step back and recognize that people with whom they disagree, or people they don't even know, aren't the awful evil villains they picture in their heads.
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00:04:19.000After that election, where 60-some-odd million Americans said that they really didn't care what Hollywood thought, Hollywood went all Kanye West.
00:04:31.000And they said, I'm going to let you finish, but here's our lecture.
00:04:35.000And then they proceeded to lecture us.
00:04:36.000So we had just celebrity after celebrity at the DNC, and celebrity ad after celebrity ad during the election cycle, and now we've had celebrity ads directed at electors, and we've had celebrity ads directed at the press, and we've had celebrity ads directed at everything but the child molesters in Hollywood.
00:04:51.000But they are still not tired of lecturing us because, obviously, if they have a forum, then they must lecture.
00:04:57.000Well, last night was the Golden Globes.
00:05:10.000Or I've been at least out of the womb for that amount of time.
00:05:13.000And in that amount of time that I have been sentient, I will say that I have never gone to the office the day after one of these big Hollywood events and people go, wow, the Oscars was great last night, wasn't it?
00:05:25.000So, last night's Golden Globes was indeed atrocious, but they're all atrocious, because it's a bunch of Hollywood celebrities celebrating each other and telling each other how wonderful they are, and then we're all annoyed because we think that they're not that wonderful, but we go and pay money to see them anyway, and then we watch them on TV congratulating each other, and then we're like, God, those elitists!
00:05:41.000And then we turn on our TV to watch the elitists congratulate each other.
00:05:44.000Okay, so it's a little hypocritical, the whole exercise, but...
00:05:48.000I do think that conservatives have a reason to be annoyed when these events are infused with politics, and there are two reasons for that.
00:05:53.000One is, Hollywood is supposed to be our face to the rest of the world, and it was during the 30s, 40s, 50s.
00:06:00.000It was sort of the American face to the rest of the world.
00:06:03.000What we presented to the rest of the world as America came out of Hollywood, and still globally, what people think what America is, they think of product from Hollywood, because most foreigners have not been to the United States, and so if they think of country America,
00:06:16.000They tend to think of some movie that was made about country America or a TV show about country America.
00:06:20.000If they see something about Texas, they're more likely to know Texas from a movie like Hell or High Water than they are from having visited Texas.
00:06:26.000So we all have sort of a stake in the image that Hollywood projects of what America is.
00:06:31.000And when Hollywood skews solely to one side, I think we have a right to be a little angry.
00:07:18.000Entertainment was, for lack of a better term, to use the leftist term, entertainment was sort of a safe space.
00:07:24.000When you went to the office the day after the World Series, you could talk about the World Series without talking politics.
00:07:29.000When you watched the football game, you could have over your friends on the other side of the political aisle and you could have fun talking about sports without having to worry about politics.
00:07:37.000When you went and you saw a movie, when you watched a season of Game of Thrones, you could watch a season of Game of Thrones and not have to be bothered with whether
00:08:28.000So people have a reason to be upset when they turn on the Golden Globes and you're watching because your wife wants to see all the pretty dresses or because you want to see whether that TV show you liked is going to get any awards.
00:08:37.000It's very annoying to be slapped in the face with, by the way, you're a bad person.
00:08:40.000We're going to sit here and tell you, as we consume your product, you're going to tell me I'm a bad person?
00:09:21.000The show has so many plot twists and shocking moments, a lot of people have wondered what it would have been like if King Joffrey had lived.
00:09:28.000Well, in 12 days we're going to find out.
00:09:30.000And you might remember Manchester by the Sea for being the only thing from 2016 that was more depressing than 2016.
00:09:37.000The film Florence Foster Jenkins is nominated.
00:09:46.000The character has been dubbed the world's worst opera singer.
00:09:51.000And even she turned down performing at Donald Trump's inauguration.
00:10:33.000I suppose made more amazing by the fact that I'll be able to say I won this at the last ever Golden Globes.
00:10:58.000I don't mean to be gloomy, it's just that it has the words Hollywood, Foreign and Press in the title.
00:11:03.000I just don't know what... I also think that to some Republicans even the word Association is slightly sketchy.
00:11:14.000Okay, first of all, folks on the left should not rip on freedom of association since it's folks on the left who want to use government to cram down their rules on religious communities.
00:11:22.000But all of this was just prelude to Meryl Streep.
00:11:24.000So Meryl Streep is the great goddess of Hollywood.
00:11:26.000Everyone worships at the altar of Meryl Streep.
00:11:29.000I've never been a particularly big Meryl Streep fan.
00:11:31.000I think early in her career, she was really good.
00:11:33.000And then later in her career, she's gotten very mannered and you can see the gears turning all the time.
00:11:38.000And you're always kind of watching and going, wow, she's really good at crying.
00:12:00.000And it took a lifetime for her to give the speech, which she goes up there with cue cards and she rips on Donald Trump for basically about three and a half minutes, four minutes.
00:12:09.000And we will go through it because I think it is important to note why Americans are angry at this.
00:12:13.000Now, let me say, she has every right to do this.
00:12:18.000I don't think that anybody should be super-duper crazy upset about the fact that an actress in lefty Hollywood gave a lefty Hollywood address to a bunch of other Hollywood lefties.
00:12:26.000I think it's absurd that the left went, what an act of heroism.
00:14:44.000First of all, Hugh Laurie has to be sitting there right now, and I love whenever they have the cutaway shots of other adoring actors who, they all hate each other.
00:15:50.000But the idea that being vilified is the end of the world?
00:15:52.000Look, you guys vilify Trump at every opportunity.
00:15:57.000If you're going to dish it out, you've got to take it a little bit.
00:16:00.000This whole, we're victims because people are mean to us, routine, gets a little old when everybody in this room could buy the entire rest of America three times over.
00:16:07.000It's a little bit galling to hear these limousine socialists talking about how vilified they are, how rough it is for them.
00:16:14.000Okay, well we have to break there on Facebook and YouTube, but we will continue.