Daily Wire Backstage: Kamalye Faithful
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In the latest Daily Wire Backstage, Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, and The God King Jeremy Boren are joined by our special guest Adam Carolla to talk about his new film, No Safe Spaces. Plus, the guys talk about why it's hard to fake a fake laugh.
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In the latest Daily Wire backstage, Come All Ye Faithful, we give the gift that keeps on giving, namely talking about the hilarious Democrats who think they will be president.
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You will hear from me, Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, the God King Jeremy Boren, and since you've been so good this year, you will also hear from our special guest, Adam Carolla, to talk about his new film, No Safe Spaces.
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Yeah, I can't stop laughing at reality and then when it's time to do a fake laugh.
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By the way, I have to say, I'm so glad that you actually got this for like the week when this person's going to be relevant.
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The Kamali, I can't even say it, the Kamali faithful.
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I really blew that joke and it's such a good joke.
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But what's happening is our teleprompter doesn't work.
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Well, two minutes ago, we weren't shooting a show.
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It is I, Jeremy Boring, your trusty neighborhood Daily Wire God King with a lowercase g and a lowercase k.
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And I am joined as always by Benjamin Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, and Elisha Krause.
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I'm pretty good and my teleprompter is working, so this is the opportunity that I have to take over the show.
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I'm just here to remind all of our subscribers out there that are watching at home or, I don't know, on the metro,
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if you're stuck on the D.C. or New York metro or somewhere in an airport headed home or to work, whatever.
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If you want to ask the guys questions, you have to be a Daily Wire subscriber.
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Be sure to find the show's page up at the top and click on backstage and then type your questions into the chat box.
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The chat box is right next to the video, so you can be watching and chatting at the same time.
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I was saving it for when I remembered later on.
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Because I don't have a teleprompter to actually hear me about these things.
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Well, Jeremy was going to tell all y'all that the big guest tonight is none other than Adam Carolla.
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And he'll be taking your questions, but only if you're a subscriber.
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So to get those questions in for Adam and all the guys, because let's be honest, you're over asking the God King and all the guys over there, all the questions, right?
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If you want to get a question in for Adam Carolla, be sure to go over and ask, and we'll see if it happens on the air.
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We have so much to talk about today before Adam gets here, because once he's here, I feel like we're going to be talking about culture, which will be fun.
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But betwixt now and then, so much has happened since last we were together.
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I did get attacked by, I didn't, I shouldn't say I got attacked.
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We got attacked by a journalist, and then I attacked him right back.
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But the big story is, of course, Kamala is out of the race, so it's only a matter of time before we're all arrested.
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I think, I actually have to admit, I hate to do this, I only do this once every ten years.
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I thought on paper, she was such a good candidate, and then she opened her mouth and cackled and talked about smoking blunts with Snoop Dogg, and she completely collapsed.
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Listen, before you get too reminiscent about the heady days of yesteryear when you could hear that cackling laugh, Hillary might get back in the race.
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I mean, people were asking what she was going to do next, and it's like, well, I thought Joaquin Phoenix was only signed for one film.
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I think that, and also we have like the black version of every single superhero movie now.
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I mean, it's like, we have black female Bond, right, who's coming, apparently.
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I think if they want a black female, they should get Justin Trudeau.
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The reason is because her campaign manager on Twitter, at least once a week, would say, and he was not joking, would say who they were going to arrest.
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Yeah, that's right, and what they were going to ban.
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Like, full on, you know, when Kamala Harris is in the White House, people who drink whiskey and smoke cigars will be outlawed.
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On her birthday, they posted the exact same tweet that Hillary Clinton posted, a black and white photo, which when Kamala was a kid, by the way, they had color photos.
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This was after Kamala Harris hired all of Hillary's ex-staff.
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Because Democrats believe, Kamala Harris believe, just as they believe with Stacey Abrams.
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They believe that they win every race that they lose.
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In most businesses, like the person who lost last time, their entire team is anathema.
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Like, oh, wait, you guys were the last in the league last year?
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Those Bear Stearns guys didn't get hired by Goldman, right?
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Well, Elizabeth Banks just got picked up for another major film.
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And for the same reason, because it's all imagery.
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It's all like, yeah, that looks like a presidential candidate in my imagination.
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That looks like a movie star in my imagination.
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That's a movie that should have worked in my imagination.
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And the fact that it didn't just has no resonance whatsoever.
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The best thing about the Kamala Harris candidacy fail has been the reaction of the media and
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Because everybody is suddenly weeping openly about this.
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Like, the big surprise of her dropping out was that her husband took a picture with her.
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But in any case, the best person on all of this has been Cory Booker.
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Because Cory Booker has been putting out an email.
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When people know you online and they start signing you up for, like, all of the things
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So my typical account, because it's public, will receive emails from Planned Parenthood and
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And the ones from Warren and Booker are actually really amusing.
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So the ones from Booker, every six hours since she's dropped out, I'm not kidding, every
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six hours there's been an email from Cory Booker in my inbox that says, Dear Ben, the stage
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We need to get me on that stage to prove that we are a diverse party.
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Because now, they're calling themselves racist.
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Like, every editorial, Charles Blow did one in the New York Times today.
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I'm like, okay, first of all, if Michelle Obama jumped in tomorrow, she'd win the race
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by 40 points, both the general and the primaries.
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Also, I love the idea that Americans are not willing to vote for a black president.
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But it's always implied in their philosophy that all of America is racist.
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So really, if you're standing next to them, they're only yelling at us now.
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The minute they're done with us, they'll turn to you and come after you.
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But there's also a huge oversight here, which is, isn't Elizabeth Warren still in the race?
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I was going to mention Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang, but Elizabeth Warren is still in the race.
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They factually got it wrong, except they've been trying to ignore those two candidates
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But Elizabeth Warren only became white in the Democrat narrative.
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She only became white when Kamala Harris got out of the race.
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So now I get to tell you about Warren's emails.
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So she sends me emails and the emails say things like,
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Dear Ben, do you remember when Kirsten Gillibrand and Kamala Harris were forced from the race
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after winning a combined 11.5 million votes in their Senate races,
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only so billionaires like Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer could be in?
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And I thought to myself, has anyone mentioned Kirsten Gillibrand for months?
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And Tom Steyer, like they keep doing, it's really funny because now they're,
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There are all these articles about Tom Steyer is still in the race.
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Because no one forced Kamala Harris from the race.
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But she realized she would have gotten her ass kicked in California.
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She was afraid that she was going to tank in the early states.
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And it would have been humiliating if she drops out now.
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She hasn't got Hillary Clinton's taste for humiliation.
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And in particular, I want to talk about my Christmas wish that Hillary actually gets in the,
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the fact that you and I especially, I think we were afraid of her when she got in the race.
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And the thing is, the people are not, like, all wise that they will delve into every policy decision.
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And the imagery helps you first out of the gate.
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Like, but the press, yes, they know what they don't like.
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And they can, just like everybody, you can look at a person and think, like, something shifty about, you know, like, no, there's something shifty about this guy.
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And I think that people can see these things and we don't trust them to see them.
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And then she got up there and they went, oh, my God, this woman will lock us up.
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People are saying that it was Tulsi who took her out.
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If you look at the polls, she took herself out, right?
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And then immediately she started to recede because she's the Hindenburg.
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And people saw that she was flip-flopping like a fish on Medicare for all.
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And even her initial attack on Joe Biden about forced busing was completely dishonest because no one supports forced busing, especially not Kamala Harris.
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Even in the 1970s, nobody supported forced busing.
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It was deeply unpopular even in the 1970s because who the hell wants to put your kid on a bus and bus them an hour to a school where they know nobody?
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The entire white flight problem, at least a huge percentage of it, was created by attempts to forced bus.
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I love talking about the final days of Kamala Harris.
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She was relegated in her final days to being on stage, chiding Elizabeth Warren for not calling on Twitter to ban Donald Trump.
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But it was kind of amazing because the fact is, until she dropped out, I thought there might be a shot that she would be a second look candidate.
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The reason being because this feels a lot like 2012 for the Republicans, where it was like everybody early on, they were like, oh, Mitt Romney, that guy's probably pretty good.
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And then they looked at him like, maybe Newt Gingrich.
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And they literally went through like a thousand people.
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And then finally it came back around like, oh, I guess Romney's still here.
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I mean, like all along, Biden has been the guy where he was expected to win and he's never dropped below 25 percent in the national polling.
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And he's still winning by large numbers in South Carolina and throughout the South.
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When you wonder why they're trying to impeach Donald Trump, you only have to look at Joe Biden and tell yourself, this is their front.
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What I have to say, I was totally amused for people who missed it.
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And some portly fellow who was an Elizabeth Warren supporter, apparently, gets up and starts asking about Hunter Biden.
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And Joe gets visibly perturbed and gets very angry and says because the guy says that he saw it on the TV.
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You know, I'll get out there and I'll exercise.
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And he's like, well, I'll do a pushup contest with you.
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And then and then he literally says to him, look, fat.
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And and I thought to myself, he could be president.
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Because it was like everybody online on Twitter.
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They're like, this is a bad moment for Joe Biden.
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I was like, Donald Trump is the president of the United States.
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If Joe Biden said to the guy, I'm going to come over there and grab you by the.
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You forget, you forget everybody who imitates Donald Trump dies.
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You know, I had to think when I saw that 77 year old Joe Biden up there calling that
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I just thought, what the hell did this guy do to corn pop?
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I think Joe Biden, though, the fact that the guy is a front runner really tells us something
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Dick Morris today wrote a piece about I said we'd talk about Hillary getting in here.
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I was going to say I was going to say Dick Morris is I actually like Dick Morris is a
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But he has been wrong about every single thing.
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And for and for two or three minutes, I think, I wonder if Dick Morris is right.
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But then today in his article about Hillary getting into the race and he says, you know,
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her every thought is fixed upon it, he says, but she's going to wait until Biden gets out.
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I thought, on what planet is Joe Biden going to drop?
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His whole philosophy is that he's going to win the later states, which is always a bad
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Well, no, his philosophy is that Buttigieg or Sanders, they'll split some of the early
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A lot of a large percentage of the Democrat primary voters are happy with their lineup.
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And by the way, this is the thing that people are ignoring about the whole Kamala Harris dropout.
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People are like, oh, this just shows the systemic racism of American society.
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Which, by the way, speaks pretty well, I would say, honestly, of black voters in the Democratic
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Party who aren't at least just saying, oh, look, a black guy, I'm going to vote for him.
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But that's how the media portrays black voters is, OK, here's a black guy.
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I think that the media are thinking in this very shallow sort of racial way.
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But what we're all underestimating is the brilliance of Joe Biden's strategy here.
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Because it was the same strategy as Rudy Giuliani.
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And, you know, Giuliani got reelected two or three times.
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But to Ben's point, I don't think it's fair to say that that's quite what Biden is doing.
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Like, Giuliani legitimately said he wasn't going to even compete until Florida.
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So he didn't just say, I'm not going to win Iowa.
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It is also important to note that there's a vast difference between the late state strategies of a party that is largely homogenous in racial terms, meaning the Republican Party of Florida looks a lot like the Republican Party of New Hampshire or Iowa, or at least a lot more.
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The Democratic Party of South Carolina looks nothing like the Democratic Party of Iowa.
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But it's also the person who wins Iowa rarely wins the president.
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Well, and this is the reason, because the Democratic Party in South Carolina, the voting base in South Carolina in the Democratic primary is two thirds black.
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The voting base in Iowa in the Democratic primary is 100 percent, 197 percent white, including Elizabeth Warren.
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There was a time when you thought Biden was an actual threat to Trump.
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And the reason the reason still is because Donald Trump makes lots of mistakes.
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I've always said that the I've always said that the election is going to rest on who is this referendum upon?
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Is this a referendum on Trump or is it a referendum on the Democrat?
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Then the radicalism of the Democrat would be enough to drive a lot of moderate voters to go.
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He seems like kind of a jerk, but the economy is good.
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But Joe Biden has 100 percent name recognition.
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And a dead person is not a bad person to run against Trump because it's not a referendum on the dead guy.
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Do you feel anywhere near as threatened by Joe Biden as president as you do by Elizabeth Warren or any of the other Democrats?
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Because to your point, he's already a dead guy.
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When was the last time the more boring candidate won?
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Yeah, that's always the more charismatic candidate.
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But we talk about how Trump is unique in many ways.
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One of the ways in which he's unique is that what's interesting about him is alienating to a particular demographic.
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And that particular demographic, married suburban women, I think will look back with a certain fondness on the Obama era.
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Because during the Obama era, we may have been having policy losses and we may have been having economic losses.
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We don't remember those because they weren't that painful.
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But we do remember that things just weren't crazy.
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And Joe Biden just kind of represents this return to a time when that nice young man was president and everybody was kind of friendly and everybody kind of got along.
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But this is why Biden is most likely to win of anybody that the Democrats thought about running.
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Always, always the strongest Democratic pitch was the 1920 Warren G. Harding return to normalcy campaign.
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That was always the strongest Democratic pitch because the only thing they've been successful in doing is keeping the feeling, this roiling feeling of upset and chaos going.
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That's the only thing the Democrats have been good at doing for the last several years.
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I mean, they've not been able to stop Trump's agenda.
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He's been able to get large swaths of it through.
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But they have been able to make people feel deeply uncomfortable with each other.
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I think that the Democrats, I mean, I think it's partially Trump's fault.
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But they also exacerbate the effect of the volcano.
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I will say, I know this is the most unpopular opinion I have, but I will say that Trump has been toning it down.
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If you watch what he's doing, he is catching on.
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You know, you think that Trump never changes, but he always changes.
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At NATO, he's, like, walking around slapping people, like Laurel and Hardy.
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Are you going to hit on Trump for slapping Europeans?
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I was like, the Europeans don't respect Donald Trump.
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And I thought, there's a, there's a, I was like, that's going to play in Michigan.
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Like, the Michigan auto workers are like, Macron doesn't love him.
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That European incident actually showed Drew's point, though, which, the point is, he's in
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the environment where, where Donald Trump of even a year and a half ago would have gone
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on a three-hour tirade about little pencil neck Justin Trudeau, that dirtbag idiot, you
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And then he, listen, I have no problem with insulting any of these people.
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No, but he's not, he's not doing what he was doing before.
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He tweeted out a picture of himself as Rocky Valvoa last week.
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Was it like Lincoln writing the Gettysburg Address to him?
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Or was it like, was it like the farewell address to George Washington?
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I didn't mean genius like the people in Hong Kong are holding up respect.
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Like the theory of relativity or like the, or like string theory genius.
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When we say that the president has made changes recently, you can't kick it back to a week
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I want to hear from some of our DailyWire.com subscribers to get in on this conversation.
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I mean, man, how many pina coladas has Ben had?
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So this question comes from a great DailyWire subscriber.
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He wants to know, quote, it seems independence and minority voters have been turning in Trump's
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favor, according to some recent polls over the last couple of months.
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But other than the backlash to the impeachment hearing and what Democrats are doing there,
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is there something else that you can see that is causing that shift?
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I mean, that last poll that said that he had 33 to 34 percent among blacks, I think that
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If you're right, then Republicans will never lose again.
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I mean, all Republicans have to do is win about 12 percent of the black vote and they never
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I mean, listen, there's something there's something about dinner on the table that has a very,
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You can sit there and say, this guy, you can watch on TV, on CNN, they bring on college
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They say, yes, but the things he says, people are sitting there home going, you know, I
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I like going to work in the morning, having my wife and kids respect me.
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But there's, I mean, to be fair, at least, well, we're going to have to see how the polls bear out because
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there is some pretty mixed polling data, right?
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Gallup suggests that he's basically exactly where he always was.
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With Kamala dropping out of the race this week, who do you think will be the next 2020 Democratic
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I think Warren, Sanders, Buttigieg, and Biden certainly go all the way to Iowa.
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What's the incentive for people to get out at this point?
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I think Klobuchar is the next one to get out, probably.
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Maybe Klobuchar, if she doesn't start to pick up any ground.
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The one that I hope doesn't get out, he should get out, though I hope he doesn't for entertainment
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It might be, but I mean, Booker has been, Booker might do it just so he can whine and bitch
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I have to tell you, I was talking not that long ago, a while back, I mean, a couple months
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ago, to a Booker guy, a guy who was working for Booker, and I said, you know he's never
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All right, so follow-up to that is, of the three people that were actually supporting
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Kamala, you know, other than her mom and dad, which candidate do you see all of her supporters
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We're not going to see any change in the polls.
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Booker is desperately hoping that there will be a,
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oh my God, there's only one black guy left in the race.
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it is worth pointing out here that people are saying she had 3.5% when she got out.
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The most recent poll, as she got out, put her at 2%.
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Mike Bloomberg had three times the support of Kamala Harris.
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This is actually a hopeful thing that I'm kind of feeling, I know, it's weird,
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for the Democratic Party, is that the candidates who are doing well
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Which is, which is, no, but if you look at the people who are gaining momentum,
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it's Buttigieg, right, who's portraying himself as not crazy.
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He's actually a very nasty human being, which you've seen as soon as the mask slips.
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And a real cynic, and, you know, but the old Pete Buttigieg, the one who sort of is,
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the one who, you know, is out there with Salvation Army and says he'll eat at Chick-fil-A
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Like, that guy is a lot less bad for the country than Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders.
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Bloomberg, who, we all look at each other and we're like, who the hell supports Michael Bloomberg?
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Economic growth was maintained under Bloomberg.
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Chuck Todd was on TV, on MSNBC, which is hard to tell the difference between NBC and MSNBC.
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He was on saying, you know, but they really, Democrats should really be doing,
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they should be telling the candidates to stop campaigning so people can pay attention
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And I thought, like, these guys are living in a world that simply doesn't exist.
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The voters do not care to wits about this impeachment nonsense.
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Impeachment is next up on the docket, because I have a theory, and also I have a brainstorm
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Nancy Pelosi said today that they will move forward with impeachment.
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No, no. I didn't think they wouldn't. I thought there was a possibility. I still think there's
00:31:49.260
a possibility they won't actually get away with it. Yeah.
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From the man who said that Donald Trump's Rocky Balboa picture was genius.
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The thing I want to talk about is what should the Republican strategy be when this goes to
00:32:10.140
trial in the Senate. Because there's... What I've been reading as far as what McConnell
00:32:14.400
and what the Trump administration are thinking, I think they are missing it by a mile.
00:32:20.480
I'm horrified that they're going to run this the way that Trump and McConnell want to and
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blow the greatest political opportunity of a lifetime. So they're talking about we need
00:32:29.760
to wrap... Trump wants to wrap it up in two weeks.
00:32:36.940
They should drag... This is my thing. They should drag this thing on until election day.
00:32:45.720
I just don't know. Is there anybody in the Senate trolly and delightful enough to understand
00:32:50.500
You know, speaking of Sly Stallone here, I think that Lindsey Graham does have a shot.
00:32:57.540
Lindsey Graham 2.0. He's been pretty trolly ever since the last years.
00:33:01.720
And Cocaine Mitch is a genius. I mean, this is...
00:33:07.340
No, this is really what I think. I think it's going to be Cocaine Mitch's House of Horrors.
00:33:11.900
They're going to go in there. They're going to call every witness.
00:33:17.460
And remember, you know, John Roberts, who is... You know, you don't have to like him,
00:33:27.220
You know, nobody's going to be able to say he's cheating.
00:33:30.560
But what we're hearing from the administration is that they don't want to do this.
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They want to get through this thing as quick as possible.
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I want him then to publicly release Schiff's phone records.
00:33:44.940
And besides, you know, this means that like Elizabeth Warren is going to have to be in the Senate.
00:33:50.440
You know, I mean, this is an amazing opportunity for them.
00:33:55.460
And the timing here is pretty interesting because when they announced the formal official impeachment inquiry,
00:34:00.700
it looked like Joe Biden was collapsing, right?
00:34:02.780
It looked like I was not going to get the nomination.
00:34:07.100
Joe Biden is at the center of this whole impeachment probe.
00:34:13.020
That's going to be a wonderful week of stories.
00:34:14.780
They're going to drag that derelict Hunter Biden.
00:34:20.940
Although it could, I think maybe the calculation for McConnell is, is that if you think that Trump's best shot is basically just look at the Democrats, right?
00:34:30.540
Then getting this thing over with and just saying, okay, look at the Democratic candidates.
00:34:40.380
We're not going to do the impeachment stuff because then the focus is on Trump and then it's all on Ukraine and all this kind of stuff.
00:34:45.240
Also, you do run a risk with Joe Biden of having the sort of high dungeon moment played up by the media where he gets up there and he says, you know, I have one son who died of brain cancer.
00:34:54.500
And I have another son who's gone out there and tried to make something of himself.
00:34:58.400
But for you to attack my son in order to come after me in 2020, right, I mean, like that, there could be, listen, we'll all know that a lot of that's BS, but Biden can play that game.
00:35:09.320
It's a high risk, high reward strategy is what you're saying.
00:35:12.920
But then Biden bites John Roberts finger in the hole.
00:35:19.820
I mean, this thing, this thing with Hunter Biden was legit corruption.
00:35:23.140
You know, I'm not going to go quite that far because what I actually think with Joe Biden is that he is a dad of a crap son.
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And I think there are a lot of parents who look the other way on their crap kids.
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It doesn't feel like I don't I don't I don't necessarily your crap kid on Air Force Two and over to China.
00:35:46.240
But it is corrupt when you're the vice president.
00:35:48.720
And when you have a guy, you know, this was a Trump is right about this.
00:35:52.560
This was a genuinely corrupt thing to do, to have this guy, you know, basically taking a sinecure for 50, what was it, 50 grand a month?
00:36:00.400
And the question the question isn't whether Hunter Biden's corrupt.
00:36:02.600
I mean, I think we all agree that Hunter Biden's a piece of crap.
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I mean, Joe Biden just found out he has a grandkid.
00:36:06.960
I mean, like Hunter Biden, it's pretty obvious.
00:36:11.120
Well, he was dating his late brother's, you know, and still married to his wife.
00:36:16.080
As as one of the only people who didn't vote for the president on the point of two, you guys don't have any room to make these arguments.
00:36:27.460
A trice-married lapsed Presbyterian versus Hunter Biden?
00:36:32.500
This is the thing that gets me that the language they use about Trump is so high-pitched.
00:36:38.900
But the things they get him on, like he said something untoward to the president of Ukraine, and you go like, really?
00:36:45.080
I mean, this is perfectly obvious when you watch the law professor's testimony yesterday, where you had Jonathan Turley, who's basically he's not a Republican.
00:36:53.160
And he's saying what is obviously true, which is you guys do not have the statutory requirements for bribery, for obstruction of justice.
00:37:01.520
And it's very obvious there's no actual crime here.
00:37:03.960
It's obvious that, like, Democrats over each year.
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Democrats had a strategy that actually could have played for them.
00:37:08.640
They could have just done this whole thing, and then they could have brought forward a censure motion.
00:37:11.560
And it would have been very difficult for Republicans, because on the one hand, you don't want to look like you're tutting Trump's bad behavior.
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On the other hand, if you cross Trump, he's going to tweet about you, and he's going to be mean to you.
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They would have gotten some bipartisan support.
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They would have gotten five or ten Republicans to peel off and vote in favor of censure.
00:37:28.380
And then in the Senate, you would have gotten Romney to vote for censure, and Susan Collins to vote for censure, and a few others to vote for censure.
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But by going for impeachment, because the overreach is so dramatic, everybody now has an excuse to go, this is not impeachable.
00:37:41.960
And watching them trot out a person who was too liberal for Barack Obama's Supreme Court pick to make jokes about Barron Trump in order to go after.
00:37:53.540
He wrote a piece praising Sharia law in the New York Times.
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It's a piece of sophistry saying that Sharia law is essentially better than Western jurisprudence.
00:38:05.740
That's who they bring in to tell us that, you know—
00:38:07.680
He also wrote a piece from the New York Times magazine in 2017 talking about all the different ways to impeach Trump in 2017.
00:38:13.340
So, I mean, it's perfectly obvious what they were doing here.
00:38:15.020
And so that's why when Nancy Pelosi got up there, her dentures are moving and started talking about how President Trump—we were seriously considering whether or not to do this.
00:38:23.760
But then these law professors testified, and my mind was blown.
00:38:27.500
And then James Rosen says to her, so this isn't about you hating Trump.
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You know who she reminded me of in that moment, you guys?
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So, novelist-wise, I'm looking at Nancy Pelosi, and to me, she looks like a person in a vice.
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I saw that press conference, and I thought, that looks like a woman who has been pushed off a building, is falling, and it's like, how's it going?
00:39:09.140
She couldn't even string together a complete sentence.
00:39:12.180
I mean, people clipped it, so you only saw the end when she was in very high dungeon.
00:39:17.140
By the way, one of my pet peeves, and I'm not a Christian, but as a Jew, when people do this, it drives me up a wall, and you're the Catholic in the room.
00:39:24.720
As a Catholic, I have to imagine it's sort of annoying when a person who's in favor of abortion on demand, men becoming women, and governmentally sponsored same-sex marriage, is going,
00:39:32.960
As a Catholic, I'm offended that you used the word hate with regard to me and President Trump.
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Nancy Pelosi should be excommunicated for her participation in abortion.
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Other people have been excommunicated for this.
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You saw there was a priest just the other day who withheld the Eucharist from Joe Biden.
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It's an unbelievably brazen move to say this today.
00:41:37.280
She said it because she was desperate, and she said it because she knows the bishops don't have a backbone.
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And I thought, you know, last time there was a Catholic who was being attacked, and he was being attacked for no good reason at all.
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He was slandered with allegations that he raped somebody on the basis of no evidence.
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And he got mad about it because somebody suggested that he was a rapist.
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And he got angry, and they're like, he got mad.
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And she's like, I'm so offended as a Catholic that you would say I hate anyone.
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I love everyone, including the little children, at least the ones who are born.
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But you know who Brat Kavanaugh doesn't remind me of?
00:42:28.500
I think that, Drew, you brought up the fact that she looks like she's on the ropes.
00:42:33.000
I think that she knows that her legacy now is going to be that she presided over the impeachment of someone for nothing.
00:42:40.580
And that not only is it going to end in nothing, it's going to end very likely in electoral failure for them.
00:42:46.960
And not only that, they're so far over their skis.
00:42:50.120
I'm not sure that Adam Schiff hasn't broken the law pursuing this thing.
00:42:53.240
Well, that's what Jonathan Turley's point was really well taken.
00:42:55.780
That, first of all, they're setting a standard that Republicans, as we know, and Republicans will do this,
00:43:00.160
they'll go after the next president, who's a Democrat, on the same grounds, and no one will be able to say them nay.
00:43:05.840
And the fact that the press will rush to their defense, to rush to attack them, is not going to wash.
00:43:13.240
He sounded like an American, it was like this lost voice of America.
00:43:16.180
A guy saying, I don't like Trump, but that's not the point.
00:43:20.920
I mean, everybody else up there was being an activist.
00:43:22.620
And I understand that, ooh, they have magic degrees from Harvard.
00:43:29.680
And the fact is that what he was saying, that there is no statutory crime that's been committed,
00:43:34.200
and that the dead giveaway, the Democrats have nothing, really the dead giveaway,
00:43:37.740
is that in their little impeachment document that Schiff put together at a moment's notice,
00:43:44.140
Now, to understand how idiotic this is, you really have to understand how subpoenas work.
00:43:47.500
So the press are under the wild misimpression that if I am a member of Congress and I subpoena you,
00:43:51.760
and you say no, you have now violated the law and obstructed justice.
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And if I subpoena you and you say no, and then I go to the judiciary and I say, no, you need to show up.
00:44:02.620
Or you go to the judiciary and you say, no, I don't want to show up.
00:44:05.060
And then the judiciary says, no, you have to show up.
00:44:12.860
And the fact is that the fact the Democrats even put that in the document is demonstrative of just how empty and stupid this entire thing is.
00:44:22.920
I mean, that quote from Schiff over the last 48 hours where he was asked, why don't you just wait to talk to, you know, like the actual people who are in the room?
00:44:29.380
So far, they've interviewed, what, eight, 12 witnesses, something like that.
00:44:31.940
Only one has ever had a conversation with Trump.
00:44:34.760
And Sondland did not provide them the evidence they needed for intent requisite to commit bribery.
00:44:39.760
He said, I spoke to Trump on the phone and Trump said, no quid pro quo.
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There are a bunch of people who talk directly to Trump about this specific issue.
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You don't need to wait for the facts because you understand you ain't got nothing.
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And not only that, they know that after a certain point, the electorate is going to
00:45:11.020
That's the whole thing they hate about Donald Trump is that he is the guy who came in, who
00:45:14.540
was sent by basically the forgotten people to say, you know what?
00:45:19.140
You know how you've been calling us racist and you've been calling us sexist?
00:45:23.020
Well, you know, there are two amazing quotes from Democratic congressmen that show you the
00:45:29.040
One is Adam Schiff, who said, Trump poses a grave threat to the country if we wait for
00:45:36.000
I don't have any facts, as you pointed out on Twitter today.
00:45:38.400
And the second one is from Representative Al Green, who said, I fear that if we don't
00:45:43.440
impeach this president, that he will get reelected.
00:45:48.820
I mean, it's a change of topic, but I just want to note that the fall of Elizabeth Warren
00:45:53.860
But in the last month, her poll numbers have just got like she she climbed gradually and
00:46:01.860
The more people see of Elizabeth Warren, the less they like her.
00:46:04.260
And you know what you can trace it, you trace it to that health care release, which is it
00:46:09.380
The Democrats have been saying we win on health care.
00:46:11.640
We win by releasing our radical health care plans.
00:46:13.680
Well, look at Elizabeth Warren, because she's been tanking ever since.
00:46:16.200
And it speaks to what you were saying before, is the electorate looked at that and said,
00:46:21.040
I mean, the people who are gaining right now, like Klobuchar is gaining in New Hampshire.
00:46:25.260
Buttigieg is doing well in New Hampshire and in Iowa.
00:46:32.240
The only people who have a prayer at getting the nomination right now are people who are either
00:46:39.540
And honestly, I think that's kind of hopeful for the country, because my hope was it would be
00:46:43.200
nice if we had two parties that were fighting at least in the realm of reality, like in
00:46:48.980
I'm not saying like on the right side of reality, but like anywhere in the in the general universe
00:46:53.920
Like, I would rather have a Biden versus Trump election, because, again, I think that Biden
00:46:59.060
is not trying to fundamentally destroy the bases of the country in the same way as Elizabeth
00:47:07.520
But he's not nearly as dangerous as people who are out there proclaiming loudly that they're
00:47:12.100
Listen, if it's Joe Biden, you can't we're not going to be able to say this is the most
00:47:17.880
Frankly, it'll be the first election of our lifetime where you won't be able to say that
00:47:24.740
It won't be a flight 93 election, whatever else you say about Trump, aside from his
00:47:30.120
affect, aside from the way the way he talks, he's been a kind of moderate Republican
00:47:34.940
president in terms of in terms of what he's accomplished.
00:47:37.640
You know, I just don't understand why her health care plan wasn't more aspirational.
00:47:41.320
I feel like if she had come out and said, have you ever heard the wolf cry?
00:47:49.040
People would have I would have lined up just to hear the rest of this.
00:47:52.760
Why did why didn't Kamala Harris never do that?
00:47:58.160
Why didn't she ever turn to Elizabeth Warren on that stage?
00:48:00.660
Let's say, listen, it's a black woman in America who's experienced discrimination,
00:48:03.400
had to live in a in a time when the vestiges of segregation were still present in America.
00:48:08.700
How could you, Elizabeth Warren, claim for 30 years of your career that you were a member
00:48:13.160
of a put upon minority group when you experienced every benefit of white privilege?
00:48:16.740
Like, how has no one in the Democratic Party done that?
00:48:22.240
She goes her entire campaign without doing that?
00:48:28.980
The trouble with the Pocahontas attack is it's now identified as a Trump attack.
00:48:35.080
Every time somebody says something sensible, they say, well, that's a GOP talking point.
00:48:40.460
And by the way, it's effective even among Democrats because you saw this with regard
00:48:44.000
exactly to Elizabeth Warren's health care plan is that Buttigieg would say, like, that's
00:48:49.780
And then somebody like Julian Castro would say, that's a Republican talking point.
00:48:53.260
And then Elizabeth Warren would tank in the polls.
00:48:55.000
Because it turns out that some of those Republican talking points are talking points because
00:48:59.720
No, this is like the Fox News meme where they say, well, that's just Fox News.
00:49:07.980
Speaking of Fox News, by the way, so I have a friend who watched this new Fox News movie,
00:49:15.180
I have to just say, I am so deeply irritated with Hollywood.
00:49:22.800
They made one for HBO and they made this thing with all of the big stars in it with Charlize
00:49:30.040
And have they made, has there been any production deal on a Harvey Weinstein film, which is the
00:49:33.680
thing that led this entire thing all about NBC?
00:49:38.080
George Stephanopoulos worked for Bill Clinton silencing women who said they were raped and
00:49:46.840
ABC killed the Jeffrey Epstein story during the Hillary Clinton.
00:49:56.280
And then when after the person who released the fact that they spiked it, not the person
00:50:00.960
who spiked it, they said, they didn't say, oh, we're going to find the person who spiked
00:50:05.000
They said, we're going to find the person who released the story that this, that the Epstein
00:50:10.300
And are you also getting to that, that point that came out in the new book about Epstein,
00:50:14.380
that George Stephanopoulos was friends with Jeffrey Epstein?
00:50:18.780
No, this is, this is an amazing thing, an amazing act of corruption that CBS fired an innocent
00:50:25.180
woman, it turned out, for maybe releasing the fact that they had spiked the story.
00:50:33.040
I mean, not little girls, they're raping teenage girls.
00:50:41.660
These, these major people and the press covered it up.
00:50:56.900
But what's nice is at the Oscars, we'll get a bunch of lectures from Hollywood where
00:51:01.400
Just like last year, we'll get an entire lecture about how the rest of the American people
00:51:04.360
do not understand how women are put upon in this country.
00:51:07.800
And let these people sexually harass people every single, we sexually harass women and
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Yeah, giving your family a little peace of mind and security is probably not the worst
00:52:49.380
Did you see John Kerry endorse Joe Biden today?
00:52:53.440
It was like, which was very exciting because when one dead person endorses another dead
00:52:56.980
person, it's great for me because I actually do a fairly good John Kerry impersonation.
00:53:04.080
And so I rarely get to break it out anymore, right?
00:53:06.720
It's very sad when you actually work to craft a good impersonation.
00:53:09.740
When you watch so much Gilligan's Island that you can totally, you can turn wise.
00:53:13.020
When you take John Kerry reporting for duty, I'm here to endorse Joe Biden.
00:53:18.500
The pinnacle of the weekly standard, the pinnacle of the weekly standard was when he, when Kerry
00:53:23.740
got nominated, they just put his face on the cover and the headline was, why the long face?
00:53:31.680
Speaking of people who get Botox, let's circle back to Hollywood real quick.
00:53:36.460
I mean, seriously, that was the thing that was the most obvious to me about that Joe Biden
00:53:50.100
This next question comes from a great Daily Wire subscriber who wants to know, how is it
00:53:53.840
that Hollywood can get totalitarian regimes, you know, big bad government with dystopian
00:53:58.280
sci-fi so right yet seem oblivious to the, their leftist political side being likely to
00:54:09.480
Great stories conform to reality and the people who work in Hollywood are very talented.
00:54:13.580
Many of them tell good stories and stories conform to reality.
00:54:17.140
Unfortunately, the people who tell stories don't always conform to reality.
00:54:20.640
So that if you, if you watch every great movie, every truly great movie has a conservative
00:54:25.380
theme, conservative in the way we talk about conservatives and being, being in service
00:54:33.940
This is, this is where the left has gone totally wrong, by the way.
00:54:37.180
The left had this theory and they've been pushing this theory since I was a kid, that
00:54:45.300
They say, well, if you change the narrative, you change the reality.
00:54:48.980
As a lifelong, as a, as one of the very few people on earth who has made a living telling
00:54:53.040
stories, I can tell you that stories are responsible to the truth and they express truth.
00:54:58.140
And if they don't express truth, people come out of the theater and think that wasn't a
00:55:01.660
They don't know why it's a good, not a good movie.
00:55:04.660
So I've been, I've been working on a new book, which is going to come out next August,
00:55:10.080
And one of the chief assumptions of the progressive left, and this has been true for a couple of
00:55:14.860
hundred years, is the idea of unlimited human malleability.
00:55:19.800
That if the system were just changed, everybody would become glorious.
00:55:23.600
And that all of the problems in modern society, all disparities are attributable to the evils
00:55:28.360
If we would just change the system, then everybody would magically transform into angels.
00:55:32.280
They don't believe in the founding idea that if men were angels, you wouldn't need any
00:55:35.360
If men were devils, then no government would be sufficient.
00:55:37.740
They don't believe the idea that human beings are sinful, but we have the capacity to fight
00:55:41.320
our sin using our reason and our will, which is a religious concept.
00:55:45.060
They actually believe the idea that human beings are basically clay that are molded by the systems
00:55:51.040
Well, all story cannot survive on that premise because all stories are told about characters.
00:55:56.560
And every character that you know, every single person you know has characteristics.
00:56:00.140
Characteristics are by nature somewhat immutable.
00:56:03.860
If James Bond were to suddenly become incredibly effeminate and unable to shoot a gun, he wouldn't
00:56:11.240
And so every movie that you've ever watched is about characters who are real human beings,
00:56:17.080
Because every human being you know is not capable of magically shape-shifting and turning
00:56:20.500
into something, at least not in terms of their persona.
00:56:24.440
And so because human nature is fixed in movies, because it has to be, in order for characters
00:56:29.240
to have character arc or even to be characters, that means that you immediately have to be living
00:56:33.760
You know, I used to have a priest in the Episcopal Church who was a corrupt guy, and I knew he
00:56:40.660
And he used to say people are infinitely malleable.
00:56:45.560
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who sat in New York smoking cigarettes and thinking, I have to go back
00:56:50.300
to Germany because I have to face Hitler, and died doing that because he wasn't infinitely
00:56:55.200
He had guts and he had integrity and he had principles, and he lived those principles out.
00:56:58.880
So the thing is, the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer moved this guy, but he was still capable of
00:57:04.920
holding this absolutely conflicting theory, which is the theory that you say, that people
00:57:08.700
are infinitely malleable, and of course they're not.
00:57:13.820
I feel like I know what Ben and Drew might teach if they were professors, but this question
00:57:19.200
If you could choose a college course in anything you wanted to teach, what would it be and why?
00:57:27.420
I would probably talk about book-length works that, say, maybe teach the succinct economy
00:57:35.440
of words, and I would not show up and prepare anything, and that would be the whole course.
00:57:39.680
What I would like to teach, what I would most like to teach, the thing I'm most interested
00:57:46.260
And I actually do believe that I know much more about most college subjects than most college
00:57:52.660
professors today, and yet I am in no way qualified to teach any of these things at colleges.
00:57:57.560
That's more an indictment of the university system as we have it today.
00:58:01.980
Drew, you got to teach at a college this last year.
00:58:05.640
I mean, I was at Hillsdale, so it was a great college, and I taught about covering the culture,
00:58:13.600
They really liked the course, which was very gratifying, but they liked it because I was
00:58:17.100
saying things like, you know, when you read a newspaper, you can see the way they're
00:58:21.220
But if it were up to me, I would teach literature, and I'd probably teach romantic poetry.
00:58:25.540
I think that the British romantics, the English romantics, were a highly important moment.
00:58:31.860
They lived in a time very much like ours, when a revolution had inspired people and
00:58:39.760
They had to rebuild the world in the wake of that revolution, and they still had people
00:58:43.220
who were saying, like we have, oh, the revolution was the great thing.
00:58:46.600
And then they had guys like Wordsworth who were saying, wait a minute, that didn't work
00:58:51.400
And they excoriated Wordsworth while he became one of the great minds of the time.
00:58:55.460
So that's what I would just like to teach them.
00:58:58.400
I think their writing is so insanely beautiful.
00:59:01.540
And I think they were doing something really important that speaks into the moment.
00:59:04.480
Well, the fact that Drew wants to teach poetry explains why he's still in favor of the
00:59:08.480
The only place that would pay anyone to actually teach poetry.
00:59:12.680
But for me, the thing that I'd be interested in teaching about would be the ideals of the
00:59:19.320
founding era, because I think they are wildly misinterpreted.
00:59:23.000
And I think that those ideals still provide the glue that holds the country together.
00:59:27.080
Now, admittedly, I'm writing a book on this right now.
00:59:29.100
So that's what's first and foremost in my mind.
00:59:32.740
But the fact is that the more you investigate what exactly was going through the founding
00:59:36.840
father's head, what their influences were, what exactly were the chief ideals upon which
00:59:40.680
they're arresting the building of the greatest country in the history of humanity, the more
00:59:44.360
you realize that these were eternal principles.
00:59:46.500
And the great lie that the left is told is that these principles were not eternal, but they
00:59:50.520
There's a sort of historicist approach to the American founding that all of this was
00:59:56.220
You see this in the writings of Woodrow Wilson, who really talked a lot about the idea that
00:59:59.880
the American founding, you know, what they said about government, that was applicable
01:00:02.740
But human nature has changed and the economy has changed.
01:00:05.220
And you see this with the left very often when they talk about economics.
01:00:08.040
Well, the economic system has fundamentally changed.
01:00:10.000
You hear this even from some people on the right.
01:00:13.200
The economic system has fundamentally changed because of technology and because of globalization
01:00:17.860
And one of the things that the founders made clear is that they were basing their philosophy
01:00:22.660
not on the contingencies of historical circumstance.
01:00:25.680
They were basing it on their view of eternal, immutable human nature.
01:00:28.920
And that view is what provided the basis for a capitalist free market system, particularly in economics,
01:00:34.760
because free market systems are not systems that are built by man to serve us.
01:00:38.160
They are just a manifestation of the idea that you own your own labor and that you as a human
01:00:44.760
And those rights, because they pre-exist government, are more important than the government.
01:00:48.180
And if the government does not exist to protect those rights, the government has completely
01:00:51.540
destroyed its rationale for being in the first place.
01:00:55.260
Free markets are simply a recognition of human nature and of human rights.
01:01:02.320
And because the left believes that every system is built and because the left wants to build
01:01:05.520
systems and because they've engaged in what Hayek called the fatal conceit, which they
01:01:08.860
get a bunch of smart people in the room and they can rule the world and they can put together
01:01:15.480
And the founders knew that, which is why the system they built has been durable and successful.
01:01:19.740
So I would like to teach you about economics if I knew anything about it.
01:01:25.000
You know, I just got back from being in Egypt and it's a very unbelievable country.
01:01:29.280
If anybody has the opportunity to go, you should.
01:01:32.540
You know, they had the revolution back in 2011.
01:01:36.220
But the military and the police do a really good job of making sure that American tourists
01:01:40.000
are safe to visit as long as you stay in the places you're supposed to be.
01:01:45.800
I mean, you can't really wrap your head around.
01:01:48.120
And in another forum, I have an awful lot to say about it from a religious point of view.
01:01:51.680
I had a lot of great kind of realizations there.
01:01:54.980
The fact that Egypt is so central to Judaism, is so central to Christianity in ways that
01:01:59.900
I think Jews and Christians sometimes omit, miss.
01:02:03.880
Those are things that, again, in another forum, it'd be a lot of fun for the four of us to
01:02:08.300
But I did have an economic realization when I was there because, you know, it's at the
01:02:12.840
It's a country where the military owns everything that has value.
01:02:16.180
And so the average person lives in third world conditions.
01:02:20.180
And if you've ever visited the third world, there are a lot of things that all third world
01:02:25.300
One of them is there's literal garbage everywhere.
01:02:28.740
There's rubble everywhere because no one is invested in improving their surroundings.
01:02:33.800
People have a kind of hopelessness, a kind of fatalism, and they don't take those kinds
01:02:39.400
And the other thing that they have in all third world countries, and I actually find it
01:02:43.080
kind of a shame when you talk to Americans about it, they often say that it's one of the
01:02:46.460
charming things about visiting these countries, is that they have a kind of barter system.
01:02:51.380
That, you know, we haggle, oh, I bought this little Chotsky, and we bartered for it.
01:02:57.020
They wanted two American dollars, and I only gave them one American dollar, and it was so
01:03:04.020
This is the thing that upsets me, is when you sort of reduce people down to being cultural
01:03:09.640
novelties instead of treating them like humans.
01:03:11.940
The worst idea ever had by man, and it's been had by almost every man who ever lived, is
01:03:17.820
that there is a fixed amount of money, and therefore, in order for you to win, I would
01:03:23.120
And in order for me to win, you would have to lose.
01:03:25.900
And when you visit third world countries, you really experience this, that in almost every
01:03:30.420
human interaction, there is an element of competition, that they're trying to get you
01:03:36.440
to do something that isn't in your interest, because they don't feel that they've won unless
01:03:43.680
This is why, when you go into third world countries, people get killed at cell phone
01:03:49.080
That doesn't happen in America, because when you go to a cell phone kiosk in the mall, the
01:03:53.000
cell phone says $2.99 on a price tag, and if you say, hey, I'll give you $1.99, the
01:03:57.000
guy goes, no, I mean, it's written right there, $2.99.
01:04:01.100
That forces you to make a moral decision, really, not a moral, but a value-based decision.
01:04:06.500
Is that phone worth more to me than the $299 that are in my pocket?
01:04:11.860
The $299 in my pocket are worth more to Verizon than the phone, which they have.
01:04:17.100
And therefore, when you enter into that transaction, everyone is made richer.
01:04:25.020
But when you go into the third world, one of the things that happened to us, we were
01:04:29.160
Somebody came up, they wanted to sell me this hat.
01:04:45.720
And now he wins, because he put the hat on my head.
01:04:59.160
He's happy because he was able to force me to engage in a transaction that I did not
01:05:08.860
And I think when, you know, because you're an American, you actually just want to kind
01:05:13.820
So you just give the guy the dollar at a certain point.
01:05:21.340
He walks away thinking, these Americans are so weak.
01:05:25.320
He let me put a hat on his hand and extract from him the $1.
01:05:29.260
What he doesn't understand is that, no, I am completely flush with $1.
01:05:33.920
I could buy these hats until Santa Claus comes down the chimney.
01:05:40.820
And the reason I'm lousy with $1 is because I don't believe in your idea that economies
01:05:48.880
I don't believe that I have to lose in order for you to win.
01:05:51.160
And because of that, we've created the entire modern world.
01:05:53.920
And I only bring all of this up basically to humble brag that I was in Egypt.
01:05:58.580
But I also bring it up because you see it in America.
01:06:03.620
You see it sometimes with immigrant communities.
01:06:06.000
If you go to a car wash or something that's owned by first-generation Americans,
01:06:09.680
sometimes they'll pull this, you know, how much for a car wash?
01:06:16.800
I just want to determine whether or not it's worth my investment.
01:06:23.300
I want to decide whether or not I give you money and you give me service.
01:06:25.860
But you don't just see it with first-generation Americans.
01:06:28.980
The entire premise of almost every candidate at these Democrat debates is this premise.
01:06:36.680
There's an article in the New York Times today in which Elizabeth Warren was saying
01:06:40.720
that taxing rich people will be good for the economy just because you're taxing them.
01:06:45.880
She literally says in the piece, you don't have to spend the money in any way.
01:06:48.880
Just hurting rich people is somehow going to help the economy.
01:06:52.280
Because money is a story about the truth of value.
01:06:57.260
There's infinite amount of money if there's infinite value.
01:06:59.420
And what they don't understand is it's a kind of idolatry.
01:07:03.420
What idolatry is, is taking the story for the fact.
01:07:10.360
And once you understand that these things represent a truth and the truth is immutable,
01:07:17.000
And when you stand in Egypt, when you stand at the foot of these monuments that are 5,000 years old,
01:07:22.700
that literally defy imagination, it's actually fairly humbling.
01:07:26.740
Because what it tells us is mankind was capable of doing this 3,000 years before Christ.
01:07:36.320
When Cleopatra looked upon the pyramid, we think of Cleopatra and the Sphinx and the pyramid.
01:07:40.960
When Cleopatra looked at the pyramid, it was older to her eyes than Cleopatra is to our eyes now.
01:07:47.520
It would be shorter for us to get to her than it would be.
01:07:49.540
They were capable of doing this 5,000 years ago, and then the bad idea set in.
01:07:55.680
And that culture has not created anything in the last, really, 2,500 years.
01:08:02.320
Why were they capable of creating the greatest wonders that the world had ever known?
01:08:11.700
You can only extract so much value before you run out of value.
01:08:18.940
I'll tell you one more thing about being in Egypt.
01:08:23.540
When I was in Egypt, Egypt, and I was in Egypt, my Netflix account got hacked.
01:08:28.640
And when you live, even I, who only sort of am tangentially involved in public life,
01:08:33.300
the first thing you think is, oh, crap, what have I been watching?
01:08:41.940
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Ben and I actually hosted him at one of the very first political events that we had at
01:10:34.580
our first failed website, which is a precursor to this, our enormously successful.
01:10:40.260
He co-stars alongside me in a new film called No Safe Spaces.
01:10:47.740
If you watch it slowly, if you don't take a bathroom break, you will see Jeremy Boring
01:10:53.880
himself, lowercase g, lowercase k, God King, walking the halls of Congress beside the guy
01:10:59.820
As your co-star in this movie, I would point out, there are about 30 frames of this film
01:11:05.820
where if you squint really hard, you can see me.
01:11:09.500
But Adam Carolla, on the other hand, the whole film is lousy with Adam.
01:11:15.000
It was made by our friend, Justin Folk, who's a terrific, talented director.
01:11:19.000
He, in his own way, is the godfather of our business because he created some of the very
01:11:24.980
No Safe Spaces is opening up nationwide in theaters tomorrow.
01:11:30.040
But first, we're going to show you this delightful trailer.
01:11:44.660
A protest has turned violent at California, Berkeley.
01:11:48.000
This is why we're fighting for the soul of America.
01:11:52.620
You should be able to share ideas without fear of being fired from your job or shouted down.
01:12:03.380
This is one of the few things one could say we have no precedent for in the United States.
01:12:10.520
The only way we separate the good ideas from the bad ideas is to be free to say whatever we want about them.
01:12:23.020
And Adam, thanks for stopping by and talking to us.
01:12:30.100
I want full Dr. Bombay, if you guys remember watching Bewitched.
01:12:45.160
We've all had the opportunity to see it and love it, but the audience obviously hasn't.
01:12:48.620
I'll tell you a little inside baseball story that was reminding of when I was thinking.
01:12:54.560
We spoke in front of Congress at the same time, and Ben is an A student, and I am a horrible, wretched student from North Hollywood High.
01:13:07.700
But you get older, and you get successful, and you think you have some nice cars, a nice home, and a nice bank account.
01:13:19.120
And I flew out on a Wednesday night, red-eye kind of thing, landed.
01:13:26.340
And of course, I was going to work on this on the airplane, but I had a few drinks.
01:13:33.020
I watched three episodes of T.J. Hooker, like fell asleep, and then showed up the next morning, and there was Ben, like typed pages, single space, a minute a page.
01:13:44.720
And he was like the A student, and I had a steno pad with like arrows going like, no, do this one first, and like a pirate drawing on here.
01:13:55.660
And they're like, I'm going like, what's the order?
01:14:00.900
And all of a sudden, I was in the ninth grade, and I was a crappy student, and you were doing the oral presentation before me.
01:14:13.260
Adam, I want to know, since maybe we could break some news here, did you at least give Ben a swirly after this?
01:14:19.600
I mean, it did work out exactly like it probably worked out in high school, which is I gave the A presentation, and he made everybody laugh, and nobody gave a crap.
01:14:28.840
And you should have been from a dicks for some reason.
01:14:33.160
It was in the congressional record and everything.
01:14:34.900
Yeah, he knocked it out of the park, like didn't inhale his entire day, no commas or pauses.
01:14:44.020
And then I was, yeah, but I got a few laughs and made up.
01:14:48.100
I did what I did in junior high, which is I'm not prepared.
01:14:52.300
But if I can crack a couple of jokes, maybe I'll get a C minus.
01:14:55.900
Well, I sat behind both of you, and I thought, there's only one guy here I want to be friends with.
01:15:05.800
Well, just a chance to work with Dennis Prager for me is awesome, and you guys all know.
01:15:10.140
He's such a great guy just to sort of hang out with.
01:15:13.280
It's almost like when the cameras start rolling, it's like, oh, we can stop kibitzing about whatever fun stuff we were talking about.
01:15:20.940
So I toured the country, done some events with Dennis, done his program.
01:15:27.240
And so the producer said, hey, you want to do this project with Dennis Prager?
01:15:33.340
And then, of course, on a real important subject.
01:15:37.260
And if you see the movie, you know, we don't really call it a doc.
01:15:41.400
It's kind of a film because it's got lots of reenactments and lots of different stories and animation.
01:15:46.980
The reenactments, by the way, are like the greatest part of the film.
01:15:52.320
It's Dennis, who's, you know, so incredibly humble, always says, you know, it's a great movie.
01:16:01.940
And it's a great movie, but we were along for the ride.
01:16:13.720
Like, I mean, it'll move you to tears at the end.
01:16:16.840
But also, you watch it and you go, this is important.
01:16:24.340
Because if you've got a 12, 13, 14-year-old at home and this is what's waiting for them on that college campus,
01:16:33.000
Have you had the chance to show the film to any sort of non-conservative audiences?
01:16:37.800
Have you seen any people on the left react to the film at all?
01:16:40.660
I think we just show it and kind of who shows up, who shows up, is who shows up.
01:16:47.380
And I think we get a pretty mixed bag in there.
01:16:50.420
It probably leans, you know, in terms of the audience, more conservative.
01:16:54.180
But we've gotten some good notices and some good feedback from folks on the left.
01:16:59.060
And I think Dennis always is careful to make the distinction between liberal and left.
01:17:04.680
I think that's one of his more brilliant observations.
01:17:08.100
I think we all think of ourselves as liberal in a sort of classic sense.
01:17:18.700
I have to think that a lot of people who, sort of traditional Democrats in this country,
01:17:22.780
who may not agree with us on a lot of social issues, may not even agree with us about tax policy,
01:17:26.800
but would still be pretty appalled that what they thought college was supposed to be about,
01:17:30.520
which is this exchange of ideas, maybe even getting in a little trouble with your ideas,
01:17:34.120
trying out some ideas that maybe as you get a little older, you don't even keep them.
01:17:37.360
But you test the water of what you're going to believe.
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And that just isn't happening on campus right now.
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That's so funny because I was just doing a Martha McCallum show,
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and she was talking about diversity on the campus and the math teacher getting in all the scrum and everything.
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Yeah, but only in skin color, not in opinions, not in ideas.
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I mean, isn't the ultimate diversity, the diversity of opinion?
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This notion of like, we're looking for diversity.
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So it's a whole bunch of different colored people who think exactly the same way.
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And there's something, Ben, you'll be glad I say constantly,
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into the microphone and then toward the heavens when I'm alone,
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which is in the doc when you, in the film, when you go to speak to Berkeley
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and they have like the vice chancellor or something.
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And he says this, and this is something I think is important where they go.
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The guy goes, I disagree with everything Ben Shapiro has to say,
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And I'm always like, you don't disagree with everything Ben Shapiro has to say.
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As a matter of fact, if you do, then you're an idiot.
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Because most of what Ben Shapiro says is correct.
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There's a small subsection of stuff that has to do with faith, religion, and history,
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and your personal beliefs and things like that.
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But most of the family, the country, the education, the pay the taxes, like be a good neighbor,
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And I think there's a big problem where they go, I don't agree with anything that Dennis Prager has to say.
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If you're a normal, right-thinking, I don't mean to the right,
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just a normal, correct-thinking person, you will agree with that.
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I think it's creating this chasm of like, we don't agree on anything.
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I spoke at Boston University a couple of weeks ago, and I was protested by 200 people outside
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doing this mass protest, calling me a white supremacist and a racist.
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And inside, I was talking about how Frederick Douglass should be on the national currency
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and the evils of slavery and Jim Crow in American life, because they've never listened to a word.
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And there was a guy who was going around with a camera, Fleckes,
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he was going around with a camera asking people,
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so what do you know about what Shapiro has said?
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Nobody knew anything, of course, but that is what happens on campus.
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One of the things I wanted to ask you is, you know, Dennis and you occupy obviously very different spaces,
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and Dennis, you know, is sort of in our more traditional space,
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but you have that crossover with the Hollywood community,
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because you have a lot of friends, you got started in more traditional Hollywood,
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you have a lot of friends, particularly in the comedic community.
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Have they given you feedback on sort of the theme of it?
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We had a few out to the premiere who really enjoyed it,
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and then there's some, obviously, that are in the movie,
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Tim Allen, Brian Callen, Harlan Williams came out to the premiere,
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I'm going to Seth MacFarlane's Christmas party in a week,
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so maybe I'll sneak a Blu-ray in and pop it in, too.
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I'll pop out his DVD of Reds with Warren Beatty,
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and he'll probably be so many sheets of the wind by the time he gets in the bed.
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One of the things I've been seeing, though, is that there, I mean,
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it seems like every comedy special is now at least half directed at the extraordinarily woke.
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Every single one is directed at the overextension of the SJW mentality,
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of the far-left mentality that says that you can't talk to us.
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I mean, people who we disagree with a lot of the time,
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but are beginning to realize that the left has pushed too far on this sort of stuff.
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People who you're friends with, but, you know, would never have a conversation with me, obviously.
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Even Seth MacFarlane, the guy's made his entire fortune basically on pushing the envelope of free speech, right?
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Yeah, yeah, I think there's a saturation point.
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I think you're seeing it with a lot of the comedians pushing back.
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I think that Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr had one, where you're seeing it's comedians' job to sort of be the canary in the coal mine.
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We have to, or the bellwether, the divining rod, or whatever the metaphor is.
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So, like, comedians have to sort of take in what's going on around us in society, the milieu, the zeitgeist, you know, like, bring it in.
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And then, wait, why was I such a bad student with all those big words?
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It's our jobs as comedians to kind of feel what's going on and then push against it.
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So if there's too much this, we're going to have to give that.
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And when you feel the pushback, that means the comedians have hit their saturation point.
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And once the comedians hit the saturation point, they'll be the first people on the beach.
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Do you lose, not to get too personal, but, I mean, do you lose friends in Hollywood by doing the things that you do, by saying the things you say?
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But none of those guys who were going to hire me, my friends.
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No, I honestly, I was laughing with my wife there because I had, like, another documentary, not get into Sundance and whatever.
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And it's just, you'll never, I'll never, nothing with my name will, I make documentaries all day long.
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I said to my wife, I said, this Adam Carolla is never getting into Sundance.
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And she said, I don't even know if that's a man or a woman's name.
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And I was an early reader of your prophetic work in 50 Years We'll All Be Chicks.
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When I watched the movie at the premiere, I, even I was shocked at how crazy it's gotten.
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I'm only half joking because all of those jokes have sort of come true.
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Yeah, but I think I have to die to really realize that feeling because all I do is sort of, well, as a comedian and a sort of junior psychologist, all I do is try to see what's happening before it's happening.
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I mean, that's all comedians do is kind of feel what's going on and get there before everyone else does.
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And so, 10 years ago, I wrote In 50 Years We'll All Be Chicks because I felt all of this coming.
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And if you read the book, we will, it is, all these things are touched upon.
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And it's kind of your job to be a little soothsayer or a little Nostradamus-y if you're plugged in.
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Because you can kind of, like, you'll see things like, you study things.
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When I was a kid and I'd stay home from Walter Reed Junior High in 1977, every daytime TV commercial was, you want to drive a truck?
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They're like, every commercial that was on Wednesday at 1 o'clock was, drive a truck, small appliance repair.
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For the women, it was learn to work in a doctor's world.
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Now, every daytime commercial is a class action lawsuit.
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Did you have some pubic mesh explode or something?
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And then it gets into, like, a wrongful termination, discrimination at work.
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And I was laughing with Mark Garagos the other day.
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I said, my kids' kids are going to be home watching TV.
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And Mark Garagos III is going to come on the television and go, has your boss asked you to do stuff?
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It was just, I mean, that whole, you have a whole section of that book, which is, it is, it's the funniest book ever written.
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The whole section of the book where you talk about your son and the expectation that if you're not a homophobe, then you will engage in sexual congress, a member of the same sex.
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And we literally, there are articles in, like, regularly now about how if you are a biological male and you do not wish to have sex with a biological male who identifies as a female, then you're gay.
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So if you won't actually have sex with a biological man, as a biological man, because he identifies as a female, this actually makes you a homosexual.
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Yeah, the thing that's funny, I always sort of crack up about that in 50 years of all the chicks is because I said in 50 years, and it started happening about four years after the book was published, and that was 10 years ago.
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But I always say, like, you know in all those climate movies where the earth's going to be enveloped in tidal waves and the thing, there's always that scene about 18 minutes into act one where it's like, Dr. Fessbender, what's going on?
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And, you know, I think it's a movie that if your audience who is watching, who doesn't get a lot of movies for them, so to speak, and everyone gets preaching, everything's all anti-fracking docs and everything like that, it's a little something for you.
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Plus, it's definitely important, by the way, for everybody to go see it.
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I'm just going to put that out there, that when people actually make films that are not catering to the hard left and directed by Elizabeth Banks, you should actually go see those films.
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Especially if they're good, if they're entertaining and fun to watch.
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Well, I mean, that was said when I said not by Elizabeth Banks.
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Seeing the reenactment of young Dennis Prager in his early life in Moscow.
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And since four of the five of us at this table do star in the film, you would also be doing us a great courtesy and making Drew and Steve Lee Jones.
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