Ep. 141 - Putting the Big In Bigot w⧸ Owen Benjamin
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Summary
Comedian Owen Benjamin joins me on The Michael Knowles Show to discuss why he thinks we should shoot toddlers full of hormones to try to change their biological sex, and why the left hates him for it. We also talk about how he got his start in comedy, and how he ended up in the entertainment industry.
Transcript
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I am joined today for the full show by vicious, bigot, awful monster Owen Benjamin, a man
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so terrible that he suggested that we shouldn't shoot little toddlers full of hormones and
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I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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I feel like a little child sitting next to you.
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I didn't realize, because I watch your videos all the time, I didn't realize that you were
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I flew here north of the wall from Game of Thrones.
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Is that why the lefties are so afraid they have to censor you, get you off of Twitter,
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No, because I got approved by too many of them, so now they feel weird about it.
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For anybody who doesn't know, you made this outrageous point where you suggested we shouldn't
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shoot up little toddlers full of hormones to change their biological sex.
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And so, naturally for that, you lost gigs and your agent, your manager.
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I've been with the same manager and agent for 12 years, but it's all good.
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It's been a blessing in disguise, to be honest with you, because it allowed me to not have
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to be shamed into being a worse person, because I feel like the left kind of does that, where
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it's almost like, to get social approval, you have to pretend to be a worse human being.
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You've got, on set, in theaters, you have to toe the line, you've got, before all this
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happened, before you kind of blew up on the internet for having the temerity to say that,
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you've been in movies, you've been in TV shows, you've been in serious Hollywood.
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What, is there any path to success for a conservative in Hollywood, other than keeping your mouth
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Or do you have to break free and become this internet sensation like you?
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But I think now, the government has expanded to a point where it's a joke.
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And it's like, there's a great quote, I don't know who said it, but you can avoid, you can
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ignore politics, but politics won't ignore you.
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Like, I'm not even this, I never wanted to be this, like, edgy comic.
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I just want to talk about how men and women are different, which now is, of course, hate
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I'll see it, I'll go to college campuses, I'll say, what's the big issue for you?
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Is it abortion or gay marriage, blah, blah, blah, whatever?
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It is this trans moment, this transgender thing, which affects approximately seven people
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on planet Earth, and that men and women are different.
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Well, what happens is, people set in motion these crazy ideas, and if they don't commit
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And the trans thing is one of those things that's happening.
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And I know a few transsexuals, and most of them are libertarians.
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Like, most of them are the don't try to meet people, where it's like, listen, I'm going
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Just don't say anything, and let's just keep going with our lives.
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Yeah, like the LGBT thing, it's based on no discrimination, which is a terrifying precedent.
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Like, I discriminate, I only sleep with my wife.
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So it starts off, it just, the letters keep getting crazier, to the point where now they're
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And the L's, they should have just knitted sweaters and drove Subarus and forgot about
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When I, when I say one thing, when I have an opinion, I'm discriminating against other
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That now, and, and the left discriminates all the time, and they literally discriminate.
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They kick us off Twitter, they kick us off YouTube.
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You are, yeah, yeah, you're, you are actually off of Twitter forever.
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Yeah, but oh, I, I knew that the minute I mentioned it.
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That's why it's almost like it's a compliment when the left is like, you're bad.
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It's that point where they, it's this lie that they've constructed.
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So they've, you know, this whole thing that like little toddlers can choose their sex,
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and we should shoot them full of hormones, because you can magically go from one to the
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So they're just like, you can't, don't you, we all have to, we all agree, right?
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They're so aware that this thing is about to crack?
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Yes, because they can't go back, because then everything falls apart, and their whole
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You know, I think a lot of conservatives and people more on the right, I like to follow
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And this is what I see in more conservatives and libertarians in the world, is if you give
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them information that disproves their point, they get excited.
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You know, but a leftist, if you give them information, like any, anything from Thomas Sowell's
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books, if you look at, at, at the black family before and after the welfare state, they just
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Like, look at, London now has a higher murder rate than New York City, and they're trying
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If you haven't, we have to play a little clip of this.
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Yeah, shout out to Unbearables, because they did a lot of these videos.
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Rowling prayed that life could be like a computer and we could restart 2016.
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Sad little person and actor Ben Stiller compared him to a James Bond villain.
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Schizophrenic warlock Ashley Judd compared him to Adolf Hitler.
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And millions of people living at home in their late 20s took to the streets.
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Never before had a nation reacted so viciously against an elected president.
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Even mustached charlatan Vincente Fox compared him to Adolf Hitler.
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Mostly false CNN reported story after story about our new Hitlerian government.
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Confirmed sexual predator Louis C.K. finished masturbating in front of a stranger.
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And then confirmed to Daily News that Trump is, in fact, Adolf Hitler.
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Insatiable sodomite heir to the Vanderbilt fortune and possible CIA operative news reporter Anderson Cooper reported how truly lonely and angry the White House has become.
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Rape apologist and alleged murderer Hillary Clinton begged us to think of our children and submit our constitutional rights.
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When you do that, though, when you say this is the logic.
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Therefore, we need to surrender all of our weapons to him.
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Any rational person can see that doesn't make any sense.
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A lot of my friends think that you're going to teach them with logic where it's like, but don't you see now that if you think Twitter's a private company, it can discriminate because it's private.
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It's almost like if you're playing basketball and someone pulls out a gun.
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And you're like, oh, you're just like not a guy I want to hang with.
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If they did not have double standards, they would have no standards at all.
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Yeah, I'm just happy because I'm not, I don't regret because I'm not manipulating.
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You know, like every decision I've made has been for my family, myself, my ethics.
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And so at this point, whatever comes, comes because I wouldn't want to be one of these
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people that it's almost like that Commodus is sister and gladiator.
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Like if you kiss the ring and you're not into it, you're now just in this golden prison.
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And you see so many of these people like Jimmy Kimmel is hilarious.
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And you watch him just PETA from the Hunger Games.
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You know, he cried when a lion got killed by a lion hunter.
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This is a guy that used to do hard jokes, you know, and I'm like, I look at him.
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You know, when you've got your enemy, you're allowed to have one tear.
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After you build your first house and make your own person, then you can have one little
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And the tears, they always have to be kind of wistful.
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You know, they have the highest suicide rate of any job.
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Like every time someone sees you, they're like, great.
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It could cause heart disease if you don't, I don't, how does that, that doesn't make any sense.
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Yeah, they're like, I'd rather die than have you in my mouth.
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And he's like, okay, I'm just going to stick this in the, and then they just, they get
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That, this brings me directly to my next point.
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I question if that's true, but I love your commitment.
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The, I have this thought that conservatives are the only people having fun right now.
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I think that's why Jimmy Kimmel has to cry every night.
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You know, you get, you get the Corvette, you don't get gas in it.
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Like you will get the fame and the money if you, um, you know, take that devil's deal
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and take a knee, but you will not be able to enjoy it.
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You watch it in these people and, uh, classical liberals can still have a good time, but
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All they can feel is just the soy that they're just stomping on.
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They're like eating all this tofurkey, pretending it tastes like turkey and that those big blades
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in the farmland aren't cutting off rabbits' heads.
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Is it, is, is the issue maybe they're like, uh, they're suffering from kind of a lack
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of natural masculinity so they can't, it's not aggressive enough.
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Well, if you don't believe in anything, you just are adrift and the hedonic treadmill leads
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It's like we were talking about before the, the, the, you can, when you get rich, you have
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You just wake up on sheets with a higher thread count.
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And your bare buns get pretty used to those pretty fast.
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You know, my problem with ads in the past, I'm like, buy this.
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Shapiro's like, listen, I, I, I have, you know, I have investments.
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I just want to make sure we have enough time before we get to the next movement watches.
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Like, as soon as we're done, I'm going to cross it out and put louder with Crowder on it.
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I, like, it occurs to me that men who are like, are men, that's good.
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And women who behave like men are the second worst.
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Like, why is it on, on the internet that blows up?
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But in Hollywood, if you make that claim, you're, you're dead to them.
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Well, I, because, uh, this whole selling women that, that being a woman is abortion and work, working.
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It's so obviously false that it's like empowerment comes from aborting your kid and hitting that cubicle as hard as you can, Diane.
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You know, and my family is so oddly impervious to these attacks because my, my wife is, uh, half Mexican with a master's in engineering and a stay-at-home mom by choice.
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So it's kind of like all the, it's like racist.
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And then you'll see Amy being like, no, I love my husband.
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We're linear, you know, and women are really good.
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And that's one reason why I think we're seeing a lot of the nonsense now is the way society is becoming is how women are with like toddlers, which is great for toddlers.
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Stay away from the safe space, away from the sockets.
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So when you're out and you're seeing like women in a group, the one having the worst time sets the tone.
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And all the girls are like, let's, you know, a unicorn picks him up and they're like, we're going because she's sad.
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Men, if it's like, I'm having a bad time, it's like, get out of here, Todd.
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But then the opposite is true, where men support greatness, where it's like, man, I love the way he talks.
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The tallest nail gets hammered down, my friend.
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And I forgot about the connection between herpes and communism.
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That's an, we'll explore that in another episode.
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Well, it's a little sexist to not call it his piece.
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See, these are the kind of jokes that make me put the big and bigot.
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I just didn't put any work into promoting myself.
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You know, it'd just be like, Oh, Warner brothers has gave me a check.
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And now I'm like, I see my family and I know that I don't have, uh, you know, big daddy
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So I have to be like, all right, I'll, I'll, let's do some shows.
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You know, it was before I could just, you know, humans, human ingenuity.
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You know, and so with me, it's like, Oh, you're not going to get money anymore.
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It's like, well, I guess I'm paying you to a corner.
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They're like, stop attacking us or we'll just take more of your land.
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All I wanted to do is men and women are different jokes.
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And I'm like, all right, let me read some Thomas Sowell and take you all down.
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Adam Carolla never said, I'm a conservative, nor McDonald says I'm not a conservative.
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And they get lumped in because they'll say, they'll say like men and women are different.
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Do you see, when you talk to comedians, when you talk to other performers who maybe are not
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out of the closet as, as a couple of fine looking guys like you and me are, what is their
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Well, the ones that are deep in Hollywood without their own careers don't really talk to me anymore.
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Because it's almost like cult behavior where the way cults operate, which is what Hollywood
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is becoming, is if you go to the outside world and come back in, they almost see you as an
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invading species because they know with new information, everyone will leave your cult.
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I'm out selling these people on the road now, people with TV shows.
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Like you go to some of these shows and you just have this comedian just talking down to
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And they call me like this crazy, like right wing radical.
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Like this is like, that's why it doesn't affect me at all anymore.
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Like this most, the thing that got me kicked off Twitter was, uh, you know, I'm not going
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to say exactly the words, even though you could say it on CBS, but I was basically saying
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Uh, he can't tell grown men what guns were allowed to own, which is a very valid point.
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And all these leftists just attacked me, uh, like unfairly, but I was laughing because
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any, it's almost like dog whistling to logical people.
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Like the more they're, they're retweeting me and people being like, oh, this Ellen Benjamin
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And then more people just keep coming to me because so many people are suffocating out
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It's this quiet desperation of leftism in academia, uh, with HR and, um, corporate America.
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And, and they're just dying to like have somebody just at least say that there are four whites.
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Because people are, they feel so suffocated by this tyranny of political correctness and
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They think that guy, that guy just said that men and women are different.
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They, the fact that he just goes, um, what was that line that did it?
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The line that did it was when he said only Rosie O'Donnell.
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I call Rosie O'Donnell that because that was a double tiered joke because people were
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And also he stood up against that constant male shame that we don't deserve.
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Like I do a whole bit about how, uh, I have no white pride or white shame.
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The only pride I have is being tall because I had to breastfeed for 30 years.
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You know, I'm still hitting her up, but she's over it.
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No, but the whole thing is, is the lack of white shame makes people call you a bigot.
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There's nothing special about being white, but there's also nothing that evokes shame
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Cause I have a two year old who's white and he's never owned a slave.
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So I look at him cause I don't know what I deserve in life really, but the innocence
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of a child, I'm like, if anyone starts telling him that he has to burden that horror, right?
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And that's why I own guns and gold, birch gold, birch gold, get more into silver though,
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You got to do a little, I was all into Bitcoin.
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You know, I, I guess it's better than some alternatives, you know?
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If you know what fiat means, not the car, the currency, you may like this thing that
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Do you think, on, because you, you pointed out that Trump was making a joke.
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He, he said, he was talking about anchor babies.
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He said something about anchor babies and some media guy, some reporter says, don't you
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The guy goes, oh, you know, future Americans dreaming, whatever.
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I went, Trump's looking at him, he goes, I think I'm going to stick with anchor babies.
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Well, and, and to watch people not get the joke is a lot like what's happening in my
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career where when he said I could shoot someone and not lose a supporter, he wasn't saying
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And everyone's like, he could commit murder and everyone's okay with it.
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And normal people are like, you know, that made me stop making fun of Trump because
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Because for me, it wasn't about picking a side.
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Why is no one, everyone's making fun of Christianity, but not Islam?
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And so the logical approach, when you just see these underserved markets and ideas,
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So why don't we make fun of that crazy Lady Macbeth character?
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I'm like, listen, I get that he's not charismatic, but the guy makes some great points.
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Yeah, because I'm a free speech guy and like normal conservative stuff where it's like
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That's why Trump's bothered me lately with that one spending bill.
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It's almost like an invading species to beat a species.
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Yeah, they're stealing all of our IP, violating World Trade Organization treaties.
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People forget, because we think of these politicians as just cartoon characters.
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There's a difference, it seems to me, in intelligence between the left and the right, between our politicians
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on the left and the right, when it comes to Trump, he is very funny.
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Do you think his being so funny has anything to do with why left-wing comedians are not
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It's almost like, you know, your girl dumps you and she starts dating you or Ben Shapiro.
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You know, and you're like, oh no, she has a better life than me now, so I'm going to
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And I just think that he's very good at being alpha.
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He's the guy that gets into a room and is like, all right.
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And there's a certain type of man that just gets so angry at that.
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And they're starting to be like that with me, and I see it.
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And I don't need their approval, because I'm not into food made of soy.
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Because I value the small amount of hair I have in my chest.
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And so, any bit of tea I have, I've got to hold down one to do a lot.
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I finally had to take my Rachel Maddow glasses off.
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Dude, the Rachel Maddow comparison made me laugh so hard.
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I, with the alpha question, this, you see this a lot on the internet.
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She was going to make this really feminist movie, and then she basically got convinced,
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And why women pretend that they want really nice, sensitive guys who eat a lot of soy
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and, like, play acoustic guitar at the party or whatever.
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Why, like, do they know that, or is it, like, how much is the culture diluting itself?
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Why is it telling men to behave like these little soy boys when everybody wants men to act like men?
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Um, I think, I don't know, to be honest with you.
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I think part of it is this leftist lie of determinism versus free will, I think, has permeated itself to all these nonsense arenas.
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I think that the foundation of so much thought is based on a simple lie that now it's entering places that you didn't even see coming.
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It's like, part of me thought that people wanted the sexist to be the same to sell more stuff.
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Or if you can make women insecure about their bodies and sell them stuff, why not make men insecure about their bodies and sell them stuff?
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You know, if you can tax men at work, why not tax women at work?
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You know, because it usually is the most simple solution.
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Then the useful idiots, they get pushed to wherever someone wants to make a trillion dollars off some weird thing.
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But now I don't know because I don't understand it.
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And I think that's oddly why feminists kind of team up with Islamists.
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Because it's like when you suppress nature that hard, they're like, I want, you know, when it's like, men, I want a man to wear a dress just like me.
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And then they see a dude who like cuts a guy's head off and they're like, whoa.
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You know, it's like someone turn the temperature up.
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It's like when you suppress what you are, it comes back with a vengeance.
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You get, you see a lot of polarization that way.
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Speaking of the Islamists, what do you think the relationship is between God, belief in God and comedy, if there is one?
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I didn't used to think there was, but now I think it's starting to divide people up because if you don't believe in God or at least principles that guide your life, it's so easy to be tricked and pushed down weird paths.
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You know, if you don't have some sort of covenant, whatever it is to you, people can trick you with fear a lot easier and social approval.
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And then people will just start seeing the government is God where it's like, okay, so now the government will dictate good and evil.
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That's, that's straight up religion at that point.
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And, and that's the problem with authoritarianism and socialism and communism because they, they melt down all the church bells because God, you know, Solzhenitsyn said Russia lost God and that's what happened.
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And it's, I, I didn't used to think that until recently, like now I'm starting to really see that where if people are adrift, you know, a lot of these givens that I grew up with that, that everyone knows to protect children, that everyone, you know, like the hashtag me too.
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I saw it as pound me too, which was very uncomfortable because I didn't know what a hashtag was.
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It feels like it isn't, but it is because that's a pound symbol.
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You're going to get me, you're going to get me permanently banned from Twitter when we put this up.
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On that note, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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We're going to be back with more Owen for the last 10 minutes, but only for subscribers.
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Look, obviously we're going to get shut down by all the social media sites after this.
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It's 10 bucks a month, $100 for an annual membership.
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I want to talk about what happens now that we've lost Facebook and YouTube.
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What happens to right of center people who are in show business or politics once Facebook
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and YouTube and Twitter just permanently ban us?
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What happens to the careers of right wing people who ever go in front of a camera?
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Have you ever seen someone have their shackles removed?
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When someone realized that shackles are nothing but cobwebs and they don't need approval from
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There's been some hardships with the shamings and whatnot.
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But it's like that scene from Forrest Gump when all the ships were wrecked except his.
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When all these people are imploding being like, enough is enough.
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I'm like, dude, I've seen you asleep on a homeless guy.
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It's like you are not an arbiter of morality to me.
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And the fact that I have become like seen as like the more moral family guy is hysterical.
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Because I always consider myself more rebellious, more pirate-ish.
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But like I always thought that everyone at least wanted a good life.
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You know, that's the thing that I don't understand is people are now taking pride in like an awful existence.
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I'm like, even like my whole life, I at least thought everyone wanted a family and to believe in the right things.
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Now, if you, the people say like you have privilege, you should get rid of that privilege.
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And the way the free market works is if you're not a spiteful person,
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Like, granted, you're going to have a small amount of people with an insane amount of money.
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So it's like your poor will be much better off in a free market.
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It's like if someone says, that guy's awesome, you have two options.
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They hate their sex or their race or they hate all of that.
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I think that if you're a bad person and you're rich, you're like real bad.
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And there's certain people that the more freedom they get, the more they're free to be awful.
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And there's other people where the more freedom they get, the more they can build culture and have fun and do good things and have a big family.
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All money is is just another of infinite currencies like time and health.
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But we got a lot of covfefe in these leftist years tumblers.
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If you are not afraid of people, if you just kind of go do what you think.
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It's a lot of people, when they get money and success, they can no longer blame anyone
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And that's when people become these crazy people.
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It's when, like, I knew Chelsea Handler, and she was really cool and funny.
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And then you see when people hit a certain point, and they realize they can't blame their
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wall they're hitting, and they have the freedom.
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And that's what conservatism always drew me about conservatism, is there's the weight
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Like, you know that free speech comes with a responsibility.
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Second Amendment comes with a responsibility of defending your own country.
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Like, these aren't just gifts given from a parent to a screaming toddler, which is what
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the left is becoming, because they don't stand for anything.
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They just stand for the acquisition of power through a new currency of shame.
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Like, I had relatives fight, like, in the Civil War to end slavery, and I'm supposed to
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Like, they lined up in a row and just went, slavery's bad.
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I had some Knowleses, too, were in the Civil War.
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The point on freedom, where they behave like screaming children, this is a really hard
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point, because John Adams said, the American Constitution is for a moral and religious people.
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It's for an upright people who can, if you can't discipline yourself, then a giant government
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Do you think that we'll be able to get a culture that's freer, and that can laugh, and
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And I'll tell you why, because my mom's been a little red pill, and she's seven years
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Because I've been kind of pushing her in certain points, and she's more classical liberal,
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I see that the more insane they're getting, and the more that they isolate themselves in
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this little corner, it's becoming, like when a comedian married to a Hispanic woman
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who's toured, you know, like Anne Hathaway, there's a video of her being like, is anyone
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else here a huge Owen Benjamin fan, you see Martin Scorsese clapping?
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Like, when you got me, and I'm now a Nazi, I'm a quarter Jewish, I'm a quarter Jewish
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You're a quarter Jewish, and then a lot of Nazi, right?
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But there's a lot of problems that come with that.
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Anyway, but when Dave Rubin is out, a gay guy married to a guy, it's like...
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Unlike those gay guys married to girls, you know, they're doing their civic duty.
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He's a Nazi, according to, like, the New York Times.
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He's a Jewish dude married to a dude who's a Nazi.
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The problem with that is then you can't identify actual Nazis.
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Because there are races, and I'm so naive that every now and then someone will be like,
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You must secure the existence of the white people.
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Because it's like you're trying to get credit or some sort of thing for something you didn't earn.
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And now that everyone's a Nazi, no one's a Nazi.
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They did this before the alt-right and the Nazi thing.
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Like, you know, I actually don't judge people on the basis of race.
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Where you almost have to be a racist to be a leftist because you have to think, like, race is everything.
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This is the only thing I can say so I don't get yelled at.
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But, you know, I think race basically means nothing, but I think culture means everything.
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Black, redneck, white, liberal should be read by every American child.
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Thomas Sowell just shows you the blueprint of all of it, how culture's everything.
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And it's so important, just the habits of cultures, you know?
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And how you can have a group of Koreans come here with a mat and a dream, and they own three dry cleaners in five years.
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You know, it's because of the culture, and you can't label that privilege.
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Like, I know a dude who can barely speak English.
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He works 25 hours a day because they figured out some loophole with the equation.
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That was a great contribution of the Korean peninsula.
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Someone's pumping money into it because I think it's a propaganda wing of some socialist entities.
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They're not even making Gladiator Braveheart anymore.
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Now it's like the shape of water in your glass.
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Even though I love The Hunger Games' books and stuff, it still has a postmodern twist
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And you're like, no, that's not how reality is.
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If you live an honorable life, even when you're being tortured, you're okay.
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And so now that they're making this whole there is no good or evil, it'll all fall.
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The Oscars ratings were down 20% this year over last year's nine-year low.
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And most of the people were just doing it to tweet snarky things like me.
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Well, that was when I first got labeled a bigot because no one got the joke.
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Because that was like, I even tweeted, I go, every time they do a joke against white
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people, I'm going to do a joke about black people and watch them freak out.
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I thought everyone was going to high-five me like, oh, it's so profound, Owen.
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That's why I get obsessed with pejoratives, because it reveals the biggest lies.
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Because the thing that gets the most flack has the most amount of heat on it.
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And one of the biggest ones is the narrative that being black inherently makes you a victim.
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Therefore, the welfare state will never go anywhere.
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Because that word unlocks the soft bigotry of all expectations to the point where the
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And that's what really throws people for a loop.
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An ice pack trying to run across the border for our health care.
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But you get that thing where you're like, is this bad?
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And so that's why one of my buddies said that if you don't have an IQ of at least 110,
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But if you're at all intelligent, it's wicked funny.
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That and you, by the way, speaking of exposing the big lie.
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You've exposed that lie with Hollywood, which is keep your mouth shut.
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So whenever I was in hot water, 20 an hour, let's chop.
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And so I'm not intimidated by Jimmy Kimmel's tears.
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Could we get, that's a good vintage, a nice 2018 vintage.
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Like if I walked into the improv or something like that, I'll see people that tweeted that
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I was human garbage and my wife should leave me, literally just look at me and shrink.
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Bro, I was a heckler at a renaissance fair in high school.
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And I figured out how to, how to like cripple someone's ego.
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You just attack what they have pride in, not what they are.
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Do, do you think on that exact point, conservatives to make it, even in just the common culture
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right now, corporate environment, whatever, do they need a really thick skin or what is
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Liberals need a thick skin because they hate themselves.
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Like if you have a belief system in bad times, you can make it through.
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You're like, we're suffering right now, but it's all good.
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A liberal, if they're in bad times, they got to stay away from rope.
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They don't need the thick skin because they have a core of belief.
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Solzhenitsyn talked about how Christians in a gulag were more free than communists outside.
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Because if you are, you can take punishment if you have a core.
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And if you don't, every punishment is just one thing you don't get because you're motivated
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by the hedonic treadmill and that you can never get enough.
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And that's why you see such like sexual deviancy and insane drug use because you never
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Like I'm chasing a hard dragon right now and it won't stop until I'm dead.
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I'm going to go listen to some Velvet Underground as soon as we're done.
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Well, on that note, we got to let Owen go listen to some Velvet Underground with whatever
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Because if you pay as little as a dollar, it gets rid of all the trolls and they won't
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Also, Vimeo.com slash Owen Benjamin and HugePianist.com for tour dates.
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We'll keep going because I want to finish a little bit of the heroin after this show.
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