Louder with Crowder - #451 THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE KICKS ASS! | Ben Shapiro Guests | Louder With Crowder

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00:06:40.000 So, question of the day today, before we move forward.

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00:06:55.000 Second, we'll be getting into the new movement to do away with the Electoral College this week we've been talking about. 0.82

00:07:00.000 I wonder, which Democrat idea do you think is most indicative of them being sore losers?

00:07:04.000 Abolishing the Electoral College?

00:07:06.000 Packing the Supreme Court with more justices?

00:07:08.000 Let me know.

00:07:09.000 You look like you were about to say something there, Brautigan, right off the top.

00:07:11.000 No, I was trying to think what I thought.

00:07:14.000 You were trying to think what you thought?

00:07:16.000 This is off to a great start.

00:07:17.000 Ben Shapiro locks in the IQ points.

00:07:20.000 I don't know, Ray's about 12.

00:07:22.000 It's Amy Schumer.

00:07:22.000 I'm half can't think and half have Amy Schumer dreads.

00:07:25.000 You know what?

00:07:26.000 That's actually a good point.

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00:07:36.000 So before we start, actually, after spending all day watching, reviewing the Amy Schumer special on Mug Club, It's really hard to find. 0.52

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00:08:31.000 Please, yes.

00:08:31.000 Chlamydia is on the rise in Quebec, my home province.

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00:08:36.000 Quebec, faster than anywhere else in Canada.

00:08:38.000 This comes from Montreal blog.

00:08:40.000 Some blame the rise of dating apps and doctors believe that the availability of anonymous sex makes it harder to track outbreaks to encourage Quebecers to get checked.

00:08:48.000 The country has actually established an anonymous hotline.

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00:08:54.000 Yes, STD hotline?

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00:08:56.000 Yes, I am A Canadian citizen, that's not important right now.

00:09:00.000 Listen, hypothetically speaking, let's say someone were hanging out at, say, Adonis in the village.

00:09:10.000 How long after that would it stop burning?

00:09:15.000 And weeping.

00:09:16.000 It's a valid question.

00:09:18.000 The weeping is a problem.

00:09:21.000 Going back to domestic news.

00:09:23.000 Here's the thing, Broughton.

00:09:23.000 Every time you do that, he puts up his hand.

00:09:25.000 Are you hitchhiking?

00:09:26.000 Oh, no!

00:09:27.000 I was going to add to the Trudeau joke.

00:09:31.000 I was sitting here wondering who would win in a fight, Justin Trudeau or Beto?

00:09:35.000 Ooh, that'd be like a double knockout with a limp wrist. 0.99

00:09:40.000 Accidentally.

00:09:41.000 At the same time.

00:09:41.000 That'd slap each other.

00:09:43.000 And when they were unconscious, the ghost of Che Guevara would just mercilessly rape them. 0.96

00:09:46.000 Here in America, going back to domestic news, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now blaming her recent approval rating drop on sexism and racism. 1.00

00:09:55.000 Oh yeah, of course.

00:09:57.000 We have that tweet there.

00:09:58.000 Here's the thing.

00:09:59.000 Recent polling actually has shown that anti-woman, anti-minority sentiments are actually on a steep decline.

00:10:05.000 Unfortunately for her, the jury's still out on retards. 1.00

00:10:12.000 It kind of takes a nosedive right there at the end.

00:10:13.000 Yeah, I totally see that.

00:10:14.000 So here's the deal.

00:10:15.000 When I do stuff like this and do the research, you have to read through the tweets that she did.

00:10:18.000 There was actually three or four that she did in a row.

00:10:21.000 And right after that, people are saying, like, praising her for being articulate, like, super smart on the economy, having all kinds of degrees.

00:10:28.000 Are you talking about the same?

00:10:28.000 I know they consumed a bucket of salt water before logging on Twitter.

00:10:31.000 Different humans.

00:10:32.000 She's intelligent in comparison to who?

00:10:32.000 They had to.

00:10:34.000 Because considering her followers, She's like the idiot king. 1.00

00:10:39.000 She's like the messiah of her own cult of retards. 1.00

00:10:41.000 If you don't know Pantelis, that's a bang on Pantelis. 1.00

00:10:43.000 like the Messiah of her own cult of f***ing retards. 1.00

00:10:57.000 Yeah, I think, yeah. 0.99

00:10:59.000 Let's tell you, you said that word again, we're gonna get in trouble.

00:11:01.000 Speaking of crazy, a new report actually just came out that says daily marijuana use could, alright, hold your comments, but it could be linked to psychosis.

00:11:10.000 This comes from NPR where you know they use it every day.

00:11:13.000 It's believed that consuming high-potency cannabis on a daily basis increases the odds of having a psychotic episode later.

00:11:19.000 It goes on to describe the episodes as including detachment syndrome, intense anxiety, and paranoia, which honestly was surprising to me because so far we've been seeing great results using cannabis oil to help with Hopper's chemo treatment.

00:11:30.000 I didn't eat all the cheeses.

00:11:32.000 Did the cops come?

00:11:33.000 What?

00:11:34.000 What?

00:11:37.000 Oh, no, I'm just sitting there.

00:11:40.000 What? 1.00

00:11:42.000 Oh, shit. 1.00

00:11:45.000 I don't know what Hopper's worried about. 1.00

00:11:47.000 He's a white dog. 0.91

00:11:48.000 Apparently, statistically speaking, he's safe, right? 0.50

00:11:51.000 He might be combining that cannabis oil with methamphetamine.

00:11:54.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:11:55.000 You know you're going to get hate mail, right?

00:11:56.000 The Rottweilers only do crack. 0.98

00:11:58.000 Anything that you say against marijuana, and you didn't say it, a study said it, wasn't you.

00:12:01.000 Wasn't us.

00:12:02.000 You know you're getting hate mail.

00:12:03.000 No, no, it's totally fine.

00:12:03.000 Well, yeah.

00:12:05.000 Oh, God, who's in the rain?

00:12:06.000 It's well known that it can trim.

00:12:08.000 I don't know how much it creates that, as much Marijuana doesn't make people crazy, but people who are crazy and don't know they're crazy, it's like marijuana just, it's just the key to the crazy door.

00:12:20.000 Pushes you over the edge.

00:12:22.000 Those are the people, instead of sending you hate mail, actually think they're arguing with you right now.

00:12:26.000 Oh, why don't you talk about marijuana?

00:12:29.000 But you didn't say it cures cancer.

00:12:29.000 I just did.

00:12:32.000 You're right!

00:12:33.000 I didn't.

00:12:33.000 Point for you!

00:12:36.000 Let's call this one a washroom. 0.96

00:12:37.000 You win!

00:12:38.000 You win.

00:12:38.000 Continue.

00:12:39.000 It's opening the door to the crazy.

00:12:41.000 Just like that, what was that movie with the kids in the attic, flowers in the attic, where the mom would leave and they're like, you never came for us, mother?

00:12:46.000 Someone, please, comment.

00:12:48.000 I think it was flowers in the attic.

00:12:50.000 Are you smoking pot?

00:12:51.000 No, I am not.

00:12:53.000 What's going on?

00:12:54.000 No, it was a film where this mom, the husband dies, and she takes her kids to her mother's house, the grandma's house, and then she locks them in the attic, and the grandmother convinces her that she didn't- Nicole Kidman.

00:13:05.000 No, no, you're thinking about the others.

00:13:06.000 Dang it.

00:13:08.000 And then she just locks the kids in the attic, and she never goes for them, and one of the kids dies, and we're like, you never came for us, mother!

00:13:12.000 And she's like, I never wanted you anyway!

00:13:13.000 Terrible film.

00:13:14.000 Sugar?

00:13:14.000 No!

00:13:16.000 Could be!

00:13:16.000 I don't know.

00:13:17.000 I think it's Flowers in the Attic.

00:13:18.000 Let me know.

00:13:18.000 Anyways, there's a mystery pooper tormenting Broadway.

00:13:21.000 We're going to get to the Electoral College in a second.

00:13:23.000 But first, real news.

00:13:24.000 The Stink Bomber actually, this is true, struck during tryouts for the new Magic Mike musical where they used the audition room as a toilet. 0.66

00:13:33.000 Comes from the New York Post. 0.99

00:13:35.000 Fortunately though, for the producers, the pile of shit was the best performer they saw that day. 0.99

00:13:38.000 So they did really, they came out In all honesty, Broadway's been shitty for about 25 years now. 0.99

00:13:46.000 I'm not surprised by that.

00:13:48.000 You have to go off-Broadway.

00:13:50.000 You definitely do.

00:13:50.000 You have to go off-off-Broadway.

00:13:52.000 Basically Chicago.

00:13:53.000 Off-off-off-off-Broadway.

00:13:55.000 Go to a movie.

00:13:56.000 Grand Rapids.

00:13:56.000 There's been a bunch of these stories where somebody will go and poop in the park, right?

00:14:02.000 I don't, have you ever, anybody?

00:14:03.000 No one cares about your vlog.

00:14:04.000 Has anybody, my vlog, has anybody ever done this?

00:14:07.000 Like, have you ever pooped in a non-toilet area?

00:14:09.000 Have I pooped in a non-toilet area?

00:14:10.000 In a forest.

00:14:11.000 I was camping, yeah.

00:14:12.000 Okay, so, it's messy, right?

00:14:13.000 It's disgusting.

00:14:14.000 It's not fast. 0.90

00:14:15.000 No.

00:14:15.000 How do you do this in secrecy?

00:14:16.000 Wait, what do you mean it's not fast?

00:14:17.000 How does the location determine the speed of ejection?

00:14:20.000 No, no, no, no.

00:14:21.000 I'm just saying in normal, like, you're not gonna do it in three seconds and run away and nobody's gonna see you.

00:14:25.000 You're gonna get caught.

00:14:26.000 Well, you do if it's a poop out of animosity.

00:14:31.000 I understand that, but sometimes you can't predict how, like, if I'm angry, I can't predict how the flow is gonna be, okay?

00:14:38.000 I can't go, oh yeah, I'm good, I got three seconds.

00:14:40.000 Wait, speaking of unpredictable...

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00:15:07.000 Finally, in news of the day, we have this Japanese man who, quote, married a hologram.

00:15:14.000 You know what? We don't even need the overlay. Just here's a clip. It's a real thing.

00:15:18.000 Okay.

00:15:35.000 It's Japan.

00:15:36.000 I'm trying to remember where this movie was shot before, but I'm having a psychotic episode right now.

00:15:43.000 I think Suicide Forest will have a new visitor.

00:15:48.000 So, from the Jakarta Post, the beaming groom Akihiko Kondo said, I've never cheated on her.

00:15:54.000 I've always been in love with Mikusan.

00:15:57.000 Unfortunately, she can't say the same as before Akihiko.

00:16:00.000 She had lived a full life.

00:16:02.000 Yeah, she had really... She needs to be with her own kind, Akihiko. 1.00

00:16:07.000 Why can't you see that?

00:16:08.000 She needs to be with her own kind. 1.00

00:16:13.000 She gets around.

00:16:14.000 I think she gave Tupac a bad computer virus.

00:16:16.000 That's actually why he died.

00:16:18.000 He wasn't actually shot by Biggie.

00:16:20.000 He was supposed to wear his Norton.

00:16:21.000 And then McAfee had someone defecate through a hammock.

00:16:25.000 No one saw that documentary when I was talking about that in the pitch meeting today.

00:16:27.000 No one had seen the documentary on McAfee.

00:16:29.000 No.

00:16:29.000 I haven't seen it either.

00:16:30.000 He's running for president.

00:16:31.000 Well, he always runs for president.

00:16:33.000 Him and who's the other guy who always runs for president?

00:16:36.000 I don't know.

00:16:37.000 It's like, not Bob Barr.

00:16:38.000 I don't know.

00:16:38.000 There's some guy who always runs for president.

00:16:40.000 Mike Bravell?

00:16:41.000 I have no idea.

00:16:41.000 Now you're naming, now you're just saying letters to form names.

00:16:44.000 Bob Jones?

00:16:46.000 Is he actually running for president this time?

00:16:48.000 Yeah.

00:16:48.000 Again?

00:16:49.000 Yeah.

00:16:50.000 Does he do a new documentary every time?

00:16:52.000 I don't know, but go watch the documentary and look at the hammock and what he would do with the hammock.

00:16:56.000 He poops through the hammock?

00:16:58.000 I don't even... guess.

00:16:59.000 What does that make?

00:17:02.000 Actually, he had the girls poop through the hammock on him. 1.00

00:17:05.000 Stop it, stop it, stop it. 0.79

00:17:09.000 Just because we're talking about the man doesn't mean that we have to be truthful about what he does in all of his spare time.

00:17:16.000 Just like Gerald with his blog and the force.

00:17:18.000 No, no, no.

00:17:19.000 Let me just preface this before we get to Ben Shapiro.

00:17:23.000 I like the Electoral College.

00:17:24.000 Why?

00:17:24.000 Love it.

00:17:25.000 Just because Elizabeth Warren and Beto O'Rourke have now come out against the Electoral College.

00:17:30.000 Here you go.

00:17:31.000 We can have national voting and that means get rid of the Electoral College.

00:17:41.000 Getting rid of the Electoral College.

00:17:43.000 Is that an idea you support?

00:17:46.000 If we really want every person to vote, give them every reason to vote, we've got to make sure their votes count and go to the candidate of their choosing.

00:17:54.000 So I think there's a lot of wisdom in that.

00:17:56.000 That's something we talked about on the campaign trail in Texas in that last Senate race.

00:18:00.000 Getting a little presumptuous on the candidate of their choosing, aren't we?

00:18:03.000 By the way, follow Elizabeth Warren's Instagram.

00:18:06.000 It's the best thing that exists.

00:18:08.000 Yeah, you couldn't write satire as good.

00:18:08.000 Really?

00:18:10.000 Oh kids, I'm just, oh, you're there!

00:18:12.000 I didn't see you were there!

00:18:13.000 I'm just gonna get myself a beersy beer.

00:18:16.000 A beersy beer?

00:18:17.000 Let me get some powwow chow on the way.

00:18:19.000 Hello 18 to 25 year olds! 0.99

00:18:21.000 She's just an awful, awful candidate. 1.00

00:18:23.000 I hear you guys hang out here. 0.93

00:18:24.000 Yeah.

00:18:25.000 And then, and then, yeah, she would, she's, here's the weird thing about the two people who want to eliminate the Electoral College.

00:18:30.000 She's the kind of person who would accidentally mistake Beto, because he's kickflipping, as someone who would be a voting block for her to remove the Electoral College. 0.60

00:18:40.000 It's like they've learned nothing from Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:18:42.000 One of the reasons people hate it, other than the fact that she's a bitch and kills people, was the shameless pandering of how to do fellow kids. 1.00

00:18:54.000 And both Warren and Kamala Harris, and Kirsten Gillibrand, because that's all she knows how to do it, And abortion. 1.00

00:19:01.000 That's their entire campaign.

00:19:02.000 Yeah, she knows abortion pretty well. 0.73

00:19:03.000 Pandering to abortion. 0.73

00:19:04.000 So, okay, really quickly.

00:19:05.000 We've done a video before as a rebuttal to Adam Ruins, everything on the Electoral College.

00:19:08.000 You can go watch that.

00:19:09.000 But really quickly, there are a lot of reasons that getting rid of the Electoral College

00:19:12.000 is a bad idea, okay?

00:19:14.000 One, it's in the Constitution, okay?

00:19:16.000 Founders intended it as a safeguard deal.

00:19:18.000 People act like the Electoral College, by the way, is the only area of government in

00:19:21.000 which we aren't a pure democracy.

00:19:22.000 There are tons of similar safeguards in the Supreme Court justices.

00:19:26.000 They're not voted on by a general populace.

00:19:28.000 Every state gets two senators, regardless of population.

00:19:30.000 We are not a pure democracy.

00:19:33.000 It's a constitutional republic.

00:19:34.000 Democracy is mob rule.

00:19:36.000 It's important that people understand that.

00:19:37.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:19:38.000 And by the way, it's a system that has worked for 242 years.

00:19:40.000 So be very careful.

00:19:42.000 Wrong.

00:19:43.000 No, 242.

00:19:43.000 No, you're wrong.

00:19:44.000 It's not a system that's working.

00:19:46.000 The Democrats are actually right here.

00:19:48.000 And personally speaking, I honestly think they should spend as much time and resources as it takes to convince 48 other states, like California and New York, to make all the decisions for them.

00:19:59.000 I thought you had another stroke for a second, but you made a good point.

00:20:03.000 In other words, I want to rattle off through the Electoral College reasons really quickly.

00:20:06.000 Of course, there are regional interests, right?

00:20:07.000 Without the Electoral College, the concern, of course, is about states with low populations.

00:20:12.000 All that would matter are the opinions of people in urban areas, okay?

00:20:15.000 That's the reality.

00:20:16.000 And they tend to have different views than people in suburban areas, right?

00:20:19.000 Right.

00:20:19.000 Vastly different views.

00:20:20.000 Which is actually a major problem we have in New York, because you have basically Manhattan and Brooklyn making decisions for all of upstate New York, but they have no say in it.

00:20:27.000 Well, and that leads me to point three.

00:20:29.000 Swing states are actually more transient than large cities.

00:20:32.000 Who would you rather have a disproportionate amount of power over the American electorate? 0.69

00:20:35.000 States like Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, or at one point Texas, now Michigan, I think Wisconsin, places that were never considered to be swing states, or only four or five major cities?

00:20:45.000 Which, by the way, they have disproportional amounts of crime, poverty. 0.94

00:20:48.000 Take your crappy pick. 0.56

00:20:50.000 Good example is popular, but you're just talking about New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, a handful of cities. 0.84

00:20:55.000 Take New York City and Amazon.

00:20:57.000 Right?

00:20:57.000 They kicked out Amazon.

00:20:59.000 Just a few people in Manhattan.

00:21:00.000 Free money.

00:21:00.000 They kicked it out.

00:21:00.000 Free money.

00:21:01.000 Now apply that to those people being able to determine that Amazon can't be in any state, even five states over, because Cortez has an opinion.

00:21:09.000 Another example would be energy.

00:21:12.000 People in New York and Los Angeles should be voting to take away tens of thousands of clean coal jobs or renewable resource jobs.

00:21:19.000 And I know you don't think it's a renewable resource, but thank God for fracking.

00:21:22.000 Because you have an opinion in a major city, you should determine how everybody else lives across the country.

00:21:26.000 That's why the electoral college exists.

00:21:28.000 By the way, another interesting thing, the Democrats have their own electoral college.

00:21:32.000 Yeah.

00:21:33.000 Which is, by the way, far worse.

00:21:35.000 If we're talking about pure democracy, they're the only ones who have superdelegates. 1.00

00:21:38.000 Which I don't really understand, but apparently this gives a lot of power disproportionately to assholes. 0.98

00:21:43.000 That is my understanding of superdelegates. 0.94

00:21:47.000 And Hillary actually won the popular vote in the 2008 primaries. 1.00

00:21:50.000 Not Barack Obama.

00:21:51.000 So this is just another example of Democrats wanting others to play by different rules than they do.

00:21:56.000 Yeah, poor Hillary, right? 1.00

00:21:57.000 She gets beat with the superdelegates and then she gets beat by the second worst candidate ever to run for president. 0.89

00:22:02.000 You just can't catch a break if you're her. 1.00

00:22:03.000 And you got beaten by grammar lessons.

00:22:06.000 Ah, beaten.

00:22:07.000 I just wonder who got suicided after the 2008 primaries.

00:22:10.000 What?

00:22:12.000 Because Hillary lost. 1.00

00:22:13.000 Yeah, I know, but I don't understand. 0.98

00:22:15.000 Well, she tends to kill someone after she loses. 1.00

00:22:16.000 It's just everyone. 0.98

00:22:17.000 She just kills all of the people. 1.00

00:22:18.000 She doesn't kill anybody. 0.95

00:22:19.000 The main reason here is that it's a change based on a disingenuous argument.

00:22:26.000 Democrats just want to do away with the Electoral College because they think it will benefit them.

00:22:29.000 Why?

00:22:29.000 Because right now they don't like the rules.

00:22:32.000 If you don't believe me, just look at how the headlines have changed from year to year in what they want.

00:22:35.000 And it's not just the Electoral College that Democrats want to change.

00:22:37.000 This is a pattern.

00:22:38.000 Let me go through a few examples.

00:22:39.000 One I know that is your favorite, the filibuster.

00:22:42.000 Democrats already ditched the filibuster in the Senate.

00:22:45.000 They changed the rules because they thought it would benefit them.

00:22:47.000 Here's something that's really painful for both conservatives and Democrats to admit.

00:22:52.000 Mitch McConnell was right when he warned Democrats that they would regret it.

00:22:58.000 Look, here is your oracle.

00:22:59.000 If you want to play games, set yet another precedent that you'll no doubt come to

00:23:06.000 regret.

00:23:08.000 Say to my friends on the other side of the aisle, you'll regret this,

00:23:10.000 and you may regret it a lot sooner than you think.

00:23:13.000 And I really, really want him to be wrong.

00:23:15.000 By the way, they already have!

00:23:18.000 That's why Kavanaugh was as easy to be... well, I don't want to say easily confirmed, but more easily confirmed than you would have liked.

00:23:25.000 And also look how far they had to go to try and stop the confirmation because they didn't have the filibuster.

00:23:30.000 Right, exactly.

00:23:31.000 And if they had had it, they would have been able to probably at least postpone it for a while.

00:23:34.000 But this was one of the most horrible decisions I've ever seen Congress make.

00:23:37.000 you took out one of the things that was there as a protection to make sure that the minority had a

00:23:41.000 voice when something was being rammed down their throats in a way to make sure that they could

00:23:45.000 hopefully stop something or at least change people's mind.

00:23:47.000 And now nobody's going to put it back in. And I think that's a problem. Republicans

00:23:51.000 missed an opportunity and Democrats screwed it up. But you're saying Democrats don't care? Why?

00:23:55.000 They just want to change the rules again.

00:23:56.000 How?

00:23:57.000 By now adding seats to the Supreme Court.

00:23:59.000 Before I move on to that, hit the notification bell.

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00:24:13.000 The Supreme Court seats.

00:24:15.000 Okay, so now you have Beto, or as we know, Robert Francis O'Rourke, and other Democrats have been pitching, adding a bunch of seats to the Supreme Court, even doing away with things like term limits.

00:24:26.000 You don't have to take my word for it.

00:24:28.000 Some have proposed, uh, do you want five Democrat justices and five Republican justices and those ten, then choose another five justices between them?

00:24:37.000 Um, do we add to the number of justices on that court in another way?

00:24:41.000 Do we set term limits for those justices so there's some predictability?

00:24:45.000 All the justices.

00:24:46.000 I like you less than Drake.

00:24:49.000 That's how you know this is a very, very white show. 0.68

00:24:51.000 That's not at all like Drake.

00:24:53.000 That's how you know this is a very, very white show. 0.68

00:24:57.000 By the way, if you want to apply to work here, we could really use a black. 1.00

00:25:00.000 I mean, another three quarters of a white. 0.90

00:25:04.000 Come on.

00:25:06.000 At least more than half.

00:25:06.000 You like metal.

00:25:08.000 You lock your doors when you roll through the wrong area of town.

00:25:15.000 Democrats have a long history of wanting to pack courts.

00:25:18.000 This goes back to FDR. 0.59

00:25:19.000 He wasn't able to do it, but he wanted to do it.

00:25:22.000 Yeah, this is how it works with Democrats.

00:25:24.000 If you don't have a majority in the court, just wait until you're in office, then just add a bunch of seats to get a majority and just appoint your guys.

00:25:28.000 That's not how it works.

00:25:29.000 And what's crazy to me is they constantly whine about Donald Trump, about President Trump eroding political norms with his mean tweets.

00:25:35.000 They're the ones actually trying to undermine the foundations of our government from the people who created it. 0.93

00:25:40.000 And just a quick question here.

00:25:41.000 We're talking about a court with judges.

00:25:43.000 These are supposed to be some of the most fair-minded judges in all of the land.

00:25:47.000 Some of the most educated people that we can possibly find that can put on blinders and judge a case on its merits alone.

00:25:52.000 And we're talking about Republican and Democrat judges?

00:25:55.000 I think we've missed the boat here.

00:25:57.000 The Supreme Court is not supposed to be people that have biases.

00:25:59.000 It's supposed to be people that view the law and that's it.

00:26:02.000 But it never fails.

00:26:03.000 Where are you going to find someone who is not a conservative or liberal?

00:26:06.000 You're going to have to look in some coffee house where someone calls themselves... You know who you're going to have as judges?

00:26:11.000 The people who, up until election day, between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton... Don't say a word.

00:26:14.000 You know what?

00:26:15.000 I'm not quite sure yet.

00:26:16.000 Change of mind.

00:26:17.000 You can maybe convince me.

00:26:18.000 My vote's on the table!

00:26:19.000 What are you gonna give me?

00:26:20.000 You want that person in charge of Roe v. Wade? 0.81

00:26:23.000 I don't want that person.

00:26:23.000 What I'm saying is you can be a Republican or a Democrat, but the second you put on that robe and you sit on that bench, you have to put that aside.

00:26:30.000 And you have to make a fair decision.

00:26:31.000 And we don't look at the Supreme Court like that anymore. 1.00

00:26:33.000 All I care is that you're a rapist and you sail through. 1.00

00:26:35.000 Oh. 0.98

00:26:37.000 I mean, we could do that, or Democrats can get the idea of more justices in the public sphere so people actually agree with it.

00:26:45.000 Did you say sphere?

00:26:46.000 I said sphere.

00:26:47.000 Spear with an H. Alright, continue with this point, but we are waiting with bated breath.

00:26:52.000 Yes, they can make it really popular, Donald Trump can win, and then he can add five judges.

00:26:57.000 Yeah, exactly!

00:26:59.000 Why don't you just start adding judges now?

00:27:01.000 Tweet that, Donald Trump.

00:27:02.000 Watch their heads explode.

00:27:04.000 I think we should add 100 million judges.

00:27:07.000 And then all Republicans.

00:27:08.000 We should do away with the Electoral College. 0.94

00:27:10.000 What?

00:27:10.000 Beto is so eat with reverse psychology and skateboarding.

00:27:13.000 Like, what?

00:27:13.000 I want the Electoral College now.

00:27:15.000 High five, guys!

00:27:18.000 Number three.

00:27:19.000 This is another example where they just want to change the rules.

00:27:21.000 The voting age.

00:27:22.000 Pelosi just said publicly she's always been for lowering the voting age to, wait for it, 16.

00:27:30.000 I myself have always been for lowering the voting age.

00:27:32.000 No you haven't!

00:27:33.000 I think it's really important to capture kids when they're in high school, when they're interested in all of this, when they're learning about government, to be able to vote.

00:27:42.000 By the way, your sweet 16 was centuries ago.

00:27:48.000 She sounded a little weird.

00:27:48.000 The entire Democrat idea runs contrary to this.

00:27:52.000 They've campaigned for raising gun ownership from 18 to 21.

00:27:56.000 So you aren't responsible enough to own a tool for hunting at 18, but you should be able to vote in someone who's willing to kick out Amazon five states away?

00:28:06.000 and completely kill your economy, but hold on.

00:28:08.000 When's the last time you had a conversation with a 16-year-old?

00:28:11.000 They don't... I'm sorry, 16-year-olds can be smart.

00:28:13.000 Most of the time, you don't know anything, and specifically, you don't know anything about how the world works, right?

00:28:18.000 You tend to be very liberal when you're in high school if you have any political leaning at all, and then when you actually get out in the world and have a job, you're like, oh crap, conservative's the way to go, free market, love it.

00:28:26.000 But until then, you don't.

00:28:28.000 So I am not letting... I'm sorry, I don't want anybody... By the way, your rhetorical question of when was the last time you spoke with a 16-year-old was answered by pedophiles everywhere.

00:28:35.000 The comment section at Salon right now is like... There's usually not a lot of conversation going on over Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

00:28:42.000 Going over Gerald's point, do they even teach U.S.

00:28:44.000 history when you're 16 in the first place?

00:28:47.000 Well, probably not.

00:28:48.000 I mean, when I was in school, that was a junior class.

00:28:50.000 I didn't learn U.S.

00:28:51.000 history at all because I was raised in Canada.

00:28:53.000 So what I did during history class was fall asleep.

00:28:55.000 Number four, it's incredibly boring.

00:28:57.000 We just said... It's just because you were in Canada.

00:28:59.000 We just said, Uncle!

00:29:00.000 Uncle!

00:29:01.000 Keep protecting us.

00:29:02.000 We put your queen in our money. 1.00

00:29:05.000 Point number four, I know we kind of gloss it, the Constitution.

00:29:08.000 Let's go with that.

00:29:08.000 Ultimately, the Democrats, they're constantly in favor of changing the rules because they don't honor the most foundational rule book for the country, the Constitution.

00:29:16.000 We know they're openly against the Second Amendment, right?

00:29:18.000 Even openly calling for its repeal.

00:29:20.000 And a lot of people say, no, they're not.

00:29:21.000 If you talk about a mandatory buyback like in Australia, You're basically advocating for repealing the Second Amendment.

00:29:27.000 And by the way, continually they call for more laws against hate speech, which would essentially repeal the First Amendment.

00:29:31.000 It doesn't stop there.

00:29:32.000 Some of them completely want to actually abolish the Senate.

00:29:35.000 This is something that's actually been floated.

00:29:37.000 Again, it's a constant changing of rules to undermine the constitutional republic that is the United States and the electoral college. 1.00

00:29:43.000 It's just one in a long line of stupid ideas. 0.98

00:29:46.000 Yeah, and then you put out misinformation about the Second Amendment that it doesn't 1.00

00:29:48.000 actually say that you can have arms.

00:29:50.000 It says you can be a part of a militia.

00:29:51.000 You do it on purpose.

00:29:52.000 Do you know how easy it is to screw this up, by the way?

00:29:54.000 I don't think people understand that point.

00:29:56.000 It is incredibly easy to mess up something that is working, right?

00:29:59.000 You don't have to try very, very hard to do that.

00:30:01.000 To get it to go from 95 to, say, 98 is incredibly difficult without screwing it up.

00:30:06.000 It's working really well, okay?

00:30:09.000 You can F it up so fast.

00:30:11.000 Stop.

00:30:12.000 Stop trying to change it.

00:30:13.000 And they're doing it just for short-term gain in votes.

00:30:15.000 They don't understand that if they do away with the Electoral College, how the elections would be decided if someone doesn't win the majority of the vote.

00:30:20.000 It's not a plurality, it's a majority of the vote.

00:30:22.000 And then these are the same people who bitch about the two-party system, man. 0.96

00:30:25.000 What do you think is going to happen with the Electoral College if we have a situation like Canada where someone can win with 30-something percent of the vote?

00:30:32.000 Do you know who's going to be—I just—I don't know.

00:30:33.000 I'm very upset.

00:30:34.000 Do me a favor.

00:30:35.000 Just think two or three steps down the line, Democrats.

00:30:38.000 Do me a quick favor.

00:30:39.000 Think two or three moves down and go, oh yeah, that's a really bad idea.

00:30:42.000 Let's walk it back.

00:30:42.000 No, they don't think it's a bad idea as long as it serves them in the moment.

00:30:46.000 No politician should be doing this, whether it's Donald Trump or Elizabeth Warren or Beto.

00:30:50.000 You should not be selling out the futures of American citizens to pay out voters now.

00:30:56.000 That's the issue here.

00:30:57.000 And this is what I know people all the time say, I don't like labels.

00:31:00.000 You know what?

00:31:01.000 I'm okay.

00:31:02.000 I'm okay with the label conservative.

00:31:03.000 I'm okay that this is what separates conservatives from liberals or leftists or progressives.

00:31:08.000 Okay, there's proof for you that we're different.

00:31:10.000 They call themselves liberals.

00:31:12.000 They call themselves progressives.

00:31:14.000 They're the ones switching the labels to mean different things over time.

00:31:17.000 We've pretty much always called ourselves conservatives.

00:31:19.000 It's not really changed.

00:31:21.000 And by the way, our views have been pretty consistent.

00:31:23.000 Theirs never are.

00:31:23.000 People try to say, well, what about conservatives and free speech?

00:31:25.000 OK, sure, there might have been a couple of Republicans, along with Tipper Gore, who wanted to put warning labels on CDs.

00:31:32.000 But if you look at the mainstream conservative interpretation of the Constitution on court, it really hasn't changed all that much.

00:31:37.000 No, pretty consistent.

00:31:38.000 No.

00:31:39.000 This is something else.

00:31:40.000 This is something that they try to do as a Trump card, is, well, what about the fact that conservatives are racist?

00:31:45.000 Like, haven't you changed the party?

00:31:47.000 You flipped because... First off, I'm not gonna let you do it, okay?

00:31:51.000 Okay, Cenk?

00:31:51.000 Okay, John Oliver?

00:31:52.000 I'm not gonna let you say, well, what about the fact that... No, we're not racist.

00:31:55.000 We've never been the party of racism.

00:31:56.000 Do you mean the conservative interpretation, the platform that interpreted the Constitution in that no man has a right to own another man signed into law by Abraham f***ing Lincoln? 0.95

00:32:07.000 Those racists? 0.98

00:32:09.000 Party switched!

00:32:09.000 What are you talking about?

00:32:11.000 Strom Thurmond, get the hell out of here!

00:32:13.000 Our principles have been the same!

00:32:14.000 If we want to have an honest conversation about the state of our country, and you have a problem with the Electoral College, okay, fine. 0.93

00:32:20.000 But don't go trying to change the rulebook every time an election doesn't go your way, and then turn around and tell us about the erosion of our American values because we don't want to let some caravan from a crap hole country in, okay? 0.99

00:32:31.000 We just don't want you to be chastising us.

00:32:34.000 I hope I've clarified my points.

00:32:35.000 Ben Shapiro after this.

00:32:37.000 This is for all you buffers out there.

00:32:48.000 History is going to change.

00:32:53.000 This.

00:32:54.000 It's pretty good, right?

00:33:03.000 Alright.

00:33:04.000 Look like he's starting to go in his transition, don't he?

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00:34:40.000 Hey, speaking of things up, you know, our next guest will never look me in the Skype.

00:34:44.000 Right before the show, he's always looking down.

00:34:45.000 So you know what, Ben, just for this, look at my sun poison.

00:34:47.000 Look at this.

00:34:48.000 It's a power move.

00:34:49.000 Look at it at Ben Shapiro.

00:34:50.000 That's the people who don't know Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro.

00:34:52.000 My wife applied my suntan lotion.

00:34:54.000 Do you want me to take off my pants and show you my upper thighs, Ben?

00:34:57.000 No, you've done that before on my show.

00:34:59.000 It wasn't pleasant.

00:35:00.000 Those were ranger panties.

00:35:01.000 And by the way, I owe you a pair.

00:35:04.000 Have you ever gotten so sunburned that you wanted to throw up?

00:35:07.000 Uh, not that I wanted to throw up.

00:35:09.000 That's a new one.

00:35:09.000 But you get queasy.

00:35:10.000 You get really queasy.

00:35:11.000 And I don't know if it was heat stroke or sun poisoning, but my wife and I got into a hell of an argument because she said she didn't trust me with sun lotion.

00:35:18.000 She applied it.

00:35:20.000 Look!

00:35:20.000 Look at it, Ben!

00:35:22.000 Wow.

00:35:23.000 Well.

00:35:23.000 Wow.

00:35:24.000 Well done by your wife.

00:35:25.000 I mean, frankly, as a man who's watched you be waterboarded and enjoyed it thoroughly, I can say, you know, thanks to your wife.

00:35:32.000 I appreciate it.

00:35:33.000 If it was her lying low and there was something that I did that aggravated her months back, I would just have to give that one to her. 0.86

00:35:33.000 You know what? 0.86

00:35:40.000 I'm just going to have to give it to her.

00:35:42.000 Okay, so Ben, you have a new book out right now.

00:35:44.000 I want to make sure I have this right.

00:35:45.000 It's The Right Side of History, How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the Great West.

00:35:49.000 It's going to be released, I guess it was released on Tuesday, March 19th.

00:35:53.000 So before we get to that, I want to talk with you about, this has been kind of making the rounds quite a bit, you know, the Senate passed a bill that would allow states to punish businesses that take part in Israel boycotts, right?

00:36:05.000 That's kind of how it's been sort of surmised.

00:36:07.000 Rubio plays a big role in this.

00:36:09.000 What's your position on this as someone, obviously, who both of us support Israel's right to exist, but also the ability for businesses to practice business freely?

00:36:17.000 Well, here's what the bill actually does.

00:36:19.000 So what the bill actually does, it doesn't punish businesses that boycott Israel.

00:36:24.000 What it says is that the state will not contract with businesses that boycott Israel.

00:36:28.000 So there are plenty of laws like this that are on the books with regard to, for example, racial discrimination.

00:36:32.000 There are a lot of laws on the books like this with regard to anti-discrimination in LGBT communities.

00:36:39.000 This is particularly true in places like California and New York, where if you are a government agency you can't do business with a business that is refusing to do business with black people, for example.

00:36:50.000 So this is not the state going out of its way to quote-unquote punish people who are anti-Israel.

00:36:55.000 I mean, the state doesn't owe you a contract.

00:36:57.000 It's the state deciding which businesses it will do business with.

00:37:00.000 To be honest with you, I'm somewhat indifferent on the law.

00:37:02.000 I don't think it's a violation of the First Amendment.

00:37:05.000 At the same time, I generally am not a huge fan of the government conditioning its contracts with people on the political views of those businesses.

00:37:14.000 I just think that's generally a mistake.

00:37:15.000 So I'm not a huge detractor of this particular bill.

00:37:19.000 I'm also not a huge advocate for this particular bill.

00:37:21.000 But I think it's important to be accurate about what the bill does.

00:37:25.000 You know, forcing businesses not to be pro-BDS.

00:37:27.000 If they want to be pro-BDS, they can be pro-BDS.

00:37:30.000 They just can't do business with the state.

00:37:31.000 Right.

00:37:32.000 I think that's important to note.

00:37:32.000 Yeah.

00:37:34.000 And there have been a lot of people who've taken this out of context and make it seem as though basically they're banning businesses who boycott Israel.

00:37:41.000 We're sort of getting into the business of kind of like no-bid contracts.

00:37:43.000 We're talking about companies having contracts with the government.

00:37:45.000 This changes the working relationship quite a bit.

00:37:47.000 Speaking of Israel, this week, not a lot of coverage, because it happened, I believe, right before New Zealand.

00:37:55.000 I don't know the final tally.

00:37:56.000 Several rockets launched from Gaza into Tel Aviv.

00:38:00.000 You can see the footage of it being stopped by the Iron Dome.

00:38:05.000 How do you see this moving forward from here, and how would you like to see this moving forward?

00:38:09.000 Again, there wasn't a lot of coverage of the rockets.

00:38:11.000 Yeah, I mean, there was no coverage of the rockets.

00:38:13.000 There was no coverage of another terror attack in which a father of 12 was murdered in Israel, 47-year-old rabbi's father of 12.

00:38:20.000 These sorts of attacks are just completely ignored by the world media because when it's Israel involved and we pretend that Israel is not a member of the Western coalition and terror attacks against Israelis are simply chalked up to anti-Israel sentiment as opposed to anti-Jewish sentiment.

00:38:35.000 Well, firing rockets into the middle of Tel Aviv, which is a civilian area that is not in, quote, the West Bank, or in the Gaza Strip, obviously, is a pretty good indicator that maybe Hamas just wants to destroy Israel.

00:38:45.000 Other good indicators include their charter, in which they say they want to destroy Israel, and all of their propaganda, in which they say they want to destroy Israel, and the fact that they've built terror tunnels instead of providing food for their people. 0.58

00:38:55.000 The other uncovered story from the Gaza Strip is that Hamas is shooting its own citizens

00:38:58.000 in the Gaza Strip.

00:38:59.000 Seven people were shot this week by Hamas in the streets, and they're arresting all

00:39:04.000 the dissidents.

00:39:05.000 The media don't ever find any of this stuff newsworthy.

00:39:07.000 They find it newsworthy when Israel fights back, when Israel goes in and targets Hamas.

00:39:11.000 When Israel hits a school that Hamas is using as a military base, for example, then that 0.97

00:39:16.000 becomes a world story.

00:39:18.000 But firing rockets into the middle of civilian areas in the biggest city in Israel?

00:39:21.000 Nah, it's not a big deal at all.

00:39:22.000 Let me ask you this.

00:39:23.000 Oh, thanks for shutting your phone off, Mr. Shapiro.

00:39:26.000 You know what, Crowder?

00:39:26.000 You know what?

00:39:27.000 I know, you're so busy.

00:39:28.000 You're far too busy for us Gentiles and our non-hatted skulls. 1.00

00:39:32.000 Here's the thing, what you just mentioned, I agree with you, but have you noticed there's a schism where a lot of people think, oh man, Israel just gets all the media coverage because the media is run by Jewish executives and so all of these people support Israel, everyone in the entertainment industry, and then people who are pro-Israel say, well no, listen, they're always sympathizing with Palestine, they're not covering the rockets being launched.

00:39:50.000 It seems as though both sides have really dug in their heels and see the media as either being overtly pro-Jewish, pro-Israel, or completely anti-Israel.

00:39:58.000 Why do you think that is?

00:39:59.000 Because you have to be out of your mind to believe that the media are overtly pro-Israel.

00:40:03.000 I mean, CNN... I went on CNN in 2014 and I said that they were essentially an outlet for Hamas.

00:40:08.000 I mean, CNN's coverage of these sorts of conflicts...

00:40:12.000 Is inevitably geared toward Israel as the aggressor because the left-wing narrative is that Israel is the bad guy in this particular conflict for the same reason that rich people are generally seen as the bad guys in various conflicts around the world.

00:40:26.000 And all Disney films.

00:40:28.000 The left largely says whenever there's someone successful and someone unsuccessful it must be because the successful person somehow hurt the unsuccessful person.

00:40:34.000 And they see that same conflict playing out in Israel.

00:40:36.000 Israel is successful. 0.61

00:40:37.000 It is a very economically prosperous society.

00:40:39.000 It has a lot of technology.

00:40:41.000 It has a very powerful military.

00:40:43.000 And so the narrative is that that must be because they have disadvantaged the Palestinians.

00:40:47.000 Israel has been trying desperately to hand over control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians for legitimately decades at this point.

00:40:53.000 They did hand over full control of the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians in 2005.

00:40:56.000 And the Palestinians promptly burned down all the greenhouses and elected Hamas. 0.95

00:41:00.000 So it's worked out fantastically well.

00:41:01.000 And the Charter is key. 0.99

00:41:02.000 You know, if you sign up for iTunes and if you read the agreement, it says, by the way, we're also going to kill your wife and family. 0.99

00:41:07.000 You'd be like, well, hold on a second. 0.98

00:41:08.000 This seems odd to put in the agreement.

00:41:10.000 Seems like you wanted me to gloss over that one, Tim Apple.

00:41:13.000 Let me ask you, I said, Tim Cook.

00:41:15.000 No, you didn't.

00:41:16.000 There's a video.

00:41:16.000 I said, Tim Cook.

00:41:17.000 Why lie about this?

00:41:19.000 It's just a flub that doesn't matter.

00:41:22.000 Final question, though.

00:41:22.000 This is one thing, as someone who, you know, has vehemently defended Israel's right to exist.

00:41:27.000 Do you see it as a problem or a lot of detractors point to an inconsistency in them being sort of allies with Saudi Arabia, one of the biggest funders of terrorism?

00:41:34.000 I understand the geopolitics as it relates to Iran, as it relates to the conflicts over there and they need some kind of protection.

00:41:39.000 That being said, the Saudi Arabia relationships, both with the United States government and Israeli government, doesn't sit well with a lot of people.

00:41:45.000 What about yourself?

00:41:46.000 Well, in an ideal world, obviously, you wouldn't be allied with any bad governments.

00:41:49.000 The reality of the world, as President Trump has correctly stated, is that very often you're allied with bad governments against worse governments.

00:41:55.000 And that's certainly the case with both the United States' relationship with Saudi Arabia and now the Israeli relationship with Saudi Arabia.

00:42:01.000 You don't, unfortunately, get to pick all of your allies when it comes to world politics.

00:42:05.000 Were that the case, then, it would have been very difficult to side with Stalin to defeat Hitler during World War II.

00:42:10.000 You're constantly having to make choices about which people are worthy of siding with In order to stop worse people.

00:42:18.000 And I see that less as inconsistency and more as just the realities on the ground.

00:42:22.000 That's just a truism of politics generally. 0.99

00:42:25.000 But we can agree, Saudi Arabian government, kinda dicks. 1.00

00:42:28.000 Awful. 1.00

00:42:29.000 Yeah, absolutely. 0.99

00:42:29.000 Awful, evil government. 0.99

00:42:30.000 So there we go.

00:42:31.000 This is why I appreciate you coming on, because if I said this, people would be like, you're paid by Big Shapiro money.

00:42:35.000 I'm like, no, no, no, I'm not Jewish.

00:42:36.000 I just think that this stuff is pretty reasonable.

00:42:38.000 They have a right to exist, and they have rockets going into their main city there from this strip.

00:42:43.000 By the way, take the strip.

00:42:44.000 Turn it into a strip mall for all I care.

00:42:46.000 So your book, Right Side of History, wouldn't that be, if Donald Trump could go in and call it Trump-Gaza Strip Ball, it would sell like hotcakes.

00:42:55.000 Everyone would want to go there.

00:42:57.000 No one even wants to go to strip malls, but I'd go to that strip mall, especially if it's sat under the Iron Dome.

00:43:01.000 So Right Side of History, the book, was released this week.

00:43:06.000 Tell us, give us a briefer on this and why you think it's important for everyone to read your book.

00:43:11.000 You've talked about this, and obviously that's a good point.

00:43:13.000 Everyone needs to read my book.

00:43:14.000 But you've talked about specifically whether they agree with you politically, ideologically, or not.

00:43:19.000 Why is this book different in that sense?

00:43:20.000 Well, what the book basically is about is why we're so angry at each other.

00:43:23.000 We live in the freest, most prosperous Civilization in the history of the world, and it is not close, and yet we are supremely pissed at each other, and that is because, in my view, we have forgotten the sort of ties that bind us together, and those are ties that have a long history, a 3,000-year history, going back through Sinai, through the Sermon on the Mount, and including Greek thought as well.

00:43:42.000 This kind of merger of Judeo-Christian values and Greek reason, that interplay created the West, and created all the values that we like today.

00:43:50.000 So if you like science, if you like technology, if you're a big fan of free speech, if you're a big fan of living in a democracy. All of these concepts come out of

00:43:57.000 the West. They don't come out of anywhere else. And so we have to try and re-examine why it

00:44:01.000 is that these concepts came out of the West and whether those concepts are rooted in something deeper

00:44:07.000 and more valuable and that we can't just discard. I think that we sort of want to take the gains of

00:44:11.000 Western civilization while ignoring the roots of Western civilization or even fighting against

00:44:15.000 those roots. And I don't think you can I don't think that you can fight Judeo-Christian values, and at the same time talk about how you want to maintain all of the prosperity, equality, and freedom of Western civilization.

00:44:26.000 You can't remove the foundation from a building and expect the facade to stand.

00:44:31.000 But you just talked about how kind of we're supremely pissed off at each other and examining why.

00:44:34.000 Well, let me just say this.

00:44:36.000 I always talk about this.

00:44:37.000 I don't believe in finding common ground if there's the truth and the truth does not find itself in the common ground.

00:44:41.000 People just heard you say that about Western civilization.

00:44:44.000 People will read this book and they will be supremely pissed off.

00:44:47.000 So are you, by default, adding to the polarization in simply pointing out the truth?

00:44:52.000 That's my issue where you have a lot of people who shall or may name us who go out and go, we're just going to build bridges.

00:44:56.000 Well, okay.

00:44:57.000 Good example.

00:44:58.000 I can't build a bridge with Hamas if in their charter is to blow me up. 0.90

00:45:01.000 Right.

00:45:01.000 I mean, the book is also a clarification, obviously, and there is a view of Western civilization that Western civilization is inherently bad.

00:45:08.000 I hope that the book convinces people that Western civilization is not inherently bad, but if it's your view that Western civilization is all about racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia, and that all of those things can only be torn out by removing Western civilization at its root and replacing it with some sort of new socialist utopia or replacing it with tribal intersectionality, if that's your view, well, then Let's clarify that view and let's have that argument because I think your argument sucks. 0.96

00:45:32.000 But again, the idea here is that America was based in certain values that are pretty much embedded in our founding documents. 0.92

00:45:39.000 We haven't always lived up to those values, obviously.

00:45:42.000 Sometimes we don't live up to those values today.

00:45:43.000 But to suggest that America's values are about the evils rather than about the goods is to ignore the fact that the goods That's a very good point.

00:45:58.000 Yeah, the virtues here are pretty unique to the West, and that's one thing also when you deal with more relativists who are atheists, hardcore atheists, who say, well, if I need a god to tell me not to kill somebody, then I'm just crazy, and that god is great.

00:46:08.000 Well, okay, hold on a second.

00:46:10.000 What about a god to tell you to be merciful?

00:46:11.000 Not all societies valued mercy, particularly not until modern Christendom.

00:46:15.000 What about a God that tells you to not cheat on your wife?

00:46:17.000 What about a God who tells you to love your wife and speak to her tenderly?

00:46:21.000 These are not universal values.

00:46:22.000 There are certain values that we see in the West, particularly in the United States, that have not been embedded in other societies that do come directly from Judeo-Christian principles.

00:46:30.000 And it's always interesting to me that the hardcore atheists take the extreme arguments like, well, every society knows that killing is wrong.

00:46:38.000 Even if we take that example, not all societies agree with that.

00:46:41.000 You look at Native Americans. 1.00

00:46:42.000 They didn't have a concept of personal property, and so you'd come home, your sh** was gone because it wasn't technically your sh**, you know? 0.97

00:46:48.000 These are things that people don't think about. 0.98

00:46:50.000 I'm sure you do.

00:46:50.000 Well, the fact is that even if you take the example of murder, it is true that virtually every society has a taboo against murder.

00:46:56.000 That does not mean that the law extends to people beyond your tribe.

00:47:00.000 So it's very easy to say, yeah, you're not allowed to murder people who are inside our tribe, like inside this camp right here.

00:47:05.000 But over there, those guys, those aren't humans over there.

00:47:09.000 And also, if you happen to be a very powerful person, you do have the right to kill somebody who's below you on the social scale. 0.85

00:47:14.000 You do have the right to kill people who are more weak and more vulnerable.

00:47:17.000 To suggest that a universal taboo against murder is not embedded in the Bible in a different way than it's embedded in pagan civilizations is to ignore the fact that child sacrifice was a regular thing in a lot of pagan civilizations.

00:47:29.000 Right.

00:47:30.000 Or Coney.

00:47:30.000 I saw that movie.

00:47:32.000 Taking the Child Soldiers.

00:47:33.000 Remember that?

00:47:33.000 Yeah.

00:47:33.000 Remember Coney?

00:47:35.000 No.

00:47:36.000 You don't remember Coney?

00:47:37.000 That was like the biggest documentary.

00:47:37.000 You don't remember the big documentary Coney?

00:47:39.000 It was this war, you remember that Court of Black Air. 0.91

00:47:40.000 That was a campaign.

00:47:41.000 It was a campaign and then the guy who made it went on like a Martin Lawrence style bender in LA.

00:47:46.000 He was snorting coke and he was naked I think on Sunset Boulevard.

00:47:48.000 It just went in a weird direction.

00:47:50.000 Listen, you saw the ride, you bought a ticket anyway.

00:47:54.000 Alright, final question here, Ben, because this has been an entirely reasonable interview and I want some people pissed off with both you and myself, because it's always what happens after these.

00:48:01.000 You've given a report card on Donald Trump here, especially as we're looking at the DNC candidates coming up.

00:48:07.000 What would you give him overall?

00:48:08.000 And do you think he wins in 2020?

00:48:15.000 I hate to hedge bets, but I didn't hedge my bets in the last election cycle and then I lost lots of money.

00:48:19.000 You did.

00:48:20.000 So when it comes to how President Trump is going to do in this election cycle, it's almost entirely dependent on two factors.

00:48:26.000 Can he shut his face?

00:48:27.000 Will sounds come out?

00:48:28.000 Can he stop his tweeting thumbs? 0.88

00:48:30.000 And also, will the Democrats nominate somebody completely loony? 0.97

00:48:34.000 Or will they try to go toward the more electable direction and nominate someone who's half loony like Joe Biden? 0.96

00:48:38.000 Right.

00:48:39.000 Or are they going to go completely bat bleep and nominate Bernie Sanders?

00:48:42.000 Is that the way they go?

00:48:44.000 Yeah, if President Trump could shut up and allow the focus to be on Democrats, I would say that he has a better than 50% chance of being reelected.

00:48:50.000 Yeah.

00:48:50.000 If, however, he continues to do what he's doing and drive away suburban women.

00:48:55.000 He lost the popular vote by two and a half million votes last time.

00:48:57.000 He ran the narrowest gauntlet in American history.

00:48:59.000 He won the three key states by a combined 80,000 votes.

00:49:02.000 He won fewer absolute votes in Wisconsin than Mitt Romney won in Wisconsin.

00:49:06.000 The real story of 2016 is nobody showed up to vote for Hillary Clinton.

00:49:08.000 Number one, because they didn't like her.

00:49:09.000 And number two, because they figured she was going to win.

00:49:11.000 That same phenomenon is not going to take place again.

00:49:15.000 Democrats are going to show up.

00:49:16.000 They're going to show up in big numbers.

00:49:17.000 So President Trump's best bet here, he's not going to convince people that he's a wonderful human being because people think what they think about him already. 0.94

00:49:25.000 The best bet here is just shot. 0.98

00:49:27.000 Well, not just shut up. 0.98

00:49:29.000 The reason for him shutting up is more helpful to him is because the economy is doing so well.

00:49:33.000 The New York Times are even trying to find excuses as to why it works and attribute it to Obama.

00:49:36.000 If he can just be silent and direct people toward his record on the economy, and then say, hey, by the way, now Kamala Harris, and she's saying whatever Kamala Harris says, or, by the way, here's Elizabeth Warren's Instagram.

00:49:47.000 Have FUD.

00:49:48.000 That's all he needs to do, and he wins.

00:49:50.000 I agree.

00:49:51.000 It's like a race to the bottom.

00:49:53.000 If he can get out of his own way, this should be very winnable because of the economy.

00:49:57.000 If they run Joe Biden, I don't think it matters, as long as Donald Trump is just a little bit more disciplined.

00:50:02.000 But I don't think they're going to run Joe Biden.

00:50:03.000 I think it's going to be a cabal of hair.

00:50:04.000 I think it's going to be the double-triple minority factor, and maybe they'll put Beto on there because, I don't know, he's a wiener. 1.00

00:50:10.000 Because they need a weirdo who tries to feed his wife Poo is avocado or something. 0.97

00:50:14.000 What?

00:50:15.000 You see that story?

00:50:16.000 No.

00:50:16.000 Did you see the story?

00:50:17.000 It was a Washington Post story about him and his wife, and normally I don't care about the spouses of candidates, but the story is mostly about how he's a weirdo, how he likes to prank his wife, and apparently he took, like, one of his kid's diaper turds and put it in a bowl and told her that it was avocado.

00:50:31.000 And also, in the last few months, apparently he went to New Mexico and he ate dirt.

00:50:35.000 I'm not kidding you.

00:50:36.000 It says this in the story, like, to recover from his loss to Ted Cruz, he ate It was supposed to restore sustenance to him?

00:50:43.000 He went and he ate dirt.

00:50:45.000 No, that was just a spin on the story.

00:50:46.000 He lost a bet, and Ted Cruz was making him eat the dirt, going, now, now, eat the dirt, that's right, eat coli.

00:50:51.000 I don't know why he sounds like George Bush Sr. 0.86

00:50:54.000 The poo thing, though, you can die. 1.00

00:50:55.000 That's disturbing. 0.99

00:50:56.000 He could have killed it. 0.99

00:50:57.000 It's like, cinnamon challenge with death! 0.98

00:50:59.000 Also, I mean, if you want to piss off the millennials, I mean, Substituting poop for avocado. 1.00

00:51:04.000 That'll piss off all the morons. 1.00

00:51:06.000 What's he going to do next time? 1.00

00:51:07.000 He's going to take a rabbit poop to substitute for single-origin coffee and just put it in a coffee house?

00:51:11.000 Do a pour-over?

00:51:13.000 You were supposed to be on our side, Beto!

00:51:16.000 All right, the book is... I want to make sure I have the title.

00:51:19.000 The Right Side of History, How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the Great West.

00:51:22.000 The show is Ben Shapiro's show on Daily Wire.

00:51:24.000 Of course, he's the editor-in-chief of Daily Wire.

00:51:26.000 All right, Mr. Ben Daily Wire, appreciate it.

00:51:28.000 You must go.

00:51:29.000 Catch you later.

00:51:30.000 See you!

00:51:31.000 We'll be back, wrapping it up.

00:51:33.000 I really need work.

00:51:59.000 We've got affluent formation.

00:52:02.000 Take your jobs elsewhere, Amazon.

00:52:04.000 We've got affluent formation.

00:52:07.000 And that's how you run the global economy.

00:52:09.000 We've got affluent...

00:52:11.000 Our technological advancement as a society has outpaced our system for handling finite resources.

00:52:24.000 Because now we are approaching infinite resources.

00:52:28.000 Nailed it.

00:52:28.000 I'm like really good at this stuff.

00:52:33.000 I run this board.

00:52:34.000 I'm the boss.

00:52:35.000 What if I ran for president?

00:52:38.000 I'd be like a super genius president.

00:52:40.000 I'd be like one of those baby geniuses from the movie President.

00:52:46.000 I wonder if there's a sale at Forever 21?

00:52:49.000 Join Mug Club today.

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00:52:55.000 This is a video of the news.

00:53:39.000 That's the Greg Louganis.

00:53:42.000 Platform diver who hit his back, the back of his head on the board and spilled AIDS all over the Olympic pool.

00:53:42.000 I see.

00:53:50.000 And he was played by Louis Diamond Phillips.

00:53:52.000 I believe he was played by Louis Diamond Phillips.

00:53:52.000 I believe.

00:53:53.000 He might have been played by Mario Lopez.

00:53:56.000 And the made-for-TV film.

00:53:57.000 The point is, his life is not very good.

00:53:59.000 Yeah.

00:54:00.000 And anyway, Greg Louganis.

00:54:02.000 And then for a long time, when I was young, I remember I read this story in Sports Illustrated for Kids, which just tells you how horribly inappropriate that magazine was.

00:54:09.000 And I confused Greg Louganis.

00:54:11.000 I thought Lou Gehrig's disease was named after the guy who had AIDS who hit his head.

00:54:15.000 That guy was a baseball player.

00:54:16.000 Yeah, I know.

00:54:16.000 Obviously, I was incorrect.

00:54:18.000 Okay.

00:54:18.000 Because I had heard about Greg Louganis before Lou Gehrig.

00:54:21.000 Thank you so much to Ben Shapiro.

00:54:24.000 Really appreciate him being on the show.

00:54:26.000 Speaking of AIDS, by the way, there's going to be some AIDS walks going on across the country this weekend.

00:54:29.000 And so, you know, who knows?

00:54:30.000 Maybe someone will show up.

00:54:31.000 Big show's next week.

00:54:32.000 We're really looking forward to it.

00:54:33.000 Hey, one thing.

00:54:35.000 I know this is a segment that we often do.

00:54:36.000 I wanted to talk with you guys about a couple of things today.

00:54:38.000 I know I'm not supposed to read the comment sections, and I usually don't on social media.

00:54:42.000 Obviously, people who are Mug Club members, that's a little bit different.

00:54:45.000 But Too Cute Maddie, can you bring up the overlay here?

00:54:45.000 We can interact with people there.

00:54:47.000 This is one thing that I did see recently in the Amy Schumer special.

00:54:50.000 This person said, I would love to join, but I've been taking care of my mom for the last two years.

00:54:54.000 Two weeks ago, informed us that she only has three to six months left.

00:54:57.000 COPD sucks.

00:54:58.000 I'll eventually join to support them, meaning us, but for this time, YouTube will have to suffice. 0.92

00:55:02.000 And this other person, just username, we've eliminated any private info here, though they did post it on YouTube.

00:55:08.000 Ill-advised.

00:55:10.000 I'd like to send you the money to sign up for Mug Club.

00:55:10.000 God bless you.

00:55:13.000 And if you want to read the rest of these comments, you can bring it down to, how many people can see it.

00:55:16.000 If you're listening to audio version, I encourage you to go watch the video.

00:55:20.000 First off, we're going to get you, we appreciate that our fans are trying to support each other.

00:55:24.000 We're going to get you, obviously, Hooked up with Mud Club. 1.00

00:55:27.000 We'll make sure, we'll find your email, we'll track you down, and we'll make sure that you're taken care of.

00:55:31.000 We really appreciate the sentiment.

00:55:33.000 But seeing our fans, you, act that way, knowing that that is truly, it's indicative of the bulk of you who tune into this show, it really does.

00:55:42.000 You know, I know as I get older it sounds, but it really does warm my heart.

00:55:45.000 I think it warms all of our cockles.

00:55:46.000 Yeah.

00:55:47.000 You shouldn't use that term, but I used it anyway. 0.82

00:55:49.000 I'm uncomfortable.

00:55:50.000 Well, you should be.

00:55:50.000 You should be, but not because of that.

00:55:52.000 So two things I wanted to talk about today.

00:55:54.000 The first thing is esteeming others first.

00:55:56.000 Serving other people first.

00:55:57.000 So let me tell you a story.

00:55:58.000 This last weekend I went to Florida with my wife to visit the in-laws.

00:56:01.000 Love my in-laws.

00:56:02.000 Great people.

00:56:02.000 I'm very fortunate in that respect.

00:56:05.000 The first day we were fighting quite a bit.

00:56:08.000 Arguing quite a bit.

00:56:09.000 And this tends to happen, I don't know if you've noticed this, the first day of vacation, if this tends to happen, the first day of vacation, like when my wife and I, when we used to live in different states before we were married, the first day we would always be arguing and usually the last day.

00:56:22.000 I think it's because of one very simple, human beings are selfish, and so you have your way of doing things, or your expectations, and then you're locked in a room with someone, basically, or a tube in the sky, and you're staying in the same room in your in-laws' apartments, and you find out that you really can't do things the way that you've been wanting to do them.

00:56:39.000 And the next, I will say this, the next two days on our trip were great, because we consciously decided that rather than push and pull and bump heads, that we would serve each other first.

00:56:49.000 And this is a challenge I would like to issue to everyone out there.

00:56:52.000 Because we get a lot of life advice questions when we do those segments behind the paywall.

00:56:55.000 I want to challenge you for one week, one week, to focus on serving other people.

00:57:00.000 And that brings me to my second point, and one that I think might be a little bit uncomfortable for a lot of people.

00:57:05.000 Serving others first, thinking of others first.

00:57:07.000 It also gets you out of the rhythm.

00:57:09.000 that we all fall into of getting what we deserve.

00:57:13.000 You can call it entitlement.

00:57:14.000 We all feel it to a certain degree.

00:57:16.000 We're all so focused on getting what we deserve, on what we rightfully have coming to us.

00:57:21.000 Only, have you ever actually thought about that?

00:57:25.000 There were other comments on the Amy Schumer special teaser, which I'll be honest about, pissed me off a little bit.

00:57:30.000 People complaining about the fact that MugClub exists.

00:57:32.000 People saying, why can't you just upload it all for free?

00:57:35.000 I'm not paying for MugClub, I don't have the money.

00:57:38.000 And when I read that, I got pissed for a few reasons.

00:57:40.000 Some are valid, and I realized some of them are my own issues.

00:57:44.000 Valid ones, for example, we literally couldn't upload yesterday's Amy Schumer review.

00:57:49.000 We tested it on a private stream, YouTube immediately struck the video and revoked this private channel's live-streaming privileges.

00:57:55.000 It's not just about demonetization anymore, it's outright banning.

00:57:58.000 Sometimes we simply can't get the show up.

00:58:01.000 You saw it with the Oscars.

00:58:02.000 The trailer itself demonetized the second it was uploaded.

00:58:06.000 Right, but it's far worse than that.

00:58:08.000 When they just don't let you upload the review.

00:58:09.000 Yes.

00:58:10.000 It's not even just about you not receiving notifications, even though you opted in two, three, four, five times, some of you out there.

00:58:16.000 So please bookmark the page and keep checking in.

00:58:19.000 Sometimes we just can't do it.

00:58:20.000 Another thing, we've always created exclusive content, like The Daily Show, for people who are Mug Club members, because we wanted to provide everyone with more free content. 0.94

00:58:27.000 Mug Club is the only one anyone here survives.

00:58:30.000 So that's why not everything goes up for free.

00:58:32.000 And sometimes I'll read these comments and I think, well, you know what?

00:58:35.000 Maybe you don't deserve this show.

00:58:36.000 If you don't join Mug Club, This show might go away. 0.93

00:58:39.000 If you're not willing to step up, this show will go away forever.

00:58:41.000 You'll log into your Facebook, and that's what you deserve.

00:58:44.000 But if I'm being honest, neither do I.

00:58:48.000 I don't deserve this.

00:58:49.000 I don't deserve this show.

00:58:50.000 I don't deserve for the many of you out there to give me your hard-earned money so that I and everyone here can continue to create and perform this show for you.

00:58:59.000 You know, sometimes this show is hard.

00:59:01.000 Sometimes, yeah, people burn out.

00:59:02.000 Sometimes we run into health issues.

00:59:03.000 But, oh my God, I don't deserve to get up every day and work, sure, maybe 10, 14 hours on creating something, but creating something that people love.

00:59:14.000 For people who love me, who love this show, you, who've created this platform, who've made this channel the number one conservative channel in the history of YouTube.

00:59:25.000 Why am I... I had to think about this.

00:59:27.000 I'm reading the comment.

00:59:28.000 That's why you don't read the comment section.

00:59:29.000 Why am I getting pissed because some people want to rip our content for free?

00:59:33.000 I don't deserve any of this.

00:59:35.000 It's a blessing.

00:59:37.000 And when I think about what I deserve, have you ever really thought about that?

00:59:41.000 I mean really thought about it?

00:59:43.000 When I think about it, I'll tell you, it's scary.

00:59:46.000 When I think of throughout my life, the mistakes I've made, the people I've hurt, whether on purpose or by accident, the ripple effect some of my misdeeds may have created, when I add it all up, do I really want what I deserve?

01:00:00.000 Do you?

01:00:01.000 Do any of us?

01:00:03.000 And, yeah, listen, to you, the guy, girl, or Z, who doesn't want to support the show, you do.

01:00:07.000 You deserve for this show to go away.

01:00:09.000 You deserve to log into your YouTube account and go, oh, it's completely gone.

01:00:12.000 I never get to watch it again.

01:00:13.000 But you won't.

01:00:15.000 You know why?

01:00:16.000 Because of grace.

01:00:17.000 Because of the grace of other people.

01:00:19.000 Because other people have paid the bill for you.

01:00:23.000 And just like you saw in that comment earlier, It's from someone who's willing to help another person out.

01:00:27.000 My point is this.

01:00:28.000 None of us really want to get what we actually deserve.

01:00:31.000 Any of us.

01:00:32.000 And we all like to think about what we've earned to what we're entitled.

01:00:35.000 Even sometimes the little joys in life that we deserve about treating yourself.

01:00:37.000 But what about the... Does it go both ways?

01:00:39.000 What about the justice?

01:00:41.000 What about the punishment?

01:00:43.000 You think about what you deserve there?

01:00:45.000 You know what?

01:00:46.000 Most, if not all of us, have never had to truly bear the brunt of what we deserve.

01:00:50.000 And the only reason we don't is because of grace.

01:00:52.000 Now listen, I'm a Christian, okay?

01:00:53.000 So I believe and I'm thankful for God's grace when it comes to the ultimate justice and punishment.

01:00:58.000 But let's take it out of the metaphysical sense here, okay?

01:01:01.000 In your day-to-day, you don't receive what you truly deserve often only through the grace of others.

01:01:08.000 Usually by many others who lift your burdens, who serve your needs, and you probably don't even recognize it.

01:01:14.000 I know most of us certainly don't appreciate it.

01:01:17.000 It's why I see entitlement mindsets as so pervasively evil.

01:01:21.000 You don't deserve your job.

01:01:25.000 You have one by the grace of someone else who created a product, which stems from the grace of someone else who created a company, which stems from the grace of someone who created an industry, which stems from the grace of someone who graced the world with an idea.

01:01:34.000 You don't deserve.

01:01:36.000 You do not deserve health care or an average life expectancy that's 20 to 30 years longer than your great-grandfather.

01:01:43.000 You receive it by the grace of someone else who is providing the procedures that you need.

01:01:48.000 Or the grace of someone who pioneered modern medicine.

01:01:50.000 The grace of someone who took a risk that you yourself would likely probably never be willing to take.

01:01:56.000 I know right now we're talking about money exchanging hands, and so people will light up the comment section saying, it's not by grace, it's a profit motive, but that's not entirely true.

01:02:03.000 And, by the way, you're missing the point.

01:02:05.000 Either way, let's go smaller with it.

01:02:07.000 You don't deserve that coffee your wife or your husband made you this morning. 0.99

01:02:13.000 You don't deserve the unwavering love or support that they give you.

01:02:16.000 You receive it through grace.

01:02:20.000 It's for the same simple concept, by the way.

01:02:22.000 That mandated entitlements destroy a nation.

01:02:26.000 Let's take the concept of universal income.

01:02:28.000 I had to think about why do I hate this so much.

01:02:30.000 It's predicated on the idea that you deserve the right to a basic, universal income regardless of work or ability.

01:02:37.000 Sounds good.

01:02:40.000 But how does it work?

01:02:42.000 It only works by the grace of others.

01:02:44.000 By the grace of others who did the work, and who had their spoils taken from them at gunpoint.

01:02:50.000 Nothing that you think you deserve, when you trace it back far enough, can stem from anything other than the grace of someone else.

01:02:56.000 And this brings me back to my first point.

01:02:57.000 Just as I think entitlement robs people of their spirit, of their soul, your own mindset of entitlement, of what you deserve, robs you of truly living a fulfilling life.

01:03:05.000 Don't believe me?

01:03:05.000 Try this for a week.

01:03:07.000 Write this down.

01:03:08.000 Grab a pen and paper if you're listening on the audio version.

01:03:11.000 All of next week.

01:03:13.000 Live your life day to day to bestow grace upon and serve others.

01:03:17.000 For the whole week.

01:03:18.000 In other words, this week, first thing when you wake up, think of how you can serve people you love the most.

01:03:23.000 What do you usually do?

01:03:25.000 Grab yourself a cup of coffee?

01:03:26.000 Go for a jog?

01:03:27.000 Nope, not this week.

01:03:28.000 You're going to bring your wife a cup of coffee. 0.75

01:03:31.000 You're going to get up earlier and help prepare your husband so that he can go for a jog before work.

01:03:36.000 If you find yourself getting frustrated with things not going your way, stop and ask yourself why your wife, your husband, your dad, your mom, whoever it is, the next guy down the line might be frustrated and help him to pave his way.

01:03:47.000 Here, do you often find yourself getting sad?

01:03:50.000 Depressed even?

01:03:50.000 I've talked about this.

01:03:51.000 I've struggled with it.

01:03:52.000 Find someone else who's even more sad.

01:03:56.000 Someone who has even more of a reason to be depressed.

01:03:59.000 You know they're there.

01:04:00.000 Cheer them up.

01:04:01.000 One week.

01:04:01.000 That's what I'm asking you to do.

01:04:03.000 For one week, I want you to flip the switch on the day-to-day of making sure that you get what you deserve and make sure that you are living a life to serve others.

01:04:11.000 One week.

01:04:12.000 Do that every waking moment.

01:04:13.000 Tell me it doesn't change your life.

01:04:15.000 Tell me it doesn't change your entire perspective.

01:04:17.000 Comment.

01:04:17.000 Let me know.

01:04:18.000 The fact is this.

01:04:19.000 If, for the people out there who commented on this, if you don't join Mug Club and support this program, listen, you don't deserve this show.

01:04:26.000 Anything that you enjoy is enjoyed by the grace of others who paid the bill.

01:04:29.000 Just as certainly, I don't deserve your support.

01:04:32.000 I don't.

01:04:34.000 You pay my bills.

01:04:35.000 You pay all of our bills.

01:04:36.000 You feed all of our families.

01:04:39.000 I don't deserve the blessing that is the ability to employ a dozen people and to create this show for you every day.

01:04:44.000 I receive support by your grace and I try to serve you as best as I can every day.

01:04:48.000 And you know what?

01:04:48.000 I hope I'll be around here another decade from now, able to serve you through your grace.

01:04:53.000 And more importantly, I really want to see more of what I saw in that comment section of people helping someone else out.

01:04:59.000 More of you Mug Clubbers, subscribers, supporters bestowing grace on each other.

01:05:02.000 Because you know what?

01:05:02.000 That's what makes you different from a lot of these other channels.

01:05:04.000 It's not about what you deserve.

01:05:06.000 It's about what you give.

01:05:07.000 One week.

01:05:08.000 Use that comment as a model.

01:05:11.000 Try it out.

01:05:11.000 Let me know how it turns out for you.

Louder with Crowder - March 22, 2019

#451 THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE KICKS ASS! | Ben Shapiro Guests | Louder With Crowder

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