Ben Shapiro joins us to talk about student loan debt and why he thinks Hillary Clinton should run for president in 2020. Plus, Bill Richman joins us on the show to discuss why we should forgive all student loans and who pays the bill.
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00:08:55.000It happened earlier in the week, but there's a little more context here.
00:08:57.000An MSNBC anchor, Allison Morris, claims that she said nakers and not the n-word while reporting on, and here's a clip, reporting on Kobe Bryant's death.
00:09:09.000Yeah, it seems like he was just the kind of athlete, the kind of star that was perfectly cast on the Los Angeles Lakers.
00:09:19.000I heard she was trying to say Nixon and said Lakers, but no team has a G in their name.
00:09:25.000I mean, yeah, the nuggets, but that doesn't apply here.
00:09:42.000And it happened by, obviously, she claimed mixing Knicks and Lakers.
00:09:46.000Now, on the surface, listen, this is an understandable mistake, though some have pointed to Allison's other slip-ups, from referring to them as the Toronto Rap Sheets to the Chicago Blackcocks, as well as the incident where she burned crosses on the lawns of every active member of the Detroit Pistons roster.
00:11:02.000Scientists believe hemp has a potential to provide a critical nutritional resource that could help reverse Our bee shortage, which led scientists to increase medical research in other fields.
00:11:14.000And sadly, it actually proved to be unhelpful in researching bee allergies.
00:12:59.000The wife was arrested for the theft of a television set and when a police officer carried out a body search found it wasn't actually a woman.
00:13:08.000So some are speculating that this was All part of a big plot to embarrass the high-profile Imam
00:13:12.000with some other people having chalked it up to just a simple mistake
00:13:15.000Others are still circulating rumors that this was simply an elaborate plot to promote the new Wayans Brothers vehicle
00:13:52.000I swear, we can show you the document that it was drafted three weeks ago, but we just couldn't pull it at this point.
00:13:58.000Recent study claims that women are actually being held back in marketing, particularly the marketing field, by a persistent, pervasive sexism, the article says.
00:18:37.000Yeah, that's exactly what you're doing.
00:18:39.000Compare that to Ted Cruz when he was in Iowa when he was talking about corn subsidies and this guy came and said, you're gonna hurt our industry here.
00:19:19.000In creating a new victim class, and right now the victim class extends to people who willingly took on student loans, so I'm getting loose with the terms here, we create real victims.
00:20:06.000Even let's assume that student loans, and it's predatory lending, it's the bank's fault, it still wouldn't solve the issue in forcing somebody else to pay that bill twice.
00:20:15.000Okay, so let's go through this idea, though, the crisis, because it's predicated on the idea that there's a crisis right now.
00:20:20.000This is a huge claim you see from current Democrats, that there's $1.4 trillion in student debt, right, $35,000 on average per individual.
00:20:30.000Senator Bernie Sanders is joining others in Congress to unveil a sweeping new plan to wipe out the nation's crushing student debt.
00:20:36.000This proposal completely eliminates student debt in this country and ends the absurdity of sentencing an entire generation, the millennial generation, to a lifetime of debt for the crime of doing the right thing.
00:20:53.0001.5 trillion in student loan debt and this time we're going to choose our people, right Philadelphia?
00:20:59.000Cancel student loan debt for 95% of the folks who've got it.
00:22:33.000$35,000 doesn't sound like, at a low interest, doesn't sound like crushing debt for an individual.
00:22:39.000I know, I understand it's early in their earning career and everything else, but am I the only person here that's like, $35,000 doesn't sound like that?
00:22:44.000You don't have a master's in underwater basket weaving with a minor in German poetry.
00:22:48.000Maybe a course in personal finance would help them out.
00:23:07.000It is better for you to buy an old 85 Bronco than that new Tesla that has to be created and driven off the lot so that you can have your rich, white, liberal guilt status symbol.
00:23:26.000But this idea, everyone's hypocritical. You don't have to buy new cars, Leo or Damon.
00:23:32.000You can buy used cars and they don't. Yeah.
00:23:34.000So what I find is really interesting, this example of like, don't buy a new car
00:23:38.000is the same example of, well, I mean, the only thing I can do is go to a four-year institution
00:23:43.000that's $50,000 a year and have the government, you know, approve these loans. And then I'm
00:23:48.000going to sign this paperwork, but now I really don't know what the paperwork said.
00:23:52.000Oh, you mean I have to pay it back later at some point?
00:23:54.000I mean, the whole point here is, if you're going to do Y shopping, the other corollary of what that father was saying is, what about the kid who decided to go to a JUCO instead, or a community college instead, paid for it themselves, and they're five years out, and they're some amount of years behind someone who took loans out, and is just going to get it all for free?
00:24:11.000You're actually doing a persistence of the difference between those people, and you're punishing those who worked harder, and as that dad said, did it the right way.
00:24:19.000Well, a lot of people just don't realize someone always has to pay the bill.
00:24:21.000It's like the idea with healthcare and pre-existing conditions.
00:24:23.000What you're doing is now you've astronomically raised healthcare costs, right?
00:24:27.000We're talking about premiums, deductibles, because people who opted, and by the way, most people who didn't have health insurance chose not to have health insurance when we crunched the numbers, so you can go back and search that segment.
00:24:36.000They could afford health insurance, particularly young people, they opted not to.
00:24:39.000Not to, until they had a serious condition.
00:24:41.000Well, the whole point to buying health care insurance is it's basically creating a pool of lower risk so that you can use it when you need it.
00:24:48.000So the people who bought health insurance before the emergency arose, that's why they locked in lower rates, then had to pay a higher bill because everyone else who didn't have that kind of forethought is now joining into the same pool.
00:25:00.000It ends up harming people who've thought ahead, who've planned responsibly.
00:25:59.000Maybe you should be punished for being a lifelong, unemployed, couch-surfing asshole who's never been gainfully employed aside from suckling at the government's teat.
00:26:08.000Maybe you should feel a little bit of sting!
00:26:20.000Okay, people think that if we forgive student loans, and this is something, again, I understand why people think it's compassionate, but the numbers do matter.
00:26:26.000They think that most of this money is going to go to those who have a hard time paying off their loans, right?
00:26:43.000Most of the people, if you look, fall on the low end of that spectrum, well below $30,000.
00:26:47.000And then you have students with astronomical costs, right?
00:26:49.000They stretch things out on the opposite end of the spectrum.
00:26:51.000So those in the high end, you see in this chart, typically come from families making
00:26:55.000over $114,000 a year, and they go into careers like law and dentistry.
00:26:59.000So it takes some time to pay off those loans, but they're actually living pretty comfortably.
00:27:03.000A huge, or I should say, a huge portion of these large numbers that are being cited, it's actually evidence of a crisis that is somewhat created by upper class families who take out loans to put their kids into very lucrative career paths.
00:27:19.000I mean, it can range anywhere from, if you're in certain state programs, $20,000 a year to $50,000 or $60,000 a year, all told, with expenses.
00:27:27.000But you're not going to be destitute if you go into law.
00:27:29.000Probably not, but I would actually say that there's an issue when it comes to grad school because a lot of folks will say, you know, whether it's a liberal arts program or, you know, a gender studies Ph.D.
00:27:45.000But the question there is, again, did you decide you're going to go do this thing and who's going to have to pay for you having to go on and got this degree, right?
00:27:54.000Is it going to be the rest of the loan payers?
00:27:56.000Is it going to be the rest of America?
00:27:58.000If you decide to forgive the loans for people who are just going to grad school for no purpose or no reason, then you're literally asking someone else to subside your education.
00:28:06.000I followed maybe about half of that because in my head I was just thinking, I have an annuity and I need cash now called J.G.
00:28:42.000This will be removed and rightfully so!
00:28:44.000There's going to be some guy who's named J slash D Wentworth who's going to get some horrible emails and a powdered substance in his mailbox and then he's going to find this video.
00:28:57.000The people, by the way, who have problems paying off their loans, it's actually a pretty small group.
00:29:01.000They tend to have, people who actually have a hard time paying off the loans, meaning settled by debt, tends to be less than $5,000 when you eliminate people who are going to medical, law school, where they have a lot of student debt initially and they pay it off quickly.
00:29:13.000People who long-term have problems paying it, $5,000.
00:30:42.000And this does come from a lot of intellectuals, a lot of politicians who place this value on an elite university that is not reflected in real-world numbers.
00:30:50.000I've had parents be horrified when kids come up at live shows.
00:30:53.000They're like, can you give my son any advice?
00:31:05.000It's kind of pitched as the thing that you do after high school, like some summer camp that you go to and have a great time.
00:31:10.000No, you're going to work harder than you worked in high school to try to have a career and be able to provide for yourself.
00:31:15.000That's what you should be prepared for.
00:31:17.000And I think it's very important, too, when we're talking about going to university or whether you go to trade school, do choose your major wisely, okay?
00:31:25.000This is another kind of solution that you can all take into account here, or not, and then ask Bernie to take my money to bail you out.
00:31:52.000And if we look at university rankings based on economic value added to students' lives, not their status symbol, not how many people see the crest on your jacket, but how much value it actually adds to students' lives.
00:32:06.000Here, we can look at the metrics actually with these numbers.
00:32:08.000Look at average student salaries, the employment rate, if students are employed in their particular field of studies.
00:32:13.000According to that metric, many of the top colleges, they're just public universities and state schools.
00:32:20.000Basically, unless you're planning on going to the Supreme Court, you don't need an Ivy League university to be at the top of your field.
00:32:26.000People in the top of any of these given fields, there is no correlation between a specific school or degree from that school and success.
00:32:34.000Now, if you know exactly what you want to do, let's say practice law, or you host a podcast where you want to tell everyone that you practice law, Ben Shapiro can be an inspiration for this.
00:32:50.000What I really find is interesting is think about who are the people that are being rewarded.
00:32:53.000You're rewarding the people who didn't take personal responsibility in making those choices, but you're also rewarding the universities, right?
00:33:31.000But we already have a framework in place to deal with any type of fraud that may have happened in the course of selling these universities loans.
00:33:38.000Because think about it, if the loan companies had sold you the bill of goods about the loans themselves, I didn't know I had to repay it, right?
00:34:13.000If you're going to, who are you going to reward?
00:34:15.000You're going to reward all of the people that created this system instead of, you know, you want to punish someone, punish the people who put us into the system if they deserve punishment.
00:34:25.000Or the people who didn't take personal responsibility.
00:34:26.000I think Andrew Yang, to his credit, has talked about how somehow maybe cost should be tied to those fields of education.
00:34:31.000And if you look at majors like, I think it's education, like art, art history, ethnic studies, things like that, you know, things that are kind of useless that you can learn on Google in two afternoons.
00:34:42.000They're not high-earning fields, but they require a comparable amount of student loan debt.
00:34:49.000On the other hand, the majors that have the highest earnings-to-debt ratio are STEM degrees, which is science, technology, engineering, mathematics.
00:35:27.000And by the way, this goes back to if you have a clear plan of what you're majoring, what the best school is for you, I don't want to discourage you.
00:35:59.000And there's a couple of statistics out there that are really telling.
00:36:02.000The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said that every $1 in federal aid actually increases tuition by 65 cents.
00:36:08.000You're essentially creating the same bubble that we had with housing.
00:36:11.000You're just doing it for student loans.
00:36:12.000And then, Bernie, Elizabeth Warren, you guys want to go back to who caused this?
00:36:16.000They actually trace it back to a 1978 bill that passed in the Carter administration that basically guaranteed all of these loans so that people could go out there and get them so easily that it didn't matter anymore if you qualified or if you could actually afford to pay it back.
00:36:29.000All of that was helpful and informative, but I appreciate that you slipped a Carter jab in there.
00:36:56.000You encourage them to saddle themselves with more debt in attending universities
00:36:59.000that they can't afford, often pursuing degrees that guarantee,
00:37:03.000all but guarantee, an inability to pay off that debt.
00:37:05.000Not to mention, by the way, you're encouraging young people to make, arguably,
00:37:10.000the largest financial decision of their lives.
00:37:13.000before they graduate high school because they're already applying.
00:37:16.000You further encourage, you further incentivize this behavior with grants and scholarships from the government, like you said, which also leads to simultaneously hyperinflates, right, the cost of education overall.
00:37:26.000And then you bribe the voters who followed your instructions explicitly by promising to bail them out with other people's money.
00:37:46.000You hear these songs, I hate the identity politics that you hear on the right as well, like, while they're living it up on Wall Street, they're shutting Detroit down.
00:38:17.000I understand that people on both sides are compassionate.
00:38:19.000The root of the problem is telling kids who have no idea what they want to do with their lives to make the biggest financial decision of their future before they have any real world experience.
00:38:31.000Claim that this is what is required right now in the modern workplace, and to have self-esteem.
00:38:35.000We're also, by the way, tying up children, tying up young people's self-worth with the degree they have, with a sheet of paper to tell people how important they are, and then promising that we are going to bail them out.
00:39:06.000Congratulations, I just saved you $1.4 trillion in a national bailout.
00:39:11.000We're going to have Ben Shapiro in a little bit.
00:39:13.000And one last thing, people wanted us to talk about the coronavirus.
00:39:16.000Uh, I think this is, like Ebola and swine flu, it's been blown out of proportion a little bit.
00:39:20.000One thing to be aware of is, of course, that, um, you may not know you have it until the symptoms have already manifested themselves with the coronavirus.
00:41:14.000However, seeing as this would be a horrible waste of coffee that has already gone through the complex process of being brewed, as well as sourced and roasted, which most do not appreciate, I feel obligated to conduct a formal cupping.
00:41:31.000But I don't think you're gonna like how this one ends up.
00:42:06.000See, I had to do, like, multiple takes because I kept saying BlackRifle.com slash Crowder because around the office we just refer to it as Black Rifle.
00:44:49.000So punim, and I've been using this on the show where a few people have said, where did you learn Yiddish?
00:44:55.000But punim means face, but you were telling me that that doesn't actually mean face in Hebrew, which I'm very confused as to what Yiddish is exactly.
00:45:04.000Right, so Yiddish is sort of a mashup.
00:45:08.000There are a few languages that are sort of mashups of other languages.
00:45:12.000And Yiddish is a mashup of Hebrew and Aramaic.
00:45:14.000There are some Slavic languages in there.
00:45:16.000And because the Jews are, you know, kind of kicked around to various countries, there are constantly words that are being added that are sort of adoptions from other languages.
00:45:23.000But Punim is basically just a different pronunciation of Panim, which if you read the Bible and it refers to, you know, like the face of Moses, it's referred to as Panim.
00:46:19.000And watching the media try to spin it into a frenzy, I said on my show, it's like trying to watch the media spin people up for female Ghostbusters.
00:46:27.000Like, oh, guys, guaranteed, this is the greatest movie, and if you don't love the movie, it's just because you hate women, and because you're a member of toxic fandom.
00:46:34.000So now all of America is toxic fandom when it comes to impeachment, because you can poll people on what they think, but people will give you an opinion on anything you poll them on, right?
00:46:42.000And if you ask them if they like the color blue, then they will give you an opinion.
00:46:44.000That does not mean they spend every waking moment consumed with the question of whether blue is a nice color or not.
00:46:49.000Well, why'd you pick such a candy-ass color, Ben?
00:46:54.000I didn't mean to offend you with my gender-specific colors.
00:46:57.000But the fact that there are so many people in the media who are just over the moon about this, as though something new is going to come from it, is ridiculous.
00:47:05.000Now, that said, it's like everybody blew this thing.
00:47:07.000Everybody, as per usual arrangement in American politics, it's Veep, it's not House of Cards, everybody's an idiot.
00:47:13.000So on the one hand, you have the Democrats who push forward an impeachment without any witnesses that actually testify as to what would be the impeachable offense.
00:47:20.000They put forward impeachment offenses that don't include criminal offenses, which would be the first time in American history that you have, like, no criminal offenses whatsoever.
00:47:44.000You said that it might be a problem as far as Bolton, if Bolton comes to testify or if he's forced to testify and if Donald Trump, there could be a risk of committing perjury at that point.
00:47:54.000Right, you never want Trump to testify, under any circumstance.
00:47:57.000If you're Trump's lawyer, you chain him up in the basement, you put on pornography, and you just say, never exit.
00:49:06.000And Trump, because he will not do that, instead, he's constantly blowing up his own defense attorney's case.
00:49:12.000So the best possible defense for Trump from the beginning was Yes, I said to the Ukrainians that unless they did a series of investigations surrounding 2016, about which I have concerns.
00:49:22.000As it turns out, some justified, some not so justified.
00:49:25.000But I have concerns, and I want all those investigated in return for the aid.
00:51:06.000There's a difference between that and officially withholding funds, and particularly if it were past the deadline, an agreed upon deadline, that would be more of a problem.
00:51:13.000So I do think we don't know yet whether it was anything official or just him talking.
00:51:19.000Like you said, the waters are muddied here.
00:51:21.000But do you think there is, let me ask you this, do you think there is some value in Donald Trump not following the playbook, kind of like with the election?
00:51:28.000Because there is a court, obviously a court of law, and there's a court of public opinion And regardless, let's say his name is cleared and he hasn't done anything wrong, as you've alluded to.
00:51:36.000It doesn't matter if the public, like Don Lemon, all of these people have been tarring his name forever.
00:51:42.000So there is some value there to fighting back in the sphere of public opinion.
00:51:48.000Meaning, I think that as, you know, playing defense attorney for Trump, what you want is for him to Make a case that is factually based and defensible.
00:51:56.000And the reason you want it to be factually based as well as defensible and not just sort of defensible but not factually based is because now you've opened the door to all this testimony, right?
00:52:03.000You've now created the situation where, let's be real about this, Republicans don't just need Trump to win in 2020.
00:52:11.000There are a bunch of senators in purple states.
00:52:13.000What is bad for those senators in purple states is if it looks as though there was a very material witness, and then they were complicit in rejecting those witnesses.
00:52:20.000And then this thing goes forward, right?
00:52:38.000I mean, we know, like, at least Rick Wilson's gonna release a book or something.
00:52:40.000There'll be a few of those bombshells, no matter what.
00:52:42.000That's true, but what you don't want is to be the person who was caught out as saying, I explicitly said I don't want these people testifying, and then that exact person comes out two weeks before the election and then says, right, I wanted to testify, the Republicans stopped me, and now the Senator's in trouble.
00:52:58.000You don't want to put the Senators in a position where they have to defend why they were covering for Trump when, honestly, he's gonna get acquitted anyway.
00:53:04.000Right, what you would like to do is be able to say, listen, you guys wanted Bolton, we gave you Bolton.
00:53:08.000Bolton came in, he said his piece, that wasn't impeachable, we moved to acquit, end of story.
00:53:12.000Right, that's, that to me, that is a smarter strategy.
00:53:15.000You want to give your people ground to fight for?
00:53:18.000And again, listen, I'm not saying Trump can't defend himself.
00:53:20.000I'm saying that Donald Trump so far in this investigation has suggested he didn't know Lev Parnas and then Lev Parnas drops a tape where he's explicitly talking about Maria Ivanovic.
00:53:28.000Trump has suggested that the perfect phone call took place.
00:53:30.000It is not a perfect phone call by any stretch of the imagination.
00:53:32.000Yeah, but like him saying perfect, that's Donald Trump saying, it was a good phone call.
00:53:36.000And in his mind he's going, it was a good, it was perfect!
00:54:12.000And yeah, it's amazing that people are undecided now.
00:54:14.000But I do think policy wise, and this isn't what we've been talking about a little bit behind the scenes, and maybe we'll release a segment on this.
00:54:19.000Policy wise, there is no choice for conservatives.
00:54:22.000Like I see people who are, you know, at one point in the never Trump camp.
00:54:25.000But what bothers me is it's predicated on this idea that because of my conservative principles from a long time, and I see people coming out saying, I will vote for the DNC.
00:54:34.000And I'm somebody who didn't vote for Trump in 2016.
00:54:36.000It's patently insane to suggest at this point that given Trump's policy record, and given what the Democrats are putting up on the other side, that you'd be voting for a Democrat in order to uphold the merits of the Constitution or some such nonsense.
00:54:57.000I think that that is I think it's a bugaboo that a lot of people in Team Trump like to use as sort of the whipping boy for this for this particular election.
00:55:05.000If Trump loses the election, it's not going to be because Seven people, including Rick Wilson, were like, we ran an ad about Trump.
00:55:11.000Okay, it's not gonna be because of that.
00:55:12.000If he loses to Bernie Sanders, like, trying to blame anybody except for Trump for losing to Bernie Sanders.
00:55:44.000I think that the question for Trump is going to be, and increasingly is going to be, if he loses to somebody like Bernie Sanders, I don't know how you pin that on the seven never-Trumpers, like true never-Trumpers who are left.
00:55:56.000Well, I think there's some responsibility just because these people get so much airtime, like we saw with Don Lemon, right?
00:56:03.000So it may be a very small contingency, but it is important.
00:56:05.000Listen, I don't think it absolves them of responsibility for making dumb points and mocking people ridiculously and making fools of themselves.
00:56:10.000I mean, you always bear responsibility for what you say.
00:56:14.000I think it's something that is important.
00:56:15.000Like you said, like you said here, his base are going to vote for him anyway.
00:56:18.000But for the people who are undecided, people who may be somewhat Republican or maybe moderate and not necessarily be political hobbyists, as you are into a lesser degree myself, you know, impeachment is what the Democrats wanted.
00:56:54.000I'm not saying that it's a completely foolish argument.
00:56:56.000I'm not ripping into it and saying like everybody who's doing or anything.
00:56:59.000I'm just saying that I think there's a fairly good strategic argument for allowing senators to at least create a defensive shield for themselves in case one of these witnesses comes forward later and they say, OK, well, I didn't vote to ban the witness.
00:57:35.000What I'm saying here is that it would be better to do that over the next couple of weeks than it would be to precipitously just nuke the thing.
00:57:41.000And then two weeks out from the election, new information arises.
00:57:44.000Because after Mueller, no matter what new information arrives, you're like, right, we let you do the whole thing, you spent years doing it, millions of dollars, you didn't come up with what you wanted, and now you're just pissed about it.
00:57:53.000Better to do that than appear as obstructionist, because that does have, right now, something like 70% of Americans say they want for their witnesses.
00:57:59.000Again, does that mean they're passionate about it, they're desperate for it?
00:58:02.000But does it mean that if you are a senator, like, I know we all don't like Susan Collins, but we would like to retain a Republican in that seat.
00:58:08.000If you're a senator like Susan Collins, you're running a very narrow race.
00:58:11.000Honestly, calling a witness to make sure that we retain a Republican majority in the Senate seems like not a terrible idea to me.
00:58:17.000Yes, and I would agree with you on all those fronts, except for the fact that we are still talking about a general American public who actually believe, my god, Christine Blasey Ford's claims because the media moves on.
00:58:27.000So they would have claimed the investigation.
00:58:28.000We're talking about Mueller, a victory, and moved on.
00:58:32.000Most people have no idea that half of the Kavanaugh accusers just recanted.
00:59:35.000I'm sorry, but I can't do this anymore.
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01:03:21.000Like if there'd be someone at a pool party who, let's say at a barbecue, and there's just one white guy, you're like, oh no, that's Ed, he can't swim.
01:04:25.000We would go to the local mall, I believe it was in St.
01:04:27.000Clair Shores, when we lived in Michigan, and I'd be walking, you know, about two and a half, and I'd have fists in my mouth, and the kids would be deking me out, and they'd be faking me, and they'd be shucking and jiving, and I'd be like, and my parents would be like, is our kid retarded?
01:05:25.000You don't need to get a new Prius with two giant non-recyclable batteries.
01:05:28.000But I did have this conversation recently with someone who was a friend of mine who has had some trouble with, not trouble, but hasn't been super responsible with finances.
01:05:35.000And I talked to him about the idea of buying a new car versus used car.
01:05:40.000And when I explained to him the depreciation, and I explained to him why it's not a good investment, why a car actually is not an investment at all, it's a depreciating asset, he actually sat there and said, wow, I can't believe that I didn't know this.
01:05:54.000And this is something that I want to get to.
01:05:56.000All of us have an area, I'm not saying I'm an expert in finance at all, but this was just imparting some wisdom that no one had ever even attempted to with someone like this.
01:06:04.000I think a lot of you out there probably know that a lettage that you shouldn't be buying a new card depreciates 30%
01:06:45.000Daniel Cormier has been on the show multiple times, the best.
01:06:47.000Brian Shaw, five times world's strongest man, the best.
01:06:50.000We've had Thomas Sowell, the best as far as writing.
01:06:54.000Something that I have noticed with people who are very good at something, accomplished people, typically, not always, but accomplished people help other people accomplish.
01:07:04.000In other words, when I talk with these people off air and I say, man, how do you do that?
01:07:08.000Or how do you hit that low single when I was talking with one of the fighters?
01:07:25.000People who are accomplished are not only willing but often enthusiastic about and looking for people to request their assistance in accomplishing.
01:07:37.000Accomplished people help people accomplish.
01:07:41.000And I say this also in the general sense.
01:07:42.000I don't just mean someone who's accomplished, you know, we have professional athletes or Pulitzer winners here on this show.
01:07:49.000If you are accomplished in any area, it is your duty to share it.
01:07:55.000I don't mean be a know-it-all, but I mean if you know that you could help someone with some advice, if you could help them with some coaching, I don't know what it is.
01:08:03.000If you find something that you believe is a gift that has improved your life, it could even be as simple as that.
01:08:10.000Something that's improved your life and you know would improve the lives of others, it is your duty to share it.
01:08:18.000So people often wonder, I get this request like, why do you talk about, I talk about jiu-jitsu a lot in the show, or another one, the film The Edge.
01:08:28.000Not only because it's something that I know, but with Brazilian jiu-jitsu that I've been doing for a long time, I started when I was a kid, when I learned it, I had spent years doing things that didn't work.
01:08:38.000I was bullied, got my ass kicked as a kid.
01:08:40.000I went to the karate schools and the Kung Fu and the Krav Maga and the ball shot self-defense at the YMCA.
01:09:05.000And the reason I talk about this quite a bit is because I remember that experience where I went, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on, what, what is this?
01:09:14.000I went down to the made-up martial art where some guy at the community center called it Aikikai Jujitsu-do, so he could give himself a ninth-degree black belt, and I wasted money and years of my life.
01:09:24.000And there's, this is so simple, I've learned it in six months.
01:10:05.000Name that movie line and you'll get a free t-shirt.
01:10:07.000I'm not saying that it's Citizen Kane.
01:10:08.000I'm not even saying that it's Chinatown, which is a better film than Godfather.
01:10:11.000Again, I say that because everyone loves to praise Godfather.
01:10:14.000I think it will help you for me to make you aware of which film was better.
01:10:18.000But I do tell people this when people ask why I'm so enthusiastic about The Edge.
01:10:22.000Go watch The Edge by David Mamet, who's also a conservative, wasn't at the time when he wrote it.
01:10:27.000And aside from one portion of green screen in that film, and that was because they used an actual bear and shot it pragmatically, but there was one scene that was pretty difficult to do, so there's one scene where, okay, I'll grant you it looks a little bit chintzy, you can see the green screen, but outside of that, because I know I'll get comments on that, find me one fault with that film.
01:10:46.000That's not the film that I would say on paper, oh my gosh, this is a technical wonder.
01:10:51.000But it is so good and nobody talks about it.
01:11:23.000It's such a good film, and nobody lists it in the recommendations.
01:11:26.000And if you know anyone who's seen the film, when you ask them about it, they go, oh yeah, that was a good movie.
01:11:30.000The same principle here applies to how all of us have something, and it may not be the edge, it may not be Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, but something that has dramatically improved our lives.
01:11:42.000Now, I've talked myself, of course, Christ, God, my faith, family.
01:12:29.000I'm not talking about telling everybody what they're doing wrong and looking for an opportunity to scold because there's some people like that.
01:12:36.000I've had them in my Bible study and I immediately kicked them out.
01:12:39.000Even though I don't run the Bible study.
01:12:45.000Again, this is why people share their faith, this is why I talk about jiu-jitsu, this is why I talk about films like The Edge, and this is what I want you to do.
01:12:50.000I want you to think about what it is that has improved your life, wherever you are right now.
01:12:56.000Think about something that maybe you sort of think of as this, I guess, open secret, for lack of a better word.
01:13:03.000Take a second, pause this if you have to, if you're listening on audio, congratulations, you are a miracle, because everyone mostly watches this on YouTube, but I hope you're pausing and listening.
01:13:11.000If you're in your car, keep your eyes on the road.
01:13:14.000Whatever it is for you, by the way, I want to see your comments.
01:13:18.000What has improved your life so dramatically, so monumentally, that it's altered the course of who you are, and it's something that a lot of people don't know about?
01:13:30.000Or maybe it's just something that somebody you know, who's in your personal circle of friends, doesn't know about.