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00:00:11.000So the reality TV show simulation in which we have been living continues to pace today.
00:00:17.000There's a lot of big news coming out from various and sundry areas of American life, including the Michael Cohen investigation, the Starbucks boycott.
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00:01:30.000Okay, so, the big story yesterday, of course, was that Michael Cohen's lawyers went to court to try and get access to the information that the FBI had seized from Michael Cohen last week.
00:01:45.000So, as you recall, last week, the FBI raided Michael Cohen's office.
00:01:47.000Michael Cohen, of course, is the personal lawyer to President Trump.
00:02:38.000From Michael Cohen's office so that we can go through and make an argument about what it is the FBI should see and what the FBI should not see.
00:02:44.000They wanted a special master, appointed a special master as a person who is not related to the case, who can actually look through all the documents and determine what ought to remain privileged and what ought not to remain privileged.
00:02:53.000And yesterday, the court ruled sort of in Cohen's favor, sort of not in Cohen's favor.
00:02:58.000I don't think that Kimba Wood is doing the satanic work of George Soros or anything stupid like that.
00:03:25.000Lawyers for Trump attorney Michael Cohen, according to the AP, had asked for the appointment of a so-called special master to review the material and make sure nothing protected by attorney-client privilege winds up at the hands of investigators.
00:03:34.000She was saying, well, normally there's what is called a taint team and then there's a clean team.
00:03:38.000Of course, we're going to end up in a situation with Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump where a taint team was called.
00:03:45.000It's not some sort of pornographic term, although it may very well be.
00:03:48.000I don't know enough about pornography.
00:03:49.000But a taint team, in legal parlance, is a group of people in the FBI whose job it is to look at the documents without actually turning over the main documents that are privileged to the prosecutors.
00:04:02.000So they are sort of a separate team that looks through and says, here's what prosecutors are allowed to see legally, and here's what they're not allowed to see legally.
00:04:26.000Satisfying one-night stand in Donald Trump's long history of one-night stands, I think it is fair to say.
00:04:31.000Okay, well, one of the other things that happened in court yesterday, and this is what made all the headlines, is that Michael Cohen has ten—he says he has ten clients.
00:04:38.000So, Michael Cohen is not a very good lawyer.
00:04:40.000I know he's not a very good lawyer because he went to one of the worst law schools in America.
00:04:43.000And now, Michael Cohen has a very select group of clients.
00:04:46.000He has seven people who he apparently represents legally, and then he has three people for whom he's a lawyer, but he doesn't really do legal work for them.
00:04:55.000One of those people was Donald Trump, and so Michael Cohen was presumably making payoffs on behalf of Donald Trump to people like Stormy Daniels.
00:05:01.000And the second person that he was representing this way was Elliott Broidy.
00:05:03.000Elliott Broidy, of course, was the former deputy finance director for the RNC.
00:05:07.000He just had to resign last week after it came out that Michael Cohen had shelled out $1.7 million to some woman to pay her off to have an abortion.
00:05:15.000A Playboy model who'd had sex with Broidy and then got pregnant, and he paid her to have an abortion and then cover it up.
00:05:21.000And then the third client was a mystery.
00:05:22.000This third client, who was not fully a legal client, but also was, you know, but was not necessarily engaged in the sort of hanky-panky that Trump or Broidy wore.
00:05:32.000That third legal client's name had remained secret up until yesterday.
00:05:36.000So in the courtroom, that third legal client's name was revealed, and that third client, it turns out, was Sean Hannity.
00:05:40.000So the left went completely nuts over this.
00:05:41.000They went nuts for a couple of reasons.
00:06:07.000This was revealed yesterday in a dramatic moment in court and all of the media were aghast.
00:06:11.000Oh my goodness, Sean Hannity being implicated here.
00:06:15.000Okay, first of all, Sean Hannity's known Michael Cohen for a long time.
00:06:17.000Sean Hannity's been close friends with Donald Trump for a long time.
00:06:19.000They talk on the phone on a regular basis.
00:06:21.000The idea that Hannity was not talking to Cohen in some sort of way is, I think, silly.
00:06:28.000And everybody who knew Sean knew that he and Cohen were friendly.
00:06:31.000So it's not exactly a huge shock to learn that Cohen was technically his attorney, or at least one of his attorneys.
00:06:36.000Sean says he has eight attorneys, and Cohen is one of them.
00:06:39.000You know, the question is what exactly they were talking about, whether it's privilege or whether there was any criminal activity going on.
00:06:44.000If there's no evidence of criminal activity, then I fail to see exactly how anything is wrong here, other than Sean has a lawyer who happens to be an idiot.
00:06:51.000Right, so this is what happened according to the AP.
00:06:52.000So, the question here was whether attorney-client confidentiality extends to the fact that you are a client of an attorney.
00:06:57.000So, if you are my client, am I allowed to say in open court that you are my client?
00:07:34.000Again, there are two reasons why the left wants to make this a big deal.
00:07:37.000One is that they hate Sean Hannity and they want Sean Hannity to go down in flames, and so therefore they are suggesting that Sean Hannity had something nefarious going on with Michael Cohen, that he's paying somebody off, that he's like Elliot Broidy or Donald Trump in his relationship with Cohen.
00:08:06.000Maybe Sean calls Cohen for a variety of reasons, including just to talk politics.
00:08:10.000And he wants that covered by attorney client privilege because he doesn't want his communications with Cohen coming out in the wash.
00:08:15.000Maybe, for example, Sean talked with Cohen about something controversial, like when Sean was talking about Seth Rich, and he talked about Cohen with that or something.
00:09:18.000I mean, when I have situations on this show in which I know players who are being talked about, I will typically tell you as often as I possibly can.
00:09:27.000I mean, I can't imagine a situation, which I haven't actually, where I know the players at issue or I have some sort of legal relationship with the players at issue.
00:09:35.000The good news is I haven't been a lawyer for virtually anybody except for Steven Crowder.
00:10:27.000The question for me is why Sean didn't disclose this earlier.
00:10:31.000Because in the previous two cases, Sean says there's no third party.
00:10:34.000He's obviously referring to the idea that Cohen was setting up payments to women for Trump and for Elliot Brody, the guy who's the RNC donor.
00:10:42.000And I don't think there's any evidence of anything like that with Sean Hannity.
00:10:46.000But why, when Sean was on the air, strongly an advocate for President Trump, not saying, hey, I've got a relationship with the lawyer?
00:10:58.000Okay, and I think that there's probably some truth to this.
00:11:00.000Again, Sean should have just said, listen, I have a legal relationship with Michael Cohen, I know Michael Cohen, I think he's a good guy, or we talk a lot, whatever it is.
00:11:06.000You know, the audience should probably know about it, but do I think that this is the end of the world?
00:11:11.000A CNN panel yesterday went nuts about Sean Hannity not disclosing his ties to Cohen on air.
00:11:17.000Again, would I think that this were the end of the world if it were Rachel Maddow and Rachel Maddow had a relationship with, say, Hillary Clinton's lawyer?
00:11:23.000Not particularly, because I assume that Rachel Maddow is a political hack on behalf of Hillary Clinton.
00:11:27.000So why exactly would I be upset that she's not disclosing information that would make her more of a hack for Hillary Clinton, for example?
00:11:33.000I think some of the same things about Sean, you know, with regard to Trump.
00:12:41.000And as I say, the folks over at the USCCA, they do a wonderful job of giving you all the information and training that you need in order to be a law abiding citizen, a good gun owner, a responsible gun owner, the kind of gun owner that makes the country safer, not less safe.
00:13:02.000All right, so the media have decided that it is the end of the world that Sean Hannity did not disclose his relationship with Michael Cohen.
00:13:08.000Again, I think Sean should have, so I think it's the end of the world.
00:13:11.000But here's the CNN panel yesterday going nuts over all of this.
00:13:14.000I think we're seeing how this really tight-knit universe works.
00:13:17.000And if it is right that this wasn't ever about a third party, this was about Hannity calling up to seeking legal advice from Michael Cohen once in a while.
00:13:24.000How can you be going on the air every night talking about Michael Cohen defending the president and have this relationship you're not telling your viewers about?
00:13:31.000That is certainly sketchy at the very least.
00:13:33.000Well, you're either someone's attorney or you're not.
00:13:36.000And you either have attorney-client privilege or you don't.
00:13:42.000Does Fox News know, or did they know, that he had this relationship?
00:13:45.000And if they didn't know, then he hung them out to dry as well, and exposed them to a challenge to their credibility, which is not a good thing for any news network.
00:13:52.000Again, we're not talking about a straight reporter.
00:13:57.000We're talking about Sean Hannity, who's been maybe the most partisan host on behalf of President Trump since the election cycle.
00:14:02.000Again, I don't think the impact here is tremendous, but the left uses any excuse in order to try and knock hosts off the air.
00:14:07.000You saw a couple of weeks ago they tried to knock Laura Ingraham off the air because she said something untoward about David Hogg, the Parkland survivor.
00:14:14.000And now they're trying to knock Sean off the air on the basis that he has conversations with Michael Cohen on an infrequent basis, apparently.
00:14:20.000Representative Jerry Connolly, who's a Democrat, he says Sean Hannity should be fired over all of this.
00:14:24.000Of course, he thinks Hannity should be fired every day of the week.
00:14:27.000And now what we learn is, as he's defending the President's lawyer on television, he has a conflict of interest.
00:15:20.000Now, does it expose Trump to legal jeopardy?
00:15:21.000Sure, because Trump is exposed to legal jeopardy in a variety of ways.
00:15:26.000Again, I think that the reality TV show simulation in which we live has become too bizarre even for me, and I usually enjoy the bizarre nature of all of this.
00:15:35.000OK, so meanwhile, Stormy Daniels, the porn star from such great flicks as The Witches of Brestwick, was appearing on The View.
00:15:42.000Now, remember, Stormy Daniels is only on TV because she signed an agreement with Donald Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, to take $130,000 to shut up about that one time she had sex with Trump back in 2006.
00:15:52.000And now, there's a claim that there was a campaign finance violation because Michael Cohen funneled money through an LLC, and it wasn't Trump's money, and it wasn't a campaign payoff, and so it's an in-kind contribution.
00:16:02.000Okay, the case here, legally, is somewhat weak.
00:16:05.000It's not the strongest case in the world.
00:16:06.000But this is the only reason Stormy Daniels is relevant.
00:16:08.000I recapitulate this because I think it's important to recognize that while we are stuck in the tawdry details of the president having sex with a porn star, and the media are trying to generate a narrative of Stormy Daniels as some sort of awesome victim of the system here, Stormy Daniels is not a victim of the system.
00:16:22.000She had voluntary sex with President Trump, she signed a voluntary agreement with then-candidate Trump, and then she took the money until she decided not to take the money anymore.
00:16:31.000And so Stormy Daniels is not a victim here.
00:16:32.000She herself says she is not a victim here.
00:16:34.000The only situation in which she said she was a victim is she suggests that back in 2011, a member of Donald Trump's entourage, somebody related to Trump, threatened her in a parking lot because she was going to talk about her sex with Trump in In Touch Weekly or some such nonsense.
00:16:48.000So this was, so she was on with, she was on with the ladies of The View today.
00:16:53.000And she was making some rather astonishing claims on The View, such as she says that, you know, she's really upset about all of this.
00:16:59.000She says this isn't—she legitimately said, this isn't—she said, this is not what I want to be known for.
00:17:08.000Like, this is not what you want to be known for.
00:17:09.000You don't want to be known for being part of a giant presidential scandal because you'd rather be known for the lesbian sex scenes that you did that are available on, like, Google Images.
00:17:18.000Like, that's what you'd rather be known for?
00:18:32.000I've also heard suggestions that this is young Willem Dafoe or that there are a lot of suspects that this is Michael C. Hall from Dexter.
00:18:39.000And so Stormy Daniels is lucky to be alive.
00:18:42.000I've heard I've heard a bunch of a bunch of
00:18:44.000Comparisons, as far as who this sketch is, but how crazy is our politics that we are now sitting around looking at sketches of a guy, a rando from 2011 who looks so generically white model that you could not pick anyone who looks like this out of a lineup?
00:18:58.000There are legitimately 10 people you can name off the top of your head who look exactly like this guy.
00:19:49.000I mean, I'm sure maybe it happened, but if you think that Stormy Daniels can't get a film produced right now, Stormy Daniels could get 10 films produced right now, so long as she's in it and they have a Trump stand in.
00:21:54.000So, in other stupid news, apparently there's now a boycott being launched against Starbucks.
00:21:58.000So why is this Starbucks boycott being launched?
00:22:01.000Well, because there was a tape that came out.
00:22:04.000In Philadelphia of two black men who were apparently arrested.
00:22:09.000This is a clip eight two black men being arrested because they were because they supposedly asked to use the restroom and they were told that they could not or they were hanging around the I think it was that they were hanging around the Starbucks for like 15 minutes waiting for a friend to arrive and the manager called the cops on them.
00:23:56.000The police commissioner Richard Ross said store employees called 911 to report a disturbance and trespassing.
00:24:00.000When officers arrived, Ross said, staff told them the two men had wanted to use the restroom, but were informed it was only for paying customers.
00:24:05.000The pair reputedly refused to leave when politely asked to do so by employees and officers, he said.
00:24:10.000If you think about it logically, that if a business calls and they say someone is here, that I no longer wish to be in my business, the officers now have a legal obligation to carry out their duties, and they did just that, said Ross.
00:24:18.000They're professional in all their dealings with these gentlemen, and instead they got the opposite back.
00:24:22.000And then Ross, who by the way is black, said he was acutely aware of implicit bias.
00:25:51.000One of the problems that I have with some of the tapes that are being released, that wasn't the only tape that was released.
00:25:54.000There was another tape that was also released, this one from today, in which a black man was at a Starbucks in Los Angeles and he claims that this is on Hawthorne.
00:26:02.000OK, so let it be known that the area around Hawthorne is heavily minority.
00:26:06.000OK, this this Starbucks is in a very heavily minority area.
00:26:08.000So I really doubt that the manager at this particular Starbucks has never seen a black person in her establishment before.
00:26:14.000What you're going to see in this tape is that the guy who's taping tapes a white guy coming out of the restroom and then he asks the white guy coming out of the restroom if the guy was asked to buy anything by the manager.
00:26:25.000And then he goes to the manager and he says, well, I wasn't allowed to use the restroom if I hadn't bought anything.
00:26:29.000And the lady says, I'm going to ask you to leave.
00:27:25.000Okay, so Sean King posted this, the columnist for the New York Daily News, and he suggested, of course, that this is just demonstration of more implicit racism on the part of employees at places like Starbucks.
00:27:35.000And here's my problem with tapes like this.
00:27:40.000OK, we don't know what happened in the 10 minutes prior to the tape.
00:27:42.000All we know is this guy walks up to the manager and then he suggests that he's not being allowed to use the bathroom because she's a racist.
00:27:48.000At one point, she starts to say, no, I'm actually asking you to leave because and then cuts her off.
00:27:52.000So how are we supposed to know why the manager did this?
00:27:54.000You know, we don't know what happened in this original store in Philadelphia.
00:27:57.000There are a couple of witnesses, you see on that tape, that there's a white guy who says these black guys weren't doing anything, but we don't know when he came in.
00:28:20.000If we do know the whole story, then the employees should be fired, right?
00:28:22.000But if we don't know the whole story, then why are we jumping to the conclusion that Starbucks employees are essentially racist, especially in areas where they're dealing with black folks all the time?
00:28:32.000Is it possible that the people in Philadelphia sat down at the table and asked to use the bathroom, and then when they were told they could not until they bought something, they just refused to leave?
00:28:54.000Presumably the people who were involved in the incident know.
00:28:56.000But we haven't heard from the manager.
00:28:57.000We still haven't heard a defense from the manager of exactly what happened inside that Starbucks.
00:29:02.000And now we're gonna retrain thousands of employees across the country, including black employees across the country, in implicit bias without knowing the whole story?
00:29:09.000This is one of the things that just drives me up a wall.
00:29:11.000If you're going to suggest that there is implicit bias, that there's some sort of evil racism rampant throughout American society, at least give me the whole story.
00:29:19.000At least I have to have the whole tape.
00:29:22.000And we've shown some of those racists over the past couple of years on this program doing overtly racist things, and we have called them out on it.
00:29:28.000But if I don't know the whole story, am I going to jump to the conclusion that this guy's telling the truth?
00:29:32.000That conveniently, the very day after a national controversy involving a black man not being able to go to the bathroom in a Starbucks, another manager across the country, on the other side of the country, did the exact same thing to a black man.
00:29:42.000So I think that that's a little convenient for the narrative.
00:29:45.000I think it's a little convenient for the narrative.
00:29:47.000I don't think this is a massive widespread problem all across the country.
00:29:51.000And by the way, when my kids have to go to the bathroom at Starbucks, I buy something at Starbucks.
00:29:55.000And if they asked me to leave a restaurant, I would leave a restaurant.
00:29:58.000But again, I think people are apt to jump to conclusions that please them most rather than waiting for all the facts.
00:30:04.000As I say, if the testimony of these folks is true, then the person should be fired.
00:30:11.000You called the cops on someone for no reason?
00:30:17.000And this is, again, one of my pet peeves, is people using selective evidence to back the idea that America is systemically racist or systemically sexist.
00:30:24.000So there's another story that I want to tell you about.
00:30:27.000There's a woman named Alyssa Nutting, appropriately named, who is complaining about sexism in American society for a very, very stupid reason.
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00:31:20.000All righty, so as I promised, there's several other stories today of people claiming that America is systemically awful because they have experienced something that is supposedly terrible.
00:31:33.000So there's a woman named Alyssa Nutting, as I mentioned.
00:31:35.000Alyssa Nutting is an essayist, a screenwriter, a creative writing professor, and author of the novels Tampa and Made for Love.
00:31:41.000Okay, and she tweeted this out, and it has, as of right now, 186,000.
00:31:48.000186,000 likes on Twitter, and 23,000 retweets.
00:31:51.000Quote, my daughter started crying at the dentist's office because the dentist, quote, is a boy.
00:31:55.000And the dentist said, sorry, there are no girl dentists at this office.
00:31:58.000And my daughter looked at me and said, why did we come here?
00:32:36.000Or maybe you should have said, well, honey, you know, there's something statistically, I mean, I don't know how old she is, this might be a little bit over her head, but you might say if she's seven or eight, there's something called statistical significance and random sampling, okay?
00:32:46.000And it's possible that this doctor's office, with a bunch of men in it, is mirrored by another doctor's office or dentist's office with a bunch of women in it.
00:32:53.000Because factually speaking, half of all dental students in the United States are women.
00:32:57.000And if you want to be a dentist, honey, you can be a dentist because it's a free country.
00:33:00.000Women now outnumber men in law schools.
00:33:02.000Women are achieving parity in medicine.
00:33:04.000Women are achieving parity in a wide variety of fields.
00:33:43.000You ought to inform your daughter about statistics and reality and the fact that America is not a sexist country.
00:33:49.000And some woman, some feminist named Katie Stoll, who I've never heard of, said, you've seen me on Cracked, co-host of even more news podcasts.
00:33:57.000But she is wearing a shirt in her profile photo that says, the past is male, which seems like misgendering the past.
00:34:02.000How do you know how the past identifies, lady?
00:34:04.000But she tweeted back, don't ever have kids.
00:34:07.000To which I tweeted back, I actually have two kids, including a four-year-old daughter I will raise to believe that she's capable of anything rather than a victim in the least sexist society in the history of mankind.
00:34:47.000It's just absurd in every possible way.
00:34:50.000But, you know, this is the way that our politics works now.
00:34:52.000Speaking of absurd in every possible way, there's a piece today in the New York Times from a black professor of philosophy at Emory University all about how America is racist.
00:35:01.000This is using anecdotal evidence in order to suggest that the vast majority of Americans are racist.
00:35:06.000So we've already had, in today's show, talk about using anecdotal evidence at a Starbucks that may not even be complete to suggest that all Starbucks baristas need implicit bias training.
00:35:15.000We've had a woman claim that she walked into one dentist's office and there were no female dentists, and therefore all of American society is sexist.
00:35:21.000And now we have a guy named George Yancey who's suggesting that because he got death threats in the mail from a bunch of white racists, this means all of America is racist.
00:35:29.000So, there's an article in the New York Times, and it is literally titled, should I give up on white America?
00:35:35.000Well, the answer is no, because if you were to title your piece, should I give up on black America, everybody would rightly see that as a slight against black Americans.
00:35:43.000First of all, who are you to give up on anyone?
00:35:46.000It's not your job to give up on anyone.
00:35:48.000Are you the great arbiter of human worth and human value?
00:35:53.000I mean, if you give up on white America, white America ain't gonna stop existing.
00:35:57.000This is just such foolishness in every way.
00:35:59.000But I want to tell you the whole story in just a second.
00:36:02.000So here's what Yancey has actually said.
00:36:04.000So Yancey says he faces a serious dilemma.
00:36:19.000According to polls, America is not filled with racists.
00:36:22.000It's one of the least racist places on planet Earth.
00:36:24.000Less than 5% of Americans say that they would not live next door to somebody of a different race.
00:36:29.000One of the lowest rates on planet Earth.
00:36:32.000In order for Yates' complaints to be taken seriously, we have to believe the people who sent him death threats because he's a black professor are representative of white America at large.
00:36:39.000Now, I can speak to this somewhat personally.
00:36:41.000As someone who received a plethora of death threats in 2016, like a lot of death threats, right?
00:36:45.000Death threats over the phone, death threats via email, one really crazy letter in the mail.
00:36:50.000As somebody who's received death threats for years, probably from some of the same people who send death threats to this guy, right?
00:36:55.000Some members of the alt-right, presumably.
00:36:58.000I don't think that that's representative of America more broadly.
00:37:01.000Even when I wrote a piece in the Washington Post talking about the threat of the alt-right, I never suggested that it was a broad swath of Americans.
00:37:06.000I always thought that this was a movement of less than 10,000 people probably.
00:37:09.000But according to Yancey, this is representative of all of white America.
00:37:13.000He says he is, quote, convinced that America suffers from a pervasively malignant and malicious systemic illness, white racism.
00:37:19.000He offers no stats to support this contention.
00:37:21.000He suggests that those who disagree with his contention are just doing so because they themselves are racists as well.
00:37:27.000He says, there's also an appalling lack of courage, weakness of will, spinelessness, and indifference in our country that helps to sustain this racism.
00:37:35.000So you may not be a racist, but if you say America is not really racist, then this makes you a racist.
00:37:40.000And you're a monster under almost any circumstances, because Yancey says white Americans are, quote, monsters, land takers, brutal dispossession, and then body snatchers in the selling and buying of black flesh.
00:37:50.000No one alive in the United States today has held a black slave, unless they are currently in jail, because that's illegal.
00:37:56.000No one alive in the United States today has been involved in the quote-unquote brutal dispossession of other people, because that is illegal as well.
00:38:03.000So exactly how are white Americans supposed to be not racist, according to Yancey?
00:38:10.000The end point of all of this is that folks on the left insist that you agree with them.
00:38:13.000That's the only way to escape their little trap.
00:38:16.000So, if you are a person who says, let's see all the evidence on Starbucks, you're a racist now because you're covering for racism just by asking for evidence.
00:38:23.000And the only way for you to be allowed out of your little racist box is if you say, you know what?
00:38:31.000They have to retrain all of their employees because you had a bad experience at a Starbucks, or at least you say you had a bad experience at a Starbucks.
00:38:37.000And if I don't respect your experience because I don't see evidence for it, or I don't see sufficient evidence for it, then it must be because I'm a racist as well.
00:38:45.000If I say, you know, I want to raise my daughter to believe she can succeed in American society because she can, then I'm obviously not in tune with the woke crowd when it comes to sexism.
00:38:55.000The only way for me to be in tune with those people is by saying, yes, you walked into a dentist's office and there were no women because men are evil.
00:41:31.000He originally was not part of the royal line, but he sort of was crowned king, and he was a Saxon, and he was attacked simultaneously by Vikings in the north, and by the, or rather, by Vikings, yes, in the north, and by William the Conqueror in the south, and he had to rush to one end of the country and then back down to the other end of the country in order to fight these battles.
00:41:53.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:42:00.000Okay, so the thing that I hate today is that the left has one playbook and they keep going back to this playbook, and it really is quite nasty.
00:42:06.000Keith Ellison, who is one of the more degraded public figures in American public life, a guy with decades-long association with the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan, and yet was almost elected as the head of the DNC.
00:42:17.000Keith Ellison is now making the claim that because Democrats have been losing elections, women are dying over all of this.
00:42:23.000Women are dying because we are losing elections.
00:42:29.000We don't have the right to lose a damn election.
00:42:32.000OK, so women are dying because you're losing elections?
00:42:43.000The idea that Republicans want to kill people.
00:42:44.000They've been saying this about people since Paul Ryan.
00:42:46.000They had an ad back in the mid-2000s in which they talked about Paul Ryan pushing granny over a cliff.
00:42:52.000You know, when I say that I'm in favor of reasonable discussion, that I like discussing issues, the reason that I say that is because I hate this kind of crap so much.
00:42:59.000I hate when Democrats suggest that folks on the other side of the aisle want people to die, that Republicans are evil, they're bad people, that Republicans are character-free human beings who don't care about human suffering.
00:43:17.000Joe Biden said the other day, he repeated again that Republicans want black people not to vote.
00:43:21.000Again, all of this is just nonsense, and all of it is really nasty, but unfortunately it's become the Democrats' stock in trade.
00:43:27.000Okay, so, do we have time to do a little deconstruction of the culture?
00:43:29.000Okay, so let's deconstruct a little bit of culture.
00:43:31.000So, there's a Top 40 song out today called Him and I by Halsey and G-Eazy.
00:43:37.000I've never heard of either of these people.
00:43:38.000So, deconstructing of the culture is when we take a look at a piece of culture and we determine
00:43:42.000How it's impacting you, how it's impacting your kids, what are the lyrics, what does the music sound like, because culture is, as my friend and mentor Andrew Breitbart once said, upstream of politics, and more people are impacted by culture than are impacted by politics, certainly.
00:43:55.000So this song by Halsey and G-Eazy is called Him and I, and here is what it sounds like.
00:45:00.000It is also worth noting that the lyrics here are not particularly sophisticated.
00:45:07.000They're better than, at least they rhyme, I guess.
00:45:11.000But here's the real point of this song.
00:45:14.000One of the things that has really taken over music since the advent of rock and roll is this sort of adolescent view of what relationships are, this adolescent view of what love is.
00:45:21.000And it's something that you can't really understand when you're an adolescent because you're an adolescent, you're in the midst of it.
00:45:26.000But it turns out that this sort of obsessive
00:45:49.000Well, the reason is because the longer you know someone, the less infatuated you are with them and the more that you are interested in knowing them as a human being.
00:45:56.000There's a fascinating chart in Jonathan Haidt's book, The Happiness Hypothesis, all about exactly how human relationships work.
00:46:03.000What it basically shows is that for the first six months that you know somebody and you love somebody, you are infatuated with them.
00:46:07.000And then there's what he calls committed love.
00:46:10.000Committed love is you sharing values and you valuing the person as a human being and not just as a body that you want to have sex with.
00:46:42.000But this is one of the problems, is that when popular culture sets you up to believe that infatuate love is going to be like this the rest of your life, you're just going to be obsessed with your spouse the rest of your life, in the sense that you can't take your eyes off the person, you can't spend a moment out of that person's presence.
00:46:57.000I love spending time with my wife, but my wife and I are there also to raise our kids and also to have a life together and to build things.
00:47:04.000Marriage is the beginning of building something.
00:47:06.000If the end goal of love is the sort of infatuated love that you have with somebody in the first five seconds, then there is no end goal.
00:47:37.000Okay, so again, embedded in this idea of infatuate love is that everything should be painful, and that if you're suffering in a relationship, that there's some sort of glory to it.
00:47:47.000That the more you suffer, the more pain you go through in a relationship, the more it just shows that you're madly in love because you have to overcome obstacles.
00:47:53.000This is from people who have watched too many movies.
00:47:55.000And watch too many episodes of One Tree Hill.
00:47:57.000If your relationship with your loved one is about pain and suffering, then it's a bad relationship.
00:48:02.000The whole point is to pick somebody with whom you will be fighting against the chaos that rules the world, instead of finding that chaos in your relationship with the other person.
00:48:11.000So I'm not picking on this particular song, but as a representative of an entire genre telling teenagers that their sort of love is the highest sort of love,
00:48:18.000And telling older people that this is what they should be aiming for in a relationship.
00:48:23.000I think that that's a big mistake and it's not anything valuable worth shooting for.
00:48:26.000What's worth shooting for is a relationship that includes infatuate love, but also is more than that.