The Ben Shapiro Show - Democrats Fear BIG BALLS!

00:00:00.000 Well, folks, there's one kind of young person that Democrats like, and there's one kind of young person that Democrats really don't.

00:00:05.000 The kind of young person Democrats like, as it turns out, the theater kid.

00:00:09.000 That is the type, the theater kid.

00:00:11.000 And when I say the theater kid, I mean very specifically performative young people who cast aspersions at everyone who is older than they are, cast blame.

00:00:19.000 Those people are tools of the Democratic Party.

00:00:22.000 They are tools of the left.

00:00:23.000 The left does not wish to generate young people who are self-sufficient.

00:00:26.000 Who?

00:00:30.000 Those young people who might be, you know, engineers, who might be building companies, who might be innovating.

00:00:46.000 Those young people...

00:00:48.000 They're too weird.

00:00:50.000 We can't allow them anywhere near the levers of power.

00:00:52.000 This has come to a head today because the left has decided that the worst young people in existence work for Elon Musk's doge.

00:00:59.000 And this has specifically become a central feature of the democratic angst because there is one young person in particular, a young technologist, who is being targeted by Wired Magazine and now the entire unified left.

00:01:13.000 Why?

00:01:13.000 Because this young technologist is known online.

00:01:17.000 As big balls.

00:01:20.000 Yes, that's a meme.

00:01:23.000 It turns out that many of the people who are in sort of online meme world, which is Elon Musk's domain.

00:01:30.000 Elon is the king of meme world.

00:01:32.000 That if you are in that world, you tend to throw out silly memes, foolish names for yourself, silly nicknames.

00:01:39.000 And meanwhile, you're using AI technology to decode thousands of years old.

00:01:46.000 Encrypted Greek texts, basically.

00:01:48.000 So you're doing genius things, but also you're doing super stupid things by calling yourself Big Balls on LinkedIn.

00:01:54.000 Apparently, Wired is very angry about this.

00:01:56.000 They had a report that says that a young technologist known online as Big Balls, who works for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has access to sensitive U.S. government systems.

00:02:04.000 But his professional and online history call into question whether he would pass the background check typically required to obtain security clearances.

00:02:11.000 Yeah, sure.

00:02:12.000 Sure, that is the thing that I think people are deeply worried about is whether they would pass a security clearance, the kind of security clearance that for example, allowed Biden administration appointees to full on leak Israeli war plans to the press.

00:02:26.000 Those security clearances have been doing a hell of a lot of work.

00:02:28.000 They've been doing an amazing job over there.

00:02:30.000 The engineers that Elon Musk has working for him, typically, are young and incredibly smart, which is why they work for Elon Musk.

00:02:38.000 So, the six young men Who are sort of leading the charge are apparently all between the ages of 19 and 24. And this has been determined to be a very, very bad thing, again, by so many of the people on the left.

00:02:52.000 Just terrible.

00:02:53.000 So, CNN covered this in, I think, the most hysterical possible way yesterday.

00:02:57.000 They were very, very upset.

00:02:59.000 First of all, the chyron is just wonderful.

00:03:01.000 Quote, wired, doge teen, known online as big balls, now a government expert.

00:03:08.000 First of all, government expertise, according to the left, is you went to...

00:03:11.000 George Washington University, after majoring in African-American history, and now we call you a State Department expert.

00:03:18.000 That is the way that you get appointed an expert, according to CNN. But because this young technologist, who apparently is kind of a genius, jokingly called himself Big Balls Online, the Democrats are very upset.

00:03:31.000 Like, very upset.

00:03:32.000 Understand, Democrats only like Big Balls when they are on a purported woman. 1.00

00:03:36.000 In any case, here are the CNN anchors just beside themselves over this revelation.

00:03:41.000 So, Kara, you know, you hear this, and you have known Elon Musk for years.

00:03:46.000 So now you look at these young men who are now in data and in the private information about maybe hundreds of millions of American citizens as young as 19, the big balls here that Katie's talking about.

00:03:58.000 Most of them are in their early 20s.

00:04:00.000 There's an exception I'm going to get to in a minute.

00:04:01.000 I'm curious, though, Kara, how well does even Musk know these young men, do you think?

00:04:06.000 I have no idea.

00:04:07.000 I think there's no vetting whatsoever, as you can see, that's taking place.

00:04:11.000 It took Katie and the really great team.

00:04:12.000 Wired has done an astonishing job here.

00:04:15.000 You know, I could make a joke that's probably why he was hired, for all this ridiculous nonsense and other nefarious things.

00:04:21.000 But, you know, there's an expression in technology that's a feature, not a bug.

00:04:28.000 Well, this is your local HOA. Telling you that you're not allowed to put an American flag on your lawn on July 4th because it might be offensive to others.

00:04:36.000 The media just losing it over big balls.

00:04:39.000 It's just so terrible.

00:04:40.000 How could they?

00:04:42.000 Just the worst.

00:04:44.000 And Joy Reid, too, was deeply upset about big balls.

00:04:48.000 Here was Joy Reid.

00:04:49.000 And again, another very censorious hit.

00:04:51.000 Remember, the things that are very offensive and upsetting to the left do not include, for example, men who get boob jobs and jiggle their bare breasts at the White House on the lawn.

00:04:59.000 That is not offensive to the left.

00:05:00.000 Or, you know, gay guys having sex in the actual Senate chambers.

00:05:04.000 Not offensive to the left.

00:05:05.000 That's freedom of expression.

00:05:07.000 But a young technologist who called himself big balls on LinkedIn, that is just so far beyond the pale.

00:05:14.000 We cannot have any of that.

00:05:16.000 This is a well-respected government.

00:05:18.000 A well-respected government that funds the transing of the children in Guatemala via the U.S. Agency for International Development.

00:05:25.000 Take us seriously.

00:05:27.000 Honestly, the entire democratic approach to politics seems to be the meme from Arrested Development of Joe Bluth with his magician friends holding up a sign that says we demand to be taken seriously.

00:05:39.000 But they need to be taken seriously, folks.

00:05:41.000 These folks at MSNBC, Joy Reid is a serious person and she will not brook the idea of a young man who called himself online big balls cutting governmental waste programs.

00:05:52.000 Here we go.

00:05:53.000 He's 19 years old.

00:05:55.000 He's a high school graduate.

00:05:56.000 He works at Doge.

00:05:57.000 He has access to U.S. government systems.

00:05:59.000 His professional and online history call into question whether he would even pass a background check typically required to obtain security clearances.

00:06:06.000 Security experts tell Wired he runs something called Tesla.Sexy.

00:06:11.000 Which operates a Russian website.

00:06:13.000 He worked at a startup that hired convicted hackers.

00:06:16.000 Someone using his Telegram handle solicited a cyber attack.

00:06:21.000 And on his LinkedIn, and I apologize to the saints out there, and we know a lot of the saints listen to the show, he called himself Big B-A-L-L-S. I won't say the whole word, so I won't be vulgar.

00:06:32.000 That's what he calls himself.

00:06:33.000 So Big B-A-L-L-S. Okay, as a person who's relatively famous for not reading full obscene lyrics on the air, I promise that Joy Reid has said words way worse than balls on her show before. 0.99

00:06:55.000 Just amazing, amazing stuff.

00:06:57.000 They're offended, guys.

00:06:58.000 They're so offended.

00:06:58.000 But here's the thing.

00:06:59.000 What are they really offended by?

00:07:01.000 Are they offended that some teenager who is apparently a brilliant, Technologists used an obscene meme online.

00:07:10.000 Are they really upset about?

00:07:11.000 No.

00:07:11.000 What they're really upset about is because the only kids that they want to succeed are the theater kids.

00:07:15.000 The ones who actually build things, who are good at things, who have a skill set.

00:07:18.000 Those ones are the bad ones.

00:07:19.000 So David Hogg is like the perfect example of this.

00:07:22.000 David Hogg, or Stickman Hogg, as I will call him from now on, since he is both a stick figure of a person when it comes to his physical stature, as well as his intellectual representation of left-wing ideas.

00:07:34.000 So David Hogg tweeted out, he's now the vice chair of the DNC, by the way, at the age of 24, based on his varied accomplishments, which include getting into Harvard with a low SAT score because he went to a school where a school shooting took place, not running a failed pillow company, and tweeting inane nonsense for years, while claiming that he was sort of immune from any criticism because, again, a school shooting took place at a school that he went to when he was in high school.

00:08:00.000 He tweeted out, quote, Yeah, let's let a 19-year-old who goes by big balls handle the situation.

00:08:04.000 Very confidence-inspiring.

00:08:06.000 He's 24 and he's never done anything in his entire life.

00:08:09.000 Anything of value in his entire life.

00:08:11.000 And he's somehow the vice chair of the DNC. I will point out at this point, by the way, that the relative youth of technologists is in fact a hallmark of successful technologists.

00:08:23.000 Charlie Cook, who is one of the editors over at National Review, he points out that...

00:08:27.000 Page and Brin created Google at 24. Zuckerberg launched Facebook at 19. Steve Jobs started Apple at 21. It's kind of a hallmark of genius that it starts to be productive very, very early in life.

00:08:38.000 It is a hallmark of Democratic children, their child heroes, that they are not productive.

00:08:44.000 They don't do anything useful except yell at the adults.

00:08:46.000 All they are are cuter versions of older Democrats at your HOA, which is why David Hogg became famous in the first place.

00:08:54.000 Remember, he became famous.

00:08:55.000 For yelling at the adults to do something, to do something about gun violence.

00:08:59.000 He didn't have any solutions.

00:09:00.000 He didn't have anything of value to say.

00:09:02.000 But he was a young person who was yelling all the things Democrats wanted to hear.

00:09:06.000 Here was David Hogg back in the day, and this is the reason why he is currently the vice chair, Stickman Hogg.

00:09:11.000 He's currently the vice chair of the DNC. First off, I'm going to start off by putting this price tag right here as a reminder for you guys to know how much Marco Rubio took for every student's life in Florida.

00:09:24.000 One dollar and five cents.

00:09:26.000 When people try to suppress your vote, and there are people who stand against you because you are too young, we say no more!

00:09:35.000 When politicians say that your voice doesn't matter because the NRA owns them, we say no more!

00:09:45.000 When politicians send their thoughts and prayers with no action, we say no more!

00:09:53.000 And to those politicians supported by the NRA that allow the continued slaughter of our children and our future, I say get your resumes ready.

00:10:01.000 We can and we will change the world.

00:10:07.000 He did not in fact change the world.

00:10:09.000 Isn't that a fascist salute right there?

00:10:10.000 Why is he making a fascist salute at the March for Our Lives in 2019?

00:10:13.000 A fascist is now apparently the vice chair of the DNC. Remember, he was celebrated. 0.98

00:10:17.000 He was made into a national hero.

00:10:19.000 He's put on the cover of Time magazine with his friends.

00:10:22.000 From Parkland.

00:10:23.000 Many of whom, by the way, do not.

00:10:24.000 I know some of the former Parkland kids who are now adults.

00:10:27.000 Many of them not real fans of David Hogg.

00:10:29.000 In any case, that guy is now the vice chair of the DNC. He was championed by the left specifically because he was young and he never did anything.

00:10:38.000 He just yelled the things they wanted to hear.

00:10:40.000 This is why Greta Thunberg was nominated for the Nobel Prize.

00:10:43.000 That moronic Swedish now woman who I can make fun of because she's over the age of 18. The rule is that you can't make fun of anybody under 18. She's well over 18 even if she dresses like she's under 18. And still wears around the pigtails and the braid and pretends that she is, you know, a child still. 1.00

00:10:58.000 She's the oldest child.

00:10:58.000 She's going to be 80 years old walking around pretending she's a 16-year-old while shouting at the evil adults for ruining the world.

00:11:04.000 Greta wasn't a big one for freedom, but this country was founded on freedom.

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00:13:15.000 I mean, ranging from shutdown capitalism, destroy it utterly, to root for Hamas. 0.88

00:13:21.000 They nominated her for a Nobel Prize and told us she was a moral clarion voice because she yelled at the adults.

00:13:27.000 These are the kinds of young people the Democrats want.

00:13:30.000 Young people who yell at the adults without ever attempting to actually do anything productive. 0.88

00:13:34.000 The productive kids who are out in the back room, you know, actually coding and figuring out how things work, and then using those powers in order to go through government waste and fraud if they call themselves big balls online.

00:13:43.000 Whoa.

00:13:44.000 Whoa.

00:13:44.000 Stop it all.

00:13:45.000 Shut it down.

00:13:46.000 But if you are a 16-year-old Swedish child who drops out of high school to travel around yelling at adults about why capitalism is bad, then we give you the Nobel Prize, according to the left.

00:13:58.000 Here's a flashback to Greta.

00:14:00.000 How dare you?

00:14:01.000 Thunberg.

00:14:03.000 This is all wrong.

00:14:05.000 I shouldn't be up here.

00:14:08.000 I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean.

00:14:13.000 Yet, you all come to us young people for hope.

00:14:17.000 How dare you?

00:14:20.000 You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.

00:14:25.000 Yet, I'm one of the lucky ones.

00:14:29.000 People are suffering.

00:14:31.000 People are dying.

00:14:34.000 Entire ecosystems are collapsing.

00:14:37.000 We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.

00:14:47.000 How dare you?

00:14:49.000 I just want to point out, you worshipped this person.

00:14:53.000 This bluster bag.

00:14:56.000 Filled with nonsense and emotive stupidity.

00:14:59.000 You worshipped this.

00:15:01.000 You said this person is worthy of listening to with no skill set other than lecturing adults.

00:15:08.000 So, yeah, I'm going to take it with a grain of salt.

00:15:10.000 And when I say a grain, I mean like an ocean filled, like a dead sea filled with salt.

00:15:15.000 I'm going to take with your recommendation that because a dude called himself big balls in a meme online, that that somehow makes him unable to go through government waste and fraud.

00:15:24.000 Now, in the end, the truth is what Democrats really want is not just young people who are theater kids.

00:15:28.000 They want that lifestyle extended over the entire course of adult life.

00:15:32.000 They want permanent Greta Thunberg. 1.00

00:15:34.000 They want permanent David Hoggs.

00:15:35.000 That's what they want.

00:15:36.000 They want people who never build anything, who never do anything useful.

00:15:39.000 What they want is people who are perennially 16 and complaining about the world, and by the way, ruining their own lives in the process. 0.91

00:15:46.000 A perfect example of this sort of person is a representative from Michigan named Lori Pohutsky.

00:15:52.000 Lori Pohutsky is not a young person.

00:15:54.000 Lori Pohutsky is 36, which in the old days would have put you squarely in sort of the lower middle-aged category.

00:16:01.000 Lori Pohutsky announced yesterday that she had undergone surgery to ensure that you'd never have to navigate a pregnancy in Donald Trump's America and thus had sterilized herself.

00:16:14.000 Perennial childhood, perennial lack of responsibility, and then blaming the system for it.

00:16:18.000 Now, you might say to yourself, wait, hold up.

00:16:20.000 You know, there are many things that human beings can do, it turns out, to avoid getting pregnant. 0.98

00:16:26.000 I mean, that is just a fact.

00:16:28.000 You might say to yourself that Michigan abortion law is actually quite permissive.

00:16:33.000 That actually the Michigan Constitution guarantees a right to an abortion.

00:16:37.000 Yeah, but that's not the point.

00:16:39.000 The point is, yelling at the system and then harming yourself in the process is heroism on the left.

00:16:45.000 It is Greta Thunberg forever.

00:16:47.000 It is 80-year-old Greta Thunbergs filling the Democratic Party.

00:16:51.000 So yeah, I'm not going to take you seriously that you're very, very upset over big balls going through the budget at the Transportation Department for waste and fraud.

00:17:02.000 The answer is no.

00:17:03.000 Listen, I hope Democrats fight this one all the way.

00:17:05.000 I really hope they fight this one all the way because their fight against Doge is one of the dumbest political fights I've ever seen anyone pick.

00:17:11.000 They will be able to ding Elon Musk as a human just in terms of his individual polling numbers.

00:17:16.000 But what they are fighting right now is against government bureaucracies being cut.

00:17:21.000 That is what they are fighting against.

00:17:23.000 And Doge is doing a really good job, so is the Trump administration generally, of calling out the waste and fraud that have been happening inside the system.

00:17:30.000 Now, look, the real reality when it comes to America's national debt and bending the cost curve is that trimming around the edges, getting rid...

00:17:38.000 Of even many of the billions of dollars that are put out by USAID, that is a worthy cause.

00:17:42.000 That is not going to truly bend the cost curve for the United States.

00:17:44.000 The entire budget of the USAID is $40 billion.

00:17:47.000 The United States is running trillion-dollar deficits every single year.

00:17:52.000 We currently have a $36 trillion national debt.

00:17:55.000 Unless you change the actual entitlement systems, which nobody is willing to do, you're not going to cure the problem.

00:18:00.000 With that said, is it very good that it's happening?

00:18:02.000 Sure.

00:18:02.000 And is it hilarious the Democrats are trying to find a way?

00:18:05.000 To defend the massive bureaucracy they have created, this giant cash cow that they created and controlled for 100 years.

00:18:11.000 They're trying to defend it against the predations of big balls?

00:18:14.000 Isn't that kind of hilarious?

00:18:15.000 Absolutely it is.

00:18:16.000 And their arguments, of course, make zero sense at all.

00:18:19.000 Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington, she's very upset because there is a rumor that Doge had basically plugged into the FAA in order to help correct the aviation systems.

00:18:28.000 And again, cut out the waste, fraud, and abuse.

00:18:30.000 Here's Maria Cantwell getting very upset about it. 1.00

00:18:33.000 I'm sending a letter to Secretary Duffy.

00:18:35.000 It's a clear conflict of interest, and Secretary Duffy should make sure that Mr. Moss is not part of the FAA. What we don't welcome is a man who's regulated by this sector and who has had fines for violation of safety, which is launch issues related to protecting the flying public at a time when you need the FAA to call the shots and say, don't launch now because there could be a conflict in the airspace.

00:19:04.000 The last thing I want is that guy trying to control the airspace.

00:19:10.000 Well, you certainly cannot have a man controlling the airspace and working on aviation who, you know, owns the most successful space company of our time and creates machines capable of firing 20-story rockets into the air and bringing them back down and catching them.

00:19:26.000 Can't have that guy involved with aviation.

00:19:28.000 The person we need at the head of the transportation department is a man who couldn't fill potholes in South Bend, Indiana, but is gay and loves juju trains and takes two-month paternity leaves without telling anybody. 0.98

00:19:38.000 That's who I trust with our federal aviation security.

00:19:42.000 And this is a losing battle for Democrats.

00:19:44.000 And if they continue to fight it, it is not going to end well for them.

00:19:47.000 I think most hilariously is the argument that's now being put forward by the media, that what Musk is doing is somehow wild, crazy, out of the unprecedented.

00:19:55.000 So, CNN's Pamela Brown, she was very upset yesterday.

00:19:58.000 She said, would you be okay with George Soros doing what Elon Musk is doing?

00:20:04.000 Would you be okay if Democrats were doing this?

00:20:07.000 If, for example, George Soros came in under a Democratic administration and had his staffers gain access to sensitive programs about Americans and their personal information and dismantling agencies, would you be okay with that?

00:20:21.000 It's amazing that Democrats are acting as if this is something that's novel.

00:20:26.000 I've been talking to my constituents for months and months and months about Elon Musk coming in, having a serious business person coming in, and using his team to go through the federal budget with a fine-tooth comb.

00:20:39.000 Would you be okay if Democrats did this, if a George Soros came in with his staffers and did the same thing that Elon Musk is doing?

00:20:45.000 Would you accept that?

00:20:47.000 Well, what's unprecedented is spending our taxpayer dollars on left-wing partisan political projects all over the globe.

00:20:57.000 Okay, first of all, I love the ire from Pamela Brown.

00:21:00.000 What would happen if George Soros' people were just put in charge?

00:21:02.000 They were in charge.

00:21:04.000 Alex Soros posts pictures of himself with every single Democratic leader at his palatial apartment above Central Park.

00:21:11.000 Every single one of them.

00:21:12.000 Kamala Harris, Tim Walz.

00:21:14.000 Soros has been in control of the bureaucracy in ways both large and small for years.

00:21:19.000 And if not Soros, people like Soros.

00:21:21.000 Who do you think is staffing these bureaucratic institutions? 0.95

00:21:24.000 Who do you think is receiving checks in the non-governmental sphere from institutions like USAID? Organizations run by people like George Soros.

00:21:32.000 So no, this isn't unprecedented.

00:21:34.000 It's just the American people are ready for the cuts.

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00:23:53.000 Code DAILYWIRE. Meanwhile, Scott Pesson, the new Treasury Secretary, was asked about what is the impact of Doge over at the Treasury Department.

00:23:59.000 He said, we're not violating the law.

00:24:00.000 What the hell are you talking about?

00:24:02.000 When you say the Doge team.

00:24:04.000 These are Treasury employees.

00:24:07.000 Two Treasury employees, one of whom I personally interviewed in his final round.

00:24:12.000 There is no tinkering with the system.

00:24:15.000 They are on read-only.

00:24:17.000 They are looking.

00:24:19.000 They can make no changes.

00:24:21.000 It is an operational program to suggest improvements.

00:24:24.000 So we make 1.3 billion payments a year.

00:24:28.000 And this is two employees who are working with a group of longstanding employees.

00:24:37.000 So, again, the kind of lies that are being told are absurd, but the panic is being driven by the fact, in the end, that the entire gravy train for the Democrats has been a permanent bureaucracy designed to funnel cash to their friends.

00:24:50.000 Well, all of that is coming to a crashing halt.

00:24:53.000 President Trump and his administration are laying off nearly all USAID staff.

00:24:57.000 According to the New York Times, the Trump administration plans to reduce the number of workers at USAID from more than 10,000 to 290. These are the kinds of cuts, by the way, that Musk does.

00:25:07.000 When Elon comes into act, he just kills all the jobs.

00:25:10.000 He just destroys all the jobs and he keeps a small group of people to run the thing and then fixes the problems.

00:25:15.000 Because he says there is no reason why we need 1,000 employees, 2,000 employees to run a company that is not running at a solid profit.

00:25:25.000 Those sorts of cuts, are they worthwhile?

00:25:27.000 The answer is absolutely.

00:25:29.000 Some of the programs that are supported by the Democrats here are utterly insane.

00:25:34.000 Crazy.

00:25:35.000 Here, for example, is Representative Cynthia Loomis explaining some of the programs that were in USAID. She's from Wyoming.

00:25:44.000 Five million to EcoHealth Alliance, one of the key NGOs, non-government organizations.

00:25:51.000 Funding bat virus research at the Wuhan lab.

00:25:56.000 $20 million for a group related, by the way, to a key player in the Russiagate impeachment hoax.

00:26:04.000 $1.5 million to rebuild the Cuban media ecosystem.

00:26:11.000 $1.5 million on DEI programs in Serbia.

00:26:18.000 And do those seem like good expenditures to you?

00:26:20.000 By the way, BBC's Media Action, which is the BBC International Charity, received millions of dollars in American government grants from USAID. Perhaps the worst expenditure from USAID. USAID in 2016 gave $310 million of your taxpayer money to a Palestinian cement factory project.

00:26:41.000 It was a private venture by a company called Sanad to create cement mills and factories.

00:26:47.000 What do you think they needed all that cement for?

00:26:48.000 What do you think they used all that cement for?

00:26:50.000 I'll give you three guesses.

00:26:51.000 What did the Palestinians in Gaza use all that cement for, paid for by your taxpayer dollars?

00:26:57.000 Hmm?

00:26:58.000 Any ideas?

00:26:59.000 Oh yeah, that would be the 300 miles of terror tunnels that Hamas built underneath the Gaza Strip, leading to the complete destruction of the Gaza Strip after October 7th.

00:27:08.000 So, just slow clap for the geniuses in the permanent bureaucratic state. 1.00

00:27:13.000 That meme where it shows...

00:27:15.000 Iron Dome going up and it says funded by American taxpayer dollars.

00:27:18.000 And then it shows the rockets coming from Gaza and it says somehow also funded by American taxpayer dollars.

00:27:23.000 And then it's the tunnels underneath.

00:27:25.000 It says somehow also my taxpayer dollars.

00:27:27.000 Yup.

00:27:28.000 That is what the government is filled with.

00:27:30.000 That sort of crap that needs to be wiped out.

00:27:33.000 And people don't like it.

00:27:35.000 And if Democrats wish to go out on a limb and suggest that Americans are somehow going to object to cuts to this, good luck with that.

00:27:41.000 Samantha Power, one of the worst foreign policy officials of my lifetime, She's supposedly the anti-genocide activist who fully stood aside while Joe Biden turned over Afghanistan to the Taliban. 0.92

00:27:53.000 She's just awful, Samantha Power, in every possible way.

00:27:55.000 She was on CNN to decry the cuts to USAID. This is devastating and it is ceding the field as well to the People's Republic of China.

00:28:06.000 To the Russian Federation and other malign actors who would like nothing more than to see the U.S. ground game in American foreign policy, the face of American values, disappear like this. 0.93

00:28:19.000 You think this is a victory for dictators, autocratic regimes around the world who are competing with the U.S. in Africa, in South America, all around the world for influence?

00:28:29.000 What's not even an opinion, they are out relishing this moment and celebrating it.

00:28:38.000 So, she's ridiculous.

00:28:40.000 The Biden administration was ridiculous.

00:28:41.000 The Obama administration was ridiculous.

00:28:43.000 You guys built it.

00:28:44.000 I'm sorry that you wasted all of our money on actual terrorist projects in many ways.

00:28:48.000 Now it's all going away.

00:28:50.000 Joe Rogan, I think, speaks for Americans when he says, yeah, no, what we're really cutting here, what Trump and Musk are doing here is just cutting stupid nonsense.

00:28:56.000 I think this is pretty commonsensical from Joe.

00:28:59.000 You're seeing a politician, a president, who's coming in who can't get reelected, so he's just going ham.

00:29:06.000 And he's just cleaning out everything.

00:29:08.000 And people are freaking out.

00:29:09.000 The same people that say, we need radical change.

00:29:12.000 We need radical change.

00:29:13.000 We've got corruption.

00:29:14.000 We need radical change.

00:29:15.000 Okay, well, here's your radical change.

00:29:16.000 We don't need this.

00:29:18.000 But you do.

00:29:19.000 The government does.

00:29:20.000 They need oversight.

00:29:21.000 And they haven't had that.

00:29:23.000 And because of that, you're seeing this.

00:29:26.000 Not just waste.

00:29:27.000 You could call it waste, but it's deeper.

00:29:29.000 It's deeper than waste.

00:29:30.000 It's corruption.

00:29:31.000 And you're seeing that corruption get weeded out.

00:29:34.000 I am hoping that this is successful and that it yields a benefit to the American people, to the working class people, to everybody, where they recognize, like, hey, we can't just be spending all our f***ing tax money on nonsense.

00:29:51.000 That is right.

00:29:52.000 That, of course, is exactly right.

00:29:55.000 Well, speaking of the Department of Government Efficiency, joining us on the line is Luke Rosiak.

00:29:59.000 He's an investigative reporter for The Daily Wire and our brand new Doge reporter over at the White House.

00:30:05.000 Luke, thanks so much for joining the program.

00:30:09.000 Thanks for having me, Ben.

00:30:12.000 So, Luke, let's talk about your recent article about...

00:30:15.000 How sort of the groundwork was set for Doge.

00:30:17.000 Democrats are trying to claim over and over that something unprecedented is being done with the Department of Government Efficiency, that you have a bunch of unelected people who are worming their way into government and making cuts.

00:30:27.000 What's the actual origin of the powers that preexisted Doge?

00:30:33.000 It's a pretty funny story.

00:30:34.000 Democrats basically spent 10 years building the biggest rake you've ever seen and then stomped on it.

00:30:39.000 So it kind of starts in 2014. Obama creates something called the U.S. Digital Service that is designed to hire people from Silicon Valley and exempt them from many of the federal rules.

00:30:50.000 And then through the first Trump administration, they convince Trump that these are civil servants that should be left alone to be independent.

00:30:57.000 And they use that status to basically completely undermine him, doing completely ridiculous things, leftist activism from within the Trump executive office of the president.

00:31:05.000 And Biden comes in and he dispenses with the pretense of nonpartisanship.

00:31:10.000 And he just blatantly makes it subject to the power of a political appointee.

00:31:15.000 So he basically loads a gun and then they hand it to Elon Musk.

00:31:19.000 So this is definitely one of the greatest cell phones of all time.

00:31:22.000 And then on top of that, just the things that they were doing inside of the Trump U.S. digital service, kind of without his knowledge, but right underneath his nose, are truly shocking.

00:31:34.000 They were hiring transgender activists.

00:31:36.000 They were hiring multiple people from websites, if you can believe it.

00:31:39.000 They had somebody called a kink-aware professional on staff. 0.99

00:31:43.000 And this is all happening in Trump's payroll.

00:31:45.000 They're going to DEI conferences and sending an entire panel of lesbians who work there. 1.00

00:31:50.000 They hired somebody from a gender studies department who then sent an email to staff in the executive office of the president in Trump's presidency lecturing them about white cis.

00:32:02.000 Privilege and toxic masculinity. 0.59

00:32:05.000 So basically, Trump was very kind to these people.

00:32:08.000 He wanted to give them space to operate as civil servants, and they kind of took his kindness as weakness.

00:32:13.000 So there's a lot of lessons here, but I think the betrayal that USDS kind of committed in Trump's first term is definitely informing the way that he's going to come in and look at how Biden used and Trump and Obama used these agencies in a more partisan way, and naturally say...

00:32:29.000 It only seems fair to do the same thing.

00:32:31.000 And so he's bringing in people like, you know, it's, yeah, so I'll leave it there on that part, but there's so many examples I could go on and on about basically how they operated a left-wing activism outfit in Trump's White House and basically set up this whole thing.

00:32:47.000 And now what Elon Musk is doing with it is not all that dissimilar from how Barack Obama set it up in 2014. Yeah, and this is one of the things that I find so hilarious about the entire Democratic take on Doge.

00:33:00.000 What they're very upset about is the idea that a quote-unquote unelected bureaucrat who is unaccountable to, say, the legislative branch is now going through their giant unelected bureaucracy that they created as essentially a permanent taxpayer money-funded scam to send cash out the door to a variety of their own friends in sort of blue non-governmental organizations.

00:33:20.000 Across the world, they set up essentially a permanent funding pipeline from places like USAID to all of their friends, run by all of their friends, and now they're upset that somebody is coming in and cutting all of that, and they're claiming that somehow this is opposition to the American people.

00:33:35.000 Well, actually, no.

00:33:36.000 You guys, as you say, set up the rake, and now you've stepped on it.

00:33:42.000 Yeah, and I think one of the things that really threatens Elon, really makes Democrats scared of Elon, is that he's an outsider.

00:33:51.000 And I think about even this role that, you know, where the Daily Wire is now naming me the government efficiency reporter.

00:33:56.000 In some ways, I've been around Washington for a while.

00:33:59.000 My original mentor back in the day was Tom Coburn, a senator who was called Dr. No because he basically called out spending and shut down so much wasteful spending.

00:34:10.000 And he actually created the website usaspending.gov for exactly the kind of thing we're now seeing.

00:34:16.000 But nobody really looked at it for about 15 years.

00:34:18.000 It was all out there, but nobody was really using it.

00:34:21.000 And now what we have is, I just feel like a kid waking up on Christmas morning because people are suddenly using this website for exactly what they wanted them to.

00:34:28.000 I almost wish Tom Coburn was still alive to see it.

00:34:31.000 He would be so excited.

00:34:34.000 But, you know, some of the things they're finding as outsiders...

00:34:39.000 We've kind of known about, those of us who have followed Washington for years, some of it we knew about, but we just felt like we couldn't change.

00:34:45.000 We didn't like it, but we just were jaded and pessimistic, and we were told that nothing could ever change.

00:34:51.000 And what you have is these outsiders like Elon, who are coming in with his merry band of 20-year-olds, and kind of waltzing into the parade and pointing at the emperor and saying, hey, why does that dude have no clothes?

00:35:02.000 And those of us who have kind of been in the alphabet soup of D.C. jargon for a long time, You know, you're right.

00:35:09.000 It doesn't have to be this way.

00:35:11.000 So it's just incredible to see people using this USA spending, finding all the USAID stuff that you're mentioning, and there's so much more.

00:35:19.000 Once in a while, these people who are just random people all over America who are exploring how taxpayers are spending their money, they're finding that bureaucrats spend your money in ways that they would never spend their own money.

00:35:31.000 And once in a while, these new people that are poking around this data, they make mistakes because they don't know how government works.

00:35:37.000 But most of the time, the fact that they don't know how government works is an incredible superpower.

00:35:42.000 It lets them look at things with fresh eyes.

00:35:45.000 And so where we may have had in the sort of old conservative movement a certain despondency and, you know, sort of resignation, what they have is righteous indignation, and they have optimism.

00:35:56.000 And we've never had those two things at once.

00:36:01.000 Well, that's Luke Rosiak, investigative reporter for The Daily Wire.

00:36:03.000 He's following what Doge is doing on a daily basis.

00:36:06.000 Look, really appreciate the time and the insight.

00:36:09.000 Thank you, Ben.

00:36:11.000 And meanwhile, President Trump is moving forward with another series of executive orders.

00:36:15.000 I think one of the things that Democrats are finding so discombobulating about the Trump administration, they are moving so unbelievably fast.

00:36:21.000 It's a headline at a minimum.

00:36:23.000 The minute Democrats think that they've got their arms around, for example, the cuts to USAID, Trump announces a plan for investment in the Gaza Strip after Israel.

00:36:30.000 Clears the place.

00:36:31.000 And after Palestinians who want to leave are allowed to leave and not live in an awful hellhole. 0.97

00:36:37.000 And then they start going, freaking out on that.

00:36:40.000 And within 24 hours, Trump is releasing an executive order to ban men from women's sports.

00:36:44.000 And so they freak out about that.

00:36:46.000 And then within 24 hours, Trump is releasing executive orders to eradicate, for example, anti-Christian bias.

00:36:51.000 That was an executive order put out yesterday.

00:36:53.000 Quote, it is the policy of the United States and the purpose of this order to protect the religious freedoms of Americans and end the anti-Christian weaponization of government.

00:37:00.000 The founders established a nation in which people were free to practice their faith without fear of discrimination or retaliation by their government.

00:37:06.000 The previous administration engaged in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians while ignoring violent anti-Christian offenses.

00:37:13.000 The Biden DOJ sought to squelch faith in the public square by bringing federal criminal charges and obtaining in numerous cases multi-year prison sentences against nearly two dozen peaceful pro-life Christians for praying and demonstrating outside abortion facilities.

00:37:24.000 Those convicted included a Catholic priest and 75-year-old grandmother.

00:37:27.000 At the same time, Catholic churches, charities and pro-life centers sought justice for violence, theft and arson perpetrated against them.

00:37:33.000 The Biden DOJ largely ignored them.

00:37:35.000 After more than 100 attacks, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning this violence and calling on the Biden administration to enforce the law.

00:37:42.000 Then, in 2023, the FBI asserted that radical traditionalist Catholics were domestic terrorism threats and suggested infiltrating Catholic churches as a threat mitigation.

00:37:51.000 The Biden administration sought to repeal religious liberty protections for faith-based organizations on college campuses.

00:37:58.000 In this atmosphere of anti-Christian government, hostility and vandalism against Christian churches in places of worship surged.

00:38:03.000 My administration will not tolerate anti-Christian weaponization of government or unlawful conduct targeting Christians.

00:38:10.000 Hey, this is right.

00:38:12.000 This is all exactly right, of course.

00:38:14.000 And so the media are going to go nuts over that.

00:38:16.000 And if they're not going to go nuts over that, maybe they'll go nuts over Trump signing an executive order to sanction the International Criminal Court.

00:38:21.000 A wretched hive of scum and villainy in which the worst people on earth set up fake legal standards in order to prosecute people for not breaking the law.

00:38:31.000 The order includes both financial sanctions and visa restrictions against unspecified ICC officials and their family members found to have assisted in investigations of U.S. citizens.

00:38:40.000 Our allies, the United States is not a member of the International Criminal Court, nor should we be, because it would make all American soldiers subject to the predations of the International Criminal Court run by corrupt nations like South Africa, for example.

00:38:52.000 So, the United States is now going to go after the ICC and threaten to sanction members of the ICC. Again, the movement here is coming fast and furious from the Trump administration.

00:39:03.000 And Democrats do not know how to handle it.

00:39:06.000 The world is reshaping itself around much of the action being taken.

00:39:09.000 So, for example, yesterday, in the aftermath of President Trump issuing an executive order banning men in women's sports under Title IX, the NCAA announced that trans women will be barred from competing in NCAA women's college sports.

00:39:23.000 So the NCAA has acted with alacrity, they've moved, and they are now reflecting the administration of the law that men don't get to play with the ladies in sports.

00:39:34.000 They were so radically anti-woman that they were going to allow big balls to play with the women. 1.00

00:39:39.000 They won't allow a dude named big balls online to cut government.

00:39:42.000 They will allow a dude with big balls to swim with the ladies. 1.00

00:39:46.000 That was your fault, guys.

00:39:47.000 You decided that you were going to take the 20 side of an 80-20 issue and now you got the sharp end of the stick.

00:39:52.000 Sorry that happened to you.

00:39:53.000 Sorry that reality hit you that way.

00:39:55.000 Meanwhile, President Trump is attempting to broker a tax deal to re-enshrine permanently.

00:40:03.000 The Trump tax cuts from his first term.

00:40:06.000 According to Axios, the priorities include renewal of the 2017 tax cut bill, adjustments to the SALT cap.

00:40:12.000 Now, the SALT cap is essentially deductions that you can take if you live in a high-tax state against your federal income tax.

00:40:19.000 It lowers receipts to the federal government.

00:40:21.000 It's something I'm against.

00:40:22.000 I don't think that we should actually adjust the SALT cap.

00:40:24.000 I understand that President Trump is making a move here to effectively cut taxes for people in blue states.

00:40:30.000 Presumably, he is hoping to make those states more competitive politically.

00:40:34.000 The reality is that you should pay the same federal tax whether you live in California or in Florida.

00:40:42.000 The reason being that you should not get me to subsidize you.

00:40:45.000 If I live in a low-tax state and you live in a high-tax state, why should I have to subsidize you because you live in a state that has bad tax law?

00:40:52.000 I know.

00:40:52.000 I lived in a state with bad tax law for years.

00:40:55.000 The Trump tax cuts actually hurt me personally.

00:40:58.000 Because I was living in California and the SALT deduction went away.

00:41:00.000 He wants to restore that.

00:41:01.000 He also wants to eliminate special tax breaks for sports team owners, which makes perfect sense.

00:41:07.000 He wants to close the so-called carried interest tax deduction, which allows partners of investment firms to pay a lower tax rate on a portion of their profits.

00:41:16.000 So he's doing some populist things with the tax bill.

00:41:19.000 No tax on tips, ending taxes on social security benefits.

00:41:22.000 All of that wrapped into a bigger tax package.

00:41:26.000 Republicans seem to be drawing closer on the tax deal.

00:41:29.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, House Republicans wrapped up a more than four-hour meeting at the White House on Thursday saying they had closed gaps in their own internal disagreements over extending expiring tax cuts and cutting spending and indicated details of the deal could be announced as soon as Friday.

00:41:43.000 House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said, we had a very productive meeting.

00:41:46.000 We are narrowing down the areas of difference.

00:41:49.000 They're having to bring a bunch of different factions together.

00:41:51.000 Those include the House Freedom Caucus, which is worried about budget deficits.

00:41:54.000 And wants to cut costs in Medicaid.

00:41:57.000 New Yorkers who want to increase the cap on SALT deductions.

00:42:03.000 House Republicans had been discussing a five-year extension of expiring tax cuts instead of permanence as a way to limit the total cost of the bill.

00:42:09.000 On Thursday, Scalise said it would be possible some portions of the tax cut would be permanent, while others would not be.

00:42:14.000 It is also unclear what exactly is going to end up in the final bill.

00:42:17.000 Is this going to end up as one big bill that includes border security, that includes defense, or is this going to end up as two separate bills, one for taxes and one...

00:42:24.000 The sort of high-risk strategy is to go for two separate bills under reconciliation.

00:42:29.000 The reason that's high-risk is because basically no Congress has ever used reconciliation two times in one year to get a big bill through.

00:42:37.000 The upside of doing it as two separate bills is you're guaranteed pretty well that one half gets through and that that half is better than it would be if it were included in a broader bill.

00:42:45.000 The downside is you don't get the whole thing.

00:42:47.000 So basically your choice is between two better sandwiches, one of which you may not get, And one giant sandwich that has more bad stuff in it, but more good stuff in it as well.

00:42:56.000 That's essentially the metaphor or analogy to use when you're thinking of how House Republicans are putting this thing together.

00:43:02.000 Unclear how it all comes together, but it does seem to be coming together pretty quickly here.

00:43:06.000 And we are only, again, 19 days in to the Trump administration, part two.

00:43:10.000 All right, coming up on the show, we have a lot to get to.

00:43:13.000 I've been taking a look at this new Mr. B show on Amazon.

00:43:16.000 The left seems to be suggesting that it's a critique of capitalism.

00:43:19.000 I will explain why that is not true.

00:43:21.000 The big game is coming up.

00:43:23.000 There's some commentary on it.

00:43:24.000 Emily Austin joins us to talk about it.

00:43:26.000 Plus, Kanye, man, he's back at it.

00:43:29.000 You know, like, the Twitter is hot.

00:43:31.000 We'll talk about that as well.

00:43:33.000 First, at The Daily Wire, we don't just watch culture, we build it.

00:43:36.000 And now, we're building the future with AI. So yesterday, Jeremy Boring dropped the first ever fully AI-produced Jeremy's Razors commercial.

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00:43:49.000 A tale is told of a star that fell in the days when men were hair-covered brutes roaming the earth. 0.92

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00:44:05.000 And it was in that moment, manliness burst into existence.

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00:44:18.000 And as men's manes were tamed, so they tamed the wild frontier.

00:44:23.000 Also, Steve used it to get a good shave.

00:44:26.000 And he's a pretty solid guy.

00:44:29.000 But as power often breeds enemies, so a wild-bearded philosopher despised the blade for its glorious manly freedom.

00:44:37.000 This enemy of clean shaves bore the razor to a fiery peak and cast it in.

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00:44:49.000 An age of men wearing buns, drinking vegan milkshakes, and wearing really tight pants and acting like a bunch of crybaby commies.

00:44:58.000 Until one day, the great archaeologist and CEO Jeremy Boring went on a dangerous quest on which many before had perished.

00:45:06.000 Through seas, mountains, and deepest catacombs, he found the blade still sharp as starlight.

00:45:12.000 His mission was to restore the blade to mankind and thereby restore manliness.

00:45:18.000 Will my razor make you as manly as the actual greatest man in all of human history?

00:45:22.000 I guarantee it will.

00:45:23.000 In the most emphatic way that isn't legally binding.

00:45:27.000 Hey.

00:45:28.000 At least you'll be as manly as Steve.

00:45:30.000 Jeremy's Razors, carve out your legacy. 0.98

00:45:33.000 Okay, I showed this to my 11-year-old daughter, and she laughed really, really hard at it.

00:45:45.000 She particularly liked the kicking of the bear at the end.

00:45:47.000 So here's the thing.

00:45:48.000 AI is awesome.

00:45:50.000 We didn't fire anybody in order to create this commercial.

00:45:52.000 AI is here to create awesome things that you couldn't actually...

00:45:55.000 You know, create in real life.

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00:46:13.000 Joining us on the line is Emily Austin, a rising star in the sports broadcasting world to talk.

00:46:19.000 Big game.

00:46:20.000 So, Emily, let's start with this.

00:46:22.000 Who's your pick for the big game?

00:46:23.000 What's the over-under?

00:46:25.000 It's Eagles versus Chiefs.

00:46:27.000 And again, the NFL clearly wants the Chiefs to win.

00:46:30.000 I mean, that's pretty obvious.

00:46:31.000 But what's your take?

00:46:33.000 Obviously, the script wants the Chiefs to win.

00:46:35.000 No, I'm joking.

00:46:36.000 I genuinely do believe the Chiefs will win, but I wouldn't sleep on the Eagles either because I think nothing motivates somebody more than revenge.

00:46:43.000 And they're trying for that comeback from 2023 and trying to prove, look, we're still in this game.

00:46:48.000 I mean, obviously, you're in the Super Bowl.

00:46:49.000 You are.

00:46:50.000 But for the plot, I want the Chiefs to win.

00:46:54.000 I don't think it'll be by a lot.

00:46:55.000 I think it'll be by the spread, which is about like one and a half, so two points.

00:47:00.000 Okay, so let's talk about all the ancillary issues that always surround the big game every year.

00:47:04.000 So apparently one of the things that the NFL is doing, they had end racism in the end zone for the last Super Bowl.

00:47:11.000 They've removed that.

00:47:11.000 They're now putting choose love in the end zone or maybe the coexist bumper sticker or something.

00:47:17.000 Assume this means that racism has been ended since now it's no longer going to appear in the end zones.

00:47:22.000 What was the motivating force behind the NFL removing end racism and instead substituting choose love?

00:47:28.000 I think the motivating force was Trump is bringing a return to normalcy in the world.

00:47:33.000 I wish the NBA could possibly take notes on what the NFL is doing.

00:47:36.000 The problem is that, Ben, racism is a really good marketing technique to put people in that victimhood mentality.

00:47:43.000 And what better place to do it than what's predominantly a black sport? 0.98

00:47:47.000 So it's a good marketing tool, but it's not the reality.

00:47:49.000 In fact, there are bigger problems in the country than racism.

00:47:52.000 I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but it's not the biggest deal.

00:47:56.000 And it's not so prominent the way the NBA and the NFL made it seem over the last few years.

00:48:05.000 So meanwhile, President Trump...

00:48:07.000 is going to do the Super Bowl interview.

00:48:08.000 Famously, Joe Biden did not last year, mainly because he was not alive at the time, unfortunately, and so he was not capable of doing the Super Bowl interview.

00:48:15.000 Now, President Trump has been everywhere.

00:48:17.000 He's extraordinarily high energy.

00:48:19.000 I mean, the man's nearly 80, and he is just, I mean, he's doing a presser basically every single day.

00:48:23.000 He put out a truth, saying, quote, two great quarterbacks in this game, also an unbelievable running back, and the absolute best tight end in football ever.

00:48:31.000 Incredible coaching.

00:48:31.000 They would only get rid of that really weird...

00:48:33.000 Looking, a new kickoff deal, which actually makes football more dangerous.

00:48:36.000 They'll be doing everybody, especially the fans, a big favor.

00:48:38.000 Anyway, it will be a great game.

00:48:39.000 I'll be doing the interview before the game at 3 p.m.

00:48:42.000 There hasn't been one in four years.

00:48:43.000 Gee, I wonder why.

00:48:46.000 So what are you expecting from the president of the United States?

00:48:49.000 I know the president was utilizing Grok to get all the spark notes on who's in this game and what.

00:48:54.000 But I think there's nothing more patriotic than a president attending the Super Bowl.

00:48:58.000 The fact that Biden hasn't done it over the last four years just speaks to what his presidency was.

00:49:03.000 You never felt more of a lack of pride in your country than under the Biden administration.

00:49:08.000 If you're an American president and you have the annual biggest sporting event of the year with the highest ratings, there is no excuse for you not to be there.

00:49:16.000 In fact, this is going to really stir the pot this morning on X. But Travis Kelsey even said that he's honored or flattered that the president will be in attendance because he's the commander-in-chief of the United States.

00:49:26.000 It makes perfect sense.

00:49:29.000 You know, the fact that the entire sort of pop culture world has decided that it's acceptable to now say that you like President Trump or you're at least lukewarm toward President Trump is an amazing, amazing shift.

00:49:39.000 Well, you mentioned Kelsey, which means, of course, the over-under on how many times Taylor Swift will be shown live is currently at six and a half.

00:49:46.000 You're my betting advisor.

00:49:48.000 Do we take the over or the under on six and a half for live shots of Taylor Swift reacting to the game?

00:49:55.000 This is a very serious bet, so I'm going to break it down for you.

00:49:58.000 There's about four quarters.

00:49:59.000 We know that there's the halftime show.

00:50:01.000 Taylor, of course, is not performing.

00:50:02.000 That would have been iconic.

00:50:03.000 She rejected that.

00:50:05.000 So I say in between each quarter, they show her in blimps, assuming how she'll react to Kelsey's performance, especially if he does outstanding or bad.

00:50:13.000 I'm assuming he'll be great.

00:50:14.000 So that's...

00:50:15.000 Four times.

00:50:17.000 Let's just say they stick her in there after they win or lose.

00:50:20.000 That's five times.

00:50:22.000 And arguably even once during halftime, that's six times.

00:50:26.000 That's still under six and a half.

00:50:27.000 I don't think they'll go over because, truth be told, the NFL fans are not happy with Taylor Swift hijacking the entire season's narrative.

00:50:35.000 It's actually downplaying Kelsey as a player, and it's bringing a lot of that... 0.98

00:50:39.000 Drama, including a lot of Democrat drama with her endorsement with Kamala to the sport that they didn't need.

00:50:45.000 So I'm going under six and a half.

00:50:49.000 Alrighty, and final Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey related question.

00:50:52.000 Are we going to see some sort of live proposal on the field after the game if the Chiefs win?

00:50:57.000 That was the speculation.

00:50:58.000 Last year, it didn't end up happening.

00:51:00.000 They're still dating, which is a shock, frankly.

00:51:02.000 But listen, it either ends in a marriage or it ends in an album.

00:51:06.000 So either way.

00:51:07.000 I suppose the American people win since they seem to like Taylor Swift.

00:51:10.000 So which side of that bet do you take?

00:51:13.000 Does Kelsey propose to Taylor Swift on the field?

00:51:16.000 I don't think so.

00:51:17.000 Honestly, I'm second-guessing my whole life this morning when it comes to pop culture.

00:51:21.000 If Taylor really endorsed Kamala and Kelsey's saying he's honored to have Trump at the game, I could never marry a Democrat.

00:51:28.000 Can they work through those political issues within their marriage? 0.61

00:51:32.000 I don't know.

00:51:33.000 But maybe the Democrats just gave her $500 billion to endorse Kamala. 0.98

00:51:37.000 Who knows?

00:51:38.000 But now I'm starting to question if they're even going to last at all.

00:51:41.000 So I don't think there will be a proposal then.

00:51:45.000 Wow.

00:51:46.000 That is a sad end to our time together.

00:51:48.000 That's Emily Austin.

00:51:49.000 You can go check out all of her work over on X and also at YouTube.

00:51:52.000 Emily, really appreciate the insight into the big game.

00:51:55.000 Hope you have a great Sunday.

00:51:56.000 Thank you.

00:51:57.000 Well, meanwhile, Kanye West is back at it, and he is over on Twitter doing things again.

00:52:04.000 Now, a wise man once said about Kanye West, live by the Kanye, die by the Kanye.

00:52:09.000 That wise man was me, and that was in 2018. There are some who decided that, in fact, Kanye was a deeply wise and trustworthy individual and, in fact, should be a hero to people on the right.

00:52:23.000 Now, there are two things that are possible to say about Kanye West.

00:52:27.000 One is that he's mentally ill, and he clearly is mentally ill. 0.53

00:52:30.000 He clearly is bipolar.

00:52:32.000 He's manic-depressive.

00:52:33.000 He now says that he's not manic-depressive, that he's actually autistic.

00:52:37.000 Okay, sure.

00:52:38.000 Autism is now being used as a catch-all term for pretty much any strange behavior out there, like all of it.

00:52:44.000 I'd love to see a medical diagnosis, but if there's a mental problem, then he is not totally responsible for his actions, which might explain why he does evil things.

00:52:54.000 But it's not responsible for those.

00:52:55.000 The other possibility is that actually, he's not mentally ill.

00:52:59.000 And that he ought to be taken seriously, which is an argument made by many people on the right.

00:53:02.000 Okay, if he's not mentally ill, and we ought to take him seriously, then he's evil.

00:53:06.000 And he's an evil person.

00:53:07.000 Because I don't know what else to make of a person who trots his wife out stark naked in front of the cameras, has suggested starting a company, shows pictures to people who work with him, and proclaims himself a Nazi.

00:53:20.000 Those seem like not amazing behaviors.

00:53:22.000 Well, he took two.

00:53:23.000 X again today and was manically tweeting over and over and over.

00:53:28.000 Everything from tweets about Bianca Sensori, his nude wife, to Adolf Hitler.

00:53:35.000 Quote, Hitler was so fresh, according to Ye, who undoubtedly would have been murdered by Hitler. 0.82

00:53:41.000 Quote, call me Yadolf Yitler and your bitch still wants to F. It's this sort of genius that made him world famous, obviously. 0.99

00:53:49.000 I'm going to normalize talking about Hitler the way they're talking about killing N-words has been normalized. 1.00

00:53:56.000 When was...

00:53:57.000 I'm just confused when it was normalized to talk about killing N-words.

00:54:02.000 By whom and why?

00:54:06.000 Quote, I'm cold when I feel an ounce of feelings.

00:54:11.000 O-N-C-E. A ounce of feelings.

00:54:14.000 I assume it means ounce.

00:54:15.000 I stand still and hold my eyes open like a psychopath till that feeling of feeling anything goes away.

00:54:19.000 I have no heartstrings.

00:54:20.000 People pull at your heartstrings to control.

00:54:21.000 People use your feelings against you.

00:54:25.000 I can say Jew as much as I want.

00:54:26.000 I can say Hitler as much as I want. 0.93

00:54:28.000 Matter of fact, I do say it when I want.

00:54:29.000 Well, I mean, I think we all have the capacity to say both Hitler and Jew as many times as we want. 0.84

00:54:34.000 But, yeah, I think it's kind of what you say.

00:54:37.000 By the way, he's now come out in favor of P. Diddy.

00:54:41.000 So just in case, if you're wondering if there are any evil people he's not siding with, The alleged...

00:54:47.000 He's apparently in on that one.

00:54:50.000 Quote, Puff, get one call a morning.

00:54:55.000 All right.

00:54:57.000 Free Puff.

00:54:59.000 Okay.

00:55:01.000 Very strong stuff from Kanye West this morning.

00:55:08.000 At least he's saying the obvious part.

00:55:10.000 Quote, I channeled Andrew Tate on a few of these tweets.

00:55:12.000 Yeah, we know, my bro.

00:55:13.000 We know.

00:55:14.000 We know.

00:55:17.000 So, good times.

00:55:20.000 And he did have some commentary about his naked wife defending her being naked.

00:55:26.000 Quote, anyone who's called my wife's Grammy look a stunt is dumb and lame.

00:55:30.000 Well, I mean, what else would you call it?

00:55:32.000 The best characterization of it is a stunt.

00:55:35.000 If she did it sincerely, then she has a screw loose.

00:55:37.000 People don't walk around naked in public if they don't have a screw loose.

00:55:40.000 Anyone who called my wife's Grammy look a stunts is dumb and lame, says Kanye West.

00:55:44.000 Yes, you.

00:55:44.000 She's been dressing naked for two years.

00:55:48.000 Okay, first of all, I want to logic out what it means to dress naked.

00:55:53.000 I feel like that's oxymoronic.

00:55:55.000 She's been dressing naked for two years.

00:55:59.000 That's strange.

00:56:03.000 Those are the options.

00:56:04.000 Anyway, now all of a sudden it's a stunt.

00:56:06.000 Every single...

00:56:07.000 On the planet, wish they had her bravery, body, platform, and access to money, and a husband that supported their personal expression. 0.98

00:56:13.000 There are a lot of things that had to converge for this moment to happen.

00:56:15.000 Actually, it turns out that to be naked requires no things to converge.

00:56:19.000 People do it all the time.

00:56:21.000 It's crazy.

00:56:22.000 From showering to babies having their diapers changed, it happens literally all the time without anything converging.

00:56:27.000 In fact, the fewest things in all of human history have to converge in order for people to be naked.

00:56:32.000 The Bible opens with people being naked in a garden.

00:56:35.000 Like, it turns out, you don't need any preconditions whatsoever to be naked.

00:56:39.000 It takes a civilization in order to get dressed.

00:56:43.000 Okay, why is this important?

00:56:45.000 The reason this is important is because a bunch of people took this guy seriously for years.

00:56:48.000 For years.

00:56:49.000 And when you sign up for the ride, you take the whole ride with the whole ticket.

00:56:54.000 So perhaps people ought to be a little bit more discriminating about whom they choose to emulate as heroes.

00:57:00.000 Transgressivism.

00:57:01.000 Violation of the norms.

00:57:03.000 Sometimes that can be useful if the norm is bad.

00:57:05.000 But that does not mean that all transgressive behavior is normal or decent, because it really, really is not.

00:57:13.000 So, solid stuff there from Ye.

00:57:15.000 And we look forward to his new collab with Diddy, I suppose.

00:57:19.000 Or at least some people will.

00:57:21.000 Alrighty.

00:57:21.000 Meanwhile, I've been informed that we need to do an analysis of the biggest hit on Amazon, Mr. Beast's show, over on Amazon.

00:57:30.000 So, this is kind of fascinating.

00:57:32.000 It's called Beast Games.

00:57:34.000 And full disclosure, I know some of the people associated with making the show.

00:57:38.000 Beast Games is, I will say, it's got like a 13% critics rating.

00:57:43.000 It is highly watchable, like really watchable.

00:57:45.000 It's kind of real-life Squid Games.

00:57:47.000 And there are a bunch of various sort of cultural analyses that have been done of Beast Games.

00:57:52.000 The most common one that I've seen is that it's a critique of capitalism.

00:57:55.000 First of all, let me explain.

00:57:56.000 It is absolutely not a critique of capitalism.

00:57:58.000 In fact, the setup for the show is the opposite of capitalism.

00:58:02.000 The setup is that 1,000 contestants compete in physical, mental, and social challenges for a chance to win a $5 million cash prize, a $1.8 million private island, and more.

00:58:12.000 And so, that's not capitalism.

00:58:15.000 Because it's a, definitionally, a zero-sum game.

00:58:17.000 Capitalism is not a zero-sum game.

00:58:19.000 Capitalism is the opposite of a zero-sum game.

00:58:22.000 It's also not like capitalism in that it is not an iterative game.

00:58:25.000 Meaning, you're in or you're out.

00:58:27.000 The thing about capitalism is if you cheat somebody in a capitalist system, You can cheat one guy, but you really can't cheat like five, because if you keep cheating people over and over, they stop doing business with you.

00:58:37.000 It's one of the great disincentives to cheat people under capitalism.

00:58:40.000 This is a point that's been made by Adam Smith, is that capitalism, as practiced, actually makes you more ethical in business, because you need to give somebody a product that they want, and it can't malfunction, because if it malfunctions, they're not going to buy from you again.

00:58:52.000 So there are a bunch of distinctions between what you're watching here and capitalism.

00:58:56.000 The left likes to think that capitalism is a zero-sum game, that it's a bunch of people competing for a bag of cash.

00:59:00.000 That's not what capitalism is.

00:59:02.000 In fact, capitalism makes everybody richer.

00:59:05.000 This is much more like communism, where you have a bag of cash, and then the question is just how that cash gets divided up.

00:59:11.000 And predictably, when it comes to a bag of cash and how it gets divided up, it turns out that the people who are the most scurrilous and underhanded are the people who are going to be the most likely to have the Dasha on the water, and everybody else is going to get victimized by those people.

00:59:26.000 It turns out that human nature is to maximize the return to you at the cost of somebody else unless all boats are rising.

00:59:35.000 That is just human nature.

00:59:36.000 You're going to defend yourself and your family before you defend other people.

00:59:38.000 That is just the way of human nature.

00:59:40.000 Greed is a universal human phenomenon.

00:59:42.000 Pretending it away doesn't make it go away.

00:59:44.000 The great lie of communism is that if you have a grab bag of cash, magically greed will just disappear if you force everybody to take the same amount.

00:59:53.000 And it's a lie and it never works because human nature is still human nature.

00:59:56.000 The only thing that can get past human greed is mutual dependence, which is what capitalism creates.

01:00:03.000 Free trade, mutual dependence, free exchange.

01:00:06.000 That's the sort of stuff that creates better behavior and creates an incentive structure that leads you to channel your particular greed toward actually helping somebody else because you're not going to get what you want unless you give somebody else what they want.

01:00:19.000 I've described capitalism as effectively forced altruism and that's correct.

01:00:22.000 So, I'm putting that out there because there have been a bunch of articles that are basically suggesting that the Beast games are a sort of critique of capitalism.

01:00:29.000 That's only if you really, really don't understand capitalism.

01:00:33.000 If you understand that this isn't capitalism, it's a grab bag of cash, then basically, all of Beast games can be reduced to a repeated iteration of the Prisoner's Dilemma.

01:00:42.000 Let's talk about what this game looks like.

01:00:45.000 It's the Prisoner's Dilemma.

01:00:46.000 So, for those of you who don't know some game theory, basic game theory, game theory is basically an attempt to quantify How decisions get made based on available possible outcomes.

01:00:56.000 So the perfect example of a sort of game theory is Prisoner's Dilemma.

01:01:01.000 So Prisoner's Dilemma is a situation where you have two guys who commit a crime together.

01:01:04.000 One of them is brought into one room by the cops.

01:01:07.000 The other is brought into another room by the cops.

01:01:08.000 And they are given a series of options.

01:01:12.000 They're each told.

01:01:13.000 You can confess or you can stay quiet.

01:01:16.000 Now, if you stay quiet and your partner confesses, That is the worst case outcome for you.

01:01:24.000 You refuse to talk to the cops and your partner confesses, then you are going to get 10 years in prison and your partner gets zero because he gets the benefit.

01:01:31.000 He flipped on you, but you didn't flip on anybody.

01:01:33.000 So you get the maximum sentence.

01:01:34.000 You get a 10-year sentence.

01:01:35.000 If you both stay quiet, then you both go to jail for a year.

01:01:39.000 If you both confess, then you're both going to jail for six years.

01:01:43.000 So the question is, where are you going to end up?

01:01:45.000 And the answer is, it depends on how much you trust your partner.

01:01:48.000 Here is that drawn out, right?

01:01:50.000 You have player one over here.

01:01:51.000 He has two options.

01:01:52.000 To confess or to stay quiet.

01:01:54.000 Player two also has two options.

01:01:56.000 To confess or to stay quiet.

01:01:57.000 If they both confess, they both get six years.

01:01:59.000 If they both stay quiet, they both get one year in prison.

01:02:02.000 If you confess and the other guy stays quiet, then you get zero years and he gets ten years.

01:02:08.000 And the precise opposite is true if your partner does that to you.

01:02:13.000 So, the most obvious...

01:02:14.000 Outcome, typically, is that everybody sort of loses because you don't want the tenure sentence.

01:02:19.000 If you don't trust your partner a lot that he's going to shut up, if he ain't your brother or something, you are immediately going to confess, and so will he, and then you're going to end up in this box, right?

01:02:27.000 That is the equilibrium.

01:02:29.000 That's where everybody's going to end up, typically speaking.

01:02:32.000 Okay, the reason that I bring this up is because when you look at sort of the outcome of these various games, they match that sort of human behavior.

01:02:39.000 So much of this show is kind of fascinating just because it is a...

01:02:42.000 It is a way of assessing in real life sort of Bayesian risk calculations.

01:02:48.000 I want to go through some of them because, again, I think people are reading the show wrong.

01:02:52.000 They're reading it as sort of critique of culture and there is some of that in here.

01:02:55.000 They have a bunch of Gen Z morons who somehow are of the opinion that they're best friends with everybody and so they keep getting screwed like over and over and over. 1.00

01:03:03.000 They keep doing the thing where they stay quiet and then the Gen Xer is like, I don't even know you, bro.

01:03:09.000 I don't even know you, bro.

01:03:11.000 And so the player, Who ends up staying quiet, the Gen Zer, ends up here in sort of the quiet box and ends up getting 10 years in prison. 0.92

01:03:17.000 And meanwhile, the Gen Xer is like, I don't know you, bro.

01:03:19.000 I'm going to confess.

01:03:21.000 And he ends up getting the benefit of that particular bargain.

01:03:24.000 So the answer there is Gen Zers are naive about the world and they've been misinformed as to how humanity actually works. 1.00

01:03:30.000 But there are some other sort of interesting Bayesian situations that arise here, risk calculation situations that arise here.

01:03:38.000 So let's go through some of them.

01:03:40.000 The first episode involves the sacrifice of a team member.

01:03:46.000 Okay, so this is the first challenge.

01:03:48.000 The contestants are teamed up by row.

01:03:50.000 One player from each row has to eliminate or sacrifice themselves so the rest of their row can move on.

01:03:54.000 The last three rows standing that have not eliminated someone are all eliminated.

01:03:59.000 Okay, so if everyone refuses to sacrifice themselves, then the entire row is eliminated.

01:04:04.000 One person has to throw themselves on the grenade, for example.

01:04:10.000 As you'll see, many of the rows end up being eliminated.

01:04:13.000 Three of the rows end up being eliminated because nobody sacrifices themselves because why would you?

01:04:17.000 Your expected outcome then is zero.

01:04:19.000 And so here's what it looked like.

01:04:22.000 One more thing.

01:04:24.000 This game has already started.

01:04:27.000 And it will not end until the last three rows to eliminate someone will all be eliminated together.

01:04:34.000 Only nine of the 12 rows will be moving on.

01:04:37.000 Come on! 0.61

01:04:38.000 Click it, click it, click it!

01:04:40.000 Come on! 0.61

01:04:41.000 Oh! 0.60

01:04:42.000 Whoa! 0.71

01:04:42.000 That was good! 0.71

01:04:43.000 Come on, come on! 0.98

01:04:44.000 Let's go!

01:04:45.000 Save! 0.54

01:04:45.000 Congrats! 0.54

01:04:46.000 Come on, come on! 0.98

01:04:46.000 Please! 0.98

01:04:47.000 Please!

01:04:49.000 Let's go!

01:04:50.000 Come on, guys!

01:04:51.000 And we're all gonna go!

01:04:52.000 Press it! 0.99

01:04:53.000 Press it! 0.99

01:04:54.000 We're all two!

01:04:57.000 Okay, so, um, some people are hitting it and taking the hit for the team.

01:05:02.000 Everybody's yelling at other people.

01:05:05.000 But why would you sacrifice yourself for the team?

01:05:07.000 The reason, again, that people aren't doing it is because of the prisoner's dilemma.

01:05:11.000 You don't want to be the guy.

01:05:13.000 This is a clear case where you take the hit and you go to jail and everybody else gets to stay.

01:05:16.000 Why would you possibly do that?

01:05:17.000 There's no upside for you other than maybe a couple of seconds on camera as the supposed hero.

01:05:21.000 So again, is that an expose of capitalism?

01:05:23.000 This has nothing to do with capitalism.

01:05:25.000 This has to do with basic human motivation.

01:05:27.000 Meanwhile, next episode, episode two, there is a challenge in which team leaders are given an opportunity.

01:05:34.000 They get to receive a million dollars and if they take the million dollars, their team goes home.

01:05:39.000 Or, Do not take the million dollars and their team remains.

01:05:42.000 Now remember, the big prize is five million bucks.

01:05:45.000 I'm just going to put it out here.

01:05:46.000 If you were a team leader here and you didn't take the million dollars, you're a moron.

01:05:49.000 This is a competitive game.

01:05:50.000 There will be one person who wins and many people who lose.

01:05:53.000 You're a stupid person if you don't take the million dollars.

01:05:55.000 You don't know these people.

01:05:56.000 It is a competitive game.

01:05:57.000 It doesn't make you self-sacrificial.

01:05:59.000 It doesn't make you a saint.

01:06:00.000 It doesn't make you a martyr.

01:06:02.000 It is the nature of the constructed game as it is.

01:06:05.000 Your expected value, if you do not take the million dollars, Is you divided by the entire corpus of people who are left in the game?

01:06:14.000 They're like 500 people left in the game.

01:06:17.000 So your expected value of the $5 million for 500 people is 1 500th of $5 million.

01:06:26.000 Okay, so that is 5 million divided by 500. In other words, 10 grand.

01:06:31.000 Okay, so you are giving up a million dollars for a 10 grand expected value.

01:06:36.000 So you're an adult if you don't take the million dollars.

01:06:38.000 Here's the clip.

01:06:44.000 Okay, so people are not taking a million dollars to eliminate their team.

01:06:52.000 Why don't they just take the money?

01:06:56.000 Just take the money, dude.

01:06:57.000 Just take the money.

01:06:57.000 They're just so self-sacrificial, or they're being stupid about the nature of gaming.

01:07:08.000 If you go to this game in the first place, you should be taking the million dollars.

01:07:11.000 You're the winner.

01:07:14.000 People don't understand expected value calculations.

01:07:18.000 Or they think the social sanction is so strong that they can't take the million dollars.

01:07:20.000 Take the million dollars and run, my man.

01:07:23.000 That is quite foolish.

01:07:24.000 Quite foolish.

01:07:25.000 Okay, so another sort of social experiment that was played was episode 8. In this particular episode, There was a bag of cash and contestants were asked sequentially to take money from the bag of cash.

01:07:40.000 How much money are you going to take?

01:07:42.000 It's like a million dollars in the bag and there are 10 people on each team or there's 10 contestants left at this point in the whole game.

01:07:48.000 And how much money do you take?

01:07:51.000 Now again, the amount of money that you take is going to determine whether you get eliminated or not.

01:07:55.000 If you just go and grab all the cash, presumably everybody then votes to eliminate you because you took all of the cash.

01:08:02.000 This is a basic expected value calculation here.

01:08:07.000 There are 10 players left, correct?

01:08:10.000 Okay, so there are 10 players left.

01:08:12.000 There's a million dollars in the bag.

01:08:14.000 So you currently have a 1 in 10 shot at winning $5 million.

01:08:18.000 Your expected value becomes $500,000.

01:08:21.000 This is fun.

01:08:21.000 I get to teach basic statistics to folks.

01:08:25.000 Fun.

01:08:26.000 Okay, so your expected value is now $500,000.

01:08:29.000 Or, if you walk in and you take anything more than $500,000, it's guaranteed.

01:08:33.000 This means you're a fool not to take more than $500,000 from the bag.

01:08:38.000 Because your expected value is now higher than $500,000.

01:08:42.000 Only one person was smart enough to do this, and then he was crying about it.

01:08:45.000 Why are you crying about it, dude?

01:08:46.000 It's a competitive game.

01:08:47.000 That's the nature of the game.

01:08:49.000 It'd make you a bad person.

01:08:50.000 I would have taken the money.

01:08:52.000 I would have taken the money.

01:08:54.000 Because these people are not on your team.

01:08:56.000 They will all be eliminated.

01:08:58.000 Again, this is not like capitalism, and it's not like your church. 0.78

01:09:01.000 It's not like your family.

01:09:02.000 You don't know these people.

01:09:04.000 The bizarre attempt by the producers to sort of create this, oh, you're part of a community now.

01:09:09.000 You have a stake in these people.

01:09:11.000 You love them, and they love you.

01:09:12.000 Ah!

01:09:14.000 So only one dude played this game correctly.

01:09:17.000 Oh, wow.

01:09:19.000 If you had to pick one person out of the ten people remaining, you're like, I feel like they would take more than ten percent.

01:09:26.000 I genuinely don't think anyone would.

01:09:29.000 Because we've all come so far for a reason, so we're all deserving of this, and anyone who is ill-intent coming in or has sabotaged anyone else is already out.

01:09:40.000 $677,000 remains.

01:09:41.000 Oh, you naive child.

01:09:43.000 I didn't expect that at all.

01:09:44.000 Really?

01:09:45.000 Yeah.

01:09:46.000 This is guaranteed money.

01:09:48.000 This is your money?

01:09:52.000 I would pay off my mortgage and my debt.

01:09:55.000 How much is that?

01:09:56.000 A lot.

01:09:56.000 Do you feel comfortable sharing?

01:09:59.000 With mortgage, credit cards, loans, I probably owe about 530. Whoa!

01:10:05.000 You can take exactly what you need to pay off all your debt.

01:10:10.000 JC, I trust more than anyone here because he was in my red cute box challenge with me.

01:10:15.000 In such a short amount of time, I've grown to love you guys like if you were my daughters.

01:10:19.000 I told you that I didn't want to take care of you.

01:10:23.000 But I don't know what to do right now.

01:10:25.000 And he said he'd take me to the top, and now I'm number four.

01:10:28.000 See, that's the schmucky part.

01:10:29.000 Don't pretend that they're like your daughters.

01:10:30.000 They're not.

01:10:30.000 You don't know these people.

01:10:31.000 I trust every one of them.

01:10:32.000 I know I'm going to have a target on my back, but I'm not guaranteed the five million either.

01:10:38.000 It's a competition show.

01:10:39.000 See, people are going to watch me and my take on this, and they're going to be like, how dare you be so cruel?

01:10:43.000 It's a competition show.

01:10:46.000 This is like saying that Patrick Mahomes should deliberately throw interceptions to achieve fairness in the Super Bowl.

01:10:52.000 It is a competition show.

01:10:54.000 There are winners and there are losers.

01:10:56.000 If you don't buy into the premise of the show, don't go on the show.

01:10:59.000 If you went on the show to make friends, you need to have a better life.

01:11:03.000 That's all.

01:11:04.000 The latest episode of Beast Game, episode number nine.

01:11:07.000 Player 566 was sent home in this episode.

01:11:09.000 So, there are six players left.

01:11:11.000 And Mr. Beast gave the final six contestants a chance to flip a coin to double the money available, making it $10 million available to the pool, as opposed to $5 million.

01:11:20.000 If you flip wrong, you're eliminated.

01:11:22.000 And the episode ends with somebody flipping the coin, but you don't see what happens.

01:11:25.000 Okay, now, again, it is perfectly rational to both flip the coin and not flip the coin.

01:11:29.000 Either decision is perfectly rational.

01:11:31.000 Basic expected return calculation here.

01:11:34.000 You have a 1 in 6 chance of winning $5 million, or you have a 1 in 12 chance of winning $10 million.

01:11:43.000 Okay, that's the same expected value.

01:11:45.000 So whether you flip the coin or whether you don't flip the coin, just in terms of risk assessment, it's irrelevant.

01:11:50.000 Your expected value at the end, It's exactly the same.

01:11:53.000 So there's no moral component to that.

01:11:55.000 There's nothing that makes you better or worse for flipping the coin or not flipping the coin or even makes you smarter or not as smart for not flipping the coin.

01:12:02.000 A Hollywood reporter reports that professional TV reviewers have called this a sad reflection of our modern times.

01:12:07.000 One of the most undignified spectacles ever shown on TV. A deafening, joyless cash dash.

01:12:11.000 I don't know.

01:12:12.000 If you see it as a sort of social experiment that just reveals preferences, then it's kind of interesting that way.

01:12:20.000 The only thing that would make it joyless is if you expect that all these people are not in a competition show and really it's like you battling members of your family.

01:12:28.000 But it ain't.

01:12:29.000 It isn't.

01:12:30.000 It'd be a joyless competition show if this was like you doing this to your own kids, not some random people who you're in a stated competition show with.

01:12:38.000 Alrighty.

01:12:38.000 That's the analysis of Beast Games.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - February 07, 2025

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