Ben Shapiro returns to the news cycle after a brief break to talk about the latest on the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation process. He also talks about a story about a woman who is lying to her dentist about how often she flosses her teeth and why you should be using Quip instead of brushing your teeth. Ben Shapiro is a columnist for The Daily Wire and host of the podcast "The Ben Shapiro Show." He is a regular contributor to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Weekly Standard, and is a frequent guest on Fox News and other network news outlets. He is the author of the book, "The Devil Next Door" and hosts the podcast, "Ben Shapiro's New York Magazine" and "The Weekly Standard". He's also the host of "The Daily Wire" and is the founder of The Ben Shapiro Podcast, which he describes as "America's Most Awkward Podcast." We take a look at all of the breaking news on the latest in the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation process, including the latest from CNN and the Washington Post, and other news outlets, and we take a closer look at the funniest story of the year, "KAVANAKEVILLION" from the past week, and much, much funnier than the rest of the week! Plus, we discuss the most ridiculous thing he's seen this week on the internet, and gives his thoughts on it. Enjoy! - Ben Shapiro's new book, Thank you for listening to the show, Ben! and tweet us what you thought of it! in the comments section below. - Timestamps: 5 stars? 5 stars is a star rating? 6 stars is much appreciated! 7 stars is more than enough for a good day? 8 stars is all you can give me! 9 stars is enough, right? 5 stars will help me know that you'll be helping me spread the word of the good stuff I'm listening to it? 9/10 is much more than that? 11/22/19/10/27/28/29/30 10/30 is a day to start the story? 12/29 13/28 15/29 is a good enough? 16/30/30? 17/29? 18/31/30s? 19/28? 21/29?? 22/29 ?
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00:02:20.000So with the news cycle like this, I will say it is very difficult.
00:02:24.000To take off a couple of days and then jump right back into the news cycle.
00:02:27.000I jumped back into the news cycle yesterday, last night, to find that we are apparently just a couple of days away from the actual vote on Brett Kavanaugh.
00:02:35.000That's what Mitch McConnell said this morning.
00:02:37.000The Senate Majority Leader says we will be voting on Kavanaugh in the full Senate by the end of the week.
00:02:41.000The FBI report is expected to wrap today or tomorrow at the very latest.
00:02:46.000And the FBI is basically saying, we've got nothing, right?
00:02:55.000An allegation about a Republican is tantamount to the allegation being true, according to folks on the left, which we'll get to in just a second.
00:03:03.000According to the Wall Street Journal, though, people familiar with the process said on Tuesday that the FBI investigation into the allegations of sexual misconduct against Judge Kavanaugh could wrap up very soon, well ahead of the end-of-week deadline, which we hope for and pray for so that we don't have to spend this weekend covering breaking news again.
00:03:21.000Another person familiar with the process said they were expecting the Bureau to conclude its report as late as late Tuesday or early Wednesday.
00:03:28.000Agents had interviewed at least four people as of Tuesday in the background investigation of Judge Kavanaugh.
00:03:32.000The White House had given the Bureau until Friday to wrap up the probe.
00:03:35.000Senators will be shown the FBI's findings.
00:03:37.000It's not clear what exactly will be made public at any point.
00:03:40.000Suffice it to say, it's not expected that anything groundbreaking will happen here.
00:03:44.000And there's a reason that Mitch McConnell is going off on the Democrats over all of this.
00:03:47.000The Senate Majority Leader, he comes forward, he says, listen, all of this was a stall tactic.
00:03:53.000Democrats who had no intention of voting for Brett Kavanaugh in the first place are suddenly acting all outraged that the FBI investigation is wrapping too soon.
00:04:00.000When they knew it would wrap that soon, because the FBI investigation
00:04:04.000Actually has less investigative power than the Senate Judiciary Committee.
00:04:52.000And there's a reason Republicans are unified on this one, and it's because this feels like a witch hunt.
00:04:57.000This feels as though the Democrats are fully intent on destroying a good man simply for the sake of delaying a Supreme Court nomination.
00:05:06.000And the Democrats, I will say, there are certain times in American politics that are very difficult to watch.
00:05:11.000This is one of those times because things are so ugly and so acrimonious and so nasty right now that you find yourself fulminating about it even when you don't want to think about politics.
00:05:21.000The idea that somebody can be railroaded on one allegation with no corroborative evidence, and as we will see, a lot of evidence that cuts the other way, and that this is supposed to finish people's lives?
00:05:31.000If you're a good person, you should be thinking twice about whether this is the society that you actually want to live in.
00:05:36.000Do you want the possibility that someone can come forward with an allegation against you at any time and destroy you?
00:05:43.000Good people will not go into American public life.
00:05:50.000Ten years ago, I was much more interested in running for office than I am now.
00:05:53.000And one of the reasons is because the way people are treated when they run for office, or are on the judiciary, or are in good stead making policy, that is not something you want to put your family through.
00:06:05.000Even if you're as clean as the driven snow, it's not something you want to put your family through.
00:06:09.000It's also, by the same token, while it's difficult to watch all of this, it's also clarifying.
00:06:14.000And the idea that the veil is being stripped back and you're seeing people for who they are.
00:06:17.000One of the people who we saw who he was over the last several days, and I had to comment on this because I missed the opportunity to on Monday, was James Comey.
00:06:25.000So James Comey, who is touted as the most honest man in American politics, he lived for a higher loyalty, right?
00:06:32.000He's a higher loyalty, James Comey, the FBI director that President Trump fired.
00:06:36.000And President Trump called him a grandstander at the time.
00:06:39.000And I said President Trump was right to call him a grandstander and should have fired him immediately upon taking office.
00:06:43.000Well, James Comey in the New York Times had a piece earlier this week, and I want to read you some of the piece because it sets the baseline for where Democrats and where folks on the left were going with Kavanaugh.
00:06:53.000And now it turns out that none of this is going to come true.
00:06:56.000So James Comey had a piece earlier this week, and it was called The FBI Can Do This.
00:07:00.000And so the FBI is back in the middle of it.
00:07:02.000When we were handed the Hillary Clinton email investigation in 2015, the bureau's deputy director said to me, you know you are totally screwed, right?
00:07:09.000He meant that, in a viciously polarized political environment, one side was sure to be furious with the outcome.
00:07:14.000Sure enough, I saw a tweet declaring me a political hack, although the author added tongue-in-cheek, I just can't figure out which side.
00:07:22.000President Trump's decision to order a one-week investigation into sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, his Supreme Court nominee, comes in a time of almost indescribable pain and anger, lies, and attacks.
00:07:33.000And he goes on, talks about how terrible the president of the United States is, and then finally he gets to Brett Kavanaugh.
00:07:40.000And he suggests that the time-bound nature of the FBI investigation is really bad.
00:07:46.000Because, of course, Democrats, folks on the left, they don't want Kavanaugh nominated.
00:07:49.000The whole goal of this investigation, the whole goal of Democratic tactics here is to stall beyond the election.
00:08:17.000Sexual assaults that the president says never happen, that some senators have decried as a sham cooked up to derail a Supreme Court nominee, and that other senators believe, beyond all doubt, were committed by the nominee.
00:08:26.000If truth were the only goal, there would be no clock, and the investigation wouldn't have been sought after the Senate Judiciary Committee already endorsed the nominee.
00:08:33.000Instead, it seems the Republican goal is to be able to say there was an investigation and it didn't change their view, while the Democrats hope for incriminating evidence to derail the nominee.
00:08:42.000Well, no, the Republicans didn't ask for an FBI investigation because there had already been six FBI background checks of Brett Kavanaugh.
00:08:49.000And the Senate Judiciary Committee, as mentioned, has more investigative power than the FBI.
00:08:53.000They went ahead with this because Jeff Flake felt that maybe this would make some of the senators sitting on the fence a little bit more comfortable.
00:09:00.000He says although the process is deeply flawed and apparently designed to thwart the fact-gathering process, the FBI is up for this.
00:09:06.000It's not as hard as Republicans hope it will be.
00:09:09.000FBI agents are experts at interviewing people and quickly dispatching leads to their colleagues around the world to follow with additional interviews.
00:09:15.000Unless limited in some way by the Trump administration, they can speak to scores of people in a few days if necessary.
00:09:20.000They will confront people with testimony and other accounts, testing them, pushing them in a professional way.
00:09:25.000Agents have much better nonsense detectors than partisans because they aren't starting with a conclusion.
00:09:59.000He says, So James Comey already condemning Kavanaugh as a liar, even though Kavanaugh actually hadn't lied about anything, and there's no proof Kavanaugh lied about anything.
00:10:24.000FBI agents know that time has little to do with memory and that significance drives memory because everybody remembers what the weather was like on their wedding day.
00:10:31.000First of all, the reason you remember anything on your wedding day is because there was a photographer there taking pictures of the whole thing.
00:10:36.000And then you go back and you look at the pictures of your wedding day and that is what you call an aid to memory.
00:10:41.000Second of all, if his argument is that everyone knows what the weather was like on their wedding day,
00:10:46.000Then why doesn't Christine Blasey Ford remember where it happened?
00:10:58.000So if significance drives memory, then why exactly doesn't she remember anything about what happened except supposedly that Brett Kavanaugh was there?
00:11:07.000So all of this is completely self-defeating.
00:11:10.000It's just, but James Comey, you know, acting as the supposed good guy in the room, the objective observer in the room, is already inciting Brett Kavanaugh without even recognizing that his own words basically undercut the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford.
00:11:25.000People who are purporting to be objective are just falsifying.
00:11:28.000People who are purporting to be objective on this, instead of saying we don't have enough information yet, already at the beginning of the week, they were saying that Kavanaugh is guilty.
00:12:16.000You don't get to say that Brett Kavanaugh should be taken down on the basis of uncorroborated allegations.
00:12:20.000But Christine Blasey's floor testimony should be respected.
00:12:23.000Until it is disproved by corroborated allegations.
00:12:26.000Either corroborative evidence is necessary or corroborative evidence is not necessary.
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00:14:19.000During our time dating, Dr. Ford never brought up anything regarding her experience as a victim of sexual assault, harassment, or misconduct.
00:14:25.000Dr. Ford never mentioned Brett Kavanaugh.
00:14:27.000During some of the time we were dating, Dr. Ford lived with Monica L. McLean, who I understood to be her lifelong best friend.
00:14:33.000During that time, it was my understanding that McLean was interviewing for jobs with the FBI and U.S.
00:14:38.000I witnessed Dr. Ford help McLean prepare for a potential polygraph exam.
00:14:42.000Dr. Ford explained in detail what to expect, how polygraphs worked, and helped McLean become familiar and less nervous about the exam.
00:14:48.000Dr. Ford was able to help because of her background in psychology.
00:14:51.000Dr. Ford and I lived together while we were dating and stayed together in a long-distance relationship when Dr. Ford moved to Hawaii sometime around 1998, although I'm not sure of the particular year and it might have been a bit earlier or later.
00:15:02.000While visiting Ford in Hawaii, we traveled around the Hawaiian Islands, including one time on a propeller plane.
00:15:07.000Dr. Ford never indicated a fear of flying.
00:15:09.000To the best of my recollection, Dr. Ford never expressed a fear of closed quarters, tight spaces, or places with only one exit.
00:15:15.000I assisted Dr. Ford with finding a place to live in California.
00:15:18.000She ended up living in a very small 500 square foot house with one door.
00:15:21.000Despite trying to maintain a long-distance relationship, I ended the relationship once I discovered Dr. Ford was unfaithful while living in Hawaii.
00:15:28.000After the breakup, I took her off the credit card we shared, but nearly one year later, I noticed Dr. Ford had been charging the card and charged about $600 worth of merchandise.
00:15:35.000When confronted, Dr. Ford said she did not use the card, but later admitted to the use after I threatened to involve fraud prevention.
00:15:41.000I didn't speak to Ford again until about 2002, when Ford contacted me briefly.
00:15:46.000After that, I hadn't thought much about her until I saw her story in the Washington Post on Sunday, September 16, 2018.
00:15:51.000I do not want to become involved in this process or current investigation, but wanted to be truthful about what I know.
00:15:57.000So pretty damning stuff from her ex-boyfriend about Christine Blasey Ford, really undercutting her veracity.
00:16:05.000So this letter suggests a couple of reasons why Dr. Ford's veracity has been challenged.
00:16:09.000One, she never mentioned for years anything about this sexual assault and never mentioned Kavanaugh.
00:16:14.000Now, that doesn't necessarily undercut all of her credibility.
00:16:16.000According to Ford, she never said anything until 2012.
00:16:19.000But it does underscore that for a lady who says that she was very disturbed about everything that happened to her with regard to Kavanaugh, not to mention it for six, seven years, and also to be able to travel in prop planes.
00:16:30.000Like, I'm nervous about traveling in prop planes.
00:16:32.000Like, propeller planes feel like they're going to go down at any moment.
00:16:35.000And she was traveling in prop planes in Hawaii.
00:16:38.000She was staying, apparently, according to this guy, in tiny spaces, with no worries about claustrophobia.
00:16:44.000She testified in front of the Senate, all of this.
00:16:46.000Also, she testified in front of the Senate, she'd never coached anybody with regard to a polygraph.
00:16:49.000Remember, she made a big deal out of taking a polygraph.
00:16:52.000And she still won't turn over her notes from her psychiatrist.
00:16:55.000She turned over her polygraph notes, but her polygraph notes raised some questions of their own, such as, in the polygraph notes, the original polygraph note said, before she took the polygraph,
00:17:04.000That she was sexually assaulted in the early 80s.
00:17:41.000So, Senator Chuck Grassley has now sent a letter to the attorneys for this woman, for Christine Blasey Ford, and he asked for material evidence relevant to the allegations.
00:17:50.000He says he wants some corroborative evidence.
00:17:52.000He says he wants the notes from the therapy sessions that Dr. Ford discussed, and that she turned over to the Washington Post.
00:17:58.000Right, he says that he wants copies of all video or audio recordings produced during the course of the polygraph examination of Dr. Ford, which she will not turn over.
00:18:06.000And then he says, the full details of Dr. Ford's polygraph are particularly important because the Senate Judiciary Committee has received a sworn statement from a longtime boyfriend of Dr. Ford's stating that he personally witnessed Dr. Ford coaching a friend on polygraph examinations.
00:18:19.000When asked under oath in the hearing whether she'd ever given any tips or advice to someone who's planning on taking a polygraph, Dr. Ford replied, never.
00:18:27.000This statement raises specific concerns about the reliability of her polygraph examination results.
00:18:31.000The Senate therefore needs this information.
00:18:34.000Right, so she's got a credibility problem there as well.
00:18:37.000Then, she also has another credibility problem.
00:18:39.000It turns out that she said in her Senate testimony over and over again that she was in therapy in 2012 because she had a fight with her husband about building a second front door.
00:18:47.000And the reason that she wanted a second front door is because she had security concerns because she was still deeply disturbed about her alleged sexual assault at the hands of Brett Kavanaugh.
00:18:57.000Well, now it turns out that that's a really dicey story.
00:19:00.000Real Clear Investigations, Paul Sperry over at Real Clear Investigations has a piece.
00:19:04.000In which she says real estate and other records undercut a key part of Christine Blasey Ford's account of why she finally came forward with charges of attempted rape against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after some 30 years.
00:19:14.000Ford testified last week that she had never revealed the details of the alleged attack until 2012 when she was in couples therapy with her husband.
00:19:21.000She said the memories percolated up as they revisited a disagreement they'd had over her insistence on installing a second front door when they remodeled their Palo Alto, California home.
00:19:30.000The need to explain a decision her husband didn't understand pushed her to say she wanted the door to alleviate symptoms of claustrophobia and panic attacks based on the alleged assault.
00:19:40.000She was specifically asked about this by Dianne Feinstein.
00:19:43.000Feinstein asked, is that the reason for the second front door is claustrophobia?
00:19:48.000But documents reveal the door was installed years before as part of an addition and has been used by renters and even a marriage counseling business.
00:19:54.000The door was not an escape route, but an entrance route, said an attorney familiar with the ongoing congressional investigation.
00:19:59.000It appears the real plan for the second front door was to rent out a separate room.
00:20:03.000Palo Alto City records show a building permit for the additional room and exterior door was issued to Ford and her husband on February 4, 2008, more than four years before the May 2012 therapy session where she first identified Kavanaugh as her attacker.
00:20:18.000All the remodeling was completed by February 2010.
00:20:20.000The only additional permits issued to Ford at her Palo Alto address are for solar panels on the roof, a solar hot water system in the garage, and an electric vehicle charge station for the driveway.
00:20:30.000Dr. Randall, who is the marriage therapist, expressed concerns about her real estate transaction and prior relationship with Ford being reported.
00:20:56.000We also know that that second front door story has some holes in it.
00:21:00.000All of which suggest that maybe there are some serious questions that need to be asked about Ford's account.
00:21:04.000And this week it seems more questions have been raised about that account than have actually been raised about Brett Kavanaugh.
00:21:09.000In just a second, I'm going to get to President Trump's response on all of this, which is, you know, peculiarly Trumpian.
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00:22:19.000Okay, so President Trump has basically had it.
00:22:22.000After a couple of weeks of him maintaining silence, or at least being discreet in his opinions about this issue, him saying that he found her testimony compelling, and then he found Kavanaugh's testimony compelling, the president last night decided, you know what?
00:24:28.000The guy who was ripped apart by the MeToo movement, like, five minutes ago.
00:24:31.000Now he's there playing the MeToo movement's go-to guy, mocking Brett Kavanaugh.
00:24:34.000So it's fine to mock Brett Kavanaugh, a guy whose life is being torn apart by what appear to be corroboration-free allegations of rape and false allegations of gang rape.
00:24:44.000That guy you can mock the crap out of.
00:24:46.000But if you mock Christine Blasey Ford, according to CNN, that's the true test of evil.
00:24:50.000Now again, I don't think any of these folks should be mocked, but here is Don Lemon going after President Trump, which is why, you know, the president should think twice before doing this sort of stuff in the future.
00:24:59.000So we learned tonight that our president cannot resist mocking a woman who he had called a credible witness in front of a cheering crowd.
00:25:08.000And we're learning more tonight about Brett Kavanaugh as well.
00:25:36.000Except from every high school student who's ever been in high school!
00:25:41.000Really, we'll get to the shifting goalposts of the Democrats and the media in just a second, because the goalposts are moving faster than the speed of light.
00:25:51.000By the laws of physics, it's not possible to move faster than the speed of light, but somehow those goalposts have been shifting faster than the speed of light.
00:25:57.000We've actually gone back in time, thanks to the goalpost shifting of the Democrats.
00:26:07.000Remember, Maisie Hirono is one of the people who said all men should sit down and shut up and say nothing about the Brett Kavanaugh allegations.
00:26:13.000And so she's a real great source when it comes to, I think, honesty in politics.
00:26:18.000But here she is just lamenting the state of our politics after having helped undermine it, after having clocked politics in the back of the head with a shovel and left it bleeding through the nose.
00:26:26.000Here she is talking to Anderson Cooper.
00:26:28.000We can always count on the president to go down to the lowest common denominator, mock people, call people names, attack them.
00:28:22.000It sounds like an orchestrated hit to take me out.
00:28:24.000So in other words, NBC first claimed that Kavanaugh was calling around to try and quash Ramirez's story, and now it turns out that he had already testified.
00:28:31.000He had already testified that it was Ramirez who was calling around to try and bolster her story.
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00:29:20.000I haven't drunk alcohol since my 18th birthday.
00:29:22.000As I sat alone at the end of the bar, Julie approached me.
00:29:24.000She was alone, quite beautiful, well-dressed, and no drink in hand.
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00:29:38.000I had never been hit on in a bar before.
00:29:40.000I didn't leave with her that night, although we talked about getting together.
00:29:42.000Over the next couple of weeks, we met at what I believed and still believe was Julie's place.
00:29:46.000From the beginning, Julie knew I was married and that I was having marital issues.
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00:32:46.000This week's Sunday special is a guy I've been wanting to have on for a very long time, Jonathan Haidt, professor at NYU, the author of The Righteous Mind and the New York Times bestseller, The Coddling of the American Mind.
00:32:56.000He stopped by to talk about free speech, college campus, and all the rest.
00:33:00.000Hi, my name is Jonathan Haidt, and I'm going to be talking with Ben on the Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special.
00:33:05.000I'll be talking about my new book, The Coddling of the American Mind, as well as the inexplicable puzzling events that have consumed much of campus life and national politics.
00:33:15.000So you're going to want to check that out.
00:33:17.000By the way, if you want a preview of what exactly that's going to be like, Thursday night I'm speaking at USC.
00:33:22.000There's already talk that things are going to get maybe riotous outside and kind of insane over there.
00:35:07.000All he alleges that he once witnessed a salacious party at a house owned by Judge Kavanaugh's undergrad fraternity.
00:35:12.000He then separately advises us to obtain and search Judge Kavanaugh's calendars to determine if he attended.
00:35:17.000We have reached a new level of absurdity with this allegation.
00:35:20.000There is no evidence that Judge Kavanaugh is anywhere near the party or had anything to do with it at all.
00:35:24.000In fact, the only person we can be sure attended the party was the accuser.
00:35:27.000My investigators have serious work to do.
00:35:29.000While the minority has refused to engage with the allegations against Judge Kavanaugh in any meaningful way, my investigators have tried to pursue every relevant lead.
00:35:36.000I therefore hope that before forwarding an allegation in the future, you'll first consider whether you'd want you or your staff to spend valuable time investigating it.
00:35:58.000He did the same thing to Bernie Sanders earlier this week.
00:36:00.000Bernie Sanders sent him a letter saying, we want a longer FBI investigation.
00:36:03.000And Grassley sent him a letter back saying, Bernie, you came out five minutes after the nomination and said that you were going to oppose Kavanaugh.
00:36:16.000So all of this leads up to the fact that there's just a shifting argument going on on the left.
00:36:19.000This started off, if you recall, with an argument that Brett Kavanaugh was unfit for the court because he allegedly tried to rape a girl when he was 17.
00:37:11.000Here's Hillary Clinton wearing, again, something that she got from Mugabe's wardrobe in Zoolander.
00:37:21.000But I think for anyone who believes there's such a thing as a judicial temperament, and that we want judges, particularly those on our highest court, to approach issues, approach plaintiffs and defendants with a sense of fairness, that there's a lot to be concerned about.
00:37:39.000Yeah, because he got mad when you accused him of being... I remember someone else getting mad when her husband was accused of rape.
00:38:32.000Like, they would actually just punch each other in the groin.
00:38:34.000Like, this is an actual thing that I would hear about later.
00:38:37.000As you can imagine, not my kind of party.
00:38:39.000Okay, but the accusation here by Allison Camerata is that ice throwers are more likely to assault.
00:38:45.000So, if you're in a bar fight with a dude at a bar, and you threw ice at him, then it must be that you sexually assaulted a woman years prior.
00:39:00.000By the way, all the members of Congress who are very upset about drinking, if they say that, you know, heavy drinking is more likely to make you a sexual assaulter, I have some bad news for the folks in Congress.
00:39:08.000Okay, the folks in Congress, that place is an unmet AA meeting.
00:39:13.000Okay, if anybody ever wanted to win a Pulitzer, all they would have to do is just stake out the bars on Capitol Hill.
00:39:19.000The number of Congress people who are fall-down drunks is astonishing.
00:39:22.000In any case, here's Allison Camerata making a fool of herself.
00:39:25.000I think that if you are known as a belligerent, mean, fighting drunk, that's relevant.
00:39:31.000I think that it's relevant to, then, a woman who says that you would corner her and put your hand over her mouth.
00:39:38.000Somehow, that, I think, makes more sense than if you were just a fun drunk who always fell right asleep.
00:39:46.000Okay, or, alternatively, the two things don't necessarily have to do with one another because guys get in bar fights with other dudes and then they may not touch women.
00:39:54.000Because that happens actually a fair bit.
00:41:20.000Which is rich coming from Jeffrey Toobin, a white dude who knocked up his mistress, tried to pay for her abortion, refused to pay child support until ordered to by a court.
00:41:29.000But he says that every allegation should be taken seriously while he sits there on CNN with his job after trying to pay for an abortion and ditch his child support necessities.
00:41:55.000Nobody's a victim unless you can show me proof of victimhood.
00:41:58.000This right here is proof of victimhood.
00:41:59.000When the CNN lead legal analyst says that white men do not deserve due process or the presumption of innocence, that actually is pretty good evidence of actual racism and sexism taking place.
00:42:37.000I would hope that people of every color would be a little upset when a certain group is singled out and then told that mob rule should prevail.
00:42:44.000Mob rule has been historically very bad for minorities in this country.
00:42:48.000Very bad for minorities in this country.
00:42:50.000That's the reason due process is such an important thing.
00:42:53.000It's why it's part of the 14th amendment and not just part of the 5th amendment.
00:42:56.000Because the idea was due process had to be extended to all Americans.
00:43:04.000I mean, you have Cory Booker, that insane bag of lunacy, who says the senator from New Jersey, Spartacus, he came out and he says that it's actually, he finally spills the beans.
00:43:14.000He just says, listen, it doesn't matter whether Kavanaugh is guilty or innocent.
00:43:16.000I don't like him because I'm bald or something.
00:43:19.000Here is Cory Booker in his crazy eyes.
00:43:22.000And then ultimately, not whether he's innocent or guilty, this is not a trial, but ultimately,
00:43:29.000Has enough questions been raised that we should not move on to another candidate?
00:43:35.000And that long list put together by the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society... That's unbelievable!
00:43:39.000It doesn't matter if he's guilty or innocent, but have enough questions been raised?
00:44:08.000As I said last week, you know, we did a little kind of Q&A.
00:44:11.000I was doing a live radio show and in the middle of the breaks, I was answering questions, which we do for subscribers, which is why you should subscribe.
00:44:18.000And somebody asked, you know, do you think Republicans will be more motivated?
00:45:30.000Here is Peter Boghossian explaining what exactly they did to prank these journals.
00:45:35.000Since approximately June of 2017, I, along with two other concerned academics, Peter Boghossian and Helen Pluckrose, have been writing intentionally broken academic papers and submitting them to highly respected journals in fields that study gender, race, sexuality, and similar topics.
00:45:52.000We did this to expose a political corruption that's taken hold of the university.
00:45:56.000By this point, several of these papers have been accepted in highly respected journals, and one, that claims that dog-humping incidents can be taken as evidence of rape culture, has been officially honored as excellent scholarship.
00:46:09.000I'm not going to lie to you, we had a lot of fun with this project.
00:46:12.000The reviewers are worried that we didn't respect the dog's privacy!
00:46:54.000They wrote a paper claiming that when a guy privately pleasures himself while thinking about a woman without her consent, in fact, without her ever finding out about it, that he's committed sexual violence against her.
00:47:06.000That was printed in a queer studies journal.
00:47:10.000They wrote a paper arguing that the reason super intelligent AI is potentially dangerous is because it is being programmed... I want to give these people a medal.
00:47:32.000They argued that the reason super intelligent AI
00:48:12.000They found something called feminist glaciology.
00:48:16.000Okay, this is a real thing apparently.
00:48:18.000So they copied the idea, and then they wrote a feminist astronomy paper arguing that feminist and queer astrology should be considered part of the science of astronomy, which we'll brand as intrinsically sexist.
00:49:17.000So they did a paper on certain toys, implements that are used in times of intimacy, typically by men who are not straight.
00:49:26.000So they asked the question, why don't straight men tend to pleasure themselves via use of these implements?
00:49:34.000That are generally used by gay men, and what would happen if they did?
00:49:38.000And their paper was printed in Sexuality and Culture when they concluded that men would be less transphobic and more feminist if they allowed themselves to be treated in a way that straight men typically are not particularly fond of.
00:49:52.000You know, that they try to avoid, why we try to avoid going to the proctologist as often as possible.
00:49:58.000Oh my god, the very best one, of course.
00:50:00.000The very best one is that they submitted a paper to the feminist social work journal, Affilia.
00:50:06.000A feminist rewrite of a chapter from Mein Kampf.
00:50:10.000They literally took a chapter from Mein Kampf, they replaced some of the language with feminist language, and they submitted it to Affilia, and Affilia printed it.
00:50:16.000Okay, is it fair to say that all of this stuff is garbage?
00:50:20.000That all of these journals are garbage?
00:50:55.000Because we're racist, sexist, bigoted, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, trans-hysterical, anthropocentric, problematic, privileged, bullying, far-right-wing, cis-hetero, straight-white males, and one female who is demonstrating her internalized misogyny and overwhelming need for male approval.
00:51:07.000We wanted to enable bigotry, preserve our privilege, and take the side of hate.
00:51:11.000But the real answer is that, obviously, they're joking.
00:51:14.000The real answer is that these things are just junk.
00:51:19.000It's a bag of junk, and they just proved it.
00:51:21.000It's basically a stepped-up version of that story that was floating around for a while from a modern art museum, where a guy went to a modern art museum, took off his glasses, put them on the floor, and then just stood there staring at them.
00:51:34.000And soon there were 100 people crowding around to stare at his glasses on the floor.
00:51:37.000And he did this for like five minutes.
00:51:39.000And then he reaches down, picks up his glasses, wipes them off, puts them on, and leaves.
00:51:42.000Right, so it's basically that, except for academic studies journals.
00:51:45.000I can't believe that people are upset about the idea of me subsidizing someone to study these topics at college.
00:52:09.000And the most salient part of this book is that basically he says that athletic sneakers are a scam.
00:52:14.000That the people who get the fewest knee and hip injuries running are people who run barefoot or who run with the flattest possible shoes because when you have really nice cushiony shoes, it actually teaches your body not to run properly because you don't actually feel the impact of each step when you're running improperly.
00:52:30.000But the book is really, it's a page turner, it's fun to read.
00:52:33.000It's basically about super endurance athletes, guys who race 100 miles, which is four marathons in a row at a time.
00:52:40.000It's pretty incredible stuff, and women.
00:52:41.000And it talks about sort of the history of man
00:52:45.000In terms of anthropology, basically how human beings were evolved, specifically became upright walking creatures so that we could run very long distances.
00:52:53.000His theory and the theory of some scientists is the reason we began walking upright, which has always been a great mystery, is because it allows us to shed excess body heat and go very long distances to actually run down animals.
00:53:04.000So you could actually catch an antelope simply by running after the antelope, even though you're slower than the antelope, you can run after it, keeping it in sight, until it basically just gives out, falls over, and you eat it.
00:53:14.000And that's basically why human beings evolved the way that they did, with no hair and walking upright, and with certain muscles at the back of your neck to keep your head stable.
00:53:22.000Really an interesting book, born to run by Christopher McDougall, so that is good stuff.
00:53:25.000Okay, time for a couple of quick things that I hate, and then we'll be— I mean, it's a long show, but I'm sorry, I had to take time with that story, it was too good.
00:53:41.000He said that he was going to turn the AG's office into basically a preserve of the presidency.
00:53:46.000Now he says that Jeff Sessions is weakening the Attorney General position.
00:53:48.000Even though Jeff Sessions is under fire, even though Jeff Sessions has done, I think, yeoman's work in his job, even though he has been honest about his approach to the job, Eric Holder, the most corrupt AG of my lifetime, he says that Jeff Sessions is a real problem.
00:54:01.000I think by taking what he has taken, he not only weakens himself as Attorney General, it has an effect on the institution.
00:54:08.000And at some point you have to say to the President, no, you've got to respond to the President.
00:54:14.000I mean, these are extraordinary things.
00:54:15.000I've never seen a President talk to an Attorney General in the way that this President has spoken to his Attorney General.
00:54:21.000But I think you have to respond in extraordinary ways, always thinking about how you're going to protect the institution.
00:54:36.000Speaking of hypocrisy and stupidity from the Democrats, John Kerry, who just will not leave.
00:54:43.000His face, collapsing like a mudslide in the Hollywood hills, growing longer and longer each day.
00:54:50.000One day, his face, like an Easter Island head, will stretch all the way from the top of his six-foot-four body, all the way down to the floor, where it will remain for all eternity.
00:55:03.000Here is John Kerry, who wants to run for president, the worst secretary of state in American history,
00:55:09.000Also a terrible senator and a bad human being, talking about why Ted Kennedy was a great human being, even though he left a woman to drown in a river.
00:55:45.000The guy who claimed that he had taken, the reason that he hadn't, that he'd gone to sleep is because he'd taken a drug that actually is a picker-upper?
00:55:51.000Go watch Chappaquiddick if you actually think, the movie Chappaquiddick, if you actually think that what Ted John Kennedy just said is true.
00:55:56.000Also, Ted Kennedy, the guy who was so remorseful that he then basically went straight back to sexually assaulting women, along with Chris Dodd.
00:56:04.000The two of them would sandwich waitresses at local restaurants.
00:56:07.000Really, this was reported by, I think, The New Yorker in 1990, 1989.
00:56:10.000So, yeah, well done there, John Kerry.
00:56:12.000Just spectacular stuff all the way through.
00:56:14.000Okay, before I go, one quick mention of a company that just did me a favor.
00:56:18.000So, I know many of you have been wondering,
00:56:21.000Ben, what's up with that spectacular new yarmulke on your head?
00:56:24.000Now, you probably didn't notice because my yarmulke is black, and I mean, most black yarmulkes look the same, but if you were closely watching, and I know my fans were, you'll notice that this yarmulke is missing something.