Ben Shapiro reflects on his trip to the Super Bowl and gives his thoughts on the Patriots win over the New England Patriots. He also gives his initial thoughts on Tom Brady and the Patriots defense's performance in Super Bowl LIV and why he should have gone to the game in the first place. Plus, he gives his take on the Tom Brady postgame press conference and gives some thoughts on Bill Belichick's postgame comments and why the Patriots should have been benched for the game and why it was a good thing they didn t. Ben also talks about the cold weather in Minnesota and why you should never go to a Super Bowl in the summer in the dead of winter in the U.S. A special offer from 1-800-Flowers is available for Valentine's Day, and you can get 18 Enchanted Roses for just $29.99! It's a gorgeous bouquet featuring radiant pink and red roses. They're picked at their peak to ensure freshness and amazement, and they don't have to be picked overnight. You don t have much time left in the day, so go check it out today! 1 800-FLOWERS - use promo code SHAPIRO to get 18EnchantedRoses for only $2999.99, and again, that special deal is available only for people who enter Promo Code SHAPEROIDS. Shout out to 1-SHAPIRO! and then enter promo code SHAPORO at the corner of the website. You won't be better than me at the end of the episode with that discount code! You'll get a bunch of roses and a surprise for your significant other, too! you can't ask for more than that, right there, it'll be that! Ben Shapiro's Super Bowl experience is a real treat! - The Ben Shapiro Show is a show you won't want to miss it! -- THE BONUS EPISODE featuring the best of his thoughts and analysis of the best and worst of the week's best moments! CHECK OUT THE SHOW! Subscribe to The Ben's thoughts on what he's most memorable moments from his favorite moments from the big day in the NFL Super Bowl weekend. Subscribe and review the show on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, Podcharts, and Stitcheryspace, and more! Rate, review and subscribe to his podcast on your favorite podcasting platform!
00:00:17.000So I will say, I'm a lucky son of a gun.
00:00:19.000I went to the Super Bowl on Sunday, went down to the Super Bowl yesterday.
00:00:23.000I'm still exhausted from that because I flew in very early there and then flew very early back so I could do the show today.
00:00:28.000It's an amazing experience, and believe it or not, that's actually the first football game I've ever been to in person.
00:00:32.000It's not the first football game I've watched, but I have a feeling the other ones I go to may be somewhat of a letdown in the future, but I have a lot of thoughts.
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00:03:28.000There are a few things that really struck me about the Super Bowl this year, aside from the fact that it was a phenomenal game and no one knows how to tackle.
00:03:52.000But the thing that really struck me, and what was pretty cool about it, is you get in the stadium, it's a bunch of people who hate the other team, right?
00:03:59.000I mean, the Eagles fans hate the Patriots, and the Patriots fans hate the Eagles, and they have a long record of not liking each other very much.
00:04:07.000And yet, in the stadium, there was a real feeling of camaraderie among everybody who was actually there.
00:04:11.000Maybe it's because it was really cold outside and no one wanted to leave.
00:04:13.000Maybe it's because just being part of an amazing event like that feels really cool.
00:04:17.000I mean, it's this communal experience, and we're all taking part.
00:04:42.000The electricity in the stadium was incredible.
00:04:43.000I mean, everyone was basically standing for the entire time.
00:04:46.000I will say, what was one of the funny things is that one of the things people pay attention to at home, because I've watched every other Super Bowl from home, is you pay attention to the halftime show.
00:04:55.000In the stadium, the level of attention paid to the Super Bowl halftime show is relatively nil, right?
00:04:59.000That's when all the bathrooms fill up and you leave to go out and get a Coke for $1,000.
00:05:04.000And you can't hear anything because the stadium is set up in such a way.
00:05:07.000But the actual atmosphere was really cool.
00:05:11.000And what was super cool is that—and it shows you what the NFL did wrong this season, how they really blew it this season.
00:05:16.000One of the things the NFL really did wrong this season was they really handled the National Anthem kneeling thing poorly.
00:05:21.000And the way that you could tell that is because the biggest rounds of applause happened for the National Anthem and for—there's a tribute to Medal of Honor winners.
00:05:28.000It was patriotism and country, and people felt good about the country.
00:05:32.000You felt good about the country being in there because, like, this is such an amazing place.
00:05:35.000It's the most prosperous, rich, free country on the face of the earth, filled with all these celebrities who are going to these stadiums.
00:05:43.000You can get on a plane and fly in the middle of nowhere and have a game where you bring 67,000 people into the stadium, and you can just do it.
00:06:41.000Whenever I was at my lowest, that's where my relationship with Christ grew.
00:06:45.000I mean, that's an amazing, great religious statement.
00:06:47.000It's something that's always true for Americans at large.
00:06:50.000Now, you don't have to be a religious person to appreciate this guy's fervor and the fact that he saw God as strengthening him in his darkest moments.
00:06:57.000That's true for the vast majority of people on planet Earth for most of history.
00:07:10.000And that's when he called the reverse two fulls as a receiver, which is amazing.
00:07:14.000Here's Doug Peterson thanking Jesus at the award ceremony afterward.
00:07:19.000How do you explain this, that nine years ago you're coaching in a high school and here you are with this trophy?
00:07:25.000I can only give the praise to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for giving me this opportunity.
00:07:31.000Yes, I mean, there are a lot of people paying attention to that, so there are a few people who made clear that, you know, at the beginning of the season it was all about kneeling for the anthem and now it's all about praying.
00:07:41.000I mean, at the very end of the game, all the Eagles got together and they actually formed a circle and they prayed with foals, which is pretty amazing.
00:07:48.000And that wasn't, by any stretch of the imagination, the only sort of patriotic and religious point to the evening.
00:07:54.000During the national anthem, all the players were standing—it was electric.
00:07:57.000I mean, during the National Anthem, people knew that it was infused with additional meaning because of all the folks who had been kneeling, and people were supremely enthusiastic.
00:08:03.000Pink did a very good rendition of the National Anthem as well.
00:08:07.000Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's
00:08:34.000You get to be rich and play football for a living and not have to fight for scraps.
00:08:38.000I mean, it's an amazing, amazing country, and it's an amazing event.
00:08:41.000And the level of care that goes into each and everything, like, for example, during the halftime show, and you see all those lights waving in the stands.
00:08:46.000It's not a bunch of people who are spontaneously taking out their cell phones.
00:08:48.000They're actual wristbands that have lights that are coordinated to go off at certain times.
00:09:16.000There was another moment later where they paid tribute to the Air Force, and the stadium erupted again.
00:09:21.000One of the things that football needs to understand and one of the things the NFL needs to understand is that the popularity of the sport is deeply entwined with a good feeling about the country.
00:09:29.000If you feel bad about the country, it's hard to enjoy sports because you feel like sports are frivolous.
00:09:32.000If you feel good about the country, then sports are a distraction from the mundane, sure.
00:09:58.000So it's amazing the evening that's really about, you know, conflict between two teams is really more about the love for fans for one another.
00:10:04.000It's really more about the love of country.
00:10:06.000It was really more about what we are unified in favor of.
00:10:09.000And that's why it was so entwined with the flag and entwined with the military.
00:10:11.000And it's why it alienated so many fans when the players started kneeling.
00:10:15.000Because like, why are you slapping one of the things that makes football great in the face?
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00:12:02.000When crowds are united by a common purpose, like they're there to watch a game, but they all understand that they like each other, that there's something to the community feeling, then great things can happen.
00:12:13.000There's a study that Arthur Brooks over at American Enterprise Institute likes to cite that's really an interesting study, talking about the value of getting together in crowds, the value of meeting people on an individual level.
00:12:22.000So in 1934, there's a sociologist who did a study
00:12:25.000Where he took a Chinese couple all around the United States, they went to something like 250 restaurants all around the United States, 250, 200 hotels, and they would walk into the restaurant, they would all be served, they would all be given a room.
00:12:36.000And then the sociologist, remember this is 1934, calls up all the restaurants and all of the hotels, and he asks the restaurants and the hotels, would you serve a Chinese couple?
00:12:45.000And all but one said no, we would not.
00:12:48.000Well, what that means is that people are actually better than you think they are in a vacuum.
00:12:53.000We tend to think that people are worse than we think they are when we meet them, but that's rarely true.
00:12:57.000Usually, most of the people who you hate when you meet them, they turn out not to be so bad, and it's why it's important to have these sort of communal events.
00:13:02.000One of the things that's happened in our culture is we have fewer and fewer of these communal events.
00:13:06.000The Super Bowl is a communal event because it's a water cooler event, but
00:13:09.000Most of us get our entertainment choices now through Netflix or Hulu that we cut the cord.
00:13:12.000I've cut the cord twice, actually, because I got a cable back and then I went back to cutting the cord because it was a waste of money.
00:13:21.000But it does mean that you need to engage with the community.
00:13:23.000Otherwise, you end up not engaging with anyone.
00:13:25.000And a polarized, atomized society is one where people dislike each other more.
00:13:29.000Now, all of that said, I've been talking about sort of the power of community and communal experiences, communal events, a feeling of communal purpose, which I talk about in the book that I'm writing right now.
00:13:37.000But when communities go wrong, then things can get kind of nasty.
00:13:41.000So some of the highlights from Philadelphia were not particularly great.
00:13:46.000There were a couple of music students who opened up their window on the fifth floor of a building and started playing the Fly Eagles Fly Fight song while everybody downstairs was singing.
00:14:54.000Okay, when crowds are there, there can either be good things or there can be bad things.
00:14:57.000The crowd can either be united toward a communal purpose or it can be united toward urging a moron to eat horse crap off the ground.
00:15:03.000And there was a little bit too much of that in Philadelphia last night.
00:15:06.000New England Patriots fans can rest assured that although the New England Patriots did not emerge victorious, the city of Philadelphia is apparently smoking wreckage by the morning.
00:15:17.000That wasn't the only bad thing that happened in Philadelphia last night.
00:15:20.000I don't want to pretend like everything that happened was bad, but the police were basically saying it was kind of out of control last night.
00:15:24.000Here is a little montage of people destroying convenience stores, smashing Macy's windows, collapsing and awning.
00:15:49.000Okay, so these people were on top of the Ritz Hotel awning, and they were doing trust falls off the awning into the crowd because they're stupid, and then too many of them got on top, and then the entire awning collapsed.
00:16:21.000A crowd that is undirected can go bad very, very quickly.
00:16:24.000A crowd that is directed cheers for Medal of Honor winners.
00:16:27.000I don't think the people who make up the crowd are necessarily all that different.
00:16:30.000I think that it's all about what's in their minds and what's in their heads and what they're there to do.
00:16:34.000And if you're there to celebrate America and you're there to celebrate the fact that we can have these amazing spectacles and we can afford to go to games like this and we can afford to fly in,
00:16:43.000Then you'll get a different crowd than the one that wants to break into the convenience store because things are now apparently free.
00:16:48.000It also shows how dumb the Democrats are, by the way.
00:16:50.000All of this shows how dumb the Democrats are to embrace the destruction of the NFL, which is the national anthem-kneeling thing.
00:16:56.000So, Nancy Pelosi yesterday felt the necessity to equate Colin Kaepernick to Rosa Parks, which is just an inane comparison.
00:17:02.000Rosa Parks obviously is a victim of segregation.
00:17:04.000Colin Kaepernick is the victim of receiving several
00:17:07.000Tens of millions of dollars worth of money in both advertising and in salary.
00:17:12.000Nancy Pelosi tweeted out yesterday on the day of the Super Bowl, Rosa Parks proved that sometimes the best way to stand up is to sit down.
00:17:18.000And that was supposed to be a slap at Trump because Trump had said that we all stand for the national anthem.
00:17:23.000If this is the way Democrats want to go, they shouldn't be surprised when those of us who like the social fabric rebel at this.
00:17:47.000If Democrats take away even the symbols, there's not going to be a lot left on the surface of the social fabric once the root has been eaten away.
00:18:12.000He apparently appeared at some event for Pod Save America.
00:18:17.000So last week—remember, I criticized Stephen Colbert for having on Pod Save America after the State of the Union, because Stephen Colbert would never have me on after a State of the Union by a Democrat or a Republican.
00:19:01.000Because Jimmy Kimmel, like, on a pure IQ test, I'm sure Jimmy Kimmel, a guy who had women feel his crotch on national TV, would outdo me, I think, for example.
00:19:09.000I think when it comes to talk show hosts, put Jimmy Kimmel next to Dennis Miller.
00:19:12.000I'm sure that Jimmy Kimmel wildly outdoes Dennis Miller, a conservative.
00:19:16.000And there'd be a bunch of people saying, well, isn't he right?
00:19:17.000Aren't all the talk show hosts on the left?
00:19:30.000And then you wonder why the culture is being torn apart.
00:19:33.000Like, Jimmy Fallon showed up at the Super Bowl.
00:19:35.000And one of the things that happened, I'm not sure if they showed it on TV, they showed it at the game.
00:19:39.000There's a shot of him, and he kind of made a joke where he spilled water all over himself.
00:19:42.000And it was charming, and it was funny.
00:19:44.000And then after the game, Jimmy Kimmel has to join in the race to the political bottom.
00:19:48.000Like, whatever you think of Trump, you don't have to like Trump.
00:19:51.000But turning this into—everything has to be a partisan fight.
00:19:54.000Turning our late-night show hosts into partisan fighters who can't make a joke about Barack Obama for eight years and then can't stop making jokes about Trump.
00:20:06.000I'm perfectly willing to hear, although not from the likes of Jimmy Kimmel, who does not know what he's talking about on virtually any issue.
00:20:11.000We've debunked him a thousand times on this show at this point.
00:20:14.000Having our late-night show hosts devolve into — take the places of common culture, take the places of common space, and devote those to polarization.
00:20:30.000So after the show, Fallon put on his glasses and his wig, and he did his Bob Dylan routine.
00:20:36.000Come athletes with platforms throughout the land Who by taking a knee are taking a stand And before you shout out that they should be banned
00:22:40.000If we do not have these common spaces where we can come together, I promise you, everyone who's surrounding me, there are a few fans, we took some pictures, nice.
00:22:47.000But I promise you, the vast majority of people who were there were from New England, which is a left area, or from Philadelphia, which is a left area, and Minnesota, which tends to be a left area.
00:22:58.000And most of those people disagreed with me.
00:22:59.000We all got along famously, because we understand there's still a common root that we all hold to.
00:23:03.000Okay, so in just a second, I'm gonna get to memo talk.
00:23:06.000Memo fight 2018, the return, the revenge, the grand finale.
00:23:11.000It's not the grand finale, unfortunately.
00:23:13.000There's so much more memo fighting to come.
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00:25:23.000Here is the most specific thing that it does.
00:25:25.000It accuses the FBI of applying for a warrant on Carter Page, who is then a post he's done being a Trump foreign policy advisor.
00:25:34.000It applied for a warrant on Carter Page, and the FISA application was apparently based on the Steele dossier, which was a Democrat OPPO research document.
00:25:41.000And the Nunes memo says that the FBI lied about that to the FISA court and didn't inform them that this was in fact funded by the Democrats and was a piece of opposition hit research.
00:25:50.000And supposedly they did this in an attempt to get Trump.
00:25:53.000Now, it's the end of that statement that I have a problem with, that they did this in an attempt to get Trump, because it is possible that they thought that they were actually investigating real Russian collusion, even if nothing materializes.
00:26:04.000It is also possible that Carter Page is dirty, and they were investigating him.
00:26:07.000He's been dirty, or at least he's been suspected of being dirty, since 2013.
00:26:10.000There was a FISA warrant on him in 2014.
00:26:12.000It is also possible they got overzealous with the warrant.
00:26:15.000So there are a bunch of assumptions that have to be made in order to get to the worst possible conclusion.
00:26:19.000So the worst possible conclusion is that in the waning days of the election, the FBI was trying to sink the Trump campaign by ordering a FISA warrant, which never was released, by the way, never leaked, never was released before the election.
00:26:31.000That they were trying to take down Trump from the inside.
00:26:33.000The deep state was trying to take down Trump from the inside by going after Carter Page with a trumped-up FISA warrant based on the Steele dossier.
00:26:45.000Now, it's very possible that it's true, that the FISA application on Page was fatally flawed and driven by prosecutorial aggression.
00:26:51.000But in order to get to this really deep conspiracy theory, where it was a bunch of people in the FBI trying to take down Trump and trying to
00:26:57.000Basically manipulate the fact into its Trump-Russia collusion?
00:27:00.000You have to make a bunch of assumptions.
00:27:01.000First, you have to assume that there is no there there.
00:27:03.000Not only that there is no Trump-Russia collusion, but that there was no reasonable suspicion of Trump-Russia collusion.
00:27:08.000That's the first thing you have to assume.
00:27:10.000I don't know that that assumption is actually true.
00:27:12.000I think that in the middle of the campaign, if you were an FBI agent and you saw Donald Trump sending emails to members of the Russian government or people who are close to the Russian government saying, if you can turn over a bunch of information to me and help me from the Russian government, I'm willing to hear it, that might make you somewhat suspicious.
00:27:26.000If George Papadopoulos, a former Trump aide, had already been lying to the FBI, or was about to lie to the FBI, was already under investigation at that point for apparently shopping intelligence that he'd gotten supposedly from a Russian source about Hillary Clinton,
00:27:40.000Then maybe there's grounds for suspicion.
00:27:41.000Even if the suspicion doesn't pan out, this is like saying that every time the cops take out a search warrant, that that's a problem.
00:28:36.000That's hard, because Page, again, had been under suspicion for a long time.
00:28:40.000He advised Gazprom, the Russian official gas authority, in 2013.
00:28:44.000The Russians attempted to cultivate Page as an intelligence source in that year and stated in intercepted communications that it was obvious he wanted to earn loads of money.
00:28:52.000There was a FISA warrant taken out against him in 2014.
00:28:54.000So Page has been on the radar for a very long time.
00:28:57.000So the idea that it's just beyond insane, beyond nuts, that they would target Carter Page, I don't see the evidence for that.
00:29:19.000And finally, we have to assume that the same supposedly bad actors inside the FBI and DOJ are now staffing the Mueller investigation, and Mueller is infused with that same bias, that he wants to get Trump because he hates Trump, and therefore he's willing to look past all evidence.
00:29:32.000Now, there's a problem with that, which is that Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the two most anti-Trump FBI agents from their texts,
00:29:38.000Peter Strzok was saying in 2017 he didn't see any there there to the Trump-Russia investigation.
00:29:42.000So to suggest that he was desperately attempting to trump up some sort of information there, the evidence there is really thin.
00:29:48.000Now, this is not to say there wasn't corruption inside the FBI.
00:29:50.000There was, but it was with regard to Hillary Clinton.
00:29:53.000As I've detailed in the last couple of weeks, the corruption on the Hillary investigation is almost unquestioned.
00:29:57.000The idea of the Obama administration was basically giving soft orders to the rest of the FBI and the DOJ to let Hillary off the hook.
00:30:03.000It's pretty obvious from the timeline, Annie McCarthy has done a good job of breaking that down.
00:30:07.000But I want to be very careful about what we allege here, so we don't get beyond the facts.
00:30:11.000If there are additional facts, we can talk about them.
00:30:13.000So, for example, there's a rumor going around today that there was a second Steele dossier.
00:30:17.000And this Steele dossier was created when Hillary Clinton basically went to some foreign sources, had them funnel information to the State Department.
00:30:24.000The State Department then funneled those foreign sources to
00:30:28.000Now, the question is whether Steele then took those and went to the FBI.
00:30:30.000That part of the story isn't clear yet.
00:30:33.000Then it would look like a pipeline was being set up.
00:30:34.000But that pipeline already existed, right?
00:30:37.000I mean, Steele was working for Hillary Clinton, working for Fusion GPS.
00:31:22.000It's very clear that the Trump-Russia investigation was not predicated on Carter Page, that it was predicated on George Papadopoulos, that was admitted by Nunes.
00:31:29.000What that means is that there was more to the investigation than just Carter Page, which means that all the talk about firing Mueller based on this is a little bit over the top.
00:31:37.000Now, Trey Gowdy essentially said this.
00:32:16.000He can declassify the actual application anytime he wants.
00:32:19.000So if he wants to declassify it and then we can all see the truth, then we can see the truth.
00:32:22.000I want more information at this point.
00:32:24.000Again, I'm perfectly open to the idea that there is a quote-unquote deep state and that it's against Trump, but I want to see evidence of it.
00:32:29.000I'm not going to jump on a conspiratorial bandwagon just because it feels good to do so.
00:32:33.000I want to read into this and determine whether it's malice, or whether it is corruption, or whether it is incompetence.
00:32:38.000I want to find out whether the FBI really acted in insane ways here, or whether they were just sloppy.
00:32:44.000And I want to know whether the corruption was about Hillary Clinton, which we already know, or whether it extended to we have to stop Trump, because the evidence for that I think is a lot slimmer.
00:33:51.000We are the largest, fastest-growing conservative podcast in the nation.
00:33:58.000So while everything I just said about the memo is true on the basis of evidence, I will say that the Democratic resistance to the memo has been so extreme as to make it suggest that there is something to hide.
00:34:08.000That's one of the problems here, is that the Democrats reacted to the Nunes memo not by saying, just put it out there, it's a bunch of crap.
00:34:14.000Instead, they decided it was important for them to go nuts over it.
00:34:17.000So Adam Schiff was one of the people going nuts over it.
00:34:19.000He also leaked his own memo probably to the press.
00:34:22.000This memo could result in an Oklahoma City-style bombing.
00:34:25.000I mean, this kind of language is not helpful if you're trying to look like you're not bothered by a memo.
00:34:29.000In the future, the intelligence community is going to be very wary about sharing information with us because they won't trust us to be responsible stewards of it.
00:34:37.000And sources of information are going to dry up.
00:34:40.000If you have a neighbor next door who's buying a lot of fertilizer, and it seems odd to you because they don't have a yard, are you going to think twice before calling the FBI?
00:34:49.000Because if they get a search warrant for your neighbor, and something is politicized, the political winds change, and there's an investigation, your identity is going to be revealed.
00:34:59.000Because you really can't trust that this is going to be kept confidential anymore.
00:36:00.000We need to find the president some new adjectives, because I think he's now done little for Little Marco, and like a thousand people are Little Adam Schiff.
00:36:07.000Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan, and Clapper.
00:36:23.000Okay, so I think that it's true that Adam Schiff is a leaker.
00:36:25.000I don't know that this is worthwhile for the president to engage.
00:36:28.000It seems to me the president has already cast enough shadow on this investigation that no matter what happens here, his defenders will have something to hang on to.
00:36:35.000Engaging in this sort of fight is not useful.
00:36:37.000It's also, it'd be a good time for the president to go around and talk up the economy a little bit.
00:36:44.000Over the last couple of days, that equates to over 1,000 points, where we basically erased all the gains made in the month of January in about three days.
00:36:50.000So the market dropped 666 points on Friday.
00:36:52.000It's down about 500 points at this point today on Monday.
00:37:13.000Yeah, so this completes just the FISA abuse portion of our investigation.
00:37:20.000We are in the middle of what I call phase two of our investigation, which involves other departments, specifically the State Department and some of the involvement that they had in this.
00:37:29.000That investigation is ongoing, and we continue to work towards finding answers and asking the right questions to try to get to the bottom of what exactly the State Department was up to in terms of this Russia investigation.
00:37:43.000So Nunes is obviously using Byron York as his source for leaking information.
00:37:47.000Byron York over at the Washington Examiner is the guy who reported what I reported earlier, that the State Department had received information via a Hillary compatriot about, I guess, Carter Page, and that that information was then funneled to Christopher Steele.
00:37:59.000Unclear what happened with that part of the dossier.
00:38:01.000Use of the State Department as Hillary's personal tool would be no shock whatsoever.
00:38:04.000Again, the corruption in the State Department with regard to Hillary Clinton is not a surprise.
00:38:08.000The corruption in the FBI with regard to Hillary Clinton is not a surprise.
00:38:24.000So, I was on the plane yesterday, as well as today, and yesterday I watched the Oscar-nominated Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
00:38:31.000Originally, for the first half hour, this thing was headed directly for things I hate.
00:38:35.000And for the first half hour, I thought, this is just an awful film.
00:38:39.000Not because the plot is uninteresting, but just because it's one of those films that tries to straddle the borderline between serious and absurd, with touches of funny.
00:38:47.000And I'm not a big fan of that kind of feel.
00:38:49.000Like, you don't know whether you're watching a comedy, you don't know whether you're watching a tragedy.
00:38:52.000The last half of the film gets much better.
00:38:55.000The performances are universally quite good.
00:38:57.000The best performance in the film is Woody Harrelson, which is shocking to me because I'm not a Woody Harrelson fan.
00:39:01.000But Woody Harrelson plays the sheriff in this town.
00:39:04.000Woody Harrelson is a sheriff in a small town.
00:39:06.000Frances McDormand plays the mother of a girl who was killed and raped.
00:39:11.000And she thinks that the police department has not been doing enough to track down the killers because seven months later and they don't have a suspect.
00:39:16.000And she puts up these three billboards outside of her, outside of the town, that say that the police department isn't doing enough to track down the killer.
00:39:25.000Sam Rockwell, who is going to win Best Supporting Actor, plays a sort of racist, nasty cop who, in the end, has sort of a transformation.
00:40:32.000The story of the film is not tracking down the killer.
00:40:34.000So this isn't a mystery story about who killed the woman's daughter.
00:40:38.000The real story is about what exactly Frances McDormand's character is doing because she's so angry that she's taking out her anger in every direction.
00:40:46.000The whole story is really about anger and the wages of anger and not thinking enough about the consequences of your actions because you're angry.
00:40:53.000And from that perspective, I think that there's a lot about the film that's quite good.
00:41:08.000There are a couple other scenes where, like this one they're about to show, where she's throwing firebombs at things and nothing happens to her.
00:41:15.000You know, I understand the whole thing is supposed to be a little bit surreal.
00:41:18.000I guess that's the director's style, or the director-writer's style.
00:46:32.000If you want to be important, wonderful.
00:46:38.000If you want to be recognized wonderfully, if you want to be great wonderfully, but recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.
00:46:54.000By giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great.
00:47:00.000You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve.
00:47:04.000You don't have to know the theory of relativity to serve.
00:47:07.000You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics.
00:47:21.000Okay, so this ad got all sorts of crap because it was juxtaposing people serving and the words of Martin Luther King with the Dodge Rams.
00:47:29.000People were like, oh my God, how could they use Martin Luther King to sell Dodge Rams?
00:47:33.000Okay, number one, I don't really think that that's what the ad is about.
00:47:36.000Okay, I remember that there was, I think it was GM did an ad with Clint Eastwood a few years ago at the Super Bowl, and the ad was all him talking about how great the country was, and nobody felt like, oh my God, how could they possibly use patriotism to sell product?
00:47:48.000I didn't see any of the critics of this ad actually noting something.
00:47:51.000The messages that are being promoted by the ad are good.
00:47:54.000Put aside the fact that you don't like commercialism.
00:47:56.000Put aside the fact that you may not like capitalism all that much.
00:47:58.000The ad is spending millions of dollars to promote an ethos of service to others.
00:48:16.000The other thing that people are saying about this is, how could they use Dr. Martin Luther King's words while people like Colin Kaepernick are kneeling?
00:48:22.000The answer is Dr. Martin Luther King would not be kneeling with Colin Kaepernick because Dr. Martin Luther King understood that his whole job was to hold on to that flag as tightly as he possibly could and say, this flag is mine, too, and therefore I stand for the flag with you.
00:49:01.000His name was, I'm looking for it, Alex Cabrera Gonzalez, 37, drove his truck into an emergency shoulder on the highway and plowed into a rideshare vehicle, killing Edwin Jackson and 54-year-old Jeffrey Monroe.
00:49:13.000Gonzalez was booked at Marion County Jail.
00:49:15.000Records show he's wanted for deportation.
00:49:18.000His real name, apparently, is Manuel Oregosavala, an illegal alien who had been deported multiple times from the U.S., once in 2007 and once in 2009.
00:49:28.000Well done, federal government, which fails to fix the immigration problem over and over and over, another dead American as a result of an illegal immigration problem that you refuse to fix.
00:49:35.000So, that, of course, is in a thing that I hate.
00:51:43.000What could have happened to him that was so formative?
00:51:45.000Also, I'm not seeing the tremendous sense of humor that was sort of necessary in Han Solo.
00:51:51.000Han's whole thing is that he was cynical, and now they're going to make him—if they make him not cynical, it's going to be so obnoxious.
00:51:55.000If they make him just an innocent, right, that deep down he's good—we know deep down he's good, but that was the whole discovery of episode four, right?
00:52:29.000In Rogue One, none of these characters were in the main film, except for Darth Vader, who appears exactly the way he appears in the main film.
00:52:36.000So we will see if it is as bad as it looks.
00:53:13.000The idea here is that a republic can only be as large as the capacity to travel to the central point and then travel back home at relative intervals.
00:53:20.000That means that you can have the idea of a large republic over time.
00:53:23.000You can't have the idea of a large democracy.
00:53:25.000The founders were opposed to direct democracy.
00:53:28.000They also suggested that because the republic was so large, states would have to have extraordinary powers in order to do all the local services that things would need.
00:53:35.000One of the big problems now is the federal government has overreached so much that it feels like the federal government does most things and the state government does very few.
00:53:45.000In fact, James Madison says, Meaning, even if you got rid of state governments, you'd have to reinstate them because somebody has to control the locals.
00:54:04.000Finally, he gives an inspiring statement that's kind of like what I said about the Super Bowl, except more eloquent.
00:54:24.000Harken not to the voice which petulantly tells you that the form of government recommended for your adoption is a novelty in the political world, that it has never yet had a place in the theories of the wildest projectors, that it rashly attempts what is impossible to accomplish.
00:54:35.000Know, my countrymen, shut your ears against this unhallowed language, shut your hearts against the poison which it conveys, the kindred blood which flows in the veins of American citizens, the mingled blood which they have shed in defense of their sacred rights, consecrate their union, and excite horror at the idea of their becoming aliens, rivals, enemies.
00:54:51.000We should remember that, whether we're watching the Super Bowl, whether we're arguing politics, or whether we're talking about the American founding.
00:54:56.000All right, we'll be back here tomorrow with much, much more.