EpiPen prices have skyrocketed 400% in less than a decade, and Hillary Clinton and the left are blaming it on capitalism. But there are two real reasons why EpiPens got so expensive so fast: First, insurance coverage masked the increase, so customers didn t have any idea about the price hikes until they lost their insurance or their deductibles jumped. Second, the federal government prevents competition in the marketplace, so EpiPen could only jack up prices because there is no competition. The solution here isn t more government regulations that would ensure more competition, according to the left, is price controls. In the end, it would destroy the marketplace altogether. But that's what the government is good for. It doesn't create markets, it creates shortages, hire workers, and tells you it's doing the bidding of the people while it does all of these things. Ben Shapiro's new show on The Ben Shapiro Show examines the truth behind the price of epipen, and why it's not a symptom of capitalism, it's the product of a company trying to get you to pay more for something you don't need or can't afford to get better at something you already get good at. The show is sponsored by U.S. Tax Shield, the tax firm that helps you get a free tax consultation from the IRS and gets you a free consultation from a pro-free tax consultant to help you avoid penalties and get a good score on your taxes. You can get free tax advice from the BBB, too! Click here to get a FREE tax consultation and free background check, and a free copy of your returns from the Tax Shields free of late fees, and get an A-free background check so you won't have to pay any late fees or penalties. Thanks to our sponsor, Fresh Start Start. You won't want to miss it! You'll get a chance to save money on your first month's worth of free tax preparation, and early-free consultations, and you'll get access to early-bird pricing and a discount on the Fresh Start Fresh Start program, plus all kinds of goodies! - The Tax Shields program that includes early fees and early tracking, plus a discount, and they'll get 20% off your first-to-set it all-free and early access to a second-choice discount, plus they'll also get an ad discount when you sign up to receive a discount and a FREE second-time offer, too.
00:00:00.000So last week, the left lost its mind because the price of EpiPens skyrocketed.
00:00:04.000EpiPens are these things that you use if you have a bee sting and you go into anaphylactic shock.
00:00:08.000Hillary Clinton quickly jumped on the story.
00:00:10.000She characterized it as a failure of capitalism.
00:00:13.000She said, quote, millions of Americans with severe reactions rely on their EpiPens.
00:00:17.000Over the last several years, Mylan Pharmaceuticals has increased the price of EpiPens by more than 400%.
00:00:23.000That's outrageous, and it's just the latest troubling example of a company taking advantage of its consumers.
00:00:28.000Naturally, as always, Hillary called for more regulation.
00:00:31.000But there's a reason EpiPens have skyrocketed in price, and it's not because the company is super duper mean to little kids who suffer from bee stings.
00:00:38.000Here are the two real reasons why EpiPens got so expensive so fast.
00:00:42.000First, insurance coverage masked the increase.
00:00:44.000So insurers and employers typically negotiate with Mylan Pharmaceuticals over EpiPen prices.
00:00:49.000That means end users didn't have any clue about the price increases until they lost their insurance or until their deductibles jumped.
00:00:56.000So thanks, Obamacare, for forcing parents into position where they had to pay cash for the EpiPens or pay more for their insurance coverage.
00:01:03.000Mylan has actually been giving coupons to consumers, customers, for co-payments on commercial insurance.
00:01:09.000They've handed out 700,000 EpiPens to public schools for free.
00:01:12.000But Obamacare has made people feel the pain via their insurance companies because now they have to buy the insurance or they have to pay a fine.
00:01:18.000Mylan CEO Heather Bresch, who by the way is the daughter of a Democratic senator, says, quote, we recognize the significant burden on patients from continued rising insurance premiums and being forced to pay the full list price for medicines at the pharmacy counter.
00:02:14.000The solution here isn't to create more government regulations that would ensure more competition in the insurance and medical device marketplace.
00:02:24.000The solution is price controls, according to the left.
00:02:26.000That would make availability of EpiPens lower, not higher.
00:02:29.000In the end, it would destroy the marketplace altogether.
00:02:31.000But that's what the government is good for.
00:02:32.000The government doesn't create markets.
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00:04:15.000Their English is surprisingly good, actually, but, you know, but there you have it.
00:05:07.000Oh my god, our ideas of romance, they're just at—okay, if your idea of romance was an arranged marriage officiated by Bill Clinton, let me recommend that you have a better idea of marriage and romance in the future, because come on, gang.
00:05:49.000She's the one who was waving her arms like a shrieking banshee at the DNC back in 2012.
00:05:53.000And she says it's time to respect Huma Abedin's privacy.
00:05:58.000I mean, I think that Donald Trump and everyone else should respect the privacy of Huma Abedin, who is, as you know, an utterly graceful, wonderful human being who's going through a terrible situation and who's tried to keep her marriage together.
00:06:14.000So I say let us respect their privacy.
00:06:16.000That is nonsense about classified information.
00:06:19.000Okay, so what Trump had said that bothered her is he said that it's upsetting when you have somebody who is susceptible to being blackmailed over this sort of stuff so close to classified information.
00:06:30.000Okay, it's not the world's strongest argument, but it ain't the end of the world.
00:06:32.000I mean, Democrats have been making this argument for years and years and years.
00:06:36.000But the Democrats have decided the bad guy.
00:06:38.000So Anthony Weiner texts his junk to other people.
00:06:40.000Huma Abedin has basically a sham marriage with Anthony Weiner for several years.
00:06:44.000Anthony Weiner, by the way, was texting that to his paramour online.
00:06:47.000He was saying, yeah, we have a broken marriage, a sham marriage for the last several years.
00:06:51.000But the real person at fault here in all of this is not Wiener and it's not Houma.
00:07:22.000Every person on the right who's ever done something that the left doesn't approve of in their personal life is outed and shamed and their career destroyed.
00:07:38.000How dare you talk about the deep personal relationship gap that now exists between Huma Abedin, a very public figure, and Anthony Weiner, another very public figure.
00:08:15.000What this does, it leads everybody to have no standards.
00:08:18.000If you have no standards on sexual behavior, if you don't stand up for any standard on sexual behavior, then you can never be called a hypocrite.
00:08:25.000Donald Trump is not called a hypocrite on sexual behavior because he has no standards on sexual behavior.
00:08:29.000This is the way that the left is capable
00:08:32.000of destroying standards for an entire society on the basis of a few scandals.
00:08:37.000If it's news for one side, it's news for the other.
00:08:39.000If Steve Bannon getting into an altercation with his ex-wife is front page news at the New York Post, then it's also front page news at the New York Post that Anthony Weiner was sexting his junk to women across the country.
00:08:53.000The left doesn't get to claim that the personal is political, except when it applies to the left, in which case the personal is personal.
00:08:59.000Also worth noting, for the left, what is personal has always been a very controversial subject.
00:09:05.000I mean, now, I'm supposed to pay for a woman's abortion.
00:09:31.000If it's all of our business that we have to pay for everybody else's sex lives, then if their sex lives become the news story, that's just the way that it goes.
00:09:39.000But the defenses of the Clintons and the Wieners are rolling on.
00:09:41.000And Joan Walsh, who's legitimately one of the nuttier people in politics, she's over at Salon.com, she was on MSNBC the other day, and she's saying that Donald Trump is not just a bad guy because of Huma Abedin, she's saying Donald Trump is bad because he's questioning the health of Hillary Clinton, which shows that he's a vicious, vicious sexist.
00:09:59.000What did Paul Ryan call the classic definition of a racist comment?
00:10:02.000This is the classic definition of sexism.
00:10:08.000Men have basically said for centuries that women can't handle the rigors of most jobs, but most importantly the presidency, because our tiny little lady brains and, you know, our proclivity to hysteria and exhaustion just disqualify us from leading the free world.
00:10:27.000Well, as no one has ever said that except for Joan Walsh just now, I'm wondering where she got the whole Donald Trump says that lady brains are incapable of functioning at high level.
00:10:35.000If her point here is that lady brains are capable of functioning at high level, perhaps she could provide us with a better example next time she's on television.
00:10:42.000Okay, in other news, the Colin Kaepernick scandal continues to play out.
00:10:45.000So the left, you know, the left has trouble with the Colin Kaepernick situation.
00:10:49.000Colin Kaepernick is, of course, the really crappy quarterback.
00:11:31.000Colin Kaepernick says that, Spike Lee says Colin Kaepernick is just like Muhammad Ali,
00:11:36.000What a wonderful guy Colin Kaepernick is, and of course he's wearing the Malcolm X t-shirt, he made the movie X with Denzel Washington, but it is worth noting that for large swaths of the black community, for all of the homage paid to Martin Luther King, in the eyes of a lot of people on the left, Malcolm X actually won.
00:11:51.000The racial polarization of early Malcolm X, not the pre-Islamic conversion when he decided to be peaceful, the kind of early Malcolm X, Nation of Islam Malcolm X,
00:12:00.000There are people like Spike Lee who still believe in that vision of Malcolm X, the kind of racial polarization, America's a terrible place and needs to be torn out by the root.
00:12:08.000Here's Spike Lee talking about how Colin Kaepernick is a hero for not standing up for the national anthem.
00:12:13.000Muhammad Ali was the most hated person in America.
00:12:35.000Okay, the reason Colin did this is because he's going to get cut in a week.
00:12:38.000And so when he gets cut, he wants people to think that it was because he was really having a tough time with the racial controversy, not because he's a super crappy quarterback.
00:12:47.000But I want to point out something, and that is that the left actually believes in what Colin Kaepernick is saying.
00:12:52.000And Donald Trump had a response to Colin Kaepernick that I thought was ill-calibrated.
00:12:56.000I think a lot of people had this gut response, but it was an ill-calibrated response.
00:13:00.000Trump came out and he said, look, if Colin Kaepernick hates the country so much, he can take off any time.
00:13:04.000And I think that's a lot of people's gut reaction.
00:13:06.000The reason I say that that's not a credible intellectual response is we all have criticisms of how the country is run.
00:13:12.000We all have criticisms of various policies that affect us in our daily lives.
00:13:16.000That doesn't mean you love it or leave it.
00:13:18.000It does mean that his criticisms are unfounded.
00:13:21.000It does mean that Colin Kaepernick, if he truly cared about young black people, he could do more than mouthing off and sitting on a bench.
00:13:27.000He could actually go out there and encourage young black people to, for example, finish high school, get a job, and not have babies out of wedlock.
00:13:33.000That would be a much better use of his time, as opposed to ripping on the cops.
00:13:36.000But the left has decided that Colin Kaepernick is the new racial hero.
00:13:40.000ESPN's Max Kellerman, who, as I've said, is just an awful host.
00:13:43.000He's on one of the local stations out here in LA, and he's legitimately the worst host on radio.
00:13:47.000He does a show called Max and Marcella's, which, if you can imagine a dental drill but in your ear,
00:13:56.000Max Kellerman was on TV and he's talking about... It is amazing how Max Kellerman is able to get away with... He drops into black dialect every so often on the show.
00:14:05.000And it's amazing how he's able to get away with it because he's of the left.
00:14:07.000But here's Max Kellerman talking about Kaepernick.
00:14:10.000Instead of America, love it or leave it.
00:14:13.000How about America, love it, so change it.
00:14:17.000That's been the history of our country.
00:14:20.000Those who really love America have consistently changed it for the better.
00:14:25.000Okay, so he says, and I think that that's correct, that you can have criticisms of America without leaving America, and so the love it or leave it idea is, it can be used both ways, which is why I don't like that argument.
00:14:41.000I don't know what they love about America.
00:14:42.000They think America not only is a terrible place, but that it was founded in this original sin of racism.
00:14:46.000See, the narrative of America, according to Howard Zinn, is basically that America was born in sin, it was created in sin, and never escaped that sin.
00:14:53.000So a bunch of evil white guys got together and decided they didn't want to be ruled by a bunch of other evil white guys, and they decided they were going to enshrine a system to protect their own property rights, and they were going to allow slavery to continue in the United States for another 80 years because they wanted to make sure that they were rich and privileged,
00:15:09.000Over the poor minorities as well as the poor whites.
00:16:29.000What makes me a patriot is that I believe in the foundational philosophy of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, limited government, individual liberty, individual responsibility, rights given by God.
00:16:40.000That's what I love about the United States.
00:16:41.000Those foundational principles, which we haven't always lived up to,
00:16:45.000But which we have strived to live up to and gradually have recognized in some ways, in some very, very important ways, while losing it in other ways, like when it comes to government intervention in the economy and its crackdown on religious freedom.
00:16:56.000At the same time that we've obviously expanded the beautiful ideas of the Constitution and Declaration to various minority groups, blacks and Hispanics and gays and Jews and women.
00:17:49.000And in this study, what they found was that the vast majority of people who actually go to a 4th of July march, like a 4th of July parade, end up moving toward the right.
00:18:01.000They end up moving toward Republicans, even though the parades have no political content.
00:18:06.000They end up moving to the right anyway, because when people swell to the flag, when people thrill to the idea of America, what they're thrilling to is the founding story, that story of a country founded in grand ideals that we haven't always lived up to, but we've lived up to better than any other country, and we've spread that liberty around the globe, ensured it for literally billions of people all over the planet over the course of history.
00:18:49.000Barack Obama said this in his second inaugural address.
00:18:51.000I thought it was the most ignored important line in history, in modern history.
00:18:56.000He said, freedom means we don't all have to define liberty the same way.
00:19:00.000Well, no, that's actually what we do have to define the same way.
00:19:02.000That's the one thing we do have to define the same way.
00:19:04.000If we don't define liberty the same way, then your liberty is my tyranny.
00:19:07.000Because your liberty to get a cake from me ensures that you can cram down on me the ability to steal my cake for your gay wedding.
00:19:15.000Your liberty to get health care means that you can force my wife, who's a doctor, to take care of you without paying her.
00:19:20.000We have to define liberty the same way, or there's nothing else to talk about in the United States.
00:19:24.000But the left doesn't like any of these principles, and so I ask the left, why don't you sit alongside Kaepernick?
00:19:29.000I mean, that's really what you should do.
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00:20:17.000So, while the media continue to target Donald Trump, and just over and over, Donald Trump, everything is about Trump, and we'll get to Trump in a little while.
00:20:24.000We'll do a little bit of good Trump, bad Trump in just a minute.
00:20:27.000I think it's important to point out that the Obama administration just continues to lie.
00:22:40.000And these are plans that are quality plans that meet a set of benchmarks that weren't previously available in an affordable way in the private insurance market.
00:23:33.000And these lies must be crammed down on the American people.
00:23:35.000So now, the Department of Justice, this one I love, the Department of Justice has released a video telling cops how they should deal with people.
00:23:42.000They're actually telling cops that they need to treat people specially by asking them whether they are a man or a woman.
00:25:06.000If officers understand who transgender people are as a part of their community, interactions can go a whole lot better.
00:25:13.000Starting a dialogue and engaging proactively with transgender community members and community groups will be extremely helpful to your department now and in the future.
00:25:22.000Is it possible that it's identity theft?
00:25:24.000I mean, like, they say that it's not identity theft because the person's clearly transgender, but aren't you judging them by their appearance then?
00:25:31.000I thought that was the whole point, is that you can't judge people by their appearance.
00:25:33.000By the way, what happens if the guy is just a dude?
00:25:36.000Like, here you've got people who are dressed as ladies, but what happens if it's clearly a guy and he just says, no, I'm a woman.
00:25:41.000I would prefer that you call me by ma'am.
00:25:43.000And we're now having to cram down these notions of false identity because the government suggests that we have to engage in the subjective fantasies of people who have a mental illness.
00:25:55.000So these are the lies that the Obama administration wishes to cram down on people.
00:25:59.000You know, obviously, the people who are snickering, the reason they're snickering there is because it's ridiculous that the government is trying to cram down this perception.
00:26:07.000No one wants cops to snicker at people who have called for help.
00:26:12.000But any sexual harassment video is inherently hilarious, even if the sexual harassment is not funny.
00:26:18.000But if you've ever seen one of these, if the company's ever made you watch one of them, they're really, really funny.
00:26:22.000Because it's always like, Bob, you shouldn't grab her butt!
00:26:25.000Okay, yeah, Bill, don't laugh at the person who just called the cops to help out.
00:26:29.000But also, it's not the end of the world if you call the person by their birth sex when it says on their license what their sex is.
00:26:37.000Meanwhile, it's time for a little bit of Good Trump, Bad Trump.
00:26:41.000So let's play the theme thanks, of course, to our good friend Brandon Snipes.
00:26:51.000So, actually, over the past couple of days, we've gotten a fair bit of good Trump.
00:26:55.000Today, unfortunately, is not one of those days.
00:26:57.000So, tomorrow, Trump is supposed to give his big immigration speech, and nobody knows quite what to expect, including Donald Trump.
00:27:03.000What I really am looking forward to, what I would like to see, is Donald Trump do—you remember when you were a kid, when I was a kid, we did this—we had these choose-your-own-adventure books?
00:27:14.000You remember these things where you get to like page 16 and it would say, if you wish to go through the door, turn to page 35.
00:27:19.000If you wish to kill the monster, turn to page 27.
00:27:23.000I want Trump to do one of those speeches.
00:27:25.000Like, I'd like for him to get to a point on teleprompter and then pull the audience.
00:27:28.000And then if they go in one direction, then he just pulls up a different speech.
00:27:31.000Like, you can just stop in the middle of the speech, you should go, so, what should we do with all of the illegal immigrants?
00:27:38.000Raise your right hand if you want to deport them all, including the Muslims.
00:27:41.000Raise your left hand if you want to make them all citizens and make one of them king.
00:27:45.000And then people can raise their hands and then he'd just switch the speech out immediately and move on to choose your own adventure with Trump.
00:27:52.000It is exciting to watch, I will say that.
00:27:55.000So one of the things that I've claimed all along is that Donald Trump, and this is one of the reasons why I've opposed Trump even after the primaries, is that I feel like there are people who are selling out their principles in order to back Trump.
00:28:06.000And again, you want to vote for Trump knowing full well what he is?
00:28:15.000If, however, you are selling out your principles in order to back Trump, if you are saying everything that you thought was important is no longer important because Donald Trump must be supported, then I don't think it's any surprise when people think conservatism is Trumpism.
00:28:29.000So Ann Coulter, who wrote this book, In Trump We Trust,
00:28:33.000Trump basically did to Ann Coulter what God once did to Abraham.
00:28:39.000He said, go up to the mountain and sacrifice your firstborn son.
00:28:43.000So Trump went to Ann Coulter and he says, I need you to take your book and take it up to the top of the mountain.
00:28:48.000I need you to take your immigration position and take it to the top of the mountain and sacrifice it.
00:28:56.000And so Ann Coulter, she says, here I am.
00:28:59.000So Ann Coulter, here she is saying that Donald Trump has been completely consistent on immigration from day one.
00:29:06.000Quick note before we play it, quick note.
00:29:07.000Yesterday, there were reports that Donald Trump was talking not about a physical wall, but a virtual wall that he's gonna build with Mexico, which will be virtually 10 feet higher every time he's insulted, and which Mexico will virtually pay for.
00:29:20.000He says, no, the wall's gonna be so real, so real it makes your head spin, realer than Melania's breasts.
00:29:25.000But in any case, here's Ann Coulter talking about this.
00:29:29.000Are we talking about deporting 11, 12 million people as he promised to do during the primaries?
00:29:34.000No, I think he has been consistent really pretty much from day one that he's going to protect the borders and not dissolve, you know, American sovereignty.
00:31:45.000Which did more damage to conservatism, Herbert Hoover or Jimmy Carter?
00:31:49.000Jimmy Carter was a terrible president, did a lot of horrible things.
00:31:51.000A lot of horrible things, some of which have ramifications for today, including the fall of the Shah in Iran, right?
00:31:56.000He did a lot of terrible things, Jimmy Carter.
00:31:58.000He also was so unpopular that he ended up preceding the greatest upsurge in conservatism in the modern era under Ronald Reagan.
00:32:06.000On the other hand, you have Herbert Hoover.
00:32:10.000Herbert Hoover was a bad president who proclaimed that he was conservative, and then after he left office, spent his time talking about conservatism.
00:32:18.000But when he was in office, he actually imposed a very soft version of the New Deal.
00:32:23.000So he blew out spending, he raised taxes, he increased tariffs.
00:32:27.000He did all the things that FDR would come in and then triple down on.
00:32:31.000And so people said, okay, well, conservatism is obviously the stuff that failed, and FDR is the stuff that succeeded, even though Hoover never sold them conservatism.
00:33:45.000It's not only physical, it is also electronic.
00:33:48.000So it's not an either-or, it's a both-and.
00:33:52.000So what is the need to sort of come out and tweak the issue just as Trump is getting
00:33:58.000Poked himself for softening the issue of what we're going to do with the 11 million illegal immigrants.
00:34:04.000Is this all about outreach to so-called moderates or people who aren't already on the Trump train?
00:34:10.000I don't think the surrogates are serving Donald Trump very well if they try to undermine his basic message, which is the wall.
00:34:16.000But the bigger picture here, and I think a lot of people are losing sight of this, is that there is a real clear choice in the issue of immigration.
00:34:24.000Donald Trump is going to build... And he's right, there is a choice in the issue of immigration.
00:34:28.000Trump is going to be better than Hillary.
00:34:30.000But this is always the last repository of Trump support.
00:34:33.000In the end, it always comes back down to, he's not Hillary.
00:35:06.000And a lot of jobs to be had repairing those houses.
00:35:12.000But Detroit just came out of bankruptcy and the mayor's trying to do an innovative sort of urban homesteading program there.
00:35:21.000But it just gives you an example of what could be done.
00:35:25.000And I think any of us who've ever had any personal experience with either Syrian Americans or Syrian refugees think it's a pretty good deal.
00:35:37.000So he says we should send all the Syrian refugees to Detroit, which is really bad luck for the Syrian refugees.
00:35:43.000I mean, out of the frying pan, into the fire, apparently.
00:35:45.000But his idea that he's going to send these people to Detroit and that they're going to make Detroit a stronger, better place when Detroit has no tax base and no jobs in the first place, yes, there is a clear choice when it comes to immigration.
00:35:57.000And that's what people should be harping on.
00:35:58.000They shouldn't be harping on the fact that, on the idea that Donald Trump is some sort of consistent harbinger of conservatism.
00:36:17.000Like, there are certain figures from your childhood where you remember watching all their movies and it just makes you sad even though you never knew the person.
00:36:22.000I remember when Robin Williams committed suicide.
00:36:47.000It's politically incorrect, and they're politically correct, so they don't like it.
00:36:50.000Blazing Saddles is still a hilarious movie, really, really funny.
00:36:54.000He's obviously a classic in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
00:36:57.000He's been in a lot of movies that are really great.
00:36:59.000He's great, by the way, as kind of the kidnapped bank teller in Bonnie and Clyde.
00:37:06.000But my personal favorite Gene Wilder movie is one that's not his best movie, but it's one that holds kind of a special place in my heart because of what it's about.
00:37:17.000So Gene Wilder is in this movie with Harrison Ford, and Gene Wilder plays this Polish rabbi who comes to the United States, and he's traveling from New York to San Francisco in order to get married, and he's gonna be the rabbi of this town.
00:37:27.000He's basically been thrown out of his Polish shtetl, out of his town, because he's kind of the ignoramus in the yeshiva, and he comes to the United States, and he's gonna cross country, and his stuff gets stolen from him, and he ends up hooking up with Harrison Ford, who's a robber, who's a bank robber.
00:38:03.000If you mess up one letter in a Torah scroll, you actually have to tear out the entire sheet of the Torah scroll, and you have to replace it.
00:38:08.000So, I mean, it's really labor-intensive and perfectionist-oriented, and he's supposed to be bringing the only Torah that this community is going to have on the West Coast, and the Indians, the Native Americans, want to take the Torah from him.
00:39:32.000There's a scene where, so one of the scenes that I was talking about is there's a scene where they literally threaten to torture him unless he turns over the Torah.
00:39:39.000Like, they become very enamored of this new God who can make rain, and they try to take the Torah away from him, and he basically says, I'm willing to die before I turn this over to you.
00:39:48.000For Jews like me, it's actually a very moving film, and there's some great scenes.
00:39:51.000There's a scene where they're being chased by the posse because Harrison Ford is running away, and he refuses to ride a horse on Sabbath, because you're not allowed to ride a horse on Sabbath.
00:40:00.000And so they're waiting for the sun to go down just behind the hills and then get on the horse.
00:40:37.000It's time for Hillary Clinton to repent.
00:40:40.000It's time for Hillary Clinton to stop the murder, to stop the killing, to stop licking her lips like Madeleine Albright and herself when they talk about all the dead kids.
00:40:50.000I look at how you put in jihadis and al-Qaeda.
00:41:08.000And he continues along these lines and he asks her not to kill him.
00:41:12.000First of all, whenever I listen to Alex Jones' voice, whenever I listen to him speak, it sounds like he tried to eat a Jew and it got stuck halfway down.
00:41:18.000But Alex Jones is so full-blown crazy.
00:41:22.000And the fact that Alex Jones is respected by people in the Trump campaign should be mildly troubling.
00:41:34.000Why go to the circus if you're not going to watch the clowns?
00:41:36.000I do have a soft spot in my heart for Alex Jones, I'll admit, because Alex Jones was on the night before me, or two nights before me, with Piers Morgan on gun control.
00:41:47.000And this also was a famous interview, because Alex Jones started screaming like a nutcase, because he is crazy.
00:41:52.000You can find tape of him screaming about gay frogs online, it's pretty easy, where he just starts screaming about the gay frogs!
00:41:58.000It's pretty amusing, but he was on the night before with Piers Morgan, and he just starts screaming and threatening him.
00:42:03.000They're talking about gun rights, and he's like, I need my guns to kill people like you!
00:44:24.000I mean, if somebody makes one song that you like, you're willing to overlook the fact that they were molesting little boys at Neverland Ranch.
00:44:31.000And when they die, then we pretend that they were wonderful people.
00:44:34.000And if you mention the fact that they were molesting little boys with Jesus juice at Neverland Ranch, then you're the bad guy for raining on the parade.
00:44:41.000Chris Brown does, like, two good songs.
00:44:44.000And he pulls guns on women, and everybody just sort of goes, oh, well, you know, that's Chris Brown.
00:44:49.000It's amazing the standard to which we hold our entertainers, and it needs to rise.
00:44:53.000Speaking of which, T.I., I guess he's a rapper, T.I., and he's very upset at Rudy Giuliani.
00:45:00.000He's upset at Rudy Giuliani because Rudy Giuliani has said that Beyonce needs to stop ripping on the police, so T.I.
00:45:38.000I don't really, I'm not really as, I don't know, I guess if you mean by, you know, he also imprisoned so many unnecessarily, you know, so I think, you know, you have to count against the black lives he saved for the black lives he destroyed by imprisoning people for too long, taking them away from their families and breaking up homes.
00:45:59.000But, I guess, tomato, tomato, depends on how you look at it, you know what I mean?
00:46:03.000Okay, so one of the things I love about this particular clip,
00:46:07.000is the immediate flip from, Rudy Giuliani shouldn't talk about music, he doesn't know anything about music, to, I know everything there is to know about Rudy Giuliani's crime policy in New York.
00:46:17.000I mean it happens literally in a 30 second clip.
00:46:19.000He goes to, now I'm going to talk in specific detail about Hillary Clinton's crime policy and why Rudy Giuliani's stop and frisk policy wrongfully imprisoned black people.
00:46:29.000It is worth noting, by the way, that as a teenager, he was arrested several times for drug dealing.
00:46:35.000He was originally known as Rubber Band Man, apparently, for wearing rubber bands around his wrist to denote wealth in terms of drugs.
00:46:41.000So, I'm sure that he has a lot to say about innocent black people being arrested.
00:46:47.000Okay, final thing I like, then we'll get to deconstructing the culture.
00:46:50.000So, they've now released the full list of people on Dancing with the Stars, and Rick Perry is on Dancing with the Stars.
00:46:59.000Okay, so there are a bunch of people on Dancing with the Stars.
00:47:02.000Rick Perry is on Dancing with the Stars.
00:47:03.000Ryan Lochte is on Dancing with the Stars.
00:47:05.000Calvin Johnson is on Dancing with the Stars.
00:47:07.000Vanilla Ice is on Dancing with the Stars.
00:47:09.000Amber Rose is on Dancing with the Stars.
00:47:11.000So, I will just point out, I have never watched an episode of Dancing with the Stars unless it was under duress with my wife sitting at my side in handcuffs chaining me to the couch.
00:47:26.000But the fact that Rick Perry has moved from legit presidential candidate to reality TV star, maybe he thinks that his path is to become a reality TV star and then he can run for president again.
00:47:35.000It seems like it worked out really well for Donald Trump, but it is sort of humiliating for a guy who was maybe the most successful governor in Texas history to be now on Dancing with the Stars shimmying it up with some nubile babe next to Ryan Lochte.
00:47:49.000And you know, there's a double standard for the right and the left, by the way.
00:47:52.000If it was a has-been Democrat politician, then it would be oh-so-charming.
00:47:56.000If it's a Republican, then it's just laughable.
00:47:57.000And they're gonna laugh at Rick Perry.
00:47:59.000And the fact that he doesn't know that, to me, is kind of sad.
00:49:01.000You don't wanna ride the bus like this Never knowing who to trust like this You don't wanna be stuck up on that stage singing Stuck up on that stage singing Oh, I know
00:49:16.000Okay, I have to stop it because I'm gonna have nightmares.
00:49:21.000I don't know what... Seriously, this music video has like this... for people who can't see and this is why you need to subscribe.
00:49:57.000Okay, because I don't want to be insulting if he has some sort of congenital defect or something, but this is actually not my... Okay, so it looks like what it is, which is something horrifying sitting in a club and a bunch of hot women dancing around it.
00:50:09.000Now, it wouldn't be a music video in today's day and age without hot women dancing around something.
00:50:12.000I mean, last week we had hot women dancing around construction sites.
00:50:16.000It didn't look like they were capable of putting a hammer to a nail, but...
00:50:19.000I mean, I don't think anyone was objecting to that, but in this case, you've got this creepy paper mache head with people dancing around.
00:50:26.000I don't know what it's supposed to mean, maybe this is like his physical manifestation after he takes drugs.
00:50:30.000For people who can't hear the lyrics, because the lyrics don't matter that much in songs like this, it's all about the rhythm and the tune, here is the actual lyric.
00:50:39.000I took a pill in Ibiza to show Avicii I was cool.
00:50:42.000I don't know who Avicii is, or what it is.
00:50:47.000And when I finally got sober, felt 10 years older, but F it, it was something to do.
00:50:52.000I'm living out in L.A., I drive sports cars just to prove I'm a real big baller because I made a million dollars, and I spent it on girls and shoes, which is obviously a wise investment strategy.
00:51:01.000Which is why he needs to talk to our friends at Birchgold.
00:51:05.000He says, but you really don't want to be high like me, never really knowing why like me.
00:51:09.000You don't ever want to step off that rollercoaster and be all alone.
00:51:12.000You don't want to ride the bus like this, never knowing who to trust like this.
00:51:15.000You don't want to be stuck up on that stage singing.
00:51:23.000Okay, so this is a theme that has become very prominent in pop.
00:51:27.000In the last 15 years or so, where you see singers who are extraordinarily wealthy, extraordinarily successful, whining about their lives.
00:51:34.000And I think Miley Cyrus did a song like this, where she talked about how it was really tough to be a celebrity.
00:51:38.000I know Britney Spears did a song like this.
00:51:39.000It was really rough to be a celebrity.
00:51:41.000It's so tough and rough to be a celebrity.
00:51:43.000Okay, the only reason we know about you is because you make crappy songs like this.
00:51:47.000But there is an undertone here of something that's a little bit sad.
00:51:51.000There's something hypocritical about this, first of all.
00:51:53.000If you're making lots of money while singing this song on stage about how it's really hard making lots of money singing this song on stage, I have a solution.
00:52:04.000You could just stop, you could put down the mic and you could leave and you could spare all of our eardrums and you could prevent me from having nightmares for the next week over your horrifying music video.
00:52:35.000But you're making a lot of money off being stupid, so I guess I can't blame you.
00:52:38.000This sort of ethos, it actually is revealing.
00:52:42.000If you actually took it seriously, there'd be something revealing here, which is that your lifestyle sucks because you have no values.
00:52:46.000If you earn a million dollars and your first reaction is to spend it on girls and shoes, that's because you have no values.
00:52:51.000If I had a million dollars, I would start investing it in real estate and give some charity.
00:52:55.000Like, that's really where my money would go.
00:52:56.000And I'd be doing that to build a financial future for my children.
00:52:59.000But if you don't have kids, if you don't have a wife, if you don't have a plan for the future, if you don't have values, then of course you take the money and you blow it on things.
00:53:05.000This is why young athletes who make tons of money, they're broke by the time they're 40.
00:53:33.000Values are for people who aren't cool, who aren't with it.
00:53:36.000And sure, you have no values, and now you're miserable.
00:53:38.000And then you're surprised you're miserable, even though you have the money and you have the fame.
00:53:42.000And the only path that you're providing to people is a path of misery because you're saying there's no God, there's no values, the only thing you can shoot for is the money and the fame, and I'm telling you that it's empty.
00:53:51.000Well, congratulations, you're not saying anything new.
00:53:52.000Solomon was saying this 3,000 years ago in the temple.
00:53:58.000So that message has been around a while, but at the very end of Ecclesiastes, Solomon says, okay, well that being the case, all you can cling to is God and what God wants from you.
00:54:29.000Most kids who watch that, if they don't get nightmares, are thinking, OK, I could be the guy in the club with the hot girls, and that looks pretty good to me.
00:54:34.000Even the guy who's complaining about it doesn't seem to be complaining about it enough to give up the lifestyle.
00:54:39.000So that sort of nihilistic hipster cynicism that they earn money off of while promulgating the same lifestyle they're condemning, I find it really off-putting, and I think that it's a problem.
00:54:49.000When he says, you don't want to be high like me,
00:54:52.000When you glorify the lifestyle, then why wouldn't people want to be high like you?
00:54:55.000You've provided no values alternative, and people like you rip down those values on a regular basis because those values require actual standards, and standards are by nature intolerant.
00:55:06.000Okay, there's a bit of deconstructing the culture and a deep read on a very shallow song with a creepy bobble-headed clown.