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00:00:30.000Well, yesterday we discussed Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump at length, and today we're going to discuss the person who's most likely to win the Democratic nomination.
00:00:38.000This, of course, would be Hillary Clinton.
00:00:41.000Hillary Clinton lost badly in New Hampshire, and now she's sort of flailing about.
00:00:46.000She's looking for endorsements from the black community.
00:00:49.000No doubt she has calls in to President Obama at the White House begging him to endorse her for President of the United States, because the minute Obama does that, the black community
00:01:01.000Well, Hillary Clinton gave her victory speech yesterday, and I thought it was actually a pretty telling victory speech, because you have to understand, American politics has always been broken down racially and in terms of class, but there was a point in American life where it seemed like maybe for a moment we had gotten beyond it.
00:01:48.000We put aside the racial divisions and the class divisions, and then George W. Bush was not competent, and then he was followed by a highly competent, highly divisive politician who we brought into office hoping that he would unify us along lines of race, and instead decided to polarize us along lines of class and race.
00:02:07.000Do you remember all the way back to 2008?
00:02:08.000All the way back to 2008, this is how far the paradigm has shifted.
00:02:12.000All the way back in 2008, you remember, in the very last days of the campaign, there was a guy named Joe the Plumber.
00:02:17.000And Barack Obama walked up to Joe the Plumber in Ohio, his name is Joe Wurzelbacher, and he walked up to him, and he started talking to him, and Joe Wurzelbacher said to him, you know, I don't understand why you want to take, I run a business, why do you want to take my money and give it to somebody else?
00:02:56.000Well, now you've got Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
00:02:59.000Both of them are basically open socialists.
00:03:01.000You remember back in 2008, Barack Obama, when Jeremiah Wright, the news of Jeremiah Wright came forward, that Barack Obama had attended a church for 20 years and been married by a man who said, God damn America, and he said, America KKKA, right?
00:03:33.000And now, eight years later, we've got Beyonce at the Super Bowl marching arm-in-arm with her black backup dancers wearing Black Panther outfits.
00:03:41.000The only reason the race matters is because there were no white backup dancers or Latino backup dancers.
00:03:46.000It was all Black Panther outfits doing a Malcolm X formation.
00:03:51.000So we've been divided more than we have been in my lifetime along lines of race.
00:03:56.000And then when it came to class, same sort of deal.
00:03:57.000President Obama has decided that he's going to promote the idea that income inequality is the end of the world.
00:04:03.000As we've discussed many times on the program, income inequality means nothing.
00:04:08.000It sort of depends on what the low income is.
00:04:10.000No one worries about the difference between my income and Bill Gates' income because I'm doing pretty well for myself.
00:04:15.000People are worried about the difference between my income and the school teacher's income.
00:04:19.000What they really should be worried about is that the school teacher isn't making enough money, right?
00:04:23.000That would make more sense than to worry about what I'm not taking my money from the school teacher.
00:04:26.000In fact, I'm paying the school teacher several times over and my kid isn't even in school.
00:04:31.000So, Barack Obama has divided us along lines of race and class.
00:04:34.000Hillary Clinton realizes that Bernie Sanders has stolen the class warfare line.
00:04:38.000Bernie Sanders has taken it, and he has monopolized it.
00:04:42.000All class warfare now resides in the Bernie Sanders campaign.
00:04:45.000And Hillary was hoping to do a gender war.
00:04:47.000She was hoping to do a women versus men campaign.
00:04:50.000That's why she trotted out Madeleine Albright to say that any woman who doesn't vote for the old lady with the vagina, any person who doesn't vote for that old lady is going to hell, because vagina solidarity.
00:05:02.000And I guess that's the Black Power salute, but I'm not going to make one up for Vagina Solidarity.
00:05:06.000And so she trots out Madeleine Albright to say that, she trots out Gloria Steinem, the old crone feminist who celebrates her own abortion and said, a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
00:05:20.000Which, by the way, is one of the stupider quotes in human history.
00:05:23.000If a fish reproduced with a bicycle, a fish would need a bicycle.
00:05:28.000It turns out that a woman reproduces with a man and men have other uses besides that as well.
00:05:35.000But she went on national television with Bill Maher and said young women are too stupid to vote because they're voting for what the boys want.
00:05:42.000Which sort of undercuts her idea that women don't need men because the girls are trying to vote for Bernie Sanders to get those Bernie bros.
00:05:48.000Those masculine, super testosterone-y Bernie bros who hang around with their man buns and their Birkenstocks.
00:05:56.000So she tried the gender war and it's failing.
00:05:58.000She lost by 11 points among women in New Hampshire.
00:06:37.000You know, he would have been serving us coffee.
00:06:40.000So, Hillary has no credibility on this, and she's starting to feel the heat.
00:06:43.000So, in the aftermath of what happened in New Hampshire, she gave her speech, and you can hear basically her entire speech is her just sitting there, shouting at you, just screaming in the shrillest possible fashion, I LOVE BLACK PEOPLE!
00:07:21.000I don't know what we'd have done tonight if we'd actually won.
00:07:24.000This is a pretty exciting event, and I'm very grateful to all of you.
00:07:30.000I want to begin by congratulating Senator Sanders on his victory tonight, and I want to thank each and every one of you, and I want to say, I still love New Hampshire, and I always will.
00:07:48.000And there's Bill in the background looking like Dick Van Dyke these days.
00:07:52.000And just standing there kind of tottering around and replaying, as we always say, the lesbian pornography in his mind.
00:07:59.000But this is not the part that is really relevant.
00:08:01.000First of all, here she is and she's got these celebratory crowds, these people who just love Hillary Clinton.
00:08:06.000None of these people care about Hillary Clinton.
00:08:07.000None of these people love Hillary Clinton.
00:08:09.000They just want to be part of the movement.
00:08:15.000It isn't right that the kids I met in Flint on Sunday were poisoned because their governor wanted to save money.
00:08:29.000It isn't right for a grandmother here in New Hampshire or anywhere else to have to choose between paying rent and buying medicine because
00:08:39.000A prescription drug company increased the price 4,000% overnight.
00:08:45.000And it isn't right that a cashier that I met here in New Hampshire's son is paid less than her son for doing the same work even though she's been on the job for more years.
00:08:58.000Okay, so there's Hillary Clinton, and she ties together the war on women, and the class warfare, but most of all, she starts with Flint, Michigan.
00:09:04.000So, we haven't covered Flint, Michigan too much on the program.
00:09:07.000Basically, Flint, Michigan is a city, it's been a garbage heap for a long time, ever since the, I mean, this is why Roger and Me, which was Michael Moore's first film that really put him on the map, it was about Flint, Michigan, and the fact that the Ford Motor Company had abandoned Flint, Michigan, it was General Motors, General Motors had abandoned Flint, Michigan,
00:09:23.000Because they didn't want to pay union wages, and now Flint, Michigan was basically a garbage dump.
00:09:28.000Well, in Flint, Michigan, the local government decided they no longer wanted to get their water from their usual place.
00:09:38.000Instead, they wanted to get it from a different place, and the different place had all sorts of contaminants and lead and all sorts of garbage in it.
00:09:44.000And so now Hillary Clinton is saying that the Republican governor of Michigan, Rick Snyder,
00:09:52.000Now, there's only one problem with this, which is that he wasn't governor when this started.
00:09:56.000And there's also another problem, which is that he had no control over what the local authorities sought to do.
00:10:00.000National Review has a good editorial on this.
00:10:03.000They say, Flint has relatively high levels of lead in its drinking water, a cause for legitimate concern.
00:10:08.000This is a result not so much of the source of its drinking water, the Flint River, as of the city's failure to treat the water, which, without the proper additives, leaches lead and other contaminants from pipes.
00:10:18.000Prior to and separate from the current water crisis, Flint was in a state of financial ruination.
00:10:23.000In one of the most liberal cities in the United States, Flint's Democrat-dominated government did what Democrat-monopoly governments do.
00:10:30.000Spent money as quickly as it could, while at the same time carpet bombing the tax base with inept municipal services, onerous regulations, high taxes, and the like.
00:10:39.000As a result, the bankrupt Flint entered into a state of receivership, meaning an emergency manager was appointed by state authorities and was given the power to supersede local officials.
00:10:48.000The contamination happened while Flint was under the authority of an emergency manager, who was a Democrat.
00:10:54.000Appointed by the Republican governor Rick Snyder.
00:10:57.000He was in fact the long line most recent in a long line of emergency managers.
00:11:01.000So people who are saying that it's Snyder's fault because he appointed the manager as opposed to it being the Democrat manager's fault.
00:11:08.000But before they appointed the Democrat manager
00:11:11.000Flint's elected mayor and city council, all Democrats, all of them, zero Republicans, had decided to sever the city's relationship with its drinking water supplier, which at the time was the Detroit Water Authority.
00:11:21.000Flint wanted to join a regional water authority that would pipe water in from Lake Huron.
00:11:25.000That was supposed to take three years to come online.
00:11:27.000Detroit then moved to terminate the water supply immediately, so they had no water.
00:11:31.000So they decided to rely temporarily on the Flint River.
00:11:34.000The Democrats in the city government deny responsibility for this.
00:11:37.000So does Darnell Easley, who is the Democrat who serves as the emergency manager.
00:11:41.000They said this is all part of the long-term plan, but it was not part of the long-term plan.
00:11:46.000So, democratic governance of a democratic city destroyed the finances.
00:11:50.000A democratic emergency manager signed off on a consensus plan to use a temporary water source.
00:11:54.000The municipal authorities in the Democratic city, responsible for treating and monitoring drinking water, failed to do their job.
00:12:00.000A state agency whose employees work under the SEIU failed to do its job overseeing local authorities.
00:12:14.000So this has nothing to do with reality, naturally.
00:12:16.000It has to do with Hillary Clinton's, hey black people, I'm an old white lady, please give me what I've been owed for so many years routine.
00:15:26.000We also have to break through the barriers of bigotry.
00:15:30.000African-American parents shouldn't have to worry that their children will be harassed, humiliated, even shot because of the color of their skin.
00:16:03.000This black genocide is going really, really poorly on the part of the police.
00:16:08.000But, and by the way, there actually is, you want to know about black kids being shot for the color of their skin, truly?
00:16:13.000It's because black gangs actually profile other black gangs.
00:16:16.000Most people who are killed in the inner cities are being killed because there are gang members and young thugs who are killing other people who they think innocents get caught in the crossfire.
00:16:26.000They assume if you're a black person who's wearing a certain color across a certain line on a certain day,
00:16:31.000Then you must be a member of an opposite gang.
00:17:13.000For like the fourth or fifth time in this speech.
00:17:15.000Please, black people, I need your help.
00:17:18.000But when children anywhere in our country go to bed hungry, or are denied a quality education, or who face abuse or abandonment, that diminishes all of us.
00:17:30.000That's why I did start my career at the Children's Defense Fund.
00:17:33.000That's why I went undercover in Alabama to expose racism in schools.
00:17:37.000That's why I worked to reform juvenile justice in South Carolina.
00:17:41.000And that is why I went to Flint, Michigan on Sunday.
00:17:57.000And she continued to say this over and over and over and over again, because again, Hillary is losing among young people, she is losing among women, she is losing among men, she is losing among white people, she is losing among people of every demographic except for rich, old, white ladies and black people.
00:18:17.000So, she knows that Bernie Sanders has basically seized the initiative on the class thing, so she's decided to seize the initiative on the race thing.
00:18:26.000And that fits in with Barack Obama's program, too, because Obama is more of a race warrior than he's a class warrior.
00:18:32.000Obama is somebody who, if he were forced to choose between Eric Holder's vision of a racially divided America and Bernie Sanders' vision of a class-divided America, Barack Obama, I mean, he talks about this in Dreams for My Father, as a man with deep racial insecurities, he would feel the necessity to get behind the Eric Holder racially-divided America narrative rather than the Bernie Sanders class-divide narrative.
00:18:55.000All of this, by the way, does nothing, nothing at all for black people in the United States.
00:18:59.000Jason Reilly, who's a terrific columnist for the Wall Street Journal, he has a column today about what he calls an alternative Black History Month.
00:19:09.000And he points out, he says, the irony is that black history in the first half of the 20th century is a history of tremendous progress despite overwhelming odds.
00:19:17.000During a period of legal discrimination and violent hostility to their advancement, blacks managed to make unprecedented gains that have never been repeated.
00:19:25.000Black poverty fell to 47% from 87% between 1940 and 1960.
00:19:32.000Was sliced in half before the implementation of Great Society programs that received so much credit for poverty reduction.
00:19:38.000The percentage of black white collar workers quadrupled between 1940 and 1970 before the implementation of affirmative action policies that supposedly produced today's black middle class.
00:19:49.000In New York City, the earnings of black workers tripled between 1940 and 1950.
00:19:54.000Over the next decade, the city saw a 55% increase in black lawyers, a 56% increase in black doctors, and a 125% increase in the number of black teachers.
00:20:27.000If racism is no longer a significant barrier to black upward mobility, and doesn't explain today's racial disparities, blacks may have no use for Sharpton or the NAACP.
00:20:37.000And Riley points out the black family was more stable from between slavery and World War II than it was after the implementation of these great society programs.
00:20:46.000So black nuclear families used to be the norm.
00:20:48.000Democrats have destroyed, destroyed large swaths of the black population, their lifestyles and their ability to live happy, wealthy lives in the United States.
00:20:57.000And Hillary is begging them, please, please get behind me and give me more of this.
00:21:03.000Now look, it's not really a choice between Hillary and Sanders as far as this.
00:22:38.000Both sides are being straight-up booty right now.
00:22:40.000Because it's diminishing, also, for women to tell other women that they're obligated to vote for Hillary because, you know, we all have vaginas.
00:22:49.000We, as women, need to remember that we all want one thing, and it's Michelle Obama's arms.
00:22:55.000But also, seriously, we want the freedom to vote for who we want to, regardless of what our husbands or wives or friends say about it.
00:23:07.000Okay, so in the end she does want to vote for her, with her vagina.
00:23:12.000If she's gonna vote based on the tax on tampons, there you are.
00:23:14.000But the point is that even some of Hillary's erstwhile supporters, a black woman, is saying that she doesn't like how Hillary is playing the gender card.
00:23:22.000I wish that some members of the black community would stand up, in the left black community, and say, stop playing the race card.
00:23:29.000Maybe we can get along without all of that.
00:23:32.000Meanwhile, Bill Clinton dropped, I think, the most honest thing that he'd ever said the other day.
00:23:35.000Bill Clinton was talking about how he feels bad that Hillary is constantly being attacked, and here's what Bill Clinton had to say about it.
00:23:41.000Now, the hotter this election gets, the more I wish I were just the former president, and just for a few months, not the spouse of the next one.
00:23:51.000Because, you know, I'd be careful what I say.
00:23:53.000Tonight, my job is to introduce Hillary.
00:23:55.000Sometimes, when I'm on a stage like this, I wish we weren't.
00:26:21.000After the game, he was supposed to interview.
00:26:23.000He was supposed to interview, I think, for five minutes is the limit.
00:26:25.000And so Cam Newton is sitting there interviewing, and here's what happened.
00:26:29.000Did you ever change anything defensively to take away your running lanes?
00:26:35.000I know you're disappointed, not just for yourself, but for your teammates, because you guys talked about how you are a band of brothers coming in.
00:26:42.000It's got to be real tough for everybody in the locker room.
00:27:00.000First of all, he's out there with the hoodie over his head like he's gonna hide from the world.
00:27:04.000He's the quarterback of the team that just lost.
00:27:08.000Apparently he was upset because the guy behind him, this guy named Josh Norman, he apparently, I think it's Josh Norman, right?
00:27:14.000But the guy behind him was talking about, which some quarterback was not a keep to lead from the Broncos, was talking about how the game plan was to shut down the running game and force Cam Newton to throw because the idea is that he's not great with his arm but he's terrific with his feet.
00:28:30.000Cam Newton is being racially persecuted because if it had been a white guy, we just would have said, okay, even though going all the way back to Ted Williams, when Ted Williams was brusqued with reporters, people thought that he was a complete jerk.
00:28:41.000Speaking of ESPN, by the way, Rudy Giuliani yesterday was on TV, and he said that Beyonce's act at the halftime, her halftime act at the Super Bowl, was racially charged and terrible, which I have said, and which is true.
00:28:54.000And Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser, who do a show called Pardon the Interruption, which is just them jabbering at each other.
00:29:01.000And it comes right after Around the Horn, where a bunch of sportswriters jabber at each other.
00:29:17.000The lady who goes out on national TV does a tribute to Malcolm X, one of the great scumbags in human history, and then proceeds to do a tribute to the Black Panthers.
00:29:28.000That lady's not polarizing, but if you comment on it, you're polarizing.
00:29:32.000And by the way, if you don't believe that Malcolm X was truly a scumbag, read his autobiography up to the point where he converts to actual Islam.
00:29:38.000That's the part everybody always leaves out.
00:29:40.000There's the part where he converts to Islam and then is murdered, apparently, by the Nation of Islam in the United States.
00:29:45.000Okay, before that, he's talking about white devils.
00:29:48.000He's talking about white people can't even engage in the civil rights struggle.
00:29:51.000He's talking about how white people are responsible for everything that is bad that has happened to black people in the country ever.
00:29:56.000For every individual ill that blacks suffer.
00:30:45.00022-year-old Lily Murphy Johnson creates bejeweled maxi pads and menstrual stains to celebrate your monthly bleed.
00:30:53.000So on the charm bracelet, we've got a bottle of Femfresh, a tampon and a wrapper, a tampon, a sanitary towel, and that's a box of Tampax right there.
00:31:01.000She's showing her collection of period-inspired jewelry.
00:31:04.000At just 22 years old, I mean, boy, what a...
00:31:08.000She's already making a name for herself in the jewelry world, and is currently working under renowned luxury jeweler Sean Lean, despite only graduating from the University of the Arts London this summer.
00:31:17.000I mean, what just a revelation she is to the arts community that she's making jewelry based on the fact that women bleed during their menstrual cycle.
00:32:52.000What this means in literal terms is spotless white panties, hand beaded with glistening red crystals, and sanitary towel silver rings overlaid with ruby red studs.
00:33:01.000Yes, nothing attracts a man quite like a woman who's wearing underwear with bejeweled period stains.
00:33:08.000So these are the same people, by the way, who will celebrate abortion and period stains but think that killing a baby is something worthwhile.
00:33:16.000I mean, how they're enriching the world.
00:33:17.000What a grand world they're making for all of us.
00:33:19.000I know that my daughter is going to be so much more confident and wonderful because people buy underwear with jewels near their crotch that look like blood.
00:33:51.000I use your argument against it because it's not only what I believe, but it's true.
00:33:54.000The leftist posted a link to an article written by Peggy McIntosh describing 50 ways white privilege exists.
00:34:00.000I'm asking you what is a quick and easy way to prove she's wrong other than saying it's racist because I don't have time to debunk all 50.
00:34:05.000Well, this is actually a tactic of the left typically, which is instead of just arguing point by point with you, they just hit you with the phone book.
00:34:22.000Again, assess the purpose of the conversation.
00:34:25.000If it's making you better at arguing, do it.
00:34:27.000If it's going to make you more informed, do it.
00:34:28.000The only way to debunk the white privilege thing is to just say, yes, it's a myth, you have no proof that there is systemic white privilege in the United States.
00:34:38.000In fact, the only laws that are currently on the books that discriminate on the basis of race do so in favor of ethnic minorities.
00:34:44.000Now, if you want to name an individual racist, I'll side with you, but you have to show me a system that is inherently racist.
00:34:51.000In fact, the only system that I actually think is inherently racist, really, the only system that I actually think is inherently racist is the NFL.
00:34:58.000And that's because the NFL won't draft people directly out of high school.
00:35:01.000The NBA has the same rule, they force kids to go to college for a couple of years.
00:35:10.000That the MLB will draft people out of high school because they figure you're smart enough to make a decision for yourself, but the NBA thinks that all of these kids we're drafting are too stupid to make a call?
00:35:18.000And, you know, instead they have to go to Duke for two years to get a degree in phys ed.
00:35:56.000I enjoy debating liberals and often use the tactics I see in some of your YouTube videos.
00:36:00.000At the height of the Ferguson riots, I came out and supported police and was fired from my job at Nike simply for saying the only reason it made the news is because a white officer killed a black man.
00:36:09.000How am I supposed to flex my First Amendment rights when it could cost me my current or next job?
00:36:13.000Okay, Levi, you need to email me the exact post, you need to email me the letter from your employer firing you because of it, and then we are going to blow up Nike.
00:36:21.000This is how we make sure that free speech still rules.
00:36:23.000You get me all of that information, I will be happy to run a story about how Nike is discriminating against people on the basis of ideological belief, because it's inappropriate and it's wrong.
00:36:33.000Keith says, on today's podcast, you talked about the politics of opposition, saying that the Democrats get it and the Republicans don't.
00:36:39.000Can you explain and expand on that, giving examples, talking about Republican mistakes in the context of that?
00:36:44.000Sure, the politics of opposition is the principle that you're running against somebody else.
00:36:49.000Republicans seem to assume that they're running for hearts and minds.
00:40:25.000And I promise you, no check I can sign to you, if you don't want to take care of your kid properly, if you're unable to take care of your kid properly, no matter what check I sign to you, that consistent stream of checks is not going to make that child's life better.
00:40:38.000What is going to make that child's life better is you not being a crappy parent.
00:40:45.000The only thing in life, really, truly, the only thing in life that I truly, deeply care about more than anything else is how I raise my children.
00:40:54.000I'm willing to sacrifice every bone in my body, every drop of my blood, and every dollar in my bank account for my kids.
00:42:37.000Again, if I pay for all of the things you want for your kid, then you're not doing your job as a parent.
00:42:43.000And we've generated a society where the government parents kids and the government is doing an unbelievably crappy job of it.
00:42:49.000As far as increasing minimum wage, okay, increasing minimum wage, legislating that somebody pays a higher minimum wage, does not actually help children, because let's say that there's not one 18-year-old mother who wants to work for minimum wage.
00:43:01.000Let's say there are three or four, which is more likely.
00:43:04.000They're all working at the same store.
00:43:05.000If I raise the minimum wage, I have to fire two of them.
00:43:36.000I care about the homeless because I think that mentally ill people should be taken care of.
00:43:40.000In fact, I've even come out, this is the one area where I've actually come out in favor of bigger, more powerful governments, I've come out in favor of more local funding for mental institutions, for example.
00:43:50.000But I don't think homeless people have the right to sleep on the street any more than I think a child has the right to sleep on the street.
00:43:55.000It's not because I'm mean to the kitty who wants to sleep on the street, it's because kids who sleep on the street end up dead.
00:44:00.000And homeless people who sleep on the street also end up dead.
00:44:03.000As far as I'm very rich and proud of it?
00:44:21.000I grew up, I don't, again, I've said this many times on the program, I don't like talking about the rags to riches stories, because I don't think that poverty is virtue.
00:44:29.000I don't think that just because my parents, when I grew up, we were middle middle class, that just because I grew up in a bedroom that I shared with three younger sisters in a house that was 1,100 square feet and there were six people, excuse me, sharing one bathroom, I don't think that makes me more virtuous.
00:44:44.000But this is a country with incredible income mobility.
00:44:47.000I quit a job when I got out of law school where I was making a lot of money.
00:44:50.000I took one-third the pay and then I worked my way all the way back up and passed where I was when I got out of law school by a multiple.
00:45:00.000Not because money is a recognition of virtue, but because money is a recognition that I'm giving people something that they want, and in exchange, people are giving money for that thing.
00:45:09.000I'm doing more for people than somebody who is earning less, and the reason for that, not on an objective scale.
00:45:17.000On an objective scale, people are willing to pay me more money to do something, and they're willing to pay other people for doing that thing.
00:45:23.000Hey, there's just more of a market for it.
00:45:26.000Does that mean that LeBron James does more for the world than a doctor?
00:45:30.000Not on any moral level, of course, but it means there are a lot more people who are willing to pay to watch LeBron James than are willing to pay a surgeon from Harvard.
00:45:37.000I don't see any of these people saying LeBron James should have his salary taken away from him.
00:45:41.000Again, voluntary exchange is a good thing.
00:45:44.000And I provide something, and everybody does.
00:45:48.000And he says that I'm only using abortion to demonize Democrats.
00:45:51.000Believe me, I don't have to demonize Democrats on abortion.
00:45:53.000You demonize yourself when you say that you were able to plunge a scissor into the skull of a fully grown baby one minute before it's born and suck its brain into a sink.
00:46:00.000I actually don't have to demonize you.
00:46:18.000Ben, you seem to be highly productive, always up on current events, producing regular podcasts, in addition to reading a variety of books, comics, watching movies, as well as writing books, as well as articles.
00:46:43.000I get up, I quickly peruse the news on my phone, get up, drive in to do the morning show that I do on KRLA 870 out here with a couple other folks.
00:47:09.000I do my morning service, I do my davening, which is the Jewish morning service, phylacteries, talus, the whole thing.
00:47:14.000And then, after that, we sit down and we do the show, which takes twice the normal amount of length it should.
00:47:20.000Then, finally, when we're done doing the show, I go back to writing.
00:47:23.000I write a couple more pieces, usually, for the Daily Wire, and one for Breitbart, and I make sure that everybody is up on their assignments over at the Daily Wire.
00:47:37.000As someone who values money, as someone who takes money seriously, the reason that I actually work out is because I know I'm going to be signing a check, no matter what, to the personnel trainer once I set a time, so I may as well not waste the money.
00:47:49.000So it becomes a higher priority for me if there's something at stake, other than just, do I work out today?
00:47:54.000Then I try to you know, I try to kind of limit my day to about 5 p.m.
00:47:59.000Is when the nanny gets off my wife is in medical school She's finishing up in a couple of months.
00:48:03.000So I usually take over from the nanny like 4 35 p.m And then I take care of the baby until the baby goes to sleep at about 8 o'clock And and then I do my reading and relaxing and all of that Yeah, I do.
00:48:15.000I'm not a speed reader, but I do read very quickly I tend to I tend to read
00:48:20.000Three to four books a week, I read everything on the internet, and I watch movies at night.
00:48:26.000And I do get a decent amount of sleep.
00:48:29.000My wife never lets me get to sleep before 11 o'clock, then I'm up at 5.30, but if I had my way, I would go to sleep at 10.30 and wake up at 5.30.
00:48:37.000One last point, and that is going back to that comment, somebody said that I don't like charity.
00:48:58.000Money that I give to charity doesn't actually help the economy as a general rule, and I would rather provide money for services than money for no services.
00:49:05.000All charity is, in my religious view, and I'm supposed to give more charity, and I've said this, I have a hard time with this commandment and I need to do better on it.
00:49:10.000So I'm at least honest enough to admit this.
00:49:12.000Okay, the fact is that the reason for charity is the commandment is to give charity, not to receive charity.
00:49:18.000The commandment is to remind you that the money isn't actually yours.
00:49:21.000So I said I'm very proud that I earn a lot of money.
00:49:25.000All of the gifts that I have, all of the skills that I use, all of my health, my wealth, all of that is a gift from God.
00:49:31.000Charity is a reminder that every ounce of my effort, yeah, I put in heavy effort, and yeah, I take pride in that effort, but in the end, none of that really belongs to me, and none of it really matters.
00:49:40.000What really matters is my relationship with God, and it's a reminder that the things that we value the most are really not even ours.
00:49:48.000This is why my daughter's name is Leah.
00:49:50.000Because Leah in Hebrew means, I belong to God, because this is actually a big thing for me.
00:49:54.000I believe that we all, in the end, belong to God, and it's our purpose to serve his mission.
00:49:57.000So, with that said, I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
00:50:01.000I, unfortunately, will be spending my weekend watching yet another Republican debate, which is just horrifying in every imaginable respect.
00:50:07.000But I hope that you have a wonderful weekend, and hopefully the Republic will still be here on Monday.