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00:00:16.000Apparently, if you are a famous actor, there is a good chance that you may go to prison or be run out of the business.
00:00:22.000We'll talk about all of that in just one second.
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00:02:02.000According to Joseph Curl over at Daily Wire, former Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein on Friday turned himself into police in New York, where he likely will face serious charges in connection to sexual assault of at least two women.
00:02:16.000More than a hundred reporters, countermen, and photographers were on hand as Weinstein made the perp walk at the New York Police Department's First Precinct in Lower Manhattan.
00:02:23.000Weinstein, who is 66, quote, stepped back from a black SUV wearing a blazer and carrying books under his arm and lumbered into a Manhattan police station before a crowd of news cameras.
00:02:32.000He didn't respond to shouts of Harvey, according to the Associated Press.
00:02:35.000After several accusations ranging from inappropriate touching to rape emerged against Weinstein last year, dozens of women came out to join the barrage.
00:02:43.000More than 75 women have now accused the former movie producer.
00:02:46.000But Weinstein escaped criminal charges until now.
00:02:48.000On what charges he will face, the AP said, quote,
00:02:50.000The exact charges against Weinstein still had not been made public early on Friday.
00:02:54.000Two law enforcement officials told the AP the case would include allegations by Lucia Evans, an aspiring actress who has said the Hollywood mogul forced her to perform oral sex on him in his office.
00:03:02.000She was among the first women to speak out about the producer.
00:03:05.000One official said it's likely the case will also include at least one other victim who has not come forward publicly as of yet.
00:03:11.000So the crime could carry up to 25 years in prison.
00:03:13.000So presumably Weinstein would die in prison.
00:03:17.000In the interview with the New Yorker last October, Evans said that Weinstein forced her into the sex act during a meeting at his office in 2004.
00:03:23.000She was then a rising senior at Middlebury College.
00:03:25.000She said over and over, I don't want to do this.
00:03:27.000I tried to get him away, but maybe I didn't try hard enough.
00:03:29.000I didn't want to kick him or fight him.
00:03:31.000Actress Rose McGowan, of course, has come out and said that Weinstein raped her in 1997 in Utah.
00:03:35.000Sopranos actress Annabella Ciara said he raped her in a New York City apartment in 1992.
00:03:40.000Norwegian actress Natasja Malthy said he attacked her in a London hotel room in 2008, according to the Associated Press.
00:03:46.000And of course, at the Cannes Film Festival, an actress named Asia Argento delivered an intense speech before presenting the Best Actress Award, telling a horrific story about Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, quote, So, obviously this is a big...
00:04:02.000Blow to sort of Hollywood prestige as it has been for months.
00:04:05.000Remember the entire Me Too movement was launched on the back of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
00:04:09.000Weinstein, for his part, his lawyer said in court that Harvey Weinstein did not create the casting couch.
00:04:14.000Harvey Weinstein was not the creator of the casting couch.
00:04:17.000The casting couch, as I've discussed before on the show, is this old Hollywood trope that men who are in charge of Hollywood would cast you in a film if you slept with them.
00:04:24.000The casting couch was kept in the office, and then if you wanted to be cast in a film, you wanted to make your way in Hollywood, then you were forced to sleep with the producer.
00:04:31.000And they made light of it in movies going all the way back to All About Eve, right?
00:04:34.000In All About Eve, which won Oscar for Best Picture, Marilyn Monroe plays this young, up-and-coming kind of floozy who wants to get on the Broadway stage, and so she is trying to woo a fat, ugly old producer who's kind of portrayed in the movie as this kindly old gentleman, right?
00:04:50.000This kind-hearted old gentleman who's kind of a goofball generally.
00:04:53.000Hollywood casting couch has been a part of Hollywood for as long as power has been a part of Hollywood.
00:04:58.000And the truth is that this sort of behavior by men toward women has been around as long as men have wielded power in order to gain sex for themselves.
00:05:05.000It's also been largely true in Hollywood for years without any sort of repercussions because many women were willing to use the casting couch in order to get ahead.
00:05:26.000It's not something that they would love to do in a scenario where they had the option not to do it, but they weren't exactly forcibly raped.
00:05:33.000Right, so we're not talking about Harvey Weinstein, who apparently forcibly raped people, but there are a lot of situations in Hollywood in which young women know that the best way to get ahead is to use their sexuality to get ahead, and then you run into some dicey areas with regard to consent, because if you say to women, you shouldn't be doing this, right, this is a problem, you should try to be avoiding this, then those women might say, well, you're violating my grounds of consent.
00:05:53.000You're saying that I can't be a fully autonomous individual capable of making my own decisions.
00:05:58.000And then what you end up with is weird situations in some cases, I assume, where you could have the possibility that a woman goes to an office, the producer hits on her, she sleeps with the producer, and then ten years later when it comes out that the producer is actually a rapist, in this case Harvey Weinstein, then women come forward and they say, well, I was pressured into sex too, which is true informally if not formally.
00:06:18.000This is the problem with an entire culture that prizes promiscuity as a high value.
00:06:21.000Now, again, that's no excuse for actual rape.
00:06:24.000It's not any excuse for actual use of force.
00:06:27.000Harvey Weinstein should go to jail for the rest of his life.
00:06:30.000If any of these allegations are true, he should go to jail for the rest of his life.
00:06:34.000But it is also true that Hollywood has forwarded this kind of conduct for a very, very long time, and it is widespread in Hollywood.
00:06:40.000Just the latest case in point, a bunch of women are now accusing Morgan Freeman of inappropriate behavior and harassment.
00:06:46.000A young production assistant thought she had landed the job of her dreams when, in the summer of 2015, she started working on Going in Style, a bank heist comedy starring Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Alan Arkin.
00:06:56.000But the job quickly devolved into several months of harassment, she told CNN.
00:06:59.000She alleged that Freeman subjected her to unwanted touching and comments about her figure and clothing on a near-daily basis,
00:07:04.000Freeman would rest his hand on her lower back or rub her lower back, she said.
00:07:07.000In one incident, she said, Freeman kept trying to lift up my skirt and asking if I was wearing underwear.
00:07:11.000He never successfully lifted her skirt, she said.
00:07:14.000She would move away and then he'd try again.
00:07:16.000Eventually, she said, Alan Arkin made a comment telling him to stop.
00:07:18.000Morgan got freaked out and didn't know what to say.
00:07:21.000Well, this raises the question as to why no one else on staff was willing to tell Morgan Freeman to stop.
00:07:24.000And the answer is because if you tell powerful Hollywood men to stop, this is the other side of the coin, you tell powerful Hollywood men to stop, you will never get a job again.
00:07:32.000And this is exactly what happened with Harvey Weinstein.
00:07:34.000If anyone complained about Harvey Weinstein, he made sure that nobody in town worked again.
00:07:40.000He said that Harvey would call around and say, this person's a bad person to work with.
00:07:43.000You don't want to work with this girl because she's trouble.
00:07:46.000And then these people wouldn't get jobs ever again.
00:07:48.000So when you have powerful men in positions of high power,
00:07:50.000This is why you need more virtuous men in the industry.
00:07:53.000This is why you need more virtuous standards in the industry.
00:07:56.000You need a bunch of people there who are not engaged in the sexual revolution ethos of consent is the only value because consent is sort of fungible in a lot of these cases.
00:08:05.000In some cases, like it sounds like with Morgan Freeman, it is not.
00:08:08.000But there are some cases in which there are a bunch of men who've had women saying yes to them for their entire career because women want to get ahead in some of these cases.
00:08:15.000And then these men decide, OK, well, that means all women want it because they're scumbags.
00:08:20.000This sort of activity is going to be more common in any society in which there is a certain amount of credibility given to men with power to do whatever they want, and there is a certain amount of reluctance to call out women for acting in fashions that forward this particular standard.
00:08:37.000So you need two things in order to stop.
00:08:38.000Okay, let's come at this from the other end.
00:08:40.000You need two things in order to stop what's happening in Hollywood.
00:09:07.000The reason I mentioned Jason Bateman is because you now have a situation with Jason Bateman where he did an interview with the New York Times and a bunch of these men, it was the Arrested Development cast in this lengthy Q&A in the New York Times with the cast of Arrested Development.
00:09:19.000Jeffrey Tambor is still included on the show, of course, one of the stars of the show.
00:09:23.000He was recently fired from Transparent after sexual harassment allegations, and the conversation eventually turned to Tambor's behavior on the set of Arrested Development, according to Jezebel.
00:09:30.000Reportedly, there was an incident on set in which Tambor yelled at his co-star, Jessica Walter,
00:10:11.000But I do know a lot about arrested development, and I can say that no matter what anybody in this room has ever done, and we've all done a lot with each other, for each other, against each other, I wouldn't trade it for the world and I have zero complaints.
00:10:23.000Again, all these people are on the left.
00:10:25.000All these people are big believers in the feminist movement and the MeToo movement.
00:10:29.000So you have to ask yourself, why is it that all these believers in the MeToo movement and the feminist movement are so willing to overlook the misconduct of people with whom they work?
00:10:36.000And the answer is, because in Hollywood, this is the way Hollywood works.
00:10:40.000It is the way Hollywood has always worked.
00:10:41.000So when Harvey Weinstein goes out there and says, I didn't invent the casting couch,
00:10:48.000Yes, moral people like me have been saying for a long time, people who are religious have been saying for a very long time the casting couch is disgusting and the morality of Hollywood is disgusting.
00:10:56.000But Harvey Weinstein, when he says the casting couch was not invented by Harvey Weinstein, he's not entirely wrong in that sense.
00:11:04.000I mean, it sounds like he probably is a rapist, but
00:11:06.000Again, this puts you in a weird position because all of these men who are supposedly in favor of feminism are standing around defending guys who are acting like utter greaseballs.
00:11:18.000He says, you know, one thing Jeffrey has said a lot of times that I think is important that you don't often hear from somebody in his position is that he has learned from the experience and he's listening and learning and growing.
00:11:28.000Well, it's sort of more important to remember that you shouldn't have acted like that in the first place.
00:11:31.000And then the New York Times reporter asked, if somebody approached you and said, OK, here's an actor that admits he routinely yells at directors and assistant directors, at co-workers, assistants, would you hire that person?
00:11:41.000And Tambor said, I would hire that person if that person said, you know, I've reckoned with this.
00:11:45.000And then Bateman said, again, not to belittle it or excuse it or anything, but in the entertainment industry, it's incredibly common to have people who are, in quotes, difficult.
00:11:51.000And when you're in a privileged position to hire people or have an influence in who does get hired, you make phone calls and you say, hey, so I've heard about, I've heard X about person Y tell me about that.
00:11:58.000And what you learn is context and you learn about character and you learn about work habits, work ethics.
00:12:03.000And you start to understand because it's a very amorphous process, this sort of bleeping that you do, you know, making up fake life.
00:12:09.000It's a weird thing and is a breeding ground for atypical behavior.
00:12:12.000And certain people have certain processes.
00:12:14.000In other words, all of these people are difficult people because they're artistes.
00:12:17.000And artistes have to be given more leeway to do what it is they do, except those people have victims.
00:12:22.000And then, a bunch of women who don't want to get involved in the casting couch system are forced into the casting couch system specifically because they will lose jobs if they do not.
00:12:32.000It's a real disaster area all the way through.
00:14:03.000They are the light bringers when it comes to morality and decency.
00:14:07.000And when it comes to feminism, too, they're the light bringers.
00:14:09.000Okay, well, they're gonna have to learn how to balance two things.
00:14:12.000One is the ability of women to consent to relationships with more powerful men.
00:14:17.000And the second is to call out men who are doing terrible things.
00:14:21.000And they haven't learned how to balance these two things yet.
00:14:23.000They haven't learned how to balance these two things because these two things are sort of hard to balance in an era where is it power relationships that are supposed to define what's wrong?
00:14:32.000Or is it consent that's supposed to define what's wrong?
00:14:34.000This has not been made clear by anybody on the left yet.
00:14:37.000Now, I'm of the opinion that all relationships should, number one, be consensual.
00:14:41.000And number two, power should not be abused in this way by powerful people.
00:14:45.000And women should not give in, if they can help it, to abuse of power in this way if physical force is not being used.
00:14:50.000Like, be willing to lose the job in order not to be abused by a man.
00:14:53.000But I understand it's a difficult decision that women should not have to make, and that's why we need to change the system from within.
00:14:59.000Well, that's going to require two things.
00:15:00.000It's going to require, again, powerful people coming out and speaking out against this, and it's going to require an embrace of a different sexual ethos that does not value the art,
00:15:08.000And the artiste and promiscuity above everything else.
00:15:11.000It's going to require a reversion back to more traditional morality regarding how people interact, men and women interact.
00:15:18.000And I understand this makes a lot of people on the left uncomfortable.
00:15:20.000But it's very difficult to have it both ways.
00:15:22.000You can't say that men and women are just playing around and then also be surprised when it turns out that men are willing to abuse that system in order to do terrible things.
00:15:30.000That doesn't mean the men shouldn't be punished.
00:15:32.000But the snapback is what some people in Hollywood are finding so odd to deal with.
00:15:39.000And again, I think that there is I think there's a way to fix all of this, but I don't think it can be fixed in the absence of a root change in mentality about how men ought to treat women, how women ought to treat men.
00:15:51.000The good news is Hollywood has its priorities straight when it comes to President Trump.
00:15:54.000So Robert De Niro, who's a frequent critic of President Trump, and he's been playing special counsel Robert Mueller on Saturday Night Live, he talked Tuesday about he'd like to bar the president from eating at his Nobu restaurant chain, which I'm sure Trump will just be
00:16:07.000Well, Chef Nobu Matsuhisa, who's De Niro's co-owner, then joked it was his dream for Trump to sit next to De Niro so he could make them sushi.
00:16:26.000De Niro, of course, has spent a lot of time ripping on Trump.
00:16:27.000This is the way it works in Hollywood.
00:16:28.000The sort of virtue signaling that matters is not the virtue signaling where you stand up and you call out actual predators in Hollywood.
00:17:28.000You can do that, so long as you're a powerful dude.
00:17:30.000And most people will go along with it.
00:17:31.000And that's why, as soon as you see a gap in the particular dam that's holding back all these revelations in cases like Harvey Weinstein or Morgan Freeman, you watch.
00:17:40.000There will now be 15 women who come forward and say all this stuff, because they've been held back by this entire wall of silence that's been created around Hollywood, by Hollywood, about this sort of evil behavior by people like Harvey Weinstein and people like Morgan Freeman.
00:17:54.000All these women are going to come forward now because now they feel it's safe.
00:17:56.000There's safety in numbers to come forward.
00:17:58.000But you don't want to be the first one, because if you're the first one, you end up like Rose McGowan and you lose your job and you never work again.
00:18:49.000They're not who America is, but what they are doing is they're sending a vision of America around the world that's distorted, that's damaging, that is hurting us with this phony populism and this fake nationalism.
00:19:25.000The only party that has moved is the Democratic Party, which has shifted radically to the left.
00:19:29.000When Joe Biden ran in 2008, every Democratic candidate on stage endorsed traditional marriage.
00:19:35.000Okay, when he ran in 2008, nobody on stage would have been paying homage to Bernie Sanders.
00:19:39.000They all thought he was a kook and a nut job.
00:19:41.000And now the entire Democratic Party has moved radically to the left.
00:19:43.000And when you hear Joe Biden talk about how much the Republican Party has changed and moved, remember, Joe Biden is the guy who said in 2012, just six years ago, he was saying that Mitt Romney wanted to put y'all back in chains.
00:19:56.000It was Mitt Romney who changed the Republican Party.
00:19:58.000Mitt Romney is about as moderate a candidate as Republicans have run in the last 25 to 30 years.
00:20:04.000And yet there was Joe Biden ripping on the Republican Party.
00:20:06.000So when you hear Democrats rip on the extremism of Republicans, understand that they've been ripping on the supposed extremism of Republicans, no matter how moderate at any point.
00:20:13.000The hypocrisy of Joe Biden is truly astonishing here.
00:20:17.000But I guess we shouldn't be astonished by Joe Biden.
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00:22:00.000Okay, so here's an update on the battle for the House.
00:22:03.000So with the Democrats still struggling for an actual message,
00:22:08.000The battle for the House has turned not in their favor.
00:22:11.000Sean Trent, who's an excellent analyst over at RealClearPolitics, he says this,
00:22:26.000With a raft of GOP retirements and highly vulnerable open seats, a president with job approval ratings in the 30s, and a generic ballot lead for Democrats in the double digits, it was increasingly difficult to spell out a path to victory for Republicans.
00:22:37.000In fact, things were bad enough that it appeared their losses could grow into the 40 or even 50 seat range.
00:23:36.000I did not make specific projections from these in 2013, because we don't have a lot of experience projecting a midterm election from special election results.
00:23:43.000These are informative data points, but until we have more experience seeing how models based upon them perform, we should prefer established metrics like job approval and the generic ballot.
00:23:52.000Second, special elections all involve open seats.
00:23:54.000The one set of elections that didn't involve open seats exclusively in Virginia and New Jersey brought about a set of results that are a lot less encouraging for Democrats.
00:24:01.000They lost in Trump districts and they won in Hillary districts.
00:24:04.000Well, if that's replicated in 2018, Democrats would fall just shy of winning the House.
00:24:08.000So bottom line is the prospects are looking much better for Republicans than they were even a few weeks ago.
00:24:14.000And a lot of that is the extremism of Democrats.
00:24:16.000Well, I got Joe Biden out there claiming that Donald Trump has moved the Republican Party in radical new ways.
00:24:22.000My God, look at these Republicans with their populism.
00:24:29.000The latest point being, obviously, the MS-13 argument, where President Trump called MS-13 a bunch of animals, and then he doubled down on it, and Nancy Pelosi said that this was terrible.
00:24:49.000As I said earlier this week, President Trump has a magic power.
00:24:52.000His magic power is he can make Democrats defend legitimately anything.
00:24:56.000So what do the polls say about the MS-13 issue?
00:24:58.000Well, according to The Hill, 56% of American adults in the Harvard-Capps-Harris poll said referring to members of the gang as animals is fair, compared to 44% who said the characterization was unfair.
00:25:09.000A slimmer majority, 52%, added that the comments that dehumanize members of MS-13
00:25:14.000So in other words, Trump's on the right side of the American public on this particular issue.
00:25:18.000By the way, he is also on the right side of the American public with regard to the kneeling situation, the kneeling in the NFL situation.
00:25:23.000As I mentioned yesterday, I'm not a fan of the president interjecting himself into arguments about what a private corporation, the NFL, should do about its own employees exercising their right to kneel.
00:26:12.000Listen, you know, I respect the man because he's a human being, you know, first and foremost, but he's just being more divisive, which is not surprising.
00:26:25.000Can most Americans look at the situation in the NFL?
00:26:28.000They don't think Trump was the one who was originally divisive on this.
00:26:31.000Most Americans think that it was the NFL players who decided to kneel for the national anthem, a signal of unity in the United States, who are actually being divisive in this entire process.
00:26:40.000So the more people react to Trump by taking the side of the people who are kneeling, that's exactly what Trump wants.
00:26:45.000If the left even half understood what was going on in this particular debate, maybe they might make a more shaded argument.
00:26:51.000Maybe they would argue, as actually people like me have argued, that Trump should not involve himself in these particular issues because it polarizes the country, but they are in favor of people standing for the national anthem.
00:27:03.000The NFL has a right to do what it wants to do.
00:27:05.000The hilarious thing about all of this is the NFL is getting just shellacked over this decision.
00:27:10.000Fox Sports 1 has a show with Skip Bayless, and Skip Bayless and his co-host, I can't remember who it is, they were talking about this NFL controversy.
00:27:18.000They called it a dark day in American sports.
00:27:30.000He is a black man, but that's a strong, powerful conclusion from Jarrett Bell about what just happened.
00:27:38.000And it does feel to me from this side of the desk like it was a dark day in American sports.
00:27:45.000Okay, it's so hilarious that this is the, this quote, dark day in American sports.
00:27:48.000Let's call host to Shannon Sharp there.
00:27:50.000This is such a dark day in American sports.
00:27:51.000The NBA has had this exact same policy, this exact same policy for a long time.
00:27:57.000Okay, the NBA has had this policy since like 1994, 1995.
00:28:01.000And yet nobody's complaining about that.
00:28:02.000They only complain when the NFL changes the policy because it looks like a quote-unquote win for Trump.
00:28:06.000And by the way, the implication that Trump is a racist and that's the reason he cares about all of this?
00:28:10.000Yesterday, Donald Trump pardoned the late black boxing champion Jack Johnson.
00:28:14.000Okay, Jack Johnson was issued a posthumous pardon.
00:28:16.000He was the first African-American heavyweight champion.
00:28:19.000He was jailed a century ago due to his relationship with a white woman.
00:28:22.000Okay, he was accused of violating federal law by transporting his white wife, a woman who later became his wife, named Lucille Cameron, in 1912 across state lines.
00:28:30.000He supposedly violated the Mann Act in sexual trafficking.
00:31:50.000I think it's overblown because two things can be true at once.
00:31:52.000One, we do not want to pressure corporations to crack down on people for their speech.
00:31:57.000Second, if it is actively impeding a corporation's ability to distribute the product.
00:32:01.000Okay, if the free speech amounts to you providing a design flaw in the product itself, then the corporation, it seems to me, has every right to do something about you.
00:32:09.000Okay, so, as I say, me speaking at a private college and being barred from a private college, they can do it, but I think it's stupid.
00:32:15.000You boycotting the NCAA over an unrelated bathroom policy in the state, I think, is stupid.
00:32:21.000You boycotting Brendan Eich from Mozilla Firefox because Brendan Eich was pro-traditional marriage and has no effect on the product.
00:32:28.000But the product the NFL puts on the field includes all of the visual product before the game, including the national anthem.
00:32:34.000So if the NFL says, listen, we're losing money because of this because the product we are putting on, we believe to be inferior, at least in terms of how it is grabbing audiences.
00:32:41.000Well, they have every right to do what they're going to do.
00:32:43.000And I think that's how you balance these two things.
00:32:45.000There are certain things that are inherent to the development of the product.
00:32:47.000There are certain things that are not.
00:32:48.000Again, if they wanted to kneel for the national anthem every day before they started their factory work, I don't see how that would really be a problem.
00:32:55.000But all of this is televised and has an impact on whether people watch the games or not.
00:32:59.000So people who are failing to make this distinction, they're friends of mine who I think are failing to make this distinction.
00:33:03.000I rarely disagree with my good friend David French.
00:33:05.000David had a piece in the New York Times in which he argued that the NFL should not have changed policy.
00:33:08.000They should have allowed everybody to continue kneeling.
00:33:11.000I'm not quite as sold on that, and I don't equate every situation in which a private corporation is trying to save its product with every other situation.
00:33:19.000A college campus is a place, obviously, for exchange of ideas.
00:33:23.000NFL pregame doesn't seem to me like that's what it was generally for, as a rule.
00:33:27.000Okay, so let's go through some mailbag.
00:33:35.000I know how to combat the general ridiculous nature of the left and their meltdown over current events.
00:33:38.000I'm a bit confused about one of my friends who worked for the Bush administration, and since President Trump has been elected, he's gone full SJW and left ideals.
00:33:45.000He argues that his era of the Republican Party is dead because of Trump, and everything Trump does is against his view of what the Republican Party was in the president's past.
00:33:52.000My question, is the Republican Party so very different under Trump than some of his great Republicans of old, or is he just being ridiculous?
00:33:57.000Most of Trump's policies are great, I think, as far as conservative values, but he's just a buffoon at times in a way no president has been before.
00:34:04.000OK, so this is the serious question, right?
00:34:06.000We talked a little bit earlier about Joe Biden and Joe Biden saying the Republican Party has massively shifted.
00:34:11.000What was stupid about what Joe Biden said is he was saying that there is this populist move in the Republican Party.
00:34:16.000The policy is exactly the same as it has been for years.
00:34:20.000President Trump has governed more conservatively than George W. Bush.
00:34:23.000President Trump's first year and a half of policy is a conservative dream in many ways, really.
00:34:28.000Like, as a conservative, as somebody who's very, very skeptical of President Trump's policies, I can say I've been very pleased by his policy decisions.
00:34:34.000That said, is Trump a difference in kind for the Republican Party?
00:34:59.000President Trump has made statements that I find absolutely morally egregious.
00:35:02.000I've called them out on this show many times.
00:35:04.000That is a sea change for Republicans, particularly if they go along with that sort of thing publicly, which is why I've always said that if Republicans want to maintain their moral center, they should clap for President Trump when he does good things, and he's doing a lot of those things, and they should boo President Trump when he does something bad, because President Trump can take it, and he's a human, and that means that all humans should be treated equally, not as idols, not as objects of pandering, but President Trump, when he says something truly bad, everybody should say, hey, that's truly bad, you shouldn't say that.
00:35:30.000And when he does something truly bad, they should say, hey, that's truly bad.
00:35:33.000And when he does something good, you have to praise him.
00:35:35.000I think if you take this tack with your friend, then maybe you'll be a little bit more open to your messaging about the fact that Trump really hasn't changed a lot of policy on the Republican side of the aisle because he hasn't.
00:36:00.000I think that the Food and Drug Administration, the idea that you needed a government agency to ensure the safety of your food, I think that's largely stupidity.
00:36:07.000I think there are private companies that could do just the same thing.
00:36:10.000We have Sagets that rates restaurants.
00:36:11.000I don't see any reason you couldn't have a private organization that essentially licenses food.
00:36:15.000Not licenses in the sense they can ban a food, but looks at a food and says whether it is healthy or not, whether it is good or not.
00:36:23.000There are private organizations that I think could do this fairly well.
00:36:27.000You know, if one was dishonest, then there would be others that competed with it.
00:36:30.000I think this is something the market certainly has room for.
00:36:32.000I don't think there's a market failure taking place in food, in other words, right?
00:36:36.000You don't actually have to have an FDA telling you the ingredients in your light bulbs, although presumably they do.
00:36:41.000There are government regulations that force that sort of thing.
00:36:44.000I don't think that's necessary because I don't think that most producers have an interest in killing their consumers or making food so bad for them that they never want to eat that food again.
00:36:52.000And competition allows you to do this.
00:36:53.000First of all, I think that the nutritional product information would end up on the bottles anyway, because I think that some creative producer would say, you know what?
00:36:59.000We should undercut our competition by saying we are completely transparent about what's in our food as opposed to our competition, which presumably would then drive the competition to actually put the nutritional products out there.
00:37:10.000I mean, you see this all the time, right?
00:37:11.000You see this in terms of diet products.
00:37:13.000So I'm not sure why it shouldn't apply to food more generally.
00:37:15.000Richard said, You've mentioned, usually when talking about one of your sponsors, about how you use an electric razor on only part of your face for religious reasons.
00:37:21.000Could you explain the doctrine in more detail, please?
00:37:23.000I mean, the quick answer is that in the Bible, it says that you're not supposed to shave the corners of your beard.
00:37:27.000And Orthodox Jews take that to mean that you are not supposed to use a straight edge to shave your face.
00:37:33.000And so I use an electric razor around my entire face and then the jawline and then below the jawline,
00:37:39.000There are certain commentators who say that you're allowed to use a straight edge below there because, you know, when you're shaving your neck, that's really not a part of your beard.
00:37:50.000Okay, Dylan says, So, my gut reaction is that it is important for wives to take their husband's last name because you are now forming an independent unit and you should have the last name because now you are part of a team.
00:38:00.000If you join the New York Yankees, you don't maintain that you are a Yankee cardinal.
00:38:04.000Right, if you sign as a free agent, then you become a Yankee.
00:38:07.000And it seems to me the same thing should be true now.
00:38:09.000There are people who say, well, why shouldn't you take your wife's last name?
00:38:12.000Well, listen, if you want to do that, you can.
00:38:14.000And I think that's sort of emasculating to dudes, because I do think that there are male and female roles in a relationship, and a man who feels that he doesn't have any sort of leadership in his relationship with his wife is going to feel emasculated.
00:38:25.000This is just the natural human process.
00:38:26.000I'm not saying whether it's right or wrong, that is just natural.
00:38:29.000I'll tell you this, when we got married, when I got married to my wife, I said she didn't have a middle name.
00:38:34.000And her last name, her maiden name was Toledano.
00:38:37.000And my wife wanted to... I said to her that she could do like my mom and she could actually take her maiden name and make it her middle name.
00:38:43.000Like, I shouldn't even have permission.
00:39:17.000I promise you, women, if you ask men whether it means something to them, most men will say it means something to them because it is a sacrifice a woman is making of her family name, and that should mean something.
00:39:27.000Okay, so yes, I think it's important, and I think that it's enough of an important thing that you should ask your potential spouse about it.
00:39:34.000I don't think that if... Let's put it this way.
00:39:37.000The types of people do different things on this issue.
00:39:39.000If you are a hardcore feminist and you think that it's a real sacrifice to give up your last name for your husband's last name because this means he owns you now, I would suggest that you're not being generous enough to the husband that you're marrying.
00:39:48.000I don't think it's a matter of ownership.
00:39:50.000I think it's a matter of, let's be on the same team.
00:39:56.000We often talk about the left's ideas and practices as self-destructive, and I agree on those points, but do you have an expectation that the left will ever actually destroy itself and become genuinely relevant in American culture and policy?
00:40:06.000It seems like they keep drinking poison, but it's only making them stronger.
00:40:08.000They shoot themselves in the foot, and it never really slows them down.
00:40:10.000No, I don't think the left is ever going to go away.
00:40:53.000It's why whenever anything bad happens, anything bad in the United States, our first reaction is, why didn't the government do something about it?
00:40:59.000And we should really be asking ourselves, why didn't I do anything about it?
00:41:02.000And if I didn't do anything about it, can anyone do anything about it?
00:41:05.000And is it possible that the collective can't solve everything?
00:41:08.000And then maybe you say, OK, well, maybe the collective can solve this one.
00:41:10.000But we should at least ask ourselves the question, leftism is rooted in human nature.
00:41:15.000Just as conservatism, I think, is actually more of a... I think conservatism is actually more of a departure from human nature.
00:41:28.000He doesn't care that if he screams, now, now, now, now, now, it's not just going to appear.
00:41:32.000And he thinks that if I give things to him, then life will magically be transformed.
00:41:36.000And you are a communist in your relationship with your own family, right?
00:41:38.000You have a joint bank account, you share with your family, you earn from each according to his ability to each according to his need is basically the rule inside my house anyway.
00:41:48.000But that does not mean that that is a good idea for the governance of society as a whole or that it instills any sort of responsibility, which is why you have to fight that communistic nature of the family with the idea of teaching responsibility and inculcating responsibility in your children.
00:42:01.000Well, in many ways, this answer is the same as my last answer.
00:42:21.000Any organization that is not overtly embracing particular principles about personal responsibility and God-given rights eventually is going to be eaten up by this quest for cosmic justice that Thomas Sowell talks about.
00:42:34.000And Thomas Sowell has a great book called The Quest for Cosmic Justice.
00:42:36.000I highly recommend that everybody read it.
00:42:38.000And it basically explains the desire of human beings to look for answers in places where they can't get answers.
00:42:44.000And organizations particularly are collective in nature.
00:42:47.000And that means that they tend to think they can solve everything through the collective.
00:42:50.000All right, so it's not really a surprise they move in a collectivist direction.
00:44:38.000So anyway, I'm sitting next to him, and it strikes me that, you know, if I don't get him anything, like, right now, I will forget about it five minutes later, and then I just won't get him anything.
00:44:45.000And I wouldn't care, it would save me money, but I think he'd feel bad about it, and then we'd all have to feel bad, and then it would cause a lot of drama, because that's who Knowles is, and anyway...
00:45:13.000Well, I think the executive branch obviously has the veto power.
00:45:17.000But in terms of enforcing laws that are already on the books by Congress, it is job to enforce laws, not to decide not to enforce the laws unless those laws are expressly unconstitutional.
00:45:31.000Unfortunately, we've now shifted our vision of the government so that the executive branch does not have the duty to independently say that this is not actually constitutional.
00:45:52.000The system was built so that members of the executive branch take a constitutional oath to uphold the Constitution.
00:45:59.000And that means if a law is passed that is unconstitutional, even over their veto,
00:46:02.000They should at least be able to challenge Congress on it, and then if Congress wants to impeach, Congress can impeach.
00:46:07.000But everybody was supposed to uphold their constitutional duty, not just the judicial branch.
00:46:13.000Mostly I'm interested in how you'd want to collect taxes from citizens, like income tax, tax brackets, if at all, how much to tax, etc.
00:46:23.000Well, you know, I've moved sort of in favor of the idea of a fair tax, which is essentially a national sales tax, with certain exceptions for people who are more impoverished.
00:46:33.000I like that idea better than the income tax.
00:46:34.000I don't think it's the government's business how much money I earn, and I think the income tax is rife with corruption.
00:46:39.000There's a reason that the state of California has the highest income taxes in the nation, and also the number one rate of tax deductions in the nation.
00:46:45.000So we pass all these stupid high taxes, and we vote for all the politicians to pass the stupid high taxes, and then we all take enormous deductions in order to avoid the high taxes we just voted for.
00:48:12.000She's not President of the United States, and she got humiliated by Donald Trump.
00:48:15.000So I think that eternal that would probably be her punishment.
00:48:18.000And also, she'd have to probably sit there and grin as people made speech after speech about how great her husband was.
00:48:24.000I think that would be an excellent eternal punishment for Hillary Clinton.
00:48:27.000For Bernie Sanders, I think that the eternal punishment is that he should actually have to work for a living.
00:48:32.000Like, he should actually have to go work, like, get a real job, like a normal person.
00:48:37.000And then he should have to give charity, like a normal good person would.
00:48:40.000That would be his eternal punishment, which sounds to me pretty good, but for him it would just be terrible.
00:48:44.000And President Trump's eternal punishment, he'd eternally be forced to stare at a Playboy centerfold forever, but he can't do anything about it.
00:48:52.000She just stands there forever, and he just stares at her, and there's nothing he can do.
00:50:00.000That sort of paints Richard III in a positive light is a book called The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tay, one of the great mysteries of all time.
00:50:06.000The book is all about basically a detective who's a frequent character in Josephine Tay's novels, and this detective this time is laid up in bed, and he decides that he is going to unravel the mystery of what actually happened to Richard III's nephews.
00:50:21.000Did Richard III actually kill his nephews?
00:50:23.000And the book is really gripping and really interesting and really historical, so check it out.
00:50:26.000One of the great mystery novels of all time, The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tay.
00:50:30.000Mixed for a good weekend read for sure.
00:50:42.000Show Dogs is a movie about what you would think.
00:50:46.000Show Dogs stars Will Arnett as an FBI agent named Frank who is forced into partnering with a talking dog named Max, voiced by Ludacris, to infiltrate a prestigious dog show in the hopes of rescuing a kidnapped panda.
00:50:58.000So the best part of this is that apparently there is a plot point involving Max learning to cope with the idea of having a judge examine his genitals while competing in the dog show.
00:51:07.000The problem is this is a movie for children, okay?
00:51:10.000And as Daily Wire pointed out, having a judge fondle a dog and then the dog talk about how good it feels is not really a great message to be forwarding for small children.
00:51:19.000Well, now Show Dogs has actually been pulled from the theaters.
00:51:22.000Even leftist sources like Slate were saying this is not really particularly great.
00:51:26.000Daily Wire, I will say, was, I think, involved in pulling it.
00:51:29.000A week after its debut, it pulled an abysmal $6 million on its opening weekend, a rotten score of 23% on the Tomatometer.
00:51:34.000Well, now the film's producers have released a statement apologizing to offended parents, and they're going to fix the film.
00:51:38.000They've decided to remove those two scenes from the movie, which were not appropriate for children.
00:51:43.000That seems appropriate to me, since I don't think that children should be taught that it feels good to have your genitals stimulated by an adult.