The Ben Shapiro Show - PATRIOTISM IS BACK! The Big Game Review

00:00:00.000 Well, folks, that was an awful Super Bowl, but here is the thing.

00:00:04.000 That Super Bowl was also replete with a new mood for the country, and you could feel it right from the outset of the Super Bowl.

00:00:10.000 All the woke was basically gone.

00:00:13.000 The commercials themselves had been changed and transmuted.

00:00:16.000 There were a couple of woke commercials, but they're kind of few and far between.

00:00:19.000 The generalized mood of the country is just different.

00:00:22.000 There's an optimism, there's a patriotism to the mood in the country, and you can feel it.

00:00:26.000 Pretty much everywhere, from the ads to the national anthem to even the fairly terrible halftime show itself.

00:00:33.000 I begin from the beginning.

00:00:35.000 Congratulations to the Philadelphia Eagles.

00:00:37.000 Not such congratulations to the city of Philadelphia, which insists on burning itself down every time something happens to Philadelphia that is either good or bad.

00:00:45.000 That's Philadelphia for a man, the city of brotherly love.

00:00:48.000 But Jalen Hurts is truly a tremendous quarterback, and the Super Bowl-winning quarterback had said before the game.

00:00:54.000 That he just wants to root himself in Jesus.

00:00:58.000 Again, this is the kind of stuff, just kind of normie American stuff, that is quite welcome at this time in history. 0.92

00:01:05.000 I think my faith has always been a part of me where I've always wanted to root myself in that and keep him in the center of my life and everything that I do.

00:01:15.000 And so, you know, through the highs and the lows, he's greater than all of them.

00:01:18.000 And that's something that I can always acknowledge.

00:01:21.000 And in the failed cluster of circumstance, I can always lean on and remember.

00:01:25.000 And so that's something that we all should probably take note of and take listen of.

00:01:30.000 By the way, both Jalen Hurts as well as Patrick Mahomes, the losing quarterback, are very grounded guys, it seems.

00:01:37.000 And that is quite a wonderful thing.

00:01:40.000 The Super Bowl kicked off with Brad Pitt doing what is effectively just a patriotic ad about how awesome America is.

00:01:46.000 I mean, it literally starts.

00:01:47.000 The ad literally starts.

00:01:48.000 With John Hancock signing the Declaration of Independence.

00:01:52.000 Now, listen.

00:01:53.000 Do I wish that America had more cultural moments aside from the Super Bowl?

00:01:56.000 The reality is that we're so fragmented as a culture that it's very difficult for us to get together on anything.

00:02:01.000 Super Bowl Sunday has basically become a sort of secular catechism in the United States.

00:02:06.000 But that catechism, for many, many years, we should say woke catechism, it was end racism in the end zones.

00:02:13.000 It was performances.

00:02:16.000 Of Lady Gaga shouting about trans people at halftime.

00:02:19.000 And now you have a Super Bowl that is opening with the Declaration of Independence.

00:02:23.000 America is just a little bit back under Donald J. Trump.

00:02:27.000 Here was the opener to the Super Bowl.

00:02:30.000 How did we rise?

00:02:35.000 The only way.

00:02:37.000 Together.

00:02:41.000 Get images from the civil rights movement.

00:02:43.000 At the core of this day.

00:02:45.000 And this glorious, chaotic, exasperating experiment.

00:02:49.000 That is us.

00:02:54.000 American flags.

00:02:55.000 As we convene with our circles today.

00:02:58.000 Members of the military.

00:02:59.000 As we witness a piece of our culture play out.

00:03:02.000 Energy, energy, energy!

00:03:03.000 We honor the ways these players compete so their teams might prevail.

00:03:09.000 We've got firefighters.

00:03:11.000 Doctors and nurses and soldiers.

00:03:25.000 Cowboys carrying an American flag?

00:03:27.000 Okay, come on.

00:03:27.000 It's time for the Super Bowl.

00:03:31.000 Okay, it's basically a Trump ad, right?

00:03:35.000 It just is.

00:03:36.000 I'm sorry, cowboys on horses with an American flag. 0.95

00:03:40.000 In an ad that starts with the founding father signing the Declaration of Independence, that's just a Trump ad.

00:03:45.000 And a lot of these sort of bizarrely anti-American historianists were just gone.

00:03:50.000 John Batiste, who's a terrific artist, jazz artist, and he does some really excellent stuff.

00:03:55.000 He performed the national anthem.

00:03:56.000 They're a terrific national anthem.

00:03:57.000 Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's earthly light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's Like, this is good stuff.

00:04:20.000 No histrionics.

00:04:24.000 No kneeling.

00:04:27.000 He changed the lyrics.

00:04:31.000 Like, giant American flags.

00:04:32.000 I'm sorry.

00:04:33.000 And then when Trump came on the big screen, giant cheer.

00:04:37.000 Giant cheer. 0.99

00:04:40.000 By the way, where we were sitting and watching the Super Bowl in Florida with some friends, a giant cheer in the room when President Trump came up with Ivanka there.

00:04:47.000 The 1st Regiment of the U.S. Corps of Cadets.

00:04:49.000 And it's like, great, this is great.

00:04:50.000 Normie Americans, Normie America is having a moment, having a comeback.

00:04:55.000 By the way, you heard Trump cheered right there.

00:04:57.000 Trump was very wildly cheered in the stadium when he was shown, when he arrived at the stadium.

00:05:02.000 Same here as President Trump.

00:05:04.000 And then they showed Taylor Swift.

00:05:11.000 And like good Americans, America booed Taylor Swift, which was...

00:05:16.000 They showed her on the Superdome screen and people were like, no, none of this.

00:05:24.000 President Trump, by the way, couldn't resist it.

00:05:26.000 He actually put up a post on Truth Social about it in which he said, quote, the only one that had a tougher night than the Kansas City Chiefs was Taylor Swift.

00:05:35.000 She got booed out of the stadium.

00:05:36.000 MAGA is very unforgiving.

00:05:40.000 It's pretty American.

00:05:43.000 Pretty awesome.

00:05:44.000 Gotta love it.

00:05:46.000 President Trump did meet with the victims and first responders in the terrorist attack in New Orleans, which disappeared from the headlines real quick.

00:05:53.000 Remember that ISIS terror attack that killed more than a dozen people in New Orleans and just disappeared from the headlines because we know who did it and we're not allowed to talk about who did it because if we talk about who did it, that might raise some serious issues about things like immigration or our policies toward radical Muslim countries, for example.

00:06:08.000 Well, President Trump did go down to the field and meet with the victims and first responders on the field before the game.

00:06:14.000 President Trump just down on the field meeting everybody.

00:06:25.000 *Phototro* Knowing President Trump, having met President Trump several times, President Trump, when it comes to these sorts of situations, is really good.

00:06:38.000 He's really good in person with people.

00:06:40.000 He knows how to work a room.

00:06:41.000 He's a real bro.

00:06:42.000 You know, like that.

00:06:44.000 There was that feel to it.

00:06:45.000 It just all felt so normal, didn't it?

00:06:46.000 You didn't feel like you were waiting to be sucker punched.

00:06:48.000 Every time you had watched the Super Bowl, basically since Barack Obama became president, you were just waiting to be sucker punched by some left wing messaging that had to be drilled directly into your brain.

00:06:58.000 And that just wasn't there.

00:06:59.000 It just wasn't there.

00:07:00.000 There was a feeling that...

00:07:02.000 You know, you could just kind of comfortably watch the game, and it would be fine.

00:07:06.000 The Secret Service did a Super Bowl ad as well, very patriotic ad.

00:07:09.000 Again, patriotism was the theme of the day, because patriotism is now cool.

00:07:12.000 Here's the Secret Service ad.

00:07:16.000 America was founded on an idea of freedom.

00:07:21.000 So Lincoln and George Washington.

00:07:23.000 America's always stepped forward in time of need.

00:07:24.000 Throughout our short but powerful history.

00:07:27.000 Ask not what your country can do for you.

00:07:30.000 Ask what you can do for you.

00:07:31.000 Okay, rockets, moon.

00:07:35.000 We've been there for all.

00:07:37.000 Ronald Reagan.

00:07:38.000 And the Secret Service informing President Bush about 9-11. - Those are humble.

00:07:50.000 This is directed by Michael Bay, by the way.

00:07:52.000 Keep this idea alive.

00:07:54.000 Protectors are born.

00:08:00.000 They're not made.

00:08:05.000 There's the picture of President Trump nearly being assassinated.

00:08:08.000 The American conservative president in this Super Bowl is asking a few more to step forward.

00:08:12.000 By the way, that's the actual way that you recruit people to do things like this.

00:08:18.000 We played just last week the U.S. Army ad that actually shows the Army being the Army.

00:08:23.000 And here's a Secret Service ad showing the Secret Service doing important and cool stuff and linking it to American history in unashamed fashion.

00:08:31.000 This is Trump's America.

00:08:33.000 It just is.

00:08:34.000 A spirit of normalcy and freedom is descending on the country once more.

00:08:39.000 And this country was founded on freedom, of course.

00:08:41.000 Freedom from a country that forced us to buy their overpriced tea and then tried blockading us when we dumped their tea in the ocean. 0.57

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00:10:43.000 And then there were the ads.

00:10:45.000 So I think the most indicative ad of where we are culturally is the Bud Light ad.

00:10:49.000 So Bud Light has been apologizing for nigh on two years for having Dylan Mulvaney on a can, for basically deciding to wipe out its entire brand equity by having a man pretending to be a woman as an influencer for Bud Light.

00:11:03.000 And Bud Light got clocked so hard it destroyed the brand.

00:11:06.000 Well, now the way that they have come up with to...

00:11:09.000 Reinvigorate their brand is to go as bro as humanly possible.

00:11:13.000 They're just going to do, like, man stuff.

00:11:17.000 So they're going to go get Shane Gillis to be in a commercial with Post Malone about a cul-de-sac party involving Peyton Manning.

00:11:25.000 That is Bud Light's idea of how to buy it back.

00:11:28.000 And again, there's no question they're trying to buy it back here.

00:11:30.000 There's no doubt.

00:11:32.000 So many of these brands steer directly into the woke, and it didn't work for them.

00:11:36.000 It actually backlashed on them.

00:11:38.000 And now they're all trying to buy it back.

00:11:40.000 Bud Light is a great indicator of how this is going.

00:11:44.000 You want to go fishing tomorrow?

00:11:45.000 I got a colonoscopy tomorrow.

00:11:49.000 Fellas, I accidentally threw a lame party.

00:11:52.000 Okay, Ted.

00:11:53.000 They're on their way.

00:11:58.000 They're here.

00:12:00.000 You call this a party?

00:12:02.000 Cul-de-sac party.

00:12:04.000 Launch.

00:12:05.000 These beers are a metaphor for an invitation.

00:12:08.000 Is that our leaf blower?

00:12:10.000 Party in a sec!

00:12:14.000 You are cordially invited to end the cul-de-sac.

00:12:18.000 This is incredible.

00:12:21.000 Your mower smokes meat?

00:12:23.000 No, a smoker cuts grass.

00:12:24.000 Hell yeah.

00:12:25.000 I spent most of my money on this.

00:12:26.000 New rig?

00:12:27.000 Holy costume.

00:12:28.000 How many Bud Lights can you fit in that puppy? 0.95

00:12:30.000 As many Bud Lights as it takes.

00:12:32.000 A lot of Bud Lights.

00:12:34.000 It's a cul-de-sac.

00:12:35.000 Hop.

00:12:36.000 Bill, get off the boat.

00:12:40.000 The HOA's already breathing down my neck.

00:12:42.000 And this is Corporate America, now.

00:12:46.000 Nature is healing.

00:12:48.000 Nature is healing.

00:12:48.000 Now, that didn't mean that all the ads understood the assignment.

00:12:53.000 So, for example, Nike did an ad for women. 0.99

00:12:57.000 And, again, this sort of ridiculous, over-the-top feminist crap where it's like, oh, all of America thinks women can't succeed. 1.00

00:13:04.000 America is pushing women down. 1.00

00:13:06.000 Oh, it's so terrible.

00:13:07.000 They feature a bunch of female athletes. 1.00

00:13:09.000 Who are defying stereotypes.

00:13:11.000 Doing things people, particularly men, tell them they can't do.

00:13:15.000 Oh! 0.60

00:13:16.000 It felt really bored and it felt really tired, but there's one thing that is unique about this Women for Nike ad.

00:13:21.000 Two years ago, there'd be a bunch of dudes in it. 0.85

00:13:23.000 There'd be a bunch of trans dudes. 0.99

00:13:25.000 Leia Thomas would have been in this ad two years ago. 0.99

00:13:27.000 Now, it's a bunch of actual, you know, human women. 1.00

00:13:30.000 So, here was the ridiculous Nike ad. 0.79

00:13:33.000 By the way, I was watching this game with a couple of my kids. 0.83

00:13:39.000 With a couple of my nieces.

00:13:41.000 So we had like three girls between the ages of 10 and 13 in the room. 0.83

00:13:46.000 They laughed out loud at this ad. 1.00

00:13:48.000 They thought it was so stupid. 1.00

00:13:50.000 Seriously. 1.00

00:13:51.000 Because the entire idea that they're telling you not to do, so do it.

00:13:56.000 The girls were like, what are they, what? 0.99

00:13:58.000 Here we go.

00:14:01.000 You can't be emotional.

00:14:02.000 So be emotional.

00:14:04.000 You can't take credit.

00:14:05.000 You can't speak up.

00:14:06.000 You can't be so ambitious.

00:14:07.000 You can't break records.

00:14:08.000 You can't have any fun.

00:14:09.000 You can't make demands.

00:14:10.000 You can't keep score.

00:14:11.000 You can't stand out.

00:14:12.000 Whatever you do, you can't win.

00:14:21.000 Oh, man.

00:14:21.000 So win.

00:14:24.000 Yes, clearly women are victims and put upon... 1.00

00:14:30.000 My daughter and my nieces, they were saying these slogans like, they say, they tell you you can't win, so win.

00:14:37.000 They tell you you can't stick your head directly in the toilet bowl, so stick your head directly. 1.00

00:14:42.000 Such stupid nonsense. 1.00

00:14:44.000 That wasn't the only stupid nonsense. 1.00

00:14:46.000 The NFL also, in an attempt to reach out to a... 1.00

00:14:48.000 You want to talk about a bunch of marketing geniuses who do not understand women?

00:14:53.000 Women are not watching football because women want to play football. 1.00

00:14:56.000 Women are watching football because Taylor Swift is on the TV and it's a cultural event. 1.00

00:15:00.000 That's why women are watching the Super Bowl. 1.00

00:15:02.000 Because it's a giant cultural event.

00:15:04.000 They're not interested in women playing football. 1.00

00:15:06.000 In fact, there would be little worse to watch than women playing football. 1.00

00:15:10.000 But the NFL didn't add that it was supposed to be based on a bunch of high school movies where a black high school girl is apparently better at football than all the boys. 0.99

00:15:20.000 Just ridiculous. 0.98

00:15:22.000 Let's settle this once and for all. 0.87

00:15:24.000 Your best guy?

00:15:26.000 Girl.

00:15:26.000 Whatever.

00:15:27.000 Versus our best guy.

00:15:29.000 The Brad.

00:15:32.000 Oh, not the Brad.

00:15:38.000 I'm Brad.

00:15:40.000 I can read.

00:15:45.000 And they're playing flag football.

00:15:51.000 And this girl approaches the guy and she deets him.

00:15:56.000 He completely misses her.

00:16:01.000 There she is.

00:16:02.000 Now she's avoiding tackles by all the boys.

00:16:05.000 Okay, now, in the real version of this commercial, and then it says, leave the past behind.

00:16:12.000 And there she is, playing female flag football. 0.74

00:16:15.000 And apparently, this is a sport that some people play, and there are fans in the stands.

00:16:21.000 Let's make girls' flag football a varsity sport in all 50 states.

00:16:27.000 Yeah, man.

00:16:28.000 Yeah, with packed stands.

00:16:31.000 By the way, why couldn't you just make that case without her playing against the guys? 0.93

00:16:37.000 In real life, of course, the minute that a girl tries to play varsity football with any varsity high school boy, the pieces of her are in the fifth row of the stands. 0.82

00:16:47.000 That's just not the way human physiology works.

00:16:50.000 It's okay.

00:16:50.000 The vast majority of the ads were, you know, kind of benign.

00:16:54.000 We're patriotic.

00:16:55.000 And again, the general feeling was just a feeling of this kind of normie comfort land.

00:16:59.000 And that's fine.

00:17:00.000 Then there was the halftime show.

00:17:01.000 And my review of the halftime show, you know, so Kendrick Lamar is a human.

00:17:11.000 Kendrick Lamar is a human who hates another human named Drake.

00:17:15.000 Apparently they have a feud.

00:17:17.000 And Kendrick Lamar, because of this feud, put together a song called Not Like Us.

00:17:21.000 This person has won a Pulitzer Prize.

00:17:23.000 A Pulitzer Prize for Kendrick Lamar.

00:17:27.000 Which, I gotta say, worst Pulitzer Prize since, what, Rent?

00:17:33.000 That is a bad Pulitzer Prize.

00:17:35.000 And in this song, which is essentially a diss track about Drake liking underage people sexually, this is what was at the Super Bowl.

00:17:47.000 And my basic Super Bowl halftime review is...

00:17:51.000 Actually, it's a beautiful voice and a beautiful accent.

00:17:53.000 The only problem is, I can't understand a word you're saying.

00:17:56.000 But I just say this.

00:17:58.000 Good luck.

00:17:59.000 Live in peace.

00:18:01.000 I have no idea what he was saying.

00:18:03.000 I don't think anyone knew what he was saying unless you knew the song previously.

00:18:07.000 There was no great dancing.

00:18:08.000 There was no great music.

00:18:10.000 It was about as meh as humanly possible.

00:18:13.000 I suppose if you're a Kendrick Lamar fan, then this is your bag.

00:18:16.000 But if you're not, if this is like your introduction to Kendrick Lamar...

00:18:19.000 I'm just wondering why.

00:18:22.000 Just why.

00:18:23.000 Here we go.

00:18:25.000 And now he's just walking around.

00:18:45.000 Yeah.

00:18:49.000 He's walking around and people are dancing in the background.

00:18:51.000 Kind of.

00:18:52.000 He's trying to strike a chord and it's probably a minor.

00:19:06.000 Thank you.

00:19:09.000 Okay, so the entire stadium knew the lyrics because he's a very famous person because Americans apparently have no taste musically. 0.97

00:19:15.000 I know I'm a musical snob.

00:19:17.000 I like Bach, Beethoven, and I've said that rap is not a form of music before becoming a number one Billboard charting rap artist because I said pretty much anybody could rap and then I went out and proved it.

00:19:28.000 But in any case, apparently that was a big deal because the lyric is that Drake was trying to strike a chord.

00:19:38.000 A minor.

00:19:40.000 A minor. 0.98

00:19:42.000 And then he calls him a b***h in the song. 0.98

00:19:45.000 So, alright. 0.95

00:19:47.000 I guess if that's your thing, congrats to you.

00:19:50.000 I guess I'm getting old.

00:19:51.000 Or either that or I like good music.

00:19:53.000 One of those two things.

00:19:54.000 In any case, overall, a terrible Super Bowl game.

00:19:58.000 But there's a feeling of peace and comfort that has come across the country.

00:20:02.000 And the media are not knowing how to deal with it.

00:20:04.000 They just don't.

00:20:05.000 The normie revolution is here.

00:20:07.000 How do we know?

00:20:08.000 Because the polling shows it.

00:20:09.000 So, President Trump is currently riding in the approval ratings, according to CBS, at 53%.

00:20:15.000 53% for President Trump.

00:20:17.000 According to the media, he's doing all these crazy, insane, radical, unthinkable things.

00:20:22.000 He's at 53% approval rating.

00:20:24.000 That is the highest approval rating Donald Trump has ever had ever in his entire political career.

00:20:30.000 53%.

00:20:30.000 Why?

00:20:31.000 Because he's doing the things he promised he would do.

00:20:33.000 And, by the way, the age breakdown here is astonishing.

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00:22:49.000 And here's the age breakdown in terms of approval rating for President Trump.

00:22:53.000 For those above the age of 65, he's at 50-50.

00:22:56.000 For those aged 45 to 64, he is at a 56% approval rating plus 12. For those aged 30 to 44, he's at 52-48 plus 4. Here's the crazy one.

00:23:08.000 Aged 18 to 29. 55% approval rating for President Trump for those aged 18 to 29. You hear that ringing alarm bell?

00:23:20.000 You hear that giant klaxon that is sounding for democratic hopes and dreams?

00:23:25.000 18 to 29. America's young people, 18 to 29, have a 55% approval rating for President Trump.

00:23:32.000 Why?

00:23:32.000 Because he's counterculture.

00:23:34.000 The left was so dominant culturally.

00:23:37.000 That the counterculture became this kind of 1980s era, classic patriotism, American pie and motherhood version of America.

00:23:46.000 And now if you're a rebel, if you want to be one of the cool kids, put on the red hat.

00:23:51.000 It's rebellious now.

00:23:52.000 Now this was coming for a while because the left was so censorious, so over the top, so just frankly annoying that everyone got annoyed with them.

00:24:00.000 That's how you end up with a 10% plus 10 approval rating for President Trump.

00:24:05.000 Among people 18 to 29. By the way, among white voters, he's at a 61% approval rating.

00:24:13.000 Among black voters, he's at a 33% approval rating, which sounds terrible until you realize that pretty much every Republican rides at like a 10% approval rating.

00:24:22.000 33% approval rating among black voters.

00:24:24.000 Among Hispanic voters, he's at a 49% approval rating in the CBS News poll.

00:24:31.000 That's insane.

00:24:33.000 These are wild numbers for President Trump.

00:24:36.000 Why?

00:24:37.000 Well, because people perceive President Trump to be moving with alacrity to keep his promises.

00:24:42.000 Again, I think the contrast between Joe Biden and Donald Trump has helped Trump so insanely much.

00:24:47.000 Joe Biden was a dead person who apparently didn't like many of the things about the country and farmed out all of his policymaking to his wokest advisors and then was unable to stay awake most of the day.

00:24:57.000 Meanwhile, President Trump is the opposite.

00:25:00.000 According to that new CBS News poll.

00:25:02.000 Here's the percentage of 18 to 29-year-olds.

00:25:05.000 These are young Americans, okay?

00:25:06.000 18 to 29. 71% of people 18 to 29 describe Trump as tough.

00:25:11.000 65% describe him as energetic.

00:25:14.000 63% describe him as effective.

00:25:16.000 And 62% describe him as focused.

00:25:19.000 These are young people.

00:25:20.000 58% describe him as competent.

00:25:22.000 Only 35% describe him as compassionate.

00:25:25.000 Because guess what?

00:25:26.000 Compassionate went out with Joe Biden in the sense that fake compassion is the brand of the Democratic Party.

00:25:32.000 And maybe Americans are tired of that stuff.

00:25:35.000 Maybe what Americans want are some hard truths, some realities, and some normalcy.

00:25:40.000 70% of all Americans say that Trump is doing what he promised in the campaign, including 68% of Hispanics and 58% of black Americans.

00:25:53.000 That's crazy.

00:25:54.000 These are insane numbers.

00:25:55.000 Insane.

00:25:56.000 By the way, 59% of Americans approve.

00:25:59.000 President Trump's program to find and deport immigrants who are in the United States illegally.

00:26:04.000 That includes a majority of every single age group.

00:26:08.000 That includes 66% of whites, 49% of blacks, and 49% of Hispanics.

00:26:14.000 It includes, by the way, 23% of Democrats and 59% of independents.

00:26:22.000 President Trump has never had better numbers than this ever.

00:26:25.000 And some of that is due to President Trump.

00:26:27.000 Obviously, he's a once-in-a-generation unique talent, clearly.

00:26:30.000 He's a historic figure.

00:26:31.000 And the stuff that he's doing right now is going to make him one of the most seminal figures in American history.

00:26:36.000 Truly.

00:26:36.000 What he's been doing over the course of the first 20 days.

00:26:39.000 We are 20 days in.

00:26:41.000 The first 20 days of his administration alone is making him one of the most important presidents of our lifetime.

00:26:49.000 And it's not particularly close, actually.

00:26:52.000 If you were going to rank important presidents of my lifetime, So I was born during the Reagan administration.

00:26:57.000 So you probably still have to put Reagan on top because the Cold War ended because of Reagan.

00:27:01.000 And the entire American economy was reshifted because of Ronald Reagan.

00:27:04.000 But after that, it's basically Reagan, Obama, and Trump.

00:27:08.000 And Trump is erasing so much of what Obama was able to do in destroying many important facets of the country.

00:27:15.000 You have to put Trump above Obama at this point, which is amazing.

00:27:20.000 So you're talking about the two most seminal presidents.

00:27:23.000 Of the last 50 years in America are Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.

00:27:28.000 I mean, that's what you'd have to say this early on.

00:27:31.000 Again, we're super early.

00:27:32.000 We have to see where all of this goes.

00:27:33.000 But President Trump is moving.

00:27:34.000 He's moving fast.

00:27:35.000 And he really is not taking any prisoners.

00:27:39.000 So President Trump did a pre-Super Bowl show.

00:27:44.000 He, unlike Joe Biden, who avoided it because he couldn't actually carry on a conversation, his face hole no longer moves properly.

00:27:50.000 President Trump is perfectly alive and willing to talk.

00:27:52.000 Here he was during the pre-Super Bowl show saying you can feel the country taking on new life.

00:27:57.000 You know, you are going to be the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl.

00:28:03.000 It's a big day for America, always is.

00:28:05.000 What made you want to do it?

00:28:06.000 Well, first of all, I'm very surprised to hear that.

00:28:08.000 I would have assumed many presidents came.

00:28:10.000 But I think just the spirit of the country, the country's taking on a whole new life.

00:28:15.000 I thought it would be a good thing for the country to have the president be at the game.

00:28:18.000 It's an iconic day.

00:28:20.000 It's an iconic day.

00:28:21.000 It's going to be a great game.

00:28:22.000 Two great teams.

00:28:23.000 And let's see what happens.

00:28:27.000 Again, President Trump is a happy camper.

00:28:30.000 And there's a new mood in President Trump.

00:28:32.000 During his first administration, I think he was so frustrated, properly so, that his administration was being thwarted at every turn by legal idiocies, the Mueller investigation, various impeachments.

00:28:44.000 You could feel the frustration rolling off him in waves.

00:28:47.000 You don't get that from President Trump.

00:28:48.000 There is a calm about President Trump that is unique, and that means that he's actually incredibly, incredibly focused.

00:28:55.000 So President Trump spoke about the trade deficit during this pre-Super Bowl show.

00:29:01.000 He said one of the reasons that we're not rich is because other countries have been taking advantage of us.

00:29:07.000 If all goes to plan, when do you think families would be able to feel prices going down, groceries, energy, or are you kind of saying to them...

00:29:15.000 Hang on.

00:29:16.000 Inflation may get worse until it gets better.

00:29:18.000 No, I think we're going to become a rich...

00:29:21.000 Look, we're not that rich right now.

00:29:22.000 We owe $36 trillion.

00:29:24.000 That's because we let all these nations take advantage of us.

00:29:28.000 Same thing, like $200 billion with Canada.

00:29:30.000 We owe $300...

00:29:31.000 We have a deficit with Mexico of $350 billion.

00:29:34.000 I'm not going to do that.

00:29:35.000 I'm not going to let that happen.

00:29:38.000 Okay, now, I think he's wrong about trade deficits.

00:29:41.000 Trade deficits are not a thing.

00:29:42.000 Again, you have a trade deficit with your grocery store.

00:29:44.000 You have a trade deficit with everyone with whom you actually do business.

00:29:47.000 If you buy a product from Amazon, you have a trade deficit with Amazon.

00:29:51.000 However, he is right that other countries, particularly China, have taken advantage of the United States.

00:29:55.000 They've taken advantage of our free trade systems, of our free speech systems.

00:29:59.000 Whether we are talking about them taking advantage of free speech by using propagandistic information gathering spyware, like TikTok, or whether we're talking about China taking advantage of our free trade systems.

00:30:10.000 In order to essentially steal our intellectual property and subsidize slave labor in their own country. 0.85

00:30:16.000 Those are things that have taken advantage of the American laborer and have destroyed some swaths of the American economy. 0.73

00:30:23.000 That happens to be true.

00:30:24.000 While President Trump was on the plane to the Super Bowl and he signed an EO, a proclamation, for the Gulf of America, which again, I love this kind of stuff.

00:30:34.000 Here's President Trump on Air Force One signing an executive order about the Gulf of America.

00:30:41.000 Ladies and gentlemen, if you could please direct your attention out the right side of the aircraft.

00:30:45.000 Air Force One is currently in international waters, for the first time in history flying over the recently renamed Gulf of America.

00:30:53.000 Please enjoy the flight and we are now about to head westbound to Super Bowl 59.

00:30:58.000 Wow, he did that well.

00:31:00.000 That's a good one.

00:31:01.000 You know what about "Make America Great Again", right?

00:31:04.000 You know what about "Make America Great Again", right?

00:31:09.000 That's what we care about.

00:31:10.000 Okay.

00:31:11.000 here we go he's having too much fun He's having too much fun.

00:31:20.000 Huffington Post was bothering President Trump on Air Force One about a tweet by J.D. Vance, which we'll get to in a moment.

00:31:25.000 And President Trump couldn't help but dunk on Huffington Post.

00:31:30.000 Vice President suggested that if the Supreme Court rules in a way that you don't like...

00:31:38.000 I don't know even what you're talking about.

00:31:41.000 Neither do you.

00:31:43.000 Who are you with?

00:31:45.000 Who?

00:31:46.000 I thought they died.

00:31:49.000 Are they still around?

00:31:51.000 I haven't read them in years.

00:31:52.000 I thought they died.

00:31:56.000 Just dunking hard on Huffington Post.

00:31:59.000 Over there.

00:31:59.000 President Trump did have some substantive comments as well while he was on the plane.

00:32:03.000 So over the weekend, there were three Israeli hostages who were released by Hamas in exchange for hundreds of murderous terrorists released by Israel.

00:32:12.000 The hostages were essentially held in tunnels for over a year, emaciated and starved.

00:32:19.000 It appears that the people who were most affected by the so-called starvation in Gaza were not the Palestinians.

00:32:25.000 It, in fact, turns out to have been the hostages who were being purposefully starved by the Palestinians, by Hamas.

00:32:32.000 President Trump said that he saw the pictures.

00:32:34.000 I mean, the situation there is absolutely horrifying.

00:32:36.000 One of the people who came out of the tunnels, who was released, he was unaware, he'd been made unaware for over a year that his wife and children had been murdered by Hamas.

00:32:43.000 And so during his actual statement, he said he was looking forward to seeing his wife and his kids who were already dead, been dead for a year.

00:32:50.000 In any case, here is President Trump speaking about this.

00:32:53.000 I watched the hostages come back today, and they looked like Holocaust survivors. 0.96

00:33:00.000 They were in horrible condition.

00:33:04.000 They were emaciated.

00:33:06.000 It looked like, many years ago, the Holocaust survivors.

00:33:11.000 And I don't know how much longer we can take that when I watch that.

00:33:17.000 I know we have a deal where we're supposed to get, they dribble in and keep dribbling in.

00:33:22.000 But they are in really bad shape.

00:33:24.000 They have been treated brutally, horribly.

00:33:27.000 Even the ones that came out earlier, they were in a little bit better shape.

00:33:30.000 But mentally, they were treated so badly.

00:33:32.000 Who could take that?

00:33:35.000 You know, at some point, we're going to lose our patience.

00:33:39.000 When I see that scene that I saw today with people coming out of helicopters and airplanes that are emaciated, that look like they haven't had a meal in a month.

00:33:52.000 No reason for that.

00:33:53.000 And I don't know how much longer we can take it.

00:33:58.000 President Trump is not Joe Biden.

00:34:00.000 By the way, speaking of aid to Hamas, it has been revealed that USAID, which is the agency that the Musk Doge is going through and cutting, USAID is responsible for providing $230 million in funding in just November 2024 alone to Gaza. 0.53

00:34:20.000 Since October 7th, the U.S. taxpayer has spent, get ready for this, $2.1 billion on Gaza shipping supposed humanitarian and economic recovery aid into an area occupied by a terrorist group holding American hostages.

00:34:38.000 No wonder Americans don't like USAID. Bill Hagerty, the senator from Tennessee, he says, listen, the appetite for killing USAID in Congress is quite real.

00:34:49.000 Do you expect Congress to actually authorize the president to dismantle and consolidate USAID? I think there's a tremendous appetite to do it again, Margaret, because what we want to see is alignment of our programs with America's national security interest.

00:35:02.000 USAID has been out of control.

00:35:04.000 I've demanded accountability from AID. They've refused it as an appropriator.

00:35:08.000 I've, you know, asked them to be very clear about, for example, their role funding Hamas in Gaza.

00:35:13.000 They would not comply.

00:35:15.000 They will not tell us what they do. 0.91

00:35:16.000 Now that we start to find out some of the programs that AID has been funding, if you think about it, sex change operations in Guatemala, LGBTQ programs in Serbia, this is ridiculous.

00:35:26.000 The U.S. government does not fund sex change operations or fund Hamas.

00:35:31.000 You know that, though.

00:35:33.000 No, they absolutely fund Hamas.

00:35:35.000 If you are sending billions of dollars into the Gaza Strip, absolutely 100% they are funding Hamas. 0.58

00:35:40.000 There's no question about this.

00:35:41.000 this. 0.95

00:35:41.000 Meanwhile, Mike Waltz, who is the national security advisor, he said, listen, we understand that USAID, the aid officials have had their own agenda for a very long time and they're funneling money, American taxpayer money, to absolute trash. 0.95

00:35:53.000 Is foreign aid vital to the nation's national When foreign aid is aligned with U.S. objectives and U.S. objectives meet the president's objectives as commander in chief, then it is.

00:36:10.000 But that is not the case.

00:36:12.000 Many of these senior aid officials have their own agenda, have gone their own direction.

00:36:17.000 And these programs, many of which are no longer authorized by Congress, just seem to continue in perpetuity. 0.96

00:36:26.000 By the way, it is worth noting the cuts to USAID are highly popular with Americans who Americans do not like spending their money on this trash.

00:36:33.000 All right, coming up, we're going to get to what else Doge is going to cut. 0.96

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00:37:14.000 Meanwhile, Democrats continue to lose their minds over DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency-led.

00:37:19.000 By Elon Musk, according to the Wall Street Journal, the White House's Department of Government Efficiency has drawn scrutiny for the rapid work of its technology team burrowing into multiple agencies.

00:37:28.000 It says it has identified and cut more than $1 billion in spending in the first three weeks.

00:37:33.000 Now, again, $1 billion is a lot of money in regular people money.

00:37:36.000 In government money, it really is not much at all, and they're going to have to dig a lot deeper, and they intend on doing so.

00:37:42.000 More than half of the cost savings Doge says it has found is related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, but...

00:37:47.000 Doge is going to push for far larger cuts via the General Services Administration, which manages government buildings and commercial real estate to identify which leases can be canceled or let lapse, looking for underused office space and ways to consolidate as well.

00:38:02.000 Other massive parts of the budget, obviously, include major embedded costs, things like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the defense budget.

00:38:12.000 Musk's group so far is targeting a subset of programs in those buckets, but...

00:38:16.000 Musk has signaled he thinks there are much bigger savings elsewhere in the budget that his group is now shifting its attention to.

00:38:21.000 So Medicare and Medicaid's contracting and payments system, they're now going through that looking for evidence of fraud.

00:38:26.000 There's massive fraud in those systems.

00:38:28.000 Now again, is any of this going to heal America's underlying debt problem?

00:38:32.000 No, it isn't.

00:38:33.000 And the reason that it's not is because the biggest drivers of the debt are these giant entitlement programs that nobody is going to touch.

00:38:38.000 However, if you want Americans to be in the mood to cut, you first have to identify the actual giant.

00:38:45.000 Obviously, wasteful programs.

00:38:47.000 And the way that the media are fighting back against this, pretty amazing.

00:38:51.000 So, for example, the New York Times has a piece titled, For Stunned Federal Workers, Sleeplessness, Anger, and Tears.

00:38:57.000 One thing lost in the Trump administration's war on the federal bureaucracy is the collective voice of the employees.

00:39:02.000 But some have begun to speak out.

00:39:05.000 In the words of Vice President J.D. Vance, I don't care, Margaret.

00:39:10.000 I'm sorry, you work at the pleasure of the taxpayer.

00:39:14.000 You do not have a cush job for life. 0.91

00:39:17.000 And if you work for USAID, where they're blowing billions of dollars on some of the worst trash in humanity, then I think probably you should lose your job.

00:39:28.000 But according to the New York Times, we're supposed to feel terrible for federal employees who lose their jobs doing jobs that wouldn't exist in the private sector.

00:39:34.000 And the rest of us actually have to be answerable to a bottom line.

00:39:37.000 The beautiful thing about being a taxpayer employee is that you never have to be answerable to a profit and loss statement.

00:39:42.000 You never have to generate.

00:39:44.000 Actual revenue, no return is necessary.

00:39:47.000 All you need to do is demonstrate that you are a member of a preferred coterie that the federal government wishes to pay.

00:39:55.000 But the New York Times is trying to gin up the sympathy.

00:39:57.000 One was fired by email at 1247 a.m.

00:40:00.000 Another wept with colleagues as security escorted her from her office.

00:40:03.000 A third frantically tried to fill a prescription after she got a 24-hour notice that her health care was ending. 0.93

00:40:08.000 I mean...

00:40:10.000 Well, did they deserve to lose their job or not?

00:40:12.000 If they don't, bring them back. 0.61

00:40:13.000 If they do, get rid of them.

00:40:15.000 I don't understand why the feelings of the dismissed are supposed to be the chief fact.

00:40:19.000 Like, is all of the government just a giant welfare program or what?

00:40:24.000 Because I was told that these people were supposed to be good-hearted employees of the state, servants of the people and the public interest.

00:40:33.000 And well, again, Democrats are panicking about all of this.

00:40:36.000 For example, Senator Chris Murphy.

00:40:39.000 Who is just terrible.

00:40:40.000 Senator from Connecticut.

00:40:41.000 He says that we are watching the worst constitutional crisis since Watergate.

00:40:45.000 No, not even remotely closed, my dude.

00:40:49.000 I think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced, certainly since Watergate.

00:40:54.000 The president is attempting to seize control of power and for corrupt purposes.

00:41:00.000 The president wants to be able to decide how and where money is spent so that he can reward his political friends, he can punish his political enemies.

00:41:09.000 That is the evisceration of democracy.

00:41:11.000 You stand that next to the wholesale endorsement of political violence with the pardons given to every single January 6th rider, including the most violent who beat police officers over the head with baseball bats.

00:41:24.000 And you can see what he's trying to do here.

00:41:26.000 He is trying to crush his opposition by making them afraid of losing federal funding, by making them afraid of physical violence. 0.97

00:41:35.000 That's ridiculous. 0.82

00:41:38.000 Make them afraid of physical... 0.98

00:41:39.000 That's what?

00:41:39.000 Does Chris Murphy fear for his life?

00:41:41.000 Really?

00:41:42.000 I've had 24-7 security enemy for years.

00:41:45.000 Why?

00:41:46.000 Well, because...

00:41:46.000 There are a wide variety of people who have threatened my life.

00:41:49.000 Does Chris Murphy get that on the regular from, you know, people who are watching Meet the Press?

00:41:53.000 Is that a thing?

00:41:54.000 Is he getting that from President Trump?

00:41:57.000 Here's what's actually happening.

00:41:58.000 As I've said before, there's a giant pipeline of cash that flows from the federal government to all of Chris Murphy's friends.

00:42:05.000 And Trump and Doge are walking in and they're ending that giant pipeline of cash.

00:42:09.000 And he's mad about it.

00:42:10.000 Not only that, the federal government was using...

00:42:13.000 It's pressure tactics in order to get private industry to do its dirty work. 0.95

00:42:17.000 From social media to corporate heads who are embracing dumbassery like ESG and DEI. And now, the Trump administration is coming in and saying, you don't have to do any of that anymore.

00:42:28.000 In fact, it's illegal if you discriminate on the basis of race.

00:42:31.000 And companies are reacting to that.

00:42:33.000 They're reacting by getting rid of all of these bad policies.

00:42:37.000 And somehow that's fascism?

00:42:38.000 First fascist takeover in human history to reduce the size and scope of government.

00:42:43.000 Never heard of anything like it.

00:42:45.000 Meanwhile, Ilhan Omar, who can't even abide by immigration law when it comes to her brother, allegedly, is now saying that Trump has decided he won't abide by the Constitution.

00:42:55.000 Oh my God, Ilhan Omar.

00:42:56.000 The fact that this joke of a human is somehow considered a leading light in the Democratic Party, that's one of the reasons the Democratic Party is currently riding at 31% approval rating.

00:43:08.000 What we are witnessing is a constitutional crisis.

00:43:11.000 We are seeing an executive branch that has decided that they are no longer going to abide by the Constitution in honoring Congress's role in the creation of the agencies, in their role in deciding where money is allocated.

00:43:30.000 The only recourse we have since our congressional leadership, the speaker, will not stop the executive is through the judiciary.

00:43:43.000 So this is going to be their plan.

00:43:45.000 The plan is rely on the judiciary.

00:43:47.000 Now, that's pretty hysterical considering that the Democratic Party five seconds ago was talking about packing the Supreme Court.

00:43:53.000 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and the rest of the Democratic Party were openly talking about packing the Supreme Court.

00:43:59.000 Joe Biden tried to tweet an amendment into the Constitution on his last day in office.

00:44:04.000 He literally tried to say that there was a constitutional amendment that he had now magically declared the Equal Rights Amendment, which had not, in fact, been in any way ratified by the states.

00:44:16.000 And he tried to tweet it into the Constitution.

00:44:18.000 This is a dude who openly acknowledged that he was attempting to defy the Supreme Court on relieving student loan debt.

00:44:25.000 But now they're relying on the courts.

00:44:27.000 Again, the rules just never apply in the same way to Democrats.

00:44:31.000 It's amazing.

00:44:31.000 But the New York Times has found that this is the strategy.

00:44:38.000 Quote, For now, at least lawyers say the judicial branch may be it.

00:45:00.000 The court's really out of the front lines, said Sky Perryman, chief executive of Democracy Forward.

00:45:06.000 So again, judicial orders have been issued in nine federal court cases.

00:45:11.000 Include ending automatic citizenship for babies born to undocumented immigrants on U.S. soil.

00:45:16.000 There was a hold put on that.

00:45:17.000 Transferring transgender female inmates to male-only prisons, meaning men to male-only prisons. 0.84

00:45:22.000 Potentially exposing identities of FBI personnel who investigated January 6th.

00:45:26.000 Pushing federal workers to accept deferred resignation.

00:45:30.000 There are a bunch of judges, local judges, who have essentially put nationwide stays on federal policy.

00:45:38.000 I don't understand how that works, just judicially.

00:45:40.000 I don't understand how a local judge can issue a nationwide injunction.

00:45:45.000 It seems like a bizarre standard for federal law.

00:45:49.000 So J.D. Vance, Vice President of the United States, put out a controversial tweet on this matter.

00:45:54.000 He said, quote, If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal.

00:45:59.000 If a judge tried to command the Attorney General on how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal.

00:46:03.000 Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.

00:46:07.000 Now, there are two ways to read this.

00:46:08.000 The way that J.D. Vance actually meant it, and the way that the left is immediately taking this.

00:46:12.000 What he is saying is that if the judiciary declared something to be illegal that was actually legal, It would not have the force of law.

00:46:20.000 So, for example, if the judiciary simply declared that the First Amendment did not cover political speech, you'd be obligated to ignore the judiciary because the judiciary would be wrong.

00:46:29.000 They don't actually have the power, for example, to say, the judiciary, that, let's say, Congress declares war and the president goes to war.

00:46:36.000 The judiciary can't then say the war is illegal under the Constitution.

00:46:38.000 That's not the way that it works.

00:46:40.000 They don't have that power.

00:46:41.000 In other words, he's saying the judiciary's power is bounded.

00:46:44.000 And now, the left is interpreting that to mean, That there are no boundaries that can be placed by the judiciary at all, which is, of course, not what J.D. Vance is saying.

00:46:55.000 The left has gone nuts over all of this.

00:46:58.000 They've suggested that J.D. Vance is attempting to overthrow the boundaries of the Constitution itself.

00:47:05.000 That is not true.

00:47:07.000 Every branch has its own constitutional duty.

00:47:09.000 The constitutional duty of the executive is not alleviated by the rulings of the Supreme Court if the Supreme Court rules wrongly.

00:47:18.000 That is J.D. Vance's entire point.

00:47:19.000 But again, Democrats have to try and claim intermittently that this is a threat to the republic.

00:47:25.000 Now, meanwhile, what do people actually see as a threat to the republic? 0.82

00:47:28.000 Mainly the crazy of the left.

00:47:30.000 You may be asking yourself, if Donald Trump is so dangerous, if all of this is so dangerous, why does Donald Trump currently have the highest approval rating of his entire political life?

00:47:39.000 Why? 0.79

00:47:39.000 And the answer is partially because of Trump, but largely because the left continues to be insane. 0.79

00:47:44.000 So, for example, Chris Hayes over the weekend, he spent the weekend doubling down on the idea that children should be guaranteed transition.

00:47:54.000 Like, good luck with this, guys.

00:47:55.000 These are your intellectuals.

00:47:58.000 But I also think at the same time, there is a message of what I would call, like, common sense, patriotic pluralism. 0.99

00:48:06.000 That is a majority message, which is like, if some father and mother have health care for their kid lined up who's trans, Just stay the fuck out of their business. 0.99

00:48:16.000 Like, let them make that decision. 0.99

00:48:20.000 That's their decision to make.

00:48:24.000 Okay, good luck with this.

00:48:26.000 You get big clap seals from the Bill Maher audience, but it is not exactly going to go amazing for you.

00:48:31.000 Bill Maher knows this, by the way.

00:48:33.000 So one of his guests was very upset over the weekend at the end of the end racism signs of the Super Bowl, like in the end zone.

00:48:41.000 She's like, why did they remove the end racism signs at the Super Bowl? 1.00

00:48:44.000 And Bill Maher's like, because they were stupid. 1.00

00:48:46.000 That's why. 1.00

00:48:48.000 I noticed that at the Super Bowl, for the first time in, I think, four years now, the Trump administration is making them take away end racism, which they had written in the end zone, right?

00:49:00.000 But why? 0.88

00:49:01.000 It just seems silly.

00:49:03.000 To do it or not to do it?

00:49:05.000 Why get rid of it?

00:49:06.000 Oh, I could tell you why.

00:49:07.000 I know, but it's just like... 1.00

00:49:09.000 Because it was stupid to begin with. 0.99

00:49:11.000 Let me ask you, who is it for? 1.00

00:49:13.000 And if you're a racist and you see end racism in the end zone, you're going to stop being a racist?

00:49:22.000 And this is the entire point. 1.00

00:49:24.000 The left continues to be unbelievably stupid all the way through, consistently and always. 1.00

00:49:30.000 Meanwhile, Jasmine Crockett, who again is apparently now in a running gun battle with Maisie Hirona for dumbest person in the United States Congress, she said over the weekend that under Donald Trump, people of color will be rounded up. 1.00

00:49:40.000 But why are they losing? 0.91

00:49:41.000 I can't imagine.

00:49:42.000 It's a mystery wrapped in an enigma.

00:49:45.000 I do believe that fear is truly warranted in the sense that people of color are just going to be rounded up. 1.00

00:49:54.000 I mean, this is...

00:49:56.000 I mean, we've lived it, especially as Black folk in this country, right?

00:50:00.000 It's the racial profiling.

00:50:02.000 And so whether you're a U.S. citizen, whether you are here as a DACA recipient, whether you are undocumented, whether you are naturalized, whatever your situation is, I think that if you can be mistaken for being a brown person, that you should be concerned because there is nothing that is tatted on anybody's head.

00:50:24.000 That says I'm undocumented or I'm a citizen, right?

00:50:30.000 Well, I mean, you don't need a face tattoo saying I'm undocumented for ICE to check your immigration status and find out whether, in fact, you are here in the country illegally.

00:50:39.000 That is why, for example, we all have IDs and social security numbers here in the United States.

00:50:47.000 Why are they losing?

00:50:49.000 No one knows.

00:50:50.000 All right, coming up, we'll get into Elon Musk, who's now sounding off.

00:50:53.000 in really, really strong fashion about the deep and abiding racism in South Africa against whites.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - February 10, 2025

PATRIOTISM IS BACK! The Big Game Review

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