The Daily Wire is leaving California and moving the entire company to Nashville, Tennessee. Why? Because California has become a hellhole, and we don t want to stay there any longer. Plus, we talk about why we are leaving California, and why we don't want to live in California anymore. Ben Shapiro also talks about why he doesn't like living in California and why he thinks it's a terrible place to live. And, of course, he has a big announcement about the future of The Daily Wire in Nashville. Subscribe to The Ben Shapiro Show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a rating and review. Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your fellow podulters! Tweet me if you like the podcast and/or have any thoughts or suggestions on how we can improve it! Timestamps: 4:00 - Why are we leaving California? 6:30 - Why did we stay in California 7:00 8:15 - Why we are moving to Nashville 9:20 - Why do we not want to go back to CA 11:40 - Where are we going to go? 12:15 13:30 14:40 15:00 | Why we like California 16:30 | Where are you gonna move to Nashville? 17:40 | Why are you going to move to Tennessee? 18:15 | Why did you like California ? 19:00: What are you in California? | What do you want to move here? 21:20 | California is a good place? 26: Why do you need to be in California?? 27: Why would you stay in the state of California? ? 29:00 // 26:00 + 27: Is California bad? 32:30 + 33:40 + 34:10 35:10 + 35:00 & 35:30 // 36:00 Is it a good state? 35 + 38: What would you like to go to Nashville ? 36:40 & 37: Is it better than Nashville? + 39:00 And so much more? 39:20 + 40: Is there a better place for you in Nashville, what you're gonna go to be near me? 41:00 What are we gonna do in Nashville? & 39:30 & 41:20 44:00 Can you tell me what we're going to do next?
00:00:01.000Hi guys, yeah, I'm gonna get started in just a second, but first I have something that I just wanted to say Soy Ben Shapiro y este es el show de Ben Shapiro you Thanks for watching!
00:00:28.000So I think I just won the Hispanic vote in Florida, right?
00:00:42.000Okay, we're going to get to all of the actual news, then we'll get to all of the ridiculous news.
00:00:46.000The actual news involves peace breaking out in the Middle East.
00:00:49.000The stupid news involves Joe Biden not being an actual person able to say words.
00:00:54.000And also Donald Trump deciding it's a great idea to do a long form interview with George Stephanopoulos and his cadre of people who hate Donald Trump.
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00:02:20.000Why would Daily Wire stay in California?
00:02:22.000I mean, this place has turned into a hellhole.
00:02:25.000All you do all day long on the show is just complain about how bad California has been.
00:02:28.000And the answer was that I've been in California literally my entire life, except for a three-year stint when I was at Harvard Law School in Boston.
00:02:34.000Aside from that, I've spent my entire life in California.
00:02:48.000And then, over time, it just became a hellhole.
00:02:51.000And it has become a hellhole at this point.
00:02:53.000And so, yesterday, we here at The Daily Wire announced that we are moving the entire company to Nashville.
00:02:59.000So, just yesterday, Governor Jerry Brown, former governor of California from 1975 to 1983, and then again from 2011 to 2019, He said, where are you gonna go?
00:03:11.000Okay, you say that California's bad, where are you gonna go?
00:03:13.000The answer is, we are going to Nashville.
00:03:14.000We are taking the entire company, and we are picking up, and we are leaving, and we are putting our headquarters in Nashville.
00:03:20.000That is where the company will now be located.
00:03:21.000We're taking all 75 of our jobs, and we're taking our tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue, and we are moving all of that outside the state of California.
00:03:28.000And this is specifically, and really only, due to the crappy governance of the state.
00:03:33.000It is not because we are foreign to the state.
00:03:35.000Again, I've lived here my entire life.
00:03:36.000My business partner, Jeremy Boring, has been here for 20 years.
00:03:39.000My parents have been here longer than I've been alive.
00:03:41.000We're not doing it because we dislike California, because we are newbies, because we couldn't take the heat.
00:03:48.000We are leaving because this place has become so horribly governed that if you have the means to get out, and if you have a company relying on you, and if you have employees who are relying on you, you are going to leave.
00:04:09.000Again, we are taking 75 employees who are based in California and we are moving.
00:04:13.000We have about 100 employees across the country.
00:04:15.000And we are relocating to a state that is not run like garbage, Tennessee.
00:04:19.000And now, did my business partner and I, did Jeremy and I and Caleb Robinson, our other business partners, did we ever think that we were going to be moving this company to Nashville?
00:04:28.000Otherwise we wouldn't have built up these big beautiful studios here in Los Angeles and employed a bunch of people in Los Angeles.
00:04:33.000And hilariously enough, when we announced this to our employees, we thought, okay, a lot of people are going to be very upset about it.
00:04:38.000It turns out far more of our employees are excited about leaving California than would be excited about staying in California because this place has become unlivable.
00:04:46.000Not only is the rent too damn high because of all of the garbage zoning regulations here, but the quality of life here has degraded radically.
00:04:54.000Now I'll be honest with you, I had a tough time convincing my wife just to leave California.
00:04:58.000And to be frank with you, I'm gonna be splitting my time in some different places, not just in Nashville.
00:05:01.000But the fact is that trying to get my wife to leave California was not an easy task, because she too has spent a lot of her life in California.
00:05:09.000She lived in Sacramento, and now she lives in L.A., and so she's been in California for a very long time.
00:05:14.000And over the past two years, she's looked around and she said, okay, I guess you're right.
00:05:19.000And the reason for that is perfectly obvious.
00:05:21.000Between the city of Los Angeles deciding that they were going to cede the entire city to low-level criminality, they were not going to enforce the law, they were not going to keep the streets clean, they were not going to make it livable for me to allow my children to play outside of our front gate without adult supervision, Between them allowing the streets to become incredibly dirty and dangerous because here's the reality.
00:05:39.000If I let my kids walk around the neighborhood, they will stumble across two open needles during the course of that walk because the city has specifically told law enforcement they can't do anything about the rampant homelessness problem that has plagued Los Angeles.
00:05:50.000There are 66,000 homeless people in L.A.
00:05:54.000has entire living facilities for homeless people.
00:05:57.000This is not, by the way, sympathy to the homeless, many of whom really need serious help.
00:06:00.000They are drug addicted or mentally ill, and the city has decided that in the name of freedom, they are going to allow the suburbs to be overrun by this homelessness problem that does affect people who are paying their taxes.
00:06:11.000And between that, between the fact that they've decided to defund the cops and move away from allowing the police to do their jobs entirely, Between the increased taxes, and the higher levels of crime, and the lower levels of cleanliness.
00:06:26.000Between the fact that God decided to plague the state with a giant wildfire spate over the last several years, apparently.
00:06:32.000It's like, I didn't need the help, God.
00:06:35.000I didn't need the signs and the wonders to drive me from California.
00:06:38.000And frankly, I'm just hoping that when Michael Molls looks back at California, as we make our way out, that he turns around, he looks back, and he immediately turns into a pillar of salt.
00:07:04.000The people who are going to get trapped in Los Angeles are the people who are lower middle class.
00:07:08.000Because they don't have the wherewithal to pick up and leave.
00:07:10.000They don't get to decide, honestly, where their jobs take place.
00:07:14.000As the head of a company, I get to decide where we take our jobs, and we are excited to allow our people a better living standard, moving to some place like Nashville that is not governed like garbage in a red state, than forcing them to stay in a place that is very difficult to raise children and to live.
00:07:29.000But blue states for too long have thought that they can govern as badly as they want and there will be no consequences.
00:07:35.000That's true to a point, and then beyond that point, it is no longer true.
00:07:51.000This is a major, earth-shattering thing that is happening on the foreign policy front.
00:07:55.000And so, naturally, the media are focusing on whatever dumb thing Trump retweeted today, or Joe Biden being able to string together about half of a sentence before nearly physically collapsing.
00:08:05.000The actual big news of the day, yesterday, was that Donald Trump facilitated a major Middle Eastern peace deal.
00:08:11.000The media were beside themselves over this.
00:08:14.000They cannot believe it to the extent that they have now been attempting to downplay the importance of a peace deal between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain.
00:08:23.000OK, and by the way, there are going to be a bunch more countries that sign on.
00:08:26.000I would assume that Morocco will sign on.
00:08:28.000I assume Sudan will eventually sign on.
00:08:32.000They were actually at the signing ceremony.
00:08:34.000And the end goal eventually will be the Saudi Arabian government recognizing the state of Israel, which is something that has never happened.
00:08:40.000The media have been trying to downplay this.
00:08:42.000The reason they've been trying to downplay this is because the entire peace deal that has emerged in the Middle East is a direct rebuttal to decades of received wisdom in foreign policy circles from morons like Thomas Friedman and Ben Rhodes and the Barack Obama administration and the Clintonites.
00:08:57.000That received wisdom was, Israel would never be able to live in safety and security unless they made concessions to Palestinian terrorists.
00:09:02.000That all conflict in the Middle East sprang Full-blown from the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
00:09:11.000The Palestinians were merely a club that was being wielded by various countries that hate Israel in order to distract their own populations from the crappy governance in those countries and to give them a reason to hate Israel as opposed to looking to broader concerns.
00:09:24.000Now, countries that are looking forward and realizing that they have to shore up their regimes, countries looking forward and realizing that there are actual existential threats, that Israel does not care about Saudi Arabia, does not care about the UAE or Bahrain, is not trying to invade anyone.
00:09:35.000That Israel just wants to exist in safety and security.
00:09:38.000Those countries are looking to Iran and going, oh, wait, those guys want to take us over.
00:09:42.000Those guys are interested in harming us.
00:09:44.000And so they formed a de facto alliance with Israel and normalized relations were the first step in that sort of de facto alliance.
00:09:57.000And the realignment not only happened in spite of the conventional wisdom, which suggested that the only way peace would break out in the Middle East is if the United States pushed Israel into concessions.
00:10:07.000In fact, peace only broke out in the Middle East because the United States made clear it was not going to force Israel into concessions.
00:10:12.000The Trump administration, by making obvious that Israel was going to be able to pursue its own foreign policy, that Israel is going to be able to strengthen itself, by moving the embassy to Jerusalem, which is a statement that Israel's capital is never going to be given away, it will never be divided, a statement that the Golan Heights will never be handed over to Syria or any other country, Once the United States made that clear, other countries went, OK, well, I guess this is just a foregone conclusion.
00:10:36.000Which, by the way, is what the approach should be to the Palestinian issue as well.
00:10:40.000Which should be, Israel is not giving up any of the settlements it has already built.
00:10:46.000And once you accept that, and once you accept Israel's existence, and you accept that Israel isn't going away, then maybe you can talk about peace.
00:10:53.000But Israel is not going to be swamped by millions of Palestinians who believe that they should be allowed to live inside Israel proper despite the fact that they live inside a separate governed entity called the Palestinian Authority or Hamasistan in Gaza Strip.
00:11:07.000In other words, reality is a better predicate for peace than fantasy nonsense, than utopian garbage that has been pushed by Democratic and Republican administrations alike up until Trump.
00:11:16.000by setting up a realistic assessment of what exactly is the truth in the Middle East, which is that Israel is here to stay, that Israel has certain interests that it is going to pursue, and that other countries have interests they are going to pursue, and that people don't spend all of their time thinking about Israel. That actually most of the conflict in the Middle East over the last 50 years has not involved Israel. If you're looking at the biggest conflicts in the Middle East, whether it's the Iran-Iraq war, which killed a million people, or whether you're looking at the Gulf War or Gulf War II, whether you're looking at ISIS, or whether you're looking at the war in
00:11:44.000in Yemen, most of the major conflicts in the Middle East have been Sunni-Shia conflicts.
00:11:49.000They have not, in fact, involved Israel at all, which means that maybe there's a lot of room to make peace.
00:11:54.000And that's what happened yesterday, is that that became absolutely clear.
00:11:58.000It rejected Literally decades have received wisdom from the wisest foreign policy minds and the wisest foreign policy minds could not stand it.
00:12:06.000How could this idiot Jared Kushner have solved this problem?
00:12:09.000How could that moron Donald Trump have solved the problem?
00:12:11.000Maybe because they rejected wisdom that had no evidentiary basis.
00:12:16.000Maybe because they looked at the world situation and they realized that your idiotic notions that Jews lay at the center of all the problems, that was actually the problem.
00:12:26.000Maybe they realize that people have countervailing concerns that actually affect them in their daily lives.
00:12:31.000In a certain particular way, the Received Foreign Policy Conventional Wisdom, it sort of mirrors the sort of Rob and Angelo anti-racism movement.
00:12:39.000There are all these problems in the world, but only white liberals can solve them.
00:12:42.000There's systemic racism and evil, and all of America's systems are bad.
00:13:01.000I mean, this is something Barack Obama said, that Israel was really formed in the aftermath of World War II, and that was the connection.
00:13:05.000And this is still the received wisdom in Europe, is that the Jews in Israel are sort of expatriate Europeans, which is nonsense.
00:13:11.000There's been Jewish connection to the land of Israel since the land of Israel started to matter to anyone, at any time.
00:13:18.000But that sort of received wisdom was the predicate for a lot of bad foreign policy, got a lot of people killed, and now peace is breaking out because that received wisdom has been rejected.
00:13:25.000So yesterday, President Trump gets up at the White House in this historic signing ceremony, and he says, we're here to change the course of history.
00:13:33.000We're here this afternoon to change the course of history.
00:13:37.000After decades of division and conflict, we mark the dawn of a new Middle East.
00:13:42.000Thanks to the great courage of the leaders of these three countries, we take a major stride toward a future in which people of all faiths and backgrounds live together in peace and prosperity.
00:13:56.000In a few moments, these visionary leaders will sign the first two peace deals between Israel and the Arab state.
00:14:40.000In opposition to the United States backing Iran, an entire alliance formed between the Jews and the Arabs.
00:14:45.000I mean, you got the Jews and the Arabs on the same side, specifically because Barack Obama was such a bad president.
00:14:50.000Understand that that's what happened here.
00:14:52.000Okay, we'll get to more of that historic signing ceremony and why it matters and why it really is a feather in the cap of the Trump administration that the media are deliberately ignoring.
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00:18:04.000And he's been doing it, like, every three months.
00:18:06.000Because in Israel, they love elections so much, they just never stop them.
00:18:09.000He's been elected, like, three times in the span of the last two years, because they could not form a government.
00:18:14.000Okay, so Bibi Netanyahu, this horrible right-winger, who happens to be one of the more historic Israeli prime ministers in history, right, I mean, just most important by any stretch of the imagination.
00:18:23.000Here are the governments that have cut peace deals.
00:18:26.000Okay, the governments that have cut peace deals have been, in order, Menachem Begin, right, which is a peace deal by Likud with Egypt, That was a peace deal.
00:18:34.000We've seen Ariel Sharon attempt to cut a peace deal.
00:18:37.000And, by the way, engage in the Gaza withdrawal, which was actually a huge mistake.
00:18:46.000Because left-wing governments tend to deal from a position of weakness.
00:18:49.000Right-wing governments tend to deal from a position of strength.
00:18:52.000Here is Bibi Netanyahu pointing out that, you know, while the entire media seems to think that this is all about Trump, it is not.
00:18:58.000This is about making a better world for people living in the Middle East.
00:19:02.000As a person, Bibi Netanyahu served in Israel's special forces and his brother Yoni Netanyahu was famously killed during the Entebbe raid.
00:19:11.000And he talks about how people who have been wounded in the causes of peace cherish peace more than anybody else.
00:19:19.000I am so deeply moved to be here today.
00:19:22.000For those who bear the wounds of war cherish the blessings of peace.
00:19:28.000And the blessings of the peace we make today will be enormous.
00:19:35.000First, because this peace will eventually expand to include other Arab states and ultimately it can end the Arab-Israeli conflict once and for all.
00:19:51.000Okay, that is, I mean, this has always been true, by the way.
00:19:53.000Israel has always wanted to make peace with its enemies.
00:19:55.000I mean, there are famous stories of after the Menachem Begin peace deal with the Egyptians, wounded soldiers from both sides, Egyptian soldiers and Israeli soldiers, wounded soldiers approaching each other in the desert and giving each other hugs because everybody would like peace at a certain point, so long as it doesn't mean submitting to terrorism.
00:20:10.000Okay, then all of the leaders of these nations sat next to each other.
00:20:13.000They signed this normalization agreement.
00:21:15.000By pretending that it's not important at all.
00:21:17.000So Vox's Aaron Ruppar, who is just a moron, I mean, just a dud, he tweeted out, reality check, Israel has never gone to war with UAE or Bahrain.
00:21:25.000Oh, well, I guess it doesn't matter then.
00:21:33.000Well, officially, the United States never went to war with the Soviet Union.
00:21:37.000Seriously, officially, there was no war between the United States and the Soviet Union.
00:21:41.000I guess that if they'd signed some sort of peace accord, then that wouldn't have meant anything, because they were never officially at war.
00:22:06.000We'll get to more of the media's stupidity on this because they completely blew it.
00:22:10.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
00:22:12.000First, let us talk about the fact that now is not a great time to visit the auto parts store.
00:22:16.000I mean, put aside all of the threats inherent in being in crowded lines.
00:22:20.000Also, why would you ever visit an auto parts store?
00:22:22.000I mean, you're going there, and then they have to order the part online anyway, or they give you a generic part that's not the greatest, and then they overcharge you.
00:22:28.000This is why you should use the internet for everything.
00:23:24.000Okay, so how badly did the media get this wrong?
00:23:26.000Here's just a little bit of a review of how bad the media blew this.
00:23:30.000Here's a compendium put together by the Washington Free Beacon.
00:23:33.000of various members of the news media informing us how bad Trump's foreign policy in the Middle East was going to be and how it was going to explode the entire Middle East.
00:23:40.000Oh yeah, until peace broke out all over.
00:23:43.000President Trump's big decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and one that Palestinians and others say could destroy hopes of Middle East peace once and for all.
00:23:53.000The president's unilateral action will get people killed.
00:23:56.000How hot will it get and how destabilizing will it be?
00:23:59.000What he has done is thrown a diplomatic bomb into the Middle East peace process.
00:24:06.000That would then embarrass all the Sunni Arab regimes.
00:24:09.000They would have to do something enormously complicating, by the way, Israel's relations with them.
00:24:13.000It's going to stop any hope of Middle East progress in the peace talks.
00:24:17.000There's all these geniuses, so much geniusing happening over on MSNBC.
00:24:21.000You saw there, Thomas Friedman, the lead moron in the foreign policy establishment, who wrote a piece today trying to explain how all this happened, and of course got it completely wrong, and then suggested at the end of the piece that all that's going to happen now that the entire Arab world has made clear that they have no real interest in helping the Palestinian terrorist leadership gain statehood.
00:24:37.000Thomas Friedman's suggestion is, well, I guess that'll just put pressure on Israel to actually make concessions to Palestinian terrorists.
00:24:42.000Yeah, sure, Thomas Friedman, you stupid ass.
00:24:57.000Oh yeah, and then the entire Arab world turns on the Palestinians and says, you know, it seems like you guys are really intransigent and terrible.
00:25:03.000By the way, Thomas Friedman, that moron, he says that the real problem here is that Bibi Netanyahu is not, is too intransigent with regard to the Palestinians.
00:25:18.000He gets half credit for this because he inadvertently created all of the conditions necessary for the breaking of the impasse between Israel and the Sunni states by deciding to openly side with the massive terror regime in Iran.
00:25:30.000By shipping them billions of dollars, by opening their economy, by giving them a clear pathway to a nuclear bomb ten years from the signing of the deal.
00:25:37.000Which, by the way, is fast approaching.
00:25:38.000Barack Obama essentially created a de facto alliance in the Middle East against Iran and against his own interests.
00:25:45.000So you want to put those idiots in charge of foreign policy again?
00:27:11.000You know, this is a moment when you could look at the situation and say, the real trouble here is between the Palestinians and the Israelis, and that situation has not been helped.
00:27:22.000But the real action here is in the United States giving arms, giving serious arms to UAE, potentially to go after the Iranians.
00:27:32.000And so what we're doing is stirring up a proxy war.
00:27:46.000And the New York Times, meanwhile, printed what has to be the dumbest column on this, called, A White House Ceremony Will Celebrate a Diplomatic Win and a Campaign Gift.
00:27:53.000This is by geniuses Michael Crowley and David Halbfinger.
00:27:58.000Leaders of the Persian Gulf states are grateful to Mr. Trump who has embraced their government's crackdown on their archnemesis, Iran, and defended them from intense political criticism in Washington.
00:28:06.000Like Mr. Netanyahu, they are eager to see Mr. Trump win a second term in November.
00:28:10.000And at the White House on Tuesday, Netanyahu and a select group of Gulf Arab officials will be returning the favor, doing their part to repay and support Mr. Trump.
00:28:19.000So, amazingly enough, all it took for peace to break out in the Middle East is a bunch of people to like Trump.
00:28:25.000Okay, now in reality, this has very little to do with their personal relationships with Trump, and it has everything to do with the fact that all of the interests align specifically because Democrats promulgated crappy policy in the Middle East.
00:28:36.000Okay, so what did the media really decide to do with this?
00:29:03.000He grills him over Trump's stupid tweets.
00:29:05.000So you have a historic peace process that breaks out into an actual signing ceremony at the White House involving Israel and two Muslim Arab nations.
00:29:12.000And Wolf Blitzer is very focused with Jared Kushner, the architect of this deal, on why Donald Trump is tweeting about hashtag peto Biden.
00:29:21.000I saw the president retweet to his 80 million-plus followers a very, very disturbing, ugly message accusing the Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, of actually being a pedophile.
00:30:26.000retail sales show slower growth in August.
00:30:29.000House report condemns Boeing and FAA in 737 max disasters.
00:30:33.000Why, it's almost as though this didn't happen.
00:30:34.000Because if you read the front page of the website of the New York Times, this didn't happen.
00:30:39.000Okay, I'm looking, the first headline about this peace deal is buried all the way down at the very, very bottom of the website, only in the like, world news section.
00:30:59.000Imagine if Barack Obama had done this.
00:31:01.000I mean, not only did they give him a Nobel Peace Prize for literally being an alive human, they would have given him another one for actually doing something useful.
00:31:07.000They wanted to give him a Nobel Peace Prize for the Iran peace deal, the worst deal ever.
00:31:10.000Okay, but they got to downplay the whole thing, because obviously Trump bad, Orange Man very, very bad, bad Orange Man bad.
00:31:16.000Okay, in just a second, we're going to get to Joe Biden, who continues to babble nonsensically his way across the country.
00:31:21.000And then we'll get to Donald Trump, who decided to step on what was a triumphant moment at the White House by doing an ill-advised interview on ABC.
00:31:29.000I mean, first rule of politics, if you're Donald Trump, don't get into a town hall with like George Stephanopoulos and his band of rando questioners who hate your guts.
00:32:00.000We've seen people accosted eating dinner.
00:32:02.000We've seen people accosted outside their homes.
00:32:04.000We've seen people walking into suburban neighborhoods and trying to tag houses.
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00:34:20.000Alrighty, so President Trump had a good day for most of the day, and then he did this town hall with ABC.
00:34:35.000Now, I wonder what the strategic idea here was.
00:34:38.000I assume the strategic idea here is to get Trump out as often as possible to highlight the fact that Joe Biden refuses to be asked any tough questions.
00:34:45.000And it's a strategy, but I don't think that Trump actually needs to prove that.
00:34:54.000Is that he's up at 3.30 in the morning sitting on the toilet and tweeting out Fox & Friends.
00:34:58.000Right, that is one of the big critiques of President Trump.
00:35:00.000So, we don't actually need more President Trump at this point.
00:35:02.000The President needs to sit down and he needs to be quiet and he needs to let Joe Biden be the focus of the campaign.
00:35:07.000More Biden and less Trump is a recipe for Biden losing.
00:35:10.000More Trump and less Biden is a recipe for Trump losing.
00:35:13.000Okay, but Trump does this town hall on ABC News last night.
00:35:16.000And again, why you would do this with George Stephanopoulos, it is a source of constant amazement and astonishment to me that George Stephanopoulos is considered an objective news anchor.
00:35:25.000It's like Karl Rove being considered an objective news anchor.
00:35:28.000Now, Karl would never proclaim himself such.
00:36:17.000Now, every question to Biden would be that, right?
00:36:19.000Every question would be, Joe Biden, you're such a compassionate, wonderful man.
00:36:22.000Explain to me how compassionate and wonderful you are and how bad your opponent is.
00:36:25.000Every question for Trump, of course, was, why are you a racist?
00:36:29.000Why don't you care about people like me dying?
00:36:31.000So, for example, a black pastor was brought forth to ask the president why his slogan, Make America Great Again, is racist.
00:36:40.000Like, this is an actual question asked at a town hall.
00:36:43.000You've coined the phrase, make America great again.
00:36:47.000When has America been great for African-Americans in the ghetto of America?
00:36:51.000Are you aware how tone deaf that comes off to African-American community?
00:36:55.000If you look at just prior to, and I'm talking about for the black community, you look just prior to this horrible situation coming in from China, when the virus came in, that was probably the highest point.
00:37:09.000Home ownership, Okay, so he immediately swivels to, of course, his economic performance, but that basic question, and there's a good answer to it, which is America has historically fallen short for black Americans, but the principles upon which America was built provided the pathway toward more freedom and prosperity for black Americans than any ethnically black people on the planet, which happens to be the truth.
00:37:39.000Okay, but in any case, forget about what Trump's answer is.
00:37:41.000The fact that he walked directly into a scenario like this is not particularly smart politics.
00:37:46.000Okay, here's another question asked by a quote-unquote Trump voter.
00:37:49.000So here is a supposed Trump voter who is angry at Trump.
00:37:53.000He says, why did you throw people like me under the bus?
00:37:54.000If you believe that Joe Biden would ever receive a question like this in a mainstream media setting, it's because you're high.
00:38:54.000We've got plenty of Trump in the back.
00:38:56.000There's plenty more where that comes from.
00:38:58.000And then of course, you had the typical kind of Trump botcheries, right?
00:39:00.000So you had Trump being asked about face masks, and he specifically asked about it.
00:39:04.000And instead, and he says face masks are kind of controversial, the evidence on them is split.
00:39:09.000And then instead of citing the actual evidence being split, which it kind of is, right?
00:39:12.000I mean, most of Northern Europe, Scandinavia, They are not masking up.
00:39:15.000The health officials in those countries have said that masking asymptomatic people is actually a waste of time and or counterproductive, that social distancing is more important.
00:39:22.000Instead of talking about the fact that the WHO until five minutes ago was a big proponent of not masking up when you were asymptomatic.
00:39:28.000Instead, the president decided he was going to randomly talk about waiters and touching their faces and stuff.
00:39:32.000Now, I think the point that he's trying to make here to to try and be charitable, the point that he's trying to make here is that if you improperly wear a mask, it is actually counterproductive.
00:39:47.000Because one of the problems is if you're constantly messing around with your mask with your hands, then you actually get the germs from your hands on the outside of the mask, you breathe that in, right?
00:39:55.000Or the germs that have accreted to the outside of the mask, you get them on your hands and later when you rub your nose, you end up... So there are problems if you improperly wear a mask.
00:40:02.000But overall, in crowded areas, are masks a good idea?
00:40:44.000And then Trump hit Biden on the mask mandate.
00:40:46.000The point he's trying to make here is that Joe Biden says that he's going to mandate masks, but he actually has no intention of doing anything along those lines.
00:41:48.000Now here's the thing, I think most of this is baked in.
00:41:50.000Just politically speaking, just putting on the analyst hat, most of this is baked in.
00:41:54.000When I say most of it, I mean nearly all of it.
00:41:55.000People know who Trump is, they believe what they're gonna believe about Trump.
00:41:58.000The person who still has play in his numbers is Biden.
00:42:01.000So Biden's numbers have been pretty stable throughout, but Biden is one, Falling off the stage Bob Dole 1996 moment from his numbers cratering because the fact is that Joe Biden is not with it.
00:42:53.000Then Biden yesterday botched it himself.
00:42:55.000He called it a Harris-Biden administration as opposed to a Biden-Harris administration.
00:43:00.000Harris-Biden administration is going to relaunch that effort and keep pushing further to make it easier for military spouses and veterans to find meaningful careers to ensure teachers know how to support military children in their classroom.
00:43:11.000Well, that Harris-Biden administration is the threat there, is it not?
00:43:17.000One, that he's unhealthy, so he can't handle the job.
00:43:18.000But more importantly, if he's unhealthy, Kamala Harris ends up being president.
00:43:21.000And unfortunately for Biden, the more he's out in public, and this is why they're minimizing his public appearances.
00:43:26.000So I understand, again, the kind of thematic attempt by Trump to get out there a lot so that he can show that Joe Biden is not as lively and with it and that maybe he's unhealthy.
00:43:37.000I think Trump should go to the basement and he should let Joe Biden have to make public appearances because every time he makes a public appearance, it gets more and more desperate.
00:43:44.000So, yesterday, Joe Biden was speaking at some sort of forum for Latinos, or as the Democrats and the woke call them, Latinx, which, by the way, is a descriptor no Latino or Hispanic person I've ever heard of actually uses for themselves.
00:43:58.000It is not, in fact, a popular term, except among social justice warriors who believe that they get to name Latino and Hispanic people what they want to name them.
00:44:05.000Joe Biden came out at this event I just have one thing to say.
00:44:09.000his phone. This is about as often remember that time when Donald Trump put out a tweet in the middle of the 2016 campaign.
00:44:15.000It was just a picture of him on his plane eating a taco bowl. And he was like, I love Mexicans Taco Bell. And it was like, what now? And it was really, really funny and ridiculous.
00:44:25.000Joe Biden just one upped him. Here's an awkward old man playing Despozito.
00:45:33.000This is one of the only debates that matters.
00:45:35.000The bar is so low for Joe Biden that if he doesn't physically fall on his face and start drooling oatmeal bits, then he will probably be declared the winner by the media.
00:45:43.000So that means that Donald Trump actually has to show up.
00:45:45.000So not prepping for it is really dumb, but Is it all baked into the cake that people realize just how badly Joe Biden has degraded?
00:45:52.000Here was Joe Biden babbling yesterday about quartermasters.
00:45:55.000What in the world is going on in this clip?
00:45:57.000Because if you could take care, if you were a quartermaster, you can sure in hell take care of running a, you know, department store, uh, thing, you know, we're in the second floor of the ladies department or whatever, you know what I mean?
00:46:16.000Your future president of the United States, Verl Young, with it!
00:46:21.000If you're the quartermaster of the ladies department in the Revolutionary War and they were quartering troops in your house with corn pop and cream of wheat, Denny's, early bird dinner.
00:46:35.000Also, yesterday Joe Biden struggled to remember Barack Obama's name, which is weird because the only person who has ever made Joe Biden's career worth a damn is the man named Barack Obama.
00:47:00.000By the way, Biden's campaign manager was again asked is a different campaign manager was asked yesterday if Biden uses a teleprompter during interviews and again refused to answer the question because the answer is yes.
00:47:09.000Of course, he uses a teleprompter during interviews because he is not cogent.
00:47:16.000This is the easiest question in the world.
00:47:18.000Honestly, they should have just put no in this lady's teleprompter.
00:47:22.000How do you respond to the criticism that we've seen this all over about the vice president using a teleprompter during some of these interviews?
00:47:30.000Well, I mean, first of all, I would say very clearly the vice president uses a teleprompter.
00:47:36.000On occasion, you see it as giving a speech, but he is also out there every day taking questions from reporters.
00:48:41.000How Beethoven's Fifth Symphony put the classism in classical music.
00:48:46.000So now Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is racist and classist.
00:48:52.000Now to realize how stupid this was, you have to understand that Beethoven was a pretty thoroughbred secular humanist.
00:48:58.000That Beethoven specifically rejected Imperialism of any sort.
00:49:03.000He famously dedicated the Third Symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte, but then ripped off the cover page when Napoleon Bonaparte declared himself emperor.
00:49:12.000But apparently, that's not good enough.
00:49:15.000To many, Beethoven's most famous work is a symbol of exclusion and elitism in classical music, says Vox.com.
00:49:21.000Beethoven's Fifth Symphony starts with an anguished opening theme, dun-dun-dun-dun, and ends with a glorious major key melody.
00:49:28.000Since its 1808 premiere, audiences have interpreted that progression from struggle to victory as a metaphor for Beethoven's personal resilience in the face of his oncoming deafness.
00:49:36.000Or rather, that's long been the popular read among wealthy white men who embraced Beethoven and turned his symphony into a symbol of their superiority and importance.
00:50:19.000That's long been the popular read among wealthy white men who embraced Beethoven and turned his symphony into a symbol of their own superiority and importance.
00:50:25.000For others, women, LGBTQ plus people, people of color, Beethoven's symphony may be predominantly a reminder of classical music's history of exclusion and elitism.
00:50:35.000One New York City classical music fan wrote in the 1840s, for example, that he wished that all women shall be gagged by officers duly licensed for the purpose before they're allowed to enter a concert room.
00:50:45.000Oh wow, you cited a rando from the 1840s who thought that women talked too much at classical concerts?
00:52:00.000They were sort of performed like rock concerts when they were written.
00:52:03.000But over time, there's been a classical canon that's been treated with great awe and reverence because these are, in fact, the pinnacles of Western creativity.
00:52:10.000And it's not gonna get better than Beethoven.
00:52:13.000But, like, those conventions include things like don't clap between movements.
00:52:18.000Okay, like they're movements to symphonies.
00:52:21.000Usually a symphony has four movements, so when you get to the end of each movement, you don't clap after the first movement of Beethoven's 5th.
00:52:27.000You clap at the very end of the symphony.
00:52:28.000Is that because of racism or classism?
00:52:30.000Apparently, the Vox got together with the New York Philharmonic and broke down the music and meaning of this inescapable work of music.
00:52:38.000We must ask how Beethoven's symphony was transformed from a symbol of triumph and freedom into a symbol of exclusion, elitism, and gatekeeping.
00:52:45.000Everything we love to hate about classical music today.
00:52:47.000How did the meaning of the symphony get so twisted?
00:52:50.000For classical music critic James Bennett II, Beethoven's popularity and centrality in classical culture is part of the problem.
00:52:57.000As you perpetuate the idea that the giants of the music all look the same, it conveys to the other that there is not a stake in that music for them, he says.
00:53:04.000Okay, I hate this garbage so much I can't even explain how much I hate this garbage.
00:53:08.000The notion that you can only appreciate somebody else's work if you look like them is the most tribal bullcrap I have ever heard in my entire life.
00:53:16.000As a Jew, there are a few great classical Jewish composers.
00:53:36.000The very essence of thinking as a rational human being is deciding what you do and do not like based on things other than tribal affinity.
00:53:44.000And yet now we are being told that because Beethoven was white, he is inherently cancelled because white people might take some sort of reverence from the fact that he was white.
00:53:52.000Now what's weird about this is these exact same people will say, you know what we need?
00:53:54.000We need more black composers who are given their proper due because that will make black people feel good about themselves.
00:54:03.000Either you should say that great music should be appreciated for being great music, and that we should appreciate Duke Ellington because Duke Ellington was a fabulous musician, rather than because Duke Ellington was black, and we should appreciate Beethoven because he was a fabulous musician, rather than because he was white, or you have to make the claim that we should appreciate Duke Ellington for his blackness and Beethoven for his whiteness.
00:54:22.000But this is the way that the left would like it.
00:54:24.000New York Philharmonic clarinetist Anthony McGill, one of the few black musicians in the ensemble, agrees that Beethoven's inescapability makes classical music appear monolithic and stifling.
00:54:33.000He likens the inescapability of the Fifth Symphony to a wall between classical music and new, diverse audiences.
00:54:39.000If you pretend like there's no other music out there, that Beethoven is the greatest music that will ever matter, says McGill, then orchestras will alienate new listeners, since we're not promoting any of the composers alive today that are trying to become the Beethovens of their day.
00:54:50.000Okay, let me just point out, none of the people trying to become Beethoven are Beethoven.
00:54:54.000The New York Times recently put out this long piece, including a bunch of little snippets of modern classical music.
00:55:17.000But that ain't a very big cadre of people.
00:55:19.000And if you are making the claim, That the modern composers, the Philip Glasses of today, that those composers are on the level of Beethoven?
00:55:39.000In 200 years, nobody is going to be listening to any of the people on that modern composers list from the New York Times, and that's just in the classical field.
00:55:46.000I get ripped up and down for my elitism because I say Beethoven is better than Cardi B.
00:55:50.000Which is inherently obvious to anyone with a functioning prefrontal cortex.
00:55:54.000I'm sorry if it's offensive to you that I think that Brahms is better than Eminem.
00:56:32.000So thank you to the left for canceling everything that is good, fun, and interesting about human life, because you've opened up a market for us, and we look forward to filling it.
00:56:40.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today for two additional hours of content.
00:56:44.000Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.