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00:02:08.000So in a statement, Fox News co-president Jack Abernathy wrote, quote, Good for Fox.
00:02:23.000The reality is advertisers will come back to Laura's show.
00:02:25.000Not that many advertisers dropped her show in the first place, and it wasn't her biggest advertisers that dropped her show to start.
00:02:31.000But it's pretty amazing that it'd gone this far in the first place.
00:02:35.000On Saturday, as we played yesterday, David Hogg appeared on CNN and called Ingram a bully after attempting to destroy her business for suggesting that he was whiny about his college admissions.
00:02:44.000Pretty amazing, amazing sequence of events.
00:02:46.000But again, demonstrative, demonstrative of the fact that when it comes to the left's agenda,
00:02:52.000Yeah, reality and proportionality have nothing to do with anything.
00:02:55.000Now, speaking of reality and proportionality, Laura Ingraham is going to survive all of this.
00:02:59.000The media will get over it until the next time there's ginned up outrage and they decide to finish off some sort of conservative host.
00:03:04.000But speaking of proportionality and lack thereof,
00:03:08.000The students over at Parkland are very, very upset.
00:03:10.000The reason they are upset now is because one of the security measures that's being taken into consideration, now being implemented at Parkland, at the Parkland School, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, is clear backpacks for the kids.
00:03:24.000And the kids are very, very upset about this.
00:03:27.000All of this stuff about why the clear backpacks are so terrible.
00:03:30.000And there's a certain irony to a lot of the gun control students suggesting their rights are being taken away because they have to carry around clear backpacks.
00:03:36.000So Lauren Hogg, who is David's brother and also goes to the high school, she said, So one quick note here.
00:03:55.000Why is it that my rights have to be taken away?
00:03:58.000You're essentially turning my entire gun safe into a clear backpack and then cleaning it out because something bad happened that has nothing to do with me or my gun ownership.
00:04:06.000Sarah Chadwick is another student over there.
00:04:15.000Your school, a few moments ago, was a shooting gallery for an evil human being.
00:04:20.000So it seems to me that if you are suggesting that hundreds of millions of Americans be deprived of their firearms, this is a better solution.
00:04:26.000I don't think it's a great solution, by any stretch of the imagination, but the outsized outrage about having to carry around a clear backpack, you don't have a right to a backpack that is non-transparent in school.
00:04:36.000Do I think this is a great idea, by the way?
00:04:42.000Do I think, however, that it is less intrusive of American rights for you to carry a clear backpack to a high school where you have no actual right to privacy?
00:04:49.000Or do I think it's more of an intrusion on rights for you to remove full-scale Second Amendment rights?
00:04:55.000Delaney Tarr is another student over there, and she tweets out, Again, if you're going to complain about violations of privacy in the same sentence where you suggest that the government should come into my house and remove my rifle,
00:05:13.000You don't have a right to your backpack.
00:05:15.000You don't have a right to a non-transparent backpack.
00:05:26.000And as I say once again, do I think this is a smart security idea?
00:05:29.000No, I think it's a pretty stupid security idea.
00:05:31.000I think that the idea that you're going to be able to view everything through a transparent backpack is not even true.
00:05:36.000You can always hide a gun behind a book or inside a book if you wanted to, presumably.
00:05:40.000But the basic logic that's being pushed here is that rights are being violated when high school students don't have a right to privacy in their backpacks.
00:05:49.000But no rights are being violated when they call for a vast removal
00:05:53.000of protected weaponry under the Second Amendment from a bunch of strangers who have done nothing to actually create all of this problem.
00:06:16.000So you put March for a Live 100 backpack.
00:06:17.000It's just the lack of proportionality here is completely incredible.
00:06:23.000John Barnett, another student, said, OK, this, I think, is my favorite tweet.
00:06:26.000This is my favorite tweet, because the suggestion now is that if clear backpacks were to make a school safe, then everybody should have one.
00:06:43.000Well, that's pretty much what we're saying about law-abiding citizens and guns.
00:06:47.000We think that law-abiding citizens ought to have guns to keep schools safe, and therefore pretty much everybody should have one.
00:06:59.000And the stupid arguments didn't stop there.
00:07:00.000So, last night I got into another flame war with Piers Morgan on Twitter.
00:07:05.000For those who don't know, I did a pretty famous debate with Piers Morgan on gun control after the Sandy Hook shootings in January 2013 on his program.
00:07:16.000His show was, it dropped dramatically in the ratings after I appeared on his show.
00:07:22.000He ended up losing his show about a year later.
00:07:25.000And yesterday, he decided to go at it with me again on the Second Amendment, and I will just say it didn't go well for him.
00:07:31.000During that debate, one of the things that I did is I brought a copy of the Constitution, a pocket Constitution, and I handed it to Piers Morgan.
00:07:37.000And he is still rankling about this some five years later.
00:07:39.000It's now 2018, and he's still angry about all of this.
00:07:43.000And so somebody sort of tweaked him about it yesterday on Twitter, suggesting that hopefully he kept that silly little book.
00:07:51.000He called the Constitution a silly little book when I handed it to him on the air.
00:07:55.000Somebody tweeted at him, hopefully you kept that silly little book Ben Shapiro gave you on set.
00:08:27.000Beyond that, I think that it is quite possible that he has a constitution inferiority complex.
00:08:35.000He may be overcompensating for some things.
00:08:37.000My favorite part of the back and forth with Piers Morgan yesterday on Twitter is at one point I said that he was interested in violating inalienable rights, and Piers Morgan wrote back, it's unalienable.
00:08:48.000Try reading your Declaration of Independence.
00:08:51.000Well, as I said to Piers Morgan, I have read it.
00:08:53.000Its central contention is that we don't actually have to take advice on the nature of our rights from British douchebags like Piers Morgan.
00:09:00.000That's pretty much the basis of the Declaration of Independence.
00:09:25.000So Piers Morgan is now the grammar police when he's not attempting to take away everybody's guns.
00:09:29.000Obviously, we did a good job in breaking away from Britain, so we wouldn't have to listen to people like Piers Morgan.
00:09:34.000Now, one of the reasons this whole debate keeps burning out is that it constantly devolves.
00:09:38.000Democrats are constantly accusing Republicans of hating children, and Republicans are responding by saying, you guys just want to take our guns, which is actually true.
00:09:46.000But there was some common ground for a brief moment in time after the Parkland shootings.
00:09:50.000So Marco Rubio, the senator from Florida, whom Parkland students castigated as akin to a murderer,
00:09:57.000He was actually willing to come to the table with Bill Nelson, who is the Democratic senator from Florida, trying to push gun violence restraining orders.
00:10:03.000Gun violence restraining orders are these measures that are designed to prevent the severely mentally ill from getting guns.
00:10:09.000Relatives, friends, family, they can go to a judge and ask that judge to remove the right to purchase a gun or own a gun, so long as you're a danger to yourself or others.
00:10:17.000This was a common sense measure that both sides were attempting to come together over, but the left can't even decide what it wants.
00:10:25.000All of these common efforts and decided instead to yell at each other about gun control.
00:10:31.000They decided to yell at each other about gun control because, again, they have no real decisive, cohesive message even about what to do about guns.
00:10:40.000So Doug Jones, for example, the Democrat from Alabama, he's not even willing to embrace the full gun control agenda of the Democratic Party.
00:10:48.000I'm not sure I can go that far just yet, George.
00:10:51.000We've got to get done what I think can be done right now.
00:10:55.000Let's reach across and within our own party to do those things that we can do.
00:10:59.000And that to me is where I want to focus.
00:11:02.000I really don't believe that a gun ban is feasible right now.
00:11:05.000And I think that there are things that can be done that we need to look at.
00:11:08.000And I think I outlined most of those in my speech on the floor last week.
00:11:13.000So as you can see, even the left is deeply split on these issues.
00:11:15.000Well, that means if you're deeply split on the issue, the easiest thing to do is instead to attack your political opposition as uncaring, feeling, rude, cruel.
00:11:24.000That's the only way that they can win.
00:11:27.000They can't try to save lives because that wouldn't help them politically.
00:11:30.000And in just a second, I'm going to talk about the left's real perspective on what ails America, because it's not going to sell.
00:11:36.000This is why the left is still having a tough time in a country where Donald Trump does not have a high public approval rating, despite his contentions.
00:11:42.000Otherwise, I'll discuss in just a second why that is.
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00:14:18.000And not just points out problems with America, but thinks that these problems go straight to the heart of the country and in many cases are unsolvable.
00:14:24.000So there's a really fascinating piece.
00:14:26.000Over at the Atlantic by a guy named William Barber in the Martin Luther King issue.
00:14:30.000And he talks about the real crisis that is ailing America.
00:15:47.000It was actually declining and then Barack Obama was elected and he decided to polarize people for political gain based on race and ethnicity.
00:15:56.000Okay, if you think that poverty in the United States is the chief problem crippling the United States, you do not have any global perspective.
00:16:01.000The poorest people in America are rich by global standards.
00:16:04.000According to Pew Research, 9 out of 10 Americans are rich people by global standards.
00:17:23.000And the Supreme Court said, those might be obsolete because it's 55 years later, guys.
00:17:27.000And this is apparently gutting of the Voting Rights Act.
00:17:29.000The states that attack voting rights by using partisan gerrymandering, discriminatory voter identification requirements, or a rollback of early voting and same-day registration are also home to the lowest wage, the severest poverty, the greatest hostility towards immigrants and the LGBT community, and the deepest cuts in education funding.
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00:19:07.000This is the way that the left actually views the way that the world works.
00:19:12.000Trump was elected and they have gone off their rocker.
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00:19:17.000Because even if people don't like Trump, they can look at Democrats and say, you know, you keep saying things are so crazy and so terrible here, and they're really not so crazy.
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00:21:47.000I have been giddy over this article for the better part of 24 hours.
00:21:51.000This is an article that appeared in the Washington Post.
00:21:52.000Now, the Washington Post has had some real doozies in the last 24 hours.
00:21:57.000They have a full article right now on the Washington Post on why it is good that Xi Jinping, who is the dictator of China, just declared himself dictator, and it's good, that he got rid of term limits, and it's good.
00:22:10.000The actual title of the piece over at Washington Post is, Why Xi's Lifting of Term Limits is a Good Thing.
00:22:18.000I know the Washington Post has released a series of articles of late talking about why communism is wonderful, but it's still a little bit disquieting when they are running full articles about why it is that a Chinese dictator taking full control of his country for the foreseeable future is a great thing.
00:22:32.000And it's weird that the Washington Post didn't run a similar thing about Vladimir Putin rigging an election in Russia.
00:22:38.000So they're very anti-Russia and very pro-China.
00:23:15.000I mean, can you imagine if somebody wrote a piece for the Washington Post?
00:23:19.000A white woman wrote a piece for the Washington Post titled, And it was all about how black men were dating white women to sleep with them and then ditch them for black women and it was time to get married.
00:23:30.000And the reason I'm reading this piece is not just because you probably shouldn't be publishing full-scale anti-Semitism in the pages of the Washington Post, but also because this piece is a window into the mind of so many young people and how they date.
00:23:43.000So we're going to go through it because it's just, it's intensely amusing.
00:23:45.000So here is what, here is what Kerry Purcell, this genius says.
00:23:49.000At my very first job in New York, a colleague jokingly informed me, you came in a wasp, but you're leaving a Jew.
00:23:55.000That statement was in reference to the demographics of the office's staff.
00:23:58.000Almost everyone who worked there was Jewish and I, a recent college graduate who had spent my adolescence in a largely Christian community in the South, was not.
00:24:05.000At the time, I had no idea she would end up being so right.
00:24:09.000This is where you play the organ in the background softly.
00:24:11.000As a teenager, I attended exactly one bat mitzvah, but moving to New York provided endless opportunities to learn about the Jewish faith.
00:24:17.000Friends invited me to join their families for Passover seders and Hanukkah celebrations.
00:24:21.000However, it was through my various romantic relationships where I learned the most about Judaism, a religious faith and culture I've grown to love and respect, but that has also contributed to two of my biggest heartbreaks.
00:24:31.000Okay, so how did Judaism ruin her life?
00:24:35.000This is in the pages of the Washington Post.
00:24:56.000At first glance, I fulfill the stereotypes of a white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
00:25:00.000This woman writes, I'm blonde, often wear pearls, and can mix an excellent and very strong martini.
00:25:04.000Manners and etiquette are important to me, and when I'm stressed, I often cope by cleaning.
00:25:08.000I do describe myself as a Christian, but loosely and in the most liberal sense possible, of course, because if you were really a Christian, then presumably you would talk about values while dating somebody rather than
00:25:17.000I don't know, living with some guy for three years and then realizing that you share no values and then he ditches you and finds someone with whom he shares values.
00:26:00.000Neither of us were looking to convert the other.
00:26:01.000We respected each other's faith and culture.
00:26:03.000And as long as we were able to talk about it, I thought we'd be able to work through any issues that came up.
00:26:08.000And then she cites a bunch of statistics about interfaith marriages.
00:26:11.000She doesn't cite the statistic about the divorce rate in interfaith marriages, which is significantly higher than the divorce rate in non-interfaith marriages.
00:26:18.000So this is always the inconvenient part of the interfaith marriage discussion.
00:26:22.000I feel this way about interpolitical dating.
00:26:24.000I was asked recently on a college campus whether a conservative could date a leftist.
00:26:29.000I said, you can date them, don't marry them.
00:26:31.000And I feel the same way about a leftist.
00:26:33.000If you're a leftist and you believe deeply in social justice, you probably don't want to marry the guy who's a deep devotee of Frederick Hayek.
00:26:40.000You're not going to want to raise your kids in the same way.
00:26:42.000You're not going to have the same social values.
00:26:44.000But again, this is what happens when you have a society that is very much focused on sex,
00:26:49.000And very much focused on the surface of relationships, just having fun and going on dates and reading the New York Times together.
00:26:56.000But there's no real discussion of the kind of future you want to have together, other than you want to have brunch on Sunday mornings and read the New Yorker.
00:27:03.000Okay, if that's your perception of how a relationship goes, you know nothing about relationships.
00:27:07.000But we're a society that has largely discarded the deeper meaning of relationships, which is rooted in values and purpose.
00:27:13.000A life is rooted in values and purpose.
00:27:15.000You want to live a fulfilled, meaningful life?
00:27:36.000On my first date with my wife, unlike this lady who apparently waits three years to discuss serious questions about religion, because it might be awkward, you know, you have to sleep together for a couple of years first, and then have the serious conversations just like they do in the movies.
00:27:48.000On my first date with my wife, we talked about free will and determinism.
00:27:55.000And then we talked about how many kids we wanted to have and whether or not we wanted to send our kids to a particular school or a different school.
00:28:03.000This is on our first date because we were dating for marriage, right?
00:28:05.000We were dating in order so that we would be pushing toward the next generation.
00:28:09.000The purpose of marriage is childbearing and childrearing.
00:28:11.000One of the things I find so interesting about all of these columns, there is never a mention ever of children.
00:28:17.000That's the purpose of marriage, by the way.
00:28:18.000Because if the purpose of marriage is just getting together with somebody that you love and you want to have sex with and you want to live together, then you can love and have sex and hang out with that person without getting married.
00:28:59.000And I told him I didn't want this kind of involvement to be part of our relationship.
00:29:02.000When he talked to her about it, she exploded, yelling, if she were Jewish, she'd understand.
00:29:06.000I wasn't invited to the Seders that his family held, despite my saying I loved attending them with my friends.
00:29:10.000There were times at church I saw couples worshiping together and felt pangs of jealousy.
00:29:13.000But I told myself every relationship had its problems, and these were relatively minor.
00:29:17.000Well, maybe it should have been a hint to you that when you were at church and you saw couples worshipping together, that could be you if you pick someone who has a culture closer to your own.
00:29:25.000There are important differences between religions.
00:29:28.000There are important differences between methods of thought and values.
00:29:32.000If you want to marry someone and have a successful marriage, you must have a common set of values.
00:29:36.000The best part of this article is the very end of it.
00:30:19.000When you pick the wrong person, it is partially your fault.
00:30:21.000There are some cases where the person is a sociopath, and it's not your fault if things go wrong.
00:30:26.000But she did it twice, with apparently two very similar guys, and then it fell apart both times.
00:30:31.000Maybe her decision-making process is the problem.
00:30:34.000Maybe she's making bad dating decisions, and maybe instead of blaming the Jews for your bad dating, you might think about picking a better dating strategy, you silly, silly idiot.
00:31:08.000Okay, I don't know any other way to put it.
00:31:09.000I don't know if it's murder, I don't know if it's manslaughter, but it's certainly at the very least a manslaughter, and the fact that he didn't go to jail for manslaughter.
00:31:16.000If I drove off a bridge with a woman in my car, and then I left for 12 hours and didn't call the cops, and then when they came back, she had not drowned, she had suffocated in the air bubble at the top of the car,
00:31:28.000Okay, and the top of the car was visible above the water, okay?
00:31:31.000The wheels of the car were visible above the water, meaning that all Ted Kennedy had to do was get out of the car and call the cops, and they would have been there in 10 minutes, and they would have gotten Mary Jo Kopechni out of the car.
00:31:58.000You should watch this movie because we here at The Ben Shapiro Show talk routinely about the importance of supporting conservative film and TV.
00:32:05.000That you need to actually support conservative entertainment.
00:32:07.000You want to whine and bitch and moan about the entertainment industry?
00:32:10.000Well, that means you actually have to support conservative films when they come out, or even films that are not conservative, but factually tell stories that are important to conservatives.
00:32:39.000Demonstrate to Hollywood that if they make films that appeal to people who are outside of Hollywood, maybe they will do a little bit better.
00:32:45.000Okay, so in a second, I'm going to tell you about the worst tweet of the day.
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00:34:13.000Okay, so I'd be remiss if I did not read you the worst tweet of the day.
00:34:16.000So following on the worst dating article in recent memory from the Washington Post, the worst tweet of the day, this one comes courtesy of someone named Nikki Glaser.
00:34:24.000Now, Nikki Glaser, I don't even know who this person is.
00:34:31.000But when people on the left suggest that people on the right are true fascists, all I have to do is read you this tweet to demonstrate just how fascist some folks on the left are.
00:35:42.000As for me, I'll be having as many kids as I damn well please.
00:35:45.000Because as a human being, I feel the necessity of passing along the species to the next generation, and passing along important values to that next generation.
00:35:53.000You want to know why, in the end, leftist values are going to lose?
00:35:55.000Because so many of these leftists are not even having children.
00:35:59.000If you don't have kids, that means there are fewer children in the next generation who are going to embrace your set of values.
00:36:15.000Well, speaking of some silliness and stupidity, I want to talk a little bit about Jill McCabe.
00:36:20.000Jill McCabe is the wife of Andrew McCabe.
00:36:23.000Andrew McCabe is, of course, a former FBI deputy director.
00:36:27.000Jill McCabe is his wife and is an emergency room pediatrician, and she wrote an entire op-ed at the Washington Post about why Donald Trump was being mean to her.
00:36:34.000And she says that Donald Trump was mean to her and Andrew McCabe.
00:36:36.000You'll remember Andy McCabe, the deputy FBI director, was fired by the Trump administration in the aftermath of an inspector general report that suggested that Andrew McCabe
00:36:45.000Had lied to the investigators about talking to the media.
00:36:48.000And that DOJ investigator general report was a nonpartisan report.
00:36:52.000It did not come from the Trump partisan wing of the DOJ.
00:36:55.000The inspector general over there is someone Trump has openly criticized before.
00:36:58.000They recommended that McCabe be fired based on his malfeasance in office.
00:37:02.000Well, Joe McCabe is in the Washington Post now defending her husband and suggesting that there is no politics surrounding her husband.
00:37:08.000One of the big questions about McCabe, as you'll recall, is that McCabe was overseeing the Hillary investigation at the same time that his wife was receiving money from Terry McAuliffe, the governor of Virginia and a Hillary Clinton ally.
00:37:20.000And it was pretty clearly a conflict of interest.
00:37:23.000Even other FBI agents who didn't like Trump, people like Lisa Page and Carter Page and Lisa Strzok, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
00:37:33.000Those FBI agents who were having an affair with each other, they were tweeting to each other, they were texting to each other, that they wished that McCabe would step down and recuse himself from the Hillary investigation and from the Trump investigation because of his wife's ties to the Democratic Party.
00:37:45.000Well, now she has a full piece in the Washington Post suggesting that she is a victim
00:38:02.000Okay, it is true that her husband actually used his government email address in order to forward her political campaign at the same time that he was investigating Hillary Clinton.
00:38:10.000But again, the media is only interested in certain types of scandals.
00:38:13.000So the media is very interested, for example, right now in the scandal surrounding Scott Pruitt, who's the head of the EPA.
00:38:18.000He looks like he may be on his way out because Scott Pruitt
00:38:22.000Apparently was using government funds for the for vacationing and using government security for his wife at Disney World or some such.
00:38:31.000You know, corruption is corruption and is wrong.
00:38:32.000And if Scott Pruitt did that, then he should go.
00:38:35.000But it's amazing the double standard that is held by the media that Scott Pruitt is obviously super duper corrupt.
00:38:39.000But Andy McCabe, who has apparently raised something like $500,000 online from people who are just sympathetic to his plight.
00:39:06.000Okay, meanwhile, President Trump has been on an epic spree of Good Trump, Bad Trump.
00:39:10.000So, as you know, here on the Ben Shapiro Show, we are the designers of Good Trump, Bad Trump.
00:39:14.000And Good Trump, Bad Trump is our mechanism for viewing the Trump administration and President Trump in particular, because Trump does a lot of good things and he does a lot of bad things.
00:39:38.000Here's something that he did that was good.
00:39:39.000So yesterday, as I mentioned, the president went off on this caravan of illegal immigrants who are making their way to the United States through Mexican territory.
00:39:48.000It turns out, according to the Washington Post, the Mexican government on Monday evening moved to break up the caravan of immigrants traveling through southern Mexico, with immigration officials registering the travelers and suggesting some could receive humanitarian visas while others would have to leave Mexico.
00:40:01.000The caravan, estimated at more than 1,000 migrants, came from Central America and has gained increasing visibility because of tweets by President Trump that have criticized Mexico for not doing more to stop the flow of migrants to the southern border of the United States.
00:40:14.000The bulk of the migrant group, part of an annual caravan intended to raise awareness about the plight of people making the dangerous trek across Mexico toward the United States, is currently in the town of Matias Romero Avendano in the southern state of Oaxaca.
00:40:28.000A portion of the group rode by train to the neighboring state of Veracruz, according to caravan organizers, but it's unclear whether it has dispersed at this point.
00:40:38.000If Trump does not tweet over and over and over, there is not this immediate high-profile move by the Mexican government to break up the caravan.
00:41:03.000The bad Trump for you is that the stock market took a serious dive yesterday.
00:41:06.000And one of the reasons the stock market is taking a dive and going up and down like a yo-yo is because of all the volatility and unpredictability coming out of the Trump administration with regard to the economy.
00:41:31.000And this idea that Amazon and Washington Post are part of some sort of evil consortium in order to get Trump is just stupid, okay?
00:41:38.000Amazon is an American company that employs tens of thousands of people, allows tens of thousands of more people to be employed by selling via Amazon as their common carrier, essentially.
00:41:48.000But Trump is attacking Amazon because he doesn't like Jeff Bezos.
00:42:19.000So when he says that Amazon is treating the post office as a delivery boy, that's like saying that Amazon is treating Baskin Robbins as its ice cream manufacturing shop.
00:43:05.000Fault rates have been a thing for literally my entire lifetime.
00:43:09.000Amazon is not taking advantage of the post office.
00:43:11.000The post office is run stupidly because it's a bad government agency that should have been put out of its misery years and years and years ago.
00:43:18.000So President Trump sent Amazon stock into a bit of a tailspin.
00:44:29.000Because my family and I go to a Passover retreat every year, and while we were driving, my entire family was asleep, so I was in the car and bored, and so I put on an old Stephen Sondheim musical called Company.
00:44:40.000If you've never seen Company, it's one of Sondheim's earlier musicals, which is to say it's better.
00:44:47.000is that Sondheim has steadily declined in quality over the course of his career.
00:44:51.000So his high point was Sweeney Todd, and then he followed that up with Into the Woods and Sunday in the Park with George, both of which are good.
00:44:56.000And then he decided that anything that he did that was popular had by nature to be kind of boob bait.
00:45:03.000If people liked it, that meant it wasn't very good.
00:45:04.000So he started doing more and more obscure things.
00:45:06.000He did Assassins, which is about people who assassinated presidents, and each one is like a pastiche number.
00:45:11.000But Company is a very interesting musical.
00:45:13.000I'm trying to remember the year that it was written.
00:45:16.000In which Sondheim discusses the issue of marriage and the entire issue of marriage according to Sondheim is it's conflicting and you're trapped but at the same time you want to be trapped.
00:45:26.000And the story is about this guy named Robert, who is played by Dean Jones.
00:45:30.000You'll remember Dean Jones as the guy from The Love Bug.
00:45:35.000Younger audiences will remember him from Beethoven.
00:45:37.000He's the evil doctor from the movie Beethoven.
00:45:39.000But actually, he's a good actor and he can sing.
00:45:41.000And the story is Robert, who is a single guy, and he has a bunch of married friends, and they're constantly having him over as company.
00:45:48.000And it's about his relationships with them and him them trying to discourage him from getting married, but encourage him to get married and all of this.
00:45:53.000So here is the kind of climactic number in which he suggests that all of his life as a single dude may not be worth it.
00:47:23.000And what's fascinating about this, we can stop it there.
00:47:27.000One of the things that's fascinating about this musical, and I was listening to it now, is that when you listen to this as a single person, you think,
00:47:33.000Yeah, this is what marriage is, right?
00:47:34.000What marriage is, is about finding someone in this kind of existential loneliness and clinging to that person because you have to, because what other choice do you have in life unless you just want to bounce around as an atomistic individual?
00:47:45.000But the thing about the musical is that, as I was saying before about relationship advice, nowhere in here does anyone say, what is the purpose of the marriage?
00:47:54.000This gives you a good reason for falling in love with someone, but it doesn't give you a good reason for building a marriage with someone.
00:48:01.000Because half the musical is comedy about how much marriage sucks, right?
00:48:04.000People getting divorced and people having affairs and all this kind of stuff.
00:48:07.000But the real purpose of marriage is something that's not even discussed in the musical because people in modern Western society do not even discuss this in the context of marriage, and that is children.
00:48:19.000I have one who's four and one who's almost two.
00:48:22.000And the purpose of the marriage, even in the years when my wife and I did not have kids, we were married for six years before we had children, even when we were dating, we understood that the purpose of building a strong foundation with each other is that this foundation would be there for our children.
00:48:37.000And this is not present when you listen to company.
00:48:38.000When you listen to company, somebody has to make an affirmative case to you why you should give up promiscuity or just living together and instead make a final commitment to somebody and say, this is why I should make the final commitment.
00:48:50.000At the end of the musical is because it's better than the alternatives, right?
00:48:53.000That's really what he's saying in that song.
00:48:55.000He's saying, you know, that's actually said by one of the other characters to Dean Jones in that song, to Robert's character in that song.
00:49:02.000They actually say, you have a lot of reasons not to do it, but you have no reasons, but you have no reasons, you know, basically, there are lots of reasons that you have why you shouldn't get married, but the worst reason of all not to get married is because you're scared, right?
00:49:16.000You should just get married because you really have no other choice in life but to make that call.
00:49:20.000But you do have other choices, obviously.
00:49:22.000And you can't form a relationship based on this is the second worst thing.
00:49:25.000A relationship is not the second worst thing.
00:49:27.000A relationship is the best thing, because it's a part of building.
00:50:03.000There have been three stages in my life, right?
00:50:05.000There was being single, there was getting married, not having kids, and then there was having kids.
00:50:10.000And the way that it worked is when you're single, your high point, like your highest point of ecstasy is about a seven, and your lowest point is about a two, right?
00:50:17.000And it feels like a zero, but it really is a two.
00:50:19.000Okay, once you get married, then your high point goes to about a 10, and your low point goes to about a zero, right?
00:50:24.000Because if something happens to your spouse, it is just awful, much, much worse than when you were single and something bad happened to you.
00:50:29.000Then when you have kids, your high point goes to 1,000, and your low point goes to negative infinity.
00:50:35.000Okay, because when something bad happens to your child, it is the worst thing ever, but this is what helps you grow as a human being, because you are now responsible for something beyond yourself, something that can't take care of itself, and something you have to shape and mold.
00:50:45.000You are now part of a world-building experience.
00:50:49.000You're building an entire world in your children and the purpose of marriage is to set the foundations.
00:50:54.000It's to set the granite at the base of that building so you can build that world.
00:50:58.000And when you don't view it that way, then marriage just becomes something that you do because you have no better alternative.
00:51:02.000So, I think company does a good job of exposing that even if that's not really what it's meant to expose.
00:51:06.000I think the marriage that is proposed by company is not utterly fulfilling because it ignores what marriage is actually there to do.
00:51:11.000Okay, time for a very quick thing that I hate.
00:51:19.000Okay, so there's a study from Ohio State University that has just come out showing that fake news probably played a significant role in depressing Hillary Clinton's support on Election Day.
00:51:46.000Well, the study's authors inserted three popular fake news stories from 2016 into a 281-question YouGov survey given to a sample
00:51:54.000That included 585 Obama supporters, according to the Washington Post, 23% of whom didn't vote for Clinton, either by abstaining or picking another candidate.
00:52:03.00010% voted for Trump, which is in line with other estimates.
00:52:46.000Or, I loved Hillary, but then I heard that story about how she sold weapons to ISIS.
00:52:51.000There was not a Hillary supporter in America who believed that Hillary Clinton sold weapons to ISIS, but there were a lot of people who thought Hillary Clinton was a corrupt charlatan.
00:52:59.000And so when somebody said she sold weapons to ISIS, they probably went, oh, maybe.
00:53:02.000And then those were the people who were least likely to vote for her anyway.
00:53:05.000So the emphasis on fake news is designed to crack down on social media, to push social media to crack down on alternative sources of news that are not approved by the mainstream media.