The Ben Shapiro Show - April 03, 2018


Standing Up To The Outrage Police | Ep. 509

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The Media’s Self-Defeating War | Ep. 508 Trouble At YouTube | Ep. 510

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Fox News stands up for Laura Ingraham. Democrats struggle for a message. And we have for you the worst dating hot take of the year, bar none. The Ben Shapiro Show is on all of the social medias, if you search for it, you'll find us. Enjoy this mashup of President Trump's goading of Amazon, and the worst tweet I've ever seen from a fascist. Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. The opinions expressed here are our own, not those of our companies, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of our respective employers. If you like what you hear here, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms. It helps us to keep pushing the boundaries of what's possible and make sure we all have access to the most influential and influential shows on the airwaves. Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your fellow podcasters! Tweet me to let us know what you thought of this episode and what you think of it! Timestamps: 5:00 - President Trump goes after Amazon 6:30 - Why Amazon is a fascist 7:40 - What do you think about Clear Backpacks? 8:15 - Is there a better solution to carry around your guns in your school backpacks 9:20 - What kind of guns you should carry in your backpack? 10:00 11: Which gun control solution is better than a better gun control backpack? What's your favorite type of bag? 15:00- What's the worst thing you can you carry around? 16:00 Is it better than your bag size? 17:00 Should I be allowed to have a gun in my school? 18:00 Would you like to buy a clear backpack in the backseat? 19:00 Do you have a better backpack? 22:00 What's a gun that s better than mine? 21:00 How do you want to carry my gun policy? 26: Does your gun ownership? 27:00 My gun ownership problem? 28: Is your gun rights? 29:00 Does my gun ownership should be better than yours? 30:00 Can I have more guns in my bag in my backseat ?

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00:00:00.000 Fox News stands up for Laura Ingraham.
00:00:02.000 Democrats struggle for a message.
00:00:04.000 And we have for you the worst dating hot take of the year, bar none.
00:00:08.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:08.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:14.000 All right, so we have a lot to get to today.
00:00:16.000 We are going to get to President Trump going after Amazon.com. 0.84
00:00:20.000 We are also going to get to one of the worst tweets I have ever seen, proving that some members of the left are clearly fascists.
00:00:26.000 It's a pretty amazing tweet.
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00:01:48.000 Okay, so we begin today with the update with regard to Fox News and Laura Ingraham.
00:01:53.000 So obviously over the last week, David Hogg launched a boycott.
00:01:56.000 He's a Parkland survivor, and he launched a boycott
00:01:59.000 against Laura Ingraham on Fox News because she said something that hurt his feelings about his college admissions.
00:02:04.000 And finally, Fox News came out and defended their host, which is great.
00:02:07.000 They should be doing this.
00:02:08.000 So in a statement, Fox News co-president Jack Abernathy wrote, quote, Good for Fox.
00:02:23.000 The reality is advertisers will come back to Laura's show. 1.00
00:02:25.000 Not that many advertisers dropped her show in the first place, and it wasn't her biggest advertisers that dropped her show to start.
00:02:31.000 But it's pretty amazing that it'd gone this far in the first place.
00:02:35.000 On 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.
00:02:44.000 Pretty amazing, amazing sequence of events.
00:02:46.000 But again, demonstrative, demonstrative of the fact that when it comes to the left's agenda,
00:02:52.000 Yeah, reality and proportionality have nothing to do with anything.
00:02:55.000 Now, speaking of reality and proportionality, Laura Ingraham is going to survive all of this.
00:02:59.000 The 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. 0.92
00:03:04.000 But speaking of proportionality and lack thereof,
00:03:08.000 The students over at Parkland are very, very upset.
00:03:10.000 The 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.
00:03:24.000 And the kids are very, very upset about this.
00:03:25.000 So they are all tweeting out
00:03:27.000 All of this stuff about why the clear backpacks are so terrible.
00:03:30.000 And 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.
00:03:36.000 So Lauren Hogg, who is David's brother and also goes to the high school, she said, So one quick note here.
00:03:55.000 Why is it that my rights have to be taken away?
00:03:58.000 You'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.
00:04:06.000 Sarah Chadwick is another student over there.
00:04:08.000 Well, 0.88
00:04:15.000 Your school, a few moments ago, was a shooting gallery for an evil human being.
00:04:20.000 So 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. 0.82
00:04:26.000 I 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.
00:04:36.000 Do I think this is a great idea, by the way?
00:04:37.000 No.
00:04:37.000 Do I think this is going to do anything?
00:04:38.000 No.
00:04:38.000 Do I think this is moral panic and overblown?
00:04:41.000 Absolutely.
00:04:42.000 Do 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?
00:04:49.000 Or do I think it's more of an intrusion on rights for you to remove full-scale Second Amendment rights?
00:04:54.000 I'm going to go the latter.
00:04:55.000 Delaney 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,
00:05:10.000 There's a bit of irony there.
00:05:11.000 That's all I'm suggesting.
00:05:11.000 Lex Michael, another student there.
00:05:13.000 So again, quick question.
00:05:13.000 You don't have a right to your backpack.
00:05:15.000 You don't have a right to a non-transparent backpack.
00:05:26.000 And as I say once again, do I think this is a smart security idea? 0.99
00:05:29.000 No, I think it's a pretty stupid security idea. 0.95
00:05:31.000 I think that the idea that you're going to be able to view everything through a transparent backpack is not even true. 0.99
00:05:36.000 You can always hide a gun behind a book or inside a book if you wanted to, presumably.
00:05:40.000 But 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.
00:05:49.000 But no rights are being violated when they call for a vast removal
00:05:53.000 of protected weaponry under the Second Amendment from a bunch of strangers who have done nothing to actually create all of this problem.
00:06:00.000 It's just an amazing thing.
00:06:02.000 It didn't stop there.
00:06:02.000 There are even more of these.
00:06:04.000 Jacqueline Koren wrote,
00:06:15.000 OK, well, good for you.
00:06:16.000 So you put March for a Live 100 backpack.
00:06:17.000 It's just the lack of proportionality here is completely incredible.
00:06:23.000 John Barnett, another student, said, OK, this, I think, is my favorite tweet.
00:06:26.000 This is my favorite tweet, because the suggestion now is that if clear backpacks were to make a school safe, then everybody should have one.
00:06:43.000 Well, that's pretty much what we're saying about law-abiding citizens and guns.
00:06:47.000 We think that law-abiding citizens ought to have guns to keep schools safe, and therefore pretty much everybody should have one.
00:06:53.000 So the logic completely escapes them.
00:06:55.000 They make the argument with regard to clear backpacks, but not with regard to guns.
00:06:58.000 Pretty incredible. 1.00
00:06:59.000 And the stupid arguments didn't stop there. 1.00
00:07:00.000 So, last night I got into another flame war with Piers Morgan on Twitter. 0.99
00:07:05.000 For 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.
00:07:15.000 It ended poorly for him.
00:07:16.000 His show was, it dropped dramatically in the ratings after I appeared on his show.
00:07:22.000 He ended up losing his show about a year later.
00:07:25.000 And 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.
00:07:31.000 During 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.
00:07:37.000 And he is still rankling about this some five years later.
00:07:39.000 It's now 2018, and he's still angry about all of this. 0.71
00:07:43.000 And so somebody sort of tweaked him about it yesterday on Twitter, suggesting that hopefully he kept that silly little book.
00:07:51.000 He called the Constitution a silly little book when I handed it to him on the air.
00:07:55.000 Somebody tweeted at him, hopefully you kept that silly little book Ben Shapiro gave you on set.
00:07:58.000 It would come in handy now.
00:07:59.000 And Piers responded by saying, what was silly about it was the size, like its owner.
00:08:03.000 I prefer my copies of the Constitution and my political pundits to be substantial.
00:08:07.000 So this is Piers' go-to, is that he's a tall fellow, which
00:08:11.000 All right.
00:08:12.000 And so I tweeted back at him,
00:08:26.000 You know, he's overcompensating.
00:08:27.000 Beyond that, I think that it is quite possible that he has a constitution inferiority complex.
00:08:35.000 He may be overcompensating for some things.
00:08:37.000 My 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.
00:08:48.000 Try reading your Declaration of Independence.
00:08:51.000 Well, as I said to Piers Morgan, I have read it.
00:08:53.000 Its central contention is that we don't actually have to take advice on the nature of our rights from British douchebags like Piers Morgan.
00:09:00.000 That's pretty much the basis of the Declaration of Independence.
00:09:03.000 So, well done, Piers Morgan.
00:09:05.000 By the way, just side historical note,
00:09:08.000 Piers, do not start trying to cite American history to me.
00:09:11.000 Thomas Jefferson wrote in the original draft of the Declaration of Independence, inalienable.
00:09:15.000 It's written on the Jefferson Memorial.
00:09:17.000 Inalienable, not unalienable.
00:09:19.000 Abraham Lincoln cited it as inalienable.
00:09:21.000 Bill Clinton cited it as inalienable.
00:09:23.000 Barack Obama cited it as inalienable.
00:09:25.000 So Piers Morgan is now the grammar police when he's not attempting to take away everybody's guns.
00:09:29.000 Obviously, we did a good job in breaking away from Britain, so we wouldn't have to listen to people like Piers Morgan.
00:09:34.000 Now, one of the reasons this whole debate keeps burning out is that it constantly devolves.
00:09:38.000 Democrats 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. 1.00
00:09:46.000 But there was some common ground for a brief moment in time after the Parkland shootings.
00:09:50.000 So Marco Rubio, the senator from Florida, whom Parkland students castigated as akin to a murderer,
00:09:56.000 Right, on CNN.
00:09:57.000 He 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.
00:10:03.000 Gun violence restraining orders are these measures that are designed to prevent the severely mentally ill from getting guns. 0.75
00:10:09.000 Relatives, 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.
00:10:17.000 This was a common sense measure that both sides were attempting to come together over, but the left can't even decide what it wants.
00:10:23.000 The left decided to ignore
00:10:25.000 All of these common efforts and decided instead to yell at each other about gun control.
00:10:31.000 They 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.
00:10:40.000 So Doug Jones, for example, the Democrat from Alabama, he's not even willing to embrace the full gun control agenda of the Democratic Party.
00:10:48.000 I'm not sure I can go that far just yet, George.
00:10:51.000 We've got to get done what I think can be done right now.
00:10:55.000 Let's reach across and within our own party to do those things that we can do.
00:10:59.000 And that to me is where I want to focus.
00:11:02.000 I really don't believe that a gun ban is feasible right now.
00:11:05.000 And I think that there are things that can be done that we need to look at.
00:11:08.000 And I think I outlined most of those in my speech on the floor last week.
00:11:13.000 So as you can see, even the left is deeply split on these issues.
00:11:15.000 Well, 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.
00:11:24.000 That's the only way that they can win.
00:11:26.000 They can't stick to message.
00:11:27.000 They can't try to save lives because that wouldn't help them politically.
00:11:30.000 And 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.
00:11:36.000 This 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.
00:11:42.000 Otherwise, I'll discuss in just a second why that is.
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00:12:55.000 Okay, so, as I say,
00:12:57.000 The left is struggling here, even though they thought they had a lot of momentum, a lot of impetus on the gun control issue.
00:13:02.000 They've blown all of that by alienating so many Americans.
00:13:05.000 And you wonder, why is it that they're doing that?
00:13:07.000 Right now, there's a rather unpopular Republican president by polling numbers.
00:13:11.000 Trump today was tweeting out that he's doing really well in the Rasmussen poll.
00:13:15.000 You can't cite one poll.
00:13:17.000 You have to cite the poll average.
00:13:18.000 The poll averages tend to be pretty close.
00:13:20.000 And for all those people who said in the last election cycle the polls were wrong,
00:13:23.000 No, certain polls were wrong.
00:13:25.000 The national poll average was exactly correct.
00:13:27.000 It had Hillary Clinton winning by anywhere from three to five points. 1.00
00:13:29.000 She won the national popular vote by about three points.
00:13:32.000 That is not a suggestion she won the election, but it is a suggestion the national polling on average is pretty good.
00:13:38.000 The national polling average for President Trump is not very good, and yet Democrats are still struggling.
00:13:42.000 Democrats may not win back the House.
00:13:44.000 Every time it seems like the Democrats leap out to a big lead, that lead immediately begins to recede because Democrats are so extreme.
00:13:50.000 So what exactly is driving the extremism of the Democrats?
00:13:53.000 Why can't they just sit there and say, listen, we don't like Trump.
00:13:56.000 You don't like Trump.
00:13:57.000 Nobody likes Trump.
00:13:57.000 Vote for us.
00:13:58.000 Why isn't that their platform?
00:13:59.000 Why isn't their platform?
00:14:00.000 You know, we just want to be more moderate and provide a check on the president.
00:14:03.000 This is what parties normally say in years when they are not in the White House and it's an off-year election.
00:14:08.000 Why can't they just do that?
00:14:09.000 The answer is because there's a deep-seated instinct on the part of some folks on the left that does not like what America is.
00:14:16.000 Does not like what America is.
00:14:18.000 And 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.
00:14:24.000 So there's a really fascinating piece.
00:14:26.000 Over at the Atlantic by a guy named William Barber in the Martin Luther King issue.
00:14:30.000 And he talks about the real crisis that is ailing America.
00:14:33.000 And here's what he says.
00:14:34.000 He says,
00:14:46.000 That's some pretty extreme stuff.
00:14:48.000 That's some pretty extreme stuff that William Barber is putting out there.
00:14:51.000 It says, If you really think that Trump won because he was winking and nodding at the KKK,
00:15:06.000 Uh, no.
00:15:06.000 No.
00:15:07.000 If you recall, I shellacked him on the air when he refused to condemn the KKK.
00:15:11.000 And then, of course, he came out within 24 hours and condemned the KKK.
00:15:14.000 Not because of me, but because Trump knew that this was an unwinnable battle and he had said the wrong thing.
00:15:19.000 And so he moved on beyond that.
00:15:21.000 But the left is really ensconced in this vision of the United States as a deep, dark place.
00:15:27.000 In a second, I'm going to explain how deep that vision goes and why it bodes ill for their electoral prospects.
00:15:31.000 So here is what this article says.
00:15:33.000 First of all, racism in the United States was at an all-time low before the
00:15:46.000 Election of Barack Obama.
00:15:47.000 It was actually declining and then Barack Obama was elected and he decided to polarize people for political gain based on race and ethnicity.
00:15:54.000 That was a problem.
00:15:55.000 Poverty in the United States.
00:15:56.000 Okay, if you think that poverty in the United States is the chief problem crippling the United States, you do not have any global perspective.
00:16:01.000 The poorest people in America are rich by global standards.
00:16:04.000 According to Pew Research, 9 out of 10 Americans are rich people by global standards.
00:16:09.000 9 out of 10.
00:16:09.000 The number of people in the United States living in extreme poverty by global standards is significantly less than 2%.
00:16:17.000 Environmental devastation?
00:16:18.000 Where is this environmental devastation that you're talking about in the United States?
00:16:21.000 The environment has been getting better for decades.
00:16:23.000 I live in Los Angeles.
00:16:24.000 The entire city used to be covered in a thick blanket of smog.
00:16:27.000 The environment has been getting steadily better in the United States for years and years and years.
00:16:31.000 And the war economy?
00:16:33.000 What war economy?
00:16:34.000 What war economy?
00:16:36.000 Where exactly is the mass spending at, you know, World War II levels?
00:16:40.000 A war economy, normally you're talking about 40% of GDP being eaten up by the military.
00:16:44.000 Right now you're talking about 20% of the American budget.
00:16:46.000 Forget the GDP being eaten up by the military.
00:16:49.000 And that's a fairly normal percentage for American history.
00:16:52.000 But here is what William J. Barber contends.
00:16:56.000 He says all of these are the real sicknesses in America.
00:16:59.000 He says, Again, this is incorrect.
00:17:23.000 And the Supreme Court said, those might be obsolete because it's 55 years later, guys.
00:17:27.000 And this is apparently gutting of the Voting Rights Act.
00:17:29.000 The 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.
00:17:45.000 Politicians who try to suppress voting are using their power to hurt the poor and the working class, white, brown, and black.
00:17:50.000 There is no effort in the United States to suppress the vote.
00:17:53.000 None.
00:17:54.000 In 2008 and 2012, the black percentage of the voting base significantly outperformed the black percentage of the population.
00:18:00.000 The number of people who were black who voted as a percentage was very, very high in 2008 and 2012. 0.98
00:18:06.000 They didn't show up for Hillary Clinton in 2016 because Hillary was a garbage candidate that no one wanted to vote for. 0.99
00:18:13.000 And this is what the left can't accept. 0.99
00:18:14.000 The left can't accept that Trump won.
00:18:16.000 And so that means America is bad.
00:18:18.000 Every time a Republican wins, America is a terrible place.
00:18:21.000 Every time a Democrat wins, America is a wonderful place.
00:18:24.000 America is a place of hope and change.
00:18:26.000 It's amazing.
00:18:26.000 The homeless just disappear from the news.
00:18:28.000 You notice this.
00:18:28.000 Every time there's a Republican who's president, the homeless reappear on the streets.
00:18:32.000 Just like magic.
00:18:33.000 There were no homeless until Trump was president.
00:18:35.000 There was no poverty until Trump was president.
00:18:37.000 No racism until Trump was president.
00:18:39.000 We were living in an Edenic age, and then the original sin.
00:18:43.000 Hillary Clinton lost her bid for presidency of the United States, and that was the end.
00:18:47.000 America was now enmeshed immediately, like a light switch.
00:18:50.000 Trump takes office in January, and boom, environmental degradation.
00:18:54.000 It's like Logan's run, right?
00:18:56.000 The entire country is being overrun by vines.
00:18:59.000 We're killing our old.
00:19:00.000 The young are being left out to die in the middle of the wilderness.
00:19:03.000 It's soil and green.
00:19:04.000 We're feeding people to other people, but packaging it as potato chips.
00:19:07.000 This is the way that the left actually views the way that the world works.
00:19:12.000 Trump was elected and they have gone off their rocker.
00:19:14.000 And this is why they're having such trouble gaining credibility with the American people.
00:19:17.000 Because 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.
00:19:25.000 And more importantly,
00:19:27.000 It's not that you're saying the situation in America is bad.
00:19:29.000 You're saying the people of America are bad.
00:19:31.000 Because when you read that again, there's no way to read this without seeing a significant amount of anger at people in red states. 1.00
00:19:37.000 Those people in red states are just rubes and morons. 1.00
00:19:40.000 Those people in red states are corrupt and evil. 1.00
00:19:42.000 Those people in red states are immigrant haters. 0.99
00:19:45.000 This is a deep perspective in the Democratic Party.
00:19:47.000 It's what Hillary Clinton has been saying when she goes abroad. 0.99
00:19:50.000 America's a sexist, racist place. 0.60
00:19:52.000 The intersectional politics being pushed by the left, this stuff is not going to work, okay? 0.84
00:19:56.000 This stuff is not going to attract people in the United States to voting Democrat.
00:20:01.000 It's just not going to happen.
00:20:03.000 And the fact that folks on the left don't understand this is a particularly good reason why they could possibly not do well in the midterm elections when all the indicators would be pushing in their favor.
00:20:14.000 Okay.
00:20:14.000 So, I want to read you the worst column on dating I have ever read.
00:20:18.000 But first, I'm going to talk to you about Dollar Shave Club. 0.81
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00:21:47.000 I have been giddy over this article for the better part of 24 hours.
00:21:51.000 This is an article that appeared in the Washington Post.
00:21:52.000 Now, the Washington Post has had some real doozies in the last 24 hours.
00:21:57.000 They 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.
00:22:10.000 The actual title of the piece over at Washington Post is, Why Xi's Lifting of Term Limits is a Good Thing.
00:22:18.000 I 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.
00:22:32.000 And it's weird that the Washington Post didn't run a similar thing about Vladimir Putin rigging an election in Russia.
00:22:38.000 So they're very anti-Russia and very pro-China.
00:22:43.000 So that's kind of weird.
00:22:44.000 But that wasn't the worst editorial at the Washington Post.
00:22:46.000 This one was, okay?
00:22:47.000 It's by a woman named Carrie Purcell.
00:22:49.000 Never heard of this lady.
00:22:51.000 No idea who she is.
00:22:52.000 Don't know her from Bob.
00:22:53.000 I mean, she's a random person. 0.96
00:22:56.000 A New York-based journalist who writes about theater, film, TV, and politics.
00:22:59.000 Which is to say, she is a bore. 1.00
00:23:02.000 Okay, so here is what she actually wrote.
00:23:03.000 This is an amazing piece.
00:23:04.000 It is perfect for Passover. 0.77
00:23:06.000 And this is the title.
00:23:07.000 You ready for this?
00:23:08.000 I am tired of being a Jewish man's rebellion. 0.96
00:23:12.000 What in the world? 0.90
00:23:14.000 What in the world?
00:23:15.000 I mean, can you imagine if somebody wrote a piece for the Washington Post? 0.99
00:23:19.000 A 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. 0.95
00:23:29.000 That's what this piece is about.
00:23:30.000 And 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.
00:23:42.000 He really is.
00:23:43.000 So we're going to go through it because it's just, it's intensely amusing.
00:23:45.000 So here is what, here is what Kerry Purcell, this genius says.
00:23:49.000 At my very first job in New York, a colleague jokingly informed me, you came in a wasp, but you're leaving a Jew.
00:23:55.000 That statement was in reference to the demographics of the office's staff.
00:23:58.000 Almost 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.
00:24:05.000 At the time, I had no idea she would end up being so right.
00:24:08.000 Ooh, ominous.
00:24:09.000 This is where you play the organ in the background softly.
00:24:11.000 As a teenager, I attended exactly one bat mitzvah, but moving to New York provided endless opportunities to learn about the Jewish faith.
00:24:17.000 Friends invited me to join their families for Passover seders and Hanukkah celebrations.
00:24:21.000 However, 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. 0.91
00:24:31.000 Okay, so how did Judaism ruin her life? 1.00
00:24:34.000 It's amazing.
00:24:35.000 This is in the pages of the Washington Post.
00:24:56.000 At first glance, I fulfill the stereotypes of a white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
00:25:00.000 This woman writes, I'm blonde, often wear pearls, and can mix an excellent and very strong martini.
00:25:04.000 Manners and etiquette are important to me, and when I'm stressed, I often cope by cleaning.
00:25:08.000 I 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
00:25:17.000 I 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.
00:25:22.000 He says,
00:25:39.000 At the very least, they were the most lackadaisical Jews I'd ever met. 1.00
00:25:41.000 They'd never fasted on Yom Kippur or observed Jewish holidays on their own.
00:25:45.000 And when they traveled to celebrate holidays with their families, they made it clear it was an obligation rather than a choice.
00:25:49.000 On more than one occasion in conversation, we laughed about the fact that I knew more about the Jewish faith than they did. 0.99
00:25:54.000 I knew having an interfaith relationship could be complicated.
00:25:57.000 And if we stayed together, there would be some difficulties.
00:25:59.000 But I thought it could work.
00:26:00.000 Neither of us were looking to convert the other.
00:26:01.000 We respected each other's faith and culture.
00:26:03.000 And as long as we were able to talk about it, I thought we'd be able to work through any issues that came up.
00:26:08.000 And then she cites a bunch of statistics about interfaith marriages.
00:26:11.000 She doesn't cite the statistic about the divorce rate in interfaith marriages, which is significantly higher than the divorce rate in non-interfaith marriages.
00:26:18.000 So this is always the inconvenient part of the interfaith marriage discussion.
00:26:22.000 I feel this way about interpolitical dating.
00:26:24.000 I was asked recently on a college campus whether a conservative could date a leftist.
00:26:29.000 I said, you can date them, don't marry them. 0.96
00:26:31.000 And I feel the same way about a leftist.
00:26:33.000 If 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.
00:26:39.000 It's just not going to go well.
00:26:40.000 You're not going to want to raise your kids in the same way.
00:26:42.000 You're not going to have the same social values.
00:26:44.000 But again, this is what happens when you have a society that is very much focused on sex,
00:26:49.000 And very much focused on the surface of relationships, just having fun and going on dates and reading the New York Times together.
00:26:56.000 But 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.
00:27:03.000 Okay, if that's your perception of how a relationship goes, you know nothing about relationships.
00:27:07.000 But we're a society that has largely discarded the deeper meaning of relationships, which is rooted in values and purpose.
00:27:13.000 A life is rooted in values and purpose.
00:27:15.000 You want to live a fulfilled, meaningful life?
00:27:17.000 You must have a telos.
00:27:18.000 In the Greek terminology, you must have a purpose.
00:27:20.000 The same thing is true of a relationship.
00:27:22.000 Everything you do that is important in your life should have a purpose.
00:27:25.000 If you feel aimless at your job, you don't like your job.
00:27:27.000 You have to have a purpose.
00:27:28.000 If you feel aimless in your relationship, you're not going to like your relationship.
00:27:32.000 Your relationship must have a higher goal or purpose.
00:27:34.000 You're building something together.
00:27:36.000 On 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. 0.70
00:27:48.000 On my first date with my wife, we talked about free will and determinism.
00:27:52.000 First date.
00:27:53.000 For three hours.
00:27:55.000 And 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.
00:28:03.000 This is on our first date because we were dating for marriage, right?
00:28:05.000 We were dating in order so that we would be pushing toward the next generation.
00:28:09.000 The purpose of marriage is childbearing and childrearing.
00:28:11.000 One of the things I find so interesting about all of these columns, there is never a mention ever of children.
00:28:16.000 Never.
00:28:17.000 That's the purpose of marriage, by the way.
00:28:18.000 Because 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.
00:28:29.000 You don't have to build anything.
00:28:30.000 You can just live with that person until it becomes convenient or interesting to move on to another person.
00:28:35.000 But when it comes time to commit, people want to commit to people they feel a common purpose with.
00:28:41.000 But that's not what this lady is writing. 0.99
00:28:43.000 She writes about her tense moments in these relationships.
00:28:46.000 She's dating Jewish guys.
00:28:48.000 One of their mothers was extremely overbearing, somehow getting my cell phone number and calling me, asking where her son was. 1.00
00:28:53.000 I didn't know where he was and her calling made me incredibly uncomfortable.
00:28:56.000 I asked my boyfriend how she got my number.
00:28:58.000 He swore he didn't give it to her.
00:28:59.000 And I told him I didn't want this kind of involvement to be part of our relationship.
00:29:02.000 When he talked to her about it, she exploded, yelling, if she were Jewish, she'd understand. 0.99
00:29:06.000 I wasn't invited to the Seders that his family held, despite my saying I loved attending them with my friends.
00:29:10.000 There were times at church I saw couples worshiping together and felt pangs of jealousy.
00:29:13.000 But I told myself every relationship had its problems, and these were relatively minor.
00:29:17.000 Well, 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.
00:29:25.000 There are important differences between religions.
00:29:28.000 There are important differences between methods of thought and values.
00:29:32.000 If you want to marry someone and have a successful marriage, you must have a common set of values.
00:29:36.000 The best part of this article is the very end of it.
00:29:38.000 Okay, here's what it says.
00:29:55.000 All right, Lenny Reifenstahl, calm down there.
00:29:57.000 Just amazing, amazing stuff in the pages of the Washington Post.
00:30:00.000 But again, it says something about dating.
00:30:02.000 In dating, for my generation, maybe the boomers on, the focus has been on personal pleasure at the expense of values. 0.99
00:30:09.000 And not only that, the focus has been on blaming everyone else except for yourself when you set stupid standards for your own dating. 0.99
00:30:14.000 This is her fault. 1.00
00:30:15.000 It's her fault.
00:30:16.000 She picked the guy.
00:30:16.000 It didn't work out.
00:30:18.000 That's partially her fault.
00:30:19.000 When you pick the wrong person, it is partially your fault.
00:30:21.000 There are some cases where the person is a sociopath, and it's not your fault if things go wrong.
00:30:26.000 But she did it twice, with apparently two very similar guys, and then it fell apart both times.
00:30:31.000 Maybe her decision-making process is the problem. 1.00
00:30:34.000 Maybe 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. 1.00
00:30:44.000 Okay, so. 1.00
00:30:45.000 In a second, I want to discuss the worst tweet of the day.
00:30:50.000 But first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Chappaquiddick.
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00:31:08.000 Okay, I don't know any other way to put it.
00:31:09.000 I 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.
00:31:16.000 Let's put it this way.
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00:31:28.000 Okay, and the top of the car was visible above the water, okay?
00:31:31.000 The 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.
00:31:41.000 That's all he had to do.
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00:31:51.000 So, here's why you should see the movie besides the fact that it is gripping and well-acted and well-written and factual.
00:31:56.000 There's no speculation.
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00:32:07.000 You want to whine and bitch and moan about the entertainment industry? 1.00
00:32:10.000 Well, 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.
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00:32:45.000 Okay, so in a second, I'm going to tell you about the worst tweet of the day.
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00:34:13.000 Okay, so I'd be remiss if I did not read you the worst tweet of the day.
00:34:16.000 So 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.
00:34:24.000 Now, Nikki Glaser, I don't even know who this person is.
00:34:28.000 I guess she's on Comedy Central. 0.88
00:34:29.000 She's a comedian on Comedy Central.
00:34:31.000 But 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.
00:34:39.000 You ready for this?
00:34:41.000 It's about Donald Trump Jr.
00:34:42.000 So Donald Trump Jr.
00:34:43.000 and his wife are getting a divorce.
00:34:44.000 It's tragic, okay?
00:34:45.000 When people who are married and have kids are getting divorced, it's tragic.
00:34:48.000 It's not tragic when you don't have kids.
00:34:49.000 When you don't have kids, your business.
00:34:51.000 When you have kids, it's tragic.
00:34:53.000 Now there are third parties involved.
00:34:54.000 Here's what Nikki Glaser tweeted, quote, Okay, there now?
00:35:06.000 Why should people still be allowed to have five kids? 1.00
00:35:10.000 So it's the perspective of the left that you should be able to put your willy anywhere you please, right?
00:35:15.000 In anyone, tree, rock, people, it doesn't matter, right?
00:35:17.000 That should go anywhere.
00:35:18.000 But if you decide to sire children and rear them, and you can afford to do so, and it has no externalities,
00:35:23.000 You should not be allowed to have five children because children are evil, do you understand?
00:35:27.000 And we have to stop you from having five children.
00:35:29.000 Why are people still allowed to have five kids? 1.00
00:35:32.000 How about this, Nikki?
00:35:33.000 You have zero.
00:35:34.000 Okay, you start.
00:35:36.000 I would prefer that you have no kids.
00:35:38.000 Okay, you start.
00:35:39.000 Sterilization.
00:35:40.000 Go for it.
00:35:40.000 All you.
00:35:42.000 As for me, I'll be having as many kids as I damn well please.
00:35:45.000 Because 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.
00:35:53.000 You want to know why, in the end, leftist values are going to lose?
00:35:55.000 Because so many of these leftists are not even having children.
00:35:59.000 If you don't have kids, that means there are fewer children in the next generation who are going to embrace your set of values.
00:36:04.000 But, I mean, talk about fascists.
00:36:06.000 They want to take your guns, and then they want to ask you why you should be allowed to have children.
00:36:09.000 That's not scary in any way.
00:36:10.000 That's not eugenic in any way.
00:36:12.000 Just unbelievable.
00:36:14.000 Just unbelievable. 1.00
00:36:15.000 Well, speaking of some silliness and stupidity, I want to talk a little bit about Jill McCabe. 1.00
00:36:20.000 Jill McCabe is the wife of Andrew McCabe. 0.99
00:36:23.000 Andrew McCabe is, of course, a former FBI deputy director.
00:36:27.000 Jill 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.
00:36:34.000 And she says that Donald Trump was mean to her and Andrew McCabe.
00:36:36.000 You'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
00:36:45.000 Had lied to the investigators about talking to the media.
00:36:48.000 And that DOJ investigator general report was a nonpartisan report.
00:36:52.000 It did not come from the Trump partisan wing of the DOJ.
00:36:55.000 The inspector general over there is someone Trump has openly criticized before.
00:36:58.000 They recommended that McCabe be fired based on his malfeasance in office.
00:37:02.000 Well, Joe McCabe is in the Washington Post now defending her husband and suggesting that there is no politics surrounding her husband.
00:37:08.000 One 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.
00:37:20.000 And it was pretty clearly a conflict of interest.
00:37:23.000 Even other FBI agents who didn't like Trump, people like Lisa Page and Carter Page and Lisa Strzok, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
00:37:32.000 Thank you.
00:37:33.000 Those 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.
00:37:45.000 Well, now she has a full piece in the Washington Post suggesting that she is a victim
00:37:49.000 of evil, evil Trump.
00:37:50.000 Now, Trump has said some nasty things about her because he's Trump. 0.96
00:37:53.000 I mean, this is what he does.
00:37:54.000 Like, are we going to pretend that Trump doesn't say nasty things about people?
00:37:56.000 He does it all the time.
00:37:57.000 But she's suggesting that her husband is clean as the driven snow.
00:38:01.000 And this is not true.
00:38:02.000 Okay, 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.
00:38:10.000 But again, the media is only interested in certain types of scandals.
00:38:13.000 So the media is very interested, for example, right now in the scandal surrounding Scott Pruitt, who's the head of the EPA.
00:38:18.000 He looks like he may be on his way out because Scott Pruitt
00:38:22.000 Apparently was using government funds for the for vacationing and using government security for his wife at Disney World or some such.
00:38:31.000 You know, corruption is corruption and is wrong.
00:38:32.000 And if Scott Pruitt did that, then he should go.
00:38:35.000 But it's amazing the double standard that is held by the media that Scott Pruitt is obviously super duper corrupt.
00:38:39.000 But Andy McCabe, who has apparently raised something like $500,000 online from people who are just sympathetic to his plight.
00:38:47.000 That he's some sort of great hero.
00:38:49.000 It just demonstrates how our entire politics has been a series of planets revolving around the great son of Trump.
00:38:55.000 And therefore, everything has to be viewed through the prism of Trump.
00:38:58.000 It seems to me corruption should be viewed just as corruption. 0.93
00:39:01.000 If you're corrupt, you're corrupt.
00:39:02.000 Right or left. 0.77
00:39:03.000 It isn't very simple.
00:39:04.000 It is a very difficult proposition.
00:39:06.000 Okay, meanwhile, President Trump has been on an epic spree of Good Trump, Bad Trump.
00:39:10.000 So, as you know, here on the Ben Shapiro Show, we are the designers of Good Trump, Bad Trump.
00:39:14.000 And 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.
00:39:21.000 We even have a theme song for it.
00:39:23.000 Here we go.
00:39:23.000 Time for some Good Trump, Bad Trump.
00:39:27.000 Good Trump, Bad Trump, which one will we get today?
00:39:33.000 OK, so some things he does are good.
00:39:34.000 Some things he does are bad.
00:39:35.000 Who knows?
00:39:36.000 It's a game show.
00:39:36.000 So here are the things that he did.
00:39:38.000 Here's something that he did that was good.
00:39:39.000 So 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.
00:39:47.000 Well, today,
00:39:48.000 It 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.
00:40:01.000 The 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.
00:40:14.000 The 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.
00:40:28.000 A 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.
00:40:37.000 And I love this.
00:40:37.000 Okay, let's be clear about this.
00:40:38.000 If 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.
00:40:57.000 This is pretty obvious.
00:40:59.000 So good for Trump for pointing all of that out.
00:41:01.000 So there's some good Trump for you.
00:41:03.000 The bad Trump for you is that the stock market took a serious dive yesterday.
00:41:06.000 And 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.
00:41:15.000 So it was down 500 points yesterday.
00:41:17.000 It is up today a little bit.
00:41:19.000 But it's amazing to watch.
00:41:22.000 Trump is all over the place on the economy.
00:41:25.000 His worst move, his bad Trump move today, was ripping into Amazon.
00:41:28.000 Now, I think Amazon is a great American company.
00:41:30.000 It is. 1.00
00:41:31.000 And this idea that Amazon and Washington Post are part of some sort of evil consortium in order to get Trump is just stupid, okay? 0.97
00:41:38.000 Amazon 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. 0.96
00:41:48.000 But Trump is attacking Amazon because he doesn't like Jeff Bezos.
00:41:51.000 This is tin pot stuff.
00:41:53.000 Presidents of the United States should not be targeting particular companies, particularly not on the silly basis that Trump is doing.
00:41:59.000 He tweeted out today, quote, OK, first of all,
00:42:08.000 I'm pretty sure that the post office is definitionally your delivery boy.
00:42:12.000 That is literally their job.
00:42:14.000 Their literal job is to be your delivery boy.
00:42:16.000 They have no other job.
00:42:17.000 It is to deliver your mail.
00:42:19.000 So 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.
00:42:27.000 Like, yes, that's what they do.
00:42:29.000 And then he says, Amazon should pay these costs plus and not have them borne by the American taxpayer.
00:42:34.000 Borne, B-O-U-R-N-E, like Jason Bourne.
00:42:37.000 Many billions of dollars.
00:42:38.000 PO, leaders don't have a clue.
00:42:40.000 Or do they?
00:42:41.000 Post office leaders don't have a clue or do they?
00:42:43.000 Okay, a couple of things worth noting.
00:42:45.000 This is non-factual.
00:42:47.000 It is non-factual.
00:42:48.000 In 2006, there was a bill passed into law that says the post office is not allowed to run a loss on package deliveries.
00:42:55.000 Every package delivery must come at a profit according to federal law from 2006 on.
00:43:00.000 Amazon uses bulk rates.
00:43:02.000 Everyone uses bulk rates.
00:43:03.000 We at Daily Wire use bulk rates.
00:43:05.000 Fault rates have been a thing for literally my entire lifetime.
00:43:09.000 Amazon is not taking advantage of the post office. 0.97
00:43:11.000 The 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.
00:43:18.000 So President Trump sent Amazon stock into a bit of a tailspin. 0.98
00:43:21.000 They've recovered now.
00:43:22.000 But all of this is just silliness.
00:43:24.000 The president shouldn't be doing any of this.
00:43:25.000 The economy is going great.
00:43:26.000 Mr. President, please, please, just stop.
00:43:29.000 Just stop.
00:43:30.000 Focus on the things that you know how to change.
00:43:33.000 Focus on immigration.
00:43:35.000 Focus on the wall.
00:43:36.000 Focus on the promises you made to the people who voted for you.
00:43:38.000 Don't focus on Jeff Bezos.
00:43:41.000 Don't focus on Amazon.
00:43:42.000 You really think that targeting Amazon is going to do you any favors?
00:43:44.000 All it's going to do is tank the stock market.
00:43:46.000 All it's going to do is provide a feeling of chaos and uncertainty that is not going to help the economy.
00:43:51.000 Your main pitch right now is that you may not like me, but you like the economy, don't you?
00:43:55.000 That's a pretty good pitch.
00:43:56.000 But it's not going to be a good pitch if you start putting your thumb like Jack Horner into the pie and digging around for a plum.
00:44:03.000 You're not going to come up with a plum.
00:44:04.000 It's going to be something that smells far worse.
00:44:06.000 Please, Mr. President, do not do this.
00:44:08.000 It is a waste of time. 0.99
00:44:10.000 It is just foolish. 0.91
00:44:11.000 All right, so time for a couple of things I like and then some things that I hate. 0.77
00:44:16.000 So let's jump right into things I like.
00:44:18.000 So on the way to this beautiful vacation spot, you may be wondering why I'm filming from apparently the set of a porno film.
00:44:26.000 But the reason that I am filming here
00:44:29.000 Because 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.
00:44:40.000 If you've never seen Company, it's one of Sondheim's earlier musicals, which is to say it's better.
00:44:46.000 One of the things about Sondheim
00:44:47.000 is that Sondheim has steadily declined in quality over the course of his career.
00:44:51.000 So 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.
00:44:56.000 And then he decided that anything that he did that was popular had by nature to be kind of boob bait.
00:45:03.000 If people liked it, that meant it wasn't very good.
00:45:04.000 So he started doing more and more obscure things.
00:45:06.000 He did Assassins, which is about people who assassinated presidents, and each one is like a pastiche number.
00:45:11.000 But Company is a very interesting musical.
00:45:13.000 I'm trying to remember the year that it was written.
00:45:16.000 In 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.
00:45:26.000 And the story is about this guy named Robert, who is played by Dean Jones.
00:45:30.000 You'll remember Dean Jones as the guy from The Love Bug.
00:45:33.000 But actually, he can sing.
00:45:35.000 Younger audiences will remember him from Beethoven.
00:45:37.000 He's the evil doctor from the movie Beethoven.
00:45:39.000 But actually, he's a good actor and he can sing.
00:45:41.000 And 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.
00:45:48.000 And 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.
00:45:53.000 So 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.
00:46:01.000 Maybe he just needs to make a call.
00:46:07.000 Someone to hold you too close.
00:46:11.000 Someone to hurt you too deep.
00:46:16.000 Someone to sit in your chair, to ruin your sleep.
00:46:21.000 That's very famous, yeah.
00:46:22.000 No, there's more than that.
00:46:23.000 Is that all you think there is to it?
00:46:25.000 You've got so many reasons for not being with someone, but Robert, you haven't one good reason for being alone.
00:46:31.000 Come on, you're onto something, Bobby.
00:46:33.000 You're onto something.
00:46:33.000 Someone to need you too much.
00:46:38.000 Someone to know you too well.
00:46:44.000 You see what you look for, you know?
00:46:49.000 You're not a kid anymore, Robbie.
00:46:51.000 I don't think you'll ever be a kid again, kiddo.
00:46:54.000 Hey, buddy, don't be afraid that it won't be perfect.
00:46:57.000 The only thing to be afraid of really is that it won't be.
00:47:00.000 Don't stop now.
00:47:02.000 Keep going.
00:47:04.000 Someone you have to let in.
00:47:08.000 Someone whose feelings you spare.
00:47:12.000 Someone who, like it or not, will want you to share a little, a lot.
00:47:20.000 And what does all that mean?
00:47:22.000 It's really interesting.
00:47:23.000 And what's fascinating about this, we can stop it there.
00:47:27.000 One 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,
00:47:33.000 Yeah, this is what marriage is, right?
00:47:34.000 What 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?
00:47:45.000 But 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?
00:47:54.000 This 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.
00:48:01.000 Because half the musical is comedy about how much marriage sucks, right?
00:48:04.000 People getting divorced and people having affairs and all this kind of stuff.
00:48:07.000 But 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.
00:48:16.000 I now have two kids.
00:48:17.000 I'm a young guy.
00:48:18.000 I'm 34.
00:48:19.000 I have two kids.
00:48:19.000 I have one who's four and one who's almost two.
00:48:22.000 And 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.
00:48:37.000 And this is not present when you listen to company.
00:48:38.000 When 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.
00:48:48.000 And the best case that they can make
00:48:50.000 At the end of the musical is because it's better than the alternatives, right?
00:48:53.000 That's really what he's saying in that song.
00:48:55.000 He'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.
00:49:02.000 They 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?
00:49:16.000 You should just get married because you really have no other choice in life but to make that call.
00:49:20.000 But you do have other choices, obviously.
00:49:22.000 And you can't form a relationship based on this is the second worst thing.
00:49:25.000 A relationship is not the second worst thing.
00:49:27.000 A relationship is the best thing, because it's a part of building.
00:49:30.000 It is forward-looking.
00:49:32.000 People tend to see marriage as the end of things.
00:49:34.000 Marriage is the end of your dating life.
00:49:35.000 You can't sow your wild oats anymore.
00:49:37.000 And as long as you see marriage as an end, as a wall at the end of your single journey,
00:49:45.000 And then it's supposed to be happily ever after from there.
00:49:48.000 You're not seeing marriage in its proper life.
00:49:50.000 Marriage is what launches you into the next step of your journey in a far more dramatic fashion than staying single.
00:49:56.000 As I've said, even on a personal emotional level, forget about the spiritual, forget about the religious.
00:50:01.000 And a personal emotional level.
00:50:03.000 There have been three stages in my life, right?
00:50:05.000 There was being single, there was getting married, not having kids, and then there was having kids.
00:50:10.000 And 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?
00:50:17.000 And it feels like a zero, but it really is a two.
00:50:19.000 Okay, once you get married, then your high point goes to about a 10, and your low point goes to about a zero, right?
00:50:24.000 Because if something happens to your spouse, it is just awful, much, much worse than when you were single and something bad happened to you.
00:50:29.000 Then when you have kids, your high point goes to 1,000, and your low point goes to negative infinity.
00:50:35.000 Okay, 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.
00:50:45.000 You are now part of a world-building experience.
00:50:48.000 You're building a world, right?
00:50:49.000 You're building an entire world in your children and the purpose of marriage is to set the foundations. 0.99
00:50:54.000 It's to set the granite at the base of that building so you can build that world.
00:50:58.000 And when you don't view it that way, then marriage just becomes something that you do because you have no better alternative.
00:51:02.000 So, I think company does a good job of exposing that even if that's not really what it's meant to expose.
00:51:06.000 I think the marriage that is proposed by company is not utterly fulfilling because it ignores what marriage is actually there to do.
00:51:11.000 Okay, time for a very quick thing that I hate.
00:51:19.000 Okay, 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.
00:51:28.000 This is not a good study.
00:51:30.000 A lot of these studies are just bad.
00:51:31.000 So what does the study do?
00:51:33.000 First of all, it's not peer-reviewed, so that means already we should have a little bit of skepticism about it.
00:51:38.000 But it suggests that about 4% of Barack Obama's 2012 supporters were dissuaded from voting for Hillary by belief in fake news stories.
00:51:45.000 So how did they measure this?
00:51:46.000 Well, the study's authors inserted three popular fake news stories from 2016 into a 281-question YouGov survey given to a sample
00:51:54.000 That included 585 Obama supporters, according to the Washington Post, 23% of whom didn't vote for Clinton, either by abstaining or picking another candidate.
00:52:03.000 10% voted for Trump, which is in line with other estimates.
00:52:05.000 So here are the false stories.
00:52:07.000 Clinton was in very poor health due to serious illness.
00:52:09.000 Pope Francis endorsed Trump.
00:52:11.000 Clinton improved weapons sales to Islamic jihadists, including ISIS.
00:52:15.000 So the suggestion is that it was the fake news stories that pushed them. 1.00
00:52:18.000 This is idiotic. 0.99
00:52:18.000 Okay, the reason that they believed the fake news stories is because they didn't like Hillary Clinton. 0.99
00:52:23.000 People believe what they want to believe about particular candidates.
00:52:38.000 Again, people didn't like Hillary. 1.00
00:52:39.000 It wasn't that they were like, oh, I love Hillary, but oh, look at that, Pope endorsed Trump. 0.96
00:52:43.000 Now I guess that I'm changing my opinion.
00:52:45.000 That's not what happened here.
00:52:46.000 Or, I loved Hillary, but then I heard that story about how she sold weapons to ISIS. 0.99
00:52:51.000 There 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.
00:52:59.000 And so when somebody said she sold weapons to ISIS, they probably went, oh, maybe.
00:53:02.000 And then those were the people who were least likely to vote for her anyway.
00:53:05.000 So 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.
00:53:15.000 That's why I hate studies like this.
00:53:16.000 That's why I think that they are being thrown out there at such a fast clip by members of the mainstream media in the first place.
00:53:21.000 Okay, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest.
00:53:23.000 I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.