The Ben Shapiro Show - The Juice Is Loose! | Ep. 345

00:00:00.000 People tend to hang out with people they like.

00:00:02.000 That usually means people with whom they share values and community and life experiences.

00:00:05.000 But now, it appears that our political polarization has grown so wide that Americans who voted differently in 2016 don't want to hang out with each other.

00:00:12.000 That, at least, is the story from the Pew Research Center with regard to leftists.

00:00:16.000 That study found that 47% of liberal Democrats stated that if a friend voted for Donald Trump, it would strain the friendship.

00:00:23.000 For all Democrats, it was 35%.

00:00:24.000 For Republicans, that number was just 13% when applied to Hillary Clinton. 0.98

00:00:29.000 Now,

00:00:29.000 Maybe that number would have changed if Hillary had won.

00:00:31.000 But there's more than a whiff of elemental scorn Democrats hold for Trump voters.

00:00:35.000 They don't see what was so bad about Hillary that would necessitate a vote for Trump.

00:00:39.000 They think a vote for Trump could never be made in a good-faith effort to help the country, but it was rather just an endorsement of Trump's worst behavior.

00:00:45.000 This feeling, combined with the fact that leftists live in bubbles, as Aaron Blake of the Washington Post points out, 47% of people who voted for Clinton had zero Trump-supporting friends.

00:00:54.000 That means that the left will continue to polarize and pillory.

00:00:57.000 Only 28% of Democrats today say they aren't stressed by talking with those who differ on Trump, which means that the vast majority of Democrats won't even deign to discuss the issues.

00:01:05.000 That leads to less knowledge of the typical Republican and the lazy intellectual construct that turns Trump voters into an other

00:01:12.000 We're good to go.

00:01:36.000 So many things to talk about today.

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00:02:52.000 Okay, so a lot of breaking news happening actually right now.

00:02:55.000 So the biggest breaking news, and this literally broke about five minutes ago as we're filming this, is that Sean Spicer, the White House Press Secretary, has now resigned, telling President Trump he vehemently disagreed with the appointment of New York financiers Anthony Scaramucci

00:03:08.000 As communications director, according to the New York Times, Mr. Trump offered Mr. Scaramucci the job at 10 a.m.

00:03:13.000 The president requested Mr. Spicer stay on.

00:03:15.000 Mr. Spicer told Mr. Trump he believed the appointment was a major mistake, according to a person with direct knowledge of the exchange.

00:03:21.000 So, that's all we know at this point.

00:03:23.000 Anthony Scaramucci, for people who don't know, was actually a major Obama donor.

00:03:27.000 He ended up moving into the Republican camp after that.

00:03:31.000 I think that he was on the RNC committee, the finance committee in 2012, and then he was a supporter

00:03:37.000 We're good to go.

00:04:05.000 According to NBC News, comms is what Anthony does.

00:04:07.000 It's how he built his business.

00:04:09.000 The guy knows media.

00:04:10.000 He's been a good advocate for the president.

00:04:13.000 So I love this.

00:04:14.000 NBC News says, Well, no, now he's gone.

00:04:19.000 So it's amazing how you get all these conflicting reports out of the Trump administration.

00:04:24.000 I think the reason that Scaramucci is

00:04:27.000 Considered kind of a Non-entity or somebody who shouldn't have the job by a lot of Trump supporters is because he wasn't on the Trump bandwagon from the beginning and therefore They think that he should not be allowed on the inner circle And this is one of the issues that Trump has had is trying to figure out who should be allowed to work with him Who should he trust and there the people have been with him for a long time are?

00:04:47.000 Upset that he seems not to trust them so much anymore so case in point be Jeff Sessions so yesterday Tucker Carlson came out

00:04:53.000 When he was ripping up President Trump for ripping on Jeff Sessions.

00:04:56.000 As you recall, we played you some of the New York Times interview yesterday in which Trump said that he would never have hired Sessions if he knew that Sessions was going to recuse himself.

00:05:04.000 Tucker Carlson and Ann Coulter, both longtime Trump supporters, came forward and said, listen, stop messing with Sessions.

00:05:09.000 Sessions is one of your earliest supporters.

00:05:10.000 He's one of the good guys on this team, particularly with regard to immigration.

00:05:14.000 Why are you ripping on your own base?

00:05:16.000 And there is a feeling that there's some confusion inside the Trump White House about staffing.

00:05:20.000 That is only being exacerbated by a new report yesterday from the Washington Post revealing that academic discussions have been ongoing at the White House regarding President Trump's pardon power.

00:05:30.000 Apparently they're having lots of talks about what he can do with pardons.

00:05:33.000 Can he preemptively pardon family members?

00:05:35.000 Can he preemptively pardon himself?

00:05:37.000 Like, this is really in the Washington Post.

00:05:38.000 Trump has asked advisers about his power to pardon aides, family members, and even himself in connection with the Russia probe, according to one of those people.

00:05:45.000 A second person said Trump's lawyers have been discussing the president's pardoning powers among themselves.

00:05:50.000 You know, I would imagine that at every point you have lawyers who are discussing the pardon power.

00:05:55.000 I'm not sure what they'd be discussing exactly except for what is he capable of pardoning.

00:05:59.000 Like if he pardons a crime now and the new evidence comes out later, does the pardon cover that maybe?

00:06:04.000 There's a lot of talk this morning about if he would pardon himself, would that actually be legal?

00:06:09.000 Could he pardon himself?

00:06:10.000 Because

00:06:11.000 The president obviously has plenary pardon power.

00:06:13.000 He can do what he wants with pardons.

00:06:14.000 He can pardon anybody, right?

00:06:15.000 I mean, Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon.

00:06:17.000 So you could have something like that.

00:06:19.000 But are you allowed to pardon yourself?

00:06:20.000 That would not save his political career, by the way.

00:06:22.000 If you pardon yourself, the chances that you're going to be impeached are pretty high.

00:06:25.000 But none of this looks good, okay?

00:06:27.000 If you're into the appearances of politics, you can still believe that Trump has never done anything wrong.

00:06:32.000 That Trump is clean as the driven snow and that he has nothing to hide.

00:06:35.000 But he needs to stop acting like he has something to hide if he actually wants you to believe that, right?

00:06:39.000 The first paragraph of this Washington Post story says some of President Trump's lawyers are exploring ways to limit or undercut special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, building a case against what they allege are his conflicts of interest and discussing the president's authority to grant pardons, according to people familiar with the effort.

00:06:55.000 Yesterday, the spokesperson for his legal effort regarding the Russia investigation quit.

00:07:00.000 I quit.

00:07:00.000 He also fired his lawyers, and he hired some new lawyers in the Russia investigation stuff.

00:07:04.000 So all of this doesn't look good.

00:07:05.000 I mean, if your whole shtick here is, let all the doors be open, let everything come out, I'm draining the swamp, see what I have in here in my apartment, policemen, just come in and investigate, and then the next thing you do is immediately barricade three of the doors, people are going to start getting a little bit suspicious.

00:07:20.000 And so, you know, do I think that this means that Trump is guilty of anything?

00:07:26.000 No, I mean, there's alternative explanations that are just as plausible.

00:07:29.000 Like, for example, maybe the reason he doesn't want Mueller digging into his IRS records is because he is deathly afraid that Mueller is going to find that he's not worth anything like the wealth he said he was worth, right?

00:07:37.000 He's only worth two billion bucks instead of ten billion bucks.

00:07:39.000 Or maybe he's worth nothing, right?

00:07:40.000 Maybe it turns out that he's broke, right?

00:07:41.000 You just don't know until you get those IRS records.

00:07:44.000 So maybe he's afraid of that.

00:07:46.000 Maybe he's afraid that there's some sort of ancillary matter dealing with the IRS that he's going to be held accountable for.

00:07:52.000 And this is the problem with these special counsel investigations.

00:07:54.000 Again,

00:07:55.000 The special counsel investigation was brought about because President Trump himself decided to open his big mouth.

00:08:00.000 He fired Comey and then he opened his big mouth on national television and said that he did it because of the Russia investigation.

00:08:06.000 That necessitated Rod Rosenstein appointing a special counsel.

00:08:09.000 The biggest opponent Trump has here is not the media.

00:08:11.000 The biggest opponent Trump has here is Trump.

00:08:14.000 The media is getting its material from Trump.

00:08:16.000 You can hate the New York Times.

00:08:17.000 You can think the New York Times is out to get Trump.

00:08:19.000 I think that they're out to get Trump.

00:08:20.000 I think they have an agenda.

00:08:21.000 But why is he giving a long interview with the New York Times in which he's talking about why he might fire Robert Mueller and why Jeff Sessions should never have recused himself? 0.99

00:08:30.000 It's just foolish. 0.99

00:08:31.000 It's just foolish. 0.99

00:08:33.000 Unless, there's only two possibilities here, right? 0.99

00:08:35.000 Trump, his worst enemy is his big mouth and he's doing things that look guilty because he just can't help himself because he has to talk all the time.

00:08:41.000 Super plausible.

00:08:42.000 And the other answer is it's possible that he actually did something that makes him guilty.

00:08:44.000 And that's really bad stuff.

00:08:47.000 And maybe he's doing all this for a reason.

00:08:48.000 Maybe as the Democrats suggest, he is actually guilty of something.

00:08:51.000 Because if you look at it from the Democratic perspective, let's do that for a second, okay?

00:08:54.000 For people on the right, I think it's important that both sides understand each other.

00:08:57.000 So on the left,

00:08:58.000 Understand, no hard evidence of Trump-Russia actual collusion has taken place.

00:09:02.000 There's intent to collude from Trump Jr., right?

00:09:04.000 There's intent to collude from Manafort, presumably.

00:09:07.000 There's intent to collude from Jared Kushner, but there is no actual on-the-ground collusion, no payoffs, no quid pro quo.

00:09:15.000 You know, so from the perspective of the left, you need to understand we need more evidence in order for us to acknowledge that Trump actually did something illegal or even deeply wrong other than that meeting at this point, and Trump wasn't in that meeting as far as we know.

00:09:27.000 From the perspective of the left, I think the right needs to understand the perspective of the left here.

00:09:31.000 They're looking at this and what they see is a meeting between Trump Jr.

00:09:34.000 and a bunch of Russian lawyers that was basically paved with a promise that they were going to give Trump negative information about Hillary as part of Russia's governmental effort to support Trump.

00:09:46.000 And then you have Trump firing Mike Flynn for unspecified reasons after it comes out that Flynn has connections with Russia.

00:09:52.000 And then you have him firing his FBI director and saying openly that it's because of the Russia investigation.

00:09:58.000 And then you have him saying that he should have fired Sessions or never hired Sessions because Sessions was recusing himself from the Russia investigation.

00:10:04.000 And then you have a series of policy decisions that benefit Russia, including the decision this week by President Trump not to arm and fund Syrian rebels against Bashar Assad, right, which helps the Russian government.

00:10:14.000 So if you're on the left, you're looking at all these indicators and you're saying, OK, well, you know, I see a lot of dots here.

00:10:19.000 It's hard for me not to connect them.

00:10:21.000 And if you're on the right, you have to understand that perspective, because we did the same thing with President Obama, right?

00:10:25.000 We were very suspicious of President Obama. 0.99

00:10:27.000 I think it's more justified with Obama than it is for Trump, because I think that, frankly, Trump is more likely to make stupid mistakes and say dumb things than Obama was. 0.99

00:10:35.000 I think Obama was much more of a president by design. 0.98

00:10:38.000 I think that it's important we understand where we are so that we don't fall apart as a country because what I can foresee happening is some quasi-smoking gun comes out and the right says it doesn't mean anything unless it means everything and we just grow further and further apart as a people and I think that's a mistake.

00:10:52.000 I think we we can disagree on the implications of these facts but we should at least acknowledge what the facts are and why maybe the other guy thinks what he thinks.

00:10:59.000 Okay so

00:11:00.000 With all of that said, Trumpcare continues to remain controversial.

00:11:04.000 And I think here it's important to point out the radicalism of the left on Trumpcare.

00:11:08.000 So nothing is happening with Trumpcare right now.

00:11:11.000 The repeal and replace effort is basically stalled because nobody knows what they want to do.

00:11:14.000 We've talked about that for the past several days.

00:11:16.000 But the rhetoric of the left continues to ratchet up.

00:11:19.000 So, for example, you have this professor, he calls himself a Beyonce professor.

00:11:24.000 That's really what he calls himself.

00:11:26.000 His name is Kevin Allred, and he's an adjunct part-time lecturer at Rutgers University, which is a hell of a title. 0.99

00:11:32.000 He taught a class there called Politicizing Beyonce, starting in 2010, because our institutions of higher education are the stupidest places on earth. 0.98

00:11:39.000 And Kevin Allred tweeted the other day, John McCain is pretty okay with taking away everyone's healthcare, so excuse me if I don't have a well of sympathy for his brain cancer. 0.98

00:11:48.000 There are Democrats who believe this sort of stuff.

00:11:52.000 Bernie Sanders, he says that he's not using violent rhetoric with regard to Trumpcare, but that's a lie.

00:11:57.000 Here's Bernie Sanders doing it over and over and over again.

00:11:59.000 Okay, I want to talk about the rhetoric then, Senator, because if you're going to sit down with people on both sides of the aisle... Some Democrats have branded Republicans the party of death, for example, calling the tax cuts in the Senate health care bill blood money.

00:12:11.000 You yourself have said Republicans are potentially killing Americans.

00:12:15.000 Is that rhetoric irresponsible, and does it provide an impasse to compromise if you're going to sit down with those very people that you've now said want to kill people?

00:12:23.000 No, I never said... That's not... You're using rhetoric that I didn't use.

00:12:35.000 This is an ugly and cynical proposal.

00:12:39.000 This is a proposal which, if adopted, will result in thousands of Americans dying.

00:12:45.000 There's enormous pain and death for people all over this country by taking away the health.

00:12:51.000 Thousands of people will die.

00:12:52.000 Thousands of Americans will die.

00:12:54.000 Okay, so that was put together by Reagan Battalion.

00:12:57.000 Obviously, the democratic rhetoric on this is over the top to the point where you're seeing people take it seriously.

00:13:03.000 And as you know, I don't blame rhetoric for violence, because I think that there's always a contingent of crazy people who are going to be triggered.

00:13:09.000 But you have to say that

00:13:12.000 As I've explained this before, if rhetoric is a circle and then crazy people are generally outside the circle, as you broaden the circle of rhetoric to get more and more violence or closer and closer to violence, you're going to end up triggering more and more people.

00:13:23.000 So those people who are outside the circle who wouldn't have been triggered by the rhetoric, they are going to be now encompassed in the circle as the rhetoric gets more and more violence.

00:13:30.000 I'm not going to directly blame Bernie Sanders for what happened yesterday in Nevada, but

00:13:35.000 This sort of rhetoric does make things more polarized.

00:13:38.000 It does make things more volatile.

00:13:39.000 What I'm talking about, of course, is Las Vegas police released a video that has been non-covered.

00:13:44.000 I mean, if this had happened to a Democrat, it would be covered all over the media.

00:13:46.000 You've not seen it anywhere, right?

00:13:47.000 Las Vegas police released a video from surveillance cameras.

00:13:50.000 This is from Senator Dean Heller's office.

00:13:53.000 You can see this fellow standing outside the elevator over at Dean Heller's office.

00:13:57.000 He left a note threatening to kill Heller if he voted to repeal Obamacare. 0.79

00:14:02.000 The note actually said that if you repeal Obamacare, I'm going to die and I'm going to take you with me. 0.69

00:14:10.000 This sort of stuff is going to become more and more common.

00:14:14.000 As the Democrats continue to maintain that Republican policy murders people. 0.97

00:14:19.000 And so you have to understand on the left, one of the reasons people are so defensive of Trump is because the left is so crazy. 0.75

00:14:23.000 If the left would stop with their craziness, then people might stop defending Trump so ardently.

00:14:27.000 The reason that the right is defending Trump is because they feel like he's legitimately under threat, sometimes violent threat, from people on the left because of the rhetoric that's being used.

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00:15:58.000 Okay, so in other news, in other news, the OJ Simpson parole hearing happened yesterday.

00:16:04.000 I think that this is important because not only is it one of the first things that I remember as a kid, I remember when they wheeled in the TV for the O.J.

00:16:10.000 verdict, and I remember the racial polarization in our class. 0.64

00:16:13.000 All the white kids kind of put their heads in their hands, and all the black kids in the class started cheering when O.J.

00:16:17.000 was let off for obviously murdering his ex-wife and Ronald Goldman.

00:16:22.000 OJ had his parole hearing yesterday.

00:16:41.000 But this merger of politics and entertainment, it really was, I think, the beginning of the rise of the sort of reality TV star as political figure.

00:16:49.000 Because Ronald Reagan was an actor, but then he was the governor of California before he ran for president.

00:16:54.000 OJ Simpson had been an NFL star, and then he was an actor in some of the Naked Gun films,

00:17:00.000 And then he commits this double homicide, these two slayings, and everybody in the world is watching this trial and treating it as entertainment, when it really is not entertainment, it's about whether a man murdered two human beings.

00:17:13.000 And the polarization that it brought off, the reality TV polarization was shocking, because remember this is in the aftermath of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, there's a widespread perception in the black community in LA at that time, and I think still,

00:17:25.000 That the LAPD has race issues.

00:17:27.000 I don't think that's right now.

00:17:28.000 I think that there was some truth to it then.

00:17:30.000 And the fact is that a lot of black folks wanted to let OJ Simpson off the hook, not because they actually thought that he was innocent, but because he killed white people and they didn't really see why this shouldn't be a referendum on the LAPD as opposed to on OJ Simpson.

00:17:44.000 The polls at the time showed a plurality of black people said that he was innocent.

00:17:46.000 It was obvious that he was guilty from the get-go.

00:17:49.000 And so it polarized that way.

00:17:51.000 That's a conflict that has never really cooled down.

00:17:53.000 We have the after-effects of it in Ferguson.

00:17:55.000 We have the after-effects of it over in Baltimore.

00:17:58.000 We have the after-effects of it every time a white cop shoots a black suspect, or when a white non-cop shoots a black person, as in George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin.

00:18:08.000 In any case, this was treated as sort of a joke yesterday.

00:18:11.000 And it was kind of a joke.

00:18:12.000 I mean, O.J.

00:18:13.000 was convicted of armed robbery for stealing some of his own sports memorabilia.

00:18:17.000 This was in 2008.

00:18:18.000 He spent nine years in prison.

00:18:19.000 He had a 30-year sentence, 33-year sentence.

00:18:22.000 But this was treated as a joke.

00:18:24.000 But it wasn't a joke at the time.

00:18:25.000 It was a really polarizing period in American history.

00:18:27.000 And unfortunately, in the last few years, it seems to have come back again.

00:18:31.000 I want to show you sort of the insanity of this, because if you didn't live through it, it's almost impossible to

00:18:38.000 No, what was the age?

00:18:52.000 He was two.

00:18:52.000 So, like, I was eleven when this happened, and this was a major, earth-shaking incident.

00:18:57.000 If you didn't grow up with this, though, you don't understand what it meant when they cut into the NBA finals to show a white Bronco with OJ Simpson in it, running down the free width, AJ Cowlings at the head, and OJ threatening to kill himself.

00:19:07.000 I mean, it was legitimately insane time.

00:19:09.000 So, OJ, yesterday, he goes to the parole board, and everybody knows that the sentence that he got in 2008 was basically

00:19:15.000 It was basically karma for him murdering two people. 0.98

00:19:22.000 It's demonstrative of the fact, when you watch some of this testimony, it's demonstrative of the fact that OJ was a very stupid man who obviously committed two murders and was used as a central rallying point for race baiters on all sides. 0.99

00:19:34.000 Here is OJ yesterday explaining why he should be let out of prison. 0.98

00:19:39.000 Well, as I said, the alternative to violence, of course, is I've always thought I've been pretty good with people, and I've basically spent a conflict-free life.

00:19:51.000 You know, I'm not a guy that ever got into fights on the street with the public and everybody, but as I said,

00:19:58.000 They give you a bunch of little tools about how to talk to people instead of fighting, instead of throwing punches.

00:20:04.000 Tools that I've used here that, you know, it's how you talk to people.

00:20:08.000 It's the tone that you use.

00:20:10.000 The victim empathy was, once again, I

00:20:15.000 I didn't really see that.

00:20:16.000 OK, he's led a conflict-free life.

00:20:18.000 If you believe that OJ Simpson has led a conflict-free life, raise your hands.

00:20:23.000 Not so fast, Ron and Nicole.

00:20:25.000 That's just amazing stuff.

00:20:28.000 And then he was let off yesterday.

00:20:29.000 So you have to understand, before this happened, the parole board took a selfie with OJ.

00:20:32.000 So you knew how this was going to go before it even started.

00:20:34.000 And that shows you, once again, the merger between politics and 0.81

00:20:38.000 Celebrity is really insipid and disgusting.

00:20:41.000 It's why you now have Caitlyn Jenner talking about running for Senate in California. 0.85

00:20:44.000 It's why Ashley Judd talked about running for Senate in Kentucky. 1.00

00:20:47.000 It's why Al Franken is in the Senate.

00:20:48.000 This is all part of the same general phenomenon, that celebrity is celebrity is celebrity, and political celebrity is the same kind as everything else.

00:20:55.000 OJ was granted parole, even though this parole hearing really went poorly.

00:20:58.000 I mean, here's a clip of OJ trying to, he's supposed to be admitting to his crimes, right?

00:21:02.000 I mean, this is what you do in a parole hearing.

00:21:03.000 You admit to your crimes, and then you say, well, I'm very sorry I did that, and I'm never going to do it again.

00:21:08.000 Here's OJ talking about how he never did anything wrong.

00:21:11.000 They did an investigation.

00:21:13.000 And they came to the conclusion that it was my property.

00:21:16.000 They turned it over to me.

00:21:18.000 I have it now, you know?

00:21:21.000 So, I mean, it's kind of mind-boggling that they turned over to me property that I'm in jail for, for trying to retrieve, you know?

00:21:31.000 It was my property.

00:21:32.000 I wasn't there to steal from anybody.

00:21:34.000 And I would never, ever pull a weapon on anybody.

00:21:37.000 So you believed that the property was yours?

00:21:39.000 You wouldn't pull a weapon on anybody?

00:21:41.000 Like, really?

00:21:42.000 It's been ruled legally by the state of California that it was my property, and they've given it to me.

00:21:47.000 My question was, that's why you went into the... The property was yours.

00:21:55.000 Let me stop it there.

00:21:55.000 He's arguing with the parole officers.

00:21:56.000 They were going to clear him anyway because celebrity still has enormous currency.

00:22:00.000 I love that.

00:22:00.000 I would never pull a weapon on anybody.

00:22:02.000 Again, you chopped two people's heads off.

00:22:05.000 So I think that that lacks a little bit of credibility.

00:22:08.000 In any case, I want to go on to discuss what is the attempt by the Trump administration to move beyond the Russia stuff.

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00:22:54.000 I don't know.

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00:24:02.000 Alrighty, so President Trump is trying to get beyond all the Trump-Russia stuff.

00:24:08.000 It would help if he got out of his own way, but he is doing some good things, and I want to discuss a couple of the good things that he is doing.

00:24:13.000 So, there's a report out that over the first six months, Trump promised that for every new regulation that he made, he would cut two.

00:24:21.000 So far, he is running circles around that, according to James Barrett over at Daily Wire, to the tune of 16 regulations eliminated for every new one proposed.

00:24:29.000 The idea that Trump hasn't done anything is not right.

00:24:31.000 I've said before that what Trump did was gorsuch and cutting regulations.

00:24:33.000 That remains true.

00:24:35.000 The 16 to 1 ratio comes via numbers presented in a report this week from the Office of Management and Budget that shows the administration is holding true to its vow to be business friendly.

00:24:43.000 That's why you wonder why the stock market continues to go up even with all of the unease around President Trump's behavior.

00:24:49.000 The reason is because there's a general perception he's not going to do too much to hurt business and he's going to do a lot to help it by removing regulations.

00:24:56.000 In Obama's final year in office, the Federal Register set the record for the highest page count ever at almost 82,000 pages.

00:25:03.000 This is a very good move by the Trump administration.

00:25:04.000 That is something that is worthy of pointing out and he deserves credit when he does things that are right.

00:25:08.000 So that is good.

00:25:27.000 Also, Mick Mulvaney was out there yesterday, he's the director of the Office of Management and Budget, and he is saying that it's time to push what he calls MAGAnomics, right, so Make America Great Again-nomics.

00:25:36.000 Okay, MAGAnomics is basically just conservative economics.

00:25:41.000 I mean, like, he's going to give you a list of talking points, they're all things we've been saying for years, but now everything has to be put, has to have the Trump brand on it.

00:25:48.000 Listen, I'm fine with that.

00:25:48.000 If Trump wants to put his brand on good things and then push them, that's fine with me.

00:25:52.000 Here's Mick Mulvaney discussing what they're going to do with tax reform.

00:25:55.000 Oh, the politics, obviously, is the art of the possible.

00:25:59.000 I don't think we've given up on that low possible corporate rate.

00:26:02.000 In fact, I'd love to see a 15% rate.

00:26:04.000 I'd love to see less.

00:26:05.000 But the truth of the matter is that we're still pushing for that lowest possible corporate rate we can.

00:26:10.000 Why?

00:26:11.000 You know, the Democrats will say it's a giveaway to big business.

00:26:13.000 It's not.

00:26:14.000 We're trying to get back to a healthy American economy.

00:26:17.000 We define that as 3% growth.

00:26:19.000 We introduced the term this week called MAGAnomics, which is sort of this unifying theme of everything we're trying to do to get the healthy, traditional American economy back on track.

00:26:30.000 And to have that, you have to have a lot of capital investment.

00:26:33.000 You have to make people more productive.

00:26:34.000 And that means businesses need to invest more.

00:26:37.000 And that's what we're shooting for on tax reform.

00:26:39.000 Okay, well, that's all good stuff, and I hope to see President Trump pursue that.

00:26:42.000 In order to do that, he's gonna have to get out of his own way.

00:26:45.000 As we say, you know, Spicer is out, Scaramucci is in, he's got a whole new set of lawyers on the Russia stuff.

00:26:50.000 He should put all of that to the side, and he should stop talking to the press, and he should just pursue what it is that he wants to pursue.

00:26:55.000 I think one of the big problems here is that he's not sure what he wants to pursue, but hopefully

00:26:59.000 We're good to go.

00:27:15.000 If you are, if you're in the job market, you know that you can't expect to be at the same company for 20 years.

00:27:21.000 That if you are at a company for three, that's now considered a long time to work at a company.

00:27:25.000 And when you move, if you want to have any upward mobility in your career, you're going to have to learn new skills all the time.

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00:27:50.000 Illustration and watercolor.

00:27:51.000 I've told you this before, but yes, pathetically enough, I'm taking a watercolor class.

00:27:55.000 It relaxes me, folks.

00:27:56.000 But in any case, Skillshare.com is the place where you can learn to broaden your skill set that makes you more marketable.

00:28:01.000 It means that you will make more money in the marketplace.

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00:28:04.000 Okay, time for some things I like and some things that I hate.

00:28:34.000 Things I like.

00:28:36.000 I saw this yesterday, and I have to say, this is the greatest trailer I have ever seen in my entire life.

00:28:43.000 It is a phenomenal, phenomenal trailer.

00:28:45.000 It's Michael Fassbender and J.K.

00:28:47.000 Simmons and Rebecca Ferguson, all these top-line stars, and it's basically a serial killer in Norway, okay?

00:28:54.000 So they're trying to do Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and it's...

00:28:59.000 Really amazingly bad.

00:29:02.000 It's so bad this trailer.

00:29:03.000 I really like Michael Fassbender as an actor.

00:29:05.000 I'll watch him in virtually anything.

00:29:07.000 I will watch this with great enjoyment.

00:29:09.000 It is called The Snowman and it is so horrifying.

00:29:15.000 I'll play it and then I will explain why I love this so much.

00:29:18.000 It's like a parody.

00:29:35.000 A woman vanished last night. 0.75

00:29:39.000 We just found the body.

00:29:43.000 Prince.

00:29:46.000 And the head... is missing.

00:29:55.000 So great, the flopping fish.

00:29:56.000 He calls himself the snowman killer.

00:30:00.000 Hello, Mr. Police, says on the snow.

00:30:04.000 Yes!

00:30:05.000 Okay, so...

00:30:22.000 It's so great.

00:30:23.000 Pause it for a second.

00:30:24.000 Pause it for one second.

00:30:25.000 I want to play more of it because it's so wonderful.

00:30:27.000 Okay, so, first of all, it's like they took every line from every serial killer film that was the most cliched and it's like serial killer Mad Libs.

00:30:34.000 It's like he's totally insane.

00:30:37.000 The only thing we know is he's playing games with us.

00:30:40.000 And then they took the least threatening thing on planet Earth, a snowman.

00:30:45.000 Right?

00:30:45.000 Like the guy from Frozen.

00:30:46.000 Like the snowman.

00:30:47.000 And then they tried to make this into some sort of intimidating figure.

00:30:50.000 Okay?

00:30:50.000 So it's not even like clowns, which are creepy.

00:30:52.000 Like in IT, okay?

00:30:53.000 You have a creepy clown.

00:30:54.000 In order for you to make a creepy film, you can take something that's like a childhood thing, but it has to be inherently a little bit creepy.

00:30:59.000 So clowns are a little bit creepy just inherently.

00:31:01.000 It's a person with a mask on,

00:31:02.000 That's a little bit creepy just to begin with.

00:31:04.000 But you can't take, like, Winnie the Pooh and make Winnie the Pooh scary.

00:31:07.000 There's just no way to do it, right?

00:31:09.000 Even if you're gonna do Chucky and make Chucky scary, it has to be, like, a deformed doll with, like, a cut on its head.

00:31:13.000 Like, it has to be scary-looking.

00:31:15.000 Okay, this is not scary.

00:31:17.000 It's just a snowman.

00:31:19.000 And, like, hello, Mr. Police.

00:31:24.000 Oh, it's so great!

00:31:25.000 I love it so much, and I just love that Hollywood is making films that, like, they got top-name cast because this is a best-selling novel, because people have no taste whatsoever.

00:31:34.000 You know, Dunkirk will probably open to $35 or $40 million this weekend.

00:31:37.000 It is the best film of the year.

00:31:39.000 This will probably open to $35 or $40 million the weekend that it opens, and it looks like it's going to be the worst film in history.

00:31:45.000 I need to play a little bit more of it just so you can hear that every single line is a cliché.

00:31:48.000 I'm telling you, it's a cliché Mad Libs.

00:31:50.000 It doesn't matter.

00:31:51.000 They took lines from, like, Insomnia, and then they took a line from Silence of the Lambs, and they took a line from, and then they took a, like, every serial killer movie.

00:32:01.000 They just took a random line from it and stuck it in.

00:32:02.000 I have to play a little bit more because I just can't stop watching this.

00:32:04.000 It's so addictive.

00:32:07.000 We need a way.

00:32:13.000 Be careful.

00:32:14.000 We don't know what we're dealing with.

00:32:16.000 Yes, we don't know what we're dealing with!

00:32:19.000 Hey, another snowman.

00:32:25.000 He's been watching us the whole time.

00:32:27.000 He's been watching us!

00:32:28.000 Cutting things up into little pieces.

00:32:30.000 He's taunting us.

00:32:31.000 He's taunting us!

00:32:32.000 If we don't find him, this is never going to stop.

00:32:37.000 Thank you, Captain Obvious.

00:32:41.000 Yes, there's nothing we're not seeing!

00:32:53.000 Anyone can see that he's trying to hide something.

00:32:55.000 Okay, I can stop it.

00:32:56.000 I'm sorry.

00:32:57.000 Every single... So the only scary thing in the entire trailer is, like, somebody with a mask on, right?

00:33:01.000 That's why you don't use snowmen as your prop in a horror film, guys.

00:33:04.000 Like, really, it's a snowman.

00:33:05.000 Like, I'm waiting to hear, "'Cause it's summer!"

00:33:09.000 Like, from Frozen, right?

00:33:10.000 He's just gonna break into that.

00:33:11.000 The Snowman Killer.

00:33:12.000 Oh, so great.

00:33:13.000 So thank you, Michael Fassbender, for starring in what obviously is going to be the worst film in human history coming out in October.

00:33:19.000 I could not be more excited about this, and I will buy 17 tickets.

00:33:22.000 So I will be one of the people making this 400 million dollars.

00:33:27.000 The box office.

00:33:27.000 I love it so much.

00:33:28.000 Okay.

00:33:29.000 So now for a thing I actually really like, and that is I saw Dunkirk last night.

00:33:33.000 I went to the premiere last night at the Arclight, which meant I got a cool Dunkirk hat as well, which is awesome.

00:33:39.000 But in any case, I will show you some of the trailer.

00:33:42.000 It is a unique war film.

00:33:45.000 It is not Saving Private Ryan.

00:33:46.000 It is not Band of Brothers.

00:33:48.000 I'm not a huge Saving Private Ryan fan.

00:33:49.000 I am a huge Band of Brothers fan.

00:33:51.000 It is a very, very different film.

00:33:53.000 It is so creative and it is brilliant in a very different way.

00:33:57.000 Here's some of the trailer.

00:34:11.000 The enemy tanks have stopped.

00:34:16.000 Why?

00:34:18.000 Why waste precious tanks when they can pick us off from the air like fish in a barrel?

00:34:26.000 There are 400,000 men on this beach.

00:34:41.000 So it's really, it's a gripping film, but it's not gripping in the way that Saving Private Ryan's opening scene is gripping, where you just get non-stop violence and people's guts being blown out and the randomness of it.

00:34:51.000 What you get from this is something very different.

00:34:54.000 Saving Private Ryan is done in classical style.

00:34:56.000 It's sort of done like, I always forget the name of the film that was nominated last year, Ridge, what is it?

00:35:03.000 Hacksaw Ridge, thank you.

00:35:03.000 I always mix it up with Heartbreak Hill or whatever.

00:35:06.000 Hamburger Hill is the Clint Eastwood movie from the 70s.

00:35:10.000 But in any case, that film is done in very classical style.

00:35:14.000 So is Saving Private Ryan.

00:35:15.000 You learn the backstory of the characters and then it takes you in narrative form through an entire arc.

00:35:21.000 We're good.

00:35:40.000 And the tide, when it comes in, it doesn't come in high enough for big boats to get in, so a destroyer couldn't get in and just pick up people.

00:35:47.000 Instead, they had to have small ships trying to ferry things out, and they didn't have any ships, because the British were afraid that the Germans were going to strafe the entire army and destroy all their ships, as well as the army on the beach.

00:35:58.000 We're good to go.

00:36:15.000 of the 400,000 men standing in orderly queues on the beach as though they're waiting for ice cream, but they're really waiting to know whether they're gonna live or die as they're being strafed from overhead.

00:36:24.000 When people die, it's not done in like, okay, there's in Band of Brothers or Saving Private Ryan fashion where there's like a leg over here.

00:36:29.000 It's actually done in almost classical fashion.

00:36:31.000 It's not a particularly bloody film.

00:36:33.000 You don't see people, you know, with their body parts torn off because that's not the point of the film.

00:36:37.000 Like, he just assumes that you know that war is going to be bloody, but what he does do is he shows you almost the casual violence of war,

00:36:44.000 And he shows you the small actions by quiet people.

00:36:47.000 The whole point here is that most, it's amazing, most people in America no longer even know somebody who serves in the military presently.

00:36:55.000 There are about 2 million people who served active duty or are serving active duty.

00:37:01.000 In the military.

00:37:03.000 And there aren't all, you know, serving on various bases, but there are lots of people who are in the National Guard and such.

00:37:09.000 Especially in places like California and New York, it's a good shot you'll go your entire life without meeting somebody who is an active-duty military member.

00:37:16.000 And so, when you hear about a war, what you think about a war is not somebody who you know, it's just some disembodied person who's out there doing heroic things to try and save you.

00:37:24.000 And that's what this film takes on.

00:37:25.000 The reason that you're supposed to care about these characters is not because you know where they went to high school,

00:37:29.000 I don't know.

00:37:49.000 He makes so many great directorial choices in this film.

00:37:52.000 One of them is that you never see the Nazis at any point in the film.

00:37:54.000 There's no point at which you see the Nazis.

00:37:55.000 The opening scene, you see that right at the beginning of the trailer where they're all walking through the town of Dunkirk and they're on the streets and these flyers are floating down saying, you're surrounded.

00:38:06.000 That scene...

00:38:08.000 The very next thing that happens, and this isn't spoiling anything, it's the first 30 seconds of the film.

00:38:13.000 You just hear gunshots, and they're stunningly loud.

00:38:15.000 So, unlike most war films, where the sound sort of just becomes overwhelming, in this film, every crack of a gunshot is stunning.

00:38:23.000 Like, it's startling.

00:38:24.000 It legitimately will jump in your seat, because it's so loud.

00:38:26.000 And it's meant to do that, because the idea is that every shot is equally... it's equally possible that it's deadly and gonna kill you.

00:38:32.000 And so they're walking down the street, these five guys, as you see there, and in the first 30 seconds of the film, you see them getting picked off one by one.

00:38:39.000 But you never see the Nazis at any point during this film.

00:38:41.000 You never see the Nazis. 0.75

00:38:42.000 The most you see of the Nazis is you see some Luftwaffen planes.

00:38:44.000 That's it.

00:38:45.000 And so the idea here is that these guys are fighting an unseen force, an enemy that they can't control, an enemy they don't know, and yet they are having to make these really, really difficult decisions.

00:38:55.000 So the three main stories are the one on the beach, as I mentioned,

00:38:57.000 There was one by sea, so the story of Dunkirk is that a bunch of civilian vessels were commandeered by the British military, and civilians were told to go sail across this 26-mile stretch to Dunkirk and pick guys up from the beach.

00:39:09.000 So civilians were non-military members.

00:39:11.000 It was men, women, just sailing across the English Channel to pick up all of these members of the British military.

00:39:18.000 And 800 different boats did that.

00:39:21.000 Almost a thousand boats did that.

00:39:22.000 And so it follows this one, Mark Rylance and his son who are coming across to do that.

00:39:27.000 And you never really find out until the end why they're bothering to do it.

00:39:30.000 And then the third story is Tom Hardy plays an RAF pilot, a Royal Air Force pilot.

00:39:35.000 We're good to go.

00:39:59.000 And I think it's a deliberate attempt by Nolan.

00:40:01.000 So some people have found that off-putting.

00:40:02.000 People have said that they don't feel emotionally invested in the characters because they're not being given the backstory, they're not being given this whole thing.

00:40:07.000 But that's the point.

00:40:08.000 Okay, you don't have to be emotionally invested in who the soldiers are who defend civilization in order for you to be emotionally invested in their fight for survival and their fight for victory.

00:40:16.000 That's the entire point of the film.

00:40:18.000 And it really is, it's really a first-rate film.

00:40:20.000 It's one of those films where I walked out of it and it's kind of stunning.

00:40:22.000 It's one of the, it's more of an experience than it is a film.

00:40:25.000 We're good to go.

00:40:46.000 Jay-Z has been rapping about his infidelity and Monica Lewinsky loves it.

00:40:50.000 Now this is really a thing, okay?

00:40:52.000 So according to the Daily Mail, Monica Lewinsky has now praised Jay-Z for speaking openly about cheating on his wife, Beyonce, on his latest album.

00:40:59.000 Lewinsky, who understands better than anyone the public cost paid for a high-profile affair, spoke about the iconic rapper's transgressions in an essay published by Vanity Fair.

00:41:06.000 In the piece titled Jay-Z, Prince Harry, Brad Pitt, and the New Frontiers of Male Vulnerability, the former White House intern praised Hubb for not ignoring the allegations hurled at him by Beyonce on her 2016 album Lemonade.

00:41:17.000 Jay-Z had a choice, Lewinsky wrote, having been called out publicly by his wife in her fierce 2016 album and video, he knew his fans wouldn't have blinked if his next album skimmed past the allegations.

00:41:26.000 That's not uncommon for men to do, and it's not as if we hadn't seen Beyonce and Jay-Z out in the world together since then, not to mention welcoming their twins to planet Earth.

00:41:32.000 Jay-Z could have ignored it all, but instead he chose a path of candor that will move the conversation forward and help others.

00:41:38.000 No.

00:41:39.000 Just no.

00:41:40.000 If Beyonce wanted to stay together with her husband, then she shouldn't have been talking about his infidelities publicly. 1.00

00:41:45.000 And if he wanted to stay together with her, not only should he not be committing infidelities, he shouldn't be out there talking about his infidelities publicly.

00:41:52.000 This is not a marriage, in my opinion, that is going to end well, because marriages where the partners talk about cheating on each other openly, that's not bound to go particularly well.

00:42:02.000 It's scuzzy behavior.

00:42:04.000 And some behavior can stay private, okay?

00:42:06.000 What happens between you and your wife... Actually, one of the weirder aspects of human nature is you'll see a husband who cheats on his wife and then he feels the necessity to tell her.

00:42:13.000 There's nothing more selfish than doing that, okay?

00:42:16.000 It's super selfish to commit infidelity in the first place.

00:42:19.000 But then to tell your spouse about it is even more selfish, because that's about you alleviating your guilt, not about you making your spouse's life better in any way. 0.99

00:42:26.000 It's about you now creating a choice for your spouse that your spouse never would have had to make except for you being an idiot and feeling the need to dump off your own guilt on your spouse. 0.97

00:42:37.000 So when they say that honesty is the best policy in these sorts of things, no. 0.99

00:42:41.000 Being good is the best policy, and then if you do something guilty, live with your guilt.

00:42:44.000 Don't dump it off onto other people.

00:42:46.000 The idea that we need a society filled with people who are 1.00

00:42:48.000 Publicly proclaiming their infidelity is really a bad idea.

00:42:52.000 Okay, time for some mailbag.

00:42:53.000 Let's do it.

00:42:53.000 So, Josh Mayer says, So I am not in favor of net neutrality.

00:42:56.000 Net neutrality, as you'll see, it's very funny.

00:42:57.000 A lot of the people who say that net neutrality is basically a giant giveaway.

00:43:09.000 All right.

00:43:31.000 Okay, Internet Service Providers get to compete with each other.

00:43:33.000 That would be the idea.

00:43:34.000 The problem that we've had with Internet Service Providers is that they're local monopolies that ensure that there are only two or three, at the most, companies, Internet Service Providers, that are actually in a particular area.

00:43:43.000 So, you're using a regulatory fix to fix a regulatory problem.

00:43:47.000 What you really should do is relieve all the regulations on Internet Service Providers in general, allowing people to build new infrastructure and then compete in the open market with one another.

00:43:56.000 Because there'll be some ISPs that charge Netflix more and some that charge them less.

00:43:59.000 There'll be some ISPs that charge small providers less, and let them compete.

00:44:03.000 And that competition will ensure a better internet.

00:44:05.000 Plus, I mean, the internet seems to be working pretty fine as it is.

00:44:08.000 I don't understand the huge issues that people are having with the internet that they think that needs to be fixed by some sort of overarching government system.

00:44:16.000 Nick says, Dear Ben, which state is your least favorite?

00:44:18.000 And since we're on the topic of California, why do you live there?

00:44:20.000 It seems like a hellhole. 1.00

00:44:21.000 So, California is a beautiful place that is governed like crap. 1.00

00:44:25.000 I live there my entire life. 0.99

00:44:26.000 The weather is really nice most of the time.

00:44:29.000 There is some culture here, despite all the talk about the lack thereof.

00:44:33.000 It's hard to say state.

00:44:36.000 I can tell you cities that I really don't like.

00:44:37.000 So I'm not a big fan of New York City.

00:44:40.000 It's fun to visit.

00:44:41.000 I would hate to live there.

00:44:42.000 I like seeing the sky.

00:44:43.000 I'm a suburban guy.

00:44:44.000 I grew up in the suburbs, so hard for me to live in New York, but the state of New York is great.

00:44:49.000 I mean, going to upstate New York is beautiful.

00:44:51.000 There are real areas of New York that are just wonderful.

00:44:54.000 Michael says, Hi Ben.

00:44:55.000 I recently watched a video by Jordan Peterson regarding job suitability for different IQ levels.

00:44:59.000 Thanks, Naomi.

00:45:00.000 This is actually a really, really good question.

00:45:01.000 So, this, I think, is the big question of the future of the workforce.

00:45:03.000 The truth is,

00:45:18.000 Machines are good at doing some manual labor, but they're not good at doing all manual labor.

00:45:21.000 So machines are good at doing very specialized manual labor, like at factories, right?

00:45:26.000 If it's doing one thing over and over and over, machines are really good at that.

00:45:28.000 What machines are not really good at is doing many different tasks.

00:45:31.000 So, for example, you can have a Roomba that cleans your floor, but it's not going to be able to clean your table.

00:45:36.000 Right, so a person can do both of those things.

00:45:38.000 So manual labor is not going to go totally out of style for people who are not, you know, Phi Beta Kappa and actually need to work in manual labor.

00:45:45.000 But yes, we are going to have to develop skill sets.

00:45:48.000 As mechanization creates less need for manual labor, there is going to be a need for more creativity in the market.

00:45:57.000 The good news is that IQ doesn't always match up with creativity.

00:46:00.000 So there's a lot of people who are very creative

00:46:01.000 We're good to go.

00:46:20.000 There's no need for markets, because markets are created by scarcity.

00:46:26.000 If you have the replicator from Star Trek, and it just creates everything that you could ever need, then you don't have to worry about things being created anymore, and then you talk about a universal basic income.

00:46:33.000 This is a very good question.

00:46:34.000 The answer is because there is always a bias against the religion with which you grew up in Western civilization.

00:46:50.000 If you grew up in an area where everybody's conservative and you become lefty, then you are considered an enlightened member of the upper class by people in the big cities.

00:46:59.000 And the same thing is true with regard to religion.

00:47:01.000 You are moving beyond your boundaries.

00:47:04.000 Never mind that if a person from the East converts to Judaism or Christianity, they are considered a heretic very often or they're considered a rube. 0.56

00:47:11.000 That's just because we as a society have learned to hate ourselves in a lot of ways.

00:47:15.000 Evan says, in what circumstance do socks go with sandals?

00:47:19.000 So, as someone who used to wear socks with sandals and found it extraordinarily comfortable when I was a teenager, I will say, in situations in which you are not publicly seen, that would be the proper answer.

00:47:29.000 Because, I gotta tell you, I'm not a big sandals fan in general, particularly for dudes, right?

00:47:34.000 Dudes should not wear sandals because feet are ugly.

00:47:35.000 So, dude feet, not something people want to see.

00:47:38.000 Put on some shoes.

00:47:41.000 It just looks smelly and terrible.

00:47:42.000 Like, please don't do that.

00:47:43.000 Okay, Chris says, So, I am not aware of Ted Cruz's votes on veterans benefits, so I'd have to look that up to confirm whether that is in fact true.

00:47:49.000 But, the general question, to say that veterans deserve entitlements due to the nature of their service, no, I don't think that's out of bounds at all.

00:47:54.000 I think that's part of the contract when they sign up.

00:48:09.000 You're telling them to go do the most violent, difficult job on planet Earth, in many cases, and you're going to have to pay people a lot of money for that, including lifetime benefits in some cases.

00:48:18.000 Kyle says,

00:48:24.000 Two things.

00:48:25.000 One, you're never truly ready for kids.

00:48:27.000 You can make the decision that you think that you are financially prepared to take care of a child.

00:48:31.000 That's really what it was for us.

00:48:32.000 We were in a financial position where we were ready for kids.

00:48:35.000 And we felt that we had the time and resources to properly care for our children.

00:48:39.000 So from a logical perspective, that's true.

00:48:41.000 But when people say ready for kids, the implication is if I'm not ready for kids, then I should just not have a kid.

00:48:45.000 And the fact is that most kids who are born are not prepared for it.

00:48:49.000 Should you prepare if you can?

00:48:50.000 Yes.

00:48:51.000 You should make sure that your relationship with your spouse is ultra rock-solid, because having kids changes the nature of your relationship with your spouse.

00:48:57.000 Before you could focus solely on the other person in your marriage, and now you both have to focus on these new people who take over your lives.

00:49:03.000 So you better be solid before that happens.

00:49:05.000 So if you're financially, you know, on the upswing, and if you are solid with your spouse, then you can safely say you're ready for kids, but

00:49:13.000 If you're not ready for kids, that doesn't mean that you can't be a good parent, or that you can't become ready for kids, or that it can't help you grow as a human being, and that you take responsibility for decisions that you make.

00:49:22.000 Nat says, Hey Ben, my little sister is 13.

00:49:24.000 She, like most kids, is very caught up in today's culture and politics because her idols tend to be liberal.

00:49:28.000 She's been developing a more liberal view of the world.

00:49:30.000 She already tends to look at conservatives in a bad light. 0.67

00:49:32.000 I was wondering if you had any advice on how I could go about helping her understand conservatism better without alienating her.

00:49:36.000 I'd appreciate it.

00:49:37.000 So, I think the first thing to say is that, you know, it's not good to label people you don't know as bigots without any sort of evidence that they are bigots.

00:49:46.000 Okay?

00:49:46.000 You are tolerant of all sorts of views.

00:49:48.000 If you consider yourself a liberal, you probably are conservative.

00:49:50.000 Because if you consider yourself liberal, it's because you want everybody to be able to do what they want, basically.

00:49:54.000 That's a libertarian position, not a leftist position.

00:49:57.000 Okay, leftists like to say that about sexual matters. 1.00

00:49:59.000 The right doesn't really even care about that stuff anymore, okay?

00:50:01.000 Libertarians don't even care about that stuff.

00:50:03.000 If I care about it on a religious level, I certainly don't care about it on a governmental level or on a public policy level.

00:50:08.000 So, you know, I think that she probably has a skewed view of what the right is because she's listening to people from the left.

00:50:12.000 The answer should be go listen to some people from the right and that way maybe you can determine whether what is being said about those people is true or not.

00:50:19.000 Alex says,

00:50:20.000 What is your position on mandatory tipping?

00:50:22.000 I think the original tradition of getting a tip in advance for better service made sense, but now everybody demands a tip for everything, regardless of the level of service.

00:50:28.000 So, I am a pretty generous tipper.

00:50:31.000 I am ideologically opposed to tipping.

00:50:34.000 So, both of these things are true. 0.60

00:50:36.000 I'm a generous tipper because I think when people work hard, they deserve money, and I'm happy to give them that money.

00:50:41.000 However, 1.00

00:50:42.000 Tipping is stupid, okay? 1.00

00:50:43.000 I'm with Dwight Schrute from The Office on this one. 1.00

00:50:45.000 I don't tip my proctologist and he's doing something more important than carrying my food seven feet from the counter to my table.

00:50:51.000 So this idea that you get a special tip because you carried food seven feet, like, how about this?

00:50:55.000 I would rather that you make a better wage and charge me more for the food than that I have to decide whether I'm a good person or not based on the tip I give.

00:51:03.000 That's it.

00:51:03.000 I mean, that really is what we do, right?

00:51:04.000 They've actually found this.

00:51:06.000 They've done studies of this, of tipping.

00:51:07.000 It's really fascinating.

00:51:08.000 And what they found is, they thought that originally people did tipping because it was reciprocal altruism.

00:51:13.000 That if you give a tip, somebody's gonna give you a tip back, but then they found that that makes no sense, right?

00:51:16.000 You never see the waiter again.

00:51:17.000 You never see these people again.

00:51:19.000 It's just that you don't want to be perceived by that waiter as a bad guy, so you give a tip.

00:51:23.000 So there's a moral judgment that's made about you based on the level of your tip, and you're making moral judgment about your waiter based on, you know, did they do a good job or not?

00:51:30.000 Are they a bad person?

00:51:31.000 I'm gonna give you a $2 tip just to show you.

00:51:33.000 And my grandfather used to do this.

00:51:34.000 If he didn't like the service, he'd leave a nickel.

00:51:35.000 Right, just to show them they didn't like the service.

00:51:38.000 Again, I don't think that any of this is relevant.

00:51:40.000 We all earn wages out here in the non-tipping world.

00:51:44.000 So I'm not a huge fan of tipping.

00:51:47.000 Although I will say that I think that if you're an employee, it's a great way to make some extra money.

00:51:53.000 Really what it is, is

00:51:54.000 It's almost become a way to avoid taxes, because tips are generally given in cash.

00:51:58.000 And if you're a waiter, you can make a lot of money on the side that way.

00:52:00.000 Okay, David says, Hey Ben, as a fellow Game of Thrones fan, sometimes I have an issue with the over-the-top sex and violence.

00:52:05.000 Is there a way you justify the graphic nature of the show, or are we just huge nerds who are willing to accept it?

00:52:09.000 So, both.

00:52:11.000 Yes, the over-the-top sex and violence is over-the-top sex and violence. 0.97

00:52:14.000 Over-the-top violence doesn't tend to bother me very much, because I think that there are situations in which violence is necessary.

00:52:21.000 So, the over-the-top violence in Band of Brothers doesn't bother me, really, because I think there are situations in which violence is necessary, and violence against evil is necessary, and we should all see the wages of sin or death, and we should all see that, you know, bad things even happen to good people.

00:52:34.000 But, when it comes to the graphic sex in the first season, for example, and it is, it's very graphic, the first season is basically near-pornographic,

00:52:41.000 I had problems with that.

00:52:42.000 I fast-forwarded through a lot of that because I thought that it was just HBO doing what HBO does.

00:52:46.000 Every HBO show, just to prove that they're HBO and they're pay access, they have some boobies just to show, oh, look, we're HBO and we can put boobies on TV.

00:52:54.000 And now they've decided to up the ante and say, oh, we're HBO so we can put a dinghy on TV.

00:52:58.000 You know, this is what they do.

00:53:00.000 Well, I don't think there's a way to justify it.

00:53:02.000 I think that you can say overall the show's great.

00:53:04.000 I think you can fast forward those scenes.

00:53:07.000 But I'm not going to justify what I think are bad artistic choices.

00:53:09.000 There are situations in which nudity on screen is actually useful to the story.

00:53:15.000 So I think of two cases in particular, Clockwork Orange, where there is some nudity on screen but it's directly designed to demonstrate the evil and vulgarity of the villains.

00:53:24.000 And what the brainwashing program has done to this one guy afterward.

00:53:30.000 And there's another movie called The Pawnbroker that I think I've recommended on the show before with Rod Steiger about a Holocaust survivor and there's one scene where he runs a pawn shop and a woman comes in and she bears her breast in front of him and it's used as a gateway for a flashback to his wife was in a concentration camp with him and she's being raped by a Nazi officer.

00:53:48.000 So there you have a case.

00:53:49.000 Both of those cases

00:53:50.000 Typically are not erotic, right?

00:53:52.000 Both of those cases are rape scenes. 0.99

00:53:53.000 So I think in rape scenes very often you have to show that stuff in order to show how vile and evil rape is and why rapists should be castrated or killed because they're the most evil people on earth.

00:54:03.000 But in terms of like erotica, you know, showing erotic stuff on screen, I don't think that's hardly ever necessary. 0.81

00:54:08.000 In fact, the most romantic scenes of all time are rarely sex scenes.

00:54:11.000 Those are usually the most forgettable, right?

00:54:12.000 The romantic scenes are the ones that are from the 1940s.

00:54:15.000 Where, you know, people barely touch and the tension is just tremendous.

00:54:19.000 Most romance is sexual tension, not sexual release.

00:54:22.000 And it seems that most of today's movies focus in on sexual release and not sexual tension.

00:54:26.000 Okay, so, we will be back here next week.

00:54:28.000 Next week I will be traveling to Washington, D.C.

00:54:30.000 to testify before Congress.

00:54:32.000 And we'll give you all the updates on Berkley.

00:54:34.000 As of Monday, right now, Berkley is saying that they are going to try and give me a slot.

00:54:39.000 They pledge that they will make the event happen.

00:54:41.000 So thank you for all of your support, folks, and hopefully they'll fulfill that pledge.

00:54:45.000 We'll see.

00:54:46.000 They kind of jerked Ann Coulter around, so we'll see if they jerk me around as well, but hopefully they'll keep their pledge.

00:54:50.000 We'll give you the update.

00:54:51.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:54:51.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - July 21, 2017

The Juice Is Loose! | Ep. 345

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