The Ben Shapiro Show - We’re Never Ever Ever…Getting Back Together | Ep. 634

00:00:00.000 Nikki Haley quits, the UN makes a catastrophic prediction regarding global warming, and President Trump goes after Taylor Swift, much to my producer's great dismay.

00:00:08.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:09.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:15.000 Well, after the laughter and revelry of all the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation, it turns out that today is indeed a sad day because two icons, two icons were lost to us.

00:00:25.000 Nikki Haley, for me, you know, and Ambassador Nikki Haley, for me, she resigned today.

00:00:29.000 We'll talk about that in just a second.

00:00:30.000 And Taylor Swift came in for some harsh critiques from President Trump, much to my producer Senya's dismay.

00:00:36.000 So we'll get to all of that as well.

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00:01:49.000 So, today is indeed a sad day.

00:01:52.000 Ambassador Nikki Haley.

00:01:54.000 United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley.

00:01:55.000 My spirit animal.

00:01:57.000 She decided that she was going to resign apparently a few days ago and that was just announced today.

00:02:02.000 All I can say is I'm stuck in a glass cage of emotion.

00:02:06.000 A glass cage of emotion.

00:02:07.000 I'm so sad right now.

00:02:10.000 The sadness overwhelms me at times.

00:02:12.000 If I have to take a break to go cry in the corner and just rock myself and eat ice cream, that might be happening a little bit later in the show.

00:02:19.000 We'll try to avoid it as best we can.

00:02:21.000 Nikki Haley made that announcement in the White House with President Trump today.

00:02:25.000 It was a shock announcement.

00:02:26.000 Here's what she had to say.

00:02:27.000 It has been an honor of a lifetime.

00:02:30.000 You know, I said I am such a lucky girl to have been able to lead the state that raised me and to serve a country I love so very much.

00:02:39.000 It has really been a blessing and I want to thank you for that.

00:02:43.000 Now Nikki Haley was indeed a badass in her job as the UN ambassador. 1.00

00:02:47.000 She basically spent every day going and yelling at despots, which was, and she was great at it. 1.00

00:02:52.000 I mean, she would go in and she would talk about how the United States was exceptional and America was a unique place and our allies like Israel were worth supporting and how the UN was basically the most isley of the international institutional

00:03:05.000 Sort of layout.

00:03:06.000 And she was exactly correct about all of those things.

00:03:08.000 I will miss Nikki Haley greatly.

00:03:10.000 She explained some of the things that she got done as UN ambassador.

00:03:14.000 I'm most excited.

00:03:15.000 Look at the two years.

00:03:16.000 Look at what has happened in two years with the United States on foreign policy.

00:03:21.000 Now, the United States is respected.

00:03:24.000 Countries may not like what we do, but they respect what we do.

00:03:28.000 They know that if we say we're going to do something, we follow it through, and the President proved that.

00:03:32.000 Whether it was with the chemical weapons in Syria, whether it's with NATO saying that other countries have to pay their share, I mean, whether it's the trade deals, which have been amazing, they get that the President means business.

00:03:44.000 Okay, so there are a bunch of rumors about what's going to happen next.

00:03:47.000 People suggesting that Nikki Haley is going to take Senator Lindsey Graham's spot.

00:03:51.000 Lindsey Graham is going to become the U.N. 1.00

00:03:53.000 ambassador.

00:03:54.000 That's not going to happen.

00:03:55.000 I'm just going to say that right here, right now.

00:03:56.000 Lindsey Graham has no interest in giving up a Senate seat to go be U.N. 1.00

00:03:59.000 ambassador.

00:04:00.000 It would be a great solution.

00:04:01.000 It would be really Machiavellian to move her into the Senate where she could just do battle with Kamala Harris on a daily basis. 1.00

00:04:07.000 It would be spectacular.

00:04:08.000 I would enjoy watching it.

00:04:09.000 And Lindsey Graham would actually make a terrific U.N. 1.00

00:04:11.000 ambassador because it would be full-time Lindsey Graham 2.0.

00:04:14.000 That's all that he would do all day long would be Lindsey Graham 2.0 and just yell at people, which would be amazing.

00:04:19.000 But unfortunately, I don't think that's going to happen.

00:04:21.000 There's some rumors that maybe it'll be Dina Powell, who was a former member of the administration, or maybe it'll be Rick Grenell, who would be terrific.

00:04:28.000 He's our current ambassador to Germany.

00:04:30.000 I really doubt that they're going to call him back from Germany to make him UN ambassador.

00:04:34.000 There are a few other possibilities.

00:04:35.000 Nikki Haley is not going to stay with the administration.

00:04:38.000 She is out.

00:04:39.000 She is not going back to the Senate. 0.99

00:04:40.000 My guess is that she is going to go back into politics maybe a couple of years from now. 0.64

00:04:44.000 But I get the sense from her, from folks who know her, that she actually does just want to take some time out.

00:04:51.000 That she's sort of been burned out on this job.

00:04:53.000 And I hear her.

00:04:54.000 I mean, that's a pretty brutal job.

00:04:56.000 I met with Ambassador Haley just a few months back.

00:05:00.000 And it's not the easiest job in the world going in there every day.

00:05:03.000 Number one, having to watch what the administration is saying and doing.

00:05:06.000 And number two, having to go in with some of the worst people on earth and try to negotiate with them on a regular basis.

00:05:11.000 So good for Nikki Haley.

00:05:12.000 And she certainly has all sorts of gratitude from folks like me for everything that she did.

00:05:17.000 I'm very sad indeed to see her go.

00:05:20.000 Meanwhile,

00:05:21.000 The United Nations put out a report, and this is getting all sorts of press on the left, and so I think it's worth going through in detail.

00:05:26.000 So the UN is not a good institution.

00:05:29.000 It is an institution that is replete with the interests of a lot of very, very bad nations who have interests that are not quite American interests.

00:05:38.000 But one area where the UN actually has done some research, one area where science is supposed to take the leading role,

00:05:44.000 Is with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

00:05:47.000 There's a big report out today.

00:05:48.000 It came out on Monday, actually.

00:05:50.000 And it is a report all about the supposed higher risk from climate change, even with a lower level of climate change.

00:05:57.000 So we were told for many years that over the course of the next century, we were going to get to 3 to 4 degrees Celsius climate change across the planet.

00:06:06.000 That was going to be the average climate change.

00:06:08.000 And then it turns out that this new report basically says that we are warming less fast than the UN thought we were.

00:06:17.000 So the UN keeps giving these 10-year windows, saying in 10 years, we're really going to have blown it.

00:06:21.000 In five years, we're going to have blown it.

00:06:23.000 In three years, we're going to have blown it.

00:06:24.000 Well, now the new report, this should be the headline today.

00:06:26.000 It's not the headline.

00:06:27.000 The new report basically suggests sort of the opposite, that this is in chapter two of this new report.

00:06:36.000 The key quote says, quote, There is high agreement across various lines of evidence assessed in the report that the remaining carbon budget for 1.5 degrees Celsius or 2 degrees Celsius would be larger than the estimates at the time of the AR5.

00:06:47.000 The AR5 is the last big study they did.

00:06:49.000 That was back in, I believe, 2013, 2014.

00:06:52.000 What that means, in non-science speak, is that it turns out that our carbon emissions have been lower than they thought they were when they first made their estimate, which means that the climate is warming at slightly a lower rate than they thought it would be at this point.

00:07:06.000 So the estimated date for hitting 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming?

00:07:11.000 It's actually, it's been pushed out further now.

00:07:13.000 They were saying that we were going to hit that in three, four years.

00:07:15.000 Now they're saying we're going to hit that in ten years.

00:07:17.000 They keep pushing that down the line.

00:07:19.000 The reason that this creates some skepticism among folks is not because people don't necessarily believe in climate change at all, as though the climate is not changing.

00:07:28.000 It does raise questions as to the sensitivity of the climate to human-produced carbon emissions, human-produced greenhouse gases.

00:07:36.000 Skepticism, I think, is warranted with regard to some of the more outrageous claims that are being made by UN members and radical leftists, who do indeed, many of them, have an alternative agenda.

00:07:46.000 And I'm not just saying they have an alternative agenda, they're basically saying so.

00:07:48.000 There's a guy named Eric Holthaus, who is a meteorologist and a visiting scholar at UMN-ION.

00:07:55.000 I'm not sure, the University of Minnesota, I suppose?

00:07:58.000 And he actually calls for an end to capitalism in order to fight climate change.

00:08:04.000 Now, there are a lot of folks on the right

00:08:06.000 Who have been suggesting for a long time that was actually the agenda here.

00:08:08.000 That all of the worry, the extreme worry about climate change, was really designed to hamper America's economy and the world.

00:08:14.000 And the evidence for this was actually present, right?

00:08:16.000 There was evidence that, for example, the Paris Accords, which were demands on the United States that we were supposed to radically shift how we did business, while other countries made empty promises about how they did business.

00:08:27.000 China suggested, for example, that they were committed to reducing greenhouse gases after peaking in 2030.

00:08:33.000 Well, American studies already showed that China was planning on peaking its greenhouse gases in 2030, so they promised to do something they're already going to do.

00:08:41.000 India promised that they were going to gradually lower greenhouse gas emissions at some point in the future.

00:08:46.000 So that promise didn't mean anything.

00:08:48.000 And so a lot of folks in the United States were saying, well, why are we committing ourselves to attempts and targets when the world's greatest emitters and polluters are not actually tying themselves to anything of substance here?

00:09:01.000 Eric Holthaus, he says this, I mean, if you're looking for something to do.

00:09:15.000 So the idea is that we have to get rid of capitalism completely.

00:09:18.000 Where is he getting this from in the report?

00:09:20.000 Well, there's a section in Chapter 4 of this UN report that says, Estimates suggest that in addition to climate-friendly allocation of public investments, that'd be like building levees and ensuring that there's infrastructure,

00:09:42.000 A potential redirection of five to ten percent of annual capital revenues is necessary.

00:09:47.000 So basically the entire profit margin should be redirected as the UN suggests that it should be redirected.

00:09:54.000 Now, there are several problems with this report.

00:09:57.000 The first problem is the way that it's actually reported by the mainstream media.

00:09:59.000 So the way that the New York Times reports this is that it's a landmark report from the UN Scientific Panel on Climate Change, painting a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought.

00:10:11.000 Except that's not really true.

00:10:12.000 Not much changed between the 2013 report and this particular report, the AR5 in this report.

00:10:18.000 Not much changed at all.

00:10:21.000 In fact, the only thing that really changed is that they said that their forecast for doom has actually been pushed out a few more years.

00:10:26.000 But the way the New York Times covers this is that everyone is going to die at 1.5 degrees Celsius change by 2040 as opposed to 2 degrees Celsius change by 2040.

00:10:37.000 The report issued on Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that it describes a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040, a period well within the lifetime of much of the global population.

00:10:51.000 When the New York Times says that, what they want you to picture is the day after tomorrow, that movie with Dennis Quaid, where suddenly a giant tsunami just washes through New York City and sets the whole place under ice for a thousand years.

00:11:01.000 And global warming is responsible for the rise in the sea levels, and everyone dies, and it's catastrophic, it's deep impacts, except with climate.

00:11:09.000 The problem is that that's not really true.

00:11:10.000 All of this climate change is going to happen over the course of the next century.

00:11:14.000 Human beings are pretty good and adaptable.

00:11:16.000 When it comes to adapting over time to threats that present themselves over time.

00:11:20.000 Climate has been changing across the world for the last century and a half, really since 1880, 1870.

00:11:26.000 And human beings have been migrating and moving and developing new technologies to deal with all of that.

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00:12:44.000 So according to Bill Hare, who's author of previous IPCC reports and a physicist with Climate Analytics, a non-profit organization, they're a left-leaning one, we were not aware of this just a few years ago.

00:12:54.000 It's quite a shock and quite concerning.

00:12:56.000 So this is the first report commissioned by world leaders under the Paris Agreement, which again is that 2015 pact that people supposedly signed but really made no real commitment to keep.

00:13:06.000 And Trump said this is a waste of time and pulled us

00:13:08.000 There are significant problems, I should mention, in climate change modeling.

00:13:11.000 None of the models that have been put forth so far actually

00:13:30.000 reflect the level of climate change that's been occurring, virtually all of them overshoot the mark.

00:13:34.000 And that's because climate is actually very difficult to predict.

00:13:37.000 There are a lot of factors that are involved in climate.

00:13:39.000 Now, how much of climate change is caused by human activity?

00:13:42.000 Certainly some.

00:13:43.000 The IPCC says 80%.

00:13:45.000 Folks like Roy Spencer, who I'm sure you've heard on other talk radio shows.

00:13:48.000 You've heard him on Rush Limbaugh.

00:13:49.000 Roy Spencer.

00:13:51.000 He says that he thinks it's about 50%, but certainly our contribution to greenhouse gas emissions leads to climate change.

00:13:58.000 The question is really not whether that's happening, it's to what extent, and also what the economic damage is from such climate change, what the human damage is from such climate change.

00:14:08.000 So the New York Times is playing this up as much as humanly possible.

00:14:29.000 For example, the report says that heavy taxes or prices on carbon dioxide emissions, perhaps as high as $27,000 per ton by 2100 would be required.

00:14:39.000 That's a $40 per gallon tax on carbon.

00:14:43.000 That's what you're talking about.

00:14:44.000 Every time you go to the pump and you buy 10 gallons of gas, you'd now be paying $400 in tax in order to meet that $27,000 per ton number.

00:14:54.000 The Obama administration had suggested $50 per ton, and that was considered high at the time.

00:15:00.000 All of this is to say that these estimates are wildly overstated in terms of the amount of damage that they are likely to do.

00:15:07.000 The reason that I say that is because of the report itself.

00:15:10.000 The way that these things get reported in the media is that there is virtual certainty in the scientific community that this stuff is going to happen.

00:15:16.000 The problem is that virtual scientific consensus doesn't actually exist on a lot of key issues.

00:15:22.000 So, for example, as I pointed out this morning,

00:15:26.000 There are significant questions in the report about the level of confidence in specific predictions.

00:15:32.000 So in just a second, I'm going to talk about those specific predictions.

00:15:36.000 So here's what you need to know about the IPCC.

00:15:38.000 So the IPCC makes two types of predictions in this report.

00:15:42.000 The first type of prediction is that two degrees of global warming will be worse than 1.5 degrees of global warming Celsius.

00:15:48.000 Okay.

00:15:48.000 And they say that with high confidence.

00:15:50.000 Meaning, by their metric, 8 in 10 confidence.

00:15:53.000 80% confidence.

00:15:54.000 Okay, well, that sounds fair, right?

00:15:56.000 I mean, seems like more global warming would be worse than less global warming.

00:15:59.000 That seems like the assumption that we're going on.

00:16:02.000 Then they get to the actual specific predictions.

00:16:05.000 And with those, virtually every specific prediction they make about the amount of damage that's going to be done to the world climate based on 1.5 degrees Celsius of change,

00:16:14.000 Virtually all of their predictions are couched in terms of medium confidence.

00:16:18.000 Medium confidence according to the IPCC, at least according to a 2007 report where they defined the terms.

00:16:23.000 It's the only place I could see them defining the terms.

00:16:25.000 Medium confidence means a 50-50 shot.

00:16:28.000 So, basically flip a coin as to whether they are right or wrong on this.

00:16:32.000 And then you are going to determine whether we ought to destroy capitalism on the basis of this.

00:16:36.000 So, for example,

00:16:39.000 In the first chapter, well in the summary rather, in the summary of findings for the IPCC report, it says of the 105,000 species studied, 6% of insects, 8% of plants, 4% of vertebrates are projected to lose over half their climatically determined geographic range for global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius compared with 18% of insects, 16% of plants, and 8% of vertebrates for global warming of 2 degrees Celsius.

00:17:05.000 So basically, everything is going to double.

00:17:07.000 Everything is going to double.

00:17:09.000 And for insects, it's going to triple.

00:17:10.000 Everything bad is going to double.

00:17:11.000 And then for insects, triple with 2 degrees Celsius of change versus 1.5 degrees Celsius of change.

00:17:16.000 But that is expressed in medium confidence.

00:17:19.000 OK, so there's a 50-50 shot there, right?

00:17:22.000 Are you willing to bet the future of the world economy and leave billions of people in poverty in developing nations on a 50-50 bet that they are right about the spread of insect-restricted areas?

00:17:37.000 I mean, really, is that a bet that you're willing to make?

00:17:40.000 Because now you're taking a virtual certainty that hundreds of millions of people will live in poverty, in increased conditions of poverty, and you're betting that against the 50-50 possibility that some bugs will have less space to live.

00:17:51.000 Or that 16% of plants will lose half their climatically determined geographic range.

00:17:57.000 Now, that's a serious consideration, but I think that there's also the possibility that, number one, the scientists are wrong, and number two, there's the possibility that technology tends to

00:18:07.000 Actually manifest itself in different ways that when you see serious economic, serious environmental problems, technology is a good way of mitigating against that.

00:18:16.000 In fact, there's a good case we made the global warming because it's a greenhouse effect has acted kind of like a greenhouse.

00:18:21.000 What you've seen is an increased greening in certain parts of the globe, specifically because of global warming.

00:18:26.000 And that's sort of a repeated thing in this IPCC report.

00:18:29.000 The more specific they get, the lower their confidence level.

00:18:32.000 So, for example, they say, approximately 4% of the global terrestrial land area is projected to undergo a transformation of ecosystems from one type to another at 1 degree Celsius of global warming.

00:18:44.000 Compared to 13% at 2°C of global warming.

00:18:48.000 So, if it's 2°C global warming, 13% of the entire global terrestrial land area is going to be transformed in terms of ecosystem.

00:18:55.000 But again, they say that with medium confidence.

00:18:57.000 So, what they say with full confidence is that 2°C is worse than 1.5°C.

00:19:01.000 What they say with medium confidence, meaning half-half, is that this change will be really, really dramatic.

00:19:08.000 That's basically the case that they are making.

00:19:10.000 Now, when I say all of this, folks on the left immediately say, well, you're a climate change denier.

00:19:14.000 Again, I'm not denying climate change is taking place.

00:19:16.000 I'm asking what the actual impact of climate change will be, and two, what measures will be necessary in order to curb said climate change.

00:19:25.000 So, I want to take another story that's in the news today because it's sort of astonishing.

00:19:28.000 It's sort of astonishing.

00:19:31.000 Yesterday, a guy won the Nobel Prize in Economics.

00:19:34.000 His name is William Nordhaus.

00:19:35.000 He works over at Yale.

00:19:36.000 And the left championed this guy, William Nordhaus.

00:19:38.000 Why?

00:19:38.000 Because William Nordhaus has, for years, been modeling what sort of economic systems would be best in terms of curbing global warming.

00:19:45.000 And this has been his actual life work.

00:19:47.000 So the left said, oh, look at that.

00:19:48.000 That's a slap against Trump.

00:19:50.000 It's a slap against the right.

00:19:51.000 Finally, we're rewarding someone in economics who takes global warming seriously.

00:19:56.000 But there is a serious problem with this particular take on William Nordhaus and Romer, the guy who he won a Nobel Prize in economics with.

00:20:04.000 It turns out that their arguments actually undercut some of the arguments being made by the same folks who are promoting them and promoting this IPCC report.

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00:21:19.000 Okay, so as I say, a lot of folks on the left very excited about William Nordhaus actually winning a Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on the economics of climate change.

00:21:29.000 There's only one problem with this.

00:21:31.000 Nordhaus actually argues that we should only intervene economically.

00:21:34.000 We should only shift our economy when the costs of not intervening outweigh the costs of intervening, which makes a lot of sense, right?

00:21:40.000 So if you're not going to intervene, and the costs of climate change are really high, then you should intervene, right?

00:21:45.000 This is how you make all your decisions in life.

00:21:47.000 You make every decision in life.

00:21:49.000 The cost of me acting, is it better or worse than the cost of me not acting?

00:21:53.000 So, what Nordhaus basically says is we have to determine whether the cost of action is more expensive than the cost of inaction.

00:22:01.000 What point does that become a reality?

00:22:03.000 At what point do we actually have to act?

00:22:05.000 Well, according to Mr. Nordhaus,

00:22:08.000 The actual number is the optimal temperature increase where we have to act is when there is a climate change of 4.1 degrees, which is about 2.3 degrees Celsius.

00:22:19.000 Okay, so higher than anything the IPCC is talking about.

00:22:23.000 In fact, his model is called Dice, and there is a 2013 model version that he posted in an Excel table.

00:22:29.000 The key data here is that he estimated a cost in the year 2100 of 4% of global GDP, which is the equivalent of reducing annual growth over the century from about 2.27% to 2.22%, or postponing the prosperity of 2100 until 2103.

00:22:40.000 So, if the worst-case scenarios hit, he is talking about a cost in the year 2100 of 4% of GDP.

00:22:53.000 Which is not all that high.

00:22:55.000 We can cope with it.

00:22:56.000 It's something that we can deal with.

00:22:58.000 In August, he actually published an updated discussion of this model.

00:23:02.000 I talked to Oren Kast this morning, who's an expert on this stuff over at Manhattan Institute, does wonderful work.

00:23:06.000 Like me, I think he's what you would call Luke Warmer, meaning that he believes that global warming is happening, but he's skeptical of a lot of the answers that are being given for how to curb it.

00:23:15.000 According to Orrin, Nordhaus published a discussion of his latest model in the American Economic Journal in which he argued that holding warming below 2.5 degrees Celsius is implausible and not cost effective.

00:23:28.000 In other words, we've already hit 1.5 degrees Celsius.

00:23:30.000 We've probably already hit 2 degrees Celsius.

00:23:32.000 There's nothing we can do there.

00:23:33.000 He says the optimal trajectory would be mitigation that reduces warming from 4.2 degrees Celsius to 3.5 degrees Celsius by 2100.

00:23:42.000 Here's what he says.

00:23:43.000 He says the international target for climate change with a limit of 2 degrees Celsius appears to be infeasible with reasonably accessible technologies even with very ambitious abatement strategies.

00:23:54.000 So in other words, the person that the left is now celebrating for winning the Nobel Prize in economics because it's a slap at Trump doesn't agree with them and doesn't agree with the IPCC on the sort of action that is necessary in order to avoid catastrophe.

00:24:07.000 So that's pretty... It's a pretty important thing to know, you would think, but the media is not covering any of that stuff.

00:24:12.000 Instead, they're just going with the fully alarmist idea that we are on the brink of disaster and we're all going to die.

00:24:18.000 The IPCC report, by the way, makes a bunch of political statements.

00:24:21.000 Many of them are uncalled for, including they go after nuclear energy.

00:24:24.000 So if you actually did want to curb carbon emissions, if you actually did want to prevent global warming by curbing greenhouse gases, presumably you'd be in favor of nuclear power.

00:24:32.000 But, the IPCC authors, because they are politically of the left, oppose nuclear energy.

00:24:37.000 Here's what they say, they say,

00:24:48.000 Yeah, that's just not true.

00:24:50.000 Studies show that the nuclear energy industry is the safest industry in making electricity.

00:24:56.000 Climate scientists found that nuclear energy has saved 1.8 million lives by preventing premature deaths from air pollution.

00:25:01.000 This is according to Forbes.com.

00:25:03.000 Where nuclear was 19% of U.S.

00:25:05.000 electricity last year, solar and wind still constitute just 1.3 and 6.3% of electricity.

00:25:10.000 But the IPCC is saying, forget nuclear, forget coal, forget gas.

00:25:14.000 Instead, we need to bank on solar and wind.

00:25:17.000 Yeah, good luck with all of that.

00:25:18.000 Good luck with all of that.

00:25:21.000 All of this seems, frankly, like an attempt to avoid the reality, which is that we have to make economic decisions based on possibilities and probabilities, that you don't get to destroy capitalism wholesale just because you don't like capitalism.

00:25:36.000 And when you hear people saying wild things about how the cities are going to be underwater and millions of people are going to die and all the rest,

00:25:44.000 Just remember that there is an agenda backing some of these folks.

00:25:47.000 And that the alarmist predictions of folks like Al Gore have not, in fact, come true.

00:25:51.000 That doesn't mean we shouldn't take global warming seriously.

00:25:53.000 We should.

00:25:54.000 But that's why we should use money for abatement.

00:25:56.000 That's why we should be looking at building levees. 1.00

00:25:58.000 It's why we should be looking at creating barriers to tsunamis and figuring out exactly how to move people inland.

00:26:06.000 It means that there are lots of ways over the course of the coming century for us to deal with some of the increased problems of climate.

00:26:12.000 But exaggerating the problems of climate ain't gonna do it.

00:26:14.000 And then suggesting that we overthrow capitalism to do it is not exactly a smart solution.

00:26:18.000 Nonetheless, radicalism rules the day.

00:26:21.000 And it's driven by a sort of weird millenarianism.

00:26:26.000 I don't know.

00:26:44.000 Well, you see it in the secular world, too.

00:26:46.000 The idea that we are living in the end times, and the apocalypse is basically upon us, and that means that harsh action is necessary.

00:26:52.000 We need harsh action now.

00:26:54.000 We need crazed action now, because if we don't, everyone is gonna die.

00:26:57.000 Millions will die.

00:26:59.000 Millions will die.

00:27:00.000 And we keep hearing this about the increase of hurricanes and tornadoes, even though there's been no actual increase in the number of hurricanes or tornadoes.

00:27:07.000 We keep hearing this about the supposed outsized impact of hurricanes and tornadoes, even though, for example, in Bangladesh, which just experienced a pretty significant hurricane a couple of... within the last year, about 4,000 people died.

00:27:19.000 In the 1990s, there was a similar-sized hurricane.

00:27:22.000 100,000 people died.

00:27:22.000 What did that mean?

00:27:23.000 It meant that Bangladesh actually spent the money and provided the resources necessary so that fewer people died.

00:27:28.000 In other words, human beings, as intelligent animals, have the capacity to adapt to our environment.

00:27:33.000 We've been doing it our entire existence.

00:27:35.000 Nonetheless, the feeling that we are living in crisis mode has permeated the left to a really extraordinary extent.

00:27:42.000 And that reaches all the way down to the lowest level of the Democratic Party.

00:27:46.000 I mean the lowest level, meaning the folks in Antifa.

00:27:48.000 So, if you haven't seen this, I have to show you this tape from Antifa in Portland.

00:27:53.000 Antifa has basically taken over the city.

00:27:55.000 For folks who don't know what Antifa is, Antifa is a wild leftist group.

00:27:59.000 They call themselves anti-fascist.

00:28:01.000 What they actually want to do is prevent anyone from

00:28:04.000 Let's just go that way.

00:28:21.000 Because I told you to.

00:28:23.000 Really?

00:28:23.000 Mm-hmm.

00:28:24.000 Don't hurt him!

00:28:24.000 Yeah, brother!

00:28:25.000 Yeah, you little white little f***er! 1.00

00:28:28.000 Really? 1.00

00:28:28.000 Yeah! 1.00

00:28:29.000 You're a f***ing little whitey, aren't ya? 1.00

00:28:31.000 First Amendment! 1.00

00:28:32.000 Get the f*** down the road! 1.00

00:28:33.000 Please just keep going the direction... Just please turn right for Christ's sake! 0.96

00:28:36.000 Please go the direction I asked you to go!

00:28:38.000 For Jesus Christ's sake, just turn right!

00:28:40.000 Please!

00:28:40.000 You're blocking traffic and they're getting pissed at you!

00:28:42.000 Oh, we're blocking traffic!

00:28:43.000 You can turn...

00:28:44.000 Okay, so obviously Antifa has taken over the city and they're telling people where to go.

00:28:48.000 Where the hell are the cops?

00:28:50.000 Well, the answer is the cops are nowhere to be found because for months, for months, Portland has been controlled by Antifa.

00:28:55.000 There's an article from August 2018 by Andy, I believe it's pronounced Nigo, or maybe the N is silent.

00:29:02.000 He's an editor at Quillette and he has a piece called Anarchy Breaks Out in Portland with the Mayor's Blessing.

00:29:07.000 Here's what he says.

00:29:32.000 A mob surrounded ICE's office in southwest Portland, June 19.

00:29:36.000 They barricaded the exit.

00:29:37.000 They blocked the driveway.

00:29:37.000 They sent guards to patrol the doors.

00:29:39.000 They trapped workers inside.

00:29:40.000 At night, they laid on the street, stopped traffic at a critical junction near a hospital, and police stayed away.

00:29:46.000 At this time, I am denying your request for additional resources, said Portland Police Bureau Deputy Chief Robert Day.

00:29:53.000 Writing to federal officers pleading for help.

00:29:56.000 Hours later, the remaining ICE workers were finally evacuated by a small federal police team.

00:30:00.000 The facility shut down for more than a week.

00:30:03.000 Some locals just let Antifa run roughshod. 0.98

00:30:07.000 And that's not really a surprise.

00:30:08.000 The radicals have taken over large swaths of left.

00:30:10.000 Tom Perez, the head of the DNC, is now essentially admitting that there are no moderates left in his own party.

00:30:17.000 When we see that there are no guardrails in Washington, I mean, we know that for sure.

00:30:23.000 There are no moderate Democrats basically left, moderate Republicans left in the United States.

00:30:29.000 There are no moderate Republicans left in the United States Senate.

00:30:33.000 Freudian slip there from Tom Perez.

00:30:34.000 There are no moderate Democrats because there really are not.

00:30:36.000 I mean, the number of moderate Democrats has declined.

00:30:39.000 How much so?

00:30:40.000 So much so that

00:30:43.000 Our own producer, Senya, is experiencing great tragedy today.

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00:33:09.000 The saddest story of the day.

00:33:10.000 There are no more moderates in the Democratic Party.

00:33:12.000 There was a meme that was going around among Republicans for quite a while in which the Democrats have this tendency, folks on the left have this tendency, where they say things like, what we really need is we need celebrities to sound off on X. Why is Taylor Swift remaining silent in the face of X political issue?

00:33:29.000 Why, Taylor Swift, why don't you have a comment on Brett Kavanaugh?

00:33:33.000 Taylor Swift, why don't you have a comment on climate change?

00:33:36.000 Taylor Swift, why don't you have a comment on this local dog catchers race in Tennessee?

00:33:41.000 It became a meme because the left demands fealty from its celebrities.

00:33:45.000 And then, and then the day came.

00:33:47.000 Now, Senya, my producer, is a big Taylor Swift fan.

00:33:50.000 When I say she's a big Taylor Swift fan, I mean she punishes me with Taylor Swift when I refuse to do my recording on time.

00:33:55.000 If I do not record on time, she starts to punish me like it's Gitmo with the music of Taylor Swift.

00:34:02.000 Yeah, there it is right now.

00:34:04.000 I just...

00:34:05.000 And it doesn't matter how many times I tell Senya that Taylor Swift is not, in fact, the world's most genius lyricist, that Taylor Swift is no Cole Porter, that, in fact, when she says we are never, ever, ever getting back together, together and ever don't rhyme.

00:34:18.000 This morning, Senya informed me that they do rhyme because they both end in ER, to which Colton quite aptly replied, so does the word murder.

00:34:25.000 But it does not rhyme with you together or ever, which is 100% true. 0.80

00:34:29.000 And also, Senya should know that since I have heard there's a rumor going around the office that Senya is in fact a serial killer.

00:34:35.000 In any case, Taylor Swift has finally broken her silence and it turns out just like everyone else in Hollywood and the music industry, she is a person of the left.

00:34:43.000 So here is what she tweeted.

00:34:45.000 Which I actually put out on Instagram, quote, I'm writing this post about the upcoming midterm elections on November 6th, in which I'll be voting in the state of Tennessee.

00:34:51.000 In the past, I've been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now.

00:34:59.000 I always have and always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country.

00:35:06.000 I believe in the fight for LGBTQ rights, because this is the big defining moral issue in Hollywood, even though we all agree that people should be treated

00:35:14.000 With respect and honor in the United States and that any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is wrong.

00:35:20.000 I believe that systemic racism we still see in this country towards people of color is terrifying, sickening, and prevalent.

00:35:25.000 So this is Taylor Swift's basically her kind of torture note from the malice left.

00:35:33.000 They put her in a room. 0.99

00:35:34.000 They

00:35:35.000 Well, President Trump has his doubts as well, so Taylor Swift finally came out

00:36:00.000 With the typical left view that everybody always knew she had.

00:36:03.000 And no one's really that upset about it except for Senya.

00:36:05.000 The left wants people on the right to be upset, but I don't actually care what Taylor Swift has to say about politics, because as I've said one million times, I don't really care about what most celebrities have to say about politics.

00:36:14.000 In any case, President Trump, I think, had the final word on the matter.

00:36:17.000 Here was President Trump's opinion of Taylor Swift.

00:36:20.000 A sentence no sentient human being ever thought would be read into our political lexicon.

00:36:26.000 When George Washington founded the country, I'm sure he was thinking,

00:36:30.000 When will we have a president who is a reality TV star commenting on a pop star's opinions of a Tennessee Senate race regarding LGBTQ rights?

00:36:40.000 Yep, things are weird.

00:36:41.000 Here's the president of the United States talking about Taylor Swift's musical abilities.

00:36:46.000 I'm sure Taylor Swift has nothing or doesn't know anything about her. 0.60

00:36:50.000 And let's say that I like Taylor's music about 25% less now, OK?

00:36:57.000 OK, so well done, President Trump.

00:37:00.000 Totally right on.

00:37:01.000 The left has continued to get more and more extreme.

00:37:04.000 In just a second, we're going to talk about all of that and we're going to talk about President Trump's response to all of that.

00:37:09.000 OK, so the leftist extremism has not mitigated at all, particularly in the aftermath of Brett Kavanaugh being sworn in.

00:37:16.000 So Brett Kavanaugh is sworn into the Supreme Court.

00:37:18.000 President Trump introduced him yesterday at the White House and left said, how dare President Trump do this?

00:37:23.000 Oh, except that Obama did it, and so did Bill Clinton.

00:37:26.000 This is sort of a regular thing.

00:37:28.000 But it was really bad because Trump did it.

00:37:30.000 That's what we've learned.

00:37:30.000 We've learned that normal things are really bad when President Trump does it.

00:37:34.000 In fact, President Trump is an uncivil boor, right?

00:37:37.000 That's what we keep hearing.

00:37:38.000 But Hillary Clinton just came out and said, you cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for. 0.99

00:37:43.000 So, all the civility on the right.

00:37:45.000 Remember we were told that the right was super dangerous in 2016?

00:37:48.000 And then it turns out the left supports Antifa?

00:37:50.000 Yeah, well, they're doing the same thing with regard to Trump doing normal things in the White House.

00:37:54.000 He introduced Brett Kavanaugh and did what I think is correct.

00:37:57.000 He apologized to Brett Kavanaugh for what Brett Kavanaugh just had to go through for the only for simple partisan political reasons.

00:38:03.000 Here's President Trump getting it correct.

00:38:06.000 On behalf of our nation, I want to apologize to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family for the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure.

00:38:19.000 Our country.

00:38:20.000 A man or a woman must always be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. 1.00

00:38:29.000 Okay, so President Trump is correct about all that stuff.

00:38:32.000 It turns out that independents didn't like how Kavanaugh was handled by Democrats either.

00:38:35.000 By a 28-point margin, independents were not particularly fond of how Democrats handled all of that.

00:38:41.000 But that's not going to stop the Democrats from doubling down.

00:38:43.000 Here's an MSNBC legal panelist yesterday talking about how Brett Kavanaugh is going to issue in, and I kid you not, he's going to usher in a thousand-year Reich, just like the Nazis.

00:38:55.000 Here it is on MSNBC.

00:38:58.000 If this reign that they now have control over all three branches of government, we're going to see if this reign lasts for 30 days, or two years, or a thousand year reich!

00:39:09.000 Because that is how, that is what these people have set themselves up for, and it's simply a question of whether or not the Democrats are going to join the battle and meet them at the polls. 0.97

00:39:20.000 It's a thousand-year Reich now, because Brett Kavanaugh isn't just a gang rapist, he's also a Nazi. 0.96

00:39:25.000 That's exciting news that we've found out about.

00:39:27.000 And my favorite part of this particular segment, by the way, was Noah Rothman, a guy with whom I'm friends, he's on MSNBC, writes for Commentary magazine, and he started trying to explain why Roe v. Wade was not settled law, and he was then accused of mansplaining on MSNBC, because this is how far we've come as a country.

00:39:45.000 He's not interested in overturning rules.

00:39:46.000 State laws will make it overturned. 0.65

00:39:48.000 Because he has a centrist philosophy and conservatives were very disinterested.

00:39:51.000 Are you kidding?

00:39:52.000 No, you heard him.

00:39:53.000 You heard him.

00:39:54.000 He does not have a middle.

00:39:56.000 Don't do that.

00:39:57.000 You're headed right towards a mansplaining.

00:39:59.000 Don't say I'm trying to explain something to a woman when it has to do with reproductive health care.

00:40:04.000 Don't ever do that.

00:40:04.000 That's not a good idea.

00:40:16.000 Okay, don't use the word explain when you're talking about reproductive issues, but what if you just got it wrong, lady? 1.00

00:40:23.000 Like, what if you're just wrong?

00:40:23.000 What if you don't know what Roe v. Wade does, or how it came about, or what its legal status is?

00:40:28.000 What if you don't understand conservative judicial philosophy?

00:40:30.000 It's mansplaining now.

00:40:32.000 In the words of my colleague, Andrew Klavan, I'll be happy to stop mansplaining when you start woman understanding. 0.95

00:40:37.000 It's just it's so silly. 0.99

00:40:39.000 It's so silly. 0.96

00:40:39.000 But don't worry, the media have really got their stuff together. 0.96

00:40:42.000 They're not they're not out of their minds in any way.

00:40:44.000 So, for example, when the president of the United States says that the left has decided to engage in a form of mobocracy, Jim Acosta, and find you somebody who loves you like Jim Acosta loves Jim Acosta, Jim Acosta over on CNN, he says, well, President Trump knows about mobs.

00:41:00.000 He encourages mobs.

00:41:02.000 You know, there's talk of mob rule and so on.

00:41:05.000 I mean, Brooke, have you been to a Trump rally?

00:41:08.000 I mean, you know, you do hear rhetoric at those rallies that would conjure up images of a mob.

00:41:14.000 Go back to the 2016 campaign when the president said as a candidate that he would like to punch protesters in the face and so on.

00:41:21.000 And so perhaps the president knows what mob rule and mob tactics look like because he encourages them himself.

00:41:28.000 Okay, well, so do Democrats, because it turns out that people like Kamala Harris, who is a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in 2020, she is now urging Democrats, clearly, to use anger to take back power.

00:41:39.000 This is what Democrats are now going to do.

00:41:40.000 They are actually encouraging anger and rage as a form of political currency.

00:41:46.000 Let this last week, and in all that we have experienced in terms of our frustrations and our anger,

00:41:56.000 And our sadness, let's use this week to give us all that extra energy that we know we have.

00:42:05.000 To remember that the bottom line is that they may have the power right now, but we need to take it back.

00:42:13.000 So, anger and rage.

00:42:14.000 These are going to be the currency with which Democrats attempt to buy the next election.

00:42:18.000 We'll find out if they are successful or not in pretty short order, I think.

00:42:23.000 I think we'll find out pretty quickly here.

00:42:25.000 Okay, time for some things I like and things I hate.

00:42:27.000 So, things I like.

00:42:28.000 As you all know, it's a running joke on this program that I am a fan of my friends over at Birch Gold.

00:42:33.000 Birch Gold is one of the sponsors of this program.

00:42:35.000 I had the opportunity to sit down with one of their wealth advisors at Birch Gold a couple of days ago, and here's what it sounded like.

00:42:42.000 But first, everybody who watches the show knows that I'm a big Birch Gold fan, and that's not just because they're advertisers.

00:42:47.000 They're the folks that I trust with precious metals investing.

00:42:50.000 Right now, Philip Patrick, who's a senior precious metals specialist, has stopped by.

00:42:53.000 I want to ask him some questions about precious metals investing.

00:42:56.000 So, Patrick, let's begin with this.

00:42:58.000 Obviously, the national debt is out of control.

00:43:00.000 It continues to grow under Republicans, under President Trump.

00:43:04.000 Do you think that the national debt is going to result at some point in a certain amount of quantitative easing in inflation?

00:43:10.000 It's a tough question to answer because, quite frankly, we don't know how it's going to end up.

00:43:15.000 What I can say, and as you mentioned, of course, the situation is becoming quite dire, right?

00:43:20.000 Our national debt is close to doubled over the last 10 years.

00:43:24.000 Now, it's been tenable because, or manageable, I should say, because interest rates have been very low.

00:43:30.000 The average interest rate on our federal debt for the last 30 years has been about 5%.

00:43:35.000 We get back to that level, and it creates a big issue.

00:43:38.000 Debt repayment, $825 billion a year.

00:43:42.000 And at that point, it's somewhat insurmountable.

00:43:45.000 Do we then revert to quantitative easing again?

00:43:48.000 Who knows, but it's certainly a possibility.

00:43:50.000 And if the currency begins inflating, obviously it's one of the reasons that you'd want to hedge your bets with some investment in precious metals.

00:43:56.000 What does that mean in terms of the stock market?

00:43:58.000 Because right now the stock market is going great guns.

00:44:01.000 I have a lot of money in the stock market.

00:44:02.000 I'm sure a lot of our listeners have a lot of money in the stock market.

00:44:04.000 Where do you see that going?

00:44:06.000 It's tough to tell right now.

00:44:07.000 The numbers are somewhat frightening.

00:44:11.000 You look at something like the Buffett Indicator, a key metric for him to determine value in the markets.

00:44:17.000 Right now, the Buffett Indicator is suggesting that the stock market is significantly overvalued.

00:44:23.000 Then you start to scratch beneath the surface.

00:44:25.000 You look at price-to-earning ratios, and it really does look frightening.

00:44:29.000 I mean, we have a P ratio of 33.5 in the S&P right now.

00:44:35.000 Historical average is about 16.

00:44:36.000 It was 30 before the Great Depression, so the numbers don't look good.

00:44:42.000 OK, so if that's the case, how worried should we be?

00:44:45.000 How soon can we expect a correction of some sort?

00:44:47.000 Look, again, it's sort of tough to tell because we mentioned quantitative easing.

00:44:51.000 I think the market in this climate, to some degree, reeks of manipulation.

00:44:56.000 So how far can we push these problems away is the big question.

00:45:00.000 I'm sort of of the mind of the J.P.

00:45:02.000 Morgan.

00:45:02.000 J.P.

00:45:03.000 Morgan said a couple of years ago, within three years, they felt 92 percent chance it corrects.

00:45:09.000 That gives us about a year from today, and I'm of the mind, certainly.

00:45:13.000 We're looking at money flows now out of the Dow Jones.

00:45:17.000 Big institutions are starting to bail.

00:45:20.000 Typically, that's a sign that correction is to follow.

00:45:23.000 The big question that a lot of folks have when they look at precious metals investing is, of course, how much of my money should I put in precious metals?

00:45:28.000 Because when people hear precious metals investing, they think that folks are encouraging them to take every dollar they have, put it in gold bars and shove it in their basement.

00:45:34.000 And that obviously is not a great strategy.

00:45:37.000 I'm diversified, meaning I have some of my money in precious metals.

00:45:39.000 What do you think is the proper way to think about this?

00:45:41.000 Well, first of all, I think you hit the nail on the head.

00:45:43.000 I mean, you certainly don't take everything you have and put it into precious metals or really anything, quite frankly.

00:45:50.000 Look, I think for an individual thinking about it, the first thing you have to consider is your own comfort level, right?

00:45:56.000 Comfort is important.

00:45:57.000 I don't think you ever push beyond that.

00:45:59.000 Outside of that, you've got to think about what you're trying to achieve.

00:46:03.000 So I would say most of our customers are looking at a hedge.

00:46:06.000 Precious metals work very well because they tend to be contrarian to the markets.

00:46:11.000 The idea being one side goes down, the other goes up.

00:46:14.000 Well, the only thing to think about is in order for that to function,

00:46:18.000 It has to be weighted proportionally and it has to be sufficient enough to function.

00:46:23.000 OK, so tell me a little bit about Birchgold specifically.

00:46:25.000 So I've talked about why I trust Birchgold, the five star reviews, the A plus rating from the Better Business Bureau and all the rest.

00:46:31.000 But folks here, you know, a lot of different shows with a lot of different gold companies.

00:46:34.000 What's the distinction between Birchgold and some of those other companies?

00:46:36.000 I mean, you mentioned a lot of the stuff there, but I think the key difference for us is the approach and the style.

00:46:44.000 For us, it's about education.

00:46:46.000 You know, I think that for an individual to make a decision effectively, they have to have the tools in order to do that.

00:46:52.000 And that's what we really try and focus on.

00:46:54.000 It's providing information, giving our customers the information, the knowledge they need to make the right decision for themselves.

00:47:02.000 OK, so I have to ask you, how did you get into this business in the first place?

00:47:05.000 Because you're a pretty trustworthy guy.

00:47:06.000 It's one of the reasons I like working with you folks at Birchgold.

00:47:09.000 How did you get into this?

00:47:10.000 Me personally, I was a banker.

00:47:12.000 I was working for Citigroup.

00:47:13.000 I was a wealth manager.

00:47:15.000 Actually, in and around the time of the 2008 crash, I started to

00:47:22.000 Think about what would be good moving forward, what sort of climate we were heading in, and ultimately it led me to Birch Gold Group and to the United States.

00:47:30.000 Well, as I've said before, Birch Gold Group, they're the folks that I trust with Precious Metals Investing.

00:47:33.000 They do have that A-plus rating with the Better Business Bureau.

00:47:35.000 They do have the five-star ratings from an enormous number of clients.

00:47:39.000 And I know they're giving away comprehensive 16-page free kits when you go and check out birchgold.com.

00:47:44.000 So go check that out right now.

00:47:45.000 You can get all the information you need.

00:47:47.000 And then talk to somebody like Philip over there.

00:47:49.000 He'll tell you everything that you need to know about investing in precious metals.

00:47:52.000 Make sure that you feel secure because the folks at Birchgold, they don't want to just sell you something.

00:47:55.000 They want you to feel secure in your investment.

00:47:57.000 They want you to know what your expectations are.

00:47:59.000 And as I've said before, we live in a really uncertain environment politically, internationally.

00:48:03.000 Things are very good right now.

00:48:04.000 Well, sometimes that means that it's the calm before the storm and it's worthwhile being diversified.

00:48:09.000 It's worthwhile making sure that you have

00:48:11.000 Enough in the bank to ensure that should things change on the stock market front, that you are insured against possible change in the future.

00:48:18.000 Gold has never been worth zero.

00:48:19.000 So go check it out.

00:48:20.000 My friends over at birchgold.com slash Ben, they really do do a wonderful job.

00:48:24.000 Philip, thanks so much for stopping by.

00:48:26.000 I really appreciate it.

00:48:26.000 Thanks for having me, Ben.

00:48:28.000 Okay, a couple of other things that I like today.

00:48:30.000 So there's a new movie coming out on Friday.

00:48:32.000 It is Gosnell.

00:48:34.000 It was worked on by my friend Andrew Clavin and my other friend Nick Searcy.

00:48:38.000 Obviously, Philem McAleer and Anne McElhaney are behind it as well.

00:48:43.000 And here's a little bit of the preview.

00:48:44.000 You should go see this because Hollywood would not make a movie about the most prolific serial killer in American history.

00:48:50.000 It took a crowdfunding effort by the right to actually make this happen.

00:48:53.000 Stars Dean Cain, another person I'm friendly with.

00:48:56.000 And I've seen the movie.

00:48:57.000 The movie is quite good.

00:48:58.000 And it is all about the discovery, investigation, and prosecution of an abortion doctor who was killing babies after they were out of the womb and was responsible for the death of women he was operating on inside his clinic.

00:49:13.000 All right, listen up.

00:49:13.000 We are looking for anything that looks like drugs or paraphernalia.

00:49:17.000 Philadelphia Police Department.

00:49:18.000 We have a search warrant.

00:49:20.000 What is that smell?

00:49:21.000 I mean, you gotta see this.

00:49:25.000 Is this normal?

00:49:26.000 I don't know.

00:49:28.000 I've never been in an abortion clinic before.

00:49:32.000 You are not gonna believe what I saw last night.

00:49:34.000 How many?

00:49:36.000 So far, we found over 30 of them.

00:49:39.000 A healthy woman goes into a clinic, comes out dead, and there's no police report? 0.98

00:49:43.000 Files have been moved recently.

00:49:45.000 Look at this. 0.87

00:49:49.000 You'll be the prosecutor who went after reproductive rights, and you'll be a racist to boot. 1.00

00:49:55.000 You've got a lot of folk who'd like to see abortion outlawed. 0.99

00:49:59.000 And this is not going to be the case that gives them an excuse.

00:50:03.000 Prosecution has offered you a plea bargain, Dr. Gosnell.

00:50:06.000 The movie's well worth watching, and it's, you know, the only movie that's ever been made really on the abortion topic in a serious way, so...

00:50:14.000 Or at least in a mainstream kind of crime thriller way.

00:50:16.000 But this happens to be a true story as well.

00:50:18.000 My good friend Zoe Rachel is in this as well.

00:50:19.000 So I have a lot of friends in this movie.

00:50:21.000 So, you know, take my review with a grain of salt, but then go see the movie because it is worth seeing.

00:50:25.000 And we should also support conservative entertainment when it gets made.

00:50:28.000 Other things that I like to say, one more thing that I like since, you know, it is a sad day with Nikki Haley going, I have to do some things I like to to make myself feel a little bit better about life.

00:50:37.000 So one of the people who won a Nobel Prize this week is a guy known as Dr. Miracle.

00:50:43.000 He's a gynecologist named Dr. Dennis Mukwege, and he's been mentioned as a contender for the Nobel Peace Prize.

00:50:48.000 And this year he was awarded the prize along with Nadia Murad, who is a member of the Yazidi minority in northern Iraq, who was taken captive by ISIS members and held as a sex slave for three months before escaping her captors.

00:50:59.000 Dr. Mukheje opened a hospital called Panzi Hospital in 1999, and he wanted to improve the maternal mortality rates in the capital of Eastern Congo, where about 1 in 100 women died during childbirth.

00:51:12.000 But their first patient hadn't come to deliver a baby.

00:51:15.000 She'd been raped with extreme violence.

00:51:17.000 So the doctor started working on rape cases.

00:51:19.000 He's treated tens of thousands of women for rape since opening Panzi Hospital.

00:51:23.000 Those survivors who range in age from toddlers to seniors.

00:51:26.000 We're good to go!

00:51:49.000 Humanitarian circles for years, but it's about time that he won a Nobel Peace Prize because that actually is something well worth celebrating.

00:51:54.000 Thank goodness.

00:51:55.000 I mean, sometimes I guess the Nobel Committee actually gets it right on occasion.

00:51:58.000 So that's that's worth noting.

00:51:59.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:52:05.000 So things that I hate today.

00:52:07.000 Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, she's back.

00:52:09.000 I'm not meaning to catcall her here. 0.91

00:52:11.000 I mean, I don't really even know Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, but she just keeps saying silly things. 0.99

00:52:15.000 And this week, she's decided that the Electoral College is the shadow of slave power. 0.99

00:52:22.000 This is what she said.

00:52:22.000 She said, What now?

00:52:23.000 So...

00:52:36.000 It is worth noting that the state of Virginia was one of the most populous states in the Union when the United States was originally formulated.

00:52:44.000 They weren't necessarily in love with the idea of an Electoral College specifically because of that, right?

00:52:48.000 James Madison didn't actually want a Senate because he felt like we should be represented by population because he was from the state of Virginia.

00:52:54.000 The Electoral College is not about the shadow of slave power.

00:52:58.000 It's thanks to the Electoral College that Abraham Lincoln was president, is the truth.

00:53:02.000 Because Abraham Lincoln did not win a majority of the vote in 1860.

00:53:05.000 You want a minority of the vote.

00:53:06.000 If it had been a popular vote, maybe they'd have a runoff. 0.87

00:53:09.000 Maybe there'd be a different system.

00:53:10.000 But that's not how it worked.

00:53:11.000 The Electoral College was designed for a couple of purposes.

00:53:13.000 One, to allow states to weigh in in slightly outsized fashion.

00:53:17.000 And two, to provide a bulwark against the election of complete tyrants.

00:53:22.000 It was not created in order to protect slavery.

00:53:24.000 That was not the purpose of the Electoral College.

00:53:26.000 So Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez doing solid work there as per her usual arrangement. 0.99

00:53:30.000 Other things that I hate today.

00:53:31.000 There's a piece in the Washington Post all about this podcast and the Pod Save America Bros.

00:53:37.000 It's called The Battle in Your Earbuds, The Bros of Political Podcasting and Their Quest to Reinvent Punditry.

00:53:41.000 I think there's a lot about this piece that's good and fine.

00:53:43.000 Dan Zak wrote it, and I appreciate Dan taking the time to write the piece.

00:53:47.000 I will say that I believe Dan is of the political left.

00:53:50.000 I don't think that I'm making any great revelation when I say this.

00:53:53.000 The reason I say this is because there's a fair bit of embedded bias and just even the descriptions in the story.

00:53:58.000 So for example, it starts in a drab office building across from a used car lot in the San Fernando Valley.

00:54:03.000 The host of the nation's most popular conservative podcast was preparing to interpret reality for his listeners.

00:54:08.000 So we are in, you know, a drab office building across from a used car lot and we both work there.

00:54:15.000 It ain't that drab.

00:54:15.000 Okay, our offices are actually quite nice.

00:54:18.000 And then, he starts talking about the Positive America Bros, and they're just, they're the greatest.

00:54:23.000 The Positive America Bros, they are just awesome.

00:54:25.000 My favorite part of this story is, he asked me about the Crooked Media guys, and I said, and I've invited them on the show, I disagree with everything they say, this is a direct quote, but I think they're good at what they do.

00:54:35.000 And Tommy Veeder, who drove a van down by the river until he worked for Obama, he said, his response to me saying these guys are good at what they do even though I disagree with them was, please tell baby Steve Bannon I say hello.

00:54:48.000 Which makes no sense at all, considering that the number one critic of Steve Bannon for years was a guy who happens to be talking to you right now.

00:54:55.000 So that's a bizarre statement, but it just shows the kind of nastiness that folks on the left engage in when they feel like engaging in it.

00:55:01.000 But there's so much of this story that's actually kind of funny.

00:55:04.000 So...

00:55:05.000 Just, again, the contrast that they draw.

00:55:07.000 I love this.

00:55:08.000 On his show, Shapiro reads ads from a sponsor that sells a three-month emergency food supply plus seed packets for when things finally go south.

00:55:15.000 Pod Save America shows for a company that delivers fresh ingredients to your doorstep so that you can cook yourself a single healthy meal, lentils and quinoa dressed in tahini perhaps, as the world burns.

00:55:24.000 Notice which sponsor they chose to highlight for us?

00:55:26.000 Like, listen, I'm proud of all of our sponsors.

00:55:28.000 All of our sponsors are things that folks on our staff have tried, they're things that

00:55:32.000 We recommend?

00:55:33.000 Okay, so I'm not ashamed of any of our sponsors, but it's just dishonest to suggest that we are selling survival supplies, while Pod Save America is selling Blue Apron, because you know who advertises on our program?

00:55:44.000 Blue Apron.

00:55:45.000 Okay, like, so what, what, what?

00:55:48.000 Okay, and then, this is my favorite. 0.90

00:55:50.000 America, through the crooked lens, is a grand experiment, ever more perfect and expansive, but endangered by ancient prejudices, persistent injustices, and a despotic dunce in the White House.

00:56:00.000 That's their take on crooked media, right?

00:56:02.000 Just wonderful guys. 0.97

00:56:03.000 America through the Shapiro lens is civilization's greatest triumph, a beacon of liberty and opportunity that is under assault from an evil self-victimizing cabal of leftist baby killers. 0.93

00:56:12.000 Well, not quite. 0.93

00:56:16.000 I do think that leftist ideology is evil.

00:56:19.000 And I think a lot of people have bought into an ideology that is deeply destructive to the country. 0.53

00:56:24.000 But to present me as some sort of radical compared to the Pod Save America bros is insane.

00:56:29.000 It's a crazy, crazy characterization.

00:56:32.000 They're just, you know, they're just trying to fight bigotry. 0.98

00:56:34.000 And as for me, I'm trying to fight leftist baby killers. 0.90

00:56:36.000 That's my thing.

00:56:38.000 Because that's certainly how I talk on a regular basis.

00:56:41.000 You know, me.

00:56:42.000 Famous for my incendiary rants.

00:56:46.000 That's my shtick.

00:56:47.000 I also like how they describe the offices, how Dan describes the offices here.

00:56:50.000 He says that the office at Crooked Media has the look and has the look of a startup in the feel of a small town newsroom.

00:56:56.000 It's just unbelievable.

00:56:58.000 How do they describe our offices?

00:56:59.000 I mean, this is where you see the bias, right?

00:57:01.000 Shapiro's headquarters has the look of a think tank and the feel of a refurbished doctor's office.

00:57:07.000 Really?

00:57:07.000 Okay, sure.

00:57:09.000 And then I like when he says that we have about 55 employees and then we have three other podcasts all hosted by conservative men.

00:57:18.000 Right, because we're a conservative company.

00:57:20.000 Turns out, how many conservatives are working over a Podsafe America?

00:57:23.000 You know, we actually have a, I would guarantee you, we have a much more diverse group of people who work for us than the Podsafe bros have.

00:57:30.000 I would not doubt this whatsoever.

00:57:32.000 There are folks in our office who I'm sure voted for a Democrat in the last election.

00:57:35.000 There are folks in our office who didn't vote at all in the last election.

00:57:39.000 How many non-democratic activists are working with folks over at Pod Save America?

00:57:44.000 So, you know, overall, I think the article is not bad.

00:57:49.000 I don't want to exaggerate, but I'm just noting kind of the subtle bias that infuses a huge amount of media coverage when it comes to this particular area.

00:57:58.000 And noting that that does have an impact on how people how people read.

00:58:02.000 OK, well, we will be back here tomorrow with all the latest.

00:58:05.000 Tomorrow we are speaking in Memphis.

00:58:07.000 I believe I'm at University.

00:58:08.000 Is it University of Memphis?

00:58:10.000 I'm trying to remember.

00:58:12.000 We are in Memphis and we're getting the name of the university.

00:58:15.000 So I don't screw this up in in short order.

00:58:19.000 Colton frantically, frantically paging University of Memphis.

00:58:22.000 That's right.

00:58:22.000 So we'll see you there.

00:58:23.000 And I look forward to that.

00:58:25.000 In the meantime,

00:58:26.000 Let's take a drink for Nikki Haley, be a little bit sad, and we'll be here tomorrow.

00:58:31.000 And no more Taylor Swift.

00:58:33.000 No more Taylor Swift, Senya.

00:58:34.000 We're done with that.

00:58:35.000 Okay.

00:58:35.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - October 09, 2018

We’re Never Ever Ever…Getting Back Together | Ep. 634

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