As we approach Halloween, we ll be discussing everything Halloween. What costumes are you allowed to wear, and which costumes are not? Plus, Hillary Clinton says she's totally innocent, and Bill O'Reilly says the same thing. And neither of them has a ton of evidence to support that. We ll talk about all of those things, and much more, on this episode of The Ben Shapiro Show with Ben Shapiro! Today's After Show Was Hosted By: Ben Shapiro Ben Shapiro is a conservative commentator and host of the Daily Wire podcast, and is a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, CBS, NPR, and other media outlets. He is also the author of the book, and hosts the podcast, . In this episode, Ben talks about Halloween and what you should and shouldn't be allowed to dress up as for the holiday, and the difference between children and adults in Halloween costumes, and if you should allow your child to dress as Moana or Princess Tiana or Princess and the Frog, or a spookily dressed up as a spooky character from the movie, The Little Mermaid? And much more! Thanks to our sponsor, ZipRecruiter! For sponsoring the show, we use their smart matching technology to find great candidates for our jobs and find the most qualified candidates for the best possible situation. Zip Recruiter, and we use it to find the best potential candidates! Find out how you can get the best candidate you can be hired for your dream job, right here at the best company in the most affordable possible! Go get the most amazing place on the internet, anywhere in the whole world, no matter where you go, and you can have the best deal in the best place you can do it, anywhere you go and get the cheapest, affordable, most affordable, the most authentic experience in the cheapest possible place in the world, the best experience possible, in less time and the most fun, the quickestest, the cheapest and the healthiest possible, the fastestest possible, and most authenticest place possible, you will be getting the most of everything you can achieve the most beautiful thing you can find it all, including the most rewarding you will ever get, no amount of time and most of your day to do it anywhere you care about it, no stress and most beautiful, most of all, you get it, you won t even need to pay for it anywhere else.
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00:01:55.000As we approach Halloween, it is that time of the year for us to have stupid conversations about what sort of costumes you can and cannot wear.
00:02:02.000Now, I am not of the opinion that every costume is appropriate, because that would be foolish.
00:02:05.000But I'm also not of the opinion that just because one person is offended by a costume unreasonably, that means that the costume is inherently bad, or terrible, or racist, or any of that stuff.
00:02:15.000Particularly when you're talking about children's costumes.
00:02:17.000I do think that there's a difference in kind between children's costumes and adults' costumes.
00:02:21.000So, very often you'll see adults who should know better dressing as things in order to mock the culture that they're wearing something of.
00:02:27.000So, for example, if my little daughter were to dress as Princess Tiana from a Disney movie, you know, she wouldn't put on blackface, presumably, but if she were to dress as Princess Tiana from Princess and the Frog, then nobody would be offended by that because she's a little girl.
00:02:43.000If my wife were to do the same thing, people might have some more questions.
00:02:45.000There is a difference between children's costumes and adult costumes, and I think that that's worth noting.
00:02:50.000By the way, I do think that the whole motion of adults dressing up for Halloween... I'm not the biggest fan, unless you have a child.
00:02:57.000Like, I have a kid, so both of us dress up in costumes for Purim, for example, and on Purim, everybody dresses up.
00:03:02.000I'm not sure that adults dressing up for Halloween and, like, making a huge deal out of it, unless it's, like, a cutesy thing, is really a thing.
00:03:09.000Because it turns out that most people are just looking to get drunk and participate in various activities, which I would not approve.
00:03:16.000And so you get, like, slutty nurse costumes and such.
00:03:38.000You can dress up as a letter of the alphabet.
00:03:39.000But you can't dress up as anything else because if you do, you're likely to offend someone.
00:03:43.000So if you're a white person particularly, you have to be very, very careful about these standards.
00:03:47.000And now, the left is extending these standards down to children.
00:03:51.000So there's an amazing piece in Cosmopolitan magazine that was going around yesterday that I have to go through because it does reveal, you know, a culture that is determined to be oversensitive about things that don't matter is going to be a culture that tears itself apart.
00:04:04.000And this is a perfect example of that.
00:04:06.000We should all be sensitive to the cultural concerns of others.
00:04:12.000I also think that if you are looking to be offended, then you're going to find something to be offended about.
00:04:16.000The latest iteration is Cosmo has written, has put out a piece by the Red Book editors that says that you should not allow your child, your daughter, to dress as Moana for Halloween.
00:04:27.000Moana is of course the Polynesian princess from the self-titled movie, Moana.
00:04:36.000They're not saying that if you have a white kid, then your kid should not be allowed to dress up as Moana.
00:04:41.000And the article is just a masterpiece of stupidity, so I really want to go through it, because I think it speaks to where we are in the culture.
00:04:48.000And you want to know how you got Trump?
00:04:50.000The feeling that everyone is oversensitive about stupid crap is how you got Trump, and then Trump says stuff that people should be sensitive about, and then they're not sensitive about it, and so things get worse.
00:04:58.000Here are the Redbook editors from Cosmo.
00:05:00.000What I tweeted was, I'll take advice on how to dress my child for Halloween when Cosmo stops telling me to abort my child or raise them gender neutral.
00:05:07.000In any case, the piece starts like this.
00:05:09.000It's mid-October, which means Halloween is just two weeks away, which means it's way past time to decide on a Halloween costume for your kid.
00:05:15.000First of all, I mean, that in itself is stereotypical.
00:05:17.000I mean, how could you decide for your child?
00:05:20.000Chances are, you have a child that is enamored with all things Disney and wants to be all of the princesses, all of them, especially Moana.
00:05:26.000The New York Post recently highlighted an article on raceconscious.org, which seems like a terrible way to spend your day, reading raceconscious.org, about how that's probably not a good choice if your kid is white, and revealed that moms are freaking out over the culturally appropriative costume.
00:05:41.000As I've said before, cultural appropriation is idiotic.
00:05:43.000It's one thing for you to take something that has deep spiritual meaning and then mock it.
00:05:48.000It is another thing for you to say, you know what's great?
00:06:12.000Apparently, Disney released a costume, uh, from-from one of the characters in the film who's played by Dwayne The Rock Johnson, uh, and the-the costume involved having brown skin, I guess.
00:06:23.000Uh, and this was a big controversy, and so they had to pull the costume.
00:06:28.000Basically, I'm looking it up right now.
00:06:30.000The reason people were angry is because the costume itself was a brown-skinned bodysuit adorned with Polynesian tattoos and a faux-leaf skirt, and two sets of wigs with thick, dark hair to top off the Maui and Moana look.
00:06:41.000And this is just terrible because, for some reason that I don't understand, because Maui is...
00:07:19.000Why should Lin-Manuel Miranda be able to write the music for a movie about Polynesians?
00:07:23.000Why not a Polynesian person writing Polynesian music for a movie about Polynesians?
00:07:27.000Lin-Manuel Miranda's in Polynesia, as far as I'm aware.
00:07:29.000In any case, the original article, written by Sashi Ferris, discusses how her white daughter was torn between dressing as Elsa from Frozen or the titular character from Moana.
00:07:38.000Ferris expresses concern that while an Elsa costume might reinforce notions of white privilege, dressing up as Moana is essentially cultural appropriation, the act of reducing someone's culture to stereotypes and thereby belittling it.
00:07:48.000Though Ferris puzzles over how one might wear a Moana costume respectfully, she ultimately decides it just isn't a good idea.
00:08:46.000Because it sounds like you just want us to be dumber than we were ten years ago.
00:08:49.000If you missed the mark when you were younger, maybe think about using this Halloween as an opportunity to teach your kids about the importance of cultural sensitivity.
00:08:55.000If your child's dream costume feels questionable, don't just throw up your hands and hand over your credit card.
00:09:00.000You're the parent here, and the onus of what your child wears falls on you.
00:09:03.000If your kid wears a racist costume, you're kind of wearing it too.
00:09:06.000I just want to note here a little bit of an incongruity.
00:09:19.000Unless your child is a boy who declares that he's a girl, in which case you're not the parent here, shut the F up and hand him over to a pediatrician for hormone blockers.
00:09:41.000Moana is a really special character to young girls of Polynesian descent who have never seen a Disney princess who looks like them.
00:09:46.000Just like how Tiana from The Princess and the Frog likely resonated with young black women who had waited decades to see themselves represented.
00:10:13.000If your Caucasian son or daughter doesn't get to be exactly what they wanted for Halloween, encourage them to take a step back and realize that there are Washington privileges that the real Moanas and Tianas of the world will likely never see, because the world is full of racist a-holes.
00:10:27.000I'm gonna go with, if you are so race-conscious that you think that you can't admire someone of a different color or ethnicity, you may be one of the racist a-holes.
00:10:34.000You might want to take a look in the mirror.
00:10:36.000But, here's the best part of the article.
00:10:38.000Basically, the article says, you can't dress your daughter as Moana because Trump.
00:11:10.000It's important to align with and stand up for people of color and minorities, and a key part of that is showing respect for their cultures.
00:11:16.000To pretend to be a racial, ethnic, or religious minority when you're not makes light of their history and reinforces a deeply problematic power dynamic wherein white people use, then discard, pieces of culture they've subjugated for centuries just because they can.
00:11:30.000And they say that your kids can still sing Moana songs,
00:12:17.000But this is how you get Trump, really.
00:12:19.000It's the oversensitivity, and the deliberate oversensitivity, and the attempts to paint everyone who is not willing to fall for this microaggressions culture as racist.
00:12:27.000That is the serious problem, and it's why people are rejecting this nonsense wholesale.
00:12:31.000Okay, before I go any further, and I'm gonna talk about the President Trump-Bob Corker spat that has now broken out, because it's a day ending in Y, which means that somebody is in a fight with President Trump, and President Trump is in a fight with somebody, none of which actually affords policy.
00:12:44.000By the way, I'm not just going to be critical of Trump's policy.
00:12:46.000There's a good story about Trump's policy I want to tell you too.
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00:14:26.000Meanwhile, while the rest of the world fights over Halloween costumes, you know, people tend to think that this Halloween costume thing is irrelevant, except that it's not.
00:14:33.000Okay, at Yale University last year, or two years ago, Erica Christakis was the head of the, she was the, I guess, the resident advisor at Silliman College, which is a place that a bunch of students live at Yale, and she wrote a letter to people saying basically, you know, don't be offensive if you can avoid it, but
00:14:49.000If you're offended, maybe take a second thought about why you're offended and whether it's worthwhile being offended about Halloween costumes.
00:14:56.000There was all sorts of video of the students screaming at her husband, Nicholas Christakis, who's a very famous professor, and yelling at him, and telling him to shut up and listen to them, because they're people of color in many cases, and he is a white guy, and so he should shut up and listen to them because their opinions are important, and his is not, and his wife's letter made them feel unsafe, etc., etc.
00:15:14.000He ended up resigning his position at Silliman College, and so did she.
00:15:18.000This sort of thing is happening all over the country.
00:15:19.000Over at University of Texas at Austin, they actually put out a guide as to what sort of costumes you should think about wearing for Halloween, so as not to offend everyone.
00:15:28.000And they legitimately come up with things like, don't dress up like cowboys or Indians, because that might be offensive to someone.
00:15:36.000Don't dress up as, you can't do a South of the border party, so you can't do anything that is Mexico related.
00:15:42.000You know, they did a whole shtick about why you should not dress up as various members of other cultures.
00:18:12.000I think Bob Corker is as oozy and slimy as it is possible to be in the United States Senate.
00:18:17.000Bob Corker is the guy behind the Senate approval for the Iran deal.
00:18:21.000Bob Corker is the guy who was happy to back President Trump all the way up till the election and then flirt with being Secretary of State before he decided to turn on him.
00:18:29.000So now Bob Corker is going out in public and yelling basically at President Trump talking about how terrible he is.
00:18:34.000Here is Bob Corker ripping him this morning.
00:18:39.000Just the name-calling, the things like, I think the basement of our nation will be what he'll be remembered most for, and that's regretful.
00:19:11.000The only thing he's going to remember for it is debasing our nation.
00:19:14.000Dude, you're part of that debasement if this is the way that you feel.
00:19:17.000Like, thank you for taking no political risk now that you've said you're not running for re-election, and then coming out and ripping Trump in the middle of a tax reform fight.
00:19:23.000But this is why, you know, all the talk about ideological relations on the Hill, a lot of it's nonsense, a lot of it's interpersonal.
00:19:30.000Like, John McCain and Trump despise one another.
00:19:32.000The same thing is now true of Bob Corker.
00:19:35.000He then ripped into Trump even more so, and then Trump ripped back.
00:19:38.000I've been with him on multiple occasions to try to, you know, create some kind of aspirational
00:19:46.000Uh, approach, if you will, to the way that he conducts himself, but, uh, I don't think that that's possible, and, um, he's obviously not going to rise to the occasion as president.
00:19:58.000Okay, so, there's Bob Corker ripping Trump up and down, and Trump responds, not by trying to tamp things down, by saying this, Bob Corker, who helped President Obama give us the bad Iran deal and couldn't get elected dog catcher in Tennessee, is now fighting tax cuts.
00:20:16.000Isn't it sad that lightweight Senator Bob Corker, who couldn't get re-elected in the great state of Tennessee, will now fight Tax Cuts Plus?
00:20:22.000Senator Corker is the incompetent head of the Foreign Relations Committee, and look how poorly the U.S.
00:21:02.000I'm gonna say this probably isn't super effective in pushing your legislation.
00:21:06.000Good luck pushing through tax reform when Bob Corker, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Rand Paul, and John McCain are all part of your caucus and all of them hate you.
00:21:14.000You know, this is where some of Trump's wheeling and dealing would have been really nice, but the problem is that Trump was never that guy.
00:21:19.000And this is a point where presidential relations does matter.
00:21:22.000You know, there's sort of this assumption that, look, here's what's going to happen.
00:21:25.000All these senators are going to vote against tax reform.
00:21:28.000The Trump base will blame McConnell because it's convenient to blame McConnell, and everyone will forget about how Trump said that McCain was not a war hero and suggests that Bob Corker is disgusting and has gone after Rand Paul.
00:21:41.000Now they're friends again, I guess, but they'll be enemies again soon enough.
00:21:44.000None of this is particularly helpful and none of it pushes legislation, which is why a lot of the accomplishments of the Trump administration are basically happening at the executive level.
00:21:52.000Virtually none are happening at the legislative level.
00:21:54.000So in good news, Molly Hemingway reports over at the Federalist that the Trump administration, there have been about 13,000 new regulations added to the federal rules every year for the last 20 years or so.
00:22:07.000The Trump administration has added basically zero.
00:22:10.000We don't need more useless regulations that have not been approved by the American people.
00:22:14.000So on the executive side, the stuff that Trump can control, it seems like a lot of it is going pretty well.
00:22:19.000The stuff that he can—let's put it this way—the stuff that he can control and is allowing his team to do what they're supposed to do, all of that is going fine.
00:22:26.000Right, all of the regulatory cuts, all of the judicial nominations, all the stuff where he takes his hands off, all that's going fine.
00:22:32.000All the major legislative pushes, though, those are collapsing into sand.
00:22:36.000And there are personality problems here.
00:22:40.000George W. Bush was a back slapper and a guy who got along with people.
00:22:43.000Barack Obama at least did that with his own party.
00:22:45.000He alienated all the Republicans, but he did that with his own party.
00:22:48.000I don't think that you see the same thing from President Trump, which is kind of amazing.
00:22:52.000I'm not, again, I'm not blaming Trump for all of this because I think the Democrats were motivated to go against him from the very start.
00:22:59.000But Trump came into office as one of the guys on the supposed right side of the aisle who is very friendly with Democrats.
00:23:04.000He'd worked with Chuck Schumer, he'd worked with Nancy Pelosi, and now it seems we've fallen into this basically three-pronged scenario, none of which are fantastic.
00:23:12.000One is, only executive actions get done.
00:23:15.000We can share that, but if Trump loses, then the executive actions get reversed day one.
00:23:30.000That's why President Trump really needs to focus and really needs to do a little bit of wooing if we're going to get anything done here at all.
00:23:36.000Now, I want to talk about the crisis among Democrats as well as Bill O'Reilly's controversy in just a second.
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00:25:11.000Meanwhile, in other news, the big news over the weekend was, of course, this big report from the New York Times that Bill O'Reilly had apparently paid out a $32 million settlement on some sort of unspecified sexual harassment allegations.
00:25:23.000A New York Times reporter was on television yesterday talking about how Bill O'Reilly was trying to quash the story.
00:25:28.000I don't think he thought he could get us to not write the story, but maybe he thought that he could bully us into not doing it or get us, you know, sort of push us into not doing it.
00:25:39.000It certainly wasn't the type of interview where he tried to charm us.
00:25:43.000It was clear from the beginning that this would be unlike any other interview that I certainly had ever been in.
00:25:48.000Where, you know, he was going to as hard as he could to make the case that this was not fair and that we weren't really following the facts.
00:25:58.000And we spent a lot of time there just asking him questions to try and learn as much as possible.
00:26:05.000The New York Times ended up writing a very, very lengthy hit piece on Bill O'Reilly.
00:26:10.000O'Reilly is fighting back against what he called lies and smears.
00:26:12.000Megyn Kelly, as we played yesterday, said that she had complained to the administrators over at Fox News about Bill O'Reilly's treatment of women going back years and years and years.
00:26:21.000There's a settlement from Fox News and Bill O'Reilly with regard to one of his producers, a woman named Andrea Macris, who I had once met when she was producing O'Reilly's show.
00:26:29.000That's when you heard all of the tapes about Bill O'Reilly basically calling her up and leaving messages on her machine of a sexual nature.
00:26:37.000She posted, so Bill O'Reilly has posted on his website three notes.
00:26:42.000So one is from Megan Kelly and her husband.
00:26:44.000It says, Dear Bill, what a class act you are coming to my baby shower.
00:26:51.000And thank you for the darling bodysuits and snuggly.
00:26:53.000It's hard to believe we'll soon have a little human being in our lives tiny enough to fit in this.
00:26:57.000You become a dear friend no matter what you say, and I'm grateful to have you in my life.
00:27:02.000Uh, and then, uh, there's another one from Megan Kelly that said, And then there's one from Gretchen Carlson who also has suggested there's reality to the rumors about, about Bill O'Reilly.
00:27:38.000So all of this is alleged, because settlements are confidential, but difficult to imagine nothing happened here.
00:27:44.000Difficult to imagine, and I have a feeling more stories are going to come out in the near future.
00:27:47.000Second, these thank you notes don't really say a lot.
00:27:49.000The reason I say they don't say a lot is because
00:27:52.000People write thank you notes to each other all the time for attending events.
00:27:54.000They're constantly saying nice things and polite things to each other because they need them for career purposes or because they work for them or work with them that they don't actually mean.
00:28:03.000I mean, if you go back and read my book Bullies, I say some nice things about Steve Bannon that I can say, in all fairness, were probably motivated by the fact that I was working for Steve Bannon at the time.
00:28:13.000In any case, I don't think that that stuff is particularly rare in the business, because again, everybody needs to scratch each other's back when it comes career time, but that doesn't say anything about the nature of these allegations.
00:28:23.000O'Reilly also released an affidavit from a woman named Les Wheel, or Liss Wheel, sorry.
00:28:29.000She's a former Fox News legal analyst, and he claims on his website the affidavit repudiates all allegations against him, but this is not true.
00:28:36.000Basically, the affidavit says, from List Wheel, that she's known Bill O'Reilly for over 18 years.
00:28:41.000We have worked together, we have socialized, and on occasion, I gave him legal advice.
00:29:35.000The reason that I point this out is because there's going to be a tendency that I think we all ought to avoid on both sides to say,
00:29:41.000Harvey Weinstein is guilty because I'm right-wing, or Bill O'Reilly is innocent because I'm right-wing, or vice versa, on the left.
00:29:47.000And you see the ratings on CNN and MSNBC.
00:29:49.000Every time they talk Weinstein, according to Yashar Ali over at Huffington Post in the Atlantic, he says every time CNN and MSNBC cover Harvey Weinstein, the ratings plummet.
00:29:57.000Every time they cover O'Reilly, the ratings go up.
00:29:59.000That's because people want to believe things about people they don't like.
00:30:06.000Given the evidence on the table, a $32 million alleged settlement, and the evidence that O'Reilly has produced, this does not quell my suspicions.
00:30:13.000O'Reilly said yesterday in an interview that he was angry at God.
00:30:17.000If the allegations are true, I have a feeling the feeling might be mutual.
00:30:20.000Again, I don't think that we should make light of people on our own side doing bad things just because they're on our own side.
00:30:28.000The Democrats continue to defend Hillary Clinton, which is very exciting.
00:30:30.000So, the new allegations about Hillary Clinton have basically been that Hillary Clinton sold essentially 20% of the uranium of the United States, or her State Department did, to Rosatom, which was the Russian atomic energy agency.
00:30:43.000And that, at the same time, the Russians were giving all sorts of money to the Clinton Foundation, the FBI and DOJ knew about it and did nothing.
00:30:50.000Hillary Clinton came out yesterday and she said, no, no, no, all this has been debunked, don't you understand?
00:31:07.000And really, I have to give them credit.
00:31:09.000You know, Trump and his allies, including Fox News, are really experts at distraction and diversion.
00:31:16.000So the closer the investigation about real Russian ties between Trump associates and real Russians, as we heard Jeff Sessions finally admit to in his testimony the other day, the more they want to just throw mud on the wall and I'm their favorite target, me and, you know, President Obama.
00:31:35.000We're the ones that they always like to put into the crosshairs.
00:31:56.000And most of the evidence that is now coming out about events that happened with regard to Russia actually is blowing back on things like the Podesta group, not on Trump per se, at least the stuff that's being leaked.
00:32:04.000So we still have to reserve our judgment on what exactly has happened here, but it doesn't look good for Hillary Clinton, and people on the left who are willing to sort of brush away all of this are making a mistake I think.
00:32:15.000Trey Gowdy, who is the head of the House Investigative Subcommittee, House Judiciary and Oversight Committee, he announced on Tuesday a joint investigation into how the FBI handled last year's investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server.
00:32:29.000This, I think, is completely appropriate because, once again, I think it's pretty clear that James Comey had pre-decided the outcome of how this is going to work.
00:32:53.000I just finished reading all the way through Maimonides' Guide to the Perplexed.
00:32:57.000So people are constantly asking what's a good book about kind of Jewish philosophy.
00:33:00.000There's a pretty sophisticated book about Jewish philosophy by Moses Maimonides who is
00:33:05.000One, probably the most famous rabbi in the post-biblical era, Maimonides Rambam, as he's called in the Jewish community because he's Moses ben Maimon, so Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, R-M-B-M, right, Oresh, Mem, Betmem.
00:33:18.000So Rambam was the author of the Guide for the Perplexed.
00:33:21.000This was a series of letters that he basically wrote to one of his students all about trying to square religion with secularism.
00:33:27.000And it's quite fascinating, especially because
00:33:30.000There's a bit of a misconception inside some parts of the Orthodox Jewish community that secular learning doesn't play a role in how great rabbinic minds have thought about the world.
00:33:40.000Half of this book is basically a restatement of Aristotelian theories about the creation of the universe and arguments about it.
00:33:47.000My mom was deeply engaged in secular culture and that's what makes the Guide for the Perplexed so interesting.
00:33:51.000He talks about the questions of free will versus determinism.
00:33:54.000He talks about the questions of God's providence over the universe.
00:33:58.000He talks about questions about why bad things happen to good people.
00:34:14.000You should probably do some reading about Aristotle before you read this.
00:34:19.000I would suggest, as I've mentioned, Edward Fazer's books on Aristotelian theory.
00:34:22.000That gives you a good background in this.
00:34:24.000What's really fascinating culturally is that the Guide for the Perplexed was basically written at about the same time as Thomas Aquinas was writing Summa Theologica, and they mirror a lot of their logic.
00:34:34.000Which makes a lot of sense, because Aquinas was a Christian thinker who believed in the Old Testament, and Moses Maimonides was a Jewish thinker who believed in the Old Testament, and both of them believed in Aristotle.
00:34:42.000So the attempts to square Aristotelian theory with Judeo-Christian belief is one of their missions.
00:34:49.000It's something in which I deeply believe.
00:34:51.000Go watch my speech at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, if you're interested in seeing how I think this plays into the American founding.
00:34:57.000I'm actually writing a book on all of this right now that I'm looking forward to pushing out probably sometime next year.
00:36:03.000So speaking of useless invocation of racism for no particular reason except to annoy people, Jesse Jackson, who again should really have very little to say about things racial.
00:36:14.000Jesse Jackson, given the fact that, you know, he used to call New York hymetown and such, Jesse Jackson
00:36:19.000I made the statement on Undisputed on Fox Sports 1.
00:36:24.000First of all, I don't know why Jesse Jackson is even on a sports channel.
00:36:27.000Why is Jesse Jackson on a sports channel?
00:36:29.000I love that Rush Limbaugh was booted off ESPN for saying that Donovan McNabb was overrated.
00:36:33.000And Jesse Jackson, it's totally fine for him to be on a sports channel talking about his perspectives on sports.
00:36:39.000What he's about to say here is so utterly nuts that I just have to play it for you.
00:36:45.000All the fraudulences around the world owe their wages and their benefits to Kurt Lloyd, who paid the price of rebelling against a system of oppression.
00:36:55.000And it is oppressive to go from picking cotton balls to picking footballs and basketballs without freedom.
00:37:04.000And what strikes me is that in football, the reason why so many guys are standing, when the president says, fire them, and you're talking about sons of bitches.
00:37:18.000Okay, so I don't understand what he's saying in the last part because Jesse Jackson's patterns of speech are difficult to decipher sometimes, but what he is saying at the beginning there is he says that to go from picking cotton balls to picking footballs and basketballs without freedom is not very much progress.
00:37:35.000To suggest that the football players who are earning millions of dollars to play football, or basketball players who are earning millions of dollars to play basketball, and they don't have freedom?
00:37:43.000They can say whatever they want off the court.
00:37:45.000They can do whatever they want off the field.
00:37:47.000You know, this idea they don't have freedom.
00:38:42.000There's a foot stomping what appears to be a Palestinian person with a Palestinian flag, and in his hand, an IDF soldier shooting a child.
00:38:50.000This is just pure anti-Semitic drivel.
00:38:53.000The idea that, number one, IDF soldiers are just going around shooting Palestinian children for no reason at all, for fun of it, and that Alan Dershowitz is being paid off by these people because he's a Jewish front, basically for evil Jews.
00:39:06.000You could legitimately remove the caption, the liberal case for Israel, and just write Judaism.
00:39:12.000And then you could remove the caption IDF and just put a Jewish star, and this would look like it's directly from a Nazi newspaper.
00:39:18.000No retractions from the UC Berkeley newspaper.
00:39:40.000When he takes off that hat, he's got the white hair and their hair, they look identical.
00:39:45.000Eminem, in an attempt to seek relevance, has decided to alienate half of his audience by suggesting that President Trump is evil, and he did a freestyle rap to this effect at the Black Entertainment Television Awards.
00:41:43.000I believe in the capacity for redemption and forgiveness.
00:41:46.000That's one of the things religion is all about.
00:41:48.000And it's good to see some people in Hollywood who have the capacity to look back at things that they've done and say, perhaps that was a bad idea.
00:43:07.000Okay, so given that fact, I've said many times on the show that one way to protect yourself is to diversify by investing in precious metals, but what makes Birch Gold different than other groups of people who are trying to sell precious metals?
00:43:18.000Look, I think there's a number of things.
00:43:20.000First of all, you look at our track record.
00:43:22.000We have A-plus ratings with the Better Business Bureau, longevity, and a solid history.
00:43:29.000More than that, I would say the approach.
00:43:31.000I mean, look, we know that there are tough times.
00:43:34.000And I think in tough times, the fear monger has come out.
00:43:38.000That's one thing that we're, you know, very, we stress a lot.
00:43:42.000There is a rational argument for precious metals in today's climate and I think fear just clouds the decision-making process.
00:43:49.000So we guide our clients through very carefully and we make sure that things are done effectively.
00:43:55.000And that honesty is something that I definitely appreciate.
00:43:58.000Can you explain sort of how a client goes through the process if they want to get involved with Birch Gold?
00:44:12.000Typically our clients will contact us and we will guide them through the process so we have an understanding of what they're trying to achieve.
00:44:19.000We can make recommendations and really handle the process from start to finish.
00:44:23.000Whether it's a cash purchase or protecting IRA funds, we handle everything.
00:44:28.000And that's one of the things that I really appreciate about you guys, that you are honest about looking at people's financial situations and helping them come to the correct conclusions.
00:44:35.000So again, it's birchgold.com slash Ben if you want to go check it out.
00:44:40.000And they are the people that I trust with precious metals investment.
00:44:43.000As I said before, you know, everyone I think should have at least some of their money in precious metals.
00:44:47.000And right now, one of the things that you've been pitching for a while is the idea that you can shift your 401k or IRA into precious metals IRA.
00:45:24.000The client makes the decision, of course.
00:45:25.000Well, folks, if you're interested in investing with Birchgold, then you can talk to somebody like Philip by going over to birchgold.com slash Ben.
00:45:31.000Who knows if you get that accent on the other end of the phone, then it is Philip.
00:45:33.000But in any case, Philip, thanks for joining the show.
00:45:37.000Okay, so tomorrow we'll be back with much, much more.
00:45:40.000We'll give you the update on the tax plan, and I would like to talk a little bit more about some of the good stuff that's happening that people aren't talking about.