The Ben Shapiro Show - Will New York Surrender To Pro-Jihadist, Marxist Mamdani?

00:00:00.000 Alrighty, folks, today is Election Day in New York City.

00:00:02.000 Will Momdani do it?

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00:00:53.000 Alrighty, folks, it's Election Day in New York City and the question on everyone's mind.

00:00:58.000 Will Zoran Momdani, the pro-jihadis, pro-Marxist candidate for mayor of New York, be elected mayor of the world's financial capital?

00:01:06.000 And one of the questions that I sort of have to ask here is if you're a Curtis Sliwa voter, who are you and why?

00:01:12.000 Truly, because what is the point of your vote?

00:01:15.000 Okay, we get it.

00:01:15.000 You don't like Cuomo and you don't like Momdani either.

00:01:18.000 Okay, welcome to planet Earth where most people don't like either Cuomo or Momdani.

00:01:24.000 But I'm just wondering, what do you get by voting for Curtis Sliwa at this point?

00:01:29.000 Do you have one of those hats?

00:01:31.000 Like, what precisely is the draw to vote for Curtis Sliwa?

00:01:34.000 Curtis is fine.

00:01:35.000 Don't get me wrong.

00:01:37.000 And if you're in a rational city, maybe he might have an outside shot at being mayor of New York, but he doesn't.

00:01:42.000 So what are you doing?

00:01:43.000 If you take your vote and you put it in the Sli-Wa box, that is a vote effectively for Zoran Mamdani, period, end of story.

00:01:48.000 However, this brand new Atlas Intel survey released on Monday shows Zoran Mamdani up 43.9% to 39.4% for Andrew Cuomo.

00:01:59.000 And in fact, the survey finds that Andrew Cuomo would beat Momdani 49.7% to 44.1% in a hypothetical head-head matchup.

00:02:08.000 In that poll, by the way, Sliwa is claiming 15.5% support.

00:02:11.000 Guys, no, don't do this.

00:02:14.000 Don't do it.

00:02:15.000 It is not worth whatever points you think you are scoring by not voting for Andrew Cuomo.

00:02:22.000 Listen, I don't like Andrew Cuomo either.

00:02:23.000 I think Andrew Cuomo is a terrible governor of New York.

00:02:26.000 I don't understand for the life of me why the mayoralty of New York came down to the guy who killed all the old people and grabbed gas and ran out of old people and an outright third worlder. 0.98

00:02:35.000 I don't understand.

00:02:37.000 When I say third worlder, I mean like as a philosophy.

00:02:40.000 Like Zoran Mamdani is a third worldist, meaning he believes that all the poor places on earth are the fault of Western civilization.

00:02:47.000 He believes that the only reason that there are failing parts of planet Earth is because of colonialism and because of Western imperialism and capitalism and all that kind of nonsense.

00:02:57.000 So those are your two choices, but I but voting for Curtis Lewa ain't going to fix that.

00:03:04.000 By the way, you know who has said this, quite correctly, the president of the United States.

00:03:08.000 He put out a statement on Truth Social last night, quote, if communist candidate Zoran Mamdani wins the election for mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely I will be contributing federal funds other than the very minimum as required to my beloved first home because of the fact that as a communist, this once great city has zero chance of success or even survival.

00:03:26.000 It can only get worse with a communist at the helm.

00:03:28.000 And I don't want to send as president good money after bad.

00:03:31.000 It is my obligation to run the nation and it is my strong conviction that New York City will be a complete and total economic and social disaster should Mamdani win. 0.88

00:03:38.000 His principles have been tested for over a thousand years and never once have they been successful.

00:03:42.000 I mean, that's true.

00:03:43.000 I would much rather see a Democrat who has had a record of success win than a communist with no experience and a record of complete and total failure.

00:03:50.000 He was nothing as an assemblyman, ranked at the bottom of his class, and is mayor of potentially, again, the greatest city in the world.

00:03:55.000 He has no chance to bring it back to its former glory.

00:03:58.000 We must also remember this: a vote for Curtis Sleewup, who looks much better without the beret, is a vote for Mamdani.

00:04:04.000 You gotta love the aside from President Trump.

00:04:06.000 They are very amusing.

00:04:07.000 Whether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice.

00:04:10.000 You must vote for him and hope he does a fantastic job.

00:04:12.000 He is capable of it.

00:04:13.000 Mamdani is not.

00:04:15.000 The president of the United States hits the nail on the head.

00:04:18.000 And in fact, chaos is very likely to reign in New York City if indeed Zorn Mamdani wins.

00:04:23.000 According to the New York Post, brand new poll from Jail Partners: about 9% of New Yorkers say they will definitely leave the city entirely if Mamdani is elected the 111th mayor.

00:04:35.000 That's like 765,000 people.

00:04:38.000 Another 25% of New Yorkers, about 2.12 million, said they would consider packing up and leaving.

00:04:44.000 And among high earners, 7% of those making over $250,000 a year said they would definitely flee.

00:04:50.000 Now, again, maybe that's wrong.

00:04:52.000 Maybe that's an overstatement, but a lot of people are going to leave.

00:04:54.000 If you're mobile, do you want to stick around while this guy wrecks the city, while he destroys the city?

00:05:01.000 That, of course, is the big question.

00:05:03.000 Now, one of the things that has happened with Zorin Mamdani over the course of his candidacy, there's been an attempt to remake and remold Zorin Mamdani.

00:05:10.000 That, you know, all those videos, those old videos of him being super radical, that's not the new smiley Zorin Mamdani.

00:05:16.000 That's the old megative Nelly Zorin Mamdani.

00:05:19.000 You know, the one who's so relentlessly pessimistic about America.

00:05:22.000 The new smiley Zorin Mamdani is totally, totally different.

00:05:25.000 Now, here's the thing: Zorn Mamdani is an actor.

00:05:28.000 I mean, really, the dude acts a lot.

00:05:30.000 Like, he is an actor.

00:05:32.000 I don't even think he's a very good actor.

00:05:34.000 I mean, he slaps on that smarmy grin, and it has about as much authenticity as a $3 bill, which, by the way, I'm sure he will be attempting to create in lieu of actual tax revenue.

00:05:47.000 Zorin Mamdani is the kind of person who thought he was going to be a rap star after enjoying all the fruits of the best American education has to offer and turn himself into this.

00:05:56.000 This is who Zorhan Mamdani is.

00:05:58.000 Once and forever.

00:06:04.000 Oh, no.

00:06:06.000 Oh, no.

00:06:29.000 That?

00:06:30.000 That's what you want, New York?

00:06:31.000 That right there?

00:06:32.000 That's what you're into.

00:06:33.000 Mamdani's a fake. 0.69

00:06:34.000 I mean, here is some video of Mamdani code switching, which again, I find untoward, whomever you are.

00:06:43.000 I actually created a playlist for Mira, who also happens to be my mother.

00:06:48.000 You know, nepotism and hard work goes a long way.

00:06:52.000 We need our internet because we have all of our kids staying at home doing remote learning.

00:06:56.000 And if you don't have internet, you can't be taught.

00:06:58.000 You can't learn.

00:06:59.000 I was supposed to assist the music supervisor, but I ended up picking all the songs for the film.

00:07:04.000 City Hall is engulfed in corruption.

00:07:06.000 A mayor could change this.

00:07:08.000 And that's why I'm running.

00:07:09.000 Apparently, you are a rapper too.

00:07:11.000 I happen to be a rapper.

00:07:12.000 I am a rapper, proper.

00:07:16.000 This one.

00:07:17.000 This one.

00:07:18.000 This is the one you want.

00:07:19.000 And it's all the way down to his ridiculously fake campaign.

00:07:23.000 I mean, truly fake.

00:07:24.000 I'll admit the guy has some TikTok skills.

00:07:26.000 It turns out that you can take even the biggest dud in the pile and for 30 seconds on TikTok make him look okay.

00:07:32.000 This is why when you put Zarin Mamdani in debate, he completely falls apart.

00:07:35.000 I mean, Zarmam Dani is the kind of guy who eats a burrito with a fork and a knife, but eats rice with his hands, supposedly.

00:07:43.000 Now, I don't know which one of those you believe.

00:07:44.000 Do you think that Zarm Mamdani, in his normal life, eats rice with his hands?

00:07:48.000 Which, okay, I don't have to pretend that I think all cultural hallmarks are equivalently clean.

00:07:57.000 I don't think eating rice with your hands is a good policy.

00:07:59.000 If your culture eats right with rice with your hands, I suppose you can.

00:07:59.000 Okay.

00:08:03.000 I just, it's gross to me.

00:08:05.000 There's no way about it.

00:08:06.000 Like, I'm sorry.

00:08:08.000 Like, I don't think that all things that all cultures do are equally anti-germ.

00:08:16.000 But I also don't believe he does this.

00:08:18.000 I don't think Zorn Mamdani is sitting at home with his wife and there's a pot of rice and he just takes his hand and he scoops it in and just starts shoving it in his face.

00:08:24.000 I don't think that this is a dude who eats a burrito with a fork and a knife.

00:08:27.000 Give me a break.

00:08:29.000 He literally takes a dish that is wrapped in a wrap so that you can use your hands and he eats that with a fork and a knife.

00:08:35.000 But when it comes to rice, which is mush, he shoves his hand.

00:08:40.000 Give me what a fake he is.

00:08:41.000 Truly, what a phony.

00:08:45.000 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:08:46.000 The third holy grail of taboos in American politics.

00:08:49.000 You have socialism, you have Islam, and then you have Palestine. 1.00

00:08:52.000 And you are really going for the trifecta.

00:08:54.000 Let's go, baby.

00:08:55.000 Let's go.

00:08:56.000 Tell me, why is Palestine a part of your politics?

00:09:00.000 When you grow up as someone, especially in the third world, you have a very different understanding of the Palestinian struggle.

00:09:07.000 I'm not saying it.

00:09:08.000 He's saying it.

00:09:09.000 He's shoving rice in his mouth with his hands while talking about the Palestinian struggle as a third worldist.

00:09:14.000 Okay.

00:09:14.000 That's who Zoran Mamdani is.

00:09:16.000 That's who he is.

00:09:18.000 Okay.

00:09:18.000 Or at least that's who he's pretending.

00:09:20.000 Ideologically, he's the third worldist. 0.98

00:09:22.000 But in terms of his actual mannerisms, he is an upper-class white kid.

00:09:26.000 Okay.

00:09:27.000 That's that's the whole thing is ridiculous.

00:09:29.000 It's ridiculous.

00:09:29.000 And New Yorkers, the fact that so many of you have been taken in by this horseshit is unbelievable to me.

00:09:34.000 It's truly incredible.

00:09:35.000 How gullible are you, people?

00:09:37.000 And then we're supposed to believe that on some fundamental level, you also hear this a lot.

00:09:40.000 Zorin Mamdani has on some fundamental level changed.

00:09:43.000 No, he has not whatsoever.

00:09:45.000 The only thing that Zoran Mamdani has changed is his affect.

00:09:48.000 It's literally the only thing that he changed.

00:09:50.000 All righty, folks, we'll get to more on Zoran Mamdani, this fake, this fraud, but a very genuine pro-Marxist and pro-jihadist candidate, obviously.

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00:12:27.000 Here, for example, is old Zoran Mamdani a few years ago telling a story about 9-11 and Islamophobia.

00:12:35.000 I think of on 9-11 when my teacher pulled me out of school, pulled me out of class, rather, a classmate of mine and myself, and told us that we may get bullied because of what had just happened.

00:12:46.000 And we didn't understand what had happened.

00:12:48.000 And in fact, we were very lucky to have a teacher as kind and caring as that because most Muslim students did not have that. 0.94

00:12:54.000 And yet, what I really remember from that interaction was the understanding that now I was distinct.

00:12:59.000 There was something about me that was different from my classmates.

00:13:03.000 And it's a lesson that I was made to learn again and again.

00:13:06.000 Because a few years later, when I returned to New York City after a trip with my family abroad, I was taken aside at JFK and put in a double mirrored room with immigration agents and asked if I had just come from attending a terrorist training camp and if I had intentions on attacking this country and what my thoughts were on the government.

00:13:23.000 And I was 15 years old and I was terrified.

00:13:27.000 You know, the real victim of 9-11 was Zor Mamdani.

00:13:29.000 But don't worry, he's changed because a few years pass and he grew up and you realize that the real victims of 9-11-the real victims, you know, the people who really were like were people like his aunt, who somebody supposedly gave a weird eye to on the subway one time.

00:13:46.000 I want to use this moment to speak to the Muslims of New York City.

00:13:54.000 So much emotion.

00:13:55.000 It's not fake at all.

00:13:56.000 So much emotion.

00:13:57.000 I want to speak to the memory of my aunt.

00:14:00.000 She's not his aunt.

00:14:04.000 Wow.

00:14:04.000 He has to stop.

00:14:05.000 Who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab.

00:14:12.000 Wow.

00:14:13.000 Wow.

00:14:14.000 I mean, the emotions.

00:14:15.000 Could you feel it?

00:14:16.000 It's like the end of terms of endearment right there.

00:14:19.000 And my goodness.

00:14:20.000 I haven't seen that sort of acting since I don't even know when.

00:14:25.000 Like Chris Farley and Tommy Boy or something.

00:14:27.000 I mean, that's like that's some acting right there.

00:14:30.000 By the way, it wasn't his aunt.

00:14:32.000 It was his father's cousin, which, as we all know, is what you call your aunt.

00:14:35.000 Also, his aunt, his actual aunt, lived in Tanzania at the time and didn't wear a hijab.

00:14:41.000 His unspecified father's cousin, we don't know anything about her, even her name.

00:14:45.000 So basically, she might live in Canada like his girlfriend or something.

00:14:50.000 I was at the press conference yesterday.

00:14:52.000 They said, Can you tell us who your aunt is, who you were referring to?

00:14:55.000 I said, Yes, this is my aunt.

00:14:56.000 This is my Zara Fui.

00:14:57.000 This is my father's cousin.

00:14:58.000 And this was her story.

00:14:59.000 So, how can you convince New Yorkers if that is the type of person that you are?

00:15:03.000 In other words, that you don't tell the truth.

00:15:05.000 Well, it's not a lie.

00:15:06.000 My father's cousin is my aunt.

00:15:08.000 That's how I referred to her growing up my whole life, Sarah Fui.

00:15:13.000 I mean, it is technically a lie.

00:15:16.000 I mean, like, a little bit, but don't worry, he's totally honest.

00:15:21.000 And he's honest that he shifted about radical Islam also.

00:15:24.000 I mean, like, old Zorn Mamdani, for example, rapped about the Holy Land 5.

00:15:27.000 Those would be people who went to jail because they were fronting for a terrorist group.

00:15:31.000 The Holy Land Foundation was a front group for Hamas.

00:15:34.000 It was a fundraising group for Hamas.

00:15:36.000 And here is old Zor Mamdani.

00:15:38.000 You know, back in his rapping days when he wasn't wearing a shirt, but was wearing an apron in a food truck, which again, I don't know what it is about Zara Mamdani and his food habits.

00:15:45.000 Guys, like, please, if you're going to be like cooking at a food truck, please wear a shirt.

00:15:49.000 It's gross.

00:15:49.000 And also eat rice with like a fork or a spoon.

00:15:53.000 Like, please.

00:15:54.000 That's all I ask of you.

00:15:55.000 But here he was, back in his rapping days, rapping about the Holy Land 5.

00:16:06.000 It's also a very bad rap.

00:16:08.000 Okay, but...

00:16:09.000 But also, old Zoramdani was the kind of person who screamed about genocide while wearing Kafiya. 0.53

00:16:14.000 And when I say old Zoram Amdani, I mean like not all that old.

00:16:17.000 I mean like, you know, a couple of years ago.

00:16:18.000 Because here's the thing about Zor Mamdani.

00:16:20.000 He's very, very young.

00:16:21.000 So we're not talking about 20 years ago he did a bad thing.

00:16:24.000 We're talking about like five minutes ago he did a bad thing.

00:16:27.000 And now he's trying to claim that he is moderated in some way.

00:16:30.000 I don't believe you, sir.

00:16:33.000 There's been four months of protesting and genocide.

00:16:36.000 It has become harder and harder to wake up every morning and see more and more Palestinians massacred with our tax dollars.

00:16:44.000 And if that wasn't enough for you, he also defended the Columbia University so-called protesters, many of whom are trespassing or committing acts of violence.

00:16:44.000 Okay.

00:16:54.000 I think these students have actually forced many of us to reckon with what's happening there, because for too many Americans, this has been something that is actually getting out of view.

00:17:03.000 An example is that when students renamed the hall in Colombia from Hamilton Hall to Hind Hall, they were honoring a six-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed in her car watching as her parents had been killed by the Israeli military prior.

00:17:17.000 And for so many Americans, that was a name that they hadn't heard until these students made it one.

00:17:22.000 This heroic man.

00:17:23.000 Well, but he's changed.

00:17:24.000 That's when he was a state representative.

00:17:25.000 You know, he's like old Zor Mamdani would say that, for example, the New York City Police Department is basically the IDF, that they're the same.

00:17:34.000 That's the old Zorin Mamdani.

00:17:38.000 We have to make clear that when the hoop of the NYPD is on your neck, it's been laced by the IDF. 0.93

00:17:46.000 We are in a country where those connections abound, especially in New York City, you have so many opportunities to make clear the ways in which that struggle over there is tied to capitalist interests over here.

00:18:02.000 So like the old Zor Mamdani was like an anti-Semite, right? 0.70

00:18:05.000 Who would just randomly link the policies of the NYPD to the IDF somehow and then blame the Jews for NYPD policy.

00:18:11.000 The new Zoramdani, by contrast, is also a radical anti-Semite who, you know, during this campaign literally said that globalize the intifada, which is a call for violence.

00:18:20.000 Intifada is a violent uprising.

00:18:23.000 And to globalize it would be to extend, you know, that uprising globally.

00:18:27.000 That's literally what it means.

00:18:29.000 He says it actually just means equality and struggle, as one would if one, you know, was not fond of Jews.

00:18:36.000 I know people for whom those things mean very different things.

00:18:40.000 And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and for rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights.

00:18:52.000 And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle.

00:19:06.000 Sure.

00:19:07.000 And as a Muslim man who grew up post-9-11, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning.

00:19:22.000 He was the real victim.

00:19:23.000 Now he's going to tell us jihad is actually just a peaceful inner quest, which is very exciting.

00:19:27.000 In case you weren't really clear on this, also, Zor Mamdani refuses to say that Hamas should disarm.

00:19:32.000 So just in case you were unclear on whether he is warm toward terrorism, the answer is yes.

00:19:37.000 He most definitely is.

00:19:40.000 So what is your response to what Hamas is doing now?

00:19:44.000 I think those are bodies and remains that should absolutely be returned.

00:19:47.000 And I think that I have no issue with critiquing Hamas or the Israeli government because my critiques all come from a place of universal human rights.

00:19:55.000 And my focus, however, is right here in New York City and transforming the most expensive city in America into one that's affordable for each and every New Yorker.

00:20:01.000 But okay, and I want to get to that, absolutely.

00:20:04.000 But do you believe that Hamas should lay down their weapons and leave the leadership in Gaza?

00:20:09.000 I believe that any future here in New York City is one that we have to make sure that's affordable for all.

00:20:14.000 And as it pertains to Israel and Palestine, that we have to ensure that there is peace.

00:20:18.000 And that is the future that we have to fight for.

00:20:20.000 But you won't say that Hamas should lay down their arms and give up leadership in Gaza.

00:20:24.000 I don't really have opinions about the future of Hamas and Israel beyond the question of justice and safety and the fact that anything has to abide by international law. 0.72

00:20:32.000 And that applies to Hamas, that applies to the Israeli military, applies to anyone you could ask me about.

00:20:36.000 Oh, wow.

00:20:37.000 I mean, he shockingly has no opinions, but he found an opinion about arresting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he has very strong opinions about, getting the terrorist group to disarm.

00:20:37.000 He has no opinions.

00:20:47.000 It's very far away, you see.

00:20:47.000 He has no opinions about it.

00:20:50.000 And if you believe that, then also he certainly eats rice with his hands on like a daily basis.

00:20:56.000 Here he was in that same interview saying the sitting prime minister of Israel should be arrested.

00:21:00.000 And also, he has no opinions about whether Hamas should disarm.

00:21:04.000 You have said that you would arrest Netanyahu if he came to the United States.

00:21:07.000 You've been very outspoken in your criticism of him.

00:21:09.000 Do you stand by that?

00:21:10.000 You would arrest him if he came here if he were a mayor?

00:21:13.000 I've said that this is a city that believes in international law, and this is a city that wants to uplift and uphold those beliefs.

00:21:20.000 The United States doesn't stand by the International Criminal Court.

00:21:22.000 It hasn't signed the Treaty for the International Criminal Court.

00:21:24.000 The Internal Court, however, has issued a warrant for the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu as well.

00:21:28.000 What crowns in the United States could you arrest him on?

00:21:30.000 it has for Vladimir Putin.

00:21:32.000 I've said that I believe that we should uphold arrest warrants by the National Criminal Court and that we should do so only in abiding with all of the laws in front of us.

00:21:40.000 I'm not going to make a new law to ensure that we can actually do this.

00:21:43.000 Do you think that Commissioner Tish would allow you to arrest Netanyahu in New York City?

00:21:46.000 I've appreciated Commissioner Tish's leadership of the NYPD, and I think that she's done a good job at lowering crime across the city.

00:21:52.000 We will get to his feelings about the police in a moment.

00:21:56.000 But suffice it to say, I don't believe him there either.

00:22:00.000 So just to get the record straight, we're supposed to believe he underwent an evolution in the course of the last 2.7 milliseconds.

00:22:07.000 From, you know, thinking the real victims of 9-11 were family members of his, Muslims who people treated poorly, supposedly, to now he's probably fine on that issue. 0.58

00:22:18.000 Or, you know, he used to support radical Islamic jihadism, but now he only kind of does support radical Islamic jihadism.

00:22:27.000 Alrighty, coming up, Sohar Mamdani.

00:22:29.000 You know, he used to be really anti-police, but now he loves the police.

00:22:32.000 Well, that's not true either.

00:22:33.000 He really still doesn't really like the police.

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00:25:01.000 Old Mom Donnie, Old Mom Donnie really hated the cops, like really hated the cops. 0.99

00:25:05.000 And by the way, again, this is Old Mom Donnie from like two years ago saying that he was for defunding the police.

00:25:11.000 And we see so many situations where encounters with police, the police arrive, and all of a sudden the tension rises even astronomically to what it was prior.

00:25:22.000 And I think that we need to say and ask ourselves, you know, look at how policing is done in the suburbs in wealthier, whiter America.

00:25:32.000 When people make mistakes, the answer is not to throw them in jail.

00:25:36.000 The answer is not to, you know, put them in a cage and throw away the key.

00:25:40.000 The answer is to try and find a non-carceral solution.

00:25:43.000 Absolutely.

00:25:44.000 Community service, something where they learn from their mistakes, there's a sense of accountability and growth, all these kinds of things, which for many people in this country, especially black people, are not offered the same opportunity.

00:25:58.000 Are you for defunding the police?

00:26:00.000 Are you for a seriously form that people can see underground?

00:26:04.000 I am in favor of defunding the police.

00:26:07.000 So that was like not all that long ago.

00:26:10.000 Now he says that, you know, he's going to apologize to the NYPD.

00:26:13.000 So New Zealand Donnie apologizes to the NYPD.

00:26:16.000 Here he is now.

00:26:22.000 You said in the past, I almost don't need to go through it.

00:26:25.000 It's been said many times, but that you called the police force racist, said they were a major threat to public safety, called them wicked and corrupt.

00:26:34.000 And now they report that you apologize to two dozen members of the NYPD.

00:26:38.000 What did you say to them?

00:26:39.000 I apologized for the language that I used and I spoke to them about the fact that I want to work with them to deliver public safety because what we're seeing in the city right now is we're asking officers to do nearly everything we can think of.

00:26:50.000 We used to ask officers to focus on serious crimes.

00:26:53.000 Now we're asking them to focus also on the mental health crisis, to focus also on homelessness.

00:26:58.000 In one year alone, the NYPD receives 200,000 mental health calls.

00:27:04.000 Police officers that I spoke to, they don't want a behind closed doors apology.

00:27:08.000 They want a broad public apology for the things that you suggested about them.

00:27:12.000 Will you do that right now?

00:27:14.000 I'll apologize to police officers right here because this is the apology that I've been sharing with many rank and file officers.

00:27:14.000 Absolutely.

00:27:20.000 And I apologize because of the fact that I'm looking to work with these officers and I know that these officers, these men and women who serve in the NYPD, they put their lives on the line every single day.

00:27:29.000 You know, I totally believe him.

00:27:30.000 I totally believe him now, that he apologized, that he loves the NYPD now.

00:27:34.000 Now he loves them.

00:27:35.000 Now, I mean, to be fair, he also does want to decriminalize prostitution because he's afraid that it's going to hurt black and brown ladies, presumably because the police are, you know, a bunch of racists.

00:27:46.000 And to follow the advice of district attorneys that we have here in New York City, the current Manhattan DA, the former Manhattan DA, the current Brooklyn DA, the former Manhattan DA having said that prosecuting women for prostitution is something that actually leads to less safety.

00:28:01.000 And what we need to do is provide an economic.

00:28:04.000 Just a quick, just a quick clarification.

00:28:07.000 So no legalization about decriminalization.

00:28:11.000 I do not think that we should be prosecuting women who are struggling, who are currently being thrown in jail and then being offered job opportunities.

00:28:19.000 I think we should be actually providing those kinds of opportunities at the first point of interaction.

00:28:23.000 Yes, we should decriminalize.

00:28:24.000 Also, we should abolish the gang database because who knows what those wonderful cops that you love so much might do at the gang database.

00:28:33.000 Let me ask you about a bunch of different policies just to kind of get your thinking out there.

00:28:38.000 If city council legislation to abolish the NYPD gang database were to pass, would you support Ensla and that?

00:28:45.000 I have supported that proposal.

00:28:48.000 It's one that I've supported because of the vast dragnet has meant the inclusion of New Yorkers on the basis of whether they go out late, photos they put on social media, so much of the facts of life of being a young New Yorker.

00:29:11.000 And yet it then becomes a mark of suspicion.

00:29:14.000 And it is a concern of mine that we do not live up to, of all people, Eric Adams' words in 2021, who said that New Yorkers need not choose between safety and justice.

00:29:28.000 There's no question that we have to take gangs extremely seriously.

00:29:33.000 And yet I find that a database that includes New Yorkers on such bases is one that doesn't actually do exactly that.

00:29:42.000 So I'm just wondering, like, does he still do who raise your hand in New York if you believe that Zor Mamdani is going to bring down the crime rates? 0.84

00:29:48.000 Anyone?

00:29:49.000 Bueller?

00:29:50.000 Bueller.

00:29:51.000 But don't worry, he's totally not going to wreck the economy.

00:29:53.000 I mean, sure, the old Zoran Mamdani said that he was fighting for socialism, like to the Democratic Socialists of America.

00:29:59.000 I mean, that is the thing he said.

00:30:03.000 Where we have to make it very clear that people cannot eat words.

00:30:08.000 People need to have actual food.

00:30:10.000 People need to have actual houses to live in.

00:30:11.000 People need to have actual schools that they can go to.

00:30:13.000 And I think it's so critical that this journey into understanding the way in which we should relate to power, this journey and understanding that it is socialism that we are fighting for, is a journey that should begin as soon as possible for every single person in this country and in this world.

00:30:27.000 So, I mean, that was old Zoran.

00:30:29.000 But new Zorum, new Zorum, well, I mean, to be fair, he also thinks capitalism is bad.

00:30:39.000 Do you like capitalism?

00:30:41.000 No, I have many critiques of capitalism.

00:30:43.000 And I think ultimately the definition for me of why I call myself a democratic socialist is the words of Dr. King decades ago.

00:30:51.000 He said, call it democracy or call it democratic socialism.

00:30:54.000 There must be a better distribution of wealth for all of God's children in this country.

00:30:58.000 And that's what I'm focused on is dignity and taking on income inequality.

00:31:02.000 And for too long, politicians have pretended that we're spectators to that crisis of affordability.

00:31:07.000 We're actually actors and we have the choice to exacerbate it like Mayor Adams has done or to respond to it and resolve it like I'm planning to do.

00:31:15.000 So, yeah.

00:31:16.000 I mean, I mean, guys, that one, that one, like that's that's what you want to do.

00:31:21.000 Him, him, really.

00:31:24.000 Okay, New Yorkers.

00:31:25.000 So, final closing message on Zoran Mamdani.

00:31:28.000 If you're voting for Curtis Liwa, do not do this stupid thing.

00:31:31.000 What are you doing?

00:31:33.000 Vote for Andrew Cuomo.

00:31:35.000 Yes, I don't like Andrew Cuomo either.

00:31:37.000 Yes, I think Andrew Cuomo is a schmuck.

00:31:39.000 But you know who's way more dangerous than schmuck Andrew Cuomo?

00:31:42.000 Zoran Mamdani, what are you doing?

00:31:46.000 Do not do this, folks.

00:31:48.000 Please do not.

00:31:50.000 Listen, you're going to get what you ask for.

00:31:52.000 That's the theory of democracy.

00:31:52.000 Good and hard.

00:31:54.000 But for your own sake, for your own sake, because I have many friends who live in New York City, because I love New York City in many ways.

00:32:01.000 They just have a love-hate relationship with New York City, to be fair.

00:32:04.000 Like, don't do this.

00:32:05.000 Really?

00:32:05.000 Also, America's kind of tied to the future of the financial center of planet Earth.

00:32:10.000 So please, I'm asking you, do not do this thing.

00:32:14.000 All righty.

00:32:15.000 Meanwhile, Democrats even are uncomfortable with all of this.

00:32:18.000 Hakeem Jeffries, for example, was asked yesterday whether the future of the Democratic Party was Zora Mamdani.

00:32:24.000 And even Hakeem Jeffries was like, I don't know if I want to say that.

00:32:29.000 What I indicated is that if we truly believe, as many of us do, that Donald Trump represents an existential threat to everything, that in order for us to get from where we are to where we need to go and end the national nightmare, then House Democrats are going to have to be successful in taking back control of the House of Representatives.

00:32:52.000 What about the slow embrace of the audience?

00:32:54.000 I issued a statement on the eve of early voting, and the statement speaks for itself.

00:32:59.000 Well, again, you know, I think that he is uncomfortable.

00:33:03.000 But here's the thing, folks.

00:33:04.000 If you let the radicals control your party, you got a problem on your hands.

00:33:08.000 All righty, folks, coming up, there are two other big races happening today, one in Virginia, one in New Jersey.

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00:35:40.000 Okay, meanwhile, there are two other major races happening today.

00:35:45.000 Race number one is the New Jersey gubernatorial race, and that race is shockingly close.

00:35:51.000 That is a race between Republican Jack Chitterelli and Democrat Mickey Sherrill.

00:35:57.000 According to ABC News Washington Bureau Chief, Rick Klein, this is by all accounts the tightest race happening this election day.

00:36:02.000 The gubernatorial race is likely to be a nail biter, which is pretty incredible because remember, New Jersey is deep blue.

00:36:07.000 It is not like moderate blue.

00:36:09.000 It is a deep, deep blue state.

00:36:11.000 The polling in the New Jersey gubernatorial race is shockingly tight.

00:36:18.000 According to USA Today, it is a near dead heat, a near dead heat.

00:36:23.000 It's going to come down to turnout.

00:36:26.000 Atlas Intel says that essentially there's like a slight advantage at this point for Mickey Sherrill.

00:36:38.000 The worst case scenario for the Democratic Party in some ways, actually, believe it or not, is that Zorin Mamdani wins in New York City and Mickey Sherrill loses in New Jersey and Abigail Spanberger loses in Virginia.

00:36:49.000 If that were to happen, the Democrats are going to have a real tough time holding off the progressive left because a lot of Democrats are going to take away the idea that somehow the victorious message is the insane pro-jihadi, pro-Marxist viewpoint of Zorin Mamdani and that moderate Democrats will lose even in blue states like Virginia, like New Jersey.

00:37:11.000 Chitterelli is a traditional Republican.

00:37:14.000 According to Politico, he wants to slash 30% of state spending or about $17 billion of the state's $58.7 billion budget.

00:37:21.000 He says he would essentially eliminate the so-called millionaires tax, lower business taxes, and keep the state's sales tax steady.

00:37:29.000 He also wants to increase spending in certain areas like public employee pensions and state aid for special education.

00:37:37.000 That's essentially a sort of Reaganomics approach.

00:37:39.000 That if you lower the tax rate, you'll end up increasing economic growth, which means that your tax receipts will actually go up.

00:37:46.000 Chitterelli recently said, if we are very good at streamlining the state government, downsizing it, we can afford these tax cuts.

00:37:51.000 But mark my words, if these reforms work to grow our economy, we're going to have more tax revenue than we know what to do with.

00:37:58.000 It'll be fascinating to see if New Jerseyans decide that they want Chitterelli.

00:38:02.000 Chitterelli came very, very close to beating Governor Phil Murphy in the last gubernatorial race.

00:38:06.000 He's ran an excellent race.

00:38:08.000 This time, if you are listening to the sound of my voice in New Jersey, Jack Chitterelli is the pick.

00:38:12.000 Meanwhile, in Virginia, the Virginia gubernatorial election, this appears to be the least close of the races at this point.

00:38:20.000 According to the latest polling, Abigail Spanberger, who's considered a sort of what would now be called the Blue Dog Democrat, she isn't really.

00:38:29.000 She's a more moderate Democrat than sort of the progressive wild-eyed crew.

00:38:34.000 She's leading anywhere between 10 and 7 points, according to a slew of polls.

00:38:39.000 Now, speaking of the Virginia and New Jersey races, Calchy, one of our sponsors, the prediction market, they say that Mickey Sherrill has above an 80% chance of winning the New Jersey governorships.

00:38:50.000 And meanwhile, Virginia, Abigail Spanberg, a near lock, she's almost at 100% in that Virginia market over on Calci.

00:38:59.000 Meanwhile, Winsom Earl Sears, who's the current lieutenant governor, is stuck between 40 and 45% in all of the polls.

00:39:08.000 If that race remains close, there's a good shot that the Democrats' Attorney General nominee Jay Jones is going to lose.

00:39:14.000 He, of course, is the guy who said he wanted to kill the Speaker of the House of Delegates in Virginia and criticized that person's children as little fascists.

00:39:21.000 If somehow Spanberger wins by a very, very broad margin in Virginia, she might carry Jones over the line.

00:39:28.000 If not, Jones could lose.

00:39:31.000 But the bottom line is this: the Democratic Party is about to face a serious reckoning today.

00:39:35.000 It'll be fascinating to see how it all plays out.

00:39:39.000 Meanwhile, Democrats on the national level remain extremely confused about what to do next.

00:39:46.000 They seem to think that if they just keep upping the language against President Trump, somehow this will redound to their benefit.

00:39:51.000 So, for example, the House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries yesterday accused President Trump and the GOP of running what he called a pedoprotection program.

00:39:59.000 They're still doing this Jeffrey Epstein thing: the fact that Republicans have canceled votes now for six consecutive weeks, missing in action, taxpayer-funded vacation, running the pedophile protection program while doing nothing to make life better for the American people.

00:40:22.000 Okay, um, I'm really like you're still on Epstein.

00:40:26.000 This is the Democrats they think they're going to win because they think that Donald Trump is covering up for Jeffrey Epstein.

00:40:32.000 That's your play.

00:40:33.000 Maybe, maybe if you just drag Nancy Pelosi out of the crypt to go nuclear on President Trump, she, by the way, announced yesterday that she would not be seeking her 127th term in Congress. 1.00

00:40:43.000 So I assume that means that someone similarly crazily left will be taking over her seat.

00:40:48.000 But, you know, in one of her final interviews here, she went nuclear on President Trump.

00:40:54.000 Just a vile creature.

00:40:56.000 The worst thing on the face of the earth.

00:40:58.000 But anyway.

00:40:59.000 You think he's the worst thing on the face of the earth?

00:41:01.000 Yeah, I do.

00:41:01.000 I do.

00:41:03.000 Why is that?

00:41:04.000 Because he's the president of the United States and he does not honor the Constitution of the United States.

00:41:10.000 In fact, he's turned the Supreme Court into a rogue court.

00:41:14.000 He's abolished the House of Representatives.

00:41:17.000 He's chilled the press.

00:41:20.000 He's chilled the press.

00:41:22.000 He's scared people who are in our country legally.

00:41:29.000 Again, if this is the best you can do, Trump is going to keep winning.

00:41:32.000 He is.

00:41:33.000 Meanwhile, speaking of President Trump victories, I love this.

00:41:35.000 President Trump has been targeting the government of Nigeria for its willingness to tolerate Islamist terrorist groups attacking and murdering Christians by the thousands in Nigeria.

00:41:47.000 There's been an ongoing actual human rights crisis targeting Christians in Nigeria.

00:41:52.000 And President Trump put out a statement saying that if the Nigerian government continues to look the other way as Christians are slaughtered, then the United States might have to intervene to do something about it.

00:42:00.000 Now, again, I trust that President Trump is not, in fact, a radical interventionist who wants to put hundreds of thousands of American troops on the ground in Nigeria or anything like that.

00:42:09.000 But if a little bit of pressure can be put to the Nigerian government, or if a minimum of necessary force can be used in Nigeria in order to protect Christians in Nigeria, that seems to me well worthwhile. 0.98

00:42:22.000 Here was President Trump yesterday.

00:42:25.000 They're killing record numbers of Christians in Nigeria.

00:42:30.000 And they have other countries very bad also.

00:42:33.000 You know that part of the world is very bad.

00:42:35.000 They're killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers. 1.00

00:42:39.000 I'm not going to allow that to happen.

00:42:41.000 Now, the truth is that in Nigeria, the violence is not only Christians. 0.80

00:42:44.000 There's tremendous violence in Nigeria.

00:42:48.000 The problem in Nigeria, of course, has been going on for legitimately decades at this point. 1.00

00:42:55.000 According to CNN, both Christians and Muslims have been victims of attacks by radical Muslims in Nigeria.

00:43:01.000 Over the weekend, there was a mass slaughter of Christians by Islamist insurgents, according to President Trump.

00:43:06.000 The Nigerian government rejects claims it is not doing enough to protect Christians from violence.

00:43:10.000 The Nigerian presidential spokesperson, Bayo Ananuga, told CNN: We are shocked that President Trump is mulling an invasion of our country.

00:43:17.000 President Trump also threatened to stop all U.S. aid to Nigeria if its government fails to take steps to stop the killing of Christians. 0.99

00:43:23.000 He warned the proposed intervention would be fast and vicious, aimed at eliminating the Islamist terrorists he said were responsible for these atrocities.

00:43:32.000 Nigeria is split about half and half between Christians and Muslims.

00:43:36.000 The northern region is predominantly Muslim.

00:43:38.000 The southern region is largely Christian.

00:43:40.000 Boko Haram, which is a radical Islamist group that you will remember back from the Obama days for kidnapping a wide bevy of schoolgirls.

00:43:46.000 And you remember the entire Obama administration holding up dumb signs saying, Bring back our girls that did not achieve the bringing back of the girls.

00:43:54.000 Well, in 2012, they issued an ultimatum ordering Christians in the northern region to leave while calling on Muslims in the South to come back north.

00:44:02.000 There is certainly systematic killing of Christians in the north, for sure, including mass slaughter.

00:44:09.000 And the Nigerian government certainly has not been doing enough to stop it.

00:44:14.000 So good for President Trump.

00:44:17.000 Trump on Saturday doubled down on his allegations that the government is failing to rein in the persecution of Christians.

00:44:22.000 He put on truth socialist statement: quote: If the Nigerian government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the USA will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria and may very well go into that now-disgraced country, guns are blazing, to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities. 0.63

00:44:37.000 That threat came after President Trump designated Nigeria as a country of particular concern.

00:44:41.000 That is a formal U.S. declaration of countries it says are failing to act over religious freedom violations.

00:44:49.000 Nigeria continues to deny that Christians are being persecuted. 0.80

00:44:54.000 With that said, the government is certainly not doing enough to protect Christians in the northern regions for sure.

00:45:01.000 Okay, well, bizarrely enough, Tucker Carlson found a way to somehow link this to the Jews.

00:45:06.000 Of course.

00:45:08.000 What else is new?

00:45:09.000 Tucker Carlson, a day goes by, it ends in a why, and Tucker Carlson has comment on Israelis somewhere, Jews somewhere.

00:45:16.000 Quote: How come Mark Levin would label Donald Trump an anti-Jewish racist if he made the exact same statement about Israel?

00:45:26.000 Well, I mean, Israel isn't persecuting Christians, so there's that.

00:45:30.000 Israel is not allowing the mass killing of Christians, so there is that. 0.99

00:45:34.000 In fact, it is the areas where Israel has pulled out where Christians have been severely persecuted, like in Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip.

00:45:42.000 Everywhere where Israel's boots are not, the Christian population has radically declined across the Middle East.

00:45:48.000 Somehow, Tucker Carlson is trying to link Islamist terror groups and tacit support from the Nigerian government to Israel, somehow, in his newsletter.

00:45:58.000 Quote, this may be hard for Mark Levin and his ethno-narcissist caucus to accept, but criticism of their beloved country has nothing to do with Judaism.

00:46:05.000 Just like Trump's statement in Nigeria is not an attack on blacks, it's about putting America first.

00:46:09.000 What in the actual hell is he talking about?

00:46:12.000 Well, I mean, the bottom line is: no matter what, no matter what, Tucker seems to be able to find a way to swivel everything into a story about Israel or Mark Levin or Jews in some form or fashion, which, of course, is part and parcel of the fact that he decided to have on the Nazi supporter, Nick Fuentes, last week, and then gloss him.

00:46:37.000 That glossy interview with Nick Fuentes then allowed Nick Fuentes yesterday to take a victory lap over the vice president, J.D. Vance, because Nick Fuentes believes that since J.D. Vance and Tucker Carlson are personally close, and since Tucker Carlson was able to have on Nick Fuentes and massage him without comment from the vice president of the United States, that this means that he now has J.D. Vance's candidacy by the shorthairs.

00:47:03.000 Here's Nick Fuentes saying just that he's getting squeezed because the Groipers are on the one hand saying, hey, listen, fat boy, we want America first.

00:47:15.000 You want to run for president?

00:47:17.000 We want to hear you say America first.

00:47:21.000 And on the other side, he's got his donors and they're saying they're horrible anti-Semites.

00:47:27.000 You have to disavow them.

00:47:29.000 You have to forcefully condemn them.

00:47:31.000 Condemn Tucker.

00:47:32.000 Condemn the Groipers. 1.00

00:47:35.000 Now, Advance condemns the Groipers. 1.00

00:47:39.000 We are deploying to Iowa.

00:47:43.000 So that's correct.

00:47:44.000 Nick Fuentes is using Tucker Carlson as cover in order to threaten the vice presidents of the United States.

00:47:50.000 That's what is happening.

00:47:51.000 So well done to that very, very good friend of the vice president's Tucker Carlson.

00:47:56.000 There's really solid stuff.

00:47:57.000 Meanwhile, it's a stressful week.

00:47:59.000 I know it's Elections Day in New York and in New Jersey and Virginia.

00:48:02.000 So I wanted to do something fun.

00:48:04.000 I sat down with the greatest mentalist on planet Earth, Oz Perlman.

00:48:08.000 And this actually is just fun, like wildly enjoyable.

00:48:11.000 Here we go.

00:48:12.000 Well, joining us online is Oz Perlman.

00:48:14.000 He's an Emmy award-winning mentalist.

00:48:15.000 You've seen him pretty much everywhere.

00:48:17.000 And he has a brand new book out titled Read Your Mind, Proven Habits for Success from the World's Greatest Mentalist.

00:48:22.000 Oz, thanks so much for the time and joining the show.

00:48:24.000 Ben, thanks for having me on.

00:48:24.000 I really appreciate it.

00:48:26.000 I'm excited.

00:48:26.000 Yeah.

00:48:27.000 So tell me about the book.

00:48:28.000 How did the book start?

00:48:29.000 Where did this come from?

00:48:31.000 Well, for years, people ask me the same question after every show.

00:48:35.000 How do you do it?

00:48:36.000 How do you do it?

00:48:37.000 Right.

00:48:37.000 And what they're really looking for, I realize, is not to know how I'm doing the mentalist tricks because that's what this is, entertainment.

00:48:44.000 I am not psychic.

00:48:45.000 I am not supernatural.

00:48:46.000 I tell people this over and over and over.

00:48:48.000 This is a learnable skill where I've spent about three decades learning how people think.

00:48:53.000 And so what I kind of figured out is to distill what is it that made me successful as a mentalist?

00:48:59.000 And what are those same attributes, skills, and habits that I can teach to you to achieve success in whatever you do?

00:49:05.000 Now, that could be in your personal life, at work, in your relationships.

00:49:08.000 Reading people more effectively is the ultimate cheap code in life.

00:49:13.000 Everyone achieves success by other people helping them as well.

00:49:16.000 Well, I mean, I think this is, it's such a brilliant point because when people go to a show like yours, it actually is disheartening if you figure out how the trick is done.

00:49:25.000 It's not as though people actually want to know how the trick is done.

00:49:26.000 What they want to know is that it's a skill that's been cultivated over the course of many, many years.

00:49:31.000 And so you offering people a window into doing that, I think is really an incredible thing.

00:49:35.000 So I had heard that you actually wanted to do something on the show.

00:49:38.000 So I'm totally up for that.

00:49:39.000 So because frankly, your stuff's amazing.

00:49:42.000 So thank you.

00:49:43.000 Well, I'm going to leave that till the end because if I do it now, your brain is scrambled.

00:49:46.000 So I'm going to tell you more about the book, but I'm leaving that as the cherry on the Sunday.

00:49:49.000 I always save the best for last.

00:49:50.000 That's in the book.

00:49:51.000 So what are some of the biggest tips that you have in the book?

00:49:54.000 So the chapters go through and they break down a lot of different things that I think apply to everyone's life.

00:49:59.000 One of the biggest is when I was a teenager, I was not this extrovert.

00:50:03.000 I didn't have the confidence to go on stage in front of thousands or millions of people.

00:50:06.000 Where did that develop?

00:50:08.000 So the two big things that the book kicks off with is how to overcome fear of rejection, which I think sinks more dreams than anything else.

00:50:15.000 It's the fear of failure that doesn't allow you to actually go for your goals.

00:50:19.000 And the second one is how to supercharge your confidence.

00:50:22.000 Like ways that you can do this now.

00:50:25.000 So it doesn't take years of repetition.

00:50:28.000 But how do you rewire your brain and trick your brain?

00:50:30.000 Because that's effectively what I do with people.

00:50:31.000 I know how people think.

00:50:33.000 So I'm trying to help you get inside your own brain to see what's holding you back.

00:50:36.000 And the conference is such a big one.

00:50:38.000 A couple other massive things is note-taking, which sounds so silly, but note-taking and your memory.

00:50:45.000 Improving both of those tactics have given me a leg up on my competition at what I do by orders of magnitude.

00:50:51.000 And they're so silly, but I want to teach you actionable, practical takeaways that you're going to do today, not pie in the sky.

00:50:59.000 The book is action items.

00:51:01.000 Start this today.

00:51:02.000 And if I did my job well, people are leaving Amazon reviews in 10 years saying I'm still using the things Oz showed me.

00:51:08.000 And when you talk about these things that you have to cultivate, how long should it take you to be able to cultivate this if you're starting as an adult?

00:51:14.000 I mean, I know for me, obviously in the job that I have, I started speaking at a very, very young age.

00:51:18.000 So, sort of naturally, if you do things from the time you're young, you end up accruing tens of thousands of hours doing the thing.

00:51:23.000 But if you're starting this as an adult, you're reading your book, how long should it take to start actually seeing the results of some of the things you're teaching?

00:51:29.000 So, I think that results have to happen instantly.

00:51:32.000 And I think for routines to ingrain themselves, typically the first two weeks are the hardest.

00:51:36.000 When you start a diet, when you start a fitness regimen, that's when people crumble.

00:51:40.000 Between the two and three-week mark is when you get muscle memory and it starts to become self-fulfilling because you see the rewards, so you keep doing it because you're already getting the rewards.

00:51:49.000 The first two or three weeks are the hardest, and that's where the book guides you on how to overcome that initial resistance because those are the pain points where people quit.

00:51:57.000 And I'm well aware of that.

00:51:58.000 I am human just like anyone else.

00:52:00.000 So, I've studied what made me successful, what made things work, how do you kind of train your mind in such a way that when you hit those speed bumps, you do not talk yourself out of it, but instead talk yourself into it.

00:52:13.000 You know, one of the things you mentioned there was overcoming rejection.

00:52:15.000 It really isn't just the rejection itself that you have to overcome.

00:52:18.000 As you say, it's fear of rejection.

00:52:19.000 People are afraid of what it's going to feel like when they are rejected.

00:52:23.000 What's sort of your first tip just to give us a clue as to how people should move on that?

00:52:28.000 So, the fear is what's crippling.

00:52:30.000 It's not the rejection.

00:52:31.000 Honestly, the rejection, once you take it a few times, you get desensitized, but it's the anxiety.

00:52:37.000 So, I'll tell you a great example.

00:52:38.000 When I was 14 years old, I'd been doing magic for one year.

00:52:40.000 I got a job at a restaurant walking table to table.

00:52:43.000 God help me.

00:52:44.000 I don't know how I talked my way into it, but I sweet talked my way into this gig.

00:52:47.000 I walked a half a mile from my house.

00:52:49.000 Long story short, when I walked up to tables, nobody wanted to see this 14-year-old shrimpy kid do magic tricks.

00:52:55.000 And it was a real blow to my ego.

00:52:58.000 And I realized if I can't overcome this pain when people keep saying no to me, I'm not going to be able to do this.

00:53:03.000 So, I created, for lack of a better term, a split personality.

00:53:07.000 And I tricked my brain into assuming that when people thought negative of me, it wasn't me.

00:53:13.000 It was like having an agent if you're in entertainment.

00:53:16.000 They didn't like O's the magician.

00:53:18.000 They don't know O'S Perlman the person.

00:53:20.000 And that way, I wasn't internalizing it.

00:53:23.000 I want to give you just a great visual metaphor.

00:53:25.000 If I give you a bowl of water and I give you salt and you fill the water with salt, that's now salt water.

00:53:31.000 No matter what you do, your mood is ruined.

00:53:33.000 You internalize the rejection.

00:53:34.000 If you can find a way in your brain, and I show you how to do it, to put a piece of plexiglass in the middle where all the salt only gets poured into one side, then the other side remains fresh water.

00:53:45.000 You're going to do that with your own psyche so that you don't take that pain and hurt and rejection and feel it.

00:53:51.000 You move it off of yourself.

00:53:53.000 It deflects.

00:53:54.000 And when you hit a no, when people say no, I hear in my head a not yet.

00:53:58.000 I'm going to find a way to win them over.

00:54:00.000 I'm going to find a way to achieve these goals.

00:54:02.000 And that's a mindset game.

00:54:04.000 That has nothing to do with external factors.

00:54:05.000 That's internal.

00:54:06.000 You know, when you first started doing this, obviously you started doing this as a kid.

00:54:10.000 I think the thing that people mistake about very successful people, and you obviously are top of your industry, is how long people have to sort of work in obscurity in order to get there.

00:54:22.000 People see you and they're like, oh, you must have instantly been a success.

00:54:25.000 But it's always, always an instant success 10, 15, 20 years in the making.

00:54:30.000 So when was sort of your first break where you realized that you were now a huge success at what you did?

00:54:36.000 Well, I mean, this past week has been wild.

00:54:38.000 My book is number three on all of Amazon, which is beyond surreal.

00:54:42.000 And I'm such a competitive SOB that I'm trying to gun for number one still, even though Diary of a Wimpy Kid is beating me.

00:54:48.000 And I bought the book for my kids, so I stabbed myself in the back.

00:54:51.000 But shout out to Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

00:54:53.000 I love those books.

00:54:54.000 I did America's Got Talent in 2015.

00:54:58.000 And that was 10 years after I quit my job on Wall Street.

00:55:00.000 And you called it obscurity.

00:55:02.000 I was a guy who was working in the bar mitzvah sector.

00:55:04.000 I was working bridal showers.

00:55:06.000 I was going table to table at restaurants four nights a week, getting in those reps, learning how to improve my craft.

00:55:12.000 And even when I tried out for America's Got Talent, I only got on on the third try.

00:55:17.000 So when people say to me, oh, well, you were on that show, so I know why you got famous.

00:55:21.000 Uh-uh.

00:55:22.000 How many times did you try out?

00:55:23.000 I didn't give up after the first time or the second.

00:55:25.000 I went back to the drawing board.

00:55:27.000 And like I said, again, that phrase in my mind, it's truly the way I'm wired.

00:55:32.000 It's not a no when it comes to my goals.

00:55:34.000 When someone says, you're not going to get on Joe Rogan, you're not going to get on Ben Shapiro.

00:55:37.000 I go, not yet, not no.

00:55:39.000 I will find a way.

00:55:41.000 I will keep taking one step forward, two steps back, but eventually I will get there.

00:55:46.000 And so my mind creates the opportunities because once you've decided to give up and you have a no mentality, you don't search for the moments that you can, you know, there's always those little moments.

00:55:58.000 Somebody knows somebody.

00:55:59.000 How do you win people over?

00:56:01.000 There's a chapter in the book about mentors, and so many people have uplifted me in my career.

00:56:06.000 They have helped me.

00:56:07.000 I'm sure people have helped you where they've given you knowledge, they've given you opportunities.

00:56:11.000 And there's ways to win people over and have relationships that are give and take, not just take, take, take.

00:56:17.000 I've learned that I want to give people much, much more so that the moment when I want to ask them for a favor, they're already willing to help me.

00:56:25.000 They want to help me.

00:56:27.000 And you want the same in your life.

00:56:28.000 You want people to be your champions.

00:56:30.000 Well, the book is Read Your Mind, Proven Habits for Success from the world's greatest mentalist.

00:56:35.000 Oz Perlman is the mission.

00:56:36.000 There you see.

00:56:37.000 He brought it on screen.

00:56:38.000 So now you can see, yeah, I don't have a copy.

00:56:39.000 He does.

00:56:39.000 So we're able to make this happen.

00:56:41.000 Or get me one right away, Ben.

00:56:43.000 Well, I appreciate that because I definitely will read it.

00:56:45.000 So I would be remiss if I did not allow our audience to see a little taste of what it is that you do.

00:56:50.000 So go for it.

00:56:50.000 Let's do something.

00:56:51.000 So you asked me when did things blow up?

00:56:53.000 I was on Joe Rogan earlier this year.

00:56:55.000 I guessed his ATM PIN code broke the internet because he got angry, visibly disturbed.

00:57:00.000 And so what the comments said is, let me ask you a question.

00:57:04.000 Does anyone know your ATM PIN code?

00:57:07.000 No.

00:57:08.000 Does your wife know it?

00:57:10.000 My wife does.

00:57:11.000 We share a bank account.

00:57:12.000 So you share a pin.

00:57:13.000 So right away, right there in the comments, people go, well, what if he got to Ben's wife?

00:57:18.000 And that's what people think.

00:57:18.000 Right.

00:57:19.000 They think that I ask questions that I already know the answer to.

00:57:22.000 So what if we switch gears?

00:57:23.000 And you, I couldn't have known who knows your pin code.

00:57:26.000 You go to a code that nobody else would know, not even your wife.

00:57:29.000 Something else with a meaning to you and that your producer wouldn't know that nobody would know.

00:57:35.000 Can you try to, I don't know, again, where this comes from or what this is, but what code is there that has a meaning to you?

00:57:41.000 Is there something like that?

00:57:42.000 It's not a birthday, is it?

00:57:43.000 Sure.

00:57:44.000 It is not a birthday.

00:57:45.000 It's actually a mistaken number I once typed in, you know, years ago, and then it just became the code that I remember.

00:57:51.000 That's perfect.

00:57:52.000 Is there anybody in the world that would know this or any way I could have found this out online or sleuthing or private investigators or all these crazy theories?

00:57:59.000 No.

00:58:00.000 So here's what I want you to do.

00:58:01.000 I want you to lie to me.

00:58:02.000 Don't tell me the real code.

00:58:04.000 Make up a fake code right now.

00:58:06.000 Just make one up.

00:58:07.000 Give me a four-digit code that's not the real one.

00:58:07.000 Go.

00:58:09.000 Say it.

00:58:10.000 9233.

00:58:11.000 9233, 9233.

00:58:13.000 So right away, most people swing big.

00:58:15.000 They try to avoid the same number.

00:58:17.000 9233.

00:58:19.000 Most people can't avoid doing at least one of the same numbers when I rush them.

00:58:23.000 If I had not rushed you, you would have likely not switched.

00:58:27.000 You would have switched all the numbers.

00:58:28.000 If your number was one, two, three, four, you would have done five, six, seven, eight.

00:58:31.000 My guess is one of the numbers are the same.

00:58:33.000 Look at you smiling.

00:58:34.000 Now I know.

00:58:35.000 And I think the first number, 9233, last two numbers were repeats.

00:58:40.000 There's repeats in your code.

00:58:41.000 Think of the first digit.

00:58:43.000 You did a nine.

00:58:44.000 You're a man of extremes.

00:58:45.000 One.

00:58:45.000 I like it.

00:58:46.000 The first number is a one, isn't it?

00:58:47.000 Of your real code.

00:58:49.000 Yes.

00:58:50.000 This is not stage, Ben.

00:58:51.000 This is not what I would ask you.

00:58:54.000 Now, 9, 2, 3, 3.

00:58:57.000 Where did the threes go? 0.99

00:58:58.000 You know what I think?

00:59:00.000 I think the threes went at the beginning.

00:59:01.000 They were the flip.

00:59:02.000 1, 1.

00:59:03.000 The code starts with a 1 and a 1.

00:59:04.000 Is that correct?

00:59:05.000 It's 11.

00:59:06.000 And then you screwed up with the - you left the 3 at the end.

00:59:09.000 1183.

00:59:10.000 Is that the code?

00:59:11.000 What the?

00:59:15.000 Yes, that's the code.

00:59:16.000 That's wild.

00:59:18.000 Whoa.

00:59:19.000 Whoa, dude.

00:59:21.000 Okay.

00:59:22.000 Whoa.

00:59:22.000 That's okay.

00:59:23.000 That's insane.

00:59:24.000 That's totally insane.

00:59:25.000 Read your mind.

00:59:28.000 I'm not going to teach you to guess Ben Shapiro's pin code, but I will show you how to get inside the heads of people around you to achieve success because that is the ultimate hack in life is knowing what people are thinking and getting inside your own head.

00:59:40.000 That's crazy.

00:59:40.000 Good Lord.

00:59:41.000 Okay.

00:59:41.000 Go check out that.

00:59:42.000 I mean, listen.

00:59:43.000 If you can read that book and then you can do that to everybody, you can make yourself a very rich person.

00:59:46.000 Go check that out.

00:59:46.000 Read your mind.

00:59:47.000 Power is only for good.

00:59:49.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:59:50.000 Read your mind.

00:59:51.000 Proven habits for success from the world's greatest mentalist.

00:59:53.000 I mean, hard to argue that he's not the world's greatest, that he's, you know, that he's not the world's greatest mentalist after watching that.

00:59:58.000 That's unbelievable, guys.

00:59:59.000 All right, thanks so much for the time.

01:00:01.000 And I'm going to get you out of here before you start cracking into my trading accounts.

01:00:06.000 Thank you, Ben.

01:00:07.000 I might have already.

01:00:07.000 I'm not going to lie to you.

01:00:11.000 All righty, folks.

01:00:11.000 The show continues for our members right now.

01:00:13.000 We will dive into the vaunted Ben Shapiro show mailbag.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 04, 2025

Will New York Surrender To Pro-Jihadist, Marxist Mamdani?

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