The Michael Knowles Show - Daily Wire Backstage： Summer Is Here But Harambe Is Not

00:00:00.080 Hey everybody, this is Michael.

00:00:01.980 You're about to listen to our latest episode

00:00:03.980 of Daily Wire Backstage,

00:00:05.420 where I join Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan,

00:00:07.680 and the man who will one day fire me for real,

00:00:10.260 Daily Wire God King Jeremy Boring,

00:00:12.240 for a great conversation on politics and culture,

00:00:15.000 and where we answer questions from Daily Wire subscribers.

00:00:18.300 Without further ado, here is Backstage.

00:00:20.880 Fake laugh in three, two.

00:00:25.780 Welcome to the Daily Wire Backstage.

00:00:27.740 Summer is here, but Harambe is not special edition, guys.

00:00:30.600 Wow.

00:00:30.980 It's been three years, can you believe it?

00:00:32.320 Too soon, too soon, too soon, too soon.

00:00:34.720 I'm Jeremy the God King Boring, lowercase g, lowercase k,

00:00:37.880 in case the real guys listen.

00:00:39.520 Tonight we're gonna talk through politics,

00:00:41.000 Game of Thrones, Memorial,

00:00:41.960 literally, guys, we have nothing to talk about.

00:00:44.540 Nothing has happened in the news in the weeks.

00:00:46.880 Joining me, as always, tonight are Ben,

00:00:49.660 the Nazi leader Shapiro.

00:00:51.700 Thank you for that.

00:00:54.080 Andrew Klavan, Michael Knowles,

00:00:55.680 the lovely Elisha Krauss,

00:00:57.140 who's gonna tell you how to get your questions answered

00:00:59.660 for the evening.

00:01:01.300 Elisha.

00:01:01.860 Hey, guys, thanks so much for being there.

00:01:03.840 I guess the Zodiac Killer moved me out of my seat

00:01:07.340 as I'm back in the broom closet.

00:01:11.400 But for everyone watching at home,

00:01:13.580 this is a very special episode of Backstage,

00:01:15.660 in case you didn't see him there,

00:01:16.800 with Senator Ted Cruz.

00:01:17.800 We're excited to have him here.

00:01:19.240 Even though, you know, being an okey, 1.00

00:01:20.640 I just have to say boomer real quick.

00:01:22.000 So, if you want to ask him or any of the guys

00:01:25.220 some questions tonight,

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00:01:28.820 and type all of your questions into the chat box

00:01:31.140 on the live stream at dailywire.com.

00:01:33.520 And remember, only subscribers get to ask the questions.

00:01:36.420 So, if you're not a subscriber,

00:01:37.680 my main question would be,

00:01:38.940 why the heck not?

00:01:39.720 You can become one tonight

00:01:41.020 and get your questions in

00:01:42.180 for all of the guys here on Backstage.

00:01:44.700 And be sure to head over to Facebook

00:01:46.460 because we have a special,

00:01:48.640 you know, very summery,

00:01:49.940 kickoff for summer Daily Wire poll

00:01:52.580 over on the Daily Wire page.

00:01:54.680 The question is,

00:01:55.420 what's the best part of summer?

00:01:57.040 Is it A, less work,

00:01:58.720 B, less rain,

00:02:00.100 C, the climate change,

00:02:01.420 or D, the movies?

00:02:04.060 Well, thank you, Elisha,

00:02:05.260 and thank you for stealing my Zodiac Killer joke.

00:02:07.080 We are, though,

00:02:09.940 welcoming a very special guest on the show tonight,

00:02:12.860 the beautiful, beautiful Ted Cruz.

00:02:17.220 Senator, welcome.

00:02:18.100 Well, thank you, Jeremy.

00:02:19.100 I will say I saw on Twitter today

00:02:20.720 you talked about Haranby,

00:02:21.980 and I guess it's the anniversary of his killing,

00:02:24.660 and someone tweeted on this anniversary,

00:02:26.900 how is it that Ted Cruz's dad is still on the loose?

00:02:33.240 I almost retweeted it.

00:02:34.940 I think I would have gotten in trouble today.

00:02:36.460 Right after the election,

00:02:37.820 I actually created a meme called Justice for Jack

00:02:40.300 with this very somber portrait of Jack Kennedy,

00:02:43.220 and I started trying to get traction behind it.

00:02:46.040 I wanted the president to open an inquiry,

00:02:47.820 but eh, so far.

00:02:49.360 You get nowhere in this.

00:02:50.840 You get nowhere in this.

00:02:51.420 Look, there's a reason I suppressed

00:02:53.380 the Warren Commission findings.

00:02:56.800 So, guys, legitimately nothing has happened.

00:02:59.020 Should we do Game of Thrones, then?

00:03:00.720 We should do Game of Thrones,

00:03:01.820 but I actually have one thing

00:03:03.000 that I want to talk about,

00:03:04.060 and that's this amazing story put out by BuzzFeed

00:03:07.120 that suggests that our own Ben Shapiro

00:03:09.780 is a gateway drug to Nazi propaganda.

00:03:13.640 Well, he has been for me.

00:03:14.780 I've been saying it for years.

00:03:17.280 I mean, what can you say?

00:03:19.540 They've discovered me. 0.98

00:03:20.540 The nefarious Jews working their Jew magic again. 1.00

00:03:23.560 So, to get this straight, 0.98

00:03:26.040 I'm an Orthodox Jew who gateways people to the Nazis 1.00

00:03:29.220 so that they attack synagogues where my friends go.

00:03:33.220 Man, I'm good.

00:03:34.040 You guys are really sneaky. 1.00

00:03:35.100 You Jews. 0.97

00:03:35.460 It is amazing that after literally three years

00:03:41.060 of enduring a kind of anti-Semitism

00:03:43.180 that I legitimately now did not know existed in our country

00:03:46.500 and certainly didn't know existed on the right in our country,

00:03:50.060 although certainly not among conservatives,

00:03:51.480 but among right-wingers,

00:03:53.600 that now to find that the left's great attack on us

00:03:56.220 is that we are the anti-Semites.

00:03:59.120 Right.

00:04:00.020 It's weird.

00:04:00.960 I'll be honest with you.

00:04:02.060 I didn't see that one coming.

00:04:03.280 It was a twist.

00:04:04.120 It was like sixth sense right there.

00:04:06.540 But, yeah, it's been kind of bizarre

00:04:08.900 considering that three weeks ago

00:04:10.340 I had to file a police report

00:04:12.800 and the FBI arrested somebody

00:04:13.980 who is a white supremacist

00:04:14.920 for threatening my family 0.99

00:04:16.060 and targeting my home.

00:04:18.240 Yeah.

00:04:18.400 I believe he put out a tweet that said 0.72

00:04:20.300 it's time to start bombing synagogues. 1.00

00:04:22.320 Yeah, that guy was real solid. 0.59

00:04:24.480 In 2016, I was amused to see

00:04:26.180 that the Washington Post ran with that piece today 1.00

00:04:27.900 about this Indiana schmuck piece of garbage 1.00

00:04:30.860 who was swastika-ing a synagogue. 1.00

00:04:33.900 And then they ran the piece that,

00:04:35.440 I guess his lawyer contended

00:04:36.940 that this guy's underage wife 0.99

00:04:38.700 once read a column of mine, basically,

00:04:41.080 and that this was a gateway to Breitbart News,

00:04:42.940 which was a gateway to Stormfront,

00:04:44.140 which is a big jump right there.

00:04:45.240 Quite a jump.

00:04:45.520 I mean, you really got a jump.

00:04:46.720 And that, the Washington Post ran with that.

00:04:49.780 Didn't you write a story

00:04:50.720 for the Washington Post like a year ago?

00:04:52.380 I did, in fact.

00:04:53.100 I did write a story in 2016

00:04:54.480 that was specifically about

00:04:55.540 why the alt-right is evil

00:04:56.520 for the Washington Post.

00:04:57.740 And yet today, the Washington Post

00:04:58.880 ran a story about how I'm a gateway

00:05:00.360 to the alt-right.

00:05:00.980 So that's kind of a weird thing.

00:05:01.820 That sounds very convenient there, Ben.

00:05:03.380 You write a piece of the Washington Post

00:05:05.260 and then 4D chess later.

00:05:07.940 Yeah, I'm starting to believe

00:05:09.820 this may not all be in good faith.

00:05:13.360 It's starting to occur to me.

00:05:14.680 You know, right around the time

00:05:15.540 Media Matters starts, you know,

00:05:16.640 watching every episode of Everything I Do

00:05:18.220 and then clipping out

00:05:18.860 one-minute, 30-second segments

00:05:21.180 out of context to target me.

00:05:23.720 This does explain why you let

00:05:25.260 baby Hitler run free, though. 0.60

00:05:26.760 It does.

00:05:27.600 It comes together.

00:05:29.140 I mean, it's been quite a year

00:05:30.360 for my people.

00:05:31.840 But, wow.

00:05:33.440 I mean, yeah.

00:05:34.380 I actually want to talk...

00:05:35.220 But, I mean, obviously,

00:05:36.000 look, what this really is, 0.91

00:05:36.860 that all conservatives are Nazis. 0.95

00:05:37.960 All conservatives are outside 0.95

00:05:38.800 the Overton window.

00:05:39.740 I mean, I'm about as mainstream

00:05:41.020 a conservative as it's possible to be.

00:05:42.460 And this has a long history.

00:05:43.740 I talked about this on the radio show today.

00:05:45.300 But this goes all the way back

00:05:46.740 to when they tried to blame Rush

00:05:47.740 for the Oklahoma City bombing

00:05:48.820 back in the 90s.

00:05:50.040 It goes back further than that.

00:05:50.820 It actually does go back

00:05:51.600 to the assassination of Kennedy

00:05:52.860 when the left tried to maintain

00:05:54.420 that that wasn't communist,

00:05:55.580 that that was really about

00:05:56.520 evil right-wing rhetoric on race

00:05:58.200 that led to the assassination

00:05:59.120 of Jack Kennedy.

00:06:00.620 It's been really interesting

00:06:01.960 watching this EU election

00:06:03.240 with all these right-wing

00:06:04.360 nationalists coming in

00:06:05.400 and everybody complaining,

00:06:06.720 Angela Merkel,

00:06:07.680 complaining about their anti-Semitism.

00:06:09.320 When you can't walk around

00:06:11.200 with a yarmulke in Germany

00:06:12.620 under her.

00:06:13.520 So there's this study.

00:06:14.260 Did you see the study

00:06:14.800 that she was citing

00:06:15.380 in all these,

00:06:16.280 the New York Times editorial board

00:06:17.460 cited today

00:06:18.000 in which they suggested

00:06:19.240 that 89% of anti-Semitic attacks

00:06:21.480 in Germany

00:06:22.120 were the fault of right-wingers.

00:06:24.500 Now, listen, 1.00

00:06:25.140 the neo-Nazis are garbage people 1.00

00:06:26.760 and they should all burn in hell, 1.00

00:06:28.020 obviously. 1.00

00:06:28.760 I mean, I'm sorry to say

00:06:29.460 that's my own vote. 0.98

00:06:30.320 But they're the worst people. 0.99

00:06:35.460 But that statistic is sheer nonsense. 0.98

00:06:38.680 The EU did its own study last year

00:06:40.680 and what they found was

00:06:41.620 among German Jews,

00:06:43.520 when they reported

00:06:44.240 where the actual anti-Semitism

00:06:46.060 was coming from,

00:06:46.860 they reported that 41%

00:06:48.000 of all anti-Semitic incidents

00:06:49.160 were coming from Muslims in Germany

00:06:51.180 and 20% were coming

00:06:52.720 from the right-wing.

00:06:53.580 So how do you get to 89%

00:06:55.280 in that German study?

00:06:56.540 And the answer is you ignore

00:06:57.500 all the ones that don't fit

00:06:58.820 your particular study.

00:07:00.020 I mean, I have lots of friends

00:07:01.160 who are the Jews,

00:07:02.520 the Juden over in Europe, 0.92

00:07:03.400 and I can tell you,

00:07:04.560 they are obviously concerned

00:07:06.560 about the neo-Nazis,

00:07:07.860 but there is not,

00:07:08.700 it is not close.

00:07:09.640 I mean, when it comes to

00:07:10.420 who are you truly concerned about,

00:07:11.960 who is a threat to your safety,

00:07:13.260 why are there security guards

00:07:14.140 at every shul,

00:07:15.160 I can do not,

00:07:15.760 every single shul in France,

00:07:17.540 every single shul

00:07:18.220 and day school in Germany,

00:07:19.920 every single one.

00:07:20.860 Why are Jews moving 1.00

00:07:21.540 out of Malmo, Sweden

00:07:22.400 and moving to Israel?

00:07:23.220 Why did 5,000 Jews alone last year

00:07:25.100 move from France to Israel?

00:07:26.240 That is not because

00:07:27.340 of the rabid right-wing in France.

00:07:28.460 That is happening

00:07:29.040 because of the mass migration

00:07:31.080 of Muslims

00:07:31.980 from the Middle East.

00:07:32.760 And that is not an indicator

00:07:34.140 that every Muslim

00:07:34.920 is an anti-Semite 0.69

00:07:35.700 or anything like that.

00:07:36.740 It is to say

00:07:37.160 that when you have

00:07:37.520 unvetted immigration

00:07:38.780 from places

00:07:39.420 by which polls show

00:07:40.940 that there is high levels

00:07:41.740 of anti-Semitism,

00:07:42.700 you shouldn't be surprised

00:07:43.300 when those people

00:07:43.780 bring their anti-Semitism

00:07:44.460 with them.

00:07:45.100 It does speak to the

00:07:46.100 real dislike

00:07:47.420 the left seems to have

00:07:48.660 fostered in themselves

00:07:49.900 for the West

00:07:50.520 that this group of people, 0.77

00:07:52.380 these radical Muslims 0.94

00:07:53.420 who don't believe 0.99

00:07:55.000 in feminism, 1.00

00:07:55.660 don't believe in homosexuality, 0.98

00:07:57.060 don't like the Jews 1.00

00:07:57.840 or absolute big, 0.99

00:07:59.280 that they support them

00:08:00.440 and protect them.

00:08:01.040 The only thing

00:08:02.160 that they have going

00:08:02.720 for them

00:08:03.080 from the left's

00:08:03.580 point of view

00:08:04.020 is that they hate us.

00:08:07.300 That's their kind

00:08:07.920 of positive attribute.

00:08:08.580 Well, it does speak

00:08:09.000 to the Democratic Party's

00:08:09.860 defense of Ilhan Omar,

00:08:10.740 right?

00:08:10.920 I mean, Ilhan Omar is,

00:08:12.500 you know,

00:08:12.720 she's not a terrorist,

00:08:13.940 obviously.

00:08:15.300 I'm not going to call her

00:08:16.200 a radical Muslim

00:08:16.880 because I don't know

00:08:17.460 her religious beliefs.

00:08:18.340 I will say that

00:08:18.900 she's wildly anti-Semitic

00:08:20.020 and the Democratic Party

00:08:20.800 is obviously making room

00:08:22.160 for her,

00:08:22.640 making room for Rashida Tlaib 0.98

00:08:23.740 and they're doing that

00:08:25.200 for a reason.

00:08:26.340 I mean,

00:08:26.580 it's really,

00:08:27.680 it's amazing.

00:08:28.460 I mean,

00:08:28.540 Michael Oren is the former

00:08:29.460 foreign minister for Israel.

00:08:30.800 He tweeted out

00:08:31.400 in the aftermath

00:08:31.940 of that astonishing

00:08:32.880 New York Times editorial

00:08:33.720 today in which they blamed,

00:08:34.980 it was amazing,

00:08:35.480 they blamed the uptick

00:08:36.320 in anti-Semitism

00:08:36.920 in Europe and in Germany.

00:08:38.780 They blamed that uptick

00:08:39.480 on Benjamin Netanyahu.

00:08:41.580 I'm not joking.

00:08:42.440 They blamed it

00:08:42.900 on the prime minister

00:08:43.460 of Israel.

00:08:43.780 Well, they have the perfect

00:08:44.080 cartoon to run with that.

00:08:47.520 They've already got it.

00:08:48.480 Yeah, exactly.

00:08:49.260 And so Michael Oren

00:08:49.900 tweeted out like,

00:08:50.740 so you guys are missing

00:08:52.020 the irony of,

00:08:52.800 you guys are the actual

00:08:53.800 anti-Semites

00:08:54.500 and yet it is

00:08:55.320 Benjamin Netanyahu,

00:08:56.000 the prime minister

00:08:56.520 of the only Jewish state

00:08:57.400 on planet Earth

00:08:58.040 who's causing the anti-Semitism.

00:08:59.000 It's pretty convenient

00:08:59.660 when the only people

00:09:00.620 who seem to be causing

00:09:01.180 the anti-Semitism

00:09:01.740 are, you know,

00:09:02.540 orthodox Jews like me

00:09:03.520 or the prime minister

00:09:04.280 of Israel,

00:09:05.300 Benjamin Netanyahu.

00:09:05.960 Well, you were wearing

00:09:06.600 a pretty short skirt there, Ben.

00:09:07.960 I mean, don't you think

00:09:08.680 that you and prime minister

00:09:09.960 Netanyahu were asking for it?

00:09:11.380 And that's the law, right?

00:09:12.340 Yeah, that's right.

00:09:12.960 That's exactly right.

00:09:14.000 Wow.

00:09:14.280 Now, I am interested, though.

00:09:16.100 There is a rise,

00:09:18.360 at least from my perspective,

00:09:20.200 a rise in anti-Semitism.

00:09:21.300 And I've talked about before

00:09:22.420 how I grew up

00:09:23.500 in the greatest time,

00:09:25.040 apparently,

00:09:25.320 to grow up in the history of ever,

00:09:28.060 which was the 80s and the 90s.

00:09:29.580 And in the 80s and the 90s,

00:09:31.040 I believe that this country

00:09:32.380 had basically whipped racism.

00:09:34.080 Yes or no,

00:09:34.480 did you ever wear parachute pants?

00:09:35.920 I cannot tell a lot.

00:09:39.960 I'm just checking.

00:09:40.720 I had a pair of parachute pants

00:09:43.660 and I had a lot of neon.

00:09:45.580 So much neon.

00:09:46.660 And slap bracelets.

00:09:47.560 It was not...

00:09:48.040 So not everything.

00:09:49.020 Not everything about the 80s and the 90s.

00:09:51.280 But I do think in the 80s and 90s

00:09:52.920 in this country,

00:09:53.740 we basically had racism whipped.

00:09:56.960 This is on the run, no question.

00:09:58.520 I didn't grow up in a racist country.

00:10:00.400 I grew up in a rural town in Texas

00:10:02.500 where, nevertheless,

00:10:04.260 the most famous sports player

00:10:05.820 in the country was Michael Jordan.

00:10:07.040 The most famous guy on TV

00:10:08.380 was Bill Cosby

00:10:09.060 and the most famous person in music

00:10:10.160 was Michael Jackson.

00:10:11.400 It didn't exist.

00:10:12.540 If anything, it's worse now.

00:10:14.060 Much worse than it was then.

00:10:15.440 That particular trio

00:10:16.400 hasn't turned out too good.

00:10:17.540 Well, listen.

00:10:19.560 My hero is...

00:10:20.300 Jordan is still okay.

00:10:22.580 Agreed.

00:10:24.360 Greatest of all time,

00:10:25.380 Jordan or LeBron?

00:10:26.360 I'll take Jordan.

00:10:27.720 I'll take Jordan.

00:10:28.500 I think hands down, Jordan.

00:10:30.180 I mean, he has no one else on his team

00:10:31.780 and he doesn't get his coaches fired as often.

00:10:34.560 Well, and he actually made the playoffs.

00:10:37.720 It's a tough thing to say in L.A.

00:10:39.100 And then again, no reaction here.

00:10:41.060 But the rest of the country.

00:10:43.120 We'll go for it.

00:10:44.400 Yeah.

00:10:44.720 Now, Jordan over LeBron.

00:10:47.480 I mean, and this comes as a man

00:10:48.620 who's beaten Jimmy Kimmel in basketball.

00:10:51.040 Look, Jordan has six rings.

00:10:53.460 And at the end of the day,

00:10:54.420 they'll be the greatest of all time.

00:10:56.080 You've got to make it to the finals

00:10:57.560 and you've got to win.

00:10:58.640 And at the end of every game,

00:11:00.520 everyone knew Jordan was going to get the ball.

00:11:02.320 Everyone knew he was going to be

00:11:03.040 double or triple team.

00:11:04.580 And everyone knew he was going to make it.

00:11:05.740 By the way, fine, LeBron gets five or six rings.

00:11:08.440 He can have that conversation,

00:11:09.640 but he's not there yet.

00:11:10.320 But there's one other aspect to it,

00:11:11.820 which is the cultural aspect,

00:11:13.280 which is Jordan defined that sport for a generation

00:11:16.280 in a way that I just don't think

00:11:18.060 LeBron James could lay claim to.

00:11:19.740 Now, LeBron is freakishly talented.

00:11:21.600 He's amazing.

00:11:23.120 He is strong and fast and amazing. 0.95

00:11:26.700 I suspect he could out-shoot you 0.94

00:11:27.960 if you guys ever had a... 0.99

00:11:29.540 With his toes.

00:11:30.860 So I want to get back to this issue

00:11:35.620 of the rise in anti-Semitism.

00:11:37.040 But first, Ben,

00:11:38.100 as someone who has to defend himself,

00:11:39.940 or at least faces the specter

00:11:41.440 of having to defend himself.

00:11:42.360 That's right.

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00:12:55.680 So I went to the YouTube channel

00:12:57.240 between the last backstage

00:12:58.320 and today

00:12:58.780 and I went so far down

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00:13:02.460 watching videos about

00:13:03.740 it.

00:13:03.920 It's actually

00:13:04.460 it puts you in a trance

00:13:06.720 watching the kind of care

00:13:08.360 that it's a thing about me

00:13:09.960 that I can watch someone

00:13:10.980 engaged in some sort of

00:13:12.400 fine motor function.

00:13:13.900 So even just like

00:13:14.780 someone making a perfect

00:13:15.880 cup of coffee

00:13:16.460 like it pulls me in

00:13:17.860 and watching these videos

00:13:18.980 about the care

00:13:19.480 that these guys put into

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00:13:22.480 it's pretty

00:13:22.860 it's good TV.

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00:13:25.660 Does it do

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00:13:29.700 in that video

00:13:30.320 I overcooked the bacon.

00:13:33.040 I had three mags

00:13:35.120 and really two is plenty.

00:13:37.620 See that's the kind of care

00:13:38.460 BravoCompany would show.

00:13:40.840 Jeremy you were saying

00:13:41.640 you grew up in a non-racist

00:13:42.880 I grew up in a non-racist

00:13:43.800 country

00:13:44.040 and I didn't

00:13:45.500 listen I didn't know

00:13:46.180 any Jews

00:13:46.620 my vice principal

00:13:48.000 of my high school

00:13:48.700 a fellow named Bill Jolly

00:13:49.840 and he was Jewish

00:13:50.540 and he had a jet black

00:13:52.400 big bushy mustache

00:13:53.380 on one half

00:13:54.080 and snow white mustache

00:13:55.840 on the other

00:13:56.220 some genetic condition

00:13:57.040 but he was my only

00:13:58.240 real exposure to

00:13:59.500 to Judaism

00:14:01.180 and I went to

00:14:03.020 synagogue with him

00:14:03.820 one time

00:14:04.140 and he's a great guy

00:14:04.860 and invested kind of

00:14:05.500 in me and my

00:14:06.000 my youth

00:14:06.540 but I never met a Jew

00:14:08.260 but I certainly also

00:14:09.180 never encountered

00:14:09.760 any animus toward

00:14:10.680 toward the Jews

00:14:12.100 and I even had an

00:14:13.220 I distinctly remember

00:14:14.440 an argument that I had

00:14:15.160 with you in 2015

00:14:16.040 and which you were

00:14:17.740 trying to convince me

00:14:18.440 that anti-Semitism

00:14:18.980 is real

00:14:19.520 and I was saying

00:14:20.600 of course it

00:14:22.180 has been real

00:14:23.540 but it is not real

00:14:24.960 in our current experience

00:14:25.820 and you were saying

00:14:26.280 no you're missing something

00:14:28.180 there's something

00:14:28.580 that bubbles under the surface

00:14:29.660 I gotta say I'm on Drew's side now

00:14:31.080 wait this is a first

00:14:33.340 having 24-7 security

00:14:35.900 has sort of

00:14:36.380 made that happen for me

00:14:37.460 but something

00:14:38.640 even if you're right

00:14:39.840 and I'm willing to grant

00:14:40.520 that this was always

00:14:41.220 bubbling under the surface

00:14:42.060 it's not under the surface

00:14:43.540 at the moment

00:14:44.240 that's right

00:14:44.680 what is it about

00:14:45.500 our current political climate

00:14:47.160 that on both left

00:14:48.120 and right

00:14:48.800 at the far extremes

00:14:50.340 what I call 1.00

00:14:50.760 the asshole edge 1.00

00:14:51.560 of the left 1.00

00:14:52.540 and the asshole edge 0.97

00:14:53.200 of the right 0.97

00:14:53.680 they're sort of

00:14:55.060 joined by

00:14:55.840 this anti-Semitism

00:14:57.620 I gotta tell you though

00:14:58.720 there aren't

00:14:59.420 mainstream really

00:15:00.860 Republican congressmen

00:15:02.120 and senators

00:15:02.600 who are endorsing

00:15:04.120 these sort of

00:15:04.560 anti-Semitic ideas

00:15:05.460 that we see

00:15:05.960 in the Democratic

00:15:06.480 I will absolutely

00:15:07.180 agree with that

00:15:07.860 so yeah

00:15:08.760 I mean I've analyzed

00:15:09.360 it this way

00:15:09.820 when it comes to

00:15:10.620 the threat of anti-Semitism

00:15:11.620 the threat of anti-Semitism

00:15:13.140 so if somebody's gonna

00:15:14.200 come to your house 0.99

00:15:14.920 and shoot you 1.00

00:15:15.460 there's a good shot 1.00

00:15:16.500 the person who comes 1.00

00:15:17.060 to your house 0.89

00:15:17.360 and shoots you 1.00

00:15:17.920 is going to be 1.00

00:15:18.460 a white supremacist 0.96

00:15:19.220 because that's just 0.79

00:15:20.540 by numbers

00:15:21.360 so we live in a big

00:15:22.220 white country

00:15:22.740 well that is true

00:15:24.060 in Europe

00:15:25.260 if you're afraid

00:15:26.060 somebody's gonna come

00:15:26.620 to your house 1.00

00:15:27.060 and shoot you 1.00

00:15:27.480 it is going to be 1.00

00:15:28.180 a radical Muslim

00:15:29.100 by numbers

00:15:30.180 that is who it is

00:15:30.980 and if you're afraid

00:15:31.800 of governmental policies

00:15:32.860 that make room

00:15:33.560 for all of the worst

00:15:34.360 people in the world

00:15:34.940 it is going to be

00:15:35.680 people on the left

00:15:36.440 and that is Jeremy Corbyn

00:15:37.680 in Britain

00:15:38.540 and that is the Democratic Party

00:15:39.900 in the United States

00:15:40.800 unfortunately

00:15:41.040 there's also been

00:15:41.740 an important change

00:15:42.820 listen

00:15:43.680 Nazis the Klan

00:15:45.060 they've both been around

00:15:46.080 a long time

00:15:46.980 but Nazis and the Klan 1.00

00:15:48.400 are ignorant 1.00

00:15:49.480 bigoted morons 1.00

00:15:50.800 and anybody 1.00

00:15:51.640 with a shred of sense

00:15:53.160 gets that

00:15:54.180 I mean look

00:15:54.520 Nazis were literally

00:15:55.660 the bad guys

00:15:56.360 in Raiders of the Lost Ark

00:15:57.400 whose faces melt off

00:15:58.780 they are the archetype 0.99

00:16:00.700 of bad guy Nazi 0.94

00:16:01.980 and Klan guys 0.53

00:16:03.260 can compete with them

00:16:03.920 they can fight

00:16:04.400 for who's

00:16:05.140 in a worse circle

00:16:06.820 they're so bad

00:16:07.140 even Hollywood

00:16:07.660 will make films

00:16:08.240 exactly

00:16:09.940 but the difference

00:16:11.320 and the really

00:16:12.340 discouraging thing

00:16:13.480 and dangerous thing

00:16:14.420 is the rise

00:16:15.660 of the anti-Semitic left

00:16:17.080 and the paralysis

00:16:18.820 of so-called

00:16:19.960 mainstream Democrats

00:16:21.140 to denounce them

00:16:22.300 the inability

00:16:23.400 I mean you know

00:16:24.640 you have this freshman

00:16:25.620 trio

00:16:26.080 in the House

00:16:27.240 who make

00:16:28.320 anti-Semitic comment

00:16:29.440 after anti-Semitic comment

00:16:30.840 and the leadership

00:16:31.760 excuses it

00:16:32.620 well she just doesn't 0.54

00:16:33.500 know what she's saying

00:16:34.340 how about give a little

00:16:35.500 bit of credit

00:16:36.380 when you say

00:16:36.960 it's all about the Benjamins

00:16:38.400 it's not like

00:16:40.080 we're in the movie

00:16:40.560 Ghostbusters

00:16:41.280 and suddenly

00:16:41.860 she was animated

00:16:42.880 by a spirit

00:16:43.480 that made her type that

00:16:44.440 no she was expressing

00:16:45.760 a sentiment

00:16:46.280 an anti-Semitic trope

00:16:47.780 that has only been around

00:16:48.960 a couple of thousand years

00:16:50.720 and we saw

00:16:53.460 actually House Democratic

00:16:54.760 leadership

00:16:55.200 try to come together

00:16:56.260 on a simple resolution

00:16:57.840 condemning anti-Semitism

00:16:58.980 and the Democratic Party

00:17:00.140 broke in half

00:17:00.900 that is dangerous

00:17:02.700 when you have

00:17:04.400 one of the two

00:17:05.020 major parties

00:17:05.860 so terrified

00:17:07.160 of its base

00:17:07.980 that they're unwilling

00:17:09.140 to stand up

00:17:09.780 and speak out against

00:17:10.480 and they're also

00:17:10.960 they're conflating

00:17:11.840 anti-Zionism

00:17:12.520 and anti-Semitism too

00:17:13.540 and that's the big

00:17:14.320 move right

00:17:15.240 so can you talk

00:17:16.360 about that Ben

00:17:16.760 because one of the

00:17:17.880 now that everyone

00:17:18.800 because I stood up

00:17:19.560 for you against

00:17:20.220 some crazy 1.00

00:17:20.920 white supremacist 1.00

00:17:21.940 and now you get it 0.97

00:17:22.540 enjoy

00:17:22.760 and now they've all

00:17:23.500 decided that I'm

00:17:24.080 that I'm Jewish

00:17:24.680 welcome to the party

00:17:25.260 it's the only

00:17:25.860 I always thought

00:17:27.820 I thought I'd get

00:17:28.380 a gift basket

00:17:28.940 from the Illuminati

00:17:29.680 all I got was

00:17:31.980 this lousy t-shirt

00:17:32.680 but one of the

00:17:34.100 things that people

00:17:34.520 say to me

00:17:35.040 often is

00:17:36.380 you guys call

00:17:37.480 any criticism

00:17:38.080 of Israel

00:17:38.660 anti-Semitism

00:17:39.300 where is the

00:17:40.800 distinction

00:17:41.180 what is anti-Semitism

00:17:42.100 what is not

00:17:42.720 so I'll give

00:17:43.640 the State Department

00:17:44.180 definition of

00:17:45.060 anti-Semitism

00:17:45.540 on this stuff

00:17:46.100 which I think

00:17:46.360 is fairly accurate

00:17:47.040 so criticizing

00:17:47.920 policy of Israel

00:17:48.640 is not anti-Semitic

00:17:49.520 I criticize

00:17:49.960 policy of Israel

00:17:50.660 everyone in this room

00:17:51.360 I'm sure has

00:17:51.700 criticized policy of Israel

00:17:52.620 you can do it

00:17:53.180 from the left

00:17:53.560 you can do it

00:17:53.920 from the right

00:17:54.240 there's plenty

00:17:54.600 of policies

00:17:55.040 in Israel

00:17:55.440 that you can

00:17:55.760 criticize

00:17:56.060 if you say

00:17:57.060 that the state

00:17:57.560 of Israel

00:17:58.040 does not have

00:17:58.580 a right to exist

00:17:59.340 that's anti-Semitism

00:18:00.540 if you say

00:18:01.500 that the Jews

00:18:01.900 are the only people

00:18:02.480 on planet Earth

00:18:03.120 who cannot have

00:18:03.840 a state

00:18:04.200 that's anti-Semitism

00:18:05.240 if you suggest

00:18:06.260 that you're going

00:18:06.720 to hold the State

00:18:07.280 of Israel

00:18:07.560 to a standard

00:18:08.000 you would hold

00:18:08.400 no other country

00:18:09.120 that's anti-Semitism

00:18:10.260 so if you're calling

00:18:10.860 for a boycott

00:18:11.340 on Israel

00:18:11.700 but you would

00:18:12.400 never call

00:18:12.800 for a boycott

00:18:13.460 C.C. Ilhan Omar

00:18:15.540 you would never

00:18:15.920 call for a boycott

00:18:16.700 on Iran

00:18:17.460 right

00:18:18.200 Ilhan Omar

00:18:19.500 is saying

00:18:19.820 that we shouldn't

00:18:20.260 boycott Venezuela

00:18:20.880 but we should 0.82

00:18:21.320 definitely boycott Israel 0.92

00:18:22.420 that's anti-Semitism

00:18:23.780 because now

00:18:24.700 you're obviously

00:18:25.140 applying a standard

00:18:25.820 that only applies

00:18:26.740 to the Jews

00:18:27.300 that you wouldn't

00:18:27.960 apply to anybody else

00:18:28.960 and the reason

00:18:30.540 former chief rabbi

00:18:31.580 of Great Britain

00:18:33.040 actually had a really

00:18:33.940 interesting video on this

00:18:34.800 trying to explain

00:18:35.680 why when anti-Semitism

00:18:37.300 is anti-Zionism

00:18:38.640 and vice versa

00:18:39.160 so first of all

00:18:40.040 not every anti

00:18:41.460 and not every criticism

00:18:42.980 of Israel

00:18:43.380 makes you an anti-Semite

00:18:44.200 but there is not yet

00:18:45.020 an anti-Semite

00:18:45.780 who has been born 0.92

00:18:46.380 who doesn't spend

00:18:47.000 an inordinate amount

00:18:47.600 of time criticizing Israel

00:18:48.680 it just doesn't exist

00:18:49.880 so the

00:18:51.220 although there are some

00:18:52.680 who say

00:18:53.660 well listen

00:18:54.380 I support the state

00:18:55.420 of Israel

00:18:55.880 all the Jews 0.83

00:18:56.640 should go there 0.98

00:18:57.160 and not get us

00:18:57.600 to fight their wars

00:18:58.300 right

00:18:58.560 and then they

00:18:59.340 what they don't

00:19:00.040 mean any of that

00:19:00.620 right

00:19:00.820 because they also

00:19:02.080 hate Israel 0.54

00:19:02.480 right exactly

00:19:03.060 but I get to meet

00:19:05.120 any of them

00:19:05.440 and yeah

00:19:06.100 I'm all for Jews

00:19:07.400 defending themselves

00:19:08.100 in Israel

00:19:08.460 that's not a thing

00:19:09.340 but what you see

00:19:11.680 is in history

00:19:13.420 the anti-Semites

00:19:15.400 have traditionally

00:19:16.020 targeted the largest

00:19:17.160 collective of Jews

00:19:18.140 so that could have

00:19:19.560 been a cultural

00:19:20.240 collective of Jews

00:19:20.980 so in Europe

00:19:21.860 in the 20th

00:19:22.660 and 19th centuries

00:19:23.280 it was the Jews 0.97

00:19:24.060 are too culturally powerful 0.99

00:19:25.040 so we will target

00:19:25.740 quote unquote

00:19:26.460 Jewish culture

00:19:27.240 before that

00:19:27.960 it was Jews

00:19:28.440 as a religion

00:19:28.960 so we'll target

00:19:29.500 their synagogues 0.98

00:19:30.080 we'll target 0.99

00:19:30.440 Jewish religion 0.61

00:19:31.040 now the current

00:19:31.900 largest collection

00:19:32.900 of Jews

00:19:33.340 is in Israel

00:19:34.300 so Israel becomes 0.89

00:19:34.920 the focal point

00:19:35.580 of the hatred

00:19:36.020 and again

00:19:37.340 criticizing Israel

00:19:38.160 is one thing

00:19:38.520 but you're seeing

00:19:39.460 the left

00:19:40.120 embrace this argument

00:19:40.980 that if you

00:19:41.500 couch your anti-Semitism

00:19:42.420 in anti-Israel terms

00:19:43.400 that it's okay

00:19:43.900 so the most obvious

00:19:44.900 example was in Germany

00:19:45.760 a couple of years ago

00:19:46.580 there was a synagogue

00:19:47.160 that was burned down

00:19:48.060 and the two guys

00:19:49.760 who burned down

00:19:50.480 the synagogue 0.98

00:19:50.760 radical Muslims 0.65

00:19:51.620 they claimed 0.98

00:19:52.500 that they'd burned down

00:19:53.140 the synagogues 1.00

00:19:53.580 because they were

00:19:53.960 anti-Israel

00:19:54.580 and the court

00:19:55.260 found with them

00:19:55.920 the court found

00:19:56.700 that they had

00:19:57.020 burned the synagogues 1.00

00:19:57.860 because they were 0.75

00:19:58.320 anti-Zionist

00:19:59.020 not because they were

00:19:59.600 anti-Semitic

00:20:00.240 so again

00:20:01.640 that conflation

00:20:03.200 is pretty ugly

00:20:04.080 I don't want the whole

00:20:04.660 episode to become

00:20:05.360 about anti-Semitism

00:20:06.400 but I do have

00:20:06.780 one more question

00:20:07.320 can Jews be

00:20:09.160 anti-Semitic?

00:20:10.140 sure

00:20:10.280 oh yeah

00:20:10.820 of course

00:20:11.260 so one of the things

00:20:14.240 that I think people

00:20:15.660 need to pay attention

00:20:16.840 to is it was funny

00:20:17.940 I said listen

00:20:18.480 I'm an Orthodox Jew

00:20:19.300 I'm by definition

00:20:20.500 not an anti-Semite

00:20:21.520 and people are like

00:20:22.200 well isn't that

00:20:22.600 identity politics

00:20:23.340 no because there's

00:20:24.260 the word Orthodox

00:20:24.820 before Jew 1.00

00:20:25.540 meaning that I am a Jew

00:20:27.740 who believes in the

00:20:28.720 principles of Judaism

00:20:29.680 which means that I care

00:20:31.080 about Judaism

00:20:31.900 I care about Jews

00:20:33.100 like if Noam Chomsky

00:20:34.680 is a Jew

00:20:35.600 genetically he's a Jew

00:20:37.080 ethnically he's a Jew

00:20:38.180 does he care about Israel?

00:20:39.980 no

00:20:40.220 does he hate Israel?

00:20:41.220 absolutely

00:20:41.580 there are a bunch of

00:20:42.160 people who are like that

00:20:43.100 being an ethnic Jew

00:20:44.140 has no

00:20:44.580 I don't care about that

00:20:45.420 at all

00:20:45.640 I care more about

00:20:46.320 your principles

00:20:46.880 and the values

00:20:47.500 that you hold

00:20:48.020 so the fact that

00:20:49.180 I stand for what

00:20:49.700 I stand for

00:20:50.240 is the reason

00:20:50.620 I'm not anti-Semitic

00:20:51.360 not because I was born

00:20:52.120 to a Jewish mother

00:20:52.700 or something

00:20:53.120 well one of the

00:20:55.180 loudest megaphones

00:20:56.760 for anti-Semitic sentiments

00:20:58.080 has been the New York Times

00:20:59.220 and just recently

00:21:01.080 I mean I made a joke

00:21:02.300 earlier about their cartoon

00:21:03.340 but they were forced

00:21:04.020 to actually apologizing

00:21:05.220 for running a

00:21:06.820 a baldly anti-Semitic cartoon

00:21:08.600 but rewind a little bit further

00:21:10.900 go back to

00:21:12.080 to a year ago

00:21:13.020 when America opened

00:21:14.240 our embassy in Jerusalem

00:21:15.320 I was there in Jerusalem

00:21:16.360 that day

00:21:16.900 the next day

00:21:18.640 the New York Times

00:21:19.360 ran a front page story

00:21:20.560 the headline of which

00:21:22.300 and I'm paraphrasing

00:21:23.120 I don't remember it exactly

00:21:23.940 but it was essentially

00:21:24.900 Israeli military

00:21:27.580 shoots

00:21:28.260 a number of Palestinians

00:21:30.000 and what they omitted

00:21:31.300 from the article

00:21:32.020 and I read this article

00:21:32.920 on the Senate floor

00:21:33.620 excerpts from it

00:21:34.420 is that these

00:21:35.280 innocent Palestinians 1.00

00:21:36.960 who were shot

00:21:37.600 were Hamas terrorists

00:21:38.820 which Hamas admitted

00:21:40.200 on its own website

00:21:41.360 these were terrorists

00:21:42.620 who were flying kites

00:21:44.300 with swastikas on them

00:21:45.580 and they were flying kites

00:21:47.100 with gasoline bombs

00:21:48.600 over the wall

00:21:49.940 in Gaza 0.98

00:21:50.460 to bomb 0.95

00:21:51.680 within Israel

00:21:53.120 and the narrative

00:21:54.800 that the New York Times

00:21:55.820 tells us

00:21:56.780 for some

00:21:57.420 mysterious reason

00:21:59.680 these Israeli soldiers

00:22:01.000 shot these peaceful protesters

00:22:03.860 I'm sorry 0.95

00:22:04.460 terrorists seeking

00:22:05.520 to murder you 0.55

00:22:06.320 are not peaceful protesters

00:22:07.580 and when Ilhan Omar

00:22:08.600 made her comments

00:22:09.540 the New York Times

00:22:10.280 ran the headline

00:22:10.920 that she had reopened

00:22:12.220 the conversation

00:22:12.780 about whether Israel

00:22:13.460 was too powerful

00:22:14.180 I thought like

00:22:15.160 that's not the conversation

00:22:16.140 she's reopened

00:22:16.900 she has not made

00:22:19.800 Ilhan Omar's

00:22:20.780 a perfect example

00:22:21.360 she has yet to make

00:22:22.360 an actual criticism

00:22:23.040 of Israel

00:22:23.460 every criticism

00:22:24.660 that she has made

00:22:25.460 is not about Israel

00:22:26.520 she says that

00:22:27.360 not Israeli policy anyway

00:22:28.700 she says that Israel

00:22:29.360 basically buys power

00:22:30.680 in the United States

00:22:31.560 she suggests that

00:22:32.680 anybody who supports

00:22:33.960 Israel has dual loyalty

00:22:35.160 nothing she says

00:22:36.580 is a criticism

00:22:37.240 of anything that Israel

00:22:38.500 actually does

00:22:39.500 it's a criticism

00:22:40.400 of Israel

00:22:41.000 like if you replaced 0.96

00:22:41.700 Israel with Jews 0.99

00:22:42.320 in the sentence

00:22:42.740 it would mean

00:22:43.440 exactly the same thing

00:22:44.060 the nearest thing

00:22:44.620 to a direct criticism

00:22:45.900 of Israel she made 0.92

00:22:46.940 was Israel has hypnotized 0.83

00:22:49.680 the world

00:22:50.340 we pray that Allah

00:22:51.760 awaken people

00:22:52.740 to the evils of Israel 1.00

00:22:53.980 that is not the sort

00:22:54.940 of language you use

00:22:55.740 when you criticize

00:22:56.440 trade policy in Germany

00:22:58.160 that is not the sort

00:22:59.000 of language we would

00:22:59.960 apply to any other state

00:23:01.080 can I just broaden

00:23:02.140 the conversation

00:23:02.600 just a little bit though

00:23:03.420 I think there is

00:23:04.080 what we saw

00:23:04.800 in this EU election

00:23:06.140 there is a struggle

00:23:07.880 between people

00:23:08.700 between nationalists

00:23:09.740 people who believe

00:23:10.440 in countries

00:23:10.960 believe that their country

00:23:11.880 is good

00:23:12.380 would like to keep

00:23:13.100 and globalists

00:23:14.980 let's call them globalists

00:23:15.940 and the old cliche

00:23:17.840 about the Jews

00:23:18.700 was they were cosmopolitan

00:23:20.000 in a bad sense

00:23:20.700 of that word

00:23:21.240 meaning they didn't

00:23:22.120 have national loyalties

00:23:23.040 they had double loyalties

00:23:24.000 they wanted a global

00:23:25.380 world run on finance

00:23:27.800 because they were good

00:23:28.640 at that

00:23:28.900 they had traditionally

00:23:30.000 moved from place

00:23:31.040 to place

00:23:31.420 which made them

00:23:31.960 good at trade

00:23:32.540 and all these things

00:23:33.200 and we're actually

00:23:34.900 living in a moment

00:23:35.760 when some of those

00:23:37.680 old tropes

00:23:39.260 are on the table

00:23:39.960 but they're actually

00:23:40.540 not connected to Jews

00:23:41.580 I mean the Jews

00:23:42.860 as they were in Germany

00:23:44.920 and they are here

00:23:45.960 were the most patriotic

00:23:47.160 and loyal of Americans

00:23:48.560 we could possibly

00:23:49.360 ask for

00:23:50.440 and so when people

00:23:51.640 are saying

00:23:52.400 are putting forward

00:23:53.520 nationalism

00:23:54.060 they're not necessarily

00:23:55.160 putting forward

00:23:56.120 anti-Semitism

00:23:56.700 there was an article

00:23:58.460 attacking Orban

00:23:59.820 in Hungary

00:24:00.520 as an anti-Semite

00:24:01.700 and they really

00:24:02.100 couldn't come up

00:24:02.640 with an example

00:24:03.300 of anything truly

00:24:04.400 anti-Semitic

00:24:05.020 he had done

00:24:05.380 whereas the examples

00:24:06.240 of the pro-Jewish

00:24:07.620 stuff he has done

00:24:08.340 are all over the place

00:24:09.760 he's given a lot of money

00:24:10.600 to Jews

00:24:11.440 and Jews in Hungary

00:24:12.100 say they're safer

00:24:12.660 than anywhere else in Europe

00:24:13.540 the leading modern philosopher

00:24:15.440 and proponent of nationalism

00:24:16.620 is an Israeli philosopher

00:24:17.960 named Yoram Hazani

00:24:18.940 who wrote a book

00:24:19.540 called The Virtues of Nationalism

00:24:21.120 that seems to always

00:24:22.080 be left out

00:24:22.820 of the mainstream media coverage

00:24:24.260 over resurgent nationalism

00:24:26.540 versus globalism

00:24:28.740 but I mean

00:24:29.080 it does

00:24:29.600 for those of us

00:24:30.560 you know

00:24:31.080 who can at least

00:24:32.020 historically remember

00:24:33.220 you know

00:24:34.020 the 40s

00:24:34.960 I can't live

00:24:35.460 not in my living memory

00:24:36.620 but I can

00:24:37.000 there is a discomfort

00:24:38.900 I have

00:24:39.420 you know

00:24:39.640 with people

00:24:40.320 you know

00:24:40.860 it was a national

00:24:42.500 socialist movement

00:24:43.520 and it wasn't really

00:24:44.240 a socialist movement

00:24:45.020 no matter what

00:24:45.520 right-wingers like to say

00:24:46.460 no

00:24:46.860 but Hitler actually

00:24:47.860 redefined socialism

00:24:48.900 in Mein Kampf

00:24:49.520 to fit his own standards

00:24:50.980 it's a little disingenuous

00:24:51.620 and he was

00:24:52.040 he was an anti-Marxist 0.93

00:24:53.300 and he killed 0.76

00:24:54.400 the socialist

00:24:54.880 he was right-wing

00:24:55.300 by European standards

00:24:56.160 and left-wing by American standards 0.73

00:24:57.000 and he killed

00:24:57.960 the socialist wing

00:24:58.760 of the Nazi party

00:24:59.520 I mean basically

00:25:00.060 along with everybody else

00:25:01.480 but no

00:25:03.120 I mean

00:25:03.460 I think there is

00:25:04.220 this discomfort

00:25:04.900 because of that history

00:25:06.940 but really

00:25:07.580 I believe that

00:25:08.880 anti-Semitism

00:25:09.580 is detached

00:25:10.440 from the issues

00:25:11.800 of the day

00:25:12.320 I believe it is

00:25:13.120 a disease

00:25:14.160 in the human mind

00:25:15.200 and in the western mind

00:25:16.400 maybe specifically

00:25:17.300 that comes up

00:25:18.520 basically whenever

00:25:19.840 people get off track

00:25:21.000 whenever people

00:25:21.600 lose

00:25:22.400 the narrative

00:25:24.480 of freedom

00:25:25.160 and independence

00:25:26.380 and decency

00:25:27.640 that the west

00:25:28.080 represents

00:25:28.340 well I think decency

00:25:28.940 is the right word

00:25:29.420 but what seems to me

00:25:30.800 to happen

00:25:31.140 is just that

00:25:32.220 anti-Semitism

00:25:33.220 is such a shape-shifter

00:25:34.160 because it really is

00:25:34.780 just a giant conspiracy theory

00:25:35.920 so people rely on

00:25:37.660 conspiracy theories

00:25:38.340 when they're unhappy

00:25:39.020 when they feel like

00:25:39.880 their life is not

00:25:40.540 in their own control

00:25:41.320 and so for a variety

00:25:42.680 of reasons

00:25:43.040 a lot of people

00:25:44.000 are feeling that way

00:25:44.700 right now

00:25:45.160 and so they are

00:25:46.220 a lot of those people

00:25:47.520 are immediately going to

00:25:48.520 okay well there is

00:25:49.160 a grand conspiracy 0.96

00:25:49.840 and the Jews are behind it 1.00

00:25:50.800 so from the perspective

00:25:52.020 of the far right

00:25:52.600 the Jews are the globalists 0.99

00:25:53.600 and they're the George Soros's

00:25:54.680 and the Tom Steyer's

00:25:55.580 and the Bernie Sanders's

00:25:56.900 and then from the left

00:25:58.520 the Jews are the

00:25:59.500 ultra-nationalists 0.97

00:26:00.520 with the Israeli uniforms on

00:26:01.920 and then in the Muslim world

00:26:03.060 the Jews are the people

00:26:03.820 who are keeping everybody 1.00

00:26:04.580 down with their evil

00:26:05.380 little state 1.00

00:26:05.920 it's amazing how the Jews 1.00

00:26:07.300 shape-shift that way

00:26:08.200 really

00:26:08.540 and they do have

00:26:09.340 I mean because of the Bible 0.98

00:26:10.600 written by Jews

00:26:12.300 they do have this 0.89

00:26:13.740 tremendous psychological

00:26:14.900 and ethical

00:26:16.000 and spiritual influence

00:26:18.200 on the formation

00:26:19.240 of the West

00:26:20.420 and if you hate the West

00:26:21.600 there may be

00:26:23.540 and I think there's

00:26:24.040 an actual spiritual component

00:26:25.120 to it

00:26:25.380 we've talked about this before

00:26:26.480 but it's interesting to me

00:26:28.400 that you never meet

00:26:29.100 someone with mental illness

00:26:30.360 standing on a street corner 0.99

00:26:31.840 saying

00:26:32.360 I'm so happy

00:26:33.960 everything is going so well

00:26:35.900 you also never meet

00:26:36.980 someone standing

00:26:37.640 on the street corner

00:26:38.320 saying

00:26:38.680 the Jews are fabulous

00:26:40.600 look at all the great science

00:26:43.540 I don't have polio

00:26:45.820 I don't have polio

00:26:46.960 it's a strange connection

00:26:48.500 that's right

00:26:48.960 so we can't talk about

00:26:50.080 something other

00:26:50.580 than anti-Semitism

00:26:51.620 it seems like we ought to

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00:28:20.920 seriously

00:28:21.100 there's something

00:28:21.420 without any flattery

00:28:23.160 there's something

00:28:23.540 that's bothering me

00:28:24.260 as I'm sitting here

00:28:24.780 without any flattery

00:28:25.660 I think we can all say

00:28:26.360 that the people in this room

00:28:27.480 are great respecters

00:28:29.060 of Senator Cruz

00:28:29.740 we all

00:28:30.220 I think we all

00:28:30.860 supported him

00:28:31.380 I may have to dissent on that

00:28:32.900 okay with an exception

00:28:34.680 half of us did commercials

00:28:35.660 for Senator Cruz

00:28:36.180 if Senator Cruz

00:28:36.940 has descended to

00:28:37.960 hanging out with us 0.98

00:28:38.820 is our country screwed 0.99

00:28:39.920 yes 0.99

00:28:40.280 I'm Cuban Irish

00:28:45.120 and Italian

00:28:45.640 all you had to do

00:28:46.320 was offer me a good score

00:28:47.300 that makes me feel

00:28:49.040 a little better

00:28:49.560 Senator

00:28:50.880 while we have you here

00:28:53.180 you actually come up

00:28:54.140 on the show quite often

00:28:54.980 and the reason is because

00:28:56.620 I always on the show

00:28:57.800 point out that Ben

00:28:58.540 has many many many friends

00:29:00.040 in the United States Senate

00:29:01.720 and I have

00:29:02.520 I know one guy

00:29:03.780 I don't want to

00:29:05.980 call you out as a friend

00:29:07.760 on the air

00:29:08.160 but

00:29:08.300 I can feel your ratings

00:29:11.580 tanking

00:29:12.020 you're the only person

00:29:15.360 that I know

00:29:16.720 who has been through

00:29:17.740 the gauntlet

00:29:18.660 of running for national office

00:29:20.680 of running to be

00:29:21.220 president of the United States

00:29:22.160 what was it like?

00:29:24.920 Happy to tell you

00:29:25.640 but I gotta make a comment first

00:29:27.020 just because I was sitting here

00:29:28.260 listening

00:29:28.760 to the

00:29:30.740 product plugs

00:29:32.160 which is very cool

00:29:33.220 and I was thinking about

00:29:34.040 in the world of politics

00:29:35.380 we don't get to do that

00:29:36.480 and can you imagine

00:29:38.300 the democratic debates

00:29:39.980 with product plugs

00:29:41.200 just think about it

00:29:43.200 just think about Bernie Sanders

00:29:44.640 and let me stop

00:29:45.820 and embrace

00:29:46.440 Bolshevik tax collectors

00:29:48.020 we'll kick in your door

00:29:49.180 and take everything you own 0.97

00:29:50.860 and then a special cameo

00:29:52.940 from AOC

00:29:53.680 let me stop

00:29:54.800 and endorse

00:29:55.280 not Amazon

00:29:56.400 get the hell out of our house 1.00

00:29:58.080 I mean this is a whole

00:29:59.940 new territory

00:30:00.820 that you guys

00:30:01.920 are

00:30:02.140 are you too employed

00:30:03.520 well I've got a product

00:30:04.780 for you

00:30:05.320 not Amazon

00:30:06.880 is my favorite

00:30:07.500 new website

00:30:08.100 Joe Biden

00:30:10.420 for hair plugs

00:30:11.020 that's too real

00:30:12.920 too soon

00:30:13.660 too real

00:30:15.920 I heard Kim Jong

00:30:16.640 that's what Kim Jong

00:30:17.280 said

00:30:17.580 that's just what he said

00:30:18.940 hold on

00:30:19.260 that guy

00:30:19.580 that's what he said

00:30:20.040 I mean

00:30:20.280 and that guy's honest

00:30:21.140 I don't know about you

00:30:21.840 I believe that

00:30:22.840 you're a straight talker

00:30:23.660 if anything you're defending

00:30:24.420 Vice President Biden

00:30:25.280 that's exactly right

00:30:25.940 you should hear what he told me

00:30:27.020 in private Kim Jong

00:30:27.700 what he told me in private

00:30:28.740 is so much worse

00:30:29.360 than what I just conveyed to you

00:30:30.280 I'm just saying this

00:30:31.320 I will pay money

00:30:32.560 to see Bernie

00:30:33.960 make fun of Biden's hair

00:30:35.600 that'll never

00:30:37.900 that's such a win

00:30:38.660 actually

00:30:39.140 I feel a little bad

00:30:39.960 for Biden

00:30:40.400 because they're so good

00:30:41.920 at hair transplant surgery

00:30:43.000 now

00:30:43.600 it's all time

00:30:50.240 life is all time

00:30:54.160 and by the way

00:30:54.620 has anyone seen Joe Biden

00:30:55.640 in the last

00:30:56.260 no

00:30:56.740 no he's hidden

00:30:57.440 he said his campaign strategy

00:30:59.400 is not to campaign

00:31:00.160 which is my jogging strategy

00:31:01.300 you know

00:31:03.360 it is true

00:31:04.500 he's doing very well

00:31:05.240 in the polls

00:31:05.720 probably not a great sign

00:31:07.200 if your campaign strategy

00:31:08.340 is just hide

00:31:09.320 and hope it's over soon

00:31:10.500 I think that's the smartest thing

00:31:13.620 he could possibly be doing

00:31:14.500 what else can he do

00:31:15.460 well also because

00:31:16.200 like the clown car over there

00:31:17.560 they're just going to 0.98

00:31:17.960 beat the crap out of each other

00:31:18.940 and he's sitting over here 0.77

00:31:20.020 just ignoring them

00:31:21.060 I'm not sure I agree

00:31:21.840 it almost never works

00:31:23.360 to hold your fire in politics

00:31:24.620 correct me if I'm wrong

00:31:25.860 to sit things out

00:31:27.120 and actually let me push back

00:31:27.560 for a second

00:31:28.060 on them beating each other up

00:31:30.560 I think there's a possibility

00:31:32.320 that the democratic debates

00:31:34.000 are going to be the most boring

00:31:34.940 things on earth

00:31:35.720 because they're not attacking each other

00:31:37.980 they're unified by one thing

00:31:39.500 they hate Donald Trump

00:31:40.680 and the debates are liable

00:31:42.200 to be one person saying

00:31:43.160 I hate Donald Trump

00:31:44.000 and the next person 0.98

00:31:44.420 I really really hate Donald Trump

00:31:46.800 and it's just

00:31:47.880 after a while

00:31:49.380 look I mean

00:31:50.100 you know

00:31:50.820 you talked about

00:31:51.460 the 2016 campaign

00:31:52.760 listen on the republican side

00:31:53.960 we had our fireworks

00:31:54.980 I mean

00:31:55.360 let me tell you

00:31:58.380 I was standing

00:31:59.320 on that debate stage

00:32:00.500 next to Chris Christie

00:32:01.480 in New Hampshire

00:32:02.620 when he unloaded on Marco

00:32:04.880 and I got to say

00:32:06.000 that was a moment

00:32:06.840 on that stage

00:32:07.760 where all the rest of us

00:32:09.160 I was just like

00:32:09.720 let me read back here

00:32:10.520 and read my paper

00:32:11.220 you go on ahead

00:32:12.940 and you know

00:32:14.440 it's not often

00:32:15.080 that you're a witness

00:32:15.640 to an actual political murder

00:32:16.800 suicide

00:32:17.260 taking place

00:32:17.980 on the stage

00:32:18.600 right before you

00:32:19.520 I mean

00:32:19.900 it

00:32:20.180 I don't know

00:32:21.560 that we'll see that

00:32:22.180 on the democratic side

00:32:23.040 that's possible

00:32:23.760 although I don't think

00:32:25.240 that Kamala Harris

00:32:25.980 and Cory Booker

00:32:26.540 are going to be able

00:32:26.940 to hold their fire

00:32:27.540 too much longer

00:32:28.120 I think that

00:32:29.040 they understand

00:32:29.580 that Biden has 60%

00:32:30.760 or what is it

00:32:31.640 40% of all black voters

00:32:33.100 right now

00:32:33.540 are supporting Biden

00:32:34.640 so I

00:32:35.460 if Kamala wants 1.00

00:32:36.600 to win the nomination

00:32:37.240 she's going to have 0.99

00:32:37.920 to open fire on him here 0.96

00:32:38.940 at some point 0.98

00:32:40.000 I wouldn't be surprised

00:32:41.820 to see Buttigieg

00:32:42.320 open on Biden

00:32:43.340 pretty soon

00:32:43.900 on the gay marriage stuff

00:32:44.800 because he voted for DOMA

00:32:45.880 Biden did

00:32:46.640 but if you're Biden

00:32:48.100 honestly the worst thing

00:32:49.260 you can do 0.60

00:32:49.620 gay marriage is probably 1.00

00:32:50.540 legal in the country today

00:32:51.600 because of Joe Biden

00:32:52.400 I mean it's going

00:32:53.480 to be hard

00:32:53.780 he was the first one

00:32:54.620 who came out

00:32:55.240 and said right

00:32:55.820 the cascade

00:32:56.320 the cascade happens

00:32:57.480 I mean yeah

00:32:58.500 the smartest thing

00:33:00.020 that he can do

00:33:00.480 is just let them

00:33:01.140 all whine about him

00:33:02.000 and then just sit out

00:33:03.700 and do nothing

00:33:04.060 because the more he talks

00:33:04.820 the more gaffes he makes

00:33:05.700 and if he just hides

00:33:07.980 all the others

00:33:09.180 are so desperate

00:33:09.780 for attention

00:33:10.320 I just don't see them

00:33:11.980 touching him really

00:33:12.860 like unless the media

00:33:14.240 please don't talk

00:33:15.020 about touching Joe Biden

00:33:15.940 he likes it

00:33:19.140 alright I'm going to make

00:33:20.240 a confession right here

00:33:21.300 I think I am probably

00:33:23.640 the only person

00:33:24.460 in this room

00:33:25.080 who has been

00:33:26.240 on the receiving ends

00:33:27.460 of a Joe Biden back rub

00:33:28.740 oh wow

00:33:30.100 you do have very nice hair

00:33:31.680 Senator

00:33:31.900 I have to say

00:33:33.240 so this is

00:33:34.940 how is that

00:33:35.320 2013

00:33:35.920 2013

00:33:36.880 I'm newly elected

00:33:38.420 to the Senate

00:33:38.920 and the Democrats

00:33:40.320 are making a big push

00:33:41.400 for gun control

00:33:42.040 and they're going

00:33:43.940 all in on gun control

00:33:45.380 and I'm a brand new

00:33:46.360 freshman trying to fight

00:33:47.420 to defend the second amendment

00:33:48.440 we beat them all back

00:33:49.620 and defeated those efforts

00:33:50.880 but if you remember

00:33:52.240 one of the provisions

00:33:53.640 there was the

00:33:54.240 Manchin-Toomey provision

00:33:55.200 that was expanding

00:33:57.100 I do not

00:33:57.460 yeah

00:33:57.760 but I will nod

00:34:00.120 as if I know

00:34:00.600 what you're talking about

00:34:01.100 it was expanding

00:34:03.300 background checks

00:34:04.600 to

00:34:04.940 transactions

00:34:06.480 between private individuals

00:34:08.580 to it would have

00:34:09.280 extended

00:34:09.760 that if a grandfather

00:34:10.940 gives his grandson

00:34:12.080 a shotgun

00:34:13.600 for Christmas

00:34:14.440 that the grandfather

00:34:15.520 has to go

00:34:16.100 and run a background check

00:34:17.060 and so a number of us

00:34:18.220 opposed that

00:34:18.640 and we defeated it

00:34:19.320 and I was on the Senate floor

00:34:21.320 and I went to Joe Manchin

00:34:24.220 who is a really

00:34:25.580 everyone likes Joe

00:34:26.360 he's a really nice guy

00:34:27.360 and I went over to Joe

00:34:29.120 on the Democratic side

00:34:30.160 of the floor

00:34:30.480 and I said Joe

00:34:30.980 I just wanted to say

00:34:31.660 thank you for how

00:34:32.620 you conducted this debate

00:34:33.620 because you know

00:34:34.020 Manchin didn't get personal

00:34:35.080 he didn't get nasty

00:34:35.860 he argued for the policy

00:34:36.980 I disagreed with the policy

00:34:38.020 but he did it

00:34:38.820 in an honorable

00:34:39.520 and principled way

00:34:40.220 yeah

00:34:40.440 so Biden was there

00:34:42.360 as vice president

00:34:43.720 because he was prepared

00:34:45.220 to gavel in

00:34:46.200 this historic

00:34:46.960 gun control provision

00:34:48.020 and it ended up

00:34:48.860 getting beaten badly

00:34:49.640 and

00:34:50.800 I like the story

00:34:52.520 Biden came around

00:34:53.860 to the Senate floor

00:34:55.220 I'm talking to Joe

00:34:56.780 on the Democratic side

00:34:57.720 and Biden comes behind me

00:34:59.320 and he puts both hands

00:35:00.400 on my shoulders

00:35:01.160 and begins rubbing

00:35:02.720 my shoulders

00:35:03.280 and kind of rocking

00:35:04.140 back and forth

00:35:05.100 and I'm kind of like

00:35:07.240 this is the Senate

00:35:07.720 dude what

00:35:08.760 like

00:35:09.160 and he turns to Manchin

00:35:12.720 and he says

00:35:13.140 you know

00:35:13.500 there's nothing worse

00:35:15.120 than a smart Republican

00:35:17.020 and I'm just kind of like

00:35:21.180 I'm not usually

00:35:23.480 at a loss for words

00:35:24.460 I'll admit

00:35:24.980 I had nothing to say

00:35:26.680 and was really hoping

00:35:27.920 someone would distract

00:35:28.720 the vice president

00:35:29.340 then you accidentally

00:35:30.080 voted for the bill

00:35:31.200 all right I give in

00:35:34.060 piercing eyes

00:35:36.320 he just got lost

00:35:38.180 although actually

00:35:38.740 to Biden's credit

00:35:39.700 Biden is a charming

00:35:41.060 and funny guy

00:35:41.760 his policies are terrible

00:35:43.380 but he

00:35:44.640 everybody likes him

00:35:45.940 yeah so that's

00:35:46.600 an interesting thing

00:35:47.220 you're running for

00:35:48.560 president

00:35:49.680 and you're running

00:35:51.120 against guys

00:35:51.700 who are your colleagues

00:35:52.560 guys who are

00:35:53.220 who I assume

00:35:55.200 you're friendly with

00:35:55.840 at least on some level

00:35:56.600 you have a

00:35:57.000 and I'm sure it's the same

00:35:58.000 when you run against

00:35:59.020 you know

00:35:59.700 when you run against

00:36:00.800 certain Democrats

00:36:01.340 but probably more pronounced

00:36:02.920 when you're running

00:36:03.260 against Republicans

00:36:03.860 and you have to

00:36:05.740 defeat each other

00:36:06.520 you have to

00:36:07.260 highlight each other's

00:36:08.500 weaknesses

00:36:08.800 you have to highlight

00:36:09.460 each other's flaws

00:36:10.280 how do you survive

00:36:12.200 that on a personal level

00:36:13.100 how do you recover

00:36:13.740 those relationships

00:36:14.900 I mean

00:36:15.340 from all

00:36:17.140 outside

00:36:18.240 what's possible

00:36:18.940 for us to observe

00:36:19.500 from the outside

00:36:20.160 you have a very good

00:36:21.420 working relationship

00:36:22.140 with the president

00:36:22.760 yeah

00:36:23.100 and talk about

00:36:25.020 some slings and arrows

00:36:26.480 that came your way

00:36:28.060 no I didn't notice

00:36:29.140 no

00:36:29.520 I'm like with Donald

00:36:32.000 yeah

00:36:32.340 listen I think

00:36:33.740 that he was just

00:36:34.120 afraid of your father

00:36:35.060 if I win this

00:36:37.240 okay

00:36:37.480 so I will say

00:36:38.420 I will say

00:36:39.640 at the Republican

00:36:40.280 convention

00:36:40.840 in the summer

00:36:41.400 of 16

00:36:42.220 I did ask

00:36:43.160 more than a few

00:36:43.780 secret service agents

00:36:44.820 so how is

00:36:47.020 my father was a delegate

00:36:47.800 from Texas

00:36:48.300 and I said

00:36:48.720 how is it

00:36:49.340 that you let

00:36:49.920 into this convention

00:36:50.940 someone who's

00:36:52.140 already taken out

00:36:52.860 one person

00:36:53.300 and this guy knows

00:36:56.140 but how does

00:36:58.720 one absorb

00:36:59.500 that

00:37:00.800 and still maintain

00:37:01.700 your humanity

00:37:02.340 and also maintain

00:37:03.640 your ability

00:37:05.940 to work with

00:37:06.560 the people across

00:37:07.200 from you

00:37:07.480 or get along

00:37:08.100 with the people

00:37:08.460 across from you

00:37:09.120 oh look

00:37:09.640 part of it

00:37:10.140 is you gotta

00:37:10.480 have a sense

00:37:10.880 of humor

00:37:11.240 don't take

00:37:12.380 life so seriously

00:37:13.420 it's one of the

00:37:14.020 worst things

00:37:14.540 about the left

00:37:15.260 is that everything 0.92

00:37:16.800 is so damn

00:37:17.980 serious

00:37:18.500 you know

00:37:20.120 there's an old joke

00:37:20.860 how many radical

00:37:21.520 leftists does it 0.81

00:37:22.280 take to screw

00:37:22.760 in a light bulb

00:37:23.280 how many

00:37:24.040 that's not funny

00:37:24.940 like guys

00:37:28.000 just relax

00:37:29.220 like let it go

00:37:31.180 and so

00:37:32.140 you know

00:37:32.480 this is a contact

00:37:33.360 sport

00:37:33.880 and I'll

00:37:35.740 give an example

00:37:36.820 in 2016

00:37:39.420 Lindsey Graham

00:37:40.160 my colleague

00:37:40.760 publicly said 0.99

00:37:42.260 if you killed me 1.00

00:37:42.960 on the floor 1.00

00:37:43.380 of the senate

00:37:43.860 that no one

00:37:44.820 would convict me

00:37:45.580 and that

00:37:45.960 by the way

00:37:47.260 it is true

00:37:47.740 for any newspaper

00:37:48.580 reporter

00:37:49.040 if you're writing

00:37:49.500 any story about me

00:37:50.400 it's obligatory

00:37:51.020 you quote that

00:37:51.660 Lindsey Graham

00:37:52.140 that is in every story

00:37:53.620 I think the editors

00:37:54.700 put it in there

00:37:55.340 well fast forward

00:37:57.080 after Lindsey dropped out

00:37:58.160 Lindsey endorsed me

00:37:58.880 in the campaign

00:37:59.380 and as I said

00:38:01.760 when Lindsey endorsed me

00:38:02.700 I said you know what

00:38:03.280 this is the first time

00:38:04.800 in my life

00:38:05.400 I've ever been endorsed

00:38:06.600 by someone

00:38:07.380 who's publicly called

00:38:08.120 for my murder

00:38:08.600 I never understood

00:38:11.160 that line

00:38:11.840 from Senator Graham

00:38:12.900 because everyone's

00:38:14.120 running in the race

00:38:14.880 and they say

00:38:15.300 Washington is broken 0.98

00:38:16.520 everyone here is a crook 1.00

00:38:18.020 and a rat 1.00

00:38:18.520 and a liar 1.00

00:38:19.080 and they all hate 1.00

00:38:20.120 Ted Cruz

00:38:20.780 sounds like

00:38:23.180 sort of an endorsement

00:38:23.960 maybe he endorsed you

00:38:24.660 in that debate

00:38:25.060 there you go

00:38:25.680 so

00:38:27.520 thick skin

00:38:29.100 you laugh

00:38:31.380 and you remember

00:38:31.920 what you're doing

00:38:32.520 you remember

00:38:32.900 why you're doing it

00:38:33.860 there seems to be

00:38:34.380 tremendous pressure

00:38:35.180 from the people

00:38:36.020 for you to hate each other

00:38:37.040 the people don't like it

00:38:38.080 when you're convivial

00:38:38.860 with the opposition

00:38:39.760 well we've become

00:38:41.400 so polarized

00:38:42.100 there's no

00:38:43.920 middle ground

00:38:45.840 on humanity

00:38:46.620 everyone is

00:38:47.880 evil

00:38:49.420 I mean look

00:38:50.260 Jim Carrey

00:38:51.420 recently painted

00:38:52.400 I mean he paints

00:38:54.040 lots of 0.53

00:38:54.720 pretty wretched paintings

00:38:55.920 but this latest one

00:38:57.320 of the governor

00:38:59.060 of Alabama

00:38:59.640 Kay Ivey

00:39:00.520 he painted her

00:39:02.060 as an unborn child

00:39:03.340 being aborted

00:39:04.160 and he's reveling 0.75

00:39:05.540 in this

00:39:06.080 I mean that's a level

00:39:08.240 of just

00:39:09.320 hatred 0.99

00:39:10.840 he's mentally ill 0.98

00:39:11.780 though 1.00

00:39:12.000 that

00:39:12.260 you know

00:39:14.180 and I engaged

00:39:14.880 with him on Twitter

00:39:15.500 and I said

00:39:15.860 listen I disagree

00:39:16.640 with Jim Carrey's

00:39:17.380 politics

00:39:17.860 but I'm going to

00:39:19.160 treat him with decency

00:39:20.360 and respect his humanity

00:39:21.520 you know

00:39:22.840 but

00:39:23.060 the left

00:39:25.240 in a lot

00:39:27.160 of ways

00:39:27.680 Donald Trump

00:39:28.300 broke the

00:39:28.780 Democratic Party

00:39:29.500 they hate him

00:39:31.120 so much

00:39:31.800 that they've

00:39:32.280 unleashed

00:39:32.860 just this

00:39:33.560 this rage

00:39:35.200 that blinds

00:39:36.440 everything else

00:39:37.280 we've got to

00:39:39.540 get past that

00:39:40.240 as a country

00:39:40.700 I was happy

00:39:41.600 that Kerry

00:39:42.240 painted that

00:39:42.780 thing

00:39:43.240 okay Ivy

00:39:43.840 not only because

00:39:44.400 it demonstrated

00:39:45.060 the animus

00:39:45.540 but also because

00:39:46.080 it's the first time

00:39:46.680 a Democrat

00:39:47.080 actually apparently

00:39:48.360 understands

00:39:48.900 what an abortion 1.00

00:39:49.380 is

00:39:49.620 at least they're

00:39:52.220 being honest

00:39:52.740 about what this

00:39:53.240 is now

00:39:53.560 okay

00:39:53.840 and more broadly

00:39:55.040 you say the

00:39:55.900 president has

00:39:56.500 broken the

00:39:57.340 Democrat Party

00:39:57.920 I think that's

00:39:58.320 probably true

00:39:58.900 he has made

00:40:00.040 them in a very

00:40:00.580 perverse way

00:40:01.380 much more honest

00:40:02.780 not just Jim Carrey

00:40:03.880 but nobody's

00:40:04.660 talking about

00:40:05.140 safe legal

00:40:05.640 and rare anymore

00:40:06.420 they're saying

00:40:07.000 safe and legal

00:40:08.380 until three days

00:40:09.800 after birth

00:40:10.480 even the press

00:40:11.520 isn't pretending

00:40:12.020 to be objective

00:40:12.600 anymore

00:40:12.960 he actually has

00:40:14.000 brought everybody

00:40:14.500 out of the bushes

00:40:15.000 we'll find out

00:40:16.520 if the breaking

00:40:16.980 is good or not

00:40:17.820 because

00:40:18.560 there is something

00:40:19.920 to the patina

00:40:20.540 of civility

00:40:21.200 and legitimacy

00:40:22.200 and it's

00:40:22.960 because people

00:40:24.220 are now openly

00:40:25.100 doing this sort

00:40:25.940 of stuff

00:40:26.300 it has ratcheted

00:40:27.580 things up to

00:40:28.100 such an extent

00:40:28.700 that I guess

00:40:29.960 the Overton

00:40:30.380 window for

00:40:30.920 civility

00:40:31.280 used to be

00:40:31.780 here

00:40:32.060 and now

00:40:32.480 since there

00:40:32.960 is no

00:40:33.380 civility

00:40:34.140 I agree

00:40:35.260 with that

00:40:35.520 I'm not in

00:40:36.580 favor of

00:40:36.840 civility

00:40:37.200 just as a

00:40:37.780 general

00:40:37.960 I want people

00:40:38.880 to speak

00:40:39.180 passionately

00:40:39.640 but the

00:40:39.900 character

00:40:40.340 attacks

00:40:40.680 are so

00:40:41.200 brutal

00:40:42.040 at this

00:40:42.360 point

00:40:42.560 my problem

00:40:42.880 is that

00:40:43.560 it's not

00:40:44.100 as if

00:40:44.440 the left

00:40:44.820 up until

00:40:45.280 this moment

00:40:45.740 was being

00:40:46.120 great

00:40:46.420 we're saying

00:40:47.260 we want to 0.99

00:40:48.020 put black 1.00

00:40:48.400 people back 1.00

00:40:48.900 in chains

00:40:49.700 and all

00:40:50.020 this

00:40:50.220 and they

00:40:50.680 had that

00:40:51.660 rhetoric

00:40:52.120 backed up

00:40:53.440 by the

00:40:53.740 news media

00:40:54.240 this enormous

00:40:55.160 enormous

00:40:55.760 institution

00:40:56.620 that was

00:40:57.080 all on one

00:40:57.760 side

00:40:58.040 and all

00:40:58.660 Trump has

00:40:59.040 done is

00:40:59.300 bring it

00:40:59.580 into the

00:40:59.880 open

00:41:00.080 I think

00:41:00.700 I give him

00:41:01.440 a pass

00:41:01.800 on this

00:41:02.060 I hate

00:41:03.020 the rudeness

00:41:03.540 I hate

00:41:04.060 the boorishness

00:41:04.700 I really do

00:41:05.340 but at the

00:41:06.060 same time

00:41:06.540 I can't

00:41:07.500 blame him

00:41:08.220 for simply

00:41:09.060 as with

00:41:10.020 China

00:41:10.400 he's

00:41:10.920 simply

00:41:11.140 bringing

00:41:12.580 out

00:41:12.880 what was

00:41:13.180 already

00:41:13.440 there

00:41:13.760 so

00:41:14.260 Ben

00:41:16.900 has

00:41:17.080 promised

00:41:17.640 a

00:41:17.820 Game

00:41:17.960 of

00:41:18.100 Thrones

00:41:18.380 review

00:41:18.660 and I

00:41:19.720 just want

00:41:19.960 to bring

00:41:20.180 that up

00:41:20.540 one more

00:41:20.940 time

00:41:21.120 obviously

00:41:23.540 we'll go

00:41:24.020 right over

00:41:24.460 first we have

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00:42:39.940 up too much 0.87

00:42:40.580 but look

00:42:42.200 one of the

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00:42:51.280 amazement

00:42:51.820 do you know

00:42:52.740 Ben Shapiro

00:42:53.460 I really was

00:42:55.220 hoping he was

00:42:55.640 going to say

00:42:55.900 do you know

00:42:56.200 Ben Shapiro

00:42:56.460 I mean

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00:42:59.900 nobody else

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00:43:02.100 you know

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00:43:04.880 do you know

00:43:05.720 Ben Shapiro

00:43:06.380 now I do

00:43:07.200 tell him

00:43:07.620 actually no

00:43:08.440 he's a robot

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00:43:19.420 Alicia do you

00:43:19.940 have something

00:43:20.200 to kick us off

00:43:20.840 yeah I sure

00:43:21.440 do and I

00:43:21.920 want to remind

00:43:22.400 people that

00:43:22.960 the God King

00:43:23.500 did promise me

00:43:24.360 off air but

00:43:25.100 some of the

00:43:25.420 producers overheard

00:43:26.260 it that if we

00:43:26.900 get more

00:43:27.260 subscribers tonight

00:43:28.140 when this baby's

00:43:29.080 born I'll get a

00:43:29.660 bonus

00:43:30.020 what I said

00:43:32.220 is

00:43:32.580 listen I'm just

00:43:36.400 trying to be

00:43:36.800 fruitful and

00:43:37.340 multiply in this

00:43:38.220 very liberal state

00:43:39.040 of California

00:43:39.680 you guys got to

00:43:40.620 help me out

00:43:41.240 God bless you

00:43:42.280 and please name

00:43:42.980 her Jeremina

00:43:43.780 not on the

00:43:45.760 short list

00:43:46.140 this question is

00:43:48.280 for Senator Cruz

00:43:49.140 from a Daily Wire

00:43:49.900 subscriber named

00:43:50.660 Robert he wants

00:43:51.580 to know what do

00:43:52.580 you think the

00:43:52.980 chances are that

00:43:53.760 the recent pro-life

00:43:54.760 bills in different

00:43:55.580 states across the

00:43:56.300 country are able

00:43:57.280 to hold up in the

00:43:58.060 courts

00:43:58.400 you know I

00:44:00.240 think it depends

00:44:00.940 I'm glad to see

00:44:02.260 states that are

00:44:03.300 acting to defend

00:44:04.320 life and there's

00:44:05.980 a debate in the

00:44:06.540 pro-life community

00:44:07.260 does it make sense

00:44:08.920 to defend life

00:44:10.380 and to do it in

00:44:11.720 an incremental

00:44:12.280 way focusing on

00:44:13.620 initially some of

00:44:14.640 the more egregious

00:44:15.640 practices like

00:44:16.560 late term abortions

00:44:17.820 like requiring

00:44:20.100 parental consent

00:44:20.940 so that you know

00:44:21.780 a teenager needs

00:44:22.920 consent to get a

00:44:23.700 tattoo but not

00:44:24.940 to end the life

00:44:25.600 of her unborn

00:44:26.080 child I think

00:44:26.860 there's a lot to

00:44:28.000 be said for an

00:44:28.660 incremental battle

00:44:29.480 I think that's

00:44:30.060 part of why

00:44:30.780 we're winning

00:44:31.340 the battle of

00:44:33.100 public opinion

00:44:33.700 you look at

00:44:34.200 young people

00:44:34.700 that are more

00:44:35.180 pro-life today

00:44:36.000 than they've been

00:44:37.240 in a long long

00:44:38.180 time on the

00:44:39.620 other hand

00:44:40.000 there are others

00:44:40.400 who say you

00:44:41.240 know go for

00:44:42.280 legislation that

00:44:44.140 that is is a

00:44:45.840 direct direct

00:44:47.460 assault on a row

00:44:48.560 you know one of

00:44:49.520 the virtues of a

00:44:50.800 multiplicity of

00:44:51.560 strategies is the

00:44:52.700 way the Supreme

00:44:53.340 Court takes

00:44:53.940 appeals every year

00:44:56.200 the Supreme

00:44:56.680 Court's appeals

00:44:57.420 are discretionary

00:44:58.700 and the court

00:44:59.540 decides what

00:45:00.280 cases to take

00:45:00.980 so every year

00:45:02.400 the court will

00:45:03.220 get roughly

00:45:03.900 8,000 what are

00:45:05.720 called petitions

00:45:06.460 for certiorari

00:45:07.220 which are just

00:45:07.780 requests for the

00:45:08.980 court to take

00:45:09.560 take a case

00:45:10.160 and those come

00:45:10.800 typically either

00:45:11.880 from federal

00:45:12.360 courts of appeals

00:45:13.060 or state

00:45:13.460 Supreme Courts

00:45:14.200 these laws

00:45:15.360 particularly the

00:45:16.160 broader laws

00:45:16.900 are all going to

00:45:17.620 be struck down

00:45:18.200 in the lower

00:45:18.540 courts because

00:45:19.000 they're contrary

00:45:19.520 to Supreme

00:45:19.920 Court precedent

00:45:20.460 so it will be

00:45:20.980 up to the

00:45:21.400 Supreme Court

00:45:21.960 if and when

00:45:23.300 it chooses to

00:45:23.880 overturn it

00:45:24.500 but the court

00:45:25.560 out of those

00:45:26.060 8,000 cert

00:45:27.320 petitions

00:45:27.820 they take

00:45:28.380 typically about

00:45:29.140 80 a year

00:45:29.860 so about 1%

00:45:30.800 which means

00:45:32.380 that the justices

00:45:33.160 will make the

00:45:33.640 decision

00:45:34.000 do they want

00:45:34.540 to take

00:45:34.880 an incremental

00:45:35.340 case

00:45:35.800 or do they

00:45:36.160 want to take

00:45:36.820 a whole

00:45:37.980 scale challenge

00:45:39.720 and I'm

00:45:40.920 perfectly fine

00:45:41.780 with having

00:45:42.240 a multiplicity

00:45:43.200 of cases

00:45:44.340 for the justices

00:45:45.140 to choose

00:45:45.680 and any four

00:45:46.620 justices

00:45:47.260 can choose

00:45:48.600 to grant

00:45:49.000 cert

00:45:49.240 and so I'm

00:45:49.740 sure we will

00:45:50.280 see some

00:45:51.640 of these cases

00:45:52.240 make it to

00:45:52.720 the court

00:45:53.100 in time

00:45:53.680 I don't know

00:45:54.040 when they'll

00:45:54.380 take it

00:45:54.700 in the event

00:45:55.720 that Roe 0.87

00:45:56.180 were overturned

00:45:57.420 would that

00:45:57.840 hurt the

00:45:58.480 Republican Party

00:45:59.520 in elections

00:46:00.660 well one of the

00:46:03.780 things that's

00:46:04.220 worth understanding

00:46:05.120 on that

00:46:05.440 that a lot of

00:46:06.000 people the media

00:46:06.480 never tells you

00:46:07.280 if Roe vs. Wade

00:46:08.700 were overturned

00:46:09.860 it wouldn't

00:46:10.340 make abortion

00:46:10.920 illegal

00:46:11.220 the law in

00:46:13.100 this country

00:46:13.600 for 200 years

00:46:14.520 is that abortion

00:46:15.160 was a question

00:46:15.720 for the states

00:46:16.300 and different

00:46:17.100 states had

00:46:17.640 different standards

00:46:18.360 if Roe

00:46:19.240 were overturned

00:46:20.020 you'd have

00:46:20.320 50 states

00:46:20.940 and you'd have

00:46:21.260 50 different

00:46:21.760 standards

00:46:22.140 and nobody

00:46:23.120 thinks for example

00:46:24.200 the legislature

00:46:24.780 in California

00:46:25.580 is going to

00:46:26.040 vote anytime

00:46:26.480 soon

00:46:27.060 to prohibit

00:46:28.260 abortion

00:46:28.580 or even

00:46:29.180 in all likelihood

00:46:29.960 to restrict

00:46:30.540 it in any

00:46:30.860 meaningful way

00:46:31.400 part of the

00:46:33.260 virtue of

00:46:33.880 federalism

00:46:34.420 you know

00:46:35.180 Supreme Court

00:46:35.640 Justice Louis

00:46:36.260 Brandeis

00:46:36.780 referred to

00:46:37.480 laboratories

00:46:38.040 of democracy

00:46:38.880 50 states

00:46:39.780 is you'd see

00:46:40.840 50 different

00:46:41.920 standards

00:46:42.360 and people

00:46:42.780 could vote

00:46:43.200 with their feet

00:46:43.780 and they could

00:46:44.520 vote with their

00:46:45.020 values

00:46:45.480 and I think

00:46:46.080 abortion

00:46:46.480 would be

00:46:47.680 a far less

00:46:48.800 divisive

00:46:49.760 cultural

00:46:50.420 hot button

00:46:51.080 issue

00:46:51.440 if we'd

00:46:52.780 left it

00:46:53.160 to the

00:46:53.380 legislative

00:46:53.820 process

00:46:54.420 rather than

00:46:55.020 the Supreme

00:46:55.380 Court

00:46:55.660 in 1973

00:46:56.500 saying

00:46:57.240 you the

00:46:58.040 people

00:46:58.320 have no

00:46:58.740 right to

00:46:59.140 decide

00:46:59.480 on these

00:46:59.840 questions

00:47:00.300 we're taking

00:47:01.100 it out of

00:47:01.400 your hands

00:47:01.700 I think

00:47:02.280 our present

00:47:02.680 divisions

00:47:03.060 a lot of

00:47:03.900 it stemmed

00:47:04.280 from Roe v. Wade

00:47:04.920 a lot of

00:47:05.380 it stems

00:47:05.720 from the idea

00:47:06.260 that the

00:47:07.060 courts are going

00:47:08.200 to tell us

00:47:08.880 that we can't

00:47:09.720 decide these

00:47:10.200 things in our

00:47:10.580 states

00:47:10.860 there were states

00:47:11.000 already liberalizing

00:47:11.780 abortion law

00:47:12.300 before 1973

00:47:13.000 obviously

00:47:13.720 and the truth

00:47:14.760 is that on

00:47:15.320 a national level

00:47:15.960 in order for

00:47:16.640 anything to be

00:47:17.080 done by pro-lifers

00:47:17.820 you'd need

00:47:18.100 a constitutional

00:47:18.720 amendment

00:47:19.060 which is

00:47:19.780 something

00:47:19.980 basically

00:47:20.400 everybody

00:47:20.800 acknowledges

00:47:21.440 and also

00:47:21.960 is probably

00:47:22.420 not on the

00:47:23.020 table formally

00:47:23.560 at this point

00:47:24.080 as far as

00:47:25.060 the strategy

00:47:25.460 I've been

00:47:25.740 saying for a

00:47:26.120 long time

00:47:26.380 I think

00:47:26.600 it is highly

00:47:27.020 doubtful

00:47:27.440 that a

00:47:27.700 Roberts

00:47:27.960 Kavanaugh

00:47:28.340 swing on

00:47:28.780 the court

00:47:29.140 is in the

00:47:29.860 mood

00:47:30.000 to overrule

00:47:30.500 Roe

00:47:30.800 I think

00:47:31.140 that is

00:47:31.360 a wild

00:47:32.000 overreach

00:47:32.600 by not

00:47:33.420 pro-lifers

00:47:33.940 but I think

00:47:34.300 that anybody

00:47:34.760 who thinks

00:47:35.440 that because

00:47:36.120 Republicans

00:47:36.720 have appointed

00:47:37.280 five of the

00:47:38.200 justices on

00:47:38.760 the Supreme

00:47:39.080 Court

00:47:39.380 that that means

00:47:40.120 there's a

00:47:40.440 majority

00:47:40.680 to overrule

00:47:41.180 Roe

00:47:41.360 I don't even

00:47:41.760 think

00:47:41.920 there's a

00:47:42.160 majority

00:47:42.420 to restrict

00:47:42.860 Casey

00:47:43.220 which is

00:47:45.240 the secondary

00:47:45.740 case

00:47:46.100 that sort

00:47:46.680 of

00:47:46.840 pairs

00:47:47.300 back

00:47:47.700 Roe

00:47:47.960 a little

00:47:48.200 bit

00:47:48.360 and

00:47:48.480 creates

00:47:48.720 what's

00:47:48.940 called

00:47:49.060 the

00:47:49.180 undue

00:47:49.440 burden

00:47:49.660 standard

00:47:50.160 essentially

00:47:51.220 arguing

00:47:51.700 that

00:47:52.000 the states

00:47:52.660 are not

00:47:52.880 allowed

00:47:53.040 to unduly

00:47:53.620 burden

00:47:53.980 a woman's 0.56

00:47:54.440 ability

00:47:54.740 to get

00:47:55.020 an abortion

00:47:55.420 that's been

00:47:55.800 used

00:47:56.040 to

00:47:56.600 uphold

00:47:57.000 restrictions

00:47:58.240 on abortion

00:47:58.800 past the

00:47:59.200 20th week

00:47:59.580 but not

00:47:59.840 before the

00:48:00.200 20th week

00:48:00.600 I think

00:48:01.720 that people

00:48:02.660 who believe

00:48:03.520 that Justice

00:48:03.980 Kavanaugh

00:48:04.460 is on the

00:48:05.260 side of

00:48:05.520 overruling

00:48:05.900 Roe

00:48:06.060 I don't

00:48:06.360 know

00:48:06.540 what they're

00:48:06.820 smoking

00:48:07.120 it ain't

00:48:07.900 these cigars

00:48:08.360 I see no

00:48:09.920 indicators

00:48:10.260 of that

00:48:10.500 what kind of

00:48:12.780 Indiana case

00:48:13.760 today is a

00:48:14.220 very good

00:48:14.540 indicator

00:48:14.880 that this

00:48:15.220 is the

00:48:15.400 case

00:48:15.580 there's an

00:48:15.900 Indiana case

00:48:16.460 that went

00:48:16.720 to the

00:48:16.900 Supreme

00:48:17.080 Court

00:48:17.380 it included

00:48:18.380 two

00:48:18.560 provisions

00:48:18.920 one was

00:48:19.340 the disposal

00:48:19.780 of fetal

00:48:21.260 tissue

00:48:21.540 that provision

00:48:22.780 was ruled

00:48:23.460 in order

00:48:24.000 by the

00:48:24.280 court

00:48:24.440 basically

00:48:24.800 that's

00:48:25.060 fine

00:48:25.320 if you

00:48:25.880 want to

00:48:26.080 make

00:48:26.220 people

00:48:26.500 bury

00:48:26.880 or

00:48:27.340 cremate

00:48:28.020 fetal

00:48:28.320 tissue

00:48:28.520 as opposed

00:48:28.840 to tossing

00:48:29.200 in the

00:48:29.360 garbage

00:48:29.600 the way 1.00

00:48:29.880 that abortion 1.00

00:48:30.260 clinics

00:48:30.620 do

00:48:30.800 because

00:48:30.920 they're 0.99

00:48:31.020 disgusting 0.99

00:48:31.360 then that's 0.99

00:48:32.920 fine

00:48:33.120 but there's

00:48:33.660 a second

00:48:33.920 provision

00:48:34.260 that

00:48:34.460 effectively

00:48:34.920 restricted

00:48:35.540 abortion

00:48:36.000 passed

00:48:36.440 I think

00:48:36.620 it was

00:48:36.720 the eighth

00:48:37.020 week

00:48:37.320 and the

00:48:37.820 court

00:48:37.960 simply

00:48:38.200 refused

00:48:38.500 to take

00:48:38.820 it up

00:48:39.420 and that

00:48:40.180 same

00:48:40.860 bill

00:48:41.060 said

00:48:41.260 that

00:48:41.360 you're

00:48:41.440 not

00:48:41.540 allowed

00:48:41.720 to abort

00:48:42.200 a baby

00:48:42.720 for purposes

00:48:43.280 of racial

00:48:44.000 eugenics 0.78

00:48:44.580 or disabled

00:48:45.440 eugenics 0.78

00:48:46.300 and Justice

00:48:46.880 Thomas wrote

00:48:47.400 an amazing

00:48:47.900 he's about

00:48:48.660 to go

00:48:48.880 through the

00:48:49.160 roof

00:48:49.340 oh yeah

00:48:49.600 well I think

00:48:50.040 he's frustrated

00:48:50.600 and I think

00:48:50.960 he has a right

00:48:51.320 to be frustrated

00:48:51.800 I think he's

00:48:52.100 looking at his

00:48:52.480 other colleagues

00:48:52.940 on the court

00:48:53.260 going what

00:48:53.580 the living

00:48:53.960 hell is

00:48:54.360 this

00:48:54.540 why can't

00:48:55.100 I get

00:48:55.320 even four

00:48:55.820 votes

00:48:56.180 to get

00:48:56.780 a hearing

00:48:57.380 on a law

00:48:58.340 like this

00:48:58.740 that is

00:48:59.000 obviously

00:48:59.520 designed to

00:49:00.040 stop the

00:49:00.500 eugenic

00:49:00.900 killing

00:49:01.180 in many

00:49:02.340 cases

00:49:02.740 of racial

00:49:03.440 minorities

00:49:04.000 and females 0.98

00:49:04.680 how is this

00:49:05.400 possibly not

00:49:06.160 supreme court

00:49:07.140 worthy

00:49:07.560 but is the

00:49:08.100 court going to

00:49:08.440 be able to

00:49:08.840 punt on

00:49:09.600 Alabama

00:49:10.380 Georgia

00:49:11.160 100%

00:49:11.660 of course

00:49:12.560 all they have

00:49:12.960 to do is

00:49:13.240 allow the

00:49:13.580 district courts

00:49:14.080 to strike it

00:49:14.580 down in the

00:49:14.860 name of

00:49:15.080 row

00:49:15.200 remember the

00:49:15.700 precedent

00:49:15.960 that already

00:49:16.400 exists

00:49:16.880 can be

00:49:17.980 used

00:49:18.300 and by

00:49:19.180 pretty much

00:49:19.880 all legal

00:49:20.640 stare decisis

00:49:21.480 rulings

00:49:22.080 probably should

00:49:23.240 be

00:49:23.460 unless you're

00:49:24.120 going to

00:49:24.260 overturn old

00:49:24.760 case law

00:49:25.140 it's going to

00:49:25.380 be very

00:49:25.660 difficult to

00:49:26.180 argue that

00:49:26.400 under

00:49:26.640 Planned

00:49:27.480 Parenthood

00:49:27.720 versus Casey

00:49:28.300 that you

00:49:29.040 can actually

00:49:29.660 over

00:49:30.480 that Alabama

00:49:31.440 or Georgia

00:49:32.080 or Missouri

00:49:32.540 stand up

00:49:33.060 I just think

00:49:33.440 which is why

00:49:34.060 I'm a Thomas

00:49:34.500 guy not a

00:49:34.940 Scalia guy

00:49:35.380 I think

00:49:35.580 stare decisis

00:49:36.060 is a bunch 1.00

00:49:36.320 of crap 1.00

00:49:36.540 but you know 1.00

00:49:36.780 Justice Scalia

00:49:37.900 I got to

00:49:38.300 meet him

00:49:38.600 when I was

00:49:38.920 a student

00:49:39.360 and we

00:49:39.880 asked him

00:49:40.280 precisely

00:49:40.620 about this

00:49:41.260 we said

00:49:41.980 you acknowledge

00:49:44.060 stare decisis

00:49:44.900 you acknowledge

00:49:45.440 precedent

00:49:45.920 so why

00:49:46.980 doesn't that

00:49:47.500 hold up

00:49:48.000 for something

00:49:48.440 like Roe

00:49:48.900 versus Wade

00:49:49.400 and his

00:49:50.240 answer was

00:49:50.660 simple

00:49:50.940 which is

00:49:51.440 certain

00:49:52.080 decisions

00:49:52.520 are so

00:49:53.160 egregious

00:49:54.120 so

00:49:55.020 historically

00:49:56.180 egregious

00:49:56.720 they simply

00:49:57.280 must be overturned

00:49:58.040 yeah well

00:49:58.300 this is why

00:49:58.680 Thomas is a

00:49:59.140 better justice

00:49:59.560 than Scalia

00:49:59.980 stare decisis

00:50:00.560 can't be an

00:50:01.120 absolute principle 0.77

00:50:02.040 it's ridiculous

00:50:02.660 right

00:50:02.940 it shouldn't be

00:50:03.600 a principle

00:50:03.920 at all

00:50:04.220 stare decisis

00:50:04.760 is a bunch 0.95

00:50:05.000 of nonsense 0.79

00:50:05.460 well and one

00:50:06.140 of the best

00:50:06.960 examples of that

00:50:07.920 is Plessy

00:50:08.420 versus Fertin

00:50:09.020 exactly

00:50:09.340 was a decided

00:50:10.300 decision

00:50:10.780 that embraced

00:50:11.500 separate but

00:50:12.460 equal

00:50:12.720 it was a

00:50:13.280 horribly wrong

00:50:14.040 decision

00:50:14.480 the day it

00:50:15.300 was decided

00:50:15.900 and when it

00:50:16.280 was overruled

00:50:16.980 that was

00:50:17.340 absolutely right

00:50:18.300 the Constitution

00:50:18.880 protects

00:50:19.540 the equal rights

00:50:20.600 of every person

00:50:21.520 regardless

00:50:22.020 of your race

00:50:23.060 let me shift

00:50:24.700 though because you also

00:50:25.300 asked about the

00:50:25.860 political consequences

00:50:26.760 of this

00:50:27.260 and one of the

00:50:29.080 things that's

00:50:29.460 important to

00:50:29.900 understand

00:50:30.240 the modern

00:50:30.760 Democratic Party

00:50:31.680 is wildly out of

00:50:33.940 touch I believe

00:50:34.580 with the American

00:50:35.160 people and the

00:50:35.740 question of abortion

00:50:36.460 if you take

00:50:37.520 Hillary Clinton's

00:50:38.280 position on abortion

00:50:39.180 she supports

00:50:40.640 unlimited abortion

00:50:41.860 on demand

00:50:42.500 up until the

00:50:43.680 moment of birth

00:50:44.300 partial birth

00:50:45.160 with government

00:50:45.800 funding and no

00:50:46.940 parental notification

00:50:47.840 or consent

00:50:48.420 now nationally

00:50:49.880 9% of Americans

00:50:51.340 agree with that

00:50:51.920 91% of Americans

00:50:53.460 say whoa

00:50:54.360 that is not

00:50:55.120 my position

00:50:55.740 and as far

00:50:57.200 as I know

00:50:57.960 of the 346

00:50:59.640 Democrats

00:51:00.060 running this

00:51:00.740 year

00:51:01.040 every single

00:51:02.480 one of them

00:51:03.000 agrees with

00:51:03.540 Hillary 0.96

00:51:03.800 that is

00:51:04.480 that that is

00:51:05.440 required entrance

00:51:06.780 to the Democratic

00:51:07.560 primary

00:51:08.020 and so it's

00:51:08.500 out of step

00:51:09.060 with 91%

00:51:10.040 Joe Biden

00:51:10.400 reversed himself

00:51:10.900 on the Hyde

00:51:11.240 Amendment

00:51:11.480 right five

00:51:12.500 years ago

00:51:13.180 Joe Biden

00:51:13.540 was saying

00:51:13.880 that the Hyde

00:51:14.280 Amendment

00:51:14.540 needs to

00:51:15.400 remain

00:51:15.660 the Hyde

00:51:17.080 Amendment

00:51:17.240 says there

00:51:17.600 is no

00:51:17.840 federal funding

00:51:18.320 of abortions

00:51:18.880 so they'll

00:51:19.520 still fund

00:51:19.880 Planned

00:51:20.180 Parenthood

00:51:20.440 under the

00:51:20.980 lie

00:51:21.360 that Planned

00:51:21.740 Parenthood

00:51:22.180 is using

00:51:22.820 money

00:51:23.060 for non-abortions

00:51:24.000 but the

00:51:25.380 but Biden

00:51:26.180 used to be

00:51:26.720 in favor

00:51:27.060 of the Hyde

00:51:27.400 Amendment

00:51:27.580 they asked

00:51:27.940 him like

00:51:28.220 two weeks

00:51:28.820 ago

00:51:29.100 and he said

00:51:29.900 no no

00:51:30.460 I'm totally

00:51:31.200 in favor

00:51:31.480 of federal

00:51:31.780 funding

00:51:32.040 of abortions

00:51:32.560 meaning that

00:51:33.000 you and I

00:51:33.520 have to pay

00:51:33.960 taxes

00:51:34.380 so that

00:51:34.660 somebody else

00:51:35.040 can have

00:51:35.280 an abortion

00:51:35.680 which is

00:51:36.100 I mean

00:51:37.100 the founders

00:51:37.580 would be

00:51:38.380 spinning so

00:51:38.860 fast in

00:51:39.380 their graves

00:51:39.900 that they

00:51:40.140 would be

00:51:40.880 digging

00:51:41.360 brand new

00:51:42.180 steel tunnels

00:51:42.820 I mean

00:51:43.100 it's insane

00:51:43.580 look it was

00:51:44.100 just a few

00:51:44.580 months ago

00:51:45.180 that the video

00:51:46.100 of Ralph

00:51:46.500 Northam

00:51:47.100 surfaced

00:51:47.820 and it

00:51:48.060 was a radio

00:51:48.540 interview

00:51:48.880 he was doing

00:51:49.340 that was

00:51:49.620 videoed

00:51:50.220 by the way

00:51:50.680 who would

00:51:50.940 video a radio

00:51:51.500 interview

00:51:51.780 that's a little

00:51:52.200 crazy

00:51:52.440 but where he

00:51:54.540 argued for

00:51:56.020 not just

00:51:56.600 late term

00:51:57.100 abortion

00:51:57.540 but abortion

00:51:59.000 after birth

00:52:00.340 and he's a

00:52:01.020 doctor

00:52:01.300 and he described

00:52:02.280 how as a

00:52:03.100 doctor

00:52:03.420 he would

00:52:03.780 deliver a

00:52:04.320 child

00:52:04.600 he would

00:52:05.580 make the

00:52:06.060 child

00:52:06.460 comfortable

00:52:07.020 and then

00:52:07.300 he would

00:52:07.480 discuss

00:52:07.860 with the

00:52:08.180 parents

00:52:08.460 what to

00:52:08.860 do

00:52:09.020 with the

00:52:09.340 child

00:52:09.540 the obvious

00:52:09.960 implication

00:52:10.660 to be

00:52:11.260 whether to

00:52:12.140 kill 1.00

00:52:12.480 this infant 1.00

00:52:13.140 who was

00:52:13.480 already

00:52:13.740 born

00:52:14.120 listen

00:52:14.780 even people

00:52:15.400 who are

00:52:15.640 vocally

00:52:16.080 pro-choice

00:52:16.840 are utterly

00:52:18.780 horrified

00:52:19.440 with that

00:52:19.820 and by the

00:52:20.240 way

00:52:20.400 when I

00:52:20.900 spoke out

00:52:21.360 about it

00:52:21.760 the Houston

00:52:22.500 Chronicle

00:52:23.020 the head

00:52:24.940 of the

00:52:25.120 editorial page

00:52:25.740 blasted me

00:52:26.460 and said

00:52:26.720 this is a

00:52:27.700 lie

00:52:27.940 this is not

00:52:28.520 true

00:52:28.740 this is not

00:52:29.220 what Northam

00:52:29.680 said

00:52:30.000 and I

00:52:30.500 responded

00:52:30.820 here's a

00:52:31.620 link to

00:52:32.000 the video

00:52:32.360 and by the

00:52:32.780 way

00:52:32.880 my tweet

00:52:33.300 on it

00:52:33.560 said

00:52:33.740 watch

00:52:34.560 the video

00:52:35.300 so you

00:52:35.900 watch

00:52:36.300 you listen

00:52:36.740 to yourself

00:52:37.280 now let me

00:52:38.180 ask a question

00:52:38.820 when's the

00:52:39.860 last time

00:52:40.240 you heard

00:52:40.500 Ralph

00:52:40.740 Northam's

00:52:41.140 name

00:52:41.340 in

00:52:41.460 national

00:52:41.740 news

00:52:41.920 I know

00:52:42.480 he

00:52:42.800 disappeared

00:52:43.320 not only

00:52:44.200 does he

00:52:44.540 advocate

00:52:44.920 for post-birth

00:52:45.980 abortion

00:52:46.420 but then

00:52:46.860 of course

00:52:47.280 his

00:52:47.540 fame

00:52:48.700 yearbook

00:52:49.220 page

00:52:49.740 where

00:52:50.720 and let's

00:52:52.900 segue

00:52:53.140 let's go

00:52:53.540 back to

00:52:53.840 the Klan 0.57

00:52:54.160 so at a

00:52:55.120 yearbook

00:52:55.440 page

00:52:55.900 with one

00:52:56.340 person

00:52:56.780 in black

00:52:57.680 face

00:52:58.040 and another

00:52:59.020 person

00:52:59.420 in a

00:52:59.600 Klan

00:52:59.820 out

00:52:59.980 but he

00:53:00.480 doesn't

00:53:00.700 know

00:53:00.820 which one

00:53:01.160 he is

00:53:01.620 you put

00:53:06.020 your finger

00:53:06.580 on the

00:53:06.860 most important

00:53:07.460 piece of

00:53:07.920 this

00:53:08.060 so the

00:53:08.820 media

00:53:09.240 and

00:53:09.800 popular

00:53:10.440 culture

00:53:10.820 has this

00:53:11.260 the left

00:53:11.960 has this

00:53:12.360 weird

00:53:12.840 fixation

00:53:13.540 with black 0.99

00:53:14.020 things 0.97

00:53:14.320 yes

00:53:14.880 now I gotta

00:53:15.600 say look

00:53:15.880 I grew up

00:53:16.520 in Houston

00:53:16.840 but black

00:53:17.460 face wasn't

00:53:17.920 a thing

00:53:18.240 down there

00:53:18.740 and I

00:53:19.680 get that

00:53:20.180 there are

00:53:20.440 cultural

00:53:20.800 insensitivities

00:53:21.640 and it's

00:53:21.940 probably not

00:53:22.440 worth doing

00:53:22.880 black face 0.97

00:53:23.320 now I'll 0.95

00:53:23.720 mention

00:53:24.080 I think

00:53:25.220 two of the

00:53:25.680 three late

00:53:26.100 night comics

00:53:26.700 have appeared

00:53:27.120 in black

00:53:27.540 face 0.85

00:53:27.800 there are a

00:53:28.840 bunch of

00:53:29.260 Hollywood folks

00:53:29.920 that appeared

00:53:30.280 in black

00:53:30.600 face

00:53:30.760 but fine

00:53:31.200 I'll get

00:53:32.320 the times

00:53:32.880 of change

00:53:33.320 and I'll

00:53:33.520 even concede

00:53:34.040 some of

00:53:34.340 that

00:53:34.540 what was

00:53:35.680 amazing

00:53:36.100 though

00:53:36.300 is when

00:53:36.540 he publicly

00:53:37.100 said

00:53:37.500 his first

00:53:38.360 answer was

00:53:38.860 he may

00:53:39.100 have been

00:53:39.260 one of

00:53:39.480 the two

00:53:39.700 he wasn't

00:53:40.180 sure which

00:53:40.820 if you

00:53:42.920 cannot stand

00:53:43.740 up and say

00:53:44.300 unequivocally

00:53:45.020 I have never

00:53:45.780 in my life

00:53:46.720 worn a

00:53:47.440 Klan outfit

00:53:48.280 what the 0.68

00:53:50.280 hell is 0.96

00:53:50.680 wrong with 0.99

00:53:51.180 you

00:53:51.420 and think

00:53:52.820 about the

00:53:53.200 media

00:53:53.380 they call

00:53:53.920 it the

00:53:54.180 black face

00:53:54.680 scandal

00:53:55.100 and not

00:53:56.360 the Klan 0.57

00:53:56.840 scandal

00:53:57.260 he's like

00:53:58.600 yeah that

00:53:58.920 could have

00:53:59.200 been

00:53:59.300 and then

00:53:59.500 a day

00:53:59.820 or two

00:54:00.060 later

00:54:00.260 he changed

00:54:00.600 his mind

00:54:00.760 and said

00:54:00.900 no no

00:54:01.120 no that

00:54:01.320 wasn't

00:54:01.620 me

00:54:01.820 but not

00:54:03.960 a word

00:54:04.260 of that

00:54:04.580 in months

00:54:04.940 because the

00:54:05.540 fact that

00:54:06.020 you have

00:54:06.580 a democratic

00:54:07.540 it could

00:54:08.680 be in

00:54:08.880 disguise

00:54:09.260 and also

00:54:11.420 because if

00:54:11.940 all the

00:54:12.340 scandals

00:54:12.700 went then

00:54:12.940 a Republican

00:54:13.440 would be

00:54:13.800 in charge

00:54:14.100 of Virginia

00:54:14.480 and that's

00:54:14.760 why

00:54:14.980 that was

00:54:15.940 about the

00:54:16.540 most fun

00:54:16.880 week we've

00:54:17.240 had in

00:54:17.520 politics

00:54:17.800 what's

00:54:19.580 amazing

00:54:19.900 too

00:54:20.140 I mean

00:54:20.400 so the

00:54:20.700 Houston

00:54:20.920 Chronicle

00:54:21.280 asks you

00:54:21.760 who are

00:54:22.040 you going

00:54:22.240 to believe

00:54:22.680 the Houston

00:54:23.520 Chronicle

00:54:23.900 or your

00:54:24.180 lion eyes

00:54:24.940 but they

00:54:25.820 say well

00:54:26.220 Ralph

00:54:26.480 Northam

00:54:26.720 lion Ted

00:54:27.260 eyes

00:54:27.540 but then

00:54:30.520 they say

00:54:31.240 well listen

00:54:32.140 Ralph

00:54:32.400 Northam's an 1.00

00:54:32.940 idiot who 1.00

00:54:33.360 said something 1.00

00:54:33.800 stupid on 1.00

00:54:34.300 the radio 1.00

00:54:34.740 well you

00:54:35.500 don't need

00:54:35.760 to just

00:54:36.040 focus on

00:54:36.480 Ralph

00:54:36.700 Northam

00:54:37.000 look at

00:54:37.360 the governor

00:54:37.740 of New

00:54:38.080 York

00:54:38.380 who passed

00:54:39.460 a law

00:54:39.860 legalizing

00:54:40.720 abortion

00:54:41.080 up to

00:54:41.380 the point

00:54:41.680 of birth

00:54:42.020 changing

00:54:42.680 the penal

00:54:43.220 code

00:54:43.620 such that

00:54:44.320 if you 1.00

00:54:44.560 kill a 1.00

00:54:45.040 pregnant 1.00

00:54:45.300 woman 0.99

00:54:45.660 it is

00:54:46.380 no longer

00:54:46.840 double

00:54:47.140 murder

00:54:47.420 you're only 0.59

00:54:48.080 committing

00:54:48.420 a single

00:54:48.860 murder

00:54:49.160 what about

00:54:50.140 that guy

00:54:50.500 that is

00:54:50.800 a law

00:54:51.200 he celebrated

00:54:52.020 it

00:54:52.240 he lit

00:54:52.740 the buildings

00:54:53.760 in New

00:54:54.060 York

00:54:54.240 up in

00:54:54.540 pink

00:54:54.840 to celebrate

00:54:55.400 the law

00:54:55.760 and virtually

00:54:56.320 every news

00:54:57.060 story about

00:54:57.520 this

00:54:57.800 does what

00:54:58.720 you said

00:54:59.100 they say

00:54:59.540 Republicans

00:55:00.620 dishonestly

00:55:01.460 claim

00:55:02.020 that

00:55:02.820 Democrats

00:55:03.500 are in

00:55:03.760 favor of

00:55:04.100 infanticide

00:55:04.660 but it's

00:55:05.340 infanticide

00:55:05.860 listen my

00:55:06.780 quads are

00:55:07.160 real solid

00:55:07.600 from all

00:55:07.860 the pouncing

00:55:08.220 lately

00:55:08.560 I gotta say

00:55:09.780 it's a great

00:55:10.340 exercise

00:55:10.800 I'm pouncing

00:55:11.460 just every

00:55:12.160 day I get

00:55:12.520 up and I

00:55:12.800 pounce

00:55:13.000 endless

00:55:14.240 pouncing

00:55:15.660 endless

00:55:16.340 pouncing

00:55:16.760 great hamstrings

00:55:18.260 what's going

00:55:18.580 on with our

00:55:18.960 poll out

00:55:19.500 there

00:55:19.740 all right

00:55:20.400 it looks

00:55:20.960 as if

00:55:21.400 less work

00:55:22.120 isn't an

00:55:22.700 option for

00:55:23.160 most of our

00:55:23.580 daily wire

00:55:23.960 subscribers

00:55:24.480 our facebook

00:55:24.960 poll question

00:55:25.520 was what's

00:55:26.080 the best

00:55:26.620 part of

00:55:27.320 summer

00:55:27.680 less work

00:55:28.480 only got

00:55:28.840 16%

00:55:29.720 less rain

00:55:30.360 was 17%

00:55:31.460 the movies

00:55:32.480 was 22%

00:55:33.960 I mean

00:55:34.420 it's probably

00:55:34.800 because the

00:55:35.380 avengers has

00:55:35.900 come and gone

00:55:36.460 and I can't

00:55:36.960 think of another

00:55:37.440 movie I'm

00:55:37.900 excited to see

00:55:38.480 but the winner

00:55:39.800 of what's the

00:55:40.900 best part of

00:55:41.340 summer is

00:55:41.960 definitely

00:55:42.540 climate change

00:55:43.780 with 45%

00:55:44.980 it's changing

00:55:47.000 out there

00:55:47.340 I woke up

00:55:48.460 yesterday

00:55:48.820 and my wife

00:55:49.740 told me that

00:55:50.100 we were going

00:55:50.420 to a barbecue

00:55:50.860 she likes to 1.00

00:55:51.340 spring these

00:55:51.680 things on me

00:55:52.080 last minute

00:55:52.540 and I said

00:55:53.720 ah it is

00:55:55.260 overcast and

00:55:56.320 rainy I shall

00:55:57.340 wear a long

00:55:58.100 sleeve shirt

00:55:58.680 not three hours

00:56:00.520 later the

00:56:01.620 climate went

00:56:02.280 and changed

00:56:02.920 so rapidly

00:56:03.940 they say it's

00:56:04.500 going to warm

00:56:04.980 up four degrees

00:56:05.820 over the course

00:56:06.880 of a century

00:56:07.320 I'm not

00:56:07.960 exaggerating

00:56:08.860 it went up

00:56:09.440 20 degrees

00:56:10.380 by the time

00:56:11.480 afternoon came

00:56:12.600 that's because

00:56:12.800 I was driving

00:56:13.360 my car

00:56:13.920 how can the

00:56:14.660 deniers keep

00:56:15.360 denying this

00:56:16.160 this is an

00:56:17.100 emergency

00:56:17.460 every summer

00:56:18.100 we need to 0.98

00:56:18.640 bomb every 0.98

00:56:19.240 coal factory 0.94

00:56:19.800 in China

00:56:20.220 it's an

00:56:21.760 emergency

00:56:22.160 I've been told

00:56:22.740 we have 12

00:56:23.220 years to fix

00:56:23.760 this thing

00:56:24.160 and I've heard

00:56:24.760 it's just like

00:56:25.100 World War II

00:56:25.500 no no AOC

00:56:26.060 said how dare

00:56:26.800 you believe her

00:56:27.280 when she says

00:56:27.720 12 years

00:56:28.140 and then Beto

00:56:29.880 made a 10

00:56:30.820 who

00:56:31.280 yeah I don't

00:56:32.380 know some guy

00:56:33.200 he ran

00:56:34.040 he ran

00:56:34.600 I remember

00:56:36.320 I remember

00:56:36.340 in New Mexico

00:56:37.780 he's an Irish

00:56:38.300 fellow from Texas

00:56:40.680 right

00:56:40.920 oh yeah

00:56:41.560 did you happen

00:56:43.600 to see

00:56:44.260 his announcement

00:56:46.420 speech in El Paso

00:56:47.580 he gave part of

00:56:48.260 the speech in

00:56:48.780 Spanish

00:56:49.200 and AP

00:56:50.700 reported

00:56:51.440 Beto gave part

00:56:53.000 of the speech

00:56:53.720 in his native

00:56:54.520 tongue

00:56:54.900 and they had

00:56:57.100 to issue

00:56:57.620 a correction

00:56:58.340 because Beto

00:56:59.560 is of course

00:57:00.080 Robert Francis

00:57:00.780 O'Rourke

00:57:01.160 and I had

00:57:02.160 to have some

00:57:02.580 fun with this

00:57:03.060 on Twitter

00:57:03.480 and so I

00:57:03.980 retweeted

00:57:04.380 I said

00:57:04.620 that is

00:57:05.160 impressive

00:57:05.680 I have never

00:57:06.700 seen a political

00:57:07.460 speech given

00:57:08.100 in Gaelic

00:57:08.620 I have to say

00:57:11.200 I'm a little

00:57:11.540 offended right now

00:57:12.400 that we have 0.82

00:57:13.300 a white man

00:57:14.160 such as

00:57:14.620 Senator Rafael

00:57:15.300 Ted Cruz

00:57:15.820 here

00:57:16.060 criticizing

00:57:16.760 this obviously

00:57:18.580 Mexican man

00:57:19.340 named Robert

00:57:19.760 Francis O'Rourke

00:57:20.520 this is a

00:57:21.440 microaggression

00:57:22.180 the only reason

00:57:23.460 he'll get away

00:57:23.960 with it

00:57:24.240 is because

00:57:24.880 not one human

00:57:26.360 remembers Beto

00:57:27.040 O'Rourke

00:57:27.360 that guy

00:57:28.960 he got

00:57:29.960 Buttigieg'd 1.00

00:57:30.720 right out

00:57:31.600 of the national

00:57:32.080 conversation

00:57:32.900 brah

00:57:33.660 brah

00:57:34.300 morning

00:57:34.740 it's gonna be

00:57:35.360 amazing

00:57:36.280 he's got things

00:57:38.440 to do

00:57:39.480 one more question

00:57:40.340 go Alicia

00:57:41.160 go

00:57:41.520 well it seems

00:57:42.440 as if not

00:57:43.220 everyone

00:57:44.140 everyone is

00:57:44.940 pretty upset

00:57:45.460 with the Game

00:57:45.900 of Thrones

00:57:46.360 you know

00:57:46.760 finale

00:57:47.160 I'm glad

00:57:47.860 I never wasted

00:57:48.560 time on watching

00:57:49.340 any episodes

00:57:50.140 we're definitely

00:57:50.640 gonna talk about it

00:57:51.360 even Jon Snow

00:57:52.360 himself is so upset

00:57:53.220 he checked himself

00:57:53.880 into rehab today

00:57:54.860 but a question

00:57:56.700 comes from Jonathan

00:57:57.660 a Daily Wire

00:57:58.240 subscriber

00:57:58.640 he said

00:57:59.280 he wants to know

00:57:59.900 what you guys

00:58:00.320 think of Game

00:58:00.760 of Thrones

00:58:01.140 but what do you

00:58:02.200 think that the

00:58:02.580 next big show

00:58:03.360 will be now

00:58:04.140 that Game

00:58:04.560 of Thrones

00:58:04.960 is over

00:58:05.580 I'll tell you

00:58:06.460 what the best

00:58:06.760 show on TV

00:58:07.060 right now

00:58:07.460 is Chernobyl

00:58:08.100 so good

00:58:09.040 Chernobyl

00:58:09.400 is incredible

00:58:10.540 it's another level

00:58:11.260 of television

00:58:11.780 it's so good

00:58:12.460 it's like Band

00:58:12.960 of Brothers

00:58:13.300 level good

00:58:13.740 it's so good

00:58:15.120 have you guys

00:58:15.440 seen this

00:58:15.780 no

00:58:16.200 okay so

00:58:17.140 you wanna pitch

00:58:17.700 this through

00:58:18.080 because this

00:58:18.660 is your profession

00:58:19.120 what's the name

00:58:20.140 of the actor

00:58:20.840 I forget

00:58:21.180 is the lead actor

00:58:22.080 the guy from

00:58:22.900 Mad Men

00:58:23.880 yeah and also

00:58:25.360 he's been in

00:58:25.820 everything now

00:58:26.340 right he was also

00:58:26.940 in the one

00:58:28.140 about the Queen

00:58:28.580 he is like

00:58:29.200 Anthony Hopkins

00:58:29.960 level great

00:58:30.560 he's one of the

00:58:31.180 great actors

00:58:31.640 I can't remember

00:58:32.140 his name

00:58:32.500 this thing

00:58:33.400 is just

00:58:34.320 it's almost

00:58:34.840 like a documentary

00:58:36.340 a docudrama

00:58:37.280 yeah

00:58:37.620 and it's so

00:58:38.480 beautifully done

00:58:39.340 and it's a horror movie

00:58:40.940 it's a living

00:58:41.440 real horror movie

00:58:42.440 and it's filmed

00:58:43.120 like a horror movie

00:58:43.800 and it's basically

00:58:44.860 about how

00:58:46.120 Soviet communism

00:58:47.980 allowed

00:58:48.900 brought the world

00:58:50.320 this close to

00:58:51.020 annihilation

00:58:51.520 essentially

00:58:51.920 and it's

00:58:52.360 it's all true

00:58:52.960 right

00:58:53.160 I mean it's about

00:58:53.500 the meltdown

00:58:53.920 at Chernobyl

00:58:54.440 and it follows

00:58:55.280 the bureaucrat

00:58:56.540 like this one

00:58:57.140 bureaucrat

00:58:57.600 the one honest

00:58:58.260 bureaucrat

00:58:58.720 in the Soviet

00:58:59.700 system

00:59:00.020 who's trying

00:59:00.520 desperately

00:59:00.980 to tell the

00:59:02.080 bureaucracy

00:59:02.560 to tell the

00:59:03.080 Politburo

00:59:03.500 you guys need

00:59:04.140 to evacuate

00:59:04.580 this area

00:59:05.100 because you're 0.99

00:59:05.440 going to kill 1.00

00:59:05.680 300,000 people 1.00

00:59:06.700 if you do not

00:59:07.280 and you need

00:59:07.800 to bring in

00:59:08.200 these workers

00:59:08.600 to do this

00:59:09.100 and they're 0.97

00:59:09.360 going to die

00:59:09.940 it is the scene

00:59:11.360 where Emily Watson

00:59:12.120 is a physicist

00:59:12.720 goes in

00:59:13.340 to a Soviet 0.56

00:59:14.560 official

00:59:14.960 and says

00:59:15.660 you know

00:59:15.900 this is a real

00:59:16.500 disaster

00:59:17.040 and he says

00:59:17.700 well I have a

00:59:18.100 different opinion

00:59:18.600 and she says

00:59:19.360 before you did

00:59:19.960 this you ran

00:59:20.640 a shoe store

00:59:21.200 and he says

00:59:21.800 power to the

00:59:22.440 workers

00:59:22.820 she says

00:59:24.480 I'm a nuclear

00:59:25.080 physicist

00:59:25.520 you ran a

00:59:26.580 shoe store

00:59:26.960 and it is

00:59:27.680 an amazing

00:59:28.500 amazing

00:59:28.980 first of all

00:59:29.460 the acting

00:59:30.060 every actor

00:59:30.960 and it is

00:59:31.380 great

00:59:31.620 the writing

00:59:32.240 is beautiful

00:59:32.760 it's amazing

00:59:33.240 it is

00:59:34.000 it is the

00:59:34.360 best thing

00:59:34.760 I've seen

00:59:35.020 in TV

00:59:35.400 in a very

00:59:36.240 long time

00:59:36.480 and it literally

00:59:37.000 I'm not even

00:59:37.500 finished with it yet

00:59:38.060 it has me

00:59:38.500 on the edge

00:59:38.960 of my seat

00:59:39.420 every episode

00:59:40.220 who plays

00:59:40.560 the dragon

00:59:41.360 so I will

00:59:43.740 confess

00:59:44.140 the nuclear

00:59:44.920 meltdown

00:59:45.320 I'm having

00:59:45.640 the most fun

00:59:46.120 watching

00:59:46.460 is the

00:59:46.700 Democratic

00:59:47.060 presidential

00:59:47.420 and you

00:59:50.840 know what

00:59:51.280 the line

00:59:52.100 I'm a shoe

00:59:52.620 salesman

00:59:53.080 there are

00:59:53.280 actually quite

00:59:53.720 a few

00:59:53.980 of them

00:59:54.260 that could 0.68

00:59:54.980 say that

00:59:55.340 as well

00:59:55.660 because that's

00:59:56.080 what they know

00:59:56.460 about running

00:59:56.820 an economy

00:59:57.300 as well

00:59:57.880 Senator Cruz

00:59:59.220 is literally

00:59:59.780 running around

01:00:00.360 saying

01:00:00.620 I am a

01:00:01.580 professional

01:00:02.260 politician

01:00:02.880 this is not

01:00:04.500 going to work

01:00:05.260 but as far

01:00:07.280 as Game of Thrones

01:00:07.800 okay

01:00:08.140 did everybody

01:00:08.800 see it

01:00:09.180 yes

01:00:09.720 you saw it

01:00:10.760 well

01:00:11.060 my favorite

01:00:12.440 part of the

01:00:13.380 whole finale

01:00:13.780 was when

01:00:14.380 Gandalf

01:00:15.140 shut up 1.00

01:00:16.240 shut up 1.00

01:00:16.980 I have not 0.99

01:00:17.900 seen one episode

01:00:18.540 I've not seen

01:00:19.400 15 episodes

01:00:20.000 I've seen every

01:00:20.640 single episode

01:00:21.140 every single one

01:00:22.440 me too

01:00:22.700 I saw every episode

01:00:23.520 I think the four 0.73

01:00:24.500 of us have all

01:00:24.900 seen all the episodes

01:00:25.520 I'm dreading this

01:00:26.080 because I know

01:00:26.500 I'm in the minority

01:00:27.180 because I like it

01:00:27.700 oh you liked it

01:00:28.560 oh you are so wrong

01:00:29.980 as per our usual

01:00:31.520 arrangement

01:00:32.080 alright you are

01:00:32.840 incorrect

01:00:33.280 give us the pitch

01:00:33.920 for King Brian

01:00:34.840 I'm going to need

01:00:35.260 to hear this

01:00:35.660 slowly

01:00:36.660 in short sentences

01:00:37.480 I thought

01:00:38.320 that it

01:00:38.820 I don't

01:00:39.740 first of all

01:00:40.180 I think there is

01:00:40.680 something inherently

01:00:41.580 damaging about telling

01:00:43.460 a story over that

01:00:44.180 length of time

01:00:44.800 with input coming

01:00:46.460 in from the public

01:00:47.160 so I think that

01:00:47.720 no television show

01:00:48.720 including television

01:00:49.660 shows I've loved

01:00:50.540 like The Wire

01:00:51.480 and Breaking Bad

01:00:52.900 have really

01:00:53.640 Breaking Bad

01:00:54.280 was awesome

01:00:54.880 it was awesome

01:00:55.380 but it didn't sustain

01:00:56.700 I can pick it apart

01:00:58.080 in its narrative

01:00:59.460 because as a writer

01:01:01.040 if you're writing a story

01:01:01.860 you start reacting

01:01:02.980 to the crowd

01:01:03.300 and it had all those

01:01:04.140 problems

01:01:04.500 and I thought the

01:01:05.080 penultimate season

01:01:05.940 was terrible

01:01:06.480 I think it was the

01:01:07.420 penultimate season

01:01:07.980 where they went

01:01:08.300 however

01:01:09.800 however

01:01:10.560 first of all

01:01:11.800 I was grippingly

01:01:14.060 entertaining

01:01:14.500 every step of the way

01:01:15.700 every step of the way

01:01:16.640 it was never

01:01:17.260 not entertaining

01:01:18.220 there was a moment

01:01:18.940 in the middle

01:01:19.800 of the last season

01:01:20.580 where I thought

01:01:21.060 I care more

01:01:21.880 about who wins

01:01:22.840 that throne

01:01:23.420 than I care about

01:01:24.260 the 2020 election

01:01:25.140 I was so

01:01:26.040 I was so

01:01:27.040 taken with

01:01:27.760 and anytime a story

01:01:28.700 does that

01:01:29.240 it's good

01:01:30.000 it is a good story

01:01:31.320 if you are telling

01:01:32.040 a story

01:01:32.480 and you are that gripped

01:01:33.740 and that carried away

01:01:35.300 it's a good story

01:01:36.100 I thought that weirdly

01:01:38.520 and it turned out

01:01:39.260 like Eric Garcetti

01:01:40.120 ended up

01:01:42.600 weirdly

01:01:43.320 it imitated

01:01:44.220 it imitated

01:01:47.400 real life

01:01:48.220 in the sense

01:01:48.800 that wars begin

01:01:49.860 with big questions

01:01:51.580 and great enthusiasm

01:01:52.600 and racial intensity

01:01:54.520 and they end

01:01:55.580 with a bunch of bureaucrats

01:01:56.500 setting up the sewer system

01:01:57.720 and I thought that

01:01:58.580 that was basically

01:01:59.300 what happened

01:01:59.740 in Game of Thrones

01:02:00.380 I thought the tragic

01:02:01.780 love affair

01:02:03.000 between Jon Snow

01:02:04.140 and Daenerys 1.00

01:02:05.000 was absolutely terrific

01:02:06.820 I was wrapped up

01:02:07.840 in that till the end

01:02:08.380 did you see her

01:02:08.800 turning bad

01:02:09.300 yeah

01:02:10.040 see that's the other thing

01:02:11.080 people keep saying

01:02:12.540 that wasn't set up

01:02:13.420 but I saw it like

01:02:13.960 two seasons ago

01:02:14.920 and when

01:02:15.700 I saw it in season one

01:02:17.780 yeah

01:02:18.040 she watched her brother

01:02:19.040 get burned to death

01:02:19.660 with molten gold 0.98

01:02:20.700 at that point

01:02:21.160 you're like yeah

01:02:21.840 she crucifies hundreds 0.95

01:02:23.000 of people

01:02:23.480 I saw the possibility

01:02:24.660 I just didn't know

01:02:25.220 if they would go there

01:02:25.840 so when it happened

01:02:26.660 all these people

01:02:27.680 said it wasn't set up

01:02:28.540 I thought it was

01:02:29.020 pretty well set up

01:02:29.760 I mean

01:02:30.300 and I just thought

01:02:31.740 it was just

01:02:32.740 a terrific story

01:02:34.200 that really understood

01:02:35.420 power

01:02:35.860 understood how power works

01:02:37.380 and what it does

01:02:37.840 to people

01:02:38.240 and it understood

01:02:39.280 the randomness

01:02:40.100 of life

01:02:41.220 I don't think

01:02:41.840 the idea

01:02:42.860 that they killed

01:02:43.440 people randomly

01:02:44.200 wasn't quite true

01:02:45.480 but they gave the impression

01:02:46.440 that they were doing that

01:02:47.600 and I just thought

01:02:48.420 it was a terrific show

01:02:49.200 and it didn't bother me

01:02:50.420 that it didn't resolve

01:02:53.280 in the way

01:02:54.620 that I wanted it to resolve

01:02:55.640 I don't think

01:02:56.000 that's a story's job

01:02:56.880 so here's my problem

01:02:58.060 I don't even care

01:02:59.380 that Bran

01:02:59.980 becomes king

01:03:01.600 although I think 1.00

01:03:02.640 it's idiotic 0.99

01:03:03.840 from basic storytelling 101 1.00

01:03:05.620 once you melt

01:03:06.880 the iron throne

01:03:07.800 you then can't have

01:03:09.100 in the next scene

01:03:09.720 we choose a king

01:03:10.500 because the entire point

01:03:11.940 of melting the iron throne

01:03:12.960 was to break the wheel

01:03:13.900 to change

01:03:14.540 the whole concept

01:03:15.620 that we're going to have

01:03:16.400 these kings

01:03:16.740 but I'm even willing

01:03:17.620 to grant them

01:03:18.100 that they don't understand

01:03:18.860 what symbolism is

01:03:19.600 the worst thing

01:03:22.360 that happened

01:03:22.840 in the finale

01:03:24.120 is not Bran

01:03:25.100 becoming the king

01:03:25.920 the worst thing

01:03:26.400 that happens

01:03:26.740 in the finale

01:03:27.220 is that after

01:03:28.160 the most consequential thing

01:03:29.540 that has happened

01:03:30.580 in the entire series

01:03:31.580 which is Jon Snow

01:03:32.640 kills Daenerys Targaryen

01:03:34.760 they fade to black 0.94

01:03:36.740 they fade to black

01:03:38.380 and they say

01:03:39.180 three weeks later

01:03:40.360 and three weeks later

01:03:41.720 the bureaucrats

01:03:42.320 are sitting

01:03:42.620 so what they

01:03:43.280 what they did

01:03:43.920 is they faced

01:03:44.880 the most difficult question

01:03:46.320 that they were going

01:03:47.460 to have to face

01:03:48.180 as screenwriters

01:03:49.140 and they got so terrified

01:03:51.240 of coming up

01:03:52.060 with the wrong answer

01:03:52.860 that they punted

01:03:53.920 and they gave no answer

01:03:55.400 so you're saying

01:03:56.160 you don't think

01:03:56.600 the Unsullied

01:03:57.100 would have reacted

01:03:57.680 well to that

01:03:58.280 I'm saying

01:03:58.840 I'm saying

01:03:59.920 when the Unsullied

01:04:00.560 come in

01:04:01.040 Jon Snow

01:04:02.000 does not come out

01:04:02.720 the obvious way

01:04:05.300 to end that story

01:04:06.140 the way that

01:04:06.620 everything had built to

01:04:07.640 even the whole fact

01:04:08.740 of Jon's

01:04:09.860 actual lineage

01:04:10.960 as a Targaryen

01:04:12.200 faded to black

01:04:13.860 nothing matters

01:04:14.900 the obvious way

01:04:16.200 to end the story

01:04:16.820 and you could have

01:04:17.320 you could have played

01:04:17.920 every single scene

01:04:19.180 the bureaucrats

01:04:20.720 Bran

01:04:21.140 you could have played

01:04:21.620 100% of that the same

01:04:22.780 if 1.00

01:04:23.660 he kills 0.97

01:04:25.020 Daenerys Targaryen

01:04:26.220 the dragon

01:04:27.060 doesn't burn the throne

01:04:28.080 because the dragon

01:04:28.700 is an animal

01:04:29.240 and doesn't understand

01:04:29.920 symbolism any better

01:04:30.740 than the writers

01:04:31.260 the dragon

01:04:32.560 tries to burn

01:04:33.500 Jon Snow

01:04:34.260 and he doesn't burn

01:04:34.940 and he doesn't burn

01:04:35.800 and then

01:04:36.640 now his lineage

01:04:38.200 has been proven

01:04:39.260 now he is the master

01:04:41.020 of the dragon

01:04:41.620 he flies out

01:04:42.780 on that dragon

01:04:43.380 which keeps the Unsullied 0.99

01:04:44.340 from being an issue

01:04:45.060 and he melts

01:04:46.160 the Iron Throne

01:04:46.780 and he says

01:04:47.620 look

01:04:48.180 I'm obviously

01:04:49.340 the chosen one

01:04:50.120 history

01:04:51.260 fate

01:04:51.780 magic

01:04:52.280 raised from the dead

01:04:53.160 bloodline

01:04:54.080 the whole thing

01:04:54.760 built to this

01:04:55.400 and I say

01:04:55.980 screw the Iron Throne 0.95

01:04:56.900 I'm receding

01:04:57.740 into the north

01:04:58.320 you guys figure it out

01:04:59.480 and if they had done that

01:05:00.660 and then all the other scenes

01:05:01.920 are the same

01:05:02.300 they sit around

01:05:02.900 they pick Bran

01:05:03.720 it still wouldn't have

01:05:04.840 made any sense

01:05:05.340 that Bran

01:05:05.780 but I wouldn't have cared

01:05:07.180 because yes

01:05:07.840 they rob Jon

01:05:09.280 of his agency

01:05:09.960 they rob him

01:05:11.060 of his agency

01:05:11.540 they turn Jon

01:05:12.360 into a passive character

01:05:13.320 in the final season

01:05:14.140 spends the entire season

01:05:15.480 doing nothing 0.87

01:05:16.040 until he kills Daenerys 0.92

01:05:17.280 at which point 0.83

01:05:17.920 they imprison him

01:05:18.980 and then forcibly

01:05:19.740 send him back to the north

01:05:20.880 which again makes no sense

01:05:21.800 since the Unsullied 0.88

01:05:22.380 have now left

01:05:23.040 and who is the queen

01:05:24.080 of the north

01:05:24.380 oh right

01:05:24.720 his sister

01:05:25.220 who could theoretically

01:05:26.380 just be like

01:05:26.860 yeah we're not doing

01:05:27.640 any of that stuff

01:05:28.260 the Unsullied are gone 0.99

01:05:28.980 to turn him into a prisoner

01:05:31.020 and then send him back north

01:05:32.180 makes no sense whatsoever

01:05:33.420 he has to take the throne

01:05:34.540 and then abdicate the throne

01:05:35.540 that makes perfect sense

01:05:36.740 because then he's an active character

01:05:38.020 then he's done all the things

01:05:39.460 he needs to do

01:05:40.000 although he's kind of been

01:05:41.040 a passive character throughout

01:05:42.140 I mean yes and no

01:05:43.540 I mean he does charge directly

01:05:44.620 into the

01:05:45.100 in front of a 6,000 person army

01:05:46.980 he's a brave guy

01:05:47.420 but he's a lone wolf

01:05:48.200 but that's fine for him

01:05:49.480 to be a lone wolf

01:05:50.000 which is why he could

01:05:51.720 abdicate

01:05:51.980 that's why it would have been

01:05:52.720 satisfying for him

01:05:53.640 to finally say

01:05:54.500 okay you know what

01:05:55.260 my whole character has been

01:05:56.840 me being unwilling

01:05:57.900 to step up

01:05:58.500 and take leadership

01:05:59.060 even though people

01:05:59.580 keep trying to thrust

01:06:00.280 leadership on me

01:06:00.920 so for just this moment

01:06:02.860 I have to do it

01:06:03.740 because it's the only way

01:06:04.500 for all these people

01:06:05.060 to survive

01:06:05.520 that would have made sense

01:06:06.900 there were a couple beats

01:06:08.180 in the final episode

01:06:09.120 with him and Daenerys

01:06:10.080 that make no sense

01:06:10.900 that whole conversation

01:06:11.600 with Tyrion

01:06:12.100 where he's like

01:06:12.820 ah but she's still my queen 0.99

01:06:14.080 you just watched her

01:06:15.040 roast a million people

01:06:16.120 that ship has sailed

01:06:17.400 my friend

01:06:17.920 if you had just 0.99

01:06:18.840 you know had sex 0.98

01:06:19.720 with her two episodes 0.99

01:06:20.460 you'd go

01:06:20.700 everything's hunky dory

01:06:21.640 right

01:06:22.100 she was basically like

01:06:23.100 marry me 1.00

01:06:23.740 have sex with me 1.00

01:06:24.380 and everything's good 0.99

01:06:25.240 and he's like no

01:06:25.980 and she burns a million people 0.94

01:06:27.140 and he's like

01:06:27.360 now I'm into her

01:06:28.220 what

01:06:28.780 wait what now

01:06:29.880 I'm confused

01:06:30.680 I don't know

01:06:32.800 how anybody dates you man

01:06:33.580 I mean like that's

01:06:34.020 that's a very confused

01:06:34.980 you're sending some

01:06:35.520 mixed signals here

01:06:36.220 I guess what I'm saying

01:06:36.840 and then

01:06:37.580 the whole final scene

01:06:39.380 with Tyrion

01:06:40.040 where Tyrion gets up

01:06:41.480 in front of the council

01:06:42.400 and Unsullied guy

01:06:44.080 is like well

01:06:44.920 Grey Worm

01:06:45.360 is like well

01:06:46.040 you don't talk

01:06:46.760 and then he's like

01:06:47.280 okay

01:06:47.640 and then he proceeds

01:06:48.520 to give a seven minute speech

01:06:49.640 to all of Sansa's

01:06:51.880 direct relatives

01:06:52.680 right

01:06:53.420 I mean everybody there

01:06:54.380 is a direct relative

01:06:55.340 of Bran

01:06:55.860 right

01:06:56.080 every single person there

01:06:57.140 with I think two exceptions

01:06:58.200 is a direct relative

01:06:59.220 so it's pretty obvious

01:06:59.860 how this particular election

01:07:00.840 is going to go

01:07:01.920 and when he gives his speech

01:07:03.280 first of all

01:07:03.920 there's nothing I hate more

01:07:04.920 in TV

01:07:05.680 than this 1.00

01:07:06.440 this pathetic nonsense 0.99

01:07:08.460 where writers justify 0.99

01:07:09.760 their own job

01:07:10.440 to the audience 1.00

01:07:11.000 I hate this crap so much 0.99

01:07:12.400 so you have him 1.00

01:07:13.380 give a speech

01:07:13.760 the only thing that matters

01:07:14.860 is story

01:07:15.520 oh that was terrible 1.00

01:07:16.360 shut your freaking head 1.00

01:07:18.300 I agree 1.00

01:07:18.600 that's a bunch of nonsense 0.99

01:07:19.560 that's that Yuval Harari crap 0.99

01:07:20.980 I hate that 1.00

01:07:21.740 it's garbage 1.00

01:07:23.060 it's garbage in sociology 1.00

01:07:24.200 and it's garbage 1.00

01:07:24.980 when it comes to 1.00

01:07:25.700 writers justifying

01:07:26.920 why I'm watching your show

01:07:27.660 I don't need you to lecture me

01:07:28.460 on why I just watched your show

01:07:29.580 I got it

01:07:30.600 it was entertaining

01:07:31.160 I don't need you to tell me

01:07:32.280 stories are the only thing

01:07:33.320 that matters

01:07:33.740 and all this kind of nonsense

01:07:34.380 and then

01:07:35.300 for him to say

01:07:35.840 and the best story

01:07:36.740 is Bran

01:07:37.620 the Broken

01:07:38.300 who was thrown off a tower

01:07:40.060 his story

01:07:40.680 his story is so good

01:07:41.840 that he set out a season

01:07:43.360 right

01:07:43.900 one entire season

01:07:45.400 my favorite thing there

01:07:46.760 was that

01:07:47.480 Tyrion is saying things like

01:07:49.380 and then he

01:07:50.160 he became the Three-Eyed Raven

01:07:51.700 now

01:07:52.140 no one in that room

01:07:54.200 knows what the F

01:07:55.160 Tyrion is talking about

01:07:56.280 he goes he became

01:07:57.020 no one knows what

01:07:57.920 the Three-Eyed Raven is

01:07:58.860 the only person who knows

01:07:59.940 what the Three-Eyed Raven is

01:08:01.000 is maybe Sansa

01:08:02.440 maybe

01:08:03.100 and also Sansa's

01:08:04.200 sitting right there

01:08:04.640 and she's like

01:08:04.880 well I gotta be honest

01:08:05.720 my story's kind of

01:08:06.440 better than this

01:08:06.920 my story was

01:08:07.960 I got forcibly married

01:08:09.480 to this guy

01:08:09.940 he got killed

01:08:10.540 and then I got married

01:08:11.320 to Tyrion

01:08:11.780 and then I got shipped 1.00

01:08:12.640 off to get raped 0.99

01:08:13.360 and I suddenly became 1.00

01:08:14.260 queen of the North 0.97

01:08:14.820 Daenerys' story

01:08:16.020 she's one of the best

01:08:16.720 female characters

01:08:17.400 anybody's written

01:08:18.060 actually Arya is pretty

01:08:19.260 pretty good

01:08:19.760 Arya has a good 0.83

01:08:20.760 so basically

01:08:21.580 everyone there

01:08:22.400 including the weird uncle

01:08:23.660 who gets up

01:08:24.200 and tries to take

01:08:24.860 the crown for a second

01:08:25.620 has a better story

01:08:26.540 than Bran

01:08:27.020 and he's like

01:08:27.740 but story

01:08:28.260 story's everything

01:08:28.820 first of all

01:08:29.440 you know

01:08:29.620 I guarantee you

01:08:30.520 the weird uncle

01:08:31.080 is a US Senate

01:08:31.760 final note

01:08:34.720 final note

01:08:35.200 when he

01:08:35.920 when he says

01:08:36.540 story is everything

01:08:37.440 this has never been

01:08:38.800 true in Westeros

01:08:39.640 ever

01:08:39.960 ever

01:08:40.960 it is a lie

01:08:41.980 right

01:08:42.360 when he says

01:08:42.840 story is everything

01:08:43.480 so yeah

01:08:44.040 the people are just

01:08:44.680 going to suddenly 0.62

01:08:45.080 accept this weirdo 0.99

01:08:46.480 as the head 0.99

01:08:46.940 as the head

01:08:47.480 of the Iron Throne

01:08:48.020 my only point

01:08:48.940 my only point

01:08:49.660 though is

01:08:50.040 and all of this

01:08:51.020 I think is

01:08:51.380 absolutely great

01:08:52.400 I would sit

01:08:52.820 and listen to it

01:08:53.400 forever

01:08:53.680 when

01:08:54.780 little Nell died

01:08:56.600 right

01:08:56.860 people gathered

01:08:57.580 on the ports

01:08:58.380 in America

01:08:59.120 waiting for the

01:08:59.900 chapter to come

01:09:00.440 and screaming 0.96

01:09:00.960 as the boat

01:09:01.720 came in

01:09:02.180 they screamed

01:09:02.660 does she live

01:09:03.420 or does she die

01:09:04.100 when you do that

01:09:04.900 to somebody

01:09:05.240 you've done a great job

01:09:06.520 they did

01:09:07.120 they did a great job

01:09:08.200 they fumbled

01:09:08.860 at the one yard line

01:09:10.420 but the fact

01:09:11.180 even the fact

01:09:11.880 that we're sitting

01:09:12.260 here talking about it

01:09:13.180 indicates what a great job

01:09:14.340 I don't think

01:09:14.680 that's fair

01:09:15.080 yes they did

01:09:16.420 a great job

01:09:17.360 for eight seasons

01:09:18.660 and five episodes

01:09:20.140 that doesn't mean

01:09:21.260 the fact that we were

01:09:22.220 that invested

01:09:22.660 doesn't mean

01:09:23.180 that they actually

01:09:23.680 carried the ball

01:09:24.420 across

01:09:24.620 and Lost was great

01:09:25.300 for five seasons

01:09:25.940 but it's also

01:09:27.320 the whole thing

01:09:28.060 the whole thing

01:09:28.700 is based

01:09:29.000 on the War of the Roses

01:09:32.020 yeah

01:09:32.820 and the War of the Roses

01:09:34.660 doesn't end

01:09:35.700 with you take the person

01:09:37.120 with the best claim

01:09:38.560 to the throne

01:09:39.220 and you send them

01:09:40.380 over to Normandy

01:09:41.860 because guess

01:09:42.640 what that person

01:09:43.380 does less than

01:09:44.660 a generation later

01:09:45.520 it has to end

01:09:48.340 with the murder 1.00

01:09:49.080 of all of your opponents 0.99

01:09:50.120 that's the only way

01:09:50.860 that it can

01:09:51.120 well you know

01:09:51.640 Hollywood has gotten

01:09:52.380 so political

01:09:53.080 there are two

01:09:53.780 alternative endings

01:09:54.580 they could have done

01:09:55.260 that would have

01:09:55.680 mirrored the 2020 election

01:09:56.960 they could have

01:09:59.140 number one

01:09:59.940 made Ned Stark

01:10:01.480 the king

01:10:03.220 because like

01:10:04.560 the 2020 Democrats 0.99

01:10:05.700 he has no brain 1.00

01:10:06.900 and lost his head 0.99

01:10:07.660 or if they gave in

01:10:11.320 to their political

01:10:12.040 predilections

01:10:12.760 they could have

01:10:13.420 made the White Walkers 1.00

01:10:14.900 the king

01:10:15.760 and said

01:10:16.480 that all Republicans 0.95

01:10:17.420 are Nazis 0.99

01:10:17.900 you know

01:10:20.480 that was

01:10:21.080 to be honest

01:10:22.120 that was my biggest

01:10:23.000 disappointment

01:10:23.480 in the show

01:10:23.860 was the White Walkers 0.98

01:10:24.580 I thought

01:10:25.160 I loved

01:10:25.900 I loved

01:10:26.440 that they introduced

01:10:27.060 that like

01:10:27.420 in the first episode

01:10:28.200 and then it just

01:10:29.100 kind of crept in

01:10:30.300 and it had a lot

01:10:31.280 of symbolic valence

01:10:33.260 the idea that

01:10:34.120 everybody has to

01:10:34.780 unite against death

01:10:35.520 because death

01:10:35.980 is a threat

01:10:36.360 to every single person

01:10:37.220 and then it just

01:10:38.180 kind of died

01:10:38.680 you never found out

01:10:39.660 who the Night King was

01:10:40.820 this is actually

01:10:42.360 the big problem

01:10:43.040 with the Night King

01:10:43.800 as a character

01:10:44.280 so somebody

01:10:45.100 pointed this out

01:10:46.220 online

01:10:46.440 I want to give credit

01:10:47.820 but I can't remember

01:10:48.320 who it is

01:10:48.660 they were saying

01:10:49.400 if you contrast Sauron

01:10:50.480 I think it was

01:10:50.860 Ross Studehet

01:10:51.360 if you contrast Sauron

01:10:53.520 as a character

01:10:54.200 with the Night King

01:10:55.040 as a character

01:10:55.540 the thing about Sauron

01:10:56.360 is that what's interesting

01:10:57.580 about Sauron

01:10:58.000 is not Sauron

01:10:58.800 what's interesting

01:10:59.300 about Sauron

01:10:59.640 is how everyone

01:11:00.080 reacts to Sauron

01:11:00.980 so in the middle

01:11:01.560 of the Battle of Gondor

01:11:02.940 you have Denethor

01:11:03.800 who's lighting his kid

01:11:04.740 on fire 0.63

01:11:05.260 because he's gone crazy

01:11:06.520 from having to make

01:11:07.880 these decisions

01:11:08.660 about what to do

01:11:09.500 with Sauron

01:11:10.080 by the way

01:11:10.620 I've just been

01:11:11.100 officially out geeked

01:11:12.160 you've got Saruman 0.98

01:11:15.660 who becomes

01:11:16.240 an actual emissary

01:11:17.280 of the Dark Lord

01:11:18.280 you have a bunch

01:11:18.980 of people reacting

01:11:19.680 in different ways

01:11:20.180 the problem with

01:11:20.780 the Night King

01:11:21.100 is because he is death

01:11:22.180 there's only one way

01:11:23.260 for the characters

01:11:23.880 realistically to act

01:11:25.620 toward him

01:11:26.100 which makes it

01:11:26.760 a very boring conflict

01:11:27.660 because everyone

01:11:28.380 is innately united

01:11:29.580 by this

01:11:30.600 the only person

01:11:31.260 the only exception

01:11:31.680 being Sauron

01:11:32.240 who makes a basic fact

01:11:32.920 the way to fix that

01:11:33.060 would have been to give him

01:11:33.440 a better story

01:11:34.260 to get the Night King

01:11:35.080 a better story

01:11:35.540 so a final point

01:11:36.860 on my Ned Stark theory

01:11:38.000 if you think

01:11:39.980 about his central theme

01:11:43.000 it is winter is coming

01:11:45.260 so it's climate change

01:11:46.760 Jay Inslee

01:11:47.900 is going to be

01:11:48.360 the Democratic nominee

01:11:49.320 Jay Inslee

01:11:50.700 is the brand of this race 1.00

01:11:51.740 he's just sitting there 0.87

01:11:52.880 all uselessly 0.63

01:11:53.780 I can't wait

01:11:55.300 until he gets the nomination

01:11:56.040 it's like

01:11:56.500 isn't there a nomination

01:11:58.260 it's like

01:11:58.600 I'm flying like a bird man

01:11:59.420 flying like a bird

01:12:00.780 don't disrespect Eric Solwell

01:12:02.660 actually you're right

01:12:05.720 he is like Bran

01:12:06.280 he just released a video

01:12:07.700 where he said

01:12:08.060 his job is to sit and listen

01:12:09.360 did you see that

01:12:10.320 and oddly enough

01:12:11.900 when you threaten

01:12:12.760 to launch thermonuclear weapons

01:12:14.320 at the voters

01:12:14.820 that turns out

01:12:15.540 not to be good politics

01:12:16.320 and just as a literal fact

01:12:19.240 Eric Solwell

01:12:20.040 campaigns on the slogan

01:12:21.360 I am you

01:12:22.160 so he actually is Bran

01:12:24.420 so he actually does

01:12:25.660 take control

01:12:27.100 at the end of the show

01:12:27.760 I have to say by the way

01:12:28.400 as someone who's not

01:12:29.200 a big fan

01:12:30.000 of the Game of Thrones

01:12:31.700 the Lord of the Rings

01:12:32.760 books

01:12:33.480 I love the movies

01:12:34.660 but I just thought

01:12:35.700 the books were just

01:12:36.300 almost an act

01:12:37.500 of insanity

01:12:38.600 however

01:12:39.560 J.R.R. Tolkien

01:12:41.020 was a brilliant guy

01:12:42.080 who had a vision

01:12:42.700 and put that vision

01:12:43.820 onto paper

01:12:44.680 and that is the problem

01:12:46.000 entirely with Game of Thrones

01:12:47.780 which I think

01:12:48.320 undermines it

01:12:48.960 from beginning to end

01:12:49.940 is that there is

01:12:50.680 no vision

01:12:51.320 in it

01:12:51.800 and nobody actually knows

01:12:53.480 I mean

01:12:53.920 there's a lord of light

01:12:55.280 in it

01:12:55.500 who brings people

01:12:56.140 back to life

01:12:56.720 repeatedly

01:12:57.360 but he's completely

01:12:58.900 irrelevant

01:12:59.300 and I think

01:13:00.060 that that actually

01:13:00.900 except that Melisandre 0.99

01:13:01.700 provides the services

01:13:02.700 of a grip

01:13:03.120 in that one episode

01:13:03.800 so we can see

01:13:04.180 what the hell

01:13:04.480 is going on

01:13:04.920 but that's very real

01:13:06.500 for people

01:13:06.980 like the author

01:13:07.800 it's very real

01:13:08.840 for the guy's

01:13:09.540 an atheist basically

01:13:10.420 and it's very real

01:13:11.520 that all the effects

01:13:12.760 of God is there

01:13:13.880 and they know it

01:13:14.580 but they're just

01:13:15.080 not going to react

01:13:15.760 they're just going

01:13:16.340 to ignore it

01:13:16.800 and I think

01:13:17.120 that that is

01:13:17.540 now it's time 0.81

01:13:18.940 for me to piss 0.94

01:13:19.380 on George R.R. Martin 0.57

01:13:20.140 so this guy

01:13:21.080 his last book

01:13:21.800 when did

01:13:22.080 last one come out

01:13:23.720 the book number five

01:13:25.440 came out

01:13:25.800 1982

01:13:26.720 I mean like

01:13:27.780 it came out

01:13:28.580 like seven

01:13:28.880 eight years ago

01:13:29.420 and so he sits around

01:13:30.320 doing nothing

01:13:30.960 and not contributing

01:13:31.700 anything

01:13:31.940 so that was Joe Biden's

01:13:32.460 sixth term

01:13:32.940 and he sits around

01:13:36.660 doing nothing

01:13:37.260 for years on end

01:13:38.260 and then

01:13:38.840 did you see this

01:13:41.020 the series finale

01:13:41.620 came out

01:13:42.360 and then they asked him

01:13:42.980 about it

01:13:43.140 he said

01:13:43.300 well you know

01:13:43.720 I'm going to write

01:13:44.060 the books differently

01:13:44.720 it's like

01:13:45.600 oh you are 0.99

01:13:46.480 just the worst 0.99

01:13:47.360 so you're willing

01:13:48.120 to take millions

01:13:48.700 of dollars from HBO

01:13:49.580 so they can buy

01:13:50.080 the rights to your stuff

01:13:50.940 and then you're going

01:13:51.560 to wait for everybody

01:13:52.300 to hate the ending

01:13:52.980 and then you're going 0.98

01:13:53.700 to crap all over 0.99

01:13:54.240 the people 0.93

01:13:54.640 who did the only

01:13:55.500 like he basically

01:13:56.340 abandoned the books

01:13:57.080 when it became clear

01:13:57.820 that he had no place

01:13:58.580 to go

01:13:58.980 I mean I've read

01:13:59.660 all the books

01:14:00.120 and books one

01:14:00.600 and three are good 0.95

01:14:01.060 and the rest are garbage 0.97

01:14:01.760 and he just ran 1.00

01:14:03.000 out of things to say

01:14:03.800 and so he just

01:14:04.220 stopped writing

01:14:04.720 and then other people

01:14:05.320 filled in his blanks

01:14:06.020 and now he's mad

01:14:06.380 at them for filling

01:14:06.880 in his blanks

01:14:07.220 but the weirdest thing

01:14:08.160 is when J.K. Rowling

01:14:09.160 came out

01:14:09.620 and said that Jon Snow

01:14:10.420 was always gay 1.00

01:14:11.460 it's so weird 0.83

01:14:17.360 there is this problem

01:14:18.900 with TV though

01:14:19.460 The Wire is a classic example

01:14:20.900 the last season

01:14:21.800 of The Wire

01:14:22.180 is some of the worst

01:14:22.820 television I've ever seen

01:14:23.840 and the first season

01:14:24.700 is some of the best

01:14:25.840 the first season's fantastic

01:14:26.540 yeah it's amazing

01:14:27.420 and third season's pretty good

01:14:28.560 there's a genuine problem

01:14:29.640 with writing a story

01:14:30.520 over that much time

01:14:31.200 with people in your head

01:14:32.320 House of Cards

01:14:33.380 had that same arc

01:14:34.240 the first two seasons

01:14:35.780 are spectacular

01:14:36.460 and then it steadily

01:14:37.400 went downhill

01:14:37.880 and almost every television show

01:14:39.320 is best in the first season

01:14:40.760 because that's the arc

01:14:41.640 and it's just part

01:14:43.280 of the business

01:14:43.740 of writing TV

01:14:44.440 that you have to throw in

01:14:45.220 everything you've got

01:14:46.040 in the first episode

01:14:47.260 and then explain it

01:14:48.380 over the first season

01:14:49.180 by the end of that

01:14:50.020 you're kind of done

01:14:50.720 this is why I'm a fan

01:14:52.020 of the streaming

01:14:52.520 because the truth is

01:14:53.780 the move toward miniseries

01:14:54.720 which I thought were dead

01:14:55.420 back in the 1980s

01:14:56.180 this was the big thing

01:14:56.820 in the 1980s

01:14:57.540 they actually had

01:14:58.040 all these great miniseries

01:14:59.100 that came out

01:14:59.640 and then they stopped

01:15:01.220 with the miniseries

01:15:01.820 and they went to

01:15:02.400 just series series

01:15:03.120 and that only works

01:15:04.680 for comedy

01:15:05.080 because you can write

01:15:05.620 the same characters

01:15:06.200 every single episode

01:15:07.000 but for a drama

01:15:07.700 that actually has

01:15:08.880 some sort of connection

01:15:09.480 between the episodes

01:15:10.200 if there's no character

01:15:11.320 development

01:15:11.720 then there's no place

01:15:13.020 to go

01:15:13.340 and if there is

01:15:14.020 character development

01:15:14.640 then there has to be

01:15:15.700 a termination point

01:15:16.540 for the characters

01:15:17.600 and so you end up

01:15:18.840 in this weird situation

01:15:19.600 where basically

01:15:20.140 you should basically

01:15:20.840 just say three seasons

01:15:21.740 and out

01:15:22.280 and every show here

01:15:23.400 would have been better

01:15:23.920 at three seasons

01:15:24.480 and out

01:15:24.820 that's what the British

01:15:25.040 used to do

01:15:25.760 and it's funny

01:15:26.440 because the only show

01:15:27.160 that's actually about this

01:15:28.060 and I think it's probably

01:15:29.160 one of the best works of art

01:15:30.480 of our time

01:15:31.080 is The Sopranos

01:15:31.880 which is actually

01:15:32.640 about the fact

01:15:34.200 that in TV

01:15:34.720 nobody ever changes

01:15:35.560 and so like

01:15:36.800 TV is actually

01:15:38.080 a lot more like life

01:15:39.080 than books and plays

01:15:41.280 because in a book

01:15:41.960 and a play

01:15:42.300 there's a character

01:15:42.860 who has an arc

01:15:43.460 but in real life

01:15:44.580 most people just don't change

01:15:45.940 they just do different things

01:15:47.220 like so if you're a cop

01:15:48.380 you're the same guy

01:15:49.300 when you started

01:15:49.880 but you handle

01:15:50.380 a lot of different cases

01:15:51.260 it's a lot more like television

01:15:52.520 and in The Sopranos

01:15:53.900 all this stuff happens

01:15:54.860 and everybody says

01:15:55.340 oh now I've got a revelation

01:15:56.360 and then the next episode

01:15:57.920 like in The Simpsons

01:15:58.900 they're exactly back

01:16:00.160 where they started

01:16:00.780 and that I thought

01:16:01.460 was just genius

01:16:02.180 because I thought

01:16:02.580 that was what the show

01:16:03.260 was about

01:16:03.660 and that one

01:16:04.320 does hold up

01:16:05.080 it worked right

01:16:05.720 it worked through all

01:16:06.460 of the seasons

01:16:06.780 yeah it does

01:16:07.060 it's an amazing show

01:16:07.800 to quote The Bard

01:16:08.560 things in this life

01:16:09.440 change very slowly

01:16:10.480 if they ever change at all

01:16:11.860 which Bard is it?

01:16:14.340 Don Henley

01:16:15.040 whenever I say The Bard

01:16:16.020 it's always Don Henley

01:16:16.800 if you guys want to know

01:16:17.420 listen

01:16:18.640 the one that I'm excited

01:16:20.800 about right now

01:16:21.460 and it's a one time thing

01:16:22.760 it's an event

01:16:23.260 it's not going to be

01:16:24.480 a new series

01:16:25.060 John Wick 3

01:16:26.180 Ben is so into John Wick 3

01:16:28.320 oh my god

01:16:29.240 don't tell me

01:16:29.820 I've seen 1 and 2

01:16:30.700 I haven't seen 3

01:16:31.320 okay so I won't spoil it

01:16:32.220 all I will say

01:16:32.800 isn't there a pretty

01:16:34.440 tough dog in it?

01:16:35.580 yeah

01:16:35.760 all I will say

01:16:37.040 okay so it's all

01:16:37.760 in the preview

01:16:38.160 he's riding a horse

01:16:39.300 okay man

01:16:39.920 he rides a horse

01:16:40.960 and also

01:16:41.560 there are three

01:16:43.060 action sequences

01:16:43.900 that open the film

01:16:44.720 and they are

01:16:45.440 maybe the three

01:16:46.380 best action sequences

01:16:47.360 ever

01:16:47.700 okay stop talking

01:16:48.600 stop talking

01:16:48.960 because I haven't seen it

01:16:49.480 they're so good

01:16:50.060 oh my goodness

01:16:51.080 Deadwood

01:16:51.700 oh yeah

01:16:52.600 on the 31st

01:16:53.940 we get a finale

01:16:54.640 to Deadwood

01:16:55.500 which I think

01:16:56.460 the first season

01:16:57.000 of Deadwood

01:16:57.480 the first four episodes

01:16:58.520 of Deadwood

01:16:58.780 are unbelievably good

01:17:00.420 and then it's just

01:17:01.820 a lot of cursing

01:17:03.240 every now and again

01:17:05.860 in Deadwood

01:17:06.200 there's a great episode

01:17:07.340 that's right

01:17:07.820 like it'll go for

01:17:08.380 like five episodes

01:17:09.440 and it'll be terrible

01:17:09.980 and then suddenly

01:17:10.700 you go like

01:17:11.000 whoa

01:17:11.460 what was that?

01:17:12.040 yeah that's exactly

01:17:12.820 right

01:17:12.960 Ben you talk about

01:17:14.080 shows with a lot

01:17:14.740 of cursing

01:17:15.460 one of my favorite

01:17:16.220 movies one of the

01:17:16.880 funniest movies ever

01:17:17.780 I think is Team America

01:17:18.900 yeah

01:17:19.540 I mean it's just

01:17:20.400 side splitting

01:17:21.200 but I will say

01:17:22.380 when Heidi and I

01:17:23.100 were fairly newly

01:17:24.280 married and Heidi

01:17:25.060 and I watched

01:17:25.560 together she's not

01:17:26.180 a movie person

01:17:26.780 but she laughed

01:17:28.540 so hard she almost

01:17:29.300 fell out of the chair

01:17:30.020 so we then were

01:17:31.440 on a family vacation

01:17:32.320 with her parents

01:17:33.000 and we're like

01:17:33.380 okay this is so funny

01:17:34.520 let's put it on

01:17:35.780 and I guess we'd

01:17:37.380 sort of forgotten

01:17:38.260 just how much

01:17:39.180 cursing there is

01:17:40.120 so I'm sitting

01:17:41.060 there with my

01:17:41.680 in-laws

01:17:42.120 watching this

01:17:43.160 like

01:17:43.440 it was really

01:17:45.300 okay don't go

01:17:46.400 down that road

01:17:47.100 do not watch

01:17:47.880 Team America

01:17:48.300 with your in-laws

01:17:48.840 bad bad 1.00

01:17:49.680 the puppet sex 0.99

01:17:50.760 scene 0.99

01:17:51.080 would be like

01:17:52.340 marriage and

01:17:53.060 I did tell my

01:17:54.700 dad

01:17:54.840 so my dad

01:17:55.440 had seen the

01:17:55.920 movie

01:17:56.180 and my mom

01:17:56.840 said can't you

01:17:57.300 watch him

01:17:57.560 I said no

01:17:57.920 this is too old

01:17:58.420 for you

01:17:58.800 even I cringe

01:18:03.020 during the puppet

01:18:03.560 section

01:18:03.760 so I want to

01:18:05.880 take two more

01:18:06.400 questions from

01:18:07.040 our Daily Wire

01:18:07.620 subscribers

01:18:08.120 since you know

01:18:08.980 they keep us

01:18:09.500 all in business

01:18:09.980 so we're going

01:18:10.840 to kick it

01:18:11.160 back over to

01:18:11.980 Elisha at

01:18:12.840 Daily Wire

01:18:13.440 headquarters

01:18:13.840 you can put

01:18:14.620 in your

01:18:14.980 it's not too late

01:18:15.900 to get in a

01:18:16.240 question for

01:18:16.780 any of us

01:18:17.240 or for

01:18:17.560 Senator Cruz

01:18:18.220 over at

01:18:19.120 www.dailywire.com

01:18:21.320 slash subscribe

01:18:22.700 Elisha what have

01:18:23.980 you for us

01:18:24.920 I'm sorry

01:18:25.520 I'm just burning

01:18:26.200 up over here

01:18:26.820 because I have

01:18:27.240 my own personal

01:18:27.800 space heater

01:18:28.400 that is my

01:18:28.980 33 week old

01:18:30.180 baby

01:18:30.540 and I got

01:18:31.600 it's not a baby

01:18:31.960 it's a cluster of cells

01:18:32.740 oh sorry

01:18:33.320 sorry fetus 0.98

01:18:34.560 the heartbeat

01:18:35.480 isn't real either

01:18:36.160 I heard some 1.00

01:18:37.020 idiots say that 1.00

01:18:37.560 on Twitter too 1.00

01:18:38.380 but I got like

01:18:39.640 Michael and I

01:18:40.620 got his and hers

01:18:41.260 matching velvet

01:18:42.000 smoking jackets

01:18:42.600 and I'm still

01:18:43.640 really hurt

01:18:44.820 that I got

01:18:45.520 kicked out of the room

01:18:46.500 and this velvet

01:18:47.420 jacket is burning up

01:18:48.880 and I can't

01:18:49.440 handle it anymore

01:18:50.140 but I will

01:18:51.640 keep it on

01:18:52.260 for our subscribers

01:18:53.180 best dedication

01:18:55.040 Rune wants to know

01:18:56.580 and this question

01:18:57.460 is for everyone

01:18:58.140 so I'd really like

01:18:59.160 everyone's feedback

01:18:59.800 especially since we

01:19:00.660 have a guy that

01:19:01.040 actually ran for

01:19:01.860 president in the room

01:19:02.760 tonight the question

01:19:04.080 for everyone is

01:19:05.120 who do you think

01:19:06.180 is the most genuine

01:19:07.240 democratic presidential

01:19:08.560 candidate

01:19:09.000 genuine

01:19:09.860 the most genuine

01:19:10.620 Bernie

01:19:11.020 Bernie is not afraid

01:19:13.180 to fully be Bernie

01:19:14.040 Bernie says what

01:19:15.000 Bernie believes

01:19:15.700 Bernie shouts

01:19:16.860 what Bernie believes

01:19:17.680 Bernie sings

01:19:18.920 what Bernie believes

01:19:19.880 topless in the

01:19:20.560 Soviet Union

01:19:21.200 at no point is

01:19:25.700 Bernie anything

01:19:26.520 other than Bernie

01:19:27.280 and let me plead

01:19:28.840 with the other

01:19:29.320 democratic candidates

01:19:30.160 please don't follow

01:19:30.920 that particular

01:19:31.480 Ben what do you

01:19:35.300 think

01:19:35.880 well I think

01:19:36.360 you've answered

01:19:37.120 the question

01:19:37.500 we all have the

01:19:37.960 same answer

01:19:38.220 okay next question

01:19:38.860 next question

01:19:39.400 all right

01:19:40.100 this one is for

01:19:40.920 Senator Cruz

01:19:41.560 and comes from

01:19:42.160 a subscriber named

01:19:43.440 John

01:19:43.780 he wants to know

01:19:44.360 can you give us

01:19:45.200 some insight into

01:19:46.060 what it's actually

01:19:47.000 like behind the

01:19:47.740 closed doors of

01:19:48.360 Congress

01:19:48.720 are people

01:19:49.520 actually civil

01:19:50.880 or is it exactly

01:19:52.440 how we see it

01:19:53.160 in the media

01:19:53.560 you know

01:19:53.980 talking heads

01:19:54.900 yelling at each

01:19:55.600 other all the time

01:19:56.140 it varies a lot

01:19:57.860 one of the things

01:19:58.640 is there's very

01:19:59.180 little debate

01:19:59.620 in Congress

01:20:00.120 so like if you

01:20:01.460 go speak on the

01:20:02.280 Senate floor

01:20:02.840 you know

01:20:03.200 you have

01:20:04.980 visions of

01:20:05.800 Mr. Smith

01:20:07.140 going to

01:20:07.640 Washington

01:20:08.080 and you're

01:20:09.380 passionately

01:20:10.080 persuading your

01:20:10.780 colleagues

01:20:11.280 truth of the

01:20:12.100 matter is when

01:20:12.440 you speak on

01:20:12.840 the Senate floor

01:20:13.420 it's usually

01:20:13.900 a completely

01:20:14.760 empty chamber

01:20:15.580 and you're just

01:20:16.100 talking to the

01:20:16.720 C-SPAN

01:20:17.260 camera

01:20:18.380 if you remember

01:20:19.760 the first year

01:20:20.740 I was in the

01:20:21.200 Senate

01:20:21.400 we were debating

01:20:22.120 gun control

01:20:22.740 and I tried

01:20:24.680 to engage

01:20:26.040 Dianne Feinstein

01:20:27.160 on the second

01:20:28.460 amendment

01:20:28.760 and actually have

01:20:29.680 a constitutional

01:20:30.260 debate

01:20:30.680 where her gun

01:20:31.880 control bill

01:20:32.600 specified

01:20:33.860 about 2,000

01:20:35.720 different

01:20:36.240 guns that would 0.82

01:20:38.480 be banned

01:20:38.880 and she specifically

01:20:39.920 named which guns

01:20:40.740 would be banned

01:20:41.200 and which wouldn't

01:20:42.260 and I asked her

01:20:43.340 I said look

01:20:43.820 you've specified

01:20:44.680 you're going to

01:20:45.660 ban some guns

01:20:46.360 and not others

01:20:46.960 now the language

01:20:48.040 of the second

01:20:49.040 amendment

01:20:49.460 that talks about

01:20:52.060 the right of the

01:20:52.640 people to keep

01:20:53.180 and bear arms

01:20:53.900 shall not be

01:20:54.480 infringed

01:20:55.020 that's exactly

01:20:55.820 the same language

01:20:56.720 that you find

01:20:57.920 in other parts

01:20:58.820 of the bill

01:20:59.120 of rights

01:20:59.480 including the

01:21:00.020 first amendment

01:21:00.640 the right of the

01:21:02.760 people to

01:21:03.100 peaceably assemble

01:21:03.940 to speak

01:21:06.400 and I said

01:21:07.740 would you allow

01:21:09.200 the same kind

01:21:09.820 of restrictions

01:21:10.300 on the first

01:21:10.980 amendment

01:21:11.360 specifying which

01:21:12.720 books are allowed

01:21:13.460 and which books

01:21:14.040 aren't that you're

01:21:14.600 willing to allow

01:21:15.120 on the second

01:21:15.520 amendment

01:21:15.780 and I sort

01:21:17.660 of naively

01:21:18.220 as a freshman

01:21:18.880 thought okay

01:21:19.320 that's a

01:21:19.620 constitutional question

01:21:20.480 we're in the

01:21:20.920 senate we're in

01:21:21.380 the judiciary

01:21:21.800 committee

01:21:22.380 we ought to

01:21:22.920 be able to

01:21:23.180 debate these

01:21:23.680 things

01:21:24.020 and you may

01:21:25.800 remember she

01:21:26.260 turned and

01:21:27.240 roared at me

01:21:28.900 I am not a

01:21:29.940 sixth grader

01:21:30.740 and she got

01:21:32.360 incredibly angry

01:21:33.620 with me

01:21:34.260 that I asked

01:21:35.320 her this question

01:21:35.900 the world's

01:21:36.520 greatest deliberative

01:21:37.220 if you had

01:21:37.720 been a sixth

01:21:38.020 grader she would

01:21:38.400 have yelled at you

01:21:38.920 you should have

01:21:39.960 visited her offices

01:21:40.840 and talked to her

01:21:41.440 about climate change

01:21:42.120 it would have been

01:21:42.540 great

01:21:42.780 that was actually

01:21:43.760 pretty spectacular

01:21:44.460 so I have hated

01:21:46.320 my senator my

01:21:47.020 entire life

01:21:47.580 this is my

01:21:48.140 senator and that

01:21:49.100 was the best

01:21:49.580 moment I have

01:21:50.260 ever seen

01:21:50.760 I actually did

01:21:53.080 compliment Diane

01:21:53.900 on that

01:21:54.300 when she turns

01:21:55.600 to the protester

01:21:56.340 the protester

01:21:57.000 said you know

01:21:58.920 what what was it

01:21:59.600 I'm sorry I

01:22:00.240 voted for you

01:22:00.780 she says how

01:22:01.180 old are you

01:22:01.980 16 well then

01:22:02.720 you didn't vote

01:22:03.260 for me

01:22:03.740 that was a

01:22:06.220 pretty remarkable

01:22:06.840 experience

01:22:07.140 the only time

01:22:07.320 I've thought that

01:22:07.900 Diane Feinstein

01:22:08.560 has earned my

01:22:09.340 vote it was so

01:22:10.080 great her owning 1.00

01:22:10.900 small children

01:22:11.580 I was like

01:22:12.280 absolutely

01:22:12.760 I love

01:22:13.360 Diane Feinstein

01:22:14.220 every single

01:22:15.200 moment that

01:22:15.680 Barbara Boxer

01:22:16.300 was in the

01:22:16.680 senate

01:22:16.860 I just thought

01:22:18.520 well if I've

01:22:19.480 only got two

01:22:20.120 I've got to be

01:22:21.000 employed

01:22:21.320 so but on the

01:22:23.340 question it

01:22:23.820 varies a lot

01:22:24.640 that there are

01:22:25.820 some senators

01:22:27.180 sort of like

01:22:27.820 every other

01:22:28.300 group of people

01:22:29.300 there's some

01:22:29.780 senators that are

01:22:30.540 nice that are

01:22:31.120 funny

01:22:31.460 you know there's

01:22:32.720 several of the

01:22:33.160 senators who are

01:22:33.780 running for

01:22:34.240 president on the

01:22:34.660 democratic side

01:22:35.300 who I really

01:22:35.960 like I get

01:22:36.480 along really well

01:22:37.280 with Amy

01:22:38.660 Klobuchar and

01:22:39.540 Kirsten Gillibrand

01:22:40.340 and Cory Booker

01:22:41.340 all three of

01:22:41.860 them I've had

01:22:43.700 dinner with I've

01:22:44.720 hung out with

01:22:45.420 they're other

01:22:46.200 than their

01:22:46.600 policies they're

01:22:47.580 perfectly nice

01:22:48.280 people there are

01:22:49.880 other people who

01:22:50.860 not so much and

01:22:52.520 so it it varies

01:22:53.920 quite a bit

01:22:54.420 have you ever

01:22:54.980 seen anybody in

01:22:56.000 the senate change

01:22:57.120 his or her mind

01:22:58.060 literally on the

01:22:59.740 basis of a

01:23:00.240 logical constitutional

01:23:01.500 argument even

01:23:02.600 off screen I mean

01:23:03.780 even off off the

01:23:04.720 senate floor

01:23:05.180 not often

01:23:08.200 I can tell you

01:23:11.660 a time when I

01:23:12.160 did okay

01:23:12.940 which actually

01:23:14.000 going back to

01:23:14.560 Gillibrand so

01:23:15.680 she and I

01:23:16.280 served served on

01:23:17.160 the senate armed

01:23:17.600 services committee

01:23:18.200 together and

01:23:18.820 she's been a

01:23:19.700 a leader in

01:23:21.280 changing how

01:23:21.860 sexual assault is

01:23:22.820 is prosecuted the

01:23:23.700 military and

01:23:24.360 tragically sexual

01:23:25.900 assault has been a

01:23:26.560 persistent problem

01:23:27.340 and she's been

01:23:28.500 advocating moving

01:23:29.520 the charging decision

01:23:30.600 for sexual assault

01:23:31.480 case from the

01:23:32.860 commanding officer

01:23:33.700 officer to a

01:23:34.820 military prosecutor

01:23:35.880 still a military

01:23:36.640 officer but someone

01:23:37.640 not in the direct

01:23:38.340 chain of command

01:23:38.900 and and I went

01:23:40.380 into to one of the

01:23:41.400 hearings or markups

01:23:42.200 we had on that and

01:23:42.980 I had an open mind

01:23:43.860 I didn't have really

01:23:44.580 a strong opinion on

01:23:46.380 it and she made a

01:23:47.440 whole series of

01:23:48.220 arguments that number

01:23:49.540 one we've been trying

01:23:50.460 for decades to fix it

01:23:51.580 and the military kept

01:23:52.280 saying let us fix it

01:23:53.120 let us fix it and

01:23:54.220 they weren't fixing it

01:23:55.080 the problem was

01:23:55.760 persisting number two

01:23:57.920 the argument the

01:23:58.540 military made is that

01:23:59.520 moving it out of the

01:24:00.240 commanding officer would

01:24:01.120 undermine good order

01:24:02.440 and discipline in the

01:24:03.200 military

01:24:03.640 she pointed out a

01:24:04.820 number of our

01:24:05.400 allies like like the

01:24:06.600 UK and Canada and

01:24:07.700 Israel have done this 1.00

01:24:08.660 and it hasn't

01:24:09.120 undermined good order

01:24:09.880 and discipline and I

01:24:11.100 listened to those

01:24:11.720 arguments and I said

01:24:12.360 you know what that

01:24:12.860 that is pretty

01:24:13.560 persuasive and I went

01:24:14.440 and told her afterwards

01:24:15.320 I agree with you I

01:24:16.620 joined her bill and

01:24:17.640 she and I have led

01:24:18.440 the fight to do that

01:24:19.460 and that was really an

01:24:20.980 instance where I

01:24:21.560 listened to the

01:24:22.000 arguments and was

01:24:22.960 persuaded on the

01:24:23.540 merits that makes me

01:24:24.640 feel better that's

01:24:25.480 nice that's the

01:24:27.340 nicest thing I've

01:24:27.820 heard about DC and

01:24:28.520 like you could only

01:24:29.100 name one example

01:24:29.940 and it's him

01:24:30.440 you know if

01:24:33.140 anything

01:24:33.500 Senator Cruz just

01:24:34.680 cares too much

01:24:35.400 I cannot count the

01:24:40.000 number of times I've

01:24:40.760 been told that

01:24:41.300 Alicia one more from

01:24:44.920 our Daily Wire

01:24:45.400 subscribers

01:24:45.940 all right this

01:24:46.700 question comes from

01:24:47.600 Dan and

01:24:48.180 congratulations Dan to

01:24:49.380 you and your wife he

01:24:50.100 says that they're

01:24:50.520 having their first

01:24:51.300 child in June and

01:24:52.680 wants to know what's

01:24:54.160 the best parenting

01:24:54.980 advice that you can

01:24:55.860 give for a new

01:24:56.900 parent

01:24:57.300 you're a parent

01:25:00.980 for a new parent

01:25:02.720 swaddle

01:25:04.520 all right all

01:25:06.640 right so so let's

01:25:07.360 go back so we our

01:25:08.320 girls Caroline and

01:25:09.200 Catherine are 11 and

01:25:10.120 8 when Caroline was

01:25:11.120 born okay one of the

01:25:12.240 things I didn't know

01:25:13.280 so when Caroline was

01:25:14.360 born she was up all

01:25:15.520 day and or up all

01:25:17.620 night and slept all

01:25:18.360 day and I remember we

01:25:19.080 went to the

01:25:19.440 pediatrician like like 0.95

01:25:20.760 a week into it I'm

01:25:21.840 like okay there's

01:25:22.340 something wrong with

01:25:22.940 this child what's

01:25:23.560 going on and and the

01:25:24.800 doctor begins laughing at

01:25:25.860 me and says look look

01:25:27.060 when when when the

01:25:28.100 baby is it is it is in

01:25:30.240 the womb during the

01:25:31.660 day the mom is walking 0.86

01:25:32.700 around and it's swaying

01:25:33.880 back and forth and so

01:25:35.000 the baby in the womb is

01:25:35.880 sleeping during the day

01:25:36.780 and then when the mom

01:25:37.420 goes to sleep the baby

01:25:38.260 wakes up and says for a

01:25:39.200 week or two the clocks

01:25:40.460 are inverted and I sort

01:25:41.300 of felt relieved okay

01:25:42.080 we're not doing

01:25:42.760 something wrong but

01:25:45.480 getting a child to go

01:25:47.020 to sleep the the you

01:25:50.960 will do anything you

01:25:51.960 will and and Caroline like

01:25:53.860 I would do some of the

01:25:54.640 late-night duty and

01:25:56.580 swaddling where you wrap

01:25:58.000 the baby tightly in a

01:25:59.360 cloth and it actually

01:26:00.240 simulates being squeezed

01:26:01.480 in the womb and then

01:26:02.680 rocking back and forth I

01:26:04.000 used to rock Caroline to

01:26:05.200 sleep swaddled and and

01:26:07.000 listening to Pavarotti

01:26:08.080 which oddly enough

01:26:08.920 comforted her and and so

01:26:11.300 with the parent of a

01:26:12.420 newborn getting your child

01:26:13.840 to bed is a victory that

01:26:16.500 will exceed the highest

01:26:17.940 points in your life to

01:26:18.900 that point yeah that's yeah

01:26:21.640 the ones that they

01:26:22.320 recommend are swaddling and

01:26:23.420 shushing and swinging so

01:26:25.420 those are those are those

01:26:26.420 are big um also I mean if

01:26:28.600 you don't live near family

01:26:29.420 make sure that you have a

01:26:30.680 parent come in for the

01:26:31.600 first few weeks to help

01:26:32.920 take shifts because this

01:26:34.580 is like I live very close

01:26:36.400 to my parents and that has

01:26:37.220 been extremely helpful for

01:26:39.000 me so that that is

01:26:40.840 definitely a big one and

01:26:42.360 then as they get older one

01:26:44.020 that I'm still having

01:26:44.740 trouble with but is

01:26:45.680 absolutely necessary is say

01:26:47.040 no and then stick to no

01:26:48.040 because it's you realize

01:26:50.480 that you know kids think

01:26:51.880 that you're saying no

01:26:52.720 because you're being mean

01:26:53.860 to them and the truth is

01:26:54.680 that it is much harder for

01:26:55.540 you to say no than it is

01:26:56.440 for them to hear no it is

01:26:57.940 very very difficult to say

01:26:59.140 no to your child because

01:27:00.460 half the time you're saying

01:27:01.480 no to something that you

01:27:02.300 also wish that you could

01:27:03.360 enjoy with the kid it's

01:27:04.320 like I we're not going to

01:27:05.660 go out to ice cream now

01:27:06.360 because you were bad it's

01:27:07.100 like well I want to take

01:27:07.700 you out for ice cream that's

01:27:08.340 fun to take you out for

01:27:09.040 ice cream I have a good

01:27:09.820 time taking my kids out for

01:27:10.760 ice cream but if you're

01:27:11.540 acting like a brat now I

01:27:12.400 got to do something about it

01:27:13.440 and that's harsh for me it's

01:27:15.480 hard for me to deal with

01:27:16.300 that being a parent is a

01:27:17.740 lot about recognizing

01:27:18.480 recognizing when you're

01:27:19.520 doing something for you

01:27:20.300 and when you're doing

01:27:20.820 something for for the kid

01:27:22.540 but yeah I mean the

01:27:23.940 biggest thing honestly is

01:27:25.500 just recognizing how hard

01:27:27.500 your life is going to

01:27:28.480 become when you know it

01:27:29.680 does radically shift your

01:27:30.480 life I mean as I've said

01:27:31.280 a thousand times basically

01:27:32.820 the the sort of spectrum

01:27:34.820 of happiness and misery in

01:27:36.640 life when you are single

01:27:37.440 single barring health

01:27:38.520 problems or something when

01:27:39.500 you're single your

01:27:40.300 spectrum of happiness and

01:27:41.460 misery you can get up to

01:27:42.600 like a seven in terms of

01:27:43.480 happiness and down to like

01:27:44.360 a two in terms of

01:27:45.140 unhappiness and then you get

01:27:46.240 married and it goes up to

01:27:47.060 like a ten in terms of

01:27:48.100 happiness and maybe a zero

01:27:49.400 in terms of unhappiness

01:27:50.500 because now you take on

01:27:51.640 your wife's problems or

01:27:52.980 your spouse's burdens and

01:27:54.640 that that's very difficult

01:27:55.460 and then and then you have

01:27:57.260 a kid and all limits are

01:27:58.900 eliminated and then the

01:28:00.080 greatest things that will

01:28:00.780 ever happen to you in your

01:28:01.800 life are the things that

01:28:02.700 your kids do and being with

01:28:03.740 your kids and watching your

01:28:04.620 kids laugh and the worst

01:28:05.760 things that will ever

01:28:06.520 happen to you in your life

01:28:07.740 bar none are all things

01:28:09.020 involving your kids I can

01:28:10.040 easily say that the three

01:28:11.600 four worst things in my

01:28:12.560 and my kids are only five

01:28:13.380 and three the three or four

01:28:14.460 worst things in my life that

01:28:15.580 have ever happened to me are

01:28:16.840 things that involve my

01:28:17.700 kids and I'm not just

01:28:18.720 talking about health

01:28:19.140 problems I mean thank God

01:28:20.120 we had some health

01:28:20.960 problems but thank God

01:28:21.740 those have been taken care

01:28:22.980 of I'm talking about like

01:28:24.060 even when your kids are

01:28:25.060 just being terrible or

01:28:26.280 mean to each other or

01:28:27.540 horrible and you have to

01:28:29.120 deal with it and then

01:28:30.360 here's the other thing

01:28:31.440 trust yourself a little bit

01:28:32.680 so everybody always has

01:28:33.600 input and advice the fact

01:28:34.740 is people have been doing

01:28:35.440 this for several thousand

01:28:36.220 years at this point and

01:28:37.540 barring cataclysmically bad

01:28:39.800 decision making you'll be

01:28:40.600 fine I agree with all of

01:28:42.300 that I think when you have a

01:28:43.440 kid it is as if you had

01:28:45.040 been living with what on

01:28:46.320 stage they call a scrim

01:28:47.400 which has the painted

01:28:48.400 scenery on it and suddenly

01:28:49.700 the thing goes up and he

01:28:50.600 goes oh no that now I see

01:28:51.900 the world in three

01:28:52.780 dimensions I completely

01:28:54.560 agree that you have to

01:28:55.480 stick to the consequences

01:28:56.560 one of the hardest things

01:28:57.580 if you make a threat you

01:28:59.540 got to carry it out so

01:29:00.460 that's why you don't my

01:29:01.100 son has learned that I

01:29:01.780 don't do this consistently

01:29:02.620 and he's eating me alive

01:29:04.120 yes and that's why you

01:29:05.340 don't threaten to kill

01:29:05.940 them because you're

01:29:07.040 probably not going to do

01:29:08.020 that yeah yeah yeah

01:29:09.120 because then you have to

01:29:09.680 do it the other thing as

01:29:11.020 they grow up you know

01:29:12.280 Wordsworth had a great

01:29:13.320 line about wise

01:29:14.060 passiveness and one of the

01:29:15.600 things about kids is they

01:29:16.640 are going to be themselves

01:29:17.560 and you can teach them your

01:29:19.340 values you should teach

01:29:20.240 them your values you can

01:29:21.080 teach them your vision of

01:29:22.080 the world but you got to

01:29:23.140 let them become themselves

01:29:24.140 that is the whole trick and

01:29:25.540 it's almost like it's almost

01:29:26.840 like being a column where

01:29:28.600 you're going to keep the

01:29:29.740 limits of where they can

01:29:31.460 go but you're going to

01:29:32.460 let them go up in their

01:29:33.720 own different their own

01:29:34.520 particular way and that is

01:29:35.720 one of the hardest things

01:29:36.580 to learn especially for

01:29:37.460 active people with strong

01:29:38.640 opinions you know you

01:29:39.460 raised one and a half

01:29:40.180 good kids I raised two of

01:29:42.720 the greatest human beings

01:29:43.780 on earth but however it

01:29:46.200 was my wife you were a kid

01:29:48.280 recently and I was in

01:29:51.460 college so I as far as I

01:29:53.220 know I don't have any kids

01:29:54.180 I have certainly I've

01:29:54.840 acknowledged any of them

01:29:55.860 and one of the great lines

01:29:56.680 in the Odyssey is it's a

01:29:57.920 wise man who knows his own

01:29:58.900 child so this is all advice

01:30:00.560 that I've taken in my

01:30:01.520 perspective parenting but as

01:30:03.140 for the practical parenting

01:30:04.220 I haven't done any of

01:30:05.200 them so I'm not a parent

01:30:06.340 but I you know I'm a lay

01:30:09.400 minister and I counsel

01:30:10.400 people through difficult

01:30:11.900 times in their life

01:30:12.720 you work in Hollywood so

01:30:13.620 you're familiar with

01:30:14.180 infants and and my parenting

01:30:18.000 advice that I give to

01:30:19.300 prospective parents is

01:30:20.380 among my friends I'm known

01:30:22.260 as the baby whisperer and

01:30:23.120 it's only because I know

01:30:23.800 the three S's because my 0.82

01:30:25.180 I'm the oldest of 20,000

01:30:26.600 grandchildren on my

01:30:27.840 maternal side and my

01:30:29.060 mother raised my whole

01:30:29.940 town so there are always

01:30:31.220 like little kids around

01:30:32.020 and it's amazing what just

01:30:32.900 wrapping them tight and

01:30:33.760 shushing them will

01:30:34.360 accomplish I've always

01:30:35.640 wanted to try this with an

01:30:36.340 adult somebody's

01:30:38.360 complaining too loudly

01:30:38.980 just grab a blanket you

01:30:39.820 swaddle them but I do have

01:30:42.400 one great piece of

01:30:43.320 parenting advice for our

01:30:45.060 subscriber and his wife

01:30:46.260 and that's a don't get a

01:30:48.220 divorce no it's great 0.72

01:30:49.660 advice yeah excellent your

01:30:51.140 your children you speak

01:30:52.980 about this all the time

01:30:53.780 your children have a

01:30:55.760 planet on which they live

01:30:57.000 and that planet is your

01:30:59.360 relationship with your

01:31:00.220 wife and when you choose

01:31:03.140 to sever that bond you are

01:31:05.120 blowing up their planet and 0.95

01:31:06.620 they they will not recover

01:31:08.500 and I had this argument with

01:31:09.680 a close friend recently and

01:31:11.660 he pushed back and said you

01:31:13.160 know kids are versatile they

01:31:15.300 they bounce back you know

01:31:16.300 they're made out of rubber

01:31:17.000 they and and all of that's

01:31:18.200 true people survive people

01:31:21.320 adapt and people survive but

01:31:24.120 the the fundamental damage

01:31:26.060 that you do to a child when

01:31:28.080 you sever from them the

01:31:29.240 relationship between their

01:31:30.100 mother and father cannot be

01:31:31.720 repaired won't be repaired

01:31:32.920 when they're in their 30s

01:31:34.460 they're going to struggle as

01:31:35.400 a result of it when they're

01:31:36.500 in their 50s they're going

01:31:37.400 to struggle as a result of

01:31:38.360 it when they are

01:31:39.160 grandparents themselves

01:31:40.420 they're going to struggle

01:31:41.120 as a result of it there

01:31:43.000 won't be a day of their life

01:31:44.140 that isn't marked by the

01:31:45.780 thing that you took away from

01:31:46.900 them in service of self and

01:31:48.880 ultimately I think what it

01:31:50.540 means to be a parent is not

01:31:52.360 to serve self as the

01:31:53.360 highest yeah yeah I think

01:31:55.060 all of that is great advice

01:31:56.160 and and to add to that just

01:31:57.620 to add to that a little

01:31:58.460 codicil is be nice to your

01:32:00.400 spouse you know I mean like

01:32:01.300 be grateful because because

01:32:02.400 spouses do all the stuff 1.00

01:32:03.360 that's invisible you know like

01:32:04.820 husbands put roofs over your 1.00

01:32:06.300 head and nobody nobody ever

01:32:07.440 looks up you know what was

01:32:08.420 that Chris Rock line nobody

01:32:09.740 ever says thanks dad it's

01:32:10.940 easy to read with this light

01:32:11.940 that works you know and and

01:32:14.240 and wives do a million things 1.00

01:32:16.420 that it's easy to ignore

01:32:17.540 but it's gratitude but you

01:32:19.040 you know marriage is hard

01:32:19.820 work you know one of the

01:32:21.340 things Heidi and I try to do

01:32:22.420 is we try to do date night

01:32:23.680 every week and actually our

01:32:25.060 girls get mad at us because 1.00

01:32:26.060 I'm on the road a lot and

01:32:26.960 they say why are you guys

01:32:27.720 going out together and and

01:32:28.940 I try to with our girls say 0.94

01:32:30.440 look this is important for

01:32:32.140 you and for the family for us

01:32:33.460 to keep a strong marriage and

01:32:35.080 and when y'all grow up and

01:32:36.140 are married and have kids you

01:32:37.120 need to keep a strong

01:32:38.140 marriage you need to marry a 0.99

01:32:40.000 man who loves you and and who

01:32:41.740 you are the best friend to

01:32:43.340 them in the world and and

01:32:44.320 that that's hopefully a good

01:32:47.640 example for kids to see this

01:32:49.260 is the best advice we've

01:32:50.080 ever given on the show

01:32:50.940 yeah this guy lucked out

01:32:52.820 whoever he was take our

01:32:53.980 advice on parenting but

01:32:55.060 don't drink and smoke for

01:32:56.120 God's sake don't do as we

01:32:59.160 do so thanks everybody for

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