Racism & Liberals： YES or NO with Dr. Ben Carson
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1 hour and 4 minutes
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Dr. Ben Carson is a pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins and the first man to successfully separate conjoined twins at the head. He s also the former secretary of housing and urban development, former presidential candidate, and the winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Take your index finger and touch that card right there.
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The sound weights had to leave my lips, travel to the air,
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and in your extra and all-outrements, travel down to your tympanic membrane,
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travel across the oscals of the middle ear to the ovum round with a seventh vibratory force,
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distorted the microcilia, converting mechanical energy to electrical energy,
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travel across the cochlear nerve to the cochlear nucleus at the pontomedullary junction
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coming down the cortical spinal tract, across the internal capsule,
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extending down to the cervical medullary decussation,
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into the sporadic or gray matter synapses in there,
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stimulating the nerve and the muscle so you could point to that card.
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There are not many things that could get me to drink a martini at 10 o'clock in the morning.
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But I am so very excited to play this game at any time that my guest today has free.
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He is the leader of the American Cornerstone Institute.
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He is the former head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins.
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He is, I believe, the first man ever to successfully separate conjoined twins at the head.
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He's also the former secretary of housing and urban development.
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He's also written, I think, a bazillion books and academic publications.
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He's also the winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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I probably could go on listing this man's accomplishments for the rest of the show.
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Dr. Ben Carson, thank you for playing the yes or no game.
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I have to tell you, I was a little bit nervous when I heard that you were eager to play and
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you had ordered a frosty glass of root beer because you don't drink alcohol.
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I said, this is one of the most serious and accomplished men in the United States.
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How can I have him on my stupid drinking show to play this game?
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Well, as long as I'm drinking root beer, it's fine.
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So, have you heard the rules at all of this game?
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You will move my glass to how you think I would answer the question.
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I will move your frosty glass of root beer to how I think you would answer the question.
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And then we'll switch and you read the prompt and we'll play from there on.
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Without further ado, usually, if there's a woman on the show, I'll say ladies first.
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But since you are very much a man, despite our cultural confusion these days, I will go first.
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With the exponential growth of artificial intelligence, it is likely that tasks such as driving, coding, and even surgery will be handled by robotics and AI in the next 20 years.
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Well, you know, that's an area that's going to really blossom.
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Something that we have to be very careful about, though, because although it can be used for a lot of good things, you know we always have a tendency to pervert the use of good things and use them for bad areas.
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And particularly when I look at something like education, combination of virtual reality and AI means that when a kid is studying,
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the Peloponnesian War, he can be right there, seeing what's going on.
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But by the same token, they can create their own world.
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And it's hard enough to get kids away from the Nintendo and the Playstations.
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I mean, how are you going to get them out of that artificial world?
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And then all of a sudden, the Peloponnesian War might not look quite like Thucydides said it looked.
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Although you will probably remember because you were there.
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Will a robot ever be, will a robot ever match the ability of an excellent surgeon to perform surgery?
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It'll go beyond the best surgeon because it's so precise and it is able to take into consideration so many different things.
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Sometimes, though, I say if we get it wrong, we have to drink.
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The Department of Transportation would be in better shape if Pete Buttigieg spent the rest of 2024 on maternity leave.
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We will get into that question in just one second.
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And in, I don't know, and I think all of politics.
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We have the expansion pack of conspiracy theories.
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But, you know, there's so much that could be done in the Department of Transportation.
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Have you ever thought about, for instance, you come to a stop at a red light.
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There's nothing going in either direction, and yet you're sitting there for two minutes.
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I had this argument with a buddy of mine a couple years ago.
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It's humiliating that I have to wait for two minutes at midnight when there's a red light.
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After midnight, if you come to a light and there's nobody in either direction you can go through,
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But, you know, we have those sensors on the ground.
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Why wouldn't we place those particularly at busy intersections?
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So that if there's nothing coming, you know, the light stays green in your direction.
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It would pay for itself in the amount of fuel that is not wasted.
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But, you know, those are the things that the Department of Transportation ought to be thinking about.
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Instead, they're focused on the racist bridges in Long Island.
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Unlike Michael Knowles, Dr. Carson is not a failed actor.
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We need to have some personnel conversations after this.
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I don't think I saw any Broadway or soft shoe on there, so I'm going to say...
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I guess the difference, though, the reason why I think the answers are still right is, you know, my biggest movies I was ever in...
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Well, recently I was in one called Lady Ballers, which is a transvestite comedy.
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And the other one was Holly Weird is probably the biggest movie.
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But, you know, you're doing movies with Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear.
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So I guess you would have to say you're actually a rather successful actor.
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Well, Matt Damon said to me, he said, I'll teach you how to act if you teach me brain surgery.
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And there was one scene with, what was the woman's name?
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And, you know, they had to do several takes of it.
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And she had to push me because of something that I said.
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Your wife must have been happier that it was Eva Mendez pushing you instead of Eva Mendez, you know, kissing you or something.
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I also did an Alfred Hitchcock and the Gifted Hands movie, the autobiographic movie.
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We were walking by reading a chart while Cuba Gooding was scrubbing his hands.
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But you've got a long list of accomplishments in a lot of different fields.
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I thought the one thing I might have on you is that I've been in movies.
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In the long term, DEI is more dangerous for the country than another Joe Biden presidency.
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But I'm not sure the country could survive another Joe Biden presidency.
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The direction that we're going in so quickly and so destructively.
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Having said that, DEI is antithetical to all the things that we worked for and so many
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people gave their lives for during the civil rights movement.
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And now we're trying to say, you know, this is more important.
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Last month, the Glass-Lewis people recommended against me on one of the boards I sit on because
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I'm the chairman of the nominating governance committee.
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They clearly didn't think even one step ahead here.
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There's also the fact that DEI, it's annoying, it's bad, it's quite dangerous.
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But it's just a persistent liberal impulse that keeps cropping up over the ages.
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Whereas when we're talking about another Biden presidency, we're talking about pretty concrete
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political power to actually instantiate all of these kind of policies.
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It's not, you know, it's even kind of difficult to separate the two as far as I can tell.
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It's just one is this annoying ideology that pervades a lot of corporate America.
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The other is the power to implement it at a much larger scale.
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Well, to understand the Biden administration and their things that they advocate, just read
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So, you'll see it very clearly denunciated in terms of what they're doing.
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If you go back and you read the congressional record for January the 10th, 1963, Congressman
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Herlong of Florida read into the record the 45 goals of communism in America.
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So, a lot of the stuff that's going on right now, gaining control of the school systems,
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indoctrinating the kids, gaining control of the media, spoon-feeding the people which
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want them to know, making sexual perversion normal, natural, and healthy.
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I mean, the list goes on and on, driving wedges between parents and children.
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And it's really the reason that Khrushchev, more than 60 years ago, said to Eisenhower,
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your grandchildren's grandchildren will live under our system.
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And we, the American people, are going to have to be smart enough to understand that
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It's amazing how many of those points you mention focus on the destruction of the family,
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which is the subject of your new book, The Perilous Fight, Overcoming Our Culture's War
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It seems so obvious to me, though, that, you know, there are different levels of politics.
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There's the national government, the state government.
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But the fundamental unit of politics, it's not the individual.
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So, if you want to really gut a political system, that's where you've got to focus your
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The family to the community, to the state, to the nation.
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And if you can destroy that, which they have done a very good job of, they've been working
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First of all, denigrating the role of fathers in the family.
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And then, you know, taking the opinion of children who are immature and elevating that to
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the same level of someone who has a mature brain.
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Due to his sedentary millennial lifestyle and cigar addiction, Michael Knowles is less
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healthy in his 30s than Dr. Carson is in his 70s.
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Unfortunately, I think we know my answer to that, too.
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Well, but if we were being honest, it would be a sin to lie.
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I don't do all of the terrible things for your health.
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I don't exercise, but I've been told that exercise, look, you run too much, it hurts
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your knees, you know, you don't want to peak too soon, is what I'm saying.
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But what I used to always say, and I still say it, if everybody ate three well-balanced meals
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a day, drank six to eight glasses of water, exercised regularly, got regular sleep, and
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didn't put harmful substances in their body, most of us in medicine would be out of business.
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So, you know, in a way, really, I'm just helping the industry.
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It's that I eat great meals every day, because while I am irresponsible and unhealthy, my
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She makes sure, she can't make me exercise, she can't throw out my cigars.
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I guess she could, but I would burst into tears.
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She can't, you know, do all these other things.
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And that's not a trite statement, because a lot of people aren't getting married these
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And if you don't get married, and you don't procreate, what happens to your population over
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It's odd, too, because I believe in marriage as a theological and philosophical matter,
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You obviously have focused on your career quite a lot.
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I feel that marriage has only helped my career, my professional life.
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And even beyond that, I don't know what my life would even be like or mean without my
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It's almost, even though I haven't been married that long, it's unthinkable to even view my
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Well, I will just confirm that for you, having been married for 49 years.
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And we couldn't have raised our children the way that we did without her.
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And, you know, she has a degree from Yale, a degree from Johns Hopkins.
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What makes it even more impressive, Dr. Carson?
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I guess we're the three conservatives that ever came out of that place.
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But from the same residential college, too, actually.
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But I thought you managed to find this great wife early in your life.
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You've had this wonderful marriage and family with her.
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But truly, if you think it's rare to find a man at Yale who is conservative, kind of normal,
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grounded, when it comes to the women, I have a few friends from there.
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Because, you know, they say it's always darkest before the dawn.
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And sometimes it has to be pretty dark before people see the light.
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And I think a lot of people are actually waking up and seeing the light.
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And that's why you're seeing the migration, particularly in the African-American community, toward more conservative views.
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But they were sold the line that, you know, one particular party was completely in their favor and the other one was not.
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And, you know, it was said for a long time that the Republicans were racist, horrible people.
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And growing up as a Democrat myself, I did the wrong thing from the Democratic point of view.
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And I said, he doesn't sound like a horrible racist person.
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And I began to start reevaluating and looking at things for myself at that point.
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That irritates a lot of people when you do that.
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After listening to Sam Harris, there is a greater than 50% chance Trump derangement syndrome is a legitimate neurological disease.
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Well, you've got to, the word legitimate changes the answer.
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But it shows you what can happen to a person when they're hearing certain things time and time again.
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And how it can actually affect the way that they think.
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Would you say it's, to me, another key word there is neurological.
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So it might, if you actually looked in the brain, it might be difficult to identify the little orange man who was driving.
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But there would seem to be some psychological afflictions that go along with this.
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Yeah, so I could see it as a psychological disease, a legitimate psychological disease.
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But we're all sort of products of our environment.
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And what we hear and what we decide that we're going to accept and what we hear.
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And that's why it's so important, particularly in our school systems, to make sure that we're not giving children a bunch of propaganda.
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Because the human brain continues to develop until your mid-20s, mid to late 20s.
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And so when you take an 8-year-old, 9-year-old, 10-year-old, and you start feeding them all kinds of propaganda, recognize that children are very curious and very suggestible.
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So you're not doing them any favors by feeding them these kinds of materials.
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And it's really, as far as I'm concerned, child abuse.
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When you're telling little boys, you may not be a little boy, you may actually be a little girl.
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And, of course, they're hearing that all the time.
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And, in fact, if they accept that, then they get to be a victim, which is like a bunch of gold stars.
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And that's why you're seeing this phenomenon occurring in our society.
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Because if you say, on the one hand, victimhood carries social currency, you'll be treated better, you'll be exalted.
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And also, here is your only route to victimhood.
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It doesn't take a brain surgeon to recognize how those incentives work.
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Great point, too, that you make on being a product somewhat of our environments, in that if you fill a kid's head up with lies and you encourage all sorts of lusts and lower appetites in them, you've now corrupted both aspects of their free will.
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It would be a lot harder for them to live as free men.
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I mean, that's why Vladimir Lenin said, give me your children to teach for four years and the seed that I sow will never be uprooted.
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And that's why they're so anxious to be in the school system early on and to infect the brains of our children.
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And that's why we have to be every bit as aggressive, if not more aggressive, in protecting our children.
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Of the government agencies that need to be greatly reformed or abolished entirely, the FBI is at the top of the list.
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They're spying on my church among the myriad other abuses.
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Well, when you take the Justice Department and you use it unjustly, obviously, that's not going to be a good outcome.
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And when we're using the DOJ to eliminate a political opponent, isn't that something that we would expect in Russia?
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And yet it's happening right before our very eyes and nothing's being done about it.
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Now, ultimately, our founders were very smart people.
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And that's why they put the power to change it in the hands of the people through our ability to vote.
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The problem is people don't take voting seriously.
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Most people, they go into the booth or they take the sheet and they just look for the name that looks familiar.
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And this is the time when people need to be very serious.
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They need to look at the records of the people who have represented them for a long time.
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And if they don't agree with them, they need to do something about that.
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Because we can see that there are those who have a totalitarian spirit.
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And it really doesn't matter what you do to them.
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And if righteousness is defined essentially by their own will,
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then there's nothing that they're not justified in doing in their own minds.
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It's really the same mindset the jihadists have and the infidels.
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There's a remark that Pope Benedict made in Regensburg some years ago
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when he said there's a distinction between the God of Christianity and the God of Islam.
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And the God of Christianity is synonymous with logic.
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He's the logos, whereas, and Pope Benedict got in trouble for saying this,
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but he cited a medieval Islamic writer, Ibn Hassam,
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who pointed out that the God of Islam is a God of pure will,
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such that if Allah in Islam wanted to make his followers worship idols,
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Whereas within Christianity, you have a logical God.
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I think your comparison to the jihadis is apt in that we're talking about a total transcendent will.
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One day they can tell us the distinction between men and women is very important to advance feminism
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The next day they'll tell us there's no distinction at all to advance transgenderism.
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And then Thursday they're going to tell us something totally different.
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And, of course, they assume that people are stupid.
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It is more difficult to find a reason to vote for Democrats
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Well, it is difficult to find a reason to vote for Democrats
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Well, now at least I finally get to drink since I got your answer wrong.
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My only reason why I would say, yes, it is easier to separate conjoined twins at the head
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than it is to find a reason to vote for Democrats is...
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But I probably am the most noted expert on this,
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having written a number one best-selling tome called
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Reasons to Vote for Democrats, a Comprehensive Guide.
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Now I'm sitting across from an expert in a different field
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My only point is, you successfully accomplished your task.
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I'll drink anyway, since I got your answer wrong.
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I would deny my profession if I said yes to that.
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I'm somewhat overthinking it, because I want to say you got my answer wrong
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and I want to put yes, but then ultimately I think I'm actually going to put it as no.
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My argument being, obviously, we have some idea how the brain works.
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Well, we certainly wouldn't be opening up people's heads and operating on it if we...
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But if the question is taken to be, ultimately, we don't know how the brain works.
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But then furthermore, I do think we have an idea of how the brain works in the sense that
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we know that human beings are body and soul, and we know that our physical bodies reflect
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a metaphysical reality, and we know that we are rational creatures with a free will.
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Now, it's quite abstracted from, you know, scissors.
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For instance, I say to you, take your index finger and touch that card right there.
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The sound weights had to leave my lips, travel to the air, and in your external auditory
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matrix, travel down to your tympanic membrane, set up a vibratory force, was traveled across
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the oscals of the middle ear to the over and around when the second vibratory force distorted
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the microcilia, converting mechanical energy to electrical energy, travel across the cochlear
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nerve to the cochlear nucleus at the pontomedullary junction from there to the superior olivary
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nucleus, ascending bilaterally up the brainstem to the lateral luniscus to the inferior colliculus
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Across the thalamic radiations to the posterior temporal lobes, begin the auditory processing
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from there to the frontal lobes, down the tractors, take the jury, retrieve the memory from
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the metacampus structure in the mammary bodies, back to the frontal lobes to start the motor
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response at the bed cell level, coming down the corticospinal tract, across the internal
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capsule, into the cerebral pedo, and extending down to the cervical medullary decussation
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into the sopranogorgary matter, stimulating the nerve and the muscle, so you could point
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But my point being, we know a lot about the brain.
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We just don't know all there is to know about it.
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But that is more, you're right, I'm willing to wager that is more than, more than nothing.
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I'll drink anyway, just to try to understand all.
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The euphonium is for people who can't handle the tuba.
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For those who don't know, the euphonium is a baritone.
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In fact, I was offered a scholarship to Interlochen, which is a music camp in Michigan for very talented musicians.
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And my band teacher, even though it would have been a big feather in his cap, he said,
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Benny, don't accept it because you're going to be a great doctor and I don't want you to get distracted.
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There are some very good teachers who actually care a lot more about their students than they do about their own accolades.
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There have been a lot of good teachers that I've encountered over the course of time.
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Unfortunately, many teachers have also subscribed to Marxist-like tendencies.
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The teacher unions have subscribed to Marxist philosophies.
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And that's why there's such an explosion right now of charter schools, home schools, faith-based schools,
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trying to avert some of the damage that those people can do to our kids.
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Do you ever regret passing on the high-flying euphonium star lifestyle, the groupies?
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I don't because I still get to enjoy the music because my wife is a musician.
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And she was playing at a concert here last night with the Nashville Praise Symphony.
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You know, I strum a guitar, a little ukulele every now and again,
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but then you really raised the bar with the euphonium and the violin.
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My wife had them all playing string instruments as they were growing up,
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one on the violin, one on the viola, one on the cello.
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Yeah, and then she plays violin, so they had a string quartet.
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And they performed in lots of different places.
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I fear that I would pop whatever the first step of your brain working.
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I would explode it if I played it for you right now.
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You say, well, I still get to enjoy the music, but in an amateur way.
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And I think, you know, amateur means lover, you know, like amatore.
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If I were a professional musician, I'd probably be totally miserable.
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But because I get to strum a little bit with my kids, it's lovely.
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Well, when my middle son, who played cello, would play with his mom,
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I would call their act, yo, yo, ma, and yo, ma, ma.
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Dr. Ben Carson is known for beating the odds throughout his life.
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However, graduating from Yale University and joining the Navy
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while being married to a woman might have been statistically the greatest improbability.
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Dr. Carson, I don't know if you've heard some of the pop culture rumors about Yale.
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They suggest that Yalies are a touch light in the loafers.
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They make the same kind of arguments about the Navy.
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And as a graduate of Yale, I would like to be offended on your behalf for that extremely
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insulting question, even if statistically there might be some truth to it.
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Dr. Ben Carson is known for beating the odds throughout his life.
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However, graduating from Yale University and joining the Navy,
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you can tell the quality of researchers we have here in the producer room,
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while being married to a woman might have been statistically the greatest improbability.
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I think we have to cancel that question since it's based on inappropriate information.
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And also, when they talk about Yale, they say one in four may be more.
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Statistically, the odds of becoming the greatest neurosurgeon in the country are actually tougher
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The first thing we should do to help overcome our culture's war on the American family
00:40:08.280
is to reform divorce laws to be more fair to men and encourage women to not get tattoos
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I recently had a debate with a young woman who, she might put it differently, but it seems
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that she discourages men from getting married because the divorce laws, divorce laws obviously
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are quite unfair and not conducive to flourishing today.
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But she says, basically, until those divorce laws change, it's a bad idea to get married.
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Whereas I say, it's always a good idea to get married, you know, be fruitful and multiply.
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It's a good idea to get married, but people need to understand marriage.
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And, you know, when two people get married, it's like taking two pieces of sandpaper and rubbing them together.
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Okay, but you've got to keep rubbing them together until they become smooth.
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And, you know, no-fault divorce and all these easy ways of getting out of it, it's not very helpful.
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And I remember as a child how hurtful it was when my parents got divorced.
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Every night I prayed that they would get back together.
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And, of course, as I got older, I understood why.
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He married my mother when she was 13 years old.
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And, you know, she was happy to do that because trying to escape from dire poverty in rural Tennessee,
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a large family where she was shuffled from home to home, she was just trying to get out of there.
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But I'll tell you an interesting thing about my mother with all that going on.
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Problem was she never felt sorry for us either.
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I do love that attitude, though, that you're describing of her,
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which is I basically think there is no reason ever to whine about anything.
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If you're going to criticize something as a political matter and then try to fix that, I'm all for it.
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But just kind of whining about any slight that happens to you, I think basically in all circumstances, it's not going to help you.
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But I'm for anything that will preserve marriage and put divorce on the back burner.
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The reason, sometimes people don't, they say, why divorce law?
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There's so many other problems in the country, the border, the this, the economy, the this.
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It seems a little abstracted, but it's what we were talking about earlier.
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The family is the building block of the whole political order.
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If you fracture that, you can never have a stable political order.
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And understand that that's where children get their values from.
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And one of the reasons that the social media and all these things have become so powerful
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is because children are not getting their solid foundation and base from their family.
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They're going to look for some place to get it.
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And unfortunately, those places frequently are not good places.
00:44:04.420
Nicotine in its pure form is more beneficial for the human brain than CBD oil.
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One a derivative of tobacco, one a derivative of the Haitian oregano, the devil's lettuce,
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Nicotine is more beneficial than or less harmful, say.
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Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known to man.
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It's even more addictive than the ingredients of that joint that people smoke.
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Well, with that hint, I'm going to say you will say no.
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Dr. Carson, I may finally have pulled ahead in this game because I, now, say it's just
00:45:00.160
my own bias because I like cigars and have a cigar company, Mayflower Cigars.
00:45:05.280
I'm not saying either are beneficial necessarily.
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You know, the best thing that comes out of marijuana is it makes you appreciate Doritos
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So I guess I'm saying if you had to choose between the two, I would recommend nicotine.
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And I know that marijuana is not physically all that addictive.
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But habitually, psychologically, I find people who get into the old, you know, Peruvian parsley,
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Well, you have to also consider the other effects other than the mental effects.
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Nicotine, very detrimental to your lungs, to your upper respiratory tract.
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There's, there's a disease called Berger's disease that's exacerbated by smoking.
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And it causes the little blood vessels and even the smallest blood vessels to close.
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And you see people actually losing the ends of their fingers.
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And I've seen pictures of people and they're still smoking with their stumps.
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I have a friend who does, he doesn't smoke cigarettes, so it's not the lung issues.
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But he takes those pouches, like Zin, you know, he takes, and I said, you're taking a lot of those pouches.
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I'll try one every now and again, but I don't, you know, buy them or anything.
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And he said, oh yeah, I have them all the time.
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He said, tell you though, sometimes I wake up, you know, my fingers are a little like tingly.
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Due to biological advantages, men should be barred from competing in women's chess competitions.
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Is there any way to get out of answering this question without losing my show?
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I have my answer that I think is going to prevent me from being canceled on this show.
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Men should be, because I don't think there are any biological advantages.
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When it comes to intellect, there are biological advantages when it comes to strength.
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So my argument as to why maybe one could have answered yes would, is actually the argument
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for ultimately answering no, I think, which is the Larry Summers argument.
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The reason he got thrown out of Harvard is he said, well, look, the paucity of women in
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certain academic fields, their relative scarcity is because at the high end of the bell curve,
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But that means that at the low end, because the bell curve is wider for men, that means
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that also the dumbest people on earth are going to be men as well.
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And women just kind of have it a little bit more together in the middle.
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So, but because of that, then that means that the average and median woman is going to be
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just as intelligent as the average and median man.
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When God created man and woman, how did he create woman?
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And also, I'm not saying that women can't sometimes be taken to flights of fancy, occasionally
00:49:58.280
be a little irrational, but generally speaking, I have found women to be a bit more pragmatic,
00:50:05.320
to think in a more pragmatic way sometimes than men do.
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Sometimes when my wife and I are trying to figure out a course of action, she will often
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I will be a little bit more the idealistic one.
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Well, then we're definitely not playing chess today.
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I'm glad I'm not getting totally blown out of the water.
00:50:42.760
If Congress can send $113 billion in aid to Ukraine, then we can at least spend half that
00:50:58.760
The reason is not because we shouldn't do that.
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It just seems politically we are incapable of the most basic functions of the government.
00:51:12.080
Well, it is kind of sad, but there must be a reason that this administration is willing
00:51:23.780
to subject the American people to what is going to be a horrendous situation because
00:51:31.180
of the people who are coming in through our border, many of whom have very nefarious purposes.
00:51:41.400
And they're going to inflict tremendous harm on us.
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And what excuse will they give at that point for having let all those people in?
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No, because they pretend that all those people, some of whom are from the Middle East, some
00:51:58.560
of whom are from China, some of whom are from all over the place, all of whom have worked
00:52:02.580
with the criminal cartels which control the border, they'll say to those people, they're
00:52:06.440
just dreamers, you know, escaping political repression in Honduras or something.
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Would they say that about their own home in which they had children if all of a sudden
00:52:16.840
the prisons let everybody out and a whole bunch of people came to their house and said,
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I like your house, I want to live here, I'm going to eat your food, I'm going to sleep
00:52:26.360
in your bed, and I'm going to do all these things.
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It's going to happen in El Paso, then they'll send them to politically convenient places around
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I think, especially for 10 o'clock in the morning, that might be a little more fitting.
00:52:56.360
Dr. Carson has a great Trump story to tell from working at the White House.
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So the prompt is, Dr. Carson has a great Trump story to tell.
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I bet you will have about 200 great Trump stories from working at the White House.
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Let's just show you what kind of sense of humor he has.
00:53:40.780
He was telling Candy and I, he said, you know, years ago, I would be in a hotel, and it would
00:53:49.920
be midnight, and there'd be a knock on my door.
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I'd say, who's knocking on my door at midnight?
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And he'd open the door, and there'd be this gorgeous woman throwing herself at him.
00:54:11.680
So it's sort of like the Ben Franklin autobiography, in which he says that he decided that he was
00:54:20.460
As a young man, he decided he was going to work, and he was going to have, you know,
00:54:24.420
the strength of so-and-so, and the prudence of so-and-so, and the humility of Socrates
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But then he says, you know, and along the way, on my path to virtue, occasionally a woman
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fell into my path, and I said, oh, hold on, just sort of fell from the sky?
00:54:42.820
Well, Benjamin Franklin was an amazing guy, though.
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He was a genius, along with Thomas Jefferson and some of the others.
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Their ability to foresee things and to propose solutions was pretty amazing.
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And especially in the case of Franklin, he was just a total polymath, right?
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You know, he was a publisher, a politician, an inventor, a diplomat, a scientist, everything.
00:55:10.460
And that had a lot to do with, I think, our success as a nation, putting, you know, those
00:55:20.200
And, you know, what we need to think about in this nation right now is why is it that
00:55:27.780
Even now, when people say how horrible we are, you still see people trying to flood in
00:55:35.600
All the people who always say, I'm going to move to Canada if Trump gets elected.
00:55:39.660
They never make good on that promise, much to my dismay.
00:55:42.920
Well, you know, Candy and I have traveled to 68 countries.
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And I can tell you, there's no place like this country, and that's why we really need
00:56:01.320
And those people who are trying to fundamentally change this nation are not our friends.
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And, you know, we need to know what we're up against.
00:56:13.080
And, you know, people say, don't talk about politics and don't talk about religion.
00:56:20.440
Those are the very things we need to be talking about.
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We need to be talking about the things that are fundamental to who we became as a nation.
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You're supposed to talk about Hollywood and sports and not talk about the important things.
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Particularly don't talk about them to your children.
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And they become very easy prey for those who do talk about them.
00:56:47.200
And on my birthday, this is kind of more, I think about death.
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But I think, because I'm born, and so a consequence of my being born is I'm going to die one day.
00:57:04.420
And I think, okay, well, am I doing the things I want to be doing?
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Am I accomplishing the things that I want to accomplish?
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But it's important for people to think about final things.
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Because it's only when you think about final things that all the other things come into perspective.
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It's hard to actually have a good answer to that if you don't believe in something.
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And if you don't see something bigger than yourself.
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For a lot of people themselves, that's the end all.
00:57:47.660
So that's why they try to spend everything on themselves and everything is central to them.
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I don't see how that can ever bring happiness to anyone.
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The greatest things are things that you do for others.
00:58:06.360
And I remember about a year ago, I was in the airport, and a guy comes running up to me.
00:58:13.560
And he says, Dr. Carson, Dr. Carson, you won't remember me.
00:58:26.720
And last week, we celebrated her 33rd birthday.
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I don't remember you, but I'm glad you came up to me.
00:58:42.640
But what we can do in our environment to improve it for others, that's the only thing that I think brings real happiness.
00:58:52.880
You know, I can tell you from having grown up in dire poverty to, you know, now when, you know, we're very affluent people now.
00:59:07.480
What brings happiness is the relationships that you have with other people and the things that you do in your environment.
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They have not figured out a way to take it with them yet.
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Maybe when you figure out how to take it with you, maybe that'll change, but I wouldn't hold my breath for it.
00:59:30.000
If Michael Nose had chosen to become a neurosurgeon, he would have made the world a better place.
00:59:37.820
He wouldn't have been, he wouldn't have been a good doctor, but at least he wouldn't be doing political commentary anymore.
00:59:46.340
Well, I think Ben Shapiro wrote these questions.
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Well, you would have made the world a better place.
01:00:08.080
But I'm not sure that you wouldn't have been a good doctor.
01:00:17.760
Dr. Ben Carson, one of the biggest, most important doctors in America, says I would have been good.
01:00:34.820
That's very kind of you to end with a compliment.
01:00:41.820
Even the four sips I've had of this have been a little much.
01:00:45.020
Maybe I'll eat the olive, and that can be my breakfast.
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Dr. Carson, this was truly among the top birthday gifts I could have gotten.
01:00:52.720
To meet you today to find out that not only are you a man that I've admired for a long time, but you're even more admirable because you managed to make it out of that crazy institution in New Haven and have such an amazing and important career.
01:01:13.800
They have sort of gone a little bit over the deep end, but there are good people there.
01:01:20.900
And, you know, it started out as an institution that prepared ministers.
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For God, for country, and for Yale is the slogan.
01:01:30.360
You look at Harvard, you look at all of these students, they all started out that way.
01:01:34.640
And look what's happened over the course of time.
01:01:37.340
And it's happening largely because people remain silent.
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I think the majority of Americans actually think logically and have common sense.
01:01:58.480
But what they have to remember is you cannot be the land of the free if you're not the home of the brave.
01:02:04.560
Courage being the prerequisite of all of the virtues.
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And my friend Andrew Klavan sometimes points out.
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The problem is not so much that our elites, whether we're talking about at a university or in the government or media or wherever.
01:02:18.000
It's not that our elites won't practice what they preach.
01:02:22.020
It's that they won't preach what they practice.
01:02:24.080
In that the elites still know it's good to get married.
01:02:40.920
And it's no wonder when those people have much more difficult lives.
01:02:51.160
It goes into deep explanations, gives the statistics.
01:02:54.800
Because people need to understand what's happening.
01:02:59.720
They need to understand that they're being played, that they're being manipulated.
01:03:03.520
That those who want to fundamentally change America realize that we're too powerful to be taken down militarily, but that we can be taken down from within.
01:03:13.140
And therefore, all the emphasis on dividing us on the basis of race, age, income, religion, political affiliation, gender, you name it, throw it in the pot, divide the people up into all these identity groups, and bingo.