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[00:00:00] and now I want to take the opportunity [00:00:02] to welcome out my buddies from the daily [00:00:04] wire for an episode of Backstage [00:00:07] [Applause] [00:00:09] [Music] [00:00:11] [Applause] [00:00:18] Live [00:00:21] guys how are you sir I'm certain you did [00:00:25] that [00:00:28] wrong hello [00:00:31] I [00:00:33] get hey what's going on [00:00:36] guys no I should no one should clap for [00:00:39] Michael no it's just I'm a good [00:00:44] dver you're a man we uh I know we can [00:00:47] drink this delicious 4547 whiskey can we [00:00:50] smoke the Mayflower cigars too or is [00:00:53] that are we I Washington DC is a [00:00:57] little what's the worst thing that could [00:00:59] happen [00:01:02] yeah welcome to CPAC and Backstage Live [00:01:05] pass you'll have the whole bottle [00:01:08] yeah there thank [00:01:11] you this is a show that we do once a [00:01:13] month at the daily wire in fact we're [00:01:15] going to do it again on March 4th for [00:01:17] the president's joint session of [00:01:18] Congress where we get the whole team [00:01:20] together and we talk about what's on our [00:01:21] mind and so this will be a little bit [00:01:23] different than the other panels that [00:01:25] have happened throughout the day because [00:01:26] we have to do ad [00:01:28] reads it's okay okay it's how we uh buy [00:01:31] the plane tickets to get out [00:01:33] here what I want to talk about though [00:01:35] first right out of the gate today is 30 [00:01:37] days of Donald Trump into his second [00:01:44] term which means even if you don't like [00:01:46] Donald Trump you're 30 days closer to [00:01:48] being the the Democrats must be thrilled [00:01:51] I don't know I don't know if they are I [00:01:52] want to talk about all the amazing [00:01:54] things that have happened in this first [00:01:55] 30 days one of the most dynamic and [00:01:58] energetic beginnings of any presidency [00:01:59] certainly in my lifetime and since we [00:02:02] got all of our Pals here at CAC let's [00:02:03] just talk about how great it's been [00:02:06] Michael my favorite thing this is very [00:02:09] difficult because I loved when President [00:02:12] Trump Napoleon posted on Twitter and [00:02:16] social I thought that was great loved [00:02:18] that I loved when JD Vance gave lectures [00:02:20] on to mytic philosophy to that CBS news [00:02:23] lady on television that was great but my [00:02:25] favorite thing I think my actual [00:02:27] favorite Initiative for the first 30 [00:02:29] days [00:02:30] has got to be the presidential [00:02:32] pardons I loved I felt politically it [00:02:35] was very important for the j6 pardons to [00:02:37] go through but my favorite pardons [00:02:40] though my absolute favorite the [00:02:42] pro-lifers who were unjustly imprisoned [00:02:45] by Joe Biden and the Democrats they are [00:02:48] American Heroes I ran into one of them [00:02:50] outside John Henshaw he might be in this [00:02:53] room right now these are American Heroes [00:02:55] these are deeply virtuous people they [00:02:57] were trampled on by their government and [00:02:59] Donald Trump rectified a major major [00:03:02] wrong he deserves a lot of credit for [00:03:04] it you know if I were to uh if I were to [00:03:08] say my favorite thing from Trump's term [00:03:09] well I I number two I'll get to number [00:03:12] one but number two you only get one well [00:03:14] I got to my R my runner up is uh is [00:03:19] Trump talking about at least talking [00:03:20] about potentially taking back control of [00:03:22] the Panama Canal that's a little bit of [00:03:24] a deep cut but I think that's an [00:03:25] important thing and Greenland too maybe [00:03:28] we're taking Canada we'll see [00:03:30] we got to get rid of the can move the [00:03:31] Canadians somewhere else because we [00:03:33] don't want the Canadians but we want [00:03:34] Canada we want the land not so much the [00:03:36] people on [00:03:38] it uh we'll move them to reservations up [00:03:40] in the Arctic and they'll be they'll be [00:03:43] quite happy um but my actual favorite [00:03:46] thing is what I think is the end [00:03:49] basically the end of the trans agenda of [00:03:52] gender ideology in this country [00:03:57] um you know this is the the Fight [00:04:00] Continues because the people that [00:04:02] advocate for this Butchery and this [00:04:04] Insanity aren't just going to go away [00:04:05] they're going to they're going to find a [00:04:07] way to um to continue victimizing kids [00:04:10] and so the fight will continue in that [00:04:11] way but look we've got with Donald Trump [00:04:13] in just a few weeks we have Banning men [00:04:16] for women's sports we have uh putting an [00:04:18] end to K child castration in the [00:04:21] hospitals defining sex as man and woman [00:04:25] and I think that the legal stuff is [00:04:27] really important but just the bully [00:04:28] pulpit having a person in a position of [00:04:30] authority who's willing to say the [00:04:32] obvious thing which is that men are men [00:04:34] and women are women which by the way is [00:04:36] something is something that everyone has [00:04:38] always known every single person in the [00:04:40] world has always known that uh and and [00:04:43] but for a period of time a lot of people [00:04:46] were afraid to say what they knew to be [00:04:48] true because well and thanks to Donald [00:04:51] Trump thanks to a lot of people that [00:04:52] that have been in the fight but what [00:04:55] they needed was someone in a position of [00:04:56] a power like like Donald Trump yeah to [00:04:59] say this obvious true thing and so I [00:05:01] think it's the beginning of the end of [00:05:03] gender ideology in this [00:05:06] country Andrew clav you have opinions [00:05:09] Yeah by by far my favorite thing about [00:05:11] the Trump Administration has been the [00:05:13] absolute decimation and destruction of [00:05:16] the mainstream media there I mean it it [00:05:20] is it has been like that scene in Game [00:05:22] of Thrones where the woman has to walk [00:05:24] naked through the streets while people [00:05:25] shout shame and throw rotten vegetables [00:05:28] at it except has been better because [00:05:30] it's been the mainstream media walking [00:05:32] naked through the streets and they've [00:05:34] just been reduced and I knew this the [00:05:35] moment no wants to see that the the [00:05:38] moment the results of the election came [00:05:40] in this kind of blanket of Peace passed [00:05:44] over me because I realized what had [00:05:45] happened that we we'd beaten them it [00:05:49] could yeah that was that may be death [00:05:50] yeah but it couldn't have happened [00:05:52] without trump it couldn't have happened [00:05:53] without Trump but it couldn't happened [00:05:55] without us too and all the Joe Rogan and [00:05:57] all the podcasters and all the small [00:06:00] media that grew up Suddenly and exposed [00:06:02] them for what they were and the and the [00:06:05] benefits the side benefits of this is it [00:06:08] has put a little tiny bit of Steel in [00:06:11] the Republican Party these guys you know [00:06:14] this this place that we're in right now [00:06:16] is surrounded by media like this glass [00:06:19] this steel bubble I should call it and [00:06:22] they think when the New York Times says [00:06:23] something it's the people talking they [00:06:26] think oh my gosh it's in the New York [00:06:27] Times my career will be destroyed and [00:06:29] now they realize it's in the New York [00:06:31] Times a bird is going to crap on it and [00:06:34] no one's going to remember what anybody [00:06:36] said so far I've enjoyed this panel very [00:06:39] much because we're living up to our sort [00:06:41] of reputation at the daily wire uh your [00:06:43] favorite thing about Trump is [00:06:46] us and your favorite thing about Trump [00:06:48] is your movie yeah and Michael's just [00:06:51] here for the booze that's true and the [00:06:53] cigars and the May flow delicious May [00:06:55] Flower cigars Ben the best thing about [00:06:56] the first 30 well so by far the best [00:06:59] thing [00:07:00] that has happened during the first 30 [00:07:01] days was that exchange that he had with [00:07:03] the Afghan lady reporter oh which is one [00:07:05] of the Great Moments in all of media [00:07:07] history and if you if you haven't seen [00:07:09] it folks you absolutely should Google it [00:07:11] because it is legitimately one of the [00:07:12] funniest things that has ever happened [00:07:13] in the history of the media there's a a [00:07:16] reporter from Afghanistan who asked [00:07:17] president Trump a question in a very [00:07:19] thick accent and he had no idea what she [00:07:21] was saying he said your voice it's so [00:07:23] beautiful so melodious I I don't [00:07:26] understand a word you're saying God [00:07:28] bless and live love live live in peace [00:07:31] it's like wow he went like full Spock at [00:07:32] the end like it was great so that that [00:07:35] was great just as as a moment and there [00:07:36] have been many such wonderful moments [00:07:38] including that I don't care Margaret [00:07:40] right from from the vice president and [00:07:42] there there are bunch of Great memeable [00:07:43] Moments and of course Elon is a walking [00:07:45] name as you've seen um but in terms of [00:07:48] actual policy I think the most important [00:07:51] thing that President Trump has done is [00:07:52] he's actually he has he has exposed the [00:07:55] reality which is that the amount of [00:07:57] power that has aggregated in the exec [00:07:59] Branch over the course of time is [00:08:02] extraordinary and it is at the beest of [00:08:04] the president of the United States so [00:08:05] for two reasons this is really important [00:08:07] one because the Democratic party [00:08:09] established over the course of the last [00:08:11] 100 odd years really since woodro Wilson [00:08:13] that the executive branch was going to [00:08:15] be the predominant branch of American [00:08:16] government and all power was going to be [00:08:17] centralized in it spending power [00:08:19] regulate regulatory power all of it and [00:08:22] then they basically said and Republicans [00:08:23] can't touch it when we run it we'll run [00:08:25] it and we'll put permanent employees in [00:08:26] place so that when you run it you don't [00:08:28] run it and president Trump came in and [00:08:30] he said no no no no you've given all [00:08:32] this power to the executive branch guess [00:08:34] what guess who's the president now it's [00:08:36] me and long live the king and he [00:08:39] literally put out an executive order [00:08:40] saying like yesterday all of you people [00:08:43] work for me and here's your reminder the [00:08:45] executive branch is a branch of [00:08:48] government there is no fourth branch of [00:08:49] government that is an unelected [00:08:50] bureaucracy and thus you work for my [00:08:54] agenda and this is great for a couple of [00:08:56] reasons one because it means that he's [00:08:57] going to be actually able to clean out [00:08:59] so much of the rod inside these [00:09:01] institutions and that that's what doge [00:09:02] is in large part but but second I think [00:09:05] it sets up the predicate for if there is [00:09:06] going to be a useful constitutional [00:09:09] fight which I kind of like then let that [00:09:11] fight be about the prerogatives of [00:09:12] Congress let Congress try to actually go [00:09:15] back to the original structure in a fair [00:09:17] way because for too long Republicans [00:09:18] have been playing by the Marcus of [00:09:19] Queensbury rules on this stuff whereas I [00:09:21] say the rules apply when Republicans are [00:09:23] in power and then they stop applying the [00:09:24] minute a Democrat as in power and [00:09:25] president Trump as I said before he [00:09:27] lives in reality and for president Trump [00:09:29] there's no there's no set of rules where [00:09:32] there are two sets of rules right there [00:09:33] either there's either one set for [00:09:34] everybody or there ain't no rules yeah [00:09:36] and he says there's one set of rules for [00:09:37] everybody I'm the president and now all [00:09:39] you people work for me or you're fired [00:09:40] which is just [00:09:46] wonderful I have to say my favorite [00:09:48] thing about the presidency so far is [00:09:49] just the sheer chaotic disruption that [00:09:52] Donald Trump represents he you know [00:09:54] everything from saying you know that [00:09:55] he's going to build Trump aan in the [00:09:57] Middle East uh maraza maraza maraza yeah [00:10:01] gazal Lago gazal Lago it's a work in [00:10:05] progress I love it because what it says [00:10:07] is the way you guys have been thinking [00:10:08] about this for the entire lifetime of [00:10:11] every person involved in in [00:10:13] international politics is wrong and it's [00:10:15] not even necessarily that I agree with [00:10:16] every single one of Trump's disruptions [00:10:19] it's that I agree with the idea of the [00:10:20] disruption itself that Trump represents [00:10:22] because only through disruption do you [00:10:25] shake things up from the status quo and [00:10:26] create the actual opportunity for change [00:10:28] and I think I actually I think president [00:10:29] Trump sort of understands this I think [00:10:31] he wields it I think half of the things [00:10:33] that Donald Trump says he doesn't [00:10:35] exactly mean but what he understands is [00:10:37] that in the act of saying it he he [00:10:40] breaks everyone out of their comfort [00:10:41] zone and creates the opportunity for [00:10:42] actual meaningful change and that's [00:10:45] that's an enormous skill it's something [00:10:46] that he's been doing in his business [00:10:48] life for all of living memory Donald [00:10:51] Trump's very old not as old as Andrew [00:10:52] Clay but he's not a young man and he's [00:10:55] very successfully done this he keeps [00:10:56] people from being able to get to [00:10:57] complacency keeps people from believing [00:10:59] that just because something has been the [00:11:01] way means that it must continue to be [00:11:03] the way and you see it particularly I [00:11:05] think in places like Doge I think Elon [00:11:07] Musk is the greatest living American I [00:11:09] think that he is we should clap for Elon [00:11:13] Musk he's probably still [00:11:17] here he's he's probably still here and [00:11:20] any one of us at any moment could be the [00:11:21] recipient of one of his children so it's [00:11:23] like a [00:11:24] really it's a really important thing to [00:11:26] say on elon's good side uh I think Elon [00:11:30] is the greatest living American I think [00:11:31] that Elon is one of the only people in [00:11:33] the world actively trying to build a [00:11:35] future I think that for too long the [00:11:37] left has been the only ideological [00:11:40] movement in the in the country who [00:11:41] believes that there will be a future and [00:11:43] the future that they believe in is one [00:11:44] that does not include us and for too [00:11:46] long people on the right have sort of [00:11:48] given up on the idea of a future we've [00:11:50] become a little bit blackpilled a little [00:11:51] bit nihilistic uh a little bit [00:11:53] conspiratorial and afraid that tomorrow [00:11:55] must be worse than today and must which [00:11:58] is worse than yesterday Elon doesn't [00:11:59] subscribe to that at all he he not only [00:12:01] believes that America's best days are [00:12:03] ahead of it he's actively working to [00:12:05] make that happen and that is what you [00:12:07] want in the [00:12:13] government we are going to take [00:12:16] questions and I believe that the place [00:12:18] where we're going to take questions is [00:12:20] over in this they told me it's down [00:12:21] there but I don't know where down there [00:12:23] means we're going to spend a lot of our [00:12:24] time interacting with you guys because [00:12:25] you bought the tickets uh and we get to [00:12:27] hear from each other you know all day [00:12:29] every day uh I could have told you all [00:12:32] of their answers I know what they wanted [00:12:34] in the green room only green M&M's for [00:12:36] Ben classic all the other M&M's for [00:12:38] Michael he's not very [00:12:40] discriminating we're going to take a lot [00:12:41] of questions from you uh but first Ben [00:12:44] Shapiro well folks let's talk about how [00:12:47] you stay healthy okay because let's be [00:12:50] real about this you need to stay healthy [00:12:53] and if you wish to stay healthy balance [00:12:55] of nature fruits and veggies will make [00:12:57] it happen for you there's never been a [00:13:00] more convenient dietary supplement to [00:13:01] ensure you get a wide variety of fruits [00:13:03] and veggies daily imagine trying to eat [00:13:05] 31 different fruits and veggies every [00:13:07] day that sounds horrible it sounds like [00:13:08] torture it sounds like a year in jail [00:13:10] with Nancy Pelosi well balance of nature [00:13:12] takes fruits and veggies they freeze dry [00:13:14] them they turn them into a powder and [00:13:15] then they put them into a capsule and [00:13:17] let me tell you I can pop those directly [00:13:19] into the protein smoothie and that keeps [00:13:20] me looking like a Greek god I know it [00:13:23] doesn't look like that from the outside [00:13:24] but I can promise you that I am [00:13:26] absolutely jacked well believe me or [00:13:29] don't believe me that's your choice but [00:13:30] you should believe me when I say that [00:13:31] you should take balance of nature fruits [00:13:33] and veggies every day and your body will [00:13:35] do the rest hand on over to balance ofn [00:13:36] nature.com use promo code backstage for [00:13:38] 35% off your first order as a preferred [00:13:41] customer plus get a free bottle of fiber [00:13:43] and spice that's balance of nature.com [00:13:45] promo code backstage thank you for [00:13:48] helping you know like pay our bills and [00:13:49] everything can I say Ben that was those [00:13:52] were the most powerful remarks ever [00:13:53] delivered on this stage wow B balance of [00:13:57] nature I thought it was hey you're to [00:13:59] the man who called for the eradication [00:14:01] of transgenderism from our national PO [00:14:03] on okay second second now eradicate ill [00:14:06] health from your body forever balance [00:14:09] balance of nature AB good good [00:14:13] so one of the things that we like to do [00:14:15] on Backstage is move Beyond just [00:14:17] politics and talk about culture talk [00:14:19] about uh religion talk about the things [00:14:21] that make our life meaningful one of the [00:14:23] things that's been on my mind a lot in [00:14:24] this really triumphant moment the last [00:14:26] 30 days Blake Lively and Justin Bon how [00:14:28] did you know [00:14:29] oh who are [00:14:33] they one of the things that's really on [00:14:34] my mind is that when you in these [00:14:36] triumphant political moments it can seem [00:14:38] suddenly like your life is going to be [00:14:40] good because we're winning in the some [00:14:43] in the very important but somewhat [00:14:44] abstract realm of politics but the truth [00:14:47] is your life may continue to be quite [00:14:50] bad pick her up right here listen I'm [00:14:52] every's in a good mood Jeremy's like and [00:14:54] then you'll die and then you'll die and [00:14:56] at the same time your life may have been [00:14:57] very good these last four years years [00:14:59] while Joe Biden was President even [00:15:00] though things in our national politics [00:15:02] were going quite poorly and so I think [00:15:05] it's important in these moments to [00:15:06] reflect on what are the actual things we [00:15:08] can do in our own lives to ensure that [00:15:10] we're living lives that are honoring to [00:15:13] God uh productive for our family [00:15:15] productive for our country it can't just [00:15:17] be that we're watching news on [00:15:19] television it can't even just be that [00:15:21] we're actively engaged in politics and [00:15:23] being uh somewhat [00:15:24] activist how are we to live our lives in [00:15:27] light of the moment in which we live you [00:15:29] know there there's a big debate that's [00:15:31] been on the right and it's become more [00:15:32] emphasized in recent years and it's [00:15:34] actually a very old debate between the [00:15:36] classical understanding of freedom and [00:15:38] the more modern understanding of freedom [00:15:40] and the way that it's usually summarized [00:15:42] is by Lord Acton who says that freedom [00:15:44] is not the ability to do what we wish [00:15:46] but the right to do what we ought and I [00:15:49] certainly subscribe to that view of [00:15:50] things but what that means is exactly [00:15:52] what Jeremy was just saying which is [00:15:54] that the ways in which our freedoms have [00:15:57] been restricted in recent years by Joe [00:15:59] Biden certainly and by many liberals is [00:16:02] that he denied us the right to do what [00:16:04] we ought to do he he said if you go to [00:16:06] your church you're going to be spied on [00:16:08] by the FBI he said that if you run a [00:16:10] Catholic Hospital we're going to sue you [00:16:12] even if you're nuns he he said if you go [00:16:14] pray peacefully in front of a Planned [00:16:16] Parenthood abortion Mill we're going to [00:16:18] throw you in prison he was denying you [00:16:20] the right to do what you ought to do you [00:16:23] see this in the attacks on marriage the [00:16:24] attacks on education the attacks on [00:16:26] children we could be here all night [00:16:28] listing these attacks on what we have a [00:16:30] right to do now we have the right to do [00:16:33] those things president Trump has passed [00:16:34] a number of executive orders that have [00:16:37] have really uh taken the government out [00:16:39] of the business of oppressing Christians [00:16:41] and families and kids and all the like [00:16:44] but that means that now we have to go to [00:16:46] church that means we have to form our [00:16:49] families that means we have to educate [00:16:51] our kids you know now we we do have the [00:16:53] right to do those things we do have our [00:16:55] freedom back but that freedom doesn't [00:16:57] mean anything it's kind of like with [00:16:58] free speech Free Speech doesn't mean [00:17:00] anything if you don't have anything to [00:17:02] say so you have to live out those [00:17:03] substantive Goods in your [00:17:05] [Music] [00:17:09] life I hate it when people clap for you [00:17:12] I really do true well I mean it is this [00:17:16] kind of trick about being a conservative [00:17:18] is that you believe that the government [00:17:20] should stay out of your business so you [00:17:21] can be free but now you're free what are [00:17:24] you going to do right it all comes down [00:17:26] to us it's really not about please do [00:17:28] this please pass this program it's get [00:17:30] rid of all that stuff so I can do the [00:17:32] things that I want to do and one the [00:17:36] thing about Donald Trump is Donald Trump [00:17:38] you know movements happen almost [00:17:40] organically they almost happen by [00:17:41] themselves they're like waves that come [00:17:43] in and you I work in the Arts my whole [00:17:45] life and you see in the Arts there'll [00:17:46] come a moment when there's a Picasso or [00:17:49] a Marlon Brando somebody who changes the [00:17:51] game but that game was already changing [00:17:53] he just represents that change and [00:17:55] that's true of Donald Trump without him [00:17:57] it wouldn't have happened but at the [00:17:59] same time he is at the head of a [00:18:01] movement that's that's organically [00:18:02] happening and that movement has a lot to [00:18:04] do with our old friend Uncle God uh the [00:18:08] the arguments that for hundreds of years [00:18:11] have slowly slowly drained the faith out [00:18:13] of the western out of Western culture [00:18:15] have collapsed they've collapsed [00:18:16] scientifically they've collapsed morally [00:18:18] they've collapsed experientially and so [00:18:21] God is now [00:18:22] suddenly in in with the intellectual [00:18:25] crowd as well he should be and and I [00:18:28] think that this is the moment for us [00:18:30] each of us not all of us but each of us [00:18:32] to ask ourselves who is this God and [00:18:35] what does he want from me because every [00:18:38] single person not just in this room but [00:18:40] on walking on the face of the planet [00:18:42] knows he is not yet the person he was [00:18:44] made to be and I think that that's [00:18:46] something I I don't know I think about [00:18:47] it every day I pray about it every day [00:18:49] and I think that's something everybody [00:18:51] should be doing because we're all here [00:18:52] to create something maybe it's a family [00:18:55] maybe it's just a way of looking at [00:18:56] things maybe it's a business maybe it's [00:18:58] you know works of art whatever it is we [00:19:00] are all here to make stuff and you make [00:19:02] stuff out of your heart and you make [00:19:03] stuff out of who you are and working [00:19:06] toward becoming who you are is something [00:19:08] you can't do alone you got to do it with [00:19:10] God and I think this is the moment for [00:19:12] us to reconsider what that means to [00:19:14] believe and what it means in our [00:19:16] personal lives and then act it out and [00:19:18] live it out I [00:19:20] [Applause] [00:19:23] also I also think about God every day [00:19:25] and about how you're not yet the man [00:19:27] that you are made to be yeah every day [00:19:29] you pray every day and he calls me like [00:19:31] at 3: in the morning it's like Matt what [00:19:35] was the [00:19:35] question Ben I mean first of all I'm [00:19:38] having trouble getting over Drew calling [00:19:40] God Uncle God I really am when years old [00:19:43] is Drew wow we've been around a long [00:19:46] time together a long time my goodness I [00:19:48] never it's rare that you bring a new one [00:19:49] on me but Uncle God was definitely a new [00:19:51] one um so I I think that one of the [00:19:54] great dangers that I that conservatives [00:19:55] face right now is that so many of our [00:19:58] institutions have been thoroughly [00:19:59] corrupted by the left that the [00:20:00] Temptation is to destroy all of them and [00:20:02] you see this in government a huge number [00:20:05] of institutions in government are [00:20:06] completely broken need to be destroyed [00:20:07] rebuilt from the ground up but my [00:20:10] problem is that I see some [00:20:11] people Andrew tape who are attempting to [00:20:14] take social institutions and then [00:20:16] destroy those social institutions as [00:20:17] well pretend that they are meritless [00:20:19] that because there have been bad things [00:20:20] that have been done to those [00:20:21] institutions now you throw out the baby [00:20:23] with the bath water and those [00:20:24] institutions are themselves meretricious [00:20:26] and need to be destroyed and the sub [00:20:28] morality that is offered is actually [00:20:30] immorality it's actually sin and and [00:20:33] that is a deeply disturbing and [00:20:35] Disturbed point of view the thing that [00:20:37] we all need to do I think and what I [00:20:39] hope to do you know in my own life is [00:20:41] not to make excuses okay this is the [00:20:43] biggest thing and this to me is the [00:20:44] essence of conservatism stop making [00:20:46] excuses for your own failure it is one [00:20:49] thing to point to an actual wrong that [00:20:51] is being done in the world and say that [00:20:53] this wrong needs to be corrected because [00:20:54] the world is filled with wrongs and it's [00:20:56] filled with injustices and it's filled [00:20:57] with bad things that do need correction [00:20:59] it is another thing to look at your own [00:21:01] failure and then not say what can I fix [00:21:04] but instead look out there at you know [00:21:06] the institution I can't find a girl thus [00:21:08] the institution of marriage is broken [00:21:09] and thus I should treat women like trash [00:21:12] okay that that is a terrible way to go [00:21:13] about your life the answer to finding a [00:21:16] good woman is to be a good man right the [00:21:18] answer to having a good marriage is to [00:21:21] find a good woman and engage in a good [00:21:22] marriage the answer [00:21:25] to be finding yourself a better church [00:21:27] is to find yourself a better Church if [00:21:28] you don't actually like the church that [00:21:29] you're going to if it's been taken over [00:21:31] by wokes then the answer is not well I [00:21:33] guess we're done with the church the [00:21:34] church is stupid we're not doing it [00:21:35] anymore the answer is to either form [00:21:37] your own or to find a more traditional [00:21:39] instituted church that is not doing [00:21:41] those stupid things and I think one of [00:21:43] the great Temptations of politics is to [00:21:44] assume that politics can solve [00:21:46] everything you got problems in your life [00:21:48] economic spiritual marital and and [00:21:50] politics is going to solve all of those [00:21:52] problems if only you can go after [00:21:53] somebody out there and blame those [00:21:55] people well then that gives you the [00:21:56] license to do really whatever you want [00:21:58] and and then the failures that spring [00:21:59] there from are not your own fault and [00:22:01] that to me is a sin it's a sin against [00:22:03] yourself it's a sin against your Society [00:22:04] it's a sin against the God who created [00:22:05] you gave you free will the ability to [00:22:07] choose and the skills with which to do [00:22:09] something productive in the world yeah [00:22:14] it's I was in a dialogue with someone [00:22:16] online once who was talking about how [00:22:18] because divorce laws uh are punitive [00:22:22] toward men which is undeniably true um [00:22:24] that marriage itself should be [00:22:26] eradicated and this person kept saying [00:22:28] over and over my wife left me and she [00:22:32] destroyed my relationship with my [00:22:34] children she took the house she got half [00:22:36] of my money I didn't want a divorce she [00:22:38] chose to get this divorce and he had [00:22:40] tons of followers he's creating tons of [00:22:42] energy around this argument and I said [00:22:44] listen there's no question divorce laws [00:22:46] are punitive toward men they need to be [00:22:47] changed all the incentives around [00:22:49] marriage have become um deeply inverted [00:22:52] to to the detriment of our society these [00:22:54] are real policy issues that need to be [00:22:56] addressed so but I I do think that [00:22:58] you're throwing the baby out with the [00:22:59] bath water I mean I'm sorry that this [00:23:00] happened to you that your wife left you [00:23:01] for no reason they said well I mean she [00:23:03] had a reason I cheated on [00:23:06] her and I said oh well there you go uh [00:23:09] me thinks the policy that you are [00:23:11] actually uh against is the policy of you [00:23:15] you're the policy of consequence of just [00:23:17] consequence that doesn't Ten [00:23:18] Commandments that's the policy that he [00:23:19] opposed yeah God's Go uncle God's [00:23:21] policies but it is nevertheless the case [00:23:24] that most of what your life will be is [00:23:26] what you make of it there will be parts [00:23:28] of life that are impacted by outside [00:23:30] forces absolutely and the beauty of [00:23:32] politics is that we have the opportunity [00:23:34] especially in a country like this one to [00:23:35] do something about those policies that [00:23:37] impede our ability to live our lives but [00:23:39] you know I was backstage talking to Mike [00:23:41] Row he mentioned there are 8 million [00:23:44] open jobs in this country right now [00:23:46] there are 7 million working AG men who [00:23:49] aren't just unemployed they have removed [00:23:52] themselves from the workforce they do [00:23:54] they are not looking for a job they [00:23:55] don't want a job they feel dis [00:23:58] franchised because they have been [00:23:59] disenfranchised but they are also [00:24:01] participating in their own [00:24:03] disenfranchisement and one of the one of [00:24:05] the things I've learned in life one of [00:24:06] the things I've learned in business you [00:24:08] know sometimes people who succeeded in [00:24:09] business will tell you business is about [00:24:11] fail fail fail until you make it and [00:24:13] that's not true success in business is [00:24:17] about fail fail fail fail fail and with [00:24:20] a little luck you made it along the way [00:24:23] it's it's much more it's less like [00:24:25] getting to a destination and much more [00:24:27] like being a batter in the major leagues [00:24:29] if you if you get a a [00:24:32] hit three out of 10 times in the major [00:24:35] leagues you will be in the Hall of Fame [00:24:38] there will be statues of you in your [00:24:39] hometown you you did not get a hit 70% [00:24:43] of the time and it's not as though once [00:24:45] you did get a hit you only hit from [00:24:47] there on out no it's that you you missed [00:24:49] you missed you got a hit you missed you [00:24:50] missed you missed you got a hit you [00:24:52] missed you got a hit you got walked most [00:24:54] of the times when you got the hit you [00:24:56] still didn't score you got thrown out at [00:24:59] second or the batter right behind you [00:25:02] was uh the third out and you basically [00:25:04] got your hit and got on base for no [00:25:06] reason whatsoever sometimes you score [00:25:08] and you didn't earn it sometimes you pop [00:25:11] it up but the infield fly rule goes into [00:25:13] effect and no one even knows what's [00:25:15] happening in the game anymore I lost the [00:25:17] analogy but I'm sure there was I'm with [00:25:20] you all that matters is that you get [00:25:22] back up and keep batting that's the only [00:25:24] difference between it's not the only [00:25:25] difference but it's the fundamental [00:25:26] difference between people who make it in [00:25:29] baseball and people who do not make it [00:25:31] in baseball and it is true in business [00:25:32] and it is true in your marriage it's [00:25:34] true as a parent it's true in almost [00:25:35] every aspect of your life it's your [00:25:38] ability to take life as it is not as you [00:25:41] wish it would be to take the hard parts [00:25:43] of life and to keep getting back up and [00:25:45] to keep uh doing your job well speaking [00:25:47] of the hard parts of life taxes folks so [00:25:50] am I right taxes suck right they're bad [00:25:52] that's why president Trump just fired [00:25:54] everybody at the IRS he actually did he [00:25:56] just fired like thousands of people at [00:25:57] the IRS well [00:25:58] unfortunately you don't have a choice [00:26:00] I'm sorry to tell you this April 15th [00:26:01] tax date is just around the corner and [00:26:03] don't think that just because Trump and [00:26:05] Elon are going through and basically [00:26:06] making all these people unemployed that [00:26:08] you're not going to have to pay your [00:26:09] taxes you eventually will but you don't [00:26:11] have to worry about your tax issues with [00:26:13] tax Network USA did you see where I was [00:26:16] going with that folks did I project it [00:26:18] and in any case tax Network USA has a [00:26:20] preferred direct line to the IRS meaning [00:26:22] they know exactly which agents to deal [00:26:24] with and which to avoid if you get in [00:26:25] trouble with your taxes with proven [00:26:27] strategies to settle tax problems in [00:26:28] your favor whether you ow 10 grand or10 [00:26:30] million tax Network USA's attorneys and [00:26:32] negotiators have already resolved over [00:26:34] $1 billion in tax day you should talk [00:26:36] with their strategists today it is free [00:26:38] you don't need the threatening letters [00:26:39] you don't need to look over your [00:26:40] shoulder you can protect yourself from [00:26:42] property seizures and Bank levies as [00:26:43] well do not let the IRS control your [00:26:46] future and don't count on the IRS agent [00:26:48] who's in charge of your case suddenly [00:26:49] losing their job maybe it'll happen you [00:26:51] know God willing and and the creek don't [00:26:53] rise but that eventually they're going [00:26:54] to come after your taxes so you should [00:26:55] call 1 8009 581,000 or visit TN [00:26:59] usa.com dawi again that's 1 1800 958 [00:27:03] 1000 or visit TN [00:27:06] usa.com dailywire [00:27:09] so best part of the show it's I mean [00:27:11] it's all we all love correct we like to [00:27:14] take questions from our daily wire plus [00:27:16] subscribers dur during our bent key show [00:27:18] they're the people who make it possible [00:27:19] for us to keep alongside our advertisers [00:27:21] to keep doing the work that we do over [00:27:22] at Daily wire um but today we want to [00:27:25] take questions from you guys Ben has a [00:27:27] policy that if you degree he would like [00:27:29] you to come to the front of the line I [00:27:30] have precisely the opposite policy the [00:27:33] more siop fantish you are MH the more I [00:27:36] want your question so please if you like [00:27:38] me or or even love me front of the line [00:27:40] we'll take our first question awesome [00:27:42] thanks guys uh my name is Luke rexing [00:27:44] and I am actually a subscriber so thank [00:27:47] you for what you do I am also getting [00:27:49] into cigars so haven't tried one of [00:27:51] those yet out there yeah pass this maybe [00:27:55] yes [00:27:58] go thank you you can just venmo me for [00:28:01] about $15 for that it's fine whenever [00:28:04] you have a moment please be 18 23 I [00:28:09] think it's 21 now yeah um but my [00:28:12] question is as a young conservative who [00:28:14] wants to focus on a new business and an [00:28:16] entrepreneurial Spirit how should I go [00:28:18] about integrating My Views into my [00:28:21] business well I think it depends on on [00:28:23] the kind of business that that you're [00:28:24] founding so I mean there are certain [00:28:26] things that are just Baseline [00:28:26] conservative like be honest in business [00:28:28] and don't try to cheat people right um [00:28:31] in in my faith the Jewish faith you may [00:28:33] have noticed um it says that the the [00:28:36] first thing that God is going to ask you [00:28:37] after you die is were you honest in your [00:28:39] business dealings is one of the things [00:28:41] that Judaism teaches as you know we like [00:28:42] the money in any case when when it when [00:28:46] when it comes to actually forming a [00:28:47] business uh you know the hard part of [00:28:49] business and Jeremy can talk about this [00:28:51] more than I can since he does a lot of [00:28:52] the hiring and firing is is actually [00:28:54] being coldblooded enough to look at [00:28:56] what's working and what's not you're not [00:28:57] doing anybody any kindnesses by keeping [00:28:59] people in the wrong position for too [00:29:01] long that's the hardest part I think of [00:29:03] of of doing business is the difficulty [00:29:05] in extricating yourself emotionally from [00:29:06] the business to do the efficient thing [00:29:08] but it is important that in order for [00:29:11] your business to be a success in order [00:29:12] to be able to employ other people and [00:29:13] provide goods and services at a at a [00:29:14] market rate that you actually make those [00:29:16] hard decisions and again I think that [00:29:18] that requires a certain level of [00:29:20] emotional remove and you have to [00:29:22] understand that you're actually again [00:29:23] not doing anybody any favors by keeping [00:29:25] them in a position where they ought not [00:29:27] be and that does I I think also include [00:29:30] the reality that you have to I think [00:29:32] take the blame on yourself if you hired [00:29:34] the wrong person right usually if an [00:29:36] employee fails if somebody does [00:29:37] something wrong in your company it's [00:29:38] probably because you put the wrong [00:29:40] person in the wrong position to succeed [00:29:41] right that's that's sort of your job as [00:29:42] a company is to put people in the right [00:29:43] position to succeed and so that that [00:29:45] that I think is the hardest part could I [00:29:47] also say one thing that you're [00:29:48] integrating your values into the [00:29:50] business and I don't know what what your [00:29:51] business is uh maybe you said it I [00:29:54] haven't been paying attention to the [00:29:55] question [00:29:56] today uh but so integrate them as in [00:30:00] like Ben said you're living according to [00:30:01] your values what I think you you don't [00:30:04] need to do and probably shouldn't do is [00:30:06] say well this is my business and I'm the [00:30:08] this is the conservative version of this [00:30:10] business we're the conservative fill in [00:30:12] the blank you don't need to be that just [00:30:14] just do the business and do it well and [00:30:16] if you're living according to your [00:30:17] values then you're already you know the [00:30:20] conservative version of that business [00:30:22] sounds good thank you guys thank [00:30:26] you hey my name is Christy Clark and I'm [00:30:29] actually asking this question for my [00:30:31] 14-year-old daughter who's at home [00:30:33] watching right now and absolutely loves [00:30:35] y'all she watches you all the time I [00:30:37] have to turn her TV off at night Matt [00:30:40] super uncomfortable movie absolutely [00:30:42] loved it I don't know how you sat there [00:30:44] and and did that but that was amazing [00:30:47] it's it's because I'm a as Jeremy's [00:30:49] pointed out it's because I'm a sociopath [00:30:51] it it was that's how that's that's my [00:30:53] secret but my question for my daughter [00:30:55] Belle is she wants to be just like you [00:30:57] she's 14 [00:30:58] she's charging that way of doing this [00:31:01] type of thing absolutely wants to do [00:31:03] this in life and how does she gets [00:31:06] started even at 14 in the world that we [00:31:09] live in where she is prot Trump pro- [00:31:13] Republican what is she do at this age to [00:31:15] be you one day and take over daily wire [00:31:20] Ben uh eventually we'll be for sale so [00:31:22] she can but but um I think that you know [00:31:25] I started writing a syndicated col when [00:31:26] I was 17 so actually not that much older [00:31:28] than than your daughter is now uh and [00:31:30] the the key I think this is true by the [00:31:32] way in virtually all businesses but it's [00:31:33] certainly true when it comes to [00:31:34] political commentary uh is you have to [00:31:37] read an awful lot learn a lot an awful [00:31:39] lot about the business and do a lot of [00:31:40] work for free there's no such thing as a [00:31:43] person who success in literally any [00:31:44] business who was not a failure for a [00:31:47] very long time before they were a [00:31:48] success right everyone who's in [00:31:50] overnight success was in overnight [00:31:51] success 10 years in the making and so I [00:31:53] started writing a syndicated column [00:31:54] making no money off of this for probably [00:31:56] a decade before I had the famous Piers [00:31:58] Morgan interview that was like fully a [00:32:00] decade after I started doing what I was [00:32:02] doing and that takes an awful lot of [00:32:03] reading and writing and then the other [00:32:04] thing that I would say is that she [00:32:06] should attempt and I think everybody [00:32:08] should attempt to find a niche where you [00:32:10] are a specialist in the thing and that [00:32:12] can be an information Niche either you [00:32:13] can know a lot about a particular topic [00:32:15] or you can be willing to report on a [00:32:16] particular topic and if you have a [00:32:18] monopoly on that topic that makes you a [00:32:20] marketable commodity right everybody's [00:32:21] got an opinion on politics everybody in [00:32:22] the room could be a political columnist [00:32:24] I'm sure but there's a difference [00:32:26] between that and being a person who does [00:32:29] the research and does the hard work that [00:32:30] nobody else wants to do and my one of my [00:32:32] mentors Andrew Breitbart used to say [00:32:33] that if you have a cell phone with a [00:32:35] camera you're now a reporter and that's [00:32:37] one way that I encourage young people to [00:32:38] get started is you're in your town there [00:32:41] are stories all around you of things [00:32:42] that that probably require change you [00:32:44] know get those stories hook up with an [00:32:46] Outlook like ours we'll report it and [00:32:47] we'll make that a thing and that's a [00:32:49] great way to get started in this [00:32:50] particular business you one of the one [00:32:52] of the great advantages if you want to [00:32:53] be successful in media is that and we're [00:32:55] Testament to this it requires no talent [00:32:58] to do media at all so if your daughter [00:33:00] has talent she's already a step ahead of [00:33:03] like 95% disadvantage though if she has [00:33:06] talent that you know uh to your point [00:33:08] Ben on reading one thing I would say [00:33:10] especially if your daughter's 14 which [00:33:12] is great love that I was a a political [00:33:15] junkie from the age of at least six I [00:33:18] was I was like campaigning for Bob Dole [00:33:20] in my first grade classroom all right I [00:33:22] was more excited about Bob Dole than Bob [00:33:23] Dole was but so I'm all about it however [00:33:27] now it's very easy to become famous or [00:33:30] inFAMOUS at a young age because of [00:33:32] social media and cameras uh and she [00:33:34] should resist that urge because you have [00:33:37] to read like anything because no one [00:33:39] reads anything anymore so if you read [00:33:41] one book you will know much more than [00:33:43] most people however if you want to have [00:33:45] a view of politics that is solid that is [00:33:48] stable that will deepen over time of [00:33:50] course but that is grounded in something [00:33:52] you you have to read like a billion [00:33:54] books and it's just not possible to do [00:33:56] that at age 14 so so I would I would [00:33:58] recommend figuring out what she thinks [00:34:00] get the book learning get a little [00:34:02] practical learning I think working on a [00:34:03] Congressional Campaign is the best [00:34:05] political education out there I I worked [00:34:07] on campaigns as a teenager and in my 20s [00:34:09] it taught me a lot that you can't learn [00:34:11] in books and then when she's ready you [00:34:14] know I don't know 16 17 maybe a little [00:34:16] later maybe 28 29 then she can make a [00:34:18] big splash and she'll be ready to go and [00:34:20] she'll have something that distinguishes [00:34:21] her from everybody [00:34:25] else hi my name is Blake markson [00:34:28] I'm a subscriber and um my question here [00:34:32] I'm a college student and I'm just um [00:34:34] I've been throughout my education I've [00:34:36] like questioned Dei and a lot of subject [00:34:39] subjective business measures so what I'm [00:34:42] uh wondering is how you guys would [00:34:44] challenge these viewpoints and kind of [00:34:46] move throughout like my educational [00:34:48] process because I'm a sophomore right [00:34:50] now and not really liking everything [00:34:51] that I'm doing right now yeah one thing [00:34:54] I would say is [00:34:55] that it can be really easy to be tempted [00:34:58] toward uh some sort of absolute answer [00:35:00] on a question like this you know some [00:35:02] people will tell you just keep your head [00:35:04] down get your degree you're paying to be [00:35:06] there the most important thing is not to [00:35:08] rock the boat you need something from [00:35:09] them in exchange for your money and your [00:35:11] time go get it that's the only reason [00:35:12] you're there other people will say you [00:35:14] should just be fighting all the way [00:35:15] defending your rights campuses are are [00:35:17] Ground Zero for all the worst things [00:35:19] that are happening in our culture be in [00:35:20] activist but the truth is you actually [00:35:22] have to live your life and none of the [00:35:24] people giving you advice on this topic [00:35:25] do and only you know what you actually [00:35:28] want to get out of this experience in [00:35:30] college only you know what kind of [00:35:31] career you want to build in your life on [00:35:33] the other side uh of your time and [00:35:35] college some of them much more dependent [00:35:37] on getting that degree than uh than [00:35:39] perhaps others are I think the best [00:35:41] thing you can do in this regard is live [00:35:42] according to your lights the one thing [00:35:43] I'll say you should not do is live your [00:35:46] life out of fear if you find yourself [00:35:48] living your life out of fear you [00:35:50] actually can't make the cynical [00:35:51] calculation of I will live my life out [00:35:53] of fear but on the other side of it I'll [00:35:56] be very very successful that's a to deal [00:35:57] with the devil that you can just never [00:35:59] walk back but that doesn't mean that you [00:36:01] always have to be in the fight it [00:36:02] doesn't mean that you have to be [00:36:03] Reckless uh in every situation I will [00:36:06] say in my own life I've made the choice [00:36:08] from a young age probably before I could [00:36:10] make it consciously that I was just [00:36:12] going to say what I believed in every [00:36:13] situation and come what may and you know [00:36:16] I I'd like to say that it's worked out [00:36:18] well for me I've gone through a lot of [00:36:20] real difficulties uh because of that uh [00:36:23] decision I don't necessarily think that [00:36:25] that is the most virtuous decision I [00:36:27] think it's the most Gen X decision but I [00:36:29] don't know that it's the most virtuous [00:36:30] decision uh although it can it can [00:36:33] contain virtue sometimes though it can [00:36:35] contain huus and recklessness and and [00:36:38] all sorts of other things so I think [00:36:40] that rather than looking for like an [00:36:41] absolute answer to the question the very [00:36:43] best thing that you can do is actually [00:36:45] know yourself know what you're trying to [00:36:47] accomplish know what fights are worth [00:36:49] your time to be in and go fight those [00:36:52] fights and if it happen if you're like [00:36:54] me it'll be all of them and you'll never [00:36:55] get a college degree and you won't make [00:36:56] any money until 30 and that's fine and [00:36:59] if you're uh like Ben you know you'll be [00:37:01] writing a a a syndicated column at 17 [00:37:03] and now be Ben Shapiro you know I I [00:37:06] would like to add just one more thing [00:37:08] don't lie you don't have to get into [00:37:10] every fight you don't always have to [00:37:11] speak up if it's not important if it's [00:37:14] not that big a deal but don't let them [00:37:15] make you lie because some of them will [00:37:17] hunt you down until you have to until [00:37:19] you either have to lie or tell the truth [00:37:21] oh I totally disagree with this you [00:37:22] totally lie no wait wait let me let me [00:37:25] finish before you whatever he said says [00:37:27] because he doesn't know what he's [00:37:28] talking about every lie Every Lie takes [00:37:31] something out of your soul every single [00:37:33] one and the bigger lie the bigger the [00:37:35] piece of your soul it takes isn't worth [00:37:37] it not for a minute he he's very old you [00:37:39] should totally lie so the way that this [00:37:40] works is that when I was at UCLA okay [00:37:42] you speak up in class and then they had [00:37:44] these things called blue books the blue [00:37:45] books were the anonymous tests that you [00:37:46] took you would write by hand in those [00:37:48] days and you I know it's a long time ago [00:37:50] and you would write a a student number [00:37:52] not an actual name on your blue book and [00:37:53] then you write like a Comm and you get [00:37:55] the a obviously because what difference [00:37:57] does make what you WR inside the blue [00:37:58] book so that's where you lie look at [00:37:59] look in his eyes do you want to be like [00:38:01] that no look at my wallet do you want to [00:38:03] be like [00:38:05] that Li live according to your [00:38:07] lights thank [00:38:10] you hi gang my name is Yehuda and it's [00:38:12] so special to be here with you I'm also [00:38:14] a daily wire plus subscriber and I must [00:38:17] say Michael I disagree with you and I [00:38:18] agree with Matt kids should be at [00:38:21] weddings listen I'm not saying you said [00:38:24] they shouldn't be I said I didn't say [00:38:26] they should never be at wedding but [00:38:28] sometimes you throw on The Tuxedo you [00:38:31] have a few coca-colas it's a late night [00:38:34] wedding and I don't want the little four [00:38:36] children that's why marriage exists in [00:38:38] like Pakistan not in America children [00:38:40] there a total Li over here that's a live [00:38:43] position look at what you started look [00:38:44] at this on a more serious note on a more [00:38:47] serious note over the years has been [00:38:48] become increasingly clear that the [00:38:50] mainstream media is acting as an arm of [00:38:52] the democratic party and of as uh [00:38:55] anti-American factions although I repeat [00:38:57] myself this has come to a crescendo [00:39:00] during the last few election Cycles as [00:39:01] well as during the co pandemic something [00:39:03] I witnessed personally as a medical [00:39:05] doctor the most recent attempt to equate [00:39:08] equate free speech to nazier Fascism [00:39:10] sets a new egregious level it would it [00:39:13] would not be hard to trace these media [00:39:15] trends to foreign groups aggressively [00:39:17] using our media to undermine and [00:39:19] sabotage the United States with some [00:39:21] investigation we can easily find which [00:39:23] parties are complicit in these efforts [00:39:25] my question is should we conduct such an [00:39:27] investigation and furthermore if we do [00:39:30] what actions should we take based on the [00:39:32] data we [00:39:33] find well I mean it depends if you're [00:39:35] talking about foreign actors who are [00:39:37] actually American Media so yes I think [00:39:39] there should absolutely be Congressional [00:39:41] investigations presumably the house [00:39:42] Foreign Affairs committee looking into [00:39:45] funding of various Enterprises and the [00:39:47] propaganda that emerges from those [00:39:48] Enterprises if you're talking about the [00:39:50] Democratic party working in cahoots with [00:39:52] the with the with the Legacy Media I'm [00:39:53] not sure that you need an investigation [00:39:55] with that I think you just need retinas [00:39:57] and prefrontal cortex I mean like basic [00:40:00] logic suggests that the human centipede [00:40:02] that is the relationship between the [00:40:03] Democratic party and the media is an [00:40:05] ongoing bleep show so yeah I don't think [00:40:08] that requires an investigation and I [00:40:09] don't think it's a big Scandal I think [00:40:10] that the truth is that the Legacy Media [00:40:11] and this is something drew said earlier [00:40:13] so Drew this is where you're right [00:40:14] you're wrong before but now you're right [00:40:15] uh the the the what Drew said earlier is [00:40:17] right the Legacy Media has absolutely [00:40:18] destroyed itself what this last election [00:40:20] cycle did was exposed the Legacy Media [00:40:22] beyond all repair and and that was [00:40:24] really exposed not even by Co which was [00:40:26] truly terrible or BLM which was also [00:40:27] truly terrible but by Joe Biden dying on [00:40:29] stage when Joe Biden died on stage in [00:40:31] that moment the Legacy Media was [00:40:33] destroyed for all time and I don't think [00:40:35] that they're ever going to be able to [00:40:36] recover it you can see it in the numbers [00:40:38] people people do not trust the Legacy [00:40:40] Media it's it's irrecoverable uh The [00:40:42] Washington Post is never going to have a [00:40:44] majority of Americans that believe it's [00:40:45] trustworthy again so I'm less worried [00:40:47] than I've ever been about the power of [00:40:49] the Legacy Media and I've spent most of [00:40:50] my life worrying about the Legacy Media [00:40:52] you know Ben you said something there [00:40:54] you mentioned Human Centipede you were [00:40:56] you were evoking images that are [00:40:58] disgusting and obscene and I want you to [00:41:01] get your head out of the gutter and I [00:41:03] want you to get your minds on 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[00:41:54] time I got your solution % off Lea [00:41:59] filter.com [00:42:00] SLB backstage C representative for [00:42:04] warranty [00:42:05] details can I say uh Bravo uh it's in [00:42:10] times like this that I'm really glad [00:42:12] that I'm so bad at doing ad reads [00:42:13] because I don't have to do this uh ad [00:42:16] read on stage at CAC but spoiler [00:42:21] alert hi my name is John hinu Mr no's [00:42:25] reference maybe for [00:42:27] I was one of the Washington prol lifers [00:42:31] who was sentenced to 21 months in jail [00:42:34] and we thank president Trump for [00:42:36] pardoning us so that we're [00:42:39] free [00:42:46] here what I what I wanted to try to get [00:42:49] a sense of is well what I'm feeling a [00:42:52] sense of is there's really an [00:42:54] opportunity for the United States of [00:42:56] America [00:42:57] to have a full discussion about the [00:43:01] horror of [00:43:02] abortion we started to have it in the [00:43:05] 70s I'm an old man I remember it but a [00:43:08] lot of people here don't there started a [00:43:11] discussion and then roie Wade happened [00:43:14] and aside from all the lives that were [00:43:16] lost and all the women that were [00:43:18] destroyed there was also the complete [00:43:21] cutting off of discussion about abortion [00:43:25] and the media has kept it that way our [00:43:28] courts we've never been able even in the [00:43:31] dobs decision the developing child [00:43:35] before birth is only briefly [00:43:38] referenced uh in all the other court [00:43:40] cases it's about some specific legal uh [00:43:44] angle to the issue the heart of the [00:43:47] issue which is a developing child before [00:43:50] birth and this I sense is the time this [00:43:53] is the time for this country to take up [00:43:56] that discussion and even when I'm in [00:44:01] disagreement with President Trump as I [00:44:03] am on the [00:44:04] IVF uh it is an opportunity for [00:44:07] discussion and so I even thank him for [00:44:10] that so I wanted to get some of your [00:44:12] feedback on that yeah I look I I think I [00:44:15] totally agree with everything that you [00:44:16] said and it's it's easy to forget that [00:44:19] just a you know even several months ago [00:44:21] certainly in the last couple of years we [00:44:23] were told even by conservatives that our [00:44:26] Victor you know the great victory of [00:44:28] repealing roie Wade one of the one of [00:44:30] the great human rights victories of all [00:44:32] time was actually a Bad Thing [00:44:34] politically because we were going to pay [00:44:35] for it we're going to pay the price with [00:44:37] some great backlash in the polls and the [00:44:39] women of America would would rise up to [00:44:41] punish us for protecting babies from [00:44:43] Slaughter and that didn't happen and the [00:44:45] reason that it didn't happen is because [00:44:47] it turns out as many of us as we have [00:44:49] all been saying people like you have [00:44:51] been saying the pro-life argument is a [00:44:53] winning argument it is a winning [00:44:55] argument and as long as you're just [00:44:58] honest the only way to win the argument [00:45:00] and when you're when you're uh pro-life [00:45:02] is to be brutally honest and to show [00:45:05] it's it's one thing you know if we are [00:45:06] claiming that there is a genocide of [00:45:09] children happening that million 60 [00:45:11] million human beings have been [00:45:13] slaughtered by abortion if that's what [00:45:15] we claim which is what we claim because [00:45:16] it's true then there there should be [00:45:19] passion and even anger behind our words [00:45:22] and if there isn't then why would anyone [00:45:24] take us seriously because it's like we [00:45:25] don't even believe what we're saying so [00:45:28] we we are not the ones the the [00:45:29] pro-abortion side they're the ones who [00:45:32] have to cover everything they say in [00:45:33] euphemisms they have to be very careful [00:45:35] about every word they choose and the [00:45:37] euphemisms constantly change because [00:45:39] because they can't talk simply and [00:45:42] clearly about what the thing is and we [00:45:44] win the argument uh simply by being [00:45:47] clear about it because the pro-life [00:45:48] argument is is as I said it's the most [00:45:50] winning argument of all time the Prive [00:45:52] argument is simply this that it is [00:45:54] always wrong to intentionally kill [00:45:57] innocent human children that's it and I [00:46:02] defy any pro-abortion person any [00:46:05] so-called pro-choice person to engage [00:46:08] with that are you saying that there are [00:46:10] times when it is actually okay to [00:46:12] intentionally kill an innocent human [00:46:14] child and that's what they don't want to [00:46:15] engage with and as long as we're honest [00:46:17] about it then we win the argument and [00:46:18] this is and this is everything now what [00:46:20] you're talking about is everything [00:46:21] having the argument openly because the [00:46:24] law is not going to stop it it's not [00:46:26] going to be able ble to stop it with the [00:46:27] Technologies with the medications it'll [00:46:29] still be going on unless people see [00:46:32] unless they open their eyes and see what [00:46:33] they're doing it's the only way there [00:46:35] are always going to be murderers there [00:46:36] are always going to be people who kill [00:46:38] people but at least we can make it [00:46:41] apparent to people that if you're a good [00:46:42] person you don't do it and that and [00:46:44] that's an argument we can win and we [00:46:46] have to win we have to win it [00:46:52] now hi my name is Aaron I'm a college [00:46:55] student uh college is woke now so what [00:46:58] would you say to me as trying to [00:47:01] represent who I am just like you guys do [00:47:03] every day I I couldn't quite hear that I [00:47:06] couldn't hear word you [00:47:08] said you have a beautiful mous voice I [00:47:11] meant College's voke and I want to [00:47:14] pursue what I love just like you guys do [00:47:17] what do you do when you have that [00:47:18] thought in your head it's like pause I [00:47:22] need to keep doing what I love to do [00:47:24] well I think that it uh I'm very [00:47:26] famously College um I think that most [00:47:29] people should not go to college uh thank [00:47:32] you I think that um you know if you want [00:47:35] to be a heart surgeon I think there's a [00:47:36] strong case that you should go to [00:47:39] college uh but I think most people who [00:47:42] are getting um you know Bachelors of [00:47:45] Fine Arts should not be getting them and [00:47:47] you might say that in a better world [00:47:49] than this um uh those degrees are useful [00:47:54] to society back when we t T things like [00:47:57] the Western Cannon back when we taught [00:47:59] things like philosophy perhaps a liberal [00:48:01] arts degree actually did prepare you [00:48:04] know people who aren't going to go into [00:48:06] very specialized Fields nevertheless [00:48:08] those degrees and that experience could [00:48:09] prepare them uh for their life as [00:48:11] productive citizens we don't live in [00:48:12] that world anymore you're not going to [00:48:14] study the Western Canon if you go to [00:48:16] college and so unless you're going to do [00:48:17] something very particular I would go get [00:48:19] a job instead the thing that you have to [00:48:20] do in this life God said uh you know [00:48:22] everybody likes to focus on that on the [00:48:24] seventh day you will rest but the part [00:48:25] that he said right before that that was [00:48:27] 6 days you will toil go to [00:48:30] work you know I I see your point Jeremy [00:48:33] which is that for 99% of colleges and in [00:48:36] 99% of classes maybe even within [00:48:38] colleges uh you're not going to be able [00:48:40] to get that great education I disagree [00:48:43] with my fellow conservatives who they [00:48:45] sometimes say only go to college if [00:48:46] you're going to study engineering or if [00:48:48] you're going to study business or [00:48:49] something I think that's the exact [00:48:50] opposite reason to go to college you [00:48:52] should just get a job or an [00:48:54] apprenticeship or go to trade school to [00:48:56] learn a job that's great that's awesome [00:48:58] is a totally a place for that uh if you [00:49:00] want to get a university education the [00:49:02] point of it is not instrumental or [00:49:04] utilitarian it's not just to make some [00:49:06] money or something like that the point [00:49:08] is to get at the truth and the way you [00:49:10] do that is to immerse yourself in [00:49:12] philosophy and in literature and history [00:49:14] you can still do that at some [00:49:16] universities there are good ones I mean [00:49:18] there's Hillsdale a Maria Franciscan you [00:49:21] know there are a handful you can name [00:49:22] even at the big brand name schools there [00:49:24] are at least a few professors left and [00:49:27] then my final point on this if you find [00:49:29] yourself at a woke college that doesn't [00:49:30] have great classes and at the very least [00:49:34] you can you can understand that every [00:49:36] man is my teacher and I can learn [00:49:37] something from him one of the greatest [00:49:39] Advantage not for $250,000 freaking [00:49:41] dollars books are free that's listen you [00:49:43] but teachers are you really do need [00:49:45] teachers and mentors and things I agree [00:49:47] quarter million bucks you know F [00:49:49] scholarships and things like that but [00:49:50] all of that to say if you're at the woke [00:49:53] College you're making a financially [00:49:55] reasonable decision you you can benefit [00:49:58] greatly from being around people who are [00:50:01] radically leftist because you can [00:50:03] understand their arguments much much [00:50:05] better than they understand your [00:50:06] arguments it will give you an advantage [00:50:09] that is how we win back culture it is [00:50:11] how we uh make the best of [00:50:14] our hold on a second is he or just don't [00:50:17] go to college [00:50:19] yeah you next question [00:50:23] please hi my name is aora vassel I'm the [00:50:27] oldest of six kids so my parents [00:50:30] definitely understand the difference [00:50:31] between a man and a woman so thank you [00:50:33] Matt for the movie I want to ask if you [00:50:36] have more tips on standing up against [00:50:40] confirming the people around me who [00:50:42] continue to push the gender ideology [00:50:45] keep in mind I live in a deep blue state [00:50:48] that is still their media is still [00:50:50] controlled by the left so it is [00:50:53] important never to acques in this yes [00:50:56] truly it is really really really [00:50:58] important and that you are not doing [00:51:00] anybody any favors you know harsh truth [00:51:02] is still better than kind falsehood and [00:51:05] telling somebody who is obviously [00:51:08] suffering from a mental condition that [00:51:11] in reality they're a member of the [00:51:12] opposite sex is not doing them any [00:51:13] favors at all you wouldn't do it in any [00:51:15] other circumstance you would never say [00:51:17] to an anorexic person actually you know [00:51:18] what you're totally right you're really [00:51:20] fat when they're actually underweight by [00:51:22] 40 pounds you would never ever tell [00:51:23] somebody who is suffering from severe [00:51:26] depression that actually maybe you're [00:51:27] right maybe suicide is the proper answer [00:51:29] you know maybe you're thinking this [00:51:30] through properly and so the idea that [00:51:32] you should confirm somebody in what is [00:51:34] an unhealthy delusion is wrong now [00:51:36] you're is that going to make friends no [00:51:38] is that person going to necessarily want [00:51:40] to go out to dinner with you no but they [00:51:41] are going to remember in the darkness of [00:51:44] the night that there was somebody who [00:51:45] was telling them the truth and that is [00:51:47] really really important because if no [00:51:49] one tells them the truth then they're [00:51:50] never going to understand that the other [00:51:52] answer was always there which is that [00:51:53] maybe this is not a body problem maybe [00:51:56] this is a brain problem and you know [00:51:59] that and that requires you know [00:52:00] different thinking about these issues [00:52:02] entirely and of course Matt is the [00:52:04] expert on on this particular topic [00:52:06] because not only did he make a movie but [00:52:08] I've heard he's a woman [00:52:11] but uh I mean look I I I think Ben uh [00:52:14] Ben cover covered it well I mean the [00:52:17] most important thing and also to go to [00:52:19] Drew Point Drew's Point earlier about [00:52:21] you know never never lie and so [00:52:24] uh you know you don't have to go looking [00:52:27] for confrontation now we tend to be [00:52:30] confrontational people it's part of our [00:52:32] job uh we're kind of wired that way and [00:52:34] so if you are and you want to go out and [00:52:36] look for that then I mean God God be [00:52:38] with you but you don't have to do that [00:52:41] and uh you don't have to go jumping on [00:52:42] every grenade that you find in the room [00:52:45] but it's just don't play the game don't [00:52:47] don't acques don't play the language [00:52:49] games you know that was the the big [00:52:51] mistake that was made uh culturally even [00:52:54] among some conservatives back several [00:52:56] years ago where they started playing The [00:52:58] Language game and they said well I just [00:53:00] want to be polite and once we once we [00:53:02] start putting politeness over the truth [00:53:05] then you've already lost and uh so don't [00:53:08] don't do that and you'll be fine I [00:53:13] think hello my name is Jeremiah gripo [00:53:16] and I just wanted to ask a question on [00:53:18] behalf of Ben Davies uh Michael noes why [00:53:21] do you pretend like your show is your [00:53:23] own show when clearly Ben Davies is the [00:53:25] host [00:53:27] wow wow fighting words did we just find [00:53:31] the one Ben Davies fan at the entirety [00:53:34] of [00:53:36] CPAC people infiltrate these events you [00:53:39] know the leftists or the this kind of [00:53:41] disreputable or well all these kind of [00:53:43] people and I found my least favorite [00:53:46] infiltrator and that is the fan of Ben [00:53:48] Davies though he does run most of the [00:53:51] show if I'm being totally Frank about it [00:53:52] he runs a lot of it I also wanted to ask [00:53:54] what your favorite like funny Trump [00:53:56] story is well my favorite what story [00:53:58] funny Trump story my favorite funny [00:54:00] Trump story like a personal Trump story [00:54:03] or I I haven't really interacted with [00:54:05] the man all that much uh how however [00:54:08] there was one great time when uh I well [00:54:11] I can't say I wrote a book but I did a [00:54:13] book called reasons to vote for [00:54:15] Democrats a comprehensive guide that we [00:54:17] have scholars in the audience I see [00:54:19] that's great uh blank book Ben Shapiro [00:54:23] blurbed it as thorough and anyway I go I [00:54:26] did we sold a bazillion copies I ended [00:54:28] up getting a big book deal out of it uh [00:54:30] then I ended up on television on cable [00:54:32] news one morning and the most important [00:54:35] viewer of the Fox News morning show was [00:54:38] watching from the White House that was [00:54:40] uh president Trump and he endorsed the [00:54:42] book and it was really really great and [00:54:43] people wrote about it in the newspapers [00:54:45] but the thing they didn't write about is [00:54:47] he also uh quoted the thing that I said [00:54:49] right beforehand I think I was talking [00:54:51] about his Syria policy or something but [00:54:53] the way he quoted it made it seem like I [00:54:55] was the president president who was like [00:54:57] Michael nolles my Administration is [00:54:59] bombing Syria and all and I thought man [00:55:00] this is really cool the president is [00:55:02] making it sound like I'm the president [00:55:04] that's a really gracious thing for him [00:55:06] to do and then he plugged the book so [00:55:08] from my personal standpoint that's my [00:55:09] favorite funny Trump story uh but I [00:55:11] don't know there were about 10 billion [00:55:13] others for everyone else in the room [00:55:16] thank [00:55:18] you good day guys I'm Jordy from [00:55:20] Australia with these noisy Folks up the [00:55:22] front um I'm a casual subscriber by the [00:55:25] way so when Matt has a movie I subscribe [00:55:27] for that um question to Michael NOS you [00:55:31] offered me some whiskey just before do [00:55:32] you have a spare glass up there mhm okay [00:55:35] of the of the 4547 whiskey yes please [00:55:38] yeah that's do we do we have an extra [00:55:39] glass can I do we have like a cannon [00:55:42] that I could blast I haven't had a [00:55:43] single sip here you go this is your [00:55:44] whiskey now thank you I'll put it do we [00:55:46] can someone here we are that's wow this [00:55:48] is great we're giving people booze we're [00:55:50] giving them this legal this is certainly [00:55:52] not legal I'll walk it down who's you [00:55:56] know conservatives we're people people [00:55:58] the libs there you are sir [00:56:03] enjoy I love it this is you know it's [00:56:05] like a family man did you get his ID at [00:56:07] least uh yeah he's like 45 or something [00:56:10] I me I know how many laws are we going [00:56:12] to break during this show yeah yeah if [00:56:15] this kid asks for cocaine the answer is [00:56:17] no the answer is [00:56:20] no got another cigar yeah can I get a [00:56:23] Sig any zins who I I need someone to get [00:56:26] is in [00:56:27] actually uh hello everybody's you're all [00:56:30] fine no no I'm it's [00:56:32] okay my name is William grips over um I [00:56:36] had a question for Matt or Michael um as [00:56:40] a younger man I was wondering what saint [00:56:45] you try hardest to model yourself after [00:56:49] and as a young man what saint did you [00:56:51] most look up to you know I uh I I'll go [00:56:56] to the uh to the New Testament and St [00:56:59] Paul has always been probably the saint [00:57:02] that I've felt the most um connection to [00:57:06] I I wanted to choose that as my [00:57:07] confirmation name but Paul Walsh just [00:57:09] didn't I didn't think it sounded right [00:57:11] so I I couldn't do it um but the thing I [00:57:14] like about uh St Paul I mean obviously [00:57:17] some of the most [00:57:18] beautiful uh words some of those [00:57:21] beautiful insights ever written can be [00:57:22] found in the Pauline Epistles uh but [00:57:25] also I I guess I kind of I could feel a [00:57:28] certain connection to the fact that Paul [00:57:30] was when you read the the paulan [00:57:31] Epistles he was quite blunt in the way [00:57:35] that he talked to people and the way [00:57:37] that he addressed uh issues and um and [00:57:40] to me it's a it's a real rebuke of the [00:57:42] kind of uh nicey nice Mr Rogers sort of [00:57:46] Christianity that we've gotten fed to us [00:57:48] force fed to us over the last several [00:57:50] decades because then when you go and and [00:57:52] even if you read the gospels and and you [00:57:54] read the way that that the [00:57:57] um uh dealt with Hypocrites and uh and [00:58:01] dealt with corruption you also find that [00:58:04] it's quite quite a bit more aggressive [00:58:06] and blunt and direct not not [00:58:07] mean-spirited certainly not hateful um [00:58:10] there's no contempt in it but it's [00:58:13] calling the sin out and rebuking it [00:58:16] directly and uh which is the thing that [00:58:18] I love about my my confirmation Saint is [00:58:21] Thomas but I don't know which one it was [00:58:23] because because I was a punk kid I was [00:58:26] was 13 I became an atheist and I don't [00:58:29] remember if I picked Thomas because I [00:58:30] was doubting or because I had heard [00:58:32] vaguely of this man Thomas aquinus and I [00:58:35] heard he was a smart guy and I thought I [00:58:36] was smarter than I was but it all really [00:58:38] comes full circle because doubting [00:58:39] Thomas D he's called doubting but of [00:58:42] course he says you know let us go with [00:58:43] the Lord let us die with him that's a [00:58:45] great show of faith and St Thomas [00:58:47] aquinus is the one of the most [00:58:49] intelligent people ever to live and was [00:58:50] right about everything and was certainly [00:58:52] a lot more correct about ultimate things [00:58:54] than some punk 13 old atheist who [00:58:56] happily came out the other end and by [00:58:59] the way Thomas means twins so I think I [00:59:01] can claim them both at least I choose to [00:59:03] thank you very [00:59:05] much hello my name is Harley I'm a huge [00:59:08] fan um but I wanted to ask what do you [00:59:12] have to say about the gender ideologists [00:59:15] that use intersex people as a pawn for [00:59:17] their CH agenda it's it's massive [00:59:20] category error so when you're talking [00:59:22] about people who are intersex these are [00:59:24] people who have some sort of genetic [00:59:27] disorder in which they develop [00:59:29] differently than say XY genetics because [00:59:30] the sry Y Gene has crossed over for [00:59:32] example uh or where they develop [00:59:34] secondary sexual characteristics that [00:59:36] are not in line with their genetics this [00:59:37] does not make them a separate sex [00:59:38] anymore than a person who is born with a [00:59:40] third arm would constitute a separate [00:59:42] class of human being called the third [00:59:44] armed people right a genetic defect is [00:59:46] not the same thing as suggesting that [00:59:48] there is an entirely separate sex sex is [00:59:50] defined by the actual [00:59:54] reproductive resource that is being [00:59:56] created either the either the egg or the [00:59:57] sperm or the large cell gam or the small [01:00:00] cell gam that that is actually how you [01:00:02] define sex biologically speaking so [01:00:04] suggesting that because somebody has a [01:00:06] birth defect in which it's unclear to [01:00:08] the outside eye what their genetics [01:00:10] might be that this somehow means that a [01:00:12] genetic man who has all the normal [01:00:14] characteristics of a genetic man could [01:00:15] theoretically be a woman that's just an [01:00:18] asinine category error and people are [01:00:20] lying when they attempt to equate [01:00:21] interex with for example a person who is [01:00:24] a genetic male who claims that they are [01:00:25] actually a female guys thank you so much [01:00:28] for spending time with us tonight enjoy [01:00:29] the rest of CAC and enjoy the next four [01:00:31] years they're going to be great thanks [01:00:34] everybody thank you see you [01:00:40] guys cigar [01:00:45] [Applause] [01:00:45] [Music]
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