Ben Shapiro declares victory in healthcare, military, and cultural battles while mocking Obamacare subsidies as "stealing money at gunpoint" and Hollywood’s leftist dominance, comparing it to Europe’s decline. He dismisses Candace Owens’ arguments as baseless, warns Carlo about same-sex attraction and pornography, and promotes Daily Wire Plus, life insurance, and member exclusives—all while weaving in satirical claims like "MAID murders" and a fictional Arthurian prophecy. The episode frames conservative cultural and economic strategies as the only path to resist perceived societal collapse. [Automatically generated summary]
United States lawmakers and other sex workers are holed up in Washington, D.C., discussing what to do about Obamacare.
The problem is that the massive subsidies of taxpayer dollars that have been funding the bill are about to expire.
And should they run out, the only way to continue doing the important work that Obamacare does would be to rake all our money into one big pile, then set it on fire and dance around the blaze chanting, oh look, healthcare is affordable now.
Just keep raking.
Democrats are searching to find ways to keep Obamacare alive while simultaneously bringing down the cost of health care.
And they're working on such cost-cutting innovations as building doctors' offices on the top floors of skyscrapers, then having the exit door from the waiting room lead directly out of the building to a 50-story drop to the pavement below, thus limiting the patient's healthcare needs to a mop and a headstone.
Another version of this inevitable Obamacare addendum is called Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAID, in which doctors who previously fulfilled their sacred Hippocratic oath to do no harm by performing abortions and castrating little boys for no reason, will now simply murder their patients to keep them from running up their health care bills.
The Democrats will attempt to sell the public on the MAID idea with an upbeat holiday-themed ad campaign called Everybody Ought to Have a Maid.
The ads will include a catchy jingle with the lyrics, why decay day by day when, hooray, you can just pass away.
We killed your babies, then as a bonus, we tried to cut off your son's cojonis.
Now, rather than bear the health care onus, all you have to do is phone us and you won't be billed.
You'll just be killed.
Okay, it's not Santaim, but it works better than Obamacare.
Now, some lawmakers feel the problems with Obamacare are built into the system.
The way Obamacare works is this.
Imagine a strapping, healthy, 25-year-old man.
Now, imagine a 90-year-old man slowly being devoured by a slimy, oozing, bubbling, green old man fungus spreading inch by inch over his skin and painfully dissolving his flesh into a malodorous puddle of boiling blood-so goo.
Now, stop giggling.
You people are sick.
You disgust me.
Anyway, under Obamacare, the healthy 25-year-old and the bubbling, stinky fungus man pay exactly the same amount for health insurance.
Now, of course, the 25-year-old will soon begin to think, hey, I'm not sick.
Why should I pay rates meant to cover dissolving fungus face over there?
Aha, but Obamacare had a fix for that called the mandate.
Under the mandate, if people refused to pay for health care they didn't need, the government would simply steal their money at gunpoint and pay for it anyway.
Unfortunately, the mandate was canceled.
But luckily, the Democrats replaced the mandate with subsidies through which they steal people's money at gunpoint, but instead of calling it a mandate, they call it subsidies.
Now, you might say, well, we can't just go on stealing people's money to pay for 90-year-old bubbling fungus people forever because we'd run out of money.
But then you would be a Republican, and you'd be forced to do nothing because you'd be a contemptible Poltroon, too cowardly to explain to people that we should leave the whole business to the free market.
If you're a Democrat, you have a better plan, which is to keep subsidizing bubbling fungi until the national debt is so high we have to sell the entire country to China.
Then the Chinese can deal with our health care by saying, oh, look, there's a malodorous fungus person.
Let's harvest his organs, then invade Taiwan.
At that point, Republicans can finally take action by going on Fox News and shouting, this is all the Democrats' fault and would never have happened if someone had had the courage to stop them.
Now we must go to war against China, which we would definitely do if we could still afford a Navy.
Democrats, on the other hand, will simply rake all our money into a big pile and set it on fire, then dance around the blaze, chanting, well, at least we still have Obamacare, except in Chinese.
Trigger warning, I'm Andrew Klavan, and this is The Andrew Klavan Show.
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He said, I came here for the hateful, racist, sexist, and despicable gutter-level comments.
Instead, all I got was the Trump happiness montage and God's wisdom revealed.
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Let's get then into today's episode.
A change is going to come.
Now, we've been talking about this a long time, but I want to put a couple of thoughts together about it.
This is a hugely transitional time.
I would say it is the most transitional time I have lived through since the 1960s, and it has a lot in common with it.
That was the end of one generation and the rising of the boomer generation.
This is the end of the boomer generation, which has dominated culture and politics for low these many years.
I mean, when we leave, you guys are on your own.
You'll have no idea what you're doing.
You won't even know, you know, where will you get your bell bottoms?
I don't know.
But, you know, the boomers rejected the ethos of what was called the greatest generation.
They weren't called the greatest generation then when they were called, you stupid old people, we hate you.
That's what we called them before they were called the greatest generation.
But they had won World War II.
They had gotten through the Depression.
So we mocked them and made fun of the things they believed in.
We wanted less conformity.
And I won't say we, because I was not a very good 60s person.
All I wanted was the sex.
We wanted less conformity, more individual freedom, less marriage, more sex, more feminism.
It was like the French Revolution.
I compared it in my book, The Truth and Beauty of the French Revolution, not in the violence necessarily, obviously, but in that it was a massive failure.
The French Revolution was a massive failure.
And yet some of the ideals survived and transformed the world that they were in because the ideals were coming whether the revolution took place or not.
And I think that was true about the 60s revolution as well.
And so you got, you know, you got things that lasted even through the failure.
The age of Aquarius didn't come.
But you've got things like, you know, women who were unhappy, women who were freed from domination by the husbands who loved them became unhappy women who were wage slaves dominated by men who didn't like them at all.
So that was a big change.
And it finally made black people equal to feminists because they too could complain all the time about nothing.
And then there was environmentalism, all these things that actually, you know, they actually all had some good intentions and they all were changes that probably needed to come, but they were all taken over by the left and the left destroyed them.
What the left did was it took feminism, which was saying basically, you know, women should have the choice to live whatever life they want, which I agree with.
And it became a leftist attack on the male-female family unit, which is the building block of freedom.
So leftists hate it.
And it's also the building block of happiness.
So leftists hate it because if you're happy, then you want to be free.
And if you're not happy, you'll say, please, government, help us.
Racial equality, civil rights, of course, I deeply believe that we should treat everybody with love.
But it became an attack on freedom of association.
Now the government could come to you and say, well, I've counted the black people in your company, and you're a racist because there are not enough of them, which is absurd.
You should be able to hire people according to their merit and their talent, not according to the color of their skin, even if that means your company remains all white.
And I think if it's your business, you should be able to run it any way you want.
The government should not be telling you to hire environmentalism.
I think we all want clean air and clean water, but it was taken over by the left and it turned into climate hysteria, which is really just a way of attacking capitalism and attacking the things that make this country what it is and as great and rich as it is.
So then if you say, oh, well, I'm against climate hysteria or I'm against, you know, I'm in favor of freedom of association or I'm in favor of male-female marriage, then they attack you.
The left attacks you for being against the original idea of feminism or civil rights or conservationism.
So it's a trick, right?
It's a trick.
You say, yeah, I think you should be able to hire anybody.
Well, you must be a racist.
No, I'm actually not a racist.
I just don't care about race.
I care about hiring whoever I want to be in my business.
So that is the trick that they've been using.
And now when we look around and see the failure all around us, a country in debt, a country divided, a country where people, most importantly, where people are not reproducing.
So a country that is dying under us.
When we look at that, what we're seeing is the failure of leftism.
And everybody on the left says, no, what you need is more civil rights.
What you need is more environmentalism.
And everybody on the right says, oh, no, we have to go back to the 1950s.
Believe me, that's not what we want to do.
What we're watching is we're watching the failure of leftism.
That is exactly what's happening.
And so that's happening.
And there are other changes that are coming.
Obviously, the smartphone changed everything.
AI, they're saying, will change everything.
We're not sure.
They keep telling us it's just going to get better and better.
We don't know whether there's a ceiling past which it will get.
And, you know, it's the computer, the internet, including AI, are the biggest change in the way we spread information since the invention of the printing press.
That's not an exaggeration.
It's not hyperbole.
It's just true.
And you have to remember the printing press led directly to the religion, wars of religion, like the 30 Years' War that transformed Europe.
Even in some ways, the revolutionary age came out of that.
And that followed an age of scientific expansion, of colonial expansion, but also of increasing godlessness.
And that godlessness found, I think, its perfect expression in the atrocities of Nazi Germany and the atrocities of the Soviet Union.
It always makes me laugh when groupers sit around and say Hitler wasn't so bad, you know, and Christ is king.
Well, Hitler didn't believe that Christ was king.
Hitler believed that Hitler was king and that he should replace Jesus Christ at the center of Christianity.
So they don't know what they're talking about.
Of course, they don't know what they're talking about.
They're morons.
But this is, you know, that's the result of atheism.
There's a direct connection between the paganism of the Nazis and the atheism of the Stalinists.
Those are things that cause those things.
So the left has all kinds of plans to make the future look even more like today.
They keep saying, oh, you know, it's not that feminism bad.
You don't have enough feminism.
It's those that patriarchy, you know, like as if there's still a patriarchy.
That's what they keep selling us.
So I want to stop for a minute and think, well, what do we think?
What do we think the future should look like?
Because if you think, you know, our friend Michael Knowles believes the future should look like the 1200s.
Other people believe it should look like the 1950s.
No, I love the future.
I want the future to be fresh.
I want it to be new.
I want it to be original.
But there are things that I want there, and that's what I want to talk about today.
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Chapter one, Worst Elites Ever.
So you'll notice that we're getting very tough on Venezuela, and I want to explain what that is all about because people are talking about it.
In some ways, it's kind of boring.
I mean, it's fun to watch the ships blow up.
I love watching narco-terrorists get blown to bits.
But I want to look at something bigger than that that I don't hear a lot of people talking about on podcasts at least.
You know, we've been bombing these narco-terrorists.
I was at a party the other day where I met some guys from the DOJ who were in charge of saying it's legal to bomb the narco-terrorists.
And I told them, as far as I'm concerned, every time a narcoterist is vaporized, an angel gets his wings.
But that has happened.
And then Trump made the announcement that we had seized a Venezuelan tanker.
So here's Donald Trump talking to the press about that cut-three.
As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, a large tanker, very large.
Largest one ever seized, actually.
And other things are happening.
Can you explain a little more about this Venezuelan oil tanker and share a little more information?
Well, I'll let the people do it, but you see the result.
And I guess they probably have released the pictures by now pretty soon.
You'll discuss that with the appropriate people later on, but no, it was seized for very good reason.
The oil tanker, who owns that oil tanker?
You'll get that information later.
Okay, and have you spoken to Maduro since your last conversation?
No, it's only been one conversation.
We're interested in the seizure of his tanker.
What happens to the oil on that ship?
Well, we keep it, I guess.
We keep it in the oil.
Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, said the tanker has been sanctioned by the U.S. for multiple years due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations, including Venezuela and Iran.
Now, at the same time, this is happening, they're giving the Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado, who is an incredibly courageous opposition leader in Venezuela against Nicolas Maduro, one of the true dirtbags of the earth.
I mean, he is just a crushingly oppressive guy, and Maria Machado has been standing up to him.
And in an attempt to get to Oslo to accept the prize, she made an escape from Venezuela.
I don't have time to describe it now, but it was out of the movies.
It was incredible, dressed in a wig, going through military checkpoint after military checkpoint after military checkpoint to finally get out.
And then they had to inform, they escaped by boat, and they had to inform the U.S. so they wouldn't get vaporized.
The U.S. wouldn't mistake them for a drug run and blow them off the face of the earth.
Finally made it, but not in time to accept the Nobel Peace Prize.
So her daughter, Ana Karina Sosa, gave a speech.
Here's just a brief part of this, where she is, all of these people have had to escape and leave Venezuela to get away from Maduro, and she is dreaming of the time when they will return.
Here is Soza Katen.
The world has marveled at what we have achieved.
And soon it will witness one of the most moving sights of our time.
Our loved ones coming home.
And I will stand again on the Simón Bolivar Bridge, where I once cried, the thousands who were leaving and welcome them back into the luminous life that awaits us.
Because in the end, our journey towards freedom has always lived inside us.
We are returning to ourselves.
And we know that's true because her mom, you know, backed a candidate against Maduro, the guy who won the election in a landslide, and Maduro just said, no, I'm not leaving.
And, you know, he stayed where he is.
So these are very brave ladies doing great work and have thanked President Trump for what he's doing there.
So it's all an escalation of Trump's shadow war with Venezuela.
And it's getting, you know, seizing a tanker is an act of war.
So the reason I'm telling you this is that this is all explained in a new document.
Every administration has to make one of these documents.
It's called the National Security Strategy.
And theirs has received the universal criticism of the elites in charge.
Okay.
So basically, this is where Trump puts forward what his foreign policy, the basis of his foreign policy.
And of course, this is just a statement.
So when it clashes with reality, it will change.
But he explains what he means to do.
Now, before I get to what Trump says, I just have to give you some of what the elites are saying about it.
And in order to find some really, really stupid elites, we go to the op-ed page of the New York Times, as we like to call it, Knucklehead Row.
Oh, hey, hey, hell, hey-ho!
Let's go waltz and downtown.
So you've got to listen to this because this is really funny.
You have to listen carefully because I'll go back over it.
This is by David Wallace Wells, who's basically a climate hysteric.
Know why he's writing about this, but he says Trumpism.
This is about the national security strategy.
He says Trumpism is global culture war.
He says it's a vision of geopolitics as a global culture war to capture the imaginations of online reactionaries, a fight for Western civilization conducted mostly within borders between a kind of blood and soil nationalism and a permissive cosmopolitan liberalism and viewed to a large degree racially.
Notably, he says the strategy document refers to God at several points.
Ooh, bad, very bad.
You know how it refers to God at several points?
Almost, I don't think there is another reference to God except this.
It is in the phrase, God-given rights.
No, no, no.
The New York Times does not want to have any of those God-given rights.
And when he says that it is racial, what he means is they never mention race.
They never mention race in this document.
I mean, maybe the word appears somewhere and I missed it, but I don't think so.
I read the whole thing.
They never mention race.
And for the left, that is a sin.
If they're not doing things according to race, it says repeatedly, we want to bring back merit.
We want to bring back, you know, the traditional ideas of acting according to morals and our American ideals.
And that's what we want to do.
And they go, but where's the race?
How can we divide people and bring socialism in?
We don't have race.
That's what he's complaining about.
There's nothing racist about it at all.
That's what he means by being racial.
Now, here's a more normal elite attack from the Council on Foreign Relations, which is basically the spokesman of the blob.
It's the spokesman of the consensus of what foreign policy should be.
This is Rebecca Lisner shocked at one of the key sections of the national security document, Cut Five.
It really echoes Vice President Vance's fairly shocking remarks at the Munich Security Conference earlier this year and makes the case that the greatest threat to Europe is civilizational erasure.
The NSS calls for the U.S. to correct Europe's political trajectory, including, it says, by cultivating resistance within European nations themselves.
And it's hard to overstate how significant it is to elevate these views that were not so long ago really at the fringes of American foreign policy discourse into America's most authoritative statement of strategic intent.
And this is really a stunning victory, I think, for the MAGA wing of the Republican Party that is represented most prominently by Vice President Vance.
It's a sea change in U.S. foreign policy.
If you think about the trajectory, especially since the end of the Cold War, where the United States has often been working to make the world safe for democracy to spread liberal liberalism and liberal universalism, this is actually foreshadowing a very different turn in American foreign policy and one that should cause us to think about what it would mean to have the United States promoting an illiberal international order.
So she says, she's absolutely right that this is a Vance document.
And if Vance is elected president, as I hope he will be, this is the way we will act in the world.
Is it illiberal to attack the Europeans, as Vance did in what this lady called his shocking speech in Munich, my favorite speech of the administration so far?
Is it liberal to arrest somebody for praying silently against abortion, which happens in Britain?
Is it liberal to silence people and put them in prison as they do in Britain, formerly Great Britain, because they sent out a tweet?
Is it liberal to open up the borders and allow people to sweep in en masse into your countries who hate your country, who hate the West, who hate everything about you, who hate Jesus Christ?
Is it illiberal to oppose that?
That's what they're saying.
Now, this is all across the board.
I mean, National Review picks on this document.
The Wall Street Journal picks on it.
So it's not just the left.
Everybody's picking on it.
There's one person who thinks it's great, and he is speaking to you right now.
I think it's fantastic.
Okay.
And here's where it starts.
This is how they describe our foreign policy and why we need it.
It says, our elites badly miscalculated America's willingness to shoulder.
This is after World War II, they're talking about.
Our elites badly miscalculated America's willingness to shoulder forever global burdens to which the American people saw no connection to the national interest.
They overestimated America's ability to fund simultaneously a massive welfare regulatory administrative state alongside a massive military diplomatic intelligence and foreign aid complex.
They placed hugely misguided and destructive bets on globalism and so-called free trade that hollowed out the very middle class and industrial base on which American economic and military preeminence depend.
They allowed allies and partners to offload the costs of their defense onto the American people and sometimes to suck us into conflicts and controversies central to their interests, but peripheral and irrelevant to our own.
And they lashed American policy to a network of international institutions, some of which are driven by outright anti-Americanism and many by a transnationalism that explicitly seeks to dissolve individual state sovereignty.
In sum, not only did our elites pursue a fundamentally undesirable and impossible goal, in doing so, they undermine the very means necessary to achieve that goal, the character of our nation upon which its power, wealth, and decency were built.
Who can say that's wrong?
People are attacking this because it changes things, just like they're attacking tariffs because it changes our trading system, but things stink.
We're in debt up to our eyes.
China is building ships.
You know, as I speak, they built more ships than we built in a year.
You know, we are in a bad way.
And Trump has said this, we're at a turning point, and it's not hurting people now.
And so if you are an elite who supported this system, you are riding high.
See, every system, no matter how bad it is, works for somebody.
How do you know who it works for?
They're the people on top.
They're the experts.
They're the rich.
They're the people for whom things are going great.
That's why they hate Donald Trump.
This document, things are so bad now in terms of defending the future that something has to change.
And this is obviously what it should be.
Now, some of the things that they say in this document, they're a little soft on Russia.
Everybody on the right thinks that we can bring Russia into the community of nations.
I don't believe that's true as long as Putin is alive.
After that, they may liberalize, but Putin is a snake.
He's a very bad man.
He's a criminal.
We have to work with him.
I'm not saying we have to go kill him or anything like that.
We have to work with him, but we have to know who he is.
And I don't know how much we can trust him.
And it imagines a tense, competitive, but hopefully peaceful relationship with China.
But it's the way they turn on Europe.
It's the way the Trump administration has turned on Europe that gets everybody upset.
Continental Europe, they say, has been losing share of global GDP, down from 25% in 1990 to 14% today.
But this economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure.
The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birth rates and loss of national identities and self-confidence.
Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less.
Where's the lie?
What is false about that?
We are handcuffed like prisoners to Europe.
That's not going to go away.
And the document admits that.
Europe is important.
If it were only empty territory, it would be important strategically.
But it's not.
It's still people that we are related to, the English especially.
We are related to them philosophically.
And we need to link up with them.
But they're saying we need to transform them into us.
Why does that shock our elites?
Because they think Europe is the future.
Multi-ethnic, multicultural, their identity erased, quietly subsumed into the European Union and the United Nations and other transnational.
They think that's the future.
These are the same class of people who thought the Soviet Union was the future.
Same guys, same mindset.
And Trump is saying, no, we're the future.
They're the past.
They're dead.
And yes, we'd like to bring them into our American future.
But the main thing we want to pay attention to is the Western Hemisphere.
And that's what this thing in Venezuela is all about.
We want our sphere of interest to be the Western Hemisphere so we can pull out of the Middle East a little bit because we're producing enough energy on our own.
The reason we were so involved in the Middle East is not because the Jews are the Jews.
It's all crap.
It's because the energy was there.
Now we can pull out a little bit because we have our own energy increasingly because of Donald Trump and because of Donald Trump.
We've started to put in a system by rejecting everything that the elites had been doing up till now and creating a system where possibly the Muslims and the Jews can start to live together and live in peace and without interfering with who one another is.
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That is another part of this document that they say, you know, we're going to love anybody we can love, but we're not going to change people.
The Muslims are going to be the Muslims.
Let them stay in their countries and be the Muslims.
You know, if they want to become, you know, walk around in burqas and give their women no rights, too bad.
That's not our business.
America is going to be America.
And the way we change things is not by invading countries, not by insisting, not by putting a rainbow flag up on our embassy in a country that doesn't want it there.
We do it by being ourselves and having people who like us make movies about us like we used to and write novels in which we're the good guys.
And until people start to say, God, they have all the glamour.
They have all the cool things.
They got the best sunglasses.
We want to be like them.
That's how you change the world.
I think this document is fantastic.
And what I want to talk about is I think that there should be a document like this for the movies.
I think there should be a document like this for marriage.
I think there should be a document like this for all the things we are going to need to fix in the future if we do not want these morons who have destroyed everything to take over the future like they took over the past.
As far as I'm concerned, the only comment I heard on this security document that matched reality was this one.
We're going to win so much.
We're going to win at every level.
We're going to win economically.
We're going to win with the economy.
We're going to win with military.
We're going to win with health care and for our veterans.
We're going to win with every single facet.
Zip-ba-dee-doo-dah, zip-ba-dee-ay.
My, oh my, what a wonderful day.
We're going to win so much, you may even get tired of winning.
Yay!
You say, please, please, it's too much winning.
We can't take it anymore.
I feel pretty.
Oh, so pretty.
I feel pretty and witty and gay.
We have to keep winning.
We have to win more.
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Art And Cultural Divides00:14:57
I was talking to Megan Kelly yesterday, the day before yesterday, I can't remember.
I was on a show and I was talking about art and culture.
And I said, you know, art, meaning movies, novels, you know, streaming, everything, and paintings and all the arts.
I said, art is kind of like sex in that in each experience, it's a delight.
It's fun.
It may come and go without your thinking about it very much.
But over time, it's in fact soul shaping.
That in fact, like sex, art is a deep, soulful experience.
And while in any given instance, it may be a one-night stand or something, you know, with what they call maintenance sex or whatever, in any given instance, over time, it is going to be something that affects you deeply.
And this is one of the reasons we cannot get stupid conservatives to pay attention because in any given moment, yeah, it's just a movie.
But over time, it shapes the culture, just like our attitudes to sex.
So it matters what's happening in Hollywood.
It matters.
And conservatives who say, I don't pay attention to those bastards in Hollywood, they're fools because you should pay attention and we should be taking it back.
So another one of the big changes going on is obviously in the arts in the sense that the movies have ceased to be the primary art form of the West.
They're just not anymore.
Hollywood is dead.
It may come back, but right now it's dead.
It's dead because the movies are dead.
And, you know, this happens.
You know, it used to be poetry.
You know, Percy Shelley, the great poet, said poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
He said that when poets, when if you wanted to be a bestseller, you wrote poems, you know, but that's changed.
And then novels were the great art form.
And guys like Charles Dickens had a huge effect on the attitudes in England.
He invented the snowy Christmas out of his own childhood and invented Christmas in a way we follow it.
And that disappeared.
The movies became the way America spread its message to the world, spread its identity to the world.
And now that's over.
I don't know what's going to happen now.
Maybe in some ways podcasts have been a filler for that, but I don't know if that is going to remain.
It is interesting.
And well, it is interesting to show you how important podcasts are.
The Golden Globe nominations came out and they included podcasts for the first time.
They took the top 25 podcasts, which I, by the way, thought was unfair because many things are great in the arts that are not top 25.
Many things that are in the top 25 stink.
You know, that's just true.
I mean, many great best-selling novels are Pablom, and many novels that only a few people hear about are terrific.
So when you give awards, they should be given on quality.
But among the top 25 are people like Ben Shapiro and Megan Kelly and Joe Rogan, and they did not get any nominations.
And it's funny, Ben actually went out and he was honest about it.
He went out and he campaigned for it.
That's one of the things you have to do if you want to win awards.
He put up a billboard in Times Square, which makes me the only Daily Wire member who has ever had his name up in Times Square and didn't pay for it.
Just saying.
But anyway, nothing for any of those people, nothing for any of the conservatives.
Meanwhile, one battle after another got nine nominations, which is not a bad movie in the sense of being, it's beautifully made and well-acted.
It's got Sean Penn, one of the great actors of his generation, Leonardo DiCaprio, a fine actor.
But it is a movie that glorifies leftist violence.
It glorifies radicalism.
It glorifies, and it depicts conservatives as bigoted, you know, racist white supremacist jerks who secretly dream about being dominated sexually by black women.
That's basically what that's Sean Penn's character.
Here is a brief scene where Sean Penn wants to enlist in this organization of white supremacists.
And he basically tells you this is how conservatives are being depicted in the most nominated movie at the Golden Globes.
I don't think I'm being immodest when I say that joining the Christmas Adventurers Club means that you are a superior man.
No, not the best man, not the most intelligent, the most sophisticated, or the wisest.
It just means that you are superior to other human beings, and you shall never want for riches or the greatest of friends.
Now, we report to ourselves for the freedom to be creative and cut through layers of bureaucracy.
We live by the golden rule in a network of like-minded men and women dedicated to making the world safe and pure.
What would you say to someone who believes that you have been soft in your duty to racial purification?
I would say they are a liar who has no business in society.
So that's what you guys are.
You're conservative.
So that's the way you think in the movie world.
And those are the movies that get nominated.
And Megan Kelly was saying, well, I don't care.
I don't want their stupid awards.
And I was saying, no, awards are part of the way we promote the arts and fame and interviews and reviews.
And not only are none of those available to conservatives, but the opposite is true.
They want to destroy us.
So that means that it's important, this Netflix merger with Warner Brothers, which would give the biggest streaming company on earth access to the greatest library left.
Maybe Disney has a greater library, but the Warner Brothers has a library that includes The Dark Knight, Harry Potter, The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Casablanca going back, all the great old gangster films, and of course the Bugs Bunny cartoons and the like.
And, you know, they went with them instead of Paramount, even though Paramount is still trying to buy them by bringing in a cash deal that is greater than Warner Brothers, but Paramount is run by the Ellisons father and son, who are Trump friends.
And so that's not going to happen.
And who knows whether this will go through.
There's all kind of legal hoops you got to go through.
But if it goes through, Netflix is going to make money like Disney no matter what happens.
even when their movies bomb, even when their woke stuff is ignored.
Now, Netflix is a dedicated woke company.
It is not a left-wing company.
It is a woke company.
The Federalist had an article.
I'm not sure how to pronounce the author's name, Beth Brelge, it looks like, but she says some 41% of children's shows on Netflix, 41% of children's shows are pushing the LGB agenda, according to a recently released report by Concerned Woman for America.
And when they say pushing the LGBT agenda, the gay agenda, they mean propagandizing for it.
I mean, and it's pretty shocking how propagandistic it is.
And it's been embedded in things that parents would be forgiven for thinking are clean because they saw them as children and they were clean.
So Magic School Bus, Power Rangers, Babysitters Club, these things have now all been infiltrated by this gay propaganda.
And just to show you how propagandistic it is, here's a show that I believe is pronounced Cocomelon.
And it's two gay men, married gay men, teaching a little boy.
And when I say little, I mean like tiny, a little boy encouraging him to dress up as a girl and become a girl, essentially, if that's what he wants to be.
It's cut seven.
Everything that we know about you, you love it and get up and dance.
How about you break out those moves for your two biggest fans?
If you're not sure what to choose, think about all the things you like to do.
Just be you.
Just be me.
Yep.
When you're trying to decide, think about all the things you like to do.
Just be you.
Just be me.
So this little boy comes out, if you're not watching this and just listening, he comes out in a little princess outfit, a little tutu dress and a tiara, and that's just be you.
Which, by the way, you know, I don't have time to go into this now, but the way you dress is something that you speak into the community.
And you don't really have the right to dress any way you please.
Or if you have the right to do it, it may not be right to do it.
Maybe that's the way I should put it.
So meanwhile, so that's happening at Netflix and people are not boycotting it or anything.
It's 40% of the children's material is pushing the gay agenda.
And meanwhile, Sidney Sweeney, the beautiful blonde actress who was in those American Eagle Jeans commercials and who was, you know, just absolutely attacked because they said Sidney Sweeney has good jeans and everybody said, well, that's white supremacy, the stupidest attack ever.
But, but, and she stood up to them and all the conservatives were going, oh, thank heavens for Sidney Sweeney.
Then she had two flop films.
She had two flop films.
And you can bet she has a manager and an agent and a friend and a producer saying, you know, you ought to dial it back.
And she did.
She went to People Magazine.
She said, oh, I don't know why they mistook me.
Anyone who knows me knows that I'm always trying to bring people together.
I'm against hate and divisiveness.
In the past, my stance has been to never respond to negative or positive press.
But recently, I've come to realize that my silence regarding this issue has only widened the divide.
So I hope this new year brings more focus.
You know, she caved.
I mean, there's no way around it.
But look, you can make fun of her.
You can attack her.
But this is her livelihood.
This is her job.
This is her dream since childhood.
You know, in order to be the star that she wants to be, people have to say she's pretty.
People have to give her good reviews.
People have to interview her in a friendly way.
That's the system that they have built that we haven't built.
And so this is a real thing.
And, you know, what I think our statement, when we say the conservatives should take back Hollywood, we should have a strategy statement.
And the statement should not be, we want conservative movies.
It should not be, we want movies that have no sex in them or no gay people in them or no this or that.
We want movies that show life in all kinds of different ways.
Action movies, yes, but also serious dramas.
This is the one thing about conservative arts and conservative talk.
sometimes plays to the lowest common denominator, you know, because we know that the conservatives are, they're working class conservatives, but we forget about the conservative elites because they're off talking about, you know, some philosopher who's been dead, but not about the arts as they are right now.
So, you know, Trump is the only guy, by the way, who gets this in the political movement of conservatives.
He just gave the Kevin Kennedy Center awards.
He gave them to conservative guys like Sylvester Stallone and George Strait and Kiss.
But still, those and those people, and listen, I've said about this Stallone.
Stallone talks like he's a Paluka, but he's actually a very talented man and he deserves awards.
But what concerns me is not the politics of the people in the arts, though I believe, of course, you need conservatives in the arts.
It's the assumptions of the art.
And I've been making this speech to conservatives for 100 years now, and it's very hard to get it through.
It's not having somebody say, I love America.
My golly, you know, you should only get married to a person of the opposite sex.
You know, that's not art.
That's not anything.
It's just telling stories about the world.
But the world is a certain way, and it's not another way.
It's not a world in which you can hire people according to the color of their skin and have a well-run company.
You have to hire people according to their talents to get a well-run company.
And that's true whether you're hiring them because they're white or whether you're hiring them because they're black.
It is not true that business is inherently corrupt and inherently illegal and that money is inherently bad.
It is in fact true that money can gut a society of every other value, but it doesn't have to.
And the people who build businesses and hire people and create the economy are the people who make us strong and the people who make America what it is.
It's not true that there's no God.
That's a lie.
There is a God.
And people who believe in God tend to do better in life than people who don't.
When I was asked by Thomas Nelson, the Christian publishers, if I would write adventure books for boys, I said to them, I will write adventure books for boys, but they will not preach Christianity.
The only thing I will do is I'll make the hero a Christian, a rational young man who's a Christian.
And that's what I did.
And so the hero was a Christian.
Those first books, the first series called The Homelander, sold really, really well because of the relief that parents could give their boys something that A, was full of action and shooting and punching and danger and adventure and also had a hero who believed in Jesus Christ.
That's all you have to do.
You don't have to preach anything.
You just tell a great story, but you tell it about with assumptions that are real, that women like being moms, that women thrive in the home, that women who are mothers are not just mothers.
They are the keystone of a society.
They are everything that makes a society work.
They're the heartbeat of a society.
They are.
That's just true.
That's not being pandering to at-home moms.
That's just the damn truth.
And so why are we not making those movies?
And the answer is simple.
We don't have the guts and we don't bring in the people who have the talent and the guts.
We're afraid.
We're always making films.
Oh, well, make a film.
I know.
We'll make a film with a girl boss in it.
And then they won't hate us.
They will hate us anyway.
I get this call all the time.
I'm going to start making conservative movies, but I'm going to fly beneath the radar.
And I tell them, the radar goes all the way down to the ground, maybe even under the ground.
Make a movie that makes them want to punch you in the face.
And, you know, there are people out there doing it.
We don't support them.
On Apple, they have shows that I'm stunned by.
On Apple TV, they have shows that I'm stunned by.
They're just good stories.
F1 was a really good race car movie where the guy prayed and he taught discipline and he told the black kid that he was a punk and the kid was and he taught him stuff.
You know, these are movies that are going to get bad reviews of the New York Times.
They're going to be attacked, but we have got to make them.
And so my statement is, I want the arts to be the arts, but I want the arts to tell the truth.
When I sit down to write a book, I never sit down and say, does this send a conservative message?
I say, does this describe the world as it is?
Does this describe the world as it is?
The assumptions of the left is that every Christian is a small-minded bigot, that every woman is oppressed if she is at home and loves her husband and submits to his leadership.
That, oh, you never want that to happen.
You know, that every business is corrupt.
Those are their assumptions.
We should have our assumptions and then just tell great stories.
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Winning Back Intellectual Minds00:15:45
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Final chapter out of atheism.
So this week, Spencer Clavin and I published an op-ed in the Washington Post.
And I've been telling conservatives because conservatives hate the Washington Post because it's been so left-wing.
And it still has their art section.
It's just dreadful because everything is, here's a, you know, yet another minority woman writing a book.
And isn't it, this will, this will make Trump angry or whatever.
It's just, it's just absurd.
However, they brought in a new guy, a guy who used to, that I've worked with before over at the Wall Street Journal.
He used to run the houses of worship column there.
And he is transforming it.
He is making it fair.
And I'm sure he's getting resistance for it, but he is making it fair.
And so I thought, well, all right, we'll submit an op-ed there.
And Spencer and I, Spencer is no relation.
He's my son.
We wrote an op-ed together.
And by the way, one of the best collaborative experiences of my life, it was so easy.
And the result I thought was terrific.
We wrote an op-ed about the idea of looking at AI as conscious and how we quoted the Bible, the Bible's insight that this is idolatry and idolatry is a psychological kink whereby we invest something we have made with life.
And the Bible says that if you do that, you will become like the thing that you have made.
You will become a dead thing inside.
And we were saying that if you think that AI is not conscious, there's this theory that there's this theory that AI is creating language from patterns.
And therefore, human beings are creating language from patterns.
And we don't really have free will and are not really expressing our inner selves.
And we were saying this is nonsense.
When a person says, how do you do?
Or I'm going to punch you in the face, he may not mean, how do you do?
He may, as Louis Armstrong said, mean, I love you.
And if he says, I'm going to punch you in the face, he may mean I just hate you or I'm angry at you.
But he means something.
If AI says that, it means nothing.
And so it's not conscious.
And we pointed out, here's a brief paragraph.
In every generation, some advanced piece of machinery comes to seem like a model of the human mind.
When the written word was the cutting edge in information storage, Plato had Socrates compare the human mind to a wax writing tablet in his theatetus.
In the era of the steam engine, Sigmund Freud began to think of the mind as a dynamic pressure chamber in which repressed energy returns with gathered force.
And for the past several decades, we've come to picture the mind as a computer hardwired to run certain kinds of software.
But by using machines as metaphors for our minds, we fall prey to the illusion that our minds are nothing more than machines.
So it is not surprising that now when the possibilities of AI are enthralling Silicon Valley, those who think programs can become conscious are trying to tell us that consciousness is just a program.
There were hundreds of comments, and most of them were positive, actually.
I went through them this morning.
Most of them were quite positive.
And some disagreed with us in ways that I totally respect.
Like we said there's a self.
There is such a thing as a self and Buddhists don't believe that.
And I used to practice Zen Buddhism, so I know what they're talking about.
I disagree.
I stopped practicing Zen Buddhism for this very reason, but I still respect it very, very highly.
But there were a number of comments, you know, a handful, a serious handful of comments, that rejected us because we quoted the Bible.
And in part because we believed in God, but mostly because we quoted the Bible.
Now, that's ridiculous, because we quoted the Bible for its insights.
And its insights are what this country and our entire culture are founded on, the things that the people in the Bible, that people who read the Bible believe are the things that make us what we are.
And one comment said, those of us who do not believe in gods, which incidentally we consider to be constructs of man, are of the opinion that the human mind cannot be anything but an incredibly complex and sophisticated machine.
Now, that way madness lies.
I actually believe that atheism is a form of madness, by which I mean that it is deluded about the central fact of reality, which is that reality is a created thing.
The universe is a created thing.
And like every created thing, my novels, somebody's movies, like every created thing, the created thing exudes, radiates the nature and the intentions of its maker.
It shows you who that person is who made this thing and what he wants.
Now, the reason I bring this up is because I think the conversation, we have got to win back the mind of man and the mind of intellectual man, most importantly, because ideas tend to trickle down. toward the faith that is the truth.
Now, I think the way we approach this is really, really bad.
The minute we start talking about God, we start talking about our particular sect.
So the Catholics want everybody to be Catholic.
And all my best friends, I think, are Catholic, but they can be incredibly annoying in this regard, that they just think we have got the truth, everything else is wrong.
And, you know, Protestants want you to believe in their thing.
And they get into these ferocious arguments.
Now, I think theology is really important.
I'm not a theologian, but I think it's very important because like everything else that's real, God has a nature.
There's ways that he is and ways that he is not.
That's true of every real thing.
It has, you know, in God's case, I hate to call it a limit because the limit of God is the limit of everything in some ways.
But no, God has things that he is not.
He is not evil.
He is not, you know, random.
You know, he is doing something with reason.
That's why we have science because he acts with reason, but he acts freely.
So the only way we can know him is using reason to see what he decided to do.
So I do not believe, it's very hard for me to believe that even though I think theology is important, because it helps you to know God as he is, which helps you to become the person God wants you to be.
I don't think that Judgment Day is going to be a short answer quiz.
You know, do you believe in the perpetual virginity of Mary?
You know, yes, I'm sorry, you're wrong.
You know, you're out.
No, I don't believe it.
You know, that does not strike me as judgment day.
The way judgment day is described by Jesus Christ is that there are going to be people who get there and are welcomed into the kingdom of heaven because they gave God, they gave Christ a crust of bread.
And those people are going to say, we didn't even know who you were.
And he's going to say, that's all right.
You gave a crust of bread to a man who was starving.
That was me.
Okay, that's what he says.
He says, you can say, Lord, Lord, all you want, but that is not going to get you in.
There are going to be people who say, Lord, Lord.
There are going to be people who sacrificed to God.
There are going to be people who went to church every day, but I won't know them if they didn't transform into what I intended them to be.
And each of us are intended to be something unique.
You know, we're not intended to be the same thing.
And so I think that there is room for diversity in theology, but there's not room for infinite diversity in theology.
And the most important thing is who you become.
You know, people always get in this thing.
It's not works.
It's not good works that save you.
It's only the actions of Jesus Christ.
Yes, but if the actions of Jesus Christ actually do redeem you, you will be the kind of person who does certain things and acts in a certain way.
And so for me, when people start talking about God, I have two questions because I believe that, you know, it's not that somebody who's been divorced three times can't give good marriage advice or 17 times or whatever can give good marriage advice.
He can.
He can.
But I want to be careful about that.
I want to know that this person knows what love is like.
So when I meet people who are angry, who are cruel, who are bigoted, who are small of heart, especially small of heart, Jesus said, I have come to tell you the things that I tell you.
So the joy that is in me will be in you and your joy will be complete.
Now, it seems to me that there ought to be at least a little joy in a person who really understands who Jesus Christ is and is in a real relationship with him.
And in the same way, I would like to see experts stop giving mothers advice on how to be mothers and would like to see mothers talking to each other about what works and what doesn't work, because I believe that mothers have a wisdom that no other kind of person has, especially at-home mothers have a wisdom that other people don't have.
I would like to see joyful Christians coming together and discussing what they believe and talking honestly and openly about what they believe without some of the rules and regulations that Jesus came, in fact, to overcome.
And I think that that discussion is really important.
And one of the reasons I talk about God so much on this show is because when I first got here, everybody told me, just whatever you say, don't talk about God.
The same as these people in the Washington Post.
They said, you know, you know, a lot of people said, I agree with you, but I don't want to hear this God stuff.
I agree with you, but I don't want to hear this God stuff.
And I know a lot of people say that because that's the default system.
And I think they're cutting themselves off from the source of reality.
And I think that that way, madness lies.
This is a discussion that has to begin everywhere.
Everything we do is affected by our relationship with God.
And that relationship may not, somebody else's relationship with God may not look like yours.
And all these things that people say, well, you have to say Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
You have to say, Lord, Lord, Lord.
That's not what the Bible says.
And I don't care what people tell me.
I don't care what your traditions are.
I don't care what your religion says.
I go to the words of Christ.
That's not what he says.
What he says is if you gave a crust of bread to a poor man, you gave it to me.
And welcome home, buddy.
That's what he says.
And so I think we should start talking about this with more open hearts and more open minds.
We shouldn't give up what we believe.
We shouldn't mitigate what we believe.
We should speak what we believe, but we should speak it with joy and understanding that other people may have a different way of approaching God.
And God has left that path open to them.
I do not believe all roads lead to God.
I don't believe that at all because that wouldn't be real.
But I do believe that each individual has his own road to God.
And I think that's the discussion we should be having.
And that's the discussion that we should begin right away.
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Clavin clapbacks.
Freedom's a funny thing, isn't it?
When you have it, you don't appreciate it.
And when you miss it, it's gone.
It's just gone.
Poof.
Yeah!
So it's so true.
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There are no E's in Clavin clapbacks.
I just make it look this easy.
Candace Kennard says, and that may be a, I'm not sure that that's a real name.
Candace says, do you agree with me that TPUSA should agree to debate Candace Owens virtually?
I don't understand why they're demanding she show up in person, especially since they gave her such short notice.
What do you think?
Thanks for all your commentary on bringing truth to light.
I'm going to be blunt about this, and I'm going to talk in member block.
I'm going to talk a little bit more about Candace and what's going on with TPUSA.
I don't think people should debate Candace Owens.
I mean, I don't think it should be forbidden.
I just don't think it's useful.
I think the things that she is saying are completely baseless.
That is my take on them.
I've listened to them carefully.
I think most of what she's saying is baseless about TPUSA, but a lot of other things as well.
But the reason I don't think you can debate a Nick, people are always saying to me, debate Nick Fuentes.
And I always think, what's the debate?
Is the debate, is hate better than love?
I mean, because he goes on shows and he says, I'm not a bigot.
I'm not a big, you know, he is.
He's an open racist, which is fine.
Let him be an open racist.
But I have nothing to say to that because the question about racism is not whether the races are different.
It's whether the races deserve equal treatment and love.
That's the question.
And if you don't believe that, I don't know what to say to you.
You know, I have no argument against that.
How can I tell you why love is better than hate or freedom is better than slavery or a woman is not a man?
There's no way to tell you that.
Those are things you just have to know.
And Nick doesn't know him, in my opinion.
And I don't think, and Candace, I fear for that woman truly.
I fear for her soul because I think something's wrong with her.
But like, you know, how do I know?
So I don't think they should debate him at all.
You know, I don't know why they decided, they did say they would debate her, and then they said, we won't debate you except in person.
I don't know what their considerations were.
I would have second thoughts.
I have told people who have said they would debate her.
I've told them that don't do it because you have to have, what is a debate?
A debate is two people who know something and who have expertise in something debating to try and find the best answer.
You have to be willing to lose a debate to debate well.
You have to know something to debate well.
And you have to be willing to accept, you know, listen to other people.
And I don't think these people qualify for that.
And so I don't think you should debate them at all.
Carlo says, Mr. Clavin, I enjoy your show very much.
However, I find myself struggling against SSA and pornography.
SSA is homosexuality, same-sex attraction.
I really detest the gay label as it defines me based off only a part of me, a part that I don't quite like.
Anyways, I would really appreciate your advice.
I'd like to get married to a girl as I also find them attractive too.
But this SSA and porn addiction is something I don't want to burden others with.
Thank you so much, Carlo.
Yeah, first of all, you cannot get married to a girl.
Dealing with Desire00:02:48
If the porn that you are watching is gay porn, if gay porn is what turns you on, then you, you know, you can call it whatever you want.
You're gay.
You know, I mean, whatever that means, that's what you are.
You're a homosexual person who's attracted to members of the same sex.
And the problem is, if you go to a woman and say, you know, yes, but I find you attractive too.
I want to marry you, she'll believe you.
And unfortunately, that may turn out not to be the case.
If you are addicted to porn, the first thing you should do, here's what a porn addiction is.
You know, in the Bible, St. Paul says, the things that I don't want to do, I do, and the things that I do want to do, I don't do.
That's what an addiction is.
That's all it is.
If you are doing something that you feel like you shouldn't do and you shouldn't do it, it's an absolute toxin, and you're doing it anyway.
Stop doing that.
That'll cure your addiction, okay?
That will cure the disease of addiction if you stop watching the porn.
Just stop.
You know, you got to be a tough guy.
You got to do it.
That's what being a guy is all about.
That's what being a person is all about at some level.
Stop doing it.
Then find out who you are because the porn is screwing you up anyway.
Then find out who you are.
If it turns out that you are, in fact, gay, if you're, you know, because you got to be honest with yourself about this.
You can say we all, everybody finds girls attractive.
Even girls find girls attractive.
That doesn't make them lesbians.
Girls are attractive.
But still, that doesn't mean that you have a desire for them.
You may be a gay person.
I don't know.
I've never met you.
I don't know.
But that's what it sounds like.
And especially if the pornography you're watching is homosexual pornography.
So then you have to decide how you want to deal with that.
And that's something that you are going to have to deal with with God and maybe a counselor and work it out.
Because what you cannot do is draw a woman into that relationship if you are not going to be able to maintain that relationship, which you're almost surely not if you're in fact a gay person.
So give up the porn.
That's step one.
Stop the porn.
Just do it.
And when you do that, then your mind will clear a little bit and you'll find out more about who you are.
We are going into member block, which means the rest of you will be left behind in a darkness that I can't even describe because it's so dark, the words just disappear.
They come out of thy mouth and they become silent because they're consumed by darkness.
So become a member today.
That would be the best solution.
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If not, you are now plunged into the clavenless darkness and there's nothing I can do for you.
But the rest of you, come on over to Member Block.
Merlin's Madness00:02:28
Oh, this is an illusion.
An echo of a voice that has died.
And soon that echo will cease.
They say that Merlin is mad.
They say he was a king and david.
The son of a princess of lost Atlantis.
They say the future and the past are known to him.
That the fire and the wind tell him their secrets.
The magic of the hillfolk and druids come forth at his easy command.
They say he slew hundreds.
Hundreds, do you hear?
That the world burned and trembled at his wrath.
The Merlin died long before you and I were born.
Merlin Emirus has returned to the land of the living.
Vortigern is gone.
Rum is gone.
The Saxon is here.
Saxon Hengist has assembled the greatest war host ever seen in the island of the mighty.
And before the summer is through, he means to take the throne.
And he will have it.
If we are too busy squabbling amongst ourselves to take up arms against him, here is your hope.
A king will arise to hold all Britain in his hand.
A high king who would be the wonder of the world.
You to a future of peace.
There'll be no peace in these lands till we are all dust.
Men of the island of the mighty!
You stand together!
You stand as Britons!
You stand as one.
Great darkness is falling upon this land.
These brothers are our only hope to stand against it.