The World According To Ben Stein

Looting,Rioting, Is Domestic Terrorism!

Episode Summary

When and how did looting, rioting, the burning down of establishments, attacks on the police and their stations, become an acceptable and encouraged form of collateral damage? Let’s call it what it truly is, domestic terrorism. On tonight’s episode of “The World According to Ben Stein.

Episode Transcription

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they have a sign in front that says something  like the world's best pizza and i go well it's the  

world's best pizza to try it and it was incredibly  good and it is incredibly good and it's stunningly  

good it's just beyond belief good the more a  pizza i strongly recommend it and on that note

if you guys could let me get  through one intro that would be nice  

i'll never get through an intro without being  interrupted but i've come to accept and um  

that is the world according to ben stein and on  that note let's welcome back as always from 931  

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be complete without america's humble servant  lawyer active provocateur father saint sinner  

america's teacher and of course dr benjamin jeremy  stein welcome sir you're a very kind sir and i i  

actually i'm having late office hours tonight and  uh i can see people quite late but i do not accept  

any insurance um it's it's it's cash money only  um and it's very smart in this day and age to uh  

not take insurance um but let's get right to it  because and you're looking very priestly today  

mr friedman um i do i do my best uh that's what  they call me the reference um but i want to get  

to this right away and ben brings this up  all the time he's brought it up for years  

uh every weekend in chicago every weekend in the  intercities inner cities we have mass murder going  

every single weekend in in these cities yesterday  a few days ago obviously in minneapolis there was  

another police shooting and ben stein uh we still  don't know the full what happened but we know  

one thing police bad guy with arrest warrant  that was running from the scene with his car  

american hero an icon now um what  say you ben stein i say that uh  

black lives matter epitomizes everything  that's wrong with america right now because  

it is found on a fundamental lie which is that  the police are murdering black people and there's  

a genocide against black people by the police  when in fact there is no genocide against black

be because they're people people uh it would be  being done by the black people themselves there  

are incredible numbers of black people killed by  other black people every weekend in as you said  

judas aptly in in the inner cities of america  nowadays i'm sorry to say it's in some of the  

suburbs of america as well and uh nobody  gives a damn about those poor souls their  

mothers their children their grandmothers  their grandfathers nobody gives to them  

about those four souls but you and i do and we  on this show do and the republican party does  

but if a policeman in a legitimate but  confused very confused use of police power  

shoots a man who does the exact thing you're not  supposed to do which is run away from the police  

the precise thing that no one of any race  is supposed to ever do and he gets shot and  

killed which is really sad we do not want  him getting shot let's let alone be killed  

he that man becomes a symbol of racism and fascism  in america and it is a very very sad day for  

america that this has happened and it is a very  sad day that the media does not report on this  

astonishing astonishing inconsistency so let's go  to you campbell court we wrote this up before what  

you do immediately when you're pulled over by the  police but let's say you did have an expired tag  

let's say you didn't have it you did have  an arrest warrant out out for you ken lacour  

gets pulled over and decides to drive away in  his car you could almost guess the same exact  

reaction might happen by the police i just i just  pulled a gun out first hey you can't pull me over  

and you're like is this what the warrant  was for but well sorry i'm sorry again  

just wanted to make sure you know i was joking  no but i i do think it is astonishing that this  

weekend genocide by blacks against  blacks goes virtually unnoticed  

in the media of the united states of america  while uh the smallest and that no and no place  

shooting of any person is small but a much  lesser number of deaths caused by the police  

trying to maintain order not trying to sell  drugs it becomes a gigantic enormous event  

what what is wrong with us here in  america that we tackle the police who are  

out trying to save lives and exalt the gangs  and the gangsters who are trying to take lives  

it just blows my mind away i i'm here at my house  and i have just a few feet away from me a uh disc  

player i'm old so i have disc players i actually  have three quite a few 33 rpms and and i could  

and i could play this dr dre album which is all  about black people killing other black people  

and somehow that's become romantic and wonderful  whereas when the police kill someone which  

they should not do absolutely that is the  astonishing proof of america's innate fascism  

racism rob he great rob he brings up a great  point i can't the community i did i challenge  

anybody to name one of the people one of the  innocents that was killed last weekend in chicago  

or or or i'll go even further than last weekend  i'll ask every american if they could name other  

than the family members of one person that's  been killed in the last month in chicago over the

so we talked about this on the air today and one  of the great uh tragedies out of all of this is  

this perception that like the police are running  around looking for people to kill uh police it's  

pretty simple they want to ignore you they want to  leave you alone they don't want to deal with you  

don't give them a reason to deal with you uh  police officers are heroes this woman in question  

has an impeccable record as a police officer and  we're led to believe what that after 25 years  

on the job she just suddenly became a raging  racist who was looking to kill she didn't go  

rogue she went racist i mean it's it's completely  ridiculous and the problem is and we've seen this  

here in indianapolis the past year officers  who are eligible to retire who still had a lot  

of good years left to give said i'm done the ones  that are in their prime say i'm going to suburban  

uh police departments where i'll make less  money but i don't have to deal with this crap  

and now people who are uniquely qualified to  be big city law enforcement officers to keep  

people safe don't want to deal with it and you get  unqualified people in charge which makes it worse  

yeah there'll be movies made about that  and the villains will of course be white  

businessmen who somehow are leading are  leading a whole horrible chain of events

i think of a whole community who looks at  themselves and they look at their surroundings and  

they don't understand why the things that they are  seeing they're seeing go into any black community  

you're going to be locking your doors you're  not going to be jumping out and going to the rib  

joints i mean most not all most black communities  have a lot a lot of extra problems from drug abuse  

single parenthood heavy heavy drugs heavy crime  lots lots of issues and and i think it's natural  

for them and it's certainly natural for the  politicians to say let's blame somebody right  

you don't get elected by saying hey let's uh let's  let's fix this and everybody pick up a shovel you  

get elected by saying it's those guys over there  i think you combine that with with some some rough  

police rough policing not not shooting but but  i think attitudinally in certain communities and  

all of a sudden they're trying to figure out why  are we poor and why do our neighborhoods have so  

many problems and the white neighborhoods don't  and that's a fair question to ask i think that  

everybody's coming to the wrong solutions and the  wrong solution is well because in you know because  

it's institutional racism which if you swapped  with historical racism i'd actually buy but there  

are no there is no heavy institutional racism  against black people in america i mean there  

are no institutions that that that are inherently  racist where they practice those types of policies  

that just doesn't happen anymore but we do have  systems and and cultures within our culture  

that perpetuate themselves down through the years  and it is hard for them to to turn that around  

and unfortunately i think the things that they're  looking at doing saying oh we've now elevated blm  

as our spoke person so we need fewer cops that is  the 180 wrong degree wrong thing to do and that's  

yeah you bring up a great point and i just want  to say that ben and i we both live in los angeles  

and i've had a mixed bag of experience with  police officers you just reminded me of a story  

this happened about 16 years ago i was smoking  i chucked my cigarette out of the car all of a  

sudden i heard sir you are not a lot of litter on  the street please get out of your car and pick up  

your cigarette butt and i'm like in my car shaking  i'm like is he being like how am i am i going to  

be able to find the right cigarette butt and i i  just remembered that experience i was like really  

you're making me get out of my there's tons of  crime going on i got to get out of my car and  

but i did i i got out of the car shaking because  that's what most normal people do when confronted  

by police but the mirror and ben stein i mean it's  we've discussed in this in the past that all of us  

have been pulled over in different states and  it's scary but we put our hands on the steering  

wheel and we and we wait for that knock on the  window and we do what the police tell us to do  

well i my for my own bad self the last  time i was pulled over was in palm desert  

which is near our helmet rancho  mirage which is out in the desert  

and uh i was for an expired license plate and  uh the policeman just approached my car and said  

oh my god you're ben stein i love you and ferris  bueller and he said go away we're not gonna bother  

with you so that does not happen to everyone  but let me just say anybody who resists police  

orders and resists especially the very basic order  don't run away and keep your hands in plain view  

is asking for violent trouble why would anyone  do that unless he or she is high unless he or she  

wants to cause some trouble and create a crime why  would anyone do that nobody is that stupid so why  

why why would anyone do that they have to be doing  it in order to to be fulfilling some prophecy by  

some a professor at some college that the police  are going to kill him or hurt him in some way  

and therefore he has to run away so i think yes  black people are unfortunately doing things that  

unfortunately do sometimes get them shot which  is a terrible thing every time it happens it's  

a terrible thing but why is it possible for them  to learn almost any kind of basketball maneuver  

almost any kind of dance step and not learn not  to dance away when the police come they don't move  

well rob i would very interesting point ben  of course um rob what are your callers saying  

because i'm always curious what people are saying  to you on the air about a situation like this  

so in indianapolis we had record number of  homicides again i think three out of the four last  

four years we've had record numbers of homicides  in the city uh well over 200 homicides the vast  

majority are african-american on african-american  violence and yet there's not a peep about that  

solving that issue what was interesting was last  year in indianapolis made national news when  

this this young man named deshaun reed was shot  uh by police officers he was african-american  

but he was shot by african-american police  officers and this investigation crystal clear  

to the credit of the the special prosecutor  brought in they they spent months putting this  

together it's very clear he shot at the cops  he shot at them first he was trying to kill  

them but yet people were freaking out like oh my  gosh there could be riots it's riots about what  

it was black officer black suspect the the cops  are cleared definitively they had an hours-long  

press conference taking people's through step  by step by step it was like the zapruder film  

and yet people are still worried about rioting  and it's like the officers acted appropriately it  

was african-american and african-american people  just want to hate cops in many cases right well  

i think people you raised a great point i think  people i think people just want to hate that note  

and on that note if you just tuned in you are  listening to the world according to that man  

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of course rob kendall from 93 one wibc bam future  conservative talk radio and i've gotten up quite  

a few questions rob about people asking if you've  been in politics which i responded yes and people  

insisting that you get back into politics but i  want to get to the question that i want to ask  

all you guys that we post on facebook when and  how did looting rioting and the burning down  

of establishments attacks on the police and their  stations become an acceptable and encouraged form  

of collateral damage let's call it what it truly  is right domestic terrorism ben i think we should  

call it what it is which is attempted murder i  mean it's a uh if you burn down a police station  

uh you're trying to kill the people inside uh some  of them are police uh and they're fine fine people  

some of them are suspects and are probably there  because they have committed a crime and are  

waiting some kind of judicial process in any event  burning down a police station is the absolute  

opposite of any kind of decent legal system and  exactly what should not be happening in the united  

states of america it's the exact opposite of  what the united states of america is for which is  

to allow people to have legal rights and legal  abilities to stand up for themselves in court  

it's the exact opposite of anything  except nazism unless they tax our t

say that again i said unless they tax our team  

i'm just saying we have a little bit of a history  of this yeah we do have a history you're right we  

do have a history of standing up but we don't have  a history of burning down targets right now we do  

we don't have a history of of uh you know burning  down local businesses which we all know the irony  

that these are the places where the community  shops getting burnt down there's a certain point  

and ben can speak to this or anybody can speak  this we're in listen we live in california right  

if you live off the beach like some do it's harder  to get certain types of insurance if you if you  

live in or if you live in florida the same thing  or if you live where earthquakes are you can't  

a harder time getting earthquake insurance there  are going to be certain neighborhoods where it's  

going to be like impossible to get looting and  people aren't going to be able to get there  

there's a real reason why when you go into a  poor neighborhood you go into a grocery stores  

there and things are more expensive than in nicer  neighborhoods that's that that always that always  

seemed like a regressive tax and it is but it's  because hey if you burn down ralph's every 25  

years there's an extra cost of doing some business  there if you burn down any store if you burn down  

anything that's mexico and there's extra gigantic  social cost which is the cost of fear we're living  

in a society where people are afraid i mean i i'm  as i always say on the show and i wish it weren't  

drew but it is i'm by far the oldest of all the  panelists and i've seen lots of this going on over  

the years but i think it's getting worse and worse  there is just too much fear in america right now  

and america is not supposed to be the land of  fear we're supposed to be the land of opportunity  

and i and i keep thinking if i may make a slight  diversion here please uh i keep thinking about  

this we are america land of and neil diamond  things that's not someone's the only in america  

land of opportunity it's great great great  fun but anyway i keep saying to myself okay  

all these people lining up at the border creeping  onto the fences creeping over the fences screaming  

us through rivers but wha why are they coming  here because it's the land of opportunity  

all over the world they want to come here  everywhere why if it's so terrible here why this  

is the fascist dictatorship the fascist racist  dictatorship why are all these people come here  

so if but no it's because america is a bright  shining magnet of opportunity and prosperity  

and legal rights that's why people want to come  here why then don't we say why don't the media  

say why are these people rioting they're  living in the best place in the world  

they have more chances and more opportunities in  america than they do anywhere else in the world  

why are they rioting why are they looting  and i keep saying thinking of something else  

a reporter for the washington post a great  newspaper for which i used to write long ago  

a past formerly great newspaper formerly  i will usually would let me finish  

when it was a great newspaper uh i used to  work with longer when it was a great newspaper  

in a very very very trivial capacity and  i uh and i and i often think to myself  

why didn't they report endlessly endlessly  endlessly how great life in america was every day  

well and sometimes they did and and that was  when they were at their best when they were  

reporting about how great things were in america  i don't understand why it is that we have a world  

a whole world 7.6 trillion people abilities  very very billion people billion people and  

almost all seem to want to come to america if  america is so terrible as black lives matter says  

if america is as terrible as the transgender  people say why does everyone want to come here  

and why will people riot and burn down the cities  that are the center of the greatness of america  

what kind of craziness is going on well  it used to be here is a great point rob  

he raises a great point where it's if he used to  bleed at least right but now it's if it it's the  

encouraging of fear that's what sells right the  encouragement of absolute fear on a daily hourly  

basis by these networks is is is is that's their  leading story and they are encouraging the the  

fear they are encouraging the looting they are  encouraging the riots um and rob like you shared  

that story with the police office with that  crazy guy malik muhammad whatever his name is  

even in your state they're encouraging this  type of stuff yeah and this is a government  

story but i think it applies to what's going on  with what we're talking about here when i worked  

for pence when he was governor underpins as a  state pharmacy board director i went in there  

knowing the mike pence of speeches great speeches  in congress you know appearances on fox news and  

cnn and you think man this guy you're going  to work for this guy because i believe that he  

believes in government reform right or the people  around him believe in government reform that we  

know we're going to storm the bastille that we're  going to you know we're gonna make it better  

and you get in there and you quickly realize nah  not really the hamster needs to stay on the wheel  

because the hamster staying on the wheel means  people keep getting paid the donors and lobbyists  

keep getting rewarded and people keep getting  elected and i think that's sort of the same thing  

here they need chaos the these media organizations  need chaos and calamity because they need the  

hamster to stay on the wheel because that's how  they get eyeballs that's how they sell newspapers  

and and so i think they have a vested interest  in calamity and chaos i think you're exactly  

right jeff can you make me some more tea please  that's right i mean ken he raises a great point  

about uh the the the media narrative and all  this i and somebody brought up rodney king and  

and and it used to be that you used to be able to  pick things right oh do you remember the rodney  

king thing how crazy out of control that got or  being from new york the crown heights riots right  

we were able to pick one or two now we're able to  pick in the last year and a half to two years ken  

a hundred things that have gotten burned down  100 different looting events hundreds oh look we  

had all we had all summer where the media was was  not so subtly encouraging this we had all summer  

where every elected democrat in the country  couldn't find a riot anywhere that you know  

i mean a lot of that was kind of like  the we're letting trump's america burn  

summer of of of last year i i don't think that  we will see as much coming out like this because  

there's less of a vested interest to do it in  but but of course robert's right it's it's like  

the the media always has an incentive  to kind of hype up and scare you out  

of something i mean that's that's how they  get people to internet so my question is

fascist moles left over in the police department  and the fbi and the city they will find  

that like werewolf the uh organization of former  ss uh people in germany after world war ii there's  

going to be a sort of werewolf in an america of  former trump people who are going to be there  

perpetuating racism they're going to find them my  question though is is there anybody on the left  

that has enough guts to come out is there anybody  that has enough courage to come out and say this  

is wrong let's get back full circle what we were  discussing in chicago and if fox were smart kind  

of my humble opinion and i think one of them  was doing this i think hannity at a point was  

doing this they would start naming the names of  everybody killed in the inner cities every weekend  

and you know it might not go over great with some  circles but that would be very poignant if they  

actually did do something like that and and their  families and their children and their parents and  

uh and and how they got killed for nothing forever  for absolutely nothing people just got i got in a  

car with a gun and started driving around shooting  and how by the way that was the initiation  

ceremony for various gangs if you had to kill some  innocent person to show you're a loyal gang member  

that is ignored i mean no i don't think anyone  has been able to even remotely show that any  

police department in america says as an initiation  ceremony to be part of this police department you  

have to go out and kill five african-american  people nobody has said that but we know that  

there are gangs in america where they say you have  to go kill five people in such as a neighborhood  

because that neighbor is dominated by our rivals  in order for you to be accepted in our gang  

ken you run a it's a great point then but can  you run a great site the court news everybody  

should be getting this every day and of course  the media action network don't you think it would  

be an interesting piece every weekend if we knew  the names of those that have been slaughtered in  

our country or look it gets boring i'll be  honest it gets boring um because i saw the  

left do this before they didn't do it for  that they did it for everybody who died in  

in george bush's war in iraq and i remember them  printing that up and making a big deal look we all  

like to choose our own victims i mean hannity had  victims from chop up on hannity and and i tell you  

a lot of my conservative friends when a bunch  of nut balls were were overrunning the uh were  

overrunning the capital you know a lot of our guys  were like well but you gotta understand they were  

encouraged there was no guns they just had sticks  you know we all have a tendency to fall into our  

political things like that i tell you though it's  an interesting concept and one newspaper did it  

it was god it was probably in the 90s the  the washington times said we are going to do  

a blurb and send a reporter to every single murder  in washington dc now of course 95 of those 90 of  

those were in southeast uh and a friend of mine  who was was the managing editor of fox news  

worked on that as a reporter and literally every  day they went there and i said what was it all  

about what was it he was like 90 of them were  were drug deals or related to that that was the  

vast over overwhelming majority of of of those  with with gang violence thrown in on top of that  

and can by the way nobody's saying that it was  stupid what happened at the capitol but we're  

saying put in perspective of what's gone on in  this country for the last let's say that half  

of my conservative friends became being sounded  like defense attorneys when all when all summer  

they sounded like prosecutors and now we're back  to process and i'm okay with the prosecutors  

i'm just saying ken when you put it in perspective  over all the time of what's gone on the last two  

years and that day when we still don't know how  the woman was shot and killed or why she was  

shot and killed well we don't even know how the  police officer died for god's sake when we know  

nothing no events of that day have really been  investigated just a coincidence but they haven't  

and i agree with you stupidity that day but not  the stupidity that we're seeing or other or the  

scariness that we're seeing they barbed wire  in washington dc is minnesota next ben stein  

is that what we have to do for our safety i don't  think that we're going to get any safety out of  

because no matter what the hard wiring shows  in terms of violence in minnesota minneapolis  

uh there's still going to be violence there  because the media is going to excuse it the  

media is going gonna give them a hall pass and let  them go back to their uh home room and let them  

come out again and kill somebody else next time  around there's we live in a world where the media  

is the judge a jury and prosecutor and guard  and we they are not going to hold these rioters  

killers arsonist leaders to account that's  the sad incredibly sad truth and by the way  

let me add there is so much i i your humble  servant have had the pleasure over the last  

many many years of being friends with a woman  who was the sex crimes prosecutor for the city  

of manhattan manhattan the borough of manhattan  and new york city and the story she told about  

how much rape there is in the non-white community  of uh of other non-abnormal women by non-white men  

are especially gang-related are so harrowing and  so enormous in size but nobody ever talks about  

them nobody talks about them at all they might as  well not be happening the women's rights movement  

and believe me i am i'm 100 for the women's  rights women i think women's rights is a giant  

issue still that has been adequately addressed but  nobody's holding holding the people in the gangs  

responsible for any of the rapes that take place  in the in the ghetto neighborhood all the time  

the people doing just get away with them and go  on with their life and the media doesn't give a  

crap you raise a great point right because when i  say collateral damage right they're saying because  

this happened we're allowed to go and do this and  the media is okay with that imagine if the media  

if somebody came out and said you know that woman  deserves to be raped because what she was wearing  

that's the same exact sort of problem my  dear dear friend judy they do say that  

that's exactly what they're saying and what  i'm saying is imagine if somebody said that  

about a woman no woman deserves to be raped  because what she's wearing and no distort rob  

or community deserves to be destroyed because  of because this doesn't always lead to that  

ben i have a weird question for you but i  think you this will be an interesting answer  

if it's all right if i ask you you  were i'm just doing math in my head  

you were probably three or four years older than  i am now when you did ferris bueller's day off  

it was 1985 or six and i was born in 1944 so i  was probably 38 i think yeah okay so i'm 37 so  

close did you think in this amount of time which  is a relatively short amount of time in terms of  

the history of the country etc you would see  such a rapid decline in the way that people  

in elected office and people in the media treat  law enforcement and law and order did you did you  

think you would see that i didn't well let me just  say i there were such things as film noir movies  

uh in the late 40s and early 50s until mid 50s  in which the policemen were corrupt and dirty  

and violent that existed but not on television  that was just in the movies in town television  

the policemen were always the heroes always the  good guys and they were not turned upside down and  

made of the villains and the thugs and the racist  i don't know what did turn them upside down but i  

know that it happened and your humble servant me  well i wrote a book called the view from sunset  

boulevard i won't make any money by by mentioning  it long since out of print about about the  

image thank you thank you about the images of  america as shown on television and they are  

images of people who hate america who hate all the  institutions of america they're not going to come  

out here onto your boat again and arrest you uh  unless you dust it and maybe you're much richer  

than i think but if you're rich maybe they will  come and get you but they but the media will go  

after you if you have any money if you have any  authority if you have any proceeds if you're a  

member of a country club the media will go after  you if they possibly can and if you just tuned  

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it ken lecourt from media action network my  mother i'm on the phone with her today um  

you're getting her top three of favorite people on  um and uh you might be too rob i i don't want to  

offend other people and have him guessing but  she said to me and now i'm getting his emails  

and i said you know you could unsubscribe and she  said i don't want to unsubscribe i love the stuff  

he sends out so there you go ken that's from my  mother in uh new jersey uh so she loves what you  

send out i and i couldn't make up a story like  that but i want to get to something and i want  

to get to ken first on this because uh this when  when remember when the vaccinations were becoming  

uh were going to become a possibility everybody  was like kamala harris everybody was like don't  

trust the vaccines this and that because it was  the trump vaccine and somehow he was going to  

make the fda give approve you know he was going to  get make these or he was going to do a shortcut to  

to get out of the lockout and now all of a sudden  everybody get vaccinated joe biden's running the  

the greatest vaccine ship it's a horrible  ship but ken you said you were waiting i  

don't know if you got the johnson and johnson  one but six out of six million people can and  

i'm going to use because you get your news guy  in a news story six out of six million clots we  

don't even know if these people are dead okay  and they cut the vaccine now i have a theory on  

this i'll get through in a second ken are you  nervous would you i mean i mean yes what are  

your thoughts on no i'm not nervous but um  um i mean things happen when you do that um  

that said we just don't have the facts and  evidence on this so so they got a a a small  

cluster of women primarily between 18 and 49 where  there was a half a dozen of them who who had an  

antibody come up against that and and create  some blood clots i believe it killed at least  

one one person so you know look unfortunately  this this this disease and other diseases  

recently have been politicized so much you  know it's like if i know who you voted for i  

know where you stand on certain drugs type of  issue which i just find bizarre in america so  

you know they probably figured look these people  didn't get this until two weeks after they were  

there was about that so i think that they just  wanted to say let's hold it off for a few days  

a few weeks see if that increases are we  going to get 50 more or 200 more tomorrow  

i mean look the the other one the astro seneca  seems to have a similar thing going on now now  

in europe where they i think they dispensed about  38 million of those seneca doses they had a couple  

hundred people who had a similar clotting type  of issue and there was a similar science under  

underlying the the johnson and johnson and the and  and and the seneca one um so i look i'm not smart  

enough to know exactly what's going on you've  got a great uh you've got a great conspiracy  

theory so i'm sure that'll be more popular  oh the i will share my conspiracy theorists  

and get the ben stein on this my conspiracy on  this so just so everybody knows with the johnson  

and johnson now i know a lot of the people that  listen to the show are against the vaccination  

i understand that but one of the big conspiracy  theories that i have right now is that johnson and  

johnson woody johnson who was who is the former  ambassador to under trump to the united kingdom  

um the ceo of johnson johnson was one of the  few people after charlottesville that actually  

stayed with trump and met him at his country club  in jersey i have a feeling and you know because  

the bluff has never known ben stein to be  vindictive at all that that that that this  

is you know call me a conspiracy theorist  judah that this could be one of the reasons  

why fauci and these disastrous people what  are you what what were you saying there  

and we lost the audio there you lost me you said  fouchy on these something or other people i i was  

trying i don't want to get it were you going  blue on us yes i was going blue on you you're  

not on the radio judah there's no standards here  that's true and these [ __ ] um just be monetized  

we don't monetize and these [ __ ] ben stein have  decided to to uh punish johnson and johnson i mean  

why i mean that's who the left arm well i'd say  that's who all people are i can well imagine that  

being true you can well imagine the punishment  by the democrat party and people who are not for  

them i can easily easily imagine that i would  say there were safeguards against such kind of  

personal uh misbehavior but uh we've learned we  learned during the trump years that the fbi and  

the cia and all these government law enforcement  entities i do not have any say president  

in fact they are the main revenge people and  and vengeance people in the whole country so  

uh i i imagine anything is possible in terms of  vengeance and misbehavior towards uh people who  

do not toe the line anything is possible i have  a question he raises a great question robin i  

guess he actually raised the great question that  i thought about before i got it right which was  

shouldn't people get antibody tests beforehand to  see if they had coveted because then would they  

need the shock and they're telling and and the  answer to that is for my best understanding leon  

is that the antibiotic test could run out the  antibodies could run out after a certain amount  

of time so that test is not exactly accurate and  also that they are telling people that it had kobe  

to get the shot because of all the 60 000 million  strains rob kendall that they've going to they're  

going to be reporting about for the next six years  okay there's going to be a new strand in kenya so  

i ask this all the time on the air  no one has a good answer for me look  

i'm going to wait probably a year because i  want to see what happens i'm young knocked  

on wood i'm relatively healthy person so to me  it's not of huge risk that being said i don't  

begrudge anyone who chooses to get this shot yet  the same behavior doesn't seem to be reciprocated  

from people who don't want to respect my right  to wait and see because of things like this  

and i don't understand if you're vaccinated and  you're clear what the hell do you care what i do  

and why are people now i've never heard people  being obsessed with vaccinations like they  

are with this one and i don't get it your body  used to get a shirt that says my body my choice  

sorry ken good that's exactly what  i said i said his body his choice  

you see great great minds think of like a weirdo  yeah no listen it's it's it's it's listen here's  

the thing it being stein if they said to  everybody get vaccinated and we'll will tell  

you to stop wearing these damn masks i believe  89 most people would actually do it and the sec

sorry i'll do almost anything to stop wearing  the mask and in michigan right now it's it's  

so fascinating to me that states that have the  strictest gun laws tend to have the most violence  

states that have had some of the strictest laws  on this kobit have had like michigan is it they're  

they're threatening been another lockdown in  michigan it's insane yeah well i think like if i  

may say this and again as i've said sometimes i am  a doctor but i am not a certified board certified  

psychoanalyst but i think the governor of that  state is insane and uh yes there's a lot of uh  

deaths by untoward violent crimes in michigan uh  and yet uh they seem to be very very strict on uh  

vaccines but not very strict on gun violence so i  don't know what to make an action frankly i'll be  

i'll stop being sarcastic it's all politics  it's all money there's a lot of black votes  

in the michigan a lot of black people in michigan  have friends and relatives who are gang members or  

who are in prison they do not want to do anything  to upset those people or to punish those people to  

have those people suffer any more than they're  already suffering by being imprisoned and from  

being deprived of their right to go out and kill  more people so uh there's uh so the governor does  

not want to upset those people and uh nobody wants  to upset those people and that's so those people  

basically live uh day to day uh with complete  freedom and uh it has nothing to do with with  

the vaccine if it turned out that during uh either  before or against the vaccine would get more votes  

they'd be for against the vaccine it's all  a matter of that and then of course from the  

votes come fish become a government title and  then come lobbyist jobs and income speaking fees  

and suddenly all of it gets uh transmogrified as  we used to say in ninth grade and they were money  

and living in a nice big house of swimming pool  and uh a tennis court and there you are that's the  

whole story according to ben stein but again rob i  am actually i am one of those people i get the flu  

shot i i i i'll tell you why why do you do that to  yourself i i had a bad flu one year and i take it  

and it just eases my mind a little bit i hate  being sick but i just want to tell you this  

so i get these um sun spots often on my face and  for years it's very painful the doctor freezes my  

um freezes them and my dermatologist great  dermatologist and um and when i was i always  

closed my eyes and because of the pain and  one day and i heard a snap as he was doing it  

and i got really nervous and i said oh my god  did it break and he goes yeah the q-tip broke  

and um i had no idea because i never looked at  what he was doing but that it was just a q-tip  

that was but i never asked what he was doing  as he injected shots from my alopecia because  

he said that would help my hair grow back he it  took me three years to find out it was cortisol  

that he was injecting but i was willing to do it  that's just me and my plan is that i'm to laminate  

it i'm going to you wear a huge chain around  my neck with the vaccination papers and if you  

want to arrest me for not wearing a mask go [ __ ]  yourself okay because here's my vaccination papers  

laminated what does that have to do with the q-tip  and the shaft and the head what's going on here

a little bit i thought you were going to wear  your alopecia around your neck i know my whole  

point was he said why do i subject myself to  that because i subject myself to anything that  

might get myself better okay if you told me it  took you know i had a cold and i had to like  

do something absolutely insane rob i hate being  sick okay there's your answer to that whenever  

i go to the doctor for the yearly physical it  always tells you stuff that you're past due for  

and i've never had a flu shot so mine always says  past due since december 31 1985 which is when i  

would have been two years old so i always loved  seeing that on my chart judah you're under arrest  

um you know it's really funny though rob you  raised the great point i wish people would hear it  

i wish everybody would hear it it's this your body  your choice if you want to get vaccinated do it  

don't scream at people if you don't don't don't  scream at them let people make that decision for  

themselves and it as conservatives we really have  to be authentic when we who we are because that  

is who we are as a party that that that that's how  we decide things but if you just tuned in you are  

listening to the world according to ben stein  i want to thank everybody in the youtube chat  

um you may never talk to me again um but um i want  to remind everybody to download our podcast in  

the world according to ben stein i want to remind  everybody to get the email benstein.substance.com  

great stuff and also ken lacorde of course media  action network you do amazing things tell people  

more about this petition ken is going around well  the petition was a great great idea from a great  

man who's in my upper left um um uh you know we're  not getting a whole lot of attention on it to be  

perfectly uh perfectly frank at this point we've  got about 5 500 people who've signed up on this  

we are trying to encourage uh  former presidents and to some people  

still president trump uh to go to georgia to to  show up in atlanta on the day of the all-star game  

and hold a competing rally there because we  are all convinced many of us that he would  

have more people in his stadium and probably  more eyeball watchers on it than the uh then  

the fly by night all-star people and mlb who was  punishing the state because they took some modest  

action to stop voter fraud that the left decided  was the equivalent of a modern-day uncle tom  

because they can just say stuff and the  entire press corps nods and writes it down  

you raise a great point though because i've  said what's next and now we have states um  

in the ncaa now ben is threatening to any  state that has the trans laws that has  

that dares question whether a woman a man you know  with the bathrooms um they will hold tournament  

games from those states and we're on a really  slippery slope of it no it's absolutely crazy

it's absolutely crazy it's incredible it's  mind-boggling it's absolutely incredible  

you've got to worry about are you kidding this  is crazy i mean this is a world where the chinese  

are raising a genocide against some of the people  in their own country where the russians leadership  

are killing literally killing people who question  president putin where in south america there are  

countries that are openly admiring adolf hitler  and modeling themselves after the third reich and  

this and this is what we're worrying about  it's it's unbelievable we need a good war

take out a certain certain certain slow moving  part of society here and then we we get our  

values straightened up again i've often said that  that's what this generation said war sucks and  

we should never have war but this i come from a  generation in the generations obviously after me  

where we didn't have to worry about a lot of  things we had it amazingly well we didn't have to  

do what was it called ben the tuck and roll well  you know sagittarius cool cars a duck and cover  

rock and roll with a kind of a pulse there you go  that's how far away from it was that i didn't know  

what duck and roll was yeah and and and i had to  learn about certain things about how bad they were  

from history and thank our people you you lucky  fellow have been in my company for the last many  

years and that's how you've gotten to learn  about that because i am a walking and talking  

very overweight encyclopedia 98 of it um i leave  2 to god but rob kendall you just came from a  

state where they held their tournament and this  is absolute you know we when we talk about this  

insanity and and the reason it's really important  because we don't speak up enough to people when  

they're saying this idiocy and that's what i like  about what ken does with his media action network  

what i love about it which is punching back at  liberals we have to start when people say to us  

these things you have to look at them  and say are you out of your [ __ ] minds

i think i think one of the issues is being able  to get control of the narrative and now with all  

these people being platformed and not having  a voice that that they're not we're not able  

to get messaging out anymore it's interesting  i'm a huge fan of the show to catch a predator  

that was on in the who got caught being  a predator didn't he i was never caught  

but i have had chris no on the show he's a friend  of the show um i love the show you know where they  

would catch these guys online with chris hanson i  think he got caught being a predator or something  

no he he had a little problem of bouncing  checks i think that was yeah he wasn't a  

predator he i'm paying his bills uh don't speak  ill of friends of the the mock and rob show  

uh but anyway you know in the mid 2000s they had  this this great show where they would catch these  

guys online and they would have decoys that would  get them to come to the house and then he would  

come out and interview these guys for a television  show and law enforcement would would get a bob  

everybody here has seemed to catch a predator okay  i haven't seen it it was great it was great show  

okay so he's got this podcast now where it's  called predators i've caught and it's once a  

week he picks one of the more famous guys that  was on the show he does the behind the scenes of  

how they caught it and this past week he's talking  about how when we were doing to catch a predator  

we had basically like three forums to catch these  guys in you know it was like myspace aol and yahoo  

i don't even know what you're talking about  what kind of predators he was talking about  

people that go with their children online and  they they like type in they they would you know  

they would message them and say i'll meet  you here and it was the on the show it was  

a police person was the decoy and then they would  they would go to the person here let's let's role  

play it so i'll be there i'm a 55 year old guy  like hey i'm a 16 year old girl and and you look  

kind of fun d what's going on uh what's going  on judah and then judah would be like hey let's  

meet at the junior high at six o'clock and bring  condoms and and literally he they were a certain  

amount of things they would have them bring  ben so they could they wouldn't be able to say  

i wasn't going there for sex so it was always  like blues condoms and something else and the  

craziest thing was there were people that made  cameo appearances on this show that got busted  

twice you know they didn't learn from their  first time of getting caught by chris saying  

it's chris hanson right first handsome yeah chris  hansen they didn't learn once they got busted ben  

twice on the show and it was usually like 10 or 11  year old kids that they were going for 12 year old  

kids so that's what rob is talking about so i'm  going somewhere with this because so he's got this  

show out now called podcast it's called predators  i caught and he you know it's been 15 years now he  

relives these people that they caught the behind  the scenes stuff on the on the guy but he was  

talking about this the other day on the podcast  he said when we started that show 15 years ago  

it was easier to catch these guys because there  were like three forums where they all hung out  

you know yahoo aol and myspace he said now there's  still kind of these some of these shows out to do  

these things but these predators are everywhere  because there's so many different platforms in  

which they communicate that it's a lot harder for  law enforcement to catch these guys and i think it  

applies here that it's so hard for conservatives  now they're getting de-platform they're taken down  

they're getting demonetized all these things  to get our message out and i think that's just  

a gigantic disadvantage uh now the talk radio  isn't it is still a dominant force but not the  

super dominant force of communication that it once  was did you just call conservative sex offenders

sex

lovers to conservatives and they're like the  same guys i don't get the whole thing i am  

a parent i am a parent of a kid who was  at a certain point about uh 20 years ago  

22 years ago an 11 or 12 year old it was a hell of  a lot of trouble cleaning up after him feeding him  

finding the right choice and finding the right  cartoons for him why the heck would anyone want  

to go to all that trouble what's the what's the  point it's a lot of work i mean every every bit  

of it i could possibly give his nurse i would give  to her i mean i wanted to just lie in my room and  

hide what's the point is just to have stacks with  little kids these people should it must be crazy  

they'll be like wow that was the whole point ben  and they would have a police decoy playing the kid  

in the chat room because kids listen kids i hate  to say there's tick tock how to i think it was one  

of these apps how to shut something down because  people were showing people how to hang themselves  

and a couple weeks ago a kid died i mean you had  it with the tide pods you have this all the time  

but somebody brought something up really and i  want you to get to it ken because you brought this  

up on your site today something with project vera  klaus which is an extremely important thing they  

do and uh did did you report on something about  projects yeah we actually are are encouraging  

people to read this and in tomorrow morning's  newsletter you'll get it you can share it around  

you know uh um um uh james o'keefe did another  good one he got a a cnn the guy was kind of  

a tech i was called a technical director which  means he's usually in the uh he's usually the guy  

calling for for video shots inside of a control  room depends a little bit depending on the country  

on the on the company anyhow the uh uh project  veritas got an undercover person to talk to him  

and he said everything we would say about cnn he's  like our entire goal was to get rid of trump trump  

probably would have gotten reelected if it wasn't  for us here's the way that we would show uh joe  

biden jogging or looking cool with his sunglasses  and tried to make him of a virile not senile um um  

and yet when trump had a shaky hand we'd spend a  day on that i mean he basically kind of belied the  

notion that they're true journalists there and and  it was like we were talking about it so of course  

that gets popped up and and you know you you get  demonetized and de-platformed and all that james  

james uh o'keeffe is doing great great  work with his undercover stuff still  

is you guys have educated me and i i  am grateful about this i i have to say  

and the whole idea of trying to actually exert  yourself definitely around young kids is just  

incredible yeah but but then a lot of crazy  people out there and amazingly ben it's a huge  

thing and sadly it's a huge thing but you know  what the media are nothing but predators too um  

very good and and there should be a show called to  catch a predator which uh the news edition which  

would uh and you'd have a lot of them that pray on  us that that prey on our fears the prayer and our  

our on on our insecurities that um are  miserable humans and not only we have to  

get together and live stream us watching to  catch a predator with ben we have to do this  

that would be that would be actually a very i love  how you're stuck on this rob um so you consider  

two great friends of your show donald trump and  chris hanson that's right that's a predator i am  

i think that's amazing but we are running out  of time i uh i want to get into the solution of  

everything because we are on a crossroads and and  can i always think you have the best solution ben  

of course is just saying to people when they  say this stuff does shut up what's your point  

you don't even have to say shut up what's  your point you know does this bring you joy  

you know there's there's some we have to  fight back and i mean verbally sometimes  

with these psychos on the left and if they i  i just think canada's really important i think  

it's really important or bad i'm sorry  bigger one i i i what's your point ken  

you're right you're right i want to hear what  ben has to say all right what i want to say  

is if i hear leftist people saying things that  are just plain ridiculous and so crazy i can't  

even start to get at them i think to myself i'm an  old man i don't have that many years left to live  

i want to spend most of them as much of them as  possible but my wife god happens to have gifted me  

with the most wonderful wife in the world on this  planet that there ever was i don't want to have to  

spend my time arguing with leftist lunatics except  that late at night my wife goes to sleep reading  

while reading mystery stories i go to my office  and i write write write write write try to make a  

kind of tiniest impression on people of good sense  about what's right what's real and what is not  

if you know what the princess and the pre  we all decide what's right and what is not  

it doesn't matter except besides the gates of eden  bob dylan said that we work out all the time we're  

working on it besides the gates of eden perfectly  said and for the record the only reason i used  

bad language tonight was because ben stein tempted  me and dared me into doing it um i normally do not  

curse everybody that knows me knows that did  your mom text you i everybody no but i could  

see her doing that that would be pretty funny um  as she's on her treadmill um i could uh reading  

the court news i could see her doing that but i  want to thank everybody that's been in the youtube  

chat uh we thank everybody and i want to remind  everybody because it was so important the biggest  

takeaway i get obviously is everything ben  said obviously ken said but robbie you raised  

the great point basically of your body your  choice if you choose to get this if you don't  

it's that's what we are in america for that we  that we have that choice and we have to treat  

ourselves even as conservatives we can't fight on  these things if somebody wants to get a vaccine  

let them get a vaccine and don't call them a  traitor or whatever the hell you want to call them  

just go with it and i want to remind everybody  download the podcast give us a five star review  

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no not yet rob kendall 90 31 ibm weekdays 93.1  wibc wibc.com we are working on getting ben  

stein on the show there's a three hour time  difference i know ben is wait a minute wait  

wait wait what time would that be my time  well that'd be nine to noon but i'm working  

with judah to go work around your schedule  i'm willing to stay late to interview you so

he's well he's willing to stay  till 9 30 pacific time a.m  

um i'm kidding ben he's willing to  stay later in the day and of course  

you can find ben stein at spectator.org  and par on parlor at parlor and everybo  

at ben stein and everybody get back on parlor  just do it get back on parlor it's important  

um ben stein blows us out with song and so we  sang the call we're strong atlanta jesus while

the flag that makes you free and so we  sang the chorus from atlanta to the sea  

while we were marched into georgia god  bless you all we will see you we will see  

you uh thursday night thank you everybody  have a great night thank you as always bye