The World According To Ben Stein

Occupied Behind The Social Media Curtain!

Episode Summary

From the tensions in the Middle East, to tensions in America, to Ben teaching us how he cooks a steak. How the minority is dictating the majority,

Episode Transcription

1absolutely insane what that's going to do that  150 dollars yeah that's crazy it's insane this is  

absolute crazy talk but you were i mean what what  could be a better birthday present than ben stein  

saying something nice to you that's not he was  what he's referring to ben's referring to the  

hilton trying to get hilton a birthday thing i'll  be happy to do for 149.99 i'm happy or anniversary  

or sons graduating from sixth grade or something  but the commercial for a giant many many many  

hundreds of billions of dollars no i don't think  so and on that note i want to welcome everybody  

to the world according to that man benjamin jeremy  stein i want to welcome everybody that's watching  

our youtube chat and i want to watch everybody  thank everybody that's been downloading um or  

watching on rumble we will be posting exclusive  videos on rumble.com um and ben's been uh sending  

me videos so we can post but i want to welcome  everybody i want to thank everybody and of course  

before i start the show i want to send my prayers  and my thoughts to my brothers and sisters in  

israel who are in the midst of operation guardians  of the wall walls and um my prayers are with you  

got my yamacon for you and um you're in  my thoughts you're in my prayers and um  

yeah and on that note i welcome everybody to the  world according to ben stein we're joined tonight  

by the man um i was thinking so much about you  today ken lacourt because i had a conversation  

with somebody where they said to me somebody  i'm very close to and i'm not saying this in a  

negative way where they said to me well we have to  pray and um in regards to social media you know we  

just have to pray it and i was like and then i'm  thinking about ken mccourt and i'm like thank god  

for kevlar lacour because ken lacour from the  media action network is not about praying he's  

about action and he's about fighting back against  the the storm that is social media is coming upon  

us in this country well thank you i've never been  an answer to a prayer best i've known before so  

well we pray you know we pray for and you know  people have to act you know prayer without  

works as they say ben stein is dead um that's  a faith without words some people think faith  

alone is enough right and of course we're  joined tonight from 931 wibc bam the future  

of conservative talk radio not the future  the conservative talk radio of the present  

and the future rob kendall as always welcome back  sir ben before we are done tonight i have a very  

important question later to ask you my dad is  a gigantic fan and he has given me a specific  

ask ben question tonight okay let's hear it are  we getting it right off the gate well why not  

dad wants to know all about your appearance on  seinfeld it was a brief appearance and i played a  

if i remember correctly i played a lawyer who was  talking to uh who was his kramer i think about his  

grammar about his will and somehow told kramer  that i wouldn't appear until i was just about  

to die and i appeared early for some reason  grammar thought he was just about to die got  

very panicked about it so that was that but i must  say i miss those days of being on lots of episodic  

tv shows i miss them very very much very much  so there's so much you got the past that i miss  

how does that happen do they does like seinfeld  people reach out to you larry i mean there  

was a time when i was a very famous character  actor in hollywood i'd be not not just famous  

very famous and uh it was great days but to  now i'm just uh cranky old conservative and  

and that's ben's introduction to the to the  show tonight is he's a cranky old conservative  

um that likes diet coke he's a provocateur he's  a saint he's a sinner he's a lover he's a father  

he's a grandfather he's a husband he's uh  he's a professor but of course he's also  

a doctor and your counterpart doctor today dr  jill biden said she feels naked without a mask  

my question is how do you feel then when you're  naked and this is the where did you wear her mask  

naked i i can't think of it i'm thinking uh  

i think i think i know her she wears your mask  and um but that's the uh that that's the uh  

the the scary thing the cdc said today ben stein  that uh you can you no longer have to wear your  

masks indoors or outdoors if you are vaccinated  um that's great that that is a hundred percent  

great but my biggest fear is people have become  so indoctrinated right now by by by this year-long  

thing i wanted to get to the major point i was  talking to kent that i was talking to other people  

i was talking to you covid to me was what they  tried to do is what people call it the great reset  

right they hated the path trump had brought  us down which was liberty which was freedom  

was which was prosperity they wanted to go back  to the old wall old war or war world order what  

better way of people keeping people confined to  their homes wearing masks inside their homes as  

you've said taking their faces away and that's the  experience i think they've tried to and i think  

they'll continue on with that method i think the  mask thing is more serious than most of us realize  

a man or a woman's fluid gender anybody uh  face is incredibly important in determining  

what kind of a person is kind of person that  the owner that faces you cannot know much about  

a person without being able to see his or her  face and to wrap us all up in anonymous mass  

essentially divides us of personality personality  is a huge part of life and it's very scary to me  

that we are taking away human personality it  reminds me very much of uh the anti-sex league  

in 1984 which is the the template of the  there that the blind people are working on  

which aimed to take away the orgasm from human  reproductive function and uh that that they said  

would permanently eliminate a great great deal of  all human emotion and human feelings about other  

humans and also eliminate a great deal what makes  human beings unique but i think what i'm trying  

to say then i think it goes deeper than that  i think we're damn deep that no that is pretty  

that's an excellent point of your deepness but i  wanted to take it even deeper into the sense that  

what they are trying to accomplish now is is  we are seeing there's a storm front coming back  

and i am petrified of this storm  front of what they could get away with

and that's where i'm robbed that's my  the bigger point of what i'm raising  

right and in a weird and not in a weird way in an  actual way it worked for him i mean think about  

what they did by destroying this country they got  biden elected president they took the us senate  

they made people think that trump supporters  are a bunch of insurrectionists who are trying  

to overtake the government so in a weird way in  a sick way they got rewarded for all of it well  

they they have stays they could i mean i don't  think there's ever been anything quite like it  

except in nazi germany when essentially  hitler did not have a majority of the voters  

in fact his percentage of the voters had been  very substantial but it was falling and he was  

asked to deform a new government as the share of  the vote was following why he has super powerful  

media and the stormtroopers behind him the  stormtroopers just beat up anybody who marched  

against him and this is sort of what that was  happening with the democrat party in the united  

states of america they have black lives matter  and antifa and other people go around beating  

those who do not agree with them you're i mean  you know i sent ben and people to find this p  

this video clip on rumble basically what happened  was last night i sent them a clip of andrew yang  

who tweeted uh his support for israel  and he was viciously violently attacked  

on twitter ken lacourt and then of  course what does he do he apologizes  

because that's going to make it better and then  secondly he says i pray for the ada for the people  

that were killed in in i don't even want to  call palestine because it's not palestine and  

that's it there is a civil war i mean republicans  might not get along ken at this point all of us  

but there is more of a civil war going on in the  democrat party than than meets the eye i think  

that's there i think the party that's in power  usually has a tendency to throw throw mud pies at  

each other's heads the party out of power even if  you don't like the guy next to you you know you're  

losing so you you know you put up with them for  a little bit longer and go after the other guys  

no i think this is a lot deeper though ben i think  the the the the the the from in you were in the  

video you were referring to the squad now that  now now i know you know like obama called isis  

the jv team it turned out they were a lot darker  and a lot uh more dangerous than just your average  

um jv team and i think this squad while small in  number is extremely dangerous i mean resilient  

energetic they're working off a marxist playbook  which has been shown to work over and over again  

an incredibly specious appeal to equality  and uh prosperity mixed with violence i mean  

the russians communism never ever stays in power  for very long unless it is enforced there by  

at bay at that point that i'm terribly afraid  is what's happening in the in the united states  

although it's not banana point it's riot point  it's billy club plans milestone cocktail point  

it's some point where people are going to get  really badly hurt i don't think we're that  

far away from that ken i i don't i you know i'm  looking at neighborhoods where people are going  

to start using protection on them for themselves  um you're looking at a you know reactions um  

i don't think you can control once once  things certain things start happening  

well i i hope so i hope so because but i think  there's some control now because we can't have  

another civil war because they have islamic  weapons so there couldn't be another civil  

war these i hope not uh but and and we have people  are so incredibly well armed all over the country  

i don't think we could have another civil war but  we are essentially having as my old dear friend  

and next-door neighbor uh carl bernstein said a  cold civil war and it's cold indeed and uh carl  

and i are idealized on completely different  pages but uh he he's right about that we're  

having a cold civil war and it's it's getting  really serious it's getting to the point where  

it is basically trashing the first amendment  and that's the question i have a question  

and then you are uniquely qualified to answer  this because you are around these politicians  

and have been why do they listen to social media  like three percent of americans are on twitter  

ken's the best person to ask that  question to because this is him  

again you know twitter twitter got popular because  reporters love to use it the easiest way to get a  

hold of a reporter is go on to his or her twitter  page and do a direct tweet at them why did they  

like it because they got to kind of report stuff  and say stuff without having their bosses over  

over over them right that you know all reporters  have editors unless you're on twitter and so they  

had a good five-year run on it um um but then this  ecosphere you know this ecosphere went up look a  

lot i mean twitter punches above its weight class  on things i don't think facebook or most of the  

other sites do but but a lot of a lot of popular  and powerful and and and media savvy people on  

both sides of the aisle more on the liberal side  are on twitter that's just kind of it's like why  

is cable news punch above its weight class i mean  for the for the amount of people who watch cable  

news in a typical day or or night those numbers  are are picky units they're small it's who's on  

there um which is important it's when you go into  congress members office and you see either cnn or  

fox streaming continuously that's that's what  allows some mediums to do better than others  

see rob the better question for ben would be could  could the could the people in the house and the  

senate do they have enough balls to withstand  that what they what is perceived as the majority  

when it's in a really thin minority causing the  damage do they have the willpower and to fight  

to fight this but surely they but surely they  know it's not the majority right they have to  

it it it to them it look at what look i  mean as we've spoken about on this show  

turn on any network turn on any sporting event  turn on anything and it seems like the majority  

you know it it's like you know smoke and mirrors  it's not but to these people on the left it does  

seem i mean in the house i would imagine ben it  looks like you know you go back to nixon nixon  

didn't have to resign we've discussed this if fox  news were around when nixon was there he wouldn't  

have resigned probably people in the house were  listening to voices that probably didn't make  

sense and they all betrayed him well they betrayed  him but i think to go back again to the question  

why why do these networks punch you up their  weight loss as a wonderful phrase it's because  

there's nobody else that's giving you a  minute-by-minute survey of what people are  

thinking yes this is three percent as you say or  two percent or four percent of the population but  

statistically speaking that's enough people to be  an approximation of valid so if they're getting a  

deluge of thoughts about something and showing  themselves something some subject and 100 or 98  

of them are all going in one direction it's  going to make the people watching think uh  

oh i'm on the wrong side or oh i'm on the right  side because there's nobody else giving him any  

information about viewership whatsoever and these  places don't you need viewership to make money

rob was that helpful at all yeah it just floors  me though that that people give in so easily i  

guess that's what i don't understand especially  republicans who know that twitter is largely  

dominated by liberals this is why people  like ken lacourt are so important in the  

media action network is so darn important  ken you know look how much are republicans  

capitulating these days i i've seen them toughen  up certainly on the you know on the on the list  

i mean look there's a million things that were you  know i don't know exactly what we're talking about  

we went from riot somehow to twitter and and and  there's a lot of there's a lot of kind of issues  

going on you know trump showed republicans how  to fight back and i think a lot of them took  

that took that to heart are they going to be as  good as effective as him probably not because he  

was a rarity on that but i mean you know you don't  see them apologizing and falling down because they  

because they said something mildly offensive  to you know somebody with with a nose ring  

and blue hair um so but that's this bad let's  let's back up even further or farther than that  

and say if you're a politician how do you know  what people are thinking in 1936 uh franklin  

delano roosevelt won by what was at the time the  largest landslide there had ever been in the u.s  

yet many people in the media predicted  that landon was going to win the republican  

because there had been a poll in some very very  powerful magazine like fortune and it said send  

in this card and don't give us your name just  tells your address or your families they didn't  

have zip codes then we'll just say your new street  address and uh we will tell you who's going to win  

and the great majority of people standing  in court they were going to vote for landon  

uh well the people who were reading these results  didn't realize that only a tiny fraction of people  

in the united states were represented by these  subscribers and they were those subscribers were  

very much more affluent than the average american  so the results were completely skewed but they are  

the only results that they had at the time so they  went with them and on that note if you just tuned  

in you are listening to the world according to  ben stein you're definitely going to not win we  

are we are jumping around a little bit but i want  to remind everybody please thank you for all the  

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to go to rumble.com i was able to get on at the  parlor for a minute today hopefully tomorrow will  

be two um and uh rumble on sing our song um we're  joined tonight from the media action network song  

is it is that i mean a led zeppelin song yes sir  good for good on ya as they say in australia good  

job man and um we're joined by the media action  network's ken lacour rob kendall from 931 wibc  

and of course benjamin jeremy stein um but one  of the things i wanted to talk about and getting  

back to this uh um social media thing and just to  get back to it a little bit you know we talk about  

germany a lot being a jew is against the law to  be a jew now it's against the law in a sense to  

defend yourself as a jew in the eyes of obviously  many countries and many people in this country  

um but ken i noticed the the the same level  of it's they believe there's an iron dome  

so that's it's like a hundred percent missile  proof you know but ten percent get through and  

kill people and it's sort of like they're  saying going back up i think that's higher  

than 90 percent i read today it's 90 but either  way it's it goes to in our country we have an  

assault on policemen right now we have an assault  on on uh people are are and ben's a little low on  

oxygen that's why he's doing that people please  don't be scared um but the major thing is oxygen  

what else would it uh but um it's not distracting  but can there's an acceptability going on  

that it's like if you have somehow have a a  bulletproof vest you're allowed to be shot at  

you're allowed to be stormed you're allowed  to be hassled you're allowed to be chased

sir is there a question  involved in that yes i got it  

you're on the ball again that's really really  good okay i think it's a damn good question too  

let's go back even farther here was a strip  of land in the middle east it had some very  

beautiful spots mostly it was donkey crap on piles  of sand the jews came along refugees from europe  

some incredible horrible mind-boggling mystery  run by europeans and they were brought there they  

sneaked they walked sometimes into uh palestine  as it was called then or whatever was called then  

and they uh they established various pockets of  jews and then when the u.n came along they were  

going to make a jewish state they held up these  targets and said well we wanted to stay too and so  

they were states too and and then time bound and  eisenhower said well i would have gotten the uh  

whether the korean war over with uh let's  do something i remember about we haven't  

sorry i bring everybody he said sorry i'm really  getting confused because this oxygen is so strong  

uh i'm let me start again the i'm going to take  off this oxygen it's too strong the uh the uh the  

united states and britain and france said okay  we've been promising the jews the homeland of  

the middle east right hell of a long time let's  finally do it the arab said we'll kill you all  

if you do it we're going to kill you all and kill  the man the women and children are going to kill  

all of you jew all of you jesus kill them kill  you and they were armed by the western powers  

the jews had almost nothing they fought back  with the sheer nerve incredible courage bravado  

and ingenuity and they beat the arabs and  they established israel as a much bigger  

country than it was going to be under the u.n  mandate so the arabs were permanently angry why  

of all the conflicts in the world have we  permitted this one to linger on for 50 no  

my god it's now close to 75 years why have we  prevented this london gone why have we said to  

the jews of all the people you found a state  you take donkey [ __ ] and you make it into one  

of the world's top industrial and medical powers  but probably the top military power for its size  

in the whole world and so we hate you for it why  when are people going to honestly say in the media  

even in the new york times which is owned by  jews what are they what are they going to say  

we're jealous these guys came along and they  did something incredible they wrought a miracle  

in the desert when are people going to say and  therefore people hated them for it jealousy envy  

that's what arabism is about jealousy envy that's  what the antifa and black lives matter are about  

jealousy and envy are stirred up like it's crazy  when people behold the state of israel brilliantly  

said and i will take an oxygen deprived  ben stein over any oxygen um non-deprived  

person in the media or analyst out there god  bless you sir that was incredible rob kendall  

you know it's it's by the way i just want to  say it's absolutely fascinating to listen to ben  

stein talk about anything much less things of that  nature and realize i'm gonna show ben stein that's  

incredible it's it's it's like it's like field of  dreams well god bless you you honor me way beyond  

what i deserve but but isn't it fascinating we  talked about this on the air uh today and it was  

this idea that we are not invested as a country  from our government perspective in the success of  

israel and what possible reason could there be not  to regardless of what your political opinion is  

we should want and surely for israel to to thrive  well well first of all ken la court i'd like to  

hear from you about this because you're a man who  knows how to handle a gun so i'd like to hear from  

you oh i i think your analysis was 100 right on  and and that's been part of of throughout the  

recent in and distant world history has there's  been a lot of resentment towards jews and and  

and a lot of it is just there is a huge success  going on there and that's that's fundamental  

pure the fuhrer himself said that how many  people on this panel have read mineconf i have  

fuhrer himself said there is one race that has  gone through every kind of crisis imaginable  

and yet come out smiling and incredibly  powerful and prosperous that's the jews  

we've got to kill them everybody we've got to kill  him essentially that's what the squad and those  

vile horrible creatures just as an opinion i don't  know maybe if i knew them better i'd like them  

uh are saying essentially we we we think these  people by virtue they're being so successful so  

smart so capable having discovered so many cures  for diseases they think they ought to be killed  

can't can back to you yeah i mean look you picked  a bad neighborhood to go back to it's like you  

know i've been to enough of the middle east too  and and there's there's you know there there's  

one country that kind of has it shipped together  in the middle east and and that is israel um  

trying to think of another one not not counting  the you know not counting that no there's there

and they were able to buy you know kuwait or you  know some some of those others but they they uh  

they did how do i say they inherited it instead  of built it um but yeah look you know what as  

i will never forget going to the museum in uh in  washington dc which is now shuttered but it was  

a news museum and uh and news corp where i was  working for at the time it sponsored one of the  

wings where you could look at at old newspapers  and i remember pulling out a in a newspaper from  

the late 1800s early 1900s and it was literally  like palestinians and jews and it was like it was  

like the headlines for today they didn't have  rockets but they were the same so it's like  

we should always care about humanitarian israel's  been a good a good ally they're you know they help  

us out a lot back and forth they wouldn't exist  without the united states or at least through its  

history so so you know there should be a couple  thank you cards coming on our birthdays every once  

in a while um um but i'm also convinced that when  my grandkids are our age there's gonna be that  

same fight going on there no you're completely  yeah ben my wifey the world's finest human being  

big wifey she has a right she said it's the  anti-semitism among people in uh europe and the  

middle east is genetic it's so deep inside them  it's genetic just like envy as fanatic kane slew  

able because kane was jealous of abel's abilities  and success this whole story of the middle east is  

kane slew abel over and over again and only this  time abel didn't get killed he fought back and  

he won but keynes walked away and he got help  from the russians and soon he was a big scary  

bear and he came back and david killed again abel  killed him again still came back this envy is a  

huge huge part of look you said as i say read nazi  read nazi propaganda look at nazi movies the jews  

have all the cute girls the jews have all the nice  cars the jews have all the the uh great businesses  

therefore we've got to kill him same thing today  hamas looks across the desert wasteland of crap  

that they've made and they and they see israel  shining shimmering gleaming in the distance  

let's kill him seems like the way you guys control  the media you get a better spin on this value  

we just see that's the thing as larry clayton  who was on the show a couple of days ago said  

jews do have a huge amount of in influence in the  media huge but they're not the jews of the bible  

they are not the jews that richard nixon admired  so much these are jews who worship money and marx  

it's a fascinating thing to be in hollywood  which i have been now since 1976 and see  

very very successful jews whose twin worship  is money and marks yes mark supposedly is about  

sharing wealth money is not about that but they  that is exactly what co-exists in hollywood  

money and marks you know can you raise the  grape you talked about nixon for a second  

he had some he had some not nice thing to say  about jews when he was on his recordings when you  

now i you you certainly know it firsthand  and second and third hand better than i do  

i remember hearing some of that stuff you're like  yeah it didn't sound great how did you how did you  

view that when you heard some of his some of  those those conversations standard uh gentile  

country club southern california talk if you  went into i live uh in the exact dead middle  

of beverly hills about a mile west of here is the  l.a country club does basically with a very tiny  

uh a number of exceptions they don't take  jews that's it garnish we're jewish we gotta  

even though the neighborhood around them is  overwhelmingly jewish they don't take truth  

it's uh you you would hear the exact same  conversation about jews right now we we're  

we have we belong to a country club out in the  desert it's got it's about half jews after ten  

dollars you don't hear much much uh racism there  exactly none that i've heard but uh go a little  

farther east go to uh uh some really really really  fancy uh country clubs that really really old wasp  

money founded or tower oil money found and  there you are uh same anti-semitic chatter  

one of my wife's family's best friends was a  member of this club eldorado and uh i would  

go there they were just endlessly making fun of  jews endlessly anderson with a smile to be sure  

but the same stuff and ken and rob let me give you  a little history okay when nixon and and ben and  

mike and ben and i speak about we're we're we're  referring to the american jew we're not referring  

to the israeli jew and in nixon's obviously i  don't need to defend them because he saved israel  

and as ben has come constantly said and  i counsel to say i'd rather have somebody  

call me a [ __ ] and save my life and tell me they  love me like obama and you know uh pretty much  

not you know not care about um not not  give a [ __ ] about me um so nixon was  

and a lot of those people were referring to  the american jew because i got to be honest if  

you're saving people's lives it's very hard to  understand their lack of as you said gratitude  

very hard to understand i see it all the time  look i have i have all my fam my wife my wife  

presbyterian her whole family our presbyterians  they're incredibly wonderful people there the salt  

of the earth i love them so much i can't hardly  speak about them without tears filling my eyes  

my side of the family are all jews and they are  blasting israel blasting america all the time i  

think what the f is wrong with you you live in the  greatest place in the world it's a country that  

has so been so good to us jews it's unbelievable  there's never been anything like it we should be  

on our knees every day thanking god for is for  america and for america's protection of israel  

and america's particular jews instead they're  out there whining and yelling and screaming  

what the hell is going on gratitude you don't  find it in the human race but you will find  

one group i will tell you you'll find among jewish  republicans jewish republicans i think are the  

repository of some of the best values in america  but ken i also want to thank you okay you want  

some gratitude i'm going to give you gratitude now  i lived in israel during the intifada i was there  

when rabin was assassinated i lived through all  the bombings and every day the only news station  

that was in israel was cnn international and it  was pretty much like watching himmler propaganda  

it was like watching nazi propaganda and the  only defender at the time that would come  

on really was bibi um you know he was the one  that was on there was no fox news at the time  

um it was cnn and i think israel eventually might  have banned cnn and allowed fox news and i want to  

thank you guys from fox news because they were and  and that's why people i think were so disappointed  

now in fox news because we had an ally people felt  like they had an ally and in fox news and i'm so  

grateful to you guys ken for doing what you did  because you're so grateful you're able to create  

what you can't imagine and i mean that from the  bottom of my heart because it was devastating can  

you imagine you're somewhere and you're being  told you're the reason you're being killed  

and um and it's like this is the only news  you have to watch if you speak english and  

you understand english ken so god bless you  guys at fox news that's my gratitude towards  

fox news i used to be a regular on fox news i used  to be on two or three times a week they never paid  

me one single penny not a single cent i even had  to pay my own makeup girl though she was was and  

is a genius i was a pleasure to bear but uh they  were they were the lifeline of america and that we  

owe them so much it's insane and i think and so  ken when people are angry at fox i think that's  

what they're angered about was they finally had  it's like the same thing with drudge they had this  

they had this paper or this online site they had  this news organization that they could call home  

it was cheers to us conservatives and one day say  you know it seemed like sam closed the bar on us  

you know and fox news shut there shut the  not all the voices but a lot of what we  

would call home and that's why it's a little  devastating to us the fox news that's changed  

but i want to thank you again ken yes we  thank you humbly and right when i say hum  

i mean humbled well thank you it took me to  israel a couple times so what i said fox took  

me to israel a couple times go ahead well i was  just going to tell you ben my grandmother loved  

you on bulls and bears she thought you were great  no no it was cavuto on business yes is is this  

cavuto and i will tell you if i may respectfully  if i followed my own advice i'd be a wealthy man  

um and uh but if everybody followed your advice  they would have been a wealthy man because all you  

would say is invest in the dow invest in the  spiders it was the best show on tv you deserve it

in my humble opinion you made neil cavuto on that  network you were freaking a rock star on that show  

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

according to ben stein we've been  having a lively discussion tonight  

i am glad you guys liked my yarmulke my mother  didn't crochet it but as a kid my sisters did  

crochet yarmulkes for me with my name on it yeah  you're getting guys that's gonna can we see that

and we've all seen the religious significance  of a yarmulke i i know i've warned them myself  

and my bar mitzvahs are worth but what is the  religious significance of it it's uh protection  

it's it's it's man to god i believe i i i could  be wrong you're asking a guy that went to yeshiva  

that had jewish studies that went all the way  that should know these things and my mother is  

listening right now in embarrassment that i cannot  give you the exact answer but i want to welcome  

everybody that's listening to the world according  to ben stein and you're right guys i i'm reading  

your comments republicans have been coming out as  staunch today you'd had rubio you've had ted cruz  

going going against the squad they they are  starting to build momentum they are starting to  

see um that there is there could be a light at the  end of the tunnel and not to give up hope we're  

joined tonight by kenneth he went missing for a  second but remember everybody always comes back  

he always comes back rumble.com get your private  video you know some there are minute and a half  

videos that ben will be posting um thanks for  downloading don't forget those five and six star  

reviews let me just add something if you watch  tonight or watch what we what uh my dear friend  

judah and i record tonight you will learn the  secret of making a steak in about five minutes and  

so delicious that your wife will appreciate you it  is so delicious you will need a respirator after  

um um but how do you make your steak man i  prefer the main thing is that god makes the  

cow and make and then i go to the pavilions  and i buy i i usually i have a simple  

formula i try to buy a prime not choice to prime  and i and i see what's on sale in the way of prime  

which has gone up phenomenally in the last year  everything's going up for now unbelievably fun  

and i uh and i i take it home that's the main  thing i take it home i put it i have a frying pan  

and i put some olive oil in there i heat it to a  very high temperature i put the steak in put uh  

seasoned salt and precision pepper and chives on  it i to turn it over i put more on the other side  

i turned it over i cut it into a knife it was it  was still dead i bring it up to my wife actually  

one of our nurses brings up to my wife she eats  it heartily i myself make a baked potato with mine  

and boy do i love baked potatoes wow the irish  is so it's not surprising that iris are the best  

looking smartest people in the world they those  potatoes are incredible i mean the irish i'm right  

there with you ken i i don't i didn't know that  about the irish either but um i will trust ben  

stein because he's very unbelievably smart people  but i will i will tell you tonight i came home  

early before this show i had a great steak from  costco that was uncooked and i cooked it up in  

a cast iron skillet right here and finished that  about 15 minutes before this show started and i  

want to welcome everybody back to the barefoot  to the barefoot what kind of oil or cooking oil  

did you put around it to get the heat onto it  without breaking use a little bit of avocado oil  

spray because it's a high it's a high uh because  i crank it up until the pan's screaming right  

and and i put a little bit of that on and then  once it's cooled off the pan and i seared both  

sides i toss in some butters and shallots and  some of those fun stuff you have just tuned in  

to the food network uh barefoot contessa starring  ben stein and replacing the barefoot contessa  

and ken replacing bobby flay i want to welcome  everybody back to the world the car underground  

oh wait wait wait wait wait wait years ago  i went to bobby flays in manhattan it was  

very disappointing i will tell you we should  have a contest of some kind but the winner gets  

to have ben stein cook him or her steak because  mine are really really good or you could have  

there's a show called beat bobby flay where you  could go go up against him and his steak and um  

that would be must-see tv that i think is  something we should we should get the food network  

to do but welcome back to the world according  to ben stein we're having a little bit of fun  

there's a there's a certain amount of seriousness  you can be serious but at the same time we also  

have to realize that as we've always sand the  show you have to live life at the same time um  

and it's important to live life and as ben  always says we still do have the greatest country  

right now by far by a million miles ken you  brought up something very interesting you went  

to the media museum and ben ben me ben i and his  wife before the show we're talking about there is  

it to call now the this the media is is a joke to  call what's going on journalism is an absolute i  

i i know what you saw the same page 100 years ago  but i don't know if a hundred years ago they were  

saying this about them that this was going on with  the media well they did in the late 1800s early  

1900s they called it yellow journalism back there  and it was hearst and it was and it was it was  

about the same as it as it was right now and look  we're all complicit in it too i mean listen to  

what we were all just talking about fox fox is 80  conservative now and 20 percent liberal and we're  

all pissed off about it i mean i mean i want to be  100 conservative yes yeah cbs 100 well and that's  

an argument and that's you know and trump wasn't  wrong was like hey i look at all the other ones  

out there they're 100 against me these guys are  only 80 for me but here we were just trashing them  

because they're not puritan they actually  give us some of the other side and so but it's  

deeper than that fox i don't i can't bring it  up because i don't want this show banned and  

because this is a really good fun show but fox  did something on a certain night that yeah that  

wasn't uh uh they're they're calling errol  i don't want to talk yeah i i don't want to  

get into it wasn't a political move that was that  was their look i know how that [ __ ] works there  

and that was their you know they've got their team  they're trying to do it they they made them i mean  

in in in the long stand they were right all right  they double down they you know they screwed up on  

on some things they thought some votes were coming  from a place where they didn't come from it well  

they thought it was absentee when it was dropped  off and that got classified as absentee which  

it kind of was but it was a very different  grouping of people and then instead of backing  

off that call but it's a little much just to say  that i'm just saying that's where a lot of people  

oh look a lot of people have a lot of problems  with it i mean i don't know and by the way  

robert kennedy was playing a [ __ ] war in a long  time no i'm thoroughly enjoying this i just think  

robert when it takes you two hours to announce  indiana i don't know some people were kind  

of turned off that it took you six seconds to  announce other states because we love indiana  

right as it comes that that's that yeah that  that's that's right that's the right thing you  

watch that channel for 12 hours you're going to  see 80 to 90 gop talking point i have honestly but  

that i i think that's that's another part of the  problem ken is most the trump base isn't the gop  

so so fox right now is catering to a crowd that's  not the trump supporter that's not the trump base  

they still think no offense listen we love tucker  he tucker is out of his mind great phone called  

amazing but you could literally put on  certain other shows and have them and it  

could have been the same show for the last  four and a half years i mean no offense to  

hannity he's great at what he does he's a great  salesman he's great at gaslighting republicans  

but if you look at the hannity show  last night i could almost venture to say  

it's the same show as it was three weeks ago he  opens up by saying here's my opening monologue  

which most people you don't you should never say  that's like saying the letrataria okay if you're  

speaking that's your monologue you don't need  to make a point this is my opening monologue  

but that's my only thing ken and i'm just trying  to say to you that's where i see the differences  

this isn't a knock on fox i think the trump base  left fox hey hey on that note ben when you hosted  

shows like such as turned benstein on how scripted  was it how much freedom did you get if any  

i got i would say almost 100 freedom the  only time i remember being severely centered  

was uh when we when i when jimmy kimmel and i were  the ghost of wynn benstein's money we did a show  

which had several extra charity shows in which the  winner was required to give his or her or fluid  

gender uh winnings to his or her flu agenda's  favorite charity and they asked our favorite  

charity and the person i think said something like  i don't know uh i don't i don't know some animal  

shelter which is a perfectly good charity and i  said national right to life and this woman in the  

audience who was from she was our bosses coming  generally laughing laughing laughing i said to  

her how rare to find a right to life enthusiast  in hollywood like me and she said you're serious  

about that all right we're reshooting him again we  can't do that um by the way i just i i just want  

to tell you my dad texted me during the show he's  embarrassed that i didn't know what yamaka was  

but he but yarmouka literally means fear fear of  king slash heaven that's what that's what it means  

it means y'all mulka fear of king slash heaven  um you got a tutorial on what a yamaka is and so  

did i my father must be so proud all my years  of yeshiva education um but if you just tuned  

in you are listening to how did they not teach  you that how they did teach me that i forgot  

okay i didn't forget i was a terrible student  i i i didn't listen to my love of judaism  

uh is is or zionism isn't necessarily steeped  from my education okay let me just say like this  

my high school principal resembled alan rickman  from die hard and he used to call me mr friedman  

and he'd call me to his office okay so that's  why you don't get an education and and we in and  

i want to tell people stuff we used to tell our  parents there was something a little off about him  

you know that he like you know that he used  to like hanging out with the wrestling team  

and none of the parents you know because because  the kids that are always in trouble are always the  

ones that nobody believes and let's just say  the new york times did a whole expose on him  

um where he liked the wrestling team a lot  and um so that's i'm blaming it on rabbi  

finkelstein you jackass and i know welcome back  to the world according to ben stein it's been  

we're having a fun time tonight i want to  know ken what are you guys uh doing now  

who what has been a big college week um uh  we had the uh uh the president of the u of  

college in colorado he he used the phrase trail  of tears and uh he got the eject button you know  

he wasn't talking about native americans he  was just using it as a phrase and uh and and  

he got fired we had um um we had the the team  that was censored and had to apologize because  

they wore sombreros on a dress-up day we had um  um what was the gals there was oh oh and then  

three college girls were photographed off campus  not wearing masks and i forget the college and  

and we sent them a lot of nasty emails and they  were told that even though they were doing like  

remote learning and they were told that they  could not do that that they could not take  

finals and that they lost the last semester which  was a sixteen thousand dollar uh a semester school  

um for for because they have to retake that  semester over for not wearing a mask on an  

on an outdoor off-campus event all right that's  enough about that let's talk about something else  

yes something that doesn't make us want to  want to go rain bombs on somebody no but it's  

extreme beneath i mean this is extremely  important stuff because this is exactly  

you know you you you do the small stuff  just like with the masks just like with  

you you you you beta test and you push and  see how far how many people you could fire  

how many people you could silence and and you  keep pushing it and that's exactly what they're  

doing so it's a professor here it's a student on  campus there and before we know it it's all of us

right well god bless you let's go  on to the next topic okay um i was

who is the secretary of state  of the united states right now

nobody knows is that incredible that he's  so invisible nobody even knows who he is  

we don't know who the secretary of state is  that is probably the senior cabinet position  

and nobody knows who that version ec fluid  gender is it was the secretary of defense  

we think we know i think somebody named mr  blinken or admiral blinken or something like  

that i only know that because he spoke today  that's the only reason and i saw his name  

who's running the government it isn't the  rothschilds the royal childs are long dead  

who is running the government it isn't even  according to claude dalman who was leading  

conspiracy theorists he died about 50 some years  ago who is running a government we we does not

yeah nobody knows who's running the government  is is it a guy is there a government or is it  

all just uh send it on the line to moscow  or to beijing for approval or disapproval  

and then they go on to the next thing who  is running government i want to know that  

i'm actually in shock i mean rob you could  erase this part because i don't want you to be  

that you didn't know that you said i didn't know  it was a question to the group i didn't know  

asking it to all of us i i didn't know what  was going on did you know who the secretary is  

saying you did know you did know the secretary of  state it was at that long silent period where we  

were all standing there you know like my brain  froze what was it like it was like the scene  

out of ferris bueller he just asked us he just  asked this is a good question and all of us yeah  

it's like it's blinking right anyone anyone but  no ben you raised an extremely scary point that  

none of us knows who exactly listen we have  this pipeline issue right now right where  

where they asked uh um you know what but biden  if he if he knew that they had to pay a ransom  

you know that when the the the pipeline got hacked  we got gas supply we got guests in what what is it  

virginia or north carolina or one of these cities  north carolina south carolina and georgia my son  

my beloved son my heart's blood whom i  love so very much he can't get gasoline  

hey i gotta i gotta go back and i either  need to look it up or not it's blinking right  

not the secretary of state you know right off  hand no blinking's not the secretary of state he's  

the secretary of defense right that's i just said  that right but who is the secretary of state do we  

have a secretary of state oh i would have guessed  lincoln i fully own it i got it wrong who is this  

no no you're right i'm according to google hi it's  lincoln who is secretary of state is is is anthony  

blink and lloyd austin is secretary of defense  okay that was right so here oh yeah five minutes  

later you're right i know you're right five  minutes later rob it's okay if if you don't uh  

listen it's it's very ben's completely right we  have no senior people have been to the border  

we don't know what's going on with this pipeline  stuff we're gonna have gas we're gonna have gas  

shortages and nobody knows are they're having  kids and so and my question to you is how do  

we have a gas shortage i i want to when you  have a second i mean you're off your phone um  

ben how do we have a gas shortage when trump  bought all this gas and all this oil um  

when it was dirt cheap or we have tons of rooms it  has to be transported they can't just wave a wand  

it's a big job transport hundreds of millions  of gallons in barrels of oil it's a huge job so  

were they not planning on getting out of covet  as quickly as so they didn't uh send it i mean  

i don't know what the flaw in the transportation  strategy was i know mr buffett knows all about it  

is his incredibly wonderful trains from burlington  from the burlington northern santa fe pass right  

by my one of one of my bedroom windows at  our place at sandpoint i know they're they're  

carrying coal they're getting oil they can't  just get them from the carolinas to uh to seattle  

somebody said the funniest thing they said ask  hunter biden yes exactly look he's a high paid  

he's a high paid oil executive that's actually a  brilliant point from charisma but ken you being  

in the media these are these are really i mean  and especially being at fox news that we don't  

know these things right now is is absolutely  frightening that biden was at a press conference  

and he didn't know and nobody dug deeper whether  he knew i mean we all know of trump if a pipeline  

was being hacked and blackmailed you know trump  would have been the cause of the effect and  

everything else to do with it but he would have  gone over and kicked the [ __ ] out whoever did it  

yes but but it can isn't this just like a  mockery on the media that we don't know who  

is who's in charge well we can't blame the  media for not knowing who the secretary of  

state is i just kind of i do are you getting  ken you are getting that's good i like that  

to be able to blame cnn or fox because because  judah doesn't know the secretary of state

judah you are the producer  

i knew i knew the secretary of state dean russ  secretary of state with alex and i met at the  

state department many many many years ago we loved  being rusty he was wonderful god bless his role  

uh the broader question though or the that  that judy you were asking is you know why  

didn't they pressure him to do things because  you know they're basically working for the guy  

uh they you know they they they are very soft  towards him they you know and uh and they all  

voted for him so how mean do you expect him to be  i mean if it wasn't for the skinny guy who was uh  

uh from fox in there asking questions every once  in a while you wouldn't have any tough questions  

i know it was steve ducey i know his name or pete  

i know what's amazing is i know that skinny  ass reporter from fox news more than i do who  

it's scary who the head who the secretary  of state or the secretary i could name you  

the the all the women of the view you could name  yeah i can name you the pool reporter but i can't  

name you who's running the government right now  and i would venture to say to you most people  

are in the same boat most people would be  able to tell you who aoc is but not tell  

you if kamala harris or any of them aoc is  a genius publicist and the media loves her  

joe mccarthy senator from wisconsin who  created the atmosphere known as mccarthyism  

was great pals with the media they loved him they  would drink with him they would play cards with  

him he would tell them incredibly juicy about  people that's how it works aoc is smart enough  

we all steered her because she was a hostess at  a mind bar or something like that she turns out  

to know a lot more about how the world works than  most of us do i say any of us do so let's give her  

a little bit of credit i don't like her but let's  give her a bit of credit she is she she uses a lot  

of trump's tactics yes and primary tactic that  trump would do is he'd be full of crap sometimes  

and he'd go over 20 percent and all of his all of  his supporters said that's not what he meant and  

then the press would lose their minds over it and  talk about him for two days that was that's what  

that that strategy that i just left gave paved his  path to the presidency and it started on the day  

he announced when he said yeah you know there's  a lot of murders and rapists coming from mexico  

and then the press was like you can't say that he  said that every single mexican is a murderer and  

a rapist and this all everybody on the other side  was like that's not what he said he overstated it  

a little bit but i get his point and it gave him  two weeks of press coverage and by the way you  

know like how ken like everybody and ken how um  every great point by the way but you know like  

we started the show circle of life they hate the  jews they hate this republicans we hate the media  

that's it we blame everything it's all the media  no no no no look i i i am like spencer tracy you  

guys don't even remember transformation spencer  tracy in the old manners say wrestling with the  

giant sailfish or giant marlin or whatever he  got way way way out in the gulf of mexico he's  

day of the day it gets the media we're the old  man going after the media and the media at the  

same time is going after us they couldn't just  wipe us out with a touch of their fingers and  

they have tried and tried inside the truck but i  know warren buffett and he told me certain ideas  

about investing so i am not going to starve  tomorrow and that's what all of us need to do  

follow solve some way of maintaining financial  security so that if there's a crisis you're not  

going to be wiped out by the liberal big power  structure perfectly said rob what are your callers  

saying i just want before we wrap up what are  your callers saying i i think i think there's  

just a lot of fear right now over everything  seems to be collapsing down on itself right  

you can handle one thing going wrong you handle  one crisis but it just seems like whether it's  

the border it's the gas stuff it's prices in  general it's the mood of the country it's the  

lack of optimism in the country it's the lockdowns  and stuff that still remain in place just seems a  

lot of doom and gloom and i think it's really  stressing people out and wearing them down  

i think that's exceptional gorgeous says  we're living in an occupied country occupied  

by the bolshevists who use the kovitz which is  a bad thing but as a strategy to eliminate our  

personality and uniqueness as individuals this  is a serious serious serious psychological blow  

no other government in the united states ever  tried to eliminate our personalities only the  

only the only the biden people and and i have to  say they're given a running start by mr trump and  

i bet we're going to turn around i won't live long  enough to see it but you who's the youngest on  

the panel probably you robert you will live longer  you will live long enough to see the dead see some  

brave social scientists find out that government  wasn't even that big of danger it was mostly a  

prop to get us all hooked on government control  and bro and ben you've done that no you brought  

up a brilliant point on our way we're ending soon  but um you you brought up that we're living in  

an occupied territory and i love that and i love  how they love to claim that israel is an occupier  

right now american citizens are being occupied by  the social radicals that threaten to destroy us  

from within and if we don't follow people like ken  mccourt from the media action network and punch  

back against this absolute extremism no ken and i  say that with all sincerity because you're doing  

the job you're doing the yeoman's work and i  everybody misses your feeds on parlor because  

they can't get in your news site the court  news puts out great stuff and i encourage  

people to go to these sites because you're  getting news stories that you wouldn't see

and there's ben's phone that  apparently wasn't on my son  

calling to tell me that the people united can  never be defeated and uh i wanna you need to know  

i wanna thank everybody that's been listening  to youtube to this wild hour from cooking  

to israel to social media and i want to remind  everybody download the shows go to rumble.com  

go to media action network for ken lecourt or  go to the court news sign up to his newsletter  

punch back against the media it's great of course  you could find rob who uses clips of this show  

on the mock and rob show every day from nine  to noon in indiana in indiana in in in indiana  

and um you could stream the show he and i you  really should it's an amazing show with rob  

kendall rob thank you again ken thank you by the  way don't think that nobody pays attention to us i  

did a video for a very wonderful friend who posted  it and uh it got even seen in heiress israel and i  

got a call in the middle of night from the israel  something or other news network or something like  

that and then people have been texting and calling  me all day long about people see us what we say  

has consequences and on that note i want to thank  america's humble servant benjamin jeremy steini  

to find him um spectator.org and also newsmax  um ben would you like to take us out tonight  

yes i was like in the still of the night i held  you tell you so tight i i'm not in a very good  

singing mood today do you know about why you had  a request ben you have a real question do you have  

do you know back home in indiana sing back home  in indiana oh i do not know back home ah but i do  

know but i do know uh that song a wonderful song  by the guy who died recently about indiana girl  

she grew up uh tom patty indiana girls in the  it's last dance with mary jane and on that note  

everybody have a great night god bless you all  be free be safe we will see you saturday night

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