The World According To Ben Stein

There Is No Joy In Leftville!

Episode Summary

No Joy in Leftville! Parler was the reason I wanted to start my for-fun and free podcast. While we do stream on YouTube—which we do mainly for the interaction and the live comments—we have had episodes banned and our audience numbers suppressed. I will not capitulate to BIG TECH! We also post an audio-only version of the show, and I’ve been humbled by the response. I have read and heard your suggestions about Rumble, and we are starting to integrate our content and use their new live feature.

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use as much of your help as humanly possible and  on tonight's show we are joined from 93 one wibc  

bam the future of conservative talk radio  the man the myth the legend rob kendall  

welcome back as always sir we are rocking  the official ben stein t-shirt tonight  

what what what a great look what a great  slogan it was that to save paris what it  

just just got john used been the brilliance  of john yes yeah he was incredible it's just  

it's just uh it's just that one line first  it's just amazing i have to tell you ben  

my my good friend shane ray who owns 98.9 wirz is  a huge fan of yours he always watches our podcast  

and he got me this shirt so he loves you god  bless him it's a popular shirt still even after  

all these years that is and of course this show  wouldn't be complete without america's humble  

servant actor lawyer doctor professor reconciler  um grandfather father wife husband but of course  

you never know about it america's  teacher benjamin jeremy stein welcome  

power to the people right over the people and  right off the bat i want to get to something  

we're so into words as a society and if you  were following the news at all today there's  

nothing more confusing when i hear the word  guidelines i think of bureaucracy and the the cbc  

has thrown out so many different guidelines not  only thrown out like they've thrown them in the  

garbage like we wish we had been they have come up  with so many different guidelines for covid with  

me i think they've changed it twice today and who  gives guidelines to these people with guidelines  

and and that's my question you sir it's it's  the most it's the craziest thing i've ever seen  

with the cdc there's a saying in latin we all  used to take latin in high school quiz custodia  

custodias which means who guards the guards i  think that applies very much to the bureaucracy  

right now who is restraining the cdc if anyone  who is this the voice of reason there uh maybe  

there isn't any maybe there's denny who's running  the government altogether it's not clear at all

regulated government at all or that's moving  in any particular direction except to please  

alexandria ocasio-cortez and her friends and damn  the cause damn whether or not it's necessary damn  

the constitution we are being run now by a group  of people who i'm sure are fine people in many  

ways but uh have no idea of the constitution or  what it means or how it should be how it should  

be interpreted and how it should work that should  be the guidelines and by the way i'm in greenville  

south carolina which is really a great place it's  not sandwich idaho but it's greenville greenville  

southern it's a great great great place yesterday  or day before we're fabulously beautiful days here  

we went around without masks we were walking  up and down main street without mess only a few  

people out on this it was great it was like  having been led out of prison it was great  

i really strongly recommend it i recommend to you  that you use every opportunity to not wear a mask  

i rob what are your thoughts on this thinking  about this today what if no one's actually in  

charge i it's like it just kind of dawned on me  it was actually after i got off the air today  

and it was it was it really hit home it's  like what if no one's actually in charge  

and everyone in the government is just doing  their own thing yeah they're a funky thing  

yeah exactly and we have we have some uh  environmentalists environmentalists dictators and  

controllers and that's what environmentalism about  environmentalism has always been about uh and they  

are controlling things we have some uh why people  are wild and subject to racism even though racism  

has pretty much completely disappeared as a real  thing except it exists as a slogan but as a real  

thing it's pretty much disappeared and those are  running government those people who have their  

agendas mr biden issues no guidance mr biden as  uh has been said before he's a hologram he doesn't  

really exist does karma harris exist i don't know  she cannot bring herself to go to the southern  

border where the crisis is she can't bring herself  do you know that at least it's been reported i  

don't think she's denied it that she's giving out  hundreds maybe thousands of copies of her book  

to these poor immigrant children her book they  probably can't even read english of her book  

what what does she have said it's all useful now  but you raise a great point robin he does raise  

a great point because it's something i i can't  help that people are thinking about right now  

is who's running what because i know people  are going to say they're doing it for aoc  

or they're doing it for this but it almost  seems like there is nobody in any faction  

running anything it's like every day something  new well everything makes no sense saying what  

what's what's our foreign policy  now do we even have a foreign policy

can i tell you why this dawned on me today  when i was driving home yes of course it's  

it's something that happened here in indiana  uh it is illegal to fundraise for any statewide  

officeholder or state rapper state senator during  the legislative session in the state of indiana  

and that's designed so theoretically legislators  and statewide lawmakers can't be bribed while  

they're crafting legislation it makes sense right  you don't want you don't want people a lobbyist  

handing out cash to people while they're crafting  laws it comes out our legislative session ends at  

the earliest it's open to interpretation but the  earliest anyone could interpret it ending is april  

the 29th on the 26th of april the secretary of  state named holly sullivan sent out a fundraising  

blast on social media she she's the chief election  officer in the state of michigan it's great great  

that's great and and we were talking about it  today on the air and i said look there's only  

two interpretations of this either she didn't know  what the election law was which is scary as hell  

or she doesn't care because no one's in charge and  no one's going to do anything to her either way  

i'm petrified and then i start thinking  this is going on all over the country  

ben he raises the greatest point and i'll go  to you on this ben there are no gatekeepers  

they are they are able to get away with saying and  doing anything as they please the washington post  

today which we is a piece of direct anyways  took away the fact checking for joe biden  

it's incredible it's incredible absolutely  incredible absolutely incredible absolutely  

incredible but we don't live in america as  we knew it then today your humble servant me  

was with a park here in greenville with my  incredibly unbelievably cute granddaughter coco  

the world's cutest human being a goddess uh nine  years old but a goddess nonetheless and uh there's  

a park was like a miracle it was a beautiful  beautiful park and there's many many black  

people and many many white people black and white  children who never had known each other before  

playing on gems and complicated things i've never  seen before uh happily together when i was a child  

the schools and the parks were segregated  black people couldn't go to the same parks  

as white people now they're all happily  playing together does anyone ever even  

mention that is there any appreciation of that  at all whatsoever none have none mr biden asked  

as if we're in nazi germany and the blacks  are the jews it's incredible he he really  

doesn't know what's going on kamala she's the  biggest phony in the world the biggest i think  

you're right but i think i want to raise this  point because i raised it on parlor and you know  

people are answering it correctly but um i raised  the question who could name that the head of the  

the you know who's the head of the congress or the  republicans and the reason i asked that question  

was it took me before when i was thinking about  it rob and ben i was thinking is it kevin brady  

is it kevin and i and finally i got kevin mccarthy  thank you everyone kevin it's kevin what could be  

kevin bacon because for all intense purposes  kevin mccarthy is not doing anything right now  

to lead the republican party sir sir we all are  locked in a box by the bolshevist media czars  

buddy but i agree he could be doing work  that's not that's a non-responsive answer  

okay i'm going to challenge you that is an  extremely non-responsive answer what could  

he do he could go on to you know what could he  do there could be a rebellion what could he do  

there could be a rebellion in the  republican party and get rid of this  

guy that is not doing anything do any of you see  anything that he had that that any agenda or is it  

wait wait wait wait that tells us something i your  humble servant who am a writer as well as being a  

doctor should write a book called the conservative  agenda for 20 the 2020s or something like that  

anyway it's it's sure you're right there should  be there should be a list of priorities for the  

republican party one respect for the constitution  two no invasion of free speech when i think of the  

things that we republicans should be doing  what i think of is the bill of rights the bill  

of rights that's what we want america for america  to follow the bill of rights not that complicated  

rob kendall what are your thoughts on this well  but think about this we had a leader of the  

republican party we had a leader who brought  people who hadn't voted for republicans in a  

generation if ever to the republican party and  an organized group of republicans ensured that  

guy was thrown out of office republicans you're  right you're you're right right the rhinos are  

a dangerous group i agree you're right i think  there's i think there's many republicans who  

would rather be in the minority and not have trump  than have any sort of power and have to deal with  

trump i think they're okay i don't think there's  that difference between a lot of these republicans  

and democrats not all of them but a lot of them  well it depends on the democrats i mean i don't  

know how many republicans would say they have  no differences with afc but by the way is it  

interesting how aoc came from being a manicurist  or wages or whatever she was a bartender  

a bar gender to being the basically the  ideological head of the largest political  

part larger political party in the us shows what  a vacuum there was for ideas what so what are our  

ideas well i think if i may say so that madison  and the other people who wrote the constitution  

came up with the great ideas we have to make sure  when they are followed and respected it's no joke  

the constitution is not a joke we cannot toss it  aside without the gravest consequences for this  

country what is it what is america without the  contradiction see but here's the problem there  

are no consequences for treacherous republicans  there there there just are zero consequences  

in the republican party for for our for the  traders within so i give you an example and um  

i want to talk about this more which is the  liz cheney effect i mean let's let's speak  

let's be honest it's dick cheney's uh  daughter oh who who voted to impeach  

trump who is outright calling for rob what is  she you know doesn't want trump to run in 2020  

or whatever idiotic things she's saying  when her father whatever you i know been you  

you were clear close or friendly with him did  horrifically disastrous things for this country  

caused great harm to our country and trump  is the one that pardoned his guy and you know

i was ashamed as a shonda and my point being  is why is liz cheney even allowed to have a  

voice at this point rob but i don't know if  she does have a voice outside we talk about  

this actually on the air today i think the  problem is these people get so wrapped up  

in the washington media praising them that  they assume oh everybody feels this way  

i mean and so if you're a liz cheney and your  whole life has been washington i mean she was  

intimately involved with her father's  campaign and the bush administration  

your whole life is washington you you think that's  the way the people are and so she genuinely is  

stupid enough to believe she could run for  president which they're talking about doing

yeah okay well there you are okay it it it's  it's a frightening thing it's um we're not you  

know here's the thing you can't make this  stuff up but at least with the democrats  

they coalesce around each other and look at  what they're doing at joe manchin and kristen  

cinema who who who i would never

we would never have enough guts to do  that to members of her own party trump  

had enough cuts to do that to members of her own  party but our party i mean the fact that paul ryan  

it's it's yeah it's um i don't i don't know  where to go from there because it's uh we're  

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

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ben stein we're joined tonight by rob kendall the  best conservative talk show host in america with  

his safe ferris shirt and of course ben the  humble servant stein um i want to get to be  

he br you brought up something interesting which  is foreign policy so today we have john kerry  

who who gave secrets he he did he did whatever  jonathan pollard did times 10 or 100 to the  

iranians at least jonathan pollard gave  intel to an ally he gave intel of where

yeah he says he didn't like he hasn't had plastic  surgery um yeah john kerry said he didn't but  

here's the thing i love how he said he  didn't and it's being reported can you  

imagine if this was the trump administration he  would have been hung by the nuts at this point

they would have had hearings and they  would be yelling and screaming but  

well but we we as a party are weak i mean we're  weak in many many different ways we have to get  

our strengths back and you know some mr nix and  my boss long ago god a long time ago said i can  

say and i've said this on our show many times the  republic the average member of the republican uh  

every republican member of the  house isn't fit to be a dog catcher  

and i i we're we're seeing evidence for  that why is that why aren't we getting  

stronger people to run in the republican party  why where are the tough guys okay so i'm gonna  

write i brought up an interesting question today  uh or something i thought was very interesting so  

let's use ourselves as an example of california  we're recalling gavin newsom here the recall is  

about to go through and so rob it's like you  have all these names the same people it's like  

you know other than caitlyn jenner and i thought  of a good name i thought of somebody like tim al  

right are you paying attention depending  on questions i thought of tim allen and um  

very famous obviously comedian conservative um and  i can't think of anybody bad name recognition wise  

that could actually beat we have conservatives  that live all across america and have homes in  

california is there not one viable candidate in  the state of california to run against avenues

i notice you're not including uh adult  film star mary kerry in your list  

yes i've never heard of her who is that she does

and you said you didn't want to do it and i  think at a certain point whether it's peter thiel  

whether it's certain people they do have  a civic responsibility and duty to to  

to to do what trump did and to get their asses  in gear and run and that goes across the country  

why are people why is it is it the lack of civics  that we've had in school where are people's civic  

responsibility and duties and i think a lot of  that has to do with it people don't well it's  

a very difficult job being a congressman or a  senator very very difficult being a governor of  

california is a thankless job there's just no why  we didn't want to do it i mean when they called me  

and asked me if i wanted to do it i said the worst  i would love campaigning the worst thing would be  

if by some incredible fluke i won which i'm sure i  wouldn't uh what did i do all day i go to meetings  

get up early and i'm just governor what do you  mean it doesn't appear that gavin newsom does  

that much but to the people in the chat room that  are saying names okay i like kevin sorbo but he's  

he's nobody knows who kevin sorbo is right and  as much as ben and myself and rob all love james  

evan and i lose thank you mrs  levin there's not a shot right now  

um i'm trying to think of candidates that have a  crossover appeal yes rob i see you wanted well i  

just i was gonna say one of the reasons i got out  of elected office i'm one of the few people who  

left by choice instead of by force and went  back to radio was i felt i could do more good  

talking to a huge swath of people tens of  thousands of people every single day versus  

being one person who can't get anything done  and just pissed off all the time so i think a  

lot of people especially in the media field who  would be great at this are trying to figure out  

where they can do the most amount of good now you  mentioned a guy like tim allen he's not doing that  

but there's a lot of people out there who are  trying to find that space in which they can do  

the most amount of good and look it's going to  take more than one person winning an election  

to inspire people because it's more than  just winning an election it's involvement and  

engagement on a bevy of issues well sir if i may  say this respectfully of course we are fighting an  

incredible uphill battle we're like because we are  we have basically a totalitarian bolshevist media  

that is trying to hammer down any conservative  point of view at any about anything at all or  

a libertarian point of view they wanted to  hammer hammer hammer down their own agenda  

can you i mean it was amazing i was sitting at  dinner with my my incredibly unbelievably cute  

granddaughter and of several other people  she's only nice she's really cute and uh  

then we were talking about president biden and  as i said the words president we don't use that

so strange i mean it's not like a term  from a science fiction story president  

pipe that would happen so in a world  like this who wants to be in politics  

okay but again you're that's i love you and you  would say to me that's a non-responsive answer

it's too hard i it's too hard a question one by  one people have to work their way up i'm going  

to recommend an incredibly good book called the  greatest comeback by an incredible guy named pat  

buchanan really really really smart guy and  about nixon's come back after his defeat by  

john f kennedy in 1960 and how he worked his way  up to the top of the party and won the election  

and uh what uh what who's there on the scene  who's comfortable well you know after nixon  

ran in 60 laws supposedly around 62 for governor  of california it was just absolutely buried by  

a mocking hospital media and then everybody  thought he was dead and they would report on  

the uh on the on the obituary of richard  nixon and then he won when he went 40 to 48 49  

states since in 72. he came back for the avengers  there has to be somebody there with that kind of  

balls and that kind of perseverance  helped along by people like pat buchanan  

maybe you know how old is pat he's pretty  old he's he's a little too old and he's like  

he's he's got to be in his 80s at least um but  no listen you know and you might people might  

disagree with me but i think tim allen is a very  viable name i think he's he's or kelsey grammer  

is another example i don't love kelsey graham it  was on a very successful many successful shows  

he's very charismatic is a conservative has  enough money that he never has to work again  

go for it i love it there's no anything to get rid  of you know the the american psycho that we have  

in there and rob it's i i'm sorry that you had a  rough time in politics but it's really extremely  

important that we get people like you that that  you know that i know you're doing your show  

but get back in there because you'd have a chance  rob somebody like you yeah but it wasn't that i  

had a rough time i loved it i loved every second  of it the problem was though as a conservative  

and a guy who cut taxes and used money for  things that actually benefited the public good  

you're always in a fight and i realized at 30  years old i was gonna die of a stroke by 35 if  

i didn't get out of it because i was angry and i  was pissed off and i was mad at people who were  

trying to pull bull crap all the time look i'm  off at noon each day now like for the first time  

in my life i love my job i go home i get to hang  out with you guys and if i can do good doing that  

why would somebody like a kelsey grammer or tim  allen who has a great life that's a tough sell to  

subject them i couldn't be more couldn't agree  more couldn't agree and by the way i feel like  

people in the chat room are like trolling me with  the names they're saying like and i like the names  

i like dean kane but he was cute it was superman  right he was cute as superman but nobody knows who  

he doesn't have that power we're talking  about a-listers as far as acting goes we're  

not talking about a guy that wore a cape 20 years  25 years ago no offense to dean kane he's a nice  

guy he's a good patriot and a good conservative  we need people that could actually win and that  

is a that is something that we're dealing  with but you asked rob and both of you  

said why does somebody need the aggravation  because it's their civic responsibility rob  

it's their civic duty to help try and help  save the country like president trump did  

i'm not i'm not i'm not saying you're wrong and  i can say it as somebody who did it and got out  

of it that i was glad i did it it was it was for  the best years of my life again i'm just saying  

this is a very difficult ask when your goal  is not to try to buy people support with other  

people's money which should be a attempt  you know a pillar of the republican party  

it's not anymore the other problem i think a lot  of people have now judah is they have no idea what  

the republican party actually stands for and what  it means to be a republican right we have to that  

is a task of people like us who are who still have  enough vibrancy even if we're old and pathetic  

in our brains to talk about what the goals of the  republican party should be number one free damn  

speech free speech free speech please when i was  at the park today uh i uh i said uh to my uh my  

close relative uh i said isn't this great my boy  look at this i said this is great that when i was  

a child in my native maryland uh this would not  have been allowed an integrated park there wasn't  

a while uh and he said something like shut up  dad that you're talking too loud or something  

like that but i said i i said even in a lowered  voice you shouldn't say that and what he meant  

i think god look god bless that boy whom i love  so much is don't even have those thoughts don't  

even have the thought in your head that it  could have been any other way than it is now  

and that means don't ever have a thought in your  head of how much it's improved and that's what's  

scary that was very scary coming coming from  my own heart's blood that is very scary and by  

the way it's the people in the chat the reason we  bring up celebrity names we do live in california  

we have had an actor that became president we  do have an actor that became governor this is  

that type of state where especially at this point  where name recognition means an awful awful lot  

it's um you know you're going up against gavin  newsom whose approval ratings have gone up again  

so so so you need somebody in a recall who's  got flair back you need somebody that's got that  

that star power and yes we associate star power  sometimes with hollywood although nobody watched  

the oscars thank god i haven't been watching you  know under 10 under 10 million people watch the  

oscars wow i can remember everyone on the street  watch i mean you couldn't get anyone out of his  

house yeah but you know last year's was its lowest  rated at 23 million wow and this year it was under  

10 million and um the funniest thing though was  that anthony hopkins people are so upset with them  

for winning the award for best actor or what was  he supposed to do say you know what i'm white  

i give up the award to chadwick boseman god rest  his soul may have a you know just just give it  

up i mean and i'm happy that anthony hopkins  i gotta give it up for anthony hopkins for  

not doing that because i think a lot of actors  of a younger generation would have apologized  

and said take the oscar it's yours absolutely  you're absolutely right it's a startlingly true  

analysis of the present situation in which  everybody now is totally uh which i say uh  

masked up mentally by uh fake systemic racism fake  fake fake and yet uh it is believed especially as  

believed within hollywood it is really really  believed and on that note if you just tuned in  

you are listening to the world according to that  man benjamin jeremy stein and the reason i keep  

on saying it's a non-responsive answer to people  just so everybody knows is that is something ben  

has been saying to me for 18 years when he asks me  a question and i don't give a satisfactory answer  

when you don't give an answer well i sort of  give an answer this is my answer but um sorry  

that's like saying that that's like what uh the  democrats say when you say something to them  

about uh racism and then they can't  say they say well it's my truth okay

but i want to thank everybody at the youtube  chat i am reading your chats i am not running for  

president thank you and i thank you for all your  suggestions for people that are running for the  

governor and i wasn't mocking those people by  any metrics i love john boyd i love james i  

love it i love the guy we love john boyd but he  doesn't have he's not a viable candidate and um  

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five star reviews he's extremely helpful we're  joined tonight by rob candel as always who's do  

i say it correctly is it kendall or kendall yeah  rob kendall yeah close enough whatever you got  

okay and uh i've been saying it wrong i like  but i like kendall that would work perfectly  

in hollywood i've been called worse man don't and  of course benjamin jeremy stein and you touched on  

something sir that's that's very frightening um  which is the uh leftist part which is the left  

there's no left there's no more democrat party  it's the left party they are beholden to extremism  

they are to to to their behold into these  extremes um do you think do you think there is a  

they're the loudest heart they're the loudest  minority do you think how do you how do you  

in your in your years of experience how  do you overcome that how do you overcome  

of the loud majority the loud minority it will  become louder you're going to become louder now mr  

george wallace uh former governor of alabama i had  a very politically incorrect uh comment on that  

kind of thing but will be even louder it's like  what uh what's the guy who plays uh the agent the  

hollywood agent in the top thunder says he says  to his clients if you cry if he cries and you cry  

harder we we have to come up with some principles  that we really can fight for and believe in that  

there are ordinary american beliefs in as  well but you would have thought then ben you  

you keep bringing it up and you would have thought  that trump did have a lot of principles trump was  

a very sorry i think he did i mean and if the  republican base would go off trump's principles  

we would which would be fighting back against  the meteorob which would be obviously the  

immigration crisis and would be hammering down  on this crazy mass polls mass laws are sadistic  

but but again i think it comes back to you i don't  think the establishment wing of the republican  

party which is the donor and lobbyist class they  don't want conservatives they're they would rather  

be in the minority than have the trump people  like they hate the trump people think about that  

75 million people voted for donald trump and they  try to ostracize any person who voted for trump  

like it's some like you're a green party candidate  or something 75 million more than any other except  

maybe biden any other candidate in history and  they act like the guy's some you know fringe  

candidate that ran for a county assessor in  northern idaho no offense to northern idaho  

brilliant point somehow they have shamed us  they have shamed us by their lies about trump  

and making trump sound like a dirty word they may  have shamed us into thinking there is something  

wicked about trump and all he did was good  things i as a jew think particularly here's  

a man who followed the biblical objection to make  jerusalem the capital of the children of israel's  

country israel he's the one who made  peace between israel and a whole bunch of  

muslim states he is a like like nixon a peacemaker  blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be  

called the children of god nobody remembers that  that's a good thing for us conservatives say  

blessed are the peacemakers we know that biden is  waiting to do to do some kind of incredible act  

of craving cowardice to iran it's going to make  them try to bully us and start a war and we don't  

want war with iran at all period so what when when  he's when he gets us into a war we're going to say  

where were we where are we to stop and get into a  war now you know what they're gonna say what you  

know what they're gonna it was trump's fault  yeah well they say everything's true yeah it  

would it it was trump's fault but rob he does have  those principles he set forth principles and it  

always baffles me why republicans and i get what  you're saying some of them like the status quo  

but you do have some that whether it's you know  you do have a few in the senate and a handful in  

the house that have followed trump's leader trying  to and so that is hopeful the hope though is that  

as the midterms are coming up we could start  finding viable candidates in in and and listen  

it's it's it's it's only cheating if it's if you  get caught or if it's against the law so we know  

the democrats we know mitt romney that jackass  is what he's he's run for governor he's senator  

of utah he's run for governor of massachusetts and  if he loses there he'll just buy a house somewhere  

else so it's really time for us to start following  that path and i don't care who it is rent the  

yurts in parts of georgia yes but but here's the  thing judah is the there is so much money from  

the establishment side of the republican party  that they have such an advantage in the primaries  

that it's almost in many cases not every  time but in many cases it's almost impossible  

for conservatives to get a foothold  because there's so much money bombarded  

against conservatives in the primary whether  it's through pax run by mitch mcconnell the  

chamber of commerce you know the regular players  they're invested in not letting conservatives  

especially on these you know senate the senate  side especially get out of these primaries  

and and i don't know what the answer  is that's a scary thought but don't  

i i guess i'm sort of in a minority here in this  little chat because i i think the first first step  

is to have a set of principles now let's  see who rallies around that flag yeah the  

problem then is as rob's pointing out you're  talking about people that don't have principles

we will give them a set of principles that you  as you as as well you know that as well as i  

know you can't hand somebody principles you're  either you're born with them or you you you well  

respectfully i disagree with abraham lincoln  i'll start with life america would not have been  

considered ending slavery by the end of his life  slavery had been abolished at least in the states  

that had been a part of the confederacy so  uh big changes can happen giant change can

a real world example of this about what people are  up against is that all right yeah of course so uh  

several years ago i worked for the indiana state  auditor and part of what would do is we would go  

to these different events and this was i don't  know a year after a guy named richard murdoch  

had ran for the united states senate in indiana  he won the republican primary he was a he was  

a great conservative he was a constitutionalist  historian and right before the election he made  

an egregious mistake in a debate said something  about abortion that torpedoed his campaign  

and the republican party in the state of indiana  you got all these lincoln day dinners and all  

these various republican functions and the  party leadership this was eight years ago now  

would openly in these with hundreds of people  there say we're never allowing another richard  

murdoch to happen in this party again we don't  like conservatives and we will do everything  

possible to defeat these people and ever since  then in the state of indiana actual conservatives  

have not been very effective at winning u.s  senate races they've not been effective at winning  

statewide offices republicans win those seats but  there's uber liberal left republicans who cater to  

that donor lobbyist chamber of commerce crowd and  it's happening in states all across the country i  

think about the u.s senate primary here in 2016.  marlon stutzman who was a super conservative  

really respected guy ran against todd young in the  primary mitch mcconnell put millions and millions  

of dollars behind todd young because that was his  guy marlon stutzman couldn't match that especially  

not in the statewide race so conservatives have  to start stepping up with their pocketbooks if  

they're going to compete with these people because  the establishment wing of the republican party  

hates conservatives and will continue to do  whatever they can to ensure they don't win  

these primaries we need to like start a movement  with the real conservatives please stand there  

was that song will the real you know please  stand up really stated yeah the real slim shady  

yeah the real slim slayer well the real  conservatives please stand up please stand up  

or you know but we know the real conservatives  that aren't standing up because there's  

they're a little too timid but um ben these are  i mean it really is frightening and you witnessed  

it firsthand with nixon and it's it's we learned  nothing from history and it's it's an absolutely  

frightening thought to me that we haven't learned  anything well it's scary to me if you'd like  

to look at history look at the history of how  southern soviet union russia became a bolshevik  

country it was it was not a czarist dictatorship  as people would think it was a democracy when the  

bolsheviks overthrew the democracy and made it  into a rigid violent cruel dictatorship i don't  

think that people like afc have any goal other  than to make america into a dictatorship that will  

start doing uh her bidding about all kinds of  wacky ideas i don't think they really want to  

preserve freedom preserve the constitution people  enter the military service and any any services  

for the government they could vow to protect which  or and preserve the constitution i don't think afc  

has an idea what the contribution is now you're  completely right and by the way i just want to uh  

you did you were amazing on newsmax last night and  um and i want to ask everybody this because i i  

wanted to bring this up the other night it used to  be we had places that we could go to get our news  

or or the news you know it used to be fox news was  fair and balanced yeah you have maybe now you have  

maybe three hours but we lost the drudge report  we've lost so many different um sites obviously  

rush limbaugh has you know passed away rob ben  where do you go for your new w what are some of  

the places you guys get your news i don't have  any news no i'm just kidding i get my news off  

the internet of the internet but what i know well  when i see it says aol i know it's going to be uh  

bolshevism when i say it's fox news i trust it i  i i know you don't like them and i agree they made  

some big mistakes and they're not as conservative  as they should be but i i think they're still  

doing a heck of a lot better job than almost all  the other big players except newsmax that newsmax  

is exploding with energy and growth and they they  i think are going to become the leaders and that  

they will be where we get our news what are your  thoughts on that rob well first of all 93 wibc  

yes this this award-winning program three nights  a week and then you know part of what we've lacked  

the ability to do anymore because we we we have  we don't educate critical thinking anymore is i  

enjoy reading publications that i know are left  i feel like i learn more about myself and about  

our world reading how the other side thinks and  then sifting through it and picking it apart so i  

actually will read a lot of liberal publications  because i think it's important it is important

i read the new york times played off not not to  cover the government when i read the cover of  

governor i realized that as we jews say one long  distraught just one long district black people are  

being mistreated women are being mistreated  people fluid gender are being mistreated  

everybody's being mistreated but wait a minute how  about all the people driving around in fancy cars  

and living beautiful houses or apartments how  about all the people who are so happy and they  

have big smiles on their faces as they're walking  down the street or eating their shoes you're  

screaming they don't look mistreated and by  the way i agree with you guys i missed louis  

a great point i miss lou dobbs oan i'm not i'm  not that familiar with yet but um you know you  

you i wanna totally forgot what point i was just  gonna bring up but so i will go to a quick segment  

on how to find us if you just tuned in you are  listening to the world according to ben stein of  

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but you um yesterday you were on newsmax and there  are some sites that are uh but just that we have  

to uh do this type of thing that that that we  need a site is a very frightening thing that  

you know i mean by god the thing that we can be  censored for the most obvious questions about how  

america is run it's unbelievable i i kept saying  to you and to to all my other friends this isn't  

america anymore and yet and yeah let's be honest  the new america has real integration and real  

real equality for african americans that's a new  wonderful part of america it's it's new and it's  

wonderful and it's glorious and uh i think we  should take a lot of pride and i i'd like to  

see americans have a lot more pride in what we've  accomplished you're asking a huge favor because at  

that point we're going back to the schools we're  going back to children being taught how bad we are

i know but but but

we as parents and grandparents can fight that and  tell our children what's right or what's wrong i  

mean i i sat with my unbelievably unbelievably  beautiful granddaughter at dinner tonight  

and told her some history and it wasn't  stuff she wasn't learning in school  

and uh she seemed to be absorbing quite well like  she seems she is terribly intelligent of course  

we have to we have to be even if we're not doing  it through the new york times we have to do  

whatever we can teach your children well their  parents know we'll slowly go by and rob we have  

somebody in the chat room that is a huge fan of  yours josh richardson who says he listens to you  

every single day he has a cardboard cutout of you  in his apartment and he said he said he's your  

biggest fan so i don't know take that for what it  means rob but uh that's that's a huge compliment  

great he's my fan singular no yeah rob you  have tons of fans but i want to get back  

let's let's have a little fun for the last 15  minutes we need a little time off from politics  

um i i wouldn't you agree  ben just a little fortunate

no no i what what i want you to talk about

i don't want you to sing i want you to i  want i want to talk about a little bit about  

something that interests you ben stein tell us  what interests ben stein well a beautiful young  

woman whom i met at a gas station in malibu a few  days ago when i was driving through there in my  

ravenously hungry car and used gasoline i drive  a car that is the exact opposite of what the aoc  

people would want it's a v8 twin turbo it goes  like a rocket ship i'm my uh my uh companion i  

pulled into a gas station in melbourne there were  four beautiful young kids well groomed intelligent  

and i started asking them about their lives and  it's amazing they're all hard workers they all  

have ambitions they all have plans for their lives  they're going to do things with their lives i was  

very very impressed with them there are some good  eggs out there in america that we there's plenty  

of good to be done but i want to go back  and say well here's some things we've done  

we america developed the vaccine against the  coronavirus that the chinese loosed around the  

world we america started my warps operation warp  speed by donald trump uh have been knocking at  

roughly roughly half of our population very very  very quickly we america america got through the  

covenant recession without it turning into another  great depression which many people including that  

imbecile paul krugman uh forecast we have we have  we have done incredible good in the middle east we  

got peace there in places that could not  conceivably have had peace without us this is  

an incredible achievement that we've been we've  incredible achievements the last four years and  

let's even include the last few months under  mr biden i've seen amazing progress in america  

let's have some pride yes we are losing free  speech we've got to fight back against that  

we've got to speak out freely and not be afraid  but we have made incredible progress just much  

to be proud of about america you just gave me  actually you actually just gave me a thought  

rob he just gave ben you just gave me  as you always do you gave me a thought  

and it's this you're out there enjoying your  life and you know i said i'm not that much i i  

didn't have a very good dessert tonight and  and as and as you know one of the things i say  

a lot is that the left just seems for people  that are are woke they're just so damn asleep  

and rob wouldn't it be great if we just showed  them how to have fun like we're the conservatives  

and i said we're the counter culture let's start  having fun and maybe that could be contagious like  

you know what maybe i'd rather have fun than [  __ ] maybe i'd rather have fun than than tweet  

maybe i'd i'd rather you know go go get the  second we could go to concerts let's show up  

for those concerts let's show up those comedy  clubs let's get the hell out of our houses rob  

let's play with our incredibly  cute nine-year-old granddaughter  

exactly because our grandparents  let's play with our grandchildren  

by the way can you can you imagine showing  up to your local park and ben stein is there  

well uh yeah why not somewhere everybody's gonna  be pretty cool hey you're that guy from the movies  

yeah yeah you're that guy no i yeah there's so  much that we can do to have fun and to be proud  

part of our age station my point is with my  plan my point is to you is when you have fun and  

you're enjoying life you're proud there's  a certain amount of inner you know  

um security contentment that a person  has when they're able to go to the park  

with their granddaughter when they're  able to go outside and be with friends  

and that is truly missing in the left there is  no joy rob there's joy in stepping on our faces  

i think it's like one of the reasons our  show the award-winning mock and rob show  

no weekdays nine to noon on 93 wibc bam does so  well is because we spend a lot of time talking  

on things that aren't necessarily political we  laugh a lot we have fun a lot on the important  

stuff we get down to business and talk about it  we talk about what a great country this is and how  

wonderfully blessed we are to live in the greatest  idea ever conceived by man and why it is that  

but we also we laugh a lot about what  happens in pop culture in society  

and that's that's something that that people  who love liberty and the constitution have to do  

is show that there is benefit to your existence  to believe in this way and it's a betterment of  

your existence a happier more fun existence to  have these liberties and freedoms we love america  

and we love being in america and we will fight for  america we're old and we eat too much but we love  

america and let's let's let's have that be part of  our journey love love is an important part of our  

lives i love so many different people and i don't  hold grudges against anyone and i just love love  

love being an american every day i look i say  i'll say this a million times i'll say it again  

i'm a jew i grew up looking at pictures of cup  concentration gifts as they were being liberated  

and then i said oh my god i live in america i  live in a beautiful house designed by a famous  

architect with a green forest and lawn all  around all the food i want anything i want  

basically and yet yeah how many people in all  of history have lived the way we live let's be  

happy about that there's joy in that this human  race as we know it has existed for maybe i don't  

know eight six seven eight thousand years there's  never been anything like that that's their goal  

is to suck the ever living joy out of our country  that is the left's goal is to just be joy suckers  

okay if we're enjoying something we're not allowed  to we're not allowed to because there aren't  

enough blacks in it we're not allowed to because  there are enough women in it we have to wonder  

if there's a paid discrepancy we have to worry  about kneeling and you know what our job is to say  

screw you and we're going to enjoy our lives  our god-given lives in the greatest country  

that's ever been created and i really think  of enough people say to the aoc shut up you  

miserable shrew of a woman just shut  up and stop ruining it for everybody  

other people i i i don't think we're as dire and  dare or whatever as as some would say i do believe  

there's hope i believe most people ben want to  live this great life that you talk about one word  

look at how people risk their lives every day to  get here for god's sake aoc wake the [ __ ] up  

people are risking their lives every day  to get here doesn't that tell you something  

about what a great country this is no you're  you're wrong well i was gonna say one thing  

the left has done very very well and a lot  of it's been done with george soros money  

is while conservatives have been focused on  large-scale elections presidency senate house  

governor's office they've they've done a  tremendous job of winning local elections  

and if you're a conservative or you're a liberty  loving person you talk about people needing to  

be involved you can it's not that hard to win a  local election i'm telling you from experience  

a little motivation couple of volunteers you  can go out and win a school board race you can  

win a town or city council race you can get a  good person to win it when a prosecutorial race  

county council county commissioners these are  things that local the conservatives on a local  

level that don't take a ton of effort they can  win these elections and start making a profound  

different so if you're thinking about how you can  get involved i would encourage so many people i  

would encourage so many of the people hearing  our voice to look long and hard on a local level  

about where you can make a difference it's a  great idea we can make a difference look it  

starts in little tiny i educate my granddaughter  my granddaughter educates her friends they stand  

up to the teacher and i mean i i've seen  the teachers actually her score great but  

some kids stand up to jesus and i want  to hear your bolshevism america is the  

greatest as as you said america is the  greatest idea made flesh i mean they say  

the bible says that christ is the word made  flesh i think america is the word made flesh  

that's that's that's brilliantly said um  and just for the record he doesn't have a  

cardboard cut out of you rob i i do apologize  for that comment but he is a huge fan of yours  

but i have a cardboard cut out of ben and that's  for many other reasons um but i do really think  

fun is contagious sir i really do i think living a  joyful life living a spiritual life is contagious  

i don't think the life listen the numbers  prove were right okay if they were correct  

60 million people would be watching the oscars  if virtue signaling and their ideas were working  

25 million people would be watching the nba but  every single number of every single media event  

sporting event is down that is proof positive  that their way isn't working they're not  

they're not there's no contagious of their  thoughts in my humble opinion i could be wrong rob  

there's contagion i'm sorry no i think you're  you're absolutely right and we talked about this  

just the other day the i call it the swarm the  left is great at the swarm where on social media  

or whatever they swarm people to an argument or a  debate it's why corporations cater to these people  

it's why people are quiet on social media they  want to make you feel as though you're completely  

overwhelmed by people that there's you know of  the 330 million people in the country that all  

but seven of them believe like they do and the the  proof is in the pudding it's not they're just very  

loud they're very vocal they're often very mean  and very nasty and the big reason is there's never  

any ramification for them doing that you know  any consequence so people have to remember that  

you're not alone you're the majority don't act  like you're the minority you are our majority  

act like it that is great i love that i love that  i love that on that no you're you raise agree i  

mean you know it's brilliant it was brilliantly  said and and again i heart i go back to the thing  

the image of ben with his uh granddaughter in the  park today living life enjoying life and that's  

contagious you know what's not contagious  is people screaming at you to put on a mask  

that's not contagious somebody playing with their  grandchild contagious and we need to start and it  

from our elected officials they really need to  start contagious of you talk about principles ben  

but of getting back to the american way of life  and that's and that's an extremely important  

message that needs to start coming from from the  conservative movement from the republican party  

is let's let's let's let's let's show them  let's let's win at life let's have fun let's  

enjoy ourselves let's eat a good meal let's treat  ourselves right we deserve it we don't not deserve  

these things because it's closer to the past maybe  because we're white we don't we're not supposed to  

enjoy these things and i just want to and quickly  i don't really watch the news i read and i have a  

friend that calls me up and every other day i  got to tell you he calls me up and he tells me  

so and so was cancelled and i say are you like  on this like canceling feed like if somebody gets  

cancelled like you get alerted like i have no idea  who these people are they're canceling i mean who  

is it isaac newton that got cancelled the other  day and i'm like why should i care that i stick  

newton with wait a minute jude was a mathematician  hundreds of years ago yeah i think they're trying  

to i think they're trying to to cancel him  for sins of the sins of his past and it's like  

somebody's alive for hundreds of years it doesn't  matter ben when they when they run out of the live  

thing they'll go after the dead it what do you  mean look at all the statues they've tried to  

remove that's the left's new policy we've run out  of the living to cancel let's go after the dying  

and and and that's how big of a joke it is and  that's why you know under 10 million people watch  

an awards event that used to be amazing that we  could all agree was a fun time to watch i missed  

the days of billy crystal that was my what about  bob hope he was really good he was too young for  

me i i i was i don't remember bob hope sorry for  uh hosting the only thing i remember bob hope  

for was being on tonight's show maybe and his  uso tours like the videos that they would show

we are running out of time i want to thank  everybody that's been in the youtube chat i  

want to thank you again josh you're a huge fan of  rob so my i i might have the cardboard cut out um  

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and let us forgive those who trespass  against us we we've asked please god