The World According To Ben Stein

Win Ben Stein's Bitcoin!

Episode Summary

From Bitcoin, to Elon Musk, to the Woke Universe effecting us all.

Episode Transcription

as it's streaming on my end it says  it's streaming are you listening to it  

then your end is all that matters  well let's wait a minute my end  

how many times in life do you hear  somebody say their end is all about  

it's live it's on youtube oh that's very funny  junior that's very funny that's really funny  

on that note i want to welcome everyone  to the world according to that man  

benjamin jeremy stein i want to welcome everybody  that's listening and watching on youtube uh  

amazingly parlor's been down for over a day and  a half so is that really is that really amazing  

we it is well that's a long time and uh may  i ask you a question sir you're you're the  

computer wizard not me i know barely how to turn  it on and off what what is that down it means that  

you it's tot you can't access it you can't be  on it you can't use it um i i never mind i'm  

not gonna i wasn't gonna give a crude reference  but i want to remind everybody that we are on  

rumble now rumble.com go to rumble download the  shows even if you watched a year old same thing  

with apple bremzo's gonna be helping me a  little bit out tonight with uh doing that stuff  

um we welcome tonight from american greatness ben  boyd chick welcome back how are you i'm great it's  

great to be back uh are you broadcasting from a  from a uh an empty auditorium judah or yes exactly  

it's exactly it's exactly it's my patriotic  empty auditorium um but it's good to see you you  

might not look good but you you know you're not  might not feel good but you look good okay and  

of course welcome as always the man that's  on the run the batman himself ramzo martinez  

but after after last show and uh his batman  references he has gotten the he's now the bat and  

the cat anything that rhymes with but of course  this show wouldn't be complete without america's  

humble servant provocateur saint sinner lover  philosopher mathematician statistician economist  

actor but of course let's not forget dr  benjamin jeremy stein but does he take medicaid  

i'm sorry but do you take medicaid  i don't take any insurance sir  

i don't think and and not only  that sir i don't have any patience  

i humbly disagree with you on that one  i think you have quite a few patients  

they shall go nameless but on that note welcome  all to the world according to ben stein and right  

off the bat i wanted to get into something i'm  not feeling great as some of you know i've been  

a little down a little she's been very brave he's  put up with terrible discomfort and has yet been  

and has been very brave thank you sir but i  want to discuss something it seems like we're  

we're the country on the path to on the country  to nowhere you know those expressions they used  

towards the bridge to nowhere the uh the uh  highway to nowhere whatever that expression  

was sir but the way i look at it now is we  as a construction project right you know  

you start on one mile one by the time you  get to mile 200 mile one needs to be redone

and i almost look at the way our country is  running right now the way the vaccines are being  

doled out by the time everybody has gotten their  vaccine they're going to say to the next group  

the first group you've got to go and get your  second though you've got to get your third dose  

and i almost feel like i i  don't believe people have trust  

um in this process and it's it's a very scary  thing because i don't think anybody knows  

what they're talking about ben and would  you go and get your third round of shots  

uh i had a very bad reaction i second shot the  booster and i don't know i'd like to have a pretty  

clear idea of why i needed a third one uh one of  the nurses who would take care of my wife told me  

that uh it was absolutely essential that you get a  booster now in six months after got every got your  

first booster i hope that's not true to me and  i could be totally wrong here i often am wrong  

i think a a basic mistake was made in the creation  of the coveted vaccine because so many people i've  

talked to have had very adverse reactions to it  now true this is data not data this is anecdote  

but i would love to see some survey data  about how many people have spent some  

serious discomfort after the first shot and i'm  a second shot rather i i'd be kind of scared  

to know what's going on just this afternoon i read  an article about how apparently there are long  

lasting psychological and psychoactive harm or is  harm caused by covid and possibly by the vaccines  

so this kind of frightens me a bit i have been  noticing you have been acting a little weird um

um i asked that question to you too it's it's  

do we have any faith and and do we have any  faith oh sure sure any faith in institutions  

in in what's going in in the treatment in the  diagnosis in anything that's going on right now  

well i think you know i think that um i think that  a lot of people are are just optimistic that um  

this round of vaccination will at least you know  let everybody get back to some semblance of what's  

normal um the idea of a third shot in six months  doesn't appeal to me very much and i think even a  

lot of people who were embracing the vaccinations  wholeheartedly would probably say wait a minute  

uh can we see some more documentation on that  um i i just for the record i got my first shot  

i guess about two weeks ago uh my sec well  whatever however the math works out my next  

one's in a couple of weeks and i'm scared my  dear friend well yeah so i i mean the first shot  

wasn't exactly a walk in the park i wasn't feeling  wonderful for about 12 hours i had a i had a very  

powerful burning sensation at the injection  site and in the middle of my coincidentally  

i suffered an injury back in march and  so uh the inflammation that that thing  

is by the way just for the record you're  referring to painful and burning because of  

the shot because of the shot you sicko yesterday  yeah you see the back injury is from a sex act so  

i wish batman know about the thing yeah uh  it's the stupidest injury in the world but  

there's no need to get into that right now no i  i think that people and i've and i've heard all  

the stories too and ben's ben your account of your  second dose was uh chilling and compelling um i've  

had other friends who've who've said the second  shot was really really really rough and then but  

my mom got it and had no and she's 84 and had  absolutely no side effects whatsoever so uh your  

mileage will vary but as far i mean to your your  main point uh in your question judah i mean um  

i think overall things like this where you know  people are encouraged to get this vaccine to  

to help their communities to help their families  or whatever uh and then they're sold well just one  

more thing it's just like 15 days to to stop the  spread right or to flatten the curve which turned  

into a year to flatten the curve and so you know  you you you have institutional voices lying to  

people all the time at some point people just stop  listening no you're completely right and i want to  

get to something else another topic wait doesn't  the batman get to say anything yes he does and i  

was going to go to the batman who's actually am  i can i say it out loud ramsay or is it a secret

i'm batman is that was that was that the  confession no that you've actually had coveted  

oh yeah i mean i i i i i think i'm i cry like you  know i screamed and cried out loud about it i had  

coveted and pneumonia so covered for 90 days at  the beginning of the of the year and it sucked  

i mean i i i'm not getting the vaccine i have not  gotten the vaccine and you know one of my snarky  

liberal friends was like yeah but if they start  coming for you or i'm like good luck because i  

have guns if that doesn't work out i'll run naked  and i'll butter myself up so good job catching me

okay that's how i got that's how i got to  go shopping it's it's what keeps with the  

conflict with the complexion so ben my next  question is since ramsay had so much to share  

on that topic my next question to you is catch  me do you think people are you don't hear it a  

lot in the news about the side effects yet  every single person you tend to speak to  

that's had the second vaccine especially from  raderna has had vicious side effects and there's  

two things i don't think the media is reporting on  it because they don't want people to knock at the  

vaccine and i think people are scared sheepless  into not saying they got side effects for two  

reasons one they don't they don't want to deter  people from getting it and the second is they  

they think it's almost like well it's worth it  because i i didn't get coveted and i'm not dead  

well my the number of uh percentage of people  who in this country who got covered and died of  

it is extremely small obviously i don't in any  sense be little any is too many but the idea  

that this was a plague that was going to wipe  out the population like the black plague did  

in the dark ages that was always nonsense uh the  idea that the second child of the vaccine is going  

to wipe out the body is also nonsense but to me a  medicine in which which hurts a very substantial  

number of those who take it is a very questionable  medicine and uh to your basic question do we trust  

the government do we trust the drug companies i  don't trust the government and uh i don't trust  

the drug companies i mean i've i've seen i've  seen so many terrible terrible reactions to people  

taking various drugs i really don't have much  faith in what the drug companies say about their  

medicines i mean i have some faith but not a great  deal of faith and uh i'm i'm yes i'm scared about  

this idea of having to take a third booster and  then then why not a fourth then why not a fifth  

and uh who knows what these boosters do i mean uh  a lot like the stimulus package they just keep on  

giving the booze well wait a second no now i i  hope we can put some meat on these bones my boy  

uh we're saying something really extraordinary  we're seeing vote buying on a scale that has never  

been seen before in any western country or maybe  in any country anywhere this country is basically  

masterminding the bankrupting of  our children and grandchildren  

to stimulate the biden uh what's the vice  president's name that i forgot comrade  

and conrad um bankrupt this nation for the benefit  of a small clique of democrats this to me is  

very very frightening i mean we are in an active  process of bankrupting the nation yes easy money  

to fight the recession absolutely is brilliant yes  uh lots of government spending but 19 trillion on  

things that are so strange and unrelated to the  covet this is just pouring money down a giant  

a hole in the ground it's a it's just astounding  how the money is going out are having no concern  

whatsoever about the well-being of our descendants  no we don't and uh ben boyce i go to you on that  

um do you see an end in sight on  this or are we just is this just

gonna keep going until maybe we take control  of the house well it won't stop then herbert  

stein call your office exactly exactly like my  father said a brilliant mind he really was an  

effing smart guy if a thing cannot go on if  something kind of gone gone forever it will  

stop and this will stop in the bankruptcy of  the united states of america i your humble  

servant will be dead by then it won't matter  to me it's gonna matter a lot to my incredibly  

sweet granddaughter coco a little living doll  it's gonna matter a lot to her a hell of a loss  

oh god it's so funny how sometimes when you think  you have nothing to talk about now there's so  

much to talk about because one of the things i'm  curious to know ben boyce and ben stein and remso  

is this idea that you did the left idea that  you could tax your way out of everything  

and ben stein you're sorry not a chance no i i i  understand that and now they want to do the death  

tax up to 61 percent on the high on the richest  what's the point in making money what's the point

to be able to leave it to your children you let  these other young young people answer first before  

i and old paper answer my personal  answers let these kids answer first

yeah i mean i i think that i i think i  think that uh that bankrupting the nation's  

a bipartisan affair i i became a libertarian  through the testimonies and books written by  

congressman ron paul of texas primarily when he  was running for president in 2012 when he was  

talking about the dangers of the federal reserve  and republicans wanting to go ahead and rank up  

spending for defense and other programs much akin  to what the democrats wanted to spend on their  

own select programs they went ahead and laughed  at him and i'm very deeply afraid that within  

not the far future but the near future we're going  to both have front-runner democrat and republican  

nominees for president disagreeing on small things  but agreeing that the best way to get out of the  

national debt is to print our way through it but  what we're doing with that that is what we're  

doing right now the chickens have not come on the  roost because there has been such a severe drop  

in what we economists call velocity name is  the business activity but that's coming back  

fast unless some miracle happens and miracles  do happen unless a miracle happens we are in  

for severe inflation and a devaluation of the  dollar not just in terms of gold but in terms  

of the dollar itself so here's a here's more of a  question ben so i i support cryptocurrency such as  

bitcoin and that type of stuff but i have a lot of  friends that are buying into all these new virtual  

digital currencies and they keep saying well it's  because you know we're gonna get runaway inflation  

and everything and i agree inflation's a threat  but i'm also telling them it's like you know i'm  

not going to go ahead and take my life savings  and put it into something like bitcoin because  

if you're basically saying that we're going to get  to a point where you're all going to need an app  

and this fake money in order to buy can of coke  then that basically implies that the united states  

is not here so what they try and tell me is well  you know you're saying that bitcoin is nothing  

well the federal reserve is basically printing  money that's nothing and i'm like no it is backed  

on something it's backed on america and as much  as i might not like the federal reserve system  

and our current rate of inflation if you're  basically saying that the dollar is going to  

collapse you're basically saying that america is  going to collapse and that's going to happen you  

know we've got bigger things to worry about  there's absolutely nothing behind bitcoin  

or dodge coin or any of these things and they  are running up in value fantastically i have  

never seen a bubble quite like it buffett says  that munger says it there's nothing behind it  

but bubble thinking maybe we'll all be wrong but  there's never been a bubble that lasted and this  

i agree with the biggest bubble there's ever  been there's never been one that lasted never  

and what makes anyone think that this one  this will be the one that lasted there's  

nothing behind it at all the tulip mania had at  least two levels you could eat a two lip bulb  

or you cannot eat a bitcoin there's nothing  behind it at all but it is a mass hysteria and  

and people are making money my son the world's  most uh what should i say optimistic human being  

is now speculating in bitcoin it's all fine  then i don't have to pay your allowance anymore  

oh no no no i still need money from you bob pop  worked hard at the grindstone traveling all around  

the country happily giving speeches tommy my boy  i love you like mad fantasies rarely pan out yeah  

and i i completely agree with you and i mean i i  bug other libertarians with this because they go  

into bitcoin they go into this uh dogecoin that is  almost hitting a dollar and you know i i you know  

they i don't think they understand what they're  doing it's all out of spite it's all a game and  

i asked a friend of mine that put a large chunk of  his savings into dogecoin i asked him do you know  

what it does and he's like that's not the point  and i'm like if you don't know what it does that's  

the worst reason to invest in something i mean  i agree i i go off the warren buffett school of  

thought kevin o'leary is an investor i i try and  learn a lot from if you know for me personally if  

it doesn't generate cash flow the answer is no so  when it comes to bitcoin and stuff it's not worth  

it well look gold doesn't generate cash flow  either but gold gold is real at least gold is  

extremely real and has been and you know who owns  it forever you could actually feel your own goal  

you could actually feel your own goal  but what are your thoughts on bitcoin  

well uh yeah i my immediate thought on that  and you know gosh four or five years ago um  

yeah about yeah five years ago now i think um i  had a couple of friends saying you really got to  

look into this stuff and and and this one guy has  done very very well with it except you know who  

knows what's going to happen right i mean uh i i  i don't yeah i i don't trust anything that isn't  

quite tangible either just out of curiosity remso  you said your question back to your pro dogecoin  

folks was do you know what even what it even  does for those of us who don't know what it does  

what does it do it was supposed to be another  method of exchanging value for value and yeah  

there's no value to it except in fantasy  land you're you're absolutely right best  

but that's the thing though with bitcoin if i  want to go ahead and send bitcoin to boychuk  

we could do that right now if i want to do the  same thing with dogecoin i can't but the thing is  

there are stores there are businesses that will  let you pay for products and services and bitcoin  

they'll allow you to do that in dogecoin so my  bare minimum is if you were not willing to even  

accept it by both identifying that this is a good  exchangeable currency then it serves no function  

and that's been my criticism of all things  above materializing people's fantasies and  

ambitions of getting something for nothing agreed  kicks and your chicks for free and on that note  

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world according to ben stein that was actually  a great discussion about bitcoin i was actually  

shocked to hear that from remzo dude like i have  gotten into so many stupid fights with people  

about this and in my first book stay away from the  libertarians i talk about bitcoin and i talk about  

the concept of cryptocurrencies as being positive  but there's a difference between having the an  

intention behind something that serves a real  purpose and putting something into nothing just  

because you think it's funny and you'll get rich  quickly that's how people always lose their money  

that's how they always make the most impulsive  decisions and that's why i own zero dogecoin

i'd like to go back to what i was saying  two minutes ago please i don't i have never  

seen a chat and i have a very close friend  who follows the chat if someone could come  

up with an example of a totally worthless  thing that has risen meteorically in value  

with having no useful properties except  as a vehicle for people's fantasies  

please send it in um that's that's an exceptional  question an exceptional point i highly doubt  

um i'm not gonna doubt it you never know somebody  might have the answer to that but let's get uh  

let's veer off off this uh bitcoin thing um and  listen this isn't an affront if somebody wants  

to gamble on bitcoin knock yourself out and gamble  on bitcoin but why not go to vegas where at least  

there are really pretty girls wandering around  the casino and the transaction fees in vegas  

except with women are a lot less um because the  transaction fees with bitcoins are bitcoin is  

exceptionally exceptionally exceptionally high  and even that question i wonder who's getting  

the transaction fees other than the companies you  know the companies are the them seem to be making  

a lot of money five people five five people jack  dorsey another individual who i used to work for  

as an employee who i will not name uh mark  zuckerberg the the ccp in china and several  

other individuals three percent of bitcoin owners  own 99 of the bitcoin circulating in the market  

so why would i want to go ahead and buy something  where it's just going to go ahead and immediately  

make someone a twice return on something that  also doesn't really exist it makes no sense  

to the person in chat i think the better name  for the game show is when ben stein's bitcoin  

um that would actually be the better  game to play um we found tonight's title  

and not to go on a morbid thing but not morbid i  i want to get to this um it seems like so we're a  

year in some odd change into this uh epidemic into  this uh brutal thing that china unleashed on us  

and yet we've had what appears to be  ben stein no hearings and the reason  

i bring this up today is uh bamboy check  how do you pronounce his name bolosnaros  

um bolsonaro thank you ben boyce that's why you're  managing managing editor of american greatness  

the president of brazil the president of  brazil oh yeah who bolsonaro thank you who said  

that it was brought on by china as a biological  weapon now he has said a lot of outlandish things  

but this is one of those things we haven't had  a commission on how this has all started and  

it makes me really curious why very curious  i i happen to have just finished watching a  

documentary about joseph r mccarthy very few of  you who are old enough watching who are old enough  

to remember mccarthy he had many many hearings  about communists in government uh some of his  

hearings were scurrilous and smeared people who  had nothing evil going on in their lives except  

that they were stupid and that's all of us but but  how can it be there's no hearings about this that  

there are no hearings about a gigantic epidemic  that has turned our lives upside down and kept  

us from being a free country we are not in my  humble opinion just i could be totally wrong  

we're not a free country if we cannot see the  faces of the people we're dealing with day by day  

tells you everything about a person i want  to see the face of the people around me  

if everyone's wrapped up in a mass they might  as well as well all be the joker and some kind  

of evil this is scary uh youtube video i  want to know who i'm talking to and there's  

there should be a very very good reason why  they're why they're wearing masks i'd like to see  

a committee here where we hear hear about that i'd  like to see that mr dr falci so-called dr valsey  

uh explain what what is your data showing and  wearing a mask is actually genuinely helpful  

i i want to say ben i want to i want to go on  a different path though we know at this point  

that they had committees on everything donald  trump so we know at this point one thing that  

trump handled it as well as somebody could could  because if he didn't there would be committees on  

how badly he handled it secondly we haven't done  one investigation into how this thing landed on us  

and yeah we haven't had one single  investigation and that i find very curious  

very curious very curious ben what you're a  man of considerable discretion you have a beard  

tell us what you think why have there not been  any hearings about this well as a bird as a  

bearded man and a bearded gentleman i would simply  say this um i think that the democrats are not  

terribly interested in looking too closely  at the role of china and all of this because  

um they're a lot friendlier with  china than maybe most americans would  

would like you know up to and including joe  biden who has long persisted in saying that um  

china is how do they put it they're good folks  i think listen we're not only blaming the let's  

not forget bush saying i saw in his eyes right  well that was bla bla bla i'm not i'm not right  

i'm saying this goes both ways as far as their  assessment of of absolute criminals but go on  

ben boyce well and also i mean i know there  have been some i think there's been you know  

we have the authority of no less than the  world health organization itself that told us  

that uh china's involvement was nothing so  surely we can take the word of the world health  

organization couldn't couldn't we no why why why  have we not just done what we would have done  

as judas so aptly points out had there been a  republican administration uh involved in this  

in this in the most tangential hypothetical  way hearing after hearing after hearing why  

has no one looked into this at all why has no one  looked into the fact that the national intention  

was diverted from this potential catastrophe by  endless gossip nonsense libel smearing of the  

president united states why weren't we thinking  about this germ issue instead of gossiping  

ramsay what are your thoughts i i think we're  we're past the point of all of this and ultimately  

you know i i have friends who are republicans  who get mad when i say this i've certainly you  

know already angered all my all my remaining few  liberal friends but this was a political virus  

i had coveted i had the worst fortico i had the  worst form of coven covet pneumonia and like even  

after all of that i still said you know what i'm  okay i didn't get the vaccine i'm not getting the  

vaccine this was a political virus we don't talk  about how many people died from the regular flu  

anymore everyone dies from this now and now  everyone is talking about you know new york  

wanting to open up broadway just said they're  going to go to full capacity you know there  

are other very liberal cities that say you know  what we should let people go ahead and actually  

eat inside restaurants now so now since they've  been able to benefit from everything that trump  

did because biden has done nothing he did nothing  regarding the vaccine or anything else absolutely  

nothing now they want to get back to normal  and the only reason in my personal belief and  

i could be wrong that they need to get everyone  in vaccinated as quickly as possible and get  

all the additional vaccines and everything else  isn't because it actually is going to do anything  

it's because it's the last remnants of them saving  face that we were attacked by a biological weapon  

from china and we allowed the democrats to go  ahead and hold the nation hostage and the greatest  

hostage crisis in american history and we're  still being held officers we're still getting lost  

i mean that hasn't stopped i mean if you were  to be let's say a high school boy in 1959 which  

i was or is the 62 and were taken away and put  in a cryogenic machine and then thawed out now  

and see america as it is now you wouldn't believe  your eyes people are not allowed to show their  

faces in a grocery store people are not allowed  to show their faces walking down the sidewalk  

that's incredible people can lose their jobs  grabbing said anything that is disparaging about  

anyone that can be remotely associated with race  or sex it's insane i would say that this is made  

up out of a horror movie i've got a funny story  for you so i had to go i had i had to take my car  

in to get serviced yesterday so i had a friend  drive me back home and then when they called me  

and told me my car was ready for pickup i said  okay can you come pick me up and give me a ride  

and they said okay we'll send somebody out so they  sent an employee out to get me uh he shows up i  

get in the back seat of the car and he's wearing  his mask and i was wearing my mask to be polite  

but we're leaving my neighborhood it's about 25  minute drive to the dealership so i go ahead and  

take off my mask i'm like hey is that policy like  is there a problem if i take off my mask and he  

said nah man i don't care and i said okay thanks  and by the way if they're telling you you have to  

keep your mask on take it off man i don't care  either so he said thanks man and he took it off  

so we get to the dealership and i'd like to tip  this guy i had to make a few calls i had to make  

him roll the windows down and stuff i wanted  to be polite so i said hey i'll have any cash  

can i send you money so i went ahead and tipped  him through cash app and i said oh you use cash  

app what are you going to do with the money and he  said i'm going to buy bitcoin with it full circle  

circle of life simbon on that note remso you are  you are listening to the world according to ben  

stein um i want to thank everybody that's in the  chat rems if you could please tell people where  

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you are going to tell me that we can be cancelled  over talking about treatment of an epidemic can  

you possibly be saying that yes um of course  donald trump this week was banned but was banned  

fully banned by twitter and facebook forever  um they literally put him in social network  

uh prison for life um they castrated his every  way of get staying in touch with his supporters  

uh not even his supporters it's it it's ben  what they're willing to do which takes me to the  

next conversation and i want to do this in a  roundabout way we have five states right now that  

are banning uh private ben boyce are you familiar  with this private um uh funding of the elections  

of of counting basically we're having a bunch  of republican states fighting back right now  

doing their own legislation and it's it's it's an  absolute joke ben stein and everybody else that um  

everything every time they do this they're being  called a racist or being called jim crow laws and  

all this jazz and my question to every single one  of them is if you believe the elections were fair  

why do you have a problem with these legislations  because we we know what's going on here we know  

that the system is set up such that certain groups  we won't say who benefit from the way it's set up  

uh fine that's fine there's been corruption in  politics forever that's fine that's why that's  

not new for there to be corruption in politics  what is new is the free speech aspect of it where  

you cannot even talk about it america has changed  it's not about newspapers so much anymore it's not  

about rallies at the public square it's about  the internet this thing that we're on right now  

to ban someone from that is taking away his  or her free speech under the constitution  

there's no question about that i mean the supreme  court may not have the balls or the good sense  

to admit it but it is a violation of the first  amendment or something as powerful as facebook or  

twitter to ban somebody from their use so uh will  will they do that i don't know but if they don't  

america's days as a free country are over they're  not numbered the number's zero ben ben stein would  

you call facebook would you consider facebook and  twitter and even youtube well while we're on the  

subject would you consider them common carriers  uh i don't know if i would consider them common  

carriers uh considering someone a common carrier  has implications about the fares they charge  

and i don't know what the fares are for the  use of any of these uh media that you just  

talked about but i think that if if you reach a  certain size um which could be decided by a judge  

or or just or the justices of the supreme court  yes you should be subject to the same laws  

that apply to government restrictions on free  speech for the first we have now reached a stage  

where the uh the notion of speech has changed so  drastically that the first amendment should apply  

to it as well as to the government and ben  somebody uh i just want to bring this up ben  

what people um aren't just getting banned  from social media they're losing their  

they're losing their ability on pro to process  payments ben stein ben boyce yes so mike lindell  

somebody brought up was banned from vimeo  um from venmo i mean and a lot of people  

are losing their transactions well halfway way  there's a way to say wait is there a way to say  

they're being banned from being paid by yes  prosecutors that has to be that has to be a torque  

of intentional and negligible interference with  business advantage that has to be a door i don't  

know if it's a crime it has to be adored ben boyce  uh i'll defer to ben stein on the legalities of it  

but i was curious about that i'm also curious  too uh what would be the problem with going  

after facebook for example or or amazon is  another one mentioned in this context going  

after those large companies on anti-trust grounds  uh to me it's a clear it's clear-cut that this is  

an anti-trust violation it's not even questionable  it's absolutely clear-cut and in terms of but are  

but going to an even bigger question are they  so big and do they dominate free speech so much  

that they must be considered to be affected by  the first amendment uh that is to me absolutely  

clear cut and and what's the precedent for that  wasn't there a case and i can't remember the case  

sir i don't i don't know what the president is  there is no precedent for an entity for entities  

such as the ones we're just talking about  to have as much power in the public forum as  

the ones we're talking about now there's no  precedent for today's world of the internet  

when the internet was invented by mr gore i don't  think anyone had any idea that would dominate uh  

speeds the way it has but but now that it has  uh we've got to reel this fish back in and if  

we don't the fish devours us well there's there  may be an analogous case or a case that's on  

point from the i and again i don't remember the  name of it but i i roughly recall the facts and  

the holding which was that it was either in it was  a company town in either alabama or arkansas and  

it was decided and i think 1947 or 48 in which  the uh somebody was prevented from handing out  

political leaflets on a street and the and the  the argument was well this is a company-owned  

town and the first amendment doesn't apply  here and the court said oh yes it does  

that that a private entity cannot cannot  act in a in a sort of quasi-government way  

and abrogate people's constitutional rights  all right well i should like to know the name  

of that case and you know how to reach me and  uh please let me know i will read it and i will  

be and we can talk about it very soon that's  a very very useful piece of data thank you  

serenza let's circle back a little bit this  circle of life simba um we all know bitcoin  

in the sense was dark in the beginning it was it  was a it was a way to transfer money in the dark  

and what these companies are doing is essentially  that might be the one way to prop bitcoin up  

is because it takes away companies from being  banned so there are a lot of politicians who  

have had their act who have had access to getting  donations blocked you've had a lot of uh voice  

how's that let's get back there that's that's a  big one you just sort of dropped in the middle  

casually what what is that tell me about  that well they're they're because they're  

their political points of views they they  aren't able to accept money in certain ways  

matt gates uh there was laura in florida i  believe marjorie taylor green have all had

have had access to getting donations  blocked by their by the process servers not  

being in lock stuff with them i must say how could  it be that i read the wall street journal every  

day and i've not seen this story yeah because  you want to know why because they're part of the  

problem they're not part of the solution places  like the wall street journal and they don't want  

to talk about the fringe or what they consider  fringe conservatives or fringe republicans they  

don't want to acknowledge that this issue is  happening and we're all saying it's happening  

so obviously it's happening so remsa do you see  as a bunch of people you have you have a bunch  

of people are scared to go to banks eventually  bitcoin will be a loan service too so yeah i mean  

so so going back when i was on my anti-crypto rage  i just want to specify uh i repeat again i don't  

own dogecoin but i do own bitcoin and the reason  why i own bitcoin is because i'm afraid one of the  

next big things and we're already seeing this  now is that people are going to lose access to  

not only money transferring capabilities but also  essential banking services checking savings and  

access to credit and when that happens it's going  to go ahead and basically turn the whole system  

upside down bitcoin can't be destroyed bitcoin  can't be created bitcoin can't be controlled by  

anybody bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are  the only thing they're allowing you other than  

cash and we already see it there's a war on  cash in this country and throughout the world  

that you can go ahead and give to anybody and as  long as you have access to the internet that's the  

one thing you can go ahead and give it and  you know going back to what we were saying  

what is bitcoin bitcoin the reason why i like  bitcoin versus others is that bitcoin is truly  

decentralized there will only be a finite number  of bitcoins ever mined or created and if let's  

say you lose a bitcoin that bitcoin's permanently  gone you don't get it back um you know bitcoin is  

actually what i consider the money of the people  whether or not it's going to last or not i have  

more faith in bitcoin another cryptocurrencies  so you know i uh that that is why i think  

that's why i'm not gonna say much more about i'm  not an investor you know i'm not a professional uh  

financial advisor i own bitcoin because at the  end of the day i want full control of my money  

okay well god bless you but ben stein at the  end of the day well i agree with you on the uh  

i understand your your thoughts behind the bitcoin  stuff there is we're almost at the point where if  

you're a conservative in this country and um  and i bring first if you just tuned in you  

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that's benstein.substance.com i just want to point  out somebody brought something that i was thinking  

about recently they said land is money yeah they  can take land from you though they can't take  

your bitcoin um and on that note it's a great  point welcome back to the world according to  

ben stein so i i'm not sure if everybody saw  this story but i'm actually quite shocked at  

this saturday saturday night night live which  no one watches um told their cast members  

that because elon musk is on they don't have  to appear with him and in my mind i'm thinking  

what has elon musk done that would scare snl  characters to not be in a s in a scene with  

him or what has he done anything offensively i  can't in my wildest dreams think of a more liberty  

a more switzerland type of person in many ways  than elon musk that he that he offended that he  

might offend people from the saturday night live  cast bench time i i i just can't imagine but uh  

i think that show has been uh garbage for since  the late 70s as brilliantly first came out  

incredibly brilliant it's been garbage for a good  40 years and um it obviously is run by people who  

do not have full control of their wits uh you know  it's funny everybody says that but i happen to i  

loved watching snl when i was growing up with  dana carvey and dennis miller and phil hartman  

dana carvey is a genius i'm a stupendous woman  so i did love that cast but ben boyce did you see  

the story because i was like what did elon musk  do that scared people from saturday night live  

i i only i only saw i've seen stories disa  well headlines of stories disapproving of his  

appearance i i don't really understand  what the issue is other than that he  

is this just does this just boil down to him  saying kind of trollish things on twitter is  

this a twitter thing i think it's a twitter thing  i i have no idea i i i i mean he has an opinion  

he's a funny guy he's the barnum bailey of our  generation i know what it is i know what it is  

he's appeared on the joe rogan podcast that's  got to be it right isn't that it is that got to  

be it i think i don't know i mean i'm asking i i  i can't think of one reason why they'd be scared i  

i figured it out it's that he takes  too many subsidies from the feds  

that's what it is i think that's  funny what do you thought it was  

i really don't know there's a reason i hate  everybody these days he's he like he he pisses  

everyone off and i think that's the thing  because they don't understand them they don't  

think that he's one of them he's got as many  progressive views as he has conservative views  

but apparently even being a moderate is a crime  by today's standards so you know whether it's one  

thing or another what was he already on or is  he going on no he's supposed to go on so they  

i think i might watch that episode i might watch  and watch it get snl their best ratings in years  

you know ben he brings up a great point is that  we as we've seen with award shows and all these  

things taking away the um the fear the fear kills  ratings having somebody on that might be a loose  

cannon is actually good for business when it comes  to the media and they've totally squashed that  

with award shows with obviously with snl  and frankly where i think most people just  

think it's freaking boring it's beyond boring  it's absolutely it's an incredibly offensive  

uh slap in the face of the ordinary citizen the  endless contempt that is shown by hollywood and  

the media generally for the ordinary american  especially the ordinary white american  

is just breathtaking and i i hardly know where  to start and yet i want to back off for a second  

i was talking about this at lunch today with  a very smart woman who handles real estate  

financings for me and uh we both agreed yes  things are heading down a cruel awful path  

but day by day life in america is still  incredibly great yeah you're still scared uh  

to get arrested in your car for your thoughts so i  am i guess i am but i haven't been yet it's going  

amazingly well that you're scared if it's okay  i want to make a comment regarding one of the  

somebody in the chat talking about  elon and dogecoin that's another thing  

like i'm seeing far too many good smart rational  people making rational decisions when it comes  

to that dose coin right now because elon jump  is jumping into it listen i don't know why he  

likes it really i really don't but what i do know  is this if elon musk loses a few million dollars  

it doesn't hurt them but if you lose even a third  of your investment into that stuff you're gonna  

hurt and you're probably gonna pull out and  lose more money so before you start thinking  

well that rich guy is smart i'm gonna go ahead and  do what he does understand the risk factor that's  

not worth it i don't understand something remso if  is it not true that if i were to put if i had put  

ten dollars into dogecoin say two weeks ago i  would be worth like 10 billion dollars today am i  

not not 10 billion dollars but like you i think i  i think somebody said i might be wrong but it was  

like if you put 10 in january you would have had  like a hundred grand right now something like that  

but but here's the thing though that's how it is  with everything that becomes a hot commodity this  

is the new hot commodity if you had invested this  much then you would have this much now jump in now  

but that's the thing by the time something  is already hot it's already left the stage  

right that's what makes it so popular well that is  how scams always work i mean uh i i i don't wish  

anybody anything but well but this is this  thing just has scam on it from in gigantic  

letters i hope i'm wrong i don't want anybody  that i know to be hurt but it's just a classic  

fraud and i just want to say that the founder of  dogecoin who invented it as a joke actually got  

rid of all of his dogecoin it almost sounds like  douche coin okay it almost sounds like douche  

sounds like this is a joke okay well it is a  joke and the guy who created it didn't do it  

because he didn't want this fake money harming  people so i mean this is why and this is just  

a remso thing this is just my choice but i  go with the kevin o'leary school of thought  

i'm not smart enough then the world's smartest  day trader i'm not warren buffett i'm just me  

middle class me so i want to invest in things  i understand and good solid blue chip companies  

that create cash flow i don't want to get  involved with anything crazy okay so ben  

a lot it's a great point ramzo um i love your  knowledge on this actually i've never even  

heard of this damn thing until tonight and  if you had told me there's something called  

douchecoin dogecoin i would have thought you would  i thought dodgecoin yeah yeah i would have thought  

you were kidding with me but ben one of the the  things people are bringing up in the chat is that  

he's not woke enough and i think they're woken up  elon musk what does that mean what does that mean  

no no we don't know because he's not having he  doesn't have his pronouns in his profile right  

yeah he doesn't uh he's he's he's he he's he's  an equal opportunity if he he has an opinion okay  

i think that's what woke means is that you don't  have an opinion except the opinion of what opinion  

opinion you're told opinion is an okay opinion  and this is really getting into me in this brave  

new world no no i'm sorry 1984 territory in  a big big way uh it's just terrifying does it  

mean he doesn't have enough african-american  employees i mean that doesn't have enough  

uh fluid gender employees what does it mean none  of us that that's exactly the thing he doesn't he  

doesn't virtue signal well enough he doesn't pose  well enough for these folks that's what it means

well let me ask you a question ben then what  would he do to verse your signal properly oh i  

suppose he'd be genuflecting at every  altar uh before black lives matter  

that's sickening and i was just nauseating yeah

excuse me yes you you you have the and and so  so which leads to the next question remso it's  

like you i'm not using this as a generational  thing has this because you're into comics i'm  

actually really curious has this in infested  this wokeness infested your comic books  

oh a hundred and ten percent oh you're  kidding that ramjo you're kidding  

do you know who tana hissy coates  is no oh yeah i've seen the name

she's a he or she whoever one of them is a nut  case a nut case racist he he's a racist i would  

even call him a black supremacist he he lied about  uh you know hate crimes uh being you know tossed  

his way at certain points in his life life i mean  he's he's he was a former new york times columnist  

do you know that they made him a writer at marvel  comics they made this political and cultural  

commentator at the new york times they made him a  writer at marvel comics and here's the funny thing  

they allowed him to write the black panther  comic in fact there were two separate black  

panther comics that came out the year the black  panther movie came out good movie right i liked it  

i saw it twice i own it and it made all the money  in the world and everyone likes that character  

he was such a poor writer that in the year that  movie came out both black panther comics got  

cancelled and to go ahead and respond to that  what did marvel do marvel said wow he destroyed  

our most popular character let's give him  captain america so they gave him captain america  

and since then he has turned jordan peterson into  a nazi he has basically said that captain america  

is only captain america because of his inherent  whiteness and that in the past three years of  

writing this book it has been the worst captain  america run in captain america comics history  

but they don't care about making money  they don't care about making good stories  

what they care about is winning social points  amongst people who don't even buy their stuff  

but will criticize them online and they value  that more than they're getting over turning aside  

to throw up as you hear the story no i've been  having a punchline but the the real punchline is  

dc is having him write the next superman the black  superman movie which is i i have been nothing  

makes me madder than that and here's the thing  and he's going to be cal too it's a black cal  

which is are you guys joking no it's all oh and  you know who's producing doing this long enough  

jonah judah jonah judah apparently we haven't been  doing this long enough that you called jonah oh  

well because jj abrams who destroyed star wars is  going to produce it too it's going to be a train  

wreck this is marvel right or this is dc superman  because my question is because the head of marvel  

is a huge republican so so pearl mudder yeah  yeah is ben i know you're in shock about all this  

so i i i just keep thinking i am so lucky that  at least for a day at least one day at a time  

i have a big house with a big swimming pool the  grocery store is very nearby places i could have  

lunch over nearby i'll run out of money eventually  probably tomorrow but i don't have to be out there  

in this crazy effing world that you men are  talking about i mean it's frightening right it  

seems quite sane here in my house i want to be by  the way guys get back to this because i'm actually  

just mildly fascinated i'm not mild i'm scaredly  fascinated by what you're talking about this is  

this i'll throw in something that boycott cool  appreciate because he's an iron man fan in 2015  

2016 when iron man especially as robert downey  jr is the most popular character in pop culture  

what did they do in the comics they decided to  temporarily kill iron man and they replaced them  

with a character named riri williams what is your  please don't tell me he's black she she's black

william she's she's black she's a teenager  and she's a lesbian and she's oh i missed that  

part yeah oh that's new that they they recently  threw that in there because she's getting a show  

and she has no personality she had no character  development they put her in there because they  

said you know tony stark he got all of this stuff  not because he's a hero but because he's rich so  

what we want to do is we want to share the mantle  of iron man by making this young black lesbian  

teenager the new iron man so they did that and the  iron man books crumbled and then they eventually  

brought back tony stark but first what they had  to do was they had to deconstruct the character  

and they didn't put riri on the hero's journey  they put her on the victim's journey because  

she's young she's systemically oppressed she's  poor and she should be iron man because she's  

just always been that smart so she's going to go  ahead and do it so that way we're just going to  

go ahead and kill tony stark in the process they  did that it backfired they didn't want to admit it  

but they had to bring him back because the books  were failing ben you know what i love and i want  

to get to you ben stein i want you know what i  love is how distraught and how knowledgeable remzo  

is is about this stuff it's like nothing affected  anything but it once it got to remzo's comics all  

bets are off screw you with your intersectionality  he didn't care remso didn't care about any of this  

but when it touched dc comics and marvel remzel  is remzo is mad as hell and he's not going to  

take it anymore but ben's done aren't you faster i  just want my corner of the world to be left alone

um ben stein that's the point isn't it though that  everybody just wanted their piece of the world  

left alone and it invaded everybody's piece of the  world no no no no no no no no no these nut cases  

out there in the world of black lives matter  and so forth they don't want to be left alone  

they want to shake us down i meant us normal folk  i don't consider myself normal at all but i but  

they they don't want to [ __ ] they want to shake  us down and make money off of us and oppress us  

i mean it's just vomiting gangsterism it's  it's uh you guys uh scared ben boychik and uh  

remso who i don't know where you get your  your comic book knowledge is there like uh  

a comic book uh uh you know like a notification  you get every time something happens mostly  

personally yeah it's it's uh god bless you i i  think if you want to learn more about this you  

can subscribe to my other podcasts the second  print comics podcast a week every wednesday  

it's good stuff right i'm i'm i'm a patreon on  patreon and on that network we are running out  

of time ben boyce from american greatness i won't  say to you final thoughts because every time i do  

i feel like i'm putting you on the spot no just  give me give me give me one sentence the case  

that i mentioned uh earlier that i will email to  you ben stein is marsh versus alabama from 1946  

and i'll send you the opinion when we're done  actually remember it from constitutional law  

taught by bob burke one of the smartest man in  history murdered politically and juridically  

by that murderer edward kennedy and to the  people that might have just tuned in ben  

why don't you quickly in like 20 seconds tell  them what you're referring to uh an incredibly  

brilliant law professor at yale who was a certain  court of appeals judge uh bob bork and then became  

attorney general was named the supreme court by  president reagan uh the judicial senate judiciary  

committee uh killed him led by edward kennedy  a person probably of the worst moral character  

of anyone in the senate since uh since the civil  war sorry i meant ben boyce but um listen to the  

whole show and you'll know exactly what the case  would be talking about and you can find ben boyce

am greatness.com that's am greatness.com and  of course you could find remzo on the run  

with rem zo martinez great podcast and also uh  what's the name of your um second print comics  

podcast find it at secondprintcomics.com have  you discussed this in your in your comic um  

both shows well it shows okay i i think it's  extremely important because this is one of the  

most frightening things i have ever heard in my  life it truly is i gotta be honest with you it is  

it is just insanely frightening and of course  you could find ben stein when parlor's actually  

working at ben stein and the spectator.org but  also newsmax and listen i want to just say quickly  

if you're invested in bitcoin god bless you be  careful if you're invested in anything you're  

unsure of god bless you be careful we're not  telling you to sell we're not telling you to buy  

we're not no we we we would not be i don't think  we would be allowed to do that and we're not  

you can't sue me just our humble opinion yes and  on that note and that no ben stein i actually had  

a lot of fun tonight even though i am sick i in  my i feel a lot better you feel very very soon  

sir thank you and would you like to take us out  to know don't know him is to love love love him  

just to see him smile makes my life worthwhile to  know know know him is to love love love him and i  

do yes i do and i do yes i do and i do good night  everybody we'll see you saturday night have a

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